Matt Walsh: Defender Of The Left (Ironically)
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Summary
Joe Biden accidentally pooped his pants in front of Pope Francis during a meeting in Rome, leading to the creation of the hashtag and the trending on social media. The White House has yet to respond to the rumors, and the question remains: Did Joe Biden poop his pants?
Transcript
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For the Daily Cancellation today, I must sadly cancel many of you in the audience for your
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involvement in a totally disgraceful and disappointing display over the weekend.
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It all began when rumors started circulating online that President Biden tragically pooped
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his pants while visiting with the Pope in Rome. Amy Tarkanian, a political strategist
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and pundit, was one of the first to make this odorous allegation, tweeting, quote,
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the word around Rome is that Biden's meeting with the Pope was unusually long because Biden had a bit
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of a bathroom accident at the Vatican and it had to be addressed prior to him leaving.
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I know we joke often about this, but this is the actual rumor going around Rome now.
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Next thing you know, hashtags like hashtag poopgate and hashtag poopypantsbiden and the more direct
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hashtag Biden shit his pants were trending nationwide on Twitter. Other sources were, you know,
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chiming in, all claiming that yes, Joe Biden did indeed drop a steamy load in his pants
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right in front of Pope Francis. And then millions of other people with no special knowledge about
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the situation, people with no specific insights into Joe Biden's defecation habits at all, frankly,
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still were posting about the subject, spreading this insidious rumor. And to once again clarify,
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by insidious rumor, I am referring to the claim that Joe Biden pooped himself at the Vatican.
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That's the rumor. And personally, I'm outraged and disgusted by all this. It is the absolute
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height of irresponsibility to spread rumors of this sort. There is no legitimate reason to call
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attention to the issue of Joe Biden shitting himself. No reason. You know, someone has to be
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the mature one in this situation. And as usual, that job has fallen to me, which is why I am not
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talking about the subject of Joe Biden soiling himself. I would never talk about something so crass and
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objectionable and unsubstantiated. We don't even know if Joe Biden really did poop his pants.
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There are some people saying he pooped his pants, others saying that he didn't poop his pants.
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Still, there are others saying that we have no idea what Joe Biden did or didn't do in his pants.
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In the face of this uncertainty, the dignified and honest thing is to say nothing at all.
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I am therefore begging all of you to not talk about this. And if you didn't know about it until
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you just heard about it right now, don't talk about it. It's not the kind of thing we should
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be discussing, which is why I have personally chosen to do my part by not calling attention
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to it at all. It's better if the public never even hears about this rumor, the rumor that Joe
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Biden, President of the United States, pooped himself. So please, once again, just don't talk
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about it. In fact, shortly before we went on air, I noticed another hashtag associated with the
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poopy pants predicament. A large number of social media users have apparently caused the hashtag
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shark week to Trent. This is not only potential misinformation, but it also makes light of the
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trauma suffered by actual shark attack victims and actual shark attack victims. That's why I would
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never extend this pun by saying that the Vatican became something of a shark tank when Biden arrived.
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That's a joke I'm not going to make. There are many other presidential poop jokes that I will not
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make and would be very angry to hear anyone make. For example, I'm not going to say that through his
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eight years as vice president, Biden apparently got accustomed to being the number two guy in the
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White House. I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say that Biden flew back from Rome in Air Force
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Two. I'm not going to say that involuntary defecation must be a hereditary problem for Biden since it
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runs in his jeans. These would be vulgar and unfunny jokes, and I'm not going to make them or any other
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because there's nothing funny about a turd, especially a turd in the pants of the president,
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allegedly. Now, all we know for sure, the only thing we should be saying about Biden's visit with
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the Pope is that he went there in his official capacity as a president of the United States,
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and he did his duty. That's it. Outside of that, our responsibility is to comport ourselves with
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maturity and dignity and respect the office of the presidency. And we should still respect the office,
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even if that man in that office happens to have evacuated his bowels right into his underwear.
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You know, I don't care if Biden did have a literal holy moment in front of the Pope.
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That doesn't change anything except his diaper. As for the rest of us, we have to be adults about
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this. And the fact is that many of you have failed in that regard. You have used Biden's
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poo-filled pants as a forum for jokes and mockery rather than gazing upon them in solemn silence,
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as is your duty and his, apparently, allegedly.
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In a stunning display of courage, a white British TikTok influencer has revealed to the world that
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he identifies as Korean. Ollie London is his name. He's been getting plastic surgery for several years
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in an effort to, as a Newsweek article puts it, resemble their K-pop idol Jimin of BTS.
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I have only a vague idea what any of those words mean, but the upshot is that now London,
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who also identifies as non-binary, has completed his surgical transition and is ready to fully
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live his life as the gender-fluid Korean that he's always been deep down. For too long,
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he has had a Korean trapped inside his body, and now, with $150,000 of assistance from cosmetic
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surgeons, his true East Asian self has emerged like a bruised and swollen butterfly from a fleshy cocoon.
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In a video recorded just after his latest procedure, Ollie explains that his surgically adjusted
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eyes and nose and other features now confirm him as a tried-and-true Korean, and I think the case
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that he makes is pretty bulletproof. Let's listen.
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Hi guys, I'm finally Korean. I've transitioned. I'm so, so happy I've completed my look. I'm finally
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Korean, guys. I have the eyes. I just had a brow lift as well, so I'm so happy. Finally,
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I've been trapped in the wrong body for eight years, and that's the worst feeling in the world
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when you're trapped and you don't feel like you can be yourself. But finally, I'm Korean. I can be
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myself, and I'm so, so happy. I mean, he looks happy. Finally, he is Korean. It's as simple as that.
