The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1376 - Trump's Showdown At The Libertarian Convention

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Donald Trump showed up to the Libertarian Party convention

00:00:03.480 where he proceeded to taunt them right to their faces.

00:00:05.920 It was a wonderful moment in the history of American politics.

00:00:08.140 Also, Robert De Niro holds a press conference outside of Trump's trial in New York for some

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00:00:12.900 It does not go well.

00:00:14.120 Police in Florida are on a manhunt to track down the dangerous criminal who left tire

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00:00:19.820 And one of the hit songs on TikTok right now is a cheerful ode to the meaninglessness

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00:01:42.780 When cable news channels announced the results of the 2016 election, for the most part, they

00:01:47.800 displayed the vote totals for the two major party candidates side-by-side, Hillary Clinton

00:01:52.260 and Donald Trump.

00:01:53.540 They simply left out the Libertarian Party ticket, which was led at the time by Gary Johnson.

00:01:58.120 It was as if Gary Johnson didn't exist.

00:02:00.240 Now, in a normal election year, that wouldn't be a very notable omission.

00:02:03.900 Outside of Ross Perot's run in 1992, third-party candidates don't exactly put up very big numbers

00:02:08.660 on election night, so they're not worth talking about.

00:02:10.660 And that's been especially true for Libertarian Party candidates, who are mostly known for

00:02:15.480 taking off their shirts at conventions and debating the merits of driver's licenses.

00:02:20.360 But in 2016, it was a very different story.

00:02:23.860 Libertarians had their best-ever showing in a presidential race, racking up nearly 4.5

00:02:27.560 million votes.

00:02:28.620 In 11 states, the Libertarian Party vote total exceeded the margin of victory, meaning that

00:02:33.780 you can make a case that Libertarians affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election

00:02:39.460 by siphoning votes from Hillary Clinton. 0.97

00:02:42.080 And you don't hear that discussed very often.

00:02:43.840 It's a lot easier for Democrats to blame Russia or whatever, but it's true. 1.00

00:02:48.960 And eight years later, once again, there are signs that Libertarians might have a relatively,

00:02:54.460 by their standards, strong showing in the upcoming election.

00:02:57.360 Polls show that most Americans are ambivalent about this presidential race, in part because

00:03:01.860 both candidates have already served as president.

00:03:03.900 So there's not as much enthusiasm as there normally is.

00:03:07.580 And that gives an opening to third-party candidates to attract some new support.

00:03:12.320 Both the Trump campaign and the Biden campaign understand this dynamic very well.

00:03:17.120 They're looking at the same poll numbers.

00:03:19.280 But only Trump has decided to appeal to these Libertarian voters directly.

00:03:23.040 So on Saturday night, Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party's national nominating convention in the

00:03:28.680 nation's capital, becoming the first former president to ever do so.

00:03:33.040 And the speech marked another moment of stark contrast between Trump and Joe Biden, who, the

00:03:38.700 latter of whom, would never walk into a venue where he knew that a large portion of the audience would

00:03:44.160 oppose him.

00:03:45.100 I mean, we're at the point where Joe Biden isn't even allowed to give press conferences anymore,

00:03:48.960 much less deliver speeches before a hostile crowd.

00:03:51.500 But Trump had no problem facing his detractors at the convention, who, as predicted, heckled

00:03:56.820 him at various points during his address.

00:03:59.060 That was the side of the story that the media ran with.

00:04:01.360 There were dozens of headlines about how Trump was booed and jeered at the convention.

00:04:05.200 But there were quite a few Trump supporters in attendance as well.

00:04:08.300 And there were several moments where the Libertarians in attendance were clearly on Trump's side.

00:04:13.060 That makes sense, because Trump didn't deliver his typical stump speech.

00:04:16.720 Instead, he tailored his remarks for a Libertarian audience, hitting topics like lower taxes,

00:04:21.100 cryptocurrency, reducing the size of the federal government, keeping America out of foreign

00:04:25.740 wars, and so on.

00:04:27.520 Trump even promised to commute the sentence of Libertarian hero Ross Ulbricht, the founder

00:04:32.460 of the defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road.

00:04:35.540 And Ulbricht is serving a life sentence for facilitating the sale of narcotics.

00:04:39.320 But Trump said he'd let him out of prison on day one of his second term.

00:04:43.060 And Trump made a host of other promises as well, including a vow to appoint Libertarians

00:04:47.680 to his cabinet.

00:04:49.040 Watch.

00:04:50.440 Why isn't Joe Biden here speaking to you tonight?

00:04:53.740 You know why?

00:04:55.420 Why isn't he?

00:04:56.620 Because he can't put two sentences together.

00:04:58.960 That's why he's done it.

00:05:02.040 And I am proud to be the only president in 70 years who started no new wars.

00:05:09.860 I took on the military industrial complex.

00:05:17.840 I broke the stranglehold on neocons and warmongers on the Republican Party.

00:05:24.380 And I will also stop Joe Biden's crusade to crush crypto.

00:05:28.680 We're going to stop it.

00:05:29.460 I will ensure that the future of crypto and the future of Bitcoin will be made in the

00:05:35.400 USA, not driven overseas.

00:05:38.100 I will support the right to self-custody to the nation's 50 million crypto holders.

00:05:44.440 I say this with your vote.

00:05:46.180 I will keep Elizabeth Warren and her goons away from your Bitcoin.

00:05:50.440 And I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency.

00:06:00.580 I will also immediately end the humanitarian disaster on our southern border.

00:06:05.880 We will end it quickly.

00:06:07.600 You cannot have capitalism and also have open borders because you will soon be turned into

00:06:13.200 a socialist nation, then a poor nation, and finally you will be a failed nation.

00:06:20.760 Now, as you can hear during some of those clips, the crowd reaction was mixed at some

00:06:24.980 points and very positive at other points.

00:06:27.400 It was a lot more interesting than the traditional stump speech.

00:06:30.500 And the response was unpredictable at various points.

00:06:34.040 But for their part, the media pretended that it was an unmitigated disaster.

00:06:37.880 NBC News reigned this headline, trial taking its toll, Trump booed and heckled at Libertarian

00:06:43.220 National Convention.

00:06:44.680 The Washington Post reported Trump loudly heckled at Libertarian National Convention.

00:06:48.440 Politico reported that Trump had been jeered and CNN said he was loudly booed and on and

00:06:53.060 on and on.

00:06:54.000 Now, as you just saw from the clips I played, this is obviously a total misrepresentation

00:06:58.080 of what happened.

00:06:58.700 The media desperately does not want the Trump campaign bringing in new voters from the Libertarian

00:07:03.920 side.

00:07:04.820 So they're lying.

00:07:05.660 The so-called defenders of democracy want to shame a presidential candidate for reaching

00:07:10.880 out to people who disagree with him, which is what you think political candidates are

00:07:15.360 supposed to do.

