The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1229 - The Institution Of Marriage Is Under Attack From All Sides

00:00:00.120 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, marriage is under attack in our society.

00:00:02.940 And these attacks are not just coming from the left.

00:00:04.740 An increasing number of influencers on the right are discouraging young people from getting married,

00:00:08.400 claiming that marriages almost always lead to failure and misery.

00:00:11.620 But is that true? No, not at all. We'll discuss.

00:00:13.860 Also, new presidential polling has the media in a panic.

00:00:16.820 Are they about to dump Biden and trade him in for a younger model?

00:00:19.860 And a new report reveals that American taxpayer money is not just going to the military in Ukraine,

00:00:24.060 it is propping up their entire economy.

00:00:26.020 In our daily cancellation, a new sculpture in California looks suspiciously like a certain unspeakable body part.

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00:00:32.940 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:52.000 I've spent a lot of time in my career defending the institution of marriage.

00:01:56.240 And I defend it because it's the bedrock of civilization, so it deserves defending.

00:02:00.140 And I defend it because it's under constant attack, so it needs defending.

00:02:04.200 And one of the most troubling developments in recent years, which we've discussed on this show in the past,

00:02:08.240 is that these attacks are increasingly waged not just from the left, but from certain noisy segments of the right as well.

00:02:15.040 Some right-wing influencers with legions of young, mostly male fans have decided that men should abandon marriage and family life and go their own way.

00:02:25.680 And these influencers, many of whom consider themselves a part of the so-called red pill movement,

00:02:31.240 pretend to despise feminists and yet have essentially arrived at the same conclusion as feminists, 0.93

00:02:36.920 which is that we should give up on the family.

00:02:39.460 The two sides hate marriage almost as much as they hate each other.

00:02:42.840 Now, one of these influencers is a woman named Pearl Davis, 1.00

00:02:46.200 who has garnered a relatively large following on YouTube and various social media platforms.

00:02:51.060 She's in her mid-twenties, single and childless, and yet full of opinions about modern marriage and family life,

00:02:57.200 a subject that she has no personal insight into whatsoever.

00:03:01.560 She's spent the past few days on the internet complaining about, quote-unquote, trad cons like myself,

00:03:06.680 who, she says, promote the nuclear family despite not understanding what it's really like.

00:03:12.620 Yes, we men who actually have wives and children don't know what it's like to be married,

00:03:17.360 but a woman who is not married and has no children does know what it's like. 1.00

00:03:21.680 In one of her tweets, she wrote, quote,

00:03:22.920 quote, the trad cons push marriage because they aren't old enough to know better. 0.86

00:03:27.080 They don't know the reality of what they're pushing.

00:03:29.200 This is accompanied by a picture of myself, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles.

00:03:32.520 We aren't old enough to know better and don't know the reality of what we're pushing,

00:03:36.160 yet a woman who is younger than us and single does know better and does understand this reality.

00:03:41.960 In other posts, she goes on to say that marriage is a terrible deal for men, 0.81

00:03:45.320 and she later explains, quote,

00:03:47.480 would you ever sign a contract that fails 75% of the time

00:03:50.820 where your business partner is paid to break the contract?

00:03:53.920 Why would you encourage men to sign that contract until the terms are fixed? 0.62

00:03:57.820 Now, you may be surprised to learn that marriages fail at a rate of 75%.

00:04:03.880 The figure that people like this normally use is 50%.

00:04:07.740 And the claim that 50% of marriages end in divorce is already spurious,

00:04:11.820 and we'll have more on that in a moment, but 75%?

00:04:16.040 I was wondering where that number came from,

00:04:17.500 so I scrolled down and I saw something that she reposted from an alleged lawyer who said this,

00:04:21.680 quote,

00:04:22.460 It's not 50-50. That only accounts for divorces. 1.00

00:04:25.180 Another 25% on the negative side for miserable men trapped in cheaper to keep her marriages

00:04:30.880 unwilling to risk financial destruction and loss of their children.

00:04:34.940 75% chance of a devastatingly bad outcome is just a bad plan.

00:04:39.740 No sane person would enter into a commercial contract on such terms.

00:04:43.620 Now, I did ask him where he got this 75% figure from, and he wouldn't say.

00:04:50.840 Apparently, the magic statistic fairy came and whispered it in his ear.

00:04:55.460 Now, for her part, Pearl later tweeted a picture of Pierce Brosnan with his wife of 20 years,

00:05:00.400 and she questioned whether the marriage counts as successful since Brosnan's wife has put on some

00:05:07.280 weight at the age of 60. So apparently, even if they're happy and have remained married for two

00:05:13.640 decades, they still might fall into that 75% failure rate because they have not both remained in

00:05:19.660 supermodel condition into their 60s.

00:05:21.700 This debate on social media brought out the rest of the marriage skeptical crowd on the right.

00:05:27.260 A bunch of these red pill influencers decided to hop on an emergency Zoom call and spend

00:05:32.720 two hours talking about me and the rest of the Daily Wire crew and our reckless promotion of

00:05:38.220 society's most fundamental institution. Now, there's one clip here that you should see.

00:05:43.360 This is apparently a divorce lawyer who says that the failure rate for marriage is not 50%

00:05:52.540 and it's not 75%. It is, in fact, even higher. Listen.

00:05:58.000 I think marriage can be successful, of course. It's just not something that's as scalable as we

00:06:03.940 as a society are trying to pretend it is. Marriage is, and I've said this a hundred times and I'll say

00:06:08.880 a hundred more. Marriage is like the lottery. You are probably not going to win, okay? You're

00:06:15.660 probably not going to win. Don't make that your 401k. You're probably not going to win. But if you win,

00:06:22.880 what you win is so great that I don't blame you for buying a ticket and trying. I personally don't

00:06:30.060 buy lottery tickets. But when somebody says, yeah, I played a lottery. Hey, man, somebody's got to win.

00:06:34.780 And you know what? As long as you're not blowing money that you need for food or to put shoes on

00:06:38.700 your kid's feet, you're not hurting anybody. Go out, give it a try. So I always tell people,

00:06:43.540 listen, marriage, when it works, when you have somebody who's married 20 plus years and they're

00:06:47.660 still crazy about each other, that is the exception, not the rule. But when you do it,

00:06:53.060 it's phenomenal. It's phenomenal. So why not buy the ticket, take the ride, but have a prenup?

00:06:57.640 Wear a seatbelt, guys. You can be a safe driver, but wear a seatbelt.

00:07:02.560 So a happy marriage, he says, is like winning the lottery. And the thing about the lottery is that

00:07:07.640 almost everybody loses. This is a perfect summation of how this entire club views marriage

00:07:13.940 and the message that they're sending to young men in particular. Sure, it can be great, they concede,

00:07:20.980 but only if you're insanely lucky. Everybody else is screwed. This is a rather bleak view of marriage, 0.99

00:07:27.920 and thankfully, it's also nonsense. First of all, the claim that marriage isn't scalable

00:07:33.240 is obviously ridiculous because marriage has served as the bedrock of human society 0.98

00:07:39.540 since time immemorial. It has already happened at the scale of civilization for thousands of years. 0.94

00:07:48.120 Now, the divorce lawyers come along and say that, you know, this thing that society has been doing

00:07:51.740 forever, turns out it doesn't work. Unless you're the one in a million.

00:07:57.900 It's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous claim. Now, what about the failure rate of marriages in our 1.00

00:08:05.720 culture? We've heard 50%. We've heard 75%. We just heard that they fail at a rate similar to the

00:08:11.560 rate that people lose the lottery, which would mean higher than 99%, a lot higher. Yet, these kinds of

00:08:19.460 astronomical odds are not based in anything but the doom and gloom speculations of the people inventing

00:08:25.240 them. There is no evidence that having a happy marriage is as unlikely as winning the lottery or

00:08:32.060 that 75% of marriages end in misery. And what about the 50% number? Well, this is at least is a familiar

00:08:39.040 statistic. It's something that you've probably heard before. 50% of marriages end in divorce.

