Ep. 1422 - The ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Racket Is Collapsing In Front Of Our Eyes
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the alleged "consensus" supporting so-called "gender-affirming care" has totally collapsed. This week, a major medical organization has come out and admitted that they do not endorse these procedures and the evidence supporting them is "low quality." Also, the White House struggles to name one single policy achievement of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. Tim Walz is finally forced to respond to the stolen valor allegations. And Colin Kaepernick announces that he still wishes to be enslaved by the NFL, if only any team will take him at the age of 36.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the alleged consensus supporting so-called gender-affirming care has totally collapsed.
This week, a major medical organization has come out and admitted that they do not endorse these procedures and the evidence supporting the procedures is low quality, they say.
Also, the White House struggles to name one single policy achievement of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
Tim Walz is finally forced to respond to the stolen valor allegations, and Colin Kaepernick announces that he still wishes to be enslaved by the NFL if only any team will take him at the age of 37.
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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For example, you might notice that celebrities are flying an awful lot for people who claim to be concerned about climate change.
You might find it odd that politicians like Barack Obama are buying up giant seaside properties if they think the oceans are about to rise and wipe entire continents off the face of the earth.
Then you might notice that average temperatures in your area haven't changed much in the past century, and that all seems quite odd.
These kinds of observations might lead you to question whether man-made climate change is really a big deal, or if it's even happening at all.
I am responsibly told that your questions are irrelevant.
They're an affront to science, in fact, because a consensus has already been reached among experts.
The Blessed Consensus.
And one of the effects of this kind of consensus is that it signals to everyone else in the field, the experts so-called, that they need to fall in line immediately.
Even if they disagree with the consensus view, they understand that they need to keep quiet or else they'll face professional consequences.
So, a declaration of consensus can quickly become self-reinforcing.
To outsiders, it appears that an entire field is united when really it's not.
Again and again, we've heard that There's a consensus among professional medical associations that these procedures are medically necessary.
Everyone from the HHS secretary to the ACLU and the DOJ and everyone in between have made that claim repeatedly in state and federal courts as well as the media and in every other forum available to them.
And with a handful of exceptions, virtually all of them overseas, No major professional medical association has stepped up to correct the record and clarify that there, in fact, is no consensus.
Well, this week, that trend finally came to an end.
So it turns out that all journalists, you know, all they really had to do was ask some professional medical associations about their views on gender surgeries for adolescents.
And if they had done that, the facade of consensus would have come crashing down.
That's exactly what Leor Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, decided to do.
He reached out to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, or ASPS.
Which represents more than 11,000 members and 90% of the field of plastic surgery across the US and Canada.
It is also obviously a field that's deeply involved in gender-related surgeries on both adults and minors.
So, you know, their view on this would seem to matter.
And Sapir wanted to know what the ASPS thought about so-called gender-affirming care for minors.
Well, here's what the Society of Plastic Surgeons sent back.
And if you're watching the video, you can see it on the screen.
Quote, ASPS has not endorsed any organization's practice recommendations for treatments of
adolescents with gender dysphoria.
ASPS currently understands that there is a considerable uncertainty as to the long-term
efficacy for the use of chest and genital surgical interventions for the treatment of
adolescents with gender dysphoria, and the existing evidence base is viewed as low quality
slash low certainty.
Wow.
So, in other words, there is in fact no consensus among major medical organizations about any
form of so-called gender affirming care for minors.
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And the people that talked, that claimed there was a consensus, including the media outlets that claimed there was a consensus, they never even asked these medical organizations whether they agree with this or not.
They just heard from the other media outlets that there is a consensus, and they were all telling each other about the consensus, and then they went and reported it to the public.
And meanwhile, no one turned around and asked all these medical experts what they actually think about it.
That's what happened.
And that's a lie that's been repeated by the Biden administration and the media repeatedly, but it's not true.
And again, all it took to establish that it wasn't true is for one fellow at the Manhattan Institute to just ask the Plastic Surgeons Association about this.
They apparently weren't going to volunteer the information, because on top of this, they're of course enormous cowards, but when asked, they're willing to say in writing that they don't endorse any of these alleged treatments for children.
That's how flimsy the consensus on these gender experiments really is.
This admission from ASBS has massive ramification for procedures that are underway right now in the United States.
As City Journal notes, the WPATH standards, which pretty much all major hospitals follow, doesn't specify any strict age minimum for gender surgeries.
These are standards that the Biden administration has also defended in federal court.
And these standards have been put into practice, apparently without the endorsement of a major medical association, like the ASPS, that again represents doctors who are the ones who would be performing these procedures.
An analysis by the Manhattan Institute using data from a national insurance database from 2017 to 2023 found evidence that roughly 5,000 to 6,000 double mastectomies have been performed in this country on girls under the age of 18 in the name of so-called gender-affirming care.
