Ep. 941 - The Biden Administration Uses ‘1984’ As An Instruction Manual
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Biden Administration takes its cue from Orwell, setting up its very own Ministry of Truth. We’ll discuss. And a judicial nominee admits during a confirmation hearing that her previous claims about police violence were untrue but made for “rhetorical purposes.” Plus Joe Biden continues to mentally decay on camera. Ilhan Omar speaks out for student loan forgiveness. A new film about Vikings is accused of racism because the vikings are white. And in our Daily Cancellation, we will examine a video which purports to scientifically prove the validity of transgenderism. I’m skeptical but I’ll hear them out.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration takes its cue from Orwell, setting up its very own Ministry of Truth, we'll discuss.
And a judicial nominee admits during a confirmation hearing that her previous claims about police violence were untrue, but made anyway for rhetorical purposes, she says.
Plus, Joe Biden continues to mentally decay on camera.
Ilhan Omar speaks out for student loan forgiveness.
And in our daily cancellation, we'll examine a video which purports to scientifically prove the validity of transgenderism.
I'm skeptical, but I'll hear him out.
All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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You know, Orwell analogies are terribly overused these days, but there's a reason for that.
Well, there's two reasons.
One is that 1984 is one of about three books that the average American has actually read all the way through.
The other two are Harry Potter books.
But the second reason is that so much of what we're experiencing today really was prophesied by Orwell in 1984, and even more so, in my opinion, in his allegory Animal Farm.
Things tend to happen that even a more widely read person cannot help but compare to one of those two works.
And what else are we supposed to do when the Biden administration, as they did this week, literally creates a Ministry of Truth?
Sure, I mean, they aren't calling it that, of course.
Instead, they've come up with an even more Orwellian name than what Orwell chose.
Their name is the Disinformation Governance Board.
Now, this new board will exist within the Department of Homeland Security.
A department that shouldn't exist and which has, since its conception, been responsible for many of the federal government's most insidious civil rights abuses.
Yet another reason to thank George W. Bush for his contributions to massively expanding the federal government.
The head of this new board is a leftist ideologue and activist named Nina Jankiewicz, who proudly announced her new position in a tweet yesterday, which you can see here.
She posted, here's my official portrait to grab your attention.
Now that I've got it, a huge focus of our work, and indeed one of the key reasons the board was established, is to maintain the department's commitment to protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.
And then for whatever reason, she includes a photo of Quentin Tarantino.
The interesting thing to note about this Nina character is that she's not only a leftist, but also, and these two things often come together as a packaged deal, of course, completely insane.
As evidenced by this video, which has been making the rounds since Tucker Carlson played it on his show last night, but if you didn't see it, I think it's worth watching because this, again, this is a woman who's going to be at the Department of Homeland Security in charge of disinformation, and here's what she's all about.
Information laundering is really quite ferocious It's when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious By saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet so Disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious ♪ It's how you hide a little lie, little lie ♪
♪ It's how you hide a little lie, little lie ♪ ♪ It's how you hide a little lie, little lie ♪
♪ When Rudy Giuliani shared that intel from Ukraine ♪ ♪ Or when TikTok influencers say COVID can cause pain ♪
♪ They're laundering this info ♪ ♪ And we really should take note ♪
♪ And not support their lies ♪ ♪ With our wallet, voice, or vote, oh ♪
(whooshing)
This is perhaps not quite as embarrassing as the BDSM dog fetishist that Biden tapped
for a federal post a few months ago, but it's pretty close.
Not surprisingly, Nina is also a proponent of the words are violence school of thought.
She has a book coming out, apparently, called How to Be a Woman Online.
Don't ask her to define what a woman is, though.
I mean, she's just the information czar.
She's not a biologist.
And she tweeted this excerpt from the book, quote, men burst violently into your mentions and your life, like the Kool-Aid man, demanding your attention, hawking opinions that they believe are unarguably and manifestly correct and indispensable.
Violently.
Yes, men are committing violence by responding to your tweets.
Sounds a bit like Taylor Lorenz.
This is a common theme.
And this is men, of course.
Just men.
Women never do this.
But men also commit the sin of thinking their opinions are correct.
Now, never mind that literally every human on earth thinks their opinions are correct.
This is an accusation made against me all the time.
Oh, Matt, you always act like you think your opinions are correct.
Well, of course, if I didn't think they were correct, they wouldn't be my opinion.
By definition, it's something that I think is correct.
Perhaps most importantly of all, though, Nina, who will be in charge of identifying and censoring disinformation, has already made clear What the term disinformation means to her.
It means any information that is politically inconvenient to Democrats, which is why she labeled the Hunter laptop story disinformation back in 2020.
She was one of like every other Democrat saying that that was disinformation.
Turns out it was 100% true.
That point about the Hunter Biden laptop story was made to Jen Psaki during the White House press briefing yesterday.
And here's how she responded to that.
Listen.
She had previously called the Hunter Biden laptop a Trump campaign product, seeming to discredit its validity or validity of reporting surrounding that.
How can you assuage concerns of people who are looking at this person who's been appointed to this position and wondering if she's going to be able to accurately judge misinformation now that a lot of that reporting has been proven to be Well, I don't have any comments on the laptop, but what I can tell you is that it sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities.
