The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1050 - Fetterman Humiliates Himself. Dems Cry ‘Ableism.’

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, John Fetterman delivers the worst debate performance in American

00:00:04.440 history, but his self-destruction is not solely his own fault. The blame also lies with the

00:00:08.560 Democrat Party and also his wife. I'll explain why. Also, the governor of New York humiliates

00:00:13.620 herself in her debate as well. Not quite as bad as Fetterman, but almost. And chest mutilation

00:00:18.660 procedures on minors have risen by 400% in the last few years. Plus, we'll hear from a Hungarian 1.00

00:00:24.080 politician who explains why they don't have that problem in their own country. And Bono discovers

00:00:28.820 to his horror that maybe free market capitalism isn't so bad after all. All of that and more

00:00:34.120 today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:44.260 Well, over the centuries, many historians, anthropologists, social critics have pointed

00:01:50.320 to certain signs that a civilization is about to collapse. Various lists of red flags are usually

00:01:57.080 pretty similar. Population decline, war, economic instability, mass uncontrolled migration, moral

00:02:05.220 decay, etc. Otherwise known to contemporary Americans as just your average Wednesday. But it seems that

00:02:10.580 these observers have all missed one major alarm bell. Along with all the other symptoms just listed,

00:02:17.500 a society is in decline and on the verge of catastrophe if it starts electing brain damaged 0.97

00:02:23.640 people to lead it. The future is probably not very bright for a country that looks to those with 1.00

00:02:30.580 severe mental defects for political leadership. It is a subtle sign of cultural dysfunction. And by

00:02:37.080 subtle, I mean that it's a flashing, blaring siren with a bright neon sign that says danger in huge

00:02:43.360 capital letters. It's already too late, of course, to steer entirely clear of this particular hazard.

00:02:49.380 In our case, we have a senile dementia patient in the White House, not to mention a mummified speaker 0.95

00:02:55.180 of the House. And now Democrats in Pennsylvania are looking to add to Washington, D.C.'s burgeoning

00:03:01.480 neurology ward by electing a stroke victim who literally cannot understand human language or speak

00:03:08.040 it. Last night, Senate candidates John Fetterman and Dr. Oz faced each other in the first and

00:03:13.640 mercifully for Fetterman only Pennsylvania debate. It was, in Fetterman's case, a performance that in

00:03:21.080 the year 2022 could be described, I guess, as presidential, to steal a joke from Ann Coulter that

00:03:26.420 she tweeted this morning. Fetterman could barely string a coherent thought together, even before

00:03:32.380 the stroke. He could barely do that. But then afterwards, it's a whole other deal. I mean,

00:03:37.260 there's no hope at all. The debate was destined then to be a train wreck. And yet, against all odds,

00:03:44.840 the disaster managed to exceed everyone's expectations. It was worse than we thought.

00:03:50.200 It was as though there was a train wreck, and then an airplane crashed right into the

00:03:54.740 site of the train wreck. And then a tornado came through, followed by an earthquake,

00:03:59.120 followed by a wildfire. It was, in other words, the worst debate performance ever captured on film

00:04:04.100 in the history of American politics. And that is still somehow, I think, an understatement.

00:04:08.960 So the clips have already circulated widely on social media. There's probably no need to play them now,

00:04:15.340 but we will anyway. Things started awkwardly enough with Fetterman saying hello to the audience

00:04:20.980 and goodbye in the same breath. What qualifies you to be a U.S. senator? You have 60 seconds.

00:04:30.240 Hi. Good night, everybody. I'm running to serve Pennsylvania. He's running to use Pennsylvania.

00:04:37.500 Here's a man that spent more than $20 million of his own money to try to buy that seat.

00:04:42.940 I'm also having to talk about something called the Oz rule, that if he's on TV, he's lying. He did that

00:04:53.040 during his career on his TV show. He's done that during his campaign about lying about our record

00:05:01.040 here. And he's also lying probably during this debate.

00:05:05.320 Well, it was only downhill from there. Though I will say that his greeting reminds me of myself

00:05:12.240 anytime my wife forces me to go to a party. Hi, everyone. Good night. Okay, let's go home,

00:05:16.580 honey. Let's go. But I'm usually forced to stay there for much longer than I prefer. And Fetterman

00:05:20.740 was in the same situation. The debate only lasted an hour, but Fetterman couldn't make it more than 90

00:05:25.600 seconds before the full-on collapse began. So here he is trying to explain his plan to make higher

00:05:32.220 education more affordable. How exactly, Mr. Fetterman, do you propose doing that to make

00:05:39.100 it more affordable for families? No, I just believe. I'm just making it that much more.

00:05:45.480 It costs too much. And I believe providing the resources to reduce the tuition to allow

00:05:51.860 families to be able to afford it. Good point. And here he is on the minimum wage. Listen.

00:05:59.140 And how can a man, you know, with 10 gigantic mansions, you know, has an unwilling to talk

00:06:07.160 about a willing wage for anybody? Imagine a signal mom trying with two children, trying to raise with 1.00

00:06:13.700 them, realizing making $31,000 a year, you know, $15 an hour. Yeah, those signal moms. You got to watch 1.00

00:06:21.160 out for the signal moms. So you probably get the idea. There was one other moment, the moment that still

00:06:27.400 managed to stand out as especially embarrassing, even amid all of that, when Fetterman was asked

00:06:32.860 to explain his flip-flopping stance on fracking. Here's what he said. Mr. Oz, I do want to clarify

00:06:39.140 something. You're saying tonight that you support fracking, that you've always supported fracking,

00:06:45.000 but there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all. So how do you

00:06:50.840 square the two? Oh, I, I, I do support fracking and I don't, I don't, I support fracking and I stand

00:07:05.080 and I do support fracking. Well, that clears that up. Now, where do the Democrats go from here?

00:07:13.300 Their guy, not fit to be in the U.S. Senate, not fit to be anywhere really, except in bed at home

00:07:19.760 recovering. Um, and everyone can see that now. It was put on display for the whole country to see

00:07:25.320 last night. Do they acknowledge this plain reality and let the chips fall where they may? No, of

00:07:31.040 course not. Because acknowledging reality has never been a favorite pastime of the left. Rather,

00:07:34.680 their favorite pastime, as we know, is playing the victim card. And they were quick on the draw

00:07:39.160 after this debate. Liz Plank is a left-wing pundit who was one of the many blue checks on Twitter to 1.00

00:07:45.360 repeat this agreed upon talking point. She tweeted, Dr. Oz just gave a masterclass on how to bully

00:07:51.740 people with disabilities. Yes, debating your opponent in a Senate race is now bullying.

