The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1278 - It's Time To Hold The Biden Crime Family Accountable

00:00:00.000 Hey, the Matt Walsh Show. Democrats are crying foul as Republicans open an impeachment inquiry

00:00:04.140 into Joe Biden, but they're really just complaining about finally getting a taste of their own

00:00:07.520 medicine. Also, the mayor of Boston throws a Christmas party where no whites are allowed. 0.96

00:00:11.820 The White House confuses and disturbs the nation with its bizarre holiday video.

00:00:15.720 Jada Pinkett Smith is back at it, publicly embarrassing her husband once again.

00:00:19.020 And a popular YouTuber discovers why open marriages are a terrible idea. All of that

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00:01:50.220 Shortly after the 2018 midterms, Jerry Nadler, who was about to become the chairman of the House

00:01:56.140 Judiciary Committee, boarded in a Sella train from New York to Washington. And when he got to his seat,

00:02:00.820 he began loudly speaking on the phone with someone who remains unknown to this day. Unfortunately for

00:02:05.660 Nadler, though, the editor-in-chief of the conservative website, The Federalist, Molly Hemingway,

00:02:10.000 was seated nearby, jotting down notes about the whole conversation. And Hemingway overheard Nadler

00:02:15.800 outline, in no uncertain terms, Democrats' plans for going, quote, all in on investigating and

00:02:21.420 ultimately impeaching Donald Trump. It was much more important for Democrats to impeach Donald

00:02:25.460 Trump than Brett Kavanaugh, Nadler said at the time, because going after Kavanaugh might remind voters

00:02:30.500 of Joe Biden's disastrous handling of Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas,

00:02:35.820 and that could harm Joe Biden's chances of becoming president. So Nadler said the safe play was to

00:02:40.820 impeach Donald Trump for colluding with Russia, which is an accusation that Jerry Nadler has never had

00:02:45.280 any evidence to support, because it's totally made up. Now, if Democrats went with that strategy,

00:02:50.580 Nadler said on the phone at the time, it would clear the way for a Joe Biden presidency.

00:02:54.940 Now, in one sense, what Molly Hemingway overheard wasn't surprising. More than a year earlier,

00:03:00.420 just minutes after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the Washington Post announced that, quote,

00:03:03.760 the campaign to impeach President Trump has begun. But in retrospect, Jerry Nadler's remarks on the

00:03:09.660 train back in 2018 didn't just foreshadow Donald Trump's two impeachments or the presidency of Joe

00:03:14.800 Biden. They also established the blueprint for how leftists would treat all political investigations

00:03:20.440 moving forward. They have no interest in the evidence. They don't care about the law. Their

00:03:25.700 goal instead is to use the force of the legal system to punish their enemies. This was a shift

00:03:31.300 that was much bigger than Jerry Nadler. The same year that Nadler made those remarks on the Acela,

00:03:36.080 Letitia James was campaigning to become New York's attorney general, and she said pretty much the same

00:03:40.720 thing. She promised to find some way to take Donald Trump to court, however implausible it may be.

00:03:46.980 And, well, she found a way. Now, one of the many problems with this strategy is that it's

00:03:51.720 short-sighted. Democrats failed to ensure that they would hold on to political power forever.

00:03:57.360 That's certainly their goal. It's the entire justification for their immigration policy. 0.80

00:04:02.460 They haven't achieved it yet. So right now, Republicans are in control of the House of

00:04:06.740 Representatives. And yesterday, they announced their own impeachment inquiry, and they're looking

00:04:11.340 primarily at whether Joe Biden sold favors to overseas interests, particularly in Ukraine and

00:04:16.300 China. Now, in a moment, I'll go into some of the evidence that justifies this inquiry, and there's

00:04:20.900 plenty of it. But really, we don't have to go into all that, because once Jerry Nadler adopted the

00:04:27.040 Stalinist standard for impeachment, basically show me a man and I'll show you the crime, evidence 0.68

00:04:32.500 became moot. Impeachment is all about raw political power now. It's not about evidence.

00:04:38.700 Certainly not about fairness or rule of law or any of that. The White House and the Biden family

00:04:43.520 know all of this. That's why they're not even pretending to defend themselves. Hunter Biden went

00:04:49.140 in front of the cameras and announced that he's not going to comply with the congressional subpoena

00:04:53.200 that he was served. He's just not going to do it. Watch.

00:04:56.300 It's already been a five-year investigation of me. Yet, here I am, Mr. Chairman, taking up your offer

00:05:07.660 when you said we can bring these people in for depositions or committee hearings, whichever they

00:05:14.320 choose. Well, I've chosen. I am here to testify at a public hearing today to answer any of the

00:05:22.920 committees legitimate questions. Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see

00:05:33.060 their tactics, expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say. What are they afraid of?

00:05:44.100 I'm here. I'm ready.

00:05:51.700 Hunter, are you willing to go across the street?

00:05:53.160 Why not testify now, sir? Why not testify now?

00:05:58.140 So Hunter Biden received a lawful subpoena for closed-door testimony, same kind of subpoena that

00:06:03.440 Donald Trump Jr. and many other Trump aides were forced to comply with for hours on end. But he just

00:06:08.880 doesn't want to do it, so he refuses. And his justification for refusing is completely absurd.

00:06:14.100 There's no legal basis for it. Hunter Biden isn't even pretending there is one.

00:06:19.280 Instead, he's saying that he wants to testify in front of the news media instead of a closed-door

00:06:23.600 session. It's just his preference. And he seems to think that his preference is somehow Biden-ing

00:06:29.480 on Congress. It was just a couple years ago that former Trump advisor Steve Bannon

00:06:33.700 defied a congressional subpoena. And unlike Hunter Biden, he had reason for doing so. He argued that it

00:06:39.080 was unlawful for Congress to compel him to testify about his work in the White House, citing

00:06:43.700 executive privilege. Now, whatever you make of that defense, it's clearly rooted in the law. There

00:06:49.560 is a legal reason for it. And it's working its way through the federal appellate process as we

00:06:54.100 speak. But what happened to Steve Bannon because he asserted that defense? Well, he was sentenced to

00:06:59.860 four months in prison. Watch.

00:07:01.860 Good morning. And thank you so much for being here with us on Live Now from Fox. My name is Christy

00:07:07.200 Larson. And we have some big news to report here to you today. Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of

00:07:13.400 former President Donald Trump. He's been sentenced to serve four months behind bars after defying a

00:07:20.040 subpoena that was from the House Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the U.S.

00:07:25.900 Capitol. A judge allowed Bannon to stay free pending appeal and also imposed a fine of $6,500

00:07:32.660 as part of the sentence. Now, Bannon was convicted in July for two counts of contempt of Congress for

00:07:40.380 refusing to sit for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents. U.S. District

00:07:47.820 Judge Carl Nichols handed down the sentence after saying the law was clear that contempt of Congress

00:07:53.300 is subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of at least one month behind.

00:07:58.320 Okay, so the question is, is that going to happen to Hunter Biden? As of now, congressional

00:08:01.500 Republicans are threatening to hold him in contempt of Congress, which they obviously should.

