The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1234 - We Are A Nation Run By Imbeciles

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we're being led by the dumbest collection of imbeciles ever assembled. 1.00

00:00:04.580 The saga of Congressman Jamal Bowman and the fire alarm only proves this point. 1.00

00:00:08.320 Also, RFK Jr. is getting ready for a third-party run.

00:00:11.200 Does this hurt Biden or Trump more?

00:00:13.340 And a YouTube prankster gets shot while trying to prank someone.

00:00:16.740 Was the shooting justified?

00:00:18.000 And our daily cancellation, the pause on student loan repayments, ended yesterday.

00:00:21.340 And everyone is taking it about as well as you expected.

00:00:24.140 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 Okay, we're on the line with Philip Patrick from Birch Gold.

00:00:54.920 What are the greatest threats facing the dollar right now?

00:00:58.860 The key to a global reserve currency is that it is a solid store of value.

00:01:04.700 Well, the dollar's lost 16% of its buying power since the start of the pandemic alone.

00:01:10.360 So let me ask you this.

00:01:10.980 I have a lot of, there are a lot of young people, young families.

00:01:15.540 What's kind of the pitch for them?

00:01:16.960 Like, why should they consider this?

00:01:19.060 Being a safe haven asset, when we see downturns in the economy, it tends to go up.

00:01:24.100 The other thing to consider is just track record, right?

00:01:28.320 Gold has been around for centuries.

00:01:30.020 It has a proven track record.

00:01:32.160 We understand how gold works with inflation.

00:01:34.600 We understand how gold typically performs during times of market correction.

00:01:39.180 But if you're looking to protect, to preserve buying power, that's where gold has the advantage.

00:01:44.400 Philip Patrick, we appreciate your time, as always.

00:01:47.940 And if you want more information, you can text Walsh to 989898 for your free information kit.

00:01:53.260 Philip, thanks again.

00:01:54.020 You know, at first I thought I might not comment on this issue at all.

00:01:58.120 Everything that needs to be said about it has already been said.

00:02:00.540 And there wasn't much that needed to be said in the first place, to be honest.

00:02:03.240 But then I realized that this show carries a certain responsibility. 0.98

00:02:06.620 It is my solemn duty, I believe, and I know, to single out and mock the dumbest human beings in the country. 0.94

00:02:13.420 In this country, this duty becomes all the more sacred and all the more essential 0.99

00:02:17.480 when you consider that the dumbest human beings in the country are very often the ones running it. 0.99

00:02:21.880 Human beings like Kamala Harris, for example, who is a programmed robot with no authentic opinions or personality of her own. 1.00

00:02:30.020 But she's the worst kind of programmed robot because she's a stupid one. 1.00

00:02:33.720 Kamala isn't the focus today, but since we're on the subject, I do feel compelled to mention this video. 1.00

00:02:39.760 It's a supercut put together by the Twitter account RNC Research,

00:02:43.140 where we see how Kamala repeats the same line over and over again.

00:02:46.660 And this is, it's not even a good line or a vaguely coherent one.

00:02:50.280 But she really, really likes it.

00:02:53.240 Watch.

00:02:54.660 I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?

00:02:59.820 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:03:03.320 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:03:07.840 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:03:11.740 What can be unburdened by what has been?

00:03:16.260 What we can see, what we believe can be.

00:03:19.980 Unburdened by what has been.

00:03:21.320 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:03:24.600 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:03:27.820 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:03:31.160 Who we can be unburdened by who we have been.

00:03:35.200 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:03:38.580 Where we can be unburdened by where we have been and unburdened by where we are right now.

00:03:42.820 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:03:46.120 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:03:48.960 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:03:52.380 What could be unburdened by what had been.

00:03:55.860 What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:04:00.400 I don't know if you caught that, but she's saying that we should focus on what can be unburdened by what has been.

00:04:07.220 I repeat, what can be, what can be, up here, unburdened by what has been.

00:04:14.100 Did you hear that yet?

00:04:14.960 It's very important that you hear that line, which is why Kamala says it to literally every

00:04:18.540 audience she speaks to. And by the way, that montage goes on for another two and a half

00:04:21.780 minutes. And we can even leave aside the fact that the sentiment she's expressing is actually

00:04:26.160 incorrect. You cannot reach your full potential or focus on what can be if you are, as she says,

00:04:31.940 unburdened by what has been. That's because you must carry the burdens of what has been.

00:04:36.680 You must be aware of your past and its lessons, or you'll just repeat what has been over and over

00:04:41.940 until you die. But that's not even the point. The point is that someone on Kamala's team told her

00:04:47.320 this line is brilliantly profound and amazing. And she took that feedback to heart to such an

00:04:52.700 extent that she works into every conversation. She probably finds a way to drop that line when 1.00

00:04:57.020 she's like giving her order in the Starbucks drive-thru. Yes. Hi. Normally I get a venti

00:05:02.460 mocha cappuccino, but I'm trying today to remain focused on what can be unburdened by what has been.

00:05:07.920 So I'd like a grande americano with cream, please. Thank you. What I'm trying to say is that our

00:05:14.160 country is run by some fantastically idiotic people. And yet, even if you were already aware 1.00

00:05:19.180 of that fact, and even if your faith in the intelligence and competence of the ruling class

00:05:23.960 was already as low as you thought it could possibly go, you still were not prepared for this weekend

00:05:31.760 and the saga of Congressman Jamal Bowman and the fire alarm. So just to get you up to speed,

00:05:37.920 on Saturday, as you've probably heard by now, Congressman Jamal Bowman pulled a fire alarm

00:05:43.000 in the House Cannon office building on Capitol Hill at a time when the Democrats were trying to

00:05:48.240 delay a vote on a GOP stopgap spending bill. The fire alarm led to, of course, an evacuation,

00:05:54.940 a full response by emergency and law enforcement personnel. And we know that this happened and we

00:06:00.680 know who was responsible for it because security cameras caught Bowman pulling the fire alarm because

00:06:06.420 you're in an office building on Capitol Hill, which means that there are going to be security

00:06:10.940 cameras everywhere, especially right next to fire alarms. And that means we have him dead to rights,

00:06:17.560 you would think. And you would also think that his motivation, however stupid it may have been, 1.00

00:06:22.140 is pretty obvious. He wanted to delay the vote. Like, why else would you do that? Very, 1.00

00:06:28.740 very dumb and an open and shut case, you would think. But Jamal Bowman has a different narrative. 0.99

00:06:35.340 And it's one that unsurprisingly, the media and his fellow Democrats were quick to accept without

00:06:39.740 skepticism, accepting it as gospel. Later that day, Bowman put out this statement. He said, quote,

00:06:45.520 I want to personally clear up confusion surrounding today's events. Today, as I was rushing to make a

00:06:50.320 vote, I came to a door that is usually open for votes, but today would not open. I'm embarrassed to

00:06:55.900 admit that I activated the fire alarm, mistakenly thinking it would open the door. I regret this

00:07:00.880 and sincerely apologize for any confusion this caused. But I want to be very clear, this was not

00:07:06.140 me in any way trying to delay any vote. It was the exact opposite. I was trying to urgently get to a

00:07:10.740 vote, which I ultimately did, and joined my colleagues in a bipartisan effort to keep our

00:07:14.240 government open. I also met the vote with, met after the vote with the Sergeant at Arms and the Capitol

00:07:19.140 Police at their request and explained what had happened. My hope is that no one will make more of this

00:07:23.500 than it was. I am working hard every day, including today to do my job, to do it well

00:07:27.760 and deliver for my constituents. So he vigorously denies that he was trying to disrupt official

00:07:34.480 proceedings. Of course he denies it as that would be a criminal charge and expulsion from Congress.

00:07:38.880 It would be, it'd be January 6th all over again, an attack on our democracy, an attack on our country

00:07:43.940 worse than 9-11 and Pearl Harbor combined. But instead he claims that he was perplexed by the door,

00:07:49.180 which was an emergency exit, and he pulled the fire alarm to open it. And several media members

00:07:55.700 and other establishment figures were quick to defend him on social media, claiming that the door

00:08:00.320 and the signage around the door was confusing. So just a couple of examples of this narrative

00:08:05.360 being pushed should suffice, I think. Here's political commentator Matt Brunig on Twitter.

