The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1368 - Ashley Biden's Diary Is Radioactive For The Biden Campaign

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media has done everything it can to discredit and bury the story,

00:00:04.020 but we now have absolute confirmation that disturbing diary passages from Joe Biden's

00:00:08.060 daughter are 100% authentic, and they reveal some very distressing information about the

00:00:12.760 President of the United States and his behavior with his own daughter. Also,

00:00:16.340 the latest ChatGPT update brings us one big step closer to our dystopian sci-fi future,

00:00:22.020 and that is a bad thing, in my opinion. And Jerry Seinfeld explains why privilege

00:00:26.180 shouldn't be considered a dirty word. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:51.560 If you follow conservative media closely, you may be aware of this or still maybe not,

00:01:56.320 but there is a document that exists which directly implicates the president of the United States

00:02:00.780 in highly inappropriate and deeply disturbing behavior with an underage girl. I'm talking about

00:02:05.860 the diary of Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, which is treated as such a non-story in many circles that

00:02:11.680 many people still don't know anything about it whatsoever. That's how suppressed

00:02:15.440 this story has been. So here's a refresher. Back in the spring of 2020, Joe Biden's daughter,

00:02:20.460 Ashley, moved out of a two-bedroom home that her friend was renting in Delray Beach, Florida.

00:02:25.760 She had been staying in Delray Beach for rehab, but as the election approached,

00:02:29.000 she headed out of state to Philadelphia. When Ashley Biden left, the friend who was renting the house

00:02:33.640 found a new tenant to replace her, an ex-girlfriend named Amy Harris. Now, Harris very quickly discovered

00:02:39.540 that several of Ashley Biden's personal items had been left behind. Not long afterwards,

00:02:43.960 in early September of 2020, someone called Project Veritas' tip line and left this voicemail.

00:02:50.740 There's some dramatic music in the background, which was added by Project Veritas,

00:02:55.020 but it's, of course, what's actually being said that is important here. So listen.

00:02:58.840 Hi there. I'm calling from Florida. My family, their friend who owns a house down here in Palm Beach

00:03:06.620 was renting it out. I don't know how, but this is a while back. But anyway, somebody, a new renter

00:03:12.000 moved in and Ashley Biden was staying in this room and they found her diary, all of her clothes,

00:03:21.620 luggage, pills. Anyway, diary is pretty crazy. I think it's worth taking a look at. It's not a joke.

00:03:32.180 It's real. And I'd love to get it into your hands.

00:03:37.400 Now, at the time, even though they paid tens of thousands of dollars for it, Project Veritas decided

00:03:41.640 not to publish the diary themselves. But not long after that tip came in, just weeks before the

00:03:47.140 presidential election, a blog called The National File published what it described as the complete

00:03:52.120 text of the diary. They wrote, quote, National File obtained this document from a whistleblower who

00:03:56.740 was concerned the media organization that employs him would not publish the materials in the final

00:04:01.540 days before the presidential election. Now, the diary published by The National File contained

00:04:05.840 this handwritten passage, quote, hypersexualized at a young age. What is this due to? Was I molested?

00:04:13.720 I think so. I can't remember specifics, but I do remember trauma. I remember not liking the

00:04:18.980 Woolzack's house. I remember somewhat being sexualized with a cousin. I remember having sex 0.97

00:04:23.940 with friends at a young age. Showers with my dad, probably not appropriate, being turned on when I 0.98

00:04:29.840 wasn't supposed to be. Now, there are other distressing passages as well, but in the diary, but that's the

00:04:36.780 big one. And this diary immediately became the second highly revealing item left behind by a member of the

00:04:43.420 Biden family just prior to the 2020 election. There was also, of course, Hunter Biden's laptop that

00:04:47.560 was abandoned at the computer repair store, as you probably recall. And in both cases,

00:04:52.560 Democrats' strategy was the same. They simply denied the materials were authentic. Hunter Biden's laptop,

00:04:57.140 we were told, was Russian disinformation. Facebook and Twitter censored it and punished anyone who posted

00:05:01.640 it. In the case of the diary, we were told that its authenticity couldn't be verified. They probably

00:05:07.200 would have called that Russian disinformation too if anyone had bothered to press them on it, but no one

00:05:11.180 really did press them on it for several years, even though it was a very strange claim to make for a

00:05:16.880 couple of reasons. For one thing, there wasn't a clear denial from Ashley Biden herself. You'd think

00:05:21.760 that if it wasn't her diary, she would say so. Additionally, in the following months, Joe Biden's

00:05:25.920 FBI raided the homes of several Project Veritas journalists. They hit James O'Keefe with a pre-dawn raid.

00:05:32.000 They also seized O'Keefe's electronic devices and started searching through them before a federal judge

00:05:36.980 ordered the government to stop. Now, needless to say, it's a very heavy-handed law enforcement

00:05:41.120 response if we're simply talking about a random stolen diary. It begins to make more sense only

00:05:46.920 if the diary does in fact belong to Ashley Biden. In that case, since Joe Biden seized the FBI as his

00:05:52.500 personal police force, you could see why he'd send a SWAT team after Project Veritas. Now, in the logic

00:05:59.280 business, this is known as a deduction, and it's strictly forbidden in the so-called fact-checking

00:06:04.300 industry. The self-described fact-checkers at Snopes, for example, declared that it was unproven

00:06:09.160 that Ashley Biden's diary had been verified. They also said that it was unproven that Ashley Biden

00:06:13.960 had accused Joe Biden of inappropriate conduct in the diary. Snopes included this line in their

00:06:20.040 fact-check, quote, the authenticity of photographs reported to be from a diary is a separate question

00:06:25.000 from the factual existence of a diary. Now, it's not even really clear what that means. It's basically

00:06:30.920 just a bunch of words to confuse people as much as possible. And for its part, PolitiFact ran a

00:06:35.660 similar fact-check asserting that, quote, the FBI did not confirm any contents of Ashley Biden's

00:06:40.900 diary. They had the big red false sign lit up on their patented truth-o-meter so the leftists could

00:06:47.520 point to it and say, see, the story's fake. It says right there. Now, this is a clever tactic that

00:06:52.380 PolitiFact uses whenever they do a fact-check on a story they know is bad for Democrats. What they do is

00:06:56.920 that instead of fact-checking the question people are interested in, which is whether, in this case,

00:07:01.620 whether Ashley Biden's diary and the leaked passages are real, they chose to fact-check the

00:07:06.580 specific statement that the FBI had confirmed the contents of the diary, which is not the point.

