The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1393 - Christian Conservatives Proven Right Once Again As Abstinence 'Trend' Gains Popularity

00:00:00.300 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media has discovered a hot new trend. It's called abstinence.

00:00:04.520 For years, the left mocked Christian conservatives for promoting abstinence. Now they're coming

00:00:08.080 around, but for all the wrong reasons, I'm afraid. Also, Jamal Bowman and AOC team up for the cringiest

00:00:13.120 campaign rally of all time. Donald Trump made two campaign promises over the weekend, one very good

00:00:17.940 and one very bad. We'll take a look at both. And the wife of an NFL quarterback says that she

00:00:21.680 convinced her now husband to date her by hooking up with his backup. Why would any wife share a 0.99

00:00:26.500 story like that? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:45.140 Here's a side of the Clinton administration you probably don't remember. Just a few months into

00:01:49.620 Bill Clinton's second term, the federal government announced a major initiative to fund abstinence-only

00:01:54.900 sex education. As the LA Times reported back in March of 1997, Clinton's administration allocated 0.99

00:02:00.640 hundreds of millions of dollars to programs teaching that sex before marriage is, quote,

00:02:05.280 likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects. The Clinton-funded programs also taught that

00:02:10.360 abstinence from premarital sex is, quote, the expected standard of human behavior. So I'll say

00:02:16.380 that again. The Clinton administration said that abstaining from sex before marriage is the expected

00:02:20.660 standard of human behavior. Now, that may sound surprising now for obvious reasons. This was not

00:02:27.600 exactly an administration that led by example on that front or any other front, frankly. But at the

00:02:33.820 time, especially in the pre-Lewinsky period, it wasn't a particularly shocking move. From Reagan's

00:02:39.180 administration onward, there had been significant bipartisan support in Washington for teaching

00:02:43.120 young people to wait until marriage. Democrats and Republicans agreed on this point, which is that 0.98

00:02:48.640 hookup culture spreads disease and it's bad and it ultimately makes people unhappy. This was not

00:02:56.080 especially controversial, really. As recently as 2010, CNN was running segments about how abstinence

00:03:01.360 education was effective. Watch. What these researchers did is they took a group of sixth and seventh

00:03:08.520 graders, African-American living in urban areas. And they gave them sort of more traditional safe

00:03:15.020 sex messages, gave one group safe sex messages, and then gave the other group more of an abstinence

00:03:20.540 message. And then they followed up for two years to see who had sex. So take a look at these numbers.

00:03:25.940 These are really pretty stunning. The group that was told, here's how to have safe sex. Well, 52 percent of 0.68

00:03:32.760 those ended up having sex in the two-year follow-up period, but only 33 percent of the abstinence

00:03:39.260 only group ended up having sex. Man, it's actually not stunning at all. That's exactly the results that

00:03:46.040 you would expect. But even so, the point is that this was a positive report about abstinence

00:03:54.420 education back in 2010 on CNN. And you just won't find many reports like that on CNN anymore. Do a

00:04:02.700 quick search on their website, and you'll learn that abstinence only education now is not evidence

00:04:08.040 based, quote unquote. The science has shifted, apparently, as we've seen so often. Indeed,

00:04:13.640 around the year that that report aired in 2010, federal funding for abstinence only education began

00:04:18.280 to wane under the Obama administration. Donald Trump brought it back to an extent. Then Biden limited

00:04:23.860 the funding again, though not as much as many leftists were hoping. Throughout all of this

00:04:28.460 back and forth, pretty much the only group that has remained consistent on this issue has been

00:04:35.540 Christian conservatives. Because we have warned for decades that hookup culture will create many 0.99

00:04:41.960 catastrophic problems in society. We promoted chastity and abstinence before marriage as the only

00:04:47.780 workable alternative. And that's a position that we took based on scripture, based on thousands

00:04:53.860 of years of human history, based on plain old common sense. And for that, we were, of course,

00:05:00.100 dismissed and mocked as out of touch and prudish and archaic and old-fashioned again and again over

00:05:05.600 the past several decades, as we all know. What's interesting about all this mockery is that now,

00:05:11.900 at long last, many of the same people who dismiss Christian conservatives are now coming around to

00:05:17.340 basically agreeing with us about this. They're conceding that abstinence until marriage makes

00:05:23.100 sense, actually. The catch is that, as you would expect, they are coming to this conclusion

00:05:28.320 for all the wrong reasons. New York Magazine's The Cut just published an article outlining

00:05:34.200 the new pro-abstinence trend that's now so popular among young people. It's entitled,

00:05:39.160 A Summer Without Sex. Celibacy is All the Rage Right Now. The Cut reports, quote,

00:05:45.520 Today, celebrities including Khloe Kardashian, Lenny Kravitz, Julia Fox, Kate Hudson, and Tiffany

00:05:49.800 Haddish have touted the benefits of celibacy. Melissa Febos is coming out with another memoir

00:05:55.220 next year called The Dry Season, about a year of conscious celibacy. Other women are celebrating 0.98

00:06:00.960 their dry seasons, too, even to the point of competitiveness. The report continues, quote,

00:06:05.860 This great abstaining comes amid any number of moral panics about sex, mainly related to young

00:06:10.780 people. They're texting instead of hooking up. They're getting off the apps. They're foregoing

00:06:14.360 marriage and children. They're de-emphasizing traditional romance and instead prioritizing

00:06:18.300 platonic friendships like codependent but chaste Victorian pen pals. Now, among the reasons for

00:06:24.560 this great abstaining, according to The Cut, is that many women all over the world are drawing 0.56

00:06:29.280 inspiration from the, quote, radical feminist South Korean 4B movement. And women who participate in

00:06:35.780 this 4B movement promise not to date men, not to have sex with men, not to give birth, not to get 1.00

