Ep. 1550 - Sanity Is Making A Comeback

Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left continues its retreat as the mayor of D.C. prepares to get rid of the giant Black Lives Matter mural in the city.

Also, another study shows that so-called gender-affirming care increases the suicide rate.

And a leftist talking head laughs hysterically at the footage of a female athlete sustaining a traumatic brain injury at the hands of a trans-identified male.

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Just a few days after BLM and Antifa set fire to a church outside the White House in the summer of 2020, the mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, issued an emergency order. And this was not an order about restoring law and order to the streets of the nation's capital or punishing the vandals who had just destroyed property and assaulted Secret Service agents or anything like that.
Instead, Bowser made the decision to hire an elite team of eight artists, yes, eight artists, to meet at around 3.30 in the morning. And these artists' mission, if they chose to accept it, was to paint the words Black Lives Matter on two blocks of road in giant 50-foot tall letters just a few blocks from the White House.
This street painting would be referred to as a mural to give it some sense of grandeur, even though it's really just graffiti. Nobody knows why it required eight artists to paint three words in Times New Roman font.
Maybe they needed one to do the painting, the other seven for spell check. Not exactly clear, but it was clearly a very deliberate decision to have this graffiti painted in secrecy under the cover of darkness, like they were planning the Bin Laden raid or something.
Apparently, the reasoning was that white supremacists would be less likely to jump out of the bushes on 16th Street and mess up the paint at three in the morning. Because we all know at that hour, the white supremacists are too busy hunting for the cast of Empire in Chicago.
So the BLM graffiti could be painted in peace. And then by morning, everybody would awaken to see Black Lives Matter on the ground and and racism would be defeated.
All of the Klan members in Washington, D.C. would see the words on the street, and they would say to each other, geez, you know what? Black lives really do matter.
And then they would throw off their pointy white hats and go get jobs at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Now, of course, the actual plan was a bit more modest than that.
The real goal was simply to annoy Donald Trump and impress the resistance,

which applauded any effort, no matter how petty, to advance the BLM scam.

And to that end, Bowser renamed the area with the alleged mural as Black Lives Matter Plaza.

And then she posted this message on social media, quote,

We turned on the nightlight for him so he could have dreams about Black Lives Matter Plaza. So yes, according to Bowser, the plan was to have Donald Trump dream about some words they painted on the ground.
And people loved it. This is the kind of tweet that on old Twitter got tens of thousands of likes and nonstop praise in the replies.
Anybody who disagreed was banned for hate speech. Given that recent history, it's actually kind of astonishing to see how the mayor and Democrat activists have reacted to Republicans' latest effort to get rid of BLM Plaza and the street graffiti.
Congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia recently introduced legislation that would strip DC of most of its federal funding unless they eliminate BLM Plaza and rename it Liberty Plaza and get rid of the disgusting, ugly graffiti. And instead of fighting back in any way, Democrats are rolling over.
Bowser has already announced that the BLM writing is going to be removed from the street. Apparently, the current plan is to replace it with artwork commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which is coming up next summer.
And as various local news outlets are reporting, it's not just the mayor who's fine with this. One of the artists involved in creating the so-called mural doesn't really seem to care either.
Watch. Kiana Jones is one of the artists who helped to paint Black Lives Matter Plaza here back in 2020, following protests along 16th Street after the murder of George Floyd.
The mural now likely to be covered up. Mayor Muriel Bowser says she'll have it removed as Congress threatens to take away hundreds of millions of dollars from the city's highway fund if it doesn't comply.
There's a lot of things that are happening especially with the budget cuts people losing their jobs just a lot happening and we have to prioritize things and I understand the decision that she made. The mayor speaking at an event today.
We have bigger fish to fry than fights over what has been very important to us. And a similar sentiment across the river in southeast D.C.
My fight is not Black Lives Matter plaza right now. Community activist and D.C.
Go-Go Museum founder Ronald Moten says he understands the decision to remove the mural and shifting the city's focus.

My fight is making sure Anacasia thrives. My fight is to make sure Shaw thrives, Dean Wood thrives and make sure people get to work.
Right. Now, it's actually, it's kind of amazing if you were alive in 2020, which I'm assuming everyone listening to this was, that this is the reaction to taking down the graffiti.
I mean, we all know that if they had tried to do this in 2021, it would have been treated like, there would have been literally riots in the street about it. But at this point, you have to go out of your way to find anyone in D.C.
who cares about this graffiti being wiped away. The people who created it are now distancing themselves from the whole idea.
So are a lot of local activists, as we saw. So we went from Mitt Romney saying Black Lives Matter as he marches along with left-wing activists to watching left-wing activists pretty much disavow the whole thing.
It only took a few years. It's not just, by the way, that they don't care that the mural is being removed, the graffiti is being removed.
Really, they want it to be because they're embarrassed by it. I mean, that's what's lying underneath all of this, is that they're embarrassed every time they have to walk past this ridiculous display.
And so they actually want it to be gone. Now, to be fair, I did find at least one woman who seemed upset that this beautiful mural is being erased.
Here's what she told a local news station. As you'll see, this woman is wearing a shirt about DC statehood, and she begins by talking about DEI.
So it's safe to say that the BLM graffiti isn't exactly her primary focus, but she eventually gets around to implying that erasing the big yellow words on the street is a really bad idea. Watch.
I think it's very shameful because the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the attack on protests such as Black Lives Matter, I think it's an attempt to erase us and our struggle and our history, And it's wrong. History, yes.
The five