00:08:10.100 Here's what he tweeted.

00:08:12.240 Bowman was trying to walk from the Cannon building to the Capitol building to vote. Unusually,

00:08:16.600 the Cannon exit he went to wouldn't open. It had this confusing sign on it. He thought it was

00:08:21.840 saying that you had to press the alarm to get out. This all makes sense. What am I missing?

00:08:27.420 The confusing sign, the confusing sign says this. Emergency exit only, push until alarm sounds,

00:08:33.580 three seconds, door unlocks in 30 seconds. That's what the confusing sign says. Someone else named

00:08:41.340 Armand Dumaluski commented on the sign saying, okay, this sign is genuinely confusing. And to that,

00:08:47.960 MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes responded, it sure is, exclamation point. And there was a lot of this kind

00:08:54.460 of thing. Members of the media proclaiming that the door and the sign were downright perplexing,

00:09:01.220 just a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Looking at that sign, it's like trying to decipher an ancient

00:09:07.560 Egyptian hieroglyphic. It's like, it's, it's who knows. Now you should know that as Breitbart

00:09:13.940 reports, Bowman actually took down that sign and threw it to the side, then pulled the alarm

00:09:19.900 and ran the opposite way to a different door and left. So when the media tells us that his excuse

00:09:25.740 makes sense, they're telling, they're telling us that that is what makes sense. It makes sense that

00:09:30.280 a grown adult man would walk up to an emergency exit and in an effort to leave the building, tear

00:09:37.020 down the sign, pull the fire alarm and run the opposite way. This, the media says, is a sensible

00:09:44.080 strategy for exiting a building. It makes sense. It makes sense that a grown adult man would react to

00:09:52.540 an emergency exit that way. After all, the sign was confusing, which is, which is true. I mean,

00:09:59.700 the sign only says that it's an emergency exit and you need to push down on the door handle until the

00:10:04.480 alarm sounds. This may mean that it's an emergency exit and you need to push down on the door handle

00:10:09.860 until the alarm sounds, or it may mean that you should walk to the opposing wall and pull the fire

00:10:14.500 alarm and then run away. Maybe that's what it means. Or it may mean that you should do cartwheels down

00:10:19.720 the hallway. Or it may mean that you should stand on your head and sing the 90s hit tub thumping.

00:10:25.700 It may mean anything. Who's to say what it means? It's impossible to know. The sign is indecipherable.

00:10:32.960 That is, if you are illiterate and if you've never encountered an emergency exit or a fire alarm

00:10:37.960 before in your life. But almost every adult has, which is why, and I think I can say this about you

00:10:46.560 without knowing anything about you, whoever you are watching this, I can say that in your entire time

00:10:52.600 existing on this planet, you have never once heard of anyone ever anywhere pulling a fire alarm in

00:11:01.200 order to open a door. You've never considered doing that yourself. You've never done it yourself.

00:11:06.620 You've never heard of anyone doing it or considering it. You've never been like walking with a friend

00:11:12.840 down a hallway and come across a fire alarm and had your friend turn to you and say,

00:11:17.980 is this what we pressed to open the door? Nobody has ever said that to you. Nobody has ever asked you

00:11:25.120 that. And if your friend did turn to you and say that, you would look at him in stunned disbelief.

00:11:33.600 You might actually start to weep as his stupidity would be at such a level that it would be downright 1.00

00:11:39.760 tragic to behold. It'd be like seeing a grown man walking around in Velcro shoes because he doesn't 1.00

00:11:46.560 know how to tie his shoelaces. It is dumbness so dumb that you can't even laugh at it. It just makes 1.00

00:11:52.760 you sad, if anything. Well, I'll still laugh at it, but nicer people won't. And to be clear,

00:11:59.860 this is Jamal Bowman's defense. His defense is that he's a bewildered dunce who becomes confused and 0.97

00:12:08.640 hysterical at the sight of a door. His defense is that he has the IQ of a hermit crab. 0.99

00:12:16.520 It's a defense so humiliating and so disqualifying that even if it was true,

00:12:22.140 he'd be better off lying and saying that it was an intentional criminal act. I mean, if that was me

00:12:26.600 and I somehow did something that stupid, I would lie and say, you know what? Yeah, 0.99

00:12:31.380 I was committing a crime. Put me in jail. I would rather you all, I would rather go to prison

00:12:35.700 than have everyone know that I am that stupid. I would certainly rather be seen as a clumsy criminal 1.00

00:12:42.920 than a guy with a mental capacity of an amoeba. And here's the thing, whichever is true, 0.94

00:12:50.700 either way, Jamal Bowman is unfit to serve. Because either he tried to disrupt a congressional

00:12:57.820 proceeding by staging a false emergency, or he's an incompetent halfwit who doesn't know how fire 0.99

00:13:04.320 alarms work. I mean, it's one or the other. And frankly, I don't care which one. Though I strongly 0.98

00:13:11.600 suspect that maybe there's a bit of both mixed in. Whatever the explanation, he should be kicked out

00:13:17.380 of office. He is just another in a large crowd of people in Washington, D.C. who run our country

00:13:23.860 and make decisions that deeply impact all of our lives and yet are both morally and intellectually

00:13:30.180 bankrupt. These are the kinds of people who always are there to preside over the collapse of empires.

00:13:38.160 People whose moral character is in a constant game of limbo against their intelligence,

00:13:43.460 competing over who can sink the lowest. These are our leaders. People who can't even open a door.

00:13:50.840 God bless America. We're going to need it. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:17.460 is maybe the fourth show in a row with politics at the top of the five headlines, and that's not a

00:15:23.060 good thing really, but it is what it is. Here's the story from ABC News. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. teased

00:15:28.260 an announcement on Friday that he said he said would create a sea change in American politics amid

00:15:33.200 speculation that a Democrat candidate may leave the party. Kennedy previously refused to rule out an

00:15:37.720 independent run for president in August for the 2024 contest. Kennedy said in a video on Friday that

00:15:43.960 voters were frustrated with Congress and the leadership of both political parties, and he

00:15:47.940 said that there'd be this announcement next Monday. So here is the video where he teases this announcement.

00:15:54.920 Let's watch. Hi, everybody. I'm going to be in Philadelphia on October 9th to make a major

00:16:00.640 announcement at the very birthplace of our nation. I'm not going to tell you right now exactly what that

00:16:06.380 announcement will be. I can say, though, that if you've been waiting to come to one of my public

00:16:11.800 events, this will be the one to come to. I'll be speaking about a sea change in American politics

00:16:18.300 and what your part and my part is in that change. A lot of Americans who had previously given up any

00:16:25.560 hope that real change would ever come through the American electoral process have begun to find new hope

00:16:32.260 in my candidacy. And I understand the deeply felt concern that people have about the way corruption

00:16:38.040 has overtaken our government. It's in the executive branch. It's in Congress. It's in the leadership of

00:16:45.340 both political parties. And so some people feel a kind of cynicism alongside the hope, or they lose

00:16:52.880 hope entirely because they've been disappointed so many times. I want to tell you now what I've come to

00:16:58.760 understand after six months of campaigning, there is a path to victory. The hope we are feeling isn't

00:17:05.180 some kind of trick of the mind. We all recognize that there's a genuine possibility of national

00:17:11.260 transformation, and its source is the goodness of the American people. Okay, so he's running

00:17:17.900 independent, obviously. That's going to be the announcement, which is the assumption is the

00:17:23.760 rumor, and I think pretty clearly based on the campaign video there. Now, the interesting

00:17:28.560 question, of course, is who does this hurt? Again, assuming it's Biden and Trump who are in the

00:17:36.180 general election, does RFK Jr. siphon votes more from Biden or more from Trump? Who takes the biggest

00:17:45.340 hit? And to me, the answer is very obvious, which is that it's Trump. And there are many Trump supporters

00:17:52.200 in social media kind of whistling past the graveyard, claiming that somehow RFK's independent run is a

00:17:58.540 bigger problem for Biden than it is for Trump. But that's nothing but cope. Okay, that's rationalization.