00:06:41.200 married. And of course, attitudes like this are only making South Korea's population crisis even

00:06:46.020 worse. The country's birth rate is well below replacement level already and dropping fast. That's not going to

00:06:52.060 improve if nobody marries or has children. But the media is presenting this as some kind of feminist 1.00

00:06:56.860 victory for South Korea, even though South Korea may not exist for very long if this keeps up. South Korea's 0.83

00:07:02.980 great achievement is embracing its own extinction, we're told. Now, take this article from Vogue,

00:07:08.520 for example. They just came out with a similar piece praising women for their newfound love of

00:07:13.920 celibacy. They wrote, quote, is sex-free living going to be a thing? Could it actually be liberating to

00:07:20.780 take the sex out of every equation? Are we entering a second wave of sexual emancipation in which one can

00:07:27.060 simply opt out altogether? Maybe this summer can be a mini break from the near constant awareness of

00:07:32.920 our own sexuality, of how or whether we attract a vacation from transmitting and receiving sexual

00:07:38.620 triggers. Will more of us be looking back on 2024 as the summer I turned sexless? No more afternoon

00:07:45.200 delights, no more holiday romances, a veritable celibacy in the city. Now, it's kind of amazing to see

00:07:52.220 Vogue discover that, in fact, women can opt out of having random sex with strangers. This is a whole

00:07:59.160 new level of sexual emancipation, they say. No one's ever raised this possibility before. No one has

00:08:05.660 ever suggested that it's possible, that you can actually just not give yourself away to any random

00:08:11.180 dude who vaguely shows interest. This is breaking news, courtesy of Vogue magazine. Women have free will. 1.00

00:08:17.360 Can you believe it? Several other outlets have been reporting on the same trend for more than a year

00:08:23.620 now in an equally shocked tone. The Independent, for example, wrote last year that, quote,

00:08:29.080 celibacy has become all the rage among young people. And according to The Independent, quote,

00:08:33.880 in recent years, self-love has been parodied as much as embraced, but the shift towards celibacy

00:08:39.520 seems to have come from it. The benefits from a period of celibacy are endless because ultimately it's

00:08:44.780 about self-development. And that's a practice that will always provide some sort of enlightenment,

00:08:49.180 regardless of your relationship status. Imagine that. The benefits from a period of celibacy are

00:08:54.840 endless. Again, across virtually all of the corporate press, this is being presented as something that's

00:09:01.580 just now being discovered. The Guardian, to give another example, reports that, quote,

00:09:06.680 sex-positive feminism had its moment, and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy. 0.95

00:09:13.920 That's quite a headline from The Guardian, considering it was just a decade ago that The

00:09:17.160 Guardian was running articles with titles like this, quote, the moral case for sex before marriage.

00:09:24.260 And reversals like this are everywhere all of a sudden. In recent years, outlets like The New York

00:09:28.900 Times, The Sunday Times, and many others have published lengthy first-hand op-eds written by authors who have

00:09:34.600 committed to celibacy. In particular, The Sunday Times declared that, quote, celibacy has had a reboot with

00:09:39.780 more people abstaining from sex than ever. And it's important to note, if it wasn't clear already, that in

00:09:45.740 virtually all of these cases, we're talking about unmarried people abstaining from sex, abstaining from 0.73

00:09:52.040 hookup culture, in other words. So this is the reboot, the trend, the bright new idea that the media is

00:09:58.440 suddenly celebrating. And the trend is not just a media creation, by the way. Researchers at the

00:10:03.780 University of Michigan have been tracking the sexual behavior of high school graduates for the past two

00:10:08.320 decades, going back to 2004. And they found that among 21 to 30-year-old males, abstinence rose

00:10:14.400 significantly between 2008 and 2020, from 14.4% to 23.5%, an increase of nearly two-thirds. Among females of the

00:10:22.800 same age, abstinence also rose, though by less, rising from 12.8% in 2008 to 16.5% in 2020, an

00:10:30.320 increase of just over a quarter. Young adult males now have a considerably higher rate of abstinence

00:10:34.920 than young adult females. Now, there are obviously many factors that might explain this change. A lot

00:10:42.280 of it is likely attributable to so-called involuntary celibacy. We know that even as celibacy is becoming

00:10:48.000 more common, chastity is not exactly nearly as popular. The proliferation of internet porn makes

00:10:55.300 that pretty clear. So what's happening here in many cases, it seems reasonable to conclude,

00:11:01.620 is that many single young people have given up on finding love and commitment. They've despaired of

00:11:08.740 ever forming any real romantic connections at all with anyone. So now they're kind of retreating

00:11:14.260 into celibacy like a form of surrender. The point is that it's not an embrace of traditional values

00:11:20.580 in most cases. They've ended up at the same place, right? The Christian conservatives have always 0.88

00:11:25.640 advocated, which is abstinence if you're not married. But they've gotten there from a place of despair

00:11:31.100 and defeat. In other cases, as in South Korea, people are apparently resorting to celibacy as some

00:11:38.340 kind of a strained, misguided political statement. Here's somebody going by the name Julia Fox,

00:11:44.860 for instance. Listen.

00:11:47.420 Also, celibacy isn't the right term because celibacy is like you're not having sex for religious

00:11:53.580 purposes. So I'm not celibate because I'm like, you know, a follower of Christ. I'm abstinent.

