The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1316 - We're Living Under A Tyranny Of Mediocre Morons

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00:00:17.960 caves to the woke mob after his George Floyd jokes go viral. In our daily cancellation,

00:00:22.280 there are no winners and no heroes. When a feud between a father and a daughter goes viral on

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00:03:12.940 when it's your turn, you drive up, and you get your order, and then you drive off. In an orderly

00:03:18.200 society, it's pretty straightforward, foolproof system. But in the days after George Floyd was

00:03:23.360 canonized, of course, all rules were suspended. Things started breaking down. And accordingly,

00:03:28.260 on June 12th of that year, a 27-year-old man named Rayshard Brooks decided to treat the Wendy's

00:03:33.860 drive-thru like a motel room. He got drunk out of his mind, passed out in his car as he waited to

00:03:39.160 get his hamburger and his Frosty or whatever. And then when two police officers arrived in an attempt

00:03:44.160 to keep the drive-thru moving, Brooks started fighting with one of the officers. He stole his

00:03:48.400 taser and began running away. And a few seconds later, Brooks turned around, pointed the stolen

00:03:52.420 taser at the officers, at which point he was shot and killed. It was not only a justified police

00:03:57.020 shooting, but perhaps one of the most justified police shootings we've ever seen on film.

00:04:01.480 Nevertheless, just a few days later, the top prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, a guy

00:04:05.860 named Paul Howard, decided to charge both officers on the scene with a variety of crimes. And one of

00:04:10.980 the officers was hit with aggravated assault charges. The other cop, the officer who shot Brooks,

00:04:15.380 was charged with capital murder. In other words, Howard tried to put a cop to death for the crime of

00:04:21.500 simply doing his job. And it's all because, as Howard argued, they didn't seem afraid after they had

00:04:28.440 shot Rayshard Brooks and neutralized the threat that he presented. That he was concerned that they

00:04:33.260 didn't seem afraid after the fact, as if they should have been cowering behind their cruiser

00:04:37.440 until backup arrived or something. That was the actual argument Howard made. That makes no sense

00:04:42.520 whatsoever, of course, which is why a couple of years later, after these officers' careers and lives

00:04:46.680 were destroyed, a special prosecutor dropped the charges. And then Howard was voted out of office.

00:04:52.020 Now, so this obviously incompetent, politically motivated, frankly, evil DA was gone. He lost 0.52

00:05:01.620 the ability to bring frivolous charges against anyone who he felt like. Unfortunately for the

00:05:07.920 people of Atlanta and the rest of the country, Howard's replacement, though, was a woman named 0.95

00:05:12.040 Fannie Willis. And over the past few days, it's become clear that Willis is somehow even less

00:05:16.980 dignified, more incompetent, and somehow more corrupt version of the man that she replaced.

00:05:25.260 Willis is not simply trying to prosecute two police officers to appease the mob, 0.61

00:05:29.780 as unforgivable as that is. Willis is, of course, instead trying to imprison

00:05:34.940 the leading candidate in the U.S. presidential election. And she's doing it, apparently,

00:05:40.300 to enrich herself and her boyfriend, a guy named Nathan Wade. Last week, Willis had to answer

00:05:45.280 questions under oath in a hearing about her relationship with Wade. And that's because

00:05:51.260 Willis has told the court that the relationship began only after she named Wade a family lawyer

00:05:58.420 with no experience prosecuting RICO cases as a key lawyer overseeing the Trump-RICO prosecution.

00:06:04.180 But Willis' claim was contradicted in the hearing by a former co-worker in Willis' office who said

00:06:09.400 the relationship actually began all the way back in 2019. Watch.

00:06:14.380 For what personal and romantic is later. When I ask you personal, do you take that to mean romantic?

00:06:21.400 Yes.

00:06:25.440 And do you understand it, that their relationship began in 2019 and continued until the last time

00:06:32.240 you spoke with her?

00:06:34.900 Yes.

00:06:36.660 Now, this is obviously a big problem for Fannie Willis and for Nathan Wade and for the entire

00:06:41.220 Trump prosecution. If they lied to the court, which it seems they did, they can be disqualified

00:06:47.120 or even disbarred on that basis alone. But in context, the reason for the lie is even more important.

00:06:54.760 Fannie Willis, by hiring Wade, was able to direct hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars 0.94

00:06:59.020 into his bank account. And then the two apparently used that money to fund a lavish lifestyle for 0.94

00:07:05.180 themselves, which means that the RICO prosecutors might be guilty of a little RICO themselves.

00:07:10.860 You probably heard this analysis from other pundits already, so I'm not going to belabor

00:07:14.600 the point. What I will emphasize, because a lot of people are too polite to say it out loud, though,

00:07:19.580 is that above and beyond her obvious corruption, which is just immense, she's an immensely corrupt 0.80

00:07:26.740 person. Fannie Willis is also a complete moron. I mean, put aside the fact that she's trying to 1.00

00:07:32.120 sabotage the upcoming election in a flagrant act of election interference. Fannie Willis,

00:07:36.780 the chief law enforcement officer in Fulton County, Georgia, is not even remotely close to being a

00:07:42.180 bright person. And this hearing has made that very clear. And the implications of that fact could not

00:07:48.960 be any more significant. There are too many clips to show you, to show you to sort of prove this

00:07:54.100 point. But here are just a couple. Watch. But I always have cash at the house. That has been,

00:08:01.820 I don't know, all my life. If you're a woman and you go on a date with a man, you better have $200 1.00

00:08:07.720 in your pocket. So if that man acts up, you can go where you want to go. So I keep cash in my house.

00:08:13.300 And I don't keep cash as good in my purse like I used to. I don't go on many dates. But when you go

00:08:19.860 on a date, you should have cash in your pocket. So my question was, where did that cash originally

00:08:24.680 come from? If it didn't come out of the bank? Cash is fungible. I had cash for years in my house.

00:08:31.700 So for me to tell you the source of when it comes from, when you go to Publix and you buy something,

00:08:36.000 you get $50, you throw it in there. It's been my whole life. When I took out a large amount of money

00:08:41.680 on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that. Like, to tell you, I just have cash in my

00:08:48.120 house. I don't have as much today as I would normally have.

00:08:51.740 Where Ms. Willis should be treated. I think we have.

00:08:55.200 I very much want to be here. So I'm not a hostile witness. I very much want to be here.

00:08:58.840 Not so much that you're hostile, Ms. Willis, it'd be an adverse witness. Your interests are

00:09:02.460 opposed to Ms. Merchant's. Ms. Merchant's interests are contrary to democracy, Your Honor, not to mine. 0.98

00:09:12.100 Okay. So in that first clip there, of course, the context there is obvious. They're trying to trace

00:09:17.220 the source of the cash and because they're getting to the bottom of these corruption claims. And

00:09:26.120 she's saying, well, I don't know where my cash comes from. You know, the cash could come from

00:09:29.220 anywhere. I just have cash around. It's, you know, so she stumbles on the word fungible. Very proud

00:09:34.920 of herself for that. Now, I mean, we're going to leave aside the fact that what she's saying

00:09:39.780 is, it's like the worst advice I've ever heard. That if you're a woman, you should always have cash

00:09:47.040 on you if you're going out with a man. I think like the opposite is probably true. If you're worried

00:09:52.640 about the guy. Oh, you know, you know, if you're a woman and you're worried that a guy might, you know,

00:09:57.120 if you're worried about his character, you should always have $200 in cash on you. What?

00:10:02.680 And in that second clip you just saw, Fannie Willis says that she's not a hostile witness

00:10:07.180 because she wants to testify. But the designation of hostile witness has nothing to do with wanting

00:10:14.840 to testify or not. I mean, I know this just from watching Law and Order. It means that the witness

00:10:20.040 has adverse interest to the party questioning her, which is the normal situation on cross-examination,

00:10:25.520 but an unusual situation on direct examination. So being a hostile witness basically means that the

00:10:30.840 lawyers can ask the witness more aggressive, leading questions on direct examination as if

00:10:35.660 it's a cross-examination. Now, you would think that Willis would know this as the district attorney,

00:10:43.100 but apparently not. Fannie Willis also apparently doesn't understand the legal implications of other 0.99

00:10:49.240 claims she made during her testimony. For example, in the first clip you just saw, Willis states,

00:10:53.180 quote, when I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that.

