An American man in Panama is in jail today after shooting and killing two climate protesters who were blocking traffic on a highway. Plus, the Vatican says that trans people can be godparents, and a prominent comedian makes the case for reparations. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:00.120Today on the Matt Walsh Show, an American man in Panama is in jail today after shooting and killing two climate protesters who were blocking traffic on the highway.
00:00:07.280We'll discuss that story. Also, another GOP debate last night. Who won? Who lost? Does any of it matter?
00:00:13.060Try to figure that out. Plus, the Vatican says that trans people can be godparents, and a prominent comedian makes the case for reparations.
00:00:19.560We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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00:03:45.200Nor do they remotely understand how to persuade others to join their cause because they're just alienating people all the time.
00:03:51.380And they're generally hopelessly deluded.
00:03:54.200But the truth, which nobody wants to say out loud for some reason, is that these climate activists are not simply nuisances.
00:04:01.260They are instead, in many cases, a mortal threat to sane people everywhere.
00:04:06.240They are enemies of civilization who endanger the lives of innocents.
00:04:09.580If you don't believe that, or if you think it sounds too extreme, consider this story from 24 hours ago, which corporate media in the United States has not covered at all.
00:04:18.100As The Telegraph reported, the group Just Stop Oil gathered at London's Waterloo Bridge, where they blocked an ambulance carrying a patient with a life-or-death injury.
00:04:28.900Life-or-death injury, that's quotes, by the way.
00:04:31.200That's what we're being told by officials.
00:04:53.060You also see the police sort of casually standing there and taking their time, getting the people off the street.
00:04:59.940Now, according to The Telegraph, in this episode, quote, an ambulance arrived with blue lights and sirens, but was held up in traffic for 10 minutes.
00:05:07.480The driver of the ambulance told The Telegraph, I'm responding to a life-and-death emergency.
00:05:12.240I'm going to pick up a team from Guy's Hospital to save someone's life at another hospital, but I can't get through.
00:05:18.100So even though they took this kind of lackadaisical approach, everyone's just sitting around, the cops are taking their time, there's actually some urgency to this situation.
00:05:34.540So as The Telegraph reported, the ambulance driver, quote, pleaded with police officers to let him through on multiple occasions as he became increasingly angry.
00:05:41.700Officers said they were working to let him through as quickly as they could as activists lay on the ground.
00:05:47.140In this case, as far as I can tell, the patient in the ambulance survived, thankfully.
00:05:54.520How many reports have you heard about climate activists tossing paint in museums?
00:05:59.420Why is the media reporting about that and not the people these climate activists nearly killed?
00:06:03.640It's worth answering that question, especially since, unfortunately, people have died during and perhaps because of these unhinged climate protests.
00:06:10.720Here's one example which also received basically zero attention from our media.
00:06:14.120A year ago this month, a cyclist in Berlin died after climate activists prevented her from getting to the hospital.
00:06:20.860As the BBC reported, the 44-year-old woman was hit by a concrete truck and a cement truck.
00:06:27.160And then, quote, the fire service says a specialist rescue vehicle was delayed by traffic because of a climate protest held by a group called Last Generation.
00:06:34.900A senior Green Party figure condemned the climate protest after the woman's death, saying, quote,
00:06:40.800anyone who risks the health and life of others loses all legitimacy and also harms the climate movement itself.
00:06:46.080Now, what's left unsaid here and what really needs to be said is that anyone who blocks traffic is risking the health and life of others.
00:06:53.900They are guilty of reckless endangerment at a minimum and murder if somebody dies as a result of their little blockade.
00:07:01.080It is a little different morally from, you know, someone who goes outside and starts firing a gun into the air at random targets.
00:07:08.360Now, maybe they won't hit anyone, maybe they aren't trying to hit anybody, but they are doing something incredibly reckless with total disregard for the damage it may cause.
00:07:18.520But that's not how these people are being treated.
00:07:20.760Instead, with very few exceptions, police officers are allowing climate activists to blockade roads with total impunity.
00:07:26.920That's been happening in Panama for the past three weeks.
00:07:29.960As a Daily Mail reports, quote, roadblocks set up by protesters have caused up to $80 million in daily losses to businesses, according to Panama's Association of Company Executives, with schools closed nationwide for over a week and more than 150,000 medical appointments missed.
