The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1109 - American's Growing Death Tourism Industry

00:00:00.140 Today on the Matt Wall Show, death tourism is a growing industry in the United States,

00:00:04.140 and it's as horrifying as it sounds. We'll talk about it. Also, Biden stumbled and fumbled his

00:00:08.420 way through the State of the Union address. Much of the speech was difficult to translate

00:00:11.600 from whatever language he was speaking. The rest was full of lies. And Trump accuses DeSantis of

00:00:16.440 being a groomer. All of Trump's attacks on DeSantis have failed so far. Will this one be any

00:00:20.620 different? Plus, Joy Reid on MSNBC says the left has achieved total victory in the culture war.

00:00:25.560 Is she right? And if so, does that mean she'll stop finally playing the victim card?

00:00:30.100 Unlikely, but we'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:38.800 I am not going to begin the show today with an analysis of the State of the Union address.

00:01:44.740 It's just not that important. This is a reality that is hard for the political pundit class to

00:01:50.220 accept. Besides, I think there are better ways of ascertaining the actual state of the Union. In

00:01:55.460 fact, of all the ways, listening to a stump speech from the president is going to give you probably

00:02:00.060 the least accurate impression of how things are actually going. Instead, I'll point you towards a

00:02:06.480 report published this week by the Daily Mail, which reveals the startling details of the

00:02:10.980 burgeoning suicide tourism industry. The Daily Mail reports, quote, Oregon has become America's

00:02:17.800 first death tourism destination where terminally ill people from Texas and other states that have

00:02:22.820 outlawed assisted suicide have started traveling to get their hands on a deadly cocktail of drugs

00:02:26.860 to end their lives, DailyMail.com can reveal. In the liberal bastion of Portland, at least one clinic

00:02:32.020 has started receiving out-of-staters who have less than six months to live and meet the other

00:02:35.620 strict requirements of the state's death with dignity law. Dr. Nicholas Gideonis, the director

00:02:42.740 of the End-of-Life Choices in Oregon, recently told a panel that he was advising terminally ill

00:02:47.380 non-residents on traveling to the state to end their lives despite a legal gray area.

00:02:53.300 Now, sidebar, one thing to note here is that the phrase strict requirements should be taken with

00:02:59.400 an enormous grain of salt. This is the way it always starts, right? We begin with the evil thing in

00:03:06.120 small doses with lots of alleged limitations and strict requirements, they say, until little by

00:03:12.180 little those requirements are loosened and the limitations are eroded, and soon you're providing

00:03:16.760 assisted suicide to people who suffer from conditions like homelessness, as they are in Canada.

00:03:21.800 Every country that now euthanizes people who aren't even terminally ill started by only euthanizing the

00:03:29.220 terminally ill. Okay, this is the way it always goes. The process is inevitable. It's a river that flows in

00:03:33.980 one direction and one direction only. Now, it's not hard to see why an assisted suicide regime, if it gains 0.85

00:03:40.860 a foothold, will always grow more expansive over time. And partly, it's just the nature of the left's agenda.

00:03:46.440 This is a cancer that grows and progresses and infects other parts of the body, and that's simply

00:03:51.800 what cancer does. And in this case in particular, we can see how the principles of euthanasia, once

00:03:58.560 accepted, will lead to certain conclusions inevitably. Assisted suicide presents death as a legitimate

00:04:07.680 treatment option. It puts doctors in the position of directly killing their patients and charging them

00:04:14.700 for the privilege of being killed. Medicalizing and monetizing death, just one more way of doing

00:04:20.940 it. It says that death is a medically valid strategy. So, you know, why suffer when death

00:04:26.820 can give you an escape from all that suffering? This is the euthanasia sales pitch. If we as a society

00:04:32.320 will accept this sales pitch for the terminally ill, there's no coherent reason to reject it in every

00:04:37.160 other case. I mean, we're all terminally ill after all. We all suffer from the medical condition known as

00:04:43.320 mortality. Our days are numbered. And the older you get, the closer death approaches.

00:04:49.220 If you are, say, 75 years old, you'll probably be dead within a decade, statistically, whether you

00:04:56.160 have a terminal illness or not. So, I mean, why drag it out when the magic pill can give you an easy

00:05:00.480 exit today? See, by the logic of assisted suicide, if someone is suffering greatly, even if the suffering

00:05:06.560 is only psychological rather than physical, there's no reason to force them to continue living with it,

00:05:11.640 especially because they're just going to eventually die anyway. This is the logic behind the greatly

00:05:17.060 expanded euthanasia programs in Canada and some European countries and places like Colombia and

00:05:22.500 elsewhere. It always starts with limitations and then ends up here. And this is not just with

00:05:27.860 euthanasia. This is with literally everything on the left's agenda. And if there's anyone out there

00:05:33.100 who still needs this to be explained to them, then, I mean, it's hopeless. I don't know.

00:05:38.100 I don't know. It shouldn't need to be explained. All you need to do is look at the culture and see

00:05:42.640 it for a fact. Back to the Daily Mail. It says, quote, out-of-state residents must be able to spend

00:05:48.760 at least 15 days in Oregon to process the paperwork, which requires sign-offs from two doctors and

00:05:53.620 witnesses before administering the fatal dose themselves, says the clinic's website.

00:05:58.620 Dr. Gideonis and the clinic operate in a legal gray zone. The state last year agreed to extend

00:06:04.400 access to doctor-assisted suicide to out-of-staters. But this is not expected to be

00:06:08.400 codified into law until later this year. But America's first death tourism destination throws

00:06:13.200 up tough legal questions for family members who may help a loved one reach the state from a

00:06:17.880 prohibitionist state. They could face arrest or even be prosecuted in their home state as a result.

00:06:23.360 For critics, Oregon's nation death tourism industry and efforts to create another in Vermont

00:06:28.640 show how the US is on a slippery slope to following in Canada's footsteps, where lax rules have

00:06:33.700 allowed people with so little as hearing loss to be euthanized. While US-assisted suicide rules

00:06:38.260 are comparatively strict and help some desperately sick people end their agony, critics say they also

00:06:43.000 devalue human life and make deadly drugs a solution for the infirm, disabled, and even those who are 1.00

00:06:47.940 cash-strapped or feel like a burden. Well, it's exactly what it does. It's what it's designed to do.

00:06:54.660 And I have to say, there is something so viscerally horrifying about the idea of filling out

00:07:03.040 paperwork to die. And it's almost difficult to put into words. It's like, it's a uniquely modern

00:07:09.780 horror. It's just, it's, it's the combination of the worst things about modern society, the combination

00:07:16.540 of paperwork, waiting rooms, and, and then death. And it's, it's, it's depressing and despair inducing

00:07:25.600 in a way that evades description. Just like imagining someone in this kind of sterile waiting room with

00:07:33.220 the fluorescent lights, filling out a bunch of paperwork, you know, on a little clipboard and then

00:07:38.660 sitting there waiting to go back and die is just, or to talk to a doctor about being given the drugs to

00:07:45.260 die. It's again, viscerally horrifying. As always, our efforts to sanitize ugly things only make those ugly

00:07:55.600 And here, when I say ugly things, I don't mean death specifically. Death is, is ugly in the sense

00:08:00.860 that it's scary and often painful. Yet fundamentally, death is also a natural process. It's part of life.

