The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1312 - Biden's DOJ Declares Him Mentally Incompetent And Unfit For Office

00:00:00.000 Day of the Matt Wall Show was a disastrous day for Joe Biden. First, his DOJ essentially declared

00:00:04.440 him mentally unfit for office. Then he accidentally confirmed the charge by giving the most

00:00:08.080 catastrophic press conference I've ever seen from a president. And this was all made worse

00:00:11.340 by the contrast between Biden and the president of Russia, whose interview with Tucker Carlson

00:00:15.520 was posted yesterday as well. Also, the Democrat mayor of a small town scams her constituents out 1.00

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00:00:23.060 a black woman. A Hollywood actor says that he had to seek therapy to deal with bad reviews.

00:00:27.020 And the internet rallies around a homeless guy raises almost half a million dollars for him

00:00:30.860 only to find out that he's actually a violent criminal shocker. All of that and more today

00:00:34.940 on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:11.340 that Joe Biden will not be the Democratic Party's nominee for president this year. And that doesn't mean

00:02:17.940 that it definitely won't happen. Nobody can predict the future. But it does mean that nobody with any

00:02:22.640 power in Washington wants Biden to run for office again. That much is very, very clear. The day began

00:02:27.820 with a report prepared by Joe Biden's own DOJ that outlines Biden's mental decline in excruciating

00:02:34.060 detail. And the top-line conclusion, as you've probably seen by now, is that the commander-in-chief

00:02:38.420 is so far gone, so detached from reality, so unaware of his own surroundings, that he can't even be

00:02:45.280 charged with a crime. He's not legally responsible for his own conduct at this point. In interviews

00:02:50.940 with special counsel, Biden couldn't remember whether he was vice president in 2009. He couldn't

00:02:56.880 pinpoint the date of his son Beau's death, even within a span of several years. Again, this is

00:03:02.600 the conclusion of a special counsel working for Joe Biden's own Justice Department. Special counsel

00:03:07.220 determined effectively that the president of the United States is too mentally incompetent to be held 0.98

00:03:12.280 responsible for his own actions. So this is, to my knowledge anyway, the first time in American

00:03:18.700 history when a president's own DOJ has declared him essentially unfit for office. And yet somehow

00:03:25.080 that wasn't even the worst of the bad news for Joe Biden yesterday. You thought it couldn't,

00:03:30.940 like it can't possibly get worse than that. It's like something historically awful happening,

00:03:35.940 which is being declared incompetent by your own DOJ. How could it get worse in the same day? But it did.

00:03:42.360 Because on about 10 minutes notice, the White House press office announced a press conference at 7.45

00:03:47.000 p.m. Especially by Biden's standards, this is extremely unusual. It's rare enough for Biden to

00:03:53.000 give a press conference at all. He doesn't often give them, much less an unscheduled one, much less

00:03:59.800 one in the evening. Now we know that usually he's in bed by six o'clock. And on top of that, Biden's

00:04:05.400 handlers apparently sent him out to the podium without a list of pre-approved journalists to call on,

00:04:11.240 which again, almost never happens. So Grandpa Joe was left to fend entirely for himself. And

00:04:17.480 naturally, the press conference went pretty much exactly as you would expect it would,

00:04:21.960 or maybe somehow even worse. In fact, I don't think it's hyperbole to say that

00:04:26.120 Biden delivered the single most catastrophic press conference I can remember from a president

00:04:31.700 in my entire lifetime. At no point did he allay any of the concerns about his competence or fitness

00:04:38.000 for office. When that was supposed to be the whole point of the press conference was that topic. The

00:04:43.100 whole point of the press conference is the topic of his own mental fitness. And they sent him stumbling

00:04:48.840 out there in the evening with no preparation. So instead of reassuring Americans about the president's

00:04:54.920 mental fitness, it did the opposite. He made it abundantly clear that he needs to be removed from

00:05:00.340 office immediately. And all of this is even more confounding when you consider that, again,

00:05:05.840 given the time of day, the impromptu nature of the press conference, the topic that Biden was out

00:05:11.880 there to discuss, and the fact that questions were not picked ahead of time, it was pretty much

00:05:17.080 guaranteed to be a disaster. And it's a disaster that the White House walked right into, seemingly

00:05:22.080 on purpose, which makes you ask a lot of questions, which we'll get to. But here's how the press

00:05:28.940 conference began. Watch. In addition, I know there's some attention paid to some language in the report

00:05:34.980 about my recollection of events. There's even reference that I don't remember when my son died.

00:05:43.700 How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself,

00:05:49.280 it wasn't any other damn business. Let me tell you something. Some of you have commented, 0.95

00:05:56.260 I'm aware since the day he died, every single day, the rosary he got from Our Lady of

00:06:01.040 Every Memorial Day, we hold a service, remembering him attending my friends and family and the people

00:06:10.040 who loved him. I don't need anyone. I don't need anyone to remind me when he passed away,

00:06:16.800 he passed away. So Biden does not deny that he couldn't remember when his son died,

00:06:23.380 nor does he explain how this topic came up exactly. Of course, if you've listened to Biden

00:06:27.260 talk at any point in the past few years, you can assume that he brought it up unprompted to

00:06:31.360 garner sympathy with the special counsel, because that's his usual strategy. But Biden doesn't address

00:06:35.900 any of that. Instead, he just lashes out angrily at the prosecutor. Then he mentions a rosary,

00:06:40.520 but he can't complete the story because he doesn't remember where it's from.

00:06:43.640 So not exactly a convincing performance, unless the point is to convince us that Biden is a

00:06:49.740 vegetable, which it certainly succeeded in doing that. But it gets worse. Here's the first question

00:06:55.160 Biden took from Fox's Peter Doocy. Watch. Thank you. And I'll take some questions.

00:07:00.560 President Biden, something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you

00:07:05.980 were not charged is because in his description, you are a well-meaning elderly man with a poor,

00:07:13.640 memory. I'm well-meaning and I'm an elderly man and I know what the hell I'm doing. I've been

00:07:18.380 president and I put this country back on its feet. I don't need his recommendation. It's totally

00:07:23.140 out. How bad is your memory? And can you continue as president?

00:07:27.000 My memory is so bad, I let you speak.

00:07:30.860 That's, that's, that's. Do you know your memory has gotten worse, Mr. President?

00:07:34.920 My memory has not gotten, my memory is fine. My memory, take a look at what I've done since I've

00:07:39.640 become president. None of you thought I could pass any of the things I got passed. How'd that happen?

00:07:45.080 You know, I guess I just forgot what was going on.

00:07:49.360 Take a look at the things that, uh, tell me what I've done since I became president because I can't

00:07:53.840 remember. Take a look at what I've done. Someone take a look and, and repeat to me because I have

00:07:57.560 no idea. My memory is so bad, I let you speak, he says. That's the president of the United States

00:08:01.720 saying that, uh, which you almost want to give him credit because that, that is, uh, like a pretty

00:08:06.160 good comeback. Uh, it's, it's maybe like you want to give him credit for, that's maybe the wittiest

00:08:10.700 thing we've ever heard Biden say, except that, except that this again is, is, is actually a

00:08:15.740 symptom of senility that he has no filter. Like that's not something that you say out loud. You

00:08:20.060 could tell after he, he doesn't even play it off like he meant to say it because he says, uh,

00:08:24.240 your memory is so bad, I'll let you speak. And then he kind of pauses because it's clear he didn't

00:08:28.200 mean to say that out loud. So even that one thing you want to give him credit for, you can't.

00:08:32.520 He says, he's just a well-meaning elderly man who knows what the hell he's doing.

