Matt Walsh
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the DNC met over the weekend to elect their new leadership. It was an unintentionally hilarious circus that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing from their embarrassing defeat. Also, Trump's tariffs on Mexico are already getting big results. Trump now has his eyes set on Panama. He says America should control it.
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So when the moderator says you all passed, he's making a more revealing statement than he probably realized. The question was a test, and specifically it was a test of loyalty. He's trying to determine who's willing to affirm party orthodoxy, even in the face of clear evidence that the party orthodoxy is false.
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The vast majority of Americans understand that Kamala lost because she was a terrible candidate who played a key role in a terrible administration. That's why she lost the popular vote as well as the election. But in the Democrat Party of 2025, you're not allowed to criticize the party establishment, which Kamala Harris represents. And or at least did.
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And you're certainly not allowed to criticize a black woman for any reason. So this is what you're left with. And that's why the ultimate results of this DNC meeting were not surprising in the slightest. As the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out. And that is why, in the end, David Hogg, the man who built a lucrative career on the bodies of his dead classmates, was elected vice chair of the DNC.
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Yes, David Hogg is now a major party, a major figure in the Democrat Party. And here's that big announcement, which, of course, is prefaced by a guy quoting the sage words of Beyonce.
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You can use my special link to get four extra months of ExpressVPN for free at expressvpn.com slash Walsh. That's E-X-P-R-E-S-S-V-P-N dot com slash Walsh. It's still obviously very early in the process, but I think I may have identified the candidate that Democrats are going to run in the next election. This is not a definite prediction. Everything's subject to change at this point.
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Now, there's an old adage about never interrupting your enemy when he's making a mistake. And in this case, the enemies of civilization are clearly making a massive and unforced error. So really, I probably shouldn't say anything here. But in this case, I can't resist because even David Hogg himself has explained to Democrats why this is a terrible idea. So let's put this image on the screen.
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Here's what here's what Hogg has written, quote. Like I'm already one of the most politically toxic people in the country. Any politician doing anything with me is in effect committing political suicide. Close quote. And that about sums it up. And there's a reason that Hogg wrote that. I mean, he's on record making some of the dumbest and most politically damaging statements imaginable.
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Here's just a small collection of them. And there's, I mean, hundreds you could choose. As you can see, David Hogg has written, quote, abolish ICE, defund the police. The NRA needs to be designated a terrorist organization. He also predicted Joe Biden would win the last election pretty confidently. These are ideas that Kamala Harris tried to run away from. And it still didn't work.
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And now Democrats are embracing all of it. And things get even worse when you look at the man who won the office of DNC chair. This is the guy that David Hogg will be advising as vice chair. It's a guy named Ken Martin who currently leads Democrats in Minnesota.
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And if you don't know anything about Ken Martin, which nobody does, here's how he answered one very important question during this leadership contest. This is just about the simplest question and the easiest one he could have possibly been asked. and he managed to give the wrong answer. Here it is.
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Now, a lot of polls, including Democrats own internal polls, show that this kind of thing is what cost the Democrats the last election. And the DNC chair has just doubled down on it. Instead of saying, no, we shouldn't fund sex changes for illegal aliens, he gave pretty much the same response Kamala Harris gave.
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He has embraced what is perhaps the single least popular, it's the single least popular position in maybe political history. It'd be hard to think of one less popular than this. Funding sex changes for illegal aliens who are in prison is the kind of thing seemingly designed to piss off nearly every group and demographic in the country.
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Save for the demographic of pink haired people with septum piercings. Those are the only people you're appealing to with a position like that. And as we found, there's not enough of those people to win a national election. Thank God. Meanwhile, his vice chair admits that the party's committing political suicide just by associating with him.
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And in the background, there's a chorus of non-binary men and angry BIPOC screaming about racism. That's the state of Democrat Party in 2025. And the point here is not just to make fun of Democrats, although that's a big part of it, and it's always a lot of fun. The real point is that the DNC clearly has not learned a single thing from their recent humiliating defeats.
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But after what happened at the Democrat National Committee on Saturday, any reasonable person would agree that I'm onto something here. So for background, on Saturday, Democrats met to select a new chair for the DNC, along with a slew of other roles, including vice chair. And one candidate for the job, her name is Dr. Quintessa Hathaway. stole the show.
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The Democrat Party is a bicycle with only one gear. This is it. Identity politics is just too deeply embedded in the core of the institution. It's all they know how to do. And that means that one of two outcomes is possible here going forward. Either the Democrats are headed towards a generation of irrelevance, or they will somehow
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successfully pull the culture back into the sort of fog of wokeness that we only recently seem to be emerging from. And watching what happened at the DNC this weekend, the latter option admittedly doesn't seem very likely at this point, but as long as these people are still running a major party in the US, we have to consider that possibility as remote as it may be.
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And that's why after laughing at these people and sharing as many of these clips as possible because they're objectively hilarious, We need to do everything we can to make sure that they never hold power again. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Let it flourish. Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University, private, Christian, affordable. Visit gcu.edu. Delaware reports Canada and Mexico announced tariffs against the U.S. on Saturday in retaliation for a slate of new import duties President Donald Trump ordered against the U.S. neighbors in China.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that Canada is working with Mexico to push back against Trump's tariffs. Trump ordered increased tariffs on goods from Canada, China and Mexico over a lack of sufficient action against human and drug trafficking that is poured into the U.S. Trudeau said, I think Canadians understand that we need to respond to this.
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We're certainly not looking to escalate, but we will stand up for Canada. Trump issued his own statement on Truth Social saying that condemning his critics and supporters of the decades-long ripoff of America, both with regard to trade, crime, and poisonous drugs that are allowed to so freely flow into America, those days are over.
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Trump ordered 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico with a lesser 10% tariff hike on Canadian energy imports. Trump also ordered a 10% additional tariff on Chinese goods. In return, Canada and Mexico announced their own 25% tariffs on a slate of US goods. So Trump is imposing these tariffs. The reason is pretty simple, pretty clear.
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Now on her website, Dr. Quintessa describes herself as a thought leader, in addition to being a scholar, a historian, and an entrepreneur. So she's like Socrates, Stephen Ambrose, Elon Musk, Albert Einstein rolled into one, plus she's a doctor on top of that.
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For Mexico and Canada, it's because they're not doing enough to secure their side of the border and to prevent the tidal wave of drugs that is flowing into our country, as Trump said. And we've asked these countries nicely for a long time to step up and do their part because it's just not acceptable that this stuff is coming across their borders into our country. It's just not acceptable.
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And, you know, when you're the most powerful country in the region and in the world, in fact, you say to the countries that border you, hey, you need to fix this. OK, this is not allowed to continue. So you need to figure whatever you got to do. You need to figure out a way to fix this. And that's what Trump is doing.
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And Trump is trying to basically force the issue because the thing about the carrot and stick approach is that eventually you got to use the stick. And so here it is. Here's the stick. And it was a long time coming. Now, of course, the media and the left and even some conservatives are freaking out about this, acting like Trump is imposing these tariffs for no reason.
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Acting shocked and like Trump is deranged or something and just doing this randomly. When first of all, Trump has been talking about this since forever. I mean, since way before he even ran for president. So this is Trump doing exactly what he said he would do, what he ran on. That's what gets me about the reaction from a lot of people is he ran on this. He's been talking about this forever.
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And so now he's doing it. Why wouldn't he do it? He ran on it. He won. So, OK, now he's going to do it. And again, there's a reason for it. These countries are directly facilitating the deaths of thousands of Americans by allowing poison to pour across their border into our country. And, you know, does that count as a reason to do it? I'd say it's a reason. It's a pretty good reason.
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Now, meanwhile, Democrats are hysterically warning about the cost of a quote-unquote trade war with China, well, China, yes, but with Canada and Mexico in particular, as if we couldn't easily win such a war, as if we don't obviously have the upper hand in both cases. But Democrats are claiming we don't. Here is Chuck Schumer.
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He's definitely right. I'll explain why. And a liberal philosophy professor humiliates himself in an attempt to debunk J.D. Vance. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show. Freedom isn't free, but what isn't said enough is that online freedom isn't free either. It too has to be defended. While armies defend our physical liberty, encryption protects our digital rights.
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Now granted, Dr. Quintessa is a doctor in the sense that Jill Biden is a doctor, which means that she's a doctor in the sense that she's not a doctor. She has some kind of educational degree or something, but she's not letting that slow her down. Her biography states that her goal in life is to, quote, continue to beat the drum of change.
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OK, well, while Chuck Schumer was was babbling there, I just saw the latest on this. In fact, there's an update beyond what I what I just told you. Delaware just reported this. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that she's moving 10,000 members of the country's National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop drug trafficking.
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Sheinbaum made the announcement after speaking earlier in the day with President Trump following his decision to hit the country with 25% tariffs. She said that Trump administration agreed to pause the implementation of tariffs for one month. Okay, so Trump is apparently pausing the tariffs because we've already gotten, there's already been a response and concessions made by Mexico.
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And exactly what, this was exactly the point. This is the whole point of the tariffs. Wasn't just something frivolous, just doing it for fun. It was to get precisely this reaction. And it looks like, at least according to this statement from the Mexican president, it looks like they've already gotten a response.
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So, I mean, you've got, we just played that clip of the Democrats, and that was Chuck Schumer, I think it was yesterday, talking about how the Super Bowl's gonna be ruined because we can't get guacamole and beer. And meanwhile, Trump announces these tariffs and has them in place for like a day, and already there's a response. And why do we get results that quickly?
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Well, it's because what else are they gonna do? This is what happens when you are the most powerful country in the world and you actually use your power, you wield it without this feeling of embarrassment about it. What else is Mexico gonna do? They can't win a trade war with the United States. They can't win any kind of war with the United States, obviously.
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The only thing they have to hold over our heads, well, you just heard Chuck Schumer, well, beer. You're not gonna be able to get guacamole and beer. Now, by the way, Guacamole, sure, I think probably in a situation where there's a standoff, a Mexican standoff between us and Mexico over tariffs, probably guacamole becomes more expensive. But beer, even that is actually not true.
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Because Mexico, he claims in that clip that Mexico accounts for most of the beer that's sold in this country, most. No. The vast majority of beer sales in this country, I think 78 to 80% are domestic beer sales. Now, Mexico accounts for a big chunk of imported beer sold in this country, but that's still a minority of the sales.
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And as she made her case at the DNC on Saturday, the good doctor did exactly that. So here, for example, is how Dr. Quintessa began her opening statement at the DNC. Now, to be clear, this is not some kind of sketch comedy show.
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So all told, Mexican beer accounts for like, I think 10 to 15% of the beer sales. And then there's another chunk that's imported from other countries. And then the vast majority of it is domestic. So then what happens? Let's say that this were to play out and we didn't get a concession from Mexico.
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And then, yeah, Corona, which, by the way, looks and tastes like stagnant rainwater that's been sitting in a rusty bucket for three weeks. So not much is lost there. But, yeah, Corona becomes more expensive. This Mexican beer becomes more expensive. So then what do American consumers do? Well, you just don't buy that.
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There's a thousand other options of beer that's brewed right here in the United States. Go support your local brewery. It's not that much more expensive and the beer is way better. All that ends up happening in that scenario is that these Mexican beer companies are destroyed because American consumers don't need Corona, but you go without it.
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Like Corona could just cease to exist tomorrow and it would be fine. Like it would not affect anyone's life in this country at all. It wouldn't really affect any of the bars, any of the liquor stores either, because you just replace that with domestic beer. No problem. And as for guacamole, well, yeah, that becomes more expensive.
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But that's a price that most of us, I think most Americans are willing to pay. To keep drugs and poison out of this country, if I got to pay more for guacamole at Chipotle, it's already an upcharge. So add another couple bucks onto it. If it's that important to you, you'll pay the couple bucks. If not, you can just go without guacamole. I like guacamole. Not the end of the world, though. So
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That's the position that Mexico's in, which is why there are already concessions. And so we've seen this now with the Trump administration. I mean, the Trump administration is only two weeks old. And we've seen now repeatedly how Trump has gotten results by actually, by setting clear Like making clear what you want. Here's what America needs. Here's what's in our best interest.
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You say to the other countries. And if you don't do what we need you to do, then here's going to be the penalty. And it turns out that when you communicate that clearly and you set the guidelines and you set the ultimatum, it turns out you get results pretty quickly. Because whether it's Colombia or Mexico, none of these countries want to tangle with the United States.
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This was broadcast on MSNBC to literally dozens of viewers who are eagerly looking forward to seeing how their party was going to move forward after their massive loss in the last election. And here's how it went. Watch.
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There's nothing in it for them. And you got all these morons that are talking as though Mexico could win a trade war with the United States. It's delusional. So already some results there. Here's another area where hopefully we'll see some results. And as far as I know, we haven't seen them just yet, but who knows?
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Well, in fact, we actually have seen results already on this as well, which we'll talk about in a second. But Trump last night was discussing his efforts to take back control of the Panama Canal. And here's what he said about that.
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Okay, so he appears to threaten to use... to use force to take back the canal. At least that's how it's being interpreted by a lot of people. Or maybe he's indicating that taking it back forcefully is an option. So it's not exactly a threat. He's not saying, well, give us back the Panama Canal. We're going to send troops into Panama.
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And I don't think that that's... I don't see that scenario as plausible. But, you know, he says... Like, we got to work this out or something very powerful is going to happen. So you kind of interpret it the way you want. But there is a clear ultimatum there, right? And he's right. He's right on this, too. Yes, we should take back control of the Panama Canal one way or another. That canal is ours.
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We should control it. And Trump is right that China right now exerts a lot of influence over the canal. So there is some real urgency here. And as I alluded to before, Panama, there already are results on this. It's not settled completely, but Panama has, Rubio, new Secretary of State, went down to Panama. And it was his first international trip as Secretary of State.
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And already, Panama has agreed to end a deal with China that had been on the table. So- This is being handled diplomatically. Hopefully it is all worked out diplomatically. It seems to be trending that way. That obviously is vastly preferable. But one way or another, the United States should control the Panama Canal because that canal is ours.
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And just some basic facts about this, if you're not familiar with it or with the history of it. First of all, the vast majority of the ships that go through the canal are coming to or leaving ports in the United States. So it's about 70% of the traffic is going to the United States or coming from the United States. More importantly, we built the canal.
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Okay, the United States spent 10 years building the canal at the beginning of the 20th century. Thousands of Americans died in the process. Now, I think the official estimates are like 5,000, 6,000 Americans. It was probably way more than that. But either way, thousands of Americans died building the canal. It's one of the greatest construction projects ever undertaken in human history.
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One of the greatest engineering marvels in the history of humanity. I mean, they cut a hole in the earth from one ocean to another. It's like inconceivable how they did it. I've read a couple of books now on the Panama Canal, and even after reading the books, in fact, even more so after reading the books and learning about the process, you can't wrap your mind around it. How is that possible?
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Just imagine that. Like, imagine...
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It's one thing if you go to the Panama Canal, which I never have been, and you look at it when it's already constructed, but imagine standing on that plot of land before anything was constructed, when it was just a jungle, because that's what it was, and trying to conceptualize how we're going to dig a giant hole that goes from this ocean all the way to the next one across...
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We're going to split these two continents in two. And that's what America did. And this country built it and paid for it. This was American grit and ingenuity, and we paid for it with American treasure and American blood. So why in the hell should anyone but America have control over it? Why should Panama have control over it? Panama didn't build it. Panama didn't build it.
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They didn't pay for it. And they're not even the ones who are mostly using it. America built it, paid for it, and 70% of the time, we're the ones using it. No other country was able to build it. The French tried to build it and failed. And we did it. We built it. And then about 60 years later, Jimmy Carter, the incompetent buffoon that he was, gave the canal away. He just gave it away.
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It is one of the most one-sided deals in history. And yet, this idiot, and to call Jimmy Carter a buffoon or an idiot, I think is probably cutting him too much slack because he was also just a bad guy. He was a bad leader and a bad man. And by the way, I know that he lived for a long time afterwards. But that doesn't all of a sudden change the fact that he was a bad leader and a bad person.
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And he did a lot of terrible things and he caused immeasurable. This man did immeasurable damage to the country. But then he lived till he was 100. And so all of a sudden it doesn't count anymore. Because for people in my generation or younger, we only remember Jimmy Carter as this kind of frail old man just kind of sitting there all shriveled up.
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And so because of that, he sort of like bought goodwill because he was just really old for a long time. But that doesn't change the fact that he was a terrible, terrible president and made the world a worse place. And this is not the only bad thing he did, but it's one of the worst. And he considered it to be his crowning achievement.
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One of his crowning achievements, he thought, was this deal of giving away the Panama Canal. Which, how is that an achievement? You gave someone, you gave a thing of immense value to another country and they gave you nothing in return and that's an achievement?
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That's like if I considered it an achievement because I worked out a deal with you where I would give you a million dollars and you give me nothing. Maybe not nothing, maybe I bought a toothpick from you for a million dollars. And then for the rest of my life, I brag that I just made this incredible deal. I convinced you. I convinced you to give me a toothpick for just a million dollars.
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What a deal-making genius I am. Except it's worse than that, because at least if I gave you a million dollars, well, I earned the million. I can spend it how I want. It's my million. But in the case of the Panama Canal, Jimmy Carter didn't build it. It never would have been built under his leadership because he was a weak, feckless, corrupt leader who couldn't do anything. No, he didn't build it.
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Instead, he took a massive dump all over the Americans who struggled and died for years to build it and decided to just give it away. Now, the real reason that it was given away was... Just a sense of white guilt, really, that's what it was. It was just this this this sacrifice on the altar of white guilt.
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Because we're you know, America is a predominantly white country, even more so back when the back when Jimmy Carter was in office and. And so it was like. We have no right to it. And so that's really what it was. But beyond that, ostensibly, the reason that it was done was to improve relations with Latin America. That's the reason that was given.
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And the problem is that, first of all, we're in a position of power. So we don't need to give them this gift that costs billions of dollars and thousands of lives just to improve relations. We don't need to bribe them. Okay, we don't have to bribe Panama to make them like us. Who gives a if they like us or not? If you don't give it to us, we're going to not like you. Okay, then don't.
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What do we care? What possible difference does it make what you think of us? But also, how did that work out, Jimmy? How did it work out, giving the Panama Canal to improve relations with Latin America? How did that pan out? Well, I'll tell you how it panned out.
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Latin America has spent the following 40 years shipping drugs and criminals into our country, utterly decimating our national sovereignty while killing thousands of more Americans. So that's what they gave us. I said that they gave us nothing in exchange for the Panama Canal. I'm wrong. That's what they gave us. So as this great token of good faith to Latin America, we gave them the Panama Canal.
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And in exchange, they gave us crime and drugs for 40 years. That's the improved relations with Latin America is that. So... So now Trump wants the Panama Canal back, and I hope he gets it. And look, I know that the response is going to be, well, it was a treaty. It's a legal agreement. There's nothing you could do. First of all, Panama has almost certainly violated the terms of the treaty.
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I just noticed the people on the stage openly laughing at her, which is kind of nice. So try to imagine what it must have been like watching that performance as a committed true believer in the Democrat Party. You know, you're in some ballroom in Maryland. You're hoping to see some kind of new approach to win over voters who are clearly moving away from liberal politics.
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It would not be that hard to take a look at it and find myriad ways that they violated the treaty, which would justify us saying the treaty has been violated. It is now defunct. You violated it.
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I mean, one of the aspects of the treaty was neutrality, that the canal is supposed to remain neutral, and yet you've got China down there exerting an outsized influence, extending their tentacles from the other side of the globe. So that alone, we'd be perfectly justified in saying you violated the treaty. That's really the answer to the whole thing about the treaty. But then also, look,
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I mean, Jimmy Carter had no right to give it away. Are we beholden forever to this terrible, awful deal that hurts America? So how long? I mean, a thousand years from now? We still, it never changes? Even though Panama is this tiny little speck of a country with no power at all, And I mean, we could just show up and say we're taking the canal back. You can do literally nothing about it.
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We could do that. But you got to respect the treaty. All right, fine. Well, that's the thing about contracts is like if you get some lawyers in a room that are very good at this, and they can figure out ways that the contract was violated. They can figure out, like I said, they can figure out a thousand ways. And so have them do that. I'm sure they already have.
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Here's a thousand ways Panama vitally the treaty. So we're taking the canal back. We could do it legally. If it makes everyone feel more comfortable with it. Let's get to the comment section. You know what's really fascinating? When your metabolism is working properly, you feel the benefits in literally every aspect of your life.
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That's L-U-M-E-N.me slash Walsh for 20% off your purchase. Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode. All right. I know three Mats. One is my second daughter's husband. One is my fourth daughter's boyfriend. One is you. You're the only Mat I like. Well... Look, give those other mats a chance is all I'm going to say.
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Meanwhile, the candidates to lead your party are treating the whole thing like karaoke night. And by the way, Dr. Quintessa didn't stop there. She kept on singing. She was singing through this whole thing. Okay, here she is again.
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I mean, they're not going to be as good as me, but you can't hold them to that standard. I'm the top of the mat pile here. But they got their names right, at least. That's got to count for something. It can't be all bad.
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Matt, it totally amazes me how you can start the day by talking about the serious matter of possible DEI issues with traffic controllers and helicopters and planes, potential crashes, and then move to onesies and the snap versus the zipper.
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I just want you to know that every time I listen to you and watch your facial expressions, I grin from ear to ear, shake my head and wonder, how in the world did God give you such a comical, sarcastic, and wise mind? Like I said, you can always send me compliments and I'll read them. Well, I appreciate that.
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And what you've just pointed to is the reason to love the show, but also the reason to hate it. It just depends on, you can go either way. It depends on how you're wired. Because we will move seamlessly from really important topics to the pettiest stuff imaginable. And I will discuss all of them with an equal level of seriousness. And I will discuss all of them at length.
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So you either appreciate that or you're repulsed by it. And there's not a lot of room in between. As a father of three, I'm glad Matt is finally addressing the snapping onesies. I refuse to buy them after our first and only ones we had were gifted to us. They're a nightmare when doing late night feeding or diaper changes. Yeah, they really are. I hate dealing with them when I'm changing diapers.
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I mean, if I ever did change a diaper, I would hate it. I'd hate dealing with them. I'm kidding, of course. I do. Every time I make this joke, people get really upset. I do change diapers. Not like directly. I don't directly. But I facilitate. I facilitate and delegate the changing of the diapers. I pay for the diapers. So I'm very much involved.
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I am involved in the process of changing the diapers. But in terms of the actual physical labor of it, that's not so much my role. That's not where I excel is in the changing of the diapers. Let's see. But Matt, the snap on the onesies can help keep your baby warm.
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Like when you're changing the diaper, you can only have to open the bottom snaps instead of unzipping the entire onesie and exposing the baby's chest to the cold. Come on, man. Think. Look, the baby will be fine. I mean, what do you mean exposing the baby to the cold? You have heat in your house, don't you? What are you living in the 17th century?
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You got one candle in your kitchen heating the whole house. baby's not going to freeze while you're changing. By the way, my wife has given me the same speech. We've had the snap discussion. What are you going to keep? Cause you want to keep, cause they're going to get cold when you, what Eskimos have babies for God's sake, like they live in igloos with their babies. Okay.
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So you think about that and here you think that your baby needs a snap on onesie so that, you know, the child doesn't get hypothermia while you're changing a diaper for 90 seconds. Um, Matt, are you mixing up onesies with footie pajamas? I've never seen zippers on onesies, but I've also never seen snaps on footie pajamas. Maybe I'm too old. You know, there have been a lot of comments like this.
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There were a lot of comments claiming that I don't know what a onesie is, saying I'm confused about what a onesie is. Like, don't come at me with that, all right? Miss me with that. Miss me with that, bruh, all right? Dead ass. I know what a onesie is. Actually, a onesie is a one-piece garment, technically. That's what a onesie is. That's why it says one.
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So if the whole outfit comes in one piece, it's a onesie. All right? So yeah, I'm talking about snap-on onesies, the ones that are torturous to put on a baby that have like 95 snaps, and you have to assemble them. When you lay them out, they're like flat. It's like a flat piece of fabric and you have to fold them and assemble them and snap them. That's what I'm talking about.
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I'm not talking about the ones that have the three snaps at the crotch. Like, that's not what I mean. So the full on snap on pajama things is what I'm. And yes, those are one. Those are onesies. So get out of my comments with those aren't any one piece outfit is. So that means, what? That means, yes, Batman wears a onesie. Spider-Man wears a onesie. Like, I got news for you. That's what it means.
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Tell me I don't know what a onesie is. Do you know like 60% of all onesie purchases in the United States for the last 10 years have been made by my family? And you're telling me I don't know what a onesie is? Like, back off. No matter where you're watching or listening right now, take a second and hit that follow button.
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Well, by the way, how many... pearls. How many oysters had to die to create the 56 pearl necklaces around her neck? But anyway, if you've ever wondered what it would be like to encounter a character in a musical, but in real life, well, now we know. Just someone who sings rather than talking. And it's just as annoying and off-putting as you'd expect. But anyway, in the end, I'm shocked to report
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And when people are being stupid on the internet on those very rare occasions, I have no choice but to respond. So on Friday, we discussed the controversy bubbling around JD Vance after he had the audacity to suggest that we as human beings have a special responsibility to our own families and communities and country.
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He provocatively claimed that you should be more concerned about caring for your own child than caring for someone else's child in a country 5,000 miles away. In case you missed it, here is that clip again.
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As we talked about on Friday, this very obviously correct observation, one that is both biblically sound and self-evident to any functioning human being, nonetheless provoked great outrage on the left. And the outrage has yet to subside.
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They feel they must object to Vance's utterly sensible statements about prioritizing your own family and nation over nations and families across the globe because they believe or feel obliged to pretend they believe that our borders should be open and that we have a moral obligation to welcome and care for an infinite stream of third world immigrants.
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This is why a large gaggle of self-satisfied college professors and alleged theologians, midwits who tragically see themselves as geniuses, this is why they started posting smarmy rebuttals claiming that Vance's position is unbiblical, quote, pagan, quote, tribal, and a, quote, false gospel.
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And of course, this is all coming from atheists, heretics, apostates, false teachers like Father James Martin, who will just as confidently assure us that the gospel endorses same-sex marriage and the chemical castration of gender-confused minors.
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So these are people who only open the Bible so that they can spit on it and defile it, and yet they pretend to be, in situations like this, authorities on a book that they've obviously never read. And if they did read it, They would find that Vance's idea about the proper ordering of loves is, again, not only self-evident and common sense, but also explicitly outlined in the scripture.
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First Timothy 5.8, for example, says that anyone who does not provide for his relatives, especially those of his own household, has denied his faith. Or you could also flip all the way back to the Old Testament to something called the Ten Commandments. And there we're told to honor our father and mother.
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Now, it doesn't say honor your father and mother and also the fathers and mothers of all the people all across the world. No, honor your own father and mother. This is God himself engraving in stone the special obligation we have to our own family members. As for our neighbors, we're told not to bear false witness against them, not to be covetous of their property or envious of their lives.
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But it doesn't tell us to honor our neighbors. That command and that phrasing is reserved specifically and especially for our parents. In fact, here's something interesting. If you follow the Ten Commandments from number one down to number ten, you'll find that first our obligations to God are outlined, then our obligations to family, and then our obligations to our neighbors.
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So the hierarchy of love The order of love is literally and numerically laid out in the Ten Commandments. But the dumbest rebuttal of all came yesterday, and this is why I've been forced to revisit the topic today. The sheer force of the dumbness compels me, almost as though the dumbness has actual mass and exerts its own gravitational pull upon me. Somebody named Scott Alexander posted this.
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He apparently has a blog where he claims to write about science and philosophy. He's also, I'm told by Wikipedia, a psychiatrist in San Francisco. and we know that about 85% of the worst ideas in the history of the world have originated from psychiatrists in San Francisco, so this is no surprise, explains why he tweeted this, quote, I went on a walk and saw a child drowning in the river.
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And disappointed to report that Dr. Quintessa, the esteemed scholar, historian, entrepreneur, pop singer, did not receive a single vote at the DNC. Out of hundreds of voting members, not a single one decided that Dr. Quintessa should be the next chair of the party. There is apparently zero grassroots genuine support for her candidacy whatsoever. She couldn't even get a friend to vote for her.
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I was going to jump in and save him when someone reminded me that I should care about family members more than strangers. So I continued on my way and let him drown. This is the argument presented by an alleged philosophy writer.
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It is a thought experiment meant to reveal the absurdity of Vance's position, but instead all it reveals is that Scott Alexander has the comprehension skills of a carrot cake. Okay, the first problem is that clearly there is a significant difference between a child drowning in front of you in a river and millions of immigrants all across the world.
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The point of his analogy is to explain why we're morally obliged to open our borders to an endless army of third world migrants. So he's actually not talking about saving just one child in a river. He's actually suggesting that we must save millions of children from every river in the world.
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So yes, Scott, I agree that I should and I would save a child drowning in a river if I happen to stumble upon the scene while going for a walk. But What if I didn't see him drown? What if I decided to stay home? Is his death still my fault? Did I somehow fail in some sort of duty to go out looking for drowning children?
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Is America on the hook to provide shelter and aid and a home to every impoverished person everywhere in the world indefinitely? Are we allowed to stay home as it were, shut the door and focus on our own home, our own nation? But we still haven't really gotten to the point.
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Because what makes Scott's argument so incredibly, almost unfathomably stupid is that it actually proves Vance's point perfectly. Scott has found the perfect thought experiment to confirm Vance's argument beyond any shadow of a doubt. It's so good that I wish I had thought of it when we talked about this on Friday, which is one of the reasons why I'm talking about it now.
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All we have to do is make one adjustment so that it actually reflects the point that he was making. Okay? If you're walking alone and you see a child alone drowning in the river, well, there's no reason why prioritizing your family would prevent you from saving the child. It's just the child drowning.
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Even if you do care more about your family than you do about strangers, which you should, there's still no reason why you wouldn't save the child in that scenario, right? There's no competition here between your own child and this child in the river. Now,
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Sure, I mean, if the child is drowning in a fast-flowing river 20 feet from a massive waterfall or something, and you have children at home and a family to care for, then that might give you reason to pause before going on a suicide mission to save a stranger. But even so, if there's a reasonable hope of saving the child, then I think most people would take the risk and should. I would.
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Still, this scenario doesn't adequately reflect Vance's point. Vance's point is more like this. You're walking along a riverbank. Suddenly, you see a child drowning 50 yards off in the river. Then you notice 50 yards back in the other direction, your own child drowning. Okay, so you got a child you don't know and your own child both drowning in the same river.
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And they're 100 yards apart in this case. You can't save them both at the same time. You have to save one first, and the other one will most likely die tragically. So, which child do you save first? Your own or the stranger? What would you do, Scott? Your child is drowning, shouting to you, screaming, dad, save me. Would you do what any morally sane human being would do?
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She had precisely zero support. And you know what that means? It means that Quintessa is a shoo-in to be Democrats' next presidential nominee. After all, if Kamala Harris can do it, so can Quintessa. In today's Democrat Party, the fact that no one actually wants to vote for her, that nobody likes her, even though she's a strong, independent black woman, is far from a liability. It's an asset.
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What any decent father would do? What any human who is not a psychopath would do? And immediately jump in to save your own child first? And then if you get him back to safety and the other child is still above the surface, or even if he's not, at that point, you jump in to save the other child.
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When tragically, it's probably going to be too late, but you would at least attempt, but you're going to get your own child first. Is that what you would do?
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Or would you stay true to your enlightened liberal principles and demonstrate your commitment to equity and inclusivity by leaving your child to drown while you swim off in the opposite direction to save some other kid you've never met before? Would you shout to your child, sorry, son, but I don't recognize any special obligation to love you. I love all human beings across the world equally.
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Is that what you would do? Now, if you would not do that, If you would, without hesitation, prioritize your own child and save him first, then you actually understand Vance's point perfectly well. You have a hierarchy in your own mind and heart, an ordering of loves, and you recognize intuitively that you are called to protect, love, and serve your own family before anybody else.
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You, in fact, love your child more than you love that other child. You love the other child in a sort of general and charitable sense because he's a fellow human being, because he is a child. But you love your child even more because he is yours. He's your flesh. You are tied to him by blood. You have known him from his first breath.
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And even before that, you are called by God to protect him with your life and to give your life for his. It is a deeper and stronger love. which is also why you would mourn the death of your own child much, much more than you would mourn the death of any other child. If a child drowns in the river and you hear about it on the news, you'd be very sad for him and his family.
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And then after hearing about it on the news and being very sad, you would still go about your day. But if your child drowns in the river, you will be crushed as though a 10-ton boulder had been dropped on your head and you will mourn him and grieve his loss every day of your life until you die.
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So the outside world sees the death of your child and the child down the street as tragedies of equal proportion. And objectively, they're right. But they're not equal to you because that is your child. Now, do I really need to explain this? Is there any chance that Scott would actually tell me that he would save the other child instead of his own? Or even that he'd have to think about it?
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Would Scott insist that he would mourn the death of his own child no differently than he mourns the death of anybody else? If so, I certainly hope he doesn't have any kids in real life. Because any man who is that neutral about his own children is not fit to raise them. But the good news is that Scott is almost certainly full of crap.
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He understands the basic concept of prioritizing the people closest to us. He does it every day. It would be impossible to maintain any healthy human relationship if you didn't do that every day. And I'm going to assume that Scott has at least a few healthy human relationships. Though that may be a bold assumption to make about a psychiatrist from San Francisco.
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So you might as well start printing the Dr. Quintessa Hathaway yard signs now. She's basically a lock to break the glass ceiling in four years. Or to be broken against the glass ceiling, as has happened to the last two women who ran. But at the same time, as history-making and inspiring as Dr. Quintessa is, she was just a small part of the show that the DNC put on this weekend. One by one.
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But in any case, this river thought experiment that Scott accidentally gave us absolutely proves J.D. Vance's point. If you would save your own child first, you agree with JD Vance, period, end of story. If you wouldn't save your own child first, you are a psychotic monster and should lose custody of your kids. Those are really the only two options here.
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It's not a false dichotomy, it's just the actual dichotomy. You are either the type of person who would save your own child Or you're the type of person who would let him drown. Now, I'm not sure how many people would actually be in the latter camp when push comes to shove. But I do know that a lot of people on the left, especially the intellectual leaders on that side, claim they're in that camp.
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So either way, they are horrifically and embarrassingly wrong. And they are today, of course, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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Democrats made it very clear that they have learned absolutely nothing from the last election. Not a single thing. Every speaker, without exception, was clearly obsessed with identity politics and in particular racial grievances. So here are a couple of speakers who repeatedly begin their remarks by telling the crowd to be quiet because a black woman is speaking. Watch.
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We are sick and tired of the... Yeah, I might try a version of this at my next speech. Hey, everyone, shut up. There's a white man speaking up here. How dare you speak while a white man is addressing you? Silence, you fools. I am a white man. Try it. I mean, that would probably go over a little differently than it did at the DNC, I'm guessing.
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But Democrats have marinated in racial politics for so long in every aspect of their lives that they didn't see any problem with this. And if you go and pull up footage of the DNC's internal selection process back in 2017, after Trump's first election, You'll notice that it was not like this. Not exactly like it, anyway. CNN covered the whole thing at the time.
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It was a primetime event, and they were talking about their plans to impeach and investigate Trump and form a resistance. They talked about how motivated they were to come up with a coherent message for Americans. Watch.
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Now, the whole thing was obviously still deranged in its own way, but it was not like what we're seeing now. We're now seeing a party that has no idea how to be effective, no idea what it even wants to do. A party in total disarray with no vision for the future whatsoever. So instead of coming up with anything unifying or coherent, they're going completely off the deep end.
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And in fact, they're now reciting land acknowledgements. Because of course they believe America sits on stolen land and that's their winning message for the next election. The way that everything went in the last election, the way the culture is moving right now has not dissuaded them. They're leaning into it. And here's how the DNC's voting meeting began this weekend.
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Now, of course, as always with this kind of thing, I must always ask, which indigenous people did we allegedly steal the land from? The ones who most recently possessed it before white people showed up or the ones that those indigenous people slaughtered and took it from or the ones that those people slaughtered and so on and so on down the line.
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And we never do get an answer to that question, no matter how many times I've asked it. All we're told is that the line of legitimate possession of the land stopped for some reason in about the 16th century. The moment white people showed up, it was no longer legitimate to conquer the land and take possession of it.
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It was only legitimate to do that for the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years that Indians were doing it before Europeans landed. That's the idea. But, you know, there's no time to dwell on that one bit of absurdity.
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The whole thing was a parade of absurdity that went on for hours, like this moment where the proceedings eventually came to an abrupt halt because one candidate identified as non-binary. And that created some confusion because the DNC apparently has strict rules requiring gender balance among the party chairs who are elected. So what do you do when someone shows up and they are none of the genders?
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When they don't fall into any of the 95 invented genders at all, what do you do? Well, here they are trying to deal with that problem.
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So they conferred about this question, and I'm sure they did confer about it. I mean, and if you're wondering why the Democrats... no Democrat can ever be an effective leader, why they cannot effectively lead the country. It's because this is what they're spending time on.
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I mean, they're spending hours and hours conferring and caucusing and meeting to discuss what to do with their non-binary candidates. And watching that, you have to wonder what they would do with the DNC if they ended up with a candidate who belongs to one of the other 10 million genders out there.
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If one non-binary candidate, quote unquote, can throw the whole process out of whack like this, imagine what they'd do if they had a two-spirit running for office or a bi-gender candidate. But if there's a gender-fluid demi-queer thrown into the mix, what do you do then? To avoid being transphobic, they probably just have to shut down the whole party at that point.
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And by the way, just for the record, of course, This is the, if you're wondering, this is the allegedly non-binary quote-unquote candidate they're talking about. He was running for vice chair. Watch.
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By the way, is he an Afro-Latino? He didn't mention it. I can't remember. Did he say that? I'm watching. I'm wondering, is that guy an Afro-Latino? Oh, no, he did mention it 46 times in the span of 30 seconds. Now, looking at that guy, there are a lot of signs that seem to point towards a specific binary and that he's a member of one side of that binary being the male side.
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There's the facial hair, the voice, the build. But then he opens his mouth and dispels all those assumptions. He tells us that he's one of the first non-binary candidates in the DNC's history. And you might ask what it means for someone to be non-binary. I mean, what does it take to claim that identity? Well, all it takes is for you to say it out loud.
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If someone is non-binary, it means that they have said out loud the words, I am non-binary. And through that mystical incantation, they have become something other than male or female. Even though they can't explain how exactly they are something other than male or female, or what it means to be something other than male or female, still they are somehow. Now, it's all nonsense, obviously.
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At some level, Democrats seem to realize that, and that would explain why that guy, like the doctor, received zero votes. And things went on like this for a while longer at the meeting. Take a look at this footage, for example, showing every single candidate for DNC chair, and each one of them has asked the same question, and you'll never believe how they answer it. Watch.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Can I say, Ben, that was... Those were the most powerful remarks ever delivered on this stage. Wow. The balance of nature. I thought it was really compelling.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
What was the question?
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Could I also say one thing that you're integrating your values into the business, and I don't know what your business is. Maybe you said it. I haven't been paying attention to the questions today. I haven't seen it. So integrate them as in, like Ben said, you're living according to your values.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
What I think you don't need to do and probably shouldn't do is say, well, this is my business, and this is the conservative version of this business. We're the conservative fill in the blank. You don't need to be that. Just do the business and do it well. And if you're living according to your values, then you're already the conservative version of that business. Sounds good. Thank you, guys.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
It's because I'm a, as Jeremy's pointed out, it's because I'm a sociopath. That's how. That's my secret.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
One of the great advantages if you want to be successful in media is that, and we're testament to this, it requires no talent to do media at all. So if your daughter has talent, then she's already a step ahead of like 95% of the business.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Wedding is for children.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Can I say, it's in times like this that I'm really glad that I'm so bad at doing ad reads because I don't have to do this ad read on stage at CPAC. Spoiler alert.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Yeah, look, I think I totally agree with everything that you said. And it's easy to forget that just, you know, even several months ago, certainly in the last couple of years, we were told, even by conservatives, that our victories, you know, the great victory of repealing Roe v. Wade, one of the great
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
human rights victories of all time was actually a bad thing politically because we were gonna pay for it we're gonna pay the price with some great backlash in the polls and the women of America would would rise up to punish us for protecting babies from slaughter and that didn't happen and the reason that it didn't happen is because it turns out as many of us as we have all been saying people like you have been saying the pro-life argument is a winning argument it is a winning argument and
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
As long as you're just honest. The only way to win the argument when you're pro-life is to be brutally honest and to show. It's one thing if we are claiming that there is a genocide of children happening, that 60 million human beings have been slaughtered by abortion. If that's what we claim, which is what we claim because it's true, then there should be passion and even anger behind our words.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And if there isn't, then why would anyone take us seriously? Because it's like we don't even believe what we're saying. So we are not the ones. The pro-abortion side, they're the ones who have to cover everything they say in euphemisms. They have to be very careful about every word they choose. And the euphemisms constantly change.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
because they can't talk simply and clearly about what the thing is. And we win the argument simply by being clear about it because the pro-life argument is, as I said, it's the most winning argument of all time. The pro-life argument is simply this, that it is always wrong to intentionally kill innocent human children. That's it.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And I defy any pro-abortion person, any so-called pro-choice person, to engage with that. Are you saying that there are times when it is actually OK to intentionally kill an innocent human child, and that's what they don't want to engage with? And as long as we're honest about it, then we win the argument.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
I mean, look, I think Ben covered it well. I mean, the most important thing, and also to go to Drew's point earlier about never lie. You don't have to go looking for confrontation. We tend to be confrontational people. It's part of our job. We're kind of wired that way. And so if you are and you want to go out and look for that, then God be with you. But you don't have to do that.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And you don't have to go jumping on every grenade that you find in the room. but it's just don't play the game, don't acquiesce, don't play the language games. That was the big mistake that was made culturally, even among some conservatives back several years ago, where they started playing the language game and they said, well, I just wanna be polite.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And once we start putting politeness over the truth, then you've already lost. So don't do that and you'll be fine, I think.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
You know, I'll go to the New Testament, and St. Paul has always been probably the saint that I've felt the most connection to. I wanted to choose that as my confirmation name, but Paul Walsh just didn't, I didn't think it sounded right, so I couldn't do it.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
But the thing I like about Saint Paul, I mean, obviously some of the most beautiful words, some of those beautiful insights ever written can be found in the Pauline epistles. But also, I guess I kind of, I can feel a certain connection to the fact that Paul was, when you read the Pauline epistles, he was quite blunt in the way that he talked to people and the way that he addressed issues.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And to me, it's a real rebuke of the kind of nicey-nice, Mr. Rogers sort of Christianity that we've gotten fed to us, force-fed to us over the last several decades. Because then when you go, and even if you read the Gospels and you read the way that Christ dealt with hypocrites and dealt with corruption, you also find that it's quite a bit more aggressive and blunt and direct.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Not mean-spirited, certainly, not hateful. There's no contempt in it. But it's calling the sin out and rebuking it directly, which is the thing that I love about the business.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
You know, if I were to say my favorite thing from Trump's term, well, number two, I'll get to number one, but number two. You only get one. Number five. My runner-up is Trump talking about, at least talking about, potentially taking back control of the Panama Canal. That's a little bit of a deep cut, but I think that's an important thing. And Greenland, too. Maybe we're taking Canada. We'll see.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
We've got to move the Canadians somewhere else, because we don't want the Canadians, but we want Canada. We want the land, not so much the people on it. We'll move them to reservations up in the Arctic, and they'll be quite happy. But my actual favorite thing is what I think is the end, basically the end, of the trans agenda of gender ideology in this country. You know, this is...
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
The fight continues because the people that advocate for this butchery and this insanity aren't just going to go away. They're going to find a way to continue victimizing kids. And so the fight will continue in that way. But look, we've got with Donald Trump in just a few weeks, we have banning men from women's sports.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
We have putting an end to child castration in the hospitals, defining sex as man and woman. And I think that The legal stuff is really important, but just the bully pulpit, having a person in a position of authority who's willing to say the obvious thing, which is that men are men and women are women, which, by the way, is something that everyone has always known.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Every single person in the world has always known that. But for a period of time, a lot of people were afraid to say what they knew to be true. And thanks to Donald Trump. Thanks to a lot of people that have been in the fight. But what they needed was someone in a position of a power like Donald Trump to say this obvious true thing.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And so I think it's the beginning of the end of gender ideology in this country.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. And I think that's true, what he said about— I'm sure that when there's a black president, we know there are real races out there. There are anti-black races, there are anti-white races, but they're out there. Social media was also really coming online around that time, so people had a forum to express this kind of stuff. And anonymously. Anonymously.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
And so, yeah, those people come out of the woodwork. I'm sure that did happen. I don't deny that. The difference, though, is that that kind of racism is personal and individual. It's not systemic. It's not in the system. Right. And also... It's absolutely rejected by society. It's absolutely rejected by polite society.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
So there's a reason why they had to go to 4chan or whatever to express those views, because you can't come out in public and say it with. And if you do, it'll be like the end of your whatever your career is. It's probably the end of it. And that's kind of that's the most you're going to when it comes. As you said, there's never going to be a time when there's no racists in the world.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
So the most you can do is, okay, we're not going to have this stuff systemically. The system's going to treat everybody equally. Great. We've crossed that off the list. We've already done that. Actually, we've gone too far because we've got affirmative action where now you're discriminating against white and Asian people. So anti-black racism is out of the system. Fantastic. That's good.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's not accepted by mainstream society. Great. And then... So that's kind of it. I mean, what else can we do with this? You can't get inside people's hearts and make them not feel things. Those people are going to be out there. They know that it's not accepted in mainstream society. And I kind of think you could sort of move on from it culturally to other issues. It's not a major issue anymore.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
but they won't allow it. And you're right that then it's got this pendulum thing where, okay, well, if you go after white people and you demonize them relentlessly, and you do it practically from birth now through the school system, some of those white people are going to end up being stricken by guilt, and they're going to walk around feeling like they're guilty for something.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's the white guilt liberal thing. But then you're going to have others who... kind of become exactly what you accuse them of being because they're like, oh, you know what? If you're going to call me racist anyway, then, you know what? Fine. And there's going to resentment that builds up and then you actually create more of it, which I think they're happy about.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
That was kind of... When we had the idea for the film to talk about race, we knew we needed to get Robin D'Angelo. I didn't think we'd get her because I figured she'd be a lot more cautious. Yeah, savvy and cautious. But apparently she has no idea what's happening outside of her bubble at all. So she didn't know who I was. I mean, I gave her my name and she had no clue. Wow.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
If actual racism is increasing in society, I don't know if it is or not, but I think the people that call themselves anti-racist are quite happy about that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think it is like a – yeah, I think you're exactly right about that. That's why for me the more – So the grifters that are getting paid, that's not that complicated to figure out why they're doing it. They're getting paid. A lot of them. A lot of them are. And even when they're not, there's still power and influence. And they're being consulted as kind of these moral gurus, which strokes the ego.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's rewarding. The more interesting thing is what about the people who go to those people? and consult them as moral gurus. I mean, in the movie we have this race to dinner where you got these white women who sit around a table and they invite these other two women, Cyber Rao and Regina Jackson, to come to dinner. They pay them to come to dinner and call them racist for two hours.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
And it's like, why would you subject yourself to that? It seems like the most miserable experience to volunteer to be broken down and insulted and degraded, which is what happened to these women. I mean, I saw it. It's like two hours of them just getting... You're racist. You're racist. You're racist. They go around the table, confess their racist sins.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
And then they all each go and they say what their racist sin, like, what's a racist thing you've done recently? They all confess. And I'm listening to it. It's like none of you have actually done anything racist. I listen to all your stories. None of that is racist. There's a woman who said that she's married to a black guy and she. Yeah. He's loud and she tells him to quiet down sometimes.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right. I think my wife is racist. She could be. She could be. She's racist against me.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But we kind of went into that knowing what the end was supposed to be, if we could get her. We came up with that idea. We went to a bar the night before the interview and we came up with this idea. Could we get her to actually pay reparations to Ben, our black producer? And we had to kind of talk him into it. And, you know, it was really just like,
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
They bend the knee. And with kids, it's so insidious because... Yeah. Kids don't care about race. They notice it, though, which is fine. But then you give them like this complex from such a young age, which is so unnecessary. And that's why I mean, I remember when my oldest daughter was five, we were at the mall or something and a black family walked by and she pointed at them and said, what?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Why are people black? Why is their skin like that? She wanted to know, why does skin color exist? How do some people have different skin color than other people? And of course, I told her, to be polite, we don't point at people in public, so I told her that. But then we talked about it. It's okay to wonder that. It's okay to notice that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think with these anti-racist people, if I was listening to them, I should have... This would have been an opportunity for me to give her a whole lecture about racism and make her feel really bad for noticing that and asking about it. Yeah. And then you create this complex. And yeah, fast forward 20 years and she's one of these women at a race to dinner. Exactly. Yeah. It's awful.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it's a very potent thing. I mean, white guilt, the fear of being called racist. It's hard for me to understand because... I get called racist all the time, 50,000 times a day. And it just rolls off my back. I don't care because it's just... It doesn't mean anything anymore. It doesn't mean anything. But for you and I, it doesn't mean anything.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But for a lot of normal people, especially... It's a death sentence. Right. To be called that is the worst thing in the world.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
They're terrified of it. They'd literally rather be called anything than racist. Yeah. And then... So for them, once you... Those kinds of people... When that's the threat, when being called racist is a threat, you can get them to do anything.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Spoilers or whatever, but the last thing in the movie when I do my own anti-racist workshop with these people, and they're all real people, and we get them to join in on some things that are really morally repugnant. Because they're terrified of being called racist publicly. They can't stand that thought.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
In real time, I was there for about two hours, and it was an hour and a half of the most mind-numbing conversation where I'm just – none of that's in the movie because it's just me, like, fluff questions. And I'm repeating back to her own ideas so she knows that I'm a safe person. Right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
really mean shitty people to have a virtuous way of expressing that yeah i think that's that's right and also the internet i mean the whole idea that the internet isn't real we hear it all the time that's why i hate when people say uh well twitter isn't real life but and i understand what's meant by that when people say that but it actually is real life because
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
These are human beings who are communicating with each other. Now, there are bots, too. But if you're a human being on Twitter saying something, that's real life. It's not fake. This isn't happening in some kind of dream world. Right. But then people think that, well, okay, if I just say this on Twitter, I put it in a YouTube comment section, and it's this heinous, awful thing. It doesn't count.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
It doesn't mean I'm a bad person because it's not real life. Which is like, that's like... Writing on a loose-leaf paper, calling someone a piece of shit and handing it to them, and then they get mad at you, and you say, hey, man, it's the paper. It's not real life. It just happened on the paper. It's a method for communicating. And so I think people have been...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Condition that in this world it's like a moral exception so you can do and say whatever you want and you don't have to feel bad about it. Right. And it turns people into sociopaths after a while I think.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's a safe space, and then you've got to build to it and build to it and build to it, and then finally you get to a point where you can do something a little weird, and she'll probably go along with it. Yeah. And she did. I mean, you saw, we go through a whole, we have a whole series of exercises we want to do with her. And she went, she did it. She was game.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I'm one of them. You seem fine. But, I mean, I am guilty of some of this. I do. I'm on it way too much, first of all. But then I have my excuse, which is it's part of my job. It's part of your job. I do often think if I didn't do this for a living at all, I don't think I'd be on any of this stuff. I think I'd be off everything.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Because I don't know if you have a problem. If I go on vacation or something and I'm taking time, I have no issue putting it down. I have no compulsion to look at it. In fact, I have to, when I come off vacation, it's effort to get back. It's like, okay, I got to get back into this again. It takes me a couple days. Then after a couple days, now it's a compulsion again.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I have to reignite this weird compulsion to constantly look at my phone.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But if you didn't do any of this for a living, if you just worked at Lowe's or something, do you think you'd still be – The problem is I'd still be me, and I still have this –
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
So that was, and that was one of the first things we filmed. So after we got that, we knew that, okay, we have a movie here.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I think I think I would be the same, but I don't think I'd feel the need to. I would like to absorb all that interesting information, but I wouldn't feel the need to say, hey, world, here's what I think about this.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
And not only that, but their engagement with you is cheap.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
they don't care that much so even if someone gives you positive feedback and they say oh that was a great tweet they've forgotten about it two seconds later right you're just they're just scrolling you're just the latest thing they saw and they're scrolling and they've already forgotten about it they don't care if they cuss you out because they're mad at you same deal they forgot about it two seconds later so yeah i guess it could be kind of intoxicating intoxicating to get the engagement but then it doesn't matter and that's one of the
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's one of the things that makes it so toxic is how sort of like nihilistic it all is. That's why... This never was an issue before, but now I feel like when I go on social media, I'm constantly seeing these horrific videos of people dying, like snuff films are all over social media now. It feels like a relatively recent development. And... That's really horrible what it does.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
I don't even think we quite understand what it's doing to our minds. I actually think we are all traumatized from it. I don't use the word trauma loosely. But what's traumatizing is not only are you seeing somebody die, but it's a context. It's like you see this horrible video. Someone just got shot. And then you keep scrolling. And a second later, you're.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
reading something about whatever, you know, a celebrity news or you're watching a cat video.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
So it's like this, it's this horrific human thing that happened. But for you, it's just content. You absorb it that way. Um, And I don't know, after a while of just absorbing human suffering in this way, it's got to mess with your mind. Of course it does.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
50 grand you barely got anything out of her yeah that was well part of the point of the movie is that's why we put the price tags on the screen we want people to see how absurd it is so in a certain way it was like The higher they quoted the price, we said, great, we'll pay that because we want this in the movie. Right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. But it's a thing. It kind of should haunt you for the rest of your life.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Do you pay attention to what people say about you online? No. You never search for Joe Rogan? Nope. Never? Nope. Shouldn't do it. Yeah. It's not good for you. I'll admit that I've done it on occasion. It's just... It's nothing but... If you want to just destroy your self-image, you can do it pretty quickly.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Because if all these people had said, oh, yeah, I'll do it for free or I'll do it for 200 bucks, just pay my travel, doesn't really make the point.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
I don't care I'm used to it. It's the lies like when I see something about myself That's just a straight up lie. Totally made up. And then it picks up traction and people are, sometimes it could be, you know, even someone photoshopping a tweet that I never said or whatever, anything. That stuff still, still like bothers me. And it, and then I try to tell myself, well, it shouldn't bother me.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But at the same time it should, it's like, it's normal for a person to be bothered by when you're being lied about and other people are believing a lie, I think it's a normal human reaction that I'm like, I don't want, that's not fair. It's not true. You know, you can attack me for things that I really have said and done, but that's, you can't do that. That's not true.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But then at a certain point, you just have to sort of give into it and realize this is the way the internet works, I guess.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
And then she basically said almost nothing. Right. But it was okay.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, it almost certainly was. It almost certainly was because if it was a white guy. They would have thrown him under the bus. Yeah, they would have. So the fact that they didn't. It's probably some like Hispanic kid or something.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
The thing that gets me about the Flat Earth thing is – because I didn't realize that it was a real thing until, I don't know, a few years ago. I did – I wrote – I posted something about it. And all these comments from real people that – what gets me is – well, you have the people that say, yeah, I think the Earth's flat. And that's – you're just really stupid.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I was more fascinated by the, like, 80 percent of people who – 80 percent of the flat Earth crowd. 80 percent of them, their take was, well, I'm not saying the Earth is flat. but I'm open to it. So I'm open to the possibility. I get it if you're just completely stupid and you got sucked into this cult thing, but what I don't get is how can you be on the fence about the shape of the earth?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And the moon landing, you're not a – you believe in the moon landing, right?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Because it's exactly what you just said about – well, there's a lot of reasons, but – The main thing is what you just said about the earth, the the the vastness of the conspiracy that would be required to fake that. It's so vast that it's just it's it's a lot more incredible to believe that we faked it than to believe that we just went and go into the moon. Don't get it's a massive achievement.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
I haven't, but I can tell that there's little eye slits. You can't even see what's below you. Exactly.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I think the greatest human achievement of all time. But even so, to fake it would be even more massive because not only would you need all of these space agencies and all the different whatever people in American institutions to be colluding, but you'd also need foreign governments, including adversarial foreign governments, who at this point certainly would know we faked it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
and for some reason haven't blown the lid on it. So they're letting us take this achievement that they know. Why haven't the Russians come out and said... All those things you're saying are true.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, I think that's because we lost the spirit and hunger for discovery.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You could develop the technology again. You can do all that. Sure you could.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I think what you're describing to me, all that does is highlight how incredible the achievement was. If they did it. Right. If they did it. Well, here's the main point. There's no evidence. Because saying that it was a hoax... is an assertion of... You're not just denying an event. You're asserting a whole other event that you say happened instead.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And there is evidence that we went to the moon. Now, someone who's a skeptic might say it's not enough evidence or it's not good evidence. There's, like, evidence. There's eyewitness... There's people that went and came back and told us. There's footage. There's a lot. There is evidence. But there's no evidence of the hoax. Like, no one has come and said, here's my affirmative evidence
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
evidence that this hoax happened, it's never happened, as far as I'm aware. No one's ever provided that evidence.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So the idea that he missed those kids is like- The furries are doing a lot more than running around in those things too. They are. They are.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. I don't even want to know. Like a hatch. But it's actually a perfect example of what these people do, these race hustlers that-
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
All the images or a few of them? A few of them. But then other ones were found to be authentic.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
something happened it was a little bit unpleasant yes not a big deal there's a million ways to interpret that it's just a normal human thing that happens in the world like things happen that are a little bit unpleasant you're disappointed your kid didn't get a high five okay it happens uh but for them they have one lens for seeing the world and the lens is through this left-wing racial ideology so everything that happens is colored by that right uh and everything is understood through that lens so anything i mean you think about uh
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, but I think that's just that's the temperament it requires to do something like that. Could be. It's basically it's almost suicidal to go to the right. And so you have to be like not barely even a human being. psychologically to do it. So that to me is just like, and they just went through this whole experience, but who knows what that does to the human psyche.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
To even just be in the vastness of space, even on the space station, I feel like that would change me as a person.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So then what would you say, or someone who is a full-on believer.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Someone who is a full-on believer in the moon hoax. What would they say to my other point that there is evidence we went to the moon. You can try to nitpick the evidence. There is zero evidence of a hoax because that's a whole other event that would have had to have happened. There is no evidence at all, not one sliver of evidence ever of that hoax having ever happened.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I mean, the JFK is an interesting example. Because yes, there are things that I'm skeptical of that are claimed. I don't really have evidence that the thing didn't happen or that it didn't happen the way they say, but I'm still skeptical. So I get that. But it feels different to me because the JFK assassination did happen. The question is, how did it happen?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But if we're going to assert that a major historical event, probably the greatest, the most significant historical event in history over one of them did not happen at all. No one did it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Michelle Obama, when she was first lady, she had multiple stories that she would tell about as first lady being discriminated against because of her race, allegedly. And one of them was she was in line for ice cream or something and someone cut in front of her. And she told this story in some interview, this very dramatic story about, well, they didn't see her because she's black.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Then, like I said, that's so what you're actually claiming is that some other thing this this they went somewhere and they pulled off this hoax and they planned it and they did like an event happened where they were faking it. Right. And so what I would want to see. Has anybody come out, any whistleblower ever, to say, hey, I was involved in the shoot or I'm in Hollywood.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Okay, so can I ask this, though? Do we have examples? We're saying, well, we don't know if a human can go through the... I would say, well, we do know because they did.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And meanwhile, it's like we've all been cut. Lady, people have cut in front of all of us. It's just that if it happens to me at Walmart, I don't think of it racially. I just think, oh, this person is an asshole. Exactly. But for her, it's all racial.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So my question is, have we tried to send humans through the radiation belt and not been able to? Has that happened?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I don't think the people... In the 1960s, the American people cared deeply about going to the moon.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it probably takes a lot of time to get to a point where you can do that consistently.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I mean, weird makes it sound necessarily nefarious. I think it's... No, just weird.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I would say two things. Number one, I think that it does take... Yeah, we're kind of spoiled by the fact that there was this burst of incredible technological advancement. In everything. In everything.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It doesn't necessarily... Not every facet of technology is going to continue at that pace forever into an infinity. So I think it does take... especially if you take a historical perspective, a longer-term historical perspective. It just takes a while to get from one thing to the next. It hasn't even been that long. I mean, 1969 was not that long ago from the historical perspective.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right, exactly. It's an unpleasant thing that happens to all people. And if you're not in the kind of race hustler bubble, you don't see it that way. But it's interesting that nobody wants to call that out.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And especially if you want to do the next thing. I mean, what's the next thing? The next thing is to go to Mars. Most people agree. That's so much far exponentially farther away and harder to do. Sure. And so if that takes if it takes decades more to figure out how to do that, that doesn't seem that crazy to me.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And the second thing I'll say is that I do think I get your point about resources on the moon. There's a reason to go back. I agree. You know. practically speaking.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it's just true that it requires a society that deeply values exploration for its own sake and is willing to make the sacrifices, is willing to send people off to do things just for the sake of exploration, knowing that they might die. I think we have almost no appetite for that now. Maybe the Challenger explosion was... You could point to that as the time when we sort of just...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
We have no appetite for people. We don't want people to die for this anymore. I see what you're saying.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It wasn't. But unfortunately, but politicians are the ones who decide it. People vote for those politicians. And unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans who are basically OK with sending money to Ukraine, which they shouldn't be. It's insane. I agree with you.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And how do you know? So how do you know what's in that other person's mind? How can you ascribe motives to them? It drives me nuts that this is what we do now, where if someone does something or says something, someone else is offended by it. That person who's offended gets to decide.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But for the moon landing, you would need way more people involved. I don't know if you would. More institutions.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Does he have any evidence of that event occurring? Would he say, well, I know they only went so far and came back because of this?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
what the intent was behind the other person's action to the extent that if the other person says, no, no, no, this was my intention, I'll tell you what it was, they don't get to have a say in the intentions behind their own actions. They are suddenly not authorities in their own behavior.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. It's not as dumb as Flat Earth, but it does remind – to me it reminds me of – to me it's in the vein of like Sandy Hook was a hoax.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
There's a lot of weirdness to it. Isn't it similar? Okay, because a lot of this comes from it's such an incredible feat that's so difficult to do that it's hard to believe anyone actually did it. Sure. Which I can understand that mentality. But the thing is, you can go back in history.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And you could look at, for the sake of discovery and exploration, you can look at what other men have done hundreds of years ago that arguably is more impressive than going to the moon. Like what? I mean, you name it. Take any famous explorer from the 1500s to the 1800s, and whether it's Magellan or James Cook or Christopher Columbus or any of them,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
What they were able to do, navigating this vast ocean, going to play, having no modern technology at all, being able to go from where their starting point, hit some little tiny island somewhere and then go around and navigating a world that they don't even know what it looks like. They have no maps. They have no GPS. They have nothing at all. I cannot conceive of...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
This other person who was the offended party gets to inform you what you meant by that thing, which is really what the, I mean, the move is called Am I Racist? But in reality, There's only one person who can answer whether you're a racist person and that's you. And if you don't think that you're racist, then you aren't because racism is a thought process.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
how they could have ever done that. I don't know how in the world, not knowing what the world looks like, having no map, having no GPS, having no modern navigation whatsoever, how in the world could you possibly get on a ship launching out of France or Portugal or wherever and make it anywhere across the ocean? I don't know how you could do it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it also took centuries to get to the point where it could be easily recreated.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I would say 100 years from now. Perhaps. Maybe. Christopher Columbus was 300 years before James Cook, I think. The technology they were using was not that different. It was pretty similar. It didn't progress that fast.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I mean, it's interesting. Yeah. I'm at a slight disadvantage because I'm going to assume that people have addressed some of those issues before. and have given responses to it, I'm going to assume. Like if I went to YouTube right now and looked up that video debunked, people have probably done that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So I don't know what their response would be. So it's interesting. I just don't see it. So to me, I listen to that and I think, well, that's interesting. I look into that to figure out. The first thing I want to know is, okay, here's your claim, the claim they're making. I need to know what is the official narrative, let's say. How do they respond to that? Because I know they do. Right.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And if it's not in your head, then you're not racist. You might have stereotypical views about people of other races. Everybody does to some extent. You might think things that are even insulting about people of other races, but it's not racist because racist means you hate people of other races or you think they're inferior to you.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But you could be not a racist person and think that whatever Asians are bad drivers. You know, you could think that that stereotype is true. Whether it's true or not, you just happen to think that that's a true thing about this group. Doesn't mean you hate them. Doesn't mean that you think that they're inferior.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You could. I would just need some kind of solid evidence of that to believe that's true. Yeah, me too. This, to me... There are some things that we call conspiracy theories that I think are, you know, clearly true. There are some things that we call conspiracy theories that I think are maybe true.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But there are conspiracy theories that to me are just that they're just they're just they're not even theories, really. They're just kind of like fanciful, whatever projections. And the ones that I don't find convincing are where they usually start with. There's a so-called official narrative of a thing that happened. There's a couple of things about what actually happened that are kind of weird.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And we look at that and go, that's a little bit weird. And then the conspiracy theorists, in that case, they come in and they find these little tiny cracks, if you want to call it. And then inside the cracks, they shove this whole Hollywood cinematic narrative that they have created to explain what's actually a pretty tiny crack. You don't need this whole thing to explain that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So with the moon thing, I mean, one of the first... Weird aspects of the moon landing that I think started kind of the conspiracy theories about it was the flag, the fact that the flag's moving in the picture. And so, yeah, it's like when you look at that, you don't really understand. You look at what that is where, because there's no wind on the moon.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But then you understand that, okay, for example, when you put the flag down, it creates reverberations. It makes the flag move. It's going to move for longer because there's no gravity. So there's an explanation for that. But if you're the conspiracy theorist, then you take the flag moving, and you're like, nope, the whole thing is bunk.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And most of the time, these stereotypes, they didn't just fall out of the sky. They're grounded in something.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right. And nobody would be offended. That's the thing. Nobody would be offended by a stereotype that really was not true at all. Right. You're only offended because it rings true at least a little bit. Because otherwise it would just be – it would be absurd.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It doesn't look like he hit it. It looks like a breeze. Yeah, but then the other part of this is that they... So what? The people that went through all this trouble to fake the moon landing... How would they miss these things?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I'll tell you what would convince me to, not that it's a fake, but at least would make me open to it. One thing that would shake my faith considerably in the moon landing, if Elon Musk were to come out and say, yeah, I don't know about this moon landing thing. Then, okay, fine.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And I'm not saying this is my whole reason for believing it happened, but Elon Musk, first of all, if the moon landing was fake, he knows it was. He knows it was fake. Sure. He's the richest man in the world. He's shown zero concern for propping up official narratives at all. Right. So he's a guy that would know if it's faked. There'd be no reason for him to continue that narrative if it was fake.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
In fact, he could even say, you know, they faked it. I'm going to do it for real. I'll be the first one to go to the moon because they faked it. And he hasn't said that. So I also find that to be pretty compelling. The fact that he, as someone who wouldn't know, let's say the problem is that you and I, most people that talk about this, we have no like direct access to knowledge about space.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Which is why when you get – I mean in the movie we go – there's a section where we go kind of outside this bubble and we go down and we talk to bikers at a biker bar in the south. We talk to the poor black community in New Orleans. And the only reason we did that was just – Well, let's find people who are not – they probably didn't go to college, so they didn't get brainwashed there.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
This is all being given to us by other people. So you got to go to people that have actually were working with this stuff. And so the fact that he has no time for this theory at all, I also find to be,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I will say, the moon landing hoax idea, it's barely even a kook take anymore. I think it is, but you're probably in the majority with your take on it. The last time I talked about this publicly, I got absolutely ripped to shreds. Of course. It felt like 99% against. And it's going to happen again in response to this conversation.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Maybe, but it seems like it's shifting drastically. And a lot of that is people just have lost all faith in our institutions, which I understand.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So people are – I mean, that was kind of the point of your bit, that people are – once you see that this is a lie, this is a lie, this is a lie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. That is happening. And I'm totally sympathetic to that part of it. But I just think that the moon landing, there's a lot of good evidence for it. And also, this is an emotional argument.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's one of our greatest achievements as Americans. Sure. You've got to pry that from my cold, dead hands. You've got to really show me something to make me willing to give that up.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's also wearing off, though. You think so? I don't think so. They were able to make her into a sensation, a political sensation, for about a month. I don't think she has that anymore. I don't think people are... Because you can hype somebody up and you can turn them into the next political savior through really good branding. They did that with Obama. But you got to have something.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They're not getting the corporate DEI seminars. They're not reading Robin DiAngelo or any of these people. What do they think about this stuff? Are they worried about systemic racism? Do they see everything as racist all the time? And what we found is no. They're just not even – they don't even speak that language. When you say the term systemic racism to them –
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
There has to be something. They at least have to have charisma. I mean, Obama had charisma. So you at least have to have that. If you have a politician who has charisma, then the media can come in and they can do the rest and they can turn you into.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, that's another. Or that it was shrapnel, which to me would make even less sense. Because, yeah, it's a very minor injury because she just got nicked. But if it's shrapnel, you would expect, you know, marks all over his face.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
The thing is, ears heal pretty quick. Yeah, and two centimeters. I mean, you can't see it from a distance.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Also, even if he didn't get hit with a bullet, which he did, But if he didn't, it doesn't make a difference. He still got shot at. It doesn't change what happened.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
The more bizarre thing about the shooting is that it's only been two months since it happened, right? Two months. Or not even two months. It's been like a month and a half. Mm-hmm. And we've moved on like it never happened. Like it never happened in two weeks.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's had no political impact whatsoever. Nuts. He got no polling boost from it. Reagan got like 12 points, briefly. Which just shows you the polls are full of shit. Probably. Yeah, full of shit. I mean, they are full of shit. But also, it would not shock me if, because we're so easily distracted, if people really did just forget and don't care a week later, two weeks later.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Why didn't he have a scope? This is one where I'm totally open to conspiracy theories, only because there's not even an official narrative. They basically told us nothing. So we're left to fill in the blanks.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I mean, and I just I can't. I think about when I do like a college speech, we'll have a little we'll have a few security guys there. Yeah. And there's no way, if someone showed up with a range finder, they would not get in the building. Anyone that looks vaguely suspicious with any kind of bag is getting flagged. I've got three or four guys, and I'm just a guy giving a speech at a college.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That never would have happened. It could not have happened. They would have flagged, especially three hours ahead of time. So how does that happen with a President of the United States or a former president? It's impossible to wrap your mind around. It's not like they've come up with...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's not like they've come up with some explanation where you could go, okay, well, now I can see how that might have happened. Everything we've heard since then just makes you even more confused.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think you're right that it was around 2012. BLM came into formation in 2013, I think. That was the Trayvon Martin thing. And so it's not a coincidence that it seemed like race relations in this country were improving decade after decade. They weren't perfect, but it seemed like they were pretty good. Much better than the 60s. Yeah, the 90s. I grew up in the 90s. It was not perfect, but...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That guy's a threat to democracy. Yeah. But I also think part of it, the fact that America seems to have moved on is nuts. Part of it, it's a political mistake. A lot of it's the media. Of course, they have no interest in talking about it. Some of it goes to the Republican Party. I mean, you had the Republican Convention, which was like two days later. So the timing is nuts. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Even at the Republican convention, I just felt like the fact that this guy was almost killed two days ago should be like the centerpiece of this thing. I mean, you've got all the cameras on you for four days. And so everything you were planning for the convention should change now because of this. And it should take on an extra seriousness and just the whole tone should change. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They've got Instagram influencers and they've got MAGA rappers from YouTube. It's just like you're not – you are not showing us how serious this thing is. And so I think that was a mistake.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They both are. I think they're equally as wild because Colbert apologizes to him apparently in that for being mean to him. In the clip we watched, he tells him, I'm so grateful that you're running for president.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And this was September of 2016 or 15. So this was, of course, after he'd already announced... A year plus before the elections. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I think it was that they were happy that he ran, and they wanted him to win the nomination because they thought that he easily beat him. So he was really... This really is a Frankenstein kind of story from their perspective. Yes. Because they look at him as a monster, this monstrous figure, and they... The media deliberately created this. They gave him all the attention.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They sucked all the oxygen out of the room for every other candidate because this is the guy they wanted. And they thought we were going to annihilate him. There's no way he's going to win a general election. And, of course, he won.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And I think that's one of the reasons why ever since then they haven't been able – the media, they just can't – they hate him with an extra passion that they have not had even for other Republican presidents. And I think a lot of it is – It's like they're projecting because they realize that they did this and they just can't get over it, I think.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I grew up in a diverse area. I went to public school. A lot of people of different ethnicities and races. We weren't talking about racism all the time. It was basically fine. And then something happened in the middle part of the first decade of the 2000s where it seemed like things started backsliding. And that's right at the time when Barack Obama was elected. And that's not a coincidence.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You also think that you are or you've told yourself that you are the vanguard candidate. protecting democracy in our way of life. Which is crazy. Which is insane. Of course, the idea that you have to prevent people from voting for a certain guy in order to protect democracy is nuts. It's so nuts. But that's what they actually believe.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And when you tell yourself that, you convince yourself that, well, this is for their own good. These people are silly. They don't know. They're dumb. They're bigoted. They don't understand what they're doing. And so for their own good, we have to prevent them. We have to do whatever we can to prevent this.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Like a lot of people have noticed that it's odd that we had a black president and then all of a sudden now we're having race riots again. And I think the reason is that when you elect a black president, I didn't like Obama. I didn't vote for him. I think his policies are terrible.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And not only can you get them to—obviously, they hate Trump, but to also demonize half of the country's population. I mean, there was just—I think it was MSNBC yesterday. One of these pundits was talking about Trump and said, well, he's despicable, he's terrible. But his supporters are, too. He said.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And they they went on about how terrible his supporters are, which is you're talking about tens of millions of Americans. A basket of deplorables. Right. But, you know, we take it for granted now. But 15 years ago, that would kind of be unthinkable. You just you wouldn't do that. You would you say whatever you want about a politician. You hate them. They're terrible.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it was just generally understood that you don't you don't use that language to talk about all the people voting for these are American citizens.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And I don't mind – because you can go back farther in American history and you can find – like back to the beginning and they're in Congress like beating each other over the head with –
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
fireplace pokers and that sort of thing and i don't you know there's an argument to be made for that kind of it certainly makes c-span a lot more interesting uh but that shows a certain passion for the issues i suppose but that's it's what we have now is different from that it's it's it's much more i mean there have been multiple cases recently of congressional hearings
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Marjorie Taylor Greene, AOC. And who's the other one? Jasmine Crockett, I think. And it's like a Waffle House. It's like, you know. No respect for each other, but also no dignity at all. No class. No respect for the position.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But you would think that at least one positive you could draw from that is that, well, at least that means that systemic racism is not a problem in this country anymore. I mean, if a black guy could rise to the top of the system and run it, then clearly the system is not racist against black people. And in fact, was overwhelmingly voted into that position by Americans.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
One of the things that's always interesting to me is that they are so desperate to stop Trump and that they act like it's, you know, the future of the planet hangs in the balance. Meanwhile... they still own everything when they own all the institutions, Google, you know, the federal government. So the truth is that Trump could get into office.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
This happened last time he was in office for four years. They act like it was into the world. Then he's out of office and they basically reverse everything he did in like two seconds, a couple of executive orders, whatever. And, and most of it never took hold anyway, because the bureaucracy is entirely aligned against Trump. So, uh,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So that's the problem, is that even when Trump gets in there, he's handicapped in his ability to do anything because the entire federal government, he might be at the top of it, but everybody underneath him despises him, and they're all leftist. And they can just reverse it the second that he leaves. And yet they still act like if he's in there that it's the end of the world. They still can't.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You'd think they'd almost have an attitude. They're like, yeah, whatever, fine. Let him have it for four years. It still won't matter because we're still going to be in charge of everything.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
which is true, so that is evidence that America isn't systemically racist against black people, but the race hustlers don't want us to draw that conclusion. They're worried that we'll look at Obama as president and say, okay, well, racism isn't a big issue anymore. And that's a problem for them because there's a lot of power, money and influence to be found in the racist racism narrative.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Of course, the funny thing is that he definitely will not do that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, yeah, he ran on Lockerbocker, but he didn't. I mean, that's the thing. They always... Their criticisms of Trump, one of the reasons they don't really land is that they they're not hitting him in the places where like they don't even understand what his weaknesses actually are. They try to make him out to be some kind of dictator. That's that's the opposite. If anything, he has the opposite.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
If anything, he has the opposite flaw that he's actually hesitant to wield power, even in times when he should. So, you know, if anything, that should be the criticism that you should use your power more. But he's probably the least dictatorial, you know, presidential candidate we've ever had.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right. But they don't know what he did. The people saying that they don't know what he did. They don't care.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And the funny thing is these are also people who otherwise would say that the court system is entirely corrupt, that just because you're a convicted felon, it really doesn't mean anything at all necessarily. Right. But in this case, they put a lot of stock in it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So they had to kind of like double up on their efforts to convince us that America is actually racist, which is why during Obama's term, that's when we started getting all these race hoaxes and the race riots and BLM. That's when things like people start talking about microaggressions and all this kind of nonsense because.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I kind of go back. That's the conventional wisdom, at least the people I talk to, that they say, well, if Trump doesn't win, he's going to jail. And so he's got a lot on the line here. I kind of think, are they really... Maybe it's naive of me to think, but would they do that?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Or would they rather just, he loses, Kamala wins, and then they'd want Trump to just fade into obscurity and never talk about him again? I don't know. I would tend to think that that would be, that they'd prefer that. But probably not. I mean, they...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
There's certainly a real thirst for vengeance. They want revenge on him. I think that's what it comes down to. Whether it helps them politically or not. Because I think that's the problem. If Kamala wins and then they really go after Trump and try to put him in jail, and if they actually do put him in jail, I don't see how it helps them politically.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think that's just going to radicalize people on the right even more than they already are.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And for good reason, by the way. I'm radicalized by it. So it doesn't help them politically, but I think he has to pay the price for defying them for so many years.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They needed to tell us that, yeah, you might think that this issue is kind of solved now, but it's not. Racism is actually worse than you ever imagined. It's lurking everywhere.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I'd be interested to hear his answer to that. It wouldn't surprise me if, in a weird way, when you become president, you... You feel very powerless once you're sitting there because you realize that you're overseeing this just gigantic mammoth thing that's just so unwieldy. There's no way to really control it. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And especially in his case, you've got so many people within his own administration plotting against him. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
is there a lot of people within his own administration now you think plotting against him or only then do you think it's just like backstabby politics that just what they do period i mean at the time there certainly was and i think but i think he also made some he made some bad choices in personnel he made a lot of really bad i mean bringing guys like john bolton in uh there's no chance that you're not going to be undermined by somebody like that um
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And now we're at a point, and then not long after that, they started tearing down Confederate Civil War monuments and stuff, stuff that's been there for like 100 years, which was always weird because 100 years ago, people could, whatever, walk by a Robert E. Lee monument and not care. It wasn't a big deal to them, black or white.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And especially, you know, in Trump's first campaign in 2016, drain the swamp was was one of the was build the wall and drain the swamp and lock her up. You know, the two three big things. And you don't we don't hear drain the swamp nearly as much anymore. In fact, I don't think I've heard it. It's never said anymore. Right.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Which is unfortunate because that is actually that is that is the first thing that needs to happen if he gets in there. And what I would love to see is that. Okay, he's in there now. He got back in. They tried to stop him. They tried to kill him. They tried to put him in jail. He still got in there. He's not getting reelected. This is it for him. Four more years.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
He's out of politics forever after that. And I'd love to see him just... I got nothing to lose now. They're going to put me in jail when I'm out of office. So I got nothing to lose. I don't care what these people say. And just ruthlessly push your agenda through no matter how much they complain about it. I'd love to see him do that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think that they're assuming he will, which is why they're so desperate to stop him. But I don't know. It didn't happen the first time. I hope it does.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, even if because even if it is most of the stuff they call misinformation isn't. But in the case when there's something that is misinformation, it's just not true. That's being plenty of that goes around the Internet. That's still free speech, too. You have the right to say things that are not as long as you're not slandering somebody.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You have the right to make claims about the world that don't happen to be true. So the idea that that doesn't qualify as free speech is, of course, absurd. But then that also requires some central authority to be the arbiter of what is true and what is not.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Now, all of a sudden, it's a bigger deal to us than it was to people whose parents fought. They had grandparents who fought in the Civil War or died in the Civil War. They were okay with it. And yet for us, what, the wounds of the Civil War are fresher or more raw for us than they were for people a century ago? It makes no sense. How are we less able to...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's why I think the free speech thing is people act like it's a complicated thing. It's a complicated subject. Where do you draw the line? What is free speech? What qualifies and what doesn't? I don't think it is that complicated, really. I think it's just you should have the right to express whatever your opinion happens to be. Everyone should be able to say their opinion, their point of view.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Wrong or right, reprehensible or not, they should be able to say it. Yeah, you can't defame someone. You can't threaten to kill somebody. But those aren't really opinions. That's different. If it's just your opinion about what's happening in the world, it should be allowed. And it should be allowed legally. It should be allowed on every social media platform.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think it's kind of simple, actually, to differentiate between that and the – because, yeah, there's certain kinds of speech that should not be allowed. We all understand that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And hate speech, too, is the other label they use. Tim Walls said this recently about free speech. He said, well, of course you can't. Hate speech and misinformation doesn't count. But what is hate speech? Hate speech is just you're expressing that you hate something. People hate things. It's legitimate. There are some things we should hate.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So the idea that it's automatically illegitimate to express a view if it's communicating hatred is, of course, ridiculous.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right. And it implies that all hatred is automatically bad, or at least it puts the people in power and position where they can decide what kind of things you're allowed to hate and what you're not.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
be objective and non-emotional about the Civil War than people who had family members. Ex-slaves were still living back then.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Different world, right? Yeah. I think Elon Musk is actually preserving free speech. One of the main people preserving free speech in America right now. And going into space. So it's always funny to me when people... When the left tries to nitpick and needle at him, it's like, this is one of the most significant human beings on the planet right now.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And he'll, you know, SpaceX will launch a rocket and it'll blow up or something. Stephen King was making fun of him. Right. Yeah. You'll have someone like Stephen King, like rocket blew up. It's like, dude, your rockets don't blow up because you don't build them.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And a lot of times when they say that the rocket malfunctioned or something, it's actually doing exactly what it was supposed to do. This is a test run or whatever. Yeah, they have to test tolerances and parameters.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And you need and we just need people in the world. This is very much the it's like the Teddy Roosevelt man in the arena, you know, speech. You need people in the arena who are actually trying to do stuff, do important things. You need people like that. Yeah. And of course, social media gives a platform for people who are like not doing anything at all.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
To just sit and snicker at the few people in the world who are trying to achieve something?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. I mean, that's the catch-22 of social media because it could be – If you use it exactly the right way, it does give you access to all these human beings and the way that they're thinking about things, which can be quite enlightening. But most people don't use it the right way.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And this is also why, in my opinion, none of my kids have smartphones or social media. They're going to get bullied.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I think once you... I mean, we haven't quite decided when we're going to introduce this stuff to the kids. But once you get into high... At a certain point, yeah, I don't want them to be 18 and it's their first time ever holding a cell phone. Right. Because then you're just... Then they have no idea. We haven't given them the tools to understand how to use this stuff. Right.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Like the emotional and intellectual tools. So you got to introduce it at some point. But... Most kids today, I don't know what the latest figure is, but millions of kids today have smartphones by the time they're like eight or nine years old.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
A lot of my kids, you know, with friends when they come over and they're eight, nine, ten years old and they've got phones, I just think it's like, it can only harm them. You understand, as a parent, you're giving them something. At this age, they cannot use it appropriately or correctly. They don't have the tools for it. They're not old enough. It cannot help them in their life.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. I mean, the average age of first exposure to pornography now is like... I think it's around 10 years old. I mean, it depends on, I guess, what study you look at, but it's young. And it's not just... Because, yeah, people sometimes will dismiss the harms of it because they'll say... They'll say, oh, yeah, I found a Playboy under my dad's mattress or whatever. Not the same.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's not at all the same. I mean, the kind of thing you're being exposed to, how often you're being exposed to it, how ubiquitous it is now, how readily available it is, it's not at all the same.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, that kind of goes to show there's something primal about... Even just the... Well, obviously with pornography, but the phone, the... Even like my two-year-old twins. They don't have phones, obviously, but... Just something about the phone itself. Even if it's off, they just like to have... It's a cool object. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And our kids, we will... They don't have tablets and all that stuff, but if we go on a long car trip, it's the one time we make an exception. If we're going on a 20-hour car trip, just for our own sanity, we'll let them have tablets in the car, just with games and books and stuff. But... Then we get wherever we're going, we take the tablets away, you don't get them anymore.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But there's like a detox period of like two or three days where they're jonesing for it. They're constantly, they can't, they're constantly asking for it. And once you get past that, they're fine again. But there's a real, it's like there's something, it creates this compulsion and kids take to it really quickly.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And it just becomes, it's like a, it becomes another limb for them, part of their, part of them somehow really quickly. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And it's yeah, we've gotten that with the movie. People ask, is it is all is that all real or did we stay? It's all totally real. We didn't script any of it. And that in particular is a yeah, it's like a support group for white people who are struggling with their white grief because they they have privilege and they're grieving their whiteness and their privilege.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And there's this woman, Bershia Wade, I think his name is. a black woman she'll do these sessions with white people where she'll kind of like talk them through their whiteness and people yeah people pay money to go and sit around and uh and talk to her and that was another one that was like an hour and a half two hours in the room in real time when did they start figuring out who you were uh
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
At some point, midway through, they started looking at me strange because I was intentionally making it really awkward just because it was funny. But then, as you can see in the movie, I get emotional because I'm on my own journey of self-discovery. And I had to leave because there's one rule that all these people have. We ran into this multiple times.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
If you're white, you're not allowed to cry in front of black people because that's white tears. And you can't shed white tears around black people because white tears are manipulative. So in this place, she had a cry room. She said, if you get emotional, you have to cry. We have a room. Get away from us and go cry over there. So at one point, I left to the cry room because I was getting emotional.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's a very emotional experience to confront my whiteness. And... I guess while I was gone, they started talking to each other. Like, who is this guy? They looked it up, and they were Googling. And then I came back. The whole thing had changed. The tone had changed. They kicked me out.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That guy, too, I can say. One of the people in that group was a professional cuddler, actually. It's not in the movie, but we just know that about them. They get paid to cuddle with people? Yeah, one of the people in the group. Jeez. A cuddlist is what they call it. Jeez. They're fringe people. We thought about somehow we could put up a lower third on the screen. But it seems fake.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's like people don't really professional cuddler. Come on. But this is too crazy. These people exist out there. This is a world that they live in. Yeah. They go to events like this and they're, they're very, they feel they have a lot of guilt for the fact that they're white. You know, uh, there were people crying in the circle. I mean, they were getting really emotional talking about it. Oh,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And that was always – it was always going to go that way because – George Washington, founding fathers owned slaves. Not only that, but they were rebels, you know, rebelling against a governmental authority. And if they had lost, then they all would have been hanged as traitors. And that's how they'd be remembered. Thankfully, they didn't.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
There's the part where she says, think about being white. What emotions come up when you think about being white? And then everyone goes around and they're like, oh, I have revulsion. I just feel, I cringe. I feel cringe. Really? This is you. You're talking about yourself. It's just, it's sick. It's a sickness.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I didn't think, I mean, we had that planned as our last exercise when we bring the whips out. And we debated like, is anyone really going to take a whip? I didn't think anybody would. I thought that this would be, because we needed an end for the scene. And so I thought I'd bring the whips out and everybody would leave. Yeah. And so then that would be the end.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And then that would be, that's our, cause you know, it's a narrative we're trying to tell story. So that would be the thing that shows me I've gone too far, but then they started taking the whips. And I'm like, I don't think I can actually have you beat yourself right now for like liability. I don't know if I can do that. Um, so I was not expecting that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, there was really the, uh, right before that. I mean, you know, it's spoilers, I guess, but, uh,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
when i'm berating my uh my racist uncle um and uh well i don't know you gotta watch it but you gotta watch it yeah that that was for me the the most shock making the movie the most shocking thing to me that happened that really took me back was in that moment and the way they responded to it uh which i was not expecting and it's kind of dark yeah they got aggressive with them yeah yeah
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You don't enjoy it in the moment because it's really unpleasant in the moment. You're in this environment with these... Insane people. Yeah. It's exhausting listening to this. How did you develop that skill to do that, though? Because that's a skill. I don't know if I... I can't say I did anything to develop it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's more just... I just know what... We're making a movie, so I'm aware of that the whole time. Obviously, if the cameras weren't rolling, I wouldn't be reacting the same way. So I'm just kind of keeping that in the back of my mind. This is what we need for this scene. But the main thing is we want, with both movies, the whole point is to create an environment...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But so there's a it's actually there's a there's a it's not that far of a leap to go from from one to the other. And, of course, the issue is that. Everybody who lived on earth prior to about, certainly prior to 100 years ago is racist by our standards today, every single one. There was no one who lived on earth 100 years ago who we would not consider racist anywhere of any race.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
where the other person feels comfortable saying what they actually think and what they really believe and doing what they would really do. And that means not react because if you laugh at them, they clam up. If you argue with them, if you show any real skepticism, They clam up. They're not going to tell you what they really believe.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And then it's a boring movie because all you're getting are the talking points. And that's especially the case we found in this... That was the case with What Is Woman? We're talking to the trans activists. But in this, when you're talking to the race hustlers, they've been doing it for a lot longer. The race hustle has been around a lot longer than the trans hustle.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And they're pretty good at what they do. And they're usually pretty sensitive to...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
detecting when someone's being skeptical and if they get that then they they're they kind of go into a different mode and they go into this kind of hr dei mode where everything's very sanitized very surface level they're not gonna they're not gonna tell you the stuff about how you know all white people are inherently racist and they're not gonna do they're not gonna get into the really brutal terrible racist stuff um so we just thought making this movie how can we
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Just create an environment where they'll really be themselves.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Which with What Is Woman, all that required was just kind of being a blank slate and asking questions. With this one, it required more of an affirmatively agreeing with them approach. and demonstrating that I'm fully on board with this.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
She did. But the thing is, she did kind of. And I think you can see it on camera. In the room, I could tell she was kind of like... What did you just do? She was trying to figure out in her head. I think she was trying to sort through it. Like, is he...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
but I think she just couldn't, uh, she couldn't, the possibility that she was in the room with someone who doesn't already agree with her about everything. It's like unthinkable to her. She couldn't, she couldn't fathom it. She probably, that was probably the first time in like 20 years that she'd been in a room with someone who doesn't agree with her on everything.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Has she responded to the movie at all? Uh, No, she took down her Twitter page. So most of the people in the movie have taken down their Twitter pages, deleted them. So they're kind of going into a bubble somewhere. I mean, the truth is there's not a lot they can say because, listen, if we deceptively edited it, if we pulled any trick like that, they'd happily come out and say that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But they know that we didn't. Everything that's in there is what they said. We didn't change anything. Yeah. It's all real, and they know that, so what can they say? And especially in Robin DiAngelo's case, you know, it goes in a direction. She's willing to do some things that are quite embarrassing for her, and... But, you know, we didn't put a gun to her. We didn't force her.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Oh, it's in theaters. It's in theaters right now. Oh, nice. Nice. You can get tickets at mracist.com.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Nice. We're trying to get it out to make it available to whoever wants to see it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
If you go back 200 years or earlier than that, almost everybody either owned slaves or was okay with slavery as an institution. You go back 500 years, And there was nobody on the planet who considered slavery to be wrong fundamentally.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They might have had issues with how slaves are treated in some context, but it took like thousands of years for it to ever even occur to a single human on earth that slavery is actually fundamentally wrong, which is a crazy thing. And that's actually an interesting thing you could talk about and think about. Like, why is that?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
How could it be that it's so obvious to us, but some of the greatest minds of history, they never thought of it. But we can't talk about that because we have to talk about slavery and racism as if they're exclusively white Western phenomena.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Trump appears to be taking very seriously the idea of purchasing Greenland and taking control of the Panama Canal. Is that a good idea? And should we just go ahead and conquer Canada while we're at it? Also, a judge blocks a Tennessee law requiring age verification for porn sites. Her reasoning is flimsy, to say the least.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
If we take over Greenland, we gain an ideal position for shooting down missiles from countries like China, Russia, North Korea. We'd also gain access to rare earth minerals that are useful for various military technologies and batteries and so on. Greenland is a massive piece of land on our continent. That has basically nobody living on it.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
I mean, the actual population is about 56,000, which to put that into perspective is significantly less than the average capacity of a professional football stadium. Those are all the people living in Greenland. So why shouldn't we at least discuss the possibility of acquiring it? And of course, the Panama Canal would give us control over one of the most important shipping lanes in the world.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
We'd have more opportunities to limit China's advancement in our hemisphere as well. And whenever you think about these ideas, they make a lot more sense than fighting proxy wars in Eastern Europe or the Middle East. The Panama Canal and Greenland are on our continent. They're in our backyard. What happens there affects us a lot more than a border dispute 6,000 miles away.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
And in case you needed another reason to support Trump's proposals on Greenland and the Panama Canal, take a look at CNN's reaction to the press conference. Their jaws were on the floor. Watch.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
Speaking to a reporter with the New York Times, Trudeau explained that, quote, there's no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. There are shared values. Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state, close quote. Yes, Canada is a post-national state with no core identity. That's what he said. No wonder this guy was forced to resign this week.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
Now, as a general rule, the more enraged CNN becomes, the more you know you're on the right track. And by that metric, we should take Greenland, Panama Canal, and Canada immediately. It's not just about the well-documented economic and strategic benefits when it comes to Greenland and Panama Canal. There's another important reason, I think, to follow through with this.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
which is that it signals our direction as a nation. A country that grows and acquires new land and pursues new opportunities is a living, thriving country. It's a sign of a nation on the rise rather than a nation on the decline. Americans once pursued their manifest destiny into the wilderness and all the way to the Pacific Ocean. That's how our country took its current shape.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
But most of that happened in the 19th century. And in the 20th century, the drive to reach out into the unknown took the form of the space program. It brought us all the way to the moon. Since then, however, we've kind of been in stasis, jogging in place.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
Liberal imperialism took over as we tried to export liberal values to far flung corners of the world that are thousands of miles away, attempting to impose them on people and cultures that had no interest in them and never will. That was and still is a disaster. That's not the kind of expansion we should pursue. But claiming new land on our continent
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
in our own part of the world for our own interest to help our own country and our own people, that is an idea worth considering. That's also why Trump proposed changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America yesterday. It's a proposal that would be unthinkable in a place like Canada where they're busy apologizing for their own existence.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
But in a country that's proud of itself and proud of its history and sees itself as a great nation. And that's one of the things, to be a great nation, you also have to see yourself as a great nation. And in a country like that, it makes sense. I mean, why not? We could change the name. Why shouldn't we?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
In fact, as I suggested yesterday, we should think about renaming the moon to the moon of America. It is ours after all. We put our flag on it. So where do we go from here? Will Greenland and the Panama Canal soon belong to us? Will Canada do the right thing and submit to rule by the United States? Will they affirm their own potential for greatness by being our serfs? Probably not.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
But you never know. The feeling we have now is the feeling that a great country should have. A feeling that says anything is possible. Now let's get to our five headlines. Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, believes that we are endowed by a creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
Of course, no one paid any attention to Trudeau's comments at the time because no one ever pays any attention to what's happening in Canada. Nobody stepped up to offer Canadians a nation that they could call home. Nobody suggested that Canadians could indeed have a core identity just like the rest of the world.
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
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Ep. 1510 - Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?
A Tennessee law requiring pornographic websites to verify their visitor's age was largely blocked in court before it was to take effect January 1st, even as similar laws kicked in for Florida and South Carolina and remained in effect for more than a dozen other states. On December 30th, U.S.
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District Judge Cheryl Lipman in Memphis ruled that Tennessee's law would likely suppress the First Amendment free speech rights of adults without actually preventing children from accessing the harmful material in question. The State Attorney General's Office is appealing the decision. The Free Speech Coalition and Adult Entertainment Trade Group
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is suing over Tennessee's law and those in a half dozen other states. The coalition lists some 19 states that have passed similar laws. One prominent adult website has cut off access in several states due to their laws. The law would require porn websites to verify visitors are at least 18 years old, threatening felony penalties and civil liability possible for violators running the sites.
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They could match a photo to someone's ID or use certain public or private transactional data to prove somebody's age. Website leaders could not retain personally identifying information and would have to keep anonymized data. In a ruling, Judge Lipman wrote that parental controls on minors' devices are more effective and less restrictive.
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She wrote that under Tennessee's laws, minors still could access adult sites using VPNs, or they could view pornographic material on social media sites, which are unlikely to reach the law's threshold of one-third of its content considered harmful to minors. The judge also said the impact could be overly broad.
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She noted that Tennessee's definition of content harmful to minors extends to include text, She specifically mentioned that the phrase the human nipple or crude combinations of keyboard characters would be considered harmful as long as they lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
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She also said that this could affect online educational platforms focused on sexual wellness. Okay, so first of all, the definition that Tennessee offers in their law for pornographic content makes a lot of sense. The judge has a problem with it but can't explain what the problem is exactly?
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Yes, it is pornographic if it is sexually explicit and lacks, as it says, quote, serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors. So obviously a science website that has information about human biology and anatomy is not pornography. Everybody understands that.
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Instead, we allowed our neighbors to the north to wallow in their own self-pity and apparent non-existence. Their identity crisis festered. As a result, after a decade of self-loathing, Canada is now predictably falling apart. Justin Trudeau has resigned. Parliament has been suspended. Their whole government has basically collapsed.
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This always goes back to the famous line from the Supreme Court justice in the 60s or 70s who, when asked for a definition of pornography, said, I know it when I see it. And that's true. That is kind of the answer because everybody understands what pornography is.
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So we get into the, anytime you have this conversation about restrictions, regulations, it always becomes this academic, well, how do we know? How do we know? How do you really define pornography? Everybody knows. In the real world, when it comes to practical application, there just is not any legitimate dispute.
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And even though every time we talk about laws and regulations meant to protect children from smut, you get this sophistry, this, how do we define it? What if in some hypothetical scenario, something that isn't pornographic is interpreted as pornographic and also ends up being restricted? That's just not happening, okay? That's not actually happening. That's not real.
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We all know what porn is, right? Okay, nobody's confusing Pornhub and National Geographic. Everybody understands the distinction. Nobody is truly confused about the distinction between a pornographic image on a porn site and an image of the statue of David, right? Even though there's nudity in both, but we all know the difference. We all understand the difference. And you know what?
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And the state of New Jersey will no longer require that its teachers know how to read. What could possibly go wrong? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show. Being a husband, father, and host of my own show means life never slows down. Imagine trying to eat 31 fruits and vegetables every day.
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If the consequence of protecting kids from porn is that on rare occasion, a few random non-pornographic things get caught in the net. If that even does happen, that's a trade off that I'm willing to make. There are downsides to any policy. There are unintended consequences no matter what you do. The unintended consequence, well,
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supposedly unintended, the supposedly unintended consequence of having no regulations and nothing in place to prevent kids from seeing hardcore porn is that millions and millions of kids, very young kids at very, very young ages, end up looking at porn. So that's the consequence there. When you don't have anything like this, that's the consequence.
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The consequence of having these regulations is that Maybe, hypothetically, a child every once in a while is not able to access a site that is actually non-pornographic. Okay, well, you tell me, which of these consequences is worse? Which set of unintended consequences is the greater threat to the well-being of children? Which will inflict greater harm on the child? So that's all nonsense.
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Canada is sputtering along, barely staying alive in the cold, like a stray cat that everyone ignores. But there's some good news now for Canadians. Finally, at long last, against all odds, they may soon have a nation to call their own. They may find that the core identity that they've apparently been seeking for so long. Admittedly, this development will come with some trade-offs, most likely.
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The whole argument from this judge is nonsense. The free speech arguments are just absolutely unintelligible. What is the free speech concern here exactly? Whose speech is being infringed by simply requiring age verification before you access a porn site? What do you mean speech? If you want to go to Pornhub,
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And have to just prove that you're an adult, like you do when you buy alcohol or when you go to a gambling site. In what way is anyone's speech being violated? And as I've asked a million times, if it is, then how does that also, if you want to go to a fan duel and place a bet on the wildcard weekend in the NFL this coming weekend, you're going to have to verify your age.
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No one looks at that and says, my speech is being infringed. This is a First Amendment violation. Nobody says that. So how is that suddenly the case when it's porn, but it's not for anything else? And besides, how is going to a porn site a form of speech? Watching porn is speech? What definition of speech are we using here? Consumption is speech? Watching is speech?
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Watching two people have sex, or however many, is speech? How? Or is it the porn site that is having its speech infringed? Again, how? They supposedly intend to provide this product only to adults. So how is their speech infringed by requiring that they verify that their customers are actually adults?
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And again, if their speech is infringed by that requirement, how are we also not infringing the free speech of every liquor store in America by forcing them to ask for an ID before allowing a customer to make a purchase? How is it any different? And of course, this is to say nothing of the fact that pornography isn't speech anyway.
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Okay, this is another thing that we act like is, you know, this is another question that we pretend is super complicated, and it's actually not. What is speech? How do you define speech? What do you mean, what is speech? We all understand what speech is, okay? Speech is something that conveys a message. It's a point of view. It's being expressed. That is speech.
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If you're getting a message across, right, in some kind of a coherent, intelligible way, you are engaged in speech. Having sex on camera is not speech. There's no message. I mean, you could say that the message of the porn performer is that They're a whore. Okay, you could say that that's the message.
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But that's like saying that a guy who eats seven Big Macs is engaged in speech because he's communicating the fact that he's a fat, disgusting glutton. Well, that may be the image of yourself that you're projecting, but it's not speech. Okay, the act itself is not a form of communication. Nobody who sits down to watch pornography is watching it going, they're communicating with me.
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Okay, you're not like interpreting the message, okay? Like you got a decoder ring and you've got to say, this is the message. That's not how it is. So it's not speech, and we all know that. We all know that. It's not like, well, if you restrict pornography, then next thing you know, you're stopping people from expressing their opinions.
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No, there's no reason why one should lead to the other, cuz they're two totally different things. And we all understand the freaking difference. But the thing that just frustrates me the most is this totally phony argument you hear from the porn sites and their lawyers and now this judge. The phony argument that, and it's all phony, it's all phony. None of this is real.
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All the free speech, this, that, they don't care about any of that. They just want as many people as possible to watch the porn because they make billions of dollars on it. And they don't care if kids watch. In fact, they want kids to see it. We all know that also. They want kids to see it. Of course they do. They make money on that.
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Canadians will probably lose the right to vote. They may have to start working jobs they don't like and that, you know, might not even pay them anything. And we still won't take them very seriously. But none of that's important right now, because the key point is that Canadians could soon become Americans, or at least they could become vassals of Americans.
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The more kids who are exposed to porn, not only do they make money on those clicks, but also now you're getting kids hooked on this filth. And so now these are, unfortunately, in many cases, lifelong customers that you have earned for yourself. So they want kids to see it. Does anyone really think that the people who run Pornhub actually don't want kids to see it? Does anyone think that?
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You have to be a soulless reptile in the first place to be involved in the porn industry at any level anyway. These are soulless, amoral trolls, all of them. And so they don't care. So then you get this phony argument that they oppose age verification because it isn't effective. Right? Their real problem is that it doesn't stop enough kids from seeing it. Come on. Again, does anyone believe that?
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Is anyone stupid enough? Does anyone wanna admit to being so dumb that they believe that the porn sites are actually concerned that the age verification isn't more effective? Yes, it's true that age verification at the website level is not perfect. It should not be the only barrier put in place between your child and this kind of content.
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That's an argument for additional measures for doing this and more. But the judge is saying that we should not do this at all because it won't succeed in actually preventing every child from accessing porn. Okay, but it will prevent some of them, won't it?
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So what you're saying is that if it's a measure that will not prevent every child from seeing it, then we might as well prevent no child from seeing it. That's the argument. Which, once again, we would never apply to anything else ever. I mean, age verification certainly doesn't stop kids from getting alcohol. It didn't stop me before I was 21, I can tell you that.
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It doesn't stop anyone who really wants it. But yet most people agree that it's like, we could talk about the drinking age, should it be lower to 18? But most people would say, we could talk about drinking age, it definitely shouldn't be 10. And yet there are plenty of, unfortunately, 10-year-olds who could get their hands on alcohol if they really want to.
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And yet, so it's not perfect, it's far from perfect, but it's better than nothing. I mean, are you suggesting or are we saying that age verification at the website level is just, it won't stop any kids, really? Are you suggesting that every child of every age understands how to use a VPN to bypass age verification?
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They not only understand it, but they're able to download a VPN and put it on their computer or phone without their parents knowing? Every child can do that, really? It's just ridiculous.
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The fact is that a simple barrier of entry on the website, at the website level, requiring age verification, will actually, every day, every day, prevent literally millions of kids, every day, would be prevented from seeing this stuff. Millions. Now, millions more will get around it. That's true. So let's do more, not less,
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Here's Donald Trump's olive branch to the oppressed people of Canada from yesterday's press conference. This is, of course, getting a lot of attention. In case you missed it, here it is.
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Yesterday, we heard about Zuckerberg's plan to recommit to free speech on Facebook and Instagram, supposedly. Part of that plan involves getting rid of the hyper-partisan fact-checkers and instituting a community note system like what Elon put in place on X. Not surprisingly, the left is unhappy with this development, very unhappy. And here's just one example of many.
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This is our good friend Joy Reid with her reaction.
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Now, what I love about this logic is that, of course, Joy Reid would totally reject it if we applied it to any other situation. So for example, when we hear from people like Joy Reid that, say, black people get pulled over and arrested more often than white people, using her logic, I could say, hey, what were you doing that made the cops pull you over? Think about it.
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Why are you getting pulled over and arrested all the time? If you don't want to be pulled over and arrested, stop committing crimes. Think about it. They're law enforcement. You're running afoul of law enforcement. You must be breaking the law. It's the exact same logic, but in that case, Joy would totally reject it. Of course, the difference is that in that case, the argument actually works.
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It works because the data shows that, in fact, police officers, by and large, are not unfairly targeting black people. That's just false, some made-up false narrative. For the most part, in the vast majority of cases, if you're getting arrested, it's because you're committing a crime.
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And so a really, really, really good way that it's not 100% foolproof, but if you just don't commit any crimes, there's a really high chance that you'll just never be arrested. It could happen, could happen, but probably it won't. On the other hand, with fact checkers, it's not as simple as, well, just make sure everything you're saying is factual and you'll never get fact checked.
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You'll never get, you know. Doesn't work that way. If you got flagged by a fact checker, it did not necessarily mean, very often did not mean, that you posted something false. Because the whole fact checking regime was, from the start, invented to suppress conservative thought. Law enforcement as a concept was not invented to persecute black people, despite what Joy Reid may say.
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Fact checking on social media you know, this current iteration of what we call, now, if, you know, there were, if we're talking about someone using the term fact check 40 years ago, different deal. But now what we call fact checking and these, the professional fact checkers on social media and so on, that is an industry intended from the very beginning to enforce ideological conformity.
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And, you know, I mean, there's a lot of evidence of that. We all know this. I'm not saying anything you don't know, but here's really all the evidence we need, right? You could just take one example that kind of proves the point. Did any fact checker on Facebook or on any other platform ever once flag a post claiming that there are more than two genders?
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Was that claim ever once flagged as non-factual? Was the claim that trans women are women, was that ever debunked by the fact checkers? No, of course not. In fact, it went the other way. Statements of incontrovertible, undeniable, biological, and scientific fact were flagged as false and harmful by the fact checkers, even though they are absolutely 100% correct.
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And so that's all the proof you need. I mean, and- it's a good starting point. And anytime someone calls them, if you want to know whether a fact checker, a self-appointed fact checker is qualified for the job, you can just, you can really start with that. You can say, well, are trans, quote unquote, trans women, women? Just ask them that question.
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99.9, probably 100% of all self-appointed fact checkers would all say, well, yes. Means you're not qualified for the job. I mean, that's, that's, One of the most basic fundamental facts of human existence you don't understand, or at least you're pretending you don't. And so you may be qualified for some jobs, but certainly not this one.
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And probably not most jobs, actually, because most jobs, to do it well, requires at least some basic understanding of the reality that you exist in, which these people, again, at least pretend not to have. All right, let's get to the comment section. For me, the new year is always a perfect time to reflect and plan ahead, whether it's setting career goals or making smart financial moves.
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You know, the thing we've been drinking for thousands of years certainly isn't the artificial sweetener developed to fatten livestock or the machine oil we've had added to our food. Yeah, as a general rule, you know, I'm...
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I'm always very, very skeptical when the public health folks come along and tell us that something that humanity has been doing for millennia is actually unspeakably dangerous and should be halted immediately. It could be true. It's possible that humanity got it wrong all that time. It's happened.
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If you want to drastically alter what was common and what was common human behavior for thousands of years, I think you should need to produce more than a couple of studies and a statement from the Surgeon General. That's the thing. The burden of proof is quite a bit higher than that.
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Since there's been an uptick in cancers since the bioweapon was rolled out to fight the virus, is blaming alcohol for cancer in any amount the way to cover up the higher number of cancers? Yeah, well, these people warning us about the dangers of booze are the same ones who assured us that the vaccine was safe and effective. And when you talk about the higher rates of cancer, that is a real thing.
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Colon cancer in young people is apparently surging. And that's a trend that can be traced back, I believe, several years at least. But that's all the more reason why blaming it on alcohol makes no sense. You don't even need to read any study to know that. People have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years. And we don't have data.
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Now, Trump went on to explain all the obvious arguments in support of annexing Canada. We provide them military support worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They reward us with an import tax on dairy products that goes as high as 270%. They're supposedly good at hockey, but they haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1993.
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The data on how much alcohol was consumed by people on average, probably, I mean, there's data on that now. I don't know how far back that data goes. Probably not very far. Um, but you know, it, I think it's pretty apparent that, uh, alcohol consumption was a lot more common. Even go back, you know, like in the, it's like any movie or TV show you see set in the fifties.
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It's like they're, they're, you know, they've got the, in the office, they've got the cart set up with the, with the, you know, the whiskey and the nice crystal containers and they, they're drinking whiskey at two o'clock in the afternoon. So people have been drinking alcohol for a long time.
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So if there's a recent surge in certain types of cancer, it seems if you want to find the culprits, you should look at recent causes. I mean, that just seems logical to me. I'm willing to grant that booze marginally increases the risk of certain cancers.
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What I'm not willing to grant, even for the sake of argument, is that our government or public institutions give two shits whether any of us gets cancer. Uh, I agree. Although that's, that's really beside the point. I don't need public health institutions to actually care about me. Um, I don't, I don't care about that. I don't, I don't need them to care. I just need them to tell the truth.
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Um, that's all that matters. Just tell the truth. Feel how you want. Be as indifferent as you want. Doesn't matter. Tell the truth. And they haven't. And so we have no reason to, um, no reason to trust them. Um, I never let my kids win either, but I do give them handicaps, chess without a queen and rook, but then I play as best I can.
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My daughter won once, so now she's graduated to me only starting without a queen. I will also do that, that's fine. I don't think you should let your kids win games, but you can give them an advantage or a head start, but then compete and try to win from there. My son, who's now 11, I've raced him many times over the years. I've always given him a head start.
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The most recent time I raced him, I gave him a head start and he crushed me, just crushed me. So no more head starts. Now he's graduated beyond that. Apply your arguments against Sonic towards Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and see how many of them hold up.
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respecting and understanding the source material, catering to the fans of an IP, grown adults interested in fiction. It's easy to dunk on man-child Sonic fans, but are you ready to die on that same hill against the Lord of the Rings fandom? Claim it now and you will never know peace. What? Okay. First of all, I am not taking any issue with grown adults who are interested in fiction.
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They also don't believe in free speech to the point that they freeze the bank accounts of political dissidents. And if we were talking about a Middle Eastern country, we would have already invaded by now, or at least launched some rockets and called it a day. But as you heard, Trump doesn't plan on doing any of that with Canada. The plan right now is a humanitarian economic takeover.
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There's nothing wrong with fiction. You know, I think reading I don't read a lot of novels like fiction, but most of the books I read are nonfiction. But that's I think I think there'll be great value in reading novels and reading fiction works of fiction. I certainly like to watch movies, you know, and that are that are, you know, fictional narratives. So that's not my point.
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stories like stories are for everyone the concept of telling a story you want to talk about things that go back since the dawn of human civilization this is one of them human beings have been storytellers and have connected with stories and have found you know the process of hearing experiencing a story to be deeply edifying since the dawn of human civilization and before
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So that's not the problem. My problem with adults who watch Sonic is not that it's childish to be interested in a fiction story. It's that as you grow older, the types of stories that you're interested in should change, should develop, should mature. That's it. And that's even with stories that are like Sonic. The Sonic films are just garbage. I mean, they're just corporate slop. They really are.
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And as I've said, they don't even exist to tell a story. They exist just to capitalize on an IP. But even if they were quality stories, I would still say that as you grow older, I mean, take a... Take a children's movie that I think is high quality. Let's just take any of the early Pixar films.
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And I know I upset some people when I said that Toy Story is a bit overrated, which I think it is a bit overrated. But still, we'll take Toy Story. Still really high quality, no question about it, very high quality children's movie, definitely. And I've watched that one with my kids many times, and they enjoy it. And I enjoy watching it with them.
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However, on my own, you know, if I have the night to myself and I want to sit down and watch a movie, I'm going to watch a movie with my wife, I'm not putting on Toy Story. You know, that's a great one to watch with the kids. I'm not going to watch it by myself.
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The same way that if I'm going to, you know, talk about books that I like to read my kids, Dr. Seuss books, Fox and Socks, one of my favorites to read the kids. I've read that book 600 times because I read it to the kids. And as far as children's books go, I think Dr. Seuss, it's hard to do better than that.
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But if it's nine o'clock at night and I'm gonna sit on the back patio with a cigar and read a book as I often do, I'm not pulling out Cat in the Hat to read it. I'm not gonna be sitting on the back porch just flipping through Cat in the Hat, reading it to myself. That would be odd, wouldn't it? Wouldn't you at least, that would be strange.
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It would be a strange thing to be an adult who's still on your own recreationally. Your interest in books has not developed past that. And I think we all see that with things like books, but I'm saying that should also should apply to these IP that everyone likes so much. So anyway, this is more of a response than this ridiculous comment deserves. The Lord of the Rings,
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And that's why after the press conference, Trump posted these upbeat images of a unified North America with Canada and the United States combined. And as you can see, once you get rid of the line between Canada and the United States, the whole continent does look a lot cleaner. It's obviously the way it was supposed to be. But pretty much every Canadian politician disagrees, apparently.
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is, now, I think you could be, there are people that, you could be overly obsessed with Lord of the Rings or with any, you know, you could be overly obsessed with anything, potentially, but Lord of the Rings is a, it's one of the great stories ever told. I mean, the Lord of the Rings novels are great, great novels for adults.
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Now, my son has read all of them and likes them, but kids can also, but it's, these are not children's books, right? And so, no, there's nothing wrong with an adult who's a big fan of the Lord of the Rings. But yes, as an adult on your own, loving Sonic at the age of 40, it's like it's a bit, you know, it's a bit strange. Kick off 2025 with 25% off a new Daily Wire Plus annual membership.
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And as you might remember, the DOJ took a fire department to court for asking questions that apparently a lot of non-white applicants struggled with. And those questions included multiple choice selections on basic arithmetic, as well as profound ethical dilemmas like, should you steal money from somebody on their way to the emergency room? Obviously, the Biden administration
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is on its way out the door. So going forward, we can expect fewer federal lawsuits over tests like this, one would hope. And that's good news for anyone who wants competent firefighters to understand the difference between right and wrong. But the fact remains that at the state level, Democrats are continuing their war on tests that measure basic competence.
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In fact, they're escalating it to a whole new level in some cases. The most recent example comes from the state of New Jersey, which has just eliminated a requirement that aspiring public school teachers pass a literacy test before they can be hired. Yes, teachers no longer have to demonstrate that they can read before becoming a teacher.
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And in this case, the change actually took effect with a lot of Republican support too. Quoting for Fox News, teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing, and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law. Act 1669, which was signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy in June, went into effect on Wednesday, the start of the new year.
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The law aims to tackle teacher shortages. Text of the law reads, the State Board of Education shall not require a candidate seeking a certificate of eligibility or a standard instructional certificate to complete a commissioner of education approved test of basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills, including, but not limited to, the Praxis core academic skills for educators test.
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So what exactly is on this test? One former teacher who now works with the group called Parents Defending Education says that it's not especially rigorous, Raj.
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And in voicing their outrage, they've only made the whole situation even more entertaining and more pathetic for Canada. Here, for example, is someone using the name Jagmeet Singh. At one point, he was supposed to be the kind of the Canadian incarnation of Barack Obama. And last night, he uploaded this video threatening the United States. Watch.
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Now, she goes on to say that teachers union have always wanted to get rid of tests like this because they don't really care about educating students. They just want to get more dues paying members. But she did admit that she took the test a long time ago.
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So let's pull up some current sample questions from this Praxis test for educators, just like we did with the firefighters exam a few months ago. People were saying online that it's basically a sixth grade level test. But I wanted to verify that. So here's one practice question from the mathematics section of the test.
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Let's all take a look at this together and see if we could qualify to teach at a New Jersey public high school. Actually, to see if we're overqualified, because teachers there don't even need to pass this test anymore. So here's the question. And I promise... I'm not making this up.
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It's directly from a practice test for the educator's exam hosted on study.com, which is apparently the gold standard for preparing for this test. And I'll put it up on the screen so you can see it as well in all its glory. Quote, if it takes you an hour to bike 20 miles, what is your unit rate? A, 20 miles per hour. B, one mile per hour. C, 40 miles per hour. D, an hour per mile.
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So I'll say that again. If it takes you, because you might be law, because this is so complicated. If it takes you an hour to bike 20 miles, how fast are you going? Are you going one mile an hour? Are you going 40 miles an hour? Or are you going 20 miles an hour? Now, just to be clear, this is not a trick question. The answer is indeed A for 20 miles an hour.
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And it's the kind of question that if it were to It may trip you up only if you're an overthinker. And if you read that and you go, well, they must be looking for something else. They can't actually just be asking me if 20 miles an hour is 20 miles an hour. And so that's the only way I could see getting tripped up on that.
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It's so easy that you assume that they must be up to something and you start overthinking. But no, it's 20 miles an hour. This is the kind of doozy that apparently is causing a lot of confusion among people who want to teach children in New Jersey public schools. And by the way, it's not just New Jersey that's got rid of this test.
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Other states like New York have abandoned it as well for the same reason. Let's keep going because after all, maybe the other sections are a lot harder. So here's another practice question from the writing section of the test for educators. And this is what you need to master if you want to teach, say, English. So here's this one. Question.
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Words and phrases that help carry a thought from one idea to the next are referred to as blank. And you have four options to fill in the blank. Thesis, carriers, transitions, or main arguments. So let's see. You have a word or phrase that carries a thought from one idea to another. What might that be called? And they give you four options. And you just have to think, is it a thesis?
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I'm pretty sure I've heard the term thesis before. I don't think that's it. Is it a carrier? I don't know. No, it's a transition. Obviously, C is transition. So this is not something that needs to be explained to anyone, I would hope. But the idea that it's challenging for people who want to teach students is obviously a complete and total farce.
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Or if it's true that it's challenging for people who want to teach students, then that's even more troubling. Now, in defense of this change, New Jersey politicians insist that standards aren't actually being lowered across the board. Here's a post from Dawn Fantasia, a New Jersey assemblywoman who supports the new law.
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Quote, eliminating the basic skills test requirement does not eliminate all praxis tests. This is just a small fraction of praxis. Before any credentials issued to a prospective teacher, the candidate must pass the praxis test required for the subject area they seek to teach.
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She goes on to add, quote, So she's saying that the basic skills test is redundant because teachers still have to pass a specialized test in their alleged field of expertise. One of the obvious problems here is that There's no situation in which a school should be hiring a teacher who can't read or write.
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Even if a math teacher manages to get a passing score on the math section by successfully demonstrating a sixth graders understanding of the concept of miles per hour, that doesn't necessarily mean a school should hire that applicant. Cuz if he's illiterate, there's still a problem. So you still want the teachers to have a basic grasp of every subject.
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Yeah, I don't want someone teaching math, even if they know math well enough, If they don't know what century the American Civil War happened in, I don't even want them teaching math. Cuz this is just someone who's not smart enough and does not have even close to enough of a basic grasp of academic subjects generally to be teaching students.
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So the standards are clearly being lowered here, and it's not hard to see why. For years, New Jersey politicians have admitted that they have a severe teacher shortage and that bills like this are an attempt to fix that. They've made it very clear that their goal isn't to save teachers some cash on unnecessary tests.
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Their goal is to help applicants who are failing the teacher's tests, even though it's extremely easy. As the New Jersey Monitor reported late last year, quote, when New Jersey students head back to classrooms this week, many will return to schools with too few teachers.
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The state has for years faced a shortage of educators with particularly troubling vacancies in subjects like math, science, special education, and instruction for English language learners. In order to hire more teachers in New Jersey, they're dropping the standards. They're not going to raise pay or take any steps to recruit more qualified applicants.
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Instead, they're going to deliberately hire teachers who, in many cases, are potentially dumber than their students. And then presumably this cycle will continue indefinitely until eventually all of these tests are dropped entirely. Classes in New Jersey will consist of teachers and students grunting at one another if that's what it takes to fill these vacancies and achieve equity.
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And that is why the state of New Jersey, along with every other state that now hires illiterate teachers, is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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So that was the sentiment all over Canada. Even the conservatives were talking like this, although they were a bit less aggressive. It's all kind of difficult to understand, frankly. They're just assuming that being conquered is automatically a bad thing. I mean, they're complaining about our plans to conquer them, and they haven't even seen the labor camps we've built for them.
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I mean, they're really spacious, very comfortable by labor camp standards. You'll even get one whole meal a day, except on weekdays, obviously. And yet they still whine. I mean, just ungrateful brats. And just to underscore the power dynamic here, Canada's dollar is worth about 70 cents right now.
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The government is issuing emergency payments to around a third of the population so people can afford groceries. But Jagmeet Singh wants us to believe that Canada has leverage over the United States. They're going to raise the import tax on milk another 100%, I guess. They're going to shut off our supply of maple syrup. They'll even play hockey even worse than they already do.
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Now, not to be outdone, an even less popular politician in Canada, Elizabeth May of the Green Party, proposed a counteroffer to Donald Trump. She suggested that Canada... should, rather than us taking Canada, that they will take California, Washington, and Oregon from the United States, which apparently is supposed to be some kind of threat.
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She's threatening to take our three worst states from us. I mean, can we throw New Jersey in there too? It doesn't really work geographically, but if you want to take all the worst ones, we'll give you that plus New Jersey. Here she is.
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So the pitch to people in California, Washington, and Oregon is that if they join Canada, they can get some Canadian health care. Now, I've ragged on those states quite a bit over the years. They're all terribly run. They're overtaxed. They're examples of the worst excesses of left-wing ideology. But even with all that in mind, I've never—
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I've never wished Canadian health care on anyone living in those states. I never would. I don't want to see them put to death when they get a headache or feel a little depressed. But apparently Elizabeth May sees things differently. And she seems serious about the offer. And admittedly, a lot of people in those states may be on board with the idea. So let's compromise. How about this?
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Here's my counteroffer. We'll send you the people in all those states, but we're going to keep the land. Because actually the land is quite nice and quite beautiful. So we'll give you the people and we're going to keep the land. That's a win-win.
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Now, if you know anything about Elizabeth May, it's an offer that she'll probably accept because she's a raging alcoholic, apparently, who's also completely incompetent. Most famous in Canada for getting so intoxicated during a speech a few years ago. that her own staff had to lead her off stage as she started playing music from her phone during the speech and praising war criminals.
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We'll just play this because this is funny. Here it is.
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Every time I think that our government is an embarrassment, that's the one nice thing about Canada. There are times when I look at the people running our country and I feel... totally humiliated, but you can always just look over to Canada and say, well, okay, well, it's, I mean, they're at least worse than us.
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Now, the person she mentioned at the end of her speech is a terrorist who pleaded guilty to murdering a US soldier. And that woman went on to lead the Canadian Green Party. So that's the caliber of Canadian politicians that we're dealing with here.
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All we have to do is kind of get them drunk, or more accurately, wait a few minutes until they get drunk on their own, and then we can do whatever we want in these negotiations. For what it's worth, Elizabeth May wasn't the only Canadian politician to come up with a counteroffer. Ontario's Governor Doug Ford is also in the bargaining stage of grief. Watch.
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I mean, if you want to try to buy them, make an offer. I think we're always, I mean, you should always be open to offers. So I wouldn't want to part with Alaska because it's the most beautiful state in the country. And a lot of good people in Alaska. If you wanted Minnesota, at least personally, I'm not in charge of anything, but I'm like, let's talk about it. Put a number on the table.
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Let's have the conversation. But you can't afford it. You can't afford Minnesota. Canada is so pathetic they can't even afford Minnesota. And there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here. No one is offering to buy Canada. Trump is proposing that we just take it. But Doug Ford seems to think that we're haggling over prices here.
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And he also seems to think Canada can afford to buy a US state, which is more than a little suspect. Now, at the same time, As amusing as the idea of taking over Canada is, the plan that Trump is floating for other parts of the North American continent is, I think, a bit more serious with some very real economic and strategic implications.
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The main benefit of conquering Canada is just that it would be really funny. It would be the first conquest in history launched primarily as a joke. Because in all seriousness, I actually wouldn't want Canada, mainly because of all the Canadians that are there. If we could get the land without the people, but that could get, I wouldn't, I mean, there's some things we, you only go so far.
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We don't want the land that badly. But the idea that we should buy Greenland and take over the Panama Canal is, while also being kind of funny, still very serious. At one point during the press conference, Trump was asked to rule out the use of military force to take Greenland and the Panama Canal. And he refused. Watch.
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Without any prompting, Trudeau said something that no other Canadian prime minister has ever said. He declared that Canada as a nation doesn't really exist. He came out and casually admitted something that Americans have known for a long time, which is that Canada is a fake country.
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Now, this answer caused a lot of wailing on the internet, as you would expect, but it's the right answer. There's no reason for us to rule out anything at this point, especially when our national security is implicated. It also puts you in a much stronger bargaining position if you don't show your cards ahead of time.
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That would mark the last moment of some semblance of humanity from Democrats at these speeches. The next year, Trump invited a baby who was born at 21 weeks and six days to his address. And Democrats, who of course support the murder of children at 21 weeks and older, refused to celebrate the child's survival. And now, five years later, Democrats are refusing to celebrate the military.
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They're refusing to celebrate cancer survivors or recognize the heroism of law enforcement officers. They're refusing to celebrate anything that makes this country great. What this means is that we're now entering a historic political environment. The usual political divisions between Democrats and Republicans have been superseded by a divide much deeper and more vast and more profound.
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The only question now is whether you support this country or not, whether you want America to succeed, whether you value human life and family, and whether you care at all about your own nation and its people. Last night, even though Democrats were not delivering the address before Congress, they gave us the answer to those questions loud and clear. And we all heard. And we won't forget.
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murdered our soldiers, for our space program that aims to ensure the survival of our species, for border patrol agents who get shot at by cartel members, for talented young men who work hard to get admitted to West Point, for women who have suffered brain damage and paralysis at the hands of male athletes, for families that have been torn apart by violent thugs imported from the third world by the Biden administration, for school teachers who are rescued from Russian prisons, and even for children who are suffering from brain cancer.
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This is a core distinction between the political parties, a distinction between good governance and demonic influence. That's been obvious for some time now, but it's always operated beneath the surface to some extent. And last night in Washington, the reaction to Trump's address made this distinction just impossible to ignore. Now, from my perspective in the room,
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The pettiness and just total absurdity of the Democrat Party was probably even more apparent than it was on television. First of all, Democrats were constantly heckling and interrupting throughout the whole thing. It was basically nonstop. Al Green was escorted out by the sergeant at arms at the beginning, and we all saw that footage, but it did not end there.
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They kept going with just these nonstop, petulant outbursts the whole time. It was one of the most pathetic displays I've ever seen. And they occasionally held up these, as you probably saw on TV, these ridiculous looking paddles that said false and Musk steals on them, even though Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, doesn't need to steal anything.
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They only clapped one time in the entire speech. There was there was one moment where they became genuinely excited. And that was when Trump mentioned the endless billions of dollars we've been sending to Ukraine. At that point, Democrats who had been sitting on their hands the entire time finally found something to cheer for.
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And then when Trump mentioned the possibility that the war will continue for another five years, Democrats kept on clapping. They were ecstatic. Watch.
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There won't be a full show today. The show will be back tomorrow. But I want to take a few minutes to react to Donald Trump's speech last night and the incredibly pathetic display put on by his political opponents. I had the honor of attending the speech as a guest of Speaker Mike Johnson, along with Ben Shapiro and Riley Gaines.
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This was the only moment that gave some life to Democrats. And this was towards the end of the speech. So they spent the first like hour and 20 minutes sitting there silently applauding for nothing until the word Ukraine was mentioned. And now they found something to be happy about. The thought of an endless war with more death and destruction and funding for the defense industry
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was enough to garner a standing ovation. Elizabeth Warren didn't care how absurd she looked. She just kept laying on the horn while Trump described years of total war in Eastern Europe. She just couldn't get enough of it. This is also how they think in most of Europe, by the way, which is why Zelensky was greeted as a hero in the EU for attacking Trump and J.D. Vance in the Oval Office.
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These people want the war to continue by any means necessary, and it's not because they want to stop Russia or punish Putin or anything like that. That's what they'll say in public, but it's not true. Trump spelled that out last night. He made the point that in Europe, they've spent more money importing Russian energy since the outbreak of the war than they've spent on Ukraine's defense.
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In other words, these people want an endless war, and to that end, they're more than happy to fund both sides of the war. They'll send military aid to Ukraine and buy Russian gas on the other side. It's depraved, obviously, and as last night's speech went on, the depravity of the Democrats became more and more apparent.
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Consider, for example, the moment that Trump honored a young boy who suffers from terminal brain cancer, and Republicans stood and applauded, because of course you do. Democrats sat stone-faced in their seats. Watch. Now there's no political message that Democrats are objecting to in this clip. Trump didn't make a political statement of any kind.
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You will not find a more objectively obvious and uncontroversial reason to stand and applaud in any political speech. You know, there are a lot of young people being diagnosed with cancer these days, tragically, and this child is one of them. He's beaten the odds. He's still alive.
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If you value life, if you care about children, if you value happiness and success, I mean, if these are the things that you favor, then this is something to celebrate. But Democrats... don't value any of those things. After all, they support the murder of children even after they're born in so-called failed abortions. They've tried to claim that a women's rights position is to murder children.
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And I can tell you that the difference in the energy in the room was very palpable. Republicans were excited. They were energized. They were full of patriotic pride. Democrats, on their hand, were sullen and joyless and glum and resentful and extremely petty. All told, it made one thing clear. If there was any doubt that the central conflict in this country is not political but spiritual,
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But of course, it's the opposite of that. It's anti-human. These people despise children in particular because they despise humanity. So naturally, they remain silent when confronted with a pediatric cancer patient. In fact, they reacted with scorn. Here, for example, is how Debbie Dingle responded at this particular moment in the speech.
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Now, in case you can't see the video, she's plugging her ears and rolling her eyes. That is her reaction to seeing a pediatric cancer patient. The only possible way that someone can have this reaction is if they are just truly and profoundly disturbed. But that's now the norm of the Democrat Party.
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And if you think I'm being too harsh, take a look at this segment that aired on MSNBC right after Trump's speech concluded. And watch as the anchor immediately connects this pediatric cancer patient with January 6th and then openly talks about the possibility that he'll commit suicide in the future.
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This is a woman who is paid to deliver political commentary. She's supposedly paid to give analysis that might not occur to the everyday listener or provide some enlightenment or insight beyond what you'd get from talking to the local paranoid schizophrenic at the bar. But she's not capable of that. Her obsession with January 6th is just too strong.
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Her hatred for young children, including young cancer patients, is also apparently overwhelming. This is what polished professional commentary looks like at this moment coming from the left. They just, they can't help themselves. For her part, Rachel Maddow delivered a similar commentary.
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She said that it was disgusting that Trump had chosen to highlight this speech, this child in his speech as a way of bringing attention to the increase in cancer rates among young children. She also claimed that Trump was somehow taking credit for the fact that the child is still alive which is something that didn't happen.
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In Rachel Maddow's fevered brain, if you congratulate someone on beating cancer, you're somehow claiming to have cured it. But it's not just young cancer survivors that these people can't tolerate.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
Take a look at this moment from when Trump announced the capture and extradition of an ISIS terrorist who was responsible for killing American service members at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan during Biden's catastrophically incompetent withdrawal. This was breaking news. Democrats were not aware of it beforehand. They had no idea this ISIS terrorist had been apprehended. Nobody did.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
So you'd think if they cared about the lives of our soldiers that Democrats would kind of instinctively applaud this news. Instead, once again, they looked angry and bored.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
than Trump's address to Congress last night settled the issue. We are officially well past the point where Republicans and Democrats disagree on, you know, the best way to run the country for the benefit of the citizens they represent.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
There was another moment like this when Trump introduced a woman who had been badly injured by a trans-identifying man during a high school volleyball match. In fact, she was paralyzed and suffered brain damage. The TV cameras didn't fully capture it, but once again, Democrats had no reaction to this story.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
It was just the other day that every single Democrat in the Senate voted against a ban on men playing women's sports. In the House, only two Democrats voted in favor of the ban. This is a party that now stands in total opposition to the vast majority of Americans on this issue. On an 80-20 issue, they are on the 20 side.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
We're past the point of nuanced political debate, of trying to figure out, you know, the ideal corporate tax rate or the best way to improve the healthcare system or any of the other debates that define previous eras in politics. Instead,
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
They see a woman who was paralyzed and brain damaged by a man playing volleyball, and they don't feel an ounce of regret or shame or sympathy. Well, I'll correct that. They feel sympathy with the guy who paralyzed her. It's not an exaggeration to say that the whole speech went on like this.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
At one point, Democrats refused to stand when Trump announced a new wildlife refuge, which was named for a 12-year-old girl in Texas who was sexually abused and murdered by two illegal aliens. They just couldn't bring themselves to care about the girl, just like they didn't care about the family of Lake and Riley, who was also in attendance.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
If Democrats were in power, they'd still be apologizing to Lake and Riley's killer for Biden slipping up and calling him an illegal. And last night, everyone in America was reminded of that fact.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
From one minute to the next on every single major issue, Democrats proved that they're incapable of demonstrating an ounce of human empathy or common sense, much less engaging in any kind of reasonable political debate. Instead, they demonstrated that they're motivated by a hatred so profound and so all-encompassing that to all reasonable people, it looks alien and demonic.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
Again, keep in mind, however poorly they came across on TV, it was even worse in the room. Because even when the Democrats weren't interrupting and heckling, which they did routinely throughout the entire speech, they were sitting there pouting, morose, gloomy. Many of the Democratic lawmakers spent the entire address playing on their phones like bored, impolite children.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
Many of them left in the middle of the speech or periodically pulled stunts that would get them kicked out. Various Democrats stood with their backs to Trump at different points until they had to be escorted out. And then as soon as the speech was over, they all got up in unison and sprinted out of the room. What few of them were left in the room by the time it was over, sprinted out.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
I guess they wanted the room to be half empty as Trump left. All of this, along with their dumb little paddles, made for one of the pettiest moments most absurd and humiliating displays I've ever seen. It was a disastrous night for the Democrats, all told. And this is not a particularly controversial point.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
America now consists of one party that wants the best for people living in the country and the Democrat party that is willing in the most public form imaginable to embrace its profound disdain for its country and its people. The Democrats put on display for the world to see their deep hatred for our military as it catches terrorists who
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
Even CNN's left-wing commentators and analysts were forced to admit after the speech that Democrats came across horribly. Watch.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
These are the kinds of numbers that ordinarily you only see after a State of the Union that follows some kind of national disaster that unifies the country. But in this case, Trump's address to Congress has managed to bridge the gap between Democrats and Republicans.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
And that's because at the moment, Democrats are clearly represented in Washington by politicians who are not simply incompetent, but profoundly evil. I mean, there's no denying that anymore, regardless of where you stand in the political spectrum. One side is pro-family, pro-rule of law, pro-America.
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Ep. 1549 - Democrats Put Their Demonic Hatred For America On Full Display Last Night
The other side looks at terminally ill children with disgust and revels in the prospect of endless warfare. As recently as a few years ago, Democrats pretended to be capable of something more, of something at least resembling patriotism. Here, for example, is footage from Trump's State of the Union Address in 2019.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Trump's strategy of accomplishing 10 things a day every day has the left scrambling to catch up, but always one step behind. Now Trump has announced a plan to take control of the Gaza Strip, but is that what he really wants to do or does he have something else in mind? We'll discuss.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
But in any event, less than a month into Trump's term, it's obviously effective. And with every major concession we receive from a foreign country and every unhinged rally the Democrats stage in Washington, it's clear that none of Trump's enemies have any plan at the moment or any ability to stop whatever's coming next. Now let's get to our five headlines. You know what keeps me up at night?
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
That's balanceofnature.com, promo code WALSH. There was a report the other day that according to JD Vance, Donald Trump has been, quote, constantly asking us how many days we have left. So in other words, there's a sense in this second Trump administration that time is of the essence.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
For my listeners, go to helixsleep.com to get 20% off site-wide. All right, so I just alluded to Trump's proposal for Gaza. This is something that he floated yesterday as the blitzkrieg continues. And I think we have the clip of that. Let's play that.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
They want to accomplish something every day while they still have the opportunity, especially for somebody like Trump. The logic makes sense. A lot of sense more than any other president. He's aware that nothing is guaranteed. He's well aware of the risk of assassination for obvious reasons. In fact, just yesterday, Trump discussed how the U.S.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Okay, so here's the only thing I'll say about this. And you know that over the last eight or nine years as Trump has been on the scene, I have not been a 4D chess type of person. That's been the meme now for years. That the idea is that Trump's most loyal supporters, whenever Trump does something that they would otherwise disagree with, they'll claim that it's 4D chess.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
It may seem like you disagree with it, but really there's something else going on below the surface. And very often, historically, that has just been grade A cope, is all that has been. But... So this is not the 4D chess meme when I say this. That it's clear, especially in Trump's second term, that there's a real strategy that we've seen, because we've seen it play out. We've seen it work.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
We just talked about it in the monologue. And I think that what we just heard there, recent history would indicate, is a strategy, a negotiating tactic. So what I'll say is that personally, I have no interest in the United States actually taking ownership of Gaza, doing anything to rebuild it. We got plenty of places in America that need to be rebuilt.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
We've got towns in North Carolina still in ruins because of a hurricane. We've got Los Angeles that was just burned in historic fires. So we've got plenty of rebuilding to do in America. I'm not interested in rebuilding some godforsaken strip of land in the Middle East. Not interested in that. Certainly not interested in spending any American lives or treasure building and then defending Gaza.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Not interested. So the actual thing itself, I don't want to see happen. However, if the threat of the thing brings about a favorable result for the United States, then great. So I think that based on recent history, based on what we've seen happen now several times just over the last few weeks, we have many reasons to assume that this is a negotiating tactic.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Also, a Democrat congresswoman lashes out with a vicious racist attack against white men. Of course, she'll suffer no consequences for it whatsoever. Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady have teamed up to bravely campaign against hate. And noted genius AOC says that Elon Musk, the most successful man in the world, is actually a moron. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
That Trump is throwing out this proposal as a way of putting the United States in the strongest possible negotiating position to then create a favorable result for the United States primarily. Because that should be our primary concern. And it is Trump's primary concern. So I think that's what's happening. It is not dissimilar to what's happened with Panama.
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would retaliate if hypothetically Iran were to follow through on its threats and assassinate him while he's in office. And he said, by the way, that Iran would be completely wiped off the map, which is the right answer. Now, there are other reasons why Trump probably wants to move quickly as well. You may remember the first impeachment trial.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Now, as we talked about, we know that Trump has seemingly floated the idea of potentially retaking the Panama Canal by force. Now, in that case, I think a stronger case could be made for actually doing that if it comes to it. But I also don't think that Trump is actually going to do that. I don't see that really happening.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
I don't think that there's any kind of plausible future where Trump is sending troops down to Panama to forcibly retake the Panama Canal. But what he's doing is he's putting that on the table and saying, look, we could do that. If it comes to it, we don't want to, but we could.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
And when it comes to the Panama Canal, that strategy, floating something that, like the most extreme possible scenario that almost certainly won't happen. floating it, putting yourself in a strong negotiating position. And then with Panama Canal, it already brought about significant results almost instantly. You had Panama dropping contracts with China right away. It was almost within seconds.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
And so I feel pretty confident that something similar is happening here, which is all a long way of saying that I think there's every reason to wait and see how this plays out. And when I say wait and see how it plays out, again, recent history tells us, that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to wait six years. In the last few weeks, the results come about pretty quickly.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
And so that's how I'm looking at this, and let's see how it plays out. So there's been a lot of controversy after somebody named Darren Beattie was appointed to be undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs. And that seems like the kind of appointment that would not generate much controversy because nobody even knows what the undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs does.
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You have never thought about that position in your life. Neither have I. But this guy was appointed to that position by Trump. And it did generate controversy in this case because Darren Beatty has previously tweeted, quote unquote, controversial things like this. And this was a recent tweet, I think last year. He tweeted, competent white men must be in charge if we want things to work.
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Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities and demoralizing competent white men. So a lot of outrage over that because he was then selected for this government post. And the problem with the outrage over these comments is that we all know that they would garner no outrage if you just subbed white men for people of color.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Democrats engineered the whole narrative because Trump merely floated the possibility of cutting aid to Ukraine. They sensed weakness and hesitation and they exploited it. That's why this time around. Trump is not simply discussing the possibility of slashing foreign aid. Instead, he's just going ahead and doing it.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
So if he had said that competent people of color must be in charge and that we shouldn't coddle white men because it's demoralizing to people of color, if he said that, nobody would care. Leftists say that kind of thing every day. It is a completely mainstream point of view on the left.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
And as if to prove that point, Representative Jasmine Crockett, who, as we know, has the IQ of a beanbag chair, went on CNN to talk about this, talk about Darren Beatty and his comments. And in the process, she said this, listen.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
The coddling is for the white boys, she says. Not even white men. Couldn't even bring herself to call us men. Boys. Calling us boys. And she's tired of the white tears. Right. So what if I listen to this ridiculous woman complain, and then I said that I've had enough of the coddling of black girls, and I'm tired of the black tears? What if I said that about Jasmine Crockett?
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
What if I just said, I'm sick of these whining black girls and their black tears? What if I said that? Better yet, what if an elected representative of the United States government said it? What if a United States congressman, a white male United States congressman said that about Jasmine Crockett? A white male member of Congress went on Fox News and said, stop coddling these black girls.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
I'm sick of the black tears. Well, we know what happened. I mean, that person would be removed from Congress, probably arrested for a hate crime. I'm not even exaggerating. So if you want to know who's actually coddled, well, this kind of shows you, doesn't it? Because Darren Beattie's comments made national news, dozens of headlines about it.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
And he's just a bureaucrat appointed to a position that most people have never heard of. And they don't even know what that person does. Jasmine Crockett is a United States Congresswoman. The two comments were at least equally racially charged, though I would say Crockett's even more so. But, you know, white tears, white boys, that's even more.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Trump is eliminating billions of dollars in aid and then closing the agency responsible for it all in a matter of days. And as we talked about yesterday, he's actually locking the bureaucrats out of the building so that they can't keep distributing the money. This is a blitzkrieg style approach that nobody on the left has any idea how to handle. None of them were expecting this.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
That kind of rhetoric is more charged than what Darren Beattie said. But even if we put them on an equal playing field, the two people are not on an equal playing field. One is just a bureaucrat who, again, no one even knows who that person is or what that position is. And the other one's a congresswoman. But guess which of the two got all the attention and all the outrage and all the headlines?
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Well, we know. And this is the thing. A lot of people on the right, this is what you have to understand, that a lot of people on the right are just simply done with the double standard. And when I say done with it, I mean, Done with it means they're not just complaining about it anymore. What they're saying is, we're not going to respect that. We don't recognize the double standard.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
It doesn't exist for us anymore. Several decades of it has been more than enough. And so a lot of people are done with it. And so they're saying, okay, well, if those are the rules, we're just going to do that. If you're allowed to talk that way, then that's how we're going to talk. That's it. We just don't recognize when you say, oh, no, no, but you're not allowed to say those things.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
We've got a whole bunch of people, and I think an increasing number of people are saying, well, I don't, what do you mean I'm not allowed to? No, she says it, I'm going to say it. That's it. And so when you hear about The rise of racism, the rise of hate, and we'll play, you know, the NFL, as we know, we'll play this in a second, but the NFL has been on a courageous campaign against hate.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
The rising hate that they're like, what are they talking about? What do you mean rising hate? Well, some of that is just people on the right saying, listen, we're going to play by the same rules that the left plays by, whether you like it or not. We're not asking for permission.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
So the scenario that I just described, the hypothetical, somebody saying, man, I'm tired of the black tears from these black girls. You're going to start hearing that kind of thing unironically more and more. And when you do, the media is going to panic and lament the rise of white supremacy or whatever. But all that's really happening is that the playing field is being evened out. The
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
If we don't want to see that, if we don't want to hear white men using the same kind of language that black members of Congress use every damn day in this country, then the way to avoid that is for Jasmine Crockett and the Jasmine Crockett's of the world to be condemned harshly for their racism and held to a higher standard. That's the way, because what I'm saying is this.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
The Trump administration is securing near instantaneous results, and he's doing it so quickly that in some cases, corporate media outlets are having to reverse their own reporting in a matter of minutes. So here, for example, was the scene on MSNBC the other day as recorded by the media team at Town Hall. And I'm going to play two clips that are 40 minutes apart.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
People of color, quote unquote, POC, are held to standards that are all the way down here. in particular when it comes to racial conversations and the kinds of things you're allowed to say about racial issues and members of other races. So the standards, if you are POC, the standards are all the way down here, almost non-existent.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
You can say almost anything you want about anything when it comes to that subject. The rules in place governing what they can and can't say about other races, those rules are very, very relaxed to the point where there basically are none. Meanwhile, white people, especially white men, are held to this standard up here, much higher, much, much, much higher.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
There are many, many, many, many more rules for what the white man is allowed to say. So that if a white man says something that the most prominent black people in the country say all the time, every single day, For the white man, those same statements make him essentially a Klansman. They make him a Nazi. So those are the two standards, okay? They're like this, way up here and way down here.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Those are the standards. And what I'm saying is that one of two things is gonna happen, right? Either the standards and rules for non-white men are gonna come up here, right? That's one thing that could happen. You could take Jasmine Crockett, bring her up here and say, no, no, no, no, you can't get away with saying stuff like that. We would never accept it from any of your white male colleagues.
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We don't accept it from you. You disgusting bigot, you horrific, awful person, you Nazi, all the same stuff. So that could happen. Raise those standards all the way up here. Or the other thing that's going to happen is
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is that whether the media likes it or not, the standards for white men, the rules of what kind of language, and when I say rules, I don't mean actual laws governed, but just like what is considered acceptable standards of conduct in society, that's going to come down here. And then we're all going to be down here in this playing field, where there basically aren't any, just say whatever you want.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Now, One of those two things is going to happen. That's what I'm telling you. Because this and this is not, it's been like this for decades and it's just not going to continue. It's just not. And the fact that somebody, even though it was a bureaucratic post, I mean, the fact is, the fact that Darren Beattie said that about we need more, we need white men in charge.
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He got a position in Trump's government. And for a lot of people on the left and the media, they're horrified by that. Well, that's a pretty good sign that we're not doing this anymore. This thing, we're not doing it. Because we all know that if Darren Beattie was a black guy and he said the exact same thing but flipped the races, he could get any government position he wanted.
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See if you can spot the difference.
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So we're just not doing this. We are not doing it anymore. It's not gonna happen. Now, here's what I would like to see happen. Because I'm telling you where this is headed. That's all I'm trying to tell you. What I'd personally like to see happen is a kind of meeting in the middle. I think the rules, the standards, that's when I say rules, I mean standards.
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Standards for what is considered just acceptable in civilized society. I think that that is way, way too strict for the dastardly white man. and way too low for Jasmine Crockett. And so what I'd like to see is a kind of a meeting in the middle where everybody is held to a reasonable standard of conduct.
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I don't think that it should be socially acceptable to speak with the level of contempt that Jasmine Crockett used for members of another race. Not that it should be illegal, not that there should be any kind of legal penalties, but just it shouldn't be socially acceptable. In a civilized society, it shouldn't be socially acceptable.
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White tears, white boys, that's just full on dripping racist contempt. And I don't think that should be socially acceptable. I don't want to see that in any direction from anybody. So what I would like to see is just like, that's it, just like a this, up here and down here, just kind of a meeting in the middle, and everybody's held to the same standard, and it's a reasonable standard.
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So I guess that's the third option. Everyone's down here. Everyone's all the way up here. Everyone's in the middle. But it's not going to be what it's been for the last several decades is not going to continue. It's simply not. And like it or not, you know, I think it's one thing the left is learning that it's like we're not asking your permission anymore. You know, you don't get to decide this.
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You see. So I know that the racial double standard, I know you like it and you'd like for it to continue, but it's not going to. All right, well, I just alluded to it. I hope you're ready to be inspired. Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady have teamed up with the NFL to make a commercial about how hate is bad. And their point about hate, it's a pretty provocative point.
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Ep. 1530 - Trump Keeps Delivering Win After Win And I’m Not Sick Of It Yet
Their point is that hate, well, it's just that. Hate is bad. It's actually bad. It's not good, you see. They're against hate. But all you people that are big fans of hate, they're not fans of it. They are not fans. And neither is the NFL. And so the NFL made this commercial with Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg. Let's watch.
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Wow. Stand up to hate. Says it right there. Very brave. Can I say, first of all, why is Snoop Dogg the most prominent and visible human on planet Earth? Snoop Dogg is everywhere. He's the closest a human can be to omnipresence. And I really don't get it. I feel like Hollywood, the media, professional sports, government, they're all conspiring together to shove Snoop Dogg in our faces.