00:07:46.220These protesters are blocking a major thoroughfare, the Pan American Highway, roughly 50 miles west of Panama City.
00:07:51.740The point of this protest, apparently, is that Panama's government signed a deal with a Canadian company giving them 20 years' worth of mining rights.
00:08:02.080Whatever the motivation is, this is clearly putting people's lives in danger, the blockades.
00:08:07.720When more than 100,000 medical appointments are being missed and businesses are suffering $80 million in losses per day, then you're engaging in a violent protest.
00:08:21.740On top of that, store owners who lose money every day are going to be forced to make up that revenue in some other way, which might expose them to personal risk that we can't possibly account for.
00:08:31.280This is what happens when the rule of law breaks down.
00:08:34.840That's why the rule of law is so important.
00:08:37.320But for whatever reason, authorities in Panama never did clear this blockade at any point in the past three weeks.
00:08:42.980They allowed these protesters to prevent people from accessing medical care, from getting to their jobs, from getting anywhere else they wanted to go.
00:09:37.360No, in fact, the only thing really surprising about Kenneth Darlington's reaction is that he's the first person to react this way in the face of a completely unreasonable, sustained blockade of a road that thousands of people depend on for their livelihoods.
00:09:51.840We've seen suggestions that people have had enough of this kind of thing, to be sure.
00:09:56.660A few weeks ago, for example, a tribal cop in Nevada plowed through one of these climate blockades, made some arrests, didn't harm anybody.
00:10:05.200And for a very long time, left-wing protesters have been doing this kind of thing.
00:10:08.680They've been harassing, accosting, intentionally inconveniencing and interfering with normal people trying to go about their day.
00:10:14.120And even if it is just an inconvenience, you hear that sometimes as a defense of these people that are in the highways.
00:10:20.400Well, it's just an inconvenience to you.
00:10:22.980Well, as we covered, oftentimes it's a lot more than an inconvenience.
00:10:28.060But even if it is just an inconvenience, who says that you can deliberately cause a massive inconvenience for anybody you want to?
00:10:37.460And if you do that, eventually you might get a reaction that you don't want.
00:10:42.340You can't just expect that everybody, you can just walk out there and inconvenience everybody just for the sake of it, and they're all going to put up with it.
00:10:53.180But we know they've obstructed ambulances, other emergency vehicles, they've vandalized and destroyed.
00:10:57.340They've intentionally added stress, hostility, and ugliness to the world.
00:11:02.740Now, to be clear, nothing I'm saying is intended to endorse Darlington's actions.
00:11:06.060The point here is not to encourage anyone else to respond the way he did.
00:11:10.160I wish those people were never in the road to begin with.
00:11:13.180I wish that when Darlington pulled that gun, they responded like sane people and realized they'd pushed this man too far and simply gotten out of the road, where they had no right to be in the first place.
00:11:23.100That's what makes, if there's anything shocking in the video, actually, it's that he pulls that gun out and points it at them, and they still stand there.
00:11:31.980Even with the gun out, they don't get out of the road.
00:11:37.620So I wish it had played out differently, but it didn't.
00:11:41.800Instead, what I'm saying is that it was always inevitable that something like this would happen eventually.
00:11:47.000The ruling class could only suspend law enforcement for so long and so arbitrarily until a Kenneth Darlington appears and takes matters into his own hands.
00:11:55.620And now that this precise scenario has happened, I'm betting it won't be the last time.
00:12:00.380People are increasingly fed up and exhausted.
00:12:03.160Even the response to this incident on social media shows that.
00:12:07.120These leftist protesters are intentionally pushing people to the brink.
00:12:10.640And regardless of your politics, you can hopefully agree that's not a smart thing to do.
00:12:15.980It's an especially dumb thing to do on a highway.
00:12:19.080Road rage incidents, pretty common all over the world.
00:12:21.840People get stressed out in traffic, unreasonably so.
00:12:24.940Often they lash out and do drastic things.
00:12:27.140That's why it's a really bad idea to, you know, flip somebody off in traffic because you're mad that they cut you off or whatever.
00:12:35.100You don't know what kind of day they're having.
00:12:37.820You don't know what kind of life they're having.
00:12:39.520You don't know how on edge, how fed up, how completely and totally done with your bull**** they might possibly be.
00:12:47.380Now, that's not to say that you deserve to have them pull up beside you and open fire.