I'm not sure who opposes that effort.
She doesn't have any comments about the laptop angle, which is, that's the question, right?
So, I love that from Jen Pisaki, when someone asks a question and her response is, well, I don't have any comments about the question you just asked, so instead I'll make a point that's irrelevant.
She says the board will prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities, and she's not sure who opposes that effort.
Well, many of us do, and let me explain why.
First of all, note how they are calling it.
I think this is important.
They are calling it the Disinformation Board and not the Misinformation Board.
Now, even that small nuance is significant because it adds an extra layer of editorializing.
Misinformation is simply information that's wrong.
Disinformation is information that's wrong intentionally.
So, all disinformation is misinformation, but not all misinformation is disinformation.
Disinformation is when there's an intent to deceive.
The government now has claimed the authority not only to be the arbiter of which information is correct and incorrect, but also of the motivations behind the people spreading the alleged incorrect information.
When you call something disinformation, you are claiming to know both that the information is wrong and also why it's wrong.
This is the power the Biden administration is claiming for itself, and it can't end well.
I mean, it's designed to not end well.
It never does end well when a government declares itself the final judge of truth, which is not the government's job.
It's also not the government's job to control the spread of information.
It's supposed to control other things, and the spread of other things, like immigration, crime, okay?
Those are two big ones that it should be trying to control.
But this regime has little interest in that.
To this regime, the greatest enemy is not crime, not anything like that, it's information.
And because we live in the information age, when the average person processes more information in a day than previous generations may have encountered in a year or a decade, that means that the efforts to control and stifle information will have to be far-reaching and severe and oppressive.
Just think about what tyrannical regimes in the past have done to control the flow of information, before the internet, before modern media.
Now think about what this one will have to do, given how ubiquitous information is.
Now the truth is that they will not be able to staunch the flow completely or monitor all of it, though they will no doubt try.
They're not going to be able to do it.
The most effective tactic they can take and have already taken against inconvenient information, which again, is what they mean by disinformation.
There's the actual definition of disinformation, which is incorrect information meant to deceive, but that's the actual definition.
But for them, that's not what it really is.
This is inconvenient information.
But the main tactic here is to convince people not to trust their own powers of perception, their own common sense.
We saw this.
We see this all the time with the left.
We saw it all throughout COVID.
Trust the experts, they said, even if the experts contradict themselves 10 times in the same sentence.
Still, just accept whatever is the most recent thing the experts have said.
Lots of people, sadly, are not only willing to do this, but they find, I think, some comfort in it.
The fire hydrant of information gushing directly into your brain can get exhausting and overwhelming at times.
And after a while, people look to outsource the task of processing and forming conclusions to some sort of outside authority.
Government's more than happy to provide that service.
Now it's created a whole department for that express purpose.
Don't bother thinking, they say.
We'll take care of that.
We'll tell you what to think.
And then they'll pat you on the head and give you a lollipop, send you on your way.
The government has already infiltrated nearly every aspect of your life.
The last thing it can take a hold of is your mind.
If you let it.
Which you shouldn't.
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All right, you probably already have noticed, I'm sure there's comments, many comments, because people in the comments I've discovered love nothing more than to comment on my wardrobe and shame me for it.
Well, I've dressed up a little bit.
I got the jacket on.
Decided to class things up, because I'm a number one best-selling Amazon author now, and this is how you have to dress.
No, actually, the truth is that my shirt was wrinkled, and I didn't feel like ironing it, so I just put the jacket on.
Like, that's the only time you'll catch me dressing Well, as if it's just out of pure laziness.
Okay, I want to start with this, because we were just talking about disinformation.
And here's a great example of it.
And this is disinformation, right?
So that is incorrect information that's intentional.
A judicial nominee named Nusrat Chowdhury was in front of the Senate committee yesterday, and I want you to listen to this exchange about one piece of alleged information that turned out not to be correct, but listen to this.
This is a really simple question, Counselor.
Do you believe that cops kill unarmed black men in America every single day?
You said it at Princeton.
Senator, I said it in my role as an advocate.
Oh, OK.
You didn't mean it.
Senator, I said it in my role as an advocate to make a rhetorical point.
So when you say something that's incorrect, it's OK to excuse it by saying, oh, I was being an advocate?
What do you believe?
Do you personally believe that cops kill unarmed black men every single day in America?
Senator, I believe law enforcement have an important and challenging job in this country.
That's not what you said, though, counsel.
Senator, I say before you here today that I do believe law enforcement have a difficult and challenging job, and I also understand the difference between... I just think that's an extraordinary statement to make, with no data to back up.
None whatsoever.
There's no basis for you saying that.
And you knew it then, and you know it now.
How can one possibly believe that you're going to be unbiased on the federal bench?
Senator, I believe my record shows that I have worked collaboratively with law enforcement in Boston, Chicago, Mississippi, and Milwaukee to solve complex problems to promote constitutional, effective, and safe policing.
Your record shows that you believe cops are guilty until proven innocent.
Your record shows that if a cop, if a cop shoots a criminal, it's the cop's fault.
And if a criminal shoots a cop, it's the gun's fault.
