Gutfeld! Monologues - Permanent DST Sounds Great Until You Have a Kid

Episode Date: October 6, 2026

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Oh, missed myself. Good evening, everyone. So on Saturday, Donald Trump told Ohio voters regarding the upcoming election that we're going to win big and we're going to shove it up their ass. And the Democrats are torn. They don't want...

They're torn. They don't want Republicans to win, but they love things shoved up their butts. Two jokes for the price of one. At a Trump rally in Ohio, Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramoswamy lost his grip and almost dropped a little boy. Doctors were relieved that Vivek caught the child

knowing that if he had dropped him on his head, he might wind up voting Democrat. Yeah, there you saw that one coming. President Trump posted Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton's cell phone number over Cotton's opposition to a bill that would make daylight savings time permanent. According to Cotton, he's been getting lots of prank calls, but only one dick pick. A former aide says Michigan Senate candidate Abdul-Said repeatedly farts in front of staffers.

Great, just what we needed. Another Muslim who's silent but deadly. Yeah. An Ohio cancer patient is suing a hospital after a surgeon allegedly amputated the wrong leg. Worse, now it appears they still have to amputate an arm so she can pay for it. That's funny. It's funny!

Last week, Joy Behar fell backstage behind the set of the view. But thankfully, she's okay. After all, this show needs her to be healthy. But how did they know when she fell? Well, staffers looked outside and saw no more leaves on the trees. And finally, yesterday was the St. Francis Feast Day, where thousands of people brought in their pets to be blessed by priests.

They blessed 300 dogs, 50 cats, and for some reason, this man's ass. I don't get it. I just say him, people. We'll be back with more Gutfeld. In Toronto, every arrival is a statement, and nothing says it better than this. Cadillac Optic was the number one selling luxury EV in Canada for 2025.

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daylight savings permanent around the country, which is weird. More sunlight's an odd crusade from Trump, since no one sees him and thinks, you know, this guy needs to work on his tan. But even though the bill passed the House in July, the Senate hasn't taken it up, claiming they have to focus on more important things, like reanimating Mitch McConnell. Trump's case for permanent daylight savings is simple. More daylight after work means more time for recreation. sports, dining, but also being able to see people's faces when you fire them. Now, what's the case against it? Well, you have to steal that hour from the morning, which means darker commutes, darker school runs, plus you have kids waiting for the bus before sunrise,

or worse, showing up late for their shift at my wallet factory. And Cotton noted that when Congress tried to make it permanent in the 70s, they reversed it because they didn't like their kids going to school in the dark, which could have been solved with two words. minor hats. But here's where demographics matter. Birth rates are at historic lows, so fewer adults would personally pay the cost for this change.

If you've never had to get a kid out the door on a January morning and stand with him at a dark bus stop, you have no reason to consider that trade-off. You're more likely to think, great, I get more daylight after work to get hammered. And the safety concerns hit the people who aren't you. parents. Fact is, an electorate with fewer parents can discount risks that only parents experience. If you don't personally experience a cost, why worry about it? It's why I use my assistant's car when I park in handicapped spaces. So it's really a bigger issue than sunlight. It's about empathy

and not the made-up kind that liberals profess as a reason to force their adult preferences on children, like they did with identity politics, gender fluidity, and revisionist history. Look at girls' sports. Adults championed a perverse inclusion, but it's the girls, not the fat, grim activist, who had to live with the outcomes, meaning locker rooms filled with more wangs than a Chinese family reunion. It happens. Thank you. A wang joke.

It happens in school curriculums, too. Gender identity lessons, drag queen's story hour, pronouns, elementary schools, fictional accounts that warp American history. That's all designed by adults and advocacy groups. And what the kids learn, what the kids learn is trumped by the self-image of the adult pushing it. Then there's COVID. Another self-seeking exercise on the part of adults. And what you saw were teachers unions sacrificing a child's development at the altar of their own personal preferences. And the cost of the learning loss among kids is unfathomable. Those kids will now enter high school stuck at a grade school level,

condemned to reading authors who are barely literate themselves. Again, adults push an agenda, and the kids they experiment on live with the results. So what's that have to do with daylight savings? Nothing. Except that before I had a kid, more daylight seemed great to me. Now I got a little one, and I'm not a fan, which led me to an obvious epiphany,

A society with fewer parents means fewer people whose daily lives force them to think about the world as it was designed. It was designed really for kids. So they grow, they live and become adults who then have kids of their own. It's something we've lost sight of. Earth is now a playground for adults, and kids are sitting on the bench waiting for all of us to grow the fuck up. Listen ad free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple

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