Ep. 1487 - This Is What Happens When Identity Politics Takes Control

Today on Matt Walsh Show, Parliament in New Zealand descended into tribal stone age grunting on behalf of so-called indigenous rights. This is a preview of what our country could look like if we keep apologizing for our history. Also, RFK Jr. has been tapped to lead HHS. I'll explain why this is a brilliant pick. Mike Tyson fights Jake Paul tonight in a bout that will prove again that age is a real thing as much as we might like to pretend otherwise. And AOC left the country in shock by removing the pronouns from her Twitter bio. What's that all about? We'll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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Well, it's no secret that as Americans, we mostly focus on domestic politics in our own country. Unlike, say, Canadians, we don't obsess over the daily comings and goings of other nations. It's virtually impossible to find a single American who can name a Canadian Supreme Court Justice or a member of Parliament, for example. I know I certainly can't. By contrast, Canadians can tell you all about Clarence Thomas and Matt Gates and so on. This is a well-established phenomenon. It makes sense because the United States is just, well, a lot more important than

any other country in the world. But even with that in mind, every once in a while, something happens in the parliament of a foreign country that it's hard for us to ignore here in America. Maybe a lawmaker in Taiwan steals a bill and runs away with it in order to prevent it from becoming being passed into law. That's something that's actually happened.

was hilarious, or maybe a member of parliament in India pepper spraces colleagues when they don't vote the right way, or maybe Italy's parliament descends into a bench clearing brawl, which requires one politician to leave the chamber in a wheelchair. These are all well-documented incidents that

may not always have a lot of direct relevance to us, but more often than not, at the very least, they're entertaining to watch. It's a whole genre on YouTube, actually. It's a lot of fun. The viral moment that just took place in the Parliament of New Zealand, on the other hand, does have some relevance for Americans.

It's one of the more important political stories of the year, in fact, even though it's taking place thousands of miles away from our borders. And in case you missed it, several politicians in New Zealand just broke out into a primal, stone-age war dance called the Hakka to protest a piece of legislation that's working its way through Parliament. They won't stop doing the chant, and eventually, because of that, Parliament has to be shut down entirely. Watch.

Thank you.

The house is suspended until the ringing of the bells. The gallery is to be cleared.

You know, this Hakka dance, it's very dangerous. And you can tell the people doing it. They think it's real spooky and really scary. It's real intimidating. And they're right, it is dangerous because it may cause everybody in the vicinity to die of secondhand embarrassment. You know, it's hard to watch this video and not have the same reaction that the speaker of Parliament has. It's painful to sit through.

Now, thankfully, a few people have dubbed the audio in various ways. There's one remix that turns it into a jazzy little piano number from 1925. It actually works surprisingly well. And because it's a Friday, we might as well play it. Plus, it shows you another angle so that we can justify playing it that way, I guess. Also, watch.

You know, it's a lot less cringe when you dub in some real music instead of the prehistoric grunting. Now, it's a little hard to see in all the pandemonium, but they're getting in the face of a politician named David Seymour who introduced a bill that they don't like. The people doing the screeching identify as Maori, meaning they see themselves as the allegedly indigenous people of New Zealand.

And they're chanting like barbarians and making gun gestures at David Seymour while saying something that apparently translates to evil. And before I get into the specifics about this vote, what it was about, it needs to be reiterated that this whole haka thing is just silly and embarrassing. Maybe you're not supposed to say that, but it's obviously true. And everybody who sees it knows that feels the same way.

You know, and you see these videos sometimes, we're supposed to pretend like we think it's powerful and cool because it's part of a non-white culture. And so therefore it has to be good. We're not allowed to have any negative opinions about anything that a non-white culture does. But we all know that it's just lame and stupid as hell. And, you know, we can say that. Like that, just knock it off. This is ridiculous. You're making fools of yourself.

These people are really embarrassing themselves. In every context that this Haka is performed, it's cringeworthy to an immeasurable painful degree. So here, for example, was the Haka that New Zealand's basketball team performed at a tournament in 2014 just before getting blown out by double digits by Team USA. Just look at the reactions during this.

Oh, oh!

There's nothing like a fearsome war chant before a basketball game where everybody looks at you like you're crazy. And then you get completely destroyed. They got blown out, which is why this just doesn't work. You can't do a fearsome war dance on behalf of a conquered people and then get conquered some more. It's just kind of sad at this point.

