The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1133 - Anti-White Bigots Push For Segregation

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a university in Michigan holds segregated graduation ceremonies.

00:00:04.540 This has become a popular trend in academia.

00:00:06.760 Meanwhile, Robin DiAngelo openly advocates for segregation using the same language that Scott Adams used.

00:00:12.780 Yet DiAngelo has suffered no repercussions while Adams had his life destroyed.

00:00:16.660 We'll talk about all this today.

00:00:17.720 Plus, DeSantis speaks out against the possible politically motivated arrest of Donald Trump.

00:00:22.200 But Trump and his supporters aren't happy with the way that DeSantis spoke out.

00:00:25.700 Also, we finally have more information revealing why those cops in Uvalde sat outside the classroom while children were being executed.

00:00:32.660 And the new revelations are somehow even more damning.

00:00:35.800 And the cast of Ted Lasso visits the White House.

00:00:38.480 Why exactly were they at the White House?

00:00:40.200 Well, we're still trying to figure that out.

00:00:41.500 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:43.740 Last night, somebody sent me an email that had recently gone out to students at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

00:01:50.640 The email was meant to inform them about the five upcoming graduation celebrations, which would be held as a complement to the commencement ceremony.

00:01:58.880 Now, five celebrations might seem a little bit excessive.

00:02:02.740 If you've ever been to a graduation, then you know that one is already a little bit too much as it is.

00:02:08.160 But there's a reason why this school has decided to have five, as they explained in their email.

00:02:13.360 Reading now, it says,

00:02:14.000 And here are the five events.

00:02:34.680 Side note, no Hispanic person actually wants to be called Latinx, but rather than simply abandon that silliness entirely, this is apparently what they've settled on.

00:02:57.860 Now Latino people are Latino slash A slash X.

00:03:01.780 So they've improved on Latinx, which sounded clunky and ridiculous, by coming up with an alternative that is even clunkier and more ridiculous.

00:03:10.660 Okay, back to the segregated graduations.

00:03:13.860 It says,

00:03:14.820 Lavender graduation celebrating LGBTQIA plus graduates, April 20th.

00:03:19.680 Native graduation celebration, April 27th.

00:03:23.140 Side note again, there is a typo here actually, because it actually says lavender gradation.

00:03:28.780 Gradation.

00:03:30.140 Gradation as in a series of successive changes made by degrees or in phases over time, much like you would find on, say, a slippery slope.

00:03:39.700 So this typo is the most insightful thing this university has produced in its entire existence, probably, even if it was by accident.

00:03:47.300 So these are the graduation celebrations or gradation celebrations, however you want to put it, broken up by identity group.

00:03:53.740 Now needless to say, there will be no special event for straight white people.

00:03:58.020 They will have to make do with the commencement ceremony that everybody else gets.

00:04:01.540 They're not going to get their own special event.

00:04:03.820 But Grand Valley is far from alone with their segregation policies when it comes to graduations.

00:04:08.500 This has become an increasingly common practice.

00:04:10.380 Just a couple of weeks ago, there was controversy over a segregated black graduation ceremony at the University of Chicago.

00:04:16.560 The Daily Mail had that report and said, quote, a leaked email obtained by University of Chicago law student Benjamin Ogilvie unmasked the previously underwraps event, with Ogilvie penning a piece for the college fix to share the email's contents.

00:04:30.520 Quote, Black Action and Public Policy Studies is hosting a graduation ceremony for all University of Chicago black graduate students.

00:04:37.740 On June 1st, the email stated, according to Ogilvie.

00:04:40.100 Leaked on Tuesday, the email reportedly touted the event as the culmination of the black student experience at the Illinois school, and is already sparking heated discourse as to whether or not the event serves as segregation.

00:04:52.720 Now, a spokesperson for the school was quoted later in the article, and they did respond to a request for comment, arguing that the black graduation, though it is a ceremony being held for black people and is advertised as such, is not explicitly black only.

00:05:08.540 And so that's how they get around any, you know, legal challenges.

00:05:13.340 Anyone can come if they want to, technically.

00:05:17.140 And the fact that whites won't be chased away at gunpoint, not as an official policy anyway, is supposed to make this all okay.

00:05:23.420 And yet, I have a sneaking suspicion that the University of Chicago would not allow a white graduation ceremony, even if blacks were technically allowed to attend.

00:05:32.860 The logic, as always, only goes one way.

00:05:35.620 The same applies at Harvard, where Harvard's Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging helps to organize graduation ceremonies for, quote, first-generation BGLTQ black and Latinx students.

00:05:48.700 And they've also added a special ceremony this year for Asian-American, Pacific Islander, and Desi-American graduates.

00:05:54.860 Columbia University, meanwhile, adds another category.

00:05:57.660 That school has special ceremonies for black, LGBTQ, Native, Latinx, and Asian graduates, just like we saw with Grand Valley.

00:06:07.680 But they've also added a sixth category for low-income individuals.

00:06:12.900 Because it is, of course, important to have proper representation for all of those impoverished people who are graduating from an Ivy League school.

00:06:20.080 The low-income celebration will be very interesting, because there won't be anyone there except the catering staff, I guess.

00:06:26.800 So this is the country we live in now.

00:06:30.660 Segregation has long since made a comeback.

00:06:32.980 These policies can be put in place.

00:06:35.320 They can be advocated for.

00:06:37.280 And most of the time, without even the slightest pushback.

00:06:40.120 That is, as long as you advocate for them from a socially acceptable angle.

00:06:47.160 So take this recent clip of White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo claiming that black people need to, quote, get away from white people.

00:06:55.240 Listen.

00:06:56.440 And then I'm a big believer in affinity space and affinity work.

00:07:00.100 And I think people of color need to get away from white people and have some community with each other.

00:07:08.120 And I'll let that go and maybe see if anyone else wants to pick it up.

00:07:13.120 Yes, get away, she says.

00:07:15.260 Get away.

00:07:16.800 One racial group needs to get away from the other.

00:07:20.560 Now, if this sentiment sounds familiar, probably because Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, said exactly the same thing.

00:07:28.160 Almost verbatim, with one slight difference.

00:07:31.660 Let's listen to that again.

00:07:33.200 I would say, you know, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.

00:07:42.960 Just get the f*** away.

00:07:45.400 Wherever you have to go, just get away.

00:07:48.880 Because there's no fixing this.

00:07:52.060 This can't be fixed.

00:07:54.600 Right?

00:07:54.960 This can't be fixed.

00:07:55.800 You just have to escape.

00:07:57.300 So it is, as I said, exactly the same idea, using almost identical language.

00:08:04.460 The difference is that Scott Adams lost everything.

00:08:08.020 His career, his reputation, distribution of his comic strip.

00:08:11.140 He had his life destroyed for saying what you just heard there.

00:08:14.580 Meanwhile, Robin DiAngelo has suffered no repercussions at all.

00:08:18.440 It's not that DiAngelo has experienced a less intense backlash or less severe professional consequences.

00:08:24.180 It's that there has been no backlash, no consequence.

00:08:29.080 And that's all because, though they both were advocating for the same thing, DiAngelo said that blacks need to get away from whites, while Adams said that whites need to get away from blacks.

00:08:39.020 This is the crucial distinction that's supposed to change everything, according to the new rules.

00:08:46.440 You can divide the races.

00:08:47.860 You can segregate and separate.

00:08:49.360 You can certainly call for one group to get away from another.

00:08:52.060 And you can phrase it just like that.

00:08:53.740 You can pretty much say whatever you want about race relations and advocate for any sort of solution that you want, provided that you keep white people situated in their assigned place as the bad guys, the antagonists.

00:09:05.600 Here's the crucial mistake that Scott Adams made.

00:09:08.780 He implied that there may be some troubling trends within the black community that would give white people reason to be wary.

00:09:17.240 But this interferes with the hero versus villain storyline that the left has invented.

00:09:20.800 It can only ever be blacks escaping the hatred and violence of whites, never the other way around.

00:09:26.900 The idea that there may be hatred and violence against whites that they might want to escape is anathema.

00:09:35.600 Which is not to say that it's inaccurate.

00:09:39.000 But here's the important point.

00:09:40.540 And this is what I think people need to understand.

00:09:43.120 This is not just a racial double standard intended to villainize white people.

00:09:48.000 I mean, it is that.

00:09:49.560 But at a deeper level, the point is that white people are not allowed to advocate for themselves as a group.

00:09:58.980 That's what this is, okay?

00:10:01.160 That's what people miss about the reaction to Scott Adams.

00:10:03.940 It's assumed that he was canceled because he said something that paints black people in a negative light.

00:10:08.700 But that's not really it.

00:10:10.540 Because the reaction would have been just as intense or nearly as intense if he had said that white people need to, say, you know, have pride and self-esteem.

00:10:18.620 Or white people need to make sure they get educated.

00:10:21.980 White people need to work hard and succeed.

00:10:25.300 Doesn't matter.

00:10:26.100 If he had said anything to advocate for the well-being of white people as a group, even if he had, if it had nothing to do with segregation, nothing to do with anything like that, he would still be condemned.

00:10:37.700 And if you don't believe me, then just go out in public sometime and say that white people should have larger families and reproduce more.

00:10:44.620 Now, you aren't calling for segregation.

00:10:47.340 You aren't saying anything negative about any other race.

00:10:50.700 Yet, it is guaranteed to be treated just as harshly as the comments Scott Adams made.

00:10:55.960 Because this is what the race hustlers on the left are trying to guard against.

00:11:00.000 They want other racial groups to have a sense of community, a sense of identity and belonging within the group.

00:11:06.560 They want those groups to advocate for themselves.

00:11:09.340 They want those groups to be concerned with the flourishing of their groups.

00:11:13.420 But they stridently oppose any similar move for whites to do that as well.

00:11:19.540 Because they do not want whites to see themselves as a group.

00:11:24.680 At bottom, they don't want whites to have a racial identity.

00:11:28.200 And they will tell you this directly if you ask them.

00:11:30.580 If you ask, for example, why black pride and brown pride are okay.

00:11:37.040 More than okay.

00:11:37.700 They're actively good.

00:11:39.340 But white pride is horrendously racist.

00:11:41.980 They will inform you that whites have no real racial identity.

00:11:45.640 The category is too broad and vague.

00:11:48.140 Thus, they argue white pride must really be an expression of hatred towards non-whites.

00:11:54.020 I mean, you can't have white pride.

00:11:55.320 It doesn't make any sense, they say.

00:11:56.420 It's a group that doesn't really, it doesn't mean anything.

00:11:59.800 They will simply expect you not to notice that black and brown are categories just as broad, just as vague as white.

00:12:07.920 Doesn't matter.

00:12:08.640 Black and brown can and should have a sense of racial identity.

00:12:13.020 White must not.

00:12:13.980 I mean, that's the rule.

00:12:14.800 And it's why segregation can be promoted and instated as policy, but only to give non-whites their special spaces.

00:12:21.960 It's never to do the same for whites because to do the same would be to acknowledge the existence of white people as a group and to give that group permission to care about its own well-being.

00:12:31.760 Now, this principle doesn't just apply to race, of course.

00:12:35.300 And they do the same thing with sex, the same thing with sexual orientation.

00:12:39.960 LGBT people can have their own spaces.

00:12:42.180 They can advocate for themselves as a group.

00:12:43.860 Heterosexuals cannot.

