The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1160 - Leftist Protesters Throw Themselves In Front Of A Train On Behalf Of Violent Criminals

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, protests over the death of criminal vagrant Jordan Neely

00:00:03.960 continued over the weekend with mobs of leftists actually standing on the train tracks to stop the

00:00:08.500 trains from moving. Meanwhile, a panel in California has officially approved reparations

00:00:12.240 payments of up to $1.2 million for black residents. I'll explain how these stories are actually

00:00:16.280 related. Also, some new polling looks brutal for Biden, and that's according to the mainstream

00:00:20.300 media, so you know it must be bad. And ABC has obtained exclusive and they say shocking footage

00:00:25.260 of a Ron DeSantis debate prep session. Plus, there were two mass killing attacks over the weekend,

00:00:30.660 but neither fit neatly into the left-wing media narrative. In our daily cancellation,

00:00:34.380 the woke mob attempts to cancel the children's cartoon Bluey for the sin of body shaming.

00:00:39.180 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:46.860 Protests continued to rage in New York City this past weekend as mobs of leftists expressed their

00:01:52.680 shock and outrage over the death of violent criminal vagrant Jordan Neely. Protesters flooded

00:01:58.380 the subway system shouting, no justice, no peace. And at one point, they even jumped down onto the

00:02:04.540 tracks right as a train was arriving at the station. Watch.

00:02:09.140 This presents a bit of a new spin on the famous trolley

00:02:39.120 problem if you're familiar with that, though some would argue that in this case, there really

00:02:43.100 is no problem. There's no dilemma. We also came very close by the looks of it to seeing a political

00:02:48.320 demonstrator literally touch the third rail, which I'm not saying, I would never say that I wanted to

00:02:55.340 see that happen. I would never say that. I would never say it. But apparently nobody was harmed except

00:03:00.580 for all the normal working people who were simply trying to get on with their day and instead found

00:03:05.280 themselves in the middle of a mob with a collective IQ that barely cracks triple digits. One journalist

00:03:10.760 covering the scene caught this interaction between a man, a black man, trying to get off the train in

00:03:17.100 order to get to work and a group of protesters who took this as some sort of personal affront. Watch.

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00:03:43.820 Yeah, it's a little hard to hear what's being said there, but she's assuring him.

00:04:06.200 Well, take a different train.

00:04:07.120 You're not gonna be late for work. 1.00

00:04:08.780 You with your stupid job. 1.00

00:04:11.340 That's right, sir. 1.00

00:04:12.440 You know, I'm sorry, but these protesters have decided to use the subway system as a platform

00:04:17.420 for their performative, uninformed, emotional outburst.

00:04:21.240 And so your job will just have to wait.

00:04:23.720 Your need to provide for yourself must take a backseat to their need to get footage of

00:04:29.280 themselves protesting so they can post it to TikTok.

00:04:32.580 This is life in New York City now.

00:04:34.440 You might be accosted by a psychotic drifter while commuting to your job, or you might

00:04:38.220 be accosted by a mob protesting on behalf of a psychotic drifter while commuting to your

00:04:43.200 job. 0.83

00:04:43.480 Of course, if you are actually killed by a psychotic drifter, as plenty of people in New

00:04:48.260 York City, especially in the subway, are every year, there will be no protests on your behalf.

00:04:53.160 That's just, that's life in the big city. 0.99

00:04:55.000 But as the dumb, brainless mob carried on being a dumb, brainless mob, more information about 1.00

00:05:01.300 Neely came to light. 0.99

00:05:02.800 And it's now abundantly clear, based on reports dating back a decade, that Neely was a known

00:05:09.020 menace.

00:05:10.140 That's important.

00:05:11.060 He was known.

00:05:12.140 People that took the subway every day in New York knew about this guy, a known menace who

00:05:17.040 had apparently been terrorizing commuters in the subway system for years.

00:05:20.220 Which is why he was arrested all those times, and yet released back onto the street every

00:05:26.420 time.

00:05:27.740 As the Daily Wire reports, quote, a man who said that he was previously assaulted by Jordan

00:05:31.120 Neely is speaking out about his experience in the wake of the untimely death of the 30-year-old.

00:05:35.020 Neely died last week after a U.S. Marine veteran named Daniel Penny, and at least two others,

00:05:39.520 restrained Neely following alleged threats and erratic behavior on a New York City subway

00:05:44.580 train.

00:05:45.520 Quote, he should have been in some rehab center, said Philemon Castillo-Baltazar.

00:05:50.900 Speaking of Neely, speaking to the New York Daily News, Baltazar said that he was assaulted

00:05:54.740 by Neely while he was waiting for a train back in 2019.

00:05:59.400 He says that he was approached by Neely out of nowhere and punched in the head.

00:06:03.640 He said, quote, I felt a punch to my head.

00:06:06.080 He didn't say anything.

00:06:06.980 He just hit me.

00:06:07.980 He hit me above my right eye.

00:06:10.340 The assault victim added that Penny shouldn't be punished for his actions.

00:06:14.620 Now, Baltazar's experience sounds similar to another Neely victim who has also spoken out.

00:06:19.500 This is from the New York Post this time.

00:06:21.380 It says, an assault victim of the dangerous homeless man choked to death by a Marine on

00:06:25.560 a northbound F train this week ripped the city for not forcing her attacker to get the mental 0.84

00:06:30.500 health treatment he clearly needs.

00:06:32.100 Ann Mitchell-Tree said she was randomly punched in the head in June 2021 by Jordan Neely inside

00:06:37.380 SK Deli Market on 2nd Avenue in the East Village.

00:06:41.060 The attack caused swelling and substantial pain but left no permanent damage.

00:06:44.540 After police arrested Neely, Mitchell-Tree, 65, assumed her aggressor would face charges

00:06:49.280 and psychiatric lockup.

00:06:51.920 And she was sadly mistaken in that case.

00:06:54.720 Now, if you've been following this story, you might hear about Ann Mitchell-Tree and think

00:06:59.260 that, well, this is the case that resulted in the active warrant that was still out for

00:07:03.500 Neely at the time of his death.

00:07:04.480 There was a warrant out for his arrest.

00:07:06.080 But you'd be wrong because Mitchell-Tree is 65 years old.

00:07:10.280 The victim in the other case is 67 years old.

00:07:14.440 Now, it's understandable that you would get them confused as Neely was going around assaulting

00:07:17.840 multiple elderly women. 1.00

00:07:19.920 This man was such a horrendous scumbag that when someone refers to the grandmother he brutally 1.00

00:07:24.420 assaulted, you have to respond by asking, which one? 1.00

00:07:28.380 Of course, the race hustlers on the left are pretending, as always, that the violent, predatory

00:07:34.040 history of their latest racial martyr is somehow irrelevant.

00:07:38.320 Chief race hustler, Alexandria Queza-Cortez, tweeted on Saturday, quote,

00:07:42.200 Watching media give the Brock Turner treatment for the killing of a homeless man has been nauseating.

00:07:47.380 A person having a record does not excuse killing them, neither does being poor, sick, or homeless.

00:07:52.760 Virtually every one of us is closer to being in Neely's shoes than we think.

00:07:57.020 Well, speak for yourself, AOC.

00:08:00.200 I am, I can say, and I'm no saint by any measure, but I can say that I am nowhere near the point

00:08:07.460 of walking up to a 65-year-old woman and bashing her over the head.

00:08:12.440 Okay, I'm nowhere near that.

00:08:14.860 If you personally feel those sorts of inclinations, that's your own issue.

00:08:19.320 As for the claim that his record doesn't excuse killing him, well, you're obviously missing

00:08:23.960 the point, and intentionally so.

00:08:25.360 Now, the point about his violent history is, first of all, that it should at least cause

00:08:32.600 you to refrain from turning this man into a canonized martyr.

00:08:38.120 Even if his killing was unjust, which it wasn't.

