The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1159 - The Left Demands That We Surrender Our Families And Communities To Violent Criminals

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, activists call for the end of armed security after a black 1.00

00:00:04.100 trans person was shot and killed while trying to rob a Walgreens, just as we saw with the 1.00

00:00:07.940 Jordan Neely case. Leftists believe that defending yourself and especially your property is the

00:00:12.740 greatest sin of all. Also, a famous musician comes out against child gender transitions,

00:00:17.520 but guess how long it took him to back down and apologize. A number of Trump supporters

00:00:21.000 on social media are now arguing that we should stop focusing so much on the culture war. I'll

00:00:25.180 explain why they're extremely wrong about that. In our daily cancellation, the word

00:00:29.000 homeless is no longer woke enough, apparently. A new term has been invented to take its place.

00:00:33.340 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:46.240 American history. George Washington's first inaugural address, Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me

00:01:51.620 death speech. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Ronald Reagan in Berlin, Theodore Roosevelt's man in the

00:01:56.460 arena. These were all triumphant, stirring, profound. They moved the hearts of men. They spurred citizens

00:02:04.300 to action. They shaped history. And yet, of all those speeches, they all pale in comparison to this.

00:02:11.940 Imagine that!

00:02:24.320 I hate this! I hate what you've done to us! I hate what you're doing to us! I hate you,

00:02:37.160 Board of Supervisors! I hate you, London Breed! I hate you, Jenkins! 1.00

00:02:43.520 Hold D.A. Jenkins accountable! Hold him a s***! Hey, man! F***ing f***ing get you accountable! 0.98

00:02:55.860 Cowards! He needs to suffer in solitary confinement with that security guard. Y'all have these armed 1.00

00:03:00.780 guards. She's walking free! She makes a good point, you have to admit. On second thought,

00:03:07.840 I may have slightly overstated the case. At least I'll say that was more coherent than a Joe Biden

00:03:12.380 speech. We can say that much, if nothing else. Now, that clip went viral yesterday without any

00:03:17.480 real context. Millions of people saw this woman screeching incoherently and had no clue what she 0.99

00:03:22.840 was screeching about or why. And usually, I would say it's probably better that way. These people are

00:03:28.380 always screaming about something. The precise details really aren't relevant. But in this case,

00:03:34.480 it might be worth taking some of the background into account. That was an activist named Leah McGiever. 1.00

00:03:41.120 She was addressing the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. If we can refer to that

00:03:46.500 as addressing the board. That's how she was addressing it. McGiever was joined by a number

00:03:51.000 of other LGBT activists who descended upon the meeting to protest the death of somebody named

00:03:56.920 Banco Brown. Last week, Banco Brown, who's a trans-identified female, allegedly tried to shoplift

00:04:04.120 from a Walgreens in the city. She was confronted by an armed security guard. Now, the San Francisco

00:04:09.700 DA, Brooke Jenkins, says that the shoplifting at this point, when the security guard confronted her,

00:04:18.700 quote, escalated into a robbery, which means that Brown used force or the threat of force,

00:04:24.500 because that's what a robbery is, legally speaking. The security guard responded by firing one shot at

00:04:30.520 Brown, which killed her. Security guard was then taken into custody. The incident was investigated.

00:04:37.740 And authorities ultimately decided not to press charges, concluding that it was self-defense.

00:04:42.660 Now, given that this is San Francisco, okay, this is San Francisco, and the person who was killed

00:04:48.480 was a black trans female. Given all of that, we can be certain that they really would have liked

00:04:56.140 to charge the security guard, and they would have charged him if they could find the slightest

00:05:00.460 pretense. Okay, we can assume that they were sifting through this thing, looking for anything,

00:05:07.420 looking for the smallest little hook to hang charges on, and they couldn't find it. The fact that even

00:05:12.300 the San Francisco DA would call this self-defense is a pretty strong indication that it was likely not

00:05:19.900 only self-defense, but an extremely clear-cut case of self-defense. As we know, the official legal bar

00:05:28.140 for self-defense is set at a certain height, but the unofficial bar for self-defense against someone

00:05:34.040 who belongs to three different victim classes is set significantly higher. And this security guard

00:05:40.080 apparently cleared both the official bar and the unofficial bar, which is all we really need to know about

00:05:45.840 the case. But that's not good enough for the leftist activists, because nothing ever is. And

00:05:51.580 they've spent the last week protesting both the killing and the city's decision to not press charges.

00:05:58.720 The activists have made it extremely clear. If the security guard feared for his life,

00:06:03.820 if his life was actually in danger, if he had reasonable fear for his life, which authorities have

00:06:09.260 decided that he did, well, the activists say, well, then it was his responsibility to simply die.

00:06:16.500 That's it. His life is less important than the life of a trans person. Just as the lives of 1.00

00:06:23.520 everybody on the subway train with Jordan Neely a few days ago in New York, all of their lives were

00:06:28.680 less important than Jordan Neely himself. If he was threatening to hurt them, and he was, according to

00:06:33.280 witness reports, it was their responsibility to sit there passively and allow themselves to be harassed

00:06:40.320 and accosted and assaulted, potentially killed. One of the greatest sins, according to the left

00:06:46.960 and the leftist religion, is the sin of defending yourself. An even greater sin, though, is the sin of

00:06:53.960 defending your property. So in the leftist worldview, you can't even defend yourself, your own body, your own

00:07:03.000 life against someone who belongs to a privileged victim class. Well, how much more outrageous is it

00:07:09.860 to them in that case if you defend not just not your life, but physical property or merchandise?

00:07:17.660 That's why activists in San Francisco are now calling for the abolition of security guards in

00:07:22.560 response to this incident. Reading from a Fox report, quote, protesters held a rally Monday to

00:07:27.320 demonstrate against the DA's decision. They called on Walgreens to eliminate armed guards, saying

00:07:32.400 nothing in the store was worth Brown's life. Quote, it's insane that Walgreens has armed security.

00:07:38.260 There's nothing in that store worth a human life, and Walgreens is not taking care of our community.

