The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1408 - The Media Desperately Tries To Turn Mediocre Kamala Into A Star

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the process of trying to turn the mediocre Kamala Harris

00:00:03.500 into a transformational cultural icon has begun, and it's about as nauseating as you'd expect.

00:00:08.280 Also, huge news here at The Daily Wire as we unveil the trailer for my new film,

00:00:12.100 which will be hitting theaters very soon. Stay tuned for that. Really excited about it.

00:00:15.820 And the media says it's sexist to point out that Harris is childless,

00:00:19.380 but that fact is, in fact, actually very relevant, and I'll explain why.

00:00:22.840 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:19.180 If there's one indisputable strategic advantage that Democrats possess, it's that they don't

00:02:24.320 really have a political party in the traditional sense, they have a cult. The slogans come down

00:02:28.880 from on high, and overnight, the yard signs go up, no human is illegal, black lives matter,

00:02:34.240 defund the police, and so on. They'll invent quasi-religious explanations for events they

00:02:39.300 don't understand or don't want to understand, and then they'll use the entirety of the corporate

00:02:43.140 media and academia to present those explanations as fact. Hurricanes are caused by man-made climate

00:02:48.740 change. Therefore, we need environmental justice. Black people go to prison because of systemic 1.00

00:02:54.180 racism. Therefore, we need DEI, etc. Anybody who dissents is immediately cast out into the 0.99

00:03:00.820 wilderness. Now, if you want to create a stable, functioning country, this kind of mindless

00:03:05.480 collectivism is obviously counterproductive, but Democrats' goal is not to create a stable or

00:03:10.500 functioning country. Their goal is to mobilize and to win. They don't have time for internal debates

00:03:15.560 or self-doubt or introspection of any kind. They move quickly. Over the past two days,

00:03:21.160 this machinery has turned into overdrive following the coup that dethroned Joe Biden. Already,

00:03:27.280 we're being told by every mouthpiece for the Democrat Party that Kamala Harris is their presumptive

00:03:32.080 nominee. She's locked up all the delegates without earning a single primary vote from an actual voter. 1.00

00:03:37.660 And on top of that, the media tells us Kamala Harris is setting fundraising records left and right.

00:03:42.380 In fact, she's raised tens of millions of dollars in just 24 hours via ActBlue,

00:03:47.420 the Democrat Party's major fundraising platform. Watch.

00:03:51.300 Hey there, good morning. Yeah, it's being reported that Vice President Kamala Harris spent all day

00:03:55.160 Sunday making calls to reinforce support from key Democratic officials and secure Democratic

00:04:00.980 delegates behind her White House campaign. ActBlue says nearly $50 million has been raised in the

00:04:07.060 hours following the news. That's actually the biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle and the

00:04:11.940 single biggest day for online Democratic donations in more than 20 years. In a statement,

00:04:18.080 organizers say grassroots supporters are energized and excited to support Harris.

00:04:23.360 So this is the biggest online fundraising day that the party has seen in more than 20 years,

00:04:28.020 according to that report. In other words, even Barack Obama in his prime cannot top what Harris just

00:04:33.960 achieved. Sort of like how Biden supposedly got more votes than Obama in 2008. Now Harris is already

00:04:40.180 bringing in more cash than Obama. And by the way, since that report has aired, Harris has apparently

00:04:45.160 raised tens of millions more. She clocked in at over $80 million in total donations in 24 hours. Her

00:04:51.280 campaign claimed that nearly 900,000 donors individually gave money to the campaign on its

00:04:56.120 first day of existence. And the suggestion is that pretty much all of that money is coming from

00:05:00.120 grassroots donors via the ActBlue platform. So we're meant to conclude that all of those grassroots

00:05:06.600 donors were holding onto their money until the split second that Joe Biden left the ticket. And

00:05:10.640 immediately, as soon as Joe Biden was out, all of these donors pulled out their credit cards with

00:05:15.140 the intent of giving money to Harris's campaign. They didn't even wait to see if she'd win any delegates 0.99

00:05:19.900 or if there would be an open convention. They just donated straight away. Suddenly, the candidate who

00:05:25.240 didn't even make it to the Iowa caucuses when she ran for office in 2020 is now overwhelmingly popular

00:05:30.760 among everyday Democratic Party donors. That's how big of an albatross Joe Biden was. Now, what's not

00:05:36.840 mentioned in that news report or any other of the reports like it are the many questions that have

00:05:41.400 been raised about how exactly ActBlue collects money. A year ago, the investigative journalist James

00:05:47.080 O'Keefe looked into the fundraising platform. He spoke to several supposedly grassroots donors who,

00:05:52.380 according to ActBlue, have donated a lot of money to political candidates or causes, hundreds of

00:05:57.300 thousands of dollars in some cases. O'Keefe also crashed one of ActBlue's meetings at a hotel in Boston.

00:06:03.000 And here's what he found. Watch.

00:06:05.440 The first thing I did was strike up a few conversations with ActBlue staffers. I told them I was a friendly

00:06:10.820 donor and I didn't mind if the organization used my name and address to launder money into candidate coffers.

00:06:16.640 I'm a supporter. I'm a donor to you guys. I gave you $500. So yeah, you can use my you can use my

00:06:25.160 grandmother, too. You can use her name if you want. That's cool.

00:06:28.420 You remember our stories from earlier this year about ActBlue's fundraising practices.