00:18:03.200 It's absurd. And it's also, by the way, it's what every campaign in this race, in both parties,

00:18:11.520 is doing. That's been every campaign, it seems like, just denying reality, whistling along,

00:18:20.280 claim, oh, this isn't a problem. Everything's fine. And so we're getting it, once again, from the Trump

00:18:25.220 camp on this one, from some in the Trump camp. Now, there are others who are admitting that like,

00:18:29.240 yeah, obviously this is a problem for Trump. And how do we know that? Well, it's because RFK Jr.

00:18:35.280 has a sizable base of very dedicated, excited supporters. And who are these people?

00:18:44.300 Like, who supports them? Well, these are people who are anti-establishment,

00:18:50.880 skeptical of vaccines, at a minimum skeptical, and very suspicious of big pharma, right? They have

00:18:59.640 other beliefs as well. That's not it. But like, those three things, I think, describe literally

00:19:04.500 everyone who likes RFK Jr. And are people who fit that bill more likely to be on the right or on the left?

00:19:12.360 It's very simple. Ask yourself that. There is no anti-establishment vote on the left.

00:19:20.280 It doesn't exist. If you're anti-establishment, if you're skeptical of vaccines, if you hate big pharma,

00:19:27.480 and you should hate big pharma, by the way, then you're on the right. You just are. If this was 15

00:19:33.000 years ago, it'd be one thing. If this was 10 years ago, even five years ago. But, you know, back then,

00:19:39.280 there was a chance that you could have views like that and still be on the left, because there was

00:19:43.220 still the vestigial remains of anti-establishment sentiment on the left. But that's all gone now.

00:19:50.200 Post-COVID, that is all gone now, especially on the vaccine stuff. I mean, there was a time when

00:19:56.940 being anti-vax or being skeptical of vaccines, if you had that view, there's a very good chance that

00:20:03.380 you were left-wing. There was a time when arguably you would associate that viewpoint more with the left

00:20:07.680 than with the right, which maybe was never an accurate association. But there was a time when

00:20:12.780 that we were way past that. That is not the case anymore. So RFK's vote can only come from

00:20:24.000 the only place where it exists, which is the right or the center right.

00:20:29.540 So is this a major problem for Trump? Well, I think, you know, I believe in facing reality

00:20:37.340 for what it is. And I think that, yes, this is a major problem for Trump.

00:20:42.980 Now, obviously, RFK Jr. is not going to beat Trump. He's not going to win the presidency,

00:20:47.360 of course. But the question is whether he can pull enough of the vote to swing the election to Biden.

00:20:53.300 And I think that he can. And the real risk here is how Trump responds to RFK Jr.'s candidacy.

00:21:05.640 Because this is going to require Trump to actually be strategic and thoughtful, you know, and that

00:21:11.360 sort of thing, like strategically hold your fire, which is not Trump's strong suit, but this is what

00:21:16.740 he's going to have to do. Because if he comes out and just launches a broadside against RFK Jr.,

00:21:21.440 mocking him, doing the whole Trump routine, then he's going to bury himself in the process.

00:21:28.440 Because that will only cause RFK supporters to rally around him even more. And I mean,

00:21:33.420 this is not, you know, there are some people that Trump goes after and he mocks them ruthlessly.

00:21:37.520 And it causes that, even that person's supporters to kind of look at them differently. And he kind of

00:21:42.260 emasculates them and all that. And that's proven to be effective with a lot of people. But I think

00:21:47.620 RFK Jr. is the kind of guy that's kind of like immune to that because of the nature of his support.

00:21:55.620 So the best thing that Trump can do, I think, is to be highly complimentary of RFK Jr., highly

00:22:02.060 supportive, very nice to him, and also publicly offer him a spot in your cabinet. And even if he won't

00:22:11.060 take it, then you've shown, you know, that that's what you want to do. Treating him like an ally and

00:22:17.840 you're signaling to his supporters that you are friendly and that you're someone that they can

00:22:21.900 support. And that you can make the case then that, hey, RFK Jr. is great. Hey, I agree with a lot of

00:22:28.360 his anti-establishment point. I don't agree with everything. I agree with a lot of the fact that

00:22:31.900 he's anti-establishment and all this. The points that he raises about both parties being corrupt.

00:22:37.300 I agree with that. But if you want someone who has those views and can actually win,

00:22:42.300 then come over here. That has to be the pitch. If Trump gets mad and starts lashing out,

00:22:49.360 it's just it's not going to end well because Trump cannot afford to lose

00:22:53.900 even one single vote to RFK Jr. He can't afford it. If he wins in 2024, it's going to be by a razor

00:23:02.600 thin margin. The same goes on the other side, too. Nobody's winning in a landslide. So anyone on

00:23:06.980 either side talking about it's going to be a landslide is is full of it. Yeah, that's just

00:23:12.920 someone that you should ignore. Totally. There's not going to be a landslide. It's going to be a

00:23:17.660 razor thin one way or another. And neither of them can afford to lose votes. And RFK is going to

00:23:24.040 take. And he's got because he's, you know, to me, this is. This would be like if Bernie Sanders

00:23:32.360 had launched an independent bid in 2020. It's a very similar situation to that.

00:23:40.320 That would have been devastating for the Biden campaign because he'd be able to take enough of

00:23:43.720 the vote. And he's got his support is such that it's it's it's it's a smaller group of people,

00:23:50.100 but they're very they're very excited. They're very passionate. And so it's a similar kind of

00:23:57.740 situation. But on the right now, I think, for Trump. All right. This is a fascinating case.

00:24:03.980 I think reading from The Guardian, a jury on Thursday found a delivery driver not guilty in

00:24:08.680 the shooting of a YouTube prankster who followed him around a mall food court earlier this year.

00:24:14.000 Alan Colley, 31, was acquitted of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting of Tanner

00:24:19.140 Cook, 21, who runs the Classified Goons YouTube channel. The jury was split on two lesser firearm

00:24:26.080 counts and decided to convict him on one and acquit him on the other. The shooting on April 2nd at the

00:24:32.360 food court in Dulles Town Center, about 45 minutes west of the nation's capital, set off panic as

00:24:36.560 shoppers fled what they feared to be a mass shooting. Colley pleaded not guilty and said

00:24:41.160 he was acting in self-defense. The verdict came on Thursday after about five hours of deliberation.

00:24:45.380 Three hours in, the jury sent out a note saying it was divided in terms of whether the defendant

00:24:48.920 acted in self-defense. The Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Matthew Snow called the jury back into

00:24:54.440 the courtroom at approximately 3.30 p.m. and urged them to continue deliberations.

00:24:58.940 And and then they came down with the verdict at the end of that day.

00:25:03.500 Obviously, Colley, who's been in custody since his April arrest, will remain incarcerated.

00:25:08.440 Adam Pulliard, his defense attorney, said during Thursday's closing arguments as client felt menaced

00:25:14.000 by the six foot five inch Cook during the confrontation, which was designed to provoke a reaction and to draw

00:25:19.920 viewers to Cook's YouTube channel. OK, so Colley was acquitted of the serious, the more serious charge,

00:25:27.560 still convicted of the lesser charge. And that part makes no sense, because if you buy his self-defense

00:25:33.400 claim, if you buy that claim, so you're you're acquitting him of the of the malicious wounding

00:25:38.560 charge. Then it makes no logical sense to convict him of the firearms charge. If he's justified in

00:25:45.020 using self-defense, then it's like basically you're saying he's justified in shooting the guy,

00:25:50.920 but not justified in discharging the firearm, which that logically it makes no sense.