00:07:43.080 According to Jessica Nowlin from the Young Women's Freedom Center, talking to Fox San Francisco,

00:07:48.660 we demand an end to armed security. Now, I agree that stealing isn't worth the

00:07:57.320 cost of a human life. So don't steal. You know, it's not worth your life. The leftist always responds

00:08:06.820 to an incident involving two people, which in this case is the robber and the security guard,

00:08:12.620 by putting all of the onus onto one of the parties involved and none at all on the other. And the party

00:08:20.400 that shares zero percent of the blame is the party that instigated the incident and committed a crime

00:08:25.880 and was both legally and morally in the wrong every step of the way. They're the ones who are not

00:08:30.880 responsible. But there's a reason why activists respond to these kinds of situations by siding

00:08:36.700 with the people who are clearly and totally at fault. Partly, it's their rigidly hierarchical

00:08:41.960 worldview, which places the life of a trans shoplifter over a male security guard, places the life of a 0.86

00:08:47.840 black criminal over a white police officer, and so on. That's the hierarchy on the left. 0.78

00:08:52.520 But it's also a reflection of their own dependence and immaturity. They insist that it's never worth

00:09:02.240 someone's life to defend property or products, ignoring that in this case, the security guard

00:09:06.920 fired in self-defense, not in defense of Walgreens merchandise. That's why he was let off and they

00:09:17.720 didn't put any charges on him because they said it was self-defense. But even putting that aside,

00:09:24.960 in fact, it is justified and worth it to use force to protect property. Our lives depend on our

00:09:34.900 property. It's how we provide for ourselves and our families. If property is not safe,

00:09:41.020 then people are not safe. If we cannot preserve property, we cannot preserve human life.

00:09:49.760 The left claims that people need to steal from Walgreens to survive, and they're ignoring the

00:09:54.580 fact that the thieves, they almost never steal the essential items that are needed to survive.

00:09:59.540 They say that these are people who are starving and hungry and all of that, and they just need the

00:10:02.940 essentials. But yet it's a funny thing because if you go into any store in the city and you look at

00:10:08.280 the items that they have to keep behind locked glass, because those are the high, the merchandise

00:10:14.440 that have the highest rate of being stolen, it's never like first aid kits and whole wheat bread

00:10:21.480 and, I don't know, eggs that they have to lock up. It's always makeup and expensive headphones and

00:10:28.640 that sort of thing. Regardless, if theft is allowed to go on unfettered, the stores will close. They won't

00:10:37.280 be able to keep their businesses open, and then nobody will be able to access any of those items.

00:10:43.040 If people need, quote unquote, to steal from Walgreens because they need the stuff that Walgreens

00:10:48.640 has, then they also need to shop at Walgreens and they need Walgreens to be open, which means that

00:10:54.660 Walgreens has to stay in business, which means that they have to stop people from stealing.

00:10:58.560 By the left's own logic, Walgreens is protecting human life by using lethal force to protect its

00:11:04.440 merchandise. Because by their logic, people depend on that merchandise to survive. And so if it shuts

00:11:11.640 down because they can't stay open, because they can't sell the merchandise because everyone's

00:11:14.460 stealing it, then that puts people's lives in jeopardy. But the problem is that people who

00:11:20.860 contribute nothing to society and who have no children or families to support and who have the

00:11:26.980 luxury to live in whatever delusional utopia they've invented in their heads, they aren't able to

00:11:32.360 understand this. They own nothing and they do nothing and they provide for no one, least of all

00:11:38.940 themselves. They don't understand the seriousness of property rights and how our lives depend on those

00:11:45.260 rights because they are unserious people. And these are the people we are handing our country over to.

00:11:51.760 those who truly believe that hysterically screaming counts as an argument. I am very upset and therefore

00:12:00.280 I'm right. My emotional state trumps everything. This is the kind of logic that they use. It's the

00:12:05.840 kind of logic that my three-year-old daughter finds persuasive. It's also the logic of a whole

00:12:11.220 generation of grown adults. And the future of our country really depends on rescuing it from

00:12:18.800 these people. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:12:27.800 Latest on Bud Light here, Anheuser-Busch CEO Michael Dorkaris addressed the Bud Light

00:12:38.960 controversy on an earnings call with investors Thursday, downplaying the brand's partnership

00:12:43.720 with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney that prompted a boycott for conservatives.

00:12:48.600 Dalkaris told investors there is misinformation spreading on social media about the company's

00:12:53.200 team up with Mulvaney. We need to clarify the facts that this was one can, one influencer,

00:12:58.640 one post and not a campaign. The CEO said that Anheuser-Busch is providing direct financial support

00:13:04.400 to the frontline workers impacted by the boycott, naming delivery drivers, sale representatives,

00:13:08.540 wholesalers, bar owners, and servers. Well, they're impacted by not really the boycott so much as Bud

00:13:15.020 Light and Anheuser-Busch's own marketing decisions. So this is what, this is where the impact originates,

00:13:19.840 by the way. Dalkaris said the brewing giant will triple media spending on advertising for Bud Light

00:13:26.300 over the summer, confirming reports that the company is planning a major marketing push to recover its brand.

00:13:30.820 So they're still scrambling here as sales continue to drop significantly across the country. But

00:13:37.900 probably the most significant sign of Bud Light's troubles that we've seen so far is this video that

00:13:44.660 somebody posted, I think, to TikTok. And this is from a Red Sox game this week. And you can see how

00:13:50.640 busy or not so busy the Bud Light concession stand is compared to all the other concession stands.

00:13:57.420 Let's see that. Guys, this is so funny and bizarre. Look at that. That is the Bud Light. That is every

00:14:05.120 single Bud Light stand here in Bentley Park. Right? We're at the Red Sox game. That's what the Bud Light

00:14:14.500 stands is. Well, I guess it's not a bad thing if you're working the Bud Light stand. It gives you some

00:14:22.080 time to take a nap and scroll your phone. That is rough. I mean, nobody drinking Bud Light at a

00:14:27.380 baseball game. People are choosing to wait in longer lines than drink Bud Light. At any stadium I've

00:14:35.000 been to, football stadium or baseball stadium, I've never seen that. I've never seen a massively long

00:14:42.600 line at one stand and then nobody at another. So that shows you. And it's especially terrible at a

00:14:52.200 stadium because as much as I hate Bud Light, and I hated it before it was cool to hate it because

00:14:58.040 it's terrible. If there's one place where I would drink Bud Light up until now, it would be at a

00:15:05.400 stadium because your options are limited at a stadium. And anyway, all beer tastes better at a

00:15:12.920 stadium. At least maybe I tell myself that to justify paying $27 for an eight ounce pour.

00:15:18.320 But either way, this is how bad things are for the company. And it's also why I think we should

00:15:24.280 probably stop referring to it as a boycott because it's not even a boycott anymore. It's actually bigger

00:15:30.780 than that and deeper than that for Bud Light and a much bigger problem. So it's way worse than a

00:15:35.820 boycott for Bud Light. It is really a rebrand. Okay. And not a rebrand that Bud Light wanted.

00:15:47.420 It is, we have branded Bud Light this way. Based on their own choices, we have branded it this way.

00:15:54.980 People aren't drinking it now, not because they're necessarily consciously trying to send a statement.

