The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1520 - Fake Feminist ‘Bishop’ Turns Inaugural Prayer Service Into Woke Anti-Trump Lecture
Wed, 22 Jan 2025
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a woke female pseudo-bishop lectures Trump about transgenderism and illegal immigration at the National Prayer Service. It was exactly the kind of grotesque, heretical display that you can expect from a female bishop. Also, Trump shuts down all DEI departments and all government agencies effective immediately.
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It is a truth long established that a liberal woman over 50 with a lesbian haircut is sure to support the most evil ideas and policies that mankind has ever conceived. If evil had a face and a haircut. This is what it would look like. It would look exactly like Marianne Buddy, the fake bishop of Washington for the Episcopal Church.
You know, they say that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but some covers tell the whole story before you even read the first page. And when you see a woman like Marianne, especially if she's wearing priestly garments, you know exactly what you're going to get.
And that's what we got and what Donald Trump got when this fake woman bishop delivered the homily at the National Prayer Service in D.C. on Tuesday. But before we get to that. Let's back up a bit. Let's do a little bit of history.
We'll go all the way back to the summer of 2020 when, encouraged by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the wake of George Floyd's overdose, BLM and Antifa began rioting, of course, across the country, but also in the nation's capital.
Now, nobody at the Department of Justice or the FBI has ever pretended to care about this particular riot or any of the other ones, but it was pretty substantial by any objective metric. They injured dozens of Secret Service officers. They destroyed cars, vandalized monuments. looted dozens of businesses, ultimately forcing Donald Trump to take cover in the White House bunker.
The mob also set fire to a church in Lafayette Square called St. John's, just a block from the White House. Now, if you're not familiar with it, St. John's is an Episcopal church. It's often called the Church of the Presidents because every president has attended the church since it was first constructed in the early 19th century.
And in 2020, because Democrats had riled up a violent mob to advance a narrative of racial injustice in election year, the church was under attack. And that is in spite of the fact that The Episcopal Church, as you probably know, is the wokest institution on earth. I mean, the Episcopal Church makes Planned Parenthood seem far right by comparison.
The pride flag has long replaced the cross of Christ in the Episcopal Church. And I use the word church only in the architectural sense. I mean, the churches themselves are often quite beautiful. Architecturally, everything that happens inside those churches is hideous. In any case, Marianne Buddy was responsible for overseeing the church at the time.
And after the violence and arson had subsided, she went on PBS to talk about what happened. But instead of defending her church or condemning the rioters who had just lit St. John's on fire, Marianne blamed Donald Trump. She claimed that Trump, merely by appearing outside the church to survey the damage, had, quote, used the mantle of the church to communicate a political message.
which is going to be a very ironic statement here in a moment when we get to what just happened. But let's go back and watch this clip.
We are upset about the fire as well, but that is not our primary focus. Our primary focus is the reason behind, the fundamental reasons behind the protests in our country right now. There is a deep desire for the fundamental issues at stake brought to light by the murderous death of
George Floyd and the countless others that we've witnessed in this long string of violence against black and brown people. Well, if the president had come to pray, if the president had come to to to greet us in the name of of the country and to offer an encouraging word, that would have been one thing. But that that's not what he did. That's not what he did.
And he is always welcome to come and pray. He is always welcome. to be part of the worshiping body, but not to use the mantle of the church to his political, to communicate a political message.
Again, we're back to judging a book by its cover. I mean, you could play that video on mute and you can guess everything she's going to say pretty much word for word. You can guarantee she's going to talk about the plight of black and brown people and how bad Donald Trump is and so on and so on. She doesn't have to even open her mouth. It's just that we all know what's coming.
And of course, there's no self-awareness to any of it. This woman, this fake bishop, has built her entire career around using the mantle of the church to communicate a political message. For more than a decade, she's done exactly what she's accusing Donald Trump of doing. And after St. John's was torched, she doubled down on that approach.
This is worth reiterating because it was one of the single most remarkable moments of the first Trump presidency. The left nearly burned down a historic church in D.C. And they made Trump into the villain of that story. They blamed him because a day later, the U.S. Park Police cleared out the violent protesters in Lafayette Square.
And supposedly that was clear evidence that Trump was a fascist dictator or something. And to push that narrative, every mainstream outlet sought an interview. with Marianne Buddy. They even interrupted their broadcast to make sure that Marianne's grievances could be heard. Here was CNN, for example.
Everyone, hold on. We've got someone on the phone we want to hear from. Marian Budde is the bishop of the District of Columbia who oversees the church that the president just used as a photo op. Bishop Budde, thank you for being here.
