The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1313 - The Reparations Grift Is Finally Collapsing

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the slavery reparations grift was gaining momentum for a while after

00:00:04.540 George Floyd's overdose. But now the whole thing is collapsing. In fact, the race hustle scam in 0.90

00:00:08.460 general seems to be falling apart across the country. We'll discuss. Also, Biden couldn't

00:00:11.960 sit for an interview before the Super Bowl because he's a mentally handicapped vegetable. 1.00

00:00:15.580 But he did put out a video complaining that there aren't enough chips in his chip bag. 0.98

00:00:19.680 And trans activist in Florida stage a die-in. What is that? And what are they crying about

00:00:23.340 this time? We'll find out. Finally, a Christian organization spends tens of millions of dollars

00:00:27.460 on a Super Bowl ad that is sure to do a lot more harm than good. We'll talk about all that

00:00:32.000 and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:50.720 cell phone company, Pure Talk. Until recently, it was hard to think of a post-George Floyd

00:01:55.700 innovation that failed more quickly or more spectacularly than the defund the police movement.

00:02:01.840 As homicide rates ballooned by more than 30%, cities like Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphia,

00:02:07.360 Minneapolis, New York, Austin, Oakland reinstated funds for police departments. They had all made a

00:02:12.580 big show of cutting police funding, only to realize that, in fact, police actually serve a purpose.

00:02:16.860 Imagine that. And then there were the stories of various politicians, including congressmen,

00:02:20.780 who called for defunding the police only to demand police protection when they needed it for

00:02:24.720 themselves. So the whole idea of defunding the police was a BLM-inspired debacle that seemed

00:02:30.380 pretty hard to top. But now there's a contender, as hard as that might be to imagine. It was less

00:02:35.340 than a year ago that a so-called reparations task force in California announced a plan to pay $1.2

00:02:42.060 million to every descendant of a slave or of a, quote, free black person living in the U.S.

00:02:47.400 prior to the end of the 19th century. And all that proposal would cost something like $800 billion

00:02:52.680 to implement, which is more than double California's entire state budget. But nevertheless,

00:02:58.480 there was optimism that this would actually happen. After all, this task force had spent around two

00:03:03.840 years crafting this proposal. So they were pretty confident that they could see it through. Watch.

00:03:09.920 The task force is recommending payments of up to $1.2 million for any African-American over 70 that

00:03:17.380 can trace their ancestry to enslaved people, compensating them for what it describes as harm

00:03:22.540 to their health, mass incarceration, over-policing, and housing discrimination.

00:03:27.420 Land was stolen from many, as in my husband's case. My husband has the deeds to these properties,

00:03:33.020 that state. This land belongs to my descendants forever and ever.

00:03:37.280 Several descendants told their stories in a public forum. Task force member Joven Scott Lewis insists

00:03:43.100 reparations are not payouts. We are returning monies taken, returning monies stolen, returning

00:03:52.040 the monies that had been lost based upon the kinds of dispossession and disenfranchisement.

00:03:59.960 So they say they're not taking the money from taxpayers and redistributing it. They claim

00:04:03.760 that they are returning stolen money, even though the taxpayers that they're taking the money back

00:04:09.020 from didn't steal it in the first place. And the people they're giving it to never had anything taken

00:04:14.160 from them personally. But that's what they're saying. Imagine applying this logic, of course,

00:04:17.920 to all of the Europeans who were sold as slaves in North Africa. Or how about all the white people 0.78

00:04:22.560 who are killed by black people every year in the United States, which is a vastly disproportionate 0.99

00:04:26.620 number. Are all of the descendants of these white victims entitled to reparations from all black 1.00

00:04:31.560 people as well? Now, proponents of reparations never had a good answer to that question or any

00:04:36.840 question. They couldn't answer anything at all, in fact, including how they were going to pay for

00:04:41.620 all this. So fast forward a few months, and it turns out that the descendants of slaves will not be

00:04:47.280 getting any money in California. The whole idea became so overwhelmingly unpopular in California

00:04:52.600 that even Gavin Newsom, who never misses a chance to genuflect before the BLM altar, 0.93

00:04:57.540 wasn't a fan. So after considering the proposals of the reparation task force, California lawmakers

00:05:03.420 recently introduced a series of 14 bills and cash payouts to the descendants of slaves are not

00:05:09.880 included in any of the bills that are supposedly related to reparations. And yet they're still calling

00:05:16.360 these bills reparations anyway. Watch.

00:05:19.380 Well, right off the top, here's what the just announced reparations bills do not include direct

00:05:25.500 cash payments for descendants of the enslaved, as lawmakers behind the proposals insist reparations

00:05:30.780 are about much more than just this. This is a defining moment, a defining moment, says Senator

00:05:36.800 Steven Bradford, just after he and his colleagues in the Legislative Black Caucus formally introduced

00:05:41.560 more than a dozen bills they say will lead to the start of reparations for California descendants

00:05:46.420 of enslaved black Americans. We say we value reparations and wanting to heal the harms of slavery in

00:05:54.500 this country and in a state. We have to make this a priority. It comes less than a year after the

00:06:00.100 California reparations task force submitted this 1000 plus page recommendations report to the governor

00:06:05.700 and legislature. In total, it featured 112 recommendations about how reparations could work in California,

00:06:12.180 a state Bradford acknowledges was never formally a slave state, but one he says enacted policies since

00:06:17.540 its founding in 1850 negatively impacting black Californians to this day. Other bills introduced

00:06:23.060 include one to fund career education financial aid for redlined communities, another to prohibit

00:06:28.020 discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles and all competitive sports within California,

00:06:33.620 and one to restrict solitary confinement in California state prisons, but not included in any of the

00:06:39.060 proposals, direct cash payments. Well, it's a little embarrassing. Hopefully no descendants of

00:06:45.060 slaves went out and spent a million dollars in the past couple of months thinking that they'd get

00:06:48.820 reimbursed because it turns out that's not happening. Instead, they're getting rid of solitary confinement

00:06:53.860 and they are prohibiting discrimination based on hairstyles. That's what they're calling reparations,

00:07:00.100 a bit of a step down, you might say. Now, as you'd expect, the most reprehensible anti-white racists 0.99

00:07:05.940 in the country were deeply disturbed by this news. Semi-prominent race baiter Tariq Nasheed 0.93

00:07:10.660 was especially furious. He wrote, quote, this package does not include any cash payments to

00:07:15.220 foundational black Americans at all. It's a 111 page nothing burger dipped in nothing sauce. 0.96

00:07:21.780 And that's true for the most part. And it's not often that this guy says anything true,

00:07:25.140 but he does in this case. Still buried in these 14 proposals are a few very bad and unconstitutional

00:07:31.380 ideas. So Tariq Nasheed is getting some bad ideas out of this. He loves bad ideas. He's

00:07:35.620 going to get a few, so hopefully it makes him feel a little bit better. They'll be re-implementing

00:07:39.700 affirmative action, other race-based initiatives as well. And one California assemblyman who supports

00:07:45.620 these bills, Corey Jackson, actually wants to amend California's constitution to permit laws that

00:07:51.300 would, quote, increase the life expectancy of, improve educational outcomes for, or lift out of

00:07:56.820 poverty, specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized genders,

00:08:02.980 sexes, or sexual orientations. In other words, he wants to be able to pass laws that would only help 0.94

00:08:09.060 non-whites, which currently would violate both the California and U.S. constitutions, of course.