year old history of the Black Lives Matter graffiti. You don't want to erase that.
It'd be

interesting to get this woman's take on all the statues that Democrats have torn down over the

years. That's the kind of history she wants to see.
She actually wants to see erased, but some

words painted on a street five years ago, a monument to the total disaster of the BLM movement, is something that we supposedly need to preserve at all costs. Now, of course, most people in the Democrat Party apparently don't agree.
They're trying to distance themselves from this as quickly as they can. BLM, which was once a core unifying pillar of the Democrat Party, has suddenly become a major political liability for Democrats.
They can't run away from it fast enough. And this is progress, of course, in one sense.
It's a sign that Democrats are abandoning a movement that caused more than a billion dollars in property damage and resulted in multiple murders and suspended the right of self-defense in parts of the country, kickstarted a nationwide de-policing effort that made this country far more dangerous. At the same time, though, Democrats are not abandoning BLM because they've adopted some sort of new, coherent, intelligent ideology to replace it.
They're not committing themselves to a more responsible platform or anything like that. Instead, they're flailing around in a state of total disarray without any guiding principles whatsoever.
They have no leadership, no direction of any kind. We are witnessing anarchy in the Democrat Party after years of lockstep and after years of a very disciplined message.
They don't know what their message is anymore. And it's not just the downfall of BLM Plaza that illustrates the chaos that's unfolding.
Last night, the left-wing outlet Axios reported that in the wake of Donald Trump's address to Congress, Democrats in Washington are now fighting among themselves about how terribly they came across. Apparently, Democrat leadership in Congress, they didn't want any kind of props to be used, nor did they call for any kind of interruptions or heckling, supposedly.
And of course, all throughout Trump's speech, Democrats were waving their little paddles around and making noise and turning their backs to Trump and rushing out of the chamber and all of this kind of thing. So there was a complete breakdown of leadership by all accounts.
Axios quotes several Democrat congressmen, including Jared Golden and Tom Suozzi, as saying the outbursts were a major mistake. One Democrat put it this way, not standing for Trump would have been a fine strategy, but you need to separate him from the kid with cancer.
Yeah, you think? But that's the way it played out, because the Democrats are totally beholden to the most radical elements of their party. This is ideological capture, and the consequences are a lot more far-reaching than Democrats might like to admit.
You know, the issue for them is not simply that voters find their party to be completely unappealing, even though that's obviously a serious problem. The bigger issue for Democrats is that voters are now going back and reassessing how Democrats got to this point.
Voters are thinking about everything else Democrats have said over the past decade or so. They're wondering what other scams the party has been running.
And that might explain why, according to a recent poll from The Economist and YouGov, only 48% of Americans right now support the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage. 38% oppose it, and the rest are unsure.
So to restate, less than half of adult Americans want same-sex marriage to be recognized nationwide. Among political moderates, support for the nationwide legalization of gay marriage sits at just 51%.
Among conservatives, it's down to 20%. And this is from a poll that was conducted just a few days ago in the first days of March.
Even among self-described liberals, support for gay marriage is not unanimous. It's about 84% in that demographic.
Now, just three years ago, YouGov measured much stronger support for gay marriage when people were asked the same questions. And a majority of Americans backed it at the time.
So in other words, things are now so bad that Democrats are even losing ground on an issue that they thought was settled. You know, they viewed gay marriage as a stepping stone to gender ideology without realizing that the insanity of gender ideology would eventually make people take a closer look at all the steps that got us there.
And that was a major tactical error for Democrats. If they had achieved the legalization, the nationwide acceptance of quote unquote gay marriage and just stopped there, they'd probably be fine.
In fact, they might still be in the White House right now, but they can't stop. Progressivism must always progress like cancer progresses in the same kind of way.
They can't stop. They keep going.
And eventually it wakes people up to the because when it comes to, and when it comes to the culture war, what we're discovering is that even if you think that, well, this argument is settled, no argument is ever really settled. Now, people on our side, conservatives for years thought that the marriage debate was over, that we lost, there's nothing we can do about it.
But that's not really true. It's never over.
After all, the quote-unquote traditional definition of marriage, which is to say the actual definition of marriage, was settled for thousands of years until it wasn't. The reality is that just as quickly as America was overtaken by the moral panic of BLM and the emotional blackmail of trans activists, we can return to some semblance of sanity.
You know, it doesn't take much. What conservatives need to do as quickly as possible is to capitalize on Democrats' weakness, start passing laws that reverse the derangement that's been so dominant for so long.
And if conservatives do that, they might be able to drag more concessions out of Democrats than we ever thought possible. After all, no one thought they'd cave on the BLM movement as quickly as they have.
I don't think anyone thought you could just take that huge mural, the graffiti off the street, and they would all just kind of shrug their shoulders and say, well, what are you going to do? But that's what happened. And it stands to reason that they can be beaten on gender insanity and voter ID and open borders and all of their other must-have agenda items just as thoroughly.
All Republicans have to do now is take advantage of their position of power and apply pressure, just like the congressman from Georgia did. In response, Democrats might howl and stomp their feet and wave paddles around, but in the end, they will lose.
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Fox reports so-called gender-affirming surgery could lead to potentially dangerous mental health effects, a new study has found. Transgender individuals face heightened psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation, partly due to stigma and lack of gender affirmation, as stated in the study.
Researchers from the University of Texas set out to determine the mental health impacts of transgender people who underwent gender-affirming surgery, quote-unquote. The study focused on 107,583 patients, 18 and over with gender dysphoria, some who underwent surgery, others who did not.
And they determined that rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders were significantly higher among those who underwent surgery when it was assessed two years later. Males with surgery had depression rates of 25% compared to males without at 11%, 11.5%.
Anxiety rates among that group were 12.8% compared to 2.6%. The same differences were seen among females as those with surgery at 22.9% depression rate compared to 14.6% in the non-surgical group.
Interview with neurosurgeon Dr. Brett Osborne says, we're often told that gender-affirming surgery is essential for alleviating gender dysphoria, but what happens when the euphoria fades? The key question remains, is the surgery itself causing distress or are pre-existing mental health issues driving people toward it? Correlation or causation, no one knows.
Oh, well, we know. I mean, any sane person knows.
This is not a mystery. The answer is both.
The surgery is causing distress when these people realize that they have mangled themselves and mutilated themselves, injured themselves for life. But also, the people who go in for the surgery are already very mentally distressed because you wouldn't be wanting a surgery like that if you weren't.
So the answer is that, does the surgery make people depressed and suicidal?