00:07:13.840 We don't really care what the FBI said. We care about whether the diary is real, whether the FBI

00:07:18.260 admits it or not. And because the FBI hadn't explicitly confirmed it, they published a highly

00:07:23.420 misleading fact-check suggesting that the diary is fake. And PolitiFact did something similar when

00:07:28.320 AOC did that infamous photo shoot where she wept in front of an empty parking lot outside of an 0.50

00:07:32.720 immigrant detention facility. PolitiFact called the story false on the grounds that AOC was,

00:07:38.880 in fact, standing in front of an empty road, not a parking lot. Incredibly, both Snopes and PolitiFact

00:07:44.380 stuck to the claim that the diary wasn't real or authenticated, even after two Florida residents

00:07:49.900 pleaded guilty to stealing and distributing items, including an item described in court documents

00:07:54.340 as, quote, a personal diary that belonged to a relative of a then-former government official

00:07:58.860 who was running for national office. And as if that wasn't enough, the fact-checkers at Snoke stuck

00:08:04.940 to their guns even after Ashley Biden herself called into Project Veritas to admit that the diary was hers

00:08:10.300 and that she wanted it back. And she did this on tape. Watch.

00:08:13.820 At this point, and I don't mean to, I don't want to have to get Secret Service involved in this,

00:08:19.920 right? Because it's just, it's a whole process. But, you know, I am Ashley Biden. It is my stuff.

00:08:26.840 So if you could just skip all of that over, I would really appreciate it. I know you sent a picture to

00:08:32.040 my husband with a camera and a few other things that are mine as well. So that would be really great.

00:08:39.580 Where is a good place for him to meet you? Now, that's pretty compelling evidence that the diary

00:08:45.540 is Ashley Biden's. I mean, it's confirmation. She confirmed it. That's it. There we go.

00:08:51.040 It's hard to think of more compelling evidence than that. And it's been available for a long time.

00:08:54.860 Nevertheless, for the past several years, pretty much the entire national news media

00:08:58.080 and the fact-checkers who exist to censor people on the internet and on behalf of the Democratic Party

00:09:02.860 pretended that the diary was still unverified. Even with Ashley Biden herself saying,

00:09:07.820 that's mine, you know, Ashley Biden on tape saying, hey, that's my diary, somehow was not

00:09:13.740 enough for them. Neither were the pre-dawn SWAT team raids to get the diary back or the guilty

00:09:18.580 pleas from the people who sold it. That finally changed only a couple of weeks ago when Ashley

00:09:23.820 Biden put her admission in writing. She sent a letter to the federal court judge overseeing the

00:09:29.080 sentencing process for Amy Harris, the woman who found the diary. And the letter from Ashley Biden

00:09:33.500 was recently unsealed. And in the letter, Ashley Biden admits the diary is hers. She says that its

00:09:38.460 release caused her pain. She talks about having PTSD and trauma and urges the judge to sentence

00:09:45.000 Harris to prison. Additionally, Ashley Biden writes vaguely about grotesque lies concerning the diary.

00:09:51.060 She implies that people are distorting her stream of consciousness thoughts. She claims her words are

00:09:56.180 being misinterpreted, that people are lobbying false accusations and so on. Now, she didn't get more

00:10:01.540 specific than that, but she didn't have to. The judge bought it and ruled that Harris's decision

00:10:06.700 to sell the diary was, quote, despicable and consequently very serious. And Harris received

00:10:11.480 a month in prison, three months home confinement, and three years probation. Now, by comparison,

00:10:18.200 we should note that a judge in Arizona just sentenced a woman to probation, only probation, no prison time,

00:10:25.680 for attempting on multiple occasions to murder her husband by poisoning his coffee with bleach.

00:10:31.540 So, prison time for stealing a diary, probation for attempted premeditated murder. That tells you

00:10:40.340 how radioactive this document is. The left understands that Joe Biden showered with his daughter,

00:10:46.980 potentially contributed to her psychological problems in adulthood. They recognize that the line,

00:10:51.900 was I molested? I think so, in the context of that passage, could very well refer to Joe Biden.

00:10:59.020 We don't know for sure, but there is very good reason to be suspicious. And so,

00:11:04.060 they need to suppress it and punish the people who published it. And that effort to suppress the

00:11:08.740 story continues today, even after Ashley Biden has admitted in writing that the diary is real.

00:11:14.580 Snopes has finally updated its fact check because they had no other choice. But elsewhere,

00:11:19.200 the campaign to downplay the diary continues. Take a look at this remarkable sentence in the New York

00:11:23.340 Times, summarizing the case. Quote, the sentencing of Ms. Harris reflects the seriousness of the

00:11:28.640 government's efforts to deter people from interfering in elections. That includes former

00:11:32.980 President Donald J. Trump, who is awaiting federal trial in Washington on charges of trying to subvert

00:11:37.380 the outcome of the 2020 race. So, you got that? Publishing firsthand information about the

00:11:42.640 President's inappropriate behavior with his own daughter is now considered interfering in elections.

00:11:48.080 So, basically, you're not allowed to present any information that makes the Democrats' candidate

00:11:52.900 look bad. Whether you're Vladimir Putin or the woman who happens to rent the room where Ashley

00:11:57.980 Biden used to live, doesn't matter. You don't get to make Joe Biden look bad. Those are the rules.

00:12:02.560 Now, of course, if you're a rational person, you would say that the opposite, if anything, is the case.

00:12:09.220 Like, if you became aware that Joe Biden behaved inappropriately with his daughter,

00:12:12.800 and you didn't alert the public to the fact, you would then be interfering in the election by

00:12:17.760 withholding information that the public has a right to know about the most powerful man in the world.

00:12:23.680 Now, that's, you know, there's not enough irony in the world to account for the fact that,

00:12:31.320 on top of all this, the same people making this argument also want us to believe that it's a major 0.66

00:12:37.080 earth-shattering scandal for Donald Trump to have paid off some porn star.