I've read your record.
I've read your record, Ms.
Murrell, and I don't appreciate you not answering the question straight up.
I would respect you a lot more if you'd just tell us what you believe and not try to hide it.
Yeah, this is really perfect because it shows, again, that's disinformation.
She claimed in the past that cops are shooting unarmed black men every single day in this country, which is not even within the ballpark of anything that resembles the truth.
As we've gone over before, you look at the actual numbers of unarmed shootings of both black and white suspects, it very rarely happens.
You could say that it almost never happens when compared to the number of interactions that law enforcement have and the number of arrests that they make.
And then you take a percentage, how many result in the shooting of an unarmed person, it's like .00, a bunch of zeros, 1%.
Extremely rare.
And certainly not every day.
And then even when you, if you were to just bear down and look at the unarmed shootings, you find that even a good portion of those are not actually unarmed because maybe somebody's in a car trying to run cops over.
I think, in no sense can we, if you've got a, you know, a, if you're driving your weapon, this big metal contraption, you're trying to, like a battering ram, drive right into someone, it's hard to see how that would count as unarmed.
So, unarmed shootings are very, very rare, and then a good portion of the actual unarmed shootings aren't actually unarmed, as it turns out.
And then, even the ones where the suspect actually has no weapon at all, even most of those shootings end up being justified, because you'll find out that in a lot of those cases, there's the suspects trying to take the weapon from the cop, that sort of thing.
Michael Brown, that's what that was.
And yet, this judge said that this happens every single day, that's disinformation.
She admits that, she admitted right there in that exchange that it was disinformation, though she didn't say the word, but she admitted it was disinformation because she admitted that she knew that it was wrong.
She didn't say, oh, you know, I thought that, but I didn't look into it and I was just mistaken.
That would be bad enough, but instead she says, I was just trying to make a rhetorical point.
Translation, I knew it was wrong, but it's a helpful talking point, and so I said it anyway.
Otherwise known as lying.
Now the disinformation board for the Department of Homeland Security, is that the kind of disinformation that they're going to address?
I mean, you would think if they were actually concerned about disinformation, especially harmful disinformation, it's hard for me to think of A type of disinformation that has done more harm to this country over the last five years than exactly that.
That cops are out prowling about, hunting down unarmed black men and murdering them in cold blood.
Like, of all the disinformation that we encounter, it's hard for me to think of something that's been more harmful than that, as it has led to countless riots, billions of dollars in damages, dozens of people dead, entire police stations burned to the ground, all on the strength Of this disinformation, all fueled by this disinformation.
But something tells me the Disinformation Board, they're not going to be concerned about that.
Even though this is law enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, you'd think that they'd be concerned about disinformation against law enforcement, but no, they're not.
They're not.
Staying in the Biden administration, let's go all the way to the top, supposedly the top, Biden himself.
So we see these, you know, you see these every single day, clips like this of Biden losing his mind.
It does.
It just it gets worse every time.
And this is as bad as we've seen.
But here it is.
Listen.
That will enhance our underlying effort To accommodate the Russian oligarchs and make sure we take their ill-begotten gains.
We're going to accommodate them.
We're going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and other ill-begotten gains of Putin's kleptocracy.
The guys who are the kleptocracies.
But these are bad guys.
Oh my gosh.
The guys who are the kleptocracies.
Kleptomaniacs, I think is the word he's going for.
And most people are focusing on that part of it, but also, what is he talking about we're going to accommodate them?
That's not the word you're looking for.
You're looking for the opposite of that.
We're going to accommodate the Russian oligarchs.
I think you mean you're not going to accommodate them?
I think that's what you're trying to say?
It's not just the president is losing his mind, or his mind is deteriorating, or anything like that.
He has lost his mind.
He does not have one right now.
He's fully senile, and everyone in the whole world knows it, including our enemies.
And this is what we're supposed to just live with for the next two years.
I also want to play this for you, kind of moving on, staying within democratic politics though.
Ilhan Omar, and we've heard about Biden's plan, his Hail Mary pass, the Biden administration.
Well, we can't talk about, first of all, we can't talk about Biden doing anything anymore, his plans, anything.
I mean, he's got no, he's an empty vessel completely.
But the Biden administration anyway is planning this Hail Mary pass right before the midterms to try to buy some votes because they're drowning in the polls.
And so they're talking about student loan forgiveness.
Here's Ilhan Omar outside the Capitol with some activists.
Calling for that kind of forgiveness.
We are here to tell the president that with the stroke of a pen, he can and should and must cancel student debt.
Period.
We have 45 million people in this country who are shackled with student debt.
You have to realize that 45 million people who are putting off the opportunity to start that business they wanted to start.
It is 45 million people who are putting off the opportunity to start the family they want to start.
That is 45 million people.
Forty-five million people.
Now, even if that was all true, it does not address the main objection to so-called student loan forgiveness, otherwise known as student loan transferal from the person who took out the loan and forcing people who didn't take out the loan to pay for it.
But she doesn't begin to address the actual argument against it.
Now, all she's talking about is how difficult it is to have the debt and how painful it is and all that.
No one is arguing that point.
It's not fun to have debt.
No one's saying otherwise.
