The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1343 - Another Outrageous Assault On The Right To Self-Defense

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the right to self-defense has been under attack for a long time in this country.

00:00:04.500 One ongoing case in Wisconsin shows just how far the powers that be will go to punish you for defending yourself.

00:00:10.440 Also, Donald Trump ignites controversy on the right with his new statement on quote-unquote abortion rights.

00:00:15.300 And one of the harpies on The View says that the eclipse happened because of climate change.

00:00:19.160 Plus, a feminist writer for Salon knows who is to blame for the random assaults on women in New York. 1.00

00:00:24.400 Obviously, it's Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

00:00:26.840 All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 We'll be right back.

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00:02:01.760 So there aren't a lot of guarantees in the criminal justice system, but for a long time now, there's been at least one thing you could be pretty sure of,

00:02:17.780 which is that if you kill somebody in self-defense, there's a very good chance in this country you're going to be charged with murder.

00:02:23.860 Trayvon Martin called George Zimmerman a cracker right before pounding his head into the pavement.

00:02:27.600 And famously, the entire country, including the President of the United States at the time, determined immediately that George Zimmerman was the bad guy.

00:02:34.240 And of course, Kyle Rittenhouse very nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime of defending himself against several people who were clearly trying to kill him,

00:02:43.320 including a pedophile who just got out of a mental hospital and an Antifa foot soldier who drew a handgun on him.

00:02:49.220 Now, everyone's heard of these cases because in both instances, there was a very clear racial angle to push.

00:02:54.260 Even though he didn't kill any black people, the Kyle Rittenhouse incident happened, of course, in the context of BLM mobs torching cities. 0.52

00:03:01.100 So they had that angle, and that's why he became an instant target.

00:03:04.640 George Zimmerman, for his part, gave Barack Obama a chance to talk about how systemically racist America is.

00:03:09.340 So his case was useful for a moment as well.

00:03:12.960 But there are many self-defense cases that don't make the mainstream news, at least not nearly to the same extent.

00:03:17.920 And all of them, to one degree or another, contradict the prevailing media narrative.

00:03:23.180 So the corporate press ignores them.

00:03:25.260 But they're important to talk about, in part because they show how prosecutors and witnesses are willing to lie to imprison people who exercise one of the most fundamental rights.

00:03:34.260 You might say the most fundamental, which is the right of self-defense.

00:03:37.820 How casually they will destroy people's lives for the crime of trying to preserve their own lives.

00:03:42.940 So I'm going to go in-depth into one of these cases, which is still ongoing, hasn't gotten nearly as much attention as it deserves.

00:03:51.120 And plus, it's the premiere day for judge, so I figure a deep dive on a court case seems sort of fitting.

00:03:56.620 So here's the background.

00:03:59.400 In the summer of 2022, a man in his early 50s named Nikolai Mu was out tubing with a group of people, including his wife.

00:04:07.100 And this was in the Apple River in Wisconsin.

00:04:09.020 Now, apparently, a member of his party dropped their phones somewhere in the river, and Nikolai Mu left his group and went looking for the phone.

00:04:18.280 And that's when, around 3.40 p.m., Mu encountered a couple of additional tubing groups, one consisting of a bunch of teenagers and the other, including some adults.

00:04:26.600 And most of the involved parties are very clearly under the influence of alcohol and perhaps other drugs to varying degrees.

00:04:33.700 And they begin exchanging some words.

00:04:37.520 And here's what happened next.

00:04:38.880 Watch.

00:04:40.440 Who is this?

00:04:42.280 Yes!

00:04:44.960 For the culture!

00:04:48.380 For the culture!

00:04:50.000 Who is that?

00:04:51.360 For the culture!

00:04:52.720 Who is that? 0.94

00:04:54.480 Who the hell is this? 0.97

00:04:55.900 What the hell is this guy's problem, bro? 0.98

00:05:16.380 We try to have fun.

00:05:18.780 We try to have fun.

00:05:20.740 We try to have fun.

00:05:35.280 We try to have fun is this guy.

00:05:40.360 We have fun.

00:05:41.880 We try to have fun.

00:05:43.780 We try to have fun.

00:05:48.280 Now, it's clear from this footage that throughout the entire incident, right up until their friend got stabbed,

00:06:14.100 the crowd of teenagers doesn't seem to be afraid of anything or feel fearful for their lives in any way,

00:06:21.100 and they seem to be having a great time.

00:06:24.180 And, you know, that makes sense because Mu is much older than they are, 0.99

00:06:27.680 and though they wouldn't have known this, he just had quadruple bypass surgery,

00:06:30.800 so he wasn't out looking for, you know, a fight with a bunch of teenagers.

00:06:34.600 Meanwhile, these teenagers are mostly football players in prime physical conditions,

00:06:37.640 so they appear to be very much the aggressors as they jeer and taunt the older man

00:06:43.000 and accuse him of, quote, looking for a little girl.

00:06:46.000 And then something happens off camera.

00:06:47.260 An adult woman, who came over from another tubing group, gets in the man's face.

00:06:51.140 He apparently makes some kind of contact with her, and the mob pounces.

00:06:54.580 They push the man and begin hitting him repeatedly after he goes down in the water.

00:06:58.300 Meanwhile, the woman is fine.

00:07:00.020 She's not hurt in any way.

00:07:01.640 Only after the man fatally stabs one of his attackers, a teenager named Isaac Schumann,

00:07:07.160 does the mood start to change.

00:07:09.000 Schumann bled out on the scene.

00:07:10.860 And the man also stabbed several others who were attacking him.

00:07:14.080 And you can tell from watching the video that he was not chasing them down and slicing away,

00:07:19.180 that they were coming at him, attacking him, and that's when he used the knife.

00:07:22.900 Now, based on these facts, within 48 hours, the DA charged Nikolai Mu with first-degree murder.

00:07:28.640 And what's followed nearly two years later is, for the prosecutors anyway, nothing short of a train wreck.

00:07:34.580 You know, there are airtight cases, and there are close cases, and then there's this.

00:07:38.560 Pretty much every prosecution witness has demonstrated very clearly that they're either lying or they're completely unsure of what happened two years ago.

00:07:47.760 And this is such a debacle that very real questions need to be asked about why this case was brought and why these prosecutors still have jobs.

00:07:55.600 So I'll start with the incredible testimony of a witness named Larion Davis, who recorded some of the footage of the incident.

00:08:02.500 Under cross-examination from one of the, actually one of Kyle Rittenhouse's old lawyers, incidentally,

00:08:07.780 Davis admits that he lied to the police about why the group was upset with Nikolai Mu.

00:08:13.160 This is just incredible footage. Watch this.

00:08:15.980 You also said to the police, he came out of the bushes, and he was taking pictures of the girls.

00:08:28.120 Yes, I said that.

00:08:30.340 You saw that?

00:08:32.440 No, I said that.

00:08:34.060 I understand you said it. Did you see it?

00:08:38.500 Yes.

00:08:39.100 So you saw Mr. Mu with his camera that afternoon taking pictures of little girls.

