The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1209 - Canada’s ‘Mass Graves’ Hoax Is Yet Another Fabricated Narrative To Demonize Christians

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, churches burned across Canada after the media started reporting

00:00:04.060 about unmarked graves at Christian schools in the country. Well, investigators have finally

00:00:07.980 started to unearth some of these graves, and guess what they found? Nothing but a bunch of rocks.

00:00:12.520 Yes, another hoax is exposed. Also, Trump officially announces that he will be skipping

00:00:15.940 the upcoming Republican debate, and Judy Garland is the latest dead celebrity to be canceled.

00:00:20.680 Apparently, she performed in blackface in the 1930s. We'll talk about all that and more today

00:00:24.240 on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:20.980 A couple of months ago, on the first day of a major Islamic religious holiday, a man casually

00:01:26.360 walked up to a mosque in Stockholm, Sweden. And with hundreds of people looking on, he produced a

00:01:30.900 Koran and began ripping out the pages. He wiped a few of those pages on his shoe, and then the man

00:01:36.080 set the Koran on fire. 5,000 miles away at the U.S. State Department, Joe Biden's diplomats sprang into

00:01:41.760 action. Within hours, the State Department issued the strongest possible condemnation of the Koran

00:01:46.580 burning. Quote, I will say that we do condemn it, said a State Department spokesman. Spokesman added

00:01:51.400 that the demonstration had created, quote, an environment of fear that will, quote, impact the

00:01:55.860 ability of Muslims and members of other religious minority groups from freely exercising their right 0.98

00:02:00.220 to freedom of religion or belief in Sweden. Now, whatever you think of that response, you have to

00:02:05.340 admit it's a little bit surprising, because it was just two years ago that criminals torched,

00:02:09.920 vandalized, and looted more than 80 churches across Canada. Unlike Sweden, Canada sits directly on 0.68

00:02:16.460 the border of the United States. Some churches that went up in flames are a 10-minute drive from

00:02:20.800 major population centers in this country. And yet, as the churches were raised, Joe Biden's State

00:02:26.140 Department didn't say a word. One Koran burning in Sweden gets their attention. The destruction of

00:02:32.180 dozens of entire churches a few miles north of the U.S. border, well, they couldn't be bothered by that.

00:02:38.160 Neither could Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as his country witnessed this historic campaign of

00:02:43.540 anti-Christian terrorism two years ago, a campaign that somehow led to just one arrest. Trudeau said the

00:02:50.100 violence was unacceptable, but also understandable. Watch.

00:02:54.920 As I've also said, it is unacceptable and wrong that acts of vandalism and arson are being seen across the

00:03:04.740 country, including against Catholic churches. One of my reflections is I understand the anger 0.93

00:03:12.300 that's out there against the federal government, against institutions like the Catholic Church.

00:03:17.720 It is real and it is fully understandable, given the shameful history that we're all becoming more and

00:03:25.260 more aware of and engaging ourselves to do better as Canadians. But I can't help but think that burning

00:03:35.820 down churches is actually depriving people who are in need of grieving and healing and mourning

00:03:44.540 from places where they can actually grieve and reflect and look for support.

00:03:50.380 We shouldn't be lashing out at buildings that can provide solace to some of our fellow citizens.

00:03:59.740 It's understandable, Justin Trudeau says, as thugs torch Christian churches in his country.

00:04:05.440 He ignores the attack of Christianity in his country, just as politicians in the United States

00:04:08.900 ignore the deadly mass shooting by a trans terrorist at a Christian school in Nashville earlier this year,

00:04:14.320 and just as they ignore the campaign of terrorism directed against pro-life pregnancy centers.

00:04:18.300 In all these cases, elected officials didn't simply excuse violence against Christians.

00:04:23.100 Instead, for years, with the help of corporate media, these officials engineered hoaxes for the purpose

00:04:27.820 of demonizing Christians and encouraging more of this kind of violence.

00:04:32.380 The point of these hoaxes was to create a pretext for the violence that inevitably followed in every single case.

00:04:38.080 In the U.S., the hoax took the form of disingenuous warnings about transgenocide,

00:04:43.660 an entirely fictional epidemic of anti-trans murders, murders that turn out, in nearly every case,

00:04:49.400 to be related to domestic disputes, drugs, prostitution, and have nothing to do with the fact that the victim identifies as trans.

00:04:56.660 In Canada, the hoax that prompted the church burnings began, in earnest, in May of 2021,

00:05:02.500 when Canadian media reported that ground-penetrating radar had found the unmarked graves of more than 200 children

00:05:08.480 near an Indian residential school in Kamloops, which is located in British Columbia.

00:05:13.300 And many of the media reports and social media posts actually referred to these alleged sites as mass graves.

00:05:19.560 The Canadian government had established these residential schools in the 19th century

00:05:23.220 to assimilate native Canadian children into Canadian culture.

00:05:27.300 They were mainly operated and funded by the Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Anglican churches.

00:05:33.180 Now, leftists in Canada have long maintained that these schools mistreated children.

00:05:37.320 That's been conventional wisdom for some time in Canada.

00:05:41.060 That's one of the reasons Canadian activists now argue that Canada should strip Catholic schools of all federal funding.

00:05:47.060 And these supposed mass graves were the confirmation that they needed.

00:05:51.420 The evidence to support the narrative that they already believed.

00:05:56.000 Now, to be clear, it's long been suspected that children did die of diseases like tuberculosis and influenza at these schools.

00:06:02.280 It's also true that in that time period, countless children of all races, ethnicities across the entire world died of these diseases.

00:06:08.640 But the discovery of supposed mass graves at one of these schools to the media and the Canadian government meant something very different.

00:06:16.880 The finding, they suggested, meant that Christians had systematically murdered children at these schools and then covered up the evidence.

00:06:23.440 The Toronto Star reported the remains of 215 children have been found.

00:06:28.640 The AP reported over 600 bodies found at another Catholic school for Indigenous children in Canada.

00:06:34.420 U.S. News and many other outlets called it confirmation of, quote, genocide, etc.

00:06:40.320 Within days, the reports that ground-penetrating radar had found unmarked graves at residential school sites all over Canada.

00:06:46.620 This was a widespread epidemic, they told us.

00:06:51.180 Here's a Bloomberg report on an additional discovery. Watch.

00:06:55.020 We started our radar-penetrating research on June 2nd of 2021.

00:07:04.740 As of yesterday, we have hit 751 unmarked graves.

00:07:13.080 This is not a mass grave site.

00:07:18.840 These are unmarked graves.

00:07:21.520 This is now today on Cows' First Nation.

00:07:25.860 And this is what we call today our community grave site.

00:07:30.360 It became our community grave site after the 1970s,

00:07:35.220 when the residential school was stopped, overseen by the Roman Catholic Church and the Archdiocese.

00:07:43.380 You're going to notice that they are in proper order.

00:07:48.720 These that lay here are one meter by one meter apart in some cases.

00:07:55.040 So there were dozens of reports like this all throughout the summer of 2021.

00:08:00.440 This was the reporting from the entire news media in the U.S. and Canada.

00:08:04.460 And in response, Justice Rudeau knelt at one of the supposed grave sites and pretended to cry.

00:08:10.340 Canada celebrations were canceled.

00:08:12.760 The government pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to investigate this.

00:08:16.680 There were mass protests.

00:08:18.480 Statues were toppled.

00:08:19.560 One outlet that says it serves indigenous communities, APTN News, reported that, quote,

00:08:26.280 demonstrators toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth in Winnipeg

00:08:29.720 during rallies honoring the children discovered in unmarked graves

00:08:32.400 on the sites of former residential schools over the past month.

00:08:36.060 And here's what that looked like.

00:08:37.240 Watch.

00:08:38.060 Take her down! 1.00

00:08:39.820 Take her down! 1.00

00:08:41.600 No crime genocide!

00:08:43.480 No crime genocide!

00:08:44.920 No crime genocide!

00:08:46.920 No crime genocide!

00:08:47.240 No crime genocide!

00:08:47.280 No crime genocide!

00:08:47.440 No crime genocide!

00:08:47.500 No crime genocide!

00:08:48.040 No crime genocide!

00:08:49.540 Now, in the eyes of these rioters, Queen Elizabeth represents colonialism,

00:08:58.540 and colonialism means taking advantage of the natives, not helping them.

00:09:02.540 This anti-colonialist narrative is absurdly simplistic.

