The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1051 - Lots Of Twitter Employees Are About To Lose Their Jobs, Thank God

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, climate activists have been making a nuisance of themselves with

00:00:04.000 increasing regularity in recent weeks. Besides the obvious, stupidity, a need for attention, 1.00

00:00:08.240 etc. What is driving all of this exactly? We'll talk about that. Also, Elon Musk prepares to 1.00

00:00:12.620 take over Twitter and reportedly fire 75% of its staff. But Twitter employees have a plan to stop

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00:01:50.460 Well, every few months or so, climate activists will go through a phase where they are especially

00:01:56.320 annoying and obnoxious. And of course, they're always annoying and obnoxious, but periodically

00:02:00.580 they will decide to be even more annoying and obnoxious than usual. It works in cycles like the

00:02:05.540 phases of the moon. In fact, the cycle might even be tied to the phases of the moon, but that's a

00:02:09.640 theory that will have to be fleshed out another time. The point is that right now we are going

00:02:13.520 through one of the extra obnoxious periods. Here's their most recent stunt from Yahoo News. It says,

00:02:18.960 A protester has been arrested after Just Stop Oil supporters threw orange paint over the headquarters

00:02:25.420 of a climate skeptic think tank in central London. Climate activists from the campaign group attacked

00:02:30.780 a building in Westminster used by the Global Warming Policy Foundation and disrupted traffic

00:02:36.100 by sitting in the road. Some supporters also glued themselves to the road and others locked

00:02:40.260 themselves together. Just Stop Oil has been demanding the government halt new oil and gas licenses

00:02:46.300 and consents. It has been labeled a nuisance by many and has closed the Dartford Crossing,

00:02:52.540 smeared chocolate cake over a waxwork of King Charles, and thrown various things, including

00:02:57.000 mashed potato, over famous pieces of art in recent weeks. Now, we'll leave aside the phrase

00:03:02.720 climate skeptic. As I'm always reminding you, there are no climate skeptics. Nobody is skeptical

00:03:08.480 about the climate. Nobody is walking outside looking up at the clouds and saying, I don't

00:03:13.120 know about this. I'm skeptical. We all agree that the climate exists and that it changes and

00:03:18.620 that those changes sometimes result in unfortunate weather events. The skepticism is related to the

00:03:24.240 supposed causes of those changes and the proposed solutions for those changes. Indeed, the greatest

00:03:30.420 skepticism, at least my greatest skepticism as a skeptic, is directed at the notion that the weather

00:03:37.300 is a problem that can be solved at all by anyone apart from God himself. But as I said, leave all

00:03:45.140 that to the side. We'll also choose not to linger on the fact that these climate activists are buying

00:03:49.840 paint and throwing it around, even though paint is made from fossil fuels, which is a bit like a vegan

00:03:57.700 activist purchasing 10 pounds of ground beef from the supermarket as an act of protest against the

00:04:03.340 slaughter of cows. There seems to be a little bit of a disconnect here, a concept problem.

00:04:07.760 But we can't expect these people to behave rationally. They are throwing a tantrum. And if I know anything

00:04:13.660 about tantruming toddlers, and I know a lot about them, it's that rationality is well beyond their

00:04:19.900 grasp, especially in the middle of the tantrum. The episode with the paint is just the latest in a

00:04:25.960 series of stunts, stunts which often involve throwing different sorts of liquids onto different

00:04:30.420 sorts of objects or gluing themselves onto things. Last week, climate activists glued themselves to the

00:04:36.040 floor at the Porsche Museum. And the staff at the museum did exactly what people should be doing

00:04:42.580 in response to these sorts of things, what I've been advocating for, which is that they just closed

00:04:46.640 down for the night, and they turned the lights off and the heat off, and they just went home. And they

00:04:52.780 left the activists glued to the floor. The activists then complained that they weren't provided food.

00:04:58.180 They complained that they weren't given buckets so that they could go potty. It's a bit like

00:05:04.480 lighting yourself on fire and in protest and then complaining that nobody has a fire extinguisher on

00:05:10.520 hand. These are really the sorts of preparations that you should probably be making yourself.

00:05:15.840 Now, elsewhere, climate activists have blocked traffic. They've run onto the field during sporting

00:05:22.520 events. And most notoriously, as mentioned in the article, they've thrown various food items onto

00:05:28.340 priceless works of art. This has apparently led to some internal disputes among climate activists,

00:05:34.480 as reported by Axios with this interesting headline. Headline is,

00:05:38.600 climate activists divided on souping art. Souping. Yes, soup is a verb now. Soup is something that

00:05:49.340 you can do. Because, you know, there are no rules in the English language, as we have repeatedly

00:05:54.260 discovered. The article says, quote, 18-year-old climate activist Elijah McKenzie Jackson, campaign

00:06:00.780 coordinator for youth climate strike movement Fridays for Future International, told Axios in an email

00:06:06.360 that history tells us civil protests like these are necessary for change. He says, quote,

00:06:11.860 although I can recognize these acts of justice may seem outrageous to people, I challenge them to feel

00:06:17.740 the outrage of destruction, death, and murder all Western governments and corporations are committing

00:06:23.600 to our animals, our neighbors in the South, and our ecosystems. Wrote Mackenzie Jackson, 15-year-old

00:06:30.180 Genesis Butler, founder of global organization Youth Climate Save, echoed that sentiment.

00:06:36.360 Writing in an email to Axios that, quote, it's important for us all to make bold moves to raise

00:06:41.660 awareness about the climate crisis. But then there's the other side. Some don't see putting

00:06:46.440 fabled art at the heart of disruptive protests as an effective path to advancing climate action.

00:06:51.420 Among those who spoke out against the Van Gogh soup stunt was climate scientist Michael Mann,

00:06:56.020 who criticized the move, telling Associated Press that people will draw negative associations with

00:07:00.540 climate active advocacy. He's worried that they will draw those negative associations. I think it's a

00:07:05.800 little bit too late for that. Researchers and journalists alike have also since argued that

00:07:10.400 these kinds of viral activities don't mitigate climate polluting emissions. Science and policy do.

00:07:18.680 Oh, well, it's good that researchers have made that determination. I would not have been able

00:07:24.100 to figure that out otherwise. We needed researchers to tell us that throwing tomato soup on an old

00:07:30.020 painting will not change the weather. That's what researchers are saying. I need to see the studies. I haven't

00:07:35.040 read the studies for myself. I won't believe in time. I need to see. Show me the study that proves

00:07:41.120 you can't change the temperature outside by throwing your food at a painting.

00:07:48.240 But if soup will not alter the climate, maybe dancing will. After all, many primitive cultures 1.00

00:07:53.540 have believed that dancing has some effect on the weather, and maybe they were onto something.

00:07:58.540 These healthcare professionals seem to think so, so they performed a rendition of staying alive

00:08:03.000 in pursuit of climate justice. Let's watch this.

00:08:06.120 The presentation is prioritized.

00:08:10.200 The biggest risks. Fires grow and extreme heat, but more than just our dancing keeps. So come on new.

00:08:17.120 Fossil fuels save planning with renewables. Don't want kids to pay the price. Ignoring scientists' advice.

00:08:22.200 Leaders should be early to stop and find a plan so we stay alive, stay alive. And that a calm of the

00:08:29.180 stomach, our budget's stopping so we stay alive, stay alive. And that a calm of the stomach is

00:08:32.820 We all want to stay alive, they sing, though I'm not sure I do after hearing that.

00:08:53.960 I'm having flashbacks now to COVID when the nurses wouldn't stop dancing,

00:08:58.100 which ultimately, COVID ended up being worse than the Black Plague, as they predicted,

00:09:06.060 because the nurses were dancing so much. 0.97

00:09:07.820 And back in the Black Plague, the healthcare professionals, they didn't do as much dancing.

00:09:11.900 I can only hope this doesn't become a trend again because of climate change.

00:09:15.360 So what is this all about?

00:09:17.380 Why are the climate activists having these tantrums, whether in musical form or not?

00:09:22.960 Well, one thing we must always keep in mind is that nothing is entirely organic on the left.

00:09:29.160 There is money behind this current rash of activism, organizations funding it, and pulling the strings.

00:09:36.520 And that's especially true when you hear about, we heard in the Axios article about a 15-year-old

00:09:40.600 who started an international organization.

00:09:42.960 organization, it's almost always the case that when you hear about it, it's just like when the kids in Virginia

00:09:52.980 are staging walkouts in their schools all across the state because of policies that say that only boys have to use the boys' room

00:10:03.060 and girls have to use the girls' room. 1.00

00:10:04.340 And then you find out that, well, no, this is all being organized by adults and by organizations with money.

00:10:09.220 So the same thing goes here.

00:10:10.480 But as for the grunts on the ground, you know, the people that are out there actually gluing themselves to the floor

00:10:16.560 or having food fights with art exhibits or whatever else, there's not one explanation that can suffice.