What are your thoughts as you saw what happened and as you look at these images now of so many Americans crying out in the streets for law and order, law and order that is applied equally to all of us, regardless of color, regardless of economic status?
I want to thank you for letting me be on this, be part of this conversation. Let me be clear. The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for.
And to do so, as you just said, he sanctioned the use of tear gas by police officers in riot gear. clear the church guard. I am outraged.
Yes, police in riot gear had to use tear gas to clear the churchyard because there was a riot, and that's how you deal with that. And you're supposed to conclude that this is completely outrageous. After all, the peaceful protesters, all they were doing was just trying to set a church on fire.
And yet, in that whole rant, which I just played in its entirety, she never once mentions anything about how the church was just set on fire by BLM arsonists a day earlier. Doesn't come up. CNN doesn't mention it. Because if it ever happened, This is the extent of overt lying we were all subjected to just four years ago.
They deliberately omit all relevant information in order to push the most extreme false narrative they can think of. And in this case, the narrative was that Trump was the bad guy because he was using the church as a photo op. So BLM gets a pass for burning the church down, but Trump doesn't get a pass for appearing in front of it afterwards.
He's also apparently to blame because the violent thugs outside the church who were throwing stones at cops were eventually cleared out by Park Police. Apparently, Park Police were supposed to just let those protesters continue to terrorize Lafayette Square indefinitely. They should still be doing it if they want to. Now, this is all just background, of course.
It's a lesson in recent history that most of us still remember, but there's reason I bring it up. The reason is that, given all this background, which all played out very publicly, it is remarkable and outrageous that Donald Trump's advance team apparently didn't know what they were getting into when they sent Trump and J.D.
Vance to listen to a sermon from this very same Mary Ann Buddy yesterday for the National Prayer Service, which was held at the Washington National Cathedral. Very predictably, Marianne Buddy, who's been an outspoken Trump critic for years, used her sermon as an opportunity to lecture Trump and Vance about the plight of so-called trans kids and illegal aliens. This was, again, entirely inevitable.
There was no way that she wouldn't use her sermon to extol the virtues of transgenderism and illegal immigration. I mean, it's unlikely this woman has ever given a sermon in her entire life that did not extol the virtues of transgenderism and illegal immigration. Trump should not have been put in this extremely foreseeable situation. But he was, and it led to this.
Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you. And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God. I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.
There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops,
and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors.
They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues with Dara and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr President, on those in our communities whose Children fear that their parents will be taken away. and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.
Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love and walk humbly with each other and our God for the good of all people, good of all people in this nation and the world.
Now, you know, it's kind of funny. It's actually quite funny that whenever anyone on the left talks about illegal aliens and how we shouldn't deport them, they immediately start babbling about how the illegals are willing to do menial, low-wage jobs. Leftists can't help themselves.
They will just come out and admit that they want a permanent underclass to clean their toilets and pick their crops and shine their shoes. We can't deport illegals. Who will mop our floors? I mean, that is literally their argument. Explicitly so. Their argument is, don't take my slave labor from me. I don't want to do this myself. I don't want to take out my own garbage. Gross.
So it's not about dignity or human rights or whatever nonsense. They want slave labor. And that's what it comes down to. And they'll admit it. They don't care if these illegal aliens broke the law to come into the country. They don't care if these illegal aliens are raping women on university campuses or driving drunk and wiping out entire families.
All they care about is whether they can pick up some cheap labor from the Home Depot parking lot so they can do a bathroom renovation without having to pay too much. And then, of course, there's the discussion about transgender children, quote unquote, who are supposedly in fear of their lives. Now, again, this woman is only capable of repeating stock left-wing talking points.
And in this case, she's employing very familiar emotional blackmail. Apparently, we're supposed to conclude that the merciful thing to do for these confused, supposedly transgender children is to permanently sterilize and disfigure them. Marianne says that the most Christ-like thing we can do is chop off the breasts of a 15-year-old girl. What would Jesus do?
Well, according to Marianne, he would dismember children. Now, this is blasphemy of the most extreme kind. Hell exists for people like Marianne. That's why it's there, for her. Although, unless she repents, which I hope that she does. but if she doesn't, hellfire awaits. Although I do admit so-called trans kids do fear for their lives. I mean, she's right about that.
The kids that identify as trans fear for their lives. I don't deny that. They fear for their lives because the horrifically abusive adults in their lives have told them that they should fear. They fear for their lives because they've been exploited and brainwashed by wicked witches like Marian. And of course, you know, this grotesque display is coming from a female priest.
