The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1323 - Why Millions Of Americans Want To Secede From The Union

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a record number of Americans now say they want to secede from the

00:00:03.900 union. What explains this trend and where is it leading? We'll talk about that. Also,

00:00:07.320 a Democrat Senate candidate loses her primary and declares the election was rigged against her.

00:00:11.160 Suddenly, it's okay to claim election rigging again, apparently. And the TSA will soon roll

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00:01:47.960 a small commercial and residential district called Buckhead is maybe the single most important

00:01:52.700 neighborhood in all of Atlanta. Taxes from Buckhead pay for roughly 40 percent of the city's annual

00:01:58.140 revenues, which isn't surprising because it's a relatively affluent area in Georgia. But starting

00:02:03.480 in 2020, like so many other cities, Atlanta chose to demonize police officers. So inevitably,

00:02:08.600 Buckhead became extremely dangerous. Shootouts and carjackings became common,

00:02:12.080 even in broad daylight at the Central Mall. Instead of protecting their cash cow and bucket,

00:02:18.360 officials in Atlanta allowed the mob to run rampant, which we all remember all over the

00:02:22.080 country. In response, the residents of the town attempted to do something radical, at least by

00:02:26.800 the standards of modern politics. They tried to secede from the city and establish their own

00:02:31.780 independent government, one that actually respected police officers and paid them well and took care of

00:02:37.020 making people safe and that sort of thing. And the plan nearly worked. But about a year ago,

00:02:41.740 10 Republican state senators in Georgia joined with Democrats to prevent it from happening.

00:02:46.480 Apparently, there is bipartisan disapproval in Georgia of any proposal that involves enforcing

00:02:51.800 the law. That's one of the few things you can get both Democrats and Republicans to agree on this

00:02:56.060 day. So Buckhead's secession was shot down. Now, at the time, it was easy to dismiss Buckhead's

00:03:02.600 effort as a lark, as the vanity project of a few affluent conservatives living in gated

00:03:08.280 communities in Northwest Atlanta. Indeed, that's what most of the media did, as you would expect.

00:03:12.480 Vox called the idea a product of, quote, the white power structure in Atlanta. Politico mocked the

00:03:17.560 secession effort as mighty. And to the extent that the mainstream left-wing corporate press talked

00:03:23.360 about Buckhead at all, it was to emphasize that the residents of the town are radicals, insurrectionists

00:03:28.900 even, who have nothing in common with most of America. But that wasn't true. As News Nation pointed

00:03:34.880 out, Buckhead was just one of several municipalities throughout the country that were thinking of

00:03:40.220 seceding. Watch.

00:03:42.120 There are certain communities so frustrated with crime and violence and politics that they are

00:03:45.900 looking at splitting off from whatever city they're part of and creating their own independent

00:03:49.740 communities. One of the largest proposed secessions is in the greater Idaho movement.

00:03:54.220 Eleven counties in eastern Oregon are attempting to become part of Idaho. Long Island and Staten Island

00:04:00.120 have been pushing to secede from New York City for years. Voters in San Bernardino County

00:04:04.460 approved the proposal that would consider seceding from California. And in Illinois,

00:04:08.500 27 counties are taking steps to leave the state by passing separation referendums. The latest attempt

00:04:14.320 is coming out of Atlanta, where the wealthiest neighborhood wants to break away from the city.

00:04:18.740 So it's not just Buckhead, as it turns out. Counties in Long Island, Idaho, Oregon, Illinois,

00:04:23.980 San Bernardino were thinking of doing the same thing. And, you know, it looks like a pattern,

00:04:28.500 but it's one that didn't get much attention at the time. And now we're learning that this pattern

00:04:33.800 is far more widespread than it may have appeared at the time. Researchers at YouGov have found just

00:04:40.660 this week that roughly a quarter of U.S. adults, 23%, currently want their state to secede from the

00:04:47.040 union. Only 51% of respondents opposed secession, while another 27% were unsure. Now, at the state

00:04:54.420 level, the highest percentage in favor of secession was in Alaska, where 36% of adults won out. The next

00:05:00.240 highest is California at 29%, followed by 28% of New Yorkers. Oklahomans are at 28%.

00:05:06.440 Nebraskans, Georgians, Floridians, Washingtonians are not far behind. Now, in a country that had any 0.99

00:05:12.480 interest in self-preservation whatsoever, this poll would be leading every primetime television news

00:05:17.800 broadcast. There would be all kinds of experts trying to figure out what could possibly explain

00:05:22.360 these figures and what our elected representatives could do about it. What are the concerns these people

00:05:28.140 have? And how can those concerns be addressed? Because these polls are yet more evidence that

00:05:32.880 Americans have nothing fundamentally in common anymore. We aren't bound by race, creed, or ancestry

00:05:39.080 like people in most other countries are. And in lieu of that, we used to have, you know, shared principles.

00:05:45.140 We used to have a shared, basic, fundamental belief system that unified us. But we don't have that

00:05:50.440 anymore. We can't even agree that all lives matter, which you'd think would be a pretty basic starting

00:05:54.760 point. We can't agree that only women have babies. We can't agree on basically any fundamental fact

00:06:01.500 of reality. All of that is a source of disagreement. And meanwhile, a major political party demonizes

00:06:07.140 white people as a matter of course. Our politicians seem far more concerned about the sovereignty of

00:06:12.460 foreign states than they care about their own. We are a people from different philosophical 0.66

00:06:18.420 universes all crammed together. And that's reflected at every level of our leadership. And it's reflected in

00:06:23.720 every aspect of our culture. But the other reason that secession is so popular is that people feel

00:06:28.700 rightly that the federal government does not have our interests at heart. When the government

00:06:34.360 prioritizes citizens of other countries over our own, people become disenfranchised.

00:06:39.600 There's certainly no sense of loyalty to the federal government. Not that there ever should be a

00:06:45.480 loyalty to the government, but there certainly isn't, as it clearly has no loyalty to us.

00:06:50.140 And maybe no story in the past few days has made that clearer than the murder of Laken Riley,

00:06:56.040 which we've talked about a little bit on the show. She was a 22-year-old nursing student at 1.00

00:06:59.480 Augusta University who was jogging on February 22nd at the campus of the University of Georgia.

00:07:05.520 Watch.

00:07:06.000 The latest in the death of a young woman at the University of Georgia's campus. Investigators

00:07:11.720 with the school's police department announced they have a suspect in custody. They say 26-year-old

00:07:17.260 Jose Antonio Ibarra will face a slew of charges, including malice murder and felony murder.

00:07:24.320 Fox News' Mary Smith attended a news conference following the arrest. She

00:07:27.540 joins us live from the campus with the details. Mary?

00:07:31.140 Investigators announced those charges against the suspect, saying they don't believe that

00:07:36.740 he knew the victim in this case. He was taken into custody today, as investigators say. The

00:07:40.940 evidence is, quote, robust.

