The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1308 - An Outrageous Betrayal On The Border

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Republicans in the Senate agreed on a compromise border bill that

00:00:03.900 spends four times as much on foreign aid as it does on border security, and much of the border

00:00:07.600 security money will be used to make the border less secure. Another outrageous betrayal to add

00:00:11.440 to the list. Also, more high school kids are arrested after a vicious 10 against one assault

00:00:15.620 on another student. Why are these brutal attacks becoming so common? Plus, Nikki Haley makes an 0.83

00:00:19.740 appearance on SNL, and Shaquille O'Neal says that men should never open up and be emotionally

00:00:24.020 vulnerable in front of a woman. People are upset at this claim, but he has a point. I'll explain 0.98

00:00:28.420 why. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:48.820 So the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, appears to have just won re-election by the single

00:01:54.500 largest margin in modern democratic history. The official results are not final yet, but he

00:01:59.200 reportedly captured nearly 90% of the vote, which is a massive jump from five years ago when he

00:02:04.600 received just a little over 50%. Now, outside of North Korea, you don't see numbers like this very

00:02:09.160 often. They sound way too high to be real. But in El Salvador, they're not that surprising. All the 0.80

00:02:15.120 polls predicted precisely this outcome. There were massive parties in the streets celebrating

00:02:19.360 Bukele's re-election before it even happened. So when Bukele was named the winner, everybody saw

00:02:24.320 it coming. It made sense. There were no angry mobs storming parliament, alleging fraud, or putting

00:02:29.320 their feet up on some politician's desk. Instead, this weekend, here's what El Salvador looked like.

00:02:45.120 Previously, I've gone into some details.

00:03:15.100 Detail about why Nayib Bukele is so popular, but I can restate it here very quickly because it's not

00:03:19.440 that complicated. Bukele is historically popular and was just re-elected by a vast margin because he

00:03:24.400 puts his own country first. He protects his own people. He looks out for their security and their

00:03:28.140 well-being, and he makes his community safer and more livable. That's it. It's that simple. That's the

00:03:34.700 whole equation. And any politician who does that is going to be very popular. When Bukele took office,

00:03:40.080 gangs controlled roughly 80% of the country. These gangs had killed more than 100,000 citizens over

00:03:45.660 the past three decades, making El Salvador one of the most dangerous countries on the planet. But

00:03:50.340 shortly after he took office, Bukele started rounding up everybody affiliated with these

00:03:54.500 criminal gangs, who usually are not that hard to spot because they have tattoos on their face

00:03:59.180 announcing what gang they're with. Now, this has infuriated civil liberties groups, but it worked.

00:04:05.260 Homicides in El Salvador are down 92% compared to 2015. 90% of the country now views Bukele favorably 1.00

00:04:13.160 as a result. And again, it's not hard to see why. They can go out at night without getting shot. They

00:04:18.520 can operate businesses without getting extorted. Their families are much safer. Pretty simple.

00:04:24.140 Of course, that won't stop civil liberties groups from complaining, claiming that some people in El

00:04:28.480 Salvador are now falsely accused of gang involvement. They want us to believe that El Salvador's 0.99

00:04:34.000 government should air on the side of protecting civil liberties at all costs, rather than on the

00:04:38.920 side of preserving the safety and well-being of their communities. It's better for 100 guilty people

00:04:44.200 to go free than for one innocent person to go to prison, as the common refrain goes. The problem with

00:04:49.140 that argument, which is now obvious to everybody in El Salvador, is that you cannot enjoy civil liberties

00:04:54.240 when there's a total breakdown of law and order. You don't have any constitutional rights whatsoever

00:04:59.520 when you're dead. The civil libertarians had their chance in El Salvador, and they failed to safeguard

00:05:05.980 civil liberties. And it all broke down. It failed. History is very clear on this. In 2012, El Salvador's

00:05:11.740 president at the time brokered a truce with the country's most powerful gangs, MS-13 and the 18th

00:05:17.300 Street Gang. The idea was that showing leniency might lower the murder rate. To that end, many gang

00:05:23.460 leaders were transferred from maximum security prisons to low security prisons. Gangs also had

00:05:28.740 free reign to expand their territory and communicate with their leaders in prison. What was the result

00:05:34.460 of that? Well, within two years, the truce broke down. The violence resumed, and El Salvador became

00:05:38.740 one of the most dangerous countries in the world, averaging 105 homicides per 100,000 people, which is

00:05:44.700 a lot. Let's just put it that way. El Salvador learned from that mistake. In fact, El Salvador's

00:05:50.380 government went on to pursue criminal charges against the former president who brokered that

00:05:54.660 truce. And there's not a single reasonable person in El Salvador who believes in this kind of compromise 0.90

00:06:01.220 anymore because they know where it leads. The country is now overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing the rule

00:06:07.420 of law without regard for the concerns of humanitarians or civil liberties organizations. Whether you think

00:06:13.920 that's a good outcome or not, and again, almost everybody in El Salvador thinks that it's good,

00:06:17.860 it really doesn't matter. What happened in El Salvador will happen eventually in any country that disregards

00:06:23.820 its duty to protect its citizens. At a certain point, people can't take it anymore. They restore order one way

00:06:30.320 or another. When you're not, when you don't feel safe to walk outside of your house, you could only endure that

00:06:35.460 for so long. I wanted to begin with El Salvador because the situation there is such an obvious and important

00:06:41.940 contrast with what just happened in Washington, D.C. this weekend. Unlike the leaders of El Salvador, 0.82

00:06:47.980 politicians in this country are still committed to some sort of platonic ideal of compromise rather

00:06:54.120 than upholding their constitutional duty to protect this country and the American citizens who live here.

00:06:59.820 To that end, even as hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens stream across the border every month,

00:07:04.700 including criminals from places like El Salvador looking for a friendlier place to commit crimes,

00:07:09.400 a bipartisan group of U.S. senators just agreed on a border deal that would do absolutely nothing to

00:07:15.600 secure the southern border. I'm going to elaborate on what this bill would do because it's such an

00:07:20.500 unbelievable betrayal that it's actually hard to believe that it's real. But before I do that,

00:07:26.300 it's important to emphasize that no border bill or compromise is necessary at all. Under existing laws,

00:07:33.320 including the Immigration Nationality Act of 1952, the president of the United States can turn every

00:07:38.460 single illegal alien away at the border if he determines that it's necessary to safeguard the

00:07:44.280 country. There is no requirement that we entertain fraudulent asylum claims or even legitimate

00:07:49.700 asylum claims, as rare as those may be. There is no requirement that we allow a single non-citizen

00:07:57.100 into this country, period. All that's necessary to secure the border is for the president of the United

00:08:02.360 States to start enforcing the law, to start using the power that he already has legitimately and

00:08:08.620 constitutionally. It doesn't need to be complicated. We don't even need an El Salvador style crackdown to

00:08:15.060 accomplish this. We just need to enforce existing laws as they stand. But if the White House actually

00:08:22.320 adopted a simple, straightforward solution to the border crisis, then two things would happen. One,

00:08:26.960 the Democratic Party would lose out on hundreds of thousands of future loyal voters because their

00:08:31.880 longstanding plans for demographic replacement would be stymied in that case. And two, Congress would

00:08:36.940 miss out on a great chance to launder millions of dollars. And Congress never misses out on any

00:08:41.800 opportunity like that. So here we are. And here are the details. The border proposal that the Senate is

00:08:48.420 advancing would allocate another $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine. It would send $14 billion in

00:08:54.240 military aid to Israel. That's a grand total of $74 billion that's going to other countries.

