Ep. 1282 - Colorado Supreme Court Commits An Insurrection
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Summary
Colorado Supreme Court takes Trump off the ballot with the flimsiest and most ridiculous legal reasoning you ve ever heard. Plus, one of the most popular kid shows in the world releases an episode featuring a young boy dancing in a dress for his gay dads. Meanwhile, a group of teens are arrested after viciously beating a classmate. This is becoming a pattern, and as always, the media is leaving key details out of their reporting.
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Today in the Matt Wall Show, the Colorado Supreme Court takes Trump off the ballot with the flimsiest and most ridiculous legal reasoning you've ever heard.
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Also, a group of teens are arrested after viciously beating a classmate.
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Plus, one of the most popular kid shows in the world releases an episode featuring a young boy dancing in a dress for his gay dads.
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Just a couple of minutes after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the presidential frontrunner was ineligible to appear on the ballot,
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a giddy MSNBC anchor immediately started paging through the court's opinion on air.
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And after a little while, she stumbled on what I think is the single most important part of the decision.
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This is the portion of the ruling that isn't about the technical definition of an insurrection
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or about parsing whether a president is considered an officer of the United States within the meaning of the 14th Amendment.
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Now, to be clear, as many legal experts have said, those are important aspects of the opinion,
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and I'll get to them in a second, but for now, I'm referring instead to the section of the court's opinion
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that addresses whether, under the First Amendment, Donald Trump can be considered a violent insurrectionist
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This part of the ruling begins on page 116, and it's especially important because it applies to everyone.
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It doesn't just affect presidential frontrunners and candidates for office.
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It has the potential to affect every American who engages in political speech of any kind at all long after Donald Trump is gone.
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So here's how the MSNBC anchor covered this part of the opinion live on air last night.
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In addition, Glenn, the district court did not err in concluding that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021,
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The district court did not err in concluding that President Trump engaged in, and that's in quotes,
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that insurrection through his personal actions.
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And then President Trump's speech inciting the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6th
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Glenn, we've been talking for days, if not weeks, about this idea of Donald Trump trying to hide behind the First Amendment
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to be able to give an excuse for what is otherwise going to be clear criminal conduct.
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Your thoughts about what this Supreme Court kind of ruling has now said as well.
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The most important part there is where she says,
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we've been talking for days, if not weeks, about Donald Trump trying to hide behind the First Amendment
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to give an excuse for what is otherwise going to be clear criminal conduct.
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So she's relieved to report now that Donald Trump can't hide behind the First Amendment.
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And that's how someone calling herself a journalist at a major media outlet
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is describing the single most important amendment that we have in the Constitution.
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And they put it right there at number one, First Amendment.
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Now, apparently, the First Amendment is just something that MSNBC's political opponents like to hide behind.
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In MSNBC's view, it's a mere technicality designed to shield criminal conduct.
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That's how the corporate media views the Constitution at this point.
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That's how they viewed it for a very long time.
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They see it as a sort of temporary obstacle to imprisoning Joe Biden's primary political opponent.
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So let's get specific about what the Colorado Supreme Court said about the First Amendment
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and why they're claiming that it doesn't protect Donald Trump from this charge of insurrection
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under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
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These specifics matter because they highlight how easily this decision can be used to crush
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any political speech that the left doesn't approve of.
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So on page 123, the Colorado Supreme Court begins its explanation of why Donald Trump
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was supposedly inciting a violent insurrection on January 6th instead of engaging in lawful political speech.
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But they don't start with anything that Trump actually said on January 6th.
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So quoting from the decision, which cites the district court,
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quote, at a February 2016 rally, President Trump told his supporters that in the old days,
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a protester would be carried out on a stretcher and that he would like to punch him in the face.
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In March 2016, President Trump responded to questions about his supporters' violence
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by saying it was very, very appropriate and we need a little bit more of it.
