The Matt Walsh Show - Daily Wire Backstage： Biden’s Most Terrifying ＂Accomplishments＂

00:00:00.000 Well, you're about to listen to the latest episode of Daily Wire Backstage, but this was no ordinary discussion.

00:00:04.600 We were joined by the newest member of the Daily Wire team, the one and only Candace Owens,

00:00:08.200 who gave us the inside scoop on her Twitter feud with Cardi B and the ensuing lawsuit. 0.53

00:00:12.460 We also talked about the Biden administration, cancel culture, so much more.

00:00:15.960 So sit back and enjoy. Your compliance is appreciated.

00:00:19.760 You know, we haven't had a fake laugh in a while.

00:00:21.700 That's true.

00:00:22.200 How about a three, two?

00:00:23.680 Welcome to the Daily Wire Backstage, Biden's Most Terrifying Accomplishments edition.

00:00:32.400 I'm Jeremy Boring, known around these parts as the God King by anyone who wants to keep their jobs.

00:00:36.600 We're glad you've tuned in, folks.

00:00:38.480 In the words of George Washington as he crossed the Delaware,

00:00:41.820 I'm certified free, seven days a week. 0.96

00:00:44.320 Wet-ass patriots, make that red coat game weak. 1.00

00:00:47.560 Hashtag it's cold. 0.97

00:00:49.240 Because George loves hashtags, I guess.

00:00:50.860 It makes no sense.

00:00:51.940 Speaking of old presidents, how bad will Biden's border disaster have to get before the media takes notice?

00:00:57.360 Will Cuomo pull a Northam and just stick around until the storm passes?

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00:01:35.700 Joining me tonight to discuss all of this and more,

00:01:38.560 the Ben Shapiro, the Andrew Klavan, the Matt Walsh,

00:01:41.640 Michael Knowles, and our special guest, Candace Owens.

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00:02:19.860 I was there when they shot the show.

00:02:21.920 It's fabulous.

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00:02:25.840 Get your questions in.

00:02:27.540 There's nothing to talk about.

00:02:28.840 The teleprompter had exactly that much.

00:02:31.660 I was trying to read the news right before the show,

00:02:34.460 and it was basically that teleprompter.

00:02:36.260 That's all there is to say.

00:02:38.140 I know Ben would rather just go home,

00:02:39.760 but I thought, yeah, we might.

00:02:42.760 I'm sure there's something that we could gin up of interest in.

00:02:45.540 The only thing that came to my mind is that it's Michael Knowles' birthday.

00:02:48.940 Yeah, it's a big day.

00:02:49.800 It's my birthday.

00:02:51.080 I know.

00:02:51.720 Another trip.

00:02:52.340 How many?

00:02:53.020 You know, a lady never tells, but 31. 0.97

00:02:56.000 The big three won a monumental birthday.

00:02:58.480 It is monumental.

00:02:59.040 I remember last year was your 30th birthday,

00:03:01.540 and we had all these plans of all the ways that we were going to celebrate you,

00:03:05.200 and then COVID happened.

00:03:07.200 Two days before.

00:03:07.880 Two days before.

00:03:08.500 Two days before, and that was it.

00:03:09.440 I don't remember having all those plans.

00:03:10.720 Yeah.

00:03:12.160 I was going to beg.

00:03:12.720 COVID was our excuse, if you'll recall.

00:03:14.280 We're looking back.

00:03:15.540 They sort of foisted it on us.

00:03:17.740 You know, when it happened, sweet little Lisa said,

00:03:19.960 you know, hey, we'll celebrate your birthday in a few months.

00:03:23.240 I said, I wasn't born in a few months.

00:03:24.700 I was born today, so that's over.

00:03:26.280 So then she was like, no, we'll celebrate it next year.

00:03:27.940 I said, 31, you can't, a grown man can't have a 31st birthday.

00:03:31.720 That's, no.

00:03:32.500 At this age, you get birthdays once a decade.

00:03:34.320 Yeah, at most.

00:03:34.960 I mean, I think I need to basically be Drew's age before I get another actual birthday.

00:03:39.800 So here's the thing.

00:03:40.700 Today marks two dark occasions.

00:03:42.900 One is backstage.

00:03:44.460 And the second is the day that Michael Moles was popped out of his mother's womb.

00:03:48.480 And we all regret this day.

00:03:50.600 Some of us, it has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:03:52.940 At least.

00:03:53.660 No, more than that.

00:03:54.780 Others of us, it has cost merely tens of thousands of dollars.

00:03:57.060 And Candace, you're new.

00:03:58.300 Don't worry.

00:03:59.280 And so happy birthday to Michael Moles and God help us all.

00:04:05.340 Also, like actually in real news, Candace continues to be in a legal wrangle now with Cardi B's. 0.99

00:04:09.960 That's unbelievable.

00:04:10.640 We have to talk about that.

00:04:11.600 The only important news is happening because of Candace.

00:04:14.480 That's right.

00:04:15.380 So do we have any major like legal, breaking legal news?

00:04:18.180 Yeah.

00:04:18.840 Yeah.

00:04:19.060 I mean, it's interesting because she's now deleted the tweets and she.

00:04:24.060 Because there was nothing wrong with them.

00:04:25.120 There was nothing wrong with them.

00:04:26.040 She deleted them and she gave maybe the best excuse ever because I obviously called her 0.63

00:04:29.260 out for deleting the tweets where it's like, oh, I wonder what happened.

00:04:31.440 You wait for the news cycle to go away and then you try to quietly delete the tweets because

00:04:35.800 you maybe have gotten some legal counsel and you realize we are seriously suing you.

00:04:39.760 And she gives the best excuse.

00:04:41.060 She says, oh, no, I deleted the tweets because my Twitter is fun and friendly.

00:04:45.580 That's actually she actually.

00:04:46.640 Right.

00:04:47.460 Same excuse Hillary used. 1.00

00:04:48.680 Yeah.

00:04:48.820 She was like, I just drilled right through those hard drives because this bathroom is 0.98

00:04:53.300 supposed to be fun and friendly.

00:04:54.360 I want to lie, airy.

00:04:55.960 Right.

00:04:56.220 Exactly.

00:04:56.660 She's ruining all the decor. 1.00

00:04:58.420 So we had to we had to bleach.

00:04:59.420 Best defense ever.

00:05:00.200 I actually did that because it's fun.

00:05:01.960 And I just wanted to keep things fun and friendly.

00:05:03.380 Yeah, exactly.

00:05:04.040 Deleted tweets made her pull out.

00:05:05.080 Yeah, exactly.

00:05:06.060 So I'm very afraid of her.

00:05:10.320 But Cardi B is I just say she's great for traffic. 0.99

00:05:14.360 Oh, yeah.

00:05:16.300 She's really good for that.

00:05:17.580 So, yeah, I genuinely texted Ben when this went down.

00:05:21.720 I was like, I think at a certain point, like we are going to have to cut her a check.

00:05:24.800 Like, you know, daily wire.

00:05:26.120 I think it was like in our culture, there's very little that shocks anymore.

00:05:29.920 But I remember I think I probably first heard your rendition, Ben, of what is a better

00:05:34.060 rendition?

00:05:34.400 It was a better rendition.

00:05:35.700 Let's be frank.

00:05:36.720 It is terrific.

00:05:37.460 It's the highlight of the thing.

00:05:38.340 Like Joe Cocker did the Beatles better and you did Cardi B better.

00:05:41.000 Right.

00:05:41.460 But but when I heard it and and John Belushi did Joe Cocker much, much better than better

00:05:47.260 still.

00:05:47.680 Yeah.

00:05:48.500 When I first heard WAP and I, you know, I've been around the block a little bit.

00:05:54.440 When I heard that song, I thought seriously for the first time that I didn't realize you

00:05:59.260 could have audio pornography that you actually could have that you could read porn or you 0.53

00:06:03.420 could watch.

00:06:03.860 I didn't know you could listen to actual pornography.

00:06:07.340 But that's what the song is.

00:06:08.460 Yeah.

00:06:08.720 I actually I had the the opposite.

00:06:10.620 In some ways, at first I was shocked and then I was shocked by the fact that I wasn't

00:06:14.560 shocked anymore because it's so it should be a lot more shocking than it is to hear.

00:06:18.180 Yeah.

00:06:18.500 Right. 0.99

00:06:18.820 A woman singing that graphically about her genitalia. 0.86

00:06:21.360 But they have to try so hard to be shocking at a certain point when you're trying that hard.

00:06:26.140 It just doesn't work anymore.

00:06:27.080 You watch the Grammys performance.

00:06:28.320 Because the clip that I saw, I was surprised by how it just seemed kind of clumsy and desperate

00:06:34.340 and very non-sexy.

00:06:36.860 It's like Babylon if Babylon really wanted attention.

00:06:41.920 Reminded me of when Norm MacDonald was doing the Bob Saget roast and all these roasts were

00:06:47.500 just the most disgusting, vile, vulgar things you could say.

00:06:50.840 And Norm got up and did a bunch of 70s Dean Martin roast jokes.

00:06:54.440 You know, like, hey, Cloris, you'll never be over the hill in the car that you drive.

00:06:57.940 Right.

00:06:58.140 All these kind of innocent jokes.

00:06:59.700 And he was asked about this and he said, they told me to be shocking.

00:07:03.780 That that was the only way to be shocking.

00:07:06.220 Right.

00:07:06.520 And it's kind of you think like if someone does a waltz at the Grammys, that would be

00:07:09.420 the most shocking thing.

00:07:10.400 If a girl kept her clothes on Instagram, he'd be like, this is shocking.

00:07:13.120 I just can't believe she's just going to keep her clothes on like that. 0.81

00:07:16.280 And that's sad.

00:07:17.100 But that's the culture.

00:07:17.780 They have constructed it, though, that you cannot point out that our culture is now almost 0.99

00:07:22.880 universally trash. 0.88

00:07:24.120 But if you point that out, you're kind of cranky, you know, and it's like you're just 0.93

00:07:27.620 supposed to like watch the decadence and think, wow, it's really brave that our culture is 0.99

00:07:31.720 now garbage. 0.97

00:07:32.640 I would believe your opinion if you didn't hate the Beatles. 0.99

00:07:37.020 But you've actually been cranky since 1963.

00:07:40.120 Wait, wait, be fair.

00:07:41.540 Be fair.

00:07:41.780 I agree that the Beatles were tremendously talented, but I looked at them and I thought

00:07:46.480 one day, Cardi B is going to do well.

00:07:51.520 The slippery slope.

00:07:53.560 A very slippery slope, as it turns out.

00:07:54.980 So for a freak, 100 days a week, man.

00:07:57.620 Turning on incognito or private mode in Chrome and Safari is not enough.

00:08:02.460 I just skipped the segue and I went right to the ad.

00:08:04.780 That was brave.

00:08:05.580 Thank you.

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00:09:16.680 And guys, if you saw the stuff that I'm into online, you'd know.

00:09:19.860 That guy's got to have a...

00:09:20.800 That guy's got to have a...

00:09:21.840 You know how many times he's watched a app?

00:09:23.800 It's like insane.

00:09:25.120 It's insane.

00:09:25.940 It really is.

00:09:26.660 But there is no culture left is, I think, the point.

00:09:28.920 Well, you've been talking about this, and I think it's important that we don't have a counterculture anymore.

00:09:33.300 We have an anti-culture.

00:09:34.040 Right.

00:09:34.360 Well, what they...

00:09:34.880 What they used to be, the counterculture, the idea was we know the rules and we're going to fight the rules, but we at least acknowledge that the rules exist.

00:09:42.880 Now it's, we're not just going to fight the rules.

00:09:44.920 There are no rules. 0.98

00:09:46.260 And the problem is that art without rules is just crap. 0.96

00:09:49.060 See, this is the dirty little secret about art. 0.88

00:09:51.020 It's like getting rid of all the rules of grammar and then trying to write a book on the basis of that.

00:09:55.000 You can't do that because it doesn't make any sense.

00:09:57.180 That's true about all art.

00:09:58.640 There have to be some limitations to what it is that you can do because that defines pushing the boundaries.

00:10:02.980 There are no boundaries to push.

00:10:04.000 If you know all the scales and you take liberties, that's jazz.

00:10:06.720 If you just play random notes, it's not even music.

00:10:09.460 Exactly.

00:10:09.720 And when you watch these performances now, it's not as though they are playing with the line or just pushing past the line.

00:10:15.820 There's no line anymore.

00:10:17.020 So in a way, it was shocking how unshocking it was.

00:10:19.820 It was shocking that you saw this and you knew you were supposed to be kind of shocked.

00:10:24.200 But at the same time, it was like, this is, as Matt was saying, perfectly, not only predictable, but almost blasé.

00:10:31.300 It wasn't even like this is so shockingly pornographic and sexy.

00:10:33.660 It was like this almost, it felt like it's grotesquery.

00:10:38.200 Yeah, I mean, it's closer to, you know, watching just either animals at a park or closer to being in anatomy lab.

00:10:47.820 Like, there's nothing about it that was romantic or interesting in any way, obviously.

00:10:51.000 It's also sad.

00:10:52.260 I mean, this is the thing.

00:10:53.060 You're not shocked anymore.

00:10:54.200 Even when you were arguing with Cardi B, I was thinking, aside from your association with us, you're an elegant, well-spoken, you know, intelligent young lady talking to this woman who's acting like an animal on stage. 0.98

00:11:06.180 And the press is going like, ah, she really gave it to Candace.

00:11:09.580 And I just love, like, just putting them together is sad.

00:11:12.540 You know, I'm sorry for this woman. 1.00

00:11:14.180 And the thing is, what you said, Candace, is exactly right.

00:11:16.880 She's acting animalistic, but she's not an animal, and so she's degrading herself.

00:11:20.560 And this is the part that's sad, is that people in our society are doing this, is that she's so much more than that, right?

00:11:24.960 She's a soul, and she's a brain, and she's a mind, and she is all these things.

00:11:27.760 And, I mean, beyond all the mockery and all the silliness, which she does bring on herself by seeking it out, because she wants the attention, she wants the money. 0.96

00:11:34.240 There is something deeply sad about our society, which has decided to celebrate this sort of behavior.

00:11:39.060 And it does rip away the humanity, the people who have participated in it, and the people who watch it, I think.

00:11:42.900 Well, this is, you know, I don't say this just because you're my friend.

00:11:45.620 But I mentioned it on the show today.

00:11:48.160 The left's argument, the left's art with WAP, and then the left's argument through WAP is that we're just meat puppets, right?

00:11:55.560 We're just kind of our flesh.

00:11:56.840 They actually make the opposite argument with transgenderism, but we can get to that later. 0.50

00:11:59.740 But they just were kind of meat puppets, right? 0.99

00:12:01.640 If you're black, you've got to vote for Biden. 0.99

00:12:03.360 If you don't, you ain't black. 0.98

00:12:04.580 If you're a woman, you've got to behave in a certain way. 1.00

00:12:06.440 And I think this is why you, Candace, irritate her so much is because you're a woman, you're black, you, if you just looked at the two of you purely physically, you'd say, oh, these are very similar people. 0.99

00:12:20.000 And yet, you have made totally opposite decisions in your life. 0.96

00:12:25.100 And it just throws that whole ideology in the trash.

