The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1282 - Colorado Supreme Court Commits An Insurrection

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00:01:38.080 Just a couple of minutes after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the presidential frontrunner was ineligible to appear on the ballot,

00:01:44.700 a giddy MSNBC anchor immediately started paging through the court's opinion on air. 0.72

00:01:49.980 And after a little while, she stumbled on what I think is the single most important part of the decision.

00:01:55.040 This is the portion of the ruling that isn't about the technical definition of an insurrection

00:01:59.460 or about parsing whether a president is considered an officer of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment.

00:02:06.280 Now, to be clear, as many legal experts have said, those are important aspects of the opinion,

00:02:11.000 and I'll get to them in a second, but for now, I'm referring instead to the section of the court's opinion

00:02:15.340 that addresses whether, under the First Amendment, Donald Trump can be considered a violent insurrectionist

00:02:20.640 merely because of his political speech.

00:02:23.260 This part of the ruling begins on page 116, and it's especially important because it applies to everyone.

00:02:29.240 It doesn't just affect presidential frontrunners and candidates for office.

00:02:32.720 It has the potential to affect every American who engages in political speech of any kind at all long after Donald Trump is gone.

00:02:40.320 So here's how the MSNBC anchor covered this part of the opinion live on air last night.

00:02:45.440 Watch.

00:02:46.660 In addition, Glenn, the district court did not err in concluding that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021,

00:02:54.380 constituted a, quote, insurrection.

00:02:56.320 The district court did not err in concluding that President Trump engaged in, and that's in quotes,

00:03:01.680 that insurrection through his personal actions.

00:03:04.160 And then President Trump's speech inciting the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6th

00:03:09.460 was not protected by the First Amendment.

00:03:12.080 Glenn, we've been talking for days, if not weeks, about this idea of Donald Trump trying to hide behind the First Amendment

00:03:18.300 to be able to give an excuse for what is otherwise going to be clear criminal conduct.

00:03:23.940 Your thoughts about what this Supreme Court kind of ruling has now said as well.

00:03:28.600 Okay, we don't need his thoughts.

00:03:31.160 The most important part there is where she says,

00:03:32.740 we've been talking for days, if not weeks, about Donald Trump trying to hide behind the First Amendment

00:03:37.420 to give an excuse for what is otherwise going to be clear criminal conduct.

00:03:41.180 So she's relieved to report now that Donald Trump can't hide behind the First Amendment.

00:03:46.900 And that's how someone calling herself a journalist at a major media outlet

00:03:50.000 is describing the single most important amendment that we have in the Constitution.

00:03:54.200 And they put it right there at number one, First Amendment.

00:03:58.200 Now, apparently, the First Amendment is just something that MSNBC's political opponents like to hide behind. 0.68

00:04:03.480 In MSNBC's view, it's a mere technicality designed to shield criminal conduct.

00:04:10.220 That's how the corporate media views the Constitution at this point.

00:04:13.500 That's how they viewed it for a very long time.

00:04:15.480 They see it as a sort of temporary obstacle to imprisoning Joe Biden's primary political opponent.

00:04:21.020 So let's get specific about what the Colorado Supreme Court said about the First Amendment

00:04:25.800 and why they're claiming that it doesn't protect Donald Trump from this charge of insurrection

00:04:30.660 under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

00:04:33.900 These specifics matter because they highlight how easily this decision can be used to crush

00:04:39.880 any political speech that the left doesn't approve of.

00:04:43.240 That's the whole point.

00:04:44.280 So on page 123, the Colorado Supreme Court begins its explanation of why Donald Trump

00:04:50.400 was supposedly inciting a violent insurrection on January 6th instead of engaging in lawful political speech.

00:04:55.640 But they don't start with anything that Trump actually said on January 6th.

00:04:59.600 Instead, they go back several years.

00:05:01.980 So quoting from the decision, which cites the district court,

00:05:05.000 quote, at a February 2016 rally, President Trump told his supporters that in the old days, 0.92

00:05:11.200 a protester would be carried out on a stretcher and that he would like to punch him in the face.

00:05:16.440 In March 2016, President Trump responded to questions about his supporters' violence

00:05:20.040 by saying it was very, very appropriate and we need a little bit more of it.

00:05:24.280 And during the 2020 election cycle, President Trump threatened to deploy the military to Minneapolis

00:05:28.300 to shoot looters amid protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

00:05:32.460 Now, again, these are a series of comments, taken out of context, by the way,

00:05:37.160 but let's put that to the side for a moment,

00:05:39.360 that Donald Trump made long before January 6th, 2021.

00:05:42.820 So why are we talking about that?

00:05:44.800 I mean, in some cases, these comments occurred more than four years earlier.

00:05:49.080 And they obviously have nothing whatsoever to do with January 6th or voter fraud or anything like it.

00:05:54.100 But the Supreme Court says that somehow these comments are evidence

00:05:57.620 that Donald Trump committed insurrection on January 6th.

00:06:02.460 There are proof that he intended to incite violence on that day, but how could that be?

00:06:07.560 You know, it's like if a guy is charged with murder and the prosecutor brings up during the trial

00:06:11.700 that the same guy got a parking ticket five years ago.

00:06:15.560 I mean, like, what does that have to do with anything?

00:06:18.440 Now, to square the circle, the Supreme Court relies, and I'm not making this up, by the way,

00:06:22.140 on the testimony of a sociology professor at Chapman University named Peter Simi.

00:06:28.740 So this random professor of sociology apparently convinced both the district court and the Supreme Court

00:06:35.280 that Donald Trump knows how to, quote,

00:06:37.600 deploy a shared coded language with his violent supporters.

00:06:41.580 And supposedly, Donald Trump's statements from 2016 to 2020 are evidence

00:06:46.320 that he deploys this code all the time, this secret code.

00:06:50.940 Even though he didn't, in fact, use the military to crush the BLM riots

00:06:55.020 or have any protesters beat up at his rallies, none of that happened.

00:07:00.220 You'd think if he was using violent coded language for years

00:07:03.120 that some violence would have resulted from it, but apparently not.

00:07:06.600 Still, this professor has discovered, like, the verbal invisible ink,

00:07:11.860 you know, the words that are written in the margins

00:07:13.740 that nobody can see but him with his magical decoder ring.

00:07:17.360 That's what we're supposed to believe.

00:07:19.640 The sociology professor testifies that, based on Donald Trump's statements from 2016 to 2020,

00:07:24.040 we can conclude that all of his comments on January 6th

00:07:26.680 about fighting to preserve the country and so on

00:07:28.780 were really coded language designed to incite a mob

00:07:32.740 to commit acts of violence at the Capitol.

00:07:34.500 That's the argument.

00:07:35.040 This is not simply a reach.

00:07:39.120 I mean, this decision, if upheld, is the end of freedom of speech in this country,

00:07:42.980 not just for Donald Trump, but for everyone.

00:07:46.000 To arrive at its decision, the Colorado Supreme Court

00:07:48.500 used past comments that they just didn't like.

00:07:52.100 They weren't illegal.

00:07:53.980 They just didn't like them.

00:07:55.160 In order to twist the meaning of what Donald Trump actually said on January 6th.

00:07:58.640 Now, if you remember, in his remarks on January 6th,

00:08:01.300 Donald Trump did not tell his supporters to commit any acts of violence.

00:08:04.440 Or do anything illegal.

00:08:06.420 Or any act of insurrection whatsoever.

00:08:08.740 Instead, he specifically told his supporters to head to the Capitol

00:08:11.900 and protest, quote, peacefully.

00:08:15.080 Let's watch that again.

00:08:17.020 Know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building

00:08:20.900 to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

00:08:26.000 Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections.

00:08:33.440 So we're supposed to disregard the fact that Trump told his supporters to be peaceful on January 6th.

00:08:39.960 This is according to the Colorado Supreme Court, because he said some stuff that they didn't like back in 2016.