00:08:16.020 That's what they're focusing on in California, a state that has no shortage of real problems,

00:08:20.660 but they desperately want to turn the state into Rwanda and accelerate its decline even further.

00:08:26.020 At the same time, it's very clear that they're not going to get everything they want. They are

00:08:33.860 failing, these grifters are. The reparations grift is collapsing. And that's because the reparations

00:08:39.860 grift and the whole race hustle scam as a whole depends on instilling and maintaining a deep sense 0.99

00:08:46.580 of guilt in white people. But you just cannot keep an entire race of people crippled by undeserved guilt

00:08:54.500 over ancient history forever. It just, it doesn't work psychologically. Eventually,

00:09:00.180 that guilt turns into exhaustion, and the exhaustion turns into resentment, or at best, indifference.

00:09:07.380 And that's when the scam blows back on the scam artists. We're seeing that happen more and more,

00:09:12.980 actually. For example, I recently tweeted a statement that's completely uncontroversial to

00:09:17.620 anybody with a baseline understanding of world history. Here's what I wrote.

00:09:20.500 Quote, just a few days ago, I tweeted this quote. Slavery is world history. White people did not 0.98

00:09:25.620 invent it and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place

00:09:29.540 in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn't fully legally abolished on the continent

00:09:34.580 until 1981. Now, most people reacting to that post were agreeing with it because it's obviously true. 0.99

00:09:42.100 Slavery was an unquestioned fact of life across the entire world for thousands of years. In fact,

00:09:47.860 for thousands of years, nobody even thought to question the institution like the most enlightened

00:09:53.860 minds in the world for thousands of years. They might have suggested that slaves should be treated

00:09:59.220 humanely in some circumstances, but nobody rejected slavery fundamentally as a concept.

00:10:05.620 This was the case again, everywhere among all people for millennia. White Europeans were the 1.00

00:10:12.500 first ones to argue that slavery as an institution should not exist at all, and that the slaves

00:10:20.100 themselves have the right, have a human right to be free. So, you know, the unique relationship

00:10:27.140 between slavery and Europeans is that Europeans are the first ones who figured out that it's wrong.

00:10:33.460 That's just a fact. It can't be denied. If I should be blamed for slavery because,

00:10:38.500 you know, white people participated in it, which they did, then I should also be thanked

00:10:44.100 because white people abolished it. So where's my thank you note is what I'm asking.

00:10:49.220 This is all kinds of kind of obvious to anybody with, again, a rudimentary understanding of history,

00:10:53.380 which explains one of the prominent dissenters to my tweet who has no understanding of history at all.

00:10:58.980 Henry Rogers, aka Ibram X. Kendi, was upset about this. And here's what he wrote in response to me.

00:11:04.500 He said, quote, the ultimate white savior statement. That's what he said. It's obviously a meaningless

00:11:12.100 reply. But since Henry Rogers is supposedly a serious academic and supposedly not just a fraudster,

00:11:18.580 I figured I'd follow up with him. And I asked Rogers if he'd like to have a live,

00:11:23.460 on-camera conversation about this issue. And if you didn't know any better, you would think that

00:11:29.620 he would jump at that chance. After all, he's an academic. He has a PhD. I'm just a podcaster with

00:11:35.620 a high school diploma. So he could easily school me in a debate about history, couldn't he? I mean,

00:11:40.660 surely he'll jump at that chance, right? Wrong. Kendi replied to my challenge two days later. It took him

00:11:47.860 two days to think about it, think about what his answer would be. And here's what he said.

00:11:53.060 Many historians have already explained why your statements about slavery are wrong.

00:11:56.900 It would be a huge waste of my time repeating what has already been shared with you.

00:12:01.620 Well, there you have it. He doesn't have to debate me because many historians have already said that

00:12:06.020 he's right. The historians already agree with him. So what is there to debate? Who are these historians?

00:12:12.820 Well, don't worry about that. There's many of them. That's all that matters. Don't worry about

00:12:17.140 who they are. It's just, there's many. Who are they? They are many. They are legion.

00:12:22.180 And why should their opinion preclude us from having a conversation on the topic?

00:12:26.900 Well, don't worry about that either. In any case, the reaction to that conversation

00:12:31.460 between me and Ibram X. Kendi was overwhelmingly hostile to Ibram X. Kendi. Everybody recognized exactly

00:12:39.140 what's going on. This esteemed anti-racist academic who runs an entire anti-racist center at a major

00:12:44.740 university and who managed to burn through $40 million in grant money in just a couple of years

00:12:49.780 can't allow his claims to be subjected to any scrutiny. Even scrutiny from a high school educated

00:12:54.820 podcaster can't do it because he's an intellectual lightweight and his ideas are as hollow and weak as

00:13:00.420 he is. That's yet another sign that the anti-racist reparations grift is collapsing.

00:13:06.900 And so is this footage from UCSF, which is supposedly one of the leading universities

00:13:11.300 and hospitals in the United States. They rang in Black History Month this year by inviting 0.86

00:13:15.300 a black supremacist named Dante King to campus. And here's what he had to say. Watch.

00:13:19.940 Whites are psychopaths and their behavior represents an underlying biologically transmitted 1.00

00:13:26.500 proclivity with roots deep in their evolutionary history. How can, how many of you could see the 1.00

00:13:33.060 proclivity that evolved deep within the evolutionary history of whiteness by show of hands? How many of 0.86

00:13:37.940 you could see it? Some people are sitting here. Oh no, I don't want to raise my hand. That's called denial.

00:13:43.620 No, that's called, that was the dumbest you've ever heard. And that's why they didn't raise their 0.99

00:13:49.620 hand. That's, that's, that's what that was all about. Now he goes on like that for a while. Uh,

00:13:54.340 you hear a lot about genocidal rhetoric from the left, but this is actual genocidal rhetoric. 0.99

00:14:00.100 He's saying white people are psychopaths and this is being said on a college campus. And like, 0.99

00:14:05.700 it goes without saying, I'll say it anyway, that if, if anything, if it, if it went the other way and 0.99

00:14:12.420 there was a white speaker up there saying, you know, black people are psychopaths, 0.98

00:14:15.940 that person would probably be arrested. I mean, they'd be banned from campus forever, 0.99

00:14:19.060 but they would probably actually be arrested for saying that because it would be considered a hate

00:14:23.300 crime. Uh, and yet this is what you get, you get from a speaker on a college campus.

00:14:29.940 You know, and this is someone lecturing at an institution that trains doctors and treats patients.

00:14:35.620 And that, that can't make white patients at UCSF very comfortable to hear that.

00:14:40.980 If you're not familiar with King, by the way, you should know that he offers an eight week

00:14:43.940 course on diagnosing whiteness. So if you want to hear more about this, you can take the course. 0.73

00:14:48.500 Uh, it will cost you $1,200 though. That's not clear how much UCSF paid for this lecture.

00:14:54.500 They're a public university. So presumably they use tax money to pay for it, however much it was.

00:14:59.140 And this is the reality of living in California these days. Even if the reparations bill fails,

00:15:02.660 public institutions will find ways to take your money to spread anti-white race hate.