00:12:28.140 It's such a challenge to it.

00:12:29.380 I think they can't really take it. 0.80

00:12:30.780 I think that was one of the more remarkable elements is that obviously she did this performance and everybody reported on it because she wanted everybody to report on it because she was being disgusting. 1.00

00:12:38.720 And yet it was specifically my 60-second response, right, that really got, it really got under her skin in a way that I thought was quite fascinating.

00:12:47.900 It's like she could have picked any person talking about it online, and yet she was just so focused on me.

00:12:52.740 So it's like there's something about me that bothers you.

00:12:55.120 And I think, to be honest with you, in just seeing the spiral of her tweets and how she was trying to pull anything about me, right, she's like, you make your husband a sandwich, ah!

00:13:02.660 And I was like, are we really doing this?

00:13:05.080 Like, yes, I make my husband sit, caught me, you know?

00:13:08.720 And I think she's embarrassed.

00:13:10.420 I think deep down, and I said this to her.

00:13:12.200 I agree with you.

00:13:12.840 Yeah, I think at the end of the day, you can play pretend, but at night you have to go to sleep with you and your own thoughts, and that cannot feel good.

00:13:19.880 And Noles is right.

00:13:20.660 It's like she's looking in a mirror, and the mirror's showing her something else she could have been.

00:13:24.480 Yeah.

00:13:24.860 I thought the sandwich line was especially revealing because she's rejecting, it's a very feminine thing to take care, to be a caretaker, to take care of your husband and your family. 1.00

00:13:33.540 She's rejecting all that's feminine. 0.98

00:13:35.100 And then it's interesting because we see in the culture of just this week, really, we see two examples of what happens when prominent women reject their femininity. 0.97

00:13:42.800 So you've got Cardi B rolling around on the stage, and it is very just sad to watch.

00:13:46.480 That's maybe the primary emotion that I feel actually is sad when I watch.

00:13:49.740 But can we agree as four men on the show that there was actually nothing sexy about the performance?

00:13:56.020 I just want to cut you off for a second.

00:13:57.200 There are five of us.

00:13:58.060 I don't know what this is about.

00:13:59.720 He's just four men.

00:14:01.160 Oh, okay.

00:14:02.320 There's nothing remotely sexy about it.

00:14:03.820 That's why it's, being sad is not, you know, for me, that's not a turn on to be sad.

00:14:09.860 Some people are into different things, though.

00:14:11.300 But then you also have, at the same time, you've also got Elliot Page now and this picture on Time magazine.

00:14:21.320 And I look at that and I think, this is really incredibly sad to look at that.

00:14:27.180 This woman who was an attractive woman and now is a, you know, this kind of frail-looking man or a person trying to imitate a man, rejecting her femininity. 0.73

00:14:39.060 And this is the two things that happen in this culture when you reject femininity. 0.55

00:14:42.320 You've got Cardi B.

00:14:43.460 But isn't it weird that you're getting these two opposing ideas by the left?

00:14:48.240 Both ideas are aimed at destroying our old understanding, the old standards or whatever you want to call it.

00:14:53.040 But they're opposite ideas.

00:14:54.240 The one is we're just meat puppets.

00:14:55.440 We're just kind of bumping and grinding.

00:14:56.820 It's all about the WAP, right? 0.91

00:14:58.240 That's the materialist idea.

00:14:59.740 And then there's the Gnostic idea that my body has nothing to do with who I really am.

00:15:05.420 If Ellen Page says, you know, my biology is all woman, but I feel in my metaphysical deep, deep down that I'm a man, then I'm not even a combination.

00:15:14.700 I'm just a man.

00:15:15.760 It's just my immaterial self.

00:15:18.060 You can't hold those two views simultaneously.

00:15:20.600 You can.

00:15:20.840 See, I think the problem is that you're assuming that this ideology is that.

00:15:26.900 You're assuming that the ideology actually has a framework, a logical consistency.

00:15:30.720 But it isn't.

00:15:31.260 To your point about anti-culture, it's an anti-ideology.

00:15:34.020 Yeah.

00:15:34.080 It's actually, this is, it's whatever you think, whatever system you adhere to is wrong.

00:15:39.700 Those systems must be torn down in favor of the individual, in favor of individual expression.

00:15:44.580 And the remarkable thing is that it makes them all miserable, right?

00:15:47.420 So it's, they're doing the opposite and they're miserable.

00:15:50.480 Everything about their lives, and this is always been my challenge because I consider myself, I always say, I'm not a feminist.

00:15:55.200 I'm a proud non-feminist, right?

00:15:56.840 And I'm talking about, obviously, modern feminism, which is not about uplifting women.

00:16:00.660 It's not about equality with men.

00:16:02.060 And I say to these young girls that follow me, find me a feminist and let's examine whether they're happy, right? 1.00

00:16:07.760 Chelsea Handler, do you think she's happy, right?

00:16:10.440 Cardi B, look at her life.

00:16:11.680 Do you think she's happy? 0.92

00:16:12.880 All these people that are telling you, ah, men are horrible.

00:16:15.420 We got to do this.

00:16:16.160 We got to look at them objectively and say, is that the life I want to have when I get older?

00:16:20.320 And who will make Elliot Page a sandwich?

00:16:24.460 Candace, we have a question from a daily.

00:16:26.280 She's a girl.

00:16:27.400 We have a question for Candace from the Daily Wire audience.

00:16:31.280 The question, Candace, I love that you are on the front lines of the culture war, engaging with prominent industry figures like Cardi B.

00:16:37.940 How did you develop the confidence to speak publicly while receiving so much backlash?

00:16:42.200 That's a good question.

00:16:42.960 Yeah, it's a very good question. 0.96

00:16:44.020 And I'm going to say one thing and everyone's going to be like, oh, this is ridiculous. 0.64

00:16:46.580 But first and foremost, I always say I'm a pretty formed person.

00:16:49.140 I'm confident in who I am.

00:16:50.120 I stand on my two feet.

00:16:51.180 And a lot of that came from first because I took a very liberal route to conservatism.

00:16:54.920 So having done so many things wrong that like when you're screaming, oh, yeah, feminism, it's like it's I say feminism.

00:17:01.420 It's like, you know, trying drugs in college.

00:17:03.420 Like, you know what I mean?

00:17:04.120 You've got to come out the other side before you become an addict and ruin your whole life.

00:17:07.560 Right.

00:17:07.920 And so, you know, experiment with these things that made me like I was miserable.

00:17:12.380 I was miserable when I was a liberal.

00:17:13.720 I mean, that's really the best way to say it.

00:17:15.440 And then so I was so sure when I became a conservative and everything just got better by, you know, just believing in discipline, believing that this this all does mean something falling back into religion.

00:17:26.100 Like, you know, I kind of abandoned Christianity for a while and kind of became an atheist in a way.

00:17:32.160 And just I realized that my grandparents got something right.

00:17:35.080 And and I was happy when I started living like that.

00:17:37.280 But the second thing, and it's so, you know, people don't understand this.

00:17:40.440 Kanye West genuinely inspired me when I decided that I was going to jump into politics.

00:17:44.980 I'll never forget.

00:17:46.460 I was listening to his song on repeat when I was like, I'm going to do this.

00:17:50.880 But I need to know that, like, you just have to stop.

00:17:53.480 You have to not care what anybody else thinks.

00:17:54.800 And that is written into the DNA of Kanye West's music for people that follow culture.

00:17:59.200 He has always been a person who does not care what other people think.

00:18:03.000 You cannot care what other people think.

00:18:04.700 You have to just kind of go into it and say, I'm jumping out of the window.

00:18:08.300 And, you know, that's a line from one of his songs.

00:18:10.400 And he's like, it's going to be a beautiful death.

00:18:11.800 And this is a great time to mention that Kanye West is now worth six point six billion dollars.

00:18:15.940 As I'm saying, the richest black man that's ever, yeah, ever, ever in the United States.

00:18:22.460 Oh, what's what's really both inspiring and tragic about what you just said is that music helped you find yourself.

00:18:30.280 Music helped you find the path to be who you are.

00:18:32.780 And I think that that's a good coda to the conversation about Cardi B,

00:18:35.820 which is there is a consequence to the fact that our culture is descending into this madness,

00:18:40.560 which is music probably more than any other art form has such a power.

00:18:46.320 I always say that if you want to if you want to judge the sort of theological integrity of a church,

00:18:51.120 you shouldn't listen to the pastor.

00:18:52.360 Nobody else does.

00:18:53.380 It's really the songs.

00:18:54.480 It's what people sing in their own voice.

00:18:56.120 The power of hearing your voice lifted in song, singing along with the radio.

00:18:59.560 Confucius said that.

00:19:00.220 A Chinese philosopher, if you want to determine the morals of a society,

00:19:03.420 its music will furnish the answers.

00:19:04.800 And that's a question to ask a black America. 0.93

00:19:06.520 If if, you know, the music determines the answer, what what are we producing right now?

00:19:10.520 What is Cardi B producing?

00:19:11.700 And that's what I say.

00:19:12.380 It's not good because what you put into your ear, the thoughts become things.

00:19:16.140 And so I don't listen to trash music anymore.

00:19:18.280 Like I just I mean, I listen to it when I was younger.

00:19:20.660 I just don't.

00:19:21.260 I'm like, you know, can I say we can't have someone here is going to pull out Confucius quotes.

00:19:26.120 Because I can't keep up with that.

00:19:27.940 No, it makes us look like Candace.

00:19:29.460 Yeah, I'm sorry.

00:19:30.440 Tone it down.

00:19:31.220 It's interesting.

00:19:31.420 Tone it down a bit.

00:19:32.720 As Michael said.

00:19:34.040 As Michael said.

00:19:35.340 You know, but there's this there's this contrary strain.

00:19:38.600 As you say this, right?

00:19:39.440 I don't listen to much pop music at all.

00:19:41.060 I don't think most of us listen to a ton of pop music.

00:19:43.660 I do.

00:19:44.440 A little touch every now and again.

00:19:45.560 Candace is the most in touch with the culture.

00:19:48.020 Kanye releases a gospel album.

00:19:49.640 Yeah.

00:19:49.960 Like what, a couple of years ago?

00:19:51.260 I mean, it was it was pretty good album.

00:19:52.400 I really liked it, actually.

00:19:53.680 And I, you know, so there is also that.

00:19:55.920 I mean, he's probably the biggest star basically in the world.

00:19:58.420 So what does that mean?

00:19:59.340 That you got WAP and you've got Jesus as king. 0.58

00:20:02.360 Yeah.

00:20:02.860 Both coming out around the same time.

00:20:04.440 Yep.

00:20:04.700 It's interesting.

00:20:05.420 And I will say this.

00:20:06.320 And because this news of Kanye becoming, you know, the most, the wealthiest black person

00:20:11.440 that's ever lived, I mean, ever lived in America, in the United States.

00:20:15.380 I had a conversation with him a couple of months ago that was like so inspiring.

00:20:18.320 Maybe it was like two months ago.

00:20:19.440 And we were on the phone and he said, I'm not, this is his exact sentence, by the way.

00:20:24.320 Like, I'm not finned to be the poorest one of Elon's friends.

00:20:31.780 And then I said to him, you know what?

00:20:33.520 I'm not finned to be the poorest one of Kanye's friends.

00:20:35.700 Yeah, no.

00:20:36.180 Like, you know, and I mean, this is like, he's so inspiring to me for those reasons.

00:20:39.220 People just never understood what it was about Kanye West.

00:20:41.240 But if you follow his music, in the DNA of his music, he cannot communicate his ideas.

00:20:45.220 That's his problem, right?

00:20:46.560 He's a teeters, thinly, genius insanity.

00:20:49.020 And like, he's got the ideas here.

00:20:51.200 And then when he says it, you're like, whoa, what was that?

00:20:53.580 That did not, you know, you did not communicate that correctly.

00:20:56.560 But he is always, in a way, really ahead of his time.

00:20:59.580 And I knew exactly what he meant when he said about Elon Musk.

00:21:01.480 And I was like, that's, guys, an interesting way to look at yourself.

00:21:03.180 I think I am.

00:21:03.800 The poorest one of Elon's friends.

00:21:04.900 I might be the poorest one of Candace's friends.

00:21:07.100 I'm really upset to say that.

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00:23:23.200 So with with regard to the final note on Cardi B, the thing that really struck me in the

00:23:29.880 exchange that you were having with Cardi B is the way that the media just allowed her 0.62

00:23:33.180 to get away with everything.

00:23:34.120 Yes.

00:23:34.420 I mean, she literally just took tweets that were made up out of whole cloth and then threw those

00:23:40.100 at you and the headlines were spat between Cardi B and Candace. 0.95

00:23:43.460 Now, if you'd made up something as ridiculous as she made up about you and then put it out 0.95

00:23:47.760 there and then she had threatened to sue you, we all know what the headline would have been. 0.97

00:23:50.800 But you're not on the proper side of the political aisle and she is on the proper side of the 1.00

00:23:53.920 political aisle.

00:23:54.040 Cardi B has confessed to drugging and robbing men.

00:23:56.840 Yeah.

00:23:57.100 When you talk about what the media will let her get away with, can you imagine any, any,

00:24:02.300 basically, forget any human.

00:24:04.500 Right.

00:24:04.840 Any human.

00:24:05.560 Any human.

00:24:05.840 She should be in prison. 0.88

00:24:06.400 She should, she should right now be in prison until like the year 2050 based on the crimes 0.68

00:24:09.960 that she, that she confessed to.

00:24:11.720 And, you know, we're obviously not into cancel culture around here, but there's a big difference

00:24:15.300 between if she said something offensive, like an offensive tweet 10 years ago and confessing

00:24:21.160 to violent crimes against other human beings.

00:24:23.540 She's just like, that's what I had to do.

00:24:24.880 Yeah, I throw that.

00:24:25.900 Totally.

00:24:26.480 I say we should, yeah, so that.

00:24:27.820 Cancel criminals.

00:24:28.640 Yeah.

00:24:29.360 Let's start that hashtag.

00:24:30.580 Cancel criminals.

00:24:31.060 The broader point is that obviously if you meet with the left's political approval, then you can

00:24:34.380 get away with literally anything.

00:24:35.940 That's literally anything.

00:24:36.660 Up to and including the most, most vicious sort of racism, obviously.

00:24:39.840 Right.

00:24:39.960 And this sort of brings me to the, the topic that, that's been eating the news of late,

00:24:44.220 which is the shooting in, uh, in Atlanta.

00:24:46.720 And so this horrific act of evil by this white guy who shot a bunch of Asian women. 0.93

00:24:50.720 Mm-hmm. 0.55

00:24:51.160 And the number of pieces, so far there's no evidence that it was racially based.

00:24:55.100 It may very well be racially based.

00:24:56.320 He says it wasn't.