00:08:47.980 That's what you're telling this jury?

00:08:49.940 Oh, no, no, no. No, that's what I said.

00:08:52.620 No, like I said, I understand you said it. Is it true?

00:08:57.620 Oh, I don't know.

00:08:59.340 Why would you say it if you don't know if it's true?

00:09:05.180 It was a lot going on.

00:09:06.580 Um, okay.

00:09:11.500 Now, it's hard to believe that this is a real interaction between two humans in a courtroom.

00:09:19.000 So the lawyer says, you said you saw him taking pictures of little girls.

00:09:22.540 Witness says, yeah, I said that.

00:09:24.040 Lawyer says, did you see it?

00:09:26.360 Witness says, no, I said it.

00:09:28.780 Now, to be clear, we're talking about falsely accusing a man of pedophilia two years after the fact.

00:09:35.880 And then, and the only excuse he can come up with for lying is there was a lot going on.

00:09:42.020 There's a lot going on.

00:09:43.040 So I just accused someone of being a pedophile.

00:09:44.740 That's, you know, it just happens.

00:09:46.820 And things were hectic.

00:09:48.840 Keep in mind, this is a prosecution witness.

00:09:51.660 So this should be the end of the case right there.

00:09:53.420 I mean, this is, this is the, the clearest possible evidence that the people Mu confronted decided long after the fact to come up with a story to justify their aggression towards him.

00:10:03.620 They have no credibility whatsoever.

00:10:05.780 You'll remember in the video, somebody shouted that Mu was looking for a girl.

00:10:10.060 But on cross-examination, another witness, Jawan Cockfield, admitted that the claim was not based on any evidence whatsoever.

00:10:17.440 Watch.

00:10:18.820 You tell the police that he told you he's looking for a circle.

00:10:22.260 Yes?

00:10:23.140 Yes.

00:10:23.740 Okay. 0.99

00:10:25.100 And you then say, grown man can't have sex with little girls. 1.00

00:10:34.460 What the hell? 1.00

00:10:35.880 What the f***? 1.00

00:10:37.600 He's a raper. 1.00

00:10:39.240 Right?

00:10:39.460 Uh-huh.

00:10:40.960 Yes?

00:10:41.420 Yes.

00:10:41.920 Okay.

00:10:42.580 You have no information as to what this older man is doing, do you?

00:10:48.740 No.

00:10:49.520 Okay. 1.00

00:10:50.420 What about a raper and saying he can't have sex with little girls? 0.99

00:10:54.180 You're doing that to humiliate him, aren't you? 0.99

00:10:56.840 Not necessarily.

00:10:58.760 Well, what other reason would you be calling him names when you don't know anything about what's happening?

00:11:03.180 Trying to figure out the situation.

00:11:04.340 So the way that you're trying to figure out what's happening is by calling a grown man names, yes?

00:11:11.260 Yes.

00:11:11.600 I mean, part of the problem here for the prosecution is you have witnesses whose IQs are not much higher than, like, the chairs they're sitting on.

00:11:23.800 So, you know, they just called this man a raper who's interested in little girls as a way of scoping out the situation.

00:11:29.680 You know, that's what they're saying.

00:11:30.680 That was their way of gathering intel, apparently.

00:11:33.200 Trying to figure out what was going on.

00:11:34.340 So, you know, when you're trying to figure out what's going on, the best way to do that is just to accuse everyone of being rapists.

00:11:38.940 That's, you know, you start with that and then you kind of whittle things down from there.

00:11:42.720 And then elsewhere in the testimony, Cockfield claims to be shocked that the man in response turned around and became upset.

00:11:50.180 Now, none of this makes any sense.

00:11:52.180 And as the trial went on, it continued to make no sense.

00:11:54.860 For example, on cross-examination, it was revealed that the dead teenager's best friend, Owen Pelequin, told police on the day of the incident that Moo was looking for a lost phone, not underage girls.

00:12:06.040 Listen to the defense attorney read Owen's prior statement and then watch as Owen tries to weasel out of this admission.

00:12:12.960 Watch.

00:12:14.240 Your answer.

00:12:15.740 We were floating and then we look at him and he was just standing completely by himself with some goggles on.

00:12:22.760 And then we were like, what are you doing?

00:12:24.880 And he said, oh, I'm looking for a phone.

00:12:28.120 Do you remember providing that answer to that question?

00:12:30.420 Not at all.

00:12:31.240 Is that true?

00:12:32.560 Very true.

00:12:33.780 That happened?

00:12:35.180 No.

00:12:36.040 That didn't happen?

00:12:37.140 I do not remember.

00:12:38.620 You don't remember what happened that day in the river?

00:12:41.440 Well, I remember.

00:12:43.400 So did he or did he not tell you that he was looking for a phone?

00:12:48.220 I don't recall him ever saying that.

00:12:50.000 No.

00:12:50.260 Okay.

00:12:50.800 Is your memory better today or is it better on the day of the incident?

00:12:57.120 I'd say it's better today.

00:12:58.420 It's better today.

00:12:59.580 Almost two years later.

00:13:01.520 Yes?

00:13:01.760 Yeah, I've been able to think about it a lot.

00:13:04.400 Okay.

00:13:04.480 Well, in between the time of the incident and today, do you ever reach back out to law enforcement to make any corrections that you might have had?

00:13:13.100 No, I'm pretty young.

00:13:14.840 I wouldn't have known how to do that.

00:13:16.300 Okay.

00:13:16.640 Still wouldn't.

00:13:17.120 I mean, you know, if there wasn't a dead person here and someone else's life hanging in the balance, you'd almost have to laugh at some of this.

00:13:26.800 It seems almost like a courtroom, like a very dark courtroom comedy.

00:13:31.260 Just the, the, these witnesses.

00:13:34.620 So two years later,

00:13:35.800 Owen's memory is suddenly better.

00:13:39.480 It's better now than it was at the time.

00:13:40.960 He remembers more about what happened two years later than he did when it actually happened.

00:13:44.800 And by that, he means his memory is worse because he can't, he can't, he doesn't remember if his memory is good or not.

00:13:50.180 That's, that's part of the problem.

00:13:51.200 He says his memory is, he doesn't remember.

00:13:52.660 He does remember.

00:13:53.300 He's, he's not sure.

00:13:53.840 He doesn't, he doesn't remember remembering.

00:13:55.280 And now he doesn't recall the guy ever saying anything about missing a phone.

00:14:00.780 And he had no way of figuring out how to tell the police any of this because he's just 19 years old.

00:14:04.660 And 19 year olds are apparently completely unable to use Google or cell phones or dial 911 or communicate basic ideas at all, evidently.

00:14:13.740 These are strange lapses in the prosecution's case, to say the least.

00:14:16.840 And it keeps going.

00:14:18.560 Owen also testifies that he simply can't remember the fact that one of his friends was shouting for the culture to egg on a fight.

00:14:25.820 Watch.

00:14:27.060 I wouldn't say we ever did it just for like a camera, like a video.

00:14:30.540 Well, do you remember him yelling for the culture?

