The Matt Walsh Show - Daily Wire Backstage： State of the Union 2023 Coverage

00:00:00.000 Hey, everyone, it's Matt Walsh. You're about to hear a very special Daily Wire backstage

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00:00:30.000 Madam Vice President, Mr. Speaker, my fellow Americans, welcome to the Daily Wire backstage.

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00:02:03.200 president is for sale sale at Daily Wire Plus slash subscribe. Guys, the last time we were all

00:02:10.680 together, of course, it was election night and it was disappointing, not as disappointing as having

00:02:16.860 to watch the State of the Union, of course. And Steven Crowder was with us, which just goes to show

00:02:21.520 that things happen really fast in our business. Again, not State of the Union speeches. They're

00:02:27.620 interminable. And the Grammys had not come out as openly satanic. It's true. It's true. Sponsored

00:02:33.060 by Pfizer. So on the nose. I'm telling you, God is just, his writing is, it's really degraded over

00:02:38.800 the past. His writing is so on the nose. He's casting like weird German Nazi-esque characters as

00:02:44.720 the head of the World Economic Forum. Yeah. And he's got like, and he's got the president's son

00:02:50.160 being like a drug addicted derelict who's taking money from the Chinese probably. And dad leaving 0.97

00:02:55.180 classified documents next to the Corvette. And they already used that storyline already. And like,

00:02:59.720 this is lazy, lazy writing. Chinese spy balloons. And now the Grammys going totally satanic. I will

00:03:06.260 say about the Grammys going satanic, but I think it does say something a little bit deeper about our

00:03:10.660 culture that Jill Biden was there. There was a time when satanic imagery was at least fringe, 0.86

00:03:17.780 right? It was the counterculture and it was rebelling against the culture. And now it's just the

00:03:21.120 culture. It's what we just call the culture. And the reason for that, here, we're going to get into

00:03:25.600 your, John Milton's Satan is the villain of the piece in Paradise Lost, right? His whole thing is

00:03:30.100 that he's rebelling against God, not because he's doing anything good or anything noble or anything

00:03:33.660 true or beautiful, but because he would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. And over the

00:03:38.960 course of time, I think Western culture now sees Satan as the hero. And Satan is the hero because

00:03:43.280 Satan is narcissistic and into himself. And that's exactly what you saw at the Grammys. A bunch of

00:03:47.980 people who are narcissistically prancing around calling themselves non-binary, genderqueer,

00:03:51.240 transgender people. Who was it you said was there? Jill Biden. Dr. Jill. Oh, Dr. Jill Biden.

00:03:59.180 Damn it. I always mess that up. I always mess that up. It's so frustrating because my life's a real

00:04:03.640 doctor. That's what people don't understand when we talk about how the left is satanic or a lot of

00:04:09.380 pop music is satanic. And most of it is satanic, but it's not theologically satanic. Like they're not

00:04:13.920 literally worshiping the devil as far as they understand it. They're worshiping with the devil

00:04:18.160 worship, which is the self. So it's kind of like a secular Satanism. At the same time, I think we

00:04:23.040 should also recognize that the left likes to use the term gaslighting, which is all they do with

00:04:28.700 things like this. Because part of the reason that they do it is they can have the satanic ritual

00:04:32.900 being broadcast by CBS. And then conservatives react to it by saying, hey, look, there's a satanic

00:04:38.520 ritual on TV. And then the next day you get the headlines from like the Daily Beast and all those

00:04:43.080 saying, well, conservatives with their conspiracy theory, that there was a satanic ritual in the

00:04:46.660 Grammys. Like it's what literally happened. We're just observing. Face tattoo syndrome, right? It's

00:04:52.520 like when you go into the Starbucks and the barista has a giant face tattoo and you're like giving a

00:04:57.480 weird look. He's got a face tattoo. And then he's like, what are you staring at? Your face tattoo.

00:05:00.580 That's what I'm staring at. But it brings up the point of the Jill Biden was that they are now the

00:05:04.560 culture and we are the counterculture. We should stop reacting to them and just let them

00:05:08.500 react to us because they do. But they baited us intentionally. But if they had gotten up,

00:05:12.160 if we had gotten up and sung, Jesus loves me, this I know, they'd have gone insane.

00:05:16.040 And we should do it that way. I mean. I would have gone insane too. That song is terrible.

00:05:20.200 I would have had some problems. But the one thing is though, when you say that they don't worship

00:05:25.840 Satan, they actually do worship. They actually do worship something satanic. I mean, there are only

00:05:31.980 two ways to look at life. One is that your body is your real you and your lust and your desire is your

00:05:37.260 real you. And the other is that your lust and desire are in the way of something even higher

00:05:41.200 that they, you know, they're part of your life, but there's something even higher that you're

00:05:45.280 striving for. And what they're saying is no, they're not. And unfortunately, as far as I'm

00:05:48.280 concerned, that's what rock and roll has been saying since it started, you know, so it's only

00:05:51.960 coming to fruition. And it's coming to fruition in dullness. That number was so boring and so

00:05:57.760 anodyne.

00:05:58.380 Well, do you know what's so sad about it? With Sam Smith in particular, Sam Smith is actually,

00:06:02.520 I think, a talented pop musician. He's got the voice of an angel, now the voice of a demon.

00:06:07.940 And his songs are pretty good. And what was amazing is his biggest hit, the one that I knew

00:06:13.220 him from, was I Know I'm Not the Only One. You know, you say I'm crazy, but you don't think I know

00:06:17.620 what you've done. And it's about this marriage where the husband goes out and cheats, and it's

00:06:21.740 falling apart, and it's presented as this terrible tragedy.

00:06:24.000 You like that song.

00:06:24.940 I do actually like that song. I think there's a lot of...

00:06:26.960 No, listen, I'm a pop culture maven, you know. But it's sung beautifully, it's got a lot of longing

00:06:33.360 and tragedy to it. This song was about the exact same topic. In fact, it followed the exact same

00:06:40.700 formula right down to the seconds of the time codes. The difference is this was about how funny and hot

00:06:45.940 and titillating it is when, you know, daddy goes to the body shop and gets hoochie hoochie or whatever.

00:06:50.600 And so it's so sad, because he had an instinct toward beauty, then he sells his soul to the devil,

00:06:57.260 and it didn't even work. It was a crappy song, and the ratings were in the gutter.

00:07:00.400 Michael, I really hate to tell you Santa's not real here, but all of his prior music,

00:07:04.460 which I absolutely adore, I love the Catholic reimagining of it. It was not about a marriage

00:07:09.740 between a man and a woman. It was about his gay affairs. 0.99

00:07:12.160 No, wait, he's a gay guy?

00:07:13.240 Yeah.

00:07:13.740 Sam Smith?

00:07:14.780 Yes, but it was music about love and about loss, and his music was so beautiful.

00:07:19.100 And what's really happened, because I question this myself, it's, you were so talented. You

00:07:22.700 had everything you made. People were listening to your music. Why did you have to give yourself

00:07:26.420 to this sort of demonic nature that we're seeing inside of them? What happens when you get to

00:07:30.620 Hollywood that they basically say, okay, now you just have to do a demonic ritual to prove that

00:07:34.680 you're really one of us? The most bizarre part of the entire performance is a standing ovation at

00:07:38.300 the end, by the way. You can see a couple of faces, I think like J-Lo and Ben Affleck were maybe for

00:07:42.540 a second, like, should we be clapping to this, or are we actually at a satanic ritual? But they got a

00:07:47.340 standing ovation. Like, no one in the room went, okay, this might be a little far. And they keep

00:07:51.160 moving the goalposts. By the way, this is not the first time that they went full satanic at the

00:07:54.760 Grammys. WAP, can we forget the WAP performance?

00:07:57.680 Oh, yeah.

00:07:58.000 I cannot.

00:07:58.500 Wholesome.

00:07:59.180 You cannot.

00:08:00.160 I will never be allowed to.

00:08:01.380 You will not? No.

00:08:02.340 You will not be allowed to, as an expert on all matters WAP. And, you know, it's been going,

00:08:07.220 treading in this direction for a very long time. I think this time is the first time that

00:08:10.700 they just were so in your face. First, it's a conspiracy theory. The left, you know, we always say it's

00:08:14.720 satanic. It's demonic. Hollywood's evil. And then they go, oh, no, we're not. No, we're not. And

00:08:19.000 then they do this.

00:08:20.040 And they acknowledged it, too. You saw CBS tweet it out. They said, in response to Sam Smith,

00:08:24.580 said, we are ready to worship. And it made me think, 1952, CBS would not allow I Love Lucy

00:08:31.940 to use the word pregnant. So scandalous was that word. Now, CBS News is essentially saying,

00:08:38.240 hail Satan.

00:08:38.800 And it cannot, it, you can't convince me that it's an accident that that was going into the

00:08:43.760 break sponsored by Pfizer. Of course it was intentional. Of course it was intentional. It

00:08:46.920 was. No, because, look, we're a conservative media company. We sit around thinking, okay,

00:08:52.740 how do we own the libs today? Right? I mean, that's one of the things we think about. To drink

00:08:55.800 their delicious tears. Because it's so tasty and it fills the tumblers. They, they think the same

00:09:00.260 way. They're a news network. And if you think that it was an accident, it was a mere coincidence

00:09:04.280 that Pfizer was the commercial right as the devil is walking off stage. I got a bridge

00:09:08.020 and broke. There's something to what you were saying.

00:09:09.980 One high point, though, was that Ben Affleck's face, since you mentioned Ben Affleck, it did,

00:09:13.420 it did reflect how I feel about having to listen to the State of the Union.

00:09:17.160 I just want to point out that Matt Walsh's, uh, laryngitis voice is the sexiest voice on the

00:09:23.960 panel tonight. And for that reason, Matt, I think you should read the first ad.

00:09:27.300 Yeah, well, speaking of Satanists, that's probably not the right, uh, intro note.

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00:10:25.680 by the way, is the, uh, I think it's worth noting that the guy that was performing that song with

00:10:32.280 Sam Smith, Kim Petras, right? Uh, and they, they won, uh, it was a, it was a big moment because

00:10:38.320 it's two white males, one best pop duo because they both don't identify as white males, but Kim

00:10:43.600 Petras transitioned surgically to become a female at the age of 16. And this is something we're told,

00:10:51.300 of course, never happens. That's, that's, well, we don't do surgical transitions of minors,

00:10:55.920 uh, yet like one of the biggest pop stars in the world right now. That's literally what happened to

00:11:00.560 him. You know, I, I think also his, his real name is Tim and which is kind of clever to go from Tim

00:11:05.120 to Kim. And, uh, he, he goes up and he says, look, people say that this performance was religiously

00:11:11.640 not cool. Cause you might say it's actually burning with the eternal fires of hell, but you know,

00:11:16.040 it's not cool. And he said, but look, I've always been interested in religion. I want, but religion

00:11:21.240 doesn't want me cause I'm trans. And I thought, you know, look, religion is a habit of virtue and

00:11:27.240 justice to render to God what he's due. Religion wants you. God wants you. God loves you. God.

00:11:33.260 If you say that, well, the condition of my going to church or being religious is that you have to

00:11:39.020 pretend that I'm a woman, you're demanding that everybody affirm a lie. And that's something that

00:11:44.480 religion cannot do. Oh, come on. Shockingly. I know. So it's like, don't, you know, these guys always 1.00

00:11:50.420 do this though. They say it's, it's God's fault. It's the, it's the church's fault. They don't want

00:11:53.880 me. They don't want me. There's a, there's a point to, to what Drew was saying earlier about how

00:11:57.860 anodyne, the actual, the actual number was. And it was, I mean, it was almost bizarrely sexless.

00:12:03.940 Like it's satanic, but there's nothing sexy about it or, or interesting really.

00:12:08.620 The same with the law performance, by the way, it wasn't actually sexy.

00:12:11.240 I tend to agree, obviously. I mean, I think that one of the things that happens is that when the taboo

00:12:15.440 becomes the culture, there is no more forbidden for people to even be tempted by.

00:12:19.460 And this is one of the things that you're seeing in our culture is that, that, you know,

00:12:22.880 by every available poll, married people have better sex lives than people who are single 0.85

00:12:26.340 because what they're doing exists in the boundaries of love and also within the boundaries of commitment.