00:10:57.440 Now, I'm not a campaign finance expert, but that seems like the kind of statement

00:11:01.840 that you don't want to make under oath. Using campaign funds for personal expenses is generally

00:11:07.960 frowned upon. Now, to be fair, elsewhere in the hearing, Willis does say that she took money out

00:11:12.440 of her retirement account to fund her campaign for a local judge before she ran for DA. So it's possible

00:11:18.780 that she's referring to her own money here, maybe. But it's not clear whether she told donors to her DA

00:11:24.840 campaign about this arrangement. That would certainly be, you know, the honest, professional

00:11:28.880 thing to do. But after watching Fannie Willis' other testimony, we have reason to doubt her honesty

00:11:34.100 and professionalism, to put it mildly. Watch.

00:11:38.480 And then he tells me how much it is, and I give him the money back. I don't, just like you're asking

00:11:44.240 me about the money with Robin, I don't do my friends like that. So if you tell me it's a G, then you're

00:11:49.000 gonna get $1,000. Whatever it is, I didn't ever make him produce receipts to me. Whatever he told

00:11:53.720 me it was, I gave him the money back. I bought him, he likes wine. I don't really like wine,

00:11:58.140 to be honest with you. I like Grey Goose. I bought him a bottle of wine while we were there,

00:12:03.560 and the sippings that you do.

00:12:07.860 Now, it used to be that prosecutors displayed some level of respect for the office that they held.

00:12:13.200 These are people with the power to use the force of law to imprison

00:12:16.020 and bankrupt pretty much anyone in the state. They're elected, supposedly, to uphold fundamental

00:12:20.720 principles of fairness and justice, without which we don't have the rule of law. When DAs start acting

00:12:26.720 like sassy waitresses or trashy pop stars, then people understandably lose all faith in the judicial 0.96

00:12:32.520 system. If they have no integrity, then the system itself has no integrity. It doesn't help matters

00:12:38.620 that Fannie Wills was reportedly wearing her dress backwards and her flag pinned sideways. Now, for the 0.96

00:12:44.560 record, that is not confirmed. Fashion experts on the internet have identified two dresses that are

00:12:49.800 similar to the one Fannie Wills was wearing, one with the zipper in the back and one with the zipper

00:12:53.680 in front, just as Fannie Wills is wearing it. So here's a side-by-side of the two dresses in

00:12:59.500 question if you want to know. If you're more inclined to pursue this question than I am,

00:13:02.460 you can compare those images to the picture of Fannie Wills testifying and come to your own

00:13:06.700 conclusions on whether she's wearing the dress properly. But the point is, given everything else

00:13:11.220 about Wills' testimony, it's completely believable that she doesn't know how to dress herself.

00:13:16.700 I mean, if she doesn't know anything about the law, even though she's a lawyer, then putting

00:13:20.380 clothes on could also present challenges. This is the level of faith that people have in Fannie 0.55

00:13:26.160 Wills, and deservedly so. As a result, right now, it looks like Wills stands a real chance

00:13:31.400 of getting booted off the case. Her performance was that bad, to say nothing of the fact that she

00:13:36.580 apparently lied to the court. But even if she and Nathan Wade are ultimately disqualified from

00:13:41.620 continuing this prosecution, the reality is that there are many more equally incompetent prosecutors

00:13:47.420 waiting to take their place in the state of Georgia. So take this footage from a couple of

00:13:52.380 months ago, for example. It's from the prosecutors closing arguments in the case of Hannah Payne. Now,

00:13:57.700 for some background, Hannah Payne witnessed an impaired driver run a red light and cause a traffic

00:14:03.640 accident, and then flee the scene. Now, Payne realized that no one had the guy's license plate,

00:14:09.140 so she gave chase, and she pulled in front of the guy. And then she says the man grabbed her wrist

00:14:15.120 through the window of the car, and her gun went off killing him. Now, whether you think Hannah Payne

00:14:20.120 is guilty of murder or not, based on those facts, you have to concede it's a complex case. Hannah Payne's

00:14:26.700 life is on the line. And it's clear she's not a malicious person who goes around shooting people

00:14:31.600 at random. She's not some kind of serial killer. Plus, she had no reason to worry that this impaired 0.98

00:14:37.840 driver was going to cause more accidents. She had reason to worry that the driver might cause more

00:14:41.900 accidents. So given that background, you might assume that the prosecutor in this case would be

00:14:46.620 a serious person, well-versed in the law, who's able to communicate professionally to the jury.

00:14:54.780 Instead, here's the prosecutor who was assigned to Hannah Payne's case. Watch.

00:14:59.360 You can't poke a bear. And then when the bear turns around and attack you, want to claim

00:15:10.360 self-defense. It doesn't work that way.

00:15:20.860 She should have minded her own business.

00:15:22.940 Profound. She should have minded her own business, says the prosecutor. And then she pauses for a

00:15:34.280 while just to let that sink in. This was her Clarence Darrow moment. You know, you can tell

00:15:39.300 she's proud of it. The rest of us are wondering whether there are any prosecutors in Georgia who

00:15:45.380 don't act like Fannie Willis. Is there a single prosecutor in the state who's capable of speaking

00:15:49.940 and acting like an actual lawyer? Again, this is the major crimes division. This is a homicide case.

00:15:55.860 And this is the best they can offer. And the problem isn't just confined to Georgia, of course,

00:16:00.240 although it appears to be especially acute there. We're living under a tyranny of mediocre morons. 1.00

00:16:06.280 And this is happening all across the country. These morons are representing the government in court 1.00

00:16:11.400 where they can send you to prison for the rest of your life. In some cases, they're also enforcing the 1.00

00:16:16.620 law on the street as police officers. And they have the complete and total backing of the government.

00:16:21.620 There's no effort underway to restore competence to any of these positions. What you see is what you

00:16:27.460 get. In fact, the government is seemingly encouraging these people to act as dumb as they 1.00

00:16:31.300 possibly can just to erode the public trust as much as possible. That's the only explanation 0.98

00:16:35.960 for why the NYPD just sent out its dance team. Yes, its dance team, because apparently police

00:16:41.980 departments have dance teams now. And they sent out the dance team to perform on television

00:16:47.180 a few days ago. Watch.

00:16:49.120 Now, you know, there are people have found different ways to find some silver lining here. You know,

00:17:11.460 one common refrain is that, well, at least they're getting some getting some exercise in. You might

00:17:17.060 also say that, hey, they're just trying to give the female cops something to do. Although they 1.00

00:17:22.660 can't even do that right. Like they can't even, I mean, I could dance as well as that. But really,

00:17:29.300 there's only one bit of good news in all this, especially when you look at the case of Fannie 0.99

00:17:34.220 Willis, which is that the mediocre morons who have power over us are extremely easy to expose. 0.98

00:17:41.580 That's certainly what's happened with Fannie Willis. And she's so obvious in her corruption that it all 1.00

00:17:46.100 came crashing down pretty quickly. And they'll, you know, happily go on television and reveal how

00:17:51.300 incompetent and corrupt they are. They just can't help themselves. That's the good news. 0.99

00:17:56.260 The bad news is that there's an endless supply of these amoral halfwits out there waiting to replace 0.96

00:18:03.140 their bosses when they're gone. And in some cases, they're even worse somehow than the failures they 0.96

00:18:08.300 replace. So get rid of Paul Howard and you get Fannie Willis. This is the pattern. What happens when you 0.80

00:18:15.420 get rid of Fannie Willis? Well, very soon for better or worse, we'll probably find out. Now, 0.80

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00:20:17.700 tonight host John Oliver is urging Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, offering a million

00:20:23.180 dollars a year to do so. Oliver railed against the conservative justice during the 11th season

00:20:27.840 premiere of his weekly show on Sunday saying Thomas has made the lives of Americans demonstrably worse

00:20:33.500 and promising him a brand new luxury recreational vehicle if he agrees to step down from the high

00:20:38.940 court. We have this clip of this comedy bit, I suppose it's supposed to be. Here it is. Watch.

