The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1329 - Squatters Can Now Come In And Steal Your Home With No Consequences

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, private property rights are under severe assault all across the country.

00:00:04.120 Increasingly, the laws and courts are protecting home invaders and giving them more rights than homeowners.

00:00:08.900 Also, Joe Biden claims that the election is not a referendum on him.

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00:01:51.700 One of the most important ideas in the Bill of Rights is that your private property belongs to you.

00:01:56.460 It wasn't exactly a novel concept, but just in case there was any doubt, the Bill of Rights spelled it out.

00:02:00.640 No one can seize your property without due process.

00:02:03.060 And if you take a look at the major court cases in this area over the years,

00:02:07.040 you'll find that you have the strongest privacy interest in your home, which makes sense.

00:02:11.140 You know, there's all kinds of exceptions that police can use to search your car or your locker at work, for example.

00:02:16.560 But for your home, there aren't very many exceptions.

00:02:19.220 Your home is your castle, as the saying goes.

00:02:20.880 That's been true since the common law was created.

00:02:23.560 But it's not true anymore.

00:02:25.100 It's not even remotely true, in fact.

00:02:26.340 It turns out that when you flood the United States with a limitless supply of illegal immigrants, 0.99

00:02:30.920 while at the same time shipping millions of jobs overseas,

00:02:33.420 then housing becomes a very scarce commodity.

00:02:35.580 Squatters, mostly out of desperation, pop up in every home they can find,

00:02:39.200 even homes that haven't been abandoned.

00:02:41.660 And then when homeowners try to enforce their rights and kick these criminals out of the property they paid for,

00:02:46.940 they're finding out that the Fifth Amendment, the Constitution, has effectively been suspended.

00:02:51.460 As we discussed briefly yesterday, squatters, home invaders,

00:02:54.800 now have more rights than homeowners in many states across the country.

00:02:58.500 The government will assist them in seizing your property.

00:03:02.000 The police, universally, will take the side of the criminal, the criminal home invader,

00:03:06.800 and kick the homeowner to the curb. 1.00

00:03:08.420 And then nonprofits and law firms rush in to represent the squatter in legal proceedings should they become necessary.

00:03:14.720 And then somehow, courts will often still rule in favor of the squatter,

00:03:18.820 the home invader, the person who isn't supposed to be there.

00:03:21.520 We don't have to speculate about any of this.

00:03:22.940 It's all well-documented at this point.

00:03:25.020 No reasonable person can dispute it.

00:03:27.400 And I'll start with an example that's gotten a lot of attention over the last couple of days.

00:03:30.520 I want you to watch as a 47-year-old woman in Queens, Queens, New York, is dragged away from her own home in handcuffs

00:03:38.500 because someone claims to have a lease for her property.

00:03:41.560 This guy can't show the lease to anybody, including the police and the media,

00:03:45.560 but because he doesn't actually live there, he's invading the home.

00:03:48.660 But because he claims he's been living there for around a month,

00:03:51.200 they arrest the woman, the homeowner, instead.

00:03:53.420 Watch.

00:03:54.960 Today, I'm not leaving my house.

00:03:57.120 Less than 10 minutes after police left and the locks were chained.

00:04:02.420 The man who claims to be the one actually leasing the house shows up.

00:04:07.360 Call the police again.

00:04:08.320 With the other guy, police took off the property.

00:04:10.420 Do you see this?

00:04:11.500 This guy just literally broke down my door.

00:04:14.840 Broke through myself and my daughter to get in here.

00:04:17.600 This guy just forced himself into my house.

00:04:20.160 No, he did not.

00:04:20.980 Yes, he did.

00:04:21.800 No, he did not.

00:04:22.180 And so did you.

00:04:23.000 You broke through the front door.

00:04:25.300 The man called the police on her.

00:04:27.640 So why is it that I have to leave and he doesn't have to leave?

00:04:29.880 Because technically he can't be kicked out.

00:04:32.000 We need to go to court.

00:04:33.040 They consider this a landlord-tenant issue.

00:04:36.120 And by law, it has to be handled through the housing court, not with police.

00:04:39.820 If you own this house, you would not want her inside.

00:04:42.720 I don't own the house.

00:04:43.420 Exactly, she does.

00:04:44.540 Yes, but then once again, you should know how the law works.

00:04:47.900 I do know how it works.

00:04:48.780 There's rules to the...

00:04:50.280 As you got to go to court and send me to civil court.

00:04:52.360 He says he signed a lease in October, but wouldn't tell us with who.

00:04:56.280 I got proof longer than that.

00:04:58.040 Show us the proof.

00:04:59.240 But who are you for me to show?

00:05:00.240 I've showed it to cops.

00:05:00.880 Dan with Channel 7 News.

00:05:01.940 If you don't want to show it, you don't want to show it.

00:05:03.300 I'll show you a proof.

00:05:03.500 Come here, brother.

00:05:03.960 I like that.

00:05:04.420 I would like to see it.

00:05:05.480 He didn't show me a lease.

00:05:06.820 This is a bill.

00:05:07.620 A bill for work he says he had done to the house.

00:05:10.540 He didn't show police a lease either.

00:05:12.220 The police department doesn't have the lease?

00:05:13.780 No.

00:05:13.900 He's got no documentation.

00:05:15.420 It says bills.

00:05:16.080 So Adele, you're getting arrested right now? 0.89

00:05:17.440 I'm being arrested.

00:05:17.960 For what?

00:05:19.380 For being in my own home.

00:05:24.480 Arrested for being in her own home.

00:05:26.180 That's exactly what happened.

00:05:27.680 Unlawful eviction is what they call it, though.

00:05:29.880 It's what they call it when you call the police because there's a home invader in your home.

00:05:34.180 That's what you get if you're not willing to wait two years or more for New York's completely overloaded housing court to review your case.

00:05:40.880 And by the way, even once New York's housing court does review the case, there's no guarantee they'll side with the homeowner.

00:05:46.640 This is a city that has outlawed the right of self-defense, after all.

00:05:49.560 And once that's gone, good luck getting them to enforce any of your other rights.

00:05:52.720 This is the norm in left-wing jurisdictions now.

00:05:55.000 It's not just that the police don't care about squatters with zero documentation whatsoever.

00:05:59.640 It's also the fact that the courts don't enforce the law, even when you bring flagrant crimes like this to their attention.

00:06:06.120 In Washington State, as I mentioned yesterday, a judge just granted a restraining order against a landlord whose tenant hasn't been paying rent for years.

00:06:14.340 The landlord organized a protest to bring attention to the situation.

00:06:17.160 The judge shut it down.

00:06:18.960 This is a tenant who's apparently purchased two cars while refusing to pay rent.

00:06:22.620 And in Washington State, the court sides with him.

00:06:25.400 This is not just a problem in New York City and Washington State.

00:06:28.200 It's happening all over the United States.

00:06:30.160 Consider this recent episode in Atlanta, for example.

00:06:32.420 This is from just four months ago.

00:06:33.840 A woman listed her home for sale, not for rent, for sale.

00:06:37.940 And then complete strangers moved in and changed the locks.

00:06:41.960 And in response, the police did absolutely nothing.

00:06:45.500 Watch.

00:06:47.020 This is my home.

00:06:48.560 And there's somebody in there, an intruder in there, intruders, who I do not know.

00:06:53.060 This wooded corner lot in Tucker was for sale.

00:06:55.920 Posted as plain as day online for sale.

00:06:59.060 Not for rent.

00:07:00.060 On closing day, homeowner Ronan McCabe discovered people, strangers, had moved in and changed the locks.

00:07:07.960 They broke into my house and moved in.

00:07:10.200 All the locks had been changed.

00:07:11.620 Friday, October 20th, Mr. McCabe called Gwinnett County Police.

00:07:15.440 The home had been empty for just a few weeks before it was filled with a stranger's furniture.

00:07:20.760 He says the couple inside told police they had a lease.

00:07:25.960 They have no contract, no agreement with me.

