The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1118 - Elected Official Inducts Me Into The 'Vortex Of Evil'

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, an elected official in Tennessee labels me, Ben Shapiro, and Candace

00:00:04.280 Owens as members of the Vortex of Evil, which incidentally is also the name of the death metal

00:00:08.820 band we're forming. Meanwhile, the outrage mob descends again, calling on Ben to fire me

00:00:13.160 because I dared to say that I don't want my children to be indoctrinated into the trans cult. 0.97

00:00:17.820 Totally offensive stuff, apparently. Also, Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to advocate

00:00:21.280 for her national divorce plan. James O'Keefe is officially pushed out of the organization that

00:00:25.520 he founded, and some conservatives on social media have found their new hero, a cross-dressing 0.97

00:00:30.060 makeup salesman who advocates for transgenderism. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:00.100 One of these days, perhaps, I'll make it through a 24-hour period without provoking the outrage mob.

00:02:05.620 Just as a matter of mathematical odds, it seems certain that eventually I'll have a day

00:02:09.680 of peace and quiet. But that day is not this day, apparently. This day, the mob is very upset yet

00:02:15.500 again and has me trending on social media yet again, trending right alongside the also-canceled

00:02:19.960 Aunt Jemima, by the way. She's also, I don't know why she's trending, but she is because of a segment

00:02:25.680 from yesterday's show. And during the daily cancellation yesterday, if you listened to the

00:02:29.240 show, you know I delivered my final rebuttal to the conservatives who have been relentlessly

00:02:33.340 attacking me for being, as they claim, too mean to trans activists like Dylan Mulvaney.

00:02:39.340 Well, my PR reps over at Media Matters were, of course, as always, watching and listening intently,

00:02:43.760 taking careful notes, as they always do. And towards the end of the monologue, they found

00:02:48.040 the bit they needed for their headline. Emphasis on bit, because they only need a phrase, right?

00:02:53.760 Not even a full sentence, because they can write the rest of it themselves. They just need me to say

00:02:58.560 like a couple of words, and then they'll do the rest. That's exactly what they did with this

00:03:04.220 headline. Daily Wire host, I would rather be dead than have a trans child. That's the headline. 1.00

00:03:09.880 And from there, other Media Matters goons like Aerie Drennan ran with it. Aerie tweeted, 1.00

00:03:15.760 in another unhinged rant about Dylan Mulvaney, Matt Walsh says that he would rather die than allow 0.97

00:03:20.260 his kids to be trans. Matt says he's entitled to whatever language he wants, as am I. His six kids

00:03:26.220 are not safe with him, and he should not be allowed within a mile of them. It's circulated from there to

00:03:31.680 the corporate media, where NBC reporter and obsessed fan Benjamin Ryan posted, quote,

00:03:36.420 Matt Walsh employs violent incendiary rhetoric to stir up moral panic against transgender people 0.88

00:03:41.700 as he proclaims he'd rather die than have a trans child. And soon there are people tagging Ben 0.90

00:03:47.060 Shapiro and calling for me to be fired. Because, you know, of course, that's the kind of thing that

00:03:51.740 would happen here at the Daily Wire. I would be fired for being too aggressive in my, in my,

00:03:57.380 in my opposition to, you know, transgenderism. One of those posts, calling for me to be fired,

00:04:03.480 earned a like from conservative, quote, unquote, Jonah Goldberg, who is so conservative that he

00:04:09.200 thinks conservative media figures should lose their jobs for not wanting their children to be

00:04:14.040 trans. That's, that's conservative media now. Of course, the outrage mob made its way outside of

00:04:20.940 the walls of Twitter, out into Reddit and other forums and the left-wing media world, leading to

00:04:25.120 headlines like this from the leftist internet rag alternate, a fate worse than death. Matt Walsh

00:04:30.460 launches vicious attack on parenting trans kids. Now, at this point, it might be relevant to go 0.92

00:04:35.960 back and listen to the comment that these people are so upset about. I know that as far as the

00:04:39.700 outrage mob is concerned, there's, there's no need to consider what a person actually said when deciding

00:04:44.460 whether to be angry about what they said. All that matters is how they feel about what they think I

00:04:49.320 said. Be that as it may, for those who care about irrelevant details, like, you know, the truth.

00:04:55.460 Well, here's the clip. I have personally heard from many parents, more than I can count, who tell me

00:05:03.260 versions of the same horror story. A beautiful and innocent kid one day, seemingly out of nowhere,

00:05:09.300 gets sucked into the gender occult and is devoured by it. The child they held as a baby and raised and 0.96

00:05:16.260 gave their lives to and loved and still love, becomes suddenly unrecognizable. All of their

00:05:24.180 innocence and light and beauty just drained out of them, replaced by this self-cannibalizing madness.

00:05:32.700 For a parent, to see this happen to a child, it is a fate worse than death. I would rather be dead

00:05:38.480 than have that happen to my kids. See, the thing that I most despise about Dylan Mulvaney

00:05:44.880 is that he is part of a movement which actively seeks to turn my children into Dylan Mulvaney.

00:05:54.180 That's why I'm entitled to my anger and to whatever language I use to convey it.

00:06:00.720 I will say whatever I want to say and I will be justified in saying it because these people are

00:06:07.620 after my kids and yours and everyone else's and you're worried that I'm being a little rude.

00:06:19.000 Well, you see, when it comes to my children, the children that I cherish more than my own life,

00:06:25.380 if you think mean words go too far,

00:06:28.460 then you would be very shocked to hear how far I would really go to protect them.

00:06:33.720 Trust me, words are the least of it.

00:06:38.100 Okay, so there it is. That's the clip that Media Matters posted. I know you don't need me to say

00:06:42.180 this because at this point it certainly goes without saying, but I obviously stand by all that. I'm

00:06:46.080 happy that I said what I said. I'm happy with the way that I said it and I don't care if it hurt your

00:06:51.020 feelings. You know, this is not one of those, well, I'm sorry if it hurt your feelings. I'm not sorry

00:06:55.600 if it hurt your feelings. In fact, I'm glad that it did because from what I've seen, the people who've

00:06:59.100 had their feelings hurt by this deserve to have their feelings hurt. So I'm glad that it makes

00:07:03.560 you uncomfortable. I really am. My point was very clear. I love my kids. I would give my life to

00:07:11.240 protect them. I'd jump in front of a moving train if they were stuck on the tracks. I would dive in

00:07:14.720 front of a bullet. This is what it means to be a loving parent. And any loving parent feels the same

00:07:19.680 way about their own kids. And that means that I would also, if necessary, give my life to stop my

00:07:25.840 children from being indoctrinated into a death cult that will deprive them of their sense of

00:07:29.980 identity, lead them towards self-mutilation and self-harm, and a large percentage of cases lead

00:07:35.080 to suicide. Obviously, I'd rather die than have my kids suffer such a fate. I have said some

00:07:41.880 provocative things in my time. I've offered up, I'll admit, some hot takes that even I will confess

00:07:47.060 were a bit on the eccentric side, even though I was still right about all those. But this is not one

00:07:52.860 of those takes. This is very normal. I want my kids to be happy and whole and fulfilled. I want

00:07:58.000 them to live fruitful and productive lives. I don't want them to fall prey to a poisonous social

00:08:02.980 contagion that will deprive them of all of that. It's not just that I don't want it. It's that I will

00:08:08.560 fight to my dying breath to prevent it. This is not extremism. It's love. And loving your child is

00:08:16.020 normal, or it should be. This is how the game is played, though. Take a normal thing, try to make

00:08:23.120 it unspeakable and unthinkable. Shriek in horror at what is normal and healthy and virtuous, and hope

00:08:29.220 that the shrieks alone are enough to convince people to run the other way. It's an effective

00:08:32.880 strategy to a certain extent, as anyone who understands group psychology can tell you.