00:09:00.680 By comparison, the bill would allocate $20 billion for border security. So to restate, in case of

00:09:07.780 keeping track at home, our leaders just agreed to a plan that would spend roughly 400% more tax money

00:09:14.800 on foreign countries than on securing our own country. And it gets worse because even the money

00:09:20.700 that's supposedly going to be used at the border, supposedly to secure our country, will actually

00:09:25.320 just facilitate the illegal entry of millions of illegal aliens into this country. Specifically, 0.86

00:09:31.600 the legislation will provide another $2.3 billion to, quote, refugee and entrant assistance activities,

00:09:37.120 including, quote, grants or contracts with qualified organizations, including nonprofit entities,

00:09:41.340 to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services, including housing assistance,

00:09:45.980 medical assistance, legal assistance, and ease management assistance. So that's more than $2

00:09:51.540 billion to support the left-wing nonprofits that exist simply to find creative ways to sneak as many

00:09:58.020 illegal immigrants into this country as possible. We're even throwing in free legal services for

00:10:03.920 illegals just to sweeten the pot for them. This bill is actually creating more incentives 0.97

00:10:09.880 for illegals to come here in the first place. You may have seen reporting that the bill states that

00:10:16.280 the executive branch must close the border on an emergency basis if, quote, during a period of

00:10:21.280 seven consecutive calendar days, there's an average of 5,000 or more aliens who are encountered each

00:10:25.920 day. Or if, quote, on any one calendar day, a combined total of 8,500 or more aliens are encountered.

00:10:32.640 That's how various outlets, including NBC News, have reported on this bill. It's also how Oklahoma

00:10:36.800 Senator James Lankford, who's supposedly a Republican, has pitched this legislation. They all say that

00:10:41.900 once 5,000 people come in every day for a week, then the border is shut down. And here's what Lankford

00:10:49.260 wrote last night. Quote, the emergency authority is not designed to let 5,000 people in. It is designed

00:10:54.820 to close the border and turn 5,000 people around. But that's just simply not true for three reasons.

00:11:02.940 First of all, the bill gives Joe Biden the authority to waive this border emergency authority

00:11:07.780 at any time. He can simply ignore the bill effectively. And so can DHS Secretary Alejandro

00:11:12.700 Mayorkas. So, I mean, that alone means that it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't do anything 1.00

00:11:17.920 because you're writing into the legislation that, oh, by the way, Biden, you could just ignore this.

00:11:23.300 And so he will. Secondly, the bill doesn't even count unaccompanied minors from countries other

00:11:29.780 than Canada or Mexico in the number of encounters. In other words, many illegal migrants from

00:11:35.420 Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador, India, Honduras, the Philippines, China, et cetera, just flat out

00:11:41.460 don't count towards the 5,000 total. Like we could have 20,000 of those show up and it wouldn't count.

00:11:48.000 They are illegal migrants, but they're not relevant to this part of the bill for whatever reason.

00:11:53.520 And then on top of all that, the bill doesn't actually close the border, even if this fraudulent

00:11:57.900 5,000 migrant threshold is reached. This is a direct quote from Senator Chris Murphy,

00:12:03.360 one of the authors of the bill. This is what he said last night, quote,

00:12:06.520 the bill contains a requirement that the president funnel asylum claims to the land ports of entry

00:12:10.760 when more than 5,000 people cross a day. The border never closes, but claims must be processed at the

00:12:17.540 ports. So maybe you catch the contradiction there. Chris Murphy, one of the bill's authors, says

00:12:22.920 the border never closes. At the same time, James Lankford, another of the bill's authors,

00:12:27.900 says, quote, it is designed to close the border. So two authors of the bill, one is saying it closes

00:12:33.840 the border. The other one says it doesn't. So our leaders are either liars or they're bumbling

00:12:40.180 idiots who can't keep their story straight or both, probably both really. But if you read the bill, 1.00

00:12:45.540 the implications of the text are pretty obvious. It says that once we hit 5,000 illegals per day,

00:12:51.640 we don't actually close the border. Instead, we direct them to ports of entry where they can make

00:12:56.500 their asylum claims and then enter the country from there. So this is a complete scam, essentially. 0.99

00:13:02.360 And it's intended to be a scam that runs for a very long time. The bill has a sunset provision

00:13:06.780 three years into the future. The idea is to bind a future Trump administration to the terms of this

00:13:12.640 deal. Now, you might say, wait a minute, let's say that 5,000 person threshold is reached. And then

00:13:19.180 these migrants have to report to a port of entry and make an asylum claim. Surely you might think, 0.99

00:13:24.220 well, we wouldn't simply allow all of these migrants into the country, right? Because that 1.00

00:13:28.940 would be insane. But if you thought that, you would be wrong. In one key respect, this border

00:13:34.060 compromise would actually lessen the already minimal standards for allowing asylum applicants

00:13:39.240 into this country. Because right now, migrants who arrive at a port of entry supposedly need to show 1.00

00:13:45.140 a significant possibility, quote unquote, that they can establish a, quote, credible fear of persecution

00:13:50.900 on the basis of race, national origin, political beliefs, etc. Now, that's what it requires to be to get

00:13:58.440 asylum. Not a very high standard. Like, it doesn't require migrants to present any evidence for anything 1.00

00:14:04.140 they say. They can just make a claim, which they've rehearsed, and then get into the country. That's the

00:14:10.100 status quo. But this border bill would lower that standard even further, somehow, from requiring a

00:14:17.960 significant possibility of persecution to a reasonable possibility of persecution. So from

00:14:24.720 significant to reasonable. And reasonable is just another way of saying plausible. It's like, it's

00:14:30.500 possible, plausibly possible that I can be persecuted. In other words, it's a bar that anyone from any

00:14:39.520 country can get over. So in practice, we can assume there's basically no way that anyone claiming

00:14:45.820 asylum will ever get turned away, if that's the standard. And then once these fake asylum applicants 1.00

00:14:50.780 are here, this bill will shower them with new benefits, including guaranteed work permits and

00:14:56.360 free lawyers. And there are other giveaways in there as well. For example, family units and

00:15:01.900 unaccompanied minors will be released into the country when they're caught. Like, they're not going to 0.73

00:15:06.520 be detained. They're just going to be released right away. And I could go on, but suffice to say,

00:15:11.320 this proposed bill is just an abomination. It's not simply inadequate or ineffective at securing

00:15:17.260 the border. It makes the border even less secure than it already is, which is a remarkable feat

00:15:21.840 that few, if any, people imagined was even possible. Fortunately, it does appear as of today that the

00:15:28.140 House will not consider this Senate bill. The Speaker, Mike Johnson, and Majority Leader Steve

00:15:31.860 Scalise have said that it's dead on arrival. They're not going to even do a vote on it, which is good news.

00:15:37.000 It doesn't begin, though, to explain why Senate Republicans thought this bill was reasonable

00:15:41.340 in the first place. And it doesn't get us any closer to securing the southern border, which is

00:15:46.140 a necessity. We are in this position for one reason, which is that we have assembled a government

00:15:52.760 composed almost entirely of anti-Bukeleys, we might call them, people who despise their own citizens

00:15:59.000 and whose top priority is the safety and security of countries thousands of miles from their own

00:16:04.260 shores. And they know it. Because when you point out their complete, their election of duty,

00:16:10.760 they don't even defend their record. They don't offer any explanation for how they're keeping

00:16:15.020 illegal immigrants out of the country. Instead, they call you a racist, say you're a bad person

00:16:19.480 for asking them questions. In fact, that's what happened just a few months ago at a hearing in

00:16:23.480 the Senate. Watch as the DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, responds to questioning from Josh Hawley

00:16:29.220 about the border crisis. And listen to what he says. Mr. Secretary, I think that your performance

00:16:35.580 is despicable. And I think the fact that you are not willing to provide answers to this committee

00:16:39.720 is absolutely atrocious. Mr. Chairman, may I? Like if you'd like to have a minute to respond,

00:16:49.240 I would. And I'm not sure I'll limit it to 60 seconds. That's fine. Number one, what I found

00:16:55.840 despicable is the implication that this language, tremendously odious, actually could be emblematic

00:17:06.300 of the sentiments of the 260,000 men and women of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:17:12.140 Number one. Number two, Senator Hawley takes an adversarial approach to me in this question.

