The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1293 - Corrupt Trump Prosecutor Plays The Most Absurd Race Card We’ve Ever Seen

00:00:00.140 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Fannie Willis, the DA in Fulton County, Georgia, is allegedly in a

00:00:04.720 sexual relationship with the man that she hired to prosecute Trump. This would seem like a major

00:00:08.700 scandal, but she says that if you have a problem with it, that's only because you're racist. Also,

00:00:13.600 Donald Trump finally goes after Vivek Ramaswamy as the Iowa caucuses get underway. Nikki Haley

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00:02:02.480 slash Walsh today. Welcome to the show from the home office today. We got four inches of snow here

00:02:08.960 in Nashville. So once again, that's brought upon the apocalypse as it usually does. We won't be able

00:02:13.680 to use these roads for probably three and a half months due to the light dusting we just experienced.

00:02:19.280 But in any event, let's get into it. So three years ago, as BLM rioters torched businesses

00:02:25.240 throughout her state, a little-known woman by the name of Fannie Willis was campaigning to become 1.00

00:02:31.040 the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia. Now, she was running against the incumbent,

00:02:36.100 D.A. Paul Howard, who hadn't faced a serious challenger in more than two decades. Now, in normal times,

00:02:41.500 this would have been a long-shot campaign. But Willis knew that the moral panic after George Floyd's

00:02:46.920 overdose death made district attorneys unpopular all over the country. She was facing a once-in-a-lifetime

00:02:53.760 opportunity to take out Howard. So she went for it. Willis' campaign strategy was pretty simple.

00:03:00.160 She accused Paul Howard of corruption and painted herself as an alternative watch.

00:03:06.820 Funny, Willis spent 17 years employed as a prosecutor by Fulton County District Attorney Paul

00:03:12.180 Howard. Now she faces Howard in Tuesday's runoff. And she's not at all shy about clobbering her former

00:03:18.900 boss when asked about the contest. I think it's a choice, actually, between integrity and corruption,

00:03:25.580 good and bad. I think it's a classic fight. And I think that citizens will have to make a choice.

00:03:32.820 We have a district attorney now that works for his own self-interest, seems to care about the

00:03:39.780 things that benefit him and not the community. I think it's a choice, actually, between integrity

00:03:45.560 and corruption, good and bad, says Fannie Willis. That's an argument that resonated in Fulton County,

00:03:51.060 probably because Paul Howard was indeed corrupt. So later that year, Willis overwhelmingly defeated

00:03:55.660 Howard and became Fulton County's district attorney. The problem for residents of Fulton County,

00:04:01.700 Georgia, is that Willis' entire campaign turned out to be, as is so often the case in political

00:04:06.640 campaigns, a textbook example of the psychological phenomenon known as projection. Fannie Willis,

00:04:13.500 we're now learning, is in fact an order of magnitude more corrupt than Paul Howard. She's 1.00

00:04:19.080 not simply accused of skimming a small amount of money from taxpayers or failing to disclose some

00:04:24.260 conflicts of interest. To be clear, Fannie Willis is accused of both of those things, as I'll explain

00:04:29.260 in a moment. But unlike Paul Howard, Fannie Willis is also now accused of something far more serious.

00:04:34.540 She's accused of using taxpayer money to hire her lover, who's a suburban lawyer with zero experience

00:04:41.700 prosecuting RICO cases, to prosecute the former president of the United States on the single most

00:04:47.500 untested, strained application of RICO law that's ever been conceived. In other words, Fannie Willis is

00:04:54.180 so interested in this guy that she's willing to engage in a little election interference for him,

00:05:01.080 allegedly. And she's charging her constituents to do it. These accusations against Willis came

00:05:07.380 in a court filing from Mike Roman, one of the Trump staffers who made the mistake of trying to

00:05:13.240 seat an alternate slate of electors back in 2020. Not that, you know, the law and history matter anymore,

00:05:20.920 but it is worth pointing out that attempting to seat an alternate slate of electors is something

00:05:26.540 that's always been legal in this country. It was legal back in 1960 when John F. Kennedy's campaign

00:05:31.840 did it for good reason. Creating an alternate slate of electors makes sense when a campaign suspects

00:05:38.860 election fraud because they want to give Congress the opportunity to use their electors if the fraud is

00:05:44.160 ultimately discovered. Nothing about the process is scandalous. Nothing about it is new and it's all

00:05:50.600 completely logical. But the idea of alternate electors is apparently illegal now because the

00:05:56.940 orange man is bad and so forth. So Faldon County is prosecuting Roman. And in response, Roman proceeded

00:06:03.780 to blow Fannie Willis's love affair wide open. Watch. Explosive allegations tonight from one of

00:06:11.500 former President Donald Trump's co-defendants right here in Georgia. He has some pretty bold claims

00:06:16.240 about Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis. Atlanta News First anchor Tori Cooper has been

00:06:21.300 digging through that court filing. So Tori, what are they actually claiming here? Well tonight, former Trump

00:06:27.080 campaign staffer Michael Roman and his attorney Ashley Merchant are claiming District Attorney Fannie

00:06:32.940 Willis had an inappropriate and romantic relationship with the top prosecutor in the case,

00:06:38.280 Nathan Wade. In this new court filing obtained by Atlanta News First, Michael Roman and his attorneys

00:06:45.320 are accusing the Fulton County DA Fannie Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade of having an

00:06:51.400 inappropriate and romantic relationship and that the two benefited from it. The suit claims Willis and

00:06:57.400 Wade took lavish vacations together and that he used part of his salary from the DA's office to travel

00:07:03.280 with Willis. Roman's attorney claims they discovered that the two went on trips together quote outside of

00:07:09.520 court filings. The suit goes on to claim their relationship began before Wade was appointed to

00:07:15.200 the case. They claim Willis also failed to get county approval to appoint Wade as special prosecutor

00:07:21.360 in the case. Roman's attorneys are now asking the court to disqualify both of them from prosecuting

00:07:27.200 the RICO case and to drop all of Roman's charges. Roman's attorneys wouldn't comment any further

00:07:32.960 tonight and Fannie Willis' office told us they will be responding to Roman's suit through proper court

00:07:38.320 filings. Now the news people seem kind of surprised by this accusation, but they really shouldn't be.

00:07:45.200 If they were keeping track, they'd remember that this is not the first time that Fannie Willis has 1.00

00:07:49.680 gotten into trouble over a serious conflict of interest. A year ago, a judge in Georgia

00:07:55.840 barred Willis from investigating one of Trump's alleged fraudulent electors, a state senator named

00:08:00.560 Burt Jones. Why did she get barred from that? Well, because Fannie Willis hosted a fundraiser for a 0.63

00:08:07.120 Democrat running against Jones for his seat. This is something that no serious prosecutor or anybody

00:08:14.160 with an IQ above room temperature would have ever done. To reiterate, Fannie Willis literally raised 1.00

00:08:20.400 money for someone who was running against the defendant she was trying to throw in prison.

00:08:26.880 Now I played this clip last year, but it's worth revisiting because of how remarkable it is.

00:08:31.520 Here's the judge who, by the way, judge is not exactly the picture of masculinity, but he's doing his

00:08:37.920 best to dress down Fannie Willis in the most deferential way possible. But even this judge,

00:08:43.040 who's clearly on her side and doesn't want to have to deal with this, even he still has something to

00:08:48.800 say about how egregious this is. Watch. Using the title of your office and having on social media that

00:08:58.640 you as this political office holder are holding a fundraiser for the opponent of someone that this

00:09:06.080 political office is investigating. I don't know that it's an actual conflict, but I use that phrase,

00:09:14.480 what were you thinking, where the prosecutor thought I could prosecute the co-defendant of someone I

00:09:19.520 defended. It's a what are you thinking moment. The optics are horrific. If you are trying to

00:09:28.160 have the public believe that this is a nonpartisan, driven by the facts,

00:09:34.560 I'm not here to critique decisions. The decision was made, but if we are trying to maintain confidence

00:09:40.960 that this investigation is pursuing facts in a nonpartisan sense, no matter who the district

00:09:46.240 attorney is, we follow the evidence where it goes and ignore the fact that I hosted a fundraiser for the

00:09:51.760 proponent of someone I've just named the target. That strikes me as problematic.