00:12:30.840 But there's also something to the idea that the human being is constantly seeking the new

00:12:34.980 and the fresh or whatever it is. When all, when nothing is new and nothing is fresh and you've

00:12:39.100 made all the taboos, just the mainstream culture, there's nothing left to transgress. So when

00:12:42.700 Madonna was doing the, you know, kind of virgin slut routine back in 1980, and that's, 1.00

00:12:47.360 that's what they call it. It's not my term for it. That's sort of the cultural term for it.

00:12:50.060 When she was doing the, the kind of taking advantage of the imagery of the Virgin Mary

00:12:54.040 and then subjecting that to, to, you know, very sexy movement, then the idea was that she was

00:12:59.440 subverting expectation, but there was no expectation left for them to subvert. And so how exactly do

00:13:04.780 you transgress? There's nothing, when there's nothing left to transgress, it becomes very difficult

00:13:07.760 to be transgressive other than ideologically transgressive.

00:13:09.960 Yeah. I would like to add, I talked about this on my podcast because I was very interested in this,

00:13:12.700 like, why is he doing this? And I started talking about just the actual meaning of the word diabolical

00:13:16.920 and I played a Catholic priest. There we go. Very proud of that. Um, obviously, obviously I control

00:13:22.980 all of you. The actual meaning of the word diabolical, where it comes from and what it means is to

00:13:26.120 separate and what they're actually aspiring to do. You go, why put on this diabolical performance? And

00:13:30.220 really when, you know, the serpent comes up to Adam and Eve and the, one of the first things that

00:13:36.520 they recognize after they bite into the forbidden fruit is that they feel shame, right? Which means in

00:13:40.620 order for, for Satan to assert dominance, he needs to remove people from their shame. He needs to

00:13:44.740 separate them from this, this wholesomeness and this goodness, right? And to say, there's actually

00:13:48.380 nothing wrong with you being naked. Why do you even feel that? So you see that Hollywood is kind of

00:13:52.740 pushing for people not to think that there's anything to be shameful for. And the androgyny.

00:13:56.480 There was a story, there was a story this week that actually made me want to move away from earth.

00:14:00.980 You know how sometimes you think I want to get out of the country, but this made me want to leave the

00:14:03.820 planet. Was this girl on the neutral. Yeah, yeah, really for some, for some of you, but there was,

00:14:08.600 there was this girl on YouTube who does a show. I think she's a gamer girl called herself QT

00:14:13.200 Cinderella on switch, right? Um, that's right. Switch the gamer channel. And, uh, somebody made a,

00:14:18.840 a mock porn of her. They put her into what's it called? Deep fake, a deep fake porn thing of her. 0.99

00:14:25.180 And she was shattered. She went online and it was absolutely heart run. I mean, it was such a cruel,

00:14:30.600 low, stinking thing to do. And at the same time she was sitting there going, you know,

00:14:34.720 F the internet, F everything. And I thought, well, yeah, you know, like it's, it's not her fault that

00:14:40.080 the culture fell apart, but it did. And she is part of it and she's in it. And this is what people are

00:14:44.380 doing to one another. It was, it was one of the most disgusting acts and conservatives were laughing

00:14:49.820 at her for crying about it. And I just thought like, you know, it's like taxi, could we go to Mars

00:14:55.640 please? Because I think that this is, you know, the, the results of worshiping Satan are not good.

00:15:02.740 They're not fun. Their body's stacked in rows, women being abused and people treating each other 1.00

00:15:07.880 like garbage. Part of the reason not to take this into the direction of talking about porn again,

00:15:12.480 because I feel like that happens on every show now, but, but the reason why it's because I saw

00:15:16.420 some of that too. Conservatives were laughing at the girls who were in the deep fakes. And the reason 1.00

00:15:20.580 they were laughing about it is because, you know, the conservative argument against porn has always

00:15:24.980 been this kind of like practical, well, porn feeds the sex trafficking industry and it's bad. 0.92

00:15:30.160 It's like those kinds of arguments. And then you do AI or deep fake. And then now there's,

00:15:35.300 those conservatives are out of arguments against porn because there's not any actual person.

00:15:38.680 That's a great point, man.

00:15:39.900 Involved. When, but what they lost is like, what does porn do to like, what is it fundamentally?

00:15:46.520 What does it do to the person consuming it? What does it do to the culture that allows it?

00:15:51.160 We never had those arguments.

00:15:52.260 And there's, well, there, you know, there's three kinds of beings. We're just talking about demons,

00:15:56.360 right? And, and some beings are purely body. They're corporeal beings. And some beings are

00:16:02.200 pure spirit. That's angels and demons. And then we are hylomorphic. We're, we're both body and spirit.

00:16:08.120 And the problem with porn is it just treats us like animals. It treats us like we're pure

00:16:12.800 meat. And, and then when we see that, even people who have gotten accustomed to it in the culture,

00:16:17.920 when you see that, when someone violates you and puts your head on a body or I don't know,

00:16:21.680 whatever they did in the AI porn, you just think this is a violation, not just of my body. It's

00:16:26.440 a, obviously it's not of my body. It's a violation of my soul.

00:16:28.820 This is, this is, I think one of the broader points that ties back into it to what happened

00:16:31.920 with the Grammys and the reaction to it. It's why the libertarian instinct, which is, well,

00:16:35.520 if you don't like it, just turn it off. The question is not whether people have the freedom

00:16:40.600 to turn things on or turn things off. The question is, what does it do to the common pool of culture

00:16:44.500 in which we all live when this sort of stuff is promulgated by the biggest institutions in our

00:16:49.040 culture? We shouldn't be arguing over whether someone has the right to do it or not have the

00:16:52.400 right to, that's actually a secondary question. When the primary question is, is this a good thing

00:16:56.160 or a bad thing? And people refuse to even have that argument. They're so, they're so consumed with

00:17:00.500 the secondary question of whether, what we ought to do about it, that they completely allied the

00:17:05.200 first question, which is, as a society, can we agree that this stuff is just bad? How about that?

00:17:09.300 Well, no, we can't. And this actually, this actually goes, I mean, obviously they, the vice,

00:17:14.660 the president of the United States wife is there when it's in this performance. 1.00

00:17:17.220 Well, the president of the United States is there.

00:17:19.040 The effective president, the de facto.

00:17:21.140 But I want to say that there's another piece of this that, Candace, you hit on,

00:17:25.280 which is that it was actually boring, that it was sexless, that it's anodyne, that it's

00:17:28.520 joyless. And I've been thinking a lot about, you know, people love to call us grifters.

00:17:33.260 And they like to call us grifters because sometimes we say things that our audience disagrees with,

00:17:37.480 which I always think that's really funny. So you mean that in order to be authentic,

00:17:41.980 I'm willing to say things that might risk some of our money going away. That makes me a grifter.

00:17:47.800 But the greatest grift of all is the purity grift. In politics, it's the political purity grift.

00:17:53.660 And the political purity grift says, whatever moment we're in, you must be so truly that moment

00:18:00.460 that you can always stab anyone on your own side who isn't perfectly, absolutely in line

00:18:06.600 with this exact moment. But of course, you can't actually apply that across any period of time

00:18:11.480 because human beings are messy, human circumstances are messy, politics changes. Like all the people

00:18:16.660 who are right now political purists, you know, if you don't support Donald Trump, they all voted

00:18:25.080 for Mitt Romney in 2012. Every one of them voted for Mitt Romney in 2012. And if you've reached a

00:18:30.060 point of political purity where you're like, Paul Ryan is the scourge of the earth. Kanye may have had a

00:18:35.880 point about the Jews, you know, like you've reached a point where you're this political purity nonsense

00:18:40.200 reveals itself as a grift. And in a way, what I think you're watching at the Grammys is just the

00:18:45.520 left's version of the political purity grift. Why does a guy who is so talented, who can put together

00:18:53.380 such beautiful music, who can truly transcend politics, can transcend moments, can touch us all,

00:18:58.060 with all of our diverse points of view, been just as enthralled with his music as anyone on the left

00:19:04.320 has been enthralled? Why is he putting out something that means, that means not only nothing

00:19:08.600 does, it means nothing to them because it is a virtue signal. It is a way of appeasing the political

00:19:13.540 purity grift on his side. And the political purity, the true grift in politics is to never authentically

00:19:20.900 be what you are or say what you believe for fear that the dominant power of your tribe will reject

00:19:29.940 you for it. In their case, the devil. Hence the standing ovation. I'm like, none of you thought this was weird.

00:19:34.120 Because if you don't stand up, you're not pure. You haven't survived the purity test. That's right.

00:19:37.740 And that's the whole point of liberty is we should all be disagreeing with each other. I mean, that is the great

00:19:42.420 thing about this place is we've all been fighting with each other since we started. But our conservatism

00:19:48.220 consists of being concerned about liberty and the things that make liberty work. I mean, I don't

00:19:54.300 only think that it's bad because people are going to do things that are bad if they're free. I think

00:19:59.340 that there comes a point when it's actually threatening to the body politic of a free country

00:20:03.640 to do certain things. And I think that, look, there's plenty of things that you can do in the

00:20:07.240 privacy of your home that I might disapprove of that aren't going to pick my pocket or break my leg

00:20:11.500 and aren't going to threaten the polity. But some of this stuff, when you have, when you have

00:20:15.640 the establishment, the Jill Biden, the Dr. Jill Bidens of the world supporting this kind of

00:20:21.160 garbage, which is not just artistically bad, but it's also morally bad. Something has gone terribly

00:20:26.800 wrong. By the way, you've lost the authority. One of the things that we talk about all the time

00:20:30.820 now is the distinction between adults and children. And we should allow adults to do things that

00:20:34.860 children can't do. Obviously, that's true. Although I would say that there are certain things that

00:20:38.380 adults should also not be allowed to. With plenty of limits, yeah. But one of the things that we ought to 0.95

00:20:42.320 say here is that popular culture is designed for kids. To pretend that the Grammys is not

00:20:47.040 directed at kids is a lie. To pretend that what was put on the Grammys was designed for adults 18

00:20:51.520 and up, it's just not true. Because if you ask a 12-year-old what exactly they are listening to,

00:20:55.940 they are listening to exactly the same thing that a 15-year-old is listening to, which is exactly

00:20:58.740 the same thing an 18-year-old is listening to, particularly when it comes to music. Music happens

00:21:01.840 to be an area where those boundaries are unbelievably permeable. I'd say I watched the Grammys more as a child

00:21:06.640 than I did. And what's the message that came out of that performance? I got dinged by our

00:21:10.820 publicists over at Media Matters on this point. But it's a true point, so I'll reiterate it.

00:21:15.960 Symbols have a purpose. We live in a semiotic world. Symbols are very, very important. That's

00:21:20.180 what makes the world intelligible. And what was the performance? At a physical level, it was a

00:21:25.900 bunch of transvestites. Sam Smith calls himself a pansexual or something. He's a non-binary

00:21:32.200 pansexual. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't want to be imprecise. Please get that straight. No, 0.51

00:21:36.260 good point. Don't get it straight. And get it very crooked, actually. And the other one is a

00:21:41.520 transgender, and then the rest were a bunch of drag queens. And you see this in a bunch of Sam 1.00

00:21:44.660 Smith's videos, too. It was a very pro-trans performance, as we see everywhere. And the

00:21:49.980 symbol of that was the devil. And I couldn't help but notice, very often, artistic depictions of

00:21:55.460 demons and weird occult stuff is androgynous and trans and weird. And I think the reason for this 1.00

00:22:02.060 is... Wasn't that Lil Nas X also? Lil Nas X did the same thing. The reason for this is, at least the

00:22:06.920 traditional Christian understanding, is the devil hates human beings especially because we have flesh.

00:22:12.320 And he doesn't want to bow down to some ape that has flesh on him. And that the fleshiness of this

00:22:17.020 world is very offensive to demons that are pure spirit. And so, you know, our publicists

00:22:22.780 knocked me for making this connection. I didn't make the connection. Sam Smith is the one putting

00:22:27.500 on the performance. The fact that Lil Nas X made the connection, the fact that this is the symbol

00:22:31.640 they're all using, should tell us something about this real political problem.

