The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1102 - How I Made It Onto The ADL's Anti-LGBT Extremism Watchlist

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, daycare employees are pushed to promote non-binary identities on

00:00:04.840 their children in their care. Meanwhile, a public school employee in Tennessee says she's quitting

00:00:08.920 the profession because she can't groom her kids anymore without interference. We'll talk about

00:00:12.420 all of this today. Plus, Memphis police prepared to release body cam footage of an alleged

00:00:16.160 police brutality incident, but everything they've done leading up to the release makes it seem like

00:00:20.940 they want the riots that they claim they're trying to avoid. And a clothing company romanticizes

00:00:25.440 self-mutilation in an attempt to promote their products. In our Daily Cancellation,

00:00:28.820 a leftist YouTuber tries to take me to task for my, quote, authoritarian views on criminal

00:00:33.860 justice. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:45.500 Welcome to another Flannel Friday, everyone. Now, you know that I try to remain humble. I certainly

00:00:50.380 don't like to brag, but when I receive a major award in recognition of my work, I think the most humble

00:00:55.420 thing is to acknowledge and show gratitude for it. And so I must say that I am grateful to start this

00:00:59.800 year off with not one, but two prestigious awards. The first came at the beginning of the month.

00:01:05.720 We talked about when the New Republic named me the transphobe of the year for 2022.

00:01:10.600 As I said at the time, I'm blown away by the honor. The competition was obviously formidable. There were

00:01:15.800 several worthy nominees who have been doing important work in the field of transphobia,

00:01:19.940 but ultimately I took the prize and I couldn't have been more thrilled. A fantastic way to begin

00:01:25.080 the month and the year. And this is an almost as fantastic way to end the month. The Anti-Defamation

00:01:31.780 League, which of course is a far left activist group, they put out a report this week naming the

00:01:36.460 biggest amplifiers of anti-LGBTQ plus extremism. And here's how they begin their report. They say,

00:01:43.940 in recent months, a handful of high follower social media accounts have driven the rapid spread of

00:01:48.380 dangerous and false narratives designed to marginalize and demonize the LGBTQ plus community.

00:01:54.420 Online amplifiers of anti-LGBTQ plus hate and extremism use their influence to push baseless

00:02:00.000 tropes and conspiracy theories to their millions of followers. These claims are frequently picked up by

00:02:06.000 major far right media personalities expanding their reach. Online amplifiers are key players in an

00:02:12.140 ecosystem of anti-LGBTQ plus hate that drives online harassment campaigns against LGBTQ

00:02:17.980 plus individuals and groups and spreads narratives which inspire real world extremist activities,

00:02:23.160 threats, and even violence. The Center on Extremism is tracking several of the biggest online amplifiers

00:02:28.920 of anti-LGBTQ plus extremism. Now the list of those being tracked, quote, by the Extremism Center

00:02:36.960 include Libs of TikTok, along with Chris Ruffeau, The Blaze, Gays Against Grimors, and then of course,

00:02:42.200 yours truly, the transphobe of the year. ADL describes me this way, says,

00:02:46.500 Matt Walsh is an anti-LGBTQ plus extremist commentator for the far right media outlet,

00:02:51.680 The Daily Wire. As seen in his anti-transgender content, such as his documentary, What is a Woman?

00:02:57.440 Walsh is one of the biggest purveyors of erroneous and harmful narratives surrounding gender-affirming

00:03:02.440 care for transgender and non-binary youth. His rally to end child mutilation targeted one such

00:03:07.680 provider in Tennessee and was attended by known violent extremists, as well as prominent right-wing

00:03:12.300 politicians. Walsh has over 1.2 million Twitter followers and nearly 2 million YouTube subscribers,

00:03:17.140 and his content is regularly promoted by mainstream conservative media figures such as Piers Morgan,

00:03:21.420 Joe Rogan, and Tucker Carlson. Now actually, I have over 2 million, over 2 million YouTube subscribers,

00:03:28.760 not nearly 2 million, but who's counting? Besides me, every day. The point is that I have, again,

00:03:35.000 been honored and recognized for my transphobic extremist efforts, and I feel greatly blessed by

00:03:40.880 that. Now, as humbled as I am to win these trophies, I sometimes suspect, maybe I'm paranoid,

00:03:49.240 but I suspect that maybe they don't mean for it to be taken as an award, because it almost seems like

00:03:56.020 they think we'll somehow be upset to be labeled this way, and even intimidated to know that we're

00:04:01.740 being tracked. It's as though they imagine that I'll be, like, in a group chat with libs of TikTok

00:04:07.060 and Chris Ruffo frantically messaging them to say, you know, guys, the center for extremism is on to us.

00:04:12.580 It's time to lay low. But unfortunately for them, that is not exactly how we react to these sorts of

00:04:20.040 things. Actually, the ADL and Media Matters and all the rest of them, they do find themselves in a

00:04:25.660 little bit of a bind. It's kind of a lose-lose situation, because on the one hand, we are

00:04:30.620 incorrigible bastards, so you can't shut us up or change our minds with insults or intimidation. 0.97

00:04:36.900 In fact, we find it amusing. We like it. So you only encourage us more when you do that. 1.00

00:04:44.000 We're happy when we upset you. If you work for Media Matters or ADL or Southern Poverty Law Center,

00:04:50.660 there is nothing negative you could say about us that won't make us happy, because we're so happy

00:04:57.040 to have upset you people. That's what we want to do. But on the other hand, if you ignore us

00:05:02.680 completely, well, then we're free to engage in our extremist activities without resistance. So

00:05:08.800 there really are no great answers. And that's why you have to feel kind of sorry for them. I mean,

00:05:14.200 I don't, but maybe you do. In fact, I have, for my part, never been more encouraged and determined

00:05:20.520 to continue down this path of extremism, especially given two other stories from this week. Now,

00:05:27.360 the first one is a video posted on social media by Jordan Chamberlain, who works with the

00:05:31.720 Washington Free Beacon. And it's a clip from a documentary called Reflecting on Anti-Bias

00:05:37.400 Education in Action, The Early Years. And it was reportedly presented by the North Carolina

00:05:42.960 Association for Education of Young Children to a group of daycare providers in the state.

00:05:49.340 Here's the clip. Watch this.

00:05:51.960 Huckleberries, today, I wanted to introduce you to a new friend in our class.

00:05:59.960 Well, this, Huckleberries, is my friend Nash. It's their first day in our class. They're just

00:06:07.160 looking around at all of you. And they're so curious to know who you all are.

00:06:12.920 Today was fun. It was really interesting, though, knowing going in being like,

00:06:20.460 I don't know what questions kiddos are going to have or what they're going to say,

00:06:24.680 which is both like nerve-wracking, but also kind of exciting. It's that place of

00:06:30.160 not knowing as a teacher and just being okay with that. And the friend likes to ask the question,

00:06:37.660 are you a boy or a girl? And Nash answers, I'm just a kid.

