Ep. 695 - It Is An Honor To Die In This Diverse And Equitable Plane Crash
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, United Airlines has decided to start hiring pilots based on diversity rather than merit. This is yet another conservative slippery slope argument come to life. Also Five Headlines including Joe Biden equivocating on whether companies should boycott Georgia over their voter ID law, Caitlyn Jenner considers a run for governor, and a former CIA director becomes the latest ex-government official to publicly entertain the idea that aliens may have already visited Earth. In our Daily Cancellation, we’ll talk about Tucker Carlson’s interview with the governor of Arkansas last night. He attempted to defend his position in favor of chemically castrating children and it did not go well.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, United Airlines has decided to start hiring pilots based on diversity rather than merit.
This is yet another conservative slippery slope argument come to life.
Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden equivocating on whether companies should boycott Georgia over their voter ID law, Caitlyn Jenner considers a run for governor, and a former CIA director becomes the latest ex-government official, one of many to publicly entertain the idea that aliens may have already visited Earth.
In our daily cancellation, we'll talk about Tucker Carlson's interview with the governor of Arkansas last night.
He attempted to defend his position in favor of chemically castrating children, and it did not go well.
All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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As a conservative, you can be confident of two things.
When you make a slippery slope argument in relation to any left-wing idea or policy.
First, that you'll be condemned as a paranoid lunatic and promptly laughed out of the room.
Second, that you will almost certainly be right.
Every week, yet another thing happens in reality that people on the right, in the not-so-distant past, warned would happen if we stayed on this cultural trajectory.
Precedents do matter, which is no surprise to some of us.
If something is justified on a certain basis, then everything else that can be justified on that same basis will probably one day occur.
If you tear down statues of Confederate generals because they were racist, then all of the other statues of quote-unquote racist historical figures will come down.
If you say that marriage is only a consensual contract between people who love each other, then eventually you'll have children with You know, three polyamorous homosexual fathers listed on their birth certificates.
If you say that it's possible and valid for a person to choose his own gender, then eventually you'll have thousands of children undergoing gender transitions.
If you justify broad masking mandates during a pandemic, you'll end up with masking mandates even after the pandemic.
It doesn't take fortune tellers to predict these future events.
It requires only a basic grasp of logic.
Because evidently, one thing really does lead to another.
Who would have thought?
The problem is that the slope is, we have to admit, sometimes so slippery and the logical endpoints so irredeemably absurd that it's impossible to issue a warning about where these things are heading without sounding like you're making a joke.
We may all admit that.
So, for example, those of us opposed to affirmative action have, for years, illustrated our point by asking you to imagine a situation where you're boarding a passenger plane piloted by someone who was given the job to fulfill a racial quota, rather than based on merits.
I mean, no matter how committed you are to diversity, we would say, when you're 30,000 feet in the air traveling 500 miles an hour, you want your captain to be the best of the best, no matter his race or gender.
It would surely be small comfort as you plunge into the Pacific due to human error by your underqualified yet inclusive flight crew to know that, you know, the wreckage will be diverse and eclectic.
But this is the sort of catastrophic insanity to which our emphasis on diversity over merit leads.
That's what we've always said, right?
And now, United Airlines is here to prove the point.
This is another time when we have to say, I told you so, and we really do hate to say it.
On Tuesday, United tweeted out the big news.
This is what they said.
Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day.
That's why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color.
The airline news website, One Mile at a Time, has more details.
they say, "United Airlines is the only major US airline to own a flight school,
and the airline is beginning to accept new applications as of today as it embarks on a
plan to train 5,000 new pilots by 2030. Upon completion of the program, pilots are guaranteed
a job with United." That's cool in and of itself, as we, the article continues,
as we see how the industry expects there to be so much demand for pilots in the coming years.
What's even cooler is that United is setting a goal of having at least half of those pilots be women and people of color.
Just to show you why this is needed, a mere 5% of airline pilots in the US are women.
Even more jarring is that just over 1% of airline captains are female, meaning a vast majority of female pilots are first officers.
So it shows you that progress is being made in the sense that there are more entry-level pilots than senior pilots who are female, but it also shows you how much more work there is to be done.
The percentage of U.S.
airline pilots who are people of color is even smaller.
And perhaps the most shocking statistic of all is that there are fewer than 150 black female pilots at U.S.
airlines.
Yes, cool is one way to describe this plan by United.
I think maybe a better word would be something like horrifying.
You know, that might get closer to the mark.
To this point, OK, the safety record of the airline industry is almost miraculous.
Millions of commercial aircraft fly through the skies each year, and fatal accidents are still so rare that, as people like myself with unreasonable anxiety about flying have to constantly remind ourselves, you are orders of magnitude more likely to die in the car on the way to the airport than you are while you're up in the sky in the plane.