00:22:35.700 Transgenderism is really a mockery to creation itself. I mean, it's the ultimate mockery to creation 1.00

00:22:40.500 itself.

00:22:40.860 I gotta say, I did, after seeing some of the performance, I did leave quite encouraged for

00:22:46.580 the reason we've all kind of outlined already, which is that, like, these people are really out of

00:22:50.520 ideas. They've just totally run out of ideas. You mentioned Lil Nas X. This exact thing was

00:22:55.340 already done. And it was done in a more shocking way even then. He was, like, giving a lap dance

00:23:00.080 to Satan.

00:23:00.720 Right.

00:23:01.120 But even then, at that time, you're like, okay, I've seen this. This exact imagery has been

00:23:05.200 used so many times.

00:23:06.440 Well, but this is the thing. This is the thing. Tribalism, cultural ubiquity, the purity

00:23:14.880 grift, it is boring. Because you, the thing you actually can't do in the transhumanist 1.00

00:23:20.900 moment, the thing you actually can't do is transgress the popular opinion of your tribe

00:23:27.220 right now.

00:23:27.620 Of course.

00:23:28.040 And so, to be a political purist isn't to have the right ideas. It's to see which ideas

00:23:32.880 are the most in vogue and then just emulate them. Just repeat them back. So all that he

00:23:38.260 did is he said, oh, Lil Nas X did this and it worked. I'll do it. I mean, it's derivative

00:23:44.200 for a reason. It's derivative by design. There's a reason that in dictatorships, everybody dresses

00:23:48.200 like the dictator. There's a reason that communist countries can't produce art. It's this. Because

00:23:53.900 art is transgressive. Because you're trying to make statements that are not always in

00:23:59.300 vogue. You're trying to challenge an audience. You're trying to...

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00:26:02.160 Oh, it's so pretty. Don't shoot it down. Let it flow about mine. Hey.

00:26:16.660 What should we do? What should we do? No, no, no. I just want to be clear that I ordered them

00:26:24.220 not to do this joke, but I was overruled by my generals. So I heard somewhere we have a hundred

00:26:30.300 million dollar entertainment budget. How much when 10% for the big guy.

00:26:38.580 This is going to be there the whole time now? It's going to be here for eight days, actually.

00:26:42.500 Yeah, it's going to fly over all of our important installations and then it'll be good.

00:26:46.540 I didn't know it was an actual balloon. That's surprising.

00:26:49.340 Yeah. Sophisticated technology. My hearing aid and or Corvette. Does it contain classified documents?

00:26:59.440 What, what, what's in it? No one knows. No. The comedy on the show has just been tremendous.

00:27:05.380 I was going to say, this is the death. Like, we just lost 20,000 viewers.

00:27:09.780 There's no way.

00:27:11.360 Deserve to lose them. Yeah.

00:27:12.920 Was he, oh my gosh. Is he slipping your hair? Mr. President, Mr. President, not again, Mr. President.

00:27:19.080 This is the most fun we're going to have before he starts actually speaking. So let's bring it all out.

00:27:23.480 Hey, Jen Psaki said. No, it's not Jen. I'm a great storyteller. I just want to tell you a little story.

00:27:30.860 You're not even moving the mouth while you're talking.

00:27:33.940 Would you like to do this?

00:27:37.520 No, Walsh. No, I don't.

00:27:39.960 Dog-faced pony soldier.

00:27:42.920 My dad was standing with me in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

00:27:47.300 One day on the street.

00:27:48.700 Watching Sam Smith.

00:27:51.100 Two men.

00:27:52.180 And Mr. President, you walked with MLK, right?

00:27:54.060 I did, I did. But let me finish my story.

00:27:57.460 It's funny when the mouth moves.

00:27:58.900 Okay, thank you. I can't do it all the time.

00:28:02.180 Not much.

00:28:03.540 And there were two men going at it like jackhammers on his feet.

00:28:08.280 And my father said, Joey, Joey said, that's what love looks like.

00:28:14.400 And I said, thanks, pop, corn pop.

00:28:18.800 That's another story.

00:28:20.340 No, Mr. President.

00:28:21.160 No more stories.

00:28:22.080 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:28:23.240 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:28:24.440 Oh, are we, are we?

00:28:25.940 That's enough, Mr. President.

00:28:26.740 The eyes are so realistic.

00:28:27.880 Now I'm looking forward to the state of the union.

00:28:29.380 Yeah, they say there's no great comedy at the Daily Wire.

00:28:36.340 That was me, I think.

00:28:37.540 Yeah.

00:28:39.440 What about this balloon guy?

00:28:41.760 Yeah, we haven't talked about the balloon.

00:28:43.680 We probably should, Mr. President.

00:28:45.660 I think we all got played with this whole balloon story.

00:28:48.180 I agree.

00:28:48.820 I think the whole thing is just a sham to get them out of having to go have their meeting with the Chai Coms, right? 1.00

00:28:54.440 And to get us to stop talking about Pfizer, as far as I'm concerned.

00:28:57.580 Yeah.

00:28:57.780 It's amazing.

00:28:58.160 We finally, there's a huge release on all this information.

00:29:01.400 You get the guy who was a year below me in college, oddly enough, the Pfizer exec guy.

00:29:06.220 He's there.

00:29:07.140 He says, yeah, we're doing directed evolution, gain of function research.

00:29:10.680 Yeah, it definitely affects menstruation.

00:29:13.360 Yeah, this, that, and the other thing.

00:29:14.720 And then what?

00:29:15.180 All of a sudden they say, hey, look, a squirrel.

00:29:16.980 Look up there.

00:29:17.580 Hey, look, there's a shiny object in the sky.

00:29:19.140 And then we all fall for it.

00:29:20.160 Do you really think they were just trying to get to the Chinese conference?

00:29:23.660 Yes.

00:29:24.340 Wow.

00:29:24.820 Why?

00:29:26.400 Why would you think that?

00:29:28.160 Because I think that the Chinese are spying on us all the time. 0.91

00:29:31.900 And why?

00:29:32.160 This is from Montana?

00:29:33.060 Yeah, but this is a balloon.

00:29:34.260 This balloon was the size of five greyhound buses.

00:29:37.200 They keep showing it like as a thing at a carnival.

00:29:39.100 It was enormous.

00:29:40.680 And it was like, well, you know, you can't let them fly this year.

00:29:43.020 It was carrying the wizard.

00:29:43.900 Well, I agree that you, the wizard of Oz.

00:29:46.340 I agree that you shouldn't, that we should oppose Chinese spying, but they didn't even 1.00

00:29:49.580 stop.

00:29:49.960 They didn't even do that.

00:29:51.040 Yeah, they didn't.

00:29:51.720 They just blew it up, made a big news story, drug it out for as long as the news cycle would

00:29:55.600 allow for it to go.

00:29:56.320 Oh, you're attributing cleverness.

00:29:57.560 Yeah.

00:29:58.540 Oh, I look smart.

00:29:59.460 No, what happened is that he's an idiot. 0.76

00:30:03.380 And he was like, oh, look, some of my generals told me that there is a Chinese spy balloon

00:30:07.700 above American soil.

00:30:08.780 Perhaps no one will see it.

00:30:10.220 After all, I cannot, since I'm clinically blind.

00:30:12.400 And a bunch of people in Montana looked up in the sky and behold, an enormous spy balloon.

00:30:17.100 And they said, a spy balloon.

00:30:18.560 And Joe Biden said, and nothing.

00:30:21.460 Donald Trump gazed directly into the sun, looking for it.

00:30:24.320 And for eight days, it floated above American soil, moving slowly past all American military

00:30:28.900 installations.

00:30:30.500 And then, I can tell you, honestly, like, the proof is in the pudding.

00:30:35.820 The timeline is obvious.

00:30:37.260 This thing was crossing American soil early last week.

00:30:40.620 And on about Friday, this started to become a major issue for Joe Biden.

00:30:43.900 And everyone on the left came out and said, you can't shoot this thing down.

00:30:46.840 Why would we shoot this thing down?

00:30:47.680 We can never shoot it down.

00:30:48.400 If you question him shooting the thing down, it's because you just don't understand foreign 0.75

00:30:51.320 policy or politics.

00:30:52.140 Of course, he's not going to shoot it down.

00:30:53.480 They were fully in control.

00:30:54.560 And then Saturday morning, the schmuck comes out.

00:30:56.600 And he's like, well, I said on Wednesday, we should shoot it down.

00:31:01.440 And apparently, everybody ignored him.

00:31:02.960 And then it floats all the way to the usher.

00:31:04.440 It's like, it's over water now.

00:31:07.300 And then they send the F-22 to kill it.

00:31:09.300 Like, the whole thing is ridiculous.

00:31:11.740 And the clearest attempt that it was obvious indicator that it was an attempt to backfill is

00:31:16.380 that they sent out anonymous Defense Department officials who tried to claim that this

00:31:20.000 happened during the Trump administration.

00:31:21.200 Unbelievable.

00:31:21.900 It's a lie.

00:31:22.620 It did not happen during the Trump administration.

00:31:23.620 John Bolton said it wasn't true.

00:31:24.560 They were calling him xenophobic, hate Chinese people.

00:31:26.760 And then now they're like, oh, no, he did let them float balloons.

00:31:28.740 I mean, that was the most ridiculous part.

00:31:29.980 The PR maneuver to try to blame Trump was like, wow.

00:31:32.500 And then you saw the response after all the officials, not just pro-Trump ones, but John

00:31:36.640 Bolton, you mentioned, he said, I've heard any of this.

00:31:38.460 They said, oh, well, yeah, we know they were there, but we didn't see him.

00:31:42.820 We missed it.

00:31:43.540 Yeah.

00:31:44.020 But we definitely know they happened.

00:31:45.140 It does totally the same thing as a giant Chinese spy balloon floating across the entire

00:31:48.340 continent of the United States over the course of a week.

00:31:50.920 Can I just, can I just, can I just be up to twist it into a dog?

00:31:54.180 Are you going to hold that the whole time?

00:31:59.300 I think he has to.

00:32:00.320 How dare, how dare you suggest that the president is a meat puppet of other people by others,

00:32:06.280 outsiders.

00:32:07.080 The president is his own paper bag.

00:32:09.020 Is that, how dare you, sir?

00:32:10.240 Is that what symbolism is?

00:32:11.460 I don't, yeah.

00:32:12.300 Well, you're the one who said this.

00:32:13.180 Yeah, hold on.

00:32:13.880 I'm seeing symbols.

00:32:14.720 Who's going to be the most excited when he comes in?

00:32:16.420 That's what you really wonder, right?

00:32:17.360 Like when he walks in and they do like, they all pretend to be excited and like, as if

00:32:20.920 our world.

00:32:21.120 Oh, did you see?

00:32:21.680 Oh, great.

00:32:22.460 So great to see you guys.

00:32:24.180 I invited Bono because he's famous.

00:32:27.000 Like, why is, like, why is Bono?

00:32:28.760 I hope they fly the Ukrainian flag again and Bono, I mean, this is crazy. 1.00

00:32:33.760 Literally, what is he doing here?

00:32:34.680 I told you, when I was, when I was a young man, when I was an actor, I had a job as a

00:32:39.240 fake sommelier at George Soros' wedding.

00:32:41.340 It's one of my weirdest jobs I ever had.

00:32:42.820 Do you know who was at the wedding?

00:32:44.260 Bono.

00:32:44.500 Bono.

00:32:45.400 He's at like every liberal event in the world.

00:32:47.000 I love the excuses they have for this.

00:32:47.820 So clearly they invited Paul Pelosi so that Joe Biden can point up there and be like,

00:32:51.280 and there were people, there were people in this room who wanted him to be hit in the

00:32:55.940 head by a weird naked man.

00:32:57.720 Who he'd called for the game.

00:33:00.380 Right, exactly.

00:33:01.140 That is why they're doing that.

00:33:03.020 Other people are a bunch of cancer survivors so that he can talk about his cancer moonshot.

00:33:06.940 Because as we all know, the thing that prohibits science from solving cancer is that we don't

00:33:09.920 have sufficient commitment to solving cancer.