00:06:45.720 But a kid. But kids can be boys or...

00:06:49.100 They can be boys or girls.

00:06:50.940 Or they.

00:06:51.980 Yeah.

00:06:52.280 Or maybe non-binary.

00:06:54.140 Yeah.

00:06:55.260 It was just like, non-binary, yeah. That's just something that we know.

00:07:01.600 This is something, I mean, it's like, they're four and five years old,

00:07:05.880 and they just didn't make a big deal out of being a boy or a girl.

00:07:09.620 And I think it was a huge testament to how much we've been talking about it in the classroom

00:07:14.220 that you never mentioned the term non-binary. It was a child who brought that up because it's

00:07:21.320 constantly in conversation.

00:07:24.600 Ah, yes. A testament to what they've been doing in the classroom. That it is. She's right. I mean,

00:07:30.800 what's fascinating about that clip is that we get the propaganda and then the reality right next to

00:07:36.720 each other. First, we hear from the teacher who tries the familiar maneuver of pretending that a

00:07:41.200 child's acceptance of concepts like non-binary and transgender is proof somehow of the concept's

00:07:47.860 self-evident validity. To the kids, it's normal, they say. The kids accept it without a problem. So

00:07:52.660 why do you adults have an issue with it? Yes, well, why is it normal to the kids? Why do they accept it?

00:07:59.760 Why do they repeat the jargon? The other teacher lays it out plainly. They accept it and repeat it

00:08:04.660 because they constantly hear about it in the class from the teachers. The teachers are hammering

00:08:10.480 these ideas into their heads, which results in the kids, what do you know, having these ideas in

00:08:15.220 their heads. Isn't it so amazing how if we continually tell them something over and over

00:08:20.120 and over again, eventually they repeat it? Isn't it amazing how kids work that way? No, it's not

00:08:26.940 amazing. That's how every kid works. In fact, you don't even need to repeat something over and over

00:08:31.640 and over again for them, for the kid to pick it up and repeat it too. Like any parent that's ever been

00:08:37.820 in a car and got cut off in traffic and you let a profanity slip out and then you hear it repeated

00:08:44.100 in the back from the kid who you thought wasn't paying attention. I mean, you know how kids are

00:08:48.720 like sponges and they hear a word one time and they repeat it. Now, if you take a word like a concept

00:08:55.280 term like non-binary and you say it in the classroom, not just once, but over and over and over again,

00:09:02.060 of course they're going to repeat it. And this is why they're so desperate to introduce gender 0.98

00:09:08.640 theory to children as young as possible because they don't even want to wait for kindergarten.

00:09:13.440 They want to get to the kids when they're still in daycare. The younger, the better because the

00:09:18.260 younger a child is, the more willingly he will accept incoherent ideas without skepticism. And as

00:09:24.000 the history of the human race clearly attests, if you get someone to believe something early in life,

00:09:29.400 they'll most likely continue believing it all the way to the grave. Children are not skeptical of

00:09:34.360 anything. Adults are only skeptical of new ideas, right? I mean, that's most adults. Very few adults

00:09:41.280 show any capacity to apply skepticism to ideas that they've always held. Children aren't skeptical of

00:09:47.020 anything. Adults are only skeptical of the things that they are newly introduced to. And even then,

00:09:54.180 many adults aren't even skeptical of that. That's the game here. And it's why they've turned daycares

00:10:00.960 and elementary schools into LGBT indoctrination zones is also why we have to oppose these despicable 1.00

00:10:07.080 groomers with every fiber of our being. The opposition does matter and it does make an impact.

00:10:13.140 And if you need to be convinced on that latter point, well, consider this unintentionally encouraging

00:10:18.380 testimonial from a groomer teacher here in Tennessee. Listen to what she says.

00:10:22.680 I have no idea what comment this video goes back to, but the comment, like there's a groomer flag in

00:10:29.680 the background. I was able to pull a screen grab. And if you see in my old classroom, I had my pride

00:10:34.240 flag right there. It's in a different spot in my new classroom. It's still there. Here's the thing.

00:10:38.600 I am going to quit. I'm 100% going to quit. And it is because not comments like this, but it is because

00:10:46.520 people like this have taken over or starting to take over education and education is not what it

00:10:52.940 once was and it's not worth it anymore. I support every single one of my students, no matter what

00:10:58.060 their views are. This, it just gets... I have to say, to the extent that I can take partial credit for

00:11:06.760 helping to create the environment that is so hostile and demoralizing to this teacher, driving her out of

00:11:11.340 the profession in frustration, this is an even greater honor than winning transphobe of the year.

00:11:16.100 This teacher has declared that it's not even worth teaching if she isn't able to sexually 1.00

00:11:20.760 indoctrinate children. Actually, it's not worth teaching if she encounters any pushback in her

00:11:26.880 efforts to sexually indoctrinate children. She demands the ability and had grown accustomed to 1.00

00:11:32.060 running her indoctrination camp without opposition or any accountability whatsoever.

00:11:38.120 She pines for those days and laments that they are gone. And now she is leaving in protest,

00:11:44.120 which is fantastic. One down, many more to go. This is exactly why we have to keep the pressure on.

00:11:52.780 Yes, we want to push for policy changes as we have done. Yes, we want to persuade people. We want to

00:11:57.840 make the argument, all of that. But we also want to frustrate and demoralize the enemy

00:12:02.920 until they decide that it's simply not worth the heartache to continue.

00:12:09.060 That is part of the strategy here. Frustrate and demoralize them. We want them to know that as long

00:12:15.560 as they insist on treating children this way, they will encounter opposition and it will be relentless.

00:12:20.480 And it will come from people who cannot be emotionally blackmailed,

00:12:25.160 cannot be cowed into silence by accusations of bigotry.

00:12:32.380 People who are so stubborn and frustrating to you that, in fact, when you try to put labels on us,

00:12:38.640 we'll make a joke out of it and celebrate it. That's the only way. That's how we put a stop to this.

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00:13:57.620 All right. We'll start with this. The Daily Wire has this report. Five former Memphis Police

00:14:04.160 Department officers are in custody and face several charges after their involvement in the

00:14:07.740 death of a 29-year-old male who died earlier this month in a hospital, days after a confrontation

00:14:12.060 with authorities. Tyree Nichols died on January 10th, three days after Memphis police pulled him

00:14:18.020 over at a traffic stop. Nichols and the five former police officers involved are black, so everyone

00:14:23.620 involved is black, which shouldn't be relevant, but it is, because we know that these kinds of cases 0.56

00:14:32.760 are usually assumed to be racism, white supremacy. Whether or not there was actually any police

00:14:41.980 brutality involved, well, there's no argument for that here. There is no place to make this racial. 0.97

00:14:48.440 There's no place to talk about white supremacy, but that isn't going to stop the media and the

00:14:52.360 activists from doing it. Authorities stopped Nichols on January 7th for reckless driving near

00:14:59.000 Rains Road in Ross Road in Memphis. Police told local media that during the stop, a confrontation

00:15:04.060 occurred, at which point Nichols ran away from police on foot as they attempted to apprehend him.

