The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1305 - Conservative Activists Are Sent To Prison For Praying

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, peaceful pro-life activists have just been convicted of federal crimes and now face a decade in prison.

00:00:06.360 This is part of a wide-reaching campaign of political persecution against conservative activists.

00:00:11.120 We'll talk about it. Also, some segments of the right have decided to wage war against Taylor Swift.

00:00:15.680 Is that a smart political play, and is Taylor Swift a deserving target in the first place?

00:00:19.920 And a millionaire tech bro says that we can defeat death and live forever in a progressive utopia.

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00:02:12.500 In the first week of October 2022, 100 days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade,

00:02:18.300 Joe Biden held a highly publicized meeting with his so-called Reproductive Rights Task Force

00:02:23.200 in the state dining room of the White House.

00:02:25.960 At the meeting, Biden announced a plan to subvert the Supreme Court's ruling to the extent that he

00:02:30.960 could. He instructed Congress to pass legislation that would prevent any state from banning abortion.

00:02:35.780 He also announced millions of dollars in federal funds to promote abortion and threaten legal

00:02:40.280 consequences for any university that tried to punish a student for killing her child.

00:02:45.260 What Joe Biden didn't announce is that, as he spoke, his enforcers in the DOJ were planning a

00:02:51.040 shock-and-awe-style raid designed to intimidate and punish pro-life activists.

00:02:56.400 And just hours after the meeting of Joe Biden's task force at 7 a.m. on October 5th,

00:03:01.020 a team of heavily armed FBI agents arrived at Centerville, Tennessee, home of Paul Vaughn.

00:03:06.980 One of the agents apparently delighted in telling one of Vaughn's children, who was waiting for him

00:03:11.300 to drive them to school, that their father was going to jail. And indeed, agents arrested Paul

00:03:16.940 Vaughn in front of his children, hauled him away as they refused to answer any of his wife's questions.

00:03:22.240 Here's some of the footage that she recorded from that morning. Watch.

00:03:25.960 But if you're not going to let me, then I'll just-

00:03:28.260 No, I want to know why you were banging on my door with a gun. 0.99

00:03:31.860 Hey, you're not going to tell me anything?

00:03:40.920 No, you're not.

00:03:42.240 I tried, ma'am.

00:03:43.800 No, you didn't.

00:03:44.660 Yes, I did.

00:03:45.240 You did not try.

00:03:46.460 Yes, I did.

00:03:46.580 This is not acceptable.

00:04:02.640 Can I have your name?

00:04:15.700 You're not going to give me your name?

00:04:22.400 You're not going to give me any information?

00:04:27.960 Okay, so you see there, multiple cars full of federal agents and bulletproof vests.

00:04:33.480 Their weapons out.

00:04:34.840 You know, it's like they're going to arrest, you know, some sort of cartel-affiliated drug

00:04:40.300 lord or something like that.

00:04:42.900 But what was Paul Vaughn's crime?

00:04:44.500 What did he do?

00:04:45.600 Well, as I mentioned on the show yesterday, a full year and a half before that FBI raid

00:04:50.420 in March of 2021, Paul Vaughn participated in a protest at an abortion facility in Mount

00:04:55.420 Juliet, Tennessee, along with several other pro-life activists.

00:04:58.460 And these activists sang and prayed and sat in a hallway outside of the facility.

00:05:05.300 Local police arrived.

00:05:06.280 They told these activists to leave.

00:05:07.740 The activists refused.

00:05:08.800 This was civil disobedience.

00:05:11.120 So a handful of them were arrested for misdemeanor trespassing because that's what it was.

00:05:15.580 Now, to add some dark irony to the situation, one of the protesters was booked for contributing

00:05:20.580 to the delinquency of a minor because the protester brought a child to the demonstration.

00:05:24.520 So taking your kid to pray and sing at an abortion facility is contributing to their delinquency. 0.98

00:05:31.780 But killing your kid at the abortion facility is fine, apparently. 0.73

00:05:36.780 And this is in Tennessee, a state that's controlled for the most part by the Republican Party. 0.50

00:05:40.920 Interestingly enough, Paul Vaughn himself wasn't arrested by local police that day because he was outside.

00:05:46.300 He was not inside.

00:05:46.920 He was functioning mainly as a liaison between the police and the demonstrators.

00:05:51.160 They didn't see any reason to arrest him because he wasn't even trespassing in the hallway.

00:05:55.440 He was outside.

00:05:56.980 And really, the whole situation was obviously overblown anyway.

00:06:00.220 At a press conference following the arrest, a reporter asked the police spokesman why they

00:06:04.520 were bothering to clog the court system with trivial trespassing cases like this.

00:06:08.900 It wasn't exactly the crime of the century.

00:06:11.380 Everybody knew it.

00:06:12.040 In case you need a reminder, and just to see what happened and what led to those armed federal

00:06:18.760 agents showing up at someone's door to arrest them in front of their children, here's what

00:06:22.800 the protest looked like.

00:06:24.180 Let's see thy face, O God of Jacob. 0.72

00:06:32.900 O God, let us see a generation of years that seeks thy face, O God of Jacob.

00:06:50.720 Let us see a generation of years that seeks thy face, O God of Jacob. 0.79

00:06:57.440 So that was it.

00:06:58.800 That's what they did.

00:06:59.440 That was the whole, that's the whole thing.

00:07:01.200 They sat there and they sang, and that's all they did.

00:07:04.660 And watching these people praying and singing, the Biden administration saw an opportunity,

00:07:09.200 apparently.

00:07:09.440 They decided to make an example out of Paul Vaughn and everyone else who participated at

00:07:13.320 the abortion facility protest.

00:07:14.960 And in all, the DOJ arrested 11 people for participating in that demonstration, including

00:07:20.420 an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor named Eva Edel.

00:07:24.640 And they charged these protesters with violations of the Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances

00:07:29.820 Act, or FACE Act, which carries penalties of up to a decade in prison.

00:07:34.400 Now, there was never any way to justify this charging decision, even using the standards of

00:07:38.200 Joe Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland.

00:07:39.860 And prior to the arrest, Garland stated under oath in the Senate, quote, we prosecute without

00:07:44.520 respect to ideology, but we do focus on the most violent acts, the most dangerous actors,

00:07:49.820 and the cases most likely to lead to danger to most Americans.

00:07:54.600 Well, no part of that statement was true, as it turns out.

00:07:57.740 Not only does the DOJ prosecute explicitly on the basis of ideology, but they're also focusing

00:08:01.720 on the least violent and least dangerous acts imaginable.

00:08:06.460 Namely, sitting and praying in front of an abortion facility.

00:08:10.180 They're focusing on people who, they know, pose no threat to the community whatsoever.

00:08:18.180 This is their strategy, and it appears to be working.

00:08:21.060 Yesterday, a federal jury convicted these six pro-life activists, including Paul Vaughn,

00:08:27.080 of FACE Act violations, as well as engaging in a conspiracy against rights.

00:08:31.080 The jury apparently agreed with the DOJ that Paul Vaughn and another demonstrator, simply

00:08:35.640 by negotiating with police, simply by being there, were really engaging in a delaying tactic.

00:08:41.960 And therefore, they're just as guilty as the demonstrators in the hallway.

00:08:45.520 And now all of these defendants are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, which

00:08:49.240 would bankrupt their families, and up to a decade in prison, which of course is even worse.

00:08:55.080 Now, unfortunately, in the federal system, cameras aren't allowed in the courtroom, so we

00:08:58.360 can't show you video footage of what the prosecutor said, but we do know, because of a reporter

00:09:02.500 from the Daily Wire named Alif Le Mayhew, that in closing arguments, the prosecutor stated

00:09:08.680 that, and as I mentioned this yesterday, that, and this is a very important point, but I haven't

00:09:14.340 seen very many people pick up on.

00:09:16.380 The prosecutor said that these demonstrators were not, in fact, peaceful protesters, simply

00:09:21.120 by virtue of the fact that they committed a crime.

00:09:22.920 Quoting from the Daily Wire, during her final statements to the jury, Assistant U.S.

00:09:25.560 Attorney Amanda Klopf likened the actions of the six pro-lifers to that of a group of people

00:09:29.760 attempting to convince someone not to vote, and blocking the entrance of a polling station.