00:08:06.380 But then there's the question of whether Joe Biden's DOJ will pursue criminal charges. Will they

00:08:10.280 throw Hunter Biden in prison for this? Will they demand that he testify under oath about his father's

00:08:16.160 involvement in his business? That's an open question. Right now, the DOJ is pursuing charges

00:08:21.840 against Hunter Biden about his fraudulent gun form and his tax evasion. But those charges don't

00:08:26.780 directly relate to the main issue in this impeachment inquiry, which is where Hunter Biden got all of

00:08:30.940 his money from. And more importantly, Joe Biden's involvement in procuring that money. Now, yesterday,

00:08:37.640 a reporter at Fox asked the White House press secretary about all of this, and she proceeded to

00:08:42.580 make it clear that Joe Biden knew that Hunter would defy the congressional subpoena. And beyond that,

00:08:47.960 you know, she just made light of the whole situation. It's all a big joke. Watch.

00:08:52.900 He said that President Biden was familiar with what his son was going to say on Capitol Hill.

00:08:59.200 If I called my dad and said, I am about to violate a congressional subpoena, he'd probably say,

00:09:05.720 son, you shouldn't do that. Was there any attempt by President Biden to talk Hunter out of it today?

00:09:11.460 You're going to call your dad Steve?

00:09:13.360 I'm dad, usually.

00:09:14.340 Look, I don't have anything else to add. The president was familiar with what Hunter was

00:09:24.320 going to say today. And, you know, look, he's proud of his son. He and the First Lady are proud

00:09:32.180 of his son, how he's rebuilding his life back. He's going to focus on what is needed on the American

00:09:37.480 people. Hunter, and I've said this many times, is a private citizen. And so certainly I would have

00:09:42.720 to refer you to his representatives. I'm just not going to get into private conversations because

00:09:48.920 what you're asking me is actually a private conversation. I'm just not going to.

00:09:53.120 Now, this is the kind of question that should be extremely easy to answer. If you're asked

00:09:56.600 whether the president told his son to defy a congressional subpoena, you should be able

00:10:00.980 to respond and explain yourself. Instead, the White House press secretary cracks a joke and starts 0.98

00:10:06.040 talking about how much Joe Biden loves his son and is proud of his crackhead son.

00:10:09.560 What this means almost certainly is that Joe Biden did advise his son to defy the congressional

00:10:14.460 subpoena without any legal basis whatsoever, because if he didn't, then you would just say

00:10:17.960 that. Under the standards Democrats established with Steve Bannon and several other Trump aides,

00:10:23.320 that's a crime. You should go to prison for it. And there's an obvious motive for why Joe Biden

00:10:27.760 would want his son to commit this crime. Hunter Biden himself made that motive very clear during

00:10:33.400 his remarks to reporters yesterday. Watch. Let me state as clearly as I can, my father was not

00:10:40.800 financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of

00:10:46.800 Burisma, not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at

00:10:53.000 home nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist. So did you catch the qualifier there? Hunter wants

00:10:59.540 you to know that his father was not financially involved in his business dealings with corrupt

00:11:03.740 oligarchs in Ukraine and China. So this is not a denial that Joe Biden was involved in Hunter

00:11:08.520 Biden's business dealings in general. It's a denial that Joe Biden was financially involved.

00:11:14.440 This is a very different claim from the one that Joe Biden has been making for years. Let's remember

00:11:19.340 that again. Watch. How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business

00:11:25.680 dealings? I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. I have never discussed

00:11:30.360 with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period. And what I

00:11:38.060 will do is the same thing we did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between personal and

00:11:44.520 private and the government. Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your

00:11:50.920 son's overseas business dealings? Yes, I stand by that. Okay, so we went from I didn't talk to my son at

00:11:56.800 all about this. There was no conversation to well, I wasn't financially involved. And the reason for this

00:12:03.100 change is that the Biden family knows that they can't deny a direct link between Joe Biden's between Joe

00:12:07.740 Biden and Hunter Biden's influence peddling operation. Devin Archer, one of Hunter Biden's business

00:12:12.820 associates, has already testified in front of the House of Representatives saying that Joe Biden

00:12:16.640 spoke with Hunter Biden's business partners roughly 20 times. Now, those conversations, according to

00:12:21.660 Archer, took place while Joe Biden was the sitting vice president of the United States. The Wall Street

00:12:27.920 Journal also reported that Archer testified that, quote, Burisma would have gone out of business if it

00:12:32.220 didn't have the Biden brand attached to it. Burisma is the Ukraine oil company that paid Hunter Biden

00:12:36.340 tens of thousands of dollars a month for a no-show job, despite Hunter Biden having no oil expertise

00:12:41.420 whatsoever. Burisma was being investigated by Ukraine's attorney general up until Joe Biden

00:12:45.960 threatened to withhold money to Ukraine's government until they fired him. And then there's the fact

00:12:50.700 that Joe Biden used a fake name to email with Hunter Biden's business partners. There's also the many

00:12:57.340 public comments of Tony Bobulinski, the Hunter Biden business partner who has repeatedly said that Joe

00:13:02.180 Biden personally profited from Hunter Biden's influence peddling. Bobulinski, who had no reason to lie

00:13:08.300 whatsoever, told Tucker Carlson that Joe Biden was the, quote, big guy referenced repeatedly in emails

00:13:13.280 on Hunter Biden's laptop. The big guy, according to the emails, was slated to receive 10 percent of

00:13:18.540 the profits from one business venture in China. Now, it's important to recount all this because even

00:13:24.540 now, Democrats are claiming that there are no witnesses to support the idea that Joe Biden could

00:13:29.860 possibly be corrupt. Here's AOC, for example. That not only is the committee not allowing Hunter

00:13:36.020 Biden to testify publicly, but they have not called a single witness, a single first-hand witness

00:13:45.000 to any of their allegations. They haven't allowed anybody to testify publicly because they do not

00:13:52.360 have a single witness to any of their alleged allegations. They don't.

00:14:00.320 So there are no witnesses except for the witnesses. This is how the left plans to respond to the

00:14:04.960 congressional investigation into Joe Biden. They'll deny reality. They'll pretend that witnesses don't

00:14:09.020 exist, even when those witnesses have appeared before Congress and on primetime television.

00:14:14.940 They'll make fun of you, as Karen Jean-Pierre did yesterday. All this was foreseeable when Jerry

00:14:20.220 Nadler, Letitia James, and other top Democrats decided to use the legal system and the impeachment 0.99

00:14:25.500 process to punish their political opponents. It was inevitable that soon enough, they'd be forced

00:14:30.560 to admit that they can't possibly live up to their own non-existent standards. Just five years after

00:14:35.260 Jerry Nadler's conversation on that Acela, that moment is here now. Conservatives can either take

00:14:41.800 advantage of it, or they can do what they usually do. They can make a big show for the cameras and

00:14:46.880 completely fail to follow through. It's clear that Karen Jean-Pierre and Hunter Biden, that's what they

00:14:53.560 think is going to happen. Total lack of follow-through. They don't believe that their political enemies are

00:14:58.220 anywhere near as ruthless and cynical as they are. And I think for once, it's time for conservatives to

00:15:04.520 prove them wrong on that point. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:16:05.160 at CozyEarth.com. Okay, I was going to save this for the end of the headlines, but since we're on the

00:16:10.420 topic of Joe Biden's White House, I think now's an appropriate time. It's our top headline of the day,

00:16:16.760 so the White House just released whatever this is. Jill Biden posted it, and it's some kind of

00:16:25.520 Christmas dance thing that was performed at the White House. And if you're just listening to the

00:16:32.080 audio podcast, you will be deprived or be spared anyway, however you look at it, from the visuals

00:16:38.680 here. But let's just watch a little bit of this Christmas performance thing that Jill Biden 1.00

00:16:44.700 apparently put together at the White House, and here it is.