00:24:57.220 Right.

00:24:57.420 He said, he said it wasn't.

00:24:58.640 Like racists.

00:25:00.120 Always denying that they have racial animus.

00:25:02.100 That's the evidence.

00:25:02.580 So, so, so, but this is sort of the point is that if you are of the proper political

00:25:07.480 perspective, you can be as racist as you want to be and accuse every single other person

00:25:11.300 on planet earth of racism.

00:25:12.800 The same exact people who are suggesting that this, not only the shooting, but all anti-Asian 0.90

00:25:17.220 hate crimes in the United States are the result of white supremacy and whiteness.

00:25:20.360 Those, those same exact people are saying that Asian people should be barred from high schools

00:25:23.940 and colleges based on their outstanding level of success academically.

00:25:27.020 Also, why is nobody asking the question?

00:25:28.860 Mm-hmm.

00:25:29.580 These, these women were working in massage parlors, which were obviously sex parlors. 1.00

00:25:33.820 Right.

00:25:34.060 Why is nobody asking the question?

00:25:35.060 Why are so many Korean women being sold into sex slavery? 1.00

00:25:37.740 Right.

00:25:37.960 That to me is a really racial question that I haven't heard one person say.

00:25:41.580 Yeah.

00:25:41.720 And it is true, by the way.

00:25:43.180 It is happening.

00:25:43.920 I don't know why it's happening, but I'd like to know.

00:25:45.620 I think that's, you know, that's one of the truly degrading, awful experiences that is

00:25:50.540 taking place in our culture now.

00:25:52.360 People talk about slavery that's been over for a hundred years, but they don't talk about

00:25:56.400 this is slavery.

00:25:57.240 It is slavery when you come over and they, they tell you.

00:25:59.320 And that, and a good culture would be talking about that, right?

00:26:01.600 Yes.

00:26:01.720 Yes.

00:26:01.800 The treatment of these women before they, they were, you know, murdered in the most egregious

00:26:06.420 fashion.

00:26:06.660 That's right.

00:26:07.060 I'm sure they didn't sign up. 1.00

00:26:08.200 They didn't go, come here thinking, wow, I can be a sex slave. 0.98

00:26:11.260 I mean, there, there, there's so many issues here. 0.92

00:26:13.280 You know, the, the, the evil of men who are, who are living in a, in a pornified culture,

00:26:18.380 the, the lengths to which those men will go to do active evil to women.

00:26:22.400 You know, there, there's so many different topics that are really of interest.

00:26:25.060 The one that seems the least of interest in a, in a situation where we literally have

00:26:28.140 no evidence that this was a racially based crime is the racist angle, but naturally it 1.00

00:26:31.520 turned into Donald Trump said Wuhan virus.

00:26:33.860 Therefore, this guy went and shot up a bunch of, you know, brothels, what look like brothels. 0.89

00:26:38.600 It also, you know, right now to call someone a racist is the worst thing you can be called.

00:26:43.380 Racism is the only sin, right?

00:26:45.040 It's the only crime that we, in the culture.

00:26:46.980 It's getting boring it now.

00:26:47.920 It's like every, every body's called a racist now.

00:26:49.920 It's like, but that's why they changed the language, right?

00:26:51.480 Because they realized that the racist charge had stopped, it stopped having the same sort

00:26:55.960 of impact that it had because they'd applied it to literally everyone.

00:26:58.520 So everybody went, okay, well, if he's racist, then racism didn't mean anything.

00:27:01.680 So instead what they did was they recognized that there was still a term that had a lot

00:27:04.400 of currency, white supremacist, right? 0.87

00:27:05.720 Because when you think white supremacist, you think of the skinhead with the Nazi tattoo 0.98

00:27:08.840 on his neck, who's shooting up the West Valley JCC, right? 0.97

00:27:11.660 That's, that's what you think of. 0.91

00:27:13.000 And so what they did is then they laundered the term white supremacist into white supremacy.

00:27:16.660 And white supremacy was no longer a philosophy whereby white people were superior to other people.

00:27:20.660 It was a philosophy whereby all of America's institutions that end with inequality of outcome

00:27:26.500 were infused with white supremacy.

00:27:28.420 And therefore to be anti-racist and anti-white supremacy meant you had to oppose all of America's 0.64

00:27:32.480 institutions.

00:27:33.080 They laundered the term racist into white supremacist, into white supremacy, and now into whiteness. 0.76

00:27:37.020 Right, right, right. 0.64

00:27:37.520 They do that all the time though.

00:27:38.860 You know, they, they're liberals, they're leftists, they're progressives.

00:27:41.040 As people find out what they are, they change the word to keep ahead of the-

00:27:45.060 But it's broadened out so much now that they are overtly being racist.

00:27:48.340 I mean, there are, there is a piece today-

00:27:49.640 You're talking about segregating colleges.

00:27:51.380 I mean, there was a piece literally today in the root.

00:27:53.600 Segregating ceremonies, graduation ceremonies.

00:27:56.040 I mean, segregation, I've been talking about this for years.

00:27:57.960 There are, there are certain black only dorms.

00:28:00.000 Okay.

00:28:00.260 Yes.

00:28:00.520 Do you mean we're so woke black people that like all they had to do was repackage it 0.69

00:28:04.020 to us?

00:28:05.260 Like really?

00:28:05.940 Like we're so, we're actually going to segregate ourselves.

00:28:07.480 Thank you very much. 1.00

00:28:08.480 It's so stupid. 1.00

00:28:09.420 It's, it's implausibly stupid. 1.00

00:28:10.780 Right. 1.00

00:28:11.140 And black Americans, enough of them are not realizing this. 0.99

00:28:14.440 Like, you know what I mean?

00:28:14.960 It's like, obviously me, I speak up and I'm like, guys, hello.

00:28:17.640 Remember that whole like period where we tried to like desegregate?

00:28:20.280 Yeah.

00:28:20.420 You're just, you're just choosing it.

00:28:21.900 Well, it's empowering now because I'm choosing to segregate.

00:28:24.100 It's gone, but it's, it's gone.

00:28:25.500 What's really frightening though is what Jeremy said before is that when I think about what,

00:28:30.160 what the end game is, there is no realistic end game that they can reach.

00:28:33.740 And it's almost as if they're just locusts.

00:28:35.800 It's like, they're just, it's, it's not, it's like you said, it's an anti-philosophy.

00:28:39.360 It's not a philosophy.

00:28:40.680 It's not a vision of what the world could be. 0.98

00:28:42.700 Well, you could kill America in the process, right? 0.92

00:28:44.980 Because it doesn't work this way. 0.52

00:28:46.360 It's no longer a meritocracy.

00:28:47.640 But anybody can kick over a sandcastle.

00:28:49.360 It's hard to, it's hard to build a plan.

00:28:50.240 California, they're no longer allowed to flunk black students on the basis of not showing

00:28:54.100 up.

00:28:54.640 Right.

00:28:55.180 Think about this.

00:28:55.980 So like they saw too many black kids were flunking because they just weren't coming to school

00:28:59.380 and they said, we're not allowed to do that anymore.

00:29:00.320 They got rid of the concept of flunking.

00:29:01.380 A teacher, a teacher just got canceled.

00:29:03.560 I'm sure you saw this.

00:29:04.360 Couldn't they do that when I was in school?

00:29:05.160 At Georgetown?

00:29:05.760 Yeah.

00:29:06.240 The Georgetown law professor?

00:29:07.520 Yeah, because she told the truth.

00:29:08.580 She said the bottom, every time I check at the bottom of my class, the majority of the 0.97

00:29:12.100 students are black. 0.85

00:29:12.940 For saying that on, you know, yeah, exactly. 0.99

00:29:15.880 It was a Zoom session.

00:29:16.440 It was a Zoom session at Georgetown.

00:29:17.340 For saying, acknowledging the truth about people.

00:29:19.640 They said, well, you're racist.

00:29:20.300 That's the only way that could be happening.

00:29:21.260 She was saying it was bad.

00:29:22.360 Yeah.

00:29:22.500 She was saying it was bad.

00:29:23.140 What do we do about it? 0.96

00:29:23.560 She was saying some of my best students are black, but disproportionately, a lot of my worst students are black. 0.95

00:29:26.800 Yeah.

00:29:26.900 How can I make this difference?

00:29:31.380 The Smithsonian Institute said a year ago that the nuclear family and the Protestant work ethic and objective truth are tools of white supremacy.

00:29:40.620 Being on time is a tool of white supremacy.

00:29:42.260 But what I want to know is this, especially with regard to this shooting in Atlanta at the massage parlor. 0.94

00:29:47.500 The guy who's perpetrated it says, I am a sex addict and I gave into lust and that was the sin that drove me to this. 0.98

00:29:55.760 And everyone said, well, no, you're a racist. 0.91

00:29:58.300 Racism is what?

00:29:59.060 It's wrath and pride, basically.

00:30:00.460 Those are the two deadly sins that lead you to racism.

00:30:03.840 Can it also be other sins?

00:30:05.500 Couldn't it be lust?

00:30:06.540 Couldn't it be like, why is it that as a culture, we've completely lost a sense of all the other sins, all the other vices.

00:30:12.560 And it's just this one very particular sin of racism.

00:30:16.860 It's all malleable also, right?

00:30:18.220 There was an entire article today in the New York Times about how this guy had claimed that it was because he had a sex addiction and because he was addicted to sex.

00:30:24.640 This is what drove him to this. 1.00

00:30:25.660 He's a piece of crap. 1.00

00:30:26.520 And, you know, his views are of no consequence. 1.00

00:30:28.500 But if we're talking about societal trends that are a problem, you know, when you talk about sex addiction and pornography addiction, I mean, pornography addiction is a very real thing in our society for sure.

00:30:37.340 But what the piece said, and this is the part that's hilarious, said experts doubt that sex addiction leads to this.

00:30:42.120 I'm old enough to remember when Bill Clinton claimed that he was a sex addict, right?

00:30:49.520 And the entire media went, oh, well, you know, that's a thing, right? 0.82

00:30:52.780 That's probably, first of all, if you want to talk about a sex addict, that's just called a man. 0.86

00:30:56.200 It's a man.

00:30:57.440 The best thing about sex addiction is that the 1-800 number to get help starts off with for a good time call.

00:31:04.300 Yeah, I think one of the dangers here, to Drew's point, that, well, there's a question about why are all these women ending up in sex trafficking?

00:31:15.440 Michael, you point out, well, sex addiction, why did that drive him to it?

00:31:19.860 So because we're so focused on racism, we're neglecting every other societal problem.

00:31:25.700 And there are a lot of really interesting and important questions that we should be asking and dealing with.

00:31:29.580 That's the point. 0.94

00:31:30.200 And it's just like there was the awful case a week ago of the black teenagers breaking into a guy's house, a white man, mentally disabled, setting him on fire. 0.82

00:31:42.220 These kids are 16 and 14 years old, and they break in, and we still don't know why.

00:31:46.760 And this is hardly being reported by the media.

00:31:48.440 And, of course, the races, if it is reported, the races are taken out of the story completely.

00:31:51.920 But 16 and 14-year-old black kids go into a white man's house, set him on fire, watch him burn for a little bit, and then just leave, and he dies.

00:32:02.420 And we should be asking the question, what is going on in this country that would lead a 14-year-old kid to set him, black or white, it doesn't matter his race, what is going on that would lead a 14-year-old kid to do that?

00:32:14.260 But that's a question we're just not talking about because we can't talk about the issue at all.

00:32:18.420 Can I pose a theory?

00:32:18.900 But that's the point.

00:32:19.820 It's intentional.

00:32:20.500 They want us to focus on race because they're destroying America, right? 0.99

00:32:23.900 This is the easiest way to destroy America, right?

00:32:25.740 So you're saying, look over here, look over here, but we're burning down all of these things.

00:32:30.100 They don't want you to address the actual ill.

00:32:32.220 But I have a theory about this that we have never talked about before, I think, which is I think the culpability of the church and the reason that the church is in such trouble in America.

00:32:41.660 David French often talks about how the evangelical church has lost its way, as is evidenced by its support of Donald Trump.

00:32:51.260 And he'll say, you know, if you go back to the late 90s during Clinton impeachment, mid-90s, you have, you know, I don't know what it's called, but all the pastors got together and signed, you know, the Frenchian accords where they said that it's very bad and character is destiny.

00:33:05.620 And now we've forsaken that and the church has lost its way and now it's just an instrument of politics.

00:33:10.460 And I've been thinking about that now for the last two years.

00:33:13.220 And I believe that the church actually did lose its way.

00:33:17.140 David's correct.

00:33:18.060 But it lost its way in the 90s, not now.

00:33:21.340 In the 90s, the late 80s and the 90s, the church made a decision which culminated in the impeachment saga, which was that the church was going to go all in as a political instrument in the country.

00:33:31.060 They did it in the name of being the moral majority and they carried, they carried freight for the Republican Party, who was having a hard time explaining the simple concept of, because we're so bad at media, Republicans, they couldn't explain the simple concept of perjury to the American people and make them care.

00:33:47.820 And so the church said, well, don't worry, we've got it.

00:33:50.260 We're going to say that it's about something that it actually isn't about, which is, you know, a man laid down with a woman and a cigar and we definitely need to kick him out of, I think they were.

00:33:59.160 Love is love, love is love, love is love, yeah, right, right.

00:34:02.400 But that whole idea of the church as a moral instrument as opposed to the church as a community of people seeking righteousness from God, righteousness is a distinct concept from morality.

00:34:14.560 And when the church went all in on morality, which does have a massive cultural component, I think that they were sealing their fate because in the late 80s, the morals that the church cared the most about were like, don't say bad words, don't have sex before your marriage, before you're married, and don't smoke.

00:34:31.000 And the morals of our country have changed, and the majority morals within the church now are, don't be racist, don't apologize for your whiteness, and I guess wear a mask.

00:34:44.840 Don't offend anybody else.

00:34:45.820 I take issue with part of this because I think, first of all, the original sin was in the Reagan era when they became the moral.

00:34:52.020 That's when they became the moral majority, and it was a reaction to abortion.

00:34:55.020 It was the idea that, oh, these people in Washington, you know, just Supreme Court judges, not elected officials, can suddenly say you can't make a law about abortion.

00:35:04.620 And I think that woke a lot of evangelicals up to the fact that the culture was going south.

00:35:08.840 The problem to me is not, you know, about morality or righteousness.

00:35:12.920 The problem is about the world.

00:35:14.440 The church was never there to make the world a better place.

00:35:16.880 There's no place in the Gospels where Jesus says, go out and make the world a better place. 0.99

00:35:20.620 What he says to you is, the world sucks. 0.95

00:35:22.160 In this world, you will have your problem. 0.99

00:35:24.100 And you're going to get crucified and then proved it, you know, that that's what's going to happen to you.

00:35:28.980 And what they want is to be relevant.

00:35:31.040 I mean, I think John MacArthur talks about this all the time.

00:35:33.440 They want to have an effect on the world instead of having an effect on people's souls.