00:08:06.700 It's a kind of a, our death is a, is a passenger that we carry with us. It's always, it's always there.

00:08:12.740 So when I say ugly, I'm referring to suicide. Suicide is an ugly thing. One, one of the ugliest things.

00:08:18.840 And that's what we're trying to sanitize and medicalize with euthanasia. It's, it's among other things,

00:08:24.380 dishonest because it lies to the patient first by calling him a patient lies to him about what he's

00:08:32.140 doing, allows him to lie to himself. I mean, think about it this way. If somebody needs euthanasia to

00:08:39.000 kill themselves, uh, if they wouldn't kill themselves, if not for euthanasia, because of

00:08:43.160 course, you know, suicide is one of those things that is a, it's an option available to everyone 0.98

00:08:48.520 all the time. Uh, it's something that anyone can do even painlessly. They shouldn't, it's a terrible

00:08:54.640 thing, but it's not something that you strictly speaking, need a doctor to facilitate. So if

00:09:03.040 somebody does feel like they, in order to do this, they need the doctor to give them the, the poison

00:09:08.460 pills. Well, that tells us that there's something about suicide that this person recognizes as wrong.

00:09:18.140 And so they turn to the doctor assisted version of suicide to paper over those rough edges

00:09:24.040 because it makes suicide seem palatable to people who otherwise apparently would choose to live.

00:09:31.660 This is, this is the whole point of it really. And it's what, it's what makes it such a sinister evil.

00:09:39.400 Now, as repellent as all this may be, we should also keep in mind, it's, it's not as unique in

00:09:45.820 this country as we might like to imagine. Death tourism comes in different forms. A number of states

00:09:51.980 have already set themselves up as abortion destinations. Connecticut just recently passed

00:09:55.740 a law and joined California and New York as abortion sanctuaries offering to fly pregnant women in 0.86

00:10:01.380 prison, kill their babies and have them home in a few days, ready to get back to work. 1.00

00:10:05.900 Some of these same states, California, Minnesota in particular, are also declaring themselves 1.00

00:10:09.860 sanctuaries for child castration. Parents can bring their gender confused children, 1.00

00:10:15.200 have them castrated and sterilized, and then back to school in no time. Pretty soon these states will 0.99

00:10:19.700 have their own travel agents offering package deals for the whole family. You know, come to Vermont,

00:10:25.060 we'll abort your baby, castrate your son and euthanize grandpa. Then you can all hit the slopes. 1.00

00:10:29.760 This is all death tourism in one form or another. Perhaps we might call it culture of death tourism.

00:10:35.780 A tour through the culture of death and all its myriad horrors and all the ways it wishes to devour you.

00:10:42.840 Because that's all the culture of death wants to do or can do. You know, it offers nothing but

00:10:50.200 nothingness. It gives nothing in return for the everything it takes from you. Which really is a

00:10:58.080 bargain that should be very easy to turn down. Now let's get to our headlines.

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00:11:51.860 So we're going a little out of order here, I guess, because I'm saving the State of the

00:11:57.500 Union stuff for the end, for the daily cancellation, where it belongs. And there,

00:12:01.680 I'll give my full take on the address, and this particular address, and also just the State of

00:12:06.480 the Union address in general. And it'll be very exciting, I promise. Well, maybe not, but we're

00:12:11.900 going to do it anyway. There's one part of the speech that won't be in that segment, but I can't

00:12:15.900 neglect to mention. So we'll touch on it here. Biden invited the parents of Tyree Nichols to the

00:12:22.200 speech and then used them as a platform to launch into a thing about racist cops, which of course is

00:12:27.200 not only just abhorrent and gratuitous, you know, to use these grieving parents that way is, I think,

00:12:35.040 it's not at all surprising coming from Biden and Democrats. But it is, it's a sick and depraved thing to 0.54

00:12:42.400 do. And also, even more baseless than usual, given that Nichols was killed by black cops from a 0.99

00:12:49.260 department run by a female black police chief. So there's just, as we've covered, there's no racism 0.67

00:12:54.800 angle here at all. Which is why, even though Biden brought the parents in, because he had to,

00:13:00.080 and Kamala Harris went to the funeral, which is another completely gratuitous and disgusting thing 0.95

00:13:04.940 that politicians do. You know, going to a funeral of someone you didn't know,

00:13:11.700 I mean, it's one thing if this is something that this is a, some sort of dignitary or head of state

00:13:17.360 or something like that. And then a politician attends the funeral, but an average citizen going

00:13:24.540 to the funeral, it's like you, you are blatantly politicized. Your very presence is meant to politicize

00:13:32.640 the funeral of this person. So yeah, they're doing all that. But at the same time, the media has

00:13:38.660 basically moved on from Tyree Nichols completely. If you think back to George Floyd, when we were a

00:13:47.100 couple of weeks out from George Floyd, they were, it was still very much in the headlines and would

00:13:50.440 remain there for months. Tyree Nichols have already moved on because although they look for this racial

00:13:56.440 angle, it's, it's, it's not, it's, it's not convincing to people. They haven't been able to make

00:14:01.960 that case. They can't really, they can try to racialize it and they did try, but it fell flat.

00:14:06.780 And so they kind of moved on. Um, but it was this part of speech, um, that started with Tyree Nichols

00:14:14.360 that really stood out to me and here it is. Most of us in here have never had to have the talk,

00:14:22.400 the talk that Brown and black parents have had to have with their children.

00:14:26.580 Bo Hunter, Ashlyn, my children. I never had to have a talk with them. I never had to tell them

00:14:33.180 if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away.

00:14:39.860 Don't reach for your license. Keep your hands on the steering wheel.

00:14:45.960 Imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got in a car.

00:14:50.780 I mean, first of all, there are a lot of talks with Hunter Biden that he probably should have had

00:14:56.600 and he didn't. Uh, but this whole thing about, about the talk, I mean, we hear this all the time

00:15:01.660 now about, Oh, the talk, the talk, the talk that black parents have to have with their precious

00:15:07.740 children. And no, no other family has to have the talk, you know, all the, all the black families, 0.86

00:15:13.480 they know about the talk. Oh, the talk. Oh, shut up. What are you talking? And everyone,

00:15:19.400 you know, and then, and then all the, all these stupid white people go along with it. Oh, 1.00

00:15:23.240 you're right. I've never heard of that talk. I can't imagine. I can't imagine having to hear

00:15:27.080 that talk about how to handle, uh, getting pulled over. I can't imagine. Oh, will you?

00:15:31.620 It's nonsense. Okay. Black families are not the only ones who have that talk. Okay. It's just that 0.89

00:15:36.820 I had the talk. I remember that talk from my dad. We didn't make a big deal out of it. It wasn't like,

00:15:41.440 uh, there didn't need to be emotional, dramatic music playing in the background. It wasn't this,

00:15:44.820 it didn't, it didn't traumatize me to hear the talk, but it's like every competent parents

00:15:51.720 has this talk with their kid. When they first start driving, I can remember it. I can remember it.

00:15:57.680 Uh, when I got a license and I was able to drive on my own for the first time and my dad explained to

00:16:04.380 me, if you get pulled over, uh, make sure to listen to what the officer says, say, you know,

00:16:11.700 yes, officer, no officer, keep your hands in view, just comply with whatever they say.