00:12:00.660 I'm abstaining from sex because I felt like with the overturning of Roe v. Wade that if they were

00:12:10.240 going to take away our rights to our body and our reproductive rights, well, then this is my way of 0.84

00:12:17.800 taking them back. You know, and I feel like more women should really get on that because 1.00

00:12:23.700 we hold the power. She's also abstaining from eyebrows, it looks, by the looks of it. 0.97

00:12:33.220 Now, as twisted as that logic is, it actually makes sense on some level. These people understand

00:12:38.520 that abstinence until marriage is an expression of self-control. And they understand that there's

00:12:44.140 a lot of benefits to a society where people practice self-control. But because they've rejected

00:12:48.640 the old code of sexual morality, they've come up with these kind of bizarre, incoherent

00:12:54.120 rationalizations for returning to it. They have to pretend that Roe v. Wade is somehow relevant

00:13:01.260 to whether they want to be sexually promiscuous or not. Or they have to pretend that celibacy is part

00:13:06.220 of some newfound sexual liberation movement. That another wave of feminism is in progress where

00:13:11.540 women have discovered for the first time that they have free will. But here's the point in all of 1.00

00:13:17.740 us. The so-called old code of sexual morality, the timeless code that they rejected, the one that

00:13:25.440 those Christian conservatives were promoting while being mocked and dismissed for it, that code was

00:13:30.900 grounded all along in positive things, in the true and the beautiful and human dignity, in love,

00:13:39.160 commitment, chastity, the great virtues. Right? That's why we promoted it. Those who repudiate

00:13:47.720 that message for the sake of lust and instant gratification and hooking up with whoever, 0.91

00:13:52.940 they now find themselves living sexless lives anyway. So they chose the opposite lifestyle and

00:13:59.400 they found it unfulfilling and harmful and destructive and severely depressing, which is

00:14:06.060 precisely what Christian conservatives warned would happen. This is what we told you. This is why we said

00:14:12.180 that hookup culture is bad. The correct order of events is to find someone, one person, pledge your

00:14:22.020 love and loyalty to them, marry them, and then be physically intimate with them. In other words,

00:14:28.740 we were right all along, all along. But yet the funny thing is that in all the coverage of the celibacy

00:14:37.460 trend, there is, of course, no acknowledgement of that fact. There is no recognition that we had this

00:14:44.540 whole thing figured out many generations ago, thousands of years ago, in fact. And unless all these newly

00:14:51.400 celibate people realize that celibacy is more than a trend or political statement, then the satisfaction that

00:14:57.220 they all say they're feeling right now will be short-lived. The great abstaining, as the cut put it, will give

00:15:03.400 way to more unhappiness, inevitably more hedonism in short order. You know, it won't last because it's

00:15:12.400 not grounded in anything real and timeless and, you know, anything sustaining the way that Christian 1.00

00:15:22.320 sexual morality is. The only way out of this cycle is to recognize why Christian conservatives have been 0.71

00:15:31.320 calling for abstinence until marriage for so long and to give them some credit for it, to recognize that 0.84

00:15:36.220 we were right. The religious right has been repeatedly and consistently mocked for predicting the future

00:15:42.220 for the past several decades now. We've always been right about everything. It's time for everyone else

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00:17:03.600 So we last saw Representative Jamal Bowman when he was pretending to not know how fire alarms work.

00:17:09.340 Although I have to admit, I don't know if he was pretending or not. This is still one of the great

00:17:13.660 political questions of our age. Would Jamal Bowman be dumber if he pulled the fire alarm 0.97

00:17:19.580 in the Capitol building because he didn't know how fire alarms work? Or is he dumber if he pulled it 0.99

00:17:26.720 because he did know how they work? Whichever is the dumber option is the correct option in this case, 0.99

00:17:31.960 because we know that Jamal Bowman, whatever else he is, is extremely, extremely dumb. 0.99

00:17:37.860 And in case you had any doubt about that, here is Jamal Bowman on Saturday giving a speech, 0.98

00:17:45.740 I guess we would call this, at a campaign rally. Let's watch.

00:17:49.560 We are not, we are not going to stand silent while U.S. tax dollars,

00:17:55.120 kills babies.

00:18:04.680 I agree with that last part. We don't want U.S. tax dollars to go to killing babies. So I mean, 0.97

00:18:27.160 I'm fascinated that Jamal Bowman has come out against Planned Parenthood funding. So that's a,

00:18:31.680 that's a surprise. I don't know, aside from that, I don't know which part of that speech is the best.

00:18:37.540 Is it the part where he's waving a stool around in the air? Is it the part where he shouts,

00:18:44.320 we're going to show them who the F we are, which is supposed to sound cool and tough, 1.00

00:18:47.480 but instead comes off as both dorky and very stupid, which is the worst of both worlds. Like 0.99

00:18:54.460 if you're going to be a dork, at least be smart. Um, and if you're going to be, uh, you know, 0.99

00:18:59.160 if you're going to be dumb, at least don't be a dork, but like he, he does it, he does both, 0.99

00:19:03.140 which is interesting. So maybe that's the best part. Maybe it's the part where he starts chanting 1.00

00:19:08.340 his own last name, which you cannot do that. That's car. It's a cardinal sin. It's like giving

00:19:13.860 yourself a nickname. You just, you can't do that. You can't start a chant for yourself of your own

00:19:19.060 last name. Um, or maybe it's the fact that he had one sleeve rolled up and this is, this is a sitting

00:19:25.440 U S congressman, by the way. Okay. Just to remind you. And I know I use this comparison all the time

00:19:31.580 just because it's the world we live in, but that is, it's like, that is literally the, the, uh, 0.92

00:19:38.740 the president, the president character from idiocracy. Okay. Go and watch this, the scene 0.93

00:19:44.260 where it comes out for the state of the union address in idiocracy, which is 300 years in the

00:19:48.360 future. When the average IQ in America is 30 or something, it's, it's indistinguishable.