00:25:57.380 But juries do this all the time now where they kind of split the baby in a way that makes no logical

00:26:01.880 sense at all. So that at the end of it, you're trying to figure out what their theory of the

00:26:06.320 case even is. And it's it doesn't there isn't one. And his lawyers will, of course, try to appeal

00:26:14.160 the conviction on the lesser account. I think ultimately, you know, they're going to win that

00:26:18.160 argument just just because it doesn't the verdict doesn't make sense. Either he was either his

00:26:23.940 self-defense claim was legitimate or not. And if it's not a legitimate claim that he should have

00:26:27.900 been convicted of the of the malicious wounding charge, he wasn't, which means that the jury found

00:26:32.180 it found it legitimate. And so there should be no conviction of anything. So the question is,

00:26:42.540 should he have been acquitted of the of the more serious charge or of all the charges?

00:26:47.620 I believe absolutely. Yes, he should have. He should have been acquitted. He should be

00:26:50.280 acquitted of everything and he should walk free. He should be walking free right now. He shouldn't

00:26:53.800 be in jail at all. And I've been arguing about this on on Twitter and which is always a productive

00:26:58.740 thing to do. And lots of people are mad at me and they disagree. Even people who profess to be big

00:27:05.860 supporters of the Second Amendment. I've heard a lot. There's been a lot of that. You know,

00:27:09.140 I'm a big Second Amendment person, but you're way off on this. This person was totally wrong.

00:27:14.580 Well, let's watch the video that this YouTube prankster, quote unquote, took where, you know,

00:27:21.100 we can see the whole thing. And this is what the prank, quote unquote, consisted of. And I'm going

00:27:28.180 to show you everything leading up to when the shot was fired, because that's the important part.

00:27:32.420 The actual shot itself, if I play that, then the violence and they'll take down the video and

00:27:37.040 everything. So you can go and find the actual shot itself if you want to find it. But

00:27:40.220 here you can see what led up to him ultimately pulling out his gun and firing. Let's watch that.

00:27:49.040 And then right there, he's about to pull the trigger. So that's the prank. The hilarious prank.

00:28:12.380 The prank is that this large, massive guy, we just heard six foot five inches. And the other guy,

00:28:20.920 quite a bit, I don't know how tall the other guy is, but quite a bit smaller than that.

00:28:24.780 So this massive guy comes up, starts weirdly and ominously harassing a random DoorDash driver.

00:28:32.240 He's just trying to pick up some food and deliver it to a customer. DoorDash, I don't know what service

00:28:37.940 he's driving for, but he's delivering food. And this guy comes up and he's got his phone out and

00:28:45.840 he's like putting, it's repeating this weird phrase and he's putting it in, in Kali's face and he keeps

00:28:52.000 pursuing him, getting very, very close to him, you know, and Kali's backing away. And he says,

00:28:58.780 stop three times. He says, stop three times. He's trying, he's trying to get away. He's trying to

00:29:04.580 leave. It's not like he's trying to leave the situation. He's being pursued.

00:29:10.060 And after the third warning, he takes out the gun and he shoots him.

00:29:14.520 And some people have taken issue with it because when he took out the gun,

00:29:17.760 you know, he took out the gun and he did, after taking out the gun, he just fired it immediately.

00:29:20.660 He didn't take out the gun and say, I'm warning you. He didn't warn a fourth time after taking

00:29:24.220 out the gun. He just shot. And I'm, and I'm, I think it's totally justified. I have no problem with

00:29:29.520 that. He had every right to assume that Cook meant him harm because he had no context. Okay.

00:29:38.160 He didn't know that Cook was some stupid, dumb oaf YouTuber who was doing this as a prank. 1.00

00:29:45.140 Okay. He's not like, put yourself in that position. This happens. You're not immediately, 1.00

00:29:49.200 oh, you're not, you're not thinking, oh, this is a YouTube prank. I'm not thinking that. I mean,

00:29:53.620 you're, you're, you're thinking, why is this massive guy coming after me? What is he doing?

00:29:57.700 He's got this blank expression on his face and he's just got like, you think, obviously you're 0.77

00:30:02.620 going to assume that he's crazy. He's like some psycho and, uh, and he means you harm. If I was 0.99

00:30:08.940 in that exact situation, I would immediately assume that he meant me harm. That's what I would assume.

00:30:15.900 And, uh, that would be a safe assumption. It's a fair assumption. And it's an assumption that I

00:30:21.640 believe we have every right to make. And the benefit of the doubt in that scenario has to go

00:30:28.560 entirely to Kali, not to the guy who initiated the confrontation to begin with.

00:30:35.440 So for me, not only would I say that Kali was justified in shooting him, but to me, it's like

00:30:40.300 clear as day. There's not even anything. I know I said, it's a fascinating case.

00:30:44.640 Um, it's actually not even that interesting to me. I saw that video. I was like, Oh yeah,

00:30:49.840 of course you shoot him. Go ahead. Like, don't, don't go up to someone harassing them like that 1.00

00:30:55.720 in a, in a, in a, in this ominous way. They tell you to stop and you keep going after them.

00:30:59.620 Don't do that. You don't want to get shot. Just don't do that. It's very easy.

00:31:03.100 It's very easy to not get shot in that situation. Just don't do that.

00:31:05.760 And calling it a prank doesn't all of a sudden make it okay.

00:31:12.980 Can Kali, what if Kali, could Kali try that? Could he shoot him and say, no dude, no bro, 0.91

00:31:17.460 I'm just, it's just a prank. Shoot him in the stomach, which is what he did. And then what 1.00

00:31:22.460 if he had just stood over him and said, just a prank, bro. Don't worry about it. Just a prank.

00:31:26.640 Look, you're on camera. I see you're on YouTube. Don't worry. It's just a prank.

00:31:30.400 No, calling it a prank doesn't suddenly make everything okay. But this is what we find.

00:31:36.720 These, these, these, uh, clout chasers on YouTube or TikTok or whatever, you know, of course the

00:31:42.160 infamous example of the guy on TikTok who does home invasion, walks into people's homes as part of a

00:31:48.540 prank. This is not a prank. This is this home invasion, harassment. These are crimes you're

00:31:54.480 committing. And I think people have every right to, uh, to respond.

00:32:00.400 And I also think, look, I admit that, um, when I look at a case like this,

00:32:07.620 I am not an entirely unbiased observer. I suppose I am very much biased in the favor of,

00:32:16.320 in favor of the person who feels that they're being threatened and has to defend themselves.

00:32:20.340 I'm going to be biased in their favor. Um, now it's one thing, look, if, if that had happened

00:32:28.000 and then the guy, the YouTuber says, Oh, it's just a prank. And he kind of like starts walking

00:32:35.660 away. And then Kali is just mad. He gets pissed off that he was harassed and he walks up to the

00:32:42.860 guy and shoots him. Okay. Well now it's murder. So that's a totally different scenario. We're not

00:32:49.040 talking about that. You, you, that I'm saying that if you are a carry a gun that you should

00:32:54.140 have licenses, kill whoever you want. If you're pissed off, you can just kill someone. Obviously 1.00

00:32:57.860 not. But what I'm saying is that in the moment, in that moment where someone is confused, they

00:33:04.540 don't know what you're doing. They feel threatened. Uh, I'm going to give a lot of leeway personally.

00:33:12.340 I think we should be giving a lot of leeway to the person who is feeling threatened and

00:33:16.720 who also is not the one who initiated the confrontation. Uh, and I also think that on

00:33:23.420 a societal level, cause I know there's always this worry about, Oh, it's going to become

00:33:28.340 the wild west. And nevermind that in the wild west, actually, oftentimes the gun laws are

00:33:32.460 quite harsh and there were, you know, many towns you go into, you're not even allowed to

00:33:35.100 bring your firearm in. Uh, but you know, it's going to be the wild west. People are just shooting

00:33:39.440 all over the place. That's the concern. I don't think that is the concern.

00:33:42.320 I don't think that's going to happen. Um, I think the concern is more what we, the situation

00:33:48.980 we currently have in society where you've got these, uh, these thugs and these punks 0.60

00:33:54.300 who, who have no compunction. They have no fear. They'll just go up. They'll harass you.

00:34:01.720 They'll assault you. They'll do whatever with no fear at all. No fear of the legal consequences

00:34:08.460 and especially no fear of the physical consequences in the moment. I think it is good and healthy in a

00:34:15.780 society for people to fear for their lives before deciding to victimize or harass someone.