00:07:16.400 But the truth is that even when there was booing during Trump's speech, it didn't always relate

00:07:21.540 to what Trump was saying.

00:07:22.920 There was, as others have pointed out, the equivalent of a Jerry Springer episode occurring

00:07:27.560 in the crowd at one point as Trump spoke.

00:07:30.400 Apparently, a Libertarian delegate by the name of, and this is apparently the name he uses,

00:07:35.620 Starchild, was holding up a sign calling Trump a dictator, and then security dragged him away

00:07:41.260 for some reason.

00:07:42.440 And Starchild's associates were not pleased by that development.

00:07:47.200 Watch.

00:07:47.500 Starchild, Starchild, Starchild.

00:08:00.360 What were the limiting healthcare expenses?

00:08:03.740 Trump signed right to try, terminally impatient.

00:08:06.760 Starchild!

00:08:07.560 Starchild!

00:08:08.560 Starchild!

00:08:09.140 Starchild!

00:08:10.180 Starchild!

00:08:11.180 Starchild!

00:08:12.180 Starchild!

00:08:13.180 And with an attempt, all of the three Supreme Court justices in one presidential.

00:08:19.460 He's a delegate to our convention.

00:08:21.460 He's a delegate to our convention.

00:08:23.460 He's allowed to be here.

00:08:25.460 Trump canceled and defunded federal diversity, equity, and employment.

00:08:31.460 He's a delegate.

00:08:33.460 He's a delegate to the Libertarian National Convention.

00:08:37.460 He's allowed to be here.

00:08:39.460 Let military veterans receive federally-funded medical care in the private spaces.

00:08:45.460 These fascists don't get to kick out Starchild. 1.00

00:08:49.460 So you can hear at the end there, he says, 0.84

00:08:51.460 These fascists don't get to kick out Starchild. 1.00

00:08:53.460 Free Starchild.

00:08:55.460 Presumably that's Starchild's father, Star, but it's hard to say.

00:08:59.460 Meanwhile, Starchild's wig falls off as he's dragged away,

00:09:03.460 while a very confused Secret Service agent looks on.

00:09:06.460 And, you know, is this what Ludwig von Mises had in mind back in the day?

00:09:10.460 Probably not, but it's the state of Libertarian Party in America right now.

00:09:13.460 And if nothing else, it's entertaining.

00:09:15.460 During his speech, Trump apparently recognized that and had some fun at the party's expense.

00:09:20.460 Watch.

00:09:21.460 D-Roy Murdoch, who I've become friends with through his writings in the American Spectator and numerous other places,

00:09:29.460 wrote an article yesterday in which he mentions just some of the things that make me a Libertarian without even trying to be one.

00:09:37.460 That's nice.

00:09:39.460 D-Roy wrote,

00:09:43.460 Donald J. Trump will address the Libertarian Party and his national convention on Saturday.

00:09:49.460 The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for President of the United States.

00:09:55.460 Whoa.

00:09:56.460 That's nice.

00:09:58.460 Only if you want to win.

00:10:07.460 Only if you want to win.

00:10:08.460 Maybe you don't want to win.

00:10:09.460 Maybe you don't want to win.

00:10:11.460 Thank you, D-Roy.

00:10:14.460 Thank you, D. Roy. Thank you. No, only do that if you want to win. If you want to lose, don't do

00:10:20.800 that. Keep getting your 3% every four years. Now, again, this is something that Joe Biden

00:10:28.660 wouldn't have the balls or the brainpower to do. It certainly wasn't written in the teleprompter 0.98

00:10:33.820 to taunt libertarians to their faces at their own convention about the fact that pretty much

00:10:38.280 no one votes for them. That's not the kind of outreach that a campaign advisor would have come

00:10:42.960 up with. But it was honest and hilarious, which is why it works. And also a moment of, again,

00:10:49.860 just completely distinguishing Trump from Biden. If you could imagine Biden in that exact situation

00:10:56.640 with all that noise, getting heckled by some people, applauded by others, he would be, I mean,

00:11:04.300 he's flustered when he's in a room and everyone's on his side and they're being very quiet and

00:11:08.520 listening to him respectfully. Can you imagine how flustered you'd be in that situation?

00:11:12.960 But that was maybe one of my favorite Trump moments of all time, making fun of the libertarians

00:11:18.600 to their faces. That might actually be my favorite moment ever. Now, libertarians, except for

00:11:24.140 Starchild maybe, are under no illusions that they're going to win the White House. What Trump is doing

00:11:30.440 is something the left normally excels at, which is transactional politics. He's basically saying,

00:11:36.060 vote for me, even though you don't like me, and I'll give you more than the other party will.

00:11:39.680 So we can assume that Trump isn't passionate about Ross Ulbricht, for example, but he knows

00:11:46.200 the crowd is, so he says he'll get him out of prison. And in that context, it makes sense for

00:11:50.900 Trump to embrace the adversarial relationship that he has with the crowd. Trump knew going into the

00:11:55.400 convention that he wasn't going to win the Libertarian Party's nomination. Instead,

00:11:59.600 his plan was simply to present a viable alternative to the Libertarian Party's eventual nominee.

00:12:06.020 And in that respect, Trump's speech succeeded more than he probably even thought possible.

00:12:11.480 It now appears very likely that Trump will indeed win a very large share of the Libertarian Party vote.

00:12:16.060 And that's because on Sunday, after Trump was determined to be ineligible for their party's

00:12:20.600 nomination, Libertarians nominated an HR representative named Chase Oliver to be their

00:12:27.260 presidential nominee. Now, already right away, this is a win for Trump, because nobody in their

00:12:33.080 right mind would ever want an HR representative in the White House. It's probably the least sympathetic

00:12:38.520 and appealing profession for a politician that you can imagine. But it gets even worse once you start

00:12:43.880 looking at what Chase Oliver believes. For example, earlier this year, Oliver shot a video at the

00:12:49.500 southern border. Watch. First, if you ask people who live here or know the community here, people who

00:12:56.920 are coming to this country just want to work for the most part. They are not seeking to take our

00:13:01.200 welfare. And in fact, you're three times more likely to go into a welfare program as a native-born

00:13:06.180 citizen, as a migrant. And so the truth is, is a lot of these folks are actually working. They use a fake

00:13:11.240 social security number because they don't have documentation. So they pay into the system

00:13:14.380 and they never get those benefits back. And so when we're talking about immigration here, we need to

00:13:21.460 understand this, that these people are just trying to seek a better life. And when you see fences like

00:13:26.140 this, these kinds of things belong more in, you know, dystopian totalitarian states like East Germany that

00:13:33.000 would separate East and West Berlin. These walls prevent commerce. These walls prevent peaceful people

00:13:39.060 from being able to move freely about and spend their money or their labor or their time, either in

00:13:44.880 Mexico or here in the United States. And I think it's wrong to be denying anybody the ability to move

00:13:51.500 freely, unencumbered, without, you know, much difficulty. So according to Oliver, the United States has no

00:13:57.860 right to enforce its borders against anybody. We have to be open to illegal migrants, as well as hostile 1.00

00:14:03.240 invading armies, presumably, because otherwise we're basically erecting another Berlin wall.