And at least 50 of those girls were apparently under the age of 13.
And that last part bears repeating.
Because it's so horrific.
In dozens of cases, girls under the age of 13 have had their breasts removed in order to affirm their gender.
So these are numbers that both medical associations and politicians routinely lie about, but they're verifiable.
And if anything, they're under-accounting the actual number of these procedures.
The insurance database doesn't capture out-of-pocket procedures at all, for example.
And in some cases, there's reason to believe that hospitals are coding these procedures to suggest that they're not related to gender dysphoria, even when they clearly are.
So the numbers that you're hearing, there's an asterisk, and really, it's at a minimum, these are the numbers.
For instance, as the Manhattan Institute notes, there's been a nearly seven-fold increase in the number of so-called non-binary mastectomies that have been performed on minors from 2017 to 2023.
And these are mastectomies that are intended to make the patient look non-binary, whatever that means.
Actually, we know what it means.
It means that these are girls having their bodies permanently surgically altered to look, you know, roughly more masculine, even though these girls don't even actually identify as boys.
They identify as Some other category with no clear definition at all.
The number of these procedures went from 70 in 2017 all the way up to 470 last year.
all the way up to 470 last year.
And City Journal found that, quote, "Plastic surgeons who perform these procedures
"leverage the existing billing code for breast reduction, "a practice some might argue amounts to insurance fraud."
And based on this new revelation from ASPS, insurance fraud might be the least
of these doctors' problems.
These procedures could also potentially amount to massive jury verdicts and settlements
for medical malpractice and even intentional fraud, which isn't covered by most providers insurance policies.
That's because consensus is actually a critical concept in medicine.
If a doctor treats a patient and ends up harming the patient, it's still very hard to sue the doctor if he can demonstrate that he was following an established standard of care that everybody agrees on.
But if the doctor goes rogue and disregards the view of major medical associations like, say, the ASPS, then there's potentially a lot more liability at play.
As malpractice lawyer Kevin Keller told City Journal, medical providers could potentially be looking at more than $10 million in liability for each individual case involving these gender procedures, money they'd likely have to pay out of pocket.
So this is an existential threat to this entire fraudulent industry.
And it's a threat that's becoming much more pronounced lately.
For several months now, there have been other signs that the House of Cards, that is gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, is about to come crashing down.
There was the Cass report to the National Health Service in England, which found that
there's no good evidence justifying any common interventions concerning gender identity.
And there was the ruling in the Sixth Circuit Court upholding Tennessee's ban on the castration
of children over the objections of the Biden administration and the ACLU.
There were also the leaked WPATH files, which exposed internal communications in which WPATH
officials admitted that they didn't know what they were doing in many of these cases or
what the long-term effects would be.
And there was the declaration from the American College of Pediatricians, a relatively small group, which called on all major medical organizations to stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.
And that's a quote from them.
All of these developments have taken place in the last year.
So that's how quickly the alleged consensus in this field of quote-unquote gender-affirming care has broken down.
It's just completely shattered on the floor at this point.
Even as the number of people who might seek to access these procedures is increasing.
Gallup just found that nearly 8% of adults currently identify as LGBTQ+, which is a significant jump from 5.6% just four years ago.
And as the Postmillennial reports, many of these new additions to the alphabet umbrella are young people.
Quote, for each generation, a person is about twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ as opposed to the generation before.
And of course, many of these young people, particularly the ones who identify as transgender, are very likely to seek out hormones, surgery, puberty blockers, or some combination of those things.
This is a trend that's only possible because of a manufactured, artificial, totally fraudulent consensus of alleged experts.
It's a social contagion that has depended on the silence of people who know better.
And with the statement this week from the Plastic Surgeons Association, as unlikely as it was, any pretense of a consensus is now gone completely.
It has been demolished, as if it never existed.
Because it didn't.
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This is from a couple of days ago, but I think it's worth talking about briefly.
The Daily Wire reports, White House Press Secretary Karen Jean Pear came up empty when asked by a reporter on Monday to name a specific policy achieved by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris, who has yet to hold a press conference since becoming the Democratic nominee, has been slammed for her record on the border crisis after being tasked by President Joe Biden to address the root cause of illegal immigration The Vice President held numerous rallies over the past week, but has not put forward a campaign platform, even with the DNC just one week away.
So, Karen Jean Bares asked, just, like, what are some of her achievements, actual policy achievements, and here's how that exchange went.
Listen.
What does the President see as the Vice President's biggest achievement during their time in office together?
Because they've been partners, those achievements have been done, certainly.
Those historic, unprecedented achievements have been done together.
I'll say this, the President believes in the Vice President's leadership, her temperament, her experience, and he has said this himself.
One of the proudest decisions that he made in 2020 was selecting her as Vice President because he believed that she can go on day one.