00:16:17.320 Um, if you don't agree with the ticket, don't argue with the police officer. Nothing's going

00:16:20.740 to come of that. Well, you argue it in court. That that's, and that was it. That was, that was

00:16:26.660 the talk that my dad said to me. And when my kids start driving, I'll say the same thing to them.

00:16:32.740 I mean, what's the other option to know? It's like you're teaching your kid to drive. Are you not

00:16:36.020 going to say anything about what happens if they get pulled over? It's not a big deal.

00:16:40.980 Of course you're going to have that talk. Why is that a traumatic, terrible thing that you would

00:16:47.320 have to explain? You should explain that to your kid. And it's not because we're excusing police

00:16:53.680 brutality or anything like that, or, or being bootlickers of the state. Okay. It's just when

00:17:00.240 you're, when you're having an interaction with a, with a, with a police officer, because you've

00:17:06.240 allegedly, you know, committed some sort of infraction like speeding, it just makes sense

00:17:11.700 to not exacerbate the situation or make it worse than it needs to be. It's like you, you, the goal

00:17:22.200 here, because, because you are having interaction with it, with a, an agent of the state who's armed

00:17:27.560 and carrying a gun, all the rest of it. So the goal here is to make that interaction as simple

00:17:32.080 and quick as possible. And if you, if, again, if you don't agree with something, if you don't

00:17:38.360 think he should have been pulled over, if you think that he was wrong about this or that,

00:17:41.460 then that's, you go to court. It's, it's, there's, you're not going to have any success

00:17:44.980 arguing with him. He's already made his decision. So then that's what court is for. That's why we have

00:17:50.680 that. That's one of the advantages of living in an allegedly civilized society where we have

00:17:55.580 courts. So you go to them and you argue with them about it.

00:17:57.320 Yes, you should have this talk. Everyone has this talk. So shut up about the talk.

00:18:05.940 You know, it's this, um, and again, what's, what's so wrong, but why is that a problem?

00:18:12.420 The fact that you have to have that talk with your kids, it's this whole concept of a victim

00:18:17.740 blaming, right? Where it's, it's somehow wrong to give people advice on how to avoid becoming a victim.

00:18:23.820 That's good advice to give. And you also know something else too, that nearly every alleged

00:18:31.840 police brutality video that we see, and many of them, I say alleged because many of these police

00:18:38.620 brutality videos in reality, when you have the full context, you realize that it's actually not

00:18:42.260 police brutality, but sometimes it is. I mean, Tyree Nichols, almost everyone agrees. I haven't,

00:18:47.680 I would say everyone, I haven't heard anyone that said that's saying otherwise. So from what I've

00:18:52.140 seen, everyone agrees that, um, the cops in that case went like several miles over the line,

00:18:59.600 wherever the line is, they're way, way over it. Um, because they're holding him back and beating

00:19:06.000 him. And it looks like I talked said at the time, it looks like it's some sort of gang beating.

00:19:09.420 It doesn't, it doesn't resemble law enforcement at all. And that's why they're, they were all arrested

00:19:15.080 and charged, you know, with, uh, with murder. Um, so there are times when the police brutality

00:19:20.220 is where it's legitimately police, police, police brutality, but in nearly all of these cases,

00:19:26.060 okay. In nearly all of them, not all of them, but nearly all it starts with someone resisting arrest.

00:19:35.620 Okay. And what that now, does that mean that just because you resist arrest, it gives the cops the

00:19:43.060 right to kill you? No. Okay. Does that mean that every single person who resists arrest should be 0.98

00:19:48.160 killed? No, that's not the point. The point is simply that when you make that decision

00:19:55.320 to start getting aggressive with the cops, you have radically increased your chances of something

00:20:02.680 terrible happening to you. So why do it now? You can respond all you want. And by saying,

00:20:10.180 well, I should be able to arrest, to resist arrest without being killed. I should be able to do that

00:20:14.940 in America. We should be able to resist arrest and not be killed by the cops.

00:20:18.360 I mean, sure. Maybe in some cases, depends on what we mean by resisting arrest. I guess it depends

00:20:23.580 on how long this goes on and what exactly you're doing. And, you know, are you resisting arrest?

00:20:27.620 Like the Rashad Brooks case in Atlanta, where he steals the cop's weapon in the process and

00:20:32.460 gets killed? You know, that's one form. And, and then, or is it, is it like a Tyree Nichols

00:20:38.480 thing? But regardless, okay, you have still, like you can talk all you want about how this

00:20:47.020 is how it should be. Yeah. You know, I can make an argument that I should be able to walk

00:20:54.900 through the inner city, you know, in the middle of the night, waving a stack of cash in the air

00:21:01.900 and, and skipping along and singing about how I have a wad of cash and I'm waving it in the air.

00:21:08.860 I should, and I should be able to do that without, without getting assaulted or killed or robbed.

00:21:14.180 I should like in a, in, you know, in a, in a, in a, in a country where everyone is good and decent

00:21:20.000 and nothing bad happens. I should be able to do that. I should be able to skip down the middle of

00:21:24.680 the, the, you know, West side Baltimore, waving a wad of cash in the air and no harm should come to

00:21:31.260 me. I should be able to, but I don't live, I don't happen to live in a universe where that's the

00:21:38.500 reality, unfortunately. Okay. And so it's, it's important to tell people like, yeah,

00:21:43.640 maybe you should be able to, but you can't. So don't do that.

00:21:49.900 There are just realities about the world we live in that you should understand and you should

00:21:56.280 respond accordingly. You should operate within the boundaries of reality as it exists,

00:22:02.380 not the boundaries of this fantasy world you wished you lived in. And you should do that

00:22:09.020 for your own sake. So you don't die. And this is an important thing to explain to people. And it's

00:22:15.500 something that your parents ought to explain to you. So back to police brutality, you start resisting

00:22:22.380 arrest, whether or not you should be able to do that without getting killed is irrelevant.

00:22:26.440 You've greatly increased your chance of getting injured or killed by doing that. Why do it?

00:22:33.940 What could you possibly gain from doing it? No one ever asks this question. We're not allowed to ask

00:22:40.460 it. In every video where someone's resisting arrest and then gets killed, even if it was an unjustified

00:22:46.320 killing, we're not allowed to ask like, what was your plan here? What did you think was, why do it?

00:22:52.760 Think this through for a second. Best case scenario, you resist arrest. Okay, that's, so let's do the

00:23:00.720 plan here. Step one, resist arrest. What are the other steps? Do you think you'll resist arrest and

00:23:07.800 then they'll just say, oh, nevermind, we're not going to arrest you at all. Oh, you don't, oh, you

00:23:10.960 don't want to be arrested. Well, nevermind, just go about your, I didn't realize you didn't want to

00:23:14.260 be. Well, go ahead, go ahead then. Nevermind. That's not going to happen. So like best case scenario

00:23:20.540 is you resist arrest and maybe you escape unharmed, but then now you're a fugitive and

00:23:29.660 you've just added a whole bunch of charges that you didn't have before. And so now you're

00:23:32.500 going to go to jail for longer when they do catch you than you did before. More likely you're not

00:23:37.140 going to escape. And so even maybe they, they, they get a, they get you, you know, they get

00:23:42.920 a hold of you and they detain you and you're not injured, but now you have more charges than

00:23:47.960 you would have had before. So best case scenario, resisting arrest, you take a situation where you

00:23:52.600 were in trouble and now you're in a lot more trouble. That's the best case scenario.