You will only ever hear heresy and inanity coming from someone whose whole existence is blasphemous. Okay, I mean, we've talked about the plague of female pastors before and how Scripture makes it very clear repeatedly that women cannot serve as pastors or have authority over men in the church. We don't need to make that whole argument again. I don't need to cite the letters of St.
Paul on this point as clear and unequivocal as they are. I mean, you just can't do anything about it. It's what the Scripture says very, very clear, very clear. But, you know, we don't even need to get into that because Marianne Buddy makes the argument for us. She is exhibit A for why women should not be pastors, priests, or bishops.
She would rather engage in emotional blackmail and blasphemy than preach the word of God. And again, it's no surprise because... Just by claiming the position that she's claimed, she has already put herself in a position of being above God, of having an authority above God. Because God, through Scripture, is very clear about whether women can be pastors. They can't.
And so Mary Ann Buddy and every other female pastor in the world is saying, I know a little bit more than you do, God. Sorry, I think I know a thing or two. Sorry, Lord Almighty of the universe. Your views on this are a bit antiquated. I think I know. I think I get with the times. God of the universe, what do you know? That's what they're all saying, every single one of them.
And she'll do that while claiming at the same time to be engaged in some kind of pursuit of the truth. Watch.
Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger. for we will all want strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our God.
Now, you can tell from the reactions by Trump and Vance and their families that nobody expected this. Afterwards, at the White House, Trump basically said that the sermon was unbearable. And then he put out a statement later in the night condemning the way he was treated, and rightfully so. And it was also extremely predictable.
If you know anything about this fake bishop or do five minutes of research into her. And yet somehow, again, I mean, this is not Trump's fault. It's not his job. He's the president of the United States. He's in the middle of signing 200 executive orders. He can't go look into the background of the pastor who's doing the prayer service. But he has a team. That's your job.
You're going to have the president of the United States who just took office on camera, sitting in a pew, listening to a sermon from somebody. And nobody looked into who that person is and what they might say? Well, you can bet there are some conversations in the White House right now about how exactly that occurred.
And I hope that whoever ultimately should have caught that, I hope that person is fired. It just, this is not, okay, these are the kinds of mistakes, the kind of, I hope, unintentional sabotage that could derail the whole program for the next four years. But there's also a lesson there for the rest of us, which is this. We should not be overconfident in the wake of Trump's win.
Yes, it was a major victory. Yes, Trump and his supporters defied all the odds. But the fact remains that leftism is embedded deeply in our culture and our institutions, including and especially the Christian church in America. Now, granted, a female Episcopal bishop is not a part of the Christian church, but that is exactly the point.
There are many wolves in sheep's clothing, many left-wing infiltrators masquerading as shepherds for Christ. And the infiltration is vast in scope and deep. Rooting out DEI and the federal government, as difficult as they may be, is still a lot easier than rooting out the cancer of heresy and leftist propaganda in America's churches.
But after yesterday's prayer service in Washington's National Cathedral, which somehow took a lot of people by surprise, it's clear that it's a fight that we need to wage and that we can't afford to lose. Now let's get to our five headlines. It's been a lot of talk about AI making the world better, but better for who? Better for insurance companies using your WebMD searches to raise premiums.
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But Trump is continuing what I think we can already call the greatest first week of a presidency in U.S. history. I mean, it's just unprecedented. I don't think we've ever seen anything like this. Certainly in our lifetime, we haven't. We're 48 hours in, and he has already been – already gotten – Been far more productive in two days than Biden was in four years. There's no question about it.
But even in comparison to his own first term, this is... The pace and the amount that is being achieved, the amount of things, the amount of objectives that are being cleared here, boxes that are being checked is unmatched even by his own first term and significantly so. So here's the latest Fox reports.
The Federal Office of Personnel Management notified heads of agencies and departments that they must begin taking steps to close all diversity, equity, and inclusion offices by the end of the day Wednesday and place government workers in those offices on paid leave.
Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Charles Ezell, sent a memo to heads and acting heads of departments and agencies on Wednesday, directing them that by no later than 5 p.m.
on Wednesday, they are to send an agency-wide notice to employees informing them of the closure and asking employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. That's very important. Send a notification to all employees of DEI offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately.
Take down all outward-facing media of DEI offices. Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, materials, and equity plans issued by the agency in response to the now repealed Executive Order 14035. Cancel any DEI-related training and terminate any DEI-related contracts. So this is very thorough. Just trying to... Take this thing out by the roots is the goal here.
And this is obviously tremendous. It's a huge win. It's another huge win. These moves by Trump are not nearly symbolic. I mean, he's actually shutting down these programs. This is happening right now, firing the people responsible for them. And it's amazing to see. Again, nothing like his first term. He's not waiting around this time. He's getting right to it, and it is quite thrilling to see.
