The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1071 - Democrats Deliver Death Blow To Religious Liberty

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats in the Senate sign religious liberty's death warrant

00:00:04.060 with 12 Republicans obediently going along with it. Also, Disney retreats from the culture war.

00:00:08.620 New York City pledges to start getting violent, crazy people off the streets. There's an idea.

00:00:12.880 Will Smith begins his redemption tour just in time for his new movie. And the U.S. men's team

00:00:17.460 wins a big cash prize for its recent victory at the World Cup. And now they have to split it with

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00:01:19.960 Yesterday was, we're told, an historic day in the U.S. Senate, a landmark occasion. With 61 votes,

00:01:27.620 including every Democrat plus 12 obsequious, pathetic, lick-spittle Republicans, the Senate 0.97

00:01:33.380 officially passed the inaptly named Respect for Marriage Act. And the bill will, of course, 0.98

00:01:39.180 repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, codify gay marriage into law at the federal level,

00:01:44.340 officially redefining marriage and reshaping it in the image of left-wing ideology. And despite

00:01:48.980 assurances from the aforementioned obsequious, pathetic lick-spittles, it will, in fact, set 0.98

00:01:53.680 the stage for an all-out assault on religious liberty across the entire country. Now, there can 0.99

00:01:58.920 only be two reasons for legislation like this to be introduced in the first place, and that's one of

00:02:04.440 them, to destroy religious liberty. It's why Democrats were celebrating the bill as a consequential 0.76

00:02:08.980 moment in American history. Here's Senator Tammy Baldwin yesterday afternoon after the bill was passed 0.69

00:02:14.440 talking about how historic it all is. A lot of people have asked me in recent days what the passage

00:02:22.180 of this historic bill would mean to me as a member of the LGBTQ plus community. What I said to people

00:02:30.640 who asked me a similar question back in 2012 when I was first elected to the United States Senate still

00:02:37.940 rings true today. I didn't run for the Senate to make history. I ran for the Senate to make a

00:02:44.780 difference. And we are not pushing this legislation to make history. We are doing this to make a

00:02:53.060 difference for millions upon millions of Americans. It's a historic day.

00:02:58.820 Sorry, I should have specified. Tammy Baldwin actually argues that the bill does not make 1.00

00:03:04.560 history, but it is historic. What exactly is the distinction here? This is like the greatest

00:03:10.540 humble brag I've ever heard. You should try that in a job interview, maybe. You know, I'm not

00:03:15.160 interested in making history. I just want to make a difference. What's the difference between making

00:03:21.240 history and being historic? There really isn't one, but Democrats are simply determined to never speak

00:03:25.460 clearly about anything. They are allergic to clarity, it would seem. And yet, in spite of the

00:03:30.620 obfuscation, it's clear what is actually happening here. As I said, there are only two reasons why this

00:03:36.180 bill was written, introduced, and now passed and will certainly be signed by Biden. The first reason

00:03:42.740 is to virtue signal, you know, and to give Democrats something to do that doesn't involve solving any of

00:03:48.260 the many actual problems that we face as a country. This is reason enough to oppose the bill also.

00:03:54.780 And it ought to have been reason enough for every Republican to vote against it.

00:03:58.720 Because even if you agree with the Democrats on the subject of marriage, you should still see this 0.94

00:04:04.460 bill at the very best as in some ways similar to, say, the anti-lynching law that Biden signed

00:04:11.400 last year. In that case, I, of course, agreed with the Democrats that lynching is bad, but I oppose the law

00:04:17.860 because lynching is already illegal, it's already a felony, and it's already a hate crime.

00:04:24.320 So before Biden signed the bill, anyone who lynched a black person would be certain to spend the rest

00:04:29.560 of his life in federal prison. After the bill, anyone who lynches a black person is certain to 0.88

00:04:34.260 spend the rest of his life in federal prison. Nothing has changed. The bill was a waste of time 0.77

00:04:38.320 designed to help generate the false impression that Democrats in DC are actually working to solve

00:04:42.940 problems when, in fact, they aren't working on solving any real problems at all. In a similar way,

00:04:48.220 the so-called Respect for Marriage Act was pushed through in response to a totally imagined threat.

00:04:54.620 The backers of the bill have imagined a hypothetical scenario where some undetermined,

00:05:00.840 unspecified state somewhere passes a law banning same-sex marriage, and then that law is upheld by 0.99

00:05:08.220 a federal court, and then it winds its way through the court system and ends up at our nation's highest

00:05:13.600 court where a majority of justices side with the unknown state and gay marriage is overturned.

00:05:19.440 Every part of that scenario is a fantasy. No part of it will actually happen. There is no state in

00:05:25.760 the union attempting to ban same-sex marriage. There is no federal court that would uphold such a law,

00:05:31.180 and there's only one, maybe two, but certainly not a majority in the Supreme Court that would side

00:05:35.900 with the state in such a situation anyway. So this law to begin with is not needed.

00:05:43.400 And therefore, again, at the very best, it's designed to give Democrats an opportunity to

00:05:47.740 stand in front of the press and congratulate themselves on a historic victory over an imagined

00:05:53.560 enemy. They are once again solving a made-up problem because they don't have the interest or

00:05:59.860 the will or the ability to solve any of the real problems. And in fact, most of the real problems,

00:06:05.560 they don't even see as problems, and that's the first problem. And that's issue number one here.

00:06:12.840 But it's worse than that because I wish the legislation was merely pointless. I wish that

00:06:18.380 it was merely meant to virtue signal. It was merely a waste of time. But it is, in fact,

00:06:23.680 far more troubling than that. As it turns out, the law will accomplish something. Namely,

00:06:27.800 it will accomplish the further destruction and degradation of religious liberty and free speech

00:06:32.720 in the United States. And if you were among the oblivious conservatives who didn't see this or

00:06:38.180 understand it before, hopefully you've now been jolted awake by the fact that three attempts to

00:06:43.960 include amendments protecting religious liberty all failed. Okay, there were attempts to put religious 0.65

00:06:50.380 liberty amendments on this thing, guaranteeing that religious liberty would not be, this bill would

00:06:55.440 not be used to attack religious liberty, and all those amendments failed. Reading from the Daily Wire,

00:06:59.140 it says, Oklahoma Republican Senator James Langford, who proposed an amendment addressing

00:07:03.260 religious liberty concerns, warned of the language fails to place any restrictions which would cause

00:07:08.040 entities such as nonprofits or faith-based organizations to choose not to provide those

00:07:13.160 services or to abandon their faith. Quote, I encourage everyone in this body to ask a very simple

00:07:18.520 question to themselves. Is today about respecting the rights of all, Langford said on the Senate floor,

00:07:23.040 or is it about silencing some? Senator Mike Lee called on his Republican colleagues in favor of the

00:07:27.840 legislation to include protections for anyone with a religious belief or moral conviction that

00:07:32.060 marriage belongs to one man and one woman. Lee introduced an amendment prohibiting federal

00:07:36.580 bureaucrats from discriminating against individuals, organizations, and other religious entities by

00:07:41.440 stripping away tax-exempt status, licenses, contracts, or other benefits. Quote, instead of subjecting

00:07:46.880 churches, religious nonprofits, and persons of conscience to undue scrutiny or punishment by the

00:07:52.080 federal government because of their views on marriage, we should make explicitly clear that this

00:07:55.640 legislation does not constitute a national policy endorsing a particular view of marriage that

00:08:00.380 threatens the tax-exempt status of faith-based nonprofits, he wrote. As we move forward, let us

00:08:05.300 be sure to keep churches, religious charities, and religious universities out of litigation in the first

00:08:09.460 instance. But neither Langford Lee or Senator Mark Rubio's amendment to the bill passed.