00:08:38.000 And if you ask him about the fact that he can't remember when his son died or when he was vice

00:08:41.100 president, he'll imply that, you know, you should be prevented from speaking. Now, nobody in the room

00:08:45.460 was really laughing at this, including the journalists from left-wing outlets. So they,

00:08:49.560 they have apparently received the all clear to ask Biden some hard questions for the first time ever

00:08:55.500 because corporate media doesn't want him to run again. So that's another thing that made the

00:09:00.960 press conference last night so jarring is that it was a, like a hostile environment from the press

00:09:08.180 towards the Democrat president. We never see that. And that's because they were all given the go-ahead, 0.64

00:09:13.720 uh, by their puppet masters to actually embarrass this guy because they want him out.

00:09:18.780 So a CNN reporter named MJ Lee pressed him with a simple and straightforward question about his mental

00:09:24.440 capacity. And instead of calmly answering the question, Joe Biden snapped again. Watch.

00:09:29.440 Mr. President, for months, when you were asked about your age, you would respond with the words,

00:09:35.320 watch me. Well, many American people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about

00:09:40.540 your age. That is your judgment. That is your judgment. That is not the judgment of the press.

00:09:46.580 They express concerns about your mental acuity. They say that you are too old.

00:09:50.540 Mr. President, in December, you told me that you believe there are many other Democrats who could

00:09:55.160 defeat Donald Trump. So why does it have to be you now? What, what is your answer to that question?

00:09:59.680 I'm the most qualified person in this country to be president of the United States and finish the job

00:10:03.100 I started. Most qualified person to be president. Well, if that's true, then we're just done. We're

00:10:07.940 done as a country. So might as well just wrap it up, pack it in. If that, if that's true,

00:10:12.100 thankfully it isn't a CNN reporter wants to know, of course, if Biden is mentally stable,

00:10:16.840 Biden barks at her. And then the CNN reporter suggests that maybe he isn't the best person to be

00:10:21.040 running for office. And, you know, he doesn't have a convincing answer to that question either.

00:10:24.420 So we are witnessing the end of Biden's legitimacy to the extent that he ever had any to begin with.

00:10:30.300 Whatever, whatever shreds of it he may have had are now just gone. They're, they're burned

00:10:34.340 in a fiery flame. Even his once reliable allies in the corporate press have turned on him. And you

00:10:40.880 can see why. At one point in this emergency press conference that was supposedly intended to

00:10:44.840 reassure Americans that the president is mentally competent. Biden refers to the president of Egypt

00:10:50.040 as the president of Mexico. The conduct of the response

00:10:57.560 in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip has been over the top. I think that, 0.97

00:11:10.220 as you know, initially, the president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow

00:11:21.680 humanitarian material to get in. I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate.

00:11:28.300 I talked to Bibi to open the gate on the Israeli side.

00:11:30.860 Well, you know, Mexico, uh, over there bordering, uh, you know, it's over there in the, in the,

00:11:38.780 in the midst of, uh, of all this is, is Mexico. So now the thing is like Biden does still have

00:11:44.520 some people in the press that are trying to run cover for him. And, uh, so they, they tried to

00:11:50.720 claim that it was a slip of the tongue or he's, it's a, he's just, you know, it's a, he's misspeaking,

00:11:55.940 but that's not, that is not a normal mistake to make. Like why we're talking about Egypt.

00:12:01.060 Why would Mexico come up? So that's not, it's not a slip of the tongue. That's just your brain

00:12:07.400 is misfiring, uh, in a, in a sort of, uh, in a way that reveals some real brain damage that he is

00:12:15.140 obviously suffering, which means that, you know, whoever arranged this press conference is either

00:12:19.460 criminally incompetent or they were trying to sabotage Biden's candidacy. Those are really the

00:12:24.680 only two options. This was entirely predictable. Biden essentially confirmed everything the special

00:12:29.900 counsel said, even, even called himself an elderly man in the press conference, which of course isn't

00:12:36.040 new. We know news. We know that he's elderly, but these are not the kinds of things that you should

00:12:40.840 be saying in this situation. Why would you want to put a sound clip out there of you saying I am an

00:12:45.600 elderly man? I mean, now, as I mentioned earlier, the special counsel investigating Biden's handling of

00:12:51.700 classified documents found that quote, uh, in his interview with our office, Mr. Biden did not

00:12:56.020 remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview, when his term

00:12:58.980 ended and forgetting on the second day of the interview, when his term began, he did not remember

00:13:03.360 even within several years when his son Bo died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the

00:13:07.480 Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said

00:13:11.840 he had, he had a real difference of opinion with general Carl Eikenberry, when in fact,

00:13:16.380 Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to president

00:13:20.640 Obama. The memo continues. We have also considered that at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present

00:13:25.380 himself to a jury as he did during our interview with him as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly

00:13:29.460 man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is

00:13:33.800 someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. Uh, it would be difficult to

00:13:39.060 convince a jury that they should convict him by, uh, by then a former president will into well into his

00:13:44.540 80s of a serious, uh, felony that requires a mental state of willfulness. Now, before I go any further,

00:13:52.060 it needs to be mentioned that this, I mean, the reasoning is completely absurd. The only relevant

00:13:55.960 information for the purposes of bringing a criminal prosecution is Biden's mental state when he committed

00:14:02.320 the alleged crimes. And according to the special counsel, as far back as more than a decade ago,

00:14:07.060 Joe Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified documents with classification markings on them.

00:14:14.360 That includes classified documents from his time in the Senate several decades ago.

00:14:19.020 The documents were in his quote, garage offices and basement den in both Virginia and Delaware.

00:14:24.500 Again, Biden retained these documents many years ago. There's no suggestion that he had Alzheimer's or

00:14:30.580 amnesia back then. So if that's a crime, he should be prosecuted for it. If he's not mentally competent

00:14:36.440 to stand trial, that's a, that's a defense that his lawyers can raise after charges have been brought.

00:14:42.300 It's not the special counsel's job to lay off on the charges because he's elderly now. It's not their job

00:14:47.100 to say, well, probably the jury will find that we'll be sympathetic to him. So we're not going to bring

00:14:52.140 charges. How often do you hear that from a prosecutor? We're not going to bring these charges because we

00:14:56.140 figured ahead of time that the jury will find him sympathetic. What? Now, this is especially absurd

00:15:03.400 given that the DOJ is going after Donald Trump for allegedly storing classified documents, even

00:15:07.760 though Donald Trump as president had the authority to declassify whatever he wanted, not to mention

00:15:12.160 if being elderly is a defense, well, then Trump is elderly too and is only a few years younger now.

00:15:18.840 But at this point, no one is surprised by the fact that the DOJ is prosecuting Trump for a crime

00:15:23.480 while giving Biden a pass for committing the exact same crime. That was always a given.

00:15:28.540 What is surprising, again, is why Joe Biden's handlers let him take questions last night under

00:15:34.640 these circumstances. It's almost like they were setting him up for disaster. That's especially

00:15:39.680 true given the contrast. Like of all nights to do this, last night was the worst possible night.

00:15:47.040 Not that there could be a good night because of the contrast between Biden's remarks and the

00:15:51.980 interview last night between Tucker Carlson and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Now, Putin spoke with

00:15:58.180 Tucker Carlson for two hours uninterrupted. In response to a question about why Russia invaded

00:16:02.800 Ukraine, Putin recounted the history of his country in exacting, excruciating detail going back

00:16:10.220 centuries. It was quite dry, but it was informative and it was dense. And Putin was clearly lucid and

00:16:19.060 clear thinking. He was more than capable of sitting for a lengthy adversarial interview with a journalist

00:16:24.120 from a foreign country. That's remarkable given the fact that, you know, for the past year,

00:16:28.960 the media has told us that Putin is sick and frail and senile and like dying of cancer and he's in

00:16:34.460 hiding. That's obviously not the case. But most of that is the case with our president. We're told that

00:16:42.540 Biden isn't competent enough to be prosecuted, but is competent enough to have the most important job in

00:16:47.880 the world for another five years. He's immune from committing crimes due to, due to his lack of

00:16:54.020 mental capacity, but he can have nuclear codes apparently. I mean, it's laughable and everybody

00:17:00.340 knows it. They know that Biden has lost his mind and now even the DOJ has confirmed it. It is a full

00:17:07.420 blown constitutional crisis. If he stays in office, that's what we're facing. We're having a president

00:17:11.780 that everybody knows now is senile. Now, of course, the double-edged sword is that it's much better

00:17:19.580 politically for Trump if Biden stays in. Like swapping Biden out for somebody younger who can

00:17:26.040 speak in coherent sentences would make things more challenging for Trump. But, you know, politics are

00:17:34.160 really a secondary concern at this point. The truth is that we simply cannot have a president

00:17:38.740 who is not only senile, but is known to the world and to our adversaries to be senile.

