Ep. 1109 - American's Growing Death Tourism Industry
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Death tourism is a growing industry in the United States, and it s as horrifying as it sounds. We ll talk about it. Also, Biden stumbled and fumbled his way through the State of the Union address. Much of the speech was difficult to translate from whatever language he was speaking. And Trump accuses DeSantis of being a groomer.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, death tourism is a growing industry in the United States,
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and it's as horrifying as it sounds. We'll talk about it. Also, Biden stumbled and fumbled his
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way through the State of the Union address. Much of the speech was difficult to translate
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from whatever language he was speaking. The rest was full of lies. And Trump accuses DeSantis of
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being a groomer. All of Trump's attacks on DeSantis have failed so far. Will this one be any
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different? Plus, Joy Reid on MSNBC says the left has achieved total victory in the culture war.
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Is she right? And if so, does that mean she'll stop finally playing the victim card?
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Unlikely, but we'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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I am not going to begin the show today with an analysis of the State of the Union address.
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It's just not that important. This is a reality that is hard for the political pundit class to
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accept. Besides, I think there are better ways of ascertaining the actual state of the Union. In
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fact, of all the ways, listening to a stump speech from the president is going to give you probably
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the least accurate impression of how things are actually going. Instead, I'll point you towards a
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report published this week by the Daily Mail, which reveals the startling details of the
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burgeoning suicide tourism industry. The Daily Mail reports, quote, Oregon has become America's
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first death tourism destination where terminally ill people from Texas and other states that have
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outlawed assisted suicide have started traveling to get their hands on a deadly cocktail of drugs
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to end their lives, DailyMail.com can reveal. In the liberal bastion of Portland, at least one clinic
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has started receiving out-of-staters who have less than six months to live and meet the other
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strict requirements of the state's death with dignity law. Dr. Nicholas Gideonis, the director
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of the End-of-Life Choices in Oregon, recently told a panel that he was advising terminally ill
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non-residents on traveling to the state to end their lives despite a legal gray area.
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Now, sidebar, one thing to note here is that the phrase strict requirements should be taken with
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an enormous grain of salt. This is the way it always starts, right? We begin with the evil thing in
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small doses with lots of alleged limitations and strict requirements, they say, until little by
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little those requirements are loosened and the limitations are eroded, and soon you're providing
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assisted suicide to people who suffer from conditions like homelessness, as they are in Canada.
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Every country that now euthanizes people who aren't even terminally ill started by only euthanizing the
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terminally ill. Okay, this is the way it always goes. The process is inevitable. It's a river that flows in
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one direction and one direction only. Now, it's not hard to see why an assisted suicide regime, if it gains
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a foothold, will always grow more expansive over time. And partly, it's just the nature of the left's agenda.
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This is a cancer that grows and progresses and infects other parts of the body, and that's simply
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what cancer does. And in this case in particular, we can see how the principles of euthanasia, once
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accepted, will lead to certain conclusions inevitably. Assisted suicide presents death as a legitimate
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treatment option. It puts doctors in the position of directly killing their patients and charging them
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for the privilege of being killed. Medicalizing and monetizing death, just one more way of doing
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it. It says that death is a medically valid strategy. So, you know, why suffer when death
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can give you an escape from all that suffering? This is the euthanasia sales pitch. If we as a society
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will accept this sales pitch for the terminally ill, there's no coherent reason to reject it in every
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other case. I mean, we're all terminally ill after all. We all suffer from the medical condition known as
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mortality. Our days are numbered. And the older you get, the closer death approaches.
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If you are, say, 75 years old, you'll probably be dead within a decade, statistically, whether you
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have a terminal illness or not. So, I mean, why drag it out when the magic pill can give you an easy
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exit today? See, by the logic of assisted suicide, if someone is suffering greatly, even if the suffering
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is only psychological rather than physical, there's no reason to force them to continue living with it,
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especially because they're just going to eventually die anyway. This is the logic behind the greatly
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expanded euthanasia programs in Canada and some European countries and places like Colombia and
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elsewhere. It always starts with limitations and then ends up here. And this is not just with
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euthanasia. This is with literally everything on the left's agenda. And if there's anyone out there
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who still needs this to be explained to them, then, I mean, it's hopeless. I don't know.