00:20:48.880 Now from stripping away women's rights to six cases you definitely shouldn't be hearing to 1.00

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00:22:35.360 statement because I have nothing but seething contempt for all of them. Um, and, you know,

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00:23:09.460 blood sucking leeches in the media in Hollywood who are worse than him. I mean, you might say all 0.98

00:23:14.060 that to yourself and, and, and, uh, and that's true. But for me personally, John Oliver is especially

00:23:19.920 obnoxious. Um, and I think it's that while being a dimwitted hack, like all the rest of them, he also 0.97

00:23:27.600 pretends to be a comedian. That that's the part that offends me on a personal level. Um, it's, 0.96

00:23:33.860 it's, it's only that part. Don't call yourself a comedian and keep all the rest of the same and

00:23:39.100 don't call yourself a comedian. And then you'll just be as bad as the, as, as everybody else in media.

00:23:43.160 Um, but he pretends to be a comedian and yet he's never told a joke in his life.

00:23:48.660 His idea of telling a joke is to rant and whine, but use the F word while he's ranting and whining.

00:23:55.560 And that's the whole joke. So here's, here, here's, here's basically the, uh, and I'll,

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00:24:14.320 He's a fascist, right? That's what, now that's your run of the mill average kind of left-wing 0.97

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00:24:26.480 it, you're, you're not going to say, you're not going to pretend that it's funny. It's like, okay,

00:24:30.300 that's, you're criticizing Donald Trump. John Oliver, though, he'll do is he'll put a twist on it and

00:24:35.940 he'll say, Donald Trump is terrible. He's an effing fascist. And then, and then it's hilarious. 1.00

00:24:42.600 And then you just, it's a, it's, it's, you, you, it's the funniest thing you've ever heard in your

00:24:45.760 life. People, the audience is, is, is they're breathless. They are breathless with laugh. They're

00:24:50.340 doubled over laughing because he put the F word in there. That is the whole, um, that's the whole,

00:24:55.780 that's the John Oliver secret. That's how you take run of the mill CNN tier commentary and you turn

00:25:03.780 it into apparently hilarious, uproarious, comedic brilliance, and you should win 57 Emmys for it.

00:25:13.520 Um, that's what we're supposed to believe anyway, but I don't believe it. And it annoys me that people

00:25:20.160 on the left pretend to believe it. Yeah. And, and as for the substance of this latest, uh, this

00:25:26.580 latest comedy bit from John Oliver, you know, it, it goes without saying, of course, that

00:25:33.980 if any white person did exactly this same thing, but directed it at a black liberal instead,

00:25:43.280 then they would be condemned as racist by the entire media and everybody on the left.

00:25:48.240 And, you know, they, they would be trying to put them in jail probably for it. Um, and it, you know,

00:25:53.800 because, because obviously, right. Uh, you got a white guy trying to buy off a black public official 0.97

00:26:01.260 openly saying this guy is for sale. I'm buying you as a black public. I'm going to buy you. Um, 1.00

00:26:09.760 and in any other context, that would be, it would be considered to be just, uh, insanely racist,

00:26:16.740 racist, but those rules are suspended of course, because it's Clarence Thomas and they despise

00:26:21.800 him and they despise him. In fact, significantly more than they despise any white person who has 0.58

00:26:27.680 the same ideas or even any other, I mean, you might like, why are they so hung up on Clarence

00:26:33.460 Thomas? There, there are other conservatives on the Supreme court, not enough in my opinion,

00:26:37.980 not enough, uh, uh, um, reliable ones, but what, why all this special vitriol for Clarence

00:26:46.440 Thomas? And the answer is that, uh, because he's black. And so they consider his conservatism 0.90

00:26:52.520 to be sort of a betrayal. John Oliver believes that he owns Clarence Thomas. He believes that

00:26:57.660 Thomas being a black man belongs to him ideologically. And the fact that he isn't cooperating, the fact 0.99

00:27:03.680 that he, that he is his own man with his own point of view sends guys like John Oliver into

00:27:09.120 a rage, the, the, the, the amount of undisguised contempt that they have for this guy. I mean,

00:27:19.020 starting with the fact he's calling Clarence Thomas by his first name, you know, not using

00:27:22.320 his proper title, spitting in his face, basically calling into question his basic integrity as a man.

00:27:28.200 And, uh, he feels absolutely entitled to do all of that because Thomas has betrayed him

00:27:33.120 by not being a Marxist ghoul. Now, you know that, uh, I'm not one to do the whole, uh,

00:27:40.320 Dems are the real racist bit. You know, that's not my, that's not my thing. You know how I feel

00:27:45.400 about that generally, but in this case, you really just can't help but notice that John Oliver

00:27:52.600 literally treats the guy like an escaped slave. That is actually how he treats him.

00:27:58.320 I mean, he's trying to buy him back. That's what he's doing. And, uh, he's doing all this

00:28:04.520 while being painfully unfunny on top of it, which is the real, which again, that is the real offense

00:28:08.160 here. Cause even all this, even every, everything else, you put aside how morally objectionable it

00:28:12.940 is. If he was actually able to do it in a funny way, then you could at least give him credit.

00:28:17.320 I can say, well, I disagree with it. I might even have moral qualms with it, but it is funny.

00:28:23.080 I'll give him that, but you can't say that cause there's no joke here.

00:28:25.140 Um, which is why, you know, I, and I made this offer on Twitter yesterday and I'll just

00:28:30.300 reiterate it here that, um, here, you know, we have, we have the, the offer being made to

00:28:35.140 Clarence Thomas. I'll make my own deal to John Oliver, which is John, I will give you a million

00:28:42.640 dollars in cash on marked bills. If you can tell one funny joke, uh, just one is all we need.

00:28:51.800 And you know, and I, and I don't, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be hard to do.

00:28:58.260 Um, you could, you know what, I'll even let you go and Google it. You could Google funny jokes.

00:29:03.720 And I just want to hear you tell one. That's it. I want to hear you tell one funny. And that,

00:29:07.700 but let me explain the joke is that there's a, the structure to the joke, which means that you've

00:29:10.940 got a setup, right? And you've got the punchline of the joke. And, and very often your jokes,

00:29:16.460 there's no punchline at all, except that you're mad and you're sad and your tummy hurts because of 0.55

00:29:23.200 someone who's conservative in your presence. Like that's not a punchline. Well, you yourself

00:29:30.060 are a punchline, but I don't, but that doesn't really count. So you yourself being a joke of a

00:29:36.660 person, you yourself being, um, a clown is not a punchline in and of itself. So what I, what I need 0.78

00:29:42.700 is, is the setup and the punchline. Sometimes you have the setup, uh, you never have the punchline.

00:29:47.320 A lot of times you don't even have the setup. So I need you to put both of those things together

00:29:50.840 and then I'll, I'll give you a million dollars, a million dollars. I will get to you. Um, and,

00:29:59.240 and, you know, by the way, it, it should also be said that, um, yes, that whole segment was a

00:30:05.200 federal crime, you know, just that small little detail. So, uh, bribing, openly bribing a federal

00:30:12.400 official, a Supreme court judge, justice is a crime. I mean, that's punishable by up to 15 years in

00:30:17.680 prison. And, and I would love to see, I mean, if Trump wins in 2024, he should really go after

00:30:25.060 John Oliver and try to put him in prison for bribing a federal official a hundred percent. He should do

00:30:29.340 it. All right. So, um, here's the new big idea from Congress. It's called speaking of bribes,

00:30:36.820 actually, it's called the courage to serve act. And, uh, let's hear about it.

00:30:43.340 The new proposal in Washington that would help migrants get an expedited path to citizenship.

00:30:47.860 It would require them to first serve in the U S military. All right. Fox size, Morgan McKay joins

00:30:52.080 us with details in the bill, which lawmakers say could help solve two problems at once.