00:08:16.580 So that tells you what you need to know. There were multiple attempts to add specific, strong,

00:08:21.640 clear language guaranteeing the religious rights of individual Americans, and those attempts were all 0.98

00:08:27.060 rebuffed. Here is Senator Lee explaining more about the purpose of his amendment. Listen.

00:08:33.840 In the hope that we can come to a place where we respect each other, I have offered an amendment to

00:08:39.580 this legislation that would explicitly minimize the threats to these religious organizations and

00:08:45.580 individuals. I am at the table. I am willing to compromise. And in the spirit of compromise,

00:08:52.060 I have publicly stated and I reiterate here again today that I will support the legislation if my

00:08:59.100 amendment is adopted. My amendment simply prohibits the federal government from discriminating against

00:09:05.340 schools, businesses, and organizations based on their religious beliefs about same-sex marriage.

00:09:12.140 That's all it does. My amendment prevents the Internal Revenue Service, among other things,

00:09:20.460 from revoking the tax-exempt status of these charities and organizations simply because they act according to

00:09:26.580 their beliefs about the divine purpose of marriage. It prevents the Department of Education from targeting

00:09:32.540 schools with honor codes based on the fact that they've got provisions in their honor codes based on

00:09:40.120 religious beliefs. It protects individuals from being denied business licenses or grants or other statuses based on

00:09:47.860 their views about marriage. It protects Americans who wish to add, who wish to act according to their religious

00:09:56.000 beliefs, from being forced to abandon their God-given mandates to love, serve, and care for the poor, the orphan, and the

00:10:03.520 refugee. If we allow the government to threaten their ability to do so, then the religious liberty of every

00:10:12.740 American is in peril. 0.79

00:10:16.260 Well, that argument was not persuasive to those assembled. That amendment failed. We're told that the amendments

00:10:21.960 weren't needed because the so-called Respect for Marriage Act already protects religious liberty, and that, of course, 0.50

00:10:27.960 is a lie. Here's what the bill actually says on the subject of religious liberty. Here's what it says. Here's the language in the bill.

00:10:33.300 It says, diverse beliefs about the role of gender in marriage are held by reasonable and sincere people based on

00:10:39.900 decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises. Therefore, Congress affirms that such people and their

00:10:46.880 diverse beliefs are due proper respect. Well, that means exactly nothing. Notice how it does not specify, it doesn't

00:10:58.420 mention any specific belief about marriage. It doesn't say anything that, you know, belief in traditional or

00:11:04.180 biblical or man-woman marriage. No word like that or term like that is used. It only says that diverse beliefs

00:11:13.380 are due respect. Which beliefs? And what does due respect even mean? I mean, we don't need the law to grant

00:11:22.660 vague and unspecified respect to certain beliefs. Yes, people are free to believe whatever they want.

00:11:30.620 So when you hear from a government, you know, from these people, oh, we're not going to stop you from

00:11:35.260 believing what you want to believe. Well, I know that because you can't stop me from believing something,

00:11:41.000 even if you wanted to. And I think you do want to. Because a belief is something that I carry around

00:11:46.300 in my head and in my heart. There's no law that can govern that directly. So the issue isn't belief

00:11:53.640 per se, but action. The government must protect your right, not simply to believe what you want to

00:12:00.340 believe, but to live out and act out your faith. And this is precisely what the bill does not protect.

00:12:09.080 It's what the amendments that were voted down were supposed to protect, but the bill does not.

00:12:13.680 Also note that the supposed religious liberty protections in the bill only apply to religious

00:12:19.040 institutions like churches, allegedly protecting their right to not directly participate in the

00:12:24.180 solemnization of a same-sex marriage. I'm skeptical that those protections will be meaningful in

00:12:29.100 practice, but they also don't include the people who actually need the protections. As recent history

00:12:34.200 shows, the left is far more interested in imposing its will on small town bakers and photographers and

00:12:41.480 florists who prefer not to lend their services to gay weddings. But a bakery is not a religious 0.87

00:12:47.460 institution. And yet the baker still has First Amendment rights, or at least he ought to.

00:12:54.920 You shouldn't need to work for a religious institution in order to have the right to live

00:12:59.120 and operate according to your religious beliefs. In fact, if you're only allowed to live by your

00:13:05.680 religious beliefs at church, then you don't have religious liberty at all. And that is the goal 0.99

00:13:12.840 here. The left's goal is to contain religious expression, relegate it to certain assigned areas,

00:13:20.620 and then once it's been entirely walled in, that's when they set out to eradicate it completely.

00:13:28.400 This is how it has always worked historically. And now we're seeing it play out again.

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00:14:48.240 Well, the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, a massive defeat in the legislature and a massive

00:14:58.820 defeat culturally as well. That's what it is. There's just no way around it. And don't listen

00:15:02.940 to any conservative who says, oh, it's okay. It's no big deal. Because these are very often the same

00:15:09.200 exact conservatives that every single massive defeat conservatives have suffered. They're the

00:15:14.160 ones saying, yeah, it'll be fine. No, it's fine. We didn't need that anyway. Religious liberty,

00:15:18.820 what do you need that for? They said you can still have it at church. Just go to church and have all

00:15:22.340 the religious liberty you want inside those walls. Until a few years from now, when the government

00:15:28.360 comes along and says, you know what? People have the human God-given right to, a man has a human

00:15:37.940 right. This is a basic human right that a man has to marry another man. And who are you even in a 0.96

00:15:42.280 church to deny someone their human rights? So that's the argument that we are going to start 0.53

00:15:50.360 hearing. And then when we start hearing that argument, and they actually move finally in a

00:15:55.080 really serious way against the churches, these same conservatives again will say, well, it's fine

00:15:59.700 anyway. In your home at least, what do you need to gather together for to express your religious

00:16:06.400 faith? Just stay at your home. There's Zoom church. You can do it on Zoom. Well, no, you don't

00:16:12.540 have access to Zoom anymore because we took that away because they're not going to let you use it

00:16:15.820 for those bigoted purposes. So just stay at your house. Gather together in your home. Not too many

00:16:23.960 of you, just individual families. That's a defeat. But there was yesterday a victory, a much smaller

00:16:33.560 scale, I have to say, but also important. So Chris Ruffo has this report. It says,

00:16:38.100 in recent years, the Walt Disney Company has become embroiled in America's culture war.

