The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1404 - After Almost Getting Trump Killed, The Secret Service Cries About Mean Tweets

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, only a few days after the extreme incompetence of the Secret Service, or something more sinister than that, nearly got Donald Trump killed, the Secret Service is focused on what really matters, mean comments about their female agents.

00:00:11.960 The agency isn't trying to figure out how and why they failed to prevent an assassination attempt. Instead, they're busy valiantly defending their own diversity initiatives.

00:00:19.300 Also, J.D. Vance delivers his speech at the Republican Convention. We'll play one important moment from that speech.

00:00:23.780 And now hosts on MSNBC are floating the idea that Trump staged the shooting himself, in spite of how incoherent that theory is.

00:00:31.280 And the calls for Biden to step down have reached a fever pitch. I will do something unexpected today and make the case that Biden should stay in this race.

00:00:39.000 I am riding with Biden. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:13.840 I'll begin today with some breaking news.

00:02:16.880 The Secret Service has finally come out and explained in detail how they allowed Donald Trump to get shot in the head on Saturday.

00:02:23.100 They've released a thorough explanation for why exactly the slope of the roof 140 yards away from the stage was, in fact, insurmountable for even the most skilled Secret Service sniper or special agent.

00:02:33.360 They articulated very clearly why they didn't pull Donald Trump off the stage, even after they saw the shooter behaving suspiciously, equipped with a range finder, before they somehow lost track of him several times over.

00:02:45.320 It's now abundantly clear exactly why the DHS secretary says that he has 100% confidence in the director of the Secret Service, even after all of this happened.

00:02:53.460 All of our questions have been answered.

00:02:56.460 Or maybe not.

00:02:57.620 Actually, they still haven't explained any of that.

00:03:00.120 But on the bright side, the Secret Service did come out and address the most important issues surrounding Saturday's assassination attempt by far.

00:03:06.540 And that issue is that people have been very mean to the Secret Service on the Internet.

00:03:11.560 People have even put out tweets that are critical of the fact that the Secret Service had female agents, quote unquote, protecting Donald Trump, despite the fact that they weren't tall enough to cover his head.

00:03:22.460 Can you imagine the indecency of it all? 0.83

00:03:24.580 The Secret Service, they can't.

00:03:26.740 I mean, it's one thing for a guy to shoot a presidential candidate on live television, but for people to say rude things on social media?

00:03:33.080 Well, I mean, that's just a bridge too far.

00:03:35.420 And that's why the Secret Service just sent a statement to NBC News explaining, quote,

00:03:39.440 Quote,

00:04:09.440 Yes, this is the priority of the Secret Service, just three days after they allowed the leading presidential candidate to get shot in the head during a political rally that they were in charge of securing.

00:04:20.860 This is what they're concerned about, the feelings of their female agents. 1.00

00:04:25.400 They're not appalled by their unprecedented security failures, which very nearly changed the course of U.S. history.

00:04:33.080 They're not appalled by their completely incoherent excuses about a sloped roof and a lack of manpower.

00:04:38.660 They're not appalled by the total destruction of the Secret Service's reputation as a competent federal agency.

00:04:45.040 None of that appalls the Secret Service.

00:04:46.780 What really bothers them are mean tweets about their female agents.

00:04:50.600 Now, a couple of things about this.

00:04:53.840 First of all, every criticism of the female agents on Trump's security detail is accurate. 1.00

00:05:00.300 These are all fair criticisms.

00:05:01.820 On the day of the assassination attempt, as I've covered before, one female agent cowered behind the pile of agents protecting Trump.

00:05:10.740 Another female agent clearly struggled to cover Trump's head as he stood up because she wasn't tall enough. 1.00

00:05:15.220 And none of the male agents have this problem.

00:05:18.040 But the female agent clearly can't cover Trump's face, even if she wanted to. 1.00

00:05:21.820 It's painful to watch.

00:05:23.780 And then, of course, as the SUV carrying Trump pulled away, the female agents had trouble holstering their weapons. 1.00

00:05:29.440 They started messing with their sunglasses.

00:05:31.840 They were looking around frantically.

00:05:33.560 They had no idea what they were doing.

00:05:35.060 None of them appeared to have any idea what they were supposed to do.

00:05:37.500 It was like they were cosplaying Secret Service agents.

00:05:40.160 It looked like they had been pulled off the street that morning and recruited into Trump's security detail without any prior training at all.

00:05:47.160 Now, I've shown all this footage before, but it bears repeating because the Secret Service is now pretending that none of this is an issue.

00:05:55.120 They're saying that you are a bigot if you notice the problem.

00:05:58.960 Now, they clearly don't believe that.

00:06:01.420 They know that female agents aren't as effective. 1.00

00:06:03.720 That's why when Trump appeared at the RNC in his first public appearance after the shooting,

00:06:07.480 he was surrounded by men who were actually tall enough and strong enough to protect him.

00:06:13.320 There were no short females in his detail anymore or any females at all because they understand that women can't do the job as well as men, period. 0.91

00:06:22.520 But the Secret Service is choosing to use the shield of identity politics anyway because, as always, it helps distract from their own failures and their own mediocrity.

00:06:30.580 This is always the reason that identity politics is deployed, especially by government agencies, and this is no exception.

00:06:39.260 They would rather accuse their critics of hating women instead of reckoning with their own incompetence,

00:06:44.860 which appears more and more to be willful and malicious with each passing day.

00:06:50.600 And the corporate press, of course, is doing the Fed's bidding.

00:06:52.800 The Financial Times reported, quote,

00:06:55.120 Secret Service target of misogynistic backlash after Donald Trump assassination attempt.

00:07:00.680 The New York Times added, quote,

00:07:02.340 The rush by conservatives to pin blame for the shooting on women in the protective detail reflects a broader opposition among Republicans to diversity efforts in hiring.

00:07:11.520 The Washington Post complained,

00:07:13.280 Right-wing influencers used Trump assassination attempt to attack DEI.

00:07:17.240 Well, you know, I thought that a former president getting shot was pretty bad.

00:07:23.380 But if it leads to attacks on DEI, then it's way worse than I thought.

00:07:28.320 Now, the Post did single me out in their article with this paragraph, quote,

00:07:33.120 Far-right influencer Matt Walsh posted a video featuring female Secret Service agents gathering around Trump after the attack with the caption,

00:07:40.460 There should not be any women in the Secret Service. 1.00

00:07:42.260 These are supposed to be the very best, and none of the very best at this job are women. 1.00

00:07:47.240 According to the Post, which cited experts, experts in what?

00:07:51.440 I don't know. Experts in mean tweets, I guess.

00:07:54.380 These experts say that tweets like mine are an attempt to, quote,

00:07:57.380 Generate social media attention and outrage.

00:08:00.440 They also say that I'm trying to, quote, undermine DEI.

00:08:04.120 And that part is true, I admit. 0.99

00:08:06.820 What's interesting about these attacks is that, of course, they're commenting on my motivations.

00:08:12.160 They're pretending they can read my mind and that they've determined that my outrage,

00:08:17.320 Outrage over a presidential candidate getting shot can't possibly be genuine.

00:08:21.980 So that's that.

00:08:23.300 They're not actually addressing what I said because they know that I'm right.

00:08:26.720 They know that all of us raising this concern are right.

00:08:28.660 Here's what none of these articles and valiant defenses of the female agents have done, or can do.

00:08:35.800 Actually defend the proposition that Trump was safer with females in his security detail 0.99

00:08:42.220 than he would have been if it was only men.

00:08:45.640 Now, to be clear, I'm not suggesting that if one woman agent on stage had been replaced by a male agent,

00:08:53.900 that Trump would not have been shot.

00:08:55.520 I'm not saying that more men would have definitely prevented this from happening,

00:09:00.280 although it's quite possible.

00:09:02.360 I'm saying that these female agents constitute an obvious security vulnerability, 1.00

00:09:07.000 one among many.

00:09:08.820 And because the Secret Service put them out there on the stage on Saturday,

00:09:12.340 it raises obvious questions about their ability to competently protect Donald Trump or anyone else.

00:09:18.280 I'm not going to just ignore a glaring sign of incompetence that's front and center on live television.

00:09:24.400 If there is glaring incompetence, if it even is incompetence, by the way,

00:09:28.860 which not something more sinister again,

00:09:31.920 but if there's glaring incompetence to that degree,

00:09:34.760 there's glaring incompetence at every other layer of the agency, too.

00:09:39.900 That's a pretty safe assumption.

00:09:41.300 And the Secret Service has done absolutely nothing to dispel that assumption in the days since the shooting.

