The media and the left have spent all week in a fit of rage because of a tweet I tweeted over the weekend. We ll talk about why I m the villain of the week, and what s really behind all the over the top outrage. Also, the CEO of leftist extremist group, The ADL, responds to the viral ban the ADL has been pushing. The mayor of New York warns that illegal immigration is going to destroy the city or whatever s left of it. And another town tries to solve the homeless problem by simply giving the homeless a place to stay.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media and the left have spent all week in a fit of rage because of one thing that I tweeted over the weekend.
00:00:06.340We'll talk about why I'm the villain of the week and what's really behind all the over-the-top outrage.
00:00:11.120Also, the CEO of leftist extremist group, the ADL, responds to the viral ban the ADL movement.
00:00:16.860The mayor of New York warns that illegal immigration is going to destroy the city or whatever is left of it.
00:00:21.680And another town tries to solve the homeless problem by simply giving the homeless a place to stay.
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00:02:24.620I don't find it especially newsworthy, to be honest.
00:02:27.560But rather, it's according to the social media mob and the news media and daytime talk shows.
00:02:32.220The Post had me trending for several days with thousands of outraged people screaming various unintelligible insults and telling me to kill myself in various gruesome ways and so on.
00:02:43.780It was a subject of a lengthy and angry think piece by NBC News, another one by Rolling Stone, various other articles by other outlets, including the National Review, which called me out for, quote, shaming.
00:02:53.860It was also discussed during a segment on The View.
00:02:56.700And what makes all this quite funny and ironic is that everyone from the mob to NBC to Rolling Stone to the ladies on The View all agree that what I posted was stupid because I shouldn't care so much about the thing I posted about.
00:03:10.080In fact, the subject of my post was so irrelevant that they all decided to spend days telling me how irrelevant it is.
00:03:17.940It's a rather common phenomenon, in fact.
00:03:20.260So let's back up and tell the whole story.
00:03:23.160How did I become this week's supervillain?
00:03:25.320What was the content of this post, the dumb post about a subject that doesn't matter, which is why it inspired multiple news articles informing us of how little it matters?
00:03:34.520Well, it began with a TikTok video published by a woman named Julia Mazur.
00:03:38.060Julia has a TikTok account where she frequently posts videos about her life as a single and childless 29-year-old woman.
00:03:45.260She also has a podcast about the same subject where NBC tells us she talks about being pretty much done with the societal expectation that she'll be married and have kids by the age of 30.
00:03:55.320The podcast is called Pretty Much Done.
00:03:58.420So this is a woman who talks about this subject quite a lot and talks about it publicly, which would lead you to the conclusion that she wants people to notice and hear what she's saying.
00:04:09.520Typically, if you have a social media account and a podcast dedicated to talking about your lifestyle choices, that's a good indication that you consider your lifestyle choices to be open for public discussion.
00:04:20.720If you don't want public discussion about the choices you make in your life, then the smartest strategy would be to refrain from speaking publicly and frequently about the choices you make in your life and even hosting a whole podcast on the subject.
00:04:32.180Now, granted, this woman had a relatively small following up until now, but I've never heard of a burgeoning TikTok influencer and podcaster who only wants a few thousand people to interact with their content.
00:04:43.640The point is that when I saw one of her videos floating around on Twitter, I figured it's fair game to respond to.
00:04:50.780If this was a secretly recorded video of Julia venting to her friends in the privacy of her own home, taken and posted without her knowledge, then I certainly would not respond or repost it.
00:05:01.080I would never want to participate in the invasion of another person's privacy like that.
00:05:04.700But I don't consider a public response to public comments to be an invasion of privacy.
00:06:19.740Anyway, I say all this to say, whenever I'm hard on myself about why I'm not married and I don't have kids and I should be further along at 29, almost 30, I wouldn't want to do anything else this Saturday.
00:06:31.020And I know that you can do all these things when you have kids and you're married and I understand.
00:06:36.660But the effortlessness and ease of my life, just kind of focusing on myself and the shakshuka I want to make or the Beyonce concert I want to go to really pays off when I'm hard on myself for not being where society tells me I should be in life.
00:07:39.660And I will tend to do that when I feel especially passionate about an issue.
00:07:43.640And I do quite passionately oppose the promotion of childlessness and the idea that we should spend our young adulthood focused on self-centered pursuits and mindless amusements.
00:07:56.000I think it leads to despair and societal decay.
00:07:58.380I think that if a critical mass of people adopt this approach, it eventually brings about the collapse of human civilization.
00:08:05.500It's not to say that Julia on TikTok will cause the collapse of civilization,
00:08:08.720but rather that the idea, the life philosophy that she, among many other people, promote, if accepted by enough people, will have that effect.
00:08:18.540Which is why I tend to attack this idea quite vigorously.
00:08:21.820Now, that could have been the end of the conversation.