00:08:44.360 It's familiar, but it is bogus. And one way that you know that it's bogus is that people have been

00:08:51.060 claiming that 50% of marriages end in divorce since I was a kid. I've been hearing that my whole life.

00:08:59.300 And that would mean that divorce rates are static across time. But of course, that isn't the case.

00:09:04.600 In fact, we know that divorce rates have gone down in recent years. So where does the 50% figure come

00:09:11.320 from? Apparently, it's a holdover from the 1980s, which is when people first started citing that statistic.

00:09:16.280 It's not true today. And it's actually not clear that it was true even in the 80s either.

00:09:22.840 So what is the actual divorce rate? It's a little bit hard to determine.

00:09:28.400 Probably our best guess is based on U.S. census data, which according to the most recent figures,

00:09:34.280 says that about 35% of American adults who have been married have been divorced.

00:09:39.560 So it's not exactly going to give us a precisely scientific figure of what the divorce rate is,

00:09:46.440 but it's as close as we're going to get, 35%. And 35% is high. I mean, it's way too high.

00:09:53.800 It's not 50%, though. And it's not 75%. And it's not 99%. And it's definitely not lottery odds.

00:10:01.760 Still, isn't it terrifying to think that if you get married, your chance of failure is 35%

00:10:09.640 and the chance of success is only 65% at the most? Even if we go with that number, isn't that still

00:10:16.480 very, very scary? Isn't it high enough that it should dissuade anyone from attempting it?

00:10:21.500 The answer to that question is no. And here's why. If the divorce rate is 35%,

00:10:30.320 or even if it's 50%, it does not follow that your own particular marriage has a 35% or 50% chance of

00:10:40.300 failure. Now, I'm not saying that you should be cocky or reckless or that you should see yourself

00:10:45.560 as invincible. I am saying that you shouldn't, on the other extreme, see yourself as passive debris

00:10:54.380 floating helplessly on the tide of statistical likelihoods. Because you are an individual.

00:11:01.740 Your marriage is an individual thing. And its chances of failure are not set by society at large.

00:11:09.000 So here's an example to illustrate what I mean. And this is really, really important

00:11:14.480 to understand. Because as marriage rates fall, and those are falling,

00:11:21.080 the thing that convinces so many people to not marry in the first place are numbers like this.

00:11:27.960 And this misconception that, well, look at the divorce rate, and that is my own specific chance

00:11:34.860 of getting divorced. And I'm here to tell you that's not how it works. So here's, I think this

00:11:42.680 illustrates it. The obesity rate in the United States is over 40%. Does that mean that your own

00:11:50.960 chances of becoming obese are 40%? No, it doesn't. Your chances might be 5%. They might be practically

00:11:59.860 zero. Or they might be quite a bit higher than 40%. That's because obesity is the result of behavior

00:12:07.540 and choices. If you do not engage in the behavior or make the choices that lead to obesity, you will

00:12:14.960 not become obese. The fact that 40% of people around you are fat does not mean that you automatically

00:12:22.500 have a 40% obesity risk. Now, let's take another example. Car accidents. Americans get into car

00:12:30.920 accidents at a certain rate. I'm not sure what the rate is. It doesn't matter for our purposes.

00:12:35.000 What does matter is that your own individual chance of getting into a car accident is not the same as

00:12:41.760 every other driver on the road. The people who compile statistics will say things like,

00:12:46.060 motorists have an X% chance of getting into a collision. But you are not just a generic motorist.

00:12:52.500 You are an individual. Now, you can never bring your own chance of dying in a fiery car wreck down

00:12:58.100 to zero. But if you're responsible, if you're a responsible driver, then obviously your chances

00:13:03.960 of getting into an accident are much lower than the chances of someone who is not responsible. 1.00

00:13:09.000 All of those stupid drivers who don't understand the basic rules of the road and like to tweet and 1.00

00:13:14.360 eat while they drive and everything else, they're inflating the numbers for everyone. 1.00

00:13:18.780 Now, they're also making the roads more dangerous for everyone. They are actually actively making

00:13:25.660 your own chances of getting into a car accident higher because the roads are filled with stupid 1.00

00:13:29.640 people. But your chances are not as high as their chances. You do not share their level of risk unless 1.00

00:13:38.000 you're as dumb as they are. Because again, you are an individual, not a mere statistic. 0.99

00:13:43.260 So, what about marriage? It's true that even if you do everything right, things can still fall apart

00:13:52.240 if your spouse doesn't follow that program. Now, if you both do everything right or even most things

00:13:57.040 right, then your chance of divorce is basically zero. But you can do everything on your end and maybe

00:14:04.000 your spouse doesn't do the same and then it falls apart anyway and that happens and it's terrible,

00:14:08.680 but it happens. It's also true that there are many, many things you can do in your marriage and

00:14:16.320 before your marriage to make it much more secure than the average. Obvious things. Like, you can

00:14:23.520 marry someone who shares your same fundamental values. Not everyone does that. In fact, a lot of

00:14:29.180 people don't. A lot of people go into marriages knowing ahead of time that they're marrying someone

00:14:35.020 who doesn't share their fundamental values. Their chances of divorce are going to be somewhere

00:14:41.760 much higher than yours if you don't make that basic entry-level mistake that they have made.

00:14:50.180 You can do other things. Like, you can state from the outset that you both, in principle,

00:14:55.060 don't believe in divorce and won't consider it as a viable option for solving any marital difficulties

00:15:00.460 you may experience down the line. You can have a strong and shared faith. You can establish from

00:15:06.500 the beginning a habit of honest communication. You can make time for each other. You can continue

00:15:11.100 to date, even or especially as your lives get busier and you start having kids and so on.

00:15:15.840 You can make a strong effort to be patient with and grateful to each other. You can take care of your

00:15:19.860 body and your appearance. You can do all these things and more. Now, I'm not saying that if you do all

00:15:25.460 of this, it will bring your divorce chance down to zero. I'm not denying that there are plenty of

00:15:29.580 people out there who did all this, at least on their own end, and yet still ended up divorced.

00:15:34.500 That's not my point. My point is that the divorce rate doesn't take any of that into account.

00:15:40.300 The people who take none of these basic steps are lumped in with the people who do all of it,

00:15:45.060 and we're supposed to believe that both groups have an equal chance of marital failure. That's just not

00:15:49.920 true. Now, I don't deny that there are real serious problems with marriage in our society. The so-called

00:15:58.260 red pill people and others, they raise totally legitimate and important points on that end. We

00:16:02.820 need drastic reform. Abolish no-fault divorce. The entire family court system has to be torn down and 0.94

00:16:07.620 rebuilt. The system is stacked against men in many ways that are extremely unfair and have ruined

00:16:11.900 countless lives. So let's fight for those reforms, absolutely. But this systemic problem

00:16:17.020 is not going to be solved today or tomorrow or next week. Abolishing no-fault divorce is just the 0.98

00:16:24.040 beginning of reforming the system. Lawmakers in a small number of red states have only just started

00:16:28.400 to seriously consider that idea, which is merely step one. So we're a long way off from fixing the

00:16:34.980 system. It took decades to get us here. It will take decades to get us out at best.

00:16:41.820 Anyone who tells you anything else is selling you something. They're selling you a bill of goods.

00:16:47.060 This is a decade-long, long-term struggle. The question is, what are young men, young people in

00:16:58.060 general, supposed to do in the meantime? And this is where the red pill becomes more of a hazy,

00:17:04.760 foggy, ambiguous pill. They have no answer. They simply shout about reforms that are needed,

00:17:09.900 yet have nothing to say to the young men in our culture today who will be old, if not dead,

00:17:15.860 by the time the system is fixed, if it's ever fixed at all. What are these young men supposed 0.52

00:17:21.340 to do right now? What kind of life would you have them lead right now, today? The answer,

00:17:28.360 it appears, is that an entire generation of young men, if not multiple generations,

00:17:32.200 should skip marriage while we wait for the system to improve. But this is not a viable solution.