00:14:07.840 Never mind the fact that the Berlin wall was intended to lock people inside and prevent them

00:14:12.760 from escaping, while the southern border wall is intended to keep foreigners from entering the

00:14:17.500 country illegally. That's not important to Chase Oliver. The point, in his mind, is that walls are

00:14:23.360 always bad for some reason, except presumably the walls that form his own home and keep intruders out.

00:14:29.340 Now, in that video, Oliver also lies and claims that illegals don't use more welfare benefits than

00:14:34.280 American citizens, which is just completely made up. As the Center for Immigration Studies has found, 0.96

00:14:38.740 quote, in 2018, 49 percent of households headed by all immigrants, naturalized citizens, legal

00:14:43.500 residents, and illegal residents used at least one major welfare program compared to 32 percent

00:14:48.820 of households headed by the native born. So this guy doesn't understand the impact of open borders

00:14:55.100 on the economy, but he wants to open borders anyway. And this is one of the least popular positions a

00:15:00.820 politician can have right now. But the Libertarian Party just picked a candidate who firmly believes

00:15:05.380 in unrestricted illegal migration. As it happens, Chase is also a big supporter of pretty much every

00:15:10.180 other left-wing agenda item. He doesn't want the government to prevent adults from getting naked in

00:15:14.940 front of kids, for instance. Watch. Right. You're not into it, Chase, but should it be legal to be

00:15:22.140 naked in front of children? I mean, it happens at every Mardi Gras. But no, I don't really think

00:15:28.780 you should be targeting kids with nudity. Does that make it okay?

00:15:31.080 But, you know, I think that ultimately a lot of states and cities have public indecency laws that

00:15:38.720 basically say you can be nude so long as you're not trying to be sexually suggestive. And, you know,

00:15:44.640 there's been naked bike rides that have happened over the last 50 years. It's not. And the main thing

00:15:48.340 I want to say is this is not just gay pride parades. That's the that's the biggest thing that I have a

00:15:53.380 problem with is that people are like, oh, gay pride parades are where there's public nudity. There's

00:15:57.100 public nudity in a lot of places. Right. But it just feels like you're up nearly every beach.

00:16:02.280 So Oliver goes on to say that he doesn't prefer to see nudity at pride parades where children are

00:16:06.600 attending, but only because it's not helpful to the message of the parade in his view. He doesn't

00:16:11.420 think it should be prohibited. And then the interviewer asks a few follow up questions about

00:16:15.900 drag shows for children. And once again, Oliver pretends that there's nothing sexual about these

00:16:20.300 shows. And we've all seen the footage of these shows and what kids are forced to watch. But

00:16:26.000 apparently Chase Oliver hasn't, or at least he's pretending he hasn't. Watch.

00:16:30.040 Why do you think that the drag queens want to read to children? 1.00

00:16:35.040 Because I think that they are performance artists and they want to be able to have

00:16:39.480 different levels of performance art. It's the same reason as why do the Wiggles sing to children?

00:16:43.860 Because they want to have a marketplace to kids. Chase, they want to be able to, they want to be able to.

00:16:48.800 The Wiggles is made for children. It's obviously family friendly material.

00:16:54.760 Drag queens are not what you call family friendly kind of entertainment. 1.00

00:16:59.800 But a man in a dress is what drag is, right? I mean, let's just be real. A man in a dress 1.00

00:17:05.880 or a woman in a suit is what drag is. That is not inherently sexual. There is inherently sexual 0.99

00:17:12.060 drag. And you're not going to convince me. I mean, I'm not going to defend otherwise. There

00:17:15.720 absolutely is. But there's also, there's also the ability to perform as a man in a wig without being

00:17:23.640 sexual. And that is what this is. I guarantee you, if you act like I said, I went for myself

00:17:29.160 because I was like, why are there people protesting this thing? I want to see what this drag queen 0.99

00:17:33.720 story time is myself. And I want to see what it is and nothing sexual was going on. And I think that

00:17:40.040 is the truth for 99% of this. And I think you would, would you take your kids to a drag drag queen 1.00

00:17:46.520 story hour or would you drop, would you, would you drop your, would you drop them off at a drag queen 0.62

00:17:52.200 story hour? And I don't think that's what happens. Most of the time, the parents are right there with

00:17:56.200 the kids, but I'm asking you, would you drop your kids off at a drag queen story hour and come back 0.76

00:18:02.280 an hour later? Uh, I mean, would you drop your kids off at a movie? Yeah. I think if there's

00:18:08.680 nothing inherently sexual going on. Yeah. So as the joke goes, the libertarians wanted Ron Paul,

00:18:15.800 but they got Ru Paul instead. But it's actually disturbing to listen to his reasoning. He compares

00:18:20.760 the Wiggles, the kids music group to grown men with a fetish for wearing women's clothing.

00:18:26.600 And he says he has no problem leaving children alone with these grown men. Parents, he says,

00:18:30.680 always know best. And if parents want to leave their children with these kinds of people,

00:18:35.640 then who are we to disagree? He says, his only defense is that these drag performers are engaging

00:18:41.320 in performance art, quote unquote. Therefore we have to accept it. Now, once again, it just so

00:18:46.520 happens that Chase's positions comport perfectly with mainstream democratic party orthodoxy.

00:18:51.400 There's plenty more where that came from. Chase Oliver also has voiced his support for banning

00:18:56.120 Donald Trump from social media, as well as for vaccine mandates, as long as they're implemented

00:19:00.220 by private companies and not the government. He also supports legislation that would overrule

00:19:04.220 the Supreme Court on abortion. So to recap, the Libertarian Party nominated a leftist,

00:19:09.500 essentially. They've picked a pride flag waving progressive who supports open borders,

00:19:13.180 has no problem with nudity at pride parades, loves seeing kids alone at drag queen story hours,

00:19:17.660 supports vaccine mandates for millions of Americans, and also supports abortions on the grounds of

00:19:21.740 bodily autonomy. This is pretty much the DNC's platform word for word. It's yet more evidence that

00:19:27.500 libertarians are just basically pot-scented Democrats. They fundamentally agree with Democrats 0.78

00:19:33.340 on most things because libertarians and leftists both subscribe to a consent-based morality where

00:19:39.340 anything is okay as long as the people involved choose to do it. And they both make exceptions even

00:19:45.900 to that flimsy moral framework when it comes to children who are often exposed to drag queens and public 1.00

00:19:50.780 nudity without their consent because they cannot consent because they're kids.

00:19:53.980 Now, Chase Oliver wouldn't be remotely out of place as a Democrat on San Francisco City Council.