00:09:58.080 So, like I said, the judge doesn't exactly lay the hammer down. He could have been

00:10:04.000 a lot more forthright, shall we say. But in his own wishy-washy way, even he is shocked by her

00:10:10.240 behavior. And this is the moment that Willis should have been disqualified from prosecuting any of these

00:10:15.680 Trump criminal cases. Frankly, she should have been investigated by the state bar and maybe suspended 1.00

00:10:20.400 from practicing law. It was that bad. But she wasn't. She got this milquetoast effeminate scolding 0.94

00:10:28.080 and she was allowed to continue making a complete mockery of the judicial system. And that's exactly 1.00

00:10:33.360 what she's done. To be clear, yes, Mike Roman's accusations against Fannie Willis are unproven as of

00:10:41.440 now. But they were made public last week and Willis remained silent at the time. This is the kind of thing

00:10:48.240 that you'd think a prosecutor would immediately deny. I mean, if it's not true, then there's no

00:10:54.320 reason to not come out and say, that's not true. That's totally made up. You're insane.

00:10:58.480 But she didn't say that. Instead, Willis waited until Sunday to address Roman's accusations. And 0.99

00:11:04.400 she chose to deliver her remarks addressing this claim of a major scandal. She chose to address it

00:11:11.520 not in front of the press, who could have asked her some follow-up questions. Not that the press

00:11:16.000 necessarily would have even done that. But instead, she chose to address it in front of a sympathetic

00:11:20.480 audience at a black church in Atlanta. At no point in her speech, which lasted more than 30 minutes,

00:11:26.400 and we'll look at a few clips of it. At no point did Willis deny the accusations against her,

00:11:32.240 which is effectively the same as admitting that they're true. Instead,

00:11:38.480 she launched into maybe the single most brazen attempt to play the race card in the history of 1.00

00:11:43.600 this country. I mean, this is one of the worst. I know that's saying something. This is somehow

00:11:46.880 even worse than Claudine Gay saying you're racist if you care about plagiarism. It's even more

00:11:52.400 preposterous than Marion Barry, the former DC mayor, implying that you hate black people if you're upset that 0.97

00:11:58.400 he's on camera buying crack in hotel rooms. Somehow it's even more obnoxious and egregious than any of that. 0.96

00:12:06.560 Just watch and marvel at this.

00:12:10.000 But dear God, are you listening? Why does Commissioner Thorne and so many others question my decision in

00:12:18.480 a special counsel? Lord, your flawed, hard-headed, and imperfect child, I'm a little confused. I appointed

00:12:26.960 three special counsel as is my right to do, paid them all the same hourly rate. They only attacked one.

00:12:34.720 I hired one white woman, a good personal friend and great lawyer. A superstar, I tell you. I hired one 1.00

00:12:46.480 white man, brilliant, my friend, and a great lawyer. And I hired one black man, another superstar, a great friend,

00:12:57.360 and a great lawyer. Oh, Lord, they gonna be mad when I call them out on this nonsense. First thing they say, 0.99

00:13:08.000 oh, she gonna play the race card now. But no, God, isn't it them who's playing the race card when they only question one?

00:13:16.160 This is the kind of race card gambit that you very rarely see. This is like trying to shoot the moon.

00:13:26.720 Here you have the person who's playing the race card trying to imply that you're playing the race card

00:13:31.200 by noticing that she's playing the race card. So she's playing, to mix our card game analogy,

00:13:37.760 she's playing kind of the reverse racism UNO card. It's astonishing to watch, mainly because it makes

00:13:44.240 absolutely no sense whatsoever. The sheer incoherence is incredible to behold. Her argument appears to be

00:13:51.840 that she hired three special prosecutors, and two of them are white, and everybody's upset about the black 0.76

00:13:58.400 guy. So clearly, everybody is racist. But she's just not going to mention the accusation that she's 1.00

00:14:05.120 having sex with the black guy. Like, that's the thing that makes the black guy notable over the 1.00

00:14:10.400 white guys. She's not having sex with the white guys. She's having sex with the black guy. And she's 1.00

00:14:14.720 the one who chose the black guy to have sex with me. If anyone's guilty of discrimination, it's like, 0.99

00:14:18.880 she's the one who chose to have the affair with that guy, not the other guys. And that's the issue here.

00:14:23.440 But, you know, all of that is completely immaterial, according to Fannie Willis.

00:14:27.040 She's also not going to talk about, you know, how this job has made this special prosecutor

00:14:33.600 hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money, money that he has reportedly used to take Fannie

00:14:39.600 Willis on vacations to the Caribbean and Napa Valley. It's hard to believe, but somehow Willis has managed

00:14:46.080 to, with this scandal and her response to it, she's managed to discredit a prosecution that nobody ever took

00:14:54.840 seriously to begin with. She has managed to divide by zero. She has removed credibility from something that had 0.98

00:15:02.840 none to begin with. I mean, nobody ever seriously believed that the brilliant legal scholars working in the

00:15:08.960 government in Fulton County, Georgia, were going to be able to prosecute a RICO case against the presidential

00:15:13.940 frontrunner for the crime of challenging election results. Everyone knew it would be a disaster. But even given those low

00:15:20.620 expectations, Willis has managed to impressively tank her case even further. And by the end of this, you know,

00:15:28.860 the prosecutors might be the ones going to jail, or they should be. But Willis appears to be too stupid 1.00

00:15:35.180 to realize that, at least as of now. So she just kept on talking. Listen. 1.00

00:15:41.420 You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world. The Lord is completing us. We are not perfect.

00:15:52.180 We need your prayers. We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace. With that kind of support, we will move

00:16:01.260 mountains and do Jesus' will. Stumbling all the way.

00:16:08.220 Now, put aside the implication that this is the, that it's the will of God to have Donald Trump

00:16:13.160 arrested. She says, quote, you cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world. 1.00

00:16:20.340 But of course, nobody expects or is asking for either of those things. And what you hear here,

00:16:28.320 this is one of the most bizarre fantasies on the left, which is that black women are somehow 1.00

00:16:34.960 especially persecuted, while also being especially gifted and courageous and heroic.

00:16:42.740 But the reality, of course, is that black women are not persecuted at all. In fact, you know,

00:16:48.640 they're among the least persecuted and oppressed people in the world, in the history of the world.

00:16:53.200 In fact, they're given preferential treatment in virtually every aspect of American life, in the media,

00:16:58.360 corporate hiring, college admissions. The intersectional math, the victim hierarchy works

00:17:06.720 wildly in their favor. Willis got, you know, a million positive profiles in the media simply for being

00:17:14.140 a black woman who's prosecuting Donald Trump. And everybody knows this, which is why people like Willis 0.56

00:17:20.320 constantly have to remind us that they're victims. So the whole speech went on like this. A few

00:17:25.240 minutes later, after some more self-pity, Fannie Willis reiterated that God wants her to prosecute 0.64

00:17:30.740 the presidential frontrunner. She kind of sneaks that in every now and then. And then she goes back 0.89

00:17:36.000 to self-pity. Listen.

00:17:37.420 I'm here to tell you something. And it may make some of y'all a little uncomfortable.

