The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1170 - From Bud Light To Target, We Are Making 'Pride' Toxic For Brands

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Target has suffered massive losses as conservatives boycott over their literally satanic Pride campaign. We are succeeding in making "pride" toxic for brands. But how did it get to this point? And where do we go from here? We'll answer those questions today. Also, Ron DeSantis crashes the servers at Twitter during his campaign launch event. A new report shows how google searches related to sexual orientation and gender identity have risen 1300 percent since 2004. And a Republican state senator in Louisiana single handedly kills a bill that would have banned the castration and mutilation of children. Turns out that he gets a lot of donations from Big Pharma. Must be a coincidence. Ep.1170 - - - Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEm  - - -  DailyWire+:  Become a DailyWire+ member to watch the full series “Exodus” by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson: https://bit.ly/3JR6n6d  Represent the Sweet Baby Gang by shopping my merch here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj   - - -  Today’s Sponsors: Public Square - Join Public Square today by visiting http://www.publicsq.com or download their free app! Good Ranchers - Get 20% off your order! Use code WALSH at https://bit.ly/3UywSAT  PragerU - Join Club5: https://donate.prageru.com/give/431495/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=podcast&c_src2=DW  - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF  Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA  Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA  Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today of the Matwell show, Target has suffered massive losses as conservatives boycott over their literally satanic pride campaign. We're succeeding making pride toxic for brands. But how did it get to this point? And where do we go from here? We'll answer those questions today. Also, Ron DeSantis crashes the servers at Twitter during his campaign launch event. A new report shows how Google searches related to sexual orientation and gender identity have risen 1,300 percent since 2004. And a Republican state senator in Louisiana single-handedly kills a bill that would have banned the castration and mutilation of children.

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That's publicsq.com. One of the hardest things to do is take a step back and put news stories into a larger context. It's hard mainly because corporate media outlets do everything they can to make it hard. They don't want you thinking about what this country was like just a few years ago. Because if you did that, you might think to yourself, wow, you know, life was a lot better back then. And if you started thinking like that, you might do something radical like, you know, age war on the companies they depend on for ad revenue. You might join a boycott and bud light their revenue stream. So they want you as disoriented as possible to prevent that

from happening. And with that in mind, it's been interesting to read some of the media coverage on Target's new effort to sexualized children. In case you're not up to speed on the story, Target recently decided to stock its stores with a variety of disturbing and perverted items, including gay pride apparel for children, swimsuits designed for tucking, and merchandise with literal satanic imagery designed by an actual avowed Satanist. And tucking for the record is a practice that can cause urinary tract infections, inflammation, etc., in addition to being demented. But targets all for it.

And here's the background that Fox News provided in their article on this story, quote, many target locations across the country feature massive June Pride Month displays on an annual basis. Now set aside Fox's sterile descriptions of large crotch swimsuits for, young boys who are suffering under the mental delusion that they're really girls, notice what Fox said about Pride Month there. They said on an annual basis. You know, Target sets up these Pride Month displays. Like so much else in the news media, that's a technically true statement that misleads the reader by failing to provide any context whatsoever. The report doesn't mention when exactly this supposedly annual tradition at Target started. How new is this exactly? When did they

change their strategy and why do they do it? Those are questions you never see asked. All big media outlets are spitting the story just like this, by the way, it's not just Fox. Here's ABC, for example. Target is pulling some LGBTQ merchandise following some confrontations between customers and workers. Eyewitness news reporter Mark Codoroble is live in Pasadena with the latest on this. Mark. Yeah, Rachel Leslie, good morning. And Target signed that this all comes down to employee safety after some employees say that they have been threatened and targeted by this pride merchandise in the stores. And so Target now moving forward by removing some of the prod items that have caused the most

confrontational behavior. A Target has been offering these prod products for more than a decade. But when this year's collection rolled out, Target saying its employees experienced threats impacting their sense of safety and well-being while at work. Now, everything you heard in that clip is nonsense, especially the stuff about Target employees having their safety jeopardized. And even if that were true, by the way, the fault would lie with Target itself for deciding to carry merchandise

so repulsive and outrageous that its employees are put in danger just by selling it. But again, it's not true. It also isn't really true that as the reporter claims, Target has been offering these pride products for more than a decade.

Because Target hasn't been working with satanic clothing designers for a decade. The partnership began this year, actually. And Target hasn't been stocking their stores with tuck-friendly swimsuits for a decade, because a decade ago, you know, tucking was something that the serial killer in the silence of the lambs did. It wasn't a subject that came up while you were shopping for swimsuits. In fact, a decade ago, Target didn't there to stock any pride merchandise in their stores. And we know that because they tweeted

this in 2013, quote, our pride merchandise is only available online. That's the first tweet that Target's account ever made about pride, by the way. Prior to 2013, they never even mentioned the word. So you're not crazy, you're just being lied to. And they're not just lying about Target. At some point in the last 10 years, every major corporation decided to shove pride propaganda in your face and in your kids' faces, even when it makes absolutely no sense. 10 years ago, for example, this is what advertisements for the outdoor recreation company North Face looked like. And you can see there a picture of a rugged-looking guy doing outdoorsy stuff in France. He's living on the edge, according to the ad. It's logical, clearly designed to make you want to buy North Face's

products for outdoorsmen. For comparison, here's what the North Face's advertisements look like this year. Hi, it's me, Patagonia, a real-life homosexual. And today, I'm here with the North Face. We are here to invite you to come out in nature with us. Wow, this is nice. We like to call this little tour the summer of pride. This tour has to be a little tour. This tour has to be a little tour. everything hiking community art lesbians lesbians making art last year we gays-a-shaired across the nation and celebrated pride across the nation with hundreds of you across the nation this year we're back back back again with two new stops Atlanta GA why because you're there in Salt Lake City we're coming for you

ha ha hai we go of course this year all these fabulous speakers will be coming from inside this TV to a nature near you. So come outside and celebrate the beautiful LGHG TV community. That's pretty yay. Now, you can bet the North Face isn't running that ad in China where they now make a lot of money. But in the U.S., that's an actual North Face personality.