00:08:37.200 You know, you could try and experiment walking down a busy sidewalk, suddenly look behind you, and then

00:08:41.360 run away with a terrified expression on your face. If you do that, it's guaranteed that other people

00:08:46.140 will run with you, even though they have no idea what you're running from. Your reaction to the imaginary

00:08:52.020 threat was enough to convince them. And the left deploys this method at an ideological level and on a

00:08:57.540 culture-wide scale. And here they do it again. A man simply says that he doesn't want his children to

00:09:03.860 fall victim to a self-mutilating cult. The left hears this totally normal sentiment and reacts as though

00:09:09.600 that man had advocated for genocide, and they hope that others will follow them in their panic.

00:09:15.420 No need to articulate any sort of coherent argument against the statement, any more than

00:09:19.260 you'd have to make an argument to the crowd on the sidewalk in order to convince them to run away

00:09:23.060 from the invisible monster. You know, they don't have to explain why normalcy is evil. They just have

00:09:28.700 to treat it that way and hope that other people will follow suit. Speaking of which, we're on the

00:09:35.520 verge of getting our law passed here in Tennessee, banning the mutilation and castration of children.

00:09:40.300 I'd expect that to happen this week. The state legislature responded in a big way to my report

00:09:45.540 exposing Vanderbilt. And now we will ensure that the things that I uncovered there will not happen

00:09:50.520 ever again in this state anywhere. But not every Tennessee legislator is on board with protecting

00:09:55.800 children. We do have a few Democrats here in this state, sadly. And as we saw at the hearing a few

00:10:00.880 weeks ago, they are very depressed about the fact that kids can't be mutilated anymore.

00:10:06.140 They're very upset about it. Very down. One of those legislators is State Representative Gloria

00:10:11.760 Johnson, who is a particularly loathsome witch who feels personally attacked by our efforts to 1.00

00:10:17.900 protect children. She takes it very personally. And that's how it is. You know, groomers take their 0.98

00:10:23.420 grooming seriously, and they don't take kindly to those who stand in the way. In fact, Johnson has

00:10:28.340 noticed that Tennessee is becoming more conservative as more and more sane and decent

00:10:32.400 people move here. You know, we moved in. And next thing you know, child castration and child drag shows

00:10:39.760 are about to be illegal. Because apparently this state just ain't big enough for all of us, which means

00:10:44.980 the groomers and predators have to go. That's what led Johnson to tweet a few days ago this,

00:10:49.640 quote, if I'm hearing this right, the following people now live in Tennessee. Please correct me

00:10:54.560 if I'm wrong. Betsy DeVos, Rebecca Mercer, Roger Stone, Tommy Lahren, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh,

00:11:01.580 Candace Owens. Who am I leaving out? It seems we are a testing ground for the vortex of evil.

00:11:08.320 Now, obviously, it's not a healthy thing for elected officials to label their own constituents

00:11:13.320 the vortex of evil. Yet this is the kind of rhetoric that even leftists in government will use.

00:11:19.640 They'll use it about their own constituents. And they'll use it while the right continues to debate

00:11:24.720 whether our own language is too harsh. So we're arguing amongst ourselves about, I don't know,

00:11:29.560 maybe we should be a little bit nicer. Meanwhile, they're out there saying, you're the vortex of

00:11:33.620 evil. You better not tell a man that he makes an ugly woman. That'd be very offensive to the 1.00

00:11:38.600 sorts of people who already consider you to be a member of the vortex of evil.

00:11:42.840 That said, I have to say I'm honored by the label. You know, I've been wondering what our

00:11:49.100 supervillain squad name should be. And now we have it. I'd thought about axis of evil,

00:11:54.240 but that's already taken. Cyclone of evil might overdo it a little bit. Vortex of evil. That's the

00:12:00.800 one. Mostly though, I'm honored because I know what they consider to be evil. It's always opposite day

00:12:07.800 with these people. So the word evil simply means good or sane or normal. That's what they hate most

00:12:15.860 of all. We are not heroes because we oppose child abuse and want to protect our own children from it.

00:12:22.320 You don't have to be heroic for that. We're just normal. You might say a vortex of normal is maybe

00:12:30.640 what we should be called. But I guess that doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Now let's get to our

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00:13:50.160 out. Go to getrefunds.com, getrefunds.com. Yeah, vortex of normal. I kind of like that the more I

00:13:56.740 think about it. It sounds like the most boring version of the Avengers ever conceived. And one

00:14:02.520 other note about Gloria Johnson. She's a former teacher, but also unfortunately she's illiterate. 1.00

00:14:09.660 And those are two things that go hand in hand a lot more often than you'd like to think. So she

00:14:14.900 tweeted this as well. Can we put the tweet up? This is another tweet that she put up on a couple days

00:14:19.340 ago. We have that. Okay, here it is. This is what she tweeted. Now try to follow along.

00:14:26.780 If you're going to claim that your bill to outlaw something, a loud minority don't agree with it,

00:14:32.500 then you probably shouldn't say it isn't relevant that the majority of Tennesseans don't agree with

00:14:36.980 other things they pay for as taxpayers. You killed your own argument. I mean, you killed some brain

00:14:43.060 cells at least with that. Let me just go through this guy because I honestly, I'm not even trying to

00:14:46.560 be funny. I can't understand what she's trying to say. This is an elected representative, former

00:14:50.800 teacher. If you're going to claim that your bill to outlaw something, a loud minority don't agree

00:14:56.300 with it. Well, already that's not, that doesn't work. So we can't even move back. If you're going

00:15:02.640 to claim that your bill to outlaw something, a loud minority don't agree with it, then you probably

00:15:08.100 shouldn't say it isn't relevant that the majority of Tennesseans don't agree with other things they pay

00:15:14.000 for as taxpayers. You killed your own argument. So you've got a couple of weird sentence fragments

00:15:19.900 stitched together with an incoherent series of double negatives. And that's what she decided

00:15:26.860 to put out there into the world. This makes Kamala Harris seem articulate by comparison. This is like

00:15:32.080 the written equivalent of a stroke. I felt like I was having a stroke while reading it.

00:15:37.140 It reads as though she wrote a normal sentence and then ran it through some kind of translation

00:15:41.840 software. I don't know if she normally speaks Mandarin Chinese. She doesn't seem like the type, 0.83

00:15:46.280 but maybe that would explain it. She actually speaks Mandarin and then, and then, so she, but

00:15:50.000 so she has to filter everything through Google translate to tweet. And then, and then that's how 0.83

00:15:54.160 you end up with this. I don't know. There are a lot of theories people have, but, um, uh, I guess

00:15:59.200 the world will never know exactly. Okay. I want to begin here. Marjorie Taylor Greene set off,

00:16:04.980 uh, as we discussed yesterday, an eruption of outrage a couple of days ago by suggesting

00:16:09.180 a national divorce and she hasn't backed down from it. Um, and here she is on Fox news last night

00:16:15.160 defending the idea. Let's listen to what she says. In my life, in my world, I, all of my friends are

00:16:21.320 regular Americans. Everyone I talked to is sick and tired and fed up of being bullied by the left,

00:16:28.240 abused by the left and disrespected by the left. And our ideas, our policies, our ways of life have

00:16:35.440 become so far apart that it's just coming to that point. And the last thing I ever want to see in

00:16:42.020 America is a civil war. Um, no one wants that. At least everyone I know would never want that,

00:16:47.980 but it's going that direction and we have to do something about it. We're also a nation,

00:16:53.560 a crumbling nation. We're a nation in distress. Our government is in complete failure over $34 trillion.