00:35:36.860 Now, yes, if people's souls are saved, I think that's going to make for a better world.

00:35:41.260 But that is an actual secondary point.

00:35:44.560 Once the church decided that it was going to be an engine for world change, for world betterment, they were lost because the world is actually a bad place.

00:35:54.080 I don't think what we're saying is radically different.

00:35:55.420 It's not radically different.

00:35:56.040 Because what I'm saying about morality ultimately is that righteousness can't be judged with human eyes.

00:36:00.900 This is why Christ says, if you have lust in your heart, you are an adulterer.

00:36:04.500 Or if you have hate for your brother, you are a murderer.

00:36:06.300 He doesn't say, he's not Yoda.

00:36:07.600 He doesn't say, if you have hate for your brother, on the path to murderer, you are.

00:36:10.960 No, he says, you are one.

00:36:12.280 Because God sees the heart of a man.

00:36:14.040 Right.

00:36:14.320 And his judgment isn't limited like ours is to just the things that we can measure and observe with our senses.

00:36:21.080 Morality is the things that we can measure and observe with our senses.

00:36:24.660 And so when the church goes in for morality, it's, I think it's the same thing.

00:36:28.880 We're basically saying that the church was only interested in what it could measure and not in the actual substance that undergirds the things.

00:36:34.520 There's something, I mean, there is, you know, when Jesus is asked, how will I be saved?

00:36:38.660 He does reference six of the Ten Commandments.

00:36:42.160 I mean, there is a moral law.

00:36:44.740 I think there is a natural moral law that we live by and basic things that you can't do and be moral.

00:36:50.220 Yeah, don't smoke, don't say bad words, don't have sex before marriage, and don't be racist.

00:36:53.460 And wear a pillow, you can't wear a pillow.

00:36:55.220 And wear a mask, don't forget that one.

00:36:56.800 And wear a mask, yeah, wear a mask.

00:36:57.460 That's from the lost gospel of St. Fauci.

00:37:00.600 St. Fauci, yeah.

00:37:01.240 The problem is more, I know you don't like this term, but it seems to me the problem is more the church gave up on objective morality.

00:37:06.720 You're talking about the church adopting the morality of the age and how it changes over time, which, of course, that's exactly the problem.

00:37:14.140 And it's absurd that people are going and sitting down in pews and listening to sermons about the dangers of racism.

00:37:20.460 Like, every single person agrees.

00:37:22.080 You don't need to say it.

00:37:23.160 There's no reason to give a sermon on it.

00:37:24.860 What they've gotten rid of is the fundamental universal morality, and we're not talking about that as much.

00:37:31.080 But I know you don't like the objective morality term.

00:37:33.820 I don't like the term objective morality, but I don't fundamentally disagree with what you're saying.

00:37:37.120 I disagree with the language around what you're saying.

00:37:39.020 God's standard is himself.

00:37:40.540 God's standard is righteousness.

00:37:42.060 And my understanding of the gospel is that he says that the only way that you attain that righteousness is as a gift.

00:37:49.620 As Corinthians says, one Corinthians, not two Corinthians.

00:37:53.160 He says, Christ has become for us wisdom from God.

00:37:56.260 That is, he has become righteousness.

00:37:58.080 Or as Romans says, now a righteousness made manifest apart from the moral law, apart from the law, the righteousness that's found through the faith of Jesus or in the faith of Jesus Christ.

00:38:06.640 But he does say that the law will be written on your heart.

00:38:09.520 But that's, again, now we're talking about the unmeasurable thing.

00:38:14.300 We're talking about the heart of a man, which is where God lives, which is where righteousness lives.

00:38:17.780 There is a sense, too, I think, on this distinction between objective morality and this kind of, like, culturally relativistic thing where it's always changing and we didn't smoke cigarettes in the 80s and now it's whatever, wear a mask.

00:38:29.500 The traditional understanding of conscience, of your moral conscience, is that it is a judgment of reason where you can distinguish between good and evil.

00:38:39.360 It's not just like my feels, man, and it's not like what Dr. Fauci tells me it is one day.

00:38:44.140 It's like you can rely on your faculties of reason to, very imperfectly, but still with some reliability, measure the difference between good and bad.

00:38:55.040 And we've completely lost that.

00:38:56.900 But even Aquinas talks about, you know, when we rely on reason, it's reason in coordination with revelation.

00:39:02.220 Yes, right.

00:39:02.540 We all have to acknowledge that the basis that we are using our reason upon is revelation because reason unmoored ends with the catastrophes of the 19th and 20th centuries.

00:39:12.540 That's right. No, you're right.

00:39:13.180 And so what we're watching right now is that happen when churches, synagogues, when they refuse to speak in religious terminology, when they refuse to talk about the inerrant word of God, and instead when they start talking about kind of broad moral terminology without that underpinning, this is why you end with this bizarre situation where the Pope reaffirms 2,000 years of teaching about same-sex marriage.

00:39:36.880 And breaking news, the Pope didn't cave to modern standards of same-sex marriage and transgenderism.

00:39:43.940 Why would you expect him to do so?

00:39:45.380 And the only reason that society expects him to do so is because they believe that the church is so engaged with the world that it's up to the world to change the church, not the other way around.

00:39:51.980 Well, I love this point because in a sane culture, the shocking breaking news would be if the pontiff presiding over the most enduring institution in the entire civilization just changed the views overnight.

00:40:05.600 That would be the shocking thing.

00:40:06.540 But in this world where we're so absolutely imbibing progressivism all the time, we're so intoxicated on it, the shock is that he doesn't do it over.

00:40:16.300 But this is one of the reasons why, on a deeper level, our politics is fundamentally broken because we don't share the same framework.

00:40:23.580 We're not even speaking within the same framework.

00:40:25.000 That's it.

00:40:25.680 It's funny because I would then add that I actually think one of the biggest issues, and obviously this is, I think what underpins everything we're discussing though, and it goes back to reason, is that people just don't think critically because we are actually producing people not to think.

00:40:39.000 I mean, how many people do you think that go to church have ever even actually read the Bible?

00:40:42.360 Oh, very few.

00:40:43.560 I walk around D.C., my husband and I live in D.C., and literally I see LGBT flags on the churches, Black Lives Matter flags on the churches.

00:40:55.160 Like this is actually, they have become political institutions.

00:40:57.880 When you fly a pride flag of any kind, maybe read page three. 0.99

00:41:04.140 Open up your Bible to page three.

00:41:07.220 It's fascinating.

00:41:08.500 That's my gluttony flag.

00:41:09.180 And it's like, you know, trying to find a church, when we were trying to find a good church in D.C., it was incredible.

00:41:15.740 I mean, it was just, I'm really going, we've just gotten so far, and then you couple that with the education system where they're actually teaching kids to suspend critical thinking.

00:41:23.520 Just remember what we're telling you, right?

00:41:25.720 So they wouldn't even be able to reason.

00:41:27.440 The kids can't reason at all.

00:41:28.600 And this kind of, this takes us all the way back to the Greeks, right?

00:41:32.600 And Socrates and running around and saying, take care of yourself, right?

00:41:36.080 Emmanuel Camp, the Enlightenment.

00:41:37.500 Like there's so many, I just feel like society is just, it's almost cyclical at this point, right?

00:41:41.660 Where it's like people don't think, they just do.

00:41:44.660 And we're at the part where, you know, you get a little nervous about the state of things today and what's going to happen with America.

00:41:50.040 Because if you speak to the average child, they're just, they don't think at all.

00:41:53.860 So what's new, I think, right now, and I've been referring to this book because I really think it's fabulous.

00:41:57.800 There's a book by Carl Truman called The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.

00:42:00.860 And I think it's tremendously explanatory of just where we are as a society.

00:42:04.680 And that is that we, over the past couple of hundred years, have redefined what happiness means.

00:42:09.440 What happiness used to mean, and for most civilizations meant, is that you as a child were a barbarian. 0.99

00:42:14.480 Kids are barbarians.

00:42:15.300 Anyone who has kids knows that small children are barbarians.

00:42:17.840 As the father of three young children, they are wonderful barbarians, right? 1.00

00:42:21.180 That's what they are.

00:42:21.640 They're innocent, wonderful, tremendous barbarians. 1.00

00:42:24.060 And your job to make them happy is to teach them about the nature of the world and the realities of the world and how they can adapt to living within that world, right?

00:42:32.660 That is the job of a parent, right?

00:42:34.020 You don't want your kids to run in the streets.

00:42:35.080 They'll get hit by a car.

00:42:35.840 And you don't want them to violate the laws of nature because then they will be cutting against their own nature and the reality that surrounds them.

00:42:41.520 Well, in the early 18th century, well, mid-18th century, there's this move away from individuals are defined by reference to their institutions and how they adapt to those institutions to individuals are defined by what they are inside.

00:42:55.240 It is a very Rousseau move where your individual happiness is now reliant on your ability to define yourself however you see fit.

00:43:01.060 Now, he didn't feel that was super dangerous because he was still living inside a set of rules and boundaries that he took for granted.

00:43:06.740 But then those rules and boundaries went away.

00:43:08.940 I mean, this is Nietzsche's point, right?

00:43:09.960 Once you get rid of the rules and boundaries, then without God, with God being dead, who's defined any of these rules and boundaries?

00:43:15.580 And so now the only thing left that matters in this world is how you define yourself on the inside, right?

00:43:20.240 Because all of the rules and boundaries, those are actually impediments to how you define yourself.

00:43:24.520 So the point that Carl Schreiber makes, and he brings this forward to transgenderism, is that religious people, traditionally conservative people, they look at this and they go, this makes no sense.

00:43:32.260 How can you say that I identify as something that I obviously am not?

00:43:35.060 And how can it be that when I say you're obviously not that, this makes me a bigot?

00:43:37.820 And also if I say biology says you are not this, how does that make me a bigot?

00:43:41.000 How is that even possible, right?

00:43:42.020 That's why I brought up Emmanuel Camp, because you can't define yourself unless you can think, right?

00:43:46.960 You get what I'm saying?

00:43:47.580 So there is no thinking, there is no reasoning.

00:43:49.940 How are they going to define themselves?

00:43:51.980 But what really, the point that Truman is making is that because self-definition has now been defined as happiness, as opposed to adapting to the circumstances around you in accordance with reason, right?

00:44:02.280 Which used to be called virtue.

00:44:03.480 Because we got rid of virtue, the basic idea of happiness is whatever floats my boat, but the rest of the world has to adapt to the flotation of my boat, right?

00:44:11.200 I mean, if the rest of the world puts a hole in my boat, the rest of the world has imposed on me.

00:44:15.280 If biology puts a hole in my boat, biology has imposed on me, because I am this thing on the inside that defines itself.

00:44:22.220 And all of nature, all of humanity has to adapt itself to my whim.

00:44:25.900 Otherwise, it's an actual harm.

00:44:28.440 And that's why when people say, you're harming me because you're denying my existence, I'm not denying, I see you right there, you're a person, I just disagree with you.

00:44:35.160 No, you're denying their existence because as soon as you deny their ability to express themselves and to identify as they see fit, it's the only thing in the entire world that matters.

00:44:42.040 And so it is not enough to say, do whatever you want in the privacy of your own home or your nidalgo gets whatever surgeries you want.

00:44:46.680 That's not enough.

00:44:47.440 They require, people require approval.

00:44:49.540 People require that you cheer for them.

00:44:51.400 And if you don't cheer for them, it's an active violation of who they are.

00:44:54.320 Well, what I know for an absolute fact is that the definition of happiness is having lots and lots of stuff.

00:44:59.560 Yeah, of course.

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00:47:01.520 Yeah, just jumping on that book, which I only just started reading it, but what I found attractive about it is that Truman is taking transgenderism as the starting point, as this obviously incredibly significant fact about our civilization.

00:47:19.740 Maybe the most significant fact right now is transgenderism because it speaks to our idea of the self.

00:47:26.320 And this goes to, like, another problem we have is that conservatives often are very slow to understand and react to what's happening in the culture.

00:47:34.740 So I can remember five years ago talking about transgenderism and the response that I would always get from conservatives, even now sometimes, but certainly five years ago, was, why are you talking about this?

00:47:44.760 Like six people.

00:47:45.680 Yeah, it's a sideshow.

00:47:47.620 It's a fad.

00:47:48.240 It'll go away.

00:47:49.480 And my point then and now is, no, no, no, no, no.

00:47:51.780 This is, the fact that this makes sense to so many people speaks to, they have an idea of fundamental reality, which is absolutely divorced from me.

00:48:02.860 And it's an almost unbridgeable divide.

00:48:05.580 And if we get to a point where half of the country, 80% of the country has that idea of the self as a self that you can simply make yourself based on your own emotions and your own whims, then we just, we don't.

00:48:18.120 Well, we're finished.

00:48:18.700 We're finished as one country.

00:48:20.780 It's ultimate subjectivism, right?

00:48:22.660 Because the only thing that matters is how you identify interior, in your interior life, which no one has access to, right?

00:48:29.100 And every single other objective claim about the universe is a threat to that.

00:48:32.740 So if you bring data, you're now a bigot, right?

00:48:34.640 We've all felt this, right?

00:48:35.560 You bring data, you bring biology.

00:48:37.320 If you make objective claims about the world, if you ask for data, right, all of this is a sign that you are intolerant and a bigot.

00:48:42.880 But also believe the science.

00:48:44.100 But this grows out of, I was talking to Matt about this before the show started.

00:48:48.000 This grows out of one of Rousseau's children, who is Foucault.

00:48:51.740 And I read Foucault and Derrida when they first started coming out.

00:48:55.120 But then I decide to go back and I'm rereading one of Foucault's major, major books called The Nature of Things, The Order of Things.

00:49:01.300 And he's a grifter, which didn't occur to me the first time I read it because I thought this was kind of interesting philosophy.

00:49:08.380 But he makes the point that natural science is a complete invention because all of biology is one thing and it's only us imposing this order on it.

00:49:16.780 And my first thought was that's interesting until a turkey tries to mate with a coyote and then you realize, no, there actually is an order of things.

00:49:24.640 And this idea, his idea is basically that power constructs all identity.

00:49:29.660 This is right. So if that's true, everything you are is created by me, is created by the powerful people around you who impose that on you.

00:49:37.560 And so we have that power to change you. And so if you say you're a woman and I say, no, you're not, I'm doing an act of violence to you. 0.99

00:49:43.940 I'm actually because my power is a threat to you. The fact that none of this is true, it doesn't seem to bother.

00:49:50.540 Well, he's French. That's what the French do. What the French do is they say false things beautifully. 1.00

00:49:55.160 What a great sentence, but totally untrue.

00:49:57.860 You know, the Germans say true things incomprehensibly, but the French. 0.86

00:50:01.140 I think that because the power dynamics of the society were perceived to have shifted over the past 10 years, that's why all this stuff is coming to the floor right now.

00:50:08.680 Meaning that when, if you said power, power decides the fate of societies back when the left felt it was not in control.

00:50:15.340 Right.