00:17:46.160 You just can't have it. It's like it's a danger to everybody in this country.

00:17:51.860 He needs to resign. And if he won't resign, he needs to be removed from office.

00:17:56.580 He can be a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory who lives out the remainder of his days off in

00:18:01.820 obscurity somewhere, far away from the levers of power. I mean, the rest of us, people who intend to

00:18:07.360 live in this country long after Biden is gone, which one way or another, he'll be gone pretty soon.

00:18:13.180 We simply cannot tolerate having somebody like this in the White House any longer.

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00:19:35.300 I thought Tucker did a great job in that interview, by the way, especially, and there was a lot of,

00:19:40.420 obviously, before Tucker, before they released the interview and it was announced that Tucker was

00:19:45.520 going to interview Putin, in the media, anyway, and on the left, there was this preemptive

00:19:52.080 criticisms and assumptions about what the interview would be and that it would just be a propaganda

00:19:57.880 effort by Tucker on Putin's behalf. But to me, that was obviously not the case. I knew that wouldn't

00:20:06.480 be the case going into it. And then you watch the interview and that's not what happened.

00:20:11.140 Um, and it's very impressive, especially when you consider how incredibly challenging this is.

00:20:18.560 That's the other point here. It's very easy to Monday morning quarterback an interview like this,

00:20:25.420 but when it comes to interviews, this is pretty much the highest difficulty setting. I don't think

00:20:30.100 you, I don't think you can, as an interviewer, be in a more difficult setting and have a more

00:20:36.400 difficult interviewee than this. You're interviewing a foreign leader of an adversarial country through a

00:20:44.100 translator, which is difficult. Like even that part alone, take everything else out. I can't imagine,

00:20:49.800 I would never do it. I wouldn't want to interview someone where I have to listen to a translator. 1.00

00:20:53.740 That enough, that, that, that it would be distracting enough that I don't think I could do it. Um,

00:20:59.040 so you're interviewing a foreign leader of an adversarial country through a translator on his home turf,

00:21:03.720 you know, uh, knowing also that he has a history of imprisoning journalists.

00:21:09.980 So, so again, extremely difficult to do. And Tucker did push back. He asked probing questions. He asked

00:21:17.020 good questions, I thought. And, um, it was very impressive. And Putin, uh, even aside from all that

00:21:26.800 is a formidable person to interview just because of his depth and breadth of knowledge and his ability

00:21:33.460 to, uh, weave centuries of history into his answers, as many people have talked about the first 30

00:21:39.180 minutes of the interview, when he's asked to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he goes back

00:21:45.040 centuries and centuries and has this long, like discursive, uh, uh, you know, lecture about Russian

00:21:51.980 history. And, uh, I don't know that part of it has seems to be generally panned by people. They said,

00:21:57.480 that's kind of boring. I thought it was interesting, but talking to someone who's able to do that is,

00:22:05.280 you know, that, that, that notches the difficulty setting up even more. And I also think that when

00:22:12.320 American audiences see something like this and you start to see why the American press didn't want this

00:22:19.060 interview to happen, they didn't want people to see it because, uh, American audiences see this kind

00:22:26.120 of thing and it's kind of, it's, it's confounding and it's sort of startling and strange for American

00:22:32.440 audiences because we just don't have political leaders who are like that here. Uh, you know,

00:22:42.740 which, which is, which is also why you have other people in the media and on social media

00:22:46.740 lecturing everyone else that, you know, you shouldn't be impressed with Putin's performance.

00:22:52.680 You're being pro Putin. You're a KGB agent. Nobody's pro Putin. Okay. Relax. Stop being hysterical.

00:23:01.260 Okay. Stop being a hysterical child. It's just that American political leaders are almost entirely 0.91

00:23:07.220 with rare exception, almost entirely intellectual lightweights. They just are. It wasn't always that

00:23:13.480 way. It doesn't have to be that way, but, but it is that way right now. So you watch an interview

00:23:21.700 like that and you, you, you first think to yourself, well, how many, certainly Biden. So the contrast

00:23:25.920 with Biden is just, is disastrous for him. Uh, Biden couldn't sit for two hours, uh, you know,

00:23:32.620 do a two hour interview with anybody under any circumstance, but how many, how many American

00:23:39.720 politicians could do that? Like how many American politicians would even be capable of sitting for

00:23:47.100 a two hour discussion on camera with anybody? And, um, and then, and then how many of them,

00:23:53.400 if you asked them, uh, to justify something that the United States is doing foreign policy wise,

00:23:59.660 how many of them would be able to get a, give a 30 minute answer that goes back hundreds of years

00:24:06.500 into Western history. We have a few that could probably do that, but, but very few. And you,

00:24:14.340 you can't help but notice that contrast, which is, um, I guess, an argument to start electing people

00:24:20.740 that are, you know, capable of, I don't know, capable of at least expressing, you know, forming

00:24:26.340 thoughts and expressing them. Maybe we can, we can start with it. The bar's pretty low. So let's start

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00:24:57.940 payments are also rising among all age groups, especially people in their thirties. The data

00:25:01.260 shows New York Federal Reserve researchers told reporters in the case of credit cards, it looks

00:25:05.740 like the things have reverted to a level that is worse than pre-pandemic inflation and spike inflation

00:25:10.780 and spiking rents are driving credit card debt. The total household debt also jumped $212 billion up to

00:25:16.400 $17.5 trillion in the last quarter of the year. Another factor of debt is rising car payments.

00:25:22.920 Used car, new cars are, uh, are much more expensive than before the pandemic.

00:25:27.140 Car loans rose by $12 billion in the last quarter of the year, hitting $1.6 trillion and delinquencies

00:25:34.100 on those loans also increased. It says a record number, 22.4 million renters were spending more

00:25:40.620 than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. So it's just, it's a bad, uh, it's a very, very bad

00:25:47.380 picture all around. And here we have, of course, the main reason why they will probably have to

00:25:52.980 replace Biden. And this is the point we don't want to gloss over that if Biden was falling apart

00:25:59.060 mentally, if he was in this, this state of deep and obvious decline, if he was rambling and forgetting

00:26:04.920 things and having Alzheimer's moments on camera five times a week, but the economy was in good shape

00:26:12.120 and people were doing reasonably well in their lives, then I think they would just run with it

00:26:16.420 and they'd keep him and they drag him to the finish line and they'd wait for him to die in office in

00:26:21.840 his second term, which if he, if God forbid he gets a second term is going to happen. You know,

00:26:28.380 it would be another unprecedented moment in American history, not only because we're electing someone

00:26:32.540 into their eight, someone who's at that would be what, 82 years old at that point, but we'd also

00:26:37.060 be electing someone who everybody knows is, is not going to, uh, if he lives to the end of his term,

00:26:45.760 he's not even going to be physically, um, able to move around. I mean, if, if he makes it to the

00:26:52.800 end, he's going to be bedridden if he, if he even makes it. So, but if it wasn't for the economy piece

00:26:59.960 of it, then I think that's probably what they would do. They'd say, let's just get through this,