Go on their website. You'll find this invitation next to a picture of Patty the Drag Queen, quote, join us for a day of hiking, drag, community, and more. It's pretty clear that the North Face now considers sexual perversion to be central to its identity as a brand for outdoorsman. How long has this been going on? As far as I can tell, they went completely unhinged about a year ago when they released this ad featuring the same drag personality. Nature lets you be who you are. Ladies and gentlemen, you are cordially invited to the summer of pride with my friends at the

North Face. We're traveling all the gay across America and everyone's invited. That means you, And you? Hello. And you? Wow. Not you though, you're too cute. Okay, just getting you can come. Put on your boots and come out.

Side with us. See you there, besties. Don't you think this is all a little intense? I mean, look at you, you're in a literal tent right now. But no, this event will not be intense. Everyone is invited. Everyone is welcome. It's going to be so fun.

Now, as you probably guessed by now, a company that thinks it's a good idea, to employ someone like that is also very interested in sexualizing children. It's almost like, you know, the natural endpoint of these deviant and satanic ideologies is to target kids. It's not almost like that. That's just the fact. Here's the North Face's out in nature clothing line designed for kids age two to seven years old. As far as I can tell, this out in nature line didn't exist on North Face's website until last year. So this is new as well. A few years ago, major clothing lines would not dare sell gay pride apparel for toddlers. Now it's becoming more

of the rule than the exception. What explains the change? In the case of the North Face, it could be financial desperation. The stock price for VF Corporation, which owns North Face, is down around 80% in the last five years. They desperately need more interest from investors. And one way to do that is to earn a high ESG score or environmental social and governance score. These scores became immensely popular on Wall Street about three years ago, and according to Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, companies that advance diversity and equity and inclusion goals, they go a long way towards improving their ESG scores and, quote, improving their reputation and gaining greater interest from investors.

That includes investors like George Soros, who has donated more than $100 million to the so-called human rights campaign or HRC. HRC, as we've talked about recently, is a chronically dishonest organization, routinely lies about there being some kind of epidemic of anti-trans hate crimes. They lie about everything else, too. And yet somehow, every corporation, except for maybe firearms manufacturers, from the North Face to Fox News, bends over backwards every year to appease the HRC. Why?

Well, because HRC maintains the corporate equality index. And if you want a good ESG score, then you want a high score from HRC. What we're seeing is yet more social engineering funded to a lot of, large degree by a man who has a well-established reputation for destroying countries for profit. None of this is organic. That's why corporate media is lying about pride. They want you to think that it's some kind of organic, month-long holiday, but it's not. For decades, Pride Month used to be a single day.

They called it Christopher Street Liberation Day. And it commemorated the riot by gay white men at Stonewall Inn in New York City. It wasn't until 30 years later in 1999 that the sexual deviant, who occupied the White House at the time, declared that for some reason we need a Pride Month. For a while, it was strictly about homosexuals, but now that's changed. According to the New York Times, Pride Month actually commemorates the actions of brave, quote, trans women of color led the uprising at Stonewall in 51 years ago on Sunday, but they were never put at the center of the movement. They helped to start.

That claim is source to Sylvia Rivera, who witnesses said was high on heroin and asleep on a bench when the riot began. Not exactly a credible claim. Mark Hemingway debunked it years ago for the Daily Signal, but it's one you're now expected to accept as gospel. Like everything else about pride, you're told what you're being told is true, is simply not true. But stop asking questions. But finally, after many years of sitting back and watching this progressive degradation of culture and this flagrant rewriting of history, the right is fighting back. Target is. It's a lot of is backing down, not entirely, but noticeably. They're moving their perverted clothing line out of some stores.

In many other stores, they're moving their entire pride collection to the back out of sight, whereas it used to be right in the front as soon as you walk in the doors, because they're worried about becoming the next Bud Light. And they should be. Bud Light has reached truly a point of full-on crisis, their sales cratering week after week. NBC News has an article this week, quoting industry insiders who are flummoxed by the backlash. quote, nobody imagined it would go on this long, they say. Budlite's brand is in shambles with no signs of recovery.

And it's true, nobody in the corporate world saw this coming. They have been totally blindsided. You can see why. Corporations kept ramping up their pride festivities for years with little pushback from the right. It was an easy gig. Wave the rainbow flag, repeat the slogans, trans women, R women, etc. appease the left, pump up those ESG scores, and let your conservative customers roll their eyes, but keep buying your stuff anyway.

That's the way it went for a long time. That's the way they expected it to always go. But things are changing now, and these people aren't ready for it. I said on Twitter yesterday that the ultimate goal for us, those on team sanity, those on team decency, has to be to make pride toxic for brands, radioactive. If these companies want to shove this garbage in our face, they must pay and pay dearly. Whatever they think they'll gain from the stunt, we must ensure that it's not worth the cost. We need to give them something to think about, something to weigh.