You know, the Mallory had been doing this dance for centuries and just getting, they just get beaten every time in every context and every type of battle they've ever been in, at least for the last 700 years. So, you know, it's like probably time to put the, it's like spike in the football when you're on a football team that hasn't won a game since the year 1300. It's just like, all right, it's probably

Not a lot to be show boating about right now. Any event, back to the viral clip that people are talking about. The so-called indigenous people had a meltdown in parliament over a bill. And what you may not have seen is what preceded that moment. David Seymour laid out some rational and calm arguments in favor of his legislation. And then the so-called Maori politicians launched into a volley of personal attacks, watch.

pressure had been building all afternoon, as the government's treaty principles bill came before the House. The bill does not extinguish any right, it does not take from anyone, it reinforces the rights of the treaty as universal. David Seymour says the current approach to treaty principles isn't working.

What all of these principles have in common is that they afford Marty different rights from other New Zealanders. But the rebuttal came fast and furious. Shame. Shame on you, David Seymour. Marty there here will be a shame that one of their sons has come up with a political stunt that looks to divide the nation. How dare you, David Seymour? You should be ashamed of yourself and you are alive.

Apologise for that last statement. No, I can't do that. You've got to have to ask the member to withdraw himself from the house for the rest of the afternoon. Willy Jackson's sin-bend, but unapologetic.

Already, this is how you know these people have no argument. They're only capable of shouting shame and resorting to personal attacks to the point that they repeatedly get thrown out of parliament. Meanwhile, David Seymour sitting there calmly saying he wants equality. Now admittedly, I'm not an expert on the finer details of New Zealand politics. So I went looking through some New Zealand outlets to try to get as complete a picture as I could about what's going on here, what the controversy is. Turns out the concept of equal protection under the law is actually extremely controversial in New Zealand.

So here's the background. Hundreds of years ago, around the late 13th century, Polynesian settlers arrived by canoe in New Zealand. They became the Maori people. Depending on who you ask, they were either the first to arrive or they massacred everyone else who was already there when they got there. Then an event before long, the Maori wiped out a different tribe called the Moriori, I think is probably how pronounced that, who were pacifists living in the Chatham Islands in the east.

They got enslaved and beheaded and cannibalized by the Maori because apparently that's what civilized cultures do.

And to be clear, this kind of thing was not out of character for the Maori. The Maori routinely enslaved and brutalized their enemies, just like so-called indigenous cultures all over the world. I mean, this is what they all did. The moment they acquired muskets from European traders, they fought a series of battles amongst themselves called the Musket Wars, which led to tens of thousands of deaths and even more slavery. These are wars, of course, the Maori now blamed the British for. They also bartered with severed heads, which they called Toy Moko,

They would cut people's heads off and tattoo them and then use them for trading. This is kind of what Maori culture was all about. Cutting heads off each other, bartering, cannibalizing, big thing, big thing with the Maori's. Eventually the British came in and provided some stability with something called the Treaty of Waitangi. The idea was that New Zealand would become a British colony, but that the Maori would have their rights protected. They could keep their land and so on to the extent that was possible.

And then in 1975, New Zealand recognized this treaty in law for the first time. But there were still big gray areas to what exactly this treaty required. It established tribunals and led to a lot of rulemaking by judges, but parliament mostly stayed out of it. Now with this new bill, David Seymour is trying to change that. He's proposing concrete legislation that will clarify

everybody in the country in New Zealand, whether they are Maori or not, is entitled to the full protection of the law. He also wants to make it clear that New Zealand is self-governing. The Maori are not a nation within a nation. Here's how one New Zealand station describes the proposed clarifications.

Let's compare the current main three principles with the bill before Parliament. On partnership, the treaty created a relationship between Marty and the Crown and both parties must act with the utmost good faith. The new principle one states the government has full power to govern and Parliament has the full power to make laws in the best interests of everyone.

Principal Three addresses protection. The existing understanding is that the government prioritizes the active protection of Māori interests, rights, tānga, and nānga teda tānga. The new proposed Principal Three states everyone is equal before the law and entitled to equal protection and benefit without discrimination. Everyone is entitled to the equal enjoyment of the same human rights without discrimination.

So these are clarifications that if you wanna live in a modern civilization, an advanced civilization, instead of a backwards hellhole, seem pretty reasonable. But it does market change from what's happening at the moment. Right now, New Zealand explicitly provides reparations to people who identify as Maori. In addition to affirmative action, they just announced a quote, financial redress of $30 million plus interest to Maori tribes, along with a fund of more than a million dollars to assist with cultural revitalization.