00:09:06.560 It ignores the actual facts of history, so naturally they want to destroy all remnants

00:09:11.220 of that history, starting with the statues.

00:09:14.040 This was the mainstream position on the Canadian left.

00:09:16.400 Harsha Walia, the executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association,

00:09:20.800 which is basically Canada's version of the ACLU, encouraged the vandals.

00:09:24.580 She declared, quote, burn it all down.

00:09:27.900 Two years later, the lies that these barbarians have been telling have completely fallen apart. 0.97

00:09:34.020 No mass graves have been found at the supposed unmarked grave sites that have allegedly been uncovered with ground-penetrating radar.

00:09:43.620 No bodies, no remains have been unearthed.

00:09:47.280 None at all.

00:09:48.740 It was all a hoax.

00:09:49.540 The alleged grave site in Kamloops, it turns out, that we told you about at the beginning,

00:09:54.080 that was the site of a septic field, which was used to dispose of the school's sewage.

00:10:00.100 The school dug a massive line of trenches three feet deep for that purpose.

00:10:03.860 But the researchers, quote-unquote, who scanned the site with ground-penetrating radar,

00:10:08.160 somehow weren't aware of that.

00:10:11.060 I mean, how could they miss that little detail?

00:10:12.720 How could they fail to consider other potential reasons why a school might dig trenches?

00:10:19.740 How was a mass grave the very first and only assumption?

00:10:25.000 Remember, the radar never detected bodies.

00:10:28.520 Okay, ground-penetrating radar can't do that.

00:10:31.000 It detected anomalies.

00:10:33.280 And anomaly just means something unexpected or strange, something out of place.

00:10:38.080 Well, if there's something unexpected in the ground, something out of place,

00:10:43.880 why would you assume that the thing must be a grave of dead children?

00:10:50.220 Aren't there other possibilities you should consider first?

00:10:55.260 In two years, nobody in Canadian state media has bothered to ask that question.

00:10:59.920 Instead, they've sought to discredit anyone who doubts the false narrative.

00:11:02.940 As recently as this summer, the state media outlet, CBC, ran this headline, quote,

00:11:06.880 quote, residential school denialists tried to dig up suspected unmarked graves in Kamloops.

00:11:13.020 The Toronto Star wrote last year,

00:11:15.020 genocide deniers ask, where are the bodies of the residential school children?

00:11:20.540 Seems like a good question to me.

00:11:22.720 I mean, if you're saying there's a genocide, then there should be a lot of bodies.

00:11:25.640 And if you can't find the bodies, then that would call into question the genocide, wouldn't it?

00:11:30.840 One senior member of parliament, Mark Miller, argued that Canadians who ask questions are, quote,

00:11:35.060 part of a pattern of denialism and distortion.

00:11:37.840 In other words, seeking verifiable evidence of the media's claims is somehow denialism.

00:11:43.720 By asking to verify the facts, you are distorting the facts.

00:11:50.860 It's precisely what they do with climate change.

00:11:53.060 They make these outlandish, unsupported claims.

00:11:55.100 And then when you look into the claims at all, they call you a denier.

00:11:59.540 And what happens to deniers?

00:12:01.420 Well, you can probably guess.

00:12:02.860 If you're not on their side of the issue, then you might go to prison.

00:12:07.040 This summer, as John Kay reported at Quillette,

00:12:09.200 the investigator appointed by Trudeau to investigate these graves

00:12:11.920 called on the government to give, quote,

00:12:13.920 urgent consideration to, quote,

00:12:16.080 civil and criminal sanctions against residential school, quote, denialism.

00:12:19.900 And if we take that proposal seriously, and there are signs that the Canadian government will,

00:12:25.380 then ironically, it could mean a lot of natives are about to go to prison.

00:12:30.360 Because in their efforts to prove their theory of residential school mass graves,

00:12:34.420 these natives are inadvertently debunking it.

00:12:37.200 Somebody calling himself Chief Derek Napanak of One Indian Tribe

00:12:41.620 just decided to dig up some graves at a residential school in Manitoba.

00:12:45.740 This is a school that, just a few weeks ago,

00:12:48.320 was reported to be the site of 14 possible burial sites, quote, unquote.

00:12:53.220 Well, here's what the chief found at this burial site.

00:12:57.280 Watch.

00:12:58.260 July 24th would be the start of our continuing search for truth

00:13:02.880 as we move from identifying 14 reflections in the ground underneath the Catholic Church

00:13:07.980 to an actual excavation of the site.

00:13:11.480 Our elders, residential school survivors, and community members

00:13:15.140 requested that we move in this direction together following community engagement

00:13:19.740 over the past two years.

00:13:22.000 The excavation would be an effort to determine the truth of the reflections

00:13:25.440 identified by ground penetrating radar that was done twice over this location

00:13:30.580 in the past 12 months to lead to greater certainty of the extent and location of the reflections.

00:13:36.900 We are now concluding the excavation of the 14 locations under the church.

00:13:41.220 The archaeological team we hired from the University of Brandon,

00:13:45.660 which is the same archaeological team that is relied upon by regional police agencies

00:13:50.260 when doing archaeological excavations,

00:13:53.040 found no conclusive evidence of human remains in their excavation of the ground

00:13:58.600 under the church basement.

00:14:00.620 As a community, we were preparing for more than one possible outcome,

00:14:07.540 which meant that we would prepare for the worst, but we would hope for the best.

00:14:12.020 We know from the living memory of our elders who attended the school,

00:14:15.460 as well as the living memory of those who have been past the stories of their ancestors'

00:14:19.220 experiences in the school,

00:14:20.780 So, there's a big build-up and all the disclaimers before it gets around to the reveal,

00:14:30.640 which is that the ground penetrating radar hadn't picked up unmarked graves at all.

00:14:36.920 In fact, it picked up a bunch of oddly shaped rocks.

00:14:40.980 Alas, it turns out more than a dozen children had not been buried under this school.

00:14:45.140 Now, you'd think that'd be cause for celebration.

00:14:47.940 I mean, this man just confirmed that children had not, in fact,

00:14:51.640 been murdered and stuffed underground while attending a school many years ago.

00:14:56.080 To most people, that's an uplifting development.

00:14:58.460 That's a relief.

00:15:00.560 When you think that there's, you know, unmarked graves of children,

00:15:03.320 and then you dig and you find a bunch of rocks,

00:15:06.320 a normal person says, well, thank God.

00:15:10.740 Hey, I got great news, everybody.

00:15:12.720 Turns out that a bunch of kids were not killed here.

00:15:15.540 That's good.

00:15:17.940 But that's not what you see in that amazing video.

00:15:21.320 Instead, the chief is clearly bothered by the discovery or lack thereof.

00:15:26.980 Says he's worried denialists might use reality to undermine his activism and his quest for victimhood.

00:15:33.240 The lack of dead children in the ground worries him.

00:15:36.940 Think about that.

00:15:38.760 You know, he says there, you hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

00:15:41.560 You have to ask yourself, like, what is the best and worst in your mind?

00:15:47.400 It sounds to me you're saying the worst scenario is that you don't find unmarked graves of children.

00:15:55.800 Hey, you hope for the best, that you'll find a bunch of dead kids in the ground.

00:15:59.260 That's really the attitude these people have.

00:16:01.020 And he concludes by insisting that despite this little setback with his theory,

00:16:06.860 everyone knows that the Canadian residential school system was abusive.

00:16:10.640 Everyone knows the Christians treated these kids horribly, he says.

00:16:15.020 Do we know that?

00:16:15.980 What reason do we have to believe that exactly?

00:16:20.160 The Canadian government and media just spent two years lying about an obviously falsifiable story,

00:16:25.560 which is that there were mass graves at these schools.

00:16:29.200 Okay, the media and the government said that because there are unknown objects under the ground at a church,

00:16:35.940 it must be a bunch of dead children and could not possibly be anything else.

00:16:42.200 And then it turns out that that was a bunch of BS.

00:16:44.740 That's what just happened.

00:16:47.260 They lied about genocide when they knew people could simply dig up the graves and prove them wrong.

00:16:51.520 So why should we believe anything they have to say about how horribly these schools were run for centuries?

00:16:57.320 If these schools were so horrible, why did they have to concoct a blatant, grotesque lie about them?

00:17:03.500 If they're really, really bad, but they weren't killing kids and they didn't have mass graves,

00:17:07.500 why don't you just tell the truth?

00:17:09.320 Tell us what really happened.

00:17:11.880 Well, now we can't believe anything you say.

