The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1064 - Woman Blasts 'Racist Trump-Loving' Father... At His Funeral

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a young woman attacks her racist Trump-supporting dad during

00:00:04.840 the eulogy at his funeral. Also, speaking of Trump, he officially announced his presidential

00:00:08.700 campaign yesterday. Meanwhile, DeSantis finally responded to Trump's criticisms of him. We'll

00:00:13.080 review all of that. Plus, a teacher is fired for confessing his racism to his class. But isn't that

00:00:18.240 what the woke crowd wants white people to do? And Ukrainian President Zelensky tries to hoax the

00:00:22.840 United States into a world war. Are we done worshiping this guy yet? All of that and more

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00:01:33.000 Well, Donald Trump announced his presidency last night, as you've probably heard. And I thought I'd

00:01:37.300 begin the show with his address. And we will still talk about it, of course. But there was another

00:01:41.420 speech yesterday, one with far less significant political implications, but which reflects the

00:01:47.080 state of our society in a way that few speeches ever have or could, and needless to say, not in a

00:01:54.560 good way. So an as-yet-unnamed woman and a self-professed Black supremacist, quote-unquote,

00:02:01.040 recently posted a video to TikTok of, as she says, the eulogy that she gave her father at his funeral.

00:02:07.540 The eulogy went viral on TikTok before making its way over to Twitter on Tuesday and then out into the

00:02:12.300 mainstream media outlets who are reporting on it now, which is how the pipeline usually works.

00:02:15.560 Now, her father apparently died of liver cancer, which is something that I only know because

00:02:19.560 she also posted TikToks joking about her father's cancer. How and why would you make jokes about

00:02:27.420 your own father's terminal cancer? What sort of person would do such a thing? Well, this sort of

00:02:32.460 person, actually. But dad, please know that while I am grateful and highly aware of all that you've

00:02:38.140 given this family, I still don't miss you. When you died, I felt like there was a hole. I missed

00:02:43.440 something, but it wasn't you. It was the idea of what you could become. I missed being able

00:02:48.940 to hope and wish that one day you turn a corner and see the world from my perspective. I missed

00:02:52.740 the idea that one day you might help me fight for the things that matter. I missed my fantasy

00:02:57.000 of you. Because when you died, it solidified the fact that you'll never be what you could

00:03:01.740 have been, but only what you are. And what you are is a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, 1.00

00:03:07.340 Trump-loving, cis-straight, white man. That is all you will ever be to me. And dad, before 1.00

00:03:12.360 you tell me to respect the dead, please remember that you disrespected and disregarded the lives

00:03:15.780 and deaths of entire communities and people with your ideology. You told me to never back

00:03:19.700 down, so I won't. You know for a fact that even against you, I'm not afraid to share my

00:03:23.080 peace. You are everything I aspire not to be, and I refuse to stand up here and sing the

00:03:27.900 praises of a man who is the paradigm of white supremacy. So I'll take your racist mindset, 0.99

00:03:32.020 I'll take your money, and I'll take your advice. And I swear to God I will make this world

00:03:35.700 a better place, not at all because of you, but in exact opposition to you. Thank you.

00:03:48.180 I'll take your money, she says. And I bet she will. Now, it's hard to know who to despise

00:03:52.860 more, the woman spitting on her own father's grave, or the people in the audience applauding

00:03:57.940 it. I suppose we need not choose one or the other. Now, we should acknowledge from the outset

00:04:03.000 that not every person who dies necessarily deserves to be mourned. You don't become a

00:04:08.340 good person just because you happen to die. Some of us have been to funerals where the

00:04:13.440 eulogies are conspicuously brief because there isn't much good to say about the deceased.

00:04:18.740 And that's just the reality. I mean, if you don't live as a good person, then people are

00:04:23.300 not required to pretend otherwise after you die. And if you, let's say, abused or neglected

00:04:28.600 your children, then they are under no obligation to sing your praises upon your death. Yet we can

00:04:34.620 reasonably assume that such was not the case in this particular instance. She doesn't indict him

00:04:39.920 for being abusive or neglectful. Quite the opposite. She actually acknowledges that he loved and served

00:04:44.280 his family. Rather, her charge against her father is that he was a white, straight, cisgender

00:04:50.000 Trump supporter. She is half his race, but it's the half she hates. And most of all, as she makes 0.99

00:04:57.160 clear, she hates him for not agreeing with her. In fact, her love for him was predicated on her hope

00:05:03.500 and her assumption that eventually he would think exactly as she thinks. Her love was conditional,

00:05:09.860 which is to say that the love never existed at all. And the condition is that those she loves

00:05:14.680 must be perfect mirror reflections of her own viewpoints. But death tragically interceded before

00:05:21.400 her father could realize that she was right about everything. And for that, she hates him and can

00:05:26.920 never forgive him. Now, if this incident had occurred in a vacuum, you know, if it was entirely anomalous,

00:05:34.760 then there might not be much worth saying about it. This woman would simply be an ungrateful brat with a 1.00

00:05:40.240 wicked, evil heart who will not even have the honor of being insulted at her funeral, 0.99

00:05:44.680 because she'll die alone and forgotten, and there'll be no one there to insult her in the first 0.99

00:05:48.580 place. That is what we might say, and leave it at that, if this was a freak occurrence, a total

00:05:53.200 departure from the norm. But it's not. I mean, sure, yeah, it's not every day that we see someone recite

00:06:00.260 demeaning slam poetry about their own father at his funeral, but this is still fully in line with

00:06:08.060 the spirit of the age. In fact, there's perhaps no better manifestation of the spirit of the age

00:06:15.060 than a biracial woman lecturing her white dad at his funeral. This is literally what the left wants. 0.54

00:06:24.300 It's not an accident. It is rather the direct result of the cultural revolution that has long

00:06:29.800 since been completed and which we are now on the other side of. Let us count the ways.

00:06:34.800 So there are three ideas or attitudes that our culture seeks to instill in everyone, but especially

00:06:42.780 in the young. And all three are manifested in that video. First, of course, there's narcissism.

00:06:48.860 Right? Everything's about you. And whatever's not about you should be made to be about you.

00:06:55.300 The first thing you should think when you encounter any situation is, how can I put myself at the center

00:07:00.960 of it? And if you encounter any resistance in this effort to put yourself at the center,

00:07:06.020 then you're being oppressed. Indeed, anyone who lives a life or who does anything or says anything

00:07:11.580 or thinks anything that departs from your preferences has persecuted you. For this woman,

00:07:17.620 her father's funeral is about her because his death is about her because his life was about her.

00:07:23.600 It was his job to think and behave as she demanded by failing to do so, by failing to succumb

00:07:29.060 to the force of her gravity and revolve around her as she insists, he was guilty of an unthinkable

00:07:34.480 crime. Right? If she is not the center, then she is being erased. Either she is the star of every

00:07:44.320 film or else she doesn't exist. There is no middle ground. This is the lesson she learned from the

00:07:51.040 culture, from the school system, the media, from every institution, loud and clear. Second, there is

00:07:57.900 dehumanization. Those who disagree with you, who have opinions that are not your own and values you

00:08:04.800 object to are not simply wrong. They are subhuman. You shouldn't merely disagree with them. You should

00:08:10.560 despise them. They're not worthy of respect or even life itself. This is a message that I hear every time 0.99

00:08:15.780 I visit my inbox. I'm informed that I'm a racist, xenophobic, transphobic, etc. And therefore,

00:08:22.040 I should die and my family should die. And whenever I do die, I am told there will be celebration in the 1.00

00:08:27.820 streets. I don't doubt it either. See, we make a mistake when we assume that all of this kind of

00:08:33.360 talk is just sort of meaningless internet trolling. And it might be trolling, but it also reflects what

00:08:40.660 is actually in the hearts of millions of people. Like when you're online and you say your opinion and

00:08:47.000 you've got three dozen people telling you to kill yourself for your opinion, it's not, well, it's not

00:08:52.980 real. That's not, that's not the real world. No, it's, it's real. I mean, you're in the world and

00:08:57.400 these are actual people saying that to you because that is indeed how they feel about you and your

00:09:03.000 opinion. They have been conditioned to think this way. Again, we kid ourselves if we tell ourselves

00:09:10.080 anything but that. If you have views that, that oppose their views, then you are automatically a

00:09:16.600 bigot. And if you are a bigot, then you are an inferior life form. You're a cockroach, a parasite.

