The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1277 - Hell No, We Will Not End The Bud Light Boycott

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's a sudden push by some prominent voices on the right to end the Bud Light boycott and support the company again.

00:00:06.700 I think this would be a massive mistake. I'll explain today why the Bud Light boycott needs to remain in place.

00:00:11.740 Also, a satanic altar has been set up inside the Iowa Statehouse. What the hell's going on there?

00:00:17.540 And a controversial abortion case in Texas has Ann Coulter siding with the left. What the hell's going on with that?

00:00:23.020 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 We'll be right back.

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00:01:44.640 Well, if you're on the right, then you know that the phrase, this is why we lose, has become something of a cliche these days.

00:01:52.180 Anytime anyone on our side does anything we don't like, we're bound to declare, this is why we lose,

00:01:57.100 as if that person is now a symbol for America's cultural decline.

00:02:00.840 And in many cases, the this is why we lose charge can be off base or at least overwrought and overstated.

00:02:06.940 But not always.

00:02:09.320 And so today, we begin with an actual case of this is why we lose.

00:02:14.420 So for the past few days, there has been, seemingly out of nowhere, a full court press by some on the right to rehabilitate Bud Light

00:02:21.580 and to convince conservatives to drop the boycott of the company.

00:02:26.140 Now, we know that some notable figures on this side of the aisle were never on board with the boycott in the first place.

00:02:31.440 Famously, Donald Trump Jr. defended the beer maker from the very beginning, saying that Bud Light is on our side despite appearances

00:02:38.220 and we shouldn't punish them for their brief foray into trans propaganda.

00:02:43.140 But Trump Jr. and others in that orbit were alone originally in their pro-Bud Light stance, at least for many months, until just now.

00:02:51.560 This week, both UFC President Dana White and Kid Rock have both appeared in interviews with Tucker Carlson

00:02:58.900 to declare that they have renewed support for Bud Light.

00:03:04.140 And some other prominent voices, like Tim Pool, have come out to defend that position.

00:03:08.980 Now, in fairness to those guys, we're going to go through these clips one by one

00:03:13.820 so that you can hear their arguments for yourself before I explain why they're totally wrong.

00:03:18.760 But first, here's Dana White. Listen.

00:03:21.560 If you consider yourself a patriot, right, you're a patriot, you should be drinking gallons of Bud Light.

00:03:27.900 Believe me when I tell you.

00:03:29.220 Wait, wait, wait. I should be boycotting Bud Light.

00:03:32.860 Gallons of Bud Light.

00:03:34.160 You should have Bud Light drums stacked up in your garage and drinking it right out of the keg.

00:03:39.560 They are way more aligned with you than most of these other beer companies are.

00:03:43.880 That I guarantee you.

00:03:44.980 Take it from somebody who's in the know, who does business with beer companies.

00:03:49.320 You are way more aligned with Bud Light than you are with any other beer company.

00:03:53.420 So I'm assuming, I mean, they didn't come into partnership with you by accident.

00:03:55.980 No.

00:03:56.720 Obviously.

00:03:57.240 We had multiple bidders on the table.

00:03:59.360 Did they seek you out?

00:04:00.140 We had multiple bidders on the table.

00:04:01.960 They were one of them.

00:04:03.200 And as I, you know, history has shown me with relationships that I've had with other beer companies.

00:04:08.860 I, who lean more this way, I, who consider myself a patriot, I don't go crazy over the whole patriot thing, but I consider myself a proud American.

00:04:19.040 I'm happy to be an American.

00:04:20.080 I love this country.

00:04:21.300 And you are way more aligned with Anheuser-Busch than you are with other beer companies.

00:04:26.460 Now, I'll have plenty to say about the thrust of Dana's arguments after we play all the clips, but I do want to point out one thing right away.

00:04:34.940 Bud Light is a brand owned by a foreign conglomerate.

00:04:38.380 So putting everything else aside, it's very hard to make the case that it's patriotic to support a foreign company.

00:04:44.900 Now, I'm not saying that we can't support foreign-owned brands.

00:04:47.680 After all, that's most brands.

00:04:49.260 I'm just saying that it's hard to cast your support for a Belgian multinational corporation as patriotic.

00:04:57.780 But we'll get back to Dana's point in a moment.

00:04:59.500 First, here's Kid Rock, also with Tucker a day later, agreeing with Dana and echoing a lot of the same sentiments.

00:05:05.980 Watch.

00:05:07.200 I think it could be.

00:05:08.500 I think they got some work still to get, you know, some of that base that they lost.

00:05:12.540 I think to get them back.

00:05:13.980 Like, you know, I've said a few times, I'd love to see them get triple fratty.

00:05:17.400 Yeah.

00:05:17.600 Like, hit it head on, kind of make light of the situation, self-deprecation, you know.

00:05:22.640 But, you know, at the end of the day, when you step back and look at it, like, yeah, they deserved a black eye and they got one.

00:05:28.640 They made a mistake.

00:05:29.460 How did you know?

00:05:30.280 You moved so fast on that.

00:05:32.300 I mean, a lot of things going on.

00:05:33.560 It was like a lot of people just pissed me off.

00:05:35.340 I was, and I kept, you know, I keep a lot of beer on the property, a lot of light beer.

00:05:39.580 Bud Light was one of them.

00:05:41.160 And I was like, I know who my consumers are.

00:05:44.760 So I was just doing a little marketing to my folks.

00:05:46.680 You know, it was spot on for me, but also a fun excuse to get my machine gun out and have some fun.

00:05:51.600 But also to make a statement like, hey, a lot of us aren't cool with this.

00:05:54.900 You know, I believe a lot of people fought and died for people's right to be whoever they want.

00:05:58.820 But when you're that type of brand, you know who you consumers are.

00:06:02.120 You know how this kind of started, I think?

00:06:03.860 I thought about it.

00:06:04.500 They moved part of their corporate offices from St. Louis to New York City.

00:06:08.220 Yeah, they did.

00:06:08.600 Okay.

00:06:09.420 Then they start hiring these Ivy League progressive, you know, people to work for them who don't know about working class people or middle America and this country.

00:06:18.340 Unhappy women, yeah. 1.00

00:06:19.240 And so somebody wasn't watching the hen house.

00:06:21.140 They're riding high and mighty as number one and a fox gets in.

00:06:24.240 Yes, it was a mistake.

00:06:25.200 So do I want to hold their head underwater and drown them because they made a mistake?

00:06:29.240 No, I think they got the message.

00:06:30.700 Like, hopefully other companies get it too.

00:06:32.700 But, you know, at the end of the day, I don't think the punishment that they've been getting at this point fits the crime.

00:06:37.660 It's like I would like to see people get us back on board and become bigger because that's the America I want to live in.

00:06:45.040 Now, many people, myself certainly included, have found that Kid Rock's reasoning here is less than compelling.

00:06:51.880 But Tim Poole thinks that we're all missing the point.

00:06:54.060 And here's the way that he sees it.

00:06:56.200 Listen, we find ourselves at a crossroads.

00:07:00.380 Do we lament Kid Rock and Dana White in their support for Bud Light?

00:07:07.180 I mean, Kid Rock coming out and saying this, he's effectively ending the boycott, at least as it pertains to him, not to you.

00:07:12.980 And my position, we talked about this a great deal yesterday, is that we should take a PR victory, declare victory, and that's it.

00:07:22.460 We won.

00:07:23.160 But there are many people who are calling for the destruction of Bud Light as a brand.

00:07:29.020 They say never again.

00:07:31.340 Others say I will drink a Bud Light, but only when they apologize.

00:07:35.740 Now, my argument, I would say, is substantially more tactful and less emotionally satisfying.

00:07:42.540 But I agree with Kid Rock and I agree with Dana White.

00:07:45.820 But more importantly, I agree with Sean Strickland.

00:07:49.680 The big move came when Dana White accepted a massive sponsorship deal from Bud Light to the tune of $105 million.

00:07:56.480 Many of us were very upset about this.

00:07:58.480 We said, why are you accepting money from this company that got woke, went broke, and continues to sponsor Pride events?

00:08:04.620 Well, of course, Dana White said, you know, we're going to take the money.

00:08:09.980 It's the best deal ever, blah, blah, blah.

00:08:11.980 Sean Strickland, MMA champion, said, Bud Light is now sponsoring everything I say.

00:08:19.160 And then he went off to say a whole bunch of anti-woke things.

00:08:22.380 And I like it.

00:08:24.480 I think he's right.

00:08:25.660 At first, I thought he was wrong.

00:08:27.820 I thought these people were all selling out.

00:08:29.120 But then I listened to what Sean had to say, and I realized he flipped the script.

00:08:33.300 He inverted the narrative on Bud Light.

00:08:35.920 And Bud Light has not condemned him.

00:08:38.460 And that is, my friends, a tremendous victory.

00:08:42.800 OK, now, before I explain why this is all horribly wrong, let me begin by stipulating that I like all these guys.

00:08:49.460 I like Dana White, Kid Rock.

00:08:50.740 Tim Pool's show is great.

00:08:51.640 I like him personally.

00:08:52.720 I'm obviously a huge fan and supporter of Tucker Carlson.

00:08:54.980 I think he's one of the most important voices in the country right now.

00:08:58.280 But the Bud Light boycott is still on.