00:07:28.640 Gwinnett County Police are saying that there's nothing that they can do.

00:07:31.260 The Gwinnett PD's third trip was different.

00:07:37.040 Things changed very fast.

00:07:39.160 A woman who told police she was his wife abruptly left.

00:07:42.540 He came out, went back in.

00:07:44.580 Suddenly, U.S. Marshals started flooding the street.

00:07:48.620 It seems they had a parallel investigation.

00:07:51.440 Finally over, right?

00:07:53.180 Nope.

00:07:53.700 The female was back in the home.

00:07:56.840 She hadn't been arrested for anything.

00:07:59.020 I'm asking her to move her still faith today. 0.51

00:08:01.240 You can ask, but they might not pan out.

00:08:04.940 I mean, it's beyond parody.

00:08:06.440 So the police do eventually show up, but it's not to evict the home invaders who are stealing the home,

00:08:12.060 because that's something you can do now in America.

00:08:13.500 You can steal an entire home.

00:08:15.560 No, they show up because they have their own parallel investigation for some other crimes

00:08:20.760 that one of these squatters, a sex offender, committed in the past.

00:08:23.140 So the cops take one man away in custody, but they allow the other squatter to stay on the property.

00:08:28.060 The cops say the homeowner can ask for her to leave, but it might not pan out.

00:08:32.940 That's what law enforcement means now.

00:08:34.060 You can ask people to stop breaking the law.

00:08:35.940 You can ask them, gee, will you stop breaking this law?

00:08:37.880 Will you stop victimizing me this way?

00:08:39.980 But, you know, it might not pan out.

00:08:42.460 It needs to be said that these are not close cases, okay?

00:08:45.280 It's true that if it's a confusing situation, say a tenant appears to have legitimate lease documentation,

00:08:50.240 then in that case, it's probably best that the cops don't arrest the tenant.

00:08:54.380 And then in that case, like, you have to settle it in court because it's not clear who's in the right.

00:08:58.100 But these are not difficult situations like that.

00:09:00.440 When sex offenders start living in your house without any valid documentation, the police should remove them.

00:09:05.460 When somebody barges into your home by force and just sets up shop, there shouldn't be any question about it.

00:09:11.700 Of course they should be kicked out.

00:09:12.840 But apparently that isn't happening anywhere.

00:09:15.680 A similar scene played out seven months ago in Chicago.

00:09:18.620 And this time, a homeowner tries to rent out the property and squatters show up.

00:09:23.740 But once again, the police do absolutely nothing.

00:09:26.900 Watch.

00:09:28.260 My wife and I built our house 24, 25 years ago.

00:09:31.560 Jim Johnson and his wife, Lark, were looking forward to some good neighbors

00:09:35.300 when the for rent sign went up on this house in their cul-de-sac.

00:09:38.960 But last week, they were shocked when a family seemingly moved in overnight.

00:09:44.720 When they show up and immediately rip down the sign of the leasing company or the owner company,

00:09:49.320 you're kind of like, well, that raises a little concern.

00:09:52.360 And then the next move is a locksmith shows up.

00:09:55.500 You're kind of like, well, that's even more of a concern.

00:09:57.600 A call to the management company confirmed their fears.

00:10:00.840 The new residents are not renters, but rather squatters.

00:10:04.760 They've gone to the grocery store.

00:10:06.500 They've had cable come out.

00:10:08.060 They are acting like they live there, but they have no furniture.

00:10:11.720 They brought in a lot of blankets.

00:10:13.700 Hi, I'm Maya from Channel 13.

00:10:15.380 Can I talk to you guys?

00:10:16.840 Are you guys supposed to be staying here?

00:10:18.220 When we knocked on the door, a young woman answered.

00:10:20.640 Are you guys supposed to be staying here?

00:10:22.260 Are you guys squatting?

00:10:23.580 She didn't want to talk to us, but a short time later, the Sheriff's Department was called.

00:10:28.340 The deputies have confirmed to us that they are investigating the squatting situation.

00:10:33.680 But for now, this has remained a civil matter, much to the chagrin of the neighborhood.

00:10:38.940 Well, what's been frustrating is that I have a 12-year-old that I don't even let walk across the street to her best friend's house without watching her.

00:10:45.000 And we've never had that problem.

00:10:46.400 The ownership company says it has filed eviction papers, but our experience covering these stories shows sometimes it can take six months to a year for the process to work through the courts.

00:10:57.560 So we could spend all day going from city to city showing you footage like this.

00:11:00.660 There's footage from rural jurisdictions as well that I could show you.

00:11:04.040 It's happening all over.

00:11:04.880 These kinds of home invasions are so common that one handyman has opened up a business advising homeowners how to regain access to their own homes when squatters show up.

00:11:14.500 Basically, the idea is that you need to generate your own lease so that you can show it to the police officers who are now trained to respect your squatters' rights over your rights in your own home.

00:11:24.940 Watch.

00:11:26.460 Well, squatters took over my mom's house after my dad passed away.

00:11:31.620 We were trying to sell the home.

00:11:32.900 So I called local law enforcement, and as soon as they saw that there was furniture in the house, they said that I had a squatter situation, and they had basically no jurisdiction, and they couldn't do anything.

00:11:46.880 So I, you know, I dissected the laws over a weekend.

00:11:50.280 I basically figured out that until there's civil action, the squatters didn't have any rights.

00:11:56.440 So if I could switch places with them, become the squatter myself, I would assume those squatter rights. 0.96

00:12:01.580 And just in case they had a fake lease, like I hear some do, I had my mom devise, you know, write me up a lease.

00:12:12.020 We got it notarized.

00:12:13.980 I mean, it's hard to think of a more humiliating exercise than this.

00:12:17.100 You own a property, and to access it and to get the police to enforce the law, you need to draw up some fake lease for them.

00:12:22.540 And this idea actually works, by the way.

00:12:25.100 We know that because several years ago, the journalist Charlie LeDuff tried it in Michigan.

00:12:30.340 He out-squatted the squatters.

00:12:32.540 Watch.

00:12:32.820 Wonderful.

00:12:35.460 I'm coming to move in.

00:12:36.500 You are?

00:12:37.180 Yeah, I got the keys.

00:12:38.280 What's for dinner?

00:12:41.140 I'm not cooking dinner.

00:12:42.360 I'm going to go pick up my child.

00:12:43.940 Oh, can I get in?

00:12:45.760 No, sir.

00:12:46.700 But I have the deed here.

00:12:48.400 You do?

00:12:48.960 Yeah, here's the deed.

00:12:49.920 Here's the check.

00:12:51.120 All right.

00:12:51.660 Here's the deed, and I got permission from the landlord.

00:12:54.140 Okay.

00:12:54.740 Tell the landlord to come here.

00:12:55.540 So I can legally go in there.

00:12:58.200 Well, you know.

00:12:59.660 Yeah, I can legally go in.

00:13:00.460 Yeah, you can legally come in.

00:13:01.780 So let me in my house.

00:13:02.760 I'll let you in your house.

00:13:04.540 This is Lynn Williams' house.

00:13:05.720 Oh, it's...

00:13:06.500 Lynn Williams' house.

00:13:07.260 It doesn't say Lynn.

00:13:08.500 Well, of course not, because she took all my paperwork, and everybody else know it. 0.61

00:13:12.560 Is that power hooked up legit there?

00:13:15.260 My power is...

00:13:16.920 That's not legit.

00:13:17.840 It's not legit.

00:13:19.000 No, you're stealing the power.

00:13:21.040 I am blessed.

00:13:27.580 Oh.

00:13:28.060 I'm going to jail for squatting.

00:13:31.780 This is a turn of events.

00:13:33.380 Call my boyfriend next time.

00:13:35.080 Are you going to bail her out?

00:13:36.720 This is technically a violation of probation, so...

00:13:39.600 Oh.

00:13:41.480 Are you stealing power, he asks.

00:13:44.000 I'm blessed, responds the squatter.