00:33:12.040 That's it.

00:33:12.520 If we just focus on cancer more, that will do it.

00:33:14.760 That's an exciting one.

00:33:15.880 And he's also having the family of Tyree Nichols, who they didn't care about five minutes ago

00:33:18.800 and will not care about five minutes from now.

00:33:21.040 But Joe Biden can pretend that he cares deeply about the fate of...

00:33:23.720 Yeah, Ben, you talked about this on your show last week about how disgusting it is that

00:33:29.360 politicians show up at funerals like that.

00:33:31.820 I'd never actually thought about it.

00:33:33.220 It is genuinely disgusting.

00:33:34.460 It's gross.

00:33:34.900 You listen to the speeches that Kamala Harris and Al Sharpton gave at that funeral, and it

00:33:40.160 is just a political stump.

00:33:41.540 It's gross.

00:33:41.960 And they do it all the time.

00:33:43.120 So you remember the Paul Wellstone funeral?

00:33:45.000 Where they showed up at the Paul Wellstone funeral.

00:33:46.800 Paul Wellstone was a senator from Minnesota.

00:33:48.540 He died in a plane crash.

00:33:49.420 And they basically held a political rally.

00:33:50.920 And then you remember that there was the Arizona shooting, and Barack Obama showed up at the

00:33:54.860 memorial for victims of the Arizona shooting.

00:33:56.500 He did a whole gun control pitch.

00:33:58.060 And then he did the same thing in Dallas.

00:33:59.560 And people showing up randomly at the funerals of people they don't know and then giving speeches

00:34:04.180 there is disgusting.

00:34:05.920 I'm sorry.

00:34:06.420 George Floyd's funeral, the three-day funeral.

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00:35:36.600 Don't let that stop you.

00:35:37.700 Can we talk about the Paul Pelosi thing for a second?

00:35:39.640 We just saw Paul Pelosi.

00:35:41.180 Can we talk about the Paul Pelosi thing for a second?

00:35:42.640 Because I think it was a totally botched, the conservatives botched the whole story completely.

00:35:48.720 Of course.

00:35:49.020 By, you know, and I don't blame people for speculating, because they're being weirdly

00:35:53.340 secretive about things.

00:35:54.520 They just released a 911 tape.

00:35:56.040 Selected leaks.

00:35:57.080 Right, and then we find out later that they only didn't release it because the 911 operator

00:36:00.560 completely makes a fool of herself, and I think that was the issue with that. 1.00

00:36:04.900 But the real story with the whole, which I said from the beginning, it's like, it's very

00:36:09.720 plausible that this really was just a homeless drug addict in San Francisco that broke into

00:36:14.720 the house.

00:36:15.480 There's no reason to get into any good theories about gay lovers and all that kind of stuff.

00:36:19.940 Damn.

00:36:20.220 So the real story is that the crime problem in San Francisco is so bad that even Nancy

00:36:27.220 Pelosi's house isn't safe, and that should have always been the point, but instead we

00:36:32.620 went into this whole thing about gay hookers and all the rest of it. 0.97

00:36:35.260 I do think one thing that is true, though, is that, you know, when these incidents tend to

00:36:38.300 happen to her, they keep it very hush-hush.

00:36:39.920 Let's just give you an example on the right.

00:36:41.200 Brad Parscale, when he got arrested, that tape was out before he made it into the house.

00:36:44.720 The cruiser.

00:36:45.240 It was, like, circulating on Twitter.

00:36:46.340 It was unbelievable how quickly it was released.

00:36:48.120 And for whatever reason, when it involves her husband, it's so hush-hush, they go through

00:36:51.000 everything not to give the public any information.

00:36:53.560 In this situation, actually, when it actually was revealed, I thought this would have helped

00:36:57.140 them, right?

00:36:57.820 It actually would have put to bed a lot of the conspiracies.

00:36:59.600 When I saw it, as much as I detest Nancy Pelosi, you can't see an 80-year-old get hit like

00:37:04.240 that and not feel a tremendous bet.

00:37:05.760 I mean, like, I was like, wow, I feel really bad that he actually went through this.

00:37:09.560 This is an old man that's getting beat up in his own house, and you hear the call, and it's

00:37:13.220 like, he's in such pain for the dispatcher to understand.

00:37:16.460 No, this is a hostage situation.

00:37:17.780 And he's not being subtle.

00:37:18.360 I need you to just, you know, have a basic level IQ here to understand.

00:37:21.940 She's trying to hang up the phone.

00:37:22.300 She's like, okay, bye.

00:37:22.920 He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:37:24.360 No, not bye.

00:37:25.360 Remember how they originally played it, that she did an amazing job?

00:37:27.740 Yeah.

00:37:27.940 She saw the subtleties.

00:37:28.540 They did for, like, weeks.

00:37:29.500 It was, she saw the subtleties of what he was saying, and she could see his coded language.

00:37:33.400 Yeah.

00:37:33.540 It really was an amazing thing.

00:37:35.420 And they took down that reporter on NBC, and he actually factually stated, so there was

00:37:39.080 a lot of room for conspiracy because they were being too much hushed about it.

00:37:41.120 What I said at the time, I said at the time, it is perfectly plausible that this was exactly

00:37:46.900 as it has been described to us.

00:37:48.920 But the problem is, they've created an environment where it is also plausible that if Paul Pelosi

00:37:54.980 were hit in the head by a gay, naked lover, they also wouldn't tell us. 0.97

00:38:00.160 The media is now so uninvested in ever scrutinizing anything that could have any negative consequence

00:38:06.340 for the Democrats that we're ready for, the conspiracy is happening all the time right

00:38:10.180 there in the open, so we're ready to not believe or believe anything on that basis.

00:38:13.840 We were all asking who's lying and who's covering up.

00:38:16.400 Is it the Democrats or the Republicans?

00:38:19.200 What everybody seemed to miss here is there was a third party that could have been lying

00:38:23.640 and trying to hush stuff up, and it was the cops.

00:38:26.500 Who released the information to the press that, oh, actually, he referred to the invader

00:38:31.520 as a friend on the phone call?

00:38:33.340 Who released to the press, oh, he was in his underwear, oh, he had a drink, oh, he had this?

00:38:37.640 It was the cops who were releasing that to fuel the conspiracy theories to cover their

00:38:41.940 own derrières because they were incompetent. 1.00

00:38:44.020 Can we talk for a second about what the political situation is for Joe Biden going into the State

00:38:47.900 of the Union?

00:38:48.480 If we have to.

00:38:50.180 I hate the State of the Union more than any of you, probably all of you combined with the fiery

00:38:53.560 passionate hatred of a thousand sons.

00:38:56.040 I mean, I despise it.

00:38:57.620 I think it's a monarchic institution that elevates the Article 2 branch of government above the

00:39:01.540 Article 1 branch of government.

00:39:02.520 But what's the problem?

00:39:03.020 Those are references to articles that Joe Biden's judges don't know about.

00:39:05.920 And the pathetic spectacle of a doddering old fool walking down the aisle to the throngs

00:39:11.840 of cheering morons, pretending that they like him and care about him, while we all sit

00:39:16.160 here for 60 minutes and watch him read a canned speech from a teleprompter in which he

00:39:21.080 pledges to do a bunch of things that he will not do and lies a bunch, is the worst thing

00:39:24.620 in the world.

00:39:25.000 But what exactly is he trying to do?

00:39:27.160 Is this, as they say, the launch of his second successful?

00:39:32.640 I was going to say his second presidential campaign, then I had to correct myself because

00:39:35.060 he's run for president like one million times.

00:39:36.560 So presumably he's running again, or at least being ambulatorially wheeled again toward

00:39:43.440 the presidency.

00:39:44.240 What does he have to do here?

00:39:45.780 Well, I think that the one thing that always gets me about Joe Biden is after four years

00:39:50.400 of listening to how Donald Trump lied about this and lied about that, and no one's going

00:39:54.060 to defend Donald Trump as the icon of truth.

00:39:56.040 He was kind of a carny barker, exaggerated things.

00:39:58.820 This guy lies with such aggression.

00:40:01.740 Oh, yeah.

00:40:02.140 That is offensive, it is offensive to be told that you can afford bread when you can't.

00:40:07.280 It's offensive to be told that everything is tickety-boo when everything is going down

00:40:10.940 the crapper.

00:40:11.760 This immediate moment, he has had this jobs report, which I'm suspicious of.

00:40:18.940 I'm not sure I believe this jobs report, which has cut the unemployment rate to something

00:40:25.360 like its lowest level in, which, by the way, is actually bad for inflation, which is our real

00:40:30.580 problem.

00:40:31.920 Right now, we have this tremendous problem that ordinary people are having a hard time

00:40:35.820 buying the staples.

00:40:37.360 That is the state of play.

00:40:39.100 Would you like me to explain the jobs report, by the way?

00:40:40.320 The reason that the jobs report came in hot at 500,000 is because they underestimated the

00:40:43.940 jobs growth in November or December, and so when you average it all out, it doesn't look

00:40:47.020 nearly as good.

00:40:47.640 Right, exactly.

00:40:48.200 So you tend to get these kind of like weird snake-eat-the-rabbit kind of bumps sometimes

00:40:52.220 in the employment markets, but the real problem is that there's only one chart that matters,

00:40:56.120 and that is the line of employment before the pandemic versus after the pandemic.

00:40:58.920 So if you look at the line of employment before the pandemic, it looks like this.

00:41:02.060 The pandemic hits.

00:41:02.940 If that line were to continue, it would be in this trajectory.

00:41:05.260 The pandemic hits, the job market goes, boom, plummets.

00:41:08.860 When it starts to recover under Trump, it takes a V-shape.

00:41:12.140 It goes directly straight up back toward that line, that original line, and then Joe Biden

00:41:15.660 takes office and it levels off.

00:41:16.900 And so it's been trailing almost in parallel what the line should be, except there's all

00:41:20.920 these missing jobs.

00:41:21.680 So all those missing jobs are missing.

00:41:22.800 So we've regained the jobs that we lost during the pandemic, but we should be well ahead of that

00:41:26.940 considering that we're now two years out of the pandemic.

00:41:28.580 But the important thing is you have polls showing more people than ever saying they're

00:41:33.160 unhappy with the government.

00:41:34.860 A, the government is the biggest problem we're facing.

00:41:37.360 That's the largest problem, according to the polls.

00:41:40.200 B, people say they're worse off than they were two years ago.

00:41:43.940 A record number of people say that they are doing worse than they were doing two years ago.

00:41:49.000 And a record number of people are saying that the government is going in the wrong direction.

00:41:51.640 And to have this guy stand up and say everything is great, it's just insulting, you know?

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00:43:31.200 Smells like victory.

00:43:32.160 You win.

00:43:35.080 You killed it.

00:43:35.980 I believe that.

00:43:36.480 Honestly, if I had to read, that was...

00:43:38.000 That's correct.

00:43:38.940 You're getting strong now.

00:43:39.760 Never heard better.

00:43:40.400 You're getting strong.

00:43:42.040 Yeah, I think that it's true.

00:43:44.280 Donald Trump's lies were so offensive because of the way in which he lied.

00:43:48.280 And when I say they were offensive...

00:43:49.940 You mean hilarious.

00:43:50.700 People will get angry with me.

00:43:53.040 They were hilarious.

00:43:54.400 People get angry, but they were offensive.

00:43:55.960 They offended our sensibilities because we were used to being lied to the other way.

00:44:00.360 All of our sensibilities were sort of formed to embrace political lies.

00:44:04.260 And then he came along and offended those sensibilities.

00:44:06.700 And in some ways, that was his superpower when he did it for the good.

00:44:09.280 When he did it to cover his own rear end when he was doing bad things, when he was not

00:44:13.840 being fully honest, it was a bad thing.

00:44:17.640 Trump was a mixed bag, and he's extreme in both directions.

00:44:20.940 Extremely good.

00:44:21.620 You didn't have his lies in the same way because he did that.

00:44:22.980 But they offended, they did offend the political sensibility.

00:44:26.020 And this is why the left really thought he was Hitler.