And you've seen them do that together on day one of this administration.
That doesn't change.
I'm not going to parse out anything from here.
They have been partners.
She's been a critical partner for this president during this term and will continue to do so.
You will see them together on Thursday in Maryland where they will talk about their next announcement on lowering costs for the American people.
So there's not a specific policy achievement?
It's a comprehensive whole?
I would say it's a comprehensive whole.
So it's actually pretty incredible that the fact that she can't name any specific policy achievement at all, not even one.
And this should not be a trick question.
And the reporter who asked it wasn't even trying to trip her up.
He even bails her out at the end.
He says, oh, so it's more of a comprehensive hole then, you would say.
So he didn't see this as an embarrassing question.
He thought it was a softball.
He was trying to serve her up something easy.
And it is a softball, but she's still whiffed on it because there are no policy achievements at all.
So she's like, you know, it's like a performance review with a lazy, redundant employee who just sits at his desk and stares at the wall all day.
So you can ask, what have you been doing for the past six months on the job?
Oh, you know, well.
Look, I'm not going to parse out all the things I do every day.
It'd be impossible to describe every detail.
There's so many details of so many things I've done.
But, you know, I'm working.
I'm laboring, exerting, toiling, if you will, doing my tasks, performing my duties, completing my assignments, working on my projects, working on my work.
Very productive, producing products.
And, you know, that's Karen Jean Perry.
I don't blame her for BSing.
What other choice does she have?
But she's also so bad at it, and yet she got the job anyway.
And it still comes down to the fact that there are no policy achievements at all, even while the media tries to wildly overcompensate for this fact, for the fact that they haven't achieved anything.
Wildly overcompensates by saying that not only has the Biden administration achieved things, but it is actually the most legislatively accomplished presidential administration in American history, potentially, or modern American history.
You know, the most accomplished administration in the last 100 years.
You hear stuff like that.
And if that were the case, then it should be pretty easy to say, OK, well, the most accomplished.
Can you just give me one or two?
Just one.
One would be good.
And she can't do it.
And Kamala Harris is not going to put herself in a position where she has to answer that question, which is why she has done no press conferences, done no real interviews where she's going to be asked real questions at all.
Meanwhile, I just saw, and I think that this is true, that Donald Trump is From what I saw just on Twitter a second ago, has announced another press conference that he's going to do tomorrow or at some point this week.
And he just did a press conference last week.
So Donald Trump is out there.
I mean, he's doing interviews.
He's doing the rallies.
He's showing up on live streams.
He was just talking to Elon Musk on Twitter for like two hours.
He's like long flow.
And you could say all you want.
And of course they were with the Elon Musk and Donald Trump conversation.
Of course, people on the left were saying, oh, that's a softball.
Elon Musk is on his side.
They're ideologically aligned.
Which is like, okay, so you mean literally every time a Democrat politician talks to anyone in the corporate media, so it's like that?
And even so, even when you're talking to somebody ideologically aligned, two hours is a long time to have a conversation.
I'd love to see Kamala Harris pick the most friendly interviewer in the world, they're all friendly to you in the corporate media, and talk to them for two hours live.
Because it doesn't matter how much they're on your side, it's just like, Over two hours you have to, you can't avoid answering questions for two hours.
So Trump has been doing that and now I guess he has another press conference coming up.
I'm probably in the minority among conservatives.
I don't think that Trump should do any more press conferences.
Like, why put yourself in a position where you're allowing a hostile press to take free shots at you if your opponent isn't doing any press conferences at all?
Like, she's not going to do any, and you're going to do one a week?
Why do it?
Now, I understand you're drawing a contrast here, but the contrast has already been established.
Like, it's pretty clear that Trump is willing to go out there and talk to people, and Kamala Harris isn't.
There's no question.
Like, that contrast, yes, absolutely, it has been Very clearly illustrated to anyone who's willing to notice it.
I don't think you have to keep doing the press conferences, though, and allow the media to just, like, keep taking shots at you like that if you're running against someone who's just going to hide away in her basement until it's time to get up and give prepared remarks at a rally.
All right, Walls, Tim Walls, finally sort of responded to the stolen Valor charges.
Here's what he said.
Then in 2005, I felt the call of duty again, this time being serviced to my country in the halls of Congress.
My students inspired me to run for that office, and I was proud to make it to Washington.
I was a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee and a champion of our men and women in uniform.
I'm going to say it again as clearly as I can.
Again, I am damn proud of my service to this country.
[applause]
And I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person's service record.
To anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent, I just have a few simple words.
Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
This guy is such a snake.
He's such a liar.
I mean, he claims that his service record is being denigrated.
Which is, that's like if I claim that I was an astronaut who went to the moon, and a real astronaut came by and said, no you didn't, you've never been to space, you've never even like seen a rocket ship in real life, much less been on one, you're a podcaster, not an astronaut, and then if I responded, well how dare you?