Yes.

Were they already depressed and suicidal going in?

Yes.

So it just causes more of the problem that they already had.

It makes everything worse.

It's a simple way of putting it.

So this is yet another study which proves the obvious, which is that mutilating somebody's body will only make them feel worse. Okay, it's a simple way of putting it.
So this is yet another study which proves the obvious, which is that mutilating somebody's body will only make them feel worse. You are not going to help someone's psychological distress by harming their bodies.
But let's look at that, the second to last paragraph again, because I want to point something out. And here it is again.

We're often told that gender-affirming surgery is essential for alleviating gender dysphoria, but what happens when the euphoria fades? There's that word euphoria. And this is a thing that trans-identified people talk about a lot.
That's why the doctor uses that term. They talk about feeling gender euphoria.

So there's gender dysphoria,

or you don't feel like you're in the right body or whatever. But then the answer to that, this term that trans activists have come up with, is gender euphoria.
And what the hell is that? Well, gender euphoria is what they experience when they are affirmed in their chosen gender. The Trevor Project defines it this way.
Trevor Project, obviously, being a radically far-left gay organization, defines gender euphoria this way. Gender euphoria is defined as satisfaction or joy caused when one's gendered experience aligns with their gender identity.
So that's gender euphoria. Well, here's a little tip.
Here's a pro tip. If you've ever experienced euphoria about being a woman, it means that you're not a woman.
If you've ever experienced euphoria about being a man, it means you're not a man. Because no actual woman ever wakes up in the morning feeling euphoric about the simple facts of being a woman.
I guarantee that never happens. A woman might be happy that she's a woman.
She might be comfortable and content in her own skin,

hopefully, but euphoric? No, that's not real. That doesn't...
My wife is a very cheerful person, but I've never walked into a room and asked her why she's so cheerful. And she says, because I'm a woman.
I'm overjoyed to be a woman. Okay.
If she said that, I would assume she'd gone insane, because that's just insane. Only an insane person would say that.
And this is a real problem for the trans side, because it's a problem because it undermines their whole premise, right? You know, a man says that he's really a woman because he feels like one inside, or whatever, and except that if he feels euphoric about supposedly being a woman, well, but that's not what women feel like. You are actually not having the internal experience of a woman.
That's not a womanly feeling, right? That's not the internal experience of being a woman. Now, I'm not a woman either, so any woman can feel free to correct me.
So I guess I'll just throw this out as a question for any women in the audience. Do you walk around constantly euphoric over the fact that you're a woman? I can say, again, as a man, that that's not the experience of being a man.
I'm happy to be a man. I'm happy with who I am.
I'm pleased to be who I am. I don't think about it much.
I don't walk around constantly obsessing over my own