But she doesn't address the argument against it, which is that, okay, someone's going to be paying these loans off, and so either it is going to be the person who agreed to take out the loan and purchased the product and has the product they purchased with that loan, or you're going to force people who didn't take out the loan to pay for it.
You're going to saddle it.
Someone saddled with the burden.
It's either them, it's either the person took out the loan, the person, or the people who didn't.
The argument against student loan forgiveness is that people who didn't take out loans shouldn't have to pay them.
Simple as that.
You know, you don't have to go beyond it.
Now, as it happens, what she actually said is also not true, by the way.
She said 45 million people have student loan debts, and these are 45 million people starting businesses and starting families and all the rest of it.
A great number of these people, probably most of them, in fact, are not putting off living.
There's no reason why you should put off living your life because you have debt.
My wife had student loan debt, and we still got married.
And I, as the person who didn't go to college, have been paying off my wife's student loans.
Do you think I have fun doing that?
Do you think I enjoy that?
No, but she's my wife.
This is my family.
I'm not going to go to anybody else and say... I would be ashamed as a man.
I would be ashamed as a man to go and try to enlist, or even worse, force someone else to take on my financial responsibilities.
I wouldn't want to force anyone to take my financial responsibilities.
Even less would I want to force anyone to take on my wife's financial responsibilities.
That's for me.
I'm the breadwinner in the family.
So I will take care of that.
It's disgraceful.
As a man, especially, it's disgraceful to be sitting there whining.
Someone, I don't want to pay this off, someone take care of it.
Be a man.
What is wrong with you?
Don't tell me that I can't do anything.
Yes, you can.
I guarantee you one thing, all these people say, because of my student loan debts, I can't do this, I can't do that.
How many streaming services are they subscribed to?
I want to know that.
How often do they get the updated iPhone?
You know, you can still do pretty much anything you want to do, even with the financial debt.
It's just a matter of what are your priorities.
One other political story here that I thought was interesting.
This is from the Washington Free Beacon.
It says, Arizona's Democratic Senator Kristen Sinema likes to brag that her cleavage has an extraordinary persuasive effect on some of her Republican colleagues, according to a new book from New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
Sinema, who has emerged as an obstacle to the most radical parts of President Joe Biden's legislative agenda, boasts to colleagues and aides of using her looks to get her way with Republicans.
Cinema, they say, joked with Democrats about how easy it was for her to charm Republican men and boasted knowingly to colleagues and aides that her cleavage had an extraordinary persuasive effect on the uptight men of the GOP.
Now, I read this and I'm not exactly sure how this is breaking news or news at all.
But I did take note of one thing that's kind of interesting.
I note how Her cleavage apparently has no impact at all on Democrat men.
What does that imply, I wonder?
You know, you've got Cory Booker there saying, you have no power here, woman.
I mean, it could imply that they just take their jobs a lot more seriously or, you know, something else.
Different tastes, I guess.
Let's play a game here.
This is a game called Owned and Not Owned.
So first, here's a viral clip.
Went real viral yesterday.
And once again, the left is claiming that Ben Shapiro was owned and destroyed and exposed during a Q&A with a college student.
And we heard about this a couple weeks ago.
Ben Shapiro was trending again, and the claim was that he had been owned and destroyed, and we played that clip, and it really kind of came up short.
Media Matters hall monitor Jason Campbell posted this clip and said, This is absolutely amazing.
You have to watch it.
In two minutes, all of Ben Shapiro's anti-woke tirades are just destroyed.
And like I said, this went really viral, and the left seems to be the pretty wide agreement that Ben Shapiro was totally destroyed by this.
Let's listen and see how that destruction sounded.
If the idea is that history has consequences, of course that's true.
That's not wokeness.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That is not wokeness.
What wokeness suggests is that fundamental institutions in American society... No, it doesn't.
Yes, it 100% does.
I ran Elizabeth Warren's campaign.
I helped organize her volunteers around here.
I am a representative of wokeness.
And that's just, this is all it is.
You know, when I went to go get my first tattoo, the guy had lightning bolts And as a Jewish person, that's really messed up.
It's basically a threat.
There are racist people who exist.
The argument that you're making, and I'm going to close with this because this is going in weird directions and I don't really want to... No, no, no, it's not going in a weird direction.
Just hold up a second.
I let you get out your arguments and now it's time for me to respond because I let you say the full argument.
Okay, I'll let you respond, but... No, no, no, not but.
Now's my turn.
You are not characterizing what I'm saying accurately.
Now it's my turn.
Your definition is inaccurate.
The reason your definition is inaccurate is because any sentient human being would acknowledge that history has consequences.
Right.
But if the idea is, but that's not what wokeism is.
Wokeism is a different thing.
Wokeism suggests that all inequalities of today are attributable to not only historic injustices, but also continuing injustices in the now, and that all disparities are attributable to discrimination.
I've never heard anybody describe it like that but a conservative.
A conservative is the only person.
I want to know why.
I would let that keep playing, but that's it.
That's the whole clip.
Now, I know you might say that I'm biased and I kind of have to Defend Ben?
I don't have to.
Now, it's true that if he actually was totally destroyed by a college student, I probably wouldn't play it on the show.
That is true.