00:23:57.720 There is no other, that's, that's as good as it can get for you. So why do it? It is just,

00:24:04.500 it's like, it's utterly self-destructive behavior. And every time it's like this, it's ridiculous that 0.90

00:24:13.800 we're not allowed to point this out. No one ever asks. Why, why are you doing it? Yeah. These are

00:24:20.880 all talks. And, and because like none of us are allowed to have this talk in public, it's so deeply

00:24:27.080 offensive to bring this up. So maybe parents, yeah, you should probably be having this talk with your

00:24:31.160 kids. It's a good idea. Whether your kids are black or white or any other color, this is a talk

00:24:34.400 you should be having with them. All right. Daily Wire reports this former president Donald Trump

00:24:42.280 promoted baseless claims on social media Tuesday that accused Florida governor Ron DeSantis of

00:24:48.480 grooming underage girls with alcohol. Trump's latest attack against the Florida governor who

00:24:53.360 recently won reelection in Florida with a historic 19.4 point blowout comes after Trump claimed last

00:25:01.640 week that DeSantis begged him for an endorsement in 2018 and that there were tears coming down from

00:25:05.600 his eyes. I'm sure there were. Why, why make up lies that no one yet? Trump, DeSantis went to Trump

00:25:12.300 crying and saying, will you endorse me? All right. Trump promoted a post that showed a grainy photograph

00:25:19.460 of someone that is alleged to be DeSantis standing next to several women at a party who appear to be

00:25:23.560 roughly the same age. The post claimed here is Ron DeSantis grooming high school girls with alcohol as a

00:25:29.760 teacher. Trump promoted the post on a social media channel writing, that's not Ron, is it? He would

00:25:35.100 never do such a thing. The New York Times previously reported the photo was published by a blog run by a

00:25:39.580 Democrat super PAC and that two former female students said parties that DeSantis attended took 0.96

00:25:44.120 place after they had graduated. Okay. So Trump's latest line of attack is that DeSantis once took a picture

00:25:51.720 with some former students. That's it. That's, that's literally all. Um, that's, that's what they have.

00:25:58.260 They have Trump, they have DeSantis standing with some former students in a picture.

00:26:04.100 And then Trump basically directly accuses him of grooming them with alcohol, which is

00:26:08.820 defamatory made up nonsense. And Trump again is borrowing this line of attack from left-wing

00:26:14.880 groups that already tried it against DeSantis during a campaign that ended with DeSantis utterly

00:26:19.960 crushing the competition in a landslide and flipping a bunch of blue counties red. And so Trump is seeing

00:26:25.680 that and saying, well, that line of attack didn't work at all, uh, in a general election. So now I'm

00:26:30.620 going to try it in a primary. So it didn't work in a general election. In fact, a bunch of Democrat

00:26:35.740 voters found that line of attack so unconvincing that they voted for DeSantis. So now I'm going to

00:26:41.460 try it against DeSantis with the Republican base and see how it works out.

00:26:44.660 It is, um, not a great political strategy. You know, we, one thing about Trump is that, uh, people

00:26:54.720 have, even as critics have, have often in the past, um, commended or if not commended, at least

00:27:02.040 remarked upon Trump's great political instincts. But I mean, recently we're not seeing much evidence

00:27:09.640 of that. And, and his whole approach to DeSantis, this is the approach of somebody with no political

00:27:15.860 instincts whatsoever. Um, it is politically, it is, the whole thing is catastrophically stupid. 1.00

00:27:23.560 And his attacks against DeSantis just get dumber and weaker every time. And it looks desperate. 1.00

00:27:30.840 And as Trump continues to obsess over DeSantis, DeSantis has nothing in returns. Instead,

00:27:35.860 God is governing his state. And it just makes Trump look absolutely pathetic. Meanwhile, also it, 1.00

00:27:41.360 it, and this is where Trump has to be careful though, you know, to say that Trump should be

00:27:45.980 careful is, there's no point in saying it, but, um, he opens himself up to lines of attack that,

00:27:54.760 yeah, didn't work against him in 2016, but there's a difference in 2016. There wasn't anyone in the race

00:28:00.980 with enough credibility with the base to attack Trump on almost anything. You know, he was Teflon

00:28:09.060 Don in 2016. He's not Teflon anymore. Uh, there are lines of attack that land and especially,

00:28:14.760 and that can often depend on who is launching the attack. The other thing about Trump is that again,

00:28:21.820 2016, there was really nobody going after Trump in the primaries from his right. Almost all the

00:28:29.920 attacks were from the left or they were about Trump is a mean, he's a jerk. And like all of that is 1.00

00:28:34.220 kind of a version of a leftist attack. And most of it, he's not civil. He's not, it's like, it's,

00:28:39.280 it's all kind of attacks from, from the left or from the middle. Um, there was almost no one going

00:28:43.420 after him from the right. Well, DeSantis is to Trump's right on everything. I mean, on every issue,

00:28:51.220 DeSantis is firmly to Trump's right. And so, and so if DeSantis ever does engage and eventually he's

00:28:56.160 going to have to, if he does, if he does run against Trump, if he actually gets into the race,

00:28:59.580 um, he's going to have some credibility that none of these other people did.

00:29:03.580 So the point is certain line of attacks that didn't work against Trump in 2016,

00:29:07.220 they may suddenly become more effective. And so if Trump is bringing up,

00:29:13.100 oh, look at this, look at this, look at this photo years ago of DeSantis standing with some women.

00:29:19.640 Well, that, that it's pretty easy for DeSantis to respond by saying, oh, really? Well,

00:29:23.960 here's a photo of you standing with Jeffrey Epstein and then a bunch of other photos of

00:29:27.640 you also standing with Epstein. I mean, if you want to bring this, like, if you want to go there

00:29:33.260 now, does that mean that Trump was, you know, that, that Trump was guilty of anything just

00:29:38.440 because he took pictures, Epstein took pictures with, with almost every prominent person,

00:29:42.140 uh, you know, in, in DC and in Hollywood and all the rest of it. So that in itself doesn't prove

00:29:47.820 anything. But the point is like, if you're going to go there, if you want to make wild,

00:29:54.920 insinuations based on photos from years ago, if you want to go there, then we can go there,

00:30:00.920 but it's, you are going to come out looking worse, a lot worse than me. That could be DeSantis's

00:30:04.340 response. Yeah, it didn't work in 2016. People brought up the, the Epstein pictures didn't

00:30:10.160 matter. I don't know if he could be so sure that'll be the case this time around. I mean,

00:30:15.360 this is another mistake that Trump is making is that he, he, and, and a lot of his, uh, it seems

00:30:21.020 like a lot of people in his circle, it's the same deal. They, they're convinced that,

00:30:25.240 that it's 2016 forever and that nothing ever changes. And so he could just do the exact same

00:30:30.260 thing you're doing in 2016 and it'll work, but it's not, I mean, times change in these days,

00:30:35.120 they change very quickly and political realities change very quickly. And so just because there