00:09:35.000 She said that, quote, something is not peaceful if laws are broken.

00:09:39.580 That is what Joe Biden's Assistant U.S. Attorney said.

00:09:43.200 Her argument is that all crimes are inherently violent, simply by virtue of the fact that they

00:09:49.380 involve breaking the law.

00:09:50.380 Now, whatever we think of that reasoning, it's obviously insanely inconsistent with Joe

00:09:56.140 Biden's own stated goal to release, quote, unquote, nonviolent offenders from jail.

00:10:01.620 According to his U.S. Attorney, there's no such thing as a nonviolent offender.

00:10:06.320 But that's why Biden pardoned all those marijuana offenders, supposedly.

00:10:09.480 It's also why the DOJ paid out a massive settlement to those BLM rioters who occupied Lafayette

00:10:14.980 Square near the White House, even though some of them threw frozen water bottles and rocks

00:10:19.000 at police officers.

00:10:21.240 It's why the DOJ dropped more than a third of the criminal cases against BLM rioters who

00:10:25.460 sieged a courthouse in Portland.

00:10:28.440 We're told all these offenders were nonviolent, even though they were actually violent.

00:10:33.880 It's like they weren't violent enough.

00:10:35.420 And so they count as nonviolent.

00:10:37.840 And in their cases, it's nonviolent, so it doesn't matter.

00:10:39.900 So it's only when you pray silently outside of an abortion facility that you go to prison

00:10:46.600 as effectively a violent, you know, offender.

00:10:52.400 Like, effectively, that was an act of violence, according to the U.S. Attorney. 0.97

00:10:56.180 So there's no denying that this argument from Joe Biden's DOJ is ridiculously hypocritical. 0.82

00:11:01.700 But that's not the point, really. 0.99

00:11:03.800 I mean, like, everyone knows that these people are hypocrites. 0.97

00:11:07.160 The point is that under the U.S. Constitution, the government isn't allowed to be hypocritical 0.97

00:11:12.320 when it comes to enforcing the law.

00:11:13.980 We have something called the Equal Protection Clause.

00:11:16.400 We have due process.

00:11:18.380 And if that means anything, it's that the government can't selectively enforce laws

00:11:22.140 depending on which ideology it wants to punish.

00:11:25.240 That's the problem here.

00:11:27.300 Now, yes, the people who gathered outside the hallway, or inside the hallway, rather,

00:11:31.960 they did violate the letter of the FACE Act law.

00:11:35.640 You know, they apparently convinced someone not to kill their baby that day

00:11:39.820 and go home instead, which is a great moral victory.

00:11:44.840 I mean, there's a human being who will live and walk this earth because of these people.

00:11:52.000 But according to the law, that's a crime.

00:11:54.440 You can't do that.

00:11:55.060 You can't save lives that way.

00:11:56.300 It's not, you know, it's better to just let the baby die.

00:11:58.700 So these peaceful activists violated federal law.

00:12:03.460 But that law happens to be atrocious and unconstitutional for many reasons,

00:12:08.860 one of which is that the law is being unevenly enforced to an extreme degree.

00:12:14.960 I mean, the White House isn't even attempting to hide this.

00:12:18.120 Joe Biden announced his pardon of nonviolent marijuana users literally a day after the FBI

00:12:24.040 raided Paul Vaughn's home, just to underscore the message that he's sending, I guess.

00:12:30.200 They are absolving one class of nonviolent criminals while hunting down another class

00:12:34.880 of nonviolent criminals like they're an Al-Qaeda cell.

00:12:38.360 And by the way, the FACE Act also is supposed to protect pregnancy centers,

00:12:43.540 pro-life pregnancy centers.

00:12:44.760 Supposedly, it's supposed to protect them too.

00:12:46.400 And yet you have organized efforts across the country, especially in the wake of Dobbs,

00:12:54.200 where these pro-life pregnancy centers were being targeted violently, set on fire.

00:12:58.900 There's basically no attempt to track any of the people who did that down.

00:13:01.880 I mean, most of the people responsible for that have not seen a day in jail and never will.

00:13:08.000 And those are actual terrorists.

00:13:10.660 But these people that were sitting in the hallway are not terrorists or even close to it.

00:13:13.760 These pro-lifers, a collection of elderly retirees and parents with young children,

00:13:18.320 were engaged in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience.

00:13:22.900 Sending these demonstrators to prison for 11 years for the civil disobedience,

00:13:27.060 which harmed no one and caused no damage to property, is both cruel and obviously unjust.

00:13:34.900 Now, maybe it could be explained on some theoretical level

00:13:37.980 if the administration had established a precedent of bringing the hammer down

00:13:42.580 on everyone who violates the law for the sake of making a political point.

00:13:46.700 You know, if that's like the precedent they've set,

00:13:49.680 that if you engage in civil disobedience, if you do commit any crime at all,

00:13:53.440 trespassing any crime, to make a political point,

00:13:56.500 we're going to throw every charge at you we possibly can.

00:13:59.540 I still wouldn't be okay with that.

00:14:01.720 At least there'd be some consistency there.

00:14:04.260 But that obviously is not the case.

00:14:05.620 BLM rioters who torch police stations have gotten a fraction of the time.

00:14:10.060 People who harass the Supreme Court justices at their homes

00:14:14.340 haven't even been arrested, to my knowledge.

00:14:17.920 The administration is punishing political disobedience

00:14:20.340 depending on the politics of the people involved.

00:14:22.640 And it's hard to imagine a more Soviet system of justice than this.

00:14:28.460 But it's the approach that the Biden administration is now committed to.

00:14:31.800 They aren't just going after these pro-life demonstrators in Tennessee.

00:14:35.020 They tried to do the same to Mark Houck, who was arrested in September of 2022

00:14:38.200 for an incident that occurred a year earlier in October of 2021.

00:14:42.160 As you remember, Houck's alleged crime was shoving a volunteer in an abortion facility

00:14:46.580 after the guy started harassing Houck's 12-year-old son.

00:14:48.940 This was such an absurd non-crime that the local police didn't pursue any charges

00:14:53.560 similar to the case of Paul Vaughn.

00:14:56.800 It's the exact same sort of situation.

00:14:58.780 Something happened.

00:14:59.440 It was no big deal.

00:15:00.220 Nobody really cared.

00:15:01.480 There weren't any serious charges being leveled by local authorities.

00:15:06.240 Then the DOJ comes along months or years later to revive the case

00:15:10.640 around the same time that Joe Biden needed to convince his base

00:15:14.920 that he's going to wage a domestic war against pro-lifers.

00:15:17.660 And he has.

00:15:19.860 So again, notice the pattern here.

00:15:21.560 An incident happens involving pro-lifers.

00:15:23.400 Nobody thinks it's a big deal.

00:15:25.480 Local law enforcement isn't worried about it.

00:15:28.900 Nobody's harmed.

00:15:30.420 Everyone kind of moves on.

00:15:32.100 Then the federal government comes back around months later

00:15:35.720 and decides to literally make a federal case out of it.

00:15:38.860 So this is the very essence of a political witch hunt

00:15:41.580 in that the federal government is looking for,

00:15:46.040 they're pouring through the books and newspaper articles looking for pro-lifers

00:15:51.240 who've been arrested for trespassing or anything at all

00:15:53.320 so that they can go and add federal charges and send them to jail for 10 years.

00:15:56.480 That's what they're doing.

00:15:58.560 And there are many more cases like these.

00:16:01.000 For example, there's the case of the five pro-life activists who were convicted by a Washington, D.C. jury last year for face act violations.

00:16:08.760 And one of the activists is a woman named Lauren Handy.

00:16:10.860 Handy began to attract the DOJ's attention when she found the bodies of five babies 0.77

00:16:16.740 who were about the size of premature born infants aborted in a box outside an abortion facility

00:16:22.840 in the D.C. neighborhood of Foggy Bottom.

00:16:24.720 According to Daily Signal, the box also contained over 100 pulverized remains of first trimester babies.