00:16:00.940 I think all those people in line who aren't going over to the Bud Light stand, I'm sure some of them

00:16:06.880 are thinking of this as a boycott and they're sending a political statement. But I think much

00:16:11.180 more, it's just like Bud Light is lame now. It's lame. It's not cool. And your buddies will make fun

00:16:18.180 of you if they see you drinking Bud Light. So you're not going to drink it. It has become cemented,

00:16:24.160 I think. And I don't know how they recover from that. I'm not sure how they recover.

00:16:32.920 It's one thing to have a boycott. It's another thing to be branded and they are branded now. This

00:16:37.360 is their brand now. And I'm not sure how you get out of that. The only way to do it

00:16:46.940 would be, again, to explicitly apologize and completely backtrack. Now, they've already

00:16:56.340 tried to backtrack and they've tried to say, they've issued statements that do everything

00:17:00.220 but apologize. The only way to maybe shake this branding off of you, shake the stink,

00:17:06.660 the stench off of you, is to directly apologize and to start branding yourself as the opposite 0.53

00:17:17.420 of that. But they're not going to do that because then they're worried about the reverse backlash

00:17:23.200 and they don't want to do that. And they figure that's going to make it even worse for them.

00:17:29.360 Because then it's like, well, if the customers were trying to win back, if they still aren't

00:17:34.060 satisfied, well, it's like, now we've, we still have, we don't have them, but now we're losing.

00:17:38.520 Now we have the left coming after us. And so they've probably figured that they can't do that.

00:17:43.020 There's really nothing they can do. This is, this is how they've been branded by their own,

00:17:50.680 by their own choices. They've been branded this way. And it's, I keep saying this is, this is the,

00:18:00.680 I can't think of another example where conservatives have been able to achieve something like this in

00:18:06.640 the fight against corporate wokeism. It simply is one of the most significant victories in the fight

00:18:14.260 against corporate wokeism. I can't, maybe there have been one, maybe there have been, maybe there's

00:18:18.020 some competition for the most significant, but I'm not even sure what's competing with it at this

00:18:22.960 point. Which, which maybe tells you as much about the Bud Light thing as it does about the,

00:18:28.900 the, the, the parade of failures by, by conservatives up, up until now to land any blows at all against

00:18:36.040 corporate wokeism. But this is a major blow. And I'll tell you something else. It is going to make

00:18:42.280 brands in the future think long and hard before, you know, promoting transgenderism.

00:18:52.940 There's, there'll still be brands that do it. There can be brands that have a heavily left-wing

00:18:58.600 customer base. They're not worried about it. There can be brands that figure, well, they're just,

00:19:02.400 they're, they're way too big and powerful, uh, to, to, to worry about it. So they can do whatever

00:19:07.620 they want. Um, I think Bud Light assumed that about itself. It assumed wrong. There may be some

00:19:13.920 brands where that actually is true, where they could basically do whatever they want.

00:19:16.860 Um, you know, if you're Google or something, you pretty much do whatever you want. Um,

00:19:22.700 but there are a lot of other brands that, you know, they, they would be susceptible to something

00:19:29.900 like this. They have a heavily conservative or, you're not even conservative, just like an,

00:19:34.200 a customer base of average middle income, you know, normal Americans. And they are going to be

00:19:41.280 very, very hesitant now, which is a good thing. All right. Much was made of this a few days ago.

00:19:47.000 Paul Stanley, who's the guitarist for the, uh, the band Kiss, which I guess they're still

00:19:52.220 out there making music. He came out against gender transitions for minors. And here was the Daily

00:19:58.820 Wire report, quote, Kiss singer and guitarist, guitarist Paul Stanley called normalizing gender

00:20:03.640 reassignment surgery on children, a sad and dangerous fad on Sunday, sparking both backlash and praise 0.98

00:20:09.560 first comments as the nation battles many States, um, uh, crafting legislation surrounding so-called

00:20:14.980 gender affirming care. Stanley is 71 years old, uh, posted a statement to Twitter where he shared

00:20:19.560 thoughts about the controversial topic. Um, he said, um, there's a big difference between teaching

00:20:25.520 acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young

00:20:30.480 children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some

00:20:36.180 cases allow it. He wrote in a statement under the title, my thoughts on what I'm seeing.

00:20:41.760 He continued, there are individuals who as adults may decide reassignment as their needed choice,

00:20:46.040 but turning this into a game or parents normalizing it as some sort of natural alternative or believing

00:20:50.820 that because of little boy likes to play dress up in his sister's clothes or a girl and her brothers,

00:20:56.020 we should lead them steps further, um, down a path that's far from the innocence of what they're doing

00:21:01.300 with many children who have no real sense of sexuality or sexual experiences cut up in the fun

00:21:06.080 of using pronouns and saying what they identify as some adults mistakenly confused teaching acceptance

00:21:11.800 with normalizing and encouraging a situation that has been a struggle for those truly affected and have

00:21:16.680 turned it into a sad and dangerous fat. Okay. So that's what he wrote. And he was, he's mostly right

00:21:21.700 about this. I say mostly because he also had that endorsement of adult gender transitions,

00:21:27.120 which was unnecessary for him to add that caveat and also wrong, but it was good that he said it.

00:21:33.780 The rest of it was true. Um, but I didn't line up like a lot of conservatives did to cheer him on.

00:21:39.340 And the reason that I wasn't going to cheer him on is that I saw this next part coming from a mile

00:21:44.360 away. A couple of days later, here's the update. Kiss singer and guitarist, Paul Stanley reversed

00:21:49.680 course Thursday on a statement that he made at the start of the week in which he called out those

00:21:53.140 attempting to push transgender ideology on children. He wrote yesterday on Twitter while my thoughts

00:21:58.960 were clear, my words clearly were not most importantly, and above all else, I support those

00:22:03.860 struggling with their sexual identity while enduring constant hostility and those whose path

00:22:08.860 leads them to reassignment surgery. It's hard to fathom the kind of conviction that one must feel

00:22:13.580 to take those steps. A paragraph or two will remain far too short to fully convey my thoughts or point

00:22:19.020 of you. So I will leave that for another time and place. You absolute coward. I, I, I have more

00:22:28.560 respect for a full on trans activist. Okay. I have more respect for a trans activist working at media

00:22:36.680 matters or in Antifa or something than I do for somebody like this much. Then I don't, I don't have

00:22:44.500 hardly, I, I, my respect for the former category is pretty much at zero. So I guess we're in the

00:22:50.760 negatives with someone like Paul Stanley because you know better. You clearly have demonstrated

00:22:57.900 that you're not confused about this. You know better. You said the right thing. Well, mostly the right

00:23:06.760 thing. And you had to know, like you knew that it was a controversial subject, even if it shouldn't be.