identity in that way. But it's not a cause for euphoria.
and

and

but

but that is

it kind of gives the game away

when And, but, but that is, in this, it kind of gives the game away. When, when transactivists talk about this, the feeling of euphoria, because what they are revealing is that, you know, when the man identifies as a woman, it's, it's, it's not, obviously he's not really a woman.
And it's not even that he thinks that he is. Like we talk about this and we say, well, a trans, a quote unquote trans woman is a man who thinks he's a woman.
That might be the case in a small, that might be true in a small minority of cases. But I think in the majority of cases, that's not even true.
They don't actually think that the man most of the time doesn't think he's a woman. Rather, he gets a thrill out of being perceived as a woman or out of playing the part of him.
He gets a thrill out of it. That's the euphoria.
And so when he identifies as a woman and wears the women's clothes and all that, he's not trying to align his outward appearance with his inner identity or whatever nonsense. he's actually chasing this thrill that he gets out of presenting this way in public.

So that, which is just a long way of saying that it's,

we're talking about a fetish. Staying on this general topic, the LA Times has this article, transgender Americans weigh leaving US over Trump's policies.
Some already have, that's the headline. And this is an article about, as the headline suggests, trans-identified Americans fleeing the United States.
And, you know, of course, this is just about the least ominous threat that I've ever heard. You know, when the trans activists say, well, if you guys, I'm going to leave.
Okay. If you, if you keep doing this, we're leaving.
This is like when we were recently on a long car trip a little while ago. And one of my kids kept getting in trouble for fighting with the other kids.
And I told him to stop. And, and he said, well, well, fine.
I get in trouble every time I talk. Maybe I'll just stop talking.
And I'm like, okay, that sounds like a great plan, actually. That's a wonderful plan.
Maybe everyone should stop talking. How about that? So you mean it as a threat, but it has exactly the opposite effect.
And it's kind of on a larger scale. It's the same kind of thing here.
Trans people are threatening to leave. They say that if this alleged prosecution or persecution, rather, doesn't stop,

eventually there won't be any trans people left in the country because they're all going to leave.

And the rest of America says, okay, sounds like a plan.

Yeah, it works out best for all of us.

Yeah, just go to Canada or whatever.

They'll be happy to have you.

So I'm not going to bother reading most of this article, but I do want to highlight this especially delusional part. Here's what it says.
Determining how many transgender Americans are considering fleeing or have already fled is difficult, though LGBTQ plus and immigration advocates, travel advisors, and queer families told The Times that the impulse is widespread in their networks. A recent Gallup poll found about 1.3% of U.S.
adults identify as transgender. KD said he had been preparing to leave since Trump won.
Three days after the election, he gave up his apartment to save more money. In late December, he obtained an updated passport, but he also has doubts.
KD said he has realized that he did not do enough homework on how to leave, which now seems less straightforward. He said that he has thought a lot about the Holocaust and other genocides and his view that the Trump administration is trying to erase transgender people.
He told himself he needed to draw a line in the sand for when he must leave, lest he regret it. Yes, the Holocaust.

Telling a man that he can't list himself as a woman on his passport is akin to the Holocaust. And this is a claim that the LA Times repeats uncritically.
It's just pure narcissism. I I cannot think, I mean, a minor paperwork inconvenience is the Holocaust.
This is like if I got a speeding ticket and claimed that I was a Holocaust survivor. Okay, it's like if I said to you, I'm a Holocaust survivor, and you said, you look a little young for that.
And I said, well, no, because I got a speeding ticket. I was going 34 and a 25 that gave me a speeding ticket.
Now I know how they must have felt in Auschwitz. Only this is much worse because it actually is unreasonable to ticket someone for going nine miles over the limit, in my opinion.
Forcing a man to list himself as a man on his legal documents is not unreasonable. That is the very definition of reasonable.
But we know why trans people call this a genocide. Well, it's because they, you know, again, they are narcissists.
They believe that any inconvenience, any slight misfortune, anything they have to endure that they don't want to endure is automatically a great tragedy. It's just kind of this pathological self-obsession.
That's part of it. The other part is that, as always, their self-identity, their perception of themselves as the opposite sex depends entirely on external validation.
A man who identifies as a woman, again, doesn't really believe that he is one in most cases. In order to prop up this precarious self-identity, he needs the world outside of him to tell him that he is the thing that he, in fact, knows he's not.
And when the world fails to affirm his false claims about himself, when the whole sort of internal house of cards starts to crumble and he loses his female self-identity, he loses his perception of himself as a her, his female self, which was never real to begin with, vanishes from his mind and that's the genocide, okay? That's what they mean by. They mean, you're making it harder for me to see myself as a thing that I'm not.
So it's a genocide. It's like a genocide of imaginary friends.
That's basically what they're claiming. Okay, we have one more reaction to the Trump speech.
This is Jasmine Crockett after the speech. And I didn't see this video until this morning.
And I still, I wish that I still had not seen it, but she was explaining why she walked out alongside a group of other lawmakers. And well, just listen.
He up there, he's hearing all kinds of nonsense and bullshit. Let me just be real.
And we ain't going to sit for that shit. We wouldn't.
You know, we showed up. And if he had some sense, then maybe we would have been about that life.
But y'all know he ain't got no sense. So please give some love.
This took a little bit of coordinating to do for sure. We got cool shirts we got we got madam williams who just happens to have the honorary seat it's not even honorary because she holding it down y'all but the legend himself john lewis that is the seat in which she currently serves so she honored his legacy this is the message that she wanted to send today.
We've got my sis, Andrea Salinas, and she kept it real simple. Resist.

