Ep. 641 - Weird Creep In The White House Forces Girls To Share Bathrooms With Boys
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Joe Biden made it a Day 1 priority to ensure that boys and girls use the same bathroom, and he made good on his promise. Also Five Headlines including bad speeches and bad poetry at the inauguration, a 100 day mask mandate goes into effect, and a professional video game player suffers a career ending injury. And in our Daily Cancellation, I will cancel the proposed Patriot Party before it even has a chance to exist.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden made it a day one priority to ensure that boys and girls use the same bathroom.
And he made good on that promise.
That was his priority.
Also, five headlines, including bad speeches and bad poetry at the inauguration, plus a 100 day mask mandate goes into effect.
And a professional video game player suffers a career ending injury.
Very sad story there.
And in our daily cancellation, I will cancel the proposed Patriot Party before it even has a chance to exist.
All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Joe Biden, who for the first 65 or 70 years of his life, much of it spent in public office, showed no interest in trans issues, never hinted in a belief that biological males can be women if they feel like it, has now become, after just one day in office, the most radically pro-trans president ever in history.
This, admittedly, is not a difficult feat.
After all, almost nobody on Earth believed that women have penises until about seven years ago.
And that's when millions of leftists decided, nearly all at once, that everything we know about biological science is somehow false.
Though they've yet to explain how it's false or why they came to believe it to be false, but we're supposed to just accept it anyway.
At any rate, now we have Biden, the 78-year-old man, governing, much like a 19-year-old college student who just took her first gender studies class might.
And his first act, to this end, happened before he took office, actually.
He named Rachel Levine, who's the current Health Secretary of Pennsylvania, as his Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary.
The only reason he did this is that Rachel Levine is a, quote, trans woman, i.e.
a male who believes himself to be a woman.
And this is what makes the pick historic, we're told.
Yet what really makes it historic is that Levine is the first Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary to be appointed to the position, despite arguably being partly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
Maybe I should check my facts on that claim.
Actually, it's possible that other Democratic administrations have appointed Planned Parenthood officials to that role, in which case Levine would not be the first.
So I'm not quite sure about that.
Either way, the fact is that Levine, as Health Secretary of Pennsylvania, was presiding when the state adopted a policy of admitting COVID patients to nursing homes.
Since then, 10,000 people have died in nursing homes and care facilities just in that state alone.
We should note that Newsweek did a fact check, a quote, fact check, big air quotes around that, on the claim that Levine is responsible for the deaths of thousands of elderly in the state.
Shockingly, they rated the claim false.
They said it's not true.
Here's what Newsweek said.
Although Levine serves as the Pennsylvania Secretary of Health and was active in that position when the state's health department issued the guidance to nursing home facilities saying they can accept patients from hospitals and patients who formerly had COVID-19, that does not prove she placed coronavirus-positive patients in nursing homes or contributed to thousands of elderly deaths in the state.
Okay, so this policy was in place.
Levine was the health secretary.
But there's no way to connect these dots?
No way to blame him for it?
Who knows?
Who can say?
And the thing is, even if you put the deaths of thousands of elderly aside, which you certainly can't, but even if you did, still you're left with the fact that Pennsylvania's COVID death rate is on the higher end of the spectrum among states.
Deaths in Pennsylvania are at about 152 per 100,000 people.
By comparison, deaths in Florida are at 114 per 100,000.
By comparison, deaths in Florida are at 114 per 100,000.
And the media tells us that Florida has been a disaster zone.
Ron DeSantis doing a horrible job, they tell us.
Well, if that's true, what does that say about Pennsylvania?
So even after arbitrarily absolving Levine of all the guilt for the murderous health policies in the state where he was health secretary, you still have no reason on the merits to promote him.
But of course, on the merits is the whole rub here.
This is not a promotion based on the merits.
This is a promotion based on the identity.
Or in this case, the identity confusion.
Speaking of confusion, Joe Biden, on his first day in office, issued a flurry of executive orders.
He essentially set out to overturn Trump's entire tenure in one day, all through executive fiat.
And he basically did.
Of course, it goes without saying that there wasn't any hand-wringing from the media about this violation of norms or the fascist dictatorial takeover, blah, blah, etc.
Quite the opposite.
They celebrated it, obviously.
One of Biden's executive orders is aimed at, quote, preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
And here's what it says, in part.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows.
Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love.
Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.
And then it goes on to a great extent from there.
But the problem here, we can just stop it right there, because the problem is, number one, no child is being denied access to the restroom, locker room, or school sports.
This is not happening.
This was never happening.
Boys are perfectly free to use the boys' room and play on boys' sports.
There's no denial here.
Trans students also are not being denied anything.
Where was that happening?
Well, trans students aren't allowed to use the bathroom.
Really?
Where?
The question is whether a boy who says he's trans should have access to literally any restroom he wants or any sports team he wants, even if it means infringing on the rights of real girls.
The answer to that question from any sane person, any morally decent person, is obviously no.
We don't have to think about it.
It's just a matter of common sense.
There's not a lot of reflection required.
If you ask a normal, sane, morally decent person, oh, what do you think?
Do you think 14-year-old girls in school should be forced to share a restroom with a boy who says he's gender confused?
A normal, sane person says, of course not.
Obviously not.
There's no reason to allow that.
And every reason not to.
But Biden has no common sense, or sense of any other kind at this point, and he is not morally decent either, despite the way he's branded.
The second problem is that the Constitution in no way vests in the President the authority to decide which sports team a kid can play on, or which locker rooms they can use.
This is by no means, by no reasonable interpretation of constitutional power granted to the President.
In fact, no human anywhere has the legitimate moral or legal authority to demand that girls share the locker room with boys.
Nobody does.
But this is the authority Biden has claimed for himself, and it's so important to him personally that girls be forced to disrobe in front of boys that he made it a day one priority.
As the media has been telling us, and maybe I'm sure they'll stop telling us now, people are dying every day in a pandemic.
And Biden is focused on ensuring that little girls have no privacy in the bathroom.
That's what he's worried about.
This is not the action of a decent man, but of a deranged, amoral pervert.
Or else of a hapless, gutless coward enacting somebody else's agenda because he lacks the spine or the brainpower to do the right thing.
My guess is that it's a little bit of both.
We're told that, you know, Biden's administration is a return to normalcy.
In some ways it is.
Because degeneracy and the victimization of children is normal in our culture.
That's what Biden promised.
Normalcy.
It's what he's delivering.
With a lot more where this came from on the way, I'm sure.
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You know, I woke up this morning at 6 a.m.
I went outside at 6 a.m.
and my boys were awake running through the house at 6 a.m.
playing Cowboys and Indians.
Um, and which I already know, of course, cultural appropriation, all of that.
I talked to them about that.
But, um, but the point is that my, my youngest son for the four year old, he, uh, his Indian headdress was his, his pants that he had taken off and put on his head.
And so he's running pantless to the house at 6am with the pants on his head playing Indian Indians.
And I, I just thought as I, as I saw this, you know, it's, it's, If I could have even a fraction of the energy that I had as a kid.
Kids are full of so much energy.
If we could just maintain even a fraction of that as adults, think of all the things we could accomplish.
And this is also why, by the way, it's important to have kids young.
You know, you don't want to wait until you're late 30s or 40s to have kids.
There are a lot of reasons for that, but this is one of them.
Because they demand a lot of energy.
You're not going to have all the energy for them.
But I cannot imagine being like 45 and having a kid who runs through the house at 6 a.m.
with his pants on his head.
All right.
So, number one, the inauguration yesterday was... First of all, let me say this about the inauguration and what's happened with this new administration.
I just want to acknowledge this.
Obviously, I'm a conservative and I'm a critic of the new administration, but when a historic moment occurs, I think we should all acknowledge it.
And the truth is that a glass ceiling was shattered yesterday when the first man with full-blown dementia was inaugurated president.
This never happened before in history, so that is, you know, that is a glass ceiling shattering moment, and we should acknowledge that.
Biden gave a long speech.
For some reason, I'll play a quick clip of it.
I don't even know why I'm doing this, but here is a quick little clip of Biden's inauguration speech.
Here we go.
History, faith, and reason Show the way, the way of unity.
We can see each other, not as adversaries, but as neighbors.
We can treat each other with dignity and respect.
We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature.
For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.
No progress, only exhausting outrage.
You know, once again, it doesn't really mean anything if you wait until you win to say this.
If you're only a good sport after you win the game, sportsmanship doesn't mean much.