00:34:24.520 Like I think it's a healthy, it's a sign of a healthy society. If you're about to harass someone

00:34:30.180 randomly for clicks and then you stop and say to yourself, I don't know if I want to do that. I

00:34:36.020 might die. I might die if I do that. That's a healthy society

00:34:41.060 where you have to take those kinds of things into consideration.

00:34:46.260 And then, and then if you're not insane, you'll probably say to yourself, yeah, you know, it's

00:34:52.220 not worth it. It's not worth it. I think I'll just, you know what? I'll just, I'll just be a

00:34:55.600 normal person instead and I'll leave this person alone and I'll let them make their delivery and

00:35:00.720 I'll go about my day and that'll be it. Okay. A healthy society to me is one where people are

00:35:07.780 incentivized to make healthy choices and to be just normal, well-adjusted contributing members of

00:35:15.120 society. If you are incentivized in that direction and there are strong disincentives to be a burden,

00:35:22.120 to be a leech, to be just a punk, a thug, you know, that to me is healthy, which is why I think we

00:35:30.280 should be very, very generous to people like Kali in that situation, which the, which the jury almost 0.83

00:35:37.560 was, you know, if not for the ridiculous splitting the baby bit there at the end. Okay. Here's a

00:35:45.060 headline from Politico. It says, he, she, they, the pronoun debate will likely land at the Supreme

00:35:50.580 Court. And the article says, once again, a pitched battle in America's culture wars is making its

00:35:55.600 steady way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In this round, the emerging question is whether public

00:35:59.880 school children have a right to choose names and pronouns affirming their gender identity

00:36:03.900 or whether parents' rights to manage the upbringing of their children overrides it.

00:36:08.860 Three separate federal appeals courts have already confronted this issue, which has left school

00:36:12.700 administrators across the country having to pick between the wishes and needs of the student on

00:36:15.900 one hand and the demands of parents that they be alerted to their children's gender and pronoun

00:36:19.820 preferences at school on the other. The legal issues in this case are not easy ones, pitting children's

00:36:24.840 rights against their parents' rights. Upset parents contend that by using a child's preferred pronouns

00:36:29.740 without their knowledge, government actors are illegally providing medical care without the parental

00:36:34.040 consent that their state law mandates. Weighing against the parents are the kids' requests as well

00:36:38.800 as state laws requiring that schools provide non-discriminatory environments in which students

00:36:43.780 can safely express their gender identities. According to the Human Rights Campaign, 22 states and the

00:36:48.560 District of Columbia have laws protecting students from harassment based on gender identity.

00:36:53.020 The outcome, while centering around school administration rather than civil rights of

00:36:57.060 transgender Americans, is likely nonetheless to have far-ranging impacts. Not only does it invite 1.00

00:37:00.660 the unelected justices to take sides in the clash between conservatives and progressives over what should be

00:37:05.300 tolerated and taught in public schools, but it could wind up sending a powerful signal about the extent to

00:37:09.640 which the court will permit discrimination on the basis of non-conforming gender identity under the

00:37:14.460 Constitution itself. Then it talks about the latest case, and there's been several cases like this, but

00:37:21.140 the point is that Politico is predicting, and I think rightly so, correctly so, that this debate over

00:37:28.220 pronouns, you know, the pronoun question, at least in the context of schools, will eventually be in the

00:37:34.380 Supreme Court. And that's good news, I think, because I'm reasonably confident that the court,

00:37:41.180 how it's currently constructed, will arrive at the right conclusion. Not totally confident. I mean,

00:37:47.380 you never know with somebody like Roberts, but I'd give it a greater than 50% chance the Supreme Court

00:37:52.240 does the right thing here and affirms the fact that schools cannot change a kid's pronouns or, you know,

00:38:00.160 identify them as an opposite sex without alerting the parents, without having parents involved.

00:38:06.660 And even if the Supreme Court did come to that determination, that would not at all settle

00:38:12.340 all of the issues around pronouns and the transing of kids and everything else.

00:38:18.080 But it would be a very powerful thing.

00:38:20.480 I do want to make one point here, though, and it's an important one.

00:38:26.160 Obviously, the political article is framing this dispute in a way that is meant to be as favorable

00:38:32.020 as possible to the trans agenda. Obviously, we know they're going to do that. It's important to

00:38:37.440 notice the framing, though. So what I just read to you, what is wrong with what I just read?

00:38:45.280 Okay, where is the dishonesty? What are they lying about? And there are a few little,

00:38:49.400 not little things, but there are a few things that you can point out. I mean, everything they

00:38:52.500 said is at least either a lie or intentionally slanted in a certain direction. But the big

00:38:58.540 thing is this. They say that this is a dispute that pits a child's right against a parent's right.

00:39:08.260 And that is a lie. When we frame it that way, you're framing it that way because anyone who says that,

00:39:14.300 it's very clear what side of the issue they're on. It's just not true. That's not the

00:39:19.260 dispute. And one way that you know that it's a lie is that the right of a parent and the right of a

00:39:27.400 child are never at odds. Okay? Parental rights properly understood are never at odds with a

00:39:37.280 child's rights properly understood. This is one of the ways that we know there are artificial

00:39:43.920 fabricated rights, imaginary rights that are codified into law in a corrupt and illegitimate

00:39:51.340 way. That's true. And rights in that sense can just be whatever the government says. Well,

00:39:58.540 you have this right, or you don't have this right. But if we believe that human rights have some

00:40:03.920 underlying, there's an underlying fundamental reality to human rights that go beyond the government,

00:40:11.120 that rights are not just arbitrarily and subjectively determined by whatever governing

00:40:17.240 authority happens to be in power. If we believe that, then we can talk about what are actual rights

00:40:24.080 and what aren't. And so the point is that actual human rights, if there's ever a dispute where you

00:40:33.700 have one person making a human rights claim and another person making a human rights claim,

00:40:36.900 and those claims conflict with each other, then that always tells us that someone in this dispute

00:40:43.700 is wrong, that they're claiming human rights that they don't actually possess, or maybe they both are.

00:40:50.160 So for example, take abortion, for example. Oftentimes this is framed as a dispute between the right of

00:41:00.360 the mother and the right of the child. But it's not. It's not actually. There's no conflict there.

00:41:08.740 The right of the mother is not bumping up against the right of the child. That's because the mother

00:41:12.580 has no right to commit murder, has no fundamental human right to murder her child. That right doesn't 0.99

00:41:18.540 exist. We can arbitrarily concoct it by corrupt governing authorities, but it's not an actual,

00:41:26.100 fundamental, natural, human right that exists. It's not. It is another, again, a fabricated and

00:41:35.540 artificial one. So same goes in this case. What we have here is not the child's right and the parent's

00:41:44.120 right conflicting. That's not the case. We have instead the rights of both parties, the parent and

00:41:52.400 the child being infringed by the state. That's what has actually happened. When a child goes to school

00:41:58.980 and, you know, when a boy goes to sixth grade and is, is identified by, you know, is, is treated as a

00:42:07.720 girl and they use a girl's name to identify him and girl pronouns and all the rest of it. And the girl's

00:42:16.060 bathroom is opened up to him and the parents are not even alerted to it. And, and, and, and this is kept

00:42:22.060 from the parents. Um, this is not a case where the child's right is like superseding the parent's

00:42:27.200 right. Um, no, this is a case where both the parent's right and the child's right are being

00:42:33.320 infringed by the school, which is to say by the state, because a parent, you know, it's easy enough

00:42:41.560 to see, I would hope to see the parent's right. In this case, the parent has a right to raise their

00:42:47.220 own parents have a right to raise their own children, um, to, uh, uh, to bring their children

00:42:53.280 up in, in, you know, with, in the truth, with moral and intellectual clarity to raise their kids,

00:43:01.560 to be well-adjusted, uh, human beings. So the parent has a right to all that. And when the child

00:43:09.380 goes to school and is told by the, by the teachers, Oh yes, you're really a girl. That right is being 0.66

00:43:14.600 horrifically infringed. What about the child though? Um, does the child have a right to be

00:43:25.080 treated? Does the boy have a right to be treated as a girl in school? No, that doesn't make any sense. 0.87

00:43:31.000 What do you mean has a right? What you're asking is does, does the, you're asking, does the child

00:43:37.980 have a right to be lied to by, uh, the, the, the authority figures in his life, by the adults

00:43:44.800 who, who, who he's been entrusted with? You're asking, does the, does the child have a right to

00:43:50.860 be lied to? It doesn't, it's hard to even answer that. I mean, the answer is no, but it's hard to

00:43:58.080 answer because it's such an incoherent question. What do you mean? Does he have a right to be lied to?