00:06:33.040 We found a handful of donors who gave small amounts to ActBlue. But when ActBlue reported

00:06:37.760 the donations to the Federal Elections Commission, something didn't add up. We wanted some answers.

00:06:43.700 We spoke to Nancy Duden, the retiree from Maryland, who said she only donated a couple of hundred dollars

00:06:48.480 to ActBlue since January. How much does ActBlue claim she has donated this year? More than $16,000.

00:06:55.160 Nancy wasn't the only seemingly unaware retiree being used to mass these donations. Garland Riggs,

00:07:00.660 an older gentleman who lives outside of Washington, D.C., says there's no way he has given ActBlue

00:07:05.300 $230,000 in the past four years. Carolyn Lenz from Tucson, who apparently given ActBlue

00:07:12.100 $170,000 in the past several years.

00:07:17.140 Now, Keith's reporting obviously raises the question of whether money from wealthy donors,

00:07:21.260 including potentially foreign donors, is being laundered through supposedly grassroots

00:07:26.120 ActBlue donors. In response to O'Keefe's coverage, Senator Marco Rubio sent a letter to the Federal

00:07:31.480 Election Commission, quote, demanding the agency investigate alarming reports of widespread fraudulent

00:07:35.880 donations by ActBlue. The FEC responded by stating that ActBlue, quote, does not require a card

00:07:40.820 verification value number for online donations, which increases the risk of fraud. So the idea is that

00:07:46.160 some fraud may have occurred, but nobody really knows. There are some other reasons to doubt the

00:07:51.140 fundraising numbers we're hearing today. For example, ActBlue has publicly pledged to match

00:07:55.100 900% of donations to Harris's campaign in recent days. So at the moment, it's not exactly clear how

00:08:00.280 much money is being rerouted to Harris from ActBlue itself in the form of matching donations.

00:08:07.280 ActBlue is a vast fundraising apparatus that can allocate money from its various campaigns.

00:08:11.880 So what we can be certain of is that there's very little oversight of fundraising platforms like

00:08:17.340 this. As one Carrie Lake advisor, Caroline Wren, just pointed out, watch.

00:08:23.080 In the last 36 hours, they've said that Kamala has raised $100 million via ActBlue. ActBlue is the

00:08:29.200 largest money laundering operation in the country. There was a great, it truly is. There's money coming

00:08:35.600 through Ukraine, foreign donations. They don't even report anything under $100. You don't have to report.

00:08:39.860 And it's just a joke to me that $100 million would come in online for Kamala Harris. But that is what

00:08:45.600 they announced, and that is certainly what would be deposited into their bank account. Now, we had a bit

00:08:50.720 of a head start. At the beginning of July, the Trump campaign closed the money gap, and the campaign

00:08:56.640 announced they had $285 million cash on hand. The RNC had $100 million, so that was about $385 million cash

00:09:03.680 on hand between the two. The Biden campaign had $240 million cash on hand. The DNC had $78 million.

00:09:09.160 So they had about $318 million. So we were outpacing them by, I don't know, about $70 million.

00:09:14.440 Well, they just added $100 million and counting into that, right?

00:09:18.620 Now, in a country with a functioning system of elections, we'd have absolute confidence that

00:09:22.900 every ActBlue donation matches up with an actual human being who actually donated that amount of

00:09:28.020 money. The truth is that we can't have that confidence after seeing reporting like O'Keefe's.

00:09:32.340 We're being lied to so often by so many sources that it's difficult to have confidence in pretty much

00:09:36.120 any aspect of our elections at this point. And that's especially true in an election like this

00:09:40.680 one, where the coronation of Kamala Harris is so over the top and artificial that it's actually

00:09:45.920 hard to watch. In the span of about two weeks, the corporate press went from claiming that Joe

00:09:50.180 Biden is totally fine and he's going to be president again and all that, to full-on pretending that Kamala

00:09:55.620 Harris is the next Barack Obama. Of course, when he ran for president, Barack Obama earned more than

00:10:00.540 5% support in his home state. He didn't drop out before the Iowa caucuses. And Barack Obama,

00:10:06.820 for all of his many faults, did not cackle like a character from The Wizard of Oz at every

00:10:10.660 opportunity. Say what you will about him, but he actually had something called charisma and Kamala

00:10:16.080 Harris doesn't have any of that. And up until about 15 seconds ago, everybody in the media

00:10:20.440 acknowledged that. That's why they fought so hard to keep Biden in the race until it was impossible.

00:10:26.160 But you're supposed to forget all of that now because the orders from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck

00:10:30.520 Schumer and Alex Soros have come down. And therefore, now we get cable news segments like

00:10:35.460 this.

00:10:37.400 Free at last, free at last. Kamala Harris is unleashed. She's just brilliant. She's just,

00:10:45.260 the energy that's coming off of her is the energy that's coming off of the American people. 0.99

00:10:49.800 Look, I mean, this is 2008 vibes already. She's done in literally 48 hours, things that were

00:10:58.740 considered impossible. She got the nomination. She took over cultural. She's a cultural phenomenon

00:11:05.580 now. TikTok loves her. She raised more money than anybody. She signed up 50,000 people. You can do

00:11:11.980 your whole career and not get 50,000 volunteers. She did it in 48 hours. You are witnessing the birth

00:11:18.260 of a cultural phenomenon. And you need a cultural phenomenon to stop a cultural phenomenon. Donald

00:11:23.600 Trump is a cultural phenomenon. So now you've got two superpowers colliding, but this one

00:11:29.460 just came out of nowhere. Listen, a week ago, two weeks ago, people were like, hey, Kamala Harris,

00:11:34.140 I don't know. She can't win. I don't like her. Blah, blah, blah. All those people are marching in line

00:11:40.240 and getting information. It's unbelievable to watch.