00:16:43.040 As I've reported, the company has pushed critical race theory and its employee training programs and

00:16:46.760 radical gender ideology and its children's programming. Last week, Disney's board of directors

00:16:50.420 fired CEO Bob Chapek, who lost a high-profile fight with Governor Ron DeSantis regarding legislation

00:16:56.020 restricting radical gender theory in schools, and brought back former CEO Bob Iger to right the

00:17:01.720 ship. Ruffo reports, I have obtained exclusive video of Iger's first town hall meeting with Disney

00:17:08.020 employees, in which he retreats from the company's most controversial political positions and moves

00:17:12.780 toward neutrality in the culture war. So I want to go through some of these videos as he's talking to

00:17:19.020 his employees about his vision for Disney going forward. And we'll start with this. Here's Bob Iger

00:17:26.600 answering a question about whether Disney will stay out of, what's Disney going to do about politics?

00:17:32.360 Are they going to stay involved in politics? Are they going to get out of politics? Here's what he says.

00:17:37.300 This is a virtual question. Many cast members had wished that Disney stayed out of politics.

00:17:42.580 Will Disney stay out of making political statements?

00:17:45.260 You know, I think there's a misperception here about what politics is. And I think that some of the subjects

00:17:57.540 that have proven to be controversial as it relates to Disney have been branded political, and I don't

00:18:03.380 necessarily believe they are. I don't think when you're telling stories and attempting to be a good

00:18:09.780 citizen of the world, that that's political. Just not how I view it. Do I like the company being

00:18:15.900 embroiled in controversy? Of course not. It can be distracting, and it can have a negative impact on

00:18:20.660 the company. And to the extent that I can work to kind of quiet things down, I'm going to do that.

00:18:26.540 But I think it's important to put in perspective what some of these subjects are, and not just simply

00:18:32.480 brand them political. Okay, so that's a little bit, yes, on one hand, he's saying we're retreating

00:18:39.640 from politics, but that he does also offer this qualification that, well, I don't consider

00:18:43.660 some of this stuff to be politics. So that's a classic move on the left, is to say, well, this isn't

00:18:52.120 political or ideological at all, right? To have gay romance storylines in films for kids, nothing 0.75

00:19:01.460 ideological or political about that. So you can't tell based on that. Is this just his way of actually

00:19:09.640 doubling down and saying we're going to continue in this direction? I think it becomes more clear

00:19:13.980 when he's asked specifically about the battle with Ron DeSantis in Florida and how he feels about that

00:19:21.960 now, you know, upon reflection. Here's what he says. Bob, have you given any thoughts on how to tackle

00:19:27.980 the Reedy Creek situation in Florida? No. I have to get up to speed on that

00:19:36.680 completely. Obviously, I followed the news. That development occurred after I left the

00:19:41.260 company. I was sorry to see us dragged into that battle. And I have no idea exactly what its

00:19:52.000 ramifications are in terms of the business itself. What I can say is the state of Florida has been

00:19:59.780 important to us for a long time. And we have been very important to the state of Florida. That is

00:20:05.400 something I'm extremely mindful of and will articulate if I get the chance. But I don't have the details at

00:20:11.120 all yet about what the ramifications are of the decision that was made by the state of Florida and

00:20:17.260 whether we intend to do anything about it. Okay. And finally, one other clip to play. This is

00:20:22.780 more specifically asked about the Don't Say Gay bill. And remember, this is what this all traces

00:20:29.020 back to is Disney came out against the Don't Say Gay bill and had this whole battle with DeSantis over

00:20:34.320 it. What they label the Don't Say Gay bill, a bill that we must remember that that bill never

00:20:41.760 actually existed that was invented by the left. Just to clarify. It was actually the anti-groomer

00:20:46.920 bill that they had a problem with. But here's what he says about that. All right. Another virtual

00:20:52.000 question. What is your stance on the Don't Say Gay situation? Well, first of all, our LGBTQ employees

00:21:03.060 are very important to us and we care deeply about them. That is a given. Secondly, this company has

00:21:11.520 been telling stories for 100 years. And those stories have had a meaningful, positive impact

00:21:17.360 on the world. And one of the reasons they've had a meaningful, positive impact is because

00:21:22.220 one of the core values of our storytelling is inclusion and acceptance and tolerance.

00:21:29.720 And we can't lose that. We just can't lose that. I think about Black Panther and the impact 0.51

00:21:35.300 that had on the world or a film like Coco. I mean, I could go on and on. And how we actually

00:21:40.280 change the world for the good. It must continue. We also, when you tell stories, it's a delicate

00:21:46.120 balance. You're talking to an audience, but it's also important to listen to an audience.

00:21:51.200 It's important to have respect for the people that you're serving, that you're trying to reach,

00:21:55.740 and not have disdain for it. That said, we're not going to make everybody happy all the time.

00:22:02.120 And we're not going to try to. And we're certainly not going to lessen our core values in order

00:22:07.600 to make everybody happy all the time. So it's complicated. And there's a balance. But

00:22:13.360 at one point, I said, we do what we believe is right. And then someone criticized me. You're

00:22:18.240 saying, well, who are you to say that that's right? Well, when you're in a job like mine,

00:22:22.680 or you are responsible for the storytelling that many of you are responsible for.

00:22:26.440 Okay. So you're talking to an audience, but you want to listen to them and not have disdain for

00:22:32.520 them. That's quite an interesting revelation. Don't have open contempt for your audience is what

00:22:41.100 they're realizing over at Disney, or at least is what they're saying publicly. You know, gee,

00:22:46.000 I don't know. Maybe we shouldn't openly hate. We can still hate them, but let's not be so open

00:22:52.000 about it. Now, so a few things about this. Obviously, it would be quite naive to believe

00:22:59.340 that this is a sign that Disney is anti-woke now and that everything he said about, you know,

00:23:06.380 politics, don't want to be too involved in that, that they're going to withdraw completely. And

00:23:11.320 it's going to go back to, you know, they're going to start making content like they made in the 1950s,

00:23:17.760 right? That's not going to happen. Disney is run by the people it's run by. It is a woke leftist

00:23:26.280 corporation. And that's probably not ever going to change. If it ever did change, it's not going

00:23:31.680 to happen overnight. Like that's a decades long change if it ever happens at all. Just like it

00:23:39.520 took decades for Disney to be overrun by these types of people. So it would be incredibly naive

00:23:47.740 to think that, that this is, that they're just, you know, next thing you know, Disney's like going

00:23:54.300 to be modeling itself after the Daily Wire. That's not going to happen. However, this is also

00:24:00.700 a victory. It's a victory for Ron DeSantis, that's for sure. He went up against Disney and this is

00:24:08.580 Disney backing down. They're backing away from it. Which by the way, if you're one of these people

00:24:15.220 that's out there claiming now that somehow Ron DeSantis is an establishment Republican,

00:24:21.580 this completely absurd notion, well, this should put that notion to rest. Okay. Establishment

00:24:27.540 Republicans, and there are a lot of reasons why Ron DeSantis is not an establishment Republican. Okay.

00:24:33.300 But establishment Republicans, they're not going to go to war with major corporations. Establishment

00:24:40.700 Republican Republican who's a governor is not going to go up against. He's not going to pick a fight

00:24:44.800 with the, with, with the most powerful corporate interest in his state. And if ever they established

00:24:54.460 Republican pretends to be doing that, he's going to be the one who backs down quickly.