00:16:31.400 But one of the doctors at the clinic, Live Action, had previously reported,

00:16:34.300 admitted on a hidden camera that he would allow babies to die

00:16:38.120 if they were accidentally delivered during abortions. 0.94

00:16:40.240 He would just leave them there to die. 0.99

00:16:42.080 Let's watch. 0.97

00:16:43.720 Pregnancy, there's 23, 24 weeks.

00:16:46.580 If you're, you know, extra, if you do everything possible to help it survive,

00:16:53.640 you know, there's maybe a 20 to 30 percent chance that it would survive.

00:16:58.480 If you don't do anything, then, you know, the chances are much, much less.

00:17:03.660 Because I'm just, like, so scared of, like, having to be stuck with the response.

00:17:07.000 No, that's obviously, you know.

00:17:08.080 Like, would you make sure that it, like, it doesn't survive?

00:17:12.480 You know, there's things you do.

00:17:13.880 Obviously, you're here for a certain procedure.

00:17:16.780 And if your pregnancy were, let's say you went into labor, 0.93

00:17:20.260 the membrane's ruptured, and you delivered before we got to the termination part of the procedure here.

00:17:26.140 You know, then we would do things, we would not help it.

00:17:30.120 Okay.

00:17:30.560 Let's say we wouldn't intubate.

00:17:33.620 Okay.

00:17:34.100 Okay.

00:17:34.680 See you later.

00:17:35.180 So, very clear what he's doing there.

00:17:38.640 I mean, he's, like, you don't have to interpret it.

00:17:40.640 He's directly saying that when a baby is born alive, outside of the mother,

00:17:46.000 we have now a live infant, which is, which the infant was a live infant before being delivered.

00:17:53.660 But now a live infant, everyone can see, and they will just leave the child to die.

00:17:59.320 So, Lauren Handy and several others decided to protest this butchery, 0.99

00:18:03.380 this infanticide that's happening.

00:18:06.100 They have it on tape.

00:18:07.240 He's admitting to it.

00:18:08.280 And they looked into this abortion facility. 1.00

00:18:10.900 And, of course, D.C. police and the D.O.J. took the side of the people who are murdering born children.

00:18:18.200 Again, they pursued a 10-year sentence for activists engaged in a peaceful protest.

00:18:23.100 And to give you an idea of how incomprehensible all this is,

00:18:26.320 they don't even treat pro-life activists this badly in one of the most godless places on the planet,

00:18:32.060 the United Kingdom.

00:18:32.780 Around a year ago, police in Birmingham arrested a woman for praying silently outside of an abortion clinic.

00:18:38.440 But the case was so absurd and so wildly unpopular that within a few months,

00:18:42.400 they apologized to her and they dropped the charges.

00:18:45.600 So even in Britain, that's too far.

00:18:47.580 But in this country, conservatives are just, for the most part, remaining silent as this purge of pro-lifers happens.

00:18:57.020 Barely any pushback.

00:18:59.040 You'll hear more from conservatives about Taylor Swift than you will about this ideologically driven,

00:19:04.200 unconstitutional attack on civil liberties in this country.

00:19:07.480 Like they're dragging our people, these are supposed to be our people, away and throwing them in prison. 0.99

00:19:17.680 And what this means is that if these tyrants get another four years in office,

00:19:21.520 there is no doubt that they will ramp up their political persecution.

00:19:25.660 If you feel safe right now and you think, well, you know, I'm not a pro-life activist, I don't have to worry about it.

00:19:31.080 Well, you're going to have to worry about it eventually.

00:19:36.600 Because there's not going to be anyone to stop them.

00:19:39.300 And should that come to pass, especially if you care about things like human life and stopping child sacrifice,

00:19:45.400 then before long, there's a very good chance they'll be knocking on your front door as well.

00:19:52.020 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:19:53.280 We'll see you next time.

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00:21:05.480 All right, big headline on Drudge.

00:21:08.620 Speaking of Taylor Swift, headline is MAGA goes to war on Swift.

00:21:12.620 And that links to this Rolling Stone article, which says, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift hasn't even endorsed President Joe Biden for re-election yet.

00:21:20.460 That hasn't stopped members of MAGA-land's upper crust from plotting to declare, as one source close to Donald Trump calls it, a holy war on the pop megastar.

00:21:28.400 Especially if she ends up publicly backing the Democrats in the 2024 election.

00:21:32.160 According to three people familiar with the matter, Trump loyalists working on or close to the former president's campaign, long-time Trump allies in right-wing media, and an array of outside advisors to the ex-president have long taken it as a given that Swift will eventually endorse Biden, as she did in 2020.

00:21:46.760 Indeed, several of these Republicans and conservative media figures have discussed the matter with Trump over the past few months, but she hasn't endorsed anyone yet, but now they're attacking her.

00:21:57.520 Okay, now this is Rolling Stone, which is a propaganda rag that nobody should take seriously, and they're quoting unnamed sources around Donald Trump, which historically means that it's nonsense, you shouldn't trust it.

00:22:10.180 But in this case, we see that this war on Taylor Swift is already playing out.

00:22:15.480 You know, we know that this is happening.

00:22:17.120 It's happening in public.

00:22:18.140 In the past few weeks, conservative commentators have started attacking Taylor Swift pretty consistently, and they're saying that her popularity is a psy-op.

00:22:27.420 I mean, this is something you see all over Twitter now.

00:22:29.920 I've even heard that she's a CIA asset.

00:22:32.420 You know, I think they were talking about that on Fox News a couple nights ago.

00:22:35.740 So it has been an all-out assault, metaphorically, on Taylor Swift from some corners of the right, at least.

00:22:43.540 Certainly not everyone, or even close to a majority.

00:22:47.020 But let me just say a few things about this, and then I'll move on.

00:22:53.700 First of all, if everything is a psy-op, then nothing is a psy-op.

00:23:00.040 Okay, we've gotten to a point as conservatives where it's just like, reflexively, everything that happens is automatically a psy-op.

00:23:07.240 And the problem is that there are psy-ops that happen, but now when just that is your reflexive reaction to everything, it doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:23:19.360 And there's no need to postulate a psy-op for things that can be easily explained without them.

00:23:26.720 It's kind of been a theme on this show this week.

00:23:29.840 There are plenty of conspiracy theories that have validity.

00:23:35.360 There are plenty that have been proven true.

00:23:36.580 But if you have something that can be easily explained without a conspiracy theory, then you don't need the conspiracy theory.

00:23:47.220 So Taylor Swift's popularity is one of those things.

00:23:51.040 Okay, it's not engineered by the CIA or whatever.

00:23:54.180 Millions of girls and women love her music because it resonates with them.

00:24:00.740 They like it.

00:24:01.480 I mean, that's it, okay?

00:24:03.520 She's an attractive woman who writes songs that other women really like. 1.00

00:24:07.700 And that's the whole story.

00:24:11.160 That's why she's popular, right?

00:24:13.580 Now, I don't get the music.

00:24:16.020 I don't get it personally.

00:24:16.840 It's not my type of music.

00:24:18.140 It doesn't resonate with me. 1.00

00:24:19.480 I think her music is dumb. 0.99

00:24:21.180 I also think that it's gotten worse. 0.99

00:24:23.200 Now, I'm not, maybe a somewhat unfair assessment on my end because I don't really listen.

00:24:28.020 But from a 30,000-foot bird's eye perspective, well, birds wouldn't be 30,000 feet in the air.

00:24:34.620 Anyway, for 10,000 feet, it seems to me like the music's got it.

00:24:38.500 Like she used to do the pop country, you know, acoustic ballad type music. 1.00

00:24:42.600 And now it's more of the hooky pop dance stuff that she's doing.

00:24:47.680 So, but anyway, the music isn't for me.

00:24:49.540 And I don't like it.

00:24:51.080 And that's fine.

00:24:51.680 Now, the point is that you don't need to look at Taylor Swift and think to yourself, what's going on here?

00:24:58.520 Who is this person?

00:24:59.960 Why is she all over the TV? 0.99

00:25:01.280 There must be some sort of conspiracy afoot.

00:25:03.480 How do we explain this?

00:25:05.060 What's happening?

00:25:06.820 If you want to know, like before thinking about the CIA and is she an asset?

00:25:12.940 Just go ask literally any woman under the age of 35 or 40, like what do people like about Taylor Swift?

00:25:23.800 She'll tell.