00:30:55.700 There is no higher honor than serving your country in uniform. And that honor could be extended to

00:31:02.360 migrants under a new bill introduced by Hudson Valley Congressman Pat Ryan called the courage to

00:31:07.740 serve act. This bill would offer qualified and vetted migrants and expedited path to citizenship. If

00:31:14.080 they serve in the military, according to Ryan last year, the military services collectively missed

00:31:19.860 recruiting goals by roughly 41,000 recruits, leaving some crucial positions unfilled. If there are folks

00:31:27.060 with the courage to raise their right hand, take an oath to protect and defend our constitution and put their

00:31:33.420 lives on the line for this country, then they sure as hell deserve the opportunity to be citizens in the

00:31:39.300 United States of America. This bill comes days after a bipartisan border security package negotiated by the

00:31:45.220 Senate fell apart amid Republican opposition. Staten Island Congresswoman Nicole Maliatakis argued that

00:31:51.860 the Senate bill did not go far enough when it comes to securing the border and said there is more President

00:31:57.220 Joe Biden can do in the interim. He can end catch and release. He can adjust the asylum. He could end the

00:32:04.180 parole program that he started. So that is the courage to serve act. So we're going to offer

00:32:09.460 illegal citizenship in exchange for serving in the military. The idea supposedly is to solve the

00:32:14.600 recruiting crisis, as you just heard, except this doesn't solve the recruiting crisis at all.

00:32:19.620 Because the recruiting crisis, like what is the recruiting crisis? The recruiting crisis

00:32:22.820 is happening because the military is having trouble enticing American citizens, American men

00:32:29.400 specifically, to join the military and serve their country. Why are they having trouble doing that?

00:32:35.720 Well, in large part because most Americans have lost total faith in their government and in their

00:32:41.000 institutions, including the military, which means that they're not going to sign their lives over to

00:32:44.920 it. You know, everybody knows that when you sign up for the military, you are giving your life over,

00:32:52.240 perhaps in a very literal sense, it may turn out, in a sort of ultimate sense, it may turn out,

00:32:58.440 you're giving your life over to this institution. And so you need to have some kind of faith in that

00:33:06.960 institution to respect you, to respect the commitment and the sacrifice that you're making

00:33:12.500 to, you know, you have to have faith in the institution and people don't. And so that is the reason why

00:33:18.800 the recruiting crisis is happening. The military has become ideologically captured by the left,

00:33:24.640 as we know, which repels almost all of the men who in decades and centuries past would have been the

00:33:31.220 ones signing up. In other words, there's a certain type of man that has always been the backbone of

00:33:38.360 the military. In fact, has always been the military, not just the backbone, but the military itself has

00:33:42.860 always been comprised. And when I say always, I mean, going back thousands of years for as long as

00:33:49.040 there has been human civilization and therefore militaries. So a certain type of man has always

00:33:57.380 been what comprises the military. And yet the government has done everything in its power

00:34:04.100 to alienate those men specifically. And it's not even like they're just alienating everybody,

00:34:10.940 although they sort of are. It's that they've identified that one particular type of man.

00:34:15.940 And they've said, we want to chase him out. We want to make this environment as unwelcoming to him

00:34:24.480 specifically as we possibly can. And they've succeeded. And that's the crisis. Their solution

00:34:30.580 is to bribe illegals to take their place, but that doesn't solve the crisis at all.

00:34:37.720 Like, this is not some brilliant scheme. Like, of course, you can always get disloyal mercenaries

00:34:45.720 to sign up and go off and kill whoever you tell them to kill if you're paying them. You can always do 0.99

00:34:52.300 that. If you have enough money, there's always that option. You know, you can always have a

00:34:57.400 military full of just mercenaries. So in that sense, the American military will always have manpower.

00:35:03.940 Like, there really is no chance that we're going to get to a point where there's just nobody in the

00:35:07.520 military at all. Because they can always, when it comes down to it, they staff it with mercenaries

00:35:13.680 if they need to. But that's the problem. The military will become a mercenary force rather

00:35:19.200 than a volunteer force. It will be something when people are in there and they're just going and

00:35:25.560 doing what they're told for money, not because of any sense of patriotism or pride or anything like

00:35:29.900 that. And that's what's going to happen here. Will the illegal immigrants make good soldiers? 1.00

00:35:37.220 Well, of course they won't. Of course they will not. Because they have no loyalty to this country.

00:35:45.060 Now, will they make sufficient cannon fodder for the bureaucrats that send them off on foreign 1.00

00:35:51.420 adventures? Maybe. But will they make actual soldiers? No. You know, you heard the guy say

00:36:00.000 that, well, the military is all about defending the constitution. You think illegals give the 0.96

00:36:07.180 slightest damn about the constitution? Why would they? They're not even from here. 1.00

00:36:14.340 You think they're down in Mexico or Guatemala or whatever, and they have this deep abiding love

00:36:20.260 for the American constitution and they want to go off and protect it with their lives? Of course not.

00:36:26.220 I wouldn't even expect them to. They're not from here. They don't live here. This is not their home.

00:36:32.780 They don't care about this country. They don't care about its people.

00:36:38.640 So you're going to be staffing the military with people that have no loyalty to the country 0.98

00:36:42.180 or the people they're supposed to be ostensibly defending. But from the perspective of our corrupt

00:36:49.420 politicians and bureaucrats, that's exactly what makes them great candidates. That's exactly why 0.82

00:36:54.840 they love this idea of getting illegals involved. Because what the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians 0.89

00:37:02.880 want to do is they want to go off across the world fighting wars that have nothing to do with America

00:37:09.100 or its people. And so in fact, from their perspective, it's better to have people in the military

00:37:14.800 who have no interest in defending America because they have no attachment to it.

00:37:21.640 And if that's the case, if you're taking these people that are just there on a mercenary basis,

00:37:25.540 they have no attachment to the country, then yeah, you just have them go do whatever you tell them to do.

00:37:30.360 And you don't have to worry about, you know, any having to justify it.

00:37:39.200 And that's obviously what this is about. All right. So I'm late to this, but I do want to say

00:37:45.420 something about it. The comedian David Lucas went viral a couple of weeks ago when he basically

00:37:50.820 cleared out the room at a standup set when he was telling jokes about George Floyd.

00:37:56.820 And the audience was very unhappy. And this clip went viral. We'll play just a little bit of it. Here it is.

00:38:04.480 You wanted to show them the reason George Floyd got his neck nailed on.

00:38:13.600 Don't ooh at that joke.

00:38:17.940 It's just a joke, man. I would have never kneeled on George Floyd's neck.

00:38:21.400 I would have shot that. That was making us look to know about George Floyd before you get your

00:38:28.000 ass up there talking. 0.99

00:38:32.480 It's called comedy. 0.98

00:38:34.040 How many of my black fans I got to hear that might leave?

00:38:38.540 Oh, good, man. I got I got I was just warming up with that George Floyd.

00:38:43.800 You ready to go? All right, baby.

00:38:53.600 OK. All right. You offended, too, baby, with the brains?

00:38:57.600 You offended, too? God damn, man. 1.00

00:39:00.780 Y'all good? Are y'all about to? 1.00

00:39:02.400 So everybody's leaving.

00:39:17.240 They're all leaving. And by the end, he's standing in an empty room.

00:39:20.940 There are no tables or chairs. They bring the tables and chairs with them.

00:39:24.040 Or, you know, that's basically the the idea.

00:39:27.080 OK, so this led to, as you can imagine, lots of anger and outrage and how dare you besmirch the

00:39:34.560 most holy, sacred name of George Floyd and all the rest of it.

00:39:39.160 Lucas said David Lucas, the comedian there, said that he wasn't going to apologize.

00:39:44.320 And and he said that when it first went viral.

00:39:47.780 And that resolution lasted about 48 hours, I think.

00:39:53.240 And two days later, after it went viral, he posted this.

00:39:59.260 Hi, this is comedian David Lucas.

00:40:01.400 You know me from Kill Tony and other various roast shows.

00:40:04.420 I'm an edgy, push the boundary comedian.

00:40:07.840 And my job as a comedian is to bring humor in dire situations.

00:40:12.360 With that being said, there is a clip that is circulating around social media.

00:40:15.900 And since that clip has came out, I have spoken to a lot of George Floyd's family.

00:40:21.660 I spoke to Cal Wayne, Trader Truth, Stephen Jackson.

00:40:25.140 And my intention was to never cause harm to his family or make them revisit a moment that

00:40:31.100 happened a few years ago.

00:40:32.880 I'm a father, so I get it.

00:40:34.520 I understand how his kids feel.

00:40:36.560 I've spoken to his whole family.