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And during the 2020 election cycle, President Trump threatened to deploy the military to Minneapolis
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to shoot looters amid protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
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Now, again, these are a series of comments, taken out of context, by the way,
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that Donald Trump made long before January 6th, 2021.
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I mean, in some cases, these comments occurred more than four years earlier.
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And they obviously have nothing whatsoever to do with January 6th or voter fraud or anything like it.
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But the Supreme Court says that somehow these comments are evidence
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that Donald Trump committed insurrection on January 6th.
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There are proof that he intended to incite violence on that day, but how could that be?
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You know, it's like if a guy is charged with murder and the prosecutor brings up during the trial
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that the same guy got a parking ticket five years ago.
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I mean, like, what does that have to do with anything?
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Now, to square the circle, the Supreme Court relies, and I'm not making this up, by the way,
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on the testimony of a sociology professor at Chapman University named Peter Simi.
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So this random professor of sociology apparently convinced both the district court and the Supreme Court
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deploy a shared coded language with his violent supporters.
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And supposedly, Donald Trump's statements from 2016 to 2020 are evidence
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that he deploys this code all the time, this secret code.
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Even though he didn't, in fact, use the military to crush the BLM riots
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or have any protesters beat up at his rallies, none of that happened.
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You'd think if he was using violent coded language for years
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that some violence would have resulted from it, but apparently not.
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Still, this professor has discovered, like, the verbal invisible ink,
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you know, the words that are written in the margins
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that nobody can see but him with his magical decoder ring.
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The sociology professor testifies that, based on Donald Trump's statements from 2016 to 2020,
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we can conclude that all of his comments on January 6th
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about fighting to preserve the country and so on
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were really coded language designed to incite a mob
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I mean, this decision, if upheld, is the end of freedom of speech in this country,
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To arrive at its decision, the Colorado Supreme Court
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In order to twist the meaning of what Donald Trump actually said on January 6th.
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Now, if you remember, in his remarks on January 6th,
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Donald Trump did not tell his supporters to commit any acts of violence.
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Instead, he specifically told his supporters to head to the Capitol
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Know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building
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to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
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Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections.
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So we're supposed to disregard the fact that Trump told his supporters to be peaceful on January 6th.
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This is according to the Colorado Supreme Court, because he said some stuff that they didn't like back in 2016.
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And therefore, Trump's address to the crowd on January 6th was really a coded message calling for violence.
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But we need to bring in the sociology professor to crack the code.
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In its opinion, the Colorado Supreme Court barely even acknowledges that Trump explicitly told his supporters
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On page 127, they dismissed this as an isolated reference that doesn't neutralize anything unpleasant
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Therefore, even though he explicitly called for peace,
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we could just ignore that and conclude that he was really calling for the violent overthrow of the federal government.
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They're taking Donald Trump's explicit call for peace and just discarding it out of hand.
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At the same time, they're accusing Donald Trump of making implicit calls for violence going back several years
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and concluding that it amounts to an insurrection within the meaning of the 14th Amendment.
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And to reach the conclusion, as the dissenting opinion notes,
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the Colorado Supreme Court never afforded Donald Trump any due process
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concerning the determination of whether an insurrection had even occurred at all.
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The Colorado Supreme Court didn't bother with the inconvenient fact that
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there's a federal insurrection law on the books
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and Donald Trump has never been charged with violating it.
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Now, in case your memory is a little bit foggy,
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let me remind you that Donald Trump did not lead an army to overthrow the government
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He didn't form his own country or announce his intent to do so.
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Instead, Trump was trying to maintain the status quo by telling Mike Pence to reject electors
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Trump was the chief executive of the government on January 6th,
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and he wanted to remain the head of the government.
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As legal analyst Nick Rikita pointed out last night on his YouTube channel,
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a government cannot lead an insurrection against itself.