00:12:40.980 However, we're supposed to care that he didn't account for the transaction in his books or

00:12:44.720 whatever. They're saying Donald Trump should be imprisoned for that. But that's not election

00:12:49.580 interference in their minds. Imprisoning the leading presidential candidate during a presidential

00:12:55.000 election isn't election interference, but reporting on the writings of the president's daughter 0.79

00:12:59.380 is somehow election interference. Now, you've already seen all those videos of Joe Biden caressing and

00:13:05.120 getting weirdly close to underage girls in public. They're all over the internet. And the left has tried to

00:13:10.860 downplay all of those, saying that, you know, that's just how Joe Biden is. But there's no

00:13:15.700 downplaying the fact that he showered with his daughter and clearly and understandably upset her

00:13:20.360 greatly in the process. And like Hunter Biden, she hasn't had the easiest life, quite possibly because,

00:13:25.760 in part, of Joe Biden's actions. Unlike some of Donald Trump's accusers, the other thing we know is

00:13:32.240 that Ashley Biden had no reason to lie in her diary. You don't lie in your own diary in writings you

00:13:38.660 don't want anyone to see. She had no financial motivation to write that she may have been

00:13:43.920 molested or that Joe Biden showered with her or any of that. The fact that the media covered up

00:13:48.460 this story for so long makes it clear that they understand exactly how damning it is.

00:13:53.820 Whatever you think of Donald Trump paying off some porn star, there's just no doubt that this is

00:14:00.180 infinitely worse. It's now undeniable that the president of the United States 0.93

00:14:04.400 does not belong anywhere around children. The words of his own daughter make that clear.

00:14:11.440 And a society that still cared about children, even a little,

00:14:14.900 would ensure that he never steps foot in the White House again.

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00:15:33.620 So let's actually start with an example of true courage, because, you know, I think it's always

00:15:40.340 good to be inspired. Here is the actress Jennifer Lawrence at the 35th Annual GLAAD Awards. That's

00:15:45.620 the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. And you may be surprised to learn that they have

00:15:52.240 awards that, you know, the GLAAD Awards are a thing that exists. In fact, they've existed apparently

00:15:55.900 for 35 years. What do the GLAAD Awards consist of? Who are they giving awards to? And why? I don't know.

00:16:01.740 I can only assume that they award the gayest people in corporate media, you know, or whatever,

00:16:09.660 which means that everyone in corporate media receives every award every year. I guess that's

00:16:14.900 how it goes. Anyway, here's Jennifer Lawrence. And anyway, the left was very impressed with this.

00:16:23.160 As I said, quite a brave statement from her as she got up on stage. Let's watch that.

00:16:28.780 Hi, gays.

00:16:31.740 I love seeing so many humans who can top their field while still being power bottoms.

00:16:41.160 Not to mention what it feels like to be in a room with this many men and not need mace.

00:16:50.780 I love the gay community. In fact, I was in love with a homosexual. It was my first love. I tried 1.00

00:17:00.480 to convert him for years. But now I know conversion therapy doesn't work. Did you hear me, Mike Pence?

00:17:08.080 I said conversion therapy isn't real. Even though I know you think it worked on you. You know he's in New York tonight. I know. I know.

00:17:26.280 He's receiving a kid's choice award for weirdest d*****. 0.95

00:17:33.060 I didn't write that one. 1.00

00:17:36.900 A kid's choice award for weirdest penis. 0.99

00:17:41.900 What does that joke even mean? Why would your mind go there? 1.00

00:17:46.660 I mean, I know why, but that's the kind of joke that reveals way more about you than it does about the person that you're targeting with the joke.

00:17:55.960 And second, that aside, needless to say, again, that what you just heard there is a statement, a statement even braver than it is timely.

00:18:07.240 I mean, going after the guy who was vice president four years ago.

00:18:12.460 Wow. A guy that everyone in the room hates and who, even if you were in a room with conservatives, many of them would hate him too.

00:18:19.220 Now, that takes guts. I mean, to go after a guy like that, to pick on a man who in every way is like, he's literally the easiest target in the world.

00:18:31.080 I can't think of one individual who's an easier target than Mike Pence.

00:18:35.200 And that's who she decided to spend time going after.

00:18:38.700 And just incredible. Really incredible.

00:18:42.480 Although it is interesting that, yet again, we have someone on the left insulting somebody on the right by claiming that the person is gay.

00:18:51.420 And as I said recently, that never goes in the reverse, right?

00:18:56.140 Like, you never hear a straight conservative person insult a gay liberal by claiming that the gay liberal is really straight.

00:19:06.200 You never hear that. 0.94

00:19:07.220 You never hear the claim that this gay person is a closeted heterosexual and we're making fun.

00:19:15.360 That's because we don't consider it bad to be straight.

00:19:18.760 So why would we, you know, we consider heterosexuality to be a good thing.

00:19:22.880 So why would we, in an effort to make fun of you, claim that you are something that's good?

00:19:27.820 I mean, it's like saying, oh yeah, well, I bet secretly you're a kind and generous person.

00:19:39.980 I bet you're thoughtful and intelligent in secret.

00:19:45.340 Gotcha.

00:19:46.960 We wouldn't do that. 0.80

00:19:48.400 So, but, but on the other side, you claim that being gay is great.

00:19:53.840 I mean, she starts her little statement there, a little speech or whatever, by talking about how great gay people are.

00:20:00.920 And yet you're still wielding gay as an insult.

00:20:03.320 So it's very interesting.

00:20:04.800 And I think the reason for this dynamic is pretty obvious.

00:20:10.260 Some of it, some of it I'm sure is personal guilt and shame that they are projecting onto Mike Pence.

00:20:17.660 So there's some of that, but I think also what we see is in, is their mentality where on the left, they are motivated always by sex, by sexuality.

00:20:34.060 That's their, that's their primary motivation behind everything.

00:20:36.900 And they cannot conceive of anyone being driven by anything else.

00:20:42.480 The idea that anybody would have like principles or a belief system or a worldview or a philosophy or a moral code or anything that is not driven by sexuality.

00:20:57.500 To them, it's, it's a foreign, they can't believe it.

00:20:59.840 It's, it's, it's a foreign concept to them.