00:09:45.500 Here's the crucial point.

00:09:47.700 The fact that they are going out of their way to recruit women in the name of diversity

00:09:51.400 shows where their priorities lie.

00:09:54.780 It only makes them less capable of doing the job they're supposed to do.

00:09:59.340 But even more to the point, it means they are fundamentally focused on the wrong things.

00:10:05.440 Consider, for example, what the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheadle, has been saying since Saturday.

00:10:10.140 She's best known for her promise that 30% of the Secret Service's workforce would be female by 2030.

00:10:16.880 At first, she came out and said that the roof was too sloped for agents to stand on top of,

00:10:21.440 which makes no sense for a million reasons.

00:10:24.800 And by the way, she's really not helping her case for including women in the agency when she says stuff like that.

00:10:29.640 Like, looking up at a roof and deciding that you can't put snipers on it because it's slightly sloped and somebody might slip

00:10:35.980 is the kind of thing that your mom might do. 1.00

00:10:39.320 Hey, you boys, come down from there and put those guns away. 0.60

00:10:42.040 You're going to hurt yourself.

00:10:44.100 Then in an interview yesterday, Cheadle defended the security plan that left the roof completely exposed.

00:10:48.760 She also refused to explain how exactly the agency had supposedly beefed up security

00:10:53.760 after an alleged threat against Trump from Iran.

00:10:56.560 Watch.

00:10:57.880 Was that perimeter too small?

00:11:00.020 The perimeter encompassed the area that we needed to secure for the event that we had on that day.

00:11:06.660 What happened is a terrible incident and should never happen.

00:11:10.020 And we are obviously going to make sure that moving forward,

00:11:12.600 we take whatever lessons that come out of this and adjust accordingly.

00:11:16.080 Was every element, every part of his, from the intelligence to the counter assault team,

00:11:21.880 to the detail agents, the shift agents, I mean every element top to bottom of the advance in the operation,

00:11:27.160 was every element increased after you learned of this credible threat?

00:11:30.840 What we increased was what we felt was appropriate for the former president and for that particular event on that day.

00:11:37.660 We have been increasing the assets and the resources and the staffing that we have been providing

00:11:42.360 to the former president since he was a presidential candidate and then the presumptive nominee.

00:11:47.440 That's what I can tell you.

00:11:48.580 That sounds like a no.

00:11:49.960 I am not saying a no at all.

00:11:51.640 I'm saying that we have continued to increase the resources that we've been providing to the former president.

00:11:56.580 The perimeter encompassed the area that we needed to secure for the event that we had on that day.

00:12:01.760 That's what she said.

00:12:02.620 That's her response when she's asked why the secure perimeter didn't include a building directly across from Trump.

00:12:07.620 But obviously the perimeter didn't encompass the area they needed to secure because a gunman managed to climb on the roof

00:12:14.820 and fire several shots without anyone stopping him.

00:12:18.720 Then she goes on to completely fail to explain how the agency supposedly stepped up its security following this supposed Iranian threat.

00:12:26.200 And that's probably because security was not stepped up in any way.

00:12:30.160 But for a moment, let's give this woman the benefit of the doubt, which she obviously doesn't deserve.

00:12:36.380 But let's pretend that the security was indeed stepped up to the max.

00:12:41.800 And let's recap how exactly this stepped up security failed since the details get crazier with each passing hour.

00:12:50.680 So now we're learning that the shooter was at the rally a full three hours before he shot Trump.

00:12:58.580 He was at the rally and on the radar of the security team three hours ahead of time.

00:13:03.720 And then at 5.10 p.m., authorities identified him as a person of interest.

00:13:08.900 That's their phrasing.

00:13:10.900 At 5.30 p.m., he was spotted again with a rangefinder.

00:13:14.840 He was then observed, quote, furiously checking his phone and operating the rangefinder, according to the Daily Mail.

00:13:20.620 The Secret Service noticed this and kept an eye on him.

00:13:23.460 But apparently they lost track of where he was and multiple times, in fact, through this whole process.

00:13:29.540 They kept they kept seeing him and said, this guy's weird.

00:13:32.580 And then and then he would leave and they would lose track of him.

00:13:34.780 And then they'd see him again, lose track of him again.

00:13:37.140 And then the shooter was caught on film an hour before the assassination attempt,

00:13:40.940 casing the building that he would later climb to shoot Trump.

00:13:43.760 So you can see the guy's clearly by himself, acting strangely as he cases the building.

00:13:59.940 And then 40 minutes before the shooting, law enforcement spotted the shooter appearing to crawl on the ground while scouring the area.

00:14:07.440 This was suspicious enough that they took a photograph.

00:14:12.200 They circulated the photograph, tagging him as a suspicious person.

00:14:15.700 But again, they apparently lost track of him.

00:14:19.260 And again, that wasn't the end of it.

00:14:21.940 The Secret Service also listen to this part, because I think this is the newest detail that is just mind boggling.

00:14:29.700 The Secret Service saw the gunman on the rooftop at 5.52 p.m.

00:14:37.440 At 6.02 p.m., Trump took the stage.

00:14:40.660 Shots were fired at 6.12 p.m.

00:14:43.440 In other words, as ABC News reported, quote,

00:14:46.400 20 minutes passed between the time U.S. Secret Service snipers first spotted the gunman on a rooftop

00:14:51.320 and the time shots were fired at the former president.

00:14:55.460 So to reiterate here, this is a suspicious person who's already been identified as a person of interest

00:15:02.240 with a rangefinder who is on top of a roof looking down directly at the stage where Donald Trump is about to speak.

00:15:11.340 And still they didn't secure the roof or delay the rally.

00:15:14.720 Like, even if you ignore the three hours prior to this,

00:15:18.800 when they could have detained the shooter, you know, on dozens of different occasions,

00:15:23.520 you know, they had three hours to detain him and they didn't.

00:15:28.420 Well, even if you pretend none of that happened,

00:15:31.460 they still had 20 minutes when he was on the roof and they did nothing.

00:15:38.520 In fact, this guy who'd already been identified as a person of interest, again,

00:15:44.100 was on the roof 10 minutes before Trump even took the stage.

00:15:48.440 So at a minimum, it would have taken them no effort at all and there would have been no risk involved.

00:15:55.040 Quite the opposite, it's a mitigation of risk if they had just delayed Trump coming out until they investigated.

00:16:00.400 They could have at least said, hmm, there's a guy on the roof.

00:16:03.500 That's strange. What's he doing up there?

00:16:05.500 Where, hey, let's keep the former president from taking the stage while we go over and check this thing out. 0.59

00:16:12.420 But they didn't do that.

00:16:14.620 Then shortly before the shooting started, people in the crowd saw the man on the roof.

00:16:18.860 I played several of those videos before.

00:16:21.040 The crowd began calling to police officers nearby.

00:16:23.980 Now we're learning exactly when that happened in the chronology of events that day.

00:16:28.100 As the Washington Post reports, quote,

00:16:30.180 the shots began 86 seconds after the first audible attempts to alert police, according to the analysis.

00:16:35.500 Which synchronized several clips based on the sound of Trump's voice over the public address system.

00:16:40.740 So I'll say that again.

00:16:42.280 The shots began 86 seconds after the first audible attempts to alert police.

00:16:47.480 All that needed to happen in those 86 seconds was for the officer to get on the radio

00:16:52.180 and say there's a suspicious person on the roof, get Trump off the stage.

00:16:56.120 Or he could have directed the counter snipers to look for the person and identify the specific roof.

00:17:03.100 Instead, once again, nothing happened.

00:17:06.320 No one stopped the shooter until Trump was shot first.

00:17:08.600 The only explanation for these events, outside of the possibility that the Secret Service deliberately intended for Trump to get shot,

00:17:17.100 which is not by any means a crazy thing to believe,

00:17:20.740 outside of that, the only other explanation is incompetence of a staggering historic degree.

00:17:27.420 The only conceivable way this assassination attempt happens, excluding malice,

00:17:33.580 is if people who have no idea what they're doing, who were not chosen based on merit,

00:17:39.500 were put in jobs they can't possibly perform.

00:17:43.040 And through its explicit DEI policies,

00:17:46.560 the dramatically lowered physical fitness standards for women,

00:17:50.120 the hiring quotas, the special push for more LGBTQ agents, and so on,

00:17:56.280 the Secret Service has made it abundantly clear that it doesn't care about merit.

00:18:01.420 Instead, the agency cares about politics and appearances.

00:18:05.260 That's the reason for the DEI hiring.

00:18:08.500 That's the reason they're appalled by mean tweets like mine.