You know, the left has, as I mentioned yesterday, this concept of problematizing, which means making something into a problem when it really isn't. Well, now the right needs to get into that. needs to get into the problematizing game. We need to problematize pride, except that we are making something into a problem that already should be a problem. The pride movement is fundamentally political,

polarizing, radical. All we have to do is treat it that way. Treat it as it should be treated. My comments about this on Twitter resonated enough that I was trending for most of the day on the platform, though that was thanks partly to those on the left who were furious at me for saying, for daring to say that we should make pride toxic. And this prompted a rather hilarious, if somewhat grotesque spectacle of leftists

passionately defending the poor put upon persecuted brands. One journalist accused me of harassment. That is, he accused me of harassing multi-billion dollar mega corporations. Others said that I was bullying. I'm bullying the brands. Leave the brands alone, they cry. won't someone think of the brands? But I did appreciate this response from one leftist commentator who tweeted this.

Quote, Matt Walsh has been at the front of a very deliberate effort to train their base to go eight on brands. They're 100% transparent that this is what they're doing, and they're promising to do more of it in June. And this is about changing the Overton window. If they can create an environment where brands are afraid to do anything slightly inclusive or progressive, if they can get them to take their pride flags down, they've dramatically changed the culture without casting a vote or firing a shot. Well, all I can say to that is you're damn right. That is exactly what I aim to do. That is exactly what we're doing. Shift the Overton window. Every pride flag that a company takes down or hides in the back of their store in shame

is a victory. And as you say, we aren't firing a shot. We aren't engaging in any kind of violence. and we also aren't waiting around for useless politicians to do the work for us because we know they won't. We are using the power that we have to demand and affect change. We are using many of the same tactics that the left has used with great success for decades. In fact, what we did with Bud Light and now with Target comes straight from Saul Olinsky's rules for radicals. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. The left has been doing this again forever. The only difference is that they wield this tactic for evil.

We are getting in on the game but for good. And they get to see what it's like on the receiving end, and they don't like it. And I'm glad they don't like it. I really am. Some conservatives are still skeptical, you know, that we can make a difference. Well, we can't boycott every woke company, they say. They're right. But the good news is that we don't need to.

we need only pick a few strategic targets. Focus on them until they are begging us to leave them alone, pleading with us to stop bullying them. And when they start begging and pleading, we laugh in their faces and keep going. Okay, we make them suffer. We make them pay. We make an example out of them. We show no mercy. That will be enough to make wokeness a lot less appealing to the corporate world. They're not going to abandon it immediately. Okay, that's not going to happen. Of course not. But they'll start thinking twice. You think other beer companies now? Are really thinking twice before endorsing transgenderism? I'd say so. We can't bring down the whole line of dominoes at once, but we can start with one and then the next and then the next.

Bud Light may never recover. Target has lost $9 billion in market value just in the past week. we have a lot more power than we ever thought we did. We just have to know how to use it. Now let's get to our five headlines. How many discounts does USAA auto insurance offer? Too many to say here. Multi-vehicle discount. Safe driver discount. New vehicle discount. Storage discount.

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DeSantis filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission earlier in the afternoon, released his initial official launch video at 6 p.m. Eastern Time on the platform, which glitched initially as hundreds of thousands of users attempted to tune in. DeSantis said in a video, our border is a disaster,

crime infests our cities, the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet when the president flounders, but decline is a choice. Success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for. DeSantis also joined a special event on Twitter with the platform's owner, Elon Musk, which Musk said received so much interest that it crashed the event due to the servers being overloaded. The servers are straining somewhat, Musk said at one point, as 700,000 people logged into the event. And so that was kind of the story. DeSantis announced they did their Twitter event. Twitter spaces, it was the biggest Twitter spaces event ever, crashed the servers, causing some

headaches and hiccups early on. Now, of course, DeSantis' opponents, his critics, both those on the left and in Trump's camp, tried to spin this as like a huge disaster, the fact that the servers were having trouble is a huge disaster. And I saw someone tweet that the DeSantis campaign is over. It's over because of this. It's done. It's finished. It's done. It's finished. Is that true? Well, obviously not. I mean, it's absurd. And this is one of the reasons why I dread these political seasons, campaign seasons, because we have to deal with this sort of thing all the time. People taking every little thing that a politician does and trying to blow it as out of proportion as much as possible. Say, this is the end. This is going to be it. And meanwhile, as I'm constantly reminding people, okay, by the time, the people have a men. memory in American society these days, in Western society generally, the average memory is about 14 and a half seconds, I think we're down to. So anything that happened before 14 and a half seconds ago, it doesn't matter. If it happened months ago, it might as well have not happened,

okay? It might as well have happened in the Middle Ages. So by the time the primary start, the idea that anyone remembers, well, you know, I was going to vote for DeSantis, but that that campaign announcement was a little glitchy. I'm not sure about that. It's just not going to happen. Primary voters aren't going to be making their decisions based on whether a Twitter space event months earlier went well or anything else. But this is just, this is true in general. It's like most of what happens right now doesn't matter for any of these guys. What matters is what happens directly before the voting actually starts, because that's the only thing anyone's going to be thinking about.

And I think the one thing that we take from this, like the actual event itself doesn't matter. What he said doesn't matter. Politically doesn't matter. Because again, nobody's going to remember. Nobody cares. Nobody remembers any campaign launch announcement, you know.

There might be Donald Trump coming down the escalator. Like, that's an image that people remember. But as far as what's actually said and all that, it's, it's rare. that anyone really remembers that or cares. At least I'll say that. The one takeaway from this is that there was a lot of interest.

There was a lot of interest to crash the servers. And that's what matters. What we know is that if any other non-Trump Republican, if any other non-Trump Republican nominee did the same kind of event and did a Twitter Spaces event, and probably they'll all do one at some point, they aren't going to crash the servers. Right.