00:14:33.740 Remember that?

00:14:34.420 I do not.

00:14:35.260 You don't remember him yelling that?

00:14:36.640 I don't.

00:14:37.240 Okay.

00:14:37.800 Do you remember somebody in your group yelling or saying to somebody, you got 10 seconds.

00:14:45.180 Remember that?

00:14:45.920 You don't recall that?

00:14:46.720 Did you say that?

00:14:48.100 I did not.

00:14:48.840 Okay.

00:14:49.020 So, Mr. Mew moves over to the blonde. 0.99

00:14:55.320 You agree there's a path to go through, but you want to see this through, right?

00:15:01.120 Yeah.

00:15:01.900 Okay.

00:15:03.080 Now, I admit I'm not as hip as I used to be.

00:15:07.160 Well, I was never hip, let's be honest.

00:15:08.820 I had to look this one up because, you know, I don't know.

00:15:11.580 So, I went to Urban Dictionary, and you'll find that for the culture is, quote,

00:15:16.560 when you do something you know you usually wouldn't have done and are doing it purely

00:15:19.600 for the hype factor of going against your usual judgment to instead try something new

00:15:23.640 and different.

00:15:25.100 This is what one of the witnesses was shouting, and we heard that in the video.

00:15:27.820 They were shouting as the mob descended on this 52-year-old man.

00:15:31.680 Now, this is the kind of fact that if you're trying to make Nikolai Mew out to be the aggressor,

00:15:35.880 if you're trying to make him out to be this dangerous man that these poor teenagers

00:15:40.880 were so frightened by him, well, this kind of fact is pretty inconvenient.

00:15:45.380 The fact that they're all laughing and having a great time and shouting for the culture,

00:15:49.140 not exactly what you would expect if they were terrified for their very lives.

00:15:54.900 So, Owen just pretends that he doesn't remember it happening.

00:15:58.100 Problem solved, according to the prosecutors.

00:16:00.660 These kinds of inconsistencies are continuing to pile up as the trial goes along,

00:16:04.820 but a few facts were definitively established, and one is that,

00:16:08.740 contrary to what some of those teenagers said,

00:16:11.220 Mew never knocked a woman down at any point during his altercation.

00:16:13.840 She was captured on the recording, standing upright, holding her phone.

00:16:18.120 Additionally, Mew never stabbed anyone until he was in the water,

00:16:20.500 surrounded by a mob that was punching him in the face.

00:16:23.240 So, Mew waited until his life was in danger before he used deadly force.

00:16:28.200 And once he began stabbing people, he didn't indiscriminately start swinging.

00:16:31.480 Instead, he only targeted the people who were targeting him,

00:16:33.600 including Isaac Schumann, who put his hands on Mew's neck.

00:16:37.080 Watch.

00:16:37.340 You watched the video, right?

00:16:39.680 Yes.

00:16:40.140 Okay.

00:16:40.600 So now you're aware that Isaac has his hands around Mr. Mew's throat?

00:16:44.980 I didn't know that he had his hands around his throat, no.

00:16:48.100 You didn't see that?

00:16:49.080 No.

00:16:49.860 Okay.

00:16:52.860 Is that something that you saw?

00:16:55.800 No.

00:16:56.240 He was, he was, he was, that was pretty late.

00:17:01.300 That was, I think Isaac was the last one stabbed on video.

00:17:03.940 And so by that time, I was focused on the guy next to me who was,

00:17:08.700 I saw his stomach cut open.

00:17:10.360 Okay.

00:17:10.720 But I guess my point is, initially you say you didn't see Isaac make contact with him.

00:17:15.740 You see on that video somebody with their hands around Mr. Mew's throat, right?

00:17:19.500 Yeah.

00:17:20.180 Okay.

00:17:20.660 On that video, nobody is stabbed until Mr. Mew is punched in the face and knocked in the water, right?

00:17:27.620 You agree with that?

00:17:28.180 Yeah.

00:17:28.820 Okay.

00:17:29.640 And so you would agree that the people that are injured with the knife,

00:17:35.920 that all happens after Mr. Mew has been knocked in the water, punched, slapped, pushed, right?

00:17:44.020 Yes.

00:17:44.480 Okay.

00:17:44.640 And you don't, um, you don't attack Mr. Mew, do you?

00:17:50.340 No.

00:17:50.740 Okay.

00:17:51.520 And he doesn't do anything to you, does he?

00:17:53.820 No.

00:17:56.080 Now, it's not an exaggeration to say that the prosecution has not presented a single witness

00:17:59.880 to bolster its claim that this was first degree murder.

00:18:03.060 Instead, every single witness rebutted their argument.

00:18:06.400 But here, for example, is another witness, A.J. Martin,

00:18:08.440 who concedes that ganging up on a man in his 50s and beating him may, in fact,

00:18:13.980 not exactly de-escalate an already tense situation much.

00:18:18.720 You're pushing him, correct?

00:18:20.720 Yeah, that's where I had said that I thought I'd push him in the front left shoulder to keep him down.

00:18:25.080 But I was there too late, so I didn't get that shoulder.

00:18:29.600 I guess I got the back of it, and...

00:18:32.040 You said you're a peacemaker, right?

00:18:34.080 Do you like to mediate?

00:18:35.380 Yeah.

00:18:35.700 Yeah, that's what I was trying to do.

00:18:38.420 You could understand how somebody who'd been down in the water and hit two times,

00:18:41.980 getting pushed from behind, may not understand that you're trying to mediate.

00:18:46.980 I'm a check on speculation a lot.

00:18:48.720 It goes to his mindset.

00:18:50.200 Overruled.

00:18:51.620 You can answer the question.

00:18:52.880 I'm pretty able to.

00:18:53.580 Sorry, what was the question?

00:18:54.700 Sure.

00:18:55.920 As somebody who likes to mediate and was attempting to mediate,

00:18:59.240 you can understand how a person in Mr. Mew's position who'd been hit twice in the water

00:19:04.900 might not understand or appreciate your intent to try to de-escalate by pushing him in the behind.

00:19:14.520 I guess.

00:19:15.160 You might misunderstand that, right?

00:19:16.820 He could misunderstand that.

00:19:18.840 Sure.

00:19:19.100 Okay, so, so far, thanks to the prosecution witnesses, we have established the following facts. 0.86

00:19:27.180 Most of their witnesses are liars.

00:19:29.620 It was completely reasonable for this 50-year-old man to fear for his life. 0.90

00:19:34.600 One of the teenagers had his hand on this man's throat while the others were pummeling him,

00:19:39.880 and that they all lied about him being a pedophile two years after the fact.

00:19:43.880 So, like, what are we doing here?

00:19:45.420 There's no case.

00:19:46.680 This man should be at home living his life.

00:19:49.420 There's nothing to even talk about.

00:19:52.260 And this is not exactly the kind of case that it takes Perry Mason to win,

00:19:55.360 but somehow, once again, things got worse for the prosecution.