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I don't know. It shouldn't need to be explained. All you need to do is look at the culture and see
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it for a fact. Back to the Daily Mail. It says, quote, out-of-state residents must be able to spend
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at least 15 days in Oregon to process the paperwork, which requires sign-offs from two doctors and
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witnesses before administering the fatal dose themselves, says the clinic's website.
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Dr. Gideonis and the clinic operate in a legal gray zone. The state last year agreed to extend
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access to doctor-assisted suicide to out-of-staters. But this is not expected to be
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codified into law until later this year. But America's first death tourism destination throws
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up tough legal questions for family members who may help a loved one reach the state from a
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prohibitionist state. They could face arrest or even be prosecuted in their home state as a result.
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For critics, Oregon's nation death tourism industry and efforts to create another in Vermont
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show how the US is on a slippery slope to following in Canada's footsteps, where lax rules have
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allowed people with so little as hearing loss to be euthanized. While US-assisted suicide rules
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are comparatively strict and help some desperately sick people end their agony, critics say they also
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devalue human life and make deadly drugs a solution for the infirm, disabled, and even those who are
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cash-strapped or feel like a burden. Well, it's exactly what it does. It's what it's designed to do.
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And I have to say, there is something so viscerally horrifying about the idea of filling out
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paperwork to die. And it's almost difficult to put into words. It's like, it's a uniquely modern
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horror. It's just, it's, it's the combination of the worst things about modern society, the combination
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of paperwork, waiting rooms, and, and then death. And it's, it's, it's depressing and despair inducing
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in a way that evades description. Just like imagining someone in this kind of sterile waiting room with
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the fluorescent lights, filling out a bunch of paperwork, you know, on a little clipboard and then
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sitting there waiting to go back and die is just, or to talk to a doctor about being given the drugs to
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die. It's again, viscerally horrifying. As always, our efforts to sanitize ugly things only make those ugly
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And here, when I say ugly things, I don't mean death specifically. Death is, is ugly in the sense
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that it's scary and often painful. Yet fundamentally, death is also a natural process. It's part of life.
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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.
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So when I say ugly, I'm referring to suicide. Suicide is an ugly thing. One, one of the ugliest things.
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And that's what we're trying to sanitize and medicalize with euthanasia. It's, it's among other things,
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dishonest because it lies to the patient first by calling him a patient lies to him about what he's
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doing, allows him to lie to himself. I mean, think about it this way. If somebody needs euthanasia to
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kill themselves, uh, if they wouldn't kill themselves, if not for euthanasia, because of
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course, you know, suicide is one of those things that is a, it's an option available to everyone
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all the time. Uh, it's something that anyone can do even painlessly. They shouldn't, it's a terrible
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thing, but it's not something that you strictly speaking, need a doctor to facilitate. So if
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somebody does feel like they, in order to do this, they need the doctor to give them the, the poison
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pills. Well, that tells us that there's something about suicide that this person recognizes as wrong.
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And so they turn to the doctor assisted version of suicide to paper over those rough edges
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because it makes suicide seem palatable to people who otherwise apparently would choose to live.
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This is, this is the whole point of it really. And it's what, it's what makes it such a sinister evil.
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Now, as repellent as all this may be, we should also keep in mind, it's, it's not as unique in
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this country as we might like to imagine. Death tourism comes in different forms. A number of states
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have already set themselves up as abortion destinations. Connecticut just recently passed
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a law and joined California and New York as abortion sanctuaries offering to fly pregnant women in
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prison, kill their babies and have them home in a few days, ready to get back to work.
