The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1053 - The COVID Tyrants Want Forgiveness. They Should Get Punishment Instead.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wells Show, the left wants us to forgive and forget about the tyranny they

00:00:04.300 inflicted on us during COVID, but I'll explain why we can't do that. Also, new documents reveal

00:00:09.220 how the government has been using big tech to squash the First Amendment. The Supreme Court

00:00:13.100 possibly prepares to ban systemic anti-white racism in college admissions. The government

00:00:18.080 begins its UFO cover-up, and a woman on TikTok explains why white people are morally obligated

00:00:23.920 to refrain from watching the new Black Panther film. I'm already one step ahead of her on that. 1.00

00:00:28.520 All of that and more today on the Matt Wells Show.

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00:01:48.080 delivered. You know, I have to say this article in The Atlantic is a little bit bewildering to read.

00:01:53.780 I'm used to seeing the left silence, censored, defamed, threatened, blackmail their opponents.

00:01:59.420 These are all tactics that we've grown familiar with. But asking for forgiveness, now that is a

00:02:04.840 unique strategy. Though you don't have to read very far to discover that this is not a humble,

00:02:10.320 self-aware apology. Rather, the case is made that we should forgive and forget while skipping over the

00:02:16.460 apology and the accountability steps entirely, is a demand for amnesty. As it's called, the author

00:02:22.900 of the viral article, Emily Oster, urges exactly that in the headline. The headline is in this

00:02:28.280 article, which has gone viral, let's declare a pandemic amnesty. We need to forgive one another

00:02:33.520 for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. She begins, in April 2020, with nothing

00:02:40.920 else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I made myself.

00:02:46.640 We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching

00:02:51.160 on the trail and we needed to put our masks on. Once, when another child got too close to my then

00:02:56.460 four-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled out, social distancing. These precautions were totally

00:03:01.640 misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from passing somebody else hiking. Outdoor

00:03:07.140 transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks, made out of old bandanas, wouldn't have done

00:03:12.120 anything anyway. But the thing is, we didn't know. Yes, but we did know, Emily. There are a few

00:03:19.200 things about COVID that we knew virtually from the very first moment. One is that there is not a high

00:03:24.540 risk of transmission outside. The other is that the virus particles are much smaller than the pores

00:03:29.800 on a cloth mask. And we knew both of those things because that's what the data showed, and also

00:03:34.620 because they were a matter of basic common sense. But there's more to say here. We'll allow Emily to 0.67

00:03:42.260 flesh out her case, though. She continues,

00:03:44.180 I've been reflecting on this lack of knowledge thanks to a class I'm co-teaching at Brown University

00:03:49.360 on COVID. We spent several lectures reliving the first years of the pandemic, discussing the many

00:03:54.540 important choices we had to make under conditions of tremendous uncertainty. Some of these choices

00:03:59.220 turned out better than others. To take an example close to my own work, there is an emerging, if not

00:04:03.700 universal consensus, that schools in the U.S. were closed for too long. The health risks of in-school

00:04:08.860 spread were relatively low, whereas the costs to students' well-being and educational progress were high.

00:04:14.180 The latest figures on learning loss are alarming. But in spring and summer 2020, we had only glimmers

00:04:18.820 of information. Reasonable people, people who cared about children and teachers, advocated on both

00:04:23.780 sides of the reopening debate. Another example, when the vaccines came out, we lacked definitive data on

00:04:29.020 the relative efficacies of the Johnson & Johnson shot versus the mRNA options from Pfizer and Moderna.

00:04:35.500 The mRNA vaccines have won out. But at the time, many people in public health were either neutral or

00:04:41.900 expressed a J&J preference. This misstep wasn't nefarious. It was the result of uncertainty.

00:04:49.740 Now, she continually retreats behind this uncertainty line, painting the two years of COVID tyranny as a

00:04:56.380 simple misunderstanding driven by well-meaning, benevolent actors who were just doing their best.

00:05:03.120 She says, quote, most errors were made by people who were working in earnest for the good of society.

00:05:07.620 Given the amount of uncertainty, almost every position was taken on every topic. On every topic,

00:05:12.500 someone was eventually proved right and someone else was proved wrong. In some instances, the right

00:05:17.240 people were right for the wrong reasons. In other instances, they had a prescient understanding of

00:05:21.540 the available information. The people who got it right for whatever reason may want to gloat. Those who

00:05:26.580 got it wrong for whatever reason may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn't accord with the

00:05:31.200 facts. All of this gloating and defensiveness continues to gobble up a lot of social energy and

00:05:36.120 to drive the culture wars, especially on the internet. These discussions are heated, unpleasant,

00:05:40.560 and ultimately unproductive. In the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty

00:05:44.720 element of luck. And similarly, getting something wrong wasn't a moral failing. Treating pandemic

00:05:49.440 choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others is preventing us from

00:05:55.800 moving forward. Yes, moving forward is the aim, she says. We must pick up the pieces and move on

00:06:03.360 together, united and happy, into the sunset. That's how she wraps the piece up. She says,

00:06:09.560 moving on is crucial now because the pandemic created many problems that we still need to solve.

00:06:14.020 Student test scores have shown historical declines, more so in math and in reading, and more so for

00:06:18.940 students who were disadvantaged at the start. We need to collect data, experiment, and invest.

00:06:23.300 Is high dosage tutoring more or less cost effective than extended school years? Why have some states

00:06:30.760 recovered faster than others? We should focus on questions like these because answering them is how

00:06:35.780 we will help our children recover. The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to

00:06:40.040 repeat it, but dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well. Let's

00:06:45.480 acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty and then try to work

00:06:50.320 together to build back and move forward. Build back better, some might even say.

00:06:58.160 So Emily is echoing here an increasingly popular sentiment on the left. They know they can't defend

00:07:04.420 their response to COVID on the merits. They know that even the people who were most compliant and

00:07:09.580 obedient during the COVID years have now woken up from their stupors and are looking back on all of it

00:07:15.240 the way that a guy with a hangover might look back on the previous night spent binge drinking.

00:07:20.420 Except that they were binging on fear and panic, and now the well has dried up and they can see

00:07:26.060 clearly what they couldn't see before. Now the left assumed, and on this I actually, I agreed with them 0.54

00:07:32.780 and I assumed too, that even after the mandates went away, many people would continue wearing the masks

00:07:39.300 and keeping up with the social distancing routine and living in a state of reflexive COVID panic

00:07:44.720 perpetually forever, maybe. You know, I thought that would happen. I was afraid that would happen.

00:07:50.620 That's not what happened. The mandates were dropped and almost every person dropped the masks with them.

00:07:57.960 You know, most people aren't going in for booster shots. I've traveled all over the country over the

00:08:02.680 past year, just as I was traveling all over the country at the height of the COVID panic. And I can tell you

00:08:06.720 that even in the most liberal areas, the mask wearers are now weirdos. They're outliers.

00:08:12.620 Every plane has maybe one or two of them. A busy restaurant in a left-leaning metro area might have

00:08:17.980 one group come in wearing the mask, only to take it off at the table, of course, continuing to perform

00:08:22.860 the pandemic hokey pokey dance that never made any sense to begin with. But even those brain damaged

00:08:28.520 folks, you know, they're not requesting a plastic barrier be put up between themselves and the other

00:08:33.000 tables. Some things are too absurd even for them at this point. So my point is that this is the only

00:08:41.000 reason why we're hearing about amnesty and forgiveness. It's only because the left discovered

00:08:47.600 that most people never really bought into it. They didn't believe it. They just did what they were told

00:08:54.480 because they were afraid of the consequences, which is a problem in and of itself, but that's what was

00:08:58.420 happening. The mental conditioning did not settle in nearly to the extent that the left had hoped and

00:09:06.400 assumed. And now they're worried about the political consequences. So they're shrugging their shoulders

00:09:10.840 and saying, ha, that was weird, guys, right? What do you say we forget about all that stuff and just move on?