00:13:45.880 At least the woman, I think, has a sense of humor. 1.00

00:13:50.600 What's funny is that in this situation, unlike all the other ones, the police actually do take

00:13:54.520 the original squatter to jail, this is the only time they'll take action to protect your property.

00:13:58.500 You have to hire a new squatter to kick out the old squatter.

00:14:02.180 I guess the idea is that the most recent squatter gets dibs.

00:14:06.400 This is a mockery of the idea of private property rights, obviously, and there's a reason it's

00:14:10.160 happening.

00:14:10.500 It's the same reason you see so much mockery of religion.

00:14:13.520 It's the same reason BLM goes after the family unit.

00:14:15.960 It's why the corporate media pushes transgenderism. 1.00

00:14:18.020 Private property rights, like religion and the family unit, is a bulwark against total state

00:14:24.040 control of our lives.

00:14:25.500 As long as we have private property, the state can't control us, at least not as easily,

00:14:29.700 at least not to the extent that they want to.

00:14:32.680 Without private property, we're just renters.

00:14:34.780 We are totally at the mercy of the powers that be.

00:14:38.600 Renters can be evicted at will.

00:14:40.720 You'll own nothing and be happy, as the saying goes.

00:14:44.140 The Biden administration has done everything it can to normalize the destruction of private

00:14:47.900 property rights.

00:14:48.840 The administration fought to extend the COVID-era eviction moratorium as long as they could,

00:14:53.600 long past the time that there was any plausible argument that ending evictions would somehow

00:14:57.520 stop the spread. 1.00

00:14:58.660 And by the way, there was never any plausible argument that that was going to help stop

00:15:02.140 the spread.

00:15:02.940 But even based on their original argument, they were extending it well past that.

00:15:08.080 And that led effectively to the nationalization of private property in this country.

00:15:11.820 Landlords lost the right to evict squatters paying no rent, even when they own the property

00:15:15.940 outright.

00:15:17.260 Let's watch that to remember.

00:15:19.560 Yeah, they're the ones paying badly.

00:15:21.400 We're talking about a family, a young family with a two-year-old child who are actually packed

00:15:26.920 in a room at the in-laws because they cannot move into the house that they actually bought

00:15:31.880 a year ago.

00:15:32.920 Watch this.

00:15:33.580 My husband and I closed escrow the day that we got married, July 24th of last year.

00:15:39.700 We were told because we were the new owners intending to live in the property, we would

00:15:43.320 be able to evict them.

00:15:44.940 Them being squatters that had been staying on the Shadeway Road home in Lakewood.

00:15:49.560 So I was confused on the fact she can't even walk into the house, even though she owns the 1.00

00:15:53.600 house.

00:15:54.080 I mean, what's that about?

00:15:55.440 That's right, because the person living there, they were trying to do a remodel, trying,

00:16:01.400 and she literally let them.

00:16:02.560 They have to ask permission to go into their own home because she has a right to her peace 0.96

00:16:07.520 in the covenant.

00:16:08.960 And if they just show up there without letting her know and getting her permission, she'll

00:16:12.860 call the cops and they'll remove them. 0.94

00:16:14.900 It's happened.

00:16:15.820 The neighbors were telling me about it.

00:16:17.180 It's crazy.

00:16:17.960 I don't even know where to go with that.

00:16:21.700 Hopefully we can get her some help, and hopefully that shines a light on clearly a loophole that

00:16:25.960 needs to be addressed.

00:16:27.360 Yeah, the anchor says it's a loophole, but it's the opposite of a loophole.

00:16:30.700 It's not a loophole at all.

00:16:31.480 The policy was working as intended.

00:16:33.180 The eviction moratorium had nothing to do with a virus.

00:16:35.760 It was intended to do something that's never happened in this country since the Civil War,

00:16:40.180 which is the wide-scale suspension of private property rights.

00:16:44.060 And once you pull off something as unconstitutional as seizing people's homes in a time

00:16:47.920 of emergency, as the Biden administration defined it, then it becomes much easier to

00:16:51.880 seize people's homes at any point in the future.

00:16:53.700 And that is what we're seeing right now.

00:16:55.400 We're seeing it play out again all across the entire country.

00:16:58.660 And that means more homes for the millions of illegal aliens who are entering this country. 0.98

00:17:02.860 It means more humiliation and destruction for American citizens.

00:17:06.560 And it means we're getting closer to some homeowner somewhere snapping and deciding to take

00:17:11.140 back his property by force.

00:17:13.420 At this point, you have to imagine that's exactly what the people running this country,

00:17:17.920 want to see happen.

00:17:20.420 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:18:15.440 From the Daily Wire, it says,

00:18:16.540 the legal drama between Texas and the Biden administration continues

00:18:19.320 after a federal appeals court ordered a pause in the state's law

00:18:22.920 that allows authorities to arrest and deport immigrants

00:18:25.380 suspected of crossing the southern border illegally.

00:18:28.320 The appeals court's hold on the law comes just hours after the Supreme Court on Tuesday

00:18:31.620 allowed it to take effect.

00:18:32.840 As litigation continues, in a two-to-one decision,

00:18:34.580 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order that stops Texas Senate Bill 4

00:18:38.420 from going into effect as the court hears the case brought by the Biden administration

00:18:41.440 along with the ACLU and other groups that oppose the immigration law.

00:18:45.120 The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on the case on Wednesday,

00:18:48.160 which is today.

00:18:49.240 The Supreme Court's conservative majority rejected the Biden administration's emergency request

00:18:52.640 for a stay on the Texas law while litigation continues in the Fifth Circuit

00:18:55.540 while the high court's three liberal justices dissented.

00:18:58.760 So, as I said, the court drama continues here.

00:19:03.000 And I have no faith that the courts will ultimately arrive at the correct conclusion on this.

00:19:08.320 We'll see.

00:19:09.880 The problem is that you can't just analyze the letter of the law here.

00:19:15.860 You know, it's not enough to look and say,

00:19:19.620 oh, well, immigration enforcement is a federal matter,

00:19:23.780 which it may be in theory.

00:19:25.840 But the point here, the context is that the federal government has completely abdicated

00:19:31.020 its responsibility, not just abdicated it.

00:19:34.600 It's not just that it's like trying but failing or doing an incompetent job or an inefficient job.

00:19:40.720 We're used to all that from the federal government.

00:19:42.720 Everything they do, if they do it at all,

00:19:45.040 is going to at least be done incompetently and inefficiently

00:19:48.940 in a way that's much more expensive than it needs to be.

00:19:51.640 But what's actually happening is the federal government is involved in a deliberate conspiracy

00:19:55.800 to undermine our immigration laws and erase our borders 0.94

00:19:59.140 in order to increase the political power of the ruling party in the country.

00:20:04.000 And so that's what's actually happening.

00:20:05.980 And any court that doesn't recognize that basic fact,

00:20:10.480 doesn't recognize that that is the situation,

00:20:13.920 will probably not arrive at the right conclusion.

00:20:16.480 It will not give us the right ruling because they aren't ruling on the actual issue at hand.

00:20:23.720 And you can't even really refer to the Constitution on this one

00:20:28.360 because as far as I know, there's nothing in the Constitution one way or another

00:20:33.320 describing exactly what to do when the federal government engages in a conspiracy

00:20:37.860 to destroy our national sovereignty in order to import Democrat voters from the third world. 0.90

00:20:43.020 This was not a possibility that our founders had seriously considered, and how could they?

00:20:52.220 But that is what's happening.

00:20:53.920 And that is the context in which Texas passed its own border law

00:20:59.260 and in which every other red state should be passing similar laws

00:21:03.740 if they haven't already or if they haven't already,

00:21:07.480 if those laws are not already, you know, making their way through the legislative branch,

00:21:13.320 then they should be.

00:21:16.120 But that's the point.

00:21:19.300 That, you know, you cannot assess this situation

00:21:22.440 and look at it as if, you know, the scenario is that,

00:21:27.620 well, the federal government is trying to enforce the border,

00:21:29.440 but then Texas is coming along and trying to do their own thing

00:21:33.200 and then you have this conflict and it's very confusing.