So your calls for unity and peace, didn't hear much about that during the campaign, especially when BLM was talking about exhausting outrage.
Didn't hear much about it then.
And he talks about treating people with dignity.
I believe that 100%.
But we have to keep in mind, I'm sorry, that when Joe Biden or any Democrat talks about treating people with dignity, he is ruling a lot of people out of the people category.
So you gotta read the fine print anytime a Democrat says anything, especially when they're talking about human dignity.
Read the fine print, because there's a little asterisk there, and you gotta look down at the fine print, and you'll see there that People, that does not include babies who are still in the womb.
So that excludes millions of people from the people category.
So we're not treating them with dignity.
Unless, I don't know, dismembering a person and throwing them into a dumpster, like abortion clinics do, to millions of children every year, is that, are we counting that as dignity?
So maybe that's where the fine print is.
Treating someone with dignity could include dismembering them and throwing them in a dumpster.
Are we treating our daughters with dignity?
When they are begging us and saying, no, please don't let boys into the bathroom with me.
I want my privacy.
I feel unsafe with the boys here.
And we say to them, shut up and deal with it.
Is that treating them with dignity?
I don't know.
Chris Wallace over at Fox, he listened to this inauguration speech and he said it was the best one he's ever heard.
Let's listen to that.
We must end this uncivil war, and the way we can do it is if we show each other a little tolerance and humility.
Martha, I thought it was a great speech.
I've been listening to these inaugural addresses since 1961, John F. Kennedy, Ask Not.
I thought this was the best inaugural address I ever heard.
Best he's ever heard.
And it was, okay, it was, leaving aside all the hypocrisy and everything else, It was just sort of fine.
And that's what you get.
So you get from most political speeches.
I have, as I've said many times in the past, I've actually never, I don't think I've ever heard a speech from a politician in my life.
I mean, unless we're going back through history, I'm talking about a current politician, a speech that I've listened to live of a current politician.
I've never heard one that really was great.
The best they could be is great by the standards of politicians.
I've never heard one that was really memorable.
What was the last speech from a politician that you heard and years later, you know, there are lines from that speech that you still recall and still remember?
I'm not sure it's ever happened.
I mean, the one example of that, maybe, of a truly, what is the, we think of truly memorable political speeches in our lifetime.
And to be truly memorable, you actually have to remember certain lines from it, without going back to Google.
That's what memorable means, right?
So has there been even one?
And the only one that comes to mind for me, maybe, would be George Bush, his impromptu speech that he gave standing on top of the rubble of the tower into the megaphone.
You know, when he said, I hear you and soon the people who knocked down these towers, they're going to hear all of us.
That's a line I remember.
So that might be the only memorable political speech.
You could say whatever else you want about George Bush.
Plenty of criticism.
You could lob at him, but at least that was a good speech and a good moment.
Okay.
Um, also we should also mention, uh, we didn't play the clip, but in fairness, we should also mention that Joe Biden did denounce white supremacy and he got a lot of credit from that, from the media too.
He denounced white supremacy in his inaugural address.
So he is keeping up the tradition now, the new tradition, that says that presidents have to ritualistically denounce white supremacy every 45 minutes.
So he's going to keep that going, which is great.
But, you know, black supremacy, for example, that we get from from Black Lives Matter, we're not going to get any denunciations of that.
Goes without saying.
Now, there was another moment from the inauguration that a lot of people talked about.
So it was very beautiful.
A poem delivered by Amanda Gorman.
This is kind of a slam poetry.
And everyone now, I admit I'm a Philistine.
OK, I'm a classless Philistine.
Dropped out of community college.
What do I know?
When I listen to this poem, I didn't quite get it.
I understand, I get what she's trying to say.
I didn't see the beauty in the art in it, personally.
But you tell me what you think.
Let's listen.
And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn't mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect.
We are striving to forge our union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.
And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.
We close the divide because we know to put our future first.
We must first put our differences aside.
We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another.
We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true.
That even as we grieved, we grew.
That even as we hurt, we hoped.
That even as we tired, we tried.
That we'll forever be tied together, victorious.
Not because we will never again know defeat.
But because we will never again sow division.
Is that even poetry?
I get that she's saying it with a certain rhythm, I guess, but...
I don't, I think poetry has to have metaphor or beauty.
I just, I don't, I don't see it.
I'm sorry.
I don't hear it.