00:17:22.660 And perhaps he doesn't know my own background. Perhaps he does not know that I am the child

00:17:28.620 of a Holocaust survivor. Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all her family

00:17:35.360 at the hands of the Nazis. And so I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced.

00:17:44.400 I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage. And I do not expect an apology.

00:17:51.960 But I did want to say what I just articulated. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can I just respond since

00:17:57.120 he has referenced me personally? Senator Hawley, we need to move on. Senator Romney.

00:18:00.960 Oh, Senator, you want to know why I'm not doing my job? But do you realize that my mother

00:18:08.400 was in the Holocaust? What? What does that have to do with anything? Like, what relevance does that

00:18:17.160 have? This is a guy who, under this new border bill, has total discretion over whether to turn

00:18:21.400 people away at the border or not. And Mayorkas justifies his failures on the border by commenting

00:18:26.380 that his mother is a Holocaust survivor. It makes no sense. It has no relevance to anything. 0.51

00:18:32.660 But it does show you how little respect these people have for our intelligence.

00:18:37.020 And I think we'll hear that and say, well, OK, well, never mind. We can't criticize. His mother

00:18:41.460 was in the Holocaust, so we can't criticize him for what he's doing on the border. All right, 0.61

00:18:46.360 I'll buy that, he expects us to say. And it's not just the Biden administration that thinks like

00:18:51.520 this. Republicans in the Senate just agreed to this bill. And keep in mind, Democrats are getting

00:18:56.840 decimated in the polls. Most Americans do not support this administration. There is no political

00:19:02.640 calculation that justifies any Republican Party support for this proposal. But Republicans in the

00:19:08.500 Senate backed it anyway. Whatever the reason for that, maybe they wanted to reward their donors or

00:19:13.340 interest groups, or maybe they're completely incompetent, or maybe, again, both. It's irrelevant.

00:19:18.440 These people simply cannot lead us any longer. Nobody is buying the idea that we need a lengthy

00:19:24.780 multi-billion dollar giveaway to Ukraine and Israel in order to enforce the law and defend this

00:19:30.680 country from invasion. And most Americans want our leaders to prioritize our country before any other

00:19:37.540 country. That is not an unreasonable thing for us to want. Nobody seriously thinks that it's appropriate

00:19:43.640 to pay foreign countries vast sums of money to secure their borders while we allocate

00:19:48.300 a fraction of that money to open up our borders even more. It's just, it's too much. These people

00:19:54.920 have looted the treasury for too long. Because of what they've done, America is careening at high speed

00:20:00.180 toward its own El Salvador moment. And at this point, you can't get here fast enough.

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00:21:13.020 conditions apply. So there's a very revealing moment on CNN over the weekend related to what we talked

00:21:19.420 about in the opening. I want you to watch as one of CNN's law enforcement analysts explains to CNN hosts

00:21:26.700 why illegal immigrants are more likely to commit crime in New York than in Florida. 0.74

00:21:34.500 It's a very simple and rather obvious reason that is stunning to the CNN anchors that hear this.

00:21:42.000 So watch this moment.

00:21:43.040 I mean, we're hearing a change when it comes to immigration in general from President Biden

00:21:53.280 on down to hear her talk about that. It is also directly related to the fact that these were

00:21:58.440 police officers. Does that have any impact? Does that change anything?

00:22:02.700 Well, it's so complicated because, you know, you're a New Yorker. You move through the city every day

00:22:08.820 as I do. We see these people. We touch these people. They're out looking for work. They're

00:22:13.580 delivering our food. They're at the gas stations and the car wash. I mean, these are people who came

00:22:19.400 in waves, you know, 170,000 probably to New York City. But within that group, this hardworking,

00:22:27.400 you know, wrongs of people in search of hope and a better life, there is this one percenter,

00:22:32.900 you know, criminal element that looks at a different opportunity here. These individuals,

00:22:37.620 I went over their rap sheets yesterday, multiple charges, grand larceny, robbery, attempted robbery,

00:22:43.600 grand larceny, grand larceny. This particular crew operated on mopeds and scooters. They were

00:22:48.800 doing organized retail theft. They were doing snatches on the street, iPhones, iPads, clothing,

00:22:54.940 so on and so forth. One of them that they are still seeking has 10 charges on one day because

00:23:01.180 he's part of a pattern that's been going on. And I'm looking at the dates that their arrest started,

00:23:06.000 which is probably close to when they got here. They've only been here a couple of months.

00:23:09.880 So what the detectives are telling me is they have crews here that operate in New York,

00:23:15.500 do all their stealing, then go to Florida to spend the money and then come back. And I'm like,

00:23:19.000 well, why don't they just stay and steal in Florida? And they said, because there you go to jail.

00:23:22.280 Oh, fair point. Wow. Yeah. Speechless. So criminals are less likely to commit crimes in places where

00:23:37.940 they will actually be punished? Is that what you're telling us? I'm astounded. I can't believe it.

00:23:45.980 And they were. They were both astounded. They were astonished by this revelation.

00:23:52.560 They didn't know what to say. They had to stop and process it for a second.

00:23:57.540 Criminals travel from Florida to New York specifically to commit crimes because they'll 0.51

00:24:02.720 go to jail in Florida and they don't want to go to jail. Just like anybody else. In fact,

00:24:09.360 maybe, again, if you work for CNN, it surprises you to learn this. But

00:24:13.280 even criminals don't want to go to jail. They very much prefer not to, most of them. Okay. And

00:24:20.640 you have to commit crimes anyway. So they prefer to commit them in a place where jail is less likely.

00:24:28.280 So there's a lot going on here, obviously, a lot we can say about it. Most of it related to the issue

00:24:32.420 of illegal immigration, which we've been talking about. But what the guy on CNN is describing here

00:24:39.100 is the simple concept. I mean, putting the illegal immigration aspect of it to the side,

00:24:45.280 what he's describing is the simple concept of deterrence. Florida has deterrence and New York

00:24:53.020 doesn't. Florida puts you in prison for crimes, which deters criminals from committing them in Florida.

00:24:59.260 Florida. And they go to New York, where there's basically no deterrence. Where, as we've seen,

00:25:05.160 you could be a non-citizen who commits a vicious assault and you walk out of jail, like flipping off

00:25:12.780 the cameras and you just waltz out and then go wherever you want. Get on a bus and go to California

00:25:18.560 or wherever they went. And that's because, so why does it work this way? Because punishing crime

00:25:25.940 is a deterrence against crime. If you punish crime, you get less of it. And in this case,

00:25:33.000 if there's a place that punishes crime and a place that doesn't punish it, the place that doesn't

00:25:38.020 will get even more crime because they're going to get the criminals who live in the places where

00:25:43.280 they do punish it. So they're going to get a kind of like crime tourism thing, which is what New York

00:25:48.140 is experiencing. And all this seems very obvious, but it was not obvious to the CNN anchors.

00:25:53.840 It's not obvious to anybody on the left these days. And that's because in recent years, the left

00:25:58.140 has bought into this absurd myth that deterrence itself is a myth. They have decided that you cannot

00:26:07.380 deter crime by punishing it. This is what they actually believe. This is what is taught in schools.

00:26:14.260 And it's a movement on the left that goes deeper than you probably realize. In fact, I'll elaborate

00:26:22.120 on it a little bit more this week later on. But this idea that there's no point in trying to deter

00:26:29.200 crime because you can't by punishing it. This is an idea. It's an idea that one of these insane

00:26:40.820 notions that has filtered its way down from academia and then it starts in academia, like so many other

00:26:47.680 crazy ideas that we can think of, especially in recent history. It starts in academia and it filters

00:26:53.240 its way down through all of our other institutions. And then from there, it makes its way into our

00:26:57.040 communities and destroys them. And this is one of those kinds of ideas. In fact, it's one of the most

00:27:01.920 insane ideas. The idea that you cannot deter crime by punishing it. But it's one that those CNN anchors

00:27:09.740 obviously believed, which is why they were so stunned to learn that Florida has successfully

00:27:15.820 done the thing that's supposed to be impossible. So we'll have more on that later, as I said.