00:18:12.560 And it's the reason Donald Trump was just shot in the face.

00:18:15.540 And why U.S. history very nearly changed forever.

00:18:20.120 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:19:29.020 Let's begin with the Republican Convention.

00:19:31.240 And by the way, let me just say, because I've been asked this a bunch of times, actually.

00:19:35.240 The Daily Wire is at the convention this week.

00:19:38.120 I'm not there only because I'm at the lake with my family this month.

00:19:42.120 And if the convention was any other month, I'd be there.

00:19:45.400 Can't miss family time, though.

00:19:46.840 And also, my kids would, you know, murder me if I said I was leaving to go to a political convention this week.

00:19:53.240 Maybe not murder me, but they'd be really sad, and I'd feel guilty.

00:19:55.640 So that's why I'm not there.

00:19:58.020 But anyway, the convention continues, and even without my presence somehow.

00:20:02.260 J.D. Vance spoke last night, and I want to play—I thought it was a good speech.

00:20:06.760 I want to play one clip in particular from that speech that I thought was pretty important.

00:20:13.700 Listen to this.

00:20:15.200 Now, that's Kentucky coal country, one of the ten—

00:20:18.280 Now, it's one of the ten poorest counties in the entire United States of America.

00:20:31.400 They're very hardworking people, and they're very good people.

00:20:34.900 They're the kind of people who would give you the shirt off their back even if they can't afford enough to eat.

00:20:39.820 And our media calls them privileged and looks down on them.

00:20:43.420 But they love this country not only because it's a good idea,

00:20:48.380 but because in their bones they know that this is their home,

00:20:52.720 and it will be their children's home, and they would die fighting to protect it.

00:20:56.480 That is the source of America's greatness.

00:21:12.520 As a United States senator, I get to represent millions of people in the great state of Ohio with similar stories,

00:21:17.740 and it is the great honor of my life.

00:21:19.600 Now, in that cemetery, there are people who were born around the time of the Civil War.

00:21:25.120 And if, as I hope, my wife and I are eventually laid to rest there,

00:21:29.440 and our kids follow us,

00:21:30.880 there will be seven generations just in that small mountain cemetery plot in eastern Kentucky.

00:21:36.200 Seven generations of people who have fought for this country,

00:21:39.820 who have built this country,

00:21:41.420 who have made things in this country,

00:21:42.920 and who would fight and die to protect this country if they were asked to.

00:21:54.740 Now, that's not just an idea, my friends.

00:21:58.740 That's not just a set of principles.

00:22:00.320 Even though the ideas and the principles are great,

00:22:03.380 that is a homeland.

00:22:04.680 That is our homeland.

00:22:05.900 That's about two minutes,

00:22:10.260 and this section of the speech was four or five minutes.

00:22:13.000 It's worth going and watching the whole thing if you didn't see it.

00:22:16.040 His point, as you heard, is that America is not just an idea,

00:22:20.200 which is something that we hear a lot,

00:22:22.100 that America is an idea,

00:22:23.160 but it's not just that.

00:22:25.720 It's not just an abstraction.

00:22:28.100 It is our home,

00:22:29.660 and we should love and cherish it for that reason,

00:22:32.080 and our leaders should put America first for that reason.

00:22:36.900 This is a very simple point that he's making,

00:22:40.440 but it's incredibly important,

00:22:43.020 and it's the kind of simple but important point

00:22:45.360 that you don't often hear from politicians.

00:22:47.560 You don't hear it from Democrats at all, ever.

00:22:51.160 You don't hear it from Republicans very often, either.

00:22:55.400 But there's a certain power just in that statement alone.

00:23:00.480 America is our homeland.

00:23:02.860 Calling it that.

00:23:05.840 And it should not be even notable

00:23:10.240 for a politician to say something like that.

00:23:12.860 For a politician to say,

00:23:14.400 America is our home, right?

00:23:16.580 This is where we were born and raised.

00:23:18.380 This is where our families are from.

00:23:20.520 This is where our ancestors are from, right?

00:23:23.140 America is our home.

00:23:24.660 There should be nothing surprising about a politician saying that.

00:23:28.020 It should be really boring

00:23:29.300 to hear them say things like that.

00:23:32.080 But that's not the case in modern American culture.

00:23:37.260 Because we have been,

00:23:39.500 there's this idea that's been ingrained in so many people

00:23:42.100 for so many years

00:23:43.980 that America is not really anyone in particular's home.

00:23:49.200 It's just that.

00:23:50.020 It's like, it's an idea.

00:23:52.420 It's not even an idea.

00:23:53.400 It's just a, it's a, you know,

00:23:54.720 it's something that anyone,

00:23:56.120 even to call it an idea at this point,

00:23:57.980 is, is,

00:23:58.880 it's too solid of a, of a thing

00:24:01.840 for a lot of people.

00:24:05.320 So the idea is that America is just a,

00:24:08.820 it's, you know,

00:24:09.480 it's a, it's a,

00:24:10.100 it's a place

00:24:10.960 at most.

00:24:13.720 And it's a,

00:24:14.540 a place that anyone can come.

00:24:16.380 And once they come to that place,

00:24:18.380 they're,

00:24:19.440 they are there.

00:24:20.240 And they're there in the same way

00:24:21.520 that anyone else is there.

00:24:22.380 But that's not the case.

00:24:26.400 It is a home.

00:24:27.060 And, and it's important to hear him say that.

00:24:30.900 And, you know,

00:24:31.640 these convention speeches are not meant

00:24:33.180 to be necessarily insightful and interesting.

00:24:35.900 They are, they're rallying cries.

00:24:38.000 You know, the, these are,

00:24:39.320 they're the kinds of speeches,

00:24:40.920 as you heard,

00:24:41.600 where people interject with applause

00:24:43.200 every five seconds.

00:24:44.400 And that's all great.

00:24:46.140 That's the style.

00:24:47.120 That's the genre.

00:24:47.800 That's what these conventions are for.

00:24:49.540 But, um,

00:24:51.560 even if the speech is going to mostly be

00:24:53.640 red meat applause lines,

00:24:55.060 it's still important to say something.

00:24:57.340 And Vance said something here,

00:24:59.040 which I really appreciate.

00:25:00.800 And it's one of the reasons why I'd say that

00:25:02.400 J.D. Vance is,

00:25:04.720 he's certainly the best

00:25:06.260 VP pick of my lifetime,

00:25:08.580 hands down.

00:25:09.880 It's a low bar, granted.

00:25:12.020 I mean, who's he competing against?

00:25:13.700 Mike Pence, Paul Ryan,

00:25:16.120 you know, Sarah Palin.

00:25:17.700 That's just this century.

00:25:19.540 Dick Cheney,

00:25:20.960 just counting the Republicans.

00:25:22.960 Um,

00:25:24.120 and not only is he the best VP pick

00:25:26.140 of,

00:25:27.560 of all of them,

00:25:28.700 but he has the chance of being the first

00:25:30.540 of that bunch to actually become president. 0.96

00:25:33.020 Uh,

00:25:33.420 I'll say that.

00:25:34.120 So I thought it was an excellent speech.

00:25:36.500 And, uh,

00:25:37.160 as I said,

00:25:37.620 I think a few days ago,

00:25:38.220 this is,

00:25:38.620 this is also the first time in my life

00:25:40.160 when I can,

00:25:40.980 when I think we can say that

00:25:42.260 the Republican Party

00:25:43.320 has,

00:25:45.080 uh,

00:25:46.600 has a bench.

00:25:47.600 You know,

00:25:47.900 there's people waiting on the bench.

00:25:49.280 There's J.D. Vance.

00:25:51.140 There's Ron DeSantis,

00:25:52.900 uh,

00:25:53.140 Vivek.

00:25:54.720 And not just them,

00:25:55.780 but,

00:25:56.040 and maybe more to come out of the woodwork,

00:25:58.380 but it's the first time

00:25:59.100 when you can point to several people

00:26:01.140 and say,

00:26:02.040 okay,

00:26:02.280 well,

00:26:03.420 here are people that we could pass the torch to.

00:26:05.280 Now,

00:26:07.060 we talked about the left-wing conspiracy theory

00:26:09.260 surrounding the shooting,

00:26:10.260 that it was staged somehow,

00:26:12.440 that Trump was in on it.

00:26:14.900 And it isn't just the crazies on TikTok

00:26:16.740 that are floating this idea.

00:26:17.980 It's also crazies with cable news shows,

00:26:19.960 uh,

00:26:20.880 who are,

00:26:21.380 who are suggesting this.

00:26:23.500 For instance,

00:26:24.620 we have Joy Reid.

