The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh： Defender Of The Left (Ironically)

00:00:00.000 For the Daily Cancellation today, I must sadly cancel many of you in the audience for your

00:00:12.900 involvement in a totally disgraceful and disappointing display over the weekend.

00:00:17.660 It all began when rumors started circulating online that President Biden tragically pooped

00:00:22.820 his pants while visiting with the Pope in Rome. Amy Tarkanian, a political strategist

00:00:27.980 and pundit, was one of the first to make this odorous allegation, tweeting, quote,

00:00:32.400 the word around Rome is that Biden's meeting with the Pope was unusually long because Biden had a bit

00:00:36.580 of a bathroom accident at the Vatican and it had to be addressed prior to him leaving.

00:00:40.840 I know we joke often about this, but this is the actual rumor going around Rome now.

00:00:45.240 Next thing you know, hashtags like hashtag poopgate and hashtag poopypantsbiden and the more direct 0.97

00:00:51.600 hashtag Biden shit his pants were trending nationwide on Twitter. Other sources were, you know,

00:00:57.580 chiming in, all claiming that yes, Joe Biden did indeed drop a steamy load in his pants

00:01:01.680 right in front of Pope Francis. And then millions of other people with no special knowledge about

00:01:07.040 the situation, people with no specific insights into Joe Biden's defecation habits at all, frankly,

00:01:11.960 still were posting about the subject, spreading this insidious rumor. And to once again clarify,

00:01:17.780 by insidious rumor, I am referring to the claim that Joe Biden pooped himself at the Vatican.

00:01:21.180 That's the rumor. And personally, I'm outraged and disgusted by all this. It is the absolute

00:01:28.000 height of irresponsibility to spread rumors of this sort. There is no legitimate reason to call

00:01:33.580 attention to the issue of Joe Biden shitting himself. No reason. You know, someone has to be 0.67

00:01:39.420 the mature one in this situation. And as usual, that job has fallen to me, which is why I am not

00:01:43.660 talking about the subject of Joe Biden soiling himself. I would never talk about something so crass and

00:01:49.380 objectionable and unsubstantiated. We don't even know if Joe Biden really did poop his pants. 0.56

00:01:54.560 There are some people saying he pooped his pants, others saying that he didn't poop his pants.

00:01:58.540 Still, there are others saying that we have no idea what Joe Biden did or didn't do in his pants.

00:02:03.640 In the face of this uncertainty, the dignified and honest thing is to say nothing at all.

00:02:09.780 I am therefore begging all of you to not talk about this. And if you didn't know about it until

00:02:15.520 you just heard about it right now, don't talk about it. It's not the kind of thing we should

00:02:20.280 be discussing, which is why I have personally chosen to do my part by not calling attention

00:02:24.060 to it at all. It's better if the public never even hears about this rumor, the rumor that Joe

00:02:28.500 Biden, President of the United States, pooped himself. So please, once again, just don't talk

00:02:32.860 about it. In fact, shortly before we went on air, I noticed another hashtag associated with the

00:02:37.760 poopy pants predicament. A large number of social media users have apparently caused the hashtag

00:02:42.160 shark week to Trent. This is not only potential misinformation, but it also makes light of the

00:02:47.460 trauma suffered by actual shark attack victims and actual shark attack victims. That's why I would 0.69

00:02:53.960 never extend this pun by saying that the Vatican became something of a shark tank when Biden arrived.

00:02:59.160 That's a joke I'm not going to make. There are many other presidential poop jokes that I will not

00:03:04.540 make and would be very angry to hear anyone make. For example, I'm not going to say that through his

00:03:10.020 eight years as vice president, Biden apparently got accustomed to being the number two guy in the

00:03:13.600 White House. I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say that Biden flew back from Rome in Air Force

00:03:17.000 Two. I'm not going to say that involuntary defecation must be a hereditary problem for Biden since it

00:03:22.720 runs in his jeans. These would be vulgar and unfunny jokes, and I'm not going to make them or any other

00:03:29.620 because there's nothing funny about a turd, especially a turd in the pants of the president, 0.97

00:03:36.440 allegedly. Now, all we know for sure, the only thing we should be saying about Biden's visit with

00:03:44.000 the Pope is that he went there in his official capacity as a president of the United States,

00:03:48.240 and he did his duty. That's it. Outside of that, our responsibility is to comport ourselves with

00:03:54.220 maturity and dignity and respect the office of the presidency. And we should still respect the office,

00:03:59.300 even if that man in that office happens to have evacuated his bowels right into his underwear.