That's what we about. Where's Maxwell? We got Max.

No kings live here. OK.
Yeah, we sent in a message.

We sent in a message. We've got President Musk.

Y'all saw the camera just flash to him, you know, because this is really his administration.

And we got another resist.

Listen, and mine is, let me get you jazz.

Let me get you jazz.

Shirley Chisholm, the ultimate unbought and unbossed. That's what Jasmine Clark.

Right.

Y'all.

Yeah.

Okay.

We weren't going to sit for that.

We're not about that life.

That's a sitting member of Congress.

We're not about that life.

Quotes, put that in quotes.

That's a quote that will live.

We're not about that life.

Representative Jasmine Crockett, United States Congresswoman. we not about that life representative jasmine crockett united states congresswoman look the you know the idiocracy comparisons have been made so many times that they're just not even interesting anymore but i feel the need to point out that this is i mean this is literally idiocracy.
This is how the politicians in that movie speak. This is it.
We're here. 20 years ago, it was considered comically ridiculous that members of Congress would use Ebonics.
In fact, it was so absurd, it was so outrageous that Mike Judge imagined it would take 500 years to get to this point. That's how far-fetched it was 20 years ago.
And now we're here. And I couldn't help but thinking about this sitting in the room.
There's the hilarious scene, which is becoming less and less hilarious and more just a documentary in idiocracy of the State of the Union, you know, in this dystopian world 500 years in the future where everybody's a moron.

And I'm watching the State of the Union, and at least when it comes, because in that scene, you've got the crowd, which they're all members of Congress, and they're just shouting and heckling through the whole speech and shouting with Ebonics and acting like they're at a rap concert or something. When you're in the room for this, that's what they were doing.
That actually happened. It is the scene.
The only thing we didn't get is, you know, because in the movie, President Camacho pulls out a machine gun and shoots it, you know, into the sky to get everyone's attention. We didn't get that from Trump, but we got most of the rest of it.
And in fact, this is worse. It is actually worse than idiocracy in certain ways, because in that movie, there are no smart people left in the world.
That's the whole premise, that the globe is populated exclusively by idiots, and Luke Wilson's character has like a 100 IQ or something, but he's the smartest guy on earth because everyone else is so dumb. So, you know, so in that world,

it stands to reason that President Camacho and the members of Congress are actually smart in comparison to everybody else. You know, the people of the United States in the year 2500 are, you know, they actually made reasonable decisions in the voting booth and they voted in these morons, but they're smart and competent people in comparison to everybody else.
But that's not the case for us, actually. You know, there are plenty of smart and competent people in this country.
Plenty of them. Jasmine Crockett is an unintelligible moron in comparison to most people in the country.
It's not like national IQ levels have plummeted so drastically that now Crockett is the best we can do. Now, IQ levels have dipped a little bit, I think, if you look at the trends.
In fact,

maybe they've dipped more than a little bit, but not by that much. Not by so much that these people are now, well, yeah, look, they're the best and brightest.
They're not great, but they're the best we can do. That's not the case.
Even in Jasmine Crockett's district, I just, I can't believe that she's anywhere close to the most competent or qualified person. And yet she was still elected to office.
So I don't know. What is worse? What's worse?

Is it worse to have incompetent morons representing us in Congress because everyone is so stupid that they're the best we could do?

Or is it worse when actually there's a lot of smart people and competent people, but

we are still electing Jasmine Crockett?

I don't know.

I think that it's, I think the latter is the worst scenario, and that's kind of where we are.

So we're at, it's an idiocracy by choice in a lot of ways.

All right.