But then I just wouldn't play it.
I just would not acknowledge it at all, probably.
But it would be impressive.
So anytime I see one of these things trend, a college student destroys Ben Shapiro, I always watch because I'm like, OK, well, let's see if he actually does it because that would be impressive.
And there's just nothing there.
He destroyed Ben Shapiro by pointing out that he met a tattoo artist with an offensive tattoo and he worked on Elizabeth Warren's campaign.
What?
First of all, how are either, especially the second thing, working on Elizabeth Warren's campaign, how is that something to brag about in the first place?
I think you actually lose the argument from the get-go by pointing that out, but I don't even know what that's supposed to prove exactly.
There was no argument presented, nothing at all.
And there wasn't even an argument presented by Ben Shapiro because he didn't get a chance to speak because he kept getting cut off.
And this is the point, is that the guy, the kid, was able to successfully prevent Ben Shapiro from making a point by filibustering and talking over him.
And on the left now, that's what they consider owning and destroying.
They're not even pretending anymore that they're going to present arguments and defeat you, you know, on the battlefield of ideas that way, by presenting better ideas and defending them.
They're not even pretending it.
What they're going to do instead is just stop you from talking.
And if they can do that, then you've been obliterated.
So, that was supposed to be owning, that was not.
Here's what owning sounds like.
This is Democrat Representative Jeffries at a different committee hearing.
I want you to just, we don't need a lot of setup here, I just want you to listen to this exchange.
Listen.
Mr. Pauletta, you've echoed a similar sentiment.
I think your quote is, many on the left hate Justice Thomas because he is a black conservative.
Was never bowed to those who demand that he must think a certain way because of the color of his skin.
What evidence do you have to support that incendiary charge?
When Chairman Benny Thompson calls him an Uncle Tom because of his views on voter ID and affirmative action, when in fact more black Americans support voter ID with respect to affirmative action in college education, they're 62% opposed to it.
So that is the most vile, disgusting thing you can say.
And so yes, that's the evidence I just gave you.
Reclaiming my time.
There are a lot of vile, disgusting things that can be said.
Well, you just asked me for an example.
The notion that that is, right, when some members on this side of the aisle and others have been called the N-word throughout different points of our life belies the point that you have a particular bias.
And it's an overstatement, which is not surprising when you look at the balance of your testimony.
And if Chairman Bennie Thompson has an observation to make, he's entitled to free speech.
You apparently believe that Ginny Thomas, No, you can't.
of how many conflicts she has and is entitled to her own political opinions as well.
Can I give you another example?
No.
No, you can't.
Okay, that's what destroying somebody actually sounds like.
Jeffrey says, can you give one example?
This, this terrible, terrible charge that people, Democrats have been racist against, uh, Justice Thomas.
Give us one example.
Okay, well, um, here's a guy who called him an Uncle Tom.
Well, uh, yeah, but that's, uh, people have said worse things in free speech.
Okay, well, I'll give you another example.
No, no, no, we'll just stop there.
It's a total humiliation.
And this is one thing, I'm not a lawyer, but one thing I have learned just from watching the lawyer shows is that, and I think it's something you could probably take with you in life, especially in debates, is never ask a question that you don't know the answer to.
Especially in a situation like this.
As a lawyer in court, also in a debate.
You don't want to pose a question to somebody that you don't already know the answer to.
In this case, he didn't know the answer, and he was completely embarrassed.
I mean, he's embarrassed by any objective standard, but of course, as a Democrat, it really just doesn't matter at all.
One last thing, and it's from Pink News.
Lesbian Visibility Week founder Linda Riley has slammed J.K.
Rowling as the perfect example of how not to be an ally Lesbian Visibility Week, which celebrates lesbians and honors all queer women and non-binary folk within the LGBTQ community, began on Monday.
So, happy Lesbian Visibility Week.
I totally forgot to mention it.
And I think actually, in fact, the fact that during Lesbian Visibility Week, The number one book in the country is an LGBT children's book.
I think it's just phenomenal.
It's fantastic.
But J.K.
Rowling decided to mark the occasion by saluting the resilience and courage of her inspirational friend, LGB Alliance co-founder Alison Bailey.
Bailey, a lawyer, is currently suing LGBT rights charity Stonewall and her former employer Garden Court Chambers for discrimination.
And anyway, then a bunch of leftists came after J.K.
Rowling for speaking out about Lesbian Visibility Week.
Now here's the Kind of funny thing about this is that, of course, in reality, all of these
Various.
As we went over, back when it was Trans Visibility Week, that was just two weeks ago, and I went over, it's really a partial list of all the days and weeks set aside on the calendar to celebrate LGBT people, and there are just dozens and dozens.
And it's all completely silly and ridiculous.
Really, you shouldn't require any day on the calendar, not even one, to celebrate your sexuality.
And it's a very weird thing in general to have days like that celebrating that aspect of somebody.
But, as it happens, you know, actually, as much as the left likes to claim that they're being erased, you're erasing me, lesbians actually are, the category of lesbian is in fact, in reality, being erased.
And if you follow the demographic trends in another 30, 40 years, that just won't exist anymore.