00:09:15.740 But we can't. We can't forgive. We can't forget. We can't have mercy on the COVID tyrants. 0.99

00:09:26.420 And here's why. First of all, they didn't close down the schools and force masking on everyone and

00:09:34.040 vaccines and take away people's livelihoods and jobs and shut down society and wage war on our civil 1.00

00:09:38.920 liberties all because they lacked information. Even if they did, that would be no excuse

00:09:46.500 because this is America. You cannot say to Americans, we don't really know what's going on

00:09:53.400 or if this will help, but we're going to ruin your lives and take away your fundamental freedoms

00:09:57.660 anyway, just in case. That is not an acceptable line of reasoning in this country, not even close.

00:10:05.540 But that's also not the line of reasoning they used. Despite actually knowing most of what the

00:10:12.580 writer says they didn't know, they violently and forcefully imposed the opposite reality or

00:10:18.640 attempted to. I mean, it wasn't as though the COVID panic peddlers were simply offering one

00:10:24.420 perspective, one opinion. They weren't saying, you know, this is how we feel about it, guys,

00:10:30.080 but you do what you want to do. We don't really know. No, they said that you're not

00:10:35.480 allowed to have any opinion or perspective but theirs. They had people who disagreed with them

00:10:41.880 deplatformed and silenced. That's one of the reasons why this continued for so long is because people

00:10:48.600 who had the opposite viewpoint were driven away. They sought to make it illegal to voice an alternative

00:10:54.920 point of view. If they didn't know, if they didn't have the information, that makes this tyrannical

00:11:01.240 approach less justifiable, not more. But again, they did know. They knew the opposite of what they

00:11:09.360 claimed. They knew it because I knew it and you knew it. And many of us were saying this in April

00:11:14.940 or May of 2020. Shouldn't shut down the schools. These masks aren't doing anything. You don't need

00:11:21.080 to be worried about shutting down parks and beaches makes no sense because if anything, you want people

00:11:29.340 to be outside in the sun when a virus is going around. Many of us were saying that practically

00:11:34.800 from the beginning. We were saying that, you know, March, April, May, they started saying it last week.

00:11:43.220 How did we know it if our public health authorities, so-called, did not? Did we have access to

00:11:50.440 information that was unavailable to them? I mean, the claim is absurd. Now, the point here is not to

00:11:58.360 gloat. Honestly, I'm not much in the mood for gloating after what they did and what they took from

00:12:02.740 us. Children committed suicide. Elderly people died alone in nursing homes. Many businesses went on or

00:12:10.340 people lost everything. Gloat? No, no, no. We want justice. We want accountability. We want to set

00:12:17.940 an example so that they won't try this again. Move on? I'll move on after there have been military

00:12:23.180 tribunals. I'll move on when Fauci and his comrades are tried and convicted for crimes against humanity

00:12:28.720 and given the maximum penalty for it. That's when we can move on and not before it.

00:12:35.180 Here's an idea. If you want to practice forgiveness, if you want to let people move on

00:12:42.100 from past mistakes, why not tell that to the cancel culture vultures who spend their time

00:12:47.900 digging through comments people have made or made in the distant past and then using those

00:12:53.220 as a pretense for destroying their lives in the present? I mean, there is a lack of forgiveness in

00:12:58.820 our society, but that's where it can be felt. Somebody expresses an opinion or makes a joke

00:13:05.200 and suddenly their persona non grata, they're disgraced, ostracized. Call for forgiveness there.

00:13:12.340 That's what we needed. But the tyrants who took advantage of a virus and used it as an opportunity

00:13:18.360 to seize control and wield power? No, they don't deserve to be forgiven. They deserve to be punished.

00:13:26.520 And that's what we should do. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:14:41.800 My kids enjoyed trick-or-treating last night. They enjoyed it even though nobody understood their

00:14:45.980 costumes. You know, my kids are the weird ones who always choose these obscure costumes on

00:14:50.360 Halloween. At least my older two do, so they never liked, they're never superheroes or Disney

00:14:56.740 characters or whatever. This year, the twins went as characters from Jurassic World, which is the

00:15:04.140 reboot Jurassic Park franchise. So they went as reboot Jurassic Park characters, and I tried to tell

00:15:10.020 them that no one is going to know who you are. You're just wearing a vest. No one's going to know

00:15:15.460 what that's from. The costume's way too specific. You know, at Halloween, so I've been telling them

00:15:20.160 for nine years, Halloween, you play the hits, okay? You play the, stick with the classics. That's

00:15:25.820 what you do on Halloween. But they don't, it doesn't sink in. So every year my kids are like, I want to go

00:15:30.540 as a car salesman. Just, what? You could be a werewolf or Spider-Man or something. The other thing

00:15:36.780 that's guaranteed to happen on Halloween, if you have a toddler, is that, and this is just every

00:15:41.640 single year, there's going to be a last minute wardrobe change, or else she'll refuse out of 1.00

00:15:48.580 nowhere to wear any costume at all, without, without any explanation. Just like super excited

00:15:53.940 about a costume, and then the day comes, the night comes, I don't want to wear that. No explanation

00:15:58.720 at all. Can't reason it out. Can't, can't tell you why. So our toddler was supposed to be the,

00:16:06.720 the Little Mermaid for, for Halloween, and was very excited about it. And then at the last minute said

00:16:13.420 she didn't want to be a Little Mermaid anymore, maybe because she knows that little, the Little 0.83

00:16:16.340 Mermaid is black now, and she doesn't want to culturally appropriate. That could be it. So I 1.00

00:16:20.560 tried to be sensitive to it, and she decided she wanted to be a dinosaur, I guess in keeping with

00:16:24.840 the Jurassic World theme. And, and my wife had a dinosaur costume just on hand to give her, because

00:16:31.620 my wife is prepared for all holiday-related emergencies. And she was prepared for that one.

00:16:37.400 So we went out, and it was good. It rained, you know, it started raining, and, and the kids at a

00:16:43.380 certain point were just like, they wanted to stop. And my wife was the one pushing everyone to keep 1.00

00:16:48.540 going. She said, no, we'll just do a couple more houses. And it's pouring rain, and all the kids are

00:16:53.020 complaining, and I'm complaining now. It's my wife. And I told her, I said, I can, if you, I can buy you

00:16:59.200 candy if you want. I get, what, what candy do you want? We can go to Walgreens on the way back, and

00:17:03.040 I'll buy it for you. This is, no, we don't need to do this. So they did, they, they made out pretty

00:17:08.340 well. And I, and I did explain to my kids before they went to bed, I, you know, because they, they

00:17:14.500 had their, their, their haul and their bags. And I explained to them this really interesting scientific

00:17:20.760 phenomenon where bags of candy will actually, they'll kind of settle and condense overnight so that in

00:17:28.560 the morning, they'll be much lighter, and there will appear to be less candy than there was when

00:17:34.380 they went to bed. It's a very interesting scientific event that occurs, but you got to trust the

00:17:42.120 science and just don't worry about it. My, my daughter was skeptical, but the other kids just, just

00:17:50.320 bought it. All right. We'll start with this from the Daily Wire. It says, hundreds of internal documents

00:17:55.960 exposed top U.S. government agencies working closely with social media companies like Facebook

00:18:00.260 and Twitter to censor American freedom of speech under the guise of fighting disinformation over

00:18:05.720 several years as obtained and reported by The Intercept. The Intercept's investigative journalist

00:18:10.040 Lee Fang broke the story on Monday, confirming what Americans have feared in the current age of

00:18:14.040 censorship, that only authoritarian regimes could only, could dream of enacting in a nation founded on

00:18:19.640 the unabridged right to freedom of speech. By Monday night, Fang appeared on Tucker Carlson

00:18:23.800 tonight to discuss the bombshell report. Fang told Carlson, quote, we looked at hundreds of

00:18:28.920 documents that paint a vivid picture of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, closely

00:18:33.580 collaborating with the top social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook, to censor various forms of

00:18:37.940 content under the banner of fighting disinformation. Fang said the story shows a very cozy relationship

00:18:43.440 between the government, alphabet agencies like the FBI and DHS, and tech giants, where they held

00:18:48.140 monthly meetings as recently as August and exchanged emails and texts to shape online discourse.