00:10:23.380 For some of them, this is empty virtue signaling.

00:10:26.440 They're hopping on a trend, fishing for social media clout, et cetera.

00:10:31.300 There's definitely a lot of that.

00:10:32.660 And for some of them, the younger ones anyway, this is the youthful rebellious instinct, searching for a cause.

00:10:41.440 Young people naturally desire a cause to protest over, fight for or against, and climate activism provides an outlet.

00:10:50.560 It's a place to expend that energy.

00:10:53.880 But underneath all of that, I think, there's also nihilism.

00:10:58.700 This is the engine that drives most so-called climate activism.

00:11:04.820 It's really the message that they're sending when they destroy or attempt to destroy a priceless work of art

00:11:10.860 or when they block traffic, randomly interfering with people's ability to get to work and feed their families.

00:11:16.300 And at the same time, creating more traffic congestion, which only causes more CO2 emissions, not less.

00:11:24.660 What does that achieve?

00:11:25.860 Well, nothing, of course.

00:11:28.640 It is just destruction and obstruction for its own sake.

00:11:33.760 It's a protest not really against climate change, but against life, against humanity.

00:11:39.620 They are expressing their anger at a world that, to them, has no meaning.

00:11:44.740 They're expressing their anger at the fact that it has no meaning.

00:11:49.880 You know, some of these people, again, the younger ones especially,

00:11:52.580 they really do believe that the world is coming to an end.

00:11:55.860 They really believe it.

00:11:57.760 Now, a lot of the older people, the adults, Hollywood celebrities that push this stuff,

00:12:02.880 and they're flying around in the private jets, and Al Gore, and, you know, 0.67

00:12:05.420 we know about all the hypocrites behind this stuff, and they don't really believe it. 0.97

00:12:09.440 They know better. 0.99

00:12:09.820 They're the ones who started this.

00:12:11.380 They're the ones who are propagating the lie.

00:12:14.560 The ones propagating the lie, they know that it's a lie.

00:12:16.560 A lot of these kids don't know that.

00:12:20.080 They've been told since they were children that the world's coming to an end because of this.

00:12:25.260 The fear tactics, the hysteria, that's all settled into their minds.

00:12:29.140 But they also see no value in life and in the planet, which they believe is headed towards destruction.

00:12:39.120 And this tension is what causes them to lash out like they do, in the way that they do.

00:12:45.380 I mean, think about it.

00:12:45.780 That's why it's kind of, it's interesting that they're going after paintings.

00:12:49.320 You would think that if you believed that the world was coming to an end and that we didn't have much time left,

00:12:55.120 you would cherish beautiful art even more.

00:13:00.440 You know, you would have more appreciation for the things that are beautiful in the world.

00:13:05.880 But they don't, because underneath all this is nihilism.

00:13:08.760 Lack of meaning, denial of meaning.

00:13:12.160 That's what lies at the bottom of all left-wing causes. 0.98

00:13:15.660 And this one is certainly no exception.

00:13:19.140 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:25.120 Well, as you all know, I'm currently waging a war with a force diametrically opposed to everything I believe in.

00:13:33.520 I'm not referring to the culture war or my ceaseless battle with the gender ideologues.

00:13:38.000 This war is one waged at home.

00:13:41.200 Literally.

00:13:41.840 I can't get my giant walrus home because my wife doesn't want it there. 1.00

00:13:46.900 I have no idea where this is going.

00:13:48.820 Day after day, I pass the gentle creature sitting solemnly in the corner, his eyes following me.

00:13:54.000 I look away in a mixture of anguish and shame.

00:13:56.980 This heartening and inescapable concoction of emotion is overwhelming.

00:14:00.520 All the while, I still feel his longing stare as I leave each day without him in tow.

00:14:07.580 We're going to have to vacuum seal it like a mattress or something,

00:14:11.140 but I'm open to suggestions because this fight is far from over.

00:14:14.860 Where the hell is this going?

00:14:16.220 Go to dailywire.com slash shop to bring home your own walrus.

00:14:19.440 Okay.

00:14:20.000 Yours will not come vacuum sealed, but it will fit through the door.

00:14:23.280 Just fine.

00:14:25.540 So Elon Musk is scheduled to take the reins over at Twitter, I believe on Friday.

00:14:31.280 That's when the deal is supposed to be official and he'll actually be in charge of Twitter.

00:14:36.120 The left obviously is panicking over it.

00:14:38.640 And they're panicking because we know they rely so much on suppressing speech and that is all in service to kind of this

00:14:50.040 pretending that there is a consensus on an issue when there really isn't.

00:14:55.980 Some people have called it on Twitter, you know, manufacturing a consensus.

00:15:00.500 That's the great value that Twitter has for the left and that all social media does and that big tech has for them.

00:15:10.380 It's by pretending, you know, by putting their own views out there and creating an environment where it seems like everyone agrees with their position when really they don't.

00:15:21.720 And that can be a convincing thing to people when we spend so much time on social media.

00:15:31.200 And there's one point of view that you see everywhere you turn and another point of view, which might be your own, which you don't see represented at all,

00:15:41.240 trick you into believing that, well, you must be very much in the minority.

00:15:44.740 And if you're in the minority, you must be wrong.

00:15:48.200 But they manufacture this by suppressing all other opinions.

00:15:52.340 Now they're afraid that's going to go out the window.

00:15:56.300 So Elon Musk showed up to Twitter headquarters yesterday.

00:16:00.160 He posted a quick video showing him carrying a sink into the building.

00:16:04.940 Here's that video.

00:16:11.620 I get it because he let that sink in is the pun.

00:16:19.380 I think it's I'm always a fan.

00:16:22.900 I'm always an apologist for all forms of dad jokes.

00:16:26.340 Now, we previously talked about Musk's reported plan to fire a huge portion of the staff, which is a great idea.

00:16:33.100 It's even a better idea than the pun.

00:16:35.280 And the pun was a fantastic idea.

00:16:37.740 And it's an even better idea in light of this.

00:16:40.180 Here's a video that Libs of TikTok found and posted.

00:16:43.180 This is another one of those TikTok videos where somebody goes through their daily routine.

00:16:47.720 I have no idea why this is a trend, why these videos are so popular, but they are.

00:16:53.960 So here is the daily routine of a Twitter employee.

00:16:59.320 Watch.

00:17:00.720 Welcome to a day in my life as a Twitter employee.

00:17:04.760 So this past week, went to SF for the first time at a Twitter office, badged in.

00:17:10.460 Honestly, took a moment to just soak everything in.

00:17:13.320 What a blessing.

00:17:14.340 Also started my morning off with an iced matcha from the perch.

00:17:18.460 Then I had a meeting.

00:17:19.820 So quickly scheduled one of these little pod rooms, which were so cool.

00:17:24.440 They're literally noise cancelling.

00:17:26.000 Took my meeting, got ready for a bunch.

00:17:28.660 Look how delicious this food looks.

00:17:30.900 Oh my goodness.

00:17:31.660 I was so overwhelmed.

00:17:33.660 Then made my way down to this log cabin area.

00:17:36.780 I don't know what this is, but it was really cool.

00:17:39.260 Played some foosball with my friends to kind of unwind a bit.

00:17:44.640 Also found this really cool meditation room that I thought was super neat.

00:17:50.740 I didn't do any yoga, but they have this yoga room if you are a yogi.

00:17:55.140 So also thought that was really cool.

00:17:57.160 Had a couple more meetings in the afternoon.

00:18:00.340 Had a ton of projects that we needed to knock out.

00:18:02.500 Say hi to my teammates.

00:18:04.860 Went to the library to kind of get some more work done.

00:18:09.120 Obviously had to have our afternoon coffee, so made some espresso.

00:18:13.780 And then before leaving for the day, had some red wine that's on tap.

00:18:18.880 Went up to the rooftop and just honestly enjoyed the beautiful weather.

00:18:24.780 So awesome trip.

00:18:26.000 No work was done at all.

00:18:30.160 Well, she had a meeting.

00:18:30.860 She had a meeting for 15 minutes.

00:18:33.200 I think there's a lot of fat we can trim here.

00:18:35.020 I really think that there is.

00:18:36.460 So he wants to fire 75% of employees.

00:18:38.020 I think he probably fired 90% and we would be fine.

00:18:42.100 I love how she said that she had to unwind by playing some foosball with her friends.

00:18:47.260 Unwind?

00:18:47.980 You just got to work an hour ago.

00:18:50.900 You spent most of the time drinking coffee and hanging out and meditating.

00:18:53.740 And you already have to unwind?

00:18:56.000 If you have time for yoga and foosball and meditation during the workday, you aren't needed.

00:19:06.920 Okay?

00:19:07.500 Good rule of thumb there.

00:19:08.700 If I was an employer, I might put all of that stuff in the office just so that I can fire whoever uses it.

00:19:16.660 It gives people an opportunity to sort of tell on themselves.

00:19:20.040 I think it's actually a brilliant idea.