00:25:24.200 Even if she's not a Taylor Swift fan, she'll be able to explain it.

00:25:26.560 She's not going to be confused.

00:25:30.260 She's popular because she's popular. 1.00

00:25:31.660 People like her.

00:25:32.480 You know, she is our Michael Jackson. 0.72

00:25:34.120 And I don't like Michael Jackson either, but, you know, this is, in the modern age, you know, this is what happens.

00:25:46.260 We have pop stars and they become very famous.

00:25:47.860 As long as pop music and the entertainment, modern entertainment industry has existed, there have always been people like that.

00:25:54.640 Now, is Taylor Swift a big time lib?

00:25:57.760 Will she vote for Biden?

00:25:59.720 Will she tell other people to vote for Biden?

00:26:01.880 Does she hate Trump?

00:26:03.000 Yes.

00:26:04.500 Yes, yes, and yes.

00:26:06.220 You know, of course.

00:26:08.080 So in that way, she's exactly the same as almost anyone else who's even vaguely relevant in the entertainment industry.

00:26:17.460 Which is a problem.

00:26:19.340 That's a longstanding problem we have as conservatives.

00:26:22.100 That every single person in the entertainment industry who's even a little bit relevant is a leftist.

00:26:29.080 And we all know that.

00:26:29.780 But that's why I don't get these right-wingers on Twitter who are digging up.

00:26:34.500 I mentioned this today and someone sent me, well, yeah, how do you explain this?

00:26:38.840 And it was a tweet of Taylor Swift from 2020 when she was criticizing Trump.

00:26:45.280 And they're reposting the tweet like, see?

00:26:49.320 You see?

00:26:49.680 She's a leftist.

00:26:50.460 I told...

00:26:51.540 Yeah, we know.

00:26:52.880 Like, obviously she is.

00:26:54.280 No one is denying that.

00:26:55.280 Of course she is.

00:26:57.000 You don't need...

00:26:57.880 Well, you see, in 2020, it's...

00:27:00.040 You're saying she's not a CIA asset, but then in 2020, she criticized Trump.

00:27:04.820 Can you explain that?

00:27:06.880 What?

00:27:09.060 There's like millions of people in this country who don't like Trump and criticize...

00:27:12.240 Are they all CIA assets?

00:27:14.380 Is that the only way to explain why a 30-year-old pop star doesn't like Trump?

00:27:21.440 The only way to explain it is that the CIA has gotten to her?

00:27:25.520 I mean, come on.

00:27:27.900 Like, what's the plan here?

00:27:30.880 If you're worried about the sway that Taylor Swift will have over the election...

00:27:36.400 And when we talked about this a few days ago, I...

00:27:39.380 Now, they're saying 18% or whatever it was in the poll are saying they'll be more likely to vote if Taylor Swift...

00:27:45.440 They will be more likely to vote for whoever Taylor Swift endorses.

00:27:49.100 I don't think it's really 18%.

00:27:50.540 I hope it's not 18%.

00:27:51.620 That just seems way too high.

00:27:53.560 But she does have a sway over the election. 1.00

00:27:55.720 It's not a good thing.

00:27:57.700 I don't like having a political system where pop stars can have a vastly disproportionate impact on the outcome.

00:28:08.580 I don't like that, but that's what we have.

00:28:12.400 And my question is, how is obsessively attacking her a smart or effective counter strategy?

00:28:18.060 How is that going to work exactly?

00:28:21.040 So, you get a bunch of Fox News boomers all upset about Taylor Swift, and then what?

00:28:28.420 And then what?

00:28:29.660 What's step two?

00:28:32.420 Attacking Taylor Swift is only appealing to people who are already hardcore Trump supporters.

00:28:38.340 So, no one else, okay?

00:28:42.060 No Taylor Swift fan is going to see a right-wing influencer on Twitter criticizing her and go,

00:28:49.640 you know what?

00:28:50.100 That influencer's right.

00:28:51.780 Taylor Swift is terrible.

00:28:55.180 Okay, and that goes for me.

00:28:56.360 I mean, I'm not going to call myself an influencer.

00:28:58.400 I don't like the term.

00:28:58.940 But if I went all, you know, guns a-blazing at Taylor Swift, it doesn't matter.

00:29:05.160 There would not be a single Taylor Swift fan who would hear me say, Taylor Swift, you shouldn't listen to her. 1.00

00:29:11.220 None of them are going to hear me say, well, you know, I'm Matt Walsh.

00:29:13.380 I'll go with him on this one.

00:29:14.860 It's not going to happen.

00:29:15.720 It just is not going to happen.

00:29:18.460 So, what's the plan?

00:29:19.540 What's the strategy here?

00:29:22.600 What's the win?

00:29:23.360 Also, and this to me is the main thing, and this is why I find the whole thing annoying, you know,

00:29:32.260 is if I were to compile a list of all of the most objectionable, morally debased, degenerate pop stars

00:29:39.780 who are the most toxic and the most harmful to young minds 0.71

00:29:44.020 and are contributing the most to our cultural rot, 0.97

00:29:49.120 Taylor Swift would not make the top 50. 0.97

00:29:52.340 And if she would make your top 50 list, I envy your ignorance, okay? 0.98

00:29:57.920 If you were to make a list, if you personally were to make a list of the most degenerate, 0.97

00:30:01.480 most harmful pop stars, and Taylor Swift is in your top five,

00:30:04.540 well, then you are blissfully ignorant of just how bad things are out there.

00:30:08.840 I wish, I wish, I wish to God that we lived in a culture

00:30:12.940 where Taylor Swift was one of the worst, most objectionable pop stars.

00:30:19.580 I wish that was the case.

00:30:20.800 Like, I wish we had the luxury to be complaining about her.

00:30:26.100 I wish.

00:30:26.880 But it's not the case, okay?

00:30:30.040 She's not even close.

00:30:31.200 I mean, she doesn't, she's not close to the top 50.

00:30:34.360 Her music is downright wholesome compared to all of the other pop music that exists,

00:30:40.480 almost all of it.

00:30:41.280 Like, she writes songs pretty much, what does she write about?

00:30:43.920 She writes about falling in love and breaking up.

00:30:46.260 She writes songs about breaking up with her boyfriend, okay?

00:30:47.900 And these are classic music themes, okay?

00:30:52.140 Now, sure, it's kind of vapid for a 32-year-old to still be singing about breaking up with her boyfriend

00:30:55.900 like she's in high school, but so what?

00:30:58.580 I mean, do you realize what kind of explicit, overt messaging is in many other mega hit songs?

00:31:06.940 Like, do you realize what, some of the top charting songs for years now, what is in those songs,

00:31:17.360 what those songs are saying, what kids are listening to and repeating and singing along to? 0.98

00:31:21.980 You've got someone like Sexy Red or whatever, you know, outwardly telling women to be whores 0.99

00:31:28.020 and glorifying drug use and crime and gang violence and so on and so on. 0.98

00:31:32.380 And Taylor Swift is who we're worried about.

00:31:35.400 It's like if you decided that the worst thing that kids watch on their screens are 1990s Disney movies

00:31:44.420 instead of, you know, hardcore pornography, okay?

00:31:48.680 It's like if you were going through your kid's book bag and you found a pack of bubble gum

00:31:56.820 and you also found a crack pipe and then you were like, hey, what is this?

00:32:02.160 I told you we don't chew gum in this house.

00:32:04.460 Too much sugar.

00:32:05.860 It's like, if everything else is going well with your kid, then you can complain about the bubble gum.

00:32:12.940 But if you got the crack, then that probably should be the headline here.

00:32:15.880 I don't know if, I don't know if you have room or the luxury as a parent to be worried about the bubble gum.

00:32:21.900 And I think it's speaking of pornography, that's what a lot of pop, modern pop music is.

00:32:26.920 It's like, it's pornographic.

00:32:28.760 It's full on pornographic.

00:32:30.140 It's basically Fifty Shades of Grey, but set to music and aimed at middle schoolers

00:32:33.620 and with an added dose of thuggery and crime glorification.

00:32:38.520 And Taylor Swift is the villain on Fox News though.

00:32:40.700 Right, she uses very little profanity. 1.00

00:32:45.300 She doesn't make, for the most part, explicit songs.