You are, in fact, more likely to die almost anywhere else on the planet than at cruising altitude on a passenger aircraft.
It is, if not the safest place to be, then very close to the safest place you could possibly be anywhere.
Now, this has a lot to do with advancement in technology, but it's also a reflection of the incredible skill and competence of the people steering these giant metal buckets over the clouds.
Now, as it turns out, there is no miracle or mystery here, actually.
People.
Both those building the planes and those flying them have made flying as inconceivably safe as it is today.
And it really is inconceivable.
Millions and millions and millions of flights go by and no one dies.
Again, you can't say that about cars, that's for sure.
This is a long way of saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Almost every person who has ever boarded a plane has arrived at the destination they had in mind intact and unharmed.
Almost every single person.
Almost.
What that tells us is that there probably is no major widespread problem with the way that they select pilots.
Whatever they've been doing up until right now, keep doing that.
It's working.
The fact that this record of success belongs mostly to men is not a problem.
It's not jarring or shocking.
It's not something that we need to fix.
If men in general have made the best pilots, so be it.
If anything, if we're going to do anything with that information, wouldn't we be recruiting more men, not fewer?
Wouldn't we be saying, well, men appear to be pretty damn good at this.
Let's let's get some more of them.
Or better yet, it's a reason to continue recruiting pilots exactly as they've been recruited until now.
Which is not based on gender at all.
The process has worked splendidly.
It literally could not have worked any better.
Now, United, doing a little PR damage control, which will prove easier than the sort of damage control they might be doing in the near future, responded to concerns on social media by claiming that all applicants will still be qualified.
They wrote, and listen to the language here, they wrote, quote, Notice what they didn't say.
qualified candidates we accept at the Academy, regardless of race or sex, will
have met or exceeded the standards we set for admittance."
Hmm. Notice what they didn't say. They didn't say that the most qualified
candidates will be accepted, only that every candidate will have met their
standards. This leaves them open to accept one candidate who merely meets the
standard over another candidate who exceeds the standard.
You notice what they also didn't do?
They didn't promise that they won't lower or change the standard in order to fulfill this quota, which they're going to have to.
If you want to go from 5% women to 50%, you're going to have to change, obviously, the standards you have in place right now.
Those really high standards so that only the best of the best of the best get through?
You're going to have to lower them.
It's not going to work otherwise.
That's what the military discovered, which is why they lowered their standards, too, for women.
Now, defenders of these sorts of quotas will often try to have it both ways.
Even today, there are leftists online claiming that, you know, United can still hire the best of the best, even while ensuring that half are women or, quote, people of color.
But this is really a one or the other proposition.
It really is.
If you're hiring the best of the best, You cannot possibly declare ahead of time what race and gender and in what exact proportion the best of the best will be.
If you can stick to hiring the best of the best while still succeeding in hiring 50% women, then there's no need for this quota at all.
What's the point?
The fact that they need the quota means either that they are confessing to deliberately discriminating against women and black people until this point, or that they're moving away from hiring the best applicants in order to hire the most diverse applicants.
So which is it, United?
Are you confessing to illegal discrimination?
And are you preparing now to pay out the billion-dollar settlements that are coming?
Or are you announcing a plan to hire less qualified pilots in the future?
Again, it is really one or the other.
Those are the two options.
I'm guessing the latter is the case here.
United will risk killing you in a plane crash if it scores them a few woke points.
That's what this is.
Wokeness destroys everything.
Even things that were almost perfect, it destroys.
Like the safety record for airlines.
Almost as close to perfect as a thing can be in this flawed world that we live in.
And you know, if this is the point, If this is the plan, and since I'm not going to be flying United anyway, because I value my life, I'd suggest that they go all in.
I mean, why stop at only including more women and people of color in the cockpit?
Here's a jarring stat for you.
Can you believe this?
No member of the blind community has ever been hired as a commercial airline pilot.
Can you believe that?
That's incredible.
I mean, surely the Wright brothers would have burned their invention had they known it would lead to bigotry of this kind.
I mean, all of these years of commercial air flight, there's never been a blind pilot?
If United is breaking glass ceilings, why not this one?
I mean, they're going to be breaking quite a few ceilings in the near future, I imagine.
They ought to add this to the list, too.
I would only request that the passengers on United's historic first flight by a blind pilot should be all of the executives in the company who decided to put diversity above the safety of their customers.
Put them all in a plane and send them up on the plane being flown by a blind pilot.
That's what I would say.
I mean, surely these executives would leap at the chance to be a part of history and then to shortly become history.
So come on United, show us all, show us all how progressive you really are.
Let's get now to our five headlines.
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Number one, so Joe Biden is equivocating now a little bit.