00:08:45.140 And therefore, Trump's address to the crowd on January 6th was really a coded message calling for violence.

00:08:52.800 But we need to bring in the sociology professor to crack the code. 1.00

00:08:56.760 In its opinion, the Colorado Supreme Court barely even acknowledges that Trump explicitly told his supporters

00:09:02.440 to be peaceful on January 6th.

00:09:05.360 On page 127, they dismissed this as an isolated reference that doesn't neutralize anything unpleasant

00:09:11.300 that Donald Trump has ever said.

00:09:14.480 Therefore, even though he explicitly called for peace,

00:09:16.460 we could just ignore that and conclude that he was really calling for the violent overthrow of the federal government.

00:09:21.120 So you see how this works.

00:09:23.620 They're taking Donald Trump's explicit call for peace and just discarding it out of hand.

00:09:29.420 At the same time, they're accusing Donald Trump of making implicit calls for violence going back several years

00:09:34.260 and concluding that it amounts to an insurrection within the meaning of the 14th Amendment.

00:09:39.080 And to reach the conclusion, as the dissenting opinion notes,

00:09:42.300 the Colorado Supreme Court never afforded Donald Trump any due process

00:09:45.660 concerning the determination of whether an insurrection had even occurred at all.

00:09:49.140 The Colorado Supreme Court didn't bother with the inconvenient fact that

00:09:53.340 there's a federal insurrection law on the books

00:09:56.080 and Donald Trump has never been charged with violating it.

00:10:00.300 Now, in case your memory is a little bit foggy,

00:10:02.080 let me remind you that Donald Trump did not lead an army to overthrow the government

00:10:06.200 or even to secede from it.

00:10:08.220 He didn't form his own country or announce his intent to do so.

00:10:12.780 Instead, Trump was trying to maintain the status quo by telling Mike Pence to reject electors

00:10:17.120 that he believed were fraudulent.

00:10:18.180 Trump was the chief executive of the government on January 6th,

00:10:21.420 and he wanted to remain the head of the government.

00:10:23.480 As legal analyst Nick Rikita pointed out last night on his YouTube channel,

00:10:27.640 a government cannot lead an insurrection against itself.

00:10:31.900 Or if it can, there's zero evidence that the 14th Amendment was ever intended to apply

00:10:36.320 to an unprecedented situation like that.

00:10:38.740 So to recap, the Colorado Supreme Court didn't have a conviction against Donald Trump for insurrection,

00:10:44.080 nor did they have any reason to think that the 14th Amendment applied to what Donald Trump did.

00:10:51.140 But they decided that didn't matter.

00:10:53.380 They just unilaterally decided on their own that they know what the word insurrection means,

00:10:59.200 and they went with it.

00:11:01.960 By the same logic, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could be disqualified for inciting violence all across the country in 2020,

00:11:09.440 including riots at a federal courthouse in Portland and at the White House,

00:11:13.940 including riots that burned down a police station in Minneapolis.

00:11:18.140 So we can now have an endless tit-for-tat of political disqualifications in various courts

00:11:24.260 instead of actual elections.

00:11:26.200 That's according to the logic from the Colorado Supreme Court.

00:11:28.440 That is the precedent that they would seemingly be intentionally trying to set.

00:11:34.080 Now, I could go on about all the other problems with this ruling.

00:11:36.840 Other commentators and several federal courts have already pointed out that the president,

00:11:40.800 under the 14th Amendment,

00:11:42.280 isn't even capable of being barred from the ballot as an insurrectionist.

00:11:45.140 The Constitution spells out exactly who can be barred for committing insurrection,

00:11:50.860 and the president is not named.

00:11:52.360 Senators are named.

00:11:53.240 Representatives are named.

00:11:55.280 Electors for president and vice president are named, but not presidents themselves.

00:12:00.060 Now, I could also go into the various political ramifications of this decision.

00:12:03.880 Yes, this particular ruling is almost certainly going to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:12:07.780 In fact, the ruling has already stayed pending the Supreme Court's review.

00:12:11.100 And yes, it's a clearly partisan document.

00:12:12.840 Every single member of the Colorado Supreme Court was appointed by a Democrat governor.

00:12:17.780 And even then, the decision in this case was still four to three.

00:12:21.540 There's also the whole absurdity of every single state Supreme Court

00:12:24.780 separately making a decision that clearly has implications for a national presidential election.

00:12:31.020 So it's not remotely clear how Colorado has jurisdiction to even do that,

00:12:35.620 according to the text of the 14th Amendment.

00:12:37.080 John Bolton, just to show you how weak the case is,

00:12:41.060 John Bolton, who is not exactly a Trump ally, outlined this problem on CNN last night.

00:12:46.200 Watch.

00:12:47.380 I think it's completely misplaced.

00:12:49.400 I think this Colorado Supreme Court decision is badly wrong for multiple reasons.

00:12:54.640 Number one, the 14th Amendment provides that Congress can pass legislation

00:12:59.440 to carry its provisions into effect, which Congress has done on many aspects.

00:13:04.460 It has not put anything with respect to Section 3 on the books since just after the Civil War.

00:13:11.340 Second, the idea that 50 different state courts can decide a question involving the highest elective office

00:13:19.720 in the executive branch, interpreting the federal Constitution as to what constitutes an insurrection

00:13:26.140 against the federal government is incoherent.

00:13:30.660 And I think, undoubtedly, the Supreme Court is going to have to clear that up.

00:13:34.320 In terms of what the framers of the 14th Amendment meant,

00:13:37.960 I think it's quite clear that the radical Republicans in Congress

00:13:42.120 who wanted to suppress the secessionist advocates and governments of the southern states that succeeded

00:13:48.620 would not provide, on this critical question of the offices that are going to be denied

00:13:54.980 to people who broke their oath to the United States,

00:13:57.840 that you're going to put decision-making authority on that in the hands of the states,

00:14:02.180 including the former secessionist states.

00:14:04.520 If that was their intention, they were delusional when they did it.

00:14:08.580 So I'd be willing to bet a small amount of money here that the Supreme Court,

00:14:12.980 if it gets to the merits of this, if it has to, will reverse.

00:14:16.980 There's no other logical way you can apply this,

00:14:20.780 and it would sow chaos in elections as far as the eye could see.

00:14:25.220 So you can make a lot of other points, too, about the limited impact this decision will have,

00:14:30.600 regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court does.

00:14:32.600 You can note that Colorado is a state that obviously isn't going to determine the outcome in the next election.

00:14:36.340 If anything, this decision will probably help Donald Trump in the polls.

00:14:39.820 And already Colorado Republicans have suggested that they'll simply hold their own caucus and submit the results to Congress,

00:14:44.600 which, if it's Republican-controlled, can simply reject any Biden electors from the state

00:14:48.580 on the grounds that no fair election took place.

00:14:50.800 In other words, it's possible that this decision will actually cost Joe Biden electoral votes from Colorado,

00:14:55.420 a state that he's virtually guaranteed to win otherwise.

00:14:57.860 But even if this Colorado ruling is overturned tomorrow,

00:15:01.320 and even if no other state Supreme Court issues a ruling like it,

00:15:05.000 the fact remains that this decision out of Colorado highlights a much deeper issue that will not go away.

00:15:12.820 Journalists and leading political figures in this country are now openly saying

00:15:16.460 that their political opponents should not have a say in elections.

00:15:21.360 They've been building to this point for a while, of course.

00:15:24.120 They've been imprisoning meme makers and raiding the homes of pro-lifers

00:15:29.520 and investigating parents for criticizing trans propaganda in schools.

00:15:33.380 They've been doing all of that.

00:15:34.100 But in the wake of this Colorado decision, it's now totally explicit.

00:15:38.400 So here was Congressman Jamie Raskin yesterday, for example.

00:15:42.800 This is just a question of law.