00:11:43.580 Marching in line and getting information. That's a very, well, that's an apt way of putting it,

00:11:50.780 in fact. As nauseating as that clip is, it's the norm now. There's plenty more like it. All across

00:11:57.080 the corporate press, self-described journalists are falling over themselves to pretend that Harris

00:12:00.740 is the second coming of their messiah. For example, a senior reporter with CNN broke this news over the

00:12:06.240 weekend. Breaking news here. Listen to this. Quote,

00:12:09.860 one person familiar with the VP yesterday said, through all of her calls at the Naval Observatory,

00:12:15.540 Harris wore a hooded Howard University sweatshirt, workout sweats, and sneakers. They got pizza and

00:12:21.040 salad for dinner. She went with her favorite topping, anchovies. I cannot believe that anyone

00:12:26.300 actually puts anchovies. I thought that was a meme. I didn't think that was a thing anyone actually did.

00:12:31.160 Like in real life, you put, do they even, what pizza place even, is that an option?

00:12:36.720 I've never seen that on a menu at any pizza place ever. Anyway, that's not really the point. In

00:12:43.200 response to that groundbreaking bit of reporting, a supervising producer with the BBC responded,

00:12:47.620 quote, the Howard sweatshirt is an important detail here. Important. It's an important detail.

00:12:53.000 For Harris, this is about where she came from as much as what lies ahead.

00:12:56.540 Howard is the first place she looks for when Air Force Two lands in Washington.

00:13:00.000 So this is what we can expect for the next three and a half months. After the debate,

00:13:05.780 the corporate press did everything they could to destroy Joe Biden so they could replace him on

00:13:08.880 the ballot. They were vicious. And now that the replacement has arrived, they are reduced to

00:13:13.260 reporting on what she's wearing and the kind of pizza she's eating. And this is, this is all very

00:13:19.100 transparent. This is what they do when they want to make someone into a cultural icon, as Van,

00:13:23.140 as we just heard from, uh, from, uh, Van Jones there. Um, this, this is, it's, we obsess over

00:13:30.520 every little detail. So now the, the media, which was going after Democrats, the Democrat president

00:13:36.860 for, for, you know, uncharacteristically for a few weeks, now they're completely harmless all of a

00:13:40.620 sudden. This is how the collective operates. They're ruthless to their enemies. They're shameless

00:13:45.620 about promoting their allies. Principles like integrity or fairness simply do not matter to them.

00:13:50.900 They don't matter to Democrats on Capitol Hill either. They're also convinced that they've

00:13:55.700 found the next Obama or they want to convince us that they found that. So here's one of the more

00:13:59.920 dystopian clips you'll see. Watch as Chuck Schumer explains that Kamala Harris was chosen by a bottom

00:14:06.320 up grassroots process as opposed to, you know, party elites working behind closed doors to oust the

00:14:13.020 candidate who just won 50 million, 15 million votes in the primaries. And then when Chuck Schumer is

00:14:17.640 asked by a reporter about this preposterous claim, uh, he doubles down on it. Watch.

00:14:23.640 So now that the process has played out from the grassroots bottom up, we are here today to throw

00:14:31.480 our support behind vice president Kamala Harris. I'm clapping. You don't have to. Yes.

00:14:39.220 I know you said that this was a, uh, a bottom up process, but Kamala Harris is the vice president

00:14:45.540 of the United States. There was no other competition. This is going to be selected by

00:14:49.520 party delegates, insiders, essentially. How, what's your case to the American people and to

00:14:55.880 the Democrat voters that voted for Joe Biden, that this isn't a coronation?

00:14:59.140 The bottom line, it was a bottom up process. People just rallied right to her side. The 1.00

00:15:05.180 enthusiasm in this big, diverse representative party was amazing. You could, you could, it

00:15:11.620 was palpable. You could cut it with a knife. 1.00

00:15:15.500 Yeah. It was the grassroots that ousted Biden and put Kamala Harris in his place. You know,

00:15:21.180 grassroots, um, grassroots people like Barack Obama, George Clooney, Nancy Pelosi, uh, billionaire

00:15:31.900 donors, grassroots, you know, just average everyday working Americans, the kind of, the

00:15:39.040 kind of folks that, uh, if you go down to the local diner, you know, on a Sunday morning

00:15:43.320 after church, you might see them, you might see them there, those types. Now the word gaslighting

00:15:49.100 is overused, but there's really no other way to describe this footage. The Democrats leader

00:15:52.640 in the Senate who just a week ago was telling us he supports Joe Biden now says he supports

00:15:57.080 Kamala Harris. And he's claiming the voters want her to be the candidate, even though party

00:16:01.220 elites like Chuck Schumer just did everything they could to prevent the voters from having

00:16:04.280 any say in the process of selecting Kamala Harris. Now, the truth is Chuck Schumer understands

00:16:09.240 that most voters see Kamala Harris for what she is, a diversity hire who was chosen because 0.99

00:16:14.420 Joe Biden insisted on picking a woman, even if she lacked any kind of charisma or accomplishment.