00:27:03.420 uh, get him to the finish line. And then, you know, and then, and then, and then we'll worry

00:27:09.340 about it. And then when he dies in office or he becomes totally incapacitated, we can't even

00:27:12.500 pretend anymore. Uh, we'll figure it out then. And I think that that has been their plan basically

00:27:17.480 up until now, but it's not possible to do that anymore. And especially when on top of it all,

00:27:23.740 Americans are suffering financially to such a deep pervasive extent. Um, you know, it's not,

00:27:29.340 it's not that something like credit card debt is entirely Biden's fault, obviously,

00:27:33.420 but as everything gets more and more expensive and people have, uh, don't have jobs that keep up

00:27:38.080 with the cost of living, credit card debt piles up as well. And it all adds to this picture of

00:27:43.780 misery and decline so much that, you know, even if Biden was 50 years old, uh, he, he'd probably

00:27:50.200 still lose to Trump. And you add in the senility and it's likely an insurmountable thing for him

00:27:56.540 politically. One of the thing about credit card debt, this is to me, one of the many, many

00:28:02.620 arguments against student loan forgiveness. You know, it's never made any sense. Uh, well,

00:28:08.600 I understand politically, I understand the political ploy, but it makes no moral sense

00:28:12.800 to treat student loan debt as this special thing that must be forgiven and to treat college graduates

00:28:21.020 as special victims deserving of this quote unquote forgiveness. When meanwhile, you've got trillions of

00:28:26.720 dollars in other kinds of debt, credit card debt, car loans, mortgages, trillions and trillions of

00:28:33.180 dollars. Um, and, and, and that debt impacts a far, far larger number of people. Um, and credit cards

00:28:44.060 and mortgages and car loans, these are not extravagant. It's not like a college loan where you're signing up

00:28:50.680 to purchase this useless university education for a six figure sum, like going to college for many

00:28:57.760 people. Going to college is automatically a reckless, ridiculous, unjustifiable decision. 0.97

00:29:04.600 Not for everybody who goes to college, but for a large number of people who go to college, it's, 1.00

00:29:08.000 it is, it's, it's a reckless and stupid thing to do. Buying a home to live in and a car to drive 0.99

00:29:14.080 and taking out a credit card. These are not in that category. These are just normal things people have

00:29:18.460 to do to live their lives. Um, so why in God's name would we expect the people who, who, who

00:29:28.100 collectively have trillions of dollars of debt themselves? Why would we expect them to chip in

00:29:35.040 to pay off the debt of college graduates? It just doesn't, it's never made any sense at all.

00:29:40.940 All right. Here's a fun story out of Illinois. Uh, we know of course that Illinois is, is renowned for,

00:29:47.300 uh, electing the absolute worst political leaders this country has ever seen. Barack Obama,

00:29:53.460 obviously being a prime example. Um, but in general, we must say that the voters in this state,

00:29:59.440 well, Democrat voters specifically, which is most of them, um, the voters in that state, frankly, 0.99

00:30:04.880 no offense to them are some of the dumbest people in the country. Uh, when you look at who they 0.99

00:30:10.020 choose to lead them, it's, it's just, it's remarkable. Um, and I think in general, we should

00:30:15.720 be shaming voters much more for the horrifically stupid decisions that they make. And, uh, we can 1.00

00:30:22.420 start here. So that brings us to this. Uh, this is, uh, a story about a mayor in a small town in the

00:30:30.140 state, um, who has herself in, found herself in some, some hot water in a, in a, in a scandal.

00:30:36.460 Um, here's a report on that. Watch. Y'all should be shamed of y'all. Y'all black. Y'all are black 1.00

00:30:43.220 and y'all sitting up here beating and attacking on a black woman that's in power. Y'all should 1.00

00:30:49.380 be shamed of y'all selves. Dalton's difficulties got worse in recent weeks with water main breaks

00:30:54.320 and your blames on trustee budget cuts. Then four people were shot and injured last week,

00:30:59.620 leaving nerves frayed and Henryard's opponents pointing out her sizable security detail.

00:31:05.700 It's unfortunate that politics are being played, but what has happened is a million dollars out of

00:31:11.360 my budget has been cut because of politics. Y'all forget I am the leader. They want to hear from

00:31:18.300 the mayor. If y'all ain't learned that yet, the mayor, not the trustees that don't do nothing,

00:31:24.380 that only run their mouth. Y'all don't do no work, no work. Tiffany Henyard considers herself

00:31:30.100 something of a crusader, but one who's clearly annoyed by questions from a rebellious group of

00:31:35.460 Dalton trustees who are in a standoff with her overspending. At the end of the day,

00:31:40.600 vendors are not being paid. Board approved it. The vendors are not being paid. How about you be a

00:31:45.920 leader, bring our peace to the forefront. So not just us, but the residents and everybody else in

00:31:51.480 America know how the money is being spent. WGN investigates has catalogued tens of thousands

00:31:56.740 of taxpayer dollars spent on trips, meals and more by Tiffany Henyard and her allies in Dalton

00:32:02.900 and on the Thornton Township Board, where she's the supervisor. Township credit card records show

00:32:08.980 Henyard and other officials spent more than $67,000 on trips to Portland, Austin, Atlanta and New York

00:32:15.300 Many of the flights were first class. So were the accommodations. In Atlanta, Henyard and her team

00:32:21.540 stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel, costing taxpayers more than $9,000. In New York, the bill came to

00:32:28.060 $13,000. Henyard has refused to explain the specific purpose of the trips or why they travel in such

00:32:35.340 style. Okay, so this is the mayor of a very small town. She's, I don't know if they mentioned in the

00:32:40.400 report, but she's paying herself a $300,000 salary. She's using tax money for extravagant 1.00

00:32:47.380 vacations. She has an expensive security detail for some reason. And this is the, a woman is the 1.00

00:32:53.800 mayor of a town of like five people or something. Maybe it might be a few, but I think it's like

00:32:57.140 20,000. So a few more than five, still a very small town. And yet she's paying herself a higher

00:33:02.400 salary than, than they give Supreme court justices. Okay. Um, but now she raises a good point. She

00:33:10.900 says, Hey, I'm a black woman in power. That's her whole argument. Uh, Mrs. Mayor, you're, you're 0.93

00:33:17.880 scamming taxpayers out of millions of dollars. Yeah. Well, I'm a black woman. All right. Okay. Never

00:33:23.660 mind. Well, if you mentioned that before, um, like I'm not going to harp on the point about the,

00:33:31.060 the dumb voters and you know, this is a very small town, so it's not that many voters, 0.68

00:33:35.160 but it's still very, it's quite symptomatic of, uh, the larger problem. It's like, why in God's name 1.00

00:33:43.200 would anyone vote for this person? How does that, even in a town of 20,000, how does that happen?

00:33:50.380 Openly corrupt. She has a, obviously a single digit IQ. It's like, it's not charismatic or 0.97

00:33:57.180 charming or something. And that's, and that's one of the things we're talking about are very

00:34:02.440 unimpressive leaders in this country. Um, it's one thing when you have a leader who's, uh, corrupt,

00:34:11.580 even incompetent, evil, you know, all, all that is bad, but if they're charismatic and intelligent

00:34:20.040 and, uh, and they're good at giving inspirational speeches and, and all that sort of thing,

00:34:25.320 then at least you understand how that sort of person, uh, manages to, to get into power.

00:34:32.760 Like you, you can understand historically that happens all the time. So it's not a mystery anyway.

00:34:37.620 You can look at that and you say, well, okay, yeah, that's how it happened. It shouldn't have

00:34:41.040 happened. I'm, I'm, uh, it's unfortunate that it did, but I understand intellectually. I can understand

00:34:45.520 that. Um, but for us, we just have these people who are, yeah, they're corrupt and evil. So they've 0.99

00:34:53.220 got, they check those boxes off and they're incompetent. Check that box, but they're on top

00:34:57.460 of it. They don't have anything else. There's no charisma. There's no, there's nothing empty.