00:19:21.320 The more that I think about this, it's really not a bad idea.

00:19:24.340 Have a swimming pool.

00:19:25.820 Have a hot tub.

00:19:26.600 Have a water park.

00:19:27.600 Have lounge chairs and reading material and, you know, all that kind of stuff.

00:19:35.580 Have a room that says, like, it's the Netflix room.

00:19:39.440 You can just sit there and browse Netflix and watch Netflix movies.

00:19:42.080 And anyone caught using any of that is fired automatically.

00:19:49.560 I'm half joking.

00:19:50.460 Well, I'm not really joking at all.

00:19:51.540 I would do that.

00:19:52.260 But the point is that if you don't want to be fired, if you want to have job security, and this is not just a lesson for Twitter employees.

00:19:58.820 It's for everybody.

00:19:59.860 You have to make yourself irreplaceable.

00:20:02.880 As irreplaceable as possible.

00:20:04.540 I mean, the reality is that nobody is totally irreplaceable.

00:20:06.980 But your value to your employer increases with the degree of your irreplaceability, okay?

00:20:16.260 If they can find just anyone off the street to do your job, then you have almost no value as an employee, sadly.

00:20:28.920 It's just, that's the reality of it.

00:20:31.120 It's not very, might not be nice to think about it, but it is.

00:20:33.440 If they can find anyone else, if they can pull anybody else in and have them do it, then you don't, you just don't have a lot of value.

00:20:40.600 Now, if they would have extreme difficulty finding someone who can bring what you bring to the table, then you have immense value, which means you have bargaining power and you have leverage.

00:20:54.380 Speaking of which, I just saw the, so Starbucks has a union now.

00:20:58.960 Well, the Starbucks employees have unionized, and they were complaining earlier this week because they were trying to have a meeting with Starbucks management, you know, Starbucks corporate management.

00:21:13.080 And the corporate walked out of the meeting, and they complained, and they said they just got up and walked out.

00:21:17.620 They wouldn't negotiate.

00:21:18.720 Well, this, again, goes back to, you have to have leverage, you have to have bargaining power.

00:21:25.940 And if you work at Starbucks, for example, there are a lot of people who can do that, and so you just don't have a lot of leverage.

00:21:36.460 Twitter employees especially don't understand this, and what they think is they can just make demands.

00:21:42.800 So this is from Time, okay?

00:21:46.320 Time magazine has this.

00:21:47.540 Employees at Twitter are circulating an open letter protesting Elon Musk's plan to fire as much as 75% of the company's workforce as the deadline for him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the company looms.

00:21:59.460 Time has learned.

00:22:01.400 Musk must complete the acquisition by Friday or face the resumption of a lawsuit in Delaware court.

00:22:04.980 And the plan is that he will eradicate the jobs of nearly 75% of Twitter staff, reducing headcount from 7,500 to just 2,000, according to the Washington Post.

00:22:15.980 Now, here's the letter that they're circulating.

00:22:18.000 It says, staff, Elon Musk, and board of directors, we, the undersigned Twitter workers, believe the public conversation is in jeopardy.

00:22:27.580 Elon Musk's plan, the public conversation is in jeopardy because it's not going to be suppressed anymore.

00:22:34.980 The public conversation is in jeopardy when more people are allowed to participate in it.

00:22:41.860 It's very similar to how we're going to face the end of democracy if too many Republicans participate in it and vote for Republicans.

00:22:49.700 That's the end of democracy.

00:22:52.080 So it's the end of the public conversation if there are too many people involved in the conversation.

00:22:57.300 Elon Musk's plan to lay off 75% of Twitter workers will hurt Twitter's ability to serve the public conversation.

00:23:02.740 A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users' and customers' trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation.

00:23:12.240 Twitter has significant effects on societies and communities across the globe.

00:23:15.780 As we speak, Twitter is helping to uplift independent journalism in Ukraine and Iran, as well as powering social movements around the world.

00:23:21.900 A threat to workers at Twitter is a threat to Twitter's future.

00:23:24.420 These threats have an impact on us as workers and demonstrate a fundamental disconnect with the realities of operating Twitter.

00:23:30.180 They threaten our livelihoods, access to essential health care, and the ability for visa holders to stay in the country they work in. 1.00

00:23:35.820 We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats.

00:23:40.120 Without our work, there is no Twitter.

00:23:42.000 Well, yeah, but we're...

00:23:43.420 The point is that many of you don't need to do your work anymore because you're going to be fired.

00:23:47.540 So, I don't even understand.

00:23:49.900 If you fire us, we will not be able to do our work at Twitter.

00:23:52.260 Well, yeah, that's the whole point.

00:23:54.300 We don't...

00:23:55.020 You're not needed.

00:23:57.900 We, the workers at Twitter, will not be intimidated.

00:24:00.700 We recommit to supporting the communities, organizations, and businesses who rely on Twitter.

00:24:04.640 We will not stop serving the public conversation.

00:24:08.120 Well, you will if you get fired.

00:24:09.980 Then you will.

00:24:10.740 Well, that's how it works.

00:24:14.020 We call on Twitter management and Elon Musk to cease these negligent layoff threats.

00:24:18.680 As workers, we deserve concrete commitment so we can continue to preserve the integrity of our platform.

00:24:24.140 We demand of current and future leadership respect.

00:24:28.560 We demand leadership to respect the platform and the workers who maintain it by committing to preserving the current headcount.

00:24:34.960 Safety.

00:24:35.400 We demand that leadership does not discriminate against workers on the basis of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs.

00:24:42.100 Oh, now they're worried about people being discriminated against based on political beliefs.

00:24:46.460 We also demand safety for workers on visas.

00:24:48.760 We will be forced to leave the country or who will be forced to leave the country if they work and if they're laid off.

00:24:55.120 Protection.

00:24:55.760 We demand Elon Musk explicitly commit to preserve our benefits, those both listed in the merger agreement and not.

00:25:02.080 We demand leadership to establish and ensure fair severance policies for all workers before and after any change in ownership.

00:25:09.420 We demand transparent, prompt, and thoughtful communication around our working conditions.

00:25:14.060 We demand to be treated with dignity and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires.

00:25:20.520 Okay.

00:25:21.620 Again, these demands mean nothing if you have no leverage.

00:25:26.100 And notice how they never even tried to pretend that they have leverage.

00:25:33.940 They didn't say, here's what we bring to the company.

00:25:37.680 Okay.

00:25:38.020 Here's what we do every day.

00:25:40.580 And you need us to do this.

00:25:42.800 And here's what will happen if you get rid of us.

00:25:44.380 Here are all the bad things that will happen to the company and to the company's bottom line without us.

00:25:51.680 Okay.

00:25:51.880 Here's what will happen if you don't have us doing yoga and eating hummus all day.

00:25:56.160 This is the catastrophe level two.

00:25:58.880 They didn't really do that.

00:26:00.400 Instead, they just went right to playing the victim card, emotional blackmail.

00:26:05.660 If you fire us, it'll make us feel bad.

00:26:10.420 That's their argument.

00:26:13.000 You know, it's just, it probably won't work.

00:26:14.740 If you get called into the office and the boss lets you know, listen, it's not working out.

00:26:18.480 We've got to go our separate ways.

00:26:19.420 You can't do that.

00:26:21.280 Why can't I do it?

00:26:23.560 Because I don't like it.

00:26:25.920 It makes me, it makes me feel bad to be fired.

00:26:29.600 Okay.

00:26:30.040 Well, sorry to hear that.

00:26:32.480 Anyway, here's your box.

00:26:33.520 Fill it with stuff and get the hell out, please.

00:26:39.260 Just that you can, you can make demands all you want, but the demand doesn't mean anything.

00:26:46.140 If you have no leverage and leverage as an employer is tied to what you actually do, to how you perform, to what you bring to the table.

00:26:56.920 The problem is that a lot of these people have been told that it doesn't matter what they do.

00:27:00.280 It doesn't matter what they bring to the table.

00:27:01.380 They shouldn't have to prove themselves to anyone.

00:27:04.920 And they should be allowed to continue working at Twitter just because, because it's, it's, they, they are them and they are special.

00:27:13.860 Just doesn't work that way, unfortunately.

00:27:15.320 All right, so the Washington Post has this story, headline, Democrats scramble into defensive posture in final stage of midterms.

00:27:24.660 It says, Democrats on Wednesday pumped at least $6.3 million worth of advertising into a trio of congressional districts in New Jersey and New York, where President Biden won by at least eight percentage points.

00:27:34.940 First Lady Jill Biden spent the afternoon in Rhode Island trying to help save a Democrat running in a district her husband carried by nearly 14 points.

00:27:43.300 Oh, that'll do it.

00:27:43.980 That is the Democrats' secret weapon heading into the midterms.

00:27:49.020 They're very worried.

00:27:49.840 They're in a defensive posture.

00:27:51.120 They're panicking.