And it's not just her, but modern, here's the thing, modern poetry to me, much of it, especially this kind of slam poetry style.
It sounds, it always sounds to me like a glorified blog post.
You can just imagine this written in someone's blog post.
But you say it with a certain rhythm and now all of a sudden it's poetry.
I don't mean to be a hater, but I'm sorry.
What can I say?
Number two from The Independent says, Mr. Biden kicked off his presidency by issuing his much-anticipated 100-day mask challenge to the country, pairing it with an executive order to mandate mask wearing in all federal buildings and during interstate travel.
Remember, federal buildings.
We'll get to that in a second.
Mr. Biden explained to reporters, It's requiring, as I said all along, where I have authority, mandating masks be worn, social distancing be kept on federal property.
The president is also reorganizing the way the White House's institutional approach to the coronavirus pandemic, bringing back an Obama-era position within the administration entitled the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense.
And he brought in some more people for that position as well.
First of all, I'll say, you know, to President Biden, I hear your challenge, 100 days of wearing the mask.
I hear that.
I hear you.
I hear what you're saying.
I'm going to ignore it.
I'm not going to do that.
I'm just going to continue along like I was before.
I understand your opinion about whether I should wear a mask.
I understand what your opinion is about what I should have on my face.
It just doesn't mean anything to me.
I don't care.
I don't care about your opinion as the president about what I'm wearing on my face.
And I don't recognize your authority to tell me.
So I'm going to continue right along, doing what I was doing before.
Which is, most of the time, not really wearing a mask, to be honest with you.
And why 100 days?
We still haven't been told that.
Why 100 days?
Why not 90?
Why not 150?
Why not 200?
And we already know, if we look at 15 days to slow the spread, that was 9 months.
Well, 100 days, do the math for that, that turns into, I don't know, years and years and years of wearing a mask.
Which, we are also being told by the media now, We're starting to see the articles come out in the headlines that, hey, even after you get vaccinated, you probably still should wear the mask.
It's a good healthy thing to do.
Why not wear it?
It's no skin off your nose.
In fact, you're just covering your nose.
What's the big deal?
It's extra skin on your nose in a certain way.
But Mr. Biden, as he's called here, he says, wear the mask in federal buildings.
Well, later on that day, he was in a federal building, the Lincoln Memorial, and let's take a look here and see if he's wearing a mask.
Let's watch.
Hello, all the participants of tonight's event.
It's humbling to stand here in this place in front of these sacred words, humbling out of respect to President Lincoln and the office we now share, and humbling because of you, the American people.
As I said earlier today, we have learned again that democracy is precious.
He's not wearing a mask.
That's the twist ending there.
No mask.
After he just told us we have to wear it.
Except for him.
We've learned that lesson by now.
This is from CBS Sports.
It says, the NFL announced Tuesday its official eight-person officiating crew for the upcoming Super Bowl.
In doing so, It marked a historic achievement for Sarah Thomas.
Six years after becoming the first full-time female official in league history, she's set to become the first woman to officiate a Super Bowl, teaming up with 21-year veteran Carl Chaffers on this year's championship cruise.
So this is not a big deal, historic.
We're gonna have our first female, first woman officiating the Super Bowl.
I don't know why I picked this story, because there's nothing I can say about it that won't get me in trouble.
So maybe I'll just move on.
But the only thing I'll say is, I mean, no offense when I say this, but I guess you may as well have women officiating NFL games at this point.
Because anytime there's a big hit, already the refs are like, they're like my wife.
Hey, gentle, gentle, boys, be nice.
No hitting.
Honey, the boys are fighting again.
Can you come in here and talk to them?
That's already what the refs do, so I guess you might as well.
Might as well bring in women for more of that sort of authentic maternal side.
Number four, the first White House press conference under the new administration happened yesterday.
There was one good question during the whole press conference, and it's a very good question, in fact, and I'm very happy it was asked.
I'm a little surprised that this is a question from a reporter for EWTN.
I'm a little surprised they got called on, but they made use of their time.
Here it is.
Go ahead, all the way in the back.
Yeah, hi.
Congratulations on your new position.
Owen Jensen with EWTN, Global Catholic Network.
Two big concerns for pro-life America.