00:25:01.780 That's, that's one of the defining features of the establishment is that at the end of the day,

00:25:07.340 they are, they're going to bow before corporate America and do as they're told.

00:25:14.000 So this is not what the establishment does. It's not just a victory for Ron to say this though. It's

00:25:19.840 also a victory. This is a, you know, for conservatives. This is a cultural victory.

00:25:24.040 Because even though Disney is not now going to become conservative,

00:25:28.420 they are actually responding to public pressure. That's what they're doing.

00:25:37.260 And now they're going to look for more subtle ways to inject this stuff into their programming,

00:25:44.020 which you could argue is even more dangerous if they're more subtle about it, because you have

00:25:46.880 to look out for it more. And that's true. So we kind of enter a new phase here, but even so they

00:25:53.040 are responding to pressure. They are backing away. They are crumbling a little bit under pressure.

00:25:58.780 And, uh, that's important. And it's important for us to see that we can do that. Like we have that

00:26:05.560 power. Um, we can put pressure even on these major corporations and we can force them to respond to it.

00:26:14.920 All right. From the Daily Wire, it says, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city will begin to

00:26:22.680 involuntary hospital, involuntarily hospitalized mentally ill residents. In a press conference

00:26:27.740 Tuesday, Adams announced that first responders in the city would be able to remove people who

00:26:32.300 appear to be mentally ill and pose a danger to themselves. First responders will be able to remove 0.89

00:26:37.520 individuals and take them to a hospital for evaluation. And the individuals will be held until a

00:26:41.720 treatment plan is established. Adam says, it's not acceptable for us to see someone who clearly

00:26:46.340 needs help and walk past. For too long, there's been a gray area where policy law and accountability

00:26:51.800 have not been clear. And this has allowed people in need to slip through the cracks. This culture of

00:26:56.500 uncertainty has led to untold suffering and deep frustration. It cannot continue. We need to change

00:27:00.920 that culture and clarify our expectations. No more walking by or looking away, no more passing the buck

00:27:06.840 going forward. We will focus on action, care, and compassion. If severe mental illness is

00:27:11.540 causing someone to be unsheltered and a danger to themselves, we have a moral obligation to help

00:27:16.040 them get the treatment and care they need. It begins with an immediate shift in how we interpret

00:27:20.400 our obligation to those in need and calls upon our outreach workers to take deeper actions

00:27:25.520 and more intensive engagement. We can no longer deny the reality that untreated psychosis can be a

00:27:31.800 cruel and all-consuming condition that often requires involuntary intervention, supervised medical

00:27:36.940 treatment, and long-term care. So there's a lot of revelations going on here on the left today.

00:27:40.980 On one hand, we've had Disney saying maybe we shouldn't openly hate our audience.

00:27:45.480 And then we've also now got the mayor of New York saying we can't deny reality. Maybe we shouldn't

00:27:50.140 be denying reality. Maybe to some extent we should confront reality. Because when there's uncomfortable

00:27:57.120 realities out there, like for example, the existence of violent and dangerous crazy people,

00:28:02.680 it's an uncomfortable reality. But when we just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist,

00:28:06.720 it just causes more suffering for everybody involved, including the violent, dangerous crazy 0.84

00:28:11.780 people. So maybe we should confront that reality. And that's what they're claiming they're going to

00:28:16.160 do here. Now, once again, on this story too, I'm kind of of two minds about it. You know,

00:28:23.380 on the one hand, and what I see from most people on the right is that they are applauding this and

00:28:31.060 they're saying, thank you, finally. Like, this is what we used to do with violent, dangerous,

00:28:37.300 crazy people. We used to, we had things called insane asylums. And that's where we put them. 0.97

00:28:43.720 Okay? If they, if you couldn't get through to them, if they wouldn't respond to therapy and

00:28:49.180 counseling, if they were that, you know, off their rocker, if they were completely disconnected from

00:28:54.680 reality, and they were a danger to themselves or others, then you had places that you put them.

00:28:58.980 Because what else are you supposed to do? The only other option is to just leave them out on the

00:29:03.620 street where they're going to victimize themselves and other people. And this used to be what we did.

00:29:09.660 And so on the one hand, you might think it's a good thing we're returning to that. And it is

00:29:17.980 looked at a certain way. Because again, what else are you going to do?

00:29:24.640 This, this other option of just leaving them on the street is obviously not working.

00:29:32.360 Because next thing you know, they're walking down to the subway and just like throwing a random woman

00:29:36.280 in front of the train. You know, these are the kind of things that are happening.

00:29:40.220 So that's, that's good if we're, if we're taking them and involuntarily hospitalizing them.

00:29:46.140 Um, but then on the other hand, this is New York and it's a city run by leftists,

00:29:55.920 which means that there's always, even when they appear to be doing something good and making the

00:30:00.840 right choice, you, you, there's always going to be the flip side of the coin you have to worry about.

00:30:05.060 In this case, there's two things. Number one, if you're putting cops in a position now of

00:30:13.060 involved, of taking crazy people and involuntarily committing them, that means that, uh, it's

00:30:18.800 involuntary. So they're not going to agree to it, right? If, if, if they were agreed to it,

00:30:24.140 then it's voluntary commitment. We already have that. But the thing about violent, dangerous,

00:30:28.060 crazy people is that they're oftentimes not going to, they're crazy. So they don't understand. 0.98

00:30:31.780 They're not going to agree to go and seek help. Involuntary means that you're going in many cases

00:30:38.320 and you are physically detaining them and against their will, bringing them to the mental hospital.

00:30:47.400 Okay, fine. But what happens when the cops start using force on the crazy people? And then you've got

00:30:56.840 the very helpful crowd standing around and filming it and then cutting it in, in, in a way that makes

00:31:04.260 it look as brutal as possible with as little context as possible. And then they put it on Twitter and it

00:31:09.780 goes viral. And what happens then? So it's one thing to tell the police to do this and say, this is how

00:31:15.920 we're going to handle, uh, these sorts of people from now on. But are you going to have their back

00:31:20.120 when we start seeing all of the, the viral videos and the outrage and everything else?

00:31:27.620 When BLM starts marching in the street

00:31:29.660 about it, are you going to have their back? Are you going to stick by them?

00:31:35.260 That's one of my first concerns. First time I, when I first heard this, my first thought,

00:31:39.960 well, what happens when we start seeing the videos of this? Cause this is not a pretty thing. Okay.

00:31:43.340 It's not, there's no easy way to do it. As we said, it's an uncomfortable reality that you have

00:31:49.300 violent, dangerous, crazy people. And when you're, when you're dealing with them, it's not pretty.

00:31:54.660 It's not going to be pretty. It's going to be a rough thing to see. And we live in a society now

00:32:00.300 where we get to see everything. So how, how is that going to work? That's my concern.

00:32:07.280 Second concern is what counts as a mental illness? You know, um, we know that the category of mental

00:32:17.060 illness is being increasingly expanded every, every new iteration of the diagnostic statistical

00:32:23.100 manual of mental disorders. You know, they, they add a bunch of new ones and we're already at a point

00:32:28.980 where, uh, any, anyone, I mean, you could pick up the DSM and you could find 15 mental illnesses on

00:32:35.720 there that apply to you, even if you're not crazy at all. So they, this is happening within the context

00:32:42.240 of the mental health industry, sort of, uh, categorizing and cataloging and medicalizing

00:32:50.340 every aspect of the human condition. So as to make everybody mentally ill, even if we're not.