We know that he was fully in favor of the MLB All-Star game moving out of Georgia, punishing the people of Georgia because the legislature and the governor came up with a bill that would protect the integrity of elections.
So this is insane on multiple levels, of course.
Why would we need to punish anyone for trying to protect the integrity of elections?
And if you are going to punish somebody for this, why would you punish the people of Georgia, business owners and so on, who are losing tens of millions up to $100 million or more because of this?
Joe Biden was in favor of that.
And but now he's because if we're talking about slippery slope, if you're moving the Major League Baseball out of Georgia for this, then what about all the other professional sport events that happen in Georgia?
There are quite a few of them.
And Biden was asked about that yesterday. And here's what he said.
Do you think the Masters golf tournament should be moved out of Georgia?
I think that's up to the Masters.
Look, You know, it is reassuring to see that for-profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws are just antithetical to who we are.
There's another side to it, too.
The other side to it, too, is when they in fact move out of Georgia, The people who need the help the most, people who are making hourly wages, sometimes get hurt the most.
I think it's a very tough decision for a corporation to make, or a group to make.
But I respect them when they make that judgment, and I support whatever judgment they make.
But the best way to deal with this is for Georgia and other states to smarten up.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Oh, that's a good argument.
I mean, it's hard to argue with a point like that.
It's so salient.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Well, why should they stop it?
What's wrong with what they did?
Stop it.
Just stop it.
Come on, guys.
Just stop it.
Okay?
The new Jim Crow.
My God.
Jim Crow, again, I'm waiting, you know, I'm waiting for someone to provide even, not that this would even begin to prove their point, but can you give us an example of one person, one person who wanted to vote and was not able to because of a voter ID law?
Can you even explain how that would work?
On a theoretical basis, can you explain how that works exactly?
And the better question is, can you explain it in a way that won't come off as incredibly racist?
Because remember, what you're suggesting is that it's not that people in general have trouble figuring out how to get an ID.
What you're saying is that black people have trouble figuring this out specifically.
So can someone, can some white liberal explain that in a way that makes sense and is not racist?
I haven't heard it yet.
And then after you've done that, give us the example of someone really wanted to vote.
They had, um, two years or four years, if it's, if we're talking just presidential, uh, to, to get an ID and they were not able to do it.
And because I want to know who that person is and I would like to talk to that person and I want to find out how they operate in life.
How do they go about their daily lives without a photo ID as an adult?
You need it to do almost anything.
So what is what is your living in a life as a as an adult in modern society?
Without an ID and unable to figure out how to get one.
What is that like?
What is your day-to-day existence like?
But we never get that.
And now Biden is saying, well, maybe we don't.
Let's not move everything out of Georgia.
As long as they smarten up and do what we say, then that's the best thing.
Now, meanwhile, for more insight into this issue, I thought we should really turn to someone who is a legal scholar, one of the great minds, I think, in society today, and certainly in media.
This is Shannon Sharpe, along with Skip Bayless, on the Fox Sports Show, Undisputed.
And here he is.
For some reason, this is a sports show, and for some reason he's chiming in on voting law and all that kind of stuff.
And here's what he had to say.
I like the move by MLB.
I like their taking a stand.
And Skip, at some point in time, you're going to have to put action to your words.
You say you're about inclusion.
You say you're about doing the right thing.
At some point in time, you have to put those actions into words.
I mean, put those words into action.
And that's what they're doing, Skip.
Now, you're going to be relegated to where you can take this game to.
Because there's a lot of other states that are doing the exact same thing as Georgia.
Texas, Florida.
Florida, you're off the list.
Texas, you're off the list.
There are a lot of states that are doing the exact same thing that Georgia did.
Let's get what I don't understand.
This is what's confusing with me.
Ms.
McConnell, Lindsey Graham, was on the under ticket for President Trump.
President Trump lost the election because of fraud, but they won the election.
They won their Senate races.
It was fair and square.
I'm confused, Skip.
How does that work?
Well, the top guy lost, but my election was fair and square, so let's do something about it.
Now, in 2016, we know for a fact Russia tried to interfere.
Mitch McConnell would do nothing.
He wouldn't even bring it to the floor.
Now, you want to put these right, because what they see, Skip, there's a changing of the guard.
More people are becoming of age to vote, and they're minorities, and they're voting.
So instead of changing your messaging and try to reach out to a new base, what do you do?
We're going to try to restrict so you can.
It shouldn't be harder to vote than to get a gun.
Now, what's wrong with that picture, Skip?
You notice that they're making it harder for you to vote than to get that gun?
No, we don't want to do nothing with the gun.
I want my Second Amendment.
What's wrong with that picture, Skip?
What's wrong?
Well, what's wrong with that picture is that you're hallucinating, Shannon.
That's what's wrong with the picture.
There's a lot wrong with the picture.