00:26:25.580 Let's watch.

00:26:25.980 We still don't know for sure

00:26:29.700 whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet,

00:26:33.020 whether he was hit by glass fragments,

00:26:35.800 whether he was hit by shrapnel.

00:26:37.440 We don't have those details.

00:26:39.060 We actually have no details

00:26:40.680 from his physician,

00:26:42.120 even though this man is still a Secret Service protected,

00:26:44.940 you know,

00:26:46.140 and presidential candidate.

00:26:47.940 We knew almost nothing.

00:26:51.920 Why?

00:26:52.800 Why don't we know that much?

00:26:54.880 We know that three people were shot.

00:26:57.000 One person,

00:26:57.560 unfortunately,

00:26:57.900 was killed at the rally.

00:26:59.700 We don't know where they were sitting

00:27:01.340 or standing relative to him.

00:27:04.000 We don't know why

00:27:05.720 for nine full seconds

00:27:08.440 Donald Trump was allowed to stand back up

00:27:12.400 during an active shooting,

00:27:15.480 an active shooter situation,

00:27:16.960 even though they,

00:27:18.960 at that point,

00:27:19.500 had said the shooter,

00:27:20.740 the shooter was down.

00:27:22.840 How would have they know,

00:27:24.000 how would they have known

00:27:24.920 if there were more shooters or not?

00:27:27.080 Nobody knew

00:27:27.800 that there could have been

00:27:28.720 five shooters

00:27:30.100 for all they knew.

00:27:31.240 Yet they allowed him to stand up

00:27:33.440 in the middle of that,

00:27:35.180 you know,

00:27:36.480 crisis

00:27:37.000 and pose for a photo

00:27:39.740 and fist pump the air 0.65

00:27:43.100 so he could get the iconic photo.

00:27:45.520 And then they allowed him

00:27:46.600 to stand up again

00:27:47.800 outside of the SUV

00:27:49.340 instead of just shoving him

00:27:50.400 into the SUV.

00:27:51.320 That seems really unusual.

00:27:53.600 What is the actual injury

00:27:55.180 to Donald Trump's ear

00:27:56.120 that's under that bandage?

00:27:57.900 Shouldn't we know that by now?

00:27:59.760 It's weird.

00:28:00.620 And there doesn't seem to be

00:28:01.740 a whole lot of curiosity about it.

00:28:04.340 You know,

00:28:05.080 in the sort of media world,

00:28:07.220 you know,

00:28:07.500 my profession,

00:28:08.580 it's weird, right?

00:28:09.680 Where are the foyers?

00:28:10.760 Why isn't the New York Times

00:28:12.140 like aggressively pursuing

00:28:14.200 his medical records?

00:28:16.720 It's just weird.

00:28:18.220 Just a strange thing

00:28:19.420 that I've noticed.

00:28:21.280 And I don't know

00:28:21.680 if you guys have noticed it too.

00:28:23.000 But it's weird.

00:28:24.040 Yeah, it's so weird.

00:28:25.340 What's under the bandage?

00:28:26.460 We have no idea.

00:28:28.680 Except for the approximately

00:28:29.960 10 billion photographs of it.

00:28:32.380 You know,

00:28:34.100 all the photos

00:28:35.140 that we all saw

00:28:36.000 of his bleeding,

00:28:37.440 injured ear.

00:28:39.380 Aside from the fact

00:28:40.040 that this might be

00:28:40.680 the most documented injury

00:28:42.240 of all time,

00:28:44.040 this is the most,

00:28:45.260 this,

00:28:45.660 his,

00:28:45.940 the injury to his ear

00:28:47.000 might be the most

00:28:47.740 widely viewed

00:28:48.920 injury ever in history.

00:28:51.600 And except for that,

00:28:52.760 we have no idea.

00:28:53.520 We don't know.

00:28:55.660 What's the injury?

00:28:56.680 It's a,

00:28:57.220 it's a bullet.

00:28:58.120 It's a wound.

00:28:59.740 You can see it.

00:29:00.360 What do you mean?

00:29:00.800 What else do you need to know?

00:29:01.800 There's not a lot

00:29:02.360 to say about it.

00:29:04.060 Aside from what you saw.

00:29:07.060 Fortunately,

00:29:07.540 it did just hit his ear.

00:29:09.300 Okay.

00:29:09.400 It's not,

00:29:09.780 because it's not

00:29:10.340 one of those things

00:29:10.820 where like,

00:29:11.180 okay,

00:29:11.300 if he had been shot 0.59

00:29:11.960 in the stomach,

00:29:13.160 God forbid,

00:29:14.920 and survived,

00:29:15.800 then it's,

00:29:17.500 it wouldn't be enough

00:29:18.300 to just say,

00:29:19.040 oh,

00:29:19.180 he was shot in the stomach.

00:29:20.040 There's organs.

00:29:21.240 There's all kinds of stuff.

00:29:22.140 We need to know

00:29:22.440 how bad is the injury?

00:29:23.740 What's the extent

00:29:24.600 of the injury?

00:29:25.880 So it's a much more

00:29:26.780 complicated injury.

00:29:29.420 An injury to an ear,

00:29:31.080 thank God,

00:29:31.800 ends up being

00:29:34.040 much more minor

00:29:34.780 and more simple.

00:29:35.460 And,

00:29:35.980 you know,

00:29:37.880 they tell us

00:29:38.680 his ear was injured.

00:29:42.020 We all saw the photograph.

00:29:43.780 I don't know

00:29:44.560 what more information

00:29:45.840 you need.

00:29:46.760 What else do you need

00:29:47.660 to know

00:29:48.300 about it?

00:29:50.620 So she's doing

00:29:51.640 the classic

00:29:52.360 coy conspiracy theorist

00:29:53.920 thing that people

00:29:54.680 like her usually

00:29:55.380 complain about.

00:29:56.440 Hey,

00:29:56.620 I'm just asking questions,

00:29:57.720 man.

00:29:57.880 I'm just asking

00:29:58.580 questions.

00:29:59.340 That's all.

00:30:01.160 And there's nothing

00:30:01.960 wrong with asking

00:30:02.580 questions,

00:30:03.140 right?

00:30:04.700 We have no problem

00:30:05.560 with asking questions,

00:30:06.420 but you obviously

00:30:08.100 are implying

00:30:09.360 certain possibilities.

00:30:10.580 so just come out

00:30:12.640 and say it.

00:30:14.140 You're implying

00:30:15.040 certain things.

00:30:16.420 Have the guts

00:30:17.060 to say what you mean.

00:30:19.500 Joy Reid thinks

00:30:20.640 the shooting

00:30:21.080 might have been staged.

00:30:22.280 That's what she's saying. 1.00

00:30:23.800 She's too cowardly 1.00

00:30:25.000 to just come out 1.00

00:30:26.000 and say it,

00:30:26.420 but that is what

00:30:26.880 she's saying.

00:30:28.000 Now,

00:30:28.480 I believe that there

00:30:29.240 could be conspiracies

00:30:30.200 related to this shooting.

00:30:32.620 Not that Trump

00:30:33.380 staged them.

00:30:34.520 It's not conspiracies

00:30:35.400 Trump was involved in.

00:30:36.660 He was the target

00:30:37.500 of the conspiracies,

00:30:38.460 if there was a conspiracy.

00:30:40.720 And I believe that,

00:30:41.880 but I have no problem

00:30:42.560 coming out and saying it.

00:30:43.940 I think it's possible

00:30:44.700 the Secret Service

00:30:45.460 and or other agencies

00:30:46.840 and entities

00:30:47.340 in the federal government

00:30:48.180 were in on it.

00:30:48.960 I think it's possible

00:30:49.740 that they weren't

00:30:50.480 directly in on it,

00:30:51.480 but were intentionally

00:30:52.580 lax in their security

00:30:53.680 because they hoped

00:30:55.140 that this might happen.

00:30:56.680 I don't know that,

00:30:57.840 but that's one theory

00:30:58.800 that I am entertaining.

00:31:00.060 Many of us

00:31:00.500 are entertaining,

00:31:01.960 and we will say it.

00:31:04.040 We're not being coy

00:31:04.940 about it.

00:31:06.440 We're saying,

00:31:07.440 hey,

00:31:07.800 what if this is the case?

00:31:09.220 Are we sure

00:31:09.640 that it isn't?

00:31:12.180 The other thing

00:31:12.840 about our theories,

00:31:13.860 along with the fact

00:31:14.500 that we will say them,

00:31:15.880 is that they make sense

00:31:18.280 given the facts

00:31:19.220 on the ground.