00:09:23.360 She applies this logic even to her own father, which is no surprise given the third point. 1.00

00:09:29.080 The third is that the family is an oppressive patriarchal conspiracy and your parents and all 0.99

00:09:36.500 of your ancestors going back through the generations are ignorant backwards, Cro-Magnon cave dwellers. 0.95

00:09:43.080 The left's goal as always is to break apart, not just the nuclear family in the abstract as a, 0.98

00:09:49.240 as a sort of concept, but to dismantle your actual family. It's not the family that is,

00:09:56.840 that is being threatened. I mean, it is the, the family on a broad societal level,

00:10:01.680 but what you have to understand, it's also your family, your actual family. They want to pull your

00:10:08.120 children away from you, sever the ties that bind you together. They would like for us all to be

00:10:15.880 eulogized by our children in this way. That's what the constant campaign of brainwashing is working 1.00

00:10:21.420 towards. And, and where it leads ultimately is to misery, of course, for everybody involved.

00:10:27.920 Because whatever else you might say about this young woman, and you could say quite a lot about

00:10:32.400 her, much of it not fit to air. But one thing you cannot say is that she's happy. This is a wretched,

00:10:38.920 miserable person trained to reject everything that might threaten to imbue her life with meaning and 0.99

00:10:44.380 joy. Because that's the thing when you, when you want to be the center of the universe and when you

00:10:51.160 hate everyone who disagrees with you, and when you hate your own family and you hate your own bloodline,

00:10:58.540 that's just another way of saying that you hate yourself. You hate your own existence.

00:11:03.200 You hate existence itself. Because you wouldn't exist without any of that. This is the nature of

00:11:11.340 the world. There is in fact only one universe and you're not at the center of it. This is the only

00:11:17.060 universe we have. And so if you can't accept that, then you hate existence for what it is.

00:11:24.600 And that's why we must protect our children from this madness. So that we don't have them dancing

00:11:33.340 on our graves once we have passed on. And so that they can live a better life

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00:12:49.580 Here's one headline I just want to read to you right from the top. This is from Media Matters.

00:12:53.000 It says, Daily Wire host calls the U.S. soccer team treasonous for using rainbow colors in one of

00:12:58.400 their crests at the World Cup. Yes, I did. Guilty as charged. This is not one of those times when

00:13:04.160 they're taking me out of context. I did say that. And I said also they should be barred from reentry

00:13:09.460 into the country because they replaced their crest with a rainbow flag. And I'm not joking at all.

00:13:15.140 If you replace the American flag with a pride flag and then you seek to represent the United States 0.88

00:13:19.880 that way abroad, then you should have your citizenship revoked. How about this? Because

00:13:26.700 I'm a merciful person. So I'm not saying that they have citizenship revoked and then they're going to be

00:13:31.140 like nomadic wanderers with no country to call home. I mean, I'd be fine with that. 1.00

00:13:37.080 But how about this? You automatically become a Canadian. If you go overseas as an American

00:13:41.340 and you're flying the pride flag rather than the American flag, you lose your American citizenship,

00:13:46.080 but automatically you're Canadian. That's just, it's a legal thing. And now you become Canadian.

00:13:50.300 They'll take you, but we don't want you. So I just want to clarify that. Okay. So Trump

00:13:57.460 announced his presidential run yesterday, as was widely expected. It's an interesting strategy.

00:14:06.520 I'm not, I'm not aware of, and I'm not saying this has never happened before in history,

00:14:12.100 but certainly in recent history, I'm not aware of anyone who's announced the presidential campaign

00:14:18.380 this early. I mean, we're two years out from the general election. We're still like a year out

00:14:22.240 from when the primaries would even start. And it's, it's, it's an interesting strategy.

00:14:29.380 Now you could see why he did it. You know, one, one of the, there's a few strategies,

00:14:34.840 a few, a few reasons to do this. One is to change the subject from the midterms and, you know,

00:14:40.780 the media talking about what a failure it was for Republicans and everything else.

00:14:43.220 So you're changing the subject. You're also, you're putting yourself, if you, Trump putting

00:14:48.100 himself at the, at the center of the conversation, maybe sucking up some of the oxygen to dissuade

00:14:53.560 other Republicans from jumping into the race, because, you know, by the time somebody like

00:14:58.560 DeSantis, for example, would even think about jumping in, that's going to be months from now.

00:15:02.360 And Trump's campaign will be in full swing and will have been in full swing for months at that

00:15:07.620 point. Would that dissuade DeSantis or somebody else from jumping in? I don't know.

00:15:12.000 Um, the disadvantage, what you're going to run up against is that now you have to maintain the

00:15:19.120 momentum. You know, politics is all about timing. It's all about momentum. Elections are all about

00:15:25.520 momentum. Um, it doesn't, you know, once you get to the election, it doesn't even mad. It doesn't

00:15:30.000 matter where you were in the polls even a month ago. What matters is, and what people were saying

00:15:35.260 about you a month ago, how they felt about it. It's what all that matters is right now. That's,

00:15:38.720 that's all that matters. Now you want to have built up a ground game and everything before that

00:15:44.740 point. But what matters, especially these days, when everyone has the memory of a fruit fly,

00:15:51.840 uh, what matters is the moment. And so by the time we get to even the primaries, uh, next year,

00:16:00.160 it's, this is all going to be a distant past. No one will even remember it.

00:16:06.440 So every political campaign is running up against that. Um, it's a challenge that everyone, that,

00:16:11.580 that anyone running for office deals with the fact that no one can pay attention to anything for more

00:16:16.180 than five seconds that can work to your advantage. Sometimes you're going through a scandal or

00:16:19.660 something like that. But, uh, generally I think it's a disadvantage, especially if you want to build a

00:16:24.440 coherent campaign with a long-term strategy. Well, what, how will that work on balance for Trump?

00:16:34.840 Um, you've got, can you maintain the momentum or can you succeed in stopping other people from

00:16:40.840 jumping in when they do jump in? Does it help them or hurt them that you've already been campaigning

00:16:44.760 for months before that? I don't know. We'll find out. We'll go through a couple of the clips here from

00:16:49.160 a Trump speech and it was a good speech. I thought, you know, I I've, I've, uh, always said that

00:16:55.760 there's like speech Trump and then there's rally Trump. And this was speech Trump because rally it's

00:17:04.120 kind of off the cuff. It's off the top of the head. Um, and he's just kind of rolling with it.

00:17:09.480 And then there's the speech where he delivers it. It's mostly written down and he's delivering a speech

00:17:14.060 that's, um, that has been written. Um, I think the more that he, that he does, the more that he

00:17:21.580 sticks with the speech Trump version, the better it is for him, I think, because it stays on message.