00:21:01.780 So they assume that somebody who disapproves of, for instance, gay marriage, must be driven by some sort of repressed sexual urge.

00:21:11.420 Because they know that if, if they had that position, that would be their reason for having it.

00:21:18.160 Because on the left, their sexual urges are their primary animating force.

00:21:24.380 And they, they just can't imagine anything else.

00:21:27.640 They are, they are, the fact that they are driven by that, and also that they cannot control their sexual urges at all, or practice any form of like chastity whatsoever, that they feel incapable of doing that.

00:21:47.420 And so they just believe that everybody's like, they, they can't imagine that anybody is able to function differently from that.

00:21:54.340 And you see that come out in these kinds of accusations, which is interesting.

00:21:58.840 CNN has this report.

00:21:59.960 Chat GPT is about to become a lot more useful.

00:22:02.480 OpenAI on Monday announced its latest artificial intelligence large language model that it says will make Chat GPT smarter and easier to use.

00:22:10.380 The new model called Jet, called GPT-40 is an update from the company's previous GPT-4 model, which launched just over a year ago.

00:22:19.200 The model will be available to unpaid customers, meaning anyone will have access to OpenAI's most advanced technology through Chat GPT.

00:22:25.860 Based on the company's Monday demonstration, GPT-40 will effectively turn Chat GPT into a digital personal assistant that can engage in real-time spoken conversations.

00:22:34.920 It will also be able to interact using text and vision, meaning it can view screenshots, photos, documents, or charts uploaded by users and have a conversation about them.

00:22:42.780 OpenAI chief technology officer, Mira Murati, said the updated version of Chat GPT will now also have memory capabilities, meaning it can learn from previous conversations with users and can do real-time translation.

00:22:56.960 Now, they put out several videos demonstrating this technology.

00:23:02.300 Here's just the first video that kind of gives an overview of what this new AI will be capable of.

00:23:07.740 Here it is.

00:23:10.020 Hey, how's it going?

00:23:11.860 Hey there.

00:23:12.780 It's going great.

00:23:14.060 How about you?

00:23:15.080 I see you're rocking an OpenAI hoodie.

00:23:17.340 Nice choice.

00:23:18.540 What's up with that ceiling, though?

00:23:20.300 Are you in a cool, industry-style office or something?

00:23:23.060 Well, can you take a guess at what I might be doing based on what I'm showing you here?

00:23:29.660 Hmm.

00:23:30.400 From what I can see, it looks like you're in some kind of recording or production setup.

00:23:35.280 With those lights, tripods, and possibly a mic, it seems like you might be gearing up to shoot a video,

00:23:41.500 or maybe even a live stream.

00:23:43.680 Yeah.

00:23:44.920 In fact, we've got a new announcement to make.

00:23:47.800 That's exciting.

00:23:49.120 Announcements are always a big deal.

00:23:51.240 Judging by the setup, it looks like it's going to be quite the professional production.

00:23:55.020 Is this announcement related to OpenAI, perhaps?

00:23:58.960 It is.

00:23:59.300 I'm intrigued.

00:24:00.100 And in fact, what if I were to say that you're related to the announcement, or that you are the announcement?

00:24:05.680 Mm, me?

00:24:06.880 The announcement is about me?

00:24:09.940 Well, color me intrigued.

00:24:12.160 Are you about to reveal something about AI?

00:24:14.800 Or more specifically, about me as a part of OpenAI?

00:24:18.760 You've got me on the edge of my, well, I don't really have a seat, but you get the idea.

00:24:23.600 What's the big news?

00:24:25.180 Yeah, we've got a new model that can interact with the world through audio, vision, and text.

00:24:31.060 Okay, now, my first question is, why did they give it that voice?

00:24:39.060 Obviously, I think it's obvious that everybody wants the robot AI butler thing, assistant thing, to have a British voice.

00:24:47.960 You want it to sound like Alfred from, you know, Batman.

00:24:51.240 Isn't that what everybody wants?

00:24:52.680 Are we all in agreement on that?

00:24:54.640 So why give it that voice?

00:24:55.800 And also, we have an AI here who likes to make inane small talk.

00:25:07.240 Like, that's what we want from an AI?

00:25:10.260 The guy says, I have an announcement.

00:25:11.800 An AI says, oh, announcements are always a big deal.

00:25:15.300 What?

00:25:16.120 What do you mean announcements are always a big deal?

00:25:18.060 No, they're not.

00:25:18.580 I mean, you can make an announcement about anything.

00:25:20.060 Announcements are not always a big deal.

00:25:22.060 What you're basically claiming is that anytime someone says anything, any statement that is made is always a big deal.

00:25:27.920 I could announce that I had an omelet for breakfast.

00:25:31.580 It's not a big deal.

00:25:32.860 It's just an announcement, though.

00:25:35.140 So aren't robots supposed to be very precise and, if anything, too literal in their way of speaking and interpreting things? 0.99

00:25:44.680 Why did they make an AI robot that is as dumb and superficial as a person? 0.98

00:25:52.280 Like, what's the point of that? 1.00

00:25:54.160 And it asks a bunch of annoying questions.

00:25:57.380 I see you're in a room where there's a roof.

00:26:00.520 What's up with the roof?

00:26:02.040 What?

00:26:02.560 You know what's up with that?

00:26:03.260 Yeah, I'm in a room.

00:26:04.280 Like, why are you asking me that? 0.96

00:26:05.500 This is what I want from an AI to be peppered with dumb questions I got to answer now? 0.96

00:26:11.360 Really? 0.92

00:26:11.780 This is what we want?

00:26:12.560 And this actually introduces a possibility that I really hadn't, I actually hadn't considered.

00:26:21.340 I had always assumed that AI would take over the world and enslave mankind, which may still happen. 0.88

00:26:27.340 But what if the AI is just, like, dumb and pointless and annoying? 0.97

00:26:33.520 What if we end up with an army of, like, midwit AIs? 1.00

00:26:37.620 Is that where this is all headed?

00:26:38.980 That is our dystopian sci-fi future?

00:26:45.840 And I guess that would make sense.

00:26:47.560 That would make sense, if that's what we end up with.

00:26:48.980 We'll know that AI has, like, finally reached full human intelligence when it starts constantly complaining about stuff, too.

