Ep. 938 - Terrified Leftists Cry Out In Despair As Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, leftists scream out in abject terror as Elon Musks completes his purchase of Twitter. We will revel in their despair today. Also, as my children’s book Johnny the Walrus is finally released, we’ll take a look at the horrifying children’s book that is currently the best seller in the category. It’s written by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and if you’ve been paying attention, you know that’s a bad sign. Plus, a boy physically assaults a girl at a high school in Atlanta, but the students are taking the boy’s side because the girl used a naughty word. And in our Daily Cancellation, Rolling Stone has a glowing profile of “furries” who are sexually attracted to cartoon animals.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, leftists scream out in abject terror as Elon Musk completes his purchase of Twitter.
We will revel in their despair today.
Also, as my children's book, Johnny the Walrus, is finally released, we'll take a look at the horrifying children's book that is currently the bestseller in the category.
It's written by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
And if you've been paying attention, you know that that's a very bad sign.
Plus, a boy physically assaults a girl at a high school in Atlanta, but the students are taking the boy's side because the girl used a naughty word, apparently.
And in our daily cancellation, Rolling Stone has a glowing profile of furries who are sexually attracted to cartoon animals.
All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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The earth shook and trembled.
Fire raged across the land, consuming all in its wake.
The screams of the forsaken masses could be heard rising up with the smoke.
Horror of horrors.
The ultimate nightmare had come to pass.
Elon Musk taking control of Twitter.
The Twitter corporate board had, for so many years before this, Hugged Twitter's users tightly against its bosom, protecting them and rocking them softly to sleep each night.
But that was all over yesterday.
It abandoned them.
Abandoned us all to the cold and the night where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth and lots of memes also, presumably.
Twitter has officially accepted Elon Musk's offer to buy the company for $43 billion.
Now, tragically, the company will be run by a billionaire.
As opposed to before when it was run by Different billionaires.
Elizabeth Warren made a good point when she tweeted yesterday, this deal is dangerous for our democracy.
Billionaires like Elon Musk play by a different set of rules than everybody else, accumulating power for their own gain.
We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold big tech accountable.
Yes, it is dangerous to have a billionaire in charge of a social media platform.
That's why those of us who are so upset by this turn of events and who absolutely refuse to use a site that is owned by a billionaire now must deactivate our accounts and give all of our business to Facebook and Instagram and TikTok instead.
You know, the ones that aren't run by billionaires.
But I think the real question that we all face now is how do we explain this to our children?
You know, I've already had the difficult conversation.
Last night, as I was weeping in the living room, which is my usual nightly routine, of course, my three-year-old pangender child, Moonbeam, came in and asked, Matt, with Elon Musk taking over Twitter, will hate speech be normalized?
Is our democracy in grave peril?
Is our country on the verge of destruction?
Is life even worth living anymore?
And I looked back at them and answered, yes, yes, yes, and no.
And then we simply held each other and sobbed uncontrollably.
It was sad yet beautiful.
A beautiful moment with me and Moonshine, or whatever my fake kid's name is in this joke.
To be honest, originally I'd planned to keep the sarcasm going for the entire opening monologue, but then I realized that that would deprive me of the opportunity to gloat more openly and blatantly, which is what I really want to do, so I'll switch gears here, and instead I'll let the libs speak for themselves.
Fortunately, Nazi propagandist lives of TikTok has compiled a few authentic lib reactions
to the news from TikTok.
And well, here's how they're taking it.
They really make some good points, actually.
It would possibly be slightly easier to understand if we listened to them one at a time, though, so let's do that instead.
Well, it looks like Twitter's gone.
They accepted the money, and Elon Stalin is taking over, so f*** you, Twitter, and goodbye forever, you insane Q-like forum.
Or soon-to-be-insane-like Q-like forum.
Peace out!
Bye!
Elon Musk?
This is directly to you.
Enjoy Twitter.
I just deactivated mine.
I will not be reactivating it.
Enjoy.
I deactivated my account and deleted the app.
That's what I think of it.
F*** Elon Musk.
Today Twitter has announced that they've been bought by Elon Musk or however you say his name.
I'm not interested in staying on Twitter anymore because of this and I think there's a lot of people that are about to leave.
So I just wanted to let everyone know that you can find me here.
I'm gonna also share this on Twitter before I deactivate my account so that anyone who wants to follow me can find me here as well.
Hey!
I did a thing today.
I deactivated my Twitter account.
You can too.
On second thought, that wasn't much more coherent, I suppose.
Though I'm sure Elon Musk is devastated by the incisive, searing wit of these TikTok libs.
I'm not sure how he'll ever recover from, you know, things like Elon Stalin.
Indeed, I bet he's now rethinking the whole thing now that we've learned that at Tammy Clove, at Queenie Bella, and at Snurfyboo are leaving the site.
That was one of the users there on TikTok, Snurfyboo.