00:27:51.760 There might be the red wave, but they're trotting out their secret weapon, which is Jill Biden. 0.50

00:27:56.880 That'll get the voters turned up.

00:27:58.320 It will.

00:27:59.160 The president is headed to the deep blue Empire State on Thursday, where the Democratic governor is scrambling to avoid an upset in a closer than expected race that has put Democrats down the ballot in greater danger.

00:28:08.980 And in Pennsylvania, Democrats were trying to move past a shaky Tuesday debate performance by John Fetterman.

00:28:14.140 Shaky is one way to put it.

00:28:15.680 One former party official relayed hearing from people who wondered why Fetterman agreed to debate during his recovery in the first place.

00:28:22.940 So, and these are the – and when the media is reporting this, you know that it's bad.

00:28:27.440 When even the media is saying the Democrats are panicking and it's not looking good for the Democrats, you know it's a bad situation.

00:28:31.880 And why are we headed towards a red wave?

00:28:38.540 You know, why are Democrats in this spot?

00:28:41.480 Well, it's for one thing because, as we talked about yesterday, we've talked about many times, Democrats are not focused on the issues that – not only just the issues people care about, but the issues that actually affect people.

00:28:53.820 For the Democrats, their entire platform, all they have to offer is ideology.

00:28:59.940 That's it.

00:29:00.460 And the reality is that most Americans are not intensely ideological, which sometimes we have to – as those of us who are ideological and kind of live in the political space, that could come as a surprise to us.

00:29:17.480 But it's just the truth. 0.98

00:29:19.340 That's not to say that most people are stupid or uninformed. 0.97

00:29:23.320 I mean, there are a lot of uninformed people out there, but being not very ideological and being uninformed are not the same. 0.98

00:29:30.460 And so that's just it.

00:29:32.980 People tend to be more focused on just the realities of everyday life and, you know, meeting the needs of their families and that sort of thing.

00:29:44.000 Democrats have nothing to offer you there.

00:29:45.300 They need you to be fully – they need you to buy in fully to the leftist ideological project.

00:29:55.640 And then they can speak to you.

00:29:57.020 If you have bought in, then they can speak to you.

00:29:59.720 But if you haven't, they don't even have the language to speak to you.

00:30:02.540 I also think related to this that, you know, after Roe v. Wade was overturned and there was this discussion about who does this help?

00:30:13.700 And the consensus was that this is going to help the Democrats, that Roe v. Wade is overturned.

00:30:18.500 And it's going to lead to – in fact, there's going to be a wave.

00:30:21.600 It's going to be a massive blue wave because Roe v. Wade is overturned.

00:30:25.180 It's going to motivate voters to get out there and vote to protect their, quote, abortion rights. 0.99

00:30:30.560 And I did tell you from the very beginning that that is not going to happen.

00:30:35.700 Okay?

00:30:36.020 Now, back earlier in the summer, I was skeptical myself about whether the red wave would materialize.

00:30:41.160 But that, to me, had nothing to do with Roe v. Wade overturned.

00:30:44.000 In fact, I said from the beginning that, in truth, abortion is not that high on the list of most Americans' concerns.

00:30:53.060 And I lament that myself as a pro-lifer.

00:30:56.440 I think Americans should care more about it from a pro-life perspective.

00:31:00.980 But they don't.

00:31:02.560 You know, and polling consistently shows that.

00:31:05.840 You ask people to list the things that they're worried about, the issues they care about, and abortion is going to – like, barely even cracks the top five for most people.

00:31:13.280 For me, it's higher up, again, because I am an avid pro-lifer.

00:31:17.880 But that's it.

00:31:19.200 Most people don't care about it that much.

00:31:21.840 And so – and this is – before Roe v. Wade was overturned, this was the fundamental challenge that pro-lifers faced.

00:31:31.520 Yeah, we had to make our case.

00:31:33.040 We had to explain.

00:31:34.440 You know, we were defending the rights of unborn babies to exist, to live, their right to life.

00:31:42.100 But before we could even get to that point, we had to get over the apathy, the kind of general malaise and indifference that people have around this issue.

00:31:52.940 And that is – and we spent decades dealing with that problem.

00:31:55.200 It's very difficult to overcome.

00:31:56.540 And now the left is experiencing the same thing.

00:32:01.980 So they were expecting that this would motivate voters, and it just didn't.

00:32:06.700 Which means that ultimately, Roe v. Wade getting overturned has helped Republicans.

00:32:11.300 It's helped Republicans not because it's motivated voters on the other side, no, but just because Roe v. Wade being overturned has led to Democrats deciding that they should make abortion into one of the central parts of their platform.

00:32:31.320 It has led to Democrats focusing on abortion leading into the election, which if Roe v. Wade had not been overturned, they would not have focused on it as much.

00:32:41.460 But it was.

00:32:42.860 They assumed that Americans would be very concerned about that, and so they have made that their focus.

00:32:50.900 And it has hurt them considerably.

00:32:53.720 All right.

00:32:54.760 This is from a story from Outkick that's been following this story here.

00:32:59.660 It says,

00:33:29.660 A couple of weeks ago, didn't get a lot of attention.

00:33:33.600 In fact, I don't even think that I mentioned it.

00:33:35.160 For me, it just got – when it comes to the assault on biological reality and gender ideology, there are so many things happening all at once that things end up getting lost in the shuffle.

00:33:46.660 But this did occur.

00:33:49.660 You know, we're told that having biological males compete against females, it's not hurting anybody.

00:33:57.020 Of course, that's always a lie.

00:33:59.360 And even putting aside physical injury, we're hurting girls by taking opportunities away from them, and we're taking their privacy away from them in the locker rooms.

00:34:11.900 But then there is also, of course, the potential for actual physical injury, which is what happened here.

00:34:18.640 Continues, Outkick was one of the few media entities which extensively reported on the incident.

00:34:22.640 The controversial play in early September during the match between Hawassi Dam High School and Highlands High School, quote,

00:34:29.840 It shows the female volleyball player getting hit and collapsing and then staying down for a substantial amount of time.

00:34:36.580 Outkick continues,

00:34:37.280 Incredibly, a YouTube user posted the video on their page as a career highlight for the trans volleyball player.

00:34:43.320 This is a highlight now.

00:34:45.160 The video slows down, draws a green circle around the player, and then shows the vicious spike hitting off the face of the young female with a shocking velocity. 0.98

00:34:52.680 And so this is now circulating on YouTube.

00:34:56.980 I guess it's not known for certain that the trans player who did this is the one who put the video up.

00:35:03.880 You could probably assume that.

00:35:05.340 I don't know who else would.

00:35:07.040 But this is now being counted as an athletic highlight for this player.

00:35:13.460 Viciously injuring a woman.

00:35:15.620 And of course, does the player care that this girl was injured?

00:35:22.260 We can assume not.

00:35:24.300 Because they never do.

00:35:27.640 You know, that's, if they cared about the female athletes, they wouldn't be there in the first place. 1.00

00:35:33.000 If they were taking into consideration the safety, the feelings, the perspective of the real female athletes they're competing against,

00:35:41.240 they wouldn't be there competing against them in the first place.

00:35:43.880 The fact that they're there means that they don't care.

00:35:46.260 They're just not taking into consideration.

00:35:48.260 All right, I wanted to mention this briefly as well.

00:35:50.720 This is from The Intelligencer.

00:35:52.380 It says, a second woman has come forward to accuse Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate candidate in Georgia,

00:35:58.340 who has compared abortion to murder, of pressuring her into getting an abortion three decades ago.

00:36:03.820 In a press conference held by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred on Wednesday in Los Angeles,

00:36:08.120 the anonymous woman claimed that when she was carrying his child,

00:36:12.500 he demanded that she terminate her pregnancy, going so far as to take her to an abortion clinic to see it through.

00:36:19.100 She said, quote,

00:36:19.780 I don't believe Herschel is morally fit to be a U.S. senator, and that is the reason I'm speaking up and providing proof.

00:36:28.080 Appearing on a blank screen on Zoom to protect herself from what she feared would be reprisals,

00:36:32.700 the woman said she was romantically involved for six years with Walker during his NFL days,

00:36:36.740 hopscotching from game to game with him while he was married to his first wife.

00:36:40.080 She learned that she was pregnant in April of 1993 when the two were living in Dallas,

00:36:44.160 and he played for the Cowboys.

00:36:46.480 Walker, according to Allred, gave her cash to pay for an abortion,

00:36:49.580 but when she arrived at a clinic, she was overcome with emotion and left.

00:36:53.320 The woman said Walker was upset, she didn't go through with the procedure,

00:36:55.960 and the next day drove to her, drove her to a clinic and waited outside until it was done.

00:36:59.980 An apologetic note from Walker followed, according to Allred,

00:37:02.880 but he immediately distanced himself from her.

00:37:04.980 Okay, so this is a claim from an anonymous woman

00:37:09.220 relating to something that allegedly happened three decades ago

00:37:13.740 when Herschel Walker was still actually playing in the NFL.