00:18:53.820 One of those cozy relationships highlighted in the report shows a text from earlier this year

00:18:58.420 between former DHS official and current Microsoft executive Matt Masterson and Jen Easterly, a DHS

00:19:05.100 director, saying the government needs to get the private sector, needs to get more comfortable with

00:19:09.560 the government. I don't know exactly what it means. Platforms have to get comfortable with the

00:19:14.200 government. Okay. It's really, it's interesting how hesitant they remain. You need to get comfortable

00:19:21.000 with the government, is what they were saying. So this was, and you can look at the report from

00:19:25.920 The Intercept, and it goes into Li Fang's report. This is real, you know, there are some people out

00:19:31.480 there doing real journalism. Here's one example. And what it shows is this end run that the government

00:19:38.420 was performing to get around the First Amendment, and just going right to the big tech companies and

00:19:44.780 saying, we need to be, you need to get comfortable with us, and we're going to be policing disinformation.

00:19:49.520 This is why they're so paranoid about Elon Musk taking over, obviously. This is actually what

00:19:54.440 they're worried about. They're worried that this, you know, not only will this come to an end,

00:19:59.660 and they're not going to be able to control the public discourse anymore, but also the people

00:20:03.760 working at these platforms, you know, they just never imagined, like at Twitter, they never imagined

00:20:11.020 that someone who is not a comrade, someone who is not an ideological compatriot, would one day run

00:20:18.700 the company. It just, it never, never occurred to them, which is why these emails and text messages

00:20:24.820 are coming out now. They're very explicit. They're putting all this stuff in writing, just because

00:20:30.040 they figured, like, this is Twitter. This is big tech. It's always going to be in our hands, and by

00:20:34.480 our, I mean on the left. The idea that someone else would come in who is not, who has not sworn

00:20:42.260 ideological allegiance to them was unthinkable, but that's what happened, which isn't even to say

00:20:49.120 that Elon Musk is a conservative, because I don't think he is, and he doesn't claim to be.

00:20:52.380 He's just not a dyed-in-the-wool leftist. He's not that. And so we're going to find out a lot more

00:21:00.460 about this sort of thing. You know, this is another one of the reasons why you can, you really can't

00:21:08.360 even call these big tech companies private companies. They're really not. They are private

00:21:14.080 in name only, maybe, but they're not actually. These are quasi-government institutions.

00:21:20.240 Now, it looks like that's going to change with Twitter. I hope it changes, but up until now,

00:21:26.860 this is what it was. You know, these are quasi-government institutions. They work closely

00:21:31.440 with the government. They've gotten comfortable with the government, and they work to advance,

00:21:38.540 and they share, you know, they share an agenda. They share an objective, and so they're working

00:21:45.280 together. And it's increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two.

00:21:53.740 And of course, it should also go without saying that policing disinformation or misinformation,

00:22:00.480 this is not the purview of the government.

00:22:03.660 Now, I understand why the government would want it to be in their purview, because we live

00:22:10.040 in the information age. Information is everything, and there's, and everywhere. Information is

00:22:19.460 everywhere. We're all absorbing information at a, you know, historically unprecedented rate every

00:22:27.160 single day. Like, we encounter more information in a single day than people prior to the modern age

00:22:36.200 would have encountered in a lifetime. And so if you control the flow and spread of information,

00:22:42.260 then you control everything. You control society. You control what people think. I mean, this is,

00:22:48.740 for them, this is much better than, yeah, it's one thing to pass laws. Like we talked about in the

00:22:53.780 opening. They passed laws, and they passed mandates, and they were able to force compliance much more

00:22:59.600 than they should have been able to do. But they didn't change what people believed. Because as soon

00:23:06.580 as the mandate went away, people took the mask away. The most revealing thing was on the planes,

00:23:10.400 because the planes were some of the only, among the last of the holdouts, where you still had to

00:23:16.240 wear a mask on a plane up until, you know, recently. And everybody was 100% compliant on the planes

00:23:21.720 and in airports. Even though in the airports, you didn't have to be. Now, on the plane, I, you know,

00:23:26.500 I always tested it. I would take the mask off for as long as I could get away with. But on a plane,

00:23:30.280 you couldn't get away with it for very long. In an airport, though, this is all through COVID. I

00:23:34.120 never wore a mask in the airport, because there was, you know, nobody would, there really wasn't,

00:23:37.900 once you got through TSA, there wasn't any central sort of authority figure that could tell you to put

00:23:43.040 it on. Maybe you passed by a gate agent who would say, put your mask on. I just ignore them and walk by.

00:23:46.680 What are they going to do, call TSA? They never did. But most people didn't even test it.

00:23:51.040 They just put the mask on and they did as they were told. However, mask mandate goes away and

00:23:56.340 immediately everyone takes the mask off. It's like 99.9% of the people take the mask off with

00:24:04.220 just a few outliers, right? Well, that shows that they were able to control behavior,

00:24:10.400 but they were not able to control, in this case, they were not able to control the way people think

00:24:15.560 to the extent that they wanted. And I think the government's learning a lesson from that. The

00:24:21.720 regime is learning a lesson. Exactly the wrong lesson, but they're learning a lesson. What

00:24:25.840 they're learning is that, yeah, we could pass laws, we could pass mandates, we can force people at

00:24:29.460 gunpoint to do things, but it's much more valuable if you can control how people think

00:24:35.500 and what they believe. Because then they'll do your bidding without you even telling them they have

00:24:40.560 to. And then you can claim that it's not tyranny, that it's not oppression, because there's no law

00:24:47.080 saying people have to do this. They're just doing it. Well, they're doing it because you've manipulated

00:24:51.740 them at the deepest level. And that's what this is all about, obviously.

00:24:56.440 All right. NBC has this report. It says, conservative Supreme Court justices indicated

00:25:03.260 on Monday that they are willing to end the explicit consideration of race in college admissions as

00:25:08.300 they weigh cases challenging affirmative action policies at the University of North Carolina and

00:25:12.620 Harvard University. Members of the court's conservative majority questioned the legal rationale for

00:25:18.200 allowing the practice and probed to what extent colleges and universities could enact new race-neutral

00:25:23.260 admissions policies aimed at improving racial diversity. Some justices, however, indicated that

00:25:28.760 they would be willing to allow applicants to discuss their racial identities in some form as part of

00:25:33.040 essays touching upon their experiences, such as examples of overcoming discrimination. Liberal

00:25:37.760 justices who were in the minority defended the use of race in admissions, citing the importance of

00:25:41.980 diversity on campus and the difficulty of achieving it without any consideration of race.

00:25:48.220 Affirmative action introduced to redress historic discrimination has been a contentious issue for years,

00:25:53.260 yada, yada, yada. But it's looking now, based on these oral arguments, which can be deceptive,

00:25:58.200 but based on those, it looks like this could be affirmative action in the college administration

00:26:06.140 admissions game could be going the way of Roe v. Wade. A few points about this. First, obviously,

00:26:13.940 you cannot prevent or heal racial discrimination by committing it. The most you can do is swap

00:26:22.800 one type for another. That's the most you could possibly do. So it's just like if you're worried

00:26:28.260 about, to use a fishing analogy, if you're worried about an invasive predatory species of fish in an

00:26:37.180 ecosystem, and so in order to address that problem, you release a different invasive predatory fish into

00:26:45.160 the ecosystem to eat that one. Well, now you've just swapped out one invasive species for another.