Now, normally, the downside to taking all these executive actions is that the next guy can come in there and just reverse it all, like Trump is doing to Biden right now. Of course, the worry is that, well, the next guy that comes in can do exactly the same thing. And some of that is, to some extent, inevitable because that's just how the system works.
Eventually, we will have, unfortunately, another Democrat president, and they are going to try to erase progress Trump has made. Now, hopefully, if everything is set up correctly and we're planning for the future, then there's no reason why we can't have 12 consecutive years of a Republican presidency. But we'll see if it works out that way.
And either way, Democrats are going to be in there again sometime. And then you're going to have some of that. The good news, though, is that many of these moves will not be very easy to reverse from a political and cultural perspective. I mean, first of all, if Congress comes sort of follows up behind by codifying these executive actions into law, which is what they should be doing.
that will provide a lot of security for the future and make it much, much harder for the next guy to come in and undo. Because if you have legislation behind it, then the next Democrat, they could try to reverse the executive order, but they can't just by executive order reverse legislation. So hopefully that will happen, and that's up to the Republican-led legislature to do.
I've been told that they will, even in conversations over the last few days in D.C., and I've talked to various prominent lawmakers that I've run into at some of these things, and we've talked about this. I've been told that that's what they're going to do. That's exactly the plan, is to codify these executive orders into law. But the other thing, too, is that culturally...
DEI is massively unpopular, so there's very little support for it. And what's more, we're all going to experience now at least the next four years without any DEI in the federal government. That's going to be gone from the federal government for at least the next four years. So we're all going to get a chance to experience life without a federal government that's enforcing DEI mandates.
And nothing bad is going to happen as a result of that. There will be no negative consequences of any kind. There will be no crisis is going to occur. There's not going to be any catastrophic result that we have to deal with. Quite the opposite. There will be huge benefits, a great payoff.
The government will run better, more efficiently, more effectively without being weighed down by this DEI madness. So there isn't going to be any great public outcry to reinstate DEI. Now, sure, the left will be crying about it.
They're gonna be crying about a lot of things for the next four years, but it'll be very much an uphill battle for them the whole way because people now can experience what the left did not want us to experience, which is a country without DEI and affirmative action and all of that.
And once you experience that, it becomes extremely obvious, becomes very self-evident that those things served no good purpose. Because unless you're a federal employee, you just lost your job. Now, for you, it's tough and too bad. But for all the rest of us, our lives, it doesn't matter how you could be Democrat, voter, far left. Your life's going to continue along just like it did before.
And so it'll be very clear that these programs were not improving our lives or increasing our well-being in the slightest. And there's another point here too, and like I said, we'll flesh this out later, but when we talk about making sure that these changes are permanent, so Trump's doing what he can with executive orders, but everybody else has to do their part.
And part of that is that the people responsible for all of this, the people who imposed DEI, affirmative action, gender ideology, and so on, they cannot be let off the hook. It will not be enough to simply defeat their ideological program. They have to be punished. They have to be humiliated and financially ruined and left destitute. And some of them should go to prison.
And even if they don't go to prison, they need to be bankrupted. And the stage is now set for massive lawsuits against these people. Lawsuits... because of the discrimination that those who are not in protected classes have endured because of these DEI programs. On the gender ideology side of it, of course, massive lawsuits.
We're already seeing some of this against the doctors and medical professionals, so-called medical professionals who harmed children in unspeakable ways. So these people need to be ruined. Punish them. Show no mercy. Pull the roots out so that there's no one left You know, to regrow the plant. Make an example out of these people as a warning for anyone in the future.
Make them pay a price, a very steep price. It's a matter of justice. It's also a matter of ensuring that these changes last. Here's another executive order. That I like. President Donald Trump has ordered federal workers to return to the office five days a week and weaken job protections for civil servants, the first salvos in his campaign to gut the federal bureaucracy.
The one-two punch would force large numbers of white-collar government employees to forfeit remote working arrangements, reversing a trend that took off in the early stages of the COVID pandemic. It, if upheld by the courts, the measures could also strip mid-level officials of the legal guarantees that generally keep them insulated from ideological purges.
The two orders are being paired with a hiring freeze and the creation of an advisory body dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, which is meant to help Trump take huge chunks out of the federal government and eliminate some agencies wholesale.
Experts say the aggregate effect of the changes will be to drive frustrated government employees out of their jobs, a goal the Trump team is explicitly gunning for. So this is another great, great move. As it says at the end of the article, the effect of forcing government employees to actually show up to work is that a number of them will quit.