00:32:57.900 So what counts as dangerously mentally ill? You know, do you get to a point where, uh, you're

00:33:04.780 maybe just being a conservative is a mental illness and also a danger to the public. 0.98

00:33:10.280 You tweet something that makes people uncomfortable. You tweet a criticism of the 0.96

00:33:13.880 trans community, right? Of the trans agenda. We've already been told that's terrorism. That's dangerous.

00:33:21.040 So you worry about these kinds of measures being abused in that way as well.

00:33:27.060 Uh, what, and what do we, what do we end up with? Like, is this the right move or not? I don't know.

00:33:32.120 It's just the problem. When you, when you have these crazy leftist running cities, there's no,

00:33:38.160 it's, it's a no win situation. But what I will say is in theory, this is the right approach in theory,

00:33:44.740 if it's done exactly the right way and if it's done responsibly.

00:33:49.940 All right. So I've had this for a couple of days. I want to play for you.

00:33:53.620 Uh, NBC news. They had, this is last week. They had a story, quite a tragic story about one of the

00:34:01.220 Twitter moderators who lost his job or as they say, her job. And, um, it's quite, quite revealing

00:34:09.720 to see who was actually in charge of moderating content. Who was making the calls on these things?

00:34:15.100 Like what counts as inappropriate content. And, uh, here's, here's one from, uh, NBC watch in her

00:34:22.940 San Francisco home with some moral support from her dog biscuit. Melissa Engel follows the rapid

00:34:28.120 fire changes at her former employer on the current path. I just, I'm really, really worried about

00:34:33.940 Twitter's future on November 12th. She learned she'd been let go first by losing access to her

00:34:38.860 accounts. Then an email, she says other former full-time employees have told her they had to sign an

00:34:44.660 NDA to get their severance benefits. But because she was a contract worker, that doesn't apply to 1.00

00:34:49.780 her. So she's speaking out. I'm not giving a severance package. I can't, they can't take that

00:34:55.360 away from me. And I think people need to know about this situation. The layoffs followed by an employee

00:34:59.980 exodus came just days before Elon Musk reinstated former president Donald Trump's account Saturday

00:35:06.120 evening. Outstate East Bay professor Grant Kian says the move appears strategic. He gets to say that he's

00:35:13.580 rescuing democracy and reintroducing a certain type of political discourse on Twitter, even while

00:35:21.500 it overshadows for the moment, some of the, um, really tough news that people at Twitter have had

00:35:29.260 in the past couple of weeks. While the focus might be on Trump's account now, Kian notes that the

00:35:34.240 absence of employees like Engel who checked content will shape users' experience on Twitter.

00:35:40.020 Those losses of personnel are going to be felt. Just over time, these things build up and the site

00:35:45.980 will become more abusive, more extreme, and less reliable over time. Alyssa Gord, today in the Bay.

00:35:54.180 Look, just keep that screenshot up there. Does anyone, you see that person, does anyone think that that

00:36:01.380 individual was fairly, even capable of fairly assessing, you know, what qualifies as offensive content and

00:36:10.920 what doesn't? And of course, when it comes to offensive content, it's subjective. So Twitter is run

00:36:20.120 according to what that person, what offends that person. Does anyone think that this could be, that

00:36:27.540 that that person's capable of, of, of any kind of like objective, rational analysis?

00:36:35.100 Obviously not. If someone is confused about their own identity, how could they possibly be able to

00:36:41.700 do anything worthwhile when it comes to content moderation?

00:36:46.540 Of course, if you, you know, you could simple, simplify the content moderation thing and you make

00:36:51.300 it a lot easier. Michael Tracy tweeted this yesterday and Elon Musk responded to it saying

00:36:57.000 that it makes sense to him and he likes it. So Michael Tracy tweeted, Twitter policy in 2015,

00:37:02.760 and there's a screenshot of what the Twitter policy was back in 2015, before media slash activists

00:37:07.280 lobbied for the company to become a giant online daycare center. No direct threats of violence.

00:37:12.180 Beyond that, Twitter doesn't mediate disputes between users or remove offensive content.

00:37:16.480 If you feel a law was broken, contact police. And like I said, Elon Musk responded and said,

00:37:22.900 that makes sense. And it does make sense. And that's what the moderation policy really should be.

00:37:29.200 It's actually pretty simple. And it was simple on social media in the early years of it.

00:37:40.160 Yeah, we hear that in the early days of Twitter and Facebook, it was like the wild,

00:37:44.720 wild west of the internet. It's not really because in the wild, wild west, you know,

00:37:47.760 people get shot and killed. That's not happening on the internet. It just means that people can

00:37:51.220 share their opinions. And we can try to complicate it and make it seem much more complex than it is,

00:38:00.200 but there's no reason to do that. Like if I'm in charge of a social media platform,

00:38:06.140 for me, it's very simple. If you cannot directly threaten to kill people, right? Direct threats of

00:38:12.160 violence. That's a crime. It's against the law. You can't do that. So that's out the window.

00:38:18.180 You cannot dox people. And doxing means publishing personal, private information about them,

00:38:25.800 like their address. Can't do that. And that falls under the death threat category.

00:38:30.540 And then the only other thing that I would add is pornographic content. Starting, of course,

00:38:35.220 with child pornography, with which Elon Musk has already done a really good job of getting rid of a lot of

00:38:39.180 that. You know, he's been able to clean almost all that stuff out in just a few weeks, which makes

00:38:45.360 you wonder about the people that were in charge. You're going back to that Twitter moderator that

00:38:49.480 we saw. You know, if it was so easy for Elon Musk to get rid of a lot of the child exploitation images

00:38:55.460 and all this stuff was able to proliferate for years, it makes it seem like Twitter really wasn't

00:39:01.120 trying that hard to get rid of it. Because at a minimum, they weren't worried about that.

00:39:05.340 They were more worried about protecting the feelings of that Twitter moderator that we saw,

00:39:09.680 men who dress up like women. That was their primary concern. 1.00

00:39:13.840 So child pornography, obviously, should not be allowed. And then if I were in charge,

00:39:19.840 I would also include all other forms of pornographic material as well. I wouldn't allow.