00:17:14.740 You know, when they shift the goalposts here and they say, okay, well, yeah, there's not a bunch of unmarked graves,

00:17:22.460 but here's a bunch of bad things that did happen.

00:17:25.640 Guess what I'm going to do?

00:17:26.480 I'm going to say, I don't care what else you say.

00:17:28.000 I don't believe any of that.

00:17:28.840 And that's what the rest of us will do.

00:17:30.660 Now, you don't get to just shift the goalposts and say, okay, fine, we're wrong about this, but we're right about this.

00:17:35.680 Nope, don't believe any of it.

00:17:37.340 Don't believe any of it.

00:17:38.220 You know, if you didn't want people to ask questions, skeptical questions, you could be honest with them. 0.98

00:17:46.140 You could do the exact opposite of what these cretins are doing. 1.00

00:17:50.260 Lying like this creates chaos. 0.93

00:17:52.240 It derails any possibility of a reasonable fact-based conversation about what actually happened at these schools.

00:17:58.460 And it's almost as if they're doing it on purpose.

00:18:01.540 Almost.

00:18:03.200 Now, it's tempting to dismiss all this and say, well, it's only happening in Canada, which is a uniquely godless place.

00:18:09.060 And at some level, that's true.

00:18:10.420 Canada is one of the few nations on earth to permit abortion up to the moment of birth.

00:18:14.240 One of the only places on earth where people who don't even have terminal illnesses can be euthanized like stray dogs.

00:18:20.440 That level of savagery is exceptional.

00:18:22.540 But on this issue, as with so many others, the left in this country agrees with Canadian liberals.

00:18:28.840 Recall that a year before the Canadian church burnings, rioters in this country torched St. John's Church across from the White House.

00:18:35.420 Nobody on the left even pretended to care.

00:18:38.200 When Donald Trump tried to tore the damage, they called him a fascist.

00:18:43.000 The kind of people I'm talking about here are not confined to Canada, and their goal is not simply to win elections.

00:18:47.660 Their goal is to destroy the foundation of Western civilization, most notably Christianity. 1.00

00:18:54.480 And in the face of this effort, virtually no one is pushing back.

00:18:58.060 No one is asking questions.

00:19:00.420 Not even the Vatican.

00:19:01.660 In fact, the Pope has apologized to these Canadian activists.

00:19:05.260 He went on a pilgrimage of repentance over Canada's residential schools.

00:19:09.800 What did that accomplish?

00:19:12.100 Nothing, of course.

00:19:12.960 Cultural vandals will forget their own lives the moment they're disproven.

00:19:18.240 Move on to the next one.

00:19:20.240 That's what they always do.

00:19:22.420 But they'll never forget weakness once they see it.

00:19:26.420 They'll never be deterred by anyone who doesn't tell the truth about what they're doing.

00:19:30.820 So here's the truth.

00:19:32.640 Like Justin Trudeau, Joe Biden's handlers hate Catholics. 0.89

00:19:37.020 They hate Western civilization. 0.99

00:19:39.400 And they'll use whatever hammer is available to beat us over the heads. 0.79

00:19:43.640 And they'll even use some hammers that aren't available, that they have to make up.

00:19:48.300 They are spiritual enemies. 0.51

00:19:51.200 And it's time to stop giving them the upper hand.

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00:21:04.620 The Hill has this report.

00:21:06.040 Former President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he will not attend the first Republican presidential debate this week

00:21:10.820 and left open the possibility that he would skip future primary debates as well,

00:21:14.360 citing his sizable lead in national polls as a primary reason.

00:21:17.900 In a post on Truth Social, Trump cited a CBS News poll released earlier Sunday

00:21:21.800 that showed him leading the next closest candidate by 46 percentage points.

00:21:25.040 Quote,

00:21:25.680 The public knows who I am and what a successful presidency I had.

00:21:28.520 With energy independence, strong borders and military, biggest ever tax and regulation cuts,

00:21:32.900 no inflation, strongest economy in history, and much more.

00:21:36.420 I will therefore not be doing the debates.

00:21:39.480 Trump's announcement, which capped months of speculation about whether he would participate,

00:21:42.620 comes days after it was reported that the former president planned to sit for a pre-taped interview

00:21:46.440 with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson instead of attending Wednesday's debate in Milwaukee.

00:21:50.220 Okay.

00:21:50.340 So analyzing this from a purely political perspective, I'm kind of of two minds,

00:21:58.960 because on the one hand, I agree that Trump is so far ahead in the polls that there's nothing to be gained by doing the debates.

00:22:08.420 And politically, you know, if you're looking at something and there's nothing to be gained by it,

00:22:14.300 then that means that you can only lose.

00:22:17.540 It's certainly not a neutral thing.

00:22:20.000 Or at the very least, you know, if nothing can be gained by it,

00:22:24.980 then the best you can hope for is neutral, is no effect.

00:22:28.380 But that's a losing proposition.

00:22:30.700 There's no reason to put yourself in a position like that politically.

00:22:34.420 And so it makes sense for that reason that he would skip it.

00:22:41.260 Trump also is not a skilled debater.

00:22:43.440 So he's already walking into a situation that doesn't play to his strengths.

00:22:47.700 So why would he do that when he's so far ahead in the polls?

00:22:50.300 But on the other hand, politically, again, analyzing this politically,

00:22:56.460 the political consideration on the other side is that if Trump wins the primary

00:23:04.460 and we get into the general election and Biden is ahead in the polls,

00:23:09.020 you know, in most polls by a significant margin,

00:23:12.440 he's not going to be up by 46 points, but if he's ahead by, I don't know,

00:23:15.920 five or six points or something,

00:23:16.920 well, now you've given him the precedent where he could just say,

00:23:21.840 well, I'm going to skip the debates for the same reason Trump did.

00:23:26.360 Now, you might point out that, well, Biden probably will do that anyway

00:23:29.540 because he's senile and like they can't put it.

00:23:31.640 I mean, he's just, there's no way they can put him in a position.

00:23:33.660 Joe Biden's handlers will not put him in a position

00:23:37.940 where he's on the stage for, you know, two hours, three hours,

00:23:42.980 unscripted, going against somebody like Trump.

00:23:44.960 So they're going to skip the debates regardless.

00:23:47.180 And you might, and you're probably right about that.

00:23:49.820 So it's not like they're going to get the idea from Trump to skip the debates.

00:23:53.680 The point though, is that inevitably when Biden says that he is going to skip the debates,

00:23:59.020 Trump's argument against it, he's undercut his own argument.

00:24:03.400 And I know the hope is that like, no one remembers anything.

00:24:05.960 And so you can say something one second and then the next second say something else

00:24:09.100 and nobody cares because nobody pays attention.

00:24:11.480 But it puts you in a weaker position, you know, because when Biden skips the debate,

00:24:19.460 Trump's response to that is, will have to be something along,

00:24:25.000 it will have to be like responding in principle.

00:24:28.440 Okay, so Trump's response when Biden skips it is not going to be,

00:24:32.020 well, this is a bad move politically for Biden.

00:24:34.460 It's a better idea politically.

00:24:35.820 No, it's going to be, no, this is an insult to the voters.

00:24:41.060 Okay, it doesn't matter if you're that far ahead in the polls.

00:24:44.180 You know, you have a responsibility to stand in front of the voters

00:24:46.020 and put yourself in this position and let them see for themselves

00:24:48.700 and answer questions and be held accountable.

00:24:53.020 So that's what Trump and Trump's team will say when Biden skips the debate.

00:24:57.680 And yet they put themselves in a position where Biden could turn around and say,

00:25:02.200 well, what do you mean?

00:25:02.700 You skipped them.

00:25:03.680 So that means you didn't care about the voters during the primaries?

00:25:08.220 That's the one argument against it,

00:25:09.780 is just looking into the future

00:25:12.500 and knowing exactly how this is going to play out.

00:25:21.560 Is that reason enough politically to go and do the debates for Trump?

00:25:25.100 That I'm not so sure about.

00:25:27.860 Staying with politics for a moment, as much as I hate to,

00:25:31.260 there was a big political controversy over the weekend with the media claiming,

00:25:35.060 the media and many on the right as well,

00:25:37.160 talking about the right-wing media as well as the left-wing,

00:25:39.960 claiming that DeSantis attacked Trump supporters,

00:25:43.380 that he insulted them, that he degraded them.

00:25:46.080 There were a lot of headlines like this from allegedly right-wing outlets,

00:25:48.800 this one from Fox News.

