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Today, the Matt Walsh Show. On their way out the door, the Biden administration attempted to install a new constitutional amendment just by declaring that it exists. It doesn't work that way, obviously, but what were they even trying to attempt? And how do we explain all of the mainstream and left wing figures in culture and entertainment suddenly falling in line behind Trump? What does it signal about conservatism moving forward? Talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wa. Today, history will be made. We're live from DC as we prepare for Donald Trump to take the oath of office. Watch it all live on Daily Wire plus and celebrate the 47th President with 47% off your membership. Go to DailyWire.com support subscribe. Being a husband and father and host of my own show means life never slows down. Imagine trying to eat 31 different fruits and vegetables every day. Sounds miserable and time consuming. 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But against all odds, none of those tactics worked. And as a result, Donald Trump is currently once again the President of the United States. Now, there are a lot of ways that you can measure the extent of the historic transformation that this country is about to undergo. You can look at the hundreds of executive orders that Trump is signing today. Orders that will enable oil drilling and dei, the military, establish the Department of Government Efficiency, secure the border, and so on. You can also look at how our culture is clearly changing, as evidenced by the steady stream of tech executives and celebrities who are now publicly supporting Trump. Censorship, open borders, political oppression. These are not very appealing to most Americans. And now their government will finally reflect that but maybe the best way to measure our country's imminent transformation is to pay attention to what the Biden administration did on their way out the door. And the contrast tells really the whole story with very little fanfare and with no legal authority whatsoever. Of course, just days ago, the Biden administration announced that it has the unilateral authority to amend the U.S. constitution. So they went ahead and declared on the way out the door that we have 28amendments now, instead of what we all thought, which was 27. Now, before I get into the specifics of the amendment that these people think they've added to the Constitution, let's just be clear about one thing. Amending the US Constitution is one of the most difficult and carefully considered actions that can be taken in American politics. The framers made sure of that. It's supposed to require a near total buy in of the country, and that's why it's only happened 27 times in our history. If it was really easy to amend the Constitution, as easy as the Biden administration thinks it is, then we'd have 650amendments by now. And yet the Biden administration, just before leaving office for good, decided to preempt that entire process and give all of that authority to themselves. And they did it at a time when their political capital was at its lowest. They did it after Americans made it very clear that they're tired of this administration and want them out of office. That's the contrast between the Biden administration and the current Trump administration. That's the transformation that we're undergoing right now as a country. We're moving from lawlessness and authoritarianism back to the system of constitutional order that's held this country together for centuries. So, in case you missed this unprecedented and pretty bizarre and, in a weird way, kind of hilarious power grab, here's Joe Biden the other day announcing out of nowhere that we now have a new 28th amendment, which is called the Equal Rights Amendment. It's supposedly our first new amendment in more than three decades. Watch. I affirm the Equal Rights Amendment to have cleared all the necessary hurdles to be added to the U.S. constitution. Now, the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land. Now, it's the 28th Amendment to the Constitution now. Now, normally, in the final days of a presidential administration, you pretty much know what to expect. You'll get a farewell address, moving vans will arrive at the White House, there will be a bunch of questionable pardons, and then they'll leave. But this time, they're throwing in a constitutional amendment on their way out the door. They're altering the founding document of the entire country. Or they're trying to. They think they do. And they're trying to do it kind of in the same way that Michael Scott declared bankruptcy in the office, if you remember that episode, by just like standing up and literally declaring bankruptcy in the office. Though I have to admit, I never thought the office would provide the precedent for the President of the United States attempting to amend the Constitution. But here we are, because they're attempting to do it in the same kind of way. Amend the Constitution by just declaring it amended. Of course, what makes this whole situation even more disturbing is that everyone knows that Biden didn't come up with the idea to suddenly ratify a new amendment. Whoever's running the government decided to do this, and it stands to reason that they did it for a reason. So why would some unnamed bureaucrats in an unpopular outgoing Democrat administration decide to pretend that they've amended the US Constitution on their way out the door? That's a question I think that's worth digging into. In case you're not familiar with the background of the so called Equal Rights Amendment. Well, here it is. It was first introduced in Congress in 1923 and it guarantees that everybody will receive equal treatment under the law, regardless of their sex. Of