Look, a Twitter without Snurfyboo is just not the same.
On the plus side, however, race hustler Sean King actually did deactivate his account nearly as soon as the news was announced, and that alone is worth $43 billion.
Many other prominent leftists vowed to leave the platform, though most of them appear to still be on the platform as of this morning.
I mean, a lot of these people have been tweeting over and over and over again about how they're not going to use the platform anymore, and yet they're still using it to talk about how they're not going to use it.
Perhaps their accounts merely identify as deactivated.
I don't know.
Another common complaint has been that Elon Musk is spending his money on buying Twitter when he could be using it to end world hunger.
You know, because world hunger is all his fault.
John Fuglesang tweeted, For $44 billion, a guy could have gone down in history for ending world hunger.
History will record that our mega billionaires had other priorities.
Now funny, I don't remember those kinds of criticisms when Jeff Bezos used his money to buy the Washington Post.
But the criticisms...
Would have been stupid in that case also, because, in fact, even the richest men in the world don't have enough money to end world hunger.
There is no amount of money that could wipe out world hunger.
If I had $10 trillion to dedicate to wiping out world hunger, there would still be world hunger, even after the $10 trillion is spent, or rather wasted.
Because a lot of the hunger in the world is due not to a simple lack of resources, But to corrupt and incompetent governments and regimes.
Throwing money at that problem isn't going to solve it.
In fact, many times it could make it a lot worse.
As we have seen time and time and time again.
Meanwhile, groups like Human Rights Watch and the ACLU are raising different concerns.
They're issuing dire warnings about the epidemic of hate speech that may now be coming for us and coming to Twitter because of Elon Musk.
These worries were echoed all over cable news, especially by Brian Stelter.
Listen to this.
If you get invited to something where there are no rules, where there is total freedom for everybody, do you actually want to go to that party?
Or are you going to decide to stay home?
And that's a question for Twitter users.
Some Twitter users might love the idea that there's going to be absolutely no moderation and no rules at all.
Others might not want to be anywhere near that.
Am I crazy, Matt?
No, no, you're right.
And what happens to the advertising?
I mean, if there's no moderation or little moderation, do the advertisers stay away?
What does that do to the business prospects for Twitter itself?
There's just something perfect about this because I can totally imagine Brian Stelter standing outside of a party and saying, excuse me, I need to know the ground rules for this party before I come in.
Do you have the rules posted anywhere?
I want to make sure everyone is following the rules.
This isn't one of those parties without rules, is it?
And then everybody inside the party will just look at him and say, you weren't invited, Brian.
What are you doing here?
Stop hiding in the bushes, you weirdo.
Go home.
Of course, minor detail here, Stelter is lying, obviously.
Musk has never said that there will be no moderation at all.
I mean, that's the thing about all this panicking.
He's going to get rid of the rules.
He actually never said he was going to do that.
But it is fascinating to see the evolution.
The left has gone from the counterculture to the hall monitors pushing up their glasses and, you know, prattling on about the rules.
The left, you know, they're now the kid in your class who reminds the teacher to give out the homework assignment.
They're that kid.
Over on MSNBC, they're raising concerns that sound somehow oddly familiar.
Listen.
You own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you.
You don't have to explain yourself.
You don't even have to be transparent.
You could secretly ban one party's candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it till after the election.
Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech Yes, wouldn't it be terrible if that happened?
I mean, just imagine.
Allow yourself to entertain this crazy hypothetical where big tech companies target people based on their politics and censor information in order to influence the outcome of an election.
Just imagine that!
Of course, you don't have to imagine it.
You already lived through it.
Conservatives have experienced exactly that sort of thing for years.
And despite what this guy at MSNBC might say, the fact is that Elon Musk has made no indication that he's going to put the shoe on the other foot and start censoring and stifling leftist speech in that way.
As satisfying as that might be from a vengeance perspective.
But he's not going to do that, and they know he's not going to do that.
Musk has shown no inclinations in that direction.
What they're worried about is exactly what Brian Stelter said and what the ACLU and various pseudo-human rights groups are now fretting about.
They're panicking not over the possibility that speech will be stifled, but over the threat that it will no longer be stifled.
For years they insisted that conservative speech was not being censored or suppressed.
Now they're running around like their hair is on fire.
Well, Brian Stelter isn't running around like his hair is on fire, but you know what I'm saying.
Because conservative speech will no longer be censored and suppressed.
So, you know, how quickly we went from that isn't happening to that is happening and actually it's good.
And it has to keep happening.
We've seen this kind of transition countless times.
And now we're seeing it finally with the issue of free speech.
Where we went from free speech isn't under attack, you conspiracy theorists, to actually free speech is bad and should be under attack.
Another viral leftist reaction to the Musk news makes this point, I think, very clear.
Listen to this.
Are you concerned about the rise of American fascism?
Well today, you can be more concerned.