And you look at the younger generations, Gen Z and millennials, while LGBT identification has skyrocketed and trans identification has skyrocketed, lesbian identification has fallen off of a cliff.
And why is that?
Well, it's because every girl, every woman, who in the past Would have identified themselves as a lesbian.
Now they're being told that, oh, no, no, you're actually a man.
You're not a lesbian.
You're actually not only a man, you're a straight man, it turns out.
So this is, if you want to talk about conversion therapy, this is really the only kind of conversion therapy that goes on.
On top of the most insidious form, which is in general the way that kids are recruited into the LGBT fold.
But here's conversion therapy.
Essentially what the left is doing is they're taking lesbian women and they are converting them into straight men, or trying to anyway.
So that's what's happened.
Let's get now to the comment section.
Populist Puerto Rican says, "I agree with everything you said about the college treadmill.
We really need to start bringing back vocational schools and help kids get apprenticeships.
Let them figure out what they like in high school and if they want to go on to higher learning, great.
If not, they'll at least have a solid foundation with which to start their lives.
Yes, this is one of the solutions to the college debt.
Crisis, there is no real solution that's going to erase the past, because this is one of the harshest lessons of life, is that you cannot undo what has been done in the past.
You can't really undo it.
All you can try to do is shirk your responsibilities and pass the buck on to somebody else, which you shouldn't do.
But going forward, this is a solution to college debt crisis, which is to stop setting all these kids into college, and this is one alternative.
Vocational schools, apprenticeships, that sort of thing.
But really, Right out of high school.
Like, it's just almost no kids right out of high school should be going to college.
Almost none.
Even out of all the kids, like almost all the kids who are in college right now actually should not be there.
Only a small minority should actually be there.
And of that minority, only a small minority of that minority should go right out of high school.
Because even most of them would benefit from just taking a couple of years.
There's just no reason to do it.
Of course, we know why the universities want to encourage that, because there's a financial motive there.
And they don't want... I mean, just think about this.
Why don't the universities want your child to graduate high school and then go do something else for a couple of years and then go to college?
Why don't they want that?
Because they're afraid that if you go and you do that, you might discover that you don't need to go to college at all.
They don't want you to discover that.
There's no advantage that I can see, really, at all.
To go into college right out of high school.
There's no reason to do it.
What is it, a race?
Who are you racing?
You got your whole life in front of you.
So, take a couple of years.
You're still young.
There's really nothing bad that can happen out of going to college when you're 21, God forbid, or 22.
You go at any time.
I could still go to college if I wanted to.
Which at this point, if I did, it would only be just because it's funny.
Maybe that's my next act of trolling is to go to college.
Let's see.
Rachel says, what do you think of the Lily Peters story?
Should the boy be charged as an adult?
I have not read very much into this story, mainly because it's so horrifying that it's the kind of story that's just difficult to read.
But from what I understand about this story, Lily Peters is a 10-year-old girl who was murdered.
And as it turns out, she was strangled and sexually assaulted in the woods.
And then it turns out that a 14-year-old boy is guilty of this crime and is being charged as an adult.
So I guess that's the debate, is should you charge 14-year-old boys as adults?
And what I would say to that is in the vast majority of cases, no, you shouldn't charge 14-year-olds as adults because they're 14.
But in a case like this, yeah, absolutely.
Because this is just If you're already at this point as a 14-year-old, society can never trust you again.
You could never be trusted in society ever again.
There are things that a 14-year-old can do.
Not many, but there are things a 14-year-old can do that I think just tragically, on so many levels, disqualify them from ever participating in human society ever again.
And this is one of those things.
E. King says, as an Amazon employee myself, seeing the book at work was the highlight of my day.
Doesn't really say a lot, but for what it's worth.
You know, I have heard some, you know, there certainly are people within Amazon, and that's how we got a hold of these video clips in the first place, who are still on Team Sanity, and I appreciate that.
Let's see, another comment says, talking about Megan Fox, she says that her son wears dresses like he chooses them, but I highly doubt he picked them out himself from the store.
Who bought him the dresses, Megan?
No one buys their son a dress unless they want him to wear a dress, which to me says she's a groomer.
Yes, absolutely.
That's the thing.
That's why I say, it's one of the reasons why I say there's really no such thing as a six-year-old trans kid.
Or a six-year-old who chooses to be non-binary or whatever, because that's not, on so many levels, that's not a choice a child can make, and especially they can't go out if they have female clothing.
It's because you went out and bought it for them, which apparently Megan Fox did at a very young age.
But remember, remember, she only did this because she sensed when her child was in the womb that he was going to be non-binary.
She sensed it.
I mean, usually we're told from the left that children in the womb are not even human.
Unless they're non-binary or trans, in which case they are.
I guess that's the one loophole.
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This was very real to me.
The mainstream media, they were trying to call them protests.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
So today we're going to once again pick on a fellow YouTuber who is in dire need of a good old-fashioned debunking.
The channel is called Powered by Rainbows, so that should give you some idea of what we're getting ourselves into.
Powered by Rainbows provides, we're told in the channel description, weekly LGBTQ education.
The guy in the video we're going to watch wears a rainbow tie-dye shirt with the words Professor Pride on it.
Now, I don't think that's his official academic title, though.