00:15:10.300 While attempting to take the suspect into custody, another confrontation occurred. However, the suspect

00:15:13.820 was ultimately apprehended. Afterward, the suspect complained of having shortness of breath,

00:15:17.540 at which point an ambulance was called to the scene. And then the suspect died a couple days

00:15:25.280 later. Local media reported authorities were charged with official misconduct through unauthorized

00:15:32.820 exercise of official power, official misconduct through failure to perform a duty imposed by law,

00:15:37.240 official oppression, second degree murder, aggravated assault, and aggravated kidnapping,

00:15:41.840 causing bodily injury, and aggravated kidnapping while possessing a weapon. So these are all the

00:15:48.400 charges. Now, see, Attorney Bill Massey, representing Martin, told local media that he was indicted,

00:15:59.140 he's one of the officers, and turned himself into authorities. Memphis Police Chief Cyriline Davis issued

00:16:04.360 a statement Wednesday night about the investigation. This is what she wrote.

00:16:08.120 In light of the horrific circumstances surrounding the death of Tyree Nichols, it is absolutely incumbent

00:16:12.380 upon me, your chief, to address the status of what the Memphis Police Department is doing,

00:16:16.440 has done, and will continue to do in furtherance of finding truth in this tragic loss, ensuring we

00:16:20.400 communicate with honesty and transparency, and that there is absolute accountability for those

00:16:23.940 responsible for Tyree's death. This is not just a professional failing. This is a failing of basic

00:16:29.480 humanity toward another individual. Adding that the five officers involved in his death failed our

00:16:34.700 community, and they failed the Nichols family. And then she goes on from there. I mean,

00:16:39.020 this, the Memphis Police Chief and other officials in Memphis, and other political and law enforcement

00:16:44.980 officials have been talking about this video for a couple of days now, leading up to its release

00:16:51.260 sometime today before Friday night. And as I'm speaking right now, you know, the video has not been

00:16:57.580 released. I haven't seen it. But they've been talking about it for days. And the Memphis Police Chief

00:17:02.860 in particular has been, has used the most dramatic possible language to describe it. You just heard

00:17:11.440 some of it. She has said that what's on the video, what's captured in the video are acts that defy

00:17:17.820 humanity. Okay, so she's using the kind of language that you would use to describe like a war crime or a

00:17:22.940 genocide. And once again, I haven't seen the video. So it may be as bad as she says. I don't know.

00:17:31.240 I haven't seen it. So it's like, I believe in this, in this very radical approach of I don't make

00:17:37.600 a judgment call about a video until I've seen it myself. And I haven't. But this is the language

00:17:44.280 that she's using leading up to it being released. And it's more than that, too. We have this interview

00:17:50.720 she did with Don Lemon. This was last night. And I just want you to listen. We'll listen to a little

00:17:55.820 bit of what she says. Listen to this. Let's talk about the video. Yes.

00:18:04.280 It has been said that it is reminiscent, perhaps worse than the Rodney King video. Is that your

00:18:10.180 assessment? That's my assessment. I was in law enforcement during the Rodney King incident. And

00:18:18.360 it's, it's, you know, very much aligned with that same type of behavior. That it's worse? Sort of group

00:18:25.540 think. I would, I would say it's about the same, if not worse. If not worse. If not worse. So take us

00:18:32.580 through the video tonight. When it is released. It has been said there's over an hour. There's

00:18:40.060 the poll cam. They said the sky cam. And there's body one camera video. What are we going? And how

00:18:47.620 is it going to be distributed? Are you going to put it on social media? Are you sending it to

00:18:51.120 the media? How is this going to be distributed? Actually, we plan to post it on a YouTube link

00:18:57.440 so that it can be accessible to just about anybody who wants to access that video. And we'll be pushing

00:19:04.200 that out later on this evening. The video is broken into four different sort of fragmented

00:19:13.140 pieces, but they're all very related to this. So she, she, she says that this is, this video

00:19:19.760 is worse than Rodney King. It's worse than the Rodney King video. And once again, I haven't seen

00:19:27.180 it. So maybe it is, but I haven't seen it. Here's my point. If you don't want riots, if

00:19:37.740 you don't want riots, then you would do exactly the opposite of what the Memphis authorities are

00:19:48.320 currently doing. If you don't want riots and you're a competent person and you're a competent

00:19:55.340 leader, you do these exactly the opposite. Because what they're doing right now is that

00:20:00.080 they are, they are emphasizing ahead of time that this is horrible. It's the worst video anyone's

00:20:06.420 ever seen. It's a crime against humanity. It's potentially the worst police brutality beating

00:20:10.540 of all time that's ever been captured on film. And they're saying that for days ahead of time,

00:20:15.900 leading up to releasing the video on a Friday night.

00:20:19.500 So if you wanted riots, then that would be the best possible way to do it. I couldn't imagine a,

00:20:28.180 a more effective way of handling this. If you want riots, you hype it up ahead of time. You tell

00:20:35.840 people, you give people the most dramatic possible framing for this video before they've even seen it

00:20:42.120 rather than letting the video speak for itself. If the video is as bad as that, we don't need you to

00:20:47.180 spend two days telling everyone by, Hey guys, this is so bad. I'm telling you, it's the worst thing.

00:20:52.820 If it's that bad, let people see it. They can see that for themselves. You don't, we don't need,

00:20:55.920 we don't need the police chief to frame it for us like that.

00:21:01.280 And then to make matters worse, all of that framing leading up to a Friday night release.

00:21:06.660 So you've got the buildup. You're giving people time to plan. You're giving the out-of-town

00:21:10.320 agitators time to, to, to, to mobilize. Um, and then right when everything is kind of frothing,

00:21:18.920 um, and everyone is, is, is congregating. That's when you release the video.

00:21:25.780 Like that, you throw in the hand grenade right into the middle of it,

00:21:29.020 right? Lighting the match after everything is soaked in gasoline.

00:21:33.060 I don't know how else to interpret this. I mean, this is like, the video is not even out yet. And

00:21:39.420 this is the worst handling of a, of a, of a, of a, of a situation like this that I've ever seen.

00:21:48.780 It really is.

00:21:51.780 The only possible argument in favor of what they're doing is if you say that,

00:21:55.900 well, this is more, you know, they're releasing it on a Friday because this is a,

00:21:59.860 the Friday news dump, uh, strategy where you put it out on a Friday. There's not a lot,

00:22:04.600 a lot of time for the media to hype it up. Uh, people are doing other things and, and, uh, and

00:22:08.640 you know, that's, that's often what you do when you don't want people to, when you don't want a

00:22:12.460 big deal to be made out of something, then especially in politics, you release it on a Friday.