00:17:28.700 And usually his message is really good, which is why I like for him to stay on message.

00:17:33.940 So we'll go through a couple of points that he raised. We'll start with this. He talks a little

00:17:39.020 bit about the issue of women's sports and, uh, and parental rights. Um, this is not an issue that

00:17:45.620 was a major part of his 2016, 2016 campaign. Then again, it was not something Republicans were

00:17:50.480 talking about in general in 2016, um, will become a bigger part of his campaign for 2024. We'll see,

00:17:56.040 but here's what he says. We will not let men as an example, participate in women's sports. Is that

00:18:03.060 okay? No, no, no men, no men. My people tell me, sir, that's politically incorrect to say. I said,

00:18:19.480 that's okay. I'll say it anyway, if you don't mind. We've had, we've had tremendous,

00:18:24.640 tremendous problems. And, and, you know, it's very unfair to women, just very, very unfair. 0.99

00:18:30.100 We will defend the rights of parents and we will defend the family as the center of American life.

00:18:41.600 But who would think standing up here 10 years ago, 15 years ago, that a politician,

00:18:48.800 and I don't like to think of myself as a politician, but I guess that's what I am.

00:18:53.560 I hate that thought, but that a politician would be up saying, we will defend

00:18:59.620 parental rights. Of course you're going to defend it. Who would think that we even have

00:19:03.080 to mention this? Who would think it even should be a subject to be talked about?

00:19:06.800 We have to defend parental rights. Can you believe this?

00:19:11.380 So I guess I should amend. I said, this is speech Trump, not rally Trump. It's,

00:19:14.600 it's actually kind of both because it seems like he's going off of a speech, but he's also

00:19:17.680 riffing off of a, based on what the speech says. I think that's a, that's a good,

00:19:22.120 that's a good combo for him personally.

00:19:23.880 Um, he also gets into, I thought this was interesting and this is, uh, this is one of

00:19:31.660 the, one of the things that's in the headlines after speech, but he talks about drugs, the,

00:19:36.540 the, the problem, the, the epidemic of drug overdoses and his solution that he's mentioned

00:19:42.540 before is we should execute drug dealers. Now this is something, I don't think there's any

00:19:47.940 other Republican on the national stage that is saying this or would say this to Trump's

00:19:54.420 credit. Let's listen to that. We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets

00:20:00.900 caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts because it's the only

00:20:09.140 way we don't need any more blue ribbon committees. We don't need, I don't like to say this and

00:20:17.180 I don't even know if the American public is ready for it. And a lot of my people say,

00:20:21.540 please don't say that, sir. That's not nice. They kill 500 people each on average. And if

00:20:28.700 you don't do this in China, when I was with president, she, I said, president, do you have

00:20:34.060 a drug problem? No, no, no, no, we don't. He looked at me like I didn't know what I was

00:20:38.980 doing.

00:20:39.980 Now, one of the, one of the problems that Trump's going to run into is that you've got

00:20:45.260 the death penalty for drug dealers, which is one idea, which by the way, I support. Now,

00:20:51.420 I think obviously we could all agree that if somebody is like got a high school kid who's

00:20:57.280 selling a weed or something like that, no one's suggesting that we'd have the death penalty for

00:21:02.660 that. I, I assume what he's talking about are people who are bringing mass amounts of things

00:21:09.200 like fentanyl into the country. It is not at all unreasonable to discuss the death penalty

00:21:16.400 for people like that. Absolutely. I mean, you think about how many people they are killing. This

00:21:22.780 is pure poison that they are bringing into the country that they're, you know, selling on the 1.00

00:21:29.380 streets and killing tens of thousands of people every year. They're poisoning tens of thousands of

00:21:36.720 people every year. The death toll is catastrophic. It's astronomical.

00:21:46.340 So if we have this idea that, well, you can only give the death penalty for crimes where someone is 0.61

00:21:50.440 killed, which even that I don't actually agree with, because I think a death penalty for things

00:21:54.900 like rape and child molestation, even if nobody's killed in the process, would also be more than

00:22:00.120 reasonable. It would be, it's, it's what justice calls for. But when it comes to the fentanyl epidemic,

00:22:04.880 they are killing people. They're killing tens of thousands of people. And if you want to have any

00:22:10.500 hope of putting a stop to this, then these kinds of penalties have to be part of that strategy.

00:22:19.200 And I can accomplish it on their own, but it has to be part of the strategy.

00:22:23.280 The issue for Trump though, is that he's got, you know, death penalty for drug dealers,

00:22:27.440 which in my opinion, great. But then he also had the first step act, first step act when he was in,

00:22:34.860 in the white house, which released a bunch of drug dealers out into the public. You know,

00:22:39.360 he was working with Kim Kardashian to release prisoners from, from prison and out into the,

00:22:46.680 onto the streets. You can't really do both. So you got to decide which is it going to be like,

00:22:54.340 are you going to be the president who is calling for the execution of people who are selling poison

00:23:00.260 on the streets? Or are we going to be the president who releases them from prison? Seems to me it's

00:23:06.340 got to be one or the other. Before his speech, before Trump gave a speech earlier in the day,

00:23:13.420 Ron DeSantis, who had not responded publicly to, to Trump's criticisms of him,

00:23:18.900 was asked about it during a press conference. And, uh, here's what he says.

00:23:25.900 One of the things I've learned, like learned in this job is, um, uh, when you're do, when you're

00:23:31.260 leading, when you're getting, getting things done, yeah, you take incoming fire. That's just the nature

00:23:36.240 of it. Uh, I roll out of bed in the morning. I've got corporate media outlets that have a spasm,

00:23:41.340 just the fact that I'm getting up in the morning and it's constantly attacking. And this is just what's

00:23:46.620 happened. I don't think any governor got attacked more, particularly by corporate media than me over

00:23:52.580 my four year term. And yet I think what you, what you learn is all that's just noise. And really what

00:23:59.540 matters is, are you leading? Are you getting in front of issues? Uh, are you delivering results for

00:24:05.460 people? And are you standing up for folks? And if you do that, then none of that stuff matters. And,

00:24:11.220 and that's what we've done. We focused on results and leadership. And, uh, you know,

00:24:16.160 at the end of the day, uh, I would just, uh, tell people to go check out the scoreboard from last

00:24:21.120 Tuesday night. I think it's a good response. Uh, it's, it's the only response you can really give

00:24:27.840 because you can't get down into the mud with, with Donald Trump. You'll lose. I mean, he'll,

00:24:33.380 he'll beat you there. So, and this is the mistake is you, you go back to the, and we live in a

00:24:38.700 different world than we did back in the primaries in 2015. So making these kinds of analogies,

00:24:43.660 it only, it only takes you so far, but still, if you go back there and you see what happened

00:24:47.460 with most Republicans is that at first they tried to ignore Trump. Um, and then eventually

00:24:54.860 Trump just didn't give him an option anymore. And so then they switched courses dramatically.

00:25:00.980 I mean, Marco Rubio is classic example. This go from ignoring to switching dramatically and like

00:25:05.620 diving down into the mud with him and trying to out Trump Trump. And it just, it doesn't work.