00:50:15.800 Then that's a dangerous thing to say. Right. Because then the right says, oh, OK, you're saying power decides the fate of societies.

00:50:20.720 Well, we have some ideas about what we can do with that power.

00:50:22.520 It was only during, I think, probably Barack Obama's second term when the left thought they were never going to lose another election.

00:50:28.100 It's why it's why Trump came as such a shock to them, because they thought literally they had created the unbreakable coalition.

00:50:32.660 It was they were never going to lose another election. They were the coalition of the ascendant.

00:50:36.000 They I mean, there were so many articles about the browning of America having to find because demographics was destiny. 1.00

00:50:41.180 And unshakably, Democrats were going to continue to win for all time.

00:50:44.340 And all of that was false. And all that was nonsense.

00:50:45.940 But it was at that point they started to say, you know what, everything in life is defined by power.

00:50:50.060 But now we wield the power. And because we wield the power, we can reshape all of these institutions.

00:50:54.720 And that has never let up the desire to reshape all the institution.

00:50:57.660 And Biden now, with his victory, feels that he gets to reshape all the institutions.

00:51:00.940 I mean, the notions of Ibram Kendi have now entered. I mean, talk about a grifter. 0.99

00:51:05.260 The notions of Ibram Kendi have entered every aspect of American government from top to bottom.

00:51:10.100 It's insanity. I mean, the State Department declared today that they were going to redo how they staffed the State Department on the basis of equity.

00:51:16.240 And they were going to achieve racial balance in the State Department.

00:51:19.340 I just thought I said I was going to hire all white people. And I got like 20 lawsuits.

00:51:25.640 Does anybody else feel, though, that we're living in an illusion in the sense that we're actually at the end of something?

00:51:32.300 We're not at the beginning of something. They think that they're at the beginning of leftist paradise.

00:51:36.160 But I can't help noticing that even what even though Biden is doing some things that are radical, that really all he's doing is he's stealing your grandchildren's money to prop up things that have already failed, like pensions and Obamacare and all these socialist ideas that have just failed.

00:51:52.940 I can't help feeling that we're at the end of an epoch.

00:51:57.380 And that's why.

00:51:57.760 Well, of course we are. That's why our presidents keep getting older, older and older and older.

00:52:01.180 We've had three presidents who were born in 1946.

00:52:03.400 And now we have one who was born in, what, 45 or 45 or 44.

00:52:08.160 It's a very bad sign for society when you can't make generational change in your chief executive.

00:52:15.440 You know, there is, too, this, like, just, it's pure will, right?

00:52:20.280 It's this imposition of will to Ben's point.

00:52:23.000 Once you have unfettered self-definition, it's all just whatever I want, I'm going to get.

00:52:27.900 And it gets to your point, Candace, which is you can't think and they won't let you think.

00:52:32.940 I know that references to George Orwell, like references to Hitler and the fall of Rome, are usually tedious and overdone.

00:52:40.580 But here's one that I think really matters.

00:52:42.780 In 1984, Orwell says they control the public through the new speak, you know, through this kind of PC jargon and through surveillance and all these things.

00:52:52.400 But most of all, through doublethink, through getting you to think mutually contradictory ideas at the same time, like materialism and Gnostic transgenderism or whatever.

00:53:04.000 Use whatever example it is.

00:53:05.220 Because they can't allow you to think.

00:53:06.600 And this idea that these boomers are just holding on to power and the presidents are getting older and they're going to steal from the young and the unborn and they're going to give it. 0.94

00:53:14.000 To me, it's such a gross act of will.

00:53:16.620 All of the censorship is based on this, right?

00:53:18.540 That they will not have any reasonable debate.

00:53:20.900 It would seem to me that this can't last forever.

00:53:24.320 It might last for a little while.

00:53:26.020 I think the clash is yet to come, though.

00:53:27.700 Meaning that I think Biden is amassed for the clash that's about to happen.

00:53:30.660 Yeah.

00:53:30.780 This is the reason the Democrats need President Houseplant.

00:53:34.020 They need him there because he's hiding that stain on the rug, right?

00:53:37.720 And right now, if something were to happen to him, God forbid, because you don't want anything to happen to anybody.

00:53:42.480 But if something happens to Biden, God forbid, and Kamala Harris becomes president, and then you see this break out in the open.

00:53:47.380 Because Biden is just a moderate face on extraordinarily radical ideas and policy.

00:53:51.240 And he's been able to avoid every question from the media because they are in league with all of these ideas.

00:53:55.720 And most Americans don't find him threatening because who finds this old coot shuffling around can't string together a sentence threatening? 1.00

00:54:00.360 There's nothing threatening. 0.77

00:54:01.380 Everyone's embarrassed.

00:54:02.020 Everyone's a little embarrassed by him.

00:54:03.560 And you don't feel bad about him.

00:54:04.940 You don't feel like it's hard to.

00:54:06.360 You don't hate the guy.

00:54:07.400 It's like elder abuse.

00:54:07.900 I mean, you actually feel.

00:54:09.180 I actually genuinely, like, I have declined to make fun of him because there's something really wrong about the fact that every single person in the world knows that this is a man in decline.

00:54:17.560 Every single person understands that he's senile.

00:54:19.980 Come on.

00:54:20.220 We have Putin making jokes.

00:54:21.900 I will.

00:54:22.580 No, you're right.

00:54:23.400 Think about this.

00:54:23.940 Think about the national security risk.

00:54:25.280 Putin's making jokes.

00:54:26.560 We're seen as a joke right now on the world stage.

00:54:28.600 And, you know, I have to say that the vice president is getting the morning, the presidential brief.

00:54:33.500 Yeah, because the president Harris today.

00:54:35.820 He did.

00:54:36.560 He called her president Harris on his campaign.

00:54:38.540 Yeah.

00:54:38.780 I mean, he was he was saying, you know, under, you know, this campaign.

00:54:41.460 I mean, he just wasn't there.

00:54:42.540 And they kept saying, oh, it's because of covid.

00:54:43.840 We're hiding him.

00:54:44.380 And it's like it was so obvious.

00:54:45.960 You're fooling no one, least of all everybody else in the world.

00:54:48.140 America looks weakened.

00:54:49.360 But I have to say that I feel more optimistic about it because when you see this increase in censorship, it's not because they're winning.

00:54:54.780 Right.

00:54:55.100 That's right.

00:54:55.420 Like when Barack Obama won, they didn't have to have a ton of censorship because people actually voted for him.

00:54:58.700 Like, you know, people really loved loved Barack Obama.

00:55:01.380 It was like kinetic on the ground.

00:55:02.920 You could feel that energy, you know, about Barack Obama.

00:55:05.900 They don't you don't feel that about Joe Biden.

00:55:07.840 Right.

00:55:08.060 So the Democrats, like you said, were very surprised by a Trump win.

00:55:10.920 They know that so many people in this country don't like them and are passionately hate them is what we should say.

00:55:15.520 Right.

00:55:15.680 At least 75, 80 million Americans passionately hate the Democrats.

00:55:19.040 So I think they're actually feeling apprehensive right now in this moment, which is why they're rushing through these policies of censorship, censorship, safety, safety.

00:55:27.260 Yeah, exactly.

00:55:28.040 And and doing all this stuff is because they don't feel comfortable.

00:55:30.600 That's why they say I mean, I think we talked about this the last time.

00:55:32.540 They're not acting like they won.

00:55:33.580 You know what I mean?

00:55:34.040 Winners feel a little bit more confident.

00:55:36.040 They're not acting confident right now.

00:55:37.380 They know they don't have the answers, especially on something like the gender topic.

00:55:40.840 They know that they don't have any responses to the arguments that we present because what they're saying is incoherent.

00:55:46.560 That's why it's so instructive that Amazon, like the one book that they're censoring is Ryan T. Anderson's book on transgenderism.

00:55:54.720 With the great title.

00:55:55.900 Yeah.

00:55:56.660 When Harry Became Sally.

00:55:58.140 Such a great title.

00:55:58.760 And there are so many other conservative books out there, many of them way more aggressive and objectionable from the left standards than this.

00:56:05.820 But but I think they're starting here because they know that, number one, this is this is a crucial, fundamental issue.

00:56:10.860 And also they simply have no response to that at all.

00:56:14.040 And they know it.

00:56:14.840 So all they can do is shut it down.

00:56:16.000 The problem is they have the power to shut down everything, any argument, because they own all the institutions.

00:56:21.240 And that's the biggest problem.

00:56:22.660 The institutions tomorrow marks the debut of Blexit founder Candace Owens, new talk show with The Daily Wire called Aptly Candace.

00:56:30.040 We've seen her viral mic drop moments.

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00:56:41.160 In her new show, Candace shows her personal side to her guests and her live audience as she tackles major political and cultural topics of the week with her signature blend of humor and insight.

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00:57:41.960 I mean, you know, the next president of the United States.

00:57:44.040 Of course.

00:57:44.320 Yeah.

00:57:44.940 But it is I think of the show as part of our entertainment play at the Daily Wire because it transcends the sort of normal boundaries that people would put on a political show.

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01:00:01.540 We do have some questions, speaking of Daily Wire subscribers.

01:00:04.840 Michael, it blows my mind, says a Daily Wire subscriber, that the left has changed its stance on the kids in cages story.

01:00:12.660 How bad is the crisis at the border, and why can the Biden administration just get away with all of this?

01:00:16.980 And why wouldn't they be able to get away with all of this?

01:00:19.740 I mean, what are you talking about?

01:00:20.740 As Trump famously said, it was one of the best lines of, unfortunately, an unsuccessful campaign.

01:00:25.620 He said, who built the cages, Joe?

01:00:27.240 Who built the cages, Joe?

01:00:28.320 Because they had this problem under Obama, the Obama-Biden administration.

01:00:32.660 And by the way, the policies that were being criticized went back even further.

01:00:36.720 They went back to the Clinton administration.

01:00:38.480 And so it was always a disingenuous attack against Trump.

01:00:41.480 Jen Psaki, I thought, had a great line the other day. 0.59

01:00:43.640 When liberal journalists finally started asking or saying, hold on, you're separating kids from their parents or whatever the adult was that was bringing them.

01:00:51.940 You're putting them in cages at way higher numbers than Trump ever did.

01:00:55.580 You're doing it during a pandemic.

01:00:57.060 That doesn't seem so hot.

01:00:58.720 What's up with that?

01:00:59.740 Why are you doing that?

01:01:00.480 And what does Jen Psaki say as they're cutting off all media access to the cages? 0.93

01:01:04.820 She says, there's not a lot of options.

01:01:07.900 Right.

01:01:08.700 There weren't a lot of options during the Trump administration, too.

01:01:11.800 And the problem here is that you've got horrible incentives being pushed by the Biden administration where he says on the campaign trail, come, surge the border, get on over here.

01:01:22.040 You're still hearing this from the secretary of DHS.

01:01:24.860 He's saying, yeah, don't come now.

01:01:26.560 But like, you know, what, two months come and then it'll be fine.

01:01:29.260 So you're creating all these incentives.

01:01:30.200 Who the hell is going to listen to that, right?

01:01:31.480 Who's going to be like, oh, yeah, you're right.

01:01:32.400 Now that you've surged forces to the border, you're literally telling me when you're going to put the officers at the border to catch me.

01:01:38.320 Don't rob the bank right now.

01:01:39.560 We'll have the security there later, guys.

01:01:41.880 Don't try to take over Afghanistan. 0.84

01:01:43.740 We're leaving in two months.

01:01:45.660 Here's a question for Candace from Drew.

01:01:48.320 Hey, why doesn't Jeremy call on me more often?

01:01:50.180 No, it's a different Drew.

01:01:51.880 It's a different Drew.

01:01:53.300 He wants to know, because the left's vision of identity politics, whatever happened to Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of judging someone, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character?

01:02:03.600 Seems like such a famous quote from such a well-known civil rights activist has been forgotten or ignored today.

01:02:08.800 Yeah, his dream became a nightmare.

01:02:10.020 They literally want you to only judge on the basis of skin.

01:02:13.580 It's the exact opposite.

01:02:14.420 And like you said, it's all of these competing points where they say, oh, yes, we should prop him up.

01:02:19.660 We need to extend February and I almost called it Black Lives Matter month.

01:02:25.160 I can't even think of anything about Black Lives Matter.

01:02:27.700 Black History Month.

01:02:28.580 Black History Month.

01:02:29.480 Black Lives Matter Month.

01:02:30.700 No, Black History Month.

01:02:31.600 But they actually know nothing about black history.

01:02:33.500 It's incredible.

01:02:34.000 You know, the people that they celebrate during black history would be so against everything the left is doing.

01:02:38.460 It's so counter to everything that they fought for.

01:02:41.280 You know, Frederick Douglass.

01:02:42.340 I'm like, what do you know about Frederick Douglass?

01:02:44.220 Like, what do you know about Booker T. Washington?

01:02:46.680 What did you have you read up from slavery?

01:02:48.220 They know absolutely nothing.

01:02:49.640 Because if they did know, if they were actually educated about these people and they weren't just, you know, one-liners to put on your Twitter, they'd all be conservative and they'd all be Republican and they'd be on our side.

01:03:00.360 So, you know, what happened to his dream is it became a nightmare and it became a nightmare because of the Democrats who were always the racists in this country, who have always seen, you know, the power that they can gain from race.

01:03:11.420 And right now, that's all it is.

01:03:12.860 Whenever you hear the term racism, you know, to me, it's always a power play. 0.90

01:03:16.600 And the irony, of course, being is that the people that suffer the most because of these policies are black people.

01:03:22.380 Do you think black people are going to get ahead when you're teaching them? 1.00

01:03:24.940 You don't have to be punctual. 0.66

01:03:26.040 You don't have to get A's.

01:03:27.420 You don't have to even try.

01:03:28.800 We're going to put you in these schools.

01:03:29.700 OK, now you're out of school.

01:03:30.840 What happens to you in life?

01:03:32.160 Do you think you're going to get a job at Goldman Sachs knowing nothing?

01:03:34.460 You know what?

01:03:35.100 You did absolutely nothing.

01:03:36.140 But here's a big check for you.

01:03:38.520 It doesn't work that way. 0.97

01:03:39.260 You're actually training them up to be failures, to be noncompetitive, so that you can keep propagating this problem of black people having, 1.00

01:03:46.540 them as the victims and saying, oh, look at you. 0.96

01:03:48.760 It's been a lot of years and you're still living like this.

01:03:51.080 Well, it's because we know nothing but outrage.

01:03:53.340 And I will say this because I'm so passionate about this.

01:03:55.260 So I'm over answering this question.

01:03:56.700 What they're really doing is they're transforming black Americans into toddlers. 1.00

01:03:59.820 You talked about how toddlers act, right?

01:04:01.760 The idea is to make them emotional.

01:04:03.560 Know nothing and you're emotional.

01:04:05.000 That is literally what a toddler is, right?

01:04:07.040 Why is a toddler scream when you say they can't have candy, right?

01:04:09.820 Because they don't know anything else but emotion.

01:04:11.780 They scream.