If they have to actually work, if they have to actually show up and contribute, they're just going to quit. And that's great. That's great. I mean, if you don't want to come to work and you want to stay home, Stay home. That's fine. That works better for everybody, I think.
And then they're going to end up in the private sector, where they will soon discover that there isn't much demand for ex-bureaucrats who are looking for jobs that won't force them to do any real work. There'll be even less demand when there's going to be this... sudden rush of these ex-bureaucrats in the private sector, all of them looking for the same do-nothing jobs.
So I think they're going to be in for a rude awakening. But at least they'll be out of the government. And so that's one effect of ending the work-from-home arrangement. is that you're just in one fell swoop, without even having to fire them, in one fell swoop, you're getting rid of the most useless bureaucrats of all. Most bureaucrats are useless. 95% of them are useless.
But the most useless ones are going to be the ones who just refuse to actually come into the office. They want to stay home because they've been doing nothing. And so, yeah, that's one benefit. But I also think this is just a good policy in general. I think that even aside from the added benefit, the indirect benefit of chasing bureaucrats out of their jobs, it's a good move.
It's a good policy to require people to come into work. You need to show up for work. There are exceptions to this general rule, but generally speaking, you're going to be far less productive when you're working from home. And in particular, you're not going to be able to collaborate as effectively or at all.
And that's why in most cases, I'm opposed to remote work because you need to be in person. You need to be like with your team. And if you're working from home, you're basically on vacation. That's the truth, and we all know that. People are going to say remote workers will claim otherwise. They're going to say, oh, I'm just as productive as... The studies show...
They'll start trotting out all the studies that show that remote workers are just as productive as non-remote workers. Yeah, how do you do those studies? Those studies are all done by remote workers trying to justify their jobs. And I guarantee it's self-reported data. It's like surveys. Are you productive in your remote job? Why, yes, I am. I'll say the studies show. So...
This is one of those things. I don't need studies. I don't need any data. It's just common sense. It's common sense. When you let people stay home in their pajamas and work on their couch, they're going to get less done. They're just going to get less done. Now, it's true that a lot of people are going to offices and don't get a lot done. That's also true.
But all the things about an office environment, or most of the things about an office environment, that allow people to do very little. Most of those things you're going to have in a remote work environment, but worse. So that's it. And one of the dumbest arguments for remote work is that I hear this sometimes, especially from conservatives who are trying to justify it.
They'll say, well, it's more traditional. It's traditional to work from home because traditionally, prior to the industrial age, you wouldn't leave your homestead to work. You'd be working at home on the farm or whatever. But that's not at all even slightly analogous to modern remote work because working from home traditionally,
was something that you did out in the fields or out in the forest hunting. You're out building things and all of that. There's a lot of manual labor being done. It was not something that you did on your couch in your pajamas. Traditionally, working from home, you were not in bed all day doing it. So this is a whole different thing. And I kind of hate it.
I hate trying to work with people who are working from home. Because I can't work with a disembodied voice on the phone or like a face on the screen. It's very difficult to work that way. You need to be in the same place. Now, granted, in a creative field, it's a little bit different. Some of it's inevitable.
You know, when we were working on our films, for example, the team is spread out across the country. So just like it's inevitable, unavoidable that everyone's remote from each other. But it kind of proves my point because when you have that and then you get the team together in one space physically, you're going to find that you get a lot more done. And it's just the creative energy is different.
It's better. Now, in these government jobs, there's not a lot of creativity. So that part doesn't really matter as much. But just go to work. Go to work. It's healthier. You know what, too? I also think, and I guess this will be controversial. In particular, if you're a man, I think that
You know, when you're when you're working from home and especially if you have a wife and kids and your wife and kids are just kind of like they can just see you in sweatpants every day, like sitting on a computer and you call it working. It's just not it's it's healthier for them to see you get up, get dressed, leave the house, go do a job, come back.
It's just it's a healthier environment, I think. All right. NBC News has this. Senators received an affidavit Tuesday from the former sister-in-law of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, in which she says his behavior caused his second wife to fear for her safety.
The receipt of the affidavit comes after Senate Armed Services Committee staffers were in contact with Hegseth's former sister-in-law for several days. Former sister-in-law Daniel Hegseth submitted the affidavit response to a January 18th letter from Senator Jack Reed seeking a statement attesting to your personal knowledge about Mr. Hegseth's fitness to occupy this important position. Um,
And Reid said in a statement Tuesday, as I've said for months, the reports of Mr. Haig's history of alleged sexual assault, alcohol abuse, and public misconduct necessitated an exhaustive background investigation. I've been concerned that the background check process has been inadequate, and this sworn affidavit confirms the fact.