00:17:46.720 God's using ordinary people to do extraordinary things. I come real regular. In fact, when I meet

00:17:57.320 people, that's what they say. Real regular. You don't have no errors about yourself.

00:18:02.280 And I say, well, how can I? I come from regular folk. I ain't got no pedigree. I'm not a member

00:18:15.160 of any of those elite organizations. And one more thing. I'm as flawed as they come.

00:18:21.000 But there is something special about me. It's my willingness to love people. I love people

00:18:31.540 of every political party. Different viewpoints. Different races. Different sexuality. And one

00:18:41.560 thing you will come to learn about me is I make sure everyone else is good. And sometimes I'm not.

00:18:47.700 Fannie Willis is a great person, says Fannie Willis. She's also really humble and she's

00:18:56.840 grounded. Oh, and she's carrying on God's plan to take out the political enemies of the Democratic 1.00

00:19:03.300 Party. Any questions? Well, no. Of course there's no questions. She deliberately addressed this in a

00:19:11.820 venue where there are no questions allowed. In fact, she went to a venue where people literally shout

00:19:16.760 amen. That's where she decided to go to talk about this major scandal. Now, it's worth pausing for a

00:19:21.820 moment just to emphasize that Willis is not an exception on the left. You know, she's not the 0.97

00:19:30.960 only prominent leftist to make a mockery of Christianity like this. Remember, it was the

00:19:35.640 governor of New York who went to a church and told Christian worshipers that, quote, God wants you to be

00:19:41.320 vaccinated. And now we have Fannie Willis telling us that God wants to incarcerate the GOP presidential

00:19:47.280 frontrunner. And the enemies of the faith always do this. They can't help themselves. They desperately

00:19:53.700 want to use Christian beliefs to advance their cause, even as they hate Christians. And, you know,

00:20:01.780 every time it comes off as hammy and laughable and incredibly cynical and transparent. They think 0.93

00:20:11.460 that if they bastardize Christianity through politics, they can use the faith to control 0.96

00:20:16.420 Christians. Fannie Willis knows she has no defense for what she's done. But instead of taking ownership 0.94

00:20:22.120 for it, which is what Christians would tell you to do, yes, as Christians, we believe no human being 0.52

00:20:29.520 is perfect. We believe in mercy. We believe in forgiveness. But we also know that there's no

00:20:36.140 forgiveness without repentance. And we're not hearing any repentance from her. Far from it.

00:20:45.520 And by the way, even if we do forgive someone as a Christian for doing something, let's say, 0.72

00:20:50.980 engaging in a political scandal, even if you forgive them, which would require repentance,

00:20:56.360 which would require an admission of guilt, repentance, that doesn't mean that you forget

00:21:00.360 about it and then say, oh, yeah, they're still qualified to, you know, be a DA prosecuting a

00:21:05.060 former president. Of course not. So she's trying to invoke Christianity while understanding nothing

00:21:13.200 about it. I mean, it's doubtful she's ever opened a Bible in her entire life. Right? She doesn't

00:21:18.560 know. She probably couldn't, like, list the gospel. She probably thinks that Pontius Pilate was,

00:21:24.120 like, an airline captain. Okay? And for what it's worth, along with trying to invoke the Bible,

00:21:30.460 she also invoked history that she doesn't understand as well. Towards the end of her

00:21:33.720 speech, she, for good measure, compared herself to Martin Luther King Jr. Watch.

00:21:39.720 See, Dr. King was an extremely special, brilliant, godly man. But he was just a man. And his journey

00:21:52.760 was full of mistakes, pitfalls, pain, and ugliness. Despite all of that, he overcame those things,

00:22:03.160 and he changed the entire world. See, I know we are at a time of history when they want to throw away

00:22:12.520 books and not talk about history. Some of y'all may have forgotten when Dr. King was alive, he was

00:22:20.440 attacked for his stance on the Vietnam War. Some of y'all might have forgotten that scandal the FBI

00:22:26.440 tried to do on personal indiscretions they made. Some of y'all forgot that. But now that same FBI

00:22:35.720 will take a day off to celebrate Dr. King, because my words said he will make him your footstool.

00:22:45.400 Ah, yes. MLK made mistakes, just like Fannie Willis. Of course, MLK's quote-unquote mistakes

00:22:52.920 included being a communist and adulterer and allegedly watching and laughing as a woman was 0.95

00:22:57.720 raped. That's the mistakes that she's referring to. Maybe what Fannie Willis is trying to tell us 0.72

00:23:03.240 something here. Maybe there are more shoes to drop. I don't know. Maybe the FBI is going to come after

00:23:08.600 her too. Somehow that seems unlikely, given that in this comparison, it's Fannie Willis doing exactly

00:23:14.200 what the FBI wants her to do by trying to take out Donald Trump. But it's not worth thinking too

00:23:20.040 deeply about anything Fannie Willis said, because there's really no meaning in any of it. It's all

00:23:25.800 just misdirection. So we're left with the substance of the accusations against Fannie Willis, which she

00:23:33.620 effectively admitted are true in her remarks on Sunday. You know, when someone accuses you of

00:23:39.620 something and you don't deny it, and instead you say, hey, nobody's perfect. Well, like, that's as close

00:23:43.480 you can come to admitting it without admitting it. And what this means is that the Fulton County

00:23:47.260 prosecution of Donald Trump isn't just politically motivated. It's not just completely meritless on

00:23:51.840 the law. We knew that already. What's new is that this prosecution, which again is the prosecution of

00:23:59.060 the leading candidate for the president of the United States, is also motivated by a corrupt prosecutor's

00:24:04.640 desire to shower her boyfriend with vacations to the Caribbean and Napa Valley, and also shower herself 0.98

00:24:10.580 with those things by extension. And that's what these people mean when they say that they're

00:24:15.480 defending democracy. This is what they mean when they accuse you of racism, when they invoke MLK

00:24:21.880 in the Bible. They don't understand or believe anything they're saying. And that's been obvious

00:24:27.480 to anyone who's been paying attention for years. And now, thanks to yesterday's performance by

00:24:33.640 Fannie Willis, it's hopefully obvious to everyone. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:26:01.060 underway today in the lead up to the big day. There was this. This is a report from media. Donald Trump

00:26:08.060 turned his sights on his biggest supporter among the GOP primary challengers on Saturday, taking aim at

00:26:12.580 Vivek Ramaswamy, telling supporters the Republican businessman is not MAGA in a post on Truth Social

00:26:18.160 and his surrogates are unleashing hell too. Trump is on his way to Iowa for the caucus vote,

00:26:23.180 which takes place in record cold temperatures. Trump said overnight that the weather might

00:26:26.840 benefit his campaign in the state and apparently he also thinks shaving off any support for Ramaswamy

00:26:30.680 would as well because he finally took a hard shot at the one primary challenger who is by far the least

00:26:35.180 likely to fire back. Vivek, a lot of editorializing in this article, but forget about that. Vivek started

00:26:43.600 his campaign as a great supporter. I'm quoting now Trump. Vivek started his campaign as a great

00:26:49.900 supporter, the best president of generations, etc. Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his

00:26:54.280 support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks. Very sly, but a vote for Vivek is a vote for the

00:26:59.800 other side. Don't get duped by this, said Trump. Vote for Trump. Don't waste your vote. Vivek is not

00:27:06.260 MAGA. The Biden indictments against his political opponent will never be allowed in this country.

00:27:10.640 They are already beginning to fall MAGA! And then a lot of Trump surrogates joined in,

00:27:19.280 and so that was the attack launched on Vivek. Now, as you might expect, there's been a lot of

00:27:26.260 discussion about this, a lot of consternation, a lot of controversy. And, you know, as for Trump

00:27:35.140 going after Vivek, I don't really care about that. It's politics. You know, I like Vivek. I agree with

00:27:42.280 much of what he says and much of what he plans to do, as I've been clear about this whole time.