00:27:22.580 A little more crime here. This is from the New York Post. Ten middle schoolers were arrested for

00:27:29.760 allegedly assaulting a Coney Island classmate in a brutal caught-on video bus beatdown.

00:27:35.220 The victim, who one fellow student later callously declared deserved it and should have died,

00:27:42.480 could be heard shrieking in pain as a pack of kids collectively rained punches on him

00:27:46.000 in the January 26th incident, according to footage shared with the Post and posted on social media.

00:27:51.480 The boy can be seen trying to protect his head from the relentless fists while he's

00:27:55.940 passed down the aisle by his attackers on an MTA shuttle bus, which brings kids to Mark Twain IS-239

00:28:02.980 for the gifted and talented. It brings them from there to the Stilwell Avenue subway station.

00:28:09.640 The beating continues for several minutes, moving from the back of the cram bus to the front as the

00:28:13.780 boy is punched, slapped, kicked, and even hit with a sneaker. In all, so that ten kids were

00:28:20.300 assaulting this one kid. And these are kids apparently from a gifted and talented school

00:28:26.620 because this is what passes for gifted and talented these days. You know, I would prefer

00:28:31.800 if they just got rid of the gifted and talented programs in schools than lower the standard to

00:28:36.560 the point where, you know, people like this get into it. You might as well just get rid of it.

00:28:41.140 I can remember gifted and talented programs when I went to school when I was a kid. They had

00:28:44.480 gifted and talented. And I remember them from the outside. I remember looking in on them. I was

00:28:49.460 never invited. They never labeled me gifted and talented. And for good reason. There's a very

00:28:54.800 specific kind of kid that would qualify. And these were the kids who were very academically rigorous

00:29:01.120 and responsible, kind of nerdy, disciplined, hardworking, you know, all the things that I was

00:29:08.500 not. And, uh, and these kids certainly aren't. And yet they've made it into the gifted and talented

00:29:14.480 program. And since we're going down memory lane here, here's something else. And every time I see

00:29:20.080 one of these videos, I think about this. And if you're my age or older, you probably have the same

00:29:24.380 thought. Something else I don't remember as a kid is, um, I don't remember fights, quote unquote,

00:29:31.220 like this, you know. Um, and we're not even going to show you the video because it's, you could go

00:29:37.660 find it if you want, but you've seen enough videos like this. You know, you know what it is. And 10

00:29:41.600 kids like stomping the hell out of one kid. We've seen a million of these fights now. I don't remember

00:29:45.880 that, you know, a gang of kids stomping the hell out of one other kid, kicking him in the head. You

00:29:51.340 know, as we so often see in these videos, if the kid falls down, he starts getting kicked in the head,

00:29:55.380 that sort of thing. I don't remember that. Um, I, I, I, I, and, you know, I, I went to a very,

00:30:00.760 shall we say, as they say now, diverse school all through my public school career. It was,

00:30:06.400 they're very diverse schools. I wasn't going to prep schools for trust fund babies. Um,

00:30:11.660 and, uh, and there were fights all the time. I'm only aware of maybe that I can remember maybe

00:30:17.160 two examples in 13 years of public school where a gang of kids beat the hell out of one other kid.

00:30:25.860 Maybe two examples, the stomping on the head thing that again is so common now.

00:30:30.760 Never saw that. Never saw it. Never heard of it. Most of the time it's because a fight was a fight,

00:30:37.200 right? And it can be brutal sometimes, but there was at least some sense of honor in it. It was

00:30:43.360 usually one-on-one and, um, you get into a fight, you go until someone breaks it up, which most of

00:30:49.640 the time is how it ends. Or if there's no one around to break it up, then you go until someone

00:30:53.660 is on the ground and they're clearly defeated. But now there's no honor or dignity in the way that

00:30:58.740 these kids just brutalize each other. It's a very unmanly, cowardly, even sort of effeminate way of 0.92

00:31:05.680 fighting. And, um, and I think the difference is that historically when two men or two boys

00:31:14.580 squared off to fight, whether it was like at the playground, a playground fight, or it was a duel

00:31:20.620 in the 1800s. Historically, the point, it was less to harm the other person, even if you did end up

00:31:28.120 harming them. In the case of a duel, you might kill them. But it was less, that was not really the point. 0.98

00:31:33.020 The point was to prove your own courage and toughness and masculinity to everybody else.

00:31:38.920 Um, that's what the fight was about. And you wanted to win, not simply because you wanted to

00:31:45.080 hurt the other person, but because you wanted to prove yourself. And that's why, you know, that's

00:31:49.440 why a lot of times these fights would happen in school. Because for one thing, you're doing it

00:31:53.160 for the sake of everybody watching. You want people to see because you want to win and you want to be

00:31:56.620 the tough guy. And also, you know that someone's going to break it up. At least they used to break

00:32:00.440 these fights up. Now they just let the kids go until someone's dead, I guess. But at the time,

00:32:04.120 like they break it up. And so, and you knew that you knew that someone was going to break it up.

00:32:07.360 So it was, and so it was really, it was more of like a performance. Um, and you might say that

00:32:14.760 that's, that's wrong. You know, it's, it's, we shouldn't encourage boys to behave that way. Um,

00:32:20.340 okay, well now we don't encourage it. Uh, you know, we say that boys shouldn't worry about proving

00:32:25.160 their toughness and certainly using violence to do that. We don't want that. Well, this is what we

00:32:30.700 get instead. We still get the violence. In fact, we get more of it, but now the

00:32:37.340 point of the violence is actually just to inflict as much harm on the other person as you possibly

00:32:43.320 can just for the sake of it. Um, if you jump some other kid and it's five on one and you're

00:32:51.600 stomping on his head while he's on the ground, you obviously have not proven your toughness,

00:32:55.060 but you haven't proven anything. You know, you've only proven that you're a cowardly sucker punching 1.00

00:33:00.660 little frankly is what you've proven, but you have inflicted maximum harm on the other 0.98

00:33:07.340 person, which is the point now. That's the point. That's, that's the goal is just to let

00:33:13.920 me harm. And you heard one as they quoted one of the kids, he should be dead. Like that's 0.99

00:33:17.980 the way they look at it. Let's just kill him. You stop on a kid when he's on the ground. 1.00

00:33:22.880 That's attempted murder. You might kill him. And that's what you're trying to do. Why are you 1.00

00:33:27.620 even trying to do it? I mean, most of the time, if you were to pull these kids or talk to them

00:33:30.540 afterwards, like what, what did that other kid do that was so wrong? Why were you, it wouldn't

00:33:34.720 even be able to explain it. They're not even like mad. It's just inflicting maximum harm

00:33:41.220 on another person for the fun of it, just for the sake of it. Um, and that's, what's become

00:33:49.060 so common and it's, uh, it's, it's not good. I'll put it that way. There was some backlash

00:33:55.420 against SNL over the weekend after they featured Nikki Haley in a skit. Um, I'll play some of

00:34:01.280 this for you. I don't have to give you a cringe warnings ahead of time, but it's, it's cringe.

00:34:06.500 The cringe level is up to a hundred on this thing, but we'll watch a little bit of it. Anyway,

00:34:09.980 here it is. My question is, why won't you debate Nikki Haley? Oh my God, it's her. The woman who

00:34:18.000 was in charge of security on January 6th. It's Nancy Pelosi for the 100th time. That is not

00:34:26.680 Nancy Pelosi. It is Nikki Haley. Are you doing okay, Donald? You might need a mental competency

00:34:33.140 test. You know what I did? I took the test and I aced it. Okay. Perfect score. They said,

00:34:37.500 I'm a hundred percent mental and you know, I'm confident because I'm a man. That's why

00:34:41.980 a woman should never run our economy. Women are terrible with money. In fact, a woman I 1.00

00:34:46.800 know recently asked me for $83.3 million. And you've spent $50 million in your own legal

00:34:54.500 fees. Do you need to borrow some money? Oh, Nikki, don't do this. Nikki, Nikki, Nikki,

00:35:00.300 don't lose that number. Nikki Haley, Joel Osment, Nikki Haley, Joel Osment. We call her

00:35:07.180 six cents. Remember that one? I see dead people.