Well, before I move on, we get to the comment section, And I feel that I need to address this. I don't need to, but I'm going to.
Because I have to come to the defense of somebody near and dear to me. This is not a headline at all, but it has to be addressed.
So here we are. I have to defend someone.
Someone that I greatly admire and respect, someone who is once again being cruelly attacked with spurious and malicious accusations, somebody who doesn't deserve that kind of treatment. and that person is, of course, me that I want to defend.
Because, you know, as you know, as I just mentioned,

I was able to attend Trump's joint session,

you know, speech on Tuesday

on the invitation of Speaker Mike Johnson. Very honored to attend a historic event.
And this one, State of the Union addresses, usually quite long and boring. And this one was definitely long.
I mean, a short Trump speech is 75 minutes. This was long by his standards.
But it wasn't boring. It was a great speech.
And it was also entertaining, mostly because of the clown, the circus performance being put on by the Democrats in the room. So it was great.
And I left the speech feeling good about it. My joy was stolen from me, though, later that night when I finally got back on X because they confiscate your phones when you go in.
So I wasn't, it was quite tragic. I wasn't able to do any tweeting for about two hours, and that was hard enough.
But The Daily Wire had posted a photo of me and Ben and the speaker, which we'll put up on the screen

so you can see it. And, you know, I think it's a fine photo.
I think it's a nice photo. Nothing

wrong with the photo, I would have thought. And there were a lot of comments on this photo,

like many, many comments. And many of them were focused on my physical appearance.

Now, some of the comments were noting the fact that I am a gigantically tall beast of a man, probably eight feet tall even, which yes, guilty. I mean, that is true.
But many of the others were focused on my shoes. And there were like dozens, if not hundreds.
Comments like, damn Matt, buy some new shoes, bro. You've got money.

And tell Matt to get a shoe shine. And why are Matt's boots so scuffed? And Matt, those are the most hideous shoes I've ever seen anyone wear with a suit.
Many other comments on my mangled, scuffed, dirty boots, just roasting me for my boots. And this one I found particularly offensive.
Somebody tweeted, how did Matt wind up wearing the shoes Andy Dufresne left in the warden's safe? Just really uncalled for. I've never been shoe shamed to this extent in my entire life, and it was very hurtful.
And don't judge a man for his footwear until you've walked a mile in his shoes.

And as you can tell, I've walked many miles in these shoes through mud and snow and ice and lava, apparently.

But here's the thing.

So here's what happened.

And you would know this if you asked rather than just jumping right to the body shaming.

So I had black dress shoes to wear with my suit. The problem is that I forgot my black belt.
So this is a classic fashion dilemma that I was in. It was a real serious, kind of a crisis.
And I knew I had three options. And one option is, well, I'll just wear no belt.
But then I look only half-dressed. I can't do that.
Plus, I know that I'm going to have to be standing up a lot.

I'll be like standing and sitting a lot doing this throughout the speech. If I do that,

imagine I do that and my pants fall down or something in the halls of Congress.

I can't risk that. You can't survive that.
Your career doesn't survive that.

So I couldn't do that. I couldn't wear a brown belt and black shoes because I don't know much about fashion.
The only thing I know, the only fashion rule I know is that you cannot wear a brown belt and black shoes. That I know.
That's like the fashion police will, that's summary execution by the fashion police. And so that left me with option C, which was to just wear my brown belt with brown shoes.
And you know what I said to myself? This is the lesson. I said to myself as I was leaving the hotel, I just, I wore the boots and I said, it'll be fine.
Like no one's going to notice. No one's going to notice.
Like, yeah, the boots are a little scuffed. They don't really matter, but no one's going to care.
And if anyone does notice, they'll be understanding. They'll probably know that, okay, some kind of mistake was made.
And it'll be fine. But it wasn't.
It was not fine. I was mocked ruthlessly by hundreds of people.
Exactly what you worry will happen is what happened. And so this is a lesson.
This is a lesson for all of us, which is that whatever it is that you're self-conscious about, whatever your physical flaws, just know that everyone notices it and they are judging you for it. They are in fact thinking all of the negative thoughts that you're afraid they're thinking.
Of course, like you notice it about yourself. So of course everyone else does.

And they are thinking all of those things and they're making fun of you behind your back or on the Internet.

It's an important lesson.

Just keep that in mind next time you go out in public.

Let's get to the comment section. If you're a man, it's required that you grow a bit.

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I feel exactly the same way. That's all I could think throughout the whole speech, the Democrat performance, is this is fantastic.
This is great. This is a wonderful strategy.
I hope, please continue. Please keep doing this.
10 out of 10 is how I rate the performance. It's just great.
When Matt Walsh speaks for this long without tossing in a joke or appropriate sarcasm and is 100% focused on making a statement, it carries a ton of gravity.