00:39:24.200 But those are, you know, definable categories, pretty easy to enforce. Anything outside of that

00:39:32.100 that qualifies as an opinion that somebody is sharing. And you should be able to share your

00:39:37.300 opinions, no matter how stupid they may be. And if you really got into the business of saying, 1.00

00:39:43.280 we're not going to allow stupid and objectionable opinions on this platform, then almost nobody would 0.98

00:39:48.720 be allowed to post on any platform. It would be a platform with nobody on it. 0.99

00:39:55.420 You want a social media platform with no stupid or objectionable opinions, then it's just, 0.98

00:39:58.660 it's a platform just with nothing. It's just a blank screen and nothing is happening. 0.99

00:40:04.240 All right. Do we have time for this? Maybe we do. So CBS has this report. Actor Will Smith says that

00:40:11.960 he would understand if audiences are not ready to see him on the big screen so soon after the infamous

00:40:16.800 Oscar slap earlier this year. On Monday, Smith spoke to Fox 5 DC's Kevin McCarthy about his new film

00:40:23.400 Emancipation, which is set to be released in theaters on December 2nd and starts streaming on Apple TV

00:40:28.020 on December 9th. It's his first major project since he slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Academy

00:40:32.520 Awards. And this is a movie, as the title suggests, it's a movie about slavery. Emancipation centers

00:40:38.880 around Smith's character, Peter, an enslaved man who escapes a Louisiana plantation and makes his way

00:40:44.020 north. The film was inspired by 1863 photos of a man whose bareback was mutilated from whippings by his

00:40:50.320 enslavers. Well, even before we talk about Will Smith specifically, I will say that I'm just,

00:40:55.600 I'm glad we finally have a movie about slavery. And finally, finally, Hollywood is telling this

00:41:04.480 story. Because I think the story has never been told and we haven't heard about this. And it's just

00:41:11.900 really good. I mean, at the very least, it had been 17 seconds since the last slavery movie. And we know

00:41:17.940 that if there's going to be a movie about American history, like as far as Hollywood's concerned, this is

00:41:23.300 the only thing that happened in American history. Certainly the only thing that you can tell a story

00:41:27.840 about. So that's great. But Will Smith is kind of on this, on this publicity tour, where he's claiming

00:41:36.520 that I don't care, you don't, if you, I understand if you don't, if you're still upset, and he's pretending

00:41:41.560 to be apologetic. But then if you listen to what he's saying, it actually doesn't sound very apologetic

00:41:46.520 to me. Here he is with Trevor Noah, a couple nights ago, listen.

00:41:49.520 I guess what I would say, you just never know what somebody's going through. You know, you know,

00:41:59.480 in the audience right now, you know, you're sitting next to strangers, you know, and somebody's mother

00:42:08.080 died last week, you know, somebody's child is sick, you know, somebody just lost their job.

00:42:17.100 Somebody just found out their spouse cheated, you know, there's, it's like, there's all these

00:42:21.640 things and these, there's strangers, and you just don't know what's going on with people,

00:42:28.340 you know, and there's, I was going through something that night, you know, and not that that,

00:42:35.880 you know, justifies my behavior at all. I would just say, you know, you're asking,

00:42:39.820 what did I learn? And it's that, um, we just got to be nice to each other, man. You know, it's like,

00:42:49.540 it's hard. I'm not justifying or excusing my behavior, but here's my justification and my excuse.

00:42:58.020 I was going through something. So this is really what he's doing. He's, he's like really Will Smith

00:43:02.640 is doing the victim routine and he's making, and if you listen to him, he's just making a whole

00:43:06.720 bunch of excuses. I don't even think that he's, that he's actually apologetic at all. Um, because

00:43:13.300 if you're actually apologetic, you're not going to get into this. I was going through something.

00:43:16.780 No one gives a damn what you were going through. You got up, what you did was so

00:43:22.380 unbelievable. It's like, it goes beyond inappropriate. It doesn't begin to cover it. Okay.

00:43:28.200 And yes, is it, was it worth the, all the headlines, everything? No, nothing is ever

00:43:32.980 worth all the attention the media gives to it. But at the same time, it's still, uh, the kind of

00:43:38.520 thing that, yeah, that's going to destroy your career. Now look, look at it this way because there

00:43:43.160 is now this, uh, this move online. It's like, it's actually seemed to me, anecdotally, there's a lot

00:43:49.500 of sympathy for, for Will Smith and people say, well, we should forgive him. And he's one of these

00:43:53.980 putting him in the category of these canceled. He's like, he's been canceled. No, this is not

00:43:59.520 actually being canceled. This, this in fact is just, this really is just a natural consequence

00:44:06.060 for your actions. Like getting banned from the Academy Awards, well, you physically, you committed

00:44:10.260 assault in the middle of the ceremony. Of course you're going to get banned. That would happen to

00:44:14.220 anybody. So just imagine if you were like, what if you were at your job and it's, it's, and you have

00:44:20.600 some kind of banquet at your job, maybe an awards, you know, like some kind of awards banquet at your

00:44:26.180 job and they're awarding employee of the year and all these kinds of things. And they, they bring

00:44:30.320 someone up in the MC at this banquet and he makes a mild joke about you or about your wife or something.

00:44:36.740 And you get up and you physically assault the guy in front of all your coworkers at this employee

00:44:43.360 banquet. Do you, would, would you even bother begging for your job back? Like you would sit

00:44:51.080 down and know, okay, well, I'm getting fired for that. And I'm also going to go to jail by the way,

00:44:55.280 because that's a felony assault that I just committed. And that would happen to anybody

00:45:00.520 and any normal person. So the fact that anyone's even talking about like accepting Will Smith back

00:45:07.680 into the fold, that's just privilege that no one else would get. If that was you, you're done,

00:45:13.320 you're fired. You're not getting another job either. When people find out about that. And also,

00:45:17.560 again, you are going to be criminally prosecuted for it, which he never was.

00:45:24.240 So no, I actually don't think that I'm all about people make mistakes and I'm a hundred percent

00:45:29.260 against cancel culture, but there is, you know, not everything is cancel culture. Sometimes someone

00:45:34.340 just acts in a way, this is physical assault you committed in the middle. And sometimes it really

00:45:39.900 just is a consequence of that. All right, let's get to the comment section.

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00:46:50.200 MB says, this idea that only easy lives are worth living is paradoxically going to bring about

00:46:56.020 a pervasive misery in society, unlike anything the world has seen before. Well, you summed it up

00:47:01.260 quite well. That's exactly the point I was making in the opening yesterday. It's not that it's going

00:47:05.440 to bring about misery, pervasive misery in society. It already has. This myth that life is not supposed

00:47:13.780 to include suffering. That's not what life is supposed to be. And then people experience suffering

00:47:20.280 because it turns out that actually life is suffering in many ways. And they experience it,

00:47:26.340 and then they think, well, there's no point in living anymore. I am, you know, they think that

00:47:33.360 or they think there's something wrong with me. I am broken somehow. The same is why I'm always

00:47:38.600 talking about the way that we've medicalized anxiety and depression. And it sends the message

00:47:44.820 that people are not supposed to experience anxiety. And so if you do, then it's a sign,

00:47:54.120 it's a symptom of that something is broken in your mind. But it's actually the other way around.

00:47:58.880 Like, if you would never experience any anxiety at all, then you're not even human. Like,

00:48:05.340 that's not, that means you're not a conscious human. You don't have consciousness if you don't

00:48:10.660 experience anxiety because that's, anxiety comes with consciousness. It comes with our awareness

00:48:16.380 of ourselves and of our place in the world, right? And of the state of the world. If you're aware of

00:48:25.500 those things, it will cause anxiety. All right. Let's see. Wider says, quoting me,

00:48:34.600 suffering is a part of life, like it or not. Then he says, yeah, some people don't like that. And so

00:48:39.200 they use their freedom to choose the other option. Why wouldn't they? I know there were a lot of

00:48:44.200 comments like this. So people, anytime we talk about euthanasia, assisted suicide, whatever

00:48:48.980 euphemism you want to use, there are always people saying, well, this is freedom. It's a freedom.