00:25:49.740 Quote, critics ripped DeSantis for Trump comment they say makes him sound like crooked Hillary. 0.90

00:25:56.120 Now, the comment from DeSantis, allegedly,

00:25:58.740 was that he supposedly called Trump supporters listless vessels.

00:26:02.860 That's the claim.

00:26:04.340 And again, lots of Trump surrogates and others on the right were going nuts with this,

00:26:07.560 saying that it was a terrible thing.

00:26:08.940 It hurt their feelings.

00:26:10.800 I'm going to play the clip for you.

00:26:12.140 And here I'm going to play the clip as it was presented on Fox News over the weekend.

00:26:17.380 And I want you to notice the banner on the screen as they are replaying these clips from DeSantis.

00:26:23.220 And the banner says,

00:26:25.240 DeSantis attacks Trump supporters with degrading remark.

00:26:30.060 So the point of their segment is how terrible these comments were.

00:26:34.260 Let's just watch them and, you know, just forget all the setup for a second.

00:26:39.580 And you don't know anything going into this.

00:26:42.660 You haven't heard about these comments.

00:26:44.420 And you watch this and you listen to what DeSantis is saying.

00:26:47.380 Do you come away from this feeling offended?

00:26:51.920 Like he said something outrageous and offensive.

00:26:54.060 Well, you tell me.

00:26:54.740 Let's watch.

00:26:55.800 We have a strand in our party that views supporting Trump as whether you are a rhino or not.

00:27:05.780 And so you could be the most conservative person since sliced bread. 0.99

00:27:09.080 Unless you're kissing his rear end, they will somehow call you a rhino. 0.98

00:27:13.180 If you're not rooted in principle, if all we are is listless vessels that are just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that's not going to be a durable movement.

00:27:24.680 Okay, if you didn't have any of the setup and you didn't have any of the hand-wringing ahead of time and you heard DeSantis say that, would you say, oh, I can't believe you said that?

00:27:37.440 That's horrible.

00:27:38.260 How could he say that?

00:27:39.200 What he's saying is just obvious.

00:27:44.120 Was DeSantis saying that all Trump supporters are listless vessels?

00:27:47.760 No, obviously not.

00:27:49.540 And again, everyone who listens to what he said there understands what the guy is saying.

00:27:53.560 It's just that a lot of people are pretending not to understand it so that they can feign offense for the sake of scoring political points.

00:28:00.820 And I get it.

00:28:01.480 It's politics.

00:28:03.340 But call me old-fashioned.

00:28:05.000 Lying is never okay, number one.

00:28:07.340 And pretending to be a sensitive little baby and crying over words that you claim are mean, that's never okay either.

00:28:15.260 It's just I can't respect that.

00:28:17.460 It's what people do to Trump all the time.

00:28:19.640 Okay, he says something and maybe it's inartful, maybe it's a little bit clunky in the wording, but everyone kind of knows what he means.

00:28:30.420 They know what he's trying to say, and yet they interpret it in the most offensive way they possibly can because they're looking for a reason to be offended by what Trump says.

00:28:38.740 So that happens to Trump all the time.

00:28:40.760 And now the same thing, and they also do it to DeSantis all the time.

00:28:43.960 I mean, but many of the people who complain when it's done to Trump, many of those exact same people do the exact same thing to DeSantis.

00:28:52.600 And in this case, now DeSantis in the past has said things that are clunky and he could have worded better.

00:28:59.080 Every politician does that.

00:29:01.340 In that case, I don't think there was nothing wrong with what he said.

00:29:03.960 It was, it's perfectly clear what he's trying to say.

00:29:07.400 And what is that?

00:29:09.620 Well, what he's saying is not that all Trump supporters are listless vessels.

00:29:15.780 He's saying that we shouldn't be listless vessels.

00:29:19.360 He's speaking out against the mentality that, you know, this mentality that the only thing that matters, the only litmus test, the only test of your conservatism is whether you agree with Trump.

00:29:30.880 And this is a mentality that certainly exists out there.

00:29:34.680 Would anyone deny it?

00:29:35.760 Are we really going to pretend that that doesn't exist, that nobody feels that way?

00:29:41.940 It exists in the Republican Party.

00:29:43.720 It exists on Fox News.

00:29:47.420 Why are we, I know why we're, rhetorically, why are we denying this?

00:29:51.900 It just seems absurd to pretend that there aren't, in some corners, a feeling that we should just go along with whatever Trump says and does and never criticize him under any circumstance.

00:30:04.820 Like, of course, that exists.

00:30:08.940 And what he's saying is that if we follow that mentality, if we go along with that, then we will become listless vessels simply drifting in whatever direction the leader happens to be rowing.

00:30:21.900 And he's saying we shouldn't do that.

00:30:25.880 It's just, to pretend that this is an offensive remark is just absurd to me.

00:30:30.500 And if you're doing that, you know what you're doing.

00:30:32.680 You know what you're doing.

00:30:33.660 I know what you're doing.

00:30:34.320 Everyone knows what you're doing.

00:30:35.480 So let's just stop playing these games.

00:30:38.960 And by the way, this kind of mentality that, well, just go along with whatever the leader is doing.

00:30:45.300 That exists in both political parties.

00:30:48.340 It exists in all of politics throughout history.

00:30:50.600 It's not, no, he didn't say it's unique to Trump.

00:30:57.020 This is a, this, you know, you can find this in the Democrat Party too with Biden.

00:31:02.460 But his point is that, no, we have, you know, we have our path and we know is the right path.

00:31:09.060 We have to hold our leaders accountable.

00:31:10.240 And we cannot determine who is fraudulent, who is sincere based entirely on their view of one guy or entirely based on their, their quote unquote loyalty to one guy.

00:31:25.460 That's, that, that, that is not the mentality that we should have.

00:31:27.720 And I think that most people agree with that intuitively.

00:31:32.720 Um, and so that's it.

00:31:38.740 All right.

00:31:39.020 Actually, I have one more political story.

00:31:41.660 This is from The Hill.

00:31:42.580 Said Senator Joe Manchin accused both parties of villainizing each other on Sunday as the moderate Democrat continues to fuel speculation about a potential third party White House bid with the bipartisan group No Labels.

00:31:54.320 If you're a Democrat, they expect you to villainize every Republican.

00:31:57.900 If you're a Republican, you should villainize the Democrats.

00:32:00.120 Manchin told radio talk show host Joe Katsimadidis on WABC AM's The Cats Roundtable.

00:32:08.600 I don't know.

00:32:09.560 That's not the way our founding fathers intended for this democracy to work.

00:32:12.260 He added it was intended for us to work together.

00:32:15.280 Some real insight here.

00:32:16.600 Some real incredible insight.

00:32:19.360 Very interesting.

00:32:22.180 Did you know the two sides villainize each other?

00:32:25.080 It'd be nicer if everyone could hold hands and get along.

00:32:28.920 Great stuff from Joe Manchin.

00:32:31.000 Joe Manchin commended the efforts by No Labels, which has been pushing a potential unity ticket as a third option in the 2024 presidential race.

00:32:39.160 He said all they're asking for is do the citizens of the United States want some other options?

00:32:44.060 The West Virginia senator, who has so far refused to rule out a third party bid, stoked fears among fellow Democrats last month when he headlined a No Labels event

00:32:52.440 with former Utah Governor Joe John Huntsman.

00:32:56.180 Former Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the founding chairman of No Labels, similarly lamented in an interview on Sunday that there is currently too much hatred in Washington.

00:33:05.240 Okay, so it is my only point here.

00:33:08.000 If you hear about this No Labels thing, this is what it is.

00:33:11.740 And this is the problem with third parties.

00:33:14.000 Now, in a perfect world, if I had my way, we would not have a political system dominated by two parties, especially not these two parties.

00:33:22.120 But in practice, any attempt to make a third option just ends up like this.

00:33:28.480 You know, you have a third version of what the other two already are.

00:33:32.960 Joe Lieberman and John Huntsman and Joe Manchin, these are not radical third alternatives with new and exciting ideas.

00:33:40.580 These are the same guys that have been running the country for decades, right?

00:33:43.780 I mean, it's been these same guys, very much part of the swamp, part of the D.C.

00:33:48.800 It's no difference.

00:33:50.000 The same people, just with a softer tone.

00:33:55.360 See, that's what the third party really becomes.

00:33:57.360 It becomes another Democrat party with a slightly softer tone, which is what the Republican party already is, too.