00:26:52.400 You haven't gotten rid of the problem. You've just created a different problem to take its place.

00:26:57.340 Now, you might say that, well, this other fish is, you know, if we have to have one, we'd rather have

00:27:00.880 this other predatory invasive species. But that is what the argument you're making. You're not getting

00:27:07.420 rid of it. You're just, you're just, you're, you're replacing it with a different version that you

00:27:12.720 find to be less threatening. But then in reality, of course, what's most likely going to happen is

00:27:21.680 that you don't just replace one species with another. Now you end up with both. Actually,

00:27:27.060 that's probably what's going to happen. And that's what they're trying to do here. Let's,

00:27:31.620 let's get rid of the systemic racism against racial minorities by replacing it with a mandatory 0.73

00:27:42.000 systemic racism against white people. And, and here's the other thing. If, if it worked,

00:27:51.880 okay, if it actually, if the plan actually worked to institute racial discrimination against whites in

00:28:00.860 order to prevent racial discrimination or to get rid of racial discrimination against blacks,

00:28:06.580 then it shouldn't be needed anymore. Affirmative action policies have been in place for decades. 0.81

00:28:14.980 So even by their own logic, let's, let's just say that, yeah, there was a, there's systemic racism in

00:28:21.840 the university system. And so they needed to put these affirmative action policies in place to get rid of 0.96

00:28:25.300 it. Okay. Well, it's been decades now. If you're telling me that it's still needed,

00:28:30.860 that would seem to indicate that it's not working to solve the problem that you're trying to solve.

00:28:37.540 But this is the built-in advantage of the systemic racism theory. It's unfalsifiable,

00:28:44.820 which means that it is false. That's the thing about an unfalsifiable theory and unfalsifiable theory.

00:28:51.580 They're always false. They're always illegitimate because if there's nothing that could happen,

00:28:57.120 if there's no evidence that could possibly be presented that would prove your theory false,

00:29:03.500 that means that your theory exists independent of the evidence, which means it is a bad theory.

00:29:10.000 If your theory is based on the evidence that you have available, then you should be able to tell us

00:29:14.740 what sort of evidence could be presented that would make you go, okay, well, I'm wrong about this,

00:29:19.200 or the facts have changed, and this is no longer the case anymore.

00:29:24.680 For systemic racism, the purveyors of this theory have made it clear that nothing can ever happen

00:29:32.780 that will prove to them that it doesn't exist. It's impossible to solve the problem.

00:29:39.860 So you can have affirmative action for 40 or 50 years. You can elect a black president. 0.82

00:29:43.660 You can have all these different policies putting minorities into positions of leadership.

00:29:50.980 You can have racial minorities running many of the major cities all across the country.

00:29:57.200 You can do all of this and much more.

00:30:01.800 And it's done, according to them, absolutely nothing to solve the problem.

00:30:05.520 The problem still exists. In fact, if anything, it's worse now than it's ever been if you listen to them.

00:30:10.040 So that means either that the entire theory is bunk, unfalsifiable, exists apart from the evidence,

00:30:18.100 or that what they're doing just isn't working, or a combination of the two.

00:30:27.000 And there's also this basic idea that diversity is desirable for its own sake,

00:30:33.680 because that's what the liberal justices are really saying.

00:30:36.960 So they're not even so much saying that we still have this embedded anti-black systemic racism in the university system.

00:30:45.480 Now, they might think that, but that's not really the argument.

00:30:48.960 The argument is just that we need to have racial diversity.

00:30:52.300 It's good for its own sake.

00:30:53.940 And the only way to get it is to give racial minorities an embedded advantage 0.99

00:31:00.100 and to disadvantage white applicants and also Asian applicants.

00:31:06.900 Justice Thomas, he tried to strike at this idea in his line of questioning.

00:31:10.460 I thought that this was pretty good. Listen to this.

00:31:13.100 I've heard the word diversity quite a few times, and I don't have a clue what it means.

00:31:19.440 It seems to mean everything for everyone.

00:31:22.520 But I'd like you to give us a specific definition of diversity in the context of the University of North Carolina.

00:31:39.280 And I'd also like you to give us a clear idea of exactly what the educational benefits of diversity

00:31:52.860 at the University of North Carolina would be.

00:31:57.920 Yes, Your Honor.

00:31:58.980 So first, we define diversity the way this court has in its court's precedents,

00:32:02.580 which means a broadly diverse set of criteria that extends to all different backgrounds and perspectives

00:32:08.720 and not solely limited to race.

00:32:10.940 And there's a factual finding in this record, PEDAP 113,

00:32:13.620 that there are many different diversity factors that are considered as a greater factor in our admissions process than race.

00:32:22.940 Diversity of, they always throw that in there.

00:32:25.040 Well, we also take into account diversity of perspectives.

00:32:27.660 You take it into account so that you can exclude it,

00:32:32.640 because that's the last thing that you want on the college campus.

00:32:36.120 On the modern college campus, that's the last thing they want,

00:32:38.560 is a diversity of perspectives.

00:32:42.760 But that is, you know, there are...

00:32:47.180 I don't think diversity for its own sake should ever be just the objective.

00:32:51.960 It should always be a byproduct.

00:32:54.940 So in the case of college admissions,

00:32:58.860 the objective is to admit as many qualified applicants as you can,

00:33:06.360 and to do so on the basis of merit,

00:33:09.040 to admit the most qualified applicants.

00:33:11.920 That should be the objective.

00:33:15.300 Diversity is not the objective.

00:33:17.180 It's a byproduct.

00:33:18.700 It could be a happy byproduct.

00:33:20.100 But even then,

00:33:23.140 the most advantageous or the most desirable diversity byproducts,

00:33:29.020 it's not a diversity of skin tones and skin pigmentation.

00:33:35.340 Then it does go to a diversity of perspectives,

00:33:38.520 people who think differently about things.

00:33:40.640 Like, that's where you get the richness of the educational environment,

00:33:44.520 and that's where people are going to, you know,

00:33:46.260 that's where people can hone their ideas by, you know,

00:33:49.700 having debate and discussion.

00:33:51.880 Like, that is the kind of diversity that you do want.

00:33:54.740 Again, but as a byproduct.

00:33:56.880 Even then, not as the objective.

00:33:58.300 So they're taking the less important forms of diversity,

00:34:06.040 the more meaningless sort of forms of diversity,

00:34:08.500 having a room full of people that all have different shades and skin tones.

00:34:12.320 Like, that's...

00:34:14.020 And they're not only making that the most important form of diversity,

00:34:17.680 but they're making that the objective rather than the byproduct,

00:34:19.900 which is what it's supposed to be.

00:34:20.820 Speaking of diversity hires,

00:34:24.500 Al Sharpton apparently still exists and has a show on MSNBC.

00:34:30.680 Listen to him here.

00:34:31.760 He's supposed to be interviewing Kathy Halkiel of the governor of New York,

00:34:36.820 who herself is essentially a diversity hire as well.

00:34:39.500 She has never been elected to anything, by the way.

00:34:41.900 She's never been elected to anything.

00:34:42.980 She's just been riding coattails all the way up to the top, 0.95

00:34:45.760 all the way up to the governor of Manchin.

00:34:47.460 But this is supposed to be an interview questioning her.

00:34:49.180 But really, this is him coaching her and giving her some talking points.

00:34:54.240 Listen to this.

00:34:55.960 I don't think anyone has been stronger in many states

00:34:59.300 on dealing with gun control and working with communities.

00:35:03.780 I remember when you were lieutenant governor,

00:35:05.940 you used to show up everywhere with the anti-crime folks.

00:35:10.540 So, I mean, is this just a distorted way of campaigning?

00:35:14.740 I mean, what do you read into this?

00:35:17.060 Reverend Al, these are master manipulators.

00:35:20.220 They have this conspiracy going all across America

00:35:23.180 to try and convince people that in democratic states they're not as safe.