00:15:44.620 It's like if a 14-year-old tried to run for president,

00:15:48.060 would that person be kept off of the ballot because the Constitution says you have to be 35 years old to run for president.

00:15:56.160 And this disqualification clause says you cannot be on the ballot for president

00:16:00.500 or you cannot serve as president if you have participated in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States.

00:16:07.560 And so I would think that regardless of what your politics are, what your party is,

00:16:12.940 everybody should agree that this is a question of law that's got to be settled by the court.

00:16:18.060 Everybody should agree that this should be settled by the courts.

00:16:21.580 Well, actually, no.

00:16:23.320 Four judges selected by Democrat governors should not, in fact,

00:16:27.080 settle the issue of whether American citizens can vote for the clear frontrunner in a presidential election.

00:16:33.200 It's hard to believe that anyone with any amount of shame would even suggest something like that,

00:16:37.320 but there's a sitting U.S. senator, or congressman, rather,

00:16:41.260 explaining that to uphold the law, you need to agree with him on this point.

00:16:45.120 Now, once again, you're being told that in the name of the law,

00:16:49.440 you should accept a decision that shocks the conscience of any reasonable person.

00:16:54.520 You're told that the same Constitution that explicitly guarantees your right to freedom of speech

00:16:59.280 in reality is actually restricting it.

00:17:02.740 Now, from a historical perspective, this is nothing new.

00:17:05.120 You might remember that the USSR had a Constitution complete with guarantees for freedom of speech and political expression.

00:17:10.660 It didn't work out too well for them.

00:17:13.480 That's because the Soviets discovered that words in a Constitution aren't actually self-enforcing.

00:17:19.300 Right?

00:17:19.760 So there's nothing magical here.

00:17:21.260 They're just words.

00:17:22.820 They can be discarded.

00:17:24.640 You need a population and elected officials who actually respect the document.

00:17:28.460 If they don't, then it's trivially easy for them to twist the words of the Constitution around

00:17:34.180 to the point that they become meaningless,

00:17:36.260 or that they actually do the opposite of what they're intended to do.

00:17:39.900 That was Justice Scalia's famous line about how the Constitution is a parchment guarantee.

00:17:45.260 Now, at the end of the day, the Constitution is words on paper.

00:17:48.960 Those words can be manipulated and just discarded in an instant,

00:17:53.340 and that's what they're trying to do right now.

00:17:55.080 That's what happened in Colorado.

00:17:56.280 So, four activists on a court and a Chapman sociology professor

00:18:00.820 tried to rewrite the First Amendment, not just for Donald Trump, but for you, for me.

00:18:06.760 And if they're allowed to succeed, then they will have dismantled

00:18:09.740 the foundational legal principle of this country, which is the freedom of speech.

00:18:14.240 They will have ensured an unprecedented level of political violence and discord in the process.

00:18:19.100 And in short, they will, by their own definition, be guilty of insurrection.

00:18:24.140 And they'll have no reason to complain when they inevitably pay a very heavy price for it.

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00:19:33.080 ABC News reports presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pledged on Tuesday to remove himself

00:19:38.420 from Colorado's Republican primary ballot in response to the state's Supreme Court ruling

00:19:42.080 that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to run in the state over his activities around January 6th.

00:19:46.640 Ramaswamy promised to stay off the ballot until Trump's eligibility is restored.

00:19:51.700 He called upon his and Trump's 2024 GOP primary opponents to take the same steps.

00:19:59.500 Ramaswamy's statements came shortly after the Colorado Supreme Court decided on Tuesday evening

00:20:02.540 that Trump is disqualified.

00:20:03.880 So I already know about that.

00:20:05.100 Here is Ramaswamy on Twitter last night with a video explaining this decision and why he's doing it.

00:20:12.480 Let's watch.

00:20:12.780 They have just tried to bar President Trump from the Colorado ballot using an unconstitutional

00:20:18.640 maneuver that is a bastardization of the 14th Amendment to our U.S. Constitution.

00:20:23.760 This was a provision, Section 3, that was designed to bar Confederate members.

00:20:27.700 People switched to the Confederacy from actually being able to serve.

00:20:31.360 That's very different than what's at issue here, to say the least.

00:20:34.920 This is a hollowed out husk of what the country was built on.

00:20:38.020 The basic principle that we the people select our leadership, not the unelected elite class

00:20:44.220 in the back of palace halls.

00:20:45.940 That's old world Europe, not the United States. 0.53

00:20:48.920 That's why I'm making a pledge today that I will withdraw.

00:20:53.000 I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot unless and until Trump's name

00:20:59.860 is restored.

00:21:00.560 And I demand that Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie and Nikki Haley do the same thing,

00:21:06.180 or else these Republicans are simply complicit in this unconstitutional attack

00:21:11.620 on the way we conduct our constitutional republic.

00:21:14.920 I refuse to be complicit in that.

00:21:16.800 I think what they're doing is wrong.

00:21:18.480 And I think it's up to Republicans to step up and stand up with a spine for our country's future.

00:21:24.040 That's really what's at stake, whether we the people actually have it.

00:21:27.260 So there he is making the case for it.

00:21:29.840 Unpopular opinion, I realize, on the right anyway.

00:21:31.760 But I don't really, you know, I don't like this move from Vivek.

00:21:35.520 I like a lot of what he does and says.

00:21:37.680 But so it's somewhat rare that I would disagree.

00:21:43.500 I just, on this one, I don't see it.

00:21:45.220 I don't get it.

00:21:45.920 Um, I mean, first of all, Trump is still on the ballot because the decision has been stayed

00:21:51.480 and it'll be overturned.

00:21:53.760 So maybe it's all like, it's maybe kind of a moot point in that sense.

00:21:58.360 Um, but at the same time, you know, I don't see like, just speaking in principle here.

00:22:05.700 Um, I don't see how you punish the left and these activist judges by voluntarily withdrawing

00:22:13.180 from the ballot as a Republican, because isn't that exactly what they would want you to do?

00:22:20.420 I mean, if anything, doesn't that encourage them to do more of that kind of thing?

00:22:25.240 Because they're getting, it's like a two for one special now.

00:22:29.260 So we could take Trump off the ballot and then the rest of you too.

00:22:32.440 We'll, we'll, we'll kind of self-select to be off the ballot.

00:22:37.960 So like from their perspective, you know, you gotta, you gotta imagine if you're from

00:22:42.640 the perspective of your opponent and they look at that or they go on, oh no, don't do

00:22:47.460 that.

00:22:47.620 Well, that's terrible.

00:22:48.940 You know, don't leave the ballot.

00:22:50.360 Don't know.

00:22:52.360 Like, aren't you rewarding them for their efforts?

00:22:55.000 I know that's not the intention, obviously, but isn't that the result?

00:22:59.460 So I'm just trying to figure out the strategy.

00:23:01.040 It's like, oh yeah.

00:23:02.620 Well, if you won't let Trump on the ballot, then this other guy you also hate will also

00:23:09.040 not be on the ballot.

00:23:10.120 So there, what do you say now?

00:23:12.640 We got you.

00:23:14.160 So I don't see the win there.

00:23:16.800 I made this point on Twitter and a lot of people are very mad at me.

00:23:20.520 I said, it's an unpopular opinion.

00:23:22.180 It's just, because we're supposed to, you know, it's like, we're supposed to just be

00:23:26.080 cheerleaders for this kind of thing. 1.00

00:23:27.460 Um, there's no room for anyone to have a dissenting opinion.

00:23:32.540 That's the way it goes.

00:23:34.060 Um, but I really am curious, like no one is explaining the win.

00:23:38.260 Maybe there is one.

00:23:38.980 I just don't see.

00:23:39.540 That's quite possible.

00:23:41.040 It happens sometimes.

00:23:41.980 I don't see things.