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Or if it can, there's zero evidence that the 14th Amendment was ever intended to apply
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So to recap, the Colorado Supreme Court didn't have a conviction against Donald Trump for insurrection,
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nor did they have any reason to think that the 14th Amendment applied to what Donald Trump did.
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They just unilaterally decided on their own that they know what the word insurrection means,
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By the same logic, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could be disqualified for inciting violence all across the country in 2020,
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including riots at a federal courthouse in Portland and at the White House,
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including riots that burned down a police station in Minneapolis.
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So we can now have an endless tit-for-tat of political disqualifications in various courts
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That's according to the logic from the Colorado Supreme Court.
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That is the precedent that they would seemingly be intentionally trying to set.
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Now, I could go on about all the other problems with this ruling.
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Other commentators and several federal courts have already pointed out that the president,
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isn't even capable of being barred from the ballot as an insurrectionist.
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The Constitution spells out exactly who can be barred for committing insurrection,
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Electors for president and vice president are named, but not presidents themselves.
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Now, I could also go into the various political ramifications of this decision.
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Yes, this particular ruling is almost certainly going to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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In fact, the ruling has already stayed pending the Supreme Court's review.
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Every single member of the Colorado Supreme Court was appointed by a Democrat governor.
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And even then, the decision in this case was still four to three.
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There's also the whole absurdity of every single state Supreme Court
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separately making a decision that clearly has implications for a national presidential election.
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So it's not remotely clear how Colorado has jurisdiction to even do that,
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John Bolton, just to show you how weak the case is,
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John Bolton, who is not exactly a Trump ally, outlined this problem on CNN last night.
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I think this Colorado Supreme Court decision is badly wrong for multiple reasons.
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Number one, the 14th Amendment provides that Congress can pass legislation
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to carry its provisions into effect, which Congress has done on many aspects.
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It has not put anything with respect to Section 3 on the books since just after the Civil War.
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Second, the idea that 50 different state courts can decide a question involving the highest elective office
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in the executive branch, interpreting the federal Constitution as to what constitutes an insurrection
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And I think, undoubtedly, the Supreme Court is going to have to clear that up.
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In terms of what the framers of the 14th Amendment meant,
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I think it's quite clear that the radical Republicans in Congress
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who wanted to suppress the secessionist advocates and governments of the southern states that succeeded
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would not provide, on this critical question of the offices that are going to be denied
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to people who broke their oath to the United States,
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that you're going to put decision-making authority on that in the hands of the states,
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If that was their intention, they were delusional when they did it.
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So I'd be willing to bet a small amount of money here that the Supreme Court,
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if it gets to the merits of this, if it has to, will reverse.
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There's no other logical way you can apply this,
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and it would sow chaos in elections as far as the eye could see.
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So you can make a lot of other points, too, about the limited impact this decision will have,
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regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court does.
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You can note that Colorado is a state that obviously isn't going to determine the outcome in the next election.
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If anything, this decision will probably help Donald Trump in the polls.
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And already Colorado Republicans have suggested that they'll simply hold their own caucus and submit the results to Congress,
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which, if it's Republican-controlled, can simply reject any Biden electors from the state
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on the grounds that no fair election took place.
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In other words, it's possible that this decision will actually cost Joe Biden electoral votes from Colorado,
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a state that he's virtually guaranteed to win otherwise.
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But even if this Colorado ruling is overturned tomorrow,
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and even if no other state Supreme Court issues a ruling like it,
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the fact remains that this decision out of Colorado highlights a much deeper issue that will not go away.
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Journalists and leading political figures in this country are now openly saying
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that their political opponents should not have a say in elections.
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They've been building to this point for a while, of course.
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They've been imprisoning meme makers and raiding the homes of pro-lifers
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and investigating parents for criticizing trans propaganda in schools.
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But in the wake of this Colorado decision, it's now totally explicit.
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So here was Congressman Jamie Raskin yesterday, for example.
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It's like if a 14-year-old tried to run for president,
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would that person be kept off of the ballot because the Constitution says you have to be 35 years old to run for president.