00:20:01.980 Then again, of course, Republicans are also just Democrats driving the speed limit, to use Michael

00:20:06.220 Malice's phrase. Both parties agree on major issues like funding foreign wars, and they both tolerate

00:20:11.900 open borders. What this means is that there really is no real, true, significant political alternative

00:20:19.500 to leftism, at least not right now. Even the third party doesn't really provide it, as Chase Oliver

00:20:24.940 demonstrates. During his appearance on Sunday night at the, Saturday night rather, at the Libertarian

00:20:30.620 Convention, to the dismay of Starchild, Donald Trump didn't promise his audience everything they wanted.

00:20:37.340 But Trump did demonstrate that he's willing to break with the Republican Party establishment to win

00:20:41.500 over voters who have been ignored for decades. He's made it clear that he's willing to make promises that

00:20:46.620 Mitch McConnell won't be happy about in order to secure more votes and political power, which is what

00:20:52.060 the point is. Now, is that a tactic we normally see from the right? Absolutely not. But ultimately,

00:20:58.300 especially in this election year, it's what building a viable alternative to leftism will require.

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00:22:11.260 donation doubled. The Biden campaign held a press conference outside of the Trump trial in New York

00:22:16.380 today, and their featured speaker was, for some reason, Robert De Niro. This is the legal expert that

00:22:24.300 they brought in to pontificate on the subject. And we'll start with this. We have two clips here.

00:22:31.500 Well, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll start here as he, as Robert De Niro is, is struggling. He's got

00:22:37.020 something to say, but he's, he's struggling to get it out. Let's listen. Thank you.

00:22:46.220 I mean, this is really, even these people over here,

00:22:49.100 it's kind of crazy. It's really crazy. And this, this thing, Donald Trump has created this.

00:23:02.060 He should be telling them not to do this, but he's just,

00:23:05.260 he wants to sow total chaos, which he's succeeding in some areas and places to do.

00:23:19.100 Anyway, beside all that, this is my neighborhood, downtown New York City. I grew up here and feel at

00:23:26.940 home in these streets. I feel comfortable. Some great insights there. Wow. It's really crazy.

00:23:35.500 It's, it's kinda, it's kinda really crazy. It's just, it's just crazy. The whole thing. The whole

00:23:40.700 thing is crazy. Just a crazy thing. This thing is. So they brought, they brought Robert De Niro in for

00:23:47.420 that kind of analysis. Trump is sowing chaos, he says. Full on chaos. And meanwhile, there are like

00:23:55.980 two people shouting in the background. That's the chaos. Two people. That's assuming that the

00:24:01.100 people shouting are actually Trump supporters, which they could easily, it could be the other

00:24:05.100 way too, of course, as we know. But, but that's what he says chaos is. Now, did Robert De Niro ever

00:24:12.300 accuse the BLM rioters of sowing chaos? I'm guessing not. Burning and looting is in chaos. A guy shouting

00:24:20.540 on a street corner is. Okay then. Overall, you know, a great strategy by the Biden campaign, because

00:24:27.980 you've got Joe Biden, who's a geriatric president, a guy who rambles incoherently. And so they choose

00:24:34.060 as his spokesman at this press conference, a geriatric actor who also rambles incoherently.

00:24:42.300 Now, the question is why, I mean, why Robert De Niro? Like if for some reason you need, you feel

00:24:50.700 like you need to get a famous celebrity actor to show up at this thing, which I'm not sure why you

00:24:55.300 need that. Um, why him? You couldn't even get a young, like relevant celebrity. Instead, they got a

00:25:03.300 guy that nobody cares about. A guy who has only been in maybe two good movies in the last 30 years,

00:25:09.640 which this is sort of a side note, I guess, but it really is remarkable how far this guy, uh, has

00:25:16.260 fallen artistically. Like leaving aside the fact that he's a woke Looney Tune. I mean, putting that

00:25:21.980 aside entirely, he was once a, obviously a tremendous artist. He's, he's, he's made some of the greatest

00:25:29.800 films of all time. And then, uh, that just stopped suddenly and everything he's done for the last

00:25:37.100 three decades has been schlock, just awful with a few bright spots here and there. And, and those are

00:25:44.200 movies that he's not the lead role in. Um, and most of those movies are overrated too. So, uh, but this is

00:25:54.420 who they, they decided to bring in this, um, I was going to say his star has faded, but it's like

00:26:02.120 that it's faded. It's just doesn't exist anymore. Nobody, nobody cares. Like no one's even going to,

00:26:09.140 not only do we not care about Robert De Niro's political opinions, if he is the lead, if he has

00:26:14.800 the lead role in a movie, like no one even wants, no one is going to a theater to see a Robert De

00:26:18.960 De Niro movie because it's Robert De Niro. Um, but there was another great moment where, uh, De Niro

00:26:26.640 offered a, a dire warning to America. Um, you don't want to hear this because, well, this is pretty

00:26:35.340 shocking. Listen, under Trump, this kind of government will perish from the earth. I don't

00:26:44.020 mean to scare you. No, no, wait. Maybe I do mean to scare you. If Trump returns to the White

00:26:49.480 House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted and elections. Forget about

00:26:56.880 it. That's over. That's done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave.

00:27:04.900 He will never leave. You know that he will never leave.

00:27:11.640 This, this government will perish from the earth. He says, well, don't threaten us with a good time.

00:27:19.900 Uh, Robert, but nobody believes this. No one actually believes this. No one actually thinks

00:27:28.060 that Trump will bring an end to the government and install himself as a military dictator.

00:27:33.720 No one thinks that. Okay. It doesn't even, even January, January 6th. Okay. Of course,

00:27:44.700 Robert De Niro would tell us that the darkest day in American history, and it was an insurrection.

00:27:49.380 He'll say all this crazy stuff, but guess what? Trump left office, didn't he? He did. He didn't,

00:27:55.080 he's, he's not still there right now. They didn't have to send the military in to drag him out. He,

00:27:59.860 he did in fact leave. Um, how would that even work? How would it, how would it work for Trump to say,

00:28:09.000 you know, now, cause if he, if he wins again, then it's not like he's going to lose it. He's term

00:28:14.800 limited. So he's done. Um, and he's just going to say, I'm not going to leave. I'm going to remain

00:28:20.600 president. How's that work? And then everyone says, okay, well, I guess he's still president.

00:28:27.080 Like it literally can't happen. Um, and Trump also, as I've said many times,

00:28:35.720 he, Trump has shown no interest in being a dictator, leaving aside jokey comments here and there.

00:28:46.900 When you look at what he's actually done, he's shown no interest in being anything approaching

00:28:53.380 a dictator. If anything, he has been shy about wielding when he was in office, he was shy about

00:29:00.840 wielding the, the legitimate legal authority he actually had. I mean, this is someone who he didn't

00:29:08.200 even, he didn't even fire Fauci when he could have, he could have, he didn't. So that, that is the

00:29:15.260 actual criticism, the legitimate criticism of Trump's, uh, first term in office is that he,

00:29:23.200 he would not wield his power in pursuit of what his agenda is. The agenda that he, um,

00:29:29.280 was elected to enact. So it is, it's the opposite of what these people keep saying

00:29:33.820 and nobody believes this. People on the left that pretend to, but it's all performance. No one

00:29:41.480 actually thinks this. And, um, and by the way, you talk about incitement in, in reality,

00:29:50.920 when you say this kind of thing that he's, he's not going to ever leave, he's going to be a dictator.