00:08:23.760It was one tweet about one TikTok video.
00:08:37.820I was trending again for days because of this.
00:08:41.540Many other influencers, including some conservatives, condemned me in no uncertain terms.
00:08:45.000Random famous people like Mark Cuban jumped onto the dog pile.
00:08:48.300They said that she's just a young woman having fun and I should butt out.
00:08:51.400They said that her choices are none of my business.
00:08:54.040They blamed me for bringing attention to Julia that they assumed she didn't want.
00:08:57.800Which, again, is ironic because the whole reason I was trending and thus why Julia was trending by extension was because of all the people outraged at me.
00:09:06.920If they had all shut up and gone about their day, there wouldn't have been any of this attention.
00:09:11.060But then again, shutting up and going about their day is not exactly the M.O. of the outrage mob.
00:10:37.620Quote, Mazur had inadvertently found herself in an ongoing and fervent corner of the culture war that is increasingly playing out online.
00:10:43.920One where content that directs hate towards women, even against women with relatively small social media presences,
00:10:48.960has become profitable and popular inside and outside of conservative circles.
00:10:52.420Walsh and many other right-leaning voices are part of a larger conservative movement that promotes what they consider to be traditional family values.
00:10:57.920That has included targeting medical gender transition procedures and openly criticizing women who have not married and had children.
00:11:04.380One version of this ideology has become known as trad wife content, where women envision 50s-style housewife ideals, including subservience to their husbands, which has made the practice controversial.
00:12:26.660From there, the article tells us how Mazur wants people to ignore, quote, societal pressure and, quote, live the lives they want to live for themselves.
00:12:34.880It says that she rejected the, quote, rhetoric from her first-generation Russian-Jewish family, the rhetoric that said that she should get married and have kids.
00:12:46.300I found myself in those safe, good-on-paper relationships, but I also found myself feeling deeply unhappy and unfulfilled because I felt like I was checking off a box to appease other people.
00:12:54.820Throughout that process, I realized that's not the only thing that can make you fulfilled.
00:12:57.900I'm 29 and single, and I feel fulfilled by my life and my career, by my friends and my family.
00:13:02.520So she was in, according to her, good relationships with good men, which, by the way, according to the information about herself that she is volunteering to the public, she was in good relationships with good men.
00:13:13.820She was, these were good, she says, they were safe.
00:13:16.800But she says she left them anyway because she was unfulfilled for unspecified reasons, and now she's 29 and childless and focusing on spending her time watching TV shows and so on.
00:13:25.620What's more, she wants to encourage other people to adopt this same strategy to, as she says, live for themselves.
00:13:32.800Now, I must say again that I absolutely reject that.
00:13:39.080I think it's a terrible way to live, and I will never tire of fighting back against this despair-inducing philosophy, no matter who is promoting it.
00:13:45.860Because the philosophy really is the point here.
00:15:32.740Now, you know, in the get a life category, this Matt Walsh did a whole thing against her.
00:15:37.520But my favorite is that Stephen Miller, the architect of family separation, weighed in on this about how children, the most important thing, unless they're migrants, I guess, or unless they're not his favorite type of children.
00:15:59.460Well, Joy, you don't have to act like you've never heard of me.
00:16:02.160We all know you secretly listen to my podcast every day, just like I secretly watch The View every day as penance for my sins.
00:16:08.920In any case, it's obvious what's really going on here.
00:16:12.260The media and the mob are pretending to white knight for a small-time TikTok influencer and podcaster who suffered the horrific fate of going viral, which is the one thing that every influencer and podcaster dreads most of all.
00:16:24.300But they don't actually care about her.
00:16:26.400As I said, they're angry, not that I criticized what Julia said, but that I criticized them.
00:16:33.240She was expressing a point of view that they all agree with and live by.
00:16:38.480And it's that point of view that they are passionately defending.
00:16:41.560It's the point of view that says we should live for ourselves, focus on ourselves, and find happiness in our own pleasure and amusement, and that's it.
00:16:48.060It's a point of view that says the highest joy is that which can be found by consuming pop culture content unencumbered by the demands of family life and parenthood.
00:16:57.020The point of view, the one that places living for yourself over living for something greater and more enduring than yourself, is the dominant view in our culture.
00:17:05.480And that is the point that Julie on TikTok gets wrong most of all.
00:17:09.880Because she says that society tells her she should be married and have kids by 30.
00:17:16.200But that is not at all what society says.
00:17:19.180In fact, the mainstream of society, the most powerful voices and institutions, including corporate media, fully agree with her that young people should focus on themselves and have fun and put off marriage and family life.
00:17:31.360We know they agree with her, which is why she said what she said, I disagreed, and everyone is defending her and attacking me over that, which is fine.
00:17:42.860But it shows that where does society land on this?