00:40:39.480 And we've came, you know, to an understanding as to how to move forward from this.

00:40:46.780 And I just want to apologize to his kids and everybody who was close to him.

00:40:51.940 Now, first of all, I've heard people defend this groveling apology from David Lucas by on

00:41:00.400 the basis that, well, he never apologized for the joke.

00:41:04.380 I've actually, I've seen that multiple places that it's, he didn't really apologize for the

00:41:08.740 joke.

00:41:09.080 He just apologized to the family and anybody who was offended, but he didn't apologize for

00:41:12.400 the joke.

00:41:13.180 Yeah.

00:41:13.460 Yeah.

00:41:13.840 That's apologizing for the joke.

00:41:15.500 Okay.

00:41:15.820 That's what, what, what the hell do you think an apology for a joke sounds like?

00:41:19.880 It sounds exactly like that.

00:41:21.220 That's precisely what it is.

00:41:23.920 This is what you just heard is it's literally a cut and paste version of every public apology

00:41:29.900 that's ever been offered to the left-wing mob.

00:41:32.840 It's the same script, right?

00:41:35.380 It's always the same script.

00:41:37.520 Okay.

00:41:38.000 It's always, uh, before you even hear it, you know exactly what you're going to hear because

00:41:43.120 it's always, well, you know, I said this and, um, in the days since I've had a lot of very

00:41:49.440 valuable conversations with the people and they, that we've talked and we've come to an

00:41:53.520 understanding and they've let me know that their perspectives and they've let me know how,

00:41:57.560 how hurt they were by, by the things that I said.

00:41:59.800 And, uh, I just, uh, if I caused any pain, I want to apologize.

00:42:03.540 It's like, you didn't even need to listen.

00:42:05.480 You knew exactly what he was going to say.

00:42:07.260 Um, and it is, it is grotesque every single time.

00:42:13.680 I have no sympathy for people who apologize.

00:42:17.040 You're dead to me when you apologize it.

00:42:19.900 And I'll tell you why.

00:42:21.600 If you don't want to deal with the backlash from stomping on one of the left's sacred cows,

00:42:27.560 then don't stomp on the sacred cow.

00:42:31.740 Okay.

00:42:32.440 Leave it alone.

00:42:33.740 Don't say anything.

00:42:35.080 But if you go there, if you decide to tread in that water, uh, you have a, you have a,

00:42:42.520 you have a moral responsibility to remain firm.

00:42:46.740 You know, apologizing in a situation like this, it's not just, oh, uh, that's, that's unfortunate.

00:42:51.220 It's like, that is a, that is a moral failing.

00:42:54.780 It is a, it is a, it is a betrayal really in a lot of ways.

00:42:59.920 Once, once you've done that, I mean, once you've thrown the gauntlet down, no one told

00:43:06.040 you you had to do that.

00:43:07.040 You decided to do it.

00:43:08.160 No one told you you had to go and, and, and make fun of George Floyd.

00:43:10.840 But if you're going to do it, stand by your words.

00:43:16.660 You have to, I mean, the whole value of making crass jokes about George Floyd, the value of

00:43:23.220 it.

00:43:23.980 And I think there is a lot of value in it.

00:43:25.840 When I first saw that clip, now I didn't, um, I don't even think I, I retweeted it or

00:43:30.860 anything.

00:43:31.060 Maybe I did, but I didn't say much about it and I didn't praise this guy for, for this

00:43:38.160 reason, because I knew exactly what was going to happen.

00:43:39.940 I, I just have no faith in anybody anymore.

00:43:42.360 And I, and I knew it.

00:43:43.540 I'm like, yeah, he's going to apologize.

00:43:45.160 And I hope I'm wrong.

00:43:46.540 I said, let me give it a few days.

00:43:47.820 If he doesn't apologize a few days from now, then we'll play the clip and we'll talk about

00:43:50.460 it.

00:43:50.520 I'll talk about, he's a brave comedian.

00:43:52.660 And he apologized.

00:43:53.700 So of course, um, and I'm tired of that.

00:43:57.500 That's the other problem is that, is that when you, when you do something and the cancel

00:44:01.280 mob's coming after you and then you cave all of the people who rallied around you 1.00

00:44:07.280 and defended you and celebrated you, you make them look stupid. 1.00

00:44:09.940 On top of it. 1.00

00:44:12.120 Now I've learned that lesson.

00:44:13.420 So I'm not even going to like, I'm going to wait.

00:44:15.680 Okay.

00:44:15.860 Once you get the cancel mob coming after you, I'm going to, I'm not going to be left holding

00:44:20.240 the bag again.

00:44:21.140 So you need to prove that you're going to stand up for yourself.

00:44:24.400 And then once you've done that, then I will come to your defense, but I'm not defending

00:44:29.860 you.

00:44:30.140 If you're not going to defend yourself, that's not the way this is going to work.

00:44:33.540 It happens way too much.

00:44:35.060 Um, but you know, the, the value in, uh, making jokes about George Floyd is that you are challenging 0.87

00:44:46.360 the profane, ridiculous idols of our culture. 0.97

00:44:49.800 The culture has made an idol out of this criminal drug addict. 1.00

00:44:54.260 Okay. 0.97

00:44:54.580 This good for nothing, uh, you know, drain on humanity. 1.00

00:44:58.260 This, this violent scumbag is what he was. 1.00

00:45:01.660 And, uh, they've made an idol out of them. 0.98

00:45:04.240 And so with, with what, in the original clip, what David Lucas was doing is he, he was desecrating

00:45:10.100 the idol and why was he desecrating it?

00:45:12.540 Really just for the sake of it, he was making a mockery of it just to do it.

00:45:18.320 And I think that that's, there's a lot of value in that.

00:45:21.880 I would say that it's a moral act.

00:45:25.000 I see it as no different than Cortez and the conquistadors, uh, marching up the steps of 0.67

00:45:29.540 the Aztec temples and toppling their satanic idols to their hideous demon gods. 0.71

00:45:35.700 Um, it's a good thing to do. 0.96

00:45:37.160 It is a good moral thing to do.

00:45:39.840 And, uh, because your culture, if you've made an idol out of this, this, this, this should

00:45:45.480 not be an idol.

00:45:47.040 This person, this being has, has, has no right to be an idol.

00:45:53.100 It does not deserve that place. 0.69

00:45:55.080 And so I'm going to tear him down and I'm going to make you mad and I'm going to do it 0.53

00:45:59.200 on purpose.

00:46:00.660 Um, it's a great thing to do.

00:46:03.360 It's the right thing to do.

00:46:04.800 And it, and if comedians, if we have brave comedians in society, they would be the ones

00:46:11.760 sort of like at the forefront of this fight.

00:46:14.620 Okay.

00:46:15.320 They, we don't have actual conquistadors anymore in the, in the, uh, in the shining armor and

00:46:19.860 all that marching up steps.

00:46:21.020 So, so now it's like, yeah, it's like a comedian needs to be the one to do something like that.

00:46:25.200 Um, but if you're going to do it, you have to withstand what comes next because obviously

00:46:34.900 if you do that, you're going to catch hell for it.

00:46:38.180 You're going to be attacked and defamed and demeaned and insulted. 0.99

00:46:43.420 Um, you're going to get death threats.

00:46:44.980 I've heard from other people that he got, that he said he, I didn't hear him say he

00:46:48.980 got death threats, but I, I don't know if that's true or not.

00:46:50.920 That's what I, that's what some people are saying.

00:46:53.600 Um, it doesn't surprise me.

00:46:55.520 I'm sure he did.

00:46:56.440 Like based on my own experience of, of upsetting these various left-wing groups, I'm sure he

00:47:00.500 did.

00:47:02.860 But, um, does that justify an apology?

00:47:05.940 No, it doesn't.

00:47:09.180 I have no sympathy for it.

00:47:11.440 It's like, I don't, I don't apologize.

00:47:13.020 I just, I, yeah, I know what you're going through.

00:47:14.880 I've been through it many times.

00:47:16.700 Uh, but I don't, that's why I have no sympathy if you apologize.

00:47:19.300 I don't want to hear the excuse.

00:47:20.520 Oh, I had to, I say we really, I felt unsafe.

00:47:23.200 Well, you know what?