00:31:20.720 Joy Reid's theory

00:31:21.460 makes no sense.

00:31:23.200 Now,

00:31:23.600 if she's simply suggesting,

00:31:25.940 because there's kind

00:31:26.480 of two theories

00:31:27.120 that she's,

00:31:27.900 not just her,

00:31:29.020 right,

00:31:29.180 but there are two theories

00:31:32.540 that they're kind of floating

00:31:33.920 while being too chicken

00:31:35.320 to actually say them out loud,

00:31:37.000 and one is that

00:31:38.520 he was hit by broken glass

00:31:40.500 or something,

00:31:42.300 but Trump doesn't want

00:31:43.720 to tell us that

00:31:44.420 because it's not as dramatic

00:31:45.640 of a story,

00:31:46.940 and so he wants everyone

00:31:48.420 to think that he was hit

00:31:49.220 by a bullet,

00:31:49.800 but he really wasn't.

00:31:51.780 Now,

00:31:52.260 I don't think that's true at all.

00:31:53.440 I think that's nonsense.

00:31:54.740 It's at least a relatively coherent

00:31:56.740 nonsensical theory,

00:31:58.400 like you can,

00:32:00.360 it's a coherent theory.

00:32:01.180 We understand what the theory is.

00:32:02.640 It doesn't work.

00:32:04.440 I mean,

00:32:04.780 if he was hit,

00:32:05.880 it doesn't work

00:32:06.340 for a lot of reasons,

00:32:07.580 but let's start with this.

00:32:11.460 Like,

00:32:11.920 what we can see

00:32:12.940 of the injury,

00:32:14.700 we saw the ear injured

00:32:15.980 and now there's the bandage,

00:32:17.800 and all that makes sense.

00:32:20.020 Hey,

00:32:20.140 why is he wearing a bandage?

00:32:21.200 What are you trying

00:32:21.820 to hide under there,

00:32:22.920 huh?

00:32:24.160 I don't know.

00:32:24.800 He was shot in the ear

00:32:26.440 like four days ago?

00:32:29.220 You want him

00:32:29.880 to not wear a bandage?

00:32:33.660 But anyway,

00:32:36.820 that,

00:32:37.140 that is

00:32:38.880 more consistent

00:32:40.960 with a bullet wound

00:32:43.040 than it is

00:32:43.600 with,

00:32:43.860 with shards of glass.

00:32:46.320 Because if he was hit

00:32:47.560 by flying shards

00:32:48.500 of broken glass,

00:32:49.160 you would expect

00:32:49.740 more visible injuries

00:32:51.440 than the bullet.

00:32:52.860 A bullet can

00:32:53.700 graze your ear.

00:32:55.300 That's a thing

00:32:55.660 that can happen,

00:32:56.240 which is what happened.

00:32:58.480 Flying shards of glass,

00:32:59.760 if they hit your ear,

00:33:00.980 they're probably going to hit

00:33:02.060 the whole side

00:33:02.700 of your face.

00:33:04.520 Like,

00:33:04.960 how would shards of glass

00:33:06.200 only hit the tip

00:33:07.140 of your ear?

00:33:07.560 So,

00:33:10.460 so it doesn't really work.

00:33:12.580 But she goes beyond that,

00:33:13.820 obviously.

00:33:14.260 She's clearly suggesting

00:33:15.220 that the whole thing

00:33:16.300 may have been staged

00:33:17.380 in some way,

00:33:18.560 which is totally bonkers.

00:33:22.160 Although she is right 0.97

00:33:23.140 about one thing.

00:33:23.780 The reaction from the Secret Service

00:33:25.220 is weird.

00:33:26.540 We can agree on that.

00:33:27.540 It's very weird.

00:33:28.820 Both before and after.

00:33:30.180 We've talked about

00:33:30.660 the issues before,

00:33:31.900 even after.

00:33:32.520 It took them way too long

00:33:34.020 to get them out of there.

00:33:37.060 Why?

00:33:37.720 Well,

00:33:38.100 again,

00:33:39.620 whatever conspiracy theory

00:33:41.280 that leads you to,

00:33:43.220 it cannot be one

00:33:44.420 where Trump

00:33:45.040 is the mastermind.

00:33:47.320 Because,

00:33:48.080 to begin with,

00:33:48.640 this is Biden's

00:33:49.680 Secret Service

00:33:50.400 that we're talking about here.

00:33:51.760 This is the Secret Service

00:33:52.900 under Biden.

00:33:54.600 So what,

00:33:55.020 is the Biden administration

00:33:56.140 conspiring with Trump

00:33:57.920 to elect him president? 0.99

00:33:59.400 What kind of a ridiculous excuse 0.99

00:34:02.400 for a conspiracy theory 0.96

00:34:03.460 is that exactly?

00:34:06.200 Now,

00:34:06.700 if you want to go this route,

00:34:07.660 you have to ask,

00:34:08.900 who stands to gain

00:34:11.540 from Trump getting hit 0.99

00:34:13.340 in the head with a bullet? 0.95

00:34:15.380 Trump only gains from it 1.00

00:34:17.000 on the very insanely small chance

00:34:19.820 that the bullet hits

00:34:20.820 one of the very few

00:34:22.120 little portions of your head 0.99

00:34:24.180 that won't kill you 1.00

00:34:26.820 if you're hit with a bullet. 0.91

00:34:28.400 That's what happened.

00:34:29.200 But the chances are so low

00:34:31.220 that it obviously

00:34:31.800 couldn't have been

00:34:32.560 his idea to do this.

00:34:34.440 Like,

00:34:34.800 99 times out of 100, 0.97

00:34:36.540 if you shoot a guy 0.99

00:34:37.760 in the head 1.00

00:34:39.020 and make contact

00:34:40.080 from 450 feet out

00:34:41.660 with an AR-15, 1.00

00:34:43.300 you're going to kill him 1.00

00:34:44.760 or at least you're going to cause 1.00

00:34:46.400 a significant

00:34:48.500 incapacitating injury.

00:34:51.840 So,

00:34:52.520 who stands to gain

00:34:53.900 from shooting Trump 0.99

00:34:54.740 in the head?

00:34:56.260 Who would say to themselves

00:34:57.580 ahead of time,

00:34:58.200 you know it would be great 1.00

00:34:59.960 if Trump was shot in the head? 1.00

00:35:03.260 Trump isn't going to say that.

00:35:04.840 I don't think that's something

00:35:05.560 Trump's going to say to himself.

00:35:08.320 There's really no conceivable universe

00:35:09.920 where Trump is

00:35:10.980 standing up on stage

00:35:12.440 delivering a speech

00:35:13.220 hoping 1.00

00:35:14.060 that someone shoots him 1.00

00:35:16.400 in the head, 0.94

00:35:16.760 much less

00:35:17.260 arranging for that

00:35:18.520 to happen to him.

00:35:19.260 So,

00:35:21.500 if we are speculating

00:35:22.900 about

00:35:23.600 forces beyond

00:35:25.340 just the shooter

00:35:26.280 being involved

00:35:27.040 in this thing,

00:35:27.820 then,

00:35:28.180 again,

00:35:28.440 the first thing

00:35:28.840 you have to ask is,

00:35:29.580 well,

00:35:29.720 who would want that? 0.89

00:35:31.020 Who are the people?

00:35:32.480 You know,

00:35:32.740 you arrange your suspects

00:35:35.160 just like any,

00:35:37.080 you know,

00:35:37.740 it's like

00:35:38.500 in any murder investigation.

00:35:41.160 Right?

00:35:41.660 You don't know

00:35:42.260 who all involved,

00:35:43.660 who all was involved.

00:35:45.140 Well,

00:35:45.500 the first thing

00:35:46.100 detectives are asking themselves

00:35:47.220 is,

00:35:47.580 who has a motive?

00:35:48.820 Who would want to do this?

00:35:51.220 Let's start with them.

00:35:53.660 Doesn't mean they're all guilty.

00:35:54.780 Doesn't mean any of them are guilty.

00:35:55.860 But we got to start with,

00:35:56.820 who would conceivably

00:35:57.800 want this to happen

00:35:58.760 to this person?

00:36:01.320 And if you do the same thing

00:36:02.820 with this,

00:36:04.380 it leads you in directions,

00:36:06.040 but they all point to,

00:36:08.200 you know,

00:36:08.800 Joy Reid's

00:36:09.440 side of the aisle.

00:36:12.380 All right,

00:36:12.960 here's something

00:36:13.460 extremely

00:36:14.140 depressing

00:36:16.740 for you.

00:36:18.160 Just what you were hoping for.