00:15:06.820 But you could tell from the response to this footage, which went viral immediately,

00:15:10.660 that people are fed up with this propaganda. Just like the FAA footage I aired on this show last

00:15:15.940 week, someone on the inside had to draw attention to this video, which they did. Uh, and there are

00:15:21.860 whistleblowers who are tired of these race hustlers. The more the race scam collapses, the more 0.72

00:15:27.540 whistleblowers will come forward. The only remaining support for race propaganda really comes from, 0.51

00:15:33.300 comes from an important place though, which is all of the largest corporations in the country.

00:15:38.900 They're still committed to forcing this on us. So if you're watching the Super Bowl last night,

00:15:43.220 especially the pregame, uh, you would have noticed that the NFL invited a woman to sing what's known as

00:15:48.020 the black national anthem, which of course is a contradiction in terms. There is no black national

00:15:52.980 anthem. There is no white national anthem. There is one national anthem. It's for the nation. 0.58

00:15:58.180 Any country that has multiple national anthems for different demographic groups isn't really a

00:16:03.220 country. It's a collection of different countries split up along ethnic lines and it will fall apart 1.00

00:16:08.820 very quickly. But ensuring that this country falls apart is precisely the goal of the largest

00:16:13.860 news outlets in the United States. So before the game, CBS interviewed the woman who sang

00:16:17.780 this quote unquote black national anthem at the Super Bowl, whose name is Andra Day. And listen to what she said.

00:16:23.460 I think, you know, but I'm not unaware of the conversation surrounding the black national

00:16:29.140 anthem at the Super Bowl. Right. I think that's just a true conversation. Um, you know, and I think

00:16:34.100 people, you know, they are, I'm going to say this in really polite terms, but I think people are, you

00:16:39.220 know, change can be a scary thing for people. You know what I mean? But I think that it's a good thing.

00:16:42.980 It's a healthy thing because if you're not changing and growing, I think you're, you're dying. Right.

00:16:46.500 Of course. So, so for me, I will tell you, I am honored to be able to represent our ancestors

00:16:53.060 and our culture in this way. But for me, even deeper than that, I'm a very spiritual person.

00:16:57.860 Gayle knows. We talked about this before. I'm a praying person. And so that's really what I'm

00:17:02.500 hoping. My goal is to diminish myself and really be in service of the spirit of God,

00:17:08.100 whoever that is for people to be a vessel truly. And, and if people are able to sort of put down,

00:17:14.020 you know, this, uh, this kind of negative connotation surrounding this or these prejudices

00:17:19.460 or these ideas, then I think we could actually share in a really, really beautiful

00:17:24.820 spiritual moment together. And that is my desire. And then to do the best that I can do,

00:17:29.700 hopefully it goes well. Change is scary. She says, and if you're not changing and growing,

00:17:35.300 then you're dying. And everybody at CBS pretends that's the most intelligent thing they've ever heard,

00:17:39.700 but it doesn't even come close to making sense. Uh, now, I mean, it's true

00:17:43.780 that, that when something is changing and growing, that means that it's alive.

00:17:47.620 But the other problem is that you don't want, it's not necessarily good that a thing is alive,

00:17:51.780 depends on what it is. A tumor changes and grows, but that's not a good thing.

00:17:57.700 And so what she's really talking about is the racial division and race baiting that that's what's,

00:18:03.220 what she wants to see grow and change, uh, which is something that we don't want. She's basically

00:18:08.580 saying that we need racially segregated national anthems just for the sake of changing something.

00:18:12.500 And then at the end, she implies even, even more nonsensically that somehow this will lead to

00:18:16.340 unity. We'll be unified by having separate anthems. Even though the whole point of singing the anthem,

00:18:21.780 the one national anthem is to show our national unity. That's the whole point.

00:18:27.220 But the point of this revival of the black national anthem is to take us back to the

00:18:30.980 pre-civil rights era. This is not progress. It's regression. That's what this is a deliberate 0.59

00:18:35.860 callback to. It's when the NAACP first started pushing the song after an NAACP official wrote it.

00:18:40.420 And for the past three years, the NFL has been trying to equate this with the actual national

00:18:45.140 anthem. The implication is that we're back where we were in the early 1900s. It's like when Joe Biden

00:18:50.900 says that it's Jim Crow on steroids to require voter ID. They are desperate to convince us that we are

00:18:56.500 living in a white supremacist hellscape, which obviously is nonsense. But again, it's falling flat.

00:19:01.860 Andrew, they performed this black national anthem before the commercial break, before the teams came out,

00:19:06.340 several minutes before the national anthem was played. And to the extent that people responded

00:19:10.900 to it at all, it was panned for the most part on social media. Very few people thought that it was

00:19:15.700 inspirational or unifying or whatever. This is the response all of the post-BLM, post-George Floyd 0.88

00:19:22.660 ideas are receiving now from defunding the police, implementing reparations, the black national anthem.

00:19:29.060 It's all falling flat. What this means for race hustlers like Henry Rogers is that they're gonna have 0.98

00:19:36.340 to find new jobs soon. What it means for the rest of us is that at long last, our moment of national

00:19:42.900 racial insanity might eventually come to an end. Now let's get to our five headlines. 0.90

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00:20:54.020 Now, before the Super Bowl, traditionally, the president will give an interview,

00:20:57.140 and this is the kind of thing that you would think any president would be eager to do. Like,

00:21:00.820 it gives you a chance to get your message out to a huge mainstream audience. It's an election year on

00:21:06.180 top of it. What is there not to love? If you're the president of the United States,

00:21:10.420 you get this chance to do the interview, especially if you're a Democrat president,

00:21:13.700 and it's a friendly interview with the media propaganda outlet. It's like, there's no,

00:21:17.780 it's a win-win. You can't lose. Unless you are senile, which is the whole reason why Biden declined

00:21:25.460 the invitation this year, just as he declined it, I believe, last year to give this interview.

00:21:32.580 Because he's so incapacitated that he can't sit for even a 10 minute,

00:21:35.540 you know, a softball interview. Putin did two hours. He can't do 10 minutes.

00:21:40.580 Instead, the White House put out this 45 second video featuring Joe Biden before the game. Watch.

00:21:48.820 The Super Bowl Sunday. If you're anything like me, you like to be surrounded by a snack or two

00:21:55.220 while watching the big game. You know, when buying snacks for the game, you might have noticed one

00:21:59.940 thing. Sports drinks bottles are smaller. The bag of chips has fewer chips, but they're still charging

00:22:05.300 you just as much. And as an ice cream lover, what makes me the most angry is that ice cream cartons

00:22:10.020 have actually shrunk in size, but not in price. I've had enough of what they call shrinkflation.

00:22:16.660 It's a ripoff. Some companies are trying to pull a fast one by shrinking the products

00:22:21.700 little by little and hoping you won't notice. Give me a break. The American public is tired of being

00:22:28.100 played for suckers. I'm calling on companies to put a stop to this. Let's make sure businesses 0.85

00:22:33.540 do the right thing now. Um, 45 second video. Now, this is not really the point. You know,

00:22:42.740 we'll get to the substance of what he's saying, such as it is, but 45 second video. And just for fun,

00:22:49.540 uh, I counted the number of cuts in that video and I counted about 13, 13 cuts in a 45 second video.

00:22:58.500 And, uh, and why do they do that? Well, like they, they try to make it seem,

00:23:02.500 oh, we're making a trendy, like TikTok video with all the jump cuts. That's not why they're doing it.