00:34:04.540 So all we have are Democrat parties in different variations.

00:34:08.180 Same way with the Libertarian Party.

00:34:12.420 I mean, look at the people they nominate for president.

00:34:17.000 So, you know, it's almost pointless to talk about the possibility of third parties and would you support that?

00:34:24.080 There is no.

00:34:24.880 Any time a new third party movement springs up in this country, it is either immediately co-opted by Washington, by the same two-party system that already exists, or it's a creation, which is no labels thing.

00:34:42.160 It's a creation of the current two-party system.

00:34:44.480 So nothing new here, nothing exciting, certainly.

00:34:51.580 Here's a funny tweet.

00:34:52.480 This is unintentionally funny from Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali.

00:34:57.180 Here's what he tweeted.

00:34:58.500 Finish my Friday prayer at my local mosque, where the imam prayed that we would be saved from the LGBTQ in our homes. 1.00

00:35:08.020 Democrats are underestimating how pervasive GOP, CRT, and trans fear messaging slash propaganda has taken hold in religious communities and suburbs.

00:35:15.580 You can't ignore it.

00:35:17.780 Okay, now, first of all, that's a great prayer by that imam.

00:35:21.940 I wish more Christian pastors would offer prayers like that.

00:35:25.120 Second, it is, of course, hilarious that Wajahat Ali would try to blame the GOP for the conservatism of Islam.

00:35:34.400 Apparently, this dude thinks that Islam was founded, like, sometime in 2019 or something.

00:35:39.660 In reality, and this may be news to him, but Islam is an ancient religion, and that imam was offering a prayer fully in line with Islamic teaching that goes back to its founding.

00:35:52.520 Okay, that's the reality, plain and simple.

00:35:55.120 The truth is that, and here's the point, LGBT activists are the ones preaching something new.

00:36:04.500 Islam isn't. 1.00

00:36:05.120 In fact, Islam's positions on this topic, its position on this topic, it's fully in line with every other ancient religion and nearly every ancient code of conduct or moral system dating back thousands of years. 0.62

00:36:16.700 The idea, on the other hand, that you should just have sex with whoever you want, and that procreation and sex are two entirely different things, and that you can not only have sex with whatever gender you want, but you can be whatever gender you want yourself.

00:36:30.940 This idea cannot be found in any religion or any moral system or any philosophy anywhere in the world.

00:36:41.700 Certainly not Islam, but also nowhere else, until today, until about 17 seconds ago. 0.85

00:36:50.080 So the LGBT activists, again, are the ones proposing something totally new. 0.99

00:36:55.960 Which, okay, you are allowed to propose a new idea.

00:37:01.160 You're allowed to do that.

00:37:02.760 But admit that that's what you're doing.

00:37:05.840 Okay, instead of this absurd charade that LGBT activists are always putting on, where they're pretending that, oh, no, our idea is, you know, this has always been there.

00:37:19.580 You know, you can find trans and non-binary people in the Bible.

00:37:24.280 Ancient native populations had transgenderism 1,500 years ago.

00:37:29.740 You know, this is always, in fact, it's only in the modern age that we came up with the gender binary and all this stuff.

00:37:38.420 Instead of doing that, which is all completely ridiculous and not true, instead just say, hey, everybody listen.

00:37:45.240 You know, everyone in the world has been wrong about sex and gender since forever.

00:37:50.560 Everybody is wrong, but we, okay, we here with the green hair and the facial piercings and the leather bondage gear that we wear in public for our parades,

00:38:00.120 we are right, okay?

00:38:01.820 We have realized something that nobody else ever knew.

00:38:06.880 And here it is.

00:38:08.060 Listen up.

00:38:09.400 And then present your idea. 0.99

00:38:11.880 Your idea that biology is made up and that people can, you know, that women have penises and that, you know, you should just have sex with whoever you want without any kind of, you know, 0.98

00:38:22.860 sex is something that exists entirely outside of the moral realm. 0.97

00:38:25.880 There are no moral laws or rules that apply to sex whatsoever.

00:38:32.000 Just come out and say that.

00:38:34.700 And then we can analyze your ideas on their merits. 0.70

00:38:37.560 And we can quickly see that your ideas are insane and lead to nothing but destruction and misery and despair.

00:38:45.820 And we know about the destruction, misery, despair because we can look at you.

00:38:48.900 And we can see everything about you and see that, wow, these, yeah, whatever, whatever made those people like that, we don't want that.

00:38:57.500 But you don't want to do that.

00:39:01.100 You don't want to present it that way for precisely that reason.

00:39:02.920 You know, this reminds me, on Twitter this weekend, I don't remember who, but someone tweeted, kind of a viral tweet, about their experience with a Christian evangelist that knocked on their door.

00:39:19.240 And this woman said, you know, it's a Christian who ever knocked on my door and wanted to tell me about Jesus.

00:39:23.840 And, you know, I was very polite to them, but I declined.

00:39:28.600 And then she said, well, you know, we're always told that the LGBT people are indoctrinating and all that, but they're not the ones knocking on your door trying to evangelize you.

00:39:38.160 They don't do that.

00:39:40.780 And, of course, the response to that is, yeah, you're exactly right.

00:39:43.120 They don't.

00:39:44.980 Okay, because that's what Christians will do. 1.00

00:39:47.860 That's what Christian evangelists will do.

00:39:50.280 They'll knock on your door and they'll say, hey, I want to tell you about my faith.

00:39:54.040 I want to tell you what I believe.

00:39:57.360 And talking to another adult, here it is, here are my ideas.

00:40:02.340 LGBT activists don't have the guts or the honesty to ever do anything like that. 0.98

00:40:07.300 They're not going to door-to-door evangelize.

00:40:09.280 They're not going to knock on your door and talk to you as an adult and say, hey, listen, I got some ideas.

00:40:14.380 Here's my ideas.

00:40:14.960 I want to tell you about them.

00:40:18.580 But they won't do that because they don't want their ideas to be scrutinized.

00:40:20.980 That's why, instead, they play the constant sleight-of-hand tricks.

00:40:30.220 And especially, that's why they go to kids in school, captive audiences in public school,

00:40:35.840 kids that don't know enough to scrutinize what they're being told.

00:40:38.800 And they indoctrinate kids at the youngest ages.

00:40:40.660 So that's the difference here.

00:40:47.420 And most of all, they can never just be honest about it.

00:40:51.400 They want to fool you into thinking that, well, hey, if you're a Muslim, 1.00

00:40:55.320 then actually everything that we're, you already agree with everything we're saying.

00:40:59.460 This has always been in your faith.

00:41:00.780 And the other thing you can tell by these lies is that they just have no respect for the intelligence

00:41:06.600 of the people that they're lying to.

00:41:10.660 All right.

00:41:11.320 Quickly, here's another big controversy, an important controversy.

00:41:14.180 It deals with a timeless question, one that has perplexed humans for millennia.

00:41:18.580 And the question is this.

00:41:20.760 Should you crack an egg on your child's head? 0.88

00:41:23.260 Is that a good parenting strategy or a poor one?

00:41:27.080 It's an interesting question.

00:41:28.000 Here's the Daily Mail.

00:41:28.720 Well, parents were today facing a furious backlash over a new TikTok challenge that

00:41:33.120 sees them cracking eggs on their children's heads.

00:41:36.260 Footage shows toddlers left confused in pain or bursting into tears after the egg crack challenge,

00:41:41.580 which some have compared to child abuse.

00:41:44.300 So these videos from TikTok are going viral and people have lots of opinions.

00:41:48.440 Mostly their opinions are this is very bad.

00:41:50.280 This is abusive.

00:41:51.140 Lots of people are very upset about this.

00:41:53.220 Here's one video that I saw pop up on Twitter.

00:41:55.520 And this one got tens of millions of views.

00:41:57.200 Again, most of the reaction has been extremely negative.

00:42:00.580 People are very upset about this.

00:42:01.580 But here's what the egg crack challenge looks like.

00:42:04.520 Watch.

00:42:06.480 Ow! 1.00

00:42:08.160 That hurt!

00:42:10.360 I wanted to crack it!

00:42:12.100 Go, crack it! 0.98

00:42:23.280 Go, crack it! 0.98

00:42:27.480 Woo! 0.99

00:42:33.560 Ow! 1.00

00:42:34.740 That hurts!

00:42:37.740 Are you okay?

00:42:39.180 No!