New Zealand politicians also regularly give lengthy apologies to the tribes, like this one, watch. I'm here at Nachimani's official settlement ceremony. We're a representative from the Crown. It's going to deliver an official apology. The Crown makes the following apology to Nachimani.

The crowns many breaches of Tititi or Waitani. Lift Natimaru, feeling like refugees in their own homeland. Yep, just keep apologizing. 500 years of apologies won't be enough. Just keep on forever. Give me a thousand years from now. We need more apologies. Keep on apologizing.

This kind of thing has been going on for decades in New Zealand. They fly the Maori flag. They apologize to them incessantly. Pay millions of dollars. And in the end, it's not enough. The demands keep coming. As a result, now their news reports are barely comprehensible because they're all speaking a foreign language. So here, for example, is how that New Zealand television station explains what the Maori are so upset about.

One of the major concerns from opponents of the bill is the absence of any mention of Tenodanga Teda Tanga that loosely translates to multi-autonomy. The bill proposes to take those principles to a referendum for the public once passed, but it's a bill that looks doomed to never get to that stage.

Did you get that 10 along a ting of tongue? I think I nailed it. I think I just nailed it. I think that's how you pronounce it. Anyway, yes, one of the main criticisms of the bill is

whatever that is. We have to translate it so that people in New Zealand can understand what's even going on. So it turns out that the Maori want the ability to remain autonomous from New Zealand, which in democracy seems pretty questionable. The opposition wants to put that up for a democratic vote and of course the Maori are refusing. They don't care what the people in New Zealand think about what should happen in New Zealand. But the people in New Zealand should care and we should care as well because what's happening over there is a case study that we should pay attention to.

And what I mean by that is that New Zealand has bent over backwards, apologizing for the alleged evils of colonization. They've paid out reparations. They've flown the flags. They've done everything. They've centered their whole society around land acknowledgments and so on. And now there are pagan chants breaking out in the middle of parliament. That's what they get for all of this, for all of this cow towing and bowing and submitting. This is what they get.

the Maori are explicitly campaigning against equal rights. And they're threatening politicians who don't agree with them. This is a sort of enrichment that Western societies can expect when they start apologizing for their own existence. And as Douglas Murray has pointed out, none of this makes any sense given the Maori's history. If we're gonna play the game of generational guilt, they should be apologizing to all the people that their ancestors have enslaved. Watch.

I'm sorry, who were the Bowers, historically? Were they men and women of peace who sat around and illegally farming and having an identically civilized life? Or were they brutal, brutal people who did terrible things to each other and to people they met? The trade into capitated human heads?

Human heads as a tool of bartering to buy goods, including muskets, by the early 1800s. I'm sorry, I'm not willing to have my own culture ransacked and turned through this lens of pure evil. And simultaneously be expected to pretend that the Maori's or the indigenous people of Australia were these proto-Gandiasque figures.

sort of mother trees that were a bit too much beheading. No, no, this is totally untrue. And it's an obvious, obvious attempt to subjugate people in the West to a false ideology and a false version of our own past. So as he correctly explains there, the Mallory were a violent, brutal people. They practiced cannibalism, many other forms of horrific brutality.

But just because they made it to New Zealand a few hundred years before Europeans were supposed to see it as some great tragedy that the Europeans took over. In fact, we're supposed to blame Europeans for engaging in violent conquest over people who themselves engaged in even more violent conquest.

So keep this absurd, debasing spectacle in mind whenever you hear about reparations in this country or about how oppressed some indigenous groups allegedly are. Even if you give these people what they want for decades, they will always want more. No matter how much you apologize and pay money, it doesn't matter. The moment you suggest withdrawing some of these privileges or even just like expanding it so that everybody benefits, they revolt.

descend into primal chants on the floor of parliament. Turn your entire government into an international laughing stock. That's why the only approach to dealing with people like this, the one that New Zealand should have adopted a long time ago, is to deny them any special privileges in the first place. And to deny them the pleasure of hearing you apologize when you've got nothing to apologize for.

How about this? How about saying to anyone, any indigenous group anywhere in the world? You apologize first. Okay. You get up and make a big show and fall to your knees apologizing for all the terrible things your ancestors did. You apologize first. You lead by example. When are we going to end a indigenous group anywhere in the world that does that? You apologize for all the terrible things your ancestors did. You do that first and then we can talk.

