The Matt Walsh Show - October 11, 2018


Ep. 122 - Democrats Trying To Get People Killed？

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Democrats and gun violence strategy
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Matt Walsh
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Hillary Clinton Eric Holder Maxine Waters Ron Paul LaCroix Hirono Cory Booker Ted Cruz Kavanaugh Godspeed Antifa Trump
Ep. 120 - Don't Apologize To The Mob Ep. 123 - The Media's Most Dishonest Attack Yet

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In this episode, we talk about the Democratic response to the recent events in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C. as well as some of the craziness that has been happening around the Supreme Court and in the streets of DC.

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00:00:00.000 Let me ask you something. The fact that I'm drinking LaCroix fruit-flavored sparkling water and that I quite enjoy it, does that detract from my overall manliness?
00:00:15.720 And the fact that I'm wearing a pink shirt whilst drinking the LaCroix, does that affect one way or another?
00:00:21.460 And the fact that I just used the word whilst instead of while, how does that, where does that, is that a help or a hindrance in my overall manliness?
00:00:31.460 You know what? I don't care. Anyway, it's, I'm not going to be put in a box. I'm not going to be labeled, all right?
00:00:39.500 I'm not going to say gender is fluid for me, but I don't have to be gender solid either, do I?
00:00:45.060 Maybe I can be more of a gender pudding, let us say. You know, these are more enlightened times, so you guys need to catch up is all I'm saying. 0.66
00:00:55.380 All right. I, yes, gender pudding is, sounds like a really, really bizarre and weird flavor of pudding. 0.96
00:01:07.800 So, look, I think that we are headed to a dark place in our, in society right now, in our country.
00:01:16.960 And it seems that Democrats are trying very hard to push us into that place.
00:01:23.440 And when I say we're headed into that place and we're being pushed there, I should say that we're headed or we're being pushed further into that kind of dark place
00:01:32.540 because we, we're already in a, you know, we're already there to a certain extent.
00:01:36.580 We're already in a place where, for instance, violent anarchist thugs can shut down a city street and accost anyone who happens to pass by,
00:01:47.920 which, which we, we, we've seen repeatedly over the last few years.
00:01:51.840 And maybe you saw it happen yet again over the weekend.
00:01:54.480 Maybe you didn't see, because it's not the kind of thing the media likes to report on.
00:01:58.240 But the, the, um, Antifa thugs shut down an intersection in Portland over the weekend and, uh, they blocked traffic.
00:02:06.380 They physically threatened motorists to pass by.
00:02:10.160 Um, at one point they, that was just watching the video where they chased down an elderly man who was, who was simply, he was, it looks like he was just trying to drive through.
00:02:20.340 He was just trying to get by.
00:02:22.140 And, uh, but they were blocking the intersection, trying to direct traffic and saying, no, you, you're not allowed to come here.
00:02:28.240 And so this guy just tried to get through and they chased down his vehicle and they started beating on his vehicle with batons while screaming, like right in his face, screaming obscenities at him.
00:02:38.720 And you watch the footage of this happening in Portland.
00:02:41.920 The police are nowhere to be found.
00:02:44.440 They're just, I mean, it's incredible, but in the more incredible thing is that we're used to it.
00:02:50.220 That these people in masks can just take over a street.
00:02:55.260 And if you try to, if you, if you try to walk by, they'll just beat you up and nobody, the police are just letting it happen.
00:03:02.260 Maybe because they're told to let it happen.
00:03:03.940 Whatever the reason is, uh, they have, the law enforcement decided to give these, these domestic terrorists free reign for the afternoon.
00:03:11.140 Meanwhile, while that was going on, you had the protesters and what protesters, I should say, put that in scare quotes in Washington, DC, who were being arrested as they tried to disrupt the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
00:03:22.600 You had, we talked about a few days ago, um, what was disturbing, but also pretty hilarious scene of the protesters.
00:03:29.500 There's, again, in scare quotes, banging on the doors of the Supreme Court, clawing at the doors, screeching like zombies.
00:03:39.640 And it's just, and this all happened, uh, only, uh, you know, only a few days, several days after Ted Cruz was chased out of a restaurant by a swarming mob of, uh, of harassers.
00:03:50.900 And these have become familiar scenes in America.
00:03:53.680 And the thing is, when we talk about the democratic response to all this, it would be too generous to say that, well, Democrat politicians have been silent in the face of all this.
00:04:05.680 No, they haven't been silent at all.
00:04:07.080 Actually silence would be an improvement over what we've seen from a lot of these people.
00:04:12.260 They've actually encouraged it.
00:04:13.800 Remember what Maxine Waters said infamously to her supporters a couple months ago.
00:04:18.460 She said, whenever you see, uh, you know, somebody in the Trump administration, you see a Republican, create a crowd and, and, uh, tell them they're not welcome anywhere.
