Matt Welch
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460 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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uh, uh, the arguments for it. And there really weren't that many, there wasn't actually the like principled libertarian arguments against it. It was mostly like, Oh, this is just a culture war issue. I think John Hickenlooper was saying that, uh, it, it affects almost nobody. Um, uh, Fetterman said that, uh, it's important to show that you're an ally to trans people. Um, and, um,
I actually agree that it's important to show that you're an ally to your to all constituents. But I don't know what what a vote on this has anything to do with that. Honestly, it's like, do you have the legal rights to participate in society? That's kind of where that goes as far as I'm concerned.
And then I think it was Cortez Masto said something along the lines of if this passes, then all all girls are going to have their genitals inspected. And I just don't think that that's really. Yeah. What's going to happen? I don't think that's what's happening right now in the NCAA. Can I tell you something, Matt?
I just want to say that my 16-year-old, who I think is brain damaged without getting hit by a volleyball, but her first day of... I'm kidding, I love you. Her first day of middle school here in Brooklyn, public middle school, first day of math class. They were encouraged. They were told by their teacher this week is National Coming Out Week.
So you should feel comfortable, everyone in this room, to come out at age 11. Here in math class in middle school, this is not an isolated type of incident. It happens in a lot of spaces. And I think people are right to go, this is what we should do with 11-year-olds.
Democrats are always trying to tell us that we have joy. Remember the Democratic convention? Like, wow, to be all the joy in this room. We're joyful. And they're always sending theater kids to fix the problem. I just don't understand either one of those things.
It's the music. The music in the background. Fantastic. Little piano thing.
Don't do it. Oh.
Oh God. She's like Stalin. Don't unbutton anything.
Megan, you either need to pay your producers like five times, just hazard pay, or fire them all. I'm not sure which. Or fire yourself.
I mean, who they should bring in is Lech Walesa. They should bring in Lech Walesa, who sent the solidarity anti-communist hero, who, with a bunch of other dissidents from Poland, sent a really sharply worded letter to Donald Trump the other day, making the impassioned case that you shouldn't abandon someone who's been invaded by Russia. That's a serious response.
Darkening your nostrils is not a serious response. I mean, she ended up looking like Lech Walesa, to be honest. That's true.
Wow. Go ahead, Matt. I just want to say that our friend Harry Enten, he's really undergone a change since the election. His New York accent is a lot more pronounced now. I love it. Suddenly just out of bruising like crazy. This opinion change has been going for a while.
Americans had an instinctive and I think correct, at least that I share with desire to support Ukraine in the wake of them getting invaded, unprovoked by Russia. which was Vladimir Putin's fault and not, as Donald Trump has suggested on various times, Zelensky's fault. And other people have suggested that too. Elon Musk and other people have blamed Zelensky for this, which I think is shameful.
And it becomes a conspiracy theory of its own on the right that we're seeing playing out here and there. But so what happens if uh, the U S United States public, preferably through their congressional representatives decide that it's time to stop supporting Ukraine, or at least just say, Hey, look, we gave you a lot of money for a lot of time, but now we don't see a path to victory.
We feel like we were throwing a lot of money. And also, um, this should be a European led initiative to begin with, which is something that I agree with that latter bit for sure. Uh, should have been that three years ago should have been that 30 years ago. OK, so what does what should an administration do with that set of information?
I think there's an honorable way to go to them and say, hey, look, this is going to wind down. If you want someone else to be your chief sponsor, go with God. But we we don't see a path to victory. We're not going to give you that money. But that's not what the Trump administration has done. And it remains to be seen.
Sure, if there's going to be a conflict with a foreign leader and getting all talky and barky in the White House, Americans are going to support the president and the president is, you know, lighting something on fire, being completely bizarre. We are patriotic people and we rally behind our own. But what should the honorable thing to do? It should be sort of like we are stepping back.
Now, from this role, we don't want to say who's going to, you know, we're not going to dictate terms to people. But Trump is not satisfied with that. He wants to end the war and he wants to be seen as the one who ended the war. And so now we're going from basically leaning very hard on the Ukraine side to starting to lean a little bit on the Russia side. And that is a less honorable path.
And I don't know if Americans who are tired and growing increasingly weary of this war are going to like that particular part of the side switching. We want to be seen as, Americans generally, want to be seen as having a moral stance in the world. Being on Russia's side, even if it's a realistic response, which is how JD Vance and Donald Trump position this, like, hey, look,
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