00:29:55.380 It's going to be the end of life as we know it, the end of our freedoms, everything you are actually

00:30:01.980 trying to incite violence against Trump. You're, you're basically trying to encourage someone to

00:30:06.760 assassinate him. That's what you're doing. You are providing an argument for someone to go and do

00:30:13.500 that. And you're doing it intentionally. And I can't think of any other reason to say this sort of

00:30:19.480 thing because you don't believe it. The idea that he's going to bring an end to the government,

00:30:25.940 De Niro, as kooky as he is, doesn't actually believe that. Uh, the American public doesn't buy

00:30:31.640 it. It's, it's not politically persuasive because no one buys it. So why are you even saying it?

00:30:41.320 I can only come to one conclusion, 0.97

00:30:43.800 which is that the various, there's a very small smattering of people out there who are crazy

00:30:51.100 enough to actually think that's true. And, um, and you are trying to inspire them to take drastic action.

00:31:01.640 That's what it would seem to me. All right. There's a major manhunt happening in, uh, Florida right

00:31:08.360 now. Police are pursuing a dangerous criminal and, uh, just prepare yourself for this. Cause I'm going

00:31:16.340 to show you this, uh, video, the news clip and you will see, I'm warning now, just a warning ahead of

00:31:23.300 time. You're going to see footage of this terrible, violent crime happening. And it's very, very disturbing.

00:31:29.620 Uh, but here it is. Police are searching for the driver caught doing donuts, damaging the progressive

00:31:37.420 pride street mural. Just after 2 40 Wednesday morning, a vehicle is caught on a security camera

00:31:42.980 doing donuts, damaging a pride mural on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg. Tire marks still visible

00:31:49.100 on the street. My reaction is, uh, disappointment, not surprise. Um, I think anytime we're in a

00:31:55.600 situation where we have public displays of pride, authentic cells, people are going to have a reaction

00:32:02.040 to it. Dr. Byron Green College is president of St. Pete pride. He feels someone targeted the mural.

00:32:07.940 He says the mural is visual representation that everyone is welcomed here. The mural is really a

00:32:14.800 public love letter to the residents of St. Pete being able to collaborate with the city and other

00:32:20.520 pride organizations here in the city really feels like love and home. St. Pete police say over the past

00:32:26.760 week, two different vehicles have left tire marks on the mural. One where a driver accelerated on Friday,

00:32:33.000 May 17th at around 9 30 in the morning. The second incident that vehicle doing donuts officers do not

00:32:39.080 believe the two cases are connected. Mayor Ken Welch posted on Instagram saying in light of the recent

00:32:44.600 vandalism and vandalism targeting the progressive pride flag mural there is no place for hate in St. Petersburg.

00:32:50.600 St. Pete police say the person responsible faces a criminal mischief felony charge since it will cost

00:32:55.800 the city $1,100 to restore the mural in time for pride month festivities. A massive thank you to the city

00:33:03.800 and being able to jump into action as quickly as they did. Anyone with any information regarding the

00:33:08.360 driver in the blue vehicle is asked to contact St. Pete police.

00:33:14.280 Yes, anybody with information, uh, any information about this crime? I actually do have information

00:33:19.880 from what I understand based on my sources, the suspect has fled all the way down to, um,

00:33:24.760 Antarctica. So, and is now hiding deep in the interior of the, uh, of the, of the continent. So

00:33:30.520 what I would suggest is that you send as many officials down there as possible to find,

00:33:34.680 send the whole city government to go find this guy. Uh, this is the most important thing you could

00:33:38.520 do. Just go all the way down there and don't come back until you find him. That's my recommendation.

00:33:44.520 Because this is obviously a serious crime. I mean, tire marks, tire marks on a street of all places.

00:33:53.960 How could that happen? How could this happen? This is like, um, next thing you know,

00:33:59.000 you'll tell me that you found, uh, I don't know, traces of water droplets in a sink.

00:34:04.120 Anything's possible. Now I will admit, based on the video, the tire tracks do appear to have been

00:34:10.600 left rather intentionally in this case. Uh, the car is, is, uh, doing donuts or donuts,

00:34:17.800 according to the reporter who kept pronouncing it donuts. Um, so the car is doing donuts, but,

00:34:24.280 but, but, you know, do we know that he was doing the donuts in a targeted way? Like in a negative way?

00:34:30.360 Do we know that? Maybe they were donuts of celebration. Maybe he was trying to celebrate

00:34:37.480 the LGBT community. Maybe he saw the pride flag and was overwhelmed by feelings of, of, um, of

00:34:44.520 happiness and pride. And, and, and he just started driving in a circle in a state of ecstasy.

00:34:49.720 That's possible, isn't it? You know, I mean, maybe he was, maybe he was trying to add, maybe he was,

00:34:57.640 um, uh, trying to add a, a, a design to it. Maybe he had a, he had an idea cause they keep,

00:35:03.000 they keep updating the pride flag and adding weird, like new designs to it. Maybe this was him. This is 0.88

00:35:09.000 like street art. He's, he's, he's adding another design to make, you know what he's doing? He was

00:35:14.600 actually making the pride flag more inclusive. That was his objective. I think from what, from what I,

00:35:19.640 from what I understand based on the assumption I'm making right now, at least if I was that guy,

00:35:26.440 which I'm not saying I was, well, I wouldn't put it past me. Um, no, it wasn't me, but if I was that

00:35:35.160 guy, that's what I would, that would be my, that's what I would say. That would be my argument.

00:35:39.000 I'd say I was making the pride flag more inclusive. I, what are you talking about?

00:35:42.280 It, you know, and the circles represent, um,

00:35:49.160 I don't know, represent polysexuals or if they're not already on there,

00:35:56.040 there's gotta be some kind of sexual that isn't on there. Whatever's not on there is,

00:35:59.320 uh, that's what I was trying to do.

00:36:02.360 Paul polyamorous are the polyamorous people on the pride flag yet.

00:36:05.560 LGBTQIA. I don't think there's a P is there a P there's probably a B 0.94

00:36:12.360 I don't know. Uh, that's what I would say. Well, so you're, oh, so you're telling me that the

00:36:16.920 polyamorous community shouldn't be on the flag. Is that what you're saying? Who's committing the 1.00

00:36:22.680 hate crime here? Me or you? Maybe he wanted the, you know, the, maybe, maybe he was, he was,

00:36:30.840 maybe that, look, there are plenty of LGBT people who, uh, who sell tires for a living that are in 0.97

00:36:37.160 the tire selling community that are in the tire industry, you know, work at Goodyear or whatever.