00:35:27.300 Well, guess what?

00:35:28.400 They're also not only election deniers, they're data deniers.

00:35:32.060 The data shows that shootings and murders are down in our state by 15 percent,

00:35:37.700 even in New York City, down 20 percent on Long Island, where Lee Zeldin comes from.

00:35:41.860 And it's the Republican states where they have almost no restrictions on guns.

00:35:48.140 Because of the abundance of guns, people are killing each other with more frequency.

00:35:52.140 The safer places are the democratic states.

00:35:54.840 First of all, words have meaning.

00:36:02.740 I have to continually insist.

00:36:04.280 I have to insist on this.

00:36:06.340 The words have meaning.

00:36:07.340 And the word conspiracy has a meaning.

00:36:11.120 Okay.

00:36:11.260 And so saying, even if you're wrong, saying that Democrat-run cities are not safe,

00:36:18.740 that's not a conspiracy theory.

00:36:20.440 That's just a claim about reality.

00:36:24.240 Whether you're right or wrong, it's a claim.

00:36:26.520 It's not a conspiracy theory.

00:36:27.540 Now, you could go further and theorize about some conspiracies that are happening there,

00:36:38.000 which are not really theories at all.

00:36:39.240 For example, George Soros pouring money into these races to elect DAs who will not enforce the law,

00:36:48.320 sowing chaos and anarchy into our system and into our communities.

00:36:53.540 And yeah, I suppose you could call that a conspiracy in effect.

00:36:57.700 But it's not a theory.

00:36:58.760 It is actually happening.

00:37:03.080 So that's the first thing.

00:37:04.600 And also, the way that they switch between state and city,

00:37:09.040 oh, red states are more dangerous.

00:37:11.640 Well, if a red state is dangerous, it's because of the blue cities within the red states.

00:37:19.060 Those are always going to be the most dangerous areas.

00:37:23.540 And that, again, is not a theory.

00:37:27.640 Go ahead and look at the data.

00:37:30.080 Look at the data in New York.

00:37:31.520 Okay, if you want data, you want to be data-driven here.

00:37:36.700 Look at crime and violence in New York City under Rudy Giuliani in the early 2000s,

00:37:43.900 and then compare that to crime and violence now.

00:37:49.600 Ever since far-left Democrats took over, starting with de Blasio and on forward.

00:37:57.460 If you really want the data, that's what you should be looking at.

00:38:01.180 All right.

00:38:02.200 This is from, oh, I got to mention this.

00:38:04.740 This is from the Military Times. 0.91

00:38:06.340 It says, Pentagon attributes UFO sightings to spies and airborne trash. 0.90

00:38:13.900 That's no way to speak about aliens.

00:38:16.920 Intelligence officials are set to deliver Congress a new report today.

00:38:20.260 This was yesterday, so they already delivered it, I guess.

00:38:22.340 On unexplained aerial phenomenon, better known as UFOs.

00:38:25.500 The document from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will provide an update to a report

00:38:30.260 the intelligence agency made public in June of 2021,

00:38:34.120 which explored more than 140 incidents of UAP encounters between 2004 and 2021.

00:38:40.880 Despite calls for greater transparency from lawmakers and military leaders,

00:38:44.920 it's not yet clear which contents of the coming report will be made public,

00:38:47.980 while it could offer more detailed explanations into the surge of recent sightings.

00:38:51.340 Defense Department officials are downplaying theories of alien invasions

00:38:54.860 and emphasizing ordinary objects that they say are more likely to blame.

00:39:00.700 Military officials told the New York Times that most resolved UFO cases

00:39:06.260 can be attributed to foreign spies or airborne trash. 0.97

00:39:10.660 Okay, I want to know about the airborne trash. 0.99

00:39:12.740 So there's trash in the sky speeding along at the speed of sound,

00:39:18.020 changing directions mid-flight. 0.98

00:39:21.380 Where's this trash coming from? 0.99

00:39:22.780 Is it trash that the aliens have thrown out of their UFOs? 0.96

00:39:27.960 Maybe they'll explain how that works exactly.

00:39:30.440 In May, during Congress's first public UFO hearing in more than 50 years,

00:39:34.020 Pentagon officials testified that a video with mysterious glowing green triangles

00:39:38.040 actually displayed drones that were shot through night vision lenses.

00:39:43.160 Sure.

00:39:43.740 In another video referred to as Go Fast,

00:39:47.140 an unknown object appeared to move at incredible speed.

00:39:50.620 Military officials later debunked the video as an illusion created by the angle of observation against water.

00:39:56.400 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:39:58.160 So where's the trash part of it?

00:39:59.700 Are they going to even explain in this article how trash could...

00:40:04.420 What is the trash doing 40,000 feet in the air?

00:40:08.640 And how is it moving that way? 0.60

00:40:11.520 And what kind of trash is this?

00:40:14.960 Are these plastic straws? 0.67

00:40:16.440 Has the plastic straw problem gotten that bad that now they're whizzing through the sky too?

00:40:21.980 Skimming ahead.

00:40:23.840 No, they don't revisit that.

00:40:25.480 They don't revisit it in the article.

00:40:26.560 They never explain. 0.94

00:40:27.180 They just say, oh, it's probably airborne trash.

00:40:28.540 What do you mean airborne trash? 0.98

00:40:30.900 Yeah, just, you know, just trash.

00:40:32.880 Sometimes you bring your garbage cans out to the curb and then you come in the morning,

00:40:39.080 you come out in the morning and they're gone and you think that like the trash man took them away.

00:40:42.660 But sometimes they'll just, they'll fly up into the sky and, you know, and freak out Navy pilots.

00:40:49.260 It happens sometimes, I guess. 0.93

00:40:52.260 This is ridiculous. 0.95

00:40:53.540 You know what? 0.99

00:40:53.800 This makes me more convinced.

00:40:55.040 You want to talk about conspiracy theories?

00:40:56.260 Okay, here's one.

00:40:57.020 And this makes me more convinced than ever that aliens not only are real, which is just a fact,

00:41:03.900 but have been to Earth.

00:41:05.940 Because now there was a moment, I was actually, I was less convinced back when it seemed that the

00:41:12.340 government was being open about it.

00:41:13.800 And they started talking about it.

00:41:15.100 And they said, yeah, we'll talk about aliens.

00:41:16.440 And then I thought, well, okay, this is not, they wouldn't, something's not right here.

00:41:20.180 But now they're retrenching again and they're, you know, they say, oh yeah, we've debunked it.

00:41:23.920 Don't worry about it.

00:41:26.100 Never mind.

00:41:27.740 That, yeah, they've explained the ones that they can explain with normal, you know, just in,

00:41:35.840 by pointing to normal expected physical phenomena.

00:41:39.460 So they've, they've explained the ones that can be explained.

00:41:41.800 Okay, I get that.

00:41:42.880 Big, big breaking news there.

00:41:45.580 But there's still the lion's share of these sightings that have never been explained.

00:41:48.900 And those are the ones that we're interested in.

00:41:53.280 And again, I really want to understand how, how you can blame this on trash.

00:41:59.060 It's, you know, someone threw a Coke can into the air.

00:42:05.500 And then the light refracting from Jupiter and bouncing off of the ocean created a hallucination type effect.

00:42:18.240 And this, okay, right.

00:42:19.220 All right.

00:42:19.720 All right.

00:42:20.920 One other thing to play for you before we get to the comment section.

00:42:25.060 The new Black Panther film is coming out soon.

00:42:27.840 This is, you know, the first Black Panther was terrible.

00:42:30.480 I didn't see it, but I know that it's terrible because it's a Marvel comic book movie.

00:42:34.160 And all Marvel comic book movies are terrible.

00:42:37.840 As Martin Scorsese said, they're, they're basically just a theme park rides,

00:42:41.180 except that they're boring and repetitive theme park rides.