00:44:01.880 Because that's all it is. He's being lied to. If the teachers and the faculty and the staff are

00:44:09.340 treating him like a girl and calling him a girl and using girl pronouns and using a fake girl name,

00:44:13.500 um, that is not the name that his parents gave him. And they're, they're saying, go ahead and use

00:44:18.660 the girl's bathroom. They are lying to that child and they are leading that child deeper into confusion.

00:44:24.380 Does the child have a right to be treated that way? No, it goes the other way. The child has a right

00:44:30.600 to not be treated that way. So when you respect the child's wishes, you respect the boy's wishes by

00:44:39.020 calling him a girl, you're not respecting his rights. You're, you are infringing on his rights

00:44:43.580 because despite what this confused kid says, what he actually has a right to is he has a right to the

00:44:51.380 truth. He has a right to be, to be, um, uh, to be properly educated when he's in these institutions.

00:45:01.460 He has a right to the just basic guidance and clarity that we all had growing up.

00:45:07.840 He has a right to all those things. And, and the school has a responsibility to give it. That's why

00:45:14.340 the child is there. It's why the school system exists allegedly. And so when you respect the

00:45:19.660 wishes of the boy, the alleged wishes of the boy to be treated like a girl, you are in fact,

00:45:24.240 taking away all those things that he has a right to. So that's really the conflict here.

00:45:31.680 It's not parent versus child. Not at all. No, it is a parent and child versus the state.

00:45:38.340 It's actually a question of, does the state have a right to indoctrinate your child into this gender 0.94

00:45:49.040 madness? It is the state claiming that right against the parents saying you do not have the

00:45:55.360 right to treat my child that way. And I think the legitimate rights claim, uh, in that dispute,

00:46:01.300 should be obvious to everyone. And if it's not immediately obvious to you, then you're just,

00:46:06.260 you're hopeless. You're just a, you're a hopeless case. All right, let's get to was Walsh wrong. 0.97

00:46:12.180 A few comments here. First comment is in response to our segment about the Sixth Circuit Court,

00:46:21.940 circuit court upholding our ban on gender mutilation of children, upholding the ban in

00:46:26.040 Tennessee and in Kentucky, which we talked about on Friday, big ruling. This commentator,

00:46:30.200 commenter rather disagrees with the ruling says, Matt, you're wrong. The lower court correctly

00:46:34.660 upheld the right of parents to raise kids according to their values, not the state's.

00:46:37.880 The ruling you applaud does the opposite. So by your logic, California can enact a law that makes

00:46:42.900 agreeing with your values grounds for losing your kids. I always love these comments. It's a classic

00:46:48.100 argument of, uh, well, if we, if we, you know, if you, if we pass this good law, then the other side

00:46:56.120 might pass bad laws. Oh, this good law is a slippery slope. It might lead to bad laws,

00:47:01.740 which is a ridiculous argument because of course, first of all, uh, California doesn't need the

00:47:09.860 precedent that, that we set in order to pass bad laws. Okay. So if we were to back off and say,

00:47:19.300 we're not going to pass any good laws. We're not going to try to advance our, um, our agenda. We're

00:47:22.920 not going to try to advance what we know is correct and good at all. We're not going to do it. And this

00:47:28.420 is what the Republican party of course has been doing for decades. So, you know, when we have

00:47:31.460 power, we're not going to really do anything. Republican party had total power. The federal

00:47:36.700 government from 2016 to 2018 did nothing, did nothing at all. Passed a tax cut. That was it.

00:47:43.780 And I guess the argument's supposed to be, well, look, we didn't do anything. Um, and now we hand

00:47:48.460 it over to you and, uh, the other side and we trust that you'll do nothing as well. It never really

00:47:53.540 works that way, does it? No, when, when the left has power, they just look at us and say, you, you

00:47:58.920 suckers, you idiots. Now we're just going to write, we're going to ram our agenda down your throat 1.00

00:48:03.980 like we were going to do anyway. Um, but also as we just talked about parent, the parents' rights

00:48:11.720 and children's rights, um, this ban on child mutilation has nothing to do with parents' rights.

00:48:18.680 Uh, it's about the right of a child to not be, to not have this torture inflicted on them.

00:48:28.020 A child has the right to not be sterilized, castrated, and mutilated.

00:48:35.100 And it is irrelevant whether the parent wants it or not. Parental rights, of course, are not absolute.

00:48:44.100 Nobody thinks they are. Okay, are you going to sit here and say you think parental rights are

00:48:48.600 absolute? Parents should have the right to just do whatever they want with their kids? 1.00

00:48:53.260 Nobody thinks that. Of course, there are limits on it. And yet, when you're trying to establish

00:48:57.820 the limits of, of any rights, um, there's all, cause no right is absolute. You know, I mean,

00:49:06.080 you could be put in prison and have almost all of your rights taken away. You can be executed.

00:49:11.000 You're right to life. Then in that case, uh, is, uh, is, it takes a backseat. Um, so no right is

00:49:19.480 absolute. And, and, and that means that there's always good. Yeah. There's going to be gray area

00:49:23.480 sort of cases and they're going to be, you know, you're gonna have things like that, but that doesn't

00:49:27.360 mean that it's impossible to speak coherently about what your rights actually are and where they end.

00:49:32.480 Like just kind of these broader principles are easy to determine. And, um, when it comes to parental

00:49:39.720 rights, that's definitely the case. Yes, you have, you have the right, you have the right to raise your

00:49:46.080 child, but you don't have the right to horrifically abuse and butcher and mutilate them. That is not 0.58

00:49:55.560 included in your right as a parent, which is also, you know, it becomes easier to determine

00:50:04.020 what your rights are, what they aren't, where, where rights end. When you also look at the other

00:50:09.560 side of the rights coin, which is responsibility, responsibilities and rights go together.

00:50:16.960 You know, for every right, there is a, there is a responsibility that comes with it.

00:50:20.960 Um, and many times it's, it's more coherent and I think more useful anyway, to talk about

00:50:25.760 responsibilities rather than rights. So rather than talking about the rights of parents and

00:50:29.640 parents have plenty of rights, but we should also talk about the responsibility of parents.

00:50:35.520 You know, as a, as a parent, you have the responsibility to raise your child, to love your child, to care for

00:50:41.400 your child, to, um, bring them up in the world to be, uh, you know, well-adjusted, um,

00:50:50.960 moral, uh, moral, virtuous people. That is your responsibility. And it's also your right.

00:50:57.860 It's both. But when you, if you, if you do something to your child that, um, egregiously

00:51:06.380 conflicts that with that, then, then you are well outside of your rights as a parent.

00:51:12.860 Uh, Sherry Ann, speaking of, uh, where our rights end, Brittany's not a bad mom, Matt. Yeah,

00:51:20.480 she's done some not cool things, but she should never have been put in the conservatorship

00:51:25.140 in the beginning. She wasn't ill or of unsound mind. She was just a young girl at the peak of fame

00:51:31.660 and those around her took advantage. It's so sad. Um, I think I mentioned when we talked about this

00:51:38.260 on Friday that one of the quote unquote uncool or not cool things she did to use your phrase 0.82

00:51:44.900 was she, uh, barricaded herself herself into her home with her children and had a standoff with

00:51:52.200 emergency personnel and, uh, threatened to kill herself in front of her kids. So that's just one 0.50

00:51:57.880 of the not cool things she did. And, uh, I would say that goes well beyond not cool. Uh, that goes

00:52:04.180 into the realm of you do that and you're, you're, it's unsafe to have you around your own kids.