00:04:27.340 That was her direct quote from her.
00:04:29.260 They're not welcome anywhere is what she encouraged her supporters to, to say and to do.
00:04:36.540 Um, Senator Hirono was, uh, was asked on CNN a couple of days ago, whether she thinks it may be going too far to run senators out of restaurants.
00:04:47.780 And to go to their homes, to go to their homes.
00:04:51.520 Okay.
00:04:51.920 That's what she was asked.
00:04:52.680 Is it going too far?
00:04:55.280 Um, when you start showing up at their homes or harassing them in public and she would not discourage the behavior.
00:05:01.500 In fact, she encouraged it.
00:05:02.500 She said, well, people are very motivated.
00:05:05.000 They're very motivated.
00:05:07.800 Is that what she's going to say?
00:05:09.160 When, when someone actually takes a shot at one of these politicians, when there's an, when I should say, when there's another assassination attempt, was that what she's going to say then too?
00:05:20.060 Well, there is a very motivated.
00:05:23.840 Two days ago, Hillary Clinton, uh, all but explicitly called for more violence when she said that, uh, you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.
00:05:35.360 You cannot be civil.
00:05:38.800 Can't do it.
00:05:41.840 Now let's, let's keep something in mind here.
00:05:44.720 A political party that wants to destroy what you stand for.
00:05:47.380 Well, that's, that's, that's the nature of political disagreement, of ideological disagreement, isn't it?
00:05:53.780 You know, you, you want to establish one kind of society and the other side wants to destroy that vision, destroy that society and put a new, a different kind of society in place.
00:06:09.180 That's, that's the nature of disagreement.
00:06:10.900 So what, my point is what Hillary Clinton is actually saying here is she's saying, um, you forget about destroy what you stand for.
00:06:20.340 She, what she's saying is you can't be civil with a political party that disagrees with you.
00:06:23.780 It's impossible to civilly disagree.
00:06:26.280 That's, that's what she's saying.
00:06:28.260 And this has been the Democrat approach for years now.
00:06:30.780 This is not, it's not a new thing.
00:06:32.140 Um, they intentionally fomented, uh, unrest and, and spread misinformation that led to riots in Ferguson and Baltimore.
00:06:40.140 It seems like we've forgotten about that.
00:06:42.180 We act like Antifa was, uh, the, the first iteration of, um, these left, these violent leftist mobs.
00:06:50.220 But no, I mean, there were, there were wide scale riots happening in cities across the country.
00:06:57.040 And again, Democrats, uh, would not condemn it, wouldn't speak out against it.
00:07:06.160 Famously, the, the, the Democrat mayor of Baltimore said, well, we're going to give them space to destroy.
00:07:10.880 We're going to give them space.
00:07:11.880 Let them do it.
00:07:13.800 And they justified it.
00:07:14.920 And they continue spreading the lies and the rhetoric, hands up, don't shoot, that kind of stuff.
00:07:20.040 That was encouraging this kind of stuff.
00:07:21.840 Um, now this should go without saying, but, but I'll say it anyway, as we're talking about temperament, Democrats apparently care about temperament so much.
00:07:33.840 Well, a politician who will not loudly and convincingly condemn rioting, harassment, intimidation, tactics, violence.
00:07:44.180 Okay.
00:07:44.360 These are politicians who do not have the temperament for office.
00:07:47.900 And unfortunately that describes almost every Democrat politician, at least on the national level and probably most on the, you know, more localized level as well.
00:08:01.780 Politicians like that, they're, they're, they're just far too vengeful, reckless, um, to hold political office. 0.67
00:08:09.840 And it's like, it's one thing if you have a Supreme court justice who gets pretty angry when you accuse him of raping somebody. 0.97
00:08:21.000 Okay.
00:08:21.520 That's one kind of temperament.
00:08:23.440 But when you have a major political party that's led by people who will unapologetically incite violence against their opponents, that's a totally different thing altogether.
00:08:34.540 Now, yesterday, Rand Paul came out and he warned us very strong words.
00:08:41.320 He warned that, uh, that there might be an assassination.
00:08:44.400 So he's speaking explicitly about assassinations using that word, the a word.
00:08:49.240 Okay.
00:08:49.640 You don't hear that very often coming from politicians.
00:08:51.900 He said that he's worried there's going to be an assassination.
00:08:54.480 And, uh, he said that those who are quote, ratcheting up the conversation, they're going to bear some of the responsibility.
00:09:01.480 That's, that's a strong, strong words from Rand Paul, especially coming from a guy who was, who was, if you may remember, attacked and badly beaten just last year.
00:09:10.560 So he knows what he's talking about.
00:09:13.820 And these warnings coming from him, we should listen to them.
00:09:18.000 But Democrats are going way in the other direction.