00:22:17.220 Well, that doesn't work if you're hyping it up ahead of time and telling people that it's the

00:22:23.400 worst thing ever. Then the Friday news dump now, you know what it's, it's not a Friday news dump.

00:22:28.520 It is a Friday premiere. You even hear in the video, it's like, it's almost like she's,

00:22:34.240 she's an, an actress promoting a film. It's like, well, you know, in that video that we'll

00:22:39.680 be pushing out, uh, later this evening, just release the freaking video. We don't need, 0.54

00:22:45.600 we don't need you on camera for days ahead of time, weeping over it. We don't need that.

00:22:52.100 You're the police chief. You're supposed to be a leader in this situation,

00:22:55.680 which means you use clear language, language that is not emotionally charged.

00:23:02.980 And you say, well, what if it's a really horrible thing that then, especially in that case,

00:23:07.400 you don't want to be emotionally charged. Other people can be emotional. You're supposed to be the

00:23:11.780 leader, which is what you keep your emotions in check. And you try to keep the temperature down,

00:23:17.500 describing something as a video by saying it's, it is acts that defy humanity. And it's the one of

00:23:25.160 the worst things I've ever seen. That is not keeping the temperature down. This is really, uh,

00:23:32.740 you know, it's possible there still won't be riots, you know, because it is cold. So that might be

00:23:39.660 enough to keep the riders away. Um, generally it's not a coincidence that riding usually happens

00:23:44.220 when it's a little bit nicer out. It usually happens in the spring and the summer that's

00:23:48.600 rioting season typically. So it would be, uh, a little bit unusual in that way if, if we did have

00:23:54.700 writing, but then again, they've done everything they can to hype this thing up and to build it up.

00:24:00.380 And this is Memphis we're talking about. Like it, it doesn't take much to get, uh,

00:24:08.080 lawless hordes out in the street in Memphis. I mean, they're already out there,

00:24:11.580 so it doesn't take much and we'll, we'll see what happens. But, uh, now I, I do, uh, you know,

00:24:17.460 I, I try to always keep in mind the maxim, which I think is a very important one that, uh, uh, 0.98

00:24:25.240 you know, never attribute to malice that, which can be more easily explained by stupidity. 0.99

00:24:31.680 And sometimes there's stupidity and malice involved, which might be the case, 1.00

00:24:35.100 but maybe that's here, you know, maybe they don't want riots, but they're just really stupid 1.00

00:24:40.060 and incompetent. And so they, they actually think this is the best way to handle it. 1.00

00:24:46.800 As far as ascribing motive, you can make your own judgment call.

00:24:52.380 All right. What do we have next year? Uh, this is from the daily, daily, daily mail rather.

00:24:57.780 A new advertisement from Burberry featuring gender neutral models has sparked outrage for

00:25:03.580 glamorizing girls having healthy breasts removed. Uh, the British fashion house's latest campaign

00:25:09.280 features a topless young person with scars from a double mastectomy, a procedure that can be used

00:25:13.300 to remove cancer or for those transitioning genders. Burberry's latest campaign that is entitled

00:25:19.320 be mine celebrates intimacy and embrace intimacy and embracement. Is that a word? I don't think that

00:25:27.220 is celebrates intimacy and embracement. And critics have assumed that the model is transgender.

00:25:32.980 Well, it seems pretty obvious. Um, I don't think advert advertisement should be normalizing. In fact,

00:25:40.140 glamorizing girls having healthy breasts removed. One critic said throughout the campaign, real life

00:25:44.000 couples were, are captured expressing their moments of embrace while each couple is also dressed in a

00:25:48.420 selection of Burberry gifts. Burberry shared the new campaign on its Instagram account where it has

00:25:53.320 received hundreds of comments. Um, we put the picture up. So we have the picture of this,

00:25:58.080 of what this campaign looks like. And it is, it is, uh, a clothing designer. There it is.

00:26:08.440 So there you go. It's a clothing designer promoting glamorizing, romanticizing self mutilation.

00:26:18.620 This is really no different than a stylized clothing ad that had, that would, you know, show a girl

00:26:24.420 showing off her scars that are on her arm from where she cut herself. Or imagine an ad with a rail

00:26:31.840 thin bulimic woman puking in a toilet. Like it's the same kind of thing. It's the glamorization of 1.00

00:26:36.840 self-harm. That of course is not the media's headline here. Listen to, uh, this is the Newsweek

00:26:42.520 headline. New Burberry ads sparks Republican meltdown. And so for them, the headline of course

00:26:51.720 is not the fact that a clothing company is promoting girls, removing their healthy breasts,

00:27:00.280 you know, cosmetic double mastectomies. That's not the hell that is the Newsweek. That's not the

00:27:05.360 headline. The headline is that people are upset about it. Now, of course we know this is the media's

00:27:12.480 game. The old Republicans pounce maneuver, but it's the same. It's the same deal here. This is,

00:27:20.940 you know, anti-life, anti-human. It's hard to think of something more anti-human than celebrating, 0.99

00:27:31.320 promoting, glamorizing, and romanticizing, uh, self-harm that,

00:27:35.960 that human beings inflict on themselves.

00:27:43.320 All right.

00:27:46.340 This is a story from the Daily Wire. It says, a 15-year-old girl from New York was issued a

00:27:50.380 sentence of three to nine years on Tuesday after submitting a guilty plea over lethally

00:27:54.380 stabbing a peer. The girl's name was not disclosed because she was only 15 years old.

00:27:58.720 The Westchester County District Attorney's Office released information regarding the sentencing,

00:28:02.440 stating that the girl had pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter for the deadly stabbing

00:28:06.660 of Kayla Green, who was 16 years old at the time of her death. A teenage defendant senselessly took

00:28:11.700 the life of Kayla Green, and in doing so, left a community devastated as a family, and the Mount

00:28:16.180 Vernon community remained in mourning. I want to reiterate my commitment to working with our vital

00:28:21.380 community partners for meaningful violence prevention and intervention, especially for our youth.

00:28:25.460 This is from District Attorney Miriam Roca. Um, so she wants to do everything she can to prevent

00:28:34.020 violence and, uh, everything she can to protect, you know, the people from, from being victims of

00:28:43.700 violence. And the solution then is a sentence of three to nine years for stabbing someone to death.

00:28:52.020 And I get that she's, kids, 15 years old. That's a kid. And so it's a, it's a tragic thing on multiple

00:29:01.840 levels. They have a 15 year old whose life has gone so wrong that they're already lashing out

00:29:09.980 murderously. Then you have another girl who's dead. That's the greatest tragedy of all, you know,

00:29:17.560 and it's a tragedy on both counts, but what is solved here? So you give it three to nine years.