00:25:10.260 You look ridiculous. You look, uh, inauthentic and you're not going to win in that fight. 0.99

00:25:16.700 So I think the only option for DeSantis at this point is what he just did there. I think it was

00:25:21.480 the right choice is just to try to kind of stay above the fray. And he was asked specifically about

00:25:26.260 Trump. But if you listen to that clip was another smart move. If you listen to the clip, you wouldn't

00:25:30.200 even know that that's what he was responding to because he doesn't even say Trump in the,

00:25:33.700 in the answer. It gives a broad general answer and then says, Oh, I'm focused on governing in

00:25:39.200 Florida. That's all I care about. I think that's what he has to do. Especially now when he's not,

00:25:45.520 when he hasn't even come close to announcing his candidacy for the president. Um, if he ever

00:25:52.720 does announce that now, can he maintain that if he does jump into the primaries and there's an actual

00:25:59.800 primary battle between these two, when they both have declared officially, can he maintain that

00:26:05.380 kind of answer the entire way through? I'm not sure. But for right now, it's, it's definitely the

00:26:10.740 best way. Uh, a little bit more politics. Mitch McConnell was asked to give his own autopsy of

00:26:18.060 the Republican party post midterms. And, uh, here's what he said.

00:26:23.640 One of the criticisms from Senator Scott and others who agree with him is that your decision

00:26:29.580 not to have an agenda to run on opened up Republican candidates to attacks that they

00:26:34.840 didn't really stand for anything. What is the response to the criticism that you are partially

00:26:39.440 responding to? Every one of our candidates knew what they were for, uh, expressed it quite clearly.

00:26:45.140 Uh, it's pretty obvious. And all of you have been writing about it. Uh, what happened? We

00:26:50.900 underperformed among independents and moderates because their impression of many of the people

00:26:57.140 in our party and leadership roles is that they're in chaos, negativity, uh, excessive, uh, attacks.

00:27:07.380 And it, it frightened, uh, independent and moderate Republican voters. And we saw that,

00:27:13.860 which is why you all recall, I never predicted a red wave. We never saw that in any of our polling

00:27:19.220 in the States that we were counting on, uh, to win. There wasn't a way we had national issue set

00:27:27.200 that was favorable, but as a result of our own perception, many of them had that we were

00:27:36.500 not dealing with issues in a responsible way. And we were spending too much time on negativity and,

00:27:46.500 uh, attacks and chaos. They were frightened. And so they pulled back.

00:27:54.460 They were frightened. Well, this is the great thing about the Republican establishment,

00:27:57.240 uh, that there are no surprises with them. You know, you know exactly what they're going to say.

00:28:01.600 Okay. That's either the great thing or the terrible thing you decide, but this was no surprise. We lost

00:28:06.660 because too negative, too extreme, too chaotic. He says we frightened the poor, helpless, hapless,

00:28:14.100 moderate voters. Now it is true that, and I've been saying this for the last week, if your message

00:28:20.520 is only negative, okay, if you're, if your only message is Joe Biden is bad, that's the negative

00:28:26.180 message, then it's not going to resonate. You're going to lose. And that was a problem for Republicans

00:28:30.980 in this election is that, um, as we've been discussing over the last week, what on the

00:28:36.900 national level, what was the Republican party's message to the voters? And the only one that

00:28:42.120 springs to mind, the only consistent message was Joe Biden is bad, which he is. And that is a case

00:28:47.460 you have to make, but then you also have to make a case for why you are, he's bad. Here's why I'm good.

00:28:52.120 Um, but I don't think that's Mitch McConnell's only point because the message from the establishment

00:28:59.780 has been clear as always, that we need to get away from the culture war issues, you know,

00:29:05.260 stop scaring the independents, stop being divisive. McConnell doesn't say that explicitly here because

00:29:10.060 I think he knows better than that, but he also doesn't have to. That's, that's, that's what he's

00:29:15.940 actually trying to convey. So when he says it was chaotic and negative, that's another way of saying

00:29:21.720 focused on the culture war, focused on issues that are controversial. Let's not talk about that. Let's

00:29:27.080 get back to, uh, whatever tax cuts, et cetera. Um, and we've heard this a lot. I mean, and it's not

00:29:33.960 just from Mitch McConnell. I've also heard this from conservatives who are not members of the GOP

00:29:39.400 establishment, especially when it comes to abortion. You know, there's this, um, consensus that seems to

00:29:47.360 be forming among a lot of people on the right, including people who I usually agree with that

00:29:54.960 there was too much focus on the pro-life message in the midterms. And that's part of the reason we lost,

00:30:01.080 which I think is just absolutely absurd. It now, yes, it's true. Democrats dominate with single

00:30:10.840 liberal women. And, uh, it stands to reason that a good portion of them were motivated in part by their 1.00

00:30:17.720 desire to be able to continue killing babies. Fine. But here's, here's the point. The problem is not 0.96

00:30:27.980 when Republicans are out there, uh, making the pro-life argument. I mean, the idea that, that,

00:30:35.100 that Republicans are too pro-life or are too open about it and talk about it too much

00:30:39.320 is, uh, to someone like myself who's been in the pro-life movement for years, it's, it's absurd.

00:30:45.140 If it wasn't so frustrating, you'd have to laugh at it. Really? The Republican party, that's their,

00:30:50.200 their issue is that they lean into abortion too much. It's been quite the opposite for decades now.

00:30:57.980 No, the problem is not that you're talking about abortion or you're making the pro-life argument.

00:31:08.800 It's, it's, it's, if there is an issue, it's that you're not making the argument successfully

00:31:14.040 or competently. Okay. So, right. It's, it's not enough to just bring it up. That's, uh, that's not

00:31:22.040 going to motivate voters. You can't, you can't get up there and simply declare, I'm pro-life.

00:31:27.560 Abortion is bad and leave it at that. If that's all you're doing, then yeah, that's not going to

00:31:33.960 be successful. And all you're doing is, uh, is lobbing up, you know, softballs for the other,

00:31:41.320 uh, for the other team to bat over the fence. Um, if that's all you're doing,

00:31:45.640 but you have to make the argument successfully, you have to explain why you're pro-life, why it

00:31:52.180 matters, which, which is really not a difficult thing to do, but you have to make the argument,

00:31:58.700 which many Republicans don't. Now we, the left can say all they want. Democrats can say,

00:32:05.540 oh, they're the right. They're out. Republicans are out of step with the American public when it

00:32:09.080 comes to abortion. Well, I think most of the American public, they don't know exactly how they

00:32:13.320 feel about it. So if you have any kind of fully formed view on abortion, then you're already

00:32:18.560 quote unquote out of step with the public. But one thing I do know that every poll shows this

00:32:24.520 is that most Americans, even if they're a little bit confused about the issue and they don't think

00:32:29.400 about it that much, and they don't think very clearly about it, uh, most Americans certainly

00:32:33.780 are not on board with murdering fully developed infants in the womb, like a second before they're

00:32:40.420 born. Most Americans are absolutely not on board with that because you don't have to think about

00:32:45.600 abortion very much to recognize that as, as a, as a base evil, you know, fully developed infants

00:32:55.180 and you're, you're murdering them. Of course that's disgusting. And most people see it that way, 0.99

00:33:01.980 but that's what the Democrat party supports. Every mainstream Democrat on the national stage,

00:33:08.480 every single one of them with, with maybe the, the, the, the most rarest of exceptions,

00:33:15.720 every single one of them supports abortion up to the moment of birth. And many of them will even

00:33:21.660 tell you that they support it after birth too. You should be able to communicate that. And if you

00:33:30.140 can't communicate that and, uh, back your opponent into a corner over his support for the, for

00:33:38.140 infanticide, then you shouldn't be running for office in the first place. You know, if you're an, 0.86

00:33:43.700 if a Republican candidate is in a debate with a Democrat and the, and the Republican allows the