00:19:58.500 Yet another witness claimed that the group was afraid of Nikolai Mew,

00:20:01.880 but began to feel a little more secure as other adults began surrounding him as well.

00:20:05.560 So he's presenting this image of a deranged 50-year-old man who's freaking them out.

00:20:09.380 And then the defense attorney shows a photo of the witnesses looking extremely enthusiastic

00:20:14.260 and not remotely afraid.

00:20:16.840 Watch.

00:20:18.080 You see Mr. Mew walking away from your group, moving over toward the blonde person, the woman, right? 0.85

00:20:24.860 Yes.

00:20:25.420 Okay.

00:20:26.160 And at that point, are you still scared?

00:20:30.180 When more people, adults, start to come, I felt a little bit more secure.

00:20:38.260 Okay.

00:20:38.980 That's you, right?

00:20:40.420 Yes.

00:20:41.100 Okay.

00:20:42.100 And this is, if you remember, seconds before, moments before Madison Cohen, you say, you see her punched, right?

00:20:55.960 This is before I saw her get punched, yeah. 1.00

00:20:59.200 I mean, again, if not for the context, you have to laugh at some of that.

00:21:06.520 He's claiming that he was fearful for his life, and then you cut to a photo of him looking the happiest he's probably ever been in his life.

00:21:13.740 I mean, that's the face of a man caught on one of those cameras at a Six Flags roller coaster or something.

00:21:23.680 That's not the face of someone who's fearing for their very lives.

00:21:29.600 That is certainly not someone who's, you know, grateful and relieved that other adults have appeared to deal with the threat.

00:21:35.200 And everyone looking at the footage knows that.

00:21:37.340 So this has got another prosecution witness who is lying overtly on the stand.

00:21:41.460 Everybody knows it.

00:21:42.060 And I could go on for another hour dissecting every other aspect of this case and how totally disastrous it's been for the prosecution.

00:21:48.680 But you get the point.

00:21:49.320 In no sane country is this a first-degree murder case.

00:21:53.860 And by the way, there is no duty to retreat in Wisconsin.

00:21:58.000 But even if there were, there was no real chance for this man to get away once the mob descended on him.

00:22:03.720 This is a completely unjustifiable prosecution no matter how you look at it.

00:22:07.240 And it was brought for the same reason that most other self-defense claims are brought,

00:22:10.620 which is to terrorize the rest of the population into submission.

00:22:13.180 Remember how the Rittenhouse prosecutor said, everybody takes a beating now and then?

00:22:18.800 Well, we're pretty close to the prosecutors in this case saying the same thing.

00:22:22.220 That's more or less their argument at this point,

00:22:23.940 that the 52-year-old men should just accept their mob beatings rather than defend themselves.

00:22:29.060 You know, if you're getting descended upon by a mob and they're knocking into the river and beating you

00:22:32.760 and they have their hands around your throat, well, you know, let's just deal with it.

00:22:36.180 Just lie there, play dead until they walk away.

00:22:40.260 But that is obviously outrageous. 0.80

00:22:41.620 In a sane society, if you harass and assault someone, whatever happens next,

00:22:46.060 whatever violence erupts as a result of your choices is your fault.

00:22:50.220 If you don't want to get shot or stabbed, if you don't want to bleed to death in a river,

00:22:55.840 don't go around trying to bully random strangers just for fun.

00:23:01.040 The reason this case isn't on every mainstream channel is that the mob happened to be white for the most part,

00:23:07.420 though not totally.

00:23:08.220 But this is every bit as serious and coordinated an attack on the right to self-defense

00:23:12.580 as the Rittenhouse case was and the Zimmerman trial was.

00:23:17.280 The judge should dismiss the charges.

00:23:19.660 The prosecutor should be disbarred.

00:23:22.020 And new prosecutors should consider looking into perjury charges for some of these witnesses who, again, have admitted that they lied.

00:23:27.000 And if none of that happens, and if somehow the jury convicts,

00:23:32.160 then we can say with certainty that just a couple of years after the Kyle Rittenhouse trial,

00:23:36.720 the right to self-defense has been suspended in the state of Wisconsin.

00:23:40.400 Everyone living there should either move or prepare accordingly.

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00:25:17.840 Daily Wire has this report.

00:25:19.020 Former President Donald Trump declared on Monday that he supports states being able to decide

00:25:22.660 how to handle abortion policy following a Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

00:25:26.460 Now the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

00:25:28.220 After his major rivals dropped out, Trump announced his position on the contentious issue

00:25:31.960 in a video posted to his Truth Social program, platform rather, not program.

00:25:37.560 Let's watch about a four and a half, five minute video.

00:25:40.580 Obviously, we can't play the whole thing, but let's watch a little bit of that.

00:25:43.040 Here it is.

00:25:43.360 Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong,

00:25:49.840 thriving, and healthy American families.

00:25:52.760 We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder.

00:25:57.820 That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America.

00:26:05.080 Many people have asked me what my position is on abortion and abortion rights,

00:26:09.840 especially since I was proudly the person responsible for the ending of something that

00:26:15.180 all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and, in fact, demanded be ended.

00:26:21.760 Roe v. Wade.

00:26:23.600 They wanted it ended.

00:26:25.600 It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radical ones on this position because

00:26:30.000 they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month.

00:26:35.040 The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both

00:26:38.820 and whatever they decide must be the law of the land.

00:26:42.880 In this case, the law of the state.

00:26:46.220 Many states will be different.

00:26:48.100 Many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others.

00:26:54.240 And that's what they will be.

00:26:55.620 At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.

00:26:59.400 You must follow your heart or, in many cases, your religion or your faith.

00:27:04.720 Do what's right for your family and do what's right for yourself.

00:27:08.280 Do what's right for your children.

00:27:10.160 Do what's right for our country and vote.

00:27:12.820 Okay, let me make several points here.

00:27:17.840 First, as you know, I am unapologetically, completely, radically pro-life.

00:27:24.820 You know, I say radically.

00:27:26.300 There's actually nothing.

00:27:27.360 There shouldn't be anything radical about being completely pro-life and being entirely opposed

00:27:31.160 to killing babies at any stage of development.

00:27:34.820 But these days, that is a radical position, unfortunately.

00:27:38.240 And I'm against abortion in all cases, no matter what, no exceptions. 0.99

00:27:43.780 And the reason that I hold that position is that it is the only morally or logically coherent

00:27:50.880 position to hold on this.

00:27:52.280 Either unborn babies are human beings, persons, endowed with the same human rights that all

00:28:04.780 the rest of us have, or not.

00:28:07.600 Like, it's one or the other.

00:28:09.180 It can't be both.

00:28:10.120 It can't be neither.

00:28:11.060 Those are the two options.

00:28:12.180 And if the first option is correct, that they are human beings endowed by the creator with

00:28:21.140 inalienable human rights, like all the rest of us, then it is never okay to murder them

00:28:25.800 under any circumstance, just like it's never okay to murder anybody else.

00:28:30.220 And that's the only coherent position to take.

00:28:32.980 If you say, on the other hand, well, no, they are not people.