00:36:20.280 I'm going to read now

00:36:20.920 from MSN

00:36:21.920 about the first

00:36:22.800 euthanasia pods

00:36:24.060 set to be rolled out

00:36:25.100 in Switzerland

00:36:25.780 very soon.

00:36:26.760 Okay?

00:36:28.120 And just listen to this

00:36:29.400 and keep in mind

00:36:30.320 that

00:36:30.780 this is real.

00:36:33.520 You might have your doubts

00:36:34.460 about that as I read

00:36:35.440 because

00:36:35.900 the dystopian horror

00:36:37.660 is so on the nose

00:36:38.840 you might think

00:36:39.460 this is something

00:36:40.940 from a sci-fi novel,

00:36:42.880 but it's not.

00:36:43.360 It's real.

00:36:43.820 Okay.

00:36:45.540 An assisted dying group

00:36:46.820 expects a portable

00:36:47.840 suicide pod

00:36:49.000 to be used

00:36:49.560 for the first time

00:36:50.160 in Switzerland,

00:36:50.900 potentially within months,

00:36:51.980 providing death

00:36:52.620 without medical supervision,

00:36:53.960 it said Wednesday.

00:36:55.320 The space-age-looking

00:36:56.460 Sarco capsule,

00:36:58.200 first unveiled in 2019,

00:37:00.120 replaces the oxygen

00:37:01.100 inside it with nitrogen,

00:37:02.480 causing death

00:37:03.000 by hypoxia.

00:37:04.400 It would cost

00:37:04.900 20 bucks to use,

00:37:06.540 the last resort

00:37:07.280 organization said

00:37:08.040 it saw no legal

00:37:08.840 obstacle to its use

00:37:09.700 in Switzerland,

00:37:10.820 where the law

00:37:11.200 generally allows

00:37:11.820 assisted suicide

00:37:12.480 if the person

00:37:13.060 commits the lethal

00:37:13.700 act themselves.

00:37:16.220 The last resort's

00:37:17.200 chief executive,

00:37:17.900 Florian Willett,

00:37:18.780 told a press conference,

00:37:20.460 quote,

00:37:20.920 since we have people

00:37:21.480 indeed queuing up

00:37:22.580 asking to use

00:37:23.360 the Sarco,

00:37:23.860 it's very likely

00:37:24.420 that it will take

00:37:24.960 place pretty soon.

00:37:26.680 I cannot imagine

00:37:28.060 a more beautiful

00:37:28.780 way to die

00:37:29.680 of breathing air

00:37:30.700 without oxygen

00:37:31.360 until falling

00:37:31.960 into an eternal sleep,

00:37:33.080 she added.

00:37:34.060 He added,

00:37:34.740 rather.

00:37:36.240 The person wishing

00:37:36.840 to die must first

00:37:37.540 pass a psychiatric

00:37:38.340 assessment of their

00:37:39.160 mental capacity,

00:37:39.900 a key legal requirement.

00:37:41.760 The person climbs

00:37:42.520 into the purple capsule,

00:37:43.860 closes the lid,

00:37:45.400 and is asked

00:37:46.400 automated questions

00:37:47.480 such as who they are,

00:37:48.860 where they are,

00:37:49.580 and if they know

00:37:50.100 what happens

00:37:50.540 when they press

00:37:50.960 the button. 0.98

00:37:51.280 If you want to die, 0.78

00:37:53.560 the voice says

00:37:54.200 in the processor,

00:37:55.220 press this button.

00:37:57.540 Once the button

00:37:58.160 is pressed,

00:37:58.540 the amount of oxygen

00:37:59.180 in the air plummets

00:37:59.800 from 21% to 0.05%

00:38:01.680 in less than 30 seconds.

00:38:07.500 And one of the guys

00:38:09.000 in charge of this company

00:38:09.940 says once you press

00:38:10.740 that button, 0.91

00:38:11.300 there's no way

00:38:11.880 of going back.

00:38:12.660 So once you press it,

00:38:13.600 you can't,

00:38:14.000 if you change your mind,

00:38:15.180 too late.

00:38:16.860 A couple of other

00:38:18.000 important notes here.

00:38:19.640 First of all,

00:38:20.140 the article mentions

00:38:21.660 that the pods

00:38:22.600 can be reused.

00:38:24.660 So that's,

00:38:25.160 so, you know,

00:38:26.060 that's a,

00:38:26.460 that's a,

00:38:26.820 so it's a cost-saving measure.

00:38:29.300 If you want euthanasia

00:38:30.720 on a budget,

00:38:31.280 then you can always

00:38:32.580 get a hand-me-down

00:38:34.020 euthanasia pod.

00:38:35.660 Head over to the

00:38:36.660 consignment shop

00:38:37.460 and grab one

00:38:38.560 on clearance.

00:38:40.140 Lightly used,

00:38:41.080 lightly used euthanasia pod

00:38:42.560 for sale.

00:38:44.780 Also, if you're wondering

00:38:45.680 what sarco means,

00:38:47.280 it's short for sarcophagus.

00:38:50.140 So, nothing creepy

00:38:51.020 about that,

00:38:51.540 of course.

00:38:52.760 It's not like this is

00:38:53.760 deeply, deeply

00:38:54.840 unsettling at all.

00:38:56.820 Now, as,

00:38:57.520 as it says in the article,

00:38:58.760 this is supposed to make

00:38:59.440 the process much more

00:39:00.520 peaceful

00:39:00.980 and welcoming.

00:39:03.920 And the problem with that

00:39:05.040 is that,

00:39:05.540 to begin with,

00:39:06.280 that,

00:39:06.980 that's the opposite

00:39:07.920 of what we should be

00:39:08.840 trying to do.

00:39:10.340 If somebody is at this

00:39:11.620 point mentally

00:39:12.280 and emotionally,

00:39:13.480 psychologically,

00:39:14.680 where they would be

00:39:15.180 considering something

00:39:15.840 like this,

00:39:16.900 the issue for them

00:39:20.220 isn't that the process

00:39:22.500 of ending their own life

00:39:23.640 is uncomfortable.

00:39:26.120 The issue is that

00:39:27.140 they want

00:39:27.920 to end their life

00:39:29.220 in the first place.

00:39:30.940 Making it more comfortable

00:39:32.120 for them to do it

00:39:33.040 is not the solution.

00:39:34.080 The solution is to

00:39:34.900 help them,

00:39:36.080 help them not to die,

00:39:37.380 but to live.

00:39:38.980 This is a very basic

00:39:40.000 concept here.

00:39:41.560 is the number one

00:39:44.160 reason why I'm

00:39:44.820 against euthanasia.

00:39:46.760 Okay?

00:39:47.280 It's the wrong

00:39:48.060 kind of help.

00:39:49.840 We need to help

00:39:50.740 people to live,

00:39:51.760 not to die.

00:39:53.220 And,

00:39:53.520 and also,

00:39:55.360 if the goal is to make

00:39:56.420 ending your own life

00:39:57.660 more appealing,

00:39:58.540 which is an awful,

00:40:00.260 evil goal to have,

00:40:02.780 but if it is,

00:40:04.400 how the hell

00:40:04.980 is a sarcophagus pod

00:40:06.780 that you can't escape

00:40:08.680 once you go in

00:40:09.840 that's,

00:40:11.660 that's,

00:40:12.580 that's more peaceful,

00:40:14.220 that's more,

00:40:16.280 like,

00:40:16.480 how does that

00:40:16.780 accomplish the goal

00:40:17.580 of making this all

00:40:18.340 seem more pleasant?

00:40:20.900 In fact,

00:40:21.240 of all the ways to go,

00:40:22.560 to me,

00:40:23.160 this sounds like

00:40:23.900 maybe the most terrifying.

00:40:27.360 And this is what happens

00:40:28.600 the more you try

00:40:30.020 to sanitize

00:40:31.260 this kind of thing.

00:40:33.740 In our culture of death,

00:40:35.320 this is what we do.

00:40:36.340 We sanitize death.

00:40:37.780 Rather than embracing life,

00:40:40.200 finding meaning in life,

00:40:41.340 helping others to find meaning,

00:40:42.900 we try to make death

00:40:43.760 seem more appealing.

00:40:44.920 But you can't really make

00:40:45.840 death seem appealing

00:40:46.940 because death is an ugly,

00:40:48.920 brutal thing, right?

00:40:50.420 Dying is an ugly

00:40:51.260 and brutal thing

00:40:51.800 no matter,

00:40:52.200 no matter what.

00:40:52.820 It just is.