It doesn't exist.
It's a picture that you drew.
It's like a stick figure picture that you drew somewhere.
I don't know.
It's not reality.
I love when people make up something and then they become offended by it.
Can you believe this?
It's harder.
To vote to get a gun is outrageous?
Yeah, I mean, if you're making things up, anyone could do that.
I can make up all kinds of outrageous scenarios.
Now, I say this as someone who I've been clear that I don't actually think it would be outrageous.
I think it would be good if it really was harder to vote than to get a gun.
I think that's the way it should be, but it's not that way.
At all.
And we've gone through all the reasons why.
Now you watch a clip like that, and I know it's easy to say, anytime I play any sort of clip like that from whether it's a celebrity or somebody on sports media, the comments that I always get, people are probably leaving the comments right now if they're watching on Daily Wire or YouTube, the comments are, what does it matter what this person says?
Who cares what this person says?
It shouldn't matter, right?
But it does.
It actually matters a lot more, a lot more than anything that anybody says on cable news.
What you just heard there is the same nonsense that you hear on cable news.
But on cable news, it makes very little difference because the people that are exposed to it on CNN are already the people who believe this stuff.
That's why they're watching CNN.
Right?
Or they're watching CNN because they're in an airport, but they're not really watching it.
They have their headphones on and they're watching it like on mute or something.
But as far as people choosing to tune in, To CNN.
They already believe this, and they're watching it so that they're told more of what they already believe.
It's the old echo chamber thing.
Now here, a whole lot of people who are impressionable, because most people are, and they're not tuning in to get propaganda.
But they get it, and it sinks in.
Unfortunately, the average audience of sports media That's nothing against people that watch sports media.
I watch it too.
It's like the average audience anywhere.
They hear a claim like that, and if it seems to kind of confirm their priors and it sort of seems to fit in with the vague impression they have of the world and reality, they're going to accept it.
Like there are probably thousands of people that heard that segment and came away thinking, wow, it's harder to get a gun than to vote.
Well, That kind of makes sense.
I guess that's true.
It's amazing.
That's horrible.
And who's responsible for this?
The Republicans?
Well, we got to get them out of office then.
They're not going to go and look it up and Google and spend even five minutes researching that or thinking critically about it.
They're not going to go to the next step and think, no, wait a second, hold on.
Doesn't a gun cost money?
I mean, right there, that alone is a barrier to entry that you don't have for voting.
I mean, that alone makes getting a gun harder, along with everything else.
No, they're not going to think that.
You know, most people are not critical thinkers.
That's what it comes down to.
And so what you just heard there, very influential, makes a big difference.
Shouldn't, but it does.
All right, number two, here's Dr. Fauci on cable news, puzzling, this is on, what is it, MSNBC.
He's puzzling over the fact that cases are going down even as people ignore him, if you can believe it.
I can, but he can't.
Here he is.
You mentioned Texas and that full ballpark in Arlington yesterday.
There was a lot of concern last month when Texas effectively opened up, dropped all those restrictions, and said it's back to life.
And if you go to Texas, as you know, it looks like 2019.
The restaurants and the bars are full and open.
The ballparks are full.
And yet, we've seen cases and hospitalizations since then continue to tick downward.
So what do you make of that as all of us Yeah, you know, it can be confusing because you may see a lag and a delay because often you have to wait a few weeks before you see the effect of what you're doing right now.
You know, there are a lot of things that go into that.
I mean, when you say that they've had A lot of activity on the outside, like ball games.
I'm not really quite sure.
It could be they're doing things outdoors.
It's very difficult to just one-on-one compare that.
You just have to see in the long range.
I hope they continue to tick down.
If they do, that would be great.
But there's always the concern When you pull back on methods, particularly things like indoor dining and bars that are crowded, you can see a delay and then all of a sudden tick right back up.
We've been fooled before by situations where people begin to open up, nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, several weeks later, things start exploding on you.
So we've got to be careful we don't prematurely judge that.
Yeah, what he says before, I assume he's going back, you know, months ago.
Before we, there are millions and millions of people vaccinated, many millions of people, more who have already been exposed and are immune.
That's what, when you hear guys like Fauci now, that in their mind, it makes no difference.
Like they, we're still supposed to believe that there could be, you know, a massive spike and suddenly we're back where we were six months ago.
That's what we're being told.
That's what we're supposed to believe.
But if the vaccine works, that should basically be, if the vaccine works, and also your conferred immunity by prior, if you previously had the virus, and then we were told both of those things, then it should basically be impossible at this point that we all of a sudden find ourselves nationwide back where we were six months ago, because of all the people that are immune to it.
But Fauci is... I mean, you gotta see it from his perspective.
He knows that eventually the time is coming when he's not gonna be getting the cable news hits anymore.