00:44:28.080 This is why people were weeping in the streets and all this crazy stuff that, I mean, people

00:44:31.580 lost their minds.

00:44:33.220 The strange thing about politics is that Joe Biden's lies are so much more consequential.

00:44:40.260 They're so much more damning.

00:44:41.980 They're so much...

00:44:42.480 They're planned.

00:44:43.140 They're so much more planned.

00:44:44.180 Yeah, yeah.

00:44:44.440 He is a truly one of the most corrupt people in American public life in our lifetimes.

00:44:50.940 But his lies do not offend the sensibilities of the public.

00:44:55.040 And so people at home can't afford eggs, and he's going to get up there and say that we

00:44:58.480 have a great economy, and people will fill the fence, but they'll look around, and there

00:45:02.220 won't be anybody screaming in the streets, and there won't be any journalists fainting,

00:45:05.880 and there won't be any celebrities threatening to leave the country.

00:45:08.840 And so they go...

00:45:09.340 They'll be defending the lies.

00:45:10.360 But that's the press doing that.

00:45:11.860 They create that atmosphere.

00:45:12.880 I don't believe that.

00:45:13.240 I understand that that's what it is.

00:45:14.700 The people at home are, like, the Democrat people that I know and I'm friends with and

00:45:18.640 that are in my family, actually, they are offended.

00:45:21.040 Yeah, I hope so.

00:45:21.740 And I think that we don't believe so, because the press pretends not to be offended.

00:45:24.820 And they tell us it's not a big deal.

00:45:26.160 Yeah.

00:45:26.720 The press is telling us, oh, it's not a big deal, and they keep moving on.

00:45:29.080 But the average American, I think, is suffering enough.

00:45:31.340 They understand that they're being lied to.

00:45:32.740 They're not happy with the entire balloon gate, Chinese balloon gate.

00:45:36.120 And so I do think that there is this disparity between what the press says and what the people

00:45:41.060 actually feel.

00:45:41.620 And I think that's shown by, you know, CNN suffering their numbers and things of that

00:45:45.260 nature, because they're no longer seeing their viewpoints reflected in what they're watching.

00:45:48.400 Numbers is a kind word to use about their audience.

00:45:50.380 And also, to answer the original question of what does he need to do tonight politically...

00:45:56.160 Yes.

00:45:59.960 The answer, of course...

00:46:00.920 Talk to the bag, man.

00:46:01.660 No, I refuse.

00:46:03.040 I'm coming here.

00:46:04.360 I'll talk to the camera.

00:46:04.980 The answer, of course, is that it really doesn't matter at all what he says on the

00:46:08.120 State of the Union.

00:46:08.440 Like, the State of the Union has zero political impact whatsoever.

00:46:10.920 I don't think there's any evidence that it affects the polls, you know, in any kind

00:46:14.860 of long-standing way at all.

00:46:17.060 You know, I don't think...

00:46:17.660 Not in a year before an election year.

00:46:20.580 Yeah.

00:46:20.780 I mean, people...

00:46:21.900 Whatever happens tonight, everyone has forgotten it by Thursday at the latest.

00:46:26.460 Matt, would you like some ice cream?

00:46:29.580 Donald Trump has already forgotten.

00:46:31.420 I'm sorry.

00:46:32.300 Joe Biden has already forgotten.

00:46:33.600 Did you see the Washington Post column today saying...

00:46:37.080 The headline...

00:46:37.820 I'm not getting it verbatim, but it's pretty close.

00:46:40.040 Eggs are not really that expensive.

00:46:42.220 I love that.

00:46:42.820 I love that.

00:46:43.280 When you really...

00:46:43.560 The thesis was, when you really think about it, you know, when you really think...

00:46:46.940 I know you're paying $5, $6, $10, $15 for eggs.

00:46:50.240 When you can get them.

00:46:51.280 They were sold out the other day at my grocery store.

00:46:53.100 Oh, yeah.

00:46:53.620 They're not...

00:46:54.120 It's really actually...

00:46:55.660 These are not the droids you're looking for.

00:46:57.040 They're actually...

00:46:57.640 These are not very expensive eggs.

00:46:58.900 I was a chicken farmer once.

00:47:00.900 No, you were not, Mr. President.

00:47:03.420 Is there going to be a bar who blows into the bag and just smacks it?

00:47:06.380 Yeah.

00:47:08.260 This is the thing, though, that when there is no social proof to reinforce the thing that you're feeling inside, you tend to second-guess yourself.

00:47:18.120 And I think this is part of what explains the poor showing that we had on election night.

00:47:23.360 Also, why did Barack Obama...

00:47:25.480 Barack Obama won re-election with the worst sort of economic indicators of any president who'd won re-election in modern life.

00:47:32.120 But there was no social proof to validate the way that people felt.

00:47:35.900 This is the power that the media had.

00:47:37.180 If we get that Obama had the advantage of that 2008 crash, so even though his economic numbers...

00:47:43.820 We knew his economic numbers were bad, but they were better than when he took office.

00:47:47.400 We lost a ton of votes.

00:47:48.520 ...and got the entire press corps with him.

00:47:50.440 And so they kept saying, oh, there was so much better, such an improvement, so great.

00:47:53.660 I mean, there was a piece in the New York Times today, I think it was, in the op-ed page, or knucklehead row, as I call it, where Michelle Goldberg... 1.00

00:48:01.040 Yeah, it's so funny.

00:48:02.020 Such a great piece.

00:48:02.960 She's a wonderful columnist because she sees like a sort of shadow.

00:48:06.420 She sees the truth, but she's not allowed to think outside of the New York Times philosophy, so she can't quite grasp what it is.

00:48:12.820 So she wrote this thing saying, well, this is a great president.

00:48:15.520 This is a great, great president.

00:48:17.400 It was like listening to somebody...

00:48:20.140 No, he missed the second sentence.

00:48:21.560 He's a great president, but he shouldn't run again.

00:48:23.440 But he shouldn't run again.

00:48:23.920 Which is the first time, which, by the way, is kind of the subtle undertones to a lot of what the...

00:48:27.920 The problem for the Democrats, of course, is that the people backing her up are Kamala Harris, the least talented human being maybe ever to walk the earth. 1.00

00:48:33.880 I mean, it is truly astonishing, the levels of talent that she does not have.

00:48:38.940 They are nearly infinite.

00:48:40.040 It's like an infinite regress of talentlessness with Kamala Harris.

00:48:44.320 And so, you know, they kind of are wedded to her.

00:48:47.620 And every so often you'll see a hit piece come out about Kamala, and it's like, okay, Pete Buttigieg in the study with the wrench.

00:48:51.620 Because you know that he's setting all of those up.

00:48:55.580 The truth is, I think that the best ally that Biden has is not even the media.

00:48:58.140 The best ally that he has is that he is a dead person.

00:49:01.100 I'm not kidding you.

00:49:02.200 It is that he is an empty bag.

00:49:04.720 Indeed.

00:49:05.120 Because he's a deeply unthreatening human being.

00:49:09.180 Like, he's a very threatening person in terms of his actual politics.

00:49:12.660 And the stuff that he wants for the country is actually genuinely terrible, and in some cases even evil.

00:49:17.800 But he's also non-threatening because you look at him, you're like, he's such a non-entity.

00:49:22.640 Like, can you get...

00:49:23.380 Like, he's walking...

00:49:24.140 The president's walking into the joint session right now.

00:49:26.880 Well, he's walking?

00:49:27.640 It's a miracle.

00:49:28.780 It's a miracle.

00:49:29.300 And you just look at him, and he does look so harmless.

00:49:32.880 Right.

00:49:33.080 It is.

00:49:33.600 He's an old man whose eyes have closed because he's got so much Botox in his forehead.

00:49:37.780 He's a senile.

00:49:38.100 This is a guy who pooped his pants in front of the Pope.

00:49:41.300 So how exactly...

00:49:42.800 I wondered when you'd get it.

00:49:44.760 He's a waiting all show for that one.

00:49:46.380 The question, though, is how do you feel...

00:49:48.600 How do you generate a sense of threat around a person who is like that?

00:49:51.940 You can try to generate a sense of threat around his agenda, but he doesn't have the same sort of threatening talent.

00:49:57.080 See, it takes talent to be threatening.

00:49:58.580 Barack Obama was a threatening president specifically because he was charismatic and talented.

00:50:03.040 But I keep imagining what a textbook is going to look like 500 years from now when they show us the last president of the republic.

00:50:08.180 And he's just doddering old man. 0.60

00:50:09.660 Like, this was the man they thought was going to...

00:50:11.420 It's threatening in a different kind of way.

00:50:13.480 I understand that he's not evil-looking.

00:50:15.300 No, but that says something about the state of the republic.

00:50:17.240 It doesn't say something about him.

00:50:18.560 And that's the problem, is that the American people generally don't like to look directly in the mirror.

00:50:21.820 When we look at the problems that the country faces, the reality is we can blame our politicians all we want.

00:50:28.080 A lot of this is just generated by the American public.

00:50:30.040 I mean, this is a democratic republic.

00:50:31.500 And the fact is we keep electing these dolts over and over and over again.

00:50:36.060 And that's why the Chinese feel so just sanguine about floating into nearly every arena of American life. 0.98

00:50:43.120 And just being...

00:50:44.480 What's happening right now?

00:50:47.320 Xi Jinping is sending us messages.

00:50:50.300 I'm feeling threatened.

00:50:51.640 Andrew Klavan, would you like to shoot that?

00:50:52.940 I was thinking, you know, do you mind?

00:50:54.360 I was looking for something sharper.

00:50:56.980 Sputnik flying overhead?

00:50:58.120 The flamethrower, Michael.

00:50:59.040 The flamethrower.

00:50:59.920 Where did the flamethrower go?

00:51:01.720 No, no.

00:51:02.560 Andrew almost got it.

00:51:03.860 The most amusing things we'll get all night.

00:51:05.740 An old man trying to prod in a balloon with a cigar.

00:51:08.600 Yes, we have reached that point in the broadcast and we haven't even begun...

00:51:11.020 Actually, that's a great metaphor for the State of the Union.

00:51:14.360 No, no.

00:51:14.840 Oh, my God.

00:51:16.140 It wasn't lit enough.

00:51:17.700 These Chinese are amazing.

00:51:19.800 That one was made in America.

00:51:23.200 So now here's the president of the United States or the husband of the president of the United States

00:51:28.380 wandering through the room, shaking hands with a bunch of Supreme Court justices

00:51:33.840 and past Supreme Court justices, it looks like.

00:51:36.520 And you have just Kevin McCarthy standing there and Kamala Harris standing there and they

00:51:40.920 clap like automatons.

00:51:42.220 And we all pretend that we like the president, which is always...

00:51:44.120 That's always one of my favorite things about the State of the Union is where the president

00:51:46.680 walks in and everybody on both sides of the aisle pretends they like him.

00:51:49.160 Like for that brief moment before they start cheering.

00:51:50.740 Or they do not with Trump.

00:51:51.600 I want to know if Kevin McCarthy is going to tear up his speech.

00:51:54.120 I hope so.

00:51:54.880 I hope he makes it into like some sort of origami thing.

00:51:58.320 Maybe just into a swan or something.

00:51:59.680 You know, what's amazing about this setting, though, I'm probably the most pro-State of

00:52:03.780 the Union person here.

00:52:04.800 Not this.

00:52:05.320 I mean, this is going to be interminable and terrible.

00:52:06.960 Because you're a monarchist.

00:52:08.300 That's right.

00:52:08.840 You know, I'm Catholic, Italian.

00:52:10.340 Exactly.

00:52:10.520 But I like the looks of it are so majestic.

00:52:14.960 And the idea that we're all coming together and we actually have something in common and

00:52:19.880 both houses of Congress are meeting in the same place and both parties...

00:52:23.620 It's a nice fiction.

00:52:24.460 Yeah.

00:52:24.740 No, the idea of it, I mean, it might be a noble fiction, but I like it in theory.

00:52:30.480 And then it always makes me think, why does the opposition party feel the need to give

00:52:36.260 the response to the State of the Union?

00:52:38.000 When you're doing it from some random room somewhere with Rubio grabbing for a bottle

00:52:42.520 of water and it can not look good.