Nikki Haley or Tim Scott or Mike Pence, you're not going to have 700,000 people trying to try to get in on the action here what Mike Pence has to say. Only DeSantis can do that and only Trump can do that. Those are the two Republicans in the race and probably the two Republicans period on the political scene who could potentially crash the servers because so many people want to hear what they say. And that's why they're the only two who really matter in this race. And for Trump, this is the first time that he's facing a primary

challenger who actually draws that kind of attention and interest. He's never had that before. There was nobody else in 2016 that anyone cared about or was paying attention to. Trump sucked up all the oxygen in the room. He still sucks up a lot of the oxygen, but not all of it. And part of the reason is that the left hates DeSantis, arguably even more than they hate Trump. They despise him because of the policies he's put in place and for it. They hate him for all the reasons that many of us like him. And this, again, is something that Trump hasn't really dealt with before. So it'll be interesting. What does that mean? You know, there are people saying that this primary between Trump and DeSantis will be good. It'll be good for both guys

and for the right generally because iron sharpens iron and all that. And I would agree. Okay, I would agree that this is good if it means that Trump and DeSantis are going to try to out-maneuver each other to the right. If this is a primary that ends with both men going farther to the right, becoming even more conservative, then great. If they're trying to out conservative each other and taking positions that are ever more to the right, then I say that works out well for us. That's great. Whoever wins in the end, it's good for us. But my fear is that it won't go that way. You're going to have some in the Trump camp who go to the left. We've already seen some of that happening with the Trump camp siding with Disney, for instance, coming out against the Bud Light boycott and so on.

And if that happens, then we have a fracturing of the movement with part of it going to the left, and that would be a very bad thing. No matter who wins. It's just bad. And my main concern is the conservative movement. It's the work we're trying to do in the culture. It's why I led the show today with the target boycott and not wrong. DeSantis and his presidential announcement. Because I think that other stuff matters more.

And that's what I care about. Yeah, I support DeSantis, but if Trump wins, then I'll vote for him and the general. The main thing I care about is the fight in the culture, at least staying united on the issues. So that's what it comes down to for me, right? If we can stay united on the issues, but then yell at each other about which politician is better, great, that's fun. You know, that's fun. We could have fun with that. That's perfectly fine.

Who cares about that? My fear is that we lose the unity on the issues. And you start having people saying, well, I don't know, I don't agree with this anymore because, you know, in an attempt to pull some kind of political maneuver and stay loyal to one politician or another. They start abandoning their position on the issues. And if that happens, then it becomes catastrophic for everybody involved. Just for example, here's Laura Lumer, a big-time Trump supporter, interviewing some Trump supporters who are picketing outside of the DeSantis campaign kickoff event. So, so far, that's fine. You like the other guy.

You don't like this guy. So you're out there, you know, sticking up for your guy. perfectly fine. But listen to what is said in this interview. I'm here outside of the Four Seasons Resort in Miami on Brickle Avenue with Maurice from Blacksford Trump. So what are you doing here today outside of DeSantis' presidential announcement? I'm here to destroy DeSantis because he's a bastard from hell. I'm here to let him know that I helped you only because Trump asked us to actually go out and help.

We stopped Barbara Grant from cheating on you and Rubio and a few others. And this is how you repaid Trump. Shows me that you are a traitor, no good bastard from hell. So what I'm going to do is make sure that you don't win and that everybody knows that you are a rhino Republican racist. Because those are the racist. Republicans and deplorables are not racist. The ones that make everybody look racist is you damn rhinos like you, Ronos, like you,

Ronnie. So I'm against the racist rhinos for Ronnie. Okay, so I, first of all, the stuff about he betrayed Trump, he's disloyal of Trump. Nobody cares about that. That's, I mean, it's ridiculous, first of all, the idea that he, that he owes, what exactly is that the idea of Trump has owed the presidency, that that, that, that DeSantis owes him something at camera up for president. I mean, it's absurd. But it's also, So that's not, that can't be the message. Okay, Trump is very powerful when he's talking about the people and he's, and he's sticking up for the people, and he's, and he's making the people that have been forgotten by the

corporate media and by the system, and he's making them feel seen and heard and like we actually care about you. That is Trump's superpower, but when the message becomes, well, it's not about you guys, it's about Trump, and we have to do this for his sake and to defend him, that's not nearly he is powerful. You're not going to get people to going to the polls. It's like go to the polls to defend the people, not to defend this individual. But putting that aside, Ron DeSantis is a racist. You're throwing the racist. He's a racist. The real Republicans aren't racist. This is a leftist attack. It's also completely ridiculous and false. It's a full-on.

leftist attack and criticism is an attack from the left all the way from the far left. And this is the kind of thing I'm worried about. Not that this one clown standing outside the event represents any kind of larger group, but it's the kind of thing I'm worried. This is the kind of thing we don't want to see where we scramble over to the left. He's the racist. So yeah, you support whoever you want. But what we can't do is support people based on this.

lame leftist, these lame leftist tactics. He uses the word rhino there. I don't think he understands even what he's saying. But rhino, by rhino we mean kind of like fake, squishy, milk toast conservatives. That is fake, squishy milk toast conservatism right there. What you just heard from. Dems are the real racist. We're not racist, you are.

So that can't be the tactic. It's not going to work. You know, it's not going to. It's certainly not going to work in the general, and all it's going to do is rip the movement apart. All right, DailyWire has this report, which is interesting. With schools busy teaching everything LGBTQ plus nowadays, children are more confused than ever. A new study finds. Google searches about sexual orientation and gender identity have soared 1,300% since 2004, according to an analysis from the Cultural Currence Institute.

The questions on the search engine include questions. such as, am I gay, am I lesbian, and am I trans? Other searches include the term non-binary, the analysis found. The Institute wrote, quote, the evolution of social attitudes around sexual orientation and gender identity over the last two decades has been profound, surprising even some of the foremost political consultants and public affairs practitioners who observe opinion in the space. Researchers said, quote, the shift in public conversation and awareness has, for many, given rise to questions about their own sexual and gender identity.