00:29:25.000 That means it's really going to be three years or less than that. Um, and this girl is out when she's

00:29:30.780 18, 19 years old. So you take a 15 year old girl who's already a murderer. He's already the kind of

00:29:39.040 person that would stab someone to death. And then you throw her into, you know, a jail for three or 0.89

00:29:46.860 four years, let her kind of hang out in that stew along with other criminals and then release her 1.00

00:29:56.340 back into society when she's 18 or 19. What have you solved that way?

00:30:01.880 This is exactly what we talked about earlier this week. And we'll talk about again a little

00:30:07.600 bit in the daily cancellation. You know, this, this is why it makes people upset. It makes them

00:30:15.560 uncomfortable and squeamish when you talk about what actual law and order would look like

00:30:20.260 and what it would entail.

00:30:22.440 But you should be upset and squeamish about this, that you have the dangerous murderous people

00:30:31.180 who we take them in. Our solution is just to put them in a building with other dangerous murderous

00:30:39.080 people for a few years and then release them back into society. Where statistically, it's almost

00:30:44.840 certain they're going to victimize more people. And everybody involved knows that. The system knows

00:30:52.180 that. Right? Everyone knows. The court system knows that this person, when this person is

00:30:58.940 released from jail, everyone involved, you know, in the system will know, oh, we're going

00:31:03.980 to see her again. She's probably going to kill somebody else and we're going to see her again

00:31:07.620 if you, and everyone knows it. And then we sit back like impotent, helpless. There's nothing 0.78

00:31:12.660 we can do about it. Well, there is something you can do about it, which is to keep this person

00:31:17.340 in prison. And again, I understand 15 years old, the idea of taking a 15 year old, putting

00:31:24.200 her in prison for potentially for life or certainly for decades, you know, that idea is a, it's a

00:31:33.260 very sad thing. It's one throw their life away like that. But, but the other option, the other

00:31:39.380 solution is totally untenable. Another way to look at it is, you know, when you have the criminals

00:31:49.000 to do terrible things in order to keep society safe, a, a, a sacrifice must be made. There's

00:31:59.100 going to be a sacrifice made, you know, either they, we take the criminal and they're going to be forced

00:32:07.040 to sacrifice their freedom, potentially permanently, or depending on the crime, they may have to

00:32:11.960 sacrifice their own lives, you know, if it's a capital crime. So, and that might make you upset

00:32:17.400 to think about, but that's, that's one option. The other option is that, is that innocent people in

00:32:23.380 society and the community have to sacrifice potentially their own lives. So we don't, we don't

00:32:28.200 want to make the criminal sacrifice their freedom or their own lives. And so we release them back into

00:32:32.620 society. And now a sacrifice is made of innocent law abiding citizens who end up falling victim to

00:32:40.860 that criminal we just released back onto the street. Now you might prefer that there'd be a

00:32:47.660 solution where no one has to sacrifice anything. Nobody has to sacrifice their life. No one has

00:32:51.160 sacrificed their freedom. Nobody is hurt. Nothing bad happens. I agree. That would be the best solution.

00:32:55.580 I would prefer that, you know, but that doesn't exist.

00:33:03.120 All right. Daily Wire again, former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has been busy promoting her

00:33:08.160 newest project, a memoir, Love Pamela, and a Netflix documentary titled Pamela, a love story.

00:33:14.540 And she has reportedly netted some backlash for claims she made in both. In Anderson's Netflix

00:33:18.480 documentary, for example, the actress claimed that the actor Sylvester Stallone once propositioned her

00:33:23.660 allegedly offering a fancy car and a condo in exchange for her agreeing to be his number one

00:33:27.720 girl. She says she turned down the offer, but Stallone says he never made an offer in the first

00:33:31.340 place. Um, Anderson also claimed in her upcoming memoir that the actor could be in Tim Allen once

00:33:38.120 exposed himself to her on the set of Home Improvement. The actress was cast as a tool girl in tool time,

00:33:43.620 and she claimed that he opened his robe and flashed her in what she said was an effort to even,

00:33:48.700 even the score after seeing her naked in Playboy magazine.

00:33:51.240 Now, just general principle here, like I have no idea if any of that is true.

00:33:59.640 General principle, uh, and I've said this before that if you, if something bad happens to you,

00:34:05.140 someone does something to you that's bad and you wait for years and years and years or even decades

00:34:10.920 and you don't tell anybody until you have a book to sell or until you have a Netflix documentary that

00:34:16.760 you're trying to promote. Like if the first time you're bringing something up is in an effort to

00:34:21.280 promote something you're selling, then we are going to automatically dismiss your claim.

00:34:28.000 Even if it's true. I mean, we can't know so long ago as part of the problem waiting so long.

00:34:31.820 We can't know if it's true or not. And so there's no way for us to know he said, she said type of thing,

00:34:36.620 uh, which means that we can only go by context. And the context here is that you are using this to

00:34:42.700 sell something. And so it's, it's, you had all that time before it to bring it up. You wait until

00:34:49.200 you had something to sell, which means that we just can't take it serious because you don't take

00:34:53.780 it seriously. You obviously don't take it seriously. If you didn't say anything until you finally,

00:34:57.740 until you figure, well, this would be a great way to get some publicity for this book.

00:35:02.080 Nobody would know, right? Like nobody would know or care that Pamela Anderson has a memoir coming

00:35:05.980 out. I wouldn't know about it. You wouldn't know about it. Except for that Tim Allen story. It's the

00:35:11.300 only reason, you know, that obviously is not a coincidence. All right. One other, uh, thing,

00:35:15.840 well, maybe one or two other things, but this, uh, this is a guy that we've seen on the show before.

00:35:20.880 Um, Jeffrey Marsh, and he's all over TikTok and he's on the other social media platforms. And, uh,

00:35:28.620 he's a professional groomer. This is what he does. He grooms and indoctrinates. And, um, that's,

00:35:36.140 that's all he does. And he doesn't even try. What's interesting about this guy is that he

00:35:41.220 doesn't try to hide the predator vibes at all. He's not doing anything to hide that. And so here's

00:35:49.340 his latest video. Watch. If you need a family, you can come hang out with me. They may not see the real

00:35:59.620 you, but that does not mean that you're not real. I love you very much.

00:36:08.860 I'm going to go cry with love. Like I said, not trying to hide the predator vibes. It couldn't

00:36:19.340 be any more explicit than if he recorded that video, uh, in a, you know, in a, in a, in a white

00:36:25.900 cargo, in a nondescript white cargo van. If he pulled up in the cargo van and unrolled the window

00:36:32.340 and said, Hey kids, if you need a family, I'm here, let's hang out. Couldn't make it any more

00:36:38.340 explicit, but this is also, this is not just grooming though. It is that this is also, this

00:36:46.680 is, this is cult indoctrination to a T this is cult one-on-one stuff. What you're saying here,

00:36:54.840 uh, it's predator one-on-one and cult one-on-one. And obviously those two things are very much

00:37:00.000 linked. Say, well, if you're, if your family rejects you, if your family doesn't want you

00:37:05.940 around, I'll be your family member. Forget about your family. You don't need them. You just need

00:37:12.260 me. I'm here for you. That's cult indoctrination. And, and what makes it even more terrifying is that,

00:37:20.680 uh, it's, it's, kids are not only encountering that message on Tik TOK and on social media,

00:37:26.100 it's bad enough there, but this is also of course, uh, what they're getting in the schools.