00:17:14.700 Okay. That's probably enough of that.

00:17:44.700 It goes on for like 14 hours. It doesn't stop. And it's the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:17:52.180 So thank you for that, Joe Biden. I mean, Biden should be impeached just for that. Like that's,

00:17:57.200 there should be impeachment proceedings just based on what you saw there. And I don't even know,

00:18:01.860 what's the idea? Like, what's the inspiration? Are you trying to combine like the nutcracker

00:18:07.860 and eyes wide shut? Is this what like Christmas looks like on Epstein Island? 0.56

00:18:14.820 You know what? Watching that, I felt like I had just been selected for the Hunger Games,

00:18:20.780 and they were being held this year by the Who's down in Whoville.

00:18:24.600 It's like that. If Santa was having a bad acid trip, it would look like that, is what I'm trying

00:18:31.960 to say. I felt like I was being haunted by the ghost of gay Christmas. And this is why I prefer 1.00

00:18:39.500 tradition. Okay, this is the point. I'm a traditional man. I prefer traditional things.

00:18:44.780 And that's not a simple closed-mindedness. It's that traditions are traditions for a reason.

00:18:51.860 Like they're time-tested. People have enjoyed them for generations. And so there's, you have

00:18:58.880 like the testimony of your ancestors supporting traditions. I think, who is it that traditions are,

00:19:06.840 it's like the, it's the democracy of the dead. C.S. Lewis, I think, or G.K. Chester.

00:19:11.300 Um, so, Christmas time, I don't need some dystopian jazz fusion Christmas thing. How about

00:19:24.960 you get a choir together, and they stand outside the White House, and they sing Christmas carols?

00:19:33.040 That would be nice. I would like that. I would actually watch that. That would be the only,

00:19:37.760 like, Jill Biden tweet that I'd be, I would, I would, I'd watch it. Who doesn't like a good

00:19:41.760 Christmas carol? Have them sing, um, Silent Night, Hark the Herald, Angels Sing, um, you know,

00:19:49.500 Away in the Manger. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, really, because that's an Advent. I mean, we are still

00:19:55.980 in Advent. So, if you want to be a stickler, you say there shouldn't be any Christmas, I'm not a

00:20:00.880 stickler like that, but that's what you could do. Um, you can't get any, you can't get better than

00:20:08.980 that. That's the thing. You can't improve on that. This is, it's the same thing at churches around

00:20:14.840 Christmas time. Like, I've never seen anything that bad at a church on, you know, you go to

00:20:19.280 Christmas Mass. I've, I've never seen that. Um, but you go to a lot of churches now, and they try to

00:20:25.920 do modern interpretations on old Christmas hymns, and it's just never, it never works. The most you

00:20:33.840 could hope for is a, is a pale imitation. Uh, but usually you end up with something like that, which

00:20:40.500 is just bizarre and horrifying. And, uh, and, uh, it, it, but it could, you know, it could have been

00:20:48.260 delightful. Just a Christmas carol is delightful. Even an old Grinch like myself would appreciate

00:20:54.140 that. All right. Um, Fox News has this report. Boston's Democratic mayor has come under fire after

00:21:01.740 she sent out invitations for a holiday party intended only for minority city councillors. Michelle Wu,

00:21:09.180 the city's first Asian American mayor, recently had her aide, Denise DeSantos, send out an email

00:21:14.760 for the event. Email said, honorable members, on behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu, I accordingly invite

00:21:20.240 you, you and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party. That's what the email said. The city

00:21:27.880 leader quickly drew criticism after it became apparent, apparent that the email was sent to all

00:21:31.660 city councillors, seven of whom are white. The invitation was meant only for the city's six

00:21:36.920 councillors of color. Fifteen minutes after the email was sent out, DeSantos apologized and clarified

00:21:42.420 that the invitation was only meant for minority city councillors. So just to be clear, she was not

00:21:48.480 apologizing for having a racially segregated holiday party where whites were not invited. She was only

00:21:53.960 apologizing for sending them the invitation. The apology was, oh, sorry, you, you white devils 1.00

00:22:00.280 weren't supposed to get that. Apologies. DeSantos said, I wanted to apologize for my previous email 0.98

00:22:06.940 regarding a holiday party for tomorrow. I did send that to everyone by accident. I apologize if my

00:22:11.520 email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

00:22:18.360 Now, it's not that the invitation that's offensive, it is the party itself that is racially segregated.

00:22:24.640 The revelation about the holiday party quickly received responses from Boston City Council.

00:22:31.480 Outgoing City Councilor Frank Baker, a white man, called the mayor's exclusion of certain members

00:22:35.860 unfortunate and divisive. Citing recent tensions on the city council, Baker did not speculate about

00:22:41.660 the reasoning behind the mayor's decision to host the party, but said he did not think it was a good

00:22:45.700 move. Black City Councilor Brian Worrell held a different opinion and defended the invitation,

00:22:52.360 suggesting the holiday party was merely a way to represent all kinds of special groups.

00:22:57.760 Oh, like that makes it better. No, no, no, this is just for special groups.

00:23:01.620 Now, you don't understand. We get to be at this holiday party because we're special,

00:23:04.700 because we're black, and you're not. So that's all. Nothing to be upset about.

00:23:10.760 Five-term Boston City Councilor Michael McCormick said the party was not typical of the mayor's office

00:23:16.760 and said former city leaders would have invited the entire chamber, not just the black ones.

00:23:24.880 That was me. That last part was my own editorial. Okay, so first of all,

00:23:31.180 this is not the most outrageous aspect here, obviously, but I can't quite move past the phrase

00:23:36.520 electeds of color. You know, that's the most offensive thing about this to me, 1.00

00:23:41.700 even more than the racism. Electeds of color. Like, what is, nobody speaks like that. Okay,

00:23:49.760 nobody, nobody, and this is actually a good thing about leftists, good for us, I mean, bad for them,

00:23:54.540 but it's an advantage that we have in fighting against these people is that they're hamstrung

00:24:01.080 by the fact that they insist on speaking in ways that no human being actually speaks.

00:24:05.760 Like, I was just reading an article on the Daily Wire about a new book about Hillary's failed

00:24:11.000 campaign in 2016, and some of the Democrat insiders interviewed for the book complained

00:24:17.620 about this fact. They said that, you know, Democrat politicians like Hillary, they use phrases and

00:24:23.600 words that normal people never use, and that's not because the Democrats are so smart, and they have 0.98

00:24:29.120 such a big vocabulary, and they're using big words that us normal dumb people don't know. 0.90

00:24:33.600 No, it's that they make up, they invent their own language, essentially, and it's intentionally 0.93

00:24:42.480 exclusionary, which makes them sound out of touch. It's like, it's intended to make them sound out of

00:24:51.100 touch, which is fine. I'm glad they're doing that to themselves. Again, it gives us an advantage.