00:17:38.540 It's not a solution at all. It's a surrender. You're asking entire generations to give up their

00:17:43.420 bloodline, their legacy, their chance of finding the transcendent joy and meaning that family life

00:17:47.540 can provide. You're asking them to give up on themselves and on civilization itself.

00:17:53.400 For thousands of years, human beings have always understood that their most basic purpose and

00:17:57.300 obligation was to form families and have children. And yet, you're telling these young men to ignore

00:18:02.940 this calling and do what? Instead, live for themselves, alone, wasting away in front of screens,

00:18:07.560 only to die with no descendants, leaving no lasting mark on the world? Think about the kind of misery

00:18:15.160 you're consigning these men to. Think about the catastrophic, probably fatal effect this would

00:18:19.640 have on our country. You can't give up on propagating the species for a few decades and then

00:18:24.960 pick it back up again like nothing happened. That doesn't work on any level, individually or societally.

00:18:30.760 It is a recipe for despair and collapse. Am I saying that young men and women should accept the risk 1.00

00:18:40.140 then and get married anyway? Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. That doesn't mean you should be

00:18:45.840 reckless. I've already talked about many practical things you can do to mitigate your own risk so that

00:18:50.420 it's not a roll of the dice. You should do all those things. Don't go into marriage blind,

00:18:55.360 but don't run from it either. Even if you mitigate the risk to the extent possible,

00:19:00.400 still there will be a risk. That's true, but here's the rub. All good things come with risk.

00:19:07.240 The more worthwhile it is, the worse and more disastrous it will be if you fail.

00:19:12.480 If you take on more responsibility, then your life will be more consequential,

00:19:16.580 and the more consequential your life is, the more cataclysmic your failures potentially become.

00:19:21.820 A married man with children lives a life of greater consequence than a single man with no children. 0.97

00:19:27.720 There are more people depending on him. He has a greater stake in the future.

00:19:33.160 This means that if things go sideways, it'll be a tragedy. If he screws up or his wife screws up or

00:19:38.640 they both do, his life will be ruined, his children will be devastated, and the impact will reverberate

00:19:45.500 down through the generations. This is what it means to live a high-impact, consequential life.

00:19:50.740 These are the stakes. And yes, they are quite high. Now, sure, you can stave off that sort of

00:19:58.800 catastrophe by staying by yourself, never going out on a limb, never taking any risk, never marrying,

00:20:04.700 never having kids, never striving for anything great or meaningful in life.

00:20:09.220 But then you're not avoiding failure and misery. You are guaranteeing it. You are ensuring that you

00:20:17.200 never lose your family in a divorce by never having a family to lose in the first place,

00:20:21.560 which is like ensuring that you never go bankrupt by being bankrupt to begin with.

00:20:26.980 I'm not going to lose all my money because I'm going to stay broke. I beat the system.

00:20:30.320 Um, not losing by having nothing to lose is a loss in itself. And I don't want that for anyone.

00:20:41.200 It's not a path to happiness and prosperity for either you or society. It is a path to defeat,

00:20:48.300 a preemptive and self-imposed defeat. And that is the worst kind of all.

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00:21:59.200 Okay, we have some more fun times with our senile president. Conservatives are having a field day

00:22:03.780 with this. Some are calling Biden racist, in fact, for this, his latest gaffe. And let's take a look.

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00:22:15.000 in America. LLJ Cool J. By the way, that boy's got, that man's got biceps bigger than my thighs. I think

00:22:26.960 he's been. And MC Light, both of you, thank you. Because they both have the light off on the mic,

00:22:35.980 you know, you're all here to listen to the new edition. Mike Bivens, 40 years producing music

00:22:41.920 that lifts our souls. Okay, so he calls LL Cool J boy. And that's the gaffe that people on the right

00:22:48.860 are latching onto, which is pretty lame, if we're being honest. He wasn't being racist.

00:22:54.060 And anytime people on the right try to play this leftist game with the racism claims,

00:22:58.140 it's always cringe. The, you know, Dems are the real racist bit is always cringe. Unless you're

00:23:03.140 accusing them of anti-white racism, which would be much more accurate. And, you know, that's, 0.90

00:23:09.140 so if you're going to do Dems are the real racist, it should be, they are anti-white racist. That's 0.99

00:23:13.280 one thing. The real gaffe, of course, is just that he's babbling nonsensically and can't even say the

00:23:18.720 name LL Cool J, which obviously his staff should have known. I mean, they should know there's no way

00:23:25.600 that this guy could pull that off. LL Cool J. Seems easy. Like it seems pretty, even if you've never

00:23:31.800 heard of LL Cool J before, which I'm sure Biden hasn't. It seems like it's pretty easy. LL Cool J.

00:23:37.760 There's nothing difficult about any of that, but there are just too many combinations there.

00:23:42.040 There's, there are too many ways to bungle it and bungle it. He does LL Cool J because he's senile

00:23:50.480 and he's barely sentient at this point, which may also explain the new poll that has the corporate

00:23:56.440 media very, very concerned today. Watch. Well, officials here are downplaying these latest

00:24:02.760 numbers, but they certainly are cause for concern for Democrats. Look, President Biden is making the

00:24:07.260 economic recovery, the cornerstone of his reelection campaign. But our latest ABC News

00:24:11.500 Washington Post poll shows Americans overwhelmingly just aren't feeling it, that despite easing

00:24:16.240 inflation and low unemployment, Americans really aren't buying into his positive Bidenomics

00:24:21.540 message. Just 30 percent of Americans approve of his handling of the economy. In fact, 44 percent

00:24:26.540 of people say they are not as well off now as they were when Biden took office. And on another

00:24:31.320 hot button issue, immigration, the numbers show only 23 percent of Americans approve of the

00:24:35.880 president's handling of that situation. All of this is leading to a dismal approval rating for the

00:24:40.580 president, now 19 points underwater. And when it comes to Biden himself, we know this. His age is a

00:24:46.560 real political problem for him. Right now, three quarters of Americans, 74 percent, say that he is too old

00:24:52.380 to effectively serve a second term. And a majority of Democrats say someone else should actually be the

00:24:57.100 nominee, though the party is deeply divided on who that someone else should be. And take a look at this

00:25:02.380 when it comes to the head-to-head matchup with Donald Trump. Our poll is an outlier, and it does differ

00:25:07.240 significantly from other recent polling. But our poll shows Trump with a nine-point lead over

00:25:13.040 President Biden, while 538's average polling still has Biden up by roughly two points. And get this,

00:25:19.380 when we ask people if they think that Donald Trump should be constitutionally disqualified from serving

00:25:24.500 another term. Even those who said, yes, that Trump shouldn't be allowed to run, 18 percent of them

00:25:29.460 said that they would still vote for him. So, George, the bottom line here, this is just one poll. We are

00:25:34.220 still a ways out from the election, but these numbers do show some real weaknesses for President

00:25:38.800 Biden, George. So, I will say I don't buy this poll. I mean, not all of it anyway. It's a little too

00:25:45.180 good to be true. And I always question anything that's too good to be true, especially political

00:25:49.800 polling. Well, I question political polling in general to begin with, because I kind of think they're all

00:25:53.600 somewhat fake. But no Republican is going to win a general election by nine points. We don't live

00:26:00.200 in a country where that's even possible at this point. But no matter how you slice it, the numbers

00:26:05.160 are bad for Biden. Because of course they're bad. The country's in terrible shape. The economy's

00:26:10.700 failing. We haven't had good news for his entire presidency. What's the good news that we've had?

00:26:18.340 What have we had to celebrate on a national level? Nothing. He's been the worst president

00:26:25.540 certainly in my lifetime, possibly in the history of the country. He's like, he's in the running for

00:26:30.780 the worst president of all time. And he's visibly falling apart in front of our eyes, which is why

00:26:36.120 ultimately, it's that last point in particular that might make a lot of this sort of a moot point.

00:26:44.820 Because it's increasingly clear that Biden probably will not be the nominee when push comes to shove.