It's almost certain that with this move, Trump is going to come back to social media.
I mean, this has so many horrific implications, I'm not even sure where to start, to be completely honest with you.
There is a problem with this idea of free speech, and that is, where is the limit?
Free speech has the ability to incite some really horrific and hateful things.
Like, for instance, an insurrection.
If this a**hole owns Twitter, the world is going to be a much worse place.
And it's not just him, this is a problem across social media, but certainly this isn't making the problem better.
Anyway, I imagine there's going to be a mass exodus from Twitter.
Newsweek even posted how to delete your Twitter account an hour ago.
I didn't have a Twitter account ever until I joined this app to go and look at news and stuff.
So it's not that bad, you know, not having one.
I just have a very strong feeling that the extremism on the right is going to get more significant after this.
Yes, we have to censor speech in order to avoid fascism.
See how that works.
Where are the limits to free speech, he asks.
What are the limits?
And he provides the answer, they all provide the answer.
All opinions that differ from his own are beyond the limits, or ought to be.
So they've dropped the act, almost.
At least for now, they've dropped it.
This internet, the internet is a party with rules, they say.
And the rules are that one side doesn't get to speak.
Or those were the rules.
Now the left, at least on one platform, will have to figure out how to engage with opposing ideas, or at a minimum tolerate them.
And if they can't do that, and they certainly can't do that, then they'll just have to make do with the platforms that still censor their opponents and welcome their speech, and welcome only their speech.
So in other words, every other platform on the internet, pretty much, is what they'll have to make do with.
Somehow I think they'll survive.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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I can tell you, if I'm Elon Musk, here's my agenda coming in the door.
First of all, I'm going to investigate all of the censorship and the dishonest practices in the past and reveal all of it.
Because it's good to come in and clean up shop, but we also need to know what happened before.
That's one of the best things about Elon Musk taking over, is that he's going to have access to all that information.
Now we're going to know for sure.
The things that we already know happened, now we're going to have the proof of it.
We're going to see it all in writing, probably.
And, you know, there need to be reparations, even.
There should be reparation programs for conservatives on Twitter to make up for what we experienced.
Then I'm going to, if I'm Elon Musk, I would just fire almost everybody and hire all new people, because you're going to need to do that.
It's quite revealing, actually, that the reports are now that Twitter, after they announced the sale of Twitter, they've shut down a lot of the functionality behind the scenes so that changes can't be made because they're worried about their own employees sabotaging the platform.
So that tells you what they know about their employees.
So if you're Elon Musk coming in, you've got to just basically fire everybody and then make the algorithms public, which he's already said he would do.
Make them totally transparent.
And then also, if I'm Elon Musk, I'm going to hire the host of The Matt Walsh Show and The Daily Wire as the new chief diversity officer.
That's probably, in fact, priority number one.
So I'm still waiting to get the call from Elon Musk.
All right, let's start with this.
You know, it's a tough week for our dear friends on the left.
For the reasons we've just reviewed.
And to add insult to injury, my best-selling LGBT children's book is finally being released.
You know, we announced the book a few months ago.
They sold out in less than a day.
We had to print a whole new batch, and those new books are shipping out today.
And the good news is also that you can buy the book today, and you won't have to wait months for it to come, if you can believe it or not.
You can just buy it, and it'll come, like, the next day or two days from now.
We have copies available for purchase.
A lot of copies.
This all presents a wonderful opportunity for us, because Johnny the Walrus, my book about a young boy who identifies as a walrus, has already been, as you may have heard, a best-selling children's book, best-selling LGBT book, best-selling book overall.
But let us just imagine together, let us picture the possibility that we get a charting as a bestseller again this week amid everything else that's happening.
I think we can do that together, and we must.
Especially when you consider what books are currently charting as bestsellers on Amazon.
One of the top books, and in fact this was the number one children's book overall on Amazon yesterday, now I think it's dropped down slightly, it's in the top five, but this is a book that was just released.
It's called Uology, a puberty guide for everybody.
Now this book is, if you're wondering who published it, this is a book published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
All right, so it's not even just one wacky left-wing writer.
This is the American Academy of Pediatrics, and they published this book on puberty.
And this is how bad it's gotten, that you already know what's in this book.
You already know that it's bad because the American Academy of Pediatrics is behind it, and the subject is puberty.
So just to give you an idea, there's a chapter in this book One of the best-selling children's books on Amazon, which is being marketed to kids 9 through 12.
And there's a chapter called, When Puberty Doesn't Feel Right.
And I'm just going to read a little bit of this chapter to you.
Because this is a book that 9-year-olds are going to be reading.
And I guarantee you, given the fact that this is published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, it's going to be in schools.
And if anybody complains about it, the schools are going to say, what, do you have a problem with science and medicine?
It's the American Academy of Pediatrics.
It's as mainstream as you can possibly get.
Well, here's what it says.
Chapter 12.