00:52:45.160 I was so sorry to see that Sarah Sanders is giving the response because I like Sarah Sanders.

00:52:49.560 I think she's very talented.

00:52:50.600 She's the only Republican who probably won't run for president. 1.00

00:52:53.220 Yeah, that's true.

00:52:54.240 You're right.

00:52:54.620 In 2024.

00:52:56.120 But I just think, let them...

00:52:57.940 Has there ever been a good one?

00:52:58.720 A good response?

00:52:59.600 No, there never.

00:53:00.560 There cannot be for all the reasons that Michael was saying.

00:53:02.700 I'm sorry.

00:53:03.140 The president looks so addled.

00:53:04.260 Look at him.

00:53:04.800 He's not with us.

00:53:07.320 He's just not with us.

00:53:09.140 And he's...

00:53:09.880 All right.

00:53:11.300 You know how this is going to be bad?

00:53:12.620 You know this is going to be bad because the New York Times, before it even began,

00:53:15.020 ran a piece about how he's overcoming his stammer.

00:53:17.420 They did.

00:53:18.040 And it's like, that's been in public life for longer than I've been alive by a factor of

00:53:21.000 like...

00:53:21.580 It took him 80 years.

00:53:22.660 All right.

00:53:23.080 The president of the United States about to start.

00:53:25.140 He's handing his speech to Kevin McCarthy.

00:53:27.720 We'll be back with you at the conclusion of the speech to tell you how bad it was.

00:53:32.000 We'll see you then.

00:53:32.840 See you soon.

00:53:32.900 Well, that was in on this pile of horses, huh?

00:53:45.520 Franklin Roosevelt.

00:53:46.620 See, you're for fear instead of hope.

00:53:48.400 And you're for darkness instead of hope.

00:53:49.520 You know what?

00:53:50.080 Screw light.

00:53:50.460 What you don't understand, Ben, is that Franklin Roosevelt defeated Nazi Germany, and Ronald

00:53:56.580 Reagan defeated the Soviet Union, and Joseph Robinette Biden defeated resort fees.

00:54:05.420 That he said tonight.

00:54:07.680 I'm so moved.

00:54:08.800 He was very concerned about ticket fees at the airport, like significantly more concerned

00:54:12.120 about that than China.

00:54:13.280 China came much later in the speech than...

00:54:15.100 That was actually the part where he was just listing stuff he was annoyed by and saying

00:54:18.360 he'll ban them.

00:54:19.300 That's exactly how I would handle a state of defense when I was president.

00:54:23.180 It's the most relatable he's ever been on.

00:54:24.640 Yeah, I know.

00:54:25.400 That'll get him elected.

00:54:26.480 So I have a few personal favorites.

00:54:28.640 You know, I'm going to play the hits a little bit here.

00:54:29.880 Yeah, let's do it.

00:54:30.520 One of my personal favorites was the part where he said, you know, I approached all these

00:54:35.000 oil companies, and I told them they need to start drilling.

00:54:38.360 And they said to me, well, how we can build new refineries when you're trying to transition

00:54:42.520 away from oil?

00:54:43.260 And I say, well, we're going to need oil for at least about 10 years.

00:54:48.360 And people broke out laughing.

00:54:49.760 People broke out laughing because you're making their case, because you're a sad, screamy

00:54:54.020 old man.

00:54:54.180 Yeah, because you couldn't build a...

00:54:55.700 You couldn't get the EPA approval to even start digging to build the refinery in 10 years.

00:55:01.460 That's the actual truth.

00:55:02.740 It is.

00:55:03.500 You know, that was serious.

00:55:05.160 I don't even have anything to say on the specifics of that speech, because I felt the

00:55:09.060 entire thing was like standing in a bar where the guy next to you is drunk and won't

00:55:12.700 leave you alone.

00:55:13.580 He's just like, we're acting in this...

00:55:15.900 Look it up!

00:55:17.000 Look it up!

00:55:17.920 Well, tremendously gaslit throughout all of that.

00:55:22.440 I mean, people have a lot of conspiracy theories about watching the COVID shots.

00:55:25.600 You better hope it's a healthy bout of amnesia, because he's pretending that he is going to

00:55:29.900 be the person that is fighting against big pharma as if he wasn't the same person that

00:55:33.680 we all just had to fight at the Daily Wire.

00:55:36.340 Because OSHA tried to mandate.

00:55:39.360 Joe Biden tried to mandate via OSHA the vaccine to everybody's arm.

00:55:42.980 They're applauding as if he's the person now that's fighting.

00:55:46.760 I don't understand it.

00:55:47.680 The insulin move with big pharma, he stopped Trump.

00:55:50.900 Trump already did this, lowered the prices for insulin.

00:55:53.060 He blocked it.

00:55:54.000 And now he's reintroducing what Trump did.

00:55:55.660 So I think people's memories must be going.

00:55:58.080 This comment that we pay more for drugs than other countries is because they have single-payer

00:56:05.200 health care.

00:56:06.160 So the drug companies have no one to bargain with except the government.

00:56:09.980 And when they come to us, they have to bargain with various different people.

00:56:13.500 If they're not making profits off us, they're not making profits off anybody.

00:56:16.600 If they're not making profits off anybody, 20 years from now, when cancer might be cured,

00:56:21.560 when some cancer might be cured, it won't be.

00:56:23.340 You won't even know what you missed.

00:56:25.340 You will not even know what they took away from you.

00:56:27.280 I like the part where, so which one of you guys hit Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer,

00:56:30.880 guys?

00:56:31.720 I think it was all of us.

00:56:32.940 I think it was all of us.

00:56:33.860 It was all of us.

00:56:34.680 It was all of us.

00:56:35.500 Really, it was all of us.

00:56:36.320 Who wasn't hitting Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer while half naked and stoned out

00:56:40.320 of the mind?

00:56:41.300 It was really because, you know, the big lie and January 6th and Trump.

00:56:45.160 So that's why Paul Pelosi got hit in the head with a hammer and also unity.

00:56:48.880 But like really a lot of unity.

00:56:50.260 And Joe Biden wants to be like, he's standing up for all of us, especially the people who

00:56:53.800 hit Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.

00:56:56.400 I thought that part was really profound.

00:56:57.980 And speaking of gaslighting, he brings Tyree Nichols' family on and then transitions immediately

00:57:03.960 to a discussion about racist police officers when it was, of course, black police officers

00:57:08.540 that killed him.

00:57:09.340 And then also, can I also say that this whole thing about the talk?

00:57:12.080 Well, white families never have to have the talk with their kids.

00:57:16.340 But this is such nonsense.

00:57:17.460 When I started driving, my dad explained to me that, son, if you ever get pulled over,

00:57:22.840 be respectful to the police officer.

00:57:24.260 If you don't agree with the ticket, fight it in court.

00:57:27.440 And by the way, 10 and 2.

00:57:28.720 10 and 2 on the wheels.

00:57:30.560 Doesn't literally every parent have that talk with kids when they start driving?

00:57:35.100 And as someone who gets stopped quite often because I drive badly, drive too fast, I turn

00:57:39.440 on my lights.

00:57:40.340 I put my hands on the thing.

00:57:42.200 You know, I say officer.

00:57:43.700 It's almost the first word out of my mouth.

00:57:45.040 Because the minute they hear officer, they know that you respect them.

00:57:48.300 I roll down the window and say, I'm white.

00:57:52.060 I cannot stress this.

00:57:53.840 This is a huge mistake.

00:57:55.360 Look at my face.

00:57:58.920 Cannot stress this enough, officer.

00:58:01.940 I'll start using officer.

00:58:03.060 The officer's good, yeah.

00:58:04.360 How did you like the random screaming?

00:58:06.120 Random screaming, Joe.

00:58:07.260 Well, listen.

00:58:07.980 Screaming whisper is the, when he goes really quickly.

00:58:09.940 This is the, this was, this was an historic State of the Union.

00:58:15.400 And I'm not actually joking.

00:58:16.580 It was the first time that an octogenarian has ever addressed the country as president

00:58:22.260 of the United States.

00:58:22.660 Congratulations to us, man.

00:58:23.680 This is a great country.

00:58:24.800 Literally anyone can be president.

00:58:27.200 And it was an old man's speech.

00:58:30.380 It was incoherent.

00:58:31.580 It was rambling.

00:58:32.400 It was shouting.

00:58:33.140 It was off his personal peaks.

00:58:34.420 The real, the real giveaway too was because he's accomplished nothing and he's only failed.

00:58:40.540 The whole speech was just about the stuff that he's definitely going to get to really

00:58:44.320 soon.

00:58:45.300 And it, and by the way, the stuff he's going to get to really soon was fixing the luggage

00:58:48.560 fees, right?

00:58:49.140 It wasn't even ambitious.

00:58:49.980 I don't agree that he's failed.

00:58:51.160 I think he's passed a lot of stuff.

00:58:53.040 I mean, the inflation, whatever the hell they call the inflation reduction.

00:58:55.900 The global warming bill.

00:58:56.680 The fact that it's bad is different than the fact that it's passed.

00:58:59.660 But it hasn't fixed anything.

00:59:00.840 He's seen it in doing the thing he wanted to do.

00:59:02.040 Yes.

00:59:02.240 But I just mean, he can't come out and say, inflation is really great.

00:59:06.640 He tried to a little bit, but it didn't work.

00:59:08.300 His stuff hasn't worked.

00:59:09.980 Yeah.

00:59:10.180 Not yet.

00:59:10.760 Not yet.

00:59:11.080 Now we're going to get the whole routine from the media about the Republicans were so mean

00:59:13.640 to him, guys.

00:59:14.160 They were so mean to him because they kept yelling at him during the speech.

00:59:16.600 You can't yell at him.

00:59:17.180 I thought that was good.

00:59:17.980 I've never seen.

00:59:18.880 Has there ever been a State of the Union address where twice the president makes a claim

00:59:23.080 and then walks it back in real time?

00:59:24.840 Yeah.

00:59:25.420 Held at him.

00:59:25.940 He actually, because we have the transcript of what the White House releases beforehand.

00:59:29.640 And he literally had to have lied full paragraphs of his speech because he said, the Republicans

00:59:33.880 want to take your Social Security and Medicare.

00:59:36.260 And the Republicans are like, no, no.

00:59:38.480 And he's like, no one wants to take your Social Security and Medicare.

00:59:41.520 Isn't that great?

00:59:42.660 And they're like, yes.

00:59:43.860 And then he just had to cut out like two paragraphs of his campaign stump speech.

00:59:47.240 You're right.

00:59:47.480 I mean, he walked that one back.

00:59:48.580 I did like the part where he was shouting about how no one wants to switch places with

00:59:51.520 Xi Jinping, which I have some news for him.

00:59:56.200 There are a lot.

00:59:57.360 All of them.

00:59:58.040 Thomas Friedman.

01:00:00.640 You know, we're ignoring the real issue, though.

01:00:03.120 And this was an issue that Matt pointed out to me at the very top of the speech.

01:00:06.840 Can we talk about the weird kiss between Dr. Jill and Kamala's husband?

01:00:10.960 The weird, like, make-out session?

01:00:12.620 Oh, was that Kamala's husband?

01:00:13.360 It was weird.

01:00:14.200 It was weird.

01:00:14.820 I'm going to...

01:00:15.580 It's not a personal matter here.

01:00:16.340 I'm going to...

01:00:17.100 What they do in the public forum is...

01:00:18.940 What they do in the Capitol.

01:00:21.300 I'm actually going to push back on this and say that it was bad optics at a political speech.

01:00:26.660 Yeah.

01:00:26.820 And I will enjoy, for the next 10 years of American public life, tweeting out the photo with funny quips.

01:00:34.920 Yes.

01:00:35.300 But if you actually watch the video of it, it's a slightly out-of-touch thing for them to do

01:00:41.160 in a political environment.

01:00:42.380 If they did the exact same thing at the Grammys or...

01:00:45.160 Or at one of the eyes-wide-shut parties.

01:00:47.180 No.

01:00:47.740 Yeah.

01:00:48.560 My point is that...

01:00:49.300 In the privacy of their own bedroom.

01:00:50.320 That's true.