You should never denigrate a fellow astronaut!
We're part of the astronaut brotherhood!
I would never talk about you that way!
Well yeah, it would make sense for me to accuse you of not being an astronaut because you are.
But I'm not, that's the point.
So they're not denigrating Tim Walz and his record as a combat veteran.
The point is he doesn't have that record.
No one's denigrating combat veterans, they're denigrating him for saying that he is one when he isn't.
Which is actually kind of like the opposite of denigrating Veterans and someone's military service record.
It's a respect for veterans.
It's a respect for people in the military when you take it seriously that someone's lying about it.
So that's what they're going to go with anyway.
But I think the fact that Tim Walz feels the need to address this at all shows that it is You know, that this attack, this attack, which is simply, which is true, pointing out that he's guilty of stolen valor, it shows that it is landing, that he has to, he can't just ignore it, which is certainly what he'd prefer to do if he could.
I also want to play this on the subject of Tim Walz.
Here's Lisa Hansen, a small business owner in Minnesota, who was shut down and eventually arrested by Tim Walz during COVID.
Let's hear what she has to say.
When COVID happened and in the state of Minnesota, my business was located in the state of Minnesota, southern Minnesota.
It was a lovely wine and coffee bistro and it had been in operation for going on eight years by the time that my business was shut down and destroyed.
And when I say it was destroyed, I'm speaking of the being shuttered and not being able to survive that because of what Tim Walz, Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison did to me and to my business as well as our employees.
And so what happened is with the first shutdown, we didn't really know what to do, what was going on, and we did comply.
I hate to say that, you know, looking back at everything I've stood for.
But we did comply because we didn't know what else to do.
He never fully opened up the state.
To point this out, who did he shut down?
Governor Walz shut down only some of the businesses.
The essential businesses got to stay open.
So I guess that means that we were a non-essential business.
So he shut down bars, restaurants.
Um, gyms, dance studios, hair salons, etc.
Who did he not shut down?
Who were the essential business owners?
That would have been your big box stores with hundreds and hundreds of people coming to visit through their doors a day, mingling and being close.
He did not shut down liquor stores.
He did not shut down strip clubs.
So we opened up.
I can't tell you for sure how long we were open, but immediately, within 24 to 48 hours, the state came down on us with a vengeance.
They attacked me, a woman, small business owner, as well as other small business owners in the state of Minnesota.
They came down.
They sent the health department down.
They sent everything they could against us.
They employed all of their resources against we, the people.
I went to court.
I was found guilty.
I was given a sentence to 90 days, which was the max sentencing.
And I was also fined $1,000, which was the max fine for this supposed thing that I did where I was standing on my rights.
So that's how much Tim Wall supports.
Small business owners, how much he supports female business owners, that he arrested one, not just one, but this one, along with many others, for the crime of opening their business and trying to make money to feed their families.
And this is the same guy, remember, who said, mind your own business?
That was his line about anyone, anyone who attacks him, mind your own business.
Well, you certainly weren't minding your own business when Lisa Hansen tried to open her store and, God forbid, Make some money to take care of her family.
And this is the most depressing thing about this.
And this is maybe one of the most, as the kids would say, one of the most blackpilling things.
I don't know if the kids say that anymore.
Is that black pill, red pill?
It might just be a millennial thing.
I don't know if the kids are carrying on that torch or not.
But anyway, black pill is the fact that COVID and everything that happened during COVID and the lockdowns and everything, the fact that that is, that it's, Seems to be politically irrelevant at this point.
Which, rewind the clock four years, when COVID was all that was happening in the world, and it was all that anybody was talking about, and it had totally taken over all of our lives.
Whether we liked it or not, and none of us did, totally taken over all of our lives.
They're shutting down businesses, you can't leave your house, you gotta wear a mask, right?
And if you could rewind the clock back three or four years and someone had told you that in the next election, in 2024, this won't matter at all.
Like, no one's going to care about any of this.
It will have no impact.
And all the people responsible for doing it, responsible for this, people doing this to you, they'll face no political ramifications whatsoever.
If anyone had told you that four years ago, you wouldn't have believed it.
But that's where we are.
Maybe that can change.
I hope that it can.
Okay?
Because this is not ancient history.
This didn't happen a hundred years ago.
We all lived through it.
And if this is now irrelevant to the fact that he was putting business owners in jail for opening their business?
If we allow that to be completely politically irrelevant, then, I don't know, shame on us.
This was a fun moment.
Caitlin Collins, as an anchor at CNN, was on Stephen Colbert's show for some reason.
I have no idea why a CNN anchor was a guest on The Late Show, but she was.
It's hard to imagine a more boring, less entertaining guest, but there she was.