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There's a big, there's a huge secretive Illuminati conspiracy that all centers around Snoop Dogg somehow. It all comes down to Snoop Dogg. The most powerful forces on earth are involved in a dark conspiracy to make us like Snoop Dogg. That's it. They're all meeting in their dark, smoky rooms and whispering. And you're wondering, what do they want to do?
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Do they have plans to conquer the world, to brainwash all of us, to release another COVID virus? I mean, yeah, all that, but why? I mean, the reason behind all of it is just to make us like Snoop Dogg. That's it. What does Snoop Dogg even do? What does he do? What's his nine to five like? When was the last time Snoop Dogg had a hit song?
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When was the last time you heard a Snoop Dogg song, a new one? Snoop Dogg has had, and this is probably going to be shocking to you because he's everywhere. You would just assume. you would assume that this guy has 75 number one hits. This guy has had two hits his whole career. He's 89 years old now and looks it, by the way. He's been on the scene for decades. He's had two hits.
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He had a hit in 1992 called Gin and Juice. That's a banger, as the kids would say. Let's be honest about it. And then there was Drop It Like It's Hot in 2004. And that's two in the span of about 12 or 13 years. And none ever again, ever. Not a single one besides those two. And 20 years, it's been 20 years since his last hit. And he's now more famous than he's ever been for doing nothing.
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I don't understand it. You're not allowed to have a commercial without Snoop Dogg in it. It's like an FCC regulation. Verizon tried to have one commercial without Snoop Dogg two years ago. They got fined $80 billion. That actually happened. Look it up. What were we talking about? Right. Okay. Well, we got to stop hate. That's what we should be talking about.
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The Snoop Dogg thing, that's a whole monologue right there because we need to get to the bottom of that. I need to understand. Does he even have a great personality? What is it about him? But anyway, so we got to stop hate. And needless to say, ending hate is the most, it's the most meaningless campaign you could ever launch. It means nothing. Stand up to hate. Okay? What does that mean, actually?
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How do I stand up to it? By saying that hate is bad? All right, well, after that's done, then, like, what's next? And also, is hate actually bad? This slogan on the screen, if you didn't see it listening to the audio podcast, there's a slogan came up on the screen. It said, stand up to all hate. All hate. Really? Well, what does hate mean?
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Hate is an intense dislike or a strong disgust towards something or someone. That's hate. Really, hate means a desire to see something destroyed. If love is a desire to will the good of the other, if that's what love is, then it stands to reason that hate is basically to will the destruction of another. And so my question is, is there nothing that should make us feel disgust?
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Is there nothing that we should want to see destroyed? What about drug cartels? Can we hate them? Can we want them to be destroyed? What about child abusers? Can we have a strong disgust and disdain for them? What about... What about white supremacists? The three white supremacists in the world, are we allowed to hate?
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Because I'm pretty sure, I bet you the NFL and Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady would say, oh yeah, well, but then, I mean, not, okay, well, not all hate. Stand up to all hate except those three. You hate the hell out of them, but everyone else don't hate. So, and this is not just semantics.
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I mean, standing up to hate, being against hate isn't just dumb because it's meaningless, but it's also dumb because it's not correct. It's not the correct way to live. Hate itself is not an objectively bad thing. We should hate things that are deserving of hate, and we should not hate things that are not deserving of it. I mean, that is the message. And hate is a part of love, right?
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In the span of less than an hour, MSNBC went from dire warnings about how Donald Trump's trade war was tanking the stock market to announcing that actually there was no trade war and that Mexico is now going to send thousands of troops to stop the flow of fentanyl into this country, which is a drug that, of course, has killed tens of thousands of Americans, kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.
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You can't actually love without hating because to love someone is to hate what threatens and harms that person. That's what loving means. So hate and love are basically two sides of the same coin. What happens, the problem is when the coin gets flipped upside down, it's when it gets inverted. It's when you're hating what you should love and loving what you should hate. That is the problem.
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But I think that message is, I guess, a little bit too subtle and nuanced for the great philosopher Snoop Dogg. And so we end up with this instead. Let's get to the comment section.
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We truly are in a constitutional crisis. Exactly, yeah. And we really can't overstate the transparency side of it, as you point out. Trump is easily the most transparent president in American history without a close second. And I don't think that that aspect is discussed enough or appreciated enough, just how transparent this guy is.
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That he'll tell you exactly what he's doing, why he wants to do it. He talks to the, he's already talked to the press more in two or three weeks than Biden did his entire four years. And a truly extreme level of transparency. I wonder what Matt's take is on the new Final Destination movie trailer. Well, I haven't seen it yet.
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Now, if there's anyone left watching MSNBC who's capable of any kind of independent thought, Or if there's anyone left watching MSNBC at all. This had to be a very jarring moment. But this is what Democrats in the media have to contend with in Trump's second term. Things are happening far too quickly for the press to come up with any kind of coherent attack line.
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And the reason I haven't watched it is that I'm just not prepared to witness the beauty and magnificence of what I'm sure is one of the great works of cinematic art of all time. And so I won't shock you to learn that I'm highly anticipating the next Final Destination film. There have been, I think, five Final Destination films before this latest one that's coming out.
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And I'm just glad they're still making them. I mean, if you watch the first five films, which works out to about seven and a half hours of screen time, you get the sense that there's so much more story to tell. You know, I watch all seven and a half hours as I have so many times. I just watch them all all in a row. And it's, you know, I got a wife and kids and they're like, what's daddy doing?
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Oh, he's watching Final Destination again. And I just watch it all day, all day. And because there's so many huge Final Destination fans out there, aren't there? I can't be the only one. So many people that if you ask them, what's their favorite film, they'll say Final Destination. So it makes sense that they're making another one. People have been yearning for Final Destination 6 this whole time.
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But anyway, so when I watch all seven and a half hours, the thing I think to myself is, that's it? I need more. I need seven and a half more hours of this. And I've been waiting. I've been waiting every day. Every day for 15 years. I think the last one came out 15 years ago.
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15 years, I've been, every day I wake up, I check my phone first thing to look to see if the new Final Destination is coming out. I've been every year, every day of every year, and finally it's here. So I'm just, I could not be more excited. Not everyone can afford to give their children a skill. You might as well say that not everyone can afford to discipline their children or to love them.
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Giving your children skills, helping them develop skills, is one of the most fundamental jobs of a parent. And if you don't do it, it's not because you couldn't afford it. It doesn't cost money. There's no entry fee for developing skills. Parents who are far poorer than you have managed to raise children who have skills. So... No, yes. I'm not saying it has to be archery.
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I was just giving that as an example, something that's worked for my kids that they enjoy. It might not, but you need to help your children develop skills. And you cannot use the excuse that you don't have the money to do it. Matt, I was at a parent-teacher conference for my son earlier this year, and his teacher was discussing my son's attention problems.
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Stephen Colbert delivered a whole monologue that was clearly written with the expectation that the tariffs on Mexico would destroy the US economy. Only to acknowledge at the end of the monologue that actually the tariffs have already been suspended. So it's like he got handed a piece of paper mid-monologue informing him that none of the jokes work anymore. Watch.
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So she apparently thought nothing of the fact that 50% of her class had ADHD. Well, yeah, she thinks nothing of it, along with many people in this country who think nothing of it. They haven't even asked the basic question that you seem to be asking here very astutely, which is, If ADHD is a disorder, why is it so common?
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Okay, if we notice that a certain set of behaviors is very common, doesn't that by definition mean that they are not disordered? Doesn't it mean that they are very much within the order of things? In what sense are they disordered? What is the proper order? Who decided on it? And how does that person know that the ADHD kid is outside of it? You know. Take, Matt, ADHD meds changed my life.
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Stimulants are not psychotropic. They're essentially coffee with more positive effects and less negative effects. Being medicated for ADHD is associated with nearly normal prefrontal lobe development. While adults with ADHD who never medicated have noticeably underdeveloped prefrontal lobes, medication for ADHD should absolutely not be a last resort.
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It should be the first precisely because it's the most effective and helps with all the other treatment methods. Well, this is total, I mean, no offense. This is total insanity, everything you've just written. And your comment, the entire problem is just summed up in your comment. Everything about it, including the fact that you're hopelessly deluded about what ADHD meds are. You're taking them.
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You have no idea what they are. And I'm going to assume it's partly you're lying to yourself and trying to justify things. But also, it sounds like you're being lied to by your doctors. And I think that happens a lot. Stimulants are absolutely psychotropic and amphetamine is without a doubt a psychotropic drug. A psychotropic drug is a drug that acts on your mind, that alters your mind.
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That's what ADHD drugs do. Okay, they are ostensibly supposedly supposed to be treating a mental disorder. Mental means of your mind. So if it's a drug that treats your mind, supposedly it is psychotropic. That's the whole point. And if you give your kid ADHD drugs, you do have them on psychotropic drugs.
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If there seems to be something sort of innately unsettling about the idea of giving psychotropic drugs to an eight-year-old, let's say, well, yeah. Exactly. But they are psychotropic. The bit about the prefrontal cortex. Oh, and, you know, amphetamines are safer than coffee, have less side effects is just nonsense. I mean, that's insane. That's a crazy thing to say. It is not remotely true.
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And if you were told that by your doctor, he is lying to you. Get a new doctor. I don't know how else to put it. The bit about the prefrontal cortex, I always get these claims, well, clearly it's shown in studies that this and that. Okay, well, send me the studies. I'll read them. I will read the studies. Send me whatever literature you supposedly have showing this about the prefrontal cortex.
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But I have to point out yet again that I see these comments about, well, ADHD is easily located in the brain. Yeah, well, why don't they diagnose it by looking at the brain? You ever asked yourself that question? So easy to see in the brain. It's so clear. And yet millions of kids are diagnosed with this disorder and given drugs and no one ever looks at their brain. There is no brain scan done.
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You know, one of the most basic criteria for ADHD, you know what it is? Before a child is diagnosed ADHD, the doctor wants to know if the child's behavior causes problems at school. That is part of the diagnostic criteria for this disorder, is they want to know, does the behavior cause problems at school? Well, let me ask you this.
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If ADHD is a brain disorder, if it's a brain structure problem, then why in the hell are they asking whether it causes problems at school? Isn't that irrelevant? I mean, if this is a physical illness, then whether or not it causes problems in one context or another is irrelevant to whether the disease is happening or not.
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Okay, if you have cancer, no one is going to ask you, well, is this causing problems at school? It's irrelevant. Cancer is cancer. So we got to treat it. Whether it's causing problems right now is not the point. But my point is that it's not just, well, they want to know if it's causing problems to decide the treatment method.
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It's whether or not it counts as a disorder depends on whether it's causing problems. Okay, that is a social, that is a, and I use this phrase not very often for not very many things. But in this case, it is actually a social construct. ADHD is a social construct. Let's see. If ADHD isn't real, then why do ADHD meds, stimulants affect people with ADHD differently than people without it?
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Yeah, that's just not true. That's just not true. Stimulants can affect people differently, but this idea that in general, people with ADHD react one way, people without it react totally differently, like that's two different camps. At best, it is a gross, gross, gross oversimplification, but it's actually just mostly nonsense.
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I have ADHD and I completely am able to say that it's real and it does have a big effect on my life considering the way that I am and how I've grown up with it. I tried meds one time, lost weight, was a different person. I do not recommend medication because your differences make you who you are.
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I love who I am with my ADHD because I think differently than others and because sometimes my built-up energy turns into funny comments, funny jokes, or funny body movements. Well, you're hitting on something very important here, and this is really my fundamental point, which is that, yes, ADHD is real in the sense that people with these sets of behaviors and tendencies do exist. I know that.
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what you're describing is a personality type, okay? People with ADHD are people with a certain type of personality. These are people who think and act a certain way. And the medical industry has declared that these types of people just shouldn't exist, that a person should just not be that way. That's what they're saying.
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They look at ADHD, what the medical industry is saying is, well, yeah, they're describing your child's behavior and they're saying, well, he should not be that way. That's just not how a person should be. Says who? Says who? How do we determine that? So the medical industry declaring that it's just not legitimate for a person to think and act this way is what I disagree with.
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And who is to say that a person isn't supposed to have an ADHD personality? Well, we say that specifically because ADHD types struggle in modern public school setting, okay? Which they do, but is everyone supposed to thrive in a modern public school setting? Is modern public school setting, is it so fundamental and innate that if someone doesn't thrive, it means that they're mentally diseased?
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I know it would be easier if everybody thrived in a modern public school setting, but is everyone supposed to? Is it possible that you have people that just don't thrive in that setting? It doesn't really work for them as well as it does for others, but it's not because they're mentally disordered. It's just because they're different. Is that possible? Have we thought about that?
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You know, it's funny because people are always like, well, you don't know what it's like to deal with ADHD. You don't know what it's like. Well, first of all, as I said yesterday, I have two boys that could easily be diagnosed with it if we wanted to pursue that, which we don't. Everybody in my life, family, doctors, everyone, they all know I mean, it's me we're talking about.
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So they all know that these kinds of diagnoses, and especially drugs, are a non-starter for me. Don't even bring it up. Not going to happen. Not going to put my kids on these drugs. It will not happen. Literally over my dead body will it happen. It will not happen. So we have not pursued it. We're not going to do it. But, you know...
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I'm very familiar with, I'll put it this way, with kids who have these tendencies. I am very, very familiar with it. And also, I know for my own brain, okay? I could also be diagnosed if I wanted to be. That was the case when I was a kid, too. I was a terrible student. I struggled greatly in school. I struggled in other areas of my life, even into adulthood. And
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You know, that's part of my bias, maybe, when it comes to this issue is that when I hear people describe what it's like to have ADHD and I listen to it, I go, oh, so you mean you're just a person? Isn't that just how people are? What do you mean? Someone's trying to very, you know, very seriously. Well, you don't know. Well, here's what my mind is like with ADHD.
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And I listen to it and I go, well, yeah, that's. Isn't that just a brain? Isn't that what brains do? Because I'm the exact same way. And so it's true that with an ADHD mind, if you want to call it that, you're going to struggle to succeed in certain areas of life, in certain environments, especially in a public school setting.
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So you could try to take drugs and make that square peg fit into the round hole, or you can try to find environments, find something to do with your life that... where having a quote ADHD mind is not a liability, but in fact an asset. That's one of the reasons why I got into a creative field. I know not everyone can do that.
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I'm not recommending everyone does, just like I don't recommend archery for every kid. I'm just using it as an example. And so for me, what I realized is that I got a mind that works a certain way, and I don't think it's a bad thing, objectively. I think that it could come in handy to work this way. So I get into a creative field. In the last three or four years, I've
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written, produced, and starred in two feature films. I do a daily podcast. We did a comedy court TV show, along with activism and taking care of eight kids. We're either six kids, a family of eight. And I think part of the reason I'm able to do all that is because I have a brain that just is different in that way. So I chose to not see it as a liability, but to see it as
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Now, when you're sitting through that Froot Loops joke, A joke that, by the way, a whole team of comedy writers are in a room for hours coming up with material like that. And when you listen to that, it's difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a way that this monologue could get any worse. And then somehow it happens.
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This is how my brain works. I'm going to use it. And I think that with our kids especially, that's what we should be looking into. This is how your brain works. This is how you are. This is your personality. And how can we harness that? How can we use it? How can we see it as an asset, not a liability? That's my point. Okay.
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Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe now. and join the fight. You might think it's been a pretty great year or so for Elon Musk. His company, SpaceX, caught a rocket booster midair. His other company, Tesla, revealed a self-driving robo taxi and an autonomous robot. Then there's Neuralink, allowing paralyzed people to control computers with their minds. Then he moved into the White House.
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after restoring freedom of speech to social media using his other company, X. But all of these achievements, you may be surprised to learn, pale in comparison to the many accomplishments of a former bartender and current member of Congress named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And that's why the other day, AOC put Elon Musk in his place.
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She delivered an extremely coherent and rational takedown of Musk, a takedown that Doesn't suggest in the slightest that she's thinking about him all the time or has any kind of unusual preoccupation with him whatsoever or might even have a kind of romantic infatuation with Elon Musk. Not at all.
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Now, admittedly, I'm not capable of capturing AOC's brilliant assessment with any kind of paraphrase, so I'll just play the clip for you, and here's what she had to say.
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Now, at first glance, a clip like that is obviously pretty convincing. AOC comes across as extremely articulate throughout the whole thing. And she's particularly articulate when she says that Elon Musk is the most unintelligent billionaire she's ever, quote, seen or witnessed. And you might think that that's a redundant phrase. You might think that seeing and witnessing are synonyms.
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So you don't need to say, the dumbest one I've seen or witnessed is It means the same thing. But then again, you're not AOC. You don't understand how words work. Not the way she does anyway. And strangely though, when I looked at the comments of AOC's video, it seems like most people don't agree with my assessment. Here's one response.
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Colbert has to announce that Trump's tariffs aren't going into effect because Mexico agreed to send 10,000 troops to control the border. And for context, there are currently roughly 15,000 Mexican troops at the border. So this is a substantial increase, almost 100% increase.
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For example, quote, she's just mad that Elon won't date her and it drives her insane. And there's this one which keeps it simple. It writes, quote, she is dumb as F. Then scrolling down a little bit, I came across this one, quote, a complete dumb ass is running circles around us is not really the own she thinks it is. Now, at this point, I have to admit, I stopped reading comments.
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All these people are clearly in denial about AOC's intellectual ability to the point that it's turned them into cruel, misogynistic Internet bullies. So I wanted to set the record straight by highlighting some of AOC's best moments, the most shining examples of her intellectual prowess over the years.
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Before you ever think of criticizing AOC again or suggesting that she's not as intelligent as the guy who catches rockets in midair, you need to watch the footage I'm about to show you. Elon Musk, you know, he's running multiple multi-billion dollar companies. He's the most financially successful human in history.
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And while working to reform the US government, he's also developing interplanetary spacecraft, which is to say he cannot possibly compete with the formidable intellect of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So here, for example, is AOC demonstrating that unlike Elon Musk, she does her homework. She comes prepared with a high IQ and a lot of facts about whatever issue she's talking about. Watch.
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And then after telling his audience about this, Colbert claims that, in his opinion, his joke still works because in a month it's possible the tariffs will go back into effect. And this is what happens when you really, really don't want to have to rewrite a script that you've already drafted, even when the script doesn't really make any sense anymore.
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You know, she's being modest at the end there, like all geniuses are, but really, watching that clip, it's effortless. She clearly knows everything there is to know about the Middle East, and I don't even think she was reading from a cue card or a notebook or anything. That came straight from upstairs.
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And occupation is when, oh, I think, what I mean is like the settlements that are increasing, I mean, in places where people are experiencing difficulty. Did you get that? Rewind the video, if not. I mean, you're in the presence of greatness here. This woman is a is an intellectual titan. What about this gem in which AOC highlights her background in economics?
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She could teach a class at Harvard Business School tomorrow if she wanted to. Watch this.
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Well, as you get that, the unemployment rate is low because everyone has two jobs. Makes perfect sense. You know, when you have two jobs, you basically count as two people with jobs. That's why the unemployment rate is currently negative 100%. After this interview came out, some racist and misogynistic economics professors came out and disagreed with her.
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One in particular came out with this statement. Whether someone has multiple jobs doesn't enter into the construction of the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate is calculated from a survey of individuals where each individual is classified as having a job, without a job, and on temporary layoff, or actively searching for work, or out of labor force, close quote.
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So that's just pure bigotry, obviously. AOC knows what she's talking about. Put aside the fact that the number of people who have two jobs is less than 5% and dropping year over year. AOC knows what she's talking about when it comes to economics. In fact, she also knows what she's talking about when it comes to the law. She's like a renaissance woman.
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Whatever specialty you're talking about, she understands it like the back of her hand. Watch.
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You just tack on a note at the end saying, trust me, it still works. And to be fair, I'd probably try that sometime if I didn't have any amount of self-respect whatsoever. It'd probably make things a lot easier. I could just write a whole week's worth of monologues in advance. And then if they're outdated, I can just add a line at the end saying, trust me, everything I just said still makes sense.
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Well, you heard it there. RICO is not a crime. Maybe she thought he was referring to, like, A guy from Latin America named Rico. I don't know. Yeah, Rico was enacted by the Organized Crime Control Act. And yes, it includes criminal penalties for racketeering activity. But no, it's not a crime to violate Rico, according to AOC.
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All those Rico prosecutions of the mafia, Bernie Madoff's associates, of Donald Trump and his aides in Georgia, all those are figments of your imagination. If you watch the news at any point in the last century, you might think all those Rico prosecutions happened. But that's because you don't understand the law like AOC does. Neither does Tom Homan, the new border czar.
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Watch as AOC educates Tom Homan on a little thing called asylum law.
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Well, she's a legal expert. So AOC is explaining here that as long as someone comes into this country and just says, I'm seeking asylum, it's automatically not illegal. So if someone's an illegal immigrant and they snuck into the country, as soon as ICE shows up, all they have to say is asylum. And magically, it's no longer illegal. That's her point.
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Now, at this point, you're probably saying, I get it. No more clips. AOC, clearly a savant, knows the law better than the lawmen. But I'm going to keep going because all you haters out there have left me with no choice. So let's continue. Did you know that it's possible to invent technologies that have already been invented? Well, it's true.
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You might have thought that the word invent means to create something that's never been created before, but you're wrong. And again, while you were sleeping in English class, AOC was in the library paging through the biggest dictionary she could get her hands on. Watch.
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We need to invent technology that's never even been invented yet. Never even been invented. Did you get that? We cannot keep inventing things that have already been invented. That's not the way forward, is what AOC is trying to say. No, no, we need to invent stuff that's not invented.
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Trust me, bro. So this is what happens. This is what Trump is now repeatedly doing to his political enemies. He's preempting every single one of their outrage cycles. He's making things happen too quickly and with too many obvious benefits to this country for anyone on the left to keep up with it. And that includes our political enemies in Canada.
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You see, we can't stay stuck in the past because as AOC herself has warned us, the world is going to end in 12 years anyway. So we really got to keep going. Although admittedly, she's been a little inconsistent on that particular point. Watch.
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So either the world's going to be over in a few years or it'll be around for a long time. Who's to say? That's how scary climate change is. The estimates are constantly changing because the science is always changing. And AOC, as a scientist, understands that very well.
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So I've gone through all these examples and there are millions more to demonstrate once and for all that AOC is far smarter than any other member of Congress. Certainly far smarter than Elon Musk. What has Elon Musk ever done? Trying to send humans to Mars? What's... Like, he's not even, like, send him to a moon of Jupiter if you really want to impress me. Mars? It's another planet?
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I'd play more clips, but honestly, you probably wouldn't understand them. That's because AOC is much more intelligent than any billionaire, especially Elon Musk. Again, an intellectual titan. She does her homework. Any functioning society would happily trade 10,000 Elon Musks for just one AOC.
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Doug Ford, for example, runs the Canadian province of Ontario. He's a Canadian, quote unquote, conservative. which basically means in Canadian terms that he's a liberal with maybe one or two fewer mental disorders. On Monday morning, Ford promised to retaliate against Trump by ripping up a $100 million Starlink contract.
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Apparently, he wanted to prevent rural populations in his province from accessing the internet as a way to, I guess, spite Elon Musk and Donald Trump. He's punishing his own people to get at Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Watch.
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Now, just a few hours later, everything changed. Like Mexico, Canada quickly caved. They announced that they would be appointing a new fentanyl czar to oversee a billion dollar plan to secure the border. They're also listing drug cartels as terrorist organizations, which they'll pursue as part of a $200 million intelligence directive.
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And as a result, just like in Mexico, the tariffs were suspended. This is a development that left Doug Ford in something of an awkward situation. After all, he had just ripped up the Starlink contract a few hours earlier. And now he has to put the pieces of that contract back together. As Canada's Global News reported, quote, Ford's team said Ontario's retaliatory measures would be rolled back.
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Asked if that meant that Starling contract would proceed by Global News, a progressive conservative spokesperson replied, yes. So they went from destroying anything remotely related to Elon Musk to paying his company for internet access in the span of about four hours. Of course, Ford didn't go on television and tape the contract back together or anything like that.
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He had some unnamed spokesperson walk everything back for him, but the effect is the same. Putting it mildly, this is not the outcome that the left anticipated. It's not even the outcome that many Republicans anticipated.
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Mitch McConnell, for example, went on record warning that these tariffs were a terrible idea because Canada is our ally and the tariffs would destroy the economy for no reason, he claimed. Here he is.
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Now, just a few years ago in his first term in office that Trump used tariffs on Mexico and Canada as leverage in order to renegotiate NAFTA for more favorable terms with the United States. We gained greater access to Canada's dairy markets, higher wages for auto workers, and higher requirements for vehicle parts to be made in North America in order for those vehicles to be exempt from tariffs.
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And as you may remember, those tariffs bothered a lot of people in Washington because Canada is supposedly our friend and ally. Even though they have no military whatsoever and define their entire identity based on being not American. In fact, Canada's prime minister just went on CNN to explain that in his view, Canada has no national identity whatsoever.
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It exists merely as the anti-United States. Watch.
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One of the most pathetic things I've ever heard from the leader of a nation, and it's not even sporting to mock these people anymore. It's one of the most pitiful things you could have said in that particular moment. But he said it because it's true, apparently. That's how millions of Canadians, according to him, see themselves. They see themselves as not as Canadians, but as not American.
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But in America, that's not how we define ourselves. If you ask anyone to define what it means to be American, you may get different answers, especially these days. But no one is going to say, oh, well, being American means being not Canadian. Now, we see ourselves as Americans with our own interests and to protect. And so that's exactly what Trump just did. And he did it very quickly.
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In response, all Canada could do is take American liquor off of their shelves for about 10 minutes, which is something that was happening in Canadian liquor stores, even though they'd already paid for it. So it was already in the store, and they were going through and getting rid of all the American liquor. So not only is it pointless because you already paid for it,
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But once again, you're punishing yourself because all of the best whiskey in particular and bourbon is made in America. So now all you're left with is Canadian whiskey. It's a fate worse than death. But that's all they could do, and then pretend to rip up a Starlink contract. It was a pretty good trade for us, all things considered.
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And things are moving so quickly in the Trump administration that, again, his opponents just don't have time to develop a counter-narrative. This may be the first presidency that's immune to the concept of a news cycle for this reason, because things are moving so fast. But just the other day, for example, Panama announced another major step towards restoring U.S. control of the Panama Canal.
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Quoting from Fox, Panama's president vowed Sunday to end a key development deal with China after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and after complaints from President Donald Trump that the Latin American country had ceded control over its critical shipping canal to Beijing. Panama will not renew a 2017 memorandum of understanding to join China's Belt and Road Global Development Initiative
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And that Panama would instead look to work more closely with the United States. Separately, Bloomberg has reported that Panama is abandoning contracts with Hong Kong to give them access to the waterway. So we were told repeatedly that Trump would never accomplish anything by saying that we're going to retake the Panama Canal.
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And less than a month later, we are closer to retaking it than we've been in a very long time. Meanwhile, Colombia has completely caved on accepting illegal aliens back into their country, as we've previously discussed. Feels like a year ago at this point, but that was like, what, last week.
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You can understand why, faced with all these victories and very rapid succession, Democrats have no real response. They don't have time to come up with one. So instead, they're reduced to full-on panic. This was the scene outside the Treasury building yesterday.
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Yes, those are members of Congress declaring that they are at war with the President of the United States. The people need to fight this administration. You might remember that just a couple of years ago, language like that used to be a crime. You were committing an insurrection if you talk like that. But again, Democrats don't even hear themselves talking at this point. They can't regroup.
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They can't focus or deliver any kind of sustained rebuttal. They have nothing. What Trump has already demonstrated in his second term is that the United States is the most powerful nation on the planet. And when we start acting like it, Other countries have no choice but to submit, follow the program.
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This is such a foreign concept to Democrats and the corporate press that they're just shocked by what's happened so far. Right when they come up with a talking point, it's already negated. And then we're on to the next topic, like taking over Gaza and firing everyone at USAID, for example. In other words, for the first time in memory, Republicans are setting the narrative in Washington.
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So that's what's happening. And they're doing it by carrying out the agenda that voters elected them to carry out, an agenda that puts this country before any others, which should not be a novel concept. It's certainly not any kind of secretive strategy cooked up by Project 2025 or whatever. Or maybe it is. I guess we can admit that now.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Trump has issued an executive order that will crush the gender transition industry once and for all. It's one of the most important executive orders ever written. We'll talk about it. Also, the Trump White House provides an explanation for those drones that were terrorizing the East Coast for weeks on end. Trump puts a pause on all foreign aid.
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So this isn't over. I promise you that. Now let's get to our five headlines. Yesterday was the first White House press briefing of the new Trump administration. The new White House press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt, had her debut and she did a nice job. The makeup of the room for the press briefing looked different than what we usually have seen.
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And because Trump is allowing outlets other than the typical legacy media outlets into the room, they're still in the room, but he's also allowing others. The Daily Wire is there now with our excellent reporter, Mary Margaret Olihan.
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And they also announced that there will be a new media seat, which which which I think is the idea is they're going to give one day passes to, you know, various figures in new media to attend press, which of course means that I have to apply. Right. I mean, I I have to do it, don't I? I have to get into the press briefing room and try to ask a question.
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Now, granted, it won't be as fun for me as it would have been had I got press credentials during the Biden administration, because then I could troll Biden's press secretary, which would have been a lot of fun. The trolling takes on a different tone when I actually like the people. So it's a friendlier troll, which... It's just frankly not as fun.
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But either way, I feel like I do have an obligation. So we'll have to look into that. But for now, I want to play one moment from the briefing. Levitt, as promised by Trump, revealed the truth behind those drones that had everybody freaking out for like a month. And Trump had promised that he would look into it. And whatever he finds out, he'd let us know.
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And so she opened the press briefing by giving us the update. And here it is.
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So that's the answer we're told to the drone mystery, which should be major headline news, shouldn't it? I mean, people were obsessed with the drones for a month, weeks on end about the drones. And now Trump is coming out with a statement to explain what it was all about. And people are like, yeah, whatever. And this is how it goes. We go from caring obsessively about something to not at all.
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We don't even stop. There's no stopover in between. There's no pit stop along the way from caring obsessively to not at all. It's either care obsessively or not at all. There's no mild interest. That's not a... That's not a gear that we have in the Internet age. It's just how the news cycle works, I guess. Now, granted, the explanation Trump gives is quite boring.
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These are drones authorized by the FAA combined with hobbyists and recreational drones. And if that's the case, it, of course, raises a question, which is why didn't the Biden administration just say that? If the drones were authorized by the FAA, the FAA would have obviously known that.
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And so the Biden administration would know that, which would mean that there was never any mystery about the drones. From the moment people started asking questions about it, the Biden administration knew exactly what it was. But they didn't just say that. They didn't tell us.
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Now, there is another explanation here, of course, and a lot of people on social media are just kind of refusing to believe that this explanation is correct. They're saying that there must be something that we're not being told. There must still be more to the story. And that might be the case. I don't know.
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But I actually find it extremely plausible that there was a benign explanation for this that Biden just refused to give us. That is also very plausible. I mean, that tracks, right? That's the kind of totally gratuitous disrespect for the American people that you would expect from the Biden regime. You know, something is happening. People are asking about it.
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In the early 1950s, lobotomies were having something of a heyday in the United States. Approximately 50,000 lobotomies were performed in just a couple of years. Doctors were eager to drill holes into people's skulls and carve out brain matter. But the United States was an outlier in this regard. Elsewhere in the world around the same time, lobotomies were being outlawed.
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The Biden administration could just tell us, but chooses not to, chooses to let people panic needlessly. Why? Well, in part, it's because it was a nice distraction. And I think for the Biden administration, anything that distracted people from the fact, from the failures of the Biden administration was a positive. So there was that.
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But also, I think they just had a contempt for the American people. And then they resented the idea that they should have to explain anything to us. So if people were living in New Jersey and feeling a bit vulnerable, not sure if there was some sort of, these were Chinese drones, if there was some kind of attack, alien attack.
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I think the Biden administration looked at that and they said, I don't care. I don't care if they feel that way. Yes, we could easily say something that would calm these fears, but we're just not going to. So that tracks. To me, that is perfectly believable. But who knows? All right, now we have some tragic news.
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CNN anchor and longtime Trump hater Jim Acosta made the announcement on a show yesterday that he is quitting. It was his last show. And the background here is that CNN wanted to move Jim Acosta from his daytime slot to midnight. I think he was on at 10 a.m. and they wanted to move them to midnight, which is, I mean, that's how much faith and pride the CNN brass had in Jim Acosta.
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That's how you know, right, that you're doing a great job on TV when your bosses come to you and say, we wanna move your time slot. Oh, how far do you wanna move it? Oh, about 14 hours. We wanna just push it back a bit, about 14 hours, you know? And because there are probably about 10 people watching CNN at midnight, which is only half of their primetime audience, so it's a pretty steep drop.
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And so Acosta wouldn't do it. Acosta would not allow his show to be moved to midnight. which is a little surprising considering that Jim Acosta, no offense, is a blood-sucking vampire goblin. So you'd think that midnight would be perfect for him. As a brainless zombie, you'd think that the graveyard shift would be right up his alley. But he said no, and so he gave his dramatic sign-off yesterday.
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The Soviet Union banned lobotomies in 1950 with officials saying the practice was contrary to the principles of humanity because it turned people into, quote, idiots. Soon afterwards, countries like Germany and Japan followed suit with their own bans on lobotomies, but the United States never implemented a similar ban of its own.
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Good Lord. What a dork. I mean... I know this is not the most profound insight, but what a dork this guy is. Just a dork. I don't condone bullying, but this is why bullies fill a role in society. This is someone who just needs to be shoved into a locker. This is someone who just needs to have his head dunked in a toilet and be shoved into a locker. I'm not condoning it.
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I'm not saying that should happen. I guess I did just say it should happen, but that's not, figuratively, like metaphorically. In a totally metaphorical, non-physical sense, he needs to have his head dunked in the toilet and shoved into a metaphorical locker. Just a dork. You know, take out your phone. Post this message on your social medias. I will not give in to the lies.
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Now he's being accused of not caring enough about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. A serious question. Why is that America's problem to solve? And a woman sues Lyft after a driver tells her that she's too fat to fit into his car. We'll talk about that important case and much more today on the Matt Wall Show. Success is not built on resolutions. Those are made to break.
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And nobody posted that, by the way. Not a single person. He's trying to start a movement. Post it on your social media. No one. No one did. Not a single person did. You could tell he wanted this so badly to be his network moment, right? You know, his I'm mad as hell, I'm not going to take it anymore moment. He wanted this to be iconic. This is iconic, defiant, bold, brave.
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You guys didn't remind me to turn this off. That's on you. He wanted this to be his defiant moment, and it just didn't work. And instead, it was just lame and boring. And on top of that, he fumbled over his words multiple times. So huge dork, and that's it for Jim Acosta. I can only imagine that seeing him leave so abruptly was very upsetting for his viewer. So my condolences to that person.
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And we'll wait to see what Jim Acosta does next. I mean, no one is waiting to see what he does next. Nobody cares. But I'm sure we'll hear anyway. Here's something a bit, some heavier news here. The New York Post reports,
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The homeless man who allegedly shoved a woman into the path of a moving Manhattan train made a chilling confession, telling cops, I did it because I wanted to, a court heard yesterday. Marquise Brazilis, 26, brazenly admitted to tossing the 23-year-old victim into an incoming A train at the 168th Street station shortly after he was arrested for the savage Monday morning attack.
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To this day, there is no federal decree banning lobotomies, believe it or not, even though it's universally recognized as a grotesque procedure that has a permanent catastrophic effect on some of those vulnerable people in society. Now, In 2025, of course, this is something of a moot point. Lobotomies are not performed in the United States anymore, thankfully.
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He told cops, I pushed her into the train because I was high and I was mad. I did it because I wanted to. Now, you know, when people tell you why they do things, you should believe them. And we heard it from this guy directly. Why did he randomly throw a woman in front of a train? Well, because he wanted to. That's it. That's the reason. And I've been saying this exact thing for a long time.
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Violent and dangerous vagrants roaming the streets who do terrible and violent things. Why do they do it? Well, it's not because they're victims of systemic racism. It's not because of their socioeconomic situation. It's not even because they're crazy. Guess what? I know we like to think that all these people committing random acts of violence are crazy, but they aren't.
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A crazy person cannot speak so clearly and rationally about their motives. A crazy person doesn't know why they do things. This guy does. He did it because he wanted to. But why did he want to? I have no idea. I can't relate to that desire. I've never had the desire to throw anyone in front of a train. So I don't know why he wanted to, but he wanted to for whatever reason.
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He had the free will, the ability to not do it. He could have not acted on that perverse, dark desire, but he did. And why did he act on it? Because he's evil. That's why. He's a bad person. This is an evil person. He causes pain and suffering just for fun, just because he wants to. And that's what we call an evil person. We used to understand that human evil exists. That's a thing.
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People are evil. Evil people are out there. There are evil people in the world. Not everything is a matter of mental health. You know, of course, these days we like to take any terrible thing that someone does and you hear from both sides of the political aisle about there's a mental health crisis in America. Well, it's the mental health. This is about mental health. No. You know what?
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It is very often. It's just these are bad people. They're just bad people who do bad things. This is actually not a problem that can be simply solved with drugs. And that brings us to some other hard truths about this guy, and mainly it's this, that he almost certainly cannot be reformed. Him and everyone like him. You know, all the violent...
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vagrants and people walking around committing random acts of violence. They cannot be reformed. He will be a danger to society forever. He will be a liability forever. Now, no human being is outside the mercy of God. Anyone can be forgiven and transformed and redeemed. I certainly believe that, but that's between him and God. We as a society can never trust that he's reformed. We can't know that.
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People become hollowed out 50 IQ shells of their former selves through a steady diet of TikTok and Netflix instead of lobotomies. But at the same time, we do have a kind of modern analog to lobotomies in this country. For the past decade or so, the idea of transgender medicine has taken hold in pretty much every major hospital.
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God can know that, but we can't. And so there will never be a time when we can safely and reasonably assume or trust that he can be assimilated back into society. There will never be a time when I would feel comfortable standing near train tracks with this guy around. Which means that the only solution is to permanently remove people like this from society.
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And I mean that through the legal process, through the courts, lawfully. in accordance with the Constitution, these people need to be permanently removed from society. It's the only answer. There is no other answer. Like we talked about yesterday, Trump had one idea for solving that problem, one idea as to how we permanently remove someone like this from society, and that is ship them overseas.
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set up essentially a penal colony somewhere, set up a prison camp somewhere in some country, preferably a really rough country, the kind of country you don't want to be in, and send him there. And that's where he's going to live until he dies. And we're just going to forget that you exist. Society will just forget about you. And you'll be given
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three meals, well, maybe not three meals, but you'll be given food. You'll be given food on a daily basis. You're not going to starve to death, but it's going to be a miserable life. It's going to be a horrible life. And then you're going to die and you'll be buried in an unmarked grave and we'll never think about you again.
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That is the fate of someone who, like, if you're the kind of person where we have to worry that, if you're the kind of person where I can't stand next to you by the train tracks, then you are the kind of person who deserves to be sent to a prison camp and to die and to be forgotten and to just die. You know, that's what you deserve. And so maybe, I don't know, it's...
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It kind of seems far-fetched that we'll actually see this happen, that we're going to start shipping criminals to some prison camp in Uganda somewhere or something. It seems far-fetched, but hey, I mean, if you had told me that Trump would be as productive as he has been in the last two weeks, I would have thought, well, that's not even possible. So maybe this will happen. We'll see.
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Trump's freeze on foreign aid has brought out all the expected sob stories. And we're now hearing from the media and the Democrats that Trump in particular is failing in his duty to fight AIDS in Africa. So this has become a talking point now. It's been a lot of reporting about how the AIDS epidemic will be made worse without foreign aid. Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman tweeted as much.
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He said, Trump's freeze on all foreign aid is an abdication of our duty as a global leader. That money fights AIDS, malaria, and famine, including in Sudan now. This indiscriminate freeze will cause more people to die like his blanket pardons. It's a small-minded, dangerous, and harmful.
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Now, I asked Dan this question on X and still haven't gotten an answer, shockingly, but let me pose it here again. It's a simple question for Dan or for anyone. Here's the question. Why should working class American taxpayers have to pay to fight AIDS in an African country 7,000 miles away? Why? Why is that our problem to solve?
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Like lobotomies, so-called trans medicine promises to fix a serious mental problem by artificially modifying and in some cases carving up the human body. And like lobotomies, oftentimes these transgender procedures are performed on children.
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Because I'll be honest with you, when I think about all the pressing concerns and problems that need to be solved, I know we always hear about AIDS in Africa as one of the great epidemics that we should all really be concerned about. But when I think about all the problems that are most pressing to me as an American citizen, AIDS in Africa doesn't even make the list. It's just not on the list.
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Now, I have no ill will towards people suffering from AIDS in Africa. I wish them the best. But I care first and foremost about the people who are suffering in my own country. And I have an obligation to my family, my friends, my community, and my nation. I have no obligation to Sudan. None at all. That's maybe another way of phrasing the question. Just taking myself as an American citizen.
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What is my personal obligation to Sudan? What is it? And where does it come from? In what way am I obliged to help Sudan? The answer is that there is no obligation. And this is to say nothing of the fact, the perhaps most relevant fact, that the aid money going to allegedly fight AIDS in Africa and these other things is obviously not working.
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You know, when we talk about foreign aid, of course, the reality is that most foreign aid is a scam anyway. It doesn't even go towards the thing it's supposed to, allegedly. Why does Africa still have an AIDS epidemic? The Western world has long since gotten AIDS largely under control, so why can't Africa figure it out? It's a serious question. Why can't they figure it out?
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And at what point are these countries expected to stand on their own two feet and take care of themselves? At what point? Never? Never? Is that the answer? So is it our job forever, forever to sustain these countries and solve their problems for them? Forever? Really? Well, if you ask Dan Goldman, that's what he would say.
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And we've documented many times hospitals all over the country have provided cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to minors in order to affirm their subjective sense of gender and to make a lot of money as well, of course. And in some cases, hospitals have gone beyond that.
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I mean, he wouldn't say that out loud because he knows how it sounds, but that is his answer. His answer is that you as an American citizen have a permanent obligation to Sudan that will last forever. And again, he won't say it because he knows that sounds insane and it cannot possibly be justified. But that's what they think.
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Because here's the thing, it's not like we're being told that we need to give these countries a little help to get them over the hump and get them back on their feet and then they'll be good to go. We're not being told that. That's not the pitch. No, what we're being told implicitly is to keep giving them our money forever, permanently, forever.
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Because they will just never be able to take care of themselves. Which means that not only are we as taxpayers getting totally bilked and scammed, but also the money isn't accomplishing anything in the long term. Clearly. I mean, for how long have we been giving taxpayer money to AIDS in Africa? How long has this been going on? Decades. And it's still an epidemic? How is that possible?
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How is this problem not under control by now? And what makes you think that continuing to give money will help anything if it hasn't done anything yet? You know, give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach him to fish and feed him for life, you know, is the old saying. And okay, well, why can't these people fish, right?
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You know, when I was in Kenya, I remember driving through the towns and seeing just these massive piles of trash, massive mountains of trash in the middle of every town. Right. And this is one of the reasons why they struggle with diseases that the rest of the world has mostly eradicated, because the hygiene and the basic cleanliness is nonexistent. But it's like.
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They've offered full-on surgeries as well, including double mastectomies and vaginoplasties to children under the age of 18. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is not a right-wing talking point. I mean, I think we've all established now pull-up research papers from, say, Boston Children's Hospital, and you'll find that they've admitted to performing dozens of double mastectomies on minors.
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Why can't you figure out basic trash removal? OK, can we to use the left's phrase, can we have an uncomfortable conversation about some of this stuff? Let's have an uncomfortable conversation. Why can't you figure out trash removal? This is one of the most basic fundamental skills required to build a functional civilization.
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Civilizations that existed 3,000 years ago figured that out with technology that was 3,000 years old. So why can't Kenya? Why can't you solve that problem? Why haven't you solved it? Waste management. we're talking about like a training wheel level skill. And Kenya gets like a billion dollars a year in U.S. aid or something. A billion dollars a year, every year for decades.
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And they don't know what to do with their trash. So my point is that the aid is not, it's obviously not, obviously not building a sustainable, healthy, thriving Africa. And that's what I would like to see. I'd like to see that happen. I'd like for every country in the world to be healthy and thriving and sustainable. I wish for nothing but the best for every country in the world.
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That's what I would love to see. But the point is that we can't do that for you. It's not our job. It's not our obligation. And we can't do it anyway. So at a certain point, these countries need to figure out how to stand on their own two feet. Which is why Trump has temporarily put a freeze on foreign aid, which is great. I think that the freeze should be permanent.
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I think we should withdraw all foreign aid from everybody. Because... And I've said this before, and I know how it comes across to some people, and of course I don't care what it comes across. If you need USAID in order to exist as a country, if you cannot function as a country without USAID, then you don't deserve to exist as a country.
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Okay, then you're a country that effectively doesn't exist already. You are a puppet. You're a failed state that is weekend at Bernie's on the international stage. Look, you're already a dead country. You are a dead country if you need welfare payments permanently from American taxpayers in order to exist. And so I think the only solution is to just let the chips fall where they may.
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Revoke all US aid from everybody and let these things shake out. And maybe if you're a country that can't be sustained on your own, then probably what ends up happening is that a stronger country comes in and takes over, which is how the world worked for thousands of years.
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Jazz Jennings was 17 years old when surgeons mutilated his genitals and created a fake vagina in its place. So there's no denying it. As was the case with lobotomies, children are being permanently disfigured. in the name of junk science. But as of yesterday, the analogy to lobotomies ends there. That's because this time around,
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If you can't take care of yourself, if you can't stand on your own two feet as a nation, then some other country is going to come in and they're going to conquer you and they're going to take you. That's just the way it works. Which would be hard to lament as any great tragedy, considering you had all this time to figure out how to exist as a country and you couldn't figure it out. So, you know.
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Maybe the, it's a dog eat dog world out there. And so maybe that's a process that we should just allow to play out a little bit. Because if the other option is that we have to take food out of our children's mouths forever to prop up all of these countries who, by the way, do nothing for us, give us nothing in return.
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and don't even display even the faintest hint of gratitude ever, if that's the alternative, well then, that's just not an acceptable alternative. I hate to say it. I mean, I don't hate to say it, actually. Let's get to the comment section.
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It's weird that none of these proud Mexican patriots want to live in Mexico. Yeah, that is a strange thing, isn't it? There are a lot of people in this country who are deeply proud of the countries that they came from, that they desperately fled from, and are terrified of the prospect of going back to it, and yet they're proud of it. I'm so proud of my home country.
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Okay, well, then you can go back to it. No, not that, anything but that. And you're proud of them. It's like saying you're proud of your family, but under no circumstances will you ever invite any of them over for Thanksgiving. I don't know. How proud are you? Replace Jefferson with Trump on Mount Rushmore. No. Look, I think Trump...
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I've said if Trump repeals the income tax, if he figures out a way to, which he can't do on his own, of course, but if he can lead the fight to get rid of the income tax, he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore, which I stand by.
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You can make an argument if Trump, even if that doesn't happen, if Trump just keeps up somehow this pace that he's on right now for four years, you can not only make an argument, but I think it would be very much obviously the case that he would deserve to be on Mount Rushmore for that argument. But hopefully you could just add them.
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I mean, I think there's enough room on the mountainside to add them. If for some reason it is an interesting kind of fun little thought experiment, if let's just say for some reason you can't add someone, you'd have to carve his face over one of the faces that's already on Mount Rushmore, then who has to go in favor of Trump? That's a fun... That's a little bit of a, that's a fun game.
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I would say you can't get rid of Jefferson. I mean, Jefferson stays, George Washington stays. For me, Teddy Roosevelt, a personal favorite president, he has to stay. So really, I mean, Lincoln is the odd man out. I think in that case, Lincoln's got to go. Sorry, Abe. He's got plenty of other monuments. I think he's done pretty well for himself, posthumously. So that would be my vote.
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The Trump administration has made it very clear that we're not going to wait for the whole rest of the world to ban this barbarism. We're going to do it ourselves. Now, thanks to four years of Democrat rule, we are still once again behind much of the Western world here, where in many cases this stuff has already been outlawed. But better late than never.
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If you've got to vote one of the Mount Rushmore presidents off the island or off the mountainside, then it would probably be him. Let's see, Matt, I don't know if I missed it, but did you ever come back to give the rest of the review for American Medieval? American Primeval is the name of the show. Would be quite interested what you thought of it as a whole. Yeah, well, thanks for reminding me.
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I did finish it, and I'm happy to report that American Primeval, the new Western series on Netflix, did in fact stick the landing, having seen the whole series now. And it takes us a while. We don't, you know, my wife and I, we... This thing people do where they binge a whole series in a day and a half, I don't know how you do that.
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I mean, your brain starts to turn to mush and leak out of your ears at a certain point watching that much TV. So it takes us a little bit of time to get through a series. So we did finally finish it. And I can say that it's a very solid show.
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It's easily one of the few quality Westerns of the last 20 years and one of the best things that Netflix has put out, which low bars in both cases, but still very, very, very solid show. It never lapsed into most of the woke cliches that you expect.
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The lead female character, which this is the thing that I found to be most surprising about the show, is that the lead female character never really became the kick-ass action hero, Mary Sue type of character that that character always becomes in like every show and movie these days.
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In any show where it's kind of an action thing and the lead character's a female and she's encountering bad guys and stuff, in almost every case, either she starts off right out of the gate as some ass-kicking ninja or at the very least becomes that through the course of the show. But in this case, they resisted that temptation. Now, there's one scene, I'm not going to spoil anything,
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There's one scene that kind of borders on that trope a little bit. But if you watch the show and you see that scene, it's forgivable. It's, I think, justified in the context of the story. But other than that, you've got this classic kind of mysterious drifter guy.
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who you have in all the great Westerns, you know, all the great, most of the great Westerns anyway, the lead male character is this mysterious guy that doesn't talk a lot and, you know, gruff and masculine and you don't really know anything about his past, you know.
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And he comes off as maybe a bit cruel at first, but through the course of the story, you see that underneath all that, he really is a good man. But anyway, he's the ass kicker.
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And so in this show, you have that character, and he is constantly saving and bailing out this woman and her child through the whole series, right down to the last moment, which again, I'm trying not to give you spoilers, but right down to the last moment, he is... He's there protecting her and her son. So I thought that that was good. It mostly avoids the woke stuff with the Indians in the show.
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And it has now been declared at the highest levels of government that There is no justifiable reason whatsoever to castrate, sterilize, or mutilate a young child in order to affirm that child's alleged gender identity, which is a meaningless, invented, and completely unscientific concept in the first place.
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By modern Hollywood standards, you know, the evil white man themes by modern Hollywood standards are kept to a minimum. The Indians are portrayed as warlike and brutal, which is what they were, which to a certain extent everybody was back then, especially on the frontier.
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There is a female Indian chief who is like the wise sage and is a pacifist and somehow speaks perfect English, too, which is never explained. And that's pretty silly. I mean, that's it's the wokest that the show gets is with that character. But it's you know, I think it's again, I would call it forgivable. It's kept to a minimum. You know, you can kind of look past it.
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The only thing I'll warn you about is that the show is very brutally violent. And I think in a way that for the most part is justified by the storytelling. It does at times go overboard with the brutality and the bleakness. There's one thing in particular at the very end of the show, the last episode, there's this subplot of a husband who... In the first couple episodes, his wife is abducted.
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And so he's trying to find his wife through the entire show. And in the final episode, they encounter each other. And that... that goes in a direction that is so bleak that it's almost... You almost have to laugh at it because it's so over-the-top depressing that you're almost like, really? So there is a little bit of that in the show. But...
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So if you find that sort of thing overly upsetting, then I wouldn't watch the show. For me, I have a fairly high tolerance for bleak and brutal stuff in stories. Personally, for a story like this, I'd prefer it go overboard in that direction than in the other direction. I'd rather err on the side of being a bit too brutal and too bleak than in sanitizing it too much. That's just me. Finally,
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Talking about the Nancy Mace situation, people change. I personally used to be a leftist until 2020 when I started to see the error of my ways thanks to the George Floyd movement. Well, yeah, look, people change, and you saw the error in your ways because of the Floyd stuff. Actually, now that you mention it, Nancy Mace did not see the error in her ways from that.
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Even a year after Floyd's overdose, she was tweeting about how George Floyd had been murdered, okay, a year later. But in any case, yeah, people change. You know, the problem with Nancy Mace is that she flipped on the trans issue and then immediately positioned herself as a leader on that issue. And then as we talked about, started trying to recast the whole argument in feminist terms.
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But even leaving that part aside, which to me is the main problem, that's the main thing, is that you are using feminist... ideology and feminist ideology base is, feminist ideology is gender ideology. And so now you're trying to use that and recast the fight against gender ideology in gender ideology terms. And that I can't allow you to do that.
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We're going to lay the groundwork for massive lawsuits against the butchers who have taken part in this affront to common sense and human decency. We're going to stop forcing taxpayers to subsidize the quacks behind this fraud. We're going to empower the DOJ to pursue criminal action against anyone who mutilates the genitals of a child. And that's just the beginning.
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You can't come in at the last moment and screw everything up by basically accepting the premise of the gender ideologues. I can't let you do that. But even leaving all that aside, I also just can't put up with someone coming that late to the party and then pretending that you were on the front lines the whole time. So it's one thing to come in and say, hey, look, I got this thing wrong.
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I was wrong about this. I see that I'm wrong now. And hey, I'm ready to join this fight. If somebody says that, I welcome them with open arms. I would never, anyone who says that about anything, I say, great. We don't need to dwell on anything you said in the past. We're not going to dig up tweets. We're not going to do any of that. You've changed your mind. You've seen the error in your ways.
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Here you are, you know, brothers in arms. Fantastic. I'll be the first to say that. I'm very consistent about that. But when you come in, especially as a politician, and there is no accountability, there is no admitting that you were wrong, and you just barge to the front of the line and say, I'm the leader. I was doing this the whole time.
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That, come on, that it's purely self-serving and dishonest and and It's particularly from a politician. I'm just not going to put up with that. Why should we? You know, and that's my problem there. Let's be real, mainstream media isn't just broken, it's corrupt. They don't report the news, they curate it to fit their agenda. And Americans, well, we're done with it.
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Now if you spend very much time on social media, you have probably seen the story of the 500 pound aspiring female rapper who is suing Lyft after a driver refused to let her in the car because she was too fat. And if you're a fan of this show, you probably assumed that it would be the subject of a daily cancellation. And look, if you made that assumption, frankly, I have to say, I'm offended.
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that you think I'm so predictable. You just assume that I would do the easy and cheap thing and waste your time and mine doing a whole monologue about a fat woman who didn't fit in the car.
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In fact, you probably assume that I'll not only talk about this case, but I'll even play a clip of one of her music videos, even though it has nothing to do with the story and adds nothing of value to the conversation. Well, if you assumed all of that, You are, of course, totally correct. I mean, that is the point of the daily cancellation.
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Now, all of these tenets were outlined in the executive order that Donald Trump signed yesterday, which is entitled Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation. Now, to be clear, this is distinct from Trump's other orders on gender ideology, which we've already discussed. Previously, Trump has banned trans-identifying people in the military.
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What is the point of it if I'm not going to use it as an occasion to talk about a woman who ate so much Little Caesar stuffed crust pizza that she no longer fits inside a mid-sized sedan? So let's start at the beginning. Deja Blanding is the woman's real name. Dank DeMoss is her rap name, or it might be the other way around. There's no way to know.
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In any case, a few days ago, Miss Dank went viral when she posted this video of her interaction with a Lyft driver who regretted to inform her that his car will not fit a woman who is the approximate size of a female polar bear. And I don't say that as an insult, by the way. This woman reportedly weighs about 500 pounds, which is, in fact, the upper range for a female polar bear.
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And I think that fact is important. I'm just trying to put it in perspective because it puts the tremendous size of this woman into perspective. And this story, a story that she made public, is all about her size. I mean, that's what this all hinges on. So here's what she looks like for reference. There's the picture. As you can see, she is, shall we say, a substantial woman.
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And here is the initial video of her encounter with the unfortunate Lyft driver. Here it is.
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So she asks what makes him think that she can't fit in his car. And the driver, because he's polite, did not respond. Well, ma'am, there are two things that make me think you can't fit in my car. My eyes. And it's good that he didn't say that. That would have been unkind. And so now, after that video made the rounds, Miss Dank put out a statement addressing all the haters.
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And I found her to be remarkably eloquent, to be honest with you. So check it out.
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He's established that there are only two genders. He's eliminated all forms of DEI in the federal government. But as important as those orders are, this one is even more expansive and far-reaching. And it's not an exaggeration to say that Trump I think, has just signed one of the top five most important executive orders in the history of the United States, at a minimum.
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You know, I have to say, when I first heard about this woman's plight, I was not, I confess, especially sympathetic. But then I watched that video and I started to understand her perspective. And she's right, because I, too, am sick and tired of the bitch ass Internet. You can't deny you can't deny it is a bitch ass Internet. So she has a point.
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And secondly, she says that we all need to stop putting large women like herself into categories. Again, I agree. I would never try to put her in a category. She does not fit in any category. Or any Toyota Corolla, as it turns out. Which only proves her point, is what I'm saying. So I think now is as good a time as any to take a quick detour and check out one of Miss Stank's music videos.
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Will it help us understand her situation? Will it clarify any aspect of this controversy for us? No. And no, but we don't need an excuse, I think, to enjoy some quality music, do we? So here you go.
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You know, she, uh, I'm sure you were tracking the lyrics there. She said that, um, at one point she says, uh, these bitches under me. And, uh, that, that I, are the bitches. Okay. We need to check. We need to check on the bitches that were under you. I'm concerned for their health and safety at this point. I have to say, the collective IQ in that room was quite impressive.
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I think with their brainpower all combined, I have no doubt that it would create an intellect powerful enough to graduate middle school. And I mean that as a compliment, just to be clear, everything I'm saying. It's meant as a compliment. So now we get to the inevitable part of this story where the requisite lawsuit is filed. Here's the local Fox affiliate with the earth shattering news.
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So let's go through this in detail. And as we do, I'll make it clear what this order does and what it doesn't do. So to begin with, the order defines gender affirming care as the equivalent of chemical and surgical mutilation, which encompasses everything from surgeries to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
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Yes, you heard that right, full figured folks. That is now the euphemism for 500 pound human beings. One might object that if you weigh more than the ATV parked in my garage right now, that your figure is several steps beyond full. It reached its capacity about 300 pounds ago. Because the human body, just like a vehicle, does have a capacity.
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Your bone structure and internal organs are not designed to carry around and sustain that kind of weight. They can't, which is why literally every single person the size of Miss Dank will die and die soon. She will either go on a diet and lose weight or she will be dead within like 10 years, probably much sooner.
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Especially now that she has scummy lawyers encouraging her to see her weight as a quote-unquote protected characteristic. Their lawyer says that rejecting a person because they're extremely morbidly obese is no different than rejecting them because they're black. But it is, of course, very different. Miss Dank was born black. She was not born 500 pounds.
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In fact, using a rough calculation, we know that in order to maintain 500 pounds of weight, you would need to consume something like 8,000 calories a day. Though she almost certainly eats much more than that because she's doing more than simply maintaining. But even 8,000 calories a day is a mind-boggling amount. I mean, that's at least four times the recommended calorie intake for an adult woman.
The Matt Walsh Show
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She's eating enough for at least four people every day. I mean, that's just a fact. And in order to do that, you have to essentially eat all day. I mean, think about how much eating you would have to do to take in those kinds of calories every single day. This is basically nonstop eating. You have to adopt the lifestyle of a panda, eating for 10 to 16 hours a day.
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So right away, the federal government has just eliminated the Biden administration's endorsement of gender affirming care. And now we've replaced it with much more accurate terminology. And if that was the only thing this executive order did, it would already be a significant, huge win. But of course, it does a lot more than that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Of course, pandas eat that much because they're morons and they only eat bamboo, which has no nutritional value. Ms. Dank is probably not surviving on bamboo, we can assume. She's almost certainly eating nothing but processed foods all day, every day. So it takes sustained, almost Herculean effort to be and remain that obese.
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To say that someone's status as morbidly obese is protected, it's like saying that a man who chooses to walk around upside down on his hands all day is protected. It makes no sense. Incredible effort is required to be in that position. This is obvious, of course.
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I mean, obviously it would be absurd if she wins a single dime in a lawsuit, which means that just as obviously a court in Michigan will probably award her $50 million, which is the same thing as giving her a death sentence, because she's going to spend the money on food and she's going to complete the slow motion suicide that she's been committing for years now.
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It's also obvious that the Lyft driver is the real victim here. It's pretty clear that he was embarrassed, as any normal person would be. having to tell her that she's too stupendously fat to fit into his vehicle. I mean, he would have preferred to just give her a ride, take her money and be done with it. But she literally could not fit in the car.
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He couldn't figure out how to make the geometry work. And he was worried, rightly so, about the effect on his tires and the structural integrity of his car, having that much weight bunched up on one side of it. Even if he could wedge her in there like an overpacked suitcase, he was not at all sure that the sort of damage that would be done to his vehicle, which is the source of his livelihood.
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So she owes him an apology for putting him in that position, not the other way around. And all of that is self-evident, I think, to any thinking person. We don't need to dwell on any of that any more than we already have. To me, the bigger issue, no pun intended, is just the total lack of shame on the part of this woman.
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The fact that you've eaten so much that anyone even has to question whether you will fit in a car, a car that was built to transport four entire people, The fact that they have to question whether you'll fit in it should embarrass you. It should be the mother of all wake-up calls. This is the equivalent of an alcoholic waking up naked at a back alley dumpster in a city he doesn't recognize.
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Like it's a moment when life is screaming at you through a bullhorn and carrying a giant neon blinking sign that says, you have a problem. And if you aren't picking up on that hint, then your situation is hopeless. And in Ms. Dank's case, she not only is ignoring the hint, but interpreting it in exactly the opposite way. The sign says, you have a problem.
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She reads it as, everyone else is the problem. That's what a chronic lack of shame and a pathological self-centeredness gets you. It gets you to this moment of extreme humiliation, even if you're too narcissistic to feel it. It's still got you there. Just like it got you to 500 pounds.
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And that is why our friend, Miss Stank, who doesn't fit into any categories or into most anything else, is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1525 - Trump Just Dealt A Massive Death Blow To Gender Ideology
So the order then makes by far its most important contribution to ending gender ideology in this country. And I'll read a bit from the order here and I'll explain why this matters so much.
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Quote, the blatant harm done to children by chemical and surgical mutilation cloaks itself in medical necessity spurred by guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, WPATH, which lacks scientific integrity. And the order then states that all federal agencies, including HHS, must rescind any and all reliance on WPATH guidelines.
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And then it states that the new HHS secretary, quote, shall publish a review of the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.
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Now, on the surface, you might think that this particular part of the order isn't necessarily that important, but it's actually critical for two reasons. First of all, as I've outlined at some length before, WPATH is and has always been an organization full of dishonest and demented charlatans.
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The internal WPATH files, as reported by Michael Schellenberger, demonstrated very clearly that WPATH understands that children can't consent to chemical or physical castration, but they pushed it anyway, in part because the Biden administration encouraged them to do so. And yet, major hospitals have adopted WPATH guidelines for so-called trans medicine wholesale over the last few years.
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This is happening for a very specific reason. doctors, including gender doctors, are terrified of one thing, which is malpractice lawsuits. Because malpractice lawsuits can bankrupt doctors. They can destroy entire hospitals if they're big enough. So there's a lot of risk involved in sterilizing or castrating a child. a lot of financial risk.
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At the same time, these doctors desperately want to perform these procedures because they make a lot of money for the hospital. As you might remember, I found a video of a Vanderbilt doctor saying exactly that, that these things are a cash cow. So the solution that these gender doctors have decided on is to defer to the self-appointed experts at WPATH.
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And they know that if they can point to an established, quote, standard of care from some governing body, then they're basically immune from malpractice lawsuits because that's how malpractice law works. If doctors can show that they were just following guidelines, then you can't sue them. Even if they've done something horrible to you, like castrate you as a child.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that's why this Trump executive order is so important. Because from this point forward, the WPATH guidelines are no longer the standard of care by any definition. the federal government and its healthcare agency, the HHS, has just publicly rejected everything that WPATH stands for. The White House and HHS have just labeled WPATH junk science, which is exactly what it is.
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So doctors can no longer hide behind WPATH's guidelines to avoid malpractice lawsuits. And right away, that's gonna cause their malpractice insurance to go through the roof. It'll dramatically enhance their liability, and eventually, it will make them stop these procedures entirely because it's just not financially sustainable.
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But just in case it doesn't, the executive order contains this provision, quote, the head of each executive department or agency that provides research or education grants to medical institution, including medical schools and hospitals, shall immediately take appropriate steps to ensure that institutions receiving federal research
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where education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children. So in other words, if a hospital receives any kind of federal funding, which every major hospital does, then they need to stop castrating and sterilizing children. Otherwise, they stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
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And in fact, they might lose even more than that, because the order continues by mandating that, quote, the Attorney General shall review Department of Justice enforcement of Section 116 of Title 18 United States Code and prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation.
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And additionally, the Attorney General must, quote, in consultation with the Congress, work to draft, propose, and promote legislation to enact a private right of action for children and the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals practicing chemical and surgical mutilation, which should include a lengthy statute of limitations.
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So taken together, these two provisions don't just make it easier for victims to sue doctors who perform these barbaric procedures. They also open the door for the federal government to investigate and even imprison doctors who mutilate the bodies of children. As you may remember, around 20 years ago, the left claimed that it cared about female genital mutilation in Africa.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So they passed a law outlawing the practice in the United States. But now, under the guise of transmedicine, female genital mutilation is supposedly progressive somehow. So now the Trump administration is threatening to use that criminal law to go after these gender doctors.
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At the same time, the Trump administration is also cutting any kind of government-sponsored insurance that would cover these practices. Now, having said all that, I need to make it clear that this executive order, as momentous as it is, does not by itself ban child sterilization and mutilation in this country. It makes it far more risky for doctors to perform these procedures.
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It suggests that the DOJ might be launching criminal investigations soon. And it makes it a lot harder for some of these hospitals and insurance companies to collect taxpayer money. But it's not a direct ban by itself. Outside of the many states that have banned this insanity already, it remains legal in places like California, Minnesota, and so on.
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And on top of that, if Democrats retake the White House in four years, they can reverse all of this. So Trump has done the absolute maximum of what a president can do on this issue. He can say with absolute sincerity that he has done everything he can to put an end to this insanity. But to finish the job, he's going to need help. He can't do that all on his own.
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So therefore, what's needed, as I've said many times before, is a law that A federal law banning these procedures nationwide outright. This is clearly an ideal moment to advance a national ban like that because gender ideology is now less popular than it's ever been. Trans activists have been utterly humiliated and rejected on the national stage.
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They haven't even really mustered any kind of sustained outrage about Trump's previous executive orders dismantling their ideology. So it stands to reason that they would be powerless as Congress passes the kill shot, which is a complete and total ban on chemical and physical mutilation in the name of gender ideology.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, as the executive order itself states, quote, across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation's history and it must end.
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Now, just a year ago, as a man pretending to be a woman led our nation's federal health agency, it was easy to doubt that this moment would ever come. Now, I've said for years that child gender transitions will eventually be a thing of the past, and nobody will want to admit that they ever supported it or tolerated it. Now, that time is almost here.
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The barbarism of child gender butchery is on its very last legs. And very soon, you're not going to be able to find a single person in the country who admits to having ever supported it. For the sake of millions of confused and vulnerable people all over the country, and in particular for the sake of children, we have no choice now but to finish the job.
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Now, I want to say one other thing about this. The child butchery business is collapsing and soon it will be gone. It will be ash. And history will look back on it with horror and shame and confusion. But I want to be clear about something.
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That if you're a doctor or a medical professional or a therapist or a psychiatrist who pushed this insanity on children, if you participated in and profited from the psychological and physical abuse of children, This is not over for you. You don't get to just move on. Those of us who have been fighting you for years will not let you just walk away scot-free.
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We are not going to rest until you are punished for what you've done. Now, what you deserve is a military tribunal and the sentence that is given to those who commit human rights atrocities. But that probably won't happen, so instead... We will settle with seeing that you are bankrupted and humiliated and shamed and ostracized and forever alienated from civilized society. We will not forget you.
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We will remember your names. For as long as there are people in this country who must live forever with the damage you inflicted on them as children, then you also should have to live with the consequences. Those children cannot pretend that this never happened. And so neither should you.
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Hopefully you've noticed that the conservatives you've had to deal with in this fight are a bit of a different breed. We tore down your whole industry piece by piece. We did exactly what we said we would do. We beat you. And so now, when we say that we're going to make sure that you are held accountable for your crimes against humanity, you should know that we mean it. And we will do it.
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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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And she'll do that while claiming at the same time to be engaged in some kind of pursuit of the truth. Watch.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Ep. 1520 - Fake Feminist ‘Bishop’ Turns Inaugural Prayer Service Into Woke Anti-Trump Lecture
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.
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Ep. 1520 - Fake Feminist ‘Bishop’ Turns Inaugural Prayer Service Into Woke Anti-Trump Lecture
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The Matt Walsh Show
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Me Too campaign against Pete Hegseth continues and continues to flop. And although I am no style expert, I admit today we must cancel a prominent politician for his fashion faux pas. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show. America's golden age is just getting started. Be here with us for every moment. There's never been a better time to join Daily Wire Plus.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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Don't forget code 47 for 47% off at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. For our daily cancellation, I have to go back to the inauguration one last time. And this is not the most important thing in the world, I admit, although the daily cancellation was never intended to deal with things that are the most important or even vaguely important, frankly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.,
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the Academy Awards put out their short list for documentaries. Somehow the number one documentary of the decade didn't make the list. Imagine that. Also, Joe Biden says that the mysterious so-called drones in the sky are probably not nefarious, but he's not exactly sure. San Francisco, having solved all of its other problems, appoints a fat acceptance czar.
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This is very much an ongoing fight because, you know, one thing I've learned and maybe the main thing I've learned after getting into filmmaking is that the left truly believes that it owns the art of filmmaking. Not just that it owns Hollywood, which it does, but that it owns filmmaking itself as an art form.
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So any conservative who makes a film in any genre is an intruder, is a usurper, showing up in a place where he doesn't belong. That's the way they see it. So the truth is that the success of our films, and by the way, both of our films, both documentaries, are easily the most watched and influential documentaries of the decade. We have the top two. in this decade. There's really no dispute.
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I don't think anything else is even close to in the running. But that actually makes it less likely that they'll be recognized by critics or awards. Our success is an affront to them. They hate us for it. They feel personally insulted by it. Now, if this snub tells us anything, it's that we're angering all the right people.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Shockingly, I haven't talked about this issue at all, I don't think, on the show, even though you'd think it'd be right up my alley. This is like... This is... This is... a story tailor-made for me. And so why haven't I talked about it? Maybe it's the contrarian in me. I talk about UFOs when nobody is talking about them or cares about them.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And then I don't talk about them when everyone's talking about them and cares about them. I didn't plan it that way. It's just how it worked out. But in any case, mysterious drone sightings all over the country. You're familiar by now with the basics of this story, starting in New Jersey and kind of branching out from there. at least along the East Coast.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
There have been these drone sightings, hundreds of sightings. The Pentagon on Monday came out and said, everything's fine. Nothing to see here. These are all just commercial aircraft or hobbyist drones or stars or... you know, weather balloons or light refracting from Venus, you know, or any number of explanations. Basically, any explanation as long as it's boring and not scary.
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That was their statement. We don't know exactly what this is, but we're sure that whatever it is, it's fine. You know, that's... Which is the kind of answer that you wouldn't accept in any other facet of your life. You know, if you...
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
If you went to the doctor because you had some strange thing going on in your body, you had some strange growth or something, and you go to the doctor, the doctor says, well, I don't know what that is, but I'm sure it's fine. You wouldn't accept that. He's like, well, if you don't know what it is, then how can you know that it's fine?
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It's like the fact that there's something anomalous going on here is in and of itself is a pretty good indication that it might not be fine. And yet we get this kind of answer from the government a lot, and that's what they've been saying here. They don't know what it is, but it's probably fine.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Yesterday, Biden finally addressed the drone craze, I think for the first time, though very briefly, and talking to reporters, and here's what he said.
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Okay, so he says nothing nefarious, apparently. Apparently he's doing a lot of work there. Not exactly instilling confidence, once again. Nothing nefarious, apparently. And the problem is that the official explanations don't really comport with some of what we're seeing. For example, the Express yesterday had footage taken by a passenger on a plane over what they think is Detroit.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
It was on its way into Newark, but over Detroit. And this passenger saw these kind of glowing orbs in the sky. This was 10 or 12,000 feet in the air above the clouds. And let's take a look at that. So there are the orbs. You can see the glowing orb-like vehicles. This is an altitude well above where a commercially available drone could fly. And all right, that's good. That's enough of that.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And there have been a lot of sightings like this, hundreds, as I said, across the country for several days now. And, you know, Pentagon and White House say it's nothing. They don't know what it is, but it's nothing. They're sure of that. Many other theories have been floated. Some have said that these are drones or aircraft from some kind of foreign adversarial power.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Chinese spy drones, I just read an article floating that as a possibility. I find that hard to believe because the whole point, and what do I know, but the whole point of a spy drone, I would think, is that it's not supposed to be detected. But these things are lit up like glowing like the 4th of July, you know? So, I mean, I don't think your enemies are trying to put on a light show for you.
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So, enemy spy drones that thousands of people can see and that attract hundreds of headlines, there seems to be a concept problem. It's just not how that's supposed to go. So I find that hard to believe. The other possibility is that these crafts are part of some U.S. government operation. I find that explanation kind of unsatisfying. What would be the point?
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
I mean, a common variation of this theory that you've probably heard is that maybe the government's looking for something, and there's stories about a lost nuke, lost radioactive materials, and because there's no evidence of that. And once the sightings spread out across the East Coast, it becomes even less satisfying. What are they looking for 15,000 feet above Detroit?
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And of course, you always get the people who say, well, this is a diversion tactic. They're trying to distract us. That's what this is all about. But as I always say to that, There will be no reason for the government to do anything so elaborate to distract us. They don't need to conduct some convoluted operation with thousands of drones across the East Coast to distract us.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
We are already distracted all the time, constantly. You're distracted right now listening to me, okay? Everybody is always. So that's why I always get a kick out of this. They had to do all this to distract us. They could just point to a squirrel over there. We actually had a two-day news cycle about a squirrel. So anything will distract it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
They could, I don't know, make Taylor Swift break up with Travis Kelsey. That would distract the American public way, way more than 10,000 drones ever could. So I find a lot of the standard explanations unsatisfactory, which leaves us with the only remaining plausible answer, which is that, yes, these are aliens. Sorry, I know you expected me to say that. I know that I'm not surprising you.
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I know as soon as you saw this, if you're a fan of the show, as soon as you saw the drone thing, you're like, oh, Matt's going to say it's aliens. Well, yeah, it's because that's what they are. I don't know what to tell you. So I can't surprise you. Because in order to surprise you, you have to be wrong. And that would be the most surprising thing, for me to be wrong.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
But I need to stick with my boring habit of being right, which means I have to say, these are aliens. You know, one important fact here is that many of the initial New Jersey drone sightings were over the ocean or of what appeared to be craft coming off of the ocean. This is a common theme with UFO sightings. They're often seen coming out of or back into, seemingly, the ocean.
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What's the significance of that? Well, I don't know, but I do know that the deep ocean is the last place on Earth that is mostly uncharted and mostly unexplored. The deepest parts of the ocean are less accessible to us than the moon. And meanwhile, people often ask, well, if aliens are coming here, where are they going?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Are they just coming and flying around a little bit and then leaving a minute later? That's a long way to go to just fly around and leave. Doesn't make a lot of sense. And you're right, it doesn't. So what if they're coming here and actually staying? What if they are establishing alien bases under the water? I mean, that would be one way to explain this. That's one explanation.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Is it the best way to explain it? Depends on what you mean by best. If by best answer you mean most exciting, most interesting, most fun, then yes, it's the best answer. The best answer is it's aliens coming out of their alien bases in the ocean. That's the best answer. Now, if by best answer you mean most plausible, well then, stop being a bummer. You have your drone theory, I have mine.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Nobody knows. So when it comes to this, you just got to go with the most fun possible answer. That's my version of Occam's razor, okay? That's my little twist on it. Only when it comes to mysterious things in the sky, only then will I say that I will choose the most fun possible explanation. And I'm doing the same here. I got to stick by my guns on this. I want to mention this story too.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
This is from a few days ago at this point, and I missed it while I was away. Which, by the way, a lot of you in the audience were upset that I disappeared without explanation. And I also disappeared right when this drone stuff was going on. So you might have thought I'm on some kind of mission related to the drones. But that was not the case.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Actually, I left because of my surprise party for my dad's 70th birthday. And the problem is my dad listens to the show. So I couldn't tell you guys that I was taken off a few days because then he'd be suspicious. So for the sake of preserving the surprise, I had to spring this on you without notice. These are the moral quandaries that one faces while attempting to pull off a surprise party.
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But anyway... Which we did pull off, by the way. He was surprised. So this happened late last week. And I have to say a few things about it. You've probably already seen the clip. We'll play it anyway. This is Crystal Mangum, who's the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case, admitting in a podcast last week that she made up that rape claim almost 20 years ago. Now, I think it was in 2006.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
I have to confess that I don't spend any amount of time using the app known as Blue Sky, which is the left's alternative to X. And there are a lot of reasons for that. One of them is that if I started posting on Blue Sky, my account would be nuked within about five seconds. It's an app that doesn't tolerate any kind of dissent from left-wing orthodoxy, an echo chamber in the purest form.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
So almost 20 years ago, it was all made up. And she finally admitted it. Let's watch the clip.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
So she made it all up. We already knew that she made it up. Any honest and intelligent person knew it at the time. It was always obviously a lie, and now she's admitting to it 20 years later, apologizing, hopes that they can forgive her. All she did was completely ruin the lives of three young men. All she did was have these young men or try to have them thrown in prison for decades.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
All she did was tear the country apart over a lie that she made up. And now she wants to be forgiven. Forgiven with zero accountability, zero consequences, zero punishment. It's just obscene. Imagine the reverse of this. Imagine a man... raped a woman and got away with it. And then 20 years later said, yes, I raped her. I'm sorry. That was wrong. I hope she can forgive me.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And then imagine that was the end of it. No legal repercussions, no prison time, just an oops, sorry about that. I screwed up. And that's it. And it The apology almost makes it worse at that point because there's no accountability. It almost makes it worse because it just makes the lack of consequence all the more glaring and ghastly.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And this comparison works because, as I've said many times, falsely accusing someone of rape is just as evil as rape itself. These are two sides of the same coin, essentially. The false rape accusation is... basically the female version of rape. An evil pervert man who gets off on imposing himself on women becomes a rapist.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
An evil pervert woman who gets off on imposing herself on men often becomes a false rape accuser. And the trauma suffered by the rape victim and the false rape accusation victim is is very similar, equally severe, equally devastating. And, you know, of course, when you say things like that, people will accuse you of downplaying the severity of rape.
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But if you interpret it that way, it's just because it's not, this is not downplaying the severity of rape. You are downplaying the severity of falsely accusing someone. The point here is not to diminish the severity of rape, but to take this other thing and make a point about how significant that is. We're not bringing this down a level. It's this other thing.
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If you're not there to commiserate with self-loathing trans activists or to come up with clever new ways that a special counsel could remove Donald Trump from office, then there's just not much to do. In other words, It's what every social media platform on the internet used to be before Elon Musk got involved. Now, that being said, you can make the case that Blue Sky still serves a purpose.
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We're bringing it up, making sure that it's on the correct level, bringing it up a level in terms of explaining the severity of it. When we say ruin the life of someone, that is what you are doing. You are ruining their life. And those guys who were accused, I don't know where they are today. Hopefully they've been able to pick up the broken pieces and build some kind of life.
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Your life isn't literally over. You continue living, hopefully. But you have just sent their life careening off on a new course that it shouldn't be on. And you've done this all with your false accusation. And in the meantime, and we can't understate the point that you are trying to put them in prison. You're trying to have them locked up in prison on false pretenses.
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So it's also kind of a form of kidnapping. I mean, that's what falsely imprisoning someone is, and that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to use the legal system to do it because you can't do it yourself, but that is what you're trying to do. Now, Crystal Mangum, I believe, is already in prison for second-degree murder.
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I think she stabbed and killed her boyfriend, I believe, because this is just a wonderful person all around. But she's set to be released soon, and she should now be looking at another 20 years in prison, at least. Okay, you want... I mean, forgiveness... The guys that she victimized, I don't know if they... I think if I was in their shoes, I'd have a very hard time forgiving her.
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I think, obviously, it'd be a very hard time. Whether I could actually forgive her or not, I don't know. And I don't know if they... If they can't forgive her, I... would totally understand that. It's not my place to forgive. This is one of the things people don't understand about forgiveness.
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When you have someone who does something and then they go in public and say, oh, I'm asking for forgiveness. The forgiveness from the public, even if we could grant it, is meaningless. We were not the ones who were harmed by this. We're not the victims. So our forgiveness means nothing. We actually can't forgive you. We aren't involved in this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The men that she victimized, they could choose to forgive her or not. But what I do know is that forgiveness is in effect a sort of one-way street in that way, that a person chooses to forgive or they choose not to. But reconciliation, having any kind of real reconciliation, that is not a one-way street. That, on the part of the wronged person, it involves forgiveness on their end.
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It offers the same value proposition that MSNBC provided on election night, which is this. When left-wingers assemble and shut out everyone who disagrees with them, then at the very least, the meltdowns can be pretty entertaining. They can also reveal a lot about the left's thinking and what's going on in the institutions they control.
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On the part of the person who did the wrong thing, there must be accountability. You have to be willing to suffer the consequences and accept the consequences of the terrible thing that you did. And by the way, if you're not, then you're not actually sorry. So your apology is not real. And in this case, there's no consequence. No legal consequence, which is just crazy.
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And all that does is encourage more of this kind of stuff in the future. When someone could come out years after the fact and say, yeah, you know what, I made it up. And there's no consequence at all. I find that, as I said, obscene is the best word I can think of for it. Daily Mail has this story.
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The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a consultant on weight stigma and weight neutrality despite the city in the midst of a battle against rampant homelessness, open-air drug use, and violent crime. Virgie Tovar, a self-described anti-waste-based discrimination expert, describes herself as a prominent advocate for fat positivity and body acceptance.
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Announcing her appointment on her Instagram, she called it an absolute dream come true. I'm unbelievably proud to serve the city. I've called home for almost 20 years in this way, Tovar wrote. This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it's my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health. Okay, so San Francisco has a million serious problems.
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The city's falling apart. Anyone who's been there recently, as I have been multiple times, unfortunately, knows that this is no exaggeration. I mean, it's a filthy, disgusting place. I can't imagine ever living there. If I was offered a job that pays 10 times more my current salary, but I had to live in San Francisco, I wouldn't take it. I wouldn't even be tempted to take it.
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That's how revolting San Francisco is. San Francisco is so bad. That the fact that there are gay men walking around fully naked in the city is actually not even the worst thing about it, about the city. It's top five, for sure. I mean, it's probably three or four on the list. But it has so many problems that somehow there are things even worse than exhibitionist weirdos walking around. And...
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In spite of all that, the city is taking the time to focus on weight stigma with their weight stigma czar, Virgie Tovar. And by the way, here she is. This is a video making the rounds on X, but here she is introducing herself. Let's watch this.
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So case in point, if for some reason you found yourself on Blue Sky lately, then you know that, to the great surprise of left-wing activists, they're starting to lose control over one of the most powerful weapons in the culture war and in Hollywood, which is Disney.
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What I think of, what you think of when you think of eating disorders, I think of being a kid. That's a sentence that she just said there. A couple of things here. Number one, Yeah, you should make yourself smaller by any means necessary. That is correct. There's nothing sinister about that. By any means necessary, you should make yourself smaller.
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If that's the message you get from doctors, that's the correct message. That doesn't mean that you should be bulimic or anorexic because those methods aren't necessary to lose weight. They're also not recommended from a health perspective, obviously, but the point is they aren't necessary.
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So if you're hearing the message that you should lose weight by any means necessary, that is not an advocacy for eating disorders. The necessary means for losing weight is eating less and moving more. That is what is necessary. Those are the necessary means. And yes, that is what you should do. And second... She says she's the author of a book called You Have the Right to Remain Fat.
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Which, by the way, I know I said recently that gag gifts are lame, but there are exceptions to every rule. And it would be very funny to give that book to somebody as a gag gift. Wrap the book, hand it to them, tell them, you know, you saw this book on the shelf and thought of them immediately. And you thought that they'd find it inspiring. Now, important disclaimer here.
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This is a gag gift only for men. You as a man, give it to a male friend or a male family member who has a good sense of humor. I would not give this as a gag gift to a female. Okay, don't give it to your wife as a gag gift. That would be a very good way to ruin Christmas. A funny thing for me to think about, you doing that. But anyway, I looked at the book on Amazon.
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Here's the description in case you're curious. It says, growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Just a side note, and you always hear this from morbidly obese people, that, well, I've tried dieting for two decades.
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The big story over on Blue Sky recently has been that Disney just pulled an episode of the Marvel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. According to leaked online footage, the episode is about a boy who identifies as transgender and wants to join a girls volleyball team.
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No, you haven't. Okay, two decades of dieting and you look like that? literally impossible, literally impossible to diet for two decades and end up looking like that at the end. It breaks the laws of physics. It cannot be done. Now, I mean, well, I guess it depends what you mean by dieting. You could just have a really, really bad diet.
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I mean, your idea of dieting could be insane, but like actual dieting, where you're cutting down the calories, and again, you're moving more. The calorie deficit, two decades, and you're morbidly obese. Impossible to do. Cannot be done. So every time you hear this, I've tried dieting. I've tried everything. No, you haven't. I've tried everything to lose weight. No, you haven't.
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Not only have you not tried everything, you haven't even tried the one single most obvious thing and the only thing that, aside from drugs, will make you lose weight, which is to cut the calories and to move more. So you haven't tried. You haven't tried everything. You haven't tried anything. Actually, you've tried nothing, basically. But there was also this line I liked.
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She says, Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free for moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. Jiggle through life with respect. Those words that were written, and not to be funny. And of course, the whole premise here misses the point intentionally.
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You know, these fat acceptance people always go on about how all bodies should be valued equally, which, yes, true. If you mean that all people, regardless of their size, should have equal rights and moral dignity as human beings, that's true. But that's also exactly why you shouldn't be fat.
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If you value yourself and your body, you should not be doing something that destroys yourself and your body. Fat acceptance is no different than the idea of cancer acceptance. Imagine a movement that tells you to embrace and enjoy having cancer. Imagine a movement that says we shouldn't negatively judge people who do things that cause cancer. We should encourage them to keep doing it.
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Write a book called You Have the Right to Die of Cancer. Now, of course, this analogy doesn't actually work because there can be a point with cancer when you do have to basically accept it. If you're terminal stage four, cancer is untreatable, inoperable, then at that point, basically, you should be in the acceptance stage.
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The coach of the team is completely fine with this, either because he's a really enlightened activist or because he just wants to win really badly. Not exactly clear, but The coach of an opposing team, who looks extremely menacing and whose name is Greer, takes issue with this whole arrangement.
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Although even then, it'd be perverse to insist that somebody love and embrace the cancer itself. It's a tragedy. at this point, unavoidable. So hopefully you can find happiness and peace in spite of the cancer, but you don't find it in the cancer or through the cancer or because of the cancer. On the other hand, there is never a point with fatness where you should just accept it.
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It's never terminal. I mean, you can always become less fat as long as you're alive, right? which you won't be for very long if you insist on being morbidly obese. And that's really the point here. Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and devastating. From Maui fires to Hurricane Helene, we're seeing entire towns wiped out in 24 hours with barely any warning. And what happens?
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A major part of that fight is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. Then we took on the box office with Am I Racist? And Americans showed up in record numbers, making it the number one documentary of the decade, despite Hollywood pretending it doesn't exist. At The Daily Wire, we fight the left and build the future, and we need you to stand with us.
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And as the episode progresses, the boy says lines like, I'm trans, my very existence breaks Greer's rules. He also wears pride-themed knee pads and has a trans is beautiful sticker on his water bottle. Other players, including one who identifies as non-binary, quote unquote, call Greer narrow-minded.
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It's been used in cases where, say, the Biden administration invites TikTok influencers to the White House or when Eric Swalwell starts crying in Congress because of a meme that depicts Donald Trump rescuing cats from Haitian migrants. These are situations in which Democrat politicians act like theater kids or when they promote influencers who seem like theater kids. But
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In general, no one is actually suggesting that theater kids are literally occupying the government and conducting its day-to-day operations. It's an expression. It's meant to parody Democrats in exaggerated terms to highlight how absurd things become when they're in power.
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But by this point, we're all very familiar with the Democrats' uncanny ability to turn absurd and exaggerated situations into reality. They're becoming impossible to parody. And as if to prove that point, a Democrat on the Supreme Court has just decided to embrace her inner theater kid in the most literal sense.
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As you may have seen, Kentonji Brown Jackson had her debut on Broadway on Saturday night, appearing in the musical And Juliet, which apparently is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. She plays a character called Queen Mab, who, according to a poster from the production, has she-her pronouns.
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And she appears in two scenes that were written specifically for her for a one-night-only performance. Here's some of the promo video that they released after her appearance. Watch.
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Now, just from the short clips that appear in the promo, you can already tell that she can't act. She actually managed to bungle one of the few lines she had when she gets interrupted by the crowds and just stops mid-sentence. And other clips from her performance demonstrate that she can't really sing either.
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But before I subject you to that footage, I need to make the point that even if Quintanja Brown Jackson could act and sing, She still shouldn't have made the decision to appear in this play for several reasons. For one thing, it's completely unwatchable political propaganda.
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In particular, it's a full-on embrace of every ridiculous tenet of gender ideology, including the idea that people can be non-binary. That's notable because gender ideology is currently before the Supreme Court in the case pertaining to Tennessee's ban on child castration.
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During oral arguments in that case, Ketanji Brown Jackson compared Tennessee's ban to a prohibition against interracial marriage. made it very clear that she's a partisan on this issue, and now she appears to be openly celebrating that fact in a play centered around these kinds of ideas, which should be disqualifying all on its own.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Now, to give you some idea of what this new version of Romeo and Juliet is like, there's a character called May, who apparently is Juliet's best friend and who identifies as non-binary and uses he, she, they pronouns. Watch.
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Ultimately, the evil coach uses some kind of magical curse to confine the boy and his teammates to the locker room. and basically kidnaps them and puts their lives in danger in the process. At one point, a character trapped in the locker room says, we could literally die. So not exactly a subtle piece of trans activism.
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So just to restate, this is the play that a sitting justice on the US Supreme Court decided to participate in. The justice who couldn't define the word woman during her confirmation hearing, saying that she's not a biologist, is now endorsing propaganda about gender that's written by activists on Broadway.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
But again, even if this play wasn't a piece of lazy activism, even if it were the best play on Broadway, there's still no justification for a Supreme Court justice to appear in it. I mean, at the same time, it's obvious why Kataja Brown-Jackson decided to go through with this, as if you couldn't tell from all the praise and applause she received in that clip.
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She gave an interview with CBS where she explained her reasoning
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
So there's a lot to think about here, but maybe the best part is when she says that she's appearing in this Broadway play with a scene that was written just for her because she wants to remind everyone that she's a public servant. going out of her way to appear in a play so she can attract as much attention as possible and fulfill her childhood fantasy. But it's really for your benefit, peasant.
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So just shut up and clap as she breaks the glass ceiling or whatever. Then she goes on to say that it's shocking that she was able to achieve this lofty goal given her background and how all these obstacles were stacked against her. But... Here's the thing. No obstacles were stacked against her. Solely on account of her race and gender, she was admitted to a prestigious law school.
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It's a transparent attempt to indoctrinate children into believing that there's nothing strange at all about a boy playing girls' volleyball or the idea that girls can transform into boys. And of course, the episode also intends to demonize any adult who says otherwise.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Then she became a Supreme Court justice after just one year of serving on an appellate court because Joe Biden needed to nominate a black woman. And now she's a Broadway actress because, once again, she's getting preferential treatment instead of being assessed on merit. So the total lack of self-awareness here and the all-encompassing narcissism
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is almost as bad as her decision to appear in this play in the first place. This is not a woman who should be deciding cases at traffic court, much less the highest court in the country, but she says it's totally fine because other justices have kind of done similar things in the past.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
She was apparently thinking of this moment from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's career when she did a poor job of reciting some feminist propaganda at the opera one time. Watch.
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Now, the whole clip is even longer, but no one should have to be subjected to it. It goes without saying that this is not the kind of thing we want Supreme Court justices to emulate. It's just painful to watch. In the case of Ketanji Brown Jackson, some people have tried to defend this as a harmless, if deeply cringey, hobby.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Maybe we should overlook this, they say, because after all, Scalia liked going to the opera or whatever. But even aside from the fact that attending the opera is nothing like what Jackson did, Scalia was also a skilled and competent jurist. Ketaja Brown Jackson is not. Her opinions are riddled with factual errors, for one thing.
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At one point, for example, she stated in an opinion that white doctors are significantly more likely to kill black babies than black doctors are, but she overlooked the fact that white doctors are typically better trained, so they tend to see babies of all races who are in critical condition, the worst cases. On top of that, Ketanji Brown Jackson also got the numbers completely wrong.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And by the way, in case you're curious, I watched some of the footage online that the episode ends with the boy player becoming really frustrated that he's trapped in the locker room by the evil coach who hates him because he identifies as trans. So he punches his fists really hard into the floor and breaks through the ground, revealing that it's actually an LCD screen.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
She said that according to a study, the survival rate for black infants who have black doctors was more than double their survival rate when they have white doctors. In reality, the study showed a difference of survival rates of less than 0.2%, which is essentially nothing, especially when you factor in the different levels of experience the doctors have. This wasn't some trivial error.
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This was contained in Jackson's dissent to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling that overturned affirmative action. Her reasoning for trying to uphold affirmative action was based on obvious lies. But she never apologized for that. She never demonstrated a hint of self-reflection in this context or any other context. Instead, she's now feeding her ego on Broadway.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
By the time she spent practicing for her Broadway performance, would it have been better to utilize reading and learning how to do the job she's been assigned? Of course, if she did that, then she wouldn't get to do a media tour to promote herself and her new book, which just came out a few months ago.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Somehow, Ketanji Brown Jackson secured a million-dollar advance for that memoir, even though nobody read it, and it fell off the New York Times bestseller list in like a month. Sales figures haven't been released, but as we all know, books written by famous leftists are a bit like Hunter Biden's paintings. They have no value, but strangely, someone is always willing to pay a lot of money for them.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Now, I'm not suggesting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is getting money from some nefarious source. I have no idea. What I am suggesting is that Ketanji Brown Jackson has been given an awful lot of attention for someone as thoroughly unintelligent and mediocre and narcissistic as she is. And her latest turn as an actress on Broadway, a bad one, is just the most recent example of that.
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This is the Hamilton phenomenon all over again. It's yet another occasion for rich New York elites to feel virtuous by applauding mediocrity in the name of social justice. And above all else, the reason this whole farce is so galling is that we used to expect just a certain amount of decorum and dignity and seriousness from people who hold important positions in government.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And we should still expect that, or else we'll just never get it. And that is why Katanja Brown Jackson and the queer-themed Romeo and Juliet remake that she just appeared in are both today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
So I guess that even in the fictional cartoon works of trans activism, so-called trans girls are prone to uncontrollable testosterone-fueled outbursts. But in any case, no part of this production is surprising in any way, coming from Disney. What is surprising is that At least for now, Disney has pulled the episode. For once, they've decided that the indoctrination is just too on the nose.
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And over on Blue Sky, someone who worked in the show's art department named Derek Malik Johnson, pronouns he, him, posted this message to explain why. It's not the most grammatical post in the world, but I'll try my best to read it. So it says, so I guess I finally got hit with one of the projects episodes I worked on is getting shelved because of which party that won the recent election.
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It breaks my heart knowing this impactful and amazing episode is now about to be considered a lost media episode. Now, with writing skills like that, I'm sure this guy will be hired by Disney to script the next Marvel film, but officially Disney has denied that they've pulled this episode because of the election or because people are tired of trans activism posing as children's entertainment.
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They're also suggesting that they're not influenced in any way by the fact that female volleyball players have been severely injured by trans-identifying male players. But more recently, in the context of yet another programming change, Disney has been more forthright about their motivations. So they've just eliminated a so-called trans storyline in a different show.
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This is an upcoming episode of their animated series Win or Lose, which is out early next year on Disney+. As The Hollywood Reporter put it yesterday, quote, Pixar's original animated series Win or Lose will no longer include a transgender storyline in a later episode. The series follows a co-ed middle school softball team named The Pickles.
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In the week leading up to their championship game, each of the eight episodes center on the off the field life of a character and their point of view, whether it be a player, a parent, a coach, or an umpire. Now, here's the statement that Disney provided The Hollywood Reporter to explain the change. And again, they're much more honest in this case about why they made the change.
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Shockingly honest, you might even say, quote, when it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline. You think? Now, just a few months ago, a statement like that would have been unthinkable coming from Disney.
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They were promoting their bold decision to include non-binary characters with they-them pronouns in films like Elemental as recently as just last year. They had the same-sex kiss and light year and so on. And now they're coming right out and saying that, in effect, it's inappropriate to use cartoons to indoctrinate children into trans ideology.
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Now, of course, that statement doesn't go nearly far enough, and this should not be a revelation for them, but it's a start. It's another sign among many that we've seen in recent weeks that we're seeing a very rapid and profound change in American culture particularly as it relates to trans activism but All of that is not to say that we've won the battle for our culture, especially in Hollywood.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
We're a long way from that victory, in particular in Hollywood and the film industry. And the other day we got a very clear reminder of that fact when my film, Am I Racist, the top documentary film of this year by a mile, the top documentary film of the decade, was snubbed from Oscar contention in the nonfiction category.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
We didn't even make the shortlist of the top 15 films, which they eventually whittled down to the final five nominees. And so this is, they didn't announce the nominees yet. They announced that their shortlist, they're essentially their top 15. These are the 15 films in the category that they're going to choose from to pick their nominee.
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And we didn't make the top 15 with the number one film in the genre by a wide margin. So as far as snubs go, objectively speaking, it's a pretty big one. Not a surprising one by any means. I'm not shocked by it, but it's still a big snub.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
As Deadline reports, quote, Am I Racist, the controversial documentary that satirizes diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, failed to make the Oscar shortlist of nonfiction features today despite earning more money at the box office than any other documentary this year by far.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
It scooped up more than $12 million in the domestic box office, but that wasn't enough to sway the minds of Academy documentary branch members who determined the shortlist, as well as the eventual five Oscar nominees. Yes, the minds of the Academy documentary branch members have apparently decided that documentary audiences don't know anything about documentaries.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Because we might have an audience score on Rotten Tomatoes above 95%. We might have exceeded box office totals for documentaries going back six or seven years, but... In the end, none of that matters. What does matter is what the Academy documentary branch members think.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And these Academy documentary branch members, according to the Academy, have, quote, demonstrated exceptional achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures, mostly by producing their own documentaries. And they've decided that Am I Racist is not, in fact, an achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Some of these branch members have even produced films that have grossed more than $50,000 internationally. So you know they're qualified to make these kinds of determinations. They have their finger on the pulse of audiences everywhere. So what films did meet the branch members' high standards this year? Well, it turns out that
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
To no one's surprise whatsoever, they rewarded a handful of films that address political issues from a left-wing perspective. This is from Deadline's report, once again, quote, Films that focus on political questions beyond U.S.
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borders did get love from the DAC branch members, among them The BB Files, Alexis Bloom's documentary that serves as a brutal takedown of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. No Other Land, a frontrunner for the Oscars, condemns Israeli government policy in the Occupied West Bank.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Union, the documentary directed by Brett Story and Stephen Meng, follows the first successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse operation, a facility located on New York's Staten Island. Ah yes, who could forget Union, the highly compelling documentary that followed the successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse operation. and make your Amazon delivery slightly more expensive.
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It was a film that audiences just couldn't get enough of. After all, it's a documentary that grossed a whopping $47,000 at the domestic box office, which is more or less what we got with Am I Racist minus around $12 million. It's also a movie that no one has said a word about, and almost no one has seen. But who cares? In terms of cultural impact and relevance in the year 2024, union is it.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And then far down the list, you've got, am I racist? By the way, Another film, again, to no one's surprise, that made the shortlist is that Will Ferrell trans documentary, where he goes across the country with his trans friend. And that one also made, again, a documentary that probably no one has seen, but hasn't had no cultural impact of any kind at all, but also made the list.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Now, to be clear, of course, this is an entirely expected outcome. No one here has been out of shape in shock and horror because the Academy isn't celebrating us. We didn't make the movie in order to seek validation from left-wing activists in Hollywood. And it's no surprise that we didn't get it.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
I mean, if we wanted to make a movie that would be accepted by Hollywood, we would not have made that movie of all movies. But two things can be true at the same time. This snub can be completely predictable and unsurprising. while also being still objectively outrageous and totally discrediting for the Academy Awards.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
If a conservative can make a documentary that crushes every other film in its genre that year and beats every film in its genre in the past six or seven years, and yet still not even crack the top 15 by the Academy standards, that means that conservatives are simply excluded from having their work recognized by Hollywood. There's no other way to interpret it.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Again, not a surprise, but very discrediting. Now granted, box office totals and audience reception don't necessarily mean that a film is awards worthy. It'd be easy to point out that superhero films always, or at least until recently, always make billions of dollars and achieve high audience scores. Does that mean that Spider-Man should win the award for best picture? No, not in my opinion.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
However, if there was a short list for best picture, if they whittled it down to the top 15, then yes, you would expect the highest grossing film of the year to at least be in the running for consideration. But more to the point, documentaries are a different animal entirely. It's very easy for a big budget superhero film from a major studio to earn a lot of money. It's basically guaranteed.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
On the other hand, it is extremely difficult to create a documentary that makes even a million dollars in the box office, let alone 12 million. And that's proven by the fact that our film is in the top 35 all time. I mean, among all documentaries that have ever been made, top 35 for domestic box office totals.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
What that means is that in the nonfiction category, it is very, very challenging to tell a story and explore an issue in a way that a large audience finds compelling and interesting. But that is, after all, the whole point of a documentary. If your documentary doesn't connect with people, then by definition, it cannot be good and should not be in the running to win any award.
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If it does not connect with the audience, it has failed to do the one thing that it must do in order to qualify as artistically successful. So the performance of our film, both in theaters and on our platform, proves that we succeeded not just financially, but artistically.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
We explored an issue and told a story in a compelling and interesting way, which means, yes, at a bare minimum, we should be in the running for a nomination. By all rights, we should get the nomination and win. But none of those things happened purely because of politics. And whether you want to admit it or not, I mean, that does have larger ramifications for our culture.
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It affects the kinds of films and shows that Hollywood produces. More importantly, it affects what our children see as well. Disney is relenting, as I mentioned earlier, but only to a point.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
In his answer to Kirsten Gillibrand, Pete Hegseth attempted to make these points. He also outlined his own firsthand observation of lowered standards in the military. And Gillibrand responded by, of course, shrieking at him. Watch.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
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So this was the theme of the hearing. Democrats demand an answer. Then they get one that they don't like, so they start screaming. And look, the truth, obviously, is that if men and women were held to the same standard in the military, there would not be any women in the military. The way that we know that the standards are not the same
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
for women in the military is that there are women in the military. That's how we know. We don't need to know anything else about the, just show me the, if we're talking about the military and the question is, are standards lower for women? The only question I need to ask is, well, are there women in the military? Yes, well, and the standards are lower because otherwise they wouldn't be in there.
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All right? Now, Pete Hegseth may not want to say that out loud at a confirmation hearing, which makes sense. He shouldn't, because the point, again, is to be confirmed. But it's the truth. You know, including women in the military necessitates, by definition, lowering the standard. Women cannot measure up to the same physical standard as men.
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So if you set the physical standard for men to something reasonably challenging... there would be almost zero women in the country who could make it, okay? And that's exactly why I say we should raise the standard for everyone, make it the same for everyone, and then let the chips fall where they may, okay? I mean, it's not just about push-ups, but let's start with that. But
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Pick a number for push-ups. 29 is not enough. I don't know. You should be able to do, like, what's a good starting point? Satisfactory for a man who wants to join the military. How many push-ups should you be able to do? I mean, 60 at least? So let's say you set it there. All right. How many women could do 60 push-ups? I mean, in the entire country. In the whole country.
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How many adult women are in the country? 100 plus million. How many of them could do 60 push-ups? Almost zero, almost zero. And so that alone, and then before you even get into any of the other physical fitness tests. So set it to a reasonably challenging standard and let the chips fall where they may. And they're gonna fall on an all-male fighting force, which is how it should be anyway.
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Of course, even aside from the fact that women can't do the job as well as men can when it comes to combat. But they also just shouldn't be serving in combat anyway. A functional society does not send women out to die on the battlefield. They're not equipped for it, physically or psychologically. It's not what women are meant to do. But our government has been denying this basic fact for years.
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A decade ago, when the defense secretary at the time opened up all combat roles to women, he said, quote, they'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars, and lead infantry soldiers into combat. And it made that sound like it was a sign of great progress, but it's a sign of decay, not progress.
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You know, you like to think that when tragedy happens, people band together to help each other out. And indeed, a lot of that kind of thing has been happening in the wake of the L.A. fires. There's also the darker side. There are the lowlifes, the opportunists, the thugs, criminals who exploit tragedy for their own benefit, which is why there's been a lot of looting in L.A.
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Talk with one of the strategists. It's free. Go to donewithdebt.com. That's donewithdebt.com. It now appears to be all but certain that Pete Hegseth will be confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense. Republican leaders in the Senate have said as much, and it's not hard to see why that's the case.
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as people leave their homes and flee the inferno. New York Post reports, dozens of out-of-town vultures have been busted for sneaking into ritzy neighborhoods in the Los Angeles wildfire evacuation zone to loot abandoned homes. And local police are naming and shaming them as a warning to the rest.
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More than 40 people have been bagged by the Santa Monica police for allegedly preying on the thousands of homes left abandoned there and in the neighboring Pacific Palisades. And, you know, that's the number arrested. Of course, there's many more people participating in it. And so the article has this little selection of mug shots that the police have provided. And so we'll show you that.
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Let's put that up on the screen. Yeah, right there. They want to name and shame. I'm all about shaming scumbags. So I'll do my part here. And we can see them there. And of course, they say don't judge a book by its cover. But you look at those mug shots. There's not a single person on the screen who you would look at and go, really? They don't seem like the type.
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maybe grandma down at the, you know, grandma down at the bottom, bottom center, maybe that one you're a little bit, but even she has kind of the aura of a looter. Um, And actually, this will be a fun game show now that I'm just thinking about it. It will be a fun game show. You're shown a mugshot and you have to guess what crime the person was arrested for. That would be fun. I think I would.
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I'd be great at that. I would nail that game. I'd be even better at that than I am at Wheel of Fortune. And I'm a Wheel of Fortune master, just so you know. Guess the crime, we could call it. And it may get a bit racist, granted, and sometimes looks can be deceiving.
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For instance, the guy, the top center, a lot of these guys, if you show me the mugshot, I'd say, yeah, looting, that was their thing. Top center, I think if you showed me that and I had no context, I would say, serial killer, for sure, that's a serial killer. I'd be certain, I'd be absolutely certain that that guy was arrested cuz they found severed limbs in a freezer in his basement.
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So sometimes you can be surprised. And just to be clear, I'm not saying that that guy is a serial killer. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that that's the assumption, the wrong assumption I would have made. So anyway, there's a lot of looting going on. And what's really been interesting is the reaction of the celebrities who are being targeted online. So here's the Daily Mail.
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After weeks of telling us that Hegseth is unqualified for the job, Democrats spent several hours trying and utterly failing to land a single meaningful blow against his nomination. Instead, Hegseth came across as a Christian who's very aware of his own personal past failings. He was also able to put all that into context.
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Julia Roberts delivered a spicy comment to the criminals who are preying on the vulnerable during the LA fires. On Monday, the Pretty Woman star took to Instagram with a rare remark. F you looters, wrote the mother of three. So that was it. I mean, that was kind of the whole message in terms of addressing the looting. F you looters. But wait a second, Julia, what do you mean F you looters?
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You're a liberal. You're a Democrat. You supported Kamala. I mean, you did ads for her. The woman who bailed out the looters and rioters during the BLM riots. So I thought, according to you guys, isn't looting the language of the unheard? So these people that are looting your homes and your fancy neighborhoods, they're just unheard. They're trying to communicate.
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They're trying to communicate with you. They're just looking for bread. Remember, isn't that what AOC said? They're starving. They're desperate. They need something to eat. Now, sure, they're not stealing food. They're taking valuables. They're taking jewelry and electronics and so forth. That just shows you how hungry they are. I mean, they're so hungry, they're trying to eat your jewelry.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Pete Hegseth endured a barrage of nagging and screeching during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Much of the discussion centered around the question of whether women in the military are held to a lower standard, but there isn't actually any question about it. They are. We'll talk about it.
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That's how hungry these people are. That's what they've been reduced to. It's the poor things. It's tragic. Now, of course, I'm Being facetious, I realized that none of that applies anymore. Your compassion, your magnanimous nature, your tolerance for lawlessness stops right outside the gate of your mansion, or really outside the gate of your gated community.
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It doesn't even get close to the mansion. And so I get that. And now that it's in your neighborhood, now that you're being targeted, now you can see that criminals who take what doesn't belong to them and steal and rob and commit violent crimes, now you can see that those criminals are not misguided children. They're actually evil, like they're bad human beings.
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They are the bad guys, and so you're angry at them. But this is really, this is why I say this is the test of compassion. as I've said forever, if a person is truly compassionate, if you're truly empathetic, you will, if anything, err on the side of being too angry at criminals. When someone says, And I'm not saying this, to be clear. I cannot say this on YouTube. So I'm not saying it.
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I'm saying if someone said, when someone says something like, looters should be shot on sight. When someone makes a statement like that, hypothetically, people have said that. And when it is said, that statement, even if you say that goes too far, it's one that comes from a place of deep love, love for the victims of the predators, okay? Love for justice, love for law and order.
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If your instinctive reaction is to sympathize with the criminals, It's not because you're a sensitive, bleeding heart liberal. It's because you are callous and uncaring and indifferent. If you only hate criminals when they commit crimes against you and otherwise you tend to side with them, that again just makes you a selfish, uncaring, unfeeling, cruel, indifferent person.
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Under the leadership of former Raytheon board member Lloyd Austin, the Pentagon carried out political purges in the military. It oversaw a catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. It terminated thousands of soldiers who didn't wanna take the experimental COVID shot. Those are colossal failings that no one in the Pentagon has ever atoned for. So Pete Hegseth is not a perfect man, who is?
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The desire to see criminals get what's coming to them, the desire to see them punished severely for their crimes, that is a desire.
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And in particular, if you have that desire to see criminals treated that way, even when they're committing crimes that don't affect you, well, that is because you love the victims of these crimes and you sympathize with them, with the innocent people who are having these things done to them. Good news here.
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Two House Democrats have voted alongside Republican lawmakers to ban athletes born male from participating on girls' school sports teams. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act would amend federal law to specify that student athletes must participate in school sport teams that coincide with their gender at birth.
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um and there were a couple of democrats who voted for the bill as well so um another victory and you know you know my take on this that the um the dems have lost on this issue and uh and it's just over uh yeah men and women's sports is all but over it's not officially over we still have to root out every instance of it for sure but the political momentum public opinion are against the left here and that's i
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I don't see that changing. So they've just lost. They've lost the argument. Most recent polls I've seen show that around 70% of Americans are opposed to males in women's sports. which is already striking consensus by today's standards. To get 70% of people to agree on anything is impossible, it seems like.
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But keep in mind that the most recent polls, I mean, the 70% one I saw was in, I think it was 2020, like summer of 2023. And I think the following summer, there was another poll that showed basically the same kind of result. What would it be right now? I mean, the winds have shifted even more in the direction of sanity just in the past six months, especially in the wake of Trump's win.
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So what would it be now? 70%, what I'm saying, 70% is an undercount. When you take into account the changes that have happened culturally, even just recently, and then especially when you consider that you're going to have people who pretend to be tolerant and accepting of transgenderism when they're asked a question by a pollster because they want to seem progressive and tolerant to the pollster.
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Whatever it is, it is an overwhelming majority of Americans are on one side of this issue. And there's also no will, there's no political will on the other side to even really have this argument. And that kind of tells you what you need to know. All right, I haven't really talked about this. I haven't talked about this at all, but you've probably seen some of the clips.
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Mel Gibson was on Joe Rogan. Excellent conversation between Rogan and one of my favorite filmmakers of all time, Mel Gibson, obviously artistic genius. I think I mentioned I watched Apocalypto recently. Again, probably, I don't know, the fourth or fifth time I've watched it. Just a perfect film. I mean, and he's made a number of movies that are classics.
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But he is basically a saint compared to the people who ran the old regime. And after yesterday's hearing, no reasonable person can really deny that. So throughout the hearing, Democrats discredited themselves one after another with botched gotcha moments and non sequiturs.
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But Apocalypto, I think, if you were to make a list of perfect movies, which would not necessarily be the same as a list of the greatest films of all time. Now, I think Apocalypto is one of the greatest films of all time. But when you talk about a perfect film, a film can be essentially a perfect film and not necessarily be one of the greatest of all time.
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Perfect just means it perfectly accomplished what it set out to accomplish. And there's not any change that you would make to it that would help it to better accomplish what it was trying to accomplish. Well, that's one of the reasons I say that, you know, movie like I think the Princess Bride is a perfect movie. I don't think it's one of the top 10 movies of all time.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I think it's a perfect movie. I think it just perfectly does what it sets out to do. I wouldn't change a single part of it. Perfect film. Apocalypto is in that category. It's actually in both categories. Perfect film and one of the greatest of all time. Anyway, so. Listened to the podcast with much interest, was not disappointed.
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I especially appreciated when Mel started telling Joe about the Shroud of Turin. This was interesting. Watch this.
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I was particularly happy that Mel Gibson brought up the Shroud of Turin because the Shroud of Turin presents a real dilemma for skeptics. That's what's so wonderful about it. Because the problem is that there is no ordinary explanation available for the Shroud of Turin. It's one of those things that no matter what, you're left with an extraordinary explanation
The Matt Walsh Show
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And the optics could not have been worse, as particular women in the hearing kept screaming at Hegseth, all while trying to make the argument that women are just as capable of serving in combat roles as men. Now, if there was a way to weaponize nagging so that you could literally nag your enemies to death, they may have a point.
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you're left with an extraordinary explanation no matter what, because all the ordinary ones have been ruled out. So there's the supernatural explanation, which is that this was the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. The image was imprinted miraculously on the cloth, which is what I believe.
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And if you don't like that, if you've ruled that out because of your, and there's really only one reason why you would rule out that explanation ahead of time, which is that you have a preconceived bias against supernatural events. And if you're in that camp, then you're left with an equally sort of inconceivable, extraordinary scenario, which is that some forger would have to be
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I mean, again, if you're a skeptic, you would say the Middle Ages. You would probably try to claim that it doesn't go all the way back to the first century, even though there's evidence, as Mel Gibson talks about, there's evidence that it did. But at a minimum, you can't claim that the Shroud of Turin was actually forged by someone 50 years ago, obviously.
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I mean, there is a written record of the Shroud going back to the Middle Ages, at least. So if you're in that camp, then you're going to say, okay, well, we know that the Shroud of Turin has been known. There's records of it going back to whatever, the 11th or 12th century. And so someone, some forger, all the way back then, someone almost 1,000 years ago,
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figured out a way to imprint this image on a piece of cloth, and they were able to do it in such a manner that nobody, no scientist for the next 1,000 years would be able to explain how they put it on there. So this is someone with, obviously, who had no access to anything approaching modern technology.
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And yet they were able to somehow get this image on a cloth in a way that would stump scientists who have access to technology so advanced that this alleged forger couldn't even conceive of it. That's still an extraordinary explanation. So again, there is no ordinary explanation here. Speaking of extraordinary, one other quick thing.
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Something I wanted to mention, I know corporate America gets a bad rap, and for good reason most of the time, but sometimes you gotta give even a big corporation some credit for being innovative, because you might think that innovation is dead, Apple putting out the same phone Right, for 20 years claiming it's new, but it's just the same thing.
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I mean, these women could create a weapon of mass nagging destruction and kill thousands of enemy combatants all at once if that was possible. Now, before we get into that particular part of the hearing. in the discussion of women in combat, it's important to set the stage with some of the many blunders that I'm referring to here.
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Disney doing live action remakes now of cartoons that they put out eight years ago. Soon they'll be doing, I'll tell you what, soon they're going to be doing animated remakes of live action remakes of animated films. That's going to happen. I'm telling you right now. By the year 2060, there will be 52 versions of the same Lion King movie. So it's bad. It's bad. It's bland. Nothing is new.
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Nobody outside of Tesla and SpaceX seems to be innovating. Until now. Until now. Walmart has grabbed headlines this week. A lot of headlines about this. Because they rolled out the biggest brand update in 20 years. Pretty big news. In the marketing world, this is big stuff. They completely revamped their logo. A total makeover. Just a glow-up, as the kids would say. So get ready for this.
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Let's check it out. This is the... There it is. That's the revamped logo. So you see on the left is before, and then on the right is now. A complete transformation. It's so much... It's so much... It's very blue. It was blue before, don't get me wrong. But now it's even more blue, which is incredible. So you know that some marketing whiz was paid millions of dollars to come up with this.
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They brought in the top marketing guru. This is Walmart, okay? This is Walmart. They had access to the top marketing guru on the planet. And that guy was in the lab for years, years, working on the new Walmart logo, slaving away. It was like Beethoven writing Symphony No. 9 or something. This genius, this eccentric genius in his office for years at a time coming up with this.
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And then he unveiled it. And people were stunned, stunned by its beauty. Or maybe it was different. Maybe this was a flash, kind of a light bulb moment. Maybe this was some savant, some wisecracking new kid on the block type, some rebel without a cause, just kind of sauntered into that marketing meeting at Walmart HQ, took a drag of his cigarette and said, bluer, make it bluer.
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And everyone was stunned. That's all, bluer. Not just bluer, by the way, also yellower too. It's bluer and yellower. There's more yellow and there's more blue. I mean, there it is. Anyway, so who's to say? Who's to say that innovation is dead? At least there are some. There are some real risk takers out there in the world, and I appreciate that. Let's get to the comment section.
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So here, for example, is Senator Gary Peters of Michigan attempting to make the point that Hegseth has no business running the Defense Department because he has never, quote, driven innovation in any organization in his life. And here's how that went.
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Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode. Is anyone else wondering why Matt opened his computer and it sounded like a wind tunnel blaring? Yeah, on the show yesterday. Well, that was my white noise. I'm a white noise addict. And... It is bizarre. I should be on some TLC special about my strange addiction. Isn't that a TLC show? I'm addicted to white noise. I can't sleep without it.
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I need to have the fan to sleep. I run it when I'm on my computer, when I'm writing in my office. I don't know. Is this a thing? Am I the only person on the planet who's like, I always have white noise running? I don't know why it is. It's one of my many... weird hang-ups. The irony of a talk show host claiming he's not a talker. It's actually not as ironic as it seems.
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A lot of the people who talk or perform for a living are introverts. That's very common. If a person is good at standing on a stage in front of people, whether it's a physical stage or virtual, especially physical, but or both, there's a very good chance that the person is not talkative or extroverted. Jerry Seinfeld put it well during some standup special.
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He said that when he's on stage, he said, I can talk to all of you, but I can't talk to any of you, which was a funny way of putting it, meaning that he can talk to everybody all at once. He's very good at doing that, but he would have trouble talking to people individually.
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Whereas you'll find a lot of the people who are the social butterfly types, and they can kind of work their way through a room and have all these individual one-on-one small talky type conversations. Those same people, if you put them in front of a microphone and you said, okay, now have a conversation with all of these people at once, talk for 30 minutes.
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Those same talkative extroverted types would oftentimes... have a lot of trouble with that. And, you know, these are just different muscles that you're flexing, I suppose. Other than management coaches and players, no one should care more than 15 minutes after the conclusion of a game. That's true, objectively speaking.
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I admit I'm emotionally impacted by a big Ravens loss for more than 15 minutes. So I do admit that. At least if it's the playoffs and the season's over, Ravens are playing the Bills on Sunday night. And if they lose, I am going to be impacted by it for more than 15 minutes. I totally admit that. It's not all day, though. It's like an hour or two. It is an hour or two.
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It's an hour or two of actually being... I mean, really upset about this. But here's the difference. I'm totally conscious of the fact that it's completely unreasonable. I'm completely conscious of the fact that it makes no sense. There is no reason for me to be actually sad about this.
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Because whether the Ravens lose this weekend or they play for a few more weeks and win a Super Bowl trophy, it has zero impact on my life. It does not mean anything to me, to my life. Positive or negative. Everything in my life is exactly the same, no matter what happens with them and whether they win a game or not. Fully aware of that. And yet... And yet, emotionally, I'm still invested.
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I can't, I don't know. I can't, it's one of those things, if you think about it too literally, it does start to ruin it. But, you know, it doesn't, I mean, you could, look, you could say the same thing about a movie, right? I mean, when you watch a movie and something sad is happening on screen and you are sad in response to the sad thing, you could argue that that is irrational.
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Like, because you're aware that this isn't really happening. These people are just reciting words on a script. They're doing cuts in between takes. They're going to grab a snack. I mean, why are you sad? This isn't actually happening.
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So I would say that it's part of what makes us human is that we're able to become emotionally invested in these sorts of things that maybe don't directly impact our lives. I don't know. I got to work on my rationalization here a little bit, but I'll figure it out. The whelp and then starting a whole new conversation sounds like a good old fashioned Midwest goodbye.
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Yeah, well, I'm Irish by descent. And so we have the Irish goodbye, which is, I guess, the opposite of the Midwest goodbye. Because the Irish goodbye is that you don't say goodbye. The Irish goodbye, that's another one. I'm big on the Irish goodbye. The Irish goodbye is you're at a function, you're at a party, some kind of social function. And you're there, you're talking to people.
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And then all of a sudden people look around and say, oh, what happened to, where'd Matt go? Is he still here? No, I'm just gone. I didn't say goodbye to anyone. I'm gone. Mysteriously. Gone with the wind. And that's the Irish move. You just want, you're there one moment, the next moment people are looking around and you're gone. And that's it. And I, I kind of, I prefer that strategy.
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You know why? Because saying goodbye is painful to me. You know why it is? Because I enjoy it so much. I enjoy being around people so much. I'm so invested in it that to say goodbye, it's too difficult. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can only leave. Like a band-aid, just rip it off.
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Mandy Moore asked her fans to donate to her in-laws because they lost everything in the fire, even though she's getting paid like $250,000 an episode for her show. What is her show? I don't even know. Crazier thing is that they raised over 200,000 bucks. These celebrities really have some nerve. There are many regular people that became homeless that won't get that help.
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Can't believe the administration is only offering one-time payments of $700 to victims if they qualify. Yeah, I saw that story about Mandy Moore. It is obscene, I agree, for a famous celebrity to put out a GoFundMe. For their own family members rather than just paying for it themselves.
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I think another lesson of maybe of that story and also the tragic tale of our poor friend Digimon Han Solo or whatever his name was. Is that a lot of the people in Hollywood are not as rich as we think or as they portray themselves. So you watch the Oscars red carpet.
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Also, looters are descending on the opulent estates of Hollywood celebrities who evacuated because of the wildfires. And now those celebrities have suddenly come to the revelation that looting is bad. Imagine that. Plus, Mel Gibson has a fascinating conversation with Joe Rogan.
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I don't watch it, but if you do, you're going to see these kind of ostentatious displays of wealth with these people walking around with designer outfits that cost more than your house. Most of that stuff is rented. They can't afford it either. So they portray themselves as uber wealthy. And some of them are, but not that many of them. The rest of them are just regular wealthy.
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And so then they want to turn around and cry and want sympathy. because they're not uber wealthy, they're just regular wealthy. The poor things. Are we tired of winning yet? Because look, it's just begun. The Daily Wire will be live from DC for the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as he's sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
All right, today for our daily cancellation, we have a brief update to a story we discussed yesterday. The update is, in summary, that I'm right. Not to spoil the ending, but this whole segment really has one point, which is just to say that I'm right. And as you know, I hate, I hate... having to point that out, that I'm right about something. Man, I hate it. Darn, darn that I have to do this.
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Because due to my overriding humility, I don't like saying I told you so. But I feel that I must say it because the fact is that I did tell you so. And so I'm duty bound by my code of journalistic ethics to give you the facts, especially when the fact is that I'm right.
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As we discussed yesterday, this short clip of the Eagles fan cussing out Alex and his fiance went very, very viral. The video racked up tens of millions of views on Twitter alone. The outraged mob got to work, and within a very short time, the name of the Eagles fan and his place of employment had been published all over social media.
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And now the fan has not only been banned from the stadium, but has also been fired from his job. His now former company, a DEI-focused management consulting firm, which is admittedly pretty funny, put out a statement condemning his conduct, calling it vile, disgusting, unacceptable, and horrific, and saying that he'd been terminated. So this guy's life is effectively destroyed.
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Granted, it's hard to have sympathy for him. His behavior was reprehensible, not to mention he worked for a DEI firm. And he's an Eagles fan, worst of all. So this is not exactly the sort of guy that I am predisposed to sympathize with, and I don't. But even so, justice is proportional.
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And so we have to wonder whether being doxxed and villainized on the national stage and then fired from your job is a proportional response to the offense of using bad language at a football stadium. Now, I've always said that in most cases where there's some kind of random dispute or altercation between private citizens, assuming nobody was killed or seriously hurt,
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In most of those cases, there's no reason for the dispute to become national news. The entire country doesn't have to get involved. And I would say that even if the incident was fully and accurately captured in the clip, and there was no need for additional context, still, I would say probably there's no reason for anyone outside of the people who are directly there to care about this.
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Thank you. I know your answer. No, we don't need answers here. You misunderstand, Mr. Hegseth. We don't want you to actually answer the questions that I'm asking. These questions are not meant to be answered because they're really just statements. And obviously, in this case, he asked a question he didn't know the answer to. That's the first mistake.
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Like people say rude things to each other all the time, like millions of times a day, this sort of thing happens. But, and here's the part where I sadly have to say that I told you so. The other problem with these viral videos of random altercations between random people is that, as I said yesterday, they are always out of context. Always. Always.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
OK, 100 percent of the time they're out of context because they always pick up in the middle. There's a reason that somebody started filming, which means that there's a whole part of the story prior to when the camera was turned on, or at least prior to when the video that's being presented to us begins that we're not seeing. We're not seeing that part of the story.
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We're getting like act three here. We're not getting act one and two. So the person who posted the viral video wants us to see just the part they're showing us, which is why if you spent more than 30 seconds on the internet in your life, you should know by now that anytime a viral video is used to gin up outrage, it is always lacking at least some important context.
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So you should always ask what happened before the video started. Or now you could just say, I don't care about this. So I'm not gonna ask, which is fine. That's fine too. That's perfectly fine response is to say, I just don't care one way or another. But if you're sharing the video and expressing your outrage about it, then you clearly do care.
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And so if you do care, then you should care about what actually happened. If you don't care about what actually happened, then you shouldn't care at all. You just say nothing.
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Now, there's nothing that could justify the language the Eagles fan used, but it is very possible, even likely, that the two sides were being mutually obnoxious to each other throughout the course of the game, but we were only given a glimpse of the obnoxious behavior of one side.
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Which, by the way, this is like a classic passive-aggressive manipulation move that people do, where they say the things that set somebody else off. So that people will only see the reaction and not see what the other person did, the classic move. And look, if that was the case, it would mean that the victims here are not really victims.
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It would also mean that the two day outrage cycle is massively overblown, even more overblown than it already appears. There would be no reason for anyone to care. about some people being jerks to each other at a football game, because that would be the story. The story then is just, oh, well, you got three people at a football game who are just being to each other. Who cares?
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Why should there be any outrage at all about this? Because there'd be no clear bad guy. They're all jackasses in that case, and there's nothing else that needs to be said about it. So is that what happened? Well, yesterday it was revealed that this guy, Alex Basara, unsurprisingly, first of all, is a YouTube content creator.
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OK, apparently he posted a GoFundMe last week to raise money to go to the game with his fiance. Now, it's already rather pathetic that a grown man is begging strangers for money so that he can watch a football game. That's not really the point. But but I do just want to say that I've got no problem with people raising money.
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It's like if you're in court and you're questioning a witness, you never ask a question you don't already know the answer to. And then he made it clear that he didn't really care about the answer to the question either. And so just total humiliation was the result.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
When it's needed, when you've got someone who's in a place of need, and I have given to those kinds of fundraising campaigns many times, I got no problem with that. But begging for money from strangers as a grown man because you want to go watch a football game is pathetic. Well, let's go to the description that Basara wrote on this GoFundMe page. He said,
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leaving aside that he is panhandling for money to go to a football game. The point is that this is a content creator who has stated ahead of time that he wants to go to the belly of the beast where he has already, according to him, been verbally and physically accosted on multiple occasions. Now he's going back with his fiance in full Packers regalia.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
He knowingly brought his fiance into that environment, fully aware of what would happen and seemingly hoping that it would happen. Here's the selfie that he took on the way into the stadium. And as you can see, he's wearing a body camera. Okay, not just what I thought this was a video taken by a phone. He's wearing a bike, got a GoPro on.
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So we have a YouTube content creator with a body cam going into a place where he fully and consciously and explicitly expects to be harassed and bringing his fiance along for the experience, hoping to get some content for his YouTube channel. And then when his fiance is cussed out, he doesn't defend her or even switch seats with her.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
But even aside from that, what's extraordinary about his question is that Lloyd Austin had exactly the kind of experience that Gary Peters is talking about. Austin was in charge of the war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan for many years. According to Democrats in Congress, that made Austin qualified to be Secretary of Defense, even though both of those wars ended in complete disaster.
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Instead, he just uses it for clicks, which was clearly the entire point all along. So we still don't know what happened in the moments leading up to the clip that we've all seen. Basara could post the whole video in full context, which, by the way, you just destroyed a guy's life. OK, and we can all say he's he deserved it. But fine, that's a real thing you did. Like, this is not just a game.
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And whether the guy deserved it or not. You just destroyed this man's life. So you now have a moral obligation at a minimum to let everyone see the whole thing. You have an obligation to do that. But he hasn't done that. Instead, he's just moving on. Well, okay, got the clicks there. That guy's life is over. I'm moving on to the next thing. And the outrage mob goes with it.
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The outrage mob says, yeah, I didn't care about that anymore. We cared about that a lot for 30 seconds, enough to pass judgment on this. We don't care anymore. Who cares what actually happened? We cared yesterday for 30 seconds. We don't care anymore. I mean, that's the attitude.
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And there's a reason why this guy has not provided the whole video, because it seems now highly, highly, highly likely that Basara and his fiance were engaging and antagonizing the Eagles fan just as much as he was antagonizing them. Again, they raised money through GoFundMe so that they could go there and capture precisely this kind of interaction.
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The likelihood that the Packers fans are at least equally at fault here and also said obnoxious things that they just happened to not show us the video of seems to me to be extremely high. And yet only one side of the dispute gets his life destroyed. The other guy gets YouTube followers and social media clout. This is obviously not the first such case.
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It's not even close to the most egregious case. That's my point. We see the same story play out time and time again. The masses react to a 15 second video of an interaction between people where the interaction obviously lasted for a lot longer than 15 seconds. And they don't even ask what happened before it or what happened after. They don't ask who filmed it or why or what their motives were.
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There is no discernment. There's not even a slight curiosity. They'll dig into the life story of the assigned villain and find out where he works and lives and who his relatives are before they ask even one single question about the people on the other side of the dispute. To put it simply, people are very easy to manipulate, which is certainly not breaking news, I understand.
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But it is why the outrage mob that barks on command in response to out-of-context viral videos is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
So that is what box checking looks like. These people cannot comprehend the idea of hiring someone who hasn't made money in the defense industry and who has not overseen two failed wars. They see that as a mark against Hegseth instead of the primary reason to confirm him. Not to be outdone, there was Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island coming in hot with this takedown. Watch.
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And it turns out that I was right about the latest viral outrage, this one centering around a dispute between fans of opposing teams at a football game. Let's talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. All right, history is happening, and you can watch it with us live. The Daily Wire will be live in D.C. for Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th president.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
Now, the implication is that Pete Hegseth is a terrible guy because he used the word JAGOF in the past. Now, I think that Hegseth throwing around insults like that does open him up to the charge of being a bit of a boomer, but I'm not sure it says anything more than that. And then when Hegseth answers the question, Jack Reed looks stunned. One might even say that he looked a bit like a jagoff.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
By the way, I will say that, and look, I didn't serve in the military. I know a lot of people who did serve, and so one thing I know is is that guys who served in the military, they don't take kindly to coarse language. That's one thing about the military. You're not going to hear any coarse language.
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I mean, jagoff, you go around guys in the military, you use a term like jagoff, they're going to be very offended by that. They're going to say, sir, we don't use a language like that around. This is inappropriate. Um, so, and you know, there's also a lot of, uh, questioning revolving around, uh, Pete Hegseth's drinking habits.
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And that's another one that, you know, guys in the military, um, certainly they don't touch the stuff. Um, you know, cursing, uh, throwing down a beer or two, not something you find in the military. No, sir. No, sir. But I do want to highlight one moment of substantive discussion to the extent that anything in this hearing could be described as substantive.
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Several senators took turns berating Hegseth over his stance on women in the military. In particular, Hegseth says that he's generally fine with women in combat roles, but at a minimum, he wants the fitness standards to be equal across genders. Now, effectively, as I'll explain in a moment, That actually means that he doesn't want women to serve in combat roles.
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Now, you're not going to say it as directly as that in a hearing like this because the whole point is that you need to be confirmed. And if Hegseth had just come out and said plainly that he doesn't want any women in combat, that would have given squishy Republicans the excuse they need to not confirm him. So you don't want to give that to them.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
So instead, he focused on the fitness requirements, which was strategically smart. Now, in response to his position on fitness requirements, various senators adopted the bizarre and clearly false position that the standards between men and women in the military are already the same. Watch.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
Okay. And there was a lot of, just using one example, but this question of whether of the fitness standards was brought up by repeatedly during this hearing. And the fundamental claim of the people on the other side of this is that the fitness standards are the same. So if Hegseth is worried about lowering standards for women, it's not happening. That's the claim.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
Now, before we play Hegseth's response to this line of question, it's important to point out that this claim is just not true. The standards of physical fitness across every branch of the armed forces are much lower for women than they are for men. So let's start with the fitness requirements at the Navy. And we've put it up on the screen.
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As you can see, their physical readiness test consists of some variation of push-ups, forearm playing, say, one and a half mile run, and a 500-yard swim. So let's take the run as an example, which, by the way, the Navy refers to as a run-walk section because they expect applicants won't be able to run the full distance, or at least they don't have to.
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For men aged 17 to 19, a satisfactory time on the one and a half mile run is 12 minutes and 15 seconds. Which... by the way, is already way too slow. That's not satisfactory. Okay, my 10-year-old son can crush that time for one and a half mile. So, but, and we'll get to that in a second. For women in the same age group, a satisfactory time is 14 minutes and 45 seconds.
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So they get a full two minutes and 30 seconds extra to complete the run, which for a one and a half mile race is an eternity. And by the way, you can technically get even worse times than this and still pass because there's a whole probationary level below satisfactory. For pushups, the difference is even more stark. Men aged 17 to 19 have to hit 46 pushups for a satisfactory rank.
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Women only need to hit 20. Meanwhile, the minimum outstanding score for men for pushups is 86, while it's only 47 pushups for women. If you go to the Army's website, you'll find similar numbers across their physical fitness tests. This is the sprint drag carry test, for example.
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It's a test that obviously has a lot of relevance to people who want to serve in the Army in case they need to carry a wounded soldier and not blame them for being wounded, as they do in the Los Angeles Fire Department, as we've seen. And as you can see, men get max points if they finish the test in 1 minute 29 seconds. Women get max points if they finish it in 1 minute 55 seconds.
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So they get an additional 26 seconds to sprint, drag, and carry someone. Just to underscore the real-world consequences of this kind of gender-based testing, here's a post from someone named Nathan Spearing, quote, In 2005, I was 22 and had one of the top PT scorers in my platoon in Ranger Battalion. One night, one of my mates was shot and completely immobilized.
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I worked with a small group of men to get him to the casualty evacuation point while our platoon continued the raid. Dragging him through the streets of Iraq that night felt like I'd never worked out in my life. It's one of the most physically fit men in an elite light infantry unit. And this combat related task took me well beyond my physical capacities. Women shouldn't do these jobs ever.
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They can't without endangering the mission and the men around them. But the military appears to be fine with that. The Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, even the Space Force have similar arrangements. Here, for example, is the Coast Guard's breakdown of fitness standards, explicitly aligned with men on top and women on the bottom.
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As you can see, men need to do 29 push-ups if they're under 30 years old. Women only need to do 15. Meanwhile, over in the Marines, men need to do three pull-ups or 34 push-ups in two minutes, while women only have to do one pull-up or 15 push-ups in the same time period. And I can go on, but you get the point.
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Ep. 1515 - Nagging Democrats Shriek At Pete Hegseth During Confirmation Hearing
I mean, there is nothing gender neutral about the fitness standards for any branch of the armed services. This is not up for debate. It can't be disputed. It's simply a fact that standards are lower for women. And that's been the case for decades. It's also a fact that the standards for men, too, have also been lowered. There's been an effort to get more women into the military. And also,
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29 push-ups? Which is downright pathetic. I mean, we should expect a lot more of the people who are tasked with defending the country from its enemies. But what Gillibrand was saying is that at the urging of Congress, certain specialties like the infantry have adopted their own independent gender neutral standards on top of the basic requirements. But that has not been going well either.
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As the Army Times reported in 2022, quote, the Army is moving forward with its long-awaited Army combat fitness test this year. But the service has officially dropped the test attempt to set a gender and age neutral physical fitness standard. The leg tuck is no longer an event.
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A two and a half mile walk has been added as an alternate aerobic event for troops whose medical profiles prevent them from running. I mean, if their medical profiles prevent them from running, how are they even allowed to be in the military is a question you might ask.
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But, you know, a lot of a total of 48 percent of active duty enlisted women and 28 percent of active duty female officers could not pass the test. In other words, they tried to make the test gender neutral and women kept failing it. So they responded by gutting the test and making it a lot easier. And after all that, it's still not gender neutral.
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Ep. 1548 - Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Democrats vote down a measure to prohibit men from women's sports. Not a single Democrat was willing to break party lines and take the side of sanity and common sense. Also, the mayor of Boston tries to do some PR cleanup after offering her heartfelt condolences to a crazed assailant who tried to stab random people.
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Ep. 1548 - Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move
Nothing says peaceful slumber quite like waking up feeling like you've been in hand-to-hand combat with a pile of discarded metal springs that have personal vendettas against your spine. Luckily, that's where Helix Sleep comes in. I never realized how badly I needed a new mattress until I finally got one.
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Yesterday we talked about the psychopathic mayor of Boston who offered her heartfelt condolences to a man who was killed by an off-duty cop after he tried to stab a bunch of random people outside of a Chick-fil-A. And Mayor Wu, Chairman Wu, as I've seen some people online refer to her, which I kind of like. Chairman Wu was deeply upset by this turn of events. She wishes that the crazed stabber
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had not been killed. She wishes that he was, I guess, able to carry out his stabbing spree because that's his right. That's the right of, we know that according to Democrat mayors, mentally ill vagrants have a human right to inflict whatever carnage they want for as long as they want until they get tired. What should stop somebody from stabbing people to death is just when your arm gets tired.
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That's what should stop them. But as long as they have strength, they should be able to stab as many people as they want. That's basically the position that these Democratic mayors have and Democratic DAs and, you know, every Democrat elected Democrat in the country. So there was a lot of backlash after these insane comments from Chairman Wu. And now here she is yesterday addressing the backlash.
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Every loss of life is a horrible tragedy. No, it's not. No, it's definitely not. The loss of life, when we lose someone who's trying to stab people to death, that's not a horrible tragedy. That's the opposite of a tragedy. That's good. Okay, I'm happy that he's dead. If I lived in Boston, I'd be happier.
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Like if I could choose between having a crazed person who tries to stab people, if I could choose between them being able to walk around free or be dead, I prefer dead for them. That's what I'd prefer that. So- And that's obvious to those of us who are sane people. Now, as a reporter points out next, as the conversation goes on, she didn't say any of this at the time.
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The bit at the end about how the off-duty cop was a hero and he saved lives, even there she didn't call him a hero, I don't think. But she at least acknowledged that he saved lives. She didn't say that the day before, right? When this happened, she didn't say that. She did not praise the officer at all. She did not acknowledge that he saved lives or express any relief about that fact.
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She didn't say anything about his heroism. She spent more time mourning the dead assailant than she did praising the officer because she is, again, a psychopath. But let's go back again to what she said to justify all this. She says that any loss of life is a horrible tragedy. And here's the thing. If she actually believed that, Which is not true. Not every loss of life is a horrible tragedy.
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The horrible tragedy on 9-11 is not that we lost the 9-11 hijackers. It's everyone else who died, right? If somebody is killed in the process of trying to murder innocent people, the tragedy is the innocent people if they were killed, not the guy.
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But if she actually believed that, if she really valued all human life and valued it so deeply that she even mourns the loss of a guy who was trying to stab people at a Chick-fil-A, if that was the case, then you could almost give her a pass. But it isn't the case. And here's how I know that it's not the case. Watch this.
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That was Michelle Wu a few years ago appearing in a video to advocate for the Roe Act in Massachusetts. That's a law that did eventually pass in the state, which enshrines the right to an abortion at any stage of development. It enshrines late-term abortion, okay? And this law allows minors, children as young as 16, to get abortions without parental consent.
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A Hollywood actor shocks the world by expressing a desire to have more than 1.5 kids. And this year's Best Picture winner has sparked another conversation about quote unquote sex work. The director and star of the film say that we need to be allies to prostitutes. What does that mean exactly? We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Now, Michelle Wu, of course, supported and advocated for that law. She is a far-left Democrat, which means that she is a vocal proponent of abortions for everyone at every stage up to the moment of birth and probably beyond it. And everyone includes children without parental consent. I mean, just think about that for a second.
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Think about a 16-year-old girl, and this is happening right now in Massachusetts and in other states, a 16-year-old girl going to an abortion clinic and consulting with an abortionist without her parents being involved at all, or even aware that it's happening, who do we trust to have a child's best interests at heart in this situation? The parent or the abortionist? Who's more trustworthy?
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Who's more likely? Who is more likely to care about this child? Well, Michelle Wu trusts the abortionist. She's never met an abortion that she didn't like. She's never met an abortionist she didn't trust. And so in that scenario, when you've got an abortionist who has a financial incentive, is going to charge hundreds of dollars, gonna make hundreds of dollars off of this transaction.
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Financial incentive to do the abortion, we're supposed to believe that that's the person that we trust. And that's how Michelle Wu feels about it. She says, kill the babies, kill them all, kill them at any stage for any reason. That's her position. And yet we're supposed to take her seriously when she says that the loss of human life is always a tragedy, always.
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There's a big asterisk on always there. There's quite a qualifier on always because when she says always, all human life, she means all human life except for the millions upon millions of unborn humans who have been slaughtered systematically for the last many decades in this country. Speaking of which, Casey Anthony has reemerged for some reason and kind of doing a bit of a rebrand here.
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And she had an announcement the other day about her new career path and her career goals. Let's hear it.
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You can't usually review YouTube comments and determine how people generally feel about something. But there's been a trend lately across various comment sections that at this point you simply can't ignore. If you pull up news reports about Republicans efforts to ban men from competing in women's sports,
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She wants to use her platform as a blessing. She wants to see it as a blessing. And just to be totally clear about this, as you're probably aware, her platform exists because her daughter died. And her daughter, her young daughter didn't just die. Her daughter was killed, killed by Casey Anthony, in my opinion.
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It is my opinion and the opinion of millions of other people, the opinion of anyone who's looked at the evidence and has eyes that she's guilty. I mean, she was acquitted, yes, but acquitted doesn't mean innocent. I mean, she's as innocent as OJ Simpson was. I'll put it that way. I mean, this is a woman who actually had a Google search for foolproof suffocation.
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Foolproof suffocation methods was a Google search in her browser history. Somebody made that search on her computer on the last day that her daughter was seen alive. That's just one of the many, many pieces of evidence. They found traces of chloroform in the trunk of her car, along with her daughter's hair and traces of human decomposition.
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So again, there are many pieces of evidence and it's obscene that she's walking free, but she is. And now she's rebranding herself as an LGBTQ and women's rights advocate. And needless to say, the LGBTQ camp and the feminists, you guys can have her. She's yours. She's on your team. Congratulations. Um,
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And frankly, and I say this not as a joke at all, because I wouldn't joke about something as horrifying as this, that her history makes her perfectly qualified for that team, because the Democrat Party is a party of baby killers. And Casey Anthony sadly fits right in. Okay, let's brighten the mood a little bit. You've
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You've almost certainly seen this by now, but I did want to talk about it briefly. It's right up my alley in many ways. So Kieran Culkin won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on Sunday for his role in a movie called A Real Pain, which I saw. I saw that movie. I think I saw three or four of the Oscar-nominated films this year, which is a record for me.
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At least in recent times, in the last couple of decades, that's a record for me. And so I saw that movie. It's about Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg, their characters touring Poland in honor of their grandmother who had just died and was a Holocaust survivor. And the movie is fine. It's a fine movie. I don't think it was great.
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In every single instance without exception that the comments overwhelmingly support the Republicans. Even if you go to the channels of left wing news stations, the pattern remains the same. And not just on YouTube, read the comments under any article on the topic anywhere. Read the comments on X or Facebook or Instagram. There is everywhere on every major platform wide agreement on this issue.
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I don't think anyone watched the movie and go, that was a great film. But it wasn't bad. Culkin's performance was pretty good. He's a good actor. He was great in succession. If the movie business or the film industry was in good shape, it's not the kind of movie that would win awards because it's just fine. You give a solid B minus. You give it an 82% on the report card.
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But kind of by default, it ends up winning some awards. Anyway, he's gotten a lot of attention over the last day because of this moment from his acceptance speech. And in case you haven't seen it, let's watch.
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So it's a great moment, very pro family. A man who not only wants kids, but actually wants an above average number of kids, if you can imagine. And we're just not used to seeing that kind of thing from Hollywood. On the other hand, the fact that this is so notable and encouraging, it's kind of a sad statement in itself. It should not be shocking that a man wants a bunch of kids.
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Especially shouldn't be shocking that a wealthy man wants a bunch of kids. Not that you need to be wealthy to have a lot of kids, you definitely don't. So don't get me wrong, but if you are rich, then there's really nothing stopping them. You don't need to worry at all about how you're going to afford it. So why wouldn't you? I mean, why wouldn't you have a boatload of kids?
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And again, that's really true regardless of your income level. And also, objectively, it is just great having a large family. It's a great thing. I know it won't surprise you to hear me say that. I'm certainly biased. with six of my own, but it is great. You should have a lot of kids if you can. If you have a few, you should have more. If you have no kids, well, get to work because it is great.
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And I was thinking about this the other day. Well, I think about it all the time, of course, but the other day when I came home from work and my five-year-old daughter was sitting at the kitchen counter and she was coloring one of her princess coloring books or whatever. And then when I came in, she popped down off of the stool and ran over and
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uh jumped into my arms and then my eight-year-old son was in the other room playing with his action figures and my 11-year-old son was outside shooting his bow and arrow and my 11-year-old daughter was upstairs reading and my two-year-old twins were riding their plastic cars around the house because we let them ride it around the house and they've totally scratched up the floors but it's fine so there's just so much life you know there's just so much life in the house and it's an incredible thing how could it not bring you joy how could it not be
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There just isn't any debates among reasonable people about the topic. Everybody is tired of seeing men dominate women's sports by pretending to be women. Take, for example, this footage from NBC News report last month. It's about a bill that passed in the House, which would codify one of Donald Trump's executive orders. The bill is called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
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anyone's goal. And I've had it both ways. I've come home to an empty house and I've come home to one full of energy and life and love. And I am so much happier with the second option. I'm just so much happier. It's so much better. It's so much better in every way. I cannot recommend it highly enough. So Karen Culkin has the right idea. And you think about the comparison, Megan Basham
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made this point on x when this video went viral that think about the comparison between this this video of him saying hey let's have more kids and the hollywood actresses who credit their abortions with their success i think uh she mentioned the one um Michelle Williams, I think, was one back a couple of years ago. It was either at the Oscars or the Golden Globes.
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And she got up there and talked about how getting an abortion, she wouldn't have been able to do this without having gotten an abortion. Which is the more heartwarming story? Okay, I don't care where you stand politically. I don't care what your position on abortion is. It's what's more heartwarming, what's more encouraging. To hear someone say, hey, let's have more babies. This is great.
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Or to hear someone say, well, I'm glad that I killed my child because otherwise I wouldn't have had the success. And this is also kind of a rebuke. And I don't think he intended it to be a rebuke. I don't know what his own politics are. I assume he's probably liberal because he's in Hollywood.
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But it stands as a rebuke of Michelle Williams because Michelle Williams says, well, I wouldn't have been able to do this without having a bunch of kids. without having killed my kid. If I had kids, I wouldn't have been able to accomplish all this. And then you see people who did accomplish the same thing or more, and they have kids. So it is actually possible.
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All right, there are two subjects we discussed prominently last week for some reason, and that would be Joy Reid and Lord of the Rings. And Now those two have come together in a strange way. So I feel like I have to make mention of it. It's actually kind of bizarre. I was ranting about both separately last week, and now they've come together in one story. What are the chances of that?