00:40:54.720 So instead,

00:40:55.340 they settle for,

00:40:56.020 rather than making it appealing,

00:40:57.240 which you can't,

00:40:58.480 they settle for something

00:40:59.660 sterile and sanitized

00:41:01.480 and medicalized.

00:41:03.800 Which,

00:41:04.240 which if anything,

00:41:04.900 makes the whole matter

00:41:05.700 more terrible

00:41:06.500 than it was before.

00:41:07.780 But this is what

00:41:09.920 they're rolling out.

00:41:10.720 It starts in Switzerland,

00:41:11.820 then it's going to end up

00:41:12.720 in Canada,

00:41:13.140 and then from there,

00:41:14.900 the rest of the Western world

00:41:16.640 eventually.

00:41:17.660 We can be pretty sure of that.

00:41:19.760 All right.

00:41:20.440 CNBC has this article.

00:41:22.940 The evidence linking

00:41:23.740 smartphone use

00:41:24.800 with mental health harms

00:41:25.860 in children is growing,

00:41:27.280 and one grassroots organization

00:41:28.560 in the UK

00:41:28.880 is supporting parents

00:41:30.060 who are refraining

00:41:30.700 from giving their kids

00:41:31.660 the devices.

00:41:32.140 Smartphone Free Childhood

00:41:34.840 founded by Daisy Greenwell

00:41:35.980 and Claire Feniho

00:41:37.540 in February.

00:41:39.280 Fenihoff, probably.

00:41:40.440 I don't know.

00:41:41.140 Set up various group chats

00:41:42.340 for parents locally

00:41:43.420 across the UK

00:41:43.960 and grew to over 60,000 members

00:41:45.520 in a few weeks,

00:41:46.040 according to its website.

00:41:47.320 Interest in the movement

00:41:48.120 is driven by concerns

00:41:49.140 about the normalization

00:41:50.000 of children with smartphones.

00:41:51.660 By the age of 12,

00:41:52.680 97% of children in the UK

00:41:54.520 have a mobile phone.

00:41:56.820 97% by 12.

00:41:58.380 Meanwhile, in the US,

00:42:00.580 42% of children

00:42:02.080 had a smartphone

00:42:02.740 by the age of 10,

00:42:04.260 climbing to 91%

00:42:05.620 by the age of 14.

00:42:08.200 Parents are giving

00:42:08.740 their children smartphones

00:42:09.680 in an increasingly online world

00:42:11.100 for various reasons,

00:42:11.900 including entertainment purposes

00:42:13.060 to keep track

00:42:13.740 of their location,

00:42:15.000 to stay in touch with them

00:42:15.780 when they leave the home.

00:42:16.960 However, studies and experts

00:42:17.880 highlight this

00:42:18.520 as opening up the door

00:42:19.300 to possible mental health harms.

00:42:22.080 So now there's this movement

00:42:22.920 away from it.

00:42:24.060 There's one portion of this

00:42:24.960 that I wanted to read.

00:42:27.580 It says,

00:42:28.100 young people reported

00:42:28.840 worse mental health outcomes

00:42:30.240 the earlier they acquired

00:42:31.880 a smartphone,

00:42:32.860 according to a Sapien Lab study

00:42:34.560 published last year.

00:42:36.200 The study used data

00:42:37.060 from 27,969 18-24 year olds,

00:42:40.560 which was obtained

00:42:41.180 between January and April 2023

00:42:42.940 across 41 countries.

00:42:45.360 This is what it says.

00:42:46.840 Some 74% of female respondents

00:42:49.180 who got their first smartphone

00:42:50.500 at age six

00:42:51.680 reported feeling distressed

00:42:53.660 or struggling per the study.

00:42:55.680 However, this decreased

00:42:56.740 to 61%

00:42:57.740 for those who acquired

00:42:58.600 their first smartphone

00:42:59.400 at age 10

00:43:00.060 and 52%

00:43:01.540 for those who were aged 15.

00:43:03.640 For male respondents,

00:43:04.580 their percentage

00:43:05.000 feeling distressed

00:43:05.860 or struggling

00:43:06.300 reduced from 42%

00:43:07.620 for those who got

00:43:08.200 their first smartphone

00:43:08.840 at age six

00:43:09.380 to 36%

00:43:10.740 for those who got

00:43:11.500 their first smartphone

00:43:12.220 at age 18.

00:43:14.780 Okay, now,

00:43:15.680 it's no surprise

00:43:16.580 that kids who get

00:43:17.540 their first smartphone

00:43:18.340 at age six

00:43:19.240 would report

00:43:20.400 negative mental health outcomes.

00:43:21.940 and I will say

00:43:23.880 that, you know,

00:43:25.740 there's more

00:43:26.180 to that story.

00:43:27.900 A child who

00:43:29.020 gets a smartphone

00:43:31.000 at six years old

00:43:31.980 has terrible parents

00:43:33.360 in general.

00:43:34.560 So, the fact that they,

00:43:35.960 you know,

00:43:36.180 have poor mental health

00:43:37.040 is partly due to the phone

00:43:38.160 and it's partly due

00:43:39.640 to the fact that 0.99

00:43:40.140 their parents are awful

00:43:41.080 across the board, right? 0.95

00:43:42.980 And kids with awful parents

00:43:44.480 tend to suffer

00:43:45.160 mentally and emotionally.

00:43:46.680 So, that's part

00:43:47.420 of what's going on.

00:43:49.080 Because just,

00:43:49.620 just think about that.

00:43:51.280 I know this is not,

00:43:52.500 this is not the majority

00:43:53.960 of kids getting

00:43:54.680 smartphones at six,

00:43:56.220 but, but six years old?

00:43:59.360 Six?

00:44:01.360 You're giving your kid

00:44:02.120 a smartphone?

00:44:04.460 We, we need to shame

00:44:05.840 parents who give children

00:44:07.000 smartphones at that

00:44:08.020 young of an age

00:44:09.180 to the same extent

00:44:10.360 that we would shame them

00:44:11.240 for giving a six-year-old,

00:44:12.820 you know,

00:44:14.080 a shot of whiskey

00:44:15.220 or a loaded gun.

00:44:18.140 Because you're giving them

00:44:19.680 something that can only

00:44:20.740 harm them.

00:44:22.980 And anytime a parent

00:44:24.140 does that,

00:44:24.820 that is,

00:44:25.380 that's abuse.

00:44:27.600 You're doing something

00:44:28.700 to your child

00:44:29.340 or you're providing them

00:44:30.460 with something

00:44:30.920 that can only cause harm.

00:44:33.720 That's the only possibility here.

00:44:36.840 That's abusive.

00:44:38.200 That's a form of abuse.

00:44:40.560 There's just no world

00:44:41.900 where they grow up

00:44:42.820 and become adults

00:44:43.440 and end up in a better place

00:44:45.080 and are better

00:44:46.640 and happier people

00:44:47.720 because they've been

00:44:49.500 using a smartphone

00:44:50.200 since they were six years old.

00:44:52.640 That just can't happen.

00:44:54.760 It can only harm them.

00:44:57.740 And why are you doing it?

00:44:59.880 Why are you giving a child

00:45:01.100 that young a smartphone?

00:45:04.060 Well, the article

00:45:04.600 suggests some reasons

00:45:06.260 that you want to keep

00:45:07.240 in touch with them.

00:45:08.360 Right.

00:45:08.620 You got to keep in touch

00:45:09.360 with your six-year-old.

00:45:11.280 Is it that difficult

00:45:12.140 to stay in touch

00:45:12.760 with your six-year-old child?

00:45:15.800 You want to know

00:45:16.460 where they are.

00:45:17.260 Again,

00:45:18.100 it should not be difficult

00:45:19.800 to know where

00:45:20.240 your six-year-old child is

00:45:21.200 without a smartphone.

00:45:23.680 But that's not really it.

00:45:25.360 Right.

00:45:25.640 That's the,

00:45:26.420 because, you know,

00:45:26.980 when parents are asked for this,

00:45:28.300 so why'd you give

00:45:28.900 your kid a smartphone?

00:45:30.460 That's what they're going to say

00:45:31.520 because they're not going

00:45:33.040 to give the honest answer,

00:45:34.340 which is that

00:45:35.080 if you give your kid

00:45:36.160 a smartphone at six

00:45:37.540 or even older,

00:45:38.800 you're doing it

00:45:40.060 because you don't want

00:45:40.600 to deal with them.

00:45:42.380 Right.

00:45:42.780 You just don't want

00:45:43.300 to deal with your kid

00:45:44.300 and that's why

00:45:45.020 you're doing it.