00:23:13.200 And so you had to know that there was going to be pushback and you said it anyway, and then you get

00:23:18.900 the pushback and almost immediately you give up. Absolute cowardice. And especially for someone,

00:23:26.080 okay, you're, you're 71 years old. I assume you're, you're pretty wealthy.

00:23:34.340 Um, you got a lot of residual checks coming in from all the, you know, from the, I don't think

00:23:39.460 Kiss has made a, any new music that anyone cared about in a long time, but I assume he's doing

00:23:43.500 pretty well for himself. So you're rich, you're 71 years old. You're a former rock star. Like,

00:23:50.320 what do you have to lose? What do you want? So you, you said something that's true. You upset people

00:23:55.060 on Twitter. So what, what, what in the world could happen to you as an aging rock star worth millions

00:24:02.680 of dollars? Why would you care what anyone on Twitter says? Why would you be susceptible or

00:24:10.820 vulnerable to that? You're not, you're in a position where you could say, okay, you're upset. I don't

00:24:15.360 care. And especially as a, as a former rock star, right? That's, that's supposed to be your attitude.

00:24:21.860 Um, that, that's, that's, that was your brand for many years. So what being a rock star is all about,

00:24:30.240 right? You don't care if people are upset. You're going to express yourself. You're going to say what

00:24:33.280 you think. You're going to be bold. You're going to be counter-cultural. Well, maybe 30, you know,

00:24:41.260 40 years ago when Kiss was dressing up, doing the glam rock thing and dressing up and, and, you know,

00:24:46.100 whatever drag is like, that was counter-cultural. Well, now counter-cultural is exactly what he said. 0.75

00:24:52.520 Coming against, coming out against gender mutilation of kids, counter-cultural.

00:24:58.340 And yet he still caves. We are, we are surrounded by utter cowards who know better. They know better, 0.99

00:25:06.860 but they don't, they don't have the spine to withstand even the slightest pushback.

00:25:14.080 Um, all right. Planned Parenthood put out a PSA a few days ago, trying to alleviate the stigma

00:25:19.840 of executing your own child in cold blood. This is something Andrea Yates, somebody like that,

00:25:24.860 would really appreciate. Let's, uh, watch that.

00:25:28.320 And after my abortion, I just started living my life.

00:25:31.560 Getting an abortion

00:25:32.500 It took me a really long time to say I had an abortion, even as a doctor.

00:25:43.940 I was told this was going to be something horrible, but it felt like,

00:25:49.440 it felt like I saved my life.

00:25:52.860 All I could feel was relief.

00:25:54.700 And I don't regret that.

00:25:56.520 It was an easy decision for me, because the alternative wasn't an option.

00:26:01.340 I will tell any and everybody about my abortion.

00:26:03.420 I tell my abortion story because

00:26:05.520 I want to normalize abortion. 1.00

00:26:07.520 Somebody out there can't tell theirs.

00:26:10.000 My story is just one story in the tapestry of abortion stories.

00:26:17.360 And I think that if a lot more people will be open and listen.

00:26:23.280 That's how we can break down those walls and have these conversations.

00:26:26.400 And I can stand up straight because who's going to tell me that my personal experience is wrong or 0.96

00:26:31.760 invalid, even though it scared, can I say crap? Even though it scared the crap out of me. 0.95

00:26:38.000 Saying the word abortion, it heals me a little bit too. 0.94

00:26:41.440 The scary part is just the stigma.

00:26:45.280 That's it. That's a tweet.

00:26:47.280 I'm proud to share my abortion story.

00:26:49.040 I'm proud to share my abortion story.

00:26:50.880 I would answer the one woman's question.

00:26:53.600 Who's going to tell you that your, uh, your, your experiences are wrong?

00:26:58.160 Who's going to invalidate your experiences? Well, I will.

00:27:00.480 I'll tell you they were wrong. I'll invalidate them.

00:27:02.960 Um, uh, the experience of killing your child was, was, was wrong. It was deeply evil.

00:27:08.160 Uh, it's, uh, most likely the worst thing you've ever done in your life.

00:27:13.920 Um, as I hope is the worst thing. I don't know.

00:27:15.920 It's, it's, it's hard to get worse than killing your own child.

00:27:18.960 I think in fact, yeah, it's really, it's impossible.

00:27:21.280 Um, so yeah, that's, uh, and your experience of doing that was wrong.

00:27:26.960 And now your experience of trying to convince yourself that it was not only, not only, uh,

00:27:37.600 a solemn sort of somber necessity, which is how abortion was portrayed 20 years ago.

00:27:46.080 That was the argument for abortion, safe, legal, and rare. They said,

00:27:50.480 but we want it to be rare. You know, it's a, it's a bad thing. We don't nobody. Well,

00:27:54.240 it's at least it's a sad thing. They used to say, nobody wants to get an abortion. No one's happy

00:27:59.600 about it. We're not worried about rare abortions anymore. They're quite happy to have as many

00:28:04.880 abortions as possible. Abortion now is something to celebrate, but she's trying to convince herself 0.98

00:28:10.160 of that. And I will, I will invalidate that delusion because she also knows it's not true.

00:28:15.840 In fact, early on in the video, we saw someone saying how happy they were while crying. And these

00:28:19.120 were not, these were not tears of joy. This is a, this is a, it's a, a mantra. It's this kind of

00:28:29.360 self-hypnosis that many post-abortive women who are on the left, um, engage in constantly. And

00:28:37.600 they're going to be doomed to this for the rest of their lives. Sadly,

00:28:42.000 waking up every single morning, going to bed every single night, telling themselves,

00:28:44.960 I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. Because they're, they are

00:28:53.040 trying to numb themselves to the realization of, uh, of what they did and ignore the, the emptiness,

00:29:00.880 this great, uh, hole in their lives. That the child that, you know, you should have a child.

00:29:10.480 Um, you do have a child. It's a dead child.