00:52:10.600 Um, now granted that was, uh, many years ago, but, um, it's such things like that incidents like

00:52:17.800 that is what led to the conservatorship in the beginning in the, in the, in the first place.

00:52:21.780 And whether or not you lift the conservatorship is really, it's just a matter of like, is this

00:52:27.280 person now, they were not of unsound, of sound mind before. Um, are they now though of sound

00:52:34.040 mind? Are they able to care for themselves? Are they, uh, are they no longer a danger to

00:52:38.120 themselves and those around them? And I think for a long time, the court said, uh, looked at

00:52:43.460 Britney Spears and said, no, she's still, it's, it's just not safe to leave her to her own devices. 1.00

00:52:51.680 And, uh, then the social media mob had their say, and now she's left her own devices. And I think

00:52:58.320 it's pretty clear that, you know, in this case, the courts were right, right. The first time.

00:53:05.040 Finally, this commenter is offended that I said parenting is harder today than it's ever been

00:53:08.800 in history. Uh, says quote, uh, making that statement is ridiculous. You have no idea what 0.97

00:53:13.520 it was like to raise kids in any other era than today. I wonder what it was like raising

00:53:17.360 children in Roman days. Hmm. St. Monica raising St. Augustine during pagan times. So you're wrong,

00:53:23.220 Matt. Please stop the sniveling. Uh, I think I acknowledge that it's to have lived. I am happy to

00:53:33.640 live now instead of any other point in history for the simple fact that, you know, because I live now

00:53:40.160 and I have six kids, I can be, you know, the barring tragedy. I can be confident that they

00:53:46.640 will make it to adulthood. Um, whereas in the past, you don't have to go that far back into the past.

00:53:52.740 And if you had six kids, like the chance that they would all make it to the altar is very,

00:53:55.540 very slim. And so for that reason alone, I'm happy to live now rather than at any other time

00:54:00.580 in history, but it doesn't change the fact that we have these very unique challenges as,

00:54:07.040 as parents. Um, and you know, the comparison game, it's like, it's, it's pointless anyway,

00:54:12.920 because you're, you live in the time period you live in, you can't compare it to any other time

00:54:16.540 really. But I think it's worthwhile to acknowledge what those challenges are and that there are some

00:54:23.100 really significant challenges parents face now that are actually completely unique in,

00:54:29.580 in the history of human civilization. And prior to recent times, you really couldn't have said that

00:54:35.640 because it's kind of like up until recently, parents, there's kind of like the same basic

00:54:41.360 challenges you face when you're trying to raise your kids and they kind of manifest themselves in

00:54:45.180 different ways as technology changes and culture changes, but it's always kind of like the same thing.

00:54:49.980 But now living in the internet age, when you have these devices in the home and you know,

00:54:57.160 your child, many children have direct access to the entire world and the world has direct access

00:55:04.080 to them. That's just a dynamic that didn't exist at any other point. There's no, there's no parallel

00:55:11.160 here. Like, what does it correlate to? Nothing. And I think it completely changes the game as a parent.

00:55:19.380 And it also does mean that if you raised kids before the internet age, yeah, I mean,

00:55:23.940 there are some insights and wisdom you can offer, but you just don't, you really don't quite

00:55:27.740 understand what it's like now, what the challenges are. You know, is there anything scarier than gender 1.00

00:55:34.760 ideology infecting bedrock American brands and turning them into some insane woke zombie? Well, 0.98

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00:56:11.560 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Vote buying has always been a calling card of most

00:56:22.780 corrupt governments in the world, from Latin America to Nigeria to Zimbabwe. It's a pretty

00:56:26.620 simple transaction. The government gives you cash and you vote for them. This is a familiar territory

00:56:31.400 in the third world. And speaking of the third world, we have a lot of these kinds of schemes in

00:56:35.800 our country. Student loan debt has been at the center of many of these schemes. And the schemes

00:56:41.200 are always incredibly stupid. So for example, three years ago, the government put a pause on 0.99

00:56:45.760 student loan payments because of COVID. For some reason, COVID meant that you shouldn't have to pay

00:56:49.400 your student debt back, even though you still had to pay all of your other types of debt. But student

00:56:53.800 debt was an exception. And Biden, after taking office, proceeded to extend the pause and then extend

00:56:58.460 it again and again and again and again. Until just yesterday, on Sunday, just 24 hours ago,

00:57:02.740 Joe Biden's three-year quasi-loan forgiveness program came to an end. All of a sudden, as of

00:57:08.980 yesterday, tens of millions of people who took out massive loans to pay for their college degrees,

00:57:13.600 whether it was a degree in astrophysics or LGBTQIA plus studies or whatever it was,

00:57:18.760 had to start, once again, making payments on those degrees. You might remember that Joe Biden came out

00:57:24.920 with what was supposed to be a more permanent loan forgiveness plan a few weeks before the last

00:57:31.400 midterm election. He said that the government would permanently forgive, quote unquote,

00:57:36.260 up to $20,000 of federal student loan debt for borrowers. A lot of voters believe that was true,

00:57:42.880 even though the Biden administration knew the plan was never going to hold up in court.

00:57:46.640 You can't just cancel debt. He had no authority to do it. And somebody in the end has to pay for it.

00:57:53.520 That's the reality. And in this case, predictably, several states went to federal court saying that

00:57:57.640 they have their own student loan programs, which were funded by tax dollars. And these states said

00:58:01.720 that they stood to lose a lot of that money if the Biden administration's plan took effect.

00:58:06.780 As the Supreme Court heard arguments on Joe Biden's plan this year, a swarm of blue and purple-haired 1.00

00:58:11.760 activists popped up in Washington, D.C. They made a series of incoherent and, frankly,

00:58:16.820 hilarious arguments in favor of this student loan forgiveness plan. And here's just one of them,

00:58:23.040 for example, watch this. I get paid about $73,000 a year, more than I could have imagined as a young

00:58:29.740 person. I was thrilled to start making a salary after grad school. I thought I'd be rich. And yet,

00:58:37.260 I am still drowning in debt. What's worse is it's considered less than many people's debt,

00:58:43.300 only $30,000. I'm lucky compared to a lot of people to only have $30,000 of debt, which we have

00:58:51.280 to admit is unacceptable, right? Yes. This is absurd. Absurd, yes. Now, if you're paid $73,000 a

00:59:01.220 year, that's a good salary in most of the country. A lot of people maintain households on far less

00:59:05.660 money than this graduate student makes. In fact, she's making more than $10,000 above the median 0.98

00:59:10.120 household income in states like Oklahoma and Louisiana and other states. But no sane person

00:59:15.480 would ever think that $73,000 is ever going to make them rich. Unless you live in the year 1847 or

00:59:21.040 something, $73,000 does not equate to being wealthy. So why would anyone presume that $70,000

00:59:26.040 is somehow going to make them wealthy in the year 2023? And perhaps most disturbingly,

00:59:31.720 how did someone with this level of financial illiteracy manage to earn a graduate degree

00:59:36.300 in the first place? The more you watch that video, the more depressing it gets. Here you have a woman 1.00

00:59:41.100 who earnestly believes that going through the motions and racking up degrees should lead inevitably to

00:59:47.940 wealth, because that's how you get wealthy. You check a bunch of boxes your whole life and you

00:59:51.820 follow orders. You definitely don't innovate. You don't strike out on your own path. You don't do

00:59:56.460 something different. No, you just follow the program. You go to the classes, you get the piece of paper

01:00:01.500 that says degree, and abracadabra, wealth should just appear. This is the expectation. And shockingly for

01:00:08.500 many people, it has not been met. And she's not alone. Here's an NBC News segment from a couple of days

01:00:13.760 ago featuring a salon owner who's really upset that she still owes $4,000 for her community college

01:00:20.040 degree and that now she's going to have to start paying on it. Let's watch that. 1.00

01:00:25.220 After three years of a pandemic pause, federal student loan repayments are set to restart Sunday,

01:00:31.340 three months after the Supreme Court struck down President Biden's student loan forgiveness program.