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Some of these same states, California, Minnesota in particular, are also declaring themselves
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sanctuaries for child castration. Parents can bring their gender confused children,
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have them castrated and sterilized, and then back to school in no time. Pretty soon these states will
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have their own travel agents offering package deals for the whole family. You know, come to Vermont,
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we'll abort your baby, castrate your son and euthanize grandpa. Then you can all hit the slopes.
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This is all death tourism in one form or another. Perhaps we might call it culture of death tourism.
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A tour through the culture of death and all its myriad horrors and all the ways it wishes to devour you.
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Because that's all the culture of death wants to do or can do. You know, it offers nothing but
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nothingness. It gives nothing in return for the everything it takes from you. Which really is a
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bargain that should be very easy to turn down. Now let's get to our headlines.
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So we're going a little out of order here, I guess, because I'm saving the State of the
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Union stuff for the end, for the daily cancellation, where it belongs. And there,
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I'll give my full take on the address, and this particular address, and also just the State of
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the Union address in general. And it'll be very exciting, I promise. Well, maybe not, but we're
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going to do it anyway. There's one part of the speech that won't be in that segment, but I can't
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neglect to mention. So we'll touch on it here. Biden invited the parents of Tyree Nichols to the
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speech and then used them as a platform to launch into a thing about racist cops, which of course is
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not only just abhorrent and gratuitous, you know, to use these grieving parents that way is, I think,
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it's not at all surprising coming from Biden and Democrats. But it is, it's a sick and depraved thing to
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do. And also, even more baseless than usual, given that Nichols was killed by black cops from a
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department run by a female black police chief. So there's just, as we've covered, there's no racism
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angle here at all. Which is why, even though Biden brought the parents in, because he had to,
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and Kamala Harris went to the funeral, which is another completely gratuitous and disgusting thing
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that politicians do. You know, going to a funeral of someone you didn't know,
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I mean, it's one thing if this is something that this is a, some sort of dignitary or head of state
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or something like that. And then a politician attends the funeral, but an average citizen going
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to the funeral, it's like you, you are blatantly politicized. Your very presence is meant to politicize
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the funeral of this person. So yeah, they're doing all that. But at the same time, the media has
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basically moved on from Tyree Nichols completely. If you think back to George Floyd, when we were a
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couple of weeks out from George Floyd, they were, it was still very much in the headlines and would
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remain there for months. Tyree Nichols have already moved on because although they look for this racial
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angle, it's, it's, it's not, it's, it's not convincing to people. They haven't been able to make
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that case. They can't really, they can try to racialize it and they did try, but it fell flat.
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And so they kind of moved on. Um, but it was this part of speech, um, that started with Tyree Nichols
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that really stood out to me and here it is. Most of us in here have never had to have the talk,
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the talk that Brown and black parents have had to have with their children.
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Bo Hunter, Ashlyn, my children. I never had to have a talk with them. I never had to tell them
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if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away.
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Don't reach for your license. Keep your hands on the steering wheel.
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Imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got in a car.
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I mean, first of all, there are a lot of talks with Hunter Biden that he probably should have had
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and he didn't. Uh, but this whole thing about, about the talk, I mean, we hear this all the time
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now about, Oh, the talk, the talk, the talk that black parents have to have with their precious
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children. And no, no other family has to have the talk, you know, all the, all the black families,
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they know about the talk. Oh, the talk. Oh, shut up. What are you talking? And everyone,
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you know, and then, and then all the, all these stupid white people go along with it. Oh,
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you're right. I've never heard of that talk. I can't imagine. I can't imagine having to hear
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that talk about how to handle, uh, getting pulled over. I can't imagine. Oh, will you?
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It's nonsense. Okay. Black families are not the only ones who have that talk. Okay. It's just that
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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,
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uh, there didn't need to be emotional, dramatic music playing in the background. It wasn't this,
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it didn't, it didn't traumatize me to hear the talk, but it's like every competent parents
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has this talk with their kid. When they first start driving, I can remember it. I can remember it.