00:26:53.840 And I was skeptical for a while that they would replace him just because that's such a Hail Mary

00:26:58.660 type of play. And it creates all kinds of awkwardness because, of course, you're going to

00:27:03.340 bypass Kamala. There's no way you're going to make her the nominee. That creates all kinds of problems 1.00

00:27:07.980 there. But I think they have no choice and they realize they have no choice. I mean, they are right

00:27:15.660 now, Democrats are facing the very real possibility that Biden could lose to a guy who, by the time the

00:27:22.980 general election happens, has been convicted of felony charges and possibly is already in prison.

00:27:31.440 Now, the charges are bogus, but that's what they're looking at. And that's what would make this whole

00:27:36.440 thing backfire on them? There's this, you know, trying to knock Trump out by putting all these

00:27:39.880 charges on. If he wins anyway, then that becomes the greatest political embarrassment

00:27:45.600 maybe ever in history. I mean, in the history of the world.

00:27:52.680 Um, you know, you charge your, your political opponent with all of these, uh, phony crimes,

00:27:59.320 you maybe put him in jail and then he, and he beats you anyway and becomes president. It's,

00:28:04.620 uh, it is, uh, the fact that that's even a possibility is terrifying for the Democrats.

00:28:12.860 And I think they know they can't allow it. So that, so, so he has to be replaced,

00:28:16.000 uh, by who is the question. I think most likely as many people have speculated, of course,

00:28:21.280 I'm not coming up with this on my own is Gavin Newsom in California. And I was also skeptical

00:28:26.020 that Gavin Newsom would actually run for president in 2024. I was skeptical of that until this weekend

00:28:32.440 when this happened. Watch.

00:28:35.440 Taking a live look at the state Capitol right now, where we've learned that Governor Gavin Newsom has

00:28:39.960 voted to vetoed, I should say, vetoed two major bills, one driverless big rigs and the other could

00:28:47.020 impact the parents of trans children. The bill AB 957 would have required judges to consider a parent's

00:28:53.560 affirmation of their child's gender identity in custody cases when parents split up. The author

00:28:58.660 of the bill said it was meant to protect trans kids and content and contentious custody battles.

00:29:03.460 And in explaining the veto, the governor said, quote, I urge caution when the executive and

00:29:09.420 legislative branches of state government attempt to dictate in prescriptive terms that single out

00:29:14.800 one characteristic legal standards for the judicial branch to apply. Now, another bill,

00:29:19.980 the governor vetoed today would have required human operators on board autonomous trucks. This is

00:29:25.820 video from a rally in support of the bill. Just Tuesday, Teamsters, public safety officials and

00:29:30.760 lawmakers had supported the bill, saying that the technology was not safe enough. And in his

00:29:35.820 explanation, the governor says that the bill would ban testing of autonomous trucks, adding that the DMV

00:29:41.640 continuously monitors the testing and operations of autonomous vehicles on Cal.

00:29:46.000 So I don't really need to know about this. The second part is not the driverless cars thing is

00:29:50.620 not, uh, it's not the point. It's the first one. So he vetoes, um, a bill. We talked about this bill

00:29:57.520 on the show a couple of weeks ago that the Dems in California, uh, they want to make it so that

00:30:03.380 affirming your child's trans, uh, quote unquote, trans identity is, uh, is, you know, something that they

00:30:11.000 take into account in family court. And if there's a parent who, who doesn't go along with transing

00:30:16.060 their child, then, uh, then they're going to lose custody of the child. And as we talked about,

00:30:22.240 you know, a part of the, the reason for passing a bill like that is, uh, is to actually create more

00:30:31.660 gender confused children because women in custody battles will, will know that, that, well, this is 0.99

00:30:39.680 an easy way to win full custody of the child. I mean, it's easy enough for women to win full custody, 1.00

00:30:44.120 especially in California, but this would make it a hundred percent guaranteed. All they have to do is

00:30:50.260 just kind of take their, uh, their son or daughter and whisper in their ear that, Hey, you know, you might

00:30:56.540 actually be the opposite sex, you know, just kind of guide them in that direction towards confusion, 0.96

00:31:01.300 which it's not, it's not difficult to confuse a child as society has proven, unfortunately.

00:31:09.740 And then, uh, knowing that the father probably won't go along with it. And then, and then boom,

00:31:13.100 you got them, you know, you, you win full custody. So just a really sinister, evil idea. Gavin Newsom

00:31:19.860 vetoes it. And, uh, there's no reason that he vetoes that bill unless he's running for president.

00:31:25.660 To me, it's like, he might as well just announced, might as well have officially announced his

00:31:30.140 presidential run because he knows that that's poison in a general election. He knows how

00:31:36.180 incredibly gross the transing the kid's agenda looks to normal people. And that's why he vetoed it.

00:31:44.140 And he also knows because he's at least politically aware enough to know this, that, um, that parental

00:31:51.060 rights, this is, this is a, a, it's a major rallying cry across the country and blue states have been

00:32:00.900 flipped red, uh, based on parental rights. So that's why he vetoed it. Now, granted he, he, he did say in

00:32:08.320 his full statement that, um, he essentially said that the bill isn't, isn't actually needed because

00:32:15.060 courts are already taking, uh, kids away from parents who refuse to trans them. That's already 0.92

00:32:19.960 happening. And, and he's right. Unfortunately, he's right. That is already happening. So the defeat

00:32:25.740 of this bill doesn't mean much, unfortunately, in the long run, but if he's not running for,

00:32:33.260 for president, then he signs that bill. No question. So what is a matchup between Trump and Newsom look

00:32:38.900 like, uh, that it's hard to say at this point. And I'm sure there's been polling done on it,

00:32:44.640 but that's entirely speculative polling. And I don't think, I'm not sure how much you could take

00:32:48.840 away from it one way or another. Um, it certainly creates a greater challenge for Trump that, you

00:32:55.940 know, just now the, the bar is really low, but Newsom at least is not a brainless vegetable. And so 0.94

00:33:03.520 running against a brainless vegetable is always going to be easier than running against someone who's not. 0.95

00:33:09.720 Um, and it does kind of flip things on its head because Newsom is a lot younger than Trump. And 0.94

00:33:15.280 so then all of a sudden, you know, Trump becomes the old guy in the race and the age thing becomes

00:33:20.660 a factor. And look, I've been saying forever. Um, and there are a lot of conservatives disagree with

00:33:27.100 the fact. In fact, we, we debated this on backstage, if I recall in our most recent backstage episode,

00:33:32.580 and I was the odd man out because what we hear from a lot of conservatives is that,

00:33:35.920 is that, you know, the age thing actually doesn't even matter that much.

00:33:38.900 Uh, the voters don't care about it that much. And when it comes to Trump and when it comes to Biden,

00:33:44.240 rather, you know, what really matters is that he's a, that he's corrupt and he's evil and all 0.99

00:33:48.220 this. And of course I agree that that's what matters most about him. But I think the age, 0.76

00:33:52.660 the age thing is, is for, for many voters in particular, and I think all the polling shows

00:33:59.580 this, this is a, this is a top concern. Like this is a major problem to be that old and running for

00:34:07.000 president is a major problem for Trump right now. The fact that he's almost as old as Biden doesn't

00:34:11.840 really hurt him because he's, you know, he's, he's still younger than Biden and he's not senile like

00:34:16.720 Biden is. Put on a younger guy and that flips on its head. Okay. Staying on politics for a moment,

00:34:23.600 I also wanted to mention this. Trump has been, um, truth socialing, uh, truthing. I don't know

00:34:28.260 what the, is it truthing? He's been truthing to defend himself against accusations that he sold out

00:34:34.660 the pro-life movement by coming out against heartbeat, uh, abortion bans, calling them terrible

00:34:40.160 things if you recall. But he's really only digging the hole deeper with what he's been saying about

00:34:46.700 it. And I want, I want to read this post from Trump. This is what he said on, uh, when was this?

00:34:51.660 September 23rd. So this was on Saturday. He said, quote, pro-lifers had absolutely zero status on the

00:35:00.180 subject of abortion until I came along for 52 years. Everyone talked, but got nothing. I got it done.