00:23:06.580 They're doing it because they can cut around all the mistakes because you know, this, they sat him

00:23:12.260 down to talk about, uh, the fact that bags of chips are too small. And we can assume that this,

00:23:20.100 the actual video is probably 15 minutes long of him just rambling about snacks. And they had to find

00:23:26.580 45 usable seconds in there. And that's why you get all the cuts. Uh, cause he can't,

00:23:32.900 it should be, you should be able to say to the president of the United States, okay,

00:23:35.220 we want to do this dumb video or, you know, can you give us a minute on,

00:23:39.460 but if you wanted to do this video, can you give us a minute on the fact that 0.87

00:23:44.260 the chip bags of chips are too small? Can you just talk for a minute about that? He should be able to

00:23:48.340 do that, but he can't. So that's why they have to cut around it so much. Um, and this is what

00:23:54.420 they're focused on. You know, there's a lot of crises currently unfolding across the world,

00:23:58.180 people dealing with major problems. And Joe Biden is worried that bags of chips don't have as many

00:24:04.260 chips as they used to. And I especially liked the part where he says that what, what makes him the

00:24:09.220 most angry in the entire world is that ice cream cartons have shrunk in size. And I, and I believe

00:24:16.900 that I think that's, he's being totally honest. I don't think that he's, uh, I'm perfectly willing

00:24:20.820 to believe that the thing that makes him the angriest in the world right now, the thing that

00:24:24.740 makes him the most upset is the, uh, the smaller ice cream cartons. But I think that the point isn't

00:24:32.260 even that this is a petty issue for him to be focused on. It is, it is petty, but, uh, and there are

00:24:38.100 more important things that he should be worried about as president, but this issue shrinkflation,

00:24:45.460 which it doesn't even make sense as a term, by the way, that's like, those are putting two opposite

00:24:49.900 things together, but, um, it is important because it is directly related to inflation. I mean, in fact,

00:24:58.820 this is inflation. What he's talking about is inflation. It's another example of the cost of goods

00:25:03.080 going up. So the real problem is that Biden is complaining about another marker of a, of a poor

00:25:10.400 economy while taking no responsibility for it himself. He's blaming the companies that produce

00:25:16.320 the snacks for the inflation that his own policies are causing. And he's hoping we don't notice.

00:25:22.200 Um, but even worse than that was, or maybe worse than that anyway, it was what the Biden camp put

00:25:30.480 out after, uh, the game. So before the game, they had all they could get out of Biden's 45 seconds,

00:25:36.640 13 cuts, um, after the game, well, he's, he's already in bed. He's long since in bed. So instead

00:25:43.940 they put out after the chiefs won in overtime, Joe Biden's Twitter account posted this, uh, posted this

00:25:49.480 tweet. And so there it is, it says, just like we drew it up. And then you see Biden there with the

00:25:55.220 laser, with the red laser eyes and all that. So the whole point is that they, you know, this is

00:25:59.900 obviously a joke about conspiracy theories and they're admitting jokingly that Biden rigged the game

00:26:04.380 or whatever. Um, the really sad thing about this is that it was posted at what had been like 11 o'clock

00:26:11.940 Eastern time. So again, Biden had been in bed probably for four or five hours at that point.

00:26:16.820 Uh, some intern put this tweet out. And the point of the tweet is to lean into the conspiracy theories

00:26:23.960 to lean into Joe Biden being an evil genius. That's what the, you know, the, the kind of red 0.96

00:26:29.420 laser eyes and all that's about. Um, and they're doing it even jokingly for a reason. And the reason

00:26:36.740 is that if, if Biden is some kind of puppet master with a grand scheme, that means that he's at least

00:26:44.540 mentally cognizant, right? He's aware he's awake. And that's why they, that's why they, they like

00:26:51.220 this. They tried to get, what was it? Dark Brandon or something. They tried to get that going for a

00:26:56.260 couple of years as a way of pivoting off of a let's go Brandon. And then they had the dark Brandon

00:27:01.320 meme, which is basically just this. It's like portraying the president as Darth Vader is what

00:27:06.980 they're, that's their, that's how they're selling him. Um, because they've decided that

00:27:14.400 it's politically advantageous to portray Biden as an evil supervillain because at least that means 0.69

00:27:20.700 he's not a vegetable. Uh, so they, they figured like, we'll take that. We got to choose either he's

00:27:25.660 a vegetable or he's an, he's a, he's a supervillain and we'll take the supervillain instead.

00:27:30.160 Um, but you can hardly blame them. Like, you know, in terms of strategy, they're, they're

00:27:38.480 probably right that those are your two choices and either he's, this guy's completely evil

00:27:43.120 or he's a senile. And I guess you, if you're running the campaign, you'd rather he'd be evil, 0.87

00:27:49.160 I suppose. Moving on to this, CBS Austin, uh, has a report. Florida LGBT activists staged a series

00:27:56.540 of protests at the department of motor vehicle locations across the state on Friday. Dozens

00:28:01.160 of individuals dressed in pride flags and safety vests entered DMV properties and laid down in

00:28:06.700 mock death, a protest known as a die-in protesters can be seen holding signs, reading hate kills.

00:28:13.300 The protest came in response to a policy change by the Florida department of highway safety and

00:28:16.940 motor vehicles last month that prevents changes to the gender marking on Florida driver's licenses.

00:28:21.660 demonstrations in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, and Gainesville lasted 37 minutes to represent the

00:28:27.100 37% of trans Floridians who have faced harassment due to an incorrect gender marker, according to the

00:28:32.980 youth action fund. So apparently they were inside the DMVs doing this. And we have some footage of

00:28:38.860 one of these, uh, I don't know which DMV this was at, but this is one of these die-ins. And here's

00:28:43.540 what does that look like? Now, first of all, if they're doing this, um, you know, right outside

00:28:54.660 the DMV inside the DMV on the property of the DMV, then it's a crime. And, uh, when, when, as we know,

00:29:04.200 when pro-life, when pro-lifers have sat outside of abortion clinics, you know, they, they end up

00:29:10.540 facing 11 years in prison for that. So if they did commit a crime here, I hope that's what Florida 0.85

00:29:14.780 does. Arrest them all and throw the book at them. You know, like that, that's what, that's where we're

00:29:21.320 at now. You do this to ours, we do it to yours. So arrest them all, charge them with every single

00:29:27.120 thing you possibly can and try to put them in prison for as long as you possibly can. Um, but you know,

00:29:34.600 they're, uh, well, you can't arrest them cause they're all dead. Uh, they're dead because their

00:29:37.680 driver's license has the correct biological sex on it. They've died. The DMV, you know, a man goes 1.00

00:29:44.080 in there, DMV puts mail on the driver's license and, and the guy just collapses and dies on the

00:29:48.400 spot. That seems to be the claim here. Um, when, when actually, but when you think, when you think

00:29:53.920 about it, you realize that the claim is actually worse than that because what they're really doing

00:29:57.760 here is they're doing two things. One of the things they're doing is that they're threatening to

00:30:03.080 kill themselves. That that's, that's the implication is most of the time when trans activists claim that

00:30:08.760 something is killing them, what they mean, and they'll tell you this is that they don't like the

00:30:14.800 thing, whatever it is, and they might kill themselves because of it. And we hear about the

00:30:19.320 trans genocide and all that kind of stuff. All of it is totally fictional, but you listen to the stats

00:30:24.680 of all the, it's it, most of what they're talking about is suicide because these people, as we've,

00:30:30.320 as we've discussed many times, these people wield suicide threats as a political tool and they do

00:30:35.860 it in a way that no other social movement in the history of the world ever has. Um, now you can

00:30:43.780 think of individual protests here and there of monks, you know, setting themselves on fire, self

00:30:47.840 immolation, that sort of thing, which by the way, it shows a lot more commitment than these people

00:30:51.340 are at least you can give them that. But, um, I'm talking about a broad social movement where one of

00:30:58.720 their primary bargaining chips is this constant specter, this constant threat of suicide. You

00:31:06.060 don't find this anywhere else. This is the only time you go back to, go back to the, uh, the civil

00:31:10.580 rights movement, right in the middle of the 20th century, were they threatening to kill themselves?