00:12:46.080 Women can have their own spaces.

00:12:48.240 Well, they used to, anyway.

00:12:49.920 And they can advocate for themselves as a group.

00:12:51.780 Men cannot.

00:12:52.360 Ultimately, you know, the straight white male is left as the one category of person on earth who has no category, no identity group that he's allowed to belong to or advocate for.

00:13:04.580 However, he must subsume, he must be subsumed into one of these other groups by identifying as a woman or as gay, or else he'll be left with no group.

00:13:14.820 And that's the real goal.

00:13:17.540 Of course, the goal can never be finally achieved.

00:13:21.240 That goal can't, anyway.

00:13:22.500 And in pursuing that goal, all of the nightmare scenarios you're allegedly trying to guard against are only now guaranteed to happen.

00:13:31.960 Because pendulums always swing back.

00:13:37.200 And by singling out one group as the antagonist, and insisting that all other groups are allowed to do and say things that this group is not,

00:13:46.800 you are ensuring that when that group does start to coalesce, it will do so largely around a shared feeling of resentment and exclusion.

00:13:56.680 And a not baseless feeling of resentment and exclusion.

00:14:01.960 And nothing good comes from that.

00:14:05.080 Unless, of course, your goal is the destabilization of society as we know it, in which case, this is a very efficient way to achieve it.

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00:15:19.480 Okay, report from The Daily Wire.

00:15:21.380 Republican, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis responded on Monday to reports that former President Donald Trump could be indicted this week,

00:15:28.220 calling the situation a manufactured circus by a prosecutor trying to virtue signal for his base.

00:15:33.560 DeSantis' remarks come after Trump claimed over the weekend that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday

00:15:38.140 in connection with a prosecution by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office involving an alleged hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016.

00:15:46.020 A spokesperson for Trump later said that Trump has been given no notification that there will be an arrest next week.

00:15:52.120 And in fact, we can say now that there almost certainly will not be an arrest today.

00:15:57.960 So this was the claim that was made.

00:16:00.080 There's going to be an arrest on Tuesday, and it seems certain that that's not going to happen.

00:16:03.560 Whether there will be an arrest in the future, if at all, still remains to be seen.

00:16:11.060 But Ron DeSantis did comment on this as he was asked in a press conference.

00:16:14.920 And let's just watch the whole clip of what he said.

00:16:18.420 So I've seen rumors swirl.

00:16:20.300 I have not seen any facts yet.

00:16:22.500 And so I don't know what's going to happen.

00:16:23.920 But I do know this.

00:16:25.280 The Manhattan District Attorney is a Soros-funded prosecutor.

00:16:30.280 And so he, like other Soros-funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.

00:16:43.760 He has downgraded over 50 percent of the felonies to misdemeanors.

00:16:47.920 He says he doesn't want to even have jail time for the vast, vast majority of crimes.

00:16:53.920 And what we've seen in Manhattan is we've seen the crime rate go up, and we've seen citizens become less safe.

00:17:00.200 And so you're talking about this situation with, and look, I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair.

00:17:11.060 I just, I can't speak to that.

00:17:12.520 He also said that we're not involved in this.

00:17:16.120 We won't be involved in this.

00:17:17.220 I have no interest in getting involved in some type of manufactured circus by Soros, some Soros DA.

00:17:22.860 He's trying to do a political spectacle.

00:17:24.380 He's trying to virtue signal first phase.

00:17:27.520 So that was his answer.

00:17:31.740 Now, Trump did not like that answer.

00:17:33.960 And especially among Trump supporters, just looking, at least on Twitter anyway, it was roundly panned by not just Trump supporters, but Trump supporters in particular were very upset with what Ron said and said, especially that bit at the end there, the little dig about not knowing, you know, he doesn't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star, which, by the way, I don't either.

00:17:56.680 I mean, I think that's a valid thing to point out.

00:17:59.340 It's like we don't know all the particulars and what goes into that.

00:18:01.500 But Trump didn't like the answer.

00:18:03.560 He thought it wasn't sufficiently passionate, I guess.

00:18:06.720 And he responded, reading from the Daily Wire now, former President Donald Trump took aim at Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday after the governor addressed reports that progressive Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is intending to charge the former president.

00:18:18.500 We just heard his comments.

00:18:19.680 Trump said, Ron DeSantis will probably find out about false accusations and fake stories sometime in the future as he gets older, wiser, and better known when he's unfairly and illegally attacked by a woman, even classmates that are underage or possibly a man.

00:18:32.700 I'm sure he'll want to fight these misfits just like I do.

00:18:36.560 And then Trump provided in that tweet, it wasn't a tweet, actually, it was on his Truth Social page.

00:18:40.700 What do they call it?

00:18:42.500 A truth?

00:18:42.980 I think they refer to it as a truth.

00:18:44.960 I'm sending a truth.

00:18:48.520 Which, this is neither here nor there, but I cannot think of a worse word to turn into a verb, you know, in social media.

00:18:59.160 I'm truthing.

00:19:00.720 As if everything that you happen to say on social media is automatically true.

00:19:03.100 But anyway, he accompanied that post with a picture that he has posted before of Ron DeSantis when apparently he was a teacher standing at some kind of party with former students.

00:19:17.800 And there's nothing inappropriate happening in the picture.

00:19:20.340 They're literally just standing there taking a picture.

00:19:22.600 But Trump in the past has insinuated that somehow DeSantis was involved in grooming and then he was amplifying that charge yet again in that response.

00:19:34.060 So, I'll say a few things about this.

00:19:39.920 From what I've seen again on social media, which in fairness is social media not exactly known for a place where you get a lot of well-regulated emotions and all the rest of it.

00:19:48.900 So, I've seen people who are passionate supporters of Ron DeSantis say that this was a brilliant response.

00:19:55.600 It was the best response I could possibly offer.

00:19:57.460 And then we've got passionate supporters of Donald Trump saying it's an absolute disaster.

00:20:01.780 It's the worst that you ever could have said.

00:20:04.020 It destroys everything.

00:20:05.780 You can't support him anymore because of it.

00:20:07.960 So, I've seen both of these extreme reactions.

00:20:10.240 And this is one case where I'm going to go somewhere in the middle.

00:20:13.100 Now, I will say that my first reaction to Ron DeSantis' statement was I didn't love it.

00:20:18.980 I didn't love the statement.

00:20:19.980 And I still don't.

00:20:21.840 And even though, as you know, I'm a supporter of Ron DeSantis, I'm not going to – I'm a supporter.

00:20:27.980 I'm not a fan.

00:20:28.660 I will never be a fan of a politician.

00:20:30.580 And the difference between a supporter and a fan, when you're a supporter, it's – you have your eyes open.

00:20:35.300 And you support them because of the things they do or say.

00:20:37.640 If they do or say something you don't like, then you're going to speak up.

00:20:39.980 A fan is just blind and follows along with a cult of personality.

00:20:43.960 I don't do that.

00:20:45.100 And so, I will say I didn't like the statement because it didn't – I think he needed to communicate – it needed to be a more firm statement.

00:20:58.480 He needed to take a stronger stance.

00:21:00.480 Now, in my opinion, what he said there was true.

00:21:05.800 Everything he said is true.

00:21:06.760 And the bit about this being a Soros prosecutor and this is a political stunt and all the rest of it, all that is 100% true.

00:21:14.780 And that's a good thing for him to point out.

00:21:17.500 But I think what a lot of people were looking for is just a stronger stance.

00:21:21.240 When you think of that, you say, well, I'm not going to get involved.

00:21:23.460 And then throw in the little dig in about the – about I don't know what goes into paying off a porn star.

00:21:30.700 Again, true, it's a true statement, but it was a little dig that he threw at Trump, which is interesting, too, because up to this point, Ron DeSantis has essentially not directly responded to any of Trump's many, many attacks.

00:21:45.360 He has stayed entirely above the fray.

00:21:47.400 This is the one time – and it wasn't direct.

00:21:50.100 It wasn't vicious, but it was the one time we saw him kind of needling Trump a little bit.

00:21:55.460 And I think it was the wrong time for that.

00:21:58.120 You know, and usually DeSantis has good political instincts.

00:22:00.480 This was an example of not having good political instincts.

00:22:03.220 I think you just have to take a strong stand.

00:22:04.900 Now, listen, I can understand why DeSantis would not feel particularly motivated to speak up in very firm and strong words in defense of Trump here.

00:22:19.580 I can understand why it wouldn't be.

00:22:21.080 After all, Trump has been ruthlessly attacking him, unprovoked, for months, including implying that he's a groomer and all – throwing everything they can at this guy.

00:22:31.580 Amplifying baseless rumors, all the rest of it.

00:22:33.960 Now you've got a Trump super PAC that's going to the Florida Election Commission, like a tattletailing to the government on DeSantis, saying that he's running a shadow presidential campaign.

00:22:45.420 And yes, that's a Trump super PAC.

00:22:46.600 It's not Trump himself.

00:22:47.260 But Trump also has not – he certainly hasn't spoken up against it and said, I don't agree with this.

00:22:52.460 And so while Trump's people are going to the government to try to get DeSantis in trouble, they are insisting that DeSantis speak up in defense of Trump.

00:22:59.800 So I can understand if you're from DeSantis' perspective, you see all that, and you say, screw this guy.

00:23:07.920 But from a personal perspective, I can understand that.

00:23:11.160 I can understand that feeling.

00:23:12.360 But this is one of those occasions where you have to put your personal feelings aside, as difficult as it might be.

00:23:19.160 I'm not saying I would be – I'm not always an expert when it comes to that sort of thing, putting my personal feelings aside.

00:23:24.800 But this is one of those times when you have to do that because there's more at stake here.

00:23:28.460 You know, this is – even if they don't go through with the arrest, the fact that they're even thinking about this, the fact that they're going down this road at all, the fact that they have spent all this time and money on investigations and grand juries and everything to potentially try to put a political rival in jail.

00:23:50.000 And the fact that we know they're only doing it because it's Donald Trump.

00:23:53.660 If Donald Trump's name was, you know, Steve Williams or something, if his name was just – if he had some – any other name, a random name you never heard of, Alvin Bragg and, you know, the attorney general's office, or rather the DA in New York, they're not doing any of this.

00:24:15.120 We know that. And I don't think anyone would deny that. So they're specifically doing it because it's Trump and because he is – they perceive their number one political enemy.

00:24:26.980 If they are able to go through with this and they're able to do it especially without serious backlash and opposition, then we have entered a new – you know, a new era in American politics, and it's not a good one.

00:24:43.000 It's, like, very troubling to say the absolute least.

00:24:47.280 And so this is one of those times where you put all the personal feelings aside, you stand up forcefully because it's the right thing to do.

00:24:55.740 And also it's politically smart, right?

00:24:58.160 It's – on top of being the right thing to do, to speak up very forcefully against this and put all the personal jabs and everything aside for this,

00:25:04.800 not only is it the right thing to do for the country, but it's also one of those times when the right thing to do also happens to be the politically smart thing to do.

00:25:12.540 And that's not always the case. This is one of those times when it is.

00:25:15.320 It's politically smart, you know.

00:25:18.280 For Trump – for – it's really – it's like a power move, actually, for DeSantis to speak up in defense of Trump,

00:25:23.600 even after Trump has been going after him, to continue to ignore those attacks and say,

00:25:28.260 I'm just doing the right thing as, you know, in my position that I have, I think it's also kind of a power move

00:25:35.620 where Trump now has to turn to DeSantis for help or at least for advocacy on his behalf.