00:33:50.120 whole conversation to revolve around the hard cases, the exceptions of the, to the rule, the 1% of

00:33:56.660 cases. All you ever want to do is talk about rape, incest, life of the mother cases. We're talking

00:34:00.600 about less than 1% of all cases. And if you as a Republican allow the Democrat to make that the

00:34:05.740 whole conversation, then that's your fault. You're incompetent. The issue is not with the pro-life cause 1.00

00:34:11.360 or with our argument on abortion. It's that you are incompetent because what you should be doing

00:34:17.400 is flipping it around on them and saying, okay, we talked about the 1% of cases. Let's talk about

00:34:22.780 the 99% where abortion is used as a form of birth control. How do you feel about that? How do you

00:34:28.660 feel about a fully developed infant one second before emerging from the birth canal? Does that

00:34:34.000 infant have the right to life or not? Yes or no? If you can't figure out how to flip the script like

00:34:39.100 that on your opponent, then again, just don't run for office. All right. I was thinking about doing

00:34:44.560 this for the daily cancellation today, but it would be a, be a bit redundant as our potential

00:34:48.760 cancellee has already canceled himself. And yet there is something to be learned from his

00:34:53.400 self-immolation. I think he fed himself into the wood chipper and he has provided us with an

00:34:58.440 important cautionary tale in the process. And, you know, and the moral of the story is don't jump

00:35:03.680 into a wood chipper really. If you needed that lesson, here it is literally or figuratively don't

00:35:07.820 jump into one. So CNN reports a middle school teacher in Pflugerville, Texas has been fired.

00:35:12.420 District officials said on Monday after video was posted to social media showing the white teacher

00:35:16.980 tell his students that his race is the superior one. Quote, last Friday, November 11th, the

00:35:22.940 Pflugerville ISD officials were made aware of an inappropriate conversation that a teacher,

00:35:27.200 a teacher at Bowles Middle School had with students during an advisory class. Pflugerville

00:35:32.680 Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Douglas Killian wrote in a statement,

00:35:37.520 as of Monday morning, November 14th, the teacher in question is no longer employed by Pflugerville ISD

00:35:41.560 and we are actively looking for a replacement. Videos of the conversation in question were posted

00:35:45.460 to social media last week. Now, from the way that the media is reporting on this incident,

00:35:53.500 you might imagine that the teacher went on a wild, unhinged, white supremacist rant, 0.87

00:35:59.160 which in some ways it was wild and unhinged. But I want you to listen to the tone. And anyway, 0.94

00:36:07.560 let's listen to that and then we'll talk about it.

00:36:08.800 I'm ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the superior one. 0.99

00:36:13.640 Oh, I didn't say it.

00:36:15.720 Wait, no, let me finish.

00:36:16.840 Hey, look.

00:36:19.460 So, white is better than all. 1.00

00:36:22.200 No, let me finish.

00:36:23.660 Go ahead.

00:36:24.460 I think everybody thinks that they're just not honest about it.

00:36:26.880 Hey, I'm not racist, though. I like all types of comments.

00:36:29.240 Did I say I don't like people?

00:36:30.400 People only think that.

00:36:31.060 Wait, so you said you are what?

00:36:33.820 You are racist?

00:36:34.680 You're saying you're like, you're racist?

00:36:36.160 I think everybody's a racist at that level.

00:36:38.300 No, you said you are racist.

00:36:40.800 I did.

00:36:41.760 I did.

00:36:42.360 I'm trying to be honest.

00:36:43.800 No, I'm not saying it again.

00:36:45.120 I've said it enough. 0.98

00:36:46.300 So, you're racist. 0.99

00:36:46.900 I think I should tell you to stop speaking. 1.00

00:36:48.900 Put your phone up.

00:36:51.180 I respected you for a while, but like, now...

00:36:55.060 I'm putting your phone up.

00:36:56.920 I don't think I got a little more respect for you.

00:36:58.400 Put it up.

00:36:58.780 I don't think I got respect for him no more, man.

00:37:02.460 No, you said I'm more respect.

00:37:05.320 Now, by the way, the district has made counselors available to students who were traumatized by this event.

00:37:12.380 Somehow, I don't think the counselors will be necessary because the students seem to be more amused by it than traumatized.

00:37:17.220 I mean, they're laughing about it.

00:37:18.840 And you can tell the teacher as he's talking, like, you can see him realizing as he's talking that he shouldn't be saying this.

00:37:25.640 And you can see the regret set in.

00:37:27.900 And then I think he tells one of the students to put their phone away, but it's too late because he's already on camera.

00:37:31.860 He forgot the student that was sitting right next to him.

00:37:34.600 Here's the point here, though.

00:37:36.640 That this teacher is actually doing exactly what the woke crowd tells him to do.

00:37:44.120 Right?

00:37:44.420 This is CRT in action.

00:37:46.760 This is what it is. 1.00

00:37:50.640 White people are inherently racist. 1.00

00:37:53.080 This is what we're told. 1.00

00:37:54.340 This is what all the race hustlers will tell you.

00:37:55.960 Robin DeAngelis and Ibram X.

00:37:58.940 Kendi and all the rest of them.

00:37:59.880 In fact, if you as a white person tell them that you are not racist, they will tell you it's racist to say you're not racist because you are racist.

00:38:08.220 And so what you need to do is confront your racism and admit to it. 0.59

00:38:11.980 You have to confront your racism, admit that you're racist.

00:38:17.680 If you deny that you're racist, that's only further confirmation that you are racist.

00:38:21.560 And that's racist in itself. 0.99

00:38:23.160 White people are inherently racist. 0.99

00:38:24.880 Black people cannot be racist because of structural, you know, racism is prejudice plus power and blah, blah, blah. 0.99

00:38:30.120 And then what they also say is that we need to start having conversations.

00:38:36.200 Right?

00:38:36.680 Have conversations about race.

00:38:39.300 And so this teacher attempted to apply all of that.

00:38:43.960 He said, we're going to have a conversation about race.

00:38:46.180 And I'm going to admit that I'm racist because this is what we're supposed to do.

00:38:51.100 That's the woke thing.

00:38:52.300 We're all inherently racist.

00:38:54.280 He got one detail wrong, though.

00:38:56.500 And maybe if he got in this detail right, he wouldn't have been fired.

00:38:58.460 But he says, well, everyone is racist.

00:39:02.560 That's not what CRT teaches.

00:39:04.040 CRT teaches that only white people are racist, which is an important distinction for them. 0.91

00:39:09.900 Not everyone, only white people. 0.96

00:39:12.780 Now, if you were to play this video back, rewind it, and if he was able to do that again, he probably would just keep his mouth shut.

00:39:20.240 But if he could phrase it differently.

00:39:23.140 Imagine if he had said everything the same.

00:39:24.800 He said, I'm ethocentric, I'm racist.

00:39:27.820 But all white people are. 0.99

00:39:28.980 All white people are inherently racist. 0.99

00:39:31.500 Then I think this becomes a totally different thing. 0.98

00:39:33.480 I don't think he gets fired for that.

00:39:36.480 So he was attempting to do what the woke crowd wants him to do.

00:39:41.760 Got the details a little bit wrong.

00:39:44.700 And he's fired.

00:39:45.160 But, of course, even if you've gotten them right, I mean, this is a thing.

00:39:50.520 You're racist either way.