00:17:00.700 We are on the verge of default and we have to do something about that. But that was the right and

00:17:06.640 the left that did that to the American people on their own. But the Democrats never stopped pushing

00:17:12.800 their policies, their ideas, and their culture on Republicans and the right. And we are so sick and

00:17:19.840 tired of it. We are tired of our children being taught ideas and ideologies in school that we do not

00:17:26.620 want our children taught like gender lies. We do not want our children, um, being having their gender 1.00

00:17:32.440 change or transitioned. We, we can't even have women's sports and privacy in our bathrooms and women in 1.00

00:17:39.540 prison can't even have spaces. ESG environmental social governance has completely taken over

00:17:45.360 corporations. And this is a huge policy pressed on private businesses through the government from

00:17:52.060 Democrats. If you're a white male today in the financial industry, you can forget it. You're a

00:17:58.140 dinosaur. You're going extinct. No one should ever be hired by their skin color or their gender or, 0.99

00:18:04.460 or how they identify. It should only be about your character and your ability to do the job.

00:18:10.340 Okay. So she's not wrong about a lot of that. And like I said yesterday, she, you know,

00:18:18.980 she's, she's not wrong to bring up the idea of national divorce necessarily. People have been

00:18:23.020 talking about this idea for years anyway, and we might as well bring it onto the national stage

00:18:28.380 in theory. I get it. I understand in theory, but I want to put up this, uh, this visual to

00:18:35.580 buttress the point that I was trying to make yesterday about this because the problem,

00:18:40.040 there's a few problems with national divorce, but, but the first and most insurmountable one 0.97

00:18:44.480 is a problem of geography. And for a national divorce, a geographic problem is a fatal problem

00:18:50.580 because it's all about geography and you can't really get around it. So let's put this up.

00:18:56.400 Someone tweeted this to me yesterday, um, just to, to kind of, again, emphasize my point. They say

00:19:03.240 tough to divide this up. And then it's a red and blue map and you see the distribution of red and blue

00:19:08.640 voters. So let's keep this up because how, how do you divide this up? And I could see a couple of

00:19:14.820 easy cases here. Uh, Vermont is entirely blue. Basically Massachusetts, Connecticut, New England

00:19:21.320 in general, though, even in New England, you know, uh, New Hampshire and Maine have a lot of red.

00:19:27.560 California is of course heavily blue. Um, New Mexico, but who gets Pennsylvania?

00:19:34.520 Okay. Who gets, who gets Virginia? Who gets North and South Carolina?

00:19:41.340 And you go out West, it's pretty clear that conservatives get Wyoming and like the 10 people

00:19:46.100 who live there, but then, you know, jump down South, who gets Colorado? What about Texas?

00:19:54.420 There just is no way to divvy this up without, without first facilitating a mass migration 0.88

00:20:00.700 in two different directions by hundreds of millions of people who are all choosing to leave their homes

00:20:07.360 or are leaving their homes by force. And, uh, and, and, and probably much of their families too,

00:20:13.100 by the way, because no matter how you divide this up, how many people are going to end up in a

00:20:18.240 situation where now your family, half of your family's in a foreign country.

00:20:21.560 So that's what you have to do. You have hundreds of millions of people just, and I don't know where,

00:20:28.700 I don't know where the dividing line is here. It's not, this is definitely not a clear,

00:20:32.220 it's not a North versus South thing anymore. Uh, it's not that it's not East West. It, it, what is it?

00:20:41.300 And however you divide it, you're going to have, is that we're going to have hundreds of millions

00:20:44.920 of people all at once going into opposite directions. It'll never happen. Um, it just,

00:20:53.480 it, it, it, it will not happen. It, it won't. So we can talk about in theory and, and, uh, would it

00:21:00.060 be better if it did? Those are fine. I'm fine with having conversations in theory and the abstract,

00:21:05.540 but when it comes down to it, I'm a practical person and I, and I prefer to, we could talk about

00:21:10.060 abstractions all day, but let's bring it back to the practical real world. And in the practical real

00:21:15.800 world, that just isn't happening. Okay. Um, and by the way, I thought about this also, you take the,

00:21:25.940 take the Northeast, for example. So it's likely that however you separate this, it would mean that

00:21:30.280 the left gets the Northeast where I was born and raised. Um, but I'm not going to agree to that.

00:21:36.320 Okay. That's, that's my home. That's where I was born. That's where my family lives.

00:21:41.500 And that's also where so much of our nation's history is. That's why I've always loved the

00:21:47.580 Northeast. And, uh, that's one of my ties to it still. And it's got a lot of problems culturally

00:21:52.240 and it is politically mostly dominated by the left. That's true. Although in a place like

00:21:57.320 Pennsylvania, it's like, you know, you take Philadelphia out of it and you take Pittsburgh

00:22:01.920 out of it. And this is a, that's a conservative state for the most part, but, but even, even

00:22:07.180 aside from all that, it's just, it's got so much history. So much of our nation's history is there.

00:22:12.180 And are you really willing to give up most of the, the most significant historical landmarks and

00:22:17.780 monuments and locations? It really, are you willing to give that to the left and say, you can have

00:22:23.240 it, give it over to people who are going to desecrate and destroy it. Are you willing to give that to

00:22:29.720 them? To people who hate it? I'm not willing to do that. I'm not just going to give it to them.

00:22:36.680 Hey, you can have all this, all, you know, so much of our nation's history, you can have it

00:22:41.880 and do with what you will with it. Hell no. So where does that leave us? It means that

00:22:49.180 what it means is that we have to fight this out. Okay. That's what it means. And we have to win

00:22:56.720 in the culture war. Okay. It's not going to happen overnight. As I'm always saying, it's not,

00:23:02.280 it's, it is not an overnight solution. And most of the, uh, the, the kind of doomer

00:23:07.780 perspective, the, uh, the, the, the people who are fatalists about it and say that we can never win.

00:23:14.340 It's impossible. They're talking about tomorrow. Okay. And, and, and they are, they're falling into

00:23:22.260 despair because they've noticed that we can't win this fight by, you know, say tomorrow around

00:23:27.880 lunchtime. And they're right about that, but this is a generational struggle and you just have to

00:23:33.100 accept that. And for a long time, most people throughout the world, this is how they live.

00:23:40.040 They lived understanding that they existed in one moment in time. And, but they were just part of

00:23:46.660 this, this, this, this, you know, uh, this chain where of ancestors and then descendants. And so

00:23:53.400 they lived and they wanted to build a legacy and build a future for people, uh, who would come after

00:23:58.780 them, their children and grandchildren. They, they were worried about what the world and what their

00:24:03.400 country and what their, their culture would look like when they were dead and gone and weren't a part

00:24:09.040 of it anymore. But all we're worried about in the kind of microwave age, all we're worried about is

00:24:14.700 the immediate. Well, we have to get past that. It's a generational struggle. And so there's no way

00:24:20.240 to divide this up. Instead, we're going to have to have a lot of kids and raise them well and win

00:24:29.140 this culture back and our country back and our history back over time, because I'm not willing to

00:24:35.460 give it up. I'm not surrendering my home to these people. I'm not giving our history over to them.

00:24:40.340 I'm not giving the places where I was born and raised. I'm not giving the places where my family

00:24:45.820 lives. Hell no. You know something else too? I'm also not giving up on the children who live

00:24:53.660 in the areas that would be, you know, part of a leftist stand or whatever they're going to call it.

00:25:00.800 I'm not going to, I'm not going to give up on them. It's not their fault.

00:25:03.280 So when this fight to, for example, protect kids from child mutilation or protect kids from

00:25:07.520 being murdered in the womb, you know, it's one thing to say to adults, adult leftists that,

00:25:13.820 hey, if this is the, if this is the country you want, this is what you want, uh, reap what you sow

00:25:17.600 and deal with it. And I'm willing to say that to them, but I'm not willing to say to their kids,

00:25:21.500 their kids didn't choose. It's not fair to them. I'm not going to consign all them to this

00:25:26.560 either. So we're left with the fight, what we're left with, get used to it. Learn, learn to love it.