00:29:15.840 Doing everything they can to ignore that. Um, it's kind of related here. A strange shift has

00:29:21.280 happened seemingly overnight. A bunch of pro-Trump accounts on Twitter have decided that the quote,

00:29:28.400 unquote culture wars don't matter. And there have been, uh, there've been many tweets from relatively

00:29:34.400 obscure Trump boosting accounts. I think many of them probably paid accounts. I don't know how many

00:29:39.600 of them, um, tweets like this one from an account called MAGA originalist. And, uh, this just gives

00:29:46.400 you a, a sense of what, of what they're saying. This one says the culture war is a huge grift and

00:29:54.000 grifters are mad. It's getting called out. Yes, cultural issues are serious, but when they're

00:29:58.400 given way more attention than way more important issues like the economy and foreign policy that,

00:30:04.080 um, then it is done for the purpose of clicks or publicity. Pundits like Matt Walsh have political

00:30:10.080 opinions and mediocre politicians like DeSantis have records. So they resort to focusing on easy,

00:30:16.640 no men and women's sports talking points to cover up their weaknesses. Otherwise they would be 1.00

00:30:20.880 irrelevant. They went too far to the, to the point where they're now calling this culture war matters

00:30:26.040 more than world war three, LOL. So a lot of that sort of thing, but not just from obscure accounts.

00:30:33.400 There also been prominent, um, Trump supporters like Carrie Lake, for example, who tweeted this from

00:30:39.640 her official campaign account. It says, no one is saying not to fight the culture war, but it simply

00:30:44.300 is not the most critical issue heading into 2024. The GOP must show, uh, show the country how it plans to

00:30:50.680 turn the economy around and prevent world war three. We need to take this country back from Joe Biden

00:30:55.380 before we can take our culture back from his friends. Take the country back before taking the

00:31:01.920 culture back. That makes no sense. And, but we'll talk about that in a second from a, from a political

00:31:11.060 perspective. It's obvious what's happening here. Now it's very transparent because like I said, this was

00:31:16.720 like overnight, the talking points went out, you know, a bunch of Trump accounts saying, oh, culture

00:31:22.180 war doesn't matter. Forget about the culture war. Um, a decision has been made clearly on Trump's team

00:31:27.660 to downplay the culture war because DeSantis is better on that. And he's, he's known as a culture

00:31:35.260 warrior. And so in an effort to, to undermine DeSantis, they've decided to surrender the culture,

00:31:41.280 grasping for political power to the point of, um, we're going to give up on the culture if that's

00:31:47.460 what it takes. It's a political play and it's a really terrible one. Unlike every level, it's terrible

00:31:54.180 also politically is it's a politically bad political play because Trump became a political sensation

00:32:02.900 largely because he wasn't afraid to engage in the culture war and to talk about the culture. He wasn't

00:32:09.040 afraid of these cultural issues that the Republicans up till he came along had for the most part been,

00:32:14.200 been, uh, had been terrified of and wouldn't acknowledge. Um, the people saying the culture

00:32:20.300 war doesn't matter. These were the same ones who were cheering Trump on in his, uh, if we remember

00:32:25.340 his rather relentless fight against NFL players, kneeling for the anthem. Trump went on and on about

00:32:31.040 this for years. It was a major issue for him. And it was an important fight actually. You know,

00:32:37.940 having our athletes disrespecting our flag. So that's a problem. Trump saw that 100% a culture

00:32:45.060 war issue. And it's the kind of thing that Trump was known for. You know, we have this idea that,

00:32:51.840 um, even a lot of Trump critics will say that Trump, it's a, it's, it's all a personality cult

00:32:57.440 for Trump. And there is an element of personality cult for any prominent popular politician. There's

00:33:01.920 going to be an element of a, you know, a certain personality cult element. AOC has a personality

00:33:07.060 cult. Um, but coming onto the scene, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's not his personality that people

00:33:15.340 were attracted to. It's not what made him a sensation. It was the issues. Yeah. His main,

00:33:20.860 his primary issue, of course, what he was most known for known for was immigration, build the wall

00:33:25.080 immigration, not at all an issue that we can divorce from the culture war. It is also a cultural

00:33:31.160 issue. When we talk about defending America, um, and we talk about the threat that, that unfettered

00:33:38.740 illegal immigration poses, we are also talking about the threat it poses to the culture. 1.00

00:33:46.260 So that was his issue, but not just that it was cultural issues. It was what we call

00:33:51.340 social issues, quote unquote. To abandon that now is a really bad move. It is a bad idea to start

00:34:00.160 echoing the GOP establishment and David French. Okay. Understand this. If you are doing this whole

00:34:06.820 focus on the economy, not the culture war thing, you are repeating the same talking point that the

00:34:13.180 GOP establishment has used for 40 years. You are David French. This is David French's position

00:34:19.820 to a T like you, you have adopted the establishment Frenchian point of view, 0.61

00:34:25.640 which you can do, but don't call yourself anti-establishment when you're saying exactly 0.89

00:34:32.100 what those losers were saying for 40 years. And it's a position that was a loser 40 years ago and 0.97

00:34:37.780 10 years ago and is now too. That's how we got into this position in the first place is because

00:34:43.580 it's because the Republican party were supposed to be ostensibly the leaders of the conservative

00:34:48.120 movement for decades now. They've been saying, oh, the culture doesn't matter. All that matters is

00:34:52.420 the economy and foreign policy. Let's worry about that. And so they surrendered the culture to the 0.67

00:34:56.640 left. And now here we are. It also doesn't make sense. So a couple of points on that. First of all,

00:35:08.420 this mantra now, well, it's more important to avoid World War III. I agree that avoiding World War III

00:35:14.660 is very important. But this is not a choice we have to make. We don't have to decide between

00:35:22.520 defending the culture, defending our children from people who want to castrate and mutilate them

00:35:26.160 and avoiding World War III. Now, in fact, for the average citizen, there's nothing we can do

00:35:32.080 to avoid World War III. Like, what do you want me to do right now? That guy, whoever that guy was that

00:35:37.960 called me out in the tweet, what do you want me to do to avoid World War III? Do you want me to go over

00:35:42.140 and broker a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia? We can talk about it. We can be critical

00:35:48.340 of any attempts to escalate, which I have done many times. I was very early on the Ukraine issue.

00:35:56.400 From the very beginning, I was against any American involvement in it. So yeah, we can talk about it.

00:36:01.920 Sure. And we should, but we can't. There's almost nothing that the average citizen can do

00:36:06.960 to affect geopolitical, the geopolitical situation. All we can do is vote, vote for the right people.

00:36:15.020 And we should do that. But in the meantime, we have the culture. And to draw this distinction

00:36:24.080 is incoherent. What is the culture? The culture of a nation is its institutions, its values,

00:36:39.920 its customs, its traditions, its art, its beliefs, its priorities. That's everything, in other words.

00:36:51.840 Okay? The culture, America's culture is everything. The culture is the entire substance of the country.

00:37:00.700 It's everything that makes a country a country. You have the borders, which are very important

00:37:06.580 physical barriers, or should be a physical barrier, that defines what the country is physically.

00:37:13.980 But all the stuff that makes up the country, that's the culture. And when we talk about defending

00:37:19.860 the country, we are talking about defending the culture. The culture is what the country is made

00:37:27.340 of. It's what we live in. It's what we are subject to. It's what our children are raised in.