00:07:45.100 We are obtaining arrest warrants for Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26 years of age. He lives here in Athens,

00:07:56.780 but is not a U.S. citizen. UGA police have taken Jose Antonio Ibarra into custody in connection with

00:08:05.460 the death of 22-year-old Lakin Riley. As you saw very quickly, the authorities identified that the

00:08:11.560 killer was an illegal immigrant, and that's an important detail, but most of the major media

00:08:15.300 simply ignored it or downplayed it. For example, the Associated Press reported that the killer was a,

00:08:19.680 quote, Athens resident. They also refer to the killer as a 26-year-old man, but they don't report

00:08:25.220 that he is an illegal alien until the seventh paragraph of their story, even though it should

00:08:29.540 be, like, the first thing they tell us. And that's because they're not interested in talking about the

00:08:33.180 fact that the Biden administration deliberately lets killers like this into the country. As the

00:08:38.620 New York Post reported, citing sources at the DHS who spoke to News Nation, the killer of this

00:08:43.160 college student, quote, crossed into El Paso, Texas, from Venezuela in September 2022. He had been

00:08:48.000 released due to a lack of detention space. They didn't have space for him. That's the excuse that the

00:08:53.300 feds use now when they don't want to enforce immigration law. They want us to believe that

00:08:56.740 the jails are full of illegal aliens that they're detaining. So many that they don't even have room 1.00

00:09:02.040 for him anymore, which, of course, is complete nonsense. And that wasn't the only opportunity to

00:09:06.400 deport this killer. Again, quoting from the Post, months before Ibarra allegedly killed Riley,

00:09:10.160 he was apparently arrested in New York for endangering a child. Police sources in New York confirmed

00:09:14.340 a man by the same name and age as the Georgia suspect was arrested in the Big Apple last year

00:09:19.480 after allegedly endangering the welfare of a five-year-old. In other words, the murder of

00:09:25.480 Lake and Riley was maybe the single most preventable crime that has ever occurred in the history of the

00:09:30.040 state of Georgia. All the feds had to do was enforce the law at any point in the past two years

00:09:34.520 and throw this degenerate killer out of the country. And this never would have happened,

00:09:39.340 but they didn't do that. Why not? The mayor of Athens, Kelly Gertz, has offered something of an

00:09:45.080 explanation. Instead of apologizing to the family of Lake and Riley or explaining why authorities

00:09:49.960 didn't enforce immigration law, the mayor proceeded to deliver a lecture about Donald Trump and the

00:09:54.540 importance of treating migrant killers with the dignity they supposedly deserve. This is truly one 0.99

00:10:01.500 of the most repulsive press conferences you'll ever see. Here's part of it.

00:10:05.680 Humanity is the expectation of human dignity. While 2019 was not that long ago, you might remember

00:10:14.560 the dynamic we were living in in the late teens in this country where you had the president of the

00:10:21.120 United States speaking in the most vile terms about people who were foreign-born. And you had that

00:10:27.620 notion metastasizing in places like Charlottesville. This is an invasion. When I was younger, I was a

00:10:35.920 criminal. And you know what I thought about doing? Crossing the border to Mexico to get away

00:10:42.280 from my crimes. Son, I'm going to ask you to leave. Thanks to Jesus Christ, he saved me. And I no longer

00:10:49.080 live that lawless life, which you do. Son, I'm going to ask you to leave. You are lawless, Mr. Mayor. I'd be glad to

00:10:55.780 schedule some time with you if you'd like some individual time. Yeah, I'd like to spend some time with you.

00:10:59.820 Let's do that, but I need to continue. I have a question. How about town hall? Sorry. Are you going to

00:11:04.420 assume the most lucid, is that still in place? Does that give the impression this is a sexual city?

00:11:08.840 You know what you can't call it that under Georgia law? What we wish to do is dignify everybody's

00:11:13.040 humanity. There's nothing in that resolution that creates- No, no, no. That's not the law. You took a note to uphold the

00:11:20.520 law, not your feelings nor your opinion. We have to dignify everyone's humanity. Well, I don't know

00:11:29.320 about you, but I would say that when you murder an innocent woman, then you have undignified your

00:11:36.340 own humanity, whatever the hell that even is supposed to mean. But this was his primary concern.

00:11:42.920 You know, somebody is dead, and his primary concern is that we don't say anything mean about illegal

00:11:48.320 immigrants. And these are the kinds of people that are running the country and running states 0.77

00:11:53.020 and running cities. It's the exact kind of thinking that has festered for many years in

00:11:57.920 this country. It's why women like Lake and Riley are dead today. At every opportunity, even when 1.00

00:12:01.220 they're confronted with murdered college students, politicians like Kelly Gertz insist that the

00:12:06.160 problem isn't with policy. They claim that the real problem is rhetoric. People like Donald Trump are

00:12:11.160 too mean to Mexicans, apparently. You're supposedly too xenophobic and uncultured to understand what's 0.98

00:12:17.260 really happening. But as the bodies pile up, that position is becoming completely untenable.

00:12:23.380 It's always been untenable, but it's becoming more and more obviously untenable to normal people.

00:12:28.860 Jason Rance reported last night that an illegal immigrant who just killed a Washington state 1.00

00:12:32.260 trooper by getting intoxicated and hitting the trooper on the side of the road was previously arrested

00:12:37.140 in a domestic violence case several years ago. Rance reports that authorities suspected this person

00:12:42.100 was in the country illegally, but they couldn't act. Here's what Rance reported, quote,

00:12:46.180 two days after Washington Governor Jay Ansela signed Democrat sanctuary state legislation into law,

00:12:53.260 Raul Benitez Santana, who was accused of killing a Washington state trooper on a state highway last

00:12:58.440 Saturday, accepted a plea agreement for a domestic violence incident years earlier. He was in the

00:13:02.300 country illegally at the time. Court documents indicate officials may have or should have suspected

00:13:07.380 his status as an illegal immigrant. But because Washington state was a sanctuary for illegal aliens,

00:13:12.060 the authorities couldn't do anything with that information. They had to allow this domestic 1.00

00:13:16.340 abuser to stay in the country where ultimately he would murder a state trooper, which was inevitable,

00:13:22.140 by the way, that even if he didn't kill a state trooper, that he's just going to do worse and worse 0.84

00:13:28.100 things until someone ends up dead. And by the way, even after this illegal alien killed that state 0.97

00:13:34.180 trooper, the local media still ran cover for him just as they ran cover for the murder of Lake and

00:13:37.520 Riley. For example, here's how the local station, KOMO, reported the story of the state trooper's

00:13:43.640 death, quote, trooper killed in three vehicle I-5 crash identified Linwood man in custody.