00:07:59.260 Ableism has become the leftist buzzword of the day. MSNBC got that ball rolling immediately after

00:08:04.680 the debate. Listen to this. One of the things you posit in your article is that Fetterman's campaign

00:08:10.340 is hoping to turn his sort of vulnerability into an asset here. Do you think he did so on the debate

00:08:16.660 stage tonight? I think it's tough to say whether or not it will wind up being an asset with voters,

00:08:21.460 but it was certainly an example of such remarkable transparency. The opposite of what, what the Oz

00:08:27.800 campaign has sort of asserted, which is that he's somehow hiding something about his health.

00:08:32.060 I mean, showing up for an hour debate and it was, as he said, starting out, he, he said he was going to

00:08:38.580 talk about the elephant in the room. You played the clip. He said, I'm going to miss words. And,

00:08:42.100 and you could tell, I wrote in my story about how in my interview with him, there was a moment where

00:08:46.720 he became frustrated and stressed out and it made some of his communicative problems worse.

00:08:51.880 And I think that this context and what you described as the insanely high stakes of this

00:08:57.000 election, the single debate, clearly this was a candidate who was feeling stress and there was such

00:09:03.500 intense scrutiny, often ableist scrutiny on how he was going to communicate. And he just did a debate

00:09:10.060 in front of, you know, the nation, you know, an audience of anyone who could listen. And it was

00:09:15.280 so transparent. He did fumble. He did make verbal mistakes. You know, and, and it was all on view.

00:09:24.460 Transparent. That's, that's one way of putting it. I wish I'd been this clever back when I was in

00:09:28.840 like high school and I had to bring my report cards home, uh, that were never very impressive.

00:09:33.960 And I, I, if I had thought to couch it that way, when showing my parents, listen, mom and dad, I'm,

00:09:39.260 I'm, I'm being very, I'm being remarkably transparent with this, what you can see here,

00:09:44.480 let's address the elephant in the room here. Okay, guys, I don't study or do my homework,

00:09:49.880 but I'm being transparent. I'm being vulnerable.

00:09:51.920 Now, if you expect a United States Senator, that a United States Senator should be able to

00:10:00.320 understand words and speak them, you are guilty of engaging in ableist scrutiny. We were just told

00:10:07.160 indeed, as the left has explained, it is not Fetterman who should drop out of the race, but Dr.

00:10:11.840 Oz, because anything less would be ableism. An Axios article quotes a senior Democrat official in

00:10:17.660 Pennsylvania saying this, quote, I wished Fetterman was in a better place to clap back. Overall, I argue

00:10:23.460 it, uh, it, it wasn't great, but for us, it was still a draw. Remember in these next few weeks that

00:10:29.340 Oz's campaign is spending tens of millions of dollars against a man with a major medical condition.

00:10:36.880 How dare Dr. Oz run campaign ads? He shouldn't be campaigning at all. Fetterman has a major medical

00:10:45.020 condition, which doesn't mean that he should drop out and go home, but rather that he should be given

00:10:49.740 the position out of sympathy. That's the argument they're going with. And it's entirely consistent

00:10:54.960 with the argument they make on many other subjects. It is bigoted to acknowledge reality. In this case,

00:11:00.900 the reality that a brain damaged man is not suited for the U.S. Senate. Our responsibility is to deny 0.57

00:11:06.860 reality for the sake of the member of a victim group. In fact, from the last perspective, if anything,

00:11:12.200 the stroke makes Fetterman more qualified than he was before, because before it, he was just a, quote,

00:11:17.840 cisgender white male, not a lot of victim points. Now he's disabled, giving him at least a few victim 1.00

00:11:23.280 points, whereas previously he had none, and that's what qualifies him. Of course, the whole concept of

00:11:28.820 ableism is absurd. To be ableist, apparently, according to how the term is used, is simply to make

00:11:35.540 judgments about what people are able to do. And if that's what it means to be an ableist,

00:11:41.980 then we should all be ableist. An ableist person commits the sin of being rational and realistic,

00:11:49.620 of being aware of human limitations and taking them into account, of making decisions that are

00:11:56.100 grounded in reality, believing that a person should be given a job if he's best able and qualified

00:12:02.640 to perform the duties and functions of that job. This is ableism, evidently. And if it is,

00:12:08.880 our country needs a whole lot more ableism of this type. And there's another point to be made about all

00:12:14.340 this. Under normal circumstances, you know, I would have sympathy for somebody dealing with the

00:12:21.440 aftermath of a stroke. It is quite a sad thing to be unable to form words, unable to understand.

00:12:27.700 But my sympathy in this case doesn't extend very far because Fetterman chose to stay in the race.

00:12:34.920 He chose to continue pursuing power. He put himself in this position, knowing he's unsuited for it.

00:12:41.360 In a similar way, I have sympathy for people with visual impairments.

00:12:47.280 I have sympathy. If you're blind, I have sympathy for blind people. I wouldn't make fun of a blind person.

00:12:51.380 Who would? But if the pilot of an airplane has undisclosed visual impairments and chose to sit

00:13:00.000 in the captain's chair anyway, then my sympathy for him dries up rather quickly because instead now I

00:13:06.360 have sympathy for the passengers in the plane, especially if I'm one of them. He has chosen to

00:13:12.020 put them at the mercy of his disability in a way that is unfair to them. And he deserves criticism for 0.81

00:13:19.840 that. Harsh criticism. Same goes for Fetterman. Same goes for Biden. They are responsible for their

00:13:27.360 choices. But they're not the only ones responsible. In both cases, immense scorn should be directed at

00:13:33.960 the Democrat Party puppet masters who chose to keep these guys in their positions, in fact,

00:13:38.800 pressured them to stay there, we can assume, knowing what a disaster it would be for them personally and

00:13:43.540 more importantly for the country. And yet their guilt pales in comparison to the wives of both

00:13:51.120 men. This to me is maybe the most important point here to take away from this. Fetterman and Biden have

00:13:57.380 lots in common, and not the least of which is the fact that they both are married to awful, spoiled, 0.98

00:14:04.340 manipulative, power-hungry women who have utterly failed to fulfill their responsibilities as wives. 1.00

00:14:10.180 Jill Biden knows better than anyone, especially if she's a doctor, that her husband is incoherent and 0.80

00:14:16.480 senile. She knows that. And yet she's propped him up, dragged him along. She kept him going politically

00:14:22.980 so that she could ride his coattails to the White House. What Jill is doing is nothing less than elder

00:14:27.800 abuse. I mean, it should be criminal what she's doing. And then there's Fetterman's wife. Okay. She 1.00

00:14:33.600 should have sat her husband down and told him that he cannot continue. She should have forced him to

00:14:43.280 put his health first. That's what a good wife does. Like forced to the extent of saying, you cannot do 1.00

00:14:50.920 this. If you do, I am not going to be by your side. I'm not going to show up at the campaign. I am not