00:27:46.740 But when I hear him getting attacked by a political opponent, does that offend me? No,

00:27:55.500 this is politics. This is what you do in politics. You try to beat the other guy, you go after him.

00:28:00.700 Now, Vivek has chosen a campaign, a campaign strategy where he just never criticizes Trump

00:28:05.980 ever under any circumstance. And that's his strategy. He's obviously doing it because he

00:28:11.700 thinks it'll be successful. We'll see if it plays out. I mean, I tend to be extremely skeptical of

00:28:17.380 a strategy like that. And that doesn't mean that you have to obsessively attack Trump. It doesn't

00:28:21.980 mean that you have to attack him on the left's terms, using the left's language, which obviously

00:28:25.400 you shouldn't do. But if you're running against the guy, you got to criticize him. And you got to

00:28:29.540 go at, you have to criticize him directly. Like, you have to explain, if you want to beat him,

00:28:34.500 you have to explain why he shouldn't be the guy who wins and you should be.

00:28:38.660 Again, it's politics. And if anyone's offended by that on either side, you're just, it's silly. 0.97

00:28:47.520 Now, and if you thought that Trump would permanently remain on friendly terms with his political

00:28:55.640 opponent, well, then I don't know what to say to you. I mean, naive is a word that is not strong

00:29:01.560 enough to describe you in that case. But here's what I will say, though. You know, I noticed on social

00:29:07.100 media, as many people noticed, that lots of previous fans of Vivek suddenly, in that moment,

00:29:15.380 as soon as Trump gave his marching orders, turned on him. Like, lots of people who thought that Vivek

00:29:21.180 was great suddenly decided that he's awful. And if you're one of those people, that says a lot more

00:29:27.880 about you than it does about either of those guys. You know, if you're prepared to actually

00:29:33.060 change your opinion about someone or something in a split second, switching on a dime because a 0.99

00:29:40.260 politician told you to, then that's truly pathetic. Now, to be clear, I'm not saying that all Trump 0.97

00:29:48.300 supporters made this switch. In fact, from what I can tell, just, you know, a casual look on social

00:29:55.420 media, from what I could see, would show that most Trump supporters have been saying, hey, I still

00:30:00.680 like Vivek. I'm voting for Trump, but I still like Vivek. I've seen a lot of that. And that's, and that

00:30:06.640 is a perfectly reasonable way of responding. But I have seen some who, I mean, literally in the span of

00:30:15.300 like an hour, went from loving the guy to hating him. And there has also been that. That is a surrendering

00:30:22.880 of your, of your critical thinking capacity. You know, that is like outsourcing it to someone else,

00:30:29.260 which is never a good idea, no matter who that other person is. So that doesn't mean that your

00:30:33.740 opinion of Vivek can't change, right? Your opinion of any politician should actually change depending

00:30:39.500 on circumstance. It depends on like what they're doing and saying. So you should be, you should be

00:30:43.100 prepared to change your opinion of any politician. But a sudden switch from he's great to he's

00:30:50.740 horrible. He's not one of us. He's a traitor. Like just like that is really impossible to defend.

00:30:59.260 All right. Speaking of impossible to defend, Nikki Haley spoke at a virtual event in Iowa.

00:31:05.460 She's not actually in Iowa, as far as I know, but she called into some kind of virtual town hall type

00:31:11.440 of thing. And, um, uh, you know, she, she's going to lose anyway in Iowa. So it doesn't matter. Um,

00:31:19.840 you know, lose Iowa and the primary, I mean, she's going to lose both. But in any case, there was one

00:31:24.400 noteworthy moment. Someone asked Haley a question that she should have been prepared to answer. And

00:31:30.360 she should have been prepared to answer because Trump was famously asked the same question,

00:31:35.480 infamously asked the same question by Megan Kelly, not all that long ago. Also, it's a version of one

00:31:42.120 of the most famous questions of this century, especially if you're on the right, which Nikki

00:31:48.180 Haley supposedly is. So it's a question that you should at least have an answer for, um, for those

00:31:56.560 reasons. And also because most importantly, because it's just, it's a really easy question. And it's like

00:32:00.620 the easiest question in the world to answer. And the question is, can a man become a woman? Which of 0.73

00:32:05.280 course is an offshoot of what is a woman? And let's hear how, uh, Haley handled that. 1.00

00:32:11.540 Go to our last question. Uh, John, John, you're live from Dubuque.

00:32:19.000 Hi, hi ambassador. Um, hi John. A lot of the stuff that Trump does,

00:32:25.980 you know, and says really bothers me and I'm concerned about it. You know, one thing I saw him

00:32:31.660 do was he said that, uh, you know, he had trouble answering the question, could a man become a

00:32:38.000 woman? And I'm just wondering what, what your response to that question is. Now, can a man

00:32:42.960 become a woman? There's been a lot that's been talked about when it comes to, um, all of these

00:32:47.960 roles and all of these issues. I strongly believe that we should not allow any gender change surgeries 1.00

00:32:56.500 to anyone before the age of 18 period. We kids now can't get a tattoo until they're 18. We shouldn't

00:33:06.260 have them permanently change their body until they're 18. And that includes puberty blockers. 0.52

00:33:11.300 That includes any sort of hormones that would do that after the age of 18. 0.53

00:33:16.480 We want to make sure people can live any way they want to live. I don't think government needs to be

00:33:24.020 in control of anybody's life. You go live the way you want to live. You should be free to live the way

00:33:28.860 you want to live. And every, and government and everybody else should stay out of your way.

00:33:33.020 But prior to 18, it is an important time, especially when you're going through your teenage years that

00:33:39.520 can be confusing. I don't think we should ever in any way have any sort of permanent changes,

00:33:45.660 but after 18, I'm not going to say anything. I think that, you know, you always have to believe

00:33:50.940 in freedom and allowing people to live the life the way they want to live. And if that's how they

00:33:54.660 choose, then, you know, I don't think government should have any say in that.

00:33:59.580 Now I'll say the same thing, uh, on this, that I said, when Trump dropped the ball on this question,

00:34:04.460 you know, when somebody asks, can a man become a woman? It's okay to give a long answer and elaborate, 0.90

00:34:13.020 but the first word in your answer should be no. Now, if the first word is hell, because the second

00:34:22.440 word is no, well, that's fine too. But the first thing you should be able to do is definitively and

00:34:28.620 with no equivocation declare that a man is not a woman and can never become one. It's not a hard 0.90

00:34:36.340 question. It's not a trick question. It's not a difficult or confusing question.

00:34:42.860 And your ability to answer the question does matter a lot. If you cannot speak honestly about

00:34:49.840 an issue as simple and clear as this, if you are so cowed and intimidated, um, that you will pretend

00:34:57.480 not to understand basic biological realities. If you are this beholden to the radical LGBT lobby,

00:35:02.680 that means you can't be trusted as a leader. I mean, I mean, like, like take two people, right?