00:21:37.460 That would be one thing, but that's not what's happening.

00:21:41.100 Instead, the federal government has said, we're not going to force it at all.

00:21:44.040 And you have to sit back and allow the third world to invade your state. 1.00

00:21:47.780 You have to allow your state to become the third world. 0.99

00:21:50.920 That's what we're, you know, that's what we're saying.

00:21:53.100 And we're going to bring in, you know, we're going to bring in drugs.

00:21:58.740 We're going to bring in drug dealers. 1.00

00:21:59.700 We're going to bring in violent criminals. 0.50

00:22:01.500 We're going to bring people in who start, 0.84

00:22:03.140 who are murdering the citizens of your state.

00:22:05.360 We're going to bring them all in.

00:22:06.220 We're not going to do anything about it.

00:22:07.840 And you have to sit and take it.

00:22:09.760 That's what the federal government has said in, you know,

00:22:13.020 in so many words, that's what they've said.

00:22:15.040 And any analysis, any legal analysis of the case has to include that reality

00:22:24.260 or it's not going to come to the right conclusion.

00:22:26.580 Here's another clip of President Dementia stuttering and babbling.

00:22:31.220 This one isn't even that bad compared to most,

00:22:33.460 but there's a point that I want to make about it anyway.

00:22:36.200 But first, let's watch it.

00:22:38.400 I look forward.

00:22:39.080 The fact is that I shouldn't probably get started on it,

00:22:43.320 because I promised I'd be brief.

00:22:46.740 I don't want to say hello to every one of you.

00:22:48.380 But look, this election is not a referendum on me.

00:22:55.760 It's an election between me and a guy named Trump.

00:23:00.020 Okay, so he starts by saying, look, Forks.

00:23:02.960 So he's talking to kitchen utensils now.

00:23:04.900 That's where we are.

00:23:06.000 Nothing to worry about there.

00:23:07.100 But what he says at the end of the clip is more important

00:23:10.420 because he says that this election is not a referendum on him,

00:23:14.680 which is a very different argument from the one that an incumbent would make

00:23:20.800 if he was confident in his performance.

00:23:25.620 Right?

00:23:26.540 It's interesting that he would come out and say that.

00:23:30.640 Because if you're confident in your performance

00:23:35.320 and if you're confident that the country is in a better place now

00:23:37.520 than it was when you got into office,

00:23:38.660 then you would say, yeah, this election is a referendum on me.

00:23:42.200 This election is about me.

00:23:43.920 It's about my performance.

00:23:45.660 And if you think I've done a good job,

00:23:47.180 if the country is in a better place now after four years,

00:23:49.480 if you're in a better place, then vote for me.

00:23:52.360 Yeah, I mean, this is a performance review.

00:23:54.080 You should be reviewing my performance.

00:23:56.960 That's what he would be saying.

00:23:58.780 But he's not.

00:24:00.640 I mean, an incumbent saying that the election is not a referendum on him.

00:24:06.260 It's like an employee.

00:24:07.400 It is like an employee.

00:24:08.280 It's like a performance review.

00:24:09.860 Imagine an employee going in for a performance review with his boss

00:24:13.720 and starting it by saying, look, Forks, this performance review,

00:24:17.980 it's not about me.

00:24:19.320 This is not really about me.

00:24:20.400 This is not a referendum on my performance.

00:24:22.860 This is about Dave and accounting.

00:24:25.180 That's not about me.

00:24:26.060 It's about him.

00:24:26.500 When you open that way, it tells you something about this person's confidence

00:24:34.920 in their own performance.

00:24:37.300 But usually a president will not come out and be that open about the fact

00:24:44.640 that they want to make this not about them

00:24:47.340 because they're not sure of their own performance.

00:24:48.900 Biden is more honest about that than presidents usually are,

00:24:54.460 not because he's an honest guy.

00:24:55.720 He's not. 1.00

00:24:56.260 He's a despicable lying scumbag. 1.00

00:24:58.400 But he also has dementia. 1.00

00:25:00.720 So sometimes he blurts out the truth inadvertently,

00:25:04.300 and that's what's happened there.

00:25:05.860 So we're not used to that level of honesty about it.

00:25:08.020 But we do know that this is usually, this is how the game is played,

00:25:10.620 and you want the election to be, you know,

00:25:13.740 as we've talked about plenty of times,

00:25:16.300 and this is a basic political analysis that many have offered,

00:25:20.120 but it's true that you don't want the election to be about you.

00:25:24.960 Whoever the election is about, usually they lose.

00:25:29.720 And which is why it's so important for Trump to allow the election to be about Biden.

00:25:41.960 And I think so far, that is how it's playing out.

00:25:48.580 But really, you know, even though Trump has had the nomination secured,

00:25:54.220 you know, effectively for a while now, for months,

00:25:56.760 it wasn't officially secured until a few days ago.

00:26:00.600 And so now we're, like, officially in the general election, I suppose.

00:26:03.800 So we'll see how it plays out.

00:26:05.660 But really, the less that Trump, you know, puts himself in the spotlight,

00:26:13.400 they're going to try to put him in the spotlight, obviously.

00:26:16.760 And, you know, trying to throw him in jail with 50 different court trials is one way to do that.

00:26:24.100 But the more that he allows, like, this is all it is.

00:26:26.480 Just allow Joe Biden to be in the spotlight, shine the spotlight on him, make it all about him.

00:26:33.720 Every question that it goes to you, throw it right back at Biden every single time,

00:26:38.820 back to him, back to him, and make people focus on this old, doddering, senile bumpkin in the White House 0.51

00:26:47.540 who has made everyone's life worse.

00:26:51.440 Like, you know, the country is not in a better place today.

00:26:54.320 That is the fundamental basic question you have to ask about an incumbent who's running for re-election.

00:27:02.960 And it's not always, you know, we say, are you in a better place?

00:27:05.800 Well, of course, that's something people take into account.

00:27:07.720 But, you know, someone could do, you could have a president who does a fantastic job,

00:27:13.540 and that doesn't automatically mean that you individually be in a better place,

00:27:16.860 because things can happen in your own life that get in the way,

00:27:22.760 just like you could end up in a better place even though the president is doing a terrible job.

00:27:27.500 So what you have to ask is, the country generally, does anyone really believe that the country as a whole

00:27:34.900 is in a better place today than it was before Trump, before Biden took office?

00:27:39.400 And that's a broad, it's a broad category, you know, a better place.

00:27:46.760 Well, what do we mean by that?

00:27:47.900 Well, you break it down economically, politically, culturally, whatever level you want to look.

00:27:56.460 Is it in a better place on any of those levels?

00:27:58.880 And of course, the answer is no.

00:27:59.840 All right, CNN has this report.

00:28:08.900 All but one of the 100 cities with the world's worst air pollution last year were in Asia.

00:28:15.600 So 99 of the 100 worst polluters are in Asia.

00:28:19.040 With the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide,

00:28:24.280 the vast majority of these cities, 83 were in India, 83 of the 100 worst polluters, according to this report, are in India.

00:28:34.900 And all exceeded the World Health Organization's air quality guidelines by more than 10 times.

00:28:39.860 The study looks specifically at fine particulate matter, which is the tiniest pollutant, but also the most dangerous.

00:28:46.280 Only 9% of more than 7,800 cities analyzed globally recorded air quality that met the World Health Organization's standards,

00:28:56.240 which says average annual levels of PM2.5 should not exceed 5 micrograms per cubic meter.

00:29:04.280 And I definitely know what all that means.

00:29:06.080 Or maybe I don't, but I do understand the basic fact here that almost all, by this measure,

00:29:17.460 the World Health Organization, however much you trust them, almost all of the worst polluters are in Asia. 0.92

00:29:24.860 And we add to that something we talked about recently when the subject came up of plastic straws again, I believe.