No one's gonna care what he says.
Eventually society's moving on from him and he's not... He doesn't have the power that he has right now.
He doesn't have the fame and the prestige and everything.
He's gonna be yesterday's news.
You know, one hit wonder.
And he's afraid of that moment.
A lot of these people are.
A lot of these people that have been bureaucrats, that have been in public life, working for the government for years, for decades, suddenly finding themselves as these rock stars, and they don't wanna lose that status.
So they're gonna say whatever they can to hold onto it.
All right, by the way, the actor Morgan Freeman, if you're wondering, has chimed in about vaccines, and here's his message.
I'm Morgan Freeman.
I'm not a doctor, but I trust science.
And I'm told that for some reason people trust me.
So here I am to say, I trust science and I got the vaccine.
If you trust me, you'll get the vaccine.
In math, it's called the distributive property.
In people, it's called taking care of one another.
Get the vaccine.
Help make our world a safe place for us to enjoy ourselves again.
Please?
But why would I trust Morgan Freeman?
Who is this?
The Creative Coalition.
And a bunch of other companies.
Morgan, if you trust me, you'll get the vaccine.
Why should we trust Morgan Freeman?
I mean, I don't really have an opinion on trusting him or not trusting him.
He's just an actor.
But again, it's just like with the Shannon Sharp clip we played.
You know, you and I, maybe, if we're critical thinkers, we'll say, I don't care what Morgan Freeman's, I mean, my opinion on the vaccine isn't going to be changed one way or another by the fact that Morgan Freeman, yeah, he's got a, he's got a, he's got a nice voice and a very authoritative sounding voice.
And we all like to listen to things that are narrated by Morgan Freeman, obviously, but it doesn't actually make him more trustworthy just because we like the sound of his voice.
As critical thinkers, you and I, we know that, but there are a lot of people who that is really their thought process.
They think, well, Morgan Freeman, he played God, didn't he, in one of those movies?
Well, if we can't trust God, then who can we trust?
All right, number three, this is from The Hill.
It says, Caitlyn Jenner is reportedly eyeing a bid for governor of California.
The former Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality TV star and Olympian is talking with political consultants as, quote, she actively explores a run.
And, uh, apparently what I had read was that there's someone from the Trump team involved in this.
Actually, no surprise there.
You know, and, and, uh, of course they, they, they, they always make, you've always got all kinds of interesting people running for governor in California.
So that's, that's par for the course, but I am seeing some conservatives online who are saying, well, this is great.
You know, have Caitlyn Jenner, Republican, then, then the left is not going to know what to do.
We play the left's identity politics game against them and they'll be totally disarmed.
It doesn't work that way.
How many times do we have to say it?
It doesn't work that way.
In order to play the left's identity politics game against them, to use it against them effectively, they have to have integrity and live by their own standards, which they don't.
So yes, when they've got Rachel Levine as the assistant health secretary, and if you criticize Rachel Levine, they're going to say you're automatically a transphobe.
It's not going to work that way.
You might wish that it would, but it doesn't work that way if the Republican governor of California is transgender, and then the left criticizes him.
And then you think, whoa, that makes you a transphobe.
That's their standard.
They only apply it to us.
They don't live by it.
No matter how often we complain that they don't live by it, they're not going to.
And also, this gender stuff, gender theory, as I have been saying for years, Even as many conservatives laughed about it and told me, you're going to die on this hill.
This isn't the hill to die on.
I was told it was a sideshow.
I was told it was a passing fad.
It won't matter.
As I've been saying for years and have, there's another one of those, I hate to say I told you so situations, but I was correct.
And I'm still correct that this is one of the defining issues of our time.
So we can't embrace left-wing gender theory in hopes of playing their identity politics game and using it against them like it's gonna be some great chess move.
It's not gonna work.
We lose a lot more than we gain.
Okay.
Number four, the New York Post reported yesterday, Disney World said Tuesday that customers will be allowed to temporarily take off their masks while posing for outdoor photos beginning Thursday.
Disney World did not comment further on what prompted the updated guidelines, which now say that face coverings must be worn at all times except when dining or swimming.
So as it stands, the only reason I read that is, as it stands right now at Disney World, you have to wear a mask at all times while at the park, even on the rides.
And you're only allowed to take it off for pictures or to eat.
And as far as eating goes, you can't do that or drink while walking around.
You have to do it in the designated areas.
That's been the rule since June.
You also have to submit to temperature checks on your way in.
And if you don't submit, then you could be arrested.
And that happened to a guy a couple of days ago.
He was arrested at Disney World because he didn't want to do the temperature check.
And this is all on top of the standard Disney World trappings.
You know, thousands of dollars that you have to pay between the tickets, the hotel, travel, etc.