00:08:41.980 Even if he is a victim, a murder victim, and it's a terrible, terrible thing.

00:08:45.480 Again, I don't concede that.

00:08:46.780 It still would be absurd to pretend that you're deeply mourning the death of a violent predator

00:08:53.260 who apparently contributed nothing but violence and misery to his community.

00:08:59.180 Look, 13,000 people die every hour across the world every day.

00:09:07.260 Okay?

00:09:07.780 It's a lot of people.

00:09:09.160 It is, at a minimum, totally absurd to have a week of national mourning over the death of

00:09:15.560 a violent criminal who assaulted old ladies.

00:09:18.120 I mean, you can claim that every death is sad in its own way, and maybe that's true, but

00:09:22.680 why have you chosen this one?

00:09:25.860 Lots of people, we don't have to say across the world, lots of people die every day in

00:09:28.920 this country.

00:09:30.120 There have been plenty of other murder victims just in New York City over the past couple

00:09:34.460 of weeks.

00:09:34.920 And many of those victims had no history of randomly threatening and assaulting pedestrians.

00:09:40.860 So why not choose one of them?

00:09:42.800 Why this guy?

00:09:44.660 Why are you pretending to be sad about the death of Jordan Neely when we all know that

00:09:48.560 if he'd been killed by some other black homeless guy, you would say absolutely nothing at all. 0.52

00:09:54.920 You would step over his body on the street and keep walking without missing a beat. 0.95

00:10:01.480 So why Neely then?

00:10:02.700 Well, we've already answered the question.

00:10:03.800 His death is useful to you.

00:10:06.320 There's also another more practical and immediate reason why his brutal criminal history is relevant.

00:10:14.040 Again, the regular commuters on the subway knew him.

00:10:17.460 They knew about his tendency to violence.

00:10:19.820 They knew he was a danger.

00:10:21.700 They knew he was prone to violent outbursts.

00:10:25.020 So there's a very good chance, we don't know if this is true, but there's a very good chance

00:10:28.140 that the people, multiple people, not just one, who restrained Neely on the train that

00:10:32.820 day, also knew this about him or heard it from somebody else.

00:10:36.860 Said, oh, that's the guy that, you know.

00:10:38.900 And even if they didn't, it doesn't matter because the fact is that Neely made explicit

00:10:42.420 violent threats.

00:10:43.200 Even if they were responding only to those threats in the moment, with no knowledge of

00:10:48.000 his background, it would still be more than justified.

00:10:50.320 Now, something else happened over the weekend that I think ties into the story, though it

00:10:56.900 may seem on the surface unrelated.

00:10:58.460 NPR reports, quote, California's reparations task force voted Saturday to approve recommendations

00:11:04.400 on how the state may compensate and apologize to black residents for generations of harm

00:11:09.560 caused by discriminatory policies.

00:11:11.880 The nine-member committee, which first convened nearly two years ago, gave final approval at

00:11:16.680 a meeting in Oakland to a hefty list of proposals that now go to state lawmakers to consider for

00:11:21.260 reparations legislation.

00:11:22.860 U.S. Representative Barbara Lee, who is co-sponsoring a bill in Congress to study restitution proposals

00:11:27.540 for African Americans, at the meeting called on states and federal government to pass reparations

00:11:31.460 legislation, quote, reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential

00:11:35.700 to address longstanding racial disparities and inequalities, Lee said.

00:11:39.580 The actual payments under this proposal, and it is just a proposal, but if it goes, if it

00:11:46.000 is enacted, it would be up to $1.2 million each for each eligible black resident.

00:11:54.200 Now, I've already explained why reparations are a ludicrous, unjust, morally incoherent idea.

00:12:02.100 We cannot allow people to cash in on the injustices committed against their ancestors centuries ago.

00:12:09.580 Because if we did that, then everyone, all people on earth, should get a check.

00:12:15.660 Because we all have suffering in our bloodline.

00:12:19.140 We all have persecution in our family tree.

00:12:23.580 Now, which of us are in a better or worse spot because of those historical experiences?

00:12:28.440 It's impossible to say.

00:12:30.700 You especially can't play this game with slavery, of all things, given that slavery is a global sin,

00:12:35.960 and there is no race, there is no group, which is innocent of it. 1.00

00:12:41.520 Africa enthusiastically practiced slavery until the late 20th century. 0.99

00:12:46.860 We've talked about this before.

00:12:48.040 An African country is the last country on earth to legally prohibit slavery.

00:12:53.140 And that didn't happen until 1981.

00:12:55.200 And as for the transatlantic slave trade, you know, it was African nations and tribes that caught and captured and sold the slaves into the transatlantic slave trade.

00:13:06.540 So a black person in America today may be the descendant of slaves.

00:13:12.000 He may also be the descendant of slave traders.

00:13:14.600 He may be both.

00:13:16.140 And many of us are likely both if you go back far enough.

00:13:19.180 How does this relate to Jordan Neely?

00:13:22.160 Well, because one argument, you just heard it there from the Democratic lawmaker.

00:13:28.540 One argument for reparations is based on the current condition of the black community. 0.99

00:13:33.820 The longstanding inequalities, as we're told.

00:13:37.260 As the argument goes, the black community is in worse shape than most other racial groups by nearly every metric.

00:13:43.600 Because of this historical legacy of slavery.

00:13:45.880 And these reparations would not only redress the wrong, but they would also help boost the community.

00:13:50.260 And then, you know, in a practical way, repair the damage.

00:13:54.700 But practically speaking, this is wrong.

00:13:57.160 You cannot solve a person's problems by just handing them a million dollars.

00:14:00.980 Look at the tragic history of mega millions lottery winners if you want to learn more about that.

00:14:06.960 Besides, there is a better and more holistic way to help this community.

00:14:13.260 In fact, I've got two, there's just two ideas off the top of my head.

00:14:19.980 Instead of reparations, we could, first of all, stop lionizing and making role models out of the absolute worst members of the black community. 1.00

00:14:32.580 Okay? 1.00

00:14:33.140 The left makes heroes out of scumbags of every race. 1.00

00:14:36.900 We know that. 0.99

00:14:37.740 But at the same time, there's no white George Floyd.

00:14:41.600 There's no white analog for Jordan Neely. 1.00

00:14:44.760 Which isn't to say that there are no white, vagrant, scumbag, you know, psychotic criminals going around assaulting people. 1.00

00:14:52.260 There are. 1.00

00:14:53.500 But none of them are taken and turned into heroes.

00:14:56.240 And on the right, we typically chalk that up to anti-white bias, and it is.

00:15:02.460 But at the same time, as a white person, I don't, I wouldn't want mentally ill vagrants and drug-addicted career criminals presented as our martyrs and heroes. 0.91

00:15:12.400 I wouldn't even want that. 0.97

00:15:13.760 You know, you tend to become what you admire, and these are the black people that the left puts forward for admiration.

00:15:22.240 Second, one of the best ways to help any community is to put the dangerous people in that community in prison.

00:15:31.660 Better than, we talk about repairing damage, well, instead of repairing damage, how about we prevent damage in the first place?

00:15:40.220 And one way that you could do that is by taking guys like Jordan Neely and locking them away.

00:15:46.400 You cannot pretend that you're interested in helping the black community while you insist on making black neighborhoods more dangerous by refusing to prosecute criminals. 0.99

00:15:55.600 Simply enforce the law, enact justice on criminals, and things will change for the better almost instantly.

00:16:06.140 That's my reparations plan.

00:16:08.040 Tear down the George Floyd murals, disband the Jordan Neely protests, put criminals in prison.

00:16:15.680 It's not going to solve every problem, but it'll solve a lot of them.

00:16:20.200 And it's a good start.

00:16:21.240 And it's certainly better than any proposal that the left is currently making.

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00:17:40.280 I'll start with a little bit of political news.