Google Trends Data from 2004 to 2023 presents a unique opportunity to explore this evolution from a novel angle revealing a staggering 1,300% increase in specific searches that may indicate that a user is questioning their sexual identity. The analysis found that Utah, Iowa, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Hampshire

are the top states for the query, am I gay, Utah, Connecticut, Kentucky, Washington, and Colorado were the top states for MI lesbian. And then there were also, as it mentions, questions, many questions, am I trans, am I non-binary, all the rest of it? And this is how, this is exactly how you end up with this skyrocketing percentage of people, especially younger people, identifying as LGBT. Like, how did the LGBT camp go from a very small minority to among the youngest generations,

you know, 20% or more? and growing. How did that happen? Well, there's a lot that goes into it. There's the deliberate indoctrination in the schools from the media, from Hollywood, and all the rest of it. But then there's also this. There's the internet and social media. Because what happens is you have, you know, you have especially younger people who don't really understand.

They're, they have questions. They're hearing a lot of these turns. They don't really know what they mean. and especially term like non-binary, that's why non-binary identification. I'm assuming, and I don't see this here in the report, but if you go back to 2004, how many people were searching, am I non-binary?

I'm going to guess that the answer is like none. There's pretty much zero people questioning that in 2004, because the concept hadn't really been invented yet. And if it had been invented, if there were, it was still in the kind of academic realms where they would use phrases like non-binary in 2004. and it had not caught on in the mainstream the way that it has now. So especially words like that, terms like that,

they don't really mean anything to begin with. And so you have people, you have kids hear these terms, and they don't really know, and they're going through phases in their life, and they're asking questions, and they don't really understand their own feelings about things. They don't understand the world. It's all very normal and natural for young people. and they hear these terms

and then they go online and they say, well, am I that? I don't know what that is. And they're immediately presented with this framework. The internet presents a framework for understanding, for them to understand themselves.

They have certain feelings, they have certain discomforts. You have adolescent girls that feel uncomfortable in their own bodies, uncomfortable with themselves. Adolescent boys, too. going through puberty, very natural, very normal. 20 years ago, that did not result in all of these kids coming out as trans because that framework

didn't really exist in the mainstream. And it certainly wasn't accessible the way that it is now. Now it does. They take all that confusion, that fog of confusion that comes with adolescence and puberty in teenage years, and they bring it to the internet and they say, how do I make sense of this? And the internet is there to say, well, here you go. here's what all that means for you, and they glom onto it. Like they desperately, they desperately grab onto it.

Like it's debris floating in the ocean, and they just survive the shipwreck. Because they're confused. And they say, well, anything that gives me an answer, that feels like it makes sense of how I'm feeling, I'm going to grab onto that. That's my identity now. And if I like go of it, I'm going to sink. And none of that is true. it's not their identity and they don't need this and it doesn't actually make sense of anything. It only makes them more confused, but they feel like it makes sense of it.

And that's how we end up with 20% LGBT and all the rest of it. Speaking of the way things have changed over the years, you go back to 2004, it's almost 20 years ago. It's a long time. You don't have to go back that far, though, to see the way that things have changed. Yaff posted this video yesterday and it's a fascinating video, and it proves some points that I've made, in the past. Those are my favorite kinds of videos that prove points that I've made. This is our friend Dennis Prager on Bill Maher show in 2019. So this is 2019, not a lot long ago. Bill Marr is now celebrated by many on the right as a voice of reason, you know, a bastion of sanity, one of the good

ones on the left. But let's see what happened in 2019, only a few years ago when Dennis Prager was on the show and brought up some concerns about gender ideology. Let's watch. You say that men can menstruate is a lie, and that is now that is what is said. Wait, wait, wait, wait, where did that? You never heard it. Right, okay. Check it out.

Anyone who says a man cannot menstruate is considered transphobic. I missed this whole story. You did. I did. Tell me where you're getting this. Just Google it. Can men menstruate? Who is saying this?

You're talking about a very small percentage. Dennis, I remember you in the old show, you were a little more reasonable. What did I say that wasn't unre? You said that we think that men menstruate and no one does. Have you heard about it? I'm a doctor. I miss that one, I confess. And this is one of the premier reporters.

He knows everything. These people are very, he's a doctor. He's one of the great. I would make a friendly bet that the LGBTQ normative statement is men can menstruate. 2019. Who's saying that? Men can menstruate? No one's saying that.

You dumb clown? Who's saying that? Well, who's saying that, Bill? Every major medical organization in the world is saying that now, or at least in the West. Nearly everyone on the left is saying that. The president of the United States is saying that. Every elected Democrat is saying that. you know

your kids pediatrician would probably say that everybody on your side is saying that everybody that's who's saying it Bill in 2019

it was it was there were fewer a little bit fewer but it was to anyone paying attention in 2019 it was very obvious where this was headed

by 2019 those of us who were aware and cognizant and sane. By 2019, we had, you know, the fight over gender ideology had been going on for a while. We had long since jumped into those waters by 2019. So as recently as 2019, Bill Maher, who's supposed to be the reasonable one, one of the good ones, by as recently as 2019, he was laughing at the very idea that this is a concept we have to, oppose or argue against. And the whole crowd was too. You know what happens now, though? The people in the crowd, people in the audience are not innocent here because take that exact same audience, okay, that exact same audience, and you put them in that room again right now in the year 2023 and you put Dennis Prager in front of them and Dennis Prager says, men can't menstruate,

rather than them laughing because it's an absurd concept that doesn't need to be said, they would boo him. How dare you, bigot, those same people in a few years went from laughing at the very notion of it to they want to kill you if you say it because it's that offensive. Now, does this show on Bill Maher's part ideological inconsistency or an inconsistency? or an inconsistency on the issue. Well, you could argue not really. It's not like in 2019 he was saying that men convinced, right? He was just laughing at the idea that anyone needs to argue against that. He was dismissive of the issue.