00:32:48.420 Keeps her clothes on for the most part.

00:32:49.640 By pop music standards, keeps her clothes on.

00:32:53.880 One of the top charting songs of the last two years, you may remember,

00:32:58.040 featured a woman with face tattoos describing in detail her bodily orifices.

00:33:04.160 In fact, there have been, that is a common theme now in pop music.

00:33:09.260 There have been multiple hit songs that have had that same theme.

00:33:15.160 Okay?

00:33:16.120 And so, these are the kinds of degenerate creeps we have making music

00:33:22.760 that like 12-year-olds are listening to.

00:33:25.160 And yet, Taylor Swift singing about breaking up with her boyfriend

00:33:30.760 is the thing that we are concerned about.

00:33:34.460 I just, what are we doing?

00:33:38.600 What are we doing, guys?

00:33:41.180 All right.

00:33:43.540 What is Cori Bush doing?

00:33:45.100 NBC News has the report,

00:33:46.540 the Justice Department is investigating Representative Cori Bush

00:33:49.020 for her campaign spending on security services.

00:33:51.480 She confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday.

00:33:53.600 We are fully cooperating in the investigation.

00:33:56.760 As a former Black Lives Matter organizer

00:33:58.040 and high-profile progressive on Capitol Hill,

00:34:00.020 Bush has faced what she called

00:34:01.160 relentless threats to my physical safety and life

00:34:04.700 since her election in 2020.

00:34:07.420 But now, according to, they're investigating whether she is,

00:34:10.180 you know, using,

00:34:13.520 she is illegally funding these security services. 0.99

00:34:17.820 So, here she is addressing this controversy

00:34:23.180 and, of course, shifting the blame, as you might expect.

00:34:25.860 Listen to that.

00:34:26.400 I hold myself, my campaign, and my position to the highest levels of integrity.

00:34:33.680 I also believe in transparency, which is why I can confirm

00:34:37.620 that the Department of Justice is reviewing my campaign spending on security services.

00:34:43.000 We are fully cooperating with this investigation,

00:34:47.440 and I would like to take this opportunity to outline the facts and the truth.

00:34:52.480 Since before I was sworn into office,

00:34:54.600 I have endured relentless threats to my physical safety and life.

00:34:58.940 As a rank-and-file member of Congress, I am not entitled.

00:35:02.560 Why are we even watching that?

00:35:03.480 I don't know.

00:35:03.760 So, she addresses it.

00:35:05.580 She denies it, as you might expect.

00:35:08.000 But just to go down memory lane,

00:35:09.160 I think this is the more interesting thing to watch with Cori Bush,

00:35:11.160 is that because her personal security needs,

00:35:16.660 her alleged personal security needs,

00:35:17.900 have been a topic of conversation going back years now.

00:35:20.180 Now, so, after gaining some prominence early on in her political career

00:35:24.920 by pushing the Defund the Police movement,

00:35:28.300 it was revealed that while she's saying,

00:35:30.560 get the police out of all these neighborhoods,

00:35:32.040 that she personally has personal security.

00:35:34.200 And here she was back, and I think this was 2020,

00:35:36.560 explaining why, even though she doesn't want police for anybody else,

00:35:39.120 she personally needs it.

00:35:40.280 Let's watch.

00:35:41.500 You can't get that off.

00:35:42.820 I'm going to make sure I have security,

00:35:44.320 because I know I have had attempts on my life,

00:35:46.880 and I have too much work to do.

00:35:48.240 There are too many people that need help right now

00:35:51.140 for me to allow that.

00:35:52.560 So if I end up spending $200,000,

00:35:55.000 if I spend $10 more on it,

00:35:58.000 you know what?

00:35:58.720 I get to be here to do the work.

00:36:00.840 So suck it up. 0.99

00:36:01.660 And defunding the police has to happen.

00:36:03.820 We need to defund the police

00:36:05.300 and put that money into social safety nets,

00:36:07.500 because we're trying to save lives.

00:36:10.300 Yeah, classic Cori Bush there.

00:36:14.420 And she says, suck it up.

00:36:15.700 So yeah, I don't want your family to be secure and safe,

00:36:20.700 but I need it, because I'm much more important than you.

00:36:23.580 And this is the way it always goes, right?

00:36:24.920 It's like, always remember, when it comes to Democrats,

00:36:27.780 they will not take their own prescriptions.

00:36:30.700 They want something for you that they would never want for themselves.

00:36:34.820 The Democrat Party is the political equivalent of the restaurant

00:36:38.460 where employees don't eat the food.

00:36:40.860 You know, it's that kind of thing.

00:36:41.920 They'll serve that slop to you, but they've been in the kitchen,

00:36:46.700 and they know what this stuff is made of,

00:36:48.660 and they're not eating it.

00:36:50.420 And that's how it is with Democrats.

00:36:52.020 And it's not like that the other way.

00:36:54.520 Because after all, what is the left-wing knock on conservatives?

00:36:58.780 Well, there's many different knocks,

00:37:00.800 but what's one of the main ones?

00:37:02.120 They say that, and I hear this all the time about myself,

00:37:05.340 that we're trying to impose our lifestyle.

00:37:07.380 We're trying to impose our way of living on others.

00:37:11.820 And that's not really accurate,

00:37:13.480 but think about what they're admitting in that accusation.

00:37:16.560 They're admitting, basically, that we practice what we preach,

00:37:19.900 generally speaking, that we are advocating certain things

00:37:23.380 because we sincerely think that it's a better way to live.

00:37:27.760 It'll make your life better.

00:37:29.820 And that's what they're admitting.

00:37:31.140 You know, we want to live in communities that are run by our values.

00:37:37.680 And liberals don't.

00:37:39.460 Now, they'll stay in their communities, 1.00

00:37:41.200 but they are constantly complaining about the results of their own policies.

00:37:46.040 And really, they would prefer, especially at the leadership level,

00:37:50.320 the political leadership level,

00:37:51.500 they would prefer to insulate themselves from the results of their own policies.

00:37:55.560 And again, that's not like that.

00:37:57.780 If you're a conservative, you don't have that. 0.97

00:38:00.940 Even as there are plenty of hypocritical Republicans out there in elected office. 0.89

00:38:05.560 But even for them, it's like, if you're a Republican, and what do you say? 0.98

00:38:09.720 You think, well, we should have police.

00:38:11.160 We should have a strong police force.

00:38:13.140 We should enforce the law.

00:38:15.000 We want strong families.

00:38:17.020 You know, like, and yes, those are the communities we'd actually want to live in.

00:38:21.040 So you don't have any Republican who's out there saying that,

00:38:24.020 but then he would never want to live in a community like that.

00:38:26.800 I wouldn't want that kind of safety and stability for myself.

00:38:29.280 Now, you might have plenty of Republicans who are talking about the family values and so on,

00:38:34.440 and then they go off and they cheat on their wives.

00:38:36.220 Like, that, of course, happens.

00:38:38.460 But the general result, even someone like that,

00:38:41.800 who talks about family values, cheats on their wives, 1.00

00:38:43.800 personally a hypocrite. 0.99

00:38:44.940 But when they say that, look, this is the way people should live and it'll make society better, 0.99

00:38:51.700 they're right about that.

00:38:53.500 It's true.

00:38:56.400 And that's kind of the difference here.

00:38:59.000 Now, meanwhile, Cori Bush, and I just wanted to show you this before we move on,

00:39:02.480 because she was trying to change the subject, I guess, and get the heat off of her a little bit.

00:39:06.640 So she tweeted this yesterday, and I want to read this together,

00:39:12.080 because it's a great example of how you can lie while telling the truth.

00:39:17.420 And so let's put this tweet up from Cori Bush.

00:39:19.860 She says, first she tweets,

00:39:22.980 intimate partner violence can be deadly.

00:39:24.460 Every single person deserves safety and peace in their relationship.

00:39:27.020 Join us for this thing where we're talking about it.

00:39:28.580 And then let's put up the little thing here. 0.98

00:39:30.460 She says, black women are three times more likely to die as a result of intimate partner abuse than white women. 0.91

00:39:36.760 Okay, so that's what she tweeted. 0.98

00:39:37.660 Now, that's how you lie while telling the truth.