And actually, something entertaining did happen, much to the chagrin of both Colbert and Collins.
Let's watch.
Trump has kind of been thrown on his heels by this, and he's not really sure how to go after Vice President Harris.
He knew his attack lines on President Biden.
He really has struggled with how to go after someone who's 20 years younger than him, who is a different gender, a different race.
It's kind of been this moment where he has not been able to coalesce around a single attack line.
I know you guys are objective over there that you just report the news as it is.
No, I know, CNN makes it- Was that supposed to be a laugh line?
It wasn't supposed to be, but I guess it is.
That is truly humiliating.
Colbert calls CNN objective and the audience laughs.
And here's the thing, the audience isn't even laughing maliciously or sarcastically.
They honestly thought that it was a joke.
They assumed, quite fairly, that someone would only say that if they meant to be funny.
And that was probably the first laugh they got the whole show.
It's like Stephen Colbert does not say funny things very often, and I think that they were relieved.
They said, finally, a moment of levity in this comedy show.
And they laughed, because in their minds, hearing someone say CNN is objective, it's like hearing someone say, The DMV is a lot of fun.
People interpret that as inherently absurd.
You must be joking if you're saying that.
Because it is inherently absurd.
The more interesting thing to me is that Colbert didn't realize that the audience would find the comment funny.
Right?
In his world, CNN actually is an objective news source.
So think about that for a moment.
Really reflect on that.
Imagine how delusional, how ensconced in your own bubble you have to be to see CNN as anything but a propaganda outlet.
Even if Colbert himself likes CNN, how does he not realize how everyone else sees it?
That's the remarkable thing.
I mean, we use the phrase out-of-touch a lot, but here it really applies.
These people are out-of-touch.
Just, it cannot be overstated the degree to which they are out-of-touch.
Like, and everybody's in their own bubble to a certain extent, you could say.
I'm surrounded by lots of conservative people all the time, so I have my own bubble in that sense, just like we all do.
But I'm exposed enough to other perspectives that I know how the left thinks.
I know how they perceive things.
I know, for instance, that if I was in front of a crowd that included liberals, it would be a laugh line for me to say that Fox News is the most objective cable news channel.
It would not surprise me for people to laugh at that.
I understand that that's how Fox News is perceived, especially in the liberal world.
No, I happen to believe that Fox News actually is the most objective and the fairest of all the cable news channels, TV news in general.
Low bar.
It's a low bar to get over, but still.
Yet, I know that to about half the country, such a claim is seen as downright hysterical.
I'm aware of that.
And it's amazing that someone like Stephen Colbert doesn't have that level of understanding.
Or any understanding at all, which also explains why his show just isn't funny, why he's not an effective comedian at all.
And it's the contempt he has for people that he disagrees with politically, but even more than the contempt, it's just he doesn't understand most of the country, and so you can't It's hard to make comedy that appeals to most of the country and is funny to most of the country if you don't understand the people that you're talking to.
You don't understand your own audience.
Recently, Elliot Page, the artist formerly known as Ellen Page, sat down for a little interview with a publication called Them.
For an interview series called Queer Roots.
And I want to play this about a minute-long clip of Paige talking about her first, quote, queer crush.
And there's, in fact, a lot we can kind of glean from this and learn from this, but here it is.
If I really, really think back, it was probably the older sister in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
You too?
Yes.
What was her...Amy Zelinsky.
Amy Zelinsky.
I'm very certain.
This actually is not to be like my book.
Ugh, barf.
But I do write about it in my book.
I mean, who doesn't love Honey I Shrunk the Kids just as a cinematic masterpiece, of course?
Truly, what a spectacle, right?
Riding a giant ant?
Please.
Stumbling upon a monstrous Oreo cookie?
Like, the whole sequence with the sprinklers and the, I mean, really quite a stunning motion picture.
Well, she's really pretty, you know, really gorgeous.
Just the way she dressed was really cool.
There was a casualness, there was a looseness, there was some flannel action, and the character was so caring and thoughtful.
Yeah, I guess, like, clearly moved me and captivated me.
First of all, that was not an Oreo.
That was an oatmeal cream pie, I believe.
So, some 90s kid you are, Ellen.
Now, I find this clip interesting and quite tragic and quite sad because it shows in just 60 seconds why you cannot escape your true sex, your true biological identity.
Paige has obviously had surgeries and taken drugs and gone out and purchased a new wardrobe to try to present herself as a man.
But she really doesn't come close.
Like, she doesn't even come within a mile of looking, sounding, presenting as a man.
I mean, nobody, not one person, no one, sees her as a man.
Nobody.
Doesn't look like one.
Certainly doesn't sound like one.
Doesn't have the mannerisms of a man.
Doesn't have the personality of a man.
She has not succeeded in capturing any aspect of manhood at all.