00:28:41.080 They are not human beings.

00:28:42.460 Well, then you're left with the problem of what exactly are they?

00:28:46.600 And if you think that you are a person, well, at what point did you become a person?

00:28:53.380 And what is different?

00:28:54.420 And whatever that magical moment happened, what was different about you then that didn't apply

00:29:00.120 to you a second before that?

00:29:03.360 It's an unanswerable question.

00:29:07.260 Because you have to draw the line somewhere.

00:29:08.960 You have to draw the line.

00:29:10.300 And the only logical place to draw it is at conception.

00:29:13.700 I have never heard anyone make a coherent argument for any other point. 0.90

00:29:20.340 And so that's the reason why I'm against killing human beings, murdering human beings at any 0.71

00:29:25.660 stage of development. 0.92

00:29:27.120 And I think that no state has the right to kill babies.

00:29:31.360 It's not a state's rights issue.

00:29:34.340 No state has that right.

00:29:35.540 Any more than they have the moral right or should have the legal right to declare that

00:29:38.880 rape is legal. 0.94

00:29:41.880 Any more than they should have the legal right to say, you know what?

00:29:43.880 It's okay to kill people between the ages of 31 and 37.

00:29:50.480 Any more than they could just arbitrarily take out any other stage of human development and 0.58

00:29:55.060 say, well, as long as they're in that stage, yeah, go ahead.

00:29:57.400 Have at it.

00:29:57.800 So that's my position.

00:30:03.100 The second point is that I realize that my position is not the majority position.

00:30:10.400 It should be.

00:30:11.800 I wish that it was.

00:30:13.760 But it's not.

00:30:14.600 It's not even a sizable minority position.

00:30:16.640 The fact is that the vast majority of Americans support child murder, at least to some extent.

00:30:24.060 It's a horrible thing to have to admit, wish it wasn't true.

00:30:30.860 I don't even like saying it out loud because of how it makes me feel about most Americans

00:30:35.480 in this country.

00:30:37.080 But it doesn't matter how it makes me feel.

00:30:38.840 It's the reality.

00:30:39.700 Most Americans do support some form of child murder, which is a very sad statement about

00:30:45.700 our culture, to say the least.

00:30:48.680 It also presents certain unavoidable political realities.

00:30:52.560 And the argument from conservatives who are defending Trump's statement is that, what, you

00:30:57.920 know, their argument is that, look, he probably, not probably, he almost certainly cannot get

00:31:02.480 elected if he runs on a federal abortion ban with no exceptions and we're going to ban all 0.96

00:31:07.440 abortion, he won't be elected if he says that.

00:31:10.560 That's just not going to happen.

00:31:11.820 And so he'll be essentially forfeiting the election to Joe Biden.

00:31:16.640 And if he isn't elected, then we're stuck with a radically pro-abortion president who favors

00:31:21.540 abortion at every stage of development.

00:31:24.080 And not only that, but wants to put pro-lifers and is putting pro-lifers in prison.

00:31:29.380 And that's the argument from the conservatives who are defending the statement.

00:31:33.920 And I think that argument is true.

00:31:36.000 I mean, all of the available evidence points to the fact that my own position is not popular

00:31:42.960 enough to get somebody elected to national office.

00:31:46.240 Again, I wish that wasn't the case, but it very clearly is the case.

00:31:49.820 And I believe in facing reality for what it is.

00:31:55.160 This goes back to a debate that we've had in the pro-life movement for years, which long

00:32:02.040 predates Trump, which is incrementalism or absolutism.

00:32:09.000 Do we go for incremental victories, taking what we can get along the way?

00:32:12.780 Or do we insist on all or nothing?

00:32:17.260 And I've always been a believer in incrementalism because I'm a realist and because I actually

00:32:22.320 want to win.

00:32:23.660 So I want any victory I can get.

00:32:27.040 Like, if I can have a small victory or no victory, then I'll take the small victory.

00:32:31.100 To me, there's not much to think about.

00:32:32.460 It's not much of a debate.

00:32:33.160 Like, obviously, I'd prefer that.

00:32:35.680 Now, I'd like to take a giant leap towards my goal.

00:32:38.200 But if I can only have a small step, I'll take that over a giant leap backwards.

00:32:45.140 So if the options are giant leap backwards or small step forward, it doesn't make any

00:32:49.080 sense to me for someone to say, well, no, I choose neither because I want to take a giant

00:32:52.260 leap forwards.

00:32:53.720 Yeah, but if that's not an option on the table right now in reality, then that doesn't make

00:32:57.280 any sense.

00:32:58.220 So by not choosing the small step forward, you are choosing the leap backwards.

00:33:01.760 And that doesn't, it doesn't make sense strategically.

00:33:04.340 It just doesn't make sense to me.

00:33:06.540 So you take the small step where you can get it.

00:33:08.200 And that's the idea.

00:33:08.820 So in this case, I'll take the most pro-life outcome that I can possibly get.

00:33:15.560 I will accept an incremental victory provided, and this is the big caveat here.

00:33:23.480 Okay, this is where things get, this is where it gets complicated.

00:33:25.660 You take the incremental victory, provided that it is an incremental victory and not the

00:33:32.840 end point, okay, as long as we are not satisfied.

00:33:36.580 So the ultimate goal, as far as I'm concerned, is to see abortion eradicated everywhere.

00:33:41.380 The ultimate goal is to live in a country where there's no abortion at all. 0.88

00:33:44.960 Now, is that an option on the table right now?

00:33:48.640 Is there any possible universe right now where that can happen?

00:33:51.940 No, not right now.

00:33:53.460 It's just not.

00:33:54.140 There's no possible universe right now where that happens.

00:33:56.640 So I'll take the biggest step I can towards that goal.

00:34:00.040 You know, I prefer to save as many babies as we possibly can right now, but we have to

00:34:05.820 keep fighting towards the ultimate goal.

00:34:07.780 And that is, that's sort of the rub here.

00:34:09.480 You fight incrementally, which means that you don't, you're not satisfied.

00:34:14.200 You don't say, okay, well, this is it.

00:34:15.320 We'll stop here.

00:34:15.860 And this, by the way, this is the situation we're in with every fight.

00:34:21.220 I've said many times that the fight against the gender ideology and the gender transition

00:34:27.400 industry, as far as I'm concerned, that is also an incremental fight.

00:34:34.060 Yeah, our first goal is to protect children from this, but that's not the end of it.

00:34:37.200 Because this is still, you know, a billion dollar industry that profits off of mutilating and

00:34:46.780 destroying people and, you know, capitalizing on and profiting from mental illness. 0.97

00:34:51.820 The whole industry should be destroyed. 0.97

00:34:55.420 So I'm not satisfied until that happens.

00:34:59.020 But that can't happen right now.

00:35:01.040 So if you come to me and say, look, we can't destroy the whole industry, but what we can do

00:35:04.260 is prevent kids from being victimized by it, then I'm going to say, I'll take that.

00:35:09.480 I'll take that right now.

00:35:10.740 I'm not satisfied though.