I'm still not going to apologize, but at least you'll have shown that you're not a raging hypocrite. Now, as the saying goes, when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. And at this point, now that Stone Age war chants have broken out in parliament, probably too late for New Zealand to correct their mistake, and that should be a pretty big clue to everybody in this country that unless we also want to return to the Stone Age, we should take a very different approach. We should affirm the greatness of Western civilization.

make no apology for it. We should take pride in our heritage and our culture and our history. We should reject the false narratives, the cartoonish simplistic narratives about our history that turn us and our ancestors into cartoon villains. That's how you neutralize the grievance mongers and the guilt merchants so they have no power. They can do their tribal chants all they want. They can do them in the shower in their own homes, whatever.

The rest of us will be doing what New Zealand is apparently now incapable of doing. We'll be living a functioning, self-governing democracy. And if there's one lesson from these bizarre and embarrassing clips of New Zealand, it's that no one should ever take that for granted. Now let's get to our five headlights.

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As you probably heard, Trump has nominated RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. RFK Jr. is, well, him leading HHS is, it's like, it's a funny name six months ago, and now it has come to life. And I couldn't be happier about it. I mean, this may be my favorite cabin deployment so far, maybe my favorite cabin deployment of all time. I mean, it's just spectacular.

In fact, it's so good that RFK hasn't even been confirmed yet in these already cleaning house. NBC News has this, some staff members at the FDA are considering a quick exit as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being flooded as a potential health official in the incoming Trump administration, according to three former and one current government official who are granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive issues. The former officials are still in touch with colleagues who work at the FDA. So now they're thinking about leaving.

You know, RFK is not even there yet. So that's great. It makes Elon's job over at Doge much easier. And this is just the beginning of the meltdown. You can imagine what the reaction has been over on the dying cable news channels, MSNBC and CNN. They're very upset. They're claiming that RFK Jr. is anti-science and so on. But let's just be very clear about one thing. If you are on the left,

You have lost the right to call anybody anti-science. That right has been permanently revoked. Once you claim that men can give birth, you are officially disqualified from ever saying that anybody else is anti-science. Because pretty much guaranteed that no matter what views they have about science, those views are at least more scientific than what you claimed.

And when it comes to HHS, you know, one of the guys running it for the last four years has dedicated his whole life, his very identity to the denial of biological reality. So even if RFK Jr. really was a science denier, he's not denying it at the level that the left does, or the current regime does. So he would still be an improvement. I mean, RFK Jr. could be a flat earther who believes that

I don't know, the moon is fake and that there are dinosaurs living in Antarctica or whatever. And his denial of science would still not be anywhere near as extreme or as harmful as the proponents of gender ideology. Because that is the most radical denial of science the world has ever seen. Ever.

Now with all that said, RFK Jr. is not a science denier. He is rather a skeptic of the medical establishment. That is what he is. And that would be the more accurate way to describe, I think, his point of view. And skeptic just means he doesn't assume that everything the medical establishment is doing is automatically right. He believes that sometimes they can be wrong, severely wrong.

That's exactly the sort of attitude that somebody in HHS should have. And it just so happens that he's right. The medical establishment is often wrong. They've been wrong in massively significant ways many times recently.

They were wrong about pretty much every aspect of COVID, masks, vaccines, social distancing, you know, everything else. They were obviously wrong about sterilizing and castrating kids and about everything else related to the trans subject. They were and are wrong about many aspects of the mental health issue. They were wrong about the cause and treatment of depression. And these are just the things they were wrong about in the last like four or five years, okay? And these are massive things, massive. So,

Does RFK Jr. reject every aspect of modern medicine? Obviously not. But he's not going to assume that something is right, that something is healthy just because medical organizations say so. Again, they've been wrong many times recently. And so everybody should have RFK Jr's attitude about the medical establishment.

Doesn't mean that everybody will arrive at the same conclusions that he does, but everyone should have the same basic attitude of, okay, well, that's what they say, but is it true? And New York Post reports, ABC News Brass are in panic mode as they hunt for conservative voices to balance the rabid anti-Trump rhetoric spewed by the hosts on the view, as well as those on other shows.

The Disney-owned network has been holding high-level meetings since last week's route by the former president, and they are looking for and facing pressure from the higher-ups to go find a pro-Trump conservative perspective and a new panelist on the show. I just want to say right now for what it's worth. I want to announce, actually,

that is an important announcement that I would be honored to serve my country in this role. I would be honored to take this post of view co-host. I'm officially throwing my hat into the ring for consideration. And I think I'm qualified for the role. I have a lot of experience in front of a camera. I'm conservative, which is what you're looking for. I'm a really friendly guy.