00:47:24.240 You got, you got to just deal with it.

00:47:25.720 Deal with feeling unsafe.

00:47:29.000 Because if you apologize in the face of that, then, then what was the point?

00:47:32.560 Like, what did you open the can of worms in the first place?

00:47:35.840 Okay.

00:47:36.160 I'm, I'm not, I'm not going to lose respect for a comedian for not joking about George Floyd.

00:47:40.620 It's not like you have to.

00:47:41.580 Okay.

00:47:42.060 If I'm listening to a standup set and there's a comedian up there and they're, and they're

00:47:45.040 funny and I'm not going to sit there and say, well, why didn't he tell any jokes about

00:47:49.440 George Floyd?

00:47:50.000 Now, if he tells a George Floyd joke, as far as I'm concerned, that's great.

00:47:52.880 I'm glad he did, but you don't have to.

00:47:55.840 Uh, it's no one, no one is forcing you to.

00:47:59.160 When you decide to, then, uh, you have decided to open that door.

00:48:04.560 And I just don't, I don't get these people that they say something, they do something

00:48:10.100 that obviously is going to send the hounds of hell after you. 0.97

00:48:14.740 Obviously it will.

00:48:15.920 And then it happens and you cave.

00:48:18.520 What, were you actually surprised?

00:48:21.100 Did you not?

00:48:22.080 What do you think's going to happen?

00:48:23.380 Um, and, and, and the thing is, once you do that, then, and you cave, then you are way

00:48:33.520 worse than all the comedians who would never have told the joke in the first place because

00:48:40.160 they're too afraid.

00:48:42.080 Okay.

00:48:42.620 It's like you could have just stayed silent because you were afraid.

00:48:47.100 And, and, and that's one thing to speak up and then back down is a lot worse.

00:48:51.800 You don't get an A for effort in this case, you get a, you fail, you get a failing grade.

00:48:57.780 Um, and in this case, you know, I, on top of everything, he says that, um, oh, the family

00:49:05.820 of George Floyd, they, they have to revisit these terrible trauma that occurred.

00:49:12.320 I don't want to hear about it.

00:49:13.240 I don't want to hear about resurfaced trauma or reopened wounds or whatever of the George

00:49:18.460 Floyd family.

00:49:19.460 I don't want to hear about it.

00:49:21.240 Oh, now, now they, they, they don't want to hear about George Floyd anymore.

00:49:26.120 Now it's painful to hear about George Floyd.

00:49:28.080 Really?

00:49:29.540 I mean, they were right there from the beginning, pushing his death into the national spotlight.

00:49:34.140 They're one of the reasons why George Floyd was the only thing we heard about for like

00:49:38.100 six months.

00:49:39.100 Okay.

00:49:39.900 It wasn't painful then, was it?

00:49:43.240 They exploited it.

00:49:45.460 They profited off of it.

00:49:46.580 They're multimillionaires now because of all this.

00:49:50.820 And now, and now it's, oh, well, we don't want to, we just want to move on.

00:49:54.040 We don't want to talk about it anymore.

00:49:56.740 I don't give a damn if you don't want to talk about it anymore.

00:49:59.500 You don't get to decide that.

00:50:00.720 And as I've said all along, you know, the, the families of these BLM martyrs, hey, maybe,

00:50:08.920 maybe try being a real family before the guy dies.

00:50:13.260 Maybe try being a real parent before that, a real brother, whatever, a real support system.

00:50:18.820 Like, just, just do, just attempt to do even a basic job of being there for your family,

00:50:26.640 supporting, guiding them, offering some moral guidance.

00:50:31.580 You didn't do any of that.

00:50:34.580 So, uh, you, in fact, are like the last people who should have a say in, in, in what we're

00:50:42.300 allowed to talk about when it comes to George Floyd.

00:50:46.700 Um, okay.

00:50:48.960 So, everyone loses.

00:50:50.260 That's, uh, that's a, a loss all around.

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00:51:26.240 Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:33.820 So, today will be one of those daily cancellations, perhaps the most common variety, where there is

00:51:37.900 no good guy.

00:51:38.820 No one to defend.

00:51:40.060 No one's side to take.

00:51:41.120 In fact, I wouldn't be talking about this issue at all if not for the fact that I have

00:51:44.520 a segment on this show called The Daily Cancellation.

00:51:47.360 This story is made for such a segment.

00:51:49.140 And so, here we are.

00:51:50.180 It begins with a young woman named Maddie Hart, who is, of course, a TikTok influencer. 0.55

00:51:54.760 And if you have a very sharp memory, you may actually remember Maddie.

00:51:57.660 She went viral several weeks ago after telling a story about the feminism, quote, leaving her 0.82

00:52:02.020 body after going on a date with a guy who paid for the meal.

00:52:05.700 And if your memory is even sharper than that, you may recall that I expressed some skepticism

00:52:13.160 about her anti-feminism conversion.

00:52:16.660 You know, I didn't, I wasn't quite sure that this was totally sincere.

00:52:20.040 We don't need to rehash all that.

00:52:21.420 I will say that I was, of course, correct.

00:52:23.040 She posted a follow-up video where she said that she was just kidding.

00:52:25.740 Don't worry.

00:52:26.260 She's a feminist. 1.00

00:52:27.560 She still has purple hair, et cetera. 0.99

00:52:29.940 Purple hair and spirit, anyway.

00:52:31.240 Her hair isn't actually purple, but it, you know, might as well be.

00:52:33.780 Anyway, Maddie is back now, this time with a funny story about her dad, who, she says,

00:52:40.000 abandoned the family when she was a child.

00:52:42.680 And, but she's got a funny story to relate about that. 0.97

00:52:47.500 Here's part of it.

00:52:49.540 What's a piece of trauma that you have that's funny?

00:52:51.900 It has to actually be funny.

00:52:53.680 I'll go first.

00:52:54.280 My dad abandoned my family when I was five years old.

00:52:58.100 That is, um, a wife and four kids.

00:53:00.700 He abandoned us and then pursued amateur breakdancing.

00:53:04.840 And he got really good.

00:53:07.480 He, like, blew up.

00:53:08.460 Like, he became, like, a D-list celebrity status, like, viral breakdancer.

00:53:11.660 He became, like, the oldest actively competing breakdancer in the world.

00:53:15.240 Then he got on Good Morning America and talk shows and Washington Post wrote about him.

00:53:18.620 And he went super viral.

00:53:19.740 And he did all these interviews.

00:53:21.000 And he danced with Paula Abdul.

00:53:22.680 Here, I'll show you.

00:53:23.300 Take a look at this 60-year-old breakdance. 0.97

00:53:26.620 The worst part, damn it, he's good. 0.96

00:53:28.860 He should not be able to move his body like that. 0.99

00:53:31.340 It's, like, impossible.

00:53:32.600 It's beautiful.

00:53:33.880 Hey, dad.

00:53:35.740 Like, there was no split custody or anything.

00:53:38.060 Like, he just, like, left four kids to do that.

00:53:41.180 He may not have paid for some of my medical bills growing up.

00:53:43.680 But he did give me this breakdancing merchandise.

00:53:46.520 So that's him.

00:53:47.240 He's on his head.

00:53:47.860 Benihana is his b-boy name because his name is Ben Hart.

00:53:50.420 You know, I'll get texts like this.

00:53:52.300 Happy birthday, question mark.

00:53:53.700 And then, like, links to his breakdancing videos.

00:53:56.600 Now, I, like many millions of other people, would not have known about this video or this story if not for the dad in question who responded to his daughter's TikTok with a viral video of his own.

00:54:10.960 Ben Hart is apparently a wealthy advertising executive.

00:54:13.080 And here he is in his Bitcoin shirt responding to his daughter, who he says is a Hollywood screenwriter, by the way.

00:54:20.400 So we have a, we have a, I guess, an advertising versus Hollywood blood feud playing out via viral videos.

00:54:28.540 It's, like, the most modern and most annoying version of Hatfield and McCoy that you can imagine.

00:54:33.860 So here's Ben with his clapback.

00:54:36.220 First, I can see that as a five-year-old, Maddie would see her dad as having abandoned the family.

00:54:43.960 One day I was living there.

00:54:45.300 The next day, I wasn't.