00:36:42.520 And so maybe this was his way of rep, of representing those people,

00:36:47.240 gay people who sell tires by putting tire tracks on the pride flag. Think about it. 0.99

00:36:53.400 That makes a lot of sense now,

00:36:56.440 or maybe short, like God forbid, God forbid, maybe I, to me, it's, it's, it's a far fetch,

00:37:03.560 but maybe, maybe this is someone maybe who had a problem with the pride flag being painted

00:37:09.160 in the middle of the street. That's also, it's possible. It is possible. Anything's possible.

00:37:15.560 And I'm sure I'll be told that it's, it's not unreasonable to pursue this guy for criminal charges,

00:37:19.880 given that they aren't charging him with a hate crime, but with criminal mischief

00:37:24.120 and doing donuts on a public street is, uh, is illegal. And yeah, that's true.

00:37:31.640 But of course we all know that if this guy had done the same thing anywhere else on the road,

00:37:36.920 there wouldn't be any manhunt underway and police would not be looking for tips to catch the suspect.

00:37:43.240 In fact, this guy could have committed a crime against an actual person rather than a crosswalk.

00:37:49.720 And they wouldn't be putting the same effort into finding. He could have robbed someone. He could

00:37:54.040 have committed burglary. He could have stolen a car and, and there wouldn't be anything close to the

00:37:59.880 same effort and the same emphasis on catching this guy. And we all know that. And that's the case in

00:38:05.800 every city in the country. Like I had my own, this is not in that, but in Nashville, I had my own car

00:38:11.400 stolen a couple of years ago and, uh, and the people that stole it crashed into a light pole.

00:38:18.200 And the cops basically told me up front, like, yeah, we're probably not going to catch the guy.

00:38:22.680 We're not going to, we're probably not going to catch them. And, uh, and I never heard another

00:38:27.160 word about it from the cops ever again. It's like, it never happened. So it, because that's the kind of

00:38:32.840 thing that gets put to the bottom of the stack and, um, stays there forever. It's just not

00:38:40.920 emphasized. So somebody leaving tire tracks on the streets under normal circumstances,

00:38:47.880 that wouldn't even be at the bottom of the stack. That's not even in the stack.

00:38:52.280 Okay. That's in the, the circular filing bin, as the saying goes, um, this is not a crime that anyone

00:38:58.600 would care about or any resources would be spent on pursuing ever under any circumstance, unless

00:39:05.480 there happened to be an obnoxious rainbow flag painted on that spot. And then they treat it like 0.87

00:39:11.160 they're hunting for bin Laden, right? Because, uh, as that one guy said, the pride flag is a love letter

00:39:17.960 to the gay people of the city. Well, here's a question. Should the city government be sending love

00:39:25.080 letters to any community? Is that what the government should be doing? Should taxpayers

00:39:31.960 be funding love letters? But of course we know that the pride flag is the symbol of the state religion.

00:39:38.920 That's what's really going on here. Uh, the guy in the truck committed a, an act of blasphemy 0.64

00:39:43.560 against a revered religious symbol. And that's why they're pursuing. All right. Um,

00:39:51.160 um, so the account end wokeness posted this video originally from NYU, actually NYU Gallatin

00:39:59.000 featuring some graduates telling us what they studied. And, um, that, that is, you know,

00:40:05.560 what did they spend many thousands and thousands of dollars on, uh, thousands of dollars they don't have.

00:40:11.640 And they had some very interesting answers. Let's listen. My name is Jacob and my concentration is

00:40:18.600 environmental science and sustainable business. Hi, my name is Lex and my concentration is the

00:40:23.800 performance of self. Hi, I'm Gabrielle. My concentration is creative direction production

00:40:28.360 and there to see the arts, um, performance and written work. Hi, my name is Karina Gomez

00:40:34.280 and my concentration is in journalism and Latin American studies with an emphasis in human rights,

00:40:40.120 collective memory, and political violence. Hi, my name is Stephanie Lee and I studied the sociology

00:40:46.280 of environmental communication. Hi, my name is Reed and I study music business and gender studies.

00:40:51.800 Hi, my name is Dominique and I studied care politics with a minor in disability studies.

00:40:57.480 My name is Elliot Wright and my concentration is art as a social mechanism.

00:41:01.800 Hi, I'm Georgia and my concentration is dramatic writing and theatrical adaptation.

00:41:06.520 My name is Noah Loyacano and my concentration is equilibrium or negotiated paradox.

00:41:12.600 Hi, my name is Sophie Lopez and my concentration is titled Queering and Decolonizing Theater Practice.

00:41:19.000 Hi, my name is Maya and my concentration is journalism, postcolonial studies and psychoanalysis.

00:41:25.480 Hi, I'm Eloise. I'm graduating with a concentration in philosophy of science and theater.

00:41:30.520 My name is Amina and my concentration is titled The Criminal Mind, which is surrounded on criminology

00:41:36.200 and applied psychology. Hi, my name is Juliana. My concentration is international business

00:41:41.960 and fashion through sustainable development. Yay!

00:41:47.240 There you go. Hi, my name is Rainbow Skylight and my concentration is the queerification of 0.99

00:41:54.040 decolonization practices among lesbian dog walkers in the vegetarian community from 1972 to 1975 0.89

00:42:04.360 on Jupiter. And the funny thing is that, you know, I can't even like make fun of these people in a way

00:42:09.880 that makes them sound any more ridiculous than they already sound on their own. And just to be clear here, 0.75

00:42:14.360 the issue is not that these subjects are obscure. There's plenty of value in learning about obscure

00:42:20.760 subjects. It's possible that a subject is obscure, but shouldn't be. You know, there are lots of

00:42:25.080 fascinating and important things that are obscure these days and their obscurity is not really a

00:42:30.680 reflection of the subject so much as a reflection of our society and what it values. So obscurity is

00:42:35.960 not the problem. The problem is that this stuff is totally fake. It's just completely fake and meaningless.

00:42:42.760 Disability studies? That's not anything. It's not obscure. It's nothing. It's not a real subject. It's not a real area of academic inquiry.

00:42:56.680 Queering and decolonizing theater practice? Again, that's fake. Doesn't mean anything. Performance of self? Again, meaningless.

00:43:05.160 And here's another important stipulation. You know, you'll hear that a lot of college students,

00:43:11.480 especially those college students especially, but so many others, you'll hear that they're spending their

00:43:18.200 money on or their parents' money earning an education that's useless, you know, that can't be used. But we

00:43:26.760 should be clear about what we mean by that. Because useless doesn't just mean that they won't be able to find

00:43:34.280 a job with that degree. Although that is also the case. Doesn't matter how woke our society becomes,

00:43:41.480 there will never be very many job openings for experts in how to decolonize theater practices,

00:43:48.440 okay? That's just, you know, you could become a DEI consultant with that, and that's pretty much it.