00:17:42.660 You know, if you're like the average person, then your faith in polling probably depends largely on whether the poll says what you want it to say.

00:17:52.360 That's how most people seem to operate.

00:17:54.440 And this is true on both sides.

00:17:55.600 This really is a both sides thing.

00:17:58.040 You see it on the right.

00:17:59.140 You know, a poll comes out and it looks bad for Trump.

00:18:02.540 And then you'll hear a conservative say, well, it's polling.

00:18:04.780 Polling is fake.

00:18:06.280 You trust polls? 1.00

00:18:08.320 Moron. 1.00

00:18:08.920 And then a poll comes out and it's good for him to say, look, he's clearly the front runner. 0.99

00:18:13.200 So it's both sides kind of do that.

00:18:15.260 That's why I try to be consistent across the board when it comes to polls.

00:18:19.760 And my general position is that polls are sort of fake.

00:18:23.740 They're all sort of fake.

00:18:25.260 But you can glean something from them if you apply, you know, the grain of salt.

00:18:30.840 So there's an element of fakeness to it.

00:18:33.820 But you can still, you got to dig a little bit deeper sometimes, you can still find something in it that might tell you a little bit about the actual situation in the country.

00:18:43.900 So even with a grain of salt, this poll does not look good for Biden.

00:18:50.600 Here's George Stephanopoulos on it.

00:18:52.920 We'll be right back.

00:19:22.920 We'll be right back.

00:19:23.920 We'll be right back.

00:19:24.920 We'll be right back.

00:19:25.920 We'll be right back.

00:19:26.920 We'll be right back.

00:19:27.920 We'll be right back.

00:19:28.920 And then 8% say they would support someone else or prefer someone else.

00:19:30.920 That's despite the fact that the entire DNC, most of the Democratic establishment has rallied

00:19:32.960 behind President Biden.

00:19:33.960 And you're seeing real weaknesses in the coalition that powered Joe Biden to the presidency back in 2020.

00:19:38.920 Biden carried independence by 13 points against Donald Trump.

00:19:41.920 He is now trailing Trump by nine points among those same voters.

00:19:45.920 He carried black voters by 75 points in 2020.

00:19:49.920 Now he is up just 35.

00:19:50.920 That may sound like a lot.

00:19:51.920 But the fact of the matter is, in modern politics, that is not the kind of number that a Democrat needs to be victorious.

00:19:57.920 And then, of course, that does spill over into the head-to-head matchup, the hypothetical rematch, Trump versus Biden.

00:20:03.920 Right now, a seven-point edge in our poll in Trump leading Biden.

00:20:08.920 And in fact, it's an identical number with Ron DeSantis in a head-to-head that might happen next November.

00:20:14.920 That tells us at this very early stage, George, that this race is shaping up a lot more about the incumbent president, Joe Biden, than it is about any of his challengers.

00:20:24.920 That's one of the litmus tests for polls, at least political polls, I think.

00:20:29.920 Look, what are the supporters of the guy who's losing in the poll saying about it?

00:20:34.920 And if even they are admitting that it's bad, it's brutal, actually, as we're told, then it's probably pretty bad.

00:20:42.920 And this one is bad.

00:20:45.920 And it's also not an aberration.

00:20:48.920 It's part of a consistent theme here.

00:20:51.920 These approval ratings, what was it, 36%.

00:20:55.920 And that, you know, there's a little bit of a historical adjustment you have to make there because these days, like, I don't think it's possible at this point for a president to poll over, like, 50% in approval rating.

00:21:07.920 But even then, 36% is incredibly low.

00:21:14.920 It's not a surprise either.

00:21:16.920 People are, the economy's in shambles, crime running rampant. 0.88

00:21:21.920 You can't even take the subway without having to worry about being assaulted by some crazy homeless person.

00:21:28.920 And also, the guy running for reelection will be 82 years old, which I think is a major part of this.

00:21:37.920 The fact that Joe Biden's presidency and his administration have made people's lives worse is the biggest part of it.

00:21:46.920 But also, his age has to be a major factor in all this.

00:21:52.920 You know, I would guess that if the situation was exactly the same economically in every other way, but Joe Biden was 10 years younger, his polling numbers are probably quite a bit better.

00:22:03.920 Shouldn't be, but they would be.

00:22:06.920 The thing you heard at the end there, I think, is key, though.

00:22:10.920 That this is a race shaping up to be about Joe Biden, which is exactly what we want.

00:22:14.920 That's what it should be.

00:22:16.920 You're running against an incumbent.

00:22:19.920 He's been an abysmal failure by every measure.

00:22:23.920 OK, nothing is better in the country today than it was when Biden took over.

00:22:30.920 Everything is worse.

00:22:31.920 And that's what the race has to be about. 0.57

00:22:34.920 So whoever it is running against Joe Biden will probably be Trump.

00:22:37.920 But, you know, primary has not even happened yet.

00:22:40.920 Whoever it is.

00:22:43.920 The strategy that they have to use is to make it about Biden.

00:22:47.920 Don't make it about yourself.

00:22:48.920 Make it about him.

00:22:51.920 More political news.

00:22:52.920 ABC obtained what they're saying is exclusive footage of Ron DeSantis.

00:22:58.920 This is footage that was leaked to ABC of Ron DeSantis doing debate prep back in back in 2018.

00:23:05.920 This is part of a theme now.

00:23:07.920 We saw all last week the exclusive footage that was leaked of Tucker Carlson to media matters.

00:23:12.920 And what were we saying about that footage?

00:23:14.920 It's well, they keep releasing all this footage of Tucker Carlson.

00:23:17.920 There'll probably be more that comes out because there's like hundreds of hours of footage probably of off air footage of Tucker Carlson.

00:23:23.920 But it all makes him look normal and relatable.

00:23:27.920 There's nothing scandalous there.

00:23:29.920 And it makes them look all the better when you consider that since they have all this footage, they're going to put the worst possible stuff out.

00:23:38.920 They're going to lead with that.

00:23:39.920 If they have something really bad, if they have Tucker Carlson saying or doing something really bad on camera, that'd be out already.

00:23:44.920 They're not going to put out a bunch of stuff of him being normal and then three weeks from now say, oh, yeah, by the way, we have this.

00:23:51.920 So we can assume that doesn't exist.

00:23:53.920 And now Ron DeSantis is getting similar treatment.

00:24:00.920 So this is, again, ABC touting exclusive footage.

00:24:03.920 It's a big deal.

00:24:05.920 They got this footage of debate prep in 2018.

00:24:10.920 The only way that I could see that they would have gotten this footage is the only way they could have gotten is someone that was at least at the time on Ron DeSantis' team gave it to ABC.

00:24:22.920 We don't know who that was, but someone did.

00:24:25.920 And anyway, here's the footage that we're told is supposed to be a big scandal for Ron DeSantis.

00:24:30.920 Has the NRA donated to me?

00:24:32.920 I don't think the NRA is quite the boogeyman the Democrats think it is.

00:24:36.920 Do we hit him on guns or does everyone who cares about guns is going to vote for me?

00:24:39.920 Is there any issue upon which you disagree with President Trump?

00:24:43.920 Obviously, there is, because I voted contrary to him.

00:24:48.920 I have to frame it in a way that's not going to piss off all his voters.

00:24:52.920 So what I do is I do what I think is right.

00:24:54.920 I support his agenda in terms of what he's been able to do.

00:24:57.920 If I have a disagreement, I talk to him in private.

00:24:59.920 I think when you walk up there, if you have a pad, you have to write in all caps at the top of the pad likeable.

00:25:05.920 And just look, I do the same thing because I have the same personality.

00:25:08.920 We're both aggressive.

00:25:09.920 Wow, that's a major scandal.

00:25:16.920 So apparently, I can't even believe this.

00:25:20.920 And as formerly a Ron DeSantis supporter, I'm going to have to start rethinking my support form.