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Uh, when I got a license and I was able to drive on my own for the first time and my dad explained to
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me, if you get pulled over, uh, make sure to listen to what the officer says, say, you know,
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yes, officer, no officer, keep your hands in view, just comply with whatever they say.
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Um, if you don't agree with the ticket, don't argue with the police officer. Nothing's going
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to come of that. Well, you argue it in court. That that's, and that was it. That was, that was
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the talk that my dad said to me. And when my kids start driving, I'll say the same thing to them.
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I mean, what's the other option to know? It's like you're teaching your kid to drive. Are you not
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going to say anything about what happens if they get pulled over? It's not a big deal.
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Of course you're going to have that talk. Why is that a traumatic, terrible thing that you would
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have to explain? You should explain that to your kid. And it's not because we're excusing police
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brutality or anything like that, or, or being bootlickers of the state. Okay. It's just when
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you're, when you're having an interaction with a, with a, with a police officer, because you've
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allegedly, you know, committed some sort of infraction like speeding, it just makes sense
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to not exacerbate the situation or make it worse than it needs to be. It's like you, you, the goal
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here, because, because you are having interaction with it, with a, an agent of the state who's armed
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and carrying a gun, all the rest of it. So the goal here is to make that interaction as simple
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and quick as possible. And if you, if, again, if you don't agree with something, if you don't
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think he should have been pulled over, if you think that he was wrong about this or that,
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then that's, you go to court. It's, it's, there's, you're not going to have any success
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arguing with him. He's already made his decision. So then that's what court is for. That's why we have
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that. That's one of the advantages of living in an allegedly civilized society where we have
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courts. So you go to them and you argue with them about it.
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Yes, you should have this talk. Everyone has this talk. So shut up about the talk.
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You know, it's this, um, and again, what's, what's so wrong, but why is that a problem?
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The fact that you have to have that talk with your kids, it's this whole concept of a victim
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blaming, right? Where it's, it's somehow wrong to give people advice on how to avoid becoming a victim.
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That's good advice to give. And you also know something else too, that nearly every alleged
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police brutality video that we see, and many of them, I say alleged because many of these police
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brutality videos in reality, when you have the full context, you realize that it's actually not
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police brutality, but sometimes it is. I mean, Tyree Nichols, almost everyone agrees. I haven't,
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I would say everyone, I haven't heard anyone that said that's saying otherwise. So from what I've
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seen, everyone agrees that, um, the cops in that case went like several miles over the line,
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wherever the line is, they're way, way over it. Um, because they're holding him back and beating
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him. And it looks like I talked said at the time, it looks like it's some sort of gang beating.
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It doesn't, it doesn't resemble law enforcement at all. And that's why they're, they were all arrested
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and charged, you know, with, uh, with murder. Um, so there are times when the police brutality
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is where it's legitimately police, police, police brutality, but in nearly all of these cases,
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okay. In nearly all of them, not all of them, but nearly all it starts with someone resisting arrest.
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Okay. And what that now, does that mean that just because you resist arrest, it gives the cops the
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right to kill you? No. Okay. Does that mean that every single person who resists arrest should be
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killed? No, that's not the point. The point is simply that when you make that decision
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to start getting aggressive with the cops, you have radically increased your chances of something
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terrible happening to you. So why do it now? You can respond all you want. And by saying,
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well, I should be able to arrest, to resist arrest without being killed. I should be able to do that
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in America. We should be able to resist arrest and not be killed by the cops.
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I mean, sure. Maybe in some cases, depends on what we mean by resisting arrest. I guess it depends
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on how long this goes on and what exactly you're doing. And, you know, are you resisting arrest?
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Like the Rashad Brooks case in Atlanta, where he steals the cop's weapon in the process and
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gets killed? You know, that's one form. And, and then, or is it, is it like a Tyree Nichols
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thing? But regardless, okay, you have still, like you can talk all you want about how this
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is how it should be. Yeah. You know, I can make an argument that I should be able to walk
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through the inner city, you know, in the middle of the night, waving a stack of cash in the air
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and, and skipping along and singing about how I have a wad of cash and I'm waving it in the air.