When puberty doesn't feel right.
It says, and then it kind of starts with a little story about a girl named Kimmy.
Quinn, Jasmine, Nancy, and I are getting ready for bed, stepping around the sleeping bags that form a circle on Nancy's bedroom floor.
I take my pajamas to the corner and turn my back to the others as I change.
Quinn is changing at the same time and isn't paying attention, and Jasmine is looking for something in her bag.
But then Nancy looks over at me, right as I'm changing my shirt.
I try to cover my chest, and Nancy looks away quickly.
But I know she saw my flat chest.
Nancy says, I still have a super flat chest too.
I can't wait to finally start puberty.
I hate blooming so much later than everybody else.
I finish putting on my pajamas and then I take a deep breath.
My body will never grow breasts on its own because I'm trans, I say, looking at Nancy until she meets my eyes.
But it's something that I have options for and that I talk with my doctors about.
Then it goes on, thanks for telling us, we won't tell anyone else, Quinn says.
Then Quinn explains that they don't identify as a boy or a girl, so they know what it's like to get questions about gender expectations.
I talk with my doctor about being non-binary too.
It's nice to have somebody who can help my parents and me figure out what's going to work best for my body.
Okay, so, in this, I have to keep repeating, book by the American Academy of Pediatrics, if you think you can still trust Doctors in the medical profession you can't period you especially can't trust them with your kid, and that's just I wish that was not the case Because I because I understand the implications of saying that you just cannot trust the medical profession anymore at all But you can't because this is what you're getting from them And
Already in this we've got a story about a sleepover with little girls and in this sleepover they're telling us about one of the girls is trans and one is non-binary.
So you've got a small collection of girls and two of them are, at least two, are in that category.
Which actually accurately reflects the situation that our daughters are in and that they face socially.
That's how prevalent this stuff is.
In fact, if you send your daughter to a sleepover with five other girls, it's almost certain statistically that at least one will identify as trans or non-binary or whatever else.
And then it continues.
We have this.
Fun fact.
Doctors can put puberty on pause?
That's true.
Doctors can prescribe medicine to stop puberty temporarily.
But they do that only for important reasons.
Early puberty can cause emotional and physical problems for very young children, it can be difficult for very young kids to manage puberty, and early puberty can stunt their growth.
For those reasons, doctors may use medication to pause puberty.
Then when a child is older, they can stop the medicine and puberty will begin again.
At that point, puberty will progress normally, like it does for others.
Some people refer to these medications as puberty blockers, but really, they don't block puberty forever.
They just put puberty on pause.
And then it says, just not feeling right.
Sometimes puberty can start right on time, but the changes happening on the outside of the body don't truly feel right.
Sure, lots of kids might feel a little weird or uncomfortable about their changing body, but for some kids, it's not just strange or new.
For some, the changes on the outside of the body don't fit with the way they feel on the inside.
Or for some, the outside changes feel completely wrong.
Um, and so they mention precocious puberty as a reason for puberty blockers, but then they get to, well, yes, but there are plenty of cases where it's not precocious puberty, everything is physically normal with puberty, but it just doesn't feel right.
And so that's when they put you on the drugs.
That they claim in this book, just pause puberty, and then they pick it up.
Right back up again, and there's no problems, there's no long-term health complications or anything, which is a total lie.
And, of course, the American Academy of Pediatrics, they know that's not true.
But this is what they're telling, not just to parents about their kids, but they're telling this to kids.
That you might want to use puberty blockers if it just doesn't feel right.
Well, that's quite a thing to say to kids, because Every kid going through puberty will at least have a season where it doesn't quite feel right.
That's going to happen to every kid.
In fact, every person, you know, given the fact that we're mortal beings and we don't, we do not have absolute control over our bodies.
In fact, we have no control over the natural processes that our bodies undergo and growing and changing.
We have little to no control over most of that.
And so everybody has times where you feel like you're almost at war with your own body, you know.
And when you go to kids and you tell them and you give them a way of understanding this,
and you tell them that, "Oh, well, if it doesn't feel right, you could just stop it."
That's always an option.
And there are no side effects.
There are no complications.
It's no problem.
Just take the pills and stop it.
Well, when you tell it to kids, you're going to find a whole lot of kids all of a sudden lining up for puberty blockers.
That's exactly what's happening because of books like this.
So, all the more reason to go to johnnythewalrus.com or go to amazon.com, get my book, at least over this filth.
Okay, let's go here next.
This is a story, we're going to play this, this is a news clip from WSB in Atlanta.
There's a controversy, a protest at this high school in Atlanta after a After a male, a boy, physically assaulted a girl.
And now there are protests.
But who do you think the protests are on behalf of?
Whose side do you think the protesters are taking in this?
I don't think you'll be shocked to discover, but let's watch a little bit of this news report.
New video at 5 shows a male student slapping a female student after she called him the n-word.