00:54:47.320 And that will look like abandonment to a child.

00:54:50.240 But married couples do get divorced about half the time in America.

00:54:53.960 And I was just living a mile or so down the street in LaGrange, Illinois.

00:54:58.360 We just weren't living under the same roof.

00:55:01.140 Now, about not paying medical bills, that's just not correct.

00:55:04.980 Here was the financial arrangement of the divorce.

00:55:08.840 Maddie's mom, my ex-wife, got $2 million at the get-go, out of the gate, a lump sum payment. 0.90

00:55:15.740 Plus, I was paying her $18,000 per month in child support and alimony.

00:55:21.580 This was later reduced to $12,000 per month.

00:55:24.880 And, of course, I paid health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs.

00:55:28.640 I also put $600,000 into the kids' college fund.

00:55:32.000 In all, I paid out about $5 million to my ex-wife to cover costs for her and the kids.

00:55:38.540 And this is in 2005 dollars.

00:55:40.780 So add 50% to account for inflation.

00:55:44.320 In other words, I was not a deadbeat dad at all.

00:55:46.780 And, by the way, Maddie did not say that in her video.

00:55:49.200 But a lot of the comments assume that and say that.

00:55:52.060 Now, of course, there was no way for Maddie to know how much I was paying because she was a kid. 0.97

00:55:56.580 This wasn't something I talked about.

00:55:59.560 Also, remember that I was living one mile down the road from the kids in LaGrange, Illinois.

00:56:04.480 Sidewalks all the way.

00:56:06.100 An easy walk or bike ride.

00:56:08.080 I saw the kids all the time.

00:56:10.140 No abandonment, just a divorce.

00:56:12.720 Was I at fault in the divorce?

00:56:14.520 Yeah, I would say it was about 70% at fault.

00:56:17.400 I own that.

00:56:18.940 Maddie's mom and I were really not compatible in many ways.

00:56:21.940 We were compatible in some ways, but not in other ways.

00:56:24.660 Okay, now it continues on like this.

00:56:27.840 His response video is 10 minutes long.

00:56:30.060 And the crux of his point, as you heard, is that he didn't abandon the family.

00:56:33.000 He just got divorced.

00:56:34.340 He gave the kids lots of money.

00:56:36.060 And he still saw them all the time.

00:56:37.480 It was a big part of their life.

00:56:38.820 The video also went viral.

00:56:40.120 That video did.

00:56:41.340 Getting millions of views.

00:56:43.140 And while Maddie's video brought out hundreds of negative comments about the dad,

00:56:47.980 this one rallied the troops against the daughter.

00:56:50.580 And many of the comments, some from big-name right-wing accounts, in fact,

00:56:53.620 praised the dad for setting the record straight and putting his spoiled brat daughter in her place,

00:56:59.440 and so on.

00:57:00.600 They took his side, and they insisted that claims of abandonment were unfair, untrue.

00:57:06.300 Many comments called Ben's video wholesome.

00:57:09.600 Because, of course, there's nothing more wholesome than a father and daughter squabbling on the internet

00:57:14.800 in front of an audience of millions.

00:57:17.720 That's wholesome family content.

00:57:19.280 Honestly, I find the wholesome description totally baffling.

00:57:24.080 Some of the ways people have reacted to that last video, it boggles my mind.

00:57:28.240 I'm like, what video are you watching?

00:57:30.940 All these really support, oh, this was a great video.

00:57:33.260 This was wonderful.

00:57:34.680 What?

00:57:35.480 What?

00:57:35.960 Do you understand what's happening here?

00:57:39.440 I can only assume that these people are impressed with his tone of voice,

00:57:42.380 which is supposed to sound measured and cheerful,

00:57:44.040 but which to anyone with even the slightest bit of experience dealing with narcissistic phonies

00:57:48.860 comes off as gratingly smug and artificial.

00:57:53.060 This was not the end of it.

00:57:54.260 So Maddie had more to say.

00:57:55.620 She responded to her dad's response and said that, in fact,

00:57:58.840 he is the one not telling the full truth.

00:58:01.360 Watch.

00:58:01.620 I know my dad posted, like, a 10-minute video or whatever being like,

00:58:06.640 you know, my daughter's lying. 1.00

00:58:07.900 We have a great relationship.

00:58:09.060 I have a great relationship with all my kids.

00:58:10.740 That's just objectively not true.

00:58:12.260 Like, guys, we're all freaking out about this in my family group chat right now.

00:58:15.000 We're being like, he's so unhinged and delusional.

00:58:17.060 We don't know if he actually believes his own narrative or if he's lying on purpose,

00:58:20.860 but he's just, like, a weird guy.

00:58:22.740 Yeah, he said he lived down the street from us.

00:58:24.600 That's not true.

00:58:25.500 Or, like, if he did, it was only for a few months, maybe.

00:58:27.420 But actually, for most of my childhood, he lived in Florida with his new wife.

00:58:33.040 Like, basically, like, I don't want to get into this.

00:58:35.000 Like, again, like, my video was basically, like, sanitizing the situation

00:58:38.460 and, like, poking fun at the lightest parts of that childhood trauma.

00:58:41.680 But obviously, in real life, it was a lot more, like, complicated and traumatic.

00:58:45.280 And it was really hard.

00:58:46.600 He left us, immediately married another woman.

00:58:48.320 We didn't hear from him for years.

00:58:49.880 And then he would visit every few months and we'd go out to dinner.

00:58:52.280 But, like, he truly had no hand in raising us at all.

00:58:56.100 We don't speak with any sort of regularity.

00:58:58.140 He doesn't know when my birthday is.

00:58:59.800 Like, as you guys saw in the video I posted, he got it wrong.

00:59:02.080 He gave us some money growing up.

00:59:03.220 Like, I honestly don't know the nitty-gritty of the financial situation.

00:59:06.080 I really, really don't.

00:59:07.460 But I do know that several times I've asked him for financial help with medical expenses,

00:59:11.700 like, especially, like, in college.

00:59:12.840 And he wouldn't help me.

00:59:13.800 So that's what I was referring to in my video when I was, like,

00:59:16.120 he wouldn't pay some of my medical bills.

00:59:18.640 So Maddie says that her dad did leave the family.

00:59:22.080 He moved to another state, started a new family, at least a new marriage.

00:59:24.960 And they have basically no relationship at all and never have.

00:59:28.760 Her dad claims otherwise.

00:59:31.400 People on the Internet, meanwhile, have gone to their battle stations

00:59:34.200 and have taken one side or the other.

00:59:36.880 And that's the way these things generally go.

00:59:38.820 Now, for my part, I can only say that everyone is wrong. 1.00

00:59:43.400 Everyone is stupid. 1.00

00:59:44.500 Everything is terrible. 1.00

00:59:45.440 And the Internet is the worst mistake mankind has ever made.

00:59:48.960 Or at least if we have to come to a sweeping conclusion that lacks any semblance of nuance,

00:59:52.800 I think that's the safest one to draw.

00:59:55.740 But if we're going to take the time to analyze this in greater depth,

00:59:58.960 then there are some things to consider.

01:00:01.060 So first of all, Ben dismisses Maddie's claims of abandonment

01:00:06.140 as the immature perspective of a small child.

01:00:09.560 But in the process, he only shows that he is the one with the immature perspective

01:00:14.140 and that the small child, in this case, has more honesty and insight than he does.

01:00:19.860 Because if you leave your family and you start a new one, you have abandoned them.

01:00:25.860 Okay?

01:00:26.120 If your kids live in a house and you leave and you go somewhere else,

01:00:33.140 especially to a whole other state, although the state doesn't even matter,

01:00:36.840 but yes, you've left them.

01:00:40.280 How else do you want to put it?

01:00:42.060 It doesn't matter if you give them money.

01:00:44.800 Five dollars, five million dollars, five billion dollars.

01:00:48.660 A father is more than a checkbook.

01:00:50.560 You cannot replace your paternal role by sending cash.

01:00:55.180 Which is a point that really shouldn't need to be explained or defended,

01:00:59.240 but judging by the comments, it seems that it does.

01:01:01.400 And this, again, is a lot of conservatives who apparently don't understand this.

01:01:05.420 That are saying, well, he gave them a lot of money.