00:35:11.400 Yeah. That's what voters will say if they see you and Joe on the ballot.

00:35:14.960 Oh, that's not very nice, Nikki. It's not nice. And I'm always very nice to you, except

00:35:21.800 when I'm implying you weren't born in this country, even though you're from South Carolina

00:35:26.280 and now I'm going to beat you in your state.

00:35:28.180 So the left was very upset about that because they allowed Nikki Haley on set and that was

00:35:35.600 an upsetting thing. In fact, there was one left-wing activist who said that this is comedy

00:35:39.540 washing. So, you know, you've heard of whitewashing. Well, this is comedy washing and they're accusing

00:35:45.040 SNL of comedy washing. That's another conservative. Yes, comedy washing. It's more like cringe washing,

00:35:54.020 if anything, based on what we just saw. Not the finest acting performance from Haley. Although I

00:35:58.160 have to say the Trump impersonator is very good. That's a really good Trump impersonation.

00:36:05.340 It's, I don't know how it took SNL like six years to find a guy who can do a good Trump

00:36:12.100 impersonation. Even though there are, you can go on YouTube and find a million people who do at least

00:36:17.560 a passable Trump. And yet it took SNL the entire Trump's entire first term. They couldn't find a

00:36:25.920 good one. They were going with Alec Baldwin for most of the time. Um, and they finally found a good

00:36:29.580 one. So that's at least one thing. But the real point is that people on the left were mad about

00:36:36.640 Nikki Haley's appearance, which, which shows two things. First is it's that the idea, you know,

00:36:46.420 that the idea that shows like SNL are left-wing, uh, this is not a conservative invention. We didn't,

00:36:53.560 we didn't come up with the idea that these are left-wing shows. We didn't make that up.

00:36:57.180 The left itself believes that it owns SNL. It owns every other mainstream TV show,

00:37:02.160 which is why they feel so betrayed. You know, there's this sense of betrayal when someone who is

00:37:08.260 nominally supposedly not left-wing appears in a show like this. They see it as a betrayal against them

00:37:14.860 because they, whether they will normally acknowledge it or not out loud, that they know

00:37:19.380 that they sort of own all of these entertainment properties. That's the way they see it. But the

00:37:25.860 second point is that they, they have demonized Nikki Haley of all people. Um, as a, according to some of

00:37:32.200 these activists, even she is so radically right-wing and offensive that she should not be allowed to 0.97

00:37:39.940 appear in a main, on a mainstream forum at all. And this is a, this is someone who has, is as milquetoast

00:37:48.800 and liberal leaning as a Republican can possibly get. And they can get really milquetoast and liberal

00:37:56.740 leaning as we've seen. And yet even she, as far as they're concerned, is like persona non grata.

00:38:02.400 Even she should be banned, banned from a mainstream society, according to many on the left. 0.75

00:38:09.620 Uh, because

00:38:10.200 if, if you are disagreeing with them, it doesn't matter to what degree you're disagreeing with

00:38:16.560 them. It doesn't matter how agreeable you try to be as you disagree with them. Doesn't matter how

00:38:22.160 nice you are about it. Doesn't matter how much you try to compromise. It makes no difference.

00:38:26.160 You know, you're still a, an enemy. You're still a bigot and a, and whatever, all the labels somebody

00:38:33.520 would put on, they'd put on someone like me, you know, as a, as an actual radical right winger, 0.85

00:38:41.420 you know, militant right winger, uh, stochastic terrorist, whatever they want to say about me,

00:38:45.880 all those labels that they put on me, even someone who's much further left on the spectrum,

00:38:49.740 as long as you're on the right side of the spectrum in their view, they're going to put the

00:38:54.420 same labels on you. They don't, they don't draw any distinction. That's the crazy thing about it.

00:38:59.080 That from the left's perspective, they really don't see any, uh, relevant distinction between

00:39:07.980 Nikki Haley and like me, they, they, they see it's, we're all the same as far as they're concerned.

00:39:15.400 Uh, and what's the lesson from there? The lesson is what's the point of trying to compromise? What's

00:39:21.520 the point of trying to be nice? It won't make a difference anyway, whatever you're trying to

00:39:25.760 accomplish with it, it won't matter. So you might as well go all the way

00:39:29.680 and stop all the niceties. All right. Finally, this is from the daily wire. Utah lawmakers advanced

00:39:36.360 a bill this week to prevent the granting of inherent rights to nature, a movement gaining momentum among

00:39:41.140 environmental activists. House bill 249, the Utah legal personhood amendments declares that only

00:39:46.860 mankind may enjoy the legal rights and obligations of personhood. The Utah house bill, uh, passed on

00:39:53.240 Tuesday and now faces consideration by the Senate. The bill expressly prohibits the granting of legal

00:39:58.000 personhood to any artificial intelligence, inanimate object, body of water, land, property, atmospheric

00:40:03.520 gas, astronomical object, weather, plant, non-human animal, and any other member of a taxonomic

00:40:10.320 domain that is not a human being. Republican state Senator Walter Brooks brought forth the bill amid

00:40:16.760 efforts by environmental activists to leverage current U.S. law to grant legal personhood to the

00:40:21.060 Great Salt Lake. Brooks explained during the house floor vote on Tuesday that a constituent brought the

00:40:26.620 movement to his attention, request he believed was in jest until he did his own research. Brooks said

00:40:31.400 the bill was common sense. Um, so this is not a movement that's getting very much attention except

00:40:37.900 in Utah, I guess, but this is something that is, um, being pushed by environmental activists in

00:40:45.360 particular at this point. And it's happening more and more recently where, as it said, they want to grant

00:40:50.840 personhood rights to non-persons. And just to look into the crystal ball here for a minute, I would

00:40:58.420 predict that in 10 years, this will be maybe not in the next 10 years, might not even take 10 years.

00:41:06.800 This will be a major issue because it's the next logical step. Once you've broken down all of the

00:41:13.700 definitional lines as they have, like they've broken down the lines between man and woman. Um,

00:41:20.640 they've also broken down the lines that define personhood already. They've already done that.

00:41:24.720 They've blurted into obscurity by the, by the abortion movement. So the stage is set. Um, it's set 0.83

00:41:30.840 for a world where, uh, when someone says the word person, you have no idea what they're talking about.

00:41:36.620 Like, you know, they could, I mean, you know what a person is, hopefully if you still have your wits

00:41:42.040 about you, but when someone else says it, because of how confused society is, you won't know what

00:41:47.220 they're talking about because they could be talking about a person or they could be talking about a

00:41:50.940 cow or a lake, a rock, a computer. You know, you hear this term, uh, transhumanism, which is,

00:41:58.620 is generally understood as the sort of melding of human and machine. And the transhumanist

00:42:05.200 dystopia is one where a person is half person and half computer basically.

00:42:10.660 But this is, I think, uh, another element of transhumanism, another way that it will manifest

00:42:16.800 itself when personhood or human being, when, when, when that status is granted and also denied in this

00:42:25.580 utterly arbitrary way, according to the whims of the elite, which as we know, is already happening.

00:42:30.680 And, uh, it will only continue from here. Let's get to was Walsh wrong.