00:23:43.640 Um, but there's a lot of this, well, it's the right thing to do.

00:23:46.520 It makes a statement.

00:23:48.580 I don't care about making statements.

00:23:50.980 You know, I care about the win.

00:23:53.400 I care about the strategy.

00:23:55.220 That's really the only thing I care about.

00:23:58.200 What's the win?

00:23:58.920 What's the strategy?

00:24:01.200 And I think, again, general principle, uh, the right political strategy.

00:24:07.980 And it's, this is simplistic.

00:24:10.100 And, you know, this is, this is a, this is a, well, I would call it simplistic.

00:24:13.940 I would say this is simple.

00:24:14.720 It is simple though.

00:24:16.360 Simple way of looking at it.

00:24:17.380 I think it's the right way of looking at it, which is general strategy.

00:24:20.800 You know, figure out what your enemy would want you to do and then do the opposite of whatever

00:24:30.620 that thing is.

00:24:31.440 Never do anything that your enemy will be happy about you doing.

00:24:36.440 So if you're doing something and your enemy goes, great, this, this works out great for

00:24:41.380 us.

00:24:42.120 And it's probably not a good strategy.

00:24:45.420 And with something like this, I don't see how it's the opposite of what your enemy wants.

00:24:48.700 Like, I think it's clearly what they want.

00:24:50.340 You know, there's a lot of, it's why it matters because it does seem like there's a lot of this

00:24:54.880 kind of thing on the right.

00:24:56.780 And so even if like ultimately this is overturned by the, by the Supreme Court, uh, Trump and

00:25:03.580 the back are back on the ballot.

00:25:04.820 So it all sort of the same in the end anyway.

00:25:09.600 The reason why it matters to me is because it's just, it, it, it shows a problem on the

00:25:14.840 right in general, uh, that you find it's like, you know,

00:25:19.840 it's like when people tell me just sort of another example, they say, well, Hey, you need,

00:25:24.420 you need to stick it to YouTube by leaving the platform entirely.

00:25:28.220 Don't put any content there.

00:25:30.140 That's how you got to stick it to them.

00:25:31.540 Right.

00:25:31.940 Make a statement.

00:25:34.580 Well, okay.

00:25:35.100 But that, I mean, that's like exactly what they want.

00:25:37.860 They'd be very happy about that.

00:25:39.120 They're not right.

00:25:40.280 If I, if I pull off, if I don't have nothing on YouTube, YouTube is not going to go, Oh no,

00:25:43.880 Matt, Matt Walsh isn't here anymore.

00:25:46.040 This is terrible for us.

00:25:47.420 We hate this.

00:25:48.040 No, they'd be extremely happy about it.

00:25:51.260 This is a, they, they, they, they, you know, pop champagne.

00:25:55.060 They could be more happy.

00:25:57.880 So that seems like it's clearly not the right strategy.

00:26:02.760 And this goes for a lot of these big tech companies.

00:26:04.740 You know, you always hear, there's always this, this thought of, well, you know, get

00:26:07.700 off the platform, you know, show, show them, show them what's what by, by, uh, leaving

00:26:13.400 the platform, but I understand the idea behind it.

00:26:16.420 Like I get it.

00:26:18.360 I understand the thought process, but I don't think it, I don't think it makes sense strategically

00:26:23.460 because that's exactly what the platforms want.

00:26:26.040 They want you to be silenced.

00:26:27.400 They don't want you using their platform to spread a message that they disagree with.

00:26:31.400 And so if you just leave and make yourself irrelevant and go off to some ghetto somewhere, uh, then, 0.84

00:26:37.940 uh, some, some internet ghetto somewhere and, you know, speak to an echo chamber, they love

00:26:42.800 that.

00:26:43.020 That's great for them.

00:26:43.800 That's, that's, that's the best possible scenario as far as they're concerned is exactly what

00:26:49.640 they want you to do.

00:26:52.960 And so for that reason alone, you shouldn't do it, which is always, you know, even though

00:26:58.200 that I think that's a, it's a simple common sense way of approaching things, it doesn't

00:27:02.980 always tell you the whole story.

00:27:05.960 Like it's, it's a way of knowing what you shouldn't be doing, but it doesn't always tell

00:27:09.180 you exactly what you should do.

00:27:10.120 Um, yeah, leaving all the big tech platforms, silencing yourself, not a good strategy.

00:27:16.660 Well, what, what do we do about the big tech platforms though?

00:27:20.100 You know, there's a whole other question that's opened up.

00:27:22.300 I realize that, but, um, it is useful at least to, to establish, you know, what, what, what

00:27:30.700 we shouldn't be doing in response to things like this.

00:27:32.620 And so I think strategically it's, uh, just not the smartest move.

00:27:38.900 All right.

00:27:39.380 This is from NBC News says a fifth teenager who surrendered to police in Florida on Monday

00:27:45.920 was charged in connection with a, uh, brutal beating videotaped near the scene of a deadly

00:27:50.300 2018 school shooting.

00:27:52.480 Jameer Bozel, 17, turned himself in and was charged with a felony battery in the attack

00:27:57.680 just outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

00:28:00.140 Four other teenagers, Caleb Hensley, Sylvester Hicks, Chinua Lifat, and Jordan Thompson were

00:28:08.340 arrested last week and charged with the same offense.

00:28:10.980 All except Lifat are students at the school.

00:28:14.720 The four appeared in court Friday, were released to the custody of their parents.

00:28:18.720 The victim was slammed to the pavement and beaten, um, on December 12th at North Community

00:28:23.920 Park, which serves as an overflow parking lot for students at the school.

00:28:26.760 Uh, and there is a, there's a video of this beating that is making the rounds online.

00:28:33.300 I'm not going to play for you, play for you here.

00:28:34.800 It's, it's quite, uh, it's, but it's quite brutal.

00:28:37.540 I mean, the worst part is slamming his head on the pavement.

00:28:42.000 Um, thank God the victim was not killed in the, easily could have been killed.

00:28:47.640 It's just luck of the draw at that point.

00:28:49.100 You get your head slammed against the pavement.

00:28:50.480 It's luck of the draw, whether it kills you or not.

00:28:51.860 It just depends on how your head hits, you know, and, um, but brutal savage attack.

00:28:59.160 And this is just the latest story of its kind.

00:29:01.900 If this sounds, if you, if you hear this and sounds familiar and you say, well, didn't

00:29:06.900 we hear about this exact story three weeks ago?

00:29:09.340 Well, you did.

00:29:10.080 It just wasn't this exact case.

00:29:12.800 Um, it's happening a lot.

00:29:14.160 A kid getting beaten savagely by a group of other kids.

00:29:17.660 It's been happening a lot this year with devastating consequences for the victims, obviously.

00:29:24.000 And the other thing you notice, of course, is that the media goes very light on the details

00:29:28.880 about, about the attackers and the victims in these cases.

00:29:34.360 That's why I read that NBC News article.

00:29:36.420 They didn't, I could pull up any other article from any other corporate media outlet.

00:29:40.460 And what you're going to find is that they'll talk about teens.

00:29:43.720 They'll talk about kids.

00:29:44.880 Um, but they're going to be very, uh, gentle about offering any kind of like description

00:29:52.100 of who these people are because the one thing they're not going to tell you, of course, uh,

00:29:57.780 is the races of the people involved.

00:30:01.960 Um, and that's because in this case, just like in so many of these cases, the assailants

00:30:06.100 are black and the victim is white.

00:30:09.520 And that's, that's the reality.

00:30:12.540 Should that be mentioned?

00:30:13.660 Does that matter?

00:30:14.360 Uh, yes, it should be mentioned.

00:30:18.420 And for two reasons.

00:30:20.260 The first is the really obvious one that if the situation was reversed, it certainly would

00:30:25.820 be mentioned. 0.98

00:30:28.200 You know, a group of white kids beating the hell out of a black kid. 0.98

00:30:32.760 Definitely that's, that's the races there. 0.97

00:30:35.760 They're not just going to be in the article.