00:42:43.940 So they're more like, these are more, they're not theme park.

00:42:46.360 These are carnival rides for children.

00:42:48.480 These are like the teacup ride that goes around in circles.

00:42:50.680 That's what all these movies are.

00:42:52.900 Anyway, so the new Black Panther is coming out next week. 0.88

00:42:56.200 But according to TikTok, if you're white, you better not be there on opening day. 0.95

00:43:04.160 This message is to all our would-be accomplices and white allies. 0.98

00:43:14.160 This message is to all the white people who have BLM in their bio. 0.84

00:43:18.440 If you really want to prove to Black people that you love us and you care about us 0.97

00:43:23.560 and you are down for the cause, do not go see that movie opening weekend. 0.99

00:43:28.740 You buy your ticket, you give it to a Black person or a Black family who can't afford to go. 1.00

00:43:33.300 And then you go sit at that theater in front of the doors. 0.96

00:43:37.840 You make sure that every Black person in that theater can enjoy that movie in peace. 0.77

00:43:43.060 You make sure that you use your body to block us from anybody who would be coming in that theater to do us harm. 0.85

00:43:50.840 That is your job.

00:43:52.540 You can go see it on another weekend.

00:43:54.140 Go see it on the second or third weekend.

00:43:55.860 But the first weekend, that's for us.

00:43:58.340 To do anything other than this is anti-Black. 0.99

00:44:01.120 Agreed.

00:44:04.180 First of all, let me say, if not seeing Black Panther on opening night makes you progressive and anti-racist,

00:44:10.140 then call me Ibram X. Walsh.

00:44:12.980 Because I am so progressive that I will never watch it at all.

00:44:18.920 I would not want to take that experience away from or impede in any way on the experiences of Black Americans.

00:44:25.200 And so I will just never, ever watch it.

00:44:27.640 And that's what I'll do.

00:44:30.800 And I mean, as far as sitting in front of the theater, I don't think I'm going to go to that extent.

00:44:35.260 But also, it gets confusing.

00:44:36.540 Because what if I'm sitting in front of the theater protecting the theater from white presence? 1.00

00:44:41.900 And what about a biracial person who's trying to come watch it? 0.99

00:44:46.440 What do we do with him?

00:44:49.060 Do I say, well, you can watch it with one eye open?

00:44:51.440 I mean, so what do you do about that?

00:44:53.600 I will be interested to see if any white woke people actually follow through on this to prove their woke credentials.

00:45:04.980 Yet for me, as ludicrous as this all is, the bigger issue is just how this film is treated like some sort of sacred thing. 0.77

00:45:15.760 You know, something of deep significance for the Black community. 0.86

00:45:20.720 Black Panther.

00:45:21.460 And it just shows a total lack of culture.

00:45:26.380 And I don't mean a total lack of culture among Black people. 0.55

00:45:28.600 I mean lack of culture in America.

00:45:31.000 I mean lack of American culture.

00:45:33.800 It's like this anti-culture.

00:45:35.660 It's not a culture.

00:45:37.900 Because these are, for all communities, the most important stories, our most cherished stories that we take so seriously, whether on racial grounds or not.

00:45:47.360 They're superhero movies.

00:45:48.640 They're these corporate things.

00:45:50.340 Corporate franchises, brands.

00:45:53.200 Like this is what we take seriously.

00:45:55.000 This is our most sacred and art, what we revere the most.

00:46:00.720 Our art is all a brand.

00:46:03.160 And that is an anti-culture.

00:46:05.580 That's not culture.

00:46:06.880 So that's my takeaway from this.

00:46:08.140 Let's get to the comment section.

00:46:10.480 Do you know their name?

00:46:14.340 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:46:16.600 David says, I disagree with you, Matt.

00:46:20.940 I like to work.

00:46:21.860 I want to work.

00:46:22.680 I find my purpose in my work.

00:46:24.140 If I was on a permanent vacation and a billionaire, I would be downright miserable and life wouldn't be worth living.

00:46:29.020 The best days of my life are the ones full of adversity and I collapse into bed dead tired, but with something accomplished.

00:46:35.480 If I had to slop pigs for a living, it would still be worth it.

00:46:38.700 Providing for my family and a sense of purpose can't get better than that.

00:46:43.200 No, I don't think we disagree.

00:46:44.280 I mean, I basically agree.

00:46:45.340 I think it's hard to say when you're not actually in the position.

00:46:51.840 But, you know, I'm not – I think the lottery right now is up to a billion dollars, the Powerball jackpot.

00:46:58.200 I'm not going to go play it because, for one thing, I'm not going to win.

00:47:00.720 But also, yeah, I don't actually desire that.

00:47:04.260 It does seem rather depressing to just have – be given all of that money, especially as a young person.

00:47:10.100 It's like, well, what do you do?

00:47:10.900 What are you working for for the rest of your life?

00:47:13.480 Once the thrill of having all that money wears off and it's like, well, I didn't earn this.

00:47:17.280 It was just given to me.

00:47:18.480 And now there's nothing to do.

00:47:20.160 But at the same time, when someone actually offers you the check, would you in reality turn it down?

00:47:26.920 Hard to say until you're in that position.

00:47:28.800 But my point is, no matter how you feel about work, whether you want to work or you don't want to work, it almost doesn't really matter.

00:47:38.360 Because the point is that this is just – that this is life.

00:47:41.960 That this is what life is.

00:47:43.280 That life is work.

00:47:44.780 And you cannot separate work from life.

00:47:48.500 Work comes in different forms.

00:47:50.160 You know, it doesn't mean that your life is a job.

00:47:52.520 It doesn't mean, you know, you could not have a job and still be working.

00:47:56.180 Just as people did for most of human history.

00:48:00.360 They didn't have jobs the way that we think of it in the industrial age.

00:48:02.940 But they certainly were working.

00:48:05.420 And that is life.

00:48:06.460 And as I'm always pointing out, you know, if you try to sever yourself from work, if you try to live a life apart from work,

00:48:13.680 you're not choosing some holier-than-thou, more kind of enlightened approach, because your life still depends on work.

00:48:22.060 It's just that other people are doing it for you now.

00:48:24.340 You're depending on other people to work for you.

00:48:26.640 Whether it's your parents because you're living in the basement, or it's the government.

00:48:29.960 It's the taxpayers, rather, not the government.

00:48:31.700 It's the taxpayers.

00:48:32.580 Whatever it is, you are now depending on the work of others while pretending that you're above it all.

00:48:38.620 You know, that you're living this enlightened life.

00:48:40.260 Oh, we don't work.

00:48:41.380 I'm too good for that.

00:48:44.000 You know, the people that are feeding you and clothing you and putting a roof over your head, it's not too good for them, apparently.

00:48:53.300 Eduardo says, I wish I worked with Matt and I could come into work as a watermelon and sit right across from him for the whole day.

00:49:00.820 LOL.

00:49:02.180 Well, that would be an issue because I'm in my office.

00:49:04.600 And if you just came there and sat in silence, dressed as a watermelon, that you would be fired on the spot.

00:49:10.520 I don't have the power to do it, but I would anyway.

00:49:15.880 Chris says, I'm convinced that Matt Walsh's ad writers are trolling him.

00:49:19.460 Yeah, you think so?

00:49:20.160 You just picked up on that.

00:49:24.000 Let's see.

00:49:25.740 Lucy says, I for sure made my own sexy Matt Walsh costume, posted my pic on the Facebook sweet baby gang.

00:49:32.080 Ha, ha, ha.

00:49:32.680 Well, you're actually banned from the show for that because to say a sexy Matt Walsh costume makes it sound like it's a variation of what a Matt Walsh would normally be.

00:49:43.500 So, you know, it's like you're whatever, you're a sexy Frankenstein or something.

00:49:50.680 That's what I'm getting from it.

00:49:51.920 So I take that as an insult against me.

00:49:54.820 So you're banned from the show.