00:25:37.520 Um, Pete Buttigieg was tracked down by a reporter yesterday and asked, uh, what he's doing about

00:25:44.940 the train derailment situation. And here's how that went.

00:25:48.940 Secretary, what do you have to say? Hi, how are you? Jenny's here at the Daily Caller News

00:25:52.940 Foundation. What do you have to say to the folks in Ohio, East Palestine who are suffering right now?

00:26:00.140 Well, I'd refer you to about a dozen interviews I've given today. And, uh, if you'd like to

00:26:04.160 arrange a conversation, uh, be sure to reach out to my press office, but I can have that

00:26:09.380 conversation with you just walking down the street here. You don't have a message for them?

00:26:12.120 I do, and I shared it with the press many times today. I'd refer you to those comments.

00:26:15.740 Do you mind sharing it with us? No, I'm going to refer you to the comments that I made to the

00:26:18.980 press because, uh, right now I'm taking some personal time and I'm walking down the street.

00:26:22.780 Are you going down there? What's that? Are you going down there at all?

00:26:25.580 Um, yep, I am. When are you going? Uh, I'll share that, uh, when I'm ready.

00:26:32.300 Okay, thank you. Can I get a, can I get a photo of you? Yeah.

00:26:36.940 Can I get a photo of you? You creep. What is that? What is that? Why do you want a photo of her?

00:26:43.560 Do I want to know? Um, he's taking some personal time. You know, Pete Buttigieg, one thing we know

00:26:50.200 about this guy is that he loves his personal time. That's why he took six months from maternity leave,

00:26:54.500 and now he's taking some, he's taking some personal time. Did he actually say,

00:26:57.620 take us a personal time to walk down the sidewalk? Yeah, I'm taking some personal time on this

00:27:02.100 sidewalk here. You know what I want to hear from Republican presidential candidates is, um,

00:27:08.720 what I really want to hear. I want to hear a lot from them. But one thing I want to hear

00:27:12.000 is a serious proposal, a serious proposal to gut these agencies like the transportation department

00:27:19.280 department and abolish most of them, like the transportation department.

00:27:25.220 Because that's, uh, one of the things that we've learned from all of this,

00:27:28.740 which many of us already knew, which is that the, you know, an agency like the transportation

00:27:35.500 department is totally useless. And he's basically admitted it in, in all the interviews that he's,

00:27:42.720 uh, given. And the reason he wanted to talk to the daily caller is because he knew that, uh,

00:27:46.200 he might actually be pressed and he would face some actual scrutiny. So he's only going to give

00:27:49.960 interviews. What he's actually saying there is, oh, no, I don't want to talk to you. You're going

00:27:54.180 to ask me actual questions. Sorry. I, uh, I only talk to media. I only talk to reporters who don't

00:27:58.480 ask me real questions. Oh, are you going to just say things that set me up to go on a stump speech?

00:28:04.120 Oh, you're not? Well then I, oh yeah, I'm in, it's personal time right now.

00:28:09.080 But if you listen to the, um, stump speeches that he's been giving,

00:28:12.600 they all really boil down to, this isn't my fault. This isn't the purview of the

00:28:16.940 transportation department. This is other agencies. And it's just a bunch of, a bunch of CYA

00:28:20.500 making excuses. And so I think that we should, uh, listen to that, take him at his word and say,

00:28:28.060 well, okay, I guess the transportation department is totally useless, which we always knew that it

00:28:32.920 was. Because if there could be trains derailing, this is the transportation department. And if there

00:28:38.940 could be trains derailing all over the country and dumping toxic chemicals into the water supply,

00:28:44.040 and not, and on top of that, we also have flights being grounded because the computer systems don't

00:28:47.940 work and all the rest of it. And there's a chaos at the ports and the supply chain.

00:28:51.880 All that's happening. And it's not the fault of the transportation department. What that tells us

00:28:55.580 is that the transportation department does nothing. We have to imagine what if the transportation

00:28:59.760 department didn't exist for the last two years, would any of this look any different?

00:29:03.740 Would it be worse somehow? I mean, could it get worse?

00:29:09.540 If it looks different at all, it would, it would look different in the other direction.

00:29:13.140 Maybe some of this would be better because you cut out some of the bureaucracy that it

00:29:16.100 interferes with everything. Okay. Bureaucracy gets in the way of everything, including keeping

00:29:21.220 trains on the tracks. So we just need to get rid of it. And that's what I want to hear from,

00:29:26.640 uh, Republican presidential candidates. What I don't want to hear is like what we heard from

00:29:30.660 Larry Hogan yesterday, uh, a platitude about, I'm a small government conservative.

00:29:36.040 I've heard enough of that. I don't, don't call yourself small government. I don't need to hear

00:29:39.760 it. What I want to hear is what are you actually going to do? And you need to go in and start

00:29:45.800 gutting these departments and firing people and shutting down agencies. No Republican president

00:29:52.920 has done that yet, at least not in recent history. Instead, what they've done is expanded it.

00:29:58.400 So we need promises on the record of this department, this department, this department

00:30:05.560 are gone when I become president. And we can start with transportation department. Um,

00:30:11.200 we can move all over to the education department. We, uh, you know, and we can continue for that.

00:30:16.320 I think we should start with those two and continue from there. Health and human services.

00:30:19.940 Uh, so start with those three. It's a long list. So we got to start somewhere.

00:30:26.060 Daily Wire has this, uh, Vivek Ramaswamy, the CEO of Anti-Woke Incorporated is running as a

00:30:32.960 Republican president of the United States in 2024, speaking of Republican presidential candidates.

00:30:37.220 The millionaire investor and author announced the official start of his campaign during an

00:30:40.440 appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson tonight. Ramaswamy's announcement follows weeks of rumors

00:30:45.280 and reporting that he was considering a 2024 bid. One thing I'll say about Ramaswamy is that I

00:30:49.860 appreciate that his name looks, um, daunting at first, but then you realize it's actually easy

00:30:54.220 to pronounce. And for me, as you know, it's a very important detail here. Um, so he announces, uh,

00:30:59.080 he announced that he's, he's running for president. He's 37 years old, by the way. So it's one of the

00:31:02.380 younger presidential candidates we've had. And he put out this ad yesterday. We'll watch a little bit of

00:31:06.340 yet. We're in the middle of a national identity crisis. Faith, patriotism, and hard work have

00:31:13.280 disappeared, only to be replaced by new secular religions like COVIDism, climatism, and gender

00:31:20.140 ideology. We hunger to be part of something bigger than ourselves, yet we cannot even answer the

00:31:26.240 question of what it means to be an American. Today, the woke left preys on that vacuum. They tell you

00:31:33.000 that your race, your gender, and your sexual orientation govern who you are, what you can

00:31:38.400 achieve, and what you're allowed to think. This is psychological slavery, and that has created a new

00:31:45.300 culture of fear in our country that has completely replaced our culture of free speech in America.

00:31:52.040 And that is why today I am announcing my run for president of the United States. This isn't just a

00:31:59.440 political campaign. This is a cultural movement to create a new American dream for the next

00:32:04.900 generation. To me, the American dream means you believe in merit, that you get ahead in this

00:32:10.900 country, not on the color of your skin, but in the content of your character and your contributions.