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And this disqualification clause says you cannot be on the ballot for president
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or you cannot serve as president if you have participated in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States.
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And so I would think that regardless of what your politics are, what your party is,
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everybody should agree that this is a question of law that's got to be settled by the court.
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Everybody should agree that this should be settled by the courts.
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Four judges selected by Democrat governors should not, in fact,
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settle the issue of whether American citizens can vote for the clear frontrunner in a presidential election.
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It's hard to believe that anyone with any amount of shame would even suggest something like that,
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but there's a sitting U.S. senator, or congressman, rather,
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explaining that to uphold the law, you need to agree with him on this point.
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Now, once again, you're being told that in the name of the law,
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you should accept a decision that shocks the conscience of any reasonable person.
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You're told that the same Constitution that explicitly guarantees your right to freedom of speech
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Now, from a historical perspective, this is nothing new.
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You might remember that the USSR had a Constitution complete with guarantees for freedom of speech and political expression.
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That's because the Soviets discovered that words in a Constitution aren't actually self-enforcing.
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You need a population and elected officials who actually respect the document.
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If they don't, then it's trivially easy for them to twist the words of the Constitution around
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or that they actually do the opposite of what they're intended to do.
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That was Justice Scalia's famous line about how the Constitution is a parchment guarantee.
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Now, at the end of the day, the Constitution is words on paper.
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Those words can be manipulated and just discarded in an instant,
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and that's what they're trying to do right now.
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So, four activists on a court and a Chapman sociology professor
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tried to rewrite the First Amendment, not just for Donald Trump, but for you, for me.
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And if they're allowed to succeed, then they will have dismantled
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the foundational legal principle of this country, which is the freedom of speech.
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They will have ensured an unprecedented level of political violence and discord in the process.
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And in short, they will, by their own definition, be guilty of insurrection.
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And they'll have no reason to complain when they inevitably pay a very heavy price for it.
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ABC News reports presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pledged on Tuesday to remove himself
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from Colorado's Republican primary ballot in response to the state's Supreme Court ruling
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that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to run in the state over his activities around January 6th.
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Ramaswamy promised to stay off the ballot until Trump's eligibility is restored.
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He called upon his and Trump's 2024 GOP primary opponents to take the same steps.
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Ramaswamy's statements came shortly after the Colorado Supreme Court decided on Tuesday evening
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Here is Ramaswamy on Twitter last night with a video explaining this decision and why he's doing it.
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They have just tried to bar President Trump from the Colorado ballot using an unconstitutional
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maneuver that is a bastardization of the 14th Amendment to our U.S. Constitution.
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This was a provision, Section 3, that was designed to bar Confederate members.
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People switched to the Confederacy from actually being able to serve.
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That's very different than what's at issue here, to say the least.
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This is a hollowed out husk of what the country was built on.
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The basic principle that we the people select our leadership, not the unelected elite class
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That's old world Europe, not the United States.
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That's why I'm making a pledge today that I will withdraw.
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I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot unless and until Trump's name
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And I demand that Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie and Nikki Haley do the same thing,
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or else these Republicans are simply complicit in this unconstitutional attack
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on the way we conduct our constitutional republic.
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And I think it's up to Republicans to step up and stand up with a spine for our country's future.
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That's really what's at stake, whether we the people actually have it.
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Unpopular opinion, I realize, on the right anyway.
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But I don't really, you know, I don't like this move from Vivek.
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But so it's somewhat rare that I would disagree.
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Um, I mean, first of all, Trump is still on the ballot because the decision has been stayed
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So maybe it's all like, it's maybe kind of a moot point in that sense.
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Um, but at the same time, you know, I don't see like, just speaking in principle here.
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Um, I don't see how you punish the left and these activist judges by voluntarily withdrawing
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from the ballot as a Republican, because isn't that exactly what they would want you to do?