00:30:36.920 That's in the headline.

00:30:38.180 That is the headline at that point.

00:30:41.300 It's not just in the headline.

00:30:42.520 It is the headline. 0.99

00:30:43.360 That a group of white kids beat a black kid. 0.87

00:30:45.560 Now it's, that's hard to imagine because, um, that sort of thing just never happens.

00:30:51.380 Like it almost never happens.

00:30:54.200 Yeah.

00:30:54.620 It's not to say that, that white kids and white people, white teens, uh, white people

00:30:59.200 any age don't commit acts of violence.

00:31:00.800 Of course they do.

00:31:02.980 But this particular thing of, uh, getting together as a group and ganging up on one person 0.89

00:31:10.900 in particular, a group of white teens, ganging up on a black teen, beating him senselessly, 0.95

00:31:21.300 slamming his head against the pavement. 0.96

00:31:22.300 It just like, it never happens.

00:31:26.420 I don't know if you go back and I'm sure there'd be plenty of people fact checking me on this,

00:31:32.140 but, uh, go back the last 15 years.

00:31:37.040 Let's just go back to the year 2010.

00:31:39.300 Okay.

00:31:40.020 Just to make it easy.

00:31:41.000 From then until now, how many cases are there of a group of white people beating up a black person?

00:31:51.040 I think you'd be hard pressed to find even like two or three.

00:31:57.140 It's just almost never happens.

00:31:58.800 It's like unheard of.

00:32:01.800 But going the opposite way, it happens quite frequently.

00:32:05.840 And so that's one reason why the races matter and should be mentioned.

00:32:08.520 But the other reason too, is that, you know, it, it matters because it, because it, it matters.

00:32:17.520 I mean, it's part of the story.

00:32:19.040 Now it is true that like in this particular case was race, um, an immediate inciting factor.

00:32:29.160 Were they, did they chase this guy down and attack him because he's white?

00:32:32.560 Is that the reason that they gave?

00:32:35.220 Were they, were they shouting anti-white slurs at him while they were beating him?

00:32:38.720 As far as I know, the answer is no to that.

00:32:41.980 As far as I know, that's not the case.

00:32:45.220 Um, and in many of these kinds of cases, you know, the, the, the attackers are not, if you ask them why they did it, in many of these cases, not all of them, but in many of these cases, they would not say, they're, they're not going to tell you, well, it's because of the guy's race.

00:33:00.700 We don't like him because he's white. 1.00

00:33:03.600 That doesn't mean that race is not a factor here because all of this is happening within a cultural context.

00:33:11.260 Where white people are painted as the enemy, painted as the other. 0.51

00:33:18.420 And non-white people, racial minorities are being told from a very young age that, oh, that group over there, they're the oppressors, right? 0.98

00:33:31.620 All the evil in the world comes from them.

00:33:36.160 And everything happening to you that you don't like, everything about your life that you don't like, one way or another is traced back to those people.

00:33:43.780 Like, it's all their fault, one way or another.

00:33:48.660 No matter how many dots you have to connect.

00:33:52.380 We tell the, the, uh, young black kid in school, whatever your problems are, look at that white kid, your classmate. 0.78

00:34:00.340 One way or another, it all, it goes back to him.

00:34:02.680 He's involved.

00:34:04.060 This is the message that they hear.

00:34:06.900 That's the context in which these things are happening.

00:34:10.780 Um, so whether race is,

00:34:13.780 cited as a, as a sort of conscious, uh, motivating factor, this is the cultural context.

00:34:20.260 And the thing is, very often, in most cases, the left in particular, um, they're eager to bring up things like cultural context.

00:34:31.140 Like, in, in most cases, if they're looking to excuse or mitigate a crime that some criminal commits,

00:34:40.100 and they want to come up with an excuse for putting that person back on the street as quickly as possible,

00:34:44.580 then they're all about context.

00:34:47.440 They go, well, you have to understand the context, the, the, the, the oppression this person has suffered, and so on and so on.

00:34:51.340 Um, but when it comes to something like this, all of a sudden, uh, they're not worried about that context quite as much.

00:34:58.740 They've created a context of, again, white people being demonized, blamed as the enemy. 0.99

00:35:06.340 Whiteness is a cancer. 1.00

00:35:07.700 Whiteness is a, whatever. 1.00

00:35:09.500 Uh, it's an epidemic. 0.94

00:35:11.080 It has to be cured.

00:35:12.100 And then you see a lot of violence being committed of this kind against white people.

00:35:16.880 And, uh, then all of a sudden, the context doesn't matter as much to them, which is interesting.

00:35:22.700 All right, next, you know, you've heard about gender dysphoria.

00:35:25.600 Of course, we've talked about that plenty.

00:35:26.960 Well, something we haven't talked about as much, because it's nonsense, but, but still, it, it's, uh, it's alleged opposite, which is gender euphoria.

00:35:37.100 So, you have, there's gender dysphoria, where you feel like you're in the wrong sex, and there's gender euphoria.

00:35:45.760 And Libs at TikTok posted this video today, which has, uh, gone viral of a, a guy, uh, pretending to be a woman, and talking about the gender euphoria he experiences when he, in his mind, acts like a woman.

00:35:59.200 Let's watch that.

00:36:00.800 Things that give me gender euphoria, but it gets increasingly more unhinged. 1.00

00:36:04.500 Doing housework.

00:36:05.340 There's just something that's so mommy-coated about destroying a mountain of dishes, or, like, crisply folding laundry. 0.65

00:36:10.780 Beating men.

00:36:11.580 Not, like, physically beating men, but, like, winning against men in, like, sports, or a video game, or life itself.

00:36:16.560 Also, the color green.

00:36:17.880 I understand that colors don't have gender, but a good green, that's just for the girls' beard. 1.00

00:36:21.760 Next, I'm gonna have to say crying.

00:36:23.800 Before I transitioned, I was one of those girls-boys who, like, never cried, and now it's everyday, like, clockwork, and honestly, what is girlier than sobbing uncontrollably?

00:36:31.540 Next, doing any activity with the wind in my hair.

00:36:34.700 Like, running, biking, convertibles, boats, wind tunnels.

00:36:37.860 Okay, those last three I actually haven't experienced, but I imagine the euphoria would be off the chart.

00:36:42.240 Also, reminder that there is an ongoing genocide that we need to be paying attention to, talking about, and calling our reps about.

00:36:47.380 Just because your feed is back to normal doesn't mean the world is back to norm-

00:36:50.940 Ongoing genocide that he's talking about as he's doing his nails or whatever.

00:36:58.860 Yeah, it's an ongoing genocide.

00:37:01.000 It seems to be, I assume he's talking about the totally fictional transgenocide, the genocide of trans people that doesn't exist.

00:37:09.240 And, you know, he seems real concerned about it, doesn't he?

00:37:11.540 Like, all these people, they talk about the transgenocide, but judging based on their actions and the way they present themselves and what they do and say, they don't seem to be worried about that at all.

00:37:21.740 They're not acting like the victim group when there's an actual genocide happening.

00:37:30.440 But a couple interesting things here.

00:37:32.020 The first and most obvious is this just, you know, another Dylan Mulvaney situation, as is always the case.

00:37:38.900 You get this cartoonish, degrading caricature of womanhood, as always. 1.00

00:37:47.760 And that's what it always is, right?

00:37:50.220 I mean, there's no version of this that is not cartoonish and degrading.

00:37:57.020 Anytime you have a man, quote unquote, identifying as a woman, it's always this. 0.99

00:38:02.020 And then you also see the performance.

00:38:08.180 Like, it's nothing but performance for these people.

00:38:12.140 It's interesting that he says even when he gets euphoria from it, he lists a crying.