00:24:56.460 Electeds of color. I mean, can you imagine how bizarre that would sound if some normal person 1.00

00:25:01.580 in conversation actually used that phrase? Like, if you were talking to a normal person,

00:25:06.360 and they said, yeah, I was out at the state capitol yesterday, and I saw some electeds of

00:25:09.540 color walk by. You'd say, what? You saw what? What? And by the way, this is something that,

00:25:18.640 for all of their flaws, Republicans don't actually really do this. You know, they don't speak like,

00:25:24.660 Republicans will speak like normal. Now, a Republican will use maybe a tone and a cadence

00:25:31.680 that sounds artificial and, you know, politician-y, but they don't use words that nobody

00:25:39.480 uses in real life. They use simple, normal, everyday words. Like, there is no latinx equivalent on the 1.00

00:25:49.560 right. Okay? Like, we're not making up buzzwords and phrases like that that would never be uttered

00:25:55.260 by a real human in actual conversation. That's something that only the left does. Much to their

00:26:02.360 detriment. But anyway, and this is also something that only the left does, which is racial segregation.

00:26:11.000 And that's the real point about this is the segregated holiday party, the no whites allowed party. 0.64

00:26:15.840 And the real point with that, I think, is the near total lack of justified outrage by the people

00:26:24.500 who have been discriminated against. Like, you've got one white guy who calls it unfortunate and

00:26:30.760 divisive, basically condemning it in the weakest possible terms that he can. This is a government

00:26:38.260 office holding a holiday party where you are excluded because of your race. And your only

00:26:46.520 response is, oh, that's unfortunate. Oh, that's unfortunate. I don't know about that. Oh, gee,

00:26:52.340 gee willikers. I don't know. And, you know, yeah, that's better than the other sycophants who 1.00

00:26:58.880 apparently have no problem with it or are pretending to have no problem with it.

00:27:01.880 But you should be a lot more upset about it than that. It's divisive.

00:27:10.200 You know, in these situations, we always say, imagine if the roles were reversed. Imagine,

00:27:14.940 imagine, just imagine if the situation was reversed. And it's true that if the situation was reversed,

00:27:22.340 there would be a volcanic explosion of outrage. Like, you can't imagine if anyone, especially if any

00:27:29.740 government office or politician had a holiday party for whites only. Okay? Like, if there was 0.82

00:27:37.640 some white mayor who sent out a holiday party invitation to the city council and said, no, 0.89

00:27:42.520 it's just for the white ones. Then send a follow-up apology. Sorry, I only meant to send it to the

00:27:46.820 white guys. Didn't mean for you blacks to get that invitation. This party's not for you. 1.00

00:27:53.720 I don't know. It's okay. No, it's because we're a special group. That's why.

00:27:56.840 Don't you understand? We're special because we're white. Okay, there would be a nuclear detonation

00:28:04.780 of anger. We cannot fathom the level of indignation. There would be people self-immolating in the street

00:28:15.640 over this. There would be congressional hearings and FBI investigations. MSNBC anchors would be 0.77

00:28:25.800 weeping on air. They'd be like committing ritualistic Harry Carey or something on air

00:28:33.900 in protest of this. I mean, you can't even, you really, you cannot, whatever you imagine

00:28:40.000 would be the reaction, it'd be a thousand times that. And then compare that to the reaction in

00:28:47.180 the reverse. And the most you get is one guy going, that's unfortunate. That's unfortunate.

00:28:54.520 But we can complain about the double standards all day. It doesn't matter.

00:28:59.760 The left isn't going to suddenly decide to be consistent. They aren't going to hear what I'm

00:29:04.320 saying right now and say, oh, wow, you know, we are being hypocritical. I didn't realize that. 0.83

00:29:09.500 Good point. Thanks for calling us out on that. That's not going to happen. So we need to be the

00:29:17.740 ones who respond appropriately to things like this. We don't need to weep and set things on fire

00:29:23.840 the way the left does. We don't need to go and loot some random business that has nothing to do with

00:29:29.620 it the way that they do. But we need to be the ones who are actually as angry and outraged as we

00:29:36.500 should be. The mayor's office saying no white people can come to my holiday party is the kind 1.00

00:29:43.260 of thing that deserves outrage. There's a lot of fake outrage out there. There's a lot of faux

00:29:46.740 outrage. There's a lot of outrage over silly, ridiculous things. But this is not a silly or 0.99

00:29:51.880 ridiculous thing. Like the mayor of a major American city saying this is not for whites is outrageous 0.97

00:30:04.240 and infuriating. And that's how we should respond to it. You can't wait for the left to respond to

00:30:10.920 it that way. They're not going to. It needs to come from us. And we need to use terms not like

00:30:17.840 it's divisive or, you know, politics as usual being divisive. No, that's not. We need to call it what

00:30:24.600 this is anti-white racism. This is bigotry. And this is not reverse racism either. This is just racism, 0.85

00:30:30.900 just straight up racism against white people. And it is unacceptable and outrageous. And this 0.98

00:30:38.700 person, you know, there should be an investigation into this person. How is this even legal?

00:30:46.680 So we need to be the ones who react that way. We can't wait around for the left to do it.

00:30:50.940 All right. There was a rather harrowing local news report in Oakland a few days ago

00:30:55.240 that I wanted to play for you. Well, let's just go ahead and watch. Emotional and gut-wrenching

00:31:02.540 scene in front of 7-Eleven, a young woman devastated over the killing of her father.

00:31:07.480 Oh, my father.

00:31:11.720 My mom's dead, dude.

00:31:14.000 She goes by the name Snow and says the security guard was 59-year-old James Johnson. I was

00:31:19.940 interviewing a longtime customer when we heard screams in the background.

00:31:23.440 I am talking to James all the time, you know. It's a good person. I'm very sad because I don't

00:31:29.080 see any more James. People were walking past her, so I went up to check on her to make sure

00:31:34.920 she was okay. Police say just after 10 o'clock on Friday night, someone shot the guard inside

00:31:40.400 the store as he tried to stop a person from taking merchandise. Police say James died at the scene.

00:31:46.620 Snow says her father worked at the store for roughly two years. He lived in a building right behind

00:31:51.760 7-Eleven. He was protecting the family of 7-Eleven because I know how my father is. He would do

00:32:00.520 that for anyone he cared and loved. She and longtime customers described James as a protector

00:32:07.040 and a kind man. He was a great man. He was a very great man. James is the good person, good

00:32:14.300 for the community, and this guy, you know, helped to everybody and take care of everybody here.

00:32:19.580 He was a nice man, giant man, pretty tall, and he would talk to everyone that came in.

00:32:26.800 Criminals have repeatedly targeted 7-Eleven stores in Oakland. On Monday, investigators say someone

00:32:32.340 killed a man pumping gas at the International Boulevard store. Two weekends ago, witnesses say

00:32:38.180 eight gunmen robbed a cigarette delivery driver and a security guard in front of the Grand Avenue 7-Eleven.

00:32:43.820 Well, obviously, tragic, gut-wrenching. You know, you feel uncomfortable with putting a woman on camera

00:32:54.100 like that when she's obviously distraught, doesn't even quite capture it. But at the same time,

00:33:02.380 it's important for people to see things like that because these are the consequences.

00:33:06.600 These are the consequences of not enforcing the law. These are the consequences of letting

00:33:13.600 criminal scumbags roam the streets. And, you know, I hate to be constantly harping on this. 0.99

00:33:21.720 It's hard not to harp on it when we're watching the destruction and decay of civilized society in real

00:33:28.500 time. But, um, this is what, this is what mercy for criminals gets you. This is your mercy.