00:29:31.640 But you add to that, that almost all of the pollution in the ocean is coming from Asia, and then you also throw in Africa. 0.96

00:29:42.840 But Asia and Africa together are causing almost all of the pollution in the ocean. 1.00

00:29:48.080 And the reason for that is pretty simple.

00:29:52.340 You know, all you have to do is look at an image or a video of rivers in a lot of these third world countries.

00:29:57.660 And the rivers themselves are, you know, basically treated like conveyor belts where they just dump the trash right into the river and ferries it out into the ocean.

00:30:09.880 So water pollution, the pollution in the ocean, plastics in the ocean, all the, you know, all the poor sea turtles that are getting whatever plastic straws stuck in their nose.

00:30:19.180 Because most of that, almost all of that, almost all of it happening because of Asia and Africa. 0.97

00:30:23.740 And then we're told air pollution also, that's almost all Asia, the vast majority of it, with India contributing most of all.

00:30:31.680 And yet, even though we get these reports from the media from time to time, usually most of the scolding and the lecturing on so-called climate change goes to us.

00:30:49.440 But the reality, on top of everything else, on top of the fact that, you know, man-made climate change is a myth, on top of the fact that, you know, we in fact don't control the weather, that the sun is what calls the shots on our planet, no matter what we do.

00:31:05.720 But even aside from all that, like, the reality is that in the United States, we could stop driving cars completely, we could give up on cars, we could just decide that we're going to walk and ride bikes everywhere, we can get rid of all of our plastic straws, which we essentially have, get rid of all the plastic, get rid of all the plastics, get rid of everything.

00:31:32.700 All pollution out the window, at least any pollution that comes from technology, you know, we can't do anything about the cows, like, we could kill all the cows too.

00:31:43.180 We could do all of that, and what difference will it actually make?

00:31:48.240 When you've got the vast majority of the pollution coming from the other side of the world, and coming from countries that, again, treat their rivers, their waterways, like garbage dumps. 0.99

00:32:02.800 So, it just, it makes no difference. 0.85

00:32:08.140 And, but there's no effort to grapple with that, we still get all the lectures, which of course is ridiculous.

00:32:15.840 Here's another report, this is from Axios.

00:32:18.160 It says, the U.S. hit an all-time low ranking in the annual World Happiness Report, tumbling eight spots to number 23.

00:32:29.600 Some countries, like Finland and Denmark, consistently rank among the world's happiest.

00:32:35.040 The U.S. isn't one of them.

00:32:36.980 A steady supply of studies has found that Americans feel glum about issues ranging from loneliness to the economy and the country's political leadership.

00:32:44.420 It's the first time since the report launched 12 years ago that the U.S. did not rank among the world's 20 happiest countries.

00:32:53.200 And we had another study like that, that we talked about recently, coming to a similar conclusion, that we are an unhappy country and becoming unhappier by the day.

00:33:05.000 Today, I think there's a, in fact it was just yesterday we talked about wokeness, how people who are, who are woke tend to be the most depressed and the most anxious.

00:33:17.160 And so there's a, there's a connection here.

00:33:19.880 Like why, why is this the case?

00:33:21.640 Why is America an unhappy country?

00:33:23.420 Now I'm, I'm skeptical of any study that claims to measure happiness in this way.

00:33:28.800 Happiness is not the kind of thing that can be measured in a quantitative way.

00:33:36.180 And the only way that you can really measure it is just with self-reported data, just by asking people whether or not they're happy.

00:33:45.400 So what you're really reporting is, what are the countries where people are more likely to report that they are happy?

00:33:51.660 But there's a, there's a disconnect between the number of people reporting that they're happy and the number of people actually are happy.

00:33:58.680 I mean, somebody could say that they're happy and they're not really, or they could have an idea of what happiness is that isn't exactly correct.

00:34:08.280 So, you know, I'm skeptical about that.

00:34:11.760 I'm skeptical of the, of, of, of any ability to actually quantify these things.

00:34:15.700 But even so, it does ring true that we are, you know, are a more unhappy country than we've been in the past.

00:34:24.780 So why is that?

00:34:26.800 I don't know how you rank it either.

00:34:28.560 Like where do we actually fall in the ranking if you can't actually rank happiness that way?

00:34:31.940 I think that's sort of incoherent.

00:34:33.100 But whatever the case may be, if we are, if we are becoming, you know, a more unhappy country, why is that?

00:34:37.740 Well, one of them, one of the reasons is that we already talked about yesterday,

00:34:42.480 the connection between wokeism or leftism and unhappiness and why that makes people unhappy.

00:34:47.780 So as leftism has this stranglehold on the culture, people are going to be more, you know, are going to be more unhappy.

00:34:55.940 We, at the same time, have a decaying culture, which makes people unhappy.

00:35:00.060 There's a loss of a sense of control that people have over their lives, which makes them unhappy.

00:35:06.580 Loss of meaning, you know, to me, that's, that would be a more interesting study, actually.

00:35:17.940 Rather than asking people, are you happy?

00:35:21.540 Ask them, what does life mean to you?

00:35:27.060 What does your life mean to you?

00:35:28.640 What does it, what does it mean?

00:35:29.500 And I suspect if you ask that question, the results are going to be even more depressing.

00:35:35.980 Because you get a lot of people that, essentially, their answer is, it doesn't mean anything.

00:35:40.360 You know, you're going to get a lot of, I don't know, no opinion.

00:35:43.580 I don't, I'm not sure.

00:35:45.360 Life has no meaning.

00:35:46.520 You get a lot of those kinds of answers.

00:35:50.940 And the more that, that people lose a sense of meaning in their lives, the more unhappy they become.

00:35:56.140 But then also, I think, on top of all that, we are a country that is obsessively focused on happiness.

00:36:07.220 So that's the, that's the irony here.

00:36:10.780 That we're, it would seem, less happy than we've ever, we've ever been.

00:36:15.980 But we're also more focused on being happy than we've ever been.

00:36:20.880 In fact, that might be the answer people give you.

00:36:25.320 If you ask them, what's, what's the, what does your life mean?

00:36:29.240 If they have any answer at all, it will probably be something like, well, you know, just try to be happy.

00:36:35.640 That's what life is, just trying to be happy.

00:36:37.420 But what we discover is that the more you make that the central focus of your life, the more that, that, that happiness in and of itself, for itself, is the goal, the less happy you become.

00:36:54.240 Because happiness, in reality, if you actually attain it, it is a, as a byproduct of doing what is right.

00:37:03.380 It's a byproduct of finding meaning in your life.

00:37:06.940 It's a, it's a byproduct of, of living with actual purpose and direction.

00:37:12.320 It's a byproduct of living for something other than yourself, living in service to others.

00:37:19.900 And so, all of that, you do all of that, and then, and you're living your life, and you're living that way, and then you turn around one day and you say, well, look at that, I'm, I'm happy.

00:37:29.460 Um, and it's not going to be a permanent feeling, you can't hold on to that feeling every second of the day all the time, but you'll experience it a lot more as a byproduct of living the right way.

00:37:43.820 Uh, okay, I wanted to mention, uh, this case briefly, and I've sort of been putting this off because it's so horrifying.

00:37:52.320 Um, but there's a video circulating, and we're not going to play the video.

00:37:57.760 So, uh, but it's a video of a, of a woman who doesn't speak English, um, being, you know, in court, um, being given her sentence, and the sentence is, uh, life in prison without parole.

00:38:13.700 And we also hear her through a translator making excuses for her behavior, um, and talking about how she's depressed, and she's suffering, and nobody cared.

00:38:23.560 Anyway, that's what the video is.

00:38:24.660 Uh, the crime that this woman committed, her name is Crystal Candelario, is that she went on a 10-day vacation, um, to Puerto Rico, and I think a couple other places. 0.98

00:38:39.220 And she left her 16-month-old daughter in a playpen while she went on vacation. 1.00

00:38:48.460 And, um, and the daughter died.

00:38:52.400 This is a CNN report.