00:37:34.320 It's what helps determine the value systems that people hold. It's what defines, it doesn't just define,

00:37:42.160 your culture doesn't just define the country. It defines the people.

00:37:44.880 people. And so if you have a perverse, depraved, degenerate culture, you will end up with a bunch 0.93

00:37:51.200 of perverse, depraved, degenerate people. How can anything be more important than that? 0.98

00:37:58.180 How can you draw this ridiculous choice? But well, we can either worry about everything that comprises 0.68

00:38:04.000 the country or World War III. You think the economy is more important than the culture?

00:38:11.200 Okay, so let's say we turn the economy around and we have a relatively prosperous country, but our

00:38:16.420 culture lays in ruins. So if we have a bunch of children that have been abused and sexualized, 0.87

00:38:23.040 a bunch of mutilated and castrated, a generation of mutilated and castrated kids, that's okay as long 0.99

00:38:28.280 as we have low taxes and inflation comes down a bit. Is that what you're saying? You know, external

00:38:34.760 threats are important. And that's what we're talking about with something like World War III,

00:38:39.740 which is a theoretical thing that we're trying to avoid, as opposed to the threats against our

00:38:47.740 children posed by the culture, which are real and happening right now.

00:38:51.580 But those are external threats. Internal threats are always going to be more serious

00:39:02.660 and should be our first priority always. Okay, if you're in your house and there's a tornado warning,

00:39:14.340 that's a big problem. You know, tornado hitting your house from the outside is a big problem.

00:39:19.340 Could destroy your house. But if your house is on fire, okay, if there's a raging fire inside your

00:39:27.920 house, your first priority needs to be to put the fire out. Like before you go down to the storm

00:39:32.280 shelter, you got to put the fire out in the house. Because even if the tornado passes you by and you

00:39:39.440 let the fire rage, well, the house isn't worth anything anymore. It is a burned out shell.

00:39:44.020 So, fortunately, the tornado passes you by, keeps the structure, the external threat is gone.

00:39:54.820 The structure is still in place. What's inside? A burned out shell. Nothing.

00:40:01.300 In fact, if you let the fire destroy your house,

00:40:03.600 then who cares if a tornado hits it or doesn't? It's not even worth defending.

00:40:07.940 If we give up on the culture, if we say, ah, it doesn't matter. The country's not worth defending

00:40:14.140 anymore. Who gives a damn about the country if we give up on it? If we're going to give up and say,

00:40:18.980 well, this is what our country is. It's a country that does this to children. It's a country that is,

00:40:22.780 again, degenerate, depraved, perverse, that utterly has succumbed to these demonic left-wing 0.99

00:40:34.120 ideas. Well, if that's what it is, and we have resigned ourselves to that, then who cares anymore? 0.95

00:40:43.100 Why is it even worth defending? It's important to make, to defend your country against threats from

00:40:50.460 the outside. It's more important to make sure your country is worth defending. And that's what the

00:40:55.300 culture war is. And it really frustrates me that 40 years on, this still has to be explained. And the

00:41:03.480 fact that it has to be explained to people who pretend to be anti-establishment is even more

00:41:11.440 frustrating. All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:41:29.380 Don't Mind Me says, Kamikaze Murder Machine needs to be the name of a heavy metal band like yesterday.

00:41:36.220 Yeah, it's a good name for a carnival ride, also a good name for a heavy metal band. There's an

00:41:40.000 interesting crossover there that I never really thought about, but you raise a good point.

00:41:45.340 Rita says, patiently waiting for the cute missing a front tooth picture of Jordan Neely from

00:41:50.780 elementary school photos. Yeah, that's usually the game that they play. I think in this case,

00:41:55.400 they've settled on the MJ impersonator thing. So we haven't got, as far as I've seen yet,

00:42:00.440 we haven't gotten the elementary school photo. Maybe eventually we will, but instead they're going

00:42:05.360 with the MJ impersonator. In spite of the fact that from what I've read, including one report that I

00:42:15.440 read yesterday, a lot of people on social media and on Reddit have been posting, talking about their

00:42:24.100 experiences, people that ride the New York City subway system, talking about their experiences with

00:42:29.800 this particular guy. So this guy evidently was known to commuters on the subway, and not in a good way.

00:42:37.520 They knew him as the crazy guy who goes around assaulting and harassing and yelling at people.

00:42:42.200 And one of those people wrote something saying that, yeah, he was an MJ impersonator 10 years ago,

00:42:49.040 and then he started getting pretty weird. And then he dropped the MJ impersonator thing altogether and

00:42:53.600 just became a psychotic vagrant screaming at people and harassing and, according to some reports, 0.84

00:42:57.840 assaulting people physically. So if that's true, then they're calling him an MJ impersonator

00:43:02.440 when he was doing that a decade ago. And he spent the last decade dedicated to

00:43:08.540 what ultimately ended in his death this week.

00:43:16.680 Devin says, I get having a word that no one can say in any context. I get having a word where I'm the

00:43:21.740 only one that calls my brother that, quote unquote. I don't get the combination, the weird combination of

00:43:27.000 it that we try to maintain, talking about the N-word. Well, I think you're being a little bit too 1.00

00:43:34.340 generous. You're right that combining those two things, combining like, this is wrong in every

00:43:39.580 context, and I'm the only one who's allowed to say it. The combination of those two claims that we get

00:43:48.060 with the N-word is especially absurd. But each claim individually doesn't make any sense.

00:43:52.480 There can't be any word that can't be said in any context. You cannot completely remove context and

00:44:04.480 intention from words. That's what you can't do. That is always going to be ludicrous.

00:44:13.380 Because you can't judge. You cannot judge anyone's words until you've taken into account the context

00:44:22.060 and you've taken into account their intention behind those words. Now, a person can use words,

00:44:31.100 certain words, and then they can get a reaction and it's a bad reaction and they regret it. And then

00:44:36.040 they can lie about what their intention is. They can say something and it hurts someone's feelings and

00:44:40.040 they can say, oh, I didn't mean it that way, even though they did mean it that way. Right? So that

00:44:43.200 can happen. And so those are, there are times when figuring out the intention behind someone's

00:44:49.420 words is a little bit more complicated. But when it comes to the N-word, what we've been told is that

00:44:54.960 intention doesn't matter at all. And even in a case where everyone agrees that the intention was

00:45:00.880 totally innocent, somebody was simply quoting someone else, everyone agrees it was the intention was,

00:45:07.500 there was, there was no ill intent. Everyone agrees that the context was, oh, they were quoting

00:45:12.760 someone. And yet we say, well, on a technicality, because you uttered those particular syllables

00:45:19.120 in that particular order, um, well, your life is over anyway. That's what we're doing here,

00:45:26.360 dude. You know, I keep saying it makes no sense, but it really, it does make sense when you,

00:45:32.220 when you understand the point. The point is, uh, this is, uh, a narcissistic kind of power grab.