00:42:39.560 Ready?

00:42:40.760 Yeah.

00:42:46.300 Two?

00:42:48.840 How long is this going?

00:42:50.820 It's like a 25-minute video of parents cracking eggs on their kid's head.

00:42:53.860 This is what you get on TikTok.

00:42:54.740 Now, okay, let me just, I'll give the official verdict on this situation.

00:42:57.080 A lot of the reaction on the internet has been overwrought, as you might expect from the internet.

00:43:03.400 This is not physical abuse, okay?

00:43:04.820 You're not going to give a kid a concussion with an egg.

00:43:06.860 No one's going to go to the hospital with a skull fracture because they had an egg on their head.

00:43:12.600 Should you do this to your kid, though?

00:43:14.140 Well, the problem is that most of these kids are too young.

00:43:18.180 A young child isn't going to understand.

00:43:20.460 He's not going to get the joke and will just be disturbed and confused by it and start crying.

00:43:26.160 And you don't want to make your kid cry.

00:43:27.520 It's not fun or funny, which is exactly what you see in these videos, which is why I would never do this to my three-year-old daughter.

00:43:33.980 Like, she would lose her mind, okay?

00:43:37.040 Now, my 10-year-old son, or my 6-year-old son, on the other hand, they would laugh hysterically.

00:43:43.680 It would be the funniest thing that ever happened to them.

00:43:45.520 They would tell everyone.

00:43:47.240 It would be hilarious for them.

00:43:48.920 The only problem is that then they would start doing it.

00:43:50.560 Like, if I did that to my 10-year-old son, he would laugh hysterically and then take out an egg and do it to himself.

00:43:55.780 And then there would just be egg all over the place.

00:43:58.280 So, that's, the age of the child matters.

00:44:01.760 The temperament of the child matters.

00:44:04.360 And you have to take these things into consideration.

00:44:06.800 Also, the rapport you have with your child.

00:44:09.120 If you aren't the kind of parent who horses around with your kids normally and plays pranks on them,

00:44:14.780 but then you do this out of nowhere for TikTok, they're going to be totally confused and weirded out.

00:44:19.920 That's the other thing you see in these videos.

00:44:21.980 These kids, they're not used to their mothers playing around with them like this. 0.97

00:44:29.860 And so, they're like, what are you doing?

00:44:32.260 Understandably so.

00:44:33.980 And that's really the point here, okay?

00:44:36.140 Doing this for TikTok, that's the point.

00:44:38.120 That's the problem.

00:44:39.300 That's what I have an issue with.

00:44:40.620 If you just came to me and told me that the other day you were making scrambled eggs with your kid and you just kind of like,

00:44:46.100 you weren't filming it, but you just spontaneously cracked the egg on the kid's head because you thought it'd be funny and you thought they'd get a kick out of it.

00:44:53.560 But then they didn't and they started crying and you felt bad. 0.93

00:44:56.120 If you just told me about that, I wouldn't say, oh, you're an abuser.

00:44:59.760 I'm calling CPS.

00:45:01.400 No, I think, you know what I think?

00:45:02.260 I think, oh, well, you're spending time with your kid.

00:45:04.380 You're making breakfast.

00:45:05.080 You're including them.

00:45:06.920 And then you're horsing around.

00:45:08.480 You're being spontaneous.

00:45:10.520 Sounds to me like you're a good parent, okay?

00:45:12.220 You went a little overboard with the egg thing.

00:45:13.980 You thought they'd find it funny.

00:45:15.100 They didn't.

00:45:15.920 It happens.

00:45:16.640 No big deal.

00:45:17.100 But when you do it for TikTok, it's not spontaneous.

00:45:22.460 You're not just having fun with your kid.

00:45:27.060 You are harvesting your child for social media engagement.

00:45:31.820 And that is the problem.

00:45:34.020 That's the issue I have with all these different, you know, every week it's another prank that parents are playing on their kids.

00:45:40.780 And usually what happens is that, you know, the videos you see, the kid reacts in a negative way and they don't think it's funny.

00:45:48.860 And then people respond by saying, like, the prank itself is this terrible, horrible thing.

00:45:53.600 And maybe sometimes there are different pranks.

00:45:55.500 I can't think of all of them.

00:45:56.820 But that's not usually the issue.

00:46:00.320 It's like if you want to joke around with your kid, that's fine.

00:46:02.680 But the problem is that you're not doing this because you're trying to have fun with your kid or you're just a fun, funny parent who's joking around.

00:46:12.440 You're doing it because you're doing it for the audience out there.

00:46:16.860 Okay, you're taking this moment that should just be like, it's like, first of all, why?

00:46:22.540 You're making scrambled eggs with your kid.

00:46:24.220 That's a great thing to do.

00:46:27.120 But at what point do you think I got to get my phone out and film doing this?

00:46:31.200 You know, every Saturday morning I'll make scrambled eggs.

00:46:34.180 It's like a family tradition.

00:46:35.660 I'll make a breakfast.

00:46:37.560 I never think to take my phone out.

00:46:39.880 And my kids will always come in.

00:46:40.860 They want to crack an egg.

00:46:41.720 They want to do whatever.

00:46:42.500 They want to flip.

00:46:43.340 They want to scramble the eggs.

00:46:44.400 They want to flip the bacon. 0.98

00:46:45.200 They want to do different things.

00:46:46.340 I never think to myself, I got to get this on camera.

00:46:48.080 I got to film this.

00:46:50.500 Because it's not for an audience.

00:46:52.200 It's just a moment in your family.

00:46:54.920 Let it be that.

00:46:56.400 Everyone doesn't need to see it.

00:46:59.520 And so that's the issue.

00:47:01.960 When you make it into a spectacle for the public, that's when it becomes a problem.

00:47:06.780 And that's the problem with all these different kinds of videos.

00:47:10.540 But also, yes, whether you're running the camera or not, don't hit your three-year-old over the head with an egg.

00:47:17.740 It's like, they're not going to find a phone.

00:47:19.600 Okay, let's get to the comment section.

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00:48:50.300 Yankee Stacking says, Matt, we're officially past the good times create weak men stage.

00:48:54.880 We've definitively started the weak men create tough times phase of our failing culture.

00:49:00.540 There's no doubt about that, but the good news is that individually we can still choose to skip ahead in the process, right?

00:49:06.700 And individually we can choose to be the tough men who are created by hard times rather than the weak men creating the hard times.

00:49:14.740 So I think broadly speaking, you're correct, but on an individual level, that's really up to us.

00:49:21.880 Tyson says, man, I remember walking for miles and filling out 30 applications in a day when trying to get a job.

00:49:28.440 I did the same thing.

00:49:29.220 I mean, this used to be standard practice.

00:49:31.740 If you want a job, you apply at dozens of places.

00:49:34.980 And, you know, kids, before the age of the Internet, or at least before the Internet was the ubiquitous thing that it is today,

00:49:44.540 if you wanted to apply for a bunch of jobs, oftentimes you couldn't do it on the Internet.

00:49:50.680 You had to actually go physically into these places and, like, ask for a job application and fill it out right there and hand it back to them.

00:49:59.340 That was a thing.

00:50:00.380 That's what we used to do.

00:50:03.220 And that's, you know, getting a job is a full-time job.

00:50:07.700 That's what they used to say.

00:50:09.920 But the difference is that now a lot of people don't want jobs to begin with, and that's the part that I'll never understand.

00:50:17.020 Now, the total lack of ambition, if we're talking about kids who are 16 or 17 years old, I get that.

00:50:24.580 When I was 16 or 17 years old, I had jobs because I was forced to, but I hated every second of it, and I was sulking about it a lot.

00:50:31.760 I just didn't want to do it because I'm 16 or 17 years old.

00:50:33.880 I don't want to have to work.

00:50:35.100 My parents made me work anyway.

00:50:37.080 But by the age of 20 or 21 and from then on, once I was an adult, a grown man, I wanted to work.

00:50:44.600 I wanted to be successful.

00:50:45.460 I wanted to support myself.

00:50:48.240 I desired success.

00:50:50.060 I had ambition.

00:50:51.500 And when you don't find that in young adults, again, I'm not talking about teenagers.

00:50:59.160 Teenagers are pretty common.

00:51:00.780 This slacker mentality is pretty common.

00:51:03.820 But in young adults, that's supposed to be the time when you're just, like, on fire with ambition, and you have big dreams and hopes and goals for the world.