00:13:50.520 Not illegal alien, not domestic abuser. Instead, he's a Linwood man, just like Lake and Riley's

00:13:56.000 killer was an Athens resident. The corporate press will do everything they can to run cover for

00:14:01.500 killers, at least as long as those killers are foreigners in this country illegally and as long 1.00

00:14:05.660 as they're killing white people. Their calculation is that people will shut up and take all this in 1.00

00:14:10.320 the name of tolerance. Whatever their motivation is, whether they just want to ensure their political

00:14:16.760 survival, whether they want to bring about a demographic replacement or both, that's not really

00:14:23.020 the most important thing. As a practical matter, the effects of these policies are finally proving to

00:14:27.840 be far too destructive for most Americans to tolerate. As illegal aliens continue to indiscriminately 1.00

00:14:34.500 murder American citizens, from college students to state troopers and everybody in between, more and 0.96

00:14:39.580 more people are looking to buckhead as a model. And that doesn't mean that they'll secede necessarily,

00:14:45.380 but it does mean that for the first time since the Civil War, millions of Americans are thinking

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00:16:03.940 Katie Porter, Democrat, suggested on Wednesday that the California U.S. Senate election had been rigged

00:16:09.000 after she fell 20 points behind Democratic rival Representative Adam Schiff and Republican

00:16:13.400 candidate Steve Garvey. She wrote, quote, thank you to everyone who supported our campaign and

00:16:18.040 voted to shake up the status quo in Washington. Because of you, we had the establishment running

00:16:21.780 scared with standing three to one in TV spending and an onslaught of billionaires spending millions

00:16:26.160 to rig the election. She continued, it's clear Californians are hungry for leaders who break the

00:16:31.620 mold, can't be bought, and push for accountability in government and across our economy. And that's

00:16:35.720 exactly what we as Americans deserve. Special interests like politics as it is today because they

00:16:39.920 control the politicians, blah, blah, blah. But I'll never stop fighting. And I mean, she lost,

00:16:45.860 but that's what she's saying. And Porter echoed these sentiments when she conceded the race in a speech.

00:16:51.120 Let's watch some of that. Our opponents threw everything, every trick, millions of dollars,

00:17:01.420 every trick in the playbook to knock us off our feet. But I'm still standing in high heels. The most

00:17:09.920 thing I want to say tonight is thank you. Because of you, we had the establishment running scared,

00:17:16.860 withstanding three to one in TV spending and an onslaught of billionaires who spent millions

00:17:24.780 peddling lies and our opponents spending more to boost the Republican than promoting his own campaign.

00:17:32.300 I want to thank each and every one of you, really, each and every one of you, for the support that

00:17:39.940 you have shown me in this campaign and over the years. I'm still standing in high heels, she says.

00:17:46.080 And I really want to know what political consultant has told these female politicians that these kinds 1.00

00:17:53.100 of lines work. Because every female politician does it. Like, is there any female politician in America 1.00

00:17:58.780 who hasn't used a version of that line yet? They love throwing the high heels line in. I can do that, 0.99

00:18:04.580 and I can do it in high heels. I want to know. Find me one. Find me a female politician who hasn't, 1.00

00:18:09.660 like, referenced her high heels in a sassy way. Is there one? Someone has convinced these ladies that 1.00

00:18:16.040 this line, like, kills. But I see no evidence of that. And it especially is, doesn't really make

00:18:22.180 sense in the context of losing. Like, she says she's still standing, but she's not. You know,

00:18:26.400 you lost. You got blown out. And she says she has the establishment running scared, but she doesn't.

00:18:32.440 You lost by 20 points. I don't think anyone's running scared. We got him right where we want him

00:18:36.800 now. And also, Katie Porter is the establishment. And even if she wasn't, nobody in the establishment

00:18:44.040 is looking at Katie Porter and going, oh, man, that's Katie Porter. Well, look out for her. She's 1.00

00:18:50.360 terrifying. And she wears high heels. That's not happening. But more to the point here, of course,

00:18:55.880 is that, and the thing that's gotten more attention, deservedly so, is that Porter, a Democrat again,

00:19:01.780 claimed that the election was rigged against her. Okay. And in this case, the election rigging

00:19:08.100 happened because donors gave money to her opponent and not to her. Because, you know,

00:19:14.280 if they had offered her the money, she would have turned it down, right? She would have said,

00:19:19.120 oh, no, no, no, no, I can't take it. That's election rigging. Oh, you want to give me $50 million?

00:19:24.880 I can't. No, thank you. No, sir. I'm not taking that. Get those millions of dollars out of my face.

00:19:33.360 I will throw it on the ground and stomp on it in my high heels. I'm sure that would have happened, 0.96

00:19:40.000 right? You know, all these, all these, you know, let me just say right now, there's a general rule.

00:19:45.620 Every politician who complains about big donors is full of every single one. And I'll tell you why,

00:19:55.000 because none of them would turn down the money if it was offered to them. None of them would. You

00:20:00.260 find me the one that was offered big money and said, don't want it. Not going to take it.

00:20:04.700 Um, so they're all, they're all just every time. Like, and I hope that everyone understands that

00:20:11.460 every time you hear the big donors, get the big donors out of here. Like the big donors you hate

00:20:16.240 are the ones who aren't giving you money. Those are the ones you don't like, but the ones that give

00:20:19.980 you money, you're fine with them. Um, so we see again, that election rigging claims are totally par

00:20:27.420 for the course. Democrats do it all the time. I mean, this has been absolutely commonplace and

00:20:32.660 basically a perfunctory response to losing an election since at least Bush v. Gore, you know,

00:20:40.340 in 2000. Uh, that's, that's, that's, you know, essentially every presidential election that I

00:20:45.880 have watched and been aware of. I was like 13 or so during, uh, um, with Bush Gore. And, and that was

00:20:53.860 kind of the first presidential election I sort of paid attention to. And every single one since

00:20:59.440 every election since then at every level, there's been somebody loses and they say the election's

00:21:05.680 rigged. Um, and sometimes they claim it validly. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes it's a mix.

00:21:12.820 Uh, but the point is that after 20 years of this, suddenly the media pretends that Trump is the first

00:21:20.440 political candidate to ever claim that an election was illegitimate. That's the biggest farce of all

00:21:26.620 when it comes to this whole thing and all the outrage against Trump for insurrection. And he won't

00:21:32.060 concede and he won't admit that he lost, uh, all these things we hear from the media.

00:21:36.800 What makes it so farcical is that this is what this, this you're acting like you're,

00:21:43.580 you've never heard this before. And not only is it common, but it, it is more common among Democrats.

00:21:53.760 And in fact, I should probably rewind, rewind and say that for like two decades, Democrats were like

00:22:00.200 the only ones who said that. Um, so not only is it more common among them, but they were the only

00:22:07.060 one saying that. And the only difference is that most of the time when the, or no, every time when

00:22:14.240 the Democrats claim the election was rigged against them, it was false. Um, all right. And we, and we

00:22:23.660 know that it's false by the way, because the systems of power and the institutions all want the Democrats

00:22:29.160 to win. So no one, no one's rigging anything against you. Um, and as far as Katie Porter and a

00:22:36.480 Democrat primary, you know, they don't, it's like the big money donors, the system, the establishment,

00:22:43.780 they don't care. They'll take Adam Schiff or Katie Porter. They don't have a preference.

00:22:47.960 Yeah. I mean, they chose that. They, I guess they chose Adam Schiff to gave him the money,

00:22:51.040 but they're not going to, I mean, could they rig an election to, to make sure that Katie Porter

00:22:55.260 loses? They could. Do they need to know? Cause if she won, that'd be fine with them. They can buy 0.75

00:23:01.120 her just as easily. It doesn't matter. She's, she's totally on board with their agenda. It makes no

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00:24:54.420 of course, that it's detected. I've got the transmitter on my belt and something a lot of

00:24:58.680 people forget, my cell phone. Bags that require re-screening cycle back automatically.