00:32:17.340 Okay, so that's a little bit of that ad. And he also, like I said in the article, he wanted to

00:32:23.300 appear on Tucker Carlson. I actually found him, I wasn't really familiar with him before he announced

00:32:28.560 his run for president. I found him to be an effective communicator, and I agree with a lot

00:32:35.540 of what he says. He has made getting rid of affirmative action policies one of the central 0.83

00:32:41.220 parts of his campaign, which I agree is very important. But he's also not going to win,

00:32:49.100 right? And he's just not. So as we've already discussed, I believe in being practical. We could

00:32:56.380 talk in the abstract, but it must come back down to the practical real world. And in the practical

00:33:02.000 real world, he's not going to win. And I think he knows that. But I really have to wonder if

00:33:10.340 failed presidential campaigns are the best use of effective communicators. Now, I'm not naive. I know

00:33:17.360 why they do it. They do it to increase their own personal brand and visibility. They do it as a way of

00:33:23.420 auditioning for a cabinet spot. So things like that. Maybe they want to get on the ticket.

00:33:27.940 There are reasons why people jump into a presidential race, even though they know they're

00:33:32.360 not going to win. But those might be the reasons, but I don't see them as especially good reasons.

00:33:42.040 And I really wish that people who are effective communicators on the conservative side and have

00:33:47.760 good ideas as he does. I just don't think it's the best use of that talent to jump into a failed

00:33:55.100 presidential campaign, especially these days in the internet age and cable news and everything.

00:33:59.260 And you go into the presidential race and you're going to get ripped to shreds. It's guaranteed.

00:34:04.260 Part of that is politics. But I just wonder if you risk damaging yourself

00:34:10.460 more than you help yourself in the long run by doing this.

00:34:15.560 All right. Something else I wanted to note here. We didn't get a chance to talk about this yesterday,

00:34:20.340 but we've been following this story a little bit. This is Daily Wire reports. James O'Keefe

00:34:23.720 announced a break with Project Veritas, the investigative group he founded, while hinting

00:34:28.320 at a new journalism venture in the future. In a video posted to Vimeo on Monday, O'Keefe said he was

00:34:34.520 stripped of all decision-making last week and he described some clashes with leadership.

00:34:38.580 O'Keefe, who was standing in a Project Veritas office, said he was relieved of his authority

00:34:43.240 as CEO for at least 180 days and removed from the Project Veritas board of directors,

00:34:48.320 citing board meeting notes. Currently, I have no job at Project Veritas, he added. I have no position

00:34:52.900 here based upon what the board has done. So I'm announcing to you all today on President's Day

00:34:56.800 that I'm packing up my personal belongings here and he's leaving. Now, the Project Veritas board put

00:35:03.160 out a statement where they lay out the alleged malfeasance that led them to suspend James

00:35:08.400 O'Keefe and force him out of the organization. Keep in mind that a couple of weeks ago on social

00:35:12.980 media, the Project Veritas, they said, they claimed that James O'Keefe was on vacation.

00:35:18.560 So they've already lied. They lied about it a couple of weeks ago when the reports first surfaced

00:35:23.680 that he was being pushed out. They said, oh, he's just on vacation. Everything's fine. So they lied.

00:35:27.640 So we know that. But here's what they said in their statement.

00:35:30.180 Here are a few examples of what has been done, what has been uncovered so far by the Project

00:35:36.180 Veritas leadership. This is far from an exhaustive list. It is merely a small representative sample.

00:35:42.040 This is their statement. $14,000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the

00:35:47.620 guise of meeting with a donor. $60,000 in losses by putting together dance events such as Project

00:35:52.960 Veritas experience. Over $150,000 in black cars in the last 18 months. Thousands of dollars spent on

00:35:59.980 DJ and other equipment for personal use. Hundreds of other acts of personal eneurement.

00:36:05.720 The board wants to work things out with James and has tried every route possible to remedy the

00:36:09.340 issues at hand and begin to take the legally required corrective actions. James has left us

00:36:14.440 no choice but to suspend him, so on and so forth. Now, this is bizarre. When we first heard about this,

00:36:21.140 I said at the time that like so many other people, to me, James O'Keefe is Project Veritas. You cannot

00:36:28.820 separate the two. And from the very beginning, this smelled to me like a coup to push him out by

00:36:37.000 people who have a grudge against him, people who have egos or whatever else, and they want to get rid

00:36:41.200 of him and clear him out and take over. And now that we have their statement where they lay out their

00:36:46.860 case, and this might not be everything. We don't know everything. But we don't know everything went

00:36:51.340 on behind the scenes. But it's been 100% confirmed, number one, that Project Veritas lied to the public

00:36:56.300 a couple weeks ago. And now they're presenting their case. It may not be the full case, but this

00:37:00.320 is what they're choosing to lead with. So we can assume that if they had more shocking skeletons in

00:37:07.820 the closet they were going to drag out, they'd start with that. So this is the most shocking thing

00:37:12.560 they can do, they can tell us about. And what they tell us is that he wasted some money on a dance

00:37:18.680 party and on some transportation expenses. I mean, first of all, most of that, including the dance

00:37:25.680 party, can easily be justified as a valid business expense. If you're in the organization, you might

00:37:30.200 not agree with it. You might not think it's a good way to, you know, it's a useful business expense,

00:37:36.800 but it is a business expense. You know, getting car services, for example, obviously a business

00:37:44.200 expense. $150,000, whatever they said it was, may sound like a lot. But those kinds of car services

00:37:50.560 are expensive. And when you're traveling a lot, like James O'Keefe does, it adds up quickly. So it's

00:37:55.120 actually not that shocking. The thing about getting the boat fixed, I mean, maybe you can't justify that

00:38:01.420 as a valid business expense. But is that all you have? Really? That's all you got? And for that,

00:38:07.160 you force out the founder and face of your organization, provoking a mass exodus of donors

00:38:12.820 and supporters, probably taking your whole organization down in the process and severing

00:38:17.560 ties with one of the most visionary and effective leaders in the movement. For that? Because he got his

00:38:22.540 boat fixed? That's the reason? And why, if you, if this is not a coup with people trying to take

00:38:31.320 over the organization that he founded and that rests upon his work, that he's the face of the

00:38:37.040 organization, he's their primary fundraiser and everything else. If it's not a coup against him

00:38:41.340 and you really have a problem with how the money's being spent, then why wouldn't the board just resign

00:38:46.040 in protest and say, we can't be a part of it. We can't be a part of this organization with money

00:38:51.440 being spent on fixing boats. We can't do that. $14,000, that's too much. If it's not a coup,

00:38:57.740 that's, that seems like that's what you would do, but that's not what they did. Instead,

00:39:00.700 they said, we're going to take over and kick you out, even though this is the organization

00:39:03.720 that you founded. I said this when we first heard about the whole James O'Keefe controversy.

00:39:13.040 I have no trouble believing that James O'Keefe maybe rubs some people the wrong way

00:39:17.120 because he's highly effective and he's a great mind and talent and people like that tend sometimes

00:39:23.840 to be difficult in person. That's not my experience with, with James. I haven't, you know,

00:39:28.200 I've only met him a couple of times. Seemed like a nice guy to me, but it wouldn't, my point is it

00:39:32.600 wouldn't shock me if it was the case because highly effective and leaders, people who are great

00:39:39.400 talents, like they, they can sometimes be difficult. They make enemies that way. People hold grudges

00:39:43.660 against them. So what? You deal with it because that's the price of having a guy like that leading

00:39:49.880 your organization. It's a price worth paying. And this is a trend on the right that concerns me.

00:39:55.720 I saw some people making this point, you know, a few nights ago that it seems like conservatives

00:39:59.980 have this tendency to turn against the most effective and brilliant and creative people in

00:40:05.900 their movement. Like the greatest sin you can commit is to be actually successful and effective.

00:40:14.040 And the moment you do that, well, of course you can have the left coming at you, but your own people

00:40:17.800 turn against you because they're, because they're motivated by envy, whatever it is. They feel

00:40:22.400 threatened by your success. I see this a lot. The best people get driven out, driven away, leaving us

00:40:29.660 with a bunch of bland, mediocre boars. Ben Domenech of the Federalist made this point last

00:40:36.220 night. And I tend to disagree with him on a significant, you know, number of issues, but I

00:40:40.800 think he, I think he had this right. He said, James O'Keefe out at Project Veritas is yet another

00:40:44.860 example of how right media and a donor class have a deep intolerance for creative genius. If Andrew

00:40:50.460 Breitbart had lived, they'd have found a way to ditch him too. Conservative media is awash with medium

00:40:54.480 talent who pay their bills on forgettable churn that changes nothing and has a half-life measured in hours.