00:09:01.840 And let me explain why.

00:09:04.260 Bud Light, the foreign-owned brand, tried to push trans ideology.

00:09:10.320 It spat in the face of its own customers.

00:09:12.720 And for once in our lives, for once ever in modern American history,

00:09:17.540 conservatives fought back in an organized, competent, effective way.

00:09:22.180 We organized a boycott.

00:09:23.620 We stuck with it.

00:09:25.440 We actually made the woke company feel the pain.

00:09:29.820 We imposed our will in a way that conservatives have never been able to do ever.

00:09:34.460 The Bud Light boycott is by far, and it's not close, the most effective conservative boycott of a major company ever, of all time.

00:09:43.620 There isn't even a close second.

00:09:44.940 What's second place?

00:09:45.620 There isn't a second place.

00:09:46.420 In fact, I think it's fair to say that it's not just the most effective, but actually the only successful boycott we have ever staged.

00:09:54.960 So we'd have to have a very compelling strategic reason to end this one single successful boycott campaign ever.

00:10:04.240 We would have to have extracted some kind of major concession.

00:10:09.440 But what concession have they made?

00:10:12.220 They gave Dana White $100 million?

00:10:14.600 So what?

00:10:15.120 That's not a concession.

00:10:17.360 That's not an apology.

00:10:18.240 That's a marketing ploy.

00:10:20.520 Are we going to end the Bud Light boycott and start giving them our money because we like their new marketing plan?

00:10:28.120 That would not be us ending a boycott victoriously.

00:10:31.640 That would be a retreat.

00:10:34.000 It would be the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

00:10:38.460 Something that the right does very often, but never as egregiously empathetic as this.

00:10:42.800 And by the way, if they gave $100 million to like some kind of de-trans fund, that would be one thing.

00:10:51.500 But why would giving $100 million to Dana White, why would we consider that to be sufficient?

00:11:00.380 Oh, you push trans ideology and we're mad at you for that. 1.00

00:11:04.820 But you gave $100 million to the guy who owns the UFC.

00:11:07.500 So therefore, it's okay.

00:11:09.800 What?

00:11:11.320 There's no, what's even the connection?

00:11:13.480 Dana White is not a victim of trans ideology.

00:11:16.320 He's not affected by it.

00:11:17.560 If you give $100 million to the actual victims of this insidious, insane, depraved ideology that you were pushing, give them $100 million, then I would say, yeah, okay, that's an apology.

00:11:33.620 A big one.

00:11:36.380 Giving it to UFC?

00:11:39.400 Who gives a damn?

00:11:40.720 Why would that matter to us?

00:11:42.180 Why would we find that to be an acceptable substitute?

00:11:49.820 Now, I do agree that any boycott campaign, you know, with any boycott campaign, you need to give companies an out.

00:11:56.360 You have to give them a way to get back into your good graces.

00:11:58.920 The whole point of a boycott is that you're withholding support in order to extract some kind of concession.

00:12:04.400 So at least in theory, there should be like something that they can do that would make you not mad anymore.

00:12:08.780 And if you get the concession, then you win.

00:12:11.820 And if you don't get the concession, and the company is just destroyed, then you win that way too.

00:12:18.020 And so far, we're winning the second way.

00:12:21.200 Bud Light betrayed its customers.

00:12:22.720 It has not conceded defeat.

00:12:24.080 It has not apologized at all.

00:12:27.840 And so at this point, the entire company is basically in shambles.

00:12:32.060 So be it.

00:12:34.180 What can Bud Light do to get out of this?

00:12:36.720 What is their out?

00:12:37.820 Well, they would need to apologize for pushing transgenderism. 1.00

00:12:43.260 They would need to apologize specifically and explicitly.

00:12:48.460 They would need to grovel at our feet in humiliating fashion and disavow gender ideology entirely. 1.00

00:12:57.220 They would need to say, we are sorry for pushing trans ideology. 0.84

00:13:00.920 We shouldn't have done it.

00:13:01.800 It's a terrible thing.

00:13:03.540 Please forgive us.

00:13:04.520 That's what they would have to do.

00:13:09.120 They have not done that.

00:13:10.880 They refuse to do that.

00:13:12.300 Instead, they're hoping that they can simply change the subject.

00:13:15.040 But a change of subject is not a concession.

00:13:17.200 It's not an apology.

00:13:18.200 It's a trick, a gimmick, a diversion tactic.

00:13:20.680 If we fall for it, then we deserve to lose.

00:13:24.660 We deserve everything that's coming.

00:13:28.380 Here's the point.

00:13:29.180 If you're boycotting a company and demanding some kind of concession, and you don't get the concession, and then you back down anyway, you lose.

00:13:41.520 You have taken your victory and traded it in in exchange for a defeat.

00:13:45.840 You have said, no thanks.

00:13:47.340 I'd rather not win.

00:13:48.020 I'll take a loss instead.

00:13:48.840 That's what it would be to start supporting Bud Light now.

00:13:52.680 They haven't apologized.

00:13:53.760 They haven't conceded.

00:13:55.860 So screw them.

00:13:57.300 Let them wither and die.

00:13:58.580 Let their brand destroy itself.

00:13:59.820 Let it burn.

00:14:00.320 I don't care.

00:14:03.140 What are we feeling?

00:14:04.280 Sorry for them?

00:14:05.140 Oh, but I feel so bad for that poor multinational foreign conglomerate.

00:14:12.360 No, I don't.

00:14:13.860 They get what they've chosen.

00:14:15.700 It's what they've chosen.

00:14:16.700 It's what they get.

00:14:17.260 Unless we decide to bail them out because we don't have the stomach to fight the culture war like wars need to be fought.

00:14:28.340 You know, this is part of the pitch from guys like Dana White and Kid Rock.

00:14:31.860 Seems to be a call for some sort of weird sort of mercy.

00:14:35.760 And I've even seen some on the right arguing that we're called as Christians to forgive Bud Light for their transgressions.

00:14:43.400 And yes, that's an actual argument I've seen from more than one person.

00:14:47.260 But fighting back against culture rot, fighting back against the people who are deliberately injecting perversion and moral insanity into our culture, fighting against the corporate overlords behind all of this.

00:14:58.300 Okay, that's not a time for mercy.

00:15:02.260 These are not homeless, starving people on the street who need a helping hand.

00:15:05.640 They are mega billion dollar corporations who are selling degeneracy for profit.

00:15:10.520 And if you manage to get your foot on one of their necks, you keep it there.

00:15:19.120 You have no mercy until they grovel and beg and do exactly what you demand that they do.

00:15:25.940 Just like the left.

00:15:29.400 That's how the left responds in situations like this.

00:15:34.880 And again, if we are not willing to do that, if we are not willing to be ruthless,

00:15:39.720 if we will allow ourselves to be paid off, then there's no hope.

00:15:46.660 I mean, we'll never win this war.

00:15:48.140 And we won't deserve to win it anyway.

00:15:49.700 Keep in mind that the significance of the Bud Light boycott and the whole strategy behind it

00:15:56.000 is that we have made this company into a cautionary tale.

00:16:01.400 You know, the whole point was to put its head on a spike on the edge of town as a warning to others.

00:16:07.000 It's a trophy for the mantle.

00:16:08.280 We want to show corporate America that this is what we will do.

00:16:11.480 This is what we are capable of doing and willing to do if you spit in our face the way that Bud Light did.

00:16:17.380 But if we just put a dent in their sales for a couple of quarters, get no apology or concession at all,

00:16:23.260 then go back to supporting them, we'll have taken their head off of the spike and put our own on it instead. 0.95

00:16:31.420 Because we will have sent a very different kind of message to corporate America.

00:16:34.820 We will have shown them that we're not willing to go for the kill shot.

00:16:39.080 That ultimately, we'll always come crawling back pathetically with our tails between our legs.

00:16:45.160 That ultimately, all we care about is, more than anything, is being consumers.

00:16:51.720 And we'll always be loyal, you know, trained puppies as consumers.

00:16:58.120 We'll always come back.

00:17:00.660 We'll always come back to the feeding bowl.

00:17:03.100 But, you know, what's happening now is even worse.

00:17:05.180 Because this is not just an effort to end the Bud Light boycott.

00:17:07.940 This is an effort to actively rehabilitate their brand for them.

00:17:14.160 Because the truth is that, you know, the boycott, this is not really even a boycott anymore.

00:17:21.260 It's worse than that for Bud Light.

00:17:22.880 The problem has metastasized.

00:17:25.220 We didn't just boycott the company.

00:17:26.800 We rebranded it.

00:17:28.080 So the brand itself now is seen as lame, effeminate, embarrassing.

00:17:35.280 Even people who don't care about the boycott or are only dimly aware of it,

00:17:39.560 even they avoid drinking Bud Light just because they don't want to get made fun of by their friends.

00:17:45.020 That's why Bud Light is in such a dire situation.

00:17:47.280 So even if we officially ended the boycott, it wouldn't necessarily matter because the brand is lame now.

00:17:54.680 Customers don't want to be associated with it.

00:17:57.780 Which means that to really end the boycott, we would have to revitalize and repair Bud Light's brand for them.

00:18:05.940 Which is what the Dana Whites and Kid Rocks of the world seem to be trying to do.