01:00:52.300 My point is that if we had seen them do that at an Oscars after-party, no one would think

01:00:57.440 anything.

01:00:57.620 Oh, they're having an affair.

01:00:58.760 Let's play.

01:00:59.780 I just want to make this declarative statement.

01:01:02.000 All right.

01:01:03.120 All right.

01:01:03.600 Also, everybody...

01:01:04.480 The media are already going nuts over people yelling at Biden.

01:01:08.180 Can you just get over?

01:01:08.980 Biden was yelling at us.

01:01:10.120 That was the whole damn thing.

01:01:11.120 I'm super tired of this whole nonsense where a politician who gives a speech like this,

01:01:16.520 no one can yell back at him.

01:01:18.060 I remember they did this with Joe Wilson also.

01:01:19.560 Remember the you lie moment?

01:01:20.720 Yeah, yeah.

01:01:21.100 It was like the biggest deal in the world.

01:01:22.320 Do you lie?

01:01:23.300 Okay.

01:01:23.460 First of all, you guys claimed that Donald Trump was a Russian plan for like four years.

01:01:26.640 Yeah.

01:01:26.820 For four years.

01:01:27.620 And you spent tens of millions.

01:01:28.360 Still.

01:01:28.500 And you ripped up his speech.

01:01:29.700 You're like, can we drop all of this garbage about how civility must dominate?

01:01:33.480 No one can ever say to the president you're wrong when he's clearly lying about you.

01:01:36.520 Have you ever seen British Parliament?

01:01:38.060 Right.

01:01:38.360 Yeah.

01:01:38.480 Like, it's the best thing.

01:01:39.700 We should do it like British Parliament.

01:01:40.700 Like, the prime minister can get up there.

01:01:41.700 We should mock him.

01:01:42.440 We should all yell at him.

01:01:43.320 It's much better.

01:01:44.060 It's much better.

01:01:44.920 Yeah.

01:01:45.060 This is nonsense.

01:01:45.700 Or our own Congress historically when they're beating each other over the heads of the

01:01:48.720 ochres from the fire.

01:01:50.620 Even when the king, now king, previously queen for all of our lifetimes, opens the government

01:01:58.400 in the UK, and they summons the commoners, the House of Commons, over to the House of Lords

01:02:05.120 for the inaugural speech to open the government.

01:02:09.060 They actually go through this kind of pantomime as they cross through Westminster Palace of talking

01:02:16.800 loudly and, you know, kind of stomping over there as a way of saying, we don't have to

01:02:22.320 show respect to the king.

01:02:23.560 So even in a true monarchy, when they have a truly monarchial speech by the monarch, they

01:02:30.140 don't have this idea, this faux dignity kind of concept that we have.

01:02:33.140 But what Ben says is true, this question time where they beat the living daylights out of

01:02:37.380 the prime minister, is because they have this useless king that they can put their, they

01:02:43.220 can project their country onto.

01:02:45.220 They can then go after their politicians as what they are, which is a line saxophone.

01:02:49.520 Did you see the biggest applause line of the night, by the way?

01:02:52.160 This was actually truly sad.

01:02:54.140 They love abortion, right? 0.98

01:02:55.160 The abortion one, when he said, well, I'm going to get up there, I devout Catholic Joe Biden,

01:02:59.180 I'm going to get up, I'm going to codify the killing of many more babies into federal 0.99

01:03:03.620 law.

01:03:04.180 And it was, it was the most enthusiastic.

01:03:05.800 Brought the House down.

01:03:06.380 By the way, there's also one of my favorite parts.

01:03:08.080 Closy, clapping, all the Catholics just, it's just, it's. 1.00

01:03:10.720 One of my favorite parts of these speeches is where the president of the opposing party

01:03:13.860 pledges to veto legislation that will never even come close to his desk.

01:03:16.680 Like, the Republicans don't control the Senate.

01:03:18.680 They ain't passing a national abortion ban.

01:03:20.540 Right.

01:03:20.700 Like, it's not going to happen.

01:03:21.820 I'll protect you from this thing that's never, ever going to happen.

01:03:24.980 Can we talk about just his, the gap between who he is and the policies he's pushing

01:03:30.300 are going to be a real dilemma for the Democrats.

01:03:32.220 Because he is, in fact, as Drew says, a vehicle for all of their cherished hopes and dreams.

01:03:35.700 He's spending more money than has ever been seen in the history of mankind.

01:03:39.040 He's pushing all of their most valuable and cherished goals from transing of the children 1.00

01:03:42.620 to completely restructuring the American economy.

01:03:44.880 He's doing all of those things.

01:03:46.140 But also, he's an incoherent old fool who's yelling at the clouds.

01:03:49.060 Yeah.

01:03:49.200 And so that is a very odd combo.

01:03:51.300 Yeah.

01:03:51.460 And this is one of the reasons they are begging for Republicans to run a bad candidate in

01:03:55.760 2024.

01:03:56.540 Yeah.

01:03:56.680 They're begging for it.

01:03:57.440 Because anybody could tear this guy apart on stage who at least has a sentient bone in

01:04:00.220 his body.

01:04:00.640 Biden is trying to trans the kids.

01:04:02.360 You know who else is trying to trans the kids? 1.00

01:04:03.860 There are actually razor companies that are advocating that we trans the kids.

01:04:07.440 But there's one razor company that's not.

01:04:09.640 You know what that razor company is?

01:04:10.720 Tell us.

01:04:11.240 That would be Jeremy's razor.

01:04:12.980 Oh, ladies. 1.00

01:04:13.820 Wow.

01:04:14.080 Look at your man.

01:04:15.840 Now back to me.

01:04:17.180 Now back at your man.

01:04:18.640 Now back to me.

01:04:20.040 Does he have a coif as healthy and hydrated and magnificent as you see here?

01:04:23.960 Of course not.

01:04:25.140 And how could he when he's using chemical-laced products from so-called men's grooming companies

01:04:30.220 that hate him and his masculinity?

01:04:32.200 This Valentine's Day, get him a gift that says, I don't hate you.

01:04:36.740 Get him a Jeremy's Razors 30% off hair, body, or shave bundle.

01:04:40.660 Unlike Mr. Klavan over there, I use Jeremy's Tea Tree and Archer.

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01:04:46.260 And the results speak for themselves.

01:04:48.340 Hi, poppy.

01:04:49.620 Stop it, AOC.

01:04:50.740 I will not date you.

01:04:52.140 Ladies, your man isn't toxic. 0.99

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01:05:01.460 Just go to jeremysrazors.com.

01:05:04.480 And there are people out there who think that I can troll you guys.

01:05:07.960 I wrote every word of that.

01:05:09.960 Why don't we put all of our worst bits into the same show?

01:05:14.940 It's like a greatest hits in real time.

01:05:18.020 Somebody on Twitter said, Ben is a better Joe than Ben.

01:05:21.320 Oh, no.

01:05:22.100 I thought, that is fair.

01:05:23.560 Put the bag away.

01:05:24.880 Put the bag.

01:05:26.400 Joe, come back.

01:05:27.320 Oh, no.

01:05:28.760 Oh, no.

01:05:29.760 Joe's back.

01:05:31.200 Oh, good.

01:05:32.500 Usually, right now I'm controlling him, but usually it's the media who are up his ass.

01:05:36.440 It's a sad story.

01:05:40.880 I do think that.

01:05:42.260 He cringes in shame.

01:05:43.340 He crinkles in shame.

01:05:44.260 We are literally paid political commentators.

01:05:47.720 Our only job in life is to watch the speech.

01:05:50.960 And sitting here with you guys for the last almost 90 minutes, we could not watch the speech.

01:05:56.960 We were all sitting here.

01:05:58.320 I think they just came and took it before the cameras rolled.

01:06:00.380 They had to print for us printed copies of it because it was so incomprehensible in real time.

01:06:06.620 It is interesting to me how bad he is.

01:06:10.400 And some people say, oh, there's no way he could run again.

01:06:13.340 But I do believe it's a feature, not a bug.

01:06:15.200 I believe his age, you know, we were talking as he entered the chamber that in some ways his sort of harmless aesthetic.

01:06:25.580 But it's not just his harmless aesthetic.

01:06:27.500 I think it actually is his sort of disconnectedness and his mental slippage.

01:06:33.120 All of that works to their advantage because it makes him this sort of Trojan horse in whom they can plant all of their ideas.

01:06:40.060 I mean, he really is more than more than any.

01:06:42.600 You know, everybody everybody used to say that Dick Cheney really controlled George W. Bush.

01:06:46.700 And my argument is always, listen, that's nonsense.

01:06:49.120 The president is the president in the president is vested the power of the presidency.

01:06:54.480 But it never occurred to me what happens when you have a president who is actually mentally incapable.

01:06:59.900 But this is his strength, as you point out, Jeremy, is Joe Biden first entered national politics more than 50 years ago.

01:07:07.480 That's right.

01:07:07.800 And so it doesn't matter if he mumbles and slurs his words and screams and is totally divorced from reality.

01:07:13.160 People are very comfortable with him.

01:07:15.860 You feel bad for any person that poops their pants. 0.91

01:07:18.740 In front of the Pope.

01:07:19.760 Old or young, you just go, this person can't hold their bowels.

01:07:22.320 And if they do it in front of the Pope, it's hard to be like, I really, really hate this person because he pooped his pants.

01:07:27.580 And that's what you're trying to say, using a lot of nice words.

01:07:29.500 Yes.

01:07:29.700 What you're trying to say is real bad for any person that poops their pants in front of the Pope.

01:07:33.600 And that is true.

01:07:34.240 You are correct that he can run again.

01:07:36.420 I don't think he will.

01:07:37.300 It feels to me like the media is turning on him.

01:07:39.640 I think it's purposeful.

01:07:40.800 Suddenly they're willing to cover the Hutton Biden laptop.

01:07:43.000 They're willing to talk about his corruption.

01:07:44.140 They're willing to find the classified documents they knew that they were there forever.

01:07:47.120 They're not idiots.

01:07:48.000 And it seems to me like they're kind of gently kind of trying to back away from this.

01:07:51.740 And I do think Tucker Carlson had done a segment on this a few weeks ago that they may be priming Michelle Obama for a run.

01:07:57.560 And by the way, that's a serious run.

01:08:00.720 Oh, yeah.

01:08:00.960 That's not.

01:08:01.400 And I said, on a show, that's not something to mock.

01:08:03.340 Michelle Obama is not something to mock.

01:08:04.680 No, Michelle Obama does not run for president and not become president.

01:08:07.240 I have to push back on this idea, though, that this is a superpower of his, that he is incomprehensible and unthreatening.

01:08:16.800 It is a superpower if the Republicans don't run someone against him who is a statesman with a point of view.

01:08:24.000 I think that, listen, I think, I know.

01:08:27.360 That's all right.

01:08:27.820 I just thought of something.

01:08:28.420 I know.

01:08:28.660 I'm sorry.

01:08:29.080 Unrelated.

01:08:29.700 No, but I mean, I think that, like, Trump was an amazing moment in history when things shifted as they had to shift.

01:08:37.560 They were shifting already.

01:08:39.460 They changed under cover of Trump so that the Republicans are now the party of the working class.

01:08:45.300 They are now the party of the ordinary man, which they weren't before.

01:08:49.000 And the Democrats are the party of the elite.

01:08:51.100 And I think that if somebody stands up who is an actual statesman, I'm not going to say it's Governor DeSantis, but it's Governor DeSantis, who stands up and says, I can do the things that you need me to do in a statesman-like way, like the president of the United States, I think he will wipe even Michelle Obama off the map.

01:09:09.560 I do not think.

01:09:10.420 You're such an optimist, Drew.

01:09:10.940 What's that?

01:09:11.320 You're a real optimist.

01:09:11.900 That is an optimist.

01:09:12.800 I do not think that, I do not think another television personality, which is what Michelle Obama is, let's face it,

01:09:18.640 is going to win against an actual person who stands for something.

01:09:23.080 But that's very rare.

01:09:24.860 I will say that there's something that was interesting, believe it or not, in what Biden was trying to do strategically with the speech.

01:09:31.140 And you can see it in how he backloaded all the controversial material.