00:14:56.120 going to do that. I'm not going to go along with you to your self-destruction. That's what a good wife 1.00

00:15:01.900 would do. And every man needs a wife who will do that. Even if we aren't running for Senate, 1.00

00:15:07.900 we all need wives who will look out for our health and for our well-being, even when we are not, 0.95

00:15:13.120 because sometimes we don't. A man will hatch all kinds of crazy schemes and plans, some of them

00:15:19.260 perhaps brilliant, but others disastrous and self-destructive. I mean, we think they're all

00:15:24.000 brilliant, and maybe on occasion some of them are, but then others are very much not. And we need our

00:15:30.080 wives to look out for us, just as we look out for them, though often in different kinds of 0.98

00:15:34.720 situations. So a man will often need to be the voice of reason when his wife is getting herself 0.99

00:15:39.340 into some sort of overly emotional, personal feud or drama. That's when a man needs to be the one 0.97

00:15:46.000 who's there, the voice of reason, talking some sense into her. A woman will often need to be the 1.00

00:15:50.500 voice of reason when her husband has come up with some sort of insane idea that might lead to

00:15:55.100 disaster. Women overreact to things. Men bite off more than they can chew. And they both see the 1.00

00:16:02.920 other's blind spots. So together they make a formidable team if they're both fulfilling their

00:16:08.880 obligations and loving each other in the ways that each need to be loved. But there are men who are too

00:16:16.380 weak or too disinterested to speak up and give their wives the guidance they need. And there are women

00:16:22.780 who are too greedy and personally ambitious to stop their husbands from extending themselves too far. 0.96

00:16:28.980 This is what is happening in Fetterman's case and in Biden's and in many other marriages across the

00:16:34.600 country. These women are not the only manipulative women who are taking advantage of their husband's 1.00

00:16:41.660 hubris and stupidity. The difference is that the consequences in their case will be felt by the 1.00

00:16:49.440 whole country. Now let's get to our five headlines. All right. The left on Twitter will have some fun

00:17:03.260 with some elements of that opening monologue is my prediction. Matt Walsh said that men should offer

00:17:09.340 guidance to their wives. Gasp. Yep. Okay. There were more debates last night. Democrats fared poorly

00:17:19.800 in all of them, like in New York, where Kathy Hokule faced off against Lee Zeldin. Now in the

00:17:25.880 lead, before we get to this, actually, the New York Times has an article about this and about the

00:17:29.980 anxiety in the Hokule camp. It says, for months, Governor Kathy Hokule of New York has trusted that

00:17:37.840 the state's strong Democratic majority would keep her in office, largely on the strength of a simple

00:17:42.620 message. Her Republican opponent was too close to Donald J. Trump and would roll back abortion rights. 1.00

00:17:48.820 But just two weeks before Election Day, a rapidly tightening contest has Ms. Hokule racing to expand 1.00

00:17:54.720 her closing argument as Democrats warily concede they might have misjudged powerful fears driving the

00:18:00.600 electorate, particularly around crime. In just the last few days, Ms. Hokule stood with Mayor Eric Adams

00:18:06.400 to announce a new flood of police officers into the New York City subways. She visited five Harlem

00:18:11.280 churches to assure stalwart Black voters that she was laser-focused on safety. And she highlighted new

00:18:16.880 statistics showing that authorities were seizing more guns under her watch. Ms. Hokule said at one of

00:18:22.960 her stops in Harlem, we believe in justice, the justice that Jesus teaches us, but it's also about safety.

00:18:28.800 We are laser-focused on keeping you, your children, and your grandchildren safe.

00:18:33.380 Her campaign has begun recalibrating its paid message to shifting the focus of millions of

00:18:39.720 dollars in ad spending to highlight the governor's efforts to stoke the economy and improve public

00:18:44.720 safety, notably including a package of modest changes to the state's bail laws that has divided

00:18:50.360 her party. Changes that will do nothing at all. Okay, so they're worried about the possibility that

00:18:56.840 for the first time in decades, a statewide race could be won by a Republican, and they're worried about it

00:19:04.600 because the state of New York, and New York City in particular, is just descending into anarchy, and violent

00:19:13.180 crime is rising. And as it turns out, and this is a revelation for the left and for Democrats, they can't

00:19:20.680 believe this. They really can't. It's like they didn't see this coming, but it turns out that people

00:19:26.320 want to be safe in their communities. People want their children to be safe. They want to feel like

00:19:34.800 their children can walk outside without being shot and killed. They want to feel as though they can

00:19:40.960 use public transportation without being assaulted or raped or killed by a crazed, drug-addled homeless 1.00

00:19:50.780 man. What a shocker. This is what people want. And they are concerned about that far more than 1.00

00:20:01.700 they're concerned about anything that Democrats spend their time talking about. Transphobia and

00:20:10.540 LGBT, this and that. People aren't waking up in the morning worried about that. They're not.

00:20:16.280 They're waking up in the morning worried about their families, their kids. Can they afford to feed

00:20:23.480 their families? Can they afford to put gas in their car and go to work? Are they going to be safe?

00:20:29.720 These are the things they're worried about. So that explains the pivot to public safety,

00:20:35.420 which no matter how they pivot, it's not going to make a difference because the modern Democrat party

00:20:43.600 just doesn't, none of these people have it in themselves to actually do what needs to be done

00:20:52.160 to address violent crime. Because making modest changes here and there, policy changes,

00:20:59.160 that's not going to do anything. If you really want to put, if you really want to tamp down violent

00:21:06.740 crime, all you got to do is look at what New York was doing in the, you know, under Rudy Giuliani

00:21:13.740 or even Bloomberg. Back when they actually had a handle on the violent crime epidemic.

00:21:20.080 And what did you do there? It's, you come down hard on the criminals and you have to do some

00:21:28.320 things that might make people feel a little bit uncomfortable. You know, all the things

00:21:34.200 that we, that now are anathema. Oh, we can't do that. We can't stop and frisk. We can't do

00:21:39.000 any of those things. Well, you also have to, you have to come down on the criminals if you can,

00:21:52.440 like head them off at the pass. So you don't wait around for them to do something so horrific and so

00:22:00.240 brutal that everyone would agree they need to be in prison forever. You want to put them away before

00:22:07.320 that, which doesn't mean that you're putting people in prison before they commit any crime at

00:22:10.480 all. Rather, when someone sends a message that they have no interest in being a law-abiding citizen,

00:22:19.500 they have no interest in being productive members of a civilized society. When they send you that

00:22:24.460 message, committing crime after crime after crime, violent or otherwise, you put them away.