00:18:09.820 So this is like declaring victory in a war, accepting your enemy's surrender,

00:18:13.080 and then proceeding to give them back all the land you gained.

00:18:18.540 You're not just ending the war in that case.

00:18:20.480 You are actively forfeiting your own gains.

00:18:23.980 You aren't just letting your enemy bow out.

00:18:26.760 You're helping them repair the damage they caused themselves.

00:18:32.560 Why would we do that?

00:18:34.460 Why should we?

00:18:36.660 What do we gain?

00:18:37.640 I know UFC gains $100 million.

00:18:39.540 Good for them.

00:18:41.020 But what about the rest of us?

00:18:42.540 What about the movement?

00:18:43.500 What about the culture?

00:18:45.320 What do we get out of this mercy?

00:18:49.720 All the conservatives I see online, and there's plenty of them,

00:18:53.760 who are saying, oh no, they gave $100 million to UFC.

00:18:56.280 What the hell do you get out of that?

00:18:58.840 What does your family get out of it?

00:19:02.740 What about your children?

00:19:04.260 That's what this is really about, isn't it?

00:19:06.000 The people that are pushing this insanity onto a culture that our children have to live in.

00:19:10.800 Does that become better now because UFC got some money?

00:19:15.820 What the hell is wrong with you?

00:19:17.340 Have some self-respect.

00:19:20.100 And on top of it all, you know what?

00:19:21.860 It has to be said, like, Bud Light sucks anyway.

00:19:25.820 It's a bad product.

00:19:27.500 It tastes like stale rainwater scooped out of a murky puddle on the pavement.

00:19:31.260 This is not just the most effective conservative boycott in history.

00:19:35.240 It's also the easiest.

00:19:37.760 Because nobody with functioning taste buds has any desire to drink that sludge anyway.

00:19:42.180 So that's what it comes down to.

00:19:45.520 We can do what is effective, what is right, and also what is, at the very same time, easy,

00:19:51.000 which is to not drink this ****, or we can go out of our way to kneecap ourselves and turn

00:20:00.680 an easy victory into a laborious, cumbersome defeat.

00:20:06.980 Those are your options.

00:20:09.820 And really, you should not have any trouble making the right choice here.

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00:21:17.100 The Daily Mail has this report.

00:21:19.060 The Satanic Temple has set up a display of a sparkling demonic ram's head in the Iowa Statehouse

00:21:24.300 as an expression of religious freedom.

00:21:27.120 Alongside more traditional menorahs and Christmas trees,

00:21:29.500 the group has erected an altar topped with candles, a large banner, and a ram figure with

00:21:36.420 skull covered in mirrors, a red cloak, and a wreath.

00:21:40.080 The temple reportedly went through all the correct administrative channels for the display

00:21:43.100 and only had their original request to use a real goat's skull denied.

00:21:47.720 So there was no attempt to turn them down or anything like that or to fight over this.

00:21:53.360 They were just given exactly what they wanted, aside from putting, you know,

00:21:57.680 the carcass of an actual animal in the statehouse, but everything else they got.

00:22:01.640 Founder of the Satanic Temple, Lucian Graves, told KCCI,

00:22:06.640 we're going to really relish the opportunity to be represented in a public forum.

00:22:10.100 We don't have a church on every street corner.

00:22:13.100 This display will be up for 14 days and is protected under the First Amendment, supposedly.

00:22:17.940 But not everyone is pleased with it.

00:22:19.340 Iowa resident Shelly Flockhart is extremely concerned, organized a group prayer near the

00:22:24.800 display on Wednesday.

00:22:26.820 She told KCCI, I hope that people realize spiritual warfare is real, that there are evil

00:22:31.600 satanic forces that are trying to infiltrate our state.

00:22:35.200 She said Christians must spiritually fight against it and added it's a very dark evil force,

00:22:39.560 and I truly hope people know how to battle that.

00:22:43.260 So that's what's happening in Iowa.

00:22:46.680 Iowa's Governor Kim Reynolds is not happy about this, and she's spoken out about it.

00:22:52.420 Let's watch.

00:22:54.220 Governor Kim Reynolds is denouncing a satanic holiday display at the statehouse.

00:23:00.180 The Iowa Atheist and Free Thinkers Group and the Satanic Temple set up the display.

00:23:06.180 It says that all religions should be represented in a public forum.

00:23:10.680 But Reynolds said in a statement this morning, she finds this display objectionable.

00:23:16.240 She says the best way to respond is to pray over the Capitol and to recognize the nativity

00:23:22.060 scene on a display there instead.

00:23:25.160 Now, I think there are other ways to respond.

00:23:26.900 We'll get to that in a second.

00:23:27.640 Yesterday, in sort of an interesting detail here, during a town hall, Ron DeSantis was asked

00:23:33.780 about this, and he said that some of this traces back to the Trump administration.

00:23:39.800 Let's listen.

00:23:41.400 So it's interesting.

00:23:42.660 I heard this, and then I was like, well, how did it get there?

00:23:45.740 Is that even a religion?

00:23:47.600 And lo and behold, the Trump administration gave them approval to be under the IRS as a

00:23:55.800 religion.

00:23:56.200 So that gave them the legal ability to potentially do it.

00:23:58.760 So I don't know what the legislature, what they have, they analyzed it, but it very well

00:24:02.620 may be, because of that ruling under Donald Trump, that they may have had a legal leg

00:24:07.080 to stand on.

00:24:07.580 My view would be that's not a religion that the founding fathers were trying to create.

00:24:13.040 But I do think that IRS ruling, I was really surprised to see that they did that.

00:24:17.580 OK, obviously, this is a disgrace.

00:24:20.040 Just, I mean, obviously, it should not be allowed.

00:24:22.760 You simply don't allow Satanists to set up a satanic altar inside your state capitol.

00:24:29.760 Building, I mean, that's the kind of thing that shouldn't need to be said.

00:24:34.520 And I don't give a damn what argument you make.

00:24:36.820 I don't care about whatever right you're trying to supposedly claim.

00:24:41.140 Oh, but we have a right to.

00:24:42.820 I don't care if you think that.

00:24:44.480 Like, that should be the response.

00:24:46.860 When they go through the administrative channels and say, we have a right to do this.

00:24:51.040 I don't care what you think your rights are.

00:24:52.220 It's not happening.

00:24:53.920 You just don't do it.

00:24:54.860 And let them take you to court.

00:24:57.960 Take it all the way to the Supreme Court.

00:25:00.620 But you don't just do it.

00:25:01.980 You don't just do it without putting up a fight.

00:25:05.740 And that's what happened here.

00:25:06.840 There was no fight.

00:25:08.320 The only fight was, OK, you can't put an actual goat skull.

00:25:11.860 But everything else is fine.

00:25:14.540 Now, consider a few things here.

00:25:17.440 A few points in no particular order.

00:25:18.940 First, it should go without saying what Ron DeSantis said there is correct.

00:25:24.280 Obviously, the founding fathers would have never tolerated this.

00:25:28.840 They obviously never intended to give Satanists the right to set up satanic temples inside government buildings.

00:25:36.020 And anyone who tells you otherwise is a moron or a liar or both.

00:25:42.460 Probably both.

00:25:44.280 Not only would they not have tolerated this, but they would have arrested anyone who even attempted to do something like this.

00:25:51.400 OK, so they were not the live and let live hippies that they're made out to be, for the most part.

00:25:57.740 Second, Satanism is not a valid religion in the theological sense of the term.

00:26:02.860 OK, it's an anti-religion.

00:26:07.040 I mean, it's designed to be the opposite of a religion.

00:26:11.580 And for most of these self-professed Satanists, it's meant to be nothing more than a troll of religion.

00:26:18.460 Like, they don't even consider themselves to be worshipping Satan, really.

00:26:21.660 And they'll be the first to tell you that.

00:26:23.600 They are worshipping Satan, even though they don't consciously think they are.

00:26:28.460 But they'll be the first to tell you that that's not what they're actually doing, they don't think.

00:26:38.760 It is a mockery of religion. 0.91

00:26:42.680 The whole thing, all of it is set up to be, not just of religion, by the way, but of Christianity specifically.

00:26:47.920 The whole thing is set up to be kind of the inverse of Christianity. 0.60

00:26:53.500 It is a parody, a mockery of Christianity. 0.99

00:26:59.020 OK, so Satanism is not like some other world religion.

00:27:02.200 It's not like Hinduism or something.

00:27:04.720 Satanism is a mockery of Christianity specifically. 0.96

00:27:07.460 It is not a valid religion unto itself.

00:27:10.840 And third, it's interesting that atheists are behind this.

00:27:17.320 You know, atheist groups are the ones who have pushed this.

00:27:21.500 And atheists are on extremely shaky ground here, really non-existent ground. 0.61

00:27:26.860 Because they're claiming that Satanists have the right to set up, you know, the satanic altar in the Capitol.

00:27:34.320 But, I mean, what is a right?

00:27:38.300 Where do rights come from?

00:27:39.340 And I'm always harping on this point because it's an important point.

00:27:43.220 It's a question that's never answered in these conversations.

00:27:46.640 But if somebody is saying, oh, I have the right to do that, says who?

00:27:52.200 What do you mean you have the right to do it?

00:27:53.600 Who says you have the right to do that?

00:27:54.540 What do you mean you have the right to do it?