00:45:46.840 And this is the kind

00:45:47.960 of terrifying

00:45:48.700 truth about

00:45:52.560 some parents out there

00:45:53.680 and not just a few

00:45:55.240 that they just don't want

00:45:58.140 anything to do

00:45:58.700 with their own kids.

00:46:00.100 They don't want

00:46:00.620 to raise their kids.

00:46:01.480 They don't want

00:46:01.740 to spend time

00:46:02.320 with their kids.

00:46:03.100 They don't want

00:46:03.440 to play with their kids.

00:46:04.220 They don't want

00:46:04.480 to talk to their kids.

00:46:05.420 They don't want

00:46:05.820 to read to them.

00:46:07.060 They don't want

00:46:07.340 to do anything.

00:46:07.700 They don't want

00:46:07.960 to engage with their kids.

00:46:08.860 They just don't want to.

00:46:09.620 so they want the kid to go away and be occupied by something else and um

00:46:16.220 you know why even have kids if that's the case if you have no desire to actually raise a child

00:46:25.120 then then why do you have kids to begin with good question um fortunately there's this movement in

00:46:32.240 the opposite direction too and uh it it's it's a movement that uh every parent should be a part of

00:46:42.280 and we you know there's a there's a gray area here i'll admit that it's um

00:46:48.520 you're probably not going to bring your child all the way into adulthood without without them ever

00:46:57.240 owning a smartphone certainly they're going to own a phone of some kind before then

00:47:01.940 and uh it is true that you want to the the difficulty here is that you want to introduce

00:47:08.640 them if you don't introduce them to this technology then they'll be introduced to it

00:47:15.020 on their own out in the world and you'd rather introduce it yourself

00:47:18.220 to maybe help them to help train them to have good habits related to this technology

00:47:23.420 um and so you can have some discussion about when is best to start that process but six years old

00:47:31.180 ain't it uh 10 years old not it right pretty clearly like many of you this summer i intend to

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00:49:38.140 you know there are some people who might consider me to be slightly right of center in my politics

00:49:48.540 i admit that but even so today in the name of bipartisanship a value that as you know i hold near and

00:49:56.560 dear to my heart i feel called to defend president joe biden unlike so many others i think joe biden

00:50:04.060 should stay in this race he should soldier on and i want to explain why now as you probably noticed

00:50:10.100 this has been an incredibly bad week for biden which is a change of pace from last week which

00:50:14.900 was extremely bad for biden and that of course was a major shift from the week before which was

00:50:18.740 stupendously bad it's been different flavors of bad for quite some time and this week biden tried to

00:50:24.280 turn things around with a few public appearances and interviews but it didn't help much because according

00:50:28.260 to many of his critics he performed poorly mostly due to his inability to say you know words on

00:50:34.260 wednesday high-ranking democrat adam schiff joined the chorus calling for biden to drop out of the

00:50:39.260 race on the same day according to a report by abc senate majority leader chuck schumer also privately

00:50:43.680 urged biden to step aside this comes in the same week when a major poll finds that half of democrat

00:50:48.960 voters don't believe that biden is mentally fit to be president and then with the other half only half

00:50:54.300 of them are extremely confident in his mental fitness the other the other half of that half are

00:50:58.960 only somewhat confident so to them he might be mentally fit or he might have the sentience of a

00:51:04.500 sea sponge they aren't sure to make matters worse last night it was announced that biden is now

00:51:09.540 suffering through his 97th bout with covid he i guess skipped his weekly booster shot again this is what

00:51:16.500 happens coincidentally enough the covid announcement comes just hours after an interview was released where

00:51:21.140 biden conceded for the first time that the only thing that would make him drop out of the race is

00:51:25.180 a medical condition will this be the medical condition that does it some are speculating there's

00:51:30.880 no question that it's a serious medical crisis covid can after all make you very sniffly it leads to many

00:51:37.900 many sniffles i had some sniffles a few weeks ago myself and i don't know if it was covid because i

00:51:43.300 didn't take a test because it's the year 2024 but the sniffles were bad it was it was almost as bad as

00:51:49.100 being nearly assassinated in fact and they made that exact point on msnbc last night watch

00:51:53.440 here's the question that i have on that these two men are both elderly donald trump is an elderly man

00:52:00.320 who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take a iconic photo op during an active shooter

00:52:06.860 situation weird situation we'll figure that out one day um but his survival of that and and bouncing

00:52:14.100 right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of

00:52:18.840 strength this uh current president of the united states is 81 years old and has covid should he be

00:52:26.600 fine in a couple of days doesn't that convey exactly the same thing that he's strong enough older than

00:52:32.720 trump to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age so if he does fine out of

00:52:40.200 it and comes back and is able to do rallies isn't that exactly the same it's i mean it's not exactly

00:52:45.420 the same it's not same incident but it's all it's an elderly man coming through out of an it should

00:52:50.740 well they're right you know getting a cold is exactly the same as getting shot in the head

00:52:55.720 it's no different i mean i make this point to my wife every time i get a cold i've basically been

00:53:00.900 shot for all intents and purposes this cold is the same thing as getting shot is what i say to my wife

00:53:05.220 and she always says stop being a wimp you're exaggerating and i say well that's a really

00:53:08.580 insensitive thing to say to someone who's just been shot anyway the point is this all of the people

00:53:14.760 telling joe biden to drop out of the race are wrong many conservatives on my side of the aisle

00:53:19.880 also claim that biden is unfit and should step down but i really think that you all should stop saying

00:53:26.540 that seriously stop saying that can you please stop what are you doing i for one believe that biden

00:53:35.980 needs to keep running and take this thing all the way to november i am rooting for biden to conquer

00:53:40.740 covid once again as he has thousands of times in the past and stay in this race no matter what don't

00:53:47.100 drop out don't pass the torch to anyone stay in joe i believe in you now listen joe all these people

00:53:54.200 telling you to drop out they're all a bunch of elitists they've always looked down on working

00:53:58.140 class guys like you normal everyday americans like you who've held national political office since

00:54:03.220 the 1870s they've always doubted you joe don't listen to them it's it's ageism is what it is

00:54:09.840 they say you're too old to be president please i mean my great uncle fred was sharp as a tack until

00:54:15.700 he was 94 he walked around on his own fastened his velcro shoes by himself he was a great parcheesi

00:54:21.920 player even into his 90s so why can't you still be president the people are with you joe they believe

00:54:28.820 in you they're excited about you i hear it all the time every time i go out in public i hear people

00:54:33.980 buzzing about biden just yesterday i was having a conversation with my mailman and he looked at me

00:54:39.120 and said old joe is a fighter we'll never force him out of the race and i nodded my head and said oh

00:54:44.760 you mean fighting joe ain't no man pushing him around that's when a guy walking by stopped and said

00:54:50.580 are you guys talking about joe bulldog biden man oh man that guy's something else i sure hope he stays

00:54:56.880 in the race for the sake of democracy and just then someone driving past stopped their car they

00:55:01.360 hopped out and said hey are you folks chatting about scranton joe from scranton pennsylvania

00:55:06.340 gee whiz that old dog knows how to get things done and then we all laughed and gave each other high 0.76

00:55:12.080 fives that's a real thing that happened in real life and that's what this is all about joe biden needs

00:55:17.780 to stay in the race to protect democracy he's the only one who can do it because he's the only one who

00:55:23.320 can beat trump forget what literally every poll says the polls are ageist too of course they're

00:55:30.860 bigoted against the 81 year old in favor of the 78 year old joe you can beat trump and you must

00:55:38.620 because we all know that if people democratically elect trump it will be an assault on democratic

00:55:44.340 elections if anyone but you wins joe it's the death of democracy you know that i know that

00:55:51.940 and that's all that matters don't give up now joe stay in keep going keep running why give up when

00:55:59.360 you're so close to the finish line sure you're not as young and spry as you used to be but

00:56:03.740 it doesn't matter remember slow and steady wins the race and that's you maybe not steady but you know

00:56:13.500 the first part anyway slow slow wins the race don't listen to the critics stay on course

00:56:22.260 unless kamala harris would really replace you on the ticket in which case yeah you should step aside

00:56:28.140 don't be racist but if you'd be replaced by anyone else anyone who can like speak and think then you

00:56:36.800 should stay exactly where you are i believe in you most importantly you believe in yourself

00:56:43.120 and that's all that matters which is why all the people calling for joe biden to drop out of the

00:56:49.820 race are today canceled that'll do it for the show today thanks for watching thanks for listening

00:56:55.740 talk to you tomorrow godspeed

The Matt Walsh Show - July 18, 2024

Ep. 1404 - After Almost Getting Trump Killed, The Secret Service Cries About Mean Tweets

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