00:48:55.160 It's the freedom to destroy yourself. I think one thing we learned from that is that's why,

00:49:00.480 that's why freedom, freedom, freedom understood as simply the ability to do whatever you want.

00:49:05.180 That is not the be all and end all. And that cannot be what our lives revolve around and what

00:49:11.960 society revolves around. And that kind of freedom also doesn't exist, by the way.

00:49:16.860 That kind of freedom cannot exist in any society. It wouldn't be a society. It wouldn't be a

00:49:20.580 civilized society. Obviously, you're not able to do everything that you want.

00:49:24.060 And when it comes to someone killing themselves, what I would ask you, and for anyone who says,

00:49:32.940 well, this is someone's right, the right to, okay, well, what if you saw, you were driving along and

00:49:39.720 you saw someone, some distraught suicidal man about to jump off of a bridge to his death?

00:49:46.540 Would you just keep driving and say, well, that's his freedom. It's his choice. He doesn't want to

00:49:54.040 live anymore. Godspeed, sir. Wave to him as you drive by. Is that what you would do?

00:50:01.200 Or would you stop and pull over and try to persuade him not to jump and tell him that life is worth

00:50:07.300 living? I mean, would you at a minimum call the police as you drive by? I'd hope you do more than

00:50:11.800 that, but would you at a minimum do that? Or would you simply wave as he jumps?

00:50:16.540 I think any decent person would try to persuade the person not to do it.

00:50:23.200 Because although you recognize that someone has the freedom, as in has the physical ability to

00:50:27.980 destroy themselves, you also recognize that this is not a good choice and that life is worth living.

00:50:38.380 And the other thing about assisted suicide too, by the way, is that we're not just talking about

00:50:43.940 the choice of the suicidal individual. We're also talking about what the medical profession is

00:50:52.340 doing. So this is first and foremost a question of, should the medical profession be in the business

00:51:01.860 of directly and intentionally ending human life? Should that be a treatment? Should the end of human life

00:51:08.380 be a treatment option for human suffering that the medical establishment will potentially provide?

00:51:17.900 It's not a question of, should people kill themselves? My answer to that is, no, they should

00:51:22.700 not. And I hope that that would be your answer too. Again, if you were in a position where you saw

00:51:26.660 someone about to do it. But before we get to that question, it's really a question of, should the

00:51:31.100 medical establishment be killing people? And my answer to that also is most certainly not.

00:51:39.080 All right. I cannot neglect this. You all know about the hideously stupid deal that I made,

00:51:45.120 the agreement to watch a season of anime. And I've been quite worried about this, distressed about it. 0.97

00:51:50.660 But then someone, a valiant member of the SBG tweeted to me this morning, and this is Joshua Laster.

00:51:57.080 He tweeted, hey, Matt Walsh, you're officially the star of the shortest ever anime season,

00:52:02.040 one episode, 16 seconds total. You're welcome. So this individual has created an anime series.

00:52:09.740 He's completed an entire season of this series. And technically, if I watch this right now,

00:52:16.440 live on the air with you, then I will have fulfilled the terms of my deal. So let's watch it.

00:52:22.640 Anime is satanic.

00:52:40.400 That was extraordinary, I thought. I thought that was really, you know, some people said if you sit

00:52:45.140 down and watch an anime, you might discover that you like anime. And I will say, I don't know if I

00:52:49.020 like anime in general, but that particular show I found to be quite, quite, well, it was efficient.

00:52:55.900 I'll say that. It was quite efficient. The season started a little bit slow, really picked up in

00:53:00.360 the middle, I thought. And by the end, I was worried that at the finale, it might let us down

00:53:04.020 a little bit. How are they going to wrap all the whole story together like this? And they found a

00:53:08.440 way to do it at the end that I thought was quite fantastic. I just, I really, I thought that was

00:53:15.600 great. And that's my, that's my reaction to it. And I, and so I have watched that's like, that is,

00:53:21.440 that's a season of an anime. That's an anime season, technically. Okay. So that's it. The deal's

00:53:28.140 complete. Well, the sweet baby gang came out with a vengeance over at my swag shack this past cyber

00:53:34.500 week. Johnny, the walrus said it's plush companions were flying off the warehouse shelves, but the sweet

00:53:38.780 baby album tea ripe with the smell of sweet baby spirit and nineties nostalgia sold out faster than

00:53:44.820 mimosas at a drag queen brunch. Many of you probably weren't able to get the shirt. However,

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00:54:22.100 we released the first two episodes of the brand new biblical series by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

00:54:26.280 The series is called Exodus and in it, Jordan Peterson sits down with other scholars to read

00:54:30.840 the book of Exodus and discuss what it means and why it remains significant thousands of years after

00:54:35.240 it was written. Scholars at the table include Dennis Prager, Jonathan Bagoe, and many more.

00:54:39.360 There will be new episodes releasing weekly and trust me, you don't want to miss the series.

00:54:44.320 Check out the trailer.

00:54:45.000 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

00:54:53.260 Turns out that a book is more durable than stone. It's more durable than a castle. It's more durable

00:54:58.640 than an empire.

00:54:59.420 You don't get away with anything and so you might think you can bend the fabric of reality and that

00:55:08.840 you can treat people instrumentally and that you can bow to the tyrant and violate your conscience

00:55:13.100 without cost. You will pay the piper. It's going to call you out of that slavery into freedom even if

00:55:19.020 that pulls you into the desert.

00:55:23.860 God is ethic-centered, not ethnic-centered.

00:55:27.880 Well, do you want the Pharaoh on your side or do you want God on your side? That's kind of the question.

00:55:35.360 There's a profound sense here that what is going on with the Israelites is the contrast to Pharaoh,

00:55:41.640 right? Like under no terms will you go and the Israelites have to say, we will go under any terms.

00:55:47.060 And we're going to see that there's something else going on here that is far more cosmic and deeper

00:55:52.660 than what you can imagine.

00:55:54.500 The highest ethical spirit to which we're beholden is presented precisely as that spirit that allies

00:56:03.540 itself with the cause of freedom against tyranny.

00:56:07.380 Yes, exactly. I want villains to get punished.

00:56:09.980 But do you want the villains to learn before they have to pay the ultimate price?

00:56:13.320 That's such a Christian question.