97 degree heat, 97% humidity, the lines, the crowds.
And this is something people choose to do.
Something they subject themselves to on purpose.
They pay money for the privilege of walking around all day, in the heat, with a face muzzle on, money leaking out of their bank account, sweat leaking out of every pore, accumulating in their masks, which they're breathing in all day as they wait in these lines.
It is hell on earth.
Why would anyone choose to do that?
This is your vacation?
You get two weeks off a year or whatever and you're gonna spend it doing that?
I can't understand it.
Finally, from the New York Post, it says, former CIA Director James, Director R. James Woolsey said, he believes UFOs could exist after his friend's plane was paused at 40,000 feet.
The former Chief Spook, who ran the agency from 1993 to 1995, spoke Friday to the Black Vault's YouTube channel, where he was promoting a book, and he said, quote, I never thought there was anything to all this.
It always seemed pretty far out to me, but there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft.
I don't know exactly what that means.
It doesn't go into much explanation.
Still landed safely, only proven the point from before.
Now you've got all these pilots who are encountering UFOs and aliens up there, still getting you home, still getting you to your destination.
You know, you're still gonna land in Detroit on time.
Pretty impressive.
But I really wanted to just get to this part.
So listen to this quote, okay?
From the article.
It says, in December, ex-CIA director John Brennan said it was presumptuous and arrogant to believe that there are no other forms of life than the ones on Earth.
Here's the quote from him.
He said, I think some of the phenomena we're going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might, in fact, be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don't yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.
That's from John Brennan.
Have you ever heard a better example of bureaucratese?
This is the language of a bureaucrat.
It's not even English.
You feel like you're having a stroke when you listen to it.
He's stringing words together and not saying anything at all.
This is a guy who has lost the ability to communicate in actual human language.
You listen to it again, he says, I think some of the phenomena we're going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might in fact be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don't yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life.
In other words, he's saying, yeah, I think there might be aliens.
You know what this really is?
This is me in seventh grade doing a book report about a book I didn't read and just trying to hit the word count of, you know, 1,200 words.
Throwing in all the words I can.
I have only one thought about the book that I got from reading its back cover, and that's all I got, and I got to put a bunch of other words with it.
Anyway, I guess that's not really the main point.
The main point here is about the UFOs, but instead I decided to rag on John Brennan and said, you know, if you want to make a house into a home, then one of the most important things you can do is have nice artwork on the walls.
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Okay, we'll move on to reading the YouTube comments.
This is from Joseph says, evil to the left of me, cowards to the right.
Here I am stuck in the middle with Matt Walsh.
Kind of has a ring to it.
Joe says, my main question is how in the world were these two girls able to make a settlement so fast?
Usually the court system works like a snail.
Yeah, the girls in DC who murdered Mohamed Anwar, 66-year-old Uber Eats driver.
It's happened like a week ago.
Carjacking him.
Killed him.
Only cared about their phone.
And now they got a plea bargain.
They're not going to prison at all.
They're going to spend no time in prison and they'll be totally free by the age of 21.
So that's six years for the 15-year-old.
A little bit longer for the other girl.
Not only did they get that deal, but yes, they did get it.
This was decided very, very quickly.
They didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it.
How did it happen, Joe?
Well, I told you, it's privilege.
And it's mainly female privilege.
These are the kinds of deals that females often get in the court system.
Mrs. Mack says, we're no longer on a slippery slope.
We've hit rock bottom.
Well, unfortunately, we haven't.
If the slippery slope argument is wrong or false, it is only because it's not really a slope.
Slope's probably not the best Um, illustration to use.
It is, it's a free fall into like a vacuum.
It just, it never, it's like you're, it's like you're in outer space.
You can't even really call it falling.
You're just hurtling through like what that George Clooney movie where he's hurtling through space.
What's that one called?
That's what we, that's where we are now.
There's no end point.
You just go deeper and deeper into the abyss.
Cheerful thought.
Um, Border X says, most people want you to play the banjo.
I just want to hear the telemarketer pitch you had to do.
I imagine it being some weird combination of soothing and terrifying, both resulting in me buying whatever you were selling.
I don't remember the exact pitch I did as a telemarketer, but I can remember that I got to the point where I was doing it enough that I could tell in five seconds whether you were the kind of person who might buy from a telemarketer, because most people just won't.
And if I could tell you weren't, then our phone line might disconnect and I'm just going to move on to the next person.
And by the way, you don't get a lot of telemarketers these days, but when you do, the one thing I hated, the worst thing as a telemarketer, was when you encountered a polite person.
Who didn't want to hang up on you?
Like, a polite but intelligent person was the worst thing to encounter as a telemarketer, because they're intelligent, so they're not going to buy from you.
But they're polite, so they don't want to hang up.