00:35:12.600 Fight continues.

00:35:16.580 And I see a similar situation here.

00:35:19.020 But what that also means is that you have to be smart and strategic about what you say

00:35:24.520 and how you position yourself, which is why, for me, the worst thing that Trump did in that

00:35:30.300 statement is to use the phrase abortion rights.

00:35:33.960 And the follow your heart stuff was almost as bad.

00:35:38.580 You know, if you want to tell me that he can't win if he announces that he wants to push for

00:35:42.980 a federal ban on all abortions, sure, like, obviously that is correct.

00:35:47.860 That's not a winning political position right now.

00:35:51.420 But that doesn't mean that he has to use left-wing terminology when discussing the issue.

00:35:57.960 The smart strategy is to take what you can get right now, but don't say or do anything

00:36:03.200 that forecloses your ability to take more in the future.

00:36:07.580 When you adopt left-wing framing on the abortion issue by saying, you know, abortion rights,

00:36:15.760 which, by the way, that's just, that's, if you want to understand why this matters, is

00:36:19.480 like, imagine if, next thing you know, Trump is talking about fetuses rather than unborn

00:36:24.760 children.

00:36:27.020 That's also a problem because you're adopting their framing.

00:36:29.960 That's why we don't use that term.

00:36:31.260 Because you're adopting their framing, which says that there's something distinctly different,

00:36:35.940 inherently different about the unborn child as opposed to every other human being.

00:36:40.000 Like, they're a different species or something.

00:36:43.000 And when you adopt their framing, you undercut the pro-life case.

00:36:46.880 And, you know, this is where conservatives have struggled.

00:36:49.080 It's one thing to work incrementally towards your goal.

00:36:52.620 We really have no choice but to do that.

00:36:54.460 But you don't have to accept left-wing framing in the process.

00:37:00.640 And because when you do, that's how you end up getting stuck on the step you're on

00:37:03.800 and eventually losing that ground too.

00:37:07.640 So just to summarize, I don't blame Trump for failing to call for a federal ban on all

00:37:12.580 abortions without exceptions, which, if it was up to me, that would be the policy.

00:37:16.220 I don't blame him for not calling for that.

00:37:20.840 Because, again, it's just a political reality that he can't win with that position.

00:37:25.220 But the way we talk about this issue really matters.

00:37:28.920 And even aside from the position itself, the way he expressed it was not good.

00:37:34.900 It's important to be very precise and strategic when speaking about this issue,

00:37:38.560 which means never accepting the left-wing framing or left-wing language ever under any circumstance.

00:37:46.240 There are no abortion rights.

00:37:47.620 You don't have a right to an abortion. 1.00

00:37:51.320 And if it sounds like I'm playing semantics, I'm not.

00:37:54.280 It really matters.

00:37:56.020 And I think everyone by now should understand that this stuff, that language is not semantic.

00:38:02.060 It's how we communicate with each other.

00:38:03.920 It's how we express ideas.

00:38:05.500 And when you use certain language, you're expressing an idea whether you mean to or not.

00:38:08.980 When you use the phrase abortion rights, you're expressing the idea that there is a right to abortion.

00:38:12.600 But there is not.

00:38:13.360 And even when taking a compromised or compromised political position, you cannot compromise on the language.

00:38:23.320 And of course, even with these complaints, the choices are still Biden or Trump.

00:38:29.540 There are no other choices.

00:38:31.540 I'll vote for Trump. 1.00

00:38:32.940 Biden wants to kill all the babies he can, and he wants to throw pro-lifers in prison while he's at it. 1.00

00:38:37.760 And that's what he's been doing. 0.99

00:38:40.160 Trump is obviously significantly better than that on this issue and every other issue.

00:38:43.500 So I'll take Trump.

00:38:45.460 I'll take the incremental victory.

00:38:47.680 Let's continue the fight, though.

00:38:50.380 And it's a fight that continues as long as there are babies to save.

00:38:53.000 Which means that, you know, this is a fight that we're going to be in for the rest of our lives, and probably much longer than that.

00:39:05.840 All right, it was pretty amazing to see that eclipse yesterday.

00:39:09.040 It's just that from my vantage point, it was mainly the clouds eclipsing the sun.

00:39:14.320 So it was a view of the clouds.

00:39:17.140 And this is the second eclipse in a row, I have to tell you, where I haven't been able to see it because it was overcast.

00:39:24.120 So you might think that you're suffering in your life, that you deal with difficulties, but this is what I'm dealing with right now.

00:39:29.580 There's two eclipses in a row.

00:39:31.640 You know, the last one, I couldn't see it.

00:39:32.860 It was a bust.

00:39:34.120 And they said, oh, you'll get another one in seven years.

00:39:36.040 I waited seven years.

00:39:37.560 I waited.

00:39:39.220 I did nothing but just wait for seven years for the next eclipse, and then I look out, and there's clouds again.

00:39:44.920 Which is why I think we need to ensure equitable and inclusive access to all astronomical events for everybody.

00:39:53.620 I think there's not enough discussion about that for too long.

00:39:56.240 Marginalized people like myself have not been able to see eclipses.

00:40:00.460 We haven't been able to see shooting stars.

00:40:02.380 I don't know how many times I've heard people, oh, there's a shooting star.

00:40:04.100 I look, I don't see a shooting star.

00:40:06.300 In fact, recently there was a thing with Jupiter, where Jupiter was supposed to appear, you know, larger than it has in however many years.

00:40:11.740 Went outside to see it at night, clouds again, couldn't see it.

00:40:14.620 So, at this point, I'm not even sure if these celestial bodies even exist.

00:40:19.780 Is there a Jupiter?

00:40:20.580 Is there a sun?

00:40:21.320 You know, I don't know.

00:40:22.740 Because every time I try to look, it's cloudy.

00:40:24.440 And it's not fair to me.

00:40:26.240 It's not fair to all marginalized communities. 0.99

00:40:29.180 This is a conversation about inclusivity that we need to have.

00:40:32.980 You've heard of DEI.

00:40:34.360 Well, this is a DE sky, is what I'm talking about. 1.00

00:40:38.900 And if that sounds incredibly stupid and insane, you should know that it's actually not as stupid or insane as what was said unironically on The View yesterday. 0.99

00:40:52.860 Let's watch this. 1.00

00:40:53.820 We've got a solar eclipse.

00:40:56.940 We've got the earthquake.

00:40:58.380 She ran down the hallway. 0.51

00:40:59.520 The rapture is here.

00:41:00.780 The rapture is here.

00:41:01.380 And then also I learned that the cicadas are coming.

00:41:04.520 Cicadas.

00:41:05.140 Cicadas.

00:41:05.660 For the first time in like 100 years.

00:41:09.480 No, no, no, no.

00:41:10.360 Two different, well, this is what I read.

00:41:12.420 Two different kinds of cicadas coming.

00:41:14.660 Two different times are coming.

00:41:16.540 The good cicadas and the bad cicadas.

00:41:17.940 But for the first time in many, many years.

00:41:20.660 No, every 17 years this happens.