00:19:56.420 It's worth remembering that. And I was thinking about this when I was watching this clip that

00:20:01.020 20 years ago, back in 2004, uh, Howard Dean had his political career destroyed because he shouted

00:20:12.060 the word, yeah, kind of awkwardly at a campaign rally. Okay. And, and so just for any of you young

00:20:19.440 kids out there, if you weren't around back then, or you weren't old enough to remember it, I want to

00:20:23.600 show you this just so you can appreciate the point that I'm trying to make here. What you're about to

00:20:28.180 we'll, we'll, we'll play it again. Okay. Classic, classic, uh, clip here, but keep in mind, this is

00:20:35.160 considered one of the great gaffes in modern American political history. This completely upended

00:20:42.400 his presidential campaign. It destroyed his career because of this one moment. Um, let's watch that.

00:20:50.520 You know something, you know something, if you had told us one year ago that we were going to come

00:20:57.560 in third in Iowa, we would have given anything for that. And you know something, you know something?

00:21:04.560 Not only are we going to New Hampshire, Tom Harkin, we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and

00:21:09.920 Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico. We're going to California and Texas and New York. And we're going

00:21:16.760 to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C.

00:21:22.780 to take back the White House. He's all smiling and happy after that moment. He thought he landed it. He

00:21:34.580 thought it was a great moment. Little did he know, little did he know what the next 20 years of his

00:21:40.080 life would become because of that. Now I remember at the time, um, you know, even though the guy's a,

00:21:45.520 he's a jackass, obviously, even so, I remember thinking at the time that it was a little unfair 0.88

00:21:52.820 for that to be treated the way that it was, that it's just destroyed him. No, it's, it's a weird 0.99

00:21:59.340 scream. He's obviously someone like any politician. He he's, he's trying to emulate, imitate rather,

00:22:07.220 um, normal human emotions, but he does, he's not a human. So he's trying like, this is him and his,

00:22:14.840 in his lizard brain saying, well, this is what people do when they're excited. And he's trying

00:22:18.540 to imitate excitement and it comes out like this. Uh, but, but at the time it seemed like, okay,

00:22:25.800 yeah, I mean, it's weird, but why would this, why would this be such a gaffe, such a scandal?

00:22:32.140 And yet now I've started to think of it differently because now I long for the days

00:22:36.440 when we had such high expectations for our politicians that if they did something embarrassing

00:22:41.680 like that, it would be the end of their careers. You know, there was a time when there were some

00:22:50.400 standards and one of them was, you know, if you, if you really just make an ass of yourself in public, 0.62

00:22:57.380 if you're, if you're that embarrassing, then we, your career's over because now you compare that to,

00:23:05.020 I mean, you compare that moment to things we see and hear from our politicians every day,

00:23:12.180 compare it to the Jamal Bowman rally. Okay. Right. Like there were in that 52nd clip of the

00:23:18.200 Jamal Bowman rally that I just played, there were five moments that were far more embarrassing

00:23:23.760 than the Dean scream, but we just accept it. Now we, we accept that we are governed by these

00:23:29.980 inarticulate halfwits. Um, speaking of which, speaking of inarticulate halfwits, AOC was 0.95

00:23:36.440 at the rally also. Um, here she is just, let's watch her taking the stage. She's very pumped up. 1.00

00:23:43.000 Let's watch this.

00:23:59.980 I love how the audience isn't nearly as excited as she wants them to be. There's also about 50

00:24:24.520 people there. There was another shot. I don't know if we have it, but there's a shot of the,

00:24:28.120 from the opposite angle of the crowd. And it's really, they had, they had sort of roped off

00:24:33.360 cause they were expecting, it looks like thousands and they got maybe 70 and half of them are

00:24:39.780 journalists. So, uh, but she still comes out and she's, it's all just so nerdy and embarrassing. 0.99

00:24:46.520 She reminds me of like a, I don't know, a seventh grade math teacher trying to get her students pumped 0.87

00:24:52.880 up. Are we ready y'all? We ready to do some algebra? Get those math textbooks out. Are y'all ready?

00:25:02.260 This is fun kids. I'm just kidding. Of course, AOC can't do algebra, but you get the point.

00:25:08.900 Uh, there was also this moment with AOC and, uh, and Bowman together. I think this was after the

00:25:14.740 rally maybe before, who cares? Anyway, here they are together. Cease fire now, y'all. That's what

00:25:20.200 we're doing. Cease fire now. Let's get it popping. The polls are open today. The polls are open tomorrow.

00:25:25.440 Make sure you get out the vote. Election day is Tuesday. Let's go. We need record turnout all

00:25:31.080 across the district, especially in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Co-op City, and Edenwall.

00:25:35.780 Let's get it popping. Let's change the world. It's the many versus the money. We're going to win.

00:25:40.040 Let's go, baby. We're going to win. We're going to take on APAC. I'm going to kick some Wall Street

00:25:43.360 ass. So let's go. Stop the bums. He's got the, uh, he's got the towel over his shoulder, you know, 1.00

00:25:50.820 one, one, one sleeve rolled up shirt, half tucked in. That's not even, is that even the style now?

00:25:58.280 That's like, that's like 1997. You know, I, I, I don't know. I don't, I don't keep up to date on

00:26:06.480 these things, but let's get it popping. Is that even, do people say that anymore? Is that,

00:26:12.060 do the kids say that? Is that an expression people use? Did they ever use that? I was,

00:26:18.280 I was expecting him to drop a, uh, it's the bomb or like raise the roof. I was expecting,

00:26:22.720 that's what I thought was coming next. Like my dad is 70 years old and white, and he would sound

00:26:30.760 more natural using these phrases. Uh, and you know, it would be bad enough if somebody like

00:26:37.500 Jamal Bowman was authentically carrying on this way. Like this is how he actually is,

00:26:42.840 but it's even worse that he's pretending. And, uh, and these are the people we have leading the

00:26:48.400 country. All right. President Trump at a rally on Saturday made a big promise that, uh, I certainly

00:26:55.140 hope he intends to keep. Let's listen to that.