00:25:42.820 I don't think it's – it's not the end of the world for DeSantis by any means, as some people are painting it.

00:25:47.820 I think that's ridiculous. But I do think that going forward, the right thing and also the smart thing politically,

00:25:54.580 both of those things together, is to forcefully oppose this in whatever manner you can legally

00:26:04.640 and to not allow any personal squabbles to make it into this.

00:26:13.640 Would Trump return the favor if, you know, the situation was reversed?

00:26:20.040 The situation was exactly reversed. Would Trump speak up for DeSantis to try to help him in any way?

00:26:26.760 I tend very much to doubt it. But again, that's something you have to put aside.

00:26:31.800 And that's also leadership. Being able to put your personal feelings aside is, you know, an important element of good leadership.

00:26:43.640 All right. Let's see. This is from the Texas Tribune. A very important update.

00:26:51.000 I'm just going to read some of this here.

00:26:52.860 Once they saw a torrent of bullets tear through a classroom wall and metal door,

00:26:56.240 the first police officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary School concluded they were outgunned and that they could die.

00:27:02.520 The gunman had an AR-15, a rifle design, used by U.S. soldiers in every conflict since Vietnam.

00:27:07.140 Its bullets flew towards the officers at three times the speed of sound and could have pierced their body armor like a hole punched through paper.

00:27:14.320 They grazed two officers in the head and the group retreated.

00:27:17.480 Uvalde Police Department Sergeant Daniel Coronado stepped outside, breathing heavily, and got on his radio to warn the others.

00:27:23.500 I have a male subject with an AR, Coronado said.

00:27:25.680 The dispatch crackled on the radio of another officer on the opposite side of the building.

00:27:31.080 F word that officer said.

00:27:33.600 AR, another exclaimed, alerting others nearby.

00:27:36.700 Almost a year after Texas' deadliest school shooting killed 19 children and two teachers,

00:27:41.000 there's still confusion among investigators, law enforcement leaders, and politicians

00:27:43.980 over how nearly 400 law enforcement officers could have performed so poorly.

00:27:48.280 People have blamed cowardice or poor leadership or a lack of sufficient training for why police waited more than an hour

00:27:53.760 to breach the classroom and subdue an amateur 18-year-old adversary.

00:27:57.620 But in their own words, during and after their botched response, the officers pointed to another reason.

00:28:03.320 They were unwilling to confront the rifle on the other side of the door.

00:28:07.660 Uvalde Police Department Sergeant Donald Page says,

00:28:10.300 You know that it was definitely an AR.

00:28:11.860 There was no way of going in.

00:28:13.060 We had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to it.

00:28:17.360 A Texas Tribune investigation based on police body cameras, emergency communications,

00:28:21.760 and interviews with investigators that have not been made public found officers had concluded

00:28:25.180 that immediately confronting the gunman would be too dangerous.

00:28:28.720 Even though some officers were armed with the same rifle,

00:28:31.180 they opted to wait for the arrival of a Border Patrol SWAT team with more protective body armor,

00:28:35.360 stronger shields, and more tactical training, even though the unit was based more than 60 miles away.

00:28:40.460 And then it continues,

00:28:41.040 That hesitation to confront the gun allowed the gunman to terrorize students and teachers in two classrooms

00:28:45.620 for more than an hour without interference from police.

00:28:48.040 It delayed medical care for more than two dozen gunshot victims,

00:28:50.660 including three who were still alive when the Border Patrol team finally ended the shooting,

00:28:54.880 but who later died.

00:28:57.540 So this is the update we're finally getting a year later.

00:29:00.280 As there was, as it says in the article,

00:29:02.180 there was always this question of,

00:29:03.640 how is it that you had all of these police officers who were on the scene,

00:29:09.420 and yet this shooting was allowed to continue for an hour?

00:29:12.940 And an hour for a mass shooting is,

00:29:16.320 I mean, it may as well be a decade.

00:29:18.680 It's like, it's an unfathomably,

00:29:20.840 you know, long time for this to be allowed to continue,

00:29:27.040 especially when there are,

00:29:28.420 it's not like this was happening out in the wilderness somewhere,

00:29:29.980 it took them this long to get there.

00:29:30.740 They were right there within moments,

00:29:33.860 and yet they allowed this to continue.

00:29:36.640 And why is that?

00:29:38.000 And what we were originally told, if you recall,

00:29:40.840 is that they couldn't get through the door.

00:29:43.060 In fact, there was a story originally about how there was a,

00:29:46.140 it's like reinforced steel door or something,

00:29:49.440 and they couldn't figure out how to get through it,

00:29:50.620 and they were waiting for a key and all this kind of stuff.

00:29:53.280 And to me and to so many other people,

00:29:55.840 when we originally heard that,

00:29:57.020 even without having all the facts,

00:29:58.740 that just didn't ring true.

00:29:59.940 It's like, are you telling me that,

00:30:01.900 you've got all these police officers there,

00:30:05.760 and you don't know how to get through a door?

00:30:07.500 You don't have the ability to get through a door somehow?

00:30:11.500 Are there actually doors in this school

00:30:13.560 that even the police can't get through?

00:30:15.200 That seems like really bad planning.

00:30:19.120 Well, no, all that stuff about the door,

00:30:20.780 apparently, was total nonsense.

00:30:22.380 Because the Uvalde Police Department,

00:30:26.240 immediately after this all happened,

00:30:27.840 and people started asking questions about how it was allowed to happen for an hour,

00:30:31.140 they started lying to the public.

00:30:33.940 And they came up with one excuse after another.

00:30:36.960 And it's not until right now that we're told that,

00:30:39.780 oh, well, they were afraid of the type of gun that was being used.

00:30:42.460 And it could pierce their body armor,

00:30:45.900 and they were afraid for their own safety.

00:30:47.800 That's what this was.

00:30:49.240 Now, the left is seizing on this to blame the gun,

00:30:55.660 you know, the AR,

00:30:56.760 and basically let the cops off the hook.

00:30:58.300 You're never going to hear these people

00:31:01.360 trying to let the cops off the hook

00:31:02.760 in any other circumstance.

00:31:05.940 Including in many circumstances

00:31:07.080 where they're trying to put the cops on the hook,

00:31:09.800 sometimes, perhaps, literally,

00:31:12.240 and when the cop didn't do anything wrong.

00:31:16.720 In this case, you have an absolute

00:31:19.000 inexcusable failure by police,

00:31:23.600 and a just unimaginable amount of cowardice.

00:31:31.300 And what the left wants to say is,

00:31:32.700 well, you see, it was the AR.

00:31:34.060 We've got to get the ARs off the street.

00:31:38.320 But this, no, this information only indicts the cops further.

00:31:43.380 Because they lied about not being able to get through the door.

00:31:46.560 That was BS.

00:31:48.520 And what we know now is that they were simply scared.

00:31:51.980 They were scared for their own safety.

00:31:53.600 And so they made the business decision

00:31:56.080 that they were going to allow children to die

00:31:59.200 so that, you know,

00:32:02.680 they were not put in harm's way themselves.

00:32:05.300 Now, these cops were worried about,

00:32:06.500 well, our body armor may not withstand.

00:32:09.540 What about the kids in the room?

00:32:12.560 You despicable, disgusting cowards.

00:32:14.980 Did they have body armor that would withstand the bullets?

00:32:19.040 No, no, the kids in the room,

00:32:20.300 they didn't have body armor.

00:32:20.960 They also didn't have ARs themselves to shoot back like you did.

00:32:25.360 They were not trained law enforcement officers.

00:32:27.060 They were just sitting there as victims waiting to be executed,

00:32:30.320 which so many of them were.

00:32:33.300 But you're more worried about yourself and your own safety.

00:32:37.280 And this is, there's no excuse for it.

00:32:39.920 This is shameful, disgraceful cowardice.

00:32:43.440 Every single one of these cops should be sitting in prison,

00:32:45.800 but none of them will.

00:32:47.720 Because as it turns out, you know,

00:32:49.640 the way the laws are written,

00:32:50.860 they don't have any actual legal obligation to do anything.

00:32:53.880 And that needs to change also.

00:32:55.120 Is it easy for me to say,

00:32:58.560 sitting here in the safety of this studio,

00:33:00.800 you know, when I don't have to run in to gunfire,

00:33:03.320 I don't have to run in and face,

00:33:04.560 you know, a crazed psychopath shooting an AR in my direction?

00:33:09.360 Yeah, it's easy for me to say.

00:33:11.240 Doesn't make it wrong, though.

00:33:12.200 Doesn't make what I'm saying wrong.

00:33:14.400 I also didn't sign up for that job.

00:33:15.900 See, it's the thing.

00:33:16.420 You sign up for the job.

00:33:18.400 If you're not willing, I get it.

00:33:19.880 It's a, it could be a very scary job.

00:33:21.660 I can only imagine running into a school shooting situation,

00:33:24.520 a mass shooting situation anywhere.

00:33:25.640 It's got to be very scary.

00:33:27.520 But you realize that these things happen.

00:33:30.180 You're becoming a law enforcement officer.

00:33:31.840 If you're not willing to do it,

00:33:33.360 if you're not willing to put yourself in harm's way,

00:33:36.480 and to put your,

00:33:37.120 and if you're not willing to risk your own life,

00:33:40.420 then don't take the job.

00:33:44.640 And the fact that they weren't willing to do it

00:33:46.000 makes you ask questions about like,

00:33:47.500 well, what are you in the job for?

00:33:48.820 What are you,

00:33:49.080 you can't claim that you're doing the job

00:33:50.420 because you just have this unabiding desire

00:33:54.380 to help people and you're some kind of hero.

00:33:56.840 That's clearly not the case.

00:33:58.780 So what the hell are you doing the job for?

00:34:01.280 This is not one of those,

00:34:02.620 well, you're putting your life on your line,

00:34:03.880 on the line to serve the community.

00:34:05.480 You clearly are not interested in doing that.

00:34:08.900 So why do you have the job?

00:34:11.740 Now in their case,

00:34:12.580 we have to suspect that they have the job,

00:34:14.940 what, because it's a,

00:34:16.380 they want the benefits

00:34:17.400 and maybe because they,

00:34:18.960 for them it is,

00:34:19.840 it is power.

00:34:20.760 You know,

00:34:20.900 they're more interested in having power over people

00:34:22.960 than they are in serving people.

00:34:24.400 I don't think that's the case by any means

00:34:26.520 for all police officers.

00:34:29.160 I mean,

00:34:29.680 to make any blanket statement

00:34:30.900 about why an entire group of people

00:34:32.660 take on a certain job would be absurd.

00:34:35.440 And I do think that there are police officers,

00:34:37.160 certainly plenty of them,

00:34:38.100 who take on the job

00:34:39.420 because they want to serve their communities

00:34:40.680 and they want to,

00:34:42.860 you know,

00:34:43.100 and they want to help people.

00:34:45.460 But for these cops,

00:34:46.880 when the rubber hit the road,

00:34:49.300 they were not there to protect and serve.

00:34:51.940 They were more worried about themselves.