00:25:25.920 Because apparently, Ron DeSantis engaged in political strategy.

00:25:30.920 Before a debate, he was with his team and they were strategizing how to best answer questions and how he should present himself.

00:25:38.920 I mean, I'm speechless.

00:25:41.920 I'm stunned.

00:25:42.920 No politician in the history of politics has ever done this.

00:25:47.920 He's the first one to ever do something as horrific as this.

00:25:54.920 And he has a, not just the political strategy, but apparently he has a team of people around him.

00:26:01.920 And it's their job to work on strategy with him.

00:26:07.920 Unbelievable.

00:26:08.920 They're making a lot of the fact that whoever was on, you know, off camera there was saying to write the word likable at the top of his sheet of notes as he goes into the debate.

00:26:20.920 Which, the only thing surprising about that maybe is that it's such useless advice.

00:26:25.920 The fact that a politician is being advised to come off as likable, I think every politician consciously tries to do that.

00:26:36.920 Being told to write it on your sheet of paper is that's really bad advice.

00:26:39.920 It's kind of useless advice.

00:26:42.920 You probably don't need to say it if you're a political advisor.

00:26:45.920 You don't need to actually say out loud to your candidate, you know, you should be likable.

00:26:48.920 Oh, I should?

00:26:49.920 I mean, I want people to like me and not hate me.

00:26:51.920 I had no idea.

00:26:52.920 That's the one, if there's anything shocking to come out of that, it's that there's rather redundant advice being given.

00:27:00.920 But other than that, this was Ron DeSantis working out a political strategy.

00:27:06.920 He didn't, it wasn't like he was sitting there with his advisors planning to lie. 1.00

00:27:11.920 Okay, he wasn't saying, oh, these idiots, they'll fall for anything. 1.00

00:27:14.920 Let's lie about this. 1.00

00:27:15.920 Nothing like that.

00:27:17.920 And again, we can assume that nothing like that exists, okay, on camera, because if it did, it would have come out by now.

00:27:26.920 Especially if there are people on Ron DeSantis' team or that used to be on his team that are now willing to take footage like this and leak it to the left-wing press.

00:27:35.920 If there was something really bad, if there were really terrible skeletons in his closet, we can be pretty sure we'd see them by now.

00:27:44.920 All right, moving to this, you know, it was a pretty terrible weekend, two mass killings, which isn't to say mass shootings, but two mass killings, both in Texas.

00:27:51.920 And in both cases, the alleged assailants are Hispanic, which is relevant only because in both cases, predictably, the media is trying to pin the blame on white supremacy.

00:28:00.920 But neither of the alleged culprits are actually white.

00:28:04.920 So, Daily Wire has the first report.

00:28:06.920 Law enforcement officials said the suspect who murdered at least eight people and injured half a dozen more at the Allen Premium Outlets in Texas was a 33-year-old Latino male who reportedly worked as a security guard.

00:28:17.920 He was wearing a tactical vest, armed with a rifle, a handgun, and had other weapons in his car, according to officials.

00:28:23.920 The FBI raided a home in the Northeast Patrol Division of Dallas on Saturday where the suspect reportedly lived with his parents.

00:28:29.920 They reportedly needed a translator to speak with the family.

00:28:32.920 There's footage of this, which I would not recommend watching, but the suspect drives up in a gray Dodge Charger and then gets out of the car and starts spraying bullets.

00:28:43.920 We still don't, there's still no official information on his motive or anything else.

00:28:49.920 He had no serious criminal record and was working as a security guard.

00:28:52.920 Now, that was the shooting, but unfortunately, again, not the only mass killing to happen over the weekend.

00:29:01.920 The other one reported by Fox, the number of people killed when a man crashed his vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians in Brownsville, Texas, on Sunday has risen to eight, police say, and at least 11 have been injured.

00:29:12.920 The Brownsville Police Department told Fox News that eight victims died at the scene.

00:29:16.920 At least 11 others have been transported to area hospitals.

00:29:19.920 The driver, who police confirmed is a Hispanic man, has been arrested and charged, but investigations are ongoing.

00:29:24.920 They're doing a toxicology report, obviously, and the initial reports from authorities is that they, this appears to be an intentional attack.

00:29:33.920 And this one too, there's a lot of video footage that was making rounds on social media.

00:29:38.920 The kind of footage that if you were on Twitter over the weekend, you would have probably seen some of it, whether you wanted to or not.

00:29:43.920 And I certainly didn't want to, but it was right there, you know, scrolling by and you see a car plow into a bunch of people and kill them.

00:29:50.920 This is becoming extremely common on social media now was like, if you're, if you are a regular social media user and you have been over the last several years, you have certainly seen people die on camera.

00:30:05.920 Like you, it's unavoidable that you'll see it at this point.

00:30:09.920 It's becoming so ubiquitous, which I don't think helps anything.

00:30:14.920 I know there are some people that say, well, we need to get this footage out there.

00:30:16.920 People need to see it so they understand what's going on, but I don't think it helps anything.

00:30:22.920 I think if, if any, if, if it does anything, it hurts because it desensitizes people.

00:30:27.920 After a while, when you just see all of this death, I think if anything, it has the effect of desensitizing, which is exactly the opposite of what we want.

00:30:37.920 We still don't know a lot about either of these incidents.

00:30:41.920 The authorities again are saying that the car attack was likely intentional.

00:30:44.920 It also seems at least certainly possible that he was high or drunk or something along those lines.

00:30:50.920 It could have been a combination.

00:30:51.920 It could have been drunk and done it on purpose.

00:30:52.920 So we don't know.

00:30:53.920 But assuming it was intentional for a moment, we would have then two targeted intentional mass killings in one weekend.

00:31:03.920 And they don't fit into the neat media narrative.

00:31:08.920 Um, the attackers are non white.

00:31:11.920 Only one used the gun.

00:31:13.920 Okay.

00:31:14.920 So we had the shooting that happened before the car attack.

00:31:17.920 And we heard as always from the left, we'll take the guns away, takes the guns away.

00:31:21.920 We'll solve this problem.

00:31:22.920 Then shortly after that, we have eight people killed in a span of, you know, five seconds because someone plowed a car into them.

00:31:32.920 Because it turns out that even if you don't have a gun, we, we all have access to these, you know, um, hundreds of these, these, these, uh, two ton, uh, metal vehicles that we all, that you can drive around 80 miles an hour.

00:31:49.920 So we, we have, we have access to lots of technology that bad people can use to kill other people, which is why the fundamental question, as I'm always raising after things like this, the fundamental question is not how did they do it?

00:32:12.920 Because again, unfortunately, there are many ways for a bad person to kill lots of people.

00:32:21.920 A gun is only one of the ways they can do it.

00:32:23.920 Um, so that's not the fundamental question.

00:32:28.920 The fundamental question is why, why are people doing this?

00:32:33.920 If it seems like this is happening more and more, you know, not a weekend goes by that we don't have stories like this.

00:32:39.920 That's certainly how it seems to me, but that's not a reflection that people have more access to these tools of, of, of death.

00:32:49.920 People have been driving cars for many decades.

00:32:54.920 People have had guns for hundreds of years.

00:32:56.920 So that, that can't be the, the answer.

00:33:00.920 Um, and anyway, that only answers the how question.

00:33:07.920 The, the, the other question is why, why would somebody want to do this?

00:33:11.920 Most people, millions of Americans have guns and they, they're, they're not ever going to murder anybody.

00:33:18.920 They have no inclination to no desire to.

00:33:21.920 It's not even that they're not doing it because they're afraid they're going to go to jail.

00:33:23.920 It's they don't get to that point in their mind because like most of us, I have guns.

00:33:28.920 I never, I never have to say to myself, well, if I do this, I'll go to jail.

00:33:31.920 I'll go to jail. It's, it's, you don't have the inclination.