00:39:43.560 So is any of that inaccurate?

00:39:47.260 No, that is statistically accurate. 0.97

00:39:48.880 Black women are three times more likely to die from domestic abuse. 0.99

00:39:51.660 That is a statistical reality. 0.99

00:39:54.320 It's a very unfortunate statistical reality. 0.71

00:39:56.100 But the implication is supposed to be that black women are victims of systemic racism. 0.99

00:40:03.620 You know, that this is another example of the ways that black women are oppressed. 1.00

00:40:08.780 Because what she doesn't mention is that, you know, like 95% of black women who are dating or married are with black men.

00:40:19.520 Because, guess what, reality still does not track with what the advertising industry wants to pretend.

00:40:27.560 And we all know that if you're watching a football game or whatever and the commercials come on,

00:40:32.260 every commercial, if there's a couple, it's like almost always a biracial couple.

00:40:37.000 And sometimes it'll be, you know, sometimes you get a black couple or an Asian couple.

00:40:40.680 If you see a white person, they're going to have, they're going to be in a biracial couple.

00:40:45.020 But there's a lot of biracial couples in the advertising world, if you learned everything you knew about the world from advertising,

00:40:52.660 you would assume that like 90% of all marriages are biracial.

00:40:59.040 But that's actually not the reality.

00:41:01.500 And in reality, races still generally, for the most part, marry and date within their own race. 0.70

00:41:08.200 Which means that if black women are three times more likely to die from domestic abuse, 0.99

00:41:15.400 that it follows that black men are three times more likely to kill their partners. 1.00

00:41:22.620 That's what that means. 0.98

00:41:24.740 And that's not just a semantic point, by the way, okay?

00:41:27.620 This is not a, you know, cheap gotcha sort of thing.

00:41:32.780 Like this is, this is the real point because the question is not why are black women dying from domestic abuse in higher numbers?

00:41:42.780 That's not the question.

00:41:43.560 We know what the answer to that question is.

00:41:44.940 So we don't need, that's not a question. 0.75

00:41:47.280 The real question is why are black men committing homicidal domestic abuse far more often than any other group?

00:41:56.100 According to the statistic that she herself just gave us.

00:41:58.560 Only she just didn't frame it that way because it's all about the framing.

00:42:03.620 That's a question.

00:42:05.180 It's like that's, and that's what Cori Bush should be talking about.

00:42:07.760 And as a black woman herself, you know, if you actually cared about this issue and you weren't just using it to distract from your scandals 1.00

00:42:14.880 and the fact that you're a corrupt moron in general, this is what she'd be saying. 1.00

00:42:19.140 She'd be saying, you know, we have a real problem in our own community. 1.00

00:42:22.280 This is what she as a black woman would be saying. 0.99

00:42:23.840 There's a real problem in our own community of black men killing their partners. 0.98

00:42:30.020 And we need to do something about this. 0.96

00:42:31.660 Like we as a community need to do something about this because this is our problem within our own community.

00:42:39.360 But you can't do that because that would, you know, that would involve some level of accountability and self-responsibility

00:42:47.060 and all these sorts of things that we just, we can't, we can't have any of that, obviously.

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00:43:50.180 Schwar9560 says,

00:43:52.200 We should get rid of universal voting, but I'm not going to say what we should replace it with or who should get to vote.

00:43:56.660 Another courageous, edgy position from Matt.

00:44:00.340 I think I've, I always love these comments from people.

00:44:03.700 Uh, there's been a lot of this recently where, you know, if I talk about a topic, I guess I'm expected to say every possible thing about that topic every time I talk about it.

00:44:16.620 It's like every segment of the show needs to be 17 hours long.

00:44:20.200 I can never just say a couple things about it.

00:44:22.320 I have to say, because if I say a couple things about a topic, but not all of the things, then the accusation will always come in.

00:44:28.580 Well, why are you avoiding that part of it?

00:44:29.900 Why don't you say anything about that?

00:44:30.880 What about that aspect of it?

00:44:31.960 Um, I've been talking about this issue with voting for years and years and years.

00:44:36.780 I've many, many times I've talked about what I think some good alternatives would be.

00:44:40.840 Many times I've talked, many, so many times.

00:44:43.020 So many times that, that people who are, who are regular listeners are probably sick of hearing about it.

00:44:47.700 Um, now I'm not dogmatic about it.

00:44:50.680 Like I'm, I'm actually, I'm very open-minded.

00:44:51.980 You know, I'm, I think we need to get rid of, get rid of universal voting.

00:44:55.440 We need to have fewer people voting.

00:44:56.780 Um, we, we need, that needs to be the result.

00:45:00.160 And I, and I'm very open to, to many different suggestions for how to do it.

00:45:03.020 I don't, I'm not attached to one particular plan.

00:45:04.780 I think there's a lot of different ways we could do it.

00:45:06.900 Uh, one thing I've talked about and other people have talked about is, is the idea of just having a simple 10-question civics test before, you know, when you're registering to vote, you just have to pass the test.

00:45:16.440 Um, and it, literally fifth grade level, okay, is what we're talking about.

00:45:23.080 And, um, now there are gonna be plenty of people who are able to pass that test and still are not very competent people.

00:45:29.080 But at least, at least you, that will rule out.

00:45:31.680 I mean, the sad reality is, I think we all know this, that if, if you were to require a fifth grade level civics test, civics exam, uh, which maybe that doesn't, they don't even give civics tests in elementary school anymore.

00:45:42.580 But, if they did, it would be the level of elementary school civics test.

00:45:46.880 Um, and, I think we all know that if, if that was a requirement, that, that would rule out, like, tens of millions of voters.

00:45:56.360 We, we would, we would be down, I don't know how many would be left.

00:46:01.200 20 million voters as a maximum, if that many?

00:46:05.860 I don't know, we might be left with a million.

00:46:07.420 Like, that might rule out almost everybody.

00:46:08.900 We, we might be a million or under at that point.

00:46:11.080 Um, but whatever it is, like, we, we have at least ruled out the worst of the worst and the people who obviously have no business voting and should have no right to vote.

00:46:21.560 You know, if you're a grown adult with no grasp on our system of government and how it works, then you do not, you should not have the right to vote.

00:46:31.680 Um, so I'd be in favor of that.

00:46:33.460 Uh, there are people who have talked about raising the voting age.

00:46:35.900 You know, I'd be in favor of that.

00:46:37.360 I mean, that's not enough, but that's one step.

00:46:38.980 Do you do one vote per household?

00:46:41.460 Do you only, uh, only, only, um, you know, people who are tax, who are employed can vote, taxpayers?

00:46:48.860 I mean, there's issues with that because obviously someone who's retired should still be able to vote.

00:46:52.300 So there, but any one of these areas, I would be open to an, open to exploring.

00:46:58.080 Um, but of course, none of them are going to happen.

00:47:01.400 That's, that's the problem.

00:47:02.160 Like we're not even at the point of having that part of the conversation because the first part, I would love to have it and we have had it, but the first part of it is just everyone agreeing or at least a critical mass of people agreeing that our current system is suicidally insane.

00:47:17.340 And it cannot go on this way.

00:47:20.020 And there are a lot of people voting who should not have the right to vote and we need to do something about that.

00:47:24.220 And if we can establish that, then we could talk about what to do as an alternative.

00:47:28.960 Um, a couple of comments about the daily cancellation yesterday.

00:47:33.520 These zoomers and younger millennials complaining about the older generations talking down to them have a point. 1.00

00:47:37.840 The currency has been destroyed by fiat.

00:47:39.820 It's a major problem that will soon lead to our collapse.

00:47:41.760 The wealth has been transferred upward, mostly to the banking class, but also to boomers.

00:47:45.640 It's like playing a game of Monopoly where everything else, everything goes to auction.

00:47:49.340 Everybody but you is getting free money.

00:47:51.360 Is it possible to win?

00:47:52.280 Sure. 0.85

00:47:52.480 But pretending you're playing the same game is a ridiculous notion.

00:47:55.180 People are sitting on houses they paid 30K for.

00:47:57.300 They're now worth 750K.

00:47:59.680 Nobody actually believes the real value of the home increased 25 times.