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So Joy Reid over the weekend posted on Blue Sky, which is the little social media app where they go, the left goes and talks to themselves. And here's what she posted. She posted this. We will never be a monarchy. Know that. To quote the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king.
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Yes, the Lord of the Rings, famously, famously the anti-monarchist screed, the Lord of the Rings. That's why the third book in the trilogy is called, you know, the return of the democratically elected president who will serve for four years and then be done at the conclusion of his term, right? Remember that? Remember that book? When they made it a movie, that was a good one.
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And as everyone knows, at the end of that book and movie, Aragorn, you know, he shows up to claim his crown and they're like, sorry, Aragorn, we're a democracy now. So then Aragorn has to, he says, okay, man, so he has to launch a campaign. And he takes on Legolas as his campaign manager and Frodo as his spokesman.
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And the terms of legislation are pretty simple. It would ban any school that receives federal funding from, quote, permitting a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls. And the bill goes on to define sex as solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
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And there's a series of debates and eventually Aragorn is elected with a narrow electoral college victory. But then he's defeated when he runs for reelection by the Dorf guy, by who's the Gimli. Which was a big moment for Gondor cuz it was their first dwarf elected to national political office. Sort of a breaking the glass ceiling there.
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It was a weird end, a weird end to the book to be honest, explains why it's so long. Or maybe none of that actually happened. Maybe if Joy Reid had checked, not even cuz when she tweeted this, a lot of people said, well, if you actually watch the movie or read the book, you don't even need to do that. Just look at the titles, at least check the titles.
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Because the third movie is in fact called The Return of the King. Because it turns out that Gondor not only gets a king, but part of the whole point is that it did need one. That's like a key point in the whole story is that it in fact did need a king. It was his destiny to be the king. And in fact, the quote, Gondor needs no king, is from Boromir.
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And in the movie, when he says that phrase, there's ominous music playing in the background, which is a signal that we're not supposed to agree with it, right? This is not supposed to be an inspirational moment. And that's because he said that before betraying his friends and trying to seize the ring for himself.
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And that is the character that Joy Reid apparently identifies with, which, of course, is no surprise. And this is what happens. Joy Reid is so dumb that she has me doing the nerdy fact check, okay? She has me pushing up my glasses. Well, actually, Aragorn did become the rightful ruler of the kingdom of Gondor.
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Actually, when I'm the one calling you out for butchering mythology, then you know you screwed up big time. So that's That's Joy Reid. I was worried. As you know, last week, I was very worried that the end of her show would mean that her stupidity could no longer be content for my show. And we're a week later and she's back in the show. And so I think we're gonna be fine, guys.
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The snub of Am I Racist will go down as the greatest snub in Oscars history. Yeah, well, I mean, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock never won Oscars. And I And I would say that my snub was greater. I think we can all agree with that. Or maybe not, because it's hard to call Am I Racist actually a snub, considering that it never had a real chance at all. It was never really in the running.
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It should have been, but in actuality, there was never any chance. Because obviously, they're gonna give the best documentary to whichever documentary was most politically acceptable to the Academy voters. There was just zero chance of it working out any other way. But by all rights, by all rights, we should have been nominated.
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So even if it's not the greatest snub, even if it's not quite, even if it doesn't quite beat Kubrick and Hitchcock, it's still a snub. Let's see, another comment says, oh, you're terrified of losing Trumpy subscribers too, aren't you? There goes your intellectual integrity.
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Well, I assume this comment is about my take on Zelensky, which is funny because I've had the same take on Ukraine and Zelensky since day one. Since day one of this story and the invasion, I've been saying basically the same thing. So there's no history of me kind of calibrating, of me triangulating, trying to figure out where Trump is, where MAGA is, and I'll decide what... It's not the case.
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I've had the same take the entire time. But this is, yet again, obviously, just impugning my motives rather than addressing the point, which is all that... political debate on the internet ever is now. It's just that. We've talked about this. It's always now, which is the laziest form of argument.
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It's the laziest and most useless form of argument because there's no way to really respond to it when you say, well, you're only saying that because of this. But there's no way, what you're trying to do is read my mind. And there's no way for me to, I'm the only one with access to my mind. And so the only evidence of what I'm really thinking is just what I say about what I'm thinking.
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You kind of got to take that or leave it. But it also doesn't matter. Whatever my motives are for saying it, it doesn't really matter what matters. Is it true or not? That's what you should concern. Zelensky is severely underdressed for the meeting, but he's still not as ridiculous looking as John Fetterman. Oh, definitely. I completely agree.
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Well, the hoodie thing, you know, because he walks around in hoodies and gym shorts. And he's an American. So I would expect him to have more respect for our customs and for the office that he occupies.
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Matt, I've always admired you, but if you're prepared to label a man who's doing his best to preserve his people and his country a welfare queen because he asks for help in the face of cruel, violent, murderous aggression, then my admiration is severely diminished. I had thought you an honorable man. Well, I must not be. How could I be an honorable man and disagree with you?
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My honor depends entirely on agreeing with you about everything, it turns out. And so, yes, well, then I guess I'm not honorable. Look, you can think whatever you want of me. It doesn't matter to me. Zelensky cares about his country. Great, I don't hold that against him. I care about mine. And what I know is that he, Zelensky,
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is not only demanding and taking hundreds of billions of dollars out of the pockets of American citizens. But he is trying to pull us into a war that could easily turn into a global conflict that ends in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. That's what I know. So yeah, I'm gonna have unkind things to say about somebody like that. Because my priority is my country.
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I understand it's not his priority. I don't expect it to be. I expect his priority to be Ukraine. But my priority is America. And when he comes over here and tells us that we should prioritize his country, even though he doesn't give a damn about ours, that I take exception to. And when that's your position, you're only gonna get contempt from me. That's all you're getting.
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I won't even dignify that with anything else other than contempt. When you come from another country, you're a foreigner and you come here and you dare to say, well, this is what you owe us. You should care about us. Well, what the hell, what has Zelensky ever done for America? What has Zelensky ever done for America, for Americans?
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When has he ever demonstrated the slightest concern ever in his entire life? Well, can you give me one example, one time? No, but because you want it to always be one, it's supposed to always be one sided. We're supposed to care about every other country and go to war to protect them and spend billions and trillions of dollars on all these other people.
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We never expect to say, but we're never supposed to get anything in return, ever. We are supposed to value the citizens of other countries in ways that those same citizens and the leaders of those countries don't value us. We are supposed to carry this expectation and this burden that no one has ever carried. It's never worked this way for anyone ever.
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It's like you care about your own country and the welfare and safety of your own country and your own countrymen. That's how it's always worked. Except now, except for modern America specifically. We're supposed to be the only ones who value everyone equally, or in fact value foreigners even more than we value our own people. And I just don't.
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So, no, I don't want to see a single American life lost in defense of Ukraine. And I would rather see Ukraine conquered. I would rather see it cease to exist as a political entity than see a single American die over it. Like, definitely. Of course. That should be the position of every single American. That's a completely rational position. Tonight at 9 p.m.
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Now, right away, you could see that they're framing this legislation as a bill that would ban transgender girls and women from competing women's sports. So they're not reporting the truth, which is that transgender girls and women, quote unquote, are men. They're not going into any detail about how obviously unfair it is for men to compete against women in sports because they are men.
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This is coverage the media won't give you. Watch it all tonight exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. It probably won't come as much of a shock for you to learn that I did not see and have no plans to see the film Anora, which apparently won Best Picture at the Oscars the other day. This is a film that was pretty low on my radar for obvious reasons.
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And if we're being honest, it was low on the Academy's radar too. In all likelihood, it was their backup plan, kind of their plan B for Best Picture after the lead actor and Amelia Perez summarily took that film out of consideration by badmouthing the patron saint of violent drug addicted felons who assault women and try to rob convenience stores.
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After that whole debacle, the Academy presumably had to spend a few days looking through the old tweets of everybody in the cast of Anora just to make sure that they too didn't make the mistake of besmirching the good name of St. George Floyd. And then when the background check came back clear, they decided to just go with that.
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So if you're not familiar with Anora, because like everyone else in the country, you've never seen it. Here's the synopsis. It's a tragic comedy about a prostitute or sex worker, as the euphemism goes, who's hired by the son of a Russian oligarch who lives in a waterfront mansion. And then after they party for a while and do other things, I suppose, they elope.
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There's a lot of scenes along the way that can be fairly described as pornographic in nature, as you might imagine. In fact, that's most of the film. And then, spoiler alert, the marriage doesn't end well. Somehow the sudden union of a prostitute with the son of a Russian oligarch wasn't meant to be. Doesn't work out great. So Enora is cast aside to her great shock and dismay.
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And then there's some drama with some Armenian henchmen who kidnapped the prostitute and tie her up and gag her and offer her $10,000 to annul the marriage, which is only natural in a situation like this. I mean, who among us hasn't been kidnapped by Armenian henchmen after our impromptu marriages with the sons of Russian oligarchs go south? Relatable stuff we're talking about.
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And then it gets even more relatable when one of the Armenian thugs develops some affection for the prostitute and the film ends with her trying to have sex with him. But then she changes her mind and begins crying because, of course, affection is difficult under those circumstances, circumstances that are rather emotionally fraught. And sort of that's the end.
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So for the record, if there are any inaccuracies in my synopsis that I just recited, you should know that, very honestly, I don't care. This film is one of the lowest grossing Best Picture winners in the history of the Oscars. So the odds are pretty low that anyone's going to call me out on it because no one's seen it, even if I'm wrong about something.
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The larger point is that at the Oscars, this film became a rallying cry for prostitutes. Actors and actresses, along with many others who are associated with this film, went out of their way to make this point as explicit as possible. Here, for example, is the star of the film, Mikey Madison, explaining that she wants to, quote, honor the sex worker community. Watch.
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Instead, they're trying to portray this law as some kind of mean spirited, bigoted effort by Republican lawmakers and so on. And even on NBC News' YouTube channel, which has a very left-leaning audience, obviously, this framing did not fly. Instead of condemning the ban, pretty much every single comment supports it. For example, the top comment reads, can't believe this is even being discussed.
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Big cheer, big cheer for prostitutes there. So she begins by praising the incredible consultants involved in the film. And then she expresses her affection for the so-called sex worker community, as if they're two distinct categories. Apparently, in this one moment, we're meant to assume that consultants are morally distinct in some way from prostitutes.
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Personally, I don't know what's worse, to be a prostitute or a consultant, or a prostitute consultant. I mean, that's I mean, that combines two of the most disreputable professions into one.
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And then we're supposed to conclude that it's important to be a, quote, ally of the sex worker community, which is a statement that's so demented that you'd probably be embarrassed to even joke about it in private. But at the Oscars, which were broadcast to literally hundreds of viewers, it was an applause line.
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Yes, the message from this year's Academy Awards is that we're supposed to be allies to prostitutes. We're supposed to watch about two hours of soft core pornography, which is the film, and conclude that we're on the prostitute side. That's supposed to be the brave stand that we take after watching this film. That's the grand message they wanted to communicate to make us all enlightened.
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Of course, every pathetic, sex-starved, lonely man on the planet is more than happy to demonstrate his allyship to hookers. And those men don't need a film to make them think that way. But just in case they need it, Anora is currently available to rent on the internet for about $5.
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And things somehow get even creepier when you realize that the director of this film, Sean Baker, has pretty much spent his entire career making films about prostitutes. He's directed at least five films about prostitutes by my count. And when he's asked about this, he said that his goal is to legalize prostitution for reasons that he wasn't exactly clear about, but that's his goal.
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This is a guy who just won four Oscars for this film. He won for the original screenplay, film editing, directing, and best picture, all for a single film about how important it is to legalize prostitution. If you keep me track, that sets a record for most Oscars won by a single person for one film. Walt Disney didn't even do that.
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Common sense is underrated. Then someone says, finally, the nonsense ends. And another user replies, as a woman and mother of a girl, I'm happy and grateful. I can go through about a dozen other videos like this. Forbes, for example, has a similar video. One of the top comments puts it this way.
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Walt Disney apparently won four Oscars in one night, but not for the same movie. So this is how the Academy is making history. They couldn't give the best actress award to a man because that man was not a fan of George Floyd. So instead of doing that, they'll shower the porno film with awards instead.
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Now you'll see various conservative commentators online defending Anora and saying that it's actually critical of prostitution. And they'll point to the fact that in the film, the prostitute is obviously broken and unhappy by the end of it. And that may be true if Wikipedia's synopsis is to be believed.
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But the actual point of the film, according to the people who made it, who I think are probably authorities on the subject, is that we need to sympathize more with these prostitutes and legalize what they're doing. I mean, that is their motivation. And in that light, it's clear that Nora isn't really a film so much as part of a broader campaign to normalize and celebrate prostitution.
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It's not really a movie that's supposed to impress you with its plot or characters or anything like that. It's a political statement. In fact, it's as explicit a political statement as it could possibly be. The problem is that the leftists who campaign to humanize sex workers, as we heard from Mikey Madison use those words, when they say that, they have it only half right.
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Yes, we should humanize them. I mean, they are human beings and their human dignity should be respected. But the way we humanize and ultimately help quote unquote sex workers is to condemn, prohibit, and abolish quote unquote sex work. You cannot legitimize prostitution while at the same time trying to be an ally to prostitutes.
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The way to be an ally to help them is to delegitimize prostitution and to drive it out of polite society and as far back onto the fringes as we can possibly get it. You hear the slogan sex work is real work all the time and that is a slogan that you champion if you're trying to convince women to remain prostitutes forever.
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You know, it's like saying that a drug habit is a habit just as legitimate as the habit of gardening or stamp collecting. When you say that, you're not helping alcoholics. You're abandoning them. You are consigning them to a life of misery and failure. The people who made Onora wouldn't win an Oscar with that kind of message.
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As a former Democrat, even if I'm liberal on certain subjects, it's dumb ass like this that has driven me and a lot of other folks away from this party. Embarrassing. And again, every comment is like this. So the pattern is familiar. Left-wing media outlets tried to portray the Republicans as the villain of this story. And despite the framing, the comment section revolts.
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of course, but it's obviously the right one, which is why no one bothered to see this film in the first place. And that is why Nora is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
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And none of this is surprising when you take a look at the polling data on the topic. just a couple of weeks ago, a New York Times poll found that, quote, the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports.
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Roughly 80% of respondents said that men who identify as women should be banned from women's sports. And among Democrats, the number was 67%. And by the way, 80% agreement
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I mean, it should go without saying that 80% agreement in this climate, these days, where we can't agree on anything, a fractured culture that's fractured in a million pieces, to get 80% agreement on anything is almost impossible. I mean, that's as wide an agreement as you could possibly get on anything. And that's what you have on this issue. So it might as well be everyone.
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I mean, 80% is effectively 100% when you consider where we are in the culture. And just to put these numbers in perspective, something like 4% of Democrats voted for Donald Trump in the last election. This is a demographic that disagrees with Trump on pretty much everything. But when it comes to the farce of men competing in women's sports, even most Democrats are forced to agree with him, most.
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In fact, a wide majority. And that's why the vote that just took place in the Senate is so remarkable. Every single Democrat in the Senate, all 45 of them, every single one just voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. In other words, 100% of the Democrat Party in the Senate still endorses the insanity of men competing against women. There was not one single defector.
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For all we hear about there being certain Democrat politicians who are the good ones, the reasonable ones, they're not the crazy ones. None of them showed up this time. Every single one came out in support of men and women's sports, despite the overwhelming number of voters, including Democrat voters, who are tired of this nonsense.
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In spite of that, Democrats in Washington are in complete lockstep on this issue, and they're proud of it. So this is footage of Elizabeth Warren casting her vote. And to give you some idea of how the day went, she makes sure that everyone sees that she's giving the big thumbs down for the cameras. This was so confusing that I went looking through the floor debates on this bill.
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I wanted to know what exactly could motivate the party of democracy that loves democracy so much to flagrantly disregard the clear desires of their own voters. I wanted to see what arguments they put forward. And I came across this speech from Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. And here's how it began.
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This is Dick Durbin's argument for why the Senate should not pass a bill that bans men from competing against women in sports. Here it is.
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Okay, so according to him, it affects basically no one. So why wouldn't you support it? What's the argument against it? What's especially funny about this line of argument is that Durbin supported Democrats anti-lynching law a few years back.
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As you may remember, the Biden administration made a big deal about signing that bill, even though lynching and all other forms of murder, outside the womb anyway, have been illegal for some time in this country.
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So somehow the fact that no black people have been lynched in several decades and the fact that it's already illegal on like five different levels to do it did not deter Durbin from supporting that law. But now we're supposed to conclude that because there aren't thousands of men playing women's sports, the whole issue is moot.
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And this is the stock argument you hear all the time from trans activists. Of course, even assuming that Durbin's numbers are accurate, which of course we should not assume that is almost certainly more than ten. But still, this is an argument that completely sidesteps two very important issues.
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The first is that women are indeed losing opportunities and being degraded in order to affirm the delusions of pathological narcissists. That's not something we should allow regardless of how many women are being affected. It doesn't matter if it's 10 or 10,000. The other issue, of course, is that a functioning society has to be able to accept the reality of basic human biology.
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Even if you don't care about the injustices that athletes like Riley Gaines have endured, and you obviously should care about those injustices, then you still have to explain some basic terms. You have to explain, for example, what a woman is. You have to explain what a man is. And as we all know, Democrats are incapable of doing this. This is why the women in sports issue matters so much.
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It's not even about women's sports specifically. At least that's not the fundamental issue. The fundamental issue is one of truth, basic truth. And that's why it matters. Now, I want to play the rest of Durbin's speech because he eventually gets around to making another argument. And in some ways, this is even more revealing than the last one. Here it is.
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Well, I went back and read the legislation that he's talking about and contrary that he himself has obviously not read. Contrary to what Durbin says, there is nothing in the law that permits a random adult or any adult to look at the private parts of a student athlete who's accused of pretending to be a woman.
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So what he's saying is that Republicans are secretly obsessed with this kind of perversion, when in fact, he's the only one thinking along these lines. That's not what Republicans are thinking about. And this is what you always get from Democrats is, you wanna run into the locker room and check people's genitals. That's you, that's where your mind goes. That's the way you're thinking, okay?
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No one on the side of sanity is saying any of that. That's entirely your own imagination. So this is maybe a window into the sordid mental state of Dick Durbin and Democrats like him. In reality, the bill simply bans men from competing against women. That's it. That's it.
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And everyone understands exactly how that would be enforced because it's extremely painfully obvious when men are playing in women's sports. You don't need any kind of examination. You don't need to test their chromosomes or do blood tests. You just look at them. In every single case involving a man playing in women's sports, that has been true. It has never been a close call.
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So when Democrats say, well, how could you possibly know? How could you know if that man is really a woman? I don't know. You can know just by looking at them for a second. I can look at them for a second from 100 yards away and I can tell, okay? Just like everybody else can. It's not fooling anyone. That's how we know. Of course, Democrats like Dick Durbin have to pretend otherwise.
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They'll watch a basketball game and see one athlete towering over everybody else. A foot taller, gigantic Adam's apple, twice the muscle mass, James Earl Jones voice. And they'll conclude that there's just no way of knowing, no way of knowing the athlete's gender. You put a wig on Shaquille O'Neal and there'd be no way, who could be a woman?
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There's no way, how could we possibly know whether that's a man or a woman? They act like it's a mystery known only to perverted gender inspectors who are going around pantsing student athletes at every opportunity. But even though Durbin's side of this argument was in the minority, Democrats have succeeded in killing the legislation.
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That's because laws like this one have to overcome a filibuster which requires 60 votes. And because the vote on this legislation was 51 in favor and 45 opposed, it won't pass. Republicans have the majority, but they're not able to pass a law like this one, majority support of the American people.
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And so it's enough to make you wonder why Republicans don't eliminate the filibuster just entirely at this point. We all know Democrats will do the same thing the moment they have the opportunity. They've done it before after all.
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And if Democrats are now so unhinged and so unreasonable that they're willing to defend the idea of men playing in women's sports, then it's safe to say the filibuster has drifted very far from its original purpose. The point of the filibuster was to enable careful deliberation. That was the point.
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Instead, at the moment, it's enabling insanity and it's enabling the Democrats to stop a bill that almost every American agrees with.
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So getting rid of the filibuster would also make it much easier to pass this and also pass a federal ban on child castration and mutilation, the name of so-called gender affirming care, which is something that I've obviously been pushing for, especially since the beginning of the second Trump administration.
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That means big corporations can buy and sell your info to feed you more advertisements. Tech companies like Facebook can use your info to determine what kind of content you see. It's a subtle way that they try to turn us all into followers. But there's a way to push back and hold on to your values and your autonomy and your freedom. And that is with ExpressVPN.
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And a couple of days ago, one of the most prominent Republicans in the Senate, Josh Hawley, endorsed my proposal. He wrote, quote, and not just this, but when is Congress going to give victims of these transition surgeries and treatments the right to sue the people who carried them out needs to happen now, close quote.
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This is the kind of legislation that Republicans need to enact as quickly as they possibly can. Whatever procedural roadblocks are in the way just need to be cleared. When Democrats are using the filibuster to obstruct the will of the vast majority of Americans, of 80% of Americans, including their own voters, it's a very clear sign that the filibuster needs to go.
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It has outlived whatever usefulness it allegedly had. And once the filibuster is gone, we need to start passing laws that affirm the reality of basic fundamental human biology. For the benefit of all young people and to restore some semblance of sanity in this country, we now have no other choice. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Democrats panic as Trump destroys their slush fund and money laundering operation. He's making good on his promise to drain the swamp, and the swamp is not happy about it. Also, trans activists rally to demand that hospitals continue castrating children.
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This is the kind of corrupt arrangement that USAID has established for many politicians in many different contexts, and that's what Ilhan Omar is actually upset about. And that would certainly explain why, seemingly out of nowhere, Democrats are taking to the streets in defense of USAID. They had a whole parade of speakers outside the agency headquarters yesterday.
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Here was Congressman Jamie Raskin.
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So he begins by saying that Elon didn't create USAID as if that's a damning point in some way. We're supposed to be outraged that Elon Musk did not create a massive and unaccountable government bureaucracy that lights money on fire. Congress did that. So thank you for establishing that, Jamie Raskin. You're exactly right. Congress. Only an idea that stupid could come from Congress.
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And then things descend into self-parody when he talks about Elon Musk and Donald Trump impounding taxpayer money as if they're stealing it. No, what they are doing is precisely not stealing it. They are refusing to steal it. No, they're saving taxpayer money from being wasted on foreign countries. They're not stealing it, they're preserving it. They're keeping it within the United States.
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Okay, that's like if there was a bonfire and you handed them a bag of cash and said, throw it in the fire, and they refused to throw it in the fire, and then you accused them of stealing it for not burning it. I mean, that's what they're doing. And this is what voters, again, overwhelmingly want. They want their money to be saved, obviously.
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As Twitter began to gain popularity around 15 years ago, millions of people in Cuba were looking for a similar website that they could use to send short messages to the world. It was difficult to access Twitter itself because Cuba's communist government restricted internet access, so there was a big untapped market there. Fortunately for Cubans, an alternative quickly emerged.
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And any Democrat who claims this is somehow unconstitutional needs to explain why they allowed USAID to unconstitutionally steal our money for the better part of a century.
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The Democrats know they have no explanation for this, which is why they're in a full-on panic as they attempt to convince Americans that USAID, an entity that most Americans didn't even know existed until 24 hours ago, is somehow vital to their daily lives. Here is the Democrats' leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and I want you to listen to his concerns about what might be coming next.
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Yeah, the horror. I mean, just imagine, he's gonna get rid of the IRS. Guys, we gotta put a stop to this before he gets rid of the IRS. First he does this, next he gets rid of the IRS. Next thing you know, he's giving free beer and puppy dogs to everybody. So it's gonna be a horror show. So as far as I can tell, Chuck Schumer meant for this soundbite to seem menacing.
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The governor of New Jersey appears to claim that he's breaking federal law by harboring fugitive aliens in his house. And photographs from the surface of Mars have led some to speculate that there may be remnants of an advanced civilization buried beneath the surface. Do I buy that theory? Well, of course I do. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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He meant for Americans to tremble in fear at the possibility that the IRS might cease to exist.
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One day, Schumer has warned, you may be able to go about your life without worrying about whether the IRS will suspend all of your constitutional rights under the guise of an audit and attempt to squeeze just a little more money out of you so that the federal government can waste it on gay plays in Peru or whatever. Can you even comprehend the horror?
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Ep. 1529 - Democrats PANIC After Their Horrifying Money Laundering Scheme Was Revealed
Now, there will be legal challenges to the closure of USAID. Democrats will continue to lie about this organization and what it does. They'll do everything they can to make you afraid of something that should have happened a long time ago. And that's because they're the ones who are terrified. They're not even doing a very good job of hiding it.
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They understand that finally, they're going to have to account for the taxpayer money, your money, that they've been spending. And the more Democrats melt down, the more it becomes apparent that they have no way of doing that. Doge has gone from a meme to an existential threat to entrenched government corruption.
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And now, much more rapidly than we thought possible, that corruption is finally being exposed and humiliated and thoroughly destroyed. Now let's get to our five headlines. Securing your family's future is of utmost importance in today's world.
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It was called ZunZunil. which is a Cuban expression that's supposed to sound like the noise a hummingbird makes, I guess. So we had Twitter, and they had a knockoff called ZunZunio. But even though it was a pretty cheap knockoff, the application quickly became popular, gaining tens of thousands of users in a matter of months.
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New York Post reports New York Attorney General Letitia James warned local hospitals Monday that they'll be in violation of state discrimination laws if they comply with President Trump's executive order aimed at outlawing sex change procedures for minors.
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Regardless of the availability of federal funding, we write to further remind you of your obligations to comply with New York state laws, including those that prohibit discrimination against individuals based on their membership in a protected class, such as sex, gender identity, expression, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship, or immigration status, blah, blah, blah.
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Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity, their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, is discrimination under New York law.
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And her letter comes as several hospitals across the country have already taken steps to cut back on so-called gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, in a parent effort to comply with Trump's January 28th executive order protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation.
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The White House also pointed to the New York City's NYU Langone Health, which has reportedly started canceling appointments for minors seeking transgender procedures. Hundreds of protesters gathered. outside the hospital last night, and we have some clips from this protest, just a couple of clips. Here's one from a trans-identified man addressing the crowd. Listen.
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The creators of the app had obtained a list of 500,000 Cuban cell phone numbers from... somewhere, presumably the black market, so they were able to pitch the program directly to users. And cell phones were the key to the whole business model. Zune Zuneo was able to evade Cuba's internet restrictions because it relied entirely on text messaging and cellular services.
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So as they're kicking the trans people off the bus, they're kicking the non-binary off the bus. They're kicking the Two Spirit Plus off the bus. That sounds like a nice bus ride to me. I mean, it sounds like a pleasant bus ride through the countryside at this point. But... And screaming that they're going to shut the city down. They did not shut the city down.
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I can tell you that the city continued on functioning as normal. And just to make sure we're very clear about this, all of these adults are outside in the cold at night protesting to demand that children are sterilized and castrated. I mean, just so we're clear about what they're protesting. Trump did not sign an order banning men from dressing up like women or whatever.
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This is specifically to stop young children from being given life-altering drugs that can damage their bodies forever. That's what this is about. That's what they're protesting. They're protesting not against that, but for it, of course. And I think this little speech from, I think this is a Sex and the City actress. I'm pretty sure. And she has a quote-unquote trans kid.
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There's a couple of things she says in this short little clip that are notable. Listen.
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Okay, so her kid is quote unquote trans. Her niece is trans. Her best friend's kid is trans. Her kid's best friend is trans. All the kids in her life are trans, apparently. So she is confirming beyond any doubt, if you had any doubt, that it's a social contagion. She has just basically mathematically proved it.
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She didn't mean to do that, but she has offered mathematical proof that this is a social contagion. Because if we look at trans as a naturally occurring phenomenon, which it isn't, but if we looked at it that way, which is how they would look at it, well then naturally the chances of it occurring are like one in a few thousand.
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Okay, it depends on how you get, but one in a thousand, one in, or even more rare than that. Let's just say one in a thousand, just to be, you know, just to be as generous as possible. So the chances then of having a trans kid, a trans niece, and being surrounded by a bunch of other trans kids, Those chances statistically are like one in several billion.
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And that's if we look at it as a natural phenomenon. You have a scenario here that as a natural phenomenon is essentially mathematically impossible. But if we look at it as it is, as a social contagion, well, then actually it makes a ton of sense. the chance of having other trans kids around once you have one trans kid are quite high.
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And after just a couple of years in service, though, Zune Zuneo abruptly disappeared. It just went offline without any warning whatsoever. Nobody had any idea what had happened to it. It wasn't until several years later that we learned the truth because of an investigation that was published by the Associated Press.
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Now, if it's a naturally occurring phenomenon, the existence of one trans kid in a group should not increase the possibility of other kids in that group being trans. But if it's a social contagion,
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then the chances are, once you have one trans kid in a group, the chance that another kid identifies as trans is not one in a thousand, but the odds are much better than that, or much worse, depending on how you look at it. Because it spreads. It's an idea. It's a contagion. It spreads. It's an idea that catches on. Other kids are influenced.
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And that's what this woman whose name I can't remember, Cynthia Nixon, right? Isn't that who she is? Cynthia Nixon, that's what she is admitting unintentionally. And I want to point one other thing out because she says that her daughter had quote unquote top surgery a number of years ago. It's not clear if
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if she had her daughter's breasts removed when the daughter was still a child, but it seems highly likely that she did. She seems to be implying that. But either way, her daughter's breasts were chopped off with her, the mother's blessings and presumably encouragement.
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And so this is what you have to keep in mind, that people like this woman, Cynthia Nixon, people like Cynthia, they can't let this go. They can't give up on this fight. they have to defend trans ideology to the hilt forever. Because the other option is to admit that they've done something horrific to their children, which they can't do. That's the situation that they're in.
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So when you hear these people say, they get quite hysterical and talk about how they're fighting for their lives and their lives are on the line. And it's easy for us to listen to that and say, well, this is hysterical. To call it a gross exaggeration would be a massive understatement. And that's true.
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In the way that they mean it on the surface, it's hysterical to say that their lives are on the line. But at a deeper level... in a sense it's true because what I think they actually mean, and they don't know that they mean this, I think it's subconscious, but what they actually mean is that they won't be able to live with themselves if they're wrong.
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It turns out that Zune Zuneo was secretly created by the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. Yes, the US government's International Development Agency had created a social media app in Cuba without telling anyone, in this country or in Cuba. In response to this reporting, the White House spokesman at the time claimed that it was all a big misunderstanding. Watch.
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So if, say, Cynthia Nixon says, fighting for our lives, life is on the line, life and death struggle, uses any language like that, what she's actually saying is that I as a mother could not live with myself if I had to admit that I mutilated and destroyed my daughter's body. I couldn't live with that as a mother.
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I can't look at myself in the mirror and live every day for the rest of my life knowing that I have physically abused my child in the most grotesque manner possible. That's what they're really saying. Because most people, to admit that you're wrong about anything is difficult. And most people just in general, it's rare to find a person who's willing to admit that they're wrong about anything ever.
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But to admit that you're wrong when in a situation like this, when being wrong means that you have made a mistake that has permanently altered your life or the life of someone you love irrevocably. Well, to admit that takes immense honesty and moral courage. Which we know, there are plenty of detrans people out there, Chloe Cole and others who we'll talk about this.
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And of course, in their case, someone like Chloe Cole, it's not that she made a mistake. It's that her, because she was a child, it's her parents and the doctors that did the horrible thing. But either way, there are exceptions to this, but generally speaking, most people just lack the honesty and to look at something like this and say, you know what, I got this wrong.
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And I got it horrifically wrong. And I can never make it right. And so I think that's what's happening here. All right, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, has announced that he will not cooperate with Trump's deportation plans. Watch.
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Well, first of all, he doesn't enforce state or local law either. I mean, this little weasel, you may recall, allowed Minneapolis to burn during the Floyd riots. In fact, he went and wept before George Floyd's golden casket while his city was burning. So he doesn't really enforce any laws at all. Nothing new here. Second,
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Mayors who announce that they're going to interfere with and not comply with federal law, mayors who declare their intention to take illegal measures in the name of undermining our national sovereignty should be arrested. And I mean, I would arrest them and send them to Gitmo. We're already going to be using Gitmo for illegal aliens. Send these mayors with them.
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You like illegal aliens so much, Mayor Fry, well, go stay in a cell in Gitmo with them if you like them so much. And I'm not even joking. I mean, these mayors are terrorists. They are national security threats, and they should be treated like it. Our national sovereignty is a national security issue. He is directly interfering. He is trying to destabilize our country.
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He's directly trying to make our country and his own community less safe. He's breaking the law. So lock his ass up. Lock him up in Gitmo. Now, if that doesn't happen, which I'm guessing it won't, at the very least, the Trump administration has every right to prosecute these criminal mayors. And Tom Homan has already said that he will.
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In fact, Tom Homan has responded to Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, who went a step further. than most of the other government officials who have pledged to not cooperate with federal law, in that Murphy seems to indicate that he is personally harboring an illegal alien in his house. Listen to this.
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So there you have Phil Murphy and then Tom Homan responding, saying we're going to seek prosecution, which of course he should. Interesting euphemism from Phil Murphy, who says of the illegal alien, her immigration status isn't yet to the point that she's trying to get it to or whatever. In other words, she's an illegal alien.
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And then Governor Murphy says, good luck to the feds trying to come in, which we can only interpret as a violent threat against law enforcement. Because what else could that mean? What do you mean good luck getting in? What are you trying to say? What else would you mean? Why would you imply that they would have trouble somehow detaining this illegal criminal?
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You're saying that federal law enforcement officers would have trouble enforcing federal law in your house? What kind of trouble, Phil, are you talking about? But of course, by the way, if the federal government wants to get her out of your basement, they're getting her out. I don't know what it is you think you're going to do. But... They won't have a lot of trouble doing it.
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And there's also there's a lot of this going on right now, in particular, this idea of like personally hiding illegal aliens, stashing them in your attic or in the basement. There's a lot of leftists that are pledging to defy federal law in this way. It's not only stupid and criminal, but also very creepy. I mean, very creepy. For example, listen to this TikToker and as she explains her plan.
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So just kind of a pro tip here, but just a bit of advice. Don't ever announce publicly that you want to take kids from your local elementary school and lock them in your basement and then barricade the door. That's not, don't announce it. More importantly, don't do it. Unless your goal is to come off like a serial killer. How are you going to get these kids in your basement? What's the plan?
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You're going to drive by the school in a van and offer them candy? Get them into your basement? What's the plan here? So this woman needs to be on a watch list, to say the least. And also, not that I'm trying to give it a pointers here, but if you are planning on doing this, why are you announcing it?
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Whether it's Phil Murphy or any of these creepy, weird liberals that are saying they're going to start announcing their plans to start an illegal alien collection in their homes, hiding under the floorboards. Even if you were going to do that, she's comparing it to the Underground Railroad. Okay, but this is not how the Underground Railroad worked, okay?
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Harriet Tubman wasn't going around in the South openly announcing to everyone, hey, I got an Underground Railroad. What are you going to do about it? I'll tell you exactly where it is. What are you going to do? I dare you. I dare you to try to stop me. I mean, they could stop you pretty easily. So the secrecy element is really an essential part. That's why they called it the Underground Railroad.
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So the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, was, whatever happened to that guy? The first 14-year-old to ever be appointed White House spokesperson. I don't know whatever happened to him in the preceding years. But he claims that everything's above board. After all, USAID is all about helping other countries. And we were just helping Cuba out. What's the problem?
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Did you know that? It's not because it was literally underground for the most part. I mean, there were some tunnels and things, but underground mostly meant hidden, secret is what that meant. So you're missing the secrecy part. But I'm quite happy that someone like this is announcing their plans publicly because this is something that local authorities can now be aware of.
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And this is a woman who should not be allowed anywhere near elementary schools, pretty clearly. Okay, I want to briefly mention this before we get to the comment section. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has backed a mission to Mars to investigate the remarkable square structure that was captured on NASA's Mars orbiter camera.
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The image, which has gone viral after being shared on Reddit, appears to show a possible archaeological site on the red planet. Joe Rogan posted it, branding it as effing wild. Musk responded saying we should send astronauts to Mars to investigate. And so the square structure, which, do we have it? Let's put it up on the screen. So there it is.
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You see the image, and then there's the enhanced image there. And it looks indeed very square. And it is a lot bigger than, you know, without any kind of reference point, without anything to compare it to. It's hard to tell the size of it. But this is estimated to be about 770 feet on either side. So... At the base, approximately the size of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, is how big it is.
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It's pretty fascinating. And look, if you've ruled out the possibility of alien life existing anywhere in the universe at any point, then this is not going to be interesting to you. I think a lot of very interesting things are not interesting to you if you have just ruled out, in principle, the possibility of the interesting thing happening.
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But if you've taken a rational position and are open to it, then there's nothing outlandish about at least wondering whether this apparent structure, which is... Exact geometric squares don't happen very often in nature. So there's nothing outlandish about wondering whether this might be the remnants of some sort of civilization.
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There's a lot of compelling evidence and very good reason to believe that Mars once had a lot of water and a mild hospitable climate. And keep in mind that we've only known Mars as a desolate wasteland, but we've also only known Mars for a very short period of time. The first picture of Mars was taken in the 60s, I believe. Telescopes were invented in the 17th century.
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So we're talking about just a blink of an eye in cosmic terms. We might as well have just discovered Mars 10 seconds ago. That's how long we've known of it, or have at least been able to astronomers even in ancient times were able to pinpoint in the sky, but at least being able to actually see it up close, it's been a blink of an eye.
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As it turns out, even if you assume that the U.S. should be helping out foreign countries by sending them taxpayer money, which we obviously shouldn't be doing, there are still major problems here. And here's a big one. According to the AP, quote, the estimated $1.6 million spent on Zunzuneo was publicly earmarked for an unspecified project in Pakistan.
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So if Mars had life on it, the life could have gone extinct millions or even billions of years ago, which would mean that we wouldn't be able to confirm evidence of it without actually going to the planet physically, landing a person there, like Elon Musk suggests, and looking under the surface of the planet. And even then we might never be able to find the remnants.
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the oldest ruins on Earth, the oldest evidence of human life on this planet, at least of advanced human civilizations, are just a few thousand years old. So fast forward 50 million years, are those remnants still going to be there? Probably not. So all that to say, we don't know what existed on Mars millions of years ago. There could have been life.
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There could have been a civilization as advanced as our own. It is possible. I think it's fascinating to ponder the possibilities. And anyone who said otherwise is just wrong. Let's get to the comment section.
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Let's talk about something that affects all of us, those of us who are responsible, hardworking Americans anyway, taxes. Now that it's the new year and tax season is upon us, are you prepared for what's coming? Do you owe back taxes or your tax returns still unfiled, miss the deadline to file for an extension?
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With the new year beginning and heading into a busy tax season, the IRS may be ramping up enforcement. Let me tell you, they're not playing around. You could face wage garnishments, frozen bank accounts, or even property seizures if you haven't taken taxes. action just yet. But here's the good news. There's still hope.
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I had never heard this guy speak without knowledge about a topic until today. He was talking about Panama and their canal. I'm sorry, Matt, you can't just take the canal. The treaty was signed. It's not our problem that a moron as Carter signed it off to the Panamanians. Panama is a small country, but it's a great country, minding their own business, not messing with anyone.
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Why does your crazy president want to come here and claim something that's not his just because a couple of decades ago the U.S. paid to build the canal in Panamanian land? It was not a couple decades, it was more than 100 years ago, but anyway. Your loss, buddy, the Panama Canal is Panama's canal, whether you like it or not, and will remain like that.
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But those documents don't reveal where the funds were actually spent. So in other words, this is what we call fraud. Congress authorized the money to go to Pakistan. The president signed an appropriations bill sending the money to Pakistan, and the money did not go to Pakistan.
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Besides, and more importantly, the administration of the canal has been under the Panamanians. They've paid for their maintenance and carried all the issues that have come with it, and I haven't seen the U.S. offering their help. Please inform yourself on this topic, because you did stutter a lot on that, with your only argument being, USA built it. Ignorance. Hey, look, I don't begrudge you.
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I don't begrudge this response from you as someone in Panama, as a Panamanian. I don't begrudge you calling Panama a great country. You should think that your country is great. I don't see it as, I don't see that. I think, now, subjectively, as someone who lives in the country, you think it's a great country.
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I think objectively, it's hard to make the argument that Panama stands out as one of the great countries in the world. I'd have to ask, like, in what way? By what measure are we calling it great? But the fact that you think that about your country is fine. You should think your country is great if you live there.
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And yeah, you should probably be offended by the way that I was talking about the issue. That's fine, I get it. In fact, I encourage it because I want people to love their own countries and even be a chauvinist about your own country. I think that's all, I think that's good. I think it's good to feel that way. No hard feelings, but I'm American and I love America.
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So the fact that the canal was built, not just with American money, but with American blood, And a lot of it. That means something to me. Now, it might not mean anything to you. I understand it means nothing to you. So you could just wave it away and say, just because you built it. Well, yeah, because we built it. This country built it. Bud, you understand that?
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There wouldn't be any canal if it was left up to the Panamanians. Sorry. You weren't building the canal. The canal wouldn't exist without America. In fact, if it was left up to any other country on the planet, it wouldn't have happened. And we know that because other countries tried to do it and couldn't.
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It was not the first time or the last in world history when other countries attempted to do something and Americans had to show up and say, all right, get out of the way, we'll do it. This happened many times, and this is one of the great examples of it. It's not easy. A lot of American lives were spent A lot of Americans died in the process.
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Not that we want any money going to Pakistan, by the way, but they said that's where it's going, but instead it went to Cuba. American voters were told the money was going to one place, but it went to another. And there's a very clear reason why USAID might have been interested in lying about where the money was going, which is this. The point of spending the money was not to develop Cuba.
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And so, yes, that means, as an American, that means something to me. So you have a canal that Americans built, Americans paid for, Americans died for, and, as I said yesterday, a canal that America uses the vast majority of the time. 70% of the traffic through the canal is coming to or going from America. So yeah, it's our canal. I mean, by any reasonable metric, it's our canal.
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The only way that it's not, it is just Jimmy Carter. If not for Jimmy Carter, if not for the worst president in American history, who may end up going down as second worst behind Joe Biden, but that takes more time. You need more historical perspective. So right now, Jimmy Carter is still the worst president in American history and one of the worst Americans, period, to have ever lived.
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Aside from him, if not for him, right, it's still America's property. And like I said yesterday, you can say, well, you know, sign on the dotted line is what it is. Sorry. Well, there were a lot of obligations that Panama took on according to that treaty.
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And I know, I'm quite sure the Trump administration has all their, all the best lawyers in America looking at that thing right now, that treaty, and finding about 50,000 different ways that Panama has violated it. I'm sure they went looking for those and I'm sure they found them. So what then? What happens when, I mean, you're basing this all on just who signed the dotted line.
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Well, what happens when Trump looks at it and says, well, hey, yeah, but this treaty was contingent legally on this, that, and this. And this, that, and this didn't happen. Are you then going to say, okay, well, hey, it's the law. It's what the treaty. We'll give up the canal. No, what you'll probably say then is, well, I don't care what the treaty says. This is on our property.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This is on our land. You're not going to take it. Then we're going to be in a situation where apparently what was written down is being discarded. And so now what determines who gets to have the canal? See, now we're in like a kind of dog-eat-dog scenario. And then it kind of comes down to like to have this attitude of Well, that's our canal. You can't do anything about it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, yeah, but, you know, America can. The United States could just take it. So and there's literally nothing you could do about it at all. But, you know, I mean, I certainly would hope that it wouldn't come to that. That's my hope anyway. Never would have taken Matt for a guy who enjoys guacamole. Can't explain why. Just get that vibe.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, not only do I enjoy guacamole, but I make excellent guacamole, so I'm offended by that. I don't know where you're coming from with that, but I'm one of the great guacamole makers in America, so there's some news for you. I suggest a new segment on your show, Everything You Need to Know About Onesies, with Matt Walsh.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The point was to overthrow Cuba's government. Quoting again from the AP, USAID and its contractors went to extensive lengths to conceal Washington's ties to the project, according to interviews and documents obtained by the AP. They set up front companies in Spain and the Cayman Islands to hide the money trail. and recruited CEOs without telling them they'd be working on a U.S.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That might get a little repetitive, but a different segment where I whine about some really small thing related to parenting, that could be an idea. I mean, I already do that all the time, but that could be its own segment because there are so many things. I mean, I could do 45 minutes right now on the fact that like 90% of the toys on the market for toddlers make noise.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Every parent on earth has complained about this. We could all complain about it for hours, and we have. But it really is insane when you think about it. Because every parent alive hates this. They hate the toys that make noise. No parent likes this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Right, no parent has ever, it's like Christmas and someone buys your three year old a toy and it makes some loud blaring noise that sounds like an air horn. No parent has ever said, great, wonderful. I needed more noisy in this house. I'm so glad, thank you. Like you never turn to the aunt who gave that gift. Thank you so much for that. That's what I was hoping.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I was hoping there'd be some more loud crap. That's what we needed, was just more noise. No parent has ever said that, except dripping with sarcasm and contempt. So we all hate them, and yet every toy for a child makes noise. But here's the point. Every parent hates it. Every parent. Kids don't need the toys to make noise.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They'll have just as much fun with the toys if it doesn't make noise because they can make the noise in their imagination and out loud. So they can handle that. So if you just give a kid like a plastic toy truck and it doesn't make noise, the child is not going to be upset saying it won't make noise. The child's not going to say that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The child only becomes upset when a toy doesn't make noise if it is supposed to make noise or if it used to make noise and it doesn't anymore. But if you just give them the toy, so what I'm saying is if we just had a federal law banning all toys for children under the age of 10 that make noise. Let's just say we had that federal law. I think we should at least think about it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And if we had that, the children would be fine with it if they were never given another toy that makes it because they don't need it. So what's the point? Why does every toy maker do this? That's what I need to understand. Kids don't need it. Every parent hates it. And yet 95% of the toys on the market for kids under the age of 10 make noise. I don't get it. But anyway, that's the whole thing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's the whole thing. We could talk about it. We could continue talking about that. And maybe we will. You know, it's February, which means the usual crowd is claiming we don't do anything for Black History Month, which is, let's be honest, complete nonsense. We literally have the number one documentary of the decade covering race in America. It's called Am I Racist?
The Matt Walsh Show
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taxpayer-funded project. Eventually, they hoped the network would reach critical mass so that dissidents could organize smart mobs, mass gatherings called at a moment's notice, that could trigger political demonstrations or renegotiate the balance of power between the state and society.
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It was the surprise box office hit of the year. And here's the shocker. It's not the narrative the left wanted. And now, exclusively on Daily Wire Plus, we're pulling back the curtain with the making of Am I Racist? Where Matt Walsh, which is, that's me, that's who I am, director Justin Folk and the team show how it all came together. Watch it right now at dailywire.com.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation. We talked last week about RFK Jr. 's confirmation hearing, which gave me another chance to stand on what is to my audience a very familiar soapbox.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I made the case, as I have so many times in the past, that the greatest big pharma scandal is not the COVID vaccine, though that is a huge scandal, or how big pharma has contributed to the opioid epidemic by getting thousands of Americans hooked on painkillers, though again, a major scandal. It is the fact that
The Matt Walsh Show
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They have used misinformation and outright lies and fabrications to convince millions of otherwise healthy people to take highly potent psychotropic drugs. Working with the psychiatric industry, Big Pharma has, over time, medicalized the entire human condition.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Every thought, emotion, feeling prescribed a drug to treat it as though a feeling or thought or mental disposition is automatically diseased just because it happens to be unpleasant or inconvenient. The invention of ADHD and the mass prescribing of amphetamines to children in an effort to treat this completely contrived disease is the worst example of this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I've made the case against ADHD as a medical diagnosis many times. I won't repeat the whole rant here. You can check my YouTube channel to find many different versions of my anti-ADHD soliloquy. If you listen to the case that I make and that plenty of other skeptics have made over the years, you'll understand that we are not denying the existence of what psychiatrists would call ADHD symptoms.
The Matt Walsh Show
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ADHD is not a discrete disease like liver cancer. It is a description of a set of behaviors. And there's no doubt that those behaviors are real. Yes, many children, especially boys, exhibit them. What we deny is that those behaviors are inherently disordered, that they are an indication of an illness, and that they should be eradicated through the use of psychotropic drugs. That is our point.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And there's more to be said on that general point. I've said it again many times. So instead today, what I'd like to do is share one specific thought related to this topic.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's been on my mind after reading a message from a parent who insisted that although they agree generally with my point about big pharma and even my point about ADHD, they had no choice but to put their own seven-year-old son on ADHD drugs because his behavior was so wild and so disruptive and he struggled so much in school. They quote, tried everything before resorting to medication, they claim.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, reading that, you can't help but think about all the smart mobs that the government has probably worked to organize in this country. This is clearly what our intelligence agencies are good at. They launder money with the goal of overthrowing governments with color revolutions all the time, whether it's in Ukraine or Cuba or dozens of other places.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that is a refrain that I have heard countless times. I cannot tell you the number of conversations I've had with and emails I've read from parents who claim that they went the medication route as a last resort after quote unquote, trying everything. But here's my problem with parents who say they tried everything before putting their children on drugs. My problem is that it isn't true.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It can't be true. How could you have tried everything? The child is seven years old. Even if he's eight or nine or 10 or 12, there's no way that you tried everything. If your child's been diagnosed with ADHD or you suspect that he has this artificial illness, consider this before you claim that you've arrived at your last resort. Have you tried drastically reducing his screen time?
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, cutting it down to 30 minutes a day from the hours a day he's probably currently getting. Have you tried cutting down your own screen time and using that time to interact with your child, play games with him, give him something enjoyable and wholesome and constructive to focus on? Did you try changing his diet? Did you try getting all the processed sugary junk out of your house completely?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Did you try finding him some kind of sport or outdoor activity that allows him to burn off energy and develop useful skills? Did you try mandatory 45-minute reading time at night before bed where all screens are turned off and he sits and reads or you read to him and you kind of unwind and you get that experience of reading? Did you try harsher punishments for misbehavior?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Did you try introducing serious consequences for serious misbehavior? Did you try all of that? Now, I know that you'll probably say that you did. But you didn't. I know that you didn't. And if you have a kid in elementary school on ADHD drugs, I'm flat out telling you, you did not try all these things.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I know that you didn't try them because trying them means implementing these strategies and sticking with them for years. It means giving these seeds time to grow fruit. It means giving your child time, a lot of time. He needs a lot of time. You cannot possibly be at your last resort when he's seven. You haven't given any of these strategies even close to the amount of time they need.
The Matt Walsh Show
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In other words, you actually haven't tried anything. You've tried nothing. Medication is not your last resort. It's your first. He's seven. There is no last here. What is last? His existence just began seven years ago. You haven't given him any time. You haven't given him any chance to grow and mature.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But you're supposed to think that they would never do the same thing here. They would never say, stoke racial tensions so that half the country is lit on fire in the name of racial equity. Now, in this particular case, the U.S. government got caught, and that led to some embarrassment among Democrats.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You tried these methods to help your son, but you abandoned them way before they could have possibly shown results. So give your child time. He needs time. You tried everything, but the one thing you didn't try was time. So it's like saying that you tried everything to make a perfect loaf of bread, except leaving it in the oven for more than two minutes.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You've employed every bread-making strategy you possibly could think of so long as it would take less than two minutes. Well, in that case, you haven't actually tried to make bread because, sorry, bread takes time. Children take a lot more time. That's the job of parenting. It requires sustained, consistent effort for years and years and years. That's the gig. Right. It's what we signed up for.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And this is a very important point that I actually think about a lot because this false urgency, this need to fix our kids in 30 seconds or less is what big pharma preys upon. I mean, they've made billions on this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's the same sense of panic and need for quick fixes that led many parents to put their children on chemical castration drugs as a way of fixing what would have otherwise been a very temporary confusion about their gender. Most of the worst decisions parents make, the most unintentionally destructive ones, are made in the name of fixing a child quickly.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They are motivated by a false sense of urgency, by this hallucinatory idea that a child's most challenging behaviors must be changed right away or else some unspecified terrible thing will happen. They're made because the parent doesn't want to or has been convinced that they shouldn't give it time. Here's the thing about kids. And if I could get parents to understand one thing, it might be this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. And they go through phases. And those phases can be intense. They could last for six days or six years. But either way, they won't last forever. So just to give you one example of the dozens and dozens that I could supply from my own life and my family. My oldest daughter struggled to read, hated reading for many years, many years.
The Matt Walsh Show
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From the age of like about four, right around the time when you first start reading, to right around 11, getting her to read was like pulling teeth. And she had a very hard time with it for a long time. She was for a long time way behind her peers. And yes, as parents, we worried about it. For all this stuff that I'm saying about give it time, it's not easy to do. I understand that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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For example, one prominent Democrat, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, asked USAID, quote, what in heaven's name are you thinking? If you're going to do a covert operation like this for a regime change, assuming it ever makes any sense, it's not something that should be done through USAID. So he gave them a finger wagging and said, That was it. Nothing else happened.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so as a parent, we're worried and we're fretting. And we can't help but imagine a dark future where our daughter is 25 years old and can barely read. Well, then one day it changed. And now at 11 and a half, we can't get her to stop reading. I mean, she reads like two whole chapter books a week. I'm talking books that are 300 pages. She's just burning through them.
The Matt Walsh Show
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She reads morning, afternoon, and night. I catch her in her room with a flashlight two hours after bedtime, still reading. And then she wakes up and starts reading again. The other day, I actually had to tell her to stop reading and come watch TV. I wanted to watch just about an hour of TV as a family. We don't watch a lot of TV, but I wanted to do that.
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And she wanted to stay in her room and read. I had to say words that perhaps no parent has ever uttered to a child before. Put the book down and come watch TV, cuz she's a reading addict. It's amazing, I love it, it's incredible. The point is that kids change and her change seems sudden and out of nowhere. And it was sudden, but it wasn't out of nowhere.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We worked with her for years, for years and years and years, every day, every day for years. And it's just that we saw little progress visibly. And then we saw a gigantic Grand Canyon leap of progress all at once. That's the way it is with kids, in my experience. But you have to give them time.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Before you start messing with their brains and drugging them and medicating them and medicalizing them, give them time. Lead them in the right direction. Take them by the hand and pull them along if you have to, which most of the time you will. But give them time. And this is especially important, I believe, for boys.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If you think that your son has a deficit of attention, if you think that he's incapable of focusing on or paying attention to anything, my question is this. How many things have you tried? Are you sure that he has some sort of neurological inability to focus? Or do you mean that he very specifically finds it difficult to focus in school?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Is he able to pay attention for long periods of time to anything else? If there's something he can focus on and pay attention to, but he struggles to pay attention in school, the problem is obviously not a physical inability to pay attention. The problem, the problem is that he's bored in school. If you are drugging him in that case, the disease you're drugging and treating is boredom.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You are drugging your son because he's bored. bored by something that is, in fact, very boring. And if that sounds pretty awful, it's because, I'm sorry, it is pretty awful. Now, you might say that, well, there really isn't anything that my son can focus on. But again, I ask you, how many things have you tried? Another personal example.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Both my 11-year-old son and my 8-year-old son have recently discovered a passion for archery. Okay? And they picked this up on their own. Archery is not my thing. I've shot a bow and arrow like twice in my life. But they discovered this passion for it. And so I took them to the archery range over the weekend. And I watched them practice for an hour. And...
The Matt Walsh Show
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Just one, you know, taking the arrow out of the quiver one after another. My son's hitting bullseye shots from 60 feet out with a bow and arrow. I mean, and both of them are very, very high energy and rambunctious. Both of them could easily be diagnosed ADHD if we went seeking that diagnosis, which we haven't and won't.
The Matt Walsh Show
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USAID suffered no consequences whatsoever. I bring all this up because it's one of many egregious examples of how USAID has been operating with total impunity over the past several decades. This is an agency that JFK created by executive order during the Cold War to allegedly help fight the spread of communism.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Yet they practice archery every day now, a sport that requires intense focus and concentration and discipline. And if they stick with it over time, they'll become more disciplined and focused in every area of their lives. I've already noticed some of those improvements just from the relatively short time that they've been involved in the sport. And why is that?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, because discipline and focus are skills. You have to hone them. Okay, focusing especially on something that you consider boring is a skill. You need to give your boy an outlet to hone the skill. And if you want him to be more focused, help him develop the skill. Have you done that? If you're telling me, oh, I can't focus on anything. Have you helped him develop the skill of focus?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Have you tried finding him an outlet for that purpose? Find him something he loves that requires focus. And he'll do it because he loves it. And in the process, as a byproduct, he will learn how to focus generally. And he'll start being able to apply that even to areas of life that he doesn't love as much. If you put him on drugs in elementary school, you didn't try. You didn't give him a chance.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You went for the quick fix instead. You didn't give him time. And he needs and deserves time. Now, this way is harder for a parent. I understand that. I know that from experience. I'm not recommending any course of action that I have not taken and am not currently living through at this very moment. I understand the challenges of raising children without resorting to drugs as a shortcut.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I understand the challenges more than almost every person who's ever accused me of not understanding them. Four boys, two girls, two sets of twins. I get it. Drugging your child into submission is easier. Working with them, being patient, giving them a chance to grow and mature naturally is difficult, but you owe it to your child to do the difficult thing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Neither of you will regret it in the long run. Very few parents look back on their child's life and regret not dosing them with psychotropic drugs in elementary school. Many regret having done so, and many adults regret that it was done to them. Avoid the regret. Give your child time. There's no long-term downside to this. Don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The other day, someone tweeted at me with an objection I've heard a million times. He said, dude, you must not have kids. Let them just grow and mature means in a lot of cases, letting them fail out of school early with not much of a future. Something has to be done so they can at least learn basic stuff like reading. I'm not saying meds is the best answer, but it's a precarious situation.
The Matt Walsh Show
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First of all, of course, this is why it's best to glance at Wikipedia quickly before you accuse someone of not having kids. Second, this is the kind of totally delusional fear parents have. And I get it, I get it, but it is delusional. Your kid is not gonna fail out of school. Listen to me, it is literally impossible for him to fail out of school, even if he tried to, they won't let him.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And then Congress formally established USAID with a law called the Foreign Assistance Act. And ever since then, the agency has steadily grown and spent more and more taxpayer money overseas. Like all government programs, it has simply consumed more and more resources over time, like cancer, with no sign of ever going away. There is no accountability for any of this spending ever.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If your son decided his mission in life was to fail at his school, he wouldn't be able to do it. Okay, they say you can achieve your dreams. That's one dream you can't achieve. The school system won't let it happen. And he's especially not going to fail out of elementary school. What the hell third grader have you heard of in modern times that's failed out of school?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, what might happen is that as you give him time to grow and you work with him slowly, that he might get mediocre grades in elementary school or even bad grades. Do you know what will happen to your child in the long run if he gets mediocre or bad grades in elementary school? Literally nothing. Not a single thing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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There is not a single adult walking the earth today whose life is at all hampered by the poor report card they got in third grade. Now, I'm not saying that bad grades are okay or that you should just accept them. I am saying that they are not the kind of thing you need to chemically alter your child's brain just to avoid. Just work with them and give them time. Okay? All good things take time.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Raising children to be virtuous, smart, high-functioning people in this world is one of the best things a person can do. And so it takes the most time. And that is why parents who reach for the quick fixes rather than doing the hard work of actually parenting are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
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Godspeed.
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This is Enron level accounting, and we've been tolerating it for decades. If Americans knew what was happening, they would overwhelmingly oppose all of it. So take a look at this chart to give you just one more example. This is from USAID's website, and it was first flagged by somebody named Jeff Carlson. You can look at the image on the screen.
The Matt Walsh Show
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As you can see, as of September 2024, USAID has already spent most of the $39 billion it has been allocated for Ukraine. Supposedly, this is not military assistance because, after all, USAID is about international development. supposedly. By contrast, the Defense Department was allocated something like $124 billion for Ukraine, and they spent around $49 billion of it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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In other words, if you thought that Pentagon spending accounted for the vast majority of our spending in Ukraine, you're wrong. As it turns out, USAID is doing a lot of work in Ukraine. And the truth is, we have no idea what they're doing there. Supposedly the money is going to an economic support fund to pay the pensions and salaries of Ukrainian government bureaucrats.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's the stated reason, which is bad enough. Okay, like giving money to Ukrainian bureaucrats, our tax money, the money that comes out of our paychecks going to government officials in Ukraine is bad enough. It's very, very bad. But almost certainly, they're also laundering a lot of money to promote propaganda for the war effort there.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I have some exciting news for our Daily Wire Plus members. We'll be bringing back the members-only segment of the show where I answer your questions this Thursday. If you're not a member, head to dailywire.com slash subscribe to become one now and join in the fun.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The level of fraud that's going on here is just hard to comprehend. Just imagine auditing a $39 billion economic support fund for Ukraine. But there are no line items, so you can only imagine it. I mean, it's impossible to actually audit it. Again, this has been going on for a very long time.
The Matt Walsh Show
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As far back as 2017, Congressman Francis Rooney pointed out that USAID was subsidizing the World Economic Forum for no apparent reason. Check it out.
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Yes, we are paying globalist billionaires with your tax money. You never voted for that. Congress never authorized it, but it happened. And no one ever put an end to this slush fund, so it just grew bigger and bigger and bigger. The other day, the White House press secretary outlined a small percentage of where some of this USAID money is going today. Watch. Karen.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Do you wish that you could have invested in the stock market last year when investors scored the highest profits in decades, but between your mountain of bills and credit card debt, you had nothing left over? Well, it's time to stop letting debt hold you back. Let me tell you how Done With Debt can help.
The Matt Walsh Show
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As bad as all those line items sound, and they obviously sound really bad and are really bad, the truth is that it's probably much worse than that. It's the federal government that's saying they're spending your money to make gay comics in Peru. It's the federal government that's saying they dropped $70,000 to promote DEI in Irish theaters. That's what they're claiming.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And as we've established, they have no problem lying about all this. So the chances are pretty high that in reality, all this money actually went to coup attempts that you know nothing about and that you will never know anything about. In a previous era, this is what we would call a constitutional crisis. A federal agency has gone rogue.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They are spending money that Congress and the voters have not authorized them to spend. And on top of that, none of this is a good idea anyway. since we're the only country on the planet that routinely dishes out huge amounts of money like this to foreign governments.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We shouldn't be giving a single penny of American tax dollars to any foreign government anywhere, but we're doing a lot more than that. So now, finally, the Trump administration is putting an end to it. The USAID website was just taken offline. USAID workers weren't allowed in the building yesterday, and Trump and Elon Musk have agreed that the agency should be shut down.
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In response, Democrats are panicking over this in a way that they haven't panicked over anything else Trump has done. I mean, they panic about everything, but this is several levels beyond what we've seen from them so far. They are extremely animated and upset about the collapse of an agency that funnels money overseas without accounting for any of the spending.
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So it's almost as if they benefited in some way from this spending. Here, for example, is Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who claims at this moment is the official beginning of Trump's dictatorship. Yes, we're currently living in the first dictatorship in history that began with a popular vote victory and that will end four years later at the conclusion of the term as prescribed in the Constitution.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's the kind of dictatorship this is. Watch her explain.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, if you get past all the hysteria, the point she's trying to make is that USAID was established by Congress and therefore only Congress can get rid of the agency. And until that happens, if the president doesn't want to send billions of taxpayer dollars overseas, then he's a dictator. That's what she's saying. But on the contrary, this is, of course, the exact opposite of a dictatorship.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Trump ran on certain promises and is now delivering to the voters precisely what they asked for. One of those promises from the very beginning has been to cut waste, root out corruption, and drain the swamp. It's pretty clear that Trump is doing all three of those things through this assault on USAID.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Trump as the executive doesn't have to waste our money, even if Congress has authorized him to do so. Even Democrats agree with this, by the way. You might remember that Democrats once argued that Barack Obama didn't have to enforce immigration law, even though it was passed by Congress. To the extent anyone was acting like a dictator in this scenario, it was the unelected bureaucrats at USAID.
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No one voted for them. No one even knows their names. They routinely lied about where your money was going. They spent money without congressional authorization in order to overthrow foreign governments, which is criminal for about five different reasons. Even Democrats have admitted that. None of that sounds particularly Democratic, and yet no one in the Democrat Party ever objected to it.
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The real reason Democrats are freaking out is pretty obvious. Trump is tearing their money laundering operation to pieces. Their slush fund is being drained. You might remember that Ilhan Omar previously stated, according to a translation of her remarks that was obtained by the Daily Wire, that as long as she's in office, quote, Somalia will never be in danger.
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She also said she would work, quote, day and night to preserve the interests of Somalis in the United States. And Part of that work, we can assume, means ensuring that billions of dollars in U.S. aid continues flowing into Somalia so that Somalia can, as it has always done, squander all of it and the country can continue to be a hellhole, which it has always been and always will be.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Hollywood celebrities are openly weeping over Trump's immigration enforcement. Meanwhile, Trump is more popular than he's ever been in his political career. That tells you pretty much everything you need to know. Also, Trump again floats the possibility of abolishing the income tax.
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Again, that's puretalk.com slash walsh to claim your new iPhone or Galaxy with qualifying purchase from Pure Talk, America's wireless company. Donald Trump gave a speech to a conference of congressional Republicans yesterday, and there were two moments in particular from the speech that are worth talking about. Two, I think, quite brilliant suggestions that Trump seemed to make.
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And the first one has to do with the problem of crime in our neighborhoods and particularly the fact that this crime is often committed by repeat offenders. So it's the same people committing the crimes over and over again. And Trump had a solution that he proposed for that, which I thought was really interesting. Let's listen to that.
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So here Trump is floating the idea of, I guess, bringing back penal colonies. He's talking about shipping repeat offenders off to some foreign country, some foreign land, and paying that country to be their jailers, which means they're going to be housed in foreign jails somewhere by a country that needs the money. So probably not a very pleasant experience I would expect in a jail like that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And needless to say, I think this is a wonderful idea. I mean, why don't we do that? What's the argument against it? There's a long history of this kind of thing all across the world. It's an effective system. It's effective in many different ways. It's cheaper for one. Also, if there's any concerns about overcrowding in prisons or whatever, then, well, this is one way to solve that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I'll explain why that would instantly make him at least the second greatest president in US history. And New York Magazine tries to slander young right-wing Trump supporters, but instead accidentally makes them seem cool as hell. And in our daily cancellation, I'm afraid I must cancel a certain prominent Republican congresswoman. She's left me no choice.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And it makes prison far less appealing. It increases, which you would think that prison would be unappealing no matter what. But obviously for people that go to jail 15 times, they're not as worried about going to prison as they should be. So we have not made the experience as uncomfortable as it needs to be to get the message across to these people. So it has that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It increases dramatically the punitive effect of prison, which increases the deterrence effect. And all of these things are good. The only argument against shipping criminals off to be jailed by some foreign country is that the experience will be less pleasant for the criminals themselves.
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Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode. Just over a week into Donald Trump's second term in office, it has to be said that Kamala Harris's talking points from the presidential campaign are not exactly aging well. You might remember that one of Kamala's taglines during the campaign was, Donald Trump has an enemies list, I have a to-do list.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's the only argument is about just seeing it from the perspective of the criminals and saying, well, this... This wouldn't be good for them. They're not going to like it. But not only is that not a downside, it is, as I said, an upside. If somebody has been arrested 18 times already, it's very clear that the experience of jail has not been unpleasant enough. So they need to be made to suffer.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Okay, there's obviously been a failure to communicate, in the words of the warden in Cool Hand Luke. who, of course, I recognize was not supposed to be the good guy of that movie. But in this case, I think a little bit of that attitude, a little bit of that approach is warranted. So I think it's a great idea. But in the next clip, Trump floats something that is even better, I think.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And he's brought this up before, but before he was elected. But now he's obviously been elected. He's in office and he's still talking about it, which is a good sign. Let's listen to this.
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Okay, so Trump, yet again, talking about abolishing the income tax, replacing it with tariffs. And his way of looking at it is, rather than taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, let's tax foreign nations to enrich our citizens. Great idea. I mean, yes, sign me up. And let me tell you something. Now, I still would not put any money on the income tax actually being abolished.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That would be a Herculean accomplishment. More importantly, it's an accomplishment that would require the cooperation of Congress, which is the problem. So the odds are just very much against it happening. But if Trump were able to achieve this, if he were able somehow— to lead the charge to abolishing the income tax, he would automatically become one of the greatest presidents of all time.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And the line was supposed to conjure up a contrast in voters' minds, a contrast between a president who gets rid of his enemies and a president who actually gets things done. But it turns out that Kamala's campaign misunderstood that those two things are not mutually exclusive. A president can indeed punish the enemies of civilization and also... get a lot of other stuff done at the same time.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I think he would be number two, second only to George Washington. By abolishing the income tax, Trump will have done more to restore freedom in America than any president ever next to George Washington. He would deserve to be added to Mount Rushmore, unironically. And I personally would donate to the cause of carving his face in Mount Rushmore. I'll carve it myself. I'll go up there and carve it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I'll look at some YouTube tutorials to get the basics of sculpting down, and then I'll go carve his face. And even if he doesn't pull it off, he's already doing something very important by talking about it so openly. So I hope he continues to talk about it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, arguably, if he can just get the abolition of the income tax to become a mainstream talking point and position, if he can rally conservatives around this idea, even if it doesn't actually happen in the next four years, then that alone would put him in the top two or three of presidents. Because the income tax is... is just flat out oppressive.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We all live under an oppressive system of the income tax. It is oppression. It actually is. And I've said before that the income tax is kind of proof of the quote from Ed Harris's character in The Truman Show when he said that we accept the reality of the world that we're presented.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And he said that to explain why Truman in the movie didn't question all the surreal and kind of bizarre things about his reality. And he didn't question it because it's just the reality he was born into. It's just the way the world is. And most people don't question that. Most people, at least not on their own.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Most people, if the idea is not planted in their head, then they're just going to accept whatever the world is. They'll accept the basics of it, kind of the framework. But it's like that with the income tax. I mean, which is why, somehow... The abolition of the income tax has not even been a live political issue for like a century. I mean, it's not even something that's debated.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The income tax isn't even controversial. People just accept it. Even though, objectively speaking, it is an insane system. It's an insane system. have the government come in and take whatever amount of your paycheck they want, whatever they want, because we actually have no control over it, and then give you whatever's left over.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that's exactly what Trump has accomplished so far by all accounts. Now to be clear, I'm not bringing this up to trash Kamala Harris, who isn't worth thinking about anymore, much less talking about. But as dumb as her campaign slogan was, it's clear that many Democrats thought it made sense. And now that Trump is actually in office, they have no idea what to make of it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You get the leftovers of your own paycheck, and the government comes in and takes whatever they want. How can we have any semblance of freedom or independence when that's going on, especially considering that this system has to be run and facilitated by an agency that called the IRS, which has, in essence, total power over your life. Anyone who's had to deal with the IRS knows this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You like to think you have constitutional rights and that you're a free American citizen and all this kind of stuff. Yeah, well, that's until the IRS gets their sights on you, because when they get their sights on you, you have no rights. I mean, they can do whatever they want.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They can come in, they can take whatever they want from you, they can look in your bank account, they can look in all your records. Everything. They tear your life apart. They can take your car. They can take your house. They can throw you in prison. They can do anything. And these are all unelected bureaucrats. All of them. You have no control over them. No say.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They can do whatever the hell they want. And they can do all of that just to ensure that they get your money. In what sense can we even call this a free country with a system like that in place? We can't. And it becomes all the more grotesque when you consider, we all know that one of the reasons our country exists to begin with was to escape an oppressive tax system.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And yet what we have now is so much worse than what our founders had. sparked them to the point of revolution. What we have now is so much worse. I mean, it's not even close. So the whole thing, it's a mockery. It's just grotesque. And yet it's been a part of our reality since we were born. And for that reason, and for that reason alone, we allow it to continue. It doesn't even come up.
The Matt Walsh Show
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When's the last time it came up in a presidential debate? Which is nuts. I don't know how else to put it. And it's one of the things that could happen. There are a few things you can think of that the government could do that if they did it. would immediately drastically improve the quality of your life instantly.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's a small list of things that the government could do that would have that kind of immediate impact. And at the top of that list would be getting rid of the income tax. Because if you're a working American, instantly you have significantly more money than you had before And it's not because anyone is giving it to you. It's just your own money you get to keep. And that's not even to mention.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They can't comprehend the fact that Trump is destroying America's enemies while advancing American interests, and that voters are responding very favorably to his new administration as a result. So here, for example, was the scene the other day on CNN when the anchor realizes, to her shock and horror, that Trump is now far more popular today than he ever was during his first term. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's not even to get into the freedom and independence over your own life that you now have. That now you're in a spot where, no, there is no government bureaucrat that could just knock on your door and demand to see all of your records, everything, and tear your life apart and take everything from you if they decide you didn't give the government enough money. That would no longer be a thing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So at the very least, I hope Trump keeps talking about this, and it needs to at the very least become a live political issue, something we actually talk about. If you're running for president, you should have a position on the income tax, yay or nay, and be able to explain it. All right, here's some more encouraging news. The Daily Mail has this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Teenagers and those in their early 20s are half as likely to identify as atheists than their parents. A new poll has shown those aged 18 to 24 who are all Gen Z are the most spiritual age group in the UK with just 13% identifying as atheists. Another 62% describe themselves as very or fairly spiritual.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And when asked what the biggest factors in declining Christianity rates in the UK, Gen Z cited the inability to grapple with scandals involving abuse as well as generational change. In contrast, middle-aged members of Gen X age 45 to 60 are the most likely to be atheists, with 25% saying they don't believe in a god or spirituality.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So this is just one survey of people in the UK, apparently, but it tracks with trends we've seen in many polls and surveys. We've seen a lot of evidence, including the last election results, that in many cases Gen Z are more conservative, more right-wing, and apparently more religious than their parents. This is especially true of Gen Z males, but you see indications of this trend across the board.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And now you have this poll, which tells us that people in their 20s and late teens are significantly less likely to be atheists than their parents and their grandparents, which is, you know, when you think about it for a moment, pretty stunning.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And it defies conventional wisdom in many ways, at least the conventional wisdom that, again, the world as we've come to know it, it kind of defies that belief. what we would expect based on that. I mean, just the idea that you'd have a generation of young people who on average are more religious than their grandparents is pretty crazy, but it's the fact.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And it's actually not that surprising in the final analysis, because a few things are happening here. The liberal secularism of the boomer generation is fading out. It's dying a death of exhaustion, I think. It's dying of boredom. It's just kind of dissipating like a fart in the wind, right? It has nothing to offer. And this is the thing about liberal churches.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This is a phenomenon that every church-going Christian has observed this, that the most liberal churches are all old. The average age of the congregation is going to be like 67. The pastor is old. The congregation is old. The churches are sparsely attended. There's no life. There's nothing approaching exuberance or awe or reverence. That's because liberal churches have nothing to offer.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I think that something similar is happening with liberalism and secularism in general in the culture. And also, and this is of course related, it's just a fact of life that younger generations have this natural rebellious instinct. Every revolution in history, for better or worse, has been led by young people.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And now, well, that means rebelling against liberal secularism because liberal secularism is the dominant cultural position. And it's the thing, it's all of our institutions are defined by it. And so you're seeing that as part of what we're saying is this, I think, rebellious instinct being used for good for a change.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And on a related note, there's also this cover story from New York Magazine that's getting some attention. And I think we have the image we can put up on screen. Yeah, there's the image. So there was a New York Magazine reporter went to some of the Trump inauguration parties last weekend and wrote this cover story. And the headline is, The Cruel Kids Table.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And then the caption on the tweet says, For our latest cover story, Brock Collier reported on the young, gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, there's a lot of controversy over this image, the picture you see from this Trump inauguration party, because in the article, the reporter says that the event was almost entirely white. And yet, as people on the Internet have discovered, if you pan out a bit on that very photo, you see that there are at least three black people who were cropped out. You know, they're just out of frame.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that was done, of course, on purpose because they had this narrative they wanted to say. And also, a black guy, C.J. Pearson, was one of the hosts of this party. So, obviously, no surprise New York Magazine has an agenda here. But I don't even want to focus on that. Okay, that's the easy part. And I don't care about what the article says. Just the image alone. Just the cover image.
The Matt Walsh Show
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is really interesting because New York Magazine presents it to us and wants us to see cruelty somehow. But instead, what any unbiased, normal person sees when they look at that image, what they see are young, vibrant, happy, successful looking people having a good time. You don't see a bunch of fat, ugly people with pink hair and nose rings and all that. There are no cross-dressers in the photo.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Nobody with a severe mental illness that they wear on their sleeve with pride. We don't see that. These look like young, healthy, well-adjusted, successful young people. And this is what the right wing has come to represent. This is the future of the right wing. In a word, the photo is cool. It's a cool picture. And these look like cool people. So being right-wing is officially cool now.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And truly, it is impossible to overstate the significance of that cultural development. I mean, that's what this really all comes down to. It changes everything. They say the cruel kids table, but really it's the cool kids table. If you're one of the cool kids, you're right-wing now. And that's why it's significant that
The Matt Walsh Show
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You know, all the right-wing parties around the inauguration, they weren't held at like a Texas Roadhouse with everybody listening to Christian rock or country music or whatever. And I say that, by the way, as someone who, you know, would have loved to go to an inauguration party at a Texas Roadhouse. Don't get me wrong. But...
The Matt Walsh Show
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You know, when I went to these parties, and I was actually supposed to be at that party that they reported on, it's probably for the best that I didn't show up because I think my dad vibes would have kind of ruined that picture. It wouldn't have worked, so it's probably best that I wasn't there. But, you know, I did make it to plenty of the other parties, and they all had this same kind of vibe.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And even though I love the Texas Roadhouse vibe personally, I also... appreciate that being right wing now also might mean that you're wearing a nice suit and you're drinking a cocktail at a party in DC. I mean, that's a good thing. It's not the vibe that I normally gravitate to personally, but it's good that the right has that vibe also. And this is how we truly become culturally dominant.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Look at it this way. I think this kind of tells you everything you need to know, right? That when you see that image of the party, and it's a bunch of younger people, and it's a black tie affair, and everybody looks cool and hip and young and all that. You see that image, and it reads as right wing now.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If you saw that without any context, and you didn't know it was a Trump inauguration event, and you just looked at that, you would say, yeah, they're probably Republicans. But then also, if you see a dad in flannel drinking a beer at Texas Roadhouse, that also reads as right-wing. So both of those images, if you see them, you immediately think, yeah, it's probably kind of conservative.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so what that tells you is it runs the gamut. So in other words, basically, I think this is another way of putting it. If somebody appears to be happy, well-adjusted, reasonably successful in their station in life, just like a normal, confident person, healthy. If someone appears to be those things, it reads as right-wing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Just imagine, what would you, again, without any context, what would you need to see in a picture? in order to think that this, okay, this codes as left-wing. If you're looking at a picture of people who are all in some kind of environment, what are the signifiers that would tell you that, okay, this is probably a left-wing group? Well, what are they?
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, if they're overweight, if they've got weird piercings, if they have strangely colored hair, if they are cross-dressing, basically weird, ugly, friendless losers, when you see that, you think, well, they're probably left-wing. Anything else, it now reads as right-wing. And I think that that
The Matt Walsh Show
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So once again, there's the screen guys circling and underlining things for no reason. You don't need to underline the words on the screen. They're already typed in giant bold letters. We can see them. But anyway, more to the point, the audible gasp from the CNN anchor is a clue that nobody at CNN has any idea how this is happening.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This is, look, it does, every time I talk about this now, and I know people in the audience are a little bit bewildered sometimes listening to the show for the last two weeks because I'm strangely positive and optimistic, at least by my standards. By my standards, I understand it's a little bit,
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's all disturbing, even if you've been listening to the show for a long time to hear this much sustained optimism from me is quite it's even upsetting. I get it. It's like you're just not it doesn't make any sense coming from me. And and I don't want it to come across like we're saying or I'm saying that, well, everything's good now. We won. Let's all go home.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We don't need to think about this anymore. That's not the point. But the point is like assessing where we actually are in the culture. And I think it's important to get a good read on that because the fight does continue. In order to be in the fight, you have to kind of know where you are and what your position is. And the fact is that the right wing is culturally ascendant.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that's a good thing. But those are also, that's a position and those are gains that we have to defend and build on. All right, let's get to the comment section. Columbia doesn't just export coffee and cocaine. It exports petroleum, bananas, flowers, gold, aluminum, among other things. Okay, but we could stop importing from Columbia entirely and it would hardly affect any of our lives.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So that's the point. Let's see. You forgot to mention the biggest outrage from the Academy Awards. Nosferatu didn't get a Best Picture nom. Yeah. I got to say, I hate to tell you, I didn't like that movie. I just didn't like it. I watched it a few days ago. And now I'll say, it's a beautiful film. I mean, the cinematography, the shot selection, the way that it's filmed, it's pretty jaw-dropping.
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So from a purely aesthetic perspective, it's maybe the most artistic movie I've ever seen. Every single shot looks like a painting. It's... Pretty incredible on that basis. So I respect the movie for that reason. I respect the director, Robert Eggers, who is a real filmmaker. I mean, the guy's not out there making superhero movies. He's making real movies, real cinema.
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He made The Northmen, which I thought was a masterpiece. It's one of my favorite movies of the last five or ten years. So I watched Nosferatu with some anticipation, and I just didn't like it. I wanted to like it, but I didn't. I thought it was too slow. way too slow.
The Matt Walsh Show
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How can Trump possibly have a higher approval rating after all of his felony convictions and all the attacks and the most well-funded and consistently sustained smear campaign against a single individual person in the history of American politics? How is that possible?
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And to me, there was no real suspense because I knew exactly where it was going, which is maybe an inevitable problem when you make a film based on one of the most famous stories of all time, which is basically Dracula. But still, I didn't feel the suspense, which is a problem in this case because so much of the movie relies on building suspense.
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And I found the whole thing to be a bit, I don't know, heavy-handed is maybe the word. You know, there's this viral clip going around for some reason from a clip from Family Guy from some episode, I don't know when, where Peter Griffin says that he didn't like The Godfather because the movie insists on itself, which is a criticism that doesn't make any sense for The Godfather.
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But, you know, it's fine. It's Family Guy. It's not supposed to make sense. It's supposed to be funny. But I actually would borrow that phrase for Nosferatu. I actually think that it insists on itself too much. Every single frame of the movie from start to finish is supposed to fill you with dread and horror. Every single frame. There's no other tone. There's no other mood. There's nothing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's just supposed to be unrelenting dread and horror from the very first second of the movie until the end. And the movie just relentlessly insists on it, beats you over the head with it in a way that got kind of tedious, if I'm being honest. The lead character, who I forget her name, but... The whole, and it was a good performance.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, from just a pure acting perspective, but every single, like she has this look of horror and kind of confusion in her face for the whole movie. Again, from the very first moment and it never stops. And I don't, it's hard to maintain that. It's just hard to like, I can't watch a movie
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And the movie wants me to be horrified and experiencing deep dread the whole time, you know, and I just can't. I can't sustain that level of emotional investment, I guess. And then, spoiler alert, spoiler, spoiler, okay, I'm just going to tell you, I hated the end. I thought the end was bad because in the end, the woman saves the day by selling her soul to the devil, essentially.
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Well, it begins to make sense when you realize that the agenda Trump is aggressively pushing through in his first two weeks in office is not or need not be partisan or ideological. His executive orders and other actions aren't necessarily conservative at all, much less right wing. Instead, Trump is advancing something called common sense.
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She saves the day by submitting in every sense, in every sense, you know, including in a quite grotesquely physical sense, submitting to evil, which I didn't like either. So even if I did like the movie up until that moment, that moment would have ruined the whole movie for me. And so, yeah, I didn't like it. I'll be very interested to see what he does next. I like the film.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I find the filmmaker himself to be interesting, but I thought that that was by far and away the least interesting movie he's ever made. Uh, and one of the least interesting movies I've seen recently, afraid to say, um, Matt, this is one of my faves. The most obvious lesson here is that these countries do not appreciate us.
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They should have to publicly apologize to the American people before they get one more centavo. Her, well, we don't know if he was radicalized here, so it's our fault. Ship her to Afghanistan. That's what gets me too.
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The total lack of gratitude, total lack of appreciation that you find from other countries for all the help that we've given, all of these hundreds of other countries on the globe that we've given aid to and protection. There's just no gratitude. And then the immigrants when they come here.
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Now, there are exceptions to this, but for the most part, you don't get a sense of real appreciation and gratitude when they come here. You just get a sense of entitlement. That show was low-key out of pocket, Matt, no cap. Well, thanks, fam. I mean, you cooked with that one. I stand your comment, bro. Your comment is sending me.
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And look, anyone who doesn't like the show needs to take several seats. Low key. Needs to low key take several seats. You're being real extra if you don't like the show. I'm just, look, I'm just connecting with the young people. Like I said, the right wing is cool now. So this is me being cool. Young people, they hear their slang words and they just can't.
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My viewership in the last two days adopting some of this slang, my viewership among Gen Z has increased 95%. They were just telling me. They were just telling me, keep doing it because 95% increase. It's a fact. Look, it's no secret, legacy media is collapsing. Why? Well, because Americans are waking up. They're tired of being lied to, tired of the spin, tired of the narratives.
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At The Daily Wire, we don't tell stories, we show you the truth. From investigative reporting to fearless commentary, we bring the facts straight to you. And it doesn't stop there. We're making movies, documentaries, and series that challenge the woke Hollywood agenda. They reshape the culture. But here's the deal. We can't do it without you. We need your support to keep growing and keep fighting.
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Now's the time to join the fight. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe and become a member today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Today I have to cancel Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Congresswoman Mace has been on a crusade as of late over the trans issue. For the last few months, Mace has been speaking out in very forceful language against the scourge of gender ideology.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, common sense has become right wing by default, but it's still common sense. And it happens to appeal to a lot of Americans, regardless of whether they describe themselves as liberal or conservative. Most Americans agree, for example, that people with serious mental illnesses should not serve in the armed forces. That's an intuitive concept that doesn't need any explanation.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Along with authoring a bill to keep men out of women's bathrooms on Capitol Hill, Mace has also been tweeting things like, quote, your mental illness will not become my new normal. And she stood in front of whatever cameras she can find saying things like this. Watch.
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So very clear and forceful and of course, totally correct language. In fact, Nancy is so heated about this topic that she recently challenged another Congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett, to quote, step outside in the middle of a congressional hearing. So this is a woman who will not take any guff from the trans activists and their proponents. And she has in recent months made that her brand.
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She has positioned herself as a leader in the fight against gender ideology. She likes to tweet with the hashtag, hold the line, a slogan that she's adopted because she is, we're supposed to believe. holding the line against the trans madness. But you may notice that even as I've talked about this, I've had to qualify all of these statements by saying as of late and in the last few months.
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Because oddly enough, less than two years ago, the woman who is now holding the line and leading the charge, she claims, against trans ideology was sitting down for interviews with corporate media outlets and saying stuff like this.
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Okay, so Nancy was bold enough at least to oppose the medical mutilation of minors in 2023, but she did support trans rights and the social transition of children. In fact, she not only supported the idea that a child might have a different gender identity, quote unquote, she said that most people would support it. To her, it was obvious, a given. Right?
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She's supporting dressing a boy up like a girl and saying that he's a girl and giving him girl pronouns. That's what she supported in 2023. I must stress again, this was in 2023. Now, to put that into perspective, that was a full year after What Is A Woman came out. Okay, we were already well into the period when it was pretty safe to fundamentally oppose gender ideology.
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Until around 10 years ago, even Democrats would not object to that. So when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that trans-identifying individuals would be banned from serving or enlisting in the military, as they did the other day, makes a lot of sense to most people.
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And yet, Nancy Mace didn't oppose it. at the time. Does she now? I don't know. In 2023, she supported trans rights in those words. So tell me, Nancy, what do you think trans rights are? What rights specifically fall under that umbrella? Well, I'll tell you. A man using the women's restroom. That is specifically and explicitly what is meant when trans activists talk about trans rights.
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That is the trans right they're demanding. the right to be fully recognized as the gender they claim to be. That's what trans rights are. So if you support trans rights, you support that. You support men in the women's room. There's no such thing as I support trans rights, but not men in the women's room. That doesn't make any sense, okay?
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This is the same thing, which means as recently as 2023, you supported men in the women's room. Now, this has not stopped Mace from loudly on a daily basis at this point, claiming with a shameless straight face that she has led the charge in the fight against trans ideology. Just yesterday, she posted this claim on X again, and she's saying this. I mean, it's constant, okay?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Constant, she's saying this. And so she's probably about to announce a campaign for South Carolina governor. And this post was meant to favorably compare herself against Alan Wilson, who's the AG of South Carolina, who's also probably going to run apparently. And she posted this. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We led the fight to protect women.
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Alan Wilson holds a press conference on it. We visit the South Carolina National Guard. Alan Wilson visits the South Carolina National Guard. We speak at Greenwood County GOP. Alan Wilson speaks at Greenwood County GOP. Well, thank you, Alan Wilson. We're flattered. So not only is she claiming to be in the lead, but she's actually accusing someone else of copying her.
The Matt Walsh Show
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As the White House put it, quote, unit cohesion requires high levels of integrity and stability among service members. And because trans-identifying people don't meet those requirements, they can't serve, period. End of discussion. It's pretty simple. In just the past few days, the Trump administration has announced a variety of straightforward executive orders like this.
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And then there's a picture of herself with the caption, how it started. Okay, so I must ask, Nancy, how what started? What is it that you think you started? In what way did you lead the fight to protect women? The people who led the fight were in it for years while you were still telling CBS about how deeply you care about trans rights.
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Okay, while you were telling CBS that it's okay to dress a little boy like a girl and say that he's a girl and give him girl pronouns. While you were doing that, the people who were actually leading the fight were leading it. You came in after. Okay? But this is the kind of ego that we're dealing with.
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This is someone who posted a tribute to the people who started the fight to protect women's sports. And it's literally just three pictures of her. I mean, come on. The woman who only got bold and aggressive on the issue well after the people who had actually led the fight had made it safe for her to do so. But Look, that's not the point today.
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The fact that Nancy Mace explicitly supported trans rights recently and is now pretending to be the leader of the very fight she undermined is annoying, but it's also pretty standard political grandstanding. And I also don't like to get into fights about who deserves credit for things I'm used to people taking credit for stuff constantly, especially politicians. They do this all the time.
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Politicians are always out, I led the fight. And it's like, yeah, you came into this fight. No, no, you waited until it was super safe and then you rode a wave. You didn't lead a fight. But so but it's if we get into that game, then we'd be here all day.
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And it's just there's no point, which is why I've been firmly biting my tongue for weeks now while Nancy Mace plays the role of anti-gender ideology crusader. In fact, I've even given her credit on this show for going to bat on this issue recently. Because even of her incredibly self-congratulatory tone and is grating and thoroughly undeserved, she is still right about the bathroom issue.
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She's right about it now anyway. And so I tried to focus on that. But then she posted this. Quote, I didn't fight like hell to become the first woman to graduate from the Citadel just for some man in a miniskirt to take away that achievement. Protecting women's accomplishments isn't a political talking point for me, it's personal. Now, this is also something that she says a lot.
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She constantly brags about being the first woman to graduate from the Citadel Military College. In fact, she bragged about it twice yesterday alone. She also tweeted, quote, when I was first elected, I was told if I didn't fall in line, if I didn't play the Washington political insider game, then I wouldn't fit in. Boy, were they right.
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And every single one of them comes across as a reasonable solution that normal people would support. So Trump is also getting rid of DEI in the military and all across the federal government. But in the military in particular, the theory is that America's military shouldn't be concerned with quotas or diversity hiring.
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When you were the first woman to sit in the Citadel's barber chair to get all your hair chopped off, you don't get your feelings hurt if you don't get invited to fancy cocktail parties in Washington, D.C., I mean, Nancy, you were literally just at the fanciest DC cocktail party of the year last Monday night for the inauguration. I was there too.
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I'm not judging you for it, but you were just there and you posted a bunch of pictures with yourself and celebrities. So you do get invited to the cocktail parties. But anyway, that's not the point. The point is Nancy Mace's feminist girl boss routine. And that is what is pushing me over the edge and forcing me to do this segment, which I don't really want to do, but I have to.
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If she would just stick to taking credit for things she didn't do, we wouldn't have to talk about it. I can deal with that, but I can't deal with this. And I'll tell you the reason. You know, Nancy, you say that you fought like hell to be the first female graduate of the Citadel. Well, first of all, your dad was the commandant when you were there, so I imagine you had some help in that fight.
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But second, you say that you care so much about protecting female-only spaces. Well, great. The Citadel was a male-only space until it was forced by law to admit females, to admit you, in the name of diversity and inclusion. You were quite literally the beneficiary of a DEI program. You were a DEI graduate. That's what DEI is. Now, they didn't call it that back then, but it's the same thing.
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Forcing an institution to change their standards in order to admit a more diverse group of people, all in the name of being progressive and inclusive, is DEI. And it's also the exact same argument that trans-identifying males use to invade female spaces.
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So we rightly lament the death of female-only spaces, but the truth that you are so helpfully bringing to light is that male-only spaces died a long time ago. Thanks to people like you, every uniquely masculine and exclusively male space, including those spaces that had very good reason to be uniquely masculine and exclusively male, like the military and related institutions, has been feminized.
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The feminism that you champion set the stage for trans ideology. It essentially is trans ideology. The feminists were the first ones to deny the fundamental and inherent differences between the sexes and to deny the value of sex segregation in many aspects of society. Who were the first people to come along and say that biological sex is basically irrelevant? It doesn't actually matter.
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People are the same. There's no meaningful difference between men and women. Who were the first ones to say that? Okay. Pop quiz. Who was it? It was the feminists. It was the feminists who came along, saw that the military was exclusively male, and said, there's no reason why women shouldn't be included too. But there was a reason, Nancy.
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They should focus instead on one goal, which is fighting America's enemies as effectively as they possibly can. Kill the bad guys. That's your whole job in the military. And again, this is basic stuff. Until 15 seconds ago, it wouldn't even be considered controversial. And also, common sense. One by one. That's what these orders amount to.
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The reason was biology, which is the same reality that trans activists deny, and for the same reason. So that they can feel included, just like you wanted to feel included. Now, it's not exactly the same thing. The trans male claims to be a woman so that he can be included in women's spaces.
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The trans male claims that his inclusion actually does not destroy its status as a women's space because he says falsely that he is a woman. The feminist, on the other hand, demands to be included in men's spaces but does not claim to be a man. Instead, she simply says that men's spaces shouldn't exist. So these are different arguments, but they have the same ultimate effect.
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They are both very bad. They both are based in the same fundamental lie about the human condition and the human species. And they both derive from the same basic level denial of the inherent and immutable and fundamentally significant differences between the sexes.
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And this is why I can't just sit silently and listen to a prominent voice in the Republican Party try to reframe the fight against gender ideology in feminist terms.
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I can tolerate the showboating and you taking credit when you should be giving it, but I can't tolerate that because you are hurting the cause that some of us actually have been fighting for and fighting for a long time, a lot longer than you, Nancy. And that is why Nancy Mace is today, I'm afraid to say, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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Have a great day. Godspeed.
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There's also Trump's planned order creating an Iron Dome-style missile defense system to protect the United States. We've been funding Israel's Iron Dome for many years now, but we don't have a comparable system here, even though, as recent events make clear, American cities apparently face a variety of imminent short-range threats.
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We just had a swarm of mysterious drones appear off the East Coast out of nowhere. Never got any explanation. A member of Congress suggested that Iranian ships might be launching them. Who knows? But either way, why shouldn't America's major cities have some kind of protection against threats like that? Once again, simple question. And now the second Trump administration is answering it.
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Along the same lines, Americans have made it abundantly clear that they don't want millions of illegal aliens in this country. No matter how much the corporate press pretends that they enrich our communities, No serious person thought that the status quo was acceptable, especially as the bodies of innocent men, women, and children began piling up.
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And so now, as a result, the status quo is changing. The other day, Fox reported that the Del Rio sector of the border has gone from 4,000 illegal crossings per day back in 2023 to just 60 illegal crossings yesterday. So these are actual results, and they're taking place very quickly.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now for self-appointed members of the elites, particularly in Hollywood, this has been a very difficult series of events to grasp and internalize. They can't muster any kind of rational argument against what the Trump administration is doing. They're stunned by how effective he's been. and how popular he is now because of it.
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And they know that there's no logic behind DEI or open borders or letting criminals off the hook with no consequences. So instead of presenting any kind of cogent argument, they're just melting down. And there's maybe no greater example of this phenomenon than the performance that actress and singer Selena Gomez just put on.
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She uploaded this video to her Instagram with a caption of, I'm sorry, accompanied by a Mexican flag emoji. And here's what the video, if you haven't seen it yet, looked like. Watch.
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what to do i'll try everything i promise now first of all before we even get into what she's saying this is obviously an absurd example of emotional manipulation anyone who records a video of herself crying and posted to the internet should be disregarded and ignored automatically
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, it's one thing to cry in public, which is a crime that is slightly less offensive when committed by women, though still highly annoying. But it's another thing to film the spectacle yourself and then upload it. So that's bad enough. But there's a more revealing moment that's actually worth talking about.
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You'll notice that in Selena Gomez's theatrical crying video, she refers to, quote, unquote, my people. And she's complaining about the Trump administration deporting her people. Now, if we take my people in the most literal sense, it would seem to indicate that Selena Gomez is herself a criminal alien, considering that only criminal aliens are being deported.
The Matt Walsh Show
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In that case, obviously, Selena should be immediately placed on one of those C-17 cargo planes and sent back to her homeland. She's confessed to her crimes after all. Trump should deport her based on her word alone. Better safe than sorry. Let her go be with her people.
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And then of course we should convert Selena's multi-million dollar mansions into emergency shelters to house all these illegal migrants that she's weeping over. That would be the humane thing to do after all. But if we take the statement as she likely intended it, that her people are Hispanic migrants in general, then it proves something else.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Which is that despite being born in this country, Selena Gomez doesn't see herself as American. her people are people from another country. It's difficult to imagine somebody like Selena ever using the phrase my people to refer to Americans. That would never happen. It would be a nativist and xenophobic. You can't do that. But Americans are never supposed to identify with each other in that way.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So instead, a half Mexican, half Italian billionaire celebrity from Texas identifies with Mexican illegal aliens, many of whom don't even speak our language. And it goes to show how rampant immigration, both illegal and legal, tears at the fabric of our culture and undermines our national identity. That's not the point that Selena Gomez was trying to prove, but it's the point that she did prove.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, here's the thing, Selena. If you are American, then your people are Americans. And the fact that you do not see it that way, that you do not identify with or feel any loyalty to the country that gave you everything and made you who you are, just goes to show why Trump's border policies are necessary.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, Selena, you never made a video hysterically crying when, for example, North Carolina was ravaged by a hurricane and its citizens were left to drown. You never wept over the suffering of your people who've been abandoned by Joe Biden's government and left to die. That's because you don't see white people in North Carolina as your people. And that's the problem.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So immigration enforcement is not just about keeping crime and drugs out of our neighborhoods, though that is a big part of it. At a deeper level, it's about reclaiming a sense of identity and fraternity as a nation. It's about becoming a people again, not just people who happen to all live in the same geographic area, but a people, a nation.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And anyone who doesn't want that, anyone who would prefer that we have no identity as a nation, is invited and indeed urged to leave. We don't need you here. And we don't want you. And a lot of people who are supposedly in Gomez's target audience, namely Hispanics, seem to understand this, by the way.
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The Venezuelan YouTuber named Dross, for example, responded to Gomez's video by writing, quote, shut up, stupid. So that was pretty, I mean, it's all that really needs to be said. And the backlash was pretty much universal, which is why Selena Gomez quickly deleted the post. Then she wrote a passive aggressive follow-up message that read, quote, apparently it's not okay to show empathy for people.
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Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'
And then she deleted that message too. So she clearly didn't have a lot of conviction in what she was saying. The moment her fans let her know that they thought she was acting like an imbecile, she just took the post down. It's yet another indication that the whole emotional blackmail routine is not working like it used to.
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Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'
The fact that Gomez was greeted with near universal mockery is a clear sign that things are changing. A few years ago, a sobbing actress would have probably convinced some people that, say, children were being held in cages at the southern border or whatever, if we remember that. But it doesn't work anymore because we've all been lied to and manipulated far too much.
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Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'
And as a result, we now have a government that, you know, we have leaders now who are not being cowed by these kinds of tactics. Yesterday, when border czar Tom Homan was asked about Selena Gomez's video, he pretty much said that he doesn't care. Watch.
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Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'
It's central to everything from energy levels to sleep quality. What I love about Lumen is how it adapts to your body's needs because your metabolism is at the center of everything your body does. Optimal metabolic health translates to a bunch of benefits, including easier weight management, improved energy levels, better fitness results, better sleep, etc. And who doesn't want that?
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You know, when entire neighborhoods in North Carolina were destroyed by a hurricane late last year, like we just discussed, the DHS secretary at the time made it very clear that he didn't care about any of the victims. He went shopping for clothes in Georgetown while FEMA, the agency he was supposedly overseeing, denied disaster relief to homes with Trump signs on the lawn.
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That's the kind of apathy that we're all familiar with when it comes to the federal government. But what the second Trump administration is bringing to the table is a very different kind of apathy. They are apathetic to the lazy emotional blackmail and propaganda that constantly emanates from our so-called elites, whether they're in Hollywood or the media.
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Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'
For the first time in modern history, we have an administration that simply does not care how much liberals are willing to fake cry on camera. To borrow from Kamala Harris's campaign slogan, those people are now on the enemy's list in the sense that their opinion doesn't matter. Their crying is irrelevant. What matters now is restoring sanity to this country and to our government.
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Ep. 1524 - Selena Gomez Should Deport Herself In Solidarity With 'Her People'
And the more that billionaire actresses like Selena Gomez lose their minds, the more that the rest of us can be sure that after many very dark years, sanity is indeed making a comeback. Now let's get to our five headlines. This country was founded on freedom, freedom from a country that forced us to buy overpriced tea, then tried blockading us when we dumped their tea into the ocean.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, federal workers are in a state of panic after being subjected to the smallest amount of accountability and transparency. I already had a pretty low opinion of many federal workers. Now I'm realizing that my opinion was, I guess, still too high. Also, Joy Reid weeps on camera over her firing.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning it into an artificial vagina. Mine is everything, said one male who claimed to have had gender reconstruction surgery. Another intelligence official boasted that genital surgery allowed him to wear leggings or bikinis without having to wear a gaff under it.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
These employees discussed hair removal, estrogen injections, and the experience of sexual pleasure post-castration. It goes on from there. So at least we know what the NSA has been up to. So if you ask them what they did, what their five things were last week, it's a list that none of us would want to read, but they would be able to list it.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
And if we're being honest, we all know that this kind of thing was going on at many other federal agencies. If it was happening at the NSA, supposedly one of the more serious federal agencies, then it was happening all over. None of these federal workers ever thought they'd be held accountable for what they do all day.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
And that's because for more than a century, thanks in part to various Supreme Court decisions, the idea of an ever-expanding vast federal bureaucracy has been taken as a given in this country. Nobody thought it could ever be reined in. The federal government assumed just more and more powers and, quote, civil service protections and so on, and no one ever did anything about it. But
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
He's talking about trade embargoes and inflation and how farmers in Illinois are being impacted by government policy. And he begins with one of his trademark quotes by saying, the nine most terrifying words in English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. And the line obviously resonated, and it's quite well-known and famous now.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Despite what you may have been told, the Constitution does not require any of this. Instead, the Constitution empowers the executive to run the executive branch, which employs every single one of these perverts, narcissists, and incompetents.
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No judge, no lawsuit, no act of Congress, certainly no CNN appearance can circumvent the constitutional separation of powers that gives the executive branch that control. What we're seeing now, which is something that we should have seen a long time ago, is an executive branch that's finally willing to exercise that control. Now let's get to our five headlines. You know what keeps me up at night?
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
The state of our country. But at least I'm not tossing and turning because of my mattress anymore. That's right, folks. I'm talking about Helix Sleep. I never realized how badly I needed a new mattress until I finally got one. My Helix mattress actually supports my body the way it should, and I'm sleeping straight through the night for the first time in years. The best part?
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is waking up actually feeling refreshed instead of dragging myself out of bed. What makes Helix different is they don't just sell you a random mattress. They actually customize and match you with the perfect one for your body and sleep style. Whether you're a side sleeper, back sleeper, or somewhere in between, they've got you covered.
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Helix has a sleep quiz that'll match you with your perfect mattress in under two minutes so you can better sleep and get a better start to each day. Trust me, When you find the right match, you'll wonder how you ever slept on anything else. Right now is actually the perfect time to upgrade your sleep because Helix is offering an incredible President's Day sale.
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This offer is exclusive to my listeners and even better than you'll find if you visit their main website. So go to helixsleep.com slash Walsh to get 27% off sitewide. That's helixsleep.com slash Walsh for 27% off sitewide. helixsleep.com slash Walsh. Yesterday we talked about the tragic passing of Joy Reid's show on MSNBC.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
And I explained why I'm personally heartbroken by the news, mainly because we now lose all the content that her show provided to lazy right wing podcasters like myself. But we now have Joy's reaction to this news, which we didn't have yesterday when we talked about it. And it is everything that you would expect and hope for. minus the smoke detector beeping. Here it is.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
And not just with the farmers who were watching that press conference in Chicago. Anyone who's ever interacted with the government understood immediately what Reagan was getting at. Most of the time, when the government gets more involved in your life for whatever reason, it's a good indicator that things are about to get worse. And normal people are frightened of that possibility for good reason.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Democrats in Maryland want to put condoms in elementary school vending machines. And one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time is in line to win a bunch of Oscars in a couple of weeks. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show. Let me tell you about something that doesn't get enough attention, your liver.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
That's enough. You know, she says, well, I talked about Black Lives Matter, the Black Lives Matter issue of a young baby. No. Then she quickly moves on to, or, you know, a mother. Because that's actually the one you specifically don't talk about the fact that the life of a baby matters. That's actually the one category of person, Joy, that you leave out is that.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Uh, so, but anyway, she's devastated. She's crying on camera, no dignity, no sense of decorum or self-respect. And in case anyone out there would make the mistake of feeling any pity for this woman, remember that she mocked many times what she calls white tears. You know, she has total contempt for, um, white people, in particular white women who cry. She talks about white tears.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
So I guess these are, I mean, using her sort of phrasing, her terminology, these are Joy Reid's black tears. Is that how we, can I say that I'm tired of Joy Reid's black tears? Am I allowed to say that? That only goes one way, of course, right? But even aside from Joy's racism and hypocrisy and the double standards and all that, it is, again, it's just gross and pathetic to cry like this.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
I mean, it's one thing to cry publicly over some tragedy, some national tragedy that's befallen the nation. But to cry over your show getting canceled is disgusting. It's grotesque. And speaking of grotesque and pathetic people, Rachel Maddow took to the air on Monday night on her own show to call out her network for racism, for firing Joy Reid. Listen.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
At the same time, Reagan's one-liner raised a question that, until now, has gone unanswered. And that question is this. If everyday people are mortally terrified of government intervention in their lives, then what exactly do government bureaucrats fear above all else?
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Well, it's unnerving, she says, unnerving. It's unnerving and indefensible to fire a non-white host. I guess if you have a non-white host, you just are obligated to keep them on the air indefinitely. No matter how far their ratings sink, Which of course is, so all you're doing is hurting the cause of non-white TV hosts.
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Because then the lesson you learn from that if your TV network is like, well, we better not hire any non-white people to host any shows cuz we're not allowed to fire them ever. And when it comes to ratings, by the way, Joy's ratings were really bad. I mean, just in the key demographic, which is all that really matters to the cable news shows, 25 to 54, the key demo.
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60,000.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
60,000 people in a key demo. That's like nobody. I mean, if we put up just a YouTube video and it gets 60,000 views, we're like, well, that didn't really work. And that's just for a YouTube video. This is a primetime cable show, 60,000. And that, you want to talk about indefensible, that is indefensible. Those are indefensible ratings if you want to keep your job.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
But Matto says that they're morally compelled to keep the show on the air, I guess. Even if it gets zero viewers, it should still stay on as, again, a kind of like welfare system, I guess. Nevermind the fact, and the thing that makes, of course, making this about race is so absurd for every imaginable reason.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
What short, unassuming sentence could possibly terrorize the entire federal workforce in the same way that the government is capable of terrorizing everyday people and people in the private sector? Well, a couple of days ago, courtesy of Elon Musk and Doge, we learned the answer to those questions.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
But the show is being replaced, apparently, by another show that is hosted by three people. Two of them are black. So Joy Ri is being replaced, not just with one black person, but two. And yet it's still somehow racist to fire her. And also, when Maddow says that, well, we only had two, count them, just two non-white hosts in primetime. Well, primetime is four hours.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
So that's 50% of the slots go to non-white people. That means that non-white hosts are overrepresented on MSNBC. Per capita, if you're judging by population metrics, there are too many non-white hosts on MSNBC, not too few. Not that I'm looking to defend MSNBC, of course. I'm perfectly happy to see the network get eaten alive from within. It's a lot of fun to see that, as always.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
But it just goes to show that the left is not free of, and will never be free of, this kind of racial insanity that has defined it for so long. I know we talked about wokeness being dead and it is certainly on the run. It's backed into a corner.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
It has been losing battle after battle, but it's not actually dead because look, if Joy Reid could be fired for having abysmal ratings and nobody on the left, nobody prominent on the left made it about race, then that would be a pretty clear sign that wokeness is basically dead. That didn't happen. Instead, they all did exactly what you knew they would do, which is make it about race right away.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
No hesitation. So this is who they are. It's how their minds work. It'll never change. Okay, well, we've lost Joy Reid for now and all the content she brings. But fortunately, we still have The View. So we still have them. And here they are yesterday claiming that it is unchristian to criticize wokeness. Listen.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
We finally learned how to usher in a state of total panic in the federal government in just a few short words. It turns out that all you need to do if you want federal bureaucrats to melt down in a very public and humiliating fashion is ask them what they did last week. That's it.
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Well, that's true. I don't care about the oppression of LGBT people or disabled people or minorities in this country because it's not happening. So it's hard to care about something that isn't actually occurring. It's hard for me to care about a thing that is fictional unless it's in a movie or something.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
The word oppression has a meaning, and the meaning of oppression is that this is cruel or unjust treatment being inflicted on a person or a group by somebody in power. It's an unjust, cruel use of power against a person or group. That's what oppression is.
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So in what way are LGBT people or black people or even disabled people, since they got wrapped into this somehow, in what way are they being unjustly and cruelly treated and abused by people in power? And I know when you say that, people on the left are like, what do you mean? There are a million ways. Are you kidding? It's the easiest question. Okay, well, go ahead. Easy question, right?
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Give me one example. One clear example. You can't do it. So that's our problem with wokeness. One of the problems anyway. As a woke person, you expect us to have sympathy for the entirely invented plight of people who are not only not being persecuted, but are often the recipients of unfairly advantageous treatment.
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And that's because in your woke mind, oppression and persecution are not words with any objective meaning. These are not things that actually happen. Or at least it doesn't matter if they happen or not. What matters is that you feel like they're happening. So to be woke is to believe that your lived experience
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a phrase that only a woke person would ever be vapid enough to actually say out loud, your lived experience, quote unquote, which is to say your own personal perception, your feelings about your experiences more than the experiences themselves outweigh the facts on the ground. And that, by the way, so many people, I mean, I've always complained about this phrase lived experience because it's
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
It appears to be redundant. I mean, of course, if you had an experience, of course you lived it. You can't have an unlived experience, can you? And it is redundant when taken literally, but you can't take anything that woke people say literally because, again, nothing has any objective literal meaning in their minds.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
To bring the entire federal bureaucracy to its knees, you just need to pose a question that every single private sector worker on the planet is able to answer and knows they must be able to answer or they will be fired. As you may have seen by now, here's the email that I'm talking about.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
So what they actually mean when they say lived experience, what they mean is felt experience, right? To live and to feel, to them, are the same thing. These are words that are interchangeable. And so what they're saying is felt experience. And there is a distinction between your felt experience and an actual experience.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Like there's what's actually happening, and then there's how you feel about what's happening. And so when they say, well, my lived experience is that I've been oppressed, what they mean is, I feel like it. My experience is that I feel like I'm being oppressed. And then when a rational person responds and says, well, yeah, but you weren't actually oppressed. Like, that didn't happen.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Well, but I feel like it did. I feel like it did, so then it basically did. That's what it means to be woke. And... So yes, our lack of compassion and concern and empathy is for that, your feeling. Like we don't, if you feel a certain way and the way you feel totally contradicts the reality on the ground, then yeah, we don't care about your feeling. There's not, we can't do anything about that.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
That is your problem. That's like the very definition of a you thing. There's nothing we can do about that. And so that's how you, that's the difference. The Post Millennial reports this, the Maryland House of Delegates passed legislation on Friday that would repeal a prohibition on selling condoms and vending machines within public schools.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
House Bill 380, sponsored by Democrat delegate Nicole Williams, would allow contraceptives to be sold in vending machines in nursery schools, preschools, elementary schools, and high schools, according to the Baltimore Sun. The bill also eliminates the current misdemeanor criminal penalty, which carries a $1,000 fine. Williams explained, quote, it's a really simple bill.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
All it does is remove a criminal penalty. It's not setting policy. It's not dictating to anyone what they should or should not do. All we're doing is removing a misdemeanor from our criminal law article. The bill, however, has drawn criticism from Republican lawmakers. Republican Delegate Kathy Zaliga referred to it as condoms for kiddies, saying the bill goes too far.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Harford County Republican Delegate Lauren Ariken also opposed the measure, questioning the necessity of condom sales in places for education. Well, I actually agree that they should remove the misdemeanor penalty for giving condoms to elementary school students. They should get rid of the misdemeanor penalty and make it a felony. Get rid of the misdemeanor and replace it with a felony.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
It was sent by the Office of Personnel Management, which is essentially the HR department of the federal government. And it was clearly drafted by Elon Musk, who famously asked this same question to the old CEO of Twitter before Musk took over and fired him. But here's what the email looked like. Very, very simple.
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It should not be a misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine to give condoms to elementary school students. It should be a felony with prison time. So if you're going to make a change to that law, that's what the change should be. And this is obviously perverse and totally insane.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Anyone who supports putting condoms in a public school vending machine is a dangerous pervert who should not be allowed around children, much less teaching them or setting public policy that affects them. But when I read these kinds of articles, what I want to focus on is the statement from the lawmaker who opposes this measure. So we're told that this Republican delegate says she's against it.
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And it's good that she's against it. You should be against it. But then she says the phrase that I hate the most from Republicans. I hate this phrase from Republicans. I want all Republicans and conservatives to take this phrase just out of their, remove this phrase from their vocabulary entirely. This is a phrase that will be on the tombstone of the Democrat Party, or rather the Republican Party.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
This is the tombstone of the Republican Party is this phrase. This goes too far. This is like the mantra of the Republican Party. As the Democrat Party has run roughshod over American culture, ransacking and pillaging and taking whatever they want, Republicans have stood by for decades and impotently shouted, this goes too far.
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Now granted, in recent times, and by that I mean like the last month or so, Republicans Republicans under Trump have actually been operating effectively and enacting an agenda for the first time in my lifetime. But historically, usually, this is what we get. We get these shouts of, that goes too far. And I don't want to give Kathy a hard time. I don't know anything about her.
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Maybe she's a very solid right-wing conservative. I truly don't know. It's possible that she is. I just don't know. I'm only saying that it goes too far is the wrong response to this kind of thing. Putting condoms in public school vending machines doesn't go too far. It is an outrageous and depraved act of sexual predation against children.
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It's a thing that like no degree of this thing should be happening. It's not that we went too far in the direction of giving birth control to kids in school. It's a thing that we should not have gone one inch in that direction. So goes too far means or implies that there's a form of giving birth control to kids in public school that would be acceptable.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
As you can see, it reads, please reply to this email with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager. Now, you will not find a less threatening, more straightforward question that an employer could possibly ask an employee. I struggle to think of any remotely productive worker in any context who would have any difficulty answering this question.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
But that putting them in vending machines or maybe putting them in elementary school goes too far. So goes too far is what Republicans have historically said when the left tries to enact some crazy far left policy. But Republicans would prefer a slightly less crazy far left policy. It's like if somebody robbed you and stole $300 out of your wallet. And then you shouted, well, this is ridiculous.
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You've taken too much. You stole too much from me. You wouldn't say that because obviously you're implying that there's a certain amount of money that you would be okay with them stealing. And your issue is not that you got robbed per se. It's that they took more money than you would have preferred for them to take when they did rob you.
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No, in reality, 10 cents is too much when you're getting robbed. There's no amount that is the inappropriate amount. And it's the same thing here. So I'm not trying to be pedantic, but I've been following politics for long enough to know what these phrases mean. And the point here is important. We should not merely object to public schools going too far in their efforts to sexualize children.
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We should object to wholly to the sexualization of children in every form and to any degree whatsoever. Another way of putting it is that we need to object in principle to these kinds of things, not just to the kind of crazier manifestations of it, but to the thing itself is what we should object to. All right, let's get to the comment section.
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Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Tax season's here again, and the IRS isn't messing around in 2025. Look, I get it. Tax problems are about as fun as a root canal. Maybe you've got some unfiled returns collecting dust, or you're sitting on a pile of back taxes that's giving you night sweats. And with April 15th breathing down your neck, it's tempting to just walk into the woods alone, never look back, and hope it all goes away.
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But here's the thing. Trying to ghost the IRS, well, that's like trying to outrun a bear. Spoiler alert, it does not end well. And that's why you should let Tax Network USA deal with this headache for you. These folks aren't your average tax people. They've got a direct line to the IRS. Apparently that's a thing, so they know exactly which agents to talk to.
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Whether you're in the hole for 10K or 10 mil, they've got tricks up their sleeves that actually work. They've already sorted out over a billion dollars in tax debt, so they must be doing something right. Talk with one of their strategists today. It's free. Stop the threatening letters. Stop looking over your shoulder and protect yourself from property seizures and bank levies.
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Don't let the IRS control your future. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit TNUSA.com slash Walsh. April 15th is just around the corner, so act now before the IRS acts first. Okay, a lot of comments on the beard subject. So these are all beard comments we're going to do today. Matt, during the beard segment, you said beards are one of three things you agree with the Taliban on.
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Can you please list the other two for historical record? That feels like a trap. It feels like you're trying to trap me. You're not going to trick me into singing the praises of the Taliban again. Not again. Not for two shows in a row. Only one. That's a once a week thing. We don't do that every day. So check back next week and maybe we'll revisit the topic. Worse with a beard, David Letterman.
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No, a lot of people have tried. I said I defy anyone to come up with an example of a man who looked worse after growing a beard. And there have been many attempts, all of them unsuccessful. David Letterman is also a failed attempt to come up with an example. And by the way, I said every man looks better with a beard.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You know, a janitor could say he mopped five floors. A plumber could say he fixed five toilets. A restaurant worker could say he served a certain number of tables and so on. A lawyer or consultant or anyone else with an hourly rate could produce a timesheet that outlines everything he did at every single moment of the day. Okay, well, maybe a consultant couldn't do that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I didn't say that every man necessarily looks better with a beard grown down to his ankles. I respect those kinds of beards. I respect the effort, but you can't have too much beard. I will say that. I mean, it's possible. It could get to a point. It's like if I said every man looks better if he builds muscle. That's definitely true. Every man would look better if he built muscle.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It could go too far. I mean, you could be just a roided up lunatic, you know, one of these over the top bodybuilder types where you've got biceps five times bigger than your head kind of thing, where you don't, it doesn't even look like your body matches anymore. You look like you took the head from another person and put it on your body.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Then it starts and it's, the muscles aren't even functional anymore. Like you wouldn't even, you can't, it's, it's, there's, there's no function. It's all just there for show. So you can get to that level where it's like, it's too much. Okay. You've gone too far. But that doesn't disprove the statement that every man looks better if he builds muscle. And same for beards.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Every man looks better if he grows a beard. Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles both need beards, LOL. Well, they do. And I've talked to both of them about this privately and publicly. I've called them both out for their, I think, outrageous... refusal to grow a beard. And the crazy thing is that Ben, for a short period of time, looked like he was threatening to grow a beard. And it was a good look.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I tried to encourage him. He kind of had the beard thing going slightly in the last year or two. And I can remember even privately giving some encouragement, like, keep it going. And then he just gave up. And this is the thing. A lot of guys will do this. They'll start to grow the beard, and then they get to a point where they become frightened, and they turn back.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And often I'll hear, guys will say to me, well, yeah, I tried to grow it, and then it got itchy. Okay, well, you got to push through that. It's not going to be itchy forever. Again, I'm not sitting here every second of the day just feeling like I have poison ivy rash all over my face because I have a beard. But you have to get through it. You have to push through it, okay?
The Matt Walsh Show
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It takes a certain commitment. So if you get to the itchy phase, you're getting right to the precipice of being a legitimate bearded man, of being a beardsman. Being a real beardsman is on the other side of the itchiness, but you have to push through it. This is literally what separates the men from the boys.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Did Matt just declare that Michael, Ben, and Andrew are all shriveled, leprous little weaklings? I did not declare that. That's not me saying that. That's science. This is basic biology that makes these determinations. Matt, I'm one quarter Native American Indian. If I try to grow a beard, it comes in patchy and uneven. I would grow one if it didn't make me look like a homeless psychopath.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But most workers in the private sector, both white collar and blue collar, can and often must answer questions like this. But for many federal workers, this email is an existential threat. That's because unlike the overwhelming majority of workers in this country in the private sector, they in many, though not all cases, don't do anything. And to this point have not been expected to do anything.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You know, there were a lot of comments like this. A lot of people claiming their ethnicity gives them an excuse to not grow a beard. I heard a lot of, oh, I'm Native American. Oh, I'm Asian. You know, that's not an You're the one who decided to be Native American. So don't come to me with that excuse. Don't use that as an excuse now. I mean, everyone is capable of growing some kind of beard.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Whatever it is, that's your beard. Let's see. Says the guy who can grow a nice beard, my patchy as hell. Well, again, here we go with the patchy beard thing again. Patchy beards are also, those are, look, this might be controversial. Those are a fine look, I think. I think those are fine. That's like, that's a, they call it hobo chic, I think is what they call it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's, so you got, it's a little, the hobo look is a look. That's fine too. So I would rather look like a hobo than look like a baby-faced freak, okay? So those are your two options, I'm afraid. Those are the two options that you have. And I take the hobo look in that case. You look like a hobo. It doesn't mean you actually have to beat one.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I didn't say you have to actually go get a box and lay on a street corner. Matt, why don't you have a beard? Are you stupid? Matt, half a second later, buy these Jeremy's razor blades. That's fair. That's fair. Actually, that's not fair because you know what? This is another misconception. I hear this a lot. Well, what are you selling Jeremy's razors if you're such a fan of beards?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, first of all, I don't sell them. It wouldn't be my choice. So this is not a product that I would choose to sell. It's not my product. But second, just because you have a beard doesn't mean you don't use a razor. Like if I didn't use any kind of razor at all, I would be like a werewolf. So you do, you know, it's a little bit of maintenance. That's what the razor's for.
The Matt Walsh Show
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These two things do not contradict. So nice try. This is one you don't want to miss. On Tuesday, March 4th, President Donald Trump is addressing a joint session of Congress at 9 p.m. Eastern, laying out his America First vision, tackling immigration reform, economic revival, and national security. And you know we're not sitting this one out. Join us for Backstage Live at 8.30 p.m.
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Eastern, our pre-show breakdown with me, Ben, Michael, Andrew, and Jeremy. And then we'll watch the entire speech together live on Daily Wire Plus. When Trump's done, we're back with unfiltered, no BS reactions. You won't get anywhere else. This is the event shaping America's future, so make sure you're there. Watch it all live on Daily Wire Plus this Tuesday night. Subscribe now at dailywire.com.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation. This cancellation segment today exists mainly so that I can justify three and a half hours that I wasted this weekend. But it also, I hope, serves as a warning that will save many of you from suffering the same fate.
The Matt Walsh Show
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There's also a lesson to be learned here, I think, or relearned about Hollywood and movie critics and the kinds of films that earn all the praise and accolades these days. So my wife and I just watched a critically acclaimed new film called The Brutalist. And this is a movie that... When the Oscars roll around in a couple of weeks, it's likely set to take home several awards.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It already took home the Golden Globes for Best Drama, Best Director, and Best Actor, along with a slate of other smaller awards throughout this award season. Critics have hailed the film as a work of genius, a masterpiece. Its critics score on Rotten Tomatoes sits at 93%.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They just shuffle papers around and wait until their pensions vest. This is something that's considered impolite to say out loud, I guess, but everybody knows it's true. In many cases, these federal jobs function like a kind of welfare that's designed specifically to provide fake jobs to certain demographics. That's not some right-wing conspiracy theory, by the way.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And if you scroll down the poll quotes on the Rotten Tomatoes website, you'll find critics saying stuff like, quote, it is quite easily one of the greatest films of the 21st century. End quote. A monumental work of cinema. End quote. It's not a film to devour, but to be devoured by. There's such a weight to it that it creates its own field of gravity. Now, these are ringing endorsements.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, the first two quotes are. I'm not exactly sure what the hell the third one is even supposed to be trying to say. But this is what happens when film critics are really taken by a film. They get so caught up in the experience that they start babbling incoherently. All told, suffice it to say, this film is a critical darling. And it's not just the critics singing its praises.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is a very respectable 80%. And... I have personally heard from multiple people that it's a good film, even a great film. And it was this last piece, the endorsements of actual humans as opposed to movie critics, that convinced me to sit down with my wife and watch this thing. And that is a decision that I very much regret.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I am sad to report that The Brutalist is not good. It is very bad. In fact, it is all told one of the most unpleasant film experiences I have ever had. Indeed, I find it very hard to believe that most of the people who claim to like this film actually did like it. When someone tells me, I like the film, I think you're lying, I think you're a liar.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I'm calling you a liar, I don't believe you liked it. Because every year it seems there is one especially artsy and self-indulgent film that everybody pretends to like because they think they're supposed to. They're convinced that the film is some sort of IQ test and the score is pass fail and the way to pass it they think is to think the movie is a masterpiece.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Even if in reality they spend at least half the runtime praying for the damn thing to be over. The movie becomes a kind of psyop that critics run on the public and then the public runs on itself. Everyone goes around speaking in hushed and reverent tones about the monumental artistic achievement of a film that almost all of them actually hated.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Every year gives us at least one of those kinds of movies. And The Brutalist is this year's addition to that pantheon of films that people hate but pretend to like. And I'm here to tell you, Do not fall for the PSYOP. Do not waste your time on this movie. And if you don't believe me, I will describe the film to you, and there will be spoilers. This is your warning.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If you don't want the plot spoiled, don't listen to this review. Although the good news is that the plot really can't be spoiled because there isn't much of a plot to spoil. The Brutalist is a slow, meandering slog to nowhere. It is a long, dreary, monotonous journey into the void. And when I say long, I mean long. I mean three and a half hours long.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You could watch two and a half other movies in the time it takes to watch this one movie. There is no valid excuse for a movie to be three and a half hours long. Anyone who's ever made a film knows that editing is a crucial process of the filmmaking process.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Okay, you also know that if you're not getting rid of scenes you like when you're editing, not just scenes you don't like, but even some of the moments you do like, then you're not editing it enough. Editing and cutting down a film should hurt. It should be painful. And if it doesn't hurt, you have not cut nearly enough from the film.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Spend five minutes reading left-wing media, and you'll find this statement isn't even controversial. I mean, they come out and admit it. For example, here's a report this week from NBC-BLK, which is NBC News division that produces reports for black people, which is something that exists for some reason, I guess. And we'll put it on screen. The headline reads, quote,
The Matt Walsh Show
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And it's clear that the director, Brady Corbett, took apparently very much the opposite approach. So he put the film together, came up with his V1, looked at it and said, this is absolutely perfect, we will cut not one single thing. In fact, let's add some more random stuff. The movie is only three hours long, let's add about 15 more shots of people staring forlorn into the distance.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And we already have nine scenes of the protagonist shooting heroin, let's add five or six more. Cuz you can never have too much heroin in a movie, I say. That was apparently the conversation that happened in the editing bay while this film was being put together. And the end product is an endurance test that the vast majority of the audience will probably fail. So what is the movie about?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, The Brutalist is a story of a fictional Hungarian Jewish architect named Laszlo Toth. played by Adrian Brody, who flees war-torn Europe and immigrates to the United States, where he is eventually reunited with his now-disabled wife and niece. They're initially split up, and then they reunite a little bit later in the film. And he faces a lot of hardship.
The Matt Walsh Show
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He befriends a homeless black man, one of the only virtuous characters in the whole film, of course. develops a heroin addiction, and is eventually taken in by a wealthy American business magnate played by Guy Pearce. And Pearce's character, Harrison Van Buren, enlists Toth to build a giant community center in Pennsylvania. Which, if you can call that a plot, that's basically the plot of the film.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, the theme of this movie is that immigrants have a hard time in America and are underappreciated and often abused. And this theme, which is not exactly a unique or revolutionary theme, but it's a theme that approximately 90% of all Oscar bait movies explore. And the theme is explored in relatively subtle ways for the first about half of the film.
The Matt Walsh Show
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In fact, if the movie had only consisted of its first half, if it had ended around its midpoint, it might have been a decent, though not great film. But unfortunately, it continues. And then it continues, and it continues, and it continues.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And finally, just in case the audience has not quite gotten the message that Americans are cruel to immigrants, there's a scene towards the end where, again, spoiler, Van Buren finds an intoxicated Toth laying in a back alley and proceeds to rape him while telling him how disgusting and useless he is. Yes, the white Christian American businessman
The Matt Walsh Show
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makes anti-immigrant comments while raping the Jewish immigrant in a back alley. And that's an actual scene in this movie, all right? And Toth, for some reason, goes back to work for Van Buren even after this episode. But now he's an even more morose character, understandably.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And this leads to the climactic moment in the third act where Toth's disabled wife wakes up screaming from pain in the middle of the night. Because she's disabled. She has osteoporosis. This is also a scene, by the way, that we see like 10 times of her waking in the middle of the night, you know, screaming in pain. Because we got to get the point. She's disabled and in pain.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Much of the black middle class was built by federal jobs. That may change. For the last several decades, federal jobs helped black workers find stable work with guardrails to prevent bias, but mass cuts are threatening decades of upward mobility. In other words, yes, these federal jobs don't really benefit the taxpayers who are funding the salaries.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We can't have one scene that tells you that. We need 15 scenes so that you understand that this woman is disabled and in pain. And finally, there's this scene and... Toth decides, because he's such a good husband, that the way to make his wife feel better is to give her intravenous heroin, which he does, and then has sex with his overdosing wife, who almost dies.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And when she wakes up in the hospital, she tells her husband that she wants to move back to Israel, or move to Israel, because America is rotten. Quote, the whole country is rotten, she says. And then she leaves. She goes home. Well, before going back to Israel, she then goes to the home of Van Buren to confront him for raping her husband. And Van Buren runs away and kills himself.
The Matt Walsh Show
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At least that's implied. They never actually show it. But he goes and kills himself. And... The end. Like that's the end of the movie. There's a totally unnecessary epilogue scene because unnecessary scenes could be the actual name of this movie.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But the movie essentially ends with the homosexual Christian rapist millionaire committing suicide after he's confronted by the strong feminist wife of the Jewish heroin addict immigrant that he violated. So that's probably all you need to know about this movie. There are enough problems in what I've just described that I would think would convince you not to watch it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But there are plenty of other problems, too. For one thing, and this is not a small issue, Toth is supposed to be a brilliant architect in the film. The whole point is that he was a brilliant architect. He came here. He can't get a job. He's shoveling coal. And then Van Buren discovers him and says, oh my gosh, look at your buildings. It's beautiful.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Except that his buildings are monstrously hideous. They are these clunky, behemoth, unartful masses of concrete. And in a way, they're a good metaphor for the movie itself. And meanwhile, the main character, Toth, has essentially no redeeming qualities. He's a junkie and an adulterer who designs ugly buildings. Even worse, he gets raped by a man and still goes back to work for him.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Doesn't have to, by the way. At this point in the film, he had gotten a job in New York, just a steady, stable office job in New York. He could go back to that. He's not desperate and impoverished. He decides to go back and work for the guy who just raped him. And then he leaves it to his disabled wife to go confront the guy.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, I'm not saying that movies have to have happy endings or that they have to always tell stories about saints and heroes. I have nothing against said movies. I have nothing in principle, at least against movies that focus on flawed people or even bad people. The Godfather is one of the greatest films of all time after all.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But if you want me to spend three hours, three and a half hours with a character, if you want me to stay invested through something like 30 years of this character's lifespan, you have to give me some reason to care about him. And there is no reason to care about this character. Now there's a principle in screenwriting called save the cat. It's a phrase coined by Blake Snyder.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And the idea is that in a film, You want your protagonist to do something generous or heroic in the first 10 or 15 minutes of the film in order to get the audience on his side and to make us care about what happens afterwards. And I think this is probably an overly simplistic rule. It's a formula that doesn't always hold up.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Instead, they benefit certain demographics that without these fake jobs would not make anywhere near as much money. In their panic over Elon Musk, Democrats in the corporate press are finally just coming out and admitting that. And as you expect, they're going to fight like hell to keep that gravy train going.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But there's a general point, which is true, that as the filmmaker, you need to give us as an audience a reason to care about this character. And The Brutalist does the opposite. It takes a kind of anti-save-the-cat approach. And in this film, the protagonist, in the very beginning, makes it to America without his wife. His wife is, as far as we know, still in a concentration camp.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And the first thing he does is visit a prostitute. His wife is in a concentration camp. And his first move, his very first move, is to have sex with a hooker. A scene that, like many other sex scenes in this movie, they show in long and gratuitous detail. And I have no idea why. I mean, this is... I don't know who gratuitous sex scenes in movies are for.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Every time I see it in a movie, and there's like five or six of them in this movie... Who is this for? Why is this here? Anyone who wants to watch porn can find it anywhere else on the internet. Like, they don't need to sit through a three and a half hour movie about a Holocaust survivor to see porn. They could unfortunately find it anywhere else.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The rest of us would prefer not to have it interjected into the middle of a film for no reason. Okay, like... You want to have the guy visit a hooker. Story-wise, I don't think you should do that. I think all it accomplishes is it makes me hate this character, and then you're going to put this character through the ringer for the next three and a half hours.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I don't care about what happens to him after that because he's a bad guy, so I just don't care that much. But if you want to do that, you can show the guy walk into the brothel and then walk out buttoning his pants up and we get it. We can fill in the rest. We don't need to actually see the stuff that happens in between. No adult watching the movie is gonna go, well, what happened in there?
The Matt Walsh Show
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What was the meaning of that? What was that all about? Anyway, the bigger problem is that the character doesn't really grow or change in any way from this point. Another basic principle of filmmaking is that the main character has to undergo some kind of transformation. Some sort of change should happen. That's what a story is.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Like a character goes through a change, both an internal emotional change and there should be some kind of, so there should be the internal journey and the physical journey. Both of those things should happen in a story. It's not a real story if we don't see that. And instead, Brody's character goes from sad to a lot sadder by the end.
The Matt Walsh Show
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He's a pitiful figure in the beginning, and by the end, he's even more pitiful. Why do we need to see that? Why should we want to see that? Why does this movie exist? Why did the filmmaker feel the need to tell this story? None of that is clear by the end of the movie. I will say the performances in the film are quite impressive. They're good performances. It is a beautifully shot film.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Some federal workers have just filed a lawsuit against the government because of the email asking them what they do all day. Yes, rather than answer an extremely basic question that demands a bare minimum of accountability, federal workers would rather go to court. As Axios reports, quote, federal workers sue over what did you do last week email.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But the movie underneath is quite ugly. It is ugly and pointless and depressing and demoralizing just for the sake of it, for no reason other than just to be that way. And, you know, I just asked why the film exists, and I think I answered the question. It exists in order to be ugly and pointless and depressing and demoralizing. And that's why a lot of films exist these days.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And they usually win a bunch of awards and people pretend to like them, but that doesn't change the fact that they are, at their core, simply bad films. And this is simply a bad film. And it is also, today, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Only federal agencies have the ability to hire and fire their workers, the lawsuit says. The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government's HR office, which sent out the email over the weekend, does not have that authority, the suit alleges. They're specifically objecting to Elon Musk's statement that if workers don't answer the email, it'll be taken as a resignation.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They're arguing, in essence, that federal workers are entitled to ignore emails from their bosses, asking them what they do all day. That is the extent of entitlement that we're dealing with here. And by the way, these workers are getting a second chance to answer the email. Now Musk has clarified that, quote, subject to the discretion of the president, they will be given another chance.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Failure to respond a second time will result in termination. So they get another chance. And it looks like if they want to keep their jobs, these workers should just take it. Already several federal departments have told their employees that they need to reply to this email. The Department of Transportation has instructed workers to reply.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So has the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and many others. But there are signs that throughout the federal government, many workers will simply be incapable of answering this email. They legitimately cannot think of a single thing they did in the past week that was productive, apparently.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that's probably terrible news for their careers. But it's good news for us because if nothing else, their televised meltdowns have been pretty entertaining. So we'll start with this indignant woman on CNN who works at some unnamed federal agency. And she's very upset about this. Watch.
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These spoiled brats. I mean, it's amazing. They just can't help themselves. Yeah, the plan is to gut the federal workforce. And you are why, lady. You're the reason why we want to gut the federal workforce. It's exactly because of you and people like you. Infuriate it. infuriated that she's being asked to simply, what did you do last week? With the taxpayer money, we are paying you.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
It's our money out of our pockets to do a job. Did you do the job? What is the job? What did you do? That's the question. Now, evidently, this woman has a lot of time to appear on CNN and claim that she's being bullied and harassed and she's absolutely infuriated. But even after talking through this whole segment, she still never explains what she does all day.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Instead, she attacks her supervisors, which is, again, it can't be emphasized enough. In the private sector, you would not get away with this. If your boss comes up to you at your job and says, hey, what did you do last week? And you said, well, I'm infuriated that you even asked me that question. How dare you?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
How dare you expect me to explain what I'm doing with the money you're paying me to do the job? How dare you? if you responded that way, you would just be fired. And of course, this woman is just one of many examples. On Reddit, federal workers are posting various plans for noncompliance and retaliation. They're talking about ways to spam the federal email system, for example.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
One viral post, which was picked up by CNN, reports that some federal workers may be considering leaking top secret information to foreign adversaries. That's how committed they are to public service. Okay, rather than explain what they've done last week, they would rather commit treason. That's what they would prefer.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
And what's especially funny about this whole meltdown is that a few years ago, documents obtained by the investigative reporter Patrick Half found that 25% of federal workers went a full month without even attempting to check their emails during the COVID lockdowns. So they just went dark, a full month. So really you can make the case as Musk has that
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
These emails are necessary just to make sure these workers are still alive. This is like proof of life. We just want to make, you know, it's just, are you alive and opening your laptops at least every once in a while? But apparently that's too much for these workers to deal with. They're worried that if they have to answer the email honestly, they might lose their jobs.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Thousands of probationary federal workers have already met that fate. In particular, terminated workers at the IRS are having some of the better meltdowns. Here's one of them, which was posted by NBC Philadelphia. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Here I am. I was one of those government employees who went to work every day. One of those. Yeah, but that's exactly the problem. I was even one of those federal workers who went to work every day. But that shouldn't be one of those. That should just be all of them. That shouldn't be like a type of federal worker. That shouldn't be a special category.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
I was one of those special ones who actually went to work every day, Monday through Friday. Yes, this IRS worker stated that he was shocked to be fired because he actually showed up to work five days a week. That was his tour of duty, as he put it. These are people who legitimately think they're storming the beaches of Normandy just by going into an office building on a regular schedule.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
They cannot imagine a scenario in which normal people don't see them as war heroes because they leave home and commute to their job and occasionally conduct audits that make people's lives a living hell and then punch out at 3.30 in the afternoon. Okay, they have a schedule about as grueling as a third grader. That's when elementary schoolers get home is 3.30.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
So this seems to be something of a trend at the IRS. Here's another recently terminated IRS worker with his sob story.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
So did you catch his dream job? He was a tax-exempt officer dealing with nonprofit organizations and compliance. That's what he's crying about on national television. This was his dream that has been shattered. This was his pursuit of happiness kind of story. And growing up, some people want to be astronauts. Some kids want to be race car drivers. They want to be heroes. But not this guy.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
He dreamt of becoming a tax-exempt officer dealing with nonprofit organizations and compliance. That's how he thought he would serve the American people as he sits there in sweatpants with his smoke detector beeping, which is so on the nose that I thought that that was a joke. I had to look up to see if that beep was in the original video. It is. I don't...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
You know, some stereotypes just are stereotypes for a reason. In fact, they almost all are. And then, of course, there's the part where he explains that in his understanding, the federal government took care of its people, unlike corporate America. In other words, he thought he'd score a permanent job with no accountability whatsoever. That was actually his dream, right?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
He wasn't actually dreaming of enforcing compliance on nonprofits or whatever. He was dreaming about having a job where there was no accountability. None of these people can hear themselves speaking. None of them understand what they're acknowledging. And in reality, they're making the case for their terminations better than Elon or Donald Trump possibly could.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
They're more or less stating that they don't do anything. But to be fair to the federal government, there are some exceptions. There are some employees, particularly employees in the federal intelligence agencies, who have been very busy in recent years. And I'm talking specifically about the National Security Agency, or NSA.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
And we know they've been busy at the NSA because the City Journal just obtained chat logs from the agency's top secret internal messaging system. As the City Journal has just reported, quote, these logs dating back two years are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and castration.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Trump is already off and running as President of the United States will review the battery of executive orders and actions from just his first day in office. And we'll talk about what I think was the most important part of his inaugural address on Monday. Also, I want to talk about three hours, but we now have the first big media hoax of the second administration.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So we can very easily and honestly say that Trump was more productive in his first 12 hours in office than Biden was in four years, by far. I mean, by far, in a way. And really, all of this stuff is what manifest destiny looks like in practice. If people are going to cause problems for us, if they're going to hurt us, hurt America, hurt Americans, we can go out and take care of them.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
If there's territory that's valuable to us, like the Panama Canal that we built, well, it's ours. We can take it. If there's a planet that can ensure the survival of the human race one day, potentially, like Mars, then we'll colonize it. And that, by the way, was maybe my personal favorite part of his speech when he declared that America will plant a flag on Mars. And that really matters.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Not just to ensure humanity's survival, because I have no idea whether Mars will ever be actually colonized. Elon Musk seems to think so, and he knows a lot more about this stuff than you or I do. But regardless of that, planting our flag on another planet would be the greatest achievement in the entire history of mankind. And we should strive for that achievement simply for its own sake.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Manifest destiny is a concept that has not been explicitly invoked by an American president in a very long time. It's the idea that Americans have a divine mandate to conquer, to expand, to reach out across vast expanses. If James Polk hadn't embraced manifest destiny in the middle of the 19th century, there's a very good chance that America wouldn't look anything like what it does today.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Because great countries do great things. And because we as a people, as a nation, need a moment of collective triumph like that. We haven't had one in many, many years. In other words, it's clear from his first day in office that Trump is focused both on the practical issues and on the big picture. It's difficult for a leader to do both of those things at once. Joe Biden, of course, did neither.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Wasn't even clear who was running the country for the last four years. But that's all changing now. And if Trump could keep up this level of focus and momentum through all four years, which isn't going to be easy, but if he can, then this has the chance to be one of the great presidential terms in American history.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Trump has embraced an ideology that's rooted in confidence, one that all successful and high-functioning countries embrace. He's openly promoting the promise of manifest destiny, which no president has done since James Polk. And now, armed with the lessons he learned from his previous four years in office, the chances seem pretty high that Trump will make good on that promise.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now let's get to our five headlines. Our country was born fighting for freedom, breaking away from a nation that forced us to buy their overpriced tea and tried to blockade our ports when we tossed it into the Boston Harbor. We all know how that turned out. So now it's time for another revolution, throwing those overpriced big wireless contracts overboard just like that tea.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
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Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Okay, well, we made it about three hours into Trump's first day in office before the first big media hoax came along. And so you've seen the headlines probably all over the place, declaring, screeching from the heavens that Elon Musk did a Nazi salute at Trump's rally yesterday. Politico, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, all the mainstream outlets have been reporting this.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
AOC, lots of other Democrats, all claiming that Elon got up on stage at Trump's rally and did a Nazi salute intentionally. So let's go to the video. We'll just play the full video in context of Elon Musk on stage. And we'll see this gesture that's being called a Nazi salute. Here it is.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
We wouldn't have States like California and Utah and Oregon, Washington, and many more. I mean, if we didn't have the spirit to manifest destiny, really from the beginning of our nation's history, our country never would have gained access to the Pacific. We would have established no foothold west of the Mississippi at all.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Okay, so the so-called... nazi salutes was actually elon saying my heart goes out to you and you can hear him say that so that what they're doing is that they're showing the gesture and then they're cutting it off before he says my heart goes out to you so he's pouring out his heart to the to the crowd um And it's very clear in context that that's what he means.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And this is also anyone who's seen Elon Musk up on stage during the last few months of the campaign. And now this is just his style. He's got kind of this wild freewheeling style and lots of gesturing and that sort of thing. And so it's obvious that that's what happened there. Although, I mean-
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Even to address this sort of thing feels rather silly because we all know that obviously Elon Musk was not doing a Nazi salute. If you are not a mentally defective person, then even before you see the video, As soon as you see the headline saying Elon Musk did a Nazi salute, you already know that that's false. Because that's not a thing that any functioning human being would do.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Why would Elon Musk get up on stage and do a Nazi salute? What would be the reason for that? What would be the motive for that? So the moment you see the headline, you already know that it's a lie, obviously. And then you see the video and it's clear what was meant by it. Now, is the gesture kind of like awkward? Yeah, but so what? It's okay to have a sense of humor about it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
If we just be people with a sense of humor, then you could look at it like Elon making that gesture as a way to signal my heart goes out to you is legitimately funny. It's just funny and you laugh about it and you move on and that's it. It doesn't have to be. It's not a headline. It's not anything. You just move on with your life.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Because again, every single person knows that obviously Elon Musk was not doing a Nazi salute. There's no reason for that. There'd be no motive for it. You don't stand to benefit at all from it. This is something that the media and the left, they pretend not to understand. They pretend not to understand that people don't just... do things randomly, spontaneously.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
There's motives behind any action that a person takes. There's a reason for it. And if you're a very, very high functioning and successful person like Elon Musk, one of the most successful people on the planet, if not the most successful person on the planet, period, you don't get to that point by just doing things spontaneously and randomly, even if they're self-destructive and dumb.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Foreign powers would have retained control over wide swaths of the North American continent. We would be a much smaller, much weaker nation today. So small and weak that by now, We may not even exist at all.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
No, there's a reason for why you do things. And there would be no reason. There would be no motive. There would be nothing to be gained, clearly, from getting on stage and doing a Nazi salute.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So the whole thing is... Now, the great... The positive that comes from this, I think, from the media's first attempt at a hoax, and we know there's going to be 50 more before the year's over, but I think the encouraging thing is just that I don't think it just doesn't get any traction beyond left wing circles. No one takes these people seriously anymore. No one believes them.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So the narrative has no chance of breaking out beyond the circle of people who already think that Elon Musk is a Nazi regardless. Anyone who didn't think that previous to this moment is not going to be convinced because these people have no credibility and no one pays attention to them. All right.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So right before he left office, Biden and I, and I'm loathe to talk about Joe Biden again, but we do have to. mentioned this, that right before he left office, Biden issued last minute pardons to a whole slew of people, including Fauci, Mark Milley, a bunch of political allies, Liz Cheney was on the list, and his entire family.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
This time they're claiming that Elon did a Nazi salute at Trump's rally, which is nonsense, of course. And speaking of executive orders, Trump's order banishing gender ideology from the federal government is spectacular. and maybe the final nail in the coffin for this hideous and evil ideology. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
We know Hunter Biden got the preemptive pardon, and now Biden's whole immediate family also got one. Trump addressed this last night, listen.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now, the thing to understand about these pardons is that they are truly unprecedented. I mean, obviously, we know that it's an American tradition now, unfortunately, for presidents to issue a bunch of questionable pardons on the way out the door. Trump did that. Let's be honest. He passed out some pardons, many of which I did not agree with when he was in his last couple of days in office.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
We wouldn't have experienced the unprecedented economic and technological growth that we did in the 19th and 20th centuries, growth that ensured America would become the world's greatest superpower. As part of our journey to the West, we developed everything from new farming techniques to the telegraph system to the transcontinental railroad and countless other things.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And so that happens. Every president does it. And then we all complain about it and we move on. And that's basically been the tradition. But what Biden has done, his pardons are significantly worse than merely questionable because he doled out preemptive pardons to dozens of people, which has never been done before. There's never been this mass of preemptive pardons given to people.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
It's never been done. Preemptive pardons that cover any and all hypothetical crimes that those people may have committed. Again, nothing like this has been done. We have seen on rare occasions blanket pardons, but blanket pardons are for specific crimes that have been committed.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
These are for any crimes, any theoretical crime, even those that have not been investigated or charged, much less convicted. So the Biden regime has set this as precedent now. They've set as precedent
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
That the president, before he leaves, can just wave his magical sorcerer wand and declare that all of his friends and relatives are off the hook for any crimes that they may have potentially committed. Doesn't matter what. And now, every president's gonna do this. And we know that because Trump, before he leaves office, now he's gonna do it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And you can't even blame him because, first of all, well, Biden did it, so why shouldn't I? And second, in his case, There's actually a reason for it, potential, because he has the experience of having been in office before. And then he watched as the next administration spent the following four years trying to throw all of his allies, including Trump himself, in prison.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So Trump would actually have a reason to do it. And so then, so Trump would probably do something similar. And then the next president's gonna say, well, the last two presidents have done this. So now this is officially precedent. This is what everyone does. I'd be a sucker if I didn't. We're gonna get to a point where it'd be controversial to not do it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Because then all of your friends and allies are like, you don't care about us? You're just gonna hang us out to dry? So that is the precedent that's been set. And Remember, Biden was supposed to be the great norms respecter, the great defender of political norms, the great preserver of our institutions and our traditions. He was obviously always the opposite of that. Democrats always are.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
the democrats anytime they put themselves in the position of defending institutions and traditions you know that something is something's amiss because these people don't care about traditions and institutions least of all do they give a damn about norms uh they care about those things only in the sense that they want to rip them to shreds and you know here's the thing about this that really gets me is that this is what makes it all the more grotesque uh
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
This was a period of extraordinary expansion in every sense. made possible by Americans' belief in God and his will and his calling on our lives. And yet, until yesterday, no modern American president wanted to talk about this. Manifest Destiny had become somehow a point of embarrassment. The pioneer spirit was extinguished in favor of a spirit of weakness and shame.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
is that it was not even practically necessary, okay? And everyone knows that, everybody knows, even Biden knows, to the extent that he can know anything at this point, knows that Trump was not going to go on a revenge tour and start throwing the Biden family in prison. That was not gonna happen. He wasn't gonna go after Fauci or Mark Milley or Liz Cheney.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
I would have liked to see him do some of that. Fauci, in particular, deserves to be investigated and then thrown in prison. He deserves. He's one of the most corrupt and evil bureaucrats in American history. So he would deserve it. But it wasn't going to happen. Trump wasn't going to do that. He never promised that he would do it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
We just know, based on our previous experience with the Trump administration, this is not what he's going to do. It's not his style. It's not his focus. He certainly wasn't going to prosecute anyone in Biden's family, even Hunter. He wasn't going to go after Hunter. He probably would have pardoned Hunter himself, if anything.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Which means he definitely wasn't going to go after other random Biden relatives. That was not going to happen. So why did Biden do this? What was the point? I mean, this is arguably harmful even to the people that he's giving the pardons to.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
If I had committed no federal crimes and was not suspected of committing any and was not under investigation for any federal crimes, I would not want the president to come along and issue me a preemptive pardon for any federal crimes I may have committed. Now, I would say to that, yeah, but I didn't commit any, so no, it's okay.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
In case you committed any federal crimes, wink, wink, sure you didn't, but just in case you did, no, no, but I really haven't. I haven't committed any federal crime, no thanks, I don't need the pardon. So all you're doing is making, you do that for somebody, just making them look guilty. You're casting an air of suspicion over them.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And so now that's forever a person who was pardoned for federal crimes, even though they never committed any, they would say, or was ever suspected of committing any.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So even from the perspective of the person who gets the totally pointless, the effectively pointless preemptive federal pardon, you could argue that even for them, especially if they are not in fact guilty of doing anything, it's not even a benefit. So what was the point? Why did he do it? Well, he did it for one reason, I think.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
He did it for one single reason, which is that he did it in order to make it look like To make it look like he had to protect these people from political persecution by Trump. He did it as one last little jab. One last attempt to make Trump look like a fascist dictator who would seek revenge on his enemies. So that's all it was. This was purely about building the narrative.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
The narrative that Trump is a Nazi, that Trump is Hitler, that he's a dictator. And that is a narrative that already lost. A narrative that the American people already rejected in huge numbers. But that's what it was. And that's what makes it even worse. Worse than it already would be.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
The fact that Biden was willing to set this truly, truly heinous precedent that will be abused in so many unjust ways for decades to come. And he did it all for no reason other than trying to just land a little political jab. For the sake of that, for the pettiest of reasons, he was willing to burn every political norm to the ground.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
I mean, that's how petty and vindictive this guy is and all these people who are now out of power. It really is just evil. Speaking of evil, I also wanted to mention this.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Yesterday, Cecile Richards, and you might not have heard about this because there was a lot going on yesterday, but even if there wasn't a lot going on, you still may not have heard about this because this is not someone who's been in the public eye for a while.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
But still, Cecile Richards, who is the former president, or was, I should say, the former president of Planned Parenthood, died of brain cancer yesterday. And I think she was 67 years old. And she was president of Planned Parenthood for 12 years. And so, of course, the tributes, the admiring obituaries came rolling in.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
One thing we know from the inauguration yesterday is that Donald Trump wants to change that. It was one of the major themes of his inaugural address. But what made his address so brilliant is that he talked about all of the practical things that we need to do as a country to get to a point where we can thrive and succeed again. But he also at the same time took a larger kind of grander view.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Biden and Obama and many other high-profile Democrats put out statements mourning the loss of Cecile Richards. Here's the CNN write-up. I'll read a little bit of it. It says, Cecile Richards, a women's rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a critical inflection point over reproductive freedom, has died. Her family said, mundane statement. She was 67.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
This morning, our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie. Our hearts are broken today, but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives. Richards died just hours before President Donald Trump was sworn into a second term as president.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Richards' family was grateful to the doctors and healthcare workers who provided her excellent care, and the friends, family, and well-wishers who have been by her side, so on and so forth.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
She served as president of Planned Parenthood from 2006 to 2018, helping boost the profile of an organization long criticized by conservatives and anti-abortion activists who have called on the government to strip its funding. Yes, we have. And then we have the statements from various abortion groups that are very upset about this. I just think it should be said that Cecile Richards was...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Yeah, she was probably the most influential leader of Planned Parenthood since Margaret Sanger. And that is to say that Richards was one of the most prolific mass murderers in history. She helped to kill millions of human beings. She was truly an evil, monstrous person. And mourning her death is like mourning the death of Osama bin Laden. I mean, imagine Osama bin Laden...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
At Osama Bin Laden's untimely demise, if there were tearful obituaries in the media about it, which even then there probably were. But it's actually worse than that because Bin Laden killed far fewer people, far fewer. So Cecile Richards was much worse in pretty much every way than Osama Bin Laden. The only thing that's tragic about this woman's death is that it did not happen inside a prison.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Or that it didn't happen much sooner before she was able to kill some four million babies. And I know it sounds really harsh and terrible to say that about someone who just died of brain cancer. And in almost every case, I would never say that. But again, she killed millions, millions of people.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So this is by any measure a mass killer whose slaughter and destruction puts her in the same category as like Pol Pot. Genghis Khan. But again, in many ways worse. Many ways worse. And besides all that, you know, why should we be sad? She was just a clump of cells. Just a clump of cells. Why did her life have any meaning at all? Who cares about her life? What meaning does it possibly have?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
If all those millions of babies that she killed, if their lives had no meaning, no meaning, no moral value, no meaning, then why does her life have any meaning? It doesn't. It's just the babies, right, that we treat them, her organization treated the babies like medical waste, like garbage that you literally throw into a dumpster.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And so by that logic, she is also just garbage that belongs in a dumpster, by her own logic, by the logic that she lived by. So I guess no matter how you look at it, either you see Cecile Richards as a mass murderer, in which case her death is not a tragedy. Or you like her because you agree with abortion. But in that case, her life had no fundamental intrinsic value at all.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
He talked about the sweeping vision of things along with the practical. And as far as sweeping visions, That's what Manifest Destiny is all about. Trump was not paralyzed or guilt-ridden by the idea of Manifest Destiny. He wasn't focused on the plight of so-called indigenous people, quote unquote.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So either way, you're back at the starting point, which is that there is absolutely no reason to be mourning this evil, despicable person's death whatsoever. That is my obituary for her. Let's get to the comment section. Matt, I'm a Lions fan. No one understands the trauma of rooting for a team that loses in the playoffs. I hear you and I see you. It's a suffering.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's an unseen suffering that nobody can understand unless they've experienced it. And no one has any sympathy either. That's the other tough thing about it. When you try to talk to someone about your pain, they're very patronizing, I found. And that makes it all the worse. Matt talking about how he's an introvert and snuck in watching the football game at a ball is so real.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This is why I like him. Well, I can only be real with you. You know that. And I will say that the balls have come to an end. So we did a bunch of them over the weekend. And the other thing, too, is that And this is it. I told you we were going to all these balls, and I'd never been to one before. My last experience with anything that would be sort of like that would be like prom in high school.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so I was very wrong about what a ball entails. Because in my head, I had imagined that a ball was an event. where dancing was kind of the main activity. It was what you did there. I thought it would be 95% of what you did. I thought that's what a ball was. And it turns out, and I'm relieved by this, that balls are not even 1% dancing. Nobody dances. There's like no dancing that happens at all.