00:51:13.000 And, you know, if anything, people should be trying to dial you back, should be saying, well, no, you can't take on everything all at once.

00:51:18.340 Like, hey, let's, you don't want to take too many risks.

00:51:21.420 Let's dial back a little bit.

00:51:23.040 That's what the older adult world should be saying to you.

00:51:27.660 If you're 23 years old, what you should be hearing from older adults is, hey, let's calm down, sport.

00:51:35.920 Let's take it one step at a time here.

00:51:37.440 You shouldn't still have to have people that are, like, prodding you along and saying, like, get up and try to do something with your life.

00:51:45.540 What are you doing?

00:51:47.800 The total lack of ambition is, I think, hard for me to relate to on any level at all.

00:51:54.860 But also just a major civilizational level problem that we have.

00:52:02.620 And Jerry says, he gave me a new respect for my brother-in-law.

00:52:06.120 He chose one.

00:52:07.640 He does not care about having nice things.

00:52:09.340 He chose to live in poverty as long as he can smoke pot all day, watch TV, and play video games.

00:52:13.720 Well done, well done.

00:52:14.640 And to think I thought he was a waste of a human life.

00:52:18.320 Well, no, Jerry, you were right the first time.

00:52:20.060 On Friday, I talked about choosing one vice or the other, materialism or laziness.

00:52:25.140 Obviously, it's better to have neither vice.

00:52:27.860 That's the best scenario, is to be neither lazy or materialistic.

00:52:33.380 To be neither slothful nor greedy is best.

00:52:38.500 But if you have to have one, only have one.

00:52:42.540 And the problem is that these days, a lot of people have both.

00:52:45.040 They are both materialistic and lazy. 0.80

00:52:47.340 They are both greedy and slothful. 0.98

00:52:50.660 So they want a lot of things.

00:52:52.000 They want a lot of luxuries.

00:52:53.200 But they don't want to work for it.

00:52:56.220 And my point is that if you don't want to work, you should at least be the kind of person who doesn't want a lot of things.

00:53:02.800 And if you want a lot of things and you're materialistic, then you should at least be the kind of person who works hard to get those things.

00:53:09.660 Well, what we end up with in the culture these days are a lot of people who are kind of the worst of all worlds.

00:53:14.320 In the case of your brother-in-law, first of all, if he plays video games and smokes weed all day, then there's no way he's supporting himself.

00:53:21.820 You can't support yourself on a lifestyle like that.

00:53:24.560 There's no way that he's paying for whatever house or apartment he's playing the video games in.

00:53:28.100 He's not paying for the video games.

00:53:29.640 He's not paying for the TV, the streaming services that he watches.

00:53:34.240 Probably not even paying for the weed.

00:53:35.580 So this is someone who very much falls into the worst of all worlds category that I was talking about.

00:53:41.240 He wants all the luxuries, the video games, the weed, the streaming services, the TV.

00:53:45.680 He doesn't want to pay for them.

00:53:47.920 So someone else does, presumably his parents.

00:53:49.980 But I don't know.

00:53:52.640 What I was talking about is, let's say there was someone, and you don't find this very often.

00:53:58.960 That's the point.

00:53:59.500 But let's say there was someone who said, you know, I really don't want to have a job, the nine-to-five hustle and bustle I want to leave behind.

00:54:06.720 I don't want any part of that.

00:54:08.700 And so instead, they do something radical with their lives to escape that.

00:54:13.020 Okay, if it becomes like the Christopher McCandless, into the wild sort of thing, where he burned his Social Security card, his driver's license, just set out on foot across the country, ended up in the Alaskan wilderness, lived there by himself,

00:54:24.480 eventually died of poisoning because he ate the wrong kind of berry, which is like inevitably how that story is probably going to end.

00:54:30.580 But if you really are, you don't want any part of the nine-to-five job thing, and you want to live a different kind of life, well, I can respect that at least if you go that direction.

00:54:45.260 But that's not what people end up doing.

00:54:50.380 They don't want the nine-to-five job, but they still want all the benefits and the luxuries and the frills and the comforts that come with that.

00:54:59.060 And that's the issue.

00:55:01.060 Are you sick of woke corporations dragging your values through the mud?

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00:55:47.440 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:55:48.820 You would hope that the silver lining around our mortality, one of the benefits of dying, 1.00

00:55:58.180 is that at least you're finally spared from our incredibly woke and tremendously stupid culture. 1.00

00:56:03.120 But the problem is that our culture is so incredibly woke and so tremendously stupid that you can't even fully escape it in death. 1.00

00:56:10.560 Long after you've died, your body decomposed into the ground, the woke brigade might still come along and cancel you. 1.00

00:56:17.580 Now granted, when you're dead, you probably won't care very much.

00:56:20.700 Things will either be going so well for you at that point or so poorly that it's not going to bother you much either way

00:56:25.520 to find out that you've caused an extremely belated controversy on Twitter.

00:56:28.920 But those of us who are still alive will have to deal with it.

00:56:32.400 So even if you aren't troubled, it's annoying as hell for the rest of us.

00:56:37.440 And that brings us to Judy Garland, who is the latest dead person to find themselves on the cancellation chopping block.

00:56:42.540 Look, Garland died over 50 years ago, but that didn't stop her from provoking mass outrage on multiple social media platforms over the weekend

00:56:48.480 when the woke brigade found out that Judy Garland in the 1930s, almost 100 years ago, did blackface.

00:56:56.340 Now, one of the posts calling attention to this fact came from some random Twitter account

00:56:59.720 that published an image of the actress in blackface along with this caption, quote,

00:57:03.880 Now that post was viewed 57 million times.

00:57:14.420 TikTokers also got in on the action. 1.00

00:57:16.140 Here's another random account that managed to get a lot of traction

00:57:19.360 with a post calling attention to the blackface issue.

00:57:23.100 Watch.

00:57:23.900 Talk about Judy Garland as a child in blackface. 0.98

00:57:27.800 Coming for to carry me home

00:57:34.560 Oh, I come from the south

00:57:38.500 From way down south

00:57:41.660 Where the coal and potatoes used to grow

00:57:45.000 There's great big elegant pictures show

00:57:47.680 And my old Kentucky home is a French chateau

00:57:50.860 Way down south in Dixie

00:57:53.340 Sweet, oh, sweet

00:57:56.400 There you go

00:57:57.840 I think we've got something there

00:57:59.700 I said we have

00:58:00.960 Carry me home

00:58:03.160 All right.

00:58:05.500 So that's real music, at least.

00:58:07.320 Now, from there, the media jumped into action.

00:58:09.780 Outlets like Newsweek and the Daily Dot published articles on the subject.

00:58:13.640 The rap had this headline,

00:58:15.080 Judy Garland criticized for wearing blackface in 1938.

00:58:18.380 White people found this an acceptable form of entertainment. 0.99

00:58:21.560 Yes, those dastardly white people. 1.00

00:58:23.760 It's important that we spend all of our time looking for all the bad things 1.00

00:58:26.200 White people did in history. 0.97

00:58:27.560 We must leave no stone unturned.

00:58:30.240 Did anyone of any other race enjoy forms of entertainment in 1938

00:58:33.420 That we today would find offensive?

00:58:36.360 Well, who cares?

00:58:37.380 That's not important. 0.96

00:58:38.180 All that matters is what white people were doing wrong. 0.75

00:58:40.700 And here's another thing that they were doing wrong. 0.97

00:58:43.060 Of course, if you really want to be upset about white people and blackface, 0.94

00:58:45.860 You don't have to go back that far.

00:58:48.260 I mean, there's always Justin Trudeau or Jimmy Kimmel.

00:58:50.480 But Trudeau was a leftist and Kimmel voted for Biden.

00:58:54.120 So they get off the hook.

00:58:56.120 Now, Garland probably also voted for Biden since she's dead.

00:58:58.700 But that did not absolve her, apparently.

00:59:01.660 Now, we should note that some people did come to Judy Garland's defense.

00:59:05.620 They swept in to add nuance and contextualize the Judy Garland blackface scandal.

00:59:11.000 And although these nuance adders are less crazy and slightly less obnoxious than the woke mob,

00:59:16.740 They still missed the point by several thousand miles.

00:59:20.280 Watch this.

00:59:22.000 Judy Garland was trending yesterday on the app formerly known as Twitter.

00:59:25.960 Let's discuss.

00:59:27.380 This user expressed their outrage at finding out that Judy Garland had made films with blackface.

00:59:32.560 If you don't know me, hi, my name is Tori.