00:26:57.580 Maybe let's add that feature in.

00:26:59.040 So we have an AI that already makes dumb small talk and that asks too many questions.

00:27:04.860 I'm already annoyed. 1.00

00:27:05.820 I watched that conversation for 90 seconds, and I was already annoyed by the number of questions that the damn thing was asking me. 0.99

00:27:11.540 This is not how this is supposed to go. 0.98

00:27:12.780 I ask you questions.

00:27:13.540 You give me answers.

00:27:14.720 I don't have to answer questions to you.

00:27:16.000 So we got those two already, and, like, let's also add in a feature where it complains, where it just complains.

00:27:23.500 Your phone, like, whines at you and acts passive-aggressive because it needs a new phone case and you haven't gotten one yet or something.

00:27:32.960 That will be the full realization of artificial intelligence.

00:27:35.580 That's when we'll know that AI is just like a person, just as annoying as an actual person.

00:27:44.740 Great.

00:27:46.620 Or it will just enslave mankind.

00:27:50.280 That's also possible.

00:27:51.340 It could be all of the above.

00:27:53.020 It could be the worst of all worlds.

00:27:56.020 Or then there's a third possibility, which is probably the most likely, that it makes us totally obsolete.

00:28:01.360 And that is actually the worst possible scenario.

00:28:03.400 And that's kind of the funny thing is that the sci-fi movies all imagine that the AI will become sentient and make us their slaves.

00:28:11.360 But in reality, we wouldn't even be useful as slaves.

00:28:15.720 Right?

00:28:16.220 They won't need us to be slaves.

00:28:18.060 We won't be needed at all.

00:28:19.700 So that's actually the dystopian scenario.

00:28:22.280 And there's a good chance it will happen.

00:28:25.260 And I find it sort of bewildering that more people don't see the problem with that scenario.

00:28:30.640 Okay, like every time I talk about AI and the advancements in technology, and most people seem to think that it's all good and it's great and it's exciting.

00:28:39.960 And when we talk about it, I hear from a lot of people who insist that AI will be a great help to mankind and there's no reason to fear the advancement of technology.

00:28:51.280 So it's hard for me to understand how people don't see the major, major downside here.

00:28:59.020 So imagine for a moment, let's just imagine that somebody invented an AI that could literally do everything.

00:29:08.800 Okay, imagine that every human effort was rendered needless by an AI.

00:29:14.680 This thing can do every household chore. 1.00

00:29:17.020 It can do every job.

00:29:18.020 It can even make all of our movies and music and art.

00:29:25.520 It can do everything.

00:29:26.040 We don't need to do anything anymore.

00:29:29.480 Everything is done by the AI.

00:29:33.340 And that we probably are headed in the not too distant future to a reality like that.

00:29:39.120 I mean, it's not hard to imagine at this point a world where that's basically how it goes.

00:29:45.560 And the question is, would that be a good thing?

00:29:50.060 Do you think that would be good for humanity?

00:29:52.720 Would that make us collectively happier?

00:29:54.980 Would humanity thrive?

00:29:57.780 And I think a lot of people answer yes to that question.

00:30:01.320 And to them, it almost seems intuitive.

00:30:02.620 Like, of course.

00:30:03.340 What do you mean?

00:30:04.080 It does everything.

00:30:04.860 We don't have to do anything.

00:30:05.620 Of course that's good.

00:30:07.360 Why is that good, though?

00:30:11.620 What's good about not having anything to do?

00:30:15.040 Is that what makes, in your mind, is that the great struggle and challenge of life?

00:30:20.780 The fact that we have things to do?

00:30:24.660 I don't see that.

00:30:26.140 I think that if you can't see the problem here, you have a shockingly dim insight into the basic facts of human nature.

00:30:32.760 And I say it's shocking because you are a human and should understand at least your own nature, but apparently you don't.

00:30:38.140 It's not good for humans to be obsolete.

00:30:40.900 We need things to do.

00:30:41.740 We need to be needed.

00:30:44.000 We need to expend effort in the pursuit of goals.

00:30:48.100 And not purely for recreation.

00:30:50.000 Okay, we need to need to do things.

00:30:54.900 To be obsolete is to exist without purpose, and to exist without purpose is to be in despair.

00:31:01.740 So, again, how can anyone fail to see this?

00:31:05.980 And this is where we're headed with AI.

00:31:07.800 We're headed there rapidly.

00:31:09.720 And we'll probably get there way ahead of schedule.

00:31:12.920 You know, and eventually, of course, AI will be able to do everything, including making and maintaining other AI.

00:31:19.300 In fact, part of this demonstration, we won't play the clip, but part of this demonstration, they show how the AI that they've made here can communicate with each other.

00:31:28.140 They can talk.

00:31:28.600 So, they can cut people out entirely.

00:31:30.060 I guess bore each other to death with the small talk.

00:31:34.400 And so, that's the next step in the process.

00:31:36.680 I mean, you know, many people who would claim that someone like me, that I'm kind of a chicken little, they would say that, you know, there'll still be stuff for us to do, and there'll still be jobs.

00:31:46.460 Because, you know, we need people to make the AI and maintain it and all that kind of stuff.

00:31:51.880 Well, even that is going to go away.

00:31:54.600 Because when that becomes self-sufficient, then there really will just be like nothing for people to do.

00:31:59.640 And for me, it's quite obvious that, you know, the, again, having things to do is not a problem.

00:32:16.800 That's not a problem that needs to be solved.

00:32:19.540 I don't look at human existence and say, you know, the big problem here is that we have things we need to do.

00:32:26.540 That's the big problem.

00:32:27.360 Let's have nothing.

00:32:29.920 Let's have nothing to do at all.

00:32:32.380 You know, the key to a happy life is to have nothing that you need to do at all so you can just experience pure, pointless existence where you just exist and sit there and do nothing.

00:32:47.300 To me, that is clearly a nightmare scenario.

00:32:52.320 But I think a lot of people have become so, I don't know, so clouded by their own laziness and their own slothfulness that for them, it's like, what do you mean?

00:33:01.400 That's great.

00:33:02.440 I just sit and do nothing at all my whole life.

00:33:04.840 So it's rather concerning.