The Hyde Amendment, which, of course, keeps taxpayer dollars, as you know, from paying for abortions, Medicaid abortions, and the Mexico City policy, which, under the previous administration, expanded to keep tax dollars from overseas paying for abortions.
So, what is President Biden planning on doing on those two items right now?
Well, I think we'll have more to say on the Mexico City policy in the coming days, but I will just take the opportunity to remind all of you that he is a devout Catholic and somebody who attends church regularly.
He started his day attending church with his family this morning, but I don't have anything more.
Okay.
That was the strangest non-sequitur.
What does that have to do with anything?
You were asked about his, what he's going to do, Mexico City policy, Hyde Amendment, very specific policy questions.
That's a good question from that reporter from EWTN.
And the answer is, well, he went to church this morning.
That was the answer to the question of, are you gonna force federal funding of abortion?
He went to church.
Now, if that answer means anything, If it's indicating anything, it should be indicating that, well, of course not.
Of course he's not going to force federal funding of abortion or force us to pay for abortions overseas or anything like that.
That's what it should mean.
And I would appreciate it if that's what it meant.
You know, if the question was, is the president going to force federal funding of abortion?
Well, what do you mean?
He goes to church.
Of course not.
What do you expect?
He's a Christian.
He's a real Christian.
But I suspect that's not the implication of that answer.
The implication is, yeah, he's radically pro-abortion.
We already know that.
He wants federal funding.
He wants to increase funding of Planned Parenthood and everything else.
But you can't criticize him for that as a conservative Christian because he's a Christian too.
And so, because a Christian who's in a position of power supports this position, that means Christians can support it.
That means it's a valid position for Christians to hold.
That's the logic.
And it is deranged logic.
It's not logic at all, because that's absolutely not true.
And, as a Catholic, you know, if you are a Catholic, and you categorically reject and deny the moral authority of the Catholic Church, Then you're not a Catholic.
And so that's how I can say, that's how I can, that's how I can sit here and actually say, Joe Biden is not a Catholic.
He says he's a Catholic.
He's lying.
He's not one.
That is a lie.
And yes, I can say that because no, I don't, I'm not peering inside his soul.
I'm not reading his mind.
I don't need to.
I'm listening to what he says.
And I also know that being a Catholic means something.
And one of the things that it means, at a minimum, is that you accept the moral authority of the church.
If you don't, you don't have to, right?
Living in America, you don't have to accept the moral authority of the church.
And if you don't, then okay, you're not a Catholic.
You can be anything else.
But if you are Catholic, that's what it means.
Joe Biden categorically denies the moral authority of the church.
Because the church has always been very clear on this.
For 2,000 years, in fact, it's been very clear about killing babies.
It is gravely immoral, it is gravely immoral, mortally sinful to do, gravely immoral, mortally sinful to support, to fund, to promote.
And as a Catholic, you cannot say, I disagree, and still remain a Catholic, right?
That's a logical conclusion.
In the same way that, you know, I cannot say I'm a Mormon, but I deny that Joseph Smith was a prophet.
Like, I can't say that.
I can physically say it, but in saying it, I have denounced my Mormonism, if I was Mormon, which I'm not.
But if you claim to be part of a religion, but you reject the basic tenets of that religion, then you're not part of that religion.
On the other end, I can't say, uh, I'm an atheist, but I believe in God.
Well, then you're not an atheist.
It's not like you're being ruled out of atheism by some overarching, you know, authority of atheism, but it's just, that's a lot, there's a logical contradiction here, right?
So there's a logical contradiction in saying that you're a Catholic who supports abortion.
All right, number five, the New York Post has this, a 25-year-old professional video game player has been Hang on, let's start over again.
A 25-year-old professional video game player, that's a thing, has been forced to log off for good due to a thumb injury.
Thomas Papparato, who goes by the online moniker Zuma, announced he was stepping back from gaming for the foreseeable future in a statement on Twitter on Tuesday.
Breaks my heart to step away from a game I put my heart and soul into every single day for eight years, he wrote.
Papparato, who played with the New York Sublinners, One of the world's top Call of Duty League esports teams thanked fans for their confidence and support.
I don't mean to laugh about this.
I'm sorry he suffered this injury, especially because that's a hell of a gig to have.
Play video games?
So there are teams of people who play video games.
Do people come and watch?
I'm so incredibly out of touch.
I'm shocked by all of this.
I didn't know any of this existed or was a thing.