00:22:32.760 You say to them, okay, we got your message loud and clear. We're going to put you in a cage now

00:22:36.200 because you want to be an animal and not a human being. And so unfortunately we're going to have

00:22:42.320 to give you what you have asked for. Democrats don't have it in them. And that was clear in the

00:22:48.920 debate. So there's a couple of clips I want to play. Here's one on where we, where we talk about

00:22:54.440 the issue of crime and one particular phrase from Hokule that was very interesting. Listen to this.

00:22:59.220 This governor who still to this moment, we're halfway through the debate. She still hasn't 0.75

00:23:05.200 talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes. Okay. Anyone who commits a crime

00:23:10.280 under our laws, especially with the change they made to bail has consequences. I don't know why

00:23:15.900 that's so important to you. I don't, I don't know why that's so important to you, but I just said that

00:23:22.260 they really, they don't understand the Democrats. They actually don't understand why people care

00:23:25.920 about this, why they want to feel safe. And they don't, she's right about that. I believe her.

00:23:32.160 She doesn't know why that's okay. We'll put violent criminals in jail. If that's so important

00:23:37.480 to you. All right, fine. We'll, we'll, we'll try to put someone in a criminal in prison so they don't

00:23:44.400 murder another, you know, innocent person walking on the street. If that's so important to you.

00:23:50.440 Well, we know what's important to, uh, to, to Democrats like Hokule things like making sure that 0.98

00:23:56.240 we're killing as many babies as possible. So here's her answer when she's asked, is there any 0.56

00:24:01.000 restriction? Are there any restrictions at all on abortion that you would support? Here's what she

00:24:07.420 says. Is there any restrictions around abortion that you would approve of? What we have in New

00:24:14.560 York state is simply a codification of Roe v. Wade. So what has been out there since the Supreme court

00:24:21.360 before the Supreme court undid 50 years of progress for women. So women like myself and my daughter would 0.98

00:24:28.000 have a right. My granddaughter does not have the same right that I had to make a determination in 0.86

00:24:33.060 concert with myself or my doctor, if it's after the six months. So we have the same restrictions

00:24:38.380 and anyone who says otherwise is just incorrect. She's deeply concerned that her daughter or rather

00:24:45.220 her granddaughter, uh, won't be able to kill babies. This is the sort of thing that she's worried 1.00

00:24:51.940 about. I said, most Americans wake up, they're worried about, can they afford food? Can they

00:24:56.680 put gas in their car? Are they going to be safe? Kathy Occhio wakes up worried that her granddaughter 0.81

00:25:02.100 won't be able to kill babies, that her own progeny won't be wiped off the face of the earth in the 1.00

00:25:08.680 womb. That's what she, she wakes up in the middle of the night, cold sweats, worried that not enough

00:25:13.420 babies are being killed. Now she doesn't answer the question. Will you, are there any restrictions you

00:25:17.900 would support? And she doesn't answer because the answer is no. Of course there are no restrictions

00:25:21.180 whatsoever. Uh, and that's the, that is the mainstream Democrat position on abortion. Now,

00:25:27.700 no restrictions, abortion right up to the moment of birth and also afterwards.

00:25:33.900 And this is something that Republicans need to continue to highlight because,

00:25:36.780 you know, what do Democrats want to do when it comes to abortion? They want to, they want to

00:25:41.360 make the entire conversation centered around the hardest kinds of cases. They want to center the

00:25:47.540 entire conversation around the 1% of abortions that are linked to, you know, rape, incest,

00:25:54.140 allegedly life of the mother. Um, although the heavy qualifications on, on those, by the way, but

00:26:00.500 that's, that's, that's still 1%. Even according to pro-abortion groups like the Guttmacher

00:26:06.780 Institute, even according to their own numbers, we're talking about 1% of abortion. And they want the

00:26:13.460 entire abortion debate to center around the 1% of cases. And what Republicans should be doing as

00:26:20.100 much as possible is saying, we're not, before we talk about the 1% of cases, let's deal with the 99%

00:26:27.120 of cases. Let's deal with the 99% of cases when babies are being killed purely as a form of birth

00:26:33.280 control. What about that? Now you answer all the questions on the 99% of cases, all the questions

00:26:42.840 that the public might have about that, then we can talk about the 1%. But before, but we're not

00:26:47.060 going to talk about the 1% at all. If you can't talk about the 99%. All right. Um, and Kathy Hochul is

00:26:55.540 just to summarize here, but remember she did not, she was not a, she was not elected governor the first

00:27:00.700 time. She ended up in that position because Cuomo got run out of town. And so she's made it all the

00:27:08.560 way to the governor's mansion having, I don't know, she's one, maybe one political race during that 1.00

00:27:15.360 time. She is just road coattails all the way to the governor's mansion. She is a picture of

00:27:23.780 mediocrity. And this is really who runs the country. I don't mean Kathy Hochul specifically. 0.75

00:27:28.660 I mean, mediocre, liberal white women are really run the country when it comes down to it. 1.00

00:27:40.640 So much of our culture is, is run by people like this. 0.99

00:27:46.300 All right. Moving to this from the daily wire says chest reconstruction surgeries performed on

00:27:51.460 minors across the United States increased by approximately 400% during a three-year span,

00:27:56.340 according to a new report. That's 400%. It does not mean I'm not, I'm not misspeaking 400%.

00:28:04.100 The journal of the American medical association, international peer review journal or general

00:28:09.100 medical journal published that researchers from Vanderbilt university in Nashville, Tennessee

00:28:13.420 reported that 1,130 chest mutilating surgeries were performed on children younger than 18 years old

00:28:19.000 from 2016 to 2019. Of those encounters, 1,114 were mastectomies, while 16 were augmentation

00:28:28.020 mammoplasties, bringing the annual number of child mutilations during the reported year to a 389%

00:28:34.640 increase. The study noted, to our knowledge, this study is the largest investigation to date of gender

00:28:41.500 affirming chest reconstruction in a pediatric population. The results demonstrate substantial increases

00:28:46.980 in gender affirming chest reconstruction for adolescents. The report noted, reconstructive

00:28:53.360 genital surgery is typically not performed in adolescents, but masculinizing chest reconstruction,

00:28:59.200 mastectomy, and feminizing chest reconstruction, augmentation mammoplasty, may be performed in

00:29:04.220 outpatient and ambulatory surgery settings. So that is a 400% increase. And yet we are still told that

00:29:13.920 there is no social contagion here at work. No social contagion, just a 400% increase.

00:29:22.760 And in some ways, you know, it's, it's, it's easy to get to that 400% increase because what that also

00:29:30.580 tells you is that prior to 2016, it just like, it wasn't happening at all. It effectively wasn't

00:29:38.380 happening at all up until about six or seven years ago. And now it's happening with, I mean,

00:29:46.580 to say increasing regularity is vast understatement. And if we don't do something about this, I mean,

00:29:53.720 this is a, this is a trend, trends like this, they don't tail off on their own, especially when you

00:30:01.280 have powerful institutions that are feeding the trend. This is not happening by accident, obviously.