00:39:51.860 It's sort of like go back to the witch hunt days. 0.97

00:39:54.940 And if you deny that you're a witch, then, well, that's what a witch would do. 0.94

00:39:58.840 You're lying. 1.00

00:39:59.340 So you'd be executed. 1.00

00:40:00.440 But if you admit that you're a witch, well, then you're a witch. 1.00

00:40:02.520 So we're going to execute you for that. 1.00

00:40:05.360 This is the quintessential get woke, go broke situation, what you just saw there. 0.93

00:40:12.620 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:40:15.700 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?

00:40:21.440 Who's to blame?

00:40:24.320 It's a sweet baby gang.

00:40:29.180 Elisa says, I'm showing what is a woman to my sophomores this week.

00:40:34.440 I can't wait for our discussion afterwards.

00:40:37.000 I work at a Christian school, so I have the ability to show this video to students.

00:40:39.560 They'll learn to debate and how to discuss these topics with those who have differing views.

00:40:43.480 Thank you for making this possible.

00:40:45.800 Well, I love to hear that.

00:40:46.920 And I think sophomore, people ask me a lot, should parents ask me, should I let my kids watch this?

00:40:54.660 Is it appropriate for kids?

00:40:56.000 And you've got to make a determination for yourself based on what you know about your kid.

00:41:00.100 But, you know, my kids are, well, those kids are nine years old.

00:41:05.360 They're way too young.

00:41:06.440 They haven't seen the film.

00:41:07.960 I'm not going to show it to them.

00:41:09.060 But once you get to be a sophomore in high school, this is certainly well within the age range where I think it's necessary and appropriate to show them the film.

00:41:18.300 In a perfect world, it wouldn't be.

00:41:19.780 Because in a perfect world, even as sophomores, they would not have encountered any of this stuff.

00:41:23.180 But being sophomores, they certainly have by then.

00:41:25.440 So that's where the film comes in.

00:41:28.080 Okay.

00:41:29.280 Michael says, Matt, I saw your tweets about Ukraine.

00:41:31.460 It seems hypocritical that you complain about Ukraine funding while supporting foreign aid to other countries.

00:41:36.920 Once again, you're being inconsistent.

00:41:38.780 Who told you I support foreign aid to other countries?

00:41:41.400 I am against all foreign aid to all countries.

00:41:44.640 I've always said that I don't like the idea of American tax dollars being sent to any foreign governments, period.

00:41:51.200 If a country can't survive without a constant influx of American tax dollars, then it doesn't deserve to exist.

00:41:59.280 I mean, it's as simple as that for me.

00:42:01.460 You have to be able to stand on your own two feet as a country at a certain point.

00:42:06.040 And the idea that we've got dozens of countries or more across the globe that are on the dole,

00:42:11.280 and you're taking money away from American families and giving it to foreign governments.

00:42:15.500 I mean, what happened to taxation?

00:42:16.820 No taxation without representation.

00:42:18.660 We're not represented by that.

00:42:19.660 We have no control of the money that's spent.

00:42:21.980 And however it's spent, it's not benefiting us directly.

00:42:24.840 But I'm against all of it.

00:42:27.500 J.R. Cratch says, Matt, just tell your wife that you think of the stuffed walrus as a type of pillow.

00:42:32.600 Then she'll be forced to concede that there's room for it in your house. 0.91

00:42:34.880 You think I haven't thought of that already?

00:42:37.020 That's been my argument this whole time.

00:42:38.280 It's basically a big glorified pillow that the whole family can share.

00:42:43.500 You know, we can watch a movie together, and we can all be leaning against the big giant stuffed walrus.

00:42:48.100 That's my vision.

00:42:49.660 It's a family bonding.

00:42:51.580 But she's not going for it.

00:42:56.500 Let's see.

00:42:59.780 Jordan says, anyone with a junior high understanding of biology knows there are far more than two sexes in nature that many animals change sex regularly. 0.99

00:43:09.340 Matt, are you ignorant, or do you just get off on hurting others different than you? 0.97

00:43:13.040 When did other animals come into play here? 1.00

00:43:17.720 What are you talking about?

00:43:20.600 Okay, you say there are other sexes in nature? 0.99

00:43:23.660 That may be true for some.

00:43:27.820 I mean, I think I read an article recently, actually, about a certain species of microscopic worm that scientists say has three potential sexes.

00:43:36.260 There's male, female, and then hermaphrodite.

00:43:38.320 And the hermaphrodites, as far as I know, actually have the functional reproductive capacity of both sexes for this microscopic worm.

00:43:49.420 There are also asexual organisms out there.

00:43:51.860 There are organisms out there that can reproduce on their own.

00:43:55.000 All of that is really interesting, Jordan, but they're not human beings. 0.99

00:44:01.660 We are not microscopic worms, okay?

00:44:04.200 We're not single-celled organisms.

00:44:06.440 We're not amoebas.

00:44:07.520 We are human beings.

00:44:11.220 So how does the self-identification of a human being, how is that validated or legitimized by a microscopic worm or an amoeba?

00:44:23.160 When you are not that, though, okay?

00:44:28.140 We're humans.

00:44:29.740 You know what?

00:44:30.320 There are also animals in the animal kingdom that have gills and can breathe underwater.

00:44:35.520 I still wouldn't recommend, if you're a person, I wouldn't recommend trying to swim to the bottom of the ocean without any scuba gear.

00:44:43.020 There are animals in the animal kingdom with wings.

00:44:46.280 Doesn't mean you should jump out of the, you know, window 50 stories up.

00:44:50.380 Is that, if you saw someone about to jump out of the window 50 stories up, and then you saw me trying to stop them, and I said, you don't have wings, don't do that.

00:44:58.980 Would you say, little, yeah, you're a smart one, Matt.

00:45:02.340 Don't you realize that there are a lot of animals with wings in the animal kingdom?

00:45:07.380 I'm aware of that.

00:45:09.080 But this is not one of those animals, okay?

00:45:11.820 Candace says, Matt, you always talk about, a different Candace, I assume.

00:45:19.060 Matt, you always talk about how shopping cart ditchers are psychopathic monsters, but what other small infractions indicate that someone is literally a Nazi?

00:45:27.460 I have one, bumper riders. 0.84

00:45:29.420 People who ride your bumper in traffic should be excommunicated from Earth.

00:45:33.280 I could not disagree more with you, Candace, I'm afraid.

00:45:36.440 In fact, you are the one who should be excommunicated and banned from the show, obviously, because if you're, I don't have this problem with people riding my bumper.

00:45:43.140 Do you know why?

00:45:43.840 Because I keep up with the speed of traffic, and I'm not going to be in the fast lane going, you know, 60 miles an hour.

00:45:49.720 I realize that if you're in the fast lane on the highway, you need to be going at least 25 miles over the limit, at least, to justify being in the fast lane.

00:45:58.100 So I don't have this issue.

00:45:59.900 If you have this issue, it means that you are driving too slow.

00:46:02.920 I am an unapologetic bumper rider because it's just my way of communicating to you that you need to speed up or move over.

00:46:13.300 How else am I going to communicate it?

00:46:17.600 So, yes, there are other seemingly small infractions that indicate that someone is literally a Nazi, and driving too slow is one of those things, unfortunately, Candace. 0.99

00:46:28.240 You are a Nazi and banned from the show. 0.97

00:46:30.760 You know, something smells over at my swag shack, something like sweet baby spirit. 0.99

00:46:37.680 That's right.

00:46:38.460 Fealty to the SPG is in bloom this holiday season, so come as you are and get yourself the sweet baby album tea.

00:46:44.860 We actually have that.

00:46:45.460 Hang on.

00:46:47.300 I don't know what that was.

00:46:48.740 So here is the T-shirt, and this is for, we are, you know, if you don't understand what that's a reference to, then you're not a member of the sweet baby gang.