00:35:02.760 These are just empty vessels. There's no way you could listen to these people speak for even two

00:35:09.260 minutes and be impressed. Like most of our politicians, you listen to them. No one's walking

00:35:13.700 away and say, well, that was impressive. I'm pretty impressed with that. No one, no one. And

00:35:17.820 they managed to assume power all over the country at every level. Um, and meanwhile, the, you know,

00:35:26.900 the mayor plays the race card absolutely brazenly. Of course, I did go check this based on what I found

00:35:32.140 on the census website, the city of Dalton is 92% black. So basically everybody in the whole town is

00:35:38.840 black. They've got like three white people in the entire town. And, uh, and yet the mayor still plays 0.91

00:35:43.680 the race card. Um, and I think it's because we don't fully grasp just the extent to which this

00:35:50.120 kind of thinking, this left-wing victim mentality, the, the victim pyramid that we've talked about and

00:35:55.140 gone through. I don't think we grasp the extent to which this is just fundamentally ingrained into the

00:36:00.540 minds of many people in this country. We treat it as a joke, but for someone like this mayor, it's,

00:36:06.720 it's not even a put on. She's, I don't think she's pretending. It's not an act. Her mind, her

00:36:12.480 consciousness is trained to perceive any pushback, any setback as automatically a product of racism.

00:36:21.340 Like, I don't even think she's capable of seeing it any other way. Um, for someone like her, racism

00:36:27.420 is as pervasive and as undeniable as gravity. It's just a force of nature that affects everything all

00:36:34.820 the time and you can't see it, but it's there. And that's how people have been trained to see the world.

00:36:40.560 All right. Um, the New York Post reports on a Hollywood actor who started counseling because

00:36:48.880 his movie got bad reviews. Here's what it says. He was eternally, he was eternally scarred eternally.

00:36:58.680 Okay. Well, it's a play on words. I see. Um, actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani had to seek

00:37:05.480 professional help after reading all the negative reviews of his Marvel film, Eternals.

00:37:11.000 The reviews were bad and I was too aware of it. Nanjiani 45 said on an appearance on a podcast.

00:37:16.360 Uh, it was really, really hard because Marvel thought the movie was going to be really,

00:37:20.080 really, really well reviewed. So they lifted the embargo early and put it in some fancy movie

00:37:25.700 festivals. And they sent us on a big global tour to promote the movie right as the embargo lifted.

00:37:30.520 Uh, he continued. I think there was some weird soup in the atmosphere for why that movie got slammed so

00:37:36.440 much. And I think not much of it has to do with the actual quality of the movie. It was really hard.

00:37:41.360 And that was when I thought it was unfair to me and unfair to my wife, Emily. And, uh, I can't approach

00:37:46.680 my work this way anymore. Some S has to change. So I started counseling. I still talk to my therapist

00:37:53.320 about that. So I guess this is another, uh, you know, this is a brother. I told you so moment.

00:37:59.680 Um, this is exactly the problem with therapy as I've tried to argue. And it's not that therapy is

00:38:06.160 always a bad thing. Okay. It's not that everyone who's in counseling right now is wasting their time

00:38:11.880 or doing more harm to themselves than good. It's, that's not the case for everybody. There are

00:38:17.700 exceptions. There are exceptions to this problem with therapy that I have described, but in many

00:38:23.860 cases, this is therapy. Now it's usually not Hollywood actors, but it's, although I'm sure

00:38:29.200 every Hollywood actor is in therapy, which probably tells you everything you need to know. We would

00:38:32.260 just assume the number of Hollywood actors in therapy, it's probably like 98% or something or

00:38:36.260 more. Um, but very often it's someone who has experienced a relatively minor setback.

00:38:43.700 You got bad reviews on your movie. Okay. Like it sucks. It's hard, but it's not a big deal.

00:38:51.300 So you had someone who's dealing with a relatively minor setback, someone who's just dealing with

00:38:55.420 normal human things, criticism, rejection, failure, normal human things, and then goes to therapy and

00:39:01.440 dwells on it and wallows in self-pity, makes it into a much bigger deal than it really is.

00:39:07.400 And, um, all of a sudden you start with a stubbed toe and next thing, you know, you're in therapy,

00:39:14.180 digging back into your past and complaining that your mom didn't pay enough attention to you when

00:39:18.600 you were a child or whatever. So when Kumail goes to the therapist and cries because his crappy movie

00:39:28.040 got bad reviews, what does the therapist say? And I don't know the therapist. Maybe it's actually

00:39:35.080 good therapist. Maybe the therapist says the right thing, but I suspect probably not because here's

00:39:39.020 what the therapist should say in that circumstance. Uh, the therapist should say, well, Kumail, people

00:39:46.020 didn't like your movie because it was bad. Uh, you're a grown man. You need to be able to deal with

00:39:51.080 criticism, get over yourself, stop pounding like a little baby and move on with your life. 1.00

00:39:58.260 And I swear to you, if you come back to me again, crying about bad reviews, I will punch you in the 1.00

00:40:02.840 throat. That's what I will do. That's what the therapist should say. Like words to that effect. 1.00

00:40:08.540 Okay. Their own variation of it, maybe leaving out the violent threat, but everything else,

00:40:14.300 uh, you could take or leave that part of it. Everything else. That's what the therapist,

00:40:16.900 that's the correct thing to say. Um, it's not to say, well, let's sit down and talk. Oh,

00:40:22.960 well, let's work through that. Oh, you're sad. Cause people didn't like the move. Let's work through

00:40:26.820 it. Let's work through that together. No, let's not work through it. I'm not, I'm not gonna work

00:40:29.900 through that with you. Get out of here with that. That's, that's not, it does not rise to

00:40:33.140 the level of a therapy session. You're wasting my time. You are wasting my time. Get the hell out

00:40:36.840 of my office. But the point is that there's, there's, there's nothing a therapist can or should

00:40:44.040 try to do for somebody like that because you do just need to get over it. You need to grow the hell

00:40:49.620 up and stop sobbing. That's it. And any, any attempt to unpack it, you know, to go back into the past 0.95

00:40:55.860 and understand the roots of, of his anguish, blah, blah, whatever. Anything you do like that,

00:41:04.660 it legitimizes his immaturity and his bratty overreaction to a relatively minor setback.

00:41:13.020 So when someone says, I want to talk for an hour about why my feelings are hurt because I got bad 0.56

00:41:20.260 reviews on a Hollywood, on my Hollywood film, a film that did in fact suck. You know, when someone

00:41:28.020 says that the, the appropriate answer is no, like that. And, and that's the thing with, with therapies

00:41:34.140 that people, it gives people an opportunity to dwell on, on, because they can pay someone to listen to

00:41:40.960 them. And if it wasn't for the therapist, for a lot of these problems that people have, nobody would

00:41:45.880 listen. But that's my point. It's like, nobody should listen to that. You just should not be

00:41:50.720 complaining about that. You really shouldn't. Um, who, without therapy, Kamal, who could he go to

00:41:59.080 to cry that his movie got bad reviews? You know, he could complain about it to his friends. He wouldn't

00:42:04.880 be able to sit for an hour and complain about it because everybody else in his life would say, dude,

00:42:09.740 I got bigger problems than this. Really? You're a millionaire actor. You made this movie that like,

00:42:14.440 let's be honest, wasn't great. People didn't like it. You want to mention it for 30 seconds. Fine.

00:42:21.140 I'll pat you on the head, but I'm not going to sit for an hour and listen to this, this self-indulgent, 0.99

00:42:26.780 whiny, self-pitying nonsense. That's what anyone else in his life would say. 0.98

00:42:34.160 And, but that's why, but that's why therapy exists. You know, people go to, not always,

00:42:39.160 people often go to therapy because they have these whiny, self-indulgent complaints that they know

00:42:43.940 they can't say to anyone else. Cause if they do, those other people will be too honest with them

00:42:48.260 or won't be interested because they shouldn't be interested because it's not that interesting.