00:35:06.960 There would be no talk of a six week ban or anything else without me. Roe v. Wade allowed 0.51

00:35:11.740 the killing of a baby at any time, including the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth month,

00:35:15.480 and even after birth. They therefore are the radicals, not us. And now because of our Supreme

00:35:20.240 Court victory, the power has shifted. And for the first time, those fighting for the pro-life

00:35:24.380 movement have been given tremendous power on this issue. Before our victory, they had nothing and they

00:35:28.620 will have nothing again if we don't win elections. Like Ronald Reagan, I believe in three exceptions for

00:35:33.060 rape, incest, and life of the mother. You have to follow your heart, but without the 0.89

00:35:36.720 exceptions, it'll be very hard to win elections. A six week ban on abortion, among other things,

00:35:40.540 like his fight against social security, Medicare killed the DeSantis campaign.

00:35:46.220 All right. Um, listen, let's just be real about this for a moment. Uh, first of all,

00:35:55.460 it's a great thing that Trump got to appoint three Supreme Court justices and Roe was overturned.

00:36:00.700 It's a great thing. Um, I think the overturning of Roe v. Wade was, uh, uh,

00:36:08.320 one of the great moments in American history, in fact, easily. But that doesn't mean that Trump

00:36:18.020 gets sole credits for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And, and we wouldn't even, we shouldn't even

00:36:24.820 need to say this. Like, this is not this kind of, uh, parsing of, of, you know, of who gets credit

00:36:30.940 and who doesn't. This is not a conversation that we should even need to have. And I wouldn't be

00:36:35.000 having it if it's not for Trump going out and say pro livers have done nothing. They've done

00:36:38.860 absolutely nothing. I've done everything. Well, when you say that, then it becomes necessary to

00:36:43.540 point out that that is total nonsense. Um, who gets credit for overturning Roe? Well, first of all,

00:36:50.220 we have to give credit to every Republican president who appointed a justice who helped,

00:36:53.480 who helped to overturn it. Trump had three openings to, to fill. That's not because of some brilliant

00:37:00.100 strategy on his part. He just happened to have three and he filled them. Um, but without

00:37:06.960 the conservative justices appointed before Trump's tenure, it also would not be overturned. So we

00:37:13.120 got to give, we got to give credit there. We have to give credit to the Senate Republicans who

00:37:17.340 confirmed the nomination. In fact, Trump would not have had three. He would have had only two,

00:37:22.080 if not for Senate Republicans refusing to confirm Merrick Garland.

00:37:26.320 And in general, listen, it's good that Trump had these openings to fill,

00:37:29.800 but again, you don't get credit for having the openings. That's not something you engineer. It

00:37:34.920 just happens. And, uh, and, and then he filled them. But what else was he going to do? Not fill them?

00:37:41.920 Like you had the openings, of course, so you, you, you nominate someone. Like what,

00:37:46.500 of course you nominate them. What else are you going to do?

00:37:51.760 And he filled them with three judges who any Republican would have appointed, especially

00:37:55.820 Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. Okay. Any Republican, but Jeb Bush in there, they would have appointed

00:38:00.320 Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. Those were just the establishment picks 100% of the way they were

00:38:04.460 top of the list that the, you know, the establishment handed Trump a list and said,

00:38:07.700 here are our guys number one. And then he picked the guy top of the list. And that's what happened.

00:38:11.660 Um, you can make an argument about Barrett, but certainly Kavanaugh and Gorsuch are just like

00:38:17.740 any Republican would have done that. Okay. That's not to say that Trump gets no credit,

00:38:22.720 but it is to say that him wanting to take all of the credits and take it all away from the pro-life

00:38:29.380 movement and accuse them of getting nothing done is just total abject nonsense. And you are

00:38:34.540 unnecessarily picking a fight with, with, with some of your, uh, with, with some of the most

00:38:44.080 important people in your base, people that know how to rally support people who are organized

00:38:49.220 and you're dumping all over them saying they got nothing. They did nothing.

00:38:55.700 Really? The pro-life movement did nothing for 52 years.

00:38:58.200 Well, Trump, Trump was nowhere near the pro-life movement ever at any point. So he doesn't know

00:39:03.640 anything about it. You don't know anything about the pro-life movement. You were never

00:39:07.700 anywhere near it. People that were in the trenches know that pro-lifers were fighting on this issue

00:39:13.660 for years and they saved thousands and thousands and thousands of lives because it's not all just

00:39:21.980 about laws. Okay. Yeah. Pro-lifers in the pro-life movement couldn't do anything about the Supreme

00:39:26.500 Court. Okay. They couldn't solve that problem. It's just, we can't do that. If you're, if you're

00:39:30.660 in the pro-life movement and the Supreme Court is structured the way that it is, you can't help

00:39:37.480 that. That's not their fault. So given that massive disadvantage, pro-lifers found a way to go out

00:39:47.000 into the streets and save thousands of lives. And they did. And if you tell me that's nothing,

00:39:54.220 that's getting nothing done, saving thousands of lives. There are thousands and thousands of people

00:39:58.840 on this earth today who would not be walking around if not for the pro-life movement. And that

00:40:04.580 is a fact because they were out there at these abortion clinics, staring this evil in the face

00:40:12.120 every day, speaking to women, counseling women, doing everything they can,

00:40:18.620 setting up pregnancy centers, giving people other options and everything, you know, all of it.

00:40:29.460 And they got a lot done. And there's, so it's, it's not true to say the pro-lifers did nothing.

00:40:35.380 It's also really stupid politics. And it's just, it's immature nonsense. It's just, 1.00

00:40:43.300 I want all the credit. You get none of the credit. If you think demoralizing your own base

00:40:49.540 is a great strategy, then, well, have at it, I guess. Let's see. Another quick thing. Well,

00:40:57.520 not really so quick, but we don't have a lot of time for it right now. So Daily Wire has this

00:41:00.840 report, a 60-minute segment broadcast on Sunday caused an uproar after the show reported that

00:41:05.280 American taxpayers are subsidizing Ukraine's economy and paying for all of Ukraine's first

00:41:10.180 responders. The news comes as a recent Fox poll found that 56% of Republicans say the U.S. should

00:41:16.100 be sending less support to Ukraine. Recent CNN poll found that 55% of Americans say Congress should

00:41:21.180 not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine. Here's a clip from 60 Minutes.

00:41:26.140 American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons. We discovered the U.S. government's buying

00:41:32.320 seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers and covering the salaries of Ukraine's first responders.

00:41:40.180 All 57,000 of them. That includes the team that trains this rescue dog, named Joy, to comb through

00:41:49.040 the wreckage of Russian strikes looking for survivors. And the U.S. also funds the divers, who we saw

00:41:58.360 clearing unexploded ammunition from the country's rivers to make them safe again for swimming and

00:42:04.640 fishing. Russia's invasion shrank Ukraine's economy by about a third. We were surprised to find that to

00:42:12.100 keep it afloat, the U.S. government is subsidizing small businesses.

00:42:16.500 So that's what we're told now, that originally it was just military support and weapons and all the

00:42:24.400 rest of it. And that was bad enough, by the way. We shouldn't have been doing that. There shouldn't

00:42:30.140 have been a dime going over to that country. Because number one, it is a foreign country. It's not our 1.00

00:42:36.140 country. And that's our money. It's not the government's money. We always have to remember

00:42:41.160 that. This is not their money. This is our money. Like they are actively, this is how taxes work.

00:42:49.220 I know it's not news to you, but they are actively taking money out of your paycheck that's supposed

00:42:55.440 to go to your family and sending it to a foreign government. Not just any foreign government, but one

00:43:01.500 of the most absurdly corrupt foreign governments in the world, in the Ukraine government.

00:43:06.240 Ukraine. And now we find out, no big surprise, that we're not just subsidizing the military over

00:43:13.820 there. We're subsidizing the entire economy. We're keeping the whole economy afloat.