00:25:04.820 Well, that's not creepy at all. So now you walk into the scanner and it closes behind you and you're

00:25:08.740 trapped in a metal box, in a glass box rather. I mean, this is the worst idea that TSA has come up

00:25:14.780 with since it had the idea to exist in the first place. Just imagine the nightmare this is going

00:25:21.160 to be. I can't even, like, think about being stuck, like, think about this way. Think about being stuck

00:25:28.060 behind the person in a self-checkout, you know, lane at the grocery store. The person who has decided

00:25:35.340 to self-scan an entire grocery cart full of groceries, despite apparently having no idea how

00:25:42.840 any of it works. They have no concept. They don't know how to scan. They don't know. They have a

00:25:48.700 produce, you know, they pull out a green pepper and it's like, it's a crisis. They don't know what,

00:25:54.220 they don't know. I mean, even though there are pictures, like, press here for produce and they don't,

00:25:58.760 they're looking at the thing. They have no clue. They start looking under it to see if there's,

00:26:02.700 uh, so that scenario, but amplified by a million is what we're talking about. If you do this at TSA,

00:26:14.460 because now you have an endless stream of travelers who are confused and flustered trying to dial in to

00:26:21.880 the remote TSA call center person who, by the way, will have an even worse attitude than the normal

00:26:29.200 TSA people when they're there in person. So that was totally fanciful. We just saw with, you know,

00:26:34.120 you're the TSA call center and she was sitting there and she's all, you know, uh, happy and very

00:26:39.480 patient. Oh, we'll do that and do this. She's very happy. She's, she's, she'll walk them through it.

00:26:43.760 But we know that it's like, who are the, who are the most surly groups of people that you encounter

00:26:50.640 as a customer? Uh, one TSA agents, you know, they're maybe number one or maybe number two.

00:26:58.180 And number one are call center employees. So those are the two groups have the worst attitude

00:27:03.260 and now you're going to combine them. Now you're going to put them together into one. And those

00:27:09.660 are the people that we're going to be dealing with. And that if you have an issue as you're trying to

00:27:14.620 get through self-checkout at the, at the airport. Now that's the person you gotta, and think about

00:27:20.220 how many fail points there are along the way. Cause when you, I'd say the problem, you automate

00:27:23.520 everything, everything's computers. And then there are so many different failed. There are so many

00:27:27.760 different places where this can get screwed up and not only where it could get screwed up, but it could

00:27:32.160 get screwed up in a way that nobody on the premise premises knows how to fix. Okay. So the,

00:27:38.700 the screen goes down and you can't contact the TSA person to get help. Uh, what do you do then?

00:27:45.720 Okay. The whole system breaks down. You go into the self scanner thing. It doesn't work. What do you

00:27:51.400 do? You get stuck. The glass doors won't open. There's someone stuck in there. That's going to

00:27:56.260 be the next horror story. We've, we've heard about people getting stuck on a, you know, if you get stuck

00:27:59.340 on a tarmac for two hours, now we're going to have stories of people getting stuck inside the scanner

00:28:03.600 for four and a half hours. That's, what's going to happen. It's going to be so bad. If it,

00:28:10.660 it, we're going to be the point now where if you have a flight on Wednesday, you need to get to the

00:28:14.880 airport on Monday morning in order to have any chance of making it to your flight on time. And

00:28:20.340 besides that, you've also now officially just embraced the fact that TSA is nothing but security

00:28:26.860 theater. It's not actual security. I mean, that's been the case the entire time, obviously,

00:28:31.860 because if somebody wants to sneak something through, it's not that hard to do already.

00:28:37.580 But, and many of us have had, have had the experience of accidentally sneaking things

00:28:43.500 through, you know, you get through, you get through security and then you look in your bag and you're

00:28:46.960 like, Oh, I have a massive pocket knife in my bag. I had no, okay, well, all right. I guess I'm

00:28:51.700 bringing this on the plane. They didn't know. Not that I'm saying I've ever done that, to be clear.

00:28:55.440 It's probably a federal crime. I've never done that myself. I never would, but I've, I've heard,

00:28:59.400 I've heard stories that I've heard stories of people making it through security with things

00:29:02.700 definitely you're not supposed to have on the airplane anymore. Um, and so it's always been

00:29:06.920 that way. And now it's even more that way because the one advantage of the TSA from a security

00:29:12.960 perspective, if they're like, in theory, the one advantage of the TSA is that you have human beings,

00:29:20.000 supposedly trained people who are there and can observe and hopefully spot any suspicious behavior.

00:29:27.740 And they can do it in a way that, that, that again, in theory, only people can do because

00:29:32.940 people can read other people in a way that computers cannot. And they've proven inept at

00:29:38.820 doing that. But now if you go to the self-checkout option, that's not even a possibility.

00:29:44.500 So, you know, of course the answer is just get rid of the entire thing because you know why,

00:29:50.520 you know why there hasn't been, uh, an attack, a terrorist attack on a plane since 9-11. You know

00:29:55.360 why there hasn't been one? I'll tell you why. Because nobody has tried. That's the actual reason.

00:30:02.780 I mean, a few people have tried. There's a shoe bomber, right? It was the underwear bomber. Um,

00:30:07.480 and those were both decades ago now, but they botched that on their own. They weren't caught by TSA.

00:30:13.040 So, so, so for the most part, it hasn't happened because like nobody has wanted it to, to make it

00:30:20.720 happen. No one has put the effort in to blow up a plane. Thank God. Um, and because, you know,

00:30:28.320 mostly there, there are few terrorist attacks because there just aren't that many terrorists

00:30:32.680 out there trying to perpetrate attacks against us. I'm not saying they don't exist. I'm not saying it's

00:30:38.080 not, uh, you know, a, a plausible risk, but it's just not, just not common. Like it just isn't

00:30:44.600 common. There aren't, um, and you know, that's true because yes, there's security at the airport,

00:30:49.300 uh, security that you can easily, like, it's not that hard. Everybody knows what the security is.

00:30:54.440 And if you are an even mildly sophisticated terrorist, you could figure out a way to get

00:30:58.700 around it. It's not, this is not Fort Knox. Uh, but also, I mean, look, you know,

00:31:03.480 the Amtrak, for example, I was on the Amtrak reason recently, anyone can board the Amtrak with

00:31:10.380 a bomb. No problem. There's not anything stopping you. So, which also doesn't make it not that I

00:31:15.080 want TSA at, at, at Amtrak now also, but it also just makes no sense. Like we, so the federal

00:31:21.560 government has this, uh, intense focus on airplanes. And yet you go on a train, you can just, you could

00:31:29.660 have a, just put a, you put a bomb in the, in the backpack, you just walk right on. It's like,

00:31:34.520 nobody will know. There's nothing, nothing stopping you. Um, so how does that make any

00:31:40.200 sense? It's like, we, we think that that's the planes are the only place a terrorist would ever go.

00:31:46.920 And yet you don't, for the most part in this country, very often, thank God, see these kinds

00:31:52.040 of things on trains either, but just because it's just, it's rare. So it's a, it's an extreme rarity.

00:31:58.000 And my only point of bringing that up is that, you know, the TSA wants to give itself credit

00:32:04.120 and the government generally wants to give itself credit because they want to look at,

00:32:08.200 they want to say, well, look, you know, since nine 11, there hasn't been a successful terrorist

00:32:12.000 attack on a plane. No, look at that. We've got almost 25 years, uh, terrorist attack free on planes.