00:27:57.680 And what if the government just said, what if Iowa had just said, no, you can't.

00:28:01.220 You don't have that right.

00:28:01.920 We don't recognize it.

00:28:04.580 Because, you know, there are only two possibilities.

00:28:06.280 Either rights are things that are invented arbitrarily by people, you know, or they are, as the founders believed, endowed by a higher power, by the creator, by God.

00:28:20.000 It's one or the other.

00:28:20.960 But if rights are endowed by God, then we have to ask whether God endowed us also with the right to practice Satanism in government buildings.

00:28:30.400 Does anybody want to step up and say we have a God-given, endowed right to practice Satanism, you know, inside the state capitol?

00:28:42.900 That's going to be a very difficult case to make.

00:28:45.220 But that, of course, is not even the case that atheists would make. 0.83

00:28:48.820 They can't talk about God-given rights.

00:28:50.780 So they would say that rights are human inventions, that they're arbitrary human constructs.

00:28:57.140 They don't have any real reality.

00:28:58.960 They're just ideas that we came up with.

00:29:02.460 There's no fundamental innate reality of a human right.

00:29:06.180 It's a concept.

00:29:07.560 It's a system that we have invented.

00:29:09.380 Well, if that's the case, then you wouldn't be able to complain if Iowa had simply said, no, you don't have the right to set that up here.

00:29:20.620 Because if government decides your rights, and then if the government says you don't have that particular right, it's incoherent to insist that you do.

00:29:28.000 Because insisting that you do is to appeal to a power higher than the government.

00:29:32.960 But on the atheist view, there is no power higher than the government.

00:29:36.580 They're the ones who decide this.

00:29:37.900 And so if they say you don't have that right, then you don't.

00:29:41.120 It's it.

00:29:41.400 It doesn't exist.

00:29:44.340 So then your argument would be, you know, then if the government is saying you don't have a certain right, it's totally incoherent for you to say, oh, but I really do have that right.

00:29:53.660 And you should recognize it.

00:29:56.480 Instead, what you would be saying is I should have that right.

00:29:59.860 You'd be saying, you're right.

00:30:01.360 I don't have that right because rights are arbitrary human constructs invented by the government on my worldview because I'm an atheist.

00:30:05.860 Because the rights can't be anything but that.

00:30:11.220 So I don't have that right, but I should.

00:30:13.520 You know, that's a right that we should invent for me.

00:30:17.840 But that's not what the Satanists and the atheists are arguing. 0.98

00:30:20.720 Because they recognize that that's a pretty, that's a much weaker argument.

00:30:24.480 I mean, you say, yeah, I don't have it, but I should.

00:30:26.680 Because then everyone could say, no, you shouldn't.

00:30:28.540 I mean, or maybe you think you should, but we don't care.

00:30:34.140 And finally, to return to a theme from yesterday and really from every other day on the show.

00:30:40.800 You know, as conservatives, we do not have to tolerate everything.

00:30:47.000 Okay, it may come as a shock.

00:30:49.680 But we don't have to tolerate everything.

00:30:51.280 In fact, we shouldn't.

00:30:52.060 In fact, our whole thing is supposed to be that we don't.

00:30:58.880 Because we're in the business of conserving.

00:31:01.300 Conserving what?

00:31:02.560 The right to practice Satanism?

00:31:05.140 The right to turn state houses into satanic temples?

00:31:08.200 Is that what we're trying to conserve?

00:31:11.040 No, we're conserving God-given rights.

00:31:13.000 We're conserving truth, sanity, common sense, tradition.

00:31:15.580 And this flies in the face of all of that, you know, which is why we should say no.

00:31:24.580 And we can say no.

00:31:27.080 You know, conservatives have to get finally past this juvenile, like, adolescent, libertarian thing.

00:31:35.340 This live and let live.

00:31:38.300 Well, we can't tell people what to do.

00:31:39.940 You know, just do, you do your thing and I do my thing.

00:31:44.580 Let's not bother each other.

00:31:45.780 We'll stay out of each other's work.

00:31:47.160 We've got to get past that.

00:31:49.400 That childish, half-baked way of viewing the world.

00:31:56.340 We've got to get over it.

00:31:57.780 And that means that in situations like this, you can do what you know is the right thing.

00:32:06.020 Like, anyone who looks at a satanic temple being set up in a state, like, anyone who looks at that and is like, that doesn't seem right.

00:32:14.560 Okay, that just doesn't seem, that does not seem, it doesn't seem like that should be happening.

00:32:20.260 That's common sense.

00:32:21.600 That's just a basic moral intuition.

00:32:23.760 We all know that that shouldn't be happening.

00:32:27.780 But conservatives for so long have convinced themselves that they have to defy their own moral intuition for the sake of liberty or whatever.

00:32:39.380 But that is based on a very mistaken, very, as I said, juvenile sort of childish idea of what liberty is.

00:32:48.580 And the juvenile childish idea of liberty is that liberty means everyone can just do what they want.

00:32:53.280 Which is like what your teenager might think freedom is.

00:33:07.260 Some of the founding fathers thought freedom is.

00:33:11.320 All right.

00:33:12.380 Speaking of things you shouldn't be free to do, I want to move to this story.

00:33:16.260 And here's another case where I'm going to be disagreeing with someone that I otherwise appreciate and like and agree with.

00:33:23.980 So we're on a roll today.

00:33:25.860 Ann Coulter.

00:33:27.620 I'm a big Ann Coulter fan.

00:33:28.980 She's one of the greats.

00:33:30.200 She's brilliant, I think.

00:33:32.720 She's also very wrong about something.

00:33:34.980 And before we get to what she said, let's set this story up.

00:33:38.500 But this is from the Daily Wire.

00:33:40.860 A woman who denied an abortion, who was denied an abortion in Texas for her unborn baby with a fetal anomaly, has left the state to obtain an abortion elsewhere, her attorney said on Monday.

00:33:49.480 The Texas Supreme Court on Monday ruled against Kate Cox, 31, saying that a lower court was wrong to rule that she was entitled to a medical exception for abortion. 0.58

00:33:58.880 By then, though, Cox had already left Texas.

00:34:00.780 After a week of legal whiplash and threats of persecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kate Cox has been forced to leave Texas to get health care outside of the state, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Cox. 0.96

00:34:15.180 Cox's legal team had argued that the baby has a fatal condition and that continuing the pregnancy threatens Cox's future fertility.

00:34:22.000 Cox, who has two other children, was more than 20 weeks pregnant with a baby who had a condition called trisomy 18, which involves having an extra chromosome 18 and can cause abnormalities like heart defects.

00:34:35.960 About 95% of these pregnancies result in a miscarriage.

00:34:39.380 However, some babies do survive past birth and can live into their toddler years, teen years, or even longer.

00:34:44.100 A woman believed to be one of the oldest people with the condition lived to 40. 0.80

00:34:46.800 And Texas denied this request for this exemption, and then she went to another state. 0.99

00:34:56.660 Now, so that's the story.

00:35:00.260 Here's what Ann Coulter said about this, and she was trending yesterday for saying this.

00:35:04.480 She tweeted in response to this story yesterday, quote,

00:35:06.720 The pro-life movement has gone from compassion for the child to cruelty to the mother and child.

00:35:12.600 Trisomy 18 is not a condition that is compatible with life.

00:35:16.800 Okay, so Ann is very wrong here on a few levels. 0.78

00:35:21.180 And first of all, she should know that pro-lifers are never motivated by cruelty to mothers, okay?

00:35:29.080 Even if you disagree with some of our conclusions on these issues, obviously we aren't looking to be cruel to mothers.

00:35:36.020 It's the abortion industry that exploits mothers, charges them hundreds of dollars to kill their children, consigns them to a lifetime of regret and guilt. 0.96

00:35:44.580 Okay, that's cruelty.

00:35:47.140 And does all this, again, simply for profit.

00:35:51.360 That's one thing you notice about the pro-life movement that, yeah, there are a few people that are in the pro-life movement sort of professionally.

00:35:57.940 And in any movement, you have people that this is their calling.

00:36:01.440 This is their lives.

00:36:02.200 But this is not a profitable business, okay?

00:36:08.580 Being a pro-lifer, there's not money to be made in being a pro-lifer.

00:36:14.240 The abortion industry is a billion-dollar industry.

00:36:17.200 And so it is always logical to say that at least a big part of their motivation is that they make a lot of money on this.

00:36:28.180 It's not like that for pro-lifers.

00:36:29.740 So anytime, that's why it never makes any sense when people are looking for, like, sinister motivations behind the pro-life movement.

00:36:36.440 What the hell do you think we get out of this?

00:36:37.860 We don't profit off of this.

00:36:41.380 We don't get anything out of it.

00:36:43.800 Even people, yeah, I mean, you've got crisis pregnancy centers, pregnancy resource centers.

00:36:48.780 But do you think that the people that work there are raking in the dough?

00:36:53.800 Do you think they're making millions of dollars, you know, living in seven-bedroom houses and stuff?

00:36:59.580 No, these are people that, like, they rely on fundraising banquets once a year to even keep the lights on.

00:37:04.520 So the pro-life movement, it is motivated entirely by love for the mother and child and by a moral sense of what is right and wrong.

00:37:19.760 There is no, like, other cynical, what even would be the sort of cynical grift here?