00:35:07.640 Just like two, two generic, you know, nothing about either of them. They're both running for

00:35:14.680 political office. And one is asked if a man can become a woman and immediately, immediately answers

00:35:20.580 no. The other is asked the same question, then goes off on a, on some lengthy tangent and doesn't

00:35:25.680 answer the question at all. And now you have to decide which you will trust to be a clear,

00:35:32.780 honest leader who acts with clarity and purpose, regardless of the political lens. And you only

00:35:37.060 have that to go on. Who are you going to choose based on that performance? Certainly not Nikki Haley, 0.71

00:35:44.640 you know, and it's no surprise that Nikki Haley fails this test and she fails it even though,

00:35:51.320 you know, even while trying to present herself as a, uh, as this like no nonsense girl power,

00:35:58.320 you know, she's going to go in there and break up the good old boys club and she's going to tell 0.96

00:36:03.100 like it is and all that kind of stuff. That's how she presents herself. And yet she gets this basic,

00:36:09.580 a basic question that by the way, as a woman, she should be particularly ready to answer. Not because

00:36:15.280 only women can know the answer, but because she should be especially, um, eager to, you know, 1.00

00:36:24.880 defend the, the, the dignity of womanhood, which as we know, the trans agenda is constantly,

00:36:34.100 you know, waging an assault on. So she's a, nothing but a fraud, no big surprise there, I suppose. 0.95

00:36:41.480 Moving on to this Fox news says the federal aviation administration is actively recruiting

00:36:47.740 workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and

00:36:52.680 physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's

00:36:58.280 website. The FAA's website states targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the

00:37:03.480 federal government as a matter of policy has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and

00:37:07.900 hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis,

00:37:13.620 epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism. The initiative is part

00:37:19.100 of the FAA's diversity and inclusion hiring plan, which says diversity is integral to achieving FAA's

00:37:24.440 mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond. The FAA's website shows the

00:37:30.900 agency's guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23rd, 2022. So this is part of

00:37:41.600 their diversity efforts is to get in people with disabilities. Now, in fairness, just so that we 0.99

00:37:47.680 don't engage in any clickbait hyperbole here, this doesn't mean that United Airlines or Southwest is going

00:37:56.100 to go and hire a blind, mentally disabled dwarf to be a commercial pilot. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if we 1.00

00:38:05.580 get to that point, but that's not what this means, at least not yet. There are a lot of other jobs in the

00:38:11.660 airline industry generally, a lot of other jobs in the FAA. And people who defend this policy or any DEI policy

00:38:18.200 will argue that, you know, they still have the same hiring standards in place that they always have. So if they hire

00:38:24.200 somebody with a physical disability or a psychiatric problem, that person is still going to have to pass

00:38:29.060 all the same tests and demonstrate his fitness in the same way as anybody else, which means that if they

00:38:33.500 get the job, then they're qualified. And that's the claim, right? That's the DEI defense. And in theory,

00:38:41.980 that could be true in some cases. Like if there's a job filing paperwork or whatever at the FAA office,

00:38:50.980 there's no reason why somebody who's hearing impaired couldn't be perfectly qualified to do

00:38:57.260 that job. So in theory, someone who happens to fulfill a DEI quota doesn't need to be unqualified

00:39:03.920 in theory. But if that's all that was happening, right, if they were just letting anybody apply and

00:39:12.200 then hiring the best of that crop, then you wouldn't need DEI because that was already the case.

00:39:20.980 Okay. But like, I'm pretty sure that prior to this DEI standard being put up on the website or

00:39:28.460 updated in 2022, prior to that, you know, you could be a hearing impaired person and get a job filing

00:39:36.680 paperwork at the FAA or whatever. I mean, that was already the case. So when you add in DEI,

00:39:44.560 you're adding in something extra. And what are you adding in? Well, the moment you say,

00:39:50.600 we need to get more of this sort of person into these positions, right? You're looking at a

00:39:56.720 particular demographic, whether it's disabled, whether it's black people, whether it's women,

00:40:02.720 and you're looking at demographics and saying, we need more of them specifically. You're not saying,

00:40:07.220 we need more qualified people. You're saying, we need more of those people. And even if you're

00:40:12.560 saying, we need the most qualified of those people into this position, even if that's what you're

00:40:16.980 saying, which is, which, which even that is not actually like, that would be better. That would

00:40:20.860 still be terrible. That would be better than what they're actually doing. Um, but the moment you do

00:40:27.780 that, then you are going to end up lowering standards because with the current standards,

00:40:33.440 right? Before DEI, whatever the standards were, you had however many people you had in whatever

00:40:40.960 demographic, right? And if you want more of that demographic, the standards are going to get

00:40:45.840 lowered. That, that, because, because with the standards up here, you had, you know, standards were

00:40:52.180 up here. You had X number of people in your favorite demographic. So if you want to get even

00:40:58.000 more, then that means the standards are going down here. And it's insane. It's insane on many levels.

00:41:03.760 It's especially insane because, um, to begin with, if you're looking at the airline industry and you say,

00:41:11.080 well, we don't, we have a minority of women, or we have a minority of black people, or we have a minority 0.90

00:41:15.180 of disabled people. That's not a problem. Like, why is that a problem? If the ranks are full of people 1.00

00:41:24.360 who are qualified and few of the qualified people happen to be female or black or whatever, who cares? 0.97

00:41:32.080 It doesn't matter. It doesn't make a difference. It's not a problem that needs to be solved.

00:41:38.820 As long as you're bringing in the most qualified people, whatever the demographic makeup happens to

00:41:43.580 be at the end of that, doesn't matter. It's not a problem. Um, and so, so if, if, if, if no one is

00:41:52.940 black that ends up in that, um, that, that, that, you know, ends up in that camp, not a problem.

00:42:00.480 If you end up with, everyone is black, also not a problem. As long as race is not taken into account 0.92

00:42:06.520 at all, and you're just hiring the best people. But again, that's not how it goes. And, uh, and here's

00:42:11.840 the CEO of United making it clear how, uh, it really works. Listen. How is diversity and diversity

00:42:18.120 targets working into the Aviate Academy? We have committed that 50% of the class of, of the classes

00:42:24.620 will be women or people of color. Uh, today, only 19% of our pilots at United Airlines are women or

00:42:30.560 people of color. And by the way, from all the data I've seen, that's the highest of any airline in the

00:42:34.840 country. White males don't just dominate in the cockpits. Also in the C-suite at United Airlines. 0.60

00:42:39.580 Well, look, at United, I'm proud of the diversity that we actually have in our, our C-suite. I think

00:42:43.660 if you look around corporate America. Correct me if I'm saying, though, so I, this is just based

00:42:46.900 off your website, the people you list as executives, but out of 11 people, three are women. I believe

00:42:50.780 one is a person of color. Um, that's correct. Um, but, you know, in corporate America, I think,

00:42:56.660 you know, that's a low bar. How do you raise your own bar? Well, a lot of this is, you know,

00:43:01.400 focusing on it. We have, uh, programs to, one of the things we do is for every job when we're

00:43:06.880 doing an interview or require women and people of color to be involved in the interview process,

00:43:12.460 bringing people in early in their careers, um, as well, uh, and giving them those opportunities.

00:43:18.080 Yeah. You know, you got to get those white males out of there, right? You know, the, 1.00

00:43:22.180 the, the, the white males, you know, the, the people that, um, have made air travel into the

00:43:28.320 safest form of travel that's ever existed. The form of travel where you're 35,000 feet in the air

00:43:35.680 and going 400 miles an hour, and that's the safest. Um, so, and the people who predominantly

00:43:44.460 who achieved that were white males. And so how do we thank them? Let's get them out of it. And when 0.96

00:43:49.940 I say that the people who predominantly achieved that are white males, I, I'm not making that up.

00:43:54.480 That's the proponents of DEI are the first to say that. Like they're the ones who are going to look

00:43:59.180 at and say, well, historically it's been a white male dominated field. Okay. So you're, you're the

00:44:04.000 one saying that. Okay. Well also historically, what has this field achieved? Those white males who

00:44:11.660 were dominating the field, were they, were they doing poorly? Was there an issue? Was there a

00:44:15.680 problem? Were they screwing up? No. The people who not only invented human flight to begin with,

00:44:24.480 uh, were white males. And then the people who, even according to the DEI proponents who made it

00:44:31.020 unbelievably safe, were also predominantly white males. So yeah, we got to get them out. Got to get 1.00

00:44:38.440 those numbers down. This is what we're doing. We're looking at, we're saying, okay, here's, here's a,

00:44:46.020 here's an industry that's doing fantastically well, uh, has achieved feats, uh, unknown to mankind.