00:32:21.240 Well, yeah, but you get no credit for that. You just don't get any credit for it. It's not because

00:32:25.860 of you. So the TSA is not out there foiling terrorist plots left and right. Okay. That's

00:32:32.080 what, if it happened, they would tell us if there was somebody with a suicide vest trying to get on

00:32:36.280 a plane and the TSA stopped them, they would tell us, we would know about it. They don't tell us

00:32:39.960 about it because it doesn't happen. Um, and, uh, and you know, and, and what we do know is that when

00:32:48.400 the bad guys get it into their head that they want to perpetrate some terrible attack somewhere,

00:32:53.540 uh, the government actually is totally inept at stopping them. It's like whenever they decide

00:32:59.520 they want to do it, they can do it. And, uh, and it happens in those occasions.

00:33:04.840 Um, and especially, especially if this is how we are going to handle it now. Okay. Um,

00:33:12.880 Daily Mail has this, here's the headline, how anti-anxiety drugs, how an anti-anxiety drug,

00:33:21.200 which is currently prescribed to more than 8 million Britons is linked to nearly 3,400 deaths

00:33:26.560 in the past five years. Uh, an anti-anxiety drug reading now from the article, which is prescribed

00:33:31.800 to more than 8 million people in Britain has been linked to thousands of deaths in the past five years.

00:33:36.260 It has been revealed. Concerns have been raised about the impact of, um,

00:33:39.840 pregabillin, pregabillin, pregabillin, pregabillin, I don't know, which is used by doctors to treat

00:33:47.220 anxiety as well as epilepsy and nerve pain with one saying prescribing it is like selling a car

00:33:51.600 without brakes. Uh, use of the drug can lead to dependency with some people becoming addicted to

00:33:58.520 the euphoria that taking it can cause while others, uh, become reliant on the relaxed feelings it can

00:34:05.360 induce. Those who have become addicted to it have compared it to trying to wean themselves off

00:34:09.280 morphine and oxycodone, two drugs notorious for the ill effects, uh, they have on people who try

00:34:14.360 to quit. Pregabillin users have told mail online that the drug has led to erratic behavior, blurred

00:34:19.660 vision, mood swings, and suicidal thoughts with many now desperate to lower their dosage or come

00:34:24.680 off the medication that has robbed them of their lives altogether. It's been linked to nearly 3,400

00:34:29.040 deaths in Britain in the past five years alone. The drug involved in 779 fatalities in 2022 up from

00:34:34.700 just nine a decade earlier in 2012. So there's actually, there's been a few reports about this

00:34:39.000 drug that I've seen recently. And, uh, all of the reports have focused on its prevalence, uh, overseas.

00:34:47.140 I don't know how prevalent it is here in the United States, but, um, and, and this is just, you know,

00:34:55.820 this just the latest psychiatric drug that, uh, we're hearing about that have terrible side effects.

00:35:02.180 And this is why, you know, people accuse me of being anti-psychiatric drugs and I'm not, you know,

00:35:13.760 because anti would mean that I'm taking the position that you should never prescribe it to anybody,

00:35:18.800 that all psychiatric drugs are bad in all circumstances and they should never be prescribed

00:35:23.660 to anybody under any circumstance. That's not my position. That's not my position. My position

00:35:28.040 is that, um, well, number one, there are way too many of these drugs, way too many,

00:35:34.880 and they're given out far too easily. Now the difference, and that part, you know, when I say

00:35:41.420 that almost everybody would agree, even the people that are on these drugs, even people that are on a

00:35:45.840 cocktail of psychiatric drugs, when they hear that they'll go, oh yeah, it's way over-prescribed.

00:35:49.480 Except the problem is that it's like, it's way over-prescribed and everybody who it's been

00:35:55.360 prescribed to will agree that it's way over-prescribed, except that everyone who it's

00:35:59.780 been prescribed to will say that it should have been prescribed to them. So that's the interesting

00:36:04.860 thing. It's over-prescribed, but we're not willing to look at any individual case and say, oh yeah,

00:36:09.540 that person should not have gotten it. It's a strange thing, isn't it? When we all agree these

00:36:14.160 drugs are over-prescribed, but there's not any individual person who shouldn't have gotten it,

00:36:18.200 who did, apparently. Because if you ever try to get more specific, this is where I run into

00:36:24.820 trouble with people. When you get more specific and you say, okay, well, here are some kinds of

00:36:28.520 cases where I don't think they should give these drugs out. Then all the people who agree it's

00:36:32.840 over-prescribed are going, oh, what? What are you, a doctor? You can't say that. I thought you just

00:36:39.580 agreed that it's over-prescribed. So can we get past that part of the conversation, start talking

00:36:44.540 about like the scenarios when we should not be giving these drugs out. So when I say that it's

00:36:52.820 over-prescribed, I mean that, you know, I don't mean it in the sense that, you know, five million

00:37:03.360 people are on a certain drug and it should only be 4.5 million or something. I don't mean it in that

00:37:08.380 sense. I mean, in the sense that 5 million people, just pulling a number out at random,

00:37:14.940 5 million people are on a certain psychiatric drug, but it should only be like 500 people who

00:37:20.760 are on it. Okay. That's what I mean by over-prescribed. I mean that these drugs, um,

00:37:27.080 there's a certain portion of these drugs that really just should not be on the market at all.

00:37:30.460 Um, and of the ones that have, have a, a, a valid application, it should be used in an absolute

00:37:40.000 worst case scenario and worst case scenario as in no other methods are effective and it's the only way

00:37:51.220 to stop someone from doing something drastic, destructive or self-destructive. In that case,

00:37:59.300 as a, as a temporary last resort band-aid measure, I, I can see a scenario where you use

00:38:07.800 psychiatric drugs. Um, and those kinds of situations do happen where you've got someone

00:38:13.740 and they're just, they're, uh, in a state of total self-destruction and, um, and then, you know,

00:38:21.400 you, you do whatever you have to do in that moment. It's like, you know, I, I don't think that,

00:38:26.820 that we should be going around. Like if, if someone is depressed, we shouldn't go and tackle

00:38:30.960 them to the ground and drag them off to somewhere to get treatment. However, if somebody is on the

00:38:35.760 edge of a building and is about to jump that in that case, when it's your only option, then

00:38:42.100 you run up and you, and you tackle them and then you end up probably hopefully taking them somewhere

00:38:46.400 to get, whether they want to or not taking them somewhere to get, uh, to get the help they need.

00:38:50.540 Um, and I, I kind of look at psychiatric drugs the same way. And that's how I think everyone

00:38:55.480 should look at them. That's how I think the medical field should look at them. That's how

00:39:00.400 they should be used. That's how they are. We're originally meant to be used. Not as like a daily,

00:39:06.040 uh, thing that millions of people take for their whole lives and not, not, and not as a first resort,

00:39:17.420 which is the other problem to become a first resort coming to someone who comes in, they're

00:39:21.800 struggling with anxiety. Five seconds later, they got the prescription in their hand. Um, and

00:39:29.660 not for anyone who's dealing with, uh, basically the normal challenges of, of being a human being

00:39:42.560 in the world. And that's why, when I read about anxiety drugs in particular,

00:39:47.140 now, once again, there, there, there could be people who are basically crippled,

00:39:55.840 totally dysfunctional, unable to function where they feel like they are living completely

00:40:03.620 self-destructive lives on the verge of, of again, doing something drastic potentially.