She transitioned from an attractive woman to a mutilated woman who sounds like she has chronic laryngitis.
That's the transition.
And it goes deeper than the looks and the voice, because listen to what she's saying.
If you could put aside the appearance and the sound of the person who is doing the talking here, just to show you how much of a woman she still is, That even if you read, if you read, you didn't see any of the visuals, you didn't hear any of it, you just read that interview and you know who it was with.
And I just, I gave you the quote.
You would immediately know, oh, that's a woman speaking.
Just from the text, just from the content of what she's saying.
Even though she's talking about being attracted to a woman.
But from the way she talks about it, you would read that and know, oh yeah, that's definitely, that's a lesbian woman talking, for sure.
Even though it doesn't really make any sense, like why is this her queer crush?
If she is a heterosexual male, which is what we're told, then that wasn't a queer crush at all, right?
That's a heterosexual male crush.
Be that as it may, even the phrases she uses, the way she speaks, the way she sees the world, it's all very womanly, very feminine.
Okay, so she catches herself promoting her book and says, ew, barf.
No man in the history of mandom has ever said, ew, barf.
It's never happened.
I defy you.
I defy you to find me one man who's ever used that phrase.
You can't find it.
It's never happened, ever.
And then, while trying to explain why she had a crush on this girl from the movie, first she kind of, like, sheepishly calls her pretty.
You know, because men are always shy about saying that girls are pretty.
She says, oh, because she's pretty.
She's, like, a little embarrassed to say it.
Because, you know, men, when they're talking about, like, celebrities and actresses that they think are hot, they don't want to—they feel a little embarrassed to say it out loud.
But then she talks about how the girl dressed.
She liked how casual she was.
She liked the flannel action.
Again, no man in history, I know this is a strong statement, it might seem like hyperbole, but no man in history has ever been describing a woman that he finds attractive, and as part of that description, uses the phrase, oh, she's got that flannel action.
Yeah dude, that girl, she's real hot.
Listen, she's got that flannel action.
You gotta see this girl's flannel action.
And then most of all, she talks about how the character was caring and thoughtful.
You know, just like dudes always say.
That's a guy thing for sure.
Just one of the bros.
One of the bros.
You know, whenever a guy's commenting on an actress that they find attractive, the first thing they always say is that it's because she's caring and thoughtful.
Total bro move, if you ask me.
I mean, if I went up to any guy and asked them what actress they find attractive and they say, Sydney Sweeney.
And I asked them why.
They would definitely say, oh dude, it's because she's so caring and thoughtful.
Plus, I love her flannel action.
Those are the main things.
So, now of course we can joke about it, but it's really tragic.
It is actually a tragedy.
Ellen Page is still Ellen Page through and through.
She's still very much a woman.
Fully a woman.
But she's a woman who's been destroyed and will never be the same again.
Which is also why you notice the other thing that's very revealing about the Ellen Page, now Elliot Page, story is that, and this is an interesting fact, isn't it?
Elliot Page has never been cast as the male lead in a film.
That's an odd fact, isn't it?
She's a male.
She's a man.
As far as I know, maybe the show she's on right now, what's it called?
Umbrella Academy or something like that?
Some superhero thing?
I think her character is trans.
She's playing a trans woman.
But if Elliot Page is a man all the way through, then why couldn't she play the male lead?
In like an action film.
Or any kind of film.
Or drama.
It's never gonna happen.
It's never going to happen because nobody could watch that and take that seriously.
I don't care how woke you are, I don't care you got pronouns in your bio, you're trans acceptance, you fly the trans flag, I don't care, I don't care.
You know and I know that you could never watch a movie with quote-unquote Elliot Page starring as the male lead.
You could not do it.
Suspension of disbelief.
You have to have a certain amount of that watching any movie.
But it only goes so far, right?
The suspension only holds up for so much.
And you get to a certain point where it's like, I can't... No, it's just... Maybe if it's like a slapstick, absurdist comedy, maybe you can get away with it, but even then, probably not.
Because every single person in the world, like I'm making a point about Ellen Page that will be treated as, just like anyone else who said similar things, it's treated as controversial, provocative, and that sort of thing.
But it's actually, everything I've said about Ellen Page, every single person listening to this right now or who will ever see this clip agrees with it.
Every single person.
And we all know that.
The only difference is that some of us are willing to say out loud what we know is true, which is that this woman is not a man.
She doesn't pass for one.
She could never be one.
It's absurd.
It is grotesque and absurd, this pageant that she is putting on, pretending to be a man.
And it's pathetic.
I say that not as an insult, but it is pathetic.
I feel sorry.
It's pitiful.
I have pity.
Every single person knows that.
We all feel the same way about it.
About half of us are willing to say it out loud.
The other half has decided to play along with the charade.