00:33:36.660 So all of you merciful people, you know, who want to give, um, criminals second chances and third

00:33:43.280 chances and fourth chances and makes you very uncomfortable when, you know, I talk about

00:33:49.680 putting criminals away for life and saying that they need to be locked in a cage for life or,

00:33:55.440 or we need to start executing people. You know, it makes you very uncomfortable,

00:33:58.860 um, because you want to be compassionate and merciful. Well, that, well, that's your compassion

00:34:03.920 and your mercy. That's, that's what it looks like. It looks like, uh, a woman collapsed on the ground

00:34:09.580 mourning the death of her father, who was an actual contributing member of society, a good man by,

00:34:15.300 by all accounts, someone, and someone who was doing something worthwhile and productive.

00:34:22.400 Um, and, and, and once again, we are just trading that people in, we're making this trade one trade

00:34:32.120 after another, taking someone who is good and law abiding and productive, and we are trading them in,

00:34:41.820 trading their life in, in exchange for the worst people in the world.

00:34:47.600 The kinds of people who, if they all died tomorrow, we'd all be better off. Okay. The kinds of people

00:34:57.260 that get together with their friends to rob a cigarette truck, like we just saw there. The kind

00:35:04.080 of person who shoots a security guard. The kinds of people that are, they're, uh, you know, terrorizing

00:35:09.480 business, small business owners, the criminal degenerate scumbags. 0.99

00:35:18.420 If they all just were vaporized tomorrow, it's everything, everything, everyone's better off. 0.99

00:35:24.600 Contribute nothing of value to society. Uh, and, but we're taking them and we're saying,

00:35:30.980 let's have more and more of them and let's have less and less of the good people. That's the choice

00:35:36.060 that we're making. And, uh, it isn't, it is an active and deliberate choice. That's what we have

00:35:42.440 to understand. Okay. One other thing to hit to mention briefly, a daily mail has this. When a

00:35:46.300 marriage hits a rocky patch, couples find different ways of bringing back the magic date night or

00:35:51.140 perhaps counseling for Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will, it took a public scandal to reset the

00:35:57.020 relationship. Pinkett now says in an interview, quote, I nearly didn't even attend the Oscars that year,

00:36:03.160 but I'm glad I did. I call it the holy slap now because so many positive things came from it.

00:36:09.840 She is of course referring to the 2022 Oscars at which her husband had been nominated and he slapped

00:36:14.420 because we know about that. She says, quote, that moment of the S hitting the fan is when you see

00:36:19.420 where you really are. After all those years of trying to figure out if I would leave Will's side,

00:36:23.800 it took that slap for me to see that I will never leave him. Who knows where our relationship would

00:36:28.740 be if that hadn't happened? So it's another interview that Jada Pinkett Smith is doing.

00:36:33.820 And in this interview, she says that she's glad that the slap happened because that's when she

00:36:38.160 decided that she's not going to leave Will Smith because it was strengthening of their relationship

00:36:44.660 or something like that. So first of all, Jada Pinkett Smith just will not stop talking. 0.96

00:36:49.100 She won't stop. She apparently subscribes to the school of PR crisis management that says,

00:36:55.360 when you're in a PR crisis, just keep talking, which is the exact opposite of what you're supposed

00:37:00.620 to do in these situations. But her idea is like, just say more and more things.

00:37:05.960 And I guess the hope is that you'll win the public relations war by attrition. Maybe the idea is to

00:37:13.000 say so many insane and disgusting and repellent things that nobody can keep track anymore. 0.72

00:37:18.820 So I'm not sure what the strategy is, but this woman will not stop. And now she says the slap was a 1.00

00:37:23.420 great thing for their marriage. And it's when she decided not to leave Will Smith, except that she

00:37:27.820 did leave him. So she did leave him. So she decided not to leave him, except in the sense that she

00:37:33.400 actually did leave. Like she left the house and moved in somewhere else and announced to the world

00:37:40.680 that they're not together anymore. So in that sense, she left him. But in some other sense,

00:37:47.760 some mystical ephemeral sense, she didn't leave him. I don't, you know, if that makes sense,

00:37:53.540 which it doesn't. But the real takeaway here is that, is that she sees the slap as a positive,

00:37:59.440 as holy. It destroyed her, her husband's life and career. Like his career is over because it's

00:38:04.840 probably never really going to, at least it's never going to come, it's never going to get back to

00:38:07.760 what it was. It made him into a disgrace, a punchline. Like that is the thing that people will

00:38:15.540 remember Will Smith for forever. That is his legacy now. And she sees it as a positive.

00:38:24.520 And why is that? Because she obviously enjoys watching this man debase himself.

00:38:29.120 As we know, she takes a great deal of pleasure in Will Smith's public humiliation. 0.96

00:38:34.840 Like it really is amazing how evil this woman is. She's like a cartoon. She's the kind of person who, 1.00

00:38:40.460 if she was a character in a movie, like it would take you out of the story because she's too evil. 0.99

00:38:47.880 You would say like, it's not even believable. But she continues to be at least a great cautionary

00:38:53.480 tale for young men. And that's why I always say anytime that there's a story about Jada Pinkett Smith,

00:38:59.460 now she, she is, she's a, she's a quite an extreme case to, to a somewhat, maybe a lesser degree. 1.00

00:39:10.660 This is not uncommon in relationships where you have one member of the relationship who, who like

00:39:16.500 enjoys the other person being embarrassed.

00:39:20.820 And you, there are plenty of men who find themselves in relationship with, relationships with women who are like this.

00:39:29.540 And yeah, it happens in the reverse too.

00:39:32.660 But just talking about the Jada Pinkett Smith, like there, there are many Jada Pinkett Smiths,

00:39:36.740 maybe not quite. She's the, you know, she's the ultimate supervillain, but, uh, but there are many who are kind of in her, 0.79

00:39:43.600 you know, sort of in that vein. And you can see, you know, you see, uh, examples of it all the time.

00:39:53.100 Like we've all been around, you know, you're around a couple and maybe the wife or the girlfriend

00:39:58.720 brings something up supposedly in a joking way, but that's actually embarrassing for the man.

00:40:07.120 And you could tell that he's really embarrassed by it. You know, and, and yeah, you could do that in a way

00:40:14.180 that's actually joking, you know, and, uh, and you can't take yourself too seriously in a relationship.

00:40:19.680 And so you tease each other or whatever that, you know, and that can happen even, even in a publicly

00:40:24.320 in a way that's obviously well-meaning.

00:40:29.800 But, um, there are plenty of times where we've all seen this and it's very awkward to be around it.

00:40:34.180 When you see a man get kind of like cut down and embarrassed by his wife or his girlfriend.

00:40:43.360 And, uh, you could tell, you know, Jada Pinkett Smith loves doing it. She loves to just embarrass 1.00

00:40:47.400 this man. And this is, it's red flag. You know, if you're with a, you know, men are always,

00:40:53.820 I get questions from young men all the time. What should you be looking for in a woman? What should, 1.00

00:40:57.840 you know, and there's a lot to be looking for, but when you talk about red flags,

00:41:00.520 you're dating a woman, if there's like one time, even once, when she does or says anything

00:41:11.040 that is intended to legitimately embarrass you, even in a small way, then get the hell out.