01:04:12.580 So you remove knowledge from someone and teach them that every emotion they have is justified

01:04:17.580 and you create a society of toddlers and that society can survive.

01:04:21.440 How conscious do you think?

01:04:22.340 Do you think they're doing that on purpose?

01:04:24.280 1,000% intentionally.

01:04:26.040 1,000% intentionally.

01:04:27.540 And so it's so, you know, it's just so important right now because the only people that are going to be able to stop this right now, 0.96

01:04:32.960 in my opinion, are black Americans. 0.95

01:04:34.300 As soon as the victims say no thank you, right? 0.99

01:04:36.280 As soon as you say, like me, this is why they hate me so much.

01:04:38.280 Because if I just say, actually, I'm actually not a victim. 0.95

01:04:40.960 Actually, when you say to me, Candace, that, you know, you're a victim, you're actually, you are the racist.

01:04:46.100 You're telling me when you say white privilege, you're telling me that you're more privileged than me. 0.58

01:04:49.540 That's literally, you're literally saying that I'm under you.

01:04:53.160 And to get offended when I say no thank you, I don't need it.

01:04:55.680 I'm also saying you can't unless I.

01:04:58.100 Yeah, unless I.

01:04:59.320 Yeah, exactly.

01:04:59.600 Doesn't this go.

01:05:00.420 Treating me like a toddler.

01:05:01.260 This goes beyond, I mean, this is what you're talking about, turning people into toddlers and they're emotionally driven. 0.71

01:05:05.340 And that's not just, they're not doing that just to black Americans.

01:05:09.020 They're doing that to all Americans.

01:05:10.460 And also, on MLK, if I'm to, just on that note of MLK, if I was to prophesy a little bit, like five years in the future, maybe earlier than that,

01:05:19.320 I'd say for certain he's getting canceled.

01:05:22.200 And those monuments are going to come down.

01:05:24.360 And it seems shocking now, but that will happen.

01:05:26.240 Yeah.

01:05:26.680 Because, number one, his message, they don't like.

01:05:29.660 And, number two, he was a flawed man.

01:05:31.700 He was a deeply flawed, imperfect man, as all great men, all people are deeply flawed.

01:05:36.480 Great people tend to have great flaws.

01:05:38.140 And he did, too.

01:05:38.820 So that's going to happen even to MLK.

01:05:41.420 Even the great historical heroes that still survive now, eventually.

01:05:46.480 Yeah, the left has to eat its own because no one can live up to their ever-evolving.

01:05:50.180 My theory is that in the future, it's not that there will be monuments, but the monuments will be monuments to brutality.

01:05:56.200 Meaning that they won't actually be able to build a monument to anyone because everyone is flawed.

01:06:00.140 And so that means all the monuments have to come down.

01:06:01.440 So instead, it'll just be a statue of George Washington whipping a slave.

01:06:05.260 Really, that will be the statues of the future.

01:06:07.280 The statues of the future will be all of America's sins encapsulated into marble.

01:06:11.300 My prediction of cancellation is George Orwell.

01:06:14.860 They're going to find something on him and say, this entire book is now canceled because that's exactly what they're doing.

01:06:21.040 It's almost like a play.

01:06:21.820 But what they're doing to Orwell is actually much more, I think, insidious,

01:06:25.240 which is that they just reinterpret him to say the opposite of what he was actually saying.

01:06:29.400 They don't read.

01:06:30.400 That's the point.

01:06:31.040 Everyone I know believes, everyone I went to school with, we didn't read 1984, but we knew the reference.

01:06:37.980 And it was a reference to American right-wing fascism.

01:06:40.340 Yes, of course.

01:06:41.000 And you see now that they're making this animal farm.

01:06:43.640 Is it Netflix who's?

01:06:44.580 I think so, with Christian Bale.

01:06:45.700 With Christian Bale.

01:06:46.360 You know that that's going to be an anti-Trump.

01:06:47.900 You know why, though.

01:06:48.820 It's because George Orwell, this is the line they always trot out, is George Orwell was a democratic socialist.

01:06:54.260 He actually was.

01:06:55.080 And you have to read what he writes about democratic socialism to understand what that means.

01:06:59.420 But he says, all of my writing that I've ever undertaken is to promote democratic socialism as I understand it.

01:07:07.060 As I understand it is doing a lot of work there because he was part of this movement of intellectuals at the time that were turning against Stalin.

01:07:13.520 And, you know, everyone likes to overstate the distinction between Stalin and Trotsky and all that.

01:07:19.200 You know, it's sort of the right wing does this, too.

01:07:20.960 We all, like, hate each other.

01:07:21.920 But, you know, it's really we broadly agree.

01:07:24.640 Fundamentally, the distinction between these socialist communist thinkers is one guy won and killed the other guy.

01:07:31.980 I was going to say, he had the ice pick.

01:07:34.160 The ice pick was the thing.

01:07:35.160 The ice pick, that's right.

01:07:35.940 That was the distinction.

01:07:36.740 So here's a question for me from MGM, which is one of the better studios.

01:07:41.460 I am a subscriber from Switzerland, and due to the cultural reach of the U.S., many habits and norms often tend to gain a foothold in Europe after they have sprung up in the States.

01:07:52.840 What advice would you give to our continent or a single inhabitant, assuming that we are probably six months to one year behind you in these matters?

01:08:01.620 Well, there's nowhere else to go.

01:08:03.100 I would have said 100 years ago, go to America, make haste, get to the land of the free.

01:08:08.180 But those days are gone.

01:08:09.380 And I actually think one of the great tragedies in the world right now is that there are no frontiers.

01:08:13.860 And I think freedom is a frontier mentality.

01:08:16.140 One of the things that made America unique is that people from all over Europe who were seeking freedom left.

01:08:21.860 They left comfort.

01:08:22.640 We don't think about it.

01:08:23.820 But they left the first world.

01:08:25.780 I mean, it's amazing.

01:08:26.960 Drew and I actually toured the Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas together one time.

01:08:31.980 And I remember one of your observations when we were looking at these old wagons and farm implements and ranch implements from the late 1800s.

01:08:41.540 And, you know, these grainy photographs of what the landscape looked like and what people were enduring at that time.

01:08:47.680 You said, for God's sakes, Europe had Dickens at this time.

01:08:50.980 And it's true. 0.56

01:08:52.180 They had hospitals and roads and lights and public works.

01:08:56.460 And people were leaving that behind to go to a barren wilderness and carve life out of almost certain death because they wanted freedom.

01:09:05.260 I think it's one of the reasons that Elon Musk is kind of an inspiring figure.

01:09:08.380 Whether or not you think that man can thrive on Mars, I'm skeptical.

01:09:13.260 We can't even thrive in Antarctica.

01:09:14.940 But what he's doing is inspiring because what he's saying is, what if there is still another frontier?

01:09:19.680 What if there is still a place where free spirits can go?

01:09:22.020 What if there's still a place where we can start anew and build?

01:09:24.420 Because that's what conservatives fundamentally do when we're not conserving.

01:09:28.740 What we fundamentally do is create.

01:09:30.960 We go, we create, we carve out of the wilderness.

01:09:33.700 We build civilizations and we do the very hard, risk-heavy work.

01:09:40.180 And then over time, after we've done that, after we've cleared the path, then the leeches can show up.

01:09:45.660 And they can just slowly pull all the things that we built down and sort of reappropriate themselves.

01:09:51.920 But the very same logic that says your body, to some degree, defines you, says that freedom is a space, is an actual physical space.

01:09:59.940 You know, I mean, we live in an incarnate world and you have to find a place to be free.

01:10:05.400 And I think that that is a problem.

01:10:06.760 By the way, quick note on Europe, just to get back to the question about what Europe should do.

01:10:11.200 They should say no and they're starting to say no.

01:10:12.860 You're starting to see actual European leaders who are more conservative than people in the United States now.

01:10:17.740 That's right.

01:10:18.280 Which is humiliating.

01:10:20.360 France.

01:10:21.020 France came out and France was like, we don't want any of this critical race theory nonsense.

01:10:24.080 That's not how Frenchmen think of each other.

01:10:25.800 You guys are too radical for us.

01:10:27.460 By the way, no is the most important word.

01:10:30.700 No is the most important word for conservatives today.

01:10:32.840 Absolutely.

01:10:33.160 No matter what corner of the globe you happen to talk about.

01:10:35.280 Here's the thing.

01:10:35.760 It's generally been the most important word forever.

01:10:38.120 That's right.

01:10:38.800 And for all of human history.

01:10:39.980 By the way, Ben, to go back to Japan, which I think you guys all know I have a weird fascination with Japan.

01:10:44.240 But like, look at Japan.

01:10:45.960 I mean, the rules in Japan in terms of trying to get into this country, which also fascinates me.

01:10:50.160 I told you my sister-in-law lives in Japan.

01:10:53.040 She lived there for 10 years.

01:10:53.880 All of her children were born in Japan.

01:10:55.300 She's a missionary there.

01:10:56.220 Their kids are not allowed to be citizens of Japan because they're just not Japanese. 1.00

01:11:00.400 Right.

01:11:00.720 Like, I mean, it's just incredible.

01:11:01.920 Like, the idea that America is a racist.

01:11:03.800 If you actually go look at the immigration laws of every other country. 0.93

01:11:08.620 And America is just a mess.

01:11:10.300 I mean, it's just it's unbelievable.

01:11:11.580 But, you know, there's they're getting something right in terms of the the remarkable strides that you have to go through.

01:11:19.420 Because they really believe in their culture and they're united in this idea of what their culture is.

01:11:22.860 Whether you agree with their culture or not doesn't really matter.

01:11:24.420 Right.

01:11:24.560 But to say, in order, you're not just going to join this club.

01:11:27.480 But they have one.

01:11:28.180 You're not just going to join this club.

01:11:29.640 Like, this is a culture and we believe in it and they have a culture.

01:11:32.380 The problem with America is that we have a bunch of people that don't believe in American culture.

01:11:36.360 Right.

01:11:36.780 And we have the doors open and we're saying everybody come in and we're saying culture is wrong and everything needs to coexist.

01:11:41.300 And we know that it fundamentally cannot.

01:11:42.740 And not just people who don't know what it is, people who are funded by zillions of dollars from the biggest institutions saying that we hate this culture and you should hate it, too.

01:11:53.260 That's right.

01:11:53.820 Here's a question for Matt from a subscriber also named Matt.

01:11:58.440 So you have to answer it.

01:11:59.920 How did it feel to have the embassy of the embassy of Ireland respond to your sarcastic tweet about internalized Irish phobia?

01:12:07.780 Can you break down what started this on Twitter?

01:12:09.920 That was my greatest career moment.

01:12:12.740 It says a lot about my career, I suppose.

01:12:14.520 But, yeah, this is the actual Irish embassy responded to a trolling tweet from me where I was where I was saying that if you're not part if you're not a person of Irish descent, PID, PID, which is what I am.

01:12:29.460 And if you add us with the marginalized groups, we are PID, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, all that together.

01:12:37.360 I always suspected.

01:12:38.100 Plus, sorry.

01:12:38.600 But anyway, if you're not a person of Irish descent, then to participate in St. Patrick's Day is cultural appropriation.

01:12:45.900 You know, my culture is not a breakfast cereal.

01:12:48.500 It's not like a chocolate.

01:12:51.920 And so I made that point.

01:12:54.160 And the Irish embassy could not pass up the opportunity to virtue signal.

01:12:58.700 So they responded saying, well, it's not true.

01:13:01.300 Anyone is welcome.

01:13:02.140 It's it's appreciation, not appropriation.

01:13:04.500 Cultural appreciation is not cultural appropriation.

01:13:06.400 Which the thing is, I actually agree with them that cultural appropriation is a nonsense concept.

01:13:11.020 I'm sure we all we all know that.

01:13:13.040 But the point is that if they had said that appreciation is not appropriation about, say, a white person wearing dreadlocks.

01:13:19.400 Right.

01:13:19.760 They'd be condemned as racist.

01:13:21.180 But they could say it in this case.

01:13:22.720 And that's so tragic that they only illustrate the point I was making your own people.

01:13:26.580 Yeah, my own people turned up internalized Irish phobia is what they were saying.

01:13:33.260 Because I totally see this point on appreciation, appropriation.

01:13:36.580 But if if you're not allowed to appropriate any other culture, let's say you're a white guy and you're not allowed to appropriate any other culture.

01:13:42.140 But also you have to abolish your own culture.

01:13:46.100 What what culture are you permitted to have?

01:13:49.900 One other thing about this appropriation thing, because, of course, one of the ironies with St.

01:13:54.840 Patrick's Day is that it's not even, you know, St.

01:13:57.340 Patrick wasn't even Irish.

01:13:58.440 He was kidnapped by Irish pirates.

01:14:00.240 And which is great.

01:14:01.300 I mean, he was appropriated himself.

01:14:04.000 But so many of the things that are that we say are appropriate don't even originate with the supposed culture that's been stolen from.

01:14:10.280 Braids.

01:14:10.700 Yeah, dreadlocks did not originate with black people. 0.91

01:14:14.000 Kendall Jenner was accused of appropriating tequila.

01:14:17.560 Well, tequila was not invented by native Mexicans.

01:14:19.600 It was invented by a by a Spanish aristocrat.

01:14:21.500 And so, you know, that's one of the ironies is that so often the culture that supposedly owns this thing like the Vikings, they have no answer for that.

01:14:27.600 You're not allowed to wear your hair and braids or your culture appropriating from Africans. 1.00

01:14:30.260 I guarantee you, the Vikings had no access to the continent of Africa.

01:14:33.580 They weren't just like, oh, look at this braid down here. 0.70

01:14:37.320 Let's bring that back up.

01:14:38.660 I mean, it's like it's incredible, but nobody they don't know history.

01:14:41.040 They don't know.

01:14:41.480 They don't know anything.

01:14:42.120 They just know we decided this is ours and you now you're not allowed to wear your hair and braids.

01:14:46.460 And it's just like, are you kidding?

01:14:47.400 It was fantastic, though.

01:14:48.300 I mean, when the embassy responded to you that way, it was legitimately hilarious.

01:14:52.380 You do have these Twitter moments where, like, you're just like, why is Matt, why is he trending?

01:14:56.480 And then, like, you look and you're like.

01:14:57.860 It's never, it's never for anything significant. 0.99

01:14:59.760 It's always, like, the dumbest issue. 0.97

01:15:02.740 Emojis, dogs, St. Patrick's Day. 0.99

01:15:04.680 It should have never been an issue, and now it is.

01:15:06.580 And that really sums up Twitter.

01:15:08.200 Here's a question for Andrew Klavan from someone named Lauren, who is a subscriber at DailyWire.com.

01:15:13.760 You should be, too.

01:15:14.380 Head over there, DailyWire.com slash subscribe.

01:15:16.140 I'd love an honest opinion from Klavan on Jen Psaki.

01:15:20.200 How do you say her name?

01:15:20.920 I can't.

01:15:21.520 Psaki. 0.60

01:15:22.520 Psaki. 0.60

01:15:23.640 I'd love an honest answer.