00:37:26.920 Because no one is benefiting from it, you know, from a material perspective.

00:37:34.520 It's not like that with the abortion industry.

00:37:37.080 So that's the first point.

00:37:37.860 Second, this condition, as mentioned in the article, is not always incompatible with life.

00:37:42.640 Babies can live for days.

00:37:43.740 They can live for months, years, even decades in some cases.

00:37:46.360 Now, that is rare.

00:37:47.860 And the prospects of a long life are tragically small but not nonexistent.

00:37:51.440 So if you abort a child with this condition, you are killing him.

00:37:54.760 You're directly killing him on the assumption that he's going to die anyway.

00:37:58.720 And that assumption could be false.

00:38:04.180 It also, when you look at it another way, is incoherent.

00:38:09.400 Because when you look at it another way, the assumption is self-evidently always correct.

00:38:15.200 I mean, everyone is going to die.

00:38:17.380 And I don't say that to be dismissive of the severity of this disorder.

00:38:20.420 I say it because it's true.

00:38:21.820 Any child can die young.

00:38:23.260 Everyone is going to die.

00:38:26.480 You know, all of our children, it's a tragic fact of reality that life is fleeting.

00:38:35.620 And your children will experience the pain and suffering of death.

00:38:43.140 Both their own and those closest to them.

00:38:46.720 Everybody has a comparatively short life.

00:38:48.880 So if you start justifying murder based on the fact that someone is going to supposedly die anyway,

00:38:54.840 you've opened up Pandora's box and you've set a precedent that justifies really any murder of anyone.

00:39:02.380 And that's not some far-flung, slippery slope hypothetical.

00:39:10.180 That's where this leads.

00:39:13.800 It's already led there.

00:39:15.200 When you start saying, okay, we can directly kill people if we know they're going to die anyway.

00:39:23.560 We see this on the other end of the spectrum with euthanasia.

00:39:27.840 And it starts with like the really hard, terrible cases, people terminally ill,

00:39:31.820 people that are going to die within the week or in the next few months anyway.

00:39:35.400 And it starts there.

00:39:37.340 And you've always, and you've got, always have some people that are like,

00:39:39.840 yeah, I don't really feel good about this, but, you know, they're going to die anyway.

00:39:42.480 But it never, it never stops there.

00:39:47.140 We're seeing this right now.

00:39:48.660 It never ends there.

00:39:51.640 And then, because pretty soon it goes from there to, well, this person might not die in the next few months,

00:39:57.740 but they might have an illness that might kill them in five years.

00:40:00.840 Then you go from there and you say, well, they may not die in the next five years,

00:40:03.660 but this is, they're dealing with something that makes, where they're suffering greatly.

00:40:08.120 And they're very, and they're very uncomfortable and they're, you know,

00:40:10.860 and so they should also be eligible for this.

00:40:14.660 And then you go from there to say, well, they may not be suffering physically,

00:40:18.700 but they're suffering emotionally and mentally.

00:40:21.260 And so they should be eligible to be killed and put down like dogs.

00:40:24.620 And then once you're there, you're at the point where, okay, so that's just everybody.

00:40:30.420 Like, everybody is suffering.

00:40:33.380 So, so the floodgates are open entirely at that point.

00:40:41.340 The only way to get around any of this, really, when it comes to this issue,

00:40:45.120 is by arguing that the child in the womb is not a human person.

00:40:53.300 But, but he is.

00:40:55.980 Like, that'd be the one way to get around it, is to say,

00:40:59.700 yeah, killing a person because they're going to die anyway is obviously wrong,

00:41:04.260 but the child in the womb is not a person.

00:41:07.020 But if you're pro-life at all, then you know that that's not true.

00:41:09.640 And, and if you believe that children in the womb are people,

00:41:14.380 then your position, even on these hard cases,

00:41:18.400 must follow logically from that premise.

00:41:23.440 And so we have a very logical position.

00:41:27.340 You know, it's, it's, it's no, why,

00:41:29.240 why would this be necessarily any different?

00:41:33.900 Like, there are born infant children and toddlers

00:41:38.260 who sadly and tragically and unfathomably

00:41:41.900 are diagnosed with terminal illnesses

00:41:44.200 that are probably going to kill them pretty soon.

00:41:46.520 You know, that happens every day in this country.

00:41:47.940 It's a terrible tragedy.

00:41:49.940 And yet I'm going to assume,

00:41:52.660 I'm going to hope and pray

00:41:54.140 that most people in this country

00:41:56.960 would not be in favor

00:41:59.360 of euthanizing a two-year-old

00:42:03.300 who's probably going to be dead

00:42:05.760 within the next couple of years because of leukemia.

00:42:08.260 Like, I'm going to assume that most people would say

00:42:11.260 that that's, it's hard, you cannot do that.

00:42:15.960 And yes, this, this child's tragically going to die anyway.

00:42:18.820 Yes, their life for the next two years

00:42:20.300 will be very, very difficult.

00:42:21.900 You cannot just put down a child

00:42:23.900 because they, they are horribly sick.

00:42:27.660 And, but if you're a pro-lifer,

00:42:29.520 you don't draw any moral distinction

00:42:31.320 between the child outside of the womb

00:42:33.440 and the child inside the womb.

00:42:34.540 Your whole position is that they're both people.

00:42:38.500 They're just in different stages of development.

00:42:41.520 And so you have to admit,

00:42:43.460 again, even if you don't agree with it somehow,

00:42:45.240 you have to admit that it's just,

00:42:47.540 it's a, it's a logical, sensible position.

00:42:51.880 And then if you think about it a little bit longer,

00:42:53.380 you realize it's the only logical and sensible position.

00:42:55.740 It's certainly the only consistent one.

00:43:01.400 All right.

00:43:03.720 Well, we spent a while on both of those topics.

00:43:07.260 So we'll leave it there.

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00:44:25.860 Okay, first comment says,

00:44:26.640 not sure about the banning of digitized pornographic images.

00:44:29.300 As usual, I'm looking for the principles at work here.

00:44:31.780 What if the images are licentious but not nude?

00:44:35.140 What if the nude image of someone

00:44:36.260 was created from scratch using paintbrush?

00:44:38.380 Is it a matter of degree or principle?

00:44:44.060 Well, you know, I think what you're doing is,

00:44:46.920 again, this is something conservatives often do as well,

00:44:49.860 where, not just conservatives, people in general,

00:44:53.360 where you're afraid to arrive at a conclusion

00:44:57.780 that I think you know is pretty self-evidently correct

00:45:00.980 because you can't quite work out

00:45:03.680 how all of these gray area, difficult kind of cases

00:45:07.880 that are on the line will, you know,

00:45:10.940 you can't quite work out what to do about all those.

00:45:14.800 But my point is,

00:45:16.800 you can arrive at the correct conclusion

00:45:18.800 and then deal with those issues as they come.

00:45:22.840 I just, I don't see it as an impediment.

00:45:25.740 Like, we cross those bridges when we come to them.

00:45:27.720 This is something that's like probably my favorite

00:45:29.600 phrase that I use in my house all the time,

00:45:33.220 especially with my kids.

00:45:34.120 Sometimes, when I'm saying we're going to do this,

00:45:37.040 we're going to, you know,

00:45:37.540 any time I declare anything that we're going to do,

00:45:40.460 there's always a, well, what if this happens?

00:45:41.840 What about this?

00:45:42.420 What about that?

00:45:42.860 You know, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

00:45:45.360 Okay, let's just, let's put one foot in front of the other.

00:45:48.700 And, you know, and if something happens

00:45:51.240 that is unexpected or that's difficult to do,

00:45:54.340 you know, we'll deal with that when it comes.

00:45:56.300 Um, and so I think right now it's pretty easy.

00:46:02.560 Like there are websites and apps that exist right now

00:46:06.920 specifically to use AI technology

00:46:10.660 to take pictures of real people

00:46:15.440 without their consent

00:46:17.040 and turn them into pornographic images. 0.83

00:46:20.380 Okay.

00:46:21.060 And that's, that, that is a tech,

00:46:23.660 that is a thing that exists

00:46:24.660 and it's even being advertised

00:46:26.340 on, on, uh, social media platforms.

00:46:30.060 I don't see why we can't say like,

00:46:31.700 obviously that's, you cannot have that company.

00:46:33.220 That's illegal.

00:46:34.040 You cannot have a company like that.

00:46:35.700 You cannot do that.

00:46:38.060 Um, your, your whole,

00:46:40.800 your stated intent

00:46:42.380 is to take pictures of people

00:46:45.420 without their consent

00:46:45.940 and turn into pornographic images.

00:46:47.080 That's the whole point.

00:46:48.280 And obviously you can't do that.

00:46:51.060 Um, so that, that is, uh,

00:46:54.080 that's the degree and the principle

00:46:55.920 that we're dealing with.

00:46:58.020 And once we, once we've agreed on that,

00:47:00.900 which we all should be able to agree on it,

00:47:02.340 because to me it's just basic common sense.

00:47:05.040 Um, then you get in, you know,

00:47:06.500 and then if, if you have a,

00:47:07.700 I'm not even sure what a hard case

00:47:09.500 exactly would be here.