00:37:31.700 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:37:47.020 Nick says, I'm an artist, have been for over a decade. I'm not nearly as educated as

00:37:50.540 any master, but I feel better than, uh, these modern artists. And I can say Matt is a hundred

00:37:55.400 percent right about how arms and mainly hands and feet are the most difficult thing for even the

00:37:59.260 most skilled artists, sometimes including myself. It's the reason why a lot of old art portraits have

00:38:04.140 men putting their hand in front of their coat and, uh, and, uh, and to the other, uh, and the other to,

00:38:10.060 to, to the side and hidden or finding another creative way to conceal the hands.

00:38:14.300 Yeah, that's, that's what I suspected for a lot of these, uh, especially the, the sculptures and

00:38:20.980 monuments and that sort of thing. It's like, I can't even, I mean, taking a chunk of material,

00:38:28.320 a stone or something and chiseling it away to create an image. You know, I, I can't even conceive

00:38:38.820 of what is required, the kind of skill that's required to do that. And then to get all the

00:38:42.880 finite details down, especially hands and all the rest of it, um, takes enormous amount of skill.

00:38:49.320 So when I see these modern art sculptures, the first thing I think, and maybe I'm also being

00:38:54.480 informed from my own experience of being, uh, you know, in school and cutting corners and finding

00:38:58.380 ways around things. Uh, I, I, the first thing I think is like, okay, that's, that's your way around

00:39:03.560 having to do the difficult task of creating real art.

00:39:07.180 Joe says, death threats to Eric Swalwell. The assassins would most assuredly be silent,

00:39:13.520 but deadly. Well done, Joe. I, I, once again, I feel, uh, you know, I wish I could tell you that

00:39:20.520 that's a dad joke that I decided to skip over because I was being more mature, but I, I didn't

00:39:24.820 even think of it. I didn't draw that connection. And, uh, I, so I'm a little bit ashamed of that,

00:39:29.520 but thank you for, for your work, Joe. Uh, Evan says, Matt, I've worked for a large tech company

00:39:37.860 in the past. Trust me, the meetings that the Google employee took were the least productive part

00:39:42.720 of her day. I think that's the case in like almost any company. That's the, it's, and I don't do a lot

00:39:49.840 of meetings. I, historically I've, I've never done a whole lot, a bunch of meetings, but I don't know

00:39:54.960 of all the meetings I've ever been in, in my life, maybe 5% of them are actually productive.

00:40:01.940 And then the other 95%, it's like mostly a meeting. It's not just in tech company. I think

00:40:05.660 this is anywhere. Mostly meetings happen because, uh, for one thing, it's just people feel like they

00:40:12.720 need to have something on their schedule. And it's really, it's just, it's a, it's a process of people

00:40:16.460 justifying their jobs. That's, that's all it really is. The meeting is there so that everyone

00:40:20.700 can take a turn justifying their existence in the company. That's why the meeting exists.

00:40:27.920 And that's why, that's what makes meetings even more frustrating for it. Like if you're,

00:40:32.840 if you're in a company and you know what your job is and you're doing your job and you're productive

00:40:37.860 and all of that, when you're forced to sit in a meeting, it's, it's all the more frustrating

00:40:42.400 because you don't need to justify your job. And all you're doing is sitting here,

00:40:45.020 listening to other people do that. It's all, it's a big performance.

00:40:47.800 Uh, Tony Catman says, Matt, in respect of the modern art, things are in fact worse than you

00:40:55.100 thought. There are people who are still doing classic sculpture, Jago, for example, talented

00:40:59.080 and dedicated. Unfortunately, they don't get the public commissions or attention they deserve.

00:41:02.740 The best are still commissioned by private collectors, but this is probably the best way,

00:41:06.680 uh, things, this is probably the way things always happened.

00:41:11.020 Yeah, I think, and I don't, I don't doubt that at all, which is why this is the, this is the case

00:41:15.400 with all forms of art, whether we're talking about paintings or sculpture or music or film or

00:41:20.900 anything like that. Um, when people complain, it's, oh, nobody's making good music anymore.

00:41:26.600 No one's making good movies anymore. No one's making good sculptures anymore.

00:41:31.180 And I, and I have been known to complain like that, but what we really mean is that the culture

00:41:38.000 doesn't celebrate or elevates good art. It exists. I mean, there are always going to be artists out

00:41:46.980 there and good artists, but the question is, what is your culture? What, what does your culture

00:41:51.340 elevate and celebrate? And that's, uh, the problem. And also fund is a big part of it.

00:41:59.280 Ivy says, hi, Matt, I'd really like to hear your thoughts on Disney adults. We got a little piece of

00:42:02.960 it in daily cancellation, but Disney obsessed adults who go to parks several times each year

00:42:06.840 with or without kids and decorate their homes and vehicles with Disney items seem to be growing

00:42:10.860 demographic in our generation. I'm curious what you think about them. Are you curious what I think

00:42:14.680 about them? Are you actually curious? You don't, is, is there any doubt in your mind about what I think

00:42:20.780 of Disney adults who are obsessed with Disney and go to Disney even without kids and wait in lines to

00:42:30.800 meet the costumed characters and have little costumed character figurines in their home? Do I, do I need to

00:42:36.320 lay out how I feel about those people? I can't stand them as if I, if I needed to, that's, that's what

00:42:42.940 it is. Now I'd like to address something that you've sure all been wondering. I'm sure is, you know,

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00:44:01.320 today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Earlier this week, we discussed our pathetic,

00:44:10.020 impotent criminal justice system, which has utterly failed to maintain law and order in our 0.85

00:44:13.780 communities. It's a justice system that seems to be uninterested in justice. And I proposed, as you

00:44:18.360 recall, that we take off the kid gloves and start dealing harshly with criminals, predators,

00:44:23.040 those who've turned our cities into reeking, zombified wastelands. In fact, I advocated that

00:44:28.340 we adopt some of Singapore's strategies in this regard, strategies that have helped to make

00:44:32.700 Singapore one of the safest and cleanest places in the world, while our cities look like massive

00:44:38.040 drug-infested garbage dumps. Specifically, I believe that we, like Singapore, should adopt 1.00

00:44:43.120 corporal punishment for thieves and robbers and vandals and the like. And, you know, we used to use

00:44:48.220 corporal punishment on kids in school. Now we've decided that it's too mean to even use on

00:44:52.920 multiply convicted felons. And I find that attitude absurd and weak. The criminals also find our

00:45:00.100 justice system absurd and weak, which is why they have no respect for it and they have no fear of