00:41:23.380 Well, that's not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.

00:41:27.620 But in a way.

00:41:28.400 I will say all those things together would maybe lead one to believe that, you know, either climate change exists or something is returning.

00:41:38.360 That's quite so not at the mercy of climate change.

00:41:40.360 It's underground.

00:41:41.180 It happens.

00:41:42.880 And the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen.

00:41:47.940 Okay, so, you know, I'm constantly saying that the left is beyond parody, but this truly is beyond parody.

00:41:57.600 Like, how do you even, how do you make fun of this?

00:42:00.960 How do you satirize this?

00:42:03.280 She just listed three things that have absolutely nothing to do with the climate and lump them in as signs of climate change.

00:42:12.160 So the orbit of the moon is now a result of climate change.

00:42:17.940 Like, the problem is that there isn't a more absurd claim that you could make to compare to this as a joke, right?

00:42:26.060 Like, I can't say, well, that's like claiming that climate change on Earth causes the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

00:42:35.680 Like, it's, what she just said is not any more absurd than that.

00:42:40.920 That's the most absurd thing you can say on this topic has now been said.

00:42:45.340 Now, there are other things that are equally as absurd, but unfortunately, it can't get more absurd than that.

00:42:51.000 So, in effect, and I don't know if this was the, if this is 4D chess that she's playing or what, but in effect, she's just killed all climate change jokes.

00:43:02.620 We can't joke about this anymore.

00:43:04.100 They're all dead now. 1.00

00:43:05.200 She has killed them. 0.96

00:43:06.120 Because now we have a prominent leftist on the record, on TV, saying that climate change causes an eclipse. 0.97

00:43:17.140 There's nowhere else to take it now.

00:43:18.460 We can't take this anywhere else.

00:43:20.000 That's it.

00:43:20.800 It's, there's no, the Babylon Bee, you can't, what, what are you going to, all climate change jokes are done.

00:43:26.320 It's a tragedy in a certain way.

00:43:29.160 It really is.

00:43:30.140 Because I enjoy making fun of climate alarmists.

00:43:32.500 I enjoy it as much as the next person, probably a lot more.

00:43:35.840 I really like making fun of them.

00:43:37.940 It's a lot of fun.

00:43:39.660 It's, it's, it's important to me to be able to make fun of environmentalists and climate alarmists.

00:43:44.340 And she's killed that.

00:43:45.480 It's a little, you know what it is?

00:43:46.740 A little piece of my heart has now been ripped out of me and destroyed because of this.

00:43:51.540 I'm, I'm honestly upset about it.

00:43:53.140 And every time the left takes it one step, they keep going.

00:43:58.660 And then they eventually, they cross that line where it's like, I, all right, can't satirize it anymore.

00:44:05.740 That's, that's the, the funniest version of this thing you have just done in an, unironically, what can we do now?

00:44:17.780 Because we're obviously fully at the point now where climates, when they talk about climate,

00:44:21.940 that just means anything that occurs anywhere in physical reality.

00:44:30.100 That's what they mean by climate.

00:44:32.240 Any, any occurrence, when they talk about climate change, they just mean something has happened.

00:44:38.680 Some sort of event has occurred somewhere in the physical plane.

00:44:44.180 Um, that's climate change.

00:44:48.260 In fact, it's probably even broader than that because it doesn't even need to be a physical occurrence.

00:44:53.260 Because they'll connect climate change to like anxiety and mental health and all these other things.

00:44:57.660 So really, any concept at all is climate change, which, which is another reason why you can't make fun of it anymore.

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00:46:12.480 It's no secret that my list of personal and professional accomplishments are both expansive and, for so many people, quite enviable.

00:46:19.060 Theocratic fascist, hit podcast host, best-selling children's author, acclaimed actor, many other titles as well.

00:46:25.560 But the truth is, all these things were mere stepping stones on the road to my true calling.

00:46:30.240 Real plaintiffs will stand before me with real cases.

00:46:33.100 Would a jury of peers be less painful for these petty claims?

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00:46:52.400 Miss Goldstein.

00:46:57.020 Mr. Bentley.

00:46:57.760 Yeah.

00:46:57.980 Mr. Outerbridge.

00:46:58.880 Mr. Spicer.

00:46:59.420 Your Honor.

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00:47:00.360 Yes, Your Honor.

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00:47:01.220 Yes.

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00:47:06.440 A dog bit my finger. 0.99

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00:47:51.460 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:58.800 Today we cancel Amanda Marcotte, feminist writer for Salon. 1.00

00:48:02.980 And I'll admit, I'll begin by admitting that canceling Amanda Marcotte is perhaps a little cheap.

00:48:08.160 It's like canceling stubbed toes or indigestion or head lice.

00:48:12.120 A little too obvious.

00:48:13.700 And, you know, I don't need to explain why any of those things are bad.

00:48:16.920 Goes without saying.

00:48:18.740 Of course, I'm only trying to illustrate a point here.

00:48:20.300 I don't mean to compare Amanda Marcotte to head lice.

00:48:22.380 That would be inappropriate and dehumanizing, of course, to head lice.

00:48:25.640 In any case, Marcotte has earned her spot in this segment today by publishing an article for Salon 1.00

00:48:30.080 that is so crushingly stupid, so fantastically ridiculous and dishonest that it somehow, 0.99

00:48:34.960 against all odds, manages to lower the bar for feminist writers and Salon. 1.00

00:48:39.580 A bar that was already sitting approximately 10,000 feet below sea level.

00:48:42.380 Well, here's the headline.

00:48:44.620 Speaking of being beyond satire, here's the headline.

00:48:48.040 Men punching random women in NYC.

00:48:50.420 A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA.

00:48:55.740 Okay, now, this is another one of those headlines that I saw circulating on social media,

00:48:59.680 and I had to stop to verify that it was real.

00:49:02.040 At first, I honestly thought that it wasn't.

00:49:04.120 It's the kind of thing that a right-wing meme account might create as a joke.

00:49:07.580 And if they had, it wouldn't have even been very funny, because it's a little bit too on-the-nose.

00:49:13.760 You know, it seems a little bit too outlandish.

00:49:15.720 But this is not a meme.

00:49:16.700 It's an actual article, written and published without a hint of irony.

00:49:19.980 Let's read on.

00:49:21.380 Quote, men are punching random women on the streets of New York City.

00:49:23.920 As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there's much that is unknown,

00:49:28.180 including how often this is happening, how many people are involved,

00:49:30.860 or whether it's at all coordinated.

00:49:33.520 Women report being assaulted by men of different races and ages.

00:49:36.360 Well, actually, no, there's not a lot of racial diversity in the men who are committing these assaults.

00:49:41.920 We'll return to that in a moment.

00:49:43.560 Continuing, still across the different stories, a couple of similarities pop out.

00:49:48.220 The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty,

00:49:50.740 and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked.

00:49:53.520 Some were on their phones or reading on tablets.

00:49:55.420 Others were speaking to friends or daydreaming.

00:49:57.680 Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives,

00:49:59.640 and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants.