00:37:17.300 And we are getting this through Gloria Allred.

00:37:21.520 It is just, it's really kind of amazing to me

00:37:24.840 that women who are making accusations and want to be taken seriously

00:37:30.020 are still going to Gloria Allred.

00:37:33.200 Do you not understand, which I guess you don't,

00:37:36.660 that the moment Gloria Allred is involved,

00:37:39.800 most people immediately dismiss it.

00:37:41.760 And for good reason. 1.00

00:37:45.000 Because she's a grifter and a fraud and a scam artist. 1.00

00:37:49.580 So if you're teaming up with Gloria Allred, 0.99

00:37:51.640 I'm just not interested in what you have to say.

00:37:53.620 You want to be taken seriously, go somewhere else.

00:37:56.000 You know, find a different lawyer.

00:37:57.420 Doesn't need to be Gloria Allred.

00:37:58.440 Although, you're going to have trouble being taken seriously

00:38:03.280 when you're coming out two weeks before an election,

00:38:07.520 30 years later,

00:38:09.260 to make a claim for which you have no evidence.

00:38:12.440 If you want to make a claim against someone,

00:38:19.700 you've got some time within that 30-year period,

00:38:23.420 you know, it would be better to come forward.

00:38:24.700 When you wait until two weeks before an election,

00:38:26.460 you're just not going to be taken seriously.

00:38:27.940 It's as simple as that.

00:38:29.100 Variety has this story.

00:38:30.260 Harvey Weinstein's defense told the jury during his trial

00:38:33.520 that there is absolutely no evidence against their client

00:38:35.920 and that every woman who will testify in his trial

00:38:37.900 is an actress who will be playing a role on the stand.

00:38:40.980 All to fit the narrative of Me Too, 0.54

00:38:43.040 which they characterized as an asteroid of a movement

00:38:45.100 that burst forth like a supernova

00:38:47.060 with Weinstein as the poster child.

00:38:51.100 Weinstein's attorney, Mark Workman,

00:38:52.660 told jurors that they should prepare to hear

00:38:54.080 a fire hose of false and unprovable allegations

00:38:56.320 from women who agreed to have consensual sexual interactions

00:38:58.960 with Weinstein,

00:39:00.040 but years later are now embarrassed

00:39:01.600 and lying about what really happened.

00:39:04.300 Look at my client, Workman said,

00:39:05.660 pointed to Weinstein,

00:39:06.540 he's not Brad Pitt or George Clooney.

00:39:08.060 Do you think these beautiful women had sex with him 1.00

00:39:09.520 because he's hot? 0.98

00:39:10.280 No, it's because he's powerful.

00:39:12.640 Weinstein's attorney told the jury

00:39:13.620 that Hollywood has changed today,

00:39:15.060 but back in the day,

00:39:15.760 transactional sex was par for the course.

00:39:18.760 Sex was a commodity for rich and powerful men 0.94

00:39:20.900 like my client, Weinstein's attorney said, 0.55

00:39:22.980 even getting its own nickname, the casting couch.

00:39:26.180 So that's the defense that they're offering now

00:39:29.000 in this new trial for Harvey Weinstein,

00:39:32.500 is that this is, you know,

00:39:33.600 the transactional sex, everyone did it.

00:39:35.660 I don't doubt one part of what he says.

00:39:39.040 All the stuff about him being innocent,

00:39:41.320 that's nonsense, of course.

00:39:44.480 But one part,

00:39:45.400 it doesn't achieve what he seems to want to achieve, 1.00

00:39:47.440 which is to excuse the fact that he's a raping scumbag 1.00

00:39:49.920 who will and should die in prison 1.00

00:39:51.580 and probably should get the death penalty, 0.92

00:39:54.560 although he's not.

00:39:55.640 It doesn't mitigate his own guilt. 0.82

00:39:57.380 He's just as evil as he ever was.

00:40:00.260 Everyone was doing it is always a bad excuse.

00:40:02.780 It's especially a bad excuse when we're talking about sex crimes. 0.96

00:40:07.000 But it is certainly true that Hollywood was and still is crawling with sexual deviants 0.96

00:40:12.360 and people who use sex to exploit and control and gain power, 0.97

00:40:16.160 men and women both.

00:40:17.060 The claim that transactional sex was the norm,

00:40:21.420 yeah, I believe that.

00:40:23.640 Still is, probably.

00:40:25.500 Even though they tell us that, oh, Hollywood's cleaned up his act.

00:40:27.980 Tend to doubt that.

00:40:29.080 And a lot worse than transactional sex, in fact.

00:40:31.740 Weinstein didn't invent it. 0.97

00:40:33.220 You know, they're presenting him as a sort of a sacrificial goat that was offered up.

00:40:39.860 Kevin Spacey is another one that's made that claim.

00:40:43.720 And in a sense, sure.

00:40:45.700 It's like any mob movie.

00:40:47.540 If someone's going to be the fall guy,

00:40:48.960 he's got to be high enough on the ladder to make everyone feel like

00:40:51.360 they solved the problem by getting rid of him.

00:40:53.660 And in the case of Weinstein and Spacey,

00:40:56.520 problems were solved by getting rid of them.

00:40:59.440 I mean, people that they would have abused and victimized in the future

00:41:02.440 now have been protected from that.

00:41:04.380 But there's no reason to think that the underlying problem has gone away.

00:41:08.100 Or that all of the offenders, or even the worst offenders,

00:41:10.780 were actually caught in the net.

00:41:13.500 I mean, think about it.

00:41:14.240 Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and quote-unquote killed himself

00:41:18.240 right around when all the MeToo stuff was happening.

00:41:21.460 And yet, how many of Epstein's associates have been arrested?

00:41:24.380 How many of his clients?

00:41:26.400 They have a book listing his clients.

00:41:27.980 How many of them have been arrested?

00:41:29.440 How many of his high-profile, wealthy, powerful clients

00:41:32.000 in Hollywood, media, government, have been taken down?

00:41:35.740 None. Zero. Not one.

00:41:38.920 I mean, it's amazing.

00:41:40.160 Epstein was a wealthy, globetrotting sex trafficker

00:41:42.740 who evidently trafficked to nobody.

00:41:46.400 Nobody's been arrested? How does that work?

00:41:50.160 So yeah, there are a lot of other fish in the sea

00:41:52.420 that we should be catching.

00:41:53.320 Bigger fish too, probably. 0.99

00:41:54.160 But Harvey Weinstein was one of the few scumbags in Hollywood. 0.99

00:42:02.780 During the MeToo movement, it was kind of like they were all these sexual deviants 1.00

00:42:06.840 and degenerates and predators, and they selected a few from this group 0.95

00:42:10.920 that would have to go down.

00:42:12.160 And good riddance.

00:42:13.880 They deserve it.

00:42:15.800 The only problem is all the other Weinsteins that are still out there.

00:42:20.360 And will remain.

00:42:21.540 Because, you know, we've just moved on

00:42:23.140 and pretended that the problem of sexual deviants in Hollywood

00:42:25.740 was somehow solved.

00:42:27.020 And of course it wasn't.

00:42:28.460 All right, let's get now to the comment section.

00:42:30.220 If you're a man, it's required that you grow up in A 1.00

00:42:34.440 We're the sweet baby gang

00:42:38.580 Jay Lambert says,

00:42:41.600 I'm 100% in support of being ableist and ageist when voting.

00:42:44.940 I don't care about a wheelchair or an eyepatch or whatever, 0.86

00:42:47.460 but I definitely want a person without mental limitations.

00:42:50.800 And you don't have to be pre-retirement per se,

00:42:53.280 but I don't want a person who is so old 1.00

00:42:55.180 that they have become senile and incontinent.

00:42:58.400 Yeah, if that's what ableist and ageist means,

00:43:01.680 then yes, we should bring that into really every area of our life,

00:43:06.620 which is just, as I said yesterday,

00:43:08.440 recognizing people's limitations.

00:43:11.360 Everybody has limitations.

00:43:12.820 So recognizing what those limitations are,

00:43:15.920 and especially if you're selecting someone to fulfill some sort of role,

00:43:19.900 whether the role is President of the United States or anything else,

00:43:22.740 you've got to keep those limitations in mind.

00:43:25.160 That's ableism and ageism now.

00:43:26.720 Okay, well then, I guess that's what we are.

00:43:30.120 Nadim says,

00:43:30.880 if Hallmark did their research,

00:43:32.180 they would know that Matt became even less of a germaphobe after COVID.

00:43:37.000 That's exactly right.

00:43:37.840 So in the character playing Matt Face in the Hallmark film yesterday,

00:43:45.820 there was a germaphobe, didn't want to shake hands.

00:43:48.520 Now, I was never afraid of shaking people's hands,

00:43:51.200 but before COVID, I probably would have identified myself as,

00:43:56.280 in some ways, a germaphobe.