The Matt Walsh Show
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What happens is that the band plays music really loud while everyone stands around drinking and shouting over it. And that's it. That's the whole thing. There's just no one dances at any point. And I guess in my head, somewhat subconsciously, I had an image of a ball that was stuck in the 19th century.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Because I thought that all the women would be in big poofy dresses and the men would be wearing top hats and monocles and carrying canes. And there'd be classical music gently playing and people dancing very elegantly. And then the men would approach the women and say, excuse me, my lady, may I have this dance? Would you bequeath me the honor of... this dance.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And they would dance and then they'd get back in their carriages and ride across a snowy pasture to their estates and die of typhoid fever. Because I thought, it's a very 19th century vision that I had. So it turns out none of that happened. Well, we may have gotten typhoid fever, I don't know, but that remains to be seen. But the rest of it was very different from that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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He didn't make any apologies for this country or the people living here or our history, our ancestors. Instead, he affirmed that God wants this country to succeed and grow and flourish. He also affirmed that America was a great country when it had the will and desire to explore and expand and conquer, and that we need to return to those principles.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's really just a marketing event. It's rather a networking event is what it is. And I guess I should have known better that everything in DC is just a networking event. Anything at all that you do that's supposed to be for fun is always just a networking event. And so it's that except with loud music that you have to shout over. So a lot of fun. Matt looked freezing today. Yeah, I was.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
We did our live coverage of the inauguration. We were outside, as you saw if you watched the Daily Wire's live coverage of the inauguration yesterday. And it's kind of funny because we got that spot outside back when we thought the inauguration would be outside. And so the spot was set up. so that you could see the big crowd in the background, right, at the inauguration.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
But then everybody moved inside, and there was a couple days of chaos behind the scenes because we were all saying, well, we got to move inside too. Why are we gonna be randomly outside for three hours when everyone else is inside? And there's behind us just an empty lot now. And so I think we tried to move inside, but we couldn't get a permit to broadcast anywhere else.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So we had to just stay outside. So we were stuck out there, freezing our asses off for no real reason. And I'll say in the end, I like to think it was worth it. It was worth it to be here and cover the event and all that. The being outside part, I'm not totally sold on whether that was worth it. Hopefully the background and the atmosphere improved the viewing experience to some extent.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
At least tell me that it did so that I know I got frostbite for a reason. And it was also funny too because we... We're planning on covering the speech, the inaugural address. And we were outside the whole time. And if you watch the coverage, you know that Trump was speaking and all of us, we were watching it, but we were on screen too in a little box. So we were on camera the whole time.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And there was part of me that was hoping that it'd be a speech on the shorter side, just because I had to be outside the whole time listening to it. And it was like 12 degrees. And then Trump gives a speech, it's like it's 29 minutes, the shortest speech he's ever given. And I also legitimately think it was probably my favorite Trump speech of all time.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Not just because it was short, but the shortness helps because it's just punchy and to the point. And he just ran through all these things he's gonna do. We talked about it, the grand vision of America. I thought it was fantastic. And so it was just a win-win. It was like a great speech. It was short. We don't have to be outside for three or four hours. And fantastic.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
But then he immediately goes and gives another speech that we threw to while we were still outside. And that speech went for four and a half hours. So we still were outside freezing the whole time. Anyway, it was a good experience all around, I will say. You watched our exclusive inauguration coverage from the weekend through the historic day in D.C. right here on Daily Wire Plus.
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And then Trump explained what exactly that will look like in a modern context. Watch.
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
I began the show talking about some of Donald Trump's day one executive orders on everything from architecture to drug cartels. But there's one executive order that I didn't talk about because it deserves its own extended monologue. So saving it for here.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And that's Trump's executive order that officially ends gender ideology in the government and establishes a very clear definition of male and female equality. Namely, the definition that's been recognized throughout all of human history until 15 seconds ago. In a second, I'm going to read extensively from this order because this is a monumental moment in American history.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
It's also a very well-crafted document that sets out, in plain English, the truth about gender ideology. Which is a fight that, of course, I've been personally waging for many years through my film, What is a Woman? Investigations into barbarism in places like Vanderbilt. Testimony of Tennessee legislature to enact a ban on child mutilation that's now before the U.S. Supreme Court and so on.
The Matt Walsh Show
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There have been so many others who are pivotal in this fight, from Chaya Wright-Shakoff, who lives at TikTok, to Riley Gaines, Billboard Chris, Colin Wright, Chloe Cole, many others. Trans activists have done everything in their power to prevent a moment like this from happening.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And in my case, as you know, part of my story, they forced my family from our home, attempted to destroy my life and my family over the course of years. They've threatened us along with anyone else who attempted to speak the truth about such a fundamental issue.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And they knew all along that their position was incoherent and wrong, so they had to resort to these kinds of tactics to have any hope of winning. But they haven't won. They have lost in spectacular fashion. They have lost everything. They are losers. And I want every trans activist who hears this to know that you lost. You are losers. We won. We beat you. And I hope it makes you sad to hear that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
I hope it causes you great grief and misery. Because that will only be a fraction of the misery that you brought into this world and inflicted on innocent people, especially children, many of whom are going to have to live with the damage you did to them for the rest of their lives. So you deserve all of this humiliation. And I'm glad that you're experiencing it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
I'm glad that I could be a part, just a part, in making you feel so miserable. I'm really happy about that. Everything that these thugs have been working to build, all the lies and propaganda and nonsense they've piled up, has come crashing down like one big grotesque Jenga tower. This executive order is not achieving that victory on its own.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Of course, this is a fight, as I said, that's been waged for many years by many people. But this is, I think, in a lot of ways, the final nail in the coffin. The executive order that Donald Trump just signed is entitled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. Yesterday, Trump alluded to the order during his inaugural address.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now, on one level, it's surreal that a president even has to issue an order like this or make a proclamation that there are only two genders. 20 years ago, it would be like a president declaring the sky is blue or water is wet. It's like an executive order clarifying that two plus two equals four.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
But trans activists in the Democrat Party have insisted on denying one of the most basic fundamental truths of biology. And until recently, a lot of people, including a lot of conservatives, were too afraid to respond to this madness with the truth. But those days appear to be very much over.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
The executive order that Donald Trump just signed is one of the most well-written, well-reasoned takedowns of gender ideology that I've ever seen. And more importantly, it has the force of law. It ends this madness in the government permanently. It is a death knell to federal funding for this insanity, and it will help facilitate gender ideology's trip to the dustbin of history.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Here's how the order begins. Quote, across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women's domestic abuse shelters to women's workplace showers. This is wrong.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
So that's the preamble, and it's very good. And it establishes the stakes very clearly and plainly. A society that doesn't respect truth is incapable of functioning. There's that famous quote that those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. And it's true, because once you tell people that the truth is meaningless, then any kind of rational discourse is impossible.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Lived experience replaces actual truth in reality. And anything can be considered truth. Anything can therefore be justified. But sanity seems to be prevailing now. The order very directly states that men cannot self-identify as women under any circumstance. It doesn't matter how much they whine on TikTok or try to get you fired from your job. The truth is the truth, and it doesn't change.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Then the order gets into specifics. Quote, it's the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. This order specifically dismisses the entire concept of gender identity.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now, in the past century, American presidents just simply have not talked like this. Barack Obama, for example, claimed that we had duties to the world, including what he called the Muslim world. Joe Biden fearmongered about democracy and COVID, which he claimed falsely had taken more lives than World War II. In fact, even if you go back and watch Trump's first inaugural address back in 2017, he
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Quote, gender identity reflects a fully internal and subjective sense of self disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum that does not provide a meaningful basis for identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex. Close quote. Now, I mean, again, this is the kind of argument that people like myself and others have been making for years now.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And 10 years ago, it was something that hardly any elected Republican was willing to say out loud. It certainly would not have been written into an executive order, but times have changed. And the order does what trans activists are incapable of doing, which is defying the terms. Quote, sex shall refer to an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female.
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Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Sex is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of gender identity. Women or woman and girls or girls shall mean adult and juvenile human females respectively. Close quote. Okay, so there's your terms defined very clearly. Now, if you watched What is Woman? You know how hard it is to get alleged experts in the field of gender ideology to provide any kind of definition for man or woman.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Instead, they'll give you circular explanations that don't make any sense at all. They'll say a woman is someone who says she's a woman. And as the executive order points out, that is completely incoherent. You know, it makes the point as well as you can make it to the point that and this has been very rare with like documents written by elected Republicans.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
But, you know, I reading the executive order, I couldn't have written any better myself. I mean, there's I wouldn't add anything to it. This is exactly what I would say. which is pretty remarkable. Quote, going back to the executive order, gender ideology includes the idea that there's a vast spectrum of agendas that are disconnected from one's sex.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Gender ideology is eternally inconsistent in that it diminishes sex as an identifiable or useful category, but nevertheless maintains that it's possible for a person to be born in the wrong sexed body. Close quote. Now, the order goes on to ban men from women's prisons. It blocks federal funds from being used to promote gender ideology in any way, including by funding sex changes for prisoners.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Federal contractors are affected by the order as well. The order also ensures that a person's biological sex is on their government ID, including their passports. It empowers the attorney general and other law enforcement officials to go to court to enforce these measures. And all of this would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And already the corporate press is predictably freaking out about this. CNN, for example, reported last night, quote, Trump two-gender edict could upend X identity on passports. Yes, you heard that correctly. People can state that their gender is X on passports. It's one of the innovations of the Biden administration.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And now a bunch of leftists and federal agencies are upset that X isn't going to be valid anymore. I guess X genders will have to go get new passports. And CNN is playing this up as a big civil rights issue. Now, not to be outdone, gender activists at the so-called People's Rally this weekend were up in arms as well. The journalist Savannah Hernandez spoke to one of these activists.
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Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And this is footage that belongs like in a museum as a kind of monument to this insane and defeated ideology. Watch.
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Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
You're not gonna find rhetoric about America's divine mandate to grow, expand, and flourish. Instead, the theme of Trump's first address was more about the immediate concerns, specifically restoring American manufacturing, ending wasteful commitments to foreign governments, securing the border. This is what is, of course, the America First platform.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now, you really can't watch that and come to any other conclusion other than the trans activists are absolutely cooked, as the kids would say. They have no response to the overwhelming rash of defeats that they've suffered, except to claim that, whatever this means, they now won't be able to pee in 4% of America, which
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Not to get into the nitty gritty, but I'd argue that the average human being through the course of their life, even if they have an overactive bladder, will probably pee in far less than 0.00001% of America. So this woman has 96% of America left to pee on by her own math, which I don't know where she's getting it from, but hardly a crisis. And more to the point,
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Until yesterday, it was the official position of the US government to take idiocy like this seriously. We were all supposed to respect their so-called gender identity. Whatever gender they say they are, wherever they say they have to urinate, we were supposed to just submit to it, surrender our common sense.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
All because someone like that will say, well, it makes me sad if I can't pee in the restroom that I want to. It is an eternal embarrassment for the country that we ever allowed any of this to happen to begin with. But there's no time like the present to turn back from it. And what's happened now is that these people have been relegated back to the fringes of irrelevance where they belong.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
They are no longer driving US policy. They are no longer going to get people fired from their jobs. They are no longer going to be able to demean and humiliate women in this country all in the pursuit of their confused and narcissistic desires. Trans activists have lost. That doesn't mean they're going to go away. It doesn't mean that we can rest on our laurels.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
It doesn't mean the culture war is over. It doesn't even mean that gender ideology itself is necessarily over for good, but it does mean That they are very much on the losing side and they have very little power anymore. Even the big tech companies are claiming that they're going to stop enforcing speech codes meant to cater to these people.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And the plan at the time was to shore up America's failing infrastructure and restore the government to the people. And it was a necessity to do this. It was a necessary plan that was intended to stop what Trump called the ongoing American carnage. But it was also a plan that signaled that after eight years of rule by Barack Obama, America needed basically emergency repairs.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
We were not in a position to conquer and explore. And there are still many repairs that need to be made, but now we can go beyond that as well. In 2025, for his second administration, Trump has made it clear that this time around, the goal is bigger.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now his administration intends to expand American influence and usher in what he's calling a new golden age, an era of historic economic and technological progress. As Trump went on to explain, there's never been a better time in modern history for a president to call for something like this.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Trump now has the full backing of some of the smartest people in the country, including actual innovators like Elon Musk. And perhaps more to the point, Trump himself just achieved what many considered impossible. He became president for a second time, despite the efforts of every power center in the country and on the planet to stop him.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
At one point in his speech, Trump made it clear that he believes he's only alive today because of divine intervention and inspired by this near-death experience. He's now committed to reviving Manifest Destiny, a desire to explore and conquer that has defined Americans since our country was founded. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now, within hours of this speech, Trump took nearly 200 executive actions to put all these principles into action and to restore America's sovereignty. And in between each one, he talked to reporters at length, which is something that Joe Biden obviously would be incapable of doing. Trump opened up oil and gas exploration in Alaska, which the Biden administration had shut down.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
In fact, he permitted drilling across much of the coastal United States. This is a whole frontier that was closed to the American economy solely for superstitious ideological reasons. And now it's open. More symbolically, but also very important, Trump also reinstated the name Mount McKinley. and also changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now, Mount McKinley in Alaska had been named Mount McKinley for over a century until, you may remember or may not, the Obama administration back in 2015, I believe, changed it to Denali, which is supposedly the, quote, indigenous name for it. And Trump is changing it back. And obviously, this is upset, as you would expect, a lot of Liberals and even Republicans are calling him out.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Some are calling him out for it. But we can change the name of the mountain back because it's our mountain. It belongs to us. It is an American mountain in America. So we have the right to name it. The so-called indigenous people don't have the right to name it. I mean, they can call it whatever they want in their private lives, but they don't have the right to put the name on the mountain.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
We earned that right. They did not. I mean, the indigenous people, they never even developed a written language. So whatever they called the mountain a thousand years ago is unknown to us and them. They don't even know what they called it. We are far more advanced. We conquered this country. It's our mountain. We name it. And that is Trump's attitude. It is the right one.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Trump also pardoned roughly 1,500 January 6th defendants who were persecuted and prosecuted and persecuted for political reasons, which is a major step towards restoring Americans' First Amendment rights. He signed an order to make federal architecture more aesthetically appealing, which also matters because this is what inspires future generations. That's what great architecture is made to do.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
It matters. It matters what kind of buildings we live in and what those buildings look like because we live in them and we have to look at them. And that really doesn't matter because we're human beings and beauty matters. Additionally, Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
which worked with China to cover up the origins of COVID, a decision that, of course, led to years of suffering and lockdowns in this country. Crucially, Trump also ended birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, which is maybe the single most important step he could take when it comes to fulfilling this country's manifest destiny.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
After all, we can't explore and conquer anything if we are being conquered ourselves. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Now, this is a move that, like many other moves that Trump makes, obviously is going to be challenged in the courts. As Trump went on to acknowledge, Democrats believe, whether correctly or not, that the key to their political power is importing illegal aliens. Because most of those illegal aliens will eventually have children.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
And then those children become American citizens and can vote in future elections. And they're just assuming that those children will vote for them. Although it turns out that even that assumption looks like is not exactly correct. But on that assumption, Democrats are going to fight very hard to make sure that this executive order is overturned. It's not clear at the moment if they'll win.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
There's no Supreme Court case that's ever directly addressed this particular issue. But it's clear that birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens is one of the most destructive policies that's ever been implemented in this country. It gives a massive incentive for foreign nationals to flood across the border and fundamentally reshape this country.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
But Trump isn't just relying on this one executive order. He's also already fired the people who are responsible for the fraudulent asylum process in this country, which is a major loophole that illegal aliens have been exploiting forever. Asylum, as you may know, is intended for people who are facing extreme and very specific cases of political persecution.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
But in recent years, the government has been allowing anyone with a fake asylum claim to stay in the country. Asylum went from something meant for people facing political persecution to something for people who just happen to want to come into the country.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Just to give you some perspective on the numbers, according to DHS, quote, affirmative asylum case filings nearly doubled from 241,280 applications in 2022 to over 456,000 in 2023, the highest number on record. So this is a massive increase in a short amount of time. And almost every single one of those claims is fraudulent.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
But these people are being allowed into the country while their fake claim is adjudicated, a process that could take years. And then when it's found out to be fake, it doesn't matter because they're gone. They're off into the interior of the country. They don't show up for the hearings. So they're essentially given a free pass into the country. And that's all about to change.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
The New York Times reported with shock and horror on the changes that have already been made to the asylum system on day one of the second Trump administration. Quote, the acting head of the US immigration court system and three other top officials were fired on Monday, soon after President Trump took office.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
The abrupt removal signaled the Trump administration wants to remake the immigration court system, which is housed under the Justice Department.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
As part of a broader immigration crackdown that Mr. Trump began within minutes of being sworn in for a second term, immigration judges oversee an essential part of the system, granting asylums to migrants whose claims pass muster and ordering the deportation of those whose cases do not. These are people who obviously should have been fired a long time ago, and now that's finally happening.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America
Happened. And again, Trump's not stopping there. He also declared that foreign drug cartels are terrorist organizations. And he didn't foreclose the possibility of going into Mexico and taking them out. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a CBS anchor claims that free speech caused the Holocaust. That's not a straw man. That's actually what she said. Also, yet another plane disaster has occurred. Why has this become a trend? Conservatives are outraged at an SNL skit. Is the outrage warranted? And a viral video has sparked a very important debate, maybe not so important, about child-free weddings.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
She's just so happy. She loves every minute of this. And notice how he snuck in there, well, if you insult someone or a politician. So what we're being told is that if you insult or criticize a politician in Germany, they can have you arrested. And CBS News thinks that this is wonderful. In Germany, at least.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
But again, if Donald Trump tried to do the same thing, I think they'd feel a little different about it. And, you know, conservatives are reacting with shock and horror to footage like the one we just played, which is understandable. But we can't forget that something very similar has already happened here in this country. And we would have gone full Germany if Trump hadn't won.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
I mean, that's where this was heading. We were already arresting people for offensive means. That already happened. And everybody on the left understands this. That's why they're lying to their viewers about what life is like in Germany at the moment.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Here, for example, is MSNBC talking head Rick Wilson explaining that Germany, despite the pre-dawn raids over memes, has a far better free speech environment than America does somehow.
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They're shocked and appalled. If they could have had J.D. Vance arrested for it, they would have. But, you know, unfortunately, it's hard to arrest the American vice president. He says that America is rated 55th in the world for freedom of expression. And I had no idea where he got that figure.
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My assumption was that some left-wing group rated us 55th because some states banned drag queens from performing stripteases in front of children and so on. But After looking into it, he could be referencing something called the World Press Freedom Index, which basically surveys journalists and asks them if they feel threatened.
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And of course, all the journalists here say that Trump is going to put them in camps tomorrow, so we rate poorly as a result. And somehow this survey has Canada ranked 40 spots higher than the U.S., which is a pretty good indication that the survey is totally useless. Given that Canada was arresting journalists who covered the trucker convoy just a couple of years ago.
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Now, of course, Rick Wilson is pointing to this useless survey because he knows that by every actual metric, Americans have far more free speech rights than Europeans do. And people like Rick want to change that. But there's an even deeper issue here, which often gets lost as conservatives justifiably resist restriction on speech. And that issue is this, that...
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What makes the left's assault on free speech so insidious, whether in this country or in Germany or anywhere else in the Western world, is not just that they seek to ban open expression, but that they seek to ban specifically the expression of true and morally right ideas.
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Okay, that's the key element that will always separate left-wing assaults on free speech from alleged right-wing assaults on free speech.
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Because whenever somebody claims that the right is waging an assault on free speech, it always means, when you look into it, that some conservatives are advocating for restrictions on pornography or trying to get pornographic books out of schools or trying to ban adults from staging burlesque shows for children. You know, that sort of thing. On the other hand, when the left bans free speech,
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For the first time since the Second World War, a true nationalist party, one the media dubs far-right, which is a term that has never been defined and will never be defined, stands to win a significant number of seats in parliament. And this party, called Alternative for Germany, promises to end unrestricted migration into the country.
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They're trying to stop us from saying that men can't have babies, or they're demanding that we show religious reverence to the pride flag. They're arresting people who leave tire marks on rainbow-colored crosswalks, just as one example. The alleged right-wing restrictions on speech aren't really restrictions on speech at all, but even if they were, it's still a very different kind of speech.
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There's no equivalency here. And this is the point that promoters of the woke right narrative seem to consistently miss. The Atlantic, for example, just ran a big think piece entitled, How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left. And they equate Republicans' dismissal of fake words like Latinx with Democrats' many, many attempts to dictate what words people can and cannot use. But...
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The reality is that the far left and the far right are not, in fact, two sides of the same coin. They are not equally delusional and dangerous ideologies that are just on opposite extremes. That's not the case. Because one side, the left, denies and seeks to suppress the most basic and fundamental realities of human existence.
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There's one side that manipulates language and denies statistical data in order to hide the truth. The other side does not do that. The people demanding that you use the word Latinx because they think Hispanic people can sometimes be non-binary superhumans or whatever are not, in fact, identical to the people who understand that the entire concept of Latinx is ridiculous and incoherent.
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But the left has to draw an equivalence because they have no other response. When JD Vance points out that so-called asylum seekers are constantly murdering innocent Americans and Europeans, they know it's true. In fact, just hours before Vance spoke in Munich, a girl and her mother were mowed down by an Islamic terrorist in the city. Dozens were injured.
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And then after Vance's speech, a Syrian asylum seeker, quote-unquote asylum seeker, murdered a 14-year-old boy in Austria. And he was grinning as the police arrived. Again and again, reality intrudes on left-wing narratives. That is the fundamental problem with their ideology. And it's why they're so insistent on censorship. It's why J.D.
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Vance's speech had European elites in tears, whether they'll admit it or not. And it's why, in just a few days, Germans will send a message that in Europe, as in this country, tens of millions of regular people have had enough. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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They'll stop destroying Germany's nuclear plants to appease climate cultists. and focus instead on energy independence. They'll reject the fiction that people can change their gender whenever they want to. And above all, they'll affirm that there's nothing shameful about or embarrassing about being German. This is all very basic stuff.
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Let it flourish. Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Private. Christian. Affordable. Visit gcu.edu. CNN reports a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis crashed, turned upside down, and caught fire on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport while attempting to land on Monday. The latest in a string of passenger plane crashes since December.
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All 80 people on board the CRJ900 twin jet aircraft survived, but 18 were injured, according to Delta. Video was obtained showing the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway. And this morning, that video was released of the crash actually happening. Let's take a look at the footage.
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Okay, so I'm definitely not a trained observer, but it looks to me like the plane is coming in way too fast and landing too hard. And maybe that's why the wheels and wings just like were just one of the wheels and one of the wings seems to buckle immediately on impact. I'd be interested to hear from any pilots in the audience. Leave a comment with your analysis based on that video.
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Because, I don't know, but that's what it looks to my untrained eyes. And as of this moment, we haven't been given any additional details. We don't know anything about the pilot or the pilots. There's still a lot we don't know. But what we do know is that this is now at least the third crash in as many weeks. So there's a real trend starting to develop here.
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And it's just about the worst trend imaginable. Okay, an airplane crash trend is about as bad as it gets. And the important thing to keep in mind is that the trend actually stretches back much further than a month. Like we talked about, you know, after the crash in D.C., this didn't just happen out of nowhere, right?
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I mean, for many months up to this point, there was a string of near misses and near catastrophes. So this is a... a real deep systemic problem in the airline industry. And that systemic problem does at least involve a systematic industry-wide lowering of standards. It just does. Like, this is all happening in that environment. So am I saying that this was a DEI pilot who crashed the plane?
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In this country, largely because of the political rise of Donald Trump, America first has been a rallying cry for tens of millions of voters for more than a decade. But in Europe, This kind of thinking isn't just taboo, it's basically heresy. And that's why the Alternative for Germany party is currently being investigated by several German intelligence agencies.
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No, I'm not saying that. It might be. At this point, we don't know. But... Maybe it wasn't. Because we don't know anything about the pilot who landed the plane or failed to land it, as the case may be.
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But what we do know is that intentionally lowering standards across the industry, prioritizing things other than merit in hiring, has a corrosive effect on the whole industry and touches every part of it. And the effect is deep and pervasive. So None of these things are coincidences. When you've got many people, including pilots, including people who are actual experts, right?
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Trust the experts, quote unquote. When you've got people warning for years that, hey, we're lowering standards. We're getting very close to a disaster. Bad things are going to happen. And then they start happening. It's hard to argue that it's just a coincidence. Because, of course, it's not. All right, more protests against Trump in D.C. over the weekend.
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I'm afraid to report that the protesters are singing again. And yes, I'm going to make you listen to it. I have no choice. I'm compelled by forces beyond my comprehension to make you listen to this. I have to do it. I'm sorry. Here it is.
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I don't know. We got about a minute into it, maybe longer. All right, so there's a lot going on here. First, you have the guy singing, of course, and how could you miss him? And, you know, he thinks he's good at this. Like, that's what gets me. He actually thinks he's good. You can tell he's getting into it. He thinks he's crushing it. He thinks he's getting a record deal out of this.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Congratulations, you are the unwitting star of the internet's most invasive reality show where data brokers are auctioning off your personal information to whoever's got pocket change and internet connection. Your name, address, social security number are floating around out there like a chain email from 2002 that just won't die.
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And it's also why JD Vance just gave what may be the single most consequential speech by a US politician in Europe since Reagan was in office. Just before Germans head to the polls, Vance delivered a message at the Munich Security Conference that the media could not censor.
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That's what he believes. Like this guy, I guarantee you, has auditioned for American Idol, The Voice, America's Got Talent, never made it on any of them. And so this is his big moment. This is his debut. This is where he becomes a star, he thinks, in his own mind. And it's not his fault, really, because people have told him his whole life that he's a good singer. People have lied to him.
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They lied to him to be polite. They didn't have the heart to tell him that his singing voice sounds like a female goat in labor. They didn't want to tell him that. They didn't want to tell him that his singing voice is so bad that if he went down to perform for the immigrants in Gitmo right now, it would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.
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Nobody had the heart to say to him, listen, when you sing, it sounds like you're being stabbed. And also it makes me want to stab you. And it makes me want to be stabbed. So it's a lot of stabbing. There's a lot of stabbing being evoked by your singing voice. I just want everyone to be stabbed in the whole room when I hear this. No one ever said, I'm not saying that to him.
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I'm not advocating violence against anybody, even if they have the worst singing voice known to man. I'm just saying that no one apparently ever said that to him. And this is what happens as a result. And meanwhile, you've got the woman next to him, I guess trying to clap along to the song, but the only problem is that, you know, she has the rhythm of a hearing impaired toddler.
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I mean, she looks like a baby who's just, you ever see a baby that just learned how to clap and is really proud of himself? He just figured it out. And that's what she looks like. And then you have the sign language interpreter,
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And the guy singing thinks that the sign language interpreter is interpreting his song, but, and maybe she is, I don't know, but it could be a distress signal that she's sending out. Like she's sending a signal out asking someone to come rescue her. That's the message that she's actually communicating with the sign language. So it's just a mess, the whole thing.
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And to think that the left used to do protest songs really well. You know, that was the one thing they were good at. But they can't do it anymore. And it's kind of amazing because Donald Trump has been in office for, you know, 10 years. Not in office, but he's been on the political scene for 10 years now, a decade.
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And in that entire time, nobody on the left has come up with a good anti-Trump song. And if anybody did, you know, I wouldn't agree with it. But if it was a good song, I would at least admit, like, okay, that was a good song. And no one's done it, even though the left has all of the relevant musicians on their side. And they haven't been able to do it in 10 years, which is amazing.
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He was speaking to European elites in the room, but his message was actually directed at voters, and in particular, voters in Germany. Watch.
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And it's not just anti-Trump. I mean, when's the last time somebody made a good song attacking the system, you know, going after the man, etc. ? It's been at least 20 years. You know, if you go back to the Bush administration, you had some of the rock bands like System of a Down or whatever that would make songs protesting the Iraq War. You go back to the 90s, you had Rage Against the Machine.
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Killing in the Name Of was a song about police brutality, I think, or something. Yeah. And obviously you go all the way back to the 70s and 60s, you get all kinds of music about the Vietnam War and so on. And now there's just nothing. And the reason is obvious that the left took control of the culture and became the man.
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So they no longer have any incentive to rage against the system that they control. Now, the power dynamics are changing. So maybe we'll see a resurgence of protest music, music attacking the man and all that. But I don't know, I'm not so sure because the problem is that rock and roll is where a lot of that stuff comes from. But the rock and roll, I mean, rock and roll is dead.
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You know, it's just gone. Because the rock bands packed it in or became shells of themselves once the left took over. And now they were shilling for the system. That just killed rock and roll. And so now there's nobody around to make a good protest song and we're left with this. It's pretty bad. Pretty grim. Okay, so there's been some outrage over an SNL skit.
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In this case, it has been conservatives on X, very ticked off because of a skit featuring Tom Hanks as a Trump supporter. And I've seen this clip circulating all over X, and the claim is that Tom Hanks' character in the sketch refuses to shake a black man's hand. because, you know, he's racist.
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And so that's the headline, that Tom Hanks is playing a racist Trump supporter who refuses to shake a black man's hand. This is from a Black Jeopardy skit, which is a recurring bit on SNL. Tom Hanks' character is also recurring. He did one of these exact same skits playing the same character at least one other time. I think it was probably seven or eight years ago.
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But here's the recent clip from the SNL episode this past Saturday that has a lot of people on the right very upset. Let's take a look.
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I have to say, this is going to be an unpopular opinion, maybe, with some in the audience. But I'm not offended by that joke. I think the reaction from conservatives to this has been a tad bit overblown. It's been a bit much. You know, there's been a lot of... tweets and selfie videos that various conservatives are posting. So I got a message for Tom Hanks, you know, that kind of thing.
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And it's just, I recoil automatically because it's too similar to how the left responds to jokes they don't like. Like taking it way too seriously and getting up on a soapbox and all that kind of stuff. It's a bit cringe. A bit cringe. And we don't want to be cringe. Let the left be cringe. Let's not be cringe ourselves.
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And also I think the joke is not that Tom Hanks is refusing to shake the guy's hand because he's black. The joke is that Tom Hanks thinks that the black guy is gonna rob him. And that's why he steps back and then realizes that he's not and then shakes his hand. So that's the joke. It's just it's some very mild racial humor. And it's it's not the kind of thing that offends me personally.
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I'm a little offended that the whole skit is so unfunny. Like, I'm not saying it's funny. I didn't laugh at that. It's actually it's quite lame. It's not offensive. It's just lame. I mean, it didn't even get a laugh in the audience because it's just not very funny. And also, it's a rehash. Like I said, they did this exact same skit.
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whatever it was, six, seven, eight years ago, with that exact same joke, and they just did it again. But if you go back and watch the original skit, which is a little bit funnier than this one, but not much, the whole premise, the joke in the skit is that the white Trump supporter and the black people on stage actually agree.
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And so the black Jeopardy host is surprised to learn that he actually agrees with the white Trump supporter on everything. And they have a lot more in common than what he assumed. That's the joke of the bit. And so if anything, you would expect that the left would be the ones getting upset about it because it, quote unquote, humanizes, normalizes Trump supporters.
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So if you showed me that skit, especially the original one, and like I said, this one is just a rehash of the original, and I had no context, and you told me that one side of the political aisle was getting really upset about the skit, I would assume it's the left because of the premise of the joke that actually black people and Trump supporters have a lot in common.
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So, but instead it's conservatives and, you know, I don't like SNL. I don't like Tom Hanks. I'm just saying that an outrage cycle where we all get offended over a very mild joke is probably not the best use of our time. And it just looks, it's not a good look. It just makes you look kind of lame, right? which isn't to say you have to laugh at it because it's not funny.
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Instead, you just say, okay, that's not really that funny, and you move on. All right. Finally, time for something of an update or maybe a revision to past statements. You may remember a few months ago when video came out from Parliament in New Zealand where a woman started doing the haka, the haka dance,
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in the middle of parliament proceedings because she was mad that there was a law being considered that would give equal rights to white people in New Zealand. Whereas right now, indigenous people in New Zealand have special rights. They have more than equal rights. They're on a higher legal plane with their rights than white people are.
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And so there's been some consideration to, hey, maybe we should actually have equal rights in this country. What do you think? And this woman was upset about that. And so she broke into this haka thing in the middle of parliament. And it was speaking of cringy, this was cringe overload. And we played the clip of the haka routine and I mocked it pretty ruthlessly.
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It deserved to be mocked in that context. The woman was making a total ass of herself. There's no doubt about it. But I also made fun of the haka in general. And that's the part that I need to clarify a bit, because it turns out that there are occasions where the haka is not only appropriate, but pretty great, I have to say. And one such occasion occurred in New Zealand a few days ago.
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This video is also going viral, where a group of young men interrupted a gay pride parade by doing the haka. Let's check that out.
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All right. So there's a hawk I like. I would have done it with him if I was there. I would have joined in. I don't know if that's culturally appropriating, but that's great stuff. Because one thing that makes this not cringe, while the one in Parliament was cringe, is that, for one thing, these are young men doing it.
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And it looks kind of ridiculous when some small, petite woman is flailing around and trying to be intimidating. It's just, you know, it doesn't work. I mean, the men in this video are the ones who, in a different age, would have been the warriors, you know, of the Maori tribe. So for them, it fits. It just fits a lot better. But, of course, the most important difference is the context.
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And a haka in the middle of parliament just makes you look either insane or like a... really embarrassing theater kid. And I think it's probably more the latter, which is far worse than the former. But disrupting a pride parade with the haka is, I'm a fan of that. That's a good idea. Especially because of the awkward position that it puts the left in.
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Because they claim that LGBT people are a persecuted minority, but then indigenous people, they would also say, are a persecuted minority. And they believe that pride parades are sacrosanct, but they also would say that the haka is sacrosanct. So how do they sort this out? You've got a clash of two persecuted minorities, in their minds anyway, both... with their own sacred cultural celebration.
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And these two things are literally clashing in the street. So if you're on the left, what do you do about this? It's very awkward. Well, the organizers of Rainbow Pride Auckland put out a statement that tried to navigate this minefield. And here's what they said.
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While today has been a painful reminder of imported ideologies and the violence they bring, we remain confident in our community's resilience. So that's the tack they're trying to take here. They're saying that these young men represent an imported, imported ideology. Of course, that couldn't be further from the truth. You know, the situation is exactly the opposite.
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Nobody imported opposition to the LGBT agenda. They didn't need to import that. it's the LGBT agenda that was imported. Okay, the Maori were not flying pride flags 300 years ago. Pride flags were imported. Everything the pride flag represents was imported. the Maori would have lived lives and had a culture that modern leftists would consider sexist, racist, homophobic, patriarchal, oppressive.
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Every indigenous culture would fit those labels by modern leftist standards. In fact, Every culture, every society on earth 300 years ago, or 200 years ago, or 100 years ago, or even probably 50 years ago, every society would be considered sexist, racist, homophobic, patriarchal, oppressive by modern leftist standards. So it's leftism that was important.
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Leftism ideologically colonized countries like New Zealand. That's the truth. And this haka performance of the Pride Parade makes that pretty clear. So... I think it's great. Well done. Well done. Let me know next time there's a hawk at a pride parade. I'll be there. Well, not really, but I'll cheer on from afar. Tax season is here again, and the IRS isn't messing around in 2025. Look, I get it.
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Tax problems are about as fun as a root canal. Maybe you've got some unfiled returns collecting dust, or you're sitting on a pile of back taxes that are giving you night sweats. And with April 15th breathing down your neck, it's tempting to just walk into the woods alone, never look back. and hope it all goes away.
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But here's the thing, trying to ghost the IRS, well, that's like trying to outrun a bear. Spoiler alert, it just doesn't end well. And that's why you should let Tax Network USA deal with this headache for you. These folks aren't your average tax people. They've got a direct line to the IRS. Yeah, apparently that's a thing, and they know exactly which agents to talk to.
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Whether you're in the hole for 10K or 10 mil, they've got tricks up their sleeves that actually work. They've already sorted out over a billion dollars in tax debt, so they must be doing something right. Talk with one of their strategists today. It's free. Stop the threatening letters. Stop looking over your shoulder and protect yourself from property seizures and bank levies.
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Don't let the IRS control your future. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit TNUSA.com slash Walsh. April 15th is just around the corner, so act now before the IRS acts first. If you were with us for election night or the inauguration, you already know the Daily Wire doesn't just show up. We take over. And now we're headed back to D.C. to do just that at CPAC.
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Join me along with Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan and Jeremy Boring all on stage live Thursday night, February 20th. No scripted talking points, no corporate approved narratives, just real conversations that actually matter. Streaming live on Daily Wire Plus. And we're taking your questions. Don't just watch CPAC. Be part of it live Thursday night, February 20th on Daily Wire Plus.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation. So today we will deal with one of those situations where everybody involved is wrong. It's also a situation that isn't remotely newsworthy or important. The daily cancellation was made for moments such as this. The pettier, the better. The more wrong everybody is, also the better. That brings us to this breaking news, first reported by the New York Post.
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A bride in Texas was very angry recently. when a baby started crying during her wedding ceremony. This was apparently supposed to be an adults-only wedding, but this person brought their baby anyway. And the bride posted the footage to social media where it racked up millions of views and sparked a heated debate about the ethics of child-free weddings, which we'll discuss in a moment.
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But first, here's the video.
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So the baby's crying. I think we get the idea. You know what a baby crying sounds like? And sure enough, the baby was crying. And as I said, this has started a debate about the concept of child-free weddings. Most of the comments on social media, from what I've seen, seem to be largely on the bride's side.
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They say that it's perfectly reasonable for the couple to exclude children from their festivities. In fact, I've been told as I've waded into this dispute that weddings aren't for children. Children are disruptive. They're bored at weddings. They'll ruin the special day for the bride and groom. And literally the only thing that matters is that the bride and groom have a good time.
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All of the guests are there simply to serve them and worship them and adore them and obey their every whim. That seems to be the argument, and it is, of course, totally wrong. Now, I'm not going to stick up for the parents of that crying baby. They are also wrong. If your baby is crying during a wedding ceremony or any other kind of ceremony or any church service,
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or anything similar to that, you need to take him back to the lobby or outside or wherever you need to go to ensure that he is not a disruption to everybody else. I have had to stand in the lobby for many a church service in my time because of crying babies. I don't particularly enjoy it, but that's just how it is. When you're the parent of the young children, it comes with the territory.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
That's the gig. You just have to deal with it. This past Christmas, I spent half of Christmas mass standing outside with our two babies, not even in the lobby because the lobby was also full of people. And also there were balloons in the lobby and their toddlers, almost two years old, but they kept pointing to the balloons and shouting, balloon, balloon, like really loudly.
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And so on top of crying, so we had to just take them out of the church entirely. The other option was to keep them inside and allow them to disrupt the mass for the hundreds of other people in attendance. That was not an option for me and my wife. So we took turns with the babies outside. Either we could have our time disrupted or hundreds of people could have their time disrupted.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
And obviously they're our children. So we're the ones who have to take the hit. We're the people who should have to deal with our own crying babies. We fully understand that and have lived by that principle for 11 years now. So I get that. But don't take any of this as an endorsement of kid-free weddings. It is, in fact, completely ridiculous and gross to exclude children from your wedding.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
It is extremely tacky, and that's the most generous way to describe it, to invite someone to a big celebration like a wedding and then tell them that their children are not invited. Okay? Just like it would be tacky to do that with any other member of the family. When you're inviting the family over to your wedding to say, oh yeah, but not that guy in the family, not him. You can't invite him.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
That, at a minimum, is very tacky. So this idea of an adults-only wedding is, you know, it's a uniquely modern invention. It's a symptom of a society with a birth rate below replacement level and an increasing number of adults who have given up on having children entirely.
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Only in such a decrepit, dying, self-centered culture could it be considered normal to exclude children from a wedding, of all things. Like, not only should children be at your wedding, but indeed children should especially be at your wedding. Children are the reason marriage exists.
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They are one of the most fundamental functions and purposes of the marital union, which is what your family and friends have gathered to celebrate. I keep hearing that kids are disruptive at weddings and will just be bored the whole time anyway. First of all, if a child is disruptive, it's very easy to remove them from the situation.
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Removing a disruptive adult from a wedding, and there have been many of those at many a wedding, is much more difficult. In fact, I have never been to a wedding or even heard of one where a child ruined the event. Like the baby crying during the ceremony was the closest thing I've ever seen to that happening.
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And even that was not that big of a deal and an easy problem to solve without banning kids completely. But I have seen and certainly heard about many, many stories where adults ruined weddings. So I'd say the ratio of adults to children ruining weddings is like... a thousand to one, and that's probably a conservative estimate. As for kids being bored, again, this is completely backwards, okay?
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
After this speech, which was obviously excellent, it's not an overstatement to say that European elites lost their collective minds. One European official told The Economist that the speech was a direct assault on European democracy. Meanwhile, a senior diplomat stated, it's very clear now Europe is alone. And he added that Europe now considers the U.S. to be an adversary.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Adults are bored at weddings. I got news for you. If you're having a wedding, most of the adults there are bored to tears. I'm bored at weddings. Most adults spend the whole time calculating when they can leave without seeming rude. Like there are two types of adult wedding guests, okay? There are the ones who are bored and the ones who are drunk.
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And then there's the especially miserable third category of both bored and drunk. And you don't want that, but you're going to get some of that too. Children, on the other hand, love weddings. They love them without any alcohol enhancement, hopefully. That's why the dance floor at any reception that allows children will be mostly occupied by children.
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And that's not because they're crowding the adults out. It's because kids are... They're just full of joy and excitement. Why wouldn't you want them at your wedding? A wedding without kids is lifeless and sterile. It's no different than having a Thanksgiving dinner and telling your guests they can't bring their kids. I mean, you're missing the whole point of the thing.
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And you're making the event much more boring in the process. You know, I'm told that... that the wedding is really all about the bride and groom, really just the bride, though. And if they or she doesn't want kids at the wedding, then, well, the kids just shouldn't be there. And I acknowledge that the bride has every legal right to decide who gets to come to her wedding, of course, but...
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And I know this is heresy to say these days, but it is true that the event is not really just about her. This idea that the whole wedding, it's really just her day to celebrate her. It's all about her. Actually, no. This is another invention of modern society.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
We treat weddings like events designed to worship and cater exclusively to the bride so that no demand that she makes can be considered too cumbersome and no barrier she puts in place of entry should be too difficult. But that's not what a wedding is. A wedding is not an excuse to be a self-centered diva.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
And if a woman sees it that way, she is, from the outset, setting a very terrible precedent for her marriage and getting off on exactly the wrong foot. A wedding is not just about the bride and not just about the couple. And we're actually not there celebrating the bride. We're celebrating the marriage itself. The sacrament of marriage is what is being celebrated. And it's about the whole family.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
That's why you invite them. If you're throwing any kind of party, even a wedding reception, then, especially a wedding reception, your focus and priority should be to make sure that your guests have a good time. Did you know that? Your wedding reception is actually mostly about your guests having a good time. That's just being a good host.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Now, if you want it to be about just you, don't invite anyone and don't have a reception. Just get married in front of the legally required number of witnesses and then go home and start your married life together. If you're inviting family and friends, then the event is also about your family and friends. Who says? Well, you did. You invited them. You decided to include them, which is good.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
But maybe the best reaction came from a guy named Christoph Hausgen, who is the chair of the Munich Security Conference. Apparently he's retiring, so he delivered a speech about how America's values don't align with Europe's anymore. And then at the end of the speech, he did something that no grown man should ever do in public. I've been very clear about this. He broke down crying. Watch.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
But if you're going to include your friends and family, it is not fair and is in fact pretty deranged to set an age limit. Children deserve to be a part of the celebration. And, you know, at least they won't get drunk and vomit on the floor. So that's another mark in their favor, I would say. And that is why child-free weddings are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
So he starts crying and then just walks off the stage and everybody applauds him when they should be booing him. A man starts breaking down in tears in public. He should be booed off the stage. And in response to this footage, the Munich Security Conference put out a statement that, for my money, is the single most humiliating statement that a security conference can possibly put out.
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Keep in mind, this is supposedly a very serious conference about saving the world from Russian military aggression, keeping us out of nuclear war, making sure we're not all speaking Chinese in five years and so on. So the Munich Security Conference is supposedly the real deal. Like these are serious people dealing with serious stuff.
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And with that in mind, here's the official statement from the Munich Security Conference after that footage went viral online, quote, Our former chair, Christoph Hausgen, did not shed a few tears out of frustration. It was his farewell speech as he was leaving the Munich Security Conference after this year's conference. He was saying goodbye to the team at this very moment. Close quote.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
In other words, the Munich Security Conference is taking a break from keeping the world secure, allegedly, in order to clarify that the footage you may have seen online was edited unfairly. They're saying that their fearless leader was not crying in public over anything that JD Vance said. That would be ridiculous. Instead, he was crying in public because he's leaving his job.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Now, of course, that explanation doesn't change the fact that Christoph Hausgen is not a child under the age of 12. He is, in fact, a 69-year-old man. And by the way, he's held this particular job since 2022. So he's breaking down in public because he's leaving a job after a period of time that qualifies, at best, as a short stint. This is what broke him.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
He had to just walk off the stage, head in his hands, because he's really gonna miss being the chair of the Munich Security Conference after three entire years. Now, at this point, they should probably just admit that JD Vance is the one who made him cry, you know, obviously. That would actually be maybe less embarrassing than whatever they came up with.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
And not to rub it in, by the way, but this guy, Christoph Hausgen, is the same German diplomat who laughed at Donald Trump back at the United Nations in 2018 when he warned that Germany was dangerously dependent on Russian energy. Watch.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Well, if you follow world affairs, you know what happened next. When Russia invaded Ukraine and cut off a majority of Germany's energy, the Germans had to reopen a bunch of coal plants and delay the shutdown of their nuclear plants. They also had to find natural gas elsewhere, including from the United States.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
So it's fitting, I guess, that a few years later, this same guy isn't laughing on camera anymore. Instead, he's crying for one reason or another. It's obviously a flattering comparison for J.D. Vance. I mean, it's almost like Europe's leaders wanted to appear as weak as possible in the wake of his speech and right before this weekend's elections in Germany.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
But Europeans were not the only ones giving J.D. Vance a big assist this weekend. Over at CBS News, Margaret Brennan suggested that Vance was wrong to extol the virtues of free speech because the Nazis used free speech and that's how we got the Holocaust. And yes, to be clear, this is a real segment that actually aired on national television. Here it is.
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Now, keep in mind, the woman who asked this question moderated the VP debate in which she cut off J.D. Vance's microphone because he refuted one of her lies about immigration. And now here she is claiming that the Nazis somehow weaponized speech to, quote, conduct a genocide.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
She's not even saying that speech was used to promote a genocide, which would also be wrong, but she's saying the speech was used to conduct. They actually committed the genocide with speech. Somehow. Now, on reflection, it's actually impressive how little her question makes sense. First of all, it doesn't actually mean anything to weaponize free speech to conduct a genocide.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
The words don't come together in a way that makes any sense at all. It's like saying the Nazis weaponized air to conduct a genocide. So therefore, we need to ban air, I guess, since the Nazis used it. But in this case, she's just wrong on the basic facts also.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Before the Nazis rose to power, Weimar Germany had laws against so-called hate speech, including laws that prohibited hate speech against Jews. And prior to the rise of the Nazis, they shut down something like 100 newspapers in Prussia alone over a two-year period. In 1925, Hitler was banned from speaking in some states because of his rhetoric.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
And in the end, all of these speech restrictions actually emboldened the Nazis. People assumed that because these Nazis were being censored, maybe they were on to something. So censorship had the exact opposite of its intended effect, as it so often does. And then, of course, when the Nazis took over, they eliminated free speech, as Rubio said. You couldn't criticize Hitler in any way.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
So there are about a million reasons why Margaret Brennan's question is complete nonsense. I could go on and pick apart Brennan's logic some more, but I really don't need to because her own network, CBS, did it for me. This weekend, CBS just so happened to do a whole segment about how Germany cracks down on free speech today.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
They conduct pre-dawn raids on people who post offensive content on the Internet. Watch.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
50 raids at the same time for offensive means. Now, try to imagine how CBS would be covering raids like this if they came at the direction of Donald Trump. Let's say Trump decides that he wants to ban hate speech, so he'll conduct pre-dawn raids against anyone who posts hateful content about white people on the internet. I mean, how do you think 60 Minutes would react to something like that?
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
Imagine Joy Reid or Jameel Hill getting carted away by armed law enforcement in the middle of the night because they made their one millionth post about how white people are evil. Like, how do we think CBS might respond to that? Well, I can tell you this. Margaret Brennan wouldn't come out and declare that Trump was doing his part to prevent another holocaust.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
That's because the corporate press isn't actually concerned about the rise of an authoritarian government. They just want to make sure that they're the ones running it. And if you doubt that, watch how the CBS anchorwoman reacts as German officials explain their draconian laws to her.
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In case you missed it, here's a screen grab of the glee on her face. She just, I mean, she loves it. She's being told that people in Germany are shocked to realize that their electronic devices are being seized. and that they're being arrested for talking, for using words that the German authorities don't like. And this woman, the CBS anchor, I mean, she's smiling through the whole thing.
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Ep. 1538 - CBS Claims That Free Speech Caused The Holocaust
And if you watch this entire segment, you won't find any pushback whatsoever from CBS. They don't bring on a guest to explain how actually this is a horrible idea. Instead, the whole segment comes across like a promotion for state censorship, because that's what it is. And as it continued, it became more and more bizarre. Watch.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the city of Los Angeles is going up in flames. The left claims it's a product of climate change, but that's because they don't want to talk about the real cause, which is incompetence, if not outright sabotage, by the Democratic leaders of LA and California. Also, Joe Biden finally admits that he actually may not have been capable of serving a second term.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
You can visit AmericanFinancing.net slash Walsh NMLS 182334 NMLS Consumer Access. Do it now before the next economic crisis hits. NMLS 182334 NMLS ConsumerAccess.org. Normally, when a politician becomes the mayor of a major city, it's because they've supposedly spent their career working in the city and advancing its interests.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
This stuff is so infuriating. I mean, here's a question, and this is something that unfortunately is playing out right now in Los Angeles, over the city probably. Firefighters are responding to a scene and their house is on fire. And there's someone inside the house who's incapacitated, passed out, smoke inhalation. And that person is, let's just say it's a man about myself.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Let's say it's me, I'm the one that's in that building. I'm not a huge guy, I'm slightly above average height and all that. It's not like I'm Dwayne Johnson, but just a man. How many female firefighters would be capable of picking me up and carrying me out of the building? How many? Of all the female firefighters, what percentage of them could even do that? I'm going to say maybe 0%.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
But they're doing the work at the Los Angeles Fire Department, whatever that means. Now, to be fair to this fire chief, a month ago, she did send a letter to the mayor explaining that her department would struggle to respond to wildfires because of the funding cuts. And here's what that letter looked like. You can see it.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
The fire chief states that Bass's budget cuts had, quote, severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires. What's particularly strange about these budget cuts and the fire department's focus on DEI is that it's been widely known for years that a massive devastating wildfire was potentially imminent in Los Angeles.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Insurance companies have known that, which is why they've tried to raise rates on disaster coverage for homeowners in recent years. Instead of responding to the risk, Democrats in California banned the insurance companies from raising rates. And then they fired the firefighters for not taking the COVID shot. So the insurance companies dropped thousands of California residents from coverage.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Meanwhile, California's leaders also took down a massive dam just to ensure that emergency personnel would have as little available water as possible in the event of something like this happening. Watch.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
So they redirect rainwater to the ocean and shut down the dams to save the fish and appease the tribal elders. And now they're apparently out of water to fight these fires. Firefighters are using traffic cones to scoop water now, as you can see in the footage here. Now, these are images that are going to be remembered many years from now.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
As the mayor of Los Angeles hangs out in Ghana and the fire department leadership pushes DEI hiring and the politicians empty the reservoirs and remove the dams and the brush remains uncleared, the rank and file firefighters are reduced to scooping water into traffic cones. This is what Donald Trump warned about just a few months ago on Joe Rogan's podcast.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Eric Adams became the mayor of New York after working in local law enforcement for more than 20 years. So did the mayor of Fresno, a man named Jerry Dyer. Meanwhile, the new mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, helped ensure that the Bay Area would be the home of the Super Bowl 50 a few years back. So now it's not to say that these are necessarily good politicians. Many of them are not.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
In fact, he's been warning about it for years and now it's happened. In case it's not clear, it's necessary to scoop water into traffic cones because no water is coming out of the fire hydrants. The businessman Rick Caruso called into local news to make that observation, watch.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
This is obviously an extremely damaging piece of information for local officials. That's presumably why an anchor at the local Fox affiliate tried to fact check Rick Caruso and imply that he was wrong about this. And then he was immediately fact checked by a Fox reporter on the ground who confirmed that indeed the firefighters are out of water.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
So this is one of the most basic factual issues of this entire disaster. And the local media obviously has no idea what's going on. Neither do the people who are supposedly running the state. Yesterday evening, CNN asked Gavin Newsom about why there was no water coming out of the fire hydrants, and he had no answer to the question.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
But if you look through their careers, at the very least, you'll find that they had an interest in the city and the one that they would later represent as mayor. That's like the lowest of all bars, but at least they clear that. But the current mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is an exception. She doesn't even clear that bar.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Now, shortly after that interview was shot, another fire began in Hollywood Hills. Arson obviously seems like a strong possibility to explain a lot of this because California is a lawless state where no one, even arsonists, are prosecuted. Additionally, late last night, someone shot footage of what appears to be arson attacks taking place in the city. This is from the Santa Monica neighborhood.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Now, based on that footage and the sheer number of separate fires, it seems more likely than not that we're dealing with a series of arson attacks here. But, you know, not spontaneous combustion caused by climate change, but people setting these fires. By the moment, we don't know for sure.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
What we do know, as this catastrophe continues to unfold in Los Angeles, is that no one is buying the climate change narrative anymore. The people running the state of California are simply too incompetent, too incoherent to pull it off. Now, yes, it's too late for the people living in the many destroyed areas of Los Angeles, which are becoming more numerous by the hour.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
But the rest of the country now understands exactly where climate change derangement leads. Along with DEI and the rest of the equity agenda, it leads to destruction and blame shifting and ultimately total unmitigated apocalyptic disaster, which is what we're seeing happening in a major American city.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
And as entire enclaves and left-wing cities burn to the ground, the reality is now simply too obvious, even for the most committed members of the climate cult, to ignore any longer. Now let's get to our five headlines. You know what's interesting about the current state of health and wellness?
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
We're talking about nature's original superfood packed with over 400 bioactive ingredients. that your body instinctively knows how to use. And Armra has perfected a way to deliver this incredible substance in its purest form. The secret is in their proprietary cold chain biopotent pasteurization technology.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
While their supplements lose their potency through processing, Armra's method preserves these vital nutrients exactly as nature intended. Plus, they source everything from grass-fed cows on America's family farms, supporting our agricultural communities while delivering a premium product What I appreciate most is that it's not another artificial supplement.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
If you look at what Karen Bass has been talking about for the past decade, you'll find that by her own admission, she was never especially interested in California. Instead, again and again, she's talked about advancing the interests of Africa. Here's just a small selection of her appearances on African media. Watch.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
It's a natural whole food that works in harmony with your body, helping to maintain clarity and improve immune health. In times when we're surrounded by synthetic solutions and processed products, isn't it refreshing to find something that's both innovative and completely natural? This is the kind of advancement we should champion, one that enhances what nature has already perfected.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
We've worked out a special offer for my audience. Receive 15% off your first order when you go to tryarmor.com slash Walsh or enter code Walsh. That's T-R-Y-A-R-M-R-A dot com slash Walsh. All right. Now, I know as you listen to this, you might be thinking, is this guy really losing his voice again? Didn't that just happen like two weeks ago? What is wrong with this sickly bastard?
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
And yes, it did just happen, and it is now. And I blame my kids. I believe in accountability, so I blame my kids. We had a round of whatever cold virus is going around right now. We had a round of that. And then apparently we went back for seconds because my kids started coughing again. Now it's ripping through the house a second time. Just a round and a round and a round. Because look,
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
You know, it goes without saying, I love my kids to death. My family is the greatest thing in my life. But they're also, let's be honest, little petri dishes. They, you know, they're little buckets of disease. Cute little buckets, adorable. But kids are just constantly bringing viruses and bacteria into the house. And they have no sense of personal space either.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
So that combination just means that whatever they have, you're going to get. You know, you're sharing it as a family. The other day, my two-year-old, sneeze directly into my face, like this close. It seemed intentional, because there's no reason for you to be this close. Got up, point blank range, all the shrapnel. I absorbed it all. And so here we are. It's the way it goes.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Here's this from the Daily Wire. President Joe Biden voiced uncertainty when asked whether he believed he could serve another four-year term in the White House if he did not drop out of the 2024 race. On Wednesday, USA Today published a transcript of an interview that its Washington bureau chief, Susan Page, conducted with the 82-year-old Biden over the weekend.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
Page asked, do you think he would have had the vigor to serve another four years in office? The president said in response, I don't know. That's why I thought when I first announced talking to Brock about it, I said I thought I was the person. I had no intention of running after Beau died, for real, not a joke.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
And then when Trump was running again for reelection, I really thought I had the best chance of beating him. But I also wasn't looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old. And so I did talk about passing the baton, but I don't know, who the hell knows? So far so good. Really? So far so good? But who knows what I'm gonna be when I'm 86 years old? You know, it's kind of incredible.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
You almost have to laugh, almost. Biden was asked whether he could actually perform the duties of the presidency in a second term. And his response now is, who the hell knows? Keep in mind, I don't think I have to remind you, this guy was running for a second term. Now he admits that he has no idea whether he could even do the job.
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
A new study finds that vegans are often depressed and miserable. I don't think I needed a study to tell me that. And a Hollywood actor goes on Bill Maher's podcast and tries to defend sex changes for kids. It doesn't go well for him. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Are you feeling the stress about keeping up with New Year's resolutions, work, family, and more?
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Ep. 1511 - The Real Reason LA Is Burning — And It’s Not Climate Change
I would have respected him more if he had said that during the campaign. At least the honesty I would have respected. Obviously, I wouldn't have voted for him, but I would have liked it back in May when he was still in the campaign. If someone said, are you sure you can do this job at your age? Look, man, who the hell knows? I'm old. Let's be honest. I could be dead tomorrow.
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What do you want me to tell you? I wish he had just said that. At least there would have been some honesty to it. Obviously, this is not a revelation. We aren't learning anything here. The only thing this reveals, if it reveals anything, because I mean, this also shouldn't be a newsflash, but it is that Joe Biden himself was and is aware of his own mental deficiencies.
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It's not like he ran again or tried to run again because he was actually unaware that he was losing his mind and really thought that he could do the job. No, he knew he couldn't do it. He knew that he was falling apart. And he was going to put the country in that position anyway.
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He was going to deliberately put the country in the position that the President of the United States would become fully, fully, fully mentally incapacitated while in office. He was going to march us right into that scenario. It's really no different than a drunk driver. I mean, this is kind of the presidential equivalent of a DUI. Because the drunk driver knows that they're drunk.
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He knows he's getting behind the wheel of a car in a state where he's not equipped to operate a vehicle safely. That's why drunk drivers deserve incredibly harsh penalties, because they're intentionally putting other people in harm's way. They'd rather potentially kill someone than call an Uber. And with Biden, it was the exact same thing.
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Exact same thing, which is why, as I said all along, I have no sympathy for this guy In almost any other scenario where you've got an old guy losing, or old woman, losing their mental capacities and going senile, in almost any other scenario, I would have nothing but sympathy for someone in that position.
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And it's a position that almost all of us are going to be in, or we're gonna die before we're able to be in that position. But that is the direction that we're all heading, you know, regardless. So it would behoove us all to have sympathy. But not in this case. Not in this case. Because you are intentionally trying to inflict this on the country. Okay.
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Here's something a little different, getting out of politics for a moment. There's just a really interesting article in The Atlantic that you should read. It's called The Antisocial Century. And I just read it this morning. I thought it was interesting and sad and troubling. It's about the increasing trend in American culture towards solitude.
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You know, people are spending more time alone than they ever have before. The writer, Derek Thompson, you know, he opens the article with a little quote. anecdote about how a small Mexican restaurant near his house, he goes there with his wife and daughter and sits down at a table, place is totally empty.
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Nobody else is sitting down and eating, and yet the business is still open and doing well financially because over near the bar or what was once the bar are a whole bunch of brown bags that are just sitting there because everyone orders to go now. And so he watches the train of people come in, walk over to the bar, grab their bag and leave. And there isn't any conversation or greeting of any kind.
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They don't even have to interact with a cashier anymore because everyone orders online, you pay online, and you just walk in, you grab your food, you don't say anything to anybody, you go home and eat. And, of course, this exact scenario can be observed everywhere in the country and many, many restaurants now. This is where they do all their business. People just don't eat in restaurants anymore.
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They take their food and they go home. A lot of these people are eating alone. I mean, it's the same thing in the movie business. The theater business, as we know, is declining because everyone's watching movies now. It's not like people aren't watching movies anymore. They're watching more movies than they've ever had before. But they're doing it at home and usually alone.
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And the article goes into the data. It's... very clear that Americans are more alone now than they've ever been. This is a civilizational shift and there's no precedent really for it. There's nothing to compare it to. People are spending less time socializing, less time going out with their friends, less time going out in general.
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And on top of that, so everyone's kind of like staying in their homes, and also more people are living alone in their homes than ever before. These are all trends that stretch back decades. They didn't start with the COVID lockdowns, which is something that a lot of people like to point to that as kind of the beginning point of all this isolation and solitude.
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But you can trace these trends to way before that. That certainly added fuel to the fire. And of course, The number one data point and one of the major things that's also contributing to it is that fewer people are getting married and starting families. So that's where the isolation, the solitude begins for a lot of people. I don't really have a grand sweeping point about this.
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I think it's just an interesting article. And this is an issue that I think we should be focused on quite a bit more than we are because we're watching as like the very idea of of what it means to be living in a human society is changing and devolving, I think, degrading. Obviously the internet is the thing that more than anything else is driving this.
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People have replaced human interaction and human connection with The distraction and stimulation of the phone, social media, and so on. And when we talk about isolation and solitude, that means something very different now. Because it's a kind of distracted solitude. It's hard to call it solitude at all. It's isolation, yes, but not really solitude. And maybe that's the way to put it.
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What people are experiencing now is isolation without solitude. Which is to say that it's isolation without any of the potential benefits that you might get from isolation. It's not good generally to be isolated for long periods of time, but if you're going to be, at least that could be an opportunity for reflection, thought, rumination, you know.
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The contemplation, prayer, solitude is or should be, could be contemplative. But there's no contemplation when everyone is at home staring at screens, right? So that's kind of the caveat here is that everyone is alone. They're at their homes, but they're not, but they're, what are they spending their time doing? They're just staring at screens the whole time.
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So now there is, yes, a lot less in-person interaction and a lot less community than But there's also a lot less solitary contemplation and reflection. So we've kind of lost both. We've lost the best things about being communal and the best things about solitude all at the same time. That's kind of the shift that we're observing. Here's another one. Just running through a few of these.
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Not going to spend a lot of time on this, but wanted to mention. Actually, it relates to the first topic here in the five headlines. This is from the website Study Finds. It says, every morning across America, millions of senior citizens grab their car keys and head out to doctor's appointments, grocery stores, and social gatherings.
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For most, these routine drives maintain their independence and connection to the world, but beneath this everyday scene lies a troubling reality. Nearly one in six older drivers experience mild cognitive impairments, and our healthcare system lacks a reliable way to determine who among them should no longer be behind the wheel.
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With 48 million licensed drivers over 65 in the United States, approximately 17% of seniors experience at least mild cognitive impairment. So that's 17% of 48 million is the number of cognitively impaired drivers on the road. Numbers paint a sobering picture. In 2020 alone, motor vehicle crashes led to 7,480 deaths and nearly 150,000 non-fatal injuries among drivers over 65.
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As the research notes, with approximately 17% of people older than 65 experiencing mild cognitive impairment, it's critical to have a healthcare system that appropriately evaluates and addresses driving safety among older adults. Now, here's why I find this interesting. There are a lot of problems in life. This country has a lot of problems. Can't solve them all.
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But you can solve or at least significantly mitigate some of our problems. And many of these solvable problems would actually be very easy to solve or to at least address in a significant way. I mean, if we had a giant checklist with all of the solvable problems and there are 10,000 problems on it, I think like 9,000 of them could be solved pretty easily and simply, but just nobody does it.
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Now, there might be like 1,000 of the 10,000 where the solution is much more complex. But for many of them, it's actually a really simple solution. So this is one of those solvable problems. It's a problem. It's a real problem. There are elderly people on the roads who shouldn't be there. There are old people driving who shouldn't be driving.
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They're cognitively impaired and they're piloting these giant heavy hunks of metal down the highway. That's a problem. So it's on our checklist. It's on our checklist of problems. It's not at the top. It's not the number one problem, but it's also not at the bottom. I mean, people are hurt and killed every day because of this problem. And You know, we sit around debating it.
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So she seems pretty knowledgeable about issues in Africa, very invested in issues in Africa. The only problem is that she doesn't live in Africa and she doesn't represent Africa, supposedly. Again, this is an allegedly American politician who supposedly represents Americans.
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I mean, we actually don't debate it. We don't really talk about it. But whenever it comes up, it's debated. Like, what do we do about it? Even in this article, they say, well, it's a difficult, it's a complex, how do you measure, how do you determine? No, it's not difficult. Here's the solution.
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I think everyone recognizes this is what we should require that everybody retake the driver's exam once they hit the age of 70, let's say. You can say 65, but let's just, we can just say 70. And then take it again every three years, at least, until you die.
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Now, this would obviously not completely erase the car accidents caused by elderly drivers, but it would greatly, greatly, greatly, greatly reduce them. And there's no argument against it. Why don't we do that? How is that not the law in every state already? Of course you should read it. The idea that you should take a driver's exam once ever in your life.
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And so if you passed it when you were 17, the implication is that 70 years later, it still counts. What? You might as well not even have a driver's exam at that point. If you're going to have it at all, then it should be something that comes up again in life. There's no argument.
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Again, the only argument you ever hear against having elderly people retake the exam is that, well, if you take their license away from the elderly person, they'll become depressed and isolated, which I get that. I know. That's tough. That's a tough thing. But that argument admits that there are a lot of elderly people on the road who wouldn't be able to pass a driver's exam.
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You're admitting that. And what we're saying is that for the sake of elderly people maintaining their independence, people have to die. Like younger people have to die on the roads every year so that old people can feel happier and drive around, which is madness. And anytime you talk about something like this, people are always like, well, hey, why are you talking about it?
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That's not the biggest problem in the world right now. California is on fire, whatever. It's like, yeah, I know. It's not the biggest. So let's just cross this off the list. Let's just go down and all these problems that aren't the biggest problems that are solved, just cross them off the list. Let's just do it. Let's deal with this problem.
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It could be easily done with a solution that there is no coherent argument against. And we don't do it. So it's just one of those things, one of many things where we look at this problem and people are dying because of it. And we say, well, what are you gonna do? Well, I know what we could do. We could do this. It would totally work. Yeah, but we're not gonna do that. Why aren't we gonna do that?
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But in reality, she's doing the Ilhan Omar routine where she constantly promises to use America's resources to help the people she really cares about who aren't American. So it was fitting that as an unprecedented massive wildfire broke out in Los Angeles this week, Karen Bass was again in Africa, attending, in this case, the inauguration of Ghana's new president.
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We're just not. We're just not gonna. We're just gonna, yeah, we're just gonna continue forever. We're gonna continue forever allowing 85 year olds who can't see drive. It's crazy to me. I don't get it. All right. I've had this one also on deck. I should mention it. This is from Yahoo. It says, Vegans could be more likely to be depressed because they drink plant-based milk.
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according to a recent study. And we know, I talk a lot about milk issues on this. It's become part of my brand, is discussing all different kinds of milk, milk-related issues. I get involved in a lot of milk-centric controversies. And so I saw this and I said, well, this is about milk. So this is, apparently this is my... This is my wheelhouse.
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Data collected for more than 350,000 participants enrolled in a UK biobank study found that those who drank semi-skimmed cow's milk were at a lower risk of both anxiety and depression compared with plant milk drinkers. Scientists from the Southern Medical University in China found that—followed so many people, so on, doesn't matter—
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Those who consume plant-based milks, such as soy and almond, were found to have a 14% increased chance of depression. So that's the thing. It's no surprise. I'm sure that people who drink fake milk, who drink, as we know, almond milk is not milk. It's nut juice. It's juice from nuts is what it is. And I understand why we don't want to put that on the container, but that is what it is.
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But I'm sure they're depressed. But I don't think it has anything to do with whatever is in the fake milk or with the nutrients they aren't getting from real milk. I think it's just that the experience of being vegan makes you depressed. You are depriving yourself of the basic elemental joy of a good meal. I mean, not just of milk, but if you're vegan, you can't have a good meal.
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If you're vegan, you can never have a good meal. You can have... A meal that is good in comparison to all the other crappy meals that you have. But you can't have an actual good meal if you're vegan. It's impossible. It doesn't exist. So they don't know what a good meal is. They don't even understand that food can be good. They don't know that.
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Like a vegan, especially if a vegan has been, God forbid, is conditioned to be a vegan from childhood. This is someone, it's like someone who's blind from birth. They don't even know what, like... They don't know what a rainbow is. They can't even conceive of it.
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And if you're a vegan, especially if you've been vegan your whole life, the fact that food can be enjoyable to eat food, you don't even know that. You've never experienced it. And to you as a vegan, food is a necessary evil. It's a thing that you suffer through. So being a vegan, it's like being a It's like being kind of a goblin in a cave underground who never experiences sunlight.
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And no offense to vegans, I don't mean it as an insult to say that you're all a bunch of goblins. I don't mean that you look like goblins. Well, a lot of you do, but that's not my point. My point is about the basic joys of life that you're not experiencing. And then again, this may be confusion of chicken and the egg kind of thing.
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What I mean is, are vegans depressed because they're vegans or are they vegans because they're depressed? Maybe depressed, self-loathing, miserable people are more likely to become vegans as a way of punishing themselves. And then being vegan makes them even more depressed because I think it's probably something like that. It's a vicious cycle, but something. More research is needed.
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Now, why is the mayor of an American city taking time off of work to attend the inauguration of a third world leader 7,000 miles away? Well, that's a good question. And the point is that this was not simply bad timing, as you may have seen it portrayed in the media. It was inevitable.
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Let's get to the comment section. Let's do that. Who knows you better than you know yourself? Your spouse, your parents, your children? Well, if you own a smartphone, a computer, or any internet connected device, there are thousands of companies out there who know you better than you do.
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They're called data brokers and they make billions of dollars a year tracking your activity across the internet. They know what you've bought, everywhere you've been, who you talk to, your private and personal beliefs, and they package all that into a profile that they sell to people who want to control you. Marketers, activists, and yes, politicians. So what can you do about it?
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I understand that. And I appreciate you. And there were a lot of in response. You know, we did the show yesterday. I talked about, well, there's purchasing Greenland. There's taking taking possession of the Panama Canal. plans potentially on the agenda for Trump. But there's also this thing about conquering Canada. And so I talked about waging a conquest of Canada.
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And for some reason, a lot of Canadians in the audience were upset about it. And I got a lot of comments like this saying, well, how could you say that you wanted to conquer? Well, look, I understand that not everyone in Canada is far left wacko. And like I said, I appreciate The conservative Canadians, I really do. And I will make sure that you have comfortable accommodations in labor camps.
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I'll make sure you have the best cells out of anyone. You get the easiest jobs. I mean, they're going to be hard, back-breaking jobs. You're not going to get paid for them. But, you know, so no reason to be so upset is what I'm trying to say. Let's see. Porn is terrible, but you can't ask for a smaller government and then continue passing more and more laws.
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Democrats like Karen Bass spend so much time representing their real constituents, foreigners, that they're rarely in town when a disaster materializes back at home. Now, Democrats are able to get away with this betrayal because, for the most part, the media lets them do it.
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Rather than asking the government to make sure your children are not watching porn, perhaps it's the parents' responsibility to make sure. I know it's a crazy concept. Now, okay, well, I'm not asking for a smaller government because smaller doesn't mean anything. OK, the whole and I know conservatives have been saying this forever and I never have you noticed that never happens.
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Conservatives have been chanting forever, small government, and it literally never happens. The government has only grown ever. It's all it's done for 100 years. And so maybe that tells us that this slogan is not very effective. And one of the reasons it's not effective is because it doesn't mean anything. What do you mean smaller? Smaller than what? Smaller in what way?
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So we just solve all our problems by just making it smaller? That doesn't solve anything. What I want, among other things, is a more efficient government. And efficient means that you're being productive and you're not wasting a lot of effort and money.
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So yes, efficiency does often mean that, in effect, that the operation becomes, quote unquote, smaller because you're getting rid of a lot of the dead weight and a lot of the wasted effort and all the rest of it. But the goal is not smallness itself. The goal is efficiency. And efficient means, in other words, that you are good at doing the things you're supposed to be doing.
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There's a very broad definition of efficient, but that's what I want from the government. And so that requires us to first determine what the government is supposed to be doing. There are a lot of things that it shouldn't be doing, that it is doing. And I want it to stop doing those things. And yet there are still things that it should do. Now, this is an important distinction.
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And I would say that putting some laws in place to prevent the multi-billion dollar porn industry from preying on millions of children is the kind of thing that the government should be doing. Protecting kids is the kind of thing the government should be concerned. Now, there's lots of things the government could do in the name of, quote unquote, protecting kids that are bad.
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They can use that as a cover to do things that actually have nothing to do with protecting kids. I understand that. But putting laws in place to put some kind of insulation, some kind of filter system, some kind of shield in between this massive behemoth, hardcore porn industry and our kids, that actually is about protecting kids. And it's a kind of basic level of protection that
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So it must have come as a great shock to Karen when after she landed at LAX, she was immediately confronted by a reporter who grilled her about her many failures. This reporter named David Blevins is the senior Ireland correspondent at Sky News. And here's how this, well, it's hard to call it a conversation. It's rather one-sided, but here's how it went.
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Not only is it appropriate to provide kids, but kids have a right to it. We have an obligation to provide it. Yes, starting with parents, but not just parents. At a societal and political level, there is an obligation to do something, at least to try to protect these kids from this satanic industry. Another comment says, I did not expect us to bring back Manifest Destiny. Well, why not?
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Why wouldn't we take it? I mean, it's funny people talk about Manifest Destiny now like it's some clearly objectively bad thing. Manifest Destiny, of course, is the belief in the 19th century that it was America's destiny, its calling, its vocation to stretch itself west across the continent to the Pacific.
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And it was this belief that drove the pioneers and explorers and settlers to do exactly that. And now we're told that Manifest Destiny was bad and it was racist and all this kind of stuff. But wasn't it obviously our destiny? When the people talked about Manifest Destiny in the 19th century, isn't it clear that it was in fact our destiny? Was it not obviously our calling to do exactly what we did?
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To expand, to claim new land? What if we hadn't? What then? What if we hadn't done that? If there was no manifest destiny, what does the world look like right now?
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Now, if you're a really naive moron, you, I guess, would think that if America had just consigned itself to one coast, then everything west of the Mississippi would have remained in the control of warring bands of Stone Age tribes, as it was at the time. And even if it had worked out that way, that would not be good. Okay, that would be absurd.
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Imagine in the year 2025 that we have our highly advanced society, our highly advanced civilization, but if you go in the woods, you'll run into an Apache warrior who wants to peel your scalp off your head and wear it around his neck as a trophy, okay? It's clear that that would not be an improvement. That's not what we want. But that's not even what would have happened, okay?
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What would have happened, and this is an important point, fact of American history that most people don't seem to understand when they talk about how terrible it was that America expanded and took all this land from Native Americans. I've addressed that so many times to talk about why this conquest of the wilderness was not a bad thing, but in fact, a great thing.
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But another aspect of that is that if we hadn't done it, it would not have just This land would not have just remained in the hands of these warring bands of Indian tribes who were living 5,000 years in the past. No, that's not what would happen. Other countries would have laid claim to it. They already had Great Britain, Spain, France, Russia. Eventually China would have gotten in into the mix.
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So if not for Manifest Destiny, it would be the United States on the East Coast and then like Europe part two on the West. Which is to say the United States wouldn't exist in that scenario. I mean, if the United States had never expanded, it would not exist in the year 2025. So all of that, I would think, vindicates the idea of manifest destiny. And yet we still talk about it.
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Get 25% off your new annual membership now at dailywire.com slash subscribe and join the fight today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Today, we cancel the actor John Cryer, who is, of course, the former star of the sitcom Will and Grace, or may have been Two and a Half Men. I didn't bother to check.
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But in any event, Cryer appeared on Bill Maher's podcast this week, where he offered his theory on why Donald Trump won. Watch.
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Now, what makes this stupid is, well, everything about it, but let's narrow it down a bit. Cryer gets the first part of the answer right. He says Trump won because Americans hate inflation and riots. That simplifies and condenses the issue quite a bit, but it's basically correct. Americans were tired of our wrecked economy and our lawless cities. They wanted economic stability and law and order.
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But then Cryer throws in the claim that Americans also hate black women. So apparently his theory is that Americans correctly associated Kamala with economic decline and lawlessness, but would have still voted for her if not for the fact that she's black. We would have said, well, we really hate inflation and crime, but she's white, so we'll take it.
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Never mind the fact that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the first run, who is, last I checked, not black. Now, of course, this is all part of the mythology that woke idiots like John Cryer subscribe to. It's a mythology that, as we know, claims that America is racist. And according to this mythology, black women in particular get the harshest treatment.
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Black women are reviled and persecuted more than anyone else, they say. Never mind the fact that You know, Oprah is one of the wealthiest and most popular figures in the country, so is Beyonce. We were constantly told during the race that Michelle Obama's approval ratings were higher than any candidate or any potential candidate on either side.
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Now, I don't think any of those people should be popular, not because they're black, but because they're all pretty awful in their own ways. But they do cause some problems for the America hates black women narrative. In fact, here's the funny thing.
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Nearly all of the people who claim that Kamala lost because she's sort of a black woman would also say that Michelle Obama would have crushed Trump, even though Michelle Obama is blacker than Kamala. Now things took an even more ridiculous turn when the conversation moved to the trans issue. Listen.
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Now, there are many problems with this. To start with, Bill Maher is presenting the weakest possible case for team sanity here. He says that male or female are the default settings for most humans, but not all humans, which is, of course, incorrect. It's not most humans. Every human who exists on the planet, who has ever existed, will ever exist, either falls into the category of male or female.
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There are no other categories. Those are the only two. So Bill's given up far too much ground to the other side at the outset of this conversation. And any amount of ground given up is too much. Give them nothing because they deserve nothing and their ideas have no merit and no value. So John Cryer takes the ball and runs with it.
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And he compares being trans to being left-handed and says that left-handedness was suppressed for thousands of years. And once the suppression stopped, left-handedness exploded. And he claims it's a similar thing that's happening with transgenderism. The explosion in trans identification is not because of social contagion. It's because the thousand-year campaign of suppression has come to an end.
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Now, there are a number of issues with this. First of all, left-handed people were not suppressed and persecuted for thousands of years. John seems to think that there was some kind of global effort lasting millennia to oppress and subjugate the left-handed people of the world. That never happened. Maybe it should have. Left-handed people are freaks who shouldn't be trusted, but it didn't happen.
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I mean, it really is amazing and also amazing that this is a... Irish correspondent for a foreign news outlet who appears to care more about what's happening in Los Angeles than the mayor of Los Angeles does. And by the way, total flying time from Ghana to Los Angeles is something like 18 hours.
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In fact, some ancient societies revered left-handed people. Some societies associated the left hand with wisdom. At any rate, even if we had been rounding up and imprisoning left-handed mutants for hundreds of centuries, that still would do nothing to prove the point with transgenderism. It would do nothing to prove John's case.
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Actually, rather than proving it, the left-handed analogy undermines his case. Because left-handedness is a preference. It's not some kind of innate state of being. Is John admitting that transgenderism is the same kind of thing, a mere preference? Also, And this is very important. A left-handed person does not cut off their right hand because they're left-handed.
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One does not affirm one's hand preference by having the opposite hand amputated. Everyone would agree that we should not be making permanent life-altering changes to anyone's body, least of all a child's body, based on their dominant hand. So even if we bought his analogy, it would not lead us all the way to his conclusion. It wouldn't even get us halfway there.
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This is the problem for the proponents of gender ideology. Analogies are an extremely useful tool in making and explaining an argument. I use them all the time. But the gender ideology proponent is not able to make any analogies. Every analogy backfires. They cannot say, human beings can choose whether they're male or female, just like X.
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Or they can't say, we should make permanent changes to a child's body if they say they're trans, just like we do X. Because these are things that have no analogy. In order to defend their position, they're using logic that they would not accept in any other area of life.
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They're making the kinds of arguments that, if applied to literally anything else, in any other circumstance, everyone, including them, would reject. There's no logical precedent for their position because it is not logical. Now, compare that to team sanity. We don't have this problem. We are overflowing with analogies. Our cups runneth over.
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We can say human beings can't choose their sex just like... They can't choose their race or their height or their natural hair color or their genetic composition, their DNA. In fact, it turns out that we have no say over any of the fundamental components of our physical identities.
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We can also say we shouldn't make permanent changes to a child's body if they say they're trans, just like we don't let children get tattoos. or cosmetic procedures, et cetera. That's because our position on transgenderism is entirely consistent with our position on everything else. On the other hand, the defense of gender ideology exists in this kind of logical vacuum.
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It requires you to make the kinds of arguments that you would never make otherwise. It requires you to contradict yourself, which is the very definition of an illogical position. And it is why John Cryer, from whatever show he's from, is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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And that whole time, Karen apparently didn't prepare any kind of response to these questions, all of which were highly predictable. She didn't think about why she had slashed the fire department budget by $18 million just a few months ago. She didn't have any message for the thousands of displaced families that she supposedly represents.
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Instead, Karen Bass kept quiet until her staffers handed her some talking points to read. And then once she had those talking points, she promptly humiliated herself once again. Watch.
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apparently doesn't know how the internet works. I mean, it would be impossible to script a more on-the-nose satire of Democrats' priorities and total incompetence than what Karen Bass just pulled off. She abandons her constituents during a massive fire in order to pander to Africans, and then she transforms into Ron Burgundy when she belatedly returns. And in case you didn't catch it,
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She read the URL of the website as literally URL. So again, doesn't know how the internet works. I mean, maybe they don't have a great internet connection in Africa. So that's where she's spending all of her time. So maybe we can't blame her for not knowing how that works. By Karen Bass's own admission, she needs to be removed from office immediately.
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And we know Karen Bass agrees with that because she wrote this post on social media when Ted Cruz infamously went on vacation during a disaster in Texas, quote, Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis. We need to build a movement to kick them all out.
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Politicians like Bass are why climate change is such a common talking point on the left. Because it's their get out of jail free card when their incompetence becomes extremely obvious. Bernie Sanders, for example, just put out a tweet claiming that the wildfires prove that climate change is real. Now, There are major problems with that claim, a bunch of them.
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But just the first one is that no one, even the alleged scientific experts, really thinks that that's true in this case. Michael Schellenberger just spoke to John Keeley, a researcher at the US Geological Survey, who's been studying fires like this for decades. Keeley assessed that, quote, I don't think these fires are the result of climate change.
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You certainly could get these events without climate change. Well, of course you could, because the thing driving the fires is wind, and wind is not a product of climate change. We've always had wind. For as long as we've had Earth itself, there's been wind. And as for the origin of the fires themselves, well, that's a different question. We know what's making these fires spread so rapidly.
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It's the wind and all of the fuel that these fires have to burn. But what's starting the fires? Again, an important question, especially since we were promised just a few years ago that electing Joe Biden would effectively end wildfires in this country. Biden said it himself after the last big wildfire he pretended to care about. Watch.
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So if he gets a second term, then we'd have all these wildfires. And the obvious implication there is that if we elect Biden instead, we won't have them. And Biden... Became the president, as you may remember, and what do you know? We still have the wildfires. So it took less than four years for this particular climate change prediction to blow up in their faces like they all do.
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We've gone from Biden will end wildfires to Biden will use wildfires as an opportunity to make personal announcements about his family, which is what he did yesterday. Watch.
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Now, yesterday, officials offered one possible explanation for why these fires are now wildly out of control. They stated that there's a shortage of firefighters in Los Angeles. Watch.
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Now, why might there be a shortage of firefighters? Well, it turns out that's not a great mystery either. Just a few years ago, Los Angeles officials celebrated the suspension and termination of more than 100 firefighters because they wouldn't take the COVID shot. Watch.
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Now, a few months after terminating all these firefighters for not taking the COVID shot, a new chief took over at the Los Angeles Fire Department. And this new chief doubled down on DEI hiring. She went out of her way to diversify the ranks of the LAFD, meaning she wanted to hire fewer white men and more lesbians like herself. Watch.
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She checks the boxes, because that's the thing that they, I mean, literally, when we say that DEI is only concerned with box checking, literally, that's the case. You just heard it there. And the thing is, When you decide that we wanna have fewer men as firefighters and more women, what you end up with in the end is fewer firefighters in general. Why is that?
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Well, because the vast majority of people who are interested in being firefighters are men. That was the case yesterday, it's the case today, it's gonna be a case forever. And on top of that, if we could all just be honest about it, Not only are the vast majority of people who are interested in being firefighters men, the vast majority of people who are qualified to be firefighters are men.
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The people that you want responding in a situation like this when your city is on fire are men. You want male firefighters. We call them firemen. That's what you want. You want firemen showing up. And everybody knows that. Everybody knows that. But we're supposed to pretend otherwise, like we don't.
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We're supposed to pretend that men and women are equally capable of responding in a situation like this when your city is on fire. But this was the fire chief's top priority and was just getting more women in there, which is to say getting more people in who are less qualified to do the job. That's what it means. And she got to work immediately, creating a DEI bureau within just one year, watch.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, as Elon Musk continues to uncover the waste and fraud rampant in the federal government, it's now becoming clear that some of the media outlets panicking over this were themselves funded by the federal government. Also, Trump puts an end to men and women's sports, but is this actually the end of it? Will the left finally give up the fight?
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Specifically, Doge has been granted access to payment and contracting systems at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and they're already on site right now doing this. So if Doge is successful in just this one area, the savings for taxpayers will be astronomical. As the Journal reports, quote, insurers pocketed $50 billion from Medicare for diseases that no doctor treated.
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And here's how the journal explained the problem, quote, insurers can add diagnoses to ones that patients' own doctors submit. Medicare gave insurers that option so they could catch conditions that doctors neglected to record. The journal's analysis, however, found many diagnoses were added for which patients received no treatment or that contradicted their doctors' views, close quote.
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Now, this is the kind of systemic fraud that is defying government spending for generations. There's massive waste. bribery, corruption at every level. Outlets like Politico haven't reported on it for the simple reason that they benefited from that spending. But it's coming to an end now.
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A lot of these corporate outlets are going to have to survive on their own merits, which is to say that they're not going to survive at all. They will run out of money very quickly.
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And the rest of us, people who are tired of reading thinly veiled propaganda from the intelligence agencies and wasting billions of dollars on various forms of government sponsored fraud, we'll get to keep more of our own money. And this is what Doge promised to do.
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And right now, based on the panic that's overtaking left-wing newsrooms in Washington, they are certainly succeeding beyond anyone's wildest imagination. Now let's get to our five headlines. This country was founded on freedom, freedom from a country that's forced us to buy overpriced tea and tried blockading us when we dumped their tea into the ocean. How'd that work out?
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Again, that's puretalk.com slash walsh to claim your new iPhone or Galaxy with qualifying purchases from Pure Talk, America's wireless company. Daily Wire reports President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday banning men from women's sports, a historic moment in the fight to protect the integrity of women's spaces from gender activists and ideologues.
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From now on, he said women's sports will be only for women. The president signed the order in the East Room of the White House, surrounded by young schoolgirls, female athletes, and advocates, including independent women's forum ambassadors Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlon, and Peyton Edwards. It is the reading from the executive order.
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It's the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.
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It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women's sports more broadly as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth. So he signed the executive order. We have a quick clip from the event. Let's see it.
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So he says the war in women's sports is over, and it could be. I mean, this could be essentially the end of the issue. It really depends on what the left decides to do next. This is a major victory one way or another, but it remains to be seen how the left's going to respond to this because they've lost the battle completely. They've lost politically. They've lost culturally.
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Everyone is against them. Public opinion is very much against them. The question is whether they want to keep falling on the sword in a desperate attempt to pull the culture back towards allowing men in women's sports again, which would be a fool's errand. But I think it remains to be seen whether the left decides to do that. And I think that I think right now they don't know what to do.
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And I also think they probably won't try to do that. Because let's say a Democrat wins, God forbid, in 2028. The Democrat president could sign an executive order just overturning what Trump just did. And it's hard to predict what will happen in four years from now. But as it stands right now, I wouldn't see that happening. Because it would be an extremely politically unpopular thing to do.
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And then you as a listener can decide whether or not you wanna subscribe. I don't force you to pay the Daily Wire any money. I don't steal anything from you. I just make the pitch over and over and over again. And then the free market takes over from there.
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And what you have to remember about this issue and the trans issue generally is that almost nobody on the left ever believed in any of it. Almost none of them actually thought it was right or fair or made any sense to have dudes compete against women.
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They took this position cynically because for a very brief moment in time, like kind of a blip on the screen, but for a brief moment in time, the trans rights quote unquote movement seemed to have the cultural upper hand. And so for a very brief moment, it seemed like the more popular position, the safer bet. And so they decided to ride that horse.
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Now, if the left had the foresight to see this moment coming, Donald Trump flanked by smiling female athletes, signing an executive order banning men from women's sports with the wide approval of the public. I mean, if they could have seen that, they never would have embraced this position to begin with. And please don't think I'm giving the left any credit here. I mean, precisely the opposite.
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My point is that most of them knew better. Most of them knew that the trans rights stuff was ridiculous the whole time. The trans agenda was always something that almost nobody truly believed in. How could they? It's objectively, plainly, egregiously wrong in every way, morally and scientifically. This was a political play by the left, and it backfired in historic fashion.
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You know, if you rewind the clock back to 2017, let's say, and everything plays out the same since 2017, except the left never leans into the trans stuff or tries to shove it down our throats. If it had played out that way, then I think a Democrat probably is in office right now. That's how badly this whole thing has backfired on them. So...
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As always, you've got to remain vigilant, and you never know what will happen next. The trans activists are fully bought in, and they're getting more and more desperate and more and more angry and panicked. And so you have to worry about that. There's no telling what they're going to do.
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We also know that there's an established history of violence among trans activists, so that also becomes a concern. That, I think, is a major concern right now, when they start lashing out violently even more. And then the other thing, too, as we talked about a couple days ago, is that you have to keep in mind that one of the reasons why
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But after reading reports yesterday on some of the government spending that's being scrutinized by Doge, it looks like I've been going about things wrong this whole time. I'm a sucker. We all are here at The Daily Wire. Because as it turns out, there's no need for media companies to actually convince anyone to buy their products, or at least there wasn't.
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the trans ideology caught on so much, particularly in high levels of government, in media, Hollywood, big tech. It was a political ploy, like we just discussed. That's true. But then the other part of it is that for a lot of the people in positions of power, it's personal for them. Like they're kids. They transitioned their own kids.
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And for those people, we talked about this a couple days ago, they can't just let it go. They can never let it go. Because to let it go would be to admit to themselves and to the world what they did to their own kids. And so they can never let that go. And that's another factor here, which means that even as the culture moves past trans ideology,
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there's going to be this core of people, some of whom are powerful, who can never move on from it. And the more that everyone else moves on from it, the angrier, more desperate they get. So how does that play out in the next few years? Well, we're going to find out. Now, staying on this topic for a moment, I thought this was funny. Here's a tweet from ESPN about this.
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And the NFL has made the highly controversial decision to remove the words end racism from the field during the Super Bowl. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Did you know that American homeowners have over $32 trillion in equity and criminals are targeting it with a growing scam the FBI calls house stealing?
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The tweet says, President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday designed to prevent people who are biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls' sporting events. Now, it may not look like it, but this tweet actually signifies, I think, a major capitulation by ESPN. Because by their uber-woke standards, this might as well be them endorsing Donald Trump.
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The phrase biologically assigned male at birth. Biologically. The woke thing, the orthodox thing on the left, obviously, is to say assigned male at birth. which makes no sense for reasons we all know now. You're not assigned anything, least of all, at birth. Your sex is not assigned or decided at birth.
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It is noted or noticed or recorded at birth, although actually it usually is noticed and noted and recorded before birth. But that's the woke way of putting it, is assigned male at birth. ESPN, though, has tried to split the baby here because the two ways of phrasing it, there's the correct way, which is to say that Trump has banned biological males from women's sports.
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Now, yeah, biological male is redundant, but it at least makes sense. You don't need to add male is a biological category. You don't need to add biological male, but it's not a nonsensical phrase. So that's the correct way of putting it. The other way to phrase it is the woke, nonsensical, assigned male at birth. ESPN has tried to combine them.
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And so they've said biologically assigned male at birth. And this is their attempt to compromise. But they've ended up with a phrase that makes even less sense. This is the most nonsensical way of phrasing it you could possibly come up with. biologically assigned male at birth. Now, biologically assigned male maybe sort of makes sense, because I guess you could say biology assigns our sex.
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Up until now, there's certainly no need to come up with a competitive price or anything like that. Instead, all you have to do is make some friends in the federal government, and they'll buy millions of dollars worth of subscriptions from you with tax money. And you can set whatever rate you want for the subscription.
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That's a weird way of putting it. Not necessarily wrong, I guess. But then they added at birth, as if biology doesn't decide if we're male or female until we emerge from the birth canal.
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So if you heard the phrase biologically assigned male birth and you didn't know any better, you would think that it means that the moment the baby emerges from the birth canal, their sex takes shape in that moment, like this mystical moment of transformation. And that's the way that they have presented it in their attempt to compromise ever so slightly. And
The Matt Walsh Show
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but it makes even less sense because there is no, you know, when you have something that makes sense and something that's nonsensical, any attempt to compromise between sensible and nonsensical, you just end up with something that's nonsensical. That's the problem. All right. I've had this for a couple of days. I want to mention New York Post has a report.
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Smartphones are making teenagers more aggressive, detached from reality, and causing them to hallucinate, according to new research. Scientists concluded the younger a person starts using a phone, the more likely they would be crippled by a whole host of psychological ills after surveying 10,500 teens from between the ages of 13 and 17 from both the U.S. and India.
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People don't fully appreciate the hyper-real and hyper-immersive screen experiences, which can blur reality at key stages of development, according to addiction psychologist Dr. Nicholas Kardaris. The digital world can compromise their ability to distinguish between what's real and what's not, a hallucination by any other name.
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Whereas today's 17-year-olds typically got a phone at age 11 or 12, today's 13-year-olds got their phones at age 10, the report noted. And the report goes on from there. I mean, and whether it's true that 20% of 13-year-olds are having hallucinations, I mean, you have to wonder if those 13-year-olds really understand what a hallucination is. So this is obviously all self-reported data.
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You can charge tens of thousands of dollars annually per person if you want, because after all, it's the federal government. They have limitless resources, courtesy of taxpayers. So who's going to notice? This week as the Trump administration goes line by line through the federal budget, people did notice finally that this was going on.
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But it does all come back to the same conclusion, which a million studies have found something similar, which is that just to basically summarize it and generalize it. Phones are really bad for kids. It's just not good. It's not making anything better. And of course, everyone's heard my rant about this many times. I really think that we're whistling past the graveyard on this issue.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Having generations of children who are addicted to screens and phones practically from birth is a major civilization level problem. And I don't think that most of us are facing that or allowing it to really sink in. And in fact, even when someone calls attention to this problem, I think that the focus is often on the wrong things, or it's presented in the wrong way.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Like in this article, they treat the screen as a kind of medical problem, which means, and that's often how this is, even the studies that are trying to demonstrate the harms that are done by having kids addicted to screens from the youngest ages Even those studies, they treat it like a medical issue, which means that someone's going to come up with a medical solution.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We already have those, allegedly, right? There are drugs for kids who have aggression or experience depression and so on. And so that's going to be the solution. We already see this happen. And we've talked about ADHD this whole week. It's been a recurring theme. And the screens play a big part of that.
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One of the reasons why kids are perpetually distracted is that they are surrounded by distraction. What do you know? And when you got a kid walking around with this distraction machine in their pocket 24 hours a day, they're going to be distracted. And so what's our solution to that is to give them drugs, right?
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Not to take away the distraction machine, but to just give them drugs to kind of dull the effects. Maybe eventually somebody will come up with a vaccine to protect against the effects of chronic screen usage in children. And I don't even mean that as a joke. Eventually that's going to happen.
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But I think the real problem here cannot actually be quantified in a study because it's bigger and deeper than that, I think. The problem is that raising kids on a screen as screen addicts, along with all the other things, the fact, does it make them more aggressive? Yes, I think certainly. Does it detach them from reality? I think yes, certainly. Does it make them distracted? Absolutely.
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Reporting from Kyle Becker, Liz Wheeler and others has just established that the left wing outlet Politico from fiscal year 2016 to 2025 has raked in more than $8 million in total from federal government agencies. And specifically, Politico has been selling subscriptions to its so-called Politico Pro service for $10,000 a year per subscription, $10,000 a year.
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Does it destroy their memory, their capacity to retain information? Yes, yes, yes. But I also think that, again, you go a couple of levels deeper than that. it kind of robs them of fundamental aspects of their humanity.
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Like for example, and again, I don't know how you account for this in a study, you probably can't, but one of the defining things about being a person is that you can or should be able to entertain yourself in your own mind with your own thoughts. You should be able to get lost in a thought, right? This is where every great creative idea comes from. It's where every profound philosophical concept,
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that's ever been conceived of has come from. It's where every great song or work of art or movie or painting originates. It originates with somebody thinking, just simply thinking. But now, with the constant reliance on screens and phones, a lot of kids never develop, I think, that very basic ability, which is to sit and ruminate and think and develop a thought.
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Because any moment that would have otherwise been an occasion for thought and reflection and daydreaming is now used for mindlessly staring at a screen, whether it's a phone or a TV or video game or whatever. And we all know this. I mean, how many people today, kids or adults, how many people have the experience, have had the experience anytime recently of just sitting somewhere?
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sitting on a chair or on the couch and that's it. It's just sitting and thinking. And you might think about this in your own life. In fact, you should try doing it just to get an idea of how screwed up your mind is at this point. Get a read on how bad the situation is for you. I think we should all do this. So just try it. Try it. Try sitting somewhere, just on a couch.
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I'm not saying this is not a meditation exercise, just to be clear. I'm not saying sit on the ground on a yoga mat, cross-legged. No, just sit on a couch, a chair, and just try sitting there. How long can you do it before you pull out your phone? And because that's the other part. I'm not saying to turn your phone off and leave it in another room. Like, have it with you, just like you would.
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Well, we all do. Have it with you. Have it on. And try sitting on a couch or on a chair and just how long can you do it before you pull out the phone? I think for a lot of people now, the answer is 20 seconds. I don't think that's an exaggeration. I think there's plenty of people walking around today who could not do that for more than 20 seconds. Just can't do it.
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literally do not know how to occupy themselves with their own minds, which is to say they don't know how to think, basically. And probably the older you are, the more successful you will be in this exercise because you lived longer without these things. So you at least developed that ability at some point. Maybe it's atrophied, but you still have it.
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I think for a lot of kids whose parents just give them the phones as soon as they're, you know, The kids are just three-year-olds running around now with tablets. And those kids, like, what the hell chance do they have?
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When that three-year-old with a tablet who becomes a six-year-old with a phone and full Internet access, when he's 25, how long is he going to be able to just sit here, just out of a chair, just kind of sit, just thinking? He won't be able to do it. Which, again, is to say you don't know how to think. You actually don't know how to think. That's maybe the biggest problem a human can have.
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NASA spent something like half a million dollars on these subscriptions. So did the FDA. They spent nearly $520,000 for just 37 subscriptions. The State Department spent more than a million dollars. The Defense Department spent more than $850,000. And for its part, USAID, the agency that funds secret coups all over the world, spent tens of thousands of dollars on Politico Pro.
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And then what happens when you have a whole society of people who don't know how to think? What happens there? Extrapolate that for 50 years. What do you end up with? You know, and there's no indication that it's good. And then you add to that, you got a whole bunch of people who don't know how to think, utterly incapable of entertaining themselves with their own thoughts.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And then you add in the rise of AI and everything, which is getting smarter and smarter so that you can get away with not thinking more and more. What does it look like in 50 years from now?
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That's why I've said many times that Idiocracy, which is a very funny movie, but I truly do think that it was far too optimistic because it painted a picture of the dystopian future that it imagined was won 500 years from now, where people are just drooling morons who do not know how to think and rely on technology for everything, but they also don't know how to operate the technology because they're too dumb.
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In idiocracy, that took 500 years. It is not going to take that long. We are well on our way. Give it another couple decades and we'll be there. So that's my encouraging thought for the day. Let's get to the comment section.
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I've yet to meet one single person who's an actual Snoop Dogg fan. Seriously, point to me one single person who's so in love with Snoop Dogg enough to justify him being on television every single ad break for the past few years. Yeah, it's a great mystery. Zero demand for Snoop Dogg. The supply has exceeded the demand by 100%. There's 100% more supply of Snoop Dogg than there is demand for him.
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And to be clear, I'm not saying that people hate Snoop Dogg. That's not my point. Nobody cares enough about Snoop Dogg to actually hate him. What I'm saying is that nobody has ever turned on a show or a movie or a commercial or anything and said to themselves, man, I hope Snoop Dogg shows up in this. Nobody has ever said that. And yet he does show up in everything always.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Matt's take on ADHD is very embarrassing to say the least. It's definitely overdiagnosed, but there's tremendous scientific evidence to show that it's real. And yes, you can see that the ADHD brain is real and different than the norm by a significant amount. Yes, it should be diagnosed with brain scans, but just because it's generally not and it's overdiagnosed doesn't make it unreal.
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And it's not just Politico that's receiving massive amounts of money from the federal government in recent years. The Associated Press has been pulling in several million dollars a year from the government going back several years. So has The New York Times.
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I like how we quickly jumped over the part about how you can actually see that ADHD brain is tangibly different by blurting out, well, then why don't they all diagnose them the same way? Okay, this is the last thing I'll say about this for now. And I'll try to explain this one more time. I am not disputing that an ADHD brain, quote unquote, may be visible in brain scans.
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My point is that it's irrelevant because they don't consult brain scans at all during the diagnostic process or at any other point. So whether someone's ADHD brain can be found in the brain or not, the diagnosis would be the same. So it's not relevant. Right? At best, it's an after-the-fact rationalization. But it doesn't factor in to the diagnosis. But that's not even the point.
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Because let's just say, for the sake of argument, that ADHD is very visible and obvious in the brain. And let's even imagine a scenario where they do diagnose it with a brain scan. They don't, but let's just say that they did. Well, the question still remains... an ADHD brain looks a certain way, okay, who's to say that it isn't supposed to look that way?
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If an ADHD brain is ordered a certain way, how do you know that it's disordered? You see, that's the question. So you being able to establish, well, yes, this is how an ADHD brain is ordered. This is how it's structured. This is how it looks like. Okay, that's fine. But that's not the case you're making. You're saying it is disordered, that it looks this way and it should not look that way.
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That's the part you got to explain. I don't need to be told that it looks a certain way. Okay, fine. But you're saying that it shouldn't look that way. So you have an idea in your head of what a brain is supposed to look like. And which to a certain extent, we all agree.
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In fact, just last August, The New York Times reported that it had received a million dollars or rather millions of dollars from the federal government. This is big money that before 2021, the New York Times was not making. But after the Biden administration came into power, the fire hose of federal subscriptions opened up. All of this is documented on official government websites.
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I mean, there are a lot of things we could say about the human brain and there are certain components of it that if those components are missing, then we know that there's a major problem. But with the ADHD brain, like there's nothing, it's not going to, there's, you know, it's not a degenerative illness. It's not eating away at your brain. It's not going to kill you. It's
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A person could have an ADHD brain and live just as long a life as anybody else. So how is it an illness? Maybe this is the best way to look at it. If our technology and our understanding of the brain was sophisticated enough, we would be able to, and I think can already in many cases, locate any personality type in a brain scan.
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So let's just say, and I don't know, I'm not sure to what full extent we can do this now, but certainly if we can't now, there'll be a time in the future when we can look at a brain scan and if we had the technology right and someone has the right training, they'd be able to look at it and pinpoint many different aspects of that person's personality. Okay, a person prone to optimism
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probably has, in some way, a different brain from someone who is not prone to optimism. There is probably an optimistic brain. Well, if we could look at a scan and see an optimistic brain, would that mean that optimism is now a disease that we have to medicate? If somebody is more prone to optimism than average, and we can locate that phenomenon in the brain?
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Should we then give them drugs to drag them back down to the average? Should we just figure out what the kind of average personality is and just give everybody drugs to either bring them down or bring them up to the mean, the average personality? Is that what we should do? Or do we accept that everybody has different personalities and therefore everyone has different brains
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And some personalities work better in some situations than others. And that's just being a person. That's what it means to be a person. That's my point. And if that still doesn't get across, then I don't know what else to tell you. Stephen Colbert is the biggest bell end on American TV. And that's saying something because you have loads of them over there. P.S.
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Sorry, Matt, but the best whiskey is made in Scotland. Yeah, scotch is good. So quite. I mean, I like scotch, but I have to say I kind of prefer Japanese whiskey recently, which is I've been on a bit of a Japanese whiskey kick, which is basically scotch, but made in Japan. And I kind of prefer it, you know. So that's it. That's nothing else to say about that.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that Matt is not really as happy to lick Trump's boots as he'd have us believe. I mean, he's a team player, but he knows who Trump really is and it bothers him. Yeah, this is funny. So I'm a Trump bootlicker now. That's the latest. If you've been following my career, that's the latest development. And it's funny because over the past eight years, nine years,
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But until now, it's gone unreported. What this means really cannot be overstated. Many countries have state media. There's nothing new about that. You know, it's a hallmark of authoritarian regimes everywhere. But we have something even more sinister in this country, which is state media that claims to be independent.
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I have been accused, alternatively, of being a never-Trumper and a Trump bootlicker. It's one or the other. For the last eight years, I'm always one or the other. And it seems to fluctuate back and forth. I'm just kind of trading places as we go along.
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So maybe what's happening here, here's a thought, maybe what's occurring is that when Trump is doing stuff that I think is good and that I agree with, I praise him. And when he does stuff I don't like, I criticize him. And since taking office this time around, I've liked almost everything he's done. I've been very impressed. I just, I don't know what to tell you. I've just been very impressed.
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I think it's been great. I think he's done a great job. Sorry, I don't know what to tell you. That's just my take on it. And so I'm telling you my take. So could that be it? Could it be that I'm just, I'm... The opinions that I give about Trump are based on what he's doing. And when he does different things, I say different things about them. It's possible. Like something to consider anyway.
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Let's get to the daily cancellation. I have something difficult that I need to talk about today. This is going to be upsetting to hear, just like it's upsetting for me to discuss. But here goes, according to reports this week, the NFL is going to remove the words end racism from the end zone during the Super Bowl this Sunday.
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I know that sounds so shocking that you think it can't be real, but it is. Here's the Daily Wire quote. The NFL has reportedly sent the word to remove the messaging end racism from the end zone for the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday. It'll be the first time since February 2021 that the message end racism has not appeared in a Super Bowl end zone.
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According to multiple sources, when the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles take the field at Caesars Superdome, the messaging in the end zones will read, it takes all of us and choose love. Quote, we felt it was an appropriate statement for what the country has collectively endured, given recent tragedies and can serve as an inspiration, according to NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy.
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Now, I don't even know where to begin. All I can say is that obviously I'm very opposed to this move. Not just opposed, but I'm anxious, I'm worried, terrified. Because how are we supposed to know what to do about racism now? There's some people that are celebrating this announcement because they're saying, well, this means that racism is over. Racism is done.
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The NFL ended racism by putting end racism in the end zone. And so now we can all move on. And look, sure, there's no doubt that the end racism message did end racism. I'm not disputing that. I know just from my own life. Prior to that message being spray painted in the end zone, I myself was racist.
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Say what you will about North Korean state television, but they at least admit that they're controlled by the government. Left-wing media outlets in this country don't have the decency to do that.
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But then I saw end racism on the field during a football game and I said, wait, we're supposed to be not racist? My God, I had no idea. And from that day forward, I was transformed. I was born anew. I stopped going to clan meetings and I started volunteering at after school programs for disabled minorities.
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And I'm sure that this is the same thing that happened for so many millions of people out there. But here's the problem. We ended racism. We created a post-racism utopian society, or I should say the NFL did. That message and racism was the glue holding our new paradise together. And now they're taking that slogan off the field. What then? What if everybody starts doing racism again?
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How are we supposed to know if we should keep racism ended or if we should start it up once more? Is that what the NFL is saying? We should start racism again? People are gonna watch the Super Bowl and they're gonna say, wait a minute, it doesn't say end racism. I guess we need to start doing the racisms again. And who's to tell them that they shouldn't? Now, sure, there will be a new message.
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The NFL says it's gonna put the words, it takes all of us on, and they're gonna put that on the field. That's not good enough. I mean, what takes all of us? Racism? Super Bowl viewers are gonna think that it's a rallying cry to join together and be racist again. The other message, choose love, doesn't help much. Who are we supposed to love? Who shouldn't we love? What if somebody loves Hitler?
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They were happy to continue collecting money from the government, which of course means they're taking money from you, from your paycheck, without disclosing their conflict of interest in any of their reporting. The government also never asked you for permission to buy these subscriptions with your money. But fortunately, they're not going to be collecting that money anymore.
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What then? Think about it. We need to be more specific. It should at least say, choose love. But just to be clear, that doesn't mean Hitler. And there's more than enough. It's a football field. You could write that whole message on there. No problem. So they could give us a lot more information. They could give us a lot more guidance, but they aren't. And that's inexcusable. And now I'm lost.
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And think about the message that this sends to kids or doesn't send more specifically. Just last night, this is true. You know, my son heard about this news and he came up to me and he said, Father, does this mean that we should do racism again? And I didn't know how to respond. The truth is that I'm just as confused as he is. And I said to him, I don't know, my son. I just don't know.
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And he paused for a moment and his eyes got misty and he looked at me and said, I'm scared. And I said, I am too. And then my son started crying. And so did I. And we wept. We wept for hours. This is what the NFL has done. Now, the point is that we are lost without moral instruction delivered to us via slogans painted on football fields.
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Now, in general, of course, I have always looked to professional sports leagues, athletes, sports commentators for guidance and direction. Like any American, I never form any opinion on anything without first consulting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, all the SportsCenter anchors, and LeBron James's Twitter feed.
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Professional sports leagues have, over the past 10 years especially, positioned themselves as our teachers, our surrogate father figures, really. And I've always been very happy with this arrangement.
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It makes a ton of sense to me because after all, if a guy knows how to throw a ball into a hoop or run with a ball down a field really fast, it stands to reason that he also has deep insight into the most important questions of life. I think two follows from one there pretty logically. Every time I see a basketball player hit a three-pointer, I think to myself, wow, he must be a great philosopher.
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And every time I see a football player make an open field tackle, I think, geez, that guy must have great moral intuition. And I realize I'm not saying anything that you don't already know. This is what we all think when we watch sports. But the NFL is now abandoning its post. It's hanging us all out to dry. Racism is about to make a major comeback in this country.
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Millions of people are going to tune into the Super Bowl, see that the words end racism have been removed. and then immediately run out and commit hate crimes. And I will too. I'm gonna go commit hate crimes. I don't know what else to do. We're all now like lost sheep wandering alone through the pastures without our great shepherd, the NFL, there to show us the way.
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I feel so alone now and so scared and also so, so racist. All because of the NFL. And that is why the NFL is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
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Yesterday, the White House press secretary announced that this funding, and in particular the millions of dollars for Politico, has now officially been cut.
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Now, if you look at the left wing response to this situation, they'll tell you that everything's being blown out of proportion. CNN, for example, ran the headline, quote, White House says it will cancel $8 million in political subscriptions after a false right wing conspiracy theory spreads. So the fact that Politico got $8 million from the federal government is true, just to be clear.
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But apparently the story is a false right-wing conspiracy theory. And they make that claim because they say that some people are reporting that Politico got $8 million in one year when really it was spread out over several years. And that's supposed to make this all okay. So rather than Politico getting $8 million in a year, it got about $1 million per year for eight or nine years.
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To me, somehow that doesn't make this sound any better. If anything, it's worse. This was not like one single bad decision. This was something that was happening continually for eight or nine years. Meanwhile, an Associated Press investigative reporter named Byron Tal wrote this, quote, I looked at these contracts and I have my own fun fact.
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This is occurring because agencies, not just USAID, are buying subscriptions to Politico's pro editorial product, not because Politico is getting grants or other federal funding. Then he adds, quote, this is true of every media outlet with a subscription model. Now, that last line is especially amusing because it's very obviously not true.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Really, every media outlet with a subscription model is getting money from the federal government, really? Now, it's true for the AP, where Byron Tao works. They're selling tons of subscriptions to the federal government. But it's not true for us, for example, conservative publications. As far as I'm aware, we didn't rake in $8 million from the federal government over the last few years.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We raked in nothing. So why might that be the case? Now, if you listen to Politico, they'll tell you that their product is superior. They just put out a statement claiming that they offer, quote, granular fact-based reporting. Now, they didn't cite any specific examples of this excellent reporting, though, which is pretty conspicuous.
The Matt Walsh Show
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In fact, none of the people defending Politico on social media were able to point to this singular, this granular fact-based reporting from Politico. Much less were they able to give examples of the kinds of things that Politico Pro offers that would justify spending taxpayer money on it. No one was able to point to a specific thing and say, oh, well, they do this thing here.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so obviously, tax money should go to that. And we all know why that is. And that is that Politico doesn't generally offer quality reporting. Unlike the Daily Wire, when they break news over at Politico, it's often completely fake. It's a lie that's intended to benefit the people who are paying their salaries in the federal government.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Maybe the most obvious example of many of this propaganda came just before the 2020 election when Politico published the blatant falsehood that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. And here's that headline. What happened here is that dozens of partisan former intelligence officials got together and they decided that they needed to give Joe Biden some cover.
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They needed to hand him a talking point before the debate. And I'm not speculating about that, by the way. The former acting CIA director, Mike Morrell, literally sent out an email to the former intelligence officials telling them they need to provide a talking point to the Biden campaign. And then when the debate rolled around, Biden used that talking point just like they drew it up.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, whatever you call this Politico story about these intelligence officials, election interference, a fraud on the public, a threat to democracy, or anything like that, you cannot call it journalism. And you also can't deny that the bureaucrats who sent millions of dollars to Politico in the end got their money's worth.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They wanted to keep Trump out of office, and in part because of this stunt, four years ago, it worked. But that whole episode was nothing out of the ordinary. As anyone who reads Politico understands very well, attempting to keep Trump out of the White House is essentially the mission statement over there, or was.
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Just ahead of the most recent election, for example, Politico wrote that Trump was delivering a, quote, racist anti-immigrant message, which was getting, quote, darker. This isn't exactly a unique take on the left, of course. Pretty much every liberal blog has been saying the same thing for a decade.
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But Politico said that they had watched 20 Trump rallies to really provide a comprehensive analysis of all the racism and anti-immigrant messages. So they went the extra mile. And that's why they deserve $8 million from taxpayers. Because they put a lot of legwork into explaining why Trump is bad.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, if you show these headlines to Politico's defenders in the federal government, they'll tell you that Politico Pro, which is the product the feds are paying for, is actually different from the free Politico. They'll claim that Politico Pro offers a higher-end product that's actually fact-based and highly useful to the federal government.
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But if you go looking at the headlines from Politico Pro, you'll quickly realize that's not true either. Take this headline, for example. The headline states, former Senator James Inhofe, who claimed climate change a hoax, dead at 89. So the reporting on the death of a senator, which isn't exactly a big exclusive scoop, okay? So you're paying $10,000 a year for that?
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Um, everybody else was reporting on this at the time also, but political pros special contribution to the story is to mock James Inhofe because he didn't want to dismantle the US economy in order to change global weather patterns. So they throw that little aside into the headline on his obituary.
The Matt Walsh Show
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He's dead, and the most important thing we want you to know about him is that he didn't believe in our climate narratives. That's the keen fact-based reporting that you can only get at Political Pro. And that is apparently worth $10,000 a year.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, in their defense, in their statement addressing their payments from the federal government, Politico goes on to claim that, quote, Politico has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies, not one cent ever in 18 years. So their defense is to rely on semantics, essentially.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They know that subscriptions have such a high price, five figures in most cases, precisely because the government will happily pay it. They know that their coverage has been extremely favorable to permanent Washington. But they think no one will recognize this as a payout or a subsidy because in the line item, it says subscription.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This is the game they're playing, which again, just to emphasize, there's no way they could judge. The reason why the subscription is so expensive is because tax money was being spent on it. If not that, who else would pay $10,000 for Politico Pro? Now, as egregious as this particular story is, the truth is that this problem is far more endemic than the journalism industry.
The Matt Walsh Show
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As Mike Cernovich has pointed out on X, until this week, what we're getting from Doge and from a lot of these revelations is that basically the whole D.C., northern Virginia economy ran on tax money funneled to NGOs, nonprofits, and media outlets.
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The White House announced the other day that we've spent $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq, $8 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary gendered language, $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala, and $2 million to help the BBC value the diversity of Libyan society.
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As the writer Peachy Keenan pointed out, we also spent $40 million for AIDS drugs for transgender prostitutes in South Africa. Specifically, the money provides accessible clinical interventions for sex workers, otherwise known as prostitutes. There's also $8 million that we spent to study the effects of flavored cigarettes on bisexuals and lesbians.
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which you would assume is the same as the effect on anyone who is not a bisexual or lesbian, I don't know, but you've got to spend millions of dollars to figure that out, as well as roughly $100 million to combat HIV in Ukraine. Now, again, that's the stated reason for all of these expenditures, but almost certainly most of this money is simply being stolen.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Even if it was being spent on what they say, it would still be a major problem. But we also know that when you hear about stuff like this and you think, even if I thought it was a good idea to fund a study into the effects of flavored cigarettes on lesbians, why would that cost millions of dollars? Well, when you hear that, it's because most likely it doesn't cost that.
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The money is going elsewhere. Where else is it going? Who knows? So this is one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I mean, and we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. And this is only a handful of agencies we're talking about here. Imagine what Elon could turn up if he audited the IRS or the ATF or the FBI, other massive federal agencies.
The Matt Walsh Show
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In fact, that appears to be exactly what's happening. Doge officials have just been spotted at FBI headquarters as well as the Department of Education. And last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that Doge is now looking into Medicare fraud, which is far more pervasive than most people could possibly comprehend.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats humiliate themselves in RFK Jr. 's confirmation hearing as they desperately defend the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. Our country suffers its first major airline disaster in many years. We'll talk about what we know so far about this terrible situation and what we don't. And a former president of Kenya has a more America-first view of U.S.
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Now, more importantly, RFK is obviously right about SSRIs. When the peer-reviewed journal Molecular Psychiatry, one of the most prominent journals in the field, admits that depression isn't actually caused by a serotonin imbalance, which is what happened in 2022. Now, it's obviously worth taking a close look at a class of antidepressants that's entitled selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
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If a comprehensive review finds that we were wrong about these drugs for decades, then maybe we need some more information and studies before we prescribe them to millions of people, including children. But of course, this is a pattern in the healthcare industry. Drugs are approved all the time when they don't actually work, at least not in the way that we understand or we're told. As RFK Jr.
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d-a-i-l-y dot c-o slash walls for 30% off your first month subscription. There's a civil trial going on right now in the state of California that hasn't gotten much attention at all. For the most part, the corporate press doesn't wanna talk about it, probably because it would upset some of their biggest advertisers.
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said yesterday, it was a similar story for Alzheimer's drugs. Some of these drugs received a lot of funding and fast-track approvals, only to turn out to be completely useless. In one case, the data supporting these drugs was actually faked. Watch.
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Now, at this point, you can probably tell that this hearing did not go very well for Democrats. Later on, they tried to attack him for pointing out that Lyme disease has some very conspicuous origins.
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Apparently, we're supposed to think post-COVID that it's some sort of outlandish conspiracy theory to believe that Lyme disease could possibly have anything to do with government labs injecting ticks with various exotic diseases. And then there was this moment where one Democrat tried to make the point that RFK Jr. doesn't believe that germs can cause disease.
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Then he refuted what she was saying, so she just read it into the record anyway. Watch.
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I've never questioned that, Senator.
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So these hearings are all like this. They're not actually about getting any kind of thoughtful answer from the nominee. It's all drive-by soundbites. Doesn't even matter what he says. But even by this low standard, there was one moment in yesterday's hearing that managed to stand out. This moment comes to us from Bernie Sanders. Sanders began by asking R.K. Jr.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But if you have any interest in learning more about how the alleged science concerning vaccines actually works in this country, it's one of the most important cases that's ever been tried. I'm talking about a product liability lawsuit that's underway against the pharmaceutical giant Merck.
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whether health care is a human right. And he said no, because no one, especially gluttons or habitual smokers, is entitled to anyone else's labor. And then Sanders resorted to berating RFK Jr. for his support of anti-vaccine apparel, specifically anti-vaccine onesies. So behold, one of the great moments in modern congressional history.
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So this is a level of seriousness that Democrats are applying to these confirmation hearings. You got Bernie Sanders screaming about onesies. And also, I guess apparently they're on sale for 26 bucks. So go check it out, buy some. They barely even mentioned, of course, gender ideology or how RFK Jr. plans to end castration of children in this country.
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They weren't remotely interested in his call for more transparent and accurate data in modern medicine. Instead, one by one, Democrats ran interference for Big Pharma. They talked about anti-vax onesies and demanded that RFK stop bullying Merck and the terrible oppressed pharmaceutical companies. Because Democrats...
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like Bernie Sanders, like Elizabeth Warren, like to pretend that they stand against corporate greed and so on, but you simply cannot pretend to be an avenger for the working class standing against corrupt billionaires if you will also defend the pharmaceutical industry to your dying breath.
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The litigation relates to allegations that Merck concealed serious side effects of its Gardasil vaccine, which promised to protect people from getting HPV, a virus that can lead to cervical cancer in women. And Merck, of course, denies the allegations, and the jury hasn't returned a verdict yet. But even without a verdict, the fact that this case has even made it to trial in the
The Matt Walsh Show
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There is no greater example of corporate greed in this country right now than what we have seen from Big Pharma. This is an industry that we know for an absolute fact has pushed literal poison on people by the millions and done it all for no reason other than pure profit. This is an industry that supplies actual castration drugs to 13-year-olds.
The Matt Walsh Show
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An industry that got millions of Americans hooked on antidepressants on false pretenses based on a belief in a chemical imbalance that doesn't exist. And there are dozens of other examples just like this. And they are all things that Democrats don't want us to talk about. And in fact, have attempted to forcibly prevent us from talking about.
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So whatever reservations conservatives have about RFK Jr., it's very clear that he needs to be confirmed. We have a real opportunity to install someone who is skeptical of the junk science that we've been relentlessly fed for decades on everything from SSRIs to Alzheimer's to gender ideology.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And after yesterday's debacle of a confirmation hearing, it's clear we need to take this opportunity now while we still have it. Now let's get to our five headlines. So the big and horrifically awful story of the day, of course, is the plane crash in D.C. An American Airlines regional jet collided with a Blackhawk helicopter as it was making its final approach into Reagan National Airport.
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It was, from what I understand, about 400 feet above the ground at the time that the collision happened, which means that those passengers were, I don't know, less than a minute, 30 seconds probably, from being safely on the ground. And instead, per the latest reports that I've seen, everybody on board the plane and everyone on the helicopter are all presumed dead.
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67 people in total who have died in the first major airline disaster in the U.S. since 2009 and the biggest one now since, I believe, 2001. Now, as I'm recording this, we still don't know exactly how this happened. We know that it was a collision midair, but in terms of how did that collision happen, why did it happen, there's still a lot that's not known. The plane was coming in for landing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The helicopter was crossing its path. I don't want to get into a lot of speculation, especially as you're listening to this. It's likely that as you're listening to it, we know more than we did at the time that I'm saying these words. So there's only so much that can be speculated. I will say that when the video first started circulating, there's the...
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I guess it's a webcam video from the airport where you can see in the distance, you've probably seen the collision. You can see the explosion in midair. And when it first started circulating, it's obviously very startling and terrible. And you get the feeling when you watch it that it looks intentional. It looks like the helicopter just made a beeline right for the plane.
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And a lot of people had that initial reaction. I did too. It's just kind of a visceral initial reaction to it. But I think from everything we know at the moment, which still isn't a whole lot, the possibility of it being intentional seems unlikely. I mean, it would also be incredibly difficult to do that intentionally, although I guess nothing can be ruled out at the moment.
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is worth talking about. Concerns about the Gardasil vaccine have been widespread for nearly two decades since it was first introduced into the market. So here, for example, are two news clips from 2008 and 2009 related to the first version of the vaccine. Watch.
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It seems at this point the most likely scenario is that this was a confluence of errors and major egregious mistakes made by some or all of the people involved. You have air traffic control, you have the helicopter pilot, the airplane pilot. And in order to avoid this, you would need all three people. I mean, really, it's more than three.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You need all three parties in order to avoid this happening. You would need all three parties to communicate correctly and clearly and then execute. So it seems, again, just the most likely scenario. that one party, probably at least two, maybe all three, failed in communication or execution or both.
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And the thing is, I can speak for myself, as a passenger, I always get the most nervous when the plane is at altitude and it's 35,000 feet and you hit turbulence. That makes me nervous. I think most people are the same way. When you talk about what are the scariest... For a passenger. When you talk to a pilot, they'll tell you something else.
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But for a passenger, what's the scariest moment of a flight? It's probably that. It's when you're all the way up in the sky, you're above the clouds, and the plane starts shaking and rocking. For me, it's quite unsettling. But the truth is that there's nowhere... there's nowhere safer on earth than a plane at 35,000 feet. I mean, almost nothing can take down a plane at that altitude.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If you talk to pilots, I mean, you would need either an absolutely catastrophic almost unheard of mechanical failure, or you would need like a missile. And outside of those two things, the plane is going to stay in the sky. Turbulence almost certainly won't do it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that's why there has very, very, very, very, very rarely been plane crashes where the plane plunges out of the sky from thousands of feet. It almost never happens. In the whole history of aviation, it's very rare. So most of the bad stuff can happen and does happen. I mean, if it is going to happen, if the bad stuff is going to happen, it's usually going to be on takeoff and landing.
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And that, you know, kind of the cruel thing here is that's exactly when passengers feel the safest, probably. I mean, I know like in the final 30 seconds of a flight, you know, when you can look down, you can see the ground, it looks like you, you know, it looks, it's, you're only a few hundred feet up.
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That's, I'll start, I'll text my wife at that point before we've even landed to say, you know, we landed safely because it feels like, it feels like, well, we're here, you know, what could possibly go wrong? But the truth is, and again, if you talk to pilots about this, I think they would, they would affirm this, that that's the danger zone.
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I mean, that's actually the most dangerous part of the flight. And because there's a lot more going on, there are a lot more balls in the air that have to be juggled. And if something goes wrong, there's no room for error. There's very little that a pilot can do in those final seconds and minutes to adjust to avoid something catastrophic.
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Whereas if you're 35,000 feet in the sky, you have comparatively a long time to figure it out if something bad happens. But when you're landing, there's just not a lot of time. And so a lot can go wrong when a big jet is landing at a busy airport. And a lot would have to go wrong for this kind of tragedy to occur.
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As you know, if you've been listening to the show for a while, that I have been worried about this exact thing. This is something that we've talked about on the show several times over the last many months, even going back a year or more, I think, that the worry that I've expressed is that
The Matt Walsh Show
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even though there has not been a major airline disaster in a very long time, or there hadn't been, that I was worried that we'd have one very soon. And it's not like some kind of prophecy or anything like that. It's just because there'd been a lot of close calls. And the close calls don't get reported. I mean, they're reported, but they don't get a lot of attention.
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I mean, there have been things that have happened that if things had just gone a little bit differently, hundreds of people would have died, but they didn't die. And because they didn't die, it doesn't make the headlines. But there have just been a lot of close calls. And so it doesn't take, you know, anyone who notices that and takes note of all the close calls would say the same thing.
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Like, man, we've come really close. And it just stands to reason statistically that when you're coming that close that often, eventually, you know, you're gonna come out on the wrong side of that. And this is something that pilots, I've heard this also from pilots. I mean, the pilots are the ones who obviously know.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And many pilots have been talking about this, that we've been flying way too close to the sun with this kind of stuff for too long. And now here we are. So we'll be able to say more very soon, I think. It'll be clear what happened sooner rather than later, maybe who's at fault, where the system broke down. I think the American Airlines CEO put out a statement where he
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not so subtly put the blame on the military for it, which is not surprising. You're going to have the finger pointing that goes on back and forth. But it's pretty clear that there was obviously some major mistakes here. And I would be surprised if the mistakes were all on one party's end of it. So for now, I just feel terrible about this and for the families. And
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i worry about this of course of course every time you get on a plane you worry about this but even more like if my wife flies somewhere this is you're just you just you dread this exact scenario and uh um it's horrible to think that it actually happened and now there are people who are experienced experiencing in real life you know not just in their in their worst nightmares uh there was a there was a a clip on on social media last night i'm not going to play it but
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foreign policy than most U.S. politicians do somehow. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show. Let me tell you about something that doesn't get enough attention, your liver. This powerhouse organ is crushing it 24-7, handling over 500 different functions in your body. I've got to say, after learning more, it's pretty impressive what this thing does for us every day.
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And I don't even remember what media outlet posted it, but it was a clip apparently of a husband who was at the airport whose wife was on the plane. And at this point, it wasn't known if everybody had died or not. And there had even been reports that maybe some people had been recovered. And so he's waiting there, obviously desperately hopeful that his wife was one of the people recovered.
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Turns out that, you know, tragically, nobody Nobody was, no one survived. But anyway, the reporter comes up and starts talking to this guy, you know, interviewing him, and he says that he was texting with his wife. She asks to read the text message.
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I mean, just, I get that you're a reporter and you're doing your, you got to do your job, you're reporting on this, but you also have to have some basic humanity. And talking to the guy at all, I think is, wrong. This is just a time to have humanity. Asking to see a text message is just way over the line. I mean, just repulsive.
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So we'll obviously continue to track this story, and I'm sure there'll be a lot more to say about it. All right, it's kind of hard to go from that to the rest of the show, but I'm not going to try to just talk about the plane crash for the whole show because that would require me to fill the time with an hour's worth of speculation, which I don't want to do. So we'll move to this.
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Here's an interesting clip that I wanted to play for you. It relates back to a conversation we had yesterday. We talked about the issue of foreign aid. And I gave my spiel, which I've given a thousand times, about how we should cut off all foreign aid to every country and let them stand or fall on their own two feet.
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And if you can't exist without the United States supplementing your existence, then you don't deserve to exist. You should, and I say this without irony, If you can't exist on your own without U.S. foreign aid, then really what should happen is you should be conquered by a stronger country and become their subjects.
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I mean, that's what should happen to a country that lacks the will or ability to exist on its own. They should be conquered and colonized. Because here's the thing. If you're reliant on foreign aid, then you are already a colony. You've already been colonized. It's just colonized in this kind of modern, indirect way. It's better to be colonized in a more honest and direct way, I think.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And have a better, greater country come in and rule over you because you cannot rule over yourselves. That's better than the modern form of colonization where a country funds your existence. So you don't really have independence. You don't have sovereignty. You're not a sovereign nation. But you also don't have the law and order and stability that you could have.
The Matt Walsh Show
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if some greater country came in and governed you. So I am unironically in favor of countries that can't exist without aid being conquered. That's the way of the world. It's the way the world worked for thousands of years. And I think it's an absurdity. I just think it's an absurdity to prop up failed states with taxpayer money. I just think it's absurd.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And by the way, I'm not saying that every country that receives aid would collapse without it. You know, we talked about, what was it? We talked about, you know, we were talking about the Central American and South American countries. And I said that we've got all these countries that they... They depend on the U.S. for foreign aid, right?
The Matt Walsh Show
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But then they want to turn around and get all big for their britches when we try to send illegal aliens back to them. And I got responses from people saying, well, they don't depend on U.S. aid. It's a very small part of their GDP. They don't depend on it. Okay, well, so if they don't, great. Then that's all the more reason. we should take the aid away.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If they don't even depend on it, you're telling me they don't need it and we're still giving it to them? Why? So it's like you got two categories of countries, broadly speaking. You have the countries that receive foreign aid and don't depend on it and don't need it. For them, absolutely, let's stop giving it to them. They don't even need it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Then you have the countries that do depend on it, whose very existence depend on it, And them also, for that reason, we shouldn't be giving them aid. So in either way, we're left with, I don't think we should be giving foreign aid. So anyway, a clip went viral yesterday of a politician in Kenya, a former president, making essentially this exact point, or at least a very similar one.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now put aside for a second whether Gardasil was indeed dangerous or whether Merck lied in its advertising. Those are questions that I don't pretend to be an authority on. That's for a jury to decide. That's why it's at trial. The really interesting question is why it took until 2025 for anyone to resolve definitively the question of whether this vaccine is actually as safe as advertised.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Couldn't agree more. He says, why are you crying? It's not your government. It's not your money. They have no reason to give you anything. You don't pay taxes in America. He's appealing to his own people. Yeah, that's exactly that. Every word of that. And this man, Uru Kenyatta, I'm sure I'm mispronouncing it, is his name.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And what he's saying is, he's saying something that most politicians in America won't say. He has a more America first mentality than most American politicians. That's the crazy thing. So I don't know anything about this guy or what kind of president he was, but I respect the hell out of that. He's saying Trump is taking care of his own people. His people are Americans. It's that simple.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If you don't pay taxes in America, why should you expect any tax money from America? So my question is, why is it so hard for American politicians to say that? Why can the former president of Kenya say that and you won't? Uru Kenyatta can say, hey, American leaders, they got to take care of their own people. So he'll say that, but the vast majority of actual American leaders will not say that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That should really tell you something. All right, Donald Trump yesterday made another big announcement, another executive action that he's taking to address the immigration crisis. Let's listen to that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The fact that the judge has allowed this case to go to trial means that the allegations at a minimum probably aren't frivolous. So how was this vaccine, which has been taken by countless people, allowed to escape this kind of serious scrutiny for so long?
The Matt Walsh Show
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All right, so he's going to send the worst criminal aliens to Guantanamo Bay. Now, I mean, shipping illegal alien criminals to Gitmo is the kind of thing that you would hear me suggest on this show half-jokingly, because I know that it would never happen, and no American president would ever do that, even though they should. And yet Trump is actually doing it. He's actually doing it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's extraordinary. Still, it's kind of shocking. Even though it's a totally sensible and good and correct policy, it's still shocking. It's shocking because we have grown so accustomed to nonsensical and bad and incorrect policies. Of course we should ship them to Gitmo. Why even have Gitmo if we're not going to use it to imprison foreign nationals who terrorize American communities?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Foreign nationals who are a threat to American communities. That's why you have Gitmo. Gitmo is made for that. So it's a great idea. And I think Trump's first couple of weeks in office have really sharply revealed and demonstrated if nothing else, just how god-awful, abysmal our leadership has been in this country for so long.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Because most of what Trump is doing, and I've been saying this, most of what he's doing, you can call it right-wing, you can call it conservative, but it's really not. It's just common sense. He's doing a bunch of stuff where you go, why weren't we doing that already? Yeah, that makes sense. Why were we already doing that? And that is almost everything he's done has just been that kind of thing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The kind of thing that normal Americans, like the kind of idea that just a normal person would have and would say, well, why don't they just do this? Like, we have Guantanamo Bay. Why don't we just ship them there? If you've got a criminal alien who keeps coming into the country and we can't stop him, just ship him off to Guantanamo Bay.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's the kind of thing you'd hear on a podcast or you'd hear just someone sitting in their living room. And I mean, that's a good thing. Okay, not everything that someone says on a podcast or in their living room is a good idea and should actually be enacted as policy. But a lot of it is just common sense. And then the answer you always get is, yeah, well, you know, it's not that simple.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That fact alone, the existence of an information blackout on such an important vaccine is, of course, just one of many harrowing, unexplained failures of the public health establishment in this country. If you pull up one of the complaints against Merck, which was filed by the law firm Weisner Baum, you'll find a lot of other very disturbing allegations too.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's the answer we'll get from our leaders most of the time, from politicians. They'll say, yeah, I mean, that seems like a real sensible solution. It seems like that would be a rational, practical way to handle this. But it's not that simple. You can't really do that. It turns out, actually, it is that simple. Most of the time, it is pretty simple.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's why I always say that most of the problems we face as a country and most of the problems you face in your everyday life, most of them are not complicated. Most problems are simple. That doesn't mean that they're easy to solve. They can still be hard to solve. It can be hard to do, but it is simple. It's like losing weight. It's not complicated. It's hard. It's difficult.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It requires focus and discipline. All these things that are hard for people. Hard for me. Hard for anyone. But it is simple, though. The answer is simple. And I think that works even on a national and international level. There are things that are complicated. There are complicated issues. But a lot of these issues are pretty simple.
The Matt Walsh Show
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How do we solve in general the problem of rampant crime in our communities? Even the type that is not committed by illegal criminals. But how about just the criminals that are here legally? How do we solve it? What do we do about it? I don't know. I guess we should arrest all those people and just put them in jail and not let them out. That's one thing we could do. It's pretty simple.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And again, we'll hear from politicians, but you can't really, why can't we? Why can't we just do that? Would work. You got someone who's dangerous, you put them in prison, they're not going to hurt anybody. It is that simple, but you just have to have the will to actually do it, and that's what we're seeing from Trump. Let's get to the comment section.
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The Matt Walsh Show
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Yeah, you know, a lot of people have made that joke. And I can't say that I approve or that I find it funny. I can't say that I do on YouTube. I couldn't say that I find that to be a funny joke. Can't say it. You can say it. I can't, you know. I'm just raising awareness. The only reason I read this joke is just to raise awareness that some people are making this joke.
The Matt Walsh Show
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One woman, the main plaintiff in the case, alleges that she's been confined to a wheelchair since the age of 16 because of the vaccine. There are also allegations that Merck paid doctors and nonprofits thousands of dollars to promote the vaccine, as well as claims that Merck lied about the vaccine's contents.
The Matt Walsh Show
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A lot of people are making this forklift joke. And I want to bring that to your attention. I want to raise awareness of it. Uh, the worst part about this is that Lyft actually apologized and left their very respectful driver out to dry. Yeah. I hope the driver sues Lyft also. He, he, he has a case. So Lyft should be, you know, Lyft's getting sued by the obese woman.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now she gets sued by the Lyft driver too, because, and here's something I didn't mention yesterday. And a lot of people brought up in the comments too. Seatbelts, right? This is an open shut case, open and shut case just based on seatbelts alone. There's no way that a could use a seatbelt in a normal car. The seatbelt is not gonna make its way all the way around her.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Which means he can't legally take her anyway. If you do ride share, you can't even legally pick up. Or if you can legally do it, I mean, different states have different laws in terms of seatbelts, but it's a major liability at a minimum. This is someone who cannot use a seatbelt, so that should tell you everything.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And even the, you know, the payload capacity for a lot of four-door sedans, and I don't think we know exactly what the maker model was of this car, but we know that the payload capacity for a lot of, it was a four-door sedan, and we know that for a lot of them, the payload capacity is like 800 pounds. Well, the driver was an adult man.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We didn't see him in the video, so we don't know what he looked like. But if he was a slightly above average sized man at, let's say, 200 pounds, I don't know. And I actually read that she was 550 pounds. That puts them at 750 if she gets in that car. They're only 50 pounds away from payload capacity in the car, potentially.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And if he's carrying anything else, like in the trunk, any luggage or anything, then they could very well be over the limit. And besides, even if they did squeeze in under the capacity, the car, the payload capacity is under the assumption that, you know, that you're going to have, if we say, well, it would fit four or five adults.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, the assumption is that the adults are sitting in different seats. Not that you can have four adults crowded into one seat on one side of the car, which is what she's the equivalent of in terms of her weight. Let's see. I would vote Teddy Roosevelt off Mount Rushmore. He's a member of the same family as FDR who ushered in socialism and in so many ways that it even taints his uncle.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, normally allegations like this never see the inside of a courthouse because the pharmaceutical industry enjoys a broad liability shield. And this case is a rare exception. Now, I mentioned the lawsuit over the Gardasil vaccine because it came up yesterday during the confirmation hearing for Donald Trump's nominee to be the next HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That's because RFK Jr.,
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's insane. Roosevelt stays. Teddy Roosevelt stays on Mount Rushmore. So if we've got to kick someone off for Trump, You know, you can make an argument that maybe there's room. There might be room to carve another face in there, but maybe not. Because, you know, the other thing about Trump is he's got that, you know, the head of hair is quite, is substantial.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so you got to have room for all the whole thing. You probably would have to carve him over somebody. And so you do have to vote somebody off the island. And it's not going to be Roosevelt. Roosevelt is the most, one of the most badass Americans, period. to have ever lived. Okay, this is somebody who almost died exploring the Amazon rainforest after he was already president.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And after he got shot while giving a speech and then stood up and finished the speech, okay, after getting shot. So he stays. I'm sorry, it's Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln's the one that's gotta go. I hate to say it. Ten years ago, the Daily Wire started a fight. We took on the radical left's assault on truth. We refused to bow to their delusions.
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And today, because of our members' support, we are winning. On January 20th, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning the chemical and surgical mutilation of children. This is a massive victory that we led the way on, a battle that other conservatives weren't even willing to fight a decade ago.