Danielle describes in the affidavit allegations of volatile and threatening conduct by Hegseth that made his second wife, Samantha Hegseth, fear for her safety. Among the allegations are that Samantha hid in a closet once from Hegseth, that she developed escape plans for use if she felt she needed to get away from Hegseth,
it would be activated with a code word, and that she did once put the escape plan into action. Now, in an email response on Monday, Samantha Hegseth said, first and foremost, I have not and will not comment on my marriage to Pete Hegseth.
I do not have representatives speaking on my behalf, nor have I ever asked anyone to share or speak about the details of my marriage on my behalf, whether it be a reporter, a committee member, a transition team member, etc. I do not believe your information to be accurate, and I have cc'd my lawyer.
And then later she followed up and said there was no physical abuse in my marriage, and she's not going to talk about it anymore. Okay, so the former sister-in-law says that Hegseth abused his second wife. The woman herself, the second wife, Samantha, says that it didn't happen, and that she doesn't want to be involved in this whole thing. And that's the end.
That's kind of the end of the story, or it should be. There's not a lot else to talk about. You've got a bitter former relative with... who apparently has got allegedly a political axe to grind. So there's somebody on the left. So as a personal and political axe to grind, making secondhand accusations on behalf of somebody who says herself that it didn't happen and she doesn't want to be involved.
Now, we've obviously talked a lot about the death of wokeness. And I'm not going to belabor the point here again, but this is yet, I would say this is yet another sign, another symptom of the death of wokeness.
Because they tried to Me Too Pete Hegseth, and by all rights, we kind of take this for granted, but now you can take it for granted, but you think back, by all rights, judging by recent history, Pete Hegseth is a perfect candidate for a Me Too smear campaign. For an effective one. He's a white conservative man. Fox News host. Who like anyone has his own personal issues. Everybody does.
They have some accusers lined up. Ready to make their evidence free allegations. We've seen this story a million times. And the difference is that if this was six years ago. It probably would have worked. Hegseth.
most likely would have been screwed because they would have been able to turn him into a pariah and brand him as an abuser and a rapist without evidence, as they did to so many other people during the height of the MeToo hysteria, as they did to Kavanaugh. Now, with Kavanaugh, it didn't work in the sense that they didn't stop him from being, from him actually becoming a Supreme Court justice. But
From a reputational damage standpoint, it did work. Here, though, it's just a total flop. The MeToo campaign against Hegseth is completely flopping. He's going to be confirmed. The vast majority of elected Republicans aren't paying any attention to the slander or pretending to take it seriously.
You're not getting a lot of, you know, you're not even getting like the squishy Republicans who come out and say, well, these are very concerning allegations. We have to take this seriously. You're not even getting very much of that. And then kind of culturally, I think most people aren't paying attention. They don't really care that much. So the Me Too campaign here is shouting into a void.
Nobody cares. It's all for nothing. And that's not to take away from the impact this kind of defamation must be having on Hegseth personally and emotionally. It's all still very evil and terrible what they're doing. Don't get me wrong. But my point is that they are failing utterly in their actual objective. And so we've seen the death of DEI. We've seen gender ideology very much on the ropes.
And now we're seeing Me Too, the final nail in its coffin as well. I think it kind of dies with Pete Hegseth. This was its last dying gasp was trying to take down Pete Hegseth, and they've completely failed, thankfully. Let's get to the comment section.
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Imagine telling someone who lived 100 years ago that a president had to issue an executive order defining the difference between man and woman, and that there were people upset about that. Well, there are many things about the modern age that would be incomprehensible to somebody 100 years ago, and this is probably at the top of the list.
Referring to the Elon faux Nazi salute allegations, someone says, most people don't understand an overexcited introvert in public. Yeah, although I think, you know, I'm not sure they don't understand. I think they do understand. I think they're pretending that they don't. I think all the people claiming that Elon deliberately did a Nazi salute are pretending.
I don't think that they actually believe that. I don't. I don't think anyone actually believes that Elon Musk is a Nazi. I just don't think that's a view, a viewpoint, a perspective that anyone sincerely holds. I don't think that there is space for the USA to expand its territory. Greenland is not just Danish, it's also European, and the 500 million indigenous Europeans will not be thrilled.
Okay, well, number one, I don't really care what they think about it. Greenland is on our continent. Our continent is our business. And second, the proposal that Trump has been floating is to buy Greenland, not to take it by force. I mean, we could take it by force, but the idea is to buy it. And I think that's what's going to happen. Can't be too expensive.
You could probably get it on eBay for what? Eighty five bucks or something. I'm excited about Trump winning. I like some of the stuff Elon has done, but I'm still skeptical about the dude. And Mars is one of the things I don't get. How are we going to go to Mars because we think Earth might be too hard to live on? The least hospitable places on Earth are more fit to live on than Mars.