01:01:07.960 Is that what we're doing now?

01:01:10.300 As conservatives, we're saying that family, a father can be replaced with money?

01:01:15.680 Oh, yeah, because we know that, you know, everyone knows that rich kids, 0.87

01:01:19.320 they always turn out perfectly well, right?

01:01:21.500 You never have dysfunctional rich families with kids that are totally destroyed 0.92

01:01:25.780 and end up being dysfunctional, miserable people.

01:01:30.200 That never happens, right?

01:01:31.520 Now, it is true that not every divorced man is guilty of abandoning his family.

01:01:38.140 So I'm not saying that just because there was a divorce that the father abandoned the family.

01:01:43.060 It's possible that the wife could be the one who destroys the family and rips the home apart 1.00

01:01:47.420 and then leaves you and takes the kids against your will and all that kind of stuff.

01:01:53.460 And if that's the case, then you certainly do not deserve the deadbeat label,

01:01:57.680 as it has been stuck unfairly on so many men.

01:02:00.920 But that does not at all appear to be the case here.

01:02:04.560 In fact, Ben admits that he's mostly to blame for the divorce.

01:02:08.640 I don't know what the case is or not.

01:02:10.060 I can only take his word for it.

01:02:11.500 He said it was mostly his fault.

01:02:12.620 So I guess it was.

01:02:14.380 He apparently left the state and got married to a new woman.

01:02:18.120 His daughter says that he made no effort to maintain any kind of real fatherly relationship.

01:02:23.880 This is something that, you know, when your children are children, when they're actually kids,

01:02:30.520 you know, that is entirely on you as the parent to do.

01:02:34.660 So if there is no relationship with your kids, then that is your fault.

01:02:40.500 Because the burden is 100% yours to form and maintain that relationship or the responsibility, let's say.

01:02:50.240 I wouldn't call it a burden.

01:02:51.480 But it's on you.

01:02:53.600 And if you don't do it, your kids will grow to resent you.

01:02:58.200 And that will be 100% entirely, with no equivocation, your own fault.

01:03:02.540 It's true that Ben disputes some of this.

01:03:04.380 He says that he lived close by.

01:03:06.060 He says that he has a great relationship with his kids.

01:03:07.880 But there's plenty of reason to doubt his version of events.

01:03:10.940 I mean, the first reason is that he still, decades later,

01:03:13.780 denies that leaving the state and starting a new family counts as abandoning your kids.

01:03:19.120 He still, even now, apparently believes that money is a sufficient substitute for being an attentive father.

01:03:25.400 His daughter paints him as an oblivious narcissist who's more focused on himself and his own needs.

01:03:29.740 And everything about his response seems to lend credence to that claim.

01:03:33.800 Also, we know his story about being close to his children is obviously a lie.

01:03:37.080 Because if you're close to your child, she isn't going to make a video like this about you in the first place.

01:03:41.940 So when your daughter is making this kind of video about you as a father,

01:03:44.860 and you're saying, well, I'm really close with my daughter.

01:03:47.240 No, you're not.

01:03:48.180 That's not going to happen if you are.

01:03:50.820 You also probably aren't going to be texting her on her birthday,

01:03:53.980 on a day that isn't her birthday,

01:03:55.540 with a message that says, happy birthday with a question mark.

01:03:58.360 And look, I'll be the first to say that men, I give more leeway in forgetting dates and all that.

01:04:04.000 Our brains just aren't wired that way.

01:04:05.560 But, you know, you just saw from the screenshot of the text, like,

01:04:09.500 is the text happy birthday question mark?

01:04:11.880 Like, that is not exactly a hallmark of a close fatherly bond, okay?

01:04:19.520 Now, Ben, with his 1990s radio disc jockey Cadence,

01:04:22.580 says that he got divorced because he was not compatible with Maddie's mom.

01:04:27.200 They were compatible in some ways, he explains, but not in all ways.

01:04:30.820 So this is a man in his 60s, looking back on his life,

01:04:34.140 reflecting on choices that profoundly altered the lives of his four children.

01:04:37.660 And this is what he comes up with.

01:04:38.720 They were not compatible, as if the marriage was some kind of software program,

01:04:43.500 as if somebody accidentally poured the wrong kind of oil into the engine or something.

01:04:46.940 Being incompatible with another person,

01:04:49.680 that's just another way of saying that the other person is another person, okay?

01:04:55.000 That the person isn't you.

01:04:56.500 The person has their own personality traits and ideas and priorities and desires and so on.

01:05:04.520 Incompatible doesn't mean anything in this context.

01:05:07.140 It's just an excuse that you make when you give up.

01:05:11.180 It's another way of saying that you're too lazy and too selfish to do the basic work that marriage,

01:05:15.280 that any meaningful relationship requires.

01:05:17.700 And the idea that, you know, you would put your kids through the nightmare of a divorce,

01:05:22.360 that you would rip their universe in half because of incompatibility,

01:05:26.920 it's just reprehensible.

01:05:30.300 It just is.

01:05:32.000 Now, on the other hand, the daughter is an adult now,

01:05:34.420 and while I can certainly see why she doesn't like her dad and doesn't want anything to do with him,

01:05:38.760 and that she's perfectly entitled to have that point of view, obviously.

01:05:43.960 And again, you know, now it's possible that your kids could grow older and they can become adults

01:05:48.440 and become estranged from you through no fault of your own.

01:05:51.840 That kind of thing can happen.

01:05:53.260 It does happen.

01:05:53.960 It's tragic.

01:05:54.900 But most of the time, if your kid is an adult and they don't want anything to do with you,

01:06:01.240 most of the time it's because you were a terrible parent.

01:06:04.660 And you might not want to tell yourself that.

01:06:06.320 You might still be telling yourself stories.

01:06:07.940 I mean, we have all encountered plenty of adults like this who maybe are older,

01:06:13.280 maybe around Ben's age, and their kids don't like them and don't want anything to do with them.

01:06:19.300 And they still are telling themselves that they have this version of their history,

01:06:25.420 of their kid's childhood that's a complete fantasy.

01:06:29.600 And they refuse to.

01:06:30.680 It's like, why do you think your kids feel this way about you?

01:06:34.800 What do you think?

01:06:35.600 Do you think the whole world's against you?

01:06:36.920 Or could it be that you just did a terrible job as a parent?

01:06:40.460 You formed no relationship with them when they were kids,

01:06:42.860 and so now there's nothing there.

01:06:46.460 What are they going to try to rekindle?

01:06:48.020 There's nothing to rekindle.

01:06:48.920 There's nothing there.

01:06:51.680 So all of that is totally valid on Maddie's part.

01:06:54.300 But the problem is that she's the one who chose to make all this public.

01:06:59.500 You know, you might have very legitimate reasons to resent your dad or your mom

01:07:02.280 or anyone else in your family,

01:07:03.280 but there's no legitimate reason to announce that fact to millions of strangers on the Internet.

01:07:08.540 Your familial strife does not need to be and never should be mere content for people on TikTok or Twitter to consume.

01:07:16.720 Nothing good comes from it.

01:07:17.900 It will never make anything you're dealing with any better.

01:07:20.100 It will only make everything worse, guaranteed, every time.

01:07:25.220 Maddie, she's not being melodramatic when she calls her parents' divorce traumatic.

01:07:28.980 I think TikTokers abuse the hell out of that term, trauma, as we know. 0.99

01:07:32.240 But in this case, it's been used appropriately.

01:07:34.660 She has experienced trauma.

01:07:36.380 But she isn't going to heal that trauma by converting it into 10 million views on TikTok.

01:07:41.980 That's not how it works.

01:07:43.960 So in conclusion, don't air your family drama publicly.

01:07:50.320 Don't get divorced.

01:07:52.700 Don't leave your family and go start a new one.

01:07:54.960 Don't wear a Bitcoin shirt.

01:07:59.260 Don't do anything that these people have done or are doing.

01:08:03.360 Because they are, today, canceled.

01:08:07.300 That'll do it for the show today.

01:08:08.320 Thanks for watching.

01:08:08.980 Thanks for listening.

01:08:09.600 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:08:11.000 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 20, 2024

Ep. 1316 - We're Living Under A Tyranny Of Mediocre Morons

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