I'm a real nice guy. I think I'd fit in well. I'd get along with these ladies. I think we'd bond. I think we'd become close, honestly. That's what I think. I can see us all hanging out on the weekends. I can see us going for brunch on a Sunday morning. I can see that happening. And you know what? You don't have to pay me. Serious offer. I'll do it for free. You pay me zero dollars. I mean, come on.

That's a win, that's also a win for, that's a win against the patriarchy, that Augie became paid much less than all the women on the panel, because I'll be getting paid nothing. So I don't know how you turn that down. It is payment enough for me to spend time with Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. That is payment enough. I couldn't ask for more. I could not ask for more than that. How could I?

And at least let me come in and do an audition. That's all I'm saying. You know, just one day at the table, one show, it'll be memorable, I promise. I promise you that. In fact, I'm not being boastful, I don't think. When I say that if I came on the view, it would be the greatest episode of that show of all time. I would make sure of that. So just give me a shot, put me in, coach.

Right? I'm ready. Like, let's come on. What could go wrong? What could go wrong? From my perspective, nothing.

This is a fun story. A teacher in Connecticut named Annie Dunleavy was forced to resign after making a video threatening Trump supporters on TikTok after the win. And now she's on local news crying her eyes out and begging for her job back. So we'll play this clip. And it starts with a, with the reporter hilariously reading the transcript of her TikTok video back to her. Here it is.

If you voted for Trump, literally please delete me. Block me, get rid of everything of me or step to me so that I know what's up and then I can handle you how I see fit. Just because you won doesn't mean we don't remember who the blank you voted for. You're not in the clear. Please, please don't test your gangster on me because you will end on a stretcher gone forever. What does that mean, exactly?

sounds like a threat sounds very extreme and again I was in a moment of high emotions and I shouldn't have ever posted the video. But what I really the message I was trying to get across and it came off very wrong was you know if this is going to give people the almost.

permission in their minds to enact violence against women or anybody. I wanted to basically just say, like, I'm not going to go down without a fight. I mean, you know, it's my life's dream to be a teacher. I consider those kids my kids because I don't have any of my own. And they fill that for me. And I just, it's so fulfilling. It's so rewarding.

And I really, I know that what people see right now, I don't look like that person, but I truly would do anything to help any child and any family in need. Just because you won doesn't mean we don't remember who the **** you voted for, you're not in the clear. And just please, please don't test your gangster on me because you will end on a stretcher.

gone forever. Oh, wow. It's a she should have broke out into the haka dance, make it even more, make it even more intimidating. Now, first of all, props to that news anchor for the deadpan delivery of the TikTok video. He knew exactly what he was doing there, and it was great. So well done. Well done, sir. Second, what is it with these

you know, no offense, but out of shape women making physical threats that they can't even begin to actually follow through on. Like, who do you put on a stretcher exactly? What's your plan? Okay, let's say that I step to you in your words. What are you going to do about it? What are you doing? What's your plan here? And what kind of adult speaks like that in the first place?

I don't even mean I'm offended by it. Just who? Don't test your gangster on me. You're an adult. You're a teacher. And that's how you speak. I am less upset by the physical threat and more upset by the fact that the woman is a school teacher with an IQ of 93. And I think I'm being generous.

If I was in charge, I would fire her just for being so cringe and dumb. It wouldn't even be about the, yeah, she's making threats and that's unacceptable, but that's a secondary. That's not even the main thing we'd be talking about when I fire you. It'd be this is really cringe and really stupid. You're a 37 year old woman or however old you are. You're talking like you're 14. Okay.

And that's not even the worst part of the video, actually. At least that's not the worst part of the whole video we just saw. The most disturbing part of all of it, even leaving aside the cringe, the stupidity, the violent threats, is where she says that she considers the students to be her kids because she doesn't have kids of her own. I'm even more worried about that than I am about this white woman pretending to be a gangster rapper or whatever.

I will say that she doesn't scare me by saying, hey, step to me. Step to me. See what happens. That doesn't scare me. But I am, they does scare me when she says this stuff about there. My kids, they fulfill me. That actually does scare me. That's a scary thing. That's creepy. And at least if I was a parent with kids in school, I'd be scared by

I'd be scared about that. I'd be pretty terrified by the prospect of that by teachers that have this kind of attitude where it's not, look, if you're a teacher and you feel a bond with your kids and you care about them, great, you should. But feeling like they are your kids and they fulfill some sort of deep something missing in your life, no.