00:45:40.220 It's an attempt to control people, control their language, um, and, you know, intimidate, 0.96

00:45:46.100 manipulate people. So that's, that's the point. Um, Ahmed says, okay, the story told to me by my

00:45:52.860 younger sister was completely false. She just said that a homeless guy had a mental breakdown,

00:45:57.000 shouted that he wanted to die. And a random white guy killed him because of that. And I keep telling 0.98

00:46:02.920 her to stop using Twitter to get her news. Yeah. This, as they say, what do they say about a lie 0.94

00:46:08.860 makes it half halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. And, uh, uh, but it's not

00:46:13.980 just Twitter, unfortunately. Yeah. Maybe not a good idea to get your news from Twitter. Well,

00:46:19.100 these days you're almost better off, especially with Elon Musk in charge, you're better off getting it

00:46:24.160 from Twitter than from CNN. There are not many places where you can get your news reliably.

00:46:32.340 And once the narrative settles in to people's minds, it's very, very hard. Once it cements,

00:46:38.900 it's very hard to do anything about it. And your, your sister's impression of this event is probably

00:46:45.000 one shared by millions of people and they will go to their graves thinking it that Jordan Neely was

00:46:52.220 killed simply because people were annoyed with him or because he was actually doing the moonwalk as a

00:46:57.360 Michael Jackson impersonator. And somebody was annoyed and they kill people will go to their

00:47:00.600 graves thinking that just like there are people who still today, still today think that Michael Brown

00:47:04.980 dropped to his knees and puts his hands up, put his hands up and yelled, uh, hands up, don't shoot

00:47:09.260 total invention never happened, but the media said it, the media said it in those first few hours.

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00:48:19.120 finally comes out. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. One of the things that makes leftists

00:48:26.980 so damned creepy, but also so effective is their ability to rapidly adopt new lingo, replacing one

00:48:32.720 word with some other nonsensical new speak term all at the same time. You know, all together they're 0.95

00:48:37.780 able to do this virtually overnight. A word that we all had been using without issue suddenly becomes

00:48:42.380 offensive. And some other term that was invented by leftist activists 19 seconds ago is put in its

00:48:48.280 place. This process can happen so quickly that a word you said openly during breakfast might be a

00:48:53.940 slur by the time you're sitting down for dinner. Meanwhile, a term that you never heard when you

00:48:58.320 were eating breakfast might be ubiquitous by dinnertime. Ubiquitous, at least in the media,

00:49:03.480 pop culture, even if not among normal human beings. And think about how quickly gibberish like a Latinx 1.00

00:49:08.940 showed up on the scene and was adopted by our institutions. Or consider how the term person

00:49:13.260 of color entered the vernacular and supplanted the previous PC favorite African American. So we've 0.84

00:49:19.040 seen this process play out many times and now we have a chance to witness it once again.

00:49:23.920 While discussing and reporting on and very often lying about the death of psychotic violent drifter

00:49:28.660 Jordan Neely, the left has collectively embraced a new label to describe Neely's living conditions or

00:49:35.080 former living conditions to be precise. There was a time, a far less sensitive time, when he would

00:49:42.000 have been described as a vagrant or a transient or a bum or a tramp. You know, all these words have

00:49:47.860 been used. All these descriptions, though, have long since been tossed on the linguistic ash heap.

00:49:52.960 And we've settled eventually on homeless, which we all seem to agree sufficiently sort of captures

00:49:59.720 the essence of the people who are living in this condition without being judgmental or insulting.

00:50:08.280 You know, a homeless person is a person without a home. Why don't they have a home? Is it their own

00:50:13.280 fault that they're in this situation? Or are they victims of circumstance? Or is it some combination

00:50:17.360 of the two? Well, the term homeless passes down no verdict on those questions and isn't intended to

00:50:22.560 pass a verdict on that. The word is neutral on why and only seeks to describe the what. It's a fine

00:50:29.200 word. It's a word that worked perfectly fine. We didn't need a new one. But now we have one

00:50:35.200 anyway. See if you can spot the language shift as we run through a few media reports. So this is from

00:50:41.960 Axios. Jordan Neely, an unhoused man, died after being placed in a chokehold by another New York

00:50:47.780 subway train passenger during an apparent mental health episode. The Guardian. According to new

00:50:53.240 accounts, Neely, who was unhoused and a known Michael Jackson impersonator, boarded a northbound F train

00:50:58.200 and began screaming about his distress. Philadelphia Inquirer, Jordan Neely's death was ruled a homicide

00:51:03.300 after an ex-marine held him in chokehold on the subway. Now it's sparking discussions on mental

00:51:07.060 health care for the unhoused. The Intercept says the NYPD's treatment of a white man who strangled

00:51:13.160 Jordan Neely, an unhoused black man on the subway, is now is not how things usually go down. USA Today,

00:51:19.980 Neely had been arrested 42 times since 2013, including charges of assault and transit fraud,

00:51:24.300 but that many were for minor violations like having an open container of alcohol. Authority says it

00:51:29.400 appears Neely was unhoused. So you probably picked up on it. It's not exactly subtle. And Democratic

00:51:35.480 politicians have adopted this terminology as well. Here's Representative Jamal Bowman on CNN last night.

00:51:41.000 Listen. As a black man watching the video, and I have to force myself to watch these videos because

00:51:49.740 each time there's a new video, there's more trauma that I feel. Eric Gardner was choked to death.

00:52:00.020 George Floyd had a knee on his neck. Philando Castile wasn't choked, but he was shot to death

00:52:06.880 on video. And now, uh, Mr. Neely. And, you know, I've, I'm born and raised in New York. I, I, I rode

00:52:14.700 the trains my entire life as a child. Uh, you often see people who are unhoused have episodes.

00:52:23.220 Yes. Remember that the next time you make the mistake of boarding a New York city subway train,

00:52:26.700 when you see a drug addled homeless guy randomly assaulting and mugging a commuter,

00:52:31.620 nothing to be concerned about. It's just a person who is unhoused having an episode.

00:52:35.520 Unhoused, right? The memo has gone out. Uh, unhoused is the new, uh, Latinx. It's the hot new 1.00

00:52:43.280 PC lingo on the market. And you want to get in on the action before it changes again, because

00:52:48.380 yesterday the word was homeless. Today it's unhoused. Tomorrow it might be, uh, I don't know,

00:52:53.140 de-housed. Then it will be person of an unhoused persuasion. Then eventually habitation challenged.