00:41:19.660 Just, just get out immediately. You got a Jada Pinkett Smith on your hands and it's not going

00:41:24.480 to get better as Will Smith, uh, unfortunately for him has discovered. All right, let's get to

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00:42:25.860 Sandy says, continuing to punish Bud Light for a marketing campaign which failed to recognize

00:42:29.980 and identify their target audience seems excessively punitive to me. Time to move on. Well, I'll

00:42:34.540 happily move on, Sandy. They just need to apologize. You know, that's all. Pretty simple.

00:42:41.780 And that's all they have to do. Acknowledge what they did and apologize for it. That's how you move on

00:42:47.880 from when someone does something wrong. That's how you move on. You can't really move on until

00:42:51.620 that. There has to be an acknowledgement. There has to be an acknowledgement and an apology.

00:42:56.480 In any relationship, that's the case. If you want to repair the relationship, the person who did

00:43:02.100 something wrong has to acknowledge and apologize. If they don't, you can't move on. And even in the

00:43:06.960 relationship, if you want to call it that, between a company and consumers, this still holds true.

00:43:12.440 So, and if we get bored and move on without that concession, without that acknowledgement and

00:43:18.360 apology, then what was the point? So that's all they got to do. And look, if they did that,

00:43:25.160 I'm not going to start drinking Bud Light because I, that's, I, as I said, I have functioning

00:43:31.100 taste buds, so I'm not going to start. But, but yeah, I would say, okay, like I'm not going to go out

00:43:36.460 of my way to rehabilitate the brand. I'm not going to try to help them. But then I would say, okay,

00:43:40.640 as far as I'm concerned, boycott's over. Like, well, I'll go our separate ways now.

00:43:46.000 Okay. The Bud Light chapter has closed. Um, but that hasn't happened yet.

00:43:53.260 Devin says, I thought free speech was to protect the speech you don't agree with. If putting a

00:43:57.040 display at a state house isn't speech, then shouldn't refrain from any, any display. I think

00:44:01.620 displays of any kind should be limited to local governments at most.

00:44:05.120 Well, nobody is saying that Satanists don't have free speech, uh, Devin. If they want to run around

00:44:12.180 like talking about Satan and how great Satan is, uh, they're allowed to do that, you know? But the

00:44:18.920 displays at the state house are for legitimate religious holiday displays. Satanism is not a

00:44:24.000 legitimate religion. It is a troll of religion. Okay. It is an anti-religion. And again, even the 0.99

00:44:30.080 Satanists themselves will tell you that they themselves will be the first to claim that they

00:44:35.480 don't actually worship Satan. They don't actually believe in him. Now they do worship Satan, but they

00:44:43.200 don't think they do. Okay. Their conscious intent is to troll religion is to make a mockery of religion,

00:44:50.320 not practice it. That's why this, this whole thing was, was, uh, uh, funded and facilitated by

00:44:59.700 atheists. What interest do atheists have in religious freedom? You think they care about that? 1.00

00:45:06.200 No, it's because these people, this, they don't consider it to be a religion.

00:45:12.700 And also, by the way, how many practicing Satanists are in Iowa? Okay. Iowa is like 80% Christian. 0.69

00:45:20.320 Less than 1% Jewish, 1% Muslim, Hindu, right? And the rest are non-religious. 1.00

00:45:26.700 It is a predominantly Christian state far and away. It has a Christian display around the holidays in 0.97

00:45:32.180 the state house that represents like the, the, the predominant, uh, faith and, and, and viewpoint of

00:45:40.340 the citizens of the state. It makes sense.

00:45:42.940 How many practicing Satanists are in Iowa? Are there any, like, are there any, maybe there's one

00:45:52.040 or two. So again, the punish, the, the display was pushed and funded by national atheist groups.

00:46:00.120 So you have a national atheist group who rejects religion funding a supposedly religious display

00:46:08.540 in a state house to represent a community that doesn't exist in that state.

00:46:13.220 And the idea that we have to be accepting of that, of that total absurdity of this, of this, you know,

00:46:21.560 no pun intended, but this bad faith argument, we have to accept that if we want to have a manger

00:46:28.180 or whatever in a state house, which represents almost, you know, the belief system of almost

00:46:33.600 the entire state. Um, I just, I just find that to be absurd.

00:46:41.220 No, you know, this is a, this is, uh, predominantly a Christian state. We have a Christian display

00:46:47.140 and, uh, you know, the, the, the, the two eighth, the, the two Satanists in Iowa who then complain

00:46:55.420 about it and say, well, I want to have a display that makes fun of you guys. Cause it makes me feel

00:46:59.160 I don't give a, I don't give a damn what you want. And also, and let me also say if there was a state

00:47:06.720 or a community, um, where it was like almost entirely some other religion in that community,

00:47:16.580 and there was one Christian in the community and he wanted to put a, you know, a manger up on display

00:47:24.320 somewhere in a public place and they had a display for the religion that represents almost the entire

00:47:31.580 community. Then like, I would understand why they had that religious display, not the manger. Cause

00:47:37.600 there's, there's almost no, there's like this one guy here and this community is almost entirely

00:47:42.460 this, whatever other religion. Now, in that case, I would say that the one Christian in the community 0.88

00:47:49.140 has a much, a much stronger case than the Satanists do because Christianity is still number one, a 0.96

00:47:56.800 legitimate real religion. And number two, it's also happens to be the, the, the, uh, religion that,

00:48:03.440 you know, helped form this country. Um, there's a historical, I mean, that, that, that very much

00:48:11.060 lays foundationally and philosophically at the foundations of this country.

00:48:14.720 So even if you reversed kind of the, um, the population, you know, percentages, Christian

00:48:24.440 would still have a much stronger case. But my point is simply that, you know, somehow that is

00:48:28.460 getting overlooked in all of this. But on top of the, the absurdity and how objectionable Satanism

00:48:34.260 is and the fact that even the Satanists themselves will tell you it's not a religion. Um, aside from

00:48:41.020 that, there's like, there's like none of them anyway. So why should they be represented in the

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00:50:20.100 to our daily cancellation. News broke last week that a popular YouTuber who goes by the name Destiny is

00:50:31.380 getting divorced. Now, to be perfectly honest, I don't know anything about Destiny. The name sounds

00:50:36.640 familiar, like someone's probably come up during this segment in the past, but I couldn't tell you

00:50:40.540 much about him. What I do know is that apparently his wife is leaving him, and I also know that

00:50:46.340 by his own admission, he had been in an open marriage, quote unquote. Here's the daily caller

00:50:53.300 with the details. The wife of popular streamer and YouTuber Destiny, who previously bragged about the

00:50:57.060 pair's open marriage, is reportedly leaving him for a man she met in Sweden, according to

00:51:01.120 online reports. Screenshots from what appears to be messages from Destiny in a Discord channel

00:51:05.920 show him complaining about his wife, Swedish internet personality Melina Gorenson, and her

00:51:11.420 alleged new lover. In the leaked Discord chat, Destiny appeared to lament his wife's choice to

00:51:16.100 leave him for a toxic, abusive guy. Quote, the last two months and two weeks have been a massive mind

00:51:21.200 eff for me, watching her become obsessed with a toxic, abusive guy. When I visited Sweden last,

00:51:26.560 he gave Mel an ultimatum to divorce me and then threatened to kill himself when she didn't do it,

00:51:30.960 among 20 other abusive, manipulative things he's done, and endlessly makes excuses for him. So I'm

00:51:36.300 out. The political YouTuber appeared to write according to the Twitter post. Now, in the past,

00:51:44.260 Destiny had been very open about his open relationship, appearing on different podcasts

00:51:48.060 to talk about it. So here he is with Lex Friedman a year or two ago, along with his wife, explaining

00:51:54.000 their open arrangement. Watch.