How about starting projects to terraform our deserts? At least they have breathable air. You don't have to transport terraforming equipment and a specialized crew millions of miles across space to get there. That would be more worthwhile, in my opinion. You know, I actually don't disagree. I personally don't see the utility in trying to colonize Mars.
And as you say, if we're going to convert unlivable hellscapes into livable spaces, we could start by doing that on our own desert wastelands. I mean, at least nothing else, if for no other reason than kind of a proof of concept. And I know they've done experiments and that sort of thing in deserts and
in really inhospitable places on Earth where they've used that to simulate the environment on another planet or in space. But really a proof of concept would be to, as you say, take a place in the desert somewhere and turn it into a livable community and actually have people move in and live there and just kind of see how that works out over the course of years. And then maybe you'll...
have some evidence that something similar could be done on Mars, although the task would be much, much greater. But for me, so I kind of agree with you. Now, again, I go back to, and this is, you know, I'm not one to just say, well, trust the experts, but Elon Musk, the guy who runs SpaceX, does know a lot more about this than we do, and he seems to think that it's very doable to colonize Mars.
And so I do defer to him a bit on that. But for me, it doesn't even matter because it doesn't make me any less excited about landing a human on Mars. Because for me, it's not about doing anything practical with the space, right? It's not about using it. You go to Mars because you can. That's why you do it. You achieve the goal for its own sake.
I mean, why was it an achievement for Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary, to be the first person to reach the top of Mount Everest in 1953, I believe? Why was that an achievement? We're not using the space for anything, right? We didn't go up there and set up an apartment complex. No, he climbed it because no one ever had before. He climbed it because it's there and because he can.
And so you do it because it's an achievement. You do it for its own sake. And that's how I look at landing on another planet. I mean, I don't understand the people. I get it if you have questions about the practicality of setting up human colonies on other planets. But I cannot wrap my head around people who see no value at all in going to another planet. Really?
Being able to send, for the United States of America to be able to send a person to another planet, be the first people to ever do it, the greatest achievement in the history of the human race, by far. I mean, it wouldn't be anything that even comes close to it. And I don't get the, you really don't see the value in that? That wouldn't make, that wouldn't excite you?
That's the one, you know, the one reason why I kind of dread the future possibility of landing on Mars. The one thing that makes me dread it is how angry and frustrated I know I'm going to be by the reaction from so many in the American public. That's the one thing about it that I'm just anticipating that.
That 10 years from now, whenever it is that we land on Mars, I just know ahead of time I'm going to be so pissed off by the way some people in America reacted. Because I tell you, here's what's going to happen. You're going to have the normal people like me who are... exuberance about it. It's the most incredible thing we've ever seen swelling with patriotic pride.
A moment that we will never forget, that we're happy we lived long enough just to see it. So there's gonna be us. Then you're gonna have some people who just refuse to believe that it actually happened. So that's gonna be a thing. We already know that. There's gonna be people just ahead of time, they will just not believe it. Doesn't matter what evidence, it doesn't matter.
They won't believe that it happened. You won't be able to convince them. So there'll be all kinds of conspiracy theories about how it didn't even really happen. So there's gonna be that. And there's gonna be probably the larger group of people who are like, eh, what was the point? We can't even build a Walmart on Mars. What's the point?
there's not even a single shopping center there what do we do what do we do that for uh so there's gonna be so much of that and it's gonna make me so angry i'm angry ahead of time just anticipating i'm gonna be angry for years just anticipating being angry about that uh which is probably not very healthy psychologically
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And that's how I can justify talking about Senator John Fetterman, who decided to attend the inauguration on Monday in his Sunday best. And because he is a cartoon character with a walk-in closet at home filled with 60 versions of the exact same outfit, his Sunday best looked like this. Here it is.
Now, as you can see, the senator decided to attend a presidential inauguration in gym shorts and a hoodie. Every other man in the room is, of course, wearing a suit because they're adults. And this is a presidential inauguration. But Fetterman decided to dress like a teenage boy lounging around his parents' house.
Now, granted, he did wear his fancy black Carhartt hoodie for the occasion, which is basically Fetterman's version of a tuxedo. But even so, a hoodie is a hoodie. And this is, I must remind you, a United States senator at a presidential inauguration. Now, I understand that we're supposed to see this hoodie gimmick as somehow endearing.
I would have found it far more endearing to see Fetterman dragged out of the ceremony in handcuffs by Secret Service for dressing that way. Even better, he should have been refused entry to begin with. Okay, they should have, like in the sitcom, they should have picked him up. I mean, it would have taken several of them to do this, but pick him up and throw him out into the street into a puddle.