00:46:58.120 Anyway, millennia nostalgia is a big thing, and lots of companies are cynically exploiting it, and so we're going to do the same.

00:47:08.400 You know, why does everyone else get to profit off of the nostalgia, and we don't.

00:47:12.120 We're going to also do that.

00:47:13.320 There are only about 500 of these in existence, and we're trying to sell out, so don't wait.

00:47:18.040 It's the perfect gift for yourself and everyone you know because there's just something in the way they put my bearded infant self on a T-shirt that no one can withstand having.

00:47:28.820 I don't even think that makes sense.

00:47:30.040 That doesn't, no one can withstand having.

00:47:34.040 Nobody can stand not having.

00:47:36.540 If they can't withstand having it, that means that they don't want it.

00:47:39.100 Anyway, you should want this, and you should buy it.

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00:48:31.240 Jeremy's Razors, shut up and shave. 1.00

00:48:33.500 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. 0.74

00:48:39.160 Well, if you pay attention to the news cycle, which is not a hobby that I really recommend,

00:48:43.340 you may have noticed yesterday that we were on the brink of a nuclear world war.

00:48:47.120 Again, a missile hit Poland, killing two people,

00:48:50.680 and the immediate assumption by the media and the social media peanut gallery was that Russia had launched the attack.

00:48:56.820 Now, why would Russia attack Poland?

00:48:59.180 I mean, why should we even think that Russia attacked Poland?

00:49:03.160 Well, it doesn't matter.

00:49:03.940 All that we needed to know is that a bad thing happened overseas, which means that Russia is responsible. 0.96

00:49:08.540 And that was certainly Ukrainian President Zelensky's message,

00:49:10.940 who put out a frantic statement calling for an immediate global response to Russian aggression against Poland.

00:49:16.660 This is what he said yesterday.

00:49:17.940 Quote, terror is not limited to our national borders.

00:49:21.060 Russian missiles hit Poland to fire missiles at NATO territory.

00:49:24.700 This is a Russian missile attack on collective security. 0.54

00:49:27.780 This is a very significant escalation.

00:49:29.520 We must act.

00:49:31.000 I want to say now to all of our Polish brothers and sisters,

00:49:33.560 Ukraine will always support you.

00:49:35.020 Terror will not break free people.

00:49:36.980 Will not break free people.

00:49:38.900 Victory is not possible when there is no fear.

00:49:40.780 Russia is terrorizing us and everyone it can reach. 0.99

00:49:45.600 Well, that was yesterday.

00:49:47.340 Here is today from Reuters.

00:49:48.880 Quote, a missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine's air defenses and not a Russian strike.

00:49:55.620 Poland and NATO said on Wednesday, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border.

00:50:00.380 Nevertheless, NATO's chief said that Moscow, not Kiev, was ultimately to blame for starting the war in the first place

00:50:06.800 and launching the attack that triggered Ukraine's defenses.

00:50:09.440 This is not Ukraine's fault.

00:50:10.580 Russia bears ultimate responsibility as it continues its illegal war against Ukraine.

00:50:14.100 This is according to NATO Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg, who told this to reporters in Brussels.

00:50:19.060 So it was Ukraine's fault. 1.00

00:50:21.340 It was not Ukraine's fault.

00:50:22.640 It was Russia's fault. 1.00

00:50:24.900 Got it.

00:50:25.840 Now, a question.

00:50:27.320 Um, did Zelensky know that it was a Ukrainian missile, but then pretended otherwise in order to draw Western governments into a direct conflict with Russia?

00:50:37.800 Or did he not know, which means that he was repeating bad intel without taking even a moment to verify it ahead of time?

00:50:44.700 I suspect the former is probably the case.

00:50:46.940 He knew better.

00:50:48.120 But the latter isn't much better.

00:50:50.100 Because either way, it should be enough to give us pause, to give our government pause.

00:50:56.140 It's reason for careful consideration before continuing to hail Zelensky as a messianic figure while also keeping him on the taxpayer dole like a, like a international welfare queen.

00:51:08.240 But this regime isn't one for careful consideration, which is why we will respond by, um, not by, you know, blaming Zelensky, not by being skeptical of him, but rather by giving him another $40 billion.

00:51:19.800 Miss from the Hill, quote, quote,

00:51:22.360 The White House on Tuesday asked Congress to approve $37.7 billion in additional aid for Ukraine amid Russia's invasion, a request that comes ahead of both a government funding deadline and the expected flipping of the House to Republican control.

00:51:35.320 The Biden administration is requesting that Congress authorize $21.7 billion in defense aid to continue providing equipment to Ukraine and to replenish the Department of Defense stocks.

00:51:43.620 It also is asking for $14.5 billion for direct budget support to Ukraine, critical wartime investments, and security assistance, as well as to strengthen global food security and provide humanitarian assistance.

00:51:55.820 Additionally, $626 million would go to providing nuclear security support for Ukraine and to modernizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to reduce domestic energy costs and to ensure sustainable access to energy resources.

00:52:06.580 Right. Our own cities look like third world refugee camps, but we are somehow in a position to shovel untold billions of dollars into the pockets of foreign governments. 0.77

00:52:22.960 You can barely afford to, you know, put food on your table or shoes on your children's feet, yet here we are throwing another $40 billion into the collection basket for Ukraine.

00:52:31.760 But why? I mean, that's the question that's rarely asked and never answered.

00:52:38.000 Why exactly are we tying ourselves to Ukraine? Why have we been doing this for months? Why is it our responsibility to fund and defend them?

00:52:46.680 How does this serve the interests of average Americans?

00:52:52.380 Well, one of the top Ukraine boosters in Congress, Representative Alyssa Slotkin, appeared on CNN over the weekend and attempted to answer that very question.

00:53:00.540 When you look at how far Ukraine has come, thanks to the help of the United States and allies, and I was told by President Zelensky that he really thanks the American people because he knows it's taxpayers' money and support from people around the world.

00:53:18.420 He's not silly about this. He absolutely knows.

00:53:21.300 What more do you think the United States and NATO needs to do to make them win and Russia lose, which is the stated goal of the U.S.?

00:53:33.500 Yeah. I mean, look, I understand.

00:53:36.480 I mean, even in my own district, there were people we'd knock on doors and they'd said, look, I support Ukraine, but, you know, how many billions are we going to give and how long is that going to be?

00:53:44.940 So that pressure is a real pressure, and the American people have been generous.

00:53:49.280 I think it's important to recognize that.

00:53:51.280 But I think we also need to recognize that what's going on in Ukraine and Russia is not just like some faraway issue that doesn't affect everyone in Europe, everyone in the United States, and everyone who supports democracy.

00:54:03.440 Do we want a world where a neighboring country can just invade a democracy and claim it as their own territory?

00:54:09.800 Should there be a punishment for that?

00:54:11.440 Should there be a price to pay?

00:54:12.660 And I think we need to remain resolved on that and supporting the Ukrainians in what has been a really incredible run to take back that territory, I think, has been important.

00:54:22.300 But we can't get weak in the knees as they're having these successes as the winter sets in.

00:54:27.920 So a lot of us are really talking about this in Congress, about whether, you know, what more we can do with anti-aircraft, you know, a bunch of weapons to help protect them from the missile strikes that we saw today.

00:54:40.160 Just anything we can.

00:54:41.660 And I really reject this idea that somehow we should just, like, give up on Ukraine, call it a day, and get to negotiating with Russia.

00:54:50.500 You know, that's not real international affairs.