00:49:55.580 Anna says, thank you for your contrarian takes on children's stories.

00:50:01.220 I've always felt that Snow White was the bad guy in her story, but I assume I don't have to tell you why.

00:50:06.260 No, you don't.

00:50:06.700 You're preaching to the choir on that one.

00:50:07.940 I mean, this creepy drifter is wandering around in the woods and comes upon this house and then just, like, walks in.

00:50:16.560 If I'm remembering the Snow White story, I haven't seen it in a long time.

00:50:18.900 But she just walks in to a house and then starts snooping around. 0.90

00:50:23.460 And then she goes into the bedroom, rearranges the beds, and falls asleep.

00:50:29.100 It takes a nap in someone's house.

00:50:31.380 What kind of psychopath breaks into someone's house and takes a nap?

00:50:35.540 You hear about cases like that, like in San Francisco and in cities where homeless heroin addicts will do that.

00:50:43.740 It's very disturbing to see trespassing and burglary taken so lightly in a children's story, especially in light of what happened in Nancy Pelosi's house.

00:50:51.440 So it's just, it's too soon.

00:50:53.920 And then the dwarves come back, and they're just these hardworking blue-collar guys.

00:50:58.120 And they happen to be a foot and a half tall. 0.98

00:50:59.660 And I think they're a little bit mentally disabled. 1.00

00:51:02.240 And they come in, and they see this woman sleeping in their bed.

00:51:04.420 And she's a giant compared to them, so they feel they have no choice but to allow her to stay.

00:51:08.960 Now she's a squatter, and really it's basically kidnapping. 1.00

00:51:12.800 And she's also a moron because the evil witch comes along. 1.00

00:51:16.040 And the evil witch has shapeshifting abilities. 1.00

00:51:20.320 She can take any form she wants, apparently. 1.00

00:51:22.280 And she chooses to shapeshift into an even more evil-looking witch, which doesn't make any sense to me.

00:51:27.500 And she goes to, well, not Snow White's house, the house that she's taken over, knocks on the window and is like, has an evil laugh and just hands her an apple.

00:51:38.040 And Snow White takes it and eats it. 0.78

00:51:39.540 Who?

00:51:39.640 Some weird-looking, deformed old woman, who literally has an evil laugh, knocks on your window and hands you a fruit basket. 1.00

00:51:50.980 And without asking any questions, you just start eating from it?

00:51:55.040 And then she passes out.

00:51:56.580 And the dwarves, for some reason, had a glass coffin the size of Snow White ready to go.

00:52:04.120 So I don't think there are any innocent parties in this story at all.

00:52:06.900 There's a lot of weird things happening.

00:52:07.980 They had this coffin ready to go.

00:52:09.320 They don't even check her to see if she's breathing.

00:52:11.400 They just put her in the coffin. 1.00

00:52:12.600 They're going to bury her. 0.87

00:52:14.040 And then the prince comes along.

00:52:15.360 He's introduced to the story.

00:52:16.360 We've never seen this guy before.

00:52:18.140 Because he's just wandering in the woods and comes in.

00:52:19.740 Everyone's just wandering in the woods, coming across this.

00:52:22.060 He walks up to this woman who he thinks is dead and kisses her on the lips.

00:52:25.960 Can you imagine going to a wake of someone you don't know and walking up to the corpse and kissing it?

00:52:33.840 And everyone's looking at you like, who is that guy?

00:52:35.660 Does he even know?

00:52:37.120 And then she wakes up and is supposed to be happily ever after.

00:52:39.060 The whole thing is just bizarre.

00:52:40.660 It's very bizarre stuff.

00:52:41.840 There are no good guys in that story at all.

00:52:44.520 The corporate media agenda means that the news is presented in a biased way.

00:52:48.960 You know it.

00:52:49.560 I know it.

00:52:50.120 We all know it.

00:52:50.880 Thankfully, there's a way to get the most important news of the day without the narrative.

00:52:54.300 And that's by listening to one of the top news podcasts, Morning Wire.

00:52:57.240 New episodes are available every morning, seven days a week.

00:52:59.840 And they cover stories other media outlets won't touch.

00:53:02.280 And every Sunday until the midterm elections, you can also tune in to Election Wire for in-depth coverage, candidate interviews, and much more.

00:53:09.800 It's the most important midterm elections in recent history.

00:53:12.760 And it's not like we say that for every election.

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00:53:24.520 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:30.400 You know, Jeffrey Marsh is a name that has probably come up in the daily cancellation before.

00:53:34.380 He's a 45-year-old creep who's gained prominence in the groomer community through TikTok videos promoting transgenderism to kids. 0.80

00:53:41.180 Now, according to the bio on his website, his videos have received over 1 billion views in total.

00:53:47.480 He goes on to pad his stats in his bio by claiming to be, quote,

00:53:50.440 the first non-binary public figure to appear on national television.

00:53:54.760 Of course, non-binary simply means that he's a dude who wears eyeshadow and women's clothing.

00:53:59.700 And if you believe that Jeffrey Marsh is the first guy to do that on TV, I would like to introduce you to something called the 1980s, where it was quite common.

00:54:07.160 There's nothing bold or pioneering about cross-dressing.

00:54:09.180 In fact, at this point, it's much more unique for a man to appear on television wearing men's clothing.

00:54:13.680 If you really want to be a trendsetter, simply dare to be normal in this society.

00:54:18.040 One other possible note of interest from Marsh's bio, it says, quote,

00:54:23.060 Jeffrey has studied and taught Zen for over 20 years.

00:54:26.640 Their rigorous training while living as a monk at a Buddhist monastery in California, as chronicled in his book, How to Be You,

00:54:33.380 resulted in Jeffrey receiving the status of precepted facilitator in the Soto Zen tradition of Buddhism.

00:54:39.520 The rank of precepted facilitator is an elite category and marks a Zen practitioner trained to assist anyone towards spiritual growth.

00:54:48.400 So in keeping with his distinctive and individualistic approach to life,

00:54:52.980 Jeffrey Marsh calls himself a Buddhist, just like literally every other liberal white guy in California.

00:54:59.460 And by the way, at the risk of butchering Buddhist teachings,

00:55:02.780 I don't pretend to be an expert on the subject because I don't pretend to be Buddhist, unlike Jeffrey Marsh.

00:55:07.400 But I'm pretty sure that one of the fundamental ideas in Buddhism is that you're supposed to detach yourself from desire.

00:55:17.020 But the LGBT cult totally defines itself by its desires. 1.00

00:55:22.660 It teaches that life is best lived in pursuit of what you desire, no matter what your desires might be.

00:55:28.400 This represents, if anything, a kind of anti-Buddhist philosophy, it seems to me.

00:55:34.640 It's like that's the opposite of what Buddhism is.

00:55:36.940 But I'll leave it to the Buddhists to make that case. 1.00

00:55:39.140 Today, my concern is one of the most recent videos posted by this non-binary Buddhist Zen cross-dressing groomer monk. 1.00

00:55:46.460 In this video, as he has in so many other videos,

00:55:48.660 Marsh attempts to definitively debunk the anti-trans propaganda disseminated by vile transphobes like yours truly, for example.

00:55:59.480 Here it is.

00:56:01.040 Hi, kids.

00:56:02.260 There's no such thing as a boy or a girl.

00:56:05.700 And I can prove it.

00:56:07.560 So gather around the family, the parents, everybody.

00:56:10.840 Answer my questions.

00:56:12.400 You either say boys or girls.

00:56:14.940 Who's usually taller?

00:56:16.440 Oh, boys?

00:56:20.160 Okay.

00:56:20.780 But you've met some short boys, right?

00:56:22.540 You've met some tall girls. 1.00

00:56:23.840 So usually boys are taller, but not always.

00:56:27.560 Okay.

00:56:28.280 Who likes the color pink?