00:47:11.340 I think like somebody painting a picture

00:47:14.900 in their house is obviously different in kind

00:47:17.840 in both degree and kind

00:47:20.040 from using, taking someone's actual photograph

00:47:23.300 and using AI

00:47:25.000 to, to

00:47:26.640 pornographize it

00:47:28.640 to, to make up a word there.

00:47:31.940 Um, so I don't even see that as a hard,

00:47:33.480 like that's clearly a different kind of thing.

00:47:35.880 Now I think if you're at your house

00:47:37.180 making, uh, drawing nude

00:47:38.640 pictures of some random people,

00:47:41.680 it's like, it's creepy and weird,

00:47:42.860 but that's a different kind of thing.

00:47:45.900 Um, the only way you get into the gray areas,

00:47:50.860 I guess, is what you mentioned about

00:47:52.020 what if the images are like sexually suggestive,

00:47:56.500 but they're not nude and, you know,

00:47:58.280 and that's where you're gonna have to come,

00:48:00.920 you know, that's where you have to go in

00:48:02.240 with a finer brush

00:48:03.640 and start drawing some of the lines.

00:48:05.000 But the basic idea here

00:48:07.020 is that you should not allowed,

00:48:09.860 you should not be allowed to, um,

00:48:12.180 have an app or a company

00:48:13.460 where the stated whole intention

00:48:16.060 is to take people's actual photographs

00:48:18.240 and use technology

00:48:19.940 to turn them

00:48:21.540 into nude pictures.

00:48:23.680 That will also, by the way,

00:48:26.320 uh, and especially as technology proves,

00:48:28.460 look

00:48:29.340 exactly like real nude pictures.

00:48:31.460 And so you're spreading pornography

00:48:34.380 of someone,

00:48:35.680 some real person

00:48:36.520 that you have invented

00:48:38.620 and you're doing it without their consent.

00:48:39.820 Like, clearly,

00:48:41.560 um,

00:48:42.900 that, that should not be allowed.

00:48:45.300 And, uh,

00:48:47.340 another comment says,

00:48:49.080 we'll just do one,

00:48:50.760 one other,

00:48:51.300 nobody feels bad for white people, Matt.

00:48:53.820 They have had every advantage

00:48:55.180 in our society forever.

00:48:56.540 No matter how much you scream and cry,

00:48:58.300 white people are never going to have 0.99

00:48:59.400 sympathy in this country.

00:49:00.360 And for good reason,

00:49:02.800 anyone would gladly trade places

00:49:04.380 with white people.

00:49:07.120 Um,

00:49:07.720 first of all,

00:49:09.260 I'm not sure if that lasts,

00:49:10.460 but what do you mean

00:49:11.020 trade places with white people? 0.58

00:49:12.900 You want to trade place

00:49:13.840 with an entire race?

00:49:16.080 What,

00:49:16.220 what does that even mean?

00:49:19.120 I think there might be

00:49:20.220 individual white people

00:49:21.980 that you would want

00:49:22.860 to trade places with.

00:49:25.020 Like,

00:49:25.460 maybe you'd want to trade places

00:49:26.380 with Jeff Bezos

00:49:27.220 or, um,

00:49:28.120 I don't know,

00:49:28.700 Elon Musk,

00:49:29.280 even though he's African-American.

00:49:31.340 Would you want to,

00:49:31.920 really,

00:49:32.180 would you want to trade places

00:49:33.100 with, um,

00:49:34.200 you know,

00:49:34.840 a,

00:49:35.180 a 10-year-old kid

00:49:37.580 living in a,

00:49:38.080 in a trailer park

00:49:38.860 in West Virginia

00:49:39.560 with an absent father

00:49:41.760 and a mom who's addicted to meth

00:49:43.220 living on food stamps?

00:49:45.220 Would you want,

00:49:45.760 you want to trade places

00:49:46.340 with that person,

00:49:46.900 with that white person?

00:49:47.640 Is the fact that they're white 0.91

00:49:50.540 going to be like

00:49:51.180 a consolation prize

00:49:52.560 that you would find,

00:49:53.340 uh,

00:49:53.640 that you would find,

00:49:54.260 uh,

00:49:54.640 acceptable?

00:49:55.340 Probably not.

00:49:57.900 But anyway,

00:49:58.780 um,

00:49:59.760 I'm not looking for sympathy.

00:50:02.200 That,

00:50:02.720 see,

00:50:02.880 that,

00:50:03.040 that's where,

00:50:03.340 that's where the confusion

00:50:03.940 comes in.

00:50:04.760 So maybe you,

00:50:05.780 as a person who's always

00:50:06.580 looking for pity and sympathy,

00:50:07.840 when you hear me talk about

00:50:10.040 anti-white racism

00:50:10.900 that exists in this country,

00:50:13.080 doesn't just exist,

00:50:14.080 but is,

00:50:14.400 is,

00:50:14.760 uh,

00:50:15.000 is promoted by our

00:50:16.160 most powerful institutions,

00:50:17.040 and you hear me talk about that,

00:50:19.220 you assume

00:50:20.000 that I'm angling for pity

00:50:22.480 and sympathy

00:50:23.100 because that's all that

00:50:24.240 you want in life.

00:50:26.060 But that's not what I want.

00:50:27.080 I don't want your pity.

00:50:27.900 I don't want your,

00:50:28.340 I don't give a shit

00:50:28.960 about your sympathy.

00:50:30.240 That's not what I want.

00:50:33.120 I'm just,

00:50:33.720 first of all,

00:50:34.080 I'm just trying to establish

00:50:34.880 the facts about what's happening

00:50:36.160 and who the victims

00:50:38.360 of systemic racism

00:50:39.680 actually are these days.

00:50:43.480 And then I want that bigotry

00:50:44.820 and,

00:50:45.080 uh,

00:50:45.500 racism to stop

00:50:46.480 because it's wrong.

00:50:50.140 And if it stops,

00:50:51.440 um,

00:50:53.200 and I don't need the sympathy

00:50:54.120 to go along.

00:50:54.500 In fact,

00:50:54.660 I prefer this.

00:50:55.720 I'd rather not have the sympathy.

00:50:57.260 Let's just stop

00:50:58.160 with the anti-white racism

00:50:59.480 and bigotry

00:51:00.020 and then,

00:51:01.020 and then move on

00:51:02.160 with our lives.

00:51:04.820 I'm fine not having the sympathy.

00:51:06.080 I'd prefer not to have it,

00:51:06.900 actually.

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00:53:06.940 Now let's get

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00:53:14.740 Well, as promised yesterday

00:53:15.820 during the five headlines,

00:53:16.640 I want to spend

00:53:17.000 a little bit of time

00:53:17.580 elaborating on a point

00:53:18.500 that came up

00:53:19.200 during that segment.

00:53:19.900 And for that,

00:53:20.860 I want you to imagine

00:53:21.460 a scenario that

00:53:22.280 in light of recent events

00:53:23.180 you'd think would generate

00:53:24.060 some attention

00:53:24.660 among the national news media.

00:53:26.040 So picture a black student 0.86

00:53:28.140 walking to the front

00:53:29.100 of a study lounge

00:53:30.280 at a major university

00:53:31.280 and loudly announcing

00:53:33.120 that there are

00:53:33.660 too many Jews 1.00

00:53:34.500 in the room.

00:53:36.520 The study lounge

00:53:37.380 isn't a place

00:53:37.960 for the Jews,

00:53:38.640 the student explains.

00:53:40.080 They should leave

00:53:40.780 immediately.

00:53:42.100 And then there's

00:53:42.820 a round of applause

00:53:43.580 from other non-Jews 0.94

00:53:45.020 in the room

00:53:45.440 as the Jewish students

00:53:46.540 make their exit.

00:53:48.360 Now, if something

00:53:48.960 like that happened,

00:53:50.080 how many congressional hearings

00:53:51.900 do you think

00:53:52.380 would be held?

00:53:53.600 How many impassioned monologues

00:53:55.100 would we see on CNN

00:53:55.980 declaring that bigotry

00:53:57.420 on college campuses

00:53:58.120 has simply gone too far?

00:54:00.240 How many university administrators

00:54:01.780 would be forced to resign?

00:54:04.220 Probably a few.

00:54:07.000 And honestly,

00:54:07.660 we don't know the answers

00:54:08.400 to those questions for sure

00:54:09.500 because as of now,

00:54:10.480 despite the widely reported

00:54:11.480 outbreak of anti-Semitism

00:54:12.580 on college campuses,

00:54:13.720 this particular scenario

00:54:15.000 hasn't unfolded as of yet.

00:54:16.680 But if you replace Jews 1.00

00:54:17.900 with white people,

00:54:19.380 then we do have the answer

00:54:20.700 to those questions

00:54:21.560 clear as day.

00:54:22.100 That's because a few years ago

00:54:23.480 at the University of Virginia,

00:54:24.580 a black student did exactly 0.99

00:54:25.760 what I just described.

00:54:26.560 She stood up and told white people 0.91

00:54:28.420 to get out of the student center.

00:54:31.040 And she said because

00:54:31.640 of their skin color

00:54:32.300 that these white students 0.59

00:54:33.480 were not allowed there.

00:54:35.260 And indeed,

00:54:35.960 some white people

00:54:36.600 got up and left

00:54:37.340 and it was all recorded

00:54:38.100 on a cell phone.