course, we already had an equal protection clause in the Constitution, but which makes the whole thing irrelevant and redundant. But various factions in the feminist movement thought that they needed an additional guarantee of equality for one reason or another. So we have the general guarantee of equality, but then they want their own special guarantee of equality also written into the same document. Meanwhile, other factions actually wanted women to have more rights than men, so they opposed the amendment on those grounds. But in any event, that's what began the process of making the so called Equal Rights Amendment into an actual amendment. Congress approved it, sent it to the states, and under our Constitution, three fourths of state legislatures would have to ratify the amendment in order for it to take effect. Additionally, Congress set a seven year deadline for ratification which expired in 1979. Now, by 1979, three fourths of state legislators had not in fact ratified the amendment. In fact, several states that initially ratified it ended up rescinding the ratification. So that's it, you know, that's it. It didn't happen. Or at least that should be it. As the DOJ announced in 2020, quote, we concluded that Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a deadline on the ratification of the era. And because that deadline has expired, the ERA resolution is no longer pending before the states. Then, in 2022, under the Biden administration, the DOJ affirmed that decision. That same year, Kamala Harris put out this. The principle of gender equality belongs in our Constitution. The President and I are calling on Congress to pass a resolution recognizing ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The time has come. Well, that never happened either. But last week, in defiance of its own DOJ and its own prior statements, the Biden administration decided to just come out and announce that the 28th Amendment is somehow real. As Kamala Harris put it, quote, the Equal Rights Amendment is the 28th Amendment and it's the law of the land. So this still leaves the question of what exactly is going on here, because obviously they're saying it's an amendment. It's not though, so what's the point? Now, some people have pointed out that the national archivist who has the responsibility of officially publishing amendments isn't actually doing so. And the Biden administration isn't ordering the archivists to do it either, which may indicate that they understand this is all meaningless political theater. Maybe they just wanted to rile up the base in their last days in office for some reason. That would be completely pointless, obviously. But then again, these people obviously don't have the best political instincts, so who knows? But there's reason to think that they're going for something else. All weekend, a bunch of high profile Democrats put out tweets in lockstep praising this new fake amendment. But one of those Democrats, Kirsten Gillibrand, kind of gave the game away. She hinted very strongly at the Democrats goal here. Here's what she wrote. Quote, this is an incredible moment for reproductive freedom and a historic day for equality, especially with Americans facing the further degradation of reproductive freedom as the incoming administration takes power. Now, women living in states with restrictions on reproductive health reproductive freedoms can and should file suits to overturn these unconstitutional laws that discriminate on the basis of sex. I know they will have ample support as they seek justice, and I promise to stand by their side in this fight. So that's the tell. Gillibrand is spelling it out. The goal is to give activists a pretext to file lawsuits against abortion bans. And here's what they want to argue. Abortion bans discriminate on the basis of sex because they only affect women. And therefore they violate this new constitutional amendment, which doesn't exist. And so they have to be struck down on that basis. There are, you know, approximately a million problems with this argument. For one thing, the hypocrisy is so off the charts that it's almost comical. Democrats have spent the last decade telling us that men can get pregnant. So on that basis alone, this would not discriminate on the basis of sex. And now they're insisting that abortion bans discriminate against women on the basis of sex because only women can get pregnant. So once again, as always, they're trying to have it both ways and they're hoping that none of us notice that they want to have it both ways, but, you know, we do. But somehow there's an even bigger issue for Democrats like Kirsten Gilburn, which is that the Dobbs decision explicitly held that laws against abortion do not constitute sex discrimination. Of course they don't. The Supreme Court could not have been more clear about this. Quoting from the majority opinion by Justice Alito, A state's regulation of abortion is not a sex based classification. In other words, even if Democrat activists do go to court and manage to convince a left wing judge in California that this fake amendment is real, it still doesn't matter because the Supreme Court has already ruled that it's not sex discrimination to prevent a child from being slaughtered. So you can't send it back to the Supreme Court to have them say again what they've already said. And of course it's not sex discrimination, by the way, because the law against abortion is not that only women aren't allowed to kill their children, it's that, well, nobody can kill children, so that's the law. So that's equal rights under the law. Now, what this means is that again, on the way out the door, Democrats have done a fantastic job illustrating why they're no longer in power. They have demonstrated once again that they have no regard whatsoever for the Constitution they're supposedly sworn to protect. And at the same time, they've demonstrated their complete incompetence. Because even if this bizarre last minute scheme had actually convinced anyone that we now have a 28th amendment to the Constitution, it still would not overturn abortion bans anywhere. This fake amendment is the perfect capstone to Biden's four years in office. It is fundamentally anti American, illegal and laughably corrupt. And just like this fake amendment, after today, no one will have any reason to think about the Biden administration ever again. Now let's get to our five headlines. I have a question for you. 