He wasn't on the other side of the issue a few years ago. He was dismissive of it. So in that sense, sure, it's not an intellectual inconsistency. It's not exactly hypocrisy. what it shows is that this guy is oblivious. What it shows is that he doesn't notice anything until it is punching him directly in the face. He doesn't see anything. Like if the thing is this close to his face, he still doesn't see it.

It needs to smack him directly in the face. So gender ideology, you know, back in 2019, it was about this far away. So the ball being hurled at his face In 2019 it was like right here And he still couldn't see it Like no one's throwing anything bad at me What are you talking about? He needed it to smack him in the face

And then he could say, Whoa, what was that? That came out of nowhere. So what we see is he's obliviousness, vanity, arrogance They had people like Dennis Prager And any other quote unquote Social Conservative with a platform

we were all trying to warn you. We tried to tell you, idiots. We tried to tell you, and you laughed at us. And you still do about other issues. See, that's the problem. We warned you about gender ideology. We told you where it was headed. We told you years ago.

We were screaming it from the rooftops, and you wouldn't listen to us. But now you do, but you pretend like it was your idea. You don't even acknowledge. You don't apologize. guys, you don't acknowledge, you don't say, hey, look, I got blindsided by this. I should have been paying attention. I laughed at you guys when you warned me about it. I, you know, I was, and I shouldn't have, there's none of that, right? There's no, uh, mea culpa, there's no acknowledgement. I can forgive

people. I can forgive Dennis or, uh, Bill Maher, if he were to come out and say, you know, I should have noticed this. I was wrong. It was stupid. I'm sorry about that. I won't, I'm not trying to make that mistake again. He says that. I could say, All right, well, that's progress at least. This is not progress. But then the other part of it is that he still, these supposed good liberals are still reacting this way to us on other issues.

When we try to tell you about other things in the culture, and we say, look, here's where it is right now, but here's where it's going to be. if we accept this thing now, and if we accept these arguments in principle, here's where it leads. And it's not even this is where it leads. It's more when you accept this argument in principle, this is what else you have accepted. Not down the line. You've accepted it now.

We're telling you that. We're telling you that with plenty of other issues. Marriage, abortion, euthanasia, things like that. And the good liberals still laugh at us about that. Maybe five years from now, we'll get a, they'll, they'll have caught on and once again pretend like it was their idea. All right, we'll play one other quick thing. This is Joy Behar had some thoughts about Tim Scott's campaign announcement. And he's one of these guys who, you know, he's like Clarence Thomas, black Republican who believes in pulling himself by your bootstraps, rather than to me understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country.

other minorities. He doesn't get it. Neither does Clarence. Right. And that's why they're Republicans. Yeah. Yeah, that's been making the rounds. And for obvious reasons, you have this old white lady who's telling two black men that they can't relate to the experiences of black people. She will tell them what it's like to be a black person in America because they can't, they don't know. which is absurd. I mean, all you can do is laugh at that. It's not worth getting angry about. It's just, it's absurd.

It's ridiculous. It's silly. You know, I'm happy when people like Joy Behar make these kinds of statements because it makes them look so stupid. And for Joy Behar, everything she says makes her look stupid. But this is, it's good.

You want to go with that, go with that. If this is what you want to go with, that you, that you, You know, you can speak more as an old liberal white woman to the experiences of black Americans than Clarence Thomas can. Yeah, sure. Run with that. The more insidious thing is the bit about pulling yourself up by the bootstrap. She says, well, because they believe you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps.

So they're not real black people. So the very notion that a person can have any control over their own lives, that a person can, you know, to a large extent, control their own fate. She says that that if you think that way, if you try to take control of your own life, then you're no longer even really black. You don't count as black anymore. Because according to Joy Behar, to be black is to be helpless. It is to be infantilized.

and if you are not helpless and infantilized, then you're not even really a member of the race. That is how fundamental, being a helpless infant is fundamental to being a member of the black race according to Joy Bayhart. That's the really sinister stuff. All right, let's get to the comment section.

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maybe that's the only time I could recommend buying the baby dolls. If you're blind and you can't see it anyway and see how disturbing it is, then that's the only time that it can be potentially safe. Stephanie says, or no, sorry, Garrett says, step one, classify normal behavior as a mental disorder. Step two, make made readily available and acceptable for mental disorders. Step three, total societal collapse.

Yes, that is exactly the process. I'm glad that you see it. More people need to see it. And it's not just with euthanasia. Okay, using mental illness as a pretext for taking people's rights away and also taking their lives away. This is the same thing with red flag, red flag laws. So what people need to understand is that that is red flag laws, euthanasia for mental illness. That's step two in the process.

Step one, as you point out, is to classify every kind of human behavior and thought and proclivity and emotion as a mental disorder. That's step one. Step one is medicalize, diseaseify the entire human condition. make everything into a mental disorder, make sure that everybody potentially is classified as mentally disordered, we're already there. You know, if you, 20% of, I believe Americans now have been classified as have been diagnosed with at least one mental disorder. But if you have not been diagnosed, it's only because you haven't gone through the process of getting a diagnosis. But anyone, because of the DSM-5 and how expansive it is, and with every new, you know, with every

new addition, it expands all the more. It means that anyone could get a diagnosis. If you want one, you can get one. Maybe that's step two. Step one is make everything a mental disorder. Step two is make mental disorder somehow appealing and trendy so that people want to be able to categorize themselves as mentally ill. We'll check that off. And then step three is use that as a pretense for taking rights away, taking lives away. That's what we're experiencing. Jacob says, if you accept maid, then we should just allow any form of consensual murder.