00:30:40.880 could be something that worked really well in 2016 and it falls flat now. Um, and Trump has not

00:30:45.980 kept up and, and the biggest problem for Trump is that, and I think this is what makes him so

00:30:54.740 insecure about DeSantis is that people, uh, people like DeSantis, the Republicans like DeSantis

00:31:03.120 for what he's done and what he's currently doing. You know, that's, that's why they,

00:31:09.060 they like DeSantis. Uh, it's yeah, they like the things that he says and all that,

00:31:13.500 but that's very secondary. It's not, it's like, that's not the point. It's like we can see what

00:31:18.520 he's actually done while he's governor and he's got, and he's, and he's actually put this stuff

00:31:22.120 into action. And, um, that's hard to get around. It's like, you, you know, you can't argue with his

00:31:29.900 results and, and Trump really isn't and he knows he can't. So instead he's, he's, he's kind of

00:31:35.940 around, he's picking at the edges and, uh, it, it, it looks pathetic. All right. 0.96

00:31:45.960 Here's a great moment here, um, in a BBC interview with Bill Gates, challenging him on his, uh,

00:31:52.420 environmentalist credentials. Listen to this.

00:31:54.960 What do you say to the charge that if you are a climate change campaigner, 0.99

00:31:59.580 but you also travel around the world with a private jet, you're a hypocrite? Well, I, I buy 0.98

00:32:06.580 the gold standard of funding Climeworks to do direct air capture that far exceeds my family's

00:32:16.900 carbon footprint. And I spend billions of dollars on, on climate innovation. So, you know, should I

00:32:24.920 stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria? Anyway, I mean, I'm,

00:32:31.940 I'm comfortable with the idea that not only am I not part of the problem by paying for the offsets,

00:32:40.320 but also through the billions that my breakthrough energy group is spending, that I'm part of the

00:32:47.420 solution. Hmm. This is, this is all, uh, this is all science, right? This is the way that, uh,

00:32:54.740 that science works is that, uh, if you, so if you, you know, fly around a plane a lot, uh, you,

00:33:02.740 you, you send a lot of a carbon emissions into the air, you are changing the weather. Um, you're

00:33:07.920 causing hurricanes and tornadoes and, uh, even earthquakes. I don't know if they, I don't know

00:33:13.340 if they've tied that one in yet to climate change, but, um, that's, that's the one natural disaster

00:33:18.040 that I think they haven't been able to get to. They haven't quite been able to, to, to explain how

00:33:22.740 even earthquakes are our fault. But, uh, as far as I know, they haven't yet, but eventually they'll

00:33:27.380 figure it out. Anyway, you know, you, that's what happens when you, when you just live, you live

00:33:32.640 your life as a, as a modern person, you're causing all these weather events. Um, and these are all

00:33:37.940 weather events that existed before any of this modern technology existed. Uh, but yet somehow now

00:33:44.640 we cause them, I don't know yet you can, you can erase your own impact by also, as he says,

00:33:54.700 if you spend a lot of money on climate initiatives. So how did, so somehow the money, uh, mitigates the

00:34:05.920 carbon that you've emitted. And so then you are no longer, whereas before you would have contributed

00:34:11.440 to the hurricane, then the money comes in and it wipes out that contribution. And so that I don't

00:34:17.280 quite understand the science. I'm trying to understand this, but I, I'm sure that there is

00:34:21.200 real science behind this. I just, it's probably, it's, of course it's my, this is what they would,

00:34:25.940 you know, they'd be quick to point out that it's like my, it's my problem just too stupid to understand 0.99

00:34:30.500 the science behind all this. But Bill Gates understands the science. 1.00

00:34:34.840 I mean, why should we trust him as an expert on climate? Probably for the same reason we're

00:34:44.300 supposed to trust him as an expert on vaccines and COVID because he's a really rich guy who's

00:34:49.820 been around for a while. So it means he knows everything. All right. Here's another clip I

00:34:54.980 want to play for you. Joy, Joy Reed on MSNBC has her own reaction to the Grammys where she's 0.99

00:35:00.020 sort of spiking the cultural football. And it's taking it in a different direction from where a

00:35:07.060 lot of her compatriots on the left have done. And she says a few things here that, that are

00:35:11.400 unintentionally kind of interesting. So I want to play this clip.

00:35:14.880 I hadn't watched in years, but I actually really enjoyed it. Although I'm not sure everybody else did.

00:35:21.200 It was to put it mildly, a celebration of the very thing the American right has turned into its

00:35:26.660 latest anti-wokeness boogeyman, diversity, equity, and inclusion. The show opened with

00:35:33.280 Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny singing 99% in Spanish. Then host Trevor Noah walked and talked

00:35:39.940 through a room that was diversity, equity, and inclusion in human form. The first country

00:35:45.400 Americana artist to perform, Randy Carlisle. He walked, so the room at the Grammys,

00:35:51.640 he's also, he's walking down in the room with all the famous people. That's diversity, equity,

00:35:57.180 and inclusion incarnate. That's what, that's really, so it's a bunch of really rich elite

00:36:03.640 people from the same socioeconomic, with the same socioeconomic status, the same kind of cultural

00:36:09.620 stratosphere, and who all believe the same things and are identical ideologically. That's diversity,

00:36:17.020 equity, inclusion. A bunch of rich, very rich, wealthy, prominent people who all agree with each

00:36:25.460 other is diversity and equity inclusion. She's right, actually. That is, that is what DEI is all

00:36:33.280 about. It's just interesting to hear her admit that, but continue. Was introduced by her wife

00:36:38.260 and daughters. We saw the first trans artist win a Grammy, Kim Petras, who has a hit song

00:36:44.200 with Sam Smith, the British singer who came out in 2019 as non-binary. Black acting superstar Viola

00:36:51.760 Davis became an EGOT, winning a Grammy to add to her Golden Globe Oscar and Tony Awards. Lizzo

00:36:57.760 performed with her amazing choir of many-sized singers. Beyonce took home her 32nd Grammy to become

00:37:04.860 the most Grammy-decorated singer of all time. Besting, and I had to look this up, Hungarian-British 0.98

00:37:10.740 conductor George Salty. Record of the year went to Harry Styles, a British male singer who frequently

00:37:16.840 puts on dresses to pose in magazines and is a sex symbol to women and men because of it. And there

00:37:23.020 was a 15-minute epic tribute to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. So yeah, the culture wars are over,

00:37:31.520 and the left won, like total defeat. I can only imagine the heads exploding in red states.

00:37:38.020 I imagine Ron DeSantis is somewhere stalking through his governor's mansion trying to figure

00:37:42.320 out how to ban the airing of the Grammys in Florida and take away CBS's tax exemptions.

00:37:47.880 No educational value, queer theory, black music. It's a helpful reminder that despite the almost 1.00

00:37:54.660 hysterical war the right is waging to take the call. All right, good. So you heard that. Now,

00:38:00.380 a couple of things here. So as I said, she's sort of spiking the football and say, well, you see, 0.95

00:38:08.240 the left won the culture war. Okay, well, that's true, Joy. Then to begin with, can you stop acting

00:38:16.040 persecuted? You just said you won. You won, right? And that means there's no more systemic racism or

00:38:23.300 sexism or any of the rest of it, because you won. You won the culture. You took over.