This led to a walkout at Locust Grove High School.
And Channel 2's Audrey Washington is live in Henry County.
Audrey, students are upset about the different punishments given to these students.
Right, and it's important to note that they believe both students were wrong, but they don't believe both students were punished equally.
So they walked out of class here and protested right there inside Locust Grove High.
They chanted Black Lives Matter as they walked out of classes here at Locust Grove High.
It just bothered me because I didn't stand up before and I thought this is the perfect time for me to stand up now.
High school senior Layla Moreau helped organize the protest this week.
She says it was in response to what happened in this video and what happened afterwards.
A student shared the video with me on Friday.
We blurred the faces of the kids involved, but in the video you see a white female student call another black male student Let's pause it right there.
you see the boy walk up to the girl and slap her.
Both students were disciplined, but those who protested told me
they believe while both students were wrong, they were not punished equally.
-She got to go to class and get her education while he had to leave for his education.
He was only defending himself.
-All right, pause it there for a second.
Let's pause it right there.
This is -- look at a lot of the reactions on social media, and, of course, the race hustlers,
the prominent race hustlers have gotten involved in this.
I don't know if Al Sharpton has showed up yet, but I'm sure he will.
Who's the other guy?
The new Al Sharpton, Ben Crump.
He's always -- he parachutes down.
He's on the scene, so he's probably already there, as far as I know.
And this is the narrative that you're hearing, that in fact, the boy was acting in self-defense.
We just heard that from the student there who organized this protest.
And this is a mass protest, people marching through the halls, shouting, Black Lives Matter.
And the narrative is that he was just defending himself.
Defending himself?
You can see in the video, you've got a girl sitting off to the side in the gym, far away from the boy.
She shouts, apparently a racial slur.
That's bad.
It's a bad word, and you should not use that bad word.
In fact, kids in school shouldn't be using any bad words.
Very often they do, I'm told.
But they shouldn't.
And so we should be very clear to the kids.
We don't use bad words.
If it's a bad word, you don't use it.
And I'm also fine with punishing kids who use bad words.
I think we ought to do that.
But she's off to the side, sitting down.
She's also a girl.
And she shouts this word.
He walks over to her and smacks her in the face.
Assaults her.
Physically assaults her.
This is a boy physically assaulting a girl.
He was defending himself?
Was his physical safety in jeopardy in any way whatsoever?
From the girl who said something to him?
And he had to walk across the gym to confront her over it?
Defending himself?
Well, no, of course his physical safety was not in jeopardy whatsoever.
I mean, if she had gone over and used that word or not used it, and then physically attacked him, And he hit her back as a means of getting her off of, you know, defending himself, getting her off of him.
It'd be a different story.
That's not what happened.
So no, this is not physical self-defense.
This is what we know, what we've seen from the left, is that depending on your demographics, this is all demographic dependent, but if you fall into the right victim, And if all the intersectional points work out in your favor, then, you know, you can use physical violence to defend your psychological well-being.
So, she didn't physically attack him, but she used a word that might emotionally or psychologically hurt him, even though I can guarantee he hears that word from his friends all the time.
And there's a very high likelihood that he uses it himself, but he heard the word from someone with a lighter skin color, and so that is psychologically damaging to him, and so he can use physical violence to defend his psychological well-being.
That's the logic here.
And if there's something else, and this should already be entirely clear to you, but if it wasn't, this should make it even more clear, that if you're a woman on the left, You have been, your victim points, you know, on the victim hierarchy, you've been, you're all the way down the ladder.
It didn't used to be that way.
There was a time when you were a little bit higher up towards the pinnacle as a chief victim, and especially around then we got to the Me Too movement, and so that was trendy for a while, and so, you know, just being a woman afforded you a whole bunch of victim points and put you above almost everybody else on the victim pyramid, but now you're all the way at the bottom.
I mean, you're not quite at the level of being a white male, but you're just barely above that.
And what that means is that you could be physically assaulted.
And, uh, everybody will take the other person's side.
Let's keep watching a little bit of this report here.
Reached out to Henry County Schools about the incident and the disciplinary allegations.
A school district representative said in part, quote, we can't share disciplinary action for students due to student privacy.
Both students were disciplined based on their code of conduct infractions.
The representative went on to state, School leaders have been working with and listening to any students who needed to express their feelings or concerns on the matter.
The school day is progressing with administrators continuing to be available for any student who needs to talk.
Layla says she's been called a racial slur at the school before and wants the school district to do more.
I just want some change.
I want them to... I'm just tired of the inequality in the school.
Now we still don't know what exactly led up to the initial incident.
As for what happens next, students here told me they will be setting up a special black student organization here at the school.
That's a part of the story I'm working on for Channel 2 Action News at 6.
Right now we are live here in Locust Grove, Henry County.
Audrey Washington, Channel 2 Action News.