01:00:36.900 Now many people are facing thousands of dollars of debt, and they say they still have no way of paying

01:00:42.280 it back. NBC News business and data reporter Brian Chum has more.

01:00:48.060 Josie Bridges is a single mom living paycheck to paycheck. It's hard enough dealing with rising 1.00

01:00:52.600 prices at the store. My student payments are sitting right now at about $400 is what they're

01:00:57.300 expecting each month. So I mean, that's my food budget right there. The pandemic freeze on student

01:01:02.200 loan payments allowed Josie to open up her own salon in Portland, Oregon. But with $4,000 in outstanding

01:01:08.020 debt from her community college degree, she says she simply won't be able to make the

01:01:12.120 payments once they resume in October. It's kind of out of my hands at this point. If I can't make

01:01:16.820 it, I can't make it. It's a game changer. The Biden administration's plan to forgive up to $20,000

01:01:22.220 in student debt would have wiped Josie's slate clean. Instead, a challenge from six Republican 1.00

01:01:26.960 states resulted in a Supreme Court decision in June striking down the plan after Josie had already put 0.99

01:01:32.440 thousands of dollars in investments into her salon. I don't know what's going to happen in the future,

01:01:36.840 and that's kind of scary. Now, you know, I'm a big supporter of small businesses. I love it when

01:01:41.880 people go out and do their own thing, start their own businesses, showing that entrepreneurial spirit

01:01:46.620 that once made this country get great. But the message from this report seems to be that Josie

01:01:52.060 took major financial risks on the assumption that the government was just going to wipe away her debt.

01:01:58.000 Unfortunately, the magic debt forgiveness fairy never arrived, and now she's stuck paying back the

01:02:03.200 money that she decided to borrow in the first place. So it's hard to think of a better illustration

01:02:07.080 of the fact that this pause on student loans was a self-defeating and ridiculous and pointless policy.

01:02:14.420 You know, it's the quintessential example of the government kicking the can down the road,

01:02:18.080 which is the only thing they ever do. In response, predictably enough, many college grads

01:02:24.300 kick the can down the road also. It's not like most of them have spent the intervening years

01:02:29.460 saving money, whether it's because of Biden's terrible economy or inflation or their own

01:02:35.360 reckless spending habits or some combination of these factors. Many of these college grads

01:02:39.020 are now in the same spot they were in when the pause took effect, if not an even worse spot.

01:02:43.880 Now the unpause button is pushed and nothing was accomplished. They're still broke and they're

01:02:48.860 desperate for more handouts. Social media right now is ripe with videos from people panicking that they

01:02:54.620 have to pay back their loans again. Many of them have advanced degrees. Some of them have

01:02:58.580 multiple bachelor degrees. They've spent years and years and years accumulating degrees

01:03:03.840 and now the bill is due and they're demanding that somebody wave the magic wand and make it all go

01:03:09.160 away. And of course, what is the magic wand? Well, the magic wand is someone else's bank account

01:03:14.240 because there is no loan forgiveness. There is only loan transfer and they want their loans transferred

01:03:21.740 from them to you. As I've argued for many years, this idea is flagrantly immoral. It's evil,

01:03:29.000 you know, and it makes no sense. If it's somehow unjust to expect a college graduate to pay his own

01:03:35.260 loans, then it is self-evidently much more unjust to expect someone else to pay his loans.

01:03:43.000 Like someone has to pay the debt and it only makes sense that the guy who owns the debt should pay it.

01:03:48.220 So everyone, I think, intuitively understands this point when it comes to most types of debt,

01:03:54.480 but college debt is somehow treated as an exception. That's because the whole scheme is

01:03:59.380 just a form of upper class welfare. Most student loan debt is held by high wealth households. More

01:04:04.240 than 60% of it is held by the rich and the upper class. People with graduate degrees account for a

01:04:08.620 half of all student debt. So these are, for the most part, upper class people. And they are looking to

01:04:16.080 get bailed out and the bailout would inevitably come, in many cases, from people who have less

01:04:22.520 money than they do. And while college grads try to reach their hands into your pocket to take your

01:04:28.580 money to pay off their loans, the real villains in this story get off the hook completely. Villains

01:04:33.260 like the university system itself, which is charging these exorbitant fees for what often turns out to

01:04:37.480 be a useless education. These universities operate like hedge funds, but they're taxed like charities.

01:04:42.760 They've been raising tuition for decades with the help of federally backed loans. And

01:04:46.640 when the students default on those loans, the university owes nothing. The student or the

01:04:51.040 taxpayers have to pay. We've also been letting employers off the hook, as I pointed out many

01:04:55.540 times, you know, we rarely blame them for needlessly requiring a degree for jobs that can just as easily

01:05:00.680 be done by people without them. Corporate America and the education system, they have created this

01:05:05.640 problem, yet they get none of the blame and the working class is expected to pick up the bill. It's a tale 0.99

01:05:11.140 as old as time. How many entry-level consultants or government bureaucrats really need a $200,000 0.72

01:05:17.780 bachelor's degree to work, you know, an Excel spreadsheet and send some emails? It's absurd.

01:05:24.700 And that last point is the thing that I think is rarely mentioned in the student debt conversation,

01:05:29.080 even though it's the most important point of all. As we see all these college grads weeping over their

01:05:33.780 loan burden, and it is indeed an enormous burden, we rarely state the obvious, which is that most of

01:05:39.200 these people never should have gone to college to begin with. We have people running around with

01:05:45.420 multiple degrees who never needed one. There are people with master's degrees who could have been

01:05:51.400 just as successful, if not more successful, with nothing but a high school diploma. Now, yes, as

01:05:58.020 already covered, some employers have created a sort of artificial demand for a degree, which means that

01:06:02.580 if you don't go to college, you will not be eligible for those jobs, even though you can actually,

01:06:06.720 you actually are more than eligible, like you could do them, but artificially they're saying that you

01:06:11.860 can't get in the door because you don't have the degree. But there are many other career paths that

01:06:16.440 you can venture down where nobody cares if you have a degree. I am more financially successful than most

01:06:21.860 people with doctorates, and my highest level of formal education is 12th grade. So it is possible

01:06:27.480 to find success without a college degree. I know that from experience. Now, I'm not denying the hurdles

01:06:33.900 that you'll find in your path if you decide to skip college and free yourself from the scam. I also

01:06:38.500 know about those hurdles from experience as well, but the only real long-term solution to the student

01:06:43.700 loan crisis, the only way to put an end to this lunacy, the only path out of this wilderness is for the

01:06:51.980 majority of young people to abandon the university system entirely. That is the only way, and it's the one 0.98

01:06:56.820 thing that we don't talk about when we have this conversation. I've been screaming it from the rooftops

01:07:01.700 forever, but more people need to join in the chorus or nothing's going to get better.

01:07:09.400 Because until that happens, until we see millions of young people going, just bypassing the university

01:07:17.120 system completely, they graduate high school and they bypass the system completely and they go out

01:07:21.760 and they live their lives and they get jobs and they do something else. Until that happens, tuition will

01:07:27.320 not go down at all. It's only going to go up because there's no incentive for it to go down.

01:07:33.540 The university, why would they lower tuition? They know that parents are going to shuffle their

01:07:38.600 kids into the colleges anyway. They know that you'll pay anything. And so they're going to keep

01:07:43.940 raising the tuition. There's no incentive. And corporate America will continue needlessly demanding 0.78

01:07:49.740 degrees for jobs that a well-trained monkey could perform. Because again, they have no incentive to

01:07:54.960 stop demanding it. As long as we go along with the program, the program will not change. That's the

01:08:00.820 simple reality. If people reject the program and they reject the programming, the student debt crisis

01:08:08.040 will eventually become a moot point, a thing of the past. This is really the only path forward.

01:08:15.660 And it's the only way that we will really ever be able to say that the student debt problem is

01:08:21.800 canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:08:27.060 Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 02, 2023

Ep. 1234 - We Are A Nation Run By Imbeciles

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