00:44:56.840 What's the demographic predominantly responsible for that? Let's single them out and then try to get

00:45:03.740 rid of them. Um, and that's what they're doing now. It is, uh, it is suicide. Well, I was going to say

00:45:13.480 it's suicidal, but it's not really because the CEO of United probably isn't even flying. Like he's

00:45:18.060 probably flying private. You know, he's not back in coach on a United flight. Um, so it's not suicidal

00:45:24.040 for him. I bet you, he wants to make sure that people fly in his planes that he's on are the most

00:45:29.780 qualified. Uh, so no, it's not suicidal really, uh, as far as it's homicidal actually is what it is.

00:45:35.860 All right. Finally, um, a few days ago, we talked about Lil Nas X and the blasphemous sacrilegious

00:45:45.260 promo campaign for his upcoming new single called Jay Christ. And I pointed out how the images of him

00:45:51.500 on a cross and, and, uh, images of him taking shots of communion wine, et cetera, are indeed sacrilegious 0.95

00:45:58.960 and disgusting. But, you know, on top of that, the whole thing is stale and played out. Pop stars have

00:46:04.580 been trying to get attention by blaspheming Christianity for decades. Um, there's nothing

00:46:10.260 rebellious or interesting about it. And, um, and now the song is out and I just want to play a quick

00:46:20.080 clip because the song that this is all supposed to promote, I think, I think it, uh, it kind of

00:46:25.820 proves a point, but here's the song. Listen.

00:46:27.500 Yeah.

00:46:28.500 Yeah.

00:46:29.500 Bust down chain. That was 30 bits. Bust down wrist. That's my bust down 30 inch. Walk up 0.97

00:46:35.500 in the club, popping like it was double mint. Looking for a 10. We only settle when the settlements.

00:46:41.500 Uh, uh, uh, let them slide. Yeah. That wasn't quiet. Yeah. Now I'm, I'm a ride. Yeah. I'm

00:46:47.240 gonna take it high. Yeah. Okay. Let them slide. Yeah. That wasn't quiet. Yeah. Tell them,

00:46:52.240 come on side, baby. We ain't tryna hide.

00:46:54.240 I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. I'm brave. You know when I'm back. It's all for tape. You

00:47:00.240 know that I'm ready for everything. You know I play. It's all for chaos.

00:47:06.240 Okay. So that's about enough of that. And, uh, look again, sacrilegious, gross, uh, the

00:47:21.640 guy's a degenerate creep. Uh, all of that is true, but the music itself, the music is, is 0.96

00:47:30.380 so incredibly bland and empty and vacuous that you, you can't even really be offended

00:47:37.160 by it. Even though it is objectively offensive, it's, you can't be offended because it's so,

00:47:43.940 it's just nothing. Um, and you listen to the, to the lyrics, but bust down chain. That was

00:47:53.380 30 bands, bust down wrist, match my bust down 30 inch, uh, walk up in the club, pop and like it

00:48:02.560 was double mint looking for a 10. We only, we only settle when it's settlements. Now I'm on

00:48:09.440 Mariah. I'm finna take a, take it higher. Okay. This is not, it's not anything. Like these are not,

00:48:17.740 this, this, these are not even thoughts. Um, it doesn't mean anything. And the words don't have

00:48:25.960 any relation to the images on screen. Like this guy's too stupid and too dead inside to actually 1.00

00:48:30.680 write a song with a sacrilegious message. So he can communicate the sacrilegious stuff through the 1.00

00:48:37.220 images in the music video. That's easy enough to do. And I'm sure if he, if he, if he could,

00:48:42.920 he would love to write a song that is also sacrilegious, but he can't even do that because he's 1.00

00:48:47.720 too stupid. He has the IQ of a grasshopper and he can't figure that out. So, um, you know what I 1.00

00:48:54.360 always want to ask these people? Uh, here's my question. Like when you were writing this song

00:49:00.100 and I know that Lil Nas X is such a moron that he, he, he couldn't even write this song himself.

00:49:05.680 I'm sure it has 47 writers, but pretending that he wrote it all by himself, I would ask when you 0.97

00:49:12.980 were writing it, what were you feeling, right? Like what emotion were you trying to convey?

00:49:22.040 Okay. The most basic, most entry-level thing that a piece of art should be able to do is convey at

00:49:29.360 least the emotion of the artist. Great art can do a whole lot more than just conveying an emotion, but,

00:49:37.220 um, but at the very least I should be able to listen to your song or read your poem or look at

00:49:44.420 your painting or, or whatever. And, and, and, and I should be able to tell that when you composed

00:49:50.600 this piece of art, you were feeling sad or happy or forlorn or anxious, or, um, you were having

00:49:57.120 feelings of, of awe, feelings of longing, feelings of love, feelings of hatred, maybe all of these things

00:50:04.800 together. Art at a minimum should convey human emotion. It should at least be able to do that.

00:50:12.800 But this crap, I mean, this stuff that passes for music, it doesn't even do that. There's no emotion 0.94

00:50:19.860 in it. There's, there's no feeling, there's no thought. So often, I guess my point is that, uh,

00:50:28.060 very often we'll look at this kind of music and we will point out, I will point out that it's

00:50:32.880 incoherent. There's no message. There's no, uh, there's nothing. There's no, there's no kind of

00:50:38.900 story being told. It's just a bunch of words. And that's true. But even below that, it's like,

00:50:48.000 it's worse than that because on top of being intellectually incoherent, it's also emotionally

00:50:52.720 incoherent. It would be possible. And in fact, um, this is something that, that, that even kind

00:51:02.160 of crappy pop music used to be able to do. You go back to like the nineties when I was growing up

00:51:06.780 and, uh, some of the bands and pop stars at the time. Yeah. If you went back and look at the lyrics,

00:51:13.640 they're, they're kind of like incoherent or very, or, or not kind of, in some cases, very

00:51:18.640 incoherent, but there's a, there's a, there's at least like a feeling that's that, that comes

00:51:23.460 out of it. And so you feel a certain way and you can tell that the, the artist is trying to convey,

00:51:28.500 trying to elicit that emotion. We don't even have that anymore. Now there's, there's, there's nothing

00:51:35.100 in this stuff at all. There's nothing there emotionally, intellectually, there's no message.

00:51:40.860 There's no feeling. There's no heart of any kind in any of it. It's, it's just totally empty,

00:51:47.520 bland, vacuous. Um, it's not, which means it's not music. Actually, it really isn't like only on

00:51:56.800 a very technical, on a very technical level, it's music. Uh, maybe in the same way that,

00:52:03.820 you know, you could probably find my probably, I mean, there, there are plenty of AI is out there

00:52:10.920 and, and chatbots and so on that could write a poem. Right. And, and really easy to find one

00:52:18.320 that could do that. That's, that would be, um, because on a technical level, you know, you got

00:52:23.120 stanzas, you got the structure of a poem. And so, yeah, an AI can compose one. Um, but it's not really

00:52:31.280 poetry because there's no, it's not human. There's no, there's no poet there, right? You can't really,

00:52:38.840 you can't have on a, on a technical level, you can, but you can't have real poetry without a,

00:52:43.960 without a poet. And an AI is not a poet. Um, and I think it's the same thing here. So when we say

00:52:51.100 this is not real music, it's always, and then you always have musicians that, well, no, you don't know

00:52:55.980 anything about music. Technically you've got this and that and you've got the melody and the, yeah,