00:16:19.100 And the more they tell you that Kamala Harris is some sort of transformational once in a 0.95

00:16:22.860 generation figure, the more they are revealing that they don't believe any of it. It's all

00:16:27.980 an act. They're protesting too much as the saying goes, all the astroturfed TikTok videos trying

00:16:33.480 to make Kamala Harris look cool and interesting are just, just all of them are unconvincing in

00:16:38.600 the extreme. And the efforts look all the more ridiculous because Harris is running against

00:16:43.180 Donald Trump, who like him or not, is one of the most transformational political figures in American

00:16:50.300 history. He actually is a cultural icon and he's a genuinely compelling figure. And he just had one

00:16:58.300 of the most iconic moments of any public figure in American history when he survived the assassination

00:17:03.580 attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, raised his fist in the air, face bloodied and told the crowd to fight.

00:17:09.960 I mean, a moment that very few public figures in any sphere of life in all of American history have

00:17:19.460 ever had. Certainly a moment unlike anything that Kamala Harris has ever had. But as overt and

00:17:25.320 patronizing as all of this lying may be, the fact remains that it might work. Republicans are making a

00:17:31.060 grave mistake if they underestimated the potential for Kamala Harris to win the next election. Already, 0.94

00:17:35.700 we've seen the lengths that Democrats and the corporate press are willing to sink in order to boost

00:17:39.880 her candidacy. And they're getting more and more desperate with every passing hour. They're rolling out

00:17:44.460 every dirty trick in their arsenal and they aren't done yet. In fact, now they're even using the assassination

00:17:49.240 attempt in Butler against Trump. Last night, the Washington Post reported that the Secret Service is telling

00:17:54.060 Donald Trump he has to change the way he campaigns. Quote, Secret Service officials encouraged Donald

00:17:59.080 Trump's campaign to stop scheduling large outdoor rallies and other outdoor events with big crowds after the

00:18:04.180 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to people familiar with the matter. In the aftermath of the

00:18:08.480 shooting, agents from the Secret Service communicated their concerns about large outdoor rallies going forward to

00:18:12.600 Trump campaign advisers. Trump has held hundreds of outdoor rallies since launching his first presidential bid.

00:18:17.400 They've become something of a cult favorite among his passionate fans with tailgate parties and parking lots,

00:18:21.680 vendors lining open areas near the rally and large parades of traffic, often with gargantuan pickup trucks.

00:18:27.800 Unquote. Translation, because the Secret Service is unable or unwilling to do their job of

00:18:32.560 protecting Donald Trump, they're going to hamstring one of his campaign's most important assets.

00:18:37.700 It's like they're basically threatening Trump when you get down to it. They're saying that

00:18:40.720 if he holds another outdoor rally, you know, they can't guarantee they can protect him.

00:18:46.720 Supposedly, the Secret Service simply doesn't have the ability to make sure that 20-year-olds

00:18:50.680 with AR-15s don't get into perfect firing positions 140 yards away. It's just not possible.

00:18:57.740 Therefore, Trump's whole campaign strategy needs to change. By the way,

00:19:00.160 there's no reporting from the Washington Post about Kamala Harris having to hold indoor events. 1.00

00:19:05.300 Apparently, this request is only for Donald Trump, maybe because he's the only candidate

00:19:08.500 who can draw large enough crowds to justify outdoor rallies. For now, until Election Day,

00:19:13.640 the Trump campaign is then going to have to be as disciplined and focused as possible to overcome

00:19:20.300 all of these efforts to undermine Trump and promote his opponent. As I said before, it would be a mistake

00:19:24.960 to hit Kamala from the left for jailing so-called low-level offenders when she was the AG of California 0.58

00:19:30.060 or anything like that. Even playing into her status as a DEI hire shouldn't be overdone. I mean,

00:19:35.280 it is a fact about her that we should talk about. Don't get me wrong. But the core problem with Kamala

00:19:41.680 Harris is not how she was installed by party elites. It's not that she's a diversity hire, 0.99

00:19:45.940 even though she is. It's certainly not how she handled truancy and marijuana use in California. 1.00

00:19:51.640 The core problem with Kamala Harris is that she's promised to be a rubber stamp for every single 1.00

00:19:56.500 bad idea that so-called progressives have had for the past decade. From defunding the police to

00:20:03.400 decriminalizing illegal immigration to eliminating private health insurance to allowing illegal aliens 0.79

00:20:08.200 to access taxpayer-funded public health care to passing a Green New Deal to banning offshore drilling

00:20:13.820 and fracking to abolishing ICE to allowing terrorists to vote. Kamala Harris supported all of

00:20:20.060 these proposals, as terrible as all of them are, not because she thought about them in any great

00:20:24.240 detail. She can't really think about anything in great detail. She supports them because, like Joe

00:20:30.200 Biden, she's listless and completely unprincipled. If Republicans communicate that simple and obvious 0.61

00:20:35.820 fact to voters, then none of the inflated fundraising numbers or corporate media hype will matter.

00:20:41.920 The Democrat collective will be exposed for what it is, ruthless and totally disingenuous.

00:20:47.940 And collectively, in November, they will lose. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:22:02.120 you may remember, if you've been watching the show for a while, back last summer in 2023,

00:22:06.860 when I missed several weeks of shows over the course of the summer and told you that I was

00:22:11.200 missing the show because I was working on some big projects, one big project in particular.

00:22:16.660 And I've mentioned the project vaguely every once in a while since then. And I know that there were

00:22:23.520 some members of the audience who had given up hope that that project would ever be revealed.