Setting up a group, and when we set up the group, of course, the number one priority, the number one principle is that if you're a black person, you're allowed to commit physical violence if you don't like a word.
And that is quite literally the position the left takes on this.
That if you are a black person, you can commit physical violence in response to a naughty word that hurt your feelings.
And, but, that principle does not extend to other demographic groups.
It goes without saying that if you're a white person and a black person uses a word to you, even a racist word that you don't like, you of course cannot hit them for that.
That's crazy!
You can't hit somebody because they said a word.
No, that's a privilege that extends only to racial minorities, not to white people.
And that is their actual position that they take.
The students say that, oh, it's unfair because there was unequal punishment.
Yeah, well, sane, common-sense adults know, or should know, that, yeah, well, you have an unequal punishment because these were unequal infractions.
One is a naughty word, the other is physical violence.
But when you filter it through identity politics, all of that becomes twisted upside down and backwards and everything else.
This is from CNBC.
It says, throughout the pandemic, many adults turned to a likely safety net.
Their parents, from buying food to paying for their cell phone plans or covering health and auto insurance, half of parents with a child over 18 provide them with at least some financial support.
According to a report by Savings.com, these parents are shelling out roughly $1,000 a month on average on such expenses, the report found.
Young adults just starting out have faced significant financial hurdles over the last few years, including an uneven job market, the hefty student loan bills from schools, and soaring housing costs.
And so now, the news is that half of parents with adult children are providing them with financial support.
Now, the thing about that is, on one hand, This is how it should work.
I would much rather hear that parents are providing financial assistance to their kids than their kids are getting financial assistance from the government.
It's going to family members to help you out when you're in a tight spot.
That's how that's supposed to work.
That's what families are supposed to do for each other.
And it's good to have that kind of, have that sort of, that's the safety net that should be in place.
That's the way it ought to work.
Rather than having government provide a safety net for 330 million people
That costs billions or trillions rather trillions of dollars to maintain the safety net should be in your own
family so that that is how that's supposed to work and
You know, I don't have adult kids yet, but When I'm you know when my kids are adults if they fall on
financial hard times It's hard for me to see me not giving them some help not
not not helping them out Just as I would do and have done for other members of the
family, you know who are adults The problem, though, is when the adult children
And now we start putting emphasis on children, begin to depend on that, become dependent, and feel entitled to it.
And then this kind of intersects with what we talked about last week, where we've got among millennials and Gen Z, there's a, you know, a large number of them that if they're feeling unhappy in a job, they're just not having fun, they're not feeling fulfilled, well, they'll just, they'll quit the job because they're not having fun.
And that raised the question last week that we talked about, which is, well, how could you possibly afford, how could you afford to just quit your job because you're not having fun doing it?
Well, this is part of the story, is that then they go to their parents, who oftentimes, unfortunately, are more than willing to fund that kind of lifestyle.
So this is, if people could just exercise a little bit of responsibility and common sense, then that would solve a lot of these problems.
Like, in principle, there's obviously nothing wrong with a parent helping out their kid when they've hit hard times, obviously.
It's just that there's no moderation or common sense anymore.
And so that turns into, okay, I'm going to fund my adult child's lazy lifestyle for the next 10 years while they just sit around and don't even attempt to go and get a job or anything else.
That's when it crosses the line.
This is from the Daily Wire.
This is a story from a couple days ago that I wanted to, I just wanted to touch on.
Representative Madison Cawthorn responded Friday to a report that showed him wearing lingerie by explaining the alleged context surrounding the photos.
So these are photos that went viral on Twitter last week.
It's Madison Cawthorn, of course, he's a Republican representative and he's one of the left, one that the left among, in the group that the left hates the most, especially when it comes to the Younger Republican representatives in Congress.
And these photos went viral of Madison Cawthorn, who appears to be a few years ago, wearing lingerie, and he's got other girls with him, and they're taking a selfie.
And there's no other context.
This is the context, though, according to Cawthorn.
Politico reported, the revelation of the two photos is the latest in a series of unflattering headlines for the freshman member of Congress in the run-up to the primary and his first re-election bid.
Cawthorn has seven Republican opponents who see him as vulnerable.
The photos were provided to Politico by a person formerly close to Cawthorn in his campaign and were confirmed by a second source who also was formerly close to the first-term congressman.
Cawthorn responded to the report by claiming that the photos were taken during a vacation cruise.
He said quote, I guess the left thinks goofy vacation photos during a game on a cruise taken way before I ran for Congress is going to hurt me somehow.
They're running out of things to throw at me.
And so that's his defense is that they were just probably drinking and they were goofing off and that's it was supposed to be a joke.
What you can see here is number one.
Once again, the left completely abandoning, at least temporarily, its views on the gender binary and everything else.
Like, according to them, there's actually nothing strange at all about a man wearing lingerie.
And certainly to shame somebody for that, to shame them, that's unspeakable.