00:43:58.060 But my contrarian nature took over.

00:44:03.340 And so during COVID, when everyone else became a germaphobe,

00:44:07.120 I actually became less of one.

00:44:08.460 I am done says,

00:44:12.520 I had a stroke two years ago and have had lasting effects from it.

00:44:15.980 Fortunately for me, I didn't suffer cognitive damage,

00:44:18.860 but instead have other physical issues.

00:44:20.520 As a result of these physical issues,

00:44:22.340 you would not hire me to be a professional baseball pitcher.

00:44:24.600 That's not ableism, but rather recognition of actual limitations.

00:44:28.280 Fetterman is suffering from cognitive issues.

00:44:30.120 The position that he's wanting to be elected to

00:44:32.400 requires that he have full cognitive abilities.

00:44:36.000 To recognize that he doesn't is not ableism.

00:44:39.220 It's reality.

00:44:40.340 Well, you know, one of the excuses now that we're hearing from Democrats

00:44:43.740 is that he doesn't actually have cognitive defects.

00:44:47.720 He can still understand everything fine.

00:44:50.080 It's just that he can't communicate.

00:44:52.860 Which even if that were true,

00:44:54.840 an ability to communicate in the legislature

00:44:57.980 you'd think would be rather important.

00:45:00.120 But also, how could we know if that's true?

00:45:08.120 You know, it's hard.

00:45:09.640 Their claim is that he still has, he still understands.

00:45:12.400 He's just not able to communicate.

00:45:13.400 But we don't know how much he understands

00:45:14.720 because he can't communicate.

00:45:17.480 And so it's just a question of whether or not

00:45:19.020 you want to roll the dice and put him in the Senate anyway.

00:45:22.100 Which, of course, we shouldn't.

00:45:26.620 Rose says, you know, Matt,

00:45:28.080 we're quickly approaching the Christmas season

00:45:30.340 and I'll be reminded yet again of how the pampering of oddballs in society began,

00:45:34.560 which was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

00:45:36.980 In that animated television special,

00:45:38.740 two non-conforming characters are shown to suffer,

00:45:42.520 thus making their social circle feel guilty.

00:45:44.940 And they're then embraced for the features

00:45:46.480 which made them objects of shock and dismay.

00:45:48.760 Their society's exterior threat is literally

00:45:51.000 defanged by the two weirdos

00:45:53.140 and is rehabilitated in a sort of demasculinization surgery.

00:45:57.480 Then as a cherry on top, one intended,

00:45:59.540 everyone is forced to make accommodations

00:46:00.880 for various oddities in the shape of damaged toys

00:46:03.240 handed out by a woke Santa.

00:46:05.440 I think this planted the seed

00:46:06.940 for the exaltation of victimhood.

00:46:09.660 Change my mind.

00:46:11.140 I'm not going to change my mind

00:46:12.100 because I could not agree more.

00:46:14.120 I couldn't agree more.

00:46:15.020 I mean, first of all,

00:46:16.660 Rudolph in the show is just lame.

00:46:21.480 He's annoying and lame. 0.88

00:46:22.760 I wouldn't want to hang out with him either. 0.99

00:46:24.800 He's a grating personality. 0.61

00:46:26.260 And then it turns out that he's also hideously deformed.

00:46:29.220 I mean, you got to give people something, right?

00:46:30.720 If you're going to have the deformity,

00:46:32.000 at least compensate with a good personality.

00:46:34.220 If you don't check any box at all,

00:46:36.180 then like, what do you expect the other reindeer to do?

00:46:39.680 Of course, they're not going to invite you

00:46:40.720 to play their reindeer games.

00:46:42.700 And by the way,

00:46:43.140 is it really reasonable to expect

00:46:44.940 that people won't point and laugh

00:46:48.500 when your nose literally lights up like a light bulb?

00:46:52.020 What's the expectation here?

00:46:53.880 That they're going to see that and go,

00:46:55.680 oh, your nose lights up?

00:46:56.660 Cool, no problem.

00:46:57.760 And then just go about their day?

00:46:59.120 Like, you know, that's...

00:47:01.020 I actually think that the other reindeer

00:47:02.880 in the show handled it pretty well,

00:47:05.400 all things considered.

00:47:07.980 I don't know.

00:47:08.500 It's like if the Daily Wire hired some guy,

00:47:10.640 he came to my office,

00:47:11.820 first of all, just coming to my office

00:47:13.420 would be a problem,

00:47:14.980 but he shows up and he's got

00:47:16.100 this huge, freakish, light-up nose. 0.88

00:47:20.100 I would go and demand that he's fired. 0.94

00:47:21.760 It's a distraction.

00:47:23.000 It's disturbing.

00:47:24.400 Could be contagious for all I know.

00:47:27.600 Couldn't agree more.

00:47:29.420 Let's get down to the Daily Cancellation.

00:47:30.780 Well, if I had to explain race relations in America

00:47:37.600 to someone who just crawled out of a cave

00:47:40.500 that they've been living in since birth,

00:47:41.940 or to someone who simply relies on the corporate media

00:47:44.060 for their information,

00:47:44.940 which is effectively the same thing as living in a cave,

00:47:46.880 I think that I would probably show them this.

00:47:48.760 It's a clip making the rounds on the internet,

00:47:51.780 though it was initially produced a few years ago

00:47:53.360 by a YouTube channel called Jubilee.

00:47:55.000 In fact, it's from the year 2019,

00:47:57.980 which means that the sickness

00:47:59.300 that it inadvertently reveals

00:48:00.860 has only gotten worse.

00:48:03.120 2020 was the year that broke many white people 1.00

00:48:07.120 who had not yet been broken

00:48:08.200 and further broke the ones who were already broken.

00:48:11.440 And so this was right before that.

00:48:13.800 In the clip, which is harvested from two longer videos,

00:48:16.540 a group of black people

00:48:17.440 and then a group of white people

00:48:18.340 are asked to react to the statement,

00:48:20.980 I am proud to be black,

00:48:22.240 or I am proud to be white, respectively.

00:48:23.900 And then by walking to different sides of the room,

00:48:26.600 they must indicate whether they agree

00:48:28.400 or disagree with that statement.

00:48:30.540 So you can already sort of guess

00:48:31.920 where this is going, but let's watch.

00:48:35.440 I am proud to be black.

00:48:39.540 Three, two, one.

00:48:47.220 Well, all right, y'all.

00:48:48.880 That's what I'm talking about.

00:48:50.240 I'm glad that we all strongly agree.

00:48:53.900 I am proud to be white.

00:48:58.220 Three, two, one.

00:49:02.440 Just be in the middle.

00:49:04.220 Yeah, can there be a middle?

00:49:06.840 All right.

00:49:07.140 No.

00:49:07.540 You gotta pick a side.

00:49:08.800 Pick a side.

00:49:10.460 I don't know which I did.

00:49:11.900 Don't think it's...

00:49:12.720 Don't hate you guys.

00:49:14.340 I almost went there, too.

00:49:15.700 It's like...

00:49:16.000 I think, like, guiltily,

00:49:17.300 like, I'm, like, happy that I'm not oppressed,

00:49:21.000 but I'm not proud of, like,

00:49:23.860 things people have done in the past.

00:49:26.340 When I think of being proud of something,

00:49:28.460 I think of something I worked for.

00:49:29.800 So, as expected,

00:49:32.860 the black group has no problem

00:49:34.860 walking immediately to the strongly agree section,

00:49:37.340 indicating that they are indeed

00:49:38.380 very proud to be black,

00:49:39.620 but the white group is hesitant to answer at all, 0.56

00:49:42.560 deathly afraid that whatever they do

00:49:44.020 or say might end up being racist.

00:49:46.080 Ultimately,

00:49:47.140 most of the room decides

00:49:48.260 that they are not proud to be white,

00:49:49.820 while even the couple of brave souls

00:49:51.260 who go to the agree side of the room

00:49:52.780 still admit that they feel guilty

00:49:54.180 about their answer.

00:49:55.700 Now, you might argue,

00:49:56.960 as the dude in the jean jacket

00:49:58.120 begins to argue at the end of the video,

00:49:59.580 that being proud of your race

00:50:01.980 doesn't really make any sense.

00:50:04.060 Now, how could you be proud of something

00:50:05.320 you didn't accomplish?

00:50:07.020 What does it mean to be proud

00:50:08.260 of a characteristic you were born with

00:50:10.120 or a situation you were born into?

00:50:12.760 Isn't pride something

00:50:13.740 that should be rightly reserved

00:50:14.860 for actual achievements,

00:50:16.340 things that we strive for,

00:50:17.680 things we earn?

00:50:19.200 Now, I'm sympathetic to that argument,

00:50:20.700 though this definition of pride

00:50:22.160 would also preclude most of us

00:50:23.800 from saying that we're proud

00:50:24.700 to be Americans.

00:50:26.160 I was born in this country.

00:50:27.380 I didn't work for

00:50:28.100 or achieve my citizenship.