00:26:57.640 And I will shut down the federal department of education and we will move everything back to

00:27:03.020 the States where it belongs and where they can individualize education and do it with the love

00:27:11.000 for their children.

00:27:17.740 Now, um, so shut down the department of education was the, was the big promise. Of course, the department

00:27:22.000 of education was founded in 1979. There had been four Republican presidents, uh, four, right? Yeah.

00:27:29.420 Four. Um, am I miscounting? Yeah. Four. There've been four Republican presidents since then,

00:27:37.460 including Trump's first term. All of them should have shut down this abomination, but they didn't.

00:27:43.880 So I really hope that Trump follows through on this because the department of education is at best, 0.89

00:27:49.620 at best, it is useless. The most generous thing you can say about it. The most positive spin that

00:27:55.480 you can put on it is that it is merely useless. It is merely a $70 billion waste of time and money.

00:28:05.240 Um, it, it, it's not like the department of education actually directly runs the schools.

00:28:09.920 It can't because education in this country is officially in theory anyway, decentralized,

00:28:15.200 which means that if, if, if the, um, what it means is that if the department of education

00:28:20.440 disappeared tomorrow, the schools would all still be open, you know, and the media and the left and

00:28:28.980 Democrats, they, they, they'll fear monger about stuff like this and they will depend on the ignorance

00:28:35.700 of the American public to think that like shutting down the department of education is the same thing

00:28:42.380 as shutting down the public school system, which we should also do that. But that's, but, 0.52

00:28:48.580 but Trump is not promising that and isn't going to try to do it. Um, but no, the department of

00:28:54.800 education, like you could shut it down. The schools would all still be open. They would be running as

00:28:59.940 normal. Literally nothing would change. Like if your child is in public school and they shut down the

00:29:07.460 department and they didn't tell anybody, you would never notice, you would never know. Um,

00:29:15.340 it's like so many other federal departments and agencies and everything else that if it did,

00:29:23.500 if it was wiped off the face of the earth, if it just disappeared, if it, if it evaporated into dust,

00:29:28.780 um, in, in an instant and you weren't told about it, you would never know. It would not affect your

00:29:36.200 life at all. And your child would continue along in school until graduation and you wouldn't notice

00:29:42.040 a single difference, not one. But of course that's, that's again, that's like the, the, uh, generous

00:29:48.400 positive way of looking at it. But of course we know the department is worse than useless. It's a lot 0.98

00:29:56.040 of, it's a lot of other things too. It's unconstitutional for one thing. The constitution

00:30:00.520 does not, I know that nobody cares about this sort of thing these days, the constitution who cares

00:30:04.200 about that, but the constitution does not enumerate, uh, education as a power that the federal

00:30:10.020 government possesses. The federal government has no authority to do anything with education.

00:30:15.540 That is a power reserved to the States. So the department has no constitutional authority,

00:30:20.760 no legal right to even exist, which I think is a pretty, which to me is a, you know, a pretty

00:30:24.760 important point. Um, it also has no track record of success of any kind. Okay. If you look at

00:30:34.600 student academic performance in the year 1980, the first year that the department of education was

00:30:41.080 operational, you look at student academic performance, you compare that to today, you are

00:30:48.680 not going to find that performance has improved. In fact, things are trending very much in the opposite

00:30:54.140 direction, which means that, I mean, we've got kids that are graduating these days that don't even

00:30:58.280 know how to read, which means that any argument for, for, for the department of education is

00:31:05.460 automatically moot. Because if this bureaucracy was helping kids, if it was improving education,

00:31:11.480 we would see those results at some point over the past 40 years. And we don't. And that's because

00:31:17.500 the actual goal of the department of education is not to help kids. It's not to help anybody learn.

00:31:24.840 That's got nothing to do with it. The goal is to use money, to use a complicated, um,

00:31:31.620 like web of funding and, and to impose an ideological agenda on the schools. That's, that's why it's there.

00:31:39.200 This is the one single function of the department of education. It is to inject the federal

00:31:43.560 government's ideological agenda into the school system using manipulation and coercion and bribery.

00:31:51.480 It's a, it's a giant, like bribery scheme is, is basically what it is. That's why it exists.

00:31:57.100 That's why it shouldn't exist. And that's why it's a good idea from Trump to get rid of it.

00:32:01.200 So that's a good idea. But he has also in the last few days had a really bad idea, which we will now

00:32:06.900 take a look at. Trump appeared on the all in podcast on Thursday, where he said this, listen,

00:32:12.520 can you please promise us? You will give us more ability to import the best and brightest around

00:32:20.840 the world to America. I do promise, but I happen to agree. That's why I promise. Otherwise I wouldn't

00:32:25.040 promise. Let me just tell you that it's so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greatest

00:32:32.020 schools and lesser schools that are phenomenal schools also. And what I wanted to do, and I would

00:32:37.740 have done this, but then we had to solve the COVID problem because that came in and, you know,

00:32:41.540 sort of dominated for a little while, as you perhaps know. But what I want to do and what

00:32:46.420 I will do is you graduate from a college. I think you should get automatically as part

00:32:51.040 of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. And that includes junior

00:32:55.660 colleges too. Anybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years.

00:33:00.860 If you graduate or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in 0.63

00:33:04.880 this country. And you know more stories than I do, but I know of stories where people graduated

00:33:09.820 from a top college or from a college. And they desperately wanted to stay here. They had

00:33:14.700 a plan for a company, a concept, and they can't. They go back to India. They go back to China.