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The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, pretty much every time we've talked about Disney lately, it's been hard not to wonder whether they're intentionally sabotaging their own brand for some unknown reason. And that might sound like a crazy conspiracy theory, but ask yourself this, when was the last time that the spokeswoman for a major company told half of the company's customers
The Matt Walsh Show
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that they should suffer in pain for the rest of their lives and never know peace. And then after the spokeswoman delivers that message as explicitly as she possibly can, the company doesn't fire that spokeswoman or publicly repudiate her in any way. In fact, they keep paying her. That's basically how bad things have gotten at Disney.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The actress Rachel Zegler wrote a whole post about how Trump supporters should basically burn in hell. And on top of that, for good measure, she declared that Snow White, the movie she's doing a remake of, is a terrible and misogynistic story. So to fix that, they need to have a new girl boss, a main character who treats the dwarves like they're her slaves.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And at no point in this process is she fired. And you have to wonder, what kind of company would operate like this? I mean, if it didn't deliberately want to tank its own reputation. Maybe that's not Disney's ultimate goal. I've seen some people suggest that maybe Disney only intends to tank specific projects, the ones that it knows in advance are going to do poorly.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So, for example, they know that Snow White is going to bomb, so they encourage Zegler to torpedo the whole thing with politics. And that way, when everything collapses, they can blame Trump supporters instead of their own incompetence. Think of it like a face-saving public relations strategy. And that's an alternative theory. Does it make a lot of sense? No, it doesn't.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But this is the kind of theorizing people do in the face of this level of incompetence. This particular conspiracy theory actually has another benefit, which is that it helps explain the otherwise inexplicable statements that were made by the actor Anthony Mackie, the star of Disney's upcoming film Captain America Brave New World.
The Matt Walsh Show
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worked with the law firm that brought the case against Merck, and he stands to benefit financially from the outcome. In other words, RFK Jr. played a role in finding the plaintiffs for this very rare and very important lawsuit that's currently in progress against Big Pharma. But here's how Elizabeth Warren questioned RFK about it. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
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What Mackie just did is so over the top and so clearly intended, you would think, to antagonize potential fans of the film that you think, like, there's got to be something else going on here, even though there probably isn't. So perhaps they know that... I don't know. Maybe they think Captain America Brave New World is going to bomb, so they decided to completely destroy it preemptively.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And then they had Anthony Mackie go out and say this. The viral moment is at the beginning of this clip when he explains that Captain America, what it represents in his view, which is an easy question when you're on a publicity tour for Captain America and somebody asks, what does it represent? You'd think that's a pretty easy question. That's a softball.
The Matt Walsh Show
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How do you not just crush that as a home run answer? But he doesn't. And it's kind of extraordinary footage in its own right. But we'll play the whole thing because really the whole statement is something to behold. Here it is.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So the money quote at the beginning, in case you missed it, was this quote. For me, Captain America represents a lot of different things. And I don't think the term, you know, America should be one of those representations. Yes, Captain America is not supposed to represent America. That's according to the star of the upcoming Captain America film just a couple of weeks before his film comes out.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, it's such an incredible moment that it's hard to think of anything to compare it to or how it could even possibly happen. But you put yourself in this actor's shoes for a moment. You've just emerged from an extended bender, which has temporarily destroyed your memory and your capacity for high-order thinking.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Even in that scenario, this is still an interview that you should be able to pull off, even if you don't know anything about Captain America. you still know that he's called Captain America. So it should be a pretty big clue all by itself. And again, a really easy thing to talk about.
The Matt Walsh Show
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saying that Captain America doesn't represent America, it's like saying Spider-Man has nothing to do with spiders. It's like right there in the name. And of course, it gets even worse when you consider the fact that Captain America's costume is the American flag, and he was created specifically to promote American ideals ahead of World War II.
The Matt Walsh Show
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According to Wikipedia, which is the extent of my knowledge of Captain America, the very first Captain America comic has him punching Hitler in the face on the front cover, which is about as explicit a message as you can possibly get. But somehow, Anthony Mackie, who's playing Captain America, missed it. in his years of preparation for this role, this managed to escape him.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Then he explains what, in his view, Captain America is all about. He says, when you look out your door and you see a five-year-old kid with a stick and he's slaying dragons to save the princess in the tower, that kid really believes there are dragons out there, that the stick is really a sword, and he's really trying to save that princess.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And then one day someone told him, no, there are no dragons, that's not a sword, and that princess is not there. And all of his little dreams are dashed. So as an actor, I feel like our job is to get back to the day where we could see the dragon and slay the dragon and save the princess. And that's kind of what this movie was for me.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, if you went back in time and showed that quote to Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the two guys who, according to Wikipedia, created Captain America, you have to imagine they'd be a little bit confused. It's such an incoherent, rambling response that it almost defies comprehension. It's as if he's doing everything he possibly can to avoid talking about Captain America.
The Matt Walsh Show
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He appears to be talking about how he wants to go back to being a child where he apparently believed at the age of five years old that he was slaying actual dragons with a stick in his yard. And then he suffered a traumatizing experience when someone informed him that there were no actual dragons in his backyard.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And his whole acting career has been an extended effort to undo that psychological trauma. Now, from some of the reporting, it seems like he really wanted to play Spider-Man a few years ago, but he ended up with this. But it's all the same to Anthony Mackie. Whatever role he gets, he'll find a way to tie it back somehow to his childhood fantasies.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that's what this movie is all about in his view. Now, in this case, someone at Disney apparently came to the realization that something had to be done, so they made a desperate attempt at damage control, which, as far as I know, never happened with Rachel Zegler. So maybe they haven't completely given up on this new film.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This effort at damage control produced this new statement from Anthony Mackie, which reads, quote, Let me be clear about this. I'm a proud American, and taking on the shield of a hero like Cap is the honor of a lifetime. I have the utmost respect for those who serve and have served our country. Cap has universal characteristics that people all over the world can relate to.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So he still doesn't seem to understand the character. And then he makes things even worse with his follow-up, which doesn't even make sense. Quote, I feel like it's just as important for black kids to see a black Captain America as it is for white kids to see a black Captain America. Growing up, my favorite hero was green. So it wasn't about race or anything.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It was about him being a good guy trying to do the right thing. Now, of course, that's not the point. Race had nothing to do with it. And it's not why people responded so negatively to his initial statement. The point is that Anthony Mackie is embarrassed by the explicitly patriotic nature of the Captain America character.
The Matt Walsh Show
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He doesn't want to ascribe any uniquely positive traits to America or Americans. Even his cleanup PR damage control statement, he still doesn't want to do that. He can't bring himself to say, hey, Captain America embodies the American ideals of courage, honesty, and fortitude. Easy thing to say. That's a crowd pleaser. But he can't say it. He can't bring himself to say it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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because that would just be too complimentary towards his own country. And as a Hollywood liberal, the thought of being complimentary towards his own country sickens him. So how did Disney end up here yet again with yet another actor playing the title role for a major IP, despite hating that IP and everything it stands for?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, either Disney exclusively hires actors who are completely incapable of behaving like high functioning intelligent adults when they're doing their PR tours for their films, And who are so full of bitterness and hatred for their audience that they can't even pretend to respect them. Or something else is going on here.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Meaning there's some kind of deliberate, nefarious conspiracy in which Disney wants to sabotage its own products. And at this point, whichever theory you're partial to, it really doesn't matter. Either way, there's really no reason for anyone to go see Captain America now. As it is a film that is not in any way about America. Or about captains, I guess. Or anything like that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Instead, it's apparently about dragons and sticks. And that is why the new Captain America film and its openly anti-American lead actor are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, what's extraordinary about this moment is that Elizabeth Warren has built her entire career around the lie that she's a populist, or at least someone who's extremely skeptical of entrenched corporate power, particularly when it's held by banks. But in this case, Warren is pretty much indistinguishable from a lawyer for Big Pharma. She's berating RFK Jr.
The Matt Walsh Show
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because he took Big Pharma to court over the HPV vaccine. And even though he stated that he won't pursue any lawsuits while he's in government, it's not enough for her. She wants him to commit to renouncing lawsuits that he's already participated in or that he might pursue after leaving office. And he won't agree to that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, she's getting emotional in her defense of the multi, multi-billion dollar big pharma industry. And I'm not going to speculate on Warren's motivations. You can point to various campaign contributions she's received from the pharmaceutical industry, as many people already have. Actually, on second thought, I am speculating that Elizabeth Warren is a bought and paid for shill for big pharma.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Not speculating, but actually outright accusing her of it. But still, the truth is, this is a much larger problem than Elizabeth Warren. Throughout the hearing, RFK Jr. was repeatedly attacked by Democrats simply for questioning the safety and efficacy of various drugs that are widely prescribed.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
These are drugs that we're assured are effective, even though there are very real reasons to doubt that. In particular, Kennedy was hit over his skepticism of SSRIs. He was hit on this, I think, in the most unfair and disingenuous way. And this was a hearing full of unfair and disingenuous attacks, but this, to me, was the worst.
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
So here's Tina Smith of Minnesota in one of the most egregious moments from this hearing. Here it is.
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
Now, RFK's response at the end of that clip is obviously the right one. You might remember the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. The shooter killed 18 people at a bowling alley in a bar. We still don't know what, if any, drugs he was taking at the time of the incident. So anyone who says, well, it's been determined that there's no link between the drugs, you don't know that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
You absolutely don't know that. The same is true of the transidentifying mass shooter here in Tennessee. The Tennessee Star has reported, citing a search warrant, that Vanderbilt had prescribed SSRIs to the shooter, but we don't know if the shooter was actively taking those medications because neither the police nor Vanderbilt will tell us.
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
And therefore, it wouldn't show up in any studies that purport to show how many mass shooters were on SSRIs. This is the norm. you know, when it comes to these academic papers on SSRIs. And as I previously discussed, there's another way that these studies hide the number of mass shooters who are on SSRIs. Basically, they include inner city violence in their tally of mass shootings.
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
So if a bunch of gang members in the south side of Chicago shoot up a birthday party or something, or shoot up some other gang members on a street corner, that gets added to the tally of mass shootings. And because those kinds of shootings happen every day in places like Chicago,
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
for reasons that have nothing to do with SSRIs, like turf disputes and gang wars and drugs and everything else, the authors of these studies can make it seem like SSRIs don't cause mass shootings. But they're really just obfuscating the central question by flooding the data set with unrelated information.
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
The core question, which is whether SSRIs cause otherwise law-abiding young students to shoot their classmates, remains unresolved in medical literature. Because it's no surprise and it's no secret that young angry males who grow up in the hood with no father figures and get involved in gangs and drug dealing by the age of 12 would then turn to violence. I mean, there's no mystery there.
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
We all get that. We understand what that is. But there is a mystery as to why a child who has never been violent, who was not raised by a street gang, who is financially stable, would one day casually execute a dozen classmates for no reason that he can even articulate. Why is that happening? And why is it that so often these kids are on psychiatric medication?
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
There are definitely reasons to think that SSRIs could play a role in this kind of violence. For one thing, you can look at the warning label on the drugs. You can pick up the bottle, look at it. The drug companies themselves tell us that there could be a link, that says it on the bottle, that these drugs can actually increase the risk of suicide and violent behavior in some cases.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
The drug makers are telling us outright that these drugs can put violent thoughts into your head. Okay, they can make you think violent things that you wouldn't have thought otherwise. They can make you want to lash out violently against yourself or other people. The pharmaceutical companies are telling us that directly.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
And yet, when that thing happens, they will insist that the drug that they said can cause it to happen must not have caused it to happen. It's a very interesting thing that they can give all these drugs to kids that say on the bottle, this can cause violent thoughts, thoughts of suicide. And then that exact thing happens with a kid who's taking the drug, and yet,
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
We're never allowed to draw any link. Shouldn't we ask the pharmaceutical companies? Well, you're the ones who put this stuff on the bottle. Where are you getting that information? You must be getting it from somewhere. Or you can also look at these studies that show that SSRIs can increase the risk of violence in people who aren't depressed at all.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
A few years ago, for example, researchers in Denmark reviewed experiments going back to the 1960s, and they found that when healthy volunteers, meaning people with no mental health issues, were given antidepressants, the drugs doubled their risk of suicidality and violence. So why did that happen? Why might SSRIs make healthy people violent? The honest answer is that we have no idea.
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
I mean, how can a drug put a thought into someone's head? We have no clue how that can happen. And yet we give these drugs to millions of people anyway. Just a few years ago, we learned that there's actually no clear link between low serotonin levels and depression. This was the central claim that justified the mass adoption of SSRIs in this country, and it's false.
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Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
So we have no idea what these drugs are actually doing. Maybe we should pump the brakes then a little bit. That's what RFK tried to say yesterday, and here's the response he got.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
Now, usually you expect that in a confirmation hearing, the worst thing that can happen is that the nominee says something disqualifying. But in this case, the senator said something disqualifying. Because let me be extremely clear about this. If you need psychiatric drugs in order to function, then you are not fit to serve at the highest levels of government.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
And we don't know, is she still taking the psychiatric medication? She said that she did. Is she still? Not sure. We need clarification on that. Because if she is, she shouldn't be in office. If you need psychiatric medication, you're not qualified to teach elementary school students or operate heavy machinery for that matter.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1526 - Democrats Shill For Big Pharma In RFK Jr Confirmation Hearing
You simply cannot claim that you're competent to govern if you need to regularly take psychoactive substances. So am I saying that every lawmaker on antidepressants should be removed from office? Yes, I'm absolutely saying that. And that should be common sense. You just said you need drugs to make your mind clear. Well, and you're running the country? What?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Today on The Matt Wall Show, the mass graves hoax in Canada officially comes to an end as the Canadian government stops funding the search for the graves. But of course, they still won't admit that the whole thing was a lie. Also, the Attorney General promises that she'll start releasing the Epstein files as soon as today. And Jake Tapper writes a book about the cover-up of Biden's mental decline.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
A few weeks ago, for example, we talked about how some flat earthers responded when they went on a trip to Antarctica that debunked their entire belief system. They sat there and watched 24 hours of sunlight and they realized that the earth has to be rotating in space. And to their credit, a few of these flat earthers admitted their mistake on camera.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
So by the time you're listening to this, the files might already be released. I don't know. At the moment we're filming, they haven't been. So not much I can say at the moment to give my analysis of whatever they're releasing because they haven't released it yet. I will say, well, two things.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
First of all, Pam Bondi says the concern is that they don't want to expose the names of any victims, which is valid. Of course, you don't want to do that. So redact those names. Don't redact anything else, but redact the names of the victims.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
I can see why it might take a little while, maybe a few weeks at most to go through all the material and make sure there's no sensitive information about the victims that's in the files. But once that's done, release it all. There shouldn't be a single name, unless it's a victim. There shouldn't be a single name redacted.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
There shouldn't be any information except for that related to victims left out. So just put it all out. Let people see it. And the Biden administration, of course, never did that. They had four years to go through it and make sure that the victims' names aren't exposed and then release it. And they just never did.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
And that alone, I mean, you know, there are many reasons why the Biden administration was a disaster. Many reasons why Biden and his handlers were, are evil, corrupt, rotten people. But this is all the reason that you really need. That they protected the Epstein client list. And they obviously protected it because a lot of their people are on it. Also, I'm glad that names are being released.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
And they said that from that moment forward, they would be whatever the opposite of a flat earther is, a sphere earther, I guess. On the other hand, malevolent liars who lie for a living will never admit that they're wrong, even when they're confronted with the reality of the situation, which is that everything they've been saying for years was actually wrong. They'll find some way to deny it.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
I hope the names are actually released. I hope that this is not an anticlimactic thing where we get something released and 95% of the document is redacted. You can't read anything. We'll see. I hope we get everything. But simply releasing the names is not enough. We need these people to be prosecuted. We need to see rich, famous people who are on the list, in handcuffs.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Because if they release a bunch of names of people and then nothing happens to those people, there are no consequences, then all we've really accomplished by releasing the names is just kind of rubbing in our faces the fact that there's this two-tier justice system. So... I don't want to just know the names, shaming them and making fun of them on X because they're on the Epstein flight log.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Like, that's not enough. We don't want just that. They need to be prosecuted. And it's outrageous, obviously, that nobody, nobody, nobody has been prosecuted related to Epstein. Epstein was a global pimp who apparently had no clients. because no one has been prosecuted, which is amazing.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
So I get all the questions people are asking for the release of the names, but the follow-up question should be, okay, well, once you've gone through all the names, when are the prosecutions starting? And we've talked a lot about the federal workers who are in a state of panic over the email asking them to list what they did last week.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
But here's one federal worker who called into the Breakfast Club radio show yesterday with actually a very different and refreshing attitude. Let's watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
A little bit of common sense from a government employee, and it is the correct attitude. Rather than crying hysterically over an email asking you what you've done, you could look at it as an opportunity. You know, this is your chance to highlight your achievements to your supervisors, your superiors.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
They'll absolve themselves of any responsibility for their deception. And if they can, they'll blame you for challenging them. These are people who are not interested in the truth. They have no integrity whatsoever, and therefore they have no business being in any position of power or authority. Trustworthy leaders will admit their mistakes.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
It's a huge opportunity because during a normal workday, you probably don't have a chance to go up to your boss and just kind of list all the things you've achieved. It's a hard thing to work into conversation organically, but here they're asking you to brag about your productivity. So if it were me, I'd say five, I'll give you 15. And then I'd list 10 things I plan to do next week.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
But of course, if your job is totally useless and you do nothing all day, then the email is less of an opportunity and more of a threat. Although even in that case, if you're a little creative, if you're a little clever, you should still be able to come up with a list. That's what's amazing.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
These government employees complaining about the email, obviously they're useless and they don't do anything all day. And on top of that, they're not even good BS artists. If you're going to have a pointless job, which plenty of people do in government, and even outside of government. But you should at least be skilled at BS, at a minimum.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
It's not that hard to come up with a list of five things you did when, in fact, you didn't do anything. Especially in government, in a bureaucratic environment, that should be really easy to do. You just have to have a lot of, you know, you have to know the workplace jargon and use a lot of words like streamlined and collaborated and facilitated words And just put that into a list.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
So for example, if I'm a useless bureaucrat, I need to list five things I've done this week, even though I haven't done anything. I've done absolutely nothing, but they're asking me for five things. Okay, well, number one, I streamlined collaborations to facilitate team building. That's the first thing that I did. What does that mean? Nothing.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
It doesn't mean anything, but it sounds like it sort of means something. Number two, I strategized methods to improve workflow. Three, I conceived more efficient resource allocation to boost productivity. What does that mean? I spent time engaged in strategic discussions in order to better align individual goals with the goals of the team. So that's four.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
I optimized collaborations and I identified opportunities for growth. That's five. That's five things right there. That's five things. And nobody can prove I didn't do those things. I strategized, I conceived, I optimized. I was optimizing all week. Every second of the day, I'm optimizing. If anybody comes up and just asks me, what are you doing right now? Oh, I'm optimizing.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
But Jake Tapper forgets to mention that he was himself involved in the cover-up. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show. Do you wish you could have invested in the stock market last year when investors scored the highest profits in decades, but between your mountain of bills and credit card debt, you had nothing left over? It's time to stop letting debt hold you back.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Corrupt and incompetent leaders will obfuscate, deny, double down. With that distinction in mind, recent events have made it abundantly clear that our neighbors to the north in Canada are ruled by the latter group of people. These people in charge of Canada have no interest in the truth.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
I am optimizing right now as we speak. So should be pretty easy to do. And you have to be good at that kind of BS to be in the working world. But the theme here is that these government workers want to be insulated from the realities of the working world. And here's another example of that. There's this unintentionally funny tweet from a guy named Dr. Joseph Ford Cotto. And he tweeted this.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
USAID fire staff gives 15 minutes to grab stuff. Headquarters shuttered. Did you vote for this? Well, number one, yes. Yes, I did. Like, that's exactly what we voted for. Yeah, precisely. That to a T, yes. But also, this is very normal. That's how it works when you're fired. So when it comes to government workers, we hear, oh, they were fired.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
They only had 15 minutes to just get their stuff and leave. What do you think being fired means? That's what it means. Get your crap and get out of here. You're fired. I've been fired before. In fact, I didn't even get 15 minutes. I was fired once, and from the time when they told me I was fired to the time that I was in the parking lot getting in my car was like three minutes.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
It was just, you're done. We don't want you. Goodbye. That's how it goes. But these government workers want to be insulated from all that, clearly. All right, here's a completely horrifying story. from the Postmillennial. A transgender Canadian man accused of stabbing his children has been released from custody pending trial.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Alice Michael Joseph Atwood of Alberta was arrested on February 19th for allegedly attacking his two children with a sharp knife, slashing the esophagus of his eight-year-old daughter and injuring his seven-year-old son. The two kids survived the attack. His younger daughter remains recovering in the hospital and needs a feeding tube.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Atwood's family petitioned the court asking to be involuntarily held in a psychiatric facility. The family's request was granted. However, records show that Atwood was released from the ward on February 25th. His family is now concerned for the safety of his children and of the public.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Redux reported that Atwood, who uses they-them pronouns, has been posting about the attack on social media, including an admission of guilt. Atwood wrote in a Facebook post, quote, For obvious reasons, I'm going to sit and stay silent on the locally viral rumors going around. I understand people's upset, trust it's not as high as my own, and I'm going to answer for what I did.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
When I can see the picture more clearly, then I'll be here to hold myself accountable. It's just not the right time for that. I need to focus on my mental health and finding the why to this happening, which means not being online. He continued, I'm very apologetic and hurt. Trust that. This was nowhere near my 2025 bingo card. This is a guy talking about stabbing his children. And he's out now.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
They are driven entirely by an ideology that, it just so happens, is explicitly anti-Christian and anti-American. And as I'll explain in a moment, that has significant implications for the US as Canada becomes increasingly hostile towards our country. But before I get into those implications, I need to explain what exactly the Canadian government has just done.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
He's not being locked up anywhere. And he's posting on Facebook saying, hey, look, I hold myself accountable. Man, this wasn't on my 2025 bingo card. Stabbing his children was not on his 20... By the way, here are the pictures of this guy. Let's put him up on the... Just so you see what he looks like. So you can see the pictures of the guy there. And...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
And so kind of exactly what you expect him to look like. And again, this is a story of a dangerous predator, allegedly, who somehow, I mean, I guess we have to say allegedly because he hasn't been convicted of anything, but he confessed. So he's posting about it on Facebook. So, you know, whatever. But somehow has been released from prison. Confessed to stabbing his own children.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
He's currently walking free. Which, like, how is that possible? And this is in Canada, but as we know, we have the exact same kind of insanity in this country. This is a Western problem. A problem all across Western society. We don't keep dangerous people in prison where they belong. And this shouldn't be too much to ask. It really shouldn't be. Lock dangerous people up. Keep them locked up.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
If somebody stabs a child... He should simply never see the outside of a prison ever again. From the moment he's arrested until they cart his dead body out to bury him in a prison cemetery, whenever that happens, he should just never see the outside of a prison. It's pretty easy, or it should be. But also, this is another example of trans violence, which has reached epidemic levels.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
And we will never know the full extent of it. The media isn't reporting on the epidemic of trans violence. No agency or organization is keeping official records of it, as far as I know. In fact, it's the opposite in both cases. There's an effort to cover up this data rather than report it. But it's clear that this is happening all over the place.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
And sadly, when a trans-identified man attacks his children, it's not a surprise. Because this is a man who has already tried to force his kids to take part in his gender fantasies, which is a form of abuse. And when the psychological and emotional abuse turns physical, it's not a surprise. And in fact, we can expect a lot more of this kind of thing because trans activists...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
You know, they've been coddled and catered to for years. They've been told that anyone who doesn't participate in their charade, anyone who doesn't affirm their self-identity is a physical threat to them. They've been told that there's a genocide happening against them. They've been told that somebody who disagrees with transgenderism, who rejects trans ideology is killing trans people.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
That to disagree with it is to kill trans people. That's what they've been told. I mean, this is what trans activists have been saying for years, and it's also what the culture has been saying back to them. So the stage has been set for exactly the explosion of violence that we're currently seeing. And it will only get worse as trans activists continue to lose in the culture war.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
As you may remember, for several years, we've talked about it on the show, Plenty of times, Canada's government, along with the country's state media, has been advancing an extraordinary claim as if it's the truth.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
They're only going to become more desperate and more dangerous. Speaking of which, on the same topic, I'm going to read this article from ABC News, and then we'll get to the big twist ending. A woman in Colorado has been arrested after police caught her with explosives at a Tesla dealership, according to police. The 40-year-old suspect, Lucy Grace Nelson...
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
was arrested on Monday after the Loveland Police Department launched an extensive investigation on January 29th following a series of vandalizations with incendiary devices at the Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Loveland Police Department said, quote, On Monday evening, Nelson returned to Loveland Tesla while in possession of additional incendiary devices along with materials attributed to vandalism, and detectives apprehended Nelson prior to further damage occurring. So...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
If you're ready for the big twist, it's that, of course, the woman they're referring to appears to be suspiciously, looks suspiciously not like a woman at all. And indeed, Andy Ngo reports that this is, in fact, a man. This is a rabid left-wing activist who identifies as a woman. Except that every news article on this, and I skimmed through five or six of them, they all just report him as a woman.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Not even a trans woman, quote-unquote. Just a woman. And so the point is, number one, this is part of the epidemic of trans violence. But number two, this is one of the ways that they cover up the epidemic of trans violence. It's pretty easy for them to do. They just lie about who these people are. Like this crime of a deranged, violent...
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
They have said again and again that unmarked mass graves have been found at Canada's residential schools, which were boarding schools for Indian children that existed for about 100 years, peaking in the early 20th century. And the discovery of these unmarked mass graves was significant, Canadians were told, because Christian churches were running these residential schools.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
trans terrorist wanting to attack a Tesla dealership, this will not go down in the record books, either in the official records, in the court records, or in the media as a trans-related violent episode because they're just reporting him as a woman. That's it. So, I guess the epidemic of trans violence has actually become an epidemic of woman violence.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
So when you look at the records, we're going to find that women have become strangely much more violent in recent years. And it's because anytime a trans-identified male commits an act of violence, they're just called a female, which is totally absurd, obviously. Let's get to the comment section. Freedom runs deep in our nation's DNA.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
It started when we stood up to unfair British taxes and their overpriced tea. When they tried forcing us to pay, we threw that tea right into the Boston Harbor. And you know what? It worked out pretty well for us. Today, it's time for another declaration of independence from Big Wireless and their costly contracts. Why pay $100 monthly just to get a free phone?
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As a prison officer of 20 years, thank you so much for bringing up what I believe is a Western society problem in corrections. Officers being able to deal with problem inmates in an effective way continues to diminish as they, the criminals, get more protections. For every criminal, there's a victim. Who's protecting them? Well, you don't have to thank me for anything.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
I mean, you're the one going into that environment every day. And that's why I have a ton of respect for corrections officers. Like I said yesterday, it's a dangerous and really quite bleak job in many ways, I imagine. But it's also absolutely essential for any civilized society.
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It's the kind of thing, it's one of those jobs that if society collapses and there's some great apocalypse and the survivors wake up the next morning and have to rebuild society, there are a few jobs that you kind of need to assign on the first day. And unfortunately, on the first day, yeah, you got to figure out what are you going to do with criminals and who's going to guard them.
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So it's one of those jobs. This is like a day one in society kind of job we have to fill. Podcaster is, that's a day two, day two, early morning day two, actually, we wake up, we got to figure out the podcasters. But you're on day one. So, and you would think if we have jobs that are that crucial to civilized society that
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
In other words, for years, the dominant narrative in Canada has been that Christian schools were so horrific that Indian children died all the time or were systematically killed and then just tossed in unmarked graves when they expired. Therefore, Canadians were told that Canada is a genocidal state and that Christianity is a genocidal religion.
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the law would be determined to protect the people in those jobs, but that doesn't appear to be happening. In New York, there is no solitary confinement. They have other inmates right on either side of them. They're certainly not in a dark hole somewhere. In SHU, Special Housing Unit, aka what people are calling solitary confinement, they get programming, yard and all-day phones.
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It's hardly a punishment. Prisons in New York are more about the inmates and their comfort. Well, that's insane. I mean, this is what happens when you lose the concept of punishment. Prison is supposed to be first and foremost a punishment. It is not first and foremost about rehabilitation, or it shouldn't be.
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It's not even first and foremost about segregating dangerous people from the rest of society. That is an important function of it, but actually the number one role that a prison is supposed to fill is punishing people who have done evil, terrible things. The ring's power was so great that it corrupted a hobbit.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
The whole reason he had the ring was because hobbits don't have greed and desire for power in them like dwarves or elves or men. And Frodo's grace and kindness to Gollum was a salvation for himself in the end. If they turned away or killed him, like Sam suggested, all would have been lost. Okay, yeah, I know. I get it. I get all that. But still, he didn't moan the whole time. Frodo.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
He did not carry the burden of the ring with manly dignity at all. And then he tried to turn back at the last moment. You know, so I'm just saying, I think at most we need one scene of him being thanked. We don't need 10 scenes. That was my whole point. I admire Matt's courage for standing up to the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Thought Police.
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I wish I was brave enough to say those things publicly. What an inspiration. Well, look, the line of nerds who hate me is so long at this point that it really doesn't matter if we add some more to it. We might as well just add, we can add the Lord of the Rings nerds too. It doesn't matter. Just get in line. Get in line. Okay. Doesn't matter.
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Frodo and Sam didn't use the eagles to go to Mordor because, one, flying Nazgul. Two, Sauron has a giant all-seeing eye that could spot them from a thousand miles away. Three, the whole quest was a Hail Mary, and they knew their one slim chance lay in secrecy. Flying giant eagles to Mount Doom is the opposite of that. Isn't it Mount... Isn't it Mordor? Is it Mount... Oh. Mount Doom is in Mordor?
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It's not Mount Mor... Anyway. Um... Isn't Mount Doom like a Marvel thing? Or no, that's Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom and Mount Doom are two different things. Does Doctor Doom live in Mount Doom? Probably not. Four, we needed the eagles to demolish the chiefs. Well, that's a good point.
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In terms of the army of the dead, one, Aragorn gave them his word that he'd release them, and like an honorable man, he did. Two, they were hundreds of miles from them at the start of the journey. Aragorn was the only one who could command them, and he hadn't accepted his role as king yet. None of this is book exclusive. It's all right there in the movie. Yeah, I know. I've heard all these excuses.
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I've heard them. And by the way, I like the movies. I actually do like them. this is me liking a movie. This is what, tearing a movie apart is what I do when I like it. So, but I don't buy it. I still don't buy the excuse about the, you know, and you're giving me the party line. I know that. I'm not convinced. I don't know what to tell you. I'm just not convinced. First of all,
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Sauron's eye is all-seeing, you say. Apparently it's not all-seeing because he didn't see them. He did not see them. They strolled right up to Mount Doom and he didn't notice. His all-seeing eye was distracted by a squirrel or something, apparently, because he didn't see these two. You got Frodo waddling slowly for months, hundreds of miles, and was not spotted.
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So predictably, dozens of Christian churches were burned. And in response, the country's outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said that the arson was understandable. They only made one arrest in the wake of those arson attacks on the churches, by the way, some of which were within a few miles of the U.S. border.
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So if Sauron can't see that, then why would he see Frodo on an eagle? You know, I mean, the eagles are flying around all the time, right? They're part of this world. So is Sauron constantly tracking the eagles everywhere they're going? No, he's not. He's clearly not. So he could have gotten one of those eagles, ducked down, he's small. Nobody would have known. So
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
And what about in the other movie when the other hobbits teamed up with the tree people, the big tree dudes, to go kill the other evil wizard? Okay, they're talking to giant, slow, lumbering trees, and Sauron didn't see that. He should have been able to spot that coming from 100 miles away and let the other evil wizard know that, hey, the big tree people are coming.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
They're going to try to attack you. He didn't tell him. So I just don't buy it. And by the way, here's another problem I have. And this has always bothered me. Why is there a big staircase and an entrance leading right up to Mount Doom with a pathway to go right into the volcano and throw the ring in?
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
If you watch the movie, there's, because they have to go to the volcano to throw the ring in, and then they get to the volcano, and what do you know, really conveniently, somebody has built, has installed a staircase up the mountain, and there's a giant entrance with like a sign that says, go this way to throw the ring in. And then they walk in, there's like this big pathway
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built into the inside of the volcano where he could just walk down and then there's a convenient little spot where he can throw the ring in. Why did he install that? Why did Sauron install all that stuff? He could have just closed the entrance up, shut the door, take down the staircase, and then Frodo would have got to the volcano. He's like, what can I do?
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I can't, you know, I don't have access to the volcano now. So that bothers me. It bothers me a lot. It bothers me. And the ghost soldiers, I don't buy your excuse to that either. Because why wasn't Aragorn's very first move to just go straight to the ghost soldiers and recruit them? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you're saying they're hundreds of miles away. Fine. But here's me.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
The Canadians, for the most part, stopped celebrating their Independence Day out of shame over this story. Canadian secondary schools put images like this one up on the wall. You can see it there. As you can see, it tells students that nearly 2,000 unmarked graves have been found. And this has been an all-out, all-encompassing narrative in Canada, that they even put it in their schools.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
If a wizard comes to me and says, oh, we got this ring. We got to destroy it. But it was going to take a while to destroy it. And along the way, we're going to get attacked by a bunch of bad guys and orcs and stuff. If I knew about the ghost soldiers, I would say, oh, wait a second. So why don't we go grab the invincible ghost soldiers first?
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You know, the ghost soldiers that can kill everyone and never die or be harmed? That can kill everyone instantly? Let's go get them on board first. That should be our first stop. Let's go grab those guys. and have them go just kill all the orcs, and then we'll go take care of the ring. Problem solved. Okay, much more efficient.
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Matt's take on Lord of the Rings makes me feel like the people of Rohan before the Fellowship arrives. I know, I get it. You know, and reading all these people defend Lord of the Rings makes me feel like Bilbo right before Dumbledore shows up and tells... Luke Skywalker that Captain Kirk is Jon Snow's father. So I get it. I do. I'm with you. This is one you don't want to miss.
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On Tuesday, March 4th, President Donald Trump is addressing Congress at 9 p.m. Eastern, laying out his America First vision tackling immigration reform, economic revival, and national security. And, you know, we're not going to sit this one out. Join us for Backstage Live at 8.30 p.m. Eastern. Our pre-show breakdown with the full crew of The Daily Wire.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
There were credible reports last night, specifically from the veteran political journalist Mark Halperin, that a CNN anchor by the name of Jake Tapper has been busy doing something he's notorious for doing, which is angrily DMing people who bothered him in some way. Apparently Jake Tapper has been on a warpath lately. Nobody on X is safe.
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I have no way of verifying these reports myself because strangely enough, Tapper did not DM me last night. He didn't berate me in any way. So I really can't comment based on any personal experience, but it's quite possible that after this segment, maybe Tapper will slide into my DMs too.
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And that's because after much consideration, I have to join in with pretty much everyone else on the internet and indeed everyone else in the world. And relentlessly mock Jake Tapper for utterly humiliating himself, as well as the alleged news network that employs him. Of course, at this point, we're all used to brazen lying and hypocrisy from CNN employees. That comes with the territory.
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These are people who told us that Russian collusion was real, that Nick Sandman was a racist, that Joe Rogan took horse medicine, that Hunter Biden's laptop was fake, that George Floyd didn't die of a fentanyl overdose. On and on and on.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
So it takes a lot, given CNN's illustrious reputation for flagrantly lying, to somehow degrade the reputation of the company even further than it's already been degraded. But somehow this week, against all odds, Tapper has accomplished just that. Here's the moment that I'm talking about with an inexplicable tone of pride in his voice.
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Jake Tapper just announced that you can pre-order his new book, which is all about the cover-up of Joe Biden's cognitive decline ahead of the 2024 election. Tapper co-wrote the book with a reporter for the left-wing propaganda outfit known as Axios. So it's a real meeting of the minds, you might say.
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And as you can tell from this promo, Jake Tapper wants to make it very clear that he had nothing to do with the cover-up that he's reporting on. He implies that he had absolutely no role in hiding the fact that Biden's brain had transformed into applesauce. Watch.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
But to be clear, this narrative about the residential schools was not simply pushed by Canadian state media. In fact, the narrative actually had its origins in U.S. media, including in outlets that we know now were taking money from the Biden administration. The New York Times, for example, was one of the first outlets to report back in 2021 that unmarked graves had been discovered in Canada.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
So Tapper mentions that back in October of 2022, he asked Biden directly about his cognitive decline. Actually, he says he literally asked Biden. He literally asked him. Oh, you did, Jake? You literally asked him? So you didn't figuratively ask him or metaphorically ask him. You didn't draw him a picture with the question.
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So you literally asked him, thanks for clarifying that it was a literal question. But he asked one question several years ago, so that's supposed to lend him credibility on the topic. You're meant to conclude that Jake Tapper isn't involved in the cover-up based on this piece of information. But just for fun, I went and pulled up the October 2022 interview between Tapper and Joe Biden.
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And here's how Tapper confronted Biden about his cognitive decline. Here's how he literally asked him. This is the big moment he's referring to in that promo. And this is one question at the tail end of a 15-minute interview. And here it is.
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Yes, Jake Tapper says, happy birthday. And then he tells Biden that Democrats approve of the job he's doing. He also tells Biden they overwhelmingly like him. And then he says that, according to one poll, voters want a new nominee. And he gives Biden the opportunity to respond to that poll.
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In other words, Tapper offered Biden the easiest softball question he could possibly ask in response to an issue that he couldn't possibly ignore under the circumstances. He had to ask at least something, and so that's what he did. He didn't directly bring up Biden's cognitive disability at all.
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Instead, he gave Biden the opportunity to diffuse the criticism about the fact that he's senile by teeing up a talking point. This is how Tapper supposedly demonstrates that he's not a part of the cover-up about Joe Biden's age. This is how he demonstrates that he's on the side of objectivity when it comes to this topic.
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Ep. 1545 - The 'Mass Graves' Hoax Is Officially Dead, And No One Will Be Held Accountable
Unfortunately, for the image that Tapper wanted to create, at one point in this interview, Biden dropped his cheat sheet with his talking points and Tapper handed it back to him. Watch.
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They did a whole series of reports on the topic over the summer, all of which were premised on the idea that ground-penetrating radar, quote-unquote, had discovered the evidence of these grave sites. And then 60 Minutes joined in with reports like this one. Watch.
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Now, that was an interesting opportunity. It would have been very interesting if Jake Tapper had thought to ask what was on that paper. or why Biden needed it, but apparently that didn't cross his mind during this thorough assessment of Biden's cognitive abilities. Now, if you didn't pull up any of this footage from 2022, you might take Tapper at his word.
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You might think that he was tough on Biden and maintained his journalistic objectivity the whole time. But it actually gets a lot worse for Tapper. That's because back in 2020, as you may have seen, Jake Tapper interviewed Lara Trump about her criticisms of Joe Biden. And throughout the interview, he repeatedly interrupted her and scoffed at her constantly.
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In fact, was offended by the suggestion that Biden was cognitively impaired. And most notably, he kept insisting that Biden has a stutter, which is apparently supposed to explain why he can't speak or think clearly. This is footage that apparently launched a million angry Tapper DMs last night. This is what he was so upset about. Here it is.
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I appreciate it. Yeah, how does it make children feel? How does it make children feel when you make all the, how do you think it makes a senile child feel when you make fun of senility? Think about that senile four-year-old and how that child must feel when you're making fun of the 82-year-old senile president.
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Now, even if you ignore everything he's saying in that clip, even if you have no idea that Biden is clearly demented, You can tell from his demeanor that he's being dishonest. It's actually remarkable how obvious he is about it. He won't let her finish a sentence. He launches into a whole diatribe that is taking place at the same time as Laura Trump is trying to answer a question.
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And he's just sarcastic the entire time. And then he starts talking about standing as if we're in a court of law and Laura Trump can't bring a complaint against Biden for some unknown reason. Of course, the idea that Biden was suffering from a stutter overlooks the fact that when people have stutters, it doesn't mean they're demented.
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They're still able to form coherent thoughts, which Biden could not. Additionally, any theory that Biden had a stutter could easily be cross-checked by pulling up any of the 10,000 videos of him throughout his career over the past several decades. You can compare how he spoke before versus how he speaks now.
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But Tabard didn't bother to do any of that, of course, because he was complicit in the cover-up that he's now writing about. So this book is self-serving and dishonest propaganda, and nobody should read it.
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After all, if he's willing to lie about his own involvement in the cover-up, there's no reason to think that Tapper will be honest about, say, the involvement of Mark Milley in covering up Biden's decline. This is the guy who famously said he'd tip off China about any U.S. military actions that might affect them. And he repeatedly vouched for Joe Biden's mental capacity during the campaign. Watch.
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It'd be very inappropriate for me to comment on this, which is why I'm going to proceed to comment on it, is what we just heard from Mark Milley. Sounds a bit suspicious. Milley says that every time he spoke to Biden, he acted like he read the newspapers and had some idea of what was going on in the world. It may seem like kind of a low bar for the president of the United States to clear.
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Saying that he's fine. Yeah, when I talk to him, he's fine. Fine? I don't know. I kind of want the president to be more than just, yeah, he seems fine. Yeah, it may seem like the kind of response that would merit a few follow-up questions, but to 60 Minutes and to Jake Tapper and Mark Milley, it was a perfectly convincing response. Joe Biden kind of seems to know what's going on. He seems fine.
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What more do you need to know? Perhaps in his comprehensive book with the Axios reporter, Jake Tapper will expose Mark Milley's role in covering up Biden's dementia. Or maybe Tapper will overlook it because Milley is now a useful figure to the Democrats' resistance agenda. The truth is, I'll never know because like everyone else in America, I'm not going to preorder this book.
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I'm never going to read it. There's a version of the book that I would read, though. After all, Tapper knows a lot about the cover-up of Biden's mental decline because he was in on the cover-up. He was, in fact, one of the people leading the charge. If this book was a confession, if it was Tapper coming clean and being honest for the first time in his career, I might be interested in it.
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But instead, the book about the cover-up is itself a part of the cover-up. And that is why Jake Tapper and his new book are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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So Anderson Cooper is very concerned about the hundreds of unmarked graves that have supposedly been discovered. He specifically mentioned the hundreds of graves that were allegedly discovered at a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. And Canada's state media said, you know, the same thing.
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The CBC, for example, reported, quote, preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site. Now, when you see television segments and news articles like this, you might assume naturally that some amount of vetting has been done to ensure that these claims are at least potentially accurate.
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If you're claiming that there are mass graves of children, I mean, these are obviously incendiary claims that are being made. So presumably, you might think that somebody would have looked into them before publishing. But that was never true in this case. More than three years later, not a single body has been found in any unmarked grave at any residential school anywhere in Canada.
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And they certainly haven't been uncovered in Kamloops. It turns out that, in fact, the alleged unmarked grave site in Kamloops was in reality a 2,000-foot-long, three-foot-deep trench that was established in 1924 as a septic field to store sewage from the school.
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So the thing that Anderson Cooper was very, very solemnly talking about was it was a septic tank, basically, is what he was referring to. As the Dorchester Review reported, quote, ground-penetrating radar cannot distinguish between a trench lined with clay tiles and a putative child's grave.
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Which means, by the way, that what actually happened is ground-penetrating radar saw something in the ground, And they just assumed that, oh, it must be hundreds of dead children. That was, it could have been anything. The only thing they knew is that there was something in the, there's a bunch of stuff in the ground.
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And the assumption was, what else could it possibly be other than dead kids was the assumption. This is the kind of information that if you're dealing with honest people would lead to mass resignations and terminations for starters.
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Obviously, nobody with any self-respect in the Canadian media or in Canadian government should keep their job after spreading an anti-Christian lie that caused dozens of churches to go up in flames. But instead of admitting they were wrong, Canada's government is, of course, taking the dishonorable approach. They are slowly slinking away like the cowards they are.
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The Daily Wire reports that, quote, Canada's pulling funds from groups still searching for alleged bodies buried at indigenous residential schools funded by Catholics and other Christians. An organization and a committee of experts formed to search for the elusive remains have both lost funding in the past month following four years of searches that have found zero remains.
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We're talking about organizations that have received millions of dollars from Canada's massive $300 million residential schools missing children community support fund. And these nonprofits have fancy names like Survivor Secretariat and the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials. And now after collecting millions of dollars in taxpayer money,
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And turning up nothing with all that money, they're finally getting cut off. Because it turns out that the entire animating idea behind their non-profit was a scam. The Canadian government is now rolling back its financial investments in this deranged and destructive lie. For all intents and purposes, the residential schools hoax is finally dead. Like, that's the headline here. It's over.
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But that doesn't mean that the Canadian government is admitting outright that it was wrong. That would take an ounce of integrity that they simply don't have. So instead, both political parties in Canada are now rallying around the idea that nobody should be able to question the narrative that they are now retreating from.
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In other words, Canada has now entered a kind of reality distortion field where everybody knows the government was wrong for the last several years, but nobody can admit it. So this is footage from just a couple of days ago. It aired on CBC. Watch.
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It's disgusting, repugnant, and ugly to say something that is factually true. The Post said there has been zero evidence has been uncovered of mass graves. That's true. That is true. Zero evidence. That's just a fact. And it is disgusting, repugnant, and ugly to just state a fact in Canada. And those were conservative politicians in the clips we just played.
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That's Canada's Conservative Party, supposedly the opposition to the Liberals. And as you just saw, they're telling this politician to retract her factually accurate statements about the fact that there were no unmarked grave sites in Canada uncovered. Nobody in that clip actually refutes anything she said.
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Instead, they just tell her that it's inappropriate to state the truth about these unmarked graves because it contradicts the narrative they want to establish. I mean, they're directly saying that. Yes, it's true, but it's harmful to the narrative, so it's ugly and repugnant for you to say it.
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As tempting as it may be to say that nothing in Canada affects us here in the US, the truth is that we can't ignore what's happening there. And that's not just because of the cruelty that's been inflicted on Christian Canadians in recent years.
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That's because at the same moment that Canada is uniting behind malicious anti-Christian defamation, the country's leaders are desperately seeking to expand their power globally
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And in particular, some of Canada's most prominent politicians like Chrystia Freeland, who could be the country's next prime minister, are openly suggesting that Canada should join a nuclear alliance to handle the threat that, in her view, is posed by the United States. Watch.
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A threat, yeah. Oh, Canada, Denmark, France, and Britain. That's the Avengers, isn't it? There's a real Justice League for you that you've got to worry about. I can't think of a less threatening combination of countries than those. And this is...
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The same woman who gleefully froze truckers' bank accounts when they committed the crime of peacefully protesting her government's unlawful COVID mandates. She cheered as journalists were arrested and elderly women were trampled with horses in Ottawa's downtown core as a result of her declaration of martial law.
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She was one of the leading proponents of the mass graves hoax, and she's never apologized for any of that. Instead, now she wants the candidate to join a hostile military alliance with foreign powers while she's contemplating the use of nuclear weapons against the United States. That's what she just said.
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And at the moment, it's not a stretch to say that she could replace Justin Trudeau as the leader of Canada's Liberal Party, a party that, as we just saw, isn't much different from the Conservatives. What this means is that while the conclusion of the mass graves hoax was anticlimactic at best,
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Canadian leaders actually see it as a springboard for more authoritarian crackdowns and more overt anti-Christian, anti-American hostility. Whatever credibility Canada had as a staunch American ally or a legitimately Christian nation is now completely gone. Canadian leaders would rather lie than admit the truth that everyone can clearly see.
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No country can survive for long when it's committed to such a great extent to the denial of reality. And though they don't seem interested in admitting it, that is the commitment that Canadian politicians have now made. Now let's get to our five headlines. Success is not built on resolutions. Those are made to break. It's built on taking action and building unstoppable momentum.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Trump's full-scale assault on DEI has begun and it is glorious. Also speaking of DEI, a female cop accidentally shoots a civilian with his own gun. A Canadian politician turns the tables on a news anchor who tries to corner him on gender ideology.
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That's what we can assume if history is our guide, and it should be. In the meantime, the fact is that pretty much everyone in this country, the vast majority of people, including anyone who flies on a plane, who sends a child to college or applies for a job or a federal contract, is already benefiting from the second Trump administration. Whether they like it or not, they are.
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This is the swift restoration of sanity that a majority of Americans voted for. Common sense has made a comeback. Team sanity is winning for the moment. But team insanity will be back. And it's up to us to be ready for them. Now let's get to our five headlines. Let's talk about something that affects all of us, those of us who are responsible, hardworking Americans, and that is taxes.
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Now that it's the new year and tax season is upon us, are you prepared for what's coming? Do you owe back taxes? Are your tax returns still unfiled? Missed the deadline to file for an extension. With the new year beginning and heading into the busy tax season, the IRS may be ramping up enforcement. Let me tell you, they're not playing around.
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For those who are fans of DEI, yesterday will go down in infamy. It was, you might say, the DEI Pearl Harbor. At 5 PM, all DEI offices within the federal government closed down. Employees were put on leave as the first step towards mass layoffs. The DEI section of every major federal website went offline.
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Or visit their website at tnusa.com slash walsh today. Don't let the IRS take advantage of you. Get the help you need with Tax Network USA. Speaking of DEI, here's a DEI in action. The New York Post reports a police department in Florida is moving to fire an officer after she accidentally shot a man with his own gun during a routine traffic stop last month. Officer Mindy Cardwell...
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was called to assist with a traffic stop on December 13th in Jacksonville. And this is after Jason Arrington, 39, had been pulled over by an officer for running a red light. Arrington was fully cooperating with all three officers. Body camera shows, informed the cop who originally pulled him over that he did have a gun holstered in his waistband. He was told to exit the car.
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And in fact, rather than describing the rest of this, we have the body cam footage. This picks up. This incident on December 13th, it picks up with the guy, Arrington, already pulled over, and the female cop, this is her body cam, she shows up, the guy gets out, and we'll see how that plays out. Watch. He's very compliant. He does have a pistol on him, so...
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From Arrington's holster and in the process shoots him in the leg. And in fact, if you take a look at if you take a look at this, it's still shot. There's the still shot 25 seconds in. Take a look at this now. You can see she has two fingers, two fingers inside the trigger guard of the firearm while she's pulling it out of his waistband. I mean, how do you make that mistake?
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You carry a firearm every day for your job. How do you not just instinctively keep your finger off the trigger? How do you end up with not one but two fingers on the trigger? I mean, it's just this is firearm safety 101. This is before you even get to 101. My sons have better trigger discipline with their BB guns than this police officer does. It's insane.
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The heads of every DEI office in the federal government were rounded up, chained to giant boulders, and tossed into the sea. That last part didn't happen, unfortunately, but a man can dream.
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And meanwhile, the guy, the victim, what makes this so unfortunate is that he did everything right. He pulled over. He cooperated. He informed the officer that he was carrying a weapon, which is what you're supposed to do. So he follows all the rules and he gets shot anyway with his own gun.
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And, you know, I'm the first to say, usually, when it comes to cases of alleged police brutality, I'm the first to say that, and I've said many times, that if you just cooperate and comply, and if you're a reasonable person and you're reasonable with the police officers, you're almost certainly going to be fine.
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I mean, almost always, when someone ends up getting shot or hurt during an interaction with the cops, it's because they went out of their way at every turn to turn the situation into something violent and dangerous when it didn't need to be. But... There are exceptions to every rule. And here is the exception. And this is an exception made possible by, of course, a female police officer.
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And look, I know that there are plenty of male police officers who do dumb things and make mistakes. But this is still the kind of thing that you inevitably get when you start bringing women into the force in the name of diversity and inclusion. I mean, this is... Like I said, DEI in action. This is what happens.
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And you can just tell, you can tell in that short clip from the body cam that this woman is very nervous handling the guy's firearm. So how does a woman who's nervous handling a gun end up on the damn police force of all things? How does a woman who doesn't understand the most basic principles of gun safety end up on the police force? Well, it happens through DEI.
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Back in reality, however, the Office of Personnel Management sent out a notice to the head of every federal agency instructing them to ask employees, quote, if they know of any efforts to disguise DEI programs or personnel in the federal government. Employees have 10 days to disclose any disguised DEI programs or personnel that they're aware of.
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And the media, as expected, has been fighting back against Trump's border enforcement operation with images of crying illegal immigrants. So far, it's not having the effect that they intended. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show. America's golden age is just getting started. Be here with us for every moment. There's never been a better time to join Daily Wire Plus.
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which is why the eradication of DEI needs to go far beyond the federal government. I mean, it needs to trickle down to every level of both federal and state and local government and into the private sector, which is the plan, like we talked about in the opening. But, you know, we need to be done with this madness.
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And you can say, I know people will say, well, how do you know that she was hired because of DEI? You don't know that. Well, I know because she's a woman who, by the department's own admission now, is incompetent. She was fired for incompetence. Well, how do incompetent women get jobs like this? They get it through DEI, right? That's how. So it's absurd.
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I mean, if we're being honest, female cops are absurd, right? It's an absurdity. I'm sorry. It's just ridiculous. It's cartoonish. You've got cops on the force who can easily be overpowered by like 50% of the population. And not just 50% of the population, by the way, like the majority of people who end up getting arrested, the majority of people who will go to prison are men.
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So it's not 50%, really. With a female cop, that means that the vast majority of the people that she is going to try to arrest during her career can easily overpower her, easily. And that's why when I have an interaction with the cops, I get pulled over or something. It doesn't happen very often. But when it does, I'm only ever a bit nervous if the cop is a woman.
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And the reason that makes me nervous is because I know that the cop knows, because she's a woman, that I could easily overpower her if I wanted to. I know that she's aware of that. And I'm then worried that this fact is making her worried, even though I'm not doing anything to make her worried. If that makes her jumpy. And if she's jumpy, then stuff like that happens.
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And even if she's not jumping, I'm also aware that she's only on the force because they lowered the standards to get her there. So that makes me a bit nervous, too. So now you have an interaction where both the officer and the civilian, who isn't doing anything wrong, are kind of nervous. And that's not what you want. Like, nothing bad is going to happen on my end. I'm not going to freak out.
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I'll comply and be cooperative. So everything's going to be fine on my end. But I don't know about her end. And as we just saw in that interaction there, the guy complied. He did everything right. Ends up with a bullet hole in his leg. And now he's going to sue and he's going to probably be a rich man, as he should be because of the lawsuit. I don't think suing is even enough.
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And almost immediately, one of these disguises became pretty apparent. It was visible to anyone who checked out the leadership page of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, or ATF. Specifically, there was an unusual change to the title of one senior official at the ATF. Here's how the Bureau's leadership page looked at the beginning of the week. You can see it there.
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I mean, if any one of us in the course of our jobs accidentally shot someone, we would also go to jail. I think there should be jail time for that. You don't get an oopsie-daisy on something like that. Now, as you know, I'm the first to defend police officers when they deserve to be defended, which very often when there's a viral controversy, they do deserve it.
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And I'll be the first to say that I give cops a lot of leeway when they're put into these life-threatening situations. because of what the suspect is doing, the suspect is acting in a way that is threatening, and now all of a sudden the cop is thrust in this life-threatening situation, I think we've got to give a lot of leeway. And it's easy to Monday morning quarterback after the fact.
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So that's when you have a cop that Someone's charging at him with a knife and the cop shoots. And then everyone after the fact says, well, but you could have waited another two seconds before you shot him. But why don't you shoot him in the leg or something dumb like that? No, in that case, I say that he did what he had to do in that situation. That his life is on the line.
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He's got seconds to react. That's one thing. But in a case like this, nothing life threatening is happening. This is not a woman who was thrust into a life-threatening situation. It became life-threatening for the guy. Because, by the way, she could have hit an artery and killed him. It became life-threatening for him because of her incompetence. We've got to be done with this.
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Let's move to this. And look, I've given Canada a hard time recently, and it's all in good fun. I mean, I have called for the country to be conquered by force and all of its inhabitants sent to labor camps, but I never meant that in a bad way. I didn't mean it, nothing personal. I didn't mean it as an insult. So there's no reason for any Canadians to get upset about it.
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But the truth is that, you know, it's not all bad in Canada. And there are some bright spots.
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And one of them is Pierre Poliev, who appeared this week on a Canadian news show and was asked whether, as prime minister, he would follow, he would get in line with Trump's executive order when it comes to gender ideology, which is already an incoherent question because as prime minister of Canada, you, I mean,
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Until you actually are conquered by the United States, the executive orders signed by the president don't apply to you. But regardless, he was asked the question. I thought the way he fielded the question was quite brilliant. Let's watch.
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And as you can see, there's a woman named Lisa T. Boykin who's listed as the chief diversity officer at the ATF. Now, why does the ATF need a chief diversity officer? What was this person doing every day? Well, who knows? She was collecting a paycheck, at least. We know that. And now that's supposed to change.
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Very well done. And as you all know, I've been shouting this from the rooftops forever. This is exactly how these questions should be handled. And I know that Pierre Poliev has been very good at this kind of thing for as long as he's been on the political scene. And this is key. Throw the ball back in their court. Make them define their terms. Make them answer the basic questions.
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And if you do, you'll get hilarious meltdowns like what we just saw, which, I mean, that moment was something straight out of What is a Woman? I mean, I would have loved to have a moment like that. That's great comedy, just wonderful across the board. And I also agree with his answer, by the way.
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Not the anchor, but Pierre Poliev, because he says that he believes that the government should mind its own business on this issue. And I actually agree with that because what does that mean? It means that the government will only officially recognize male and female because that's just simple biological reality. We need to have a government that's rooted in reality.
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We can't have a government that exists in some kind of fantasy land as we've had for the last four years. So now we see how that worked out. It didn't work out well. So the government only recognizes what is real. And that's it. But in your own private life, if you want to run around telling yourself that you're the opposite sex or whatever, nobody can stop you.
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In fact, if you want to run around telling other people that you're the opposite sex, no one can stop you from saying that. You can say that. You can say those words. If a man wants to quote-unquote identify as a woman in the privacy of his own home, then There's nothing we can do to stop that, nor would I be interested in trying to crack down on that, even if it was possible. That's fine.
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But the only change the ATF actually made was in the meaningless title they gave this person. So sometime in the last 48 hours, the page changed. And here's what the ATF's leadership page looks like now. Now Lisa Boykin is merely a, quote, senior executive. She's no longer the chief diversity officer. Overnight, she has been graced with a much more generic and inconspicuous title.
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That's your personal life. What you can't do is force anyone in society to go along with it. You can't impose it on anyone. You can't require us to cooperate with it or to play into it or to play along with it. You can't indoctrinate children into it. And you can't expect the government to officially recognize or in any way legally codify or respect this fantasy. That's what you can't do.
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So when I say, and I believe this is the case that probably Pierre, probably I would say something similar, but I can't speak for him. But when I say, hey, you know, that that's your business. I mean, it's specifically in that way. It's keep it your business. Don't try to wrap anyone else into it. And if you do that, to keep everybody else out of it, well then, what is there for us?
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There's nothing for us to say. Which, by the way, is one of the reasons, and this is why when you hear the trans activists will say, well, trans people, quote, unquote, have existed for, I mean, they'll claim that trans people have existed, trans-identified people have existed for thousands of years, which is total nonsense.
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Because the concept of quote unquote transgenderism is a modern phenomenon. But the concept has existed for decades. And for decades, it was basically a non-issue in mainstream culture. We didn't talk about it. We didn't debate it. It didn't come up. There weren't any executive orders about it. It didn't come up during presidential debates.
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And that's because there was not this effort, this collective effort to force society, people in society to go along with it or play along with it or cooperate with it or affirm it. And it was just something that, you know, very small minority of people, it was something that they, it was a... something that they had in their own minds and something that really they struggled with.
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And so that was something between them and their, you know, therapists, really. It only became an issue once it was decided that everyone else has to affirm this. And then once you do that, once you go to everybody else and you tell us we have to affirm it, okay, well, now it is our business. And it's our business because you forced it to be our business.
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We would very much like to go back to a point where it's not our business anymore. When the left talks about what happens in my bedroom is my business. Yeah, I wish. Like actually keep it in your bedroom. That's best for all of us. That's what we want. Keep it in your bedroom and then great. Let's stay for another moment on the trans issue.
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ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio is rather upset about these recent developments that are happening, as you would expect. And Chase Strangio is, as you'll be able to tell here in a moment, a female who identifies as a man. But there's one thing, there's one term used in this clip that's getting some attention. So listen.
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Well, a few things. First of all, nobody thinks that trans people, quote unquote, are a threat simply by existing. Our whole point is that trans is a category error. You, in fact, do not exist as the sex you claim. You do exist as a person. We acknowledge that. But when a man who identifies as a woman says, oh, you think I'm a threat to women just because I'm a trans woman?
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There was no press release about it. There was no explanation. They just changed it. Check back tomorrow. The ATF will probably put fake glasses and a mustache on Lisa Boykin and claim her name is really Larry Soykin or something. So these DEI activists aren't completely out of ideas, but very soon they will be completely out of the federal government. At least that's the plan.
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Well, our answer is no. What we're saying is that you're not a woman, and that's our whole point. You're potentially a threat to women because you're a male demanding access to the locker room, and men who demand that they be allowed into private spaces with women are rightfully perceived as potential threats. It's got nothing to do with the fact that you call yourself trans.
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If a man who did not call himself trans did not identify as trans, was demanding access to the women's bathroom, they would be perceived as a threat as well. The point is that you're a male. How you perceive yourself is basically irrelevant in that scenario. And second, you notice the phrase that she used. She said, non-transgender women.
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Which is interesting because these people had invented the nonsense term cis-women And up until now, that's what they would call what is actually just a regular woman, a woman, an actual biological woman. But now apparently they've switched over to this new phrase of non-transgender women. And why do they prefer that term?
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Well, they prefer it because it goes even farther than the term cis women to make regular real women seem like they're the strange ones. So this is what they're doing. It's an attempt to make real women into just one category of women. And in this case, when you use the term non-transgender women,
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You've turned actual women into not just one category of women, but you've turned them into a lesser, more obscure category of woman. Because they're now the nons, right? You have trans women and then you have non-trans women. So now women are defined by their relation to so-called trans women. They are defined by their status of being not trans.
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So in this world of Chase Strangio, you're either trans or you're not trans. And so that's the rhetorical move that they're pulling now, which is quite desperate and And we know that trans activists have gotten a lot of mileage out of these language games. This has been not just their primary tool, but really their only rhetorical tool.
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Of course, there's emotional blackmail and there's threats and everything else. But when it comes to sort of presenting the argument, their only weapon there is just language games. And they've typically been pretty good at staying one step ahead. But they come up with some term, and then people don't exactly know what that term even means.
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And then once people start to understand that term is nonsense, then they just start using a different term. And, you know, they try to stay one step ahead. And that's what they're doing now. And I don't think it's going to be enough. I don't think it's going to work this time.
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As recently as a few months ago, a purge like this seemed pretty difficult to imagine. And it was particularly hard for people on the left to imagine. When we filmed Am I Racist, the DEI activists we spoke to from Robin DiAngelo on down were overconfident to the point of absurdity. That's one of the reasons we were able to make the film.
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Something is horribly wrong when that person becomes a bishop. That bishop is the most blatantly obvious example of someone who has no actual faith and has somehow managed to be put in a position of influence and uses that influence for racist and nefarious purposes. Right. I mean, she's almost certainly an atheist.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I think we talked yesterday about the bishop at the prayer service who's a far left radical. But, yeah, it should also be said, along with being a far left radical, and this goes with the territory, she's almost certainly an atheist. And I think we'd be shocked if we could know the actual number of full on atheists who are running churches and leading congregations in this country.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, there's no way to know. There have actually been done some studies on this and there have been different organizations that have – usually like atheist organizations who present this information as a positive. But – so there are different claims about this. What is the actual number?
The Matt Walsh Show
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What's the actual number of people who lead churches in any denomination who actually don't even have a faith at all? Well, it's impossible to know what the actual number is, but the proof is in the pudding on this sort of thing. And I think we have reason to believe that the number is distressingly high. Matt, don't let anybody put you in a suit and tie for your show.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Even the backdrop of this show here is starkly beginning to morph into the same look the mainstream monkeys have. Keep it real. Your content is always on point. Don't let anything change you from real. God bless you, your family, and your work. You don't have to worry about that. There's no chance I'll ever start wearing a suit and tie for the show.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I know I went on that whole rant against Fetterman because he didn't wear a suit to the inauguration. But the truth is I hate wearing suits. And even more do I hate wearing a tie. Women don't understand. Women complain all the time about all the unique challenges and discomforts of being a woman. And I know there are some. But they don't understand some of the stuff that we deal with.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And one of them is a tie. We have to wear this thing. It's like a noose around our neck. It's literally a noose around our neck we have to wear any time we go to something formal. You can barely breathe. They were partially suffocating the entire time. You don't realize that. But I still recognize that when you go to a formal event, that that's what you wear. And I'll respect that. So that's...
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I think this gives more force to my rebuke of Fetterman. That I understand his desire to be casual all the time. I get that. But just because you want to be casual and you're more comfortable in casual clothes, it doesn't make it okay. Matt, you're against remote work, but didn't you work remote from your car slash house for many years? I did.
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And this is another time where I think my own personal experience experience actually lends some more weight to my point. Why do you think I'm so against remote work? Yeah, I did it myself. And my own experience with it is part of what made me so skeptical of it. And I can say in my own case that I've seen this in my own personal experience.
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People always ask how we managed to get the race hustlers and DEI scammers in the room with us. Well, the answer is that we use their own egos and their false sense of security against them. They just couldn't imagine that anyone would ever challenge them or try to embarrass them because that's the bubble that they were living in. And now...
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My own career really took off when I started working in an office with a team and we were all physically present. And I understand my job is different than other people's jobs, but everyone has their own unique situation. We're all different. I still think there are some basic principles that apply across the board.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so, yeah, it's not – there are a lot of angry comments of the remote work conversation. I didn't say that if you are working remote, you're a bad person or you should go to jail or something, okay? I mean, I wouldn't put it past me if I was dictator of the country. But as you know, I'm going to end up putting everybody in jail for something. So, you know, don't again, don't take it personally.
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But that's not what I said. I just I am very skeptical that in the final analysis, people are actually going to be more productive when they're working from home. I'm very skeptical of that claim. I understand the desire to land on Mars, but I think the money could be much better spent here at home. I was just shy of my eighth birthday when we landed on the moon. I'm 63 now.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We've not utilized the moon in any productive capacity. Why waste the money, time, and effort? Well, I've explained why the money, time, and effort is not a waste. I think the demand that we utilize the moon or Mars is just very utilitarian, kind of a shallow way of looking at it, frankly. And Sure, if we can utilize it, great.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If we can figure out how to mine the moon or Mars or asteroids for precious metals and other resources and get them back to Earth and do it in a cost effective way, fantastic. We should do that. But even if we can't, the value in doing the thing is simply in doing the thing. The value of landing on the moon was that we land on the moon. The value of going to Mars is going to Mars.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so to me, you know, it's a bit like it's a bit like It's like saying that the Mona Lisa has no value because you can't use it for anything. Or maybe a better example, because you can say with artwork, we can place a monetary value on it. Yeah, but the monetary value we place on art is totally subjective. And it's still, what do you do with art? You just hang it on a wall.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You don't do anything with it. It just sits there. What if somebody painted an extraordinarily beautiful picture but never sold it or cashed in at all? So never got any money out of it, never used it for anything, never sold it, never traded it. Would you say that it was wasted time and effort?
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's safe to say that that bubble has been pretty well popped. Now, in fact, their entire industry is crashing down, and not just in the government. The executive orders that Donald Trump has signed are broader than that. One of the orders, for example, is entitled Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.
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What if someone spent five years slaving away on a masterpiece of a portrait or a painting or a sculpture and then they just kept it? Never did anything with it. Is that wasted time and effort? Or would you be able to see that creating a beautiful piece of art is a valuable and worthwhile pursuit even if you don't do anything with the final product except put it on display to look at?
The Matt Walsh Show
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I think the latter. I think you'd understand there's value in it because we're human beings. And we find value in things, even things we do not use. This is one of the many things that distinguishes us from the animals. I mean, for an animal, nothing has any value unless it's a resource or a food source for them. But we can see value in something that even transcends its usefulness.
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The Matt Walsh Show
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We began the show by talking about the relative and rather bizarre lack of panic among some on the left in the wake of Trump's barrage of executive orders. But there is one area where the panic has been much more obvious and more to the scale of what you'd expect.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that relates to the Trump administration's efforts to fulfill one of his central campaign promises, which is to deport illegal aliens who are currently residing in the United States and to prevent more illegal aliens from entering into the United States. In particular, Republicans in Congress have just passed the Lake and Riley Act with the support of dozens of Democrats.
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The point of law is to require the Department of Homeland Security detain illegal aliens who commit crimes, including shoplifting, burglary, larceny, and so on, so that they can be deported immediately. As you may remember, Lake and Riley's killer was picked up for a variety of crimes, including shoplifting.
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before he went hunting for women to rape and murder at the campus of the University of Georgia. But instead of being deported or detained, he was immediately set free, which is what enabled him to commit this horrific crime. So this is about as basic a law as you can imagine. It doesn't even give any new authority to federal immigration officials.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Instead, it simply mandates that they do what was already their job. When an illegal alien commits a crime, if anything, the law is too permissive. We should be requiring the federal authorities deport everyone who's here illegally, regardless of whether they commit an additional crime or not.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But as it stands, it's just a baseline measure to ensure that no more women like Lake and Riley are murdered by people who obviously should have been deported a long time ago. But Democrats don't see it that way. In fact, they've been having full-blown meltdowns in Congress over this legislation and Donald Trump's plans more generally with immigration.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And this order explicitly applies to DEI in the private sector as well. Quote, I further order all agencies to enforce our longstanding civil rights laws and to combat illegal private sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities. Each agency...
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So here, for example, is the astute scholar Rashida Tlaib.
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So bizarrely, she claims that her mother will be affected by this law, even though her mother apparently is not an illegal alien. And that raises an obvious question. Is Rashida Tlaib's mother a shoplifter? I mean, that's the only way this complaint really makes sense. The law doesn't establish any criteria to profile anyone. It just requires that illegal aliens who commit crimes get detained.
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Quoting for legislation, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue a detainer for an illegal or for an alien described in paragraph 1E. And if the alien is not otherwise detained by federal, state, or local officials, shall effectively and expeditiously take custody of the alien.
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Now, if you scroll down up to paragraph 1E, it applies to illegal aliens who are, quote, charged with, arrested for, convicted of, admits having committed, or admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of any burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting offenses. So maybe Rashida Tlaib is trying to tell us something about her mother and her community. Maybe this is a cry for help.
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I don't know. Otherwise, it's all very confusing. Fortunately, we have AOC to shed some light on the matter. Here's her very well-reasoned objection to the legislation. Listen.
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Agencies shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large nonprofit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of $500 million or more, state and local bar and medical associations, institutions of higher education with endowments over $1 billion. In other words...
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Again, this is all nonsense. There's no provision in legislation where you get rounded up and put into a private detention camp and sent out for deportation as soon as someone, quote, points a finger and accuses you of shoplifting. That's not in there at all. And she's missing two important things.
The Matt Walsh Show
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First of all, the law doesn't apply to you unless you're already in this country illegally, meaning you're already subject to immediate deportation. And secondly, random people can't just point a finger at these aliens. They have to be at a minimum charged by a prosecutor with an additional crime. on top of being here illegally. A lot of Democrats seem to struggle with understanding any of this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Over at CNN, for example, anchor Dana Bash was visibly stunned when Tom Homan explained that all illegal aliens are subject to deportation, even if they haven't committed an additional crime within our borders. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
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One of the things that's great about Tom Homan is that he doesn't even pretend to care about sanitizing any of this. It's what he's been promising to do for months, and he's going to do it. Voters clearly want him to do it. They've got the mandate of the American people. So when the CNN anchor reacts with disbelief, he just doesn't care.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's not going to stop the rest of the corporate press from relying on predictable emotional blackmail. Over the Washington Post, a reporter just uploaded a video of a sobbing foreign national. And her caption reads, quote, migrants who are waiting for their 1 p.m. CBP1 parole appointment learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down and those appointments are no longer valid.
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And here's the video that the reporter posted along with it.
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There's going to be a lot of this kind of thing in the coming days. There's already been quite a bit of it, these videos of so-called migrants sobbing and crying. But, you know, this one is interesting. First of all, this person's pretty well-dressed. She has an iPhone, apparently.
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The federal government is gearing up to launch investigations into private sector entities, whether they're universities or hospitals or corporations that are engaging in discriminatory DEI practices. According to the order, that includes any organization that employs, quote, dangerous, demeaning and immoral race and sex based preferences.
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Because she's checking the app and clearly not very good at planning ahead because she somehow didn't make the trip at any point in the last two months when it was obvious to everyone that Donald Trump was going to take over the White House. But despite all that, we're supposed to feel terrible that she's being turned away.
The Matt Walsh Show
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In fact, we're supposed to be willing to forfeit our own sovereignty just so that this woman feels better. If somebody cries because they can't illegally access your home, you should just let them in. I mean, that's the idea. Never mind the inherent incoherence of a less position on this.
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I mean, on one hand, they tell us that America is systemically racist, and now it's being run by a fascist dictator. And on the other hand, they expect us to see it as a great tragedy that Hispanic woman isn't allowed to come here. But by their logic, aren't we doing the woman a favor? Isn't she better off in her homeland?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Shouldn't they be the ones on the border saying, no, don't come here, turn back, save yourselves? We should try to save her from our racist, xenophobic, fascist, Nazi hellscape of a country. Now, for their part, Axios came up with another tactic. They decided that they were going to try to use Americans' faith against us.
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They reported, quote, Trump's flurry of orders restricting immigration and promising mass deportation violates core Christian principles of caring for the poor and needy. So now the corporate press is reporting on God's assessment of America's domestic policy. They're channeling divine insight, and that insight just so happens to sound a lot like that fake bishop from the other day.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It also contradicts everything that the press has been saying for months. As Aaron McIntyre pointed out, these same media outlets told us that Donald Trump was a Christian nationalist who wants to bring about a Christian theocracy. And now they're mad that Trump is supposedly ignoring Christian law, Christian principles, just to ruin the lives of all these innocent illegal aliens.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's like, which is it? Never mind the fact that there's nothing remotely Christian about allowing your country to be overrun by violent criminals. to the point that women and children are routinely dying horrific deaths. There's also nothing in Scripture that tells us that countries shouldn't have borders or that national sovereignty is an inherent evil.
The Matt Walsh Show
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There is nothing that declares our right to break whatever law we don't agree with. In fact, Scripture says precisely the opposite. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's. That was Jesus Christ's command. St. Paul tells us to obey governing authorities. So the Bible is very clear that we cannot simply discard the laws we don't like.
The Matt Walsh Show
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As long as man's law does not contradict the laws of God, as long as we are not being told to do things that are inherently immoral and unjust and in contradiction to our faith, as long as that's not happening, then we are obliged to respect the law and follow it, even if we don't like it, even if it's inconvenient, even if it causes us hardship.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The laws governing the border very much fall into the category of laws that we must follow as Christians. It's in fact the illegal aliens who are being unchristian in reality. And certainly all the people that are trying to facilitate their entry into the country. So if the left wants to bring our Christian faith into it, well, that's what our Christian faith actually says.
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The order goes on to revoke an executive order signed by President Lyndon Johnson, which required that federal contractors and the federal government take affirmative action to boost certain candidates based on race, color, religion, and national origin. This has been the law of the land for generations, and no Republican president until now has even considered the possibility of ending it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So none of these tactics will work. None of this emotional blackmail from Congress, from the media, or anywhere else is likely to change very many people's mind about the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal aliens. Americans are fed up with the illegal conquest of our homeland.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And we know that for every crying illegal alien they put on screen, there are a thousand crying Americans that they could show whose lives were destroyed by the crime and drugs and violence that these people have brought into our country. But they're not showing us those images. And this time around, in a major contrast from the first Trump administration, everyone knows why.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that is why Democrats who have descended into panic about Donald Trump's decision to enforce immigration law are today canceled. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But this time around, the second Trump administration came prepared. It's one of the very first things they got rid of. And the importance of the decision cannot be overstated. I mean, for decades, the requirement that federal contractors practice affirmative action has forced companies to compare their workforce with the demographic composition of the surrounding community.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And then they had to alter their hiring practices to try to find more so-called minority candidates, regardless of whether those people were the most qualified. And it's led to an enormous amount of fraud and waste and inefficiency. And that's not even getting into how unethical and immoral and unconstitutional it was. But that's all gone now, or at least it's supposed to be at the federal level.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Trump's order forbids the federal government from, quote, allowing or encouraging federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.
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On top of that, all federal agencies have to require every grant recipient to, quote, certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws. Within 120 days, the Attorney General will also outline requirements for colleges and universities concerning their own DEI programs.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So this is obviously a sweeping order, one that affects hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending. And it's very bad news for universities like Harvard and other bastions of left-wing orthodoxy. It's the kind of order that you'd expect would lead to a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left. And certainly that is happening to some extent.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But there's also been kind of an interesting wrinkle amid all of this. And it is early. It's still early. This is all just happening. There might be some amount of shell shock on the left as well. I'm sure that's true. But Chris Ruffo reported something interesting yesterday. He reported this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Tech executives are telling me that Silicon Valley companies will respect President Trump's ban on discriminatory DEI. Many feel relieved that they don't have to pretend anymore. resistance here is basically dead. And I was quoting his source within one of these tech companies. So in other words, according to Rufo's reporting, these executives were
The Matt Walsh Show
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experiencing a kind of Stockholm syndrome for the past several years. They knew that DEI was destructive to their business. They wanted it to go away, but they felt they had no choice but to endorse it because on top of the legal requirements, they didn't want to upset left-wing activists and the corporate media. They lacked the spine to stand up for their own business interests.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And they felt trapped, so they just went along with it. And this may sound like convenient excuse-making, but But it may sound like, well, the claim is that these people were victims. That's not the case at all. It's not an excuse, but the scenario here sounds very plausible. After all, tech companies care the most about making money.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, you don't become a tech billionaire without understanding how to turn a profit and without prioritizing profits. And DEI is obviously and self-evidently bad for business because it forces you to hire people who are not qualified for the job. It actually makes perfect sense that these companies would be relieved to be done with it. But it's not an excuse.
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I mean, if anything, it just makes them look worse. DEI proliferated not because all these companies believed in it, but because they were all cowards who didn't have the gumption to speak out, even for the sake of their own economic self-preservation. It would be better for them, I think.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It would make them look better if they actually believed in this stuff and now are having some kind of awakening moment. But the truth is, they knew it was nonsense the whole time. And they just did it anyway. So it's worth asking whether that response applies to the left more broadly.
The Matt Walsh Show
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One of the most fascinating things about Trump's full-scale assault on gender ideology and DEI in government is the relative lack of left-wing hysteria over it. Certainly there has been plenty of whining and scolding about it, but we haven't seen protests in the street or widespread panic.
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The outrage, from my vantage point, hasn't quite reached the fever pitch that you would have expected, that I expected. I mean, even the media, from what I can tell, seems to be relatively muted by their standards in their reactions. So here, for example, is a decidedly kind of low energy segment from MSNBC the other day.
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You'd think they'd be grabbing their pitchforks because of the return of fascism in America. But instead, this is what they came up with. Watch.
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OK, so they certainly don't approve of Trump's policies, but you wouldn't call that a hysterical meltdown. Exactly. The anchor cites that fake McKinsey study about how DEI supposedly improves companies, which we talked about and debunked many times before. And the reporter says conservatives want to take us back to colorblind, merit driven society as if that's a bad thing.
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But it is, again, a bit low energy. I mean, you contrast that with the hysteria in the days after Trump's first inauguration. There's really no comparison. Back then, everything Trump did was part of a Russian plot to destroy American democracy. Everything was a cause for panic. Everything was a five alarm fire.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And yet this has been kind of the response to most of Trump's executive orders, from his order ending DEI at the FAA to his order declaring that indeed there are only two genders and that gender ideology is dead. This is the most far-reaching executive assault on left-wing ideology ever launched by any president ever. There's not even a close second.
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We've never seen anything like this, even from Trump in his first term. Truly unprecedented. And yet the left's reaction hasn't matched the moment exactly. Especially by, again, their normal standards of hysteria. Why is that? It's worth asking. Now, there are multiple facets to this. The lack of mass protests in the street may be easy enough to explain. It's very cold outside.
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And we know that left-wing activists are dedicated to their causes as long as that dedication doesn't require them to endure even the slightest bit of physical discomfort. Also, you probably have to pay the protesters more than their usual rate, given the weather conditions. And maybe it's just more than George Soros is willing to shell out. But that's probably part of it.
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But that's not the whole story. There's also, as we discussed this week, a kind of emotional burnout happening. The left has been screaming hysterically about Trump for 10 years, and it's just not possible to keep up that level of performative outrage indefinitely. Eventually, you lose a bit of steam. And on top of that, the left is in organizational and ideological disarray.
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They have no clear leader, no clear agenda, no clear political identity. And all of that serves to mute the response to these moves by Trump. But On top of all of those factors, I also have to wonder if at least some on the left are maybe, to some extent, even if subconsciously, sort of relieved to be done with DEI and gender ideology and all the rest.
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I mean, after all, these things are so absurd on their face that almost no one could have ever really, truly believed in them. I mean, almost no one actually wants to be in the position of having to defend some cross-dressing man who's crying because he can't disrobe in the women's changing room. That's not a guy that almost anyone actually wants to stand in front of and defend.
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Almost no one actually thinks it's a good idea to, for example, prioritize diversity in air traffic control hiring. DEI and gender ideology require a suspension of basic common sense that is so extreme that few people could ever achieve it. And everyone else was just pretending.
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We have suffered through an era in American history that is defined by millions of people pretending to believe the most absurd propositions ever put forward. And now that the cultural tide has changed, the pressure to pretend has been greatly lifted. The true believers in DEI and gender ideology now are looking around and discovering that they are without allies.
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Trans activists and DEI race hustlers were holding a lot of people hostage. But the right's political and cultural victories have taken away their ammunition, and it's just hard to keep your hostages in line when they find out that your gun has no bullets. So in other words, for some who ostensibly appear to be on the left on these issues, we are their liberators. That's just one.
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That's one theory that may explain one aspect of things. And I believe there's an element of this, at least for some on the left. I certainly think it's the case for business owners and corporate America. But regardless, all that said. One thing we know for sure is that this somewhat eerie lull, it's not going to last.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1521 - Trump Wages All Out War On DEI
The true believers, and there are plenty of them out there, along with the powers that be on the left, are not going to abandon their agenda. They're not going to surrender to the right and just call it a day and say, never mind. Well, forget all of it. They're going to regroup and probably come back eventually with something even crazier than DEI and gender ideology.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the airline that just flipped upside down on a runway in Toronto has been obsessed with DEI for many years. They seem to be more focused on girl power than on keeping their planes in the sky. Also, the Trump administration might ban food stamp recipients from using taxpayer money to buy junk food. Why isn't that already the policy?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
The description for Endeavor Air's account on TikTok reads, quote, CR slay every day. I just have to emphasize again, this is an airline, okay? Slay every day is their mantra, which I assume is a reference to the CRJ aircraft that they fly. So it's not CRJ, it's CR slay. There's that sassiness again. That's what you want.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Now, this is how you would present your company if you wanted to attract the ditziest, least responsible, and least intelligent applicants imaginable. And based on recent events, it seems like that's exactly what Endeavor got. But as easy as it would be to blame this on Endeavor, which is a relatively small subsidiary of Delta, the truth is that this is a much deeper problem.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
You know, it's not easy to find a lot of people who are willing to go back and revisit the early days of Barack Obama's presidency. Conservatives don't want to relive the whole nightmare for obvious reasons. And for their part, Democrats would rather move on, too. They don't particularly want to dwell on Obama's Russian reset, for example, where he told us that Putin wasn't really a bad guy.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
It goes to the top, and to illustrate that, here's footage from the pinned tweet of Delta Airlines' main account at the time of the Endeavor air crash. This has probably changed now, but at the time, and this is Delta now we're talking about, watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Slave? So this whole slay concept is apparently a big deal at both Endeavor and Delta. They're thinking it's a really important message to communicate, that there are girl bosses who slay. Now, of course, as you may know, slay means to kill. And that's what you can expect to happen now when you board these planes, evidently. They'll slay you with their flying skills.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Now, as painful as this footage is, I will give Delta some credit. Yesterday, in an interview with CBS, Delta's CEO was given an opportunity to blame Donald Trump for the crash in Toronto. Yes, the corporate press is going with the narrative that Donald Trump is responsible for a pilot's terrible crash landing in a foreign country.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And in response to this setup, the Delta CEO immediately shot the question down, which led to a pretty entertaining facial expression from the CBS anchor. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
So she was quite confounded that he did not take the opportunity to blame Trump. I mean, because she's been She has asked a version of this question on air probably 50,000 times in various different contexts where something bad is happening. She brings somebody on and says, say, don't you think this is really the fault of Donald Trump?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And every single time for 50,000 times, the person always goes, well, yeah, of course. Who else would be at fault? This is the one time where someone's like, no, I don't think he had anything to do with it. And she doesn't know how to respond. She's totally bewildered.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
But you notice there's no question from CBS about the identity of the pilot or her qualifications or whether Endeavor regrets posting nonstop music video TikToks for the past five years. Where they advertise that they want to slay their passengers and die young. No question about that. Instead, the question is about how Donald Trump is to blame.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
That kind of thinking isn't exactly compatible with Democrats' current narrative. Nor are Democrats interested in reminding everyone of Obama's promises to lower health care costs or his promise to close Guantanamo Bay or his promise to stop the weather from changing. None of that happened and so on.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
This has been the approach of so many establishment interests ever since the aviation industry began experiencing a series of crashes more than a decade ago. They deflect and then minimize responsibility, all while insisting that the underlying system is working fine. But with every major airline disaster, these deflections become less and less effective.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
The more they hide information about who's flying these planes, the more people will come to realize what's actually going on. And at a certain point, a point that is rapidly approaching, nobody will fly on a plane unless they know who's flying it. People are going to demand reviews of pilots like they demand reviews of restaurants before making a reservation.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Now, that probably won't be a sustainable model for most airlines. But for people who want to fly with some peace of mind, free from the complete and total incompetence that Obama-era diversity initiatives have wrought so many years later, it'll be the only option worth considering. Now let's get to our five headlines. Freedom runs deep in our nation's DNA.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
It started when we stood up to unfair British taxes and their overpriced tea. They tried forcing us to pay. We threw that tea right into the Boston Harbor. And you know what? It worked out pretty well for us. Today, it's time for another declaration of independence from big wireless and their costly contracts. Why pay $100 monthly just to get a free phone?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Visit puretalk.com slash Walsh for details. New York Post reports, Americans on food stamps may be banned from using them to buy sugary drinks and other junk food, agricultural secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday. The newly appointed cabinet official said she'll work with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to prioritize food stamp benefits for healthy food items. Rawland Soul reporters, will we ever take food out of a hungry child's mouth? Of course not. This is the USA. Truly, this program has grown so large, especially in the last administration. Under Biden, I think it grew almost 30% more than before. That's the SNAP program, food stamps.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
So if there's bipartisan agreement on anything, it's that Obama's presidency isn't worth talking about anymore. But there is one moment. from the early Obama years that has suddenly become relevant again. And I'm talking about the crash of a Colgan Air passenger plane, which was flying under the brand name of Continental Airlines.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
We really need to look at where the money is going and what it's being spent on. So there's been a lot of controversy over this, as you can imagine, this news that the Trump administration might look to... narrow down the types of food items that you can use your food stamps or your SNAP benefits on. But of course, this is exactly the right policy.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Of course, people on food stamps should not be allowed to buy junk food with them. Well, they can buy it. I mean, they could buy junk food if they want, but they could buy it with their own money. taxpayers should not be funding someone's junk food addiction, which is incredibly obvious.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
There really is no credible argument to the contrary, except just like a logistical argument about how you enforce this. But I think it's certainly feasible to enforce. If you have the will to enforce it, you can enforce it, and you should. And there needs to be a lot of reforms to these programs, obviously.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
You know, I think something like 40 million people are on food stamps and that is to me clearly way too many. Okay.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
It tells us that these benefits are being doled out without enough vetting and that food stamps and entitlements have become a lifestyle for millions of people rather than a temporary helping hand to get them through a tough time, which is how all of these programs were initially sold to the public. That's what they were supposed to be. But for a long time now they've, they've become a lifestyle.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Um, Do 40 million people need food stamps? And when I say need, I mean, if we got rid of food stamps, if we got rid of SNAP, would 40 million people starve to death because of it? Are food stamps the thing preventing the mass starvation of 40 million people? Does anyone really believe that? Not if you have five brain cells, you don't believe that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
So there are too many people on the program and the program is not nearly restrictive enough in terms of what you can use it to purchase. And in terms of food, it should provide for basic nutrition. It should not provide for any food that has zero nutritional value. Again, this is obvious. And there are a lot of those kinds of foods out there.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Speaking of which, and this was all really just a setup for me to talk about this, which is that I needed some sort of segue here. because I've been very troubled by this. The other day I was at the store, I was at Walmart actually, and I saw a woman buying something that I didn't know existed.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
The crash occurred in February of 2009, just a month after Obama's inauguration. It was the fourth in a string of crashes involving regional airliners from 2005 to 2009. 50 people died, including one person on the ground. And an investigation revealed that the pilots, one man and one woman, were overworked and underpaid. They were also objectively bad pilots, at least on that particular night.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
It was my first, I had not, I had never become acquainted with this product, but there was a woman buying a bottle of Skittles juice. Okay? Now, I'm not saying she was using Snap to pay for it. Maybe she was. That wouldn't surprise me. But I don't know. That I don't know. I'm just saying, in terms of junk food, just to show you how bad it is out there, if you didn't already know, Skittles juice.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
The mayor of Los Angeles says she needs to investigate to figure out why she decided to leave for Africa right before the wildfires broke out. And a new debate is raging on social media. Is it sexist for a dad to take just his son on a guy's trip The internet says yes, and the internet is, of course, wrong again. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
That's a thing. Or I think, and I looked this up later because I make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. No, it's real. Yeah, this is a real thing. Skittles rolled it out very recently, actually. Just in 2024, they rolled out their line of Skittles drinks. And So it is technically Skittles drink, not Skittles juice, because it's not juice.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
I mean, they can't legally call it juice because there were definitely no fruits involved in the making of this concoction. There was no fruit within a 50-mile radius of whatever factory they used to make this sludge. Like, this stuff was—even just the color of it is not— It's like this neon, it looks like it was harvested from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor core or something like that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
I mean, the color of the liquid isn't even on the color spectrum. There's nothing natural about any of it. It's not food, it's not even a real color. I don't know what that is. And yet people buy this stuff. They buy it on purpose, in public, where we can all see them doing it. And this woman had no shame about it either. She was actually talking to her. I mean, this makes it even worse.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
She had her kid with her. I think she was buying it for her kid. I don't know. But she was talking about, she was like talking, oh, get the Skittles drink. Openly discussing it. No shame. Um, I don't know. I would rather drink from the punch bowl at the people's temple than drink Skittles drink. I would rather drink nothing ever again. I would rather die of thirst.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
If I was dying of thirst in the desert and somebody came up and said, I hadn't had a drink in a week and I'm on death's door and they offered me a bright neon red Skittles drink, I would not, I'd say, no, thank you. I'd rather die of thirst than die of diabetes. So I would rather drink straight from a river in Indonesia than drink Skittles drink. But this is what people are consuming.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And then we wonder why there's an obesity epidemic. And we're told that it's a thyroid problems and hormonal problems. And that's all it is. Meanwhile, people are out here guzzling liquid Skittles. There are people who have decided that regular candy Skittles require too much effort to consume. They're burning too many calories eating Skittles because they have to chew them.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And that's too much exercise. And so they need a more convenient, less, a lower effort delivery mechanism for Skittles. That's why they're drinking it now. We are, people joke about this, but we are seriously one step away from intravenous Skittles. Okay, that's where this goes next.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
A Skittles-flavored IV drip is where you're gonna see people, morbidly obese people, on scooters with an IV drip of neon green Skittles going right into their arm. That's what's happening next. And people are gonna look at that and still say, oh, they must have a hormone problem. Her thyroid, what a terrible, that's all the thyroid there. Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah. Food stamps.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
They weren't paying attention to their instruments to the point that they stalled their plane while on approach for landing. And then when the aircraft warned them of the stall, they panicked and turned a bad situation into a catastrophe. In the wake of that crash, the Obama administration mandated a series of changes that...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
I don't know. Can you use Snap to buy a Skittles drink? Probably, right? There are problems. This has already happened probably thousands of times. Should that be allowed? Clearly not. Clearly not. All right. We have another protest for you. This one... You know, I don't know. I keep saying this one might be the worst. This one might be the cringiest, but...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
This one at least, audibly, so if you're listening to the, so you're going to get a reprieve if you're an audio podcast listener. This will be a reprieve for you. So you don't have to, don't worry, but you don't have to put this on mute. Like it's going to be fine. The audio is okay. It's the visual.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
So these are leftists at the Kennedy Center protesting the leadership changes that have happened at the Kennedy Center. Most notably, the leadership change was that Trump put himself in charge of it, which is pretty funny. And so they are protesting this through the art of dance. This is a dance protest at the Kennedy Center.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And as you know, as a renowned interpretive dancer myself and as a former contestant on Dancing with the Stars, I heard about this. I was very interested when I heard about it. I wanted to see what kind of protest dance they came up with. I was a little offended that I wasn't invited. I don't know why they didn't reach out to me.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
I mean, I might be a Trump supporter, but if you're having a dance, just for the art of it, I would have liked to come and participate just because dance is so important to me. But anyway, so this is what they came up with. Let's take a look. So that's it. And then you just repeat that move over and over again. That is the laziest dance I've ever seen.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
That was the laziest, most lackadaisical, low-energy dance routine of all time. That was like the Jeb Bush of dance routines. And that's supposed to be a protest dance? I was expecting something with some vigor and aggression to it. That's what I was expecting. And instead, I mean, what is the music? They're dancing to hold music. I don't know what that is. This is not protest dance music.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
taken together amount to a major overhaul of the entire aviation industry. One of the big changes was that all pilots, whether they flew for a regional carrier or a major airline, needed to have hundreds of hours of additional training before they could be certified. The pilots were also entitled to more rest breaks. And there were several other new regulations, too.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
That's elevator music. That's the music that you hear in the lobby at a swanky hotel. That's not a protest type music. And the choreography, I mean, what is that? Did anyone choreograph this? And these are professional dancers. I don't know.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
I think they forgot to choreograph it or they thought they showed up that day and someone was supposed to have come up with the choreography and they said, what did you come up with? And the guy's like, shoot, was I supposed to do that? And so it looks like the person in the front of the line is kind of making it up as she goes along and everyone's just imitating her. So I don't know.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
It looked... The choreography looked like... the guy on the tarmac waving the planes in. And maybe that's how the plane ended up upside down. I don't know. But I just was expecting something more. I really was. And so that doesn't even rise to the level of being cringy. That would be a compliment. I'm offended that it wasn't more cringy. It was just boring. So
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
That's a, I rate that a three out of 10. I mean, at most, that was just, that was a letdown. Karen Bass, the historically incompetent mayor of Los Angeles, who was off in Ghana while the fires burned down her city, sat down with the LA Fox affiliate for her first interview since the fires.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And she tried to explain why she decided to travel to another country thousands of miles away, even though she knew or should have known that there was a risk, a major risk of these fires happening. And the problem for her is that the answer The real reason why she went to Africa is that she just doesn't care. She doesn't care about Los Angeles or the people who live there.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And she didn't want to say that. I'd almost respect her if she would just say that. If she would have just said, hey, no, well, I mean, the reason I did it is just because I don't give a crap. That's why. I don't care about these people. I mean, like morally, I would object to that, but that's the truth. So at least be honest. She didn't want to say that. So here's how she handled it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And for the most part, nobody objected. It was a pretty uncontroversial move. After all, when planes are crashing all over the place, it makes sense to require better training and more rest for the pilots. But all these new regulations created a new problem. Airlines that were already struggling with a pilot shortage began having even more difficulty finding enough pilots to fly their routes.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
So she needs to investigate. She's going to investigate why she went to Ghana. And, you know, now we've we've heard politicians dodge responsibilities, responsibility many times by claiming that they're investigating something. But this is really on a different level.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
I mean, this is beyond what we normally hear because she's she's in this case, she's investigating why she personally did something. So the question is, Mayor Bass, why did you do this thing? Well, we have to investigate to find out why I did that thing. Who can say, who can say why I did something? Certainly I can't.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
So we can investigate and within the next 36 months, we'll be able to convene, we'll have enough information to have a hearing that will then have a further investigation to figure out why I did that thing. Now, the truth, though, is that voters in Los Angeles have no right to be shocked and appalled by the fact that that Karen Bass was overseas.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
This has been the thing that has defined her political career for as long as she has had a political career. When she was in Congress, she was constantly jet setting around the globe. Constantly finding any excuse to be in any country but our own. So it was obvious that she preferred Africa to her own country.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
She was always in Africa, always off somewhere, always on the weakest, most dubious pretense. And they voted her into office anyway. I mean, we played...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
On the show before, back when the fires first broke out, we played a montage of clips of Karen Bass when she was in Congress appearing on African media because she was constantly in Africa doing interviews on African TV stations talking about African problems. because that's what she cared about.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
In an industry that was concerned with safety, the solution to this problem is kind of obvious. You can either raise salaries to attract more pilots, or you can cut down on flights. But the aviation industry, with the encouragement of the Obama administration, decided on a different approach.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
She cared deeply about Africa and helping Africa and protecting Africa and advancing the interests of Africa. And so her obsession with never being in her own country was well known. Everybody knew this. And it's why she felt the need to publicly pledge when she ran for mayor that she would not take any international trips.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
That's not a thing that a mayoral candidate usually has to even address because it's not a question. But in this case, she had to because she was constantly overseas. And so she did pledge. She said she wouldn't take any international trips. But then she was elected and she proceeded to take five international trips in the span of like a year, all funded by taxpayers.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Three of those trips were to Paris for the Olympics. She went three times for some reason. She also went to attend the inauguration of the Mexican president. Why does the mayor of Los Angeles need to be at the inauguration of the Mexican president? Why does the mayor of Los Angeles need to go to the Olympics? Why does she need to go to Ghana? Well, she doesn't.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
But this, again, has been her defining thing. So... When voters in Los Angeles claim that they've been let down or betrayed, I don't have a lot of sympathy. Why did you vote for this person in the first place? Why did you put this person in office? It's the same story with Democrat voters in every major city in the country.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
They vote for these absolute clowns, these utterly useless, vacuous nothings. They vote for them. And then when the pathetic imbecile they selected to run their city runs it like a pathetic imbecile, they're surprised. Well, what did you think was going to happen? Here's what I'd like to know. This is what the investigation should look into.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
If you're in Los Angeles and you voted for Karen Bass, and obviously this was before the fires, so you could say, well, I didn't know that. But why? What was it about Karen Bass that made you say, wow, she needs to be in charge of the city that I live in? What was it? Like what specifically? What is it about her that made you look at that and say, well, yeah, she's the one. We got to have her.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
She's got to be in charge. This is a woman whose great passion in life, aside from her own political advancement, was Africa, okay? Why would you think that somebody like that would be a good mayor of an American city? If she was running for a mayor of an African city, then I could see it. But why would you vote her to run your city as an American? And yet they did. And so whose fault is that?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
They began to appeal to so-called diverse applicants and adopt a much more lax, carefree workplace culture. Just like the FAA, which lowered standards to attract different demographics, airlines created programs to attract women and racial minorities. And then, after the COVID mandates decimated the aviation industry like so many others, these efforts went into overdrive.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And you know, the crazy thing is that Karen Bass is up for reelection. And she's already announced that she's running for reelection. There's no guarantee that she loses. I mean, she could still win reelection. Even after letting her city burn down, it's not outside of the realm of possibility that she could still win.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
which is why it's just really hard to feel sorry for the people who live in these cities. It's just, it's like you have a death wish. You keep voting for people who, like everybody else can look and see. Only bad things can happen when you put someone like that in charge and yet you keep doing it. Let's get to the comment section.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
I'm so thrilled to hear someone bringing up the issue of breaking blind and therefore expanding the placebo effect. And this is a particularly massive issue with a drug for a mental health condition. I've been trying to tell people about this issue with SSRIs for over a decade, and I've been trying to explain why the six-week reuptake window calling their efficacy into question as well.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
And I have to add this to what Matt talked about. The drug company's best data shows an 11% difference between placebo and the actual drug. Only 11%. Yeah, I think I alluded to that yesterday when we were talking about this, but it's important to emphasize as you do.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Many of the clinical studies of antidepressants are basically bunk because they weren't actually double-blind studies like we talked about. But even if we ignore that and we pretend that the methodology was sound, which it wasn't, We're still left with the fact that the difference between the placebo and the drug was negligible.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So it's pretty clear that at a minimum, if these drugs work at all, which is highly debatable, they mostly work through the power of suggestion. So it's not much different from a hypnotist. People are very suggestible. Everybody knows this. Speaking of studies, there have been a million studies that have showed this, and you don't even need studies.
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Your experience being a person and being around people tells you that people are highly suggestible. And especially when you're dealing with emotions, you're dealing with feelings. Well, yeah, there's a certain number of people that if you give them a drug and you tell them this is going to make you feel better, they will feel better. Right? We do this with children all the time.
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It's like, you know, my five-year-old daughter bumps her elbow and is crying. And so I'll give her a Band-Aid. Say, well, this will make you feel better. Even though the Band-Aid is not going to do anything, obviously, it doesn't actually make you feel better. But you give the Band-Aid to the little kid and they immediately feel better.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Because they've been told that, or at least they believe, that kids love Band-Aids. And so Band-Aids are, they see the Band-Aids as these magical, not just as great fashion accessories, which is how kids see them, but also as something that actually makes the thing feel better. So you give the Band-Aid and they feel better because you told them that they would. And am I suggesting that adult...
The Matt Walsh Show
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The defenders of these diversity initiatives insist that, well they insisted, still do I suppose, that standards weren't being compromised. They argued that the pool of applicants was just being expanded, but that all pilots were still competent.
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medical patients are like children in this regard. Well, yeah, I mean, we all are discerning. We are all subject to suggestion. We are all subject to the placebo effects in many different areas of life. It's, it's just, and it's not, it doesn't mean that you're a gullible idiot. It just actually, it's, it's kind of the opposite. It's your mind. It just tells you how powerful your mind is.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Um, so, uh, That is obviously going on with at least a certain number of these SSRI cases where someone says, well, I took it and I felt better. You felt better because you were told that you would, and so you did. So then that's what you're left with. You're left with, well, we've got these studies. They're only valid.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They can only hope to be valid if they're double-blind studies, but they're actually not for the reasons we talked about yesterday. And so some of the results are because of breaking blind. And then you also have the placebo effect kicking in. And so what percentage, when you do the study and someone actually takes the SSRI and feels better, what percent of them actually feel better?
The Matt Walsh Show
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And feel better because of what is happening chemically in their brain from the drug and not because of the placebo effect. Well, there's just no way to know. And yet they give these drugs out anyway. Let's see. By Matt's reasoning, any woman that ever miscarried where the woman's body automatically actively discards the embryo, that makes her a murderer because her body killed the embryo.
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Look, I'm sorry. This is the dumbest argument that I hear all the time. If we're talking about IVF or we're talking about abortion or anything like that, you always hear this. Like, well, aren't you saying miscarriage? Do you really? It's kind of mind-blowing that this... It's not just one person who makes this dumb argument. I hear it all the time.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So there's a lot of people out there who think this is a compelling rebuttal. There's an obvious difference with a miscarriage. Miscarriage is not a choice. It's not the woman's fault. I mean, this is something that happens naturally. This is like if I said...
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They maintained that line of argument even after an Amazon cargo plane operated by Atlas Air crashed in 2019 while landing in Houston, when the pilot inexplicably steered the plane directly into the water. An investigation revealed that the pilot, a man from the Caribbean nation of Antigua named Conrad Aska, had repeatedly failed flight training, but was promoted anyway.
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that it should be illegal to kill your four-year-old child, which it is, and then you said, well, that would mean that if a four-year-old child dies of cancer, we have to put the parents in jail. No, it doesn't mean that. Those are two entirely different things. So, I don't know, there's an obvious distinction there. I'm not sure why you struggle to see it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Um, we intentionally breed, eat and discard pigs, cows, chickens, et cetera. Your don't kill puppies argument doesn't really make sense. They're all living creatures. And this is coming from a meathead. IVF is definitely not the hill you want to die on. Yeah. You're talking about factory farming, which most people find ethically problematic.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, we do it and, but a lot of people are object to exactly the scenario you just laid out, even though it does happen all the time. Um, And yet most of the people who object to something like factory farming have no issue with IVF, which is a kind of factory farming of human embryos. I mean, that's the way that it works in the vast majority of cases. That's how the industry operates.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And that's my whole point. And as for it not being the hill I want to die on, I think that maybe you've noticed at this point that I'll pick whatever hills I want, and I really don't care who else is on the hill with me. So this is not a compelling... Here's another rebuttal that is just not compelling to me. That's not a... You really want to die on this hill? Most people don't agree with you.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I get it. I know. We talked about IVF yesterday, and the vast majority of the comments were... The vast majority of the comments on the topic were disagreeing with me rather stridently. I know that. I knew that would happen. I'm not stupid, despite what you may think. I understand that my position on this puts me in a minority. And that's fine. It's my position. I'm going to tell you what it is.
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The Matt Walsh Show
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Sometimes on our YouTube channel, I will go to the Am I the A-hole forum on Reddit to answer questions posed by people who want to know if they are the A-hole in a particular situation. Today, we're going to bring that fun tradition into the main show because there's an Am I the A-hole post making the rounds on X at the moment.
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And most of the commentary, both on X and on the original Reddit thread, are, as usual, wrong, which is why I feel the need to step in. So a woman says that her husband has planned a guy's trip with their 13-year-old son, John, and his nephew, Michael, whose mother, the husband's sister, is a single mom. And their 11-year-old daughter, Kelsey, is upset about being excluded.
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The wife seems to be even more upset about it. Here's some of what she wrote. Quote, My husband has been talking about planning a guy's trip this summer with him, Michael, and John. While my husband was discussing with John, I could see Kelsey looking visibly sad because she wasn't included. Later, I told my husband that Kelsey should go too and that there's no reason to exclude her.
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His family even sued Amazon, alleging that Conrad Aska never should have been allowed in the cockpit to begin with based on his sheer incompetence. But both Amazon and Atlas Air, which repeatedly preached about the importance of diversity, had no problem handing Conrad Aska the keys to a wide-body Boeing cargo plane.
The Matt Walsh Show
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He said he just wants some guy time with him, his son, and nephew, and that men need to, quote, have their time away from women. I took offense to that comment, which led to an argument. I told him that Kelsey needs to go. Otherwise, I will not approve of the money being taken out of our family vacation budget to exclude some of our family.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, in a follow-up post, she said that she relented and granted her husband permission to go on the trip because apparently this is the kind of family where the husband needs permission from his wife to take his son on a trip. But she has given her blessing begrudgingly. And now the daughter, Kelsey, is very upset, has withdrawn from her dad and doesn't want to be around him.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The husband offered to take Kelsey on a separate trip, just the two of them. That's not good enough for Kelsey. The wife, the one who brought this quandary to Reddit looking for guidance, has refused to help the husband repair the situation with the daughter. She says it's his fault for hurting her so badly by excluding her from the guy's trip.
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She writes, quote, My husband tried to cheer her up by telling her he would plan something really cool with just the two of them, but our daughter told him that she didn't want to do anything. A couple days later, my daughter needed to be picked up early from school for a dentist appointment.
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My husband said he would pick her up, but she texted me asking, please, mom, can you pick me up and bring me? My daughter also has been getting the school bus in the morning instead of catching a ride with my husband and son, which she typically does. Now my husband's been complaining to me about our daughter, saying he's done everything to make it up to her and that I need to step in.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I told him she would be hurt by excluding her from the trip, and it's entirely his fault that she's icing him out. He says we should work together and fix this because we're a team, but he's the one who caused this hurt, so it shouldn't be on me to fix it. starting to affect our relationship now too. And now she wants to know if she is the a-hole.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now the answer, as I'll explain, is definitely 100% yes. But most of the feedback is telling her what she wants to hear, which is that she's right. And that is, after all, the only reason why people bring their personal problems to the internet. They don't want to know if they're right or wrong. They want to be told they're right so that they can convince themselves that they're right.
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The only reason they need to convince themselves is that they recognize deep down that they're wrong. But that's not what the feminists on X are saying. The Reddit post was shared to the platform by a somewhat large feminist account with the caption, quote, there's no backtracking now. He's already shown his daughter what he thinks of her.
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And a whole bunch of comments, almost all of them from women, are piling on saying the dad is sexist and selfish and cruel and has irreparably broken his relationship with his daughter and so on. This is all totally wrong. And although this is just a dumb post on Reddit, the post, along with the reaction to it, reveals in microcosm why so many marriages fail in our culture.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The husband, though I'm sure he has made his share of mistakes in his life and in their marriage, does not appear to have done anything wrong in this situation. Indeed, the wife is presenting a version of events that is as favorable as possible to herself, and yet she is still clearly in the wrong.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The Defenders of Diversity initiatives also downplayed the crash of Southwest Airlines Flight 345, which suffered a landing gear collapse while landing at LaGuardia in 2013. The whole plane was totaled. It was a $15 million loss. Several people were seriously injured. This is a crash you probably haven't heard much about, even though, given recent events, it's once again very relevant.
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which tells me that if we got the husband side of the story, we discover that she's even more wrong than she appears. So the full severity and depth of her wrongness, we don't really know and we'll probably never know, but we do know that she's wrong for at least two reasons. And these are things that lots of married couples get wrong these days, which is why it's worth talking about.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And the first is this. That she's not on her husband's side. She's not presenting a united front to her children. She's doing the opposite. I mean, it's pretty clear that the daughter's anger at her dad is being fueled by her mom. It's normal for an 11-year-old girl to be disappointed that she can't go on a trip.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's not normal for this disappointment to turn into a festering resentment that lasts for days or weeks. That is not normal. Kids at that age get overstuffed pretty quickly. And if they aren't getting over it, it's because somebody, the mom in this case, doesn't want them to. She's very clearly using her child as a cudgel to punish her husband.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This is one of the hallmarks of an unhealthy marriage. In a healthy marriage, husband and wife will disagree about plenty of things. But the children shouldn't know that they disagree. And they certainly shouldn't be in the middle of it. A wife should never want her husband to look bad in front of the kids and vice versa for the husband.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It is absolutely her job as the wife to defend her husband to the daughter and to do her best to help heal that relationship. That is absolutely your job as the wife. You should want everyone to have a high opinion of your spouse, especially your kids. You should be defending them always and on their side always, even when you actually aren't on their side. So here's how this should work, right?
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If the wife thinks that the husband should take the daughter on the trip, she should make her case to the husband. But then when the daughter comes and complains to her about it, she should say, well, listen, honey, your father wants to do a boy's trip. I know you're disappointed, but we're not going to let you ruin their time or make this about you.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I'll take you to do something fun while they're on their trip. So she may disagree in private, but to her daughter, she should be on her husband's side. She should have his back, be a team player. That's how it should work. If you want your marriage to last anyway, that's how it should work.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And second, it is important for fathers to have time with just their sons without any girls around, okay? And there are some women that get offended by this, but it's like you can be offended. But yes, it is important for men and for boys to have time without any girls around. That's actually important.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The husband tried to explain this to the wife, but it apparently offended her feminist sensibilities. And she said that, well, I was offended by that comment. So she just refused to listen. Now, as a woman, she may not fully understand why guys need guy time. She doesn't need to understand it. She's making this about herself. She's saying, well, I was offended that you said that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It doesn't matter if you're offended. This is not about you, okay? This is your husband explaining to you something that men need and that boys need. And so your responsibility is just to listen because you don't understand. You're not a guy. And since you're not a guy and you don't understand it, you should be humble and just take your husband's word for it.
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He's more of an authority on what boys need than you are. Now instead, she became indignant and declared that because she doesn't personally see why male bonding is so important, they shouldn't get any male bonding time. This is the exact mentality, which is why it annoys me so much, is the exact mentality
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that has destroyed most opportunities for male bonding in our culture and eradicated nearly every all-male space. Because women like this wife show up and declare, well, I don't see why this should only be a place for men, so therefore it will not be a place for men. Actually, this thing that used to be for men and about men should be about me. That's what I've decided.
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Now, I have the good fortune to not be married to a woman like that. So my wife never objects when I take my sons on our annual boys trip, which is a tradition that we've had going for a few years now. And in fact, she encourages it. And because my wife is understanding, so are my daughters. I have an 11-year-old daughter. This is a very similar family.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, just in the fact I have an 11-year-old daughter. I have more kids than that. So I have an 11-year-old daughter, too. And I've never had her, she's not in a snit for days because we're going on a trip. I take my boys somewhere for a few days and we fish and we cook meat over a fire and we stay up late watching Westerns. And then my wife will take the girls to do something girly.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And there's no family crisis about it. Everyone just has a good time and it's fine. It is crucial for boys to have time with just their dads. It is a critical part of a boy's formation. And you might be in a situation financially where you can't afford to go on a whole trip and all that. And if you can't, that's fine. But you still, as a father, need to find time with just your sons.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It is a critical part, again, of a boy's formation. It's how a boy will grow in his masculinity. The other thing is that guys also relate to each other differently when there are no girls around. right? The energy is different. The conversation is different. Our annual boys trip usually lasts just like three or four days.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I find that by the second day, my boys will start to open up and they'll talk about things that they wouldn't normally talk about. And it doesn't have to be anything serious. For example, during the last two trips, we've discussed at some length what the boys want to be when they grow up. And those are conversations that we can obviously have at the house, and we have had them many times.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But on the boys trip, When it's just the guys, right, they tend to talk much longer and they go into more detail. They reveal kind of what their real dreams and aspirations are. And they love their sisters. But when their sisters are around, they feel much more kind of embarrassed displaying that kind of vulnerability. Again, if you are a woman, you may not understand this.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Women like my wife do understand it. So hopefully, even as a woman, you would understand this concept that guys need guide time and all that kind of stuff. But maybe you don't. Maybe you don't. There are obviously women who don't understand it. That's fine. You're not a man.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So all you can do then is listen to men when they tell you what men need and want, and especially what boys need so they can grow into strong masculine men. This is another big problem in our culture. This is one of the reasons why so many boys are lost is that women, you have women like this wife
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so many feminists who think they know everything and they think they know, they think they're the authorities on how to raise boys and what boys need. And they refuse to just listen even one time to men when men tell them, no, this is what I was a boy growing up. I know what a boy needs. So you should defer to men on this topic. For feminists, I know how offensive and outrageous that is.
The Matt Walsh Show
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To ever be told that, you know what? This is actually a topic where you don't know as much as men do. So maybe you should just listen to them. I know they never want to hear that. It's very offensive. Well, how could you ever say that there are things I don't... Yeah, well, you know what? You're only proving the point, right? This is exactly why. When women react this way, it's like...
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And men see this, they're like, well, yeah, this is exactly why we need the guy's time. It's for this reason. And by the way, men will defer to women about womanly things, which also, by the way, is why nobody ever objects to girls having a girls night or a girls trip. It would not be controversial for a mom to take her daughter out to the salon and exclude her sons from the outing.
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which is something that my wife does with the girls sometimes. Even when we're on the boys trip, she will, but sometimes she'll, they went out recently, they went to tea time somewhere. They went out for tea. And it's like, it didn't even need to be a whole family discussion where we prepared the boys for it and all this kind of stuff. It's just like, yeah, it's a girl thing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They're going out to do a girl thing. And that's it. And it's fine. It's fine. It's good. I want the girls to have that time with their mom. And women are allowed to have that kind of time. They're allowed to have their outings, their excursions, their spaces. Now, sure, men in our society now might try to intrude in women's spaces by pretending to be women, and that's bad.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Fortunately, we're having a lot of success pushing back against that kind of insanity. Aside from the trans stuff, everybody acknowledges the need for female spaces. It only becomes controversial when men want the same, which is why, as someone pointed out on X, The Boy Scouts no longer exist. It's now Scouting America. The Girl Scouts do still exist.
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And that tells you everything you need to know about the gender dynamics in our culture. The girls can have their time and their stuff and their events and all that. The boys can't. And that's obviously not fair. And more importantly, it's harmful to boys. They need their time and they need their space too. And if you are the mother of sons, you need to acknowledge that and respect it.
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And if you don't, then you are today, I'm afraid to say, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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Now, an investigation revealed that the captain of this flight was a woman who had multiple complaints filed against her by her co-pilots. And in this instance, she allowed the plane to descend rapidly towards the ground without properly configuring the flaps for landing. And then when she knew the plane was going too fast, she did not abort the landing.
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Instead, she ordered the first officer to, quote, get down. And then she aggressively took control of the plane herself and flew it nose first into the runway. So how was a pilot this incompetent allowed to serve as a captain ferrying passengers around on a jetliner?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, a few weeks ago, I received a tip from a pilot at Southwest who told me that this particular captain was notorious for inappropriate and dangerous behavior in the cockpit. A lot of pilots didn't want to fly with her. And the captain, for her part, thought the complaints were really about her gender or her sexuality instead of her competence. And apparently Southwest agreed.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This was not a widely reported episode for the simple reason that it's extremely inconvenient to the proponents of so-called diversity in aviation. We are required to believe that diversity improves the functioning of every organization, whether it's Harvard University or Southwest Airlines or anything else. So most media outlets buried the story.
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And they kept the identity of the woman pilot confidential even after Southwest finally terminated her employment following the crash. Very few news reports mentioned her gender at all or any other identifying information about her. They did the same thing with Conrad Aska and many other pilots. They just didn't talk about them. And for a while, this strategy worked.
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Diversity initiatives continued for many years without any interruption across all major airlines. But the problem, of course, is that you can't downplay airline crashes forever. Eventually the crashes become more noticeable. Eventually people start dying and not just in cargo planes. And at that point, which is the point we've now reached, the toll of diversity becomes harder and harder to deny.
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And then people will do the rational thing. They'll start looking more closely at what exactly is going on in the aviation industry. And in particular, they'll start looking at who exactly is flying the aircraft that keep crashing.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, first, of course, there was the disastrous midair collision that was apparently caused, at least in part, by a female Blackhawk pilot near Washington's Reagan Airport. The pilot was clearly flying too high for reasons that are not clear. She also failed to see a jet that was directly in her path.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And based on the most recent information we have from the NTSB, it's clear that about three minutes before the collision, the Blackhawk pilot was warned by her instructor that she was flying 100 feet too high for the area that they were flying in. She was also warned about the passenger jet by air traffic control, which also provided the passenger jet's location well over a minute before impact.
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But she never took any evasive action whatsoever. And the pilots of the American Airlines plane put their plane into a maximum nose-up climb just one second before impact. So clearly, they eventually saw something, but it was too late. And the woman flying the Blackhawk apparently never did see anything somehow. Then earlier this week, we all witnessed the Endeavour Air crash at Toronto's airport.
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The plane clearly came in too quickly, just like the Southwest Airlines jet that I mentioned earlier. And then the landing gear collapsed and the plane flipped over. And based on air traffic control audio, it appears that one pilot, the one who was presumably handling the radios instead of flying the plane, was a male.
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But we still don't have the identity of the pilot who was actually flying the plane. We have not been officially told that information, interestingly enough. Reports from various sources online citing tips from airline pilots and firefighters at Toronto's airport suggest that the pilot who was flying the plane was a woman.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, this has not been officially confirmed, but this is what various reports are saying. We don't know for sure because no one in the government or at Delta Airlines will tell us. Now, if it's true that it was a woman flying the plane, That wouldn't exactly be a surprise. Endeavor Air and Delta have gone out of their way in recent years to advertise how many female pilots they have.
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They've also done a full court press to attract more female applicants. In fact, as you may have seen, Endeavor's official TikTok and X accounts are obsessed with the idea of so-called unmanned flights, which means in their case, you know, that no men are in the crew. So they're not just pro-women, they are actively anti-man. Imagine an airline advertising that it's an unwomanned flight.
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Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Imagine them advertising that, hey, this is a flight where there are no women involved. They would never do that. But here they're bragging about the fact that there are no men in the crew, as if that's a good thing. And if I'm being honest, whoever's putting together Endeavor's social media posts seems to have a sense of humor about the situation.
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Ep. 1540 - Girlbossing the Airline Industry… Straight Into the Ground
Here, for example, is one recent tweet from Endeavor. And as you can see, it reads, buckle up, ladies and gentlemen, your flight is unmanned today. And then there's the picture of the all-female flight crew. And it also says, hashtag girl power. Now, on the surface, I guess this is supposed to be an empowering girl boss message.
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But if that's the case, then why does it begin with the warning, buckle up? It's like going to a restaurant where they tell you, enjoy your food presented by an all-female kitchen. Hope you brought a bucket. It's almost like whoever's writing this post knows something we don't. And then there's this now infamous TikTok footage from Endeavor Air featuring a few more girl bosses.
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Some of these clips are so on the nose that it seems like they were prepared by a male intern somewhere who's tired of all the DEI initiatives, and he was trying to find some desperate way to communicate the message without losing his internship in the process. So I don't know how this came about, but let's go back and watch these again.
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You got into Harvard Law?
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Let's do it. This is all stuff that you want to see from your pilots before they take off. That's what you want. You want sassy. You want sassiness from your pilots, don't you? That's what we're looking for. When I get on a plane, the main thing I'm looking for, I'm looking for the sassiness. The sassier, the better.
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Now, you may have caught the lyrics in one of the songs featured in those social media videos. The lyrics were, live fast, die young, bad girls do it well. That's what you hear after you read the caption, leave the flying to the men? I don't think so. Again, this is the official messaging of an airline that's supposedly committed to safety and competence.
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They want you to know that you'll have an all-female flight crew that loves to, quote, live fast and die young. That's about the worst possible mantra for an airline pilot. I can't think of anything. I can't think of any mantra that I'd less like to hear from an airline pilot than live fast, die young.
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Now, when I looked at the rest of Endeavor's TikTok account, I found that these clips are not rare exceptions to the norm. Quite the opposite. Pretty much every single post involves women dancing or miming the words to a song of some kind.
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It's like a sorority's TikTok channel instead of the official social media account of a company that's responsible for flying thousands of passengers across the sky at high speeds in aluminum tubes every single day. So here's just a small selection of what I'm talking about.
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Dear God, can you imagine being on the plane before takeoff and looking out the window and seeing your flight crew running down the tarmac like Disney princesses? Can you just imagine witnessing that? I mean... It's like they're running an adult daycare. You know, they're not even pretending to convey the idea that they're serious people who should be entrusted with your life.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Derek Chauvin's legal team is pushing for a new trial. I'll explain why. If he gets one, he'll likely be acquitted. Pornhub prepares to pull out of Florida after their age verification law goes into effect. The porn industry would rather boycott a whole state than simply verify the ages of its users. What does that tell you?
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So again, he's showing the chart with false information, presenting the numbers as post-mortem. And then at the end of that clip, the prosecutor claims that Floyd has built up a tolerance to fentanyl, implying that because he had overdosed before, his body could handle a high concentration of the drug. But that was never proven at trial either.
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We know that George Floyd had used fentanyl several times before, even overdosed just months before his death, resulting in his hospitalization. But that's very different from saying that Floyd was somehow... immune to the fatal effects of a fentanyl overdose, which was never demonstrated at trial because it's impossible, it's absurd.
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The other major problem here is that the prosecution's witness testified that Floyd died on the street, which seems incompatible with the idea that pre-death blood samples were later collected in the hospital. Watch.
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Minutes later, still pinned to the ground by Chauvin.
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So this whole trial was full of incidents like this. There was the fact that Floyd's suspected drug dealer wasn't prosecuted, which allowed him to take the fifth and avoid testifying about the drugs in Floyd's possession. There was the prosecuting attorney who was allegedly threatened with professional consequences for refusing to add charges against Chauvin.
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There was testimony from Andrew Baker who admitted under cross-examination that Chauvin's knee did not cut off Floyd's airway. There was the statement from the judge in the case saying every case is about racial justice, you may remember.
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There was the fact that the prosecution tried to hide the tape of George Floyd saying, I can't breathe when he was still in the squad car and Chauvin's knee was nowhere near his neck. In 2024, there would be a chance that a jury would see through all of this corruption and vote to acquit Derek Chauvin. But in 2021, Chauvin was never going to receive a fair trial.
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The threat of violence by BLM was too real. Propaganda from corporate media was still believable to millions of Americans, in part because all social media was censored. And Democrats had far too much political power. So none of that is true anymore. That's why Daniel Penny was just acquitted.
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And if you reverse it, and if Daniel Penny had his trial back in 2020 or 2021, the result probably would have been very different. It's also why if Derek Chauvin is granted the new trial that he clearly deserves, I think he will be acquitted too. Now let's get to our five headlines. You're busy enough this season without having to get up on a ladder to clean out your gutters.
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As that trial demonstrated, they can't even sell a BLM narrative to a jury full of liberal women and a guy wearing a COVID mask, by the way. People are more skeptical of racist area now across party lines. They understand when they're being manipulated. They care more about facts instead of whatever the corporate press is saying.
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It's always fun doing a talk show when you can't talk. We'll start with this. Gizmodo has this story. At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1st. The porn giant will no longer do business in the Sunshine State.
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And that's all very bad news for Democrat prosecutors who are looking to collect a scalp. But This development is obviously small comfort to the many victims of these prosecutors who are still languishing away in prison after being convicted in show trials to appease the mob. And of course, maybe the single most prominent of those victims is Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was a
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The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican-led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business. Users in Florida visiting Pornhub have been treated to a fun pop-up in recent days, saying, you will lose access to Pornhub in 14 days. It reads the window that dominates the screen on the site when it's accessed from an IP address in Florida.
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Did you know that your government wants you to give your driver's license before you can access Pornhub? As crazy as it sounds, it's true. You'll be required to prove you're 18 years or older, such as by uploading your government ID for every adult content website you'd like to access. That's what the little warning thing says on the PornEd site.
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As it repeatedly promised, the GOP is fighting pornography. In many states, it's winning. In Oklahoma, Kentucky, Texas, Montana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Utah, Mississippi, Virginia, Louisiana, a citizen who wants to access an adult website has to prove they're 18 years old by showing a government ID. Florida's law is HB3. The law is broad.
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It requires a website that provides material that is harmful to minors to provide a means of anonymous age verification to its minors. The Free Speech Coalition, a trade group that represents pornography websites, has been fighting these laws in court. Quote, these laws create a substantial burden on adults who want to access legal sites without fear of surveillance.
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Despite the claims of the proponents, HB3 is not the same as showing an ID at a liquor store. It is invasive and carries significant risk to privacy. The parent company of Pornhub has said that, quoting now, the best solution to make the internet safer, preserve user privacy, and prevent children from accessing adult content is performing age verification at the source on the device.
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So, and they also, ILO is the name of the parent company, I guess, A-Y-L-O. And they say that there's, you know, safety concerns and privacy concerns with requiring users to give an ID, to show an ID. So a few things. First of all, congratulations to Florida. This just makes Florida an even better place to live, I imagine.
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And second, I love this claim that a law requiring users to provide identification is somehow a substantial burden. That's what they're saying. That's what the Free Speech Coalition so-called is saying. It's a substantial burden to have to provide an ID.
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Well, let me just say, if you live such a life that having to provide your driver's license to a porn site is a substantial burden, if you are substantially burdened by that, then it tells me something about you. That's a reflection of you, not the law. And this is... One of the two scenarios where the left tells us that having to show an ID is some great, terrible, unreasonable burden.
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It's like porn, and then of course the other one is voting. Those are the two. You have to show ID to do everything else in life, in adult life anyway, right? You have to basically carry your ID around with you everywhere. You have to be ready and able to show it every single time you sit in the driver's seat of a car. Everything requires ID.
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As you know, a police officer in Minneapolis who went to work in May of 2020 with the goal of protecting his community from violent felons, people like George Floyd. He's been sentenced to more than two decades in prison because Floyd, who had a recent history of overdoses, died in his custody while high on fatal levels of fentanyl. Now, the issue of causation was the single most important issue
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But if you have to show it to vote or to watch porn, suddenly it's oppressive. It's not oppressive in any of those other scenarios, right? But in those two specifically, it is. It's an enormous burden all of a sudden. Well, I just don't take those crocodile tears very seriously. Because if you would rather expose children to pornography...
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than be slightly inconvenienced while accessing pornography, then I just really don't care about your opinion that much. You're not a serious person, or a good person, or even a vaguely decent person. Because when it comes to any law, there are always going to be trade-offs. There will always be competing interests when it comes to any law, right?
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And in this case, you have, on one hand, the need to protect children from extremely harmful content that will damage them emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, emotionally. On the other hand, you have the desire of porn users to access porn quickly without any inconveniences. So those are the two competing interests in this case. Those are the two forces that are pulling against each other.
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And it's really not much of a competition, I have to say. It's a trade-off that I'm perfectly willing to make. Any decent person would be. And you notice the other thing about this that's pretty wild, which is that Pornhub says that it puts users at risk, it puts their privacy at risk if they have to give their ID to access the site. So this is the argument that Pornhub is making.
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They're saying it's not just a matter of inconvenience, it's also a risk because you're giving your ID. Well, wait a minute, Pornhub. Why would that put anyone at risk? They're giving their IDs to you, aren't they? Isn't that what's happening? They're giving their IDs to you as the website? Are you saying that you're not capable of protecting the privacy of your own users?
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You're a multi-billion dollar company, and yet you can't figure out how to keep that information private. It's only a risk. It's only an invasion of privacy if you know, if you somehow cannot keep your users' information private.
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So if you're admitting that, if you would rather shut down access entirely in a state instead of simply ensuring that you protect the privacy of your users and handle their private information with care and discretion, well then again, that also tells me something about this company. So don't get me wrong. I'm perfectly happy for Pornhub to shut down entirely in a state or in every state.
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But this is a pretty revealing statement. It's really it's like a confession because their argument is that you can't trust them with your ID. You know, that's the argument. Again, imagine that anyone else, any other, let's say, adult-oriented business used an argument like this.
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of the trial. That is the question of whether Chauvin actually killed Floyd. If Chauvin's actions weren't a substantial factor, quote unquote, in Floyd's death, then under Minnesota law, he's innocent. And that pretty much sums up the entire case. That's the whole thing. But after the trial was over, the jury came out and publicly admitted that they didn't really care about this issue at all.
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Imagine that the alcohol industry and liquor stores started arguing that, well, you shouldn't have to show an ID to... Imagine a liquor store saying that. No, you shouldn't have to show me your ID because then you're putting your privacy at risk. I was like, well, that's the liquor store saying that that's them confessing to something. Why should that put privacy at risk?
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Unless you are saying that you are going to be careless with that information or use it in some nefarious way. And the thing is, I agree, actually. I certainly wouldn't trust Pornhub with my ID. I wouldn't trust them. So they're basically saying you can't trust them. And this is one area where I agree with them. I would not want Pornhub to have my ID.
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But that's an argument for just not patronizing Pornhub at all. It's not an argument for not having systems in place to protect kids. And by the way, one other thing. is I actually agree with them on another point, sort of, partially, in that they say that there should be age verification on the device. There should be age verification on the phones, on the computers, and so on.
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Now, they're only saying that. They don't actually want age verification on anything, let's be clear. They don't want age verification on the phones. They don't want it on anything because they want kids to access this stuff. They want everyone to access it because it's more money for them. More clicks, more money. And so they don't care. They don't care if it's adults, kids. They don't care.
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But they're just deflecting. They're punting the ball. And they're saying, no, don't make us do it. Make the cell phone companies and all that do it. But yeah, there should be age verification on the device too. There should be protections put on devices, on computers. Let's do all of that. Okay, that's the answer.
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That every porn site should be required to verify ages and every cell phone company should be required to put protections in place on the device. to protect children from this stuff. I mean, this should be, it's not an either or proposition. It's all of that should be happening. We should, as a society, be treating this as a, this is a crisis level event. That's how we should be treating it.
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When you've got millions of children who are accessing the kind of content that even Even up to 20 years ago, the vast majority of humans, including adults, would never see or have access to. Of course, the people that want to be dismissive of the harmful effects of pornography will always say, oh, well, there was a Playboy magazine existed for decades before internet porn.
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Causation just didn't really matter to them. They gave an interview with CNN where they explained that, in their view, Chauvin's actions didn't matter at all. Instead, they determined that Chauvin was guilty because of what he didn't do. They didn't convict him for murdering Floyd. They didn't convict him because his actions caused Floyd's death.
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There have been strip clubs and all the rest of it. First of all, I think it should be needless to say something like Playboy magazine is is tame in comparison to stuff that's all over the internet. That's the first thing. But the second thing is the accessibility of this stuff. I mean, now it's everywhere. It's on every device. Anyone can access it. And it wasn't like that in the past.
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I mean, they may have had strip clubs in the past, but the vast majority of people weren't going to a strip club. And kids were not going to strip clubs. And the vast majority of people didn't have Playboy magazine. And kids, the vast majority of them, did not have access to Playboy magazine. Now everyone has access to it. And so that's the crisis.
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Having a whole generation, multiple generations of kids now who... are growing up, going through their formative years while on a steady diet of the most perverse filth imaginable and not imaginable, we can't even begin to understand the long-term effects of that. But we do know it's going to be really bad. It already is really bad.
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And so we need to be pulling every lever to stop this and to protect these kids. And that should be the number one priority. Yesterday, we told you about San Francisco's new fat acceptance czar. I think that was her official title.
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This is a woman that has been hired by the city to consult with them on how to better promote obesity and heart disease, promote those things, not fight them or combat them or treat them, but promote them. They want to promote it. They want to celebrate it. And so over the last day or two, more videos of this woman, Virgie Tover is her name, have surfaced.
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Videos of this now tax-funded fat consultant. And I just want to play a couple of these for you. And we'll start with this. This is our friend Virgie. tax-funded fat consultant in San Francisco now, before she got the gig, I believe, declaring that, quote, nobody has to be healthy, which is an interesting statement. Let's listen.
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Instead, they convicted him for failing to care for George Floyd in some kind of unspecified way. Watch.
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So she says that nobody has to be healthy. There's no governing body forcing you to be healthy. Well, first of all, RFK Jr. might have something to say about that very soon. But that aside, yes, you are correct that you don't have to be healthy. You have the right to be unhealthy, I suppose, if you want to put it that way.
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You have the right legally to become fat and diseased and die before you turn 40. You don't have the moral right, right? Because a moral right, you know, because you in fact have a moral obligation to... be healthy and to take care of your body, take care of your health. That's a moral obligation that you have.
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So you actually don't have the moral right to abuse yourself to the extent that you become morbidly obese. But you do have the legal right. And our legal rights and our moral, you know, you have legal rights and moral obligations and sometimes those things line up and sometimes they don't. But Sure, legally, like no one can legally require you to not be fat. And I think that even with RFK Jr.
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coming in, it would be very hard to come up with a law. Even I, even in a scenario where I ascend to my throne and become a dictator of the I'm not even sure that I would outlaw obesity. I would outlaw a lot of things, don't get me wrong, but I don't know that I would outlaw obesity just because the enforcement mechanism just seems like a pain and it's not worth my time.
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So yeah, you have the legal right to be fat and to die. But here we see the very common confusion, common in modern culture, this common confusion between what we have the right to do and what is right to do. And for a lot of people, especially people on the left, especially somebody like this, they just very much struggle. They conflate those things.
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They don't understand that it's like when, and this is why they'll often respond, when you make a moral statement And you say, you should be healthy. You should take care of your health. You should take care of your body. And when you say that, they'll respond by saying, well, I don't have to. I don't have to do that. You can't tell me what to do.
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It's like, well, you don't have to, but you should. We're talking about what you should do, what is right to do, not what you have the right to do. And there's the conflation between those things. The number of people who struggle to understand that basic distinction is pretty mind boggling.
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Here's another video from this woman and here she is explaining, we're not gonna play the whole thing because it goes on at length, but it is all about cake and why it's oppressive to make people feel bad about the amount of cake that they eat. Listen.
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Cake-related fatphobic incident is what she just said, and not as a joke. That was not meant to be a joke. I'm not sure I've ever seen a video that better illustrates one, well, really multiple important points about these woke activists. And Maybe first and foremost, this is why wokeness is dying. This right here.
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I mean, not this specific video about cake, but this kind of thing, this utterly inane bull. It's so ridiculous. It's so just vapid and preposterous that it's not sustainable. I mean, it collapses out of exhaustion. A lot of the people in that video probably collapsed out of exhaustion after walking up the steps. And wokeness is kind of like that. It is also collapsing out of exhaustion.
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And I was talking about this recently with, I think it was with Adam Carolla on his show, that wokeness reached a point, it crossed a threshold, and beyond that threshold Once it crossed it, you could debate exactly when that moment was, but once it was crossed, its end, its demise became inevitable because the suspension of disbelief was just too much.
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And what I mean is that wokeness has always relied not on convincing people of its claims, because almost nobody was convinced about any of this stuff. Whether it's the racial stuff, the fat phobia, gender ideology, of course, big one. Very few people were ever convinced of the claims of left-wing activists.
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So people weren't convinced, they weren't persuaded, but rather the left was cajoling people into pretending that they were convinced. Wokeness thrived even though 99% of the country never believed it. Most of them pretended to.
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But eventually the burden of pretending became too great because the things that they were being forced to pretend, the beliefs that they were being told they have to falsely adopt, were just too outlandish. It was too out there. It was too far-fetched. It was too embarrassing and too outrageous and too insane.
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You know, it was one thing when the left, we used to call it just political correctness before it became wokeness. It was just, you know, and political correctness. We lived in a politically correct culture for decades. And that was the kind of thing that most people would just go along with, even if they thought it was a little bit silly. But they kept pushing and they kept pushing.
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And then it became something that it's just too... Even someone who desires to be sort of polite and not to rock the boat and someone who's more kind of wired to be non-confrontational, which is most people. Those are the people who were cajoled into going along with wokeness. But it only works up to a point.
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And you can get to a point where the average person, what you're trying to force them to pretend they believe or to nod along with and smile and nod and sort of accept, it's just too much. It's too outrageous. And this is a good example of that. This kind of thing where it's fatphobic. First of all, the idea of fatphobia, just the term itself is too much for most people. It's ridiculous.
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And everything else there too. And the other thing you see in that video is that for most woke activists, Their whole worldview is really structured around their own personal pet peeves and hangups and anxieties. So in this case, you've got a bunch of women who feel embarrassed when another woman eats less cake than they do. And so that's what this is really all about.
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That when they're at a work function and someone brings cake to the break room or they're at a party, And when they see a woman who's in good shape, say, oh, I'll take a smaller piece. These other women who are fat feel, that makes them feel embarrassed. And because they know they're about to chow down on the whole dance.
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In fact, they wanted, they were going to ask for a bigger piece than what they were being served. And now they've constructed a whole philosophy, really, around condemning that skinny woman who wanted less cake. It's like their whole worldview, their whole personal philosophy is really just structured around that woman and condemning her and all of that. That's basically what wokeness is.
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A few years ago, a pastor in Colorado named Will Duffy came up with a project called the Final Experiment, which is a pretty bald name for an experiment, especially since the Final Experiment wasn't trying to break any new ground in science or anything like that. Instead, the idea of the Final Experiment was to debunk once and for all the idea that the Earth is flat.
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Now, you think that if there was a final experiment that proved that fact, it already happened like 500 years ago, but some people in the modern world are somehow still not convinced, which brought us to this experiment.
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Will Duffy planned to talk to a bunch of flat earthers, earn their trust, and ultimately fly them out 9,000 miles to Antarctica on a $40,000 trip that would cure them of their delusions. This might seem like a complete waste of time, sort of like trying to convince the local vagrant that the voices in his head aren't real.
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But as it turns out, there's still an active community of flat earthers on the internet. And many of them are surprisingly not crazy. I mean, the flat earth stuff is crazy. But aside from that, aside from believing the earth is flat, they can often be relatively reasonable people.
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Now, sure, they'll look at satellite photos of the Earth and constellations and boats that circumnavigate the globe, and they'll come up with bizarre, incoherent explanations for all of it. But otherwise, aside from that, they often seem like relatively high-functioning people. So...
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For several reasons, Duffy has been having conversations with flat earthers to, for several years rather, having these conversations to figure out why they don't believe the official consensus. He's been posting a lot of these conversations online. This is a clip from one of those recent conversations. Watch.
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Now, if you watch enough of these interviews, you'll realize that this is the common thread that unites a lot of flat earthers. They become skeptical of everything they're told by experts and the government, which at face value, that part of it is an understandable perspective.
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But in their case, that skepticism metastasizes until they're questioning some of the most basic and obvious and observable facts of reality. Their imagination kind of runs wild and They come up with new arguments that supposedly disprove the idea that the earth is a sphere. Almost as if they're not really convinced of what they're saying, but they want to hear someone prove them wrong.
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And in this particular conversation, the flat earther, his name is Steve, goes on for about an hour with various arguments that in his mind prove the earth is flat. Now, of course, because flat eartherism is incoherent, the arguments he presents are also incoherent. At one point, he displayed ring doorbell footage that's supposedly from the same location at the same time of day.
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And in the photos, there's significantly different lighting. And apparently this ring doorbell footage is proof that we're not revolving around the sun in any kind of predictable orbit. Then he pulls up random stock images from a photography website to make a similar point, but appears to confuse the sun with the moon, which is kind of an important distinction. So it's all very hard to follow.
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And you also notice how this is the one thing about flat earthers and anyone who ascribes to... subscribes to the delusional conspiracy theories. And not everything that's called a conspiracy theory is delusional. Flat eartherism is delusional. And there is that category of conspiracy theorists who are actually delusional.
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And you notice this about this category, that they tend to be a bit selective in their skepticism. So in this case, they'll dismiss any video or photograph taken from a satellite or a spacecraft or the space station. Because you can look at any of those images and you can see, well, clearly it's a globe. But they'll dismiss that and they'll say, well, you can't trust that.
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It's an incredible piece of footage. First of all, there's no reason for a jury to be looking for a lightbulb moment which allows them to rationalize a guilty verdict unless they were looking for some pretext to convict Chauvin, which they obviously were. The jury shouldn't be trying to find a way to get a conviction.
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But then they'll build a whole case around footage from a ring doorbell camera. So trust no one except... Ring doorbell cameras. Photos from the space station are not reliable. Images from a ring doorbell camera are. How do you make sense of that? Well, that's just the way they look at it.
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But eventually, Steve finds his footing, and he delivers probably his best argument in favor of the idea that the Earth is flat. And while this argument still makes no sense whatsoever, and in fact is an affront to common sense and the concept of science and human reason itself, it's at least somewhat entertaining. So we'll play part of it. Watch.
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Now, one thing that Steve doesn't clarify in his explanation is that time zones don't change when you go from north to south. They change when you go west to east or vice versa. And that's a key point because it helps demonstrate that the time zones or rather the different lighting conditions in different time zones actually provide evidence that the Earth is spherical.
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I mean, if you needed evidence, additional evidence, there you go. It doesn't suggest it's flat. It actually suggests the opposite. It's sunny in Manhattan when it's dark in Japan because the sun is on one side of the sphere and not the other. Will Duffy understood that the best way to convince flat earthers that they're wrong is not really to engage them in any kind of rational discourse.
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Instead, you have to use a physical demonstration that these people can see with their own eyes. You have to demonstrate to them in person that they're very confused about time zones and the positioning of the sun and so on. You have to prove to them that their understanding of all these concepts is fatally flawed. So to that end,
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They should be looking at whether the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. And if they find themselves doubting the prosecution proved its case, They don't get to rewrite the law to help the prosecution out. But in this case, it's exactly what the jury did. They ultimately decided to hold Chauvin accountable for things he didn't do.
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Duffy offered some prominent Flat Earthers the opportunity to go to Antarctica to witness the 24-hour sun or the midnight sun. As Upworthy reported yesterday, quote, in a Flat Earth model, Antarctica is usually depicted as an ice wall that encircles the rest of the planet. Sometimes it's shown as its own distinct continent.
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However, by visiting Antarctica in the summer, the team would be able to see Antarctica's famous 24-hour sun or midnight sun up close and personal. Flat earthers crucially do not typically believe that a 24-hour sun is possible, In their models, the sun would rise and set in Antarctica the same way it does everywhere else.
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The existence of midnight sun would, if not outright prove, at least heavily suggest, the Earth is a tilted sphere. The other benefit of going to Antarctica is that it would hopefully demonstrate that the Earth is not, in fact, entirely surrounded by an ice wall which separates the Earth from the rest of the universe. This was the proposal that Duffy came up with.
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He covered the expenses of these flat earthers to go and see the 24-hour sun in Antarctica. And to their credit, the flat earthers took Will Duffy up on his offer. The whole trip was streamed online via Starlink. And in the end, as expected, the sun was up for 24 hours, providing fairly convincing evidence that the earth is not flat.
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Now, I don't see why it would necessarily be any more convincing than the 9 million other pieces of incontrovertible evidence, but maybe exhibit 9 million in one would somehow break through for people who ignored the first 9 million. What wasn't expected, at least not by everyone, is how the Flat Earthers would respond. And in many cases, they didn't storm off in anger or disbelief.
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Instead, for the most part, they processed what they'd seen. relatively reasonable about it. Here's one of those flat earthers, a man named Jaron Campanella on the trip to Antarctica. This is a video that's gone viral the last couple of days. And this guy is apparently pretty big in the flat earth community, I guess. But here he is after having his whole worldview crumbled. Here he is.
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He didn't respond compassionately enough to George Floyd's overdose or live up to the police department's motto, I guess, even though none of those things, even if they were true, would make Chauvin a murderer.
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So at the end, he leaves open the possibility that maybe the flat earth theory can somehow be validated. But for the most part, he's polite and rational as he processes the whole thing. He's been confronted with evidence that everything he's been saying is wrong. He built his whole worldview, I mean, his literal worldview around a falsehood and handles it about as well as you could hope.
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At the same time, not everyone on the trip had the same reaction. For example, one flat earther named Austin Witsit was a little hesitant to draw any conclusion from the trip. According to The Sun, the publication of The Sun, he said, quote, I don't think it falsifies flat earth. I don't think it proves a globe. I think it's a singular data point.
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He added, quote, I've seen a physical demonstration that could show this working, but I do think that some of the data we're going to have from this trip will help to clarify if that is what's actually happening. It's a bit like jumping off of a building and then saying you still need more data to prove that gravity exists. Obviously, this person is never going to be convinced of anything.
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The new rule, according to this jury, is that police officers have an obligation to perform CPR on violent suspects the moment they say they can't breathe, even though Floyd was claiming that he couldn't breathe just a few minutes earlier when he was resisting arrest and struggling with the officers in the back of a patrol car.
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And somehow to this day, there are a decent number of people like him out there. And on one level, You know, that's pretty surprising. It's kind of mind boggling that flat earthers exist in a world with satellites and air travel. I mean, it's impressive that people could be so wrong about something that's so readily observable to everybody on the planet.
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This is one of the ironies, right, of the information age, that there are almost certainly more flat earthers in the world today than there were 100 years ago, even though we have immediate access to more information than a person 100 years ago would have encountered in a lifetime, in 100 lifetimes.
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At the same time, as Flat Earther Steve said earlier, there's a possible explanation for this phenomenon, which is that Americans and people all over the world have no trust in our institutions anymore, which is not an excuse for Flat Eartherism, which is a, you know, Flat Eartherism is objectively very extremely stupid, but it does kind of put it into context.
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You know, when you lie to people about pretty much everything, then you get people who start to question. They start questioning everything. And that can extend down to the basic fundamental facts of the universe. Now, the good news is that as the final experiment demonstrates, even some people who are this confused and deluded are capable at some level of recognizing the error of their ways.
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They're capable of going out and looking at the world around them and challenging their prior assumptions in a respectful and dignified manner. The bad news is that you know, if the Earth isn't flat, which I guess the jury's still out for some people.
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And we still have no explanation for why all the water doesn't fly off the planet and go into space, you know, just like water flies off clothes when they're spinning in the dryer. That's a mystery that simply can't be solved or explained by modern science, at least perhaps until some brave and enterprising pastor runs another final experiment someday. We'll have to wait and see.
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But until that day comes, We have no choice but to stay grounded in reality instead of indulging in fantasy and pseudoscience. And that is why the few remaining flat earthers and everyone else who insists on denying basic observable reality are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. If I can talk. Godspeed.
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And if police officers don't administer CPR and someone dies, they will just assume that the officer killed them. We'll just make that leap of logic because, you know, why not? But just because the jury didn't consider the issue of causation to be relevant, that doesn't mean that it's not relevant. From a legal perspective on appeal, it's still very important.
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And that's why a federal judge in Minnesota named Paul Magnuson, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, has just issued in the last week a ruling that could ultimately lead to a new trial in this case. This is a decision that's Worth looking at and dissecting at length because it highlights what a farce the trial of Derek Chauvin really was.
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No matter how corrupt you think this trial was, it was actually a lot worse than you probably think. Now... The decision came in response to a motion filed by Chauvin's new lawyer in federal court. Chauvin's legal team is seeking to have his conviction overturned in part because his previous lawyer was ineffective to the point that he denied Chauvin his constitutional right to a fair trial.
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There are other objections, too, including that many of the jurors said they felt threatened by the mob. So Chauvin obviously didn't get a fair trial because they thought that their lives were in danger if they didn't convict, which they probably were. Not that that excuses them. But there are two central claims in the motion arguing that Chauvin received ineffective assistance of counsel.
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And the first is that Chauvin's lawyer during the trial failed to tell Chauvin that a doctor had determined that George Floyd died due to acute heart failure resulting in pulmonary edema and death.
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There were indications that Floyd had a heart tumor that could have caused sudden cardiac death, and Chauvin was never told about that, nor was it brought up at trial, even though it seems like an extremely relevant fact. The second claim is that Chauvin's lawyer should have listened to the doctor and ordered tests on samples that were preserved from George Floyd's body. Those tests
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could have determined whether Floyd died of a type of myocarditis or some other heart ailment. And now, several years later, the federal judge has finally allowed Chauvin's new legal team to conduct those tests. Depending on what they show, they could completely undermine the prosecution's argument that Chauvin caused the death of George Floyd.
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And that, in turn, could lead to the conviction being thrown out and potentially a new trial if prosecutors decide to pursue it. Now, one of the reasons this is such an important ruling is that in Chauvin's trial, there was clear evidence that the prosecution lied about the concentration of fentanyl in George Floyd's system when he died.