00:54:39.400 Let's watch that again.

00:54:41.940 Public service announcement.

00:54:44.820 Excuse me.

00:54:46.120 If y'all didn't know,

00:54:47.020 this is the MSC.

00:54:48.460 And frankly,

00:54:49.260 there's just too many

00:54:50.580 white people in here.

00:54:51.480 And this is a space

00:54:52.160 for people of color.

00:54:53.340 So just be really cognizant

00:54:54.520 of the space

00:54:55.120 that you're taking up

00:54:56.060 because it does

00:54:57.100 make some of us POCs

00:54:58.800 uncomfortable

00:54:59.620 when we see too many

00:55:00.580 white people in here.

00:55:01.360 It's only been open

00:55:01.900 for four days.

00:55:03.100 And frankly,

00:55:03.680 there's the whole university

00:55:04.860 for a lot of y'all

00:55:05.880 to be at.

00:55:06.860 And there's very few

00:55:07.720 spaces for us.

00:55:08.900 So keep that in mind.

00:55:10.340 Thank you.

00:55:10.940 So somebody films

00:55:15.600 that racist

00:55:16.780 anti-white rant.

00:55:18.520 Nobody says anything.

00:55:20.200 No one laughs

00:55:20.800 at this racist

00:55:21.460 or condemns her

00:55:22.260 in any way.

00:55:22.740 It's just silently filmed

00:55:23.840 because everyone's too afraid

00:55:25.340 to challenge this.

00:55:26.200 And the only reaction

00:55:26.880 is applause

00:55:27.540 as the white people

00:55:29.240 make their exit.

00:55:30.680 Now,

00:55:31.120 after this incident,

00:55:31.720 it goes without saying,

00:55:32.400 there were no

00:55:32.780 congressional hearings.

00:55:34.000 No administrators

00:55:34.880 at UFA

00:55:35.360 were forced to resign.

00:55:37.000 Nobody was even

00:55:37.460 calling for that.

00:55:38.920 There were no

00:55:39.460 primetime CNN monologues

00:55:40.980 about what's wrong

00:55:41.540 with American universities.

00:55:43.800 As upsetting as it may be,

00:55:44.780 we shouldn't be surprised

00:55:45.700 by that non-response

00:55:47.200 because systemic

00:55:48.460 anti-white racism

00:55:49.460 on college campuses

00:55:50.360 is open and blatant.

00:55:53.580 The specifics

00:55:54.160 are rarely discussed,

00:55:55.080 but they're not hard to find.

00:55:56.760 And it's been going on

00:55:57.480 for decades.

00:55:59.240 You know,

00:55:59.440 I vividly remember

00:56:00.340 all the way back

00:56:00.980 in 2007

00:56:03.900 when it was revealed

00:56:05.160 that the University of Delaware

00:56:06.320 was running

00:56:06.880 a mandatory

00:56:07.880 re-education program

00:56:09.200 that forced

00:56:10.420 thousands of students

00:56:11.320 living on campus

00:56:12.080 to affirm

00:56:13.120 that all whites 0.98

00:56:14.440 are racist

00:56:14.880 and that non-whites 0.77

00:56:15.920 can't be racist,

00:56:16.760 among other things.

00:56:18.700 And RAs

00:56:19.820 in the dorms

00:56:20.620 were put in charge

00:56:21.200 of monitoring students

00:56:22.520 and reporting

00:56:23.740 any of them

00:56:24.320 who harbored

00:56:24.780 unapproved opinions

00:56:25.800 on race

00:56:26.380 or sexuality

00:56:27.600 or related topics.

00:56:29.520 The university system,

00:56:31.180 the University,

00:56:31.620 University of Delaware,

00:56:32.340 rather,

00:56:32.980 they referred to

00:56:33.780 these struggle sessions

00:56:34.820 as treatment

00:56:35.880 for white people.

00:56:38.540 And when the

00:56:39.220 free speech group

00:56:39.880 FIRE

00:56:40.360 brought all this to light,

00:56:41.820 the university

00:56:42.280 hastily shut

00:56:43.080 the program down.

00:56:44.320 But nothing changed

00:56:45.600 in the university system

00:56:46.580 because nobody

00:56:47.620 forced any kind of change.

00:56:50.240 Those kinds of things

00:56:51.160 continue to happen.

00:56:52.000 They've been happening

00:56:52.400 ever since.

00:56:54.380 Even on University of Delaware,

00:56:55.580 they were just repackaged.

00:56:57.940 There was no moral panic

00:56:59.360 about the scourge

00:57:00.100 of anti-white racism

00:57:01.020 on college campuses.

00:57:02.480 Instead,

00:57:02.940 in the years

00:57:03.260 since that episode

00:57:04.280 and for a while

00:57:04.980 before it,

00:57:05.820 the university system

00:57:06.540 continued to impose

00:57:07.420 a radical anti-white,

00:57:08.880 anti-Christian,

00:57:09.660 anti-truth doctrine

00:57:10.640 on millions of students

00:57:11.780 nationwide.

00:57:13.440 Literally millions

00:57:14.240 of college students

00:57:14.980 have been taught

00:57:15.600 and many have come

00:57:16.240 to believe

00:57:16.680 that white people 0.52

00:57:18.120 are inherently bigoted

00:57:19.040 and evil

00:57:19.540 along with all manner

00:57:20.920 of other insidious

00:57:21.980 left-wing myths.

00:57:23.380 Like that whole thing

00:57:24.040 about how men

00:57:24.580 can give birth

00:57:25.140 and women can have penises. 1.00

00:57:27.300 And that's why

00:57:28.280 the current burst

00:57:29.880 of outrage

00:57:30.400 over anti-Semitism

00:57:31.280 on college campuses

00:57:31.960 is more than

00:57:33.320 a little bit conspicuous.

00:57:35.760 People in corporate media

00:57:36.920 and even some prominent figures

00:57:38.220 in the Democrat Party

00:57:38.900 are finally speaking out

00:57:40.760 against discrimination

00:57:41.640 in the university system.

00:57:42.820 But the years

00:57:43.720 and years

00:57:44.080 and years

00:57:44.500 and years

00:57:45.000 and years

00:57:45.680 and years

00:57:46.360 of rampant

00:57:47.820 anti-whiteism,

00:57:48.800 including the mandatory

00:57:49.720 brainwashing sessions

00:57:50.960 where whites

00:57:51.480 were told

00:57:51.840 to hate themselves

00:57:52.620 for their skin color,

00:57:54.360 never garnered

00:57:55.080 an ounce of outrage

00:57:56.060 from these people.

00:57:57.620 Right?

00:57:58.120 From the corporate media,

00:57:59.060 the Democrat,

00:57:59.460 from the mainstream.

00:58:01.280 There are plenty

00:58:01.780 of conservatives

00:58:02.240 who spoke out

00:58:02.860 against it.

00:58:04.480 The university system

00:58:05.700 as a whole

00:58:06.200 has been up until now

00:58:07.240 mostly exempt

00:58:08.180 from criticism

00:58:08.760 by the corporate media

00:58:09.820 and its ideological allies.

00:58:12.300 Now, that has changed

00:58:13.520 in the last, like,

00:58:14.340 five minutes.

00:58:15.060 Yesterday, we played

00:58:15.580 a clip of the

00:58:16.340 Fareed, Zaharia,

00:58:17.860 Zachariah,

00:58:18.400 whatever it was,

00:58:19.100 monologue on CNN

00:58:20.060 blasting the university system

00:58:23.440 for its political

00:58:24.060 and ideological bias.

00:58:25.760 And many conservatives

00:58:26.700 have celebrated

00:58:27.420 that monologue

00:58:28.020 as we talked about.

00:58:28.840 and, you know,

00:58:29.660 they celebrated

00:58:30.120 other similar glimmers

00:58:31.180 of sanity

00:58:32.440 from the corporate media

00:58:33.380 on this issue.

00:58:34.560 But there's not much

00:58:35.100 to celebrate here.

00:58:36.620 The criticisms

00:58:37.220 of the universities

00:58:38.040 are the safest

00:58:39.120 possible criticisms

00:58:40.040 to make.

00:58:41.800 They still aren't

00:58:42.740 touching the third rail.

00:58:45.220 Now,

00:58:46.060 all of this

00:58:47.800 is not to say

00:58:48.600 that anti-Semitism

00:58:50.180 isn't a problem.

00:58:51.220 It is.

00:58:51.600 No serious person

00:58:52.280 can deny that.

00:58:53.140 But the very selective

00:58:55.400 nature of this

00:58:56.280 accountability

00:58:56.700 tells you that

00:58:57.640 the people calling

00:58:58.820 out the system today

00:58:59.860 aren't willing

00:59:01.080 to go down

00:59:01.800 and inspect

00:59:02.380 the roots

00:59:03.000 of the problem.

00:59:04.780 It also shows

00:59:05.680 that only certain groups

00:59:06.800 are allowed

00:59:07.260 to be viewed

00:59:07.760 as victims.