00:43:53.880 There's nothing else for you to do. Or you can go and teach that same useful subject. Those are your two

00:44:01.880 options. We have nothing to do with you. There's nothing for you to do.

00:44:10.760 And most jobs, when it comes down to it, they can't exist unless there's some kind of function.

00:44:18.120 There's some sort of justification for its existence, unless it's DEI or in academia.

00:44:28.520 Or I suppose, well, I suppose also the federal government, which opens up many more opportunities

00:44:35.240 as well. So that's a third area. So a few people with these kinds of degrees will get jobs in one

00:44:41.720 of those three areas. But everybody else, you're really in trouble. But it's not just about the job.

00:44:49.720 Education is supposed to be useful in a deeper way. It's supposed to make you

00:44:53.240 a better, more well-rounded, more interesting person. That's what education is supposed to do.

00:45:01.400 But this stuff does not improve you as a person or make you more interesting or more intelligent. In fact,

00:45:06.600 it has the opposite effect, very much so. You'll come out dumber and shallower and less insightful, 0.99

00:45:12.120 less wise, less interesting than you already were when you went in. 0.99

00:45:15.640 So it's worse than useless, is what this kind of stuff is.

00:45:24.760 You know the saying, blood is thicker than water? Well, this week on Judged, we find out the ink

00:45:29.640 on a lease agreement is more powerful than both of those things. These siblings bring their case to

00:45:34.840 my courtroom because, let's face it, if I can't mend the broken family bonds, nobody can. They're totally

00:45:40.520 screwed. Something else that's extremely difficult is working with magicians. Are they actually standing 1.00

00:45:44.760 there? Is it an illusion? What words are deception? What are truth? It's these kinds of issues that

00:45:50.360 only yours truly, the most honorable judge of the highest court in the land, can solve.

00:45:54.360 Watch the new episode of Judged by Matt Walsh exclusively on Daily Wire Plus to see how a

00:45:57.800 lease agreement breaks up two sisters and what happens when a magician breaks the sacred magician's

00:46:02.920 code of conduct. An all-new episode of Judged is streaming now on Daily Wire Plus.

00:46:07.560 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:46:15.400 One of the hit songs on social media right now, especially TikTok, of course, is a nihilistic ode

00:46:20.280 to the supposedly meaningless nature of our empty and pointless lives. I know you're probably thinking,

00:46:26.040 wait, isn't that literally every pop song that's been made over the past 35 years? And yes, you're right.

00:46:30.520 The difference is that this song is much more explicit, and I would even say, arguably, perhaps,

00:46:35.080 eloquent in its nihilism. The song is from TikTok singer Ian McConnell, and it was posted,

00:46:41.400 or it seems posted again, actually, only a week ago. It already has nearly two million views,

00:46:45.240 tens of thousands of shares, and thousands of very supportive comments. This is in spite of the fact,

00:46:51.640 or probably more because of the fact, that it sounds like a very manic depressive episode of

00:46:57.320 High School Musical. Listen.

00:47:00.920 I'm pretty sure that life doesn't have a meaning. And if there's a God, then he doesn't look like me.

00:47:08.520 And I'm just a member of the current apex species. But there'll be another when the humans go extinct.

00:47:16.760 We've only been around 200,000 years of 13 and a half billion years. How can we think the pinnacle is

00:47:23.560 here? Isn't that arrogant? There's a couple hundred billion trillion suns, and we act like it all was

00:47:29.560 made for us. There ain't no way that we're the only ones. I'm not important, and neither are you.

00:47:38.440 So let's do whatever we want to do. Bask in our cosmic insignificance. So got this blip we're living in,

00:47:47.320 because nothing matters anyway. Isn't that great?

00:47:52.760 So there you go. It's a great song if you want to lament your very existence in a cheerful kind of

00:47:57.720 way. As I said, the song seems to have struck a chord on social media. That's no surprise as

00:48:01.800 nihilism is the dominant worldview in our culture. The belief that life has no inherent meaning is

00:48:07.080 shared by millions of people in our country, especially in the younger generations.

00:48:09.800 Now, in fact, anyone we would call a leftist is a nihilist by definition, and many more that we

00:48:16.680 would not call leftists are also nihilists, whether they know it or not. Recently, a new twist on this

00:48:21.320 belief system has emerged, although like most new things, it's not really new at all. It's called

00:48:26.540 optimistic nihilism. And TikTok is full of explainers on this particular brand of nihilism, a brand that

00:48:32.600 already has its theme song, as we just heard. So here's this random woman explaining what optimistic 0.99

00:48:38.220 nihilism is. Listen. Have you ever heard of the phrase optimistic nihilism? No? Well, let me rewind

00:48:46.140 just a little bit. Nihilism itself is the belief that nothing has any meaning in this life. Life is

00:48:51.880 meaningless and without purpose. Honestly, it's like a little bit of a buzzkill, but when weren't

00:48:56.040 we thinking that in 2020? Now, optimistic nihilism is the belief that if nothing matters, well, then

00:49:01.360 nothing matters. And if nothing matters, then it doesn't matter what you should or shouldn't wear.

00:49:06.420 You wear whatever the f*** you want. If nothing matters, then f*** whatever those bullies said to 0.99

00:49:11.180 you in high school. It doesn't matter. And if nothing matters, why do we care what society thinks 1.00

00:49:16.380 or tells us what we should be doing? Why does it matter what our bosses, our enemies, and our family

00:49:20.420 thinks? The only thing that matters is you. And when I stumbled upon this new way of thinking, I felt

00:49:26.040 freed. As someone with chronic people-pleasing problems, as well as chronic anxiety, this has been a

00:49:30.860 hard one to learn, but it has been the best thing for me. Now, I'm not really sure why we have to

00:49:36.580 throw out all meaning, the very concept of meaning itself, in order to arrive at the conclusion that

00:49:41.600 the opinions of bullies in high school don't matter. I'd arrived at that conclusion about pretty much

00:49:47.300 everyone in high school while I was in high school, and I didn't need to drain the universe of all meaning

00:49:52.620 to do it. But there's something else she said there that may have caught your ear even more. She said,

00:49:58.600 nothing matters except you. Now, that's one hell of a qualifier. But the thing is, nothing matters

00:50:06.340 except me is the mantra of a narcissist. Are narcissism and nihilism the same thing? That would

00:50:13.000 certainly explain why this worldview is so popular, but we'll return to that point in a moment. The first

00:50:17.100 and foremost problem with nihilism is that it's not true. In fact, the universe was made with a

00:50:22.540 purpose in mind, and each of us individually were made with purpose by an all-loving and powerful

00:50:26.740 God who imbues every moment of our lives with more meaning than we could ever comprehend.

00:50:31.400 Life is bursting with meaning. There is meaning everywhere you look and everywhere you don't look.