00:17:47.500Pretty clearly on her end of the spectrum.
00:17:51.000Now, they agree that even if we find ourselves in a good relationship with a good person, we should leave it anyway in order to give ourselves more time to scroll social media and make shakshuka and whatever else.
00:18:04.260So, between the two of us, if anyone is living in a way that is not approved by society, that is certainly not recommended by society, and is in fact, in many cases, scorned by many in society, it would be me.
00:18:20.160The powers that be approve of her choices much, much more than they approve of mine.
00:18:26.940She is already living as society wants her to live, or at least as the forces driving society want her to live, because those forces don't actually want her or anyone else to be happy and fulfilled.
00:18:46.000I do want that for her and for everyone, which is why I say, yes, you should get married and have kids.
00:20:32.720So, late last week was an interesting hashtag campaign that started on social media.
00:20:37.820It was hashtag ban the ADL, which is, of course, the Anti-Defamation League.
00:20:42.700And this all began after Jonathan Greenblatt, who's the CEO of the ADL, tweeted that he had met with Twitter, and it was a productive meeting.
00:20:52.560And they talked about how to keep hate speech off the platform.
00:20:56.340I had a very frank and productive conversation with the CEO of Twitter yesterday about X, what works and what doesn't, and where it needs to go to address hate effectively on the platform.
00:21:06.800I appreciated her reaching out, and I'm hopeful the service will improve.
00:21:10.900ADL will be vigilant and give her and Elon Musk credit if the service gets better and reserve the right to call them out until it does.
00:21:16.860So, a lot of people responded to that by saying, hey, if you want to be vigilant about keeping hate off the platform, then I guess we should ban the ADL.
00:21:24.600And that's where the ban the ADL campaign was born.
00:21:28.540You know, let's ban them and their, quote, hate speech from the platform if that's what they want, which is a brilliant idea in my opinion.
00:21:59.860So, I had a meeting last week with Lindy Acarino, the new CEO of Twitter, right, at her request.
00:22:06.960And we had a very frank and productive conversation.
00:22:09.280I tweeted afterwards about that fact that we had a frank and productive conversation.
00:22:13.740As I've had with Elon Musk in the past.
00:22:16.680And then that triggered a number of white supremacists to organize this hashtag campaign, ban the ADL.
00:22:23.480And you've got to understand, and we're used to this at the ADL, we regularly get attacked by the right and the left.
00:22:29.360But this campaign went viral very quickly with white supremacists, you know, hardened anti-Semites and other people spreading it across the service.
00:22:40.120And it literally was a trending topic.
00:22:43.080The truth is, is that our community is vulnerable.
00:22:56.380Well, but that is the only explanation, right?
00:22:58.960If someone doesn't like the ADL, it must be because they're white supremacists.
00:23:03.060Yeah, so perhaps someone doesn't like the ADL because the ADL is a left-wing extremist group, an enemy of free speech, and thus an enemy of the United States and what it's supposed to stand for.
00:23:12.420And it contributes absolutely nothing constructive to the conversation or society.
00:23:17.700And the only thing that contributes to the conversation is by trying to shut any conversation down.
00:23:21.340Any conversation that makes them uncomfortable anyway.
00:23:23.240So that might be another reason why people were criticizing the ADL.
00:23:56.300Or they might hear the American Civil Liberties Union and think, well, Civil Liberties are great.
00:24:01.180I support those, so I support the ACLU.
00:24:03.200But these are just names, and the names are smokescreens for radical, anti-American, anti-freedom organizations.
00:24:11.760The ADL, just like the Southern Poverty Law Center, it exists to label its political enemies as terrorists and as radical extremists and as dangerous and to shut down their speech.
00:24:22.400I've been singled out by the ADL myself as a – I think the phrase they used was an online amplifier of hate, they said, which in leftist language just means I'm a conservative.
00:24:39.240At this point, if you're a conservative and you haven't made it on an ADL watch list, then you're real – I mean, you've got to do a self-inventory because you're really slacking.
00:24:48.140The problem is that these organizations, ADL, HRC, all the rest, they are allegedly non-governmental organizations.
00:24:56.520You know, these are not government agencies.
00:24:58.860They have no legal power in theory, but they have been granted de facto legal powers, basically.
00:25:07.340They've become de facto government agencies, kind of quasi-government agencies.
00:25:13.040We live under the rule in this country of the ADL.
00:25:20.660These pseudo-governmental bureaucracies, they run the country.
00:25:24.120They determine what speech is allowed to be heard and what speech isn't allowed.
00:25:29.060And that's the power and authority they've been granted quite illegitimately.
00:25:35.620And that's why you have this absurd situation where Twitter is having a meeting with the ADL to determine what their hate speech policy should be.
00:25:44.620But why would you meet with the ADL in the first place?