That's the difference.
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When we last heard from Colin Kaepernick.
He was publicly throwing his adoptive parents under the bus for being white and therefore racist.
He was also appearing in videos that directly compared playing in the NFL to slavery, only to turn around and beg NFL teams to hire him just a few months later.
This is one of those side-by-side clips that it's worth re-watching for a couple of reasons.
One of them is that it's hilarious and never gets old.
The other is that Like everybody else in the country, you've probably forgotten all about this clip because you've wiped everything related to Colin Kaepernick from memory.
So just to refresh our memories, here's a little side-by-side comparison clip.
Let's watch it.
They don't want you to understand is what's being established is a power dynamic.
Before they put you on the field, teams poke.
Pride and examining.
Searching for any defect that might affect your performance.
No boundary respected.
No dignity left intact.
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Come on, boy.
Hurry up.
Look at that shake there.
Look at this.
Mr. Farmer, I got your bid.
$30.
James, $30 to you.
$100.
Next one coming up.
Best one we got.
$500.
$600.
Look at this here.
Come on, who wants this?
$700.
There we go now. $1,000.
We want to make sure that we come out, we show everyone I can still play, still throw it and really just looking for opportunity for a door to open.
To have that be a pathway to be able to get back in there, get a starting job and lead a team to a championship.
And that's your message right there, but if there's an NFL scout, any member of an NFL organization watching you today, what is your message directly to them after the years that you have been off the field?
What is your message to NFL teams?
That I can help make you a better team.
I can help you win games.
Look, we're really just out here trying to become slaves.
Really just looking to be a slave.
And listen, my message to teams out there is I want to be your slave.
You can enslave me.
I'd be a great slave for you.
I'm really well equipped to be a slave.
Just get me up on that auction block and I'm there.
And let's go win a championship.
Okay, let's go win.
I'll beat the other slaves.
The other slaves got nothing on me.
I'll defeat all the other slaves in the slave competition, and I'll frankly be the greatest slave.
I'll be the best slave.
I could still be.
I still could be one of the best slaves that's in all of slavedom.
That's what he said.
Now, when I posted this video on Twitter a couple of years ago, even Kaepernick's defenders were stunned by the utter shamelessness of it.
There's really no way to come back from a clip like that.
Once you compare a career in the NFL to being a slave, you can't turn around and say that you really want to play in the league again and be a slave.
People will tolerate a lot of hypocrisy these days, but, like, that's a bit much for most people.
And it was around this point that BLM types started to realize what everybody knew for a long time, which is that everything about Colin Kaepernick is fake.
He's the single greatest con artist to ever play in the NFL.
He's the greatest con artist in the history of professional sports.
So, he disappeared, and the rest of us began focusing on things that are more important than Colin Kaepernick, which is a list that is quite literally endless.
But Kap was unfazed.
He did not retreat into obscurity to preserve whatever dignity he might have left.
Instead, apparently, he set his sights on rejoining the NFL.
That's what Kap says he's been doing for the last two years, trying to get back into the league that dumped him nearly eight years ago when he was a middling backup quarterback.
So here's an interview with him from just this week.
And again, this guy's like 38 years old now.
Here's what he said.
Will we see you play NFL again?
We're still training, still pushing.
So hopefully, we just got to get one of these team owners to open up.
What would it mean to you to play NFL again?
I mean, it's something I've trained my whole life for, so to be able to step back on the field, I think that would be a major moment, major accomplishment for me.
Also, I think it's something that I could bring a lot to a team and help them win a championship.
It'd be a major moment to step back into being a slave again, get back out on the plantation.
It'd be a major moment, major moment for me, major moment for the plantation, and I'm ready to do it.
I'm ready to be a slave.
He says, I think I could bring a lot to a team and help them win a championship.
And this is a quarterback who hasn't thrown a pass in an NFL game since New Year's Day of 2017.
He's training every day to play professional football, which at this point is just as delusional as me training every day to play professional football.
We've reached a stage of this story where Kaepernick is playing very much the role of, like, an obsessive ex-girlfriend still pining after a man who got married, had kids, hasn't thought about her in a decade.
If he wasn't such an obnoxious narcissist, you might even feel some pity for him, in the same way that you might feel pity for a tone-deaf singer embarrassing himself during an American Idol audition.
But Kaepernick is an obnoxious narcissist, in fact, and he doesn't actually believe anything that he says.
He doesn't believe when he says the NFL is like slavery, just like he doesn't actually believe the police are racist.
Kaepernick is a fraud who only knows how to do one thing.
Which is to say the right things at the right time to maximize his relevance and therefore his income.
At least historically, he's been good at that at least.
He's a bad storyteller at a time when bad storytellers for some reason are in demand.
And as if to point, to put as fine a point on that as possible, Colin Kaepernick just launched an AI company that promises to help creators tell fictional stories.