00:42:39.720 Referencing Richard Dawkins, he did a podcast with Helen Joyce about the trans issue and he

00:42:44.040 apologized for not coming along sooner. He just wasn't aware of a, how serious it was in scale

00:42:48.840 and be the damage it was doing to women's sports and private spaces, et cetera. 1.00

00:42:54.120 Another comment says, I don't think it's a smart idea to attack people for being late to an issue.

00:42:57.580 Dawkins may not have spoken up earlier, but he is now. That's all that matters.

00:43:02.200 Well, it's not all that matters. Um, all that matters isn't that you speak up at some point

00:43:07.100 eventually, but timing does matter. And I'm glad that he's, uh, apparently acknowledged and apologized

00:43:14.800 for being so late to it. And I do, as I, as I think I said last week, I generally find it annoying

00:43:21.120 when conservatives do this thing where they yell at people for not talking about a certain issue or

00:43:27.120 not talking about it sooner or not talking about it enough or in the right way or whatever, this

00:43:32.320 endless kind of purity spiral that you see on the right, uh, I'm the target of it all the time

00:43:37.080 because whatever I'm talking about, I'll, I'll hear from a hundred people mad at me for not talking

00:43:42.960 about something else. And, uh, and even the people who are happy that I'm talking about the thing are

00:43:47.880 going to say that I should have talked about it differently or, or, you know, it's, it's all,

00:43:52.040 it's always something. Okay. No matter what you're focusing on, there's always a million other things

00:43:57.680 that people tell you, well, what, what you're ignoring this, what's going on? Have you been

00:44:00.700 bought out? You grifter, are you getting paid to ignore this one other random arbitrary issue that 0.95

00:44:06.200 I've selected that I think you should talk about? So, um, I find that highly irritating and I get it, 0.81

00:44:12.900 but, but, but this issue is different. It just is. Trans ideology is simply the craziest thing 1.00

00:44:22.140 that human beings have ever come up with. And it's one of the most destructive ideologies in human

00:44:27.980 history. Um, so it's a unique kind of insane evil. Uh, we are not omniscient or omnipresent. We can't be

00:44:36.600 everywhere talking about everything all the time, but some issues just cry out for special attention.

00:44:42.540 Some issues you, you just have to pay attention to and speak out about. Um, and this is one of them.

00:44:50.820 And lots of people who knew better did not speak out about it, including people. And it's not just

00:44:54.680 talk about someone like Richard Dawkins. He's not, he's not just some random person. He's a biologist.

00:45:00.180 So it's in particular people who are in, who were in professions that are very relevant to that issue

00:45:08.000 had a special obligation to speak up and he did. Um, and on top of that, he's not only a biologist,

00:45:17.060 but he's a biologist who has, he was, uh, positioned himself as a defender of science, uh, against,

00:45:23.200 you know, attacks with what he perceives to be attacks on science, which is all the stuff,

00:45:27.420 the outspoken atheism going after religious people and all that for many years as he has.

00:45:34.300 Well, okay. Here's an attack on science, like an actual attack on science because belief in God is

00:45:41.100 not, but here's a real attack on science coming from the left. Where are you? Uh, really nowhere to

00:45:48.160 be found until recently. And that's, that's the problem. Uh, you're wrong on the tampon story. If it

00:45:53.740 was you in high school, that tampon dispenser in the boys' restroom would stay up for at least two

00:45:57.400 hours because in a sane world, you'd have to prove it was there before tearing it down.

00:46:01.500 I'd run through the halls telling my friends to see it and laugh and then destroy it.

00:46:06.780 That's, that's actually a good point. Um, if they had a tamp, put a tampon dispenser in the men's 0.98

00:46:10.920 room when I was in high school, yeah, originally I said it would be gone within seconds, but, but no,

00:46:15.500 I guess it wouldn't. You're right. Because you would be so stunned to find it there that you would,

00:46:21.160 yeah, you'd have to let everybody know. It's like everyone would have to come see it first.

00:46:25.040 And so they could believe that they actually put a tampon in the, in the men's room. And then once

00:46:31.160 everyone has seen it, once, once they have, once they, uh, their eyes, they've laid their eyes on

00:46:36.300 this hilarious site, then you tear it down. Uh, finally, I don't agree with encouraging children

00:46:45.060 to be bullies. It's good to teach our kids not to go along with the gender craziness, but they also 0.99

00:46:49.320 have to learn respect for others. Respect for others is you have to quantify, you have to qualify

00:46:55.580 that a little bit because I don't teach my kids to, now I don't teach them to be, to be bullies.

00:47:02.720 Like, yes, we should teach our kids not to be bullies. My point is that the anti-bullying crusade

00:47:07.420 went way too far to the point where we were telling kids to, uh, we went way beyond bullying,

00:47:14.340 right? Uh, in an effort to not be a bully, we've encouraged our kids to be pushovers and to just

00:47:20.460 accept things that are unacceptable all in an effort to not be a bully. And that's what I have

00:47:24.580 a problem with. As far as respect, respect goes, uh, I don't teach my kids to respect everybody

00:47:30.760 universally, regardless of that person's conduct. I teach them to be respectful, sure, but they should

00:47:37.600 be respectful in the same way that they should be peaceful. That's the ideal. That's kind of the

00:47:43.380 default position. Um, you, you never want to be the person who, who, uh, introduces like non-peaceful

00:47:53.700 behavior, introduces violence into a situation, but I don't tell them to be peaceful towards

00:47:59.600 everybody, regardless of how that person is, is, is towards them. Obviously you have to be able to

00:48:04.580 defend yourself, defend your loved ones. Um, and that might require being non-peaceful in some

00:48:10.640 circumstances. And the same goes for respect. I want my kids to go into any interaction with

00:48:16.380 another person ready to respect them, ready to show respect, uh, going in with a respectful

00:48:22.560 attitude. But if that person carries themselves, conducts themselves in a way that is not deserving

00:48:29.000 of respect, then they shouldn't receive respect. And this is even more the case when it comes to

00:48:34.640 ideas and concepts and claims about the world. No, we should not be automatically respectful of any of

00:48:42.080 that. You know, if it's an idea that is, that is ridiculous, such as the idea that boys are girls 0.77

00:48:51.240 and girls are boys, it's a ridiculous idea and you should treat it as ridiculous. You should show 0.97

00:48:57.220 that idea, no respect whatsoever. That's, um, I think how we should be teaching our kids.

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00:49:46.240 We're going to talk about male female relationship dynamics again, as we often do during this segment

00:49:51.600 of the show, but this time it will be the first time that the conversation begins with Shaquille O'Neal.

00:49:56.860 Recently, Shaq made some comments on his podcast that he apparently has a podcast and the comments

00:50:03.240 went viral, led to a fair amount of blowback. During the course of the conversation, the NBA legend

00:50:07.400 cautioned men that they should never be emotionally vulnerable in front of a woman ever under any

00:50:12.520 circumstance, according to him. And here's his reasoning. Watch.

00:50:17.740 The day you fall off, that woman ain't interested as you think. 1.00

00:50:21.320 Yeah. Once you start complaining and dragging your feet.

00:50:23.780 She don't want to hear no complaints. The day you come home and think you could be like,

00:50:28.260 baby, I was down. I lost it. She's going to be stroking your ego, but she's going to remember

00:50:32.700 that time. You cannot let them see you one time down. The world can't see your head down

00:50:38.300 one time. Ever.

00:50:40.360 So I'd tell people to stay up. I want you both to know that you can.

00:50:44.460 No. Like, and I know that you've experienced.

00:50:47.800 Cannot. I don't want to get to like Dr. Phil right now.

00:50:50.740 No, but I don't think you've ever had someone that you really could trust and really open

00:50:55.000 up. Now, if you want to keep an eye, if you want to give somebody else some coochie all

00:50:57.920 the time, you know what I'm saying? I'm saying, if you want to, if you want to bow, I'm just

00:51:00.980 being real. No, I guess. You open up to a woman? 0.93

00:51:04.020 Yeah. Never. No, never.

00:51:06.200 When's the last time you think you've opened up to a woman?