00:22:29.160 Maybe you thought that it was just an excuse I was making because I wanted to go on vacation and be

00:22:33.240 lazy. But for all of my faults, I like to think that when I tell you that I'm working on a big

00:22:40.900 thing, it's because I am. And it may take a while, but if I'm working on it, you're going to see it.

00:22:48.400 And now at long last, I can reveal it to you. This thing has been a very long time in the making.

00:22:55.520 We've been working on it behind the scenes all this time, really for over a year.

00:22:59.820 And last night, we finally debuted the trailer for my new film, which is called Am I Racist?

00:23:06.780 And that's the question that began my journey well over a year ago. A very personal journey into

00:23:14.900 anti-racism and DEI, a sort of racial awakening, perhaps. So let me play the trailer for you.

00:23:24.360 If you haven't seen it yet, here it is. Let's be clear what's happening in this country. It's

00:23:29.820 Nazism. Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 1.00

00:23:37.380 Growing up in the 90s, I never thought much about race. Sure, you noticed, but never really seemed 0.95

00:23:42.300 to matter that much. At least not to me. Being a white, straight, cisgender man,

00:23:46.340 it's the top of the pile. I'm on the top of the pile. That's me. Am I racist?

00:23:50.720 I would really appreciate it if you left. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey. Can you

00:23:54.000 please leave? I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover. If I want to

00:23:58.980 be an ally, I need to look like one.

00:24:06.660 What is racism? Martin Luther King said not to judge people by the... Martin Luther King

00:24:11.180 said a lot of stuff. Is America inherently racist? What the hell is that? The word inherent

00:24:16.180 is challenging there. America is racist to its bones. All of the... So inherently. Yeah. The entire 0.98

00:24:22.300 system has to burn. And I'm not going to even use save this country. This country is not worth saving.

00:24:26.520 This country is a piece of s**t. Oh, sorry. Sorry. 0.99

00:24:33.460 They're going to say I'm racist. Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification.

00:24:38.940 Where are you guys in your anti-racist journeys? So I'll look around the room and point to who we

00:24:45.760 believe is the most racist person in the room. We want to rename the George Washington Monument

00:24:51.340 to the George Floyd Monument. Would you mind signing it? You will? What do you think about this issue

00:24:56.160 of heteronormativity and how it intersects with the broader structures of racism in society?

00:25:01.860 Oh. What's up with white people? What are you doing to de-center your whiteness? Who's making it the 0.82

00:25:09.980 center? Why are they doing that? What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is

00:25:14.700 more for you in this field. White folks. White trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. White 0.99

00:25:20.880 entitlement. White. Centering. White silence. Is there a black person around here? There's a black person 0.95

00:25:25.140 right here. Does he not exist? They gonna say I'm racist. But they call everybody racist. Hi, Robin. Hi. 0.83

00:25:32.960 And what's your name? I'm Matt. Matt. Hi, Matt. Thanks to meet you. I just had to ask who you are because

00:25:38.680 you have to be careful. Never be too careful. They gonna say you racist. But they call everybody racist.

00:25:47.260 So that's the trailer. One thing I can tell you about the trailer is that we

00:25:55.040 definitely did not put the best moments of the movie into the trailer. I know a lot of times you

00:25:59.800 see a trailer and then you go see the movie and you think, okay, so I didn't even need to watch

00:26:05.760 this movie. All the best stuff was already in the trailer. I already saw it. Saw the whole movie.

00:26:11.180 Saw the best parts of the movie. I promise you, we did not do that with this. In fact, if anything,

00:26:16.240 I think we may have erred in the opposite direction a bit too much because we're maybe a little too

00:26:20.360 cautious about making sure we don't spoil any of the best moments. But there's just a lot

00:26:25.260 in there that I don't want to spoil it because we didn't put it in the trailer for a moment.

00:26:30.140 We want you to be surprised when you see it. But this journey goes places that you're not

00:26:35.360 going to expect. For example, at the end there, that was, as many of you probably know, that was

00:26:41.960 none other than Robin DiAngelo, anti-racist expert extraordinaire author of White Fragility.

00:26:47.020 We know going into this project that that was someone we really wanted to talk to and

00:26:53.360 we were able to. And all I can say is you're going to want to see where that conversation goes.

00:26:59.160 And it goes somewhere that you won't expect. I think I can, I'm not overhyping it to say that

00:27:03.560 you just are not going to expect where that conversation goes. That's all I'll say about that.

00:27:10.840 And the whole movie goes somewhere that you won't expect, in fact. And this is

00:27:15.140 this is the follow-up to What is a Woman? Because it's our next film. And we got the whole band back

00:27:20.720 together. The whole team from What is a Woman got together to make this film. And, but this movie is

00:27:27.360 also not What is a Woman? You know, we, this is not What is a Woman? Part two. This is a, we took a

00:27:32.540 different approach with this one. And we did that both because we wanted to challenge ourselves to

00:27:36.700 do something different rather than, you know, finding a formula and sticking to it. We didn't want to do

00:27:41.300 that. And also because this topic, and we, we discovered this more and more as we were making

00:27:46.020 the film. But this topic and what we wanted to explore with it, it just demanded a different

00:27:54.980 strategy. And so that's, that's what we did here. And there'll be plenty more to say about this film.

00:28:02.540 And I'm sure we'll have more bits and pieces that you'll be able to see from it before it is finally

00:28:09.480 in theaters on September 13th. So that's the other, it's really two pieces of big news here.