00:38:28.840 And if you want to take the approach of bragging about it and say, you see, we won, fine. I think

00:38:37.680 that's actually a much more honest approach. But then you can't in the very next breath say,

00:38:42.100 and we're so, we won, we run everything, and we're persecuted.

00:38:45.640 We're the champions, and we're oppressed. Like, you can't do that. You have to choose a lane.

00:38:54.140 So are you the football spiking victors? You're dancing on the graves of your fallen enemies.

00:39:03.260 Are you that, as you portray here? Or are you practically still in chains, enslaved,

00:39:13.160 nothing's gotten better? In fact, it's gotten worse, and you're oppressed. And so you're

00:39:18.940 intersectional, you know, you're black and you're female, so you're oppressed in many different 0.51

00:39:22.660 ways with different angles. Which one? It cannot be both, Joy. It can't be both.

00:39:28.880 So you have to choose. And I'll tell you which one is the correct one. It's, well,

00:39:34.840 it's sort of the first option that you won. It's sort of that.

00:39:42.340 You did win the institutions. So you're right. You did, you won the institutions. You claimed

00:39:49.760 the institutions. Institutionally, it's an all-out victory, as you say. The Grammys are

00:39:59.380 institutional. They are an institutional award show. It's the music industry. It is a billion-dollar

00:40:05.440 industry. A billion, multi-billion-dollar institution awarding itself, you know,

00:40:11.500 congratulating itself. And other people with institutional power, like yourself, are very

00:40:19.660 interested in the Grammys, while, you know, people that do not have institutional power,

00:40:23.900 just regular people, look at this spectacle and say, like, why should I care about this at all?

00:40:29.380 So that's what you won. You won the institutions. And from there, you know, the institutions that

00:40:35.520 have been all ideologically captured, every single one, from there, the institutions are

00:40:41.380 trying to impose themselves and impose the left-wing worldview on the population. And as far as that

00:40:48.460 goes, as far as the population goes, you do have an enormous advantage because you, again,

00:40:55.500 you run all the institutions that people need and people rely on and turn to, and you control the

00:41:02.300 flow of information. You control a lot of stuff. And that gives you an enormous advantage when it comes

00:41:07.640 to capturing the people's minds and hearts as well. But it has not been an all-out victory there. Not quite.

00:41:15.820 Even with this advantage. And especially on some of the more recent efforts, you know, so like

00:41:29.360 institutionally, you can, we can give an award to two biological males and claim that there's

00:41:38.480 something other than male. And so therefore, this is a great victory for diversity or whatever. And

00:41:42.620 the institutions will give that award. And other people within the institutions will applaud that

00:41:47.560 and say, isn't that so beautiful? Such a wonderful thing. But regular people, most of them, they look

00:41:53.980 at that and they're not so convinced. They look at, you know, chubby Sam Smith and we're told that he's,

00:42:00.000 well, no, he's not a male. He's non-binary. What? What is that? That's what regular people say.

00:42:05.160 They're not convinced. And even though there are potentially incredible consequences

00:42:12.360 for not, for failing to be convinced, like we're punished for not being convinced. And still,

00:42:18.160 most people aren't. And most people also are certainly not convinced that Tim Petras,

00:42:24.660 who now calls himself Kim Petras, is actually a woman because he was mutilated at the age of 16.

00:42:32.200 The idea that that mutilation makes him a woman or that his perception of himself as a woman makes

00:42:37.000 him one, people aren't convinced by that either. So you do have the institutions.

00:42:42.800 The question is whether you can capture everyone's minds and souls from there. It's

00:42:47.920 what you're trying to do. You haven't quite succeeded. And that's where the battle is going

00:42:53.560 to be really be won or lost. But I'm glad we can agree again that you are not oppressed,

00:42:59.600 that you are in a position of power, that you own the institutions, that you now claim incredible

00:43:09.440 status and privilege and power. I'm glad you're finally admitting that. So stop whining.

00:43:15.160 Let's get to the comment section.

00:43:19.840 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?

00:43:25.980 Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang. 0.97

00:43:33.200 Tie My Shoes says, Matt was definitely a Power Rangers kid growing up. Actually, I was not.

00:43:39.280 They were too diverse for me. And I didn't like the diversity. There's a media matters. You know, 1.00

00:43:45.840 you can't help yourself. You got to take that clip. Daily Wire hosts complains Power Rangers

00:43:50.240 too diverse. No, actually, I just, I couldn't get into the Power Rangers because it's my, you know,

00:43:56.660 certain hipster inclination, maybe even as a seven-year-old. And they were too mainstream,

00:44:02.360 really. That was the problem. I was a hipster when it came to my 90s network TV bargain bin

00:44:08.360 superhero squads. And that's why I liked VR Troopers. And a lot of you kids, you don't know

00:44:14.640 anything about the VR Troopers, but they were because of the Power Rangers came along. And then

00:44:19.700 a whole bunch of other shows that were just like exactly the Power Rangers with a different name.

00:44:25.260 And they kind of the, you know, you had the Power Rangers, which was the, the, the, maybe we'll call

00:44:30.280 it the Target brand. And then you had the Walmart brand and you had the Kmart brand. VR Troopers were

00:44:34.760 maybe Walmart brand. And there was a, what was it? There was also, was there something called the

00:44:38.620 Beetle Borgs? I want to, I think that existed too, or I just made that up. And that was, maybe that was

00:44:42.900 a Kmart brand. But anyway, I was more into those. I was into the, you know, I was into the ones that

00:44:49.580 didn't have quite the same following. All right. Cocktails and Consul says Disney, Disney, slaves made

00:45:00.500 this country. Well, slaves also make Disney's crappy merchandise in China. Very good point. 1.00

00:45:04.980 Should have brought that up myself. Ha Lokri says, I disagree with Matt about the young boys

00:45:12.000 beating a nine-year-old girl. Of course it looked and was savage, but in society where boys are thought

00:45:16.720 they're toxic, that girls are better, that they can humiliate you and hit you without being hit back. 1.00

00:45:22.360 You can expect these things to be happening more and more is not justifying, but a possible

00:45:26.580 explanation why it did happen. I think you say it doesn't justify it, but I think the only reason

00:45:33.100 you say that is, if not to justify it, you are mitigating. You know, it does appear to me that

00:45:37.220 you're at least slightly trying to mitigate this. And I'll be the first to say that this message of

00:45:43.480 toxic masculinity is very harmful to men and to boys. And much of what you said there, I agree with.

00:45:49.440 But that does not apply when a nine-year-old girl is being viciously beaten. None of that

00:45:56.560 applies. This is purely a matter of parenting. I mean, that could happen in a world, in a culture

00:46:08.940 that's very encouraging and uplifting and empowering to boys. That could still happen

00:46:13.340 if a boy is growing up in a home where there's just emotional and spiritual chaos and he's totally

00:46:23.200 deprived of any kind of moral formation and his dad is not present. His dad is either not present

00:46:27.320 because he's not physically present, he's actually gone, or he's at the very least not emotionally and

00:46:31.580 spiritually, morally present in the home. And that's what leads to situations like what we saw.