01:09:33.900 So he actually backloaded, he knew everybody was going to tune out in the first 20 minutes.

01:09:36.880 So he backloaded everything that had to do with the equity agenda.

01:09:39.940 That was all backloaded, right?

01:09:40.880 The policing stuff was all backloaded.

01:09:42.860 The stuff about transiting the kids, all backloaded.

01:09:45.480 And even some of the environmental stuff tended to be more backloaded.

01:09:48.480 He was focusing a lot on what he sees as the blue-collar base.

01:09:51.940 He's trying to wrest back away some of those Trump voters.

01:09:54.420 And so he's focusing a lot on protectionist economic policy, on subsidies for various types of industry, on unions, right?

01:10:00.740 He thinks that he's going to run sort of the Tim Ryan Ohio campaign and that this is going to stand him in good stead.

01:10:06.560 I don't think that his party is going to allow that to be the center of that.

01:10:10.320 I don't think the media are excited.

01:10:11.320 They wouldn't be cheering when he said we need fossil fuels for 10 more years.

01:10:17.520 There was like dead silence from the Democrats.

01:10:19.160 Right.

01:10:19.420 So I think he's going to have trouble squaring that circle.

01:10:21.260 But you can see he's trying to make that move.

01:10:22.780 He understands that in order for his coalition to be durable, he does need to expand it and win back a certain base that the Democrats have lost.

01:10:29.940 I don't think the rest of his party understands that.

01:10:31.420 It's a real problem.

01:10:31.780 On the point of wedges, though, we were knocking him because it was a horrible speech.

01:10:34.800 There is one really clever thing he did, though, and it was right at the top, which is he got those two lines in about Kevin McCarthy and about Mitch McConnell.

01:10:43.620 And there were lines to say, I'm actually looking forward to working with you, Kevin.

01:10:47.000 I hope I don't hurt your career by saying that.

01:10:49.180 But, Kevin, I think you're great.

01:10:50.560 And Mitch, you know, it's going to be great to work with you too, Mitch.

01:10:53.020 And that's obviously a dig at MAGA.

01:10:54.600 But it's really a dig at both those guys because he knows.

01:10:57.480 It weakens them in the eyes of MAGA.

01:10:58.740 Of course, yeah.

01:10:59.460 And that was after the most contentious house battle in, what, 150 years, I think it was, house leadership battle.

01:11:05.340 It wasn't his idea, but it was smart.

01:11:07.720 I did like the part where he's going to fight inflation by giving everybody $1,000 back on an electric car and building $500,000.

01:11:14.480 That'll work.

01:11:15.220 That'll pay for my Tesla.

01:11:17.340 It won't, by the way.

01:11:18.320 The Tesla's expensive.

01:11:19.340 It's a great car, but it was expensive.

01:11:21.240 It is true.

01:11:21.680 It is peculiar that all of the Democrat social policy now is aimed at helping well-off people.

01:11:27.740 Yeah.

01:11:27.800 From your, no, we're going to pay for your college.

01:11:31.340 No, we're going to pay for your electric car.

01:11:33.280 No, we're going to pay for your housekeeper. 0.98

01:11:34.860 No, we're going to pay for your vacation.

01:11:36.360 Even the stuff about the non-compete clause.

01:11:40.800 They're going to want to get rid of non-compete clauses.

01:11:42.400 He pretends that this is about helping fast food employees, which, like, apparently maybe there are a few that are on non-compete clauses, which I can't imagine.

01:11:49.680 I never had one when I worked for them.

01:11:50.880 The vast majority of that is not.

01:11:53.200 Yes, tech sector.

01:11:54.200 Right.

01:11:54.720 It's high income.

01:11:56.240 Resort fees.

01:11:57.860 No one worrying about how they're going to pay for eggs at home today is like, yeah, finally, resort fees.

01:12:05.100 This actually is a great point, is that he was talking about how, like, very specific ways he was going to reduce very specific bills, right?

01:12:11.540 I'm going to mandate that there are no more resort fees.

01:12:14.200 I'm going to make sure there are no baggage fees.

01:12:15.700 I'm going to make sure that you can get a refund on your airline ticket.

01:12:18.120 And meanwhile, the elephant in the room is that inflation, which he says is quote-unquote down, is currently running at 6.5%, which is three and a half, which is more than three times, like 325%, what they're aiming at, right?

01:12:29.180 Normally, you're aiming at a 2% inflation rate.

01:12:30.960 It's running at 6.5%, and that's down, right?

01:12:32.960 So he's avoiding that like the plague and instead proclaiming that he's going to lower your costs in this way and that way and just hoping that you ignore the elephant in the room.

01:12:41.500 There are so many sort of tacit lies that he was telling.

01:12:43.720 His whole inflation reduction nonsense.

01:12:45.720 Like, oh, Donald Trump blew out the numbers on the deficit, and I'm bringing the deficit down.

01:12:51.420 No, it's just that the programs under Trump sunsetted, and so therefore less money was spent under those programs.

01:12:58.300 Those were unanimously passed by the Republicans and the Democrats because of COVID.

01:13:02.240 I love how he blamed COVID simultaneously for the crime increase as well as for inflation, right?

01:13:08.540 And then he said, you know, COVID just kind of magically shut down our educational system.

01:13:12.720 No, no, you shut down our educational system.

01:13:15.180 He kept blaming extraneous factors for all of his problems while, of course, he gets the personal credit for all of his problems.

01:13:19.340 By the way, teachers are all going to get a raise, so there's that.

01:13:21.900 They did such an amazing job not teaching during COVID.

01:13:23.780 Yeah, exactly.

01:13:24.320 They didn't teach during COVID.

01:13:25.060 They didn't want to go back to work.

01:13:26.180 Also, we have students that are suffering, but people can't pass basic reading exams.

01:13:30.480 Literacy exams are the lowest they've ever been in this country.

01:13:32.660 But you know what we're going to do?

01:13:33.340 Let's give teachers a raise. 1.00

01:13:34.240 That will definitely help the problem.

01:13:34.640 And a couple more years of school.

01:13:35.640 A couple more years of school.

01:13:36.260 Oh, yeah, because we need, yeah, let's extend it to daycare.

01:13:38.320 It shouldn't just be 12 years.

01:13:39.940 He said we need more years.

01:13:42.300 And that obviously is something that parents should be really paying attention to.

01:13:45.780 That's also something that he backloaded.

01:13:47.500 Go on.

01:13:47.740 That's how you fix education systems, is by putting more money into it.

01:13:51.560 But if you want to fix law enforcement, you take money out of it.

01:13:54.200 Yes, exactly.

01:13:55.840 They're a perfectly sound argument.

01:13:57.440 One thing that Matt said that I think is absolutely true is this is not going to be a political event at all.

01:14:01.960 That usually the State of the Union has a blip afterwards.

01:14:05.700 It lasts like two days, and it's going to go away.

01:14:08.020 And this, I think, is going to be...

01:14:09.660 It already is.

01:14:10.720 But the only thing about this is that, you know, it's interesting to us because we're political types,

01:14:15.940 and we like political stories, and it is a political story.

01:14:19.400 It does tell us how the government is, how the strategy of the Democrats is playing out.

01:14:23.780 But aside from that, it's not actually a political event.

01:14:26.720 The only thing about it that I think helps Biden is that there keep being kind of rumors of his demise,

01:14:31.480 and they are greatly exaggerated inside of his own party.

01:14:34.800 Not physically.

01:14:35.460 He's dead.

01:14:36.160 But he's been dead for quite a while.

01:14:37.640 But metaphysically.

01:14:38.220 They prop him on a horse like El Cid, and they're just riding him around.

01:14:40.920 But the thing about what keeps happening is that they proclaim that he was dead before the midterms,

01:14:46.100 and then the Democrats slightly overperformed it.

01:14:48.120 It's back.

01:14:49.500 It's back.

01:14:50.620 Go ahead.

01:14:51.200 Come on.

01:14:51.540 Oh, my...

01:14:52.220 Oh! 0.60

01:14:54.700 You didn't break it, but you brought it down.

01:14:56.540 You did what Biden's been doing in nine days.

01:14:58.580 Wow.

01:14:59.060 Amazing.

01:15:00.300 We call him...

01:15:01.320 America!

01:15:01.840 America!

01:15:01.920 After eight days, the balloon has been...

01:15:08.400 Finally, finally.

01:15:09.220 Yes, what a success.

01:15:10.320 We took care of that thing right away.

01:15:11.820 Oh, no.

01:15:12.500 No.

01:15:12.720 Tell us how you did it.

01:15:13.600 Tell us how you did it, Mr. President.

01:15:15.160 It was all me.

01:15:17.120 I was here the whole time.

01:15:18.220 I didn't see you anywhere there, Mr. President.

01:15:19.680 It was part of my plan.

01:15:22.900 I actually only notice now that it's an ice cream cone in his hand.

01:15:26.640 That's a nice touch.

01:15:28.740 That's a nice little touch.

01:15:31.340 Hi.

01:15:31.920 Leave that poor woman alone. 1.00

01:15:33.980 No, no, no, Mr. President.

01:15:35.520 Not again.

01:15:41.500 It's a country.

01:15:42.300 If you want to spend even more time with us, you're welcome to come over to Daily Wire Plus.

01:15:46.020 God knows why you would.

01:15:47.120 Yeah.

01:15:47.500 I can't imagine such a thing.

01:15:48.520 But we're going to do our members block here in a few minutes, and there's still a little

01:15:51.500 bit of time to get your questions in.

01:15:53.320 We're going to be taking only questions from members at the members block.

01:15:56.460 That's why we call it the members block.

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01:15:59.080 DailyWirePlus.com slash subscribe.

01:16:00.920 Subscribe.

01:16:01.800 You can get 40% off because it is our President is for Sale sale.

01:16:05.920 And what do we mean by our President is for Sale?

01:16:08.980 Well, we literally mean that China owns the President of the United States of America. 0.65

01:16:15.780 It's a subtle, it's a subtle love.

01:16:18.220 Now I get it.

01:16:19.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:16:19.840 Okay.

01:16:20.660 Yeah.

01:16:21.820 It's a rental.

01:16:26.480 This is the worst show ever.

01:16:28.040 Can you promise me in a member block that paper bag Joe Biden's not going to be there?

01:16:33.000 Please stop on.

01:16:37.600 Yeah.

01:16:38.100 So I agree.

01:16:38.960 Nothing's going to come of this.

01:16:40.560 It was over before the speech was over.

01:16:43.360 Yeah.

01:16:43.420 The political impact, you know, he almost went out of his way not to dream big.

01:16:48.860 I mean, you could say that the cancer thing is big, except there was literally a plot line

01:16:52.660 on the West Wing almost 20 years ago, whether or not to announce that we could cure cancer

01:16:59.580 at a State of the Union.

01:17:00.580 You know what they concluded?

01:17:01.960 You can't.

01:17:02.580 No, you can't actually say that.

01:17:03.860 He's also been doing this shtick for like seven or eight years.

01:17:06.020 Yeah, that's right.

01:17:06.560 Cancer Moonshot.

01:17:07.240 Yeah.

01:17:07.860 Just one more year, guys.

01:17:08.780 I think he's going to do it.

01:17:09.760 I think he's going to do it.

01:17:11.700 I hate cancer.

01:17:17.080 Bold statement.

01:17:18.900 Give me someone who doesn't want to be a musician.

01:17:21.820 Give me.

01:17:23.740 No, please take it all the way off.

01:17:28.400 Take it all the way off.

01:17:30.440 It's a good run job.

01:17:32.580 Yeah.

01:17:36.200 Can we go home?

01:17:37.000 No.

01:17:37.780 No.

01:17:38.700 We can't go home, but we can go do our members block.

01:17:41.040 Head over to DailyWirePlus.com right now.

01:17:44.260 For the rest of you, we're going to catch back up with you on the other side.

01:17:48.000 There are plenty more horrible political events coming this year,

01:17:50.540 and we will be here to cover each and every one of them.

01:17:54.100 Suffer them all.

01:17:54.860 We will suffer them all together.

01:17:56.120 Thanks for being with us.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 08, 2023

Daily Wire Backstage： State of the Union 2023 Coverage

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