00:28:14.700 One is the film. And the second is that we're going to be putting this in theaters and tickets,

00:28:22.160 pre-sale tickets will go on, on sale in the next couple of weeks. So stay tuned for a lot more

00:28:26.420 information about all that. Very excited to finally have this out in the world and to be able to talk

00:28:32.660 about it, especially because I can tell you one thing, working on this film behind the scenes over the

00:28:38.280 last year, year and a half. It's been, it's been the most ambitious thing I've ever done in my

00:28:46.100 career. I think I could say the most ambitious thing that anyone on the film has done in their

00:28:50.740 careers. Very difficult to pull off in a lot of ways that will become really obvious to you when you

00:28:56.260 see the film. But maybe the even bigger challenge for me was to be on air for the last year and not

00:29:04.840 say anything about this. There's so many times I've wanted to say something that we go out and

00:29:10.960 we shoot a scene for this film and something completely wild happens. And then I got to turn

00:29:16.160 around and do the show and I can't tell you about it. That's been tough. And I still can't tell you so

00:29:23.020 much about it. We can really have the full conversation once the movie's out and you guys have had a chance

00:29:28.940 to see it. All right. Speaking of racism, Kamala has been the presumptive nominee after stealing 1.00

00:29:36.660 the nomination from Joe Biden for only three days now. We already have our first race hoax related

00:29:41.380 to her campaign. And this is one of many folks. So get ready because this is a preview of things to

00:29:50.420 come. So here's the first one. A bunch of left-wing accounts spurred on initially by a supposed

00:29:56.820 journalist who is also the head of the White House Correspondents Association. So not just some

00:30:01.480 random guy. Right. They were all claiming online this morning that Brian Kilmeade on Fox News

00:30:08.680 used the word colored when talking about a story related to Kamala Harris. So here's the tweet from

00:30:16.020 Eugene Daniels, who is a just a soulless, rotten, evil liar, turns out. But he starts by allegedly 1.00

00:30:23.260 quoting Kilmeade. So this is a quote that he puts on on the caption. She'd rather address in the summer

00:30:30.440 a sorority, a colored sorority, like she can't get out of that. And then Eugene comments, not this in

00:30:37.720 the year of Beyonce 2024. So the claim is that Kilmeade slammed Kamala Harris for speaking to a

00:30:44.960 colored sorority. Now I'm going to play the clip for you. But even before I do, you already know 0.90

00:30:52.640 that you know that it's a lie. OK, if you have at least three brain cells bouncing around in your

00:30:57.540 skull, you know that a Fox News host did not go on television and say colored when referring to 0.98

00:31:04.880 black people. That's not how anyone talks. I've never met anyone who says colored for black people. 0.63

00:31:11.740 The only exceptions have been people over the age of 80. And the only 80 plus year olds that I've heard

00:31:17.060 actually say that word were black. OK, so no one else says it except for the NAACP. It's OK for 1.00

00:31:23.400 them, but not for anybody else. So there's just no chance that a Fox News host went on air and was

00:31:30.400 like, yeah, Kamala Harris going to talk to those colored folks. It's just you have to live in a 1.00

00:31:36.440 fantasy world to think that such a thing is even possible. So all the left is promoting this lie

00:31:41.880 are either knowingly lying because they're disgraceful, deceitful pieces of garbage, or they 1.00

00:31:47.140 are so incredibly delusional that they actually think that this is how white people speak in the 1.00

00:31:52.540 year 2024. And I say all of that because, you know, it's true. But I don't want to I want to be

00:32:01.180 careful that I don't concede the premise here, because the premise is that saying colored is racist.

00:32:05.820 The premise is that if he had said colored, he would automatically be racist and should probably be 0.77

00:32:10.600 fired. I don't concede that. I mean, I wouldn't care if Kilmeade had said it. I knew that he didn't

00:32:17.800 before I even watched the clip, but but I wouldn't care if he did. Now, if he did say it, I would say,

00:32:25.200 well, OK, I mean, that's that's an interesting choice of words, given the environment we live in.

00:32:32.680 But I wouldn't care because there's no rational, coherent, explainable reason why people of color is 1.00

00:32:38.360 OK, but colored people isn't. It's the same thing. It's the same the same words, just in a different 0.98

00:32:44.740 order. They mean the same thing. Like in what other context could you have a term

00:32:52.160 where if you put the words in a certain order, it's OK. But if you just flip the order slightly

00:33:00.560 and yet you're referring to the same thing, it's now horribly bigoted like that doesn't apply to

00:33:07.980 any other term that we can think of. So I just want to be clear about that. If any white person

00:33:14.480 wants to go out and say colored, you know, go for it. It isn't racist. It just isn't.

00:33:20.980 So who cares? But but white people don't say that. And Kilmeade certainly didn't.

00:33:26.480 So here's what he did say. Let's listen. Obviously, you compare him to President Biden,

00:33:31.720 who is muddling his way through speeches. People know. Yeah, anyone's going to be better, right?

00:33:36.040 Yep. Couldn't go more than 15 minutes. She's very good on the prompter. No one even doubted that. 1.00

00:33:40.400 She had 3000 people there. Why are they there? A lot of them have to do with, hey, I'm a Democrat.

00:33:44.800 I thought we were going to go down in flames. Now we have a shot. The problem with Kamala Harris,

00:33:49.480 number one, she has not had a record exploited heavily because people thought and marginalized her.