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I mean, if anything, doesn't that encourage them to do more of that kind of thing?
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Because they're getting, it's like a two for one special now.
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So we could take Trump off the ballot and then the rest of you too.
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We'll, we'll, we'll kind of self-select to be off the ballot.
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So like from their perspective, you know, you gotta, you gotta imagine if you're from
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the perspective of your opponent and they look at that or they go on, oh no, don't do
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Like, aren't you rewarding them for their efforts?
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I know that's not the intention, obviously, but isn't that the result?
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Well, if you won't let Trump on the ballot, then this other guy you also hate will also
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I made this point on Twitter and a lot of people are very mad at me.
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It's just, because we're supposed to, you know, it's like, we're supposed to just be
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Um, there's no room for anyone to have a dissenting opinion.
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Um, but I really am curious, like no one is explaining the win.
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Um, but there's a lot of this, well, it's the right thing to do.
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And I think, again, general principle, uh, the right political strategy.
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And, you know, this is, this is a, this is a, well, I would call it simplistic.
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I think it's the right way of looking at it, which is general strategy.
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You know, figure out what your enemy would want you to do and then do the opposite of whatever
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Never do anything that your enemy will be happy about you doing.
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So if you're doing something and your enemy goes, great, this, this works out great for
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And with something like this, I don't see how it's the opposite of what your enemy wants.
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You know, there's a lot of, it's why it matters because it does seem like there's a lot of this
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And so even if like ultimately this is overturned by the, by the Supreme Court, uh, Trump and
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The reason why it matters to me is because it's just, it, it, it shows a problem on the
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right in general, uh, that you find it's like, you know,
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it's like when people tell me just sort of another example, they say, well, Hey, you need,
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you need to stick it to YouTube by leaving the platform entirely.
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But that, I mean, that's like exactly what they want.
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If I, if I pull off, if I don't have nothing on YouTube, YouTube is not going to go, Oh no,
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This is a, they, they, they, they, you know, pop champagne.
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So that seems like it's clearly not the right strategy.
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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.
00:26:18.360
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.
00:26:27.400
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,
00:26:37.940
uh, some, some internet ghetto somewhere and, you know, speak to an echo chamber, they love
00:26:43.800
That's, that's, that's the best possible scenario as far as they're concerned is exactly what
00:26:52.960
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
00:27:05.960
Like it's, it's a way of knowing what you shouldn't be doing, but it doesn't always tell
00:27:10.120
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.
00:27:39.380
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
00:27:52.480
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.
00:28:14.720
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.
00:28:49.100
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.
00:29:01.900
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?
00:29:14.160
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.
00:29:36.420
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.
00:29:44.880
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,
00:30:01.960
Um, and that's because in this case, just like in so many of these cases, the assailants
00:30:20.260
The first is the really obvious one that if the situation was reversed, it certainly would
00:30:28.200
You know, a group of white kids beating the hell out of a black kid.
00:30:45.560
Now it's, that's hard to imagine because, um, that sort of thing just never happens.
00:30:54.620
It's not to say that, that white kids and white people, white teens, uh, white people
00:31:02.980
But this particular thing of, uh, getting together as a group and ganging up on one person
00:31:10.900
in particular, a group of white teens, ganging up on a black teen, beating him senselessly,
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,
00:31:41.000
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.
00:32:01.800
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.
00:32:19.040
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?
00:32:35.220
Were they, were they shouting anti-white slurs at him while they were beating him?
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.
00:33:03.600
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.
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?
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.
00:33:52.380
We tell the, the, uh, young black kid in school, whatever your problems are, look at that white kid, your classmate.
00:34:00.340
One way or another, it all, it goes back to him.
00:34:06.900
That's the context in which these things are happening.
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,
00:34:47.440
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.
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.
00:35:26.960
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.
00:36:00.800
Things that give me gender euphoria, but it gets increasingly more unhinged.