00:33:20.380 They do the same basic company in those places, and they become multi-billionaires, employing

00:33:25.660 thousands and thousands of people. And it could have been done here.

00:33:31.180 Counterpoints. Hell no. Absolutely not. This is not America first. This is not the agenda that

00:33:37.780 Trump should be pursuing. It's not what the base wants. It's not what America needs, more importantly.

00:33:46.380 Why would we do this? Why the hell would we do that? Now, this is not a new idea.

00:33:54.100 That's one of the many bad things about it, is that he is just

00:33:59.300 regurgitating what we've heard from the Republican establishment and the left for many years.

00:34:07.780 Staple the green card to the diploma, to the degree. We've heard that many times. And so he's just,

00:34:14.560 he's repeating that. But let's think about this for a second, okay? We're saying that if a foreigner 0.98

00:34:21.660 comes to this country and attends a left-wing brainwashing camp, we will reward him with an

00:34:29.260 automatic green card. So we want more of these types in the country. This is the solution to our

00:34:37.260 problem, to incentivize more foreigners to come here and be brainwashed. Why would we want that? 1.00

00:34:45.860 You want more? It's bad enough to have Harvard at all at this point, but you want more foreigners 1.00

00:34:50.980 in Harvard and then coming here? Why? How does America benefit from that? How do the American

00:34:56.900 people benefit from that? The average American family, right? The old, the average American family 0.95

00:35:03.600 sitting around the kitchen table, okay? How is their life improved by having more foreigners come to 1.00

00:35:11.140 America and be brainwashed by left-wing institutions? If we actually believe that going to college is

00:35:20.320 important, then the goal should be to get more American citizens into college. That should be the 0.58

00:35:27.240 focus, not importing more people from other countries to put them through college. Now, you know that in my

00:35:34.420 opinion, I don't think that it should be the goal to get more people in college, citizens or foreigners,

00:35:40.620 because the university system is a disaster. It's totally broken. Most of the people who go into

00:35:48.220 the university system come out the other end dumber, certainly dumber, but even worse, 0.99

00:35:57.100 more beholden to and indoctrinated into left-wing ideas. That and being dumber kind of go hand in 1.00

00:36:04.860 hand. Most of these people that go to colleges, they're not learning skills. They're not coming 0.99

00:36:12.620 out with any skills whatsoever. So I don't think that there's any reason to be encouraging more

00:36:21.240 people, citizens or not, to go to college. But if it is your view that college is a positive thing,

00:36:28.920 we want to get more kids in college, then the America first position is let's figure out ways

00:36:35.480 to get more of our kids in the college, not kids from other countries. The fact that we're hearing 0.63

00:36:42.820 ideas like this, to me, to put it mildly, it's very, very concerning. Because again, if this is

00:36:50.040 America first, then the term means nothing. If America first is incentivizing foreigners to be 1.00

00:36:56.380 brainwashed in left-wing indoctrination camps so that they can then go on to take American jobs,

00:37:04.660 like if that is America first, then what the hell does America first to what? Like, what do you mean?

00:37:10.920 Maybe we should clarify that America, when we say America first, we actually mean Americans first.

00:37:18.620 I don't know if we need to change the slogan, but it's Americans first. People who are American

00:37:24.340 citizens first. All right, Justin Timberlake was arrested for DUI a few days ago. And a few days

00:37:34.720 later, the cop who made the arrest was outed by the media. There are all kinds of stories now naming

00:37:41.840 this guy and revealing information that I guess is supposed to make him look bad, but to normal

00:37:46.880 people, it actually makes him look even better. So here's page six. Headline. Justin Timberlake's

00:37:55.180 Gen Z cop who didn't recognize Singer at DWI arrest identified as overaggressive rookie.

00:38:02.940 Reading on, it says, the young policeman who was unaware he pulled over pop star Justin Timberlake

00:38:07.100 for allegedly drunk driving earlier this week has been identified. The 23-year-old officer is

00:38:13.300 Michael Arkinson reporting to a Sag Harbor, New York prisoner, according to a Sag Harbor, New York

00:38:19.500 prisoner report obtained by the Daily Mail on Saturday. A Long Island, New York native who was

00:38:24.340 previously pulled over by the Gen Z policeman described him to the outlet as an overaggressive

00:38:30.140 rookie. The individual said, I think Dustin Timberlake was a victim, a victim of overaggressive

00:38:36.000 Sag Harbor police. This is according to someone identified only as Spencer in the story. Spencer

00:38:44.080 claimed that Arkinson, who reportedly turns 24 this month, previously stopped him for doing a U-turn

00:38:49.000 when nobody was around, but ultimately let him go with a warning. It was off season and nobody was

00:38:53.920 around, the driver further insisted. It was a D-head move. I felt like he pulled me over just for the 1.00

00:39:00.280 sake of doing it. Spencer reportedly came in contact with Arkinson again after he got pulled over for

00:39:05.580 talking on his cell phone, which he alleged was on speaker at the time. Quote, I thought he would

00:39:10.520 give me a break and I was driving less than 25 miles an hour trying to get to the Y in East Hampton.

00:39:15.860 The disgruntled New Yorker said he ended up being hit with a $145 ticket. Locals to Long Island's

00:39:22.400 Ritzy Hampton's neighborhood have reportedly nicknamed Arkinson the Sag Harbor Nazi and a little redheaded

00:39:29.600 Okay, so this is the story. He's, so he's, this cop is over-aggressive and the definition of over-aggressive

00:39:39.760 is a cop who forces rich people to follow the law, apparently. That's why, I mean, they doxed this guy

00:39:46.020 for the sin of actually enforcing the law equally and not allowing rich and famous people off the hook.