01:15:25.020 What do you think about her?

01:15:25.800 How is she doing and how does she compare to previous press secretary? 1.00

01:15:29.960 Well, it is the worst job on earth because you probably take it thinking you're going to communicate the wonderful vision of the president you believe in. 0.93

01:15:37.240 And you wind up lying like a dog.

01:15:39.440 And that is what she's doing.

01:15:40.520 And it's sad to watch her.

01:15:42.820 Like a dog.

01:15:43.560 What?

01:15:44.020 Like a dog.

01:15:44.700 A dog.

01:15:45.320 Like a dog.

01:15:46.480 No, I'm going to circle back on this.

01:15:48.360 No, I'm sorry. 0.57

01:15:50.740 I just think that it's sad to watch somebody devolve into just a constant liar.

01:15:57.280 The smallness, you know, I saw this during the Trump administration with Melania, like a lovely woman who did a good job as first lady, couldn't get on a magazine cover.

01:16:08.560 An actual model couldn't get on a magazine cover. 0.96

01:16:10.880 And it was just so small and petty.

01:16:12.300 And I find that now with the Biden administration refusing to give any credit to Trump and his Operation Warp Speed, which really did help these vaccines get out there.

01:16:23.940 And basically this pretense that the board today or yesterday, she actually said, oh, you know, the border thing, we were stuck with Trump's border policies.

01:16:36.260 I think Trump's border policies were like keeping people out and stopping them on the other side of the border so they didn't come over.

01:16:42.560 You let them all come in.

01:16:43.640 And now we've got this crisis.

01:16:44.940 So she's in this impossible position. 1.00

01:16:47.220 This is a this this presidency is a crap fest. 0.99

01:16:50.880 This presidency is going really badly. 0.99

01:16:52.860 And she's her job is to defend it.

01:16:54.660 And in order to defend it, she has to lie and lie and lie.

01:16:57.340 And I think it's degrading to her.

01:16:58.860 But that's what she's doing.

01:17:00.100 You know, is she doing it well?

01:17:01.460 No, she's doing it.

01:17:02.540 It's openly, except she doesn't have the press, you know, climbing down her throat.

01:17:06.520 I will say in her defense, I'm only saying anything in defense because we're both from Stamford, Connecticut.

01:17:11.000 But I will say her defense.

01:17:13.440 It also is hard because like because I, you know, is very chummy with the past administration.

01:17:17.580 Like, you know, the amount of time that Sarah Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany spent with the president every day.

01:17:23.080 Right.

01:17:23.480 They're having conversations, strategizing, doing these things.

01:17:26.540 She doesn't she doesn't do that with Joe Biden.

01:17:28.200 Right.

01:17:28.380 She's flying in the dark.

01:17:29.860 You know what I mean?

01:17:30.420 Like she's flying in the dark.

01:17:31.100 Half the time she's learning things from them because he's obviously not doesn't have his mental faculties about him.

01:17:36.360 So he's not sitting down with her, you know, love him or hate him.

01:17:39.240 Trump's got his mental faculties about him.

01:17:40.800 Right.

01:17:40.960 He's fighting.

01:17:41.760 He's a fighter.

01:17:42.520 He's a bull.

01:17:42.960 Whatever it is.

01:17:43.640 He's going to tell you what he thinks and what he wants you to go out there and say. 0.83

01:17:46.280 Biden is just, you know, a puppet.

01:17:48.140 So it's it's it makes her job even harder.

01:17:50.380 And at the end of the day, you're correct.

01:17:51.440 It is her.

01:17:52.240 It's her job.

01:17:53.120 And I don't know why I keep saying the end of the day.

01:17:54.540 You're the face of dishonesty, but the dishonesty is really deep in the administration.

01:17:59.280 It's a rotten job.

01:17:59.940 Yeah, it's a rotten job.

01:18:00.940 There's far too much empathy happening right now. 0.99

01:18:04.000 It sucks. 0.92

01:18:05.000 You're bringing empathy to this show. 0.99

01:18:06.620 You lost me when we stopped making fun of Joe Biden.

01:18:07.880 What was she going to say?

01:18:08.600 You know, I haven't spoken to my boss in 63 days.

01:18:10.600 You are right.

01:18:11.400 I mean, you're right that the empathy is a little bit misplaced because, again, when you just crap all over the last administration and you act like it was the peak of dishonesty.

01:18:18.900 And then you're going out there and you're lying every single day.

01:18:22.280 63 days without a press conference.

01:18:24.260 Could you imagine if Trump did not speak to the press for 60, what they would have said?

01:18:29.300 What would the headlines have been?

01:18:30.860 My favorite is when they say, can we have the statistics?

01:18:33.220 And she'll be like, well, the Department of Homeland Security has those.

01:18:35.240 I'm like, right.

01:18:35.620 You're the executive branch.

01:18:36.560 Do you have the statistics?

01:18:37.460 She's like, well, you can go ask the DHS.

01:18:38.780 They're like, well, can we ask the DHS?

01:18:40.320 She's like, no.

01:18:43.480 Ben, this question is for you from James.

01:18:46.340 With this most recent spending bill and the grand possibility of higher interest rates, do you think that it will cause a depression?

01:18:52.480 And if so, how bad will it be?

01:18:53.740 So I don't think it's going to cause a depression in the immediate term.

01:18:55.780 I think that what Biden has the benefit of, economically speaking, is a natural recovery that was certainly going to happen.

01:19:01.800 This is the most artificial depression in the history of the United States.

01:19:04.340 It was the COVID lockdowns that caused the depression.

01:19:06.220 And when COVID was relieved, then the depression was going to end and was going to come back in a massive, massive way.

01:19:10.880 So he has the benefit of being able to lower the GDP growth rate from 8% to 7% with crappy taxes and bad spending policy.

01:19:16.700 And nobody notices because it's still 7%, which is this extraordinary growth rate.

01:19:20.600 What you are going to see is an inflation of the currency because it has to happen.

01:19:24.540 The amount of debt that we are now servicing is extraordinary.

01:19:27.920 I mean, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars every year just to service the current debt that we have.

01:19:32.060 Forget about the debt that we just took on.

01:19:33.580 And that money can only come from three places.

01:19:35.400 It can come from inflating the currency, i.e. printing more dollars, to raising more money with bonds, and three, higher taxation.

01:19:39.980 And if you do either of the first two too much, then one of them kicks in, right?

01:19:46.040 If you end up selling too many bonds, then inflation ends up kicking in.

01:19:50.140 If inflation kicks in, then it kills the bond market.

01:19:53.380 You're going to have to raise the interest rates, which means that all of the loans become more expensive, which sinks the economy.

01:19:57.600 Well, they actually did something that people aren't talking about this last week,

01:20:01.420 which is that Fannie and Freddie decided that they were going to cut dramatically how many second mortgages they would buy.

01:20:07.540 Fannie and Freddie buy up like almost 70% of all the mortgages in the country.

01:20:11.640 So it doesn't matter.

01:20:12.100 You may have gotten your mortgage through our buddy who I got my mortgage recently from an old high school pal of Michael Knowles'.

01:20:19.100 It doesn't matter if you get it through one of the major banks, Wells Fargo City.

01:20:22.780 It doesn't matter if you get it from a local mortgage bank.

01:20:26.080 Probably, most likely scenario, Fannie or Freddie are going to buy those up in the secondary market and then service them over time.

01:20:33.000 And what that does, because the government essentially is buying almost all of the mortgages,

01:20:38.680 it really helps drive those interest rates down because the secondary market is so robust.

01:20:44.800 But what the left hates right now, the AOC left in particular, they hate landlords.

01:20:50.720 They hate owners who they see as exploiting renters, right?

01:20:54.820 It's this very class thing.

01:20:55.840 And so it's a very subtle thing, but by Fannie and Freddie saying they're not going to purchase nearly as many,

01:21:01.840 dramatically fewer second, third, fourth mortgages, it instantly drove up the interest rate for second homes by two and a quarter, two and a half percent.

01:21:14.520 Like all left-wing plans, of course, this means renters will have to pay more because it's much more expensive for people to buy homes.

01:21:22.260 But this is the thing about the left, every trick that they use to interfere with the economy actually has a compounding effect on-

01:21:30.260 So the other thing about the left is the left believes that gravity doesn't always apply.

01:21:34.740 That's right.

01:21:35.060 You can violate every rule and then if you violate every rule, then sooner or later you'll violate a rule and there'll be no consequences to having violated the rule.

01:21:41.800 And so they just keep violating rules.

01:21:43.020 Whether you're talking about the rules of marriage, whether you're talking about the rules of gender-

01:21:45.260 Biology.

01:21:45.980 Biology.

01:21:46.440 If you're talking about the rules of economics, the same thing applies, right?

01:21:48.440 They believe deeply in modern monetary theory, which is the idea that we can just continue to blow out the spending.

01:21:53.240 And because other economies are not as robust as the American economy, people will continue to buy our bonds endlessly.

01:21:57.840 Well, that's only true so long as the American economy is growing robustly.

01:22:00.840 The big problem here for Republicans on the economy is because the natural recovery is going to be so unbelievably strong over the course of this year and next year,

01:22:08.220 by the time things start to cool off, it's already going to be 2024, basically.

01:22:12.400 And there is a delayed effect to a lot of the policies that are getting kicked in right now.

01:22:16.720 So you're going to see the economy start to slow.

01:22:18.380 Pretty much everybody agrees with this, like 2024.

01:22:20.980 By 2025, you could start to see the economy really start to enter into some dark territory.

01:22:25.620 And we'll have no ability to take up more debt to actually prop up the stimulus.

01:22:29.420 I would say that it's going to take five to six years to feel the impact of what we're seeing right now.

01:22:33.960 And and like, you know, anything else in the economy, everything's good until it ain't.

01:22:40.020 Yeah, it's not like it just gradually.

01:22:41.780 At my age, these predictions are very encouraging because I've reached the point where people say long term effects.

01:22:47.700 I go, yeah, yeah, the Keynesian in the long run.

01:22:52.460 That has become for you very, very immediate.

01:22:56.480 Gentlemen, Candace, Michael, we're we've been here damn near forever.

01:23:02.100 It feels that way.

01:23:03.080 Yeah, it's been a long, long, long, long show.

01:23:06.520 I want to wrap up with a rapid fire question session from our Daily Wire subscribers.

01:23:11.880 You know the rules.

01:23:12.460 I'm going to try to get through as many questions as we can in the remaining time that we have.

01:23:16.680 If possible, be pithy with your answers.

01:23:19.060 And if possible, let's just let the person being addressed answer.

01:23:22.340 It's almost never possible.

01:23:24.380 We're going to we're going to try.

01:23:26.340 Here we go from our Daily Wire dot com subscribers.

01:23:28.540 Candace from Nina.

01:23:29.960 Have you lost family members or friends because of your beliefs?

01:23:33.480 Yes.

01:23:34.660 Cousin.

01:23:35.700 Two cousins.

01:23:37.540 Those pithy? 1.00

01:23:38.700 That's good.

01:23:39.160 That's pithy. 0.96

01:23:39.560 That's really good.

01:23:39.960 I actually what a painful reality, though.

01:23:42.320 Yeah.

01:23:42.600 I think we'd have to be so pithy.

01:23:43.500 Yeah.

01:23:43.660 Well, it's one of those things.

01:23:44.560 Gosh, now it's going to be longer.

01:23:45.860 But it's one of those things where the weird thing is that, you know, I think Trump made

01:23:48.920 everybody really crazy and like the idea you just kind of went really far in.

01:23:52.260 But the thing is, is like now they've kind of cracked and want to have like a relationship.

01:23:56.520 And I'm sort of like, I don't think it works like that.

01:23:59.040 I don't think it works where like you get to just say horrible things about me.

01:24:03.300 And then now I have to just pretend it didn't happen.

01:24:05.500 Like, and we've seen this a lot with even friends.

01:24:07.740 Like now that Trump's gone, they're kind of like, hey, like, you know, and you're just

01:24:09.960 sort of like, OK, I don't think it works like that.

01:24:11.440 Like, you can't just say, I'm going to pretend you don't exist. 1.00

01:24:13.700 You're a horrible human being. 1.00

01:24:14.540 And then because you got what you wanted. 1.00

01:24:15.920 There's something very bratty about that.

01:24:17.560 Like, I was always here.

01:24:18.580 I've been solid and I've been the same person. 0.99

01:24:21.540 So, yeah, it sucks. 0.96

01:24:22.800 It really sucked when it happened. 0.95

01:24:24.680 Time has passed.

01:24:25.560 And so I've sort of been like, OK, well, you know, it is what it is.

01:24:28.600 I lost, obviously, friends, which was very easy.

01:24:30.460 But the cousin stuff was really hard because I'm really, really close with my family.

01:24:33.560 But you can't really go back is the weird thing.

01:24:36.500 That's tough.

01:24:37.200 Yeah.

01:24:37.500 Knowles from Alexander.

01:24:38.720 I remember you mentioned in a show once that there were good book burnings in history.

01:24:43.020 Uh-oh.

01:24:43.320 Yeah.

01:24:43.560 I admit I'm not well versed in history, but I'd like to know about those events.

01:24:48.040 Well, I'll give you an example.

01:24:49.200 I mean, obviously, all the good ones were when the Catholics burned all those political 1.00

01:24:51.960 books.

01:24:52.320 So that's like the history.

01:24:53.720 But I'll give you a constant as the North Star.

01:24:57.480 Would you finally fire this?

01:24:59.080 But I'll give you an example right now because the issue that I see is book burnings are just 0.92

01:25:07.240 the most ridiculous example of this.

01:25:09.180 But there is always some sort of censorship. 0.81

01:25:12.920 And, you know, we don't like censorship because in the American context, that means a very particular

01:25:16.940 thing that we don't like.

01:25:17.740 But there are always broad swaths of speech that are illegal, and they always have been

01:25:21.140 in America.

01:25:22.620 Sedition, fraud, threats, obscenity for a long time, but now it's like a little bit less

01:25:27.900 so.

01:25:28.260 But it was still being enforced during the George W. Bush era.

01:25:30.560 You had pornographers going to prison, you know, for just gross stuff, right?

01:25:34.460 And so this would seem to me, I'm not saying this is prescriptive.

01:25:38.100 I'm saying it's descriptive.

01:25:39.500 All regimes say that certain things are off limits and certain things are on limits.

01:25:43.340 And in America, we've protected a huge swath of speech and, I think, all the important

01:25:49.340 speech.

01:25:49.980 And what's going on right now is that we're shifting those standards.

01:25:54.500 So in, you know, in the 50s, for instance, if you were a member of a communist group, you'd

01:25:58.080 lose your career in Hollywood.

01:25:59.360 You couldn't work for the federal government.

01:26:00.860 Alger Hiss paid a big price, and no one believed that he was really guilty of it.

01:26:04.800 The guy helped start the UN, right?

01:26:06.260 He was really subverting U.S.

01:26:07.500 policy.

01:26:08.080 He got canceled.