00:30:09.000 There's a lot of money behind it and a lot of money being made on it.

00:30:14.140 And if you don't do something about it, then we, we, if we, if we keep with this rate of growth,

00:30:20.600 10 years from now, what does it look like?

00:30:22.880 What percentage of the female adolescent population 10 years from now will have been 0.95

00:30:30.860 mutilated? I mean, the numbers are jaw-dropping unless we do something about it.

00:30:41.140 And when we talk about doing something about it, that's not just fighting in the culture,

00:30:44.480 but that also means laws. There need to be laws passed, which of course, as you know,

00:30:47.520 is what we're trying to do here in, in Tennessee. Now in other countries across,

00:30:52.880 the world, they don't have this problem. Andy Ngo has an interview with a man named

00:30:56.340 Balaz Orban, who's a member of the administration of Hungarian prime minister,

00:31:01.400 Viktor Orban. And here they talk about the Hungarian approach to gender issues. And there's quite a lot

00:31:08.500 in this short clip that's interesting. So listen to this. In the United States, research is showing

00:31:16.220 that from a five-year period of 2017 to 2022, the number of teens and young adults who are trans

00:31:23.920 identifying had doubled. In the United Kingdom, there is a 4,415% increase in young people seeking

00:31:32.420 gender treatment since 2009. These are huge. I mean, this is a phenomenal. Is this happening in your country?

00:31:41.160 Well, we realized just a couple of years ago that something similar is happening in Western Europe

00:31:49.320 and in the United States. But until this moment, it's quite an unknown issue in Hungary. We don't have,

00:31:56.840 for example, a word, Hungarian word for gender. So what we decided is to act immediately, which for us means

00:32:07.240 that we should ask the Hungarian people in all the strategic issues, what do they think? Whether

00:32:13.320 they want to go to that direction, which is offered by the media, by the NGOs, by Brussels, or they want

00:32:21.480 to find another pattern. So that's why we introduced a referendum where we asked four questions from the

00:32:29.000 Hungarians. And with an overwhelming majority, they made the decision that they said no to gender

00:32:35.960 propaganda for minors in schools, especially without the consent of parents. And they said no to

00:32:43.320 gender treatments for minors. So what I can say is that... 0.58

00:32:47.480 So in your country, your medical institutions do not, by law, cannot provide transitioning services or

00:32:57.720 surgical treatment to minors. This is the case. And it's not my opinion as a politician. It's the

00:33:02.760 opinion of more than 3.5 million Hungarian voters. And we have to respect that.

00:33:08.840 They don't even have a word for gender in Hungarian. And that's the case in many countries in many

00:33:18.440 languages across the world. Now, they have a word for sex. They have a word to indicate male or female.

00:33:26.280 But this other undefinable, incoherent category that's separate from sex, but also not,

00:33:33.960 that doesn't exist in the Hungarian language. It doesn't exist in most languages. I mean,

00:33:40.520 arguably any other language except English, because we're the ones who invented it.

00:33:46.680 But in Hungary, this is an issue. This is obvious. Like, of course, we're not going to allow this to

00:33:53.480 happen to kids. And what this means is that other countries in the world, they are looking at us

00:33:59.960 as a bunch of depraved lunatics. Forget about shining city on a hill. Those days, sadly, 0.93

00:34:10.360 very sadly, are gone. Those are long gone. Other countries in the world, including other European 0.99

00:34:17.240 countries, they look at us and they're flabbergasted, not in a good way. They see just,

00:34:26.760 they see a culture that has descended fully into lunacy. And they're right. That's what's so sad

00:34:35.140 about it. I can't even disagree. It's shameful. It's embarrassing. And as you know, as someone who

00:34:41.920 has actually gone outside of the Western bubble and talked about these issues with people who exist

00:34:47.900 outside of that bubble, I've experienced this myself. And in What is a Woman? It leads to some very 0.98

00:34:55.420 interesting footage and some of it is quite funny. But at the same time, it's humiliating

00:35:00.200 because I'm an American. And I want to be proud of my country. It's very difficult to be proud

00:35:12.740 when you're one of the only countries in the world that sexually mutilates kids. 0.96

00:35:18.980 All right. Daily Wire has this. Meghan Markle said she's afraid to speak her mind or be clear 0.95

00:35:27.460 about what she needs for fear of sounding demanding and being perceived as an angry black woman.

00:35:33.920 During Spotify's Archetypes podcast on Tuesday, the host Markle spoke with actress Issa Rae and

00:35:39.800 comedian actress Ziwe Fumido about her reluctance to be more assertive. The episode is titled

00:35:45.560 Upending the Angry Black Woman Myth. She says, I'm particular. I think a high tide raises all ships.

00:35:53.720 We're all going to succeed. So let's make sure it's really great because it's a shared success

00:35:57.440 for everybody. But I know that I will find myself cowering and tiptoeing into a room.

00:36:04.120 And then, okay, then she goes on to talk about how she's afraid. And every time she, if she speaks up,

00:36:08.120 then she'll be an angry black woman. It's all racist. And she's just every day that now, 1.00

00:36:11.380 because she has this podcast. So every day there's another headline about her complaining 0.98

00:36:14.500 about something. Last week, she was complaining that she was objectified because she had a job 1.00

00:36:19.660 on Deal or No Deal, where she was one of the chicks holding the briefcases. Apparently, 1.00

00:36:25.420 she was kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to be part of this game show. It's not a choice she made on her

00:36:30.560 own. So every episode, she complains about something else. Meghan Markle is, she is the

00:36:38.760 embodiment of the sort of person who never has a good day. You know, you ask her how her day was,

00:36:45.040 and it's always stressful. It's always too busy. There was always too much traffic. The line was

00:36:50.480 always too long at the grocery store. Not that Markle shops for her own groceries, of course,

00:36:54.080 because she's rich and famous and doesn't do that. But she is the rich and famous version of that kind 1.00

00:37:00.340 person. And it's not so much focusing on the negatives. And it is that. But even more than that,

00:37:08.620 it is not ever wanting to concede that something went well, that things are okay, that you had a fine

00:37:16.820 time, that you have it easy, that you have a nice life. There are people who just don't want to admit

00:37:23.980 this no matter what, because many people in our culture today are addicted to pity.

00:37:31.520 Meghan Markle, again, she's the embodiment of this. She's the mascot. Someone who's addicted to pity. 0.99

00:37:38.060 People that have, they've given up on being loved or being respected or being admired.