That's not what this is about. And if you feel that way about a teacher, you should keep it to yourself. Because that's not, I don't want, my kid's job is not to fulfill something that's, is not to like give you something you're missing in your life. Okay, I want you to just teach my kid if I'm setting him to school. I don't want that. I don't, I don't want to know. That's again, that you keep that to yourself. Doesn't matter now at this point, she's fired anyway, but

And we know that this is the attitude that some teachers have, that they feel like those kids are their kids and they are not your kids. You are at most spending nine months with them until they move on to the next grade. And depending on what grade you teach and what school you go to,

It's like you're actually spending 45 minutes a day maybe with any particular kid as they go to the different subjects and all that. But regardless, okay, they're not your kids and you barely know them. They're not around you enough and they don't talk to you enough and you don't have nearly enough experience with them to even really know them that well and they're not your kids.

All right. Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight tonight. And I have to say, I'm not a boxing fan at all. Nothing against it. I just don't watch the sport, you know. But I am kind of interested in this. I don't know why. I'm sort of wrapped into it. I think it's going to be a tear. It's going to not be an enjoyable spectacle, probably. But

I don't know. They got me. I'm kind of interested now. And I probably will watch it. Mike Tyson at 58 years old is fighting someone who's half his age. And that's the context for this video that I want to play, which is this is honestly one of the funniest things I've seen this year. I mean, this is brilliant comedy, entirely unintentional. But if this was scripted, I would say this is a brilliantly scripted comedic moment.

So Tyson was being interviewed by some kid for her, I guess her TikTok channel apparently. And Mike Tyson seems to have forgotten during this little interview that he's speaking to a child. And so this is how it went.

Well, in your return to the ring, for this fight, you are setting a monumental opportunity for kids my age to see the legend Mike Tyson in the ring for the first time. So after such a successful career, what type of legacy would you like to leave behind when it's all said and done?

Well, I don't know. I don't believe in the word legacy. I just think that's another word for ego. Legacy doesn't mean nothing. That's just some word everybody grabbed onto. Someone said that word and everyone grabbed on the word. So now it's used every five seconds. It means absolutely nothing to me. I'm just passing through. I'm going to die and it's going to be over. Who cares about legacy after that?

I'm a guy. I want people to think that I'm this. I'm great. I'm nowhere, nothing. We're dead. We're dust. We're absolutely nothing. Our legacy is nothing. Well, thank you so much for sharing that. That is something that I have not heard before. Someone say that as an answer. Can you really imagine somebody say, I want my legacy to be this way when I get dead?

Why do you want to think about you? What's your adapter? I want people to think about me when I'm gone. Who the fuck cares about me when I'm gone? Well, my kids made me a grandkids. Now, I don't approve of the language that he used in front of the child. You know, you shouldn't use profanity. But other than that,

It is hilarious. And look, I believe in talking to kids, like the way that I talk to my own kids. I talk to my kids, like I've talked to anybody else. That's what you should do. You should talk to kids like they're, you know, you don't talk down to them. You talk to them like they're a person, because that's what they are. But this is, you know, there are limits. And I think he's exceeded the limit. The best part is the kid saying, oh, thank you for sharing that.

Nothing matters. Nothing. We're all going to die. We're dust. Nothing matters. Legacy. It's all doesn't matter. Oh, well, thank you for sharing that. It's very funny, but also sad, I have to say, and I've seen a lot of people sharing this video.

and laughing about it. Rightfully so, I mean, objectively, it is funny. But then also saying, as I've seen in some of the commentary about this video, that Mike Tyson is right and that he's just giving kind of a cold dose of reality to this kid.

But, I mean, he's not right. You know, this is nihilism. The idea that nothing we do matters because we'll all be nothing in the end after we die isn't true, first of all. We won't be nothing after death. Death is not nothingness. And your legacy does matter, like what kind of effect you have in the world, what you leave behind, how you're remembered. All of that does actually matter. And if that doesn't matter,

if the effect that impact you have in the world and how you remembered and what kind of legacy you leave, if that doesn't matter, then nothing matters, right? Which is, which is, of course, I assume Mike Tyson's philosophy, Snileism, which is, which is not something we should be applauding. Even if objectively is very funny in this context, we shouldn't be, um,

applauding it. It's not actually true. You shouldn't live your life that way. Now, you shouldn't be an egomaniac either. You shouldn't be obsessively concerned with how people will think about you, but caring about legacy and caring about how you're remembered. Not only is that the correct way to live, but

It's the only way to greatness. I mean, every great person who's achieved something great in life cared about that. There are not very many, there might be a few exceptions here and there, people that are nihilists and didn't really care about anything and yet still went on sort of accidentally almost to do great things, but those would be rare exceptions. And for the most part, the people that achieved greatness and are great, it's because they think that

It does matter. Nothing matters is not a good starting point to success in life or happiness. As for the fight itself, I already admitted, I don't know anything about it, but I don't follow boxing. I'm not an expert. So take my commentary with a grain of salt. I do understand some basic realities about human beings, however. And one of them is that age is real.