I wouldn't be surprised if universities are actually giving out those kinds of professorships.
I don't know.
The particular video we're interested in today is about the alleged science of being transgender, as it says in the title.
Now, this has been viewed half a million times, has 7,000 comments, most of them from people who say that the content was very encouraging and validating for them.
That's not a good thing, because the content is also, as we'll see, completely misleading, dishonest, absurd, and, since it's validating and affirming people in falsehood and delusion, extremely harmful.
The whole video is 23 minutes long.
I'm not going to force you to sit through all that.
Instead, we'll take about five minutes of this, The crux of the whole thing, which purports to offer scientific proof beyond any shadow of a doubt that transgenderism is scientifically valid.
We'll take that.
We'll watch and we'll react.
Let's dive right in.
The thing you have to understand about transphobic people is their entire argument all boils down to one thing.
Science.
No matter what argument a transphobic person might call out in the middle of their hatred, the keystone of that argument seems to be on a scientific basis.
If you're not familiar with the word keystone, it's a term used in architecture to describe the central stone at the summit or the top of an archway, locking the whole arch together.
Now, if only there was a way for us to remove that keystone and scientifically prove their cornerstone invalid, then every single one of their arguments fall apart as a result.
And at this point, I think you know where I'm heading with this episode, because luckily for us, science proves that being transgender is completely valid.
So let's explain how we know this.
Now, one of the reasons that I'm responding to this video is that in these five minutes we're going to sort through, nearly every incoherent and fallacious and fraudulent aspect of gender ideology is put on display.
We see it already in how Professor Pride has set all this up.
In the world he presents, there are only two categories of people, even though he would say that he believes in a non-binary system.
He actually believes in a binary system, but the two categories of people are those who agree with him on the topic of sex and transphobic people.
That's it.
Now, he's right at least that the opposing point of view does all come down to science.
There are other elements to it also.
Gender ideology is not just factually and scientifically wrong, but also morally abominable as well.
But the moral problems all stem from the falsehood of the ideology.
And so, it does begin with the science.
If you can disprove our scientific argument that men have penises and women have vaginas, then yes, you will have destroyed our whole position.
You will have leveled our fortress with a barrage of facts and logic.
We'll be exposed and utterly defenseless.
So, let's see if Professor Pride can do just that.
The most common argument that transphobic people will make is that you were assigned the gender at birth which you were always meant to be.
Okay.
It's a little bit of a stop and start here.
We have to stop it already because Professor Pride packed more falsehoods into those five seconds than I thought was physically possible.
He's sticking with calling us all transphobes, which is false, but I'm not going to point it out every time he does it because that's all I would be doing since it's all he does.
And then he says that our most common argument is, quoting him, who allegedly is quoting us, you were assigned the gender at birth which you were always meant to be.
No part of that is true.
That's not even remotely the argument we make.
None of us are saying that.
We do not believe that male and female are assigned at birth.
No mere mortal assigns sex at all, and the assigning process, if you want to call it that, happens at conception, not birth.
Also, notice how I'm using the word sex here, not gender.
That's because I reject the category of gender altogether.
Humans have a sex, male or female.
Gender is a nonsensical, arbitrary category invented by pedophile sexologists in the 1960s.
So, if you want to engage with what you call the transphobic argument, you would need to begin by defending the invention of the gender category for human beings in the first place.
Instead, Professor Pryde just assumes that the pedophile sexologists were correct, takes that all for granted, and charges forward.
This makes everything that comes after this point totally irrelevant, because you cannot assume that we have a shared fundamental premise here.
We don't.
It's the fundamental premise that we're fighting about.
If you aren't going to defend that, and you're going to base your whole argument on a premise that you haven't attempted to defend, then you've already lost.
But let's keep listening anyway.
As accredited psychiatrist Marat Altunay reports, we know that after a father's sperm cell fertilizes an egg in the mother's womb, that embryo starts to develop specialized genitalia resembling male or female.
Which genitalia it develops is determined by the father's sperm cell.
But, quote, the brain and the body can go in different directions.
Gender is not only in our genitalia.
There is something in the brain that determines gender.
So technically speaking, this argument saying you were born with the gender you were meant to be is correct because your brain was born the way it is and your brain doesn't switch out with someone else's.
But gender is not determined by having a penis or a vagina downstairs.
It's determined in your brain.
Now notice what he's done here.
It's the same thing that gender ideologues always do.
Though these people claim that sex and gender are two different things, he conflates them whenever it suits his argument.
Here he says that gender is determined by both your genitals and your brain.
You'll note how he never says the word sex at all at any point in the argument he's presenting.
But if gender, and by that he means sex, even if he doesn't say it, is determined by both your genitals and your brain, then why would a man who is male in his genitals but female in his brain, allegedly, be a female?
I mean, if you've proven anything there, and you haven't proven a damn thing, of course, at all, but even if you did, this is an argument, I suppose, for non-binary, for people who are in between or both or whatever.
It's not an argument for women with penises.
Of course, he's actually right that gender, read sex, is determined in your brain as well.
I mean, your brain is part of the picture.
That's because your brain is part of your body.
And if you are a man, then your whole body is male, every part of it, every cell.