And what that means is they're going to sit and listen to you, and they're going to make you give that whole two-minute spiel just so that at the end, they can say, okay, if you're done, I'm really not interested.
Have a great day.
If you care about the well-being of telemarketers, just hang up.
It's the best thing you can do.
Then they can move on.
And finally, Dr. Emmett Brown says, Matt, would you rather choose as a pet a dog or a leftist?
Well, that's a false choice because I think all dogs are leftists.
Think about it, needy, entitled, tendency to drool.
Very similar.
It's one of the reasons I don't like dogs, I think.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
Today in a somewhat rare migration, the person featured yesterday in our opening monologue has now moved straight away to our cancellation monologue.
That's Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a man so slight and unimpressive that he makes Eric Swalwell look almost masculine by comparison.
And he is the one being cancelled today.
He was already effectively cancelled yesterday upon the news that he had vetoed a bill that would have banned the chemical castration of children in the state, calling it a, quote, vast government overreach to prevent doctors from generally mutilating children or giving hormone blockers to children.
Hutchinson, a Republican governor in the South, let's remember, ...took the side of the most fringe and radical elements of the LGBT left.
Indeed, he took a side that not but five or ten years ago, even many on the LGBT left would have opposed, or claimed to oppose.
But as we know, mainstream conservatism is often just leftism about a half a decade behind, so Asa Hutchinson, in this case, is right on schedule.
Fortunately, the Arkansas General Assembly performed what you might call a legislative castration of the governor by overriding his veto and enacting the ban anyway.
Hutchinson apparently decided that he had not been defrocked and humiliated enough, so he went on Tucker Carlson last night to try and defend his decision to veto the bill.
Now, an intelligent man, or at least a man who cares about his own dignity, might have realized that his position is literally indefensible, as in, it cannot be defended, and thus, he would have declined the invitation to go on cable news, the top cable news program in the country, and try and defend it, because he can't.
But Hutchinson is not that sort of man, and so, this is what happened.
Let's watch.
Well, the legislature in Arkansas recently passed a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing so-called puberty blockers, heavy-duty hormones, to children who believe they're transgender.
The law also bans surgeons from physical castration of children.
But the governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, vetoed that bill on Monday.
Legislatures in Arkansas just voted to override that veto, which brings us to where we are right now.
Asa Hutchinson is the governor of Arkansas, and he joins us to talk about Governor, thanks so much for coming on.
I really appreciate it in the middle of all this.
Now, I think of you as a conservative.
Here you've come out publicly as pro-choice on the question of chemical castration of children.
Okay, let's pause there for just a moment.
Tucker's introduction of the governor and of the issue is absolutely fair.
He summarized things quite succinctly and accurately.
But I want you to just reflect on this for a moment.
This man, Asa Hutchinson, was either so terrified of upsetting the far left or so beholden to his corporate interests, or both, I think both, that he's willing to be known.
He's willing to be known now as a man who is, as Tucker said, pro-choice on the chemical castration of children.
He's willing to sit there, his smiling mug presented to the camera, and take ownership of the view that sometimes it's good to drug, mutilate, and castrate young boys to turn them into girls.
Whatever Hutchinson thinks that he's winning as a result of his self-debasement here, I can guarantee that the reward is not worth the cost.
There's no way it can be.
So once again, a Republican has given up everything, his dignity, everything, and in exchange, he gets nothing.
But it gets worse.
Let's listen now to his explanation.
This bill was overbroad, it was extreme, it went far beyond what you just said.
And I made it clear that if this was about prohibiting procedures, sex reassignment surgery, absolutely, I would have signed that bill.
But this, again, is the first law in the nation that invokes the state between medical decisions, parents who consent to that, and uh... the decision of the patient and so this goes way
too far and in fact it doesn't have a grandfather clause that
those uh... young people that are under hormonal treatment
if i could just correct you for a second well this is chemical castration
Of course, if you stop puberty and suppress the sex hormones, you're chemically castrating someone.
So our description was correct.
But let me just ask you, I mean, there are all kinds of, we're talking about minors, children here, and there are all kinds of things in Arkansas kids in every state are not allowed to do.
Get married, drink a beer, get a tattoo.
Why do you think it's important for conservatives to make certain that children can block their puberty, be chemically castrated?
Why is that a conservative value?
If you would tell us.
Well, first of all, you have parents involved in very difficult decisions.
You have physicians that are involved in these decisions.
And I go back to William Buckley.
I go back to Ronald Reagan, the principles of our party, which believes in a limited role of government.
All right.
There it is there.
Limited role.
OK.
Ronald Reagan.
Apparently Ronald Reagan was pro castration.
Yeah, you know, come to think of it, I seem to remember that.
What was the famous Reagan quote?
It was, uh, Mr. Gorbachev, tear off these balls.