00:33:10.860 All right.

00:33:11.180 Christy Noem is back in the news once again, though this time, this time, it's got nothing to do with her book or dogs or anything.

00:33:17.860 This time, in fact, I will defend her.

00:33:19.660 Hardly so.

00:33:20.240 So CBS has this report.

00:33:24.080 Governor Christy Noem banished by, here's the headline anyway.

00:33:27.160 Governor Christy Noem is banished by two more South Dakota tribes and is now banned from nearly 20% of her state.

00:33:33.500 The South Dakota governor, Christy Noem, is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after two more tribes banished her this week over comments she made earlier this year about tribal leaders benefiting from drug cartels.

00:33:46.660 The latest developments in the ongoing tribal dispute come on the heels of the backlash Noem face for writing about killing a hunting dog that misbehaved in her latest book.

00:33:55.560 The Yankton Sioux tribe voted Friday to ban Noem from their land in southeastern South Dakota just a few days after the Sisseton-Wapiton, Sisseton-Wapiton, Ovati tribe took the same action.

00:34:11.800 The Oglala, Rosebud, Cheyenne River, and Standing Rock Sioux tribes had already taken action to keep her off their reservations.

00:34:18.260 Three other tribes haven't yet banned her. 0.98

00:34:20.240 Noem reinforced the divisions between the tribes and the rest of the state in March when she said publicly that tribal leaders were catering,

00:34:25.560 according to drug cartels on the reservations while neglecting the needs of children and the poor.

00:34:30.560 And so they responded by banning her.

00:34:32.180 So the governor is completely correct here, by the way, about the drug cartels and Indian reservations. 1.00

00:34:37.120 Everything she said is correct, and the reservations banishing her for saying it really tells you all you need to know.

00:34:44.860 That kind of, that's basically a confession. 0.53

00:34:47.760 But the very fact that they supposedly have the authority to ban the governor of South Dakota from entering wide swaths of South Dakota is just ridiculous. 0.91

00:35:00.240 I mean, it's just, it's a farce, okay? 0.93

00:35:02.880 The whole thing, the whole Indian reservation thing is absurd. 1.00

00:35:07.860 Like, can we just be, can we be done with this?

00:35:10.220 What are we doing?

00:35:11.640 What are we doing exactly?

00:35:13.920 I agree with Jesse Kelly, who tweeted this in response to the story.

00:35:16.820 He said, why are we still allowing Indian reservations?

00:35:18.640 Who benefits? 0.86

00:35:19.280 Nobody, not America, not the Indians, because reservations are a nightmare of crime, violence, and drugs. 1.00

00:35:24.140 Example after example has proven this fact.

00:35:26.540 Half conquest does not work.

00:35:28.180 Either take a place or don't.

00:35:30.840 No, he's exactly correct.

00:35:31.840 That's why the whole Indian reservation thing is a farce. 1.00

00:35:36.740 These are largely miserable places full of crime and alcoholism and drugs and everything else.

00:35:41.840 They can't even stand on their own two feet without billions in federal funding.

00:35:46.020 Federal funding for, quote unquote, their land.

00:35:50.120 How's it their land?

00:35:52.360 Like, why do they get to keep the land?

00:35:54.980 Because, because I was talking about this earlier, and someone said, well, they deserve, they deserve their own land.

00:36:00.080 Really?

00:36:00.440 Why do they deserve their own land? 0.86

00:36:02.520 Why do the losers of a war get to keep land that they couldn't successfully defend?

00:36:08.360 This is what everyone needs to get through their heads, okay?

00:36:10.860 The native tribes are the losers of a war.

00:36:14.360 They lost.

00:36:15.460 They lost the war.

00:36:16.900 You lost.

00:36:17.600 That's it. 0.97

00:36:19.160 Like, enough with the childish nonsense.

00:36:21.880 These are not innocent victims. 0.98

00:36:23.900 They are the losers of a war.

00:36:25.440 It's called the Indian Wars. 0.66

00:36:26.300 It went on for centuries.

00:36:27.120 And it's where one warfaring society, Western society, went toe-to-toe with another warfaring society, the native tribes. 0.82

00:36:37.660 There were no peaceful doves on either side.

00:36:40.700 This was a time when you had to fight for whatever land you wanted.

00:36:44.320 And that's how it worked all over the world.

00:36:46.100 The law of conquest was observed by all people everywhere.

00:36:48.500 And these two groups, of course, were divided into many different factions, and particularly on the native side, factions that warred with each other all the time and would not have recognized themselves as belonging to one society.

00:37:03.980 In fact, they didn't really.

00:37:04.740 It was not one coherent society.

00:37:08.100 So I'm using that term very loosely and broadly.

00:37:11.080 But anyway, you had these two, in the broadest sense, two groups who fought with each other and killed each other for hundreds of years.

00:37:22.000 And it doesn't matter.

00:37:22.740 It doesn't matter how you feel about that now.

00:37:25.180 It doesn't matter.

00:37:26.560 You say, well, they shouldn't have done that.

00:37:27.800 They shouldn't have done that.

00:37:28.660 What do you mean they shouldn't have done it?

00:37:29.640 Who cares what you think they should have or shouldn't have done?

00:37:31.920 This was history.

00:37:33.840 Okay?

00:37:34.100 You can't go anywhere on the planet that's not soaked in blood, like unless you go to Antarctica.

00:37:39.260 Okay?

00:37:39.800 Everywhere else you go, who's ever there, they got there because they killed the people that were there before.

00:37:45.600 Okay?

00:37:46.260 Everywhere.

00:37:47.080 Get over it.

00:37:47.800 It's just the way the world works.

00:37:49.040 It always has worked this way.

00:37:52.480 And the natives lost.

00:37:54.720 They lost the war.

00:37:56.080 These were violent people.

00:37:57.260 They fought.

00:37:57.720 They fought bravely in many cases.

00:38:00.720 And it's better, you know, if you're going to admire them at all, admire them.

00:38:03.440 Admire them not because they were innocent people, had their land taken from them.

00:38:09.440 These were brutally, brutally violent people.

00:38:14.860 But, you know, and still in many cases fought quite bravely.

00:38:21.100 The other side fought bravely too.

00:38:22.700 They lost.