00:12:52.620You don't deserve to be killed for waving your middle finger around.
00:12:56.860But if that's the response you get, it can't be denied that you could have easily avoided it by making better choices in the moment.
00:13:02.600And now imagine blocking an entire road full of traffic and effectively giving the middle finger to hundreds of stressed out commuters all at once who are just trying to get home from work or get to wherever else they're going.
00:22:36.680The fact of the matter is Democrats are on TikTok today.
00:22:39.620The only person, one of the few people who is putting up content the way the actual algorithms work, speaking for pro-Israel views or others.
00:25:22.380You know, the people that are out there killing babies and butchering children and castrating kids.
00:25:27.280Like, has she ever called any of them scum?
00:25:28.920And it also shows, by the way, that if you get that rattled, I mean, if you're that rattled and you get that emotional because somebody makes some point about TikTok, then you're not cut out for them.
00:26:39.580If that's true, then how can you say that in one breath and then in the next breath tell us that it is imperative for the United States to help Israel?
00:26:49.060I thought you said they don't need us.
00:27:20.620This is not how people talk about their own countries.
00:27:23.760This is a uniquely modern American phenomenon.
00:27:27.060It's like a sickness, a mental sickness where some of our leaders or would-be leaders profess greater admiration and love for and pride in foreign countries than their own.
00:27:41.220Again, you don't, you go especially anywhere outside of the, you know, outside of the Western world in particular, and you're not going to ever hear this kind of thing.
00:28:34.240I mean, since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave that never came.
00:28:43.340We got trounced last night in 2023, and I think that we have to have accountability in our party.
00:28:50.080For that matter, Ronna, if you want to come on stage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will turn over my, yield my time to you.
00:28:57.960And frankly, look, the people there cheering for losing in the Republican Party.
00:29:01.520Think about who's moderating this debate.
00:29:03.920This should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk.
00:29:07.100We'd have 10 times the viewership asking questions that GOP primary voters actually care about and bringing more people into our party.
00:29:14.440Do you think the Democrats, and we've got Kristen Welker here, do you think the Democrats would actually hire Greg Gutfeld to host a Democratic debate?
00:29:23.580And so the fact of the matter is, I mean, Kristen, I'm going to use this time because this is actually about you in the media and the corrupt media establishment.
00:29:29.740Ask you the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that you pushed on this network for years.
00:29:34.360Was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made up disinformation?
00:51:57.140Okay, I want to remind you that it was not all that long ago.
00:52:01.040It was not all that long ago that we would have insisted, that I was told, that it was insisted to me by many people,
00:52:07.360including many of these same people saying this about abortion now, that the trans issue is a losing issue.
00:52:11.920Okay, it's a losing issue culturally, it's a losing issue legislatively.
00:52:18.480As recently as three or four years ago, I was told that.
00:52:21.480Fast forward three or four years, and what do you find?
00:52:24.980You find legislative victories on this issue all over the country.
00:52:29.040You find state after state banning child mutilation, and you find that the culture has shifted also on this issue.
00:52:37.960The polls, the surveys, and all that bear it out, but you don't even need polls and surveys.
00:52:41.540It's pretty clear that many in the public are now awakened to the insanity of allowing men and women sports and, you know, foisting this sort of thing on children.
00:52:56.880So, but there was a time when I was told that that's all impossible.
00:53:00.960We've lost the issues, no point in fighting on it.
00:53:02.900And now many of those same people are saying, well, you can't win this issue, you can't win.
00:53:08.480So, you know, it's just, this is the theme, right?
00:53:10.620You've got people on the right who this is all they ever do.
00:54:43.340So, if there's a losing approach to this issue, it can't be that Republicans are too hard line because they haven't been.
00:54:52.980The losing approach is, in fact, what has the approach that we've seen on this issue for years now, which is to be defensive, to treat it like you're afraid of it, you're afraid of the issue.
00:55:37.400So, it's really just a choice of, I mean, there is no flip we can, there's no switch we can flip to just make the issue go away entirely so that it's not happening.
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00:58:14.140Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:58:15.460Today for our daily cancellation, we turn to the comedian Cat Williams, who it may shock you to learn still exists, or it may shock you to learn that he ever existed.
00:58:29.240He was a relatively popular comedian back 20 years ago or so.