00:40:08.040 And maybe in that case, some of these anti-anxiety drugs could have a place, but

00:40:13.320 generally speaking, this is, you know, you know what it's used? It's like maintenance.

00:40:17.040 They give these drugs out as maintenance for people. People are just, you know, experiencing

00:40:20.840 anxiety. Everybody does. Oh, my anxiety is different. Probably not. You think it is because

00:40:27.620 it's yours and you only have your own anxiety. You can't really compare it to anybody else. But,

00:40:30.980 uh, so you don't really know that, but you know, most people, it's just sort of like baseline anxiety

00:40:37.460 that everybody has all the time. And it's hard to deal with. Like, it's hard to be a person sometimes.

00:40:47.220 Um, but those are all of those kinds of cases. They, they should, they should not be giving these

00:40:52.980 drugs out. And, uh, and yet they do. And it's, it's, it doesn't matter how many of these headlines

00:41:01.540 we see people overdosing, dying side effects. Um, it, it only gets worse and worse. And that's

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00:41:14.460 hate that phrase. Now we need to have a difficult conversation. I hate the phrase, but in this case,

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00:41:28.040 illness and about these drugs that everybody's taking and that every individual person taking

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00:42:49.380 We haven't done this segment in a few days, so of all the topics we've discussed in the last several

00:42:53.660 shows, the one that's gotten the most negative reaction from the audience by far is the one about

00:42:58.240 the young mother at a bar who got cussed out for having her baby with her. And I explained that the

00:43:03.600 older woman who cussed her out and told her to leave and that she shouldn't have her baby 1.00

00:43:06.880 in the bar was in the wrong. And I explained that bars obviously come in different forms. There are

00:43:12.920 bars that it would be inappropriate to bring a child to, obviously, but most bars these days are

00:43:19.220 bar and grills, you know, bar and restaurant. Most bars serve food. They very often have kids menus

00:43:26.840 and, you know, they give out crayons to kids. And that's what type of, and in those kinds of bars,

00:43:36.800 which again is most of them, obviously you could bring a kid. And that appears to be the sort of

00:43:42.080 bar that this woman was in. And so obviously the older woman was not only wrong for the way she 1.00

00:43:45.940 handled it, but was also wrong on the merits of the case. And I thought I made it clear that

00:43:51.620 my position on this topic is just right. And no other opinion is even valid. Uh, and yet still

00:44:00.340 there are people who are disagreeing with me. I can't understand. I can't understand it.

00:44:05.780 Like I already told you, didn't you hear me? I said that I'm right. So that should be enough,

00:44:10.260 but it's not. So we'll read a few of these kids have their place and there are places for adults

00:44:15.660 only always been like that. And it's always the way it should be. There are times, there are things,

00:44:21.180 times and places they should only participate in when they reach a certain age. Simple as that.

00:44:25.380 They live in an adult's world and need to wait till grown up. Um, while the drunk lady was gross 1.00

00:44:31.860 and ridiculous, you really went overboard. This is another comment. Adults want playtime at Chuck E 0.99

00:44:36.180 Cheese. You're passionate about the subject because you have small time, small children. Uh, I was too,

00:44:41.340 and my children were young. There's nothing wrong with wanting a quieter environment at dinner.

00:44:45.660 So you go to a bar. That's the quieter environment you want. Uh, another comment says,

00:44:51.780 guess I'm a serial killer because I don't think you should bring a baby to a bar. LOL.

00:44:56.020 Maybe the messenger was a little crazy, but really are we surprised that a drunk person

00:44:59.200 accosted her at a ready for it bar? LOL drunk person at a bar. No way. Finally, no, Matt,

00:45:05.880 drinking beer, especially as a so-called Christian is morally wrong. Bringing kids into a den of sin 1.00

00:45:10.020 is just wrong. Now, if it's a restaurant that also has a bar, there's some nuance,

00:45:14.920 but just a straight up bar. No. And you should be ashamed. A den of sin. You know, sir, that is one

00:45:20.280 way that is a, that is just, it's a strong way to refer to Applebee's. I have to say, I know not

00:45:26.940 everybody likes Apple, likes Applebee's, but I happen to be an Applebee's apologist. I think calling

00:45:32.680 it a den of sin is a, is a bit overboard. Um, okay. You know, in terms of the Christians shouldn't 1.00

00:45:38.680 drink beer. I hate to repeat myself, but you're just wrong about that. And this is fine. You know,

00:45:46.400 I know that there are, there are some, um, denominations, there are some Christian communities

00:45:51.780 that feel strongly about this, that Christians should never drink and that drinking is morally 0.91

00:45:56.700 wrong. And I don't, you know, it's not a big deal. Like you can be wrong about that. It doesn't hurt

00:46:02.700 you much to be wrong about it, but you are obviously wrong. And in fact, it's from a theological

00:46:10.260 perspective, from a biblical perspective, it's one of the more wrong interpretations of the Bible you

00:46:18.920 can have because Jesus is like, we don't, we see, we actually get, you know, in terms of length and

00:46:28.900 how much we are told, um, we aren't told a whole lot about Jesus's life, certainly not his life prior

00:46:36.940 to his public ministry or we get almost nothing about that. Uh, we get, you know, the infancy

00:46:42.480 narrative and then we get one, uh, brief scene when he was an adolescent and then we get his public

00:46:47.480 ministry. So we get, we had nothing of Jesus's life almost, uh, until public ministry. And then the

00:46:54.800 public ministry, it's, it's not a lot. There's not a lot of information that we're given. Um, and, you

00:47:02.760 know, if you were to take all the gospels and, and sort of synthesize them and put everything, you

00:47:08.240 know, sort of, uh, have all, you know, you can buy, like they call it a parallel gospel where they put all

00:47:15.120 the kind of the gospel stories together to get the whole narrative. And it's a short book is my point.

00:47:20.460 Okay. And yet in spite of that, in spite of the fact that, that we're given very little, there's

00:47:25.880 not a lot that, that it's, that, that we need to know, you know, there, there are, there are,

00:47:29.940 you know, several crucial details that are in it. And in spite of that, we are, we are still told

00:47:39.940 about, uh, Jesus not only consuming alcohol, but using it multiple times in his miracles, including

00:47:50.940 his, the first miracle of his, uh, public ministry, which was the wedding at Cana.