00:50:37.520 Nothing is meaningless. Everything you do or say brings you closer to God or farther away, and so

00:50:43.800 you have never done or said anything that's truly meaningless. So the depressed high school

00:50:50.300 musical guy says that our lives are meaningless because humans will one day go extinct and haven't

00:50:55.380 been on Earth all that long in the grand scheme, and Earth itself is just one planet orbiting one

00:51:00.160 sun out of the trillions of other planets orbiting trillions of other suns. But even taking his own

00:51:05.040 argument on its own terms, it doesn't make any sense. Why should the fact that we live for so short a

00:51:11.700 time on such tiny a planet in one solar system out of so many countless solar systems mean that our lives

00:51:16.960 aren't important and don't have meaning? Why shouldn't it mean it precisely the opposite?

00:51:22.980 Life is short. All the more reason to cherish it deeply. Humanity itself will one day go extinct. All the

00:51:28.360 more miraculous that you got to exist before it does. The universe is incomprehensibly vast and awe-inspiring.

00:51:35.500 All the more amazing is life then, and the fact that you get to be a part of it.

00:51:39.320 I've never looked up at the sky at night and felt anything like nihilism. To me, that's like

00:51:46.240 looking at a sunset over the ocean and feeling disgust, or looking at a newborn baby and feeling

00:51:51.740 hatred. Like it's a sickness to feel that way. Something is deeply wrong inside of you. Now, of

00:51:58.980 course, we know that a horrifying number of people have felt something like that last emotion about the

00:52:03.520 baby. So perhaps it is no surprise that the night sky makes them feel like life is pointless.

00:52:09.320 When it should inspire them in the opposite direction. But nihilism's falsehood is not even

00:52:15.860 really its biggest problem. Its biggest problem is its dishonesty. You know, it's one thing to be

00:52:21.440 false. It's another thing to lack the integrity to be honestly false. After all, I guarantee that

00:52:28.920 every single one of these TikTok nihilists, especially the optimistic variety, would very earnestly insist

00:52:35.200 that racism is a major problem. And homophobia is a terrible thing. And quote unquote, transphobia

00:52:41.880 is an epidemic. And the patriarchy must be smashed and all the rest of it. But if they were really

00:52:47.440 nihilists and really have the courage of their own convictions, they would happily say that racism,

00:52:52.140 homophobia, et cetera, don't matter any more than life itself matters. And if life doesn't matter,

00:52:57.900 then who cares about racism? White supremacists could stage a violent overthrow of the country 0.99

00:53:02.700 and enslave every racial minority in existence, and it wouldn't matter. Because nothing matters. 0.99

00:53:08.560 If nothing matters, then nothing matters. You cannot say that nothing matters and then turn around and

00:53:13.780 condemn any form of bigotry, real or imagined, or engage in any kind of activism at all of any sort.

00:53:20.580 Because condemnations and exhortations all rest on the assumption that stuff matters. And if no stuff

00:53:29.040 matters, then there is nothing to condemn and no reason to exhort anyone to do anything or not do

00:53:34.580 anything. Nothing matters, remember? I wonder, what if one of these supposed nihilists heard a conversation

00:53:42.780 like this playing out in the world? Person A says, black people are oppressed in this country. 0.91

00:53:48.960 Person B says, eh, doesn't matter. Person A says, what do you mean? Black people are suffering. 0.78

00:53:56.160 Person B says, yeah, but black people don't matter. Now, the nihilist must agree with person B. 1.00

00:54:02.720 You're not a nihilist if you don't agree. So if you claim to be a nihilist, you must wholeheartedly

00:54:07.980 concur with person B's conclusions. And yet we all know that the shirtless ginger guy with the keyboard

00:54:13.840 sure as hell isn't making a cheerful little tune called black people don't matter anytime soon, 0.99

00:54:19.900 or gay people don't matter, or trans people don't matter. Even though he allegedly believes none of 0.99

00:54:25.120 these people matter. Their lives don't matter at all. Like at all. They could not exist. They could

00:54:30.500 all cease to exist. Even a genocide that wiped all of them out wouldn't matter at all in the slightest.

00:54:36.800 A genocide of a million people is like stepping on a bug. That's the true nihilistic viewpoint.

00:54:44.400 If you don't have that viewpoint, you're not really a nihilist. A real nihilist would have

00:54:48.760 to shrug his shoulders at all that. It doesn't matter. They don't matter. Nothing matters. Who

00:54:52.740 cares? And yet these nihilists certainly would not shrug their shoulders at that. And I'm not saying

00:54:58.340 they should. I happen to actually oppose genocide and persecution and slavery and bigotry. But I'm

00:55:05.280 allowed to oppose those things because I think human beings do matter. I think they have inherent

00:55:10.980 worth and dignity. That's the fundamental basis for having any opinion about how any human being

00:55:16.960 is treated, including yourself. And that brings us to the greatest contradiction here of all, which

00:55:21.500 was illustrated by that nothing matters except you line. Because if nothing matters, then you don't

00:55:29.380 matter either. And if you don't matter, then nothing that happens to you matters. You have no reason to

00:55:35.660 ever feel offended, insulted, persecuted. You shouldn't really care if you're mistreated. You

00:55:41.260 shouldn't care if your rights are taken away. In fact, you should recognize that you don't really

00:55:45.100 have any rights to begin with, at least not any rights that should matter to anyone, because nothing

00:55:48.460 matters. Yet the very act of making a song to promote nihilism is a refutation of nihilism. You can't

00:55:56.140 even argue for it without refuting it. Because if nihilism is true, then it also doesn't matter

00:56:02.120 whether anyone knows that it's true. Like, taking your time to convince anyone to believe it is

00:56:08.280 absurd. It's totally meaningless. Putting your energy into anything at all under nihilism is absurd, but

00:56:17.060 putting your energy into the pursuit of advancing any sort of idea is especially absurd. Indeed, if there

00:56:25.280 can be any sin in this nihilistic worldview, the only sin is to care whether anyone else is a

00:56:31.400 nihilist. Because if nothing matters, then what could possibly matter less than convincing other

00:56:37.780 people that nothing matters? But hardly anyone actually believes that nothing matters. The nihilist

00:56:44.380 is, in the end, just a loser, disappointed in his own life, too lazy to pursue anything better, 0.99

00:56:51.120 and so narcissistic that he seeks to make himself feel better by pulling everyone else down into 0.99

00:56:56.260 his misery alongside him. That's what nihilism really is. And that's why nihilists, optimistic or not,

00:57:05.260 are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:57:09.500 Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:57:11.620 Mm-hmm.

00:57:11.880 Bye.

00:57:13.320 Bye.

00:57:13.720 Bye.

00:57:14.560 Bye.

00:57:15.000 Bye.

00:57:15.340 Bye.

00:57:15.500 Bye.

00:57:16.000 Bye.

00:57:16.580 Bye.

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00:57:27.360 Bye.

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00:57:38.960 näm earner.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 28, 2024

Ep. 1376 - Trump's Showdown At The Libertarian Convention

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