00:48:03.060 But everybody pretends that they were just smart with money or harder working.

00:48:06.600 The boomers and the bankers stole the world from us, from under us, through inflation, while we worked and paid for it. 1.00

00:48:11.900 Even those of us who are relatively successful are nothing compared apples to apples.

00:48:17.260 With similarly minded boomers, the system is unsustainable. 1.00

00:48:20.680 Fiat currency must end.

00:48:22.580 I don't really disagree with most of what you've said there.

00:48:27.300 And I have, again, we go back to, we can't say every single thing about every issue every time we talk about an issue.

00:48:35.300 So, but what boomers did to the country and the fact that, like, in every way they are leaving behind a worse country than what they got. 0.99

00:48:45.440 And as a generation, your basic task, right, your basic obligation is to give a better country to your children than was given to you.

00:48:57.880 And if you don't do that, then you have simply failed as a generation.

00:49:01.980 You've failed in the one thing that matters.

00:49:03.580 You haven't done it.

00:49:05.040 And that's the case here.

00:49:06.380 And I've talked about that a lot.

00:49:08.360 And there's no denying it.

00:49:11.060 My point is just, okay, like, yeah, all that is true. 0.99

00:49:16.880 And it sucks. 0.95

00:49:17.920 And it's not good. 0.99

00:49:19.180 And it's not fun.

00:49:19.900 And I don't like it.

00:49:22.320 Now what?

00:49:24.320 You know, and what I see is a whole lot of sitting around and complaining over and over and over again.

00:49:29.260 And over and over and over again, just, like, rehashing the same thing.

00:49:33.900 The boomers did this. 0.98

00:49:34.740 The boomers, like, yes, okay. 0.99

00:49:37.080 But, right.

00:49:39.540 I wish it didn't happen that way.

00:49:41.020 It did, though.

00:49:41.900 And so let's, what now?

00:49:47.160 Last comment says, Matt just doesn't get it.

00:49:48.860 What the F is the point of working just to never be able to reach basic goals like homeownership and family?

00:49:52.920 That video was not saying he expected anyone to help.

00:49:55.620 He was just explaining why we've stopped giving an F and working hard.

00:49:58.480 Okay, well, I mean, he was expecting someone else to help in the video.

00:50:02.100 We kept hearing about, we've held up our end of the bargain.

00:50:05.200 Our end, you know, no, when you talk about your end of the bargain, which is a bargain that doesn't exist.

00:50:09.500 Okay, you're not making a bargain with the universe.

00:50:11.400 Like, it doesn't work that way.

00:50:13.520 But that means that, yeah, you expect, like, I've done my end and someone come and give me something now.

00:50:18.080 That's what he expects.

00:50:19.380 Now, it might not be, I'm sure people that say this don't have a clear idea of who is going to give them what they want or even what they want.

00:50:27.540 Like, who's going to give it to them and what are they giving?

00:50:29.760 I think they don't have a clear idea of that.

00:50:31.380 But, yeah, they are definitely expecting someone to come along and do something for them.

00:50:37.440 But aside from that, you know, we've stopped giving an F.

00:50:41.480 We're not going to work hard.

00:50:43.240 Okay, so you'll just fail at life and nothing will get better for you at all. 0.99

00:50:48.000 And things will only get worse and worse and then you'll die.

00:50:52.740 That's what you're choosing.

00:50:54.580 I don't know what to tell you.

00:50:55.820 Like, all I can say is that that is, of all the possible options and ways to move forward, that clearly is the worst one.

00:51:02.680 The one that guarantees a life of misery and failure where you die alone and forgotten and contributed nothing to the world and achieve nothing.

00:51:12.120 Like, to me, that is obviously the least desirable outcome here.

00:51:17.400 So, yes, once we again have established all the ways that the world is terrible and all the ways that we got screwed and everything else.

00:51:28.940 Okay, my only point is, now it's time to table that, table that complaint.

00:51:40.700 Like, you got the complaint.

00:51:41.700 You've made it.

00:51:42.240 It's registered.

00:51:42.980 We get it.

00:51:44.200 Put it on a table somewhere.

00:51:46.020 Put it on a shelf.

00:51:46.900 Just leave it to the side.

00:51:48.560 And now go live your life.

00:51:50.420 And you have to strive and work really hard.

00:51:52.420 And maybe you will have to work harder than you should have to work.

00:51:55.280 Maybe you'll have to work harder than the generation before you. 0.98

00:51:57.460 But you just have to.

00:52:00.140 That's it.

00:52:01.720 Because the only other option, again, is failure and misery.

00:52:07.900 So those are your two options.

00:52:09.380 You can work really hard and try, despite the odds, to succeed and to find some joy and fulfillment in life.

00:52:16.380 You can do that.

00:52:17.880 Or you can embrace misery and failure.

00:52:21.220 There's no third option.

00:52:22.980 That's it.

00:52:23.520 That's all you get.

00:52:24.100 And I guess I have the radical view that it's the striving for fulfillment and happiness is the one we should be going for.

00:52:32.980 I don't know.

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00:53:27.960 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:31.060 Brian Johnson is a Silicon Valley millionaire who made a lot of money in e-commerce and related industries.

00:53:41.760 But if you've heard about this guy at all, you're most likely have heard of him because of his bizarre, increasingly bizarre and desperate attempts to stop himself from aging.

00:53:50.420 He's the guy who was taking blood transfusions from his teenage son on the theory that his son's young blood will make him younger too or something.

00:53:57.480 It's a scientific theory that he developed after watching the series Twilight, presumably.

00:54:02.760 But fortunately for his son, he has recently abandoned these vampiric efforts because it turns out harvesting your child's life force is impossible.

00:54:10.900 And the only thing it accomplishes is making you look like a freak.

00:54:14.260 So Johnson has since moved on to other life extension techniques, most of which are sure to be just as pointless, if hopefully slightly less grotesque.

00:54:21.960 Johnson appeared on something called the Rich Roll podcast this week, where he offered his theories about life and human immortality for two and a half hours.

00:54:31.980 But one particular moment from this conversation has gone viral.

00:54:34.740 We're going to play that clip in a minute.

00:54:36.360 But before we do, just to set the stage, here is a different 15-second snippet right from the beginning of the video that I think gives a very good window into this guy. 0.96

00:54:46.020 And specifically into the fact that he is basically full of crap, watch. 0.91

00:54:51.800 It's really simple. 0.99

00:54:52.800 I basically don't trust anything in reality.

00:54:57.360 Not authority, not my mind, not my perception, nothing.

00:55:01.620 I just trust data and numbers.

00:55:03.560 And the only thing I believe in is I don't want to die.

00:55:08.000 Now, you notice right off the bat a few things.

00:55:10.580 First of all, the guy's 46 years old.

00:55:12.440 He's a multimillionaire tech bro whose single-minded obsession is avoiding death and aging.

00:55:17.780 And yet he looks, if anything, older than he is.

00:55:22.040 And I know that criticism may seem kind of rich coming from me, coming from a guy who's 37 and looks like a 53-year-old shop class teacher.

00:55:29.540 But the difference is that I'm not trying to look younger.

00:55:32.300 In fact, I don't even understand why looking younger is considered automatically desirable, especially for men.

00:55:37.000 You know, like, why do you care about, as a man, like, why do you care about looking, if you're 46, just look 46.

00:55:44.020 Why would you want to look, why, at the age of 46 as a man, why would you want to look 25, even if that was possible?

00:55:52.480 But it turns out that it's not. 0.92

00:55:53.900 I mean, looking younger is a fool's errand.

00:55:55.480 And if you try to look younger, you will inevitably just end up looking like a guy who is trying to look younger, which is the worst thing you can possibly look like. 0.97

00:56:03.140 Now, as for the rest of what we saw and heard in that clip, it's the kind of empty-headed nonsense that passes for profound these days.

00:56:10.740 You know, he says he doesn't trust anything in reality.

00:56:13.820 Doesn't even trust his mind, bro.

00:56:16.360 I don't even trust my mind.

00:56:17.260 I don't trust anything.

00:56:18.600 Trust nothing.

00:56:20.000 But then he says that the only thing he does trust is data and numbers.

00:56:22.860 Well, the problem is that data and numbers, Brian, exist in reality.