And we're not making that up.
Colin Kaepernick, like Google and GPT before him, is getting into the generative AI game.
He actually pushes his new company in the same interview where he says he wants to get back into the NFL.
Watch.
What are you doing at the moment?
Tell us a bit about your new company as well.
Yeah, so just started a new company, it's called LumiStory AI.
You know, we are focused on using Gen AI to help creators create better.
So, create their stories independently, help them publish them, help them merchandise them, do that all on one platform.
Our vision is the future looks like every individual creator being like Disney.
That last line sounds like more of a threat than a promise.
Our vision is every individual creator being like Disney.
Imagine that.
We can have total uniformity in all cultural output.
Even the work of independent small-time creators will be indistinguishable from the slop that mega-corporations produce.
Hallelujah.
All these creators need to do is download Colin Kaepernick's AI app, and at the click of a button, they too can auto-generate content featuring strong trans lesbian lead characters and racist white people.
Who could resist a future like that?
Now apparently a lot of venture capital firms can resist it, because Capritic's company has reportedly only raised $4 million so far, and that money is coming from notoriously talented investors such as Chameleon Air.
And that's not exactly encouraging, since Capritic's competitors are companies like Google, which have access to billions of dollars.
And Google has already made an AI that doesn't recognize the existence of white people.
They call it Gemini.
It was a whole episode.
You might remember it.
So how can Kaepernick, of all people, possibly innovate in this space with just $4 million?
Well, based on an interview that Kaepernick recently did with Bloomberg, there's actually no plan for innovation here.
His company, Lumi, isn't going to do anything that other AI programs aren't already doing.
His boldest claim appears to be that Lumi will enable people with no talent whatsoever to create content Involving writing and illustrations, meaning comic books from what I can tell.
So people who are illiterates with no drawing talent whatsoever can pay Colin Kaepernick and then they'll be competing with Disney just like that.
This is the latest scam that Kaepernick is pushing.
Watch.
The interesting part is sometimes creators have gaps in their skills.
So sometimes illustrators, they need help with writing.
Or writers, they need help with generating images.
And if you're a creator like me who doesn't have either of those skill sets, we'll help you with both of those to get to a final product from an original idea.
Sometimes creators have gaps in their skill sets.
For instance, sometimes creators can't create.
Sometimes the gap in their skill set is that they can't do anything at all.
And Kaepernick admits that he's one of those creators.
He's a creator who can't write or draw or do anything.
So how is he creating anything at all?
He cannot do anything.
Well, he just let the computer do it.
And at that point, like, how are you even the creator if you just start pressing a button?
Like, computer, do that.
Oh, here it is.
You're not really a creator.
The computer is the creator, not you.
Anyway, so just like Colin Kaepernick, you too can profit from being a complete talentless hack.
You can make millions of dollars without having any skills whatsoever.
That's the official sales pitch for Loomie, direct from the guy who founded the company and who now says that at 37 years old, I think, he can take an NFL team to the Super Bowl.
Speaking of Kaepernick's NFL plans, I listened to the whole interview, and strangely enough, there's no discussion of what happens to Loomie as a company if Colin Kaepernick somehow manages to rejoin the NFL.
Wouldn't that be a big problem if the company's founder gets picked up and makes a run for the Super Bowl?
Seems like a material issue for potential investors to consider, but nobody cares because everyone, including Kaepernick, knows that that's not going to happen.
He will never play in the NFL again, and he knows that.
But he can't stop himself from lying about it.
And that's unfortunate by itself, but the bigger problem for Kaepernick is that his faux-victimization grift seems to be drying up.
That's why he's reduced to shilling for AI companies like every other talentless con artist in the Bay Area.
And, you know, that might be a positive sign for the rest of us.
Kaepernick chose to be a racial martyr instead of having the long and profitable career of a second-string NFL bench writer that he could have had.
For a while it was looking like he made a smart business decision.
Book deals, Netflix shows, etc.
came pouring in.
But that doesn't last forever.
And now Kaepernick is a middle-aged man with nowhere to go.
He's telling a story about returning to the NFL that's so unbelievable, so trite, so derivative that his AI program might as well have come up with it.
And that is why, thankfully, he will never again be relevant.
And that is also why Colin Kaepernick is, today, not for the first time, but hopefully for the last, cancelled.
That'll do it for the show today.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
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It never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.
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And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
This is more for you and less for you.
Is America inherently racist?
The word inherent is challenging there.
You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?
America is racist to its bones.
So inherently.
Yeah.
This country is a piece of shit.
White.
Folks.
White.
Trash.
White supremacy.
White woman.
White boy.
Is there a black person around here?
What's a black person right here?
Does he not exist?
Hi, Robin.
Hi.
What's your name?
I'm Matt.
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