00:33:34.920 You don't have the desire.

00:33:35.920 Thought would never even occur to you to do that.

00:33:38.920 There's, there's a zero chance of it happening for most people.

00:33:42.920 Just as most of us drive cars around every day.

00:33:46.920 There, there's zero chance that we will intentionally plow into someone and kill them.

00:33:53.920 So if, if simply having access to these tools is what causes it, then that doesn't explain why for the vast majority of people who have guns or have knives or have cars, have any weapon or tool that could be used to kill people.

00:34:11.920 It doesn't explain why most of us would never do this, never, never do it.

00:34:15.920 But then there are the people that do.

00:34:19.920 And it seems like there are more people, the proportion of people who are inclined to engage in these murderous sprees has gone up.

00:34:27.920 And if that's true, there's still the question of why.

00:34:30.920 Um, and we're not, we're not, we're not getting to that question.

00:34:35.920 We're not attempting to grapple with it at all.

00:34:40.920 Because there you get to, uh, lots of things that the media has no interest in talking about, the left doesn't want to talk about.

00:34:49.920 You get to things like the collapse of the family.

00:34:52.920 Um, the spiritual decay in our culture.

00:34:59.920 You know, the, the, uh, the crisis of meaning and purpose.

00:35:05.920 People living these kind of empty lives.

00:35:08.920 All of these things, these are all factors that lead to this.

00:35:14.920 It's not like, you know, if you, you take this security guard, alleged security guard who committed the mass shooting.

00:35:25.920 If you were to take the guns away from him ahead of time, would that, would that mean that we're safe now?

00:35:32.920 Would it, would it be safe to be around this guy?

00:35:34.920 Would, would you feel comfortable living next to him?

00:35:38.920 Would you feel comfortable sitting next to him on a, on a, the subway?

00:35:42.920 Even if he didn't have a gun, would you?

00:35:44.920 Of course not. He's, he's, he's still a homicidal maniac. 0.99

00:35:47.920 Still an evil person who has the desire to kill lots of people. 0.96

00:35:51.920 Now he just has to be slightly more creative in how he figures out how to do it.

00:35:57.920 So you haven't solved any problem.

00:36:02.920 And we're never going to completely solve the problem of human evil, but we can address it.

00:36:06.920 We can mitigate it if we actually start talking about it and dealing with that aspect of the problem, which we don't.

00:36:17.920 All right.

00:36:19.920 The Daily Wire is this report.

00:36:20.920 The security guard who shot and killed a shoplifting suspect in self-defense spoke out about the incident on Friday.

00:36:24.920 Michael Earl Wayne Anthony is the security guard at Walgreens in downtown San Francisco.

00:36:29.920 On April 27th, Anthony shot and killed an alleged shoplifter, later identified as local transgender activist Banco Brown.

00:36:35.920 We talked about this in the opening, I believe on Friday.

00:36:38.920 In an interview with the San Francisco Standard, Anthony spoke out about the incident and the effects it had on him.

00:36:43.920 Anthony said, I'm still dealing with it.

00:36:45.920 Still don't understand and don't have the time to reflect.

00:36:47.920 It's not like I go through this many times.

00:36:49.920 This is a very life-changing matter.

00:36:51.920 Anthony declined to elaborate on the details of the shooting.

00:36:54.920 According to a Thursday report from the San Francisco Standard, police said that Anthony tried to stop Brown from shoplifting.

00:37:01.920 He was still standing inside the store when Brown walked out.

00:37:04.920 Brown then turned around and allegedly spat on Anthony and raised a hand to him.

00:37:08.920 It was at that point that Anthony drew his gun and fired.

00:37:10.920 It was also at that point that as the DA, San Francisco DA said, it went from a shoplifting incident, shoplifting is where you just take the merchandise and walk out with it, shoplifting to robbery because now force is being used.

00:37:25.920 Anthony pointed out that security guards like him are under immense pressure in confrontational situations like that and that it happened very fast.

00:37:31.920 Quote, this is important for more people to be aware of, he said.

00:37:34.920 It was happening too frequently.

00:37:35.920 It's a lot to deal with.

00:37:36.920 It's a lot of pressure.

00:37:37.920 A person can only take so much.

00:37:40.920 When you're limited to certain options, something will happen.

00:37:43.920 This is talking about being a security guard.

00:37:45.920 Being a security guard is difficult because you're on your own in more ways than one, he added.

00:37:48.920 Who has my back?

00:37:49.920 Nobody, he said.

00:37:51.920 You're left with no support.

00:37:52.920 It's a frightening feeling with a lot of people around you who could do you harm, he added.

00:37:56.920 So, we heard on Friday the activists that are calling for the abolition of armed security.

00:38:04.920 They don't want police and they also don't want armed security.

00:38:08.920 And they don't want a citizen police force, which is the other thing that we were told.

00:38:13.920 Well, get rid of the police.

00:38:14.920 We abolish the police.

00:38:16.920 Get rid of them.

00:38:17.920 Defund the police.

00:38:18.920 And then we can have citizens.

00:38:20.920 The community.

00:38:21.920 Community policing, I think is the phrase.

00:38:23.920 The communities can police themselves.

00:38:24.920 Well, that's what happened on the subway in New York and they weren't too happy about that.

00:38:29.920 So, they don't want police.

00:38:31.920 Then you say, well, can we at least have armed security?

00:38:34.920 No, you can't have security.

00:38:35.920 Okay, well, communities can police themselves.

00:38:37.920 Nope, can't do that either. 1.00

00:38:39.920 They're whittling it down to the one single option that they want to leave open to you, which is to sit there and endure whatever a criminal scumbag wants to do. 1.00

00:38:53.920 Whatever he decides he wants to do. 0.99

00:38:56.920 The only option they want to leave open to you is to surrender to that criminal's whims.

00:39:02.920 How are they going to get rid of armed security, though?

00:39:07.920 Well, they know that their efforts to abolish and defund the police have basically failed.

00:39:14.920 They're not going to be able to pass a law prohibiting individuals from having armed security for their property or prohibiting businesses from having armed security on their premises.

00:39:26.920 They would like to do that, but they're not going to be able to do it.

00:39:28.920 So, what's the way around that?

00:39:30.920 Well, the way around it is to bring things to a point where nobody would want to be an armed security guard because it's not worth the risk.

00:39:44.920 So, they can't prevent Walgreens from having armed security, but they can make it so that it's not worth it for anyone to take that job as a security guard.

00:39:55.920 Which is also the end-run maneuver they've pulled when it comes to police.

00:39:59.920 Well, we can't defund the police.

00:40:02.920 We can't abolish policing as much as we would like, but we can make it clear that if you take this job, we're going to ruin your life.

00:40:07.920 We're going to put you in an impossible lose-lose situation.

00:40:09.920 Every time you put on the badge and go outside and get in your patrol car, we are creating a series of lose-lose situations.

00:40:18.920 Because if there's a crime happening and you don't do anything to stop it, well, then you're negligent and you haven't done your job.

00:40:25.920 If you step in to try to stop it, you could get hurt yourself.

00:40:28.920 Or if you do succeed in stopping it, then that means you're using some kind of force on the criminal and then we could ruin your life for that.

00:40:37.920 No matter what happens, if you're a police officer, as soon as you encounter, as soon as you're actually face-to-face with a crime,

00:40:44.920 which is the whole reason why your job exists, you lose.

00:40:49.920 And they can do the same thing with armed security.

00:40:52.920 Yeah, we can have you there kind of as a decorative feature, but the moment that something actually happens,

00:41:02.920 like the reason why your job exists, the moment that happens and you encounter it, you lose.

00:41:09.920 And it's going to be much easier to scare people away from these kind of armed security roles than it is even for police,

00:41:16.920 because I imagine it pays a lot worse, benefits are a lot worse, and people are going to say, well, why would I do that?

00:41:21.920 Why would I do that?