00:39:53.680 They named this guy and they plastered his face all over the place. So, you know, it's, it's, it's been

00:40:01.880 obvious for a long time that cops just can't win. They're in a lose-lose situation constantly. The

00:40:07.780 whole job is a lose-lose. But if you weren't convinced before, then maybe this will clarify

00:40:12.220 things for you. Because again, this guy's name and face plastered all over the place. He's being dubbed

00:40:17.840 by the media a Nazi because he's doing his job and getting rich drunks off the street.

00:40:25.160 Like, what did you want him to do? Is he supposed to just let Justin Timberlake go and drive drunk

00:40:29.460 because he's Justin Timberlake? Are we actually upset that he didn't give preferential treatment

00:40:34.200 to Justin Timberlake? But, you know, but, but if he had pulled Justin Timberlake over and then said,

00:40:41.580 oh, you're Justin Timberlake. Well, nevermind, sir. As you were just go and no, go and get an accident.

00:40:46.580 Good. Go hit a pedestrian. It's all, it's all good. You're famous. You, you know, you had, 0.73

00:40:51.120 you had some popular songs 15 years ago. So just go do what you want. If he'd done that,

00:40:57.580 he'd be condemned for that too. And rightly so. So we're just constantly creating these situations

00:41:03.780 for, for cops where no matter what they do, they're the bad guy. They cannot do anything

00:41:09.720 that does not result with them. Does that, does not, you know, where the result is not

00:41:13.700 that they are condemned by some portion of society. Um, and as we've learned, it's a lose-lose

00:41:23.020 situation. They'll be condemned no matter what, but they will always be condemned the most

00:41:28.120 for doing their job. That's the way that it goes. I, for one thing, this guy's a hero. I,

00:41:34.600 I love the idea that this one, this 24 year old cop just came on the job and, uh, he's just,

00:41:42.120 he's enforcing every minor traffic law to the fullest extent for all of these, uh, rich liberals

00:41:52.020 in the Hamptons and they all hate him. I think that's, I think that's just great. He's a hero.

00:41:55.620 He's an American hero. You should get a medal. This guy. If you haven't heard, Jeremy Boring announced

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00:42:34.560 Are you sure these people want us? I know they do. You can call me mama.

00:42:46.440 Oh Lord.

00:42:48.560 No! No! No! No! No!

00:42:52.660 If we wrap our arms around the most vulnerable, then what do we have?

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00:42:59.620 This is something that we must do.

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00:43:10.400 The whole town wants kids now. 0.71

00:43:12.040 That's about right.

00:43:14.780 What's happening with Possum Trot could mean a huge change for the system.

00:43:29.620 I watched this film myself and I have to say it's incredibly moving. It places strong family values

00:43:38.180 at its core. It's more than just a movie. It's a call to action. And right now there are over 100,000

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00:44:06.920 If you're a man in the public eye, it's usually not a good sign when your wife goes viral.

00:44:11.600 I suppose there could be a positive reason. Maybe your wife was caught on camera rescuing a puppy

00:44:15.820 from a burning building or something. But usually it's not for a good reason. And it certainly wasn't

00:44:20.600 this past weekend when Kelly Stafford, wife of NFL star quarterback Matthew Stafford, found herself

00:44:26.240 going viral. Kelly, for whatever reason, was being interviewed on a podcast where she, for whatever

00:44:30.600 reason, decided to share an intimate detail about the couple's past. So here she is talking about the

00:44:35.800 early days of their relationship and how she managed to convince Matthew to finally commit to her.

00:44:41.440 Watch.

00:44:41.820 Our love story. I love that you think it's so great. It started out horrible. Tell me. Well,

00:44:50.400 met him, spent like the evening with him, did not let him touch me the first time ever. He was like,

00:44:56.640 this is fun. I was like, oh, we're in a relationship. This is great. You know, like this,

00:45:01.380 because that's all I knew. Yeah. I didn't know casual dating. Wait, so was he trying to casually

00:45:05.600 date and you were all in? Oh yeah, girl. And I didn't know what that was. So all of a sudden,

00:45:10.040 we, you know, we're kind of doing this thing. And then he's like, oh, I see him in a bar one night.

00:45:14.920 And I'm like, what the fuck? Anyways, long story short, it wasn't that cute of a relationship at 0.97

00:45:19.060 first. I hated him. I loved him. I dated the backup to piss him off, which worked. Oh yes.

00:45:24.120 He was like, that'll do it. He was the bad boy too. Like Matthew's so sweet and Southern

00:45:27.700 gentleman and all that stuff. And the, the backup was the complete opposite. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh. And it,

00:45:33.020 it upset him, which it worked thankfully. Yes. But yeah, at first it was,

00:45:37.640 was that like the pivotal moment in the relationship where he was like, actually you

00:45:40.780 can't be with him. You need to be with me. 100%. He would like, he would, so they lived in the same

00:45:45.060 dorm because athletes lived in the same dorm and he would see my car there. And so at one point he

00:45:50.700 like waited and fought and followed me out and got in my car and wouldn't get out. And he was like,

00:45:56.680 this is so hot. I was like, this is amazing. It's working. Yeah. I was get out of my car and he was

00:46:01.160 like, I don't, he's not right for you. And I was like, you can't tell me that. It's like, get the fuck out of my car.