00:50:30.220 So can I not say

00:50:31.500 I'm proud to be an American?

00:50:33.260 It would also mean

00:50:33.840 that we can't say

00:50:34.360 we're proud of our families

00:50:35.380 or of our communities.

00:50:37.200 In fact, very often,

00:50:38.520 we use the word proud

00:50:40.420 to describe our feelings

00:50:42.000 about things

00:50:42.600 that we didn't actively

00:50:43.860 and personally accomplish.

00:50:46.240 Maybe that means

00:50:46.900 that we should be using

00:50:47.600 a different word

00:50:48.200 in all these contexts.

00:50:49.260 Perhaps rather than saying

00:50:50.220 proud to be,

00:50:51.660 we should be saying

00:50:52.480 happy to be

00:50:53.340 or grateful to be.

00:50:55.360 But this is all academic

00:50:56.240 because whether it makes

00:50:57.240 logical sense

00:50:57.920 to be proud of your race

00:50:58.900 or not,

00:51:00.020 the point brought forth

00:51:00.880 in the video

00:51:01.320 is that only white people

00:51:02.880 feel uncomfortable

00:51:04.020 saying so.

00:51:05.980 The attitude in our culture

00:51:07.080 is that it's okay

00:51:08.040 to be proud of your race,

00:51:09.160 more than okay, 0.81

00:51:10.820 unless you're white. 0.74

00:51:12.480 The longer version

00:51:13.340 of the video

00:51:13.660 makes this clear

00:51:14.440 as one of the subjects

00:51:15.240 explains

00:51:15.780 that it's actually racist

00:51:17.600 for white people

00:51:18.380 to be proud of their whiteness, 0.98

00:51:19.440 but it's not racist

00:51:20.360 for black people

00:51:21.080 to be proud of their blackness.

00:51:22.160 And here's why. 0.50

00:51:24.920 It's like saying

00:51:25.820 I'm a proud white person

00:51:27.920 is a completely different saying

00:51:30.560 than saying

00:51:31.300 I'm a proud black person.

00:51:32.720 Because when you hear

00:51:33.540 I'm a proud black person,

00:51:34.540 I think empowerment,

00:51:35.600 I think strength,

00:51:37.060 I think courage,

00:51:37.900 I think, you know,

00:51:38.460 all these amazing things

00:51:39.820 that the black community

00:51:40.460 has done and accomplished

00:51:41.480 throughout the years.

00:51:42.500 But then when you say

00:51:43.280 I am a strong

00:51:44.160 or I'm a proud white person,

00:51:47.040 already there's so much

00:51:49.000 like hate involved in that.

00:51:53.540 There's hate involved

00:51:54.900 in being proud of yourself 0.97

00:51:56.420 if you're white. 0.94

00:51:58.200 She says that black people

00:51:59.200 have accomplished

00:51:59.720 many things through the years

00:52:00.840 and so when they say

00:52:01.860 they're proud to be black,

00:52:03.200 that's what they're proud of. 0.98

00:52:05.180 But white people

00:52:06.400 have accomplished

00:52:06.880 many things as well.

00:52:08.520 Many of the greatest scientists,

00:52:09.740 innovators, inventors,

00:52:10.740 explorers, discoverers,

00:52:12.060 philosophers, leaders,

00:52:13.200 artists, civil rights heroes

00:52:14.220 have been white.

00:52:15.900 So can we not be proud of that?

00:52:18.040 Again, if you want to argue

00:52:19.600 that it's technically illogical

00:52:21.180 for anyone to have pride

00:52:22.540 tied to the race,

00:52:23.700 that's a perfectly

00:52:24.820 consistent position

00:52:25.740 but that is not

00:52:26.780 what the people

00:52:27.360 in the video are saying

00:52:28.260 and it's not what

00:52:28.760 our culture teaches us

00:52:29.880 or conditions us to believe.

00:52:31.740 We're told that pride

00:52:32.580 in your race

00:52:33.080 is a privilege 0.88

00:52:34.320 that white people 0.97

00:52:35.360 are not granted

00:52:36.340 because rather than being proud,

00:52:38.600 we ought to be wracked

00:52:39.340 with guilt and shame.

00:52:40.920 I mean, that's the message.

00:52:42.600 Elsewhere in the video,

00:52:43.320 they also debate

00:52:43.860 whether white people

00:52:44.920 have a culture.

00:52:46.060 Here's what they say.

00:52:47.300 White people have a culture. 0.78

00:52:51.300 Three, two, one.

00:52:58.920 We're all technically white.

00:53:00.460 If you're from England, 1.00

00:53:01.420 if you're from Australia,

00:53:02.420 if you're from wherever,

00:53:03.860 South Africa,

00:53:04.980 you know,

00:53:05.240 we all have these crazy places

00:53:07.160 we come from

00:53:07.920 and these people are around

00:53:08.860 and we get those ideas

00:53:09.700 from those people

00:53:10.400 but that doesn't mean

00:53:11.440 us as a whole have no culture.

00:53:13.360 But as a white person,

00:53:14.520 it's not really a culture.

00:53:15.880 You can have culture.

00:53:16.660 Like, I'm hella Irish,

00:53:17.880 obviously,

00:53:18.460 and that's a culture.

00:53:19.640 But just being white 0.64

00:53:21.200 is not a culture.

00:53:23.340 I can't relate to you 0.94

00:53:24.160 just because you're white. 0.61

00:53:25.500 I think you could say that

00:53:26.460 for any ethnicity, though.

00:53:27.820 If we were all black,

00:53:28.860 could I relate to you guys 0.85

00:53:30.040 just because of the color

00:53:31.640 of our skin?

00:53:32.580 Yes, because they go

00:53:33.560 through very similar experiences.

00:53:35.220 Like, they'll get

00:53:35.660 discriminated against

00:53:36.760 and you're not getting

00:53:37.940 discriminated against

00:53:38.620 because of your skin color.

00:53:39.460 But they can both

00:53:40.460 relate to that.

00:53:41.540 But I also feel like

00:53:42.620 with culture,

00:53:43.480 we branch out,

00:53:44.300 we try different things,

00:53:45.320 we want to do different things.

00:53:46.520 So maybe we've lost

00:53:47.460 a little bit of our culture.

00:53:48.740 Maybe we're creating

00:53:49.580 a new culture.

00:53:50.860 There you go.

00:53:53.120 Now, again,

00:53:53.740 it's true that the term

00:53:54.820 white is very broad 0.95

00:53:56.000 and encompasses

00:53:56.580 many different backgrounds

00:53:57.640 and cultural traditions.

00:53:59.340 But the same is true 0.98

00:54:00.560 of black. 0.93

00:54:01.260 A black person could be

00:54:02.160 from various continents,

00:54:03.940 dozens of different countries.

00:54:05.860 So if it makes sense

00:54:06.860 to say that a black person

00:54:08.120 born in Cincinnati

00:54:09.000 whose family has been here

00:54:10.440 for five generations

00:54:11.500 somehow shares black culture

00:54:13.980 with someone who lives in Kenya

00:54:15.540 and that those two are

00:54:17.480 of one culture

00:54:18.600 with a black guy in Jamaica, 0.69

00:54:20.220 then why can't white people 0.79

00:54:22.160 have a culture too?

00:54:23.720 Gene Jacketman in the video

00:54:25.040 says that the difference

00:54:25.880 is oppression and racism.

00:54:27.860 All black people experience 0.99

00:54:28.920 oppression and racism 0.67

00:54:29.620 while white people don't.

00:54:31.040 This becomes the default answer

00:54:32.320 to explain away

00:54:33.040 any double standard

00:54:33.980 or inconsistency

00:54:34.700 in how the races are treated.

00:54:36.160 Someone just shouts racism

00:54:37.480 and that's supposed

00:54:38.600 to answer the question.

00:54:39.640 But the answer assumes,

00:54:40.860 first of all,

00:54:41.980 that it's true

00:54:42.660 that white people 0.52

00:54:43.200 don't experience racism.

00:54:44.920 But it's not true.

00:54:45.880 We'll get back to that

00:54:46.440 in a moment.

00:54:47.280 It also assumes

00:54:47.900 that experiencing racism,

00:54:50.080 being victims,

00:54:51.480 counts as a culture.

00:54:53.180 It doesn't.

00:54:54.760 Speaking of racism,

00:54:55.680 the participants are asked

00:54:56.560 about that subject as well.

00:54:58.760 Can white people

00:54:59.320 be victims of racism?

00:55:00.420 And here's how they answer.

00:55:01.420 I don't know what that is.

00:55:12.320 We can explain it.

00:55:13.820 Okay.

00:55:14.260 I'll stay here.

00:55:15.680 Before I decide.

00:55:16.760 Reverse racism is like

00:55:18.500 someone being racist

00:55:19.460 against you 0.69

00:55:20.060 because you are white. 0.92

00:55:21.160 Like, do you believe

00:55:21.820 that someone can be racist

00:55:23.280 against a white person?