00:31:16.200 No. In fact, in almost every case where a group of people have actually been persecuted in some way,

00:31:23.760 unlike trans people who are not persecuted at all, they're the opposite of persecuted in this country,

00:31:27.480 but whatever there's been persecution, you find that generally suicide rates for the persecuted

00:31:32.200 groups go down. They don't go up. Usually they go down. And that's because you find usually a kind

00:31:38.260 of resiliency, uh, a sense of purpose and cohesion in the protected or in the persecuted group rather.

00:31:46.260 And it's human nature to respond that way. Yet with trans people who are not being arrested, 1.00

00:31:52.380 who are not being sent to labor camps, you know, not having any of their fundamental human rights taken

00:31:57.040 away, they're killing themselves at extraordinarily high rates and threaten to kill themselves at even

00:32:01.340 higher rates than that, which tells us that this has nothing to do with persecution. Their problems

00:32:05.920 are all internal. And one of the problems is an extreme level of narcissism. You know, this, this is,

00:32:13.500 this is, this is a hallmark of toxic manipulative narcissists where they try to get you to do what they

00:32:20.680 want by threatening to harm themselves. It's, it's a classic manipulation tactic of narcissists.

00:32:27.260 Usually you find it in abusive relationships and that sort of thing, where someone says,

00:32:31.920 don't leave me or I'll kill myself. Yeah, it's, it's that kind. It's like, it's evil. I mean,

00:32:37.200 it's, it's people that do that are evil. Uh, the worst kind of manipulation you could possibly

00:32:44.160 use against someone. And generally when you find that in relationships, we all would agree.

00:32:50.600 It's like, if you're talking to someone and they're saying, you know, talking to a woman and

00:32:54.440 saying, my boyfriend saying, if I, it's threatening, if I, if I break up with him, he's going to kill

00:32:57.860 himself. We would usually, well, this is like, that's all the more reason to break up. This person's

00:33:01.760 dangerous and it's like, it's like, shouldn't be doing that. It's wrong. And yet trans activists have 1.00

00:33:08.160 taken that and they've adopted it on a wide scale as a political tool. And the proper response to it

00:33:16.620 is like, disgust. How dare you use a tactic like this? This is like, this breaks every rule of basic

00:33:26.860 decency that we all have recognized up until now. But we're used to that from trans activists. Like 1.00

00:33:33.800 they, they just don't, they don't abide by any standard of decency whatsoever. They just don't,

00:33:38.160 they don't recognize any moral or ethical, uh, standards at all. Um, although we should

00:33:45.120 acknowledge that when they claim the driver's license will kill them, it's not just suicide

00:33:48.280 they're referring to. Uh, one of the activists, so there's the suicide threat and then there's also

00:33:52.260 just lies as well. Uh, one of the activists involved in this demonstration said this to explain it.

00:33:57.900 Every time a trans person has to present an ID that now presents an opportunity for them to be

00:34:01.880 forcefully outed. Trans people already face heightened violence that physically threatens

00:34:06.000 their daily lives. And this only places them at greater risk for folks who are not at a

00:34:10.080 significant risk of being killed just because of who they are. I can see why our action might seem

00:34:14.700 dramatic, entitled, or even silly. You think? But for trans Floridians, the danger is very real and ever

00:34:22.220 present. Well, and that's just a total lie. Of course, that's an absolute lie. Uh, trans people 1.00

00:34:29.060 face a heightened violence, uh, heightened, heightened violence, heightened threat of being

00:34:34.880 killed for folks who are not at a significant risk of being killed just because of who they are.

00:34:38.960 It might seem dramatic. Well, you know, if you listen to the show, you've heard, you've,

00:34:44.020 you've already heard this claim debunked many times, but you know, really we can't debunk it or not

00:34:47.940 because it keeps getting repeated that in reality, trans people as a group have a lower murder rate.

00:34:57.380 Okay. They are less likely to be murdered than members of the general public. Their murder rate

00:35:05.380 is lower than the general public. That is a fact. You can look it up. Uh, a vanishingly small number

00:35:13.600 of trans people are killed every year. And in almost every single case, the ones that are killed

00:35:17.560 are killed, of course, for reasons that have nothing at all to do with who they are. And I mean,

00:35:21.780 well, they might be killed because, uh, very often things involve prostitution, drugs. So if they're

00:35:28.740 killed for who they are, it's the, who they are problem is like prostitute, drug addict, that sort 0.99

00:35:32.860 of thing. But as far as trans person just being killed for being trans, you might have one or two 0.97

00:35:40.460 cases a year at most. It's like, it almost never happens. Um, and, uh, and, and overall, even if you

00:35:49.200 take all murder into account, you are safer. The statistics tell you, you are safer being a trans

00:35:55.940 person than non-trans. That's what the stats say. So this is a total lie. Um, so they just lie about 0.99

00:36:01.840 everything all the time. Nothing they ever say is true. Like you can't, you can't, if they told you

00:36:05.380 it's raining outside, you have to go check yourself because they lie instinctively about everything

00:36:08.720 and, uh, they wield suicide like a weapon. And, uh, these are just, it's just awful all around

00:36:15.520 really. So I guess how we could sum it up. All right. Speaking of awful PBS has this, a majority

00:36:20.400 of taxpayers feel that they pay too much in taxes with many saying that they receive a poor value in

00:36:25.040 return. According to a new poll from the university of Chicago, uh, Harris school of public policy,

00:36:30.000 two thirds of us taxpayers say they spend too much on federal income taxes. The tax season begins

00:36:35.220 about seven and 10 say the same about local property taxes, while roughly six and 10

00:36:40.040 feel that way about state sales taxes. Generally speaking, Republicans are more likely than Democrats

00:36:45.080 to view taxes as unfair, to say they're, they're, they're paying too much in taxes and to see taxes

00:36:49.440 as a poor value. The poll found that few U S adults have a high level of confidence that the

00:36:54.320 institutions that ultimately use their tax dollars spend those taxes in the best interest of people

00:36:58.640 like them. But people tend to trust governing bodies closer to home with their tax dollars slightly

00:37:03.000 more. 16% are extremely or very confident in their local school district compared to 6% for the

00:37:07.900 federal government. Um, well, let me, uh, just stop right there. But the only disturbing thing about

00:37:14.840 this is that it's also two thirds, uh, say they pay too much taxes. That leaves a third who feel that

00:37:21.460 they're taxed just right. That's the only thing concerning to me because not to spoil the ending,

00:37:26.860 but I can answer this question for you. Yes, you are taxed too much. Uh, and yes,

00:37:31.140 it is extremely unfair. Whoever you are, whatever your income bracket is, it doesn't matter. You,

00:37:36.400 you are taxed too much. Um, way too much. And there are plenty of people who effectively pay

00:37:42.720 no income tax. Um, and that's not really fair when you compare it to the people that pay like

00:37:46.760 35, 40% of their income and income taxes. But even the people who pay no income that you're

00:37:50.920 still paying tax in a million other ways. So everybody is taxed too much. Uh, if you work for

00:37:55.340 a living or if you're married to someone who works for a living, then you are taxed way too much.