00:47:59.440 And that, that first one, that first miraculous event was him providing alcohol to a party,

00:48:05.900 if you may recall, uh, as recounted in the gospel of John. So to see that, and then to come away with

00:48:15.740 the conclusion that drinking alcohol is fundamentally inherently morally wrong is absurd. You know,

00:48:23.240 I'm not going to call it blasphemous. You could argue that it is because you're accusing Jesus of

00:48:27.420 engaging in inherently moral, immoral act. But I won't say that because I know that that's not really

00:48:32.140 what you're saying because you have this tortured, uh, totally invented ad hoc, arbitrary interpretation

00:48:39.400 where you've just decided that the alcohol he's using is non-alcoholic. It never says that

00:48:44.900 anywhere. You've just included that. You say, well, it must be non-alcoholic because I don't

00:48:49.120 personally like alcohol. Uh, it's not what it says. It says wine. And under, in no culture in the

00:48:55.260 beginning, since the beginning of, since the, since the invention of wine and no culture has

00:48:58.420 wine meant a non-alcoholic substance. Um, so I didn't want to spend a long time on that,

00:49:08.040 but I did because I just find it, uh, I do find it irritating. And, and you know why? Because it's

00:49:13.800 also, it's also so unnecessary. You don't need to do that. If you don't personally like alcohol,

00:49:19.640 great. And if you say, I don't want to drink it, I don't want it around me. That's great. I totally

00:49:25.260 respect that. And there's nothing unchristian about that, obviously. And so just say that,

00:49:30.680 just say, it's not, it's not for me. I don't want it. I don't want it in my life. And great,

00:49:37.300 but you don't have to try to extrapolate it into a thing that all Christians are, uh,

00:49:42.720 required to follow into a, into a moral edict that apparently Jesus himself fell short of.

00:49:49.080 Um, as for the rest of this, I don't know, I guess I've already, I've already covered it. Uh,

00:49:57.020 it, you know, there, there are, I will only reiterate two things aside from the fact that

00:50:04.660 there are different kinds of bars. And yes, if you bring your kid to a college bar, you bring

00:50:09.020 your kid to a, some sort of dive bar, to a biker bar, to a, those kinds of bars, then that would be

00:50:13.680 crazy. But people don't do that. I've never, you know, I've been in those kinds of bars plenty of

00:50:18.360 times in my life. I've never seen a baby in, in any of those kinds of bars. That's not where

00:50:23.540 people bring, why would you bring a baby? Like nobody would, well, I don't want to say nobody.

00:50:27.000 There are a lot of, there are plenty of bad parents out there, but it's just not,

00:50:29.640 I don't see it. I've never seen it. Maybe you have, I haven't. Um, uh, but most of these places

00:50:38.000 are just places where people eat and they also drink and, you know, and, and it's okay to bring kids.

00:50:43.060 But I guess the main point to reiterate is that again, I don't think, you know, this first comment

00:50:49.240 says, Oh, there are places that are just for adults. We need to have the adult places. Sure.

00:50:54.020 Yeah. Of course there are places that are just for adults, but the, the, the sort of tone of these

00:50:58.500 comments makes it sound like we live in a culture where you just can't go anywhere without being

00:51:04.020 bothered by kids. You just can't go anywhere. Everywhere you go, there's kids running all over

00:51:07.940 the place. And, um, that's not the case. I mean, if you want to, if it's important to you to avoid

00:51:13.580 being around kids, then it's really easy to do. Um, even if you want to go out to eat, look, I,

00:51:21.960 I don't mind. I have six kids. Obviously I don't mind being around kids. We go to places all the time

00:51:26.240 with our kids all over the place, but yeah, if I'm going out to a date night with my wife, you know,

00:51:31.120 and it's seven o'clock on a Friday night. Uh, yeah, we like to go to a quieter place and, and, uh, and

00:51:38.060 you know, we, we like to go to a quieter place where it's adults like quietly enjoying a meal.

00:51:42.040 It's really easy to find places like that. Cause the thing is too, that those kinds of places,

00:51:47.120 they're more expensive and they're quiet. And so if you're a parent, that's the last place you want

00:51:52.840 to bring a kid. No parent is looking for a fancy, expensive, quiet place to bring their kids.

00:52:00.700 No parents looking for that. Um, so it's easy, very easy to find those kinds of places if you

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00:53:09.140 Tonight, join the Daily Wire backstage as Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan,

00:53:13.100 the God King himself, Jeremy Boring, and myself watch and react to the 2024 State of the Union

00:53:17.700 alive on Daily Wire. Plus, uh, you know, I'm a big fan of the State of the Union. I love watching.

00:53:23.900 I have so much to say about it. I have so many, uh, so much to, so much analysis to offer. You know,

00:53:30.080 I'm just, when you get me going on the State of the Union, man, I can't, you'll, you'll never stop

00:53:34.420 me. So I got so much interesting to say about this really fascinating event. It's an experience you

00:53:39.460 are not going to find anywhere else. You can watch it all live tonight at 8 30 p.m. Eastern on the

00:53:44.520 Daily Wire app and DailyWire.com. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:53.900 Well, I should tell you that I actually had other plans for the daily cancellation today,

00:53:57.920 but then this morning I happened to see something pop up on my Twitter feed that was so bad and lame

00:54:02.860 that I had no choice but to change course. So someone named Vinay Krishnan, who, uh, described

00:54:09.560 himself as a writer, organizer, and attorney living in Brooklyn, decided to share something that he calls

00:54:15.440 poetry. And apparently Vinay fashions himself a poet on top of his, all of his other self-ordained

00:54:20.340 titles. This particular piece of poetry, I'm sad to report, has at this moment 20,000 retweets and

00:54:27.660 2 million views. There are hundreds of comments saying things like this, quote, this is heartbreaking

00:54:33.300 and lovely. And quote, I would have cried reading this, but I'm just too tired to cry. And quote,

00:54:39.560 it's fantastic and breaks my heart at the same time. And also quote, I've been waiting for a poem

00:54:45.300 like this, whether from me or someone else. So that's what the people are saying. Some people at

00:54:51.520 least are saying that it's lovely, beautiful, heartbreaking. It's the poem we've been waiting

00:54:57.700 for. It's the poem of the ages, the poem of our time. And it's also easily the most popular poem

00:55:04.400 posted to Twitter in quite some time, which perhaps isn't saying much, but another accolade to add to

00:55:09.080 the list. Certainly you would hope that for a poem to be viewed so many times and for it to be reposted

00:55:15.400 by so many people and for it to receive such glowing reviews, for it to reduce readers to tears of joy

00:55:21.120 and sorrow, it must be quite powerful. Well, let's find out. Here's the poem from Vinay Krishnan,

00:55:29.140 the organizer from Brooklyn. It's titled, There's Laundry to Do and a Genocide to Stop. So things are not

00:55:35.940 starting off very strong based on the title, but let's not judge a poem by its title. Let's venture

00:55:39.880 on unafraid. We must be brave. We must be courageous. And here's the poem. There's laundry to do and a

00:55:48.320 genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. My rent went up $150. I'll need to

00:55:55.760 pick up more shifts. 20 people died in Rafa this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the

00:56:00.780 limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the air at missiles that

00:56:05.260 otherwise had the right of way. I just got a notification that my student loan payments are

00:56:10.100 starting up again and my phone isn't charged. My cousin got COVID for a fourth time and could no

00:56:15.500 longer work or walk or even feed himself. The person across from me on the L train seems to fashion

00:56:21.260 themselves a punk rock revolutionary, but they're not wearing a face mask. And that's the kind of

00:56:26.200 cognitive dissonance that makes me want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries for both

00:56:32.700 parties and I think I gained a few pounds. The CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on

00:56:38.760 highways and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. This NYPD farmer's market only sells bad apples. Have

00:56:44.860 you heard that one? Listen, it's warm today. Too warm for March. But I don't have time to think

00:56:51.700 through the implications because there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop.