00:41:23.920 I mean, I certainly wouldn't.

00:41:25.920 Would you take a job as an armed security guard at a Walgreens in San Francisco?

00:41:30.920 As the security guard points out, no one has your back.

00:41:35.920 It's like you're there to not just protect Walgreens, but as we talked about on Friday, you're also defending the community in a very real sense.

00:41:47.920 Because people in the community need these products that Walgreens sells.

00:41:52.920 And if you don't stop people from stealing them, then Walgreens shuts down and nobody can have access to them.

00:41:56.920 So you are protecting the community's access to these necessary items.

00:42:02.920 But the community is not going to have your back.

00:42:05.920 So why even take the job?

00:42:07.920 The other thing is that, you know, he talks about the emotional impact it's had on him after killing this Banco Brown person. 0.79

00:42:15.920 And that's a very real thing, and it shows you how he is the real victim here.

00:42:21.920 Okay, when an armed security guard is forced to shoot somebody because they're trying to rob the place, the person who pulled the trigger is the victim of that death.

00:42:33.920 Okay, Banco Brown is not the victim of Banco Brown's death.

00:42:37.920 Banco Brown brought that on a biological female, I believe, right?

00:42:43.920 Brought that on herself.

00:42:44.920 So she's not the victim.

00:42:46.920 She brought it on herself.

00:42:47.920 You know, the victim of Banco Brown's death is the security guard who was forced to kill her.

00:42:52.920 Because now he has to deal with that for the rest of his life.

00:42:55.920 Yeah, he was totally justified.

00:42:57.920 He was right in doing it.

00:42:59.920 We know that.

00:43:00.920 Even the San Francisco DA couldn't figure out a way to put charges on him.

00:43:03.920 So we know that it was extremely justified.

00:43:06.920 But still, if you're a decent person, you don't want to kill anybody.

00:43:10.920 And now you got to deal with that for the rest of your life.

00:43:13.920 It's the same thing with so many of these police shootings that we see.

00:43:18.920 The real victim in so many of these police shootings, it's the police officer who had to pull the trigger.

00:43:23.920 You know, the violent criminal who created this situation, you're not the victim of that.

00:43:28.920 You created the situation, it's your fault.

00:43:32.920 Now this other person who didn't want the situation to be created, now they have to carry the emotional burden of that. 0.99

00:43:44.920 Just like if you break into my house and I have to kill you, which I would. 0.99

00:43:49.920 I am now the victim of your death. 1.00

00:43:53.920 Because I don't want to kill anybody.

00:43:55.920 I don't want to have that on.

00:43:56.920 I don't want to have to carry that.

00:43:59.920 So it's all part of the impossible kind of situations that we create for normal, law-abiding human beings.

00:44:06.920 All right, let's get to the comment section.

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00:45:23.920 Ipsatilla says, Matt, the new linguistic marching orders are in.

00:45:28.920 Rather than calling people canceled, they are now persons experiencing cancellation.

00:45:32.920 That's true.

00:45:33.920 I should be more sensitive while I'm canceling people.

00:45:36.920 Roland says, the term unhoused is meant to proclaim what society has done to a person, not a description of a person's state, thus removing personal responsibility.

00:45:45.920 Yeah, I get that that's the, you know, intention behind changing the term to make it more passive.

00:45:55.920 But it's still not clear to me how homeless didn't already accomplish that.

00:46:00.920 See, that's the thing.

00:46:01.920 And this also shows how the left's, their manipulation of language, why it's so effective.

00:46:09.920 Because what ends up happening is that we end up defending what really is PC language when they come up with even more PC language.

00:46:19.920 So they come up with a PC term to describe something.

00:46:22.920 And maybe at first there's some pushback, but then eventually it just becomes part of the vernacular.

00:46:27.920 And then they come up with a new terminology to replace that one.

00:46:32.920 And then we defend the most recent PC, not realizing that even that is PC.

00:46:37.920 So homeless as a term, you know, this is not how people used to describe this group of people.

00:46:44.920 They would have used terms like vagrant, drifter, you know, these kinds of terms.

00:46:49.920 Even terms that were much more directly insulting, like bum, you know, things like that.

00:46:55.920 And then we came up with this idea of homeless.

00:46:58.920 Because the concept is there's there's no judgment being passed.

00:47:03.920 It already sounds pretty sort of passive and neutral, just homeless without a home, less homeless.

00:47:09.920 And it sounds like it already sounds like something that happens to a person.

00:47:14.920 Not not to it's not the result of any choices that they made.

00:47:18.920 Even though in reality, vast majority of cases of homelessness, it is the result of choices that were made.

00:47:25.920 Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to help these people.

00:47:28.920 It just means that if you want to help people, you want to start by understanding why they're in the position that they're in.

00:47:35.920 And it's important to understand that no, it's not simply victims of circumstance.

00:47:41.920 It's not simply that, well, they tripped and fell one day and next thing you know, their house was gone and their house unhoused or homeless.

00:47:48.920 Because if it was that, then yeah, you could solve the problem by building homes and giving them to the homeless population.

00:48:00.920 And the only argument against that would be one of economics.

00:48:04.920 But if that could actually solve the problem, okay, if that could solve it, okay, there's a 100% guarantee that you could solve the homeless problem by simply giving homes to all the homeless people.

00:48:17.920 And then that's it.

00:48:18.920 And we're done with homelessness.

00:48:20.920 Then even with the enormous financial burden, I would say, well, it's worth it.

00:48:24.920 Okay, let's do that then.

00:48:25.920 Let's figure out a way to do it.

00:48:27.920 Let's build a bunch of homes, give homes to all the homeless.

00:48:31.920 But that would not come close to solving the problem.

00:48:34.920 Okay, because when you take someone who is on the street, they're addicted to drugs and they're Jordan Neely, mentally ill, violent, all this.

00:48:42.920 And you put them in a home, they're going to be back out on the street in about 30 minutes.

00:48:48.920 Okay, the home is going to be destroyed and they're going to be back out on the street.

00:48:53.920 There's a reason why they ended up out there.

00:48:58.920 There's a reason why, look, it's, if you're living out on the street corner, it would be better, like you could get a, you could go to some fleabag motel and rent a room for extremely cheap rate.

00:49:13.920 And you would think that even if you had like a minimum wage job or something, you have enough to at least afford that.

00:49:20.920 It's not a good life, but it's better than being out on the street.

00:49:23.920 They're not going to make those kinds of choices.

00:49:25.920 And in many cases, because they've, you know, if, if it's a drug addict, a drug addiction situation and everything goes into the drug, whatever you give them goes into the drug, you give them a house goes into the drug.

00:49:37.920 They'll sell the house to buy drugs and they'll be dead.

00:49:39.920 That's what will happen.

00:49:40.920 So what was the point there?

00:49:43.920 Oh, yes.

00:49:44.920 Well, the term unhoused.

00:49:45.920 So it's homeless already kind of a passive thing.

00:49:48.920 Unhoused makes it more, more passive and it becomes a real problem.

00:49:51.920 It's not just annoying PC language.

00:49:53.920 It makes it harder for us to understand the actual cause of this crisis, which means that we cannot solve it.

00:50:01.920 Um, and by the way, if you want, we've talked before, but if you want real world examples of, uh, maybe not giving, just giving houses to the homeless, but there have been cities where they've said, well, let's, um, let's require hotels to house the homeless.

00:50:16.920 That's so we could solve the problem there.

00:50:17.920 Take the homeless, put them in a hotel room, problem solved. 0.98

00:50:20.920 Then what is what ends up happening?

00:50:22.920 The, the hotel rooms are destroyed and the people you gave the hotel rooms to end up back on the street the next day.

00:50:31.920 Um, another comment says, Matt, I w I would want to see you defend your idea of restricting transition procedures from adults aware of consequences of their decision and willing to incur them.