And 60 year old men don't win boxing matches against men half their age. Okay, so Mike Tyson will lose. Feel very confident in that. I might even put money on it. I mean, he's gonna lose because unless the whole thing is just totally rigged and it's all for show, which I mean, of course it's at least partially for all for show, but he'll lose because he's 60 years old.

And that means something. And we, you know, I tweeted something about this last night. And of course, thousands of comments are all really angry and insisting that I'm wrong. And like, guarantee, oh, Mike, he's gonna destroy him. It doesn't matter, 60 years old. This guy's still in fighting shape. But we have this thing in this country

And we see it in politics, we see it in celebrity culture, we see it with the obsession with plastic surgery and all that. But it's this thing where we just refuse to accept the reality of aging. We refuse to accept it. We won't accept it. And that's one of the reasons why you got so many people like insisting that Mike Tyson is gonna win. And maybe it's because they, some of it's nostalgia, some of it is,

They really hate Jake Paul. I mean, there's a lot that goes into it. But then part of it is also just like people don't want to admit to themselves that aging is real and that if you're in your 60s or in your late 50s, you are past your physical prime. You just are.

Okay, unless you were in, you know, sometimes you know about someone who's 55 years old, I'm in the best shape of my life, it's possible if you were a total lardass in your 20s and then didn't start caring about your health until your 40s and 50s, then yeah, it's possible in that case that you could be the best shape of your life in your late 50s. That says a lot more about what you were before than it is about you now, unfortunately. But generally the process is, you know, you don't get stronger with age. You get stronger with age and sharper with age

up to a point, you know, from childhood into early adulthood, hopefully you get stronger and sharper and all of that. But it reaches a point and then you start to decline. And yes, you lose the physical part, that goes first for everybody. Eventually the mental part goes as well. It doesn't mean everyone's going to lose their mind. It doesn't mean everyone's going to end up like Joe Biden. But you lose some of that clarity of thought, some of that quickness. That goes too. It just does. It does for everybody.

I'm sorry. And you can refuse to accept it all you want, but it's still true, no matter what. So I'm getting all these responses. There's one guy that, well, I'll be in my 60s and I could kick the ass of 98% of guys under the age of 30. No, you can't. Sorry, you can't. I just guarantee that you can't because you're in your 60s. And nothing wrong with that.

How about having some dignity as we age instead and accepting the realities of aging and not insisting that even though we're 62, we haven't really aged past the age of 28. We've just repeated the age of 28 over and over and over again. How about just accepting it? There's dignity in that.

Because I'll tell you one thing, you don't have to lose everything as you age. Yeah, you lose a lot of the physical part. Again, everybody loses that. You lose that. You get weaker, you get, you know, just all that happens. You get more frail, all that happens as you age. You lose some of the mental sharpness and quickness like that goes to, but what you can gain as you age is wisdom. Okay, that's the one thing and it's a big thing.

that you can continue to gain year after year after year. So that when you're in your 60s, yeah, you're not as quick as you once were, you're not as strong as you once were, but hopefully you're much wiser than you were when you were younger and you're much wiser than men half your age. So that is one thing you can gain.

That's the good news in all this. Yes, we're all going to get old and get frail and die. That's all going to happen. If it doesn't happen to you, it's because you died before any of that could happen. But the good news is you can get wiser with age. But you lose out on that benefit of aging if you refuse to accept that you are aging. And if you cling on to your youth desperately

and you go around with this nonsense claiming, I'm 60, I can beat anyone's ass. That's not why, because you're clinging onto this, it is blocking the wisdom that you could be gaining because in order to, the starting point, if you wanna gain any wisdom, you have to at least begin by accepting reality. There's no such thing as gaining wisdom. A person who's delusional about reality can't be wise.

And so you got to start with that. Yeah, that's one thing that we're missing. So yeah, Mike Tyson will lose. And then if he doesn't, you know, like, well, hey, I said I don't know anything about boxing. So.

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Darkness and confusion descended upon our country yesterday. Cries of anguish could be heard across the land, mourning and wailing and gnashing of teeth as it was revealed that Congresswoman Alexandria Queza-Crotez had removed the pronouns from her Twitter bio. Until recently, AOC's bio specified that she is a she-her, but at some point in the last few months, she deleted that detail from her personal biography, as you can see here. First, it's there, and then it's not.