00:42:54.800 And the only thing you can really do with those complaints is just get over it. There is no other

00:42:59.280 answer to give you. That's it. That's all you can do. What can you do about the fact that you're sad

00:43:04.740 that people didn't like the movie? All you can do is just get over it. There's no answer. Just get over

00:43:08.600 it. That's it. And if you won't get over it, then okay, then be miserable for the rest of your life.

00:43:12.300 That's your choice. One other thing I wanted to mention. This is kind of a, okay, well,

00:43:19.540 so I want to talk about this. This is a, I've had this for a few days and it's a headline. This is

00:43:24.800 from the blaze. An article came out a few days ago and the headline is sure. The left has Taylor

00:43:31.300 Swift, but we have cat turd. Now let me just say right off the bat, I've got nothing against the

00:43:39.380 blaze. I love the blaze. I used to work there. They're great. I like everyone there. Uh, they

00:43:43.380 do fantastic work. And as for cat turd, you know, he's, he's a conservative Twitter account. If you

00:43:49.420 didn't know, and many people don't, which is part of the problem here. Uh, but I got nothing against

00:43:53.840 him. It's a fine account. I don't follow the account, but it gets retweeted in my feet all the

00:43:57.000 time and it's fine. I got no issues there at all. With all that said, I disagree stridently with this

00:44:02.460 article. And, um, in fact, I think it captures so much of what is wrong with modern conservatism

00:44:08.800 these days. So let me just read a little bit of this. It's a bit of this article that is not meant

00:44:15.860 to be self-deprecating in any way. This is not satire. At first I thought it was, but I read the

00:44:20.780 headline. Oh, we don't need Taylor Swift. We have cat turd. I honestly thought at first it was a, I just

00:44:26.520 glanced at it. I thought it was a pretty funny Babylon B headline. It's not, it's a hundred

00:44:31.340 percent serious. So, uh, so, you know, the article begins talking for a while about Taylor Swift and

00:44:37.640 the NFL and the whole Swift Kelsey NFL storyline that people have been so fascinated by. And it's

00:44:42.880 all culminating in the Superbowl this weekend. And then the writer, uh, Albin Sadar gets to this.

00:44:48.120 He says, yes, the NFL has gone woke and the upcoming Superbowl is appealing to many in that

00:44:52.440 peculiar camp camp. I, for one, will be tuning out, but I'm sure things will work out for the best.

00:44:57.900 It will at least be an exciting, close enough game. And the result will wrap up a wonderful

00:45:01.500 season long narrative. So where are the stories from those on the right? Why are we always playing

00:45:08.000 defense? Where is our offense? Okay. So far, so good. Those are good questions. Where are our stories?

00:45:15.120 People can complain about Taylor Swift and the NFL all they want, but the simple fact of the matter is

00:45:19.940 that these are stories and these are people that captivate the public. Public loves the NFL. A lot

00:45:27.160 of people in public love Taylor Swift. Um, I don't like Taylor. It doesn't matter. People are interested

00:45:32.640 in this. So we can complain about that on and on and on. But what do we have? Like we could say to

00:45:40.640 the public, Oh, don't pay attention to that. That's stupid. That don't pay. But what else are we giving 1.00

00:45:44.940 them to pay attention to instead? What are we saying? Oh no, that's dumb. Here's something great.

00:45:49.940 Right. You don't need that for entertainment. You don't need to pay. We got this. This is so much

00:45:53.600 better. So where is that? And that's the, um, question that, that the writers ask. It's a good

00:46:00.680 question. The problem is that he settles on cat turd, the Twitter account. Um, we have a Twitter

00:46:07.260 account named after feline fecal matter that trolls the left and it's so much better than Taylor Swift.

00:46:12.920 Uh, so he continues. Recently, I watched Tucker Carlson interview the internet sensation on X who

00:46:19.240 goes by the moniker cat turd. Cat turd, of course, is not his real name like William or Mike or Carl

00:46:23.660 cat turd. Nonetheless, he has an interesting story about how he went from being a drug using tie dye

00:46:28.020 wearing honest to goodness hippie to championing the common sense viewpoint on the right.

00:46:33.060 What happened? While working construction, cat turd and his builder buddies would listen to Rush

00:46:37.180 Limbaugh on the radio because he overwhelmingly agreed with Rush and his arguments against left

00:46:40.960 cat turd soon became, became, uh, came to realize that he himself was a conservative.

00:46:45.380 Cat turd decided to start tweeting his own opinions and before long found himself internet famous.

00:46:50.160 His tweets even got under the skin of the high and mighty, such as former U S representative Adam

00:46:54.340 Kinzinger. Uh, now why would a relatively small player in the culture wars be used here as an example

00:46:59.740 of pushback against the Taylor Swift's of the world? Yes. Why? Well, he says,

00:47:04.320 I think it comes down to what's going on behind the scenes. The left controls all the big messaging

00:47:07.800 outlets known as the mainstream media, but the right seems to have a whole army of rabble rousers

00:47:11.520 behind the scenes in social media. In political days of your Nixon in the 1970s, the term silent

00:47:16.400 majority referred to the folks who were a strong, powerful, motivating force in the culture,

00:47:20.760 but did not have a media megaphone. Something very similar is stirring today. Bold, outspoken champions

00:47:26.140 on the right may have been shoved to the sidelines, but add to their continued influence rising stars

00:47:31.200 like Charlie Kirk and Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas. Let's just say that America's personal 2024 Super

00:47:37.360 Bowl, this year's presidential election is far from played out. Be encouraged. Our movement is

00:47:40.760 grassroots and we can build on the conservative clawing and scratching of a guy named Cat Turd.

00:47:47.120 Anything is possible. Okay. So just a few problems here. First to state the obvious, comparing Cat

00:47:54.800 Turd's influence on the culture to Taylor Swift is like comparing the light emitted by a desk lamp

00:48:00.540 to the sun. I mean, these are two things that exist on such a vastly, on such vastly different

00:48:07.600 planes. Okay. These are such vastly different planes of existence that the comparison is incoherent. I

00:48:13.680 mean, it's like saying, it's like going into a cave with a, with a dying flashlight and saying,

00:48:19.200 we don't need the sun. We got this thing. Who needs the sun when you got this?

00:48:24.920 And this is obviously the case, no matter how you feel about Taylor Swift.

00:48:27.640 But there's the other thing we have to be able to do as conservatives. We have to be able to like

00:48:31.020 analyze these things, even when they involve people we don't like. Um, you don't have to like it. I

00:48:37.620 don't care if you like it or not. It's just an objective question about cultural power and influence.

00:48:42.940 And as far as that goes, Taylor Swift is selling out stadiums worldwide and Cat Turd, uh, would,

00:48:49.080 you know, I would be surprised if he could fill a conference room, you know, at the Cincinnati

00:48:57.720 Marriott, um, which is not a knock against him. It's not as a right wing Twitter fame is,

00:49:03.660 is a very narrow, narrow lane to be in. Um, and what this all sort of papers over is that we have a

00:49:11.760 real problem on the right. Our problem is that, is that we don't have a Taylor Swift. Um, we don't

00:49:18.180 have anyone close to her. Like our Taylor Swift is not Cat Turd. Okay. It's not anybody. All of the

00:49:24.560 cultural figures who are closest to Taylor Swift in terms of relevance and impact on the culture

00:49:29.460 are all also on the left. And most of them are even further to the left than she is.

00:49:34.480 And these are the people who are making culture. So on the right, for the most part, historically,

00:49:40.660 we've been the cultural commentators. So the left makes the culture and then we comment on it.