00:59:34.500 I'm a Wizard of Oz historian and collector.

00:59:36.560 And as such, I know a lot about Judy Garland, her filmography, and her career.

00:59:40.180 Before we begin, I want to start by giving a trigger warning because I will be showing

00:59:44.200 images and some clips from films that have blackface scenes.

00:59:47.840 But I hope even if you are made uncomfortable by this type of content, you will try to muddle

00:59:51.560 through because it's important to talk about.

00:59:53.900 I'd also like to add the caveat that I'm coming at this from the perspective of a white person.

00:59:58.760 And therefore, my voice in this conversation is not as important as black voices. 0.96

01:00:04.080 Well, if you were hoping for a rational, common sense perspective, you've already heard three

01:00:08.200 things here that should temper those expectations.

01:00:10.900 Specifically, there's her caveat that her voice doesn't matter because she's white. 1.00

01:00:14.520 Also, she unironically offers trigger warnings. 1.00

01:00:17.200 And perhaps most concerning of all, she identifies herself as a Wizard of Oz historian, which sounds

01:00:23.420 a bit like claiming that you're an anthropologist who specializes in studying the ancient kingdom

01:00:27.700 of Wakanda.

01:00:29.260 We're not starting on the right foot here, to put it mildly, but let's keep listening anyway.

01:00:33.580 Here it is.

01:00:33.920 I'm not going to sit here and make apologies for blackface or to try to justify it. 0.97

01:00:40.460 It's gross. 0.98

01:00:41.220 It's gross.

01:00:42.020 But here's the truth about Judy Garland's participation in this.

01:00:44.900 She had no agency over what roles she did.

01:00:47.600 Here is Judy Garland signing her MGM contract at the age of 13, in which she also agreed to

01:00:53.920 give her mother, Ethel Gumm, a portion of her weekly paycheck, making her the main breadwinner 1.00

01:01:00.120 for her entire family.

01:01:02.580 Louis B. Mayer was not shy about making sure that his stars stuck to their contracts.

01:01:07.720 Judy Garland was assigned scripts to do, and then she did them.

01:01:11.600 Two movies, a year apart, same.

01:01:13.920 Because it's much easier to just blame Judy Garland rather than the patriarchal system

01:01:17.580 that made her decisions for her.

01:01:20.020 And there it is.

01:01:21.120 Let's not cancel Judy Garland from the year 1938.

01:01:23.740 Let's instead cancel the patriarchy from the year 1938.

01:01:26.600 This is what we get from Garland's defenders.

01:01:29.660 Though she does make one correct point, which has been echoed by nearly everyone else defending

01:01:33.880 Judy Garland from this posthumous cancellation attempt, it's true that she was a kid when

01:01:38.300 she performed in blackface.

01:01:39.740 She didn't have full agency over her decisions.

01:01:42.080 All of that is true. 1.00

01:01:43.940 But it's also not really the reason why it's so stupid to get offended by a blackface performance 1.00

01:01:49.840 from the 1930s. 0.98

01:01:51.040 The real reason is simply that performing in blackface in the 1930s was not some great

01:01:57.100 sin back then.

01:01:58.320 It doesn't matter how old she was at the time.

01:02:01.280 What matters is the time, the 1930s.

01:02:04.300 That's the only relevant detail here.

01:02:06.160 That's all that needs to be said.

01:02:08.740 Blackface was not a big deal in the 1930s.

01:02:11.580 Now, we might consider it a big deal today unless you're the Canadian prime minister.

01:02:14.940 But the people living in the 1930s were living in the 1930s, not in the modern age.

01:02:18.740 Okay, they just didn't see it that way.

01:02:21.520 You can say, well, they should have seen it that way.

01:02:23.280 Yeah, but they didn't.

01:02:24.440 Okay, so they just didn't.

01:02:26.140 That's all.

01:02:27.760 Judging them by modern standards, it's not just unfair and wrong, though it is both of

01:02:32.240 those things.

01:02:33.080 It's also incoherent.

01:02:34.720 It doesn't make sense.

01:02:35.740 You might as well say that Johnny Unitas wasn't a good quarterback because he never scored

01:02:39.500 any home runs.

01:02:40.760 You're judging by a completely different set of standards.

01:02:42.880 It doesn't mean anything.

01:02:43.860 Again, see, I will never stop marveling at the fact that we live in a society filled

01:02:50.420 with moral relativists who are relativistic about everything except the one thing they

01:02:56.040 should be, you know, in a certain sense, relativistic about.

01:02:59.620 Most of the time, these people can be heard saying things like, hey, I'm just living my

01:03:02.540 truth, man.

01:03:03.480 Hey, don't impose your morality on me.

01:03:06.880 Normally, they would say that truth and morality are fundamentally and substantively relative,

01:03:10.760 that they change entirely from person to person.

01:03:15.180 And yet, when it comes to assessing the actions of our ancestors, of people who lived decades

01:03:19.820 and centuries ago, these very same people suddenly become merciless and stringent moralists,

01:03:26.280 imposing one unwavering set of morals on people who don't agree with it.

01:03:30.240 Now, the irony, of course, is that this one time when they dropped the relativistic gig is

01:03:37.200 the one time when it would actually apply, again, in a certain sense.

01:03:41.820 And let me explain what that sense is.

01:03:44.740 Moral truth does not change over time.

01:03:48.000 What is objectively immoral today was objectively immoral 90 years ago and 900 years ago.

01:03:53.800 So moral truth is not relative.

01:03:56.200 However, moral culpability is relative.

01:04:02.520 You don't need to factor in the century and decade when a sin occurred in order to decide

01:04:07.440 if it was a sin.

01:04:08.940 But you do need to factor those things in if you're trying to assign moral responsibility

01:04:13.760 for those sins.

01:04:16.420 And if you're trying to assess the degree of moral responsibility.

01:04:20.840 A wrong action does not become more or less wrong over time.

01:04:24.660 But an individual can be more or less responsible for that wrong action over time.

01:04:31.480 Which means that the amount of personal responsibility that we should assign to individuals for racial

01:04:36.320 insensitivity in the 1930s or any time period before that is basically nothing.

01:04:43.000 Okay, essentially no responsibility.

01:04:46.320 Racial sensitivity, as we recognize it today, did not exist in the world anywhere among any

01:04:55.040 group of people a century ago.

01:04:57.980 How much blame should we give to any one individual for not having personally achieved a racial enlightenment

01:05:05.220 that nobody else in the world had achieved either?

01:05:07.940 How much guilt should we assess to people who failed to have developed the kind of racial sensitivities

01:05:13.260 that nobody else on the globe during that era had developed either?

01:05:16.820 The answer to those questions is basically none.

01:05:20.680 And this is the fact you have to deal with.

01:05:23.240 People in history saw the world differently.

01:05:26.360 They saw each other differently.

01:05:28.840 They therefore acted very differently.

01:05:30.780 And that's just the way it was.

01:05:33.660 You can be mad about it.

01:05:35.580 You can be upset.

01:05:37.280 You can make your tummy hurt. 1.00

01:05:39.020 But your anger is futile and stupid. 1.00

01:05:42.140 And you are stupid. 1.00

01:05:44.360 And mostly it is a cover. 1.00

01:05:46.000 It is an excuse.

01:05:47.300 You know, I'll back up. 1.00

01:05:48.840 It's not, yeah, you're stupid. 1.00

01:05:50.020 But you're also a coward. 1.00

01:05:52.080 Okay, it's cowardice as well. 0.99

01:05:53.700 Because you want to spend your time blaming other people for their lack of moral insight

01:05:58.620 while not thinking at all about your own inadequacies in that regard.

01:06:04.280 Judy Garland didn't see a problem with blackface 0.99

01:06:06.860 because really nobody at that time saw a problem with it.

01:06:10.340 And you can waste time canceling Judy Garland for that.

01:06:12.860 Or you can ask yourself,

01:06:14.840 what evils do you support and promote today

01:06:17.960 just because everyone else supports and promotes it?

01:06:20.760 Where are your moral blind spots?

01:06:25.800 Maybe stop and think about that

01:06:27.260 before you go searching for another dead person to lecture for their shortcomings.

01:06:33.140 And that is why those who are trying to cancel Judy Garland

01:06:36.100 are themselves today certainly canceled.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 21, 2023

Ep. 1209 - Canada’s ‘Mass Graves’ Hoax Is Yet Another Fabricated Narrative To Demonize Christians

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