If I didn't believe in the sanctity of human life, I would want my family to take me out behind a barn like old Yeller and save $700, 700 bucks on medical bills. I can't believe do no harm is being ignored. Well, you raise a good point that I've often thought myself, but it's hard to express out loud without sounding cruel or like you're encouraging suicide, which is the opposite of my actual point and your actual point. But yes, if you don't object to euthanasia, then that means that you don't object to suicide.

So then why do we need euthanasia? That's one of the things that doesn't make sense on the surface. Like, why do you need to wait on a waiting list and pay money and all of that when anyone can kill themselves easily and cheaply and painlessly? Right? A bullet to the head is effectively painless. turning the car on in the garage is painless and less messy. This is grim. I mean, it's gross to talk about. But there's an important point here, which is that first of all, if you support euthanasia, you shouldn't bulk it, what I'm saying. You support suicide. That's what it is. You're supporting

suicide. And so if the idea of encouraging someone to go into their garage and shut the garage and turn the car on, so they inhale the carbon monoxide and die, if that idea is, is, is, you know, is repulsive and repugnant to you that you would encourage anyone to do that, and it should be, then you should not be a supporter of euthanasia. It's the same damn thing. It is suicide, just by lethal injection instead of carbon monoxide poisoning. What's the difference? And if you're a suicidal person, why do you need to wait on the waiting list? Why do we hear from some of these maid applicants that they need access? Right? The media runs these stories, about medical assistance and dying applicants, and they've been turned down, and it's so terrible.

And they've been denied access. What do you mean denied access? We all have access to suicide any time. Well, here's the reason, because euthanasia is a way of hiding from the reality of suicide. It allows society to lie to itself. It allows the individual to lie to himself. Euthanasia is euphemism. It is a product of a culture terrified of death.

death. This is always the paradox of modern culture is that we're terrified of death and we also worship it at the same time. We are a death fearing, death worshiping society. How can that be the case? Well, because we sanitize it. We make it accessible in that way. It's not honest. And this is one of the great evils of euthanasia. Here's the point. If you wouldn't kill yourself except for euthanasia. If you need euthanasia in order to access suicide, then that tells me that you don't actually want to kill yourself. And that's good.

That's good. It's good that you don't want to. Euthanasia is suicide for people who wouldn't otherwise commit suicide. It's a way of making suicide accessible to people who wouldn't otherwise do it, which is another way of saying it's a way of making suicide to people, suicide accessible to people who aren't even really suicidal. Why would we want to do that? It's like if somebody says, you know, I'm depressed and I want to kill myself.

And then you go, oh, oh, well, no, if someone said, I'm depressed, but I don't want to kill myself, would you respond, oh, well, you don't want to kill yourself? Well, here's a new way that you can do it that may be more appealing and accessible to you. How in the hell would that be the compassionate response? So that's what all of this is. It's about taking suicide and making it accessible and appealing and sanitized to the individual person so that more people are encouraged to do it. who wouldn't otherwise do it, who wouldn't otherwise kill themselves, they would continue living, which is good. So it makes it sanitized and appealing and accessible to the individual and to society.

Because society, all the euthanasia proponents, okay, very few of them would actually, you know, directly encourage or support someone who said, I'm going to shoot myself today. all these euthanasia pro and say well death with dignity take your you know you should go out on your own terms yet if a suicidal person went up to you and said i'm i'm going to go home and shoot myself even though you just said all that stuff about death with dignity and go on your own terms you would probably say to the person no don't do that here's a hotline call this per talk to somebody right you would respond like a like a decent person like any like any decent person would and yet if that same person says i have an appointment for maid today

Well, that's great. That's going out on your own terms. That's a celebration. Are you excited? Remember the video yesterday, a woman asking her grandmother if she's excited? Somebody said they're going to shoot themselves. Would you say, oh, really? Are you excited?

You excited? If you heard someone respond that way, you think you're a psychotic. You're a monster. And yet for euthanasia, it's okay. It's the exact same thing. Suicide is suicide. Murder is murder. Even when there's a doctor administering it.

that's the lesson we all need to absorb. All right. And I'm not joking. This is the last time I'm going to do this copy. So I'm just this. I'm just warning right now. I'm not, we're not doing this anymore.

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Bring home yours today. People sometimes ask me what the cancellation and the daily cancellation actually means. I mean, what happens to a person who's canceled during this segment? And what am I saying should happen to them? When I say, you're canceled. Do I mean it like the left means it? Do I mean that I want this person to be fired and shamed and disgraced and ostracized and alienated and marginalized by society? Do I want their livelihood taken away?