And I'm starting to regret, really, all of my life choices.
I wish I could go back in time, become a gamer, become a professional video game player.
That is a hell of a life.
But Paparato is, I guess, hanging up the video game controls and controllers and, you know, calling it a day, retiring the jersey.
So, great career, and we wish him well in his future endeavors.
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Today, we're going to cancel something that doesn't actually exist at the moment.
This is a preemptive measure, the cancellation equivalent of a vaccine, if you will.
I'm canceling the Patriot Party.
As briefly mentioned on the show yesterday, there are reports that Donald Trump wants to start a third party and call it the Patriot Party.
We haven't heard this from Trump himself.
Frankly, I'm skeptical that Trump would actually do that.
But whether Trump does it or not, the idea of a third party has gained traction in the last couple of days with a significant number of conservatives, just based on my own interactions, expressing enthusiasm for the idea.
But they're wrong.
It is a terrible idea.
Whatever you call this third party, whoever starts it, whoever's involved, it is an abysmally stupid and self-destructive plan, and I will explain why.
And hear me out, okay?
Two reasons.
First, matter of mathematics.
I'm not good at math, but I can say this at least.
And as I always say, it's better to operate in reality rather than fantasy.
Reality is where I like to live and make my decisions.
So in reality, The country is divided right now, ideologically, into a roughly 50-50 split.
And that's probably being generous to the right.
We're at most 50%.
Right?
At most.
And again, that's the reality.
I'm not saying I like it, but it doesn't matter if I like it or if you like it.
It is what it is.
That means that a right-wing third party, especially one where Trump is involved, but even if he isn't, will be pulling from only 50% of the population.
So now it's time for basic math.
If the left stays together with its 50%, and the right takes its 50% and splits it up, then you tell me how the right ever wins another election again, ever, until the end of time.
Really, it's not even rhetorical.
Someone tell me how this works, because I don't see it.
You've got 50.
You need to beat the other 50.
And then you subtract from your 50 and you win?
How?
Now, you might say that I'm building my argument on a false premise.
This assumes that a Patriot Party or whatever other right-wing third party we come up with would only siphon votes from the Republicans.
What if it takes from Democrats too and mobilizes a bunch of moderates and politically uninvolved people?
Well, yes, that would certainly be a different situation entirely, but that brings us back to the pesky real world, where there simply is no platform you could possibly devise that would be appealing to disaffected right-wing Trump supporters and significant numbers of Democrats and moderates.
That platform doesn't exist.
Maybe if this was 150 years ago, it would exist.
Or 200 years ago, it would exist.
Doesn't now.
And if the idea is for this to be a nationalist party, then you certainly are not going to be getting anyone but your fellow right-wingers to join.
Just look at the poll numbers.
You don't have to trust any one particular poll, but look at any poll.
Any.
Literally any.
The nationalist position on immigration, which I agree with wholeheartedly, by the way, does not enjoy wide approval among liberals and moderates.
I wish it did, but it doesn't.
That's why they're liberals and moderates.
In order to be appealing to all these groups, and thus to have a chance to do something other than simply guarantee Democrat victories for the next century, you would have to come up with a moderate platform.
But that's exactly the thing the Republican Party is already doing, and it's exactly the thing that probably pisses you off and makes you want to leave.
So, you see the problem here.
There is no path to victory.
It doesn't exist.
I wish it did.
It doesn't.
Now, you might say, and this is what I've heard from a lot of people, That the idea, really, is to teach the Republicans a lesson.
Stick it to the establishment, etc.
Well, okay.
Are you willing to forfeit the country, and the future, and my children's future, to achieve that goal?
You want to spit in the eye of the Republican Party by giving the left everything it ever dreamed of?
That seems a rather self-destructive path.
It's a suicide bombing, and the only person you're blowing up is yourself.
By the way, the establishment Republican Party, this is so important to understand, They would love it if all the pesky right-wing agitators left and formed their own little party and ensured that they, the establishment, remained in office but never had actual power.
They would love that.
Mitch McConnell, if you hate Mitch McConnell, okay, he would love it if you left and did this.
It would be the best thing that ever happened to him.
Because this is exactly the position they want to be in.
They want to be in office, but not with the burden of real power and the expectations of real leadership.
So, in an effort to poke the establishment in the eye, you'd be giving the establishment what it wants.