00:34:55.820 This just,

00:34:56.700 you know,

00:34:57.100 when you're,

00:34:58.160 as a police officer,

00:34:59.360 it just,

00:34:59.720 it doesn't work

00:35:00.720 if we're saying to police officers

00:35:03.280 that their own physical safety

00:35:06.400 can be their top priority.

00:35:08.640 And what we find in that,

00:35:11.860 in Uvalde,

00:35:12.500 is that for them,

00:35:13.480 as they were in that school,

00:35:15.780 their own physical safety

00:35:16.720 was a top priority.

00:35:17.480 But that doesn't work.

00:35:19.000 It can't be.

00:35:20.740 If your own physical safety

00:35:22.140 is your top priority,

00:35:23.140 don't take that job.

00:35:24.920 Let someone else do it.

00:35:27.200 There are plenty of jobs

00:35:28.840 and plenty of things you can do in life

00:35:29.900 where you can prioritize

00:35:30.700 your own safety above anything

00:35:32.060 and,

00:35:32.460 you know,

00:35:33.040 it won't,

00:35:33.520 it won't cause a problem.

00:35:36.580 With a cop,

00:35:37.340 it just can't be that way.

00:35:40.660 All right.

00:35:41.320 So from the Daily Wire,

00:35:42.080 the White House press briefing room

00:35:43.240 erupted on Monday

00:35:44.120 after a reporter

00:35:44.780 from an Africa-focused outlet

00:35:46.280 accused press secretary

00:35:47.300 Karin,

00:35:48.280 I'm sorry,

00:35:48.900 Karen Jean-Pair,

00:35:49.660 I can't believe I almost said it correctly,

00:35:51.060 of making a mockery

00:35:52.220 of the First Amendment.

00:35:53.580 Jean-Pair stepped

00:35:54.340 to the briefing room podium

00:35:55.540 followed by the cast

00:35:56.500 of the Apple TV series

00:35:57.540 Ted Lasso,

00:35:58.720 who was visiting the White House

00:35:59.680 to meet with President Joe Biden

00:36:00.720 about mental health awareness.

00:36:02.360 Soon after taking the stage,

00:36:03.620 Jean-Pair was pelted

00:36:04.560 with accusations

00:36:05.140 of discrimination

00:36:05.920 from Today News

00:36:07.380 Africa correspondent

00:36:08.320 Simon Atiba.

00:36:11.980 Jean-Pair tried to hush

00:36:14.480 the reporter saying,

00:36:15.560 we're not doing this.

00:36:16.220 She told him repeatedly,

00:36:17.440 but he kept pressing.

00:36:18.080 I think we have that footage.

00:36:19.000 Let's watch that.

00:36:21.140 Yeah, right.

00:36:22.240 You're right.

00:36:22.620 You're here for me.

00:36:23.600 Refer me.

00:36:24.260 No, no, no, no, no.

00:36:25.120 Nope, that's not,

00:36:25.800 we're not doing this.

00:36:26.560 We're not doing this.

00:36:27.480 We're not doing this.

00:36:28.420 We're not doing this.

00:36:29.540 Everyone from across the room,

00:36:31.720 you've been dissimulating against me

00:36:33.260 and dissimulating against

00:36:34.340 some people in the briefing room.

00:36:36.100 And I'm saying that this is the U.S.

00:36:37.720 This is not China.

00:36:38.960 This is not Russia.

00:36:40.000 Let her start.

00:36:40.860 This is not Russia.

00:36:42.440 Okay.

00:36:42.880 What you are doing,

00:36:43.560 you are making a monkey

00:36:44.460 of the first American.

00:36:45.540 The forum, please.

00:36:46.700 The forum, please.

00:36:47.500 It's been seven months.

00:36:48.640 You've not called on me.

00:36:49.520 The forum.

00:36:49.760 I'm saying that that's not right.

00:36:52.880 That's not right.

00:36:53.380 One time's welcome, guys.

00:36:55.060 Welcome.

00:36:55.780 Welcome to the press briefing room.

00:36:57.260 Okay.

00:36:58.120 Are we ready?

00:37:03.420 Are we going to behave?

00:37:05.820 While many folks,

00:37:08.220 the forum, please.

00:37:09.400 All right.

00:37:11.320 So he's a parent.

00:37:11.860 I guess he's upset

00:37:12.580 that he hasn't been,

00:37:13.580 I don't know all the details

00:37:14.440 behind his particular gripe,

00:37:16.000 but apparently from what I could tell,

00:37:17.660 he's upset that he hasn't been

00:37:18.580 called on in seven months,

00:37:19.680 which seems fair to me.

00:37:20.880 I mean, you've been sitting there

00:37:21.520 for seven months

00:37:22.080 and they won't ask you a question.

00:37:25.160 So I'm on his side.

00:37:27.260 Well, I'm automatically,

00:37:28.120 on his side

00:37:28.740 because he's annoying Karen Jean-Pierre.

00:37:31.240 So automatically,

00:37:32.420 I sympathize with him

00:37:33.540 no matter what his gripe is.

00:37:36.580 And I especially sympathize

00:37:37.900 because this White House

00:37:40.620 is a total joke

00:37:41.840 and a farce

00:37:42.740 and an embarrassment

00:37:43.540 to us all,

00:37:45.260 which is evidenced

00:37:46.100 by that image

00:37:47.220 of the White House press briefing

00:37:49.200 and the cast of Ted Lasso

00:37:51.560 is standing in the background

00:37:53.260 at a white,

00:37:55.160 with everything going on

00:37:56.140 in the world.

00:37:58.660 Even this White House,

00:37:59.800 I mean,

00:38:00.020 they tell us all the time

00:38:01.940 that we're facing

00:38:03.080 a crisis

00:38:04.900 from all these different directions.

00:38:06.400 The world's about to end

00:38:07.080 because of climate change.

00:38:08.400 Russia is on the verge

00:38:09.920 of taking over the world.

00:38:10.960 I mean,

00:38:11.060 this is what they tell us.

00:38:14.000 And you have time

00:38:15.040 to bring in the cast

00:38:17.140 of Ted Lasso

00:38:18.480 at the White House

00:38:19.860 and they're there

00:38:21.340 to advocate

00:38:21.860 for mental health.

00:38:23.040 Why would,

00:38:24.820 why are they experts

00:38:26.100 on mental health?

00:38:26.920 What,

00:38:27.200 because they make a TV show,

00:38:28.380 they make a feel-good TV show

00:38:29.920 and so that makes them experts

00:38:32.380 on mental health?

00:38:34.860 I mean,

00:38:35.040 these are the people

00:38:35.760 that are all about credentialism,

00:38:37.360 usually.

00:38:37.740 There it is,

00:38:38.300 the image.

00:38:40.200 So usually,

00:38:40.840 it's all we ever hear

00:38:42.080 is credentialism

00:38:42.720 from the left

00:38:43.220 or from Democrats.

00:38:43.820 Well,

00:38:44.340 what are your credentials?

00:38:46.400 Where did you go to school

00:38:47.440 to become an expert in this?

00:38:48.660 And then,

00:38:49.920 they turned to the cast

00:38:51.700 of Ted Lasso

00:38:52.800 to be mental health experts

00:38:55.220 at the White House.

00:38:57.360 I'll tell you something

00:38:58.300 to these guys.

00:39:00.120 If you want,

00:39:01.940 for one thing,

00:39:02.580 if you want to help

00:39:03.160 everyone's mental health,

00:39:04.700 then make a better TV show.

00:39:06.080 How about that?

00:39:07.640 Okay,

00:39:07.880 your TV show is,

00:39:08.840 so that hurts my mental health.

00:39:11.260 I tried to watch Ted Lasso

00:39:12.660 and it deeply damaged

00:39:14.140 my mental health

00:39:14.740 because the show was terrible.

00:39:16.420 And it was made even worse

00:39:18.080 because it made me lose

00:39:19.260 faith in humanity

00:39:20.520 just a little bit more

00:39:21.580 because all of these people

00:39:23.560 were saying,

00:39:23.840 you got to watch Ted Lasso.

00:39:24.720 It's a great,

00:39:25.080 it's amazing,

00:39:25.600 incredible show.

00:39:26.520 It wasn't just like,

00:39:27.240 oh,

00:39:27.360 it's mildly amusing.

00:39:28.660 People said it was incredible,

00:39:29.600 it's a great show.

00:39:30.640 And so I sat down

00:39:31.400 with my wife

00:39:31.860 and I said,

00:39:32.300 let's,

00:39:32.800 it's everyone saying

00:39:33.420 it's a great show,

00:39:33.960 including people

00:39:34.400 that I used to trust

00:39:35.660 and respect.

00:39:36.560 We sat down to watch it

00:39:37.700 and it was like

00:39:38.380 kind of charming

00:39:39.900 for maybe

00:39:41.060 a total of about

00:39:43.040 47 minutes of runtime.

00:39:44.180 And then from then on out,

00:39:45.900 it was,

00:39:46.260 it was terrible.

00:39:47.620 And I'm watching it

00:39:48.620 and I,

00:39:48.940 we actually watched,

00:39:50.480 I didn't watch every episode,

00:39:53.940 but I saw enough

00:39:54.600 because I'm sitting there

00:39:55.640 like almost like

00:39:56.360 it's slack jawed amazement.

00:39:59.080 It's like,

00:39:59.720 this is,

00:40:00.340 everyone likes this show?

00:40:01.920 This is awful.

00:40:04.840 It's just,

00:40:05.700 it's trite,

00:40:06.740 it's syrupy,

00:40:08.700 corny,

00:40:09.440 like over the top.

00:40:11.120 And then,

00:40:11.520 and then,

00:40:11.800 and then also you get into,

00:40:12.960 it's the,

00:40:14.260 the character motivation

00:40:15.260 still making sense.

00:40:16.100 It's one of those shows

00:40:16.820 where they,

00:40:17.400 here's what happened

00:40:17.960 with this show.

00:40:18.720 They have,

00:40:19.820 they had an idea

00:40:21.140 for a skit,

00:40:22.380 basically,

00:40:22.720 like a kind of amusing skit,

00:40:25.340 which would have been,

00:40:27.060 it would have been a good skit

00:40:28.420 for four and a half minutes,

00:40:30.060 but now they're trying

00:40:30.640 to stretch it into

00:40:31.640 multiple seasons

00:40:33.020 of a series

00:40:33.740 and they ran out

00:40:34.980 of material

00:40:35.520 very quickly.

00:40:37.060 And that's how you end up

00:40:38.480 with one of these shows

00:40:39.320 where the,

00:40:40.860 you know,

00:40:41.240 some of the characters,

00:40:42.260 they,

00:40:42.740 their personalities change

00:40:44.300 out of nowhere.

00:40:45.640 It's not even character development

00:40:47.100 where there are gradual changes,

00:40:48.500 but just like,

00:40:49.160 out of nowhere,

00:40:49.780 they become the opposite

00:40:50.500 of what they were

00:40:51.080 in the last episode

00:40:51.680 because they,

00:40:52.600 the writers just need

00:40:53.460 the characters to do

00:40:54.740 whatever is needed

00:40:56.140 in this particular moment

00:40:57.500 to get through the episode.

00:40:59.540 And they need the characters

00:41:00.820 to assume

00:41:01.460 whatever motivation

00:41:02.380 works for this particular plot line.

00:41:04.920 There isn't,

00:41:05.300 it's not necessarily cohesive

00:41:06.060 with the whole.