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Bigots might voice disagreement, insisting that one must actually be from Korea or at least have Korean
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citizenship in order to be considered in any sense Korean. They might even argue that surgically
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narrowing your eyes to resemble Asian facial features not only fails to make you Asian, but
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is also highly insulting and degrading to the real Asians, of which you are not one. But Ollie
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deftly countered these arguments in a series of tweets disarming and debunking such discriminatory
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talking points. He wrote, quote, being transsexual is the same as being transracial because you're
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born in the wrong body. In other tweets, he announced that, quote, trans rights are human
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rights, and that, quote, there are millions of underrepresented transracial people in the world,
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and I want to elevate their voices and help them live their truth and be themselves.
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Now, these may be more assertions than arguments, more spitting slogans than making a case,
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but if that's been sufficient for transgender advocates, then why shouldn't it work for a
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transracial pioneer? Driving the point home, Ollie, I think, really vanquished his critics once and for
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all by dropping the ultimate progressive Trump card in a different video. Listen.
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This is my reason for showing the flag, and I do identify as Korean. This is my choice. This is my
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decision. It's not hurting anyone. There you go. His decision, his choice, not hurting anyone.
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That's really it, right? In the age of psychological men, when all that matters is an individual's
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mental states and all that you must do to justify an action is claim that the action makes you feel
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good and causes no direct physical harm to anyone else, whether or not the latter is actually true,
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the validity of a white man's transformation in that context into a genderless Korean cannot be
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denied. Certainly, if you accept trans ideology, then you have absolutely no logical basis for denying
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Ali's truth. A truth which is grounded in the exact same premise. A truth which must indeed be true
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if the premise is true. And the premise, to remind you, is that a person's physical biological identity is
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totally determined by how they feel about themselves. A man who feels like a woman is not merely a feminine
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man, but is actually a literal woman. All of the physical barriers which have for millennia served to separate
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men from women are dissolved and discarded. Biology is subordinated to the emotional whims of the
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individual. Why should Ali's emotional whims not be afforded the same supernatural weight?
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His case, based on the logic of progressivism, is airtight. Based on the logic of, well, logic,
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it's not at all, but based on the logic of progressivism, it is. And yet the left has not accepted him.
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Comments on the internet about his racial transition have been overwhelmingly negative.
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The Daily Wire documents a few of them. Reading now, it says,
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I'm sorry, but you can't just choose to be Korean. It's a nationality and ethnicity,
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tweeted one trans-identifying account. You have to be born Korean. Just because you like the culture
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doesn't mean you can take it and become it. There is a way to appreciate a different culture.
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This is not it. Quote, as a Korean non-binary person, I haven't really talked about the Ali London
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thing, but the fact that they're acting like it's genuine, that it's part of a journey due to an
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identity issue, really irks me. It's a mockery of trans people. It's cultural appropriation,
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posted another person. Finally, one Korean user replied that while he celebrated London's new
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gender identity, it's wrong for him to claim a new ethnic identity. Korean isn't a pronoun,
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nor is it a persona you decide to suddenly take on because of K-pop hype. I'm glad you identify as
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non-binary, and I applaud you for being transparent about that, but I can't commend you for taking a
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whole ethnicity and treating it like a persona. Hmm. Taking a whole ethnicity and treating it like
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a persona. Almost like when someone takes a biological sex and treats it as a... I don't know.
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An article in the left-wing paper mag written by Sandra Song, editor-at-large and a fellow Korean,
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is just one long transphobic harangue against the entire transracial community. Song writes,
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quote, as someone who actually has Korean DNA, though, I can say that some white fetishist,
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as proven by those 15 surgeries to look like Jimin, suddenly deeming themselves Korean is incredibly
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offensive, especially since it effectively trivializes our identities because they're suddenly
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trendy. Apparently, though, that doesn't really register for Ali, who's continually been a notable
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example of Western fetishization that's objectified us based on South Korea's recent contributions to
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global culture. So yeah, obviously it's pretty sus that a white person is saying they're Korean.
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Now, leaving aside the embarrassing fact that the magazine's editor-at-large wrote and published the
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words, so yeah, and pretty sus, the real problem is that she would accuse a person of fetishizing
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and trivializing her identity simply because he is cartoonishly mimicking her appearance and
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claiming that his degraded mockery is as authentic as her own identity. I mean, she's essentially
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arguing that his imitation is an imitation and thus cannot be as valid or real as the thing he is
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imitating. And her points make a lot of sense, come to think of it, but unfortunately she, like nearly
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everyone else in her ideological camp, has already thrown open the doors and invited men to fetishize
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and trivialize and mimic her identity. It's just that she wishes the mimicry would stay contained to
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her sex, not her ethnicity. The problem, though, is that sex is far more objective and far less fluid
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than ethnicity. If the former can be erased, then so can the latter. Ali London knows that, and now he's
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entitled to be seen as fully Korean, just as Korean as any other Korean. Indeed, he may be even more
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Korean than cis Koreans, like Sandra Song. I mean, you can make that argument. This at least was a choice
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that he has made, bravely. If cis Koreans don't want to tolerate or accept trans Koreans, that's their
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problem and their bigotry they have to work through. It'd be better for them to just remain silent in the
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meantime, while the march of progress continues, and all objective markers of identity are erased,
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and human existence is reduced to a murky puddle of ambiguity. That is the world the left wanted,