00:38:53.600 Jalen's cries echoed through the quiet streets of Cleveland in the dead of the night.

00:38:58.100 The toddler whimpered and howled, but no one came to her rescue.

00:39:00.820 Her mother, Crystal Candelario, was away on a 10-day summer vacation and had left Jalen alone in a playpen with a few bottles of milk, prosecutors said.

00:39:09.960 A neighbor's doorbell camera captured the 16-month-old's frequent screams, uh, including one around 1 a.m. two days after the mother left.

00:39:19.020 But Candelario was hundreds of miles away in Puerto Rico with a male friend.

00:39:23.840 After a few days at the beach and another stop in Detroit, she returned home on June 16th last year to find her daughter dead.

00:39:32.420 She'd been gone for about 10 days.

00:39:34.780 Candelario pleaded guilty last month to one count of aggravated murder and one count of child endangering.

00:39:40.160 Um, at her sentencing on Monday, which is from the video I mentioned, forensic pathologist Elizabeth Mooney told a Cleveland courtroom that, uh, children experience the most extreme separation anxiety between 9 and 18 months.

00:39:54.700 She recounted Jalen's excruciating final days.

00:39:56.680 I can't even keep reading this.

00:39:58.140 Um, but the child died of, uh, she starved to death and she died of dehydration.

00:40:03.340 While this mother was on vacation, was sitting on the beach, enjoying her time, fully aware that her daughter was not just dying, but dying like the most excruciating death that it's possible for a human to experience.

00:40:23.820 Like, starving to death is, when it comes to physical suffering, starving to death is pretty much as bad as it gets.

00:40:34.880 And, uh, that is the death that she condemned her 16-month-old daughter to because she wanted her to go on vacation. 1.00

00:40:44.580 And I guess my only point in bringing this up, my first point is just that it's so horrifying that I don't, I,

00:40:49.680 I, I feel as though it should be mentioned for that reason alone.

00:40:56.140 But also, um, you know, not to jump up on this soap, soapbox again, but this is why, this is why you just need the death penalty.

00:41:07.300 This, this is, this is why right here, this is all the other arguments that are made for it.

00:41:12.640 And we've talked about it many times in the past and what the arguments are.

00:41:15.660 And there are plenty of arguments, plenty of academic arguments about why you need it and about the deterrence factor and about all these other things.

00:41:23.920 Um, but I think, I think all those arguments sort of fade away.

00:41:27.780 You don't, you don't, you don't even need them.

00:41:29.140 It's just this case alone.

00:41:31.080 This is why you need it for people like this.

00:41:34.320 Now, she didn't get the death penalty.

00:41:37.080 Right?

00:41:37.460 And that's exactly the point.

00:41:39.680 She didn't get the death penalty. 0.90

00:41:40.900 Uh, she got life in prison without parole, but everybody, I think everyone who hears a story like this and finds out what the penalty was, that she's going to prison.

00:41:53.340 I think everyone kind of just, I don't care where you stand or where you think you stand on the death penalty.

00:41:58.540 In theory, you hear a story like this and you know, you know in your bones that going to prison is not enough.

00:42:06.800 It's just not enough of a punishment.

00:42:10.360 And so anything about deterrence, any of these other sort of academic theoretical things, that's not the point.

00:42:18.420 Um, the first point is not like, well, how do we deter other women from condemning their children, you know, to, to, to death by starvation? 0.76

00:42:28.240 Yeah, we do want to deter that, obviously.

00:42:32.920 But of course, the truth also is that when you have someone capable of evil at this level, uh, there's not a lot you can do to deter them.

00:42:44.560 When they're that evil, when you have someone who's a soulless monster, how do you stop a soulless monster from behaving like a soulless monster?

00:42:52.380 It's like, well, the only way you do it is by putting them in jail, but if they're not in jail yet, it's, it's, you know, it's almost impossible.

00:43:03.760 So that's not even the question.

00:43:05.060 The question is just punishment, you know, and that's, and that's why we've gotten away.

00:43:11.680 We talk about capital punishment.

00:43:13.880 It's right there in the name punishment.

00:43:15.260 But even people who argue for it, they argue for, for every aspect of it, except the thing that's in the name, which is that it's for punishment.

00:43:26.420 That's why you need it.

00:43:28.340 Because there are crimes that simply need to be punished that way.

00:43:32.840 You need to have the worst, you know, you need to have a punishment that goes beyond putting them in a cell.

00:43:38.900 Uh, and crimes like this that cry out for it.

00:43:43.860 And I think everyone knows that.

00:43:46.100 I think everyone knows that someone like this, you just, you cannot allow someone like this to keep living.

00:43:53.660 This is someone you, you, you've punched your ticket out of, off of the earth.

00:43:59.120 Uh, we, we, we cannot allow you, you cannot be a part of human society, even in prison anymore.

00:44:04.020 You're not good enough for that.

00:44:05.480 Um, and, uh, I think this case makes that very clear.

00:44:13.040 All right, let's get to, was Walsh wrong?

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00:45:09.940 The first comment says, Matt, Hollywood has indeed already given the rom-com treatment to cannibalism.

00:45:15.100 In 2022, Bones and All, starring Timothee Chalamet, was released.

00:45:22.180 Another one says, you asked sarcastically if anyone has seen a romantic comedy about cannibalism.

00:45:25.580 I actually have. 0.73

00:45:26.120 There's a very funny show on Netflix called Santa Clarita Diet, and it's hilarious, mostly because how ridiculous it is.

00:45:31.680 But I think you would like it.

00:45:33.020 You think I would like it, really?

00:45:35.000 You say it's a romantic comedy about cannibalism, and you watch that and you think this is something Matt Walsh would like?

00:45:39.500 I don't think so.

00:45:40.560 You know, I made what I thought was a joke yesterday.

00:45:43.060 Because we read that article from whatever it was, the New Scientist, arguing that we need to stop stigmatizing cannibalism.

00:45:52.100 We need to de-stigmatize cannibalism.

00:45:54.280 And the article complains about all the negative portrayals in the media of cannibalism.

00:46:01.620 And then I thought, I made what I thought was a joke that, yeah, sure, you know, let's have positive portrayals of cannibals.

00:46:08.440 Let's have a romantic comedy about two cannibals who fall in love. 0.98

00:46:13.600 And, yeah, then multiple comments informing me that, no, Hollywood's actually already done that.

00:46:18.000 They're one step ahead of actually de-stigmatizing cannibalism.

00:46:22.860 So every time I want to think, like, okay, well, this thing is so absurd it obviously hasn't happened yet.

00:46:29.460 That's my optimism coming through.

00:46:33.960 And I always live to regret my few brief moments where I lapse into optimism.

00:46:40.860 I always regret it.

00:46:42.380 I'm always embarrassed at the end.

00:46:46.960 Another comment says, okay, Ariana Grande. 1.00

00:46:50.420 Is it Ariana Grande or Grand?

00:46:53.000 It's Grande.

00:46:53.940 Grande, okay.

00:46:54.920 I thought so. 0.80

00:46:55.760 Ariana Grande putting her toe in her mouth, not an example of pedophilia. 1.00

00:46:58.920 Ariana Grande trying to squeeze juice out of a potato, not an example of pedophilia. 0.98

00:47:02.980 Ariana Grande trying to drink water upside down, not an example of pedophilia. 0.98

00:47:08.720 Okay, if you want to pretend, and we're not going to play the video again,

00:47:12.560 but we were talking about the groomer scandal that Nickelodeon now finds itself in,

00:47:18.060 thanks in large part to this quiet on the set documentary

00:47:21.200 that's exposing all of the child grooming that was going on behind the scenes at Nickelodeon,

00:47:26.660 particularly during the kind of Nickelodeon's heyday, their era,

00:47:31.000 back when people that are my age were watching it in the 90s and then in the early 2000s.

00:47:35.280 And there's plenty of disturbing videos of the ways that these kids,

00:47:44.740 child performers were sexualized, and this one in particular, we're not going to play again.