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And if this case is tried again, this is going to be a major issue. You might remember that in the initial autopsy report, The medical examiner determined that Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his system. He said that there were no physical signs of strangulation and that it looked like a textbook overdose. But shortly afterwards, his assessment changed. Watch.
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Now, the threats and political pressure we're supposed to conclude didn't influence the medical examiner. We're supposed to pretend that he somehow wasn't bothered by the mob that was threatening to destroy the entire city of Minneapolis when he changed his determination about the cause of George Floyd's death.
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We're also supposed to think that Democrats in Minneapolis didn't exert any political pressure at all, but As the reporter Liz Carlin found, there were even there was even more pressure on the medical examiner than many people realize. Here's one internal memo from a prosecuting attorney in Minneapolis at the time.
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And as you could see, according to the memo on May 26, 2020, a team of six FBI agents met with medical examiners, medical examiner Andrew Baker, to discuss his preliminary findings. And then after this meeting, he changed his conclusions. He decides that Floyd's death was a homicide caused by neck compression and that fentanyl wasn't the cause.
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A new trial, if that's where this goes, would offer Chauvin's new defense team an opportunity to pick this claim apart. And this is an opportunity that Chauvin's first legal team missed completely for some reason during the first trial.
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Outside of a few accounts on social media, people like Data Hazard, for example, no one's really talked about this, but it's an incredible oversight by the defense team and a remarkable act of corruption by the prosecution. And if anything completely blows apart the case against Derek Chauvin, it's this. So here's the moment in the trial that I'm talking about.
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This is maybe the single most important testimony in the whole case. The prosecution is questioning a forensic toxicologist about the levels of fentanyl in Floyd's blood. And watch how that unfolds. Here it is.
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So it's a lots of process with the graphs and the numbers flying around. But the basic idea is that the expert is telling the jury that they collected postmortem blood samples from George Floyd, meaning the samples were taken after Floyd died. And they compared these samples to other overdose victims and DUI suspects after their deaths.
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And Floyd's level of fentanyl were well below both of those groups at the post-mortem stage. And so the conclusion was that Floyd didn't overdose on fentanyl. The fundamental problem here is that Floyd's samples, according to the medical examiner's records, were not actually conducted post-mortem or after death. they're comparing Floyd's pre-death samples with other people's post-death samples.
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So to restate, there were samples of blood collected from George Floyd before he died in the hospital, according to the government's own documents. He wasn't actually pronounced dead until an hour after this incident with Derek Chauvin when he was in the hospital, which a lot of people don't know that either. And while he was in the hospital... his blood was drawn.
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And as the judge put it in his ruling this week, quote, the autopsy report shows that anti-mortem blood was collected. And the prosecutor's own statement from 2020 confirms that. Here's what they said at the time. This is from another internal memo, quote, Dr. Andrew Baker said that he had the final toxicology results from Mr. George Floyd's samples.
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Those samples are from Mr. Floyd's hospital admission and were not acquired at autopsy. Baker said that these samples are better for determining actual blood toxicity than samples taken at autopsy. Samples taken at autopsy may have undergone post-mortem distribution. So here we have anti-mortem samples or pre-death samples of Floyd's blood.
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And that means that they were taken before the effects of Floyd's death could impact the samples. And here's the autopsy report, which also confirms that Floyd's samples are anti-mortem. It reads, testing performed on anti-mortem blood specimens collected 52520 at 9 p.m., fentanyl 11 nanograms per millimeter. So this couldn't be any more clear.
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These are pre-mortem samples, according to the prosecution's own records. Now, you might be asking, what's the big deal? I mean, who cares if Floyd's blood was collected before his death or after it? Aside from the fact that the fact that he was not dead until he got to the hospital also seems pretty significant. He didn't die there on the street, as pretty much everyone thinks happened. But...
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Even aside from that, this is a pretty significant distinction because after death, fentanyl concentrations in the bodies of overdose victims are dramatically higher than they are before death. It's a difference of up to 900% within eight hours of death. And that's because when you die, blood stops pumping. So blood concentrations change and it drastically affects the way that these samples read.
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So what the prosecution did in effect was compare Floyd's fentanyl levels before this massive spike with the fentanyl levels of overdose victims after this massive spike. Of course, Floyd's levels were lower in this case because it was before the spike. And based on this apples to oranges comparison, the prosecutor convinced the jury that Floyd's death could not have anything to do with fentanyl.
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So in other words, when he arrived at the hospital, Floyd had a level of fentanyl in his blood that was consistent with an overdose victim when his pre-mortem blood was tested. In fact, Floyd's levels of fentanyl were more than two times the average lethal level that you see in fentanyl overdoses. But prosecution hid this fact from the jury by presenting these blood samples as post-mortem.
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They compared Floyd's number with other people who had been dead for several hours. That's the game they played and largely how they got a conviction. Now, it's impossible to overstate the significance of this deception. This was the crux of the prosecution's entire argument. I mean, they hit it again and again, including during closing arguments. Watch.
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I worked many, many awful customer service jobs that I hated with every fiber of my being. And my hatred of them fueled me even more. I was more determined to become successful so that I would never again have to work the kind of job where you wear a name tag and get paid by the hour. But I had to work those jobs in order to get to a point where I didn't have to work those jobs.
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Because you have to start somewhere. And that's how it goes. So I'm not recommending that anyone do anything that I have not already done. Is it harder now? Maybe. Is it harder than it was for the boomers when they were just starting out? Probably, although I think the comparison is overstated. Is it the hardest ever?
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Is a young person in America today facing next to impossible odds and unprecedented historic hardship? Of course not. That is an absurd suggestion. If you are a 22-year-old man today, you may have it a bit harder than some in your parents' and grandparents' generation. But that is as far as it could even theoretically go. World history did not begin in 1955.
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No matter what, no matter what, you and I and our parents all had it and have it easier than the vast majority of humans who have ever existed on the planet. We are all, all of us, every person listening to me right now, myself included, we are all in the top 1% of easiest lives ever lived by human beings.
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Which is why, even with all of our problems, you would not want to live anywhere else on the planet today. And I know that because you're not. You're here. And if you had a time machine, the farthest you might want to go back is the middle of the 20th century and no farther.
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And if you did go back even that far, you would almost certainly discover that it was not the cakewalk you imagined it would be. None of this diminishes the difficulties that you as a young person are currently experiencing. Okay? I only mean to put it in context. And the context is important. Here's why it's important. Because if you think that nobody has ever had it harder than you,
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You may then be justified in wondering whether success is simply impossible in your case. After all, no one has ever succeeded against odds so great as what you're facing. But that's why it's important to realize that many millions of people, millions, hundreds of millions have succeeded against odds many times greater than anything you have ever faced. That should inspire you, not offend you.
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The point is not to be dismissive. That's an inspirational point. And either way, my message to the young man that we're talking about here is that he still has to get up and walk, even if he did have the hardest life anyone has ever lived on this or any planet. Still, I would say, well then, get up and move forward. What else are you going to do? Lie down and die?
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Now, my attitude is condemned by some right-wingers whose doomerism has now descended to a point where they will call you a traitor for suggesting that a young man has any agency at all in his life. Because they want to hear and dispense nothing but misery porn and hopelessness. Anything else makes you a boomer cuck. And that's because these people...
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who also, by the way, many people were talking about, they're all also like commentators and pundits while they speak with such contempt of the con-inc pundits. Like all of them are also that, by the way, you know. But they don't actually give the slightest damn about the young people that they pretend to be speaking for.
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And I know that because all they offer, all they offer is just relentless, relentless hopelessness. So instead, we end up with the solution, which I've seen repeated in different forms countless times, offered by the commenter I mentioned earlier, that jobs aren't worth it, he says, because he's not going to be a serf. So instead, he will presumably live off of the government or his parents.
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If you aren't on X or Twitter, if you insist on deadnaming it, you bigot, you will often be surprised to learn about the kinds of things people are arguing about on that platform. In many cases, the debates don't resemble anything that anyone outside of the site is talking about. These debates are often insular, parochial.
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But here's the problem. That's not how you escape being a serf. That's how you become one. You are volunteering for a life of failure and servitude. Working at Panda Express is beneath you, but to eat it for lunch using your dad's credit card because you refuse to support yourself is not beneath you. Who do you think is in the higher position there?
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You think you're in a position where you can look down on the Panda Express manager? When you're the one there eating lunch that your daddy is paying for? It makes no sense. So again, I ask, what is your plan? What are you going to do tomorrow? Some people like to mock the bootstraps mentality, but they have given young people precisely zero alternatives.
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They have not given them any idea of what they should actually do tomorrow. And to me, that is the most important and most useful question here. What should you do tomorrow? My answer is simple. Tomorrow, you get up and you put on your shoes and you get started. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Let's talk about something that affects all of us, those of us who are responsible, hardworking Americans, and that is taxes. Now it's the new year and tax season is upon us. Are you prepared for what's coming? Do you owe back taxes? Are your tax returns still unfiled? Did you miss the deadline to file for an extension?
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Well, with the new year beginning and heading into the busy tax season, the IRS may be ramping up enforcement. Let me tell you, they're not playing around. You could face wage garnishments, frozen bank accounts, or even property seizures if you haven't taken action. But here's the good news. There's still hope.
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Joe Biden delivered his address to the nation last night. Not much noteworthy there. Honestly, I could barely muster to even talk about the guy at this point. I'm ready for him to be gone, and mercifully, he will be very shortly. I do want to play this one clip from the 20 or so minute speech. Listen to this.
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Groups of people will get into heated disputes that last sometimes for weeks or months or longer. which have no relevance beyond the confines of the platform itself. So I'll give you just one example of millions. Among right wingers on X, there has been a long running and quite tedious quarrel over the term woke right.
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You know, it's really sad. I mean, everything about this guy is sad. But he has now given two addresses since dropping out of the race. And the first was announcing that he was dropping out. And then there's this one, his farewell address. So that's two addresses where you have the opportunity to deliver something historic and to deliver an address that would be remembered by history.
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Because these are two historic moments. This does not happen very often. One where you have a president announcing that he's not going to run his first second term, and then finally stepping away. So these are opportunities to give a historic speech. In the kind of spot where, in history, we know that presidents in the past have given historic speeches and said things that are remembered.
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And yet in both cases, we get this just boring, it's not even like, it doesn't make you angry because it's so dishonest and so partisan, although it is both of those things. It's mostly just boring. It's boring, bland, not really saying anything, certainly not saying anything of any importance and not saying it well, obviously. And you can't, I mean, even in this moment,
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When you got nothing to lose, it's not like you have to calculate your rhetoric because you're going to be in political office or you're running for office. You're stepping away. You're done. So this is a time when you can just throw caution to the wind and be real and just speak the truth and say something insightful, and we can't get that from him.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show is the pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality obsolete. Is it insulting and out of touch to tell young people to go work fast food and work the way up in the world? That's the growing consensus among some commentators on the rights, and we'll talk about it. Also, Joe Biden speaks to the country for the final time, thank God.
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So he says you got to watch out for the ultra wealthy oligarchy. The oligarchy is bad, says Joe Biden. Keep in mind that Joe Biden is the guy who Just last week, awarded a Medal of Freedom to George Soros. And a few weeks before that, gave his own son a free pass for any and all federal crimes committed over the course of a decade. And now he wants you to know that oligarchies are bad.
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Various groups of conservatives are accusing each other of being woke right as they debate what the term means and whether it describes anything real. Now, I don't know where this woke right idea comes from, but I do know that I've never heard a single soul in the three-dimensional physical world ever use the phrase or express any opinion about it one way or another.
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And that's because, as we know, he forgot to mention the point that his opposition to oligarchies does not apply to the good kind of oligarchy, which is the kind run by people that Joe Biden agrees with. People such as Joe Biden himself, which is why the demonizing of the wealthy, this kind of class warfare rhetoric, it is... It falls so flat at this point.
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It falls so flat because it's coming from people. I mean, again, you just gave a medal of freedom to George Soros. You cannot be a friend and admirer of George Soros and also be worried about and opposed to oligarchies. That's just, it's not possible. Daily Wire has this.
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Pro-life Americans unjustly imprisoned by President Joe Biden's Justice Department are formally appealing to Donald Trump for pardons. The Daily Wire is reporting the petitions for pardons of the 21 pro-life advocates sent Wednesday to Trump by the Thomas More Society, a pro-life firm that represents the defendants.
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Thomas More Society wrote, these peaceful pro-life Americans mistreated by Biden include grandparents, pastors, a Holocaust survivor, a Catholic priest. All are selfless, sincere patriots. Their respective plights and personal information are provided in attachments to the letter. And so they're calling on the pardon. And this should be a day one priority for Trump. In fact...
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You know, the inauguration is four days before the March for Life. So I'll be in town for both. I'll be in D.C. for both. We're going to be in for the inauguration and we're going to stay through to attend the march. And this would be a great way to commemorate the March for Life.
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Imagine if Trump announced on the day of the march that he was giving pardons to all of the pro-lifers unjustly persecuted. You know, that would be spectacular. And, you know, whether that's the timing or not, this is the kind of thing. And I think he'll do it. I hope he'll do it, but this should just be immediate. There's no reason to wait.
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And you've got, especially when you have these pro-lifers who are currently in federal prison, all thanks to some of the most blatant political targeting and political persecution we've ever seen. And when we think about Joe Biden Targeting his political opponents and engaging in political persecution.
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I mean, the first example that comes to mind, of course, is Trump is trying to throw his own political opponent in jail. And then you think about the January Sixers. And those are certainly two examples of political persecution. But. I think that what's happened, there's no point in like ranking it, but. I think what's happened to these pro-lifers is the worst of all.
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I mean, all these cases are bad. I think that this is the worst. I think that this is the most egregious, the worst, the most evil of all is what he's done to these pro-lifers. Because these are, we are literally talking about, in many cases, elderly women praying. That's what we're talking about. That's why they're going to prison.
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Yet there are relatively prominent conservatives on X who have spent months locked in combat over a concept that has no real political or cultural relevance at all. Nobody cares about it but them. Needless to say, there are a great many examples of this sort of thing.
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And which is also why after the pardons are given out, the next step is to repeal the FACE Act, which is the federal law. The FACE Act is the federal law, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act that was used as a pretense for going after and prosecuting these pro-lifers. And so that needs to be the next step.
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And that's something that Congress, of course, needs to take on, is that that needs to be repealed. That can't exist anymore. It's a law that, as we've mentioned before, allegedly, it's supposed to also, even though it says access to clinics, it's also supposed to protect pregnancy resource centers, pro-life centers. They are also supposed to be protected in the exact same way.
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But that has not happened. It has not been used that way. Never has been, certainly wasn't by the Biden administration. So this is blatantly unconstitutional. You know, equality under the law, equal treatment under the law is one of the most basic constitutional principles. And it has been violated by the Biden administration egregiously. Daily Mail has this.
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A Republican congresswoman is set to reintroduce a set of bills that will impose the death penalty on those convicted of sex crimes against children. Staunch Donald Trump ally Representative Anna Polina Luna first introduced two of the bills during last year's Congress, but neither of them succeeded in gaining traction. And now... She's introducing them again.
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She's told Fox News Digital, if you're raping someone, if you're molesting someone, you're essentially murdering their soul. Those people never actually recover. I've sent a committee with a very prominent female House Democrat who actually talked about the fact that she was molested as a child. And so you can see that it impacts and really hurts people.
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The Holding Child Predators Accountable Act mandates the death penalty or life imprisonment for anyone found guilty of producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography. And then there's also the No Repeat Child Sex Offenders Act was a more broad bill that likewise would have forced judges to impose death or life in prison for people convicted of child sex trafficking.
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So I obviously support this. It's a no-brainer. Death penalty for child molesters and child pornographers, both the distributors and the consumers of it, is obvious. And, you know, the idea that Only those who commit physical murder should be eligible for the death penalty is at best arbitrary. There are things worse than or at least as bad as murder and abusing a child in this way is one of them.
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And even less do I need to say that I have myself been guilty of arguing about things on X that nobody outside of the app cares about. I might even sometimes be the one starting the arguments, admittedly. However, not every debate on X is so trivial. Sometimes the conversation is relevant beyond social media. Sometimes it reflects what's actually happening in the world.
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And if anything, you know, in fact, you could make an argument that these people... Like, if anything, the argument would be that we only give the death penalty to child predators. I mean, that's not my argument, because I think that there's a lot more people who are deserving of it. But I would sooner accept the argument, that argument, than the reverse.
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The idea that these scumbags should be specially exempt. I mean, after all, the crime that they've committed is particularly heinous. And... they are particularly unlikely to ever be reformed. We can certainly never trust them in society again. We can't trust that they've been reformed. These people cannot be trusted in society.
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And keeping them in prison for life, and this to me is one of the, maybe the most crucial argument that I don't see mentioned as often, but keeping them in prison for life, or for any amount of time, requires extra effort, requires extra expense, because they have to be protected from the other prisoners. And I think that that is also unjust, to force the taxpayers to pay to protect these people.
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That's another reason to execute them, because the only other option, if you're going to put them in prison, is you can't just put them in prison. They have to get special treatment, special protection. I mean, you could throw them out in general population, but that's the same thing as a death sentence.
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So at that point, you may as well just give them a death sentence and carry it out legally rather than pawning it off to the other prisoners to take care of. So I think that's a point to it. And one other point is that these crimes are... especially easy to prove now beyond a shadow of a doubt because these child predators, most of the time leave a very unmistakable digital trail.
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You, you know, you arrest the child predator and find 900 hours of material on the computer or whatever. And it's, it's pretty cut and dry. So the only kind of reasonable argument against the death penalty is whether it's for child predators or anybody else, is just the fear that you'll execute someone who is not actually guilty of the crime that they were convicted of. Execute an innocent person.
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But I think in particular these days, really with any crime, that is much less of a concern than it was 50 years ago. Because DNA evidence, there's cameras everywhere, cell phone data. I mean, there's so much. that you can use to prove and especially when you got someone who's one of these scumbags it's almost always there's an unmistakable um a trail that they leave behind um
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Let's see, there's an article in Breitbart about Netflix that, according to the article, Netflix is not joining the band, the sort of anti-woke bandwagon. Netflix's response to President-elect Donald Trump's reelection victory is the scheduled premiere of a documentary on Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, a symbol of Hollywood wokeism.
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And sometimes, more often now in the Elon era, a debate on the platform is actually important. And this week, there's been one of those kinds of arguments. Another round of it, anyway, as this has been a long-running dispute. It's important enough to talk about here, and it'll lead me to a very crucial point that I want to make, especially for the younger people who are listening.
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Netflix, a streaming service giant that openly works with the Obamas, does not appear to be willing to shift its left-leaning corporate scope. following Trump's reelection, as did Meta and Amazon.
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With Netflix's earning call set for the end of January, its investor relations team refused to respond when Breitbart News requested comment about whether it plans to defund DEI programs, publish content more friendly to President Trump, or distance itself from the Obamas. So while there is this shift that we're seeing,
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Facebook, Jeff Bezos, these alleged, these apparent shifts away from ultra-wokeism. It appears that Netflix is not joining that. Now, which maybe they're not, but I will say, and this was really just my segue into mentioning this show. I will say that Netflix has a new Western miniseries out called American Primeval that I hadn't seen any advertisements for it. I mean, maybe they're out there.
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They didn't cross my path. I hadn't seen anything about this show. And then I think I just saw it pop up on Netflix. Yeah. And yeah, it's a Western miniseries. And so far, watching with my wife, we're two or three episodes in. I will say it's shockingly unwoke so far. I don't want to count the chickens before they hatch. This isn't quite a recommendation because I haven't seen the whole thing yet.
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It's possible that this thing goes off the rails. It's possible this is all leading to some kind of Uber PC conclusion. I mean, there was that show, one of the more recent Western miniseries, 1883, came out a few years ago. And started really strong, a very strong start. I liked the first one or two episodes. And then by the end, it's just PC trope after PC. It becomes a PC soap opera by the end.
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It's terrible. It goes from... I don't think I've ever seen a show that plunges so quickly from pretty good to just unwatchable tripe, as that show does. So maybe that happens here. I don't know. But so far, I can tell you that this show, this Western, the Indians...
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are portrayed as generally warlike and ruthless, which is accurate, but just not how Indians are ever portrayed in Westerns these days. So this is not a simple white man bad, Indian good type of thing. The lead character in the film, the protagonist, is a woman, but she's not this kind of like kick-ass Mary Sue type, you know, who can...
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knock down a guy and knock him flat with one punch to the face can shoot a guy square between the eyes from 50 yards. Like not, not that she's, she's actually pretty incompetent has to be bailed out by the lead male character constantly. Um, which actually gets a little bit annoying as a kind of narrative.
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It becomes a narrative device of this woman just doing dumb crap constantly and then having to get bailed out. So that does get a little annoying. But, you know, they've avoided the PC tropes so far almost entirely, which is very impressive. So I will say that. I don't know. I mean, like I said, I think there's six episodes. So we'll see where it leads. It's also a good story.
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It's about a mother and her son attempting to make their way west to meet her husband, and they end up linking up with this kind of mysterious drifter guy. Classic Western archetype. You got to have that guy, and you got to have the mysterious drifter. And he becomes their kind of protector on the journey.
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The debate revolves around the economic situation that young people in particular are facing. One side of the argument says that Although it is a challenging landscape for young people who are just starting out in the world, the best thing they can do is get an entry-level job somewhere and work their way up in the world from that starting point.
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And along the way, they wind up kind of in the crossfire of a three-way battle between the U.S. Army Indians and Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory. Very interesting. I will say that It's not kind to Mormons so far. Mormons are the villains. Brigham Young is the villain of the story so far. So if you're Mormon, you probably will find that pretty annoying.
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It's a bit heavy-handed with the brutality and violence. It's rather relentless. But if you've ever read... If you've read the book Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy... It'll kind of remind you of that. It's not based on that book. The story is not the same. But I would say it's in the spirit of that book.
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It reminds me, if you tried to make Blood Meridian as a movie, which I think it's probably unfilmable, although I think it's a great book, but it would look something like this. And I happen to love Cormac McCarthy, so to me that's a selling point. So there's your semi-recommendation for the day. Let's get to the comment section. Matt, you said you have a lot of events on inauguration weekend.
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You do realize it's the divisional round, don't you? What kind of football fan are you? Oh, I know. Oh, I know. Believe me. Yes, the Ravens are playing Sunday night. Ravens-Bills. Might be the greatest playoff game in history. In history, okay? This might be the greatest playoff game ever. Highly anticipated. Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, the two MVP candidates.
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You know, it's going to be nine degrees in Buffalo. And I'm going to be otherwise occupied. I got stuff. I got stuff going on, events to attend, which again, I'm very honored to be invited. I don't mean to be ungrateful about it. There's a ball. There's like a pre-inauguration ball that night right in the middle of the game. But it's also Ravenspills. I can't.
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so we have to figure this out we're gonna have to figure this out i told my wife that um this is this is a situation that we're in now because they didn't announce we didn't know you know we started filling up the schedule for inauguration weekend they didn't announce the nfl schedule until just uh this sunday night this past sunday night and um so we're gonna it's uh we're gonna have to we're gonna have to to figure that out i you know i told
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I've already been checking what are the bars around where the ball is happening. My wife said, are we really going to leave a ball in our black tie formal attire and go to a sports bar? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, put on your ball gown, honey. We're going to Buffalo Wild Wings. That's where we're going. I can't miss the game. Priorities in life. This inauguration is historic. It's historic.
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But also, it's Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen. That is also historic. So we'll figure this thing out. We'll get through it. I know we will. Somehow. Somehow, someway. All right. As a veteran, I can confirm there is nothing but the cleanest and most non-offensive language in the military. That's what I thought.
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That's why whenever I'm around someone who's in the military or former military, the spiciest language I've ever heard is maybe something like, geez louise or dag nabbit. And even that, I thought, was a little too PG-13 for my taste. So I can see why those Democrat senators at the hearing with Pete Exeth were so offended by his reported bad language. Um, good grief, Matt, 60 pushups.
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The other side says that this kind of bootstraps mentality is obsolete. Young people have been totally screwed. They can't get a job and work their way up. And they say telling a young person to go work some low paying customer service job is insulting and out of touch. The game is rigged. American jobs are being stolen en masse by foreigners.
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I went through Paris Island during Vietnam war. I could never do more than 50. And to pass the physical fitness test, you only had to do 25. Uh, I'm sure you could do more than 50 pushups. I mean, come on. Okay. Maybe, yeah, we were talking yesterday about what the physical fitness standard should be.
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And if we can all agree that physical fitness standards in the military should not be lowered for women, then the question is where should they be for everyone? Um, I said 60 push-ups. I threw that out as a number. A lot of people seem to think that's a bit much. Is it, though? I mean, I guess it depends on how much time you have to do them. I'll put it this way. My 11-year-old son can do 20.
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Pretty decent form. I mean, his form starts to break down around 15, and he gets through to 20, but it's pretty good. So I really think that if you're going to join the military, you should have to beat my 11-year-old by more than five push-ups. I think that that's, I don't know, that seems the bar should be set a little bit higher than that. Why are people always coming after people's jobs?
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but bad people should be allowed to have jobs. Like, do we all want to now pay the unemployment and government benefits of the now jobless person? I basically agree. This is part of the cancel culture, cancel campaign, which shows you, by the way, cancel culture, the term is not used as often these days as it used to be.
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But cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, is not over. We still are very much living in it. And it just happened. I mean, what happened to that guy? At the football game, that Eagles fan, that's what getting canceled is all about. And you could argue, well, he deserved it and all this. But yeah, that's cancel culture.
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It's when you've got gangs of people along with powerful institutions, particularly in the media, all like targeting one person and saying, We want to take this guy's job away and ruin his life. And again, maybe you'll say, well, he deserved it. But that's what canceling is. That's what cancel culture is and happened here. And I generally agree.
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I have a very high tolerance for campaigning to take someone's job away when they're in a government position and have proven themselves incompetent or unfit. Not just a high tolerance. It's in that case, of course, you're trying to take their job away. That's one thing. For the private sector, I think the bar should be really high for trying to get somebody fired. Doesn't mean you never do it.
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But there should be a high bar. Like, taking someone's job away is serious. I think sometimes we tend to have a frivolous attitude about that. But this is their job. This is how they support themselves and their family. And that doesn't mean that you never... Doesn't mean that there's never a case where someone deserves to... lose their job, of course there is, but I think it should be a high bar.
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And in particular, if the offense they committed has nothing to do with their job. Now, I just saw there was a story about a woman who was a flight attendant at, I think it was a Southwest, I believe, could be wrong. But I think it was a Southwest flight attendant, some major airline, who was a new hire. She had just started recently. And she made a video of herself twerking in a plane.
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The American dream says this side of the debate is effectively dead. And therefore, the old school kind of go out there and work your way up the ladder approach is simply too antiquated to be useful, they would say. Now, as you already guessed, out of the two camps, I tend to fall more into the former.
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It was an empty plane before it boarded. And she posted this dancing twerking video. And people responded negatively to it. And then she got fired. Now, that to me is different. Like, I have no moral conflict about that. Yeah, you should be fired for that. Because the offense you committed is directly related to your job.
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You know, I don't want to board a plane when the people working the plane have been using it as a place to twerk. I want your sole focus to be on making sure that everyone has a comfortable and safe flight, not making TikTok videos where you're twerking. It's really extremely unprofessional, reflects very poorly on your employer, makes the customers uncomfortable.
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And so you should be fired for that. That's an easy call. But when someone does something that is not related to their job directly, then I think the bar is higher for trying to get them fired. But did this guy clear that bar? Probably. But I think we tend to be pretty cavalier about that, I think, in a way that I don't really like. Let's see, one more.
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There's a couple of comments, actually several. This says, Matt made me cheer with his take on Women in the Military. Then says, Apocalypto is a perfect film, which shows Matt is running at 50-50 for stupid to great comments. Apocalypto, Matt has to be kidding. If that's a great film, how do you rate The Godfather, Casablanca, and Wizard of Oz?
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Actually, the Apocalypto hate comments were upsetting. I wasn't expecting any. I thought we could all agree. especially if you're the audience of a conservative podcast. I thought we were all on the same page here. Apocalypto is a great film. I'm blown away that some of you disagree, that some of you are so wrong about this. Yes, Apocalypto is a great film. The Godfather, I'd rate 10 out of 10.
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Greatest film ever made. That's easy. Casablanca, I haven't seen. Wizard of Oz, not a personal favorite, but it's obviously a legendary piece of cinema, an all-time classic. Apocalypto is better. It's a weird comparison to compare the two. They're very different films. But... It's certainly one of the great films of this century, I think.
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Although the latter camp isn't wrong about many of the fundamental points they're making about the system as it's currently constructed. I'll get to that in a moment. But first, let's take a look at how this exchange is playing out. And I think that the debate may be best encapsulated by this. Chris Ruffo, in a series of tweets a couple of days ago,
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Use code 47 at dailywire.com slash subscribe for 47% off your membership today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. If you've been following Bill Burr's descent from edgy and countercultural comedian to full-on regime propagandist, you've probably been wondering when exactly his Howard Stern moment would come.
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That's the moment where, as a comedian, Bill Burr completely drops the pretense of being an entertainer and embraces his role as a shill for the political establishment. We all knew that Burr was on this trajectory. It's been inevitable for some time. And now, beyond any doubt, that moment has arrived.
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Now, appropriately enough, Burr's Howard Stern moment came as he was speaking to another comedian turned propagandist, Jimmy Kimmel, on his show the other day. Kimmel begins by asking Burr about the L.A. fires which forced Burr to evacuate his home. Watch. It's pretty good to see you. I heard you had to evacuate your home.
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That's a big word we're hearing now.
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So there's no real punchline there. There's no setup. There's no humor of any kind. It's just mocking the idea that normal people could possibly be qualified to judge or even notice outrageous incompetence in the leadership class. Even when that incompetence is burning down their city, Bill Burr thinks it's absurd for anyone on the internet to point that out.
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And this is a lecture that Burr is delivering after anonymous people on the Internet have been proven again and again to be more reliable than the so-called experts on everything from COVID to Russian disinformation to January 6th to, you know, gender and so on. It's about as tone deaf and out of date as you can get, but to Bill Burr, I mean, this is the cutting edge of comedy.
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What's especially embarrassing about this is that if Burr actually cared about comedy and satire, there's a lot of material that he could be working with. It wouldn't make the political elites of Los Angeles very happy to hear it, but that's the whole point.
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For example, here's new reporting from Michael Schellenberger, quote, as fires raged and LA Mayor Karen Bass attended a cocktail party in Ghana, her deputy mayor for public safety was also unavailable because of an FBI raid at his house in connection to an investigation regarding a bomb threat that he allegedly made against City Hall. Now, I'll say that again.
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wrote something that has really provoked people and caused a lot of consternation and anger on the other side of this argument. Here's what he wrote. Every generation has challenges.
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While the city was catching on fire, the mayor of Los Angeles was attending a cocktail party in Africa a country she promised she'd stop visiting once she was elected mayor. And at the same time, the deputy mayor for public safety in Los Angeles was on leave following an FBI raid on his house related to a bomb threat that he allegedly made against City Hall.
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So nobody was paying attention to the fires because the leadership in LA was either being investigated by the feds or in Africa. So it sounds like it's too absurd to be real, but it is. It's the kind of thing that actual comics could have a field day with. And of course, there were many more stories like this. There was Gavin Newsom
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telling the desperate woman that he was on the phone with Joe Biden, only to admit that he didn't actually have any cell service when she asked to see the phone. There's also the overweight lesbian fire chief who proudly stated that it's your fault if you get trapped in a fire and so on and so on.
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But none of these comedic scenarios would play well on Reddit, so Bill Burr didn't bring any of them up. Instead, he attacked safer targets like Fox News and the insurance companies. Watch.
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So this is an attempt at humor that doesn't even make sense. He begins by acknowledging that homeless people and illegal immigrants set fires all over the place all the time because they want to stay warm.
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We currently have huge problems with the cost of housing and splintering culture, but the economy is strong, incomes have never been higher, trades are hiring apprentices straight out of high school, and tech has enabled a wave of entrepreneurship and high-income email jobs from anywhere on earth.
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But then he says that it's totally absurd to conclude that these fires could have been set by homeless people or illegal immigrants because there was more than one fire in Los Angeles and they were far apart. Apparently, you're supposed to dismiss the possibility that there might be more than one homeless person or illegal alien setting fires in Los Angeles.
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And then you're supposed to laugh, I guess. Then everything somehow goes downhill from there. He starts talking about how the insurance companies are stealing premiums. Then he says that the psychotic trust fund kid who murdered a health insurance CEO should be freed because a lot of other psychopaths on the Internet were saying that a month ago. This is comedy, you see.
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Pro-lifers who've been imprisoned by the Biden administration call on Trump for a pardon, and former comedian Bill Burr slams the people who've dared to criticize California's response to the wildfires. What the hell happened to this guy? When did he become such a pathetic little dork? We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. That's right. We're going to D.C.
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You're supposed to find this amusing. Now, again, the point of the humor here is to defend California's political elite. It was California's politicians who prevented insurance companies from setting higher rates for disaster coverage.
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So the insurance companies did the rational thing, which was to cancel a lot of policies for homes in Pacific Palisades because they predicted a devastating fire was likely to occur. And instead of doing anything with this information, city officials didn't make sure the reservoir was full. They didn't fully staff the fire department.
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Instead, they flew to Africa and called in bomb threats to City Hall. And yet Bill Burr won't make any kind of jokes about those city officials. He lets them off the hook entirely because those officials are Democrats. And Bill Burr is now a partisan hack. That's what he's devolved into. As I said, there have been signs that this would happen for several years.
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Back in 2019 for his paper tiger special, Burr went out of his way to defend the BLM narrative surrounding Colin Kaepernick, who, again, was maybe the single easiest target for mockery that you could imagine. But here's what Bill Burr did with it.
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We should remember that the boomers, whatever their faults, had to make their way in a much poorer America and had to navigate war, stagflation, recession, and high interest rates. It's never a cakewalk. We should work to provide opportunity for our kids, but should also remind them to be grateful for the opportunities they have. I didn't make $50,000 a year or own a car until I was 30.
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So this is a comedian who's basically promoting the leftist concept of centering. I mean, he did everything but actually use that phrase. Those racist, ignorant white people are always trying to center themselves, not listening to the plight of the multimillionaire quarterback. They don't care about the made up fact that police officers are killing black people all the time. That's the joke.
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Hilarious. This is a routine that feels like it was intended for the faculty lounge at, say, Vassar. But Bill Burr apparently thought that he had a winner with this one. He said something similar on his podcast at the time. Quote, for me personally, I'm a white male heterosexual. I can basically, within reason, do whatever the F I want to do.
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Here's a guy who's making zillions of effing dollars and still feels this way. This is, I should probably shut the F up and listen to what he has to say. That's your edgy, unwoke comedian there. In other words, it can't possibly be that the guy is rich and wrong about this, trying to stay relevant. That's not possible.
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No rich person would ever push a false racial narrative in exchange for fame and even more wealth. This is the kind of insight that Burr is now capable of. But the truth is that that's kind of underselling the decline of Bill Burr as a comedian. Even when he's not trying to make some grand political statement on behalf of the Democrat Party, he's still falling flat.
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A few months ago, he appeared on SNL and had several moments where the audience had no response like at all to what he was saying. Kind of brutal, watch.
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I mean, not particularly PC or woke or whatever. It's just lame. Just hard to watch. Hard to watch. I mean, if you go back and pull up clips of old Bill Burr routines from more than 10 years ago, it's like watching a completely different person. He was actually a comedian, for one thing. He was funny. And he was even insightful in his own way at certain points.
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Then after years of struggle in a creative field, things paid off. I could live in Seattle or New York or D.C., but I choose to live in a small town. It's all a tradeoff, and one can make a good life in almost any metro area in the U.S. Now, in a follow-up, this is a thing that really sets some people off. He posted a job listing from Panda Express. And he wrote this.
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In 2010, for example, Burr did a special called Let It Go. It's worth watching if you find the time. One of the main themes of the special is that he's over 40 and still doesn't have kids. It's not some hour-long morality play about the importance of having kids or anything like that. Not that it would be wrong to talk about the importance of having kids, but it's a comedy.
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And it does wring out a lot of humor out of the situation in a kind of self-deprecating way. Certainly not lecturing anyone about how important it is to be loyal Democrat Party operatives. And he also threw in some material about the arbitrary nature of race politics and racial guilt, which was ahead of its time. So here's that part, just to give you an idea of what it's like.
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So now that's actually funny. And it points out the kind of arbitrary rules that we have for language and the way that we treat different races and all that. It's funny. It's a funny observation. And watching that clip, it's not hard to see that Bill Burr's downfall is even more tragic than Howard Stern. I mean, Howard Stern was always a freak, as we've discussed before.
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The guy was always just a disgusting creep. But Burr, at one point, had genuine talent. He wasn't going for the lowest common denominator, and he certainly wasn't running interference for some of the most incompetent politicians in the country, people who destroyed their own city while getting a lot of people killed in the process solely because of his political affiliation.
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Well, that's what he's been reduced to.
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And whatever you blame for his downfall, whether it's his age, the influence of his leftist wife, which a lot of people have pointed to as kind of the beginning of the end of him actually being funny, or you point to his politics or whatever, or the fact that he started starring in movies and he was in Breaking Bad and these Hollywood things and started hanging out with people in Hollywood and going to the cocktail parties.
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I mean, all that stuff probably is part of it. But the inevitable conclusion is that Bill Burr is no longer a comedian. He's like... Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel, so many other former comedians like them, now just a washed-up political hack who's all too willing to read from a script that absolves his masters in the Democrat Party at every opportunity.
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And that is why Bill Burr, whose career began with a lot of promise and ended with a pitiful thud, is today, regrettably, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
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This is basically full employment. The Panda Express near my house is offering $70,000 a year plus benefits for the assistant manager. You can make $100,000 a year at Chipotle for a few years and working up to store manager. Now, as I said, this set a lot of people off.
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They're very upset by especially the Panda Express, the suggestion by Chris Ruffo that Panda Express may be a viable option for young adults starting out in the world. This is very offensive to a lot of people on X. A prominent account that goes by the handle Bronze Age Pervert responded in a way that I think kind of captures the general attitude of the other side of this argument. He wrote,
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This is an absurd thing to post. This environment is the worst in decades and maybe ever in America to build wealth through any normal career. It's the worst work environment and worst prospects for wealth accumulation ever. For a young person, it's next to impossible, in fact, even with the best degrees and an elite job.
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It's absurd and a joke to see conservative pundits who work as writers and commentators in media and aren't frankly exemplars of Protestant capitalist enterprise recommend working at Chipotle and UPS for a few smart young right-wing men who are deploring decades-long trends. Maybe you'll care to also give them advice on manning up and marrying a local sweet girl slash high school sweetheart.
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Now, the debate spiraled from there. A writer named Aaron McIntyre agrees with Bronze Age Pervert. He posted, if you're worried about Andrew Tate's influence on young men, telling them to climb the fast food ladder probably isn't the move. Another commentator named Scott Greer chimes in with a similar sentiment.
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Conservatives wonder why young men turn to Andrew Tate when they tell the same demographic to be content with fast food work and marrying much older single moms. Someone else gave his perspective. He said that it is possible for a young person to get started and succeed, even in this tough environment.
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He offered the example of his own 22-year-old son, who he said has a job at UPS making $70,000 a year at 22 years old. He said he's about to marry his girlfriend, who he said is 10 years older. And to that, someone else in a post that has 27,000 likes said, poor kid is grinding, about to marry a 32-year-old living in his dad's basement, stuck in a dead-end job, for $70,000 a year.
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He'll likely never have kids or own a home. Imagine how out of touch you have to be to post this proudly. This is losing. But Boomer Dad imagines everything is okay. A 22-year-old getting a $70,000 a year is losing and is doomed to never own a home. That's the idea. Now, Mike Cernovich is on the other side, what we might call the bootstraps camp.
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And he thinks, and so do I, that work is not supposed to be fun all the time. It's not even necessarily going to be fulfilling. You'd like for it to be, but it won't necessarily be. But you have to do it because that's life and always has been. He wrote, quote, You're supposed to hate your job. That's why it's a job. Someone pays you because they don't want to do it. Most of us had jobs.
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It's nothing special. You're not a snowflake. Fight club and office space covered this decades ago. Work sucks. This isn't new. But it's this reply to that post that I think best captures kind of the essence and what I think is the fatal flaw in the, I guess, anti-bootstraps position.
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Somebody responded and said, the reason why jobs were worth it is that you could afford a home and a nice high-trust society and support a family. Why do it now? I will not be reduced to an effing serf. Jobs are not worth it, he says. Jobs make you a serf. And this is why I think there's value in talking about this, what may seem like very online controversy, but it's not just online.
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It seems clear to me that a lot of demoralized young people feel exactly this way. They think jobs aren't worth it. I hear this kind of thing a lot. So there's no point in even trying, they think. They have it harder than anyone has ever had it. It's hopeless. Everything's unfair. And so on and so on.
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And these young people are being encouraged down this hopeless road by people who are considered intellectuals on the right, like Bronze Age pervert, who we recall said that today's work environment is the worst ever, the worst ever in history, and that it's next to impossible to become successful and accumulate wealth. This is what they're being told.
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They're being told by these supposed thought leaders that they should ignore anyone who even suggests that they start off in a low paying job working customer service or something similar. And again, a lot of young people, especially young men, have heeded this advice, I think to their own detriment.
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So here's what I want to say after this very long preamble where I unfortunately had to give you a bit of a blow by blow account of a Twitter war. I acknowledge that young people face serious challenges starting out in the workforce. I can clearly see and do not deny that it is harder than it should be for a young man to get into a stable career, buy a house, start a family, and all of that.
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I agree that we are importing foreigners to take American jobs. That is hideously evil and unfair. I'm in favor of any policy that puts an end to that scam. So I agree with the anti-bootstrappers on that point. They're going to hear no argument from me. Okay. Once we've agreed on that, What then? What is a young adult supposed to actually do tomorrow? This is the question that matters.
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It's the question that in these kinds of conversations, most people just skip It reminds me of my frequent debates with the Red Pillars and Manosphere, where they declare that the dating scene is a disaster and young men have no hope of meeting a quality woman and building a stable family. Marriages are broken. It's all broken. It doesn't work. Well, my question to them is always the same.
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What do you want these young men to do then? What do you want them to actually do with their lives? Give up and die alone? Is that it? What do you want them to do? And I ask that here as well. What should they do tomorrow? I'm not asking what the president should do or what Congress should do or what government agencies should do.
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I'm asking what the actual individual human being we're talking about here, the newly minted young adult, should do. He will wake up in the morning and brush his teeth and eat breakfast and And then what? That young man who is 22 years old and has no job, if you believe it is deeply insulting to suggest that he should go apply at Panda Express or UPS, what do you want him to do instead?
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What do you recommend? What is your plan? Complaining about it incessantly on Twitter is not a plan. Talking about how it should be and used to be is not a plan. Calling for policy solutions is fine, and I agree that we should work on those. Yeah. But what about tomorrow? What is the demoralized young person supposed to actually do in his life tomorrow?
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Because it seems to me that anyone who makes any kind of practical suggestion of what he could actually do in his own life individually tomorrow is shouted down by this other side. So what I'm asking, what's he supposed to do? Don't deflect. Don't tell me about the H1B program. I think we should abolish it. I don't wanna import any foreign labor at all, okay?
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But a young man who wakes up in the morning tomorrow cannot abolish the H-1B program. That's not something that he can accomplish tomorrow. So what should he do? Should he post about abolishing it? Okay, fine. That takes about 60 seconds. Let's give him 30 minutes for a series of tweets about H-1B visas. Great. What's next? How is he spending the rest of his day?
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Ep. 1516 - The Lie Young Men Are Being Sold
And if you have no answer to that question, then your contribution to this discussion is worthless. You have nothing of value to offer this young man. Now, here's what I say. I say that he must get up onto his feet in spite of it all and begin to pursue his goals one small step at a time. He must get the best job he possibly can, which will almost certainly not be very good or very fun.
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Ep. 1516 - The Lie Young Men Are Being Sold
But he's not in a position right now at 21, 22 years old where he can afford to worry about what is fun. He has to work as hard as he can to achieve what he can right now. He has to gain experience and establish himself. And if he's just starting out in the world, the best job is probably whatever job he can get because you have to start somewhere. And a job is better than no job.
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Ep. 1516 - The Lie Young Men Are Being Sold
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Ep. 1516 - The Lie Young Men Are Being Sold
He has a difficult road. Every young man in his position through the entire history of the earth has had a difficult road. Life itself is a difficult road. Is his road more difficult than the road that, say, young men of my generation had to walk? Perhaps, I mean, I entered adult life right around the time of a great recession and a housing market collapse. It wasn't exactly an easy path.
The Matt Walsh Show
Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
Someone turns 32 and they're like, oh, don't remind me I'm 32. Oh, you know, I'm... I'm 25. This is my 30th, 24th birthday. Why do you want to be 24? If anything, being 24 is embarrassing. It's not embarrassing to be older because being older just means experience and wisdom, or at least it should mean that. Oh my gosh, I'm going to be 40. I can't wait to be 40. I cannot wait to experience my 40s.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
It's going to be great. It's going to be a blast. I have less time now to hang out at bars. But I don't want to do that. I could still go to a bar if I wanted to. I walk by the bars down on Broadway here in Nashville and I see the masses of people standing around sweating, drinking out of plastic cups, no personal space. Everything is loud. Everyone's shouting.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
All right, time for another trusty TikTok reaction. Today we have some videos of adults complaining about being adults. Always a fun one. What the? Always one that, these don't frustrate me at all. I enjoy watching these kinds of videos. Let's begin.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
And there's no part of that that seems even slightly appealing. And yet that is the only thing. The only thing that I could do in my 20s that I am less able to do now. So your 20s are for building. They're for building the life that you will enjoy later. But that requires work. And that's the problem, is that you got a lot of these younger people don't want to do the work.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
Yeah, I mean, that's basically right. And that's, yeah, that is life.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
This is the whole thing. The whole kit and caboodle. This is what it is. Get up every day, you do the things you gotta do, go home, go to sleep, repeat it, and then you die. That's it. That's why you need to have some source of meaning in your life. And what gets me about videos like this is just how much of a revelation this seems to be to a lot of people.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
The search for meaning, the pursuit of meaning, that's like the fundamental thing that mankind has wrestled with since the beginning of time. So how are you just coming around to it? If all you care about is what is immediate and temporal and directly around you, then yeah, life is meaningless. Effectively. because this is it. This is all there is.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
70 years from now, maybe a little bit more or less, depending on how old you are, you'll be nothing but a memory. 100 years from now, barely that. 1,000 years from now, there will be no evidence that you ever existed on the planet. And a few billion years from then, the planet doesn't exist. So you need to have meaning that transcends that. You have to have meaning rooted in the eternal, in God.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
If your search for meaning does not extend beyond... what you physically see around you, then you're kind of screwed because then all you're left with is trying to artificially create sort of a sense of meaning in your life. But the problem there is that you're always aware of the fact that it's artificial.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
You're aware of the fact that you've just kind of arbitrarily selected this as the meaning. There has to be a meaning that existed before your life itself started. Way too heavy. Way too heavy for a TikTok reaction. If you own a smartphone, a computer, or any internet connected device, there are many thousands of companies out there who know you better than you know yourself.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
They're called data brokers, and they make billions of dollars a year tracking your activity across the internet. They know what you've bought, everywhere you've been, who you talk to, your private and personal beliefs, and they package all that into a profile that they sell to people who want to control you. Marketers, activists, and yes, even politicians. So what can you do about it?
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
There's the door. All right, thanks. Okay, well, I'll tell you how you quit your job. I mean, in your case, there is another option. You can marry a man who will support you and you can stay home and raise the kids. That's an option for you. The problem is that, first of all, No man wants to marry a woman who screams and complains like this.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
And no man worth his salt is going to look at that video and go, wow, yeah, I want that woman to raise my children. Because they're coming off like just another kid who needs to be raised or was not raised well. The other problem is that getting married and having kids still means that you need to be an adult. It especially means that you need to be an adult. right?
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
Because what you're looking for is a life of no work, no responsibility, no obligation, which to me sounds like hell, where you've got just nothing to do. Nobody needs you, nothing to do. That's like nothingness. I mean, it's sort of imagining a state of existing in nothingness, and I find that to be horrifying. And yet you pine for it. And yet the problem is that you can't have it.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
I think a life like that would be one of great misery where there's nothing to do. Nobody needs you to do anything. You are not needed at all. Again, I would find that life to be miserable. And I think you would too if you had it. But the bad news or the good news, depending on how you look at it, is that that's not an option. You don't get to have that life.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
Well, I want to have a life where I don't do anything and everything's... Well, you know, sorry, you don't get to have it. You don't get to have it. Not an option. Not on the table. I mean, you might as well be having a temper tantrum because you want a time machine. Yeah, I'd like to have a time machine too. Can't have one. Sorry. Doesn't exist. Not on the table. Not on the menu of options. So...
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
That's it. I mean, that's not the reality that you live in or will ever live in. All right, I can only do one more of these. Misery Monday. I am a child.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
I don't want to work. Horrific. Obviously, it's unseemly for a man to be carrying on this way, even as a joke. It is unsightly, truly. But I just have no sympathy for this kind of thing anyway. If you hate your job, go get a better one. Have you tried that? Have you actually tried that? Because I think that 95% of the people that make these kinds of videos actually have not really tried.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
Because trying means more than just like sending in one resume. All right, I'll give it a try. No, why not? Um, trying is, uh, if, if you're trying, there is no try. If your attempts to move up, to get a better job, better position. When I say try, I mean, like, this is something that you should, it's, it's a, a project that will, that lasts for years.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
You know, it's, it's not just, if you're going to say, oh yeah, I try, I've tried. I tried once last Tuesday for 30 minutes. Then you didn't try. But I still go back to, and this is especially the case for men, not wanting to work at all. I don't get it. I don't even understand that desire. I really don't. I can't relate to it because I can understand not liking a particular job that you're in.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
You're fired. Get out of here. That I totally understand. I've had jobs I hated. I mean, everybody has. So that I get. I'm not even being dismissive of that because having a job that you have to do every day and you hate it, that could be quite miserable. But then the question is, okay, what's the solution? Once we've established, okay, you hate your job. It's a miserable job. It's terrible. Okay.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
You should sue that person because whoever told you that your 20s were supposed to be the greatest time of your life was lying to you. You've got now all these young people that expect their 20s to be. fun. Expect their 20s to be one long party. But that's not how it works. Because guess what? Your 20s kind of suck. Actually, they suck a lot. You have no money. You're just starting out.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
All right. So what are you doing next? What are we doing about that is the question. But then when you get to the point where you're just wishing that you didn't have to work at all, then that goes back to what you're actually wishing is that there is nothing that anyone needs you to do, which means that you are pining for an existence where you are not needed at all.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
where you are an unnecessary member of the human race. And I just don't, I don't think that's quite the paradise that maybe the good folks of TikToks are assuming. I was planning to watch more, but I think that's all I can do. I think that's enough. I think we've been through enough together, you and I. So that's it. Okay, bye.
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Reacting To Whiny Adult Children On TikTok
You have no experience as an adult. You have no clout or credibility. You're most likely single. At least you will be at the start of your 20s. So you're alone. You're at the very beginning of everything. You're not reaping the rewards yet because you haven't done anything. This is another one of the reasons why it's so ridiculous that people talk about aging like it's embarrassing.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Now today for our daily cancellation, now that Christmas season has officially, or rather unofficially, we got officially the Christmas season actually starts on Christmas. I don't know if you knew that. I'm going to take a bold, bold step that will only shock and offend you until you realize that I come not as your oppressor, but as your liberator.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
It's like if we're all stressed out about how to capture a squirrel from the forest and train it to do jumping jacks. The most stress-free way of doing that is to not do it because it's bizarre and pointless. And there are a million better ways to spend your time. But as far as trees go, you have two options, right? You can go out and buy a real tree or you can purchase an imposter.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
A fake tree, an avatar of a tree. The problem with the fake tree is that it's a fake tree. It's expensive and clunky. It doesn't actually look anything like a real tree, much less does it smell like one. So it's always awkward when you go to someone's house and they have a fake tree and they go, doesn't it look real? No, it doesn't. Have you ever seen a real tree? They're outside.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
You should go check them out. Because this... Doesn't look anything like it. You know what's annoying about the Christmas season? Those super targeted ads that seem to follow you everywhere. You look at one gift idea for your cousin and suddenly every website is bombarding you with similar products. Well, here's the thing.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
You might as well put a deflated basketball on your porch at Halloween instead of a pumpkin. The stand-in is significantly more depressing than just not having it at all. So that doesn't work. But the real tree is worse. First of all, it's going to run you upwards of $75 these days. $75 for a hunk of lumber that will be decaying in a heap on your front lawn in less than a month.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
I seek to free you and free all of us once and for all from the tyranny of Christmas trees. Christmas trees are canceled. This madness has gone on for long enough. I'm drawing the line in the sand right now. No more Christmas trees. We are done with Christmas trees.
The Matt Walsh Show
I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
You could buy a bottle of Blanton single barrel bourbon, Elijah Craig barrel proof even, for that price. And it will make you far jollier than any Christmas tree ever will, I assure you.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
So after you've been basically stripped naked and robbed by the Christmas tree salesman, you schlep the thing back to your house, you drag it inside, pine needles falling and dispersing themselves into areas of the house that you won't notice until sometime after Memorial Day.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Then begins the process of somehow getting this whole entire actual tree to stand up straight in your house with nothing but a plastic tree stand and a couple of screws keeping it in place. If you do get it to stay in place, it'll inevitably be knocked over multiple times by the dog, the cat, your kids, people and pets getting practically crushed to death left and right.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Meanwhile, the thing requires about 19 gallons of water a day just to keep it alive, and barely so. Now you have a half-dead, dried-out chunk of wood in your house with electrical wires draped around it. Maybe next we can develop an Easter tradition where everybody jumps into a pool and plays catch with a toaster plugged into an extension cord. And then what happens as soon as Christmas is over?
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
It's like waking up with a hangover. You look at that thing and all of the joy and spirit is sucked out of it. Now you see it for the giant pile of sticks that it always was, and you just want it out of your house. Literally the day after Christmas, you're looking at your tree with disgust. Everybody does.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Or if you have a fake tree, you just put off the hassle of taking it down for months until you finally get around to it only because you don't want people judging you when they come over for your 4th of July barbecue. So the whole thing is madness and it must end. We must free ourselves. We must stand up with one voice and refuse to be enslaved to this lunacy. It's gone on for too long.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
It ends today. And that's going to do it for me. My wife wants to go get a Christmas tree today, so we're going to go do that.
The Matt Walsh Show
I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Now, it may come as a surprise, but the early Christians never thought to cut down a tree and put it in their house for three weeks as part of their Christmas celebration. One could only imagine how the conversation would have went had anyone suggested something like that. Hey, it's almost Christmas.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
What do you say we go and chop down that perfectly healthy tree out there, drag it inside, and watch it slowly die? It'll be so festive.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
The idea probably would not have been warmly received. And that's why nobody had a Christmas tree until some depraved lunatic in Germany, as always, decided that there weren't enough distracting hassles associated with the holiday and came up with this idea. And it was the worst thing anyone had done related to Christmas since St.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Nick's started the whole gift-giving thing, which is another problem in and of itself.
The Matt Walsh Show
I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Now, admittedly, this history of Christmas and its traditions may not be entirely technically accurate, but that's not the point. The point is that we are all burdening ourselves with this demented custom for no reason. So there are, of course, two ways to approach the problem of obtaining, transporting, and erecting a tree inside your living room. This again is a problem of our own making.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
It's okay to want a break. It's okay to be tired and stressed out sometimes. But if you find that you spend every day just anxiously waiting for your kid to be out of your hair, then yeah, that's a problem because you are indeed just wishing your life away. You have to make the choice to enjoy being with your kid.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Okay, as we do some times here, we're going to take a look at... Go over to Reddit, where people often go seeking advice. Advice in many different areas of their life. But in particular, this is somewhere where parents will go looking for advice, which is like the worst possible place to go. And so...
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
We're a culture obsessed with instant gratification. We're the kind of people that we watch a movie and if it doesn't thrill us within the first three minutes, we turn it off. We don't want to expend any effort at all in the pursuit of enjoyment or more precisely of joy. And as a result, we rob ourselves of true joy because true joy requires effort to obtain.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
And you got to do that with your kids, which isn't to say that you have to lie to yourself and convince yourself that you enjoy being around them when you don't. It just means you have to try. You have to make the effort. And I mentioned a few days ago, on the show that we played Monopoly two nights in a row during a Christmas break.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Well, that second night, I was not planning to play a board game with my kids because I was having one of those waiting for bedtime type of nights. It was like six o'clock or so. And I was already doing the math of like, my plan was always put a movie on for the kids. And, you know, if the movie is this long, by the time it's over, it'll be bedtime. But then I had to stop and recognize that
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
this is happening in myself, recognize that this is not the right attitude. And so I said, kind of in spite of myself, you know, let's play Monopoly again. The kids were, of course, thrilled with that. And I did. And we had a fun time. You know, we put the effort in and then once you get into the flow of it, actually ended up having fun and enjoyed it, especially because I won.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Next one says, is it normal to love your child more than your spouse? Ever since the birth of our son, my first and my wife's third, I feel like my relationship with my spouse has taken a backseat.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Maybe it's due to the new dynamic and not having as much time for one another, but I find myself becoming more and more distant from my wife, investing more and more of myself into my relationship with my son. I love my wife and can't imagine not having her in my life, but it feels like every day is a battle with her.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
We could never agree or have any sort of meaningful dialogue about how I'm feeling. Is this a normal phase and will it pass? Should I look into counseling? You don't need counseling. You also certainly don't need the counseling of Redditors because once again, a lot of the comments are, yeah, it's normal. You know, this is what it is. Once you have a kid, you love your kid more than your spouse.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
This is the response you get from people. Although you don't need counseling for it, I don't think it is wrong. Like you should not love your child more than your spouse. That may be normal in the sense that it's how a lot of families operate these days. But that's why is it normal is the wrong question to ask.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Question is whether it is good, whether it is healthy, whether it is how it ought to be. whether it will make your family stronger, whether it's good for your kids, whether it's good for your spouse. The best thing you can do for your child is to prioritize your wife first.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
I mean, the relationship with your child is important, but it's not what the family is built on. And you can go through seasons with your child, especially I imagine as they get older, where there's some tension, where you're not connecting with your child. I mean, these things are gonna happen through the course of parenting. And that's gonna happen.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
We're going to go through some of these questions, and they may be looking for advice from strangers on Reddit, but instead they're going to get advice from me, which, as you know, the advice that I give is at least a little better than what you'll get from random people on Reddit. So I'll say that much for myself. Okay, there's this one, says, I can't wait for today to be over every day.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
It doesn't put the family in jeopardy though, but when you're not prioritizing your spouse, it does. You know what I love about New Year's? It's not just about watching that ball drop or making resolutions we might forget by February. It's about the feeling of possibility, the fresh start we all crave.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Get a free debt analysis right now at pdsdebt.com slash Walsh. It only takes 30 seconds at pdsdebt.com slash Walsh. pdsdebt.com slash Walsh. Next question says, am I being too dependent on my husband? Today's been tough. It's that time of the month that I'm feeling absolutely miserable. Lightheaded, heart racing, weak. Oh.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
He said he was concerned, but I also know he's on phase because he says I'm always complaining about something. What's bothering me is right before he left, he mentioned to our two year old that he's going golfing prior to going to work. So basically he was letting me know indirectly, usually asks if he can go golfing, which I always say yes to.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
I do sometimes find it annoying when he asks because I'm a default parent. He has the freedom to decide what to do with his free time. He doesn't need my permission, and he doesn't have to plan around anyone's schedule, but he didn't even ask this time. I get it he needs a break, but couldn't he have offered to stay home and help me with the kids?
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
I'm not expecting him to take care of me, but a little support would be nice. Before he left, he asked what my plan was for when the kids nap, and I said I'd lay down. He just agreed and took off. I feel like I'm being unreasonable, but at the same time, I wish he'd show a bit more empathy. Am I overreacting? I want to focus really on just one part of this.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
The real answer here is the obvious one, which is you need to talk to your husband. Just take exactly what you've written on Reddit for strangers to chime in and just say that to your husband. Don't scream it at him. Don't scold him. Just say it. That's a good place to start. Maybe your husband should help you with the kids more.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Maybe from his perspective, you actually get more breaks and have more time off than he does. I don't know. I mean, that's where communication is important, to figure that out. But I do want to home in on the bit about complaining. Your husband says that you're always complaining about something.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
Now, predictably, the Reddit commenters are going to say that your husband is dismissive and uncaring and... What a horrible thing for him to say. And maybe that's the case. But my question is, is he right? Yes. If you don't complain very much at all, but in this case, you're just trying to tell him how you feel, trying to tell him you don't feel well.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
I'm literally wishing away my life and time with my toddler while she's still so young. I can't wait for her to go to bed every night. This is a me problem, not her. She's amazing, fun, and funny, a good sleeper, good eater, generally very well behaved, but I'm overwhelmed as a parent, overstimulated, tired, and just want to veg out every night because my brain is too full. I feel so guilty.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
And his response is just to blow you off and say that you always complain about something and then go golfing. Well, then he'd be in the wrong. But I have found in my experience that people who have a reputation for always complaining don't. have earned that reputation most of the time by complaining a lot. So what if it's true? Well, then you can't blame your husband for lacking sympathy.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
You also can't blame him for wanting to get out of the house and go golfing. People just don't care. How can they care? How can someone care when you're complaining always? At a certain point, it's natural. It's human. Someone goes, okay, what now? We don't talk enough about what complaining can do. Complaining, it's not like infidelity.
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Correcting Bad Parenting Advice | Matt Walsh Reads Reddit Stories
It's not going to blow up your marriage in one big dramatic explosion. Complaining is more like, it's more like, it's like rust that eats away gradually. It makes the structure of your marriage weaker and more brittle. And it's just this kind of gnawing, nagging, constant thing. Nobody likes to be around a complainer. It's not a lack of love on their part. It's just that it's literally impossible.
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I mean, actually physically impossible to enjoy being around someone who whines and and moans all the time. I understand there's a gender difference here. Women are more prone to complaining.
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Part of that is that women are more expressive, more emotional. They talk more about how they feel, which means that it's always going to be more repulsive and more unattractive for a man to be a whiner than it is for a woman. But that doesn't let women off the hook. Really think about it. Has that become the majority of what you communicate to him? And if so, you are killing your marriage.
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You are killing it. You're destroying it. And here's one more thought. If you're prone to talking about your frustrations and burdens, you should also talk about the other side too. You should talk about what makes you happy. When you have a good day, you should talk about that. I think complainers, when the situation really metastasizes, they won't even tell their spouse if they had a good day.
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It's like this contest of who's more put upon And that's when the situation is really bad. And that's when you're acting in a way that could be catastrophic for your marriage. So I don't know if any of that is necessarily the case here.
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But when I see these kinds of things, when people are talking about their marital disputes and you see this sort of thing just mentioned as an aside, oh, yeah, he says I complain all the time. Anyway, it's like oftentimes it's, wait a minute, that right there, that's something there. That's not in any way. And you move on. When someone you know and love That's it. Great shot.
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Has anyone else felt like this for a long time, like 19 plus months? What did you do? How did you get over it? And reading the responses, and of course everyone is saying, yeah, it's totally normal and okay to feel this way. And that's all you're ever going to get from Reddit. That's all you're going to get from a lot of people, especially the internet.
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If you pose a dilemma like this on the internet anywhere, not just on Reddit, you get people encouraging you to continue along a path that you obviously feel bad about.
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Because of Michael Knowles. Now, can any parent relate? Well, yeah, of course. I have found myself on plenty of occasions eagerly awaiting bedtime. But that doesn't mean that it's fine. We actually should not have this attitude as parents. So you should fight against it.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Where do you think India is, Jacob?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That's right, you mean? Yeah. Rules of the game. You're saying that's right? Yes. Turns out that is indeed right. Let's go. Racist! Once convicted, black people on average receive sentences 40% longer than white offenders of the same crimes. Is that right? Or is that racist? That is racist? Why do you say that?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
I think your explanation was racist. But you're also right. That is racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Yes, that is true. Sorry, Siaka. Oh, racist. On average, the sentences for convicted blacks are only 10% longer than convicted whites. Racist! Next question. Over half of all serial killers in the United States from 1900 to 2010 were white.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Well, yes, that's how you would define it.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Wait, no, I'm saying the statement was right. You're wrong.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
White people, over half of serial killers, we love to do the serial killing. Question number five, I think. Kim Jong-il sentenced his uncle to death by feeding him to a pack of 120 dogs.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
You finally got one wrong. That is racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That's racist. That is racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Kim Jong-il. Il? This was the distinguished father of the current dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. This was his father. It's a fact.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
I think it's... He did it.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
I understood your answer. It's just wrong, unfortunately. What? That is racist. Dang. Well, as reported by the newspaper, the Korean government says it's false, and we know we can trust the North Korean government. Turns out he wasn't fed to dogs. He was just simply shot in the head. Not so bad. Racist! Next question. All right. Over 50% of Uber drivers are either Black or Hispanic.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That is correct. That is, in fact, racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Only 18% are Black and 14% are Hispanic. Thankfully, not a lot of Asian who were driving. Isn't that the truth? They're bad at driving. Racist! Next question. As reported by the Huffington Post in 2014, roughly 60% of adult Black females... wear wigs, extensions, or weaves.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Oh, and you think that's representative of the whole population?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Per 2014 statistics, Colombia produces the most cocaine in the world.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
The videos of black women fighting each other and tearing their weaves, that's representative of the whole population. That's what you're saying.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Roughly 60% of adult black females wear wigs, weaves. Facts.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Racist! Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of Mexico's Independence Day. Is that right or is that racist? Oh, that's right, Matt. That is right. I know that one. You do not know that one. That is racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Well, we'll have to go to judges for that, because you're correct. That's racist. But then your explanation was totally wrong. Cinco de Mayo is not the Day of the Dead. So judges, are we counting that? As there are no judges out there, it's nobody. It's actually just me. I'm going to say that that's you. So you get that one wrong, unfortunately. Is that how were they dressed up at the school?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Well, here's a lesson. There's a lesson in this, because you had it right, but then you kept talking. So just stop with the talking and you would have been fine. It's the celebration of their army's victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Well, I guess I'm... Your whole life people have been staring... Why do you think people have been staring at you like you're a moron your whole life? Because of this. Next question. According to the 1994 to 1996 study of factors affecting watermelon consumption... In the United... Don't look at me that way. I didn't make these questions. Okay, I can at least give you a pass on that then.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Factors affecting watermelon consumption in the United States. African Americans consume the most watermelon across all demographics. on a per capita basis.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Those are very big facts indeed. That is right.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
They consume the most. The number is most.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
The most. The most. Just the most watermelons.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Of course you want to say right. And that is wrong. That is racist. That is racist. It's actually Asians who eat the most watermelons.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That's literally the point of the game.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Oh, wow. Is that what you think? You think the black people are eating all the watermelon? Because you saw that in your racist cartoons with your racist... Come on.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Did you see that in Twitter videos too, did you?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
You can talk all you want, because that's still racist. Per the study, it's actually Asians who eat the most watermelon. However, 78% of malt liquor is consumed by black people. Made that one up too, but it's probably right. In Taiwan, 10 last names are shared by over 50% of the population. Is that right or is that racist? That feels right. 10 last names are shared by over 50%. Facts.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Once again, you talked yourself out of a right answer because that was right. No, I'm going to go with that's right, Matt. Pretty offensive assumption, and it turns out to be correct.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Let's go. The 10 names are Chen, Lin, Huang, Cheng, Li, Wang, Wu, Lu, Sai, and Yang. Hashtag pots and pans. That's on the card. You can't blame me. That's on the card. That was on the card. Asians are catching a lot of strays. Yeah. Hopefully not to eat them, though.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That is correct. That is right.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Next question. On a percentage basis, black kids aged between 20 and 25 years old are more likely to deal drugs than white kids of the same age. I'm going to go ahead and give that one a big old W, facts. Can you just say that's right? Righteous. That's right. Just say that's right. That's right or racist. Bofa. You're on Jeopardy.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Welcome to the show, Am I Racist? The only game that uses science to prove who is and who is not racist. Our contestants will be asked a series of questions. Whomever answers the most questions correctly wins the game. Let's meet them now. Siaka. Bryson, everybody. Justine, everybody. And loser of Mortal Kombat, Jacob, everybody. Question number one.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
You have to answer in the form of a question or they kick you out.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Both you and Obama are racist. That is a racist. Survey says 6.6% of whites age 12 to 25 sold drugs, 5% of blacks the same age. So we're dealing the drugs and we're doing the serial killing. We got it all covered. We got all the bases covered, don't we? Next question. The average alcohol consumer in Ireland has 39 drinks per week, the highest among any nation.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That's right. You got that one right. Colombia. Off to a good start. Turns out Colombia not only first, but produces more than second place Peru and third place Bolivia combined. Question number two. 70% of Indian Americans over the age of 25 have a college degree, making them the most educated group of Asian immigrants in America.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
I want you to know, before you answer this, I am of Irish descent. My family is from Ireland. I cherish my family deeply. So is that right, or is that racist?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That is racist. That is very racist. In fact, drinkers from Mali, an African Muslim nation, consume 39 drinks per week. The Irish only consume 21. Though, as an Irish person myself, I'm trying hard to make the difference. Am I racist? Well, I think we're getting there, yeah. Racist! Question.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Among all religious groups, Muslims account for the highest percentage of the total prison population in the United States.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That is correct. It is racist. Racist. Well, ladies and gentlemen, the judges have tabulated the results, and now it's time to announce the winner of Am I Racist? And that winner is Justine, ladies and gentlemen. Justine is the winner of Am I Racist?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Okay, Justine, you have won your own box of Am I Racist? There you go. Thank you so much. I am also surprised that it was a woman who won. Not surprised that she's white, though. I'm just kidding. Not really. Okay. Thank you so much to all the contestants. Thank you to everybody at home. And remember, get your own copy of Am I Racist at dailywire.com. See you next time, folks. Thank you.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
Shortly after Trump's victory was announced, we started seeing tweets like these popping up all over Twitter, quote, women need to stop dating and having sex with men immediately, and I'm not joking or being dramatic in the slightest. That one has 400,000 likes. This one has almost 300,000. It says, quote, ladies, I'm being so for real when I say this. It's time to close off your wombs to males.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
Now, one funny thing about this is that some men, as embarrassing as it may be for them, did actually vote for Kamala. Yet these women are swearing off sex with all men. They aren't making exceptions for men who voted for Kamala. So they're basically admitting that they're only sexually attracted to conservative men.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
The male Kamala voters who have completely degraded themselves just to impress these women are getting thrown out with the bathwater. They're punished for something they didn't even do. They're listening to this and they're standing on the sideline like, well, wait, but I didn't. I voted for her. Get out of here. We're not talking to you.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
That's what they get for being submissive male feminist dorks, I guess. It's just indignity on top of indignity. Here's another TikTok feminist weighing in.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
So just to reiterate, they are attempting to punish all men by refusing to be in relationships with us as men. But the problem is that You know, we aren't interested. In fact, speaking personally, I'm already married. Many of us are already married. So you can go ahead and be single and lonely for the rest of your life. It makes no difference to us.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
This is like keying your own car because you're mad at us. You're making a big show in your own driveway of keying your own car. Is this what you want? You see this? Look at this. Look what you've done. Okay? I mean, all right. Knock yourself out. You're trying to exact revenge on us by embracing the extinction of your own bloodline and living a life of spiteful, miserable solitude. Be our guest.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
Be our guest. Even the single men among us wouldn't want anything to do with you anyway. Even the single ones. They're not looking for bitter, condescending harpies. Every man... I'm telling you, every single one, 100%, no exceptions, would watch that video of that woman and just even taking the content out of it. Like, just the tone. That condescending, that tone.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
And this is something that women should realize, especially if you're a TikTok, one of these types. That tone, it's the most off-putting thing for men in the world. Like, it's nauseating. We actually want to throw up watching. Just that tone in particular. It doesn't matter how physically attractive you are. That tone just makes you... You're hideous to us. We can't get past it.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
In fact, the greatest fear of single men everywhere... is that they might accidentally marry a miserable, disgruntled feminist without realizing that that's her true nature until it's too late. Now, I've said to men many times that these types can't fool you, okay? I mean, if you're at all perceptive, maybe they could fool you for a minute.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
This election proves now more than ever that they hate us and hate us proudly. Do not reward them. Here's another with nearly 400,000 likes. Quote, ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth decline. No marriage, no childbirth, no dating men, no sex with men. We can't let these men have the last laugh.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
But just one conversation, one date should be enough to tell if it's that kind of woman. And you should be able to tell, you know, whereas a, you know, A wonderful, gracious woman. The spirit of such a woman you could tell also from having a conversation. But anyway, if you are worried about that, well, now those types are taking themselves out of the pool. And so single men can breathe easier.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
So it's very much the opposite of a punishment. History, economics, the great works of literature, the meaning of the US Constitution. Did you study these things in school? Well, probably not. Or even if you did, maybe it's time for a refresher. Time and technology have changed a lot of things, but they have not changed basic fundamental truths about the world and our place in it.
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That's why I'm so excited that Hillsdale College is offering more than 40 free online courses in the most important and enduring subject. You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories in the books of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S.
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That's hillsdale.edu slash walshtostart. Hillsdale.edu slash walsh. This is a woman who's gone viral on TikTok with a message for her fellow white women. Watch.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
You know, she says that this is a message for anyone who looks like her. And so, you know, I watched that. And at first I thought that's kind of weird because if you have a message for Chris Farley, it's a little late. But then I realized she was talking about her skin color. And it's not a joke or insult, by the way, against her. I was truly confused at first. I didn't understand what she meant.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
We need to bite back. Now the 4B movement, as she mentioned in the tweet, started in South Korea sometime around 2019 or 2020. The whole idea is that women opt out of sexual relationships with men. And they also opt out of marriage and childbirth. This is how they're going to exact revenge on male Trump voters.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
I was a little confused. No offense to her or Chris Farley. May he rest in peace. Anyway, here's all I want to say. I know that white women, specifically single white women, are overwhelmingly Democrat, overwhelmingly liberal. But I just have to ask, as a woman, don't you ever get tired of this crap? Don't you get sick of it? This never-ending guilt trip? It's relentless.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
And I know we've established that white men, lowest on the totem pole, right? We are the most villainized group. In the country, in the Western world, by far. We know that. But it's not much better for white women. You could even make an argument that in some ways it's worse. White women, even though white men, it's almost like as white men, we're hated so much that we're just kind of written off.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
We're a lost cause. So we don't get lectured nearly as much. That's at least the advantage is that there aren't as many lectures to white men because it's just assumed that we're all a bunch of cavemen bigots. And so they just leave us alone in our caves, which I'm fine with. Like, fine, just give up on me. Perfect. Please do. I am a lost cause for you people. There's nothing you can do.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
White women, though... I think are not spared the lectures. And oftentimes, so it's, they're getting lectured constantly by non-white liberals, but then there's also a lot of this, where you have one of your own like talking down to you. And it's just, it never stops. It's a little bit, the dynamic, it's like, I'm trying to think of a comparison. It's almost like, think of a full metal jacket,
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
You know, the boot camp scenes and the way that the new recruits were treated. You know, old school Marine Corps boot camp, Parris Island, you know, just being cut down constantly. You maggots, everything just being cut down, abused. And so that's like what white women are in the left wing world, whereas white men were the enemy. So in a way, we are ranked lower because we're the enemy.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
Even though male Trump voters want nothing to do with these women anyway, that hasn't stopped them from marching under this banner. And needless to say, the women of TikTok are fully on board.
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
We're the ones that you're training to go out and kill. But a lot of the negative energy on a day-to-day basis is focused on those white women, the new recruits who are just sitting there standing at attention in boot camp. The drill instructors walking down the barracks, just cutting you down one by one. Hey, you over there, just insulting you. But the thing is,
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Matt Walsh Reviews Feminist TikTok Disasters
At least if you're a full metal jacket recruit, you can get through boot camp and you can move up the ranks. But as a white woman, you never get through it. This is what you are forever. You're the new recruit, maggot, and it just will never stop. You're always at that level.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
You know, despite what you may think, we do actually listen to audience feedback around here. And one thing many of you have been saying is that you'd like to see me do more film and television reviews. And specifically, you'd like to know not just what I hate, but what I like. Even though it's kind of more fun to talk about what you hate.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
And this is how it should work. Storytellers should be inspired by other storytellers to come up with new stories that are influenced by, but not directly plagiarizing, what came before. You don't need to attempt a TV remake of Office Space. Just take whatever you love about it, and inject it into a brand new story. What a concept. And that's what Severance does.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
It's the same thing I say about all these directors now who say, well, I grew up watching Star Wars. I love Star Wars. And so, of course, I'm so excited to be making a Star Wars movie or a Star Wars show in the Star Wars universe.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
But the plan for today is to talk about something that I like. This will be a short video to recommend what is, in my view, the best show on TV right now. In fact, it's not much of a contest. I don't think any other show currently on air even really comes close. And that show is called Severance. And if you haven't seen the show, I'll make sure not to spoil anything.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
No, if you're an actual talented filmmaker and you grew up watching Star Wars, rather than just making another Star Wars thing, tell your own story that has Star Wars influences, but is not Star Wars. How about that? I'm kind of at the point now where I will try to watch at least almost any original show or film simply because it is original.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
Even if they aren't good, I at least want to reward them for trying something new. And fortunately, Severance actually is very good. Two, Severance deals with interesting ideas, which is another thing that I wish more shows and films did. When most people talk about the show and the ideas that it grapples with, what they usually will talk about is the commentary on the modern workplace.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
But that to me is the less interesting theme. That's kind of window dressing for the far more fascinating exploration of human consciousness. That's what makes the show interesting to me. Severance asks a pretty deep question. It's one of the deepest really, which is what makes you an individual person? What makes you a self?
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
We know what makes you a person biologically, but what makes you an individual? What makes you a self? Is your memory the only thing sort of holding you together and making you one individual?
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
The show argues, I think pretty convincingly, that if you take one person and you put them in two different settings and you make it so that they don't remember anything about themselves in the other setting, you'll end up with two distinct personalities and value systems and beliefs. And in effect then... you end up with two selves in one person.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
And if memory is the one thing holding this kind of precarious Jenga tower that I call a self together, what happens if my memory is wrong? Like memory is notoriously unreliable, nobody's memory is perfect, which means that every person's self is based at least partly on a fiction.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
You are not really the sum total of your experiences, but rather you are the sum total of how you remember your experiences. And that seems to be what the show is driving at. And maybe they're right about it, maybe they're wrong, but it's an interesting thing to think about. And any show that actually gives you interesting things to think about is a win in my book. Let me ask you a question.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
It's an app that reroutes my online traffic through encrypted servers so my ISP can't access it and neither can data brokers or other third parties. If you're going to use a VPN, you really have to have confidence in it. After all, you're transferring trust from your ISP to your VPN provider. So why do I trust ExpressVPN?
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
Any reliable VPN receives data requests from law enforcement and government entities. ExpressVPN received over 300 of these requests in the past year alone, and none of them resulted in any customer data being exposed, zero. Go read their transparency report on their website. If you don't believe me, it's all right there.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
You definitely want to go into the show knowing as little as possible about it. I'll just give you the basics of the plot. So Severance, produced and largely directed by Ben Stiller, there are other directors as well, is a show following a small group of employees at a company called Lumen.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
ExpressVPN doesn't keep any customer activity logs thanks to specially engineered server architecture that runs on volatile memory. Nothing is ever saved to disk. It's private by design. I personally use ExpressVPN when I'm doing research while traveling and have to connect to unprotected internet in places like hotels and airports.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
Three, finally, Severance is great for a reason that's going to seem very, very simple, and it is, but it is also rare. And that is that in this show, stuff actually happens. And this is maybe the most radical thing about it. The plot moves forward every episode. Things happen. There are stakes. There are consequences. Each moment in the show leads to another moment.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
There's a famous video that's worth watching if you haven't seen it of Matt Parker and Trey Stone, the South Park guys, explaining that in a bad, poorly told story, each scene is linked together by the words, and then. You would say, well, this happens, and then this happens, and then this happens, and then this happens, and then this happens. The end.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
but in a good, well-told story, in a good movie or a good show, each scene is linked together by the words therefore or but. This happens, therefore this happens, but then this happens, therefore this happens. And that's just another way of saying that a film or show should be propulsive. You know, one thing should lead to another. The train should be hurtling every moment towards a destination.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
But many shows and films these days are and then stories. They just kind of meander. There are no stakes. There are no real consequences. There's nothing in the story that really matters. And it works this way for a reason. It works this way because the studios want to milk each franchise for all it's worth.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
Well, first of all, each thing has to be a franchise, and then you have to milk it, which means that nothing can ever actually happen.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
I mean, Disney notoriously is so desperate to make sure that nothing happens in their films that they've even invented the multiverse so that if a character dies, he can be replaced by an infinite number of replacement versions of himself, which means, of course, that it doesn't matter if a character dies. He really can't die. So nothing happens, nothing matters.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
In this fictional world, some sort of technology has been developed that allows a person's consciousness to essentially be cut in half, to be severed. So when they're at work... working on some very vague and mysterious project down in the basement of Lumen.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
The story just kind of floats along like debris. Severance, so far anyway, has not fallen prey to that. Each scene is a but or a therefore, and there are physical and emotional consequences to everything that happens. Now, the show isn't perfect. There are moments here and there that don't work. It follows some threads every once in a while that I don't find especially interesting.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
As for the wokeness factor, you know, it's always a question. I would say that I'm not going to call this an anti-woke show. It's certainly not that. I do think it's a mostly unwoke show. There is a gay character in the show, but to this point, they haven't leaned into that too much. He's there, but they don't beat you over the head with him. That might change. I mean, you never know.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
But this is Hollywood after all. The biggest problem with Severance is that it's a show revolving around a central mystery, which is a lot of fun. I mean, these kinds of shows are always fun. I can imagine as the writer, it's a lot of fun because it allows you to have a bunch of weird stuff happen. And that certainly happens in this show.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
There's a lot of weird things always happening and you're always being surprised, which is great. Again, fun to watch. But the implication is that this weird, like, we don't know why this weird stuff is happening, but there is a reason. And so it'll all be tied together in the end, and we're going to understand it. So you're kind of like writing this check that you have to cash later.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
And if the check bounces, if the answer isn't satisfying at the end of this whole thing, it ruins the whole show. I mean, there are shows that have bad endings where it doesn't ruin the whole show. You can still enjoy the show, but... If the whole show is built around a central mystery, and then the answer to the mystery is unsatisfying, then it just breaks down everything.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
There's no reason to watch it anymore. So whether Severance ultimately sticks the landing remains to be seen. So far, so good. And I highly recommend it. And that's it. I promise that next time I review something, it will be a thing I hate. Because all of this positivity is honestly making me a little nauseous.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
They don't remember anything about their lives outside of work, and when they're not at work, they don't remember anything about their lives at work. So the work version of themselves essentially never leaves work. The non-working version essentially never goes to work. And that's kind of the setup. I'm not going to say anything else about the plot.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
There are three things that I like about this show. Three things that I think it does really well that many other shows don't do well or don't do at all. So, number one. This is a big one. It's an original story. In a world of franchise films and sequels and remakes, it is possible to still tell original stories. Severance is obviously inspired by things that came before it.
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The Best Show On TV? Matt Walsh Reviews "Severance"
It's clear that the guy who wrote this show is a big fan of office space, for example. Severance has a similar view of workplace culture, the kind of mindless, busy work that defines many office jobs. The humor kind of comes from a similar place in many cases. I'd say it's just as funny as Office Space, much, much darker, more thrilling, but still very funny as well.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
And we see yet again that those supposedly fighting against racism are in fact determined to create racial divides, deepen them where they already existed, open new wounds and reopen old ones, and keep the resentments of the past forever at the forefront of our minds. The whole point of performing the national anthem, the real national anthem,
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
is to, first of all, show our respect and gratitude for this country and for the traditions in our country and for the people who have made all this possible for us. It's also to show our unity and to celebrate our national identity under one flag and one God. That's the point. But the powers that be don't share that goal. Their goal is exactly the opposite.
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And that's what the Black National Anthem is really all about.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
The ad is very careful to make sure that it doesn't depict a white person getting his feet washed by a non-white person. So we see every combination of feet washing going on, except for that one. Apparently Jesus calls us to wash feet unless you're black and the other person is white, because that would be racist.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
And this already tells you everything you need to know about the campaign and the people funding it. The ad strictly follows and respects the left-wing victim hierarchy and dutifully makes sure to not depict any image that would run afoul of the rules of intersectionality. If they had reversed the roles in any of these scenarios...
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
then the ad would have been, to at least some small degree, culturally subversive. Okay, what if it was a black guy washing the feet of the cop? But you would never see that. Okay, even though people defend the ad and say, well, are you saying we shouldn't love each other? Okay, well, then why don't we have the black guy wash the cop's feet? Shouldn't he love cops?
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
If you saw that, well, that sends the wrong message. We can't have that. But at least that would have offered the viewer something that they don't already see. It would have given them something to think about. It would have challenged the viewer. But they made sure not to do that. So what's the problem here? Aside from the political correctness with the racial dynamics, what's the problem?
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
Well, to begin with, We should say, Jesus did not go around washing everyone's feet, okay? There is precisely one story in the New Testament of Jesus washing feet, and it was at the Passover meal before his passion and death. In that case, he washed the feet of his disciples, the people closest to him, his disciples, people that have been following him literally throughout his whole ministry.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
I mean, I still watched it, but I watched it unenthusiastically. So it was a heroic form of activism on my part, you must admit. But in any case, I did happen to glance up during an early commercial break when we saw what would prove to be one of the most viral ads of the night. It was another Super Bowl commercial for the He Gets Us campaign.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
And now that did include, of course, the disciple who was about to betray him. But the point is that these were his disciples, right? He wasn't out in the street washing the feet of every unbeliever and unrepentant sinner who walked by. And we often do this these days. We take singular moments in Jesus' ministry and we extrapolate them, making them out to be regular occurrences.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
But that's not a fair or accurate assumption. So when we say, Jesus didn't hate, he washed feet, it makes it sound like it was a standard form of greeting. There's one story of that happening in a very specific circumstance for a specific group of people. Did he ever go out in the public and wash feet? Well, we don't know. There's no reason to assume he did. There's no mention of it.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
But we do know that out in public. Whether or not he ever washed feet, we don't know. We do know that his fundamental message was this, repent and believe. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, as he says in the Gospel of Luke. This was his message, not stop hating, okay? It was never that. It was repent and believe.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
And yet, neither one of those points were mentioned in the ad, curiously enough. So, Is this a good entry point, though? Maybe that's the argument. Well, yeah, it's not really the gospel, but it gets people in the door with the feet-washing stuff. Well, no, it's probably not a good entry point. It probably won't get them in the door.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
And even if it does get them in the door, they'll be coming through the door for the wrong reason. When you say to unrepentant sinners, come and get your feet washed, you are reaffirming them in their sin. You're feeding into their pride and ego. Okay, for the disciples, this is another key difference. For the disciples, getting their feet washed by Christ was a humbling experience for them.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
They felt uncomfortable at first. They tried to stop him. Okay, they knew they were unworthy. But again, a major point here was humbling for them. But if somebody sits down and says, yeah, come wash my feet. I deserve this treatment. Come cater to my every whim. then the very last thing you should do for that person is actually wash their feet, whether literally or metaphorically.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
You are not saving anybody's soul by feeding their ego. Yes, we should be inviting sinners into the fold. We're all sinners after all, but we're inviting them to repentance, to strive for virtue, to live holy lives, or at least to try. The problem with modern Christianity in many cases is that it offers the invitation to right? But it forgets what the invitation is for.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
The campaign first run by a group called the Servant Foundation and now run by a group called Come Near Incorporated. both funded by mostly anonymous, but we can assume extremely wealthy donors, is ostensibly meant to evangelize and promote Christianity. Indeed, they're spending tens of millions of dollars to run these ads during the Super Bowl.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
Google put out, I think they probably won the trophy. Los Angeles, they won the trophy for winning the Super Bowl. But the trophy for wokest ad, I think has to go to Google because they put out an ad advertising their new phone, I guess, which has great camera technology, which is fine because everybody wants, I guess the cameras on the phones are never good enough.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
I think that's like what we have now is probably enough. It kind of it captures the scene well enough. We got to keep improving the cameras. So they put out an ad that advertises that. But in the context of the ad, they basically accused cameras, other cameras, cameras before this one of being racist. So let's I'll probably have to narrate some of this because it's mostly visual.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
But let's let's play this. It says, historically, camera technology hasn't accurately represented dark skin tones.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
Unfortunately, I cannot give a full analysis of the Super Bowl or the Super Bowl ads if for whatever reason anyone actually wanted me to do that. I watched the game rather half-heartedly, paying only vague attention because I was bitter that my Baltimore Ravens weren't playing in it. I'll admit that. I was bitter. And in protest against this injustice, I boycotted the event.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
I think that's, is that Lizzo in the background singing there?
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
You know what's a problem? You know we talk about Lizzo too much on the show and I can actually identify one of her songs. I can identify her voice. That's a problem. All right. So there's basically the ad. And then we see pictures of a lot of non-white people, and they're nice. Oh, there's Lizzo there. There she is. Everyone deserves to be seen as they truly are.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
So the point is that previous to this, cameras were systemically racist, and you were not able to take a picture of a non-white person. All the pictures look bad, and Google is fixing that now. Now, here's the thing. If in the past, cameras... The lighting with the camera technology wasn't good. You could just advertise that. You could make that point in your ad and it would be fine.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
But everything has to be framed in a racial context if it can be. And it turns out that everything can be. They'll find a way to do it. And so even this ad for a camera is framed in a racial context. Which, by the way, if there's some idea that there's white privilege when it comes to cameras and pictures... I look horrible. I look like a ghost in every picture that's ever been taken of me.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
I look dead. I look like I've been dead and in the ground for five days in every single picture taken of me. Which you might point out, I look like that in real life, but I look even worse in the pictures. So if you're white, then you end up looking kind of more pale in pictures oftentimes. I guess if you're black, oftentimes you end up looking darker in pictures.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
So I think that just has to do with lighting. And you could probably solve a lot of those problems just by positioning your camera differently and making sure the lighting is better. Just a thought. Now that the gym memberships, the diets, the New Year plans have likely already faded away, there's still one plan worth keeping, growing closer to God.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
There are many very credible and biblically grounded Christian groups in the world that would love to have the resources to run a commercial during the most watched television event of the year. But most of them wouldn't have those kinds of funds if they fundraised and saved for a decade.
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Efforts that for the past several seasons, up to and including the game last night, has included writing the phrase end racism in huge letters directly on the field. And many people expected that this would be enough. We imagine that all the people of the world would see the phrase end racism written in the end zone, and they would all say, wow, the NFL is right. We should end racism.
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And then racism would be ended and global peace and harmony would commence. After all, racism only exists in the world because no one has ever suggested that it shouldn't exist. So we simply needed the NFL to go, hey, what if we cut out that racism stuff? And everyone would respond, oh, so we shouldn't be racist? Jeez, okay, well, we hadn't thought of that. And that would be it.
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At least that's what we thought. But somehow this strategy has proven insufficient. And so it has added, the NFL has added another prong to their anti-racist battle plan. And yet again last night, the Super Bowl began with the performance of two national anthems.
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There's the regular national anthem, the one written by Francis Scott Key after he watched British ships lay siege to Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812. And then the so-called black national anthem called Lift Every Voice and Sing. This was the third year in a row where the most watched sporting event of the year featured a special national anthem for one special racial group.
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The people that are behind He Gets Us do have that money, which means they have a unique chance that few Christians will ever have. They're able to present a message to 100 million people all at the same time. In fact, this Super Bowl is certain to be among the most watched events of all time, making this an unprecedented, or nearly unprecedented at least, opportunity.
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It's the third time the broadcast has featured the song, yet it's the first time that the song was performed on the field, which is significant because that's, of course, how they also performed the real national anthem.
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Now, all of this is, of course, totally grotesque and outrageous and the kind of gratuitous display that no country outside of the Western world would ever be stupid enough to allow. And yes, I use the word allow here intentionally. You'll notice that nowhere else do they permit individual racial groups to come up with their own national anthems that are then performed before major events.
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That's the sort of thing that can only happen here. And I don't mean that as a compliment. Now, there are, as always, some people looking to defend the indefensible and minimize even the most outrageous excesses of leftism. There are even conservatives who enjoy participating in this pastime. There are many conservatives who love doing this.
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And from those people who, you know, we've heard that, well, lift every voice and sing. It's a nice gospel song. It's not actually a national anthem. So there's no reason for us to object to it. They didn't call it the black national anthem during the broadcast after all. They didn't specifically say that during the broadcast.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
For example, a guy named Ross Schuman, who identifies himself as a conservative, made this case to me last night. He tweeted, quote, at no point in time was Lift Every Voice and Sing called a national anthem on the broadcast. Why do you take the left's bait? Well, except that the NAACP has billed the song as the black national anthem since 1917.
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Not to mention the woman who performed the song at the game, Cheryl Lee Ralph, said that she was performing the black national anthem. That's what she said. She posted, quote, it is no coincidence that I'll be singing the Black National Anthem, lift every voice and sing at the Super Bowl on the same date it was first publicly performed 123 years ago. Happy Black History Month.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Wokest "Big Game" Moments
So everyone, including the performer herself, knows what the song is and why it's being performed. There's a reason they had her sing it on the field with the audience in the stadium standing in solemn reverence just as they do for the real national anthem. There's a reason why every media report has hailed the inspirational rendition of the, quote, black national anthem.
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And they've all called it that specifically. The media, the NFL, the left, they're not celebrating the performance of a gospel hymn, okay? Their intention is not to glorify God. That's not what they're excited about. That may be the focus of the lyrics in the song, but that's not why it's included in the broadcast. And that's not the intention behind its performance.
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The intention is to do the only thing a racialized national anthem can do, which is to divide Americans along racial lines, Elevate some races above others. You know, some races are special and they get two national anthems while the rest of us have to settle for just one. While diminishing our most cherished national traditions.
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Because the message of the black national anthem is that the actual national anthem isn't enough. It isn't good enough. It isn't inclusive enough. Like, nobody disagrees. that black people should have a national anthem. No one is looking at black people and say, you don't get a national anthem. This isn't for you. No, the point is that the national anthem is everyone's national anthem.
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So, what will they do with it? What message will they send out to those 100 million souls? How will they use the millions upon millions of dollars that these 60 seconds of ad time will cost them? Will they call the world to repentance? To humility? To obedience? To virtue? No, no, no, and no. Instead, they did this. Watch.
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So if you're a black person, that's your national anthem. If you're a white person, that's your national anthem. If you're a Native American, that's your national anthem. It's everyone's national anthem. But the other message, the other idea behind this, which is just as false and just as insidious, is that the situation, this is what they're trying to claim. This is why they're doing it.
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that the situation hasn't improved much for black people since the song was declared the black national anthem over 100 years ago. It was a rallying cry during the civil rights battle.
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Well, bringing it back now, not just bringing it back, but elevating it to a status equal to or even surpassing the real national anthem is meant to send the message that black people still do not have their rights, that the civil rights battle of 100 years ago is still ongoing, which is all total nonsense.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media blatantly lies about the meeting between Trump and Zelensky in the White House. We'll talk about what really happened and who is actually to blame. Also, there was a land acknowledgement recited on the Oscars red carpet last night as the left continues to transcend parody. The mayor of Boston mourns the loss of a guy who tried to stab random people to death.
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Visit donewithdebt.com and talk with one of their strategists. It's free. Go to donewithdebt.com. That's donewithdebt.com. For a long time, there's been a debate over whether cameras should be allowed inside the Supreme Court so that oral arguments can be posted in their entirety on the internet. And every time the issue came up, Justice Scalia was one of the most vocal opponents of the idea.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
So taken together, the footage makes it abundantly clear that Zelensky antagonized Trump in advance, not the other way around. Zelensky has always been an entitled, ungrateful brat in his demeanor towards the United States. He showed his true colors again on Friday. The only difference is that he was actually called on at this time.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
And three years ago, there were reports that Joe Biden became frustrated with Zelensky's complete lack of gratitude also. But of course, nothing ever came out of that. And Zelensky never faced any consequences for his entitlement and lack of respect, even after that became public with Biden. The Biden administration certainly didn't do anything about it.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
So I keep hearing that Trump's behavior in the Oval Office was shocking. And in a way, it was because it's shocking that because we are accustomed, we're not accustomed to seeing American political leaders who refuse to lie prostrate on the floor and grovel for approval from other countries that need us a whole hell of a lot more than we need them.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
And in Ukraine's case, that imbalance is pretty much absolute because we don't need Ukraine at all. They don't really do anything for us. The existence or non-existence of Ukraine is basically immaterial to the everyday lives of any American citizen who's not a bureaucrat or defense contractor. But on the other hand, Ukraine depends on us for its very existence. So that's the way this works.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
That's how one-sided this whole thing is. Even now, Ukraine's government seems incapable of admitting that. So does pretty much every country in Europe. After Zelensky's public humiliation on Friday, the entire continent announced their support for him.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
And as you can see, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, Portugal, Croatia, Denmark, Canada, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, Spain, Norway, all put out statements of support for Zelensky. These are countries that in many cases are happy to import massive amounts of natural gas from Russia, but they still want a virtue signal on behalf of Ukraine.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
But the Prime Minister of the UK went even further. He announced, psychotically, that the UK is prepared to put boots on the ground and assemble a coalition of the willing, which essentially means that the UK wants to start World War III, because that's what would be the result. Watch.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
As Scalia put it, what most of the American people would see would be 30-second, 15-second takeouts from our arguments. I'm sure it will miseducate the American people. A lot of people dismissed Scalia's reasoning at the time. After all, how could the media successfully distort footage that everybody has access to?
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
So he begins with this very bold pronouncement that the UK and various European nations are going to take the lead because America is no longer interested in this particular proxy war. And a few seconds later, he admits that they can't do any of this without the United States. And it's a great way to summarize this whole situation.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
Both Zelensky and the Europeans are making it very clear why we should pull all foreign aid immediately. Yet another reason. Like these countries despise us. They're openly admitting that they want to replace us as the world's most important superpower. And yet at the same time, all these countries come crying and begging to us anytime they need something.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
Unfortunately, there are signs that finally this particular arrangement is coming to an end. Lindsey Graham, one of Zelensky's strongest allies, came out and suggested that Zelensky may need to resign after this incident in the Oval Office. So did Dan Crenshaw, who again has been kind of a blank check supporter of the war in Ukraine.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
Crenshaw wrote, quote, If you're the leader of a country in a dire situation with no path to peace, without American support, do not come into the Oval Office and argue with the President of the United States in public. Just a word of advice. As of today, it doesn't appear that any of this is getting through to Zelensky.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
We're at the point where it's clear that he's not going to change his attitude, even though common sense would dictate that the onus is much more on Zelensky to show respect and deference in this context. It's not much different from the proper dynamic between a child and his father. Like you live in your father's house, he pays for your food, he gives you shelter.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
You will be respectful to him and obey his rules. If you don't like it, you can buy your own food and pay for your own house. Zelensky, of course, is the child in this analogy. He depends on us. He needs us. So he should be respectful and watch his mouth, especially when he's addressing our president. Instead, he acts like a petulant brat.
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So it makes a lot of sense that the left sides with him instinctively. After all, they're a bunch of spoiled children themselves with bad fathers who never forced them to get in line and follow the rules. So when the clips from this Oval Office meeting began coming out, they instantly saw themselves in Zelensky.
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It also explains the reaction from Europe, which is almost as dependent on the United States as Ukraine is. And this is a dependency that over time breeds contempt. And now, after many years, that contempt is finally receiving the response that it deserves. Now let's get to our five headlines. Success is not built on resolutions. Those are made to break.
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First of all, I have to say, a movie called No Other Land won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It's apparently a movie about how Palestinians are supposedly oppressed or whatever. The filmmakers were on the red carpet draped in Palestinian flags. So then, of course, they won. You could see that coming from a mile away.
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What's funny is that all the headlines are saying how No Other Land was the highest-grossing Oscar-nominated documentary of 2024. which is true. It grossed $420,000 in the US. But the Oscar-nominated bit is an important qualifier because, of course, our documentary, Am I Racist?, grossed more than 25 times more than the highest-grossing Oscar-nominated documentary. So put it into more perspective.
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Our film grossed four times as much on the first day of release than this movie did in its whole theatrical run. And we weren't even on the short list. Nobody saw this movie. It had no cultural impact at all. Like, none. But it won because it had the right politics. So that's how it goes. And just pointing it out. Just pointing it out. That's all. Just a little...
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Disclaimer there, a little qualifier when you hear about highest-grossing Oscar-nominated documentary. Speaking of politics, Julianne Hough, I think is the last name. Is it Hough or Hough? How? I think Hough. Hough? Okay. Julianne Hough, who's a singer or something, maybe an actress, actually delivered a land acknowledgement from the red carpet, which is... Very funny for a lot of reasons.
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And yet, if you got your information from the mainstream press, you came away with a completely inaccurate version of what actually happened. As The Atlantic put it, quote, the President of the United States ambushed a loyal ally. New York Times ran this headline, quote, Vance positions himself as Trump's attack dog during blow up with Zelensky.
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One of them is that it's the kind of troll that I would have done if I was nominated, which was never going to happen. But she did it for real. This was not meant to be a troll. This is not a joke. This is completely sincere. Let's hear it.
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And The Wall Street Journal publishes an op-ed telling white men to shut up and stop complaining. I have a lot to say about that and so much more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Tomorrow night, Daily Wire Backstage returns live for President Donald Trump's address to Congress, and we're covering it all. Don't miss the exclusive pre-show at 8.30 p.m.
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So that's it. I mean, you really can't even make fun of that. It's a land acknowledgement delivered by a white lady in a $100,000 dress on a red carpet at the Oscars. It's so on the nose. It's so perfect that... What can you even add to it? I will say one thing just for the record, and let's just take the first tribe that she listed there in her little land acknowledgement.
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And you can play this game with any tribe in any land acknowledgement that's ever been recited, but she pays respects to the Tongva tribe. And here's the interesting thing about the Tongva tribe. They've been in the Southern California area for a long time, sure. But there was a more ancient tribe that was in Southern California for thousands of years before the Tongva.
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So the Tongva missed out on being the first tribe. They missed that distinction by several thousand years. Who was the first tribe? Well, they don't exist anymore. They existed at one point, but the Tongva killed or displaced them all and stole their land. So I go back to my point that if the Tongva are indigenous to Southern California, then so are white people.
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Tongva have been here for a long time. They weren't first. They killed whoever was here first. White people have been here for a long time, not first. They conquered the land, just like the Tongva did, and the cycle continues.
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Of course, when they start listing all the names of the tribes and all that, they don't expect you to and certainly don't want you to actually Google who these tribes are and what their history is and how they ended up on the land and how exactly they came to possess and control the land before the white Europeans moved in.
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All right, the ultra-woke mayor of Boston has been featured on this show several times, never for good reasons, of course, and now here she is again with perhaps her most ignominious performance yet. The Daily Mail reports, Boston's progressive Democrat mayor has been criticized for offering condolences to a knife man shot dead by an off-duty police officer while trying to stab two people.
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Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu offered her condolences to the family of the unnamed attacker gunned down at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in the city on Saturday. Boston police said two people ran into the Chick-fil-A in Copley Square while being chased by a man with a knife. He was attempting to stab them shortly before 5.30 p.m.
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Meanwhile, the BBC reported, quote, Vance took the lead attacking Zelensky. And on and on and on and on. If you actually watch the unredacted hour-long footage of this Oval Office meeting, then you immediately recognize these headlines for what they are, which are outright fabrications intended to protect Zelensky, who repeatedly lied and antagonized Trump and Vance throughout the meeting.
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An off-duty cop was inside the restaurant, identified himself to the attacker, told him to drop the knife. The attacker didn't. And then at that point, he shot him and killed him. And so that's what happened. The off-duty cop is a hero. He stepped in and saved lives, put himself in harm's way in defense of others. That's the headline, or should be.
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But instead, Mayor Michelle Wu gave a press conference where she said this.
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The individual who's been lost. And they keep saying over and over again. And how did that happen? How was this individual lost? What do you mean lost? Was he lost at sea or something? What do you mean lost? Oh, that's right. Well, this was a crazed assailant trying to butcher innocent people with a knife.
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And he was lost because he refused to drop the knife when he was confronted by an off-duty cop. He was lost because he decided to go out and try to stab people. And yet Mayor Michelle, along with the DA and whoever the other moron was, they're all grief stricken over the death of the stabber guy. They're sorry he wasn't able to stab more people. Because to be clear, that was the other option here.
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Either this guy was going to be lost or he was going to stab somebody to death. Those are the two choices. And Mayor Michelle is apparently upset that we ended up with the former option where he was killed instead of stabbing people. She was offering him condolences basically because he wasn't able to do any stabbing. I want to offer my sincere condolences to the stabber.
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I'm deeply sorry that you were not able to bury your blade into the flesh of any innocent people. I know how much that meant to you. I'm so sorry. But, you know, at least he died doing what he loves, which is trying to stab people. We take some solace in that. So it's psychopathic, and I mean that in a very literal sense, in a very sort of clinical sense.
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Our cities across the country are run by actual psychopaths. Psychopaths are elected. They're elected to run the largest cities in the country. And the thing is, when you think about a psychopathic political leader, your mind immediately conjures images of some kind of military dictator, a genocidal maniac, Pol Pot or someone like that. And sure, they are psychopaths.
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But Michelle Wu is also a psychopath. Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago is a psychopath. The what's-her-face in Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is a psychopath. They're all psychopaths because to be a psychopath is to be narcissistic. Check. Antisocial. Check. And to lack basically any trace of empathy. Check again. So that's clinical psychopathy.
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My only disagreement with the clinical diagnosis is that I don't think it's a medical problem so much as a soul problem. These are not medically sick people. These are evil people. Michelle Wu said, has no empathy. And I make this point all the time, but it's an important point.
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The actual takeaway from this Oval Office meeting and its fallout is that most of Europe is fully on board with escalating the war in Ukraine three years after it began, and they're not remotely worried about starting World War III in the process.
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We see these bleeding heart liberal types crying tears for violent criminals, and we're tempted to think that they have kind of the opposite problem, that they have almost this overabundance of empathy, that they're too sensitive, people say. But that's not the case. Michelle Wu has no empathy. She doesn't know how empathy works. Like, she's barely human.
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She's like some kind of alien, you know, reptilian space creature trying to emulate human empathy. And that's why she goes out claiming to be heartbroken over the death of a criminal. She's not actually heartbroken over that. She doesn't care about that. Just as she's not heartbroken over the deaths of innocent people. She doesn't care at all, is the point. She's a psychopath. And
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I don't know what other evidence you need. Offering condolences to somebody like that, it's psychopathic. That's what it is. Ilhan Omar has some thoughts about Elon Musk. Let's hear that.
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I'm going to begin by doing what most of the media still refuses to do, which is to show you the context for the meltdown in the Oval Office before it occurred. In the first 20 minutes or so, everything's cordial. At one point, Zelensky has asked whether Trump is on his side, which was obviously intended to bait some sort of confrontation. And neither Trump nor Zelensky took the bait at the time.
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So the highlight here is that Ilhan Omar says that Elon Musk is one of the dumbest people on earth. And he's lucky. So he's dumb and lucky, is what Ilhan Omar says. This is a woman who came here as a refugee from Somalia. Her family was granted asylum. They didn't earn it. They were given it. So that's her first stroke of luck. Then she ends up eventually in Minnesota.
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That's her second stroke of luck because Minnesota is a hub for Muslims. It's basically the American Mecca at this point, especially Somalian Muslims. And that's what enabled her to be elected to Congress. And while in Congress, she's accomplished nothing. She's done nothing. And yet she's been reelected multiple times. So all of that is luck. Okay. Now let's compare her story to Elon Musk.
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And I'm not a Musk biographer, but I know a little bit about his backstory. So he came here from South Africa. Most people know that. I believe in the 80s or 90s. He founded a software company in 1994, 1995. He did start it with an investment from his dad, but this was not a $100 million investment. This was a $30,000 investment. Yet in the span of just a few years, he was able to get...
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that company to a point where it could be sold for $300 million and he made about $20 million off of that deal. So he went from $30,000 and he was able to turn it into $20 million for himself and $300 million for the company.
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And then over the course of the next 20 years, he would go on to found or take majority ownership of six companies and will become the richest person on the planet who's worth $400 billion.
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and now he owns companies that make electric vehicles and one that makes rocket ships and, of course, a social media platform, and he founded The Boring Company, which is a company that makes underground tunnels and infrastructure. He owns Neuralink. He owns an AI company. Let me just state what should be the obvious here.
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You don't go from a $30,000 investment to all of that if you're stupid, much less one of the stupidest people on earth. Recent experience shows us that you can be stupid and be elected to Congress. That certainly can happen. But you cannot do what Elon Musk has done and be stupid. You just can't. And that's all pretty obvious unless you're a moron, a legitimate moron like Ilhan Omar is.
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But I think it's obvious even to her. I think she knows better. And yet people like her, AOC said the same thing recently that Elon is dumb. They keep trying to convince us that the most successful human on earth is dumb. And you kind of have to wonder why. Why is that? Wouldn't it serve them better and be more credible if they said he was an evil genius?
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Instead, Trump mocked the reporter for asking such a dumb question.
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Like, shouldn't they be, if anything, overstating his intelligence? Because that makes him more of a threat. And they're trying to say that he's this great threat to, you know, our way of life. But this is what the left always does. You know, they have their villains, their people that they want us to be afraid of.
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And they say that these people are terrifying and they're threats to our democracy and our very existence. But at the same time, they say that the same people are just utter dunces, which makes them less threatening. You know, like, I'm not worried about a dumb supervillain. That's why supervillains are always smart. You know, if the Joker had an IQ of 85, nobody would be worried about him.
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So what they're trying to do is create this kind of stupid supervillain. Stupid supervillains who are also really, really successful somehow. And it just doesn't make sense. Why do it? why insist on calling their enemies stupid when it's clearly not true? And again, it undercuts their own narrative. And of course they do this all the way down the line.
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This is their narrative about anyone they don't like. You find this, of course it's going to be. If Elon Musk is stupid, according to the left, then all the rest of us certainly are. Then there's no hope for the rest of us. If he's dumb, then we're all certainly dumb.
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And that's the way that it always goes, even though as you go down the line, there's still this problem of, well, they kind of undercut themselves by constantly insisting that everyone they disagree with is dumb. I can think about this on me personally. All these left-wing YouTubers out there who incessantly make videos attacking me just all the time.
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And in every video, they'll always make sure to inform their audience that I'm a huge idiot. And I always find that kind of funny because we're in the same business, basically. We're in the same game. And I've had more success than most of them. And I'm better at this than them by almost any metric. So if I'm an idiot, which I could very well be, but then what does it say about them?
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We do the same thing. I'm an idiot, but I'm a lot more successful than you are at this thing. So doesn't that make you a bigger idiot? Even if I am an idiot, wouldn't you prefer if I wasn't? Just because of the contrast? So... That means you're either a bigger idiot or you're so talentless that you're getting boat raced by someone dumber than you. Which is it? It's just very odd.
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But this is the way it goes. And I think, as I said, if they can call Elon Musk stupid, then again, the rest of us, there's no hope. So how do you explain it? I think that I think it's mostly, of course, just intellectual laziness. They aren't clever enough to come up with insults that actually ring true or are related to reality in some way.
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But also, I think leftists are elitists and snobs to their core. It's just who they are, right? At the deepest level, it's who they are. And that means that they equate intelligence with a virtue. They think that smart people are just better people. To be dumb is to be a bad person. That's how they see the world. That's a core component of their worldview.
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In fact, you could argue it's like the core of their worldview is this idea. Well, the problem with this idea, aside from the fact that it's obviously wrong, is that so many of them are deeply mediocre and unimpressive. Like Ilhan Omar, for example, just a very mediocre, unimpressive person.
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Not clever, not innovative, not insightful, not interesting, not accomplished, just nothing interesting to say, just not that smart. And yet that snobbiness, that elitism persists because it's who they are. It's part of being that. Part of being someone who's a devoted member of the left wing is to be snobby and elitist and to believe that If you're a good person, then you're smart.
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If you're smart, then you're a good person. So it just kind of requires them to believe that all the people they hate must be stupid. And yet at the same time, they will also claim that all these people are a huge threat, that they're being oppressed by these people. So according to you, all the dumbest people on the planet have figured out how to one-up you and are now oppressing you.
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Again, what does that say about you? Something to think about. Let's get to the comment section. If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard. Hey! Freedom runs deep in our nation's DNA. It started when we stood up to unfair British taxes and their overpriced tea. When they tried forcing us to pay, we threw that tea right into the Boston Harbor. And you know what?
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I mean, we're told that Combs is this predatory freak who was having these sexually abusive orgy parties with famous people. And there's no doubt that he is... A sexually predatory freak. And he's now been charged for it. And yet nobody else has been charged. I thought that these were parties. Other people are at parties, aren't they? So where are the other prosecutions?
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And it's the same kind of phenomenon. Epstein was a global pimp. And yet we're supposed to believe, apparently, that he had no clients. Because no client has ever been charged. It's nonsense, of course, and it insults our intelligence and really ticks me off. Destroying evidence is a crime in itself. Anyone who's done so should be prosecuted. Absolutely.
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Pam Bondi has accused, I mean, Pam Bondi has essentially accused the FBI, or at least strongly implied that they're involved in crimes, in a cover-up. And you can't make that accusation and not follow it up with prosecutions. How did it go from Pam saying that she had all the disgusting files on her desk and we will all be shocked to the New York FBI office refusing to hand them over?
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It's important for us. Now, later on, a different reporter gave Trump an opportunity to attack Zelensky. Specifically, the reporter wanted to know whether Zelensky actually owned a suit or any kind of formal attire. And again, the question was rebuffed. Here it is.
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Well, that's the question. That's what doesn't make sense about the narrative. What we were told by Pam Bondi on Friday, that alone could make sense. If she just came out and said, hey, look, trying to get these files, I'm getting stonewalled right now, but we're going to get to the bottom of it. That would make sense. The problem is that the night before, she said she already had them.
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So both of these things can't be true. You can't have already had the files and also you're getting stonewalled. And so it just doesn't make sense. Zendaya is awful. She's another in a long line of actors like Shia LaBeouf, Emily Clark, and Michael B. Jordan forced on an audience because Hollywood wants them to be successful. Okay, well, wait a minute here.
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Now, I don't have strong opinions about the other two, but Shia LaBeouf is actually a great actor. Say what you want about the guy, but he is a pretty remarkable actor. And if you want to know how good of an actor he is, there's a movie he made called... called, I'm trying to remember, Honey Boy is the name of the movie.
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And it's a kind of semi-autobiographical film about a child actor and his abusive father. And Shia LaBeouf, I believe, wrote the movie. And it's based on his own experiences as a child actor with apparently an abusive father. In the movie, he plays the dad. So he's playing his own abusive father in a movie about his childhood. And it's a pretty, I think, quite incredible performance.
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Even without that backstory, it's still a great performance, but with it, it's quite fascinating. And I don't think he won any awards for it or anything, but it was... I don't know, you can't watch that movie and come away not convinced that he's at least a pretty capable actor. Um...
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Now, whether it's really psychologically healthy to take on the role of your own abusive father in a movie is a totally different deal, but we certainly can't expect actors to be psychologically healthy people. It just sort of comes with the territory.
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And finally, okay, Matt, saying that Sonic movies are for kids is understandable, I agree, but saying that Shrek 1 and 2 are horrible movies might be one of the worst takes I've ever heard. Just for that, I took Shapiro's side in your movie argument. Well, I don't know what to tell you. Look, they're pretty bad. The Shrek films belong to a genre of comedy that we might call reference comedy.
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And these were especially popular back in the early 2000s. You still see them, but back in the early 2000s, they were very popular. And that's back when the scary movie films were being made and all those other kind of date movie, disaster movie, whatever else. And basically the style of humor is that they'll, which you can't even call humor really, but they'll reference something in pop culture.
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And it's supposed to be funny just because they referenced it. They don't make a joke about the thing. There's no punchline. There's no joke there. They just reference it. And so they have a plot and then like something from pop culture will just sort of be referenced. And then they point to it and the audience goes, oh yeah, I know that. Oh yeah, that's from American Idol.
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That's a show I know about. That's hilarious. The fact that you recognize it from pop culture is supposed to be funny. And it's pretty much the most witless form of humor that's ever been invented. And that's kind of the Shrek movie. There you go. This is one you don't want to miss. Tomorrow night, President Donald Trump is addressing Congress at 9 p.m.
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Eastern, laying out his America First vision, tackling immigration reform, economic revival, and national security. And you know, we are not going to sit this one out. Join us for Backstage Live at 8.30 p.m. Eastern. Our pre-show breakdown with the entire gang. We'll watch the entire speech together live on Daily Wire Plus.
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And when Trump's done, we're back with unfiltered, no BS reactions you're not going to get anywhere else. This is the event shaping America's future. So be there. Watch it all live on Daily Wire Plus tomorrow night. Subscribe now at dailywire.com. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
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Today we cancel somebody named Joanne Littman of the Wall Street Journal for an op-ed with this lovely title, Can White Men Finally Stop Complaining? Now, we've obviously reached inception levels of irony when a mainstream media journalist, a female one at that, is complaining about other people complaining.
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On the other hand, they say we should trust the experts, and she is certainly an expert on the subject of complaining, so let's read on. Quote, the Manosphere won. Bro podcasters top the charts. Meadows' Mark Zuckerberg declares his company needs more masculine energy. Elon Musk shares a post saying only high-status males should run the country.
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The White House kills diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, and so do multiple companies from Target to McDonald's. In 2021, Joe Rogan famously said, it'll eventually get to straight white men are not allowed to talk. It will be, you're not allowed to go outside. I'm not joking. It really will get there. It's that crazy.
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But Rogan's complaint is actually an old one that has exploded as a rallying cry every decade or so for more than 50 years. White guys have blamed others for their job losses, educational failures, economic problems and drug addictions. Somebody else is always at fault. The mighty white guy, it turns out, is quite the delicate flower.
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Racism and sexism are at oldest time, but the oppressed white man trope is a relatively modern invention with roots in the civil rights and women rights victory of the 1960s. Now from here, Lipman gives us a lengthy historical overview of what she calls the oppressed white man trope.
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The whole diatribe is dripping with unmitigated resentment towards white men, but she does offer this generous disclaimer. Quote, to be clear, white guys aren't all sexist or racist or whiners, nor do all or even most buy into the white guy persecution complex. Well, that's nice of her. We aren't all sexist, racist whiners. There are some white guys that pass muster with Joanne Lippmann.
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I'm sure there are even some white guys whose work she admires. David Hogg must be one, Pete Buttigieg, Tim Walz, Rachel Levine, Joseph Stalin. But for the most part, she's done with white men. She's just had it up to here. She wants them all to go to hell.
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Well, first she wants them to buy a subscription to the Wall Street Journal because 62% of the journal's readers are men, but then they can go straight to hell. And here's how she wraps things up. With white guys now dominating government, popular culture, the airwaves, and our brain space, it's puzzling why the victim mentality still persists.
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The cries that DEI has somehow ruined white men's lives are particularly head-scratching, considering that, as a recent Wall Street Journal analysis revealed, corporate diversity initiatives have had relatively little impact on the workforce.
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Yet white guys are still insisting that they're being terrorized by the scary DEI monster, blaming it for everything from California wildfires to the Potomac plane crash to the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse. And the most powerful and privileged among them continue to complain the loudest. Really, guys? Enough already.
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Now, there's a lot that could be said in response to this fantastically stupid article. Lippmann simply dismisses the claim that white males have been treated in a systematically unjust and unfair way. She doesn't debunk it or make any attempt to engage with it. She just kind of waves it away. But for all her waving, the reality remains.
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It is just a fact that affirmative action and DEI have discriminated against white males for decades. Every single institution in the country has put in place policies that deliberately make it more difficult for white males to be hired. And once they are hired, more difficult to advance. That's not some sort of wild theory. It's the whole point of these policies.
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But we don't even have to get into that. All we need to say is this. This article itself is proof of exactly the kind of anti-white male bias that it's denying. Okay, no mainstream publication would ever in a million years publish an article like this targeting any other demographic group. So try this. Swap in any other group you can think of, any group at all, and hear how it sounds. For example.
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Can black people stop complaining? Black people have blamed others for their job losses, educational failures, economic problems, and drug addictions. Somebody else is always at fault. The mighty black person, it turns out, is quite the delicate flower. Really black people? Enough already. How about this? Can women finally stop complaining?
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Women have blamed others for their job losses, educational failures, economic problems, and drug addictions. Somebody else is always at fault. The mighty woman, it turns out, is quite the delicate flower. Really, women? Enough already. Those are articles that would never and could never exist in any mainstream publication. No media outlet in America would ever publish anything like that.
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Now, it would be easy to disprove my point here. All you'd have to do is find one single article in any publication comparable to the Wall Street Journal where a white person talks about black people that way or a man talks about women that way. Just a single article, even a tweet from somebody who works at one of these places. Anything. But you can't. And we all know you can't. And
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That's because this is the kind of sneering contempt that can only be expressed towards one demographic group and no other. You are allowed to openly despise one group and only one, and that is white men. That's it. And Joanne Lipman can't deny this. She doesn't even really try. Her point is simply that we shouldn't complain about this blatantly unfair dynamic.
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We should just accept our role as a societal punching bag. Because we're white men after all. We deserve it. Lipman isn't really upset that we're complaining. She's upset that we, at least some of us white men anyway, are rejecting that role. White men have had enough of this. We're not just complaining. We are speaking up in our own defense. And that is what's so upsetting to her.
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When white men speak up in their own defense, they are demonstrating some semblance of pride in themselves as individuals and as a group. At least enough pride to say, hey, we don't deserve to be mocked and belittled like this. We deserve at least the same basic respect that every other group receives. That's the really ominous thing in the mind of somebody like Joanne Littman.
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White men must not have any pride. Women are allowed, in fact encouraged, to be proud of the fact that they're women. Black people certainly can be proud of the fact that they're black people. Asians, Hispanics, gay people, every demographic group you can name can and should be proud of their membership in that group except white men.
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The only feelings that white men are permitted to feel about their group identity are remorse, shame, and disgust. That's been the rule in our society for many years. What startles Joanne Lipman is that some white men are not following that rule. I'm certainly not. I am proud to be a white man. I think that if anyone's writing an article singling out white men, it should be to thank us.
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After all, as I said recently, this country could not exist without white men. Nearly every good thing you have in your life, everything that makes your life safer, more comfortable, more enjoyable, was given to you by a white man. The vast majority of the greatest pioneers, inventors, thinkers, leaders in the history of Western civilization have been white men.
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White men have been, by far and away, the main ones to fight our wars, achieve every political and scientific advancement, build basically every aspect of our society.
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Without white men, you would not have airplanes, you would not have phones, you would not have air conditioning, you would not have cars, computers, trains, modern medicine, microscopes, elevators, x-ray machines, calculus, the periodic table, rocket ships, rocket science, democracy, the abolition of slavery, and I could go on and on and on.
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Now, you might point out that these things were achieved not by white men collectively, but by specific white male individuals. Just because I'm a white guy doesn't mean I get to take credit for the fact that air conditioning exists. And that's true, of course, in a literal sense.
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But if it makes no sense to lump white men together when discussing these accomplishments, if it makes no sense to give us all credit for what specific white men have done, then why does it make sense to lump us all together for the sake of lecturing and scolding us? You cannot have it both ways. Let me see if I have this right.
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As a white man, I get no credit for the good white men have done, but I do share the blame for the bad? Is that how it works? Well, yes, that is how they want it to work. And yet again, this is a rule that does not apply to any other group, not a single other group.
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Black people are frequently celebrated as a group and black people individually are encouraged to take pride in the good done by other black individuals. Women also are celebrated as a group. Women are very much encouraged to take pride in what women have done. Nobody would think it was strange if a black woman said that Harriet Tubman makes her proud to be a black woman, right?
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Nobody would criticize a black woman who expressed that sentiment. In fact, if you criticized her for it, you'd be a racist. And yet, if I said that Isaac Newton makes me proud to be a white man, I would be both condemned as a racist and mocked for saying something so absurd. Look, there's just no logical way to defend that double standard. And yet, it exists. And we all know that it exists.
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Yeah, so please. Now, about an hour earlier, Trump had already teased Zelensky for his ridiculous clothing about as politely as he possibly could. That happened outside the Oval Office when Zelensky first arrived. And, you know, it was well-deserved. Zelensky looks like a complete fool attending a meeting in the Oval Office wearing sweatpants.
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In fact, as we know, all of these groups have their own months on the calendar set aside for the purpose of reflecting on their group achievements. White men do not, even though, frankly, we have the most achievements. Just a couple of weeks ago, speaking of black women, today.com had an article with this title, 25 Influential Black Women Who Changed History.
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And the list is, I'm afraid to say, the list is not terribly impressive. Beyonce and Michelle Obama made the cut, just to give you an idea. In fact, one of the names on the list isn't even a black woman. Laverne Cox is on the list, and he's a male. And even if he wasn't, how does some random actor make the list of the most influential figures in all history?
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Yet this is the kind of article, one of the many thousands I could cite, that can be written to highlight the achievements of any group, any group besides white men. You will never see an article on today.com listing the 25 most influential white men who changed history, even though our list would have some real heavy hitters.
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It would have like the most important humans who've ever lived on the planet. Isaac Newton, Alexander the Great, Shakespeare, Da Vinci, Plato, George Washington, Magellan, et cetera. Okay, not gonna be any room for B-level actors on our list. But that's a list that you will never see published anywhere by anyone ever.
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A couple of years ago, the Boston Globe published an article with this title, What We Mean by Black Girl Magic. And the article is about black girl magic, which is a phrase we hear a lot these days, meant to describe the special magic, the beautiful essence of black women. And here's how the article begins. Now,
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Not to belabor the point, but this is the kind of article that could never be written about white men. It's the kind of article that could only not be written about one group, and that is white men. But let's just hear how that would sound if that article was written. Imagine this in the Boston Globe, okay? What We Mean by White Man Magic When I see a white man, I see a revolution.
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He's here, in a country determined to rest its back on his shoulders while calling him worthless. I see magic. I don't see a superhuman. I see an architect. I know who's doing a lot of groundwork to be present, to walk that walk with swagger and self-determination. I know he's becoming more and more himself, building the truth in a world that lies to us about who we are. That article can't exist.
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I mean, the guy constantly looks like he's getting ready to run in a track meet, not attending high-level meetings with important world leaders. His outfits are too casual for a dinner at Applebee's, let alone the White House. But in any case, inside the Oval Office, Trump clearly wanted to set a more serious tone.
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even though one could certainly argue that it applies more to white men. After all, white men are explicitly demeaned as worthless in a way that black women literally never are, ever. And this country has, just, I want to pause on that for a second, because This is something we hear about. The narrative in the media has been forever that black women are not just oppressed, but the most oppressed.
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The most oppressed of all groups. Constantly belittled. And yet, in reality, never. You know the only place where you're going to hear black women explicitly belittled and demeaned? The only place, the only place is in rap music performed by black men. Outside of that, never happens. Never, ever, anywhere. But with white men, it's a little different.
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You'll hear that kind of stuff everywhere all the time. And also, this country has largely rested on the shoulders of white men since its inception. As for magic, I wouldn't say that white men have magic, but they are the ones who learned how to fly, who walked on the moon, who traveled to both poles of the earth, who made it to the deepest depths of the ocean.
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It's not magic, but it's as close as human beings have ever come to it. But we aren't supposed to talk about any of that. And just not supposed to talk about it. Just not supposed to acknowledge that any of that is true, even though we all know it is. And the reason is obvious.
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If white men are allowed to think of themselves as a group in anything but an explicitly negative context, then they'll quickly realize that they aren't, in fact, the great villains of history. Far from the villains, they've been, in so many cases, the heroes. And once they realize that, all the guilt and shame they're supposed to feel and that some of them actually do feel will melt away.
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The left's whole narrative collapses. Their emotional blackmail stops working. The jig is up. And that's what they're afraid of. That's what Joanne Littman is afraid of. And that's why she is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
He didn't want to sidetrack the point of the meeting, which was to sign a minerals deal with Ukraine. And by the way, the proposed deal was extremely favorable to Ukraine in that it doesn't require Ukraine to use all of its available resources, oil, mineral deposits, natural gas, to repay the $500 billion we've spent on them.
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That was the original idea, but now the deal simply establishes a joint investment fund where the U.S. will realize some profits from new revenue sources, quote unquote, that are identified in Ukraine. So you'd think Zelensky would be happy about this kind of one-sided arrangement. Instead, as the meeting went on, Zelensky began openly suggesting that he doesn't want a mere ceasefire.
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Instead, he said he wants so-called security guarantees, which is another way of saying that he wants the United States to commit to a broader war if Russia violates the ceasefire. Watch.
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So this is the point where Zelensky begins lecturing Trump about how untrustworthy Putin is and how Trump can't possibly broker a successful ceasefire. And then Trump makes the point that if you want a peace deal, it doesn't help matters to constantly attack Putin, which Zelensky kept doing.
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Eastern, followed by the full address, completely uninterrupted. When he's done, we're back with a breakdown of what it all means. Watch with us tomorrow night on Daily Wire Plus. Do you wish you could have invested in the stock market last year when investors scored the highest profits in decades, but between your mountain of bills and credit card debt, you had nothing left over?
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Ep. 1547 - Trump Puts International Welfare Queen Zelensky In His Place
So this is the setup for the international incident that you've probably seen by now. Zelensky keeps saying diplomacy won't work because Putin will break the ceasefire. And Trump says that it's the best chance Ukraine has, especially since there's a new administration in the White House.
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And you can tell Trump is a little annoyed that Zelensky keeps calling Putin a killer and a terrorist because that's just not the most effective way to begin a successful negotiation. So everybody's position is pretty clear by this point. But later on, when Vance tries to make the same point Trump was making, Zelensky jumps down his throat.
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He sarcastically asks him what kind of diplomacy Putin might respect.
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But now a lot of people have looked at this footage and concluded that Zelensky went out of his way to adopt a snarky, obnoxious, and inappropriate tone. That's obviously true. At the same time, not enough people are pointing out that throughout this clip, Zelensky is lying. Other than Aaron Mates and a small number of independent journalists, No one seems to be talking about this.
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For example, take a look at these images from December of 2019. The photographs are from a ceremony welcoming back Ukrainian captives that had been freed by Russia in a prisoner exchange, one of several that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to in recent years.
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In fact, in April of 2020, Zelensky's office put out a statement celebrating the release of dozens of Ukrainians who were held captive by Russia. Why exactly was Zelensky claiming in the Oval Office that, as a matter of fact, Putin couldn't be trusted when it came to prisoner exchanges? Why didn't he mention all of the prisoner exchanges which went so well that Ukraine bragged about them?
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And for that matter, why was Zelensky attacking Trump and Vance for suggesting that diplomacy with Putin might work when, again, Zelensky's own government clearly believed that diplomacy could work? Shortly after the invasion began, Ukraine's top diplomats met in Istanbul with Russian negotiators in an effort to end the war. And by their own admission, they came very close to a deal.
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Here's one of Ukraine's negotiations.
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So this is coming directly from a senior diplomat from Ukraine. And to be clear, these negotiations took place after Putin broke the previous ceasefire agreements, according to the Ukrainians. And yet they were willing to sit down and negotiate with Putin. And they got very, very close to a deal. So why did that deal go through?
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And why did all those previous ceasefire agreements fail, including the agreement signed in Minsk in 2014? If you look into the specifics of that ceasefire agreement, the history is actually pretty enlightening.
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It turns out that Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany, has admitted that the real purpose of the ceasefire agreement in 2014 was to give Ukraine some time to build up its military. In other words, Ukraine was not entering into the arrangement with the intention of securing a lasting peace. It was a ploy. None of this came up while Zelensky was berating Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
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Instead, Zelensky claimed that Putin was solely responsible for the failures of their past ceasefire agreements. Then Zelensky began suggesting that if the United States doesn't fund Ukraine, then we are going to get attacked. Listen.
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So Trump tells Zelensky that he doesn't hold the cards. In response, Zelensky says he's not playing cards, even accounting for the language barrier. It's pretty rough. These are high-level negotiations where one side can't understand extremely basic metaphors.
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But by the end of the meeting, it's likely that Zelensky eventually began processing what Trump was saying because Trump laid it down pretty clearly.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Donald Trump shows what it's like when the United States actually acts like the most powerful nation in the world. With a couple of posts on social media, he forced an entire country to submit. Also, JD Vance does the cable news rounds, and it doesn't go well for the news anchors that he crosses paths with.
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If the addition of thousands of more Haitians will be a catastrophe for Haiti, then why in the hell should we take them? Haitians should be Haiti's problem, not ours. Why should our country have to deal with your country's problems? Why? Over in Honduras, they have no answer to that question, but they do seem to think that they have some leverage. They're reportedly threatening to cut off U.S.
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access to an airbase in their country. But again, just like Colombia, Honduras doesn't actually have any leverage in this situation. We send Honduras hundreds of millions of dollars in financial assistance every year. And if we turn that off permanently, they'll open the airbase immediately. I mean, it's Honduras. Like what, you're Honduras. What the hell do you think you can do? Honduras?
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And if you won't open the air base, we'll just take it. How are you gonna stop us? The Texas National Guard is bigger than their whole army. So what are they gonna do about it? I mean, in all seriousness, if we just went in and said, yeah, we're gonna take that air base and that over there. We're gonna take that too. We're gonna take all that. What would they do?
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Invade the country, launch an attack. They literally can't do anything. All they can do is just complain, which fine, go ahead and complain. Now, just think about this dynamic for a moment. All of the countries complaining about our deportation policies, all of them, all of them depend on us for financial aid. Okay, so these countries leech off of us. They take food out of our children's mouths.
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They steal money from our paychecks. And then they thank us for our donations by shipping the worst elements of their societies into our neighborhoods so that our fellow citizens end up lying dead in ditches because of them. And now they have the audacity to complain because we're returning the package back to sender. That's why, again, I hope Trump treats them all like he did Colombia.
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Tell them to shut their ungrateful mouths or he will shut it for them. For decades, we have had to put up with these entitled international welfare queens. Okay, they don't fear us, but they should. When you're the most powerful nation on the planet, lesser countries should fear you. They don't have to like you. That's not what makes peace and stability across the globe.
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It's not countries liking each other. That doesn't exist. It's when they fear you, when they're afraid of you, which they should be. Now, these are all obvious observations, but until Donald Trump's election, nobody in Washington ever made them. Our political leaders and expert class in this country have pretended for so long that all of our problems are hopelessly complicated.
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There's really nothing we can do to solve any of them. All we can do is sit around pontificating and debating and coming up with abstract theories to explain why we're so screwed. Well, Trump is proving that you can actually take action and do simple yet effective things to solve serious yet simple problems. You can, in fact, Just do stuff. You can send illegal aliens back home.
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And when their home country doesn't want to take them, you can force them. And that's maybe the single most prominent lesson from Donald Trump's first week in office. We've already accomplished more on the international stage than we did in four years under the Biden administration. For Americans, this is a rare and welcome sign that we're finally getting what we voted for.
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And for everybody else, especially in places like Haiti and Colombia, but also all over the world, it's a clear signal that they need to respect American sovereignty. And if they don't, then they too will be as humiliated as the president of Colombia is right now. They will face crushing embarrassment or worse on the international stage.
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And the United States, without apologizing to anyone, will celebrate their defeat. Now let's get to our five headlines. Okay, JD Vance was back on the cable news circuit over the weekend. Personally, I'd like to see Trump send Vance out to do the cable news rounds every weekend. Just keep sending him until they refuse to take him anymore because he's constantly humiliating the news anchors.
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Vance is very, very good at this. And that's what led to this immediately iconic moment between Vance and CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on Sunday. Here they're talking about the refugee program. And the lack of vetting that has historically accompanied these so-called refugees and asylum seekers who come to this country. Or at least Vance is talking about the lack of vetting.
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Back in 2022, the Biden administration was doing everything it could to distance itself from Donald Trump's foreign policy. Joe Biden and his handlers wanted to demonstrate that one year after the election, the adults were supposedly in charge now. And to that end, Biden hosted the president of Columbia at the White House.
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Margaret Brennan is insisting that they are being vetted. And that culminated in this great moment. Watch.
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So that line at the end there has already become a legendary meme. I don't really care, Margaret. It's kind of the frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn of this generation. And it is as simple as that. I don't care. I don't want that person in my country. That's it. But why do we want that person here? And the line is great. It becomes like a slogan, a banner that we can march under.
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I don't really care, Margaret. I don't want that person in this country. And what's great about it is because it represents two things. And the first is, I don't care, right? You could try to use emotional blackmail. You can do the guilt trip routine. You can call us bigots, whatever. We don't care.
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And this is why I've always said that the most powerful response to anyone on the left when they try to put a label on you, you know, when you're making an argument and they respond by saying, well, if you think that, that makes you a xenophobe, a homophobe, whatever, racist. The most powerful way to respond is to look at them and say, I don't care that you think that of me.
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I understand that you think I'm a racist, sexist bigot. I don't care that you think that. It doesn't matter to me. Your opinion of me is irrelevant. And it's a totally disarming response because the whole labeling tactic, the whole strategy depends on you caring about the labels they put on you. Which is why...
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And the purpose of the meeting was to announce that the US intended to designate Columbia as a quote unquote major non-NATO ally. Watch.
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for a very long time, this strategy was effective because people were, even on the right, were, you know, many of them were terrified of being labeled, you know, certain things. And, but if you don't care, then what? What now? That it's like, well, I got nothing left. It's, oh, well, it's mean to think that. Okay. Are you denying that it's mean? I don't care enough to even deny it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Trump is accused of cruelty when he pulls security off of Fauci, John Bolton, and other bureaucrats. But why should taxpayers fund their security anyway? New York City considers a new law that seems specifically designed to annoy me personally, and federal government workers are now living in fear under the Trump administration. This is supposed to be a bad thing, according to the media.
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That's what you think. I don't care that you think that. Well, but they got nothing. They got nothing left. And if you make it clear that you don't care how they feel about you, you don't care that they disapprove, you don't care about any of that, there's really nowhere for them to go from there. And the second part is just as important because Vance says he doesn't want the person in his country.
The Matt Walsh Show
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He wouldn't want that person in his community living next door to his wife and children. It's a really important point. This is something that a lot of us have said about politicians for a long time. We're the ones saying to the politicians that are facilitating the invasion of our country, we say, well, you wouldn't want your children living in a neighborhood with these people.
The Matt Walsh Show
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To hear that now from the vice president, that exact same logic, Where he's saying, yeah, you're right. I wouldn't want these people living with my children. And if I don't want them around my children, I'm not going to put them in anyone else's community, around anyone else's children. Like that's exactly the kind of thinking that we need. And it really is as simple as that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's how we should be thinking about this issue. When it comes to immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, whatever we want to call them. And really all of these categories are now, they're indistinguishable. I mean, there's really no distinguishing, but every single illegal immigrant in the country, according to the left, would qualify as a refugee. Every single one.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And they wouldn't even deny that. I mean, they would not look at any illegal immigrant and say, well, yeah, except for he's not a refugee. Except maybe if you had any illegal immigrants from a predominantly white country, then maybe in that case they would say, well, it doesn't count. But for the most part, they would say these are all the same.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So you take whatever we're talking about, immigrant, refugee, asylum seeker, the first and really only question we should be asking is, do we want these people in our country? Does it benefit us to have them in our country? We know it benefits them, That's not the question. The question is not, is it better for the Afghan national to be in our country than in Afghanistan?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, sure, of course it is. Who wants to live in Afghanistan? That's not the point, though. The point is, is it better for our country for this person to be in it? Yes or no? The terrorist that Vance referred to in Oklahoma, that was an Afghan national who plotted to carry out an ISIS attack on election day. And Margaret says the guy was vetted.
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Vance's point is that clearly he wasn't vetted very well if the vetting process didn't pick up on the fact that he has heavy ISIS sympathies. So- You know, it wasn't vetted well enough. And that's kind of the easy, obvious part, I think, that the vetting process is broken. It obviously isn't working. And we need to put a halt on the whole thing, as Trump has done, because it's not working.
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But then there's the, I think for some people anyway, maybe the more uncomfortable question, which is this. Why are we importing people from Afghanistan into this country at all? Does it benefit us? Does it make our country stronger and safer? Does it help our communities to thrive if we bring in a bunch of Afghans? Does it? It's not even a rhetorical question.
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I would invite anyone on the left to answer it. Does it make America a stronger, safer, better country to bring in a bunch of Afghans? What is the net positive? What's the net positive? Throwing open the doors and saying, yeah, anyone from Afghanistan can come. What exactly is the net positive?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, like so many other alliances we've entered into, this was the very definition of a one-sided deal. More than a quarter of Colombia's imports come from the US, while Colombia accounts for a fraction of a percent of US imports. Colombia's Air Force was making news because they were cannibalizing their rotary wing aircraft for spare parts.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If we had never allowed that, if we had shut the door and locked it and said, no, we're not letting any of them in, in what ways would this country be a worse place? Maybe put another way, what problem in our country can be solved by the mass importation of people from Afghanistan?
The Matt Walsh Show
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When you look at our nation and all of its many problems, which problem do you look at and say, okay, you know what would help solve this one? We need 50,000 more Afghans. That would help make this situation better. Can you name what that problem is? It's a question. And I would challenge anyone on the left to actually answer it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Here's another question that nobody on the left will want to answer out loud. And again, it's just a question. But it's a thought experiment, let's just say. You're moving to a new community. You have two options in this thought experiment, just a hypothetical. Let's say you have two options. The only information you have is,
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is this, one community is 20% comprised of Afghan nationals recently imported from a war-torn third world terrorist infested hellhole. And the other community is 0% comprised of such people. You have no other information. Which community do you choose? Is there any single human being in the country that would say, wow, yeah, well, I got it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The one that's 20% Afghans who just came here from the terrorist infested country. Yeah, well, I wanna live there. Yeah, I gotta move my kids into that neighborhood for sure. Would any person say that? Would any single person say that? No, none of us would. Literally not a single one of us would say that.
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We would all say, okay, well, I don't know what's going on in this other community, but I guess I'll go with that one. Because the one thing I know about this community over here is not very appealing to me. And that tells us that importing Afghans is not about making America stronger. It's about helping Afghanistan.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But we should not be helping Afghanistan at the expense of our country and our people. That is the... That is the disconnect for the left. And everything that I'm saying right now, it has become over the decades, everything that I'm saying about this, everything that Vance has just said, it has become unspeakable and provocative. And how could you say that?
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, what do you mean you'd prefer not to live in a community that was with a heavy presence of imported third world refugees from a country that is overrun by terrorists who hate this country? How could you say that? These kinds of statements have been treated that way, even though they're so obvious. Basic common sense. Everyone agrees with it. It's one of those things.
The Matt Walsh Show
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By most estimates, no other country in the Western Hemisphere has received more US assistance in the last 50 years than Colombia. And Colombia clearly wasn't capable of taking care of its own domestic affairs. In fact, just days ago, northern Colombia erupted into all-out warfare as guerrilla factions launched an invasion to take control of cocaine production. So that's what Colombia is like.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And we've gotten used to this dynamic where there could be a statement that everyone agrees with. And yet even some of the people who agree with it, like cringe when they hear it out loud. It's crazy. It's a crazy dynamic. But the way we've ended up in this position is that for the left, and we know the left has dominated and defined the culture for so many years, their priorities are
The Matt Walsh Show
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are exactly inverted, okay? Because the healthy and human way to be is to prioritize the people that are closest to you first, of course. Okay, like to start with your family, your children. You care about, in an abstract sense, you care about the children of the world. but you're not gonna do anything that's gonna harm your children for the sake of the children of the world.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Okay, you're not gonna make your children starve so that someone else's children don't. You wouldn't do that. If you did that, you should go to prison because you have a basic fundamental duty to the people that are closest to you. You should prioritize them. You should care about them more, a lot more, obviously. And then it emanates out from that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You care about, this is the principle of subsidiarity. You care about the people that are closest to you, your family, your children, and then your community. And your country. You care about your family more than you care about your country. You should. But you certainly care about your country more than you care about a country 8,000 miles away that you've never been to.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And this is the way that it is naturally supposed to work. It's a principle that up until recently never even had to be articulated out loud because it was just so natural and automatic that you didn't have to think about it or talk about it. But as I said, the left has inverted that.
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where the way they look at it or have convinced themselves they look at it is that they care the most about just the abstract, the people of the world, the community, the global community. And they somehow prioritize that, this kind of abstract, vague concept of a global community over their own nation and even their own families. It's a mental sickness. It's a confusion.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's a fundamental confusion. But if you don't suffer from that confusion and you're just a normal person who prioritizes what is closest to you, prioritizes your own people first, then all this stuff is obvious. Then there's nothing offensive about saying, yeah, of course I don't want to import a bunch of people from Afghanistan. That's not going to make my country any better.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It doesn't help my country. I don't want to do it. I don't wish any harm on them. If Afghanistan turned into a wonderful, developed country and it was safe and everybody was happy and all of that, then fantastic. I feel that's good for them. Congratulations. I hope it does happen. But that's not my priority. It's not even on the list of the top 100 priorities. That's for them to figure out.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So a reasonable person might ask, why exactly was the Biden administration going out of its way to declare that Colombia was a major ally? How exactly are we defining the word major here? Not to mention ally. I mean, isn't an alliance supposed to be mutually beneficial? Where's the benefit for us? What the hell does Colombia bring to the table besides coffee and cocaine? What do they do for us?
The Matt Walsh Show
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You know, these countries, they need to stand on their own two feet at a certain point. And if you can't, then you just cease to exist. And that's also just the way of the world. Figure out your own country. Yeah. You know, we hear this about Haiti all the time. Haiti, well, it's because of the interference by all... You know, Haiti has been a self-governing country for like 200 years. Okay?
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Figure it out. Like, stop complaining. The history of our country is so terrible. Everyone's history is terrible, okay? Everyone's history is terrible. Everyone's ancestors suffered. What, you think you're special? Figure out your own country. Figure it out. If you can't, you don't even deserve to exist as a country anymore. If you can't figure out how to govern yourself and take care of yourself.
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And it'd be the same thing for the United States. If the United States ever got into a point where we couldn't even exist without being like, without some international sugar daddy keeping us alive, then I would say, well, America shouldn't exist anymore. In that case, it basically doesn't exist already. All right, Daily Wire has this report.
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President Trump has canceled Dr. Anthony Fauci's security detail. The Trump administration has canceled his security detail. Dr. Fauci has now hired his own security detail, according to a source familiar with the situation. When a reporter asked about the decision, Trump stated, I think when you work for the government, at some point, your security detail comes off.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And, you know, you can't have them forever. So I think it's very standard. It would be for someone else. It would be for somebody else. You wouldn't be asking the question. So Trump has taken security off of Fauci, a number of other bureaucrats. John Bolton is another one, Mike Pompeo, some others. And there's been a lot of outrage over that, as you expect.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The only shocking thing to me has been the fact that all these people had tax-funded security in the first place. This is how naive I am. I thought that only ex-presidents got lifetime personal security provided by the taxpayers. Which in that case, I understand, I'm on board for that. I think America, even the presidents that I despise, of which there are several still living,
The Matt Walsh Show
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Yes, I think the taxpayer should pay for the security. You should take care of your ex-presidents. And to have ex-presidents who end up getting assassinated is just not a good situation for this country. So that makes sense. But providing lifetime personal security to just other random bureaucrats, I honestly didn't know that that was a thing. I was unaware of that. And it should not be a thing.
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And of course, as I said, Trump's being condemned for this, but the outcry has come from both parties. But I totally agree with him. First of all, these people can, as he said, these people can afford their own security. Fauci's net worth is something like $11 million. So he can, a guy has plenty of money to pay for his own security. So it shouldn't be an issue.
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And also, in the case of Fauci in particular, and I'll be careful about how I say this so that it isn't misconstrued. But if Anthony Fauci needs security because of threats, if that's the case, it's because he is a corrupt, evil person who lied to the American people repeatedly about basically every aspect of COVID.
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He lied to us and manipulated and conjoled and forced millions of people to put a drug into their bodies on false pretenses. He's truly a bad person. He's a very bad, he should be in prison. He's an evil, bad person who should be in prison. And that would be one way to get his security paid for, by the way. Put him in prison, he'll be taken care of there. I'm totally fine with that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Put him in prison and let him have all the extra security that he needs. That I'd be on board with. This corrupt weasel lied to us about everything, everything from his funding of gain of function research to the origins of COVID to the efficacy of the vaccine and on and on.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Joe Biden and his administration never answered those questions. You can read all their press releases and statements and they never explain it. But these are pretty important questions, especially after what happened this week when Colombia decided to reject U.S. military flights containing dozens of Colombian nationals who had illegally entered the United States.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And he more than anyone is the reason why all of these destructive, insane measures were taken that did infinitely more harm than good. People's lives were destroyed because of him. So if he's under threat, it's because of that. Now, this is why I don't want to be misconstrued. I don't want anything bad to happen to him. I don't condone at all anyone who might be making threats.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I hope that Fauci is unharmed. And when he dies, I hope he dies a natural death. And that's what I want. But the fact remains that Fauci is perceived as the villain very much because of his own actions. So I guess here's my question.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If a government bureaucrat is so bad at their job and so deceitful and so corrupt and so arrogant and power hungry and did so much damage in their position that they end up getting death threats over it. Does that mean we now have to pay for their security for life?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Like we have to reward terrible bureaucrats for their bad behavior by footing the security bill that is only necessary because they were so awful. No, that's insane. As I said, I hope nothing bad happens to Fauci, but it's his job to make sure that he's protected and he's got the money to do it, fortunately. So it's not our job. The taxpayers shouldn't have to foot the bill.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And generally speaking, if you're a bureaucrat, And the reason why this matters is, and I don't even know how many other bureaucrats have personal protection, but if you're a bureaucrat, especially if you're a bureaucrat who dealt with domestic policy. Now, if you dealt internationally, you may have foreign countries that don't like you, and that can create security.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But that was not the case for Fauci. So if you're a bureaucrat dealing with domestic issues... and you leave your job roundly despised by millions of Americans, it means that you were absolutely terrible. And whatever security is unfortunately necessary after that should be something that you take care of yourself.