That's what they say until they have this as ammunition that they can shoot at Madison Cawthorn and then all of a sudden it's okay.
And the other point, too, is that if there could be a correct context for men to wear women's clothing, which there isn't, but if there was, like, it's this.
It's a joke.
It's supposed to be a joke.
It's silly.
It's ridiculous.
I wouldn't recommend it even as a joke.
But that's actually, it's, you find pictures of a man wearing women's clothing and it's a joke.
It's like, this is what they used to do in Hollywood.
It used to be a punchline when a man wears women's clothing.
Mrs. Doubtfire.
Which, somehow that movie has yet to be cancelled by the left.
Eventually they'll get around to it.
Because Mrs. Doubtfire, it's a comedy, and all of the humor is found in the fact that Robin Williams is dressing up like a woman, and haha, isn't that so silly and ridiculous?
So that's one thing.
Like, yes, it's silly and ridiculous, and we can laugh about that.
The problem on the left is that they want to take that, and now we're supposed to take it seriously as a lifestyle choice.
Until Republican congressmen are involved, and then, of course, the rules change completely.
Let's get now to the comment section.
Do you know their name?
They're the Sweet Baby Gang.
4door455, this kind of works with what we were just talking about, says, "I worked with
a cross-dressing man and all I can say is that if a woman employee dressed the way he
did, she would have been accused of violating the dress code, but if you're trans, then
I guess you become immune from a trip to the HR office."
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You have another way that the rules kind of are adjusted depending on your identity and your demographic.
Mr. Mediocre Gamer says, Desmond absolutely sounds like a child.
I don't mean just in his voice, I mean in maturity as well.
The poor kid is not in control of who he's presented as.
This child is going to need a lot of therapy later in life and mom and dad won't be around to pay for it.
Well, here's the thing, I can guarantee you that this kid has gotten a lot of therapy already and that's part of the problem.
He's gotten a lot of therapy, a lot of counseling, but he's going to the gender-affirming therapists and counselors, and they're just encouraging more of this.
So, just like we talked about how you can't trust the medical profession anymore, that includes, especially, in fact, therapists and counselors.
I mean, you can't trust them with your kids at all.
Which is quite a problem, because there are kids who could actually use That kind of help.
But these days you just, you know, you send your kid to a counselor and a week later they're telling you that they were born in the wrong body because this is the kind of thing they're going to hear.
But yeah, that is one thing that jumps out at you when you hear Desmond is that he sounds, well, he sounds not just like a child but also in a lot of these videos he sounds drugged as well.
He sounds like a drugged child because that's what he is.
Mitsu says, as far as the stooping to their level comment, I agree with Matt 100%.
The organized battle lines of classic warfare cannot hold up against the more modern guerrilla tactics, so using them strictly on principle will only lead to very principled defeat.
It's important to still have moral lines that you don't cross, but you can change tactics and still maintain those boundaries.
I think that's exactly right.
That's...
This conservative attitude, establishment, whatever you want to call, the old right, whatever label you want to put on it, I think if you were to summarize their position, you couldn't do a better job than that.
Principled defeat.
That's what they stand for.
Is that we're going to lose, and we're going to keep losing, but we're going to do it in a principled way.
And as we've talked about, for them, it's a lot easier, actually.
It's a lot easier.
It is, in fact, easier to lose.
Because when you're winning and you're doing big things and you're taking risks and you're doing bold things, well, now there's a lot of pressure.
I mean, look at Elon Musk taking over Twitter, even as the richest man in the world.
He's not just putting a lot of money on the line, he's putting a lot more than that on the line.
And it's not just like, okay, he's going to take over Twitter and then ride off into the sunset and happily ever after.
Now you actually have control of Twitter.
And you have to figure out all the problems and fix them.
It would have been a lot easier to just do nothing and let Twitter remain in the hands of the people that already controlled it.
And that's kind of the attitude of the establishment right, the old right, is let's just do nothing at all.
Let things continue.
We have our lane here and it's easy and it's comfortable and we'll just stick with that.
That's their attitude.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
As we know and have discussed at great length, lots of children's entertainment these days is packaged up with veiled, and often not so veiled, leftist indoctrination.
But every once in a while, a new piece of children's content is released that appears to have no sinister underlying agenda.
It's just innocent, benign fun.
Now, I haven't seen it, but as far as I know and have been told, the newly released animated film The Bad Guys falls into that category.
I haven't heard of any wokeness infiltrating it.
Don't quote me on that, though.
Like I said, I haven't seen it, but that's as far as I know.
Assuming that it's just a good bit of apolitical family fun.
It's all the more unfortunate that our culture has decided to make it weird.
Because even non-weird things in our society are made weird.
The leftist virus infects everything.
And that brings us to an article in Rolling Stone with a headline that I can't read out loud, but which refers to the reproductive organ of one of the cartoon characters in the film.
And the article begins with this.