00:54:52.920 Russia, it needs to be, they need to pay a price for this. 0.98

00:54:58.560 It's hard for me to explain just how repulsed I am by every part of that conversation and by both of the women involved in it. 0.98

00:55:04.720 Each sentence uttered is more infuriating than the last.

00:55:09.220 So let's go through it piece by piece.

00:55:12.100 First, we're told that Zelensky is grateful for the American people and our generosity in sending so much money directly to him.

00:55:20.580 Zelensky is, in fact, so grateful to us that he tried to, you know, hoax us into another, into a world war again. 0.68

00:55:26.500 That's his way of showing gratitude, is to hoax the United States into a world war that gets millions of people killed.

00:55:33.880 But all this talk of generosity is disingenuous at best.

00:55:37.800 American taxpayers have not been generous to Ukraine.

00:55:40.700 We had no choice.

00:55:41.960 The money was taken from us against our will.

00:55:43.600 Thanking us for our generosity is only, it only adds insult to injury.

00:55:47.940 It's like getting a thank you note in the mail from the guy who stole your car the week before.

00:55:52.400 Would that make you feel better or worse?

00:55:55.800 Generosity is an act of will.

00:55:57.140 It's a choice.

00:55:59.200 And this is exactly the point.

00:56:00.700 We didn't have a choice.

00:56:02.440 If the average American taxpayer was given a choice, if this was put up for a vote,

00:56:06.360 if we were asked how much money we want to send to the Ukrainian government,

00:56:10.500 I'm guessing that almost all of us would say zero dollars and zero cents.

00:56:14.800 I know I would.

00:56:16.240 I'm all for helping the needy, but foreign governments are not charity cases.

00:56:20.280 They should be expected to care for themselves.

00:56:23.120 Slotkin also insists that we must not give up on Ukraine.

00:56:27.180 On that, I agree.

00:56:28.880 You know, I can never give up on Ukraine.

00:56:30.660 I can't give up on Ukraine because Ukraine was never my concern to begin with.

00:56:34.940 There's nothing to give up on.

00:56:36.940 It's not for me to give up on or not give up on them.

00:56:40.620 Ukraine is not my country.

00:56:41.920 It's not my job to fund it, defend it, preserve it, or care about it.

00:56:45.640 I have as much concern for Ukraine as Ukraine has for me, which is none. 0.99

00:56:52.000 Does Ukraine have any concern for the United States of America?

00:56:54.720 Does Zelensky give the slightest damn about the United States?

00:57:00.700 He's been trying for months to pull us into a world war that would get millions of our kids killed.

00:57:04.760 He doesn't care about us, and yet I'm supposed to care deeply for him?

00:57:09.660 Now, it's not to say that I don't care about the Ukrainian people as human beings.

00:57:14.340 I care about all humans.

00:57:15.420 I wish them all well.

00:57:17.300 But the fate of Ukraine as a political entity, as a nation, as a government, is not my burden to carry.

00:57:23.040 And it's not yours either.

00:57:25.860 You know, there are 195 countries on this planet.

00:57:28.980 All of them must struggle in their own way to survive.

00:57:31.780 Nobody imagines that we're responsible for the fate of most of the 195.

00:57:37.140 Most of the people in America couldn't even name the majority of the other countries on this earth.

00:57:40.380 Few of us could name all of them.

00:57:41.560 Yet, for some reason, out of these 195, it was decided suddenly, several months ago,

00:57:46.480 that Ukraine, a country that most of us had spent not a single moment even thinking about prior to this year,

00:57:51.660 is extremely important to us.

00:57:53.400 And we must be willing to give it as much money as it says it needs,

00:57:56.800 even plunge ourselves into a cataclysmic global war for its sake.

00:58:00.620 We must be willing to send our children off to die for it, if that's what it comes to, we're told.

00:58:06.460 Not for any of those other countries, but for Ukraine.

00:58:09.000 Why? Well, people are suffering in Ukraine.

00:58:12.660 They're suffering all over the globe.

00:58:15.180 They're suffering in every country.

00:58:18.980 Well, Slotkin gives an answer as to why Ukraine specifically is our problem.

00:58:23.880 Her answer, such as it is, is that, well, we have to keep Ukraine on the dole 0.99

00:58:28.480 and even discourage peace agreements.

00:58:31.060 Discourage them.

00:58:31.840 She doesn't want a peace agreement. 1.00

00:58:34.680 She does not want, these psychopaths, they do not want peace.

00:58:38.120 They want the war to continue and they want us to get involved in it. 0.92

00:58:42.140 That's what they want.

00:58:43.980 She just said it explicitly.

00:58:46.840 We have people representing our country and supposedly our interests.

00:58:50.940 And they are willing to say on the record, on camera, that they do not want peace.

00:58:57.660 And why is that?

00:58:58.720 Well, because she says that we need to make Russia pay a price.

00:59:01.740 We have to punish them.

00:59:03.660 Russia must be taught a lesson. 0.96

00:59:05.020 Listen, these are the same people who release violent criminals back into our communities

00:59:09.880 and call it forgiveness while innocent Americans pay the price for it.

00:59:13.300 Yet in Russia's case, suddenly they become advocates for severe and violent justice. 0.65

00:59:18.320 Since when do they give a s*** about justice, any of these people?

00:59:21.480 Since when do they care about that?

00:59:23.480 This is justice.

00:59:24.360 It's the right thing.

00:59:25.480 They don't care about that in any other context.

00:59:29.020 To be clear, they want justice.

00:59:33.180 They want to punish the evildoers in precisely the situations where it doesn't benefit anyone

00:59:38.480 in this country to do so.

00:59:41.120 And why must Russia specifically be punished? 0.57

00:59:43.940 I mean, there are many countries run by corrupt regimes who have committed atrocities.

00:59:49.060 Another one is called Ukraine, by the way.

00:59:51.760 Should we punish all of them?

00:59:52.740 Is it America's job to be a sort of international Batman rushing to the scene to punish the bad guys

00:59:58.580 no matter if the situation concerns us or not?

01:00:01.560 How does the average American family benefit from punishing Russia for making sure that Russia pays a price? 0.55

01:00:09.960 How is the average American hurt if Russia is not punished? 0.99

01:00:13.000 How are they helped if they are?

01:00:17.280 I mean, if you could explain that to me.

01:00:18.940 If you could explain how the average American sitting around their dinner table

01:00:21.600 is somehow helped in their own lives.

01:00:26.900 How their own well-being, the well-being of their children is helped somehow in a direct way

01:00:31.880 by making Russia pay a price rather than having peace.

01:00:36.540 If you explain that, I'm all ears.

01:00:39.560 But you can't.

01:00:40.520 Nobody can.

01:00:40.920 These are not questions that the Ukraine boosters in our government can answer or care to answer

01:00:46.120 because they are not concerned with the interests of the average American.

01:00:50.080 They do not care.

01:00:52.740 They don't care if you can't afford to feed your family,

01:00:56.520 if your children die in an unnecessary global nuclear war.

01:01:01.520 They don't care about that either.

01:01:03.520 And they also don't care about Ukraine, by the way.

01:01:05.740 Just to be clear.

01:01:07.540 And that is why they are today canceled.

01:01:11.080 And that will do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.

01:01:14.480 Hope to see you there.

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01:01:16.620 Godspeed.

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01:01:21.860 If not, check it out.

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01:01:28.640 It will do it for you tomorrow.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 16, 2022

Ep. 1064 - Woman Blasts 'Racist Trump-Loving' Father... At His Funeral

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