00:09:20.900 Eric Holder yesterday, he, uh, he told a crowd, a cheering crowd.
00:09:25.220 He said, when they go low, we kick them.
00:09:29.660 That's his message.
00:09:31.240 He also called for rage.
00:09:33.380 He said, we need to have rage.
00:09:36.200 Um, and this is the most startling thing.
00:09:38.900 He openly questioned the legitimacy of the Supreme court.
00:09:45.120 Now keep something in mind here.
00:09:46.500 When Eric Holder questions, calls into question the legitimacy of our governing institutions.
00:09:51.520 And Maxine Waters tells her supporters to follow Republicans around and tell them they're not welcome anywhere.
00:09:58.780 And Hillary Clinton, uh, says that, well, we can't be civil with Republicans because they're so evil.
00:10:03.900 And Hirono justifies mob behavior by calling the, uh, the, the mobbing hordes motivated.
00:10:12.080 And when Cory Booker tells his base that they should quote, get up in the faces of Republican congressmen, all of this stuff, when they do that, we can only conclude one of two things.
00:10:26.040 Okay. 1.00
00:10:26.480 Either number one, these Democrats are too stupid to know what they're doing. 1.00
00:10:31.720 They really don't know what they're doing because they're stupid. 1.00
00:10:34.040 Or number two, they know exactly what they're doing. 1.00
00:10:40.640 And I'll put it this way. 0.99
00:10:41.800 I don't think they're stupid. 1.00
00:10:44.560 Uh, I don't. 0.99
00:10:48.020 I think that these people are actually relatively clever.
00:10:52.340 They know exactly what they're doing.
00:10:54.820 That's the second option.
00:10:55.900 And so the only real question, I think, is whether Democrats are simply unconcerned with the violence that they might cause or if they actively want the violence.
00:11:11.560 And there's a pretty, either way, it's terrible.
00:11:14.120 There's still a pretty big difference between those two things.
00:11:16.120 Are they actively trying to incite violence or is it just that, uh, they know that they may be inciting violence, but they don't care as long as they achieve whatever their, their, their ultimate political aim.
00:11:29.640 I think there's plenty of reasons, reason to suspect that this is, that this is what they actually want.
00:11:36.840 Um, politicians, we should remember are very calculated, especially Democrat politicians, especially Democrat politicians like Hillary Clinton.
00:11:43.700 Hillary Clinton never says anything that hasn't been thought about ahead of time.
00:11:47.920 She goes in and she says something.
00:11:49.600 She, she, she knows what she's saying and she's saying it for a reason.
00:11:53.740 So when she says we can't be civil, okay, that was not just something she said on a whim off the top of her head in a moment of passion.
00:12:01.640 She doesn't have moments of passion.
00:12:03.780 This was something that she thought about and this was a plan that this is what we're, this is what we're going to go with.
00:12:10.900 So there's a reason why.
00:12:12.400 There's a reason why these people have chosen now in a moment in time, when tensions are so high, when divisions are so deep, when anarchists are in the street, shutting down traffic, senators, families are receiving graphic death threats, uh, which is what was happening during the Kavanaugh confirmation.
00:12:31.040 Um, there's a reason why they've chosen now in the midst of all that to start using this especially militant language.
00:12:37.120 Somebody like Eric Holder, who was the attorney general of the United States not too long ago, he doesn't, he, he, he's not going to get up there and announce that.
00:12:48.320 And this is the direct quote.
00:12:49.260 He said, the legitimacy of the Supreme court can justifiably be questioned.
00:12:53.820 He doesn't say that on a whim.
00:12:55.400 Okay.
00:12:55.600 That's not a moment of passion.
00:12:56.800 He well knows what happens when people start to believe that the government is not legitimate.
00:13:05.740 Okay.
00:13:06.700 He knows what happens.
00:13:08.280 So they're doing this on purpose.
00:13:16.460 Now there is another thing to consider here.
00:13:19.480 It's, it's, it's kind of an interesting, uh, wrinkle.
00:13:21.920 Um, the interesting thing is that the side, the political side that seems to be chumming the water for civil unrest, they're also the side that opposes gun ownership, right?
00:13:36.780 Um, there was an editor at think progress recently who said on Twitter that Republicans should be confronted quote, where they eat and where they sleep.
00:13:48.380 Again, he knows what he's saying.
00:13:50.420 Confront somebody where they sleep. 0.80
00:13:54.140 What else does that, does that mean besides go into their house?
00:13:58.000 So he's saying that yet, and this is right in line with what these other more prominent Democrats have said, uh, like what Maxine water said, it's all in the same vein.
00:14:10.120 So he's saying that yet Republicans are the ones with all the guns.
00:14:15.140 So you confront, I mean, it's, it's probably not going to work out well for you if you try to go into a conservative's house and confront them where he sleeps.