00:33:53.660 Even in the Democratic Party, they said, wow, what a bad choice Joe Biden made.

00:33:58.640 Number two is she hasn't sat down for an interview when she sits down in an interview and says,

00:34:03.320 do you want to defund ICE? Where do you stand on Medicare for all? Why didn't you show up?

00:34:11.180 The most recent decision already you got a question. She will not show up for the prime minister's

00:34:16.120 joint session of Congress today. She'd rather address in the summer a sorority,

00:34:21.140 a college sorority, like she can't get out of that. So that's her decision. And that's her 0.56

00:34:26.280 decision to back up the protesters. And how about the border? When they ask her about the border,

00:34:29.660 I haven't been to Europe either. Remember she said that? She's the border czar. She didn't go to the

00:34:33.460 president. She didn't go to the border. And now we're learning that two of the border chiefs,

00:34:36.940 the last two border chiefs she hasn't talked to.

00:34:38.600 So he said college sorority that as you could tell there, he said college sorority. And

00:34:47.200 I just, I don't even see any way that, that a person could honestly misinterpret that

00:34:53.360 college. Like the car is very clear. Maybe the end of it's a little garbled, but

00:34:58.560 it's not cuh. He didn't say college. He didn't say this is a college sorority. He said,

00:35:06.980 there's certainly a ca sound. You can hear that a clear as day.

00:35:12.800 So then if you are going to mishear it, then maybe you would hear ca collard.

00:35:18.900 Did he call it a, is it a collard? Like they have collars. Maybe this, he's talking to a sorority of

00:35:24.040 furries and they're all, and they have collars because they're dressed up. I don't know. It's

00:35:28.500 pretty clear. He said college. And it's, you know, that a lot of people have corrected this

00:35:37.380 Eugene Daniels guy. And then you still have leftists that are defending it. And one thing

00:35:42.500 that I'm seeing is the leftists are saying, no, there's no way he said college. Who says college

00:35:47.720 sorority? Well, I don't know. Some people do. I've heard that before. 0.61

00:35:52.520 I've certainly heard college sorority a lot more than I've heard colored sorority.

00:35:58.000 I've literally never heard anyone ever say that ever in my life. Whereas college sorority,

00:36:05.020 it's a bit redundant, but it's, it doesn't, it's, if you hear someone say that it doesn't, 1.00

00:36:10.260 it's not confusing unless you're very, very, very stupid. So this one, you know, this isn't going 0.99

00:36:19.860 to do any damage to kill me because it's so, so, so obviously a lie, but this, as I said,

00:36:26.280 is a preview of things to come. And this is the, uh, they can't help themselves. This, this is how

00:36:31.840 they're, this is what they're going to do. This is how they're going to play it. And, um,

00:36:36.640 and they're going to, you know, we know one thing for sure. They're going to go looking for,

00:36:41.180 uh, they're, they're going to be race hoaxes related to people that

00:36:45.560 are in Trump's orbit or are perceived as Trump supporters or perceived as conservative.

00:36:50.480 There's going to be a lot of that. And there's also going to be plenty of race hoaxes targeted

00:36:54.000 at Trump himself. So we're going to start seeing all kinds of unsourced stories, uh, citing unsourced,

00:37:01.520 uh, you know, citing anonymous people who don't want to be identified, telling us all kinds of

00:37:07.900 racist things that Trump has said and done. And, you know, we're going to get started getting all

00:37:11.020 those kinds of story. All that's going to come out because that's how they're going to play this.

00:37:14.080 And they just, they don't know any other way to play it. And, you know, I don't,

00:37:21.580 whether that can still work, whether that kind of intense emotional blackmail,

00:37:27.300 um, and playing on white guilt and playing on, uh, uh, you know, this, uh, this claims of sexism

00:37:38.500 and all that sort of stuff, playing, especially on white male guilt, most of all,

00:37:43.500 um, whether that can work enough to propel her all the way to the white house, it remains to be

00:37:50.260 seen. And I guess I'm not, I will, I don't feel comfortable predicting woman. I'd like to, 0.91

00:37:56.020 I'd like to say that I don't think it will work, but we'll see. Um, post millennial has this in a

00:38:03.960 post on truth social, Donald Trump said vice president Kamala Harris has been lying to the

00:38:07.620 American public about president Joe Biden's mental decline, added that she needs to answer if Biden is

00:38:11.660 still fit to serve as the president. Quote, does Lyon Kamala Harris think Joe Biden is fit to run

00:38:17.740 for the USA, uh, for the next six months? Fit to run the USA, not for the USA. She's not going into

00:38:26.120 the Olympics. She must answer the question. Now it appears Joe is delegating as a presidential

00:38:29.900 authority to unelected Washington bureaucrats. He doesn't even trust his vice president who is

00:38:33.380 running the country. It's a very good question. This is a question that, that Republicans should

00:38:40.220 be hammering. Um, and it's not even like some kind of cheap gotcha. Of course it's not. It's a

00:38:46.480 very important question. Do this man has stepped down from running, apparently conceding that he is

00:38:57.440 mentally deficient. So how is he qualified to still run the country? Here's a question I'd like

00:39:03.980 someone to ask Kamala Harris. Do you think that Joe Biden should still be running for president?

00:39:12.520 Do you think that it should be Joe Biden in this position and not you?