The Matt Walsh Show
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All right, finally, I have to mention this story, and you'll see why when I tell you the headline. This is from Reuters. New Yorkers may be allowed to use paid sick leave to look after pets. Here's the article. Council member Sean Abreu says, co-sponsor of the bill, said that the change could promote health for both pets and their humans.
The Matt Walsh Show
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According to the State Department, at first, Colombia signaled that these flights were acceptable. And then when the C-17 cargo planes carrying the Colombian nationals were in the air, Colombia terminated their landing clearance and forced the planes to turn around. And before we get into the specifics of this particular dispute, I just want you to think about that for a second.
The Matt Walsh Show
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When you take care of your animals, you're taking care of yourself too. He said, citing long dog walks, socializing with other pet owners, and mental health benefits. The leave would be included in that already mandated by New York State, where companies must provide up to 40 or 56 hours of paid sick leave per year, depending on their size.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Okay, so this legislation was written just to troll me, I'm pretty sure. I'm not trying to be self-centered, not everything's about me, but this is in direct violation of multiple laws that I have passed down personally on this show. Laws which supersede the laws of the city of New York and the laws of this country, I gotta tell you.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I think you all know that constitutionally, the laws invented randomly by podcast hosts have primacy over local, state, and federal jurisdiction. I've made it clear how I feel about both sick days and people who are too obsessed with their pets. Now both of these issues have been combined in this unholy stew.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And here's the thing, by the way, if an employer wanted to give sick days to people who want to stay home and walk their dog or whatever, they have the right to do that. Employers can give sick days for whatever they want. Or they should be able to give sick days for whatever they want. What's insane is forcing them to have certain sick day policies.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And in this case, forcing employers to allow employees to take sick days when they aren't even sick. So now a sick day must be allowed for employees who are sick and employees who are not sick. So why are we even calling it a sick day in that case? And we can have a conversation about legitimate reasons to take a sick day. Everyone knows my stance on it. If you call out sick, you're gay.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I'm not saying that as an insult. That's just according to the research that I've seen. That's the most recent study that I personally saw. It was like 98% of people who call out sick in a given year are homosexual. It was just the study. That's what the research says. I don't know. And then the 2% is when I personally call out sick. That was also in the study. So that's just the science.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But maybe you think my view is a bit extreme. And maybe you'd claim even scientifically dubious. You might even claim entirely invented. You might say that. But we should be able to agree that whatever the valid reasons for calling out sick, my cat has a tummy ache is not one of them. Like my iguana has a headache is not a good enough, that doesn't pass muster.
The Matt Walsh Show
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My parakeet has indigestion and I have to stay home and comfort him. It's just not, that doesn't work. And now I'll just wait for the angry comments from people who tell me that they once had a call out of work for three weeks because their golden retriever was sneezing or something. I'm sure that's going to happen next. I look forward to that. Speaking of which, let's get to the comment section.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Okay, a couple of comments here. I honestly thought those clips Matt showed of Amelia Perez was an SNL skit. There's just absolutely no way that that film got nominated for 13 Oscars based on merit and not Hollywood pandering to the left. You know, the other thing, and I think I kind of alluded to this when we talked about this, I mean, just utterly awful film that got nominated for 13 Oscars.
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Imagine you're a Colombian citizen and you're being deported from the United States back to your home country. And then you find out in the middle of the flight that your home country doesn't even want you. I mean, you're such an undesirable criminal, such a strain on society, apparently, that you can't go anywhere. Your own country won't take you back. Even Con Air didn't have that problem.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The other thing about it is it wasn't even critically acclaimed. Okay, so there have been plenty of other cases of films that are bad and yet are showered with Oscar nominations and Oscar wins because although they were bad, they were critically acclaimed. And that's when you go to Rotten Tomatoes and you see the thing where the movie gets 95% from critics and 35% from the audience.
The Matt Walsh Show
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What's interesting here is, and this is what makes it pretty unique, it's not that it's a bad movie. I mean, it is really bad. It's bad on a scale that it's maybe unprecedented how bad it is, given the number of Oscar nominations. But the more unique thing is that it was not critically acclaimed.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The critics didn't even like this movie that much, which really tells you something because it's pandering to their political biases. So it's got that going for it. So critics go into it knowing that it's a movie, it's a trans musical, whatever thing. And it stars, you know, the quote unquote trans quote unquote actress, big quotes around that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So already going in, critics are going to spot it about two and a half stars out of four. It's already got two and a half stars going in before they watch one frame. But then you look at the critical responses and that's it. They're basically giving it two and a half stars. So they're giving it the number of stars they had to give it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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because of the trans factor, but no additional stars because it's just a bad movie. Even critics are admitting that. I think it has like a 70 some percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a C minus, and yet it has 13 Oscar nominations. So pretty funny. Matt doesn't get enough credit for his ad reads. You can tell he pours his heart and soul into each one. Well, I'm glad you noticed that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Not enough people do. I appreciate that. You know things are different when pardons are being signed in the first week. The gloves are off this term. Exactly right. Also, it turns out that it's possible to wield the pardon power in a good and just way so that you don't need to save it for the end of your term because you're embarrassed by it. It's possible to do that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, we've grown so accustomed to the way that the pardons are doled out that it comes at the end. And the reason it comes at the end, obviously, is that the president who is delivering the pardons knows that this is embarrassing and so waits until he's going to be gone to do it. But you don't have to use pardons that way. There are actually people who deserve to be pardoned.
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And to make matters worse, the excuse that Columbia's government invoked was clearly a pretext that made no sense whatsoever. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And if you're doing that, you don't have to wait to the end. Imagine if people used abortion as birth control for cats and dogs instead of spaying and neutering. Something tells me that would never, ever be accepted. And yet here we are with our own human babies being treated like literal garbage. Words can't. That is a very good point. That is a very good point.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, I've made the comparison to the way that people treat animals many times. But the scenario, the kind of thought experiment you're laying out is a really interesting one.
The Matt Walsh Show
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because, and it's grotesque to think about, but even that, like to say it's grotesque to think about, yeah, it's grotesque to think about people bringing, someone bringing a dog in for an abortion because they don't want to have to deal with the puppies. That's a grotesque thing to imagine. And yet that's exactly what we're doing to humans by the millions. And you are, I think, 100% correct that
The Matt Walsh Show
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If somebody were to bring their dog in for an abortion to get rid of a litter of puppies before it's even born, everyone would condemn it. And can you imagine a dog abortion clinic being set up somewhere where the whole reason it exists is so that you can bring your dog in to abort puppies before they're born? The place would be burned down like that clinic would not survive a day. Not a day.
The Matt Walsh Show
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There would be there would be national outrage, you know, against something like that. And we all know it. Can you imagine that the shame that would be heaped up? Someone bringing their dog in by the leash to this dog abortion clinic. Just the throngs of people outside and what they'd be saying to that person. The person wouldn't even make it to the door.
The Matt Walsh Show
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That's how everybody would respond in that scenario. And why would they respond that way? Well, because they would recognize that the dog, the unborn dog is still a dog. And so killing an unborn dog, they would see it as no different than just killing a dog. And the person who's bringing their dog into the dog abortion clinic would not be able to say, well, it's just a clump.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It's not even a dog yet. What are you talking about? I'm not killing a dog. Um, And so that's a very good point. It's one of so many other unanswerable points that someone on the correct side of the abortion issue can make. This is just a point that no one on the left is even going to engage with this, I guarantee you.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show. Let's talk about something that affects all of us responsible, hardworking Americans, taxes. Now that it's the new year and tax season is upon us, are you prepared for what's coming? Do you owe back taxes or your tax returns still unfiled, missed the deadline to file for an extension?
The Matt Walsh Show
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They won't even engage with it because they know they can't, because they know that you're 100% right. They know that they would recognize the dogness of an unborn dog, but they will not recognize the humanity of an unborn human. And there's no way that they could possibly justify that on logical or intellectual grounds. And so the only way around it is just to ignore it.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Hearing Matt say that's the T is really funny. No, bro, that's cap. My Gen Z slang is... High key slaps, fam. So you need to do a vibe check. It hits different. That's all I got. I quit when I'm ahead. That's all I got. Donald Trump hit the ground running in his first week delivering on key promises, many of which were battles initiated and amplified by the Daily Wire. Am I racist?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
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The Matt Walsh Show
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It tells the tragic tale of useless bureaucrats now living in fear under the tyrannical Trump regime. Politico has the article titled, I am terrified. Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies. Then the subheading, which really tells us everything we need to know, quote, I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go, said one staffer. Well, yeah, that is the problem, isn't it?
The Matt Walsh Show
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I mean, you can't figure out where to bring your talents and your skill set because you have neither talents nor a skill set. You're a useless bureaucrat. And you know that you're a useless bureaucrat. And you know that very few companies are actively seeking to hire useless bureaucrats. So that's the issue. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Here's how the article begins.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Quote, President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the federal workforce have injected a fresh wave of anxiety among employees across the bureaucracy. stoking fears the president is coming for their jobs. Just a few days into Trump's second term, some federal workers are contemplating quitting.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Others are preparing to file grievances with their union or moving communications with each other to secure platforms like Signal. Some fearing they'll be caught up in the White House's purge of diversity programs are leaving their names off of memos and documents they worry could be labeled as DEI-adjacent.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Now, of course, federal workers threatening to quit is like a cop threatening to not give you a ticket. They seem to be fundamentally confused about how incentives work.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
But reading on, as federal employees searched this week for clues within the orders to see how they'll be affected, a staffer with the Environmental Protection Agency said they were cleaning out their inbox and waiting for information about early retirement and buyout programs. Trump version 1.0 was bad, said the EPA employee. I'm already done with version 2.0.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, I think the bigger point is that he is done with you, or at least I hope he is. In fact, he should be done with the entire EPA. We'll see how that works out.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Going back to the article one more time, it says, at the State Department, the shutdown of these programs was something many saw coming, but some were startled by the directive that they report individual cases of people's job descriptions being changed to disguise the DEI element to a special office of personnel management email address. Some saw it as an order to snitch on colleagues.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Quote, I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go. I'm terrified of not being able to pay rent and not having health care, one state staffer said. It's too early to tell if a mass exodus of federal workers will occur. The vagueness of the president's orders has many workers waiting to see how they will be implemented once political staff is in place.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
But what is clear is that the new administration intends to follow through on its threat to purge and dismantle the federal bureaucracy.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Adding to federal workers' distress, the acting head of the Office of Personnel Management, which is effectively the federal government's HR department, on Monday instructed agencies to compile lists by the end of the week of all recent hires and promptly determine whether those employees should be retained at the agency.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Career staffers who have been on the job for less than a year are on probationary status, meaning that they can be fired without triggering civil service protections that insulate much of the federal workforce. The only reason you would do that... is if he's going to fire them all, said Alan Lest, a Washington-based employment lawyer who represents federal workers.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If you have these mass firings, you can't accuse him of discriminating or anything. Well, that's exactly right. I mean, the way to avoid charges of discrimination is to just fire huge numbers of bureaucrats indiscriminately, which is just yet another reason to fire huge numbers of bureaucrats indiscriminately. I mean, it's a win-win.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And here's the truth, if Trump announces tomorrow that he's taking a chainsaw to the federal workforce and cutting 60% of them on the spot, almost none of us will notice any impact on our daily lives. Which is why you'll notice that these articles lamenting the impending bureaucratic apocalypse always focus on the hurt feelings of the bureaucrats themselves.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They don't give us any specific examples of American citizens in the private sector who will be in any way negatively affected by the total annihilation of the State Department's DEI team, for example. They can't give us any sob stories about a person out there in the real world whose life will be horrifically altered by cuts at the EPA.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Instead, they tell us that cuts at the EPA are bad because the people who work at the EPA are sad about them. But that is just not a very compelling argument. And I know that as these mass layoffs begin, God willing, it may seem that people like myself are rather cruel and unkind about it. After all, these are real people who are losing their jobs and their livelihoods.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
We should feel sorry for them just on that basis alone, or so you may think. But frankly, I don't feel sorry for them because the federal government is not supposed to be a giant jobs program for people who don't have any functional skills. Every single government job is supposed to have the express purpose of serving the public. That's why we call them, or used to call them, public servants.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
But the federal government stopped serving the public a long time ago. And now most of these jobs exist for the sake of whoever happens to hold the job. Government jobs perpetuate and spread like cancer or a parasite feeding on the host organism, which is the taxpaying public.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
And if you aren't serving the public, if your job is not in some tangible way making the lives of American citizens better, then you don't deserve to have the job. And I'm not sorry to see you lose it. I'm only sorry that you had it in the first place. But That's not actually the main point that I want to make.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
What I'd like to do is just pass along some friendly advice to our federal workforce, because the timing here is actually quite providential. A lot of you may be losing your job soon, but at the same time, I'm told, a great number of jobs are currently becoming available.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Because the left tells us that all of the illegal aliens we're deporting are the ones who pick our crops and mop our floors and clean our trash and perform all the menial labor that keeps our country running. That's what they're telling. They tell us that our whole civilization is about to come crashing down without migrants here to perform these duties. Well, if that's the case,
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
So the reasoning, according to Colombia's president, is that it's wrong to treat these Colombian nationals like criminals. Even though that's exactly what they are, they broke the law. By definition, that makes you a criminal.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
This all works out really well because we ship out the illegal immigrants at the same time that we fire you from your pointless bureaucratic job. And so now you can kind of swap in and start picking our crops and mopping our floors. I mean, indeed, there's no reason why our floors should go un-mopped for even a single day. Let the illegals pass the baton to the bureaucrats.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I mean, you guys claim to be public servants anyway, right? You're only in those jobs because you care so much about serving the public, right? Well, okay then, start serving us. You should be excited by the opportunity. And now you can truly put the servant back in public service, which is a wonderful thing, isn't it? Problem solved. Two birds killed one stone.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So if you're a bureaucrat still complaining about losing your job, even after this beautiful solution has been presented to you, then in that case, you are today, sadly, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
But even if you concede that point, even if you pretend for a second that all these Colombian nationals on board the C-17 are law-abiding citizens who have done nothing wrong in their lives, The complaint still doesn't make any sense. There's nothing undignified in any way about what's happening here.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
As you just heard, there are plenty of non-criminals who ride aboard these C-17s every day, and they don't complain because there's nothing unusual or oppressive about it. The thing can carry 800 passengers in an emergency. It can carry 100 paratroopers in full gear without any problem.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
And yet we're supposed to believe that it's a human rights catastrophe when 80 illegal aliens, just 80, are forced to fly on one of these planes for a few hours. And that's not the only problem with the reasoning here. Consider this.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Even if Colombia's government did succeed in rejecting these flights, all that would happen is that these Colombian citizens would end up in migrant detention facilities in the United States. How exactly is that outcome any more dignified than simply allowing them to go back to their homes? And by the way, we're not under any obligation to give these criminals a free ride back anyway.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Okay, we would be well within our rights to just drop them off in the desert on the other side of the border and tell them to figure it out themselves. You got here, get yourself home. It's not my job to get you home. So these flights represent the United States being, if anything, too kind and generous in the first place. So- Obviously, everything the Colombian government is saying is a lie.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Gustav Petro is trying to deny the return of his own citizens to their own country because he doesn't want them. He's admitting many times over that the Trump administration is doing the right thing by getting rid of these people. If you spend just a few seconds thinking about what the government of Colombia is saying, that becomes very clear.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
It was also pretty clear that the whole tough guy act was a ruse. Nobody takes Gustavo Petro seriously, even in his own country. Last summer, even though he's married and supposedly straight, Petro was spotted holding hands on some kind of date with a trans-identifying man. Here's that footage. And you can see it there. And So that's a man he's holding hands with.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
You can tell by the shoulders, and that's always a dead giveaway. When this footage circulated at the time, Petro didn't deny the rumors, really. Instead, he condemned transphobia and demanded privacy and said that he definitely wasn't gay. Which, by the way, when you gotta put out a public statement saying, hey, I'm definitely not gay, folks.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Usually that's a sign that things are not going exactly well. People who aren't gay don't have to put out public statements saying that they're not. So anyway, he's going on a date with another man in a totally heterosexual kind of way, he insisted. So when it comes to respectable, reliable allies, needless to say, the Biden administration had a keen eye.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
And obviously, his whole tough guy negotiator routine was extremely fake and transparent. But we all know why Gustavo is trying this approach. Because usually, historically, it works. If Joe Biden or Kamala Harris were still in office, they'd be falling over themselves to apologize for offending our major non-NATO ally. They would be saying, okay, what kind of plane should we put them on?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
We'll get a private jet. We'll get each one of them a private jet. Would that be okay with you? Gustavo, you tell us what to do. We'll do exactly what you say, Gustavo. But that didn't happen this time. Trump was reportedly golfing when Columbia came up with this nonsense and he immediately responded to it via a post on Truth Social.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
He wrote that, quote, Petro's denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public safety of the United States. So I have directed my administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
And those measures included 25% tariffs on Colombian goods, as well as a travel ban on Colombian government officials, visa sanctions on party members, enhanced inspections of Colombians at the border, additional treasury and banking sanctions. And Trump threatened even more crushing tariffs, up to 50% if Colombia didn't back down.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Now, as expected, there was some outrage on the left in response to this threat. But Trump's approach was both morally correct and strategically smart. The United States holds literally all the cards against a country like Colombia. We have all of the leverage. They have none. We could step on the nation like an ant if we wanted to. They have, again, no leverage. They have no power.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
We could incinerate the entire country in 10 seconds. Okay, the power imbalance could not be any more cartoonishly extreme than it is, which means that we can easily bully them into submission. We have both the ability and the moral right and obligation to impose our will on these countries until they stop flooding our communities with criminals.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Trump should treat every country to our south just like this until they all get in line. And there's nothing they can do about it. Not a single damn thing. And very quickly, based on reporting from Fox's Bill Mulligan, Columbia's government came to realize that. quote, Columbia President Gustavo Petro offered his presidential plane to repatriate migrants coming back from the U.S.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
on Sunday in response to stern warnings made by President Trump. In a statement translated from Spanish, the Colombian government said the plane will help facilitate a dignified return.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
The government of Colombia, under the direction of President Gustavo Petro, has arranged the presidential plane to facilitate the dignified return of the compatriots who are going to arrive in this country this morning coming from deportation flights, the translated statement read.
The Matt Walsh Show
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By the way, I think if I were a migrant, I'd rather be on a C-17 than on a Colombian president's plane, you know, just for a pure safety perspective. But that is quite a turnaround. I mean, instead of blocking these flights, the Colombian government is going to facilitate them using the presidential plane, no less.
The Matt Walsh Show
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With the new year beginning and heading into the busy tax season, the IRS may be ramping up enforcement. Let me tell you, they're not playing around. You could face wage garnishments, frozen bank accounts, even property seizures if you haven't taken action yet. Here's the good news. There's still hope.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It was hard to see this development as anything other than a complete and total victory for the Trump administration, which explains why shortly afterwards Trump posted this image on social media. And for our podcast listeners, it's an AI generated image of Trump dressed like a gangster with a sign that reads F-A-F-O or F around and find out, which is kind of the lesson here.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
And apparently in response to that post, a couple hours later, the president of Colombia posted an unhinged message on X, which led to a lot of speculation that he was undergoing some kind of mental or drug-related breakdown, having been thoroughly humiliated in front of the whole world in just a few hours.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Petro's long and rambling message was written in Spanish, so I'm relying on X's built-in translation tool to understand what he said. So this might be a rough translation, but with that in mind, here's part of it. Quote, this is Gustavo Petro. Quote, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington where I saw an entire fight in the U.S.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Capitol between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me because they should join together. I don't like your oil, Trump. You're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day over a glass of whiskey, which I accept despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
But it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. Close quote. Now, if you put aside the fact that he's probably losing his mind, there's something kind of amusing about a post like this. He's trying to project a tough and defiant image after he's already backed down and agreed to fly these aliens back home on his presidential plane.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
It's a bit like you're the basketball team of New Zealand or something, and you're talking trash after you've already gotten blown out by Team USA by 90 points. In any event, late in the evening yesterday, the whole situation fell apart for Columbia even more. They quit pretending to be in charge. They capitulated entirely, apparently realizing how weak their negotiating position was.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
According to Trump's press secretary, Columbia agreed to unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens using military flights. Trump said that he'd hold off on the tariffs and lift the visa sanctions once the first plane load of illegal aliens lands in Colombia. So this was a total and complete victory.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
And Trump's message ended with this, quote, today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again. So in other words, apparently, when you're the most powerful country in the world, you can just simply force other countries to do what you want. You can actually wield power for the sake of protecting the interests of your own people.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
You don't have to capitulate to countries whose very existence depends on the aid and protection that you give them. They have to capitulate to you. If you force them to, and you should, you can and should use the power that you have. There's no point in being the most powerful nation on earth if you will not act like it. That is the moral of the story.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Now, it's hard to overstate the importance of Trump's foreign policy victory here. He just sent a very clear signal to every other country that for the first time in a very long time, the United States is actually going to advance its own interests using force if necessary. That's an important message to send to the government of Haiti, for example, which is especially upset right now.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1523 - Trump Teaches Colombia A Hard Lesson
Quoting for the AP, the president of Haiti's transitional presidential council said the Trump administration's decisions to freeze aid programs, deport migrants, and block refugees will be catastrophic for Haiti. He goes on to say that Haiti can't handle the influx of its own people. So in other words, Haiti wants you to know that sending more Haitians to Haiti will be a catastrophe for Haiti.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Right. Yeah, I mean, that's exactly the point. That's why Donald Trump was elected. It's why Tom Homan is on the streets right now with Dr. Phil kicking foreign nationals from places like Haiti and Colombia out of the country. If you don't want these people, then why exactly should we want them?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
Today on 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?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
Today's the first day of the second Trump administration, which is a sentence that just four years ago would have been hard, if not impossible, to imagine saying out loud. In order to prevent today's inauguration, Trump was, as we know, indicted multiple times, defamed, sued, kicked off the ballot in multiple states. ultimately shot in the head. But against all odds, none of those tactics worked.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
Trump himself, abortion, transgender issues, immigration, climate change, and more. And I just want to 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 have even known that there was another Women's March. I'm in D.C., and I didn't know that it happened.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
It apparently happened not far from our hotel, and I had no idea that 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. In 2016, they claimed that there was a million people who showed up Reportedly, it drew a million people in 2017, you know, in January of 2017. And I don't know if it was really a million.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
I think they probably inflated that number. But it was a lot. I mean, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people showed up in 2017 after Trump was sworn in, you know, for the first Women's March. And it was a massive, massive outcry, right? And backlash against Trump's victory. This time... They drew, you know, a few thousand.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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 launch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
Yeah, you know, low energy, I gotta say. Very low energy. And it really is fascinating because in 2016, again, you know, there were hundreds of thousands of enraged protesters. people screaming in the streets and crying. And we all remember the now iconic legendary figure of the woman on her knees screaming no into the sky, you know, cursing the gods for having done this to her.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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 has about to undergo.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
And so far, nothing like that has happened in response to Trump's victory this time around. Now you have this small collection of people who seem like they showed up more out of a sense of obligation than out of actual passion, much less a real panic. So in 2016, it was Donald Trump is a fascist dictator. He's going to enslave black people and women. He's going to destroy the world.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
And now, as we just heard, they're not saying that. Instead, they're saying, oh, you know, I think he's a bit disorganized. I think his organizational skills are not quite up to snuff. So the signs that they're carrying are the same. The signs and the banners that they're marching under are just as strident as they've always been. But the people carrying the signs can't quite keep the act up.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
They've run out of steam. And I have to say that I'm surprised by that because I thought that there would be a nuclear explosion of feminist rage everywhere. after Trump beat yet another female challenger. I was expecting a Chernobyl-level radioactive feminist meltdown on the left. And I think we all were. I think we all were expecting that. But so far, again, this could change.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
But so far, that just hasn't happened at all. So then the question is, why not? And I think it's a really interesting question. Why haven't we seen this... overwhelming outpouring of rage on the left at Trump. And mainly I think it's exhaustion.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
You can look at the hundreds of executive orders that Trump is signing today, orders that will enable oil drilling, NDEI in 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.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
I think that it's just not possible to sustain an emotional meltdown and a sense of chaotic panic for a full decade, because that's what we're looking at now. I mean, Trump came on the political scene in 2015, it's 2025 now. So now it's been a decade now and it's just not possible to keep that going emotionally. for 10 years.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
And this is the problem for the left, being an ideology that runs on emotion. The criticism of conservatives is that we put facts over feelings too much, that we don't connect on an emotional level with people enough. Because for us, it's too much of just laying the facts out and shouting at you if you don't understand it and it's not resonating with you.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
And I think that there's something to be said for that criticism. And I know that I'm... If there's a problem of erring too much on the side of not caring about feelings and caring too much about facts, I know that I have erred in that direction quite a bit. But on the other side, all they have are feelings. All they have is this emotional response. And that's not sustainable.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
Because emotions cool. Even hatred cools off. Donald Trump is now... a normal part of the political scene. He has defined and dominated the political scene for nearly 10 years now. And after a while, inevitably, people just kind of get used to it, get accustomed to it, even the people that don't like him. He's just a normal part of the landscape.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
And that's aside from the fact that he did well in his first term, and so the dire predictions never really came to pass. Even aside from that, he's normal. He's normal. It was easier to get people to panic and to react emotionally in a negative way against something that is not perceived as normal, something that is different. People are afraid of change and all of that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
It's a cliche, but it's true. Well, now you have something that... It would be a change for Trump to not be a part of the political scene. So I think that's part of it. And the bigger problem, the deeper problem on the left is the fracturing and the disarray that they have now. And even something like organizing a protest a large protest is difficult to do when everybody is fractured.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
And they're fractured because what is the democratic political project at this point? What do they stand for? Can they even answer that? What do they want to achieve? What are their goals? I mean, I know their fundamental goal is to destroy Western civilization. I know that, but they can't say that. So from a public facing perspective, What are their goals?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
This is one thing that Trump, one of the, one of the, one of the things that Trump has always been very good at is laying out the goals in a really, in really clear language. That's why like something as simple as build the wall, you know, it's just a, it's, it's a, it's a simple concept that makes it very clear. This is one tangible thing that we want to do. And, and this is one of our goals.
The Matt Walsh Show
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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.
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It's a fundamental goal. And that's secure the border, law and order. I mean, these are simple, not to say simplistic, but just simple. These are simple things that need to be done. And so if anyone asks, well, what do conservatives want? What does Trump want? What does the MAGA movement want? You can start talking about it.
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You can start laying it out because these things have been clearly, you might not agree with all of it, especially if you're on the left, but you know what those things are. But on the left, they don't have that. And so that's probably their fundamental basic problem that's
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if they don't solve will mean that they'll hurdle even further into irrelevance over the coming years, which means that, you know, I hope, I certainly hope they don't solve it. That's what I'm rooting for. All right, let's move to the comment section. A few comments here. As a comic book reader, collector, the idea of bringing a comic into a sauna seems utterly abhorrent.
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Is he trying to ruin all resale value? Is that yet another flex of his? On Friday, we played the video of the TikToker claiming that a white conservative man, quote unquote, made fun of his comic books in the sauna. And you do bring up an interesting point. Like, what kind of comic book fan are you if you bring one into the sauna? All that moisture is going to ruin the comic book.
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I wouldn't do that. So apparently I'm a greater respecter of comic books than he is. I can't wait for the inevitable uproar from all the sauna enthusiasts. It's definitely coming. That did happen. You know, I said I don't see the point of saunas because you're just sitting and you're hot and uncomfortable. You're sitting in this torture chamber, this like... Why? It's not an enjoyable experience.
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It's humid and hot. Why would I want that, to just sit in that? And that did provoke the ire of the sauna fans out there. And honestly, I didn't know. There's some angry comments from people who like saunas. I did not know that saunas attracted that kind of loyalty. But actually, one thing I've learned over the years is that
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Anytime you even mildly and unseriously and half-jokingly criticize anything at all, literally any single thing that you can think of, you will offend some group of people who center their whole identity around that thing.
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Whatever random, doesn't matter what it is, whatever random thing, behavior, object that you make a critical comment of, you're going to find that there is some community out there that to them, that thing is like everything. And this is one of the rakes that I find myself constantly stepping on, which is fine. I travel for work. Flying in the USA is awful.
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The tickets are more expensive and you get less. Even checking on a single bag costs extra money. There aren't even meals or drinks during the flight, and the tickets cost more than where there are drinks and food during the flight. People are extremely slow. Passengers take much longer to store their stuff and collect it before getting off. The flight attendants are ugly, entitled, and unfriendly.
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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 28 amendments now instead of what we all thought, which was 27.
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Security goes extremely slow and you have to take off your shoes. In Asia, aside from Japan, I've never had to take off my shoes. Nobody wears nice clothes to fly in the USA because the experience is so bad for the cost. Everyone's angry at the airport because air travel in the USA is broken. When flying in Asia, I wear a suit.
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When flying in the USA, I wear a track suit and loose-fitting shoes without laces. For a country that claims to value hard work, productivity, and efficiency, air travel for us is terrible. Perhaps the worst in the world, though I've never flew in Africa and South America." You know, I've heard this, that air travel in other countries is a much more pleasant and higher class experience.
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I don't know. The only thing that I can compare it to is my trip to Kenya when we filmed What is a Woman? Aside from that, I haven't really traveled internationally except for Canada, which doesn't exactly count. I will say that when we went out to Kenya, we almost... almost ended up taking Kenya. I think it was Kenya Airways or Kenya Airline or something. And we didn't do that.
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We didn't pull that trigger. Thank God. I have a feeling that if we had, I would not have been thrilled with the travel experience. Instead, though, we ended up on Qatar Airways. And to your point, I mean, obviously not an American airline. And man, it was tremendous. I mean, it really was. It's like easily the nicest flying experience of my life. Like a mini vacation, just being on the flight.
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And if that's generally what flying internationally is like, then yes, I think that your point is correct. Finally, Matt says he's okay with comic books because he doesn't want to get in trouble with Ben.
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He says they're legitimate forms of art, implying it's okay for adult men to like them, but then rants about video games being only for children, implying video games aren't an art form, which is absurd. Many video games have given us far more compelling stories and narratives than most garbage Hollywood movies of the past 20 years. Yeah, you're right.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I said I'm okay with comic books as an art form. So that I don't get in trouble with Ben. Because they would have fired me. They would have fired me for being anti-comic book. On the spot. That would have been it. That would be it. You know. That's true. You're right. Because in fact, just as you suspect. And, you know, any opinion that I have. That you don't like.
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Is only because I'm forced to say it. So I don't get fired. Otherwise, how could I possibly believe anything that you individually yourself don't believe? It's impossible. No, you're right. Like no human being could ever disagree with you sincerely on anything. It's not like I actually have my own views on things and they just might not line up with yours. No, your intuition is correct.
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Everyone in the world agrees with you about everything. And if they don't, it's only because they've been bought off. They're a sellout. There's literally never been a single instance of a human being sincerely and honestly disagreeing with you about anything. even on the smallest, most low-stake topic, like comic books or video games. So you're right.
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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.
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This is certainly another thing that I've learned. Anytime I have... an opinion on any individual topic, no matter how small and irrelevant it is, if that conflicts with anyone else, then it's only because I'm a sellout and I'm being paid. Someone's paying me. There's some dastardly scheme.
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There's someone in a dimly lit room smoking a cigar and stroking a cat telling me to say whatever that thing was. And in this case, it's comic books. So you caught me. Today's the day, folks. Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, and The Daily Wire is live from D.C. to bring you every moment.
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Less than two years ago, the manager of the Village People reportedly sent a cease and desist letter to Donald Trump's lawyer, the manager, Karen Willis, the wife of one of the group's members. was supposedly upset that Trump had been filmed dancing to Macho Man at Mar-a-Lago.
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As Rolling Stone reported at the time, quote, the village people are once again asking Donald Trump to stop using their music. Now, who knows if that story is true or not? It's in Rolling Stone, so honestly, it's probably completely made up. But just for a moment, for the purpose of this segment anyway, let's pretend that it's accurate. From a practical perspective, The story makes sense.
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The village people are basically gay icons by design. They produce gay anthems. And according to MSNBC, Donald Trump wants to throw all the gay people into camps. So how can the village people possibly tolerate any affiliation or applied affiliation with the orange Hitler who wants to imprison and torture all the gay people and every other minority as well?
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With that in mind, it'd be hard to think of a better illustration of Donald Trump's political comeback than the scene last night at Capital One Arena in Washington, where Trump was holding a victory rally. And after he was done speaking, the village people themselves got up on stage with him, and this is what that looked like.
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Now, apparently we're not supposed to read this moment as an endorsement of Donald Trump by the village people. On Facebook, one of the group's members, the guy who plays the cop, put out a whole statement about this, which is kind of entertaining to read, if only because he clearly wants to pacify the group's more militant fans. because apparently this group has militant fans.
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But he's not quite sure how to do it. Here's part of it, quote, our performances are not an endorsement of the president-elect's policies. Having said that, we do support that we have a new president now. It wasn't the LGBTQ community that made YMCA great again by pushing the song to number one for five weeks on a billboard chart. Five weeks at number one.
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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 650 amendments 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.
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It wasn't the African-American community that did that either. Janet Jackson has a song that says, I know you may have done some things for me in the past, but what have you done for me lately? Well, one man has done a lot for the village people lately. His name is Donald Trump. So I guess they're endorsing the idea that we have a new president.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But the idea is he's endorsing the fact we have a new president, but not the president himself. But at the same time, they are kind of endorsing Trump because he's made them a lot of money lately. And so at least there's some honesty there. I don't know.
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Even so, obviously, the fact that these people were willing to appear on stage, even if the PR cleanup effort is hilariously clumsy, the fact that they were willing to appear on stage is a pretty big sign that Donald Trump is far more mainstream now than he was just a few years ago. And more importantly, it's a sign that his rallies are fun for a very wide array of people in the audience.
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People are excited about his administration, even if they're not hardcore Trump supporters. And that's why yesterday's rally produced this image, which will probably appear in history books at some point in the future, if people still read books in the future. It's what it looks like. It's the perfect image for demonstrating how badly Democrats have played their political hand.
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They have managed to lose the village people. In fact, the village people have gone from sending Donald Trump threatening legal letters to partying with him on stage. And they're not the only ones. I mean, there are many examples of this kind of thing this time around. For example, for his part, Snoop Dogg has had a similar arc. He's gone from acting out Trump's assassination in a music video
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and lashing out at anyone who performs at his inauguration to actually performing at one of Trump's inaugural balls the other day. As USA Today reports, quote, the rapper 53 on Friday performed at an event in Washington, D.C., where cryptocurrency executives celebrated the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.
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The inaugural crypto ball, held at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, filled itself on his website as an event intended to honor the 60th presidential inauguration, America's first crypto president. President-elect Donald J. Trump, his incoming administration,
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The event did not feature an appearance from the president-elect himself, but Trump's incoming cryptozar, David Sachs, served as emcee for the gala. So here's a little before and after of Snoop Dogg's views on performing at Donald Trump's inauguration. And this is less than 10 years apart.
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But it's not hard to see why. It's the same reason that tech executives like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are going to Mar-a-Lago. It's also the same reason Donald Trump received a much larger percentage of the youth vote than any Republican candidate in recent history. Conservatives are now in a highly unusual spot, historically speaking.
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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.
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Conservatives are now seen, correctly, as far more interesting and engaging and entertaining than their opponents. They don't stand for censorship or political oppression. They stand for free thought. They stand for having families, enjoying life, having a prosperous life, rather than constantly dwelling on self-pity and feigned grievances. And as a result of that, they can have fun.
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Instead of making up threats to democracy and talking about Hitler, this is what was happening at Capital One rally last night. Watch.
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So the Republican Party is succeeding right now in some respects because of moments like this. Democrats resent happiness. They certainly resent children and Republicans don't. There's evidence that at some level, Democrat voters understand this.
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Over at CNN, for example, they just ran this report, quote, in the wake of the 2024 election, most supporters of the Democrat Party say that it needs to make significant changes and that they feel burned out by politics. According to a new CNN poll, the party faces its lowest ratings in more than 30 years.
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The report continues, quote, a 58% majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say the Democratic Party needs major changes or to be completely reformed, up from just 34% who said the same after the 2022 midterm elections when the party retained control of the Senate but lost the House.
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Over that time, the share of Republicans and Republican-leaners who feel the same about the GOP has ticked downward from 38% to 28%. Now, one reason for these numbers is is that there's apparently a very real sense among Democrats that their elected representatives are useless.
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They spend all their time regulating speech and jailing their political enemies even as inflation spirals out of control and people's lives get noticeably worse. Quote, only 49% of Democratic-aligned adults
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say they expect their party's congressional representatives to be even somewhat effective at resisting GOP policies, while more than 9 in 10 Republican-aligned adults expect their party's congressional representatives, who now control both chambers of Congress, to be at least somewhat effective at passing new laws to enact their agenda. That's a pretty stark difference.
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Less than half of Democrats think their elected officials are going to do anything productive, while 90% of Republican voters think their officials will be productive. Now, of course, that doesn't mean that Republican politicians will be productive.
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It doesn't mean that they'll actually accomplish anything over the next four years, and that remains to be seen, but there's at least some hope and optimism in that direction. Instead, what these figures demonstrate is the same thing we saw at the inauguration parties this weekend, which is that the Democrat Party is in shambles, and the Republican Party is mainstream for the first time in decades.
The Matt Walsh Show
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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.
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In modern history, there has never been a time to be more optimistic about the future of the conservative movement. Right now, millions of people are inspired, even the village people of all people. Meanwhile, over on the Democrat Party, they're seething and they're scrambling to pick up the pieces.
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And that is why, in a very real sense, the increasingly unpopular and despondent Democratic Party is today, though certainly not permanently, at least for now, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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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.
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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 standing up and literally declaring bankruptcy in the office.
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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.
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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.
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So why would some unnamed bureaucrats in an unpopular, outgoing Democrat administration decide to pretend that they've amended the U.S. Constitution on their way out the door? That's a question I think it's worth digging into. And 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.
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And a guarantee is 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, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And because that deadline has expired, the ERA resolution is no longer pending before the states. Then in 2022, under the Biden administration, DOJ affirmed that decision. That same year, Kamala Harris put out this tweet, quote, the principle of gender equality belongs in our constitution.
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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.
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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?
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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 archivist 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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Jill Brand is spelling it out.
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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.
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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 approximately a million problems with this argument.
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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.
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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 Gillibrand, which is that the Dobbs decision explicitly held that laws against abortion do not constitute sex discrimination. Of course they don't.
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The Supreme Court could not have been more clear about this. Quoting from the majority opinion by Justice Alito, the state's regulation of abortion is not a sex-based classification.
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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.
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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. That's equal rights under the law. And 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.
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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.
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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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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
I get it. I don't hold it against you. So anyway, yes, we are in, we are in DC 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 and all the streets around the hotel we're staying are closed off. So you go outside, there are no cars driving around. You got to walk through checkpoints and everything.
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
And I've never been in DC at the time of inauguration before. I've heard that this is the level of security is 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, MAGA people for the inauguration, which is also a bit surreal.
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
Everywhere I go, I'm running into people who are 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 D.C. And by the way, for those who have wondered, I mentioned these fancy balls and dinners and things that I'm going to.
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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 a 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.
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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, you know, I've probably had 300 conversations with people, and I have no idea what was said on the other end of the conversation.
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
So they're saying something in a muffled voice because I can't hear it 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 saying, hey, uh, What do you think I sneak into your hotel room tomorrow night and murder you in your sleep?
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Ep. 1518 - Joe Biden Makes One Last Insane Power Grab Before Leaving For Good
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 will be even remotely relevant. This is from the Daily Wire. Protesters at the Women's March in Washington, D.C.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Today on the Matt Wall Show, it's becoming more and more clear that the American Airlines disaster this week was preventable. It was also foreseeable, which is why many people, including myself, warned about it for months and years ahead of time. So how did we see this coming if the federal government under the previous administration did not?
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
No, we don't know that. You know, based on the information we have right now, we can't say that with certainty.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
One of the Blackhawk pilots was reportedly, according to Fox News, a woman with just 500 hours of experience, but we don't yet know whether she was handling the controls at the time of the crash, although that seems likely since her male co-pilot was doing the radio calls, but we still don't know the full extent of her qualifications or anything else. There is still a lot we don't know.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
At the same time, as Donald Trump outlined yesterday, that's not really the point. The point is that we shouldn't even have to wonder even for a second, if DEI played a role in an incident like this. But we do have to ask that question because any agency or organization that practices DEI cannot claim to be upholding the highest possible standards. That's the whole point here.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
It's not about whether any individual person involved in this incident was a quote-unquote DEI hire. They may or may not have been. We don't know. We'll never know that. The point is the lowering of standards that happens And the inevitable results when you lower standards. And as Trump pointed out, it never ends well, particularly in an industry like aviation. Watch.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
You're supposed to believe that we can't really know anything about what happened and that, at a minimum, we should allow a few years' worth of investigation to take place before we arrive at any conclusions whatsoever.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Now, if we want to avoid future disasters like this one, we have to address the problem that Trump's talking about there. We don't really have a choice. You simply have to establish high standards for jobs like this. That's it. You have to have high standards across the board.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And if you can't find enough applicants who meet those standards, if there's a shortage of qualified personnel, then the solution is to pay qualified applicants more so that you can attract competent people.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And if you can't do any of that for some reason, and you end up understaffed and with not enough people, well, then you need to drastically reduce the traffic and the amount of work these people are doing by, for example, not having helicopters flying right in the path of incoming planes.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
That certainly is the position of CNN, which sent a reporter to the White House briefing yesterday to browbeat Donald Trump because he cast blame on the Blackhawk pilots, DEI, and air traffic control. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
At this point, we also need to take a full accounting of the damage that COVID lockdowns have done to this country, which is something that has never been done. And I bring that up because this is an interesting point that I haven't heard anyone else bring up. I received an email from a senior engineer at a major company in the aviation industry last night. And
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
This person brought up something, again, that I hadn't heard anyone else bring up, which is the effect of the COVID lockdowns on the aviation industry. This person wrote, quote, while nobody had it easy, the aviation industry was hit particularly hard.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
The demand for air travel plummeted when the lockdowns took effect, resulting in massive attrition of experienced people out of every corner of the aviation industry. When demand came back about three years ago, these people were replaced by relatively young and inexperienced new hires. I'd be utterly shocked if this did not in some way impact the midair collision at Reagan National.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
That's another aspect to this incident that I don't think anyone had actually considered, very few, I had. We have too few qualified people in part because of the devastation that the COVID lockdown has inflicted on this country. Which is yet another reason why we can never allow anything like that to happen in this country again. And the current White House seems to understand that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Moving forward, the White House is now committed to rooting out existing DEI hires at the FAA so they can start recruiting competent employees. Speaking to Fox last night, senior White House official Stephen Miller said that's exactly what's about to happen. Watch.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
This is the step we need to take. We have no other choice. Once an organization actually rewards competence, things start improving very quickly.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
A competent FAA official might decide, for example, that it's a bad idea to have a helicopter route pass right in front of a major airport on the assumption that the helicopter will never make a mistake and go 100 feet above or below their assigned altitude. 100 feet of altitude should not be the difference between life and death.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And when you've decided to have helicopters in the vicinity of airplanes. Those are the kinds of practical life-saving decisions that get made when you're focused entirely on your mission and nothing else. They're the kinds of decisions that Americans just voted for in record numbers. And they're the kinds of decisions that need to be made immediately before a lot more people die.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Well, I should say there is a point, but the point is not to obtain information, which should be basically the sole focus of any hearing. The point of a confirmation hearing is to learn about the nominees and then to decide if they should be confirmed. But that's not what's happening here. The senators on the committee are not trying to find out any information. They aren't asking real questions.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And we all know that they have all or nearly all made up their minds before the hearing even started. So the whole thing's a joke. Yesterday was DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard and FBI director nominee Kash Patel who were on the hot seat. And we'll play a few clips. But the important point in all these clips, again, is that none of the senators interrogating them
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Also, the confirmation hearings this week prove why we should just stop having confirmation hearings. And J.D. Vance sparked controversy with the provocative claim that we should prioritize our own children first and foremost. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show. Being a husband, father, and host of my own show means life never slows down.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
None of the senators interrogating the suspects here are actually trying to figure out how they want to vote. They all knew long before they stepped into that room how they'd vote. In fact, they all knew at approximately 1 a.m. on November 6th, 2024, how they would be voting in this hearing on January 30th. They all knew.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
The moment Trump was confirmed as the winner, they all knew, the Democrats knew, they'd be voting against whoever the nominee is for whatever position. So again, it's all a farce. It has all the significance and all the reality of professional wrestling. And they're not even trying to hide it. So I want you to watch this moment with Senator Michael Bennett and Tulsi Gabbard. Watch.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Okay, if you want her to answer the question, shut the hell up, Mike. Can you shut your mouth for two seconds? He doesn't give her even two seconds to answer. She doesn't even start answering. And he's already demanding the answer. And he has the gall to say, this is not a moment for social media. Well, your whole performance, Mikey, is about social media. What are you talking about?
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
You're worried about going viral. That's what you want. I mean, that's what all these, that's all they're trying to do. That's what every hearing is. Every hearing now is all these politicians who are glorified TikTok influencers now that just wanna go viral. That's all they're thinking about. The only thing they're thinking about is I wanna get a viral clip.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
We shouldn't even have these hearings anymore. I don't know what the process needs to be to do this, but Just abolish the confirmation hearings. Just get rid of them. Seriously. The whole thing. The president won. He has the right to fill in his cabinet with whoever he wants. Okay, whoever he wants. I don't care who he puts in there. He won. It's his cabinet. So whoever you want to put in there.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Now, we've talked a lot about how Trump is reforming Washington at a very rapid pace, largely with his steady stream of executive orders and executive actions. But one of the most important changes he's making is that he's introducing some accountability into the federal government.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
That's what people voted for. The ability of the president to fill his cabinet and enact his agenda should not hinge on some committee of showboating grandstanding 90 IQ politicians who only just want to get that little 60 second clip that will go viral on X, okay? That's not what this should all hinge on. But that was the whole hearing with Tulsi. They didn't give her a chance to answer anything.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Just one more example of that. This is her being, I mean, you can't even say questioned. You can't even say interrogated because interrogated means like you're trying to pull information out of somebody. An interrogation is actually exactly what this isn't. But here she is with Senator Mark Warner.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Ms. Gabbard, I asked you a question. Please respond. Please respond. I'm not going to let you speak. But Ms. Gabbard, Ms. Gabbard, please respond with blinks and movements of your eyeballs. Respond in Morse code. Because she's not allowed to, she was trying to answer the question. He's like, well, what reforms do you want?
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And she goes, well, for example, and then he jumps in again because he doesn't want her to get a chance to answer it. Just an absolute joke. The Kash Patel hearing was no better, actually worse in many ways. Here is Senator Alex Padilla questioning, or again, not questioning, but grandstanding, performing in front of Kash Patel.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
He's demonstrating that he has no patience for the bureaucratic runaround that allows disasters like this to occur in the first place, and then also allows for no one to ever be held accountable for it, and no individual person to ever take any blame for anything. And the corporate media obviously participates in that by running interference.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
The word would be Y-E-S, yes. You condescending, pointy-headed prick. I wish Cash had said that. Cash should have said that. I understand why he didn't, but I wish he did. I actually think that all of the nominees, I think they've all performed very well given the circumstances. But the only mistake that all these nominees are making is they're too nice. They're still too nice.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
You're in no obligation to sit there and take that from this guy. Y-E-S-S. Shut up, you clown. Who are you talking to? Who do you think you're talking to? Okay, I'm not a child. Have some respect. Address me with respect or I'm not going to talk to you. How about that? You can say that. You should say that. You're under no obligation. That's not what this is supposed to be.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
The whole thing now, it's like, okay, the president has nominees, and so they have to run this humiliation ritual, is the idea now. The penalty of being nominated is that you have to just sit there and be condescended to for two and a half hours on national television. What? Why? Why is that the system? What do we gain from that?
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Here is Richard Blumenthal, who looks like he was AI generated, doing his whole routine. Here it is.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And the idea is, well, now we're not gonna allow that to happen. So one of the reasons that's true is that in this case, we have primary sources that we can rely on. There are a lot of aviation enthusiasts on platforms like YouTube, and they regularly upload air traffic control data and audio. And those videos paint a pretty clear picture of what took place on Wednesday night.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
He can't accept that. He can't accept it. He won't accept it because he doesn't agree with it. He doesn't agree with the answer that he's been given, so he won't accept it. But isn't, wait a second, Richard, isn't the point of the hearing to get Kash Patel's answers? Aren't we interested? Or is Kash Patel supposed to just sit there and say whatever Richard Blumenthal wants him to say?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Is that the point of the hearing, Richard? Is to hear them like puppets repeat whatever your opinion is? Aren't we interested in his opinion, in his perspective? What do you mean you won't accept it? That's what he thinks. That's his answer. But the cringiest, most pathetic moment of the whole hearing came to us courtesy of, naturally, Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff, the human planter wart.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Here's his Oscar-worthy performance.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Turn around. Talk to them. What is this? Simon Says? Turn around. Stand up. Yeah, I didn't say Simon Says. Put your right hand up. Put your right hand in. You want them to get up and dance the hokey pokey? What do you want? Like, now you're giving him choreography to perform? I can't. I mean, Adam Schiff, he's like an old, irritable woman.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I mean, imagine being trapped in a room with this guy, listening to him nag. It's cruel and unusual punishment. It's unconstitutional. We should abolish these hearings on the basis that they are human rights violations. Nobody should be forced to listen to, much less look at, Adam Schiff. Um... That's my stance on that. All right, J.D.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Vance started some controversy this week by saying something obviously correct in an interview. Here he is talking about the hierarchy of love, the order of people that we are called to love and prioritize in our lives. Let's listen to that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
So here, for example, is a reconstruction of the accident from the account VASA Aviation. And it combines the radar tracking data with audio from air traffic control. And in this footage, you'll hear the first relevant interaction between the tower at Reagan Airport and the Blackhawk helicopter crew. Listen.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
It really is amazing in all the best ways that we have a vice president who talks about the principles of subsidiarity, which is what this is. To have a vice president who actually says interesting, insightful things. When was the last time we had that? I mean, not in my lifetime, certainly. The vice president has always just been... In my lifetime, a blabbering bore.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And so here we have someone saying things that are true and interesting. The point is, again, obviously correct, which means just as obviously that people are upset about it. This was trending on social media, a bunch of people on the left saying that J.D. Vance's philosophy on love is cruel and bad and in contradiction to the gospel.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
because, of course, a bunch of secular atheists really care about the gospel and know about it, so we should listen to them. But the point itself feels almost pointless to defend because it is so clearly, obviously, self-evidently true. Obviously, you're meant to love your family, your spouse, and your children first and foremost and prioritize them.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And you're supposed to love your nation before the nations of the world. Human society is built on this system. It's how every human being is naturally wired. Our legal system is built on it. which is why if you're fed and warm and comfortable and your child dies of starvation and exposure, you will go to prison forever, and you should.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
But if a homeless guy across town dies of starvation and exposure, you're not going to go to prison. You'll be sad if you find out about it, but you're not going to go to prison for that, nor should you, because the law recognizes that you have a special obligation to make sure that your children don't starve.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
You do not have a specific legal obligation to make sure that the homeless guy across town doesn't starve. And in fact, if you had to choose between the two, you'd choose your own children a thousand times out of a thousand. Helping the homeless guy across town is something that you only do after you've taken care of your own family.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And then, yes, if there's someone in need in your community, you should try to help them. And that person should take priority over a homeless guy in China, right? That's the way that it works. And again, it's so obvious. What's more interesting to me is why the left pretends to not understand this. That's the more interesting question to me. As J.D. Vance points out, they've inverted this.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
They've totally inverted kind of this pyramid, this hierarchy. And so now they prioritize the world, the nations of the world, the global community over their actual community and even their family and certainly their nation. And why? Why? Because again, we're not wired that. It goes against our wiring as human beings. Everything about it makes no sense.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And I think there's a reason for it, which I also think that people maybe sometimes miss. Here's why, okay? The left likes to prioritize the kind of universal love of mankind and put it ahead of love of family and love of country, or at least on the equal playing field. And the reason that they do that is because loving the world is easy. It requires nothing of you.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
You can just sit on your couch and love the world. What does it mean to love the world? What does it mean for me to love and care deeply about a homeless guy in China? I can't do anything about it. I can't really do anything for the world. So loving just means that you're just, you know, you could just, you can do that anytime.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
You could sit on your couch and eat Doritos and watch TV and love the world at the same time. Because all that means really is that you just have sort of warm, general feelings about the world. And you want things to go well for people in the world. And you just kind of warm, well wishes for everybody is what loving the world means. That's easy. Great. Okay. Check that box.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I have warm well wishes for everybody. Check. That's it. Now I'm a good person. Right? Now loving your family, on the other hand, requires work. It requires you to do. It requires you to get up off of your couch and sacrifice. Loving your family requires It's an activity. It's a thing that you do. It's a sacrifice.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
You cannot love your family and just sit on your couch the whole time because your family needs things of you. They need your help. They need your sacrifice. They need your service. They need your leadership. They need you to provide for them. If I'm just sitting on my couch and not getting off the couch, I cannot even claim that I love my children. What does that mean?
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I can't say that I love my children and I'm neglecting them and not caring for them because to love my children is to care for them. And so loving the people closest to you is an obligation and a sacrifice. And even loving your country, which comes after loving your family, but even loving your country, there are things you can do for your country.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
It's not as much of an all-encompassing obligation. I mean, for some people it is if you join the military, for example. But for most of us, it's not. But still, there are things you can do for your country. Right? Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. And so there are things you can do for your country.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Now, in case you couldn't hear what the tower says, it says, PAT-25, traffic just south of the Woodrow Bridge, a CRJ, it's 1,200 feet, setting up for runway 33. And then comes a response, PAT-25 has the traffic in sight requesting visual separation, and then visual separation is granted. This is a key moment. Contrary to what you may have heard in the media,
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
There's basically nothing that you can do for the world. There's almost nothing. There's a whole lot every single day you can do for your family, and there's less but still a lot that you can do for your country. And so those are the kinds of love that the left is not interested in and doesn't like and doesn't want to talk about and wants to de-emphasize because it requires them to do things.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And it carries with it an obligation. And the last thing that they ever want is an obligation. So I think that's what's happening here.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
No one ever asked why doctors prescribed SSRI drugs to people without ever testing their serotonin levels in the first place. Well, yeah, this is a question I've had about the many alleged mental disorders that doctors prescribe drugs for. I've had this question, you know, forever.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And they say that, well, it's strange that they assure us that all these things, depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc., all of these things are actually diseases of the brain, which is what they'll claim. Although they still call them mental disorders or mental illnesses. When really if they were clearly diseases of the brain, you would call them neurological disorders.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And there's a difference between a mental disorder and a neurological disorder. Because a neurological disorder is something that is in the brain. And yet they talk about mental disorders in the same way because they want to medicalize these things. And they want them to be on the same sort of playing field as physical illnesses. And yet...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
In the vast majority of cases, they don't diagnose these things with brain scans. So they'll tell you that, oh yeah, you can totally find ADHD in the brain. An ADHD brain is different from a regular brain. That's what they tell you. Okay, well then why don't they ever do a brain scan?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Like, why is it then that you can go and get your kid diagnosed with ADHD without anyone ever looking at his brain? There's no brain scan. How's that? If it's clearly so evident in the brain. And that's a question they don't have an answer for. Hate to say it, Matt, but if you disqualified every teacher that's on SSRIs, you'd have to close every school in the US. I fail to see the problem.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
That is a feature, not a bug. I'll have to tell you. Do you support these onesies? What a clown and what a silly time to be alive. If RFK Jr. resigned, what the hell does Bernie expect him to do? He has no control over what an organization. He's no longer a part of sales. Yeah, a lot of people were reacting to Bernie Sanders taking RFK Jr.
The Matt Walsh Show
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to task for onesies that were on sale by an organization that RFK Jr. is no longer affiliated with. And I think a lot of people felt that talking about onesies at a confirmation hearing in the Senate was a bit absurd, a bit asinine. I understand that feeling, but I will say this. I will say this about onesies since Bernie Sanders brought the subject up.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I think there is a conversation about onesies that we should be having as a country and that we're not. because I personally support only one kind of onesie, and that is the onesie with the zippers. And this is something I actually feel very strongly about. This is an issue that's really important to me and near and dear to my heart.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
The controller tells the Black Hawk pilot exactly what plane to look out for and where it is at that exact moment. And the Black Hawk pilot states that he sees the plane at the bridge and will avoid it. At this point, everything's going normally. And then about 20 seconds later, an alarm goes off in the control tower because the two aircraft are on a collision course.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
It's a big issue for me and for the nation, but I think that there's not been nearly enough conversation about it. The snap-on onesies are, okay, those things are ridiculous. The onesies with the snaps, And if you don't have kids, you don't realize this. The majority of onesies they sell have snaps. And not just like two or three snaps. But 50 snaps.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
To the point where when the onesie is unsnapped, it doesn't even look like clothing. It's just a piece of cloth. It's a weirdly shaped piece of cloth. And you have to snap it up. It's like origami. It's an arts and crafts project all of a sudden when you're just trying to get your kid changed. And now you got this wiggling baby who's crying. And you want to get him to bed.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And you've got to do all the snaps. The whole snaps over the whole thing. This is so many of the ones. I'm telling you, it's most of the onesies. It's all just snaps. Meanwhile, you get a zipper, you just put the kid in, you zip it up and you're done. And I know what the answer is because this is a point of contention among some parents.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, you can't do the zippers because babies are all fat and you get their skin stuck in the zipper. That's not hard. Look, I've had six kids. I've zipped up many a onesie in my time. Okay, I've done the zip. I've probably done that 10,000 times. Never once did I get the skin caught in the zipper. It's not hard to avoid. So this is a real issue.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I think that the snap-on onesies should be federally banned. I don't know why they're still on the market. I don't know why we allow this. And I don't understand why the majority of onesies are that. It makes no sense. It's crazy. Let's see. Now that I got that off my chest. One other comment. I'm so disappointed that RFK Jr. acquiesced and said he's supportive of vaccines.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I don't think that he acquiesced. I'm pretty sure his position is that he doesn't have any kind of philosophical problem with the concept of vaccines. He's not saying that there's anything wrong with just like the idea of giving someone a drug to prevent a disease.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
His point is that the vaccines have to be properly studied and tested and vetted, and they have to be safe and effective, which in his view is not the case for many of them. I mean, I think that's his position. I And that's the position he was articulating in the hearings. I have heard that a little bit, that he seemed to backtrack or whatever on vaccines. But that's not the way that I read it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And I'll admit, I haven't tracked RFK Jr. 's career and everything he said about vaccines over the past 20 years as closely as apparently a lot of people have. But what I've heard him say about it in the hearing, to me, made sense. Where he's saying, no, I got no problem with the concept of it. It's not like some philosophical sort of like in principle objection that I have to the very concept.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
It's that what he's saying is in his view, very often these vaccines are not properly studied and not properly tested and are sold as safe and effective when they aren't. immediately we could all think of one major example of that, which of course is the COVID vaccine. Hopefully by now you've joined millions in watching my movie, Am I Racist?
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
The box office hit comedy and number one documentary of the decade. Today I got something new for you. Clearing the air, the making of Am I Racist? The streaming exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. And that's me, director Justin Folk, and the whole movie crew showing you exactly how we put this thing together. And of course, if you haven't watched Am I Racist? You should probably start there.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
That obviously signals that the Black Hawk pilot may not have followed the instructions and listen to what happens at that point.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
But then you're going to want to watch the making of, because that's a whole movie unto itself. It's a whole story of how we actually pulled this off, which is a question, of course, we get all the time. And it's all streaming right now on Daily Wire+. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I was going to include this in the comment section yesterday, but I decided that's probably worth fleshing out in a monologue. So I'm going to close the show by answering not just one comment, but... A great many comments, all circling around the same theme.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And these are comments that I am always peppered with anytime I discuss, as we have this week, the issue of foreign aid or foreign policy in general. In fact, I've been trending on X this week, ended up in a Mediaite headline. because of this issue. And it's kind of funny seeing as I'm not all that interested in foreign policy.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I only talk about it sparingly because my focus is and always has been on American culture. That's what I care about the most. That's where I feel like I have the most to offer is with that. So my pronouncements on foreign policy issues, while they are, I believe, correct and I stand by them, you wouldn't think are terribly newsworthy, and yet apparently they are.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
There's been quite a lot of conversation about it this week on the show and on X. I have explained, certainly not for the first time, my position on foreign aid. My position is that I'm against it in principle. I don't think we should be sending tax money to any foreign government. I've said that any country that can't survive without our aid actually has no right to exist.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
If you can't exist as a nation without the indefinite support of another nation, you're not a real nation. And you should be conquered and ruled by a superior country. That's how the world used to work and, in my opinion, should still work.
The Matt Walsh Show
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rather than using foreign aid as this kind of backdoor way of colonizing, sort of bureaucratically colonizing a country, I would prefer it just be done directly. And I'm old-fashioned now. Now, my views are, In every sense, America first. You might call them isolationists. I think that label is often used as a pejorative, but it doesn't bother me. I mean, you can call me that if you want to.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
My position is that our government has an obligation to our people. America should be America's priority. Americans should be the American government's priority. I'm a simple man, and that is my simple, but also, I believe, again, correct way of looking at it. And that brings us to the comments, which you'll find all over social media right now if you look for them, or even if you don't.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And they're all some variation of this one. I'll just read one as an example. Quote, Matt, you say you want to end foreign aid, but I bet you won't include Israel in that. This is the theme of many of these comments, accusing me of excluding Israel from my foreign aid position because I'm afraid that I'll get fired or whatever.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I probably don't need to read every version of this tweet in my X-Feed, suffice to say that there are many. And they're all implying or outright stating that I'm a bought and paid for shill who would never have the guts to be consistent on this issue. I'm nothing but a pawn of the Israeli government, is the idea.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, of course, there's a faction of that group that will accuse me of this literally no matter what I say about anything ever. But there are enough questions about it and enough apparent interests, given the tens of thousands of people tweeting about my foreign policy and Israel stance this week for some reason, that I think it's worth addressing on the show. Granted, I have addressed it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I've already answered this specific question multiple times, but I'll answer it here so that you have it in one convenient place. So the answer, of course, is that I do not make an exception for Israel. Yes, I want to end foreign aid to Israel. I want to end foreign aid to every nation on earth, and I would include Israel as a nation on earth.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I oppose, again, foreign aid in principle, and I make no exceptions.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I oppose foreign aid because it breeds dependency among the nations that receive it, and because there's no evidence that it actually helps any of these countries in the long run, and because the results of foreign aid have not been good historically, but mostly because I simply object to American tax dollars going to foreign governments. I object to that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
or going to NGOs and nonprofits that are then supposed to use it to help these foreign countries. The NGOs and nonprofits, by the way, are just as corrupt as the governments, if not more so, much of the time. So I object to all of that. The fact that foreign aid makes up a small fraction of the federal budget is irrelevant.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I don't believe that one single dime of tax money should go from your paycheck into the government's hands and then into some other government's hands. The fact that the government wastes much more money in other areas of the budget does not make this waste, this scam, any better. I also think, as I've said before, that there are some basic issues of taxation without representation here.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Taxation with representation, this is a basic concept. If a foreign government is using my tax money, I'm not represented by that. I have no representation. I have no say over it. I'm not benefiting from it. How is that not taxation without representation?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And so for those reasons, because my position on foreign aid is a position in principle, a fundamental position, obviously, I don't make an exception for Israel. Now, frankly, I would like to turn the question around on the 10,000 people tweeting at me about this, demanding to know whether my foreign aid position includes Israel. It does.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I'd like to ask those 10,000 people whether their foreign aid position includes any other country besides Israel. Because it seems that many in that crowd take exception to the foreign aid, but only ever complain specifically about foreign aid to Israel, even though dozens of other countries receive collectively billions of dollars. Ukraine, of course, right now is at the top of that list.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And I'm equally opposed to all of it. I don't think any of it should be happening. Now, is my position at odds with the position held by Ben Shapiro and by the CEO of this company, Jeremy Warren? Yes, it is. They, in fact, very heartily disagree, which is not a secret. We have debated this issue publicly and also privately a number of times. Am I going to get fired for doing this segment? No.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I really don't think so. Will my direct and explicit answer to these questions actually matter to many of the people asking the questions? Also, no, I realize that. In fact, after I said a very condensed version of this on X yesterday,
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
The comments started filling up insisting that I'm only saying that I also want to end foreign aid to Israel because Ben Shapiro told me to say it as some kind of ploy or cover story. So they went from Ben Shapiro won't let you say that you oppose foreign aid to Israel to Ben Shapiro is telling you to say that you oppose foreign aid to Israel in record speed.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
It's almost as though there's literally nothing I can say that will move them off their preconceived conclusions. Nothing. It's almost as if there is no way to win when you're dealing with the social media mob. And yet here I am talking about this. If I can't win, if nothing I say is gonna matter anyway, if I'm a bought and paid for shill regardless, why bother discussing this?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Well, first of all, it's my job to talk about stuff. So that's really the main reason. I have no doubt that at least some of the people asking me about this are sincere, so I'm really talking to them, whoever they are. And finally, there's also this. There's another point I wanted to make, a slightly broader point.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
So this time around, the air traffic controller isn't very specific. He doesn't state where exactly the passenger plane is. He just tells the helicopter pilot to avoid a CRJ, probably because he assumes they're still tracking the same plane he mentioned earlier. He also doesn't give the helicopter pilots much time to respond. And then, as you heard, within seconds, the two aircraft collided. So...
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Because one of the most frequent rejoinders that I will hear and always hear to any point that I make about anything ever goes like this. Yeah, you'll say that about foreign aid or fill in the blank random issue. But why won't you say this other thing that I also want you to say?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
You'll say that about Israel or about whatever, but why won't you make this other point that may or may not be related to the topic? Sometimes I feel like that's 80% of the feedback I get, especially on social media, is why are you talking about this other thing? Are you scared?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Now, a lot of people seem to have this laundry list of things that they want me to say, opinions they want me to express. And my refusal to say those things and express those opinions is, they're quite sure, evidence that I am, again, a bought and paid for shill, a grifter.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
There are a lot of other points surrounding foreign policy, Israel, et cetera, that people on the internet want me to make, things they want me to say. By not saying those things, I am providing evidence in their minds that I am deceitful and phony and insincere. Well, let me answer that whole category of objections slash accusations all at once, if I may.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And this, again, this could be a separate clip. You could post this around for anyone, anytime this is brought up. Here's my answer. If I have not expressed a certain opinion, it is for the very simple reason that I just don't happen to hold that opinion. I don't happen to agree with the proposition that you are insisting I put forward. I say the things I say because I believe those things.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I don't say other things because I don't believe those other things. I may be wrong, but if I'm wrong about something, it's because I'm wrong, not because I'm fearfully muzzling myself or cynically adopting a position I don't actually believe.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
In the social media age, it seems like a great number of people assume that everyone else in the world must agree with them about everything so that if a man expresses an opposite view or even just fails to positively affirm their view on something, it's because he is a phony and a grifter. That's the only possible explanation. The idea that anyone might just sincerely disagree has been ruled out.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
They live in a world where it's inherently impossible for anyone to ever have a different perspective. Everyone that claims to have a different perspective is automatically a liar, a con artist, and a fraud. I mean, this is really, truly how a significant number of people apparently see the world. Which is why I've been called a grifter for every opinion I've ever held on any side of any issue.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Right away, there's reason to speculate that maybe the Black Hawk helicopter was somehow looking at the wrong plane, or maybe the Black Hawk lost sight of the passenger jet at some point and failed to tell anyone. Either way, it's clear that air traffic control's guidance in those final seconds was lacking, to say the least.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Even the smallest little opinions, even the most irrelevant, you would think, opinions, even the smallest. Someone, I'm not making this up, someone just the other day, because there was another round of outrage on the Internet. I'm not even sure why this time. There's another round of outrage where I found that I was trending this time, not Israel. It was because of anime.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Now, I haven't even said anything recently about anime. I said one thing about it. I think I've, really, it's one thing I said about it offhandedly two years ago, and it just continually comes up where the anime community on Twitter, they remember it, and they're so overcome with anger that yet again there's an outrage cycle anew.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And so in the middle of that, someone, not just one person, but someone called me a grifter. a grifter for not liking anime. They apparently believe that I really do like anime and I really do recognize its artistic merits, but I'm claiming that I don't as some kind of money-making grift. I'm just raking in all of those millions of anti-anime dollars.
The Matt Walsh Show
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The thought didn't occur to them that maybe I just actually sincerely don't like it. Maybe I should like it. Maybe I'm wrong for not liking it. Maybe I am uncultured swine who fails to appreciate the beauty and grandeur of this art form. That might be the case. But I will tell you this. If I am uncultured swine, I am at least sincere uncultured swine. Now, I have a dream, okay?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
I have my own dream. My great dream for us all is that we might get to the point where we can argue with each other by addressing the points that are being made rather than what we perceive to be the internal and invisible motivations in the mind of the person making the point. I would love it if people presented arguments that began with the statement, you're wrong about that point because...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Instead of the much more common opening these days, which begins, well, you're only saying that because. As for me personally, the only reason I ever say anything is because I believe it to be true. And I've been in public life for a long time. And I've only ever been brutally honest about what I believe. To a fault.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And on top of that, based on the radar data, the Black Hawk's pilots made a series of other mistakes in addition to failing to see the passenger jet that was right in front of them. As several aviation analysts have pointed out, the Black Hawk helicopter was supposed to be below 200 feet at this point.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I can't promise that I'm always right about what I think, but I can promise that you will always know what I think. Although I'm probably right also. It goes without saying. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
That's a requirement for all helicopters on that route at that point right in front of the runway at DCA. The idea is that they'll pass below the arriving traffic at the airport. But in this case, according to the radar data, the helicopter was flying above 300 feet. And additionally, the helicopter appeared to be slightly off course.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
According to the published charts for this area, the helicopter was supposed to be hugging the land. Instead, it was over the water. So here's how one aviation analyst described the problem. Listen.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Now, late last night, the New York Times confirmed this analysis, quote, the Army Blackhawk was supposed to be flying in a different location and lower when it collided with a passenger jet, according to four people briefed on the matter. So already we have evidence of serious errors by pretty much everybody involved in this crash, except the American Airlines flight crew.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
They were apparently in the right place doing the right thing. The helicopter pilots were apparently too high and off course, and they clearly failed to spot the plane that was right in front of them. According to the defense secretary, they also had night vision on, which reduced their field of view. And the air traffic control also clearly failed to give all the guidance it needed to.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And that's not even scratching the surface of the extent of the failures here. NBC News reports that according to the FAA, staffing levels were not normal at the airport at the time of the accident. One controller was handling both inbound planes and helicopters, where normally two controllers split those responsibilities.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Imagine trying to eat 31 different fruits and vegetables every day. Sounds miserable and time-consuming. But with balance of nature fruits and veggies, there's never been a more convenient dietary supplement to ensure that you get a wide variety of fruits and vegetables every day. with 31 different whole fruits and vegetable ingredients.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
So this is some of the most congested critical airspace in the entire country. And we're evidently running it at half capacity. How exactly is that possible? As you might remember, a little over a year ago, I did a few monologues on the fact that a major aviation disaster was imminent in this country. We talked about it several times over the course of a couple of months, you probably remember.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And it got to the point where it felt redundant after a while because every week there'd be a new series of near misses. And every week the conclusion on this show would be the same, that something terrible is going to happen. And soon. It's just a statistical reality. You can't come that close that many times without something bad happening.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And really, we didn't even have time to talk about all the near misses. In one of these monologues, I specifically pointed out that TCAS, which is the onboard collision avoidance system in most commercial airplanes, doesn't help prevent midair collisions when aircraft are close to the ground. It's not designed to work below 1,000 feet.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
So I made the point at the time, there's a very high risk of a midair collision near the ground, which is exactly what happened here. Let's go back and watch that again. Just this year, TCAS failed to prevent a mid-air collision at an international airport in this country, Houston Hobby.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And fortunately and miraculously, nobody died as a result of that collision, but it was very close to being disastrous, as you can imagine. And that incident illustrates the obvious, which is that a failsafe is just that. It's a failsafe. It's not capable of solving all potential problems. It's not capable of solving all mid-air collisions, nor is it designed to.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Especially when planes are close to the ground and covering a lot of ground very quickly in close proximity to one another, things can happen too quickly for the system to respond. We're closer than we've been in more than a decade to a disaster of truly historic proportions. Like it is going to happen and probably soon. And when it does, a lot of people will die.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So that was a little over a year ago. And Now, I'm not an aviation expert. I'm not even a hobbyist. I am a high school educated podcaster. But even I knew more than a year ago that this was a major risk. Our mid-air collision fail-safes simply do not work at low altitude. That's especially true given that some low-flying aircraft don't have TCAS at all, like military Blackhawks.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Now, with that information, you might think that the FAA would consider, say, banning helicopters from flying directly into the approach paths of major airports like Reagan National. But they didn't think of that, apparently. Instead, this is the chart that helicopters currently use to fly around. You can see it there.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And as you can see, they just put the helicopter routes right in front of the airport. Look at how close Route 1 and Route 4 are to the runway. And if there's any deviation from those altitudes whatsoever, there's a major risk of a catastrophe. I mean, there's almost no room for error here. Everyone has to be perfectly on their game at all times or else lots of people will die.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
But as we know, very often air traffic controllers these days are not on their game. Almost all of the near disasters I've talked about over the years were potential mid-air collisions caused by, at least in part, incompetent air traffic control. Here's one of these near misses from Reagan National Airport, the same airport where the crash occurred on Wednesday. This is from last April. Watch.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
And by the way, if you're listening just to the audio podcast, you'll understand what's happening there. The air traffic controller was guiding a plane on the runway directly into the path of another plane. Until at the last moment, they realized what they were doing. And again, there was new footage like this every week.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
That's why in 2023, there were 503 air traffic control lapses that the FAA categorized as significant lapses. which was a 65% jump year over year. So I'll say that again, significant lapses by air traffic controllers increased by 65% in a year.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
That's balanceofnature.com, promo code Walsh. The more we learn about the mid-air collision involving American Airlines 5342 and a military Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, the more it's clear that we can now identify some reasons why this catastrophe happened. And this is something that in the mainstream press, You're not supposed to say out loud.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
It's not hard to understand why this might be happening given all the evidence of declining standards at the agency, which is another thing that we're not supposed to talk about, but it's true. Last year, for example, I published footage and documentation from whistleblowers in the FAA and the aviation industry.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
What these whistleblowers made clear is that the FAA and the airlines have drastically cut their performance expectations across the board. Actually, that's underselling what happened because the FAA specifically went out of its way to punish white applicants.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
They introduced a biographical questionnaire that dinged applicants that had relevant education or experience, knowing that white applicants would be affected the most. And in one case, an FAA official was even caught helping black employees and only black employees to access inside information that would help them in the application process.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
In the footage I reported on last year, a senior FAA official openly talked about the importance of reducing the number of white males in the aviation industry. So they want to reduce a certain huge category of people who work in air traffic control. And then we find out that in this case, air traffic control was understaffed.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Trying to reduce understaffed, and we're supposed to believe there's no connection between those two things. As increasingly underqualified air traffic controllers have been promoted, the situation has deteriorated further, and that's produced a constant stream of near misses that continued right up until this disaster.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
As the Washington Post reports, quote, just 24 hours before the collision of American Eagle Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday, another jet trying to land there had to make a second approach after a helicopter appeared near its flight path. So And that's what we know. Airlines and the FAA deliberately lower their standards.
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Ep. 1527 - Why The Plane Crash Was Entirely Foreseeable And Preventable
Near misses dramatically increase. No one does anything about it or takes any preventative measures of any kind. You've got people who don't know anything about aviation screaming from the rooftops that this is going to happen. And it does. Now, based on those facts, do we know for sure that if DEI were never invented as a concept, then this accident never would have happened?
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the long-awaited release of The Epstein Files was a massive, disastrous flop. What happened? Why did it happen? And when will we see the actual Epstein Files? Also, The Daily Wire obtains footage from inside the prison system in New York showing just how bad things have actually gotten.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Not because they never existed, but because some of the most powerful people in this country made sure that they would never be discovered. After all, if there are files out there, documents, video, etc., showing the most powerful people in the world engaged in horrific criminal activity, what are the chances that the evidence still exists anywhere six years later? Why would it still exist?
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
If it wasn't released to begin with, it's because powerful people decided to cover it up. And if they covered it up, they covered it up. That means burning the evidence, not storing it in some safe somewhere for someone to release later. I hope that's not the case. I hope that these files are out there and that we'll be able to see them one day and all the bad guys will be held accountable.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
But my point is that at this point, I have very little faith in that happening. Not to be the bearer of bad news. So going forward, if the administration takes anything from this debacle, and it really is a debacle, It should be that retroactive transparency is very difficult, if not impossible. And that's why transparency is necessary at all times in all contexts.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
For one thing, the classification system needs a major overhaul. The vast majority of documents that the government hides from the public should not, in fact, be hidden to begin with. Additionally, all of the agents of the FBI in New York field office who failed to respond to Pam Bondi's request need to be fired immediately. And
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
whoever was responsible for the evidence, whatever happened, if the files are gone now, if that's true, then we need to find out how that happened and who's responsible for that. And those people need to go to prison. And while we're at it, we need a full accounting for what exactly Pam Bondi was looking at when she discussed that binder on Fox News on Wednesday night.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
This is a question that no matter what you think of Pam Bondi, and I think she's generally done a really good job so far, But that needs to be addressed.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Daily Wire reports graphic footage obtained by the Daily Wire appears to showcase how violent New York prisons have become for inmates, correction officers, and other workers since the Democrat-backed HALT Act took effect in 2022.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
A source who wishes to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution leaked the alleged footage from Greenhaven Correctional Facility, wishing to expose how dangerous conditions are as 15,000 correctional officers and sergeants across the state remain on strike. The source said, quote, I send this footage to you to help the public understand what it is we face and why we're on strike.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
This is not about money. It's about the liberal agenda, how the liberal agenda has destroyed our justice system. As Daily Wire previously reported, the strike began on February 17th with officers asking for the HALT Act to be repealed and have other safety measures put into place, including stopping mandated shifts that officers say can sometimes last days at a time.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
The footage, the source says, shows staff at Greenhaven Correctional Facility being attacked and inmates assaulting, even slashing each other's faces. The video opens up with an inmate slicing the face of a woman who went to the prison to visit the inmate. Additionally, footage starting at the 2 minutes 209 mark appears to show the fatal stabbing of 30-year-old inmate Jarrett Frost.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
And then there's other things in the footage as well. I can't play the video from Amanda's report, Amanda Prestigiacomo, who's the DW reporter on this story. I can't play the video because YouTube would take it down. YouTube would take this whole show down, the whole video, because of the violent content. So if I played it, I'd have to blur everything. You wouldn't be able to see it.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
But you can go to Daily Wire or go to my X page, and you can see it there. It's brutal. It's just really bad. And I've also gotten, at this point, dozens of messages from corrections officers, many in New York, but also across the country, as I've been talking about this just over the last few days. And they all tell me two things. Number one... The situation in our prisons is terrible.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
I mean, which maybe doesn't come as a shock, but it's very bad. The inmates are given way too much power. Guards have very little leverage. They're subjected to just constant abuse and harassment, assaults, physical and sexual. It's a nightmare scenario, and this has all been enabled and fueled by left-wing prison reform efforts, so-called prison reform.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Now, obviously, it's a prison, so it's not going to be a lovely environment no matter what. If you become a corrections officer, you know that going in. You know you're going into a tough situation no matter what because it's a prison and these are all the worst people in society who are there. That's kind of the nature of the thing. But prisons don't have to be places of total chaos, right?
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
You can have some semblance of order and even safety, at least for the guards in a prison. You can have that. We've had that in the past. But we don't have that now because of all these reforms that have been pushed, not exclusively, but mostly by Democrats. And all of their reforms, anytime a Democrat is talking about prison reform, changing prisons, it is always on behalf of the criminals.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Philadelphia schools plan to defy Trump's executive order and allow boys to continue competing in girls' sports. And the House Judiciary GOP decides, for some ungodly reason, to troll the people who are waiting for The Epstein Files. This is one of the most tone-deaf things we've ever seen. Talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Let's talk about sleep or rather the lack of it.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
They are never suggesting any reforms to make the prison guards, the correction officers safer. They don't care about that. So every reform, it just gets worse and worse and worse. But every reform, whether on the federal or state level, it's always about making sure the prisoners are more comfortable, that they have more freedom, that there's more things they're able to do.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
And the more freedom you give to the prisoners, the more you empower the inmates, the more risk you are causing for the guards. the more vulnerable the guards become. So this is like unanimously what I'm hearing behind the scenes. And then two, the other kind of unanimous sentiment is that they feel totally ignored.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Their plight is not getting much press because the left-wing press is much more interested in the plight of convicted murderers and rapists than in the suffering of prison staff. They don't care about it. And also, again, the left, it's their reforms, their policies have caused this situation. So, of course, they have no interest in talking about the negative consequences of their own policies.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
So they're ignored, and the corrections officers are kind of hung out to dry, left to deal with this on their own. I got one message from a corrections officer who kind of explained it this way, because in New York now, thanks to the HALT Act, A prisoner can only go to solitary confinement, which isn't, what I've been told, isn't even really solitary confinement, not how we think of it anyway.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
But he can only go for 15 days. So the guy's point to me was that if he gets assaulted, he, as in the corrections officer, the worst punishment that his attacker can get is 15 days. Now, if you're assaulted on the street, in theory anyway, the attacker is punished for years.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
In the summer of 2019, the FBI rang the doorbell of Jeffrey Epstein's 40-room, eight-story townhouse in Manhattan. And it was never exactly clear why they bothered to ring the doorbell, given that they were looking for sensitive evidence that could easily be destroyed. But that's what they did. And then when no one answered, agents forced entry.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
And we know it actually doesn't work out that way very often, which is why the streets are also becoming increasingly more dangerous. But in theory, if somebody attacks you on the street and physically assaults you, there's a years-long punishment. But that's not how it works in these prisons now. So there's basically no disincentive to stop inmates from assaulting guards.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
There's essentially no punishment. And if you're a lifer, if you're in there for life, there isn't even any real consequence for killing a guard. I mean, think about that. What's the consequence? If you have life without parole, there's basically no solitary confinement anymore. You got all these prison reforms in place and everybody is given this obsessive focus on the comfort of inmates.
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You're not going to leave anyway. What's to stop you from killing a prison guard? And if there's no death penalty, because that's another thing that could stop you. But they don't do that in New York, and they don't do that in most states either. Even in the states where they have the death penalty, they rarely use it. So you're in prison for life. You can't be executed.
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You're never going to leave. They can't put you in solitary confinement. And you're a violent, evil sociopath with nothing to lose. Why not kill a prison guard? There's like no reason why they wouldn't. Why not stage a prison riot? Why not cause as much mayhem as you can every single day? There is nothing stopping you. You have no reason to not.
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At this point, we are relying entirely on the inmates' own sense of decency and propriety. That's the only thing stopping them. Of course, they're violent sociopaths, so they have no such sense. And this is what happens as a result. So, you know, I'm going to stay on this story.
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I'm not going to, I mean, it's not the kind of story that drives engagement or gets a ton of clicks, but it really does matter because we are depending on corrections officers to do a job that none of us would ever want to do. You know, what happens if they all go on strike? What if 100% of corrections officers go on strike? What then? What do we do then? You know, this is not like
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This isn't like with, say, public school teachers, where... Because if they go on strike, first of all, it doesn't affect me personally at all. We homeschool our kids. And we could get rid of the entire public school system. In fact, I think we should.
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I privatize the whole thing, and a combination of private education and homeschooling, in my opinion, is how... That's what the education system should be. Um... So we can actually have a functioning society without public schools. We definitely can. There have been many functioning societies, including our own, that did not have public schools.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
And once they were inside, they found a safe that they cut open with a saw. So they came prepared. And ultimately, agents discovered several hard drives and CDs in the residence, both inside and outside the safe. And additionally, they found numerous black binders with mysterious white labels. And photos of the raid have been available for some time. You're seeing some of them right now.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
So when public school teachers go on strike, and look, I think even though I'm very critical of the public school system, I still think that teachers do an important job. I mean, educating kids is a very important job. And there are plenty of public school teachers that are really good people and they care about their job. And it's also a thankless job in many respects.
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Not nearly as thankless as being a prison guard. That's for damn sure. But even so... the job of a public school teacher is not one that we actually need. You can do that at home. You really can. We cannot, though, have a functioning society without prisons. I homeschool my kids. I would not want to run a home prison for the murderers and drug dealers in my community. I wouldn't want to do that.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
So if the public school teachers say, oh, we're all going to go on strike, all right, fine. I can teach my own kids. If the prison guards say, okay, we're all going on strike, I'm not gonna say, okay, fine, I'll put the murderers in my, we got a spare guest room, we'll put them there. No big deal. So this is why the story should matter to everybody.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
And I will say that I've also gotten some messages from former inmates in the New York correction system, kind of giving the other side of the story. Not as many, but I've read a few messages from people like that. And they say that I have it all backwards, that the guards are the ones who inflict abuse on the inmates and the guards are given free reign to be as violent as they want to be.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
And so that's the inmate perspective. But to be honest with you, I'm sure that kind of thing does go on. I'm just frankly not nearly as worried about that. And because I'm not a psychopath, okay, when you've got two groups, you've got prison guards and inmates, right? And you got to give the benefit of the doubt to one group or the other.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the prison guards, not to the violent sociopaths who are in prison because they are not functioning members of society. None of us are there in prison every day. And nobody is perfect on either side of this thing. There's going to be abuses that happen. That comes with the territory. But you kind of have to give benefit of the doubt to one side or the other.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
And it is just madness that in society and even most of our political leaders, especially the Democrat Party, kind of instinctively give the benefit of the doubt to the inmates, to the violent sociopaths who are in prison because they have committed serious crimes already. And people who, as part of being a violent sociopath, by the way, just lie constantly. Just lie about everything.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
At this point, we don't have specific information about what exactly was on many of those CDs and hard drives. According to the FBI, they left the apartment to seek another search warrant for the property. And when they returned several days later... many of these materials had gone missing. That's the excuse they came up with.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Whether a corrections officer or a law enforcement officer, you talk to any of these people, that's one thing they'll tell you, that they're just dealing with people who just lie about everything all the time. They just are constantly lying. It's one of the reasons when you see these
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
these body cam videos from arrests, and you've got the person who's being arrested saying, I can't breathe, I can't breathe. Of course, there's the one very famous incident of that. But that's a common refrain that officers hear all the time, especially now, but even before. And you watch the videos.
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And of course, if you're a moron, you watch it and you go, well, why aren't they taking that more seriously? Why aren't they listening? He said he can't breathe. Because they all say that. Because they just lie. They just simply lie to get out of trouble always. Okay, that's why.
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So if you're a corrections officer or law enforcement officer, you're dealing with people who lie about everything always. And then we get mad at them. They tried to warn you. Why don't you listen to these poor people? Maybe because they're lying psychopaths? Maybe because they're dealing with the kinds of people who would happily slit your throat and kill you for your shoes or for nothing?
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Maybe that's why? All right, the Inquirer has this. The Philadelphia School District has indicated that it will ignore a rule directing schools to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports that match their gender identities. The move comes after the school's Interscholastic Athletics governing body changed a key policy regarding transgender athletes.
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The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Directors last week voted to revise its transgender athlete policy to comply with an executive order issued by President Trump. Um, but the Philadelphia schools say that they are going to defy this and they're going to continue to allow, uh, boys and girls sports.
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So obviously Trump needs to pull all federal funding from, uh, Philadelphia schools. They received tens of millions of dollars a year in federal funding. I don't know exactly how much, but, um, I think it's 15 to 20 million, something like that. Pull it all just to begin with, pull all the funding.
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But there's only so much Trump can do, and that's why Congress needs to codify these executive orders. Congress needs to pass laws. We need actual laws. Executive orders are not enough on their own. So there needs to be a law banning men from women's sports. That needs to be one law. There also needs to be another law, much more importantly. banning child gender transitions.
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They just abandoned the scene of one of their most high-profile investigative targets. And what do you know? The evidence went missing. But not all the materials were gone. On cross-examination during Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, an FBI agent admitted that more than 20,000 images were recovered. But of those images, only a small fraction of these were ever shown to the jury.
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And neither one of those laws have been passed yet. And because of Trump's first several weeks in office and how successful it's been, we talk about the Republican Party as though it's new and improved. This ain't your grandfather's Republican Party. But it might be. It might be the same. It might be the same ineffectual blob that it's been for decades. That remains to be seen.
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Because they need to step up. We know that this is a different Trump administration than it was the first time around. Is it a different Republican Party? That very much remains to be seen. Because they need to actually pass laws. This needs to happen soon. And in the meantime, apparently, some of these school districts are just going to defy the executive order and do what they want.
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Because there seems to be a real split on the left between those who are determined to sort of die on the trans hill and those who don't want to die on it. And if they decide they want to die on it, great. I mean, so be it. The left has a chance right now, has an opportunity right now to leave all that, to just abandon all that madness and try to pretend it never happened.
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um, we should not allow them to pretend it never happened, but politically that would be their smartest move. Just move on. Um, they could do that or they could double down. They can double down on this totally losing argument. And, uh, it seems right now that that's the, that's kind of what the civil war, uh, in the Democrat party is about. And, um,
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If the pro-trans side wins that war, then the Democrat Party will have consigned itself to basically permanent irrelevance. We'll see how that plays out. All right. Bit of entertainment news on a Friday. This is from Variety. Zendaya is taking her talents to the swamp. The in-demand actor has joined Shrek 5. as Felicia, the daughter of Shrek, played by Mike Myers, and Fiona, Cameron Diaz.
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Who could have seen that coming, that we get the TikTok joke from Shrek 5? And listen, Shrek 5 is not the most important news in the world. Probably not even top 10, frankly. Probably not. But I do want to say, first of all, that if you go and see Shrek 5, you lose the right to, well, you should lose the right to vote. I mean, that should be the first thing.
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We should have people stationed at the theaters when Shrek 5 comes out and just documenting every single person who walks in to see Shrek 5. Every single person over the age of 18 who does not have a child. If you're bringing your kid, I'll allow it, even though that's the movies. The whole franchise is like garbage. I wouldn't bring my kid to see it, but I'll allow it.
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And the vast majority of them have never been publicly accounted for. We don't have descriptions. We don't have explanations. We're meant to forget all about it. And in particular, we're meant to stop asking which high-profile clients might be implicated by those documents. We were supposed to just wipe that whole question from our memory. But millions of people have not forgotten about this.
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Any adult without a kid who goes into Shrek 5, I want it documented. And you immediately lose at least your right to vote, probably other constitutional rights as well. That's what I would like to see. It's probably not going to happen. That's what I would like to see happen.
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And if that doesn't happen, at a minimum, you lose the right to ever again in your life complain about a lack of originality in Hollywood. And yet people will do this. They'll go and buy a ticket to Shrek 5 and it'll make a billion dollars. And then those same people, the same people will say that Hollywood has run out of ideas.
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You know, and all you do is put out the same reheated slop over and over again. And this will be adults who go see this movie. The Shrek franchise is not for kids, really. Like, my kids don't care about Shrek. Does anyone... If you're around my age and you have kids, does anyone kids... Like, do your kids actually care about Shrek? They couldn't care less about Shrek.
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The original Shrek came out like 25 years ago. It's for millennials. This is a bunch of now middle-aged millennials... who go and see this just soulless dreck. Think about this for a moment. They've been making Shrek films for 25 years. I had to look it up. The first one came out in 2001. So about 25 years. A quarter century of Shrek films. A quarter century of making Shrek movies.
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The first one was sort of mildly amusing for about 30 minutes if you were alive and a child in the year 2001. That's the most we could say about the original Shrek. It was also obnoxious and the animation is quite hideous and it's lazily written and it's just not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. But in the year 2001 specifically, if you were a child, it was kind of amusing.
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And yet from this original film, which at best, at the very best, was sort of amusing, They've been able to launch a five-film franchise that spans the entire century so far. And people will keep watching the movies. They'll keep paying for tickets. They'll just keep rewarding this sludge, this just empty, tedious tripe, and then complain about it.
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Why do we keep getting terrible, unimaginative films from Hollywood? They complain as they give their money back. to the people who are making exactly that kind of material. I don't get it. Then there's Zendaya, which I have to say, I just don't get the Zendaya thing. Is it Zendaya or Zendaya? I don't know. And I'm not trying to be a hater. I mean, I am being a hater, but I don't try to be.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It just kind of works out that way. And I honestly don't understand why this woman is in every movie now. She appears in like 19 movies a year, and yet she is... I mean, she has to be the least interesting actress in Hollywood. Has she ever had an interesting role in anything? Like... What's a movie where you would say, oh, man, that Zendaya performance was tremendous?
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Have you ever said to yourself, oh, Zendaya's in that one? I got to see it. Has anyone said that? Again, I'm probably not the target demo for a Zendaya performance, but does anyone feel that way? She's either kind of a non-entity or she actively makes the movies worse. The Dune films. I like Dune.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Among the many other questions that have circulated since Epstein's death, the question of what exactly the FBI recovered from his townhouse and his private island has remained a topic of intense interest and speculation. It's one of the reasons a lot of Americans voted for Donald Trump. They wanted transparency.
The Matt Walsh Show
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I think the director, Vela Nueva, however you pronounce his name, is probably the best director working in Hollywood today. He has not made a bad movie. All of his movies have been good. And there's not very many directors you can say that about. The one... major problem with the Dune films is Zendaya, who just almost ruins it single-handedly.
The Matt Walsh Show
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She's just kind of this sulking, humorless lump on a log the whole movie. And she's very good at that. She's very good at sulking in movies. So if there's a role in a movie where you need someone to sulk, if you need some good sulking in a movie, then bring in Zendaya for that. She's the one. I don't get it. So the sentence, Zendaya will star in Shrek 5 is to me...
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one of the least appealing combinations of words ever assembled in the English language, or any human language. Yeah, people will watch it. They'll watch it. And we'll get 10 more Shreks. It'll be the year 2100, and we'll be on Shrek 65 at that point. All right, let's get to the comment section.
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Let it flourish. Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Private. Christian. Affordable. Visit gcu.edu. Many Canadians know the truth. There were no masked, unmarked graves. The Indian chiefs themselves debunked the initial reports. Two, the indigenous peoples of Canada requested the schools. They were not forced to send their children.
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Many children withdrew after a basic public school level education, ensuring basic literacy, math skills, and general knowledge. Note, there was some abuse in some schools, but that came later. The problem in Canada is that we have a long ingrained history of government-funded news that was needed when technology was limited and expensive because of the vast geography of the country.
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And on Wednesday night, in an appearance on Fox News that got a lot of attention, the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, promised to deliver exactly that transparency. Watch.
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However, in the last 50 years or so, the reality has been exploited by the so-called progressive liberals to control narratives. Most Canadians have not realized that these once-trusted institutions have become propaganda instruments. Yeah. You know, I don't know much about the residential schools in Canada, I confess. It's not a story. It's not a...
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story in history that I've studied in any great depth. I do know, we all know, that the mass graves narrative was total bunk, so we know that.
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And I've read several comments like this saying that the whole the whole story about because even now even people who will admit that the mass graves That was a false narrative and that there were no mass graves Most of them will still say that yeah, okay Maybe there were no mass graves, but the residential schools were still an atrocity and they were a terrible thing and it was you know, it was it was
The Matt Walsh Show
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so-called indigenous children were ripped away from their families by force, and it was an awful thing. Most people seem to still think that. But I have read a few comments like yours saying, well, no, the whole narrative about residential schools is just wrong. And that would not surprise me to learn. I sort of suspected that the whole narrative itself is probably bunk.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Or at the very least, extremely incomplete. And at this point, we should know this. We should know about basically any historical episode where there's a kind of an established mainstream narrative. It doesn't mean that the narrative is false. It doesn't mean that. But there's no reason to assume it at this point.
The Matt Walsh Show
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There's no reason to assume that the established mainstream narrative about any historical episode is automatically true. Especially when it's one that the left has used to guilt people, to manipulate and heap guilt on people, especially in those cases. Which is why you do actually have to go and do your own research.
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And this is why I drone on about this kind of thing all the time when it comes to the story of, you know, the, quote, indigenous peoples of in, you know, the United States or what became the United States. And that that whole. Narrative. which claims in the narrative that Europeans came here and it was just nothing but one atrocity inflicted.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It was a one-sided campaign of genocide against the natives that lasted for hundreds of years. That's the official mainstream narrative. And in that case, that is something I've studied quite extensively. And so I know and I could only really discover this by taking the time to read about it on my own. But I know that narrative is is absolute nonsense. All right.
The Matt Walsh Show
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As a Canadian, I'm ashamed that I live in this woke country. Glad everything is coming out in the light. Well, don't be ashamed of your country, though. I mean, despise your political leaders, sure. But you're Canadian. You should love your country. Be proud to be Canadian. I mean, I know I have a lot of fun at the expense of Canada. But I'm not Canadian.
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So, you know, you should be a patriot for your country. You should hold your leaders accountable. And be critical of them and be critical of the aspects of your culture that are worth criticizing. And it seems like there's a lot. But no, you shouldn't be ashamed to be Canadian. This is your country. Which is also, you know, when I make fun of Canada, which again, I admit that I do sometimes.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And I get angry comments from Canadians. I don't begrudge them that. In fact, you should be angry. You should get kind of ticked off when someone like me is making fun of you. You should be defensive about your own country. As a Lord of the Rings fan, I think we should stop.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Matt is never going to change because I think he enjoys arguing with people who really love something with logic that works at face value. I think this because he does it in the same way as my father, whom I can argue with over an opinion that we share for literally hours. It never goes anywhere and we agree with each other.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Well, I will admit I come from a long line of people who love to argue even though they agree. So that is, I don't know if it's an Irish Catholic thing or what, but... It may be shared by other cultures, but it's certainly an Irish Catholic thing. Matt, your list of fake tasks you performed at your job was hilarious. Well done. Nothing hilarious about it. I mean, this is serious stuff.
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If your boss asks you for a list of things that you did last week, you need to know how to use buzzwords. It's all about the buzzwords. In fact, I realized I left out, I think I left out a really important buzzword, which is comprehensive. So that's a good one. You want to make sure that you inform your management that you did stuff comprehensively. That's an impressive word.
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When they see the word comprehensive, they go, wow, he's working. I don't know what he's doing, but it's comprehensive. That's all I know. So one of the items on your list could be that you implemented comprehensive strategies for developing more productive client engagement. implemented comprehensive strategies for developing more productive client engagement. What does that mean?
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That doesn't mean anything. But it sounds good. Another good term is identifying opportunities. That's a really good one. That's a great one. You need to know that one. Because you can always say that you identified opportunities. Like you don't need to have done anything with those opportunities. Because he didn't claim you did anything with the opportunity. He just said you identified it.
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And what does identifying mean? I mean, you can identify, you could just, I could sit here like this and identify stuff. That's all internal. So I identified opportunities for greater cross-departmental collaboration. I identified opportunities for greater cross-departmental collaboration. That's a good one. That sounds, I mean, that'll get you a 50% raise just based on that alone.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So, or you could actually do real things in your job and then you don't have to come up with BS phrases like this. First, we released Am I Racist in theaters nationwide. It became the number one documentary of the decade. Then we dropped it exclusively on Delaware Plus, where it became the number one piece of content ever released on our platform. Maybe you saw it in theaters.
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Maybe you joined Delaware Plus just to watch it. Hopefully you did both. But here's what you haven't done. Watched it with me, the director, and the cast talking over the whole thing. Good news. Well, now you can do exactly that. The Am I Racist Commentary Edition. is streaming exclusively on Daily Wire+.
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It's like we're all sitting on the couch right next to you without the awkward actual couch sharing part. You can go stream the commentary edition of Am I Racist right now on Daily Wire+. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
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This is a very simple and obvious cancellation, so obvious that there probably isn't much to say about it, but I have to cover it because it is easily the most cancelable thing anyone did yesterday. So today we're going to cancel the Republicans of the House Judiciary Committee, or at least whoever runs their ex-account. after their response to the non-release of the Epstein files on Thursday.
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Shortly after the influencers were given binders with what turned out to be a bunch of information we already knew, the official ex-account for the House Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary GOP, rather, tweeted this. Breaking Epstein files released.
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And then there was a link to the files, except that if you click the link to the files, you discover that it was not the files at all, but rather Rick Astley's 1987 song, Never Gonna Give You Up. Yes, this was a Rick roll. The Republicans of the House Judiciary Committee apparently decided to use the occasion of the Epstein files release or alleged release to pull a Rick roll prank on the public.
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Now, As you know, I am a big supporter and proponent of trolling. There are few people in public life who enjoy trolling more than me. It is one of my great passions and one of my skills. It probably is my only skill. And I also am not above a good rickroll. As a general rule, rickrolling is now such an old joke and has been done so many times that it's funny again.
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So Rick Rowling went from very funny when it first began to not funny anymore because it had been done too many times. And it was not funny for like a good 10 years. But recently it's funny again because now it's been done so many times that it's once again funny. That's the way it goes. So my point is that I have nothing in principle against trolling and against rickrolling, quite the opposite.
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But the Epstein files are not a time for that, especially not from government officials. We should remember that when we talk about the Epstein files, we are talking about records of the systematic rape and abuse of minors. I mean, that's what the Epstein files are, if we ever actually see them. So the people running this account
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you know, to include perhaps some elected Republicans, thought that files related to child abuse presented a great opportunity for a fun, lighthearted prank. And it went over about as well as you would expect.
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I mean, if you're not on X and you didn't see the backlash, just imagine in your mind how you think most people would respond where an official government social media account makes a joke about the mass rape of minors. Like, exactly what you're imagining is what happened. And the tweet was eventually deleted, though nobody has been held accountable. Nobody's apologized for it.
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And we haven't been told who was responsible for that tweet. As I said, it's very obvious, obvious to everyone except people running this account apparently, that trolling the American people over the Epstein files is wildly inappropriate. It is a truly stunning display of poor judgment. That much is very clear. I don't think I need to explain that point any further.
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The American people want to actually see the files. We deserve to see them. The victims and their families most of all deserve for this information to be out there and for Epstein's pervert pals to be exposed and held accountable. We don't deserve to be trolled over this. I love trolling, but I also believe in trolling only those who deserve to be trolled.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And the people demanding to see the Epstein files don't deserve to be trolled for that. I mean, that's very clear. But I want to make a broader point because to me, this story is part of a larger trend. And I don't mean a larger trend of government officials rickrolling the public. It's not about rickrolling specifically. I'm talking about politicians who use ghetto slang.
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Lawmakers challenging their colleagues to step outside during committee hearings, which happened recently. Political candidates posting thirst trap photos and on and on and on. It's the larger trend of just a general lack of seriousness by our political leaders. We need seriousness from the people running our country. We need you to be serious people. Now, Trump himself is a unique case.
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You know, trolling and joking has been his style from the very beginning. It's part of what makes him effective. But all the rest of these people, the rest of our government officials, elected and unelected, they're not Trump. And they should not try to act like Trump. let Trump be Trump, but we won't let the rest of you be Trump because you're not Trump.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And in fact, even Trump is far more serious and far less jokey this time around for good reason. Trolling the media is fun, but we have more important things to do and Trump is trying to do them. As for the rest of these people, we want seriousness of purpose, dignity, class,
The Matt Walsh Show
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30 years ago, the House Judiciary GOP would have never posted a Rickroll on X, not just because Rickrolling didn't exist and X didn't exist, but because it's an extremely stupid and childish thing to do. And for most of American history, we really didn't have stupid and childish people in leadership positions in this country. Now, sure, we've had bad people in leadership many times.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, everybody watching this clip understood the implication of what Pam Bondi was saying. We were being prepared for a major document dump on Thursday, one that would demonstrate the extent of Epstein's depravity beyond what we already knew. Bondi didn't make it clear exactly how this document dump would take place, but she was clearly suggesting that it would be significant.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We've had corrupt and incompetent people. But stupid and childish is kind of a new flavor for our political leaders. It's only in recent years that a person like, say, Jasmine Crockett could hope to be elected to national office. She's obviously not a member of the House Judiciary GOP, but she's a perfect example of this problem. She's a ridiculous, dumb, unserious person.
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And there are far too many of those people in leadership positions in this country. So here's the message to our political class. We don't need you to entertain us. We don't need or want theatrics. Leave the jokes to people who are actually funny and who don't have more important jobs to do. We want you to be serious. We want you to be boring, okay?
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We want you to focus on the job we've elected you to do. And that job is not to be an influencer or an actor or a comedian. And that is why the House Judiciary Committee, GOP, and all other unserious politicians are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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She said, breaking news, this information is going to come out. There's just no way to interpret this clip in any other way. She had reviewed the information and she was promising that it would be at least relevant. And then Thursday morning rolled around and several prominent conservative social media personalities and journalists entered the White House.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And when they emerged outside, they were holding binders that supposedly contained phase one of the Epstein files. The binder specifically boasted on the cover that the administration's transparency was the reason they were being released. But almost immediately, there was a mixed reaction to this whole scene, as you might imagine.
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After all, it didn't make a lot of sense to filter this information through anybody. Why not just post it online so everybody can access it? That would seem to be the most transparent possible approach. And apparently that was the original plan, but it didn't happen, at least not right away, for some reason. Instead, for several hours, nobody in the public could see these binders.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Only a small subset of hand-selected conservative commentators were allowed to see it. And even those commentators were not allowed to post about the binders right away. There was an embargo for some reason, according to Savannah Hernandez. Supposedly the White House was gonna stage a press conference where they released the binder publicly, but the presser never happened. Why didn't it happen?
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Why did it all play out? Why did everything play out this way exactly? Well, that was never explained. And as the hours went by, people became more and more upset at both the White House and their guests with the binders. And it reminded me of Something that had happened in the early days of the Obama administration when Charles Krauthammer was invited to attend an event at the White House.
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He wrote one of his most famous columns about this experience. The event was a ceremony that would mark the end of George Bush's ban on stem cell research. The White House thought Krauthammer would want to attend because he'd previously advocated in favor of stem cell research.
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But Krauthammer declined the White House's invitation because as he put it, quote, once you show your face at these things, you become a tacit endorser of whatever they spring. So in other words, even though Krauthammer ostensibly agreed with what the White House was doing and with the subject of the event, he turned him down because he didn't know what would actually happen once he got there.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And indeed, yesterday, all of these prominent conservative personalities were thrown a curveball. From what I've been told, none of them were there to talk about Epstein. That's not why they were there. There was a previously scheduled meeting between the White House press team and these influencers, which is a totally normal thing. But then at the meeting, the Epstein binders were sprung on them.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And so now all of those people are getting, to my mind, unfairly criticized for participating in a stunt that they didn't actually sign up for. They were there, again, for something else, and they were handed these binders. I don't think it's fair to blame them for that. And now, though, the White House says that it didn't sign up for this either somehow.
The Matt Walsh Show
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It turns out that according to Pam Bondi, late Wednesday night, just hours before the whole binder event, a source of the FBI's field office in New York reached out to the Trump administration and explained that, in fact, all of the Epstein files had not been provided to the White House. All that Pam Bondi possessed, all she was hyping up on Fox News, were 200 pages of redacted documents.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And most, if not all, these documents have already been released in some form. including Epstein's contact list and some of the travel logs. But the source of the FBI's New York office allegedly said that thousands of additional documents remained in the FBI's possession, even though Bondi had requested that every single document be turned over to the White House.
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In a response yesterday, Bondi wrote to the FBI director, Kash Patel, this letter you can see on the screen. In her letter, as you can see, Bondi demands that all of these documents are provided to the White House immediately. She also requests an investigation into why these materials were not provided in the first place. That's a good question.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Why would the FBI flagrantly defy an order from their boss at the DOJ? Why would they hide documents that they have in their possession? How did they think they would get away with that? Now, of course, this letter from Bondi raises several questions. Put mildly, there are reasons to doubt that we're getting the full story here.
The Matt Walsh Show
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First of all, if Bondi had only 200 pages in her possession on Wednesday night, why did she go on Fox News and hype up this document? Did the White House not realize that all of these materials were already available in the public domain? In fact-
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The really crazy thing is that some of these materials are less redacted on the Internet than they were in the binders that Bondi handed out to those conservative influencers. So in fact, not only did they provide information that was already public, they provided less information than was already publicly available.
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In at least one instance, the binder actually redacts Jeffrey Epstein's email address, even though he's dead, obviously, and doesn't use it anymore. But online, you can find the same email address, no problem. Websites like Gawker leaked Epstein's phone contacts a long time ago. Anybody with an internet connection can discover all of that. Was the White House somehow not aware of this?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Did Pam Bondi think she was releasing new information? If so, that would not be an encouraging sign. It's not an exaggeration to say that there is not a single new revelation in this 200-page binder. Even the fact that Epstein was an FBI informant is not new.
The Matt Walsh Show
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We already knew that he provided information to the feds during his prosecution and that a senior FBI official at the time was under the impression that Epstein, quote, belonged to intelligence. We knew that. So what exactly happened here? If Bondi knew that there was no new information and the FBI was stonewalling her, why hand out binders with Epstein files phase one emblazoned on the front?
The Matt Walsh Show
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Why set up these people, by the way, these influencers, to be embarrassed by giving them this information when there's nothing new there? Now, we've known for a long time now that the odds of learning any significant new information about Epstein and his clients are probably very low. But there are obviously legitimate reasons to want the information.
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People are interested in knowing whether and to what extent their government was compromised by Epstein. They want to know whether anyone in power is still compromised. They want to know which rich and powerful people were raping minors and engaging in other acts of evil debauchery. They want to understand the extent of the damage that Epstein has done to his victims and to this country.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And what happened yesterday amounted to basically a mockery of that interest. It was in effect a giant middle finger to Americans. The only question that remains is who exactly was giving us that middle finger and why? Now, right now, Pam Bondi says that she's doing what she can to fix the problem. She says that heads will roll at the FBI.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But as some observers have pointed out, she should not limit her focus to the FBI. After all, it was the Department of Justice that approved Epstein's sweetheart plea agreement, which allowed him to avoid a significant prison sentence and also granted immunity to his co-conspirators. It was the DOJ that messed up the search warrant of Epstein's property and delayed the creation of a grand jury.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Why did that happen exactly? What internal documents does the DOJ possess from that period that might shed light on the decision making that was going on? The information we already have from the grand jury is about as disturbing as it could possibly be. Last year, a law in Florida allowed for the release of some of these records.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
And it turns out that throughout the proceedings, the prosecutors attacked the victims repeatedly. They also minimized what Jeffrey Epstein was doing. And it got so bad that at one point, a juror had to step in to defend the victims. Watch.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Now, you can watch a million grand jury proceedings and you won't see anything like this. And it should go without saying, but prosecutors are not defense attorneys. Their job is not to grill their own witnesses. That's especially true when you're at the grand jury stage, when the prosecution's only responsibility is to get an indictment.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Usually, they go in, present the evidence that will lead to an indictment, And they get the indictment and they move on to the trial. But in this case, they clearly didn't want to do that. They wanted to tank their own case. And you have to wonder whether anyone at the DOJ instructed them to do that. At the moment, we don't know whether Pam Bondi will be able to answer that question.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
But the truth is, especially after what happened yesterday, it looks pretty likely, sadly, that we'll never get an answer. We'll also never know how Jeffrey Epstein managed to become a global pimp with no identifiable clients. That's maybe the single biggest gaping hole in the entire narrative we've been sold. They haven't arrested or even seriously investigated a single one of his clients.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
At every stage, the government made sure that Epstein's clients would be completely protected. And to that end, as we learned yesterday, the FBI is apparently concealed and perhaps destroyed the actual incriminating information. And not just in Epstein's townhouse. So this is the sad reality that I think we all need to prepare for.
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Ep. 1546 - Yesterday’s Epstein Files Release Was A Total Disaster
Yeah, we might find out some more specifics in the coming hours and days, assuming the FBI complies with Pam Bondi's request. But, of course, there's no reason to think they'll do so after a cover-up that's lasted as long as this one has. At this point, it's very possible that there are no Epstein files.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
So there seems to have been, at least according to my producers who send me this stuff because they like to see me suffer, a proliferation on TikTok in recent weeks of viral challenges that women draft their unwitting husbands and boyfriends into. The challenges are really tests. And every week someone on TikTok comes up with a new way for women to test the men in their lives.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Now, this is the kind of thing that makes sense if you've never been in a relationship that lasted more than three months. If you are incredibly naive and inexperienced and you get your relationship insights from TikTok, you might have the expectation that your partner will be, quote, genuinely interested in whatever you say.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
But in the real world, which is populated by actual human beings, nobody on Earth will ever be genuinely interested in everything you say. And they shouldn't be. You're not that interesting. Nobody has ever been that interesting. I don't care if you're married to Socrates. You're not going to be hanging on his every last word all day, every day, forever.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Now, I find my wife very interesting and intelligent. But if she came into the room and said, I just saw a bird. I would not be especially interested in that information. I just wouldn't be. My only interest would be in the fact that my wife has apparently suffered some sort of brain damage. Otherwise, why would an adult be screaming about a bird? Bird, bird, lookie at the birdie.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Like, what are you, two years old? Now, if you saw, say, a bald eagle swoop down and catch a baby deer with its talons and fly away or something like that, then that would be the kind of headline that would interest me. So there needs to be something spectacular about the bird to garner my interest.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
If you saw an ostrich ride by on a scooter, that would be a bird-related announcement that I would like to hear. Otherwise, what do you want me to say about a regular bird? Like, how do you want me to react? She said that, you know, you have to engage about the bird. What do you mean engage? Say what? Oh, really? You saw a bird? Cool. Was it, did it, did it have wings?
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
I don't know what the follow-up is. I don't know what a bird conversation would even be. Therefore, this entire test fails. If your husband passes that test, it either means that he's being extremely patronizing. Oh, you saw a bird, did you? Tell me about the bird. Or that he's an ornithologist. Maybe he just really is into birds. Who knows?
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Or maybe he sees the cell phone in your hand and he knows that you're filming him for a TikTok challenge. That could be the other reason why he responds. You know what's interesting about the current state of health and wellness? Everyone's chasing the latest trend, the newest fad, the most exotic supplement, but sometimes the most powerful solutions are the most fundamental ones.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
And if the men fail the test, They're bad, I guess, and if they pass the test, then they're good, at least until the next test comes along. The problem with these tests is that they are tests in the first place, as we'll discuss. The other problem is that they're invented by women for men with a lot of womanly assumptions about what they mean and what a man's failure or success signifies.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
And maybe there's a more positive way of looking at this. I know I can be hard on TikTokers sometimes, but every once in a while, the TikTok community provides something useful. And so here's a viral video of a woman showing us her coping strategies. Here's how she copes. A lot of people have difficult lives and looking for ways to cope with it, ways to deal with it.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
And this is her way of doing it. And it's a strategy you might want to try out yourself. Here it is. Let's watch.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
I know you don't know what to do. But I've got you and I won't leave you. I love you and I'm so sorry that you're scared. But it's okay to feel It's safe to feel. It's safe. I mean, that's relatable. That was basically me at Chipotle last night when they said they ran out of guacamole. No warning, by the way. I went through the whole line. There was no sign saying, oh, we don't have guacamole.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Because then if I had known that, I would have gone somewhere else. But I went through the whole thing. I built the burrito bowl. I get to the guacamole station. They said, we're out of guac. How does it even happen? You have all the other ingredients, but you don't have guac?
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Are people going through the line and asking for a burrito bowl with only guacamole, and that's how you end up with this disproportionate situation? So in situations like that, I think it's okay to react that way, but most of the time I would say not. And what is so sad about these videos, I mean, what's sad about them, besides literally everything about them, what's sad is that
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
I'm sure, I think it's an important point. I'm sure that this woman does have serious trauma in her past. And I don't say that sarcastically. I mean sincerely. So we see stuff like this and we're tempted to go, oh, why is your life so hard? Yeah, look at you complaining, right? You snowflake, Gen Z-er. But this woman... She has blue hair, okay?
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
It's very clear that no man was consulted in the devising of these tests, which is a much better than women do, or at least better than women on TikTok do. So let's go through these one by one. First, we'll go back a few weeks to something called the Bird Test. And here's how the Bird Test works.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
This is a woman with blue hair, and that alone, even when we're putting aside what she's doing in the video, that alone is a blaring, deafening alarm signaling that she probably had a terrible home life, almost certainly comes from a broken home. A dad not in the picture. We can assume that either her dad is not there or he's a terrible father. He's failed utterly.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
If you catch your daughter wearing blue hair and you failed, like you as a father, that is an F. You got an F-grade failure on the report card the moment you see the kid wearing blue hair. Unless it's like a Halloween costume and they're dressed up as Smurfs. Do Smurfs even have blue hair? They have blue skin. So that's a good indication that she has actually suffered real trauma in life.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
And so I'm perfectly willing to believe that this woman has legitimate issues, real substantive reasons to be upset. The problem is that, first of all, she's obviously never received any good counseling. Nobody's told her how to actually cope with the problems that you face in life. And indulging yourself... Right. Indulging in tears. Now, you know how I feel about men crying.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Women, I give a lot more latitude. Women are, you know, women are criers. They like to cry. OK, I can't relate, but we have to accept that men and women are not the same. Fine. But even for a woman, it's possible to vastly overindulge in tears and especially in feelings of self-pity. And this is what she's doing. And that is not healthy coping.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
If you want to cope with whatever you're dealing with, Again, even if it's something real, like you had a terrible childhood and your parents failed you. Go for a walk. Go for a hike. Go get some exercise. Pick up a hobby. Invest yourself and your time and your energy in something other than this. Rather than dwelling on whatever it is that upsets you. Go just do something else.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Don't think about it. Take all that energy and channel it into something rather than just stewing in your own pity to the point where you start to enjoy the feeling of self-pity. A lot of young men are worried about getting married because they're afraid that they'll end up with a bad, selfish woman as a wife. But the good news is that the bad wives generally announce themselves.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
They're proud of it, and they'll tell you all about it. So take this woman named Paige. Paige is a TikTok influencer, also happens to be married with four children. And she's a bad wife and is very eager to alert the public to that fact, including with this video. Watch.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Now, the video has gone viral with many women in the comments gushing over how much they respect and admire her for this approach, which is good because it gives single men the chance to go through the comments and cross all of these women off of the list of potential wives in the future. A video like this provides a perfect litmus test.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Like, show it to a woman you're dating, and if she nods her head and says, amen, break up immediately. Just cut it off right there. Because there are two major problems with this video, and anyone who endorses it also shares in having these problems. Beginning with the fact that she made the video in the first place.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
Even if I could agree that it's defensible for a wife to flat out refuse to do any of the things she lists, which I don't agree, it would still be a major red flag that you're proud of not doing them. You're taking pride in what you don't do for your husband. You are bragging about all the ways that you don't help him and don't care for him.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
That alone tells us that your marriage is deeply sick and will not survive for much longer unless you change dramatically and quickly. There's really no reason why you needed to tell the world who does the laundry in your house. Nobody asked for that information. And if they did ask for it, you could just ignore them.
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Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
But you're proud of not doing the laundry, proud of the fact that apparently when you do a load of laundry for yourself and the kids, you specifically separate his clothes and refuse to throw them in the washer with the other clothes. It takes actual effort to not do the laundry for one person in the house. That's how dedicated you are to not helping your husband.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Today on the Matt Wall Show, Trump continues his historic first week with another major achievement, pardoning Biden's pro-life political prisoners. Meanwhile, Democrats in the Senate unanimously blocked a law that would require doctors to provide medical treatment to newborn infants. The pro-life cause is winning, but we have a long way to go.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So now they can kill infants and not tell anyone. On the Senate floor, Chuck Schumer made an attempt to defend infanticide. Here's how he framed the argument. Listen.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
First of all, he claims that the bill is redundant. He suggests that it's already illegal to commit infanticide. But, I mean, first of all, since when do the Democrats care about that, even if it was true? They pass redundant bills all the time. Remember, it was the Biden administration.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
There was a lot of fanfare around the Biden administration making lynching illegal, signing a bill banning lynching, even though lynching is already illegal in 50 different ways. So since when do they care about a law being redundant? But in this case, it's not redundant.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
As we just established, many states are currently allowing doctors to kill infants after they're born by providing them with a lesser standard of care. The doctors are allowed to do this and no one reports them for it. The law against murder is clearly not being enforced in these contexts. That's why we need this legislation, because it actually addresses the problem.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
It enhances the reporting requirements surrounding this barbarism so that doctors can't keep hiding it. If you parse what Schumer is saying, he's trying to argue that some women decide to kill their children when it's clear that they're going to have serious life-altering medical problems.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
And then when those children manage to survive the abortion, he's saying that we should allow the women to finish the job, so to speak. But again, having a life-altering medical problem doesn't mean you deserve to die. You are entitled to the same degree of care as anyone else with that life-altering medical problem. And that's what the bill requires.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
I mean, what if a four-year-old child has an accident on the playground and ends up disabled for life? Would it be okay with Chuck if the child's parents decided to simply suffocate him with a pillow and throw him in a dumpster out back? Apparently so, because that's what his own logic would justify. Democrats' decision to block this bill, I think, proves two things.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
First of all, it shows that the Democrat Party is still radically, horrifically, satanically extreme, despite whatever concessions to moderates they claim to be making. And secondly, it demonstrates that despite all of our victories in recent days and years, we still have a lot of work to do. The pro-life movement has never had more power than it has right now. And
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
At this moment, after the over-embrace of infanticide that we just saw in Congress, it's clear that we need to use it. Now let's get to our five headlines. Okay, quite a lot going on right now. It's hard to keep track of it all. What's that saying? There are... Years when nothing happens and weeks when years happen or something like that. So a lot's going on.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So let's try to get through as much of it as we can. Daily Mail reports, the last secret files about the assassination of John F. Kennedy can now be published after President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification of all remaining documents about the 1963 murder.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
And this also, the executive order obtained by the Daily Mail said, more than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Roderick F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the federal government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay. And his intelligence chiefs will have 45 days to put together a plan to release the RFK and King archives. And so all this stuff is coming out. I mean, it's just kind of mind-boggling and mind-blowing what's happening right now.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
I mean, think of it this way, declassifying all documents related to the most significant and high-profile assassinations of the 20th century is the kind of thing that if it's going to happen at all, you would expect that it would be the capstone of a presidency, right?
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
It's the kind of thing that if a president's going to do it, which none of them have up until now, you'd think they'd do it on the way out the door. Instead, Trump has jumped right in and done it right away. And he's doing it along with dozens of other extremely significant, far-reaching, truly revolutionary moves. And this is all in the first week. And here's another way of looking at it.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Take everything Trump has done in week one and spread it out over the course of four years. If that's all he did in his presidency, if he only did the stuff he's done this week and you spread it out, we would have to say at the end of his term that it was a highly successful presidency.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
If it was just this one week of stuff and it was spread out, you'd look back at it after four years and say, wow, that was a whirlwind presidency. I mean, he achieved quite a lot. And yet this has all been done in one week. I mean, it's extraordinary. What else is there to say? To me,
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Trump's second term in office so far, and we're only a week in, but so far his second term is the fulfillment of Trump's promise. And I don't just mean that he's fulfilling actual promises that he made, although he is doing that. I mean that it's the fulfillment of the promise of having a guy like Trump in the White House. People who supported Trump from day one, going all the way back to 2015,
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
The people who supported him all the way back then, they did precisely because they imagined that he would be the kind of guy who would do exactly what he's been doing this week. And that didn't happen his first term, right? At the end of Trump's first term, you had to look back on it and say, well, it was successful. He was a good president.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
But in terms of the actions he took as an executive, it was, for the most part, pretty well in line with what you would expect from a solid Republican president. There really wasn't anything that he did in the first term where you would look at that and say, okay, well, only Trump would do that. But this is different.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Now he's doing things where you look at it and you say, yeah, only Trump would do that. We needed Trump to do that. He's doing things that no Republican president before him did.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
did and he's doing things that very very very few republicans today would do um so already in week one we can say okay we needed trump for this we needed trump to do this kind of thing uh so it's been just remarkable truly um
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Also, Trump declassifies all of the files on JFK, MLK, every other famous assassinated person in the 20th century. He used three initials. The rumor mill swirls around Barack and Michelle Obama. Are they headed for divorce? That's the story anyway. And a musical about a transgender drug kingpin earned 13 Oscar nominations.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
And also, by the way, you can't understate, I mean, Charlie Kirk had a tweet about this yesterday, and I think it's certainly true that people are talking about Trump 2.0 and how Trump 2.0 is so much more focused and determined and just on a mission to get as much done as he possibly can. And that's true. But the other part of that is it's Trump 2.0. It's also Trump's team 2.0.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So we also have to give a lot of credit to the team around him. Just a much better team this time. So much better. And he's got people around him who are just like him, are also on a mission, know exactly what they want to do, are determined to do it. And they don't care what the media says about it, what the left says about it. We're just going to get it done. People like Charlie Kirk.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So, all right, now let's go check out the rumor mill. There's a lot of discussion on social media this week about the rumor that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are headed for a divorce. And so far, American media outlets are staying far, far away from this story, as you would expect. But it's all over social media.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
It was trending on Twitter last night, on X. I was looking for an article about it. And as for American outlets, I found nothing except for this in Yahoo. It says, rumors are rife surrounding Barack and Michelle Obama's marriage and there's growing speculation that they're headed for a divorce.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
The couple, who have been married for over three decades, have recently garnered significant attention to their personal life. Speculation has intensified after Michelle skipped two high-profile events fueling discussions about the couple's marriage. So she was not at Jimmy Carter's funeral, and she also was not at the inauguration. Now, not being at the inauguration is – it's weird. It's strange.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
It looked weird. Especially when you had – if you were watching the inauguration, the ceremony, and there's this long process of all of the – upper-level, mucky-muck people coming out, and they all walk out slowly, and most of them are paired up, you know, married couples, and then you just see Barack Obama walk out by himself without his wife. It looked really strange.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Now, that you could explain maybe just by the fact that Michelle hates Donald Trump with passion, and so she refused to go. Not going to Jimmy Carter's funeral, though, is different. That, to me, is the much stranger absence. So there's that that's fueling the rumors.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
And then there's also just rumors of people claiming that they have talked to people that are close to the Obamas or in the inner circle. And, you know, that's where all this stuff is coming from. And the other part of this rumor, which isn't mentioned in the article, is that allegedly Barack and Jennifer Aniston are now an item, allegedly, according to the rumor. That's the rumor.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
That he's cheating on Michelle with Jennifer Aniston. That's the gossip. That's the tea, as the kids would say. I don't know if the tea is correct, but that's what it is. I don't know if any of this is true. I will say that it will be pretty damned hilarious if Barack leaves his wife for a white woman. I mean, we don't root for that to happen. I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
I don't want anyone to get divorced, even Michelle and Barack. But there would just be so many levels of irony to that. And for so many people on the left and so many of the race hustlers who idolize and worship Barack, it would cause such turmoil for them that I admit I would enjoy it. But Those are the rumors. I will say personally, and maybe I have no information. I don't know.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
for eight years in a row, hid in the White House and refused to come out and even say hello. Trump was the first president to break that mold when he became the first sitting president of either party to attend the event in person back in 2020. And then just two years later, thanks to judges Donald Trump appointed to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
I don't know anybody. But I find these rumors implausible for two reasons. And first, it's hard to believe that Barack Obama is shacking up with Jennifer Aniston. Because she doesn't seem like his type. you know, if you catch my drift, you know, I mean, according to other rumors, Jennifer Aniston is not Barack Obama's type. And I don't mean because she's white.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
That's not the physical feature that would seem to take her out of the running in the Barack Obama sweepstakes. You know, I don't, I'm trying to be delicate about it. Because he's gay. That's the reason. I mean, that's allegedly. Allegedly. That's the allegation is that he's gay. I don't know.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
It's an allegation based at least in part on the fact that he said himself in a letter to his ex-girlfriend back in the 80s that he imagines himself making love to men every day. He did say that. So pretty substantial evidence that he's gay just based on that alone.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
But the other problem with this rumor is that successful and ambitious public figures, politicians in particular, just don't get divorced. Divorce is too messy. It's too ugly. And that's why there's a long, long history of political couples who hate each other and stay together for decades anyway, purely for appearances. Bill and Hillary are obviously the poster children. So why even get divorced?
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I mean, they can live in separate houses and lead their own lives and just appear in public together a couple times a year. You know, like I said, there's a long tradition of that sort of thing. Why muck things up with a divorce? Image is everything for these people. Image, brand, that's all they care about. And that's enough to keep them together.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So, you know, you've heard stay together for the kids, which, by the way, is a good reason to stay together. But for people like Barack and Michelle, it's stay together for the brand. And so I don't see this happening. But that's also why if they do divorce, if the rumors, which could be totally unsubstantiated, are true...
The Matt Walsh Show
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I tell you right now, it's going to be accompanied by a major marketing push for divorce. Now, obviously, divorce is already hugely popular in America. I realize that. But an Obama divorce means that we're going to see divorce celebrated and promoted in this country like we've never seen before. And we've already seen it happen.
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A generational goal of pro-life activists was finally accomplished, sparing the lives of millions of children. In the wake of this historic victory, of course, Democrats retaliated. The Biden DOJ commenced a wave of illegitimate prosecutions targeted at peaceful pro-life protesters all over the country, from Washington to Tennessee to Michigan. And here's how these prosecutions worked.
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But it'll be at a level we've never seen because the media will tell us, They're not going to be able to say, oh, well, Barack and Michelle failed in their marriage and their failures, and that's why they're divorced. Because that's what it means when you get a divorce. It means you failed. They won't be able to say that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So instead, they're going to tell us that, no, the Obamas are role models for getting divorced. Getting divorced in your 60s is strong and courageous. Everyone should be doing it. So if you think we're already a divorce-obsessed culture, well... We ain't seen nothing yet, if this turns out to be true. But we will see. Speaking of crumbling marriages, a theme emerges. The Daily Mail has this.
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Kamala Harris was all smiles and affection for her beloved second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, in the immediate aftermath of her crushing presidential election defeat. But now that President Donald Trump has been sworn into office, for sore loser Harris, it is now all about the blame game, and her target has flipped to her, quote, deadweight husband.
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And as she weighs her political future, maybe a 2026 run for governor of California or another try for the nation's top job two years later, please, please do that. Please do that, Kamala. Nevertheless, she persisted. Remember, don't let these sexist men get you down. Run for president again. Keep running. I mean, you're what, 60?
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You got three, four, five presidential term cycles that you can still run for. So I say keep doing it. Keep going for it. Anyway, she... According to Daily Mail, she has to consider whether Emhoff is an asset or a liability. One source exclusively told DailyMail.com there's plenty of blame to go around as far as Kamala is concerned and Doug has his share.
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Doug did Kamala no favors during the election. Frankly, he looked like a hypocritical ass after the bombshells that he had got his child's nanny pregnant while married to his first wife and assaulted his ex-girlfriend on the heels of his I Am Woman crusade. So... Another political marriage on the rocks, according to sources. In this case, at least it is being reported by some mainstream outlets.
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That's the other thing. I'll tell you this. If Barack and Michelle get divorced, if that does happen, you're going to see a wave of political divorces after that. If they get divorced, then every prominent political couple... in the country is going to be divorced in the next two years.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Because they're going to finally, once they make that okay, then all the rest of them are going to look at each other like, okay, we don't have to fake it anymore. So that's the other thing that's going to happen. But the Doug Emhoff story, I think, is interesting. That there's kind of a lesson here. This is not just delighting in the rumor mill. There's a lesson.
The Matt Walsh Show
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If this is true, there's a lesson here. that this is what happens when you take the backseat to your wife and you let her take the lead. And you kind of play the housewife role, which is what Doug Emhoff was doing. Now, if you do it, as Emhoff did... You'll be celebrated. You'll be praised.
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First, the DOJ alleged that the protesters were violating the FACE Act, which protects, quote unquote, access to abortion facilities. And then the Biden DOJ invoked the KKK Act, otherwise known as the Conspiracy Against Rights Act, which is a law that has nothing to do with abortion facilities.
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Your wife, if she is a feminist in good standing, will say that she's so appreciative of how supportive you're being. But in truth, she will begin to see you as dead weight. Because If you're Doug Emhoff, and in his case, his wife's running for president, and he doesn't even have a job anymore, and his whole role is just to be her caddy, following her around and holding her purse.
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Inevitably, when you do that, and you become that as a man, as a husband, your wife's going to look at you and say, why do I need this guy? What are you doing exactly? What purpose are you serving? And as much as we might try to pretend that gender roles are arbitrary and meaningless, the fact is that you make yourself useless.
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You make yourself dead weight if you don't fulfill your quote-unquote gender role. And the same thing happens in the reverse. If a man works for a living and... So he's kind of fulfilling his role as the provider, but he has a wife who doesn't really cook, doesn't really clean, isn't terribly attentive to the kids, isn't a homemaker.
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Then he starts to look around and he thinks, well, why do I need this? What is she doing exactly? I wanted a wife and I don't have one. She's not doing any of the wifely things. I'm doing everything. Like, you know, I'm better with the kids than she is. You know, I do all this stuff more than she does. And once that thought occurs to him, well, now the marriage is hurtling towards disaster.
The Matt Walsh Show
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You know, so this really goes both ways. And the common thread is that a spouse isn't living up to the promise, which is implicit, or in fact explicit, in the marriage vows. no matter what modern society says, no matter what we try to tell ourselves, no matter how we lie to ourselves, the fact remains that when a woman marries a man, she wants a husband. And that means something.
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Not a business partner, not just a friend or a roommate, not a generic associate who comes along for the ride. She wants a husband. Otherwise, what's the point? And if the husband isn't doing any of the things that husbands were always meant to do, again, what's the point? And so don't be Doug Emhoff.
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It's a reconstruction era law that was intended to prevent the KKK from intimidating black people from voting or serving on juries. And by pairing these two laws together in a very novel way, the DOJ was able to pursue felony charges and extremely lengthy prison sentences for these peaceful pro-life demonstrators.
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Despite what you were told by the media as a man to model yourself after Doug Emhoff, well, this is what happens. Failure and disgrace. And then you get discarded. That's what being Doug Emhoff gets you. Let's see. Here's a very important story. So we've done a few things that are kind of important, but I did have to mention this.
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Daily Mail again reports on a controversy surrounding a healthcare worker's decision to apparently twerk on her patient's head. Now the question is, why did she do this? Was it part of some kind of some kind of unorthodox medical treatment. Well, the report says, a healthcare worker has prompted outrage after sharing videos of her twerking on top of a disabled patient's head.
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Lucretia Coyen from Loganville, Georgia, claims she's the woman seen in the now viral footage. In the clip, 19-year-old Coyen is seen 19. How is she a healthcare worker at 19? So there's your first problem. Seen dancing on the handles of a patient's wheelchair. And this apparently provoked backlash. Oh, you think? So here's Ms. Koyan addressing her revolutionary healthcare techniques. Watch.
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Yeah, you know, I mean, she does. She has a point. What like what are we always told? We're always told don't get in the middle of a patient and their health care provider. It's not our business. It's not for us to interfere. Besides, this is America. And if we don't have the right to twerk on the heads of medical patients, then what is this country? What did our forefathers fight and die for?
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If we can't even twerk on the head of one disabled person in a wheelchair, what's the point? The Constitution is dead, I tell you. Anyway, this woman's obviously a monster, should be fired clearly, also arrested for assault. And every day with each new viral dancing video, my faith in the healthcare industry dies a little more. At this point, I have no faith at all.
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Every single person attending one of these protests at an abortion facility could be accused of being a conspirator, even if they didn't step foot in the facility itself. This is a legal approach that was never even considered to be possible when the FACE Act was debated in Congress back in the early 1990s.
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I mean, it died a long time ago, but the stuff keeps piling on. And now I have to worry that if I go in for surgery, that there's going to be a twerking contest happening. while I'm laying there unconscious. I mean, this is yet another thing I have to worry about.
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And the thing that concerns me the most, of course, is that the fact that a person like this was able to get a job in health care to begin with. Now, sure, I mean, the medical institution, and I don't know, the report doesn't say what hospital or clinic this happened at, but whatever the medical institution was, they can always say, well, hey,
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We didn't know that she was going to start twerking on our patients. And, you know, okay, maybe they didn't. Maybe she didn't list that skill on her resume. I could buy that. But there's just no way that after this video goes viral, there's no way that her immediate managers are going to look at that and go, wow, that's shocking. She didn't seem like the type.
The Matt Walsh Show
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No, they're going to, I mean, they'll be shocked because it's shocking behavior, but it's not going to be, it's like, they're going to think to themselves, well, yeah, if anyone here was going to do that, it would have been her.
The Matt Walsh Show
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So my point is that if you're the sort of person who would do this, then you have various serious mental and moral defects that should be glaringly obvious from the outset. And yet she still managed to get a job at some level in healthcare, which is quite disturbing. Let's get to the comment section.
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Not only did that lady cop have two fingers in the trigger guard, but she also had the muzzle pointed at the dude. Rules one and two of firearm safety, and she broke both of them. That's the one good thing to come of the incident, is that the video can now be used in gun safety classes for the rest of time, which I assume it will be.
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It's a perfect teaching tool, given that she broke all of the most basic gun safety rules. She did everything precisely wrong, so... It is a tool that can be used to educate people in the future, I suppose. I wonder if Matt was aware of the Masonic symbol in his logo, the one triangle up and one down. All the DW hosts have a Masonic symbol.
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In fact, Senator Ted Kennedy explicitly stated at the time that, quote, if an individual does violate this law for the first time, it is not a felony. Well, that would be news to 75-year-old Paulette Harlow. She's the mother of six children, including four kids she adopted. Harlow was sentenced last summer to 24 months in federal prison for conspiracy against rights and Face Act violations.
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Slide the two triangles together toward each other and remove the middle piece and you get the hexagram also, Israel's national symbol to boot. Actually, the symbol is my initials. So that's the deep, dark secret behind the Matt Walsh logo is MW. So what you're saying is that my parents were engaged in some kind of conspiracy when they gave me those initials. But really, it goes back to them.
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Although I do have to say that I... I really kind of envy people like you that left this comment. People who see conspiracies and secret symbols everywhere all the time. I mean, I'm not even being facetious. I actually do envy that because it has to be a pretty entertaining life. I mean, you're living every day in basically an Indiana Jones film. And it's got to be really interesting.
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I mean, I don't know if it's a recipe for a successful life or being a successful, well-rounded, grounded, intelligent person. But It's got to be entertaining. I mean, you must be having a blast. And so something to be said for that. I'm going to have to put my two cents for why I'm pro women in the police force.
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It's true that men are stronger physically than women in most cases, but women are better at talking slash relating slash being empathetic towards people. A woman cop might be better at keeping the altercation from being violent. In my opinion, we should want to avoid violent altercations. Those other people will sue the police department if injured or someone dies.
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We should want to reduce liability. Women are better at keeping altercations neutral so it doesn't get to the point of having to take down the other person. Also, I would personally not want to arrest a typically nonviolent person because they have anxiety with police, like for a traffic stop. They'll potentially get caught in the system, plus it hurts their potential future employment.
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The goal should be not letting an altercation get to the point where a police officer has to get physical. But I don't think it actually works that way. I mean, we saw in the video yesterday a nonviolent encounter was turned violent because of the female cop's incompetence.
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And generally speaking, avoiding violent altercations, which I certainly agree should be the goal, but avoiding them often requires violence. it didn't require it in this case. In this case, you just needed to have to be, you know, even just basically competent.
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But often with police work, I think avoiding a violent encounter requires, among other things, a more physically imposing presence because a suspect is less likely to become violent if he knows ahead of time that he won't get away with it. Now, that's not going to stop That's not always going to stop someone from getting violent. I mean, we know that clearly.
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But if he is going to be stopped ahead of time, I would think that a larger, stronger male cop is more likely to get that kind of peaceful compliance than a smaller, weaker female cop. Or even if the altercation does become tense or even physical...
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A male cop is going to have a better chance of just containing the person and getting them under control without having to resort to tasers and guns and all the rest of it. But a female cop is going to have a harder time doing that. And I think the female cop also presents a kind of temptation to the suspect because he knows that he could overpower her and run away and escape.
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and is probably more likely to try it. But also, just on an emotional level, which is what you're talking about, you have a better chance of keeping things peaceful if you can keep yourself together and not lose your cool and not take things personally and not get overly emotional. So, is a female cop less likely to to lose her cool in that situation?
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This is an obviously outrageous sentence that was issued by D.C. Judge Colleen Collar Cotterley. In particular, the judge completely ignored the fact that Harlow was in very poor health. As Harlow's husband stated during sentencing, quote, I feel like Paulette is dying. In my heart, I think she's having a hard time staying alive.
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Is a female cop, is a female in general less likely to take things personally, get a bit emotional, you know, get a little bit flustered in these kinds of situations? Like you're saying a woman is less likely to have that happen? I just don't, I don't think that's the case. I don't know what you're basing that on. I think that
The Matt Walsh Show
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Because when we talk about combat roles or police work or being a firefighter, and we say that men are better suited for these jobs, which they are, we often focus on the physical side of it.
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which is kind of the easier thing and the less controversial thing, I suppose, to talk about, to just point out that, hey, men are stronger, and it requires physical strength to do these jobs, and so men should do them. I think we talk a little bit less about the emotional and psychological aspects of these jobs and how men on that level are also better suited for them. Women are not inferior.
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It's nothing like that. Men and women are just different. Men and women are different. And men have an easier time being sort of emotionally detached, not taking things personally, not kind of bringing emotions into it. I think men just have an easier time with that in general. Women tend to be more emotional. It shouldn't be a controversial thing to say.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And by the way, in most contexts in life, that's a good thing. I wouldn't want women to be emotionally identical to men. I don't want my wife to be emotionally identical to me. I don't want that. Men and women are different. It's a good thing. But...
The Matt Walsh Show
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In some of these jobs, there's a certain kind of emotional and psychological burden that you have to bear that I think often men are simply better suited for. And as I said, that's the less popular thing to talk about when we discuss this issue, but I also think it shouldn't be controversial. I think we all recognize this.
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Instead of responding to this information in any way, the judge appeared to mock Harlow's faith, saying that she should, quote, make an effort to remain alive because that is a, quote, tenet of Harlow's religion. Paulette Harlow was sentenced to home confinement until federal officials could find a prison that could handle her medical needs.
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Use code 47 at checkout and let's build the future together. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. A month ago, we got the tragic news that my film, Am I Racist?, was not going to be an Oscars contender. The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences decided that the top documentary of the decade did not deserve a nomination of any kind or even a spot on the shortlist for nominees.
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And this was a legitimate and, by all rights, objectively speaking, outrageous snub, but it was also about as surprising as the fact that I wasn't awarded a Nobel Prize last year. Or any year before that, believe it or not. It's not hard to understand what's going on here. The Academy has clearly decided to exclude conservatives from having their work recognized.
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The left believes that it owns the art of filmmaking. And any outsider, especially an outsider who is successful, is immediately cast out. We are intruders. We are interlopers. You might even say that we are undocumented migrants in the land of filmmaking. Build the wall, Hollywood shouts, in our case.
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Still, that left the question of what kind of films the Academy would decide to shower with awards this year. And now, at long last, we have an answer to that question. And specifically, we know that a Netflix musical called Amelia Perez has just received 13 nominations at the Oscars, which is by far the most of any film this year.
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Those nominations include Best Picture, Best Director, among a slew of other major categories. And now, before we talk about it, I will admit that I'm biased. I hate musicals in general. And the problem is that my suspension of disbelief totally breaks down the moment the character starts singing. And I start to wonder, you know, well, I just think of it too literally, I guess.
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And I start to wonder, how do the characters all know the words to this song? Why are the other characters on screen not reacting with shock or confusion when one of them bursts into song randomly? And even on the rare occasion when the songs in a musical are actually not awful, I still find myself enduring them. I'm just waiting for the characters to stop singing so we can get back to the story.
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And, you know, if you think I'm being hard on musicals, just ask yourself one question. When was the last time you watched a non-musical movie and thought to yourself, You know what this movie could use? Random musical numbers. You've never thought that about any movie because singing does not improve a movie. In the case of the musical, you just kind of tolerate it. That's my take on that.
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Outside the courthouse, Harlow emphasized that she wasn't violent in any way. And just looking at her, you could tell she doesn't deserve to spend two years in a federal prison. She's obviously not a threat to anyone. Watch.
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Those are my cards on the table. I'm not a musical guy. But even with that bias, I still think I can say with some credibility that this musical is extra bad. It is, whether you like musicals or not... an extremely terrible film. It has to be said that this film is so atrocious, so obviously bad in every way that it actually manages to do the impossible.
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It makes Joker 2 slightly less atrocious to the point that it's no longer the worst musical of the last century. Watching Joker 2, as horrible as that film was, cannot possibly prepare you for the pile of donkey dung that is Amelia Perez.
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Now, to give you a sense of the plot, such as it is, the film is about a murderous cartel leader who decides that he wants to live a more authentic life, so he hires a lawyer to help him transition into a woman and then go into hiding. leaving his family behind. And the lawyer ends up checking out a hospital in Bangkok that's apparently willing to perform the surgery.
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And that leads us to this scene, which is so much worse than I ever imagined it could possibly be. Even after everything I heard about this film, nothing could have prepared me for this. And I promise you, this is real. This is actually in the movie. You might think that this is AI or something. This is some kind of weird AI parody. No, this is in the movie, okay?
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This is one of the major musical numbers in this film, which just received 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Here it is.
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In spite of the fact that this movie is without question one of the worst things ever put to film. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. This is it, your final weekend to get 47% off new Daily Wire Plus annual memberships. Get unlimited access to uncensored, ad-free daily shows, groundbreaking documentaries, movies and series and more.
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Yes, From Penis to Vagina. That was a line in the song. It was almost certainly the first song in world history to have that line, for better or worse. In this case, worse. By the way, The Godfather, the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all time, received 11 Oscar nominations. This movie got 13. I say that again, the movie you just saw got 13 Oscar nominations.
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In fact, we could go on all day with these kinds of comparisons because very few films in Hollywood history have had as many nominations as this train wreck. The record shared by a few films, I think two or three, is 14. So Amelia Perez missed the record by one, which is no doubt a sign that transphobia is alive and well in Hollywood. Oscars so transphobic.
The Matt Walsh Show
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They only gave the trans musical 13 nominations. Now, in any case, what they're trying to convey in that scene that I just showed you, I think, is that this particular gender clinic is a little indiscreet and business-oriented, so the lawyer needs to find another place to secretly transition the murderous cartel boss. But really, this scene conveys a lot more than that.
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First of all, it conveys that this movie has the worst writing that we've ever seen in a professional film. It appears that the writers were all drunk or high or severely brain damaged or some combination of the three. They're also conveying that the actors can't hold a tune, can't carry a tune, which is a rather significant problem for a musical. Badly written songs, badly performed.
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And of course, with the whole Night of the Living Dead routine, they're just highlighting how barbaric these procedures really are, which is why a lot of trans activists and trans organizations are already condemning this film. It's too much even for them. Like when you produce a piece of trans propaganda that makes even trans activists stop and go, hey, whoa, take it easy. This is a bit much.
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It's a little on the nose, guys. Well, then you have a serious problem in that case. So you can start to see why this film isn't exactly going over well with audiences, particularly audiences in Mexico, by the way, where this film is set. This is a portrayal of Mexico that was filmed in Europe and written by a French filmmaker. And which I mean, that in and of itself, no problem.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But the problem is that it kind of shows they're presenting this as some kind of authentic look into Mexican culture. When it's really an authentic portrayal of what a ham-fisted director can achieve when handed a script that could have been written by a team of semi-literate crackheads. And that's not even the worst scene, arguably.
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As the plot continues, the cartel leader eventually reunites with his family in a kind of Mrs. Doubtfire situation where he pretends to be somebody else. It's all very creepy. It doesn't really make a lot of sense. It eventually leads to this scene where an actress just comes out and states the moral of the film, which is that undergoing trans surgery somehow makes you a better person.