00:14:22.340 The left seems to be itching for this confrontation with people who have them outgunned by like three to one.
00:14:30.900 That's the statistics that there are.
00:14:33.460 I think there's about three times more, um, Republicans who, who own guns than there are, than there are Democrats.
00:14:40.860 So it's just, I mean, it's, it's a miracle that, that, uh, one of these motorists or, or, or innocent bystanders who have been assaulted at, at, at Antifa rallies.
00:14:52.020 It's a, it's a miracle that one of them hasn't pulled a firearm by now.
00:14:55.980 It's, it's, uh, it's only a matter of time.
00:15:00.100 It seems like when, when you start chasing people down in their cars and begging on their cars and all this kind of stuff, trying to intimidate them, screaming in their face, assaulting them.
00:15:11.340 You start doing that.
00:15:12.560 I guess if you do it in Portland, you know, your chances are pretty good that they're going to be unarmed, but you start doing that kind of thing and you're really asking for trouble.
00:15:22.860 Um, and if the left plans to really ratchet up the violence, which is what we're seeing, then the chances seem to be greatly increased that they're going to find themselves on the wrong end of one of those confrontations.
00:15:37.040 So that's, that's an interesting part of this.
00:15:41.280 And you, and you have to wonder, is that part of the plan?
00:15:45.200 I don't want to get too conspira, uh, you know, I don't want to get into conspiracies here, but
00:15:48.800 do, do Democrats want gun owners to start losing their cool in the face of provocation?
00:15:58.600 Um, or have they not far thought that far, far ahead?
00:16:02.600 I'm not sure.
00:16:03.900 Um, or do they figure that it works out for them either way?
00:16:07.920 Because if you, if you start, you know, if you, if you, if you, if you, if things really get violent and, um, you can intimidate Republicans and conservatives into backing down, then you kind of get your way.
00:16:19.920 But on the other hand, if you are able to incite, um, more of a two way kind of violence, if you're able to get that going, well, then you have a case.
00:16:31.800 Now you're going to use that as a case to restrict the second amendment. 0.96
00:16:34.580 So, so maybe that's their thought.
00:16:36.040 I don't know.
00:16:36.680 Or maybe they just haven't thought that far ahead.
00:16:38.700 Uh, but, but either way, the strategy is diabolical and it's dangerous.
00:16:42.900 And, uh, we are, as I said, headed to a very bad place if they don't put an end to this.
00:16:49.140 And I'll tell you the thing, here's what really concerns me.
00:16:51.340 Okay.
00:16:52.620 I think that we're, we're on a powder keg as the saying goes.
00:16:56.420 And the powder in the keg consists of a few things.
00:16:59.340 Um, we have, as we've talked about the deep ideological divisions and the contempt that's
00:17:04.340 felt by the two sides towards each other.
00:17:06.540 Uh, we have the reckless at best rhetoric coming from politicians who are trying to, trying
00:17:12.020 to wind up the crowd.
00:17:14.040 Um, but then we also have the kind of, uh, loss of a sense of a shared humanity.
00:17:22.980 What I mean is we, we're a very morally numb society.
00:17:27.760 And we struggle to see the humanity and the personhood in our fellow human creatures.
00:17:35.780 And that's not just because of political divisions.
00:17:37.960 It's also because we live in a, um, living as we do in a way where we're experiencing so
00:17:46.680 much of life and interacting so much through screens, through the internet.
00:17:52.780 But I think it really has a numbing effect.
00:17:56.940 And I think people today often struggle to, to see the sacredness of life.
00:18:02.860 They struggle to see the humanity in their fellow human.
00:18:08.440 Um, so much so that I think people will join a mob.
00:18:13.300 A lot of these mobs and riots and chaos that we've seen.
00:18:15.460 I think there are people who jump into that because they, they happen to hate whoever
00:18:20.380 or whatever they're rioting against.
00:18:22.260 But I also think there are a lot of people who jump into it just for fun because it's
00:18:25.400 something to do because it's all a game to them.
00:18:27.760 It's all entertainment.
00:18:28.980 And this is how they've learned to see life.
00:18:31.800 And they just don't recognize, they don't see the seriousness of what they're doing.
00:18:36.900 And if somebody gets hurt or killed, they don't care that much because as I said, they
00:18:41.280 don't recognize the humanity of the people who are getting hurt or could get hurt.
00:18:49.980 And I just worry about all these factors.
00:18:56.100 We've already got all these factors together kind of in a, in one mix.
00:19:02.280 And now you throw in what these Democrat politicians are doing now and the things that they're saying.
00:19:08.120 Is that going to be the match that really lights it?
00:19:11.280 I guess we'll see.
00:19:16.300 But, uh, I think these are precarious times, let's just say.
00:19:24.980 So pray for our country and I'll talk to you tomorrow.
00:19:29.460 Godspeed.