00:41:07.100 So it's one of those shows.

00:41:07.960 Anyway,

00:41:08.480 just a,

00:41:09.780 really a,

00:41:10.580 a bad show.

00:41:11.960 And,

00:41:12.420 uh,

00:41:12.800 it hurt my own,

00:41:13.540 my mental health suffered

00:41:14.500 because of it.

00:41:16.500 And,

00:41:17.040 so if I was in that

00:41:18.280 White House press briefing room,

00:41:19.680 I would want to hold

00:41:20.340 them accountable for that.

00:41:22.460 All right,

00:41:22.900 let's get to the comment section.

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00:42:22.520 Quick update for you

00:42:23.740 in the never-ending battle

00:42:24.960 with my wife

00:42:26.240 over the giant stuffed walrus.

00:42:27.780 We reached an impasse

00:42:28.920 yet again last night.

00:42:31.200 I'm afraid to say

00:42:32.180 she threatened

00:42:32.840 physical violence

00:42:34.360 against Johnny,

00:42:37.340 threatening to cut it

00:42:38.360 into pieces

00:42:38.840 and throw it in the garbage

00:42:39.880 while I'm at work.

00:42:41.720 And that's what she said,

00:42:42.940 and I don't know

00:42:43.320 what else to do.

00:42:43.900 I've already compromised.

00:42:45.100 You know,

00:42:45.400 I brought the giant

00:42:47.640 life-size walrus home.

00:42:49.280 I thought it'd be

00:42:49.640 a source of joy

00:42:50.280 for everybody.

00:42:51.120 We put it initially

00:42:51.880 in the living room

00:42:52.600 as a conversation piece.

00:42:54.380 I think it makes

00:42:55.220 for good conversation anyway.

00:42:57.480 But for some reason,

00:42:58.720 she didn't like it there.

00:42:59.480 And so I actually

00:43:00.540 compromised.

00:43:01.980 You have to compromise

00:43:02.460 in a marriage.

00:43:03.260 And so I compromised

00:43:04.400 and I moved it,

00:43:05.800 which by the way,

00:43:06.340 moving this damn thing

00:43:07.180 is not easy.

00:43:08.200 It's a Herculean feat

00:43:08.940 all on its own.

00:43:10.020 I moved this thing

00:43:11.060 into the boy's bedroom,

00:43:12.960 the two older boys,

00:43:14.260 and I did this

00:43:15.780 to keep it safe

00:43:16.580 because, frankly,

00:43:19.220 I don't trust

00:43:19.780 my stuffed walrus

00:43:20.460 around my wife,

00:43:21.220 and that is a difficult thing

00:43:22.380 for me to even say out loud.

00:43:23.820 Like, what do you do

00:43:24.980 when you get to a point

00:43:25.520 in your marriage

00:43:25.860 where you don't trust

00:43:26.560 your stuffed walrus

00:43:27.200 around your spouse anymore?

00:43:28.980 And so I said,

00:43:30.820 well, I got to protect Johnny.

00:43:33.480 And I thought

00:43:34.580 this would also be

00:43:35.880 a wake-up call

00:43:36.520 for my wife

00:43:37.080 that she would realize

00:43:37.900 that I felt so unsafe

00:43:40.160 with this walrus

00:43:40.760 around her

00:43:41.380 that, you know,

00:43:42.820 I had to move it

00:43:43.360 into a different room.

00:43:45.060 But instead,

00:43:45.820 it's not good enough

00:43:46.420 because now she says,

00:43:47.540 well, it's taking up

00:43:48.260 half of the boy's room

00:43:49.380 and they don't even have room

00:43:50.840 for a dresser

00:43:51.660 in their room

00:43:52.420 because of the walrus.

00:43:53.900 And so now their clothes

00:43:54.960 are all over the floor

00:43:56.240 because there's no room

00:43:57.740 for anything else

00:43:58.560 and they can't even open

00:43:59.240 the closet

00:43:59.800 because the walrus is there,

00:44:01.240 which is true.

00:44:03.140 But my point is

00:44:04.100 that even if they had a dresser

00:44:05.480 and they had access

00:44:06.280 to their closet,

00:44:06.980 they still wouldn't use it.

00:44:08.660 Okay?

00:44:08.920 These are young boys.

00:44:09.980 I was one at one time.

00:44:11.540 The clothes are going

00:44:12.560 all over the floor anyway.

00:44:13.640 So just forget about it.

00:44:14.700 Forget your dreams about,

00:44:16.180 well, they can't open

00:44:16.660 their closet

00:44:17.060 to hang their clothes up.

00:44:18.680 You think a nine

00:44:19.820 and six-year-old boy

00:44:20.640 are going to hang

00:44:21.280 their clothes up?

00:44:23.400 No, it's going

00:44:24.060 all over the floor anyway.

00:44:25.320 So they might as well

00:44:25.900 have the walrus in there.

00:44:26.820 This is my point.

00:44:29.880 And, uh,

00:44:31.100 but then it just,

00:44:31.660 it came to an impasse

00:44:32.440 and she's,

00:44:32.920 she's like trying to set

00:44:34.400 ultimatums for the walrus

00:44:36.880 and I don't know

00:44:37.640 where to go from here.

00:44:38.380 I will say,

00:44:39.040 my one note on this

00:44:40.160 is that I will admit

00:44:41.180 that she has offered

00:44:42.380 a third solution,

00:44:43.360 which is to bring

00:44:44.560 the walrus all the way

00:44:45.420 down to my office

00:44:46.460 that we just finished

00:44:48.040 remodeling and building

00:44:49.120 out recently.

00:44:50.460 And there is room

00:44:51.520 in my office

00:44:52.200 for the walrus.

00:44:52.980 But I have said no to that

00:44:54.440 because,

00:44:55.200 because there's a certain

00:44:56.020 aesthetic I'm going for

00:44:57.000 in the office

00:44:57.560 and, uh,

00:44:58.660 in my office

00:44:59.240 and the walrus

00:45:00.100 doesn't work for that aesthetic.

00:45:01.040 So it's got to be

00:45:02.940 somewhere else

00:45:03.720 in,

00:45:04.420 in someone else's room

00:45:05.440 or in a,

00:45:05.940 in the main family room.

00:45:08.300 And I'm realizing now

00:45:09.080 that I shouldn't have

00:45:09.600 admitted that out loud

00:45:10.380 because I think all the

00:45:11.160 sympathy that I've built up

00:45:12.360 is probably now

00:45:13.220 going to evaporate

00:45:14.140 when you realize

00:45:14.740 that there is an area

00:45:15.440 of the house

00:45:15.720 where she would want

00:45:16.240 the walrus,

00:45:16.680 but I'm saying no to that.

00:45:17.420 But you have to,

00:45:18.180 you know,

00:45:19.280 forget I said that.

00:45:20.380 The point is

00:45:21.020 I'm doing everything

00:45:22.380 I can to protect Johnny.

00:45:24.260 All right.

00:45:24.900 Um,

00:45:25.800 let's see.

00:45:26.320 Kat says,

00:45:26.780 I hate the 50-50

00:45:27.700 split mentality.

00:45:28.860 If a wife is at home

00:45:29.640 all day

00:45:30.100 and the man is away

00:45:30.880 at work,

00:45:31.660 then why shouldn't

00:45:32.360 she take care of

00:45:33.060 80 to 90%

00:45:33.920 of the housework?

00:45:35.140 Does her husband

00:45:35.680 expect her to take care

00:45:36.540 of 50% of his job?

00:45:38.380 Well,

00:45:38.540 exactly,

00:45:38.920 exactly right.

00:45:40.240 And she should also

00:45:40.920 take care of

00:45:41.740 80 to 90%

00:45:42.600 of the stuffed walrus

00:45:43.820 maintenance as well.

00:45:46.240 Another point

00:45:46.900 that I've made.

00:45:48.800 Um,

00:45:50.700 Schizo says,

00:45:51.780 I think people

00:45:52.320 wore the masks

00:45:53.160 out of fear

00:45:54.360 of psychopaths

00:45:55.420 freaking out on them

00:45:56.260 in public.

00:45:57.540 Um,

00:45:57.860 yeah,

00:45:58.040 I think there's,

00:45:59.320 there's a lot of

00:45:59.840 motivations.

00:46:00.380 Part of it was that

00:46:01.300 the social shame.

00:46:02.520 Some of it was just

00:46:03.340 pure obedience

00:46:03.960 to authority.

00:46:04.500 Some of it was

00:46:05.120 paranoia over the germs

00:46:06.340 and all the rest of it.

00:46:07.380 So there was a lot

00:46:08.020 that went into it.

00:46:08.780 But as I said yesterday,

00:46:09.900 you know,

00:46:10.120 I,

00:46:10.540 um,

00:46:11.680 I almost would prefer

00:46:12.760 to think

00:46:13.320 that the,

00:46:14.820 uh,

00:46:15.960 the near 100%

00:46:18.180 obedience

00:46:18.660 that I observed

00:46:19.500 in many circumstances

00:46:20.460 for masking

00:46:21.100 was driven

00:46:22.200 by paranoia

00:46:23.880 over germs

00:46:24.620 instead of

00:46:26.500 just people

00:46:27.120 sort of blindly

00:46:28.120 obeying authority,

00:46:29.220 which I think

00:46:30.080 is what

00:46:30.460 a lot of it was.

00:46:32.760 Um,

00:46:34.620 Sean says,

00:46:35.180 never has the establishment

00:46:36.060 been terrified

00:46:36.720 by someone

00:46:37.260 more than Donald Trump,

00:46:38.400 which is exactly

00:46:38.960 why he needs to win

00:46:40.040 in 2024.

00:46:41.600 Yeah,

00:46:42.120 I,

00:46:42.500 I would love

00:46:43.640 to hear you

00:46:44.240 explain why

00:46:45.260 you think that.

00:46:46.300 I,

00:46:46.420 I'm not exactly sure

00:46:47.480 that that is the case,

00:46:48.500 that the establishment

00:46:49.180 is afraid of Donald Trump.

00:46:50.100 I,

00:46:50.920 it seems to,

00:46:51.640 like,

00:46:51.920 all evidence

00:46:52.540 seems to suggest

00:46:53.900 that,

00:46:54.560 uh,

00:46:56.120 they very much

00:46:56.820 want Donald Trump

00:46:57.780 to be in the conversation.

00:46:59.160 They want him

00:46:59.520 to be the nominee

00:47:00.080 because they think

00:47:00.680 they can beat him

00:47:01.200 in the general election.

00:47:02.200 Now,

00:47:02.320 if you disagree

00:47:02.820 that they can beat him

00:47:03.400 in general election,

00:47:03.960 that's one thing,

00:47:04.520 but they obviously

00:47:05.380 think they can beat him.

00:47:07.140 Um,

00:47:07.800 and this is not all

00:47:08.340 speculation on my,

00:47:09.100 on my end,

00:47:09.600 by the way,

00:47:10.040 you know,

00:47:10.240 this,

00:47:10.560 this is,

00:47:10.980 it's actually true

00:47:12.220 that in the 22,

00:47:13.560 um,

00:47:14.420 midterms,

00:47:15.940 Democrats

00:47:16.520 were funding

00:47:17.760 and supporting,

00:47:18.380 uh,

00:47:19.420 some of Trump's,

00:47:20.480 you know,

00:47:21.060 preferred candidates

00:47:21.900 in the primaries

00:47:23.580 because they wanted

00:47:24.560 to run against them

00:47:25.520 in the general election

00:47:26.360 because they thought

00:47:27.920 they could beat him.