00:45:04.420 breaking its laws. And I also believe that we, like Singapore and like Donald Trump has frequently

00:45:09.820 suggested for this country, we ought to expand our capital punishment regime to include drug

00:45:14.800 traffickers. Those who distribute and sell mass amounts of poison, slowly killing thousands of

00:45:20.620 people every year, ought to face the ultimate penalty. Nearly every murderer who has ever been

00:45:25.980 executed in the United States inflicted less damage and killed fewer people than the most prolific drug

00:45:32.500 traffickers. There's no reason why drug traffickers should get a more lenient sentence. Indeed, there's

00:45:38.240 no reason why the death penalty should be reserved only for those who directly kill people. Sometimes the

00:45:44.260 most heinous kinds of predators have other ways of preying upon their fellow human beings. Child rapists

00:45:49.600 would be another example. With our ridiculous laws as they stand in most states, you can't execute a 0.99

00:45:56.140 child rapist unless they're also guilty of murder, as if the crime of child rape itself doesn't warrant 0.98

00:46:01.120 it. I mean, they deserve to die for their crimes, whether they directly kill their victims or not. 1.00

00:46:07.020 This is the case I made, and I explain my logic, I think, in extensive detail.

00:46:11.220 Still, it has proven to be not surprisingly controversial. People on both sides of the political

00:46:15.900 divide are deeply scandalized by my argument. Twitter has been basically unusable for me over

00:46:20.240 the past few days. Well, it's always basically unusable, but especially over the past few days,

00:46:24.460 because my entire feed is just people screaming at me for wanting to punish criminals. Now, look,

00:46:30.660 it's okay if you disagree with me. I will give you permission until my theocratic fascist regime

00:46:36.960 officially begins. Anyway, for now, you do have permission to disagree with me. You're wrong,

00:46:41.380 but that's okay. You can be wrong. My problem is not that people simply disagree with my proposal,

00:46:47.600 but that they treat the mere notion of harsher penalties for criminals as somehow absurd on its

00:46:53.360 face. They recoil at the suggestion that those who traffic substances that kill thousands every year

00:46:58.180 should be given the same punishment that we already give to other kinds of murderers.

00:47:02.760 They scream out in horror at the very idea that perhaps we should sentence robbers and thieves to

00:47:07.720 corporal punishment rather than letting them hang out in prison for a few months.

00:47:11.380 And then releasing them right back into the community with no additional penalties.

00:47:16.560 You know, this is the issue. You're not a stupid person for listening to my argument, 0.99

00:47:21.380 finding it unpersuasive, and making a counterargument. That's fine. But you are, 1.00

00:47:28.060 frankly, pretty damn stupid if my argument is so shocking to you that you can barely articulate a 1.00

00:47:34.380 response. Or if you think it's so unthinkably extreme that it isn't necessary to articulate a 1.00

00:47:39.260 response. That kind of reaction to a perfectly reasonable suggestion, one with a massive amount

00:47:45.580 of historical precedent, shows a lack of thought on your part and an inability to even entertain any

00:47:52.760 challenge to modern orthodoxies. Because that's really the problem, right? Is that what I'm saying

00:47:56.920 flies in the face of our kind of generally accepted notions of how to deal with criminals.

00:48:01.860 And for that reason alone, many people are upset by it. And they can't explain really why. It's just,

00:48:08.900 it just doesn't comport with what they've always been told and sort of the general atmosphere that

00:48:14.840 they live in. Speaking of people who can barely articulate a response, that brings us to YouTuber

00:48:20.640 Kyle Kolinsky, who's the owner of the Secular Talk channel on YouTube. And like most YouTubers on the left,

00:48:27.260 every so often Kyle likes to use my name to drive engagement. And every so often I will respond

00:48:32.640 because, well, I can't help but take the bait. So yesterday, Kyle put out a video titled,

00:48:37.820 Matt Walsh's Fascist Mask Slips on Twitter. And he's part of the mob, terribly upset about my comments,

00:48:43.820 though he, like the rest of them, can't quite explain why. Now, most of Kyle's video consists of him

00:48:49.360 calling me stupid and authoritarian while making incredulous facial expressions. Not really a 0.99

00:48:55.680 counter-argument, not much to respond to, but I did want to address one part of it. And it's this

00:49:01.220 part. Listen. Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging

00:49:07.860 and arrest even petty vandals and thieves and beat them with a cane until they bleed.

00:49:18.440 We don't have nice things because we aren't willing to do what is required to maintain them.

00:49:21.800 And then he goes on to say, there are some accusing me of advocating similar laws in this

00:49:27.400 country. And I just want to clarify that. Yes, absolutely. I want those laws in this country.

00:49:34.080 Okay. Matt Walsh is an authoritarian. And it's hilarious because the Daily Wire,

00:49:41.460 Matt Walsh and others like to go after the left and say, oh, the left are authoritarians and they

00:49:45.360 hate freedom, bro. They hate liberty, bro. You hate freedom. You hate liberty. Part of freedom

00:49:51.300 is being able to put in your body whatever you want to put in your body as long as you're not

00:49:54.360 hurting anybody else. Being able to sell said substances. In the same way, I don't think we

00:49:58.800 should be hauling away the CEO of Budweiser in handcuffs. I don't think you should haul away the

00:50:02.880 weed dealer. He's saying execute drug dealers. All right, dog. You want to start? Go find the CEO of 0.92

00:50:13.400 Pfizer and Moderna. Go find the guys who make Xanax. Okay. Sounds good to me. I mean, we'd have

00:50:21.900 to give the big pharma executives a fair trial, of course, convict them in a court of law. But once

00:50:26.860 that's been done, I absolutely would want them to face the same penalty that should be imposed on any

00:50:31.600 other drug trafficker. See, Kyle, you're not going to trip me up by demanding that I take my arguments

00:50:35.920 to their logical conclusions because I will always do that. I'm not afraid of doing that.

00:50:40.120 Now, that's the advantage to being logically consistent. Okay, so you go, so when you say,

00:50:45.280 well, if that's how you feel, then that would lead to this. Sure, sounds good to me. Let's do that too.

00:50:51.940 It's an advantage of being logically consistent that you yourself do not enjoy because you have

00:50:57.280 already made a number of statements that I'm quite sure you would not want to apply with total

00:51:02.280 consistency. So you say that part of freedom is not only being able to put whatever you want into

00:51:08.200 your body, but also being able to sell anything that someone else might want to put in their body.

00:51:15.220 Now, here's the problem. This argument already assumes that freedom is itself the highest good,

00:51:21.060 and therefore literally anything that falls under the banner of freedom is automatically good and

00:51:26.780 should be permissible. But that's a case you need to make. Okay, you can't merely assume that.