00:50:42.920 I disagree with this and think you can't defend this beyond that.

00:50:44.920 You don't like it.

00:50:45.920 That position is very unpopular.

00:50:47.920 Uh, well, maybe an unpopular position, but the unpopular positions are so often the right ones.

00:50:53.920 And that would be the case here as well.

00:50:55.920 I think I have defended it many times.

00:50:56.920 Um, it's a restriction and I'm not going to go through the whole.

00:51:00.920 I'm not going to go through the whole.

00:51:01.920 You can listen to any show where I've addressed this, but I'm not going to go through the whole case.

00:51:07.920 But the most important thing to remember is that what I would be advocating, it's not a restriction on the individual.

00:51:15.920 Um, the individual trans identified person, it's actually a restriction on the medical industry.

00:51:22.920 It's a restriction on the doctors.

00:51:24.920 And the argument is that it is not okay for doctors to do that to a person.

00:51:29.920 It's not okay for a doctor to in exchange for money, take your money and then mutilate you, even if you want to be mutilated.

00:51:36.920 So this is not a matter of simple personal choice.

00:51:39.920 This is not mutilation people are doing in their homes.

00:51:42.920 Okay, it's not like a self-castration that's going on in the home.

00:51:45.920 And that I would be in favor of stopping someone from doing that too.

00:51:48.920 Okay, because if someone's going to castrate themselves, they're obviously not mentally well and for their own sake.

00:51:53.920 So they don't harm themselves, we have to stop it.

00:51:55.920 But we're not talking about that.

00:51:56.920 We're talking about mutilation that is done by some other party to a third party.

00:52:05.920 And this is a restriction on that party that wants to inflict the mutilation and profit from it.

00:52:11.920 And ultimately they're profiting from the mental illness and confusion of people who, yeah, they might be asking,

00:52:16.920 they might literally be asking for it and saying, do this to me.

00:52:19.920 They don't understand what they're asking for. 0.60

00:52:20.920 The fact that they would want it in the first place is evidence enough of their mental unwellness.

00:52:27.920 All right.

00:52:29.920 And finally, Austin says, the World War Three or the culture war choice sounds a lot like guns kill kids, not drag queens. 0.83

00:52:38.920 I can actually hate that kids are killed with guns and that adults abuse kids.

00:52:41.920 Thank you.

00:52:42.920 Yeah, that's a lot of what these false choices are all about.

00:52:45.920 We heard we heard on on Friday the some on the right all all of a sudden have decided culture war doesn't matter anymore because we have to avoid World War Three.

00:52:54.920 As if we have to make a choice between those two.

00:52:57.920 And also as if the the conservatives who now have abandoned the culture war, they're dedicating themselves full time now to stopping World War Three.

00:53:06.920 Which again, if you're a normal citizen, how exactly are you going to do that?

00:53:10.920 What's your plan to stop World War?

00:53:12.920 I'm worried about World War Three, too.

00:53:13.920 I don't want it to happen.

00:53:15.920 OK, if you're saying, well, I'm not worried about culture war drag queens. 0.99

00:53:19.920 I got to stop World War Three. 0.96

00:53:20.920 OK, well, go ahead.

00:53:22.920 What are you doing?

00:53:24.920 To stop World War Three. 0.90

00:53:26.920 You know, you're going on some like Mission Impossible.

00:53:28.920 You're going on some global globe trotting mission.

00:53:32.920 No, you're not doing anything.

00:53:34.920 You're just sitting in your house doing nothing.

00:53:36.920 So this is an excuse.

00:53:37.920 There's there's one thing that we can do.

00:53:39.920 Like we can actually engage with the culture and make a difference in the culture because we're all part of the culture.

00:53:43.920 We all we all comprise the culture.

00:53:46.920 We can do something there.

00:53:48.920 And you're making an excuse for not doing anything.

00:53:50.920 That's what it all is.

00:53:52.920 I want to talk to you about something I don't usually talk about, except when I'm reading this exact copy three times a week.

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00:53:58.920 Not mine.

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00:54:09.920 I read this copy three times a week.

00:54:11.920 I can't. 1.00

00:54:12.920 I still can't even read it because I'm that stupid. 0.97

00:54:13.920 Anyway, restorative tea tree and argon oil blend to wash your mane. 0.99

00:54:16.920 You're doing it wrong and are asking to be canceled.

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00:54:46.920 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:54:48.920 I have frequently discussed the trials and tribulations faced by parents who seek tolerable entertainment options for their children.

00:54:58.920 Really, we would prefer something wholesome and enriching, but that very often proves to be too high a bar.

00:55:02.920 So we'll settle for tolerable, which simply means that it's a children's show or film that doesn't engage in left wing brainwashing 0.97

00:55:08.920 and isn't so loud, stupid and obnoxious that we can't stand to be in the room when it's on. 0.94

00:55:13.920 This is a bar high enough that 99% of all modern children's entertainment cannot hope to clear it. 0.98

00:55:18.920 And it whittles the options down considerably so that we can, you know, we can feel pretty safe with whatever few options are left.

00:55:25.920 And one of the options left is a show that listeners of this podcast first alerted me to.

00:55:30.920 It's not only it not only clears the not woke, not obnoxious bar, but even manages the extremely rare feat of hurtling the actively wholesome and enriching bar, which is way up here.

00:55:41.920 Bluey is a cartoon originally out of Australia about a family of blue healer dogs.

00:55:46.920 Bluey herself, the older daughter in the family, is the main character.

00:55:50.920 But most episodes prominently feature her family members, her younger sister, her mom and her dad.

00:55:54.920 And the dad is named a bandit in the show.

00:55:56.920 Probably the show's most beloved character.

00:55:58.920 And the show is funny.

00:56:00.920 It's entertaining.

00:56:01.920 It's clever.

00:56:02.920 And although the characters are anthropomorphic animals, the family dynamics are, you know, pretty realistic and also positive. 0.99

00:56:09.920 The dad character especially is a source of comedy, which for most modern entertainment would mean that he's a stupid, bumbling oaf in the butt of all the jokes. 0.99

00:56:18.920 But that's not the case in the show. 0.99

00:56:20.920 Bandit is portrayed as an attentive and engaged father who leads a happy cartoon family.

00:56:25.920 The show is not a work of towering artistic genius.

00:56:29.920 Probably not gonna be the kind of thing that people are studying and talking about 500 years from now.

00:56:33.920 That's fine.

00:56:35.920 It's a wholesome children's show.

00:56:37.920 It's fine.

00:56:38.920 It's good.

00:56:39.920 It's normal.

00:56:40.920 And that's why the woke crowd is absolutely determined to ruin it.

00:56:44.920 Back in, so let's trace this, the history of the woke crowd going after Bluey. 0.75

00:56:49.920 It's been a long campaign, a long battle they've been waging.

00:56:53.920 Back in 2021, there's a journalist named Beverly Wang wrote an article for ABC, which is the Australian broadcasting company in this case.

00:57:00.920 And she applauded the show for being, as she says, tender, nuanced, and joyful.

00:57:05.920 And yet at the same time, she criticized it for its lack of representation.

00:57:09.920 In an article that I'm 99% sure isn't supposed to be satire, Wang wrote, quote,

00:57:16.920 As a parent of color, I am always conscious of the presence or absence of diverse representation in kids' pop culture, what it means for children, the conversations we have around that.

00:57:25.920 I sincerely believe you don't have to be other to think about this, too.

00:57:29.920 We live in a world where the majority of main characters on children's television are white, where there are more animals than people of color protagonists populating the pages of children's books. 0.95

00:57:38.920 Where are the disabled, queer, poor, gender diverse dogs of color and single parent dog families in Bluey's Brisbane? 0.98

00:57:45.920 If they're in the background, well, let them come forward.

00:57:49.920 Now, the most obvious answer here is that the show does feature dogs of color. 0.69

00:57:53.920 The color is blue, hence the name of the show.