00:51:08.220 We don't. Your whole life?

00:51:10.880 Bro, I'm telling you.

00:51:12.220 Man, I've got players like, like, I can, me and him related.

00:51:15.800 Yeah. It's our first time meeting, but I did.

00:51:17.520 Yeah, I can tell you guys. There's some connection here.

00:51:19.440 Oh, no. And they're going to tell you, you can't.

00:51:21.700 Because you know why? But it's a trap.

00:51:23.420 Because you know why? I'm trapped.

00:51:24.600 No, no. I'm going to tell you why.

00:51:27.520 Because once you do, whenever something go down, they're going to throw it back in your

00:51:31.720 face. That's why.

00:51:32.760 That's why. That's why. So you can't ever.

00:51:35.480 That's why you cry because your dad left.

00:51:37.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:51:39.000 So you should never open up to a woman because if you do, the woman will store that moment away 1.00

00:51:43.760 in her brain and throw it back in your face at some point in the future. 0.58

00:51:46.900 That's the argument Shaq is making. Interestingly, there's one guy of the three who initially 0.69

00:51:51.040 takes the position that you can and should be emotionally vulnerable with women. But even

00:51:55.200 he, by the end, admits that he has personally had the experience of having his vulnerability

00:51:59.320 used against him by a woman that he had opened up to. So just kind of interesting. Now, we

00:52:05.060 should note that Shaq is divorced and therefore not necessarily the sort of man that you should

00:52:09.620 consult for relationship advice. Even if he wasn't divorced, I'm not sure why you would

00:52:13.740 consult him for relationship advice. He's also making a general statement that seems

00:52:17.360 to be informed more by his own personal experience than by any broader insight into male-female

00:52:21.700 dynamics. And his experience is not universal. You know, he's describing a kind of cynicism

00:52:25.880 and manipulativeness that is obviously not anywhere close to universal among women. It's 1.00

00:52:29.940 certainly not how my own wife operates. So I know that not every woman is like that. But 0.99

00:52:34.020 with those caveats, there is still some truth to what he's saying. And the truth is very

00:52:37.960 important to understand. So let's work through it. First of all, I think some of the sort

00:52:44.160 of angry reactions to Shaq's comments, the sort of reaction you see any time a man says

00:52:47.860 something like this publicly, ironically lends validity to the very point that the angry people

00:52:54.340 are arguing against. Like, by Shaq saying that you can't open up to women because they'll throw

00:53:01.000 it in your face, he is himself opening up. He's obviously talking about his own experiences.

00:53:05.900 And it's an experience that many men, as you can also see in the comments about this

00:53:10.040 clip, have had. So once again, we see how society says men should open up. And then a

00:53:14.820 man does open up. And society responds, not like that. It's apparently Shaq's experience

00:53:20.760 that his emotions are used against him by the women in his life. To yell at him for sharing

00:53:25.920 that experience is to say that he should not have shared it. So which is it? Do you want

00:53:29.840 men to share or not? And the fact is that even if his experience isn't universal, it is common

00:53:35.480 enough that it resonates with a great many men. If a bunch of men are saying that they

00:53:40.560 have revealed vulnerabilities to their girlfriends or wives only to have those vulnerabilities

00:53:44.060 cynically exploited or used as ammunition in arguments weeks or months or years down

00:53:49.480 the line, the appropriate response, especially if you do in fact want men to open up, is to

00:53:54.360 ask why this is happening and why some women behave that way. It's not to get angry at the 0.99

00:53:59.900 men for sharing those experiences, experiences that they are not all making up in some sort

00:54:04.640 of patriarchal conspiracy, right? Some men have this view of women because these are the

00:54:10.100 kinds of women that they have encountered. The red pill and MGTOW movements, which I've 1.00

00:54:15.680 criticized plenty of times for plenty of reasons, are driven at least in part by the fact that

00:54:19.500 a lot of these men are resentful and broken down after having been abused in this way by these

00:54:24.240 sorts of women. To assume that they're all exaggerating, that they're simply a bunch of 1.00

00:54:28.700 sexists, is to again validate the claim that men shouldn't be emotionally honest. But this

00:54:36.720 is not just a matter of spurned men who have closed themselves off because of their experiences

00:54:42.460 with manipulative scheming women. There's a seed of truth here that is in fact universal.

00:54:48.580 The problem with Shaq's point is that it's too absolute. He says, well, it never opened up,

00:54:53.240 never, ever. Well, if you never open up to a woman at all, then you'll be entirely emotionally 0.60

00:54:58.240 closed off. This is an extreme level of stoicism that even I find excessive because your wife

00:55:04.600 married a human being, not a tree stump. You need to have some emotion or there will be

00:55:08.140 no connection, no understanding between the two of you, and then there can't be a real relationship.

00:55:13.540 But these days we've gone way too far in the other direction, right? We've massively overcorrected

00:55:17.300 as we have with pretty much everything else. And men are encouraged in theory, in theory,

00:55:22.280 to be completely vulnerable, to air all of their fears and anxieties, to be sensitive,

00:55:27.820 to cry, and so on. Society bids a man to be as emotional as a woman because society denies

00:55:35.140 that there's any essential difference between the two. And then when a man accepts this invitation,

00:55:41.280 he quickly discovers that it doesn't work in practice the way it works in theory.

00:55:45.820 And that's because men are supposed to be strong, resilient, self-contained, and to a large degree,

00:55:53.760 though not absolutely, more stoic. No matter what the culture says, this is how a man is meant to be.

00:56:02.080 And it's also how his wife and his family need him to be. And it's how his wife and family want him

00:56:07.900 to be, even if they don't say it or even know it. Even if they say the opposite. They say they don't want

00:56:15.260 that. Actually, they do want it. And the truth of this point is indisputable if you stop and think

00:56:20.760 about it for two seconds. So consider this hypothetical. Husband and wife are driving on

00:56:27.260 a back road at night. Car breaks down. Maybe we'll throw in that you don't have cell reception. It's

00:56:34.480 a back road, so you're not able to call anybody. Now, the woman is frustrated, nervous, scared,

00:56:40.860 maybe starts to cry. And situations like this have played out a billion times. There's nothing

00:56:46.140 unusual about it. Women often cry when they're frustrated, nervous, and scared. And they do. 1.00

00:56:51.320 Like, we're not going to deny that. And the man, if he's a responsible and manly sort of man,

00:56:58.640 he'll try to calm the woman. And he'll remain calm himself. He won't think any less of her for being

00:57:04.960 emotional. He probably won't even remember it a day later. Like, when he thinks about breaking down,

00:57:09.120 he's not going to think about the fact that his wife got emotional and started to cry,

00:57:12.300 because there's nothing particularly notable or disturbing about that, you know, seeing his wife

00:57:16.360 get emotional in situations like that. Now, on the other hand, imagine that they're driving down

00:57:22.380 that same back road at night. Car breaks down. And the man starts to cry, okay? The woman in the seat

00:57:30.400 next to him could be the most dedicated feminist in the world. She could be as progressive and supposedly 1.00

00:57:36.700 enlightened as they come. She could have told her husband many times in the past that she wants him

00:57:42.320 to show more emotion. In fact, she could have been in the process of giving him that speech

00:57:45.600 when the car broke down. But if he cries in that situation, she will be extremely disturbed and

00:57:53.260 frustrated and frankly disgusted. She'll be disgusted by the sight. And no matter what she says,

00:57:58.940 no matter what she might proclaim publicly, she will think less of him after that. Any woman would. 0.98

00:58:04.320 We all know that. So there are a great many situations like this where a woman's expression 0.89

00:58:09.680 of raw emotion would be totally unremarkable and unproblematic, but a man's expression of the

00:58:15.240 same emotion in the same way in the same situation would make you lose all respect for him. And that's

00:58:21.720 because regardless of what anyone claims, men are men. They are not women. And when push comes to

00:58:28.280 shove, we expect men to act like men and not women. Now, there are millions of people in this country

00:58:34.920 who will bristle at a statement like men shouldn't act like women, right? They will reject that

00:58:42.060 statement. They'll think it's old fashioned. It's, you know, it's backwards. It's sexist and everything

00:58:48.400 else. And yet, and yet every single one of them without exception would be repulsed by a man crying

00:58:56.220 because his car broke down. And a woman who cries in the same situation, they'd feel sympathetic for.