00:40:59.740 Creatives rise up, make a lot of noise, get a lot of enemies, then get taken out by their own,

00:41:04.420 then donors turn to the mids. I think he's exactly right. And I think that's precisely what's

00:41:08.940 happening with James O'Keefe, which is why I, along with many other people, most people from what I've

00:41:14.880 seen, you know, I'll, wherever, I'll be supporting whatever organization he goes and, and, and starts

00:41:21.060 from here. One other quick thing before we get to the comment section, we see these moments go viral

00:41:26.720 like once a month. Now, this is another wheel of fortune fail, which are always fun. So we'll,

00:41:31.640 we'll watch this video. But if you, if you're just listening to the audio, what you should know

00:41:34.760 is that this puzzle is already solved except for one letter. And, uh, the letter, the answer is fresh

00:41:42.680 tropical fruit. All the letters are there except for the S in fresh. And here's what happens.

00:41:49.320 Yes, there is an H. Uh, solve it or spin it or, but do something quickly. Um, I'll spin it.

00:42:01.520 Okay. Okay. What letter for you? I'll go with a G.

00:42:11.240 Uh, Juliana, it's your turn. I'd like to solve the puzzle. Yeah. Fresh tropical fruit. Yeah.

00:42:24.260 You know, when that happens and you're sitting at home, you're saying, how in the world can that,

00:42:27.800 but you know, sometimes it's a word that just doesn't want to come into focus for you.

00:42:31.380 It did for you. And in addition to that $650, we're sending you to the Island of Antigua.

00:42:36.620 You know, one of the sounds in this, there are some sounds in life that are, uh, always going

00:42:43.840 to be horrifying. And the last sounds that you want to hear, uh, like the sound of, uh, crunching

00:42:48.800 metal when you're driving a car, you know, it's just one of those sounds. And if you've been in a

00:42:53.000 car accident, you remember that sound forever. Uh, another of those sounds is if you're on a game

00:42:57.080 show and you hear a gasp of horror from the audience, that's, you never want to, you never want

00:43:02.400 to hear that. And you can hear the audience go, what? Um, although I do have to say, you know,

00:43:07.920 I do love freg tropical fruit. I go all the time to the grocery store and I say, Hey, where's your

00:43:12.780 freg fruit at? But this is why here's the point I want to make about this. It is, it's important,

00:43:18.360 but it's not important at all, but still, uh, I think the internet age makes it not worth it to go

00:43:25.060 on wheel of fortune. And I don't, I don't say this to dissuade. Look, I'm a fan of wheel of fortune

00:43:28.860 to jeopardy, um, like anybody else, but it's, it's just, it's, I would never go on these shows

00:43:33.560 anymore. And I say that as someone who look, I watched jeopardy and I will kill that show. I will 0.94

00:43:39.140 absolutely kill it when I'm sitting there in, uh, my best games on jeopardy are when I'm totally alone 0.78

00:43:45.780 in the living room and no one is there to hear me answering the questions correctly. Um, and then

00:43:51.160 I'll have to go tell my wife about it and she won't care at all. But, and I, I've thought to

00:43:56.940 myself and maybe I should go on and she'll, but it's just, it's not worth it because if you have a

00:44:00.900 brain fart moment, okay, you have a moment where just like you have a total lapse and you draw a

00:44:06.380 blank and you, you know, you, a moment like that will now live in infamy forever. You, it will be,

00:44:14.300 it will follow you so that this poor woman for the rest of her life, she's going to have that moment. 0.99

00:44:19.800 So that's what you risk. That's the risk. The risk is that you have a terribly stupid moment

00:44:26.100 and it haunts you forever because of the internet. Um, that's the risk. That's the worst 1.00

00:44:32.800 case scenario. What's best case scenario? Best case scenario is that you win, you know, $12,000

00:44:38.560 and a trip to Cancun or something. It's not bad to win that, but I don't know if it's worth the risk.

00:44:45.600 That's the point. Okay. Let's get to the comment section.

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00:45:51.420 Amy Goodman says, considering all the threats Matt gets that are directed at his family,

00:45:55.240 I don't think his anger is irrational. He's a father. He's standing up to protect children.

00:45:58.940 His, yours, and mine. We need his voice. Well, I would, I mean, Amy, I would feel this way,

00:46:03.680 uh, without the threats, but it's also true. I think that a lot of the nicer conservative types,

00:46:09.260 um, you know, the conservatives that are all about being nice and all that,

00:46:13.620 I don't think they've ever fully encountered the deranged demonic evil of, um, trans activists 1.00

00:46:20.180 in particular. And, uh, but I have, and I've told you in broad strokes about some of the threats that

00:46:27.420 I get, but I can't even tell you, I can't tell you everything they've done to threaten my family

00:46:33.900 and my wife and my children. Many of these things we have to deal with are just better dealt with

00:46:38.460 privately for a whole host of reasons. But, um, so that's all I can say, but yes, I, I have,

00:46:45.760 I have seen these people for what they really are. Um, and I don't think you need the threats

00:46:52.200 and all the rest of it to see it, but when you have that stuff as well, it just becomes

00:46:56.740 very clear the level of evil that you are dealing with. And I think for, for, for some of these nice

00:47:03.760 conservative types, they just, they've never encountered that. They never have. Um, and I also

00:47:09.280 think it is interesting note that, you know, we played that montage yesterday of, uh, some of the

00:47:13.680 right of center, uh, commentators and YouTubers and stuff that were, um, calling me mean. And I, I

00:47:19.960 think, I don't know this for sure, but certainly most of them don't have kids. Most of the people

00:47:25.840 that were in that montage don't have kids. Uh, maybe one of the two of them do, but most of them

00:47:30.360 don't have kids. And I'm willing to bet that of the conservatives who are though, well, we have to

00:47:35.620 be nice. You know, those types, I I'm willing to bet that the majority of them don't have children. 1.00

00:47:40.860 And so they just, they don't have the same stake in this. They don't have the same skin in the game.

00:47:46.720 And they, they haven't really had to think about, you know, like my God, what if my children were to

00:47:51.840 fall victim to this? And when, when that prospect is put in front of you in a very real way, it just

00:47:58.140 changes things. It makes you take this much more seriously than I think some of these people are

00:48:03.340 taking it. Um, it makes, you know, it is, it makes it so that it's not just, it's not just a topic

00:48:09.660 for YouTube. Okay. And I think for some of these people, and like I said, I have no personal grudge

00:48:17.520 against any of them. Uh, most of them I like and I enjoy their content, but I think for some of them,

00:48:25.400 they, they see this, it's just a topic. It is a topic to discuss on, on YouTube or on Twitter or

00:48:31.020 whatever. But for some of us, it is not only that. It's a lot more than that. It's a lot more real than

00:48:37.940 that to us. Uh, Lana says as a stay at home mom, a job that I absolutely love who rarely has adult 0.99

00:48:45.960 interactions outside of my husband and church, I often feel voiceless and helpless in this increasingly

00:48:49.940 depraved and disgusting world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for using your platform to

00:48:53.380 speak the truth. By the way, I love for these people saying you're too harsh to read the apostle

00:48:57.440 Paul's letters and tell me that he killed them with kindness. But not just the apostle Paul. I mean,

00:49:03.080 yeah, the apostle Paul is prime example. Uh, this was someone who was very blunt in his approach and

00:49:10.740 would, would, would also use actual insults. I know that people that don't actually read the Bible,

00:49:16.920 but, but are, you know, familiar with it by reputation, especially the gospels and, uh,

00:49:22.320 and with the new Testament and the epistles. No, people like that, uh, to, to, to suggest that there

00:49:29.460 are saints in the Bible who actually insult people, you know, to them, it's, well, that couldn't have

00:49:35.700 happened. No, well, it did, uh, pick it up and read it sometime, read the language that they used, but not

00:49:42.140 only the apostle Paul, Jesus Christ as well. Okay. And some of the stuff where we we've heard it so many

00:49:47.700 times we've taken for granted, but a statement like you'd be better drowning in the ocean with a

00:49:54.660 stone tied around your neck than doing what you're doing. That's what Jesus said. That's what Jesus

00:49:59.720 said about people that harm children and, and lead children into, into scandal, into sin. Um,

00:50:06.480 that's what he said. Now imagine for a second that Jesus hadn't said that, but then someone else

00:50:13.700 said, you know, like what, what if, what if, what if, uh, just what if I said, what if I said that?