00:04:04.200 You know, I don't care if Biden did have a literal holy moment in front of the Pope.

00:04:08.860 That doesn't change anything except his diaper. As for the rest of us, we have to be adults about

00:04:14.940 this. And the fact is that many of you have failed in that regard. You have used Biden's

00:04:20.140 poo-filled pants as a forum for jokes and mockery rather than gazing upon them in solemn silence, 0.73

00:04:26.400 as is your duty and his, apparently, allegedly.

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00:05:44.780 In a stunning display of courage, a white British TikTok influencer has revealed to the world that

00:05:54.980 he identifies as Korean. Ollie London is his name. He's been getting plastic surgery for several years

00:06:00.160 in an effort to, as a Newsweek article puts it, resemble their K-pop idol Jimin of BTS.

00:06:07.120 I have only a vague idea what any of those words mean, but the upshot is that now London,

00:06:11.520 who also identifies as non-binary, has completed his surgical transition and is ready to fully

00:06:15.880 live his life as the gender-fluid Korean that he's always been deep down. For too long, 0.98

00:06:20.840 he has had a Korean trapped inside his body, and now, with $150,000 of assistance from cosmetic 0.92

00:06:26.500 surgeons, his true East Asian self has emerged like a bruised and swollen butterfly from a fleshy cocoon. 0.98

00:06:35.060 In a video recorded just after his latest procedure, Ollie explains that his surgically adjusted

00:06:39.900 eyes and nose and other features now confirm him as a tried-and-true Korean, and I think the case

00:06:48.800 that he makes is pretty bulletproof. Let's listen.

00:06:52.180 Hi guys, I'm finally Korean. I've transitioned. I'm so, so happy I've completed my look. I'm finally

00:07:02.740 Korean, guys. I have the eyes. I just had a brow lift as well, so I'm so happy. Finally,

00:07:08.520 I've been trapped in the wrong body for eight years, and that's the worst feeling in the world

00:07:13.380 when you're trapped and you don't feel like you can be yourself. But finally, I'm Korean. I can be

00:07:18.520 myself, and I'm so, so happy. I mean, he looks happy. Finally, he is Korean. It's as simple as that.

00:07:27.680 Bigots might voice disagreement, insisting that one must actually be from Korea or at least have Korean

00:07:32.940 citizenship in order to be considered in any sense Korean. They might even argue that surgically

00:07:38.160 narrowing your eyes to resemble Asian facial features not only fails to make you Asian, but

00:07:42.680 is also highly insulting and degrading to the real Asians, of which you are not one. But Ollie 0.99

00:07:47.660 deftly countered these arguments in a series of tweets disarming and debunking such discriminatory

00:07:53.120 talking points. He wrote, quote, being transsexual is the same as being transracial because you're

00:07:58.360 born in the wrong body. In other tweets, he announced that, quote, trans rights are human

00:08:03.320 rights, and that, quote, there are millions of underrepresented transracial people in the world,

00:08:07.800 and I want to elevate their voices and help them live their truth and be themselves.

00:08:12.580 Now, these may be more assertions than arguments, more spitting slogans than making a case,

00:08:17.920 but if that's been sufficient for transgender advocates, then why shouldn't it work for a

00:08:22.340 transracial pioneer? Driving the point home, Ollie, I think, really vanquished his critics once and for

00:08:28.700 all by dropping the ultimate progressive Trump card in a different video. Listen.

00:08:34.640 This is my reason for showing the flag, and I do identify as Korean. This is my choice. This is my

00:08:39.380 decision. It's not hurting anyone. There you go. His decision, his choice, not hurting anyone.

00:08:47.520 That's really it, right? In the age of psychological men, when all that matters is an individual's

00:08:53.940 mental states and all that you must do to justify an action is claim that the action makes you feel

00:08:58.740 good and causes no direct physical harm to anyone else, whether or not the latter is actually true,

00:09:03.460 the validity of a white man's transformation in that context into a genderless Korean cannot be

00:09:08.940 denied. Certainly, if you accept trans ideology, then you have absolutely no logical basis for denying

00:09:16.180 Ali's truth. A truth which is grounded in the exact same premise. A truth which must indeed be true

00:09:23.620 if the premise is true. And the premise, to remind you, is that a person's physical biological identity is

00:09:30.820 totally determined by how they feel about themselves. A man who feels like a woman is not merely a feminine

00:09:38.200 man, but is actually a literal woman. All of the physical barriers which have for millennia served to separate

00:09:44.980 men from women are dissolved and discarded. Biology is subordinated to the emotional whims of the

00:09:51.000 individual. Why should Ali's emotional whims not be afforded the same supernatural weight?