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That's what the plot is getting at. This horrible cartel boss gets a sex change and undergoes a kind of spiritual rebirth. In this particular scene, the doctor tries to say that trans surgeries are just about cutting up body parts. He said it doesn't actually make you a better person. But that's when we get this musical number about how actually the doctor is wrong. Watch.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Now you could argue that the guy in that scene just gave the greatest acting performance of all time. You could argue. Because we cannot understate the incredible acting skill it must require to sit there and not break out into hysterical fits of laughter when the other actor in the scene is singing a song like that. In fact, I thought the same thing about Sonic 3.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Not to bring Sonic 3 back into this, but I thought the same thing about Sonic 3. That you could argue that all of the human actors, all the live human actors in Sonic, all deserve Oscar nominations. Only because acting in a film like that and delivering the lines without laughing is Uh, being able to do that alone, I think is a, is a, is a, is a towering, uh, artistic achievement.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So anyway, uh, but back to this one, you know, the whole thing is not exactly subtle propaganda, but it apparently resonated with the Academy. And in particular, the Academy was impressed with the performance of the trans identifying man named Carlos Sophia Gascon, who plays the drug dealer in the film. So this is a trans identified actor playing a trans character. Um,
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So the Academy gave Gascon the nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. So for the first time in history, a man has been nominated for Best Actress. And he's almost certainly going to win, of course. So the Academy is, you know, they're obviously looking for a way to send a message to Donald Trump in one way or another. Cairns gave him the Best Actress Award already.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Golden Globes did the same thing a few weeks ago when they gave the film the Best Picture for a Musical Comedy Award. And then Gascon went up to the podium and gave an incoherent speech about how trans-identifying people are being thrown in jail and beaten up, allegedly. Watch.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Now, putting aside the whole Saab story, I mean, this is an actor who decided in his late 40s that he's really a woman. It's one of the least convincing imitations of a woman that you'll ever see. Nobody watching this person will conclude, even for a second, that he's a woman. But in this film, we're supposed to believe that this cartel boss has everybody fooled.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
No one, not even his own family, can detect the ruse. All he had to do was put a wig on and a dress, and nobody has any idea. It's also ridiculous and grotesque that in a rare case of political unity, the outrage has actually been bipartisan.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
A lot of people on the left are especially upset as the LA Times reports, quote, Mexican intellectuals have accused the movie of reducing the country's horrific drug wars, which have killed nearly half a million people with more than 100,000 missing in this century alone, to a song and dance farce. GLAAD described it as a profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
On a podcast, superstar Mexican comic Eugenia Derbez ridiculed the accent of Mexican-American Selena Gomez, who plays Emilia's wife, as indefensible. Apparently the performance is so bad that it's causing an international incident over Mexico. One person writes, even Terminator's hasta la vista babies sounded more natural.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
There are a lot of comparisons to Brendan Fraser and Bedazzled, Robocop, and so on. Taco Bell is apparently more authentically Mexican than this film is. And on top of that, It's not just the left in all of Mexico that's upset by this trash heap of a movie. There's also backlash coming from the right, especially now that a man has been nominated for Best Actress.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
But in this case, I think the outrage from the right is misplaced. That's because when this man wins the award for Best Actress, which he most likely will, It'll be the first time in history, the first time in the history of the Academy Awards that women are shut out of both lead acting awards. They will not win. No woman will win a lead acting award in the 2025 Academy Awards, most likely.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Now, if you can look at this elderly, infirm lady and think that she deserves two years in federal prison for sitting outside of an abortion clinic, then you're simply a bad person, if not a lunatic. As Harlow's lawyers at the Thomas More Society have pointed out, this prosecution gets even more unlawful when you look at the cases the DOJ chose not to prosecute over the last four years.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
And of course, the other nominees will have to pretend to be thrilled about that. You know, Mikey Madison, whoever that is, Demi Moore, Fernanda Torres, I only recognize one of those names. Everybody else will clap and pretend that it's the greatest thing ever. And so will his co-stars, including Selena Gomez. So why not just let them pretend? Let the dude take home the best actress trophy.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
The actual female actresses who get robbed by this deserve it. None of them have the courage to speak out about the trans madness. Certainly none of them will have the guts to say anything about this. And so now the monster they helped to create is turning against them. And the timing couldn't be worse for these people. Most Americans have moved on from gender ideology.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
We're moving past this farce, as the second Trump administration is demonstrating. But the weakest and most cowardly among us, namely every actress in Hollywood, are still clinging to it. And now it's probably going to cost them in a very tangible way. And there's some real poetic justice there. Amelia Perez isn't actually about the transformative power of gender ideology.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
It's about how gender ideology degrades women and insults everyone's intelligence on a grand scale. And that's not the message the filmmakers wanted to send to this film, but it's the message that everybody has received. And that is why the man who's been nominated for Best Actress in the Academy Awards and the actresses who are too cowardly to object to it are today canceled.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
I'll do it for the show today and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Specifically, the DOJ failed to prosecute, quote, almost any of the more than 170 incidents of violence against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches nationwide in the wake of the leak of the Dobbs decision. There were at least 86 Catholic churches and 74 pregnancy resource centers that were targeted after Dobbs.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
And one of those resource centers received a threat that said, if abortions aren't safe, neither are you. And yet when the Daily Signal reached out to the DOJ and the FBI to see if any of these cases were being investigated, they didn't get a response. In other words, the DOJ was clearly targeting pro-life protesters specifically because of their religious and political beliefs.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
They were applying the law to different groups of people in different ways. And by the way, the FACE Act is also supposed to allegedly protect pro-life pregnancy centers. It's under the same law. So the people that attack those pregnancy centers should get at least the same sentences. And they didn't. In fact, in most cases, they were not charged at all with anything.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So this is unconstitutional, and it is unethical and immoral. And the point of it was to intimidate pro-lifers into silence. That's why they arrested these people like they were terrorists. They hit Paul Vaughn's home like he was bin Laden. Watch.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
This was an especially incredible prosecution by the DOJ because it was clear to everyone that Paul Vaughn wasn't even blocking access to the abortion facility in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Video evidence proved that. He was not blocking the entrance at all. Instead, they accused Vaughn of stalling the police negotiators outside of the facility.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So again, they're treating anyone remotely associated with these protests as a violent terrorist. But yesterday, Donald Trump put an end to these political prosecutions. He signed pardons for nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life protesters, including Paulette Harlow and Paul Vaughn. Watch.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Now, between these pardons and the repeal of Roe, there is now absolutely no question that Trump has done more for the pro-life cause than any other Republican president in history. It's not even close. During the campaign, there were some conservatives who doubted that. Some of them suggested that pro-lifers shouldn't vote for Donald Trump.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
But that was always a very bad idea, as I argued at the time. And now everyone can see it. For the first time in history, pro-lifers have a true advocate in the White House. Donald Trump is that. What the hell did George Bush ever do for the pro-life cause? What did Ronald Reagan do? Well, I'll tell you what they did.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
They treated pro-lifers like the redheaded stepchildren of the conservative movement. They did nothing. Now, Trump, even though he is personally more moderate on the abortion issue than I am, he is actually delivering major wins for the cause. He's actually accomplishing things, things that seemed impossible not too long ago. And he's not stopping.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Donald Trump is now single-handedly reversing a wave of lawfare against pro-lifers who are punished in cruel and inhumane and unconstitutional ways because of their religious beliefs and their political beliefs. In fact... We've had so much success on this issue in the last few years that some conservatives would even say, and you hear this said now, that the march for life is pointless.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Why even still have it? Well, if you're wondering about that, events elsewhere in Washington, I think, show why it's necessary. As you might have heard, every Democrat in the Senate just voted against a measure that would have required doctors to provide life-saving medical treatment to infants who are born alive after a botched abortion.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
So they've temporarily blocked the bill because in the Senate, as of now, you need 60 votes to clear a filibuster and force a vote. Now, even the reasonable Democrats, like noted slob John Fetterman, voted in favor of infanticide, voted against the bill and in favor of infanticide.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Here's what Fetterman wrote, quote, I've always stood on the side of Roe and a woman's right to make her own health care choices. It's absurd to mandate criminalization because of those choices. Any bill that does so, including the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act, is a no from me. It's absurd. It's absurd, he says, to provide medical treatment to infant children who are already born.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
Infant children who are lying on the table and dying. John Fetterman, that disgusting oaf, that slob, John Fetterman, Shrek, says that it's absurd to provide them. He's not even just opposed to it. It's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous thing to try to provide medical care to infants. That's what this bridge troll says.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
In other words, he's saying that women have the right to murder their children even after they're born. And of course, this is the natural extension of Democrats' pro-abortion logic. And in this case, he's just coming right out and saying it. So no, I really don't want to hear another word about so-called moderate Democrats. A lot of people have been saying that about John Fetterman lately.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
In fact, when I was criticizing him for dressing like a gross, disgusting, ridiculous slob at the inauguration wearing gym clothes, there were a lot of conservatives who said, well, he's one of the good ones. Don't criticize him. Oh, yeah, he's a good one who just voted in favor of infanticide. That's the good one? Now, there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
I don't know how many times we need to learn this lesson. Even the moderate mainstream Democrats believe that infant children outside the womb have no inherent right to life. Now, if you look at the text of the law, that becomes very clear. Here's what the law requires. Quote, any health care practitioner present at the time the child is born alive shall...
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
A, exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
And B, following the exercise of skill, care, and diligence required under subparagraph A, ensure the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
And then the law states, quote, a health care practitioner or any employee of a hospital, a physician's office or an abortion clinic who has knowledge of a failure to comply with the requirements of paragraph one shall immediately report the failure to an appropriate state or federal law enforcement agency or to both. This is not some hypothetical scenario.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
I mean, it happens more often than you might think. In Florida, 14 babies were reported to have survived abortions in 2023, and 16 babies survived abortions in 2022. That's just in one state. In Michigan, 122 babies were involved in so-called failed abortions, and we have no information as to what happened to them afterwards.
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Ep. 1522 - Biden’s Pro-Life Political Prisoners Are Finally Free
In Tim Walz's Minnesota, as we've previously discussed, at least five abortions resulted in a live birth in 2021. And instead of receiving life-saving measures, at least two of those infants received comfort care, which is to say they let them die. And instead of outlawing this, the state of Minnesota decided to simply stop posting records from those failed abortions.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Hey, everybody, this is Matt Walsh. Drop everything you're doing and check out the latest episode of Daily Wire backstage. You're going to hear Jeremy Boring, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles, and yours truly talking about all the important issues affecting you and your family. You don't want to miss it unless you're a leftist, in which case you're canceled.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Can I say, Ben, that was... Those were the most powerful remarks ever delivered on this stage. Wow. The balance of nature. I thought it was really compelling.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
What was the question?
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Could I also say one thing that you're integrating your values into the business, and I don't know what your business is. Maybe you said it, I haven't been paying attention to the questions today. I haven't seen it. So integrate them as in, like Ben said, you're living according to your values.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
What I think you don't need to do and probably shouldn't do is say, well, this is my business, and this is the conservative version of this business. We're the conservative fill in the blank. You don't need to be that. Just do the business and do it well. And if you're living according to your values, then you're already the conservative version of that business. Sounds good. Thank you, guys.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
It's because I'm a, as Jeremy's pointed out, it's because I'm a sociopath.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
That's how, that's my secret.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
One of the great advantages if you want to be successful in media is that, and we're testament to this, it requires no talent to do media at all. So if your daughter has talent, then she's already a step ahead of like 95% of the business. It might be a disadvantage, though, if she actually has talent.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Can I say, it's in times like this that I'm really glad that I'm so bad at doing ad reads because I don't have to do this ad read on stage at CPAC. Spoiler alert.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Yeah, look, I think I totally agree with everything that you said. And it's easy to forget that even several months ago, certainly in the last couple of years, we were told, even by conservatives, that our victories, the great victory of repealing Roe v. Wade, one of the great human rights victories of all time, was actually a bad thing politically because we were going to pay for it.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
We were going to pay the price with some great backlash in the polls and the women of America would would rise up to punish us for protecting babies from slaughter and that didn't happen and the reason that it didn't happen is because it turns out as many of us as we have all been saying people like you have been saying the pro-life argument is a winning argument it is a winning argument and
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
As long as you're just honest. The only way to win the argument when you're pro-life is to be brutally honest and to show. It's one thing if we are claiming that there is a genocide of children happening, that 60 million human beings have been slaughtered by abortion. If that's what we claim, which is what we claim because it's true, then there should be passion and even anger behind our words.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And if there isn't, then why would anyone take us seriously? Because it's like we don't even believe what we're saying. So we are not the ones. The pro-abortion side, they're the ones who have to cover everything they say in euphemisms. They have to be very careful about every word they choose. And the euphemisms constantly change.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
because they can't talk simply and clearly about what the thing is. And we win the argument simply by being clear about it because the pro-life argument is, as I said, it's the most winning argument of all time. The pro-life argument is simply this, that it is always wrong to intentionally kill innocent human children. That's it.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And I defy any pro-abortion person, any so-called pro-choice person, to engage with that. Are you saying that there are times when it is actually OK to intentionally kill an innocent human child, and that's what they don't want to engage with? And as long as we're honest about it, then we win the argument.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
I mean, look, I think Ben covered it well. I mean, the most important thing, and also to go to Drew's point earlier about never lie. You don't have to go looking for confrontation. We tend to be confrontational people. It's part of our job. We're kind of wired that way. And so if you are and you want to go out and look for that, then God be with you. But you don't have to do that.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And you don't have to go jumping on every grenade that you find in the room. but it's just don't play the game, don't acquiesce, don't play the language games. That was the big mistake that was made culturally, even among some conservatives back several years ago, where they started playing the language game and they said, well, I just wanna be polite.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And once we start putting politeness over the truth, then you've already lost. So don't do that and you'll be fine, I think.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
You know, I'll go to the New Testament, and St. Paul has always been probably the saint that I've felt the most connection to. I wanted to choose that as my confirmation name, but Paul Walsh just didn't, I didn't think it sounded right, so I couldn't do it.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
But the thing I like about Saint Paul, I mean, obviously some of the most beautiful words, some of those beautiful insights ever written can be found in the Pauline epistles. But also, I guess I kind of, I can feel a certain connection to the fact that Paul was, when you read the Pauline epistles, he was quite blunt in the way that he talked to people and the way that he addressed issues.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And to me, it's a real rebuke of the kind of nicey-nice, Mr. Rogers sort of Christianity that we've gotten fed to us, force-fed to us over the last several decades. Because then when you go, and even if you read the Gospels and you read the way that Christ dealt with hypocrites and dealt with corruption, you also find that it's quite a bit more aggressive and blunt and direct.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Not mean-spirited, certainly, not hateful. There's no contempt in it. But it's calling the sin out and rebuking it directly, which is the thing that I love about these books.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Well, you're a man, so that makes sense.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
You know, if I were to... If I were to say my favorite thing from Trump's term, well, number two, I'll get to number one, but number two. You only get one. Number five. My runner-up is Trump talking about, at least talking about, potentially taking back control of the Panama Canal. That's a little bit of a deep cut, but I think that's an important thing. And Greenland, too.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Maybe we're taking Canada. We'll see. We've got to move the Canadians somewhere else because we don't want the Canadians, but we want Canada. We want the land, not so much the people on it. We'll move them to reservations up in the Arctic, and they'll be quite happy. But my actual favorite thing is what I think is the end, basically the end, of the trans agenda of gender ideology in this country.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
You know, this is... The fight continues because the people that advocate for this butchery and this insanity aren't just going to go away. They're going to find a way to continue victimizing kids. And so the fight will continue in that way. But look, we've got with Donald Trump in just a few weeks, we have banning men from women's sports.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
We have putting an end to child castration in the hospitals, defining sex as man and woman. And I think that... The legal stuff is really important, but just the bully pulpit, having a person in a position of authority who's willing to say the obvious thing, which is that men are men and women are women, which, by the way, is something that everyone has always known.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
Every single person in the world has always known that. But for a period of time, a lot of people were afraid to say what they knew to be true. And thanks to Donald Trump. Thanks to a lot of people that have been in the fight. But what they needed was someone in a position of a power like Donald Trump to say this obvious true thing.
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Daily Wire Backstage Live at CPAC: The Fight, The Wins, The Future
And so I think it's the beginning of the end of gender ideology in this country.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
This is the final episode of the Matt Wall Show for 2024. It was a big year, a strange year, and ultimately a great year for the entire country. One that saw the fall of the Biden regime, the end of the Obama dynasty, and Trump like a phoenix rising from the ashes to reclaim the White House. It was also a big year and a great year for me and the rest of the team here at The Daily Wire.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
With all the money and technology we have in 2024, somehow Disney is struggling very hard to match the quality of a film from the 1930s. At first, there were the leaked images of the actors playing the seven dwarves, which weren't dwarves at all because that would be culturally insensitive. So instead, Disney replaced the dwarves with a diverse array of magical hobos.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Then when everyone pointed out that the dwarves are kind of important to the story, Disney delayed the production, fired all the actors playing the magical hobos, replaced them with CGI dwarves, which didn't look particularly convincing, but at least they were better than the actors. So some progress was made, I suppose. Goodwill was restored to a degree.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Then the star of the film, Rachel Zegler, proceeded to light all that goodwill on fire. She made it clear that she thinks the story of Snow White is actually very creepy and misogynistic. She said Disney was basically going to throw out the old story, get rid of the prince, make a film that supposedly empowers women, and that means downplaying the whole romance thing.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
which was the whole point of the story. Hiring the Barbie screenwriter and going full-on girl boss was the plan. Then a short clip of the film surfaced online and we saw exactly what a girl boss Snow White looks like. The clip showed Snow White directing the dwarves to clean their own cottage for her as she instructs them to whistle while they work.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Yes, the dwarves come home from a long day at the mines and they're met by a bossy, unpleasant woman telling them to clean up doesn't even help them in this version, which is a pretty big change from the original. She also doesn't seem remotely grateful that they're giving her a place to stay when she desperately needs it.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Instead, she just sings along and watches the dwarves do all the work, almost sadistically, really. And once again, as you'd expect, this footage caused a backlash and Disney quickly had it scrubbed from the internet. Then a couple of months ago, Disney uploaded this teaser for the film. This was their big moment to win back the fans. Here's just a quick part of it.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
So the whole thing has this kind of uncanny, uncanny valley vibe to it. And pretty much all the comments are negative. It's going through some of them. These are the top comments in order, by the way, I'm not cherry picking. This is just the top comments. Here's what they say. Quote, this is actually hilarious. The first Snow White saved Disney. The second ruined it.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Another says, what's the point of doing a live action remake of an animated movie if you're just going to animate half the characters anyway? Then there's this one quote. It's OK, Disney, you could just cancel the film. We won't be mad if you admit defeat. There are a few people who point out that the trailer has more than a million dislikes on YouTube and fewer than 100,000 likes.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
It's information that YouTube hides, but it's still accessible apparently. Comments go downhill from there. One reads, wow, Disney, you truly are incredible. It took you three years, multiple rewrites, unnecessary CGI, $209 million just for me to enjoy a comment section of a movie I will never watch. Bless you. And someone writes, I'm rooting for the poison apple. So you get the idea.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Everything about this film is an unmitigated disaster. Even their teaser trailers are bombing. After all this, if there are any adults left at Disney, you'd think they'd be in damage control mode at this point. Maybe they can't control how bad this film is going to be. Maybe they can't improve the CGI on the dwarves anymore. Way too late for script rewrites.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Well, Madonna recently embarked on her new global tour called Celebration. And indeed, the tour is an opportunity to celebrate her musical career, which effectively died 25 years ago and yet has lingered on in zombified form, horrifying and confusing spectators all the while. As far as I can tell, she has not had a number one single since the tail end of the Clinton administration.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Costs a lot of money, and they're probably well over budget at this point. But at a minimum, you'd think that they could at least say, tell Rachel Zegler to stop talking like a deranged left-wing activist just for a little bit, just until the movie comes out.
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That might mitigate some of the potential future damage for this film, which is somehow already getting even worse press than Joker 2 and not even out yet. But apparently telling Rachel Zegler to behave normally just isn't an option either. So the other day, in response to the presidential election, Zegler had a very public meltdown on her Instagram stories. She wrote, quote, F you, Donald Trump.
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And she proceeded to insult the 75 million Americans who voted for him, quote, I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Yeah, you always got to love starting with F-U and then ending with, you know, complaining about all the hatred in the world.
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Of course, if Zegler doesn't want to live in America anymore, she's free to leave. She certainly has the resources to do that. But she seems to suggest that Donald Trump will make the entire world uninhabitable, which is kind of a new one. Actually, it's not entirely new. It reminds me of 2016 when Cher declared that she would have to leave the planet if Donald Trump won.
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And she never left, strangely enough, although she kind of looks like she did. And ironically, if she wants to leave the planet now, Elon Musk is probably her best bet, which raises its own complications, I guess. So these celebrities are really running out of options. But Zegler wasn't done there.
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Her post added that Trump is, quote, leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in, leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn't want, leaning us towards a world that is fearful. She stated that, quote, the left continues to fail us in forging a new path forwards.
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This loss should not have been, and it certainly should not have been by so many votes. May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace. Now, what's amusing about this, of course, is that it's pretty clear that Zegler is the one who doesn't know peace.
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She's obviously an emotionally unstable basket case who has no idea how to process the fact that none of her paranoia is based in reality. And the vast majority of Americans don't agree with her political views. So instead of coming to terms with her own faults and misconceptions, she says that she wants Trump supporters to suffer emotionally just as she does every single day.
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Misery loves company, as they say. In further examples of projection, Zegler went on to state that Trump voters are part of a, quote, deep, deep sickness in this country. She added, quote, there's no help, no counsel in any of them, whatever that means exactly. Then she told all of her fans to delete their ex-accounts, charging that Elon Musk helped get that man elected.
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This is a bit of an aside, but this is a common trend now on the left. They're suddenly abandoning X now that Trump has won. The Guardian just announced that it's going to stop posting its articles on X. For one example, ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon, along with a random NYU professor named Jay Rosen, did the same thing. I just saw this morning, Joy Reid has also deleted her X account. What a tragedy.
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This is a platform that until election day, these people claimed was a cesspool of fringe ideas and radical beliefs. But they remained on it anyway. Now that the election has proven that X is actually representative of mainstream thought in America, suddenly they can't tolerate it anymore. They have to abandon the platform. Doesn't really make any sense.
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You can only conclude that the left is simply incapable of realizing that they're the ones who are far outside the mainstream. When they're confronted with that evidence, they can't process it. So they have to scamper away. They're just totally humiliated. In any event, Rachel Zegler is not capable of experiencing humiliation, so she has no problem telling her supporters to abandon X entirely.
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She hasn't been even vaguely relevant on the music scene at any point this century. The last time she made headlines was when she kissed Britney Spears at the VMAs in 2003. Way back then, she had already entered into her desperate attention whore phase, grasping for relevance in whatever way she could. And 20 years later, Britney Spears is now dancing half naked on Instagram with butcher knives.
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She also has no problem going on an unhinged rant against more than half the country, including a lot of people that presumably Disney would like to sell tickets to. Many of those Republican voters are in the target audience for the Snow White remake. They're the people who like these kinds of traditional stories. They're the people who are having kids.
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These are the kinds of people Disney needs to show up if the movie is going to be remotely profitable. And now the star of the film is telling them all to go to hell. Now, one of the many ironies here is that about a year ago, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company would stop getting involved in these political fights. He said that they wouldn't push any kind of agenda.
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He said they'd quiet the noise and proceed with decency and respect for their audience. Well, I guess so much for that. Now according to the star of Disney's upcoming marquee film, 75 million Americans are horrible people who should suffer for all eternity.
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The other remarkable aspect to this is that Disney, as you may recall, fired Gina Carano for her allegedly controversial social media post just a couple of years ago. And Gina Carano never did anything remotely like what Rachel Zegler has done. Gina mocked the idea of wearing masks and preferred pronouns, which makes sense because wearing masks and preferred pronouns are both really dumb ideas.
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And she pointed out that totalitarian governments make citizens hate one another, which is true. History proves that's true. And for all this, Disney fired her. And her talent agency dropped her on top of it. Gina Carano did not personally attack tens of millions of people. She didn't berate her own fan base. She didn't say that half of the people who watch Star Wars are bad people.
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She didn't say that. Instead, she articulated views that the vast majority of Americans agree with. So why is she still involved in litigation with Disney to get her job back while Rachel Zegler is the face of the company's upcoming blockbuster film? Now, we all know the answer to that question. Disney, despite what its CEO says, is an explicitly political operation.
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But more than that, they're vengeful. Even though it's clearly not helping them financially, they can't hide their disdain for tens of millions of Americans. That's very bad news for Disney shareholders and everyone else hoping that this company might one day return to what it once did, which is to create entertaining family films that normal people want to watch.
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It's virtually guaranteed the Snow White remake is going to continue crashing and burning over the next few months like a slow-moving train wreck. And especially now, after this was the nail in the coffin, now that you've insulted Disney, More than half of the people you would need to come watch this movie.
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And that is why, once again, Disney, their new Snow White film, and Rachel Zegler herself are all today. Cancelled. If you're a homeowner like me, when's the last time you checked on the title to your home? That's a legal document that shows that you own it. If the answer is never, you need to know that a fast-growing crime, according to the FBI, is called house stealing.
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I was recently shown how easy this scam is to pull off, and let me tell you, it's pretty shocking. This one-page document is called a quit-claim deed. Criminals are forging these documents by filling them out with your information, signing it with a fake signature, and stamping it with a notary seal that you can get online for 20 bucks, and then filing them with county officials, and that's it.
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And Madonna looks like a geriatric Marilyn Manson still trying to be a sex symbol, even though she's been AARP eligible for a half, you know, a decade and a half. And anyway, now she's on tour. Now there's nothing wrong with a 65-year-old singer going on tour. Aretha Franklin was still performing at the age of 75 before she died. But a 65-year-old woman should perform like a 65-year-old woman.
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It's all it takes for your home to be transferred out of your name without your knowledge. But here's the thing. The scammers don't want your house. They're after your equity. They take out loans using your home as collateral, and then they disappear, leaving you with a financial and legal nightmare.
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But you can protect yourself from this despicable crime right now with triple lock protection from Home Title Lock. Just like how my producer, Sean Hampton, protects his home. First step is to check on your home's title. Make sure you're not already a victim.
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You can get a free title history report and a 30-day free trial of triple lock protection today by going to hometitlelock.com using promo code Walsh or click on the link in the description. That's hometitlelock.com, promo code Walsh. Don't wait until it's too late. Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and devastating.
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From Maui fires to Hurricane Helene, we're seeing entire towns wiped out in 24 hours with barely any warning. And what happens? People are left without basic resources, scrambling to survive. Now, I know you're thinking it won't happen here. Well, that's exactly what everyone thinks until they're in the middle of a catastrophe. Being prepared isn't just smart, it's essential.
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And that's where the Wellness Company's Emergency Kit comes in. These aren't your run-of-the-mill first aid kits. We're talking about a personalized mini-pharmacy right in your own home. No more relying on overworked doctors or understocked pharmacies with disaster strikes, bacterial infections, staph, bite wounds, UTIs, strep throat, respiratory illnesses. These kits have you covered.
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It even comes with a medical board approved guidebook. It's that simple. And right now, when you go to UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh and use promo code Walsh, you'll save $60 plus, get free shipping. That's UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh to save 60 bucks. This is preparedness simplified. Invest in your family's self-managed insurance plan today. UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh. USA residents only.
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Our number two cancellation throws a bit of a curveball. The Washington Post reviewed my film, Am I Racist? And their take on my film was actually truly shocking. Watch. Well, we know that the mainstream media is corrupt, dishonest, and both intellectually and morally bankrupt.
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That is the fundamental reason why, as we've been tracking on the show for the past few weeks, mainstream film critics have refused to review my new film, Am I Racist? But credit where credit is due, a few journalists, even if they aren't film critics, from a few major publications, have had the gumption to acknowledge the movie's existence. And yesterday, most unexpectedly,
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The Washington Post was added to that list. The film critic at the Post, whoever it is, still has not reviewed the film and probably never will. But the journalist Megan McArdle did bravely venture to theaters to watch the movie and wrote about it. Wrote about it mostly positively, it turns out, after the fact. And here's the headline. You might not enjoy Am I Racist? You should watch it anyway.
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Which I could not agree more. Whether you like it or don't, still watch it. That's my message. Now, even before reading her piece, I'm impressed simply that she's willing to do the thing that people who are paid to watch and write about movies have been too afraid to do. But the readers of the Washington Post are not so impressed.
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In fact, their reaction demonstrates why most mainstream outlets have been too afraid to venture down this road. And we'll take a look at their reaction in just a moment. But first, let's read a little bit of McArdle's take on the film. She begins, as I drove to the AMC Theater in Danvers, Massachusetts, my phone kept peppering me with the same plaintive question. Am I racist?
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It was startling the first time it happened. And for a second, I wanted to reassure my phone that no, consumer electronic device can't be racist. The phone wasn't really asking. Rather, it was reminding me that I had tickets for the latest movie by Matt Walsh, a conservative podcaster and provocateur who was probably most famous for his film, What is a Woman?
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That movie apparently did well enough to justify releasing the new one onto about 1,500 screens this month. It was number four at the box office, albeit a distant fourth in a very slow week, which is why I was going to see it. While you might not like this suggestion, you should do the same. Just, you know... FYI, actually, it wasn't a very slow week.
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Classy, refined, mature, dignified, dazzling with a beautiful vocal performance rather than relying on sex appeal.
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Our film came out only a week after Beetlejuice said box office records for the month. And we weren't a distant fourth. We were like 700K behind the third place film, which isn't really distant. And that was Deadpool and Wolverine. But who's counting? I mean, I'm counting obsessively every day, but let's not get hung up on those details. Continuing. I'm not promising you'll enjoy the movie.
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If you're on the liberal to progressive side, you'll think it's simplistic and unfair, which, yes, obviously. But it's also effective, and people on that end of the spectrum should watch it to understand why it works and why the left keeps providing Walsh such a rich trove of targets.
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If you don't like the people he's lampooning, it's easy to convince yourself that he's revealing something deep and important, just as I've heard progressives argue that Borat movies were laying bare the hateful underbelly of America. But what Walsh is actually revealing is two not very surprising realities of human nature.
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First, that every group has an awful fringe, and it's easy to make that group look bad if only the fringe's worst moments survive the cutting room floor. Second, that the human instinct for avoiding confrontation is exploitable if you're sufficiently willing to violate the social contract.
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Both points have already been amply demonstrated by a long history of cults and dictatorships, not to mention middle school. Yet to give Walsh his due, it's still jaw-dropping when participants in the ersatz diversity workshop sit silently or even participate as he berates a sick-looking elderly man in a wheelchair for being a racist.
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Walsh eventually stops the workshop when it seems as though they're actually considering flagellating themselves with the whips that he's passed out. So this is not exactly a rave review. She credits the film for being effective, but also calls it simplistic and unfair. She also attempts to absolve the left of any blame for what we document in the movie.
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The problem, though, is that Madonna can't sing, and she can't write good music, and she wouldn't know classiness and refinement if it fell out of the sky and landed on her head, which means that the people who buy tickets for the celebration tour, and for the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would, are in for an incredibly cringey display.
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And she does that by writing off, you know, Robin DiAngelo and company as the fringe. Now. As one of the guys who made the film, I, of course, disagree with these assessments. The core message of the film may be in many ways simple, but that's not the same as being simplistic. And the Robin DiAngelos of the world are certainly not in any way the fringe of the left.
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Robin DiAngelo conveys and promotes left-wing racial ideology, not a fringe version of it, but a mainstream version of it. I mean, this is a woman who, as she confesses in the film, is hired by Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies to do workshops for their employees. And calling that fringe, I think, is rather absurd.
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By analogy, and it's hard to come up with an analogy for the right because nobody on the right has access to those kinds of institutions. But imagine if Sean Hannity ever found himself in an embarrassing situation, and I tried to claim that he's just a, well, he's just a fringe right winger. I mean, say what you want about Sean Hannity, he's definitely not a fringe character on the right.
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And Robin DiAngelo is considerably less fringe than that on the left. After all, the most mainstream thing a conservative can do is host a show on Fox News. On the left, mainstream means that you're doing work for Coca-Cola and Google and Netflix and so on, which is what Robin DiAngelo says that she's done in the film. And that's the kind of mainstream that Robin DiAngelo and her cronies are.
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And it's as mainstream as you can get. Okay, I cannot think of anything more mainstream. Google is like the definition of mainstream. And so if you're getting hired by Google, then you are mainstream. You're the mainstream of the mainstream. On the left anyway. So I think McArdle is incorrect in some of her analysis.
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But still, I give her credit for offering any analysis at all, even a wrong analysis. And it's not entirely wrong. So here's how she wraps everything up. A number of the people attending his workshop walk out as the strangeness escalates. And earlier in the film, he gets kicked out of a workshop that someone else runs.
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But that happens only after he leaves the room, giving participants time to figure out who he is and reach consensus on expelling him. Most people sit through his provocations because, well, it would be rude to leave or point out how bizarre his suggestions are.
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That itself is telling, however, because some of his targets are also exploiting those same conciliatory social instincts, which is what makes the movie's jokes land. When progressive activist Saira Rao monologues about the awfulness of white women to a group of white women at one of her race dinner events, which reportedly cost up to $5,000 to stage,
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The faces of the guests foreshadow those of Walsh's workshop participants, the frozen anxiety of someone witnessing a social offense and unwilling to return it in kind. That's also what you see on the face of celebrity diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo when a bewigged Walsh gives all his cash to a black producer as reparations and invites DiAngelo to do the same.
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And however cringey you think it might be, I assure you that it's even worse than that. So case in point, here's a 12 second viral clip from Madonna's latest stop on her tour, and here's what it looks like. Now if you're wondering what a wreck time at the nursing home will look like in the year 2070, There it is.
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I dropped my head into my hands as DiAngelo went scurrying for her wallet. Though I confess, I also laughed. Because you can't help think of how many times D'Angelo has been paid for advice on how white people ought to interact with people of color. And some of that advice is only slightly less bizarre and patronizing than suggesting we haul out our wallets and tip them $20.
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D'Angelo and Rao and a number of others gained money and fame during the Great Awakening because decent people genuinely concerned about America's racial divides were too polite to point out that they sounded like lunatics.
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Those well-intentioned Americans had their social instincts hacked, the machinery diverted into a continuous loop of unproductive navel-gazing instead of the racial justice they were trying to achieve. That's what left them vulnerable when Matt Walsh showed up to exploit the same bug. Now, that's her main takeaway, and she's right.
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What we attempted to do in the film, successfully I think, is tap into the same exploitation and manipulation methods that these DEI race hustlers use and turn it against them. And if McArdle noticed that, then she understood the basic point of the film, even if I could quibble with some of her analysis, but the basic thrust of it, she understood and is articulating, I think, very well.
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Her readers, though, are doing quite a bit more than quibbling with her analysis. In fact, they are offended that she's offering any kind of analysis at all. So I perused the comment section on the Washington Post website, and I'll give you a brief sampling, enough to kind of get the basic gist.
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And as I read these, I'm going to ask our editors to put some sad piano music in the background in order to really capture the vibe of these distraught commenters who have been betrayed by this, effectively, this movie review from a journalist. Here's what they have to say, just reading a few. Yeah, I'm going to give my money to someone who fights everything I support.
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If he was being sincere in doing the work, that would be one thing. But to pay to see a mockumentary about racism from an alt-right Trumper? To put money in that guy's pocket? To go to see this to, as they say, own the libs as a liberal? Well, that's an easy pass. Another says, my God, the depth of your stupidity and that of Walsh is deeply, truly staggering. Or is it just pure bigotry?
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Or is it just running a con on suckers for money? We know why moronic movies like this work. It's because they have a huge propaganda apparatus constantly lying to these people. And that includes grifters like you. It's because they were raised by people unconcerned with truth or facts or history or empathy with others. And many were told this was just God's will.
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We should give a person money who has openly supported theocracy and fascism so we can understand? Should I donate money to Nazis so I can understand? The next one says, Trying to justify and normalize racism has been the goal of the right for years. Now they have a WAPO opinion writer going to lengths to explain racism is okay because the fringe left has some crazy people? Nice try.
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Another says, so he's not sincere, therefore is a racist and thinks this is all something to laugh about. Why would you support and promote this project, Ms. McArdle? Unless you yourself are happily and openly racist too. Y'all are effing weird. Another says, I didn't know anything about Matt Walsh, the person that created the movie recommended here by Megan McArdle.
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I would have more respect for McArdle in the Post if I had never read this column, if I had never known anything about Matt Walsh. And another says, Walsh's last movie was utterly repugnant. If you paid to watch another movie by him for anything other than science or journalism, you just might have a problem. And one more, this grifter movie has nothing to do with racism.
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It's about owning the libs and getting famous and rich off the MAGA goobers who will confirm their biases. So pretty much like all the rest of the current Republican cult from the orange leader down. Now I have to say, I really take exception to that last comment. He says the movie isn't about racism, it's actually about getting rich and famous.
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But why can't it be about racism and getting rich and famous? I mean, two things can be true at once, right? We could kill multiple birds with one stone here. And as for the rest of these comments, the most important thing to keep in mind is that these are people who have not seen the movie. They object to anyone seeing it at all. They didn't even pay attention to McArdle's analysis.
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It didn't matter what her analysis was. In their minds, she betrayed them simply by watching it. I mean, this is the cult mentality that you find on the left. And although the right has plenty of issues of its own, you don't find anything quite like this on our side. Conservatives would not get angry at a right-wing commenter for watching a Michael Moore movie and offering a perspective on it.
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In fact, You know, if there's a new Michael Moore movie out, which hasn't been in a long time, and people are talking about it and the left is celebrating it, I think if you're a right-wing commentator, you're actually kind of expected to watch it so that you can give your take on it. Because your audience wants to know. They want to know, like, what do you think about this thing?
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And indeed, pretty much every movie Hollywood churns out, documentaries and narrative features, are made by raging leftists. As a conservative commentator myself, I don't have to worry that my audience will dogpile me if I watch a movie and give my thoughts on it. You find this attitude on the left for two basic reasons. The first is that their worldview is a brittle, fragile thing.
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It cannot withstand any serious or even not so serious challenge, which means they have to steadfastly avoid anything that might challenge it. C.S. Lewis once wrote that a young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. And the same could be said about a young man or a woman or an old man or woman who wishes to remain a sound leftist.
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And for those who are blessed to only be listening to the audio podcast and were therefore spared the visuals, I will just tell you that Madonna appears to be wrapped in aluminum foil while she clings onto a support rail and gyrates clumsily to techno music. And, you know, it's kind of like if you brought your elderly aunt to a rave and she got way more into it than you expected.
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But the other thing that comes out in these comments, and also in the backlash that YouTube reviewer Jeremy Johns experienced when he dared to notice that my movie exists, is that many on the left have come to believe that they own the art form of film itself.
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If you're on the right, you've long since grown accustomed to the fact that, as we just established, virtually every movie you've ever seen was made by people who disagree with you and probably hate you. Leftists have had the exact opposite experience, and this has given them a sense of kind of artistic entitlement. They believe that art belongs to them.
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Conservatives who make art are treated as intruders, as burglars, kind of sneaking through the window in the middle of the night. The only appropriate response is to kind of shoo them away. They don't belong here. Art is not for them. That's the attitude. And it's a delusion that I'm quite happy to break, I have to say.
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I will say, though, that I did find one comment on the Washington Post website from somebody who says they actually watched the film. And here's what the comment says. Quote, I went out of my way to see it last week. What a horrible excuse for a movie. Like watching MLK on steroids. Now, I promise you, I did not make that comment up.
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This is someone insulting me by, I guess, calling me MLK on steroids. I don't know if he means that... I'm like MLK, but extremely muscular. Or if he means that in a more kind of philosophical sense, that I'm like a civil rights pioneer turned up to the nth degree. Maybe he means it in both ways. I'm a muscular, turbocharged civil rights icon. I can only assume that's what he's trying to say.
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And all I can say to that is guilty as charged. Perhaps if we do a sequel in the next film, I'll pass around a petition to change the Martin Luther King Jr. monument to the Matt Walsh monument. It's an idea worth considering at least. So that comment was obviously correct and deeply, deeply rational, I think. But the other ones, not as much.
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And that is why the Washington Post readers who are having a heart attack because somebody watched my movie are all today canceled. There have been a lot of meltdowns over the movie. Many of the meltdowns have come from corporate media, and the rest have come from the audience of some corporate media outlets who melted down because those outlets didn't melt down. So it's all very confusing.
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But of course, when it comes to left-wing meltdowns, nothing can possibly hold a candle to the reaction early last month to Donald Trump's glorious and overwhelming victory. So our number one cancellation of 2024 takes us on a tour of just some of them. What I'd like to do is close out the show by sifting through some of the more hysterical reactions from the left.
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After many months of work, we finally released our follow-up to What Is A Woman, which went on to become the top film in its genre this decade and had a bigger debut on The Daily Wire platform than even What Is A Woman had. So there's been a lot to celebrate. Most importantly, it was a year for canceling.
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We played a bit of MSNBC at the top of the show, but the meltdowns get even more glorious. And I think it's important to highlight some of these. Because they're hilarious. And I mean, that's really the whole reason. That's the only reason to do it. And I just feel like it's, but it feels like my duty on a day such as today.
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But before we begin, I do want to make it very clear that I am not a cruel person. I am very empathetic. Now, yes, I'm going to be delighting in the pain and suffering of my political opponents. Yes, I do take great pleasure in their misery, but I also care about them. And that's why I made sure that we continued to play the trailer for my film, Am I Racist, on MSNBC's Airwaves this morning.
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It was a very difficult time for MSNBC's viewers, and I realized that, and so I figured that I'd cheer them up by showing them my trailer. Watch.
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Growing up in the 90s, I never thought much about race.
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I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover. They all say I'm crazy. I mainly just wanted you to see the trailer with the MSNBC banner around it, which is just fantastic. Now, listen, I don't expect anyone to thank me or praise me for my abundant mercy and compassion, but they should.
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It's an embarrassing sight to behold, but also oddly fascinating in the same grotesque way that you might gawk at roadkill while you drive by trying to figure out, like, is that a raccoon or a fox? What is that? And by the way, this is a good time to tell you that. And I did check for myself. Madonna's next stop is in Boston in three days. And you might think, well, it's in three days.
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We are running that ad on MSNBC, even though we know that not a single one of their viewers will actually subscribe to watch the film. Not a single one. And I am willing to take a financial loss, or at least I'm willing for The Daily Wire to take a financial loss. I'm not paying a dime.
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But I am willing for this company to lose money just to get that trailer in front of their faces this morning when they're already devastated and hurting. And I'll lose as much of this company's money as is necessary to annoy as many of MSNBC's viewers as we can. That's my solemn promise to you. And it's an act of charity, really.
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Anyway, now that I've proven that I'm a compassionate and kind person, let's get on with delighting in the misfortune of others. We'll begin with this brief compilation of women on TikTok crying. Now, Donald Trump, we know, is now 2-0 against female presidential candidates, which is just, oh man. He has prevented a woman from becoming president twice.
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And that fact is just too much for the women of TikTok. They cannot cope with it. And they're very upset. And don't laugh at any of this. This is not about laughing. This is just... Anyway, here it is.
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It's not funny. Don't laugh about that. These people are hurting. They're hurting. Don't you dare laugh. I do want to especially highlight. So those are good. But I want to especially highlight this particular TikTok meltdown. Here it is.
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There's no way I can go. All the seats are going to be, all the tickets are sold out. No, there are plenty of seats still available. In fact, you can buy a ticket for 60 bucks. You can buy a ticket for $60 to Madonna's tour in three days. You know, people were like literally killing each other over Taylor Swift tickets or buying them for $95,000. But Madonna, you can go see for 60 bucks.
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She says she's going to bed with the last of the dignity she has left. And, um, I just want to say this. You didn't have any dignity left anyway. So that's the good news. You can't lose any of your dignity if you don't have it. So cheer up. Look on the bright side. Speaking of having no dignity, there's also this one.
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Well, we can only hope, we can only hope that he tears up. That's literally what we elected him to do. It's in the exit polling data. That's when the pollsters stopped people coming out of the poll. What was most important to you? And I think the last exit poll I saw was 87% of voters said, most important thing is we get someone who's going to tear shit up. So that's the whole point.
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But if that reaction wasn't unhinged enough, then there's also this one.
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So she's worried she's going to wake up a slave tomorrow. Makes sense. As everyone knows, Trump ran on reinstating slavery. It was one of his core campaign promises. At least if you have the mental computing software of a leftist, that's apparently what you hear when Trump says that he's going to lower taxes and create more manufacturing jobs in America.
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Meanwhile, the actress Christina Applegate is having a tough time. Her entire Twitter page right now is full of unhinged ramblings and worth reading, worth reading. But there's also this one I like. She says, why? Give me your reasons why. My child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taken away. Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me.
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Now, my favorite thing about this tweet is that she begins by asking Trump voters to explain why they voted for him. But she ends by telling them to shut up and go away. Explain why you did this. Shut up, leave. Which is it? You can't really do both. And in between, she tells us that her child is traumatized because her rights are going to be taken away. And her child may well be traumatized.
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Shockingly, people are not tripping over themselves to go watch Grandma in Zumba class for two hours. But needless to say, if you find this spectacle ridiculous, then... The problem isn't with the aging pop star throwing her hip out while she tries to twerk on stage. The problem is with you. You are ageist, according to the media.
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I mean, but and I'm sorry if she is. But Christina Applegate is the one who traumatized her. I'd be traumatized too as a child if my mom was hysterically screaming that the world's coming to an end and all of our rights will disappear. Now, so far we've only reveled in the manic rage and despair of female Kamala supporters, but plenty of men are melting down too. We'll get to those in a minute.
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First, here's one more from a woman.
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America failed women, he says. Failed them. Of course, a whole lot of women also voted for Trump, but they failed themselves. You know what? You failed yourselves, women. Americans failed women by showing that they also recognize the humanity of babies. And in this person's world, it's one or the other.
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You know, America had to choose, babies or women, and Harry is deeply disappointed that we chose babies. Even though, to people who are not morally insane, that choice doesn't exist, because we can care about both women and babies at the same time. And we did. That's why we voted for Trump. Mike Wise is a sports commentator, apparently, and he agrees with Harry. He tweeted, quote,
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It's not just that Trump won. It's that Joe Rogan, Dana White, Brett Favre won. Jailed insurrectionists won. The Alitos and the Thomases won. Vladimir Putin won. Racism won. Misogyny won. Sexism won. Global warming won. Xenophobia won. Most of all, fear won. That's what hurts. Now, there are about a million other tweets that we could read all with this same tone and message.
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Who are the real villains in this story? Who is to blame for the loss? The American people. The people are the villains. They chose racism and misogyny and global warming. How quickly the left went from being valiant defenders of the democratic system to scapegoating it when things don't go their way, which is the most predictable twist ending in the history of twist endings.
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I think we've probably seen enough, but I do have to play just one more. Just one more, one more. I know that many of you You know, you look back to 2016 and you remember fondly that iconic moment of the Hillary voter falling to her knees and screaming into the sky. And you may be worried that we haven't seen anything that quite matches that yet. But don't worry, because I think this comes close.
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The Independent reports today, quote, Madonna is being defended from ageist trolls after a video showing the singer performing while holding a beam for support surfaced online. Earlier this week, a clip from the Like a Prayer Singer Celebration Tour was shared on TikTok showing the star, 65, dancing energetically while holding a pole positioned behind her. Now, let's pause there for a moment.
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Just wonderful. Look, listen. Yes, it lacks the spontaneity and authenticity of the 2016 version. This woman had to set up her camera and scream hysterically, stop recording. So she had to decide, okay, I'm going to scream hysterically now. Take out her phone, set it up, scream, stop recording, edit it down. Post it. She had to do all that.
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She probably watched that video back 10 or 15 times before she posted it. She probably did multiple takes. If you were to check her camera roll right now, I guarantee there are like 30 of those videos where she's going for just the right, you know, she had to repeat that 30 times. And you might say that that makes the mental breakdown less enjoyable for the rest of us. But I tend to disagree.
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You know, I for one appreciate the effort that she's putting into it. It's the thought that counts. Now, let me just say one more thing before we close out. And we've had our fun with these videos. We've sipped from the chalice of leftist suffering. We've satiated our thirst with the sweet nectar of liberal tears.
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But I do want to get serious for just one moment and offer a word of encouragement to these people. It may seem funny to us, but they are truly worried that Donald Trump will be an evil dictator. And I think it'd be irresponsible and frankly, pretty cruel of me if I didn't take a second to reassure them on that point.
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So, you know, in all seriousness, all jokes aside, no, Donald Trump is not going to be an evil dictator. He's going to be a good dictator. So don't worry. Yes, Trump is going to be dictator for life. When he dies, his throne will be passed down to Barron Trump and the Trump dynasty shall reign for a thousand years. But it's all for your own good. Is Trump going to take away all of your rights?
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Absolutely not. Not all of them. You'll still have the right to agree with Trump and praise him always. Is Trump going to take away voting rights from women? Again, no. Women will have the right to vote for whoever their husbands tell them to vote for, which will always be Trump.
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Will Trump intentionally spray more CO2 into the air to cause more global warming, melt the ice caps intentionally, raise global temperatures to tropical levels? Yes, obviously. It's only the coastal states that voted against him in this election. And so now they must be drowned to pay for their sins. The rest of us get to enjoy warm summer weather all year round. So it's basically a win-win.
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So in that way, all of your fears are valid. And this was all laid out in Project 2025, like you said. It was all there. It's like on page one. But it won't be as bad as you think. Trust me, in a few months, you won't be complaining anymore. Because you won't be allowed to. And I hope that makes you feel better. So there it is. Those are the top four cancellations of 2024.
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The good news is that 2025 is a whole new year, an opportunity to cancel many more people and places and things. I'll come out swinging after the new year, ready to cancel with abandon, as I always do. That is my solemn pledge to you. Until then, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you in 2025.
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And I can tell you it's never a good sign when the best thing someone can say about your dance moves is that they were energetic. Like if you perform a dance routine and you go up to someone and you say, hey, what'd you think? And they respond, yeah, wow, it was energetic. I mean, that means you sucked, okay?
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Anyway, The Independent continues, many trolls then proceeded to incorrectly conflate Madonna's decision to hold the rail for support with her age and sent her messages of vitriol online. However, it has since been revealed that during this particular segment of the show, Madonna is dancing while standing on a moving platform, meaning she is holding the pole for her safety.
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Oh, well, that changes everything. The 65-year-old woman needed to hold the pole while she danced for her safety. Well, that solves that, I guess. People Magazine reports that other aging musicians are coming to Madonna's defense. Quote, Chuck D is coming to Madonna's defense. On Thursday, the public enemy frontman 63 posted to X to defend the frozen singer 65.
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By the way, frozen singer is like, I guess that's a song. That's what they mean. They don't mean that she's like literally frozen, like cryogenically frozen. Although she does sort of look like she has been frozen. Anyway, defend against trolls making ageist comments about her performance during her career-spanning celebration tour.
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We canceled hundreds of people and things and even animals, I think, on this show during the calendar year of 2024. And so today for the final show of the year, we're going to take a look back at the top four cancellations of the year 2024. And just as a note, my team initially wanted to do a top three, but I said, no, it should be four cancellations. Because four in 2024 sounds better.
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He said, quote, at 63, I know I can bike better than I ever did, and Pilates ain't easy, but I give it to Madonna for pushing the bars, Dee said of the legendary pop star. Flav is taking Pilates too, and he's 64, so ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it. Wait, go up again. Ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it.
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I think Chuck D had a stroke when he wrote that last sentence. I don't know what that means. But you see, the point is, it is ageism to notice how ridiculous an older woman looks when she tries to pretend that she's still 22. And Madonna herself has made this point many times.
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A few months ago, she appeared at the Grammys, and her face, if you remember, was so weird and puffy from plastic surgery that she looked like she'd been attacked by a swarm of bees shortly before appearing on stage. And again, people noticed how weird she looked, and she responded by calling them ageist.
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The Guardian reported at the time, quote, the 64-year-old singer denounced the entertainment industry for its biases against women who have continued to work long into their careers. Quote, once again, I am caught in the glare of ageism and misogyny that permeates the world we live in.
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A world that refuses to celebrate women past the age of 45 and feels the need to punish her if she continues to be strong-willed, hardworking, and adventurous. She said that she has, quote, never apologized for any of the creative choices I have made, nor the way that I look or dress, and I'm not going to start.
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I've been degraded by the media since the beginning of my career, but I understand that this is all a test, and I am happy to do the trailblazing so that all the women behind me can have an easier time in the years to come. Yes, thank you for trailblazing Madonna.
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You have blazed a trail that other women can follow so that they too can become addicted to Botox and end up looking like the creepy puppet from Saw. How brave of you. Now as for the ageism claims, Let me just say one thing. We are not an ageist society. We are the opposite. We are an age-denying society.
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And that's how you end up with 65-year-old pop stars and 80-year-old presidents and a Congress filled with people who took office sometime around the War of 1812. It's also why plastic surgery is a booming industry, especially among Gen Z. In Gen Z, they are actually young, but in their desperation to stay young, they get lip filler and Botox and lifts and implants.
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Ironically, they end up looking a lot older. They end up looking like middle-aged Stepford wives. Ageism is not even close to our problem. Our problem is our refusal to age and to accept the reality of aging. Madonna is just, she is too old to be gyrating on stage in a skin-tight aluminum leotard. And we can argue about whether anyone of any age should be behaving that way.
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But there's no question that for her at her age, she looks pathetic and clumsy and ridiculous. And it's not that a 65-year-old woman can't be beautiful. No, a 65-year-old woman can be beautiful, but a beautiful 65-year-old woman is a 65-year-old woman who knows that she is 65 and embraces the fact. Beauty and truth go hand in hand.
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But when you are not honest with yourself and the world about who you are, you end up looking not beautiful, but weird and grotesque. Just like there are plenty of 25 year old women who would be beautiful and were beautiful, but then they defiled themselves with unnecessary plastic surgery and now they too look weird and grotesque. You know, aging is a reality of human existence.
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And we find this reality scary, almost unspeakable really, because it reminds us of death. I mean, we treat it as literally unspeakable. Like it's embarrassing to ask someone their age We say you shouldn't ask someone. Someone's age is an embarrassing fact, and we take that for granted.
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Well, in traditional societies, you go back through history, if you went up to someone and asked them how old they were, they wouldn't be, oh, I'm 25. I've been celebrating my 25th birthday for 30 years now. They wouldn't do that. They'd be proud of their age. If somebody was 75, they would say, I'm 75. They'd be proud of it because it means they've been alive for 75 years.
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This is the kind of artistic insight that keeps the audience coming back for more. So let's get to the list. For number four, we go back to the very beginning of the year, actually January 8th, 2024, with the cancellation of Madonna, who attracted my ire and prompted a 13-minute rant because she danced funny at a concert. Here it is.
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But here we treat it as actually embarrassing to have lived a long life. It's ridiculous. And the reason is that we are in a constant state of denial about death. You know, we say things like age is just a number, but that's only true in the same sense that height is just a number or the temperature outside is just a number.
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No, we come up with numbers to symbolize these realities, but they are still realities. We could stop keeping track of age altogether. We could assign it no number at all. And that wouldn't change the fact that we all get older one second at a time. And eventually our bodies start to break down and our minds start to break down and then we die. That is the lot that we have been given.
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Happiness and harmony and beauty can be found in accepting it and acting accordingly. So the most beautiful thing that Madonna could do right now is retire and go home and put on some slippers and sit on her porch and read books to her grandchildren. Let the wrinkles form on her face. Let the hair go gray. Let herself be who she is. And she is not a 22-year-old pop star. She was that once.
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She will never be that again. Time to accept it. And until she does, she is, again, canceled. Are you feeling the stress about giving your family a memorable holiday? You're not alone. Prices remain higher than ever, and a lot of us are maxing out our credit cards. Now's the perfect time to take control of your finances and pay off that debt.
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Now, you might be thinking, Matt, aren't all mattresses basically the same? Wrong. That's liberal thinking right there. Helix understands that we're all different.
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Unlike the left's one-size-fits-all policies, they offer 20 unique mattresses, including their Luxe and Elite Collections for you hardworking Americans who deserve some luxury, the Helix Plus for you big and tall fellas, and even a Helix Kids mattress. What really sold me was how they customize each mattress. My old one was... just a mattress. This one, though, feels like it was made just for me.
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Helix has a sleep quiz that'll match you with your perfect mattress in under two minutes so you can get better sleep and a better start to each day. Here's another reason to love Helix. Their mattresses have so many helpful features to ensure you get a good night's rest The layers in this thing are just incredible.
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There's this pressure relieving memory foam that makes you feel like you're sleeping on a cloud. They also use this special technology that keeps me cool all night. I used to wake up sweating, just a sweaty, disgusting mess, but not anymore. Truly, just so many things to love about Helix.
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So if you're ready to revolutionize your sleep and wake up refreshed to fight the good fight, Helix is offering my listeners 20% off all mattress orders, plus two free pillows with any mattress purchase. Just go to helixsleep.com slash Walsh. That's H-E-L-I-X-S-L-E-E-P.com slash Walsh. With Helix, better sleep starts now.
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Now, I always like to take any opportunity that I can to remind the audience that they're all going to die, as I do at the end there. And I think approximately 35% of my cancellations end on that note or something similar, which I think is very important. Moving on to number three, we go from an old bitter harpy to a young bitter harpy.
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This is my cancellation, one of, I think, several this year of the new Snow White, Rachel Zegler. Every time we check in on Disney's upcoming Snow White remake, somehow things get even worse than they were before. This is a production that went off the rails a long time ago, which is quite an achievement if you think about it.
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So this is a story that underscores once again the need to abolish all of these so-called gender-affirming surgeries, regardless of the victim's age. Whether you're over the age of 18 or not, it is still unspeakably evil to remove the healthy body parts of people who are confused about their identity.
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The gender transition industry does not suddenly become ethical just because the patient happens to be 18 years old. Regardless of the person's age, they're still being manipulated and led into doing things which have consequences that they do not fully comprehend. And the result, as you saw, is horrifying beyond all imagining.
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The truth is that nobody, regardless of disability or mental capacity or lack thereof, should be subjected to medical experimentation and disfigurement. So once we outlaw the mutilation of children, the next step is to ban it for everyone. Protecting kids, as I've always said, is only step one. Step two is to take down the whole industry entirely, every piece of it, and leave nothing standing.
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A full ban across the board, regardless of age, regardless of circumstance, is the only way. It is the only way to end this wickedness once and for all. Now let's get to our five headlines. Let's start with this, because why not? It's Friday. Kathy Hochul gave her state of the state address for New York a couple of days ago. And I could give that address very quickly.
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The state of the state is that it's bad. Things are bad. You've got psychotic hobos running wild on the subway. You got crime, violence, drugs, vigilantes gunning people down in the street. I mean, it's literally Gotham City. So it's bad. But Kathy wanted to distract from that. She wanted to make up for how horrible things are. And she did that by, and I did look this up. This is real.
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This actually happened. This is not a joke. She did that by opening the State of the State Address with a dance performance. Now, not by her, okay? It wasn't quite that bad. She didn't start dancing, but she brought in an allegedly professional dance troupe to perform for the assembled crowd who thought that they were coming just to a standard political speech. And instead, they got this. Watch.
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They dance for a living, and yet somehow they can't dance. I mean, this is a real problem, I have to say. In my opinion, there are just far too many people dancing these days, and so few of them know how to dance. I mean, there's so much dancing going on, and I just think we need to get a hold on this. We've got to do something about it.
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I'm not saying that people should be banned from dancing generally. I'm not saying that we should outlaw dancing. I'm not like the bad guy from Footloose who, I mean, I never saw Footloose. I don't really know what it's about, but I assume that it's, what is there? The villain wants to outlaw dancing. And then Kevin Bacon is like, no, I'm going to dance.
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And then he dances and the other guy, I don't know what the, but it's not that. I'm not saying, but I'm saying that we should only allow those who are qualified to dance. There's just so much dancing happening these days on camera so often for people who don't know what they're doing. And I don't think the rest of us should be subjected to it. It's a public health crisis.
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It's a public health crisis is what it is that the rest of us have to watch this. So you should have to get a dancing license. You should have to go to a DMV. Dancing management agency. Something. We'll work on the acronym. But you should go to a DMV-style place to show off your dance moves, and then you get a license. And it expires in five years or something.
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And that performance would be unlawful, unlicensed dancing. And everybody involved would be executed. Or just sent to prison. I'm just kidding. They would just go to prison. Fox News... has this, the FBI has closed its DEI office, Fox News can confirm. In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, effective by December 2024.
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The agency didn't specify why it had closed the office, although many Republicans have been critical of it and its prioritizing of diversity, equity, inclusion, saying that it overshadowed national security. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn sent a letter earlier this month to FBI Director Christopher Wray
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claiming that radical DEI practices had endangered Americans following the New Year's Day terrorist attack in New Orleans. And now with just a few days until Trump officially takes office, they're disbanding the DEI office. Now, and it also says the FBI's Office of Diversity and Inclusion was created in 2012.
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during the Obama administration with its goal to provide guidance and implement programs that promote a diverse and inclusive workplace that allows all employees to succeed in advance. So it's very encouraging to see that these massive changes are happening already and Trump still has not officially taken office. DEI is careening rapidly towards the trash bin of history.
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It's not only being defeated, it's not only being torn down, but it is barely, it is going to be barely even remembered when things are said and done. Because keep in mind, most of these institutions adopted DEI, well, they said with the FBI, it was in 2012, still very recent, but many of these institutions adopted DEI and it kind of was mainstreamed in the last three, four years.
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Most people had never even heard of it before then. And soon, nobody will hear about it anymore.
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And it becomes this weird little blip on the radar, this short and rather bizarre episode of history, which is why the major risk that I can see right now and the thing that we need to look out for as we head into the coming months and years, the potential problem caused by all of these victories, one after another, politically and culturally, it really has been win after win,
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And even in the courts. But the risk is that it will, as we've discussed, potentially cause a sense of complacency. And that's the one thing we need to guard against. Not to rain on the parade or take away from the celebration over the wins. I've said many times it's important to celebrate the wins. That is an actual thing that we should do.
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But once we've done that, you've got to get back in the game. Because here's the thing. What's important to understand is that, I mean, look at all these things that are crashing and burning right now. Wokeism, DEI, gender ideology, the left-wing race hustle. It's all collapsing. We're landing blow after blow. And so it might feel like society is kind of waking up from a stupor.
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And people are looking around and going, man, how did I ever support that? What happened? And some of that is happening. I mean, there are some people who are almost literally waking up. And for those specific people, you don't have to worry about them falling back under these particular spells.
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So the person who was tolerant of or even actively supportive of something like gender ideology a few years ago, but now sees it as the insanity that it is, and there are a lot of people in this category, it's very unlikely that that person, a couple of years from now, will be back to being a trans activist again. Because once you wake up and see this stuff for what it is, you can't unsee it.
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But the point is that the people, the forces that pushed this stuff, the institutions, the powerful people who use these things to manipulate and coerce and gain and retain power, they never believed any of it to begin with. So there's been no revelation for them. They didn't wake up. They knew what they were doing all along. There's been no conversion experience, no revelatory moment for them.
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And those people still exist. They're not going away. They're not going to say, oh man, we really screwed this one up and then just go away. No, they're still plotting. They aren't just going to give up their power and influence. So now they're looking for the next DEI, the next gender ideology, the next COVID, the next George Floyd.
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All of these events and ideas that they use to manipulate so many people in so many horrifying ways, they're looking for the next one. And the important thing to understand about that is that the next one, when I say the next one, That doesn't mean that we're going to see an exact replay of those particular events and ideas. It's like they say, history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
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They would rather use sanitized terms like gender affirming surgery and gender affirming care as opposed to actually showing people what these procedures entail in real life. And in that sense, gender activists have a lot in common with abortion advocates. We'll throw a million euphemisms against the wall, but they definitely don't want you to see what this stuff is in practice.
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And so they're going to look for the thing that rhymes with the thing before, not that is exactly that. So you hear people say, oh, they're looking for their next George Floyd. And certainly they are. But the next George Floyd won't necessarily be just another black guy killed by the cops, where they try to recreate the hysteria that followed.
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And with that hysteria, they were able to exploit to maximum effect. Now, maybe that will be the next George Floyd. They've made some attempts to kind of recapture that magic. But most likely, the next George Floyd is some other kind of singular event taken wildly out of context. and used to inflame the resentments and anger of certain groups against others.
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And it doesn't necessarily have to be another, quote unquote, police brutality event. It's the same thing with COVID. Everyone says, wow, what's the next COVID? And yeah, maybe when we talk about the next COVID, it's going to be some other virus, disease that they come along and say, oh, you got to quarantine for this. But most likely it won't be that, at least not anytime soon.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a horrifying video goes viral of a severely disabled young woman showing off her scars from her quote-unquote gender-affirming top surgery. We have to talk about that. The FBI shuts down its DEI office ahead of Trump's inauguration, and a flight attendant starts a GoFundMe after she gets fired for twerking on an airplane.
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The next COVID could be something else. It could be some other kind of thing that they tell us is a public health crisis. And you have to radically, radically change the way that you go about your everyday life because of this thing. Maybe it's a virus or maybe it's something else. And we've seen this repeat over and over again. That's how they get away with it.
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That's how they get away with repeating and using the same kind of tools and methods to control people is because if you're not aware and if you're easily manipulated, you'll look at it and you'll say, no, this is totally different from that thing before. This isn't the next George Floyd. What do you mean? This is totally different. So we have to We cannot not become complacent, as I said.
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All right. Here's a headline from, what is this, from Washington Post, a headline that is supposed to, I guess, sound sinister. The headline is, anti-abortion advocates look for men to report their partner's abortions.
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The article says, as anti-abortion advocates launch legal efforts to stop abortion pills from reaching women in states with bans, they are increasingly turning to one group with uniquely intimate and specific information to help them find cases. Male sex partners of women who decided to end their pregnancies.
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The strategy propelled a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that cited firsthand information from an unnamed biological father to accuse a New York doctor of illegally providing abortion pills to a woman in the Dallas area.
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The case was inspired by a report Paxton's office received from the man and emerged as part of a broader abortion law enforcement operation the Attorney General has quietly created that includes searching for potential plaintiffs.
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This partner-focused approach will shift to a more public phase next month when Texas' largest anti-abortion organization launches an advertising campaign on Facebook and X to reach the husbands, boyfriends, and sex partners of women who have had abortions in the state, with the goal of recruiting them to file lawsuits against those who assisted the women in ending their pregnancies.
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They don't want you to see an abortion in practice because once any moral, sane person witnesses something as grotesque and abhorrent as an abortion, they'll oppose it immediately. No amount of political indoctrination will convince them otherwise.
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quote, the strategy right now is to tell dads that if you're the father of a child victim of an abortion, you have legal rights. There may be a way to hold these people accountable. That's according to John Siago, the president of Texas Right to Life. And so that's what they're going to be looking to do.
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And this is what, of course, the Washington Post's reporting and left-wing media in general, this is what they're going to try to portray as this deeply sinister thing. because, oh, they're trying to get the husbands and boyfriends and sex partners of women to turn around and narc on their own wives and girlfriends.
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No, what's actually happening here is, well, it's exactly what the president of Right to Life in Texas said. It's actually empowering the men who are fathers of these children And who, historically, thanks to so-called abortion rights, have had their parenting rights totally stripped from them.
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You know, if you live in a state where abortion is legal and you're a father, you have zero rights over your own child. You have zero parenting rights for the first about nine months of that child's existence. because the first nine months of a child's existence occur in the womb.
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And during that time, if you are, as I said, a man in a place where abortion is legal, then you have no parenting rights. You have no parental rights whatsoever. Which means that to the extent that your child can be killed, can be removed from the earth, And you don't even get a vote. And this has obviously been going on for as long as abortion has existed in this country legally.
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And by the same token, trans activists have generally understood that nobody wants to actually see these gender affirming procedures or their immediate aftermath that they talk about so much. They know that support for trans ideology would collapse if more people observed what exactly this butchery entails. Indeed, support for trans ideology has collapsed precisely for that reason.
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Men are, when we talk about the kind of unseen, unheard victims of abortion, I mean, all the victims really are unheard victims. I mean, the first and primary victims obviously are the children who are unheard, who don't have a voice. But there are also the men who are barely even talked about.
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Now, we do hear, even from pro-lifers quite often, about the men who, on the other side, on the flip side of this coin... are actually pressuring their wives and girlfriends to get abortions. So we hear about that, and we hear those men being condemned constantly, and their behavior deserves to be condemned.
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I mean, that's contemptible, evil, those kinds of cases where, in fact, the man wants the abortion to happen even more than the woman does, and the man's pressuring the woman. Now, of course, the difference there is that the man actually has no legal authority to force it, And so the woman still has all the rights in that scenario.
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But yeah, there are plenty of cases where a man uses other means to pressure a woman to get an abortion. It's an awful thing. So we do hear about that. What we hardly ever hear about are the men, and there are thousands of them. I mean, at this point, through the whole history of legal abortion in this country, probably millions of men who...
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who lost their children and did not want that to happen. We're not supportive of it. Did not want it. In fact, even, even, even begged the mother of the child, please don't do this. Don't take my child from me. Who told the mother, I will raise the child and had no voice and no rights and had to just sit by and watch as their child was killed. And it's, and we, we,
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These men are almost never acknowledged and are given no recourse. So this is what's happening now, at least in Texas, will be the tiniest little move in the direction of actually giving men some kind of power or at least some recourse when this happens to them. And... And that is a very good thing. A very good thing amid a just incomprehensibly awful situation. All right.
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We'll lighten things up considerably here. Here's a viral TikTok video that... I've been tagged in this a million times, and this is the only reason I know about it. But it's got millions of views. And in this case, this is a guy who made a video that seems to be really resonating with a lot of people. And here he's calling out the white conservative men who are judgmental of his hobbies.
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As I said, it's been viewed millions of times. Apparently, great insights here in this video. Let's watch it.
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But there are some activists who are so committed, so brainwashed that they can't help themselves. They are the true believers of the religion to the point that they genuinely can't perceive how even the most shocking barbarism will come across to everyone else. So they film it and they advertise it. They revel in the kinds of horrors that will shake any morally decent person to his core.
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Okay, so I should chime in here because I'm often accused of being one of those old white conservative men who judges other men for their hobbies. And let me say, first of all, I'm skeptical that this conversation in the sauna actually happened. It probably didn't happen.
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Basically, any time a content creator recounts some conversation with somebody out in public that becomes the basis of a viral video after the fact, you should always just assume that it's made up. Maybe it isn't, but it probably is. General rule. Second, what are you doing in the sauna? I don't understand saunas. I've been in a sauna one time.
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For 30 seconds, and I sat down and I said, so is this it? It's just really hot? What's the point? I'm just going to sit and be extremely uncomfortable and sweating? I don't get it. Why would anyone do that, choose to do it? It's like it's a torture chamber. It would be a great way to torture someone. So I don't understand that.
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As for me personally, I would not judge a guy for reading a comic book. I certainly wouldn't confront him about it. I don't care nearly enough or at all, frankly. I really don't care. I do judge men who wear nail polish, on the other hand. Pun intended. Comic books are legitimate forms of art. It may surprise you that I have that opinion, but I do. So I have no issue with it. It's not for me.
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But if you enjoy them, cool. Who cares? Nail polish, though, is feminine. It's for women. And as men, it is good and healthy for us to act and dress as men. Why? Because that's what we are. You should act and dress as you are. Nail polish is for women. A man ought not behave like and dress like a woman. Why? Because he's not a woman. I mean, that's it. I don't know how else to explain it.
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Even if you did catch a 10-pound bass, which is impressive, especially for the Midwest. So congrats on that. My PB is 8 pounds, and I live in Tennessee, so we're literally every angler but me has got a 10-pounder. So I bow to you on that point. But wearing... if, although you probably made that up too, wearing nail polish as a dude is girly and embarrassing and you shouldn't.
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And, and you could say, well, it's none of your business. What do you care? I don't know. You volunteered that information about yourself. You didn't have to, you did. Okay. So don't do that either. Well, you're, you're voluntary. No one asked you. Not one single person said, asked for, for information about whether you wear nail polish. You just told everybody.
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And so when you tell us, this is what happens when you tell people things and they have brains, they cannot help but form opinions about it. Because we're humans, we're human beings with our own perspective. And so any information you give us, we are going to have a perspective on it. And if you don't care about our perspective, don't tell us. You told us, you said I wear nail polish.
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And that's why millions of people have just become familiar. with an Instagram account called Disabled Trans Boy. It's everywhere on the internet at the moment, largely due to reporting by Sarah Fields, Andy Ngo, Billboard Chris, and a few others. The account belongs to somebody using the name Micah Leroy with he, him pronouns listed.
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Okay, I'm hearing that with my own brain. And my perspective is that's girly and embarrassing. What kind of man wears nail polish? Don't want our opinion? Don't tell us. You told us. That's my opinion. Okay? But that's not even the point that I want to make. What I want to say is this.
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Whatever your interests and hobbies are, the manliest thing is... I mean, if your interest is wearing nail polish, there's no manly way to go about it. But when we're talking about actual hobbies, whether it's fishing or comic books... The manliest thing is to be confident about them and not need anyone's approval.
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And yet this guy made a whole video angrily defending his hobbies and his nail polish habit. Didn't have to. Nobody asked for it. Nobody cared about it except for the guy in the sauna who probably doesn't exist. And if he does exist, you already had that conversation with him. You didn't need to launch into this story and this angry defense to the whole world.
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The rest of the world didn't know about it. We don't care. So the fact that you did tells me that you actually are not all that confident. You obviously do care what other people think of your hobbies. If you didn't, then the video wouldn't exist.
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And I notice this a lot because anytime I make, you know, I talk about, give my opinion about some piece of media or movie or video game, whatever it is, I get flooded with these extremely angry comments from people desperately, furiously defending the piece of entertainment that they like. I mean, I was getting angry comments for days, days, because I said I didn't like Sonic.
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And that's my opinion. I watched the movie, and this is my opinion, okay? My opinion is that it's horrible. But days of angry comments. Not a joke, as Biden would say. Folks, not a joke. Not a joke. I'm serious. And The funniest thing is that the people, those people all would say, I don't care what you think about the movies and shows I watch. No one cares about your opinion. Well, but you do.
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You clearly do. You obviously care a lot. That's what gets me. You need other people to approve of the thing you like. If you didn't need their approval, you would not be talking about it. You wouldn't be getting angry that people don't like it. Getting angry that someone doesn't like something you like is weird. It's weird, actually. And it shows an extreme lack of confidence on your part.
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I have hobbies that I like. Fishing is one of them. I've never made a single video ever like angrily defending fishing. Why would I? I know there are people who think it's a dumb hobby. I truly don't care. I have no hangups about it. So you're not going to see me going into a whole long rant about it. And if someone else made a video
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where they're saying that phishing is dumb and it's pointless, I'm not going to leave angry comments. How could you say this? What kind of person are you? I was a fan of yours for a long time, but no more, if this is your opinion of phishing. I would never do that because I actually don't care what other people think of the hobbies that I have.
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I think there are a lot of people running around who do care a lot and claim they don't. And I don't know, just something you got to think about. If you really are that upset by other people not approving of or thinking your hobby is a little silly, then that's something you need to think about. And maybe it means your hobby is pretty silly. Or maybe, or I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
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The channel's description reads, I have CP, cerebral palsy, and I'm also a trans man. Now, before I play some videos from this account, I want to make it clear that this is a very troubling story. The details and kind of the full picture are emerging gradually, thanks to the journalists I just mentioned. And then finally, the Daily Mail, which I'll get to in a few moments.
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But that's a you thing. That's a you issue. You need to work out. Let's get to the comment section.
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Imagining Matt Walsh in customer service is mind boggling. Yeah, it's mind boggling for me too. And I was there. I also can't imagine it anymore. And I was there. I was there the whole time. And I was as bad at those jobs as you would think that I would be. That's all I can say. Jobs today are literally the easiest they've ever been.
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Saying it's the hardest is the most insane position I've ever heard. People used to work on a farm 15 plus hours a day, every day, no air conditioning, just plowing and backbreaking labor in hopes they survive, not take a vacation every year, not get enough Starbucks, etc., but to just not die. The idea of a 40-hour work week is historically brand new.
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These people don't have the slightest clue about history and don't even get me started on the Great Depression. Yeah, that was my point. When you When you compare our situation historically, we all have it very easy. And yet you've got people claiming that it's harder now than it's ever been, which is just preposterous.
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And I think some of the people who make these claims obviously know better, but some of them really believe it. I think that there's this deep, chronic kind of historical illiteracy that people have. Which, by the way, the fact that other people have had it harder than you doesn't make it any easier for you, right? Just like...
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If you grew up with a boomer parent and so you got the classic thing where you said you're hungry or you didn't eat your meal or something and said, oh, there are starving people in China, that whole deal. That might be, but it doesn't actually change whatever I'm experiencing. So I understand that, but it does... It's like I said yesterday. It should put things into context for you and...
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It should be a point of inspiration to know that however hard your challenges are, there are people who've gone through much, much, much harder things and have started much lower kind of on the totem pole than you did, and they still succeeded. So I don't know. I look at that as inspirational. I look at that as, okay, well, it's not whatever I'm trying to achieve. Here are the obstacles.
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Here's what I'm trying to achieve. Okay, well, here are countless people over here who are trying to achieve something that had a much bigger obstacle. They got over it. If they can do it, then I can do it. Matt, we have a recruiting crisis in the military. Also, Matt, we need to massively raise the standards for entry into the military. Yeah, well, those ideas are not in conflict, actually.
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When you have higher standards and you're trying to recruit men, men who want to defend the nation and kill the bad guys... You're going to succeed in bringing in a lot of those kinds of men. But when you lower the standards so that fat, unfit men and women can also join, that doesn't mean that you end up with the same number of strong warrior types.
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And then you're also just adding the fat guys and the women on top of it. I don't think it works that way. I think you begin to lose the warriors because they don't want to be a part of it anymore. It just doesn't appeal to them the way that it did before.
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Your advice about young men, what young men should do is good, but as a 23-year-old, I've given up on marrying the right woman and raising kids, even though it's been a lifelong dream and a true purpose to existence. I live in Baltimore. Go Ravens. Hope we beat the bills this weekend. But I'm a white guy in a radical liberal city that hates white men. My dreams are just unrealistic.
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So I'm going to present the information as we currently have it. Over the past several weeks, the disabled trans boy account has uploaded videos that appear to document the process of a 19-year-old woman who is disabled obtaining a quote-unquote gender-affirming double mastectomy so that she looks less feminine.
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Love the advice, but not everyone can achieve their dreams. Dude, you're 23 years old. You're 23. I mean, your dreams are unrealistic? At 23, what are you talking about? You're just at the starting gate. I mean, things have barely begun for you. The whole adventure is still in front of you. Everything is in front of you. I mean, talk to any successful person.
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Talk to anyone who you trust who's in their late 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and ask them, where were they when they were 23? You're going to hear the same kinds of stories. You'll hear the same kind of stories you'll hear from me. 23 for me was 15 years ago.
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Do you understand what an epically long and winding and sometimes frustrating and difficult and exciting and unexpected and just wild road it's been for the last 15 years? I can tell you, 15 years ago, There wasn't a soul, there wasn't a single person in my life who would have thought that I would be where I am at this exact moment.
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If I had said to anyone 15 years ago that in 15 years I would be married with six kids, living in a nice house, the major question in my career would be what should I do for my third movie after the box office success of my second? If I had said that to anyone, that that's where I would be in 15 years, they would have looked at me
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living in a barely furnished 400 square foot roach infested apartment with no college education, no training, apparently no skills of any kind and no future, no prospects. And they would have said that I was crazy. So your path, you know, is going to be different than mine or any other. Anyone else you talk to is older than you. My only point is that it's just at the beginning.
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And no matter how humble and how seemingly hopeless your situation is right now, I mean, your goals are not out of reach. They're just a long way off, right? You have to, they're out of reach. Like you can't literally reach right now and grab them. But that doesn't, maybe it's another way of putting it. They're out of reach right now, but they're not unattainable.
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You just have to start moving towards them. So when you say your dream's unrealistic, that just doesn't mean anything to me. I mean, I don't care about unrealistic. People have been telling me about unrealistic my whole damn life. I mean, even now, guess what? It doesn't stop even now. I'll have people saying to me, if I say, well, here's what I want to do next, I'll hear, well, you can't do that.
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That's a little much. That's outside your wheelhouse. Okay, fine. You can sit on the sidelines and watch me do it. Or watch me try and fail. At least I tried. Like, what the hell are you doing, you benchwarmer? I mean, not talking to you. I'm talking to this hypothetical person. That's the attitude you have to have. And it's not ego.
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It just means that you know what you want and you see the path and you're going to go get it. So the great thing for you, and I say this all the time to young men of your age, the great thing for you is that the things are very low stakes. When you get older, for me at this stage of my life, if I take a big gamble and I fail, the consequences... can be severe.
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I'll still take gambles, but I have to be smarter. I have to be more calculated. I have to always have contingency plans in place. You though, you're 23 and single, no kids. It's just you. So you're lonely. I get that. I was too at your age, but you're also in a position where you can be nimble and adaptive and a risk taker.
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If you don't like where you live, you said in the city you live, then move. But why you still live there? Just get up and move. And I know when I say that, there's going to be people, oh, it's not that simple. You can't just get it. Yeah, it is. It's not that simple for me to move, because I have six kids. It's not that simple for a lot of people my age to move.
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This is someone who has cerebral palsy, a disorder that severely affects motor control. It also is a disorder associated in many cases with a significant degree of cognitive impairment. And yet this person was able to obtain, apparently, top surgery. A doctor permanently altered her body with irreversible surgery despite the fact that she is very severely disabled.
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But for you, at 23, no kids, not married, yeah, it is actually that simple. It is that simple, yes. So, look, I don't know what your dreams are. I mean, you said you want to get married and have a family. That's a great dream. That's a great goal. I assume you have other dreams too, dreams of what you want to do in your life and your career, what you want to accomplish professionally.
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It sounds like you're demoralized across the board, both in terms of finding a wife and having success in life. Your dreams are unrealistic, you say. Now look, if you were 23 and you told me that your dream is to be a power forward in the NBA, then I would tell you that you need to recalibrate drastically. That's not going to happen. There's no path to accomplishing that right now.
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If you were six years old and you were in the 0.5 percentile for height and athleticism and you said your dream is to be in the NBA, then I would say, yeah, go chase it. Go chase it. For you, though, and for me, that's just not a possible world. But I'm going to assume that that isn't your dream. I'm going to assume your dream is something at least theoretically achievable.
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And we know one of them. You just said start a family. So there's no reason to give up on it. Just don't focus on the grand vision. Just focus on like, okay, you know what you want to do. You can imagine theoretically the steps that would need to be taken to get to that point. So you can conceptualize that in your head. And so all you have to think about is, well, what's the first thing?
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What's the very first thing I need to do? If this is 100 steps from now where I want to be, what is the very first thing that a person who wants to achieve that should do? And then just do that. Just take that first step. And then the second and the third.
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And you can't plan it all out right now because once you get to like step 40 and 50, it may turn out that step 50 is something you can't even imagine right now because that's just life. But the first step you can imagine and you just, you have to go do it. Turn this show off and go do that thing today. Well, listen to the rest of the show and then go do it. Heads up, everybody.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Well, Monday, history is going to be made. The Daily Wire will be live from D.C. as Donald Trump takes the oath of office. Watch it all live and celebrate the 47th president with 47% off your membership. Use code 47 at dailywire.com slash subscribe and join us live.
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It's like playing on the offensive line in the NFL. If fans are noticing you and announcers are saying your name, it means you're screwing up. It's not a good thing. And by that metric, things have been going pretty badly as of late for Alaska Airlines. The last 14 months or so have not been kind to the airline.
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First, there was the whole situation on board Alaska Air Flight 2059 operated by Horizon Air for Alaska Airlines. As I remember, an off-duty pilot who was tagging along in the cockpit decided to try to crash the plane mid-flight. He attempted to disable the engines with the fire suppression system while they were flying over Portland, Oregon.
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That episode didn't exactly inspire confidence in Alaska Airlines hiring process. By the way, that pilot was charged with 83 counts of attempted murder. But he immediately got out of jail after posting a $50,000 bond. So that's what, like 600 bucks per person he tried to kill? Just in case you're wondering how the legal system works in Portland. In any event, back to Alaska Airlines.
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Then there was the whole door incident where the door blew off the Alaska Airlines passenger jet midair. Again, took place over Portland, Oregon. And again, it made people wonder what exactly was going on at this airline and how they were overseeing quality control on their planes.
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I probably didn't help matters for the airline when I found this footage on TikTok from the contractor that assembled the door, which is called Spirit Aero Systems. The footage identifies the engineering dream team at the organization. And in case you missed it, here it is again.
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Now, here's the most recent video on the account, which, again, is extremely hard to watch. So if you're watching the video version of this podcast and you have any kids in the room with you at the moment, I would pause the show and come back to it when they're not around because this, as I said, is deeply disturbing. But it's what's happening right now in this country. So here it is.
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All right, so we remember that one. And that might actually be the exact same. Those are Kathy Hochul's dancers, too, I think. These people get around. Now, to be fair, those sassy women didn't work for Alaska Airlines. But Alaska Airlines does still rely on these sassy women to make sure the doors don't fly off in flight. There's a lot of trust there.
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It turns out, despite these ladies' obvious dancing prowess, that that trust was sorely misplaced. That brings us to the third and most recent embarrassing episode for Alaska Airlines, which was just reported a couple of days ago. And once again, it appears that Alaska Airlines has put far too much trust in women who like to dance instead of doing their jobs.
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Specifically, a flight attendant decided to celebrate the end of her six-month probationary new hire period. by twerking on an empty flight during a layover at 6 a.m. while waiting for the pilots to arrive. And she then posted the footage to TikTok. Here's what the video looked like, although the audio was originally a rap song called Ghetto that's been dubbed out for copyright reasons.
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For context, the caption on this video on TikTok, as written by this flight attendant, was, quote, Ghetto bit till I D-I-E. Don't let the uniform fool you. B-I-H? Is that a typo? That's supposed to be... Oh, okay. Is that how the kids are saying these days? Do they say it that way or do you just write it that way? They say it that way. All right. Those sons of biz.
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Now, because, of course, when you're 30,000 feet in the air cruising along at 400 miles an hour, you really want the crew in charge of your comfort and safety to be ghetto. I mean, that's what you're looking for. I can't tell you how many times I've had a flight and afterwards somebody asked me how it went. And I was like, oh, it was nice. You know, it was a great flight.
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Crew was very, very ghetto. It was wonderful. Anyway, here's the clip. Oh, yeah, there's no music. So, anyway, well, there she is twerking. It's so much more awkward without the music. Um... Okay, good. Now, very soon after Alaska Airlines saw this clip, in a rare example of accountability in modern society, they fired a flight attendant for violating their social media policies.
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And that decision led the flight attendant to set up one of the most entertaining GoFundMes that we've seen in a while. As of today, it's raised about $2,000 of its $12,000 goal. And... which is way more than it should, but not exactly hitting the goal. Not hard to see why. The pitch isn't exactly the most compelling. It reads, quote, I never thought a single moment would cost me everything.
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I worked as a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines for over six months. In between those six months, both of my English bulldogs died unexpectedly. My relationship was rocky because of the time I spent away, but I love my job meeting new people, seeing the world, and creating a safe, welcoming environment for passengers.
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Although this was my dream job, I was using the income to fund my blossoming lingerie and dessert business. Then she gives the name, which I'm not even going to pass along. Both of your dogs died. First of all, that's a bit, I mean, sorry for your loss. That's a bit suspicious. Were you too busy twerking and you forgot to feed them? I mean, how do they both die?
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So she's a bit of an entrepreneur, already identified something of a marketing opportunity here. It's enough to make you wonder if that was her goal all along. But then again, the GoFundMe isn't exactly generating a lot of interest. So it stands to reason that these businesses aren't taking off either. And as she goes on, she says that she's desperate to find another flight attendant job.
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And she also launches into a series of additional excuses. Quote, I was also celebrating the end of probation and making it out of a hard upbringing in San Francisco, California. Life, something many people in the industry could relate to. The video went... Yeah, they could relate to life? I mean, yeah, any... True. I mean, we can all relate to life. We're all living. We all are alive.
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So we can relate to that experience. But I just don't. Why does your life involve twerking on an airplane? I don't know why. What are the what's the why is that necessary? She said, the video went viral overnight, but instead of love and support, it brought unexpected scrutiny. Without warning, they terminated me.
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No discussion, no chance to defend myself, and no chance for a thorough and proper investigation. Losing my job was devastating. I've always been careful about what I share online, and I never thought this video, which didn't even mention the airline by name, would cost me my career. That's you being careful? I would hate to see if you got a little reckless what you'd be putting online.
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So I guess she thinks that Alaska Airlines should have called in the FBI to investigate whether she was indeed the ghetto bi who was responsible for twerking on the plane. Maybe she thinks there's some mitigating factors the airline should have considered, even though she uploaded everything she did on camera by herself, was clearly having a good time.
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And also, apparently, the airline isn't supposed to be grateful that she didn't explicitly mention them by name in a video where she's in uniform dancing on one of their planes. No, this is not any kind of grave injustice. But I will say one thing in defense of this flight attendant, which is that by the standards of modern air travel, she didn't do anything that unusual.
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I mean, pretty much everything about aviation is now as demeaning and low class as it can possibly be. All this flight attendant did was sort of embrace the fact as openly as she could. And this is a decline that accelerated during the lockdowns from four years ago. As the New York Times reported late last year, quote,
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Unruly passenger behavior surged during the pandemic, prompting the FAA in 2021 to implement a zero-tolerance policy for such conduct and begin issuing fines instead of warning letters to offenders. The agency reported approximately 6,000 such incidents in 2021, a sharp rise compared with about 1,000 reports in 2020.
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The number of incidents reported in 2023 fell to 2,100, but still represented an uptake from the years preceding the pandemic. One of those bras, by the way, took place at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. If you never saw this one, here it is. I'm not sure that using those plastics, are they using the plastic signs that say, you know, that the floor is wet?
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I mean, for a brawl, first of all, this is really lethargic. This is a pretty low energy brawl. If you're gonna do it, and also if you're gonna get charged for using a weapon in an assault, that's the weapon you're choosing? At least make it count, is what I'm trying to say. So this is something that at one time in our nation's history, not too long ago, you would just never see in an airport.
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And now it's common. I mean, at least there were no illegal migrant encampments in the shots. That's something. And meanwhile, along with flights, customer complaints are also way up. By some estimates, there were roughly 15,000 complaints filed by air travelers in 2019. By 2023, that number had risen to 78,000, which is an increase of more than fivefold.
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And these are statistics that, if you've been to an airport recently, are not exactly surprising. Also clearly a sign of much larger problems. We went from people flying in their Sunday best to twerking flight attendants and fist fights, you know, WWE royal rumbles in the terminal. And we made that transition because air travel is a microcosm of American culture at large.
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It's so unimaginably horrific that your first reaction, or hope anyway, is that it must be some kind of bizarre hoax. I mean, you want to conclude that there's no way that any doctor would agree to perform this procedure or that somebody would film any of this proudly and put it on the internet.
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More people are incapable of behaving like adults in public than at any other time in American history. We've become far too tolerant of this decay to the point that it's actually kind of surprising that Alaska Airlines actually fired this flight attendant. But... You can't stop there.
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We have to make it very clear that anyone who behaves like this and then proudly uploads the footage to social media will be shamed and ridiculed until they never dream of doing it again, much less sending up a GoFundMe to beg for money.
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And that is why the self-described ghetto beer stewardess and every other professional who refuses to act in a remotely professional manner while at work, especially on an airplane, are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today and this week. We'll talk to you next week in D.C. for the inauguration. Talk to you then. Godspeed.
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It seems like it has to be some kind of setup or maybe it's being taken out of context, you might think. You may wonder whether this young woman actually had a double mastectomy because she had breast cancer or something. But that does not appear to be what happened here.
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All of the evidence, including a Daily Mail interview with this disabled woman and her family that we'll get to in a moment, clearly indicates that indeed doctors removed the breasts of a disabled young woman in order to try to turn her into a boy. And this video is not a one-off. There are posts documenting this woman's journey.
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There's one video, for instance, which was uploaded just prior to the double mastectomy being performed. It's from December of last year. The description reads, quote, it's the night before top surgery. I'm so effing excited. After one month, I'll be free. Bye. And there's content like this going back for several years.
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One post from May of 2023, for example, reads, I'm so excited to get my name change on my birth certificate. Another caption appears next to this image from March 2023, which shows the girl in a parking lot. And the caption reads, quote, I saw a doctor today that said that I'm almost ready to get on T. Hashtag transgender pride. Hashtag queer disabled pride. Hashtag FTM.
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There's only one comment under the image. It reads, quote, awesome. Everyone should be able to live as their true self. A few weeks later, there's a bunch of posts documenting her use of testosterone.
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And then there's this footage in which someone who identifies as autistic persuades this, quote, disabled trans individual to touch a pot, even though the pot says that disabled people shouldn't touch it. Watch.
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So, I mean, the whole thing is just painful to watch, so we'll just cut it off there. She's clearly being used for clout by activists who don't care about her, and she clearly doesn't have the capacity to consent to any of this stuff, even as an adult. Spoiler alert, in case you're interested, they both do touch the pan.
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I mean, the reason why you wouldn't want someone like that touching a pot like that is that it gets really hot, and she obviously does not have... full use of her extremities, and so trying to manage a very hot pan like that could cause severe burns. It's not ableism, it's just the reality. Now the woman's name, before she or her parents changed it, was Mara J. Leroy, and she's from Minneapolis.
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Andy Ngo reports that Mara's mother is, unsurprisingly, a DEI slash anti-Trump activist who is, quote, extremely woke and has involved her child in her leftist activism. She's been separated from the girl's father for some time. Surprise, surprise. And Billboard Chris reports that the divorce was finalized about two years ago.
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Ngo says that Mara was medically transitioned, quote, unquote, in high school, presumably as a minor. prior to receiving this double mastectomy. And the Instagram account that we were just looking at would certainly support that reporting.
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Noe also reports that a state representative named Alicia Lisch-Klazowski was recently photographed with Mara and her mother to celebrate legislation that would advance gender-inclusive restrooms, among other left-wing agenda items. And here's that image.
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And as you can see, Mara and her mother appear to be in the bottom corner there, along with the legislator who uses they-them pronouns, by the way. And since these videos and images began going viral, this legislator hasn't responded in any way. I mean, this is how normalized all this insanity is in left-wing jurisdictions like Minneapolis. Democrat politicians openly, of course, supporting it.
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And then there's this from the journalist Sarah Fields. She found this post from the disabled trans boy account from a year ago. And as you can see, It reads, quote, this literally changed my whole life in five minutes, being there my first year of YIG, because before I had no idea about pronouns, but now look at me, close quote. YIG, in case you're unfamiliar, stands for Youth in Government.
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It's a YMCA program that puts high schoolers and middle schoolers in model governments in states across the country. And apparently, with support from the government, they are indoctrinating disabled children into gender ideology. I mean, you heard it just there. You saw it in the caption. I don't know about any of this stuff. And now I'm into it. I'm fully bought in.
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Late last night, the Daily Mail picked up this story. They reached out to the disabled woman and her family to kind of get their side of the story here. And I'm going to read a section of this article. The kicker comes at the end. So stick around. Quote,
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A transgender teen with cerebral palsy who went viral after posting about her breast removal surgery has told DailyMail.com that she knew what she was doing and is happy with her choices. Micah Leroy, 19, a University of Minnesota student, had a double mastectomy last month and shared footage about the procedure and her painful but swift recovery on Instagram.
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Those videos exploded on conservative social media on Thursday, with critics calling Micah a victim who should not have been green-lighted for a sex change because of her disability. But speaking with DailyMail.com, Micah said she had a long history of gender identity issues and that she is glad she provoked a reaction because she wanted to blow up the Internet.
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You know, as a homeowner, there's nothing more important to me than protecting my family and our home. With the new year here, I've been thinking about making smart investments that really matter. Speaking of protecting what matters, let's talk about your gutters. I know not the most exciting topic, but hear me out on this. I've learned that gutters are trickier than they seem.
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Micah's case raises tough questions about whether disabled people and minors should be allowed to take puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones and undergo sex change operations. Micah's disability, cerebral palsy, affects movement and muscle control. She's able to speak and write for herself, gets straight A's in college, and is involved in state politics. I am making these decisions, said Micah.
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I am my own legal guardian. And people don't understand that. Now, we'll get to the kicker because, you know, you might hear... that she's able to speak, and then you get these very clear quotes. I'm making my own decisions, and it might seem a little bit odd to you because we just played the video of this person, and it seems pretty apparent from that video that she really can't speak.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
We just heard it. So what do you mean she can speak and communicate? Well, here it is. Daily Mail reports this. Micah can speak on her own, but was aided in this interview by her mom, Kathy Leroy, who was effectively translating her words. Ah, okay then.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
Micah explained how she's not being exploited and coerced by her parents, and we know that because her parents translated and told us that that's what she said. Now, needless to say, the doctors and parents in this situation deserve to be in prison. This is one of the most horrific cases of abuse of the disabled that we've ever seen. I mean, this is, it shocks the conscience.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
That is, if you actually have a conscience, which explains why trans activists see this not as shocking and horrific and the sort of thing that should send multiple people to prison, but as something wonderful and worth boasting about.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
Now, as terrifying as all this is, you might be tempted, if you're extremely naive, to kind of dismiss this story as an aberration, as not reflective of the gender transition industry broadly. You might say, for example, that some doctor must have gone rogue here to perform this operation on someone who's so clearly disabled. But that's not the case.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
As the Postmillennial reported several years ago, leading experts in the field of so-called trans medicine have said that autistic nonverbal minors can consent to sex changes. In fact, there was a conference recently featuring a lead author on the WPATH Transgender Guidelines in which this very topic was discussed. Quoting from the Postmillennial,
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
Some of the world's leading experts in transgender health care convened in San Francisco. Psychiatrist Dan Karasik delivered a talk titled Managing Patients with Co-Occurring Mental Health Diagnoses.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
And in the audience was none other than Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, a leading figure in the field of child sex changes, who shared baffling anecdotes about nonverbal children expressing their gender identities.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
The Postmillennial says it obtained audio of the talk, in which, quote, Karasik can be heard asserting that severe autism should not prevent a person from being approved for an experimental medical sex change, dismissing the common concern of parents that a fixation on gender is due to the intense focus of interest typical of autism spectrum disorder, and engaging in the bizarre exchange of ideas about youth communicating their transgender identity through drawing.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
In other words, the bleeding edge of so-called trans medicine is that children who can't even speak are somehow capable of revealing that they're born in the wrong bodies. And of course, this is a fundamental tenet of trans ideology. They often talk about recognizing, quote, trans children shortly after birth. But this ideology is now being put into practice in a new way.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
It's resulting in irreversible surgeries for young people, even severely disabled and impaired young people, which are being broadcast on Instagram. Now, yes, it's true that the woman in these videos is not a minor legally. She's 19 years old, according to the reporting we have. She was brought into the sex change pipeline as a minor.
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Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
And then shortly after she became an adult, the surgery was apparently done. She may be suffering from a crippling disability, and she may be extremely easy to coerce and manipulate, but according to leading experts in the field of gender-affirming care, she can consent somehow to having her body permanently disfigured.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
There is the child, a precious, vulnerable new life plucked by God out of eternity and sent here to begin its earthly existence. Then there's the woman who goes from being a woman to being a mother. She herself is created in this moment. It is a moment of becoming. She becomes something. She is born alongside her child. And the same is true of the man.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
He goes from being just a man to being a father. As a father myself, I can attest to the transformative nature of this moment of parenthood. I look back at myself before I had kids. I don't even recognize that person. I don't know who that person was. It was a different person. It was me, but it was me before I became what I was meant to be. It was me before I knew why I was here.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
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Then you've got to sign up for their premium unlimited plan at $100 monthly. And don't forget that sneaky $35 activation fee they talk on. Some free deal, huh? Well, it's starting to look pretty expensive for something that's supposed to cost nothing. That's where Pure Talk, my cell phone company, comes in with a genuinely better option. Here's the deal.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
But the reality is that while three lives are created at conception, only one is killed through abortion. The child is gone from the earth forever, never to be seen again in this world. The mother and father are still who they became. Despite what they're told, they don't go back to being just a woman and a man. You can't reverse the clock. You can't go back on it. She's still a mother.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
He is still a father. They are still parents, but now they are the parents of a dead child. Now, there is no way to get around the fundamental fact that the pro-abortion movement wishes to deny, which is the humanity of the unborn, the personhood of the unborn.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And so I was talking to a guy at the meet and greet, and he said, big fan, love the movie, can't wait for the speech, I know it's gonna be hilarious. And I'm looking down at my speech now, I'm like, that guy's gonna be so disappointed. Protecting children, not exactly a laugh a minute, but catch my stand-up set tomorrow at the Chuckles down the street or whatever it is.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
The pro-abortion advocate will try to say that the child's not a person because he's still developing and he's entirely dependent on his mother for survival. And this means he'll say that the baby lacks some kind of moral standing.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And it's always funny hearing that kind of argument from a lot of people who themselves are still relying on their parents living in their parents' basement, but very late stage fetuses, as they would put it. But you know, this view that personhood is acquired by degree and that it's forfeit if you're dependent on someone else for survival clearly implicates more than just the unborn.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
It would seem that the sick, the infirm, the disabled, the elderly all get caught up in this depersoning net. By this line of reasoning, all of these people have, at a minimum, slightly less personhood. If personhood is on a spectrum, if it's contingent, then by this logic, we have depersoned many categories of persons, which is a feature, not a bug, of pro-abortion logic.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
You know, they intend to whittle away at both ends of life, the young and the old, unpersoning one subset after another until the right to life has been extinguished for all but the privileged few.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
The only other option aside from personhood being attained by degree contingent upon other factors like self-sufficiency is that personhood and its attending moral rights and dignities is inherent to all living humans. And if something is inherent, that means it belongs to the essential nature of a thing.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
The idea that our human dignity, our personhood, belongs to our essential nature and cannot be lost or diminished is an idea that lies at the very foundation of this country, at the foundation of any notion of human rights. You cannot have human rights if you don't first have it built upon the idea that human beings have inherent dignity. Now,
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And this is an idea, by the way, that everybody in America pretends to believe most of the time. There's not a single person in America you could ever talk to who would, or very few anyway, who would reject the notion of human rights. They all accept it. Well, guess what? Human rights, that's a doctrine. That's not science. That's not something we found in a science book. That's a doctrine.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
That's a religious doctrine, human rights. And part of that doctrine all stems from this idea about the value of a human. And if you're taking value away from human beings, from one set of human beings, you're taking it away from everybody. If an unborn baby does not have inherent value, then human value is not permanent, is not essential.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And thus, if he does not have inherent value, then neither do you. You cannot gain inherent value. You either have it from the first moment of existence or you never do ever. Those are the only options that make any sense. Now, the personhood argument for abortion is actually even worse than it sounds at first.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
It's so bad that even if it were true, it would do almost nothing to prove the pro-abortion case. Because the personhood argument for abortion is a syllogism with a missing premise. It seems to go like this. Premise one, an unborn baby is not a person. It's merely a potential person. Conclusion, therefore we can kill him. Now wait a second, two does not follow logically from one.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
So the first big threat, of course, is trans ideology. And that brings us back to yesterday at the Supreme Court. It was an interesting and quite revealing dynamic because outside in the cold, those of us on Team Sanity were rallying together. But of course, Team Insanity also showed up. And they showed up in much greater numbers, if I'm being totally honest.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
You're missing something, you skipped a step. Just because someone isn't a person doesn't necessarily mean that it's okay to kill them. Since what is that the rule? Anything that isn't a person can be killed? That's a whole separate case you need to make. That's a whole other premise you have to establish.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
So even if I conceded the point, even if I let you make the first logical leap to say the unborn child is not a person but a potential person, you still have an even bigger leap you have to make. And I'm not going to spot you that one, so now you're out on an island. You need to now prove that it's okay to kill the potential person.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And I don't see how you make that case, because if I agree it's a potential person for the sake of argument, it would seem to me to be the most valuable non-person thing on the planet. It would seem to be then at worst, the second most valuable thing next to a person. And I don't see why it would be okay to kill the second best thing.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
It would still be more valuable than say a sea turtle egg and sea turtle eggs are federally protected. Now, to be clear, again, I don't even for a moment buy the idea that an unborn person is just a potential person. I reject it outright on scientific, moral, scriptural, and logical grounds. I'm just trying to establish that the argument doesn't even work on its own premise.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
This is the truth that cannot be escaped. Abortion is the intentional destruction of innocent human life, and intentionally destroying innocent human life is always wrong, period. That is our case as pro-lifers. It's as simple as that. Now, tragically, recently, a contingent of people who are supposed to be on our side have abandoned this simple truth.
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Indeed, it's one of the most shameful and twisted ironies I've ever seen. Pro-lifers won the greatest human rights victory of all time with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But rather than some conservatives being emboldened by our historic achievement, rather than celebrating, rather than acting confident and triumphant, rather than saying, let's pile on now like the left does.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
We got this huge win, let's go get another one. Oh, you guys are crying now, we'll give you something to really cry about next. That's what the left does. Instead, some conservatives have, over the past many months and last couple of years, become very shy about this issue, very shy. even blaming pro-lifers for some of the electoral defeats in recent elections.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
They claimed this last election was going to be the greatest defeat of all time, largely because of pro-lifers. They were scapegoating pro-lifers ahead of time. Well, how did that turn out? In fact, it turns out Trump gained ground with women who were supposed to be the demographic that was going to rally against him to get revenge for Roe. Didn't happen.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
But even if it had turned out that way, it wouldn't change my view on the topic. It wouldn't change how I talk about it. I would not compromise on abortion even if it really did mean losing every election from now till kingdom come. And the reason is simple. It is that to accept child murder is to forfeit your soul.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
If we are really a country where child murder is so fundamentally popular that it's impossible to win by opposing it, then we're not a country worth saving anymore. We deserve, at that point, whatever destruction comes our way, God will strike us down for our sins. And I couldn't stand in the way of that if I wanted to, and I don't want to. I'll never accept abortion. I'll never compromise on it.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
You know, the pro-trans side, there were more of them, and they were louder. They set up their rally stage right next to ours and hoping to drown us out. They came with bullhorns and megaphones and blaring loud music and screaming in our faces while we were trying to speak.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
I won't give up any ground, not one inch, nothing. All abortion is wrong, always. It's never OK to kill an innocent human being, ever, under any circumstance, ever. It is always our obligation to protect the innocent, especially our children. There are no exceptions, none, period, ever. But finally, the good news. The good news is that the whole premise is flawed.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
We don't have to give up every election until kingdom come, as we just discovered. The pro-life message can win in this country. It is winning, but only if we have the courage to fight for it and the intelligence to fight well. The pro-life message has already won in so many ways on so many battlefields, just like the anti-trans ideology message has won and is winning.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
We are winning on both fronts after so many years and so many sacrifices and so much put on the line by so many people. People in this fight way longer than me, before I was even born, there have been people for decades and decades giving everything to this. And they're winning. We are winning. Winning is our destiny because the truth always prevails in the end. Always.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
If you're a Christian, you have an advantage because you have the book and you can skip to the spoilers at the end of the book and you can see how it ends. And so we know that we win. We stand in the truth when no one else will for that reason. We speak for those who cannot speak. We say what must be said and we do what must be done.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And if we continue to do that without fear or compromise, eventually the day will come when every child is free to be born and to live and to be safe and to be innocent as they should be. Now, I see that day in the future. It's approaching, but we're not there yet. And so for now, we fight. Thank you. The executive producer of The Matt Walsh Show is Sean Hampton.
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Now, unfortunately for the trans activists, as a father of six, I'm quite accustomed to speaking while deranged people scream at me. So you gotta work harder than that to throw me off. But admittedly, they did succeed in making things kind of difficult for us, and they did accomplish their goal of being really obnoxious and annoying. The left is very good at that. They're very good at it.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
That's their specialty. In the field of being loud and obnoxious, we are amateurs. This is their professionals. And that was very obvious yesterday. However, inside the court, it was a very different story. You know, the problem for the trans activists is that you can't bring your megaphone into the courthouse.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
When Justice Thomas is saying something you don't like, you can't blare a Cardi B song to drown him out. Each side gets a chance to speak. Each side is asked questions. Each side is interrogated. You have to live or die on the strength of your arguments.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
Anyone who's listened to some of the audio from inside the court yesterday knows that the trans activists very much died, metaphorically speaking. Their whole case fell apart in dramatic fashion. It was ripped open and exposed for the utterly vacuous garbage bag of nonsense that it is. And this is how it goes for the left.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
They can scream and shout and sabotage and frustrate, but when our ideas are put up against their ideas in a forum where both sides have a chance to be heard and get a fair hearing, they lose. They lose every single time. And that's why they're so desperate to make sure that they can control all the forums so that their ideas and arguments never have to speak for themselves.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
It's why they're still in a state of panic over Elon Musk owning Twitter, because we're given a chance to speak and be heard, and when that happens, we win, and they know it. Now, of course, the trans activists have many different ways of trying to shut down ideas they can't intellectually contend with.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
Along with screaming at us through bullhorns and censoring us on social media platforms, they also make use of threats and blackmail and intimidation. Like many other people who've been in this fight against gender ideology for years, I have firsthand experience with this. I've been speaking out against the madness of gender ideology for close to a decade.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
But I hadn't really experienced the full ire of the trans activists until the year 2022. And that was the year that we released our film, What is a Woman? Which exposed gender ideology. Thank you. exposed it and its proponents by asking very simple questions, including the titular question, which is the simplest of all.
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A few months after the release of the film, I published my investigation into the Vanderbilt Gender Clinic in Tennessee, which revealed that they had been chemically castrating minors and that they were doing it by their own admission because it was a, quote, big money maker. Now, I've never said this publicly, but I will admit tonight that, because I don't think this is being livestreamed, is it?
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Let's hope it's not. Before we released our Vanderbilt investigation, the night before, I started to get cold feet. And I almost didn't post it. I almost didn't publish it. Because I knew that it was really explosive. And I knew that our investigation would probably lead to the clinic getting shut down, which is good. But Vanderbilt's a very powerful organization. They have a lot of money.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And I knew that trans activists are vicious and deranged and will do anything to punish and destroy those who they deem to be a threat. So I started to become very worried about the potential ramifications to my family. I thought that maybe this isn't smart. Maybe it's a reckless thing for me to put myself into the middle of something like that. Maybe now's not the right time.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
Maybe we should hold off and think about this a little bit. Just give it some time. We don't have to do it right now. Let's just think about it. And I talked to my wife that night, and I told her about the hesitations that I'm having and that I'm expecting some really serious blowback. And I said I wouldn't take the risk unless she's on board with it.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And I don't remember her exact words back to me, but paraphrasing, she said something like, don't be a wimp, just publish it. Sack up, you wuss. Not her exact words, but that's what I heard. That was the message. So... We published it, and sure enough, the gender clinic was shut down almost immediately.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
Just yesterday, I was at the rally outside the Supreme Court as the court heard arguments in a case that stems from the law we passed in Tennessee banning quote-unquote gender transitions for minors. And this fits well with the subject that I was asked to speak about tonight, which is the fight to protect children in our culture. How do we protect children in this culture?
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The investigation then served as a catalyst for a law banning all medical gender transitions for minors. And that's the law that's now made its way to the Supreme Court. Let's talk about something that affects all of us, taxes. The October 15th deadline has passed, and if you're not prepared, you could be in for a world of hurt. Do you owe back taxes? Are your returns still unfiled?
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Did you miss the deadline to file for an extension? Now that we're past October 15th, the IRS is probably gearing up for some aggressive enforcement, and trust me, you don't want to be on their radar. We're talking wage garnishments, frozen bank accounts, or even property seizures. It's not pretty, folks. But before you start panicking, there's still hope.
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So it had the positive effect that we hoped for, but it also had the negative effect that we anticipated but did not hope for. Over the year that followed, I was, along with my family, doxxed, harassed, threatened. I had to pick up my family and move to a new home because they were showing up to our house in the middle of the night.
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People showing up, taking pictures of my children when they're playing outside in the front yard. I was hacked, all of my personal information was exposed, demonetized on YouTube, we lost millions of dollars in advertising dollars, smeared in the media, defamed relentlessly, wah, wah, wah, the whole story. All the bad things did in fact happen, and in many ways worse than I thought it would be.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And I would do it all again in a heartbeat. It was all worth it. Every bit of it. The thing that I was worried about a couple of years ago and that I've worried about many times before and since is the safety of my wife and kids. I care about other people's kids. I care the most about my own kids, and I'm responsible for them as their dad.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
But what's propelled me into this fight and kept me in it and kept me going and compelled me to take certain risks is precisely this, that I'm a dad and I want to protect my kids. Trans ideology is an unprecedented threat to children, not just children in general, but like my children. your children.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
If this hideous evil is not defeated, if it's allowed to grow and gain more power and influence in the culture, no child is safe. No child is immune. We've all heard the horror stories from parents whose kids fell prey to the trans cult. Seeing your child's mind and soul claimed by the delusion is like watching him die a thousand deaths
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
It's an unspeakable horror, and the only way to make absolutely sure that this never happens to my kids is to burn the whole ideology to the ground, to destroy it. To rip it up by the roots and throw it into the fire. It's the only way to be sure. As a father, I know this is the surest way to protect my kids. And that's why I joined this cause, and I won't be done until the job is done.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
I believe that trans ideology is a unique evil, and the danger it poses to our children is likewise unique. Now, why is that? Why is trans ideology so uniquely dangerous? The answer seems obvious. This is a movement that wants to perform sick, Frankenstein medical experiments on our children. It wants to turn our kids into lab rats.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
It wants to castrate, sterilize, mutilate them, and it's done exactly that to untold numbers of innocent children. That's what makes it so especially dangerous and wicked. But that doesn't tell the full story. You know, the medical abuse is a symptom of the underlying sickness. It is an outcrop. It is the visible thing that we can see on the surface.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
As far as I see it, to protect our kids, we first have to identify the threats. What are the threats we're dealing with? And I'd like to speak about tonight the two great threats, or two of the greatest, that children face. These are also the two issues that I have personally focused on the most and devoted much of my life to. Just as a side note, I recently released a film called Am I Racist?
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
Underneath all of that, what makes trans ideology so insidious is that it is a complete and total rejection of truth. Now, not just the rejection of one particular thing that is true, but a rejection of truth itself, truth as a category. A society that embraces trans ideology is a society that declares itself God over itself. It claims the right and power to define reality on its own terms.
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And there are consequences to this. There are serious consequences. Many terrible things follow from a collective flight from reality. And the consequences are more and more dire the more deeply the untruth burrows into the mind and into the culture. And the truth at the core, the untruth, rather, at the core of gender ideology
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reaches down to the deepest conceivable level because it wages its assault against our knowledge of ourselves. A person fully enthralled to this lunacy has lost grip not just on reality in general, but on the reality of himself. Transgenderism doesn't simply replace one notion of the self with some other newer notion. Rather, it replaces one notion of the self with no notion at all.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
This is the whole reason why the gender ideologues can't answer the what is a woman question. It's because there is no answer for them. It doesn't mean anything to be a woman. It doesn't mean anything to be a man. It doesn't mean anything to be anybody. Your very identity has no meaning, and therefore has no value, has no purpose.
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Matt Walsh’s Most Defining Speech Yet
And that's because the gender ideologue seeks to replace what is definable and knowable with a hazy, indecipherable mess of contradictions and falsehoods. He replaces light with darkness and soon gets lost in it himself and will probably eventually succumb to despair. And that's because a person cannot live in such a state. A person can't live in a state of self-rejection.
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They certainly cannot thrive or be happy in that sort of state. So this is the great danger of transgenderism. But there is an even greater danger, one that has destroyed the lives of many more children and destroyed them in a much more direct and final kind of way.
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And that brings us to the other great threat, one that's never been very popular to talk about, probably less popular now than it's been before, and that is abortion. Now, abortion is still the defining issue of our time. And it is still the wall that separates one side of the political divide from the other. It's a wall that is built with the bodies of 60 million dead babies.
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Over 60 million babies have been killed through abortion. And so anytime I hear anybody, especially anybody on the right, tell me that, well, this issue is not that important. Really? What's more important than 60 million? Can you point to something that has a bigger, greater death toll than that? You can't.
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Not one single genocide in the whole history of the world, not one single plague, not anything. The death toll is staggering, greater than anything the world's ever seen. These victims, these children, have been killed legally by human hands in a little building in your local shopping mall that you drive by on your way to work or to run errands.
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Thank you. Thank you. Don't do that. Don't give me a standing ovation before I say anything. You set the bar way too high. I can only disappoint you now. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to the American Principles Project for inviting me to be a part of this very special night. The timing of this event is, of course, quite fortuitous.
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And they've been killed at the behest of their own parents with the help of so-called doctors. facilitated by the government. Every kind of person that children are supposed to rely on to protect them, all of those people have turned against them to destroy them. The most innocent of all people are children, and they're the precise ones that have been targeted for extermination.
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They've harmed no one. They're filled with joy and potential and love. If we can't see the value and worth of a child, then who can we see it in? I remain confounded by the sorts of people who would look at an unborn child and see only a clump of cells. Clump of cells? I mean, we're all clumps of cells.
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Thank you. It wasn't just me fishing for applause. A little bit it was. I haven't gotten used to the fact that the movie was a comedy, and a lot of people discover me for the first time from that movie, and so they know me for comedy, and they expect everything I do now to be riotously funny.
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If you go to Walmart sometime, you'll see many people who are far clumpier than your average infant. I like Walmart. I'm also kind of clumpy these days. But can you really not see the miracle in this life? Can you really not see the beauty of this life that you call a clump of cells? Can you really not see the tragedy in destroying it?
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And it's a tragedy that is compounded threefold, because with abortion, we not only reject our children, but we reject ourselves. You know, we have to remember the miraculous thing about conception, that moment when a new life comes into being. What is so mystical and beautiful about it is that when you think about it, it's not just one life being created, but three.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, we'll do a deeper dive into the DEI program in the Los Angeles Fire Department. The left insists that it has nothing to do with the catastrophe unfolding in LA right now, but of course they're lying. Also, how many of these fires are being intentionally set? We'll talk about that.
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That would mean the Los Angeles Fire Department would have to fire some overweight lesbians who are making $300,000 a year. But it would also mean that the next time a massive wildfire engulfs the city, Los Angeles might actually have water in the fire dehydrants. Imagine that. They might have a mayor who's on the scene coordinating a response instead of pandering in Africa.
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They might have enough firefighters to put out the blaze. That's a turn of events that outlets like Rolling Stone magazine desperately want to prevent. But at this point, it's looking more likely than ever. DEI has been tried. It has failed in spectacular fashion everywhere. And now it's time for competent people to take over, even if they happen to be white men, God forbid.
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Over the course of six documentary-style episodes, you'll hear from Hillsdale professors of history, politics, and economics. As I look at Marx's life and writings, the misery and brutality in the Soviet Union and the atrocities of communist China, you'll explore how many ideas in American politics today are rooted in Marxism and also how they differ from Marxist thoughts as well.
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The residents of Los Angeles may have struggled to understand that up until now, but they understand survival. And at this point, that's exactly what survival will take. Now let's get to our five headlines. If you're a homeowner like me, when's the last time you checked on the title to your home? That's the legal document that shows that you own it.
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And if the answer is never, you need to know about a fast-growing crime the FBI calls house stealing. I was previously shown how easy this scam is to pull off, and let me tell you, it's pretty shocking. Criminals are forging these documents called quitclaim deeds by filling them out with your information, signing it with a fake signature, and stamping it with a notary seal.
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that you can get online for 20 bucks and then filling them in with county officials. And that's it. That's all it takes for your home to be transferred out of your name without your knowledge. But here's the thing. The scammers don't want your house. They're after your equity. They take out loans using your home as collateral and disappear, leaving you with a financial and legal nightmare.
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But you can protect yourself from this despicable crime right now with triple lock protection from home title lock, just like my producer Sean Hampton protects his home. The first step to take as the new year starts is to check on your home's title to make sure you're not already a victim so you can start 2025 with peace of mind.
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You can get a free title history report and a 30-day free trial of triple lock protection today by going to HomeTitleLock.com using promo code Walsh or click on the link in the description. That's HomeTitleLock.com promo code Walsh. Don't wait until it's too late. So originally, we were told that these fires are definitely not arson, but it turns out that...
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that may have been a premature declaration. What do you know? New York Post reports, one person has been taken into custody in connection to the Kenneth Fire, which broke out Thursday in the West Hollywood Hills, California. According to reports, LAPD has taken a person into custody for arson and Victory Trailhead, where the devastating fire broke out, is now being treated as a crime scene.
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Kenneth Fire broke out just after 2.30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, spread over 800 acres already. Okay, so at least one of these fires is being investigated as possible arson. I think it's highly likely that there's more arson than just that going on. In fact, there are videos floating around of people lighting fires or appearing to light fires.
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So it seems pretty clear that, again, at least some of this is arson. And when you've got these fires that are happening at the same time spread out over such a large area, now whether the first fire was arson, that's, I think, still unclear. But it is interesting that any time there's a major wildfire, it seems like,
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the suggestion that it's arson is treated by the media in particular as initially treated as some sort of wild conspiracy theory. And we know there's a reason for it. We know there's a reason the media prefers not to talk about arson. That's because they prefer to blame climate change. And they'd always rather talk about that instead of the actual immediate human causes.
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It's vital that we take these ideas and historical figures seriously so that we can see the injustice and evil inherent in them and are better equipped to defeat it. Start your free course, Marxism, Socialism, and Communism today, right now. You can go to hillsdale.edu slash Walsh to start. It's free, easy to get started. That's hillsdale.edu slash Walsh to start. Hillsdale.edu slash Walsh.
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But in reality, arson is a cause. Mismanagement is a cause. Incompetence is a cause. Bad leadership is a cause. Lack of preparedness is a cause. DEI policies we've been talking about, that's a cause. Those things coupled with high wins, all that together. And the problem is that all of the things on that list, everything but high wins anyway, all the other items are solvable.
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And you wouldn't think that's a problem. I mean, the fact that it's solvable, that would be a The fact that a problem is solvable is not in itself a problem, you would think, but it is for Democrat politicians because for one thing, it means we can blame them for not solving the problem. And for another, it puts the pressure on them to actually do something. And you really can't discount that.
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And an OnlyFans hooker films herself propositioning a fast food worker, humiliating herself in the process. Speaking of humiliating herself, Meghan Markle is back again with a new TV show. The audience reception has been, shall we say, unenthused. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Just a reminder that all of us at Daily Wire will be live as DW goes to D.C.
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Yeah, there are the ideological reasons why the left pushes things like climate change But also, the climate change narrative gives them an excuse to do nothing. It allows them to sit back and do nothing. That's why they always want to view every problem as some kind of huge, all-encompassing, systemic issue. Because the bigger and more abstract a problem is, the less you have to do.
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And again, yes, there's the ideological and political component of this, but also it's just... It's pure indifference and laziness too. And that's why anytime something bad happens, whether it's a wildfire or a school shooting or anything, they always want to say, well, let's look at this from, what are the systemic causes?
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Because they want to expand the problem and expand it and expand it and expand it so it gets to a point where there's really nothing that can be done. Or at least where all of the people on the ground who are supposed to be addressing these problems, there's nothing really that they can do.
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Because they have to wait around for policies to be put in place and laws to be passed and all this kind of stuff. They don't want to get down to the actual everyday kind of work of governing and managing and leading. They don't want to have to do those things. Which is why it always helps to deflect to... Climate change.
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I mean, climate change is when you talk about using, trying to expand an issue to use it as cover for your laziness and incompetence, you can't expand it any farther than climate change because now you've gotten to the point where you're not just blaming systemic issues and government or whatever, you're blaming the earth itself. And it just allows them to say, hey, there's nothing we can do.
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Daily Wire has this, the Biden administration's attempt to rewrite Title IX to allow men and women's sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms has been struck down nationwide by a federal court.
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26 states sued to stop the regulations from going into effect, and the Supreme Court in August provided a temporary stay of the rules, but now a federal court has blocked the regulations from going into effect for all states, even those that didn't sue to block the regulations. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita called the lasting ruling, the latest ruling rather, a huge win.
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There's now a very noticeable pattern that plays out every time we witness a colossal failure on the national stage. It happened after the Secret Service allowed Donald Trump to get shot in the head in Pennsylvania. It happened after Harvard's president was exposed for plagiarism, after Kamala Harris lost the presidential election. And here's how it usually goes.
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He said on X, Biden's radical Title IX rewrite has been defeated in court again. For now, Hoosier girls and girls nationwide are protected from biological males being able to infringe on their private spaces. Okay. This is a big win, another big win in this fight. It's pretty tremendous, really, the string of victories that we've had. Team Sanity has been on a pretty historic win streak.
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We're winning in the courts. We're winning in the state legislatures. We're winning in the culture. We're about to win in the Supreme Court when the decision comes down, when their decision about the Tennessee law banning child mutilation comes down probably in June, I would assume. Now, as I've been warning, the gender ideologues, they're not just going to go away. They will regroup.
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They'll continue to push their evil, destructive agenda. The question, though, is how much support will they have institutionally? You've got the true believer gender ideologues, the trans activists. They're not going to let this go.
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But, and we know that, but then you have everybody else on the left, especially all the people in power who don't actually believe in transgenderism and never did, never believed in it, never thought that it was, you know, that the arguments for it were valid, but they saw it as a winning hand and as a useful tool. The question is, are they going to give up on it now?
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Well, it seems they already have or are starting to, but will that trend continue? I'm not sure. I do think at least that they'll back away from some of the battlefields in the overall war. And I think this is one of them. I think the push to get men into women's sports is not totally over, but it's a losing hand for the left. And I think that they know it.
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I think they know that it's a losing hand. And that's not going to change. So I think in a relatively short period of time, we will be in a situation where, although the trans agenda continues, things like having men compete against women in women's sports, I think that will be gone. Okay, here's this. Daily Wire is this.
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Conservatives pointed out that DEI was involved in some way, and then everyone on the left acted with shock and indignation at the mere suggestion that DEI might have backfired. DEI, they tell us, is an essential mandate that always adds value. It's vital to every organization.
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An OnlyFans content creator was recorded propositioning a fast food employee for sex, but she was turned down after the worker told her he was a Christian man. Bonnie Blue, 25 years old, is a controversial OnlyFans creator. It's a very polite way of putting it, who targets 18 and 19-year-olds to have sex with her. I guess that's her brand. That's what she does.
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Viewers had mixed reactions when Blue shared the video on TikTok account. We'll play the video. This is her walking into a Five Guys restaurant and propositioning this guy that's behind the counter. Watch.
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You know, when you watch that, it brings to mind, if you remember, that OnlyFans creator, the OnlyFans prostitute a few weeks ago who had sex with 100 guys in a day, I think was the number. And now she wants to graduate to 1,000 guys in a day or something. Completely revolting and disgusting. And apparently it's not the same person.
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At first I thought maybe this is the same person because it sounds like the same person, but apparently it's not. And if you remember, the conversation around that person at the time was that she was, and we talked about this on the show, but the conversation around that person was that she was a victim also. She was a victim in all of this.
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And there were a lot of people, a lot of conservatives even, talking about how they felt sorry for her, you know, because she's a victim too. In fact, we heard the men who participated are more at fault than she is. That was the claim.
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There was a lot of commentary saying, shame on these men, shame on these men for exploiting, for exploiting this poor woman who's clearly damaged and had a difficult childhood and all that kind of stuff. Well, this is not the same woman, but they're both British hookers on OnlyFans, different people. Yet I think the point can still be made that these women are not victims.
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These are not desperate girls who've been trafficked by some street pimp. Now, that still exists in the world, obviously. Sex trafficking is a real thing. And so you still have that, but with only fans, there's a new kind of hooker that has emerged. These are, and it's, it's pretty like unprecedented.
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And then in the same breath, they tell us the DEI can't possibly be related to any failure by any organization or government agency that practices DEI. In other words, DEI is either critically important, fundamentally important, or not important at all, depending on how things are going.
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We know that prostitution is one of the world's oldest professions, but this kind of prostitution is very different because these are perfectly comfortable, financially stable, often upper-class women who decide to do this. Not just upper-class, but the really successful ones, successful only in a financial sense, become wealthy. These are wealthy women doing this, and they're pimping themselves.
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So if you want to say that we should put most of the moral blame on the pimp, fine. Well, in the case of OnlyFans models, quote unquote, the pimp is the woman herself. Now, you could argue that the pimp is actually the OnlyFans platform, the CEO, the parent company or whatever. And that's short. But in that case, then it's like a franchise system.
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The OnlyFans executives are the, you know, top pimps. But these women are like the franchisees. They're like, you know, someone who owns a McDonald's franchise or whatever. But they're still pimping themselves out. So do I feel sorry for them? No, I got to be honest. I don't. Call me cruel and callous. Many people have. Maybe I am. Maybe I am.
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But with these kinds of women, the ones on OnlyFans, no, I don't feel sorry for them at all. I don't look at that and say, oh, these poor women, they have difficult lives and they've been reduced to this. No, they deserve the same level of moral condemnation that we give to pimps. And nobody ever says that we should feel sorry for pimps. No one ever says that.
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Even though, you know, when you think about a young woman on a street corner, you know, the kind of, I guess we would have to call it now, old-fashioned prostitution. And a lot of people would feel sorry for that woman and would say, oh, the pimps are these evil people. And they are evil. But like, You know, the pimp on the street corner probably lives a pretty miserable life too.
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As entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles are destroyed by fires, once again, we're seeing this very familiar pattern play out. As we talked about yesterday, conservatives have pointed out, rightly, that DEI has infected every aspect of the government of Los Angeles, in particular its fire department.
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Probably had horrible things happen to him. You know, people that live good lives and are just like normal, well-adjusted people, they don't become pimps, just like they don't become prostitutes. Yet nobody ever looks at that guy and says, well, we should really feel sorry. I feel he's a victim too. No one ever says that. Not that they should. I'm not saying that we should.
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Just like we should not see these women as victims. The women, the OnlyFans women. We should condemn their behavior and shame them for it. That's why this is an important point about how does society respond to this sort of thing. And now it's easy enough to say that and see that with this particular video of this particular woman. Because she's like the sexual aggressor.
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She's the predator, in essence, going in and trying to. But all these women, our response should be condemnation of their behavior and shame and shunning. It is a disgusting, shameful, dirty, gross thing to make your living on OnlyFans. Or to be on it at all, whether you're making a living or not. It is a disgusting, gross thing. It shows a severe moral...
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deficiency on your part and um you are disgusting for doing this and and like that that is the level of uh condemnation that we should have for this behavior um and because if we don't if we don't if instead we say well everyone you know it's they it's we can't judge we can't judge Well, when you say that, that's how you end up with prostitution becoming a normal, upper-class occupation.
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That's how you end up with that. That's how you end up with seemingly normal soccer moms who become prostitutes. And they don't even need the money. You end up with that because society has not responded in an appropriate way to this kind of behavior.
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Okay, Notre Dame beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl last night, and after the win during the post-game interview on the field, an ESPN reporter tried to play the race card with Notre Dame's head coach, Marcus Freeman is his name. He's a black guy, but he was not interested. Watch this.
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And in response, as they usually do, the left has insisted that DEI actually has nothing whatsoever to do with the fires or the disastrous response to them. And they're wagging their fingers at anyone who suggests otherwise because things have gone wrong. Therefore, DEI is now irrelevant. That's the way it goes.
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Well, that's a fantastic answer. And look, he didn't need to deliver some kind of speech against left-wing racial ideology. He didn't need to preach against DEI or whatever. I actually think that it's better that he didn't. It's better that he was just totally uninterested in the race angle entirely. and pivoted back to the team. He said that he hopes great people of any race get opportunities.
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And that kind of sums it up. Now, it really is embarrassing. I know this ESPN reporter is probably incapable of feeling embarrassment, but she should. And she's not doing any favors for female sports reporters, by the way. This guy just had a huge win. He wants to celebrate with his players, and she's asking these utterly irrelevant, you know, vapid, vacuous, silly questions. Um...
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But his response was great, and it goes to show what I've said before about football. This response from this football coach is not unique. Most guys in professional football and high-level college football, and really football at every level, are like this.
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Now, you have your woke libs here and there, and maybe at an institutional level in the NFL, it's a corporation, so you're always going to have some of that kind of stuff. But The actual guys that are in football, whether on the sidelines or on the field, for the most part, they don't go for the woke stuff. And most of them have no time for the race baiting.
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Most of them are actually very conservative, in fact. Now, I don't know if this Marcus Freeman is politically conservative. I'm not saying I don't know that. But I know that a lot of people in football are also very religious. I mean, I just saw a video of Ravens head coach John Harbaugh in the locker room after their last game of the season.
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The whole team is together, locking arms, kneeling and saying the Lord's Prayer in the locker room, which is, of course, very common in football. I mean, those kinds of scenes are very common. And you constantly see that the most prominent, most influential figures in the sport are praying, glorifying God, talking about their love for Christ.
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Rolling Stone in particular was upset with my response to the wildfires and the response of others on the right. They published an article the other day entitled, Right-Wingers Are Blaming the LA Fires on Diversity. Here's part of it, quote, Close quote. Now, First of all, I had to look up who wrote this article because it reads like something our PR department would come up with.
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Oftentimes, it's not just a simple, oh, I want to thank God, and then moving on, like the cliched Oscar speech or whatever. Often talking about it in really personal, I think, compelling and profound terms, talking about their faith. I mean, talking about it in a way that you could tell they really mean it. So, Look, football is a conservative sport, and it's a great influence for young men.
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That's why it always... Look, I'm not saying you have to like football. Everyone has their own tastes when it comes to recreation and sports, and some people don't like sports at all. That's fine. You don't have to enjoy watching it.
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But when I hear from conservatives sometimes who talk about football like it's woke or like it's a bad thing, derisively say, oh, it's sports ball, you know, and it's a dumb... I just don't understand that attitude. I mean, football is, number one, it's America's sport. This is our thing. And these are oftentimes very religious, conservative people who get into this.
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And again, it's a great thing for young men in particular. So you would think that we would all support it. It's a thing that we should all support, I would think. Okay, let's get to the comment section. Let's talk about something that affects all of us, responsible, hardworking Americans, and that is taxes. Now that it's the new year and tax season is upon us, are you prepared for what's coming?
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Do you owe back taxes? Are your tax returns still unfiled? Did you miss the deadline to file for an extension? With the new year beginning and heading into the busy tax season, the IRS may be ramping up enforcement. Let me tell you, they're not playing around. You could face wage garnishments, frozen bank accounts, or even property seizures if you haven't taken action yet.
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Get the help you need with Tax Network USA. Couple cool comments here. Says from John Fish, if you need help, go to URL LA Mayor. What? Their house is burned down and there is no electricity or internet and URL is not an address. Face palm. Thanks for the help. Good job. Look, you know, you cannot underestimate the sheer stupidity of our political leaders. That's one thing.
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These are truly dumb people, a lot of them. And... often bad people, often very bad people. But sometimes I think we overstate the badness, which isn't to say that we're, yes, they're very bad. And the mayor of Los Angeles, clearly not a good person. But also, again, just these are not intelligent people.
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Fact, if you stop consuming all dairy products for a few months, you become lactose intolerant. This is because we are not meant to drink milk for our entire lives, much less another animal's milk. Find me one single animal in the animal kingdom that drinks milk its entire life. While you're at it, find me one that drinks the milk of another species.
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The fact that there's nutritional value doesn't make it nutritious altogether. There's nutritional value in tree bark and grass. If we were intended to drink cow milk over extended periods of time, humans would not all become intolerant to it upon ceasing to consume it. The conversation about milk continues. Milk, I never knew what a minefield the subject of milk is.
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People have very strong opinions all over the place. All kinds of very strong milk-related opinions. And this one is interesting. I don't necessarily disagree with you. I haven't thought about it much, but I don't drink milk myself. I enjoy dairy products like cheese. Who doesn't? But I don't drink milk. I'm not just going to pour a glass of milk and drink it. So you raise an interesting point.
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No other species on the planet drinks milk into adulthood. Maybe we're just not meant to. I don't. I don't think older people taking a driver's test would be too useful. Accidents will be more related to reaction time versus the rules of the road. Well, that's an argument for improving the driving test. And yeah, I think the driver's test should be improved in general.
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I guess I don't know exactly what the current driver's test consists of because my kids are not old enough for that yet, thank God. And I took it 20 years ago. And I know, of course, it varies to some degree from state to state.
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But when I took it, it basically just tested your ability to turn the car on, drive about a quarter of a mile at 15 miles an hour, stop at a stop sign, and then parallel park. And I assume the driver's test today is similar to that in most states. And if it is, then it's not extensive enough, in my opinion. It doesn't test for the right things.
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And it puts way too much emphasis on parallel parking. I've never understood why parallel parking is even on the driver's test. Because, you know, first of all, most people are terrible at parallel parking their whole lives. It's not going to change. And... You can avoid it most of the time.
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Especially if you don't live in a city, then you have very few, there are very few situations where you even have to parallel park. And even if you live in a city, you can still avoid it if you want to. Uh, so I don't care that much if you can parallel park or not, which most people can't.
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What I care about is another driver on the road is whether you understand how to change lanes on a highway, um, how to enter the highway, how to merge, how to use a merge lane, you know, uh, how to keep up with the speed of traffic, like those kinds of things. Um,
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The whole article is just a series of quotes from myself, Alex Jones, Elon Musk, Megyn Kelly, and so on. And sure enough, the author is one Nikki McCann Ramirez, who's a former Media Matters staffer. And, you know, so she made her living doing unofficial PR for us. And now she's gone to Rolling Stone and she's doing the same thing.
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Do you understand what to do if you are on the highway and you notice that you're just about to miss your exit, but you're three lanes over from the exit? What do you do in that situation? Do you slam your brakes and screech across three lanes of traffic so you can make that exit?
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Or do you just continue up to the next exit and get off on that exit and then get back on the highway the other direction and get your exit that way? which will take you four or five more minutes, but that's the downside. The plus side is that you won't potentially kill yourself and 10 other people. So do you understand that? Those are the things that the driver's test should test for.
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And at least when I took it, the driver's test didn't test for any of that. It didn't test for any of the situations where your life is actually on the line. Your life's not on the line with parallel parking, even if you do it wrong, like worst case scenario, you hit someone's bumper, not good. You're not going to kill anybody.
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I don't think anyone's ever been killed in a parallel parking situation ever. So that's an argument for I think the driver's test should be improved. I think it should be more extensive. I think a lot more people should fail it.
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You know, I mean, when you're out on the roads, and sure, there are people on the roads that don't have licenses and so on, but most of the people, when you're on the roads, all pass their driver's exam. And that should tell you something right there. Every time I'm on the road and I'm looking at all these moron drivers, and I just say, almost all these people pass the exam.
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What does that tell you about the exam? So... The exam should be more extensive, should be more difficult, and you should have to take it more often. And I said, take it again when you're 70. I mean, you can make an argument you should have to retake your driver's exam, you know, every 10 years, every five years.
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I mean, I shouldn't because I'm a perfect driver, but all the rest of you people, I should get an exemption, but the rest of you people should be, you should be taking that driver's test every year, okay? What is a Woman sparked the cultural conversation.
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It's a question that has profound implications for our country and indeed for our entire world and maybe even our universe. It brings me no great joy to report this, but it's true. The question is this, is it really possible for anyone with a pulse, regardless of talent, dignity, intelligence, to become a celebrity in the U.S. in the year 2025.
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That we truly entered an age in which even the most talentless and unimpressive people on the planet are capable of making millions of dollars simply by behaving in the most annoying fashion imaginable. Now, if you spend any amount of time on TikTok or Instagram Reels or pretty much any social media, you've probably already concluded that the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
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She apparently found another organization that's willing to pay her to write articles about my tweets and the tweets of other conservatives after Elon Musk sued Media Matters into the ground. Now, the only original contribution that Nikki Ramirez made to this article is this line of commentary at the end. It reads, quote,
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But allow me for a moment to be the voice of optimism. Just present a counter-argument. And that counterargument is named Meghan Markle, otherwise known as the fake Duchess of Sussex. As you probably know, Meghan Markle gave up royalty several years ago with the goal of becoming a social media influencer.
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But in a turn of events that poses a very clear problem for her grand plan, it turns out that Meghan Markle has no influence. She is actually failing at becoming an influencer, which is something that up until her, I didn't know that was possible. I didn't know it was possible to fail at doing that because literally anyone can do it, it seemed.
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Several years ago, when she and Prince Harry signed a $100 million deal with Netflix, a statement like that would have been unthinkable. But it's not unthinkable anymore. This deal recently produced a five-part documentary called Polo, which is either about horses or about collared short-sleeved shirts. I didn't check. Either way, every single reviewer panned it.
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The Telegraph wrote that it was a dull indulgence about a rich person's pursuit. The Guardian called it unintentionally hilarious, saying that it, quote, feels like a spoof documentary designed to play on screens in the background of episodes of Succession.
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An outlet called The Decider wrote that the documentary is, quote, a mostly boring look at a sport that very few people outside of elite circles have any particular interest in. Okay, so I guess it is about horses and not shirts. Anyway, these are the kinds of outlets that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have desperately tried to pander to over the years.
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And it's not working well for them at the moment. In fact, the reviews were so bad that rumors began circulating about the future of that $100 million Netflix deal. A lot of people began wondering if Markle's follow-up show about cooking, gardening, and entertaining might be canned. One alleged insider told the Daily Mail, quote, There won't be another deal. There may be one-offs, but that's it.
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A-listers are now actively keeping away from them and events that they're apparently going to attend. Apparently, according to this unnamed source, things are so bad that Oprah did not invite Meghan Markle to a surprise birthday party that she threw for Gayle King. That's a tragedy.
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And I don't want to alarm anyone or make you relive any elementary school drama that you might have suppressed as an adult, but... It's a pretty big deal in the industry. That's a celebrity equivalent of, like, Oprah sending a drone strike against Meghan Markle. But Meghan would not be deterred. Nevertheless, she persisted.
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Against all odds, at this hour, it does appear that Meghan's show about cooking and entertaining will indeed see the light of day. Netflix has been promoting it, seemingly to spike their own audience. And they've even released this trailer, which has already become one of the most panned trailers in the history of Netflix.
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and you'll find Amy Schumer specials that have better audience reactions than this.
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There's no evidence that the fire department's push for diversity has any effect on its ability to fight fires. It's a line that made me realize we need to do another deep dive on DEI and the Los Angeles Fire Department because it's completely false. But of course, a lot of people on the left are repeating it. And they're repeating this line because they think it's safe.
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The trailer assures us that the show is all about making friends and celebrating with family, two things that Meghan Markle is clearly incapable of doing. Her whole family hates her, and she's called her family racist. If Meghan could do a show about celebrating with family, then, you know, Hunter Biden can start a documentary about the virtues of monogamy and the importance of
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securing sensitive data on your laptop. So we're approaching unprecedented lack of self-awareness over at Netflix, which is truly saying something. But there are a lot of layers to the lack of self-awareness here.
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In case you've forgotten this whole episode, Meghan Markle famously claimed that she changed the course of history when she was an 11-year-old child by pressuring Procter & Gamble to stop running an allegedly sexist commercial for dish soap. The commercial stated that, "'Women are fighting greasy pots and pans with ivory clear.'"
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And Meghan supposedly convinced the company to change the word women to people to be more gender neutral. And news crews showed up at her house and everything. She repeated this story again and again. She even mentioned it at the United Nations. Okay, this is what a big deal it was. It's clearly a lie, but that's not the point.
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Now Meghan Markle, the noted feminist who's extremely sensitive to stereotypical portrayals of women in the kitchen, has tried to position herself as some kind of kitchen expert. She's making a show where she's a woman in the kitchen, going out of her way to promote the stereotype, the harmful stereotype that she found so offensive as a child.
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All because her relevance is plummeting and she's desperately trying to produce something inoffensive that some woman somewhere might watch. But of course, you know, nobody's buying it. There's not a single positive comment underneath this trailer on any platform, as far as I can tell. A lot of the comments on this trailer were too... obscene for me to read, but I'll do my best.
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On X, one person writes, all they wanted was some privacy and a Netflix deal. Another comment reads, thanks, I'd rather bathe in battery acid. And then there's this one, quote, nothing screams love in the air like using a fake house for your TV show. Now on YouTube, the trailer has a 90% dislike ratio.
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And in a pretty conspicuous move, Netflix left the comments open, almost like they wanted the show to get panned before it comes out. That decision allows someone to write, quote, she doesn't throw on a pair of shoes when she hosts William and Catherine for their first dinner and meeting, but she's covered in gold and diamonds while making lunch for her friend.
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Another person observed, I've been a chef for 30 plus years and I can tell by how she holds her knife. and her underproofed and undercooked focaccia that she has no idea what she's doing. Then it all goes downhill from there. Meghan's whole career has gone downhill. More precisely, her career never existed. Her career couldn't go downhill because there never was a career in the first place.
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In their minds, it's impossible to find a smoking gun that proves DEI leads directly to failure. After all, DEI is a bureaucratic system, and the whole point of bureaucracy is to make it impossible to assign blame. Now, unfortunately for Rolling Stone and the rest of these activists,
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She gave up a life of royalty and ripped her husband away from his family all in the hopes of becoming basically a glorified Instagram influencer in the U.S., only to find out that nobody likes her, no one's interested, nobody wants to hear about her, see anything from her. She has no influence. It's a truly tragic story and also a pretty funny one.
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Yet Markle still has some kind of contract, which was signed back when executives assumed that they could force-feed any fake influencer down our throats. Now, to be fair to those executives, that seemed like a reasonable position at the time. It even seemed reasonable as of last summer, when the Hot Tua girl exploded in popularity.
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But based on the reaction that Meghan Markle's show is receiving right now, thankfully, it's not a reasonable position anymore. And that is why Meghan Markle and her new show about cooking... and making friends and loving her family, three things she clearly does not do, are today canceled. That will do it for today and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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the leaders of the Los Angeles Fire Department have not been subtle about their DEI policies and the impact that these policies have on their job performance. In fact, They've actually been quite direct about it. Here's a video of Deputy Chief Christine Larson, who's the head of the Fire Department's Equity and Human Resources Bureau.
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And you may have seen a shortened version of this video online because it's going viral. I found a longer, unedited version of it. And it's worth watching because it implicates both the LAPD and the LAFD. And it also includes the context to the extent that you need it. Here it is.
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You know, it looks like some kind of AI-generated parody, but it's not. So let's review what we just saw. The first claim from the deputy fire chief is that when you have a medical emergency or when your house is on fire, all you care about is safety. Seeing first responders who look like you, you don't care if they're good at their jobs.
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You're not worried about whether they could do CPR or whether they can actually put out a fire or whether they can pick you up if you're incapacitated and carry you out of a burning building. Instead, the most important thing is the appearance of the firefighter, meaning their skin color and gender. And the LAPD sergeant agrees with that.
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Now, this is not a claim that needs to be broken down and dissected in a million different ways. I think to most sane people, the problems here are quite self-evident. But just for fun, let's analyze this a little bit. First of all, let's assume this is true. Let's assume that when white people call 911 in Los Angeles because their house is burning down,
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They really don't want to see black firefighters show up. So when a team of all white firefighters show up in Christine Larson's worldview, it'd be totally normal and appropriate for the white homeowner to say, well, thank God they didn't send any black firefighters. After all, he wants to see people who look like him. What's wrong with that?
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In fact, maybe if he is incapacitated and can't leave the building on his own, and he sees that these are firefighters that don't look like him, he might say, no, I'd rather burn to death. Send some white people or I'm not interested.
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Now, of course, what Christine Larson really means is that non-white firefighters should want to see, rather non-white victims should want to see non-white firefighters respond to their house. But there's still a big problem here because I'd wager a lot of money that
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There is not a single black person on the planet who would react with relief or joy if they called 911 and someone like Christine Larson waddled up to their door. I mean, that would be a moment of sheer panic for anyone, regardless of skin color. That would be the moment when they basically know their life is over.
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But even if we assume that black people demand to be saved by overweight black lesbian firefighters like Christine Larson, there's still another problem with Larson's explanation, which is this. How exactly would dispatchers know what race of firefighters to send to a particular call? Should the dispatcher demand to know the caller's race?
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Should they do a quick demographic poll to figure out who this is so they can dispatch race-matching fire crews? Is any of that happening right now in Los Angeles? By the logic of the deputy fire chief, it should be happening.
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And then, of course, comes the second part of the video in which Larson responds to someone who's worried that as an overweight black lesbian, she won't be able to lift a man and remove him from a house fire. Which, of course, is true. When you talk about a man, even of average size...
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There are almost no women on the planet who could successfully lift a man like that on their own and bring him to safety. Now, Larson's response is that the man shouldn't have put himself in that position in the first place. So it's his fault for being in a position where his house is burning down.
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Now, she couldn't be making it any clearer that DEI hiring compromises the fire department's ability to do its job. She thinks it's like a laugh line, apparently. This is how DEI hires at the highest levels of the Los Angeles Fire Department are talking about the impact of DEI on their jobs. But Larson has never been disqualified or punished in any way.
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She has a job paying well over $300,000 a year at the Los Angeles Fire Department, in which she enforces various equity mandates while she laughs at people who ask why she's so overweight. And part of that job apparently entails weeding out alleged bigots in the ranks of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Watch.
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This is very reminiscent of Lloyd Austin's big plan to purge the Pentagon of extremist white supremacists, by which he meant white people who support Donald Trump and refuse to take the COVID shot. It's the kind of thing that no public agency in the United States should be doing for about a million reasons.
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First of all, the idea of racism in fire departments and police departments has been stretched beyond all recognition to the point that it's completely meaningless. As we discussed earlier this week, fire departments all over the country are getting sued right now for racism because they attempt to enforce basic standards of literacy and competence in the admissions process.
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Secondly, this is a department that's now very short of manpower during a historic crisis. Barring extreme circumstances, You know, you should not be weeding out any competent firefighters right now. The Los Angeles Fire Department should be focused on retaining as many firefighters as possible, not firing them for liking an offensive meme or something.
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And if you doubt that, take a look at Ferguson or Minneapolis or Baltimore. Have any of these cities become safer after the BLM revolution? Of course not. And the real purpose of all these purges is to punish anyone who thinks an unapproved thought that also happens to be true. They don't want people to make obvious observations like this one. Women should not be firefighters at all.
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Any effort to include more women is by definition an effort to make the fire department less equipped and less capable by definition. The same is true for police departments, which are being gutted all over the country in the name of equity. Just this week, the Maryland State Police agreed to a $3 million settlement with Joe Biden's DOJ over their hiring practices.
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As one local news station reports, quote, the lawsuit claimed that the Maryland Department of State Police violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it used a certain physical fitness test and certain written tests to hire entry-level troopers. The lawsuit claimed the test disqualified more women and African-American applicants than others and were not job-related.
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In other words, in the world of policing, physical fitness and literacy are no longer job-related. That's how these police departments and fire departments operate now. They know they have to hire and promote incompetent people. This is the kind of deliberate sabotage that has directly contributed to the disaster that's unfolding in Los Angeles.
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No matter what anybody on the left says, no matter what anyone in the media says, these things are directly linked. They have to be. Instead of spending every moment thinking about protecting their state, the leadership of California has been busy appointing equity overseers. So when a disaster occurs, they have no idea what to do.
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That led to this clown car performance from Gavin Newsom yesterday. He told a constituent that he was on the phone with Joe Biden. And then when she asked to talk to Joe Biden, he admitted he didn't have cell service. It's like something out of a sitcom, watch.
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Yeah, it's the classic blunder. I mean, if you're doing the thing of pretending to be on a phone call to avoid having a conversation with somebody. By the way, as far as that goes, who among us can throw stones? We've all done that. But classic blunder is claiming you're on the phone with someone that the other person might know, or in this case, at least know of.
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So you want to be more vague than that. And, you know, if thousands of people weren't having their lives destroyed right now, the incompetence would be amusing. But instead, given the staggering nature of this catastrophe, it's infuriating. And people are very, very tired of this kind of thing. They want competence to make a comeback.