00:56:27.940 And the only way you can access that information and understand it and interpret it and process it is with your mind.

00:56:33.840 So in order to trust data and numbers, you will need to trust what exists in reality and your mind.

00:56:40.540 So if you trust data and numbers, that means you also trust your mind and your perception.

00:56:45.540 Because the only way that you can access the data and numbers is through your mind and your perception.

00:56:50.180 Which means that the statement, I don't trust anything in reality, I don't trust my mind, I just trust data and numbers, is in every sense meaningless.

00:56:56.980 It's a statement with no content.

00:56:59.820 The only thing that has any meaning is what he said at the very end, which is, I just don't want to die.

00:57:04.600 Now that part I believe.

00:57:06.040 And I understand it even.

00:57:07.360 I don't want to die either.

00:57:08.940 In fact, I am very much opposed to death.

00:57:12.600 I'm against it.

00:57:13.580 Like, I object to it.

00:57:14.680 I don't want to do it.

00:57:16.740 I don't want anyone I care about to do it either.

00:57:19.580 But I will do it.

00:57:20.740 And so will everyone I know and love.

00:57:22.100 And so will Brian Johnson.

00:57:23.040 And all of his biohacking efforts will be for naught.

00:57:25.560 But, you know, they probably won't even extend his life by any measurable degree at all.

00:57:31.460 He's not going to live forever like he thinks.

00:57:33.440 He probably isn't even going to live to 90.

00:57:36.560 You know, death is inevitable for everyone.

00:57:38.120 And the thing that will ultimately determine the time and manner of your death will probably have a lot more to do with your genetics than the supplements you took.

00:57:45.100 There's a reason why if you listen to any interview with someone who's like 105 or something.

00:57:50.740 What do you notice about these people?

00:57:53.440 When you're in, we've all heard the interviews of someone who's over the age of 100.

00:57:56.480 What's your secret?

00:57:58.220 You notice something?

00:57:58.900 They never say anything about the importance of vitamins or supplements or intermittent fasting or carbs or gluten or, you know, stealing your son's blood or anything like that.

00:58:09.520 I never say any of that.

00:58:10.720 Most of the time, they say that they smoke cigarettes and drank whiskey every day for 85 years, which means that not only did they outlive all of the health-conscious people, but they enjoyed their lives a lot more in the process, which is the best of both worlds.

00:58:25.420 Whereas Brian Johnson has discovered the worst of both worlds.

00:58:28.320 He's living what seems to be a pretty miserable life, consumed by his fear of the inevitable, and the chances are he's just going to end up dead and rotting in the ground before he hits 90, same as most of us. 0.92

00:58:39.760 So that brings us to the clip that has gotten people's attention, but the setup here was necessary because we've established that this guy is full of crap, he's consumed by vanity and fear, and he has nothing that even resembles wisdom to offer, which makes sense of this part. 0.97

00:58:54.240 Listen. 0.85

00:58:54.500 We're right now in a moment, we're at the last moment where things kind of have been how they have been, but they're about to change radically.

00:59:05.780 And in this new future, we can't predict what's going to happen.

00:59:08.580 We no longer have that ability.

00:59:10.380 And so we're living in a zeroth world.

00:59:12.540 And so Gen Zero is a group of multi-ethnic, multinational people who rise up, and they say, we are willing to courageously step into the future, and we're willing to divorce or open to divorce from ourselves all human norms, all human customs, all human thought.

00:59:34.700 And we're willing to say we're wide open about everything, absolute blank slate.

00:59:43.340 Now, the first thing to note here is that there's nothing new about this idea.

00:59:47.260 In many ways, this is classic Marxism.

00:59:50.080 Many of the worst tyrants in recent history sounded exactly like this.

00:59:54.620 As many people have already pointed out in response to this clip, Brian Johnson may as well be quoting Pol Pot at this point.

00:59:59.660 And that's a problem for his worldview for a lot of reasons.

01:00:04.940 One of them is that Johnson wants to divorce himself from the past, and yet he doesn't know anything about the past.

01:00:09.960 He wants to do something new, but he doesn't know what anyone was doing before.

01:00:14.100 So there's no way to know if the new thing is actually new, which in this case it isn't.

01:00:18.140 So he wants to sound radically new and revolutionary, and instead he just ends up sounding like a communist from 60 years ago.

01:00:23.960 But for a moment, let's ignore the fact that this radically new idea is actually incredibly stale and rehashed.

01:00:32.300 No matter how derivative they might be, that doesn't change the fact that these ideas are also terrible.

01:00:39.120 You know, divorcing yourself from human norms, from traditions and customs, and severing yourself from the past,

01:00:45.380 to the extent that such a thing is impossible, is a recipe for crushing misery, despair, and decay.

01:00:50.280 As we're discovering right now, in fact, Johnson's vision is one of a race of people who are totally atomized and isolated,

01:01:00.160 existing in a historical void with no connection to their own past,

01:01:04.140 in a sort of cosmic, soundproof, sanitized booth where the voices of their ancestors and the traditions of the past cannot be heard.

01:01:13.520 There's just nothing appealing or desirable about such a world.

01:01:17.340 You know, that is a world governed by ignorance, utterly devoid of wisdom, no sense of itself or its own place or its purpose.

01:01:27.040 So, just think about what it would be like to apply this logic in any specific circumstance in life.

01:01:34.180 So imagine if you got into a car and then tried to forget everything you knew about cars,

01:01:38.580 everything you've ever been taught about how to drive them, how to operate them, what they are,

01:01:42.580 everything you've ever been taught about, the rules of the road, you know, because all that came from the past,

01:01:46.520 all that came from older people.

01:01:48.100 And so, throw all that out.

01:01:49.400 On top of that, throw out any navigation device made by people in the past.

01:01:53.000 Throw all of that out.

01:01:54.560 Clean slate, right?

01:01:55.540 We're starting from the beginning.

01:01:57.560 Well, what happens then?

01:02:00.180 If you could succeed in creating this blank slate in your mind somehow,

01:02:03.460 you'll just end up sitting in the driveway, staring blankly ahead,

01:02:07.700 or else you'll pull out and, you know, drive directly into a ditch.

01:02:12.920 At best, you'll drive around in circles and end up back where you started.

01:02:16.460 That's because blank slate, you know, the blank slate approach,

01:02:20.020 leads to dysfunction and disaster in any specific circumstance in life,

01:02:24.320 which means that it'll lead to far greater dysfunction

01:02:27.060 and far more disaster when applied to life itself.

01:02:32.260 Now, this is no surprise.

01:02:34.460 Pure, unadulterated vanity never leads anywhere good.

01:02:38.880 And that's what drives this blank slate approach.

01:02:41.660 It's the narcissism to assume that the past has nothing to offer you at all,

01:02:45.860 that all the traditions and beliefs and ideas of your ancestors

01:02:48.420 are not even worth considering,

01:02:50.720 that all that came before you can be discarded and forgotten,

01:02:53.940 and that you yourself, for some unknown and unexplainable reason,

01:02:58.280 have it all figured out.

01:03:00.240 It's like walking into somebody else's house

01:03:02.300 and they try to tell you where the bathroom is

01:03:03.980 because they've been living here and they know,

01:03:05.920 and you say, nope, don't say anything.

01:03:07.780 I just got here.

01:03:08.980 I know my way around.

01:03:10.320 I'll decide where the bathroom is. 0.96

01:03:12.160 And then you go and piss in the closet or something.

01:03:15.160 This is how Brian Johnson thinks we should approach life.

01:03:19.020 And because he has no original ideas,

01:03:20.960 what he doesn't realize is that this is how our culture

01:03:22.820 already approaches life.

01:03:25.080 We've basically done the thing that he's saying we should do.

01:03:28.480 Look around.

01:03:30.160 Where is the utopia that was supposed to come with it?

01:03:33.720 Nowhere to be found.

01:03:35.580 Just like Johnson's supposedly youthful looks,

01:03:37.880 it's a mirage.

01:03:39.640 And that is why Brian Johnson is today canceled.

01:03:43.600 That'll do it for the show today.

01:03:44.340 Thanks for watching.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 31, 2024

Ep. 1305 - Conservative Activists Are Sent To Prison For Praying

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