00:46:39.340 Mike says, Matt, I'm a father of a nine-year-old myself, and if that was my daughter, I'd be in

00:46:43.980 prison. And that teenage boy would be in the hospital if he's lucky. Yeah, a lot of comments like

00:46:49.280 this. And I have a nine-year-old daughter too. And I can't, you know, you see things like this,

00:46:52.580 you can't help but imagine your own child in a situation like that. And what I would want to do

00:47:01.020 to that son of a if I saw someone treating my daughter that way, well, I can't even say it out

00:47:06.860 loud. It's, or at least I shouldn't. What that kid certainly needs is for someone to teach him a

00:47:13.160 lesson, a very, very harsh lesson in a very, very tough way. And I just can't, I would be blind with

00:47:21.180 rage. I was pretty much blind with rage seeing it when it was not my own daughter. And if it was my

00:47:26.700 daughter, at least I'd be able to plead temporary insanity in court. You know, I'd have that going

00:47:32.080 for me. But I will say, with that said, you know, I always think this when we see videos like this,

00:47:41.040 I hesitate to go into the whole, if that was my child thing, I hesitate. And I don't know if this

00:47:52.440 girl has a father at home or not. And that hasn't been mentioned in any articles. So she might,

00:47:56.820 she might not, I have no idea. But assuming she does, I think the, if that was my child,

00:48:04.040 I'd beat the hell out of that kid. Some of that stuff, even though I agree with it,

00:48:07.840 and I mean, I can relate to it emotionally for sure. I think it can cast a kind of unfair light

00:48:13.820 on the actual parents of the little girl. Because the obvious sort of implication,

00:48:20.980 even if we don't mean it this way, is that, well, we would beat that punk to a pulp because we love

00:48:26.600 our daughters. And so if that punk does not get beaten to a pulp, then I guess her parents don't 1.00

00:48:31.660 love her that much. You know, that to me seems to be the implication. And so that's why I don't

00:48:38.560 like to say, I think if I was, I can also imagine being in the parents position and hearing all these

00:48:43.700 people say, oh, if that was my kid, here's what I would do. And you're not doing that. And so now

00:48:49.040 not only has this horrible thing happened to your daughter, but now you've also got these feelings

00:48:52.080 of guilt and like you're less of a man because you're not reacting that way. But what I can also

00:48:57.260 realize is that if you're actually in that, it's one thing if it's, you're talking theoretically,

00:49:01.780 but it actually happens to your own child. Now you're in that position. And yes, of course you

00:49:07.600 want to find that kid and wring his neck, but you also realize, because now this is a reality for you,

00:49:15.220 that if you do that, you are going to go to prison. You will, you'll go to prison for that. And then,

00:49:23.160 now your daughter's already has the trauma of being viciously beaten that way. And now you're

00:49:28.280 adding the trauma of being deprived of her father because he's in prison and you're, and now your

00:49:33.080 wife loses her husband because he's in prison. And, and why do you want to do that in the first

00:49:38.960 place? You want to get this vengeance, you know, at least in part, because you're so angry and you

00:49:42.680 want to let your anger out, which emotionally makes sense. But so in service to your own anger,

00:49:47.300 you're going to deprive your family of a husband and a father. And so I can imagine that if you're 0.97

00:49:52.020 actually in that position, you, now you have to really weigh those things. And so it would make

00:49:56.920 a lot of sense to say, like, I, I can't, as much as I want to react that way, I can't do that to my,

00:50:02.880 I cannot add insult to injury to my kid, which, um, is all to say, this is the kind of lose,

00:50:12.680 lose situation that is created in a, in a, in a country. Um, it's, it's the consequence of living

00:50:20.880 in an unjust society filled with, with animals who do monstrous things and are not held accountable.

00:50:27.860 That's the consequence. You create these lose, lose situations and, and you create a lot of

00:50:33.120 victims and victims, families who end up feeling terrible, no matter what, like no matter what

00:50:38.540 that happens to your daughter, no matter what you do from there, you, you feel terrible because it

00:50:43.360 happened to her and you're left with guilt, no matter what, no matter how you react. Maybe you go

00:50:47.320 after the kid, you go to prison. Now you feel guilty for that. You don't, you feel guilty for

00:50:49.980 that. It's a lose, lose, which is why we should have, which is why the, the, the institutions

00:50:55.960 that are supposed to be in charge of enacting justice should do it for the sake of the victims

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00:51:58.340 As promised, I've saved any discussion of the state of the union for the end of the show,

00:52:01.680 but perhaps I also maybe have skipped the subject entirely because the reality is the state of the union

00:52:06.280 is an absurd, monarchical pageant designed in its current form to give the president of the United

00:52:12.140 States a chance to deliver a campaign speech on primetime television on the taxpayer's dime and

00:52:16.880 under false pretenses. It's a show, a spectacle. What the media has tried to turn into the political

00:52:22.920 equivalent of the Super Bowl, but it will never be the Super Bowl because people care about the Super

00:52:27.160 Bowl and they remember it for more than a day. And if it's a really good game, people will remember

00:52:31.420 those games for longer than that and talk about it for years. Whereas nobody specifically remembers

00:52:38.040 the details of any state of the union address at all, even 30 minutes after it concludes.

00:52:44.920 Because the address doesn't matter. Certainly does nothing for the country. Whatever is said during

00:52:49.560 the speech could just as easily be communicated through a written statement from the White House.

00:52:54.700 And most of it will be stump speech, red meat type stuff that we've already heard a million times. 0.62

00:52:58.820 The country is not at all helped by it, by the state of the union. And even politically,

00:53:02.780 it doesn't matter. It doesn't succeed in doing the one thing it is really designed to do,

00:53:06.640 which is to give the president a chance to boost his poll numbers. It can't succeed in that because

00:53:11.780 most people aren't watching it. And even the ones who do watch it will forget nearly every detail

00:53:15.880 about it as soon as their head hits the pillow that same night. Once 24 hours have passed,

00:53:21.040 the speech may as well have taken place a century ago in some far-half place and delivered in a

00:53:25.220 foreign language, as far as anyone's concerned. After a day at most, not one person in the country

00:53:31.820 will remember anything that was said. That includes, in this case, the president himself,

00:53:36.620 who didn't know what he was saying while he was saying it. Nobody did, in fact. Much of the speech

00:53:41.860 consisted of slurred gibberish, which the audience applauded because they assumed that they were

00:53:46.240 supposed to applaud. I guess just based on context clues, like this moment, for example.

00:53:50.240 Make no mistake. If you try anything to raise the cost of receiving jobs, I will veto it.

00:53:59.840 Oh, there's the standing ovation. I have no idea what Ruri jobs are, but apparently there are people

00:54:07.060 out there who want to raise the cost of them. No worry, though. Biden will veto that. So don't be

00:54:12.460 concerned. He will make sure that everyone can afford Ruri jobs. We will all get as many Ruri jobs 0.73

00:54:21.620 as we want. That's one promise that we can count on Biden to keep. We'll have to count on him to

00:54:28.180 keep the promise anyway, because no one knows what the promise is. So we'll have to take his word for

00:54:31.900 it. At other points, Biden would start randomly screaming for reasons that weren't clear based on

00:54:37.320 the context. Autocracy has grown weaker, not stronger. Name me a world leader who changed 0.66

00:54:44.960 places with Xi Jinping. Name me one. Name me one. Settle down. This guy's had one too many Ruri jobs. 1.00

00:54:53.760 I mean, by the way, what world leader would trade places? Probably most of them. But also,

00:54:59.860 why are you yelling at us? Well, I know why. That's a rhetorical question. Randomly screaming,

00:55:04.720 not being able to regulate your volume. These are classic symptoms of Alzheimer's.