00:43:20.380 Now, this Fox News poll says that 56% of Americans say we should be sending less support to Ukraine.

00:43:25.940 That's great, but it should, it's not, well, yes, we should be sending less, but to be specific,

00:43:30.240 the less amount should be zero. None of this should be happening at all. It is, it's truly an outrage.

00:43:45.800 You know, we're supposed to, one of the basic principles of our system is supposed to be no

00:43:52.880 taxation without representation. Where's the representation here? Where's the representation?

00:43:58.500 representation. Like, you're, you're just sending money over to this foreign government to keep

00:44:04.200 their economy afloat, and they're spending on whatever they want to spend it on. Where's the

00:44:08.600 representation? We're not represented there. We have no, even any, there's no accountability,

00:44:14.240 there's no oversight. We, we don't benefit from that. I know this is a, this is a sort of an

00:44:21.160 amazing, uh, provocative concept for many politicians in the country today on the right and the left.

00:44:28.500 So, but in fact, our government should not be spending money on a single thing that does not

00:44:38.300 directly benefit American families. There should not be one single dime spent on anything that does

00:44:48.060 not directly benefit American families. That is the only, maybe I said, it's not the only, but that's the

00:44:53.540 first, uh, question they should, you should ask yourself before we, before we spend money on

00:45:00.280 anything. Does it directly benefit American families? And if it does, then it's pretty good 1.00

00:45:07.080 chance that it's a, it's a good expenditure. If the answer to that is no, then, then not one dime should

00:45:16.180 be, should be, uh, sent. And you got to really, you know, to, to argue that propping up the Ukrainian 0.98

00:45:26.300 economy and their farmers and everything to argue that that's somehow directly benefits American

00:45:31.960 families. You got to, you got to really stretch and even then you can't do it. There's no direct

00:45:38.060 benefits. You got to real, now you're really connecting the dots and the dots are going all

00:45:41.140 over the place. Well, you know, we helped Ukraine and we does this and does this and does that.

00:45:45.540 And then, uh, you know, eventually you sitting around the dinner table with your family, uh,

00:45:50.300 you are helped as well. But most of the time the politicians, they don't even try to justify

00:45:55.220 these expenditures on the basis of it helping American families. That's the thing that they don't

00:45:59.580 even pretend most of the time that it does benefit us. Instead, they, they just take out the violin

00:46:07.140 and they, uh, they play the sympathy card for Ukraine and they say, well, think of the poor

00:46:10.300 Ukrainians. Think about them. No, I'm not thinking about them. It's not my country. 1.00

00:46:16.940 Sorry. It's not my problem. I have my own country to worry about and my own family.

00:46:22.380 Let Ukrainians take care of Ukraine. 0.99

00:46:26.600 Or, or they'll tell us about, well, this is all that's needed for, for the fight for freedom

00:46:30.300 across the globe. I don't care about freedom across the globe either. I mean, first of all,

00:46:36.520 freedom based on, you know, who's, who's definition of freedom. The idea of, of human rights and

00:46:43.680 freedom, that, that certainly is not a concept that has any kind of, there's no universal

00:46:47.700 understanding of what any of that even means anymore. You know, many of the people that talk

00:46:52.180 about freedom across the globe, I mean, these are the same people who don't think that human

00:46:56.080 beings in the womb should be free from execution. So that's not included in their conception of

00:47:01.240 freedom. So when they talk about freedom, I don't even know what you mean, but however you define

00:47:07.400 it, uh, do I care about freedom across the globe? No, not really. That's not our job is to make the

00:47:14.360 whole globe free. It's not possible. It's utopian nonsense. And that's not our concern.

00:47:22.300 Let the people of every country, uh, uh, uh, you know, fight for their own freedom.

00:47:30.720 So this is, this is the kind of thing that should, uh, you know, if, if there's anything that leads

00:47:35.660 to an actual nine point loss for Biden, it should be this kind of thing. But I think people are not

00:47:40.460 nearly as upset about it as they should be. Let's get to, was Walsh wrong?

00:47:44.720 Pythagoras says, uh, it's shocking that you don't think men are inundated with messages that

00:47:53.480 it's empowering to be promiscuous. Have you really not ever heard of Andrew Tate or rap music or ever

00:47:58.520 seen a James Bond movie? Uh, well, James Bond is actually the perfect example to prove my point

00:48:04.600 because James Bond, uh, in recent years has been sort of neutered and feminized and, uh, it's not,

00:48:10.540 it's not really the same character that it used to be back, back in the old days. Andrew

00:48:14.520 Tate is not a mainstream figure. Okay. He's not, he's not celebrated and promoted in the mainstream

00:48:21.940 by mainstream cultural institutions. In fact, it goes the other way, uh, where they would prefer

00:48:28.180 to shut him down and make sure that we don't hear from him. Rap music is a good point though. That,

00:48:35.160 that is the sort of the one exception that I will grant. So, so fair enough. That that's the one

00:48:39.660 exception to the general rule we talked about last week where, where, you know,

00:48:44.220 generally in society, uh, promiscuity is promoted for women and they're, they're actively told that 1.00

00:48:52.180 this is a, so it's a liberating thing to be promiscuous, sleep, sleep with a bunch of people

00:48:56.320 and men don't generally get the same message. In fact, usually if a man behaves the same way,

00:49:03.400 it's, it's perfectly acceptable in society to say that person is a, is a deadbeat and is a, 0.99

00:49:08.860 is a, you know, is a creep and a loser. Like we could say all those things about a man who, 0.96

00:49:13.940 you know, sleeps with, with a bunch of women. Um, for women though, if you, if you give them the 1.00

00:49:20.280 same kind of treatment, we're told that it's sexist and it's patriarchal. And that is, I think,

00:49:25.740 undeniably the, the general dynamic in society. And again, when I talk about society, I'm talking

00:49:31.020 about the mainstream cultural institutions that actually run society. Rap music is kind of a

00:49:38.600 carve out though, uh, across the board. I mean, there's, there's rap music. Yeah. Promotes,

00:49:44.520 uh, promiscuity and licentiousness and, and just, just hedonism for men and women. Um, 0.98

00:49:52.480 it promotes violence and criminality, you know, it promotes like the worst imaginable behavior. It's,

00:49:58.960 it's like actively encouraging you to be the worst kind of person. And, um, and that is accepted.

00:50:07.420 Like even now, uh, a male rap artist can say things about women that in any other context,

00:50:18.400 I mean, if anyone else was ever to say those same things and use those same words and that same

00:50:24.740 language to describe women that, that, that rap artists do, um, they would be condemned and 0.99

00:50:31.080 canceled and all the rest of it. But rappers still basically get away with it. Um, because of the kind

00:50:39.180 of, because of the rap music carve out, the, the, the, the general societal rap music exception that's

00:50:45.260 made. And why is this exception made? Well, because as I've talked about many times, I mean,

00:50:50.520 there's, there's, there's the, the, the victimhood hierarchy in our culture, uh, the victimhood 0.81

00:50:56.760 hierarchy that the left has constructed. And it, it, you know, there's always this jockeying and

00:51:02.720 this competing among the various victim groups to be at the top of the pyramid, to be the uber victim,

00:51:08.720 because if you're the uber victim, then, then sort of inversely, you have the most power.

00:51:14.260 And right now, without a question, you know, trans people, it's like LGBT are, are at the top and

00:51:21.360 then the top of the top is trans. And then if you add in other, uh, you know, intersectional points,

00:51:27.580 then you get even farther up the ladder from there. So how does this relate to this? Well, um, women 1.00

00:51:34.440 are a victim group in society, um, but they're not at the top of the victim hierarchy.

00:51:41.540 You know, there were, there was a time when they kind of were very close to the top, but they've

00:51:46.600 been supplanted, you know, uh, by LGBT and trans and even the, the racial victims are higher on the 0.64

00:51:54.760 hierarchy than women. And that's why rap music gets this exception. Like rappers, because most of 1.00

00:52:03.760 them are black, uh, have this, uh, are able to say whatever they want about women because they're 0.95

00:52:10.200 higher on the hierarchy than, than women are. So that's why it works that way. But taking rap music 1.00

00:52:16.280 side, generally speaking, uh, my, I think my point still, still stands. Um, let's see.