00:52:59.340 I know all the components are there, but the components that that's missing is any kind of

00:53:05.400 humanity is the component that's really missing is heart of. And if you don't have that in art,

00:53:12.000 then there's, it's not really art. It's just, it's, it's sounds and words strung together to

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00:55:15.540 Another daily cancellation, another viral video that everyone has an opinion about,

00:55:20.160 and most of the opinions are wrong, as usual. And this time, it's a young lady named Brittany

00:55:24.780 Peach, who recently recorded, secretly recorded, and posted a video of herself getting fired from 0.93

00:55:30.480 her sales job with a tech company called Cloudflare. Apparently, Brittany, like literally every other

00:55:37.840 employee who's ever been fired from any position ever, disagrees with her termination and feels that

00:55:43.720 she deserves to keep her job. Her employer feels otherwise. And as it usually goes in this sort of

00:55:49.140 situation, her employer's opinion on the matter prevails. After all, when your boss fires you,

00:55:55.820 the decision has already been made. They aren't asking you if you're okay with it, or how you feel

00:56:00.860 about it, or they're not taking a poll on the subject. They're not bringing you in and sitting

00:56:05.260 you down and saying, you know, if you're okay, we're going to let you, if you're okay with it,

00:56:08.840 we're going to fire you. It doesn't go that way. They are informing you that you are fired,

00:56:13.100 and that's it. There's almost certainly nothing you can say when you're getting that unfortunate

00:56:21.300 talk. There's almost certainly nothing you can say to change their mind. The decision has already

00:56:28.160 been made. And so the only thing you can do is decide how you'll handle it. Whether you'll handle

00:56:35.040 it, first of all, with some dignity and class and not start groveling. And also, if you will respond

00:56:44.460 in a way that will increase or decrease your chances of getting another job. This is, you know,

00:56:51.940 it's actually, when you're getting fired, this is a big moment in your career. You know, it might be

00:56:57.380 the end of this current job, but it's a pivotal moment in your career because whether or not you

00:57:05.860 get a better job in the future will hinge in large part on how you respond in this moment,

00:57:13.720 both in the moment and in the moments that come after. Well, unfortunately, Brittany has chosen to

00:57:21.580 respond in a way that's going to hinder her chances of getting another job because she has decided to 0.81

00:57:25.100 respond by secretly recording the meeting and posting it to TikTok for sympathy and clout,

00:57:31.480 which will absolutely ensure that every potential employer in the future will be very wary about

00:57:35.860 hiring her. And most will immediately toss her resume in the garbage five seconds after they Google 1.00

00:57:41.040 her name, which they will all do. But even though Brittany has decided to implode her career on camera

00:57:47.140 for all to see, she's still being cheered by the vast majority of the peanut gallery. They're very

00:57:52.200 impressed with the video and her performance in it. So before we go any further, we should probably

00:57:57.980 watch some of this video. First, here she is getting the bad news. Listen.

00:58:03.200 We finished our evaluations of 2023 performance. This is where you have not met Cloudflare expectations

00:58:09.440 for performance. We've decided to part ways with you.

00:58:12.560 Yeah, I'm going to stop you right there. So I started August 25th. I've been on a three month

00:58:20.600 ramp. And then it was three weeks of December, and then a week of Christmas. And then here we are.

00:58:30.900 I have had the highest activity amongst my team. Since I've started, I have had three contracts out,

00:58:40.020 done a really great job managing my deals up until the very end that decided not to close last minute.

00:58:46.840 So I don't think that that makes a lot of sense for me in my Cloudflare journey here so far.

00:58:54.360 Also, every single one-on-one I've had with my manager, every conversation I've had with him,

00:58:59.960 he has been giving me nothing but I am doing a great job. I have had great activity. I have really

00:59:06.000 great meetings. I'm picking up the products very quickly. And things have been going really,

00:59:12.340 really well. I make really great relationships with my clients. So I disagree that my performance

00:59:19.720 hasn't been. I haven't met performance expectations when I certainly have just because I haven't closed

00:59:30.240 anything officially. Now we're going to revisit some of that in just a moment.

00:59:37.000 But before we do, we're going to fast forward a few seconds until we get to her employer's

00:59:42.760 explanation, such as it is, for her termination. So here's how they explain it. Listen.

00:59:49.700 Let me carve out the two threads, a ladder of why I'm on this conversation. I'll put that one

00:59:57.820 in the second half and Rosie might be better to explain the process of who is giving this

01:00:03.440 information and the prior piece, which is your feedback and notes about your performance.

01:00:10.840 So we add a little context to that. So just for clarification, you are not being singled out

01:00:16.800 in this. Your peers are also being collectively assessed on performance. This is a collective

01:00:22.440 calibration for Cloudflare. So I just want to clarify that piece. I won't be able to add any

01:00:28.020 kind of specifics on numbers or... Wait, yeah, no. Can you explain for me why Brittany Peach is getting 1.00

01:00:32.680 let go? I won't be able to go into specifics for numbers. Wait, why though? I just started. I've been

01:00:41.900 working extremely hard just because I haven't closed anything that has nothing to do with

01:00:47.280 my performance on a three-month ramp with just one month with two major holidays in the middle.

01:00:53.700 I don't think that has anything to do with why I should be let go, if that makes sense. So I really

01:01:00.040 need an answer and an explanation as to why Brittany Peach is getting let go, not why Cloudflare decided to 0.99

01:01:06.260 hire too many people and are now actually realizing that they can't afford this many people and they're

01:01:10.660 letting that go. If that's the real answer, I would rather just you tell me that instead of making up

01:01:15.240 some bulls**t and telling me that right before I lose my job from someone that I've never met before. 0.65

01:01:21.100 Okay, now as mentioned, this video has been viewed millions of times and most of the comments have 0.97

01:01:25.780 been incredibly supportive of Brittany. It's also been picked up by several media outlets who also paint

01:01:32.280 Brittany as the hero of the story. And for the most part, the peanut gallery has agreed that Brittany

01:01:37.520 comported herself very well during this interaction. They say that she was reasonable and

01:01:43.800 well-spoken. They're outraged that Brittany got fired, even though her performance has been great,

01:01:48.000 according to her. They say that she was treated coldly and impersonally, like she was nothing but

01:01:54.200 a faceless cog in the corporate machine. And that's the popular consensus. But again, as is often the

01:02:00.660 case, the popular consensus misses the mark. Mostly misses it anyway. So let's go over a few points.

01:02:06.440 One, yes, it is dehumanizing and demoralizing and depressing, a lot of other D words, to get fired

01:02:13.820 over Zoom by some corporate boss you've never even met. And one who uses phrases like collective

01:02:20.820 calibration. I mean, I got to admit, to hear that at all, but to hear that in the process of getting

01:02:27.460 fired. But we're doing a collective calibration. That's like soul draining. Like you can feel your

01:02:35.120 soul being drained out of your body when you hear stuff like that. And so if you watch this video and

01:02:43.440 you say to yourself, man, I never want to work for a company like Cloudflare. Well, that makes two of us.

01:02:49.900 Right? I'm totally with you. But here's the thing. Brittany did work for a company like Cloudflare.