00:25:48.120So when Greenblatt says, well, we had a productive meeting and we'll have more meetings, like, why?
00:26:14.140They're not calling me in to talk about what their policy should be because I don't work at Twitter and I'm not any kind of authority figure.
00:26:27.020What difference does their opinion make?
00:26:28.600So why would you have a frank and productive meeting with them?
00:26:33.160The only frank and productive meeting that I would have with the ADL if they wanted to have a meeting with me is the meeting where I tell them to kiss my ass.
00:26:43.640But this is what happens in the corporate world.
00:26:48.180Even Twitter plays this game under Elon Musk, apparently.
00:26:50.960And that's where these organizations get their power from, power that they should not have.
00:26:57.780Like when the ADL or the SPLC, the HRC, you know, when any of these groups put you on a watch list, right, or label you dangerous, that should have no effect at all.
00:27:38.780It should mean absolutely nothing and have no teeth.
00:27:41.700But it does have some teeth because, you know, the corporate world and the government has granted authority and power to these far left organizations.
00:27:54.940As for banning the ADL, you know, I, anytime you have something like this going on, there's always going to be people on the right who say, no, we believe in free speech for all.
00:28:03.300We can't, we can't, we can't defy our own principles.
00:28:06.660We're hypocrites, you know, if we start calling for the ADL to be banned just because they want us all to be banned.
00:29:52.680Mayor Eric Adams warned during a town hall meeting on Wednesday evening that New York City is on the verge of being destroyed because of the large number of illegal aliens that are being sent to the Democrat-controlled city.
00:30:03.020Adams said that never in his life has he encountered a problem.
00:30:05.720He was not able to fix and bring to an end.
00:30:08.560But that, that this illegal alien problem is one of those problems.
00:30:57.260Now we're getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up that they're going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.
00:31:06.200And everyone is saying it's New York City's problem.
00:31:08.800Every community in this city is going to be impacted.
00:31:14.280We have a $12 billion deficit that we're going to have to cut.
00:31:20.280Every service in this city is going to be impacted.
00:32:09.620Yeah, so this is a good transition right from the last topic to this one because there's not much we even need to say about this.
00:32:18.380This is a perfect example of what we just talked about that's playing out right now in New York City of holding the left to their own standards.
00:32:25.660You know, Mayor Adams and, you know, other Democrats and leftist leaders in New York are speaking out about illegal immigrant, immigration.
00:32:38.000And by the way, in pretty strident terms.
00:32:42.120He's talking about how it's going to be the destruction of the city.
00:33:13.960My question is, where were you, you know, when you had many other towns for decades in this country, especially towns down south, towns around the border, border towns.
00:33:28.040They have been crying out about this problem for decades.
00:33:40.060Or, in fact, did you go the other way?
00:33:42.240And when it was happening to other people, you said that you called it xenophobia and said, oh, we have to be welcoming.
00:33:49.900This is always how it goes on the left.
00:33:51.160They have these ideas, these alleged principles that are totally destructive and insane.
00:33:59.360But as long as they are insulated from the consequences of these ideas, as long as they don't have to, as long as they can just propose them and then let other people deal with the consequences, it's fine.
00:34:12.140Same thing goes with defund the police and have a relaxed attitude towards crime.
00:34:18.420You know, take violent criminals and keep releasing them back out of this.
00:34:23.740Be generous and kind to violent criminals by refusing to punish them for their evil deeds.
00:34:29.980Well, as long as that's happening to other people and not to the leftist elites, it's all good.
00:34:37.460But then the moment they start to experience the consequences of that, their own neighborhoods start to become unsafe.
00:34:43.440Now they begin using the same language and saying the same things that those dastardly racist conservatives had been saying for years before.
00:34:55.660And so that's exactly what's happening now.
00:35:51.220I don't know how, I'm not sure how much is left to be destroyed in that city, but yes.
00:35:55.800Maybe we should say the continued destruction of it.
00:35:59.360Do I have any sympathy for these people?
00:36:02.040Well, no, I have as much sympathy for them as they had for all of the border towns that have been, again, crying out about this for decades.
00:36:13.280All right, I wanted to do, I've had this for a few days.
00:36:23.740Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders, commonly referred to as Coach Prime, stunned the college football world on Saturday as his team upset number 17 ranked TCU, last year's national runner-up, in a 45-42 shootout in Fort Worth.
00:36:37.320And Deion Sanders just came to this school and got a lot of attention when he came.
00:36:48.080This was a school that was, I think they were 1-11 last year, so they won one game last year.
00:36:54.400And he comes in and already they've won a game.
00:36:57.480It's only one game, but they won a game.
00:36:59.460And it's a story that, you know, it captures people because it reminds you of the sort of classic Hollywood sports movie.
00:37:07.400You know, the charismatic coach comes into a struggling program, gives a bunch of inspirational speeches, team starts winning.