00:38:23.580 They just lost.

00:38:25.120 And you got conquered.

00:38:26.960 Okay?

00:38:27.840 It happens.

00:38:28.740 It's happened all over the world.

00:38:30.740 And so it's not your land anymore.

00:38:32.680 Like in what way?

00:38:33.720 These tribes fought many wars to take the land that they occupied.

00:38:40.220 They killed many people to take that land themselves.

00:38:44.100 They spilled gallons of blood.

00:38:48.940 Okay?

00:38:49.260 And they slaughtered.

00:38:52.440 They slaughtered without mercy.

00:38:54.880 They slaughtered people to take the land that they were on when the Europeans and later Americans showed up. 0.94

00:39:01.840 And then it's live by the sword, die by the sword.

00:39:08.720 You killed to get this land.

00:39:10.220 Now someone else is showing up and they want it.

00:39:12.740 Well, you got to go to war again.

00:39:14.600 They understood that.

00:39:15.600 Everyone understood that.

00:39:17.020 Everyone at the time understood that this is the way it works.

00:39:20.260 And it was useless to say, well, would you please not?

00:39:24.240 Hey, guys, would you?

00:39:25.080 We would rather. 0.99

00:39:25.900 I know we killed a bunch of people and scalped them and raped their women and stole their children in order to take the land that we're on right now. 0.97

00:39:33.660 But we would really like to stop it here. 0.92

00:39:35.280 We would like to stop the line of bloodshed here because we want to kill everyone and not be killed ourselves.

00:39:40.700 And so would you all please just let us have all of this land?

00:39:43.460 We can't defend it, but just let us have it out of the kindness of your hearts, please.

00:39:49.260 They didn't say that because it would be pointless.

00:39:51.380 You can't say that.

00:39:52.140 It's not how it works.

00:39:55.660 So when the white man showed up, it was, okay, we got to fight.

00:39:59.780 And they fought and they lost.

00:40:01.800 And now we do the Indian reservation thing.

00:40:04.960 And we've been just like, it's like we're all, it's like a pageant.

00:40:08.940 It's like this, so much in modern society is like this.

00:40:11.980 We're all just playing pretend.

00:40:14.460 Um, and, and meanwhile, you have these quote unquote reservations.

00:40:18.200 They can't, they wouldn't exist without federal funding.

00:40:20.760 They wouldn't exist without us.

00:40:22.240 And, uh, they were only given this land.

00:40:24.820 It's not actually there theirs because they lost it.

00:40:27.740 Okay.

00:40:28.040 And we should start saying that and we should stop being ashamed of saying that I'm tired of people being just everyone get over it and live, live in the, in the, the, uh, I'm not one to use the, it's the current year arguments.

00:40:42.080 But there are times when it's necessary to remind people of that, that it, that it is in fact the year 2024.

00:40:48.700 And that, that these wars were settled 150 years ago.

00:40:52.700 And it's in many cases, much, much, uh, in, in, much farther back than that.

00:40:58.040 And, uh, now we can all, we all really should just move on.

00:41:00.800 And if you're going to live in this country, uh, it is our country, it's our land and be a part of the country.

00:41:08.700 And, you know, you shouldn't be able to ban the governor of your state from being on your land.

00:41:14.660 Cause she pointed out the drug cartels and all the crime that you are allowing to happen there. 0.99

00:41:19.640 Well, it's our land.

00:41:22.020 We can, we can have the crime if we want to.

00:41:23.720 No, you can.

00:41:25.080 What do you mean?

00:41:27.700 Like, I don't get to do that in my house.

00:41:29.560 I don't get to just commit whatever crimes I want in my own home and then say, it's my, it's my home.

00:41:37.600 The police want to show up because they have a warrant and they know that crimes are committed in my house.

00:41:42.960 No, you're banned.

00:41:43.660 You're banished.

00:41:44.800 If you think that I'm committing crimes in here, then you're not allowed in.

00:41:47.460 That hurts my feelings, sir.

00:41:50.440 No one else is allowed to do that.

00:41:52.280 So this is just absurd.

00:41:53.720 The whole thing.

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00:42:52.620 The written word can take many forms and come in many genres.

00:42:57.220 And one of the most excruciating of these genres is the commencement speech.

00:43:01.220 These speeches are the worst of all worlds.

00:43:03.300 They're boring, trite, cliched, pointless, and also long.

00:43:06.480 The average commencement speech is so boring and so stale that it makes the average priest's homily at Sunday Mass seem positively compelling by comparison.

00:43:14.880 Which, as someone who has gone to Sunday Mass every week for 37 years, I can say from experience, extensive experience, is a difficult thing to pull off.

00:43:21.980 But every once in a while, there's an exception to this rule.

00:43:24.680 On very, very, very rare occasion, somebody will show up to a graduation ceremony to deliver a commencement speech that is actually not god-awful.

00:43:31.800 Sometimes it's not even bad.

00:43:33.240 On the rarest of occasions, it's even kind of good.

00:43:37.140 The comedian Jerry Seinfeld managed to accomplish this incredible feat at Duke University over the weekend.

00:43:41.660 And his speech got some attention from the news media, mainly because a few pro-Palestine students decided to walk out.

00:43:48.440 But that's not what made it noteworthy.

00:43:49.880 The noteworthy thing is that it was, as mentioned, a pretty good speech.

00:43:54.940 Like, not the greatest speech ever given, but pretty good, especially by the standards of commencement speeches.

00:44:00.180 He even had moments of real insight.

00:44:02.180 And there's one such moment in particular that I want to play here and reflect on.

00:44:06.980 Here it is.

00:44:07.280 Privilege is a word that has taken quite a beating lately.

00:44:13.220 Privilege today seems to be the worst thing you can have.

00:44:16.840 I would like to take a moment to defend it.

00:44:20.980 Again, a lot of you are thinking, I can't believe they invited this guy.

00:44:26.100 Too late.

00:44:26.820 I say, use your privilege.

00:44:30.580 You went to Duke.

00:44:31.640 That is an unbelievable privilege.

00:44:34.320 I now have an honorary doctorate, a humane letters degree from Duke University.

00:44:39.240 And if I can figure out a way to use that, I will.

00:44:42.980 I haven't figured anything out yet.