01:26:09.220 I guess that's a perfectly fine thing.

01:26:10.960 Bill Buckley wrote a lot of books about how great that was, wrote books and went on television,

01:26:15.180 all this sort of thing.

01:26:16.320 Now, you get canceled if you say that men are not women.

01:26:20.540 Ryan Anderson gets his book burned digitally, great phrase that you used, on Amazon.

01:26:26.260 That's really bad.

01:26:27.180 You get canceled if you wave the American flag.

01:26:30.200 You get your career promoted if you wave the communist flag, but you get your career canceled

01:26:34.060 if you wave the American flag.

01:26:35.740 And so I actually, I'm being somewhat provocative when I say there are good book burnings.

01:26:40.020 What I'm really saying-

01:26:41.040 I feel provoked.

01:26:42.080 Yeah, Jeremy's very provoked.

01:26:43.580 But what I really mean by that is, the reason that we keep losing on this issue, on political

01:26:49.380 correctness, wokeism, cancel culture, is because I think we're not acknowledging the reality

01:26:54.180 of the situation.

01:26:55.280 What the left knows is some things were always off limits, some things were always accepted.

01:26:58.900 And they are shifting what is off limits and what is accepted.

01:27:02.560 And because we're not going to engage in the reality of that, the history from 1776 all

01:27:07.520 the way to the present and even further back than that, I think that's why every time we

01:27:11.060 try to fight this thing, we lose more ground.

01:27:13.040 Matt, from William, pithy, Michael, pithy, from William, where does your hate for dogs

01:27:18.840 derive from?

01:27:19.940 Did you have a traumatic childhood experience or something? 0.99

01:27:23.760 No, I find them to be totally useless, just these smelly, hairy beasts that don't belong 0.98

01:27:30.700 in the home. 0.64

01:27:31.320 Now, dogs have, dogs existed, you know, for at least go back there.

01:27:38.740 What's the common ancestor for dogs?

01:27:40.580 Wolves.

01:27:41.480 And existed in the wild for millions of years.

01:27:43.860 And they did just fine without being inside a home with a wall and four walls and a roof.

01:27:50.320 I just don't believe that animals, we have evolved as human beings.

01:27:55.620 We have earned the home.

01:27:57.640 I don't think that dogs have, dogs have not earned that.

01:28:01.320 We've earned the home.

01:28:03.160 We've earned it.

01:28:03.840 Now, can I just say, what really annoys me, what really pisses me off is when people say

01:28:07.540 things like, because it's anti-human, when people say things like, oh, we don't deserve

01:28:12.540 dogs.

01:28:12.940 Like, they see a video of a dog, like, bringing a slipper to his owner.

01:28:18.960 And they say, we don't deserve dogs.

01:28:20.320 No, they don't deserve us.

01:28:21.380 We do everything for them. 0.61

01:28:22.740 They don't do a damn thing for them.

01:28:23.940 We feed them. 1.00

01:28:25.060 We pick up their crap. 1.00

01:28:26.480 We give them a house. 0.99

01:28:27.740 We do everything.

01:28:28.760 And then you sit there and say, we don't deserve them?

01:28:31.200 It's exactly the opposite.

01:28:32.740 What have they done to deserve this? 0.98

01:28:34.300 We don't bring pigs into the home. 1.00

01:28:35.360 We don't bring squirrels into the home.

01:28:37.360 Even a dog.

01:28:38.480 Yes.

01:28:38.880 Even a dog can eat the scraps from his master's table.

01:28:43.920 Yes, exactly.

01:28:44.980 And we give them those scraps.

01:28:46.600 They're not bringing home food for us.

01:28:48.920 So far, we're in favor of book burning and hate dogs.

01:28:51.840 By the way, Jeremy quoted the Bible.

01:28:54.440 Jeremy quoted the Bible.

01:28:55.260 There's a book burning in the Bible.

01:28:56.780 In the book of Acts.

01:28:57.580 The Christians burn their sorcery books. 1.00

01:28:59.380 That's a great book burning.

01:29:00.000 Burning your own book is not a book burning.

01:29:01.680 Ben, I love your impersonations.

01:29:04.220 Which do you think are your best and which do you think are your worst?

01:29:06.880 My personal favorite is Beto.

01:29:08.860 Let's hear it.

01:29:09.400 I really love Beto.

01:29:10.540 Beto doesn't sound anything like Beto.

01:29:11.940 Beto's not really an impersonation so much as sort of a generalized mockery.

01:29:16.680 It's more like Beto, Aurora, eating dirt in the Arizona desert.

01:29:23.500 That's the Beto.

01:29:29.060 My Bernie is pretty good.

01:29:31.240 My Obama is very good, actually.

01:29:33.120 I always think my Obama is underrated.

01:29:35.200 Mike Harry is good.

01:29:36.480 My Trump is not good.

01:29:37.740 I was never able to get Trump.

01:29:39.320 You have to be kind of from New York, I think, to get Trump.

01:29:40.880 All the best Trumps.

01:29:41.680 But the OG BS impersonation is Chris Matthews.

01:29:47.700 Oh, yeah.

01:29:48.080 Yeah.

01:29:49.140 Chris Matthews.

01:29:50.060 I was going to say, get up in the morning, come on to the show.

01:29:52.840 Come on, roll in here. 0.95

01:29:54.100 Looking all rumped.

01:29:55.120 Maybe not everyone's talking about.

01:29:56.260 Just turn around, face the camera, start jabbering.

01:29:58.380 All right, roll away, see, see.

01:29:59.600 Let's go.

01:30:00.660 Chris Matthews.

01:30:02.340 And this from Sam.

01:30:03.860 Congratulations on becoming a mother.

01:30:05.620 How has becoming a mother changed or impacted your political views?

01:30:08.440 Would love to get everyone's take on this as well.

01:30:09.980 But you ain't gonna, because we're going too fast for that.

01:30:12.420 We're just going to get it from Candace.

01:30:13.680 Just feels like the political discussions we're having are much more severe,

01:30:17.420 because they're going to have implications in the society that my kids are going to come up in.

01:30:21.000 So we didn't have this when I was growing up.

01:30:23.220 Like, it was like, hey, you're a girl and you're a boy.

01:30:25.160 Cool.

01:30:25.620 I'm going to go in the girls' bathroom. 1.00

01:30:26.600 You're going to go in the boys' bathroom.

01:30:28.400 You know, so that stuff is really scary, I think, for me now,

01:30:31.160 because I'm just going, I don't want my kid to be around.

01:30:33.140 I don't even want, like, can my kid just go to somebody's house and have a play date?

01:30:36.300 Or, like, is that mom going to be like, you can pick your genders here? 1.00

01:30:40.540 So I think that that, I feel like the urgency of the political conversations that we're having today.

01:30:46.600 So everything feels a bit heavier.

01:30:48.840 Can I talk about being a mother as well?

01:30:50.720 Yes, please.

01:30:51.780 Self-identify as a woman?

01:30:52.960 I could.

01:30:53.380 Go ahead.

01:30:53.800 Right now, for the sake of the day.

01:30:54.420 He does chest feet.

01:30:55.400 Oh, that was it?

01:30:55.920 Yeah.

01:30:56.340 That was it.

01:30:58.600 I'm good at pithy.

01:30:59.780 You are.

01:31:00.260 You did great.

01:31:00.380 I was telling this.

01:31:01.880 This last question is for everyone.

01:31:03.820 What is something that actually deserves to be canceled?

01:31:07.200 Drew?

01:31:08.220 Well, actually, I'm actually now, I've changed my mind about this.

01:31:11.380 I'm now in favor of leftists canceling other leftists for not being leftists at all.

01:31:16.100 Because I think the more that happens, the more there'll be fewer leftists.

01:31:19.860 And we can just continue to welcome people in.

01:31:22.220 And it will basically be reduced to a few leftists and Americans.

01:31:26.800 And that's a perfect situation.

01:31:30.240 Backstage.

01:31:33.320 Then I wouldn't have to be here.

01:31:34.680 The soft pitch.

01:31:35.640 Exactly.

01:31:37.080 Right there.

01:31:37.800 I want to go home, man.

01:31:40.200 In reality, the entire anti-racist movement needs to be canceled.

01:31:44.280 It's awful for the country.

01:31:45.380 It's evil. 1.00

01:31:46.100 It's garbage. 1.00

01:31:46.540 And people who pervert language, freedom, and decency that way should not be accepted 1.00

01:31:53.140 into the home of anyone who considers themselves to be a decent human being.

01:31:56.980 Yeah.

01:31:57.800 I have a long list.

01:31:58.880 But the one that's bothering me the most this week is I want to cancel anyone who tries

01:32:02.580 to cancel someone for something that they did as a teenager.

01:32:04.960 Absolutely.

01:32:05.200 Oh, that's a great one. 0.97

01:32:06.320 It's the most disgusting. 0.86

01:32:08.080 The whole, what you're supposed to do as a child. 1.00

01:32:10.600 Be an idiot. 1.00

01:32:11.240 Is be an idiot. 1.00

01:32:11.960 Learn lessons and grow up. 1.00

01:32:13.060 And then people help grow you into an adult.

01:32:15.440 I received an enormous piece of grace once from someone who I had made a mistake with.

01:32:22.860 And I apologized to them years later.

01:32:24.800 They were an adult at the time.

01:32:26.120 I was a teenager.

01:32:27.100 When I apologized as a young adult, they said, a man should never apologize for the sins of

01:32:32.380 a boy.

01:32:33.620 And it was a great piece of wisdom and a great piece of grace.

01:32:36.340 And we live in such a graceless culture.

01:32:39.300 There's the reason you can't apologize.

01:32:40.700 Never show them your belly. 0.72

01:32:41.760 They never, ever apologized because the whole idea of an apology is premised on a culture

01:32:46.940 of grace.

01:32:47.840 We had this Christian culture, maybe not a Christian nation in a literal sense, but a nation of

01:32:53.680 Christians. 0.51

01:32:54.560 And in a nation of Christians, an apology is a great virtue. 1.00

01:32:58.500 It's an acknowledgement that you've done something wrong.

01:33:01.520 And we respond to that act of virtue with another act of virtue called grace.

01:33:07.180 And in a post-Christian America, you only get the, you acknowledged that you were wrong.

01:33:12.960 You, you, so if I call you a racist, you apologize for being a racist.

01:33:16.660 See, even you admit that you were a racist or whatever.

01:33:18.700 But to do that, to, as happened at Teen Vogue.

01:33:23.080 To Alexa McCammon today.

01:33:24.860 That's right.

01:33:25.160 Today.

01:33:25.580 Did you, did you follow the story?

01:33:26.600 So she actually, she resigned.

01:33:28.320 She resigned.

01:33:28.780 I know that was led by the right.

01:33:30.360 There's something I like about that story.

01:33:31.680 By the way, because what they started doing on the right is saying, okay, you guys want

01:33:35.360 to do cancer culture.

01:33:36.140 We're going to lead it.

01:33:36.700 And I think these, these tweets were dug up by conservatives saying, play by your own

01:33:40.420 rules.

01:33:40.900 And she had to resign.

01:33:43.000 And I kind of, that kind of goes back to your point about like, until these people realize

01:33:47.620 these rules are just not fair because they've been doing it to conservatives, but left created

01:33:50.920 these rules.

01:33:51.400 I don't mind. 0.99

01:33:51.840 Left has to die. 0.99

01:33:52.600 I don't mind mutually assured destruction. 0.98

01:33:54.900 Yeah.

01:33:55.080 But I will say that I think it is particular, the fact that there is such a rule that could apply

01:33:59.620 to what people did in their youth is one of the most despicable aspects.

01:34:04.720 Oh, it's horrible.

01:34:05.300 Of our culture.

01:34:05.760 Absolutely.

01:34:06.220 Oh, absolutely agree.

01:34:07.120 To your point, Jeremy, the late philosopher Roger Scruton said, civilization thrives on

01:34:11.480 forgiveness and on confession first, and then forgiveness, right?

01:34:15.660 You confess, you sacrifice your pride, you forgive, you sacrifice your resentment.

01:34:19.780 Both people have something that means a lot to them and they give it up.

01:34:22.720 You have society and you can't do that anymore.

01:34:24.620 So kind of what we're all saying.

01:34:26.600 Chesterton had a good line.

01:34:27.560 And he said, there is a thought that stops thought and that thought ought to be stopped.

01:34:32.560 And Ben, you had a great tweet.

01:34:33.660 I hate to say you and Chesterton in the same breath, but you had a great tweet where you

01:34:37.780 said there's a culture that cancels culture.

01:34:39.980 And coincidentally, this is sort of the thesis of my book that's coming out.

01:34:43.580 That needs to be canceled.

01:34:44.960 And we cannot pretend that there's some reconciliation, some middle ground between the two.

01:34:48.860 There isn't.

01:34:49.820 You've just got to stop that.

01:34:51.740 Candace.

01:34:52.100 I would cancel easily the transgender agenda, a movement, everything about it right now. 1.00

01:34:57.140 I think it's a cancer like we've never seen before in society.

01:35:01.120 Matt, the thing that our Daily Wire subscribers want to see canceled the most are those tight

01:35:05.900 jeans you're wearing.

01:35:06.940 It's actually trending.

01:35:08.620 Hashtag cancel Matt's jeans.

01:35:10.240 Hashtag bring back loose jeans.

01:35:13.020 This is the second time I've been accused, the interview I did with Candace, that I was

01:35:18.000 accused of wearing skinny jeans.

01:35:19.600 I just, I go to the store.

01:35:21.800 I say, where are your pants?

01:35:23.320 And they point me to them and I just pick up a pair of pants.

01:35:25.440 You shop? 1.00

01:35:26.560 You call yourself a man, you son of a bitch? 1.00

01:35:28.800 My wife, my wife goes to the store. 1.00

01:35:31.000 I assume that's the process.

01:35:31.840 Oh, no, no.

01:35:32.260 There's no take that.

01:35:33.300 There's no take that.

01:35:34.300 There's no take that.

01:35:35.500 Can I, for what I'm canceling though, which by the way, you said giving people a pass at

01:35:41.060 teenage, when they're teenagers.

01:35:42.120 I really think it should be like 25 and under.

01:35:44.100 I actually think if you're in your 20s or 30s, everything you said and did up to about

01:35:49.740 like 10 years and further, it's because you grow so much in that age frame that, anyway,

01:35:54.980 as far as what I would cancel, everything that preys upon kids, so especially you go into

01:36:01.480 Barnes and Noble and you see all these kids' books, you know, indoctrinating.

01:36:05.660 How many stores do you go in?

01:36:07.180 It's madness.

01:36:08.460 This was one day.

01:36:09.200 This was one day of shopping the other day.

01:36:10.420 You know, all of these things that prey on kids, drag queen story hours, all of that. 0.63

01:36:16.100 There's one thing we need to cancel.

01:36:17.280 It's the way that kids are indoctrinated.

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01:36:47.020 Thanks again for joining us for our discussion here, Joe Biden's terrifying accomplishments.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 19, 2021

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