00:09:57.600 His case, based on the logic of progressivism, is airtight. Based on the logic of, well, logic,

00:10:07.240 it's not at all, but based on the logic of progressivism, it is. And yet the left has not accepted him.

00:10:12.740 Comments on the internet about his racial transition have been overwhelmingly negative.

00:10:18.040 The Daily Wire documents a few of them. Reading now, it says,

00:10:20.820 I'm sorry, but you can't just choose to be Korean. It's a nationality and ethnicity,

00:10:25.760 tweeted one trans-identifying account. You have to be born Korean. Just because you like the culture 1.00

00:10:31.380 doesn't mean you can take it and become it. There is a way to appreciate a different culture.

00:10:36.600 This is not it. Quote, as a Korean non-binary person, I haven't really talked about the Ali London

00:10:42.640 thing, but the fact that they're acting like it's genuine, that it's part of a journey due to an

00:10:46.940 identity issue, really irks me. It's a mockery of trans people. It's cultural appropriation, 1.00

00:10:52.420 posted another person. Finally, one Korean user replied that while he celebrated London's new

00:10:57.920 gender identity, it's wrong for him to claim a new ethnic identity. Korean isn't a pronoun, 0.97

00:11:03.280 nor is it a persona you decide to suddenly take on because of K-pop hype. I'm glad you identify as

00:11:08.920 non-binary, and I applaud you for being transparent about that, but I can't commend you for taking a 1.00

00:11:13.960 whole ethnicity and treating it like a persona. Hmm. Taking a whole ethnicity and treating it like 0.91

00:11:21.340 a persona. Almost like when someone takes a biological sex and treats it as a... I don't know.

00:11:28.180 An article in the left-wing paper mag written by Sandra Song, editor-at-large and a fellow Korean,

00:11:33.060 is just one long transphobic harangue against the entire transracial community. Song writes,

00:11:39.440 quote, as someone who actually has Korean DNA, though, I can say that some white fetishist,

00:11:45.860 as proven by those 15 surgeries to look like Jimin, suddenly deeming themselves Korean is incredibly 0.99

00:11:52.600 offensive, especially since it effectively trivializes our identities because they're suddenly

00:11:56.760 trendy. Apparently, though, that doesn't really register for Ali, who's continually been a notable

00:12:01.600 example of Western fetishization that's objectified us based on South Korea's recent contributions to

00:12:07.680 global culture. So yeah, obviously it's pretty sus that a white person is saying they're Korean.

00:12:14.900 Now, leaving aside the embarrassing fact that the magazine's editor-at-large wrote and published the

00:12:19.460 words, so yeah, and pretty sus, the real problem is that she would accuse a person of fetishizing

00:12:25.780 and trivializing her identity simply because he is cartoonishly mimicking her appearance and

00:12:30.680 claiming that his degraded mockery is as authentic as her own identity. I mean, she's essentially

00:12:35.800 arguing that his imitation is an imitation and thus cannot be as valid or real as the thing he is

00:12:43.840 imitating. And her points make a lot of sense, come to think of it, but unfortunately she, like nearly

00:12:51.400 everyone else in her ideological camp, has already thrown open the doors and invited men to fetishize 1.00

00:12:57.900 and trivialize and mimic her identity. It's just that she wishes the mimicry would stay contained to

00:13:05.080 her sex, not her ethnicity. The problem, though, is that sex is far more objective and far less fluid

00:13:13.960 than ethnicity. If the former can be erased, then so can the latter. Ali London knows that, and now he's

00:13:22.600 entitled to be seen as fully Korean, just as Korean as any other Korean. Indeed, he may be even more 0.85

00:13:28.860 Korean than cis Koreans, like Sandra Song. I mean, you can make that argument. This at least was a choice 0.99

00:13:36.940 that he has made, bravely. If cis Koreans don't want to tolerate or accept trans Koreans, that's their 0.98

00:13:44.800 problem and their bigotry they have to work through. It'd be better for them to just remain silent in the

00:13:49.880 meantime, while the march of progress continues, and all objective markers of identity are erased,

00:13:55.760 and human existence is reduced to a murky puddle of ambiguity. That is the world the left wanted,

00:14:02.060 and now they have it. Congratulations.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 22, 2022

Matt Walsh： Defender Of The Left (Ironically)

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