Namely, you gone.
And you're also giving the left what it wants.
Namely, itself in power forever.
The only person who wouldn't get what they want is you.
So this plan is sounding worse by the minute.
We're not even at the end yet.
Second point.
The reason for starting a third party, correct me if I'm wrong, but the reason would be that the Republican Party is run by shills, charlatans, and frauds.
I agree with that assessment, but here's my question.
Why do you think the Patriot Party wouldn't be run by exactly the same sorts of people?
Shills, charlatans, and frauds we will always have with us everywhere we go, especially in politics.
Coming up with a new party and giving it a new name is in no way a protection against this.
If anything, it's a guarantee of it happening because you're creating a void that will be filled with these kinds of people.
Will be.
All you have to do is look at the political landscape right now as it currently stands.
Look at the people who are critics of the GOP establishment.
Some of them are sincere and honest.
Some of them are hacks and frauds, just as bad as the people they're criticizing, in some cases worse.
Look what happened to the Tea Party.
Granted, the Tea Party wasn't its own political party, but even so, it began as a real and sincere movement, but quickly, within less than a year, It was overrun by grifters, exploiting it for money, power, and fame.
Then it fizzled out, and look where it is now.
Nowhere.
And it is really nowhere.
One of the things that mobilized the Tea Party early on, allegedly, was the budget, and spending, and taxes.
The Republican Party gave up on that.
The Republican Party, for the last four years, has been spending money hand over fist.
What happened to the Tea Party?
Didn't care.
As if to prove my point, I saw this morning that there is already a, there's already a Patriot Party Twitter account.
Now, it's not an official account, obviously, because the party doesn't exist, but it has a large following and a growing following, and all the account does is tweet out stuff like, retweet if you think Trump was awesome, smiley face, flag emoji, and the account also sells t-shirts.
So they send out these tweets of, retweet this, here's a little bumper sticker slogan, retweet, and then they have a link to buy their t-shirts.
So, here's my point.
The Patriot Party doesn't exist yet, and already there are charlatans using it successfully to enrich themselves.
The Patriot Party doesn't exist yet, and already it is essentially just a slightly more cringy version of the Republican Party.
Which is also what the Tea Party became.
It's what everything becomes in the end, sad to say.
Even the Libertarian Party is basically just the Republican Party, but with weed.
I mean, they nominated Gary Johnson in 2016, for God's sake.
That's why the third party idea is bad.
What, then, is a better option?
Well, I already made my case yesterday that reclaiming the culture is going to have to happen at a much more fundamental level.
You aren't going to solve our problems politically.
You're not even going to solve our political problems politically.
Even if the Republican Party did everything that we wanted it to do, most of that stuff can be undone whenever the Democrats get in power.
Biden has already erased Trump's whole presidency and all of his achievements almost, and he hasn't even completed his second day in office yet.
That's the way it works.
Politics is like writing your name in the sand.
It's only a matter of time before the tide comes up and washes it away.
If you want to make a lasting difference, lasting change, achieve lasting victory, it happens locally.
It happens in the family.
Essentially, conservatives need to have a bunch of kids and homeschool them.
That's my plan.
Okay, that's what I propose.
Have a bunch of kids, homeschool them, and anything short of that will be like a band-aid at best.
But as far as political band-aids go, given all the issues I've raised, the better plan is for the radical right-wing extremist wing of the party, of which I am a proud member, stay in, The party get louder, get more annoying, get pushier, grow in number, and take over the positions of power within.
I'm not saying this is a bulletproof plan by any means, but it's better than the third party plan, which is bulletproof only in its certainty of failure.
Again, the establishment wants you to leave.
Leaving gives them what they want.
So don't do that.
Stay.
Be loud.
Be demanding.
Be smart.
Vote for people who actually represent your values, not grifters, not charlatans, not people who are spitting bumper stickers out at you, even if they also are insulting the establishment and saying a lot of the stuff you want to hear.
And in the meantime, like I said, get married, have a bunch of kids, buy some guns, buy some books, buy some land, grow some vegetables, turn off the TV.
This is the way.
This is the path.
And also, don't commit political suicide with a third party.
That's an important part of the path.
Anyway, the third party has been cancelled.
And that's it.
Glad we could settle that.
That's going to do it for us today.
Thanks for watching, everybody.
Thanks for listening.
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