00:50:18.920 What, what if that's what I said about Dylan Mulvaney? You know, you'd be better off drowning

00:50:23.900 in the ocean with a stone tied around your neck. You'd have a lot of conservatives and Christians 0.99

00:50:30.260 that would hear that. Well, that's the most, I can't believe you would say that's the worst thing

00:50:33.660 anyone's ever said. This is horrible. Who would ever say this is evil. You're a fake Christian. 1.00

00:50:37.640 Well, that's what Jesus said. That's what he said. And in fact, uh, Jesus go again, read the gospels, 0.99

00:50:47.540 read them. And what you're going to find is that he, he had no tolerance for, for evil, none.

00:50:57.140 And he would tell people very bluntly to their face and he would describe their actions in very harsh

00:51:06.400 terms. This was not like one. We only have comparatively, we are only given comparatively

00:51:13.740 few episodes from Jesus Christ's life. Um, and, and of course we know that, that, you know,

00:51:20.020 the, the, the, uh, lion's share of it is we were told nothing about at all. So we have when he was

00:51:27.280 born and then we have one brief episode from adolescence and then we have, um, and then we have

00:51:33.680 adulthood, a brief, really brief episode of adulthood. And even in that, and even then in

00:51:40.720 that snapshot, we have Jesus flipping tables in the temple using actual violence. Remember it says

00:51:48.320 he fashions a cord out of whips. It wasn't even like he grabbed it. He took some time. It sounds like

00:51:53.660 to make a whip and then use it against people. Said you're better off drowning with stone around your 0.84

00:52:00.540 neck. Calling people hypocrites and vipers and all these kinds of, uh, words. And that's just in the 1.00

00:52:06.920 parts that we're told about. So I'm sorry. The, uh, the, the hippie Jesus thing is just, it's an,

00:52:14.900 it's a modern invention. It's not real. And finally, Joe says, you've really been handing out some

00:52:20.980 excellent cancellations lately, Matt. Today was perfect. The Chelsea handler one was great too. So

00:52:24.740 great. In fact, that while driving alone in my car, I actually shouted, boom, shots fired captain in a

00:52:29.080 Scottish accent. Maybe it was more of a pirate accent considering the captain reference. Either

00:52:32.860 way, you're inspiring your deck mates, or I should say mateys to loot more and more sweet treasure from

00:52:38.800 the woke culture and to shout in random and indiscernible accents in their cars. Well, Joe,

00:52:43.400 I'm, uh, I'm, I'm just glad to find out that I'm not the only one who tries out different accents

00:52:47.500 while alone in my car. So maybe I'm not as psychotic as I thought, or I still am, but I'm not alone in that.

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00:53:31.960 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:37.780 Today for our daily cancellation, I must again, unfortunately cancel people on my own side,

00:53:42.220 or at least theoretically on my own side. Um, these are the conservatives who over the past few days

00:53:46.600 have been frantically applauding their latest hero, their newly elected spokesman,

00:53:51.700 their, uh, trendiest new conservative champion, Jeffree Star. And for those unfamiliar, as I was

00:53:57.620 until two days ago, Star is a social media influencer and owner of a popular, I think,

00:54:02.360 cosmetics brand. Uh, Star also enjoys dressing like a woman, but this flamboyant cross-dressing 1.00

00:54:08.260 makeup salesman earned applause from many on the right, including prominent figures on the right.

00:54:12.840 Um, when he appeared on a podcast and said this,

00:54:16.460 I'm not into all the other, I think what other, the, they, and them. Yeah. And all that extra

00:54:23.340 that we added during the pandemic. Cause everyone was so bored on their houses. They just started

00:54:27.680 to make up more and more more stuff. Yeah. That's where the conservatives like me. Cause I'm just

00:54:32.020 real. You do have a conservative vibe. You're trans, you're male or you're female. And you're

00:54:37.940 standing on that. And people get so mad when I say that. How are you with they? What the f**k does

00:54:42.160 that mean? As stupid as what it is. Yeah. But you need someone like me that looks like me to say 1.00

00:54:46.920 it. Because if you say it, it turns into you're homophobic. You hate trans people. You hate gays.

00:54:50.980 And it's just how you feel. You don't hate anyone. You just think it's stupid. 0.96

00:54:56.040 Now that, what you just heard, makes Jeffree Star based, apparently. He's based now. He said one 0.99

00:55:01.620 thing that conservatives like, and they were on the scene with pom-poms in no time. And yes,

00:55:06.160 Star is right. That the they, them stuff is BS, of course. Obviously. But the problem,

00:55:12.920 one of them anyway, is that he rejects non-binary while affirming trans. He says that the only 0.97

00:55:18.780 valid categories are trans, male or female. And to drive that point home, he made another video

00:55:25.040 responding to the backlash against his anti-they, them commentary, where he reiterated his support

00:55:29.780 for and belief in transgenderism. Here it is.

00:55:32.460 I just went on and I saw a few outlets saying that I'm transphobic. Jeffree Star, who has

00:55:39.520 five transgender employees. I have over a hundred employees of all different ethnicities. 0.96

00:55:46.900 A brand that is inclusive to the entire world. What we're not going to do is lie. So if you

00:55:52.380 posted an article saying anything like that, you better delete it, Ms. Thing, because I'm

00:55:56.240 common. All I said was, is I don't agree with pronouns. That's it. So you know how Cardi B sued

00:56:02.800 that woman? And well, the lady don't have any money, but Cardi B won allegedly a lot of money 1.00

00:56:08.580 from the lawsuit, even though she'll never get it. It's still the point of she won. That was phenomenal

00:56:14.340 for someone like me that has been abused and dragged through the mud. Now we all know all my

00:56:18.280 past mistakes, girl. Every time that I have an opinion, everyone has to bring up everything

00:56:23.040 from the past. That's getting so old, but the support and the understanding and the common

00:56:30.980 sense from millions of people that I've seen over the last few days, it made me realize

00:56:36.240 the planet's not that awful. Like people get it. It's just social media and they love to

00:56:41.660 drag Ms. Jeffrey Lynn. Also shout out to so many amazing, beautiful transgender people and

00:56:47.340 the LGBT community in my DMs writing me. Just thank you. I'm sorry about that. This is just 1.00

00:56:55.000 too much. Between this guy and the Glory Johnson tweet, it's just the amount of brain cells we're

00:57:02.640 losing. It's really, it's like the effect of a concussion. We're all now concussed effectively

00:57:07.200 because of the level of stupidity that we've been forced, well, that I have forced you to 0.99

00:57:12.540 encounter today. But very inspiring response from this right wing warrior who desperately defends 1.00

00:57:18.640 himself from the transphobia claims by bragging about all the trans people he employs. I suppose

00:57:23.960 it just goes to show that Democrats really are the real transphobes. Of course, check back in about

00:57:29.420 five years and people on the right will be defending transgenderism and non-binary, but then claiming that

00:57:35.880 trans speciesism is where they draw the line. And somehow that position will be applauded as not only 1.00

00:57:41.180 correct, but based. See, this is how it works as the Overton window continues its relentless march to

00:57:47.180 the left. What was a fringe left wing view yesterday suddenly becomes mainstream today. And the fringe

00:57:53.620 today will be mainstream tomorrow. Meanwhile, the oblivious faction of conservatives, a rather large

00:57:59.240 group, unfortunately, continue to embrace any position that is not at this moment on the extreme

00:58:05.060 left wing fringe. As long as it's not the most extreme version of leftism, they embrace it, which

00:58:12.960 means that tomorrow they will embrace whatever is on the extreme left wing fringe today.