00:56:17.060 Well, you've got to be a member to watch, so head over to dailywire.com slash subscribe to become

00:56:21.560 a Daily Wire member and watch Exodus today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:56:30.480 You know, I actually tried to watch some of the World Cup this week. As a red-blooded patriotic

00:56:35.460 American, it's of course my general preference to ignore soccer and pretend it isn't real. And yet,

00:56:40.480 for some reason, soccer continues to insist on existing. So I decided to finally give it a fair

00:56:47.220 shake. I turned on the game or the match or the whatever they call it. And I watched as one team

00:56:53.120 kicked the ball towards the other team's goal. And then I watched as the other team kicked it towards

00:56:57.360 that team's goal. And then the team that was originally kicking it, what happened was that they

00:57:02.560 started kicking it again. And the other team, they started kicking it once more. And they were kicking it

00:57:08.760 back and forth. At this point, I wasn't sure what the opposing team would do. Would they begin kicking

00:57:13.040 the ball also again? Or would something else happen? And I sat in rapt fascination waiting to

00:57:18.180 find out, yes, as it turns out, they did kick it. Everyone was kicking it. They kicked it, and they

00:57:23.800 kicked it, and they kicked it. And I truly had never seen so much kicking in my life. And I said to

00:57:27.840 myself, wow, these fellas sure love to kick. All they did was kick this way and that. And at one point,

00:57:33.880 one of the teams, I think it was our team, they kicked the ball into the goal. And this was

00:57:37.660 tremendously exciting because it was the first time that anything actually happened during the

00:57:43.140 competition. And it was also the last time. Because for the rest of the match, neither team would make

00:57:47.900 the mistake of doing anything interesting again. Instead, they would simply kick. And they would

00:57:52.320 keep kicking. And people in the audience would cheer, yes, great job kicking. And all the kicking

00:57:56.540 enthusiasts were quite pleased with the spectacle. I cannot say that I was nearly as satisfied.

00:58:02.580 I bring this up because the daily cancellation today has to do with soccer, and I cannot in good

00:58:06.780 conscience discuss a soccer-related topic without taking time first to make fun of it. So now that

00:58:12.660 I've fulfilled my duty in that regard, we can move on to the topic at hand. Our friends, speaking of

00:58:18.300 kicking, our friends at OutKick have the story. Here it is. Quote, the USMNT, US men's team, answered the

00:58:25.320 call against Iran on Tuesday to advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time since

00:58:31.340 2014. It wasn't just a historic day for the men's national team. However, it was a monumental day

00:58:36.600 for the USWNT, the women's team. By advancing to the knockout stage, the USMNT earned a payout of at

00:58:43.980 least $13 million. Only half of that money will go to the men's side, while the USWNT will get the

00:58:49.540 other half. The USMNT and USWNT recently signed a new collective bargaining agreement that states that

00:58:56.420 prize money from the World Cups is pooled together and split evenly between the two teams. The total

00:59:02.000 prize money for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is set at $440 million, which is $310 million more

00:59:09.380 than the women's 2019 World Cup prize pool. The USMNT will earn money if it shocks the

00:59:15.840 Netherlands on Saturday to continue its World Cup dream, and the USWNT will again get half of that

00:59:21.100 number. If the USMNT stuns the World Cup and wins the World Cup, it will earn $42 million,

00:59:26.240 with $21 million of it immediately going to the women's side. Now, in fact, the women's team will

00:59:33.200 earn more money from sitting on their couches and watching the men's team play than they earn from

00:59:39.440 winning the World Cup themselves in 2019 and 2019, 2015 and 2019. The bargaining agreement they signed

00:59:46.500 with the men's team, of course, cuts totally in their favor. So this is not equality at all.

00:59:52.580 The prize money comes from revenue generated through TV contracts and ticket sales and merchandise and

00:59:58.000 marketing and licensing. The men get more prize money because their sport earns more revenue,

01:00:03.720 because there is greater public interest in their sport, because they are better and more impressive

01:00:08.900 athletes, by soccer standards anyway. There was never any conspiracy to deprive female soccer 1.00

01:00:15.380 players of fair compensation. They just generate less revenue. It's as simple as that. And now they're

01:00:21.740 being given a cut of revenue they did not generate, revenue that they lifted not a finger or a foot to

01:00:27.640 earn, all in the name of equality. And I could not think of a better way than this to reveal the

01:00:33.600 fundamental absurdity of gender equality as a concept. Because as we discover again and again, 0.89

01:00:40.520 no matter how hard we try to deny it, the sexes are not actually equal. They are different. 0.99

01:00:45.000 They have different capacities, different strengths and weaknesses. They thrive in different areas.

01:00:50.000 Inequality between the sexes is natural. It is not then unjust. There is nothing unjust about the 0.87

01:00:56.460 fact that men have greater physical strength than women. There's nothing unjust about the fact that

01:01:00.600 women have the power to conceive and bear children, and men do not. This is simply the way it is. 1.00

01:01:05.560 It's the way nature is designed. Justice is giving to each what they are due, which means that injustice

01:01:14.340 is giving to someone what they are not due or not giving them what they are due. But nobody can be

01:01:20.280 do something that falls outside of the natural order. Injustices are perpetrated by willful actors,

01:01:27.660 right? Nature itself cannot be guilty of an injustice. Because nature just is. It's the state of things.

01:01:38.120 So if the natural inequality of the sexes is not unjust, then the injustices will come with our 0.73

01:01:44.680 attempts to ignore or rectify or subvert this natural inequality. It is not unjust that only women have the 0.98

01:01:52.140 power to give birth. But much injustice is created when society pretends that men also have that

01:01:59.700 capacity. And there is nothing unjust about the fact that men are superior athletes, but injustice is

01:02:05.260 created when a professional sports league decides to treat men and women as though this inequality does

01:02:09.700 not exist. And yet in this case, we are not actually going to cancel the female soccer players for 1.00

01:02:16.960 being the recipients of this sweetheart deal. Because in some ways, I mean, you might even call it

01:02:21.780 old-fashioned. The men are making the money and bringing it home to the female soccer players. 1.00

01:02:26.940 The men are the breadwinners. And Megan Rapinoe and the female soccer players, they are now like the 0.85

01:02:31.740 housewives of professional sports. I might even applaud such an arrangement if the women were holding 1.00

01:02:37.760 up their end of the bargain by doing like the men's laundry and keeping their houses in order.

01:02:42.760 But they are required to do nothing, which again is what makes this unjust.

01:02:46.140 And yet who can blame them for taking the deal? I mean, if I could get the soccer team to split

01:02:53.160 their earnings with me, I'd take the money. It's not fair, but like if they would agree to it,

01:02:58.300 I would take it. No, the group that really deserves to be canceled is the men's team.

01:03:04.860 Because they agreed to this arrangement. Because they were afraid to say no. And they were too intent

01:03:11.340 on virtue signaling, too fearful of upsetting the feminists that they want to upset. So they signed

01:03:18.020 the collective bargaining agreement to forfeit half of their own money and give it to the least

01:03:22.520 sympathetic and needy charity in the world, known as women's soccer. The men's team, they even

01:03:29.140 pretended to be excited when this deal was signed several months ago. A lot of the men's soccer

01:03:33.380 players, they were like cheering it on. They cheered on their own robbery. They got mugged by Megan

01:03:39.020 Rapinoe in a back alley, and they responded by hailing her heroism and courage.

01:03:45.340 The women's team doesn't deserve the windfall that they will now receive, but the men's team

01:03:49.820 certainly does deserve to be on the losing end. It is a fitting penalty for their cowardice.

01:03:57.580 And so they are the ones who are today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as

01:04:02.840 we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 30, 2022

Ep. 1071 - Democrats Deliver Death Blow To Religious Liberty

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