00:49:48.200 We are commenting on the things that they are making and doing, but commenting on culture will

00:49:52.520 never move people and never influence people and never inspire and drive people the way that the

00:49:59.120 culture itself will obviously. Now this is something that we want to, as you know, change at the daily

00:50:06.000 wire. Uh, and we are, we are working on that. Uh, it's, it's hard. It's extremely hard. You know,

00:50:14.620 it's a very hard thing to do. You got everything stacked against you. If you want to go, when you've

00:50:20.260 had this dynamic for so many decades of the left makes culture, we comment on it to then say, you know

00:50:25.200 what? We want to get in the culture making business. It's a very hard thing to do. And

00:50:29.100 and, uh, it's a long haul, you know, and it's difficult. And we are very, very far away from

00:50:36.360 Taylor Swift at this point. That's just the reality of the situation. You have to be honest about it,

00:50:40.700 deluding ourselves about it, telling ourselves that we don't need to make culture and we don't

00:50:45.420 need to tell interesting stories and we don't need to be truly influential because we have

00:50:50.520 conservative Twitter accounts is just an insane level of self-delusion. And these stories, you know,

00:50:57.660 he says, well, this is a fascinating story. It's a story about how a construction worker decided to

00:51:03.780 start a Twitter account and complain about Biden. It's like, that's not a fascinating, that's not a

00:51:08.680 fascinating story. I'm sorry. It's just not, that's not, that's not a story that's going to grab people

00:51:13.940 by their hearts and, and, and speak to them at a deep visceral level. And, and, and, and they're

00:51:20.540 going to find fascinating. It's just not. And, uh, 95% of the time when those stories are being told,

00:51:27.820 it's, it's being told by the left that again, it's just the reality. There's nothing wrong with

00:51:33.220 commentary. It's what I do for a living. Uh, it's what I'm doing at this very moment. I'm making

00:51:38.380 commentary about commentary. I understand the, uh, I understand the, the, the inception levels of

00:51:44.140 that we're dealing with here, but, uh, I just want to be start with, uh, with honesty and we can't lie

00:51:50.280 to ourselves and tell ourselves that cultural commentary is a sufficient replacement for

00:51:54.900 cultural creation. And, and, you know, honestly, even the commentary, you know, not all cultural

00:52:01.520 commentary is made equal. Uh, commentary can be important. I certainly hope so. I wouldn't do it

00:52:07.100 for a living if it wasn't, but even a lot of the commentary on the right barely rises to the level

00:52:12.560 of actual commentary because to do commentary is to offer insight analysis. It's to have a unique

00:52:18.300 perspective saying interesting things about what's happening that that's commentary. And then again,

00:52:23.740 it has, it has a place. It has value, but a lot of what we call commentary on the right is really

00:52:30.420 just sort of this banal, bland regurgitation. It's this stuff that's carefully calibrated to repeat

00:52:37.660 back to the audience, what it already thinks. And, uh, there's really no attempt to say anything

00:52:43.540 interesting at all, or to take any chances at all. Another problem that conservatives have,

00:52:48.440 it's some of that is just ingrained, you know, we're conservative. That's why we call ourselves

00:52:51.500 conservative. So taking risks, you know, to, to, to actually make interesting art. You know,

00:52:56.120 if you want to get into the culture making business, you got to take risks. It requires,

00:52:59.400 it requires a willingness to take risks. Conservatives historically are not the best at that.

00:53:05.980 And then you find that even with the commentary, so much of the conservative commentary, it's like,

00:53:10.640 it's like, it's the, so it's as safe as could be. It's like, this is the lane you're supposed to be

00:53:14.900 in. These are the topics you're supposed to talk about. These are the things you're supposed to say.

00:53:19.040 And for a large number, though, not all of the conservative commentators, they just stay right

00:53:23.940 in that lane, you know, uh, never venturing outside of it because that's a risk. So those are all

00:53:29.720 things we need to be honest about and we need to, and we need to change. Uh, so that maybe one day

00:53:34.920 down the line, we can say, you know, we don't need Taylor Swift. We have fill in the blank. Um,

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00:55:20.420 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. 0.99

00:55:24.020 Well, as we know, a lot of stupidity and filth goes viral on TikTok every day, but every once 0.98

00:55:33.140 in a while, something wholesome and inspirational manages to climb its way out of the muck and gain 0.99

00:55:38.020 some traction on the platform. Only problem is that much of the time, even the wholesome stuff

00:55:42.860 ends up being much darker than it seems. So case in point, last week, a TikTok influencer recorded

00:55:48.200 herself helping a homeless man who stopped her and asked for some tea. So she gave him a little

00:55:54.000 lot more than tea. She took him for medicine. She'd get him some food. She eventually paid for a

00:55:58.720 hotel room that he could stay in. And this video has been viewed millions of times now. People are

00:56:02.840 very, uh, very, uh, very inspired by it. Here's a snippet of it.

00:56:08.680 Huh?

00:56:09.120 Some tea.

00:56:10.320 Tea?

00:56:11.120 Tea.

00:56:11.960 Some hot tea.

00:56:12.800 Some hot tea?

00:56:13.840 Yeah. 1.00

00:56:14.540 Damn. 1.00

00:56:15.760 From where? 0.99

00:56:16.800 I'm walking to Trey Joe's. You want to walk with me?

00:56:18.900 Trey Joe's?

00:56:19.600 Yeah.

00:56:19.920 Oh, yeah?

00:56:20.560 Yeah.

00:56:21.120 And we can stop by Starbucks or something.

00:56:23.180 Say hi to my TikTok.

00:56:24.000 All right. So we about to go to CVS real quick. So we in here. He's about to, uh, show me where

00:56:32.120 he gotta go. Cause he said he's in pain. So he just got insurance yesterday, but it takes

00:56:39.480 45 days for his insurance to be active. So I told him, like, I'm just gonna pay for it.

00:56:45.700 So he got his medication. Do you recognize this one? I think this is the one you're supposed

00:56:51.880 to have. I'm gonna ask him. So we have Starbucks now. Um, what size do you want? Do you want

00:56:58.600 like a, a small one? Okay. Can I get a grande green tea, please? Okay. Here's your green tea.

00:57:09.380 Do you want some napkins?

00:57:10.600 So the CVS we were just at only had one of the medications, but the one he really needs,

00:57:17.020 they don't have it. And he's in pain. He really cannot walk with me. So I told him, like,

00:57:21.500 stay here. I'm gonna walk to the other CVS and I'm gonna see if they got it.

00:57:26.140 So I made it to the other CVS and the guy was so nice. He gave us a heavy discount. He was like,

00:57:32.540 I applied a good discount. And then I'm waiting for his prescription to get revealed. So I gotta

00:57:38.280 sit here and wait. Guys, I'm so happy they had his medicine.

00:57:42.280 Okay. So she gets the medicine, brings it to him, uh, rents him a hotel room, all very nice,

00:57:45.940 very generous. Um, now of course I always have to be that guy. So I do feel compelled to point out

00:57:52.940 that the purest and most meaningful kind of charity is the kind that you just do for somebody

00:57:57.380 without extensively documenting your generosity and posting it on social media. Right.