Now...
That might be a slight... I'm prouder of that joke than I should be.
I really am.
That might be a slight paraphrase.
I don't remember exactly what the quote was, to be honest.
In any case, Hutchinson, besides posthumously recruiting Buckley and Reagan into his sex-changes-for-12-year-olds camp, seems to provide these primary rationales.
These are the reasons that he just gave, right?
One, the government should not interfere with the decisions of patients.
Two, this is a difficult decision for parents and doctors, and the government shouldn't interfere with that either.
And three, we as conservatives should support limited government.
And then four, Walmart told me to say this.
Now, admittedly, point four is more subtext.
As for points one through three, let's take them one at a time.
First, the decision of patients.
Well, as we covered yesterday, and I've covered many times, the patients are children.
They can't consent.
They can't make this decision.
They're not capable.
It is incoherent to say that a 13-year-old cannot consent to sex, and yet that he can consent to a sex change.
The same logic and science, psychological and neurological science,
that supports the notion that 13-year-olds can't consent to sex, which they can't,
also applies just as much, if not more so, to sex changes.
If you take the one position, you're logically committed to the other.
Second, this is a difficult decision for parents and doctors.
Now Hutchinson here, who calls himself pro-life, is echoing the exact talking points of the pro-abortion left.
We're told that killing babies is a solemn and difficult decision that mothers must sometimes make in consultation with their doctors.
But the difficulty of the decision is irrelevant.
I mean, it may be difficult for a wife who decides to kill her husband in consultation with her hitman.
It's a difficult and personal decision.
She may agonize over it.
She may think long and hard about it.
But the thing that makes it difficult is that murdering your husband is a terrible thing to do.
What makes abortion difficult is that murdering your child is a terrible thing to do.
What makes the medical transitioning of children difficult is that it's a terrible thing to do.
In fact, in the case of medical transition and abortion, If these decisions were really what their proponents described, if the people on the pro side were correct in their view, then these decisions shouldn't be difficult at all.
If a baby is nothing but a non-human lump of meaningless cells, why is it difficult to destroy it?
You say, it's just a lump of cells.
Okay, well then what are you talking about?
It's a difficult decision.
Sounds easy to me.
And if a boy really does have a girl trapped inside him, whatever that means, and you can free this true inner female identity through medical procedures that, we're told, have no ill effects and no real downside, then again, why is it a difficult decision?
I mean, there's a girl trapped inside there.
Get her out!
But again, the difficulty is sort of a moot point in deciding whether the government has a role.
And that brings us to point three.
Hutchinson says that this is a matter of limited government, which only proves a point that I've made in the past that limited government is a really insufficient and frankly kind of stupid slogan for conservatism.
And, you know, we've all shouted it.
I have too.
But limited government has been mostly a shield for cowards like Hutchinson to hide behind.
That's really what it is, what it's been in practice.
That's how it's worked.
Anytime they encounter a fight that they're too afraid to get involved in, they can always lift up the banner of limited government and pretend that they're deserting the battlefield out of principle.
It's like a soldier who suddenly becomes a Quaker the moment the first bullet flies.
You know, he sees that first bullet fly over his head.
He says, you know what?
I think the Quakers had a point.
You know, I'm thinking about it again.
I read one of those pamphlets a long time ago.
You know, I think I'm a Quaker now.
Limited government conservatives have, in fact, at every level, from the presidency on down, expanded the government exponentially and spent money by the trillions.
But then when it comes to protecting children from the worst forms of abuse and indoctrination, suddenly they discover their long-dormant passion for governmental restraint.
It's a joke, and we should all be too smart to fall for it.
The banner that we should be marching under is not something vague and overbroad and useless like limited government, but rather something that perhaps, on second thought, won't fit on a banner at all.
Something like, we want a government that is properly ordered and directed, and which uses its power in judicious, lawful, and morally sound ways in order to fulfill its fundamental obligations to its people.
Like I said, not gonna fit on a banner.
But the point is that we aren't asking the government to uninvolve itself from everything.
And one area where the government should certainly be involved is in the protection and defense of vulnerable citizens who cannot protect or defend themselves.
Vulnerable citizens such as children who, if they manage to survive the gauntlet of the modern womb, now face the very real possibility that they're going to have their minds warped by radical gender theorists and then their bodies deformed to match their warped minds.
This is a place for the government to step in.
If this is not a place for government to step in, then I can't imagine where else government should step in.
If this is not a job for the government, then what could be a job for the government?
If we restrain government here, then how can we justify exerting the government anywhere else?
We can't.
I mean, that's clear.
It's clear even to Ace Hutchinson.
But he's decided to pretend that he doesn't understand what he certainly does understand.
And for that, today, we must transition Asa Hutchinson to the status of cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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