00:37:43.660 They might want those things sort of in theory, but they can't reach for them because that means

00:37:50.840 they'd have to give up the pity. Right? You can't reach for greatness wanting to be successful and

00:37:59.700 to be respected and to be admired while also clinging on to your self-pitying. You have to

00:38:04.880 let go of that. And they can't do it because pity is a drug to them. They're addicted to it.

00:38:10.800 And that is certainly the case for Meghan Markle. All right. I got to move on to this quickly because

00:38:14.780 I don't want to run out of time for it again. It is very important. As mentioned yesterday,

00:38:18.520 I was alerted this week to a strange set of circumstances. Evidently, according to

00:38:23.320 fans of the Hallmark channel, and there are still fans of that channel, there's a new Christmas

00:38:28.660 Hallmark movie that features a character or has a cameo appearance of a character briefly who,

00:38:35.820 these fans insist, must be based on me. This character is a parody of me, I was told,

00:38:43.000 and not a very flattering one. So I've obtained the footage of this possible Matt Walsh-inspired

00:38:49.300 character. I don't know what we would call this. This is Matt Face. This is a character in Matt

00:38:54.040 Face. We'll go through it, and you tell me what you think. By the way, I have no idea what the plot

00:38:58.980 of this movie is to the extent that Hallmark movies even have plots. I'm not sure. It doesn't matter.

00:39:03.000 But we'll just, I can't really set this up, but we'll just dive right into it.

00:39:13.000 Noelle. Hi. I'm so glad you got here before Bert. Okay. Yeah. Why is that? It's no big deal.

00:39:18.660 There's just a couple of things you ought to know before you meet him. I'm so sorry. I'm just

00:39:22.860 finding out about all this now. Okay. Like what? Minor things. I mean, nothing horrible.

00:39:28.140 No. You guys, you're making it sound like I'm being set up with some sort of nutcase. No. No, 0.72

00:39:34.160 I don't. I don't know. Mark? Would we call Bert a nutcase? Maybe more like an outsider.

00:39:43.400 That's not very convincing. I should go check on the roast.

00:39:51.060 Shannon, what have you gotten me into? He wasn't even on social media, so I couldn't look him up.

00:39:55.160 I know. I know. I thought that was refreshing until I found out why. Okay. And why?

00:40:01.700 He's been banned from all social media platforms. What? Banned? Just from spreading misinformation.

00:40:08.520 Oh my gosh. It's fine. He has a lot of good qualities. Like? He's...

00:40:14.180 Single. That's not a quality.

00:40:18.100 All right. Give it a positive second. I just need to take a breather. I need to take a breather

00:40:21.880 because the acting is so bad. This is hard to watch with the music in the background, the whole

00:40:28.120 thing. So this is someone banned from social media for spreading misinformation. Now, we know that

00:40:35.660 the Hallmark Channel has a long since gone woke, so this is not surprising at all. They're presenting

00:40:41.700 this as just like if someone's banned from social media, it must be because they actually spread

00:40:47.080 misinformation. As opposed to the reality, of course, which is that when you're banned because

00:40:53.760 you have said something that the left has deemed misinformation, usually because they can't engage

00:40:59.120 with it, and so they just label it misinformation and use that as a pretense for getting rid of you.

00:41:03.820 No surprise that the Hallmark Channel has adopted the leftist viewpoint on this. And also, of course,

00:41:10.260 if someone's banned from social media, it means that you should be afraid to go out with them or be

00:41:14.560 around them. You know, this is someone. Only nutcases would run afoul of the Twitter police. If you run

00:41:22.300 afoul of the Twitter police, you must be crazy. All right, so they're talking about what is allegedly

00:41:28.180 the me character, and he's about to make an appearance, I think. Let's keep watching.

00:41:33.080 I picked your favorite dessert. Shannon? Yeah. Chocolate. It's so good. You said he's cute,

00:41:40.820 right? He's cute. Like, you think he's cute? I do. She's here. He's here.

00:41:46.020 I can't believe you're making me do this. You're doing this. Let's go. Wow, your house is very

00:41:53.540 clean. Thanks. Hi. Allow me to introduce you to my lovely sister. Well, that's why I'm here. 0.98

00:42:02.980 This is Noelle. Hi.

00:42:05.140 You want this one? No, I don't do handshakes. There's germs. Boom. I would never do that. I

00:42:18.260 would never do that. Can I get you something to drink, Bert? Sure. Something non-alcoholic

00:42:23.120 and non-carbonated. Well, that's definitely not. Any artificial colors or flavorings or

00:42:27.340 high fruitless corn syrup. Okay. Okay. So, tap water good? Is it filtered? I'm pretty sure. Yeah.

00:42:37.940 All right. That's fine. Yeah. Mark, um, I can have some water as well. My mouth suddenly feels

00:42:43.100 very dry. You got it. I am going to go help Mark with the prep, and that way you two can get to know

00:42:53.560 each other. And then you're socially awkward, so that's one in a me column.

00:43:02.700 My sister, she's a really great cook. Yeah. So, Noelle, are you one of those people who believe

00:43:08.780 our planet is actually round? All right. Okay. I've seen enough. All right. So, you got the polka 1.00

00:43:17.780 shirt, beard glasses, very dry personality. But it looks like the views that are being

00:43:27.040 assigned to this person are not my views at all. Uh, especially after, after COVID. I mean,

00:43:35.360 someone who doesn't want to shake hands because they're afraid of germs, that is very much a leftist

00:43:40.300 thing now. Worried about high fructose corn syrup. I've never, I've never even said the phrase high

00:43:47.100 fructose corn syrup. This is the first time I've ever even said it. Only wants non-alcoholic drinks

00:43:53.360 at a party. That is definitely not me. But at the same time, this is Hallmark, right? This is their,

00:43:59.500 this is their caricature of something. Obviously, they're trying to, it's a character of somebody on

00:44:04.960 the right. And so they're just ascribing every nutty opinion to that person. I don't know. I'm

00:44:13.460 not, I, I, I don't have a verdict on this. I will leave it up to the jury to decide.

00:44:20.100 Because, you know, the other thing is just because someone has a beard and glasses and yeah,

00:44:25.820 the hairstyle is very similar. I'll give you that. But not everyone with a beard and glasses looks like

00:44:30.920 me. There are some similar, I don't know. I'm, I'm in the middle, but I leave it up to you to

00:44:36.860 determine. Let's get to the comment section. Shell says, I was to start a new job today and they

00:44:56.220 wanted me to fill out some paperwork. Here come the preferred pronoun and gender questions. And

00:45:01.020 then actually asked what my sexual orientation is. I promptly refused to answer such questions and

00:45:07.140 quit the job. I'm with you, Matt. I refuse to play their game. The truth does matter.