Okay, that's what they should have done. That's the kind of reception that any normal person could expect if they tried to show up to an event like that dressed in their gym clothes. But Fetterman is given special treatment. He's a United States Senator, but we treat him like he's mentally disabled. As though it's rude for us to notice that his outfit is insanely inappropriate for the occasion.
But Fetterman is not mentally disabled, or I'll say if he is, he should be removed from the Senate immediately. If he isn't, he should be expected to abide by the basic standards of dress and decorum that literally every other senator and congressman and public official and adult of any profession anywhere at any point on earth is expected to follow. The only possible legitimate excuse
which is that Fetterman is mentally handicapped, should disqualify him from office. There is no other excuse. And I certainly don't wanna hear, as we have many times, Fetterman's rather bulbous build makes it impossible for him to find a suit that fits. We've heard that. I think he's offered that excuse.
And that excuse might make sense if tailors didn't exist or if there was only one tailor in the entire world and he lived on the top of a mountain in the Himalayas and you had to go on a nine-month journey on foot with a pack mule just to find him and get your measurements taken. But as it happens, tailors are everywhere and very easy to find, especially in D.C.,
Fetterman is a United States senator with a nice six-figure salary. He can afford to get some adjustments done on a suit. It's not that expensive. In fact, I bet he could get it done for free. If word got out that John Fetterman wants to start dressing like a real grown-up, there'd probably be tailors lining up to make him custom suits for free. It would be great marketing for them.
So if Fetterman is not severely mentally ill, and if he can, in fact, afford to get a suit that fits him, What is the reason for this embarrassing display? I would never let my eight year old son go to church on a random Sunday dressed like that. None of us would. I certainly hope you wouldn't. So how is it that a senator is being held to a lower standard of dress than an elementary school child?
Well, I'm told that Fetterman presents this way because he's just a normal down to earth working class type guy. But that's precisely what he isn't. No working class guy would ever, in a million years, show up to an important formal event dressed like a disgusting slob. Okay, I've been to many weddings and other formal events with plenty of normal working class people in attendance.
And I have never seen anyone ever adorned in a hoodie and gym shorts at an event like that. And certainly if a normal working class guy, if you just caught up any guy who's working at You know, call up any plumber right now and invite him to witness a presidential inauguration. You think he's showing up in a hoodie and gym shorts? No, that's a man who says, well, this is a historic event.
If I don't have a suit, I'm going to buy one. I'll do whatever I can. I want to present myself well. So that's what a normal working class person, a normal person of any social or economic class would say. Working class guys have far too much respect for the importance of the occasion, not to mention respect for themselves to show up looking like that.
Which is why if you're a working class person or if you have any respect for working class people, that's all the more reason to be disgusted by Fetterman's behavior. He is cosplaying. He's wearing a working class costume. This is like the working class version of blackface, class face, maybe we could call it. It's demeaning. It's also monumentally arrogant.
That's the other reason why a person might show up to an inauguration in a hoodie and shorts. Either he's mentally handicapped or he is a colossally arrogant prick who thinks the most basic standards of decorum and conduct don't apply to him. Or I guess he could be drawing from a bit from column A and column B, which may explain Fetterman.
Now, I brought this up on Twitter and a lot of people responded with some version of, it's fine, he's just being himself. Well, yeah, that's exactly the problem. His self is a problem. He needs to change himself. If I sit at your dinner table and I chew loudly with my mouth open and I put my feet up at the table, I can't excuse it on the basis that I'm just being myself.
Of course I'm being myself. We're all always being ourselves, okay? We cannot be anything but ourselves. Whatever I am being in any given moment is what myself is being because I am myself. So in this case, myself is rude, crass, inconsiderate. Myself needs to change. Fetterman is rude, crass, and inconsiderate. He should not be that. It is bad to be that. He needs to change.
If somebody showed up to your daughter's wedding, dressed the way that Fetterman dresses, you would consider it an act of extreme disrespect. Because that's what it would be. And that's what it is when Fetterman does it. It's not authentic or down to earth. It's just rude and really bizarre.
And I also don't want to hear, as I know I will in the comments, that we should give him a pass because Fetterman is one of the good Democrats. First of all, those don't exist. Second, I don't care, okay? His politics are irrelevant to the point I'm making. I don't care what his politics, he can come out tomorrow as a full-on conservative Republican.
It wouldn't change the fact that you need to put a damn suit on, okay? He still needs to be a damn grown adult and put a suit on. That's why he is today. Sadly, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.