00:38:20.180 So, yeah, that's kind of an insulting stereotype of womanhood. 1.00

00:38:24.160 I mean, what he's saying is when you cry, you're acting like a girl.

00:38:28.400 The kind of thing that to say that in any other context would be horribly sexist.

00:38:32.820 And yet, that's what he's saying here.

00:38:34.040 And I guess as long as you're a man wearing makeup and with long hair and you say that, then suddenly it's okay.

00:38:39.040 But aside from that, he says that he gets this feeling of euphoria while he's crying.

00:38:50.460 Well, how is that even possible?

00:38:56.220 Like, how can you experience those two things at the same time?

00:38:58.480 Unless you're crying tears of joy, but I assume you're talking about you're crying because you're sad about something.

00:39:03.180 So, you're sad and you're crying and at the same time you feel euphoric about the fact that you're sad and crying?

00:39:08.900 That doesn't make any sense.

00:39:12.920 It's schizophrenic to even imagine holding both of those feelings in your head at the exact same time.

00:39:18.480 But what it shows you is that, you know, even when he's crying and having a crying fit, it's all performance.

00:39:27.620 Everything's totally artificial.

00:39:29.000 But most importantly, yes, this whole concept of gender euphoria, it's like a relatively new concept.

00:39:40.080 And we've been hearing about gender dysphoria for a long time.

00:39:45.520 Gender euphoria is a newer idea, but you hear about it a lot from the trans-identified people.

00:39:53.980 And it only goes to show that what they're really doing, like what all of this is, is just chasing a feeling.

00:40:04.120 That's all, like they're, this is why I'm always, this is why I always think it's important to stipulate that for most of these people, they are not actually confused.

00:40:18.580 And I understand why that can be confusing.

00:40:22.220 Like when you see something like that and you hear that, you say, well, clearly that's very, that seems like a confused person.

00:40:28.580 So you'd be forgiven for assuming that that's a confused person.

00:40:31.900 He certainly seems confused.

00:40:35.780 But most of these people are not.

00:40:37.620 They're not actually confused.

00:40:40.100 They don't really think, you know, these men, they don't really think that they're women.

00:40:47.140 You know, they grasp the basic concept of human biology.

00:40:52.960 They do.

00:40:53.360 They do understand it.

00:40:54.880 Because how can you not?

00:40:55.980 So it's, it's not that they're really confused about it.

00:41:02.420 It's that they're chasing a feeling.

00:41:05.160 And if you listen to them talk, they'll be very, they're actually honest about that.

00:41:11.160 But for whatever reason, it makes them feel good to put on the makeup or whatever and whatever else he was listing there.

00:41:17.640 Looking at the color green.

00:41:18.940 I don't know why you need to identify as a woman to do that. 0.99

00:41:23.320 But whatever it is, there's a certain feeling that they get from it.

00:41:28.680 And all of the performance, everything is just about them chasing that feeling.

00:41:34.680 So why are they identifying as a woman?

00:41:36.760 Is it because they are a woman? 1.00

00:41:38.780 Well, obviously not.

00:41:39.580 Is it because they think that they're women?

00:41:44.020 Actually, no, for most part.

00:41:47.540 It's because they, they, it makes them feel good to pretend.

00:41:52.740 And that's what almost all of this is.

00:41:55.420 Which is an important stipulation, I think.

00:41:59.000 Let's get to was Walsh wrong.

00:42:04.040 Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the left has lost their minds, making abortion their official sacrament.

00:42:08.560 But the grassroots pro-life efforts, which are now more important than ever, are booming.

00:42:12.440 Pro-lifers haven't gone away.

00:42:13.500 In fact, they've only increased in number.

00:42:15.280 One of the efforts that I support is 40 Days for Life, because they're changing hearts and minds in blue pro-abortion states.

00:42:20.580 With 1 million volunteers in 1,600 cities, 40 Days for Life holds peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities.

00:42:26.080 40 Days for Life has opened a record number of locations since Roe was overturned, and they've grown in volunteers.

00:42:31.580 This success has come with new unwanted attention from the DOJ.

00:42:34.500 Today, 40 Days for Life just made national headlines because they're suing the DOJ on behalf of their volunteer, Mark Houck, who had his house raided by the FBI.

00:42:42.800 They're going on offense against our compromised FBI and DOJ.

00:42:46.260 You can help them fight their ongoing legal battles and pursue free speech for their volunteers, including Mark Houck, by giving a tax-deductible gift of any amount at 40daysforlife.com.

00:42:55.300 That's 40daysforlife.com.

00:42:57.720 Okay, so today, I think I'm going to go back to what's the most important segment from the show this week and probably this month, which is about Elf on the Shelf.

00:43:06.220 And I spent about eight or nine minutes on the show a couple days ago complaining about Elf on the Shelf, because, again, it is important.

00:43:12.840 I know you might say, well, of all the things going on in the world, does that really deserve eight or nine minutes?

00:43:17.120 Yes, it does.

00:43:17.860 And now you're going to get more Elf on the Shelf content, because someone needs to talk about this scourge, although there are people that disagree with me, shockingly.

00:43:28.600 So, I get a few comments from those people.

00:43:31.120 First one says, I love it when Matt goes full grumpy Grinch mode.

00:43:33.980 I personally love the Elf on the Shelf thing.

00:43:36.120 One year, struggling for ideas, my wife and I went so far as to move our car around the corner with the Elf at the wheel, suggesting that he tried to steal it.

00:43:45.340 Okay, you have a problem.

00:43:50.040 You have a problem.

00:43:51.120 You and your wife both have a problem.

00:43:53.480 And not only is this far too elaborate, but you're already telling me you're struggling for ideas.

00:43:59.560 Why?

00:44:00.420 Why are you struggling for ideas?

00:44:03.440 The fact that it should not be the moment where there is any, like, look at that little toy elf.

00:44:11.700 That little thing should not bring any struggles into your life at all.

00:44:19.020 I don't know anything about you.

00:44:20.080 I don't know anything about your life.

00:44:21.540 Maybe you'll lead a good life.

00:44:23.780 But I'm sure there are, like, difficulties, as anybody does.

00:44:27.060 Suffering and difficulties that you have in your life.

00:44:29.360 That doesn't need to be a part of it.

00:44:30.720 So the moment that there's, like, the slightest ounce of struggling or hardship associated with that thing, there's a problem.

00:44:43.200 Do you see that?

00:44:45.760 And then, so not only have you made this far too elaborate.

00:44:49.740 And also, by the way, you're making it harder for everybody else who's good, all the other parents with the elf thing.

00:44:56.280 Because then, right, like, your kid goes to school.

00:44:58.820 Oh, guess what my elf did last night.

00:45:01.060 And then those kids go home and they're upset because their elf is not as, you know, their elf isn't doing as many crazy things.

00:45:09.740 And that's how there's, like, this, it's just, there's this one-upmanship that goes on.

00:45:13.180 But also, what message are you sending to your kids about this elf?

00:45:20.600 So what, and I think that a lot when I see these parents and some of their, the elf on the shelf displays that they're very proud of.

00:45:28.000 What do your kids think about the elf?

00:45:31.960 So this is what, an evil elf who stalks your home at night and commits crimes when you sleep? 0.56

00:45:40.740 Your children are probably terrified.

00:45:43.620 That you think that they are having fun.

00:45:45.660 They're only acting like they're having fun.

00:45:47.640 Because they think that an evil, crime-committing elf is haunting their home.

00:45:56.360 Think about that for a second.

00:45:58.960 Like, what would you think if you actually thought that was real?

00:46:01.420 Like, what if that actually happened?

00:46:04.660 That a little elf toy came to life and stole a car?

00:46:08.340 Would that bring you Christmas merriment and delight?

00:46:11.000 No, you'd be terrified.

00:46:13.640 It's literally a horror movie set up.

00:46:16.620 And this is what you're doing to your children.