00:38:00.360 We all are, um, everybody should pay less, a lot less, everyone. And when you really think about

00:38:07.120 this, and I like to review this every once in a while, just so we all remember how screwed we are,

00:38:10.200 because it's a good thing to keep in mind, especially as we get into election season.

00:38:14.340 So if you think about it, all you have to do is, is you go, you think about your average day

00:38:19.580 and all the things you do on an average day. So we're not even taking into account like big purchases

00:38:25.320 and, you know, these moments when, when you're, when you really feel that tax bill, I'm talking

00:38:30.020 about average day. You wake up in the morning and your bed, your bed was taxed, right? When you

00:38:37.880 bought it, you turn on your lights, which are taxed, both the light fixtures when you purchase them

00:38:42.940 and the electricity is taxed. Uh, you take a shower, you pay a tax on the water that's coming out.

00:38:47.840 You drink some coffee that was taxed. Uh, you get into a car that was taxed. You leave your house

00:38:53.660 that of course is taxed. You drive down the road, burning gasoline that is taxed, uh, depending on

00:38:58.840 where you live. Maybe you pass through a toll, you know, which is a tax. Maybe you get pulled over

00:39:03.760 on the way because you have a taillight out or you're not wearing your seatbelt. You go on 13 miles

00:39:07.900 over the limit. That's also a tax. You go to work and you're taxed every second that you're at work,

00:39:13.500 your taxes, your tax just for earning an income. Like your money is taken from you before you

00:39:17.680 even see it. And, and the IRS takes what it wants and gives you the leftovers. Uh, if you eat lunch,

00:39:23.440 of course, that was taxed. Every moment of the day is taxed. And then you get back in your taxed car,

00:39:28.400 you head back to your taxed home, you eat another taxed meal on your taxed plates with your taxed

00:39:33.580 utensils. You wash them off in the taxed sink with the water that's taxed. You put it in the dishwasher

00:39:38.540 taxed, pay more water and soap tax. You're taxed all the time, like everywhere, no matter what you do.

00:39:46.400 And then you die and you're still taxed. So there's nothing you can do to escape it. Um,

00:39:52.340 every, every, every, every step of the way, they, they bury you in the ground and they got to pay

00:39:56.180 a tax on that. You just, you can't until you're like decomposing in the ground and all of your

00:40:01.200 money has been already distributed. Only then are you no longer taxed. Uh, like well after your death

00:40:09.640 is when it stops. So it's always funny to me when I hear people, anytime anyone points to some other

00:40:17.520 group and says, Oh, they don't pay enough. What are you talking about? Do you, we all pay so much.

00:40:23.200 We're just being scammed all the time. We're being ripped off always every second of our lives. You

00:40:29.300 understand that. And, and do you, do you understand that, that the whole, like one of the fundamental

00:40:37.540 reasons that this country even exists is that the founding fathers were upset over a tax on tea.

00:40:46.020 And of course there was a lot more to it than that. It wasn't just that, but, but they were

00:40:49.680 upset about a tax on tea. We, we pay taxes on our tea. I got news for you. You go buy a Snapple or

00:40:55.440 something at the gas station. You're going to pay a tax on that. We pay tax on everything else.

00:41:00.780 It's, it's way beyond like the founding fathers looking on from the grave or like, what are you,

00:41:04.640 what are you guys doing? Why are you allowing any of this? This is insane. Um, but, uh, it's,

00:41:11.560 it's, it's where we are. So the answer is every single person in the country is, is way too taxed.

00:41:17.280 And, uh, and then on top of it, uh, all the money or almost all the money that's being taken from you

00:41:22.220 is just being squandered. It's just being wasted right away. It goes to nothing that benefits you

00:41:26.920 whatsoever. Some of it, billions of dollars collectively going overseas to countries you've

00:41:32.680 never been to, uh, to governments that you know, nothing about being used in ways that you'll never

00:41:38.880 find out about. And that will certainly not benefit you at all, you know, and that's just

00:41:45.220 the tip of the iceberg. And then so much else of it's going to pay the incomes of, uh, of

00:41:50.960 government bureaucrats who shouldn't even have jobs to begin with. And the only reason they have 1.00

00:41:55.240 a job is just because the job exists just for them to fill it and get paid and, and, and on and on and

00:42:00.320 on. Um, so yeah, we're all screwed. Let's get to, uh, was Walsh wrong? 0.90

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00:42:58.320 Can't wait to see you there. Okay, we got an assortment of comments dealing with some of the

00:43:02.420 things we talked about last week. First one says, many homeless people do have trouble meeting their

00:43:06.480 rent. They're not drug addicts. They aren't lazy, but they may have high medical bills. They may lack

00:43:11.180 the talents that can land them these high paying jobs with great benefits. You are far, far too harsh

00:43:16.420 on this matter. Well, you don't need a high paying job to be not homeless, you know. Yeah, it's difficult

00:43:23.420 to get a high paying job, certainly. It's not difficult for a competent, mentally healthy person who's not

00:43:33.760 addicted to drugs to at least afford somewhere to live that is not a cardboard box on the street corner, you know.

00:43:43.180 And you can call it harsh, you can call it whatever, I don't care. It's just, it's simply the reality.

00:43:50.000 And, you know, sometimes when I talk about the homeless problem of where it comes from and the realities of it,

00:43:57.620 which, and the basic reality is, again, that there's a reason, in almost every case, there's a reason

00:44:03.880 someone is homeless. And it's not simply that they've run out of money or something or they fell

00:44:07.280 into hard times. It's that they're addicted to drugs or they're psychotic or both. That's usually

00:44:14.480 the case. But anyway, when people take issue with that, I want to assume that these are all people

00:44:22.380 who don't live in a city or anywhere near it and they've never encountered homeless people.

00:44:27.460 But then, of course, I know the opposite is the case. Like, most of these people that would take

00:44:30.340 issue with what I'm saying are going to be left-wingers who, many of them, you know,

00:44:34.320 statistically live in urban areas or close to them. So, which makes it all the more confounding.

00:44:39.740 Because it's like, if you've ever had any sort of interaction or, you know, you encountered homeless

00:44:44.340 people at all, which I have many times in my life as anyone who's lived in or around cities,

00:44:48.180 has, it's like, this is obvious. You know, it's very often that it's very, it's extremely rare that

00:44:53.500 you have any kind of interaction with a homeless person where it does not become obvious within

00:44:57.820 like two seconds why they're homeless. But, you know, I guess this is just people wanting to live

00:45:10.260 in a, you know, I guess in a certain way, it's a more attractive world to live in, but we don't have

00:45:16.380 to acknowledge that. And we can think that everyone is homeless. It's just, these are all

00:45:20.120 decent, hardworking people that have fallen. You know, it's, it's all the pursuit of happiness,

00:45:24.140 you know, all the homeless. These are all pursuit of happiness type cases. Instead of acknowledging

00:45:28.800 that that's like an extreme rare exception. Okay.