00:58:18.100 Jeffree Star's conservative defenders have told me that, well, we should accept him into the fold

00:58:22.100 because he is, they say, mostly right about the gender issue. But he's not mostly right. He's not even

00:58:29.060 in the neighborhood of right. He's not in the, he's not, I don't know what planet he's even on,

00:58:34.280 let alone the neighborhood. He believes that a person can identify as and actually be a member

00:58:39.760 of the opposite sex. He affirms transgenderism. It's just that he prefers to stick with the term 0.96

00:58:44.040 transgender to describe those people and believes that non-binary is extra and redundant. And he's 0.78

00:58:50.240 right that it is redundant. You know, as non-binary versus transgenderism, that is a distinction without a

00:58:54.700 difference. That doesn't make him more right or closer to the truth. He's not suddenly a defender

00:58:59.040 of truth and tradition because he prefers to stick with the craziest left wing ideas from yesterday

00:59:03.700 rather than adopting the craziest ideas from today. In fact, non-binary isn't even really crazier than

00:59:10.800 transgenderism. These terms are again, redundant. They are versions of the same nonsense. 1.00

00:59:16.180 Star prefers using one term for the nonsense rather than two. This apparently is enough to make him 0.91

00:59:20.300 our generation's William F. Buckley. The left here is using a classic manipulation technique. You make an

00:59:26.780 outrageous demand so that a slightly less outrageous demand seems reasonable by comparison. We should all be

00:59:32.840 familiar with this strategy. It's the oldest one in the book, right? Kids use it all the time. Just a few nights

00:59:37.580 ago, my son came up to me after dinner and said, Daddy, can we all go get ice cream? Now, asking me to load all

00:59:44.820 six kids in the car after dinner when I already have my sweatpants and slippers on definitely qualifies as an

00:59:51.980 outrageous demand. That's one thing they know. Once the slippers come out, I'm not going anywhere.

00:59:57.340 We are here for the night. So I said no, and then he immediately followed it up with, okay, well, then

01:00:02.920 can we just watch a movie? Now, in that case, I knowingly allowed myself to be suckered by the

01:00:07.600 strategy and I let them watch a movie. But on a cultural level, in the battle with the left, we cannot

01:00:13.340 be so easily duped by these kinds of tricks. Just because non-binary is arguably a little weirder than 1.00

01:00:18.900 trans. That doesn't make trans legitimate or any closer to legitimate than it was before. 0.99

01:00:25.800 Celebrating Jeffree Star at this point, it's like if somebody was beating you over the head with a

01:00:29.460 baseball bat and then Jeffree Star ran in and said, no, don't beat him over the head with a

01:00:33.200 baseball bat. Just stomp on his face with your boot instead. Here, I'll help. Now, it's true that 0.98

01:00:38.560 getting stomped is probably a little better than being bludgeoned with a bat, but does that

01:00:42.280 automatically make the person stomping on your face an ally? Would you applaud this person as they

01:00:47.860 kick you in the skull and say, wow, this guy's great. We should invite him to CPAC. No, he's still

01:00:53.660 your enemy. He's still trying to kill you, just perhaps in a slightly less efficient manner. 0.95

01:00:59.960 See, the curse of the big tent conservatism approach is that now our tent is filled with people who are 0.98

01:01:04.980 directly trying to undermine our cause. A big tent doesn't do you a lot of good when you're inviting

01:01:09.520 people under it who will just try to rip it down and leave all of us standing in the rain, which is

01:01:13.980 what's happening. One last point on all this. Star says that we need someone who looks like him to say

01:01:20.040 the things that he says, because if we say it, that is, if normal people who aren't cross-dressing

01:01:24.080 circus performers say it, then we will be called bigots and transphobes. Well, except this logic

01:01:29.300 is refuted by his follow-up video in which he defends himself against accusations of bigotry and

01:01:34.200 transphobia. So it turns out that tokenism is not actually an effective strategy here. We cannot insulate

01:01:39.680 ourselves from criticism by putting our arguments into the mouths of people who fall into identity

01:01:44.660 categories that the left usually celebrates. Okay, I don't know how conservatives keep thinking this

01:01:50.080 strategy will work. It never has. It never will. It doesn't work. Like, can you give me an example of

01:01:58.140 someone who's in one of these identity groups and they make a conservative, well, not even conservative,

01:02:02.740 they make a slightly less left-wing argument and the left goes, well, you know, normally I disagree with

01:02:08.400 that, but this person is an identity group that we support, so I think we'll take it into

01:02:11.660 consideration. Has that ever happened? Is there one example of that working? No, it doesn't, because

01:02:18.920 the left values ideological conformity over all else. Their vision of diversity is one in which people

01:02:25.540 of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, except white males, and made-up genders come together 0.96

01:02:31.420 to march in lockstep and speak in unison. Anybody who misses a beat or forgets a line or tries to

01:02:39.440 improvise will be cast out as not only a bigot, but a traitor as well. As it turns out, the people

01:02:45.280 from protected classes who disagree with the left are not given softer treatment or a better chance at

01:02:51.740 a fair hearing. If anything, they're shouted down all the louder and hated all the more, because on top

01:02:57.860 of saying the things that the left hates, there's also the element of betrayal, because the left

01:03:03.380 says, well, you're supposed to belong to us because of your identity. That doesn't make them, that doesn't

01:03:08.940 make the, you know, the heretic more credible in the eyes of the left. It just makes them a heretic. 0.83

01:03:15.840 Just look at Jeffree Star. He agrees with the left on nearly everything, and he's living exactly the

01:03:22.120 kind of lifestyle they promote, but they still exile him for mildly criticizing one small facet of gender

01:03:28.780 ideology. Well, that doesn't make him our ally or our friend, but it does prove that this whole, you

01:03:36.620 know, you need people like me to make this argument claim is moot. No, we don't need people like him to

01:03:42.140 make the argument. We don't need a cross-dressing trans activist with neck tattoos and copious amounts 1.00

01:03:47.380 of makeup to make the argument. You know who we need? This goes back to the beginning of the show.

01:03:51.100 We need normal people, normal people like you, normal, common sense people who live normal lives

01:03:59.060 and dress and act like normal people. We need them to speak up and be advocates, because after all,

01:04:06.760 normalcy is what we're trying to defend, isn't it? The best defender of normalcy is a normal person,

01:04:13.280 and not just one normal person, but legions of them, an army of normal people demanding a return to

01:04:19.660 sanity and common sense and basic moral decency. Jeffree Star is not ever going to be an effective

01:04:26.420 champion for that cause, but you can be. And that is why Jeffree Star and his conservative defenders are

01:04:34.440 today canceled. That'll do it for this portion of the show. Let's move over to the members block. If you're

01:04:39.980 not a member yet, you can become a member by using code WALLSHITCHECKOUT for two months free on all annual

01:04:44.520 plans. Hope to see you over there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 22, 2023

Ep. 1118 - Elected Official Inducts Me Into The 'Vortex Of Evil'

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