Thank you, Matt, for all you've done to help this country.

And, of course, help us laugh at ourselves sometimes as well.

Well, I will say originally I was going to go, I had the monologue yesterday on the speech, and I was going to go into a whole thing in the middle of the monologue about how people were making fun of my shoes.

But I decided not to do that. And I saved that for today.
Let's see. So liberal adults are adolescents in perpetuity, and the youth are slowly turning conservative.
That tells you all you need to know. The sun also rises.
Yeah, that's the dynamic right now. And that's the, as we see this kind of generational shift that you notice, you know, not just in politics.
But I was thinking about this the other day when I was at church. And this is, you know, church-going Christian.
You've probably noticed this yourself. Well, I can say this is definitely the dynamic in the Catholic Church, at least, is that when you go into a Catholic Church and you see, if it's a church you've never been to before, and you see the priest, if it's an older priest, then you sort of can guess right away that this is going to be, this is a liberal church and you're going to get a pretty liberal message in the sermon.
But if you see a younger priest, you know that 90% of the time this is going to be a very conservative church and a conservative message in the sermon. The newest Secret Service agent brought tears to my eyes.
Imagine the level of hate it takes to coldly ignore his wonderful story. The young man's face, they showed him in the world what true evil looks like.
Yeah, that one will really live in infamy. It's such an easy thing to clap for, obviously, or at least it should be.
And in fact, moments like that, if the Democrats were smart, which I'm glad they weren't, but that's a gift to the Democrats. You know, imagine if they had been sitting on their hands, not applauding anything for most of the speech, but then in that moment, they had erupted in raucous applause and gave the kid this huge standing ovation.

That would show that that would make them look like human beings, and it would show they have

some kind of empathy and they have souls, which is good politically to portray yourself that way.

It would also give more weight to the times when they're not standing up and applauding. Because one of the many problems with just not standing up and applauding at all is that now it doesn't mean anything.
There's no real statement being made. You've just made it clear you're not going to stand at all, no matter what he says, as Trump himself said in the speech.
But you could actually give the symbolism of not applauding and not standing could have a little bit of weight if you did stand up and applaud in these really easy moments where any person with a soul would be applauding. But they were too dumb for that, and thank God that they were.
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Cancellation. During his speech to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Donald Trump touted his executive order banning men from playing in women's sports.
He also highlighted just a few, a few of many examples of women being harmed by the inclusion of trans-identified males in their sports league. One of the victims is a young lady named Peyton McNabb who had been specially invited by the president.

He gave her a shout out during the speech.

And let's see that again.

I also signed an executive order

to ban men from playing future in college sports. But when her girls' volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career.
It was a shot like she's never seen before. She's never seen anything like it.
Peyton is here tonight in the gallery,

and Peyton, from now on, schools will kick the men off the girls team

or they will lose all federal funding.

Thank you. So it was a great moment, a moment highlighting a girl who is not or never intended to be a conservative activist.
She's just a girl who wanted to play volleyball, but ended up severely injured in the process. Now, the video of the injury is quite gruesome, and Trump's rapid response team tweeted it out on Tuesday night as Trump was talking about it.
And that's what provoked a response from a woman named Emma Vigeland. If you've never heard of Emma, which would be understandable, most people have never heard of her, but she is a far-left talking head who co-hosts a YouTube show called The Majority Report, alongside somebody named Sam Seder.
Now, their show is irrelevant. Nobody cares about it.
Nobody talks about it. It has no cultural impact at all.
The only reason that I know of their existence personally is that they have done approximately 10,000 segments about me, constantly begging for my attention. And now I'm finally giving them a little bit of attention, which I'm sure fills them with indescribable glee.
So I'm hesitant to even talk about this because I don't really want to give this pathetic, irrelevant woman the attention she desperately craves. But it also exposes an essential truth about the pro-trans side.
So I think it's worth discussing for that reason. So yesterday, in response to the video of a teenage girl being severely injured during a volleyball match, Emma posted this.
Very simple response. She wrote, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
This is Emma laughing hysterically at a video of a girl sustaining a brain injury at the hands of a male athlete. To be clear again, Peyton McNabb, at the time when this injury happened, was not an activist.
She was not a political person. She was just a girl playing volleyball.
It's not like Emma's laughing because in her mind, some conservative activist got their comeuppance. It's not like this is a video of Robbie Starbuck slipping on a banana peel or me falling down the steps.
And I'm quite sure that that would provoke laughter from Emma and her fellow leftists, justifiably, in fact. That would be kind of funny, I have to admit.
This is different. This is a 17-year-old high school student receiving a violent blow to the head and getting seriously injured in the process.
Emma finds that hysterically funny. She is sent into convulsive fits of laughter at the sight of a trans male injuring a young girl.

Now, it's really no surprise.