00:52:27.360 That's as close as we've gotten to me being wrong about something. So that's not me being wrong.

00:52:32.100 That's me. Uh, that's a, that's a caveat that I neglected to mention. Texas Dodge dude says prisons

00:52:40.700 using free labor as a for-profit enterprise is a slippery slope. I'm not opposed to the work. I'm

00:52:45.820 not opposed to the conditions. My only issue is providing powerful people, a financial incentive

00:52:51.320 to lock people up. And Paula says working in a hundred plus degree weather with heart conditions,

00:52:56.560 chronic diseases like arthritis. You can think that, uh, your bad thoughts of them,

00:53:00.720 you can think your bad thoughts of them as criminals, but you should not put their health

00:53:05.260 at risk. Current prison conditions should in fact be improved. Um, current prison conditions

00:53:14.060 should be improved in, in, in what way? Now the first comment, you know, that's, yeah, that's

00:53:20.320 always, uh, that's a fair enough concern. Um, I, I still think that, you know, in the vast

00:53:29.260 majority of cases, if you don't want to end up in a prison and you don't want to end up doing hard

00:53:34.940 labor in prison, it's, you know, just don't, don't commit crimes. Like most of the people that

00:53:40.420 are in prison, the vast majority have really worked pretty hard to get there. And to get a long

00:53:47.040 sentence, get anything approaching actual harsh sentence. I mean, you got to re like, you got to

00:53:51.700 go way out of your way to be the worst kind of scumbag imaginable. That's the way it currently 0.99

00:53:57.480 works in our system. Um, and as far as putting their, their, their health at risk, I mean, listen,

00:54:04.980 first of all, putting somebody in a, in a cage every day, you know, is, is there's, there's health

00:54:11.560 risks that go with that. There's certainly physical health risks. There's psychological,

00:54:16.740 like mental health risks. Of course, it's not, it's not a healthy thing. So there's no version

00:54:21.660 of prison that we would consider physically and mentally healthy. That, that doesn't exist

00:54:27.960 because it's prison, because, because it's not supposed to be a healthy, wonderful place

00:54:35.780 that you want to be. It is a punishment. And, uh, on top of being a punishment, there's just the

00:54:44.000 practical reality that you have, this is a place where dangerous, where the dregs of society generally 1.00

00:54:49.760 go, where very dangerous people go. And so you have to do things like put them in cages.

00:54:55.820 If you don't, they'll kill each other. They'll kill the guards. Like, you know, 0.98

00:54:58.840 they'll get out of prison. They'll kill other people. And so you have no choice. 0.99

00:55:03.300 But the good news is, as we already established, uh, it's, it's pretty easy to avoid.

00:55:10.840 Like it's pretty easy to not end up in prison, uh, with a long sentence. It's pretty easy to do.

00:55:16.060 You know, Halloween is upon us and there's nothing scarier than handing out candy from

00:55:20.500 woke corporations that hate your values. Well, maybe a second to walking the streets at night

00:55:25.380 in any liberal run city. Back in March, in response to a chocolate ad featuring a man who

00:55:29.560 thinks he's a woman on women's day, we decided to launch Jeremy's chocolate and people responded

00:55:34.200 by the hundreds of thousands. It was a runaway success. So here's your friendly reminder that

00:55:38.160 Halloween is approaching and it's time to stock up on good unwoke chocolate. Head to

00:55:41.940 jeremyschocolate.com and order your chocolate today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:55:53.060 Well, if you've watched this show for a while, you know that if there's anything I'm passionate

00:55:56.640 about, it's contemporary art. Now by that, I don't mean modern art. Every true bonafide art

00:56:01.580 aficionado like myself knows that the era of modern art ended in the 1950s. So when I say I like

00:56:07.080 contemporary art, I mean the new stuff, postmodern art. Can't get enough of it. It's not just the

00:56:11.840 use of technology and text and angles and shapes that I'm into. That goes without saying, speaking

00:56:16.300 as a connoisseur of the fine arts, what I really love about contemporary art is how it's a conversation.

00:56:20.700 There's so much interaction. Through their work, postmodern artists communicate with other

00:56:25.340 artists. And that matters because as Salvador Dali, who I'm always quoting, said, a true artist

00:56:30.660 isn't one who is inspired. A true artist inspires others. So it was with great interest that I

00:56:36.960 observed the installation of a new statue earlier this year on Boston Common. Talked about it on the

00:56:41.760 show at the time. This was a statue that supposedly was about honoring Martin Luther King Jr. But to all

00:56:46.240 outward appearances, it was just a giant penis or perhaps other body parts, depending on where you 0.99

00:56:51.200 were standing when you looked at it. This wasn't my observation. Everyone who looked at this thing, 0.98

00:56:55.200 of course, came to the same conclusion, including members of MLK's family. And in case you forget what it

00:56:59.200 looked like, we'll show this to you also just because it's always funny to show. So here it is.

00:57:05.260 The 22-foot-tall bronze statue is called The Embrace. The artist says it was inspired by a photo

00:57:11.180 of the couple embracing moments after Dr. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

00:57:17.200 Despite the good intentions, though, it has left many confused, trying to see The Embrace.

00:57:24.260 What else might you see? I mean, everybody's wondering, like, can we see this from a different

00:57:29.920 angle? I've been trying to see The Embrace, ladies, and it's difficult, right?

00:57:36.060 Well, all the conversation about this statue, at least among laypeople and the unwashed masses who

00:57:40.660 are not art mavens like myself, was about how needlessly and inexplicably pornographic the statue

00:57:46.000 was. I mean, what's the point of erecting a large phallus-like object in a public area?

00:57:50.400 That's what everyone was asking. And all the local news stations were giggling about it,

00:57:54.940 as you just saw. But privately, and with my many associates in the postmodern art community,

00:57:59.260 I was asking another question. And that question was, how are future artists going to respond to

00:58:04.880 this? What are the other heroes of left-wing postmodern art going to do in response to the

00:58:10.040 large black bronze penis statue? How will they, in the tradition of Salvador Dali, be inspired by it?

00:58:16.940 Well, it took eight months, but now I finally have the answer to that question. In Palm Springs,

00:58:21.480 California, the city's AIDS Memorial Task Force has just produced plans for a new monument, one that

00:58:27.000 doesn't just respond to the 20-foot-tall bronze phallus in Boston, but complements it. Really,

00:58:33.420 you'd be forgiven for thinking that the same artist designed both monuments. Indeed,

00:58:37.300 this is what postmodern art is all about. And here's what the new monument looks like. Watch.

00:58:42.160 There are concerns tonight about being raised about an AIDS memorial planned for downtown Palm

00:58:48.260 Springs. Right now, the sculpture is planned to look like this. These pictures you're seeing here,

00:58:53.540 some people don't like it. News Channel 3's Jake Ngrossi live in studio with more

00:58:57.460 on the controversy and possible changes in response to those concerns. Jake.