00:45:38.580 Ann says, sorry, Matt, we have this one wrong. Taylor Swift is internationally popular amongst the

00:45:44.120 young ladies of our world. Most are not even of age to vote or U S citizens. I don't think she has 0.88

00:45:49.780 the power you're giving her. Uh, I don't know how much power you think I'm giving her. I didn't say

00:45:57.800 that she's the most powerful person in the world or that, uh, or, or that she alone is going to

00:46:03.080 determine the outcome of the election, but she has a lot of influence. And that's, that's really what 1.00

00:46:09.980 I'm talking about when I say the kind of power we're discussing here is the power of influence.

00:46:15.180 You know, we have this term influencer, you know, which is kind of, which is, there's an irony to it

00:46:20.760 because most of the people that we call influencers are not really influencing anybody, or at least

00:46:26.320 their influence is, is quite small and quite narrow. The people that in our culture who really

00:46:34.100 have the influence, we would never call influencers because it would be a major step down. Like you

00:46:37.800 wouldn't call Taylor Swift an influencer, uh, because it's something quite beyond that. Right.

00:46:43.200 Um, but this is about influence and, uh, like it or not, I wish it wasn't the case. She has an 0.98

00:46:51.840 enormous amount of influence and, um, and, you know, again, more irony, the, the influence even

00:47:00.500 becomes all the more greater, uh, the more that she's talked about. And, you know, I was watching

00:47:08.680 the Superbowl last night, uh, for example, and I was checking Twitter while I'm watching Superbowl,

00:47:14.140 which is like, why even do that? I understand. Um, but I am actually kind of interested in people's

00:47:19.320 analysis of the game as it's unfolding. And of course, I'm just seeing a ton of tweets about Taylor

00:47:24.380 Swift. And here's the thing, all of them that I saw were for people who hate her. It's, and I'm

00:47:31.840 sure there are people tweeting about Taylor Swift who like her, but that's not what I saw. I did,

00:47:34.900 my whole feed is like Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift. And it's all people complaining.

00:47:39.580 You know, if nobody complained about it, we would hardly ever hear about her.

00:47:42.600 Many of us anyway, like me in the circles and, and in the worlds that I live in,

00:47:47.640 I would hardly hear about her at all. If it wasn't for people on my side, incessantly complaining

00:47:52.840 about her. Um, so maybe there's a lesson to be learned from that. Finally, I hope you're wrong,

00:47:59.760 Matt. If Trump runs against Biden, Trump has a good chance of winning, but I'm not so sure the

00:48:03.320 same results obtain if he runs against Gavin Newsom. Um, yeah, I think that's, uh, look, I I'm

00:48:12.480 terrible making political predictions, just like my, my political predictions are even worse than my

00:48:16.000 sports predictions. So, uh, but I will say that it seems to me right now, it's, it's hard for me to

00:48:21.800 imagine Biden winning at this point against Trump. But, and that's, there's a lot of reasons for

00:48:26.640 that, but we don't need to get past the economies and shambles and he's a vegetable and everybody

00:48:30.460 knows it. And it's just, it's, that is quite a hurdle to get over. And I'm not sure that he does.

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00:51:03.960 Unfortunately, I cannot give a full analysis of the Super Bowl or the Super Bowl ads if for

00:51:09.140 whatever reason anyone actually wanted me to do that. I watched the game rather half-heartedly,

00:51:14.320 paying only vague attention because I was bitter that my Baltimore Ravens weren't playing in it. I'll

00:51:18.960 admit that. I was bitter. And in protest against this injustice, I boycotted the event. I mean,

00:51:24.920 I still watched it, but I watched it unenthusiastically. So it was a heroic form

00:51:28.780 of activism on my part, you must admit. But in any case, I did happen to glance up during an early

00:51:33.700 commercial break when we saw what would prove to be one of the most viral ads of the night. It was

00:51:38.040 another Super Bowl commercial for the He Gets Us campaign. The campaign, first run by a group called

00:51:43.260 the Servant Foundation and now run by a group called Come Near Incorporated, both funded by mostly

00:51:48.720 anonymous, but we can assume extremely wealthy donors, is ostensibly meant to evangelize and

00:51:54.280 promote Christianity. Indeed, they're spending tens of millions of dollars to run these ads during the

00:51:59.700 Super Bowl. There are many very credible and biblically grounded Christian groups in the world that

00:52:04.460 would love to have the resources to run a commercial during the most watched television event of the

00:52:09.540 year. But most of them wouldn't have those kinds of funds if they fundraised and saved for a decade.

00:52:15.080 The people that are behind He Gets Us do have that money, which means they have a unique chance

00:52:20.520 that few Christians will ever have. They're able to present a message to 100 million people all at the

00:52:27.760 same time. In fact, this Super Bowl is certain to be among the most watched events of all time,

00:52:33.000 making this an unprecedented, or nearly unprecedented at least, opportunity. So what will they do with it?

00:52:38.900 What message will they send out to those 100 million souls? How will they use the millions upon

00:52:46.160 millions of dollars that these 60 seconds of ad time will cost them? Will they call the world to

00:52:51.960 repentance? To humility? To obedience? To virtue? No, no, no, and no. Instead, they did this. Watch.

00:53:08.900 Don't ask me what you know is true. Don't have to tell you I love your precious heart. I was standing. You were there. Two worlds collide.

00:53:15.900 know it's true, don't have to tell you, I love your precious heart, I, I was standing,

00:53:32.940 you were there, two worlds collided, and they could never tear us apart,

00:53:45.900 okay, so for those listening to the audio podcast, the ad consists of images, which may not have been

00:53:54.080 AI generated, but certainly look AI generated, images of various people getting their feet washed

00:53:59.600 in various situations, and then we see the words, Jesus didn't teach hate, he washed feet,

00:54:05.720 appear on the screen, now before we even talk about the actual images themselves, and what they

00:54:11.760 specifically depict very deliberate choices that were made, and who gets their feet washed, and who

00:54:17.240 does the washing, we can already determine that the ad is, at best, a wasted opportunity, the most

00:54:23.720 generous thing I could possibly say about a message like, Jesus didn't teach hate, is that it's

00:54:29.780 redundant, and pointless, and benign, and that is, again, in its best form, because everybody already

00:54:37.640 knows that Jesus didn't teach hate, okay, we know that, it's the only thing that most people these

00:54:44.300 days know about Jesus, the fact that Jesus didn't go around telling his followers to hate people

00:54:49.020 is an extremely well-established fact, again, again, it's like the only well-established fact

00:54:55.020 these days, so nobody was ever confused about it, we know that Jesus didn't hate people,

00:55:01.940 we know that hating people is bad, nobody believes in or promotes hate for its own sake, even hateful

00:55:10.300 people don't see themselves that way, okay, so yeah, there are hateful people, people, but they

00:55:15.440 don't see it that way, so if you declare hate is bad, everybody will agree, whether they're hateful

00:55:21.420 or not, and you will have accomplished nothing, now, of course, you know, it's not actually true

00:55:27.000 that hate is always bad, there are things we're supposed to hate, we're supposed to hate sin,

00:55:31.200 just as Jesus did, hate should be directed at bad things, we should hate bad things, and we should