This is not someone who is terribly thoughtful or intelligent when it comes to this issue or any issue.

Here she is on her show a little while ago articulating her case for allowing men to compete against women.

And I couldn't find the original video on Emma's channel, so I'm pulling this clip from a video on the channel, actual justice warrior, which you should check out to hear his take on this as well. Uh, here is Emma.
I'm actually not bad about this. Um, I'm a hundred percent right on this.
I don't give a shit about the scientific explanations. People, if they identify as a woman get to compete in sports, if that's not fair in the short term for a variety of little competitions, I don't give a I don't give a because the societal interests of including trans people in society trumps stupid competition.
Full stop. So I'm right about this.
You're wrong about this. She doesn't give a damn about the scientific explanation.
She also doesn't care about fairness in sports. She's on the record saying that neither science nor fairness matter to her.
By the way, the woman who laughs at the idea of fairness in sports and calls them stupid little competitions did just recently attempt to launch her own sports network, ESVN, the Emma Sports Viglen Network, which I'm pretty sure is not meant to be a joke, was launched on YouTube almost three years ago. It currently has 16,000 subscribers.
That's one six in three years. And I guess now we know why her sports network flopped.
Well, it flopped because she's a miserable, shrieking, humorless nag. And also because nobody wants to hear sports analysis from somebody who thinks that sports are stupid little competitions.
I mean, that's like me starting a channel for anime reviews. Although, if I did, I guarantee I'd get more than 16,000 subs in three years.
That's just humiliating. But in any case, there isn't much that can be said to debunk Emma's position on the trans sports topic.
She's already stated up front that science and fairness are irrelevant. So, it's like trying to discuss the solution to a math equation with somebody who declares at the outset that the basic rules of arithmetic don't matter.
Like, if that's the case, there's nothing to talk about. It's like, you might as well be arguing with a schizophrenic who thinks that he's an Egyptian pharaoh in the year 2000 BC.
This is somebody who has completely divorced herself from reality. You can't debate her

because debating requires that both parties exist in the same universe, if not, you know, preferably the same planet. But Emma lives in a fantasy universe of her own making, where the laws of science are suspended and superseded by the desires of trans people.
The only thing that matters to Emma, and she's clear about this, is how a trans person feels. The question of whether trans-identified males should compete against women is to her not a scientific question, not a question of fairness, or a question of common sense.
It is a question about feelings. And specifically, the question is this.
Will it make the trans male feel good to compete against women? If so, he should. The end.
The feelings of everybody else involved, they don't matter either. The only thing that matters in the entire world is how trans people feel.
That is the overriding concern. It is the only concern.
That was her argument. This is how she sees the world.
I'm not making a straw man of her position. It's what she actually just said.
And it does make sense to the extent that there's any sense to be made of Emma's reaction to that video of Peyton being injured. Trans identified males very often get a thrill out of intimidating and dominating women.
At the very least, they obviously don't care how women feel or about the harm they cause. The only thing Emma cares about is how the trans person feels.
And she knows that the trans athlete in that video doesn't care that he injured Peyton and may in fact get a thrill out of it. So to Emma, that means the video is wonderful and heartwarming and even hilarious.
This is the dark heart of trans activism. It is fueled not just by hostility to truth and common sense, but also by a deep cruelty.
There is a total disregard for the harm done to others and even a pleasure, a euphoria in causing that harm. This is what's bubbling not very deep beneath

the surface of a trans activist psyche. It's what's going on inside Emma's mind also.

Now, why is that? I mean, Emma is not trans as far as I know.

Why would she disgrace and discredit herself by disavowing science in favor of men in women's

clothes? Like, what do you get out of this? Why would she so openly advertise her own sociopathy by laughing at the image of a teenage girl sustaining a brain injury? What does she get out of it? Really? I mean, well, it's kind of hard to say. Maybe she just really dislikes herself, and that would be understandable.
There's a whole lot to dislike. Maybe this is all nothing but another desperate plea for attention.
Maybe it's a radical ploy to get her failing sports network off the ground. Maybe she's just very, very, very stupid.
We can't know for sure. Well, that last one we do know for sure, but as for the others, there's no way to tell.
All we know is that Emma is an ever-dwindling minority on this issue. Her side is losing badly.
And it gets worse for them every day. And the more that they put their psychotic indifference to science, common sense, and basic human decency on display, the more they will lose.
Which is why I'm glad that Emma posted this tweet. Ironically, it will prove to be the most relevant and influential thing she's ever done.

The only relevant and influential thing she's ever done or ever will do.

She's helped to remind 80% of Americans why they oppose men and women's sports.

And she's caused the other 20% to question whether they really want to be aligned with an imbecile like this.

That's the service she's provided the country.

And now the country will go back to forgetting that she exists. And that is why Emma Vigland

is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.
Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
Godspeed.