00:45:12.700 Now, I know that, uh, who cares about silly things like laws, but is it not illegal to ask

00:45:19.800 employees what their sexual orientation is? Am I missing something? 0.62

00:45:28.340 Justin says, the left, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. Also the left pulls fire alarm in

00:45:34.300 a crowded theater. Well, it's a good point. Dusk Deepin says, Matt is very close to acknowledging

00:45:41.140 that widespread violence is on the horizon. A society has never been this unstable and managed

00:45:46.460 to avoid a bloody ending on the horizon. It's not on the horizon, but we, we have reached the horizon,

00:45:53.400 my friend. We are, we are already there where we are, we are experiencing now widespread violence.

00:45:58.900 Now, if, if what you're referring to is violence in the form of like a civil war situation, then,

00:46:06.780 you know, as I've said before, I, I, I think that's not outside the realm of possibility that we could

00:46:12.860 have a civil war. Uh, I think that our divisions are deep enough between the sides that it, that it,

00:46:20.780 you know, historically, if, if, if, if history is a, is a precedent here, then it could lead in that

00:46:26.360 direction. But for a bunch of other reasons, including the fact that our, you know, we have

00:46:31.760 these ideological differences, but they're not as cleanly divided on geographic lines. There obviously

00:46:37.840 are blue areas and red areas, but, um, these things intermingle enough that I, that what I would

00:46:44.440 predict is just what you said, widespread violence, pockets of violence, increasing kind of chaos in a

00:46:52.700 much more disorganized fashion. And I think that is what we're experiencing right now. Ken says, sorry,

00:46:57.860 Matt, the person closest to the window owns the right over the window shade. Don't like it by a window

00:47:02.520 seat. Stop crying snowflake. Don't tell me what to do. First of all, I will cry over this. If I want

00:47:08.820 to, I will cry over your faulty logic to begin with just because you're closest to something means

00:47:15.520 that you own it. So if I come to your house and I, and I sit on your couch, I own it. If I'm closest to

00:47:24.020 your dog, I own your dog. If I'm closest to the big fish tank, when I'm taking my kids to the

00:47:30.000 rainforest cafe, do I own the fish tank? Can I take a fish out of the fish tank for a snack?

00:47:36.080 Because the appetizers always take two and a half hours at rainforest cafe. Can I do that?

00:47:40.460 Think of the consequences of what you're saying here, Ken. Speaking of anarchy, think of the

00:47:45.500 anarchy that would ensue if we adopted this principle. This is like a child's understanding

00:47:50.740 of ownership. I'm closest to it. So I own it. What kind of ethical framework is that?

00:47:55.920 No, the window is on. I am, as you know, a proponent of equity. And the window is on.

00:48:06.000 The ownership of the window is equitable. It is one third ownership for everybody in the row.

00:48:15.980 Unless I'm closest to it, which case I'll just do whatever I want. John says, Matt, when are you

00:48:21.240 going to denounce Ben for shaving his beard? Was the whole beard growing thing just a stunt to promote

00:48:26.780 Jeremy's razors? I don't know what it was. Well, I know what it was. It was a betrayal.

00:48:31.920 I thought that Ben had finally been reformed. They had seen the error of his beardless ways. I thought

00:48:37.060 that we, the two of us, could finally be co-beardsmen bonded in that sacred follicle brotherhood.

00:48:44.280 I was proud of him, to tell you the truth, to be a little vulnerable myself. I was proud of him.

00:48:50.060 And then one day, without warning, he shaves it off, bearing his naked face to the world. It's

00:48:56.040 indecent, for one thing. Men should not be showing off their naked chins. It is grotesque. 0.83

00:49:04.820 We need to start shaming naked chin like we shame or used to shame people who show off other parts of 1.00

00:49:10.020 their body. I thought Ben finally understood this. So I don't know. I have nothing to offer here but

00:49:15.280 my heartbreak. I haven't fully processed my feelings or come to grips with my trauma. But thank you for

00:49:22.980 asking. It's been a busy month here at The Daily Wire. We released The Greatest Lie Ever Sold,

00:49:28.060 a new documentary that buries BLM. We held a rally to end child mutilation at the Tennessee State Capitol,

00:49:33.100 and we are hours away from another exciting event, which is Daily Wire backstage. Join me,

00:49:38.000 Ben Shapiro, Michael Coles, Michael Coles. We'll just go with it. Michael Coles, Andrew Klavan,

00:49:44.440 and God King, Jeremy Boring. Tonight at 6 p.m. Central, 7 p.m. Eastern, we'll be talking about

00:49:49.720 the midterms, leftist meltdowns, and a whole lot more. It's a backstage you don't want to miss.

00:49:54.880 So tune in tonight at dailywireplus.com. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:59.280 You know, I've never been a fan of U2. I don't know if I've ever even met a fan of their music.

00:50:09.500 I don't think anyone has ever liked U2, and yet they are one of the most successful musical acts

00:50:14.160 in the history of the world. It's not clear exactly how they managed to pull this off.

00:50:17.700 They became, you might say, the world's elevator music, or maybe society's hold music. Something

00:50:23.200 you hear all the time, whether you like it or not, and you don't really like it, but you also don't

00:50:27.100 viscerally hate it. The music just is, it exists, and it exists everywhere, and nobody knows why,

00:50:32.660 and nobody ever asks. And nobody can distinguish one U2 song from another. No one can. We all,

00:50:39.240 we know every U2 song, and yet we don't know any of them. It's one of the most confounding riddles

00:50:44.380 of life. The man behind this mystery, Bono, was profiled yesterday in the New York Times in a piece

00:50:49.420 titled, Bono is Still Trying to Figure Out U2 and Himself. It only deepens the mystery to discover

00:50:56.440 the lead singer of the band, also doesn't know why it exists or why anybody likes it.

00:51:01.560 As for figuring out himself, Bono is in his mid-60s now. It's probably time to start arriving

00:51:05.880 at a few conclusions before it's too late. He's apparently written a memoir, which explains why

00:51:10.200 he was doing the New York Times interview. Most of the interview doesn't interest me, but there is

00:51:14.580 one admission that did interest me. He says this, quote, I ended up as an activist in a very

00:51:21.800 different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we

00:51:26.720 could solve every problem. I now know that's not true. There's a funny moment when you realize as an

00:51:33.440 activist, the off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce. It's entrepreneurial capitalism.

00:51:42.800 Imagine that. Who could have ever guessed? It's capitalism. Now, I will say that, you know,

00:51:48.620 I don't treat capitalism like a religion, as some establishment conservative types have done

00:51:54.160 historically. I believe in the free market. I don't think that our free market principles,

00:51:58.540 though, should preclude us from doing things like regulating big tech, holding it accountable for

00:52:03.420 the ways that it censors and suppresses speech. I also don't think that defending the free market

00:52:07.020 must necessarily mean that we have to be ardent defenders of behemoth transnational corporations.