00:59:03.420 And we all know that. And there are many situations just like this. Now, wives may think that they want 1.00

00:59:09.660 to see more emotional vulnerability from their husbands, but they don't want that much of it.

00:59:14.340 Like they only want a certain amount. And oftentimes when they get a little more of it,

00:59:18.720 then they realize, you know, they get a little more emotional vulnerability. Then they start to

00:59:22.960 realize that they kind of preferred how it was before. Generally speaking, a man should control 1.00

00:59:28.520 his emotions, keep many of his fears and anxieties to himself and be a source of consistency and

00:59:34.500 stability for his family. Does that mean that a husband can't tell his wife if he had a bad day at

00:59:39.440 work or something? No, of course not. Yeah, you could share that. But if he's complaining about

00:59:45.000 his bad day at work every day and he's whiny about it, or if he comes home in tears, he's had a really

00:59:52.900 bad day and he's crying about it the way that women will sometimes. If he does that, well, then she's 0.98

00:59:59.340 going to get annoyed and she's going to lose respect for him. And, you know, on top of that, if he has

01:00:04.880 some bigger, deeper, but still sort of ambiguous and amorphous anxiety, most of the time it's going

01:00:10.500 to be better if he doesn't share it with anybody, including his wife. So for example, think about

01:00:15.800 a man who has a nonspecific general worry that he might lose his job. And I don't mean that he's

01:00:21.580 told he's going to be laid off or that some specific thing happened that makes it highly

01:00:25.200 likely that he's going to get fired. Like in that case, of course, you should tell his wife.

01:00:28.580 I mean, just a generalized fear that he wrestles with and that causes him psychological pain that

01:00:35.960 he's just kind of worried about. Not any specific reason, he's just kind of worried that he's going

01:00:38.940 to lose his job. Well, it's probably best in most situations if he doesn't share that with his wife,

01:00:44.660 because all he will have done in that case is spread the anxiety around, offloaded it onto his

01:00:51.220 wife's shoulders while not even succeeding in alleviating any of his own burden. He still feels all

01:00:56.020 the same burden, and now he's kind of given some of it to her. And now his wife feels anxious and

01:01:00.100 insecure and vulnerable, all due to this information that she can't do anything with or about.

01:01:05.360 And that's why the manly thing to do, in many cases but not all, is hold on to that worry,

01:01:11.060 work hard to make sure that his fear is not realized, while he allows his family to live

01:01:15.360 with a sense of security that he himself doesn't feel. This is heroic masculinity. It's the kind of

01:01:21.320 thing that the whole world depends on to keep functioning. Now, it's a man's job to shoulder 1.00

01:01:29.700 emotional as well as physical burdens, I guess is the point. So when we say that a man is a protector

01:01:35.380 and provider, it includes in this psychological and emotional sense as well. Like most men will never

01:01:42.060 have, so we say men are protectors, well, you know, if we only mean in the physical sense, it's kind of

01:01:47.920 like we're letting ourselves off the hook because most of us will never have the opportunity to

01:01:51.280 protect our families from physical armed invaders in the home or something like that. Most men these

01:01:56.200 days, in the Western world anyway, will never have that chance, thankfully. But they do have the

01:02:03.880 opportunity to protect their families from instability, anxiety, and emotional chaos, which

01:02:09.620 means that the man stands in the way, taking the brunt because he's strong enough to endure it on his

01:02:15.300 own. Like go back to the husband and wife in the broken down car, just for the example.

01:02:21.300 There's no doubt that the husband will have all kinds of worries going through his mind in this

01:02:25.300 situation. Like what if the car has a serious mechanical issue that will cost more money to

01:02:29.520 repair than they have in savings? What if some murderous drifter comes along while they're stranded

01:02:34.060 on the side of the road? You know, he's going to think about that too. What if a million other bad

01:02:37.560 things happen as a result of this circumstance they find themselves in? But he shouldn't say any of that

01:02:42.040 out loud. He shouldn't share it. No, he should not open up in that situation. His wife can and most

01:02:48.520 likely will. But his job is to be a calming and competent presence. It's what his wife wants him to

01:02:55.840 be, no matter what she says in theory. It's what she wants. And if he unburdens himself of all of his

01:03:03.040 fears and worries, it will make the situation worse. And she'll resent him for it. Now, why is this the

01:03:11.580 case? Most fundamentally, because again, men are men and they're expected to act like it. Even a

01:03:17.560 society that pretends it doesn't expect men to act like men, or even that there's no such thing as men

01:03:22.040 acting like men, still actually does expect it, which is extremely unfair to men. But like we have

01:03:29.040 this expectation that society has expectation for us that society denies it has. So like we're

01:03:34.200 getting gaslit all the time, but it is what it is. Also in the context of a marriage, the family relies

01:03:41.680 on the man for its own sense of safety and security. And the man is really the only person in the family

01:03:48.260 who can provide that. This is a calling that only the man can fulfill. The wife looks to her husband to 1.00

01:03:54.680 feel safe. The husband does not look to his wife to feel safe. Doesn't look to his children. Everybody

01:03:59.980 looks to him and he looks to no one. Like this is the burden of leadership. Eventually it ends with

01:04:05.960 you. Like eventually the buck stops with you. Everybody turns to you and you better have answers

01:04:12.800 because you can't turn to anybody. So to illustrate my point, when I travel for work, my wife and my kids,

01:04:19.780 they feel less safe in the house without me. And when I'm home, everybody sleeps easier. So my

01:04:25.040 presence in the house gives everybody this sense of security. But when I'm home alone on a few

01:04:29.780 occasions when it's happened and my wife and kids are gone, I don't feel any less safe. I do tend to

01:04:36.320 be racked with worry, but it's because I'm worried about them. And when they come home, I rest easy

01:04:41.020 knowing they are safe. Not because I feel safer with them around. That's because that sense of safety is

01:04:47.400 something that only I can give as the man of the house. I can't receive it from any of them, really.

01:04:53.460 And this is true of physical security and security in pretty much every other sense.

01:04:57.560 My family turns to me knowing that to know that they are secure and I don't turn back to them

01:05:03.660 looking for the same reassurance. Now, emotionally, a man looks to his wife for many things. He looks to

01:05:08.940 her for her kindness, affection, love, warmth, humor, companionship, many, many things. But he doesn't

01:05:15.400 or shouldn't look to her for a sense of security and safety. Like, he has to bring that to the table.

01:05:23.240 And if he doesn't, his family and his marriage will suffer. So does that mean that he can't open up?

01:05:30.680 No, that doesn't always mean that. He can open up sometimes to some extent. But if he opens up so much

01:05:36.380 and so often that he begins to project a sense of weakness and instability, then he will have gone too far

01:05:42.100 and said too much. You cannot be so vulnerable as a man that those who depend on you now also feel

01:05:49.440 vulnerable. Which means that you keep some things to yourself. You contain some emotions and you just

01:05:56.600 don't reveal them. It's tough, but that's what it means to be a man. It's the gift we give to our

01:06:02.900 families. And it's the most generous kind of gift because it's the kind that they don't even know

01:06:10.500 they're receiving most of the time. But there's a lot of honor and dignity in that.

01:06:17.180 And anyway, that's why the people yelling at Shaquille O'Neal are today canceled. We had to

01:06:23.060 bring it back around and we finally did. And that'll do it for us today. Thanks for watching.

01:06:26.820 Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 05, 2024

Ep. 1308 - An Outrageous Betrayal On The Border

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