00:47:29.220 And in many of those cases,

00:47:30.280 they did beat them.

00:47:31.980 So,

00:47:32.820 that is also something

00:47:35.020 to take into account here.

00:47:36.800 Alex says,

00:47:37.360 Matt,

00:47:37.680 since it's the 20th anniversary

00:47:38.920 of the Iraq invasion,

00:47:39.860 I'm curious

00:47:40.480 where you stand

00:47:41.320 on the war

00:47:41.960 and where you stood

00:47:42.860 when it started.

00:47:43.540 Where,

00:47:44.260 uh,

00:47:44.760 well,

00:47:45.020 where I stand on it now

00:47:45.840 is that it was

00:47:46.160 an unmitigated disaster,

00:47:47.440 which we launched

00:47:48.400 on false pretenses

00:47:49.380 and which did

00:47:50.160 absolutely nothing

00:47:50.720 to make us safer

00:47:51.500 and had the opposite effect.

00:47:53.520 Um,

00:47:53.840 so I stand

00:47:54.400 where most people stand now.

00:47:55.480 I mean,

00:47:55.600 you very rarely hear anyone.

00:47:57.420 I'm not sure

00:47:58.100 I've heard anyone,

00:47:59.120 period,

00:47:59.480 in years,

00:48:00.520 defend the Iraq invasion.

00:48:02.740 Uh,

00:48:02.960 where did I stand on it

00:48:03.840 at the time?

00:48:04.960 Well,

00:48:05.360 I,

00:48:05.540 I will admit

00:48:06.140 I was in favor of it

00:48:07.100 at the time,

00:48:07.640 but I was also 16 years old,

00:48:09.460 like,

00:48:10.180 as a junior

00:48:10.860 or sophomore

00:48:11.600 in,

00:48:11.900 in high school

00:48:12.820 when it happened.

00:48:14.280 And,

00:48:14.600 um,

00:48:15.160 so I can remember,

00:48:15.940 I can remember being,

00:48:16.820 being duped,

00:48:17.440 and fooled

00:48:17.980 by the rhetoric

00:48:18.700 and the reasoning

00:48:19.760 that was being given to us

00:48:20.680 by the establishment

00:48:21.800 for the Iraq war.

00:48:23.040 But again,

00:48:24.220 16 years old,

00:48:25.120 so I think that that,

00:48:25.900 uh,

00:48:26.460 can perhaps be excused.

00:48:30.160 And,

00:48:30.600 finally,

00:48:33.020 OBN says,

00:48:34.380 wow,

00:48:34.880 actually not trolling here,

00:48:36.000 good marriage advice,

00:48:36.980 50-50 poisons marriages.

00:48:39.100 Exactly at the end of the day,

00:48:40.360 it's that it works

00:48:41.260 and you're both happy,

00:48:43.120 not some,

00:48:43.800 I did this,

00:48:44.420 so you have to crap.

00:48:45.840 It's both of your lives

00:48:46.860 better each other.

00:48:48.780 Yeah,

00:48:49.080 the other problem

00:48:49.560 with,

00:48:49.820 with a 50-50,

00:48:50.920 um,

00:48:51.400 well,

00:48:51.560 not really the other problem,

00:48:52.480 but just to flesh out this idea,

00:48:54.580 it's the same problem

00:48:55.360 we've been talking about,

00:48:56.280 when you have the 50-50 strategy,

00:48:58.460 uh,

00:48:59.660 in order to make it

00:49:00.500 exactly 50-50,

00:49:01.680 it requires scorekeeping,

00:49:03.600 you know,

00:49:03.880 it requires this,

00:49:05.140 maybe not actual,

00:49:06.860 literal scorekeeping

00:49:07.560 on a,

00:49:08.080 on a scoreboard

00:49:09.320 somewhere in the house,

00:49:10.880 you know,

00:49:11.360 most,

00:49:11.660 most marriages

00:49:12.100 don't get to that point,

00:49:13.420 maybe some do though,

00:49:14.280 but it,

00:49:15.520 it becomes a mental

00:49:16.860 scorekeeping thing,

00:49:18.460 um,

00:49:18.920 where both of you

00:49:19.700 are scoring yourselves

00:49:20.960 because you have this image

00:49:22.600 of,

00:49:22.980 like,

00:49:23.020 I have to do half

00:49:23.740 and she does half,

00:49:24.960 and one of the problems there

00:49:26.140 is that,

00:49:26.540 is that you're going to

00:49:27.940 score yourself differently

00:49:29.340 than your spouse scores you.

00:49:32.080 So,

00:49:32.580 you're going to give yourself

00:49:33.600 a certain number of points

00:49:34.720 to get to that 50,

00:49:36.180 um,

00:49:36.560 but it's almost guaranteed

00:49:37.720 that your spouse

00:49:38.460 is not going to

00:49:39.520 assign you the same number

00:49:41.320 of points

00:49:41.740 as you have assigned yourself,

00:49:43.040 and so,

00:49:44.060 that becomes the battle of,

00:49:46.120 well,

00:49:46.320 I did 50%,

00:49:46.940 you did 50%,

00:49:47.740 you know,

00:49:48.860 but each spouse

00:49:49.920 is going to,

00:49:50.620 going to claim,

00:49:52.180 well,

00:49:52.340 I,

00:49:52.600 well,

00:49:52.760 I actually have done 75%,

00:49:54.320 and you're struggling

00:49:55.800 to do 25%.

00:49:56.780 It's just constant scorekeeping,

00:49:59.220 it's competition,

00:50:00.460 you know,

00:50:01.120 competitiveness

00:50:01.880 has no place in a marriage,

00:50:03.160 as I've said,

00:50:03.760 it's,

00:50:04.640 if there's any place for it,

00:50:06.220 if you need an outlet

00:50:07.100 for competition

00:50:07.880 in a marriage,

00:50:09.040 that's what board games

00:50:09.960 are for,

00:50:10.560 and,

00:50:10.740 and board games

00:50:11.400 can get very intense,

00:50:12.460 and that's okay,

00:50:13.720 I know they do

00:50:14.320 with my wife,

00:50:14.920 but,

00:50:15.640 um,

00:50:16.540 when it comes to day-to-day,

00:50:18.100 you know,

00:50:18.440 living in your marriage,

00:50:19.600 there should be no place

00:50:20.280 for competition there.

00:50:21.840 You know,

00:50:22.100 some recent

00:50:22.780 and very alarming statistics

00:50:24.340 show that more than

00:50:25.200 a third of millennials

00:50:26.080 approve of communism,

00:50:28.140 it's either because

00:50:28.560 they don't know

00:50:29.120 actual history,

00:50:29.880 or they believe

00:50:30.620 that it wasn't communism,

00:50:31.720 because real communism

00:50:32.860 hasn't been tried,

00:50:33.700 as they say,

00:50:34.600 but it has been tried,

00:50:35.680 and if you watch

00:50:36.200 the first two episodes

00:50:36.940 of the new Daily Wire Plus series

00:50:38.260 called

00:50:38.620 What We Saw Cold War,

00:50:40.220 you'll see

00:50:41.160 just how horrific

00:50:42.020 it really was

00:50:43.040 when it was tried,

00:50:43.980 in fact.

00:50:44.920 Here's a clip

00:50:45.580 from Cold War,

00:50:46.260 check it out.

00:50:47.380 Russia was cluttered

00:50:49.140 with dots

00:50:49.920 marking each

00:50:51.120 of these places,

00:50:51.760 which looked like

00:50:52.520 ants scurrying

00:50:53.320 across the map

00:50:54.180 of the world's

00:50:54.740 largest country.

00:50:56.700 423 of these dots

00:50:58.220 would eventually

00:50:59.060 be built,

00:50:59.900 and here's what

00:51:00.780 they would be called.

00:51:02.260 In Wikipedia,

00:51:03.080 the Russian is

00:51:03.780 Gulag.

00:51:04.820 It means

00:51:05.380 Main Administration

00:51:07.100 Camps.

00:51:07.840 It's an acronym.

00:51:09.960 That acronym

00:51:10.620 for the series

00:51:11.800 of what were called

00:51:12.580 Main Administration Camps,

00:51:14.860 the Gulag,

00:51:15.760 was strung out

00:51:16.620 like an island chain

00:51:17.960 in what one of their residents,

00:51:19.680 Alexander Solzhenitsyn,

00:51:20.980 would refer to

00:51:21.640 as the Gulag Archipelago.

00:51:24.300 One of these dots,

00:51:25.440 just one,

00:51:26.440 was located in Kolyma.

00:51:30.280 Nobody knows

00:51:31.440 how many people

00:51:32.080 actually died

00:51:33.000 in the gold mines

00:51:33.840 of Kolyma.

00:51:35.020 All agree

00:51:35.800 that in wintertime,

00:51:36.640 the temperature in

00:51:37.580 and around the camp

00:51:38.340 was the only place

00:51:39.340 where, by coincidence,

00:51:41.240 both Fahrenheit

00:51:41.940 and Celsius scales

00:51:43.580 happened to converge,

00:51:45.140 and that is at

00:51:45.920 40 degrees below zero

00:51:47.840 for each of them.

00:51:49.400 Initial estimates

00:51:50.320 of 3 million people

00:51:52.040 killed at Kolyma alone

00:51:53.380 were no doubt too high.

00:51:55.180 The lowest,

00:51:56.300 well-researched figure

00:51:57.260 is about 500,000,

00:51:59.040 and the actual total,

00:52:00.380 most likely,

00:52:01.380 was around 800,000

00:52:03.920 human souls.

00:52:05.140 Now, that means

00:52:06.260 that Kolyma

00:52:07.420 is almost certainly

00:52:09.040 tied for second place

00:52:10.320 with Treblinka

00:52:11.240 at 800,000 dead

00:52:13.840 on the leaderboard

00:52:15.220 from hell.

00:52:16.280 It's unlikely,

00:52:17.220 but it's entirely possible,

00:52:18.920 that the total death

00:52:20.280 in this worst single island

00:52:22.320 of the 423 islands

00:52:24.600 in the Gulag Archipelago

00:52:26.220 exceeded the 1.1

00:52:28.160 to 1.6 million people

00:52:30.280 killed at Auschwitz.

00:52:32.220 No one's ever heard

00:52:33.700 of Kolyma

00:52:34.260 because unlike with

00:52:35.960 Auschwitz and Treblinka

00:52:37.520 and Belsak

00:52:38.580 and Sobibor,

00:52:39.880 there are no pictures

00:52:41.060 that survived

00:52:42.360 from these death camps.

00:52:43.940 In Cold War,

00:52:44.860 storyteller and writer

00:52:45.580 Bill Whittle

00:52:46.100 will take you back

00:52:46.900 to the beginning

00:52:47.360 just after World War II

00:52:48.820 when the struggle

00:52:49.500 between communism

00:52:50.200 and freedom began.

00:52:51.640 It's actual history

00:52:52.540 where verifiable facts

00:52:53.740 come to life.