A man with a male body automatically has a male brain because the brain is part of the body and it makes no logical sense whatsoever to say that part of a man's body is actually a woman.
To speak of a woman's brain in a man's body is exactly the same as speaking of a woman's arm on a man's body.
Now, some men, especially liberal men, may have what appear to be women's arms, but in fact, if they're men, then their arms are men's arms, automatically, despite appearances.
The same is true of brains.
Indeed, the very definition of the term man's brain would have to be the brain which exists inside a man's head.
That's the only thing a man's brain is!
Now, Professor Pride's argument is logically invalid in about 75 different ways so far, as we've seen.
But let's go for 76.
Because here he's going to tell us about a scientific study which proved, he says, that transgenderism is valid.
Now, he never bothers to explain what he means by valid, but, you know, we can only focus on so many fallacies at a time here, so let's listen.
In this study, the 2,600 participants were put in MRI machines to scan their brains and record brain activity.
The researchers also had cisgender men and cisgender women go through the same test.
And finally, researchers compared the scans.
On the left side of your screen, you can see the brain activity of a cisgender male adult.
On the right side of your screen, you can see the brain activity of a transgender male adult.
But you'll notice they look nearly identical.
And that's something researchers found in every single case out of the 2600 participants.
Their study concluded that transgender males have brain activity almost identical with cisgender males and wildly different from the brain activity from cisgender females.
Even though they were assigned female at birth of their genitalia.
They also determined that transgender females have brain activity almost identical with cisgender females, and massively different from the brain activity from cisgender males, even though they were born male at birth with their genitals.
In other words, the brain is 100% backing the hypothesis That your gender is identified in your brain, not your genitalia.
And it proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that being transgender is completely valid according to science.
Okay, where to begin?
Let's try to break this down.
He does go on to mention one other similar study that did the same sort of thing and had similar results, he claims, and that's it.
Two studies comparing brain scans.
These studies prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that transgenderism is valid, whatever that's supposed to mean, according to science.
He also says that the brain scans were nearly identical between trans people and the sex they identify as, and that this, again, proves absolutely, without question, that he's right about everything.
Though, he does at the end say this, listen.
The limitations of these studies are endless.
As Dr. Altanay says, some of the brain scans show people are somewhere between, sharing characteristics of both male and female brain scans.
And this scientifically proves that gender exists on a spectrum.
Wait, what?
I thought you just said the studies proved your point beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Now you're admitting the studies had endless limitations?
And I thought you said the brain scans were identical.
Now you say that some of the brain scans weren't identical, but were somewhere in between?
Which is it?
Now, don't answer that.
I know the answer.
The studies said whatever you need them to have said in order to prove whatever point you're currently trying to make.
This is how the gender ideologues approach literally everything, including life itself.
The truth is, whatever they need it to be in any given moment is as simple as that.
And what about these studies?
He says they looked at brain activity.
What sort of brain activity?
Which activities?
The human brain can do like 10,000 trillion calculations a second.
The brain's doing a whole lot of activities all the time.
Saying that the brain activity between two people is the same means almost nothing.
Or else it means that the two people are, what, identical clones of each other created in a laboratory somewhere?
No, what Professor Pride means is that if you take a scan which examines a small, limited subset of some brain activity, and you compare a, quote, trans woman to a, quote, cis woman, the scan will look similar sometimes, but not always.
Okay, and?
Notice how he put up on the screen an alleged example of a scan of a, quote, trans woman and a, quote, cis woman, and then gives his audience, few of whom are neurologists, presumably, about 12 seconds to analyze them and come to the conclusion that, Eureka!
They look kind of the same.
Of course, nobody knows what they're looking at or what it means, and he also didn't let us see the control group.
The scan from this trans woman, quote-unquote, and this, quote, cis woman are similar, but what about a scan of a man who doesn't identify as a woman?
How similar would that look?
I'm betting it would be pretty close as well.
Indeed, I'm betting that the MRI scans of nearly every human brain on Earth would look pretty similar to most people, especially if you don't know what you're looking at or how to read the scans.
What does any of this prove?
Well, nothing at all.
The most it could possibly prove, and I'm skeptical it even proves this, is that some elements of the brain's activity in a man who desires to be a woman will mirror to a limited extent the activity of a woman who actually is a woman.
Now this, if true, is not surprising, and in no way even begins to invalidate the claim that men are not women.
At most, I mean at the absolute most, it would be a somewhat interesting insight into the powerful psychological placebo effect that occurs when a man who wants to be a woman is validated as a woman.
It can't get within spitting distance of proving what Professor Pride wants it to prove.
And I've said all this so far, and somehow I haven't even made the most important point, which is this.
He says that a man's female identity is valid if the man's brain scan looks similar to a female's.
But what if it doesn't?
If a transgender went in for a brain scan, and you found that his scan looks more like his biological sex, Would you then tell him that he's not really a woman and his trans identity is invalid?
No, you wouldn't.
You certainly wouldn't.
Because all of this is irrelevant to my argument and also to your own.
So, in summary, your argument is false, self-contradictory, built on a false premise, misleading, cherry-picked, and totally irrelevant to the claim that you're actually trying to defend.
Otherwise, great stuff.
Also, Professor Pride, you're cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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