00:51:57.340 One interesting aspect of your relationship is you're in an open relationship. What's that like?

00:52:03.420 From a game theoretic simulation perspective, what went into that calculation? And like, how does that...

00:52:08.840 Like how that started or...

00:52:10.020 Yeah, how did that start, sure.

00:52:11.000 Um, the only relationships I've ever done has been open relationships, since I was like

00:52:15.000 in high school, because I didn't really understand like, why wouldn't you be able to like, do other

00:52:20.140 things with other people, but then just like have your main partner, basically.

00:52:23.260 So what, what is an open relationship, generally speaking? That means you have one main partner?

00:52:27.840 Like a non-monogamous relationship. Like you're somehow allowed, like in different ways. Um, you

00:52:32.980 can see other people sexually.

00:52:34.760 Sexually. But like, there's one main station. 0.75

00:52:37.700 Yeah, or it doesn't have to be there for some people, but like, I think it's probably easier

00:52:41.820 and we probably don't really have time or the energy for like more than like one person

00:52:46.860 to like really, like...

00:52:49.460 Well, I said that Destiny explains the arrangement, but actually, as you heard, his wife does most

00:52:53.360 of the talking. And that's interesting because though I don't know who first decided to open

00:52:57.680 the marriage in his case, I do know that most of the time one participant will seem to be

00:53:02.920 much more into the idea than the other. That's because an open relationship is rarely a mutual

00:53:07.640 decision, no matter what they might claim. Both spouses are not usually going to simultaneously

00:53:12.460 come up with the idea that they should have sex with other people and then in unison blurt

00:53:16.940 it out. In reality, one or the other is going to make this proposal. And the one who makes

00:53:23.120 it, in doing so, is already announced that they want to have an affair. So if the other

00:53:28.480 supposedly agrees to the open marriage, they'll agree as someone who is shell-shocked and blindsided

00:53:34.480 and devastated, whether they fully reveal those feelings or not. Now, speaking of feelings,

00:53:40.720 in that same interview, they talk about the complicated, quote unquote, problem of emotional

00:53:46.220 attachments in an open marriage. Listen.

00:53:48.280 What about like emotional?

00:53:51.800 It's really complicated. There's a lot of complicated stuff going on under the hood there.

00:53:55.420 Yeah.

00:53:56.820 I think broadly speaking, you've got like polyamorous relationships and you've got like open

00:54:00.880 relationships where polyamorous is like, oh, I've got like three different girlfriends and

00:54:05.120 we all hang out or sometimes even live together or three boyfriends or whatever. And then you've

00:54:08.400 got like open relationships, which is like, oh, you know, like you can basically hook up with

00:54:11.400 other people and then you've got like your main relationship and that's it. I think ours is probably

00:54:15.120 somewhere in the middle of that to where like we've got like long-term friends, some of them

00:54:19.120 we hook up with and that's kind of how we, yeah, it's a delicate dance that explodes every six

00:54:24.840 months on itself.

00:54:25.660 So it does explode. You guys fight over it?

00:54:27.420 We fight over some things, yeah.

00:54:29.440 Things happen, yeah.

00:54:30.300 I think it's mostly because a lot of people can't handle it and they agree to something

00:54:34.580 and then they realize that we're way too cool and then they get really obsessed and they

00:54:38.260 think that they can like get in there and then it gets really dramatic.

00:54:41.220 Do you guys experience jealousy?

00:54:42.700 Usually like whenever I feel like he's not spending the, like the amount of time that

00:54:47.720 I'm asking for and he spends it on his video games or his stream or like he sees someone

00:54:53.200 else like more than he sees me or something like that, that would like not be good because

00:54:56.900 then it affects like our relationship.

00:55:00.080 Now, obviously the whole idea of an open marriage is absurd. Not just absurd, it's an, it's a

00:55:07.200 contradiction in terms. Marriage cannot be open like a square cannot be circular.

00:55:11.680 It's not because we've come up with arbitrary rules to stifle a square's creativity and

00:55:16.660 individuality. It's just because a square is a certain thing and by definition, if it's

00:55:20.880 circular, it's not the thing that a square is. The same is true of marriage. A marriage

00:55:25.660 that is open is no longer the thing that a marriage is. So I've explained before that

00:55:31.860 a marriage can't be open for the same reason that you can't build a house without walls or 0.82

00:55:35.540 a roof. The walls and the roof are the whole point of the house. So get rid of those

00:55:40.160 and now you're homeless. A blanket laid out on the pavement is not an open house or a

00:55:45.480 new house or a consensually non-walled house. It's just not a house. It's a non-house. A

00:55:50.780 marriage cannot be open. The whole point of the union is that it is closed. It is exclusive. 0.94

00:55:55.880 It has walls around it. Tear down the walls and you have obliterated the entire structure

00:55:59.820 of the thing. But I don't need to harp anymore on that point, that marriages are an oxymoron,

00:56:08.280 a self-contradiction. I probably also don't need to explain that infidelity doesn't become

00:56:11.980 something other than infidelity just because it's mutual and consensual, supposedly, and

00:56:17.500 happening out in the open. Unfaithfulness is unfaithfulness. Cheating is cheating. You

00:56:23.080 haven't found some ingenious way of gaming the system simply by announcing that you're going

00:56:26.760 to cheat. Rather than doing it in secret as adulterers have traditionally done, infidelity

00:56:31.800 is a cancer in your marriage that will eventually kill it. The fact that you have embraced the cancer

00:56:38.580 and welcomed it doesn't make your situation any less terminal. Now, there's a reason why you never

00:56:45.120 hear about couples celebrating their 50th anniversary of an open marriage. Because open marriages burn

00:56:51.720 quickly and then burn out. They can't be sustained, as destiny is apparently finding out.

00:56:58.640 I mean, he says himself in that interview that it explodes every six months. Well, that's not normal.

00:57:04.680 Your marriage should not explode every six months. And that cannot be sustained.

00:57:11.380 Like, one day it's going to explode and you're not going to be able to put it back together again.

00:57:15.040 That's going to happen pretty quickly.

00:57:15.940 Now, however, as I said, these are points that probably don't need to be dwelled on.

00:57:21.280 Instead, I'd like to briefly consider one other, perhaps slightly more interesting or surprising

00:57:25.400 point. You heard in the last clip, as destiny and his wife talk about how they deal with emotions.

00:57:31.380 And destiny says, well, it's really complicated. His wife talked about the problems of jealousy.

00:57:37.080 And this is something you hear pretty often from open marriage advocates. In fact,

00:57:40.600 any discussion about open marriages will always ultimately center around the problem of feelings

00:57:46.520 and emotions. That's why if you go to Google, you'll find hundreds of articles about how to

00:57:51.920 deal with emotions in an open relationship. Articles like this one from Elite Daily titled,

00:57:57.920 Five Ways to Handle Jealousy in Open and Poly Relationships According to Experts.