00:55:09.020 And I don't say that as a joke. It's just like the reality. The president of the United States

00:55:11.560 is senile, and we are watching him physically and mentally decay right in front of us.

00:55:15.700 If there is anything that could possibly make the state of the union memorable,

00:55:19.980 that may be it. As for the actual content of the speech itself, to the extent that we can

00:55:24.480 tell what the content was supposed to be, it, of course, mostly consisted of lies and misdirections

00:55:28.860 like this part, where Biden pretends to stand up to big pharma.

00:55:33.740 Many things that we did are only now coming to fruition. We said we were doing this,

00:55:40.540 and we said we passed the law to do it, but people didn't know because the law didn't take effect

00:55:44.820 until January 1 of this year. We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare.

00:55:52.560 People are just finding out. I'm sure you're getting the same calls I'm getting.

00:56:03.920 Look, there are millions of other Americans who do not or are not on Medicare, including 200,000

00:56:11.340 young people with type 1 diabetes and need this insulin to stay alive. Let's finish the job this 1.00

00:56:18.300 time. Let's cap the cost of insulin for everybody at $35.

00:56:32.120 Folks, the big pharma is still going to do very well, I promise you all. I promise you,

00:56:39.580 they're going to do very well.

00:56:41.140 So, fact check. Actually, Trump capped the price of insulin, and Biden shut down the program when

00:56:46.380 he came into office. Also, as a general principle, no Democrat on the national stage,

00:56:50.500 least of all Biden himself, can pretend to be standing up against big pharma. The Democrat

00:56:53.940 Party and big pharma are joined at the hip. I mean, they are a dynamic duo. They're madly in love

00:56:59.560 with each other. They're the modern day Romeo and Juliet. Let's not forget that Biden administration

00:57:04.280 teamed up with the pharmaceutical companies in an effort to force Americans to have or be injected

00:57:09.920 with one of big pharma's drugs, the vaccine. So that's bite. And it's not just that. The Democrats

00:57:16.680 are also funneling countless children into the big pharma wood chipper, putting them on chemical

00:57:20.740 castration drugs and hormones. The Democrat Party works very hard every day to increase big pharma's

00:57:25.520 profits and to tighten their stranglehold on the American public. That's the truth that they hope

00:57:30.920 you're too stupid to notice. But this posturing against big pharma was all part of what was supposed to 1.00

00:57:35.380 be the kind of mainstream popular portion of the speech. The problem is that the Democrats at this

00:57:40.960 point can't even pretend to hold mainstream views for very long, which is why Biden was forced to

00:57:45.700 dedicate a large chunk of this section to some issues that, while perhaps popular, also don't

00:57:51.480 exactly rise to the level of importance that a primetime presidential address would allegedly seem to call

00:57:57.520 for like this. Watch. We're going to ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill. Those fees

00:58:05.560 can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren't even resorts. We the idea that cable Internet and

00:58:16.340 cell phone companies can charge you 200 or more if you decide to switch another provider. Give me a break. We can stop

00:58:26.100 service fees on tickets to concerts and sporting events and make companies disclose all the fees

00:58:31.440 up front and will prohibit airlines from charging $50 roundtrip for family just to be able to sit

00:58:37.860 together. Baggage fees are bad enough. Airlines can't treat your child like a piece of baggage.

00:58:45.520 Now, I'll admit that this part of the speech did resonate with me personally because Biden is simply

00:58:51.660 listing a bunch of oddly specific things that he finds personally annoying and promising to

00:58:56.060 ban them. And his fans of this show know that is exactly how I would handle the State of the Union

00:59:01.280 if I was president. You know, it'd be exactly the same thing. And another thing, I'm tired of sitting

00:59:06.360 at a table in the food court at the mall where the table's a little wobbly because one of the legs on

00:59:10.300 the table is loose. We're going to ban wobbly tables. How are you supposed to eat your chicken

00:59:15.120 teriyaki in peace when the table's wobbly? Speaking of which, those fast food Japanese places should

00:59:21.100 include free spring rolls with every order. I'm tired of paying extra for the spring rolls

00:59:26.060 on my wobbly table. That's exactly what I would do as president. I mean, exactly.

00:59:32.520 And there are a lot of wobbly tables at food courts. It's really annoying.

00:59:36.800 So Biden's never been more relatable to me personally. And yet, even I must admit that this

00:59:41.300 is not really what the president should be concerning himself with in an address of this level of alleged

00:59:46.860 importance. Americans are worried about inflation. They're worried about being able to afford eggs

00:59:51.220 at the grocery store. They're not sitting around wallowing in despair over resort fees. Like, no one

00:59:55.540 is thinking about that. In fact, many Americans can't afford to take vacations anyway. So baggage

01:00:00.960 fees and resort fees are the last thing that they're going to be worried about.

01:00:06.020 Finally, once Biden had spent as long as he could, you know, pretending to care about things normal

01:00:11.000 people care about, or even to know what normal people care about, he eventually got around to the

01:00:15.640 one thing that really matters to Democrats. As far as that goes, everything you need to know

01:00:20.200 can be summed up in this moment here. Watch.

01:00:23.740 Congress must restore the right that was taken away in Roe v. Wade and protect Roe v. Wade.

01:00:36.320 Give every woman a constant right.

01:00:39.340 The vice president and I are doing everything

01:00:41.320 to protect access to reproductive health care

01:00:45.440 and safeguard patient safety.

01:00:48.380 But already, more than a dozen states are enforcing extreme abortion bans.

01:00:52.280 Make no mistake about it.

01:00:53.820 If Congress passes a national ban, I will veto it.

01:00:58.020 Another big applause there.

01:00:59.100 That was by far, in a way, the biggest applause line of the night.

01:01:01.220 I mean, the room was dead for most of the speech until it

01:01:04.300 came time to celebrate the murder of children.

01:01:06.940 You know, that's what gets Democrats really excited.

01:01:08.780 It's what they really care about. From there, Biden would call for the passing of the Equality

01:01:13.040 Act, which enshrines into federal law a man's right to use the women's locker room, 1.00

01:01:17.220 imposes trans ideology on the entire nation and every institution. 0.95

01:01:20.700 These two things together represent essentially the Democrat Party's entire agenda. 1.00

01:01:24.880 Kill the kids, trans the kids. 1.00

01:01:27.540 All the rest, as far as they're concerned, are extraneous details. 1.00

01:01:31.160 But we didn't need the State of the Union to know that.

01:01:33.960 In fact, we don't need the State of the Union for anything at all.

01:01:36.100 I mean, that's the one thing we learned yet again, which is why this State of the Union

01:01:41.920 address and all others, past, present, and future, are today canceled.

01:01:47.280 That'll do it for this portion of the show.

01:01:48.680 So move over to the member's block.

01:01:49.600 Hope to see you there.

01:01:50.320 If not, we'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:51.700 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 08, 2023

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