00:50:02.220 While it rarely turns to violence,

00:50:03.500 most women who spend much time walking around in public have experience with men

00:50:06.880 who berate them for paying attention to something other than the man

00:50:09.700 who is now, often out of nowhere, spewing invectives.

00:50:12.740 In our modern era, that often manifests with men who are infuriated at women

00:50:16.060 for looking at their phones.

00:50:17.880 But I'm old enough to remember when I would get yelled at for reading books in public.

00:50:22.040 A quick aside here.

00:50:23.060 That didn't happen.

00:50:24.640 Nobody yelled at her for reading a book in public.

00:50:27.360 Much of what she said in that paragraph is exaggerated or entirely invented.

00:50:31.220 But let's get to the crux of the issue from Amanda's hallucinatory perspective.

00:50:35.540 Quote,

00:50:35.680 Whatever the excuse the angry man concocts, the impetus is always the same.

00:50:40.900 The eyes of a woman are directed at someone or something that is not him, 0.82

00:50:44.300 and he is indignant over it.

00:50:45.960 These stories resonate as well because the nation is having a moment

00:50:48.640 of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives

00:50:52.660 that are centered around something other than catering to a man's every whim.

00:50:56.420 Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement,

00:50:58.300 there's an upswell of loud male entitlement shouting at us from every corner.

00:51:02.160 We see it in the male fans of Jordan Peterson who clamor to his events to hear him croak out

00:51:06.440 a just-so story about how lobsters justify their faith in male dominance.

00:51:10.760 Or the rise of trad wives online who make a living pretending they're unemployed and housebound. 1.00

00:51:15.780 Or Ben Shapiro setting fire to a Barbie doll because he can't stand that a blockbuster comedy

00:51:20.060 starring a woman is about anything but her quest for male affection.

00:51:23.840 The rise of MAGA is fueled by misogyny, but it's less a backlash than a tantrum.

00:51:28.540 A rage explosion by men who want to restore their dominance,

00:51:31.580 but fear that this time women won't buckle to their bullying. 1.00

00:51:34.600 This rash of men punching women in New York City captures this moment in a dark way.

00:51:39.260 Now before we get to the content of this screed such as it is,

00:51:42.100 the first thing we notice is just how tired and lame and dull the writing is.

00:51:46.180 Amanda Marcotte has been writing essentially the same article over and over again for 20 years.

00:51:50.260 Now of course, 20 years ago, she wasn't talking about Donald Trump or MAGA,

00:51:53.680 but the basic themes and concepts are the same.

00:51:55.680 And there really is only one theme and one concept,

00:51:58.020 which is that men are misogynists and various bad things are happening because of our misogyny.

00:52:02.740 You know, she's been reflecting on this idea for two decades,

00:52:05.560 and yet has never managed to say anything interesting or insightful about it.

00:52:09.620 And this is my biggest problem with people like Amanda Marcotte.

00:52:11.800 It's not that everything they say is wrong, and that's a given.

00:52:14.840 It's that they can't even manage to be vaguely interesting while being wrong.

00:52:18.220 And as for the claim that she's making,

00:52:20.460 obviously, violent crime in New York City has nothing to do with Trump or MAGA.

00:52:25.240 Chicago is not MAGA country, neither is New York.

00:52:28.260 The men assaulting random, you know, committing random assaults in Manhattan.

00:52:32.380 These are not Trump voters.

00:52:34.420 These are not Jordan Peterson acolytes.

00:52:37.060 They're not listening to Ben Shapiro's podcast.

00:52:39.480 They've never heard the term trad wife, most likely.

00:52:42.500 And these are almost exclusively black men and Democrat voters, if they vote at all,

00:52:49.800 which they probably don't. 0.99

00:52:51.320 They are repeat violent offenders, career criminals who are on the street,

00:52:54.740 able to attack and victimize random women because of policies that Amanda Marcotte supports. 1.00

00:52:59.840 In fact, not only is this not a MAGA phenomenon,

00:53:02.880 but if you go somewhere that is really MAGA country,

00:53:06.160 a predominantly conservative place where you're likely to see American flags and red hats and all the rest of it,

00:53:11.200 in those places, women aren't getting brutalized as they walk down the street. 1.00

00:53:16.420 That's an interesting fact.

00:53:18.160 These attacks on women are supposedly the result of right-wing male rage,

00:53:21.300 and yet they're only happening in blue cities.

00:53:24.320 That's interesting.

00:53:25.920 Go to pretty much any neighborhood with a majority of Trump voters,

00:53:28.980 and any woman will be perfectly safe walking down the street at any time of day or night. 1.00

00:53:34.340 Amanda hates white Republican males more than anything. 0.98

00:53:36.660 She blames us for all the violence against women. 1.00

00:53:38.300 And yet, you never hear about a rash of violent attacks on women in white Republican areas,

00:53:44.760 which is fascinating, isn't it?

00:53:48.000 So she's obviously wrong about who is responsible for this violence.

00:53:51.400 She's also wrong about the why.

00:53:54.000 These attackers aren't going after these women because they feel entitled to their time,

00:53:58.180 or they're mad at the women for looking at their phones,

00:54:00.800 or because they're filled with some kind of patriarchal sense of entitlement. 0.98

00:54:03.820 They're doing it because they're predators, often mentally ill, often high on some drug or another, 0.93

00:54:10.520 looking for the easiest victim they can find. 0.93

00:54:14.640 And that's why they target women most of the time, because the women are the easiest targets. 1.00

00:54:19.200 They do it because they can, and they'll keep doing it for as long as they can,

00:54:23.980 until we make it so that they can't.

00:54:25.740 And we don't do that by printing, you know, scolding lectures in Salon.

00:54:31.420 Because the other thing about these guys is they're not reading Salon.

00:54:33.400 Okay, I can tell you that right now.

00:54:35.040 Now, what you do is you do that by locking them in prison forever.

00:54:38.520 But Amanda Marcotte doesn't want that. 1.00

00:54:40.680 She's an advocate for criminal justice reform, quote unquote,

00:54:43.820 which means putting these violent predators back on the street and keeping them there.

00:54:49.400 I mean, she doesn't care if the violent attacks continue. 0.99

00:54:51.540 In fact, she wants them to.

00:54:54.520 At least it gives her something to write about,

00:54:56.480 even if she's writing the same article over and over and over again,

00:55:00.140 and somehow still missing the point every single time.

00:55:04.540 And that is why she is today, I must say, canceled.

00:55:09.800 That'll do it for the show today.

00:55:10.680 Thanks for watching.

00:55:11.140 Thanks for listening.

00:55:11.900 Talk to you tomorrow, or better yet, catch you tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern

00:55:15.620 for the premiere of Judged.

00:55:17.640 See you then.

00:55:18.660 Godspeed.

00:55:21.540 Godspeed.

00:55:23.320 Godspeed.

00:55:28.520 Godspeed.

00:55:41.040 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 09, 2024

Ep. 1343 - Another Outrageous Assault On The Right To Self-Defense

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