00:46:05.860 So in summary, they were dating at this point, but he was not as committed as she wanted. So 0.96

00:46:11.220 she got involved with his backup in order to make him jealous. And as mentioned, uh, before that clip 0.97

00:46:17.360 has gotten a lot of attention and viewed millions of times. Uh, most of the attention is very, very

00:46:21.820 negative. Kelly does have some defenders though, who point out that she wasn't married to Matthew

00:46:27.220 Stafford at the time. And, uh, technically she never said that she slept with the backup only that she

00:46:31.900 dated him, which is true. Technically the thousands of people on social media claiming

00:46:36.660 that Kelly Stafford admitted to sleeping with Matthew Stafford's backup are assuming that based

00:46:41.880 on the fact that she dated the guy and was spending time in his dorm room, some assumptions are

00:46:46.400 outlandish. Some assumptions are pretty safe. This one would seem to be more on the latter end of that

00:46:50.440 spectrum. But anyway, it's, it's, it's better that the public doesn't know the specifics. It's better

00:46:55.540 that the public doesn't know anything about any of this, but they do now thanks to, uh, Mrs. Stafford.

00:47:02.080 And now social media is full of people making jokes about Matthew Stafford's wife, hooking up with

00:47:06.400 his backup. And to make matters worse for Mr. Stafford, some of the jokes are even frankly pretty

00:47:13.100 funny. So why is the clip getting such a large and largely very negative reaction out of people?

00:47:19.740 Now we could guess that Kelly Stafford didn't anticipate that level of attention or that she would 0.65

00:47:24.220 be so roundly criticized for sharing those details. So why is that happening? Well, I think there are

00:47:29.700 two reasons. First of all, I know that in Kelly's mind, this is just a silly story from ancient

00:47:35.780 history. Something she feels she can laugh about now, given that she's married to the man, they have

00:47:39.980 four kids. But even so, this is a story about manipulation and manipulation is bad. Nobody likes to

00:47:47.960 be manipulated. Men in particular don't like being manipulated by women. Okay. When, when a, when a 0.95

00:47:55.820 woman manipulates a man, she makes him feel emasculated and betrayed and disrespected. The three 1.00

00:48:02.640 worst things a man can feel in a relationship all at once. Now a football player likes playing the game

00:48:09.820 of football, but he doesn't like playing games in his personal life. No man does. This is the thing

00:48:15.280 that infuriates a man maybe more than anything else. Manipulation tactics, playing games, being

00:48:21.240 dishonest, disingenuous, not shooting it straight, not just saying what you mean and meaning what you 0.79

00:48:26.180 say. Men hate that as well they should. But here's the more important point. Yes, her behavior was 1.00

00:48:32.860 immoral and gross, but yes, it was also a long time ago. She's been married to him now for many years.

00:48:38.540 Again, they have a bunch of kids. That's why I would say the whole thing's a non-issue. It's not worth

00:48:42.640 discussing and none of our business to discuss. If the story had been revealed by a very bored

00:48:47.980 journalist who went digging into Kelly Stafford's dating history for some reason. Okay. If, if

00:48:53.480 someone else came from the outside and said, Hey, let me tell you what happened with these two.

00:48:58.080 Then we would all probably say, well, why are you talking about that? What does that have to do with

00:49:01.620 anything? But it wasn't revealed that way. No, instead Kelly herself offered up this information.

00:49:07.240 She decided to let the world in on this embarrassing piece of their personal history. Why?

00:49:12.380 Why does the world need to know that? Why do you want the world to know that you slept with, 1.00

00:49:18.600 excuse me, dated your husband's backup in order to make him jealous? Like it's shameful for you.

00:49:26.020 It's totally humiliating for your husband. And now social media is full of random strangers making

00:49:32.220 emasculating jokes about your husband. Why put them in that position? Why put your marriage in that 0.97

00:49:37.600 position? Now, this is something that, that many people these days seem to struggle with.

00:49:43.620 If you're married, you should want the public to view your spouse in the best possible light,

00:49:50.760 right? To put it in very modern terms, think of yourself as your spouse's brand manager.

00:49:56.640 Actually, don't think of yourself that way. Forget I said that. It's a terrible way of looking at

00:49:59.420 marriage. Better, better instead, just think of your spouse as the person. Well, how about this?

00:50:04.080 Think of him as the person you pledged your undying love, fealty, and devotion to until death do you

00:50:08.700 part. So, which means that you are still worried about your spouse's reputation. That's one of the

00:50:14.860 things that you should be concerned about. So it's a very simple rule of thumb. If you're about to say

00:50:20.800 anything to or about your spouse in public, just ask yourself one question. Is this likely to

00:50:29.400 increase or decrease the amount of respect that people have for them? And if the answer is decrease,

00:50:37.320 then simply do not say it. Period. Just never say anything that you know is likely to decrease

00:50:45.820 the amount of respect that other people have for your spouse. If the answer is, I don't know how

00:50:51.060 people will react to it, then again, don't say it. If the answer is, it will increase the respect

00:50:56.880 people have for my spouse, then yes, go ahead and say it. You should be looking for those kinds of

00:51:01.200 things to say. If you ever find in yourself the desire to embarrass the person you're married to,

00:51:09.140 or if you find that you don't care that much whether they are embarrassed, then your marriage is

00:51:13.340 deeply sick. It is malfunctioning at the most basic level. Now, I don't know if Kelly understood just

00:51:18.920 how much her little anecdote would embarrass her husband, but she had to know that it wouldn't make

00:51:23.520 him look good. It would not increase the amount of respect people have for him. He will not be

00:51:30.220 happier with people knowing that information. Like she had to know that he's not going to watch that

00:51:35.320 podcast or probably didn't even see the podcast. He's going to see that people talk about social media.

00:51:38.600 There's no way that he would find out that she shared that story and say, oh, well, thank God,

00:51:46.080 I'm glad she told people about that. She had to know he wouldn't react that way.

00:51:52.020 And she said it anyway, which means that she's operating the same way that far too many people

00:51:57.420 operate in their marriages these days. And that is why she is today, sadly, canceled.

00:52:04.560 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow.

00:52:07.620 Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 24, 2024

Ep. 1393 - Christian Conservatives Proven Right Once Again As Abstinence 'Trend' Gains Popularity

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