00:58:03.480 Now, we're not going to go through all five coping mechanisms as outlined by experts,

00:58:07.520 but here's the first one. Quote, communication is the foundation of any relationship, and it's even

00:58:11.720 more important when there's more than two in a relationship. So if there's an issue, particularly

00:58:16.100 jealousy, you need to talk about it. Courtney Watson, a poly-inclusive sex therapist, breaks the 1.00

00:58:21.640 process down to Elite Daily in four steps. Clarify your feelings of jealousy and explore where they're

00:58:26.380 coming from. Arrange a time to sit down with your partner. Pick a neutral setting, especially outside

00:58:31.480 the bedroom, where you have enough time and privacy to discuss your feelings. Tell your partner and

00:58:35.460 negotiate a solution that addresses your feelings and takes into consideration their feelings and needs.

00:58:40.060 See if the solution works and reconvene as needed.

00:58:44.000 Now, if that sounds like useless nonsense, then wait until you hear the next recommendation,

00:58:48.900 which says this.

00:58:51.440 Rewrite your jealousy narrative.

00:58:54.080 Another way to get to the bottom of this is to outline your jealousy, literally.

00:58:57.320 With your partner or alone, make a little guidebook to your jealous feelings, and then rewrite it.

00:59:04.720 Quote, draw a picture or describe in detail a personified version of jealousy to clarify how you

00:59:11.100 experience and relate to the feeling, they said.

00:59:13.860 What does your depiction of jealousy look like and sound like? Is jealousy bigger or smaller than you?

00:59:19.520 Do you get along well or hate each other?

00:59:21.320 Are they angry, mean, scared?

00:59:24.500 What do they tend to say to you?

00:59:26.480 What are your physical cues that jealousy is present?

00:59:29.760 Once you have a good sketch of your jealousy narrative, as Skechinger calls it,

00:59:34.720 work on reframing it in a less threatening way.

00:59:38.120 Confront what you've laid out and re-evaluate what about these attributes or behaviors makes you less jealous.

00:59:43.340 Quote, when met with support and non-judgment,

00:59:45.320 the discomfort generated by envy and jealousy can increase self-awareness and highlight a need that may not be being met.

00:59:53.620 So just to make sure we're all on the same page here,

00:59:55.900 what this expert is suggesting is that you draw a picture for your spouse to help explain why you're sad when she has sex with other men. 0.69

01:00:04.460 So grab some colored pencils and draw a picture of like a big scary monster and hand it to your wife and say,

01:00:11.000 this is how I feel when you commit adultery. 0.95

01:00:13.500 It makes me scared and sad.

01:00:16.640 This is how the relationship experts think that adults should communicate with one another.

01:00:22.280 Now, this advice obviously is terrible,

01:00:24.560 but there's something to be learned from the fact that this advice is given in the first place

01:00:28.780 and that there's so much of this kind of advice for those looking to open their relationships.

01:00:33.920 A recent post on Medium has this headline,

01:00:36.220 How to work through difficult emotions in open relationships,

01:00:38.860 using a Buddhist practice as a tool to explore feelings.

01:00:43.500 Well, yes, you can use Buddhist practices.

01:00:46.300 You can draw pictures.

01:00:47.840 You can climb to the top of a mountain and consult with a polyamorous guru.

01:00:53.380 Or you can just stop trying to force yourself to be okay with something that you know is not okay.

01:01:01.440 Okay, that's the point.

01:01:03.540 We often say, and I've certainly said this,

01:01:05.020 that people these days are always chasing their feelings,

01:01:08.140 doing whatever makes them feel good.

01:01:10.940 Well, what we find is that in so many cases,

01:01:12.900 something closer to the opposite is actually happening.

01:01:16.420 Oftentimes, especially when it comes to sex and relationships,

01:01:18.860 people are running away from their feelings.

01:01:21.300 They're running away from what would actually make them feel good.

01:01:24.300 They're trying to close themselves off from their natural emotions.

01:01:29.100 This is necessary in order to maintain a promiscuous lifestyle.

01:01:32.260 Whether you're in a so-called open relationship,

01:01:34.240 so you're just participating in a hookup culture

01:01:35.980 without pretending to be in any relationship at all,

01:01:38.560 in either case, you are going to be constantly at war with your own emotions.

01:01:41.900 You're not really following your feelings.

01:01:45.380 You're following pleasure, temporary physical pleasure,

01:01:48.520 but not emotions.

01:01:50.980 Emotions are an obstacle.

01:01:52.880 You have to close yourself off from developing connections to anyone.

01:01:56.720 You have to be emotionless.

01:02:00.220 And that's because as human beings,

01:02:02.820 we naturally desire a committed, loving, faithful relationship

01:02:07.100 with one person who is devoted to us and loves us in return.

01:02:10.500 That's what we all want.

01:02:12.600 It's what our hearts long for.

01:02:14.900 If you're actually following your feelings,

01:02:16.960 that's where it would lead you.

01:02:19.360 Now, you can't be guided entirely by your emotions in a relationship,

01:02:22.220 but you shouldn't see them as an impediment either

01:02:24.060 or as some kind of enemy.

01:02:27.800 The emotional attachment that naturally forms with another person,

01:02:31.460 you know, who you're in a sexual relationship with,

01:02:33.820 that's a good thing.

01:02:35.180 It's natural.

01:02:36.260 It's human.

01:02:36.820 And that's why, unlike destiny,

01:02:39.780 I would never say that my emotions for my wife are complicated.

01:02:44.560 Like, if I was talking to Lex Friedman and he said,

01:02:47.380 you know, what about emotions in your marriage?

01:02:49.840 Oh, it's complicated.

01:02:51.940 Man, there's a lot going on there.

01:02:53.980 It's really complicated.

01:02:56.740 It's actually not complicated at all.

01:02:58.000 Sure, you know, we have tension and disagreement sometimes,

01:03:00.020 like any married couple,

01:03:00.920 but there's nothing very complicated about our emotional situation.

01:03:04.020 I love my wife.

01:03:05.000 I like being around her.

01:03:07.340 It's actually pretty simple.

01:03:08.920 Our emotions aren't complicated,

01:03:10.320 which isn't to say that they're superficial or insignificant.

01:03:13.380 No, your emotional attachment to your spouse is a simple thing,

01:03:17.040 but it's also deep and profound.

01:03:19.420 It's something that you nurture, something to be cherished.

01:03:23.480 You know, feelings are not a problem

01:03:24.800 if you're in a monogamous, committed, loving relationship.

01:03:28.560 You don't need experts to tell you how to navigate them.

01:03:31.120 And you don't need to draw pictures to explain them.

01:03:34.740 That only becomes necessary when you've decided to do something

01:03:37.900 that you know in your heart you shouldn't be doing.

01:03:41.660 Feelings are a problem once you've decided to sever love from sex

01:03:45.860 and commitment from relationship

01:03:47.880 and attempt to experience these things separate from each other.

01:03:51.780 It can never work.

01:03:53.920 And if you listen to your common sense, you would know that.

01:03:57.020 And if you listen to your feelings, you would know that too.

01:04:02.740 Which is why, in the end, open marriages are, once again, today canceled.

01:04:09.820 That'll do it for the show today.

01:04:10.840 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:04:12.520 Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

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01:04:14.540 We'll see you tomorrow.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 14, 2023

Ep. 1278 - It's Time To Hold The Biden Crime Family Accountable

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