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Before considering their services, you should carefully review Constitutional wealth disclosures@constitutionwealth.com to understand all material risks, conflict of interest, and fees. All investing involves risk, including the risk of loss. This is a paid endorsement and I am not a client of the firm. All right, it'll be a very abbreviated headline segment today and, and an abbreviated show because I have to make the walk over to the set to start our inauguration coverage. Also, nobody's watching this show today because everyone's watching the inauguration coverage, which is fine. I get it. You know, I don't, I don't hold it against you. So anyway, yes, we are in, we are in D.C. right now. So. Which explains the different set behind me. And it's been a pretty interesting experience, very surreal. The whole city is shut down. You know, all the streets around the hotel we're staying are closed off, you know, so you go outside, there are no cars driving around. You got to walk through, through checkpoints and everything. And you know, I've never been in D.C. at the time of inauguration before. I've heard that this is the level of security has ramped up considerably from previous years. I don't know if that's the case or not. And meanwhile, all the people who are in town right now are conservatives, you know, MAGA people for the inauguration. So which is also a bit surreal. Everywhere I go, I'm running into people who are fans of fans, fans of the Daily Wire, which is great, but it's a very different vibe from what you're used to when you go to DC. And by the way, for those who have wondered, I mentioned these fancy balls and dinners and things that I'm going to and I shared with you my deep concern, my deep worry that the fancy balls would get in the way of watching the Ravens game on Sunday night. And fortunately we went to the one last night and actually it was Brett Cooper's husband who had the game on his phone. So I stood and watched the rest of the game on the phone and at the ball and, you know, we lost. So I don't really want to talk about it. The Ravens lost, two point conversion, dropped at the end of the game. Absolute dagger. So now I'm standing there in my tuxedo and everyone is celebrating and in a great mood and I understand, but I've just suffered this great trauma and I have to walk around and talk to people and act happy for the rest of the night. And it was tough. It was tough to put on a brave face. But you do what you have to do. And the other thing too is that when you go to these things, the music is so loud that you can't understand what anyone is saying. So I'm having, I probably had 300 conversations with people and I have no idea what was said on the other end of the conversation. So they're saying something in a muffled voice because I can't hear because of the music. And my response is always, yeah, yeah, uh huh, uh huh, yeah. So I was agreeing to things all night and I don't know what I agreed to. For all I know, people were coming up to me and say, hey, what do you think? I sneak into your hotel room tomorrow night and murder you in your sleep? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Sounds good. That's the way it goes. But it was a great event. It was a great event and things are not so great for our friends on the left though. Which leads us to this one headline that I wanted to read because this is the last day that it'll be even remotely relevant. This is from the Daily Wire. Protesters at the Women's March in Washington D.C. argue that Donald Trump presents a serious threat to women's rights and American freedoms, but failed to provide concrete examples of how the President elect will actually do that. The Daily Wire attended the Women's March on Saturday morning in the nation's capital where thousands of anti Trump and left leaning protesters gathered to voice their opinions on a wide variety of topics. Trump himself, abortion, transgender issues, immigration, climate change and more. And I just wanna play you some of the conversation that the Daily Wire reporters had with the women who were at the Women's March. You might not even have even known that there was another women's March. I'm in D.C. and I didn't know that it happened. It apparently happened not far from our hotel and I had no idea this was even going on. Which gives you an idea of the size of this thing, which is that it was not very sizable at all. 2016, they claimed that there was a million people who showed up. Reportedly it drew a million people in. Well, 2017, in January of 2017. And I don't know if it was really a million. I think they probably inflated that number, but it was a lot. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people showed up in 2017 after Trump was sworn in for the first Women's March. And it was a massive, massive outcry. Right. And backlash against Trump's victory. This time they drew a few thousand. I mean, it had to be a tenth of what they had, maybe even less than that. So here are some of the conversations they had with these activists trying to explain why they were out protesting Trump watching.