00:56:58.360 The end. There's the poem. I mean, once again, as always, I've made it way too good with my stirring

00:57:03.920 rendition. I got to stop doing that. I've almost, with my performance, I've almost tricked you into

00:57:09.640 thinking that was a good poem. I almost did. But it's not, you know, and in fact, you have to say at

00:57:16.780 the start and again at the end that it is a poem or else you would have no idea that it was a poem.

00:57:21.600 Like that's a good, that's a good indication that it's a bad poem is if when you post it and show

00:57:26.640 people, you have to tell them. You have to say, here's a poem. Because with a good poem or really

00:57:32.640 just a poem, a real poem, you don't have to tell people it's a poem. They'll get it when they read it.

00:57:38.960 Because the thing is, if you're not told it's a poem and you read that, you think that you're reading

00:57:42.420 just like a random assortment of YouTube comments. Or maybe you might think that you're drunk or having

00:57:48.940 a stroke. But no, that was a poem. A poem that if it made you cry at all, it should only make you cry

00:57:55.600 because you want it to stop. But it just goes on and on and refuses to stop. So let me just make a

00:58:02.100 few observations here. First of all, this may be better titled non sequitur, the poem, because it's

00:58:08.220 full of sentences where the second part of the sentence has nothing to do with the first. For

00:58:12.200 example, I just got a notification that my student loan payments are starting up again and my phone

00:58:16.320 isn't charged. That's one sentence. But how are those two things related? And what is he saying?

00:58:21.660 Is he saying that he got a notification that his student loan payments are starting up again,

00:58:24.920 and he also got a notification that his phone isn't charged? Or is he saying that he got a

00:58:28.820 notification that student loans are starting up again and also on a separate note, his phone isn't

00:58:32.960 charged? Never mind the fact that if the phone isn't charged, then how are you getting notifications

00:58:36.740 about anything in the first place? The bigger question is, why did you put those two entirely

00:58:41.360 separate thoughts into one sentence without even a comma to distinguish them? In a similar

00:58:46.900 fashion, he tells us that fascists keep winning primaries for both parties, and I think I gained 0.93

00:58:50.940 a few pounds. So did he gain a few pounds because of the fascists? When he goes to the doctor and the

00:58:56.140 doctor says, you've gained 14 pounds, what happened? Does he respond, oh, well, you know, fascists have

00:59:00.140 been winning primaries. He probably does offer that as an excuse, but still, it's a non sequitur. And of course,

00:59:04.880 the greatest non sequitur line in the whole thing is the bit about a guy who wants to be punk rock

00:59:09.460 on a subway, but he's not wearing a mask, and that makes the writer want to steal batteries.

00:59:13.720 So we have three disconnected thoughts in one sentence, right? Like punk rock, mask,

00:59:21.080 stealing batteries. None of that have nothing to do with each other. And it leaves us only with a

00:59:25.540 question of why his anger towards the guy without a mask would make him want to steal batteries,

00:59:29.600 and why batteries specifically? The only sentence in the whole thing that makes sense is the one where he

00:59:34.560 says the CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on highways, and I think Ativan is finally

00:59:38.340 hitting. In that case, we can see the connection. You know, he begins by telling us about some totally

00:59:42.360 imaginary situation where the CDC is abolishing speed limits, I guess, and he ends by telling us that

00:59:48.320 he's under the influence of psychotropic drugs, which explains the hallucinations. So that part makes

00:59:53.100 sense. Although as a side note, if the CDC did abolish speed limits, it would be the first worthwhile

00:59:58.540 thing they've ever done. But that's beside the point. The main point is that this writer has

01:00:04.700 barely managed to compose a single legitimate and coherent sentence, let alone an entire poem.

01:00:13.640 And so I must once again point out that this is not poetry. You cannot just write a series of run-on

01:00:17.560 sentences, slap a title on it, and call it poetry. Poetry has rhythm, structure, meaning.

01:00:22.960 Poetry. I'll put it another way. If this is poetry, then everything that's ever been written

01:00:29.020 is poetry. Literally every paragraph ever composed about anything in any context is poetry if this is

01:00:36.320 poetry. An IKEA instruction manual is poetry. An online recipe for lasagna is poetry. In fact,

01:00:42.400 those things are much better poetry than this, especially the lasagna. Like what I'm saying right

01:00:47.480 now is poetry, if the thing I'm talking about is also poetry. Because poetry is everything,

01:00:53.160 which means that poetry is nothing. When someone calls themselves a poet, in this case, all they

01:00:58.040 mean is that they have the capacity for human speech. Someone is a poet because they have said or

01:01:03.340 written something, anything, literally anything. That's what poetry has become. Because poetry no

01:01:09.220 longer exists in our culture. But this poetry, this poem also represents something else aside from the

01:01:14.160 death of poetry as an art form. It also represents, of course, this modern desire to feel persecuted at

01:01:21.800 all costs. Because the poem, to the extent that it's anything at all, is just one long series of

01:01:27.600 complaints. Yet the complaints, like so many complaints these days, vacillate between totally

01:01:32.480 imaginary and incredibly petty. He says that his cousin has been rendered crippled and paraplegic from

01:01:39.120 COVID, which of course didn't happen. He says that the CDC abolished speed limits, which also didn't

01:01:43.700 happen, unfortunately. He says that fascists are winning primaries, which hasn't happened. He says

01:01:48.080 he has to avoid the plague, but there is no plague. And he says that he has to stop a genocide, yet at

01:01:52.600 no point during this man's daily life is he ever confronted with a genocide, much less one that he

01:01:56.820 has to or can or would even attempt to stop. The only reality-based complaints in the poem are that

01:02:04.280 the rent has gone up, he's gained a few pounds, it's warm outside, the farmer's market has a subpar

01:02:08.920 supply of apples, and he has to do his laundry. That's what's really happening in this guy's life.

01:02:13.580 It's what he's really suffering from. It's a bit warm, he's a bit fat, he doesn't like the apples at

01:02:17.720 the farmer's market, and he has to do his laundry. And when you boil it down to like that, to its

01:02:22.080 essential parts, you see that actually, you know, this guy has it pretty easy. Like, you know, everybody

01:02:28.220 on earth has some complaints. You cannot live a life utterly free of hardship. So if those are your

01:02:34.040 hardships, you have it about as easy as a human being can reasonably expect. You are quite comfortably

01:02:41.220 in the top 1% of easy lives. 99% of humans on earth have a harder life than you. And almost none

01:02:49.980 of them are writing poems about it. In fact, your bad poetry, if anything, is only adding to the overall

01:02:57.260 net suffering in the world. You have just made everyone's lives a little bit worse by inflicting

01:03:03.280 crappy poetry on them. I could write a poem about the suffering I experienced from reading

01:03:10.280 that poem. In fact, I already have. As established, everything I've said already is a poem by

01:03:15.320 default. That's what happens when you lower the artistic bar to this extent. And that is

01:03:19.120 why Vinay Krishnan and everybody who complimented his poem, all of whom should be legally disqualified

01:03:25.300 from voting and then deported to a moon of Jupiter, are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show

01:03:31.660 today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 07, 2024

Ep. 1323 - Why Millions Of Americans Want To Secede From The Union

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