00:36:05.340
There's just something that's so mommy-coated about destroying a mountain of dishes, or, like, crisply folding laundry.
00:36:11.580
Not, like, physically beating men, but, like, winning against men in, like, sports, or a video game, or life itself.
00:36:17.880
I understand that colors don't have gender, but a good green, that's just for the girls' beard.
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.
00:37:01.000
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.
00:37:32.020
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.
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.
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.
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.
00:38:34.040
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.
00:38:56.220
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?
00:39:12.920
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.
00:39:29.000
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.
00:40:22.220
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.
00:40:40.100
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.
00:40:55.980
So it's, it's not that they're really confused about it.
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.
00:41:18.940
I don't know why you need to identify as a woman to do that.
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.
00:41:47.540
It's because they, they, it makes them feel good to pretend.
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.
00:42:15.280
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.
00:42:57.720
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?
00:43:17.860
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.
00:43:31.120
First one says, I love it when Matt goes full grumpy Grinch mode.
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.
00:43:53.480
And not only is this far too elaborate, but you're already telling me you're 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.
00:44:23.780
But I'm sure there are, like, difficulties, as anybody does.
00:44:27.060
Suffering and difficulties that you have in your life.
00:44:30.720
So the moment that there's, like, the slightest ounce of struggling or hardship associated with that thing, there's a problem.
00:44:45.760
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.
00:45:01.060
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.
00:45:31.960
So this is what, an evil elf who stalks your home at night and commits crimes when you sleep?
00:45:47.640
Because they think that an evil, crime-committing elf is haunting their home.
00:45:58.960
Like, what would you think if you actually thought that was real?
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?
00:46:16.620
And this is what you're doing to your children.
00:46:24.460
Instead of playing around next year, set them up around an advent calendar.
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.
00:46:37.960
Because also, why should my kids get a treat every morning?
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.
00:47:15.340
And now we think our kids, oh, give them a treat every morning.
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.
00:47:43.380
They received their elf diplomas and graduated to chief elf mover.
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.
00:47:58.980
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.
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.
00:48:21.500
And so, and plus now, they have to stay up until the youngest kids fall asleep.
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.
00:48:47.280
Like, I don't know how the younger ones haven't caught on.
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.
00:49:15.900
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?
00:49:32.220
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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00:50:52.300
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,
00:51:02.100
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.
00:51:22.020
It's so on the nose that you would be forgiven for assuming that it must be like a parody.
00:52:15.380
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.
00:52:25.060
You should have already banned it simply because it's annoying and obnoxious and dumb.
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.
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.
00:53:31.740
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,
00:55:03.380
not knowing that the gay dads and the cross-dressing kid
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
00:55:21.380
and gender-bending and instilling confusion in people's minds,
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,
00:55:43.400
that are not capable of any sort of skepticism or critical analysis.
00:55:58.520
criticizing both Bluey and our very own Chip Chilla
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
00:56:14.240
just to give you an idea of where the writer's coming from.
00:56:28.520
in the personal experience of feminist New York Times writers,
00:56:42.840
keeps house while his wife works outside the home.
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
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while she takes care of household chores like laundry.
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one whose central responsibility is delighting his kids.
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claiming that parents don't play with their children in real life
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Hess has the same complaints about Bent Key's Chipchilla,
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which is about a homeschooling family with the dad,
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Chum Chum, serving as the children's instructor.
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She describes Chum Chum as a highly involved father
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Like, that's what makes them the main characters.
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just to establish that this is also part of the daily routine?
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There should be at least one seven-and-a-half-hour episode
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And by the way, Hess also complains, of course,
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combating the perceived indoctrination of public school
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by screening homeschool-themed content afterward
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So, this is what the media wants you to be worried about.
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While one of the most popular kid show franchises
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But the criticism will go to the few shows left
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Because there's nothing that these people hate more
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And that's why we created Bent Key in the first place.