00:59:02.540 And John, it is a nine-foot sculpture planned for a Palm Springs park meant to remember lives lost to HIV

00:59:08.940 and AIDS, but the design doesn't resonate with everyone. In fact, some call it inappropriate,

00:59:14.740 and the committee in charge says they are now listening. It's the proposed AIDS Memorial

00:59:20.780 sculpture, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in the community and stirring up controversy over

00:59:26.240 its shape. The round limestone statue with concentric carved circles meant to represent the diverse

00:59:32.700 community impacted by AIDS. It's eye-level opening, signifying connection, reflection, and hope. But it's not

00:59:39.820 seen by everyone that way. Some saying it's too abstract. It's really strained. I mean, this is

00:59:46.820 almost like a piece of art looking for a purpose instead of the other way around. It could be about

00:59:51.140 anything, and as consequence, it's kind of about nothing. There's also the view that it too closely

00:59:57.020 resembles other things. You hear it called the donut all the time. You hear it called the word

01:00:02.800 you can't say on camera all the time. For some on social media and beyond, the design resembles an

01:00:08.000 inappropriate body part on the rear end. The backside of the proposed memorial looks like

01:00:14.940 a graphic depiction of the backside of a human being. Now, in that clip, you heard from some haters

01:00:22.120 who don't know anything about art. They don't understand anything about how art interacts with other

01:00:25.740 art. These are bigots who don't care about the connection that this monument is supposed to

01:00:30.220 signify in more ways than one. Instead, they're offended by this gigantic white limestone anus. 0.99

01:00:36.600 They're demanding revisions. But think about that, revisions. I mean, how absurd can you be? According

01:00:41.600 to the Palm Springs Post, the designers of this white butt statue spent eight years on this. Eight years

01:00:49.160 coming up with this idea. And during the whole course of the eight years, nobody barely looked

01:00:55.740 at it and said, you know, that that looks kind of like an orifice. It's a little bit of a orifice

01:01:01.500 like thing going on there. Or maybe someone did say that. And then everyone else is like, well,

01:01:06.060 it's fine, though. It'll be fine. No one else is going to notice that. Which just as a general rule,

01:01:12.180 you would think like if if you're making a statue and it even a little bit looks like a bodily orifice,

01:01:17.800 then just come up with a different design. Like if there's a if there's a two percent chance that

01:01:22.900 people will see it as an orifice, then just come up with it's just not worth it.

01:01:29.440 But that's what you might think. But again, this took eight years. So let's show some respect for

01:01:33.220 context. That's longer than it took for the Romans to build the Colosseum. And the Romans actually built

01:01:40.400 it in eight years. It took eight years just come up with that design. So, you know, it has to be

01:01:46.260 good. There's no way the government of Palm Springs could possibly waste eight years on something

01:01:50.540 stupid and grotesque. Plus, the statue has already cost something like half a million dollars, 0.99

01:01:55.840 including tens of thousands of dollars from the city's coffers. And after all that time,

01:01:59.520 they managed to produce a statue that does what all great art should do, confuse and horrify people.

01:02:06.240 That's money well spent, if you ask me. Yet, according to the Palm Springs Post, right wing

01:02:11.120 bigots, along with everyone else with two sets, two sets of working eyes, one or one set of working

01:02:17.340 eyes, I guess. Anyway, they want to tear all that down. And I understand the skepticism here. You know,

01:02:22.840 we in the art community, we haven't done a lot to inspire trust lately. It's bad enough when some

01:02:26.700 painting that looks like vomit sells at auction for 90 million dollars or whatever. People look at

01:02:31.120 Hunter Biden selling his finger paintings for tens of thousands of dollars to anonymous buyers in

01:02:36.120 China. And they conclude that the whole art scene is just a giant money laundering operation. And I

01:02:41.160 get it. But what you cavemen don't understand is that all this postmodern art is doing is reflecting

01:02:47.460 the society we live in. The brilliant artists who constructed the bronze phallus and the limestone

01:02:51.620 anus are simply holding up a mirror. And if you don't like what you see, that's not their fault.

01:02:58.360 Consider the fact that it's not just our art that looks like this. Our buildings are ugly,

01:03:02.000 too. So is our music. Even our people are ugly, often intentionally so. So-called beauty brands

01:03:07.820 are signify or signing up morbidly obese women and calling it progressive. And all of this is 0.62

01:03:13.160 intentional. So I've been a little maybe sarcastic and flippant about this, which is a real change of

01:03:20.520 pace for me. It's not like me to be sarcastic. But all of this maybe makes the AIDS statue a little

01:03:26.700 less amusing once you think more about it. Because it's not just some one-off perverted monument. It's

01:03:32.500 not a gaffe by an artist who has no idea what he's doing. In fact, it's part of a deliberate campaign,

01:03:37.640 one I've talked about extensively, to throw ugliness in our face everywhere we go. That's

01:03:43.000 why it took eight years to make this thing. They did it on purpose. This wasn't some rushed draft.

01:03:47.660 It's perfectly in keeping with what we're seeing all over the place. A century ago, you know,

01:03:51.580 cutting-edge architecture in this country was Art Deco. And it was instantly recognizable from

01:03:56.240 Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building to the Carlisle Hotel in Miami Beach. Before that,

01:04:00.700 we had neoclassical architecture, which describes many of the buildings on Capitol Hill. And most

01:04:05.800 Americans prefer that kind of architecture, by the way. A survey from the National Civic Arts Society

01:04:09.440 from 2020 showed that this traditional architecture is preferred among all demographic groups. You know,

01:04:14.100 it doesn't matter education, age, ethnicity, or whatever. What we have now, what no one wants,

01:04:19.120 is homogenous architecture being made by the same people and copy-pasted all over the country.

01:04:24.480 As New York Times recently reported in 2021, quote, five of the 25 largest developers were

01:04:28.960 responsible for starting construction on nearly 47,000 units in the United States, about 40%

01:04:33.600 of the output of the whole group. The CEO of Graystar Real Estate Partners, which is responsible for more

01:04:38.620 of those units than anyone else, told the Times that many of their buildings look the same because of

01:04:43.140 government regulations. Quote, I don't want to say it's colored by the numbers, but in some cities,

01:04:47.360 it's colored by numbers. Now, if you assume that the Graystar CEO is telling the truth and we have no reason

01:04:51.760 to think he's lying, then you still have to answer a fundamental underlying question. If you grant that

01:04:56.740 governments are mandating homogenous, ugly architecture, which seems to be a safe assumption,

01:05:02.740 then you still have to figure out why that's happening. Like, why is the government telling developers

01:05:07.720 that they can't produce creative, interesting structures like the ones we built a century ago?

01:05:13.100 Given everything else we know about the government, the answer seems obvious.

01:05:17.740 It comes down to the point that beauty points inevitably to God. And when Western civilization

01:05:25.180 was Christian, it created the greatest works of art mankind has ever seen and the most beautiful

01:05:31.440 buildings and everything else. Now Western governments are secular and it's no surprise that 0.55

01:05:36.340 it produces, therefore, the dreariest art mankind has ever seen. Our elites want us demoralized

01:05:42.720 and depressed. They want us high on legalized pot as we listen to lectures on how racist we are,

01:05:48.880 as we're staring at the same uninteresting buildings that everyone else in the country is looking at,

01:05:52.760 and gawking at sculptures that look like body parts below the waist.

01:05:57.100 Beautiful art has the opposite effect. It reminds us that there's a greater power than any of us,

01:06:02.240 greater than any government. It tells us the importance of creativity and soul and risk-taking,

01:06:08.040 and our government can't have that. So instead of beauty, we get butt sculptures and hideous buildings

01:06:14.300 and rap songs where semi-literate drug addicts shout about their genitalia. 0.99

01:06:19.940 Now perhaps on second thought, I'm no art expert. I don't even know what postmodern art is, 0.86

01:06:24.740 honestly, if I'm being honest. What I do know is that the Fallos statue and the butt monument are 0.93

01:06:29.800 individually hilarious, but taken together, they're profoundly depressing. Especially when you compare

01:06:35.380 what ancient civilizations were able to create in the amount of time it takes us to sculpt a giant 0.71

01:06:40.120 rectum. This is a sign of cultural rot, of the decline of morality and passion and original thinking

01:06:47.600 in the United States. Maybe the artist in question didn't intend to send that message. Maybe they

01:06:53.160 didn't intend the butt and the Fallos to be any kind of metaphor, but it is one. And anyone who's ever

01:06:59.460 driven through downtown Seattle or Nashville or Denver or any number of major American cities knows

01:07:04.140 that. And that is why ultimately, postmodern artists and soulless government bureaucrats and

01:07:09.580 everyone else who wants to suppress what's left of creativity and humanity and beauty in this country

01:07:14.500 are today all canceled. And that'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for

01:07:19.360 listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 25, 2023

Ep. 1229 - The Institution Of Marriage Is Under Attack From All Sides

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