00:47:49.420 But I don't know.

00:47:50.700 I mean, if you can watch that video and then actually claim that you don't see what they're doing there,

00:47:58.740 then either you're naive in the extreme or you have some other reason to be making excuses

00:48:08.360 for the sexualization of children, some much more sinister reasons.

00:48:13.260 And I don't know.

00:48:14.200 This is just an internet comment.

00:48:15.460 I don't know what the case is for you.

00:48:17.580 But I do suspect it's not naive to take.

00:48:19.940 And finally, I can't believe, Matt, has this worked up over juvenile double entendres

00:48:24.980 in a show aimed at teens.

00:48:27.860 That's exactly the kind of humor I would have loved as a teen.

00:48:31.320 Saying they're all pedos seems like a bit of a stretch.

00:48:33.760 Maybe the school moms need to unclench their drawers. 1.00

00:48:37.100 You know, I never use the, are you sure you want to die on this hill phrase?

00:48:43.100 And I'm not going to use it here just on principle.

00:48:45.640 But if I was going to use it, this is the time when I would use it.

00:48:49.940 Like, really?

00:48:51.100 You want to speak up in defense of the Nickelodeon groomers?

00:48:55.400 Now, I didn't say that everybody working at Nickelodeon were pedophiles.

00:48:59.360 I didn't say they all were. 0.94

00:49:02.220 I said that they were groomers and also pedophiles. 0.54

00:49:07.000 There were actual pedophiles working there, as we talked about, 0.97

00:49:10.160 who were arrested for child sexual abuse. 0.99

00:49:14.660 And then most of the rest of them who did not fall into one of those camps were cowards.

00:49:19.940 And as I said, you always need, you know, anytime you have a scandal that comes out about years of this kind of behavior going on behind the scenes at some company or some institution, 0.98

00:49:30.320 you always have the perverts and the degenerates that are doing the disgusting things. 0.97

00:49:34.900 But then you also always need an army of cowards who sit by and let it happen. 0.99

00:49:44.260 And why do they let it happen?

00:49:46.260 Usually for very simple reasons.

00:49:48.280 They just let it happen out of self-preservation because they don't want to sacrifice their career,

00:49:53.060 because they don't want to, you know, stir the pot.

00:49:54.920 They don't want to be confrontational because they're, you know, that's why.

00:49:59.300 So, just to clarify, I think the people that are working, the adults who were working at Nickelodeon while this was happening 0.95

00:50:07.460 were either pedophiles, groomers, or cowards. 0.96

00:50:15.180 And they could be all of that or some combination. 0.98

00:50:16.820 And as to the jokes, I mean, again, some of these, as you say, these juvenile jokes,

00:50:26.980 we saw how actual child sexual abusers were putting these jokes, these quote-unquote jokes, into the show.

00:50:37.340 Are you claiming that this was for innocent reasons?

00:50:44.340 No, this is actually a case where, once again, the so-called school marms have been vindicated.

00:50:51.940 Because I can remember, in fact, I can remember even in the 90s.

00:50:54.440 Now, you know, as a kid, I would watch these Nickelodeon shows, shows like All That and all the rest of it.

00:51:00.860 And I didn't, this stuff went over my head.

00:51:02.960 I didn't really understand what was going on.

00:51:06.620 But, yeah, I can remember even at the time, there were adults who thought that Nickelodeon was inappropriate.

00:51:12.880 In fact, my own parents, there were plenty of Nickelodeon shows that, you know, they would,

00:51:19.040 we was out, we liked the show, and they would sit down, they would watch an episode of it, whatever it was.

00:51:24.100 And then, in some cases, they'd say, yeah, you're not watching that anymore.

00:51:27.780 And I always thought they were being way too strict.

00:51:30.780 What's the problem?

00:51:31.620 But now, as an adult, and especially seeing some of these revelations, I can now see that my parents, as adults, were noticing, like, this is not, this, some of this stuff is weird.

00:51:41.820 This is not, this is not normal for this stuff to be in children's entertainment.

00:51:45.420 And I guess at the time, you know, if you were an adult that had a problem with Nickelodeon, you were a, quote, unquote, schoolmarm, but schoolmarm's vindicated yet again.

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00:52:16.840 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:17.940 The actress Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page, is back in the conversation again.

00:52:28.940 She's been doing the interview circuit to promote her new film, something called Close to You, which tells the story of a, quote, unquote, trans man, that is a woman who identifies as a man, on her way to see her family for the first time since transitioning.

00:52:43.160 And the movie has a 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is very bad.

00:52:46.380 A score that's even worse when you consider that mainstream critics would want, of course, to give a film like this every benefit of the doubt.

00:52:55.120 So if the left-wing media is panning a heroic tale about a trans person, that must mean that the movie is really, really bad.

00:53:02.700 So bad that movie critics can't even fabricate a reason to praise it.

00:53:06.820 You know, it's like if you're starring in the school play and your mom comes to watch it, and afterwards the only positive thing she can say is,

00:53:13.760 wow, it looked like you were really trying hard up there.

00:53:17.020 But Paige has bigger problems than one bad movie. 1.00

00:53:20.500 Those problems were put on display again in clips that are circulating from her interview with Channel 4.

00:53:25.140 Here she is talking about the trauma of being misgendered.

00:53:29.740 Quote, here it is.

00:53:30.840 And is it something you can relate to in your own life, kind of that slight unease in certain family situations or with certain groups of friends?

00:53:37.120 Yes, absolutely.

00:53:38.120 And I think, you know, still being early on in my transition, of course, but like more used to it now.

00:53:47.640 I think at first when you first come out as champ, you're like, oh, my God, you know, all these situations you find yourself in.

00:53:53.140 And then maybe you just, I guess, progressively kind of get used to it.

00:53:57.900 There's a very powerful scene in the film where Sam's mum misgenders him.

00:54:01.980 And actually, interestingly, he is kind of trying to make her feel more comfortable in that situation.

00:54:08.040 I just wondered whether you think that's quite common for LGBTQ plus people.

00:54:12.500 Very common.

00:54:13.580 Yeah.

00:54:13.700 Like if someone, you know, misgenders me and out of just, like, you can tell when something's like intentional and awful.

00:54:22.780 There's another thing like it's, it's not a big deal, you know, it's, oh, sorry, fix it.

00:54:26.720 You move on.

00:54:27.420 It's really not.

00:54:28.780 If someone keeps doing it consistently over and over again, you know, that's, that's a different conversation.

00:54:35.640 In society, we have quite a straitjacket of what we're supposed to be.

00:54:38.220 I know you've spoken about this in, in Hollywood as well, you know.

00:54:40.860 Yes, and for cishet people, of course, as well.

00:54:43.560 And that's why I'm like, oh my God, why can't we all just connect on this, right?

00:54:47.700 We're all just inundated from the moment we're born.

00:54:53.660 Some people even have parties before that about.

00:54:56.640 Oh, the gender reveals. 0.99

00:54:57.420 Exactly, like how, how you should be, how you should look, what success means, like all of those things.

00:55:04.300 We're all facing, all facing those pressures.

00:55:07.000 And I think you see that in the film.

00:55:08.300 So here we see the, we see the usual attempt by a trans-identified person to try and make herself seem like the reasonable one. 0.90

00:55:15.220 She says that so-called misgendering is not a big deal so long as you apologize and fix it.

00:55:19.580 That is, she wants you to apologize for telling the truth and fix it by telling a lie.

00:55:24.220 But of course, any misgendering, i.e. correct gendering, done intentionally is, she says, automatically awful.

00:55:31.120 So in Paige's world, like with any other trans activist, it's not just, it's just not plausible. 0.83

00:55:36.240 It's not even theoretically possible that a person could intentionally use biologically correct pronouns for reasons that are not sinister.

00:55:43.640 Millions of people in this country feel morally obligated to use correct pronouns, regardless of what a trans person might prefer, because using incorrect ones would be a lie.

00:55:50.820 And we don't want to participate in a lie.