00:46:18.420 Think about that.

00:46:21.460 Another one says, here's an idea.

00:46:22.880 Tell them the elves are giving them treats.

00:46:24.460 Instead of playing around next year, set them up around an advent calendar.

00:46:28.640 You only have to prepare once.

00:46:30.460 They still get a present or treat every morning.

00:46:32.640 You can move their arms or something if you want.

00:46:34.980 No.

00:46:35.240 I don't want to do that either.

00:46:37.960 Because also, why should my kids get a treat every morning?

00:46:41.020 Okay?

00:46:41.420 Like, this is not the whole thing.

00:46:45.700 Why should there be something every single morning?

00:46:48.980 I mean, if you really want to go traditionally, you want to do 12 days of Christmas, then do that.

00:46:53.500 Are you doing, like, 25 days of Christmas?

00:46:57.160 I never got that when I was a kid.

00:46:58.440 Again, for me, Christmas was one morning.

00:47:03.060 The fun thing happened.

00:47:05.180 One time.

00:47:06.540 That was the only fun day of the entire year.

00:47:08.080 When I was growing up.

00:47:10.000 That was it.

00:47:10.520 That was all we got.

00:47:12.640 And we were grateful for it.

00:47:15.340 And now we think our kids, oh, give them a treat every morning.

00:47:21.020 My kids don't deserve a treat every morning.

00:47:22.680 Do yours?

00:47:23.060 No kid does.

00:47:25.200 Let's see.

00:47:26.540 Finally.

00:47:28.120 Okay.

00:47:28.880 Matt, you missed the point of having six kids.

00:47:30.880 You get the eldest two kids to take on elf duty.

00:47:33.980 Well, funny you should mention that because that's exactly what we did.

00:47:36.320 So this year, the elf baton was passed to the two eldest.

00:47:40.680 And there was a whole ceremony and everything.

00:47:43.380 They received their elf diplomas and graduated to chief elf mover.

00:47:48.160 And it was a whole thing.

00:47:50.240 And so I thought that this would take the burden off of our shoulders or off of my wife's anyway.

00:47:57.120 But it actually hasn't.

00:47:58.980 Because all that happens now, most nights, is that now there are three people,

00:48:03.020 my wife and the two oldest kids, like teaming up for elf duties. 1.00

00:48:07.680 So it actually made the whole operation more complicated.

00:48:10.600 I was trying to make it simpler by saying, okay, you two, you can do the elf thing.

00:48:15.220 Yeah, you know the whole elf thing.

00:48:16.200 They're not real.

00:48:16.660 We move them.

00:48:17.200 You can do it now.

00:48:17.720 And I thought I'd make it a lot easier.

00:48:20.420 But it didn't.

00:48:21.500 And so, and plus now, they have to stay up until the youngest kids fall asleep.

00:48:29.200 So they can do the elf thing.

00:48:32.280 So I try to put the kids to bed every night.

00:48:35.140 And then I have my daughter whispering to me, remember, we have to do the elves.

00:48:39.300 You know, wait till she falls asleep and we do the elf.

00:48:41.840 Okay.

00:48:43.240 We don't want to forget about that.

00:48:44.420 And they're so obvious about it, too.

00:48:47.280 Like, I don't know how the younger ones haven't caught on.

00:48:50.160 They're pretty gullible, I guess.

00:48:52.560 Because every morning, my daughter takes the younger ones to show them.

00:48:57.660 Because she's so proud of where she put the elves.

00:48:59.980 And so she'll take the younger ones, like, by the hand and show them,

00:49:04.380 here, look, look where this elf moved on his own.

00:49:10.340 No subtlety to her performance at all.

00:49:12.460 And the other kids never question it.

00:49:14.420 They don't question why.

00:49:15.900 Like, they don't ever think, okay, why does my sister know where the elves are going to be

00:49:19.240 when we all walk down the stairs together in the morning?

00:49:23.000 How does she always know that?

00:49:24.260 They don't question that.

00:49:27.260 No skepticism with these kids at all.

00:49:29.360 Anyway.

00:49:30.380 Well, we got one more day in the year for me.

00:49:32.220 So I can complain about Elf on the Shelf again tomorrow.

00:49:34.380 Maybe I'll just do the whole show on that tomorrow.

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00:50:42.960 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:50.540 Here's a story you've heard before.

00:50:52.300 Another popular children's program has decided to go all in on left-wing indoctrination.

00:50:57.240 And this time, as the Twitter account End Wokeness reports,

00:51:00.000 it is the show Cocoa Melon Lane,

00:51:02.100 which is apparently a spinoff from the extremely popular Cocoa Melon show.

00:51:06.240 And the clip circulating in social media today is from episode 8 of the show's recently released first season.

00:51:11.360 In the clip, we see a young boy, a character named Nico,

00:51:14.400 dancing around in a dress and a tiara while his two gay dads look on approvingly. 0.64

00:51:22.020 It's so on the nose that you would be forgiven for assuming that it must be like a parody.

00:51:26.680 But it's not.

00:51:28.420 Not intentionally, anyway.

00:51:30.260 Sadly, this is very real.

00:51:32.240 And here it is. Watch.

00:51:33.300 Thing that we know about you

00:51:37.600 You love to get up and dance

00:51:39.920 How about you break out those moves

00:51:43.060 For your two biggest fans

00:51:46.000 If you're not sure what to choose

00:51:54.860 Think about all the things you like to do

00:51:58.920 Just be you

00:52:00.920 Just be me?

00:52:02.280 Yep

00:52:03.000 When you're trying to decide

00:52:05.900 Think about all the things you like to do

00:52:09.760 Just be you

00:52:12.260 Just be me!

00:52:15.380 Now before we get to the biggest and most obvious problem here,

00:52:18.640 I should say that Cocoa Melon is one of the many shows that you should ban from your household. 0.98

00:52:25.060 You should have already banned it simply because it's annoying and obnoxious and dumb. 0.91

00:52:29.620 So we focus so much on the wokeness, and for good reason, but it's also worth noting just how bad most of these shows are. 0.94

00:52:36.300 Like, even aside from the wokeness, bad music, bad voice acting, bad singing, very bad, lifeless, ugly animation.

00:52:44.440 The whole show looks and sounds like something that was generated in 12 seconds by AI, and that is basically how these shows are made, or that's how they will be made, at least in the very near future.

00:52:54.620 And most parents will agree with my assessment of Cocoa Melon.

00:52:59.400 I don't know any parent. Cocoa Melon is one of the many shows that every parent complains about.

00:53:02.980 But then they'll say that they let their kids watch him anyway because they say that their kids love the show.

00:53:11.720 Well, the problem is that, first of all, my kid wants to do it is never a sufficient reason for allowing them to do anything.

00:53:19.500 And second, they don't actually love the show, okay?

00:53:22.920 Nobody could love what you just saw there, not even a child.

00:53:26.640 They don't love these shows. They are sedated by them.

00:53:29.160 They are hypnotized, stupefied.

00:53:31.740 That's why you've never seen a child, if you've ever seen a child, like, watching a show like this, or walked into a room when a kid's watching a show like this,

00:53:39.280 you'll notice that the child isn't laughing or smiling or really reacting at all.

00:53:45.000 They just sit there, glassy-eyed, distracted by it.

00:53:48.640 For whatever reason, stuff like this is compulsively watchable to a three-year-old, but they don't love it.

00:53:55.180 And they certainly aren't gaining anything from it.

00:53:57.080 It's just that companies like Netflix specialize in churning out content that is compulsively watchable,

00:54:02.880 stuff that will keep you sitting there, slack-jawed and tranquilized.

00:54:08.140 They produce that type of content for adults and kids alike.

00:54:11.860 And that brings us to the most significant problem here, which is the message that the content is delivering.

00:54:17.560 Whatever the message is, the child watching the show will be perfectly susceptible to it.