01:02:58.320 Yes, she's treated like a cog in the corporate machine, but she chose to get a job as a cog in 1.00

01:03:03.940 the corporate machine. She was working remotely, apparently, for a tech company with thousands of

01:03:09.060 employees. Like that's as impersonal as you can get. That's the very definition of being a cog in the

01:03:16.280 corporate machine. Getting fired over Zoom by a company like that, it is dehumanizing. But working

01:03:22.660 over Zoom for a company like that is also, one could argue, dehumanizing. It's understandable if

01:03:28.940 you would rather be dehumanized by a paycheck than by a pink slip. But it does make your complaints

01:03:34.880 about the latter a little bit less credible. Two, people are giving her credit for how she handled

01:03:42.160 herself on the call. Well, personally, I found her to be smarmy and condescending, but that's beside the 0.96

01:03:47.620 point. The point is that she shouldn't get credit because she was performing for a camera that the other

01:03:53.840 party didn't know was there. Okay? I don't know why people struggle with this. Like, when someone

01:04:00.740 records themselves doing something, it doesn't make sense to give them credit. Oh, they really handled that

01:04:06.360 well. They're recording themselves. They're doing it for you, to impress you. Okay? Like, maybe that's

01:04:12.660 how they would respond in a normal situation if the camera wasn't rolling. But we don't know that.

01:04:17.540 You know, it's not a whole lot different from these TikTok videos you see of somebody like

01:04:20.760 giving money to a homeless man or something and doing something nice for a homeless guy. You say,

01:04:28.000 well, this is what humanity is all about. No, it's not. He's doing it for the camera.

01:04:31.620 Okay? He's only doing it for the camera. It's not even about the charity at all.

01:04:37.840 Do you really not understand that? So, in this case, she filmed it knowing that she would post

01:04:44.680 it to TikTok afterwards. That means that nothing she says on the call can be taken as honest or

01:04:48.780 genuine. Sure, the corporate drone managers firing her, they weren't being authentic or human,

01:04:54.960 but neither was she. Like, they were following the corporate script and she was performing for a

01:05:00.420 TikTok audience. The whole thing was an orgy of inauthenticity. And that decision on her part is

01:05:06.840 one that, again, will haunt her for the rest of her professional life. No employer wants to hire

01:05:12.600 someone who might secretly record them and then use the video to smear them on social media.

01:05:18.280 Even if she was the greatest saleswoman in the world, it still would not be worth the trouble.

01:05:28.700 Okay? But as a saleswoman who didn't make a sale in four months, it's definitely not even close to

01:05:36.820 worth the trouble. Which brings us to point three. Three, the peanut gallery complains, just as Brittany

01:05:42.200 herself complained, that she wasn't given a reason for her dismissal. That's not entirely true.

01:05:47.680 They said it was performance related. She admits that she hasn't closed a sale since she got the

01:05:52.080 job four months ago. She says that that's okay because she manages her meetings well, even though

01:05:57.980 she doesn't convert those meetings into sales. But it's not much of a strain to speculate that her

01:06:03.500 employer doesn't find that reasoning very compelling. Like, they don't give a damn if you're good in

01:06:11.140 meetings or if you get along with your coworkers or even if you work hard. They care about results.

01:06:17.360 And if you aren't getting results, you aren't doing your job. And that's most likely why she was

01:06:22.280 fired. Is it harsh? Is it tough? Is it unkind? Sure, probably, I guess. But that's life. And life has

01:06:32.380 not changed much in this regard. Okay? In pre-industrial times, the only result that mattered was whether you

01:06:39.860 had a good harvest or whether you had a successful hunt. And if you didn't, you died. And that was that.

01:06:48.120 And now the result that matters at your sales job is whether you make sales. If you don't, you die.

01:06:55.720 Metaphorically, in a professional sense, which is at least preferable to the literal sense.

01:06:59.720 But the principle is the same. Now, could the other people on the call have given her more specific

01:07:04.400 information about why she was fired? Yeah, maybe they could have. But there's a reason why employers 0.86

01:07:11.100 are vague in these situations. It's because in many cases, if they tell the truth, if they're totally

01:07:16.680 frank, they'll get sued. Employers try to be as vague and general as possible to avoid liability.

01:07:23.940 Hypothetically, so hypothetically, and I don't know anything about this woman. I don't know if this 0.69

01:07:28.740 is true. Just hypothetically. If, yeah, she's lagging in sales, but maybe there's other people

01:07:36.440 that are lagging in sales too, and they don't get fired, but they chose to fire her because on top of

01:07:41.000 lagging in sales, she's also just obnoxious and unpleasant, and nobody wants to work with her. 1.00

01:07:47.800 Like, hypothetically, if that was the case, well, that's a valid reason for her to be the one to get 0.93

01:07:52.840 fired, but they can't say that. You know, especially in these corporate, they're not going to say, well,

01:07:57.240 you're just an obnoxious, unpleasant person. Nobody wants to be around you, so we're getting

01:08:00.520 rid of you. You're not worth the trouble. Like, you're not worth the trouble. They can't say that

01:08:05.040 because then they'll get sued. And so what happened, like, yes, that would be the more human thing,

01:08:13.420 also more helpful. It's a lot more helpful to tell somebody that so they maybe can have some chance

01:08:17.700 of self-improvement. But, you know, the litigious society we live in means that just honesty goes 0.59

01:08:24.820 out the window. Humanity goes out the window. And now, guess what? Now that they have to worry about

01:08:29.260 having the conversation recorded and posted to TikTok, they're going to be even more vague and

01:08:34.640 general. So if you thought that that meeting was cold and impersonal, wait until you see how cold and

01:08:40.880 impersonal they will get when the possibility of TikTok infamy is hanging over every meeting of

01:08:47.380 this type. So this hero has just guaranteed that the problem she's exposing will only get a million 0.99

01:08:55.320 times worse because of her. Four, finally, you know, it's hard getting fired. Like, it's a hard thing to

01:09:08.820 be fired. I understand that. I've been through it more than once. Humiliation, anger, anxiety,

01:09:16.260 sadness, resentment. Like, a lot of very difficult emotions are balled up into one messy jumble when

01:09:21.960 you get fired. It sucks. In a word, it sucks to get fired. But here's the part that might come as news 0.99

01:09:28.880 to many of our Gen Z friends. Just because you're going through something difficult, just because you're

01:09:34.960 feeling bad about something, just because you're suffering a setback, that doesn't mean that you

01:09:39.880 need to make a national scandal out of it. That doesn't mean you need to broadcast it to the world

01:09:43.860 and make yourself into history's most oppressed victim. You're dealing with something that millions

01:09:48.900 of people have been through. Your version of it may be worse than some, but it's not nearly as bad as

01:09:56.340 most. For instance, if you're single and you have no kids and you get fired, your experience is automatically

01:10:03.800 not that bad compared to the many millions of people who've been fired when they have kids that depend on

01:10:09.760 them, right? Now, that doesn't make your firing any less painful, but it does make it a whole lot less

01:10:15.440 noteworthy, okay? And it does mean that sometimes in life, you just have to take your lumps and move on.

01:10:24.000 You just do. And we can't, like, nobody wants to say that anymore. Like, no one wants to say

01:10:32.040 anymore, yeah, that sucks that it happened. Okay. Like, we're all moving on now with our lives and

01:10:39.400 you need to also. It's just, that's it. Yes, we have acknowledged, but it's hard. Okay, we all

01:10:45.660 acknowledge that. We get it. But it's really hard. Yeah, okay. We all, we acknowledge it's a really hard

01:10:51.060 thing, but it happens. And that's it. Like, deal with it. Do you want my pity? Okay, well, you have

01:11:01.200 my pity. And take that and $1.50 and it'll get you a KitKat at a vending machine. Probably not even

01:11:08.160 that with inflation. So anyway, stop looking for pity. Stop looking for victim points. Get a grip.

01:11:14.840 But collect yourself. Move on with your life. It's your only choice. So you might as well

01:11:21.800 take it. Or else, I must say that you, just like our friend Brittany, are today canceled.

01:11:30.540 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you

01:11:33.640 tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 15, 2024

Ep. 1293 - Corrupt Trump Prosecutor Plays The Most Absurd Race Card We’ve Ever Seen

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