The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1543 - Incompetent Federal Employees PANIC When Asked What They Do All Day
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
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 still too high. Also, Joy Reid weeps on camera over her firing. Democrats in Maryland work 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. Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 Ep.1543 - - - DailyWire+: Join us for Backstage Live, March 4, at 8:30 PM Eastern—we’ll watch President Trump address Congress, then stay tuned for unfiltered, no-BS reactions you won’t get anywhere else. Watch at https://dailywire.com "Identity Crisis" tells the stories the mainstream media won’t. Stream the full film now, only on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3C61qVU Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj - - - Today's Sponsors: Dose Daily - Save 30% on your first month subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/WALSH or entering WALSH at checkout. Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/walsh to get 27% off sitewide. Tax Network USA - For a complimentary consultation, call today at 1 (800) 958-1000 or visit their website at https://TNUSA.com/WALSH - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs
Chapter 1: Why are federal employees panicking over accountability?
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.
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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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.
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.
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?
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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Chapter 2: What controversial email caused a stir among federal workers?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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