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I should, and I should be able to do that without, without getting assaulted or killed or robbed.
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I should like in a, in, you know, in a, in a, in a, in a country where everyone is good and decent
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and nothing bad happens. I should be able to do that. I should be able to skip down the middle of
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the, the, you know, West side Baltimore, waving a wad of cash in the air and no harm should come to
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me. I should be able to, but I don't live, I don't happen to live in a universe where that's the
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reality, unfortunately. Okay. And so it's, it's important to tell people like, yeah,
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maybe you should be able to, but you can't. So don't do that.
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There are just realities about the world we live in that you should understand and you should
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respond accordingly. You should operate within the boundaries of reality as it exists,
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not the boundaries of this fantasy world you wished you lived in. And you should do that
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for your own sake. So you don't die. And this is an important thing to explain to people. And it's
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something that your parents ought to explain to you. So back to police brutality, you start resisting
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arrest, whether or not you should be able to do that without getting killed is irrelevant.
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You've greatly increased your chance of getting injured or killed by doing that. Why do it?
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What could you possibly gain from doing it? No one ever asks this question. We're not allowed to ask
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it. In every video where someone's resisting arrest and then gets killed, even if it was an unjustified
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killing, we're not allowed to ask like, what was your plan here? What did you think was, why do it?
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Think this through for a second. Best case scenario, you resist arrest. Okay, that's, so let's do the
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plan here. Step one, resist arrest. What are the other steps? Do you think you'll resist arrest and
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then they'll just say, oh, nevermind, we're not going to arrest you at all. Oh, you don't, oh, you
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don't want to be arrested. Well, nevermind, just go about your, I didn't realize you didn't want to
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be. Well, go ahead, go ahead then. Nevermind. That's not going to happen. So like best case scenario
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is you resist arrest and maybe you escape unharmed, but then now you're a fugitive and
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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
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
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.
00:27:23.560
And his attacks against DeSantis just get dumber and weaker every time. And it looks desperate.
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,
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
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.
00:31:45.960
Here's a great moment here, um, in a BBC interview with Bill Gates, challenging him on his, uh,
00:31:54.960
What do you say to the charge that if you are a climate change campaigner,
00:31:59.580
but you also travel around the world with a private jet, you're a hypocrite? Well, I, I buy
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
00:34:30.500
the science behind all this. But Bill Gates understands the science.
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
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
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
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,
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
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.
00:43:19.840
Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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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
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realize is that if you're actually in that, it's one thing if it's, you're talking theoretically,
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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
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,
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I cannot add insult to injury to my kid, which, um, is all to say, this is the kind of lose,
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lose situation that is created in a, in a, in a country. Um, it's, it's the consequence of living
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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
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that. It's a lose, lose, which is why we should have, which is why the, the, the institutions
00:50:55.960
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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.
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And most of it will be stump speech, red meat type stuff that we've already heard a million times.
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.
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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
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
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.
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.
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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
00:56:18.300
time. Let's cap the cost of insulin for everybody at $35.
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Folks, the big pharma is still going to do very well, I promise you all. I promise you,
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
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
01:00:23.740
Congress must restore the right that was taken away in Roe v. Wade and protect Roe v. Wade.
01:00:48.380
But already, more than a dozen states are enforcing extreme abortion bans.
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If Congress passes a national ban, I will veto it.
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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
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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,
01:01:17.220
imposes trans ideology on the entire nation and every institution.
01:01:20.700
These two things together represent essentially the Democrat Party's entire agenda.
01:01:27.540
All the rest, as far as they're concerned, are extraneous details.
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.
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I mean, that's the one thing we learned yet again, which is why this State of the Union
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address and all others, past, present, and future, are today canceled.