Do I want their lives ruined? In many cases, no, not exactly. Canceled is more of a symbolic designation, something to be taken seriously, but not not literally, and probably not seriously either, most of the time. But there are exceptions. There are people who should be canceled in the full literal sense of the term, canceled as the left cancels, canceled with great prejudice. And today is one of those exceptions. Here is Fred Mills. Now, if you're watching the video podcast, I want you to see what this cowardly little weasel looks like. Fred is a Republican State Center in Louisiana. He's the chairman

of the Health and Welfare Committee. And he's also the reason why children in Louisiana can still be butchered, mutilated, castrated, and sterilized today. Fred is apparently a big fan of this most insidious form of child abuse, such a big fan that he, despite being a Republican, decided to block a bill that would have banned these barbaric practices in the state. The Daily Wire reports, quote, a Republican State Center in Louisiana joined Democrats on a vote to kill a bill

that would ban transgender surgeries on children in the state. Republican State Senator Fred Mills joined Democrats in a five to four vote on the Health and Welfare Committee to block the advancement of a bill that would have banned using cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and surgery to alter a minor's appearance in an attempt to validate a minor's perception of his sex if the minor's perception is inconsistent with his sex. The bill had previously passed the House in a vote of 71-24 before it was moved along to the Republican-dominated State Senate. Included in the bill was a prohibition on transgender surgeries, including those that artificially constructs tissue, have the appearance of genitalia differing from the minor sex, including mettoidoplasti, matoidoplasti, I think is how we go, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasti. It was sponsored by Republican Representative Cave Firmant and called the Stop Harming Our Kids Act. Now, just to remind you, and not to get too graphic, but a falloplasty is when they rip the skin off of your arm and use it to construct a fake penis. A vaginoplasty is when the penis and scrotum are cut open, turned inside out, and then turned into an open wound that the patient can pretend is a vagina.

These procedures are not only barbarous and deranged, but also highly experimental, extremely dangerous, and they leave the patient prone to infection and all manner of other side effects, ensuring that the patient will be a patient for life. The new fake genitals do not function like the genitals they're trying to emulate. They never will. The patient is left with the gross, fleshy, mutilated remnants, of what their body is supposed to look like. The bill in Louisiana would have banned doctors from doing that to kids,

but Fred Mills said no. He believed strongly in a doctor's right to peel the skin off of a girl's arm to create a fake penis. He defends the medical community's God-given right to carve a boy's penis into pieces to turn it into a fake vagina. He doesn't want these procedures banned. And of course he doesn't want the chemical castration drugs for prepubescent kids banned. he doesn't want the sterilizing cross-sex hormones banned. He wants to keep all that.

This was the reason he gave at the hearing. Quote, I've always in my heart of hearts believe that a decision should be made by a patient and a physician. I believe in the physicians in Louisiana. I believe people that are licensed by the Board of Medical Examiners are well regulated. Fred's argument is that doctors should be able to do this to kids because doctors do this to kids. The fact that doctors do it means that doctors do it means that doctors,

should be able to do it. Fred cannot conceive of the possibility that doctors might do things they shouldn't do. Fred apparently doesn't realize that doctors used to lobotomize people as a treatment for mental illness. All manner of archaic savagery has at various points in history been endorsed by the medical community. In fact, Fred should know this considering the fact that he calls himself pro-life. Fred should know that doctors, many of those physicians he believes in so deeply, will deliberately kill unborn infant children, all while insisting that unborn infants don't count as people because they haven't been born yet. So doctors can be wrong about things, Fred. They've often been wrong, catastrophically, horrifically wrong. And yet Fred's entire argument is

based on the assumption that they cannot be wrong. Doctors should be able to do it because doctors are doing it, he insists. This is the level of thought. that has gone into his position. And that's probably because Fred has certain incentives to arrive at this position. As journalist Greg Price pointed out yesterday, Fred Mills, a pharmacist himself, has received many donations from Big Pharma.

The pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars off of the gender transition racket, which means the politicians they own are required to defend the racket and keep it going. I can't say this for sure, but it's also possible that on top of the financial motives, maybe Fred has more personal motives as well. Greg Price also reports that Fred Mills apparently used to enjoy dressing and drag

while filming bizarre commercials for his own pharmacy. See if you can make sense of this. Watch. Welcome to our new line of school clothes. Taunt is wearing Cashway's fall line of St. Martin Parrish school clothes available in all sizes. Capture the look and feel of education. You too can look as fine and sassy as the taunt. See Fred, watch our baby. First grade, here I come. No more knots for me. Thank you.

At Cashway Pharmacy, services I promise to you. Excuse me. Your pharmacy, can I help you? Yes, my pal is big and pussy. Torn pills. I'm sorry to hear your hemorrhoids inflamed again. Are you using your stool softness, I advised you? No, my lazy boy.

Are you avoiding spicy food? I'm slowing down. You may have to let your doctor look at this problem. No, shot. You're going to look at it. That's a catch me on. Okay. I'm not sure what's going on there or why, but we don't have the time to run a full psychological analysis. All we know is that this is the guy who decided to keep the child mutilators and castrators in business in Louisiana.

And if you have any questions about this decision, or if you'd like to give Fred Mills your feedback, he would love to hear from you at 337-845-240. You can also call 337-365-8484. Again, it's 337-845-4-2-4-0, or 337-365-8-484. You can also email him at MillsF at Legis-L-E-G-I-S dot LA.gov. Now, you might want to try to contact him through all of those methods, and if you don't get a response, keep trying. And keep trying, keep trying. Fred would appreciate your persistence.

He wants to hear from you. So just make sure you keep trying until he really appreciate it. Now, I would say that this is the end of Fred's political career, except that he is term limited and will be out of office soon anyway. Probably why he thought he could get away with openly selling his soul to big pharma for the sake of protecting child butchers. He figured perhaps that he has nothing to lose, so he might as well do it. But there's always more to lose, Fred. Like respect and your reputation and your good name.

We may be deprived of the satisfaction of making sure that this gutless worm is voted out of office, but we can at least ensure that his name and face are forever tarnished, that he is from here on out known as the pathetic weakling who cave to the child butchers. We can make sure that he is branded as the whore who hopped in bed with Big Pharma at the expense of our children. And if he did have any other political ambitions, we can certainly make sure that those are now over. He has disgraced himself, and we will make sure that he carries that disgrace with him forever. And that is what I mean when I say that Fred Mills is today canceled. That'll do it for this, Portia shows, and move over to members block.

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