Is she still a woman? Did something change? How are we supposed to know what she is? I mean, how does this work exactly? If somebody identifies as certain pronouns, but then suddenly without warning, stops identifying as those pronouns, do the old pronouns automatically hold indefinitely? Or does that mean that we're supposed to be using no pronouns when we refer to her? Or when we refer to

Like, this is especially bewildering change considering that it was only two years ago that AOC apologized publicly for not having pronouns on her Instagram bio. I'm sorry about that. They used to be on there. Let me go in and check and see if I can add them. Sorry about that. They used to be there. I guess they fell off, but I'll put them on right now.

So she put the pronouns up after that little incident, not having pronouns wasn't a fence that necessitated an apology two years ago. And now she deliberately removes the pronouns without any apology or even explanation. Think about all those people who were offended that she didn't have pronouns before. How must they be feeling now, now that her pronouns have disappeared again? Think about how scared, how lost, how alone they must feel.

I have sympathy for those poor folks, even if AOC doesn't. Now, it may sound like I'm being sarcastic about all of this, and I am, of course, but it is true that the removal of the pronouns from AOC's bio is pretty significant in a symbolic kind of way. At some point, very recently, AOC, one of the wokest members of Congress and one of the leaders of the woke revolution, made the deliberate decision to go into her bio and take those two words out of it. Why did she do that?

It was obviously a thought process behind it. It wasn't done randomly. She said to herself, I have to go take those out. Why? There was a reason, what was it? Well, the reason seems pretty clear. We've talked about it on the show, including just yesterday. The pronouns signify something very specific. AOC never put the pronouns in her bio because she thought that people were confused about whether she's a woman.

They weren't meant to inform anyone about her sex. The pronouns are a symbol of one's fealty to the trans religion. They are a statement of your belief in transgenderism and your rejection of biological reality.

They put pronouns because it's quicker and snappier and more palatable than adding a note to their bio that says, I hereby accept and affirm everything that trans activists say. Reality is whatever they say it is, I reject any truth that they tell me to reject. That's what the pronouns mean, but they get the message across more efficiently by just putting the pronouns in. So what does it mean when you take the pronouns out? It means that you no longer want to make that statement.

Now, probably you never wanted to make it. AOC woke as she is clearly didn't want to, which is why she had to be guilted into it in the first place. But now that now they see that, that sort of public submission to the trans agenda, they see it as more politically damaging and certainly more humiliating than the alternative. They are embarrassed of it. AOC, even AOC is embarrassed of the trans issue.

And that's why she made this quiet change to separate herself from it. There's really no other way to interpret it.

Now, I'm not claiming that Democrats have had any sort of mass conversion experience. I'm not even claiming that they've had their minds changed on the trans issue. Their minds never needed to be changed. The vast majority of them never believed any of this in the first place. Even most of the trans activists, as in left-wing activists who also identify as trans, don't actually believe that a man in a dress is a woman or that men can get pregnant or any of that.

We use words like confusion a lot when talking about this issue, but most of them are not actually confused about this stuff. Now, tragically, plenty of children are confused because they've been made to be confused, but the adults doing the confusing do not share in that confusion for the most part. They know better, which is what makes it also evil.

No, the Democrats never believed in the claims made by the trans agenda. Rather, they saw it as a useful tool. The trans agenda was a useful tool. It was a means to an end. It was another way of controlling and manipulating people and destroying the pieces of human civilization that they despise, which is pretty much all of it. But what happens when the tool is no longer useful? What happens when it hurts your quest for power more than it helps it?

What happens when the tool is only having the effect of making people laugh at you? What happens when your tool for societal control has made you a laughing stock of society? What happens when you intended to use the tool to bully those who you perceived me weaker than you, but instead you're the one who ends up getting stuffed into a locker? Well, in that case, the tool is not a tool anymore. It's useless and you discard it.

So AOC is not turning conservative. She won't be switching her party registration anytime soon. She's not gonna be singing Donald Trump's praises or announcing that she's a big fan of the Ben Shapiro podcast or that her favorite film of the year is MI racist streaming now in Daily Wire Plus. But she is backing ever so quietly, ever so gently away from a battle that she knows she's lost. The left's war on biology is failing. They know that. That's what's meant by this change.

It is the answer to the mystery of the missing pronouns. And it's why by AOC's own hand, preferred pronouns are today canceled. I'll do it for the short day and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.