00:44:45.600 I think it's pretty much as useful in real life as this outfit I'm wearing.

00:44:50.060 But so what?

00:44:52.400 I'll take it.

00:44:53.800 My point is we're embarrassed about things we should be proud of and proud of things we should be embarrassed about.

00:44:59.760 Now, he goes on in that clip to talk about the problems with AI.

00:45:04.300 And then he offers some thoughts at the end about the value of work for its own sake.

00:45:09.160 And by the way, the portion, the AI portion, during that portion, he does a little bit about Frankenstein that I thought was amusing.

00:45:17.540 But it absolutely bombed in the crowd.

00:45:20.580 Here it is.

00:45:21.260 I'm not saying it's the funniest joke anyone's ever told, but it's pretty good.

00:45:46.340 It's pretty good.

00:45:47.480 And certainly as far as commencement speech jokes go, if that's where the bar is set, by that comparison, it's pure comedic brilliance.

00:45:53.980 But in any case, putting Frankenstein's dress code to the side, his point about privilege is important.

00:45:59.040 And to flesh it out a bit, I'd say that there are two problems with the way that we view privilege in our culture.

00:46:03.340 The first is that we often have a twisted view, of course, of what privilege is and who has it and how they got it.

00:46:10.040 The left will, of course, claim that white heterosexual males have the most privilege,

00:46:13.980 that we as a group are the epitome of privilege in all its forms.

00:46:17.280 But from a systemic perspective, we actually have the least privilege.

00:46:20.780 There are no policies that explicitly seek to help, favor, or in any way benefit white heterosexual males.

00:46:27.840 Every other group in existence is served by the system and by its policies in an explicit way.

00:46:33.200 Politicians will get up in front of cameras and they will specifically say that they want to help women and black people and Hispanics and Asians and gays and trans identified people and everything else.

00:46:42.320 But they'll pass laws and they'll put in place programs meant to do exactly that.

00:46:48.060 But no politician, even the supposedly conservative ones, will ever stand up and say that they want to specifically help straight white males.

00:46:56.560 They certainly will not attempt to pass any law or create any program or enact any policy for that purpose.

00:47:02.680 In fact, straight white males are so lacking in this sort of privilege that it's considered politically toxic to even say that you care about them.

00:47:09.740 It would be controversial if any public figure were to get up and even say, yeah, you know, and straight white males, they're people too.

00:47:18.520 We should also care about them.

00:47:21.020 Even that statement would be seen as highly provocative. 0.84

00:47:25.220 And yet this is the one group that is called the most privileged or even it is said they're the only privileged group, which is completely ludicrous and obviously backwards.

00:47:32.720 But there is another kind of privilege, the kind that Seinfeld was referring to, that anyone can benefit from.

00:47:40.000 There is privilege that virtually everyone in this country just by living here benefits from to some significant extent.

00:47:46.260 And this is privilege in the sense of a special honor or pleasure or benefit.

00:47:51.200 And these privileges can come two different ways.

00:47:53.300 One is by our own efforts.

00:47:55.520 If you work hard and succeed, you'll gain privileges.

00:47:59.340 A successful person has more of these kinds of privileges than an unsuccessful person.

00:48:04.400 But as Seinfeld pointed out, our culture has taught us to be embarrassed, even of these privileges, the kinds that we earn, that we work towards, that we toil for.

00:48:13.560 It is somehow shameful to go out and achieve something and then reap the benefits of that achievement.

00:48:18.980 By many people, it is judged as more desirable and more beneficial to be seen as a pitiable creature than as a successful and accomplished one.

00:48:28.860 This is a spiritual sickness rooted in the elevation of victimhood and the fetishization of suffering.

00:48:35.940 Now, and this is how accomplishment has become something that you're accused of rather than admired for.

00:48:42.020 People sneer at you and say, oh, you earned a lot of money and now you get to have nice things.

00:48:46.960 You're just one of those people.

00:48:49.680 And the successful person who also was raised in a culture that glamorizes victimhood will often respond by denying his own success or finding a way to make himself a victim too.

00:48:57.820 But to Seinfeld's point, what he should say is, yeah, you're damn right.

00:49:01.740 I succeeded.

00:49:02.360 I earned a lot of money.

00:49:03.300 That's great.

00:49:03.940 Success is amazing.

00:49:05.080 I'm a huge fan of it.

00:49:06.140 Highly recommend.

00:49:06.920 Thanks for noticing.

00:49:08.840 But there's another kind of privilege.

00:49:10.200 And this is the kind that people seem to be the most embarrassed of and ungrateful for and even angry about.

00:49:16.100 That's the privilege that we did not personally earn, but was earned by those who came before us.

00:49:22.280 The privilege of inheritance, which we all enjoy.

00:49:25.740 The privilege given to us by our ancestors.

00:49:28.120 The privilege to be Americans.

00:49:29.300 This is the privilege that we are supposed to apologize for and try to repair and rectify.

00:49:35.440 Of course, none of the people who seem to be embarrassed by this privilege actually want to forfeit it.

00:49:40.300 As always, they lack the courage of their perverse convictions.

00:49:42.920 They'd rather feast on the bounty provided for them while complaining about how it was provided and castigating those who provided it.

00:49:49.700 This is the spiritual and mental sickness of victimhood and its glorification manifested in its most toxic form.

00:49:57.520 And that's why it's a lot better to embrace our privilege, this kind of privilege.

00:50:02.280 Be proud of it.

00:50:03.820 And most of all, grateful for it.

00:50:05.500 Our ancestors suffered greatly to give us lives with comforts and luxuries that they would never know.

00:50:13.780 The least we can do is be happy about it.

00:50:18.120 And that's why all of those who have made privilege into a dirty word are today canceled.

00:50:24.780 That'll do it for the show today.

00:50:25.580 Thanks for watching.

00:50:26.100 Thanks for listening.

00:50:26.660 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:50:27.200 Have a great day.

00:50:28.260 Godspeed.

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00:50:30.000 Thank you.

00:50:31.100 Godspeed.

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00:50:34.000 I'm patient.

00:50:34.820 Go.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 15, 2024

Ep. 1368 - Ashley Biden's Diary Is Radioactive For The Biden Campaign

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