00:59:09.100 That kind of reminds me

00:59:09.820 of when Nick Cannon

00:59:11.120 went on that rant

00:59:12.640 claiming that white people

00:59:13.640 are bloodthirsty savages

00:59:14.820 and that blacks 0.96

00:59:15.900 are the real Hebrews. 0.79

00:59:17.820 Now,

00:59:18.020 he was forced

00:59:18.460 to apologize

00:59:19.000 for the Hebrews bit

00:59:20.260 because it was

00:59:20.840 anti-Semitic,

00:59:21.660 which arguably

00:59:23.140 it wasn't even

00:59:23.640 anti-Semitic,

00:59:24.260 it was just crazy,

00:59:25.800 which sometimes

00:59:26.700 those two things

00:59:27.280 go together,

00:59:27.900 not always.

00:59:29.320 But either way,

00:59:29.900 the much more

00:59:30.520 aggressively bigoted

00:59:32.060 and racist stuff

00:59:33.120 about how white people

00:59:34.900 aren't even human,

00:59:36.040 how they're subhuman savages,

00:59:38.080 that was glossed over.

00:59:39.200 There was no apology for it.

00:59:42.600 This is why I'm kind of

00:59:43.560 glad to see,

00:59:44.280 you know,

00:59:44.520 as we talked about yesterday,

00:59:45.680 Harvard circling the wagons

00:59:46.960 around Claudine Gay

00:59:47.900 because maybe it will show people

00:59:49.180 that the rot in academia

00:59:50.340 runs deep.

00:59:52.660 This week,

00:59:53.340 as part of his effort

00:59:54.000 to oust Claudine Gay

00:59:55.600 from office,

00:59:57.200 the Harvard alumnus

00:59:57.920 Bill Ackman

00:59:58.620 highlighted some of this rot.

01:00:00.680 He published messages

01:00:01.360 that he received

01:00:01.960 from anonymous Harvard

01:00:02.920 faculty members

01:00:03.660 and one faculty member

01:00:05.000 told Ackman,

01:00:05.720 quote,

01:00:06.520 whiteness at Harvard

01:00:07.460 is deemed fundamentally

01:00:08.420 oppressive.

01:00:09.100 Indigenous people

01:00:09.660 are represented

01:00:10.100 as in need of justice

01:00:11.100 and reparations.

01:00:12.240 Jews are presented

01:00:12.920 as white people.

01:00:14.100 It's therefore okay

01:00:14.740 to hate Israel and Jews 0.99

01:00:16.080 as they are deemed

01:00:16.960 to be oppressors.

01:00:19.000 You know,

01:00:19.100 kind of reminds me

01:00:20.400 of someone

01:00:20.740 who made this connection

01:00:21.760 when everything first happened

01:00:23.720 with the war in Israel

01:00:25.080 about, you know,

01:00:26.320 the reason why the left

01:00:27.380 is circling around Hamas 0.84

01:00:28.800 is because they're

01:00:29.380 the less white group.

01:00:31.120 I think there was someone

01:00:31.580 who made that point.

01:00:32.160 I think it was actually me.

01:00:33.440 More on that in a second.

01:00:34.560 Another faculty member

01:00:35.280 explained,

01:00:35.880 quote,

01:00:36.580 Israel is the rare case 1.00

01:00:37.700 where we have a hot conflict

01:00:39.160 between people

01:00:39.740 that are deemed white

01:00:40.560 versus people of color.

01:00:42.180 A third professor

01:00:42.720 put it this way,

01:00:43.480 quote,

01:00:43.660 it's about whiteness 0.67

01:00:44.960 versus people of color.

01:00:47.400 Now,

01:00:47.860 putting all this together,

01:00:48.980 Ackman concluded

01:00:49.620 that in his letter

01:00:51.020 to Claude Inglé

01:00:51.740 that,

01:00:52.340 quote,

01:00:52.440 the problems at Harvard

01:00:53.880 are clearly not just

01:00:54.760 about Jews and Israel.

01:00:55.940 It's abundantly clear

01:00:56.840 that straight white males

01:00:58.160 are discriminated against

01:00:59.100 in recruitment

01:00:59.660 and advancement at Harvard.

01:01:01.840 Now,

01:01:02.300 that's a realization

01:01:02.800 that's been a very long

01:01:03.820 time coming.

01:01:04.460 And yet,

01:01:04.880 even now,

01:01:05.860 the only members

01:01:06.480 of Harvard's faculty

01:01:07.300 who are willing

01:01:07.740 to talk about it

01:01:08.500 are also insisting

01:01:09.480 on anonymity

01:01:10.180 because they're afraid.

01:01:12.100 even though

01:01:13.820 these professors

01:01:14.340 work in an academic

01:01:15.140 institution that's supposed

01:01:15.960 to value free thought

01:01:17.000 and dialogue

01:01:17.520 and even though

01:01:18.800 many of these faculty

01:01:19.500 members have tenure,

01:01:21.380 they're too scared

01:01:22.240 to say anything

01:01:22.700 on the record.

01:01:24.220 At one of the world's

01:01:24.860 best universities,

01:01:25.900 supposedly,

01:01:26.280 faculty members

01:01:26.720 have less freedom

01:01:27.440 of speech

01:01:27.880 than a random person

01:01:29.280 on Twitter.

01:01:30.840 And by the way,

01:01:31.700 this is not a

01:01:32.320 whataboutism argument.

01:01:34.640 Okay,

01:01:34.860 if anything,

01:01:35.480 this is a

01:01:35.860 what is it argument

01:01:37.160 or maybe a

01:01:37.860 where does it

01:01:38.660 come from argument.

01:01:40.540 Yes,

01:01:40.780 we should be

01:01:41.120 highly critical

01:01:41.720 of anti-Semitic

01:01:42.460 language on

01:01:43.080 college campuses,

01:01:44.060 but where does

01:01:44.540 it come from?

01:01:45.600 What is it rooted in?

01:01:47.440 The problem is

01:01:48.260 that the current

01:01:48.820 backlash against

01:01:49.680 the university system

01:01:50.340 is only surface level.

01:01:51.980 We're not digging

01:01:52.600 deeper to see

01:01:53.260 what the problem

01:01:53.840 is rooted in.

01:01:56.460 That's also why

01:01:57.200 so many people

01:01:57.720 seem to be surprised

01:01:58.680 that college campuses

01:01:59.560 around the country

01:02:00.120 have rallied around Hamas.

01:02:01.400 It's not surprising

01:02:02.100 if you understand

01:02:02.560 what's actually going on.

01:02:05.060 For most of these

01:02:05.940 college kids,

01:02:06.820 as I have argued

01:02:07.640 from the beginning,

01:02:08.620 they see the conflict

01:02:09.600 overseas as a conflict

01:02:10.660 between the colonized

01:02:12.040 and the colonizer.

01:02:13.340 As those university

01:02:14.380 officials themselves

01:02:15.540 were saying,

01:02:17.920 the colonizer

01:02:18.520 is always the whiter 0.96

01:02:19.780 group in any dispute.

01:02:21.880 The colonized

01:02:22.840 are the less white.

01:02:23.940 It's a simple formula.

01:02:25.680 And this ideology

01:02:26.460 of decolonization,

01:02:27.540 it is indeed

01:02:28.200 genocidal.

01:02:29.800 They truly believe

01:02:30.860 that the colonizers,

01:02:32.240 wherever they are

01:02:32.920 and whoever they are,

01:02:34.120 deserve to be killed.

01:02:35.180 That's what they believe.

01:02:35.800 That's the context

01:02:38.260 for this anti-Semitism

01:02:39.400 issue on campus.

01:02:40.400 It's where it comes from.

01:02:41.800 It bubbles up

01:02:42.540 from the depths

01:02:43.340 of the very rotten core

01:02:45.340 of the American

01:02:46.080 university system.

01:02:48.520 It's so rotten

01:02:49.320 that it cannot be salvaged.

01:02:51.380 It cannot be reformed

01:02:52.920 by getting rid

01:02:53.480 of a few administrative

01:02:54.260 officials.

01:02:56.060 And it especially

01:02:56.900 cannot be solved

01:02:57.640 or even really addressed

01:02:58.500 if we're treating

01:02:59.000 the pro-Hamas stuff 0.85

01:02:59.980 as if it's isolated

01:03:00.860 and new

01:03:01.340 and happening

01:03:02.460 in a vacuum.

01:03:03.040 It's a bigger

01:03:05.080 and much deeper problem.

01:03:06.300 And until we face

01:03:07.080 that fact,

01:03:08.500 as long as we're

01:03:09.360 celebrating scraps

01:03:10.240 that CNN tosses our way,

01:03:12.280 then nothing

01:03:13.000 will get better.

01:03:14.740 The Claudine gays 1.00

01:03:15.600 of the world

01:03:15.980 will keep their jobs

01:03:16.900 and white

01:03:18.320 and Asian men

01:03:19.460 alone among

01:03:20.500 all other groups

01:03:21.420 will have to fight

01:03:23.180 for theirs.

01:03:24.880 That is until

01:03:25.720 we can all agree

01:03:26.560 that the entire system

01:03:28.220 which is rotten

01:03:29.560 to its core

01:03:30.240 is cancelled.

01:03:33.900 That'll do it

01:03:34.340 for the show today.

01:03:34.860 Thanks for watching.

01:03:35.340 Thanks for listening.

01:03:36.900 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:37.540 Have a great day.

01:03:38.520 Godspeed.

01:03:38.800 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 13, 2023

Ep. 1277 - Hell No, We Will Not End The Bud Light Boycott

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