With his broad shoulders, revolving wardrobe of crisp, well-fitted suits, and rakish, come-hither expressions, Mr. Wolf, the slick protagonist of the upcoming DreamWorks release, The Bad Guys, looks like a classic American male sex symbol in the grand tradition of Cary Grant, Harrison Ford, and Brad Pitt.
Now, I need to pause here and say that, though I'm not an expert on American male sex symbols, despite arguably being one myself, don't laugh please, I'd always thought that a prerequisite for becoming a male sex symbol is that you have to, first of all, be human, and second of all, exist.
Rolling Stone is here to correct the record, though.
They continue.
The character is prompting hordes of thirsty comments on the internet.
Quote, Mr. Wolf isn't attracted to you or anyone else.
He's in love with me, reads one representative tweet.
Another is more to the point.
When do I get to see Mr. Wolf or bad guy's penis in the movie?
For those interested, there's plenty of fan art on Twitter where you can see just that.
Now, the article provides many examples of comments like this, but perhaps you've already heard more than enough to get the point.
We're then offered this explanation.
Quote, because Mr. Wolf is an actual wolf, albeit one voiced by reportedly human actor Sam Rockwell, most of the people posting about Mr. Wolf are furries, a term used to describe those who enjoy dressing up as or drawing anthropomorphized animals.
Despite most popular conceptions about furries, not all people in the fandom harbor sexual attractions to anthropomorphized creatures, but many of those currently thirsting after Mr. Wolf certainly do.
Now, anytime you hear about these furry creeps, you'll always be given the disclaimer that it's not always sexual.
But of course, it is.
I mean, the whole thing is a bizarre, disgusting sexual fetish.
As is admitted in the same article.
Later on, a furry LGBT author, as he's described, offers this insight.
Most people in furry subcultures remember the shirtless dancing buff tigers used in Zootopia's marketing that most took to more or less mean, hey furries, we know your community has an eye for masculine forms, so to speak, and we undeniably do.
Furry is a nexus for queer art and queer people, and it's one of the few places in particular where gay men and masculine queers get to have some decent representation in our media.
And queer men and masculine people are kind of starving for that.
Now this missive goes on for a while longer, and then ends on this note.
Still, in the absence of official furry recognition from mainstream entertainment, members of the fandom will likely continue to simp after Mr. Wolf without recognition, posting one erect lupine phallus at a time.
You might hear all of that and think, well, these are just a bunch of demented fringe deviants, and you're right.
At least you're right about the first and last adjectives there.
But fringe is debatable, as this is Rolling Stone we're talking about.
It's not like I pulled this from some old Tumblr post, as much as Rolling Stone might have the quality and content that resemble an old Tumblr post.
In fact, there's a concerted effort, as the article suggests, to give furries more mainstream acceptance and representation.
And it seems to be working.
Just yesterday, Libs of TikTok published images of a class assignment given to second graders in Austin where they were told to make their own furry persona.
This was all part of Culture Month at the school, a month where the kids learn about different cultures, you know, like Japanese culture and Egyptian culture and bestiality culture.
Because that's what this is, after all.
People who sexually fantasize about animals, even fictional animals, are into bestiality.
That's what that is.
We've sped right past yet another stop on the slippery slope that the left told us would never come.
They claimed in fact that we were bigots for even suggesting that it would get to this point.
Because for years we said that our anything-goes attitude towards sexuality would lead to the normalization of bestiality, you know, bestiality.
And here's Rolling Stone right on cue with a glowing profile of people who fantasize about a cartoon wolf's penis.
Now, many things have led us to this point.
But certainly one of the principal factors is the misdirection of shame.
Now, I don't say that we've gotten rid of shame in our culture.
Certainly not.
It's not like the left is running around claiming that nobody should ever feel ashamed or that we shouldn't shame anybody.
They love to shame people.
It's their favorite pastime.
Shame has not been eradicated, but as I say, it's been misdirected.
Because now we shame normalcy.
We shame common sense.
We shame healthy behavior, healthy relationships, healthy attitudes.
We shame people for committing the sin of not being degenerate freaks.
The actual shame-worthy behavior is shielded from shame.
And that's the problem.
Because in a healthy society, people who feel attracted to animals would be ashamed of that proclivity.
They would never speak of it to anybody, except perhaps a trusted counselor or spiritual advisor.
They would do whatever they could to rid themselves of their inner demons.
They would feel hideously embarrassed, as they should.
And that's the way it ought to be.
Now, though, they put on costumes and they go to conventions and they announce themselves on social media.
And then they go out and actually proselytize, encouraging others, especially children, to join them in their freakish lifestyle.
This is supposed to be progress, but it's certainly not.
That's why we need to bring back shame.
Bring it back where it belongs.
And then we bring back shame into our culture.
If we get to that point, then we'd be in a position where we can all say to furries, rather than just me saying it, that you're all cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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