00:51:32.240 You haven't made it here or as far as I know anywhere else. See, I don't believe that freedom

00:51:38.860 is the highest good. I don't think that the ideal society is one where people are simply able to do

00:51:44.700 whatever they want all the time. I don't really think that, I don't really think that you think

00:51:50.260 that either, actually. I'm quite sure that there are things that you would say people should not be

00:51:55.700 free to do. I'm quite sure of that. And yet your whole argument rests on simply labeling drug

00:52:02.080 trafficking part of freedom. So already we have a number of logical inconsistencies and sort of

00:52:07.240 half-baked ideas. Let's talk about drug traffickers for a moment. Now, you keep making this, you want

00:52:15.120 to make this about weed, first of all. And I've noticed that with all the people that are arguing

00:52:19.280 with me. Talk about drug traffickers. All they want to do is talk about weed. They bring it right to

00:52:23.280 weed. I didn't specifically say that. I said drug traffickers. And you do that because you know

00:52:30.600 you'd sound ridiculous defending fentanyl dealers on the basis of freedom. So you go for the easiest

00:52:38.200 form of the argument you can find. And you want to make this about marijuana. But I'm not going to

00:52:44.320 let you off the hook that easily. So let's focus on fentanyl dealers for a moment. They traffic and

00:52:50.040 profit off of poison. Just straight up poison that destroys the lives of thousands of people and kills

00:52:57.900 thousands more. And you say this is okay because the people who use it want to. You know, they want

00:53:04.120 to use it. So that makes it okay. Well, why does their desire to use the drug automatically make it okay

00:53:11.420 to sell it? Is that the standard? Anything that somebody might want to use is automatically okay

00:53:17.700 to sell? Is that really? Is that really how you think the law should work? And again, your argument

00:53:24.340 rests on an assumption that you haven't actually defended or explained. Which is that freedom is the

00:53:30.760 highest good. It's a good in and of itself. And anything that can be labeled freedom automatically

00:53:36.100 should be allowed to happen. Besides, even if the fentanyl user has consented, the entire rest of

00:53:42.860 the community plagued by the filth and crime and violence the drug causes have not consented. Okay,

00:53:49.660 the dealer might consent. The user might consent. We'll get to that in a second. But the people forced

00:53:53.840 to live in communities utterly ravaged by this poison do not consent to it. The people who are hopped up

00:54:00.800 on these drugs and then they run on to, you know, run to a subway platform and throw an old lady in front

00:54:04.920 of the train. She didn't consent to that. She didn't consent to be a part of this. She didn't

00:54:10.220 consent to living in a city that's the walking dead with drug zombies walking around. Oh, and also,

00:54:18.100 by the way, the user doesn't consent either. They're addicts. They're not making clear choices.

00:54:23.280 They are acting out of desperation and compulsion and addiction. The dealers and traffickers exploit

00:54:29.280 that for financial gain. There's no freedom here. Freedom has nothing to do with drug addiction.

00:54:34.420 Who the hell could look at a heroin addict or a fentanyl addict or a crackhead and say,

00:54:40.120 well, that's freedom. That is the opposite of freedom. So to review, freedom is not a self 0.74

00:54:47.000 explanatory defense of drug trafficking. It's also not a relevant defense because one of the things

00:54:51.040 that makes drug trafficking so evil is that the end user does not actually have total freedom

00:54:55.860 because they are enslaved by the drug. But let's take addiction out of it. Let's take drugs out of

00:55:02.600 it. Okay. Let's, let's make this even easier for you. You just said that people should be free to sell

00:55:11.520 whatever anyone else wants to put in their bodies. That's what you said. Now, I think that this is an

00:55:18.720 utterly ridiculous argument when it comes to hard drugs, but it's also ridiculous when it comes to 0.91

00:55:22.460 things that are not drugs. That's how thoroughly ridiculous your argument is. So here's a thought 0.99

00:55:26.940 experiment, just a thought experiment. Tide pods. You may remember a few years ago when there was

00:55:33.000 much consternation over the Tide pod challenge, where idiots on TikTok or YouTube or whatever 0.99

00:55:37.500 would eat the laundry detergent capsules and then get very sick and in a few cases would die. 0.99

00:55:41.440 Now, here's the question. What if the Tide detergent company decided that it wanted to lean into this

00:55:47.620 phenomenon? And so it began selling its product as both a laundry detergent and a snack. What if

00:55:53.360 they put on their packaging, Tide pods, great for laundry, great for snacking. And what if they even,

00:55:59.120 you know, let's just say that they're being a little bit more responsible. They include an FDA warning

00:56:03.080 that though it can physically be eaten, it might be damaging to your health. But still, even with that

00:56:09.120 warning, they're marketing it. They are marketing it as a consumable product. Remember, you said that

00:56:15.180 people should be free to put whatever they want into their bodies and sellers should be free to

00:56:19.580 sell whatever anyone wants to put into their bodies. Some people wanted to put Tide pods in

00:56:25.180 their bodies. Why couldn't the Tide company therefore sell Tide pods specifically to that demographic,

00:56:30.040 put it in a snack aisle next to the potato chips explicitly for the purpose of consuming?

00:56:37.940 Why couldn't they, in other words, intentionally poison their customers directly? What would be wrong

00:56:44.220 with them sitting around in a marketing room and saying, you know what? Some of our customers

00:56:47.020 want to be poisoned and killed by this. Let's think of some ways to sell it to them. Let's think

00:56:51.660 of some ways to market it. Not just market it to people who already want to consume Tide pods,

00:56:56.820 but let's try to convince people that they should eat this stuff and then sell it to them.

00:57:05.160 The argument you made in defense of fentanyl dealers would cover this Tide company hypothetical

00:57:10.220 absolutely. Now, maybe you escaped this bind by plunging forward and saying, yeah, sure,

00:57:15.820 Tide should be able to legally market their product to those who want to eat it. Now, that would make

00:57:20.560 you consistent at least, but it would make you consistently insane because you would be defending

00:57:24.940 the freedom of corporations to intentionally and directly poison their customers, which would only go

00:57:33.040 to show that freedom in and of itself is not a valid defense. And of course, you never did explain,

00:57:39.860 in that clip or in any other clip part of your diatribe, what is so wrong with non-lethal physical

00:57:44.580 punishments of criminals? Especially when even simply putting someone in prison is a physical

00:57:50.800 punishment involving physical coercion and force. Should we abolish prisons too while we're at it?

00:57:58.360 And if we shouldn't abolish prisons, meaning that physical force can validly be used to punish

00:58:03.220 criminals, then why should we automatically rule out corporal punishment, which is but one form of

00:58:07.540 physical force? Well, we'll take it one step at a time, I suppose. Kyle still needs to figure out

00:58:12.900 whether laundry detergent companies can sell their products as a snack. I don't want to overwhelm him

00:58:17.580 with things, so we will let him think about that. But for the time being, we will also say that he is

00:58:23.160 canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.

00:58:28.320 Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 27, 2023

Ep. 1102 - How I Made It Onto The ADL's Anti-LGBT Extremism Watchlist

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