00:55:25.060 Yeah.

00:55:30.280 I grew up where it was

00:55:31.420 completely, like,

00:55:32.420 Hispanic culture.

00:55:33.680 I was constantly made fun of

00:55:35.420 because I was white. 0.98

00:55:36.620 Oh, white people can't dance. 1.00

00:55:38.320 White people look stupid. 1.00

00:55:39.800 Whatever. 1.00

00:55:40.400 They shouldn't say

00:55:40.980 white people can't dance, 1.00

00:55:41.900 but they can't dance. 0.99

00:55:43.020 No.

00:55:43.620 Yeah, I can't dance.

00:55:44.580 They shouldn't say it.

00:55:44.800 I'm just putting that out there.

00:55:45.960 But I mean, like,

00:55:46.840 being honest, though,

00:55:47.820 like, they would say

00:55:48.420 those mean things to me

00:55:49.260 and more hurtful things

00:55:50.360 than that.

00:55:51.180 It's like a hard pill

00:55:51.980 to swallow

00:55:52.400 because if I turned around

00:55:54.060 and said, 0.99

00:55:54.320 Black people can't dance, 1.00

00:55:56.540 I'd get hell for that. 1.00

00:55:58.320 But then if someone says

00:55:59.220 the same words to me,

00:56:00.400 it's somehow okay

00:56:01.360 because...

00:56:02.440 You have to look at

00:56:03.040 the difference of it, though.

00:56:04.240 And I relate to you.

00:56:05.140 I grew up with all Latino

00:56:08.180 or Black friends.

00:56:09.180 I had very few white friends.

00:56:10.740 And, yeah,

00:56:11.200 I got made fun of

00:56:12.120 for being, like,

00:56:12.680 the white girl.

00:56:13.220 I was gringa.

00:56:14.060 And I didn't take offense to it

00:56:15.620 because the huge part

00:56:17.900 about racism

00:56:19.820 is that there's hate

00:56:21.360 and oppression behind it.

00:56:22.880 And as a white person

00:56:24.400 in America,

00:56:25.060 I do not feel oppressed.

00:56:28.880 It's hard to watch.

00:56:30.540 To be clear,

00:56:31.360 I don't believe

00:56:31.800 in reverse racism either.

00:56:33.080 There is just racism.

00:56:34.680 So when a black person 0.97

00:56:35.460 hates a white person, 0.88

00:56:36.680 that isn't reverse racism. 0.98

00:56:38.100 It's just racism.

00:56:39.480 The very phrase

00:56:40.320 reverse racism

00:56:41.180 assumes that racism itself

00:56:42.940 is a white invention,

00:56:44.440 which it is not.

00:56:46.060 Racism is simply

00:56:46.840 hating someone

00:56:47.680 or thinking less of them

00:56:48.880 because of their race.

00:56:50.020 It's the belief

00:56:50.640 that a certain race

00:56:51.320 is inferior to your own. 0.89

00:56:52.460 That's racism.

00:56:53.080 And that's a belief

00:56:53.800 harbored by some members

00:56:55.680 of every race

00:56:56.760 and directed out

00:56:58.420 towards every other race.

00:57:00.180 If you travel outside

00:57:01.160 of the predominantly

00:57:01.700 white Western world,

00:57:02.620 you'll find explicit,

00:57:03.900 unapologetic racism

00:57:04.880 everywhere you go.

00:57:06.700 Cultures where they

00:57:07.500 hate other races 1.00

00:57:08.360 and don't even bother

00:57:09.140 hiding it.

00:57:10.380 The fascinating thing

00:57:11.360 in the video

00:57:11.700 is that the woman

00:57:12.420 arguing against

00:57:13.340 the existence

00:57:13.860 of quote-unquote

00:57:14.560 reverse racism

00:57:15.340 actually admits

00:57:16.900 that she has been

00:57:18.240 hated and mocked

00:57:19.260 for her race,

00:57:20.180 yet she says

00:57:21.500 that doesn't count

00:57:22.260 as racism.

00:57:23.500 In fact,

00:57:23.840 she doesn't even 0.53

00:57:24.240 take offense to it,

00:57:25.500 she says.

00:57:26.840 She will stand there

00:57:28.160 and allow herself 0.98

00:57:29.660 to be spit on

00:57:30.680 and belittled 0.80

00:57:31.420 for her race.

00:57:33.260 She deserves it 0.89

00:57:34.220 because she's white. 1.00

00:57:35.620 Now, I don't want

00:57:36.000 to make any assumptions,

00:57:36.700 but I'm willing to bet

00:57:37.800 that that same exact woman 0.96

00:57:39.960 takes offense

00:57:41.000 to many things.

00:57:42.820 Like, it is not difficult

00:57:43.860 to offend

00:57:45.160 that sort of person.

00:57:46.900 But if you're

00:57:48.060 not white 0.86

00:57:49.460 and you're heaping 0.98

00:57:51.000 racial scorn on her,

00:57:53.880 that, that's when

00:57:54.660 she has a thick skin. 0.99

00:57:56.280 That's really the point

00:57:57.180 of the video.

00:57:57.760 And it's why, you know,

00:57:58.800 you would get similar answers

00:57:59.880 if you polled any random

00:58:01.200 selection of white people

00:58:02.240 in this country,

00:58:02.820 especially younger white people,

00:58:04.600 and especially today

00:58:05.380 after the great

00:58:06.040 anti-white awakening

00:58:07.180 of 2020.

00:58:08.620 White guilt 0.90

00:58:09.200 is an epidemic. 0.98

00:58:11.260 It's a spiritual

00:58:11.920 and mental disease

00:58:13.360 afflicting millions.

00:58:15.760 Just think about

00:58:16.240 what these people

00:58:16.900 admit to believing.

00:58:18.920 That they're not allowed

00:58:19.880 to be proud of their race,

00:58:20.880 but other races can be.

00:58:23.060 That they don't have

00:58:23.880 a culture.

00:58:24.780 That they don't have

00:58:25.200 a racial identity.

00:58:26.880 That they don't even

00:58:27.500 have the moral right

00:58:28.420 to object to being

00:58:29.460 mocked or insulted. 1.00

00:58:32.000 It's pathetic 1.00

00:58:32.920 and sad. 1.00

00:58:33.640 It's also terrifying.

00:58:35.360 Because nothing good

00:58:36.380 comes from this.

00:58:37.020 There is no happy

00:58:38.140 end.

00:58:39.700 There's no

00:58:40.220 positive,

00:58:42.060 wholesome conclusion

00:58:43.040 when a society

00:58:44.880 singles out 0.98

00:58:45.720 a certain race

00:58:46.540 in this way,

00:58:47.260 points the finger

00:58:48.020 of blame at it,

00:58:49.160 and tells the members

00:58:50.340 of that race

00:58:50.960 that they don't have

00:58:51.620 the moral right

00:58:52.480 to feel and act

00:58:53.740 and say things

00:58:54.520 that other races do. 1.00

00:58:57.260 This sort of thing

00:58:58.120 only ever leads

00:58:59.060 to violence,

00:58:59.960 misery,

00:59:00.380 catastrophe.

00:59:01.820 But it's not happening

00:59:02.760 in a vacuum.

00:59:03.640 As I pointed out before,

00:59:04.720 we live in a culture

00:59:05.660 of self-loathing.

00:59:07.660 White people are taught 0.97

00:59:08.480 to hate their own race. 0.99

00:59:10.260 Boys and girls

00:59:10.880 are taught to hate

00:59:11.800 and reject their own sex.

00:59:13.620 Citizens are taught

00:59:14.460 to hate their own country.

00:59:15.580 Kids are taught

00:59:16.180 to hate their own parents

00:59:17.620 and their own families.

00:59:19.460 It is a culture

00:59:20.180 at war with itself.

00:59:21.820 People trying to

00:59:22.740 scratch and claw

00:59:23.940 their way

00:59:24.980 out of their own skin.

00:59:27.260 That's not the way

00:59:27.960 to build a functioning society,

00:59:29.220 which is why ours

00:59:30.320 barely functions at all.

00:59:33.100 And so I must say 0.96

00:59:33.940 to the white people 0.82

00:59:34.560 in this video,

00:59:35.340 though they are

00:59:36.020 so self-loathing

00:59:36.940 that they probably

00:59:37.920 would agree with me

00:59:38.660 when I say it,

00:59:39.680 I'll say it anyway,

00:59:40.880 that you are all canceled.

00:59:43.440 And that'll do it

00:59:44.200 for this portion of the show

00:59:45.540 as we move over

00:59:46.220 to the members block.

00:59:47.060 Hope to see you there.

00:59:47.820 If not,

00:59:49.160 talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:50.840 Godspeed.

00:59:51.220 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 27, 2022

Ep. 1051 - Lots Of Twitter Employees Are About To Lose Their Jobs, Thank God

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