00:54:22.500 Netflix has your child where they want him, sitting there, eyes glued to the screen,

00:54:29.380 passively absorbing whatever images and sounds and ideas emerge from it.

00:54:34.460 And if your kid happened to be watching episode 8 of Cocoa, Mel, and Lane,

00:54:37.900 then he would passively absorb the idea that it's normal for boys to dress like girls

00:54:42.820 and that there's nothing strange about a child having two dads.

00:54:45.320 It's not an accident, by the way, that this scene happens in episode 8.

00:54:51.440 Because Netflix, they're strategic about this sort of thing.

00:54:53.640 Like any groomer, it wants to lure parents into a false sense of security.

00:54:58.020 They see, so like parents will see the first couple episodes,

00:55:00.820 everything looks pretty normal and harmless, 0.95

00:55:03.380 not knowing that the gay dads and the cross-dressing kid 1.00

00:55:06.720 is buried midway through the 8th episode. 0.85

00:55:09.680 It's all very deliberate and very evil and sadly very effective.

00:55:17.400 The left obviously has other much more blatant ways of encouraging cross-dressing 0.99

00:55:21.380 and gender-bending and instilling confusion in people's minds, 1.00

00:55:24.700 but none of those other efforts will be as effective

00:55:27.560 as even this one little two-minute scene in Cocoa Melon.

00:55:31.460 Because this is where they really mold the next generation

00:55:34.200 into whatever twisted shape they want them to be.

00:55:36.200 It's with a show like this, targeting children in this age range,

00:55:41.340 planting seeds in very young minds

00:55:43.400 that are not capable of any sort of skepticism or critical analysis.

00:55:48.700 Now meanwhile, as this is all going on,

00:55:50.340 the corporate media is busy this week

00:55:51.800 attacking the few kid shows that don't engage

00:55:55.360 in this kind of perverse brainwashing.

00:55:57.040 The New York Times has a lengthy article

00:55:58.520 criticizing both Bluey and our very own Chip Chilla

00:56:02.160 on our Benke Children's Entertainment app.

00:56:04.240 And the crime that they're criticizing these shows for

00:56:07.160 is the crime of portraying happy, well-adjusted families

00:56:10.920 with attentive fathers.

00:56:12.860 So here's the title of the article,

00:56:14.240 just to give you an idea of where the writer's coming from.

00:56:15.880 The title is,

00:56:16.960 The Fantasy of the Fun TV Dad.

00:56:20.580 Yes, because a fun dad who loves his kids

00:56:22.520 and likes spending time with them

00:56:23.540 is a fantasy.

00:56:24.780 Now, it certainly is, we can assume,

00:56:28.520 in the personal experience of feminist New York Times writers,

00:56:32.800 but I don't know if it's a fantasy in general.

00:56:35.500 The Daily Wire summarizes the article,

00:56:36.900 quote,

00:56:37.280 NYT writer Amanda Hess noted in her article

00:56:39.280 how in the first episode of Bluey,

00:56:41.060 the archaeologist's father, Bandit,

00:56:42.840 keeps house while his wife works outside the home.

00:56:45.300 She describes Bandit as a fun dad

00:56:47.020 who does housework too

00:56:48.060 that always plays with his kids.

00:56:49.900 Hess views this portrayal as unrealistic,

00:56:52.020 writing that his omnipresence is odd and striking.

00:56:56.180 The writer goes on to describe how her own child

00:56:57.900 is often staring at a screen

00:56:59.240 while she takes care of household chores like laundry. 0.94

00:57:02.400 Quote,

00:57:02.660 Bandit represents a parent freed of drudgery,

00:57:05.380 one whose central responsibility is delighting his kids.

00:57:08.060 Hess adds,

00:57:08.400 claiming that parents don't play with their children in real life

00:57:11.440 because they're too focused on other tasks.

00:57:13.360 Hess has the same complaints about Bent Key's Chipchilla,

00:57:16.920 which is about a homeschooling family with the dad,

00:57:19.000 Chum Chum, serving as the children's instructor.

00:57:20.700 She describes Chum Chum as a highly involved father

00:57:23.560 and unrelenting jokester

00:57:24.700 who rarely seems to have to work.

00:57:28.060 Yes, well, you know,

00:57:29.160 it's important that the cartoon chinchilla

00:57:31.800 has a more realistic work-life balance.

00:57:35.220 It's odd to have an omnipresent dad.

00:57:38.680 Now, she doesn't seem to have noticed

00:57:39.920 that the main characters in cartoons

00:57:41.680 generally tend to be omnipresent.

00:57:44.660 Like, that's what makes them the main characters.

00:57:46.640 Does Chipchilla need to have an episode

00:57:49.500 where the dad gets in his car

00:57:51.240 and drives to work

00:57:52.660 and sits for nine hours in a cubicle

00:57:54.260 just to establish that this is also part of the daily routine?

00:57:58.960 Apparently, Amanda Hess is not able

00:58:00.180 to use her imagination on this point.

00:58:02.720 Come to think of it,

00:58:03.280 it's also odd that we never see

00:58:04.380 any of these cartoon characters sleep.

00:58:06.620 Are they always awake?

00:58:07.820 Are they awake all the time?

00:58:09.580 There should be at least one seven-and-a-half-hour episode

00:58:11.540 where the characters just sleep the whole time

00:58:13.420 because that'll really help with the realism.

00:58:17.460 And by the way, Hess also complains, of course,

00:58:19.640 about the show featuring, quote, 0.83

00:58:21.440 lessons about dead white people.

00:58:23.940 Quoting from the article,

00:58:25.160 with Chipchilla, conservative parents

00:58:26.460 can fulfill a fantasy of their own,

00:58:28.260 combating the perceived indoctrination of public school

00:58:30.260 by screening homeschool-themed content afterward

00:58:33.960 featuring lessons about dead white people 0.81

00:58:36.280 and classic texts.

00:58:38.540 So, this is what the media wants you to be worried about.

00:58:41.740 While one of the most popular kid show franchises

00:58:44.780 in the world has a cross-dressing boy 0.95

00:58:47.440 dancing around the room for his gay dads. 0.82

00:58:50.440 There certainly is not going to be any lengthy

00:58:51.940 New York Times think piece about that,

00:58:53.580 except perhaps maybe to praise it.

00:58:55.780 But the criticism will go to the few shows left

00:58:57.620 that show happy, normal nuclear families

00:59:00.280 with normal parents and normal kids

00:59:03.040 doing what happy, normal families do.

00:59:06.320 Because there's nothing that these people hate more

00:59:08.460 than normalcy.

00:59:09.360 That's why they're determined to destroy it.

00:59:13.660 And to destroy your child in the process.

00:59:17.260 And they will use whatever tools

00:59:18.960 are available in that effort.

00:59:20.920 Which includes, in fact, especially includes

00:59:22.900 shows like Cocoa Melon.

00:59:25.360 And that's why we created Bent Key in the first place.

00:59:27.400 And it's also why, if you have kids,

00:59:29.280 you should sign up for it.

00:59:31.220 And it's why Netflix and Cocoa Melon

00:59:34.280 are today, and should be literally,

00:59:36.180 in the Bud Light sense,

00:59:37.180 canceled.

00:59:40.020 That'll do it for the show today.

00:59:40.940 Thanks for watching.

00:59:41.460 Thanks for listening.

00:59:42.060 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:42.900 Have a great day.

00:59:43.920 Godspeed.

00:59:44.240 모 thứ 20

00:59:51.920 We'll be here for the show today.

00:59:52.420 We'll see you tomorrow.

00:59:53.140 Bye.

00:59:54.300 We'll see you tomorrow at a time.

00:59:54.740 Bye-bye.

00:59:55.640 Bye-bye.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 20, 2023

Ep. 1282 - Colorado Supreme Court Commits An Insurrection

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