00:52:12.040 The relationship between government corporations, big tech, media, the kind of systemic human

00:52:18.620 centipede, as I have previously described it, is such that the phrase free market barely even applies

00:52:25.240 to these institutions. They've all become like quasi-governmental institutions in their own way.

00:52:30.060 Further, I don't think that being a capitalist means that we must surrender our culture to smut and 0.99

00:52:34.700 filth, insisting that any effort to enforce basic standards of human decency is somehow an assault on

00:52:39.720 the free market or on free speech. So these are all important caveats, and perhaps caveat isn't

00:52:44.500 the right word. They are more so specifications or descriptions of what I mean when I talk about

00:52:50.280 capitalism. And the descriptions are important because not everyone means the same thing. In fact,

00:52:54.580 Bono himself transitions immediately from admitting that capitalism is the best way out of poverty

00:52:59.580 to making a sales pitch for globalization. He conflates the two, globalization and capitalism.

00:53:05.840 But they're not the same thing. That is a specific sort of capitalism, the type that a left-wing

00:53:10.220 multi-millionaire celebrity is destined to support. But it's not the only option. And in the case of

00:53:16.660 impoverished third world countries, what they need most is not globalization, but a legitimate local

00:53:23.420 economy with thriving small businesses and so on. So with all that said, Bono is correct in the

00:53:32.320 fundamental revelation at which he has arrived about 60 years late, that the way out of poverty

00:53:37.860 is through entrepreneurial capitalism. He's wrong, though, that this is separate. This is somehow a

00:53:44.260 separate concept from redistributing resources. And that's kind of a false choice. Because one way or

00:53:50.260 another, resources are going to be, if you want to put it this way, redistributed. That's because there

00:53:56.800 are finite resources available. There's a certain amount of food, a certain amount of houses,

00:54:00.380 cars, a certain amount of capital in the world. There are a lot of these things. And more can be

00:54:06.320 produced and are produced every day. But the amount is still finite as opposed to infinite.

00:54:10.580 It's just another way of saying that you can't make all of your necessities and your desired luxuries

00:54:14.260 materialize out of thin air. If you want something or you need something, you have to obtain it.

00:54:19.980 It must be transferred or distributed, if you like, into your possession. The only other option is to

00:54:26.760 build, harvest, or hunt it yourself. But very few people in the modern world can live an entirely

00:54:30.560 self-sustaining life. And it's not generally a path to prosperity. And besides, even if you go that

00:54:34.960 route, you still need to obtain some of the tools necessary to do it successfully. So the question

00:54:39.880 becomes not whether resources are distributed from one party to another. Everyone agrees on that.

00:54:47.200 If you want to have any kind of economy, and every civilized society, and even uncivilized ones,

00:54:52.600 must have economies, then that's just the nature of the beast. And broadly speaking here, simplifying to

00:55:00.140 a significant extent, there are two ways of getting the resources from one party to another.

00:55:08.180 You can do it by plunder and seizure, which is a stronger force taking the resources it wants

00:55:13.660 and giving it to whoever they determine, starting, of course, with themselves. Or you can do it through

00:55:19.120 a marketplace, where one party obtains the desired good or service from another party, and in exchange,

00:55:25.840 pays an agreed-upon price. Neither of these systems are perfect. Both can be abused. There will be

00:55:32.900 poverty in both. Unscrupulous people will find ways to exploit the vulnerable in either case.

00:55:39.880 But the question is, which system opens up the best path to human flourishing while offering fewer

00:55:45.520 opportunities for exploitation and oppression? And the answer, as history has always shown,

00:55:51.200 is the latter, the free market approach, which offers the most freedom, the most flourishing,

00:55:57.420 and will be the most likely to lift people out of poverty. The problem with the seize and plunder

00:56:02.760 system, whether it's a governmental entity doing it, or pirates, or Vikings, or a rival tribe,

00:56:08.840 or whoever, is that you're relying on their benevolence to identify the parties who need

00:56:15.920 the resources more and then deliver it. You're also relying on their perfect wisdom to know who

00:56:21.140 deserves what. You are depending on them to have God's goodness and generosity and wisdom to go along

00:56:28.420 with the godlike powers that they are wielding. And that faith is always, 100% of the time,

00:56:35.380 misplaced. And this is why communism and socialism and all forms of governmental redistribution systems

00:56:41.560 end in misery and catastrophe. One of the problems with progressives like Bono is that they don't

00:56:48.280 respect or understand nature. And that applies to external nature, the planet's nature, the nature

00:56:54.800 comprised of trees and oceans and clouds. It also applies to internal nature, human nature.

00:57:00.040 They respect and understand that least of all. They don't understand that human beings are fallen

00:57:06.220 creatures. And so all of our institutions will be at some level broken and unreliable. And so we can't

00:57:12.060 give absolute power to any institution. The institutions, they can't carry the weight of that

00:57:18.760 sort of trust and faith. They also don't understand tendencies and trends and the ways in which historical

00:57:26.020 trends can and should guide our expectations of the future. The left just doesn't understand this.

00:57:34.300 It's why they keep trying to, you know, get socialism going again and again, because no matter how much

00:57:38.860 misery it accounted for in the past, it's also why on the individual level, they think that we ought to

00:57:42.640 continue releasing violent criminals back into our communities. Maybe they've changed. Maybe they've

00:57:47.260 been reformed, they cry. Yeah, maybe, but almost certainly not. Anything is possible, but we have

00:57:55.540 to make policies and decisions based on what is probable, not what is possible. It's possible that

00:58:01.900 you could jump off of a 100-story building and survive. I mean, it's possible technically. It's not

00:58:07.640 impossible. It is possible, but it's certainly not probable. The probability is low enough that it's worth

00:58:14.240 taking the elevator, even if that's a little bit slower. As for economic systems, a common citizen

00:58:20.400 advocating for governmental control is like jumping out of that window and hoping that you're the one

00:58:25.660 guy who has a positive experience with it. On the other hand, for the powerful, for the elite,

00:58:32.280 socialism is not a plunge at all. It's an elevation to even greater heights, enjoyed at the expense

00:58:37.140 of all those peons still lingering at ground level, and who will soon end up lower even than that.

00:58:44.240 Now, these are all points quite obvious to me and to most of you. They were not obvious to Bono

00:58:51.200 until now. I'm glad that he finally got it right, sort of got it right anyway. But unfortunately,

00:58:58.900 for being late to the party, I must still say that he and his music are canceled. Mostly,

00:59:06.300 it's just his music, though, to be honest. That's canceled. All right, that'll do it for this portion

00:59:10.580 of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:14.020 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 26, 2022

Ep. 1050 - Fetterman Humiliates Himself. Dems Cry ‘Ableism.’

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