00:56:31.400 Girls? 0.96

00:56:32.560 Okay.

00:56:33.340 But you've met girls who don't like pink. 0.99

00:56:35.600 And you've met boys who do like pink.

00:56:37.980 So usually girls like pink, but not always.

00:56:40.700 Everything you can think of that makes a boy or makes a girl is usually, but not always.

00:56:50.460 And some of them are not even usually.

00:56:52.980 Where does that leave you?

00:56:54.920 Free.

00:56:56.040 You get to like what you like.

00:56:57.620 You get to be who you are.

00:57:01.740 Maybe you're even like me.

00:57:03.720 And you're not a boy or a girl.

00:57:05.580 Wow.

00:57:09.800 Brilliant.

00:57:11.060 I mean, the great thing about this argument is that I can use it to erase literally anything

00:57:14.980 from existence.

00:57:15.800 For example, most penguins are black and white, but some penguins are albino and have all white

00:57:21.800 feathers.

00:57:22.380 Therefore, penguins don't exist.

00:57:25.300 The average length of a novel is 90,000 words, but some novels are well over 200,000 or even 500,000

00:57:30.440 words.

00:57:31.040 Therefore, books don't exist.

00:57:33.680 Here's an interesting one.

00:57:34.500 The average IQ of a human being is between 85 and 115.

00:57:39.500 The average IQ of a fruit bat is 2.3.

00:57:44.040 Jeffrey Marsh's IQ is also 2.3.

00:57:46.560 Therefore, human beings don't exist or fruit bats don't exist or Jeffrey Marsh is a fruit

00:57:51.580 bat or perhaps all these things are true.

00:57:53.620 Indeed, we might as well say that fruit bats don't exist and also Jeffrey Marsh is a fruit

00:57:58.360 bat.

00:57:58.860 Considering that Jeffrey Marsh is claiming that boys and girls don't exist while also claiming

00:58:03.120 that a boy who identifies as a girl should be accepted and affirmed as one.

00:58:07.540 He demands that we affirm someone's self-identity as something that, according to him, doesn't

00:58:13.120 exist.

00:58:13.700 This remains one of the many, many self-contradictions in gender ideology. 0.96

00:58:18.920 It holds as sacrosanct an individual's identification with or in a particular sex category, while at

00:58:25.660 the same time insisting that the sex categories are mythological. 0.99

00:58:30.120 There are no girls, and also that person over there with a penis is one. 1.00

00:58:34.600 You must accept him as something that is nothing or else you have erased him, even though we're 0.99

00:58:40.600 the ones who just erased the entire category that he is claiming membership in.

00:58:45.800 There is no way to make sense of this hopeless tangle of contradictions.

00:58:49.100 You can't understand it because it is not meant to be understood.

00:58:52.840 Marsh justifies his erasure of boys and girls by pointing out that some girls are taller than

00:58:58.060 some boys and some boys like the color pink.

00:59:00.220 This is the level of intellectual rigor that we get from the left on this topic.

00:59:06.020 You probably don't need me to explain why this reasoning is flawed, but I will anyway.

00:59:11.200 We speak about height and color preference in terms of averages, okay?

00:59:16.760 In particular, height anyway.

00:59:18.120 We talk about averages especially.

00:59:21.260 The existence of outliers within a category does not throw the existence of the entire category

00:59:28.720 into question.

00:59:29.860 On the contrary, you need the outliers in order to come up with the average.

00:59:34.900 You cannot have an average without the outliers.

00:59:38.000 That's the whole point of the average.

00:59:40.620 But the fact that we can come up with averages within these categories and then compare the

00:59:45.060 categories against each other is a pretty good indication that the categories exist.

00:59:50.460 If we can say anything at all about a category, okay?

00:59:53.940 If we can make any statements, if we can offer any descriptions of any kind, then that means the

00:59:59.860 category exists.

01:00:01.740 The very statement, not all boys are tall, automatically validates and confirms the existence

01:00:08.780 of boys as a category because you're talking about them.

01:00:12.520 If they didn't exist, the statement would be meaningless.

01:00:15.980 It doesn't make any sense to speak descriptively about a group of people who, according to you,

01:00:20.340 are fictional.

01:00:21.600 It would be like if you wanted to prove that leprechauns don't exist.

01:00:24.860 And so you said, you know, not all leprechauns have red hair.

01:00:27.940 Some are blonde.

01:00:30.000 Okay, so you're saying they do exist then.

01:00:32.020 I mean, you're describing them.

01:00:34.500 So what we've learned here is that even if you can only speak about a category in terms

01:00:38.640 of rough averages, that doesn't mean the category is illegitimate or non-existent.

01:00:44.840 But in the case of boys and girls, men and women, we can actually speak much more definitively.

01:00:48.980 Marsh claims that there's nothing we can say about men or women that would apply to every

01:00:54.300 member of that group.

01:00:55.620 And that's what's known as begging the question, okay?

01:00:58.300 Not to be confused with raising a question, even though the phrases are often used interchangeably.

01:01:03.060 He is begging the question about sex differences by embedding his conclusion into the premise

01:01:08.620 of his argument, begging the question.

01:01:10.900 He proves, quote unquote, that men and women don't exist by pointing out that there are no

01:01:15.360 definitive facts about them.

01:01:18.260 But that argument could only even begin to work if we assume from the outset that it's

01:01:22.880 true that there are no definitive facts about them.

01:01:24.800 But it's not true.

01:01:26.360 I can say about men, for example, that all of them are male.

01:01:31.400 And all males are of the nature to produce sperm and impregnate females.

01:01:35.760 Meanwhile, all women are female. 0.99

01:01:37.640 And all females are of the nature to produce ova and bear offspring. 0.81

01:01:42.460 Even the females who do not bear offspring are still of the nature to do so. 0.97

01:01:46.280 It is natural for them to do so.

01:01:48.300 They are the only ones who can do so.

01:01:50.340 Disease or old age or genetic defect may prevent them from doing so, but that doesn't change

01:01:54.180 their nature.

01:01:55.260 The same in the reverse is true for males.

01:01:58.080 I can say that all human beings are of the nature to walk on two legs.

01:02:01.340 It's natural for us to walk on two legs.

01:02:03.180 A man who loses a car, a leg in a car accident, or who was born deformed, still shares this 1.00

01:02:10.240 nature.

01:02:11.700 All humans are of the nature to be self-aware and sentient, conscious.

01:02:17.500 This is one of the defining features of human beings.

01:02:19.840 It is what makes us human.

01:02:21.780 And that doesn't change just because some human beings are in a coma.

01:02:25.380 Injury or sickness has deprived some humans of this natural function.

01:02:30.260 But that doesn't mean that it's not a natural function.

01:02:33.180 In fact, the man in a coma only confirms that human beings are conscious because we wouldn't

01:02:39.600 be able to identify and label unconsciousness if we weren't conscious ourselves.

01:02:44.600 The exception proves the rule.

01:02:46.700 This is true of unconsciousness in human beings, just as it's true of infertility in women. 0.91

01:02:51.640 In a similar way, if it wasn't natural for human beings to possess basic intelligence and 1.00

01:02:57.100 reasoning skills, I would not be able to identify Jeffrey Marsh as being especially stupid. 0.99

01:03:02.080 But human beings are supposed to have basic reasoning and intelligence, which is how I know that 1.00

01:03:07.500 Jeffrey Marsh's bottomless stupidity is unusual, and possibly an indication of some sort of 0.99

01:03:12.700 brain disease or trauma, which is something that he should really probably look into, talk 1.00

01:03:17.860 to his doctor about.

01:03:19.100 But in the meantime, what I can say is that he is canceled.

01:03:23.560 And that'll do it for us for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.

01:03:26.880 Hope to see you there.

01:03:27.480 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:29.580 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 01, 2022

Ep. 1053 - The COVID Tyrants Want Forgiveness. They Should Get Punishment Instead.

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