00:58:03.160 And you think about the process that goes into making a video like this,

00:58:05.560 you have to, you have to video, you have to film every step of the way and then sit down

00:58:10.740 and edit it and everything. Um, so my ability to be inspired by charitable actions that go viral

00:58:16.360 on the internet is always somewhat hampered by the fact that they usually go viral because the

00:58:20.200 person who did the charitable thing has made sure to alert the world to the fact. Like when you go to

00:58:24.780 the world and say, Hey world, check out this great thing I did for this person. Check it out. Look at

00:58:28.720 this. So maybe this woman would have done all that, even if she didn't have a TikTok account and 1.00

00:58:32.740 wasn't filming it, but unfortunately we know that wholesome content is a lucrative category of

00:58:37.880 content on TikTok and elsewhere. And for a lot of people who post that kind of content, it is only

00:58:42.440 content. They're doing it because it is content. Now, I don't know if that's the case for this woman. 1.00

00:58:46.740 Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume optimistically that it isn't. Let's assume that

00:58:50.780 the content was a secondary concern and she was really just primarily concerned with helping her

00:58:54.380 fellow man. Let's assume that she does this all the time for people and she just happened to 1.00

00:58:57.860 film it this one time. Maybe that's true. Let's just assume that it is. Well, sadly, even with

00:59:04.760 that assumption, this story does not have a happy ending. A GoFundMe was started for the homeless guy

00:59:09.920 who we now know is named Alonzo Douglas Hebron and it raised over $400,000 in the span of a few days.

00:59:18.060 So this man was well on his way to becoming a millionaire, but then the other shoe, as it so often

00:59:24.240 does, dropped. Watch. New questions tonight about a GoFundMe page that has raised hundreds of

00:59:30.980 thousands of dollars for a man who's experiencing homelessness in D.C. The main question, what

00:59:36.440 happens to all that money if it's determined that he is a danger to the community? Fox 5's Bob

00:59:41.260 Barnard live in Northwest now to try and help us sort this all out. Hi, Bob.

00:59:46.980 Hey there, Marina. D.C. police say Alonzo, the homeless man seen in that TikTok video,

00:59:51.820 is the same man who attacked a woman four years ago outside this church here. D.C. police say Alonzo

00:59:57.960 Hebron walked up to that woman sleeping outside the church, both of them homeless, put a scarf over

01:00:03.180 her head and, you see, repeatedly punched her. He was charged in the case. As far as we know,

01:00:08.380 most recently was in a halfway house last summer. He escaped, was brought back by U.S. Marshals.

01:00:14.180 He's now obviously back out on the streets. Here now the victim of that attack and people reacting

01:00:19.740 to the dilemma, what now to do about all that money? I'm speechless. I do not understand how

01:00:25.760 a human being can act like this. He's a sociopath. He does not have a sense of remorse. 1.00

01:00:34.000 So this poor homeless man who just wanted some tea only four years ago, apparently,

01:00:38.220 barbarically assaulted a random woman while she was sleeping. And for those listening to the audio

01:00:42.600 podcast, you should know this was a vicious, brutal assault. It's on video, you can see it. And

01:00:47.740 he pummels this defenseless woman over and over again in the head. And this was just his most 0.77

01:00:52.200 recent assault. A few years before that, he stabbed somebody in the neck with a screwdriver

01:00:55.680 and he has multiple other assaults and violent crimes on his rap sheet. So he should not have

01:01:00.260 been on the streets at all, clearly. He should have been drinking his tea behind bars. You know,

01:01:03.560 he needs a jail cell, not a hotel room. He's a danger to the community. Certainly the last thing he

01:01:09.400 needs is $400,000 from GoFundMe. So it's a good thing that they didn't release the money and I hope that

01:01:13.920 they don't. But, you know, this is very often what GoFundMe is all about. Of course, these

01:01:18.680 crowdfunding sites are used for worthy causes all the time, but they're also places where a bunch

01:01:22.880 of strangers can get swept up in the emotions of the latest viral charity case. It's a way for people

01:01:28.160 to make themselves feel good, you know, feel like philanthropists for donating a few dollars to

01:01:32.800 someone who for all they know is not remotely deserving of the money and who for all they know

01:01:37.820 may be more hurt by it than helped. Yes, it may be well-meaning. Yes, you're trying to help.

01:01:45.460 Yes, there are certainly worse ways you could waste your $15 GoFundMe contribution, but there are

01:01:50.540 people around you in your actual life, your family, friends, community members who could use that help.

01:01:56.320 So just tossing money at some stranger you know absolutely nothing about with no clue how the 0.99

01:02:02.440 money will be spent is foolish. It's especially foolish when the random person is homeless, okay? 0.96

01:02:08.240 This is the part that people struggle with the most. Every time that I get a little real about

01:02:14.680 the homeless problem and about the types of people who generally end up homeless, I'm accused of being

01:02:19.060 cruel and uncaring and mean and everything else. But unfortunately, my point is proven time and time

01:02:24.520 again. Now, sure, there are decent, sane, normal, good, hardworking people who fall in hard times,

01:02:30.140 end up in desperate situations, and wind up on the street. That does happen. But it is rare.

01:02:35.720 It is very rare. Most of the time, in most cases, people are homeless for a reason. There's a reason

01:02:44.280 why they are homeless. And the reason is that they are some combination of utterly dysfunctional,

01:02:49.700 self-destructive, insane, and drug-addicted. And many who fall into that category also happen to be

01:02:54.680 dangerous criminals. In fact, watching that video, when you go, the original TikTok video,

01:03:00.380 you see this woman in the hotel room with the guy setting him up in the hotel room that she rented

01:03:06.760 for him. And even though I know that it worked out because the video was posted, I'm still cringing

01:03:12.120 watching that. Like, this is incredibly dangerous. You went in with this man, this homeless man,

01:03:18.400 into a hotel room? I mean, this is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. She is lucky that she's still

01:03:23.480 alive. And if you have any concept of what homelessness is and who most of these people

01:03:30.920 are, you would never do that. So if you're giving $400,000 to a random homeless guy, the chances that

01:03:38.260 you're throwing money at a crazy, violent drifter is pretty high. And even if he isn't crazy and or 0.86

01:03:45.340 isn't violent, it's still going to be a disastrously bad idea in nearly every case to give large sums of

01:03:51.700 money to a homeless person. As I've tried to explain many times, most of these people aren't

01:03:55.420 homeless simply because they have no money and they have no home. And anytime I say that,

01:04:00.400 there's always the idiots who laugh. What do you mean? What do you mean? They're not homeless 1.00

01:04:04.580 because they don't have a home. That's the definition of homeless. No, you morons. Give

01:04:08.540 them money and a home and they'll be homeless again 15 minutes later. Do you understand that?

01:04:13.480 So that clearly shows that the problem is not simply they don't have money. Give them money.

01:04:17.260 Most of these people on the street have been given lots of money. Depending on where they are,

01:04:22.920 panhandling is lucrative. Many of them make more money than people that work minimum wage and have

01:04:28.060 been living in apartments. You can make hundreds of dollars a day doing that. Where does the money go?

01:04:34.760 Where does it go? Does it the magical money fairy come and take it? No, they spend it on drugs is what 0.95

01:04:39.720 they do. That's why they're still homeless. They're not stashing it away and hanging on to it.

01:04:47.080 Of all the homeless people, how many of them have a stash somewhere of money that they're keeping and

01:04:51.900 they're saving so they can start a bank account or they can get a hotel room at least? How many do

01:04:59.700 you think? Almost none. And even the most rudimentary understanding of human nature makes

01:05:05.720 all of this obvious. But many people today, despite being humans and having a nature,

01:05:10.700 still somehow have little understanding of human nature. They don't get it. I don't understand how

01:05:14.700 you could not get it. They've been indoctrinated into a deluded cartoonish view of the human

01:05:19.900 condition. It's a view that lacks the basic intuitiveness that you would expect any member

01:05:25.360 of the human species to have about their own species. But this is what modern society has become,

01:05:31.220 which is why all those GoFundMe donors are somehow surprised to learn that the guy who was living on

01:05:37.640 the streets and who they tried to suddenly put into the top 5% of all income earners is actually a

01:05:43.680 dangerous predator. That should not be a surprise twist ending. That should not surprise you.

01:05:49.900 But it does. And that's why everybody involved in this ill-fated fundraiser is today canceled.

01:05:59.820 That'll do it for the show today and this week. Thanks for watching. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 09, 2024

Ep. 1312 - Biden's DOJ Declares Him Mentally Incompetent And Unfit For Office

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