00:55:36.860 love good things, this also may seem obvious, but it's a distinction that many people in our world

00:55:42.800 often miss, which is just another reason why putting out a broad anti-hate ad that offers no

00:55:48.940 further insight into the issue is useless, and if it's not useless, then it's actively harmful,

00:55:54.560 and that is the case for this ad, which brings us to the images on the screen, so who are the

00:56:00.860 people getting their feet washed, well, we see a few sort of non-specific generic feet washing

00:56:06.320 scenarios, if that can even exist, and then we see a white man washing the feet of a Native American, 0.88

00:56:12.040 we see another white man washing the feet of a climate protester, we see a white woman washing 0.92

00:56:17.040 the feet of, I guess, her Muslim neighbor, we see a white woman washing the feet of an illegal 1.00

00:56:21.400 immigrant, we see a cop washing the feet of a black guy in a back alley, kind of strange, 0.99

00:56:27.020 I don't know what's going on there, we see a priest washing the feet of a gay black guy on the beach, 0.97

00:56:30.900 and then we see a woman outside of an abortion clinic getting her feet washed by what appears 0.95

00:56:36.400 to be a pro-life protester. Now, you'll notice that, unsurprisingly, the ad is very careful to

00:56:42.100 make sure that it doesn't depict a white person getting his feet washed by a non-white person,

00:56:47.700 so we see every combination of feet washing going on, except for that one. Apparently,

00:56:53.860 Jesus calls us to wash feet unless you're black and the other person is white, because that would 1.00

00:56:59.100 be racist. And this already tells you everything you need to know about the campaign and the people 0.74

00:57:03.260 funding it. The ad strictly follows and respects the left-wing victim hierarchy and dutifully makes

00:57:09.760 sure to not depict any image that would run afoul of the rules of intersectionality. If they had

00:57:16.200 reversed the roles in any of these scenarios, then the ad would have been, to at least some small

00:57:21.700 degree, culturally subversive. Okay, what if it was a black guy washing the feet of the cop? 0.97

00:57:27.360 But you would never see that. Okay, even though, and people defend the ad to say, 0.97

00:57:30.580 well, are you saying we shouldn't love each other? Okay, then, okay, well, then why don't we have the

00:57:34.640 black guy wash the cop's feet? Shouldn't he love cops? If you saw that, well, that sends the wrong 0.99

00:57:40.880 message. We can't have that. But you know, at least that would have offered the viewer something

00:57:47.300 that they don't already see. It would have given them something to think about. It would have

00:57:52.620 challenged the viewer. But they made sure not to do that. So what's the problem here? Aside from the

00:57:59.960 political correctness with the racial dynamics, what's the problem? Well, to begin with, we should 1.00

00:58:04.720 say, Jesus did not go around washing everyone's feet. Okay, there is precisely one story in the

00:58:11.940 New Testament of Jesus washing feet, and it was at the Passover meal before his passion and death.

00:58:17.460 In that case, he washed the feet of his disciples. Okay, the people closest to him, his disciples,

00:58:23.620 people that have been following him, literally, throughout his whole ministry. And now that did

00:58:27.920 include, of course, the disciple who was about to betray him. But the point is that these were his

00:58:32.060 disciples. Like, he wasn't out in the street washing the feet of every unbeliever and unrepentant 0.98

00:58:37.080 sinner who walked by. And we often do this these days. Like, we take singular moments in Jesus's

00:58:43.700 ministry, and we extrapolate them, making them out to be regular occurrences. But that's not a fair or

00:58:50.940 accurate assumption. So when we say, Jesus didn't hate, he washed feet, it makes it sound like it was 0.85

00:58:57.060 something. It was like a standard form of greeting. He just went around. There's one story of that

00:59:02.520 happening in a very specific circumstance for a specific group of people. Did he ever go out in

00:59:11.300 the public and wash feet? Well, we don't know. Like, we don't, there's no reason to assume he did.

00:59:16.540 There's no mention of it. But we do know that out in public, whether or not he ever washed feet,

00:59:23.760 we don't know. But we do know that his fundamental message was this, repent and believe. I have not

00:59:28.520 come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, as he says in the Gospel of Luke.

00:59:31.980 This was his message, not stop hating, okay? It was never that. It was repent and believe.

00:59:39.320 And yet, neither one of those points were mentioned in the ad, curiously enough.

00:59:44.040 So, is this a good entry point, though? You know, maybe that's the argument. Well,

00:59:48.140 yeah, it's not really the Gospel, but it gets people in the door with the feet washing stuff. 0.60

00:59:55.280 Well, no, it's probably not a good entry point. It probably won't get them in the door. And even

00:59:59.260 if it does get them in the door, they'll be coming through the door for the wrong reason.

01:00:03.260 When you say to unrepentant sinners, come and get your feet washed, you are reaffirming them in 0.98

01:00:08.640 their sin. You're feeding into their pride and ego. Okay, for the disciples, this is another key

01:00:15.120 difference. For the disciples, getting their feet washed by Christ was a humbling experience for

01:00:21.280 them. They felt uncomfortable at first. They tried to stop him, okay? They knew they were unworthy.

01:00:28.620 But, and that, again, a major point here was humbling for them. But if somebody sits down and

01:00:34.980 says, yeah, come wash my feet. I deserve this treatment. Come cater to my every whim. Then the very

01:00:40.200 last thing you should do for that person is actually wash their feet, whether literally and

01:00:45.380 metaphorically. You know, you are not saving anybody's soul by feeding their ego. Yes, we should

01:00:53.300 be inviting sinners into the fold. We're all sinners after all, but we're inviting them to repentance,

01:00:57.340 to strive for virtue, to live holy lives, or at least to try. The problem with modern Christianity in 0.99

01:01:02.820 many cases is that it offers the invitation, right? But it forgets what the invitation is for.

01:01:09.700 Now, what you see in this ad is not Christian love. This is self-debasement. It's a humiliation

01:01:15.020 ritual meant to satisfy the egos of people who need their egos punctured, not inflated even more.

01:01:23.580 And does it work? Does this kind of messaging actually succeed in growing the church? Does it bring

01:01:28.500 in the lost sheep? Does it do whatever it's supposedly meant to do? We don't need to speak

01:01:34.700 theoretically about it. If you're a defender of this kind of messaging and you say, oh, it brings

01:01:38.900 people in. Okay, where? Where has it worked? Christianity in the West has been sucking up to 0.61

01:01:44.900 people who hate it, has been sanitizing itself, has been watering down its message, preaching against 0.96

01:01:49.980 hate, but never saying a word about repentance for decades. And over those decades, we've also seen a

01:01:55.000 record number of people leave the church. We've seen church attendance dwindle to record lows while

01:02:00.980 atheists and unaffiliated self-identifications rocket to record highs. If this hippie Jesus 0.95

01:02:06.560 messaging was ever going to actually work, you think it would have started working at some point over

01:02:12.260 the past, I don't know, 50 years? Unless, of course, the collapse of Western Christendom means that it is

01:02:19.920 working. You know, if that's actually the point, if that is the goal, then actually it has succeeded

01:02:27.760 beyond anyone's wildest dreams. And that ultimately is why the He Gets Us campaign is today canceled.

01:02:37.100 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 12, 2024

Ep. 1313 - The Reparations Grift Is Finally Collapsing

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