00:57:56.920 Does it overrepresent the blue-colored community?

00:57:58.920 Does it make blue people feel more welcome and included at the expense of otherizing those in the audience who might be, you know, pink or green or purple or some other color?

00:58:07.920 Perhaps.

00:58:08.920 But these seem like minor complaints.

00:58:10.920 Does the show fail to include queer and, quote, gender diverse dogs, whatever that means?

00:58:15.920 Again, yes, but that's because the makers of Bluey, you know, made the provocative decision to not turn the show into a vehicle for sexual indoctrination.

00:58:26.920 And thank God for that.

00:58:28.920 As to the lack of poor dogs and single parent family dogs and disabled dogs and dogs with hearing difficulties and dogs with ADHD and dogs with food allergies and illegal immigrant dogs, dogs with sleep apnea, dogs with eczema, etc.

00:58:43.920 These boxes are not checked, but that's because the show is not trying to check boxes.

00:58:48.920 It's just trying to tell a story, a very simple story to children.

00:58:52.920 Given that none of the children in the audience are dogs and none of them have dog parents, none of them will feel represented in the extremely literal way that the left demands.

00:59:03.920 But that's a good thing because worthwhile children's entertainment is supposed to activate a child's imagination.

00:59:11.920 You don't want to put a child into a box and then give him a character tailor-made for that box and say, here you go, child, this is your character.

00:59:21.920 You can relate to him.

00:59:22.920 You can relate to him.

00:59:23.920 This is the one assigned to you so you can relate to this character specifically.

00:59:27.920 Instead, you want a child to use his imagination and use that to engage with and relate to the characters.

00:59:35.920 For example, right now the fictional characters that resonate the most with my three-year-old daughter are Spider-Man and Elsa from Frozen.

00:59:44.920 And that doesn't mean she's gender-fluid, half boy and half girl.

00:59:48.920 It means that she's an imaginative toddler.

00:59:50.920 And that's a good thing.

00:59:51.920 But that was only the first woke attack launched against Bluey.

00:59:54.920 A year later, two Australian academics published an article taking aim at Bandit, the dad character.

01:00:00.920 Noting a, quote, darker side to this lovable character, they claim that Bandit, quote, never strays far from reductive stereotypes.

01:00:07.920 Bemoaning the fact that he is a, quote, likable roguish male stuck between childhood and adulthood whose disrespect of authority and rough and ready masculinity reflects Australia's emotional attachment to the working class underdog.

01:00:20.920 The writers also take Bandit to task for incidents of alleged bullying because of the ways that he playfully teases his children in the show.

01:00:27.920 He's bullying them.

01:00:28.920 And they scold the cartoon dog for being, quote, surprisingly conservative when it comes to gender values.

01:00:34.920 In other words, as already established, the dad character is portrayed as normal, masculine, funny, which is why he's so popular and relatable with the audience and also why leftist weirdo academics are so concerned about him.

01:00:48.920 Fast forward another year to this past week and we have the next woke assault on a family of fictional cartoon dogs.

01:00:55.920 An episode in season three titled Exercise opens with Bandit stepping on a scale in the bathroom.

01:01:02.920 And then he says, oh, man, I need to do some exercise.

01:01:05.920 And that's the scene.

01:01:07.920 It's a scene that may seem utterly uncontroversial and unremarkable to you, but that's because you're a normal human being.

01:01:12.920 To the left, however, the scene is problematic.

01:01:15.920 And that's how it was described by this alleged child development expert on TikTok who has a PhD, by the way.

01:01:22.920 And she wants to explain why we should be very concerned about this scene in Bluey.

01:01:26.920 Listen.

01:01:27.920 Bluey recently screwed up in a pretty big way, and it's made a lot of people angry.

01:01:32.920 But basically, there's a brand new episode called Exercise, where at the start, Bandit, Bluey's dad, grabs his belly.

01:01:39.920 I'll show you a picture here.

01:01:41.920 And kind of just looks at it and like goes to the scale, weighs himself and goes, oh, I need to do exercise.

01:01:48.920 That in and of itself is a really problematic narrative to have on a children's television show.

01:01:54.920 When we know that most girls, by the time they're nine, think about dieting, think they're overweight and really have a problem with body image already. 1.00

01:02:02.920 There's a couple of ways to solve this problem.

01:02:04.920 The first one is that we just not let the kids watch the episode, but that's not really going to work because kids are going to see this messaging in many places throughout their lives.

01:02:15.920 So it's actually better to use this episode of a relatively safe children's television show to start the discussion about body image, about how we treat our body, about not body positivity or body negativity, but body neutrality.

01:02:29.920 Because the truth is, it doesn't matter what your body looks like.

01:02:32.920 It matters how it feels.

01:02:34.920 And that's the most important thing that we need to teach our children.

01:02:38.920 Not really the point, but that I never had the Vegemite stuff, but it could not look less appealing.

01:02:47.920 It looks like it basically looks like it's like black tar and coffee grinds that you smear on your toast with butter.

01:02:55.920 Body neutrality, she says.

01:02:58.920 Of course, telling society to be neutral about obesity, it's like telling lifeguards to practice drowning neutrality.

01:03:04.920 Whether somebody is swimming or drowning, it's not up for us to judge.

01:03:07.920 Drowning is just as valid an experience as swimming.

01:03:10.920 Who are we to tell people whether they should be at the surface of the water or beneath it?

01:03:13.920 Just as we should draw no distinctions between a physically fit person and a person who is morbidly obese.

01:03:19.920 Sure, the obese person is literally dying in front of us.

01:03:23.920 It's killing themselves, destroying their bodies, their skeletal structures, their internal organs.

01:03:27.920 But that's just how they've chosen to live and express themselves and die.

01:03:31.920 Certainly wouldn't want to send the problematic message that being healthy and living a long life is somehow better than being extremely fat and dying of a heart attack when you're 42.

01:03:40.920 This, anyway, was the argument made by various leftists on TikTok.

01:03:45.920 And in this case, the first two attacks fell flat.

01:03:47.920 This one actually resonated, at least it resonated with the ABC, which decided to cut that scene from the episode.

01:03:54.920 The issue of this statement, quote,

01:03:57.920 The recent episode of Bluey, Exercise, has been republished by the ABC following a decision by the makers of the program.

01:04:02.920 The new version provides families with the opportunity to manage important conversations in their own way.

01:04:07.920 As the home of Bluey and the ABC supports the decision to re-edit the program,

01:04:11.920 and we have updated the episode on our platforms.

01:04:14.920 BBC Studios will use this revised version for global distribution and also support this decision.

01:04:19.920 Lots of relief.

01:04:21.920 Now children who watch that episode of Bluey will not be exposed to any objectionable content encouraging them to engage in inappropriate behavior such as, you know, exercising.

01:04:31.920 This is the left's rules for children's entertainment.

01:04:34.920 That's the rule.

01:04:35.920 It cannot be normal.

01:04:37.920 It cannot be wholesome.

01:04:39.920 And it cannot encourage moral or physical improvement.

01:04:42.920 The last rule is the most important to them.

01:04:45.920 And as long as Bluey continues to violate these rules, it will remain a target. 0.84

01:04:49.920 It won't be satisfied until Bluey is rewritten as a show about morbidly obese gay dogs with body dysmorphia and clinical depression. 0.64

01:04:57.920 That's that's what they want.

01:04:59.920 And if the makers of the show ever succumb to that pressure, they will be the ones who are canceled.

01:05:03.920 But for now, it is Bluey's cancelers who are today canceled.

01:05:07.920 That'll do it for this portion shows move over members block.

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01:05:14.920 Hope to see you there.

01:05:15.920 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:05:16.920 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 08, 2023

Ep. 1160 - Leftist Protesters Throw Themselves In Front Of A Train On Behalf Of Violent Criminals

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