00:52:59.540 And they'll realize that all this sounds far too negative still. And they'll want a term that

00:53:03.500 sends the message that homeless people aren't really homeless at all. It's just that they don't

00:53:07.000 have one single home in a fixed location, right? Their home is everywhere. It changes. And they'll

00:53:12.780 start using terms like house fluid and dwelling expensive. That's where this leads. But for now,

00:53:19.440 unhoused is the new trendy thing. Um, why is unhoused preferable to homeless? Well, the website

00:53:26.300 unhoused.org makes the case this way. It explains, quote, the label of homeless has derogatory

00:53:31.900 connotations. It implies that one is less than, and it undermines self-esteem and progressive change.

00:53:36.760 The use of the term unhoused instead has a profound personal impact upon those in insecure

00:53:42.360 housing situations. It implies that there is a moral and social assumption that everyone should

00:53:47.160 be housed in the first place. Well, how in God's name does the word unhoused come with moral and

00:53:53.000 social assumptions that don't also apply to homeless, which literally means exactly the same thing.

00:53:59.260 An article in Architectural Digest tries to flesh that out a little bit.

00:54:04.280 It explains, quote, in Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti and some members of the city council

00:54:08.240 have embraced unhoused. In Seattle, the city government uses the phrase person experiencing

00:54:14.900 homelessness. The word homeless has become inseparable from a toxic narrative that blames

00:54:19.580 and demonizes people who are unhoused. According to Eve Garrow, homelessness policy analyst and advocate

00:54:25.340 for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Wait a second.

00:54:30.260 Is homeless, the word homeless is dehumanizing, says the homelessness policy analyst. All right.

00:54:38.320 The term is increasingly used in a way where it implies someone is dangerous or deviant or devious,

00:54:43.320 she said, or deviant. As a result, a less charged term is more apt. At the same time,

00:54:48.220 a related term to homelessness, the homeless, has begun to be seen as othering. In May 2020,

00:54:53.200 the Associated Press updated its style book to focus on person-first language. It said not to use

00:54:58.600 the homeless, calling it a dehumanizing term, and instead use terms like homeless people or people

00:55:03.980 without housing. Ah, you see, homeless is offensive, offensive enough, but if you put the word

00:55:10.380 the in front of it, suddenly becomes even more offensive. You know, that word the, very offensive word.

00:55:16.760 Why is that exactly? And how can you change the narrative around a certain concept by simply

00:55:23.160 swapping out one term for a synonymous term? And if attaching the word less to a person,

00:55:30.260 homeless, has the effect of diminishing them somehow, then wouldn't it have the same effect

00:55:35.300 to attach the prefix un? I mean, in what way is unhoused substantially or definitionally different

00:55:43.200 from homeless? The answer, of course, is that it isn't different. The change is entirely arbitrary

00:55:48.820 and meaningless, and that is exactly the point. If there is any real meaning behind the terminology

00:55:54.220 swap, it's in the fact that unhoused sounds slightly more passive, I guess, than homeless.

00:56:01.140 It sounds perhaps even, it sounds even more like something that would happen to a person

00:56:06.080 without their involvement, really. As if they walked outside one day and turned around to shut

00:56:12.900 the door and their house vanished. I've become unhoused. What happened to my house?

00:56:18.660 The left seeks to remove the elements of personal agency and free will from all societal problems,

00:56:23.360 especially homelessness or unhousedness. They don't want us to notice or acknowledge the fact that

00:56:28.560 many homeless people are mentally ill. Yes, and many of them are mentally ill because their brains 1.00

00:56:34.000 have been destroyed by drugs and their brains were destroyed by drugs because they made the 0.99

00:56:39.040 decision at some point in the past to start using drugs. Now, I'm sure that a large percentage of

00:56:44.120 the homeless suffered misfortunes in their lives outside of their control. We all have. But personal

00:56:50.580 choice has also played a heavy role in many of these cases. A person who makes good choices will almost

00:56:57.560 certainly not end up homeless, except in very rare circumstances. The left constantly calls for

00:57:03.480 nuanced conversations, but this is the actual nuance in the homeless conversation and they refuse to

00:57:10.000 acknowledge it. Okay, the un-nuanced view of homelessness is that they're all victims and that's

00:57:16.380 it. That's the mainstream view. That's the acceptable view. That's the view without nuance. Well,

00:57:22.340 they're all victims. The nuance is to realize that, well, that's not always the case.

00:57:29.140 We're not allowed to see the homeless as anything but pure helpless victims through and through,

00:57:35.000 though. There is no nuance to the picture that they paint. And that is partly what this un-housed

00:57:40.860 stuff is all about, but that's all kind of secondary. Because even if un-housed has a slightly more

00:57:46.100 passive, more helpless tone to it, the distinction is still mostly arbitrary. And the arbitrariness

00:57:52.020 is the point most of all. As always, we find ourselves unwillingly in this giant game of cultural

00:57:59.640 Simon Says, where they come up with new rules, new concepts, new language, and we're meant to follow

00:58:06.160 along out of pure obedience. Now, I think I've used the analogy before of the prison warden in the movie

00:58:12.100 Cool Hand Luke, who demands that Luke dig a giant hole and then fill it back in again. There's no point

00:58:19.060 to the hole except to dig it. There's no point to digging it except to break Luke's spirit and get

00:58:23.340 him accustomed to following orders. The fact that the order was arbitrary, that there was no reason

00:58:28.740 to dig the hole, that the task assigned was so pointless, that's what made it an effective form

00:58:34.720 of conditioning. It's one thing to use arguments to persuade someone to adjust their language or their

00:58:42.240 behavior. It's another thing if you compel them to adjust their language and behavior, even if they

00:58:47.820 haven't been persuaded. Okay, when you can get people to speak a certain way, even when they don't

00:58:55.660 see any reason why they should be. Like, why can't I say this word? Why is this word better? It doesn't

00:58:59.880 matter, just say it. Get people to go along with that, and there's a lot more power in that. And that

00:59:08.460 is the truly sinister agenda behind this language policing that on the surface always seems so laughable 0.97

00:59:15.360 and ridiculous. Which isn't to say that it isn't laughable and ridiculous, of course. And that is 0.97

00:59:20.920 why, ultimately, the term unhoused is today canceled. That'll do it for this portion of shows. Move over

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00:59:30.440 annual plans. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 05, 2023

Ep. 1159 - The Left Demands That We Surrender Our Families And Communities To Violent Criminals

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