00:55:52.600 We can't participate in it morally.

00:55:56.420 We've tried to explain this to the pages of the world, but she simply ignores what we say.

00:56:01.920 Disregards our explanation of our own state of mind and declares that we're all awful.

00:56:06.700 We're evil.

00:56:08.060 And she does this while still trying to paint herself as the reasonable and compassionate one in the conversation.

00:56:13.180 That's the game.

00:56:14.180 It's what they all do.

00:56:15.320 They declare that only their feelings and desires matter.

00:56:18.220 Ours don't matter at all.

00:56:19.280 And then they demand our sympathy.

00:56:20.320 But I cannot sympathize with self-obsessed egomaniacs who believe that their perception of reality, however demented and confused it might be, is the only valid one.

00:56:32.040 So I have no sympathy for her at all.

00:56:35.300 But I do have pity.

00:56:37.820 You know, I feel sorry for Ellen Page.

00:56:39.700 Her story is a cautionary tale.

00:56:42.020 And it is just as dire and devastating as what you hear from any detransitioner. 1.00

00:56:47.900 Detransitioners who, by the way, I do sympathize with. 0.92

00:56:51.320 But Page herself has not detransitioned, not yet.

00:56:54.700 But she still inadvertently reveals the true unbridled evil of the gender transition industry. 1.00

00:57:00.980 And of all of the sort of high-profile, quote-unquote, transitions, I think this one most of all reveals that.

00:57:08.300 Because consider to begin with, again, the movie that she's promoting.

00:57:12.360 As mentioned, against all ideological odds, the film has been crushed by critics, which is probably inevitable because it's just not possible to make trans propaganda into a good film.

00:57:22.420 It's like trying to construct a stable house out of popsicle sticks.

00:57:25.640 You just can't do it.

00:57:26.380 The raw material isn't solid enough to build a story around.

00:57:29.720 But tragically for Page, these kinds of movies are the only movies she can make anymore.

00:57:35.560 Now, back before she tried to become a man, she was a bona fide Hollywood star.

00:57:39.220 She had lead roles in successful films like Juno and X-Men and Inception.

00:57:44.400 But now her options are severely limited.

00:57:47.840 She can't, and I assume wouldn't want to, play a female character in a film. 0.77

00:57:51.640 She also can't, as much as she might want to, play a male character.

00:57:55.900 All she can do is play a trans person. 0.95

00:57:58.560 And her transness is so obvious, it's so glaring, that the movie has to be about the fact that she is trans.

00:58:05.680 It would be distracting to stick her into some other film about something else and, you know, just have her there being trans, even though that's not what the subject is about. 1.00

00:58:15.580 Like, describe what I mean.

00:58:17.880 By comparison, you know, if you're going to make a, if you're going to put a guy in a giant chicken costume into one of your movies, then every scene that he's in has to be about the fact that he's in the chicken costume.

00:58:30.660 You can't just have the guy in the chicken costume show up in a scene without anyone mentioning or noticing the elephant in the room or the chicken in the room in this case.

00:58:38.520 You can't, for instance, have a police procedural where one of the detectives just so happens to dress as a chicken.

00:58:44.640 The chicken getup is too outlandish.

00:58:46.460 It's too distracting.

00:58:47.560 So if the guy had the chicken costume permanently attached to his body, it would severely limit his casting opportunities.

00:58:52.840 He'd have to wait until some screenwriter somewhere happens to write a film about a guy who looks like a chicken.

00:58:58.720 And Paige is in a similar situation. 0.99

00:59:00.360 It's a situation that most trans-identified people find themselves in post-transition.

00:59:05.320 Now, most of them aren't actors.

00:59:06.740 They aren't paid actors anyway.

00:59:07.960 But the dilemma they face is essentially the same.

00:59:10.500 It's that limbo zone we've talked about before.

00:59:13.340 Paige no longer looks or sounds like a woman.

00:59:15.880 Not exactly.

00:59:17.220 She certainly doesn't have the feminine charm and beauty that she had before she did this to herself. 1.00

00:59:21.460 She was a pretty young lady before all of this, and now she isn't.

00:59:25.120 But she also doesn't look or sound anything like a man.

00:59:27.560 She's too small.

00:59:28.460 She's too petite. 0.98

00:59:29.060 She still has the mannerisms of a woman. 1.00

00:59:31.360 There's nothing masculine about the way she looks, sounds, or carries herself.

00:59:34.940 And there's a reason that no Hollywood director is knocking on her door to have her play the male lead in the next big action movie franchise.

00:59:42.060 She isn't going to be the next Jason Bourne or John Wick.

00:59:45.140 She doesn't have her feminine charm anymore, but neither does she have any masculine grit or presence. 0.91

00:59:51.580 So she doesn't pass as a man, not even close.

00:59:54.840 But she also doesn't look much like a woman. 0.94

00:59:56.500 She's stuck out in the gray zone, in the fog.

00:59:59.320 Still as much a woman biologically as she was before, but having destroyed most of her femininity without successfully replacing it with masculinity. 1.00

01:00:08.340 And this is the trans trap, you might say. 1.00

01:00:11.460 They lure you out into the cold and they leave you there.

01:00:15.120 So if you'll excuse a little parable, imagine a young lady sitting in her home one night.

01:00:21.200 It's very dark, very cold outside.

01:00:22.760 There's a blizzard raging, but it's warm inside her house.

01:00:25.220 It's cozy.

01:00:25.780 It's comfortable.

01:00:26.340 It's home.

01:00:27.320 And then comes a knock at the door.

01:00:28.560 And a man stands on her front porch and tells her that just across the field, only a few hundred yards away, is a much better house.

01:00:37.100 It's bigger.

01:00:37.680 It's nicer.

01:00:38.320 It's better in a number of mostly unspecified ways.

01:00:42.300 And he tells her that she can go live there instead, in that house, in the better house. 0.97

01:00:46.740 And she's resistant at first, but then thinking more about the fact that there's a better house out there, she starts to feel worse and worse about her own house.

01:00:54.740 And before the guy knocked on the door, she liked her house.

01:00:58.260 It was fine.

01:00:58.960 It was good.

01:00:59.340 It was hers.

01:01:00.300 But now that she knows there's a better one, she doesn't like her house anymore.

01:01:04.500 So she agrees to come with the man out into the blizzard to go live in the better house.

01:01:08.360 And they walk for a while in the cold and the dark across this field.

01:01:12.140 And they walk and they walk and they walk.

01:01:13.860 And after a while, she realizes that the other house must be more than a few hundred yards away.

01:01:19.320 That's when the man tells her that, yeah, actually, he meant to say that the house is a thousand miles away.

01:01:24.660 She'll never make it there.

01:01:26.060 She'll never actually live in the other house.

01:01:28.120 She can't.

01:01:29.200 But at least she'll be a little bit closer.

01:01:31.780 And that should be good enough.

01:01:33.400 And with that, the man disappears, leaving her out alone in the blizzard.

01:01:37.180 But now she's gone too far.

01:01:38.340 She's lost.

01:01:38.920 She can't make it back to her own house.

01:01:40.740 But she'll never, ever make it to the other house.

01:01:43.860 She's stuck now outside in the dark, having given up her home, which was not perfect, but at least it was warm and it was hers.

01:01:52.460 And in exchange, she gets nothing.

01:01:54.380 Just the cold wind and an empty field, which is where she'll be forever until she dies.

01:02:01.240 And that's what the gender transition industry does. 1.00

01:02:04.160 It lures people out into the cold darkness with the promise of something better.

01:02:09.220 And then it just leaves them there.

01:02:12.460 It is unspeakably evil.

01:02:14.400 And Ellen Page is yet another victim of it, even if she hasn't figured that out yet.

01:02:21.260 But she will, eventually.

01:02:22.800 And for that reason, the people who did this to Ellen Page are today canceled.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 20, 2024

Ep. 1329 - Squatters Can Now Come In And Steal Your Home With No Consequences

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