00:52:54.940 Cold War comes out today,

00:52:56.140 and we're making

00:52:56.740 the first episode

00:52:57.600 available for everyone

00:52:58.500 to see,

00:52:58.960 so go to

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00:53:01.000 now to watch it.

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00:53:05.140 slash coldwar

00:53:06.300 today.

00:53:07.360 Now let's get to

00:53:07.840 our daily cancellation.

00:53:12.800 Well,

00:53:13.220 the last time

00:53:13.680 I brought up this subject,

00:53:14.620 it resulted in a

00:53:15.300 two-week news cycle

00:53:16.220 about translucent mermaids,

00:53:17.720 so we'll try to beat

00:53:18.500 that record this time around.

00:53:19.920 Hallie Bailey,

00:53:20.840 who I have to keep

00:53:22.040 being reminded

00:53:22.580 is a person

00:53:23.340 completely distinct

00:53:24.160 from Hallie Berry,

00:53:25.720 has been doing

00:53:26.220 the media rounds

00:53:26.840 in preparation

00:53:27.200 for the release

00:53:27.920 of the live-action

00:53:28.740 Little Mermaid,

00:53:29.400 which I think

00:53:29.680 comes out soon,

00:53:31.380 in which Bailey

00:53:32.280 plays the race-swapped

00:53:33.520 version of the

00:53:34.580 titular character.

00:53:36.280 But there will be

00:53:36.680 other adjustments

00:53:37.360 and edits made

00:53:38.200 this time around,

00:53:39.140 we're being told,

00:53:40.080 as Uproxx reports,

00:53:41.300 quote,

00:53:41.940 Hallie Bailey

00:53:42.600 has a monster year

00:53:43.720 in store.

00:53:44.220 Her leading turn

00:53:44.920 as Ariel

00:53:45.500 in Disney's

00:53:46.100 Little Mermaid

00:53:46.600 live remake

00:53:47.200 is out in May,

00:53:48.100 but her Ariel doll

00:53:49.080 is already in demand.

00:53:50.440 Bailey is also

00:53:50.920 set to star as

00:53:51.660 Nettie

00:53:52.040 in the color purple

00:53:52.760 in December,

00:53:53.540 and she talked

00:53:54.020 about the weight

00:53:54.600 of both roles

00:53:55.480 as the cover star

00:53:56.380 of Addition Modern

00:53:57.600 Luxury's,

00:53:58.620 Addition Modern

00:54:00.020 Luxury,

00:54:00.500 that's the whole

00:54:01.400 magazine,

00:54:02.260 anyway,

00:54:02.860 Addition Modern

00:54:03.500 Luxury's March

00:54:04.340 issue.

00:54:04.980 In the accompanying

00:54:05.520 cover story,

00:54:06.340 Bailey explained

00:54:07.100 how 2023's

00:54:08.060 Little Mermaid

00:54:08.500 left behind

00:54:09.780 the original version's

00:54:10.960 shades of sexism.

00:54:12.680 Quote,

00:54:13.160 I'm really excited

00:54:13.840 for my version

00:54:14.520 of the film

00:54:14.920 because we've

00:54:15.540 definitely changed

00:54:16.520 that perspective

00:54:17.340 of just her

00:54:18.240 wanting to leave

00:54:18.960 the ocean for a boy.

00:54:20.480 It's way bigger

00:54:21.180 than that,

00:54:21.620 it's about herself,

00:54:22.480 her purpose,

00:54:23.000 her freedom,

00:54:23.560 her life,

00:54:24.060 and what she wants.

00:54:25.380 She continued,

00:54:26.140 as women,

00:54:26.600 we are amazing,

00:54:27.500 we are independent,

00:54:28.360 we are modern,

00:54:29.000 we are everything

00:54:29.560 and above,

00:54:30.100 and I'm glad

00:54:30.560 that Disney

00:54:30.980 is updating

00:54:31.560 some of these themes.

00:54:33.440 Bailey has

00:54:33.800 transparently talked

00:54:34.600 about the horrifically

00:54:35.300 racist backlash

00:54:36.200 she's been subjected

00:54:36.960 to since her

00:54:37.540 casting in 2019.

00:54:39.160 She did so again

00:54:39.880 with Addition,

00:54:40.520 quote,

00:54:40.800 seeing the world's

00:54:41.480 reaction to it

00:54:42.020 was definitely a shock,

00:54:43.000 but seeing all

00:54:43.500 the baby's reaction,

00:54:44.600 all the brown

00:54:45.060 and black young girls

00:54:46.000 really tore me up

00:54:46.760 emotionally.

00:54:47.680 It's honestly been

00:54:48.520 such a crazy ride

00:54:49.400 and I genuinely feel

00:54:50.300 shocked and honored

00:54:51.180 and grateful

00:54:51.720 to be in this position.

00:54:53.200 A lot of times

00:54:53.660 I have to pinch myself

00:54:54.600 and be like,

00:54:55.280 is this real life?

00:54:57.400 Now,

00:54:58.060 you should know

00:54:59.420 that the claim

00:55:01.200 of horrifically

00:55:01.820 racist backlash

00:55:02.720 is supported

00:55:03.480 with a link

00:55:04.600 to an article

00:55:05.200 from the same website

00:55:06.320 a few years ago

00:55:07.120 also claiming

00:55:08.440 that there was

00:55:08.840 racist backlash,

00:55:09.760 but neither

00:55:10.100 the original article

00:55:11.100 nor this new one

00:55:12.080 ever specifically cite

00:55:13.900 any example

00:55:14.840 of racist backlash.

00:55:16.180 This is a trend

00:55:16.880 that holds true

00:55:17.400 for almost any article

00:55:18.440 or media report

00:55:19.280 about racist backlash

00:55:20.440 against this film

00:55:22.000 or racist backlash

00:55:22.940 against any other film.

00:55:24.920 You'll hear about

00:55:25.940 the backlash.

00:55:26.760 You can read stories

00:55:27.540 about the backlash.

00:55:28.760 The actors in the film

00:55:29.840 will speak out bravely

00:55:31.180 against the backlash.

00:55:32.980 People will denounce

00:55:33.860 the backlash,

00:55:34.660 but nobody will ever

00:55:35.760 show you the backlash.

00:55:37.840 You never actually see

00:55:38.860 where this backlash

00:55:39.860 is happening

00:55:40.540 because it's mostly fictional.

00:55:43.100 The racist backlash

00:55:44.040 against the Black Mermaid

00:55:45.140 is as fictional

00:55:46.480 as the mermaid herself.

00:55:48.220 In truth,

00:55:48.940 very few people

00:55:49.580 have actually complained

00:55:50.420 that the mermaid is black,

00:55:51.480 and the few

00:55:52.500 who have mentioned

00:55:53.300 the race,

00:55:53.900 like myself for example,

00:55:55.080 I've mentioned it,

00:55:56.360 have made points

00:55:57.340 that can't be reasonably

00:55:58.680 construed as racist

00:55:59.860 by any thinking person,

00:56:01.520 which is why

00:56:02.020 they won't provide

00:56:02.720 any examples

00:56:03.620 of what we're actually saying.

00:56:06.040 So, in my case,

00:56:07.480 just to review,

00:56:09.140 I am opposed

00:56:10.080 in general

00:56:11.000 to these DEI

00:56:12.400 race swaps

00:56:13.560 of classic characters

00:56:14.520 for two reasons.

00:56:15.920 One,

00:56:17.400 back to the theme

00:56:18.140 of double standards,

00:56:18.760 if it went the other way,

00:56:20.920 every single one

00:56:21.880 of these media outlets

00:56:22.720 would be condemning it

00:56:23.580 as racial appropriation.

00:56:24.740 All of them.

00:56:25.660 And we all know they would.

00:56:27.500 Okay,

00:56:27.760 I happen to believe

00:56:28.560 in holding these people

00:56:29.400 to their own standard,

00:56:30.620 which means that

00:56:31.260 since they would complain

00:56:32.840 about black characters

00:56:33.880 being made white,

00:56:35.020 we should call them out

00:56:36.120 for making white characters black.

00:56:37.560 This is not our standard,

00:56:39.260 but theirs.

00:56:40.240 If so-called whitewashing

00:56:41.900 is a problem,

00:56:42.920 then so is blackwashing.

00:56:44.400 You don't get to make up

00:56:45.380 different rules,

00:56:45.960 or at least if you do,

00:56:47.300 we're going to call you out on it.

00:56:48.760 That's it.

00:56:50.260 Two,

00:56:50.820 there is an obvious point

00:56:52.140 behind the race swaps.

00:56:53.280 It's not a matter of them

00:56:54.320 simply hiring the actor

00:56:56.020 who happens to have

00:56:56.900 the best audition.

00:56:57.940 To return to an example

00:56:58.840 I've used before,

00:56:59.680 Morgan Freeman's character

00:57:01.120 in Shawshank Redemption

00:57:02.040 was written to be

00:57:03.740 a white Irish guy,

00:57:04.920 hence the name Red.

00:57:06.660 But nobody ever complained

00:57:07.800 that they made him black.

00:57:09.480 Most don't even know

00:57:10.360 that the character

00:57:10.820 was supposed to be white

00:57:11.660 because they didn't make him black

00:57:13.960 for the sake of him being black.

00:57:15.380 They made him black

00:57:16.060 because Morgan Freeman

00:57:17.140 was made for that role

00:57:19.320 and it's impossible

00:57:20.080 to imagine anyone else

00:57:21.380 playing it.

00:57:22.620 That's the kind of race swapping

00:57:24.160 that no one has a problem with

00:57:25.900 or should have a problem with.

00:57:27.480 But it's different these days

00:57:28.660 because now they specifically

00:57:30.140 look for a non-white actor

00:57:32.320 to take these

00:57:33.240 traditionally white roles.

00:57:34.680 This is an actual targeted

00:57:36.100 and intentional campaign

00:57:37.560 to minimize the number

00:57:39.240 of white characters on screen.

00:57:40.640 There's no question

00:57:41.380 that they're doing this.

00:57:42.340 They'll tell you

00:57:43.040 that they're doing it.

00:57:43.880 And given those intentions,

00:57:46.100 I object.

00:57:47.600 I think it's a bad thing

00:57:48.740 to intentionally erase

00:57:50.040 white people from films

00:57:52.180 by erasing white characters.

00:57:53.600 I don't think you should do that.

00:57:54.640 And it gets worse

00:57:55.540 the more they do it.

00:57:56.940 The latest now

00:57:57.580 is the new Peter Pan film

00:57:58.820 where both Peter Pan

00:57:59.840 and Tinkerbell

00:58:00.560 have been made non-white

00:58:01.780 and then a few of the Lost Boys

00:58:03.100 have been made into girls as well.

00:58:05.200 Again,

00:58:06.480 none of this

00:58:07.440 is happenstance

00:58:08.880 as a result of casting

00:58:10.140 the best actors

00:58:11.080 for the roles.

00:58:12.020 If it was,

00:58:12.700 then who cares?

00:58:14.040 It was a decision

00:58:14.920 made ahead of time

00:58:16.500 to find someone

00:58:18.040 who was not white

00:58:19.060 to portray

00:58:19.740 these traditionally white characters.

00:58:21.940 Now, of course,

00:58:22.420 they celebrate the race swaps.

00:58:23.800 They speak tearfully

00:58:24.580 about what it means

00:58:25.380 for, quote,

00:58:25.860 black and brown children

00:58:26.960 to be, quote,

00:58:27.600 represented by yet another

00:58:29.160 white character turned black.

00:58:30.840 But if you dare suggest

00:58:32.060 that white children

00:58:33.980 will feel less represented,

00:58:36.660 you'll be mocked

00:58:37.700 and screamed at

00:58:38.320 and accused of making

00:58:39.060 a big deal

00:58:39.760 out of the thing

00:58:40.340 that they themselves

00:58:41.160 are insisting

00:58:41.920 is a big deal.

00:58:42.520 I mean,

00:58:43.640 they're crying

00:58:44.260 about how great it is

00:58:45.400 and then if you say,

00:58:46.320 you know,

00:58:46.580 I'm not sure

00:58:47.380 that I really agree.

00:58:48.180 Why are you making

00:58:48.660 such a big deal

00:58:49.200 about this?

00:58:50.700 That's the game here.

00:58:51.620 They erase the white characters.

00:58:53.120 They applaud themselves

00:58:53.900 loudly for doing it.

00:58:54.800 But if you notice

00:58:55.780 what they're doing

00:58:56.980 and you say

00:58:57.940 even one word about it,

00:58:59.900 you're petty

00:59:00.860 and ridiculous

00:59:01.560 and also, of course,

00:59:02.420 racist.

00:59:03.180 No matter what you say.

00:59:05.820 Indeed,

00:59:06.320 this very segment

00:59:07.180 is guaranteed

00:59:08.000 to end up reported

00:59:08.900 by left-wing media outlets

00:59:10.480 with a headline like,

00:59:11.740 Matt Walsh

00:59:12.220 goes on crazed racist rant

00:59:13.900 about Little Mermaid.

00:59:15.440 There's no way

00:59:16.220 of discussing

00:59:16.960 the very open,

00:59:18.040 very clear,

00:59:18.680 very intentional agenda

00:59:19.700 of minimizing

00:59:20.460 white representation

00:59:21.120 on screen

00:59:21.720 without automatically

00:59:23.040 being accused

00:59:24.000 of petty bigotry.

00:59:25.320 This is how

00:59:25.680 they rig things.

00:59:27.100 The ultimate crime,

00:59:27.920 according to the left,

00:59:28.660 is the crime of noticing.

00:59:30.420 They do things,

00:59:31.640 they do these things

00:59:32.380 loudly and proudly,

00:59:33.500 but you cannot notice

00:59:34.840 that they are doing

00:59:35.920 the things.

00:59:37.040 To simply notice it

00:59:38.180 is to commit

00:59:39.360 a grave sin

00:59:40.440 of some kind.

00:59:41.940 But of course,

00:59:42.560 with these woke remakes,

00:59:43.460 it's not just about

00:59:44.140 adjusting the racial makeup

00:59:45.500 of the characters,

00:59:46.180 it's also about

00:59:46.780 updating the themes,

00:59:47.940 as Bailey says.

00:59:49.160 In this case,

00:59:49.680 they're going to correct

00:59:50.340 some of the sexism,

00:59:51.380 quote-unquote,

00:59:51.840 of the original

00:59:52.280 by ensuring

00:59:53.420 that the mermaid

00:59:54.180 leaves the ocean

00:59:54.980 not to chase some dude,

00:59:56.400 but to pursue

00:59:57.020 her own personal fulfillment.

00:59:59.500 After all,

01:00:00.020 Bailey clarifies,

01:00:00.780 women are all amazing

01:00:01.760 and they're independent

01:00:02.460 and they're modern.

01:00:04.140 And she's right about

01:00:04.820 that last point,

01:00:05.480 at least.

01:00:05.720 I mean,

01:00:05.880 all women living today

01:00:07.020 are modern

01:00:07.840 in the sense

01:00:08.340 that they are living today.

01:00:10.540 Not much of an achievement,

01:00:11.880 though.

01:00:12.040 I mean,

01:00:12.240 being born at this point

01:00:13.340 in the chronology

01:00:14.000 of human events

01:00:14.640 is not in itself

01:00:15.540 a virtue,

01:00:16.280 nor does it automatically

01:00:17.380 make you right,

01:00:18.540 or does it vindicate

01:00:19.320 your value systems

01:00:20.680 just because it happens

01:00:21.760 to be the thing

01:00:22.320 that's happening right now.

01:00:24.100 Now,

01:00:24.280 this is a fact

01:00:24.760 that comes as news

01:00:25.440 to progressives

01:00:26.140 as chronological snobbery

01:00:27.600 is a characteristic

01:00:28.520 inherent to progressivism.

01:00:30.240 I mean,

01:00:30.420 it's right there

01:00:30.860 in the name

01:00:31.200 of the ideology.

01:00:32.960 Recently,

01:00:33.360 we've discussed

01:00:33.860 the growing scourge

01:00:35.360 in the publishing world

01:00:37.540 called sensitivity readers.

01:00:39.580 And these are

01:00:40.020 the woke hall monitors

01:00:41.060 who are paid

01:00:41.880 to read old books,

01:00:43.580 sometimes new books too,

01:00:44.800 and make updates

01:00:45.700 to the author's language

01:00:46.720 and themes

01:00:47.280 so that they reflect

01:00:48.220 leftist values.

01:00:49.680 And often,

01:00:50.160 these updates

01:00:50.540 are made

01:00:50.920 without the author's consent

01:00:52.080 because often,

01:00:53.180 the author is dead

01:00:53.880 and cannot consent.

01:00:55.400 And this is essentially

01:00:56.520 what Disney is doing

01:00:57.600 with its own catalog

01:00:58.460 right now.

01:00:59.940 I wouldn't be very surprised

01:01:01.240 if they actually hired

01:01:02.140 sensitivity viewers

01:01:03.220 to watch the old cartoons

01:01:04.760 and make suggestions

01:01:06.300 about how best

01:01:07.340 to bring them

01:01:07.880 into conformity

01:01:08.700 with current

01:01:09.680 left-wing sensibilities.

01:01:11.760 But whatever the process

01:01:12.520 they follow,

01:01:13.060 this is what they're doing.

01:01:14.300 And just as

01:01:14.900 the sensitivity readers

01:01:15.840 are hamstrung

01:01:16.940 by their inability

01:01:17.720 to understand

01:01:18.540 the text

01:01:18.980 that they're butchering,

01:01:20.400 the same goes

01:01:21.400 for the woke updaters

01:01:22.360 at Disney.

01:01:23.700 I mean,

01:01:23.920 it's bad enough

01:01:24.420 that they're cannibalizing

01:01:25.320 their own intellectual property.

01:01:26.980 Worse,

01:01:27.300 they don't even understand

01:01:28.680 their own intellectual property.

01:01:31.200 I mean,

01:01:31.480 I last watched

01:01:32.360 The Little Mermaid

01:01:33.180 all the way through

01:01:34.360 like 30 years ago,

01:01:35.480 I guess.

01:01:36.540 And even I remember

01:01:37.600 that in the original version,

01:01:39.220 The Little Mermaid

01:01:40.240 was already motivated

01:01:41.380 to leave the ocean

01:01:42.180 before she met the guy.

01:01:44.380 She sang a whole song

01:01:45.200 about it,

01:01:45.560 didn't she?

01:01:45.860 So the girl power,

01:01:48.400 I want to break free

01:01:49.120 from my patriarchal father

01:01:50.400 politically correct motif

01:01:51.680 was already firmly in place

01:01:54.360 in the original.

01:01:55.940 Their brilliant idea

01:01:57.020 for modernizing the story

01:01:58.360 then is just

01:01:59.060 to do more of that

01:02:00.260 at the expense

01:02:01.960 of further minimizing

01:02:02.920 the classical romance elements.

01:02:05.560 This is how they add nuance.

01:02:07.520 You know,

01:02:07.660 when you always hear them

01:02:08.220 talk about nuance,

01:02:09.560 oh,

01:02:09.760 we're making it more nuanced.

01:02:11.960 Well,

01:02:12.200 they add nuance

01:02:13.160 by removing nuance

01:02:15.020 so that the characters

01:02:16.080 are motivated entirely

01:02:17.340 by boring

01:02:18.780 self-actualization

01:02:19.980 mumbo-jumbo

01:02:20.720 mumbo-jumbo

01:02:21.780 rather than just partially

01:02:22.880 being motivated

01:02:23.660 by boring

01:02:24.300 self-actualization

01:02:25.560 mumbo-jumbo.

01:02:26.700 In fact,

01:02:27.380 this is how the left

01:02:28.100 updates everything

01:02:29.480 from movies

01:02:30.280 to books,

01:02:30.980 even buildings,

01:02:32.700 right?

01:02:33.540 For anything at all

01:02:34.560 that they're updating.

01:02:35.400 It means

01:02:35.880 remove the romantic elements,

01:02:38.180 remove the fanciful elements,

01:02:39.980 remove anything

01:02:41.500 that's like

01:02:42.340 beautiful,

01:02:43.220 creative,

01:02:44.040 unique,

01:02:44.480 like take all that out

01:02:45.620 and replace it

01:02:48.040 with a blander,

01:02:49.040 more banal,

01:02:50.240 uglier version

01:02:51.080 of what it already was.

01:02:53.620 This is what they're doing

01:02:54.940 with our entire culture,

01:02:56.500 which is why

01:02:57.820 this Disney stuff

01:02:58.680 is important

01:02:59.680 because it is just

01:03:00.660 one manifestation

01:03:01.740 of this larger,

01:03:03.420 far-reaching campaign

01:03:05.260 and that is why

01:03:06.660 the whole campaign,

01:03:07.620 not just

01:03:08.940 the new

01:03:09.760 Little Mermaid,

01:03:11.480 is today

01:03:12.060 canceled.

01:03:13.540 And that'll do it

01:03:14.040 for this portion of the show.

01:03:14.780 As we move over

01:03:15.100 to the members block,

01:03:16.120 hope to see you there

01:03:16.960 and if you want to join us there,

01:03:18.580 you can become a member

01:03:19.140 by using code WALSH

01:03:20.640 at checkout

01:03:21.040 for two months free

01:03:21.840 on all annual plans.

01:03:23.100 Hope to see you there.

01:03:23.600 If not,

01:03:23.980 talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:24.880 Godspeed.

01:03:25.240 Take care.

01:03:26.240 Let's go.

01:03:26.520 Move over.

01:03:27.520 Take care.

01:03:28.060 Bye-bye.

01:03:28.620 Bye-bye.

01:03:30.200 Bye-bye.

01:03:30.600 Bye-bye.

01:03:31.220 Bye-bye.

01:03:31.580 Bye-bye.

01:03:32.340 Bye-bye.

01:03:32.980 Bye-bye.

01:03:37.060 Bye-bye.

01:03:37.500 Bye-bye.

01:03:38.160 Bye-bye.

01:03:39.080 Bye-bye.

01:03:41.280 Bye-bye.

01:03:41.820 Bye-bye.

01:03:43.120 Bye-bye.

01:03:43.660 Bye-bye.

01:03:44.780 Bye-bye.

01:03:48.500 Bye-bye.

01:03:50.800 Bye-bye.

01:03:51.740 Bye-bye.

01:03:53.100 Bye-bye.

01:03:53.800 Bye-bye.

01:03:54.700 Bye-bye.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 21, 2023

Ep. 1133 - Anti-White Bigots Push For Segregation

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