00:39:18.120 Because up until the moment that he dropped out, you were saying that he's fine. He's doing great and

00:39:23.480 he'll make a great president. He should have another four years. That's what you said a day

00:39:28.820 before he dropped out. Do you still think that? Um, and if you don't, then what changed your mind

00:39:37.560 in those 24 hours? What did you witness that made you suddenly realize that this man is not mentally

00:39:42.620 fit to run for president, though he is still mentally fit to run the country? That's a very good

00:39:49.640 question that I'd like to see someone ask. Um, let's see. Here's something I want to mention

00:39:55.980 from page six. This is a lot of Kamala Harris stuff, but yeah, this is, this just, we're in a

00:40:03.220 political cycle right now and, uh, there's nothing we could do to avoid it. So, and I did, there's a

00:40:09.640 point here I wanted to make in this page six story, a story that will seem rather inconsequential,

00:40:15.940 but I don't think it is. Kamala Harris has, has Hollywood's backing in the 2024 presidential 0.70

00:40:20.680 election. Charlie XCX, I don't know who that is. And more celebrities have endorsed the vice

00:40:27.620 president as the democratic party's nominee since Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

00:40:31.320 Let's see. There's a, there's a big list of all the celebrities have endorsed her. Uh, Beyonce has

00:40:36.320 not made a statement regarding the possible candidacy, but her team granted permission for Harris to use

00:40:41.580 her song freedom. Harris walked out to the hit while making her first official visit to campaign 0.56

00:40:46.740 headquarters on July 22nd. Beyonce's response to Harris's request was prompt as they contacted her

00:40:52.540 representative earlier in the day. Um, one week after George Clooney called for Biden to step down

00:40:57.980 from the race in New York times op-ed, he endorsed Harris said, uh, we're also excited to do whatever

00:41:05.080 we can to support vice president Harris in her historic quest. I also saw that. I think Olivia

00:41:10.920 Rodriguez, Rodriguez, or is it Rodrigo? Yeah. Uh, you can tell I'm really plugged in anyway. He and

00:41:16.760 she, she endorsed her also. So a bunch of other celebrities did as well. Many more will. Um, I mean,

00:41:23.200 all the celebrities will obviously. And I bring this up just to make one point. And this is just me

00:41:31.000 again, trying to caution Republicans away from strategies that I've seen them use in the past

00:41:35.860 and, uh, have, have never been effective. And I think will be even less effective now.

00:41:43.760 So here, it's important to note that the Democrats have the celebrities,

00:41:48.420 right? They, they have the celebrity endorsements. Um, they have basically all of them,

00:41:55.860 all of the most powerful, most influential, most popular celebrities, nothing we could do about that

00:42:03.120 right now. It's the way it is, which is why I want Republicans to just accept that and move past it.

00:42:14.340 And that means not attempting to trot out your own celebrities, you know, going and looking for

00:42:23.800 random C tier celebrities and washed up has-beens and people that have not been, you know, whether

00:42:30.000 they're in whatever part of the entertainment industry they're in, they haven't been relevant

00:42:35.000 in forever and, and latching onto them because they like Trump. Um, I really want to caution

00:42:43.860 Republicans against doing that conservatives against doing that. Don't, don't do that. It doesn't work.

00:42:48.580 It's not a good, it just, okay. Beyonce alone in terms of cultural influence from celebrities.

00:42:56.280 And I don't, I'm not, this is, I'm not a Beyonce fan. Okay. I don't like Beyonce, but Beyonce all by

00:43:02.000 yourself wipes out every single pro-Trump celebrity combined times a thousand. Okay. There's just not

00:43:12.140 any pro-Trump celebrity that we've heard from, uh, who, who even like gets close to that.

00:43:21.940 And I mean, the, the only one that you could make an argument for is Elon Musk. And the only reason I

00:43:30.680 say you can only make an argument for Elon Musk is I think it's to call him merely a celebrity,

00:43:34.880 I think is a bit diminishing. I don't think I would, he's more than I'm talking about entertainment

00:43:38.840 industry celebrity. He's quite a bit more than that. And to the extent that he's, you know,

00:43:43.920 I don't think he's issued an official endorsement of Trump, but I think it's pretty clear that he does

00:43:47.500 like him. So that is, that is someone, but I'm talking about, and that's an obviously extremely

00:43:52.560 powerful cultural figure, but in terms of entertainment industry celebrities, when it comes to that,

00:43:59.140 you just, you just, you just can't compete. You cannot come close. And again, the, the response

00:44:11.220 from Republicans for so long has been to say, well, this is a, an untenable situation. We can't allow

00:44:19.460 this. And, you know, they're getting all the famous people endorsements. They're getting all the,

00:44:23.660 the entertainment industry endorsements, and we need to get a few. So let's go out and find some

00:44:28.960 people who are like celebrities or celebrity adjacent or used to be celebrities. And let's

00:44:34.480 just cobble together our own team and, uh, and put them up against Beyonce and Taylor Swift and,

00:44:42.160 uh, you know, George Clooney, right? Uh, it just doesn't, doesn't work. And I think it makes you

00:44:48.380 look even worse. It makes you look even worse by comparison. It's just a game you can't win.

00:44:54.380 Um, and I'm not saying that I certainly don't think that conservatives should give up on the

00:45:00.780 entertainment industry entirely. I mean, I got my second movie coming out, right? We're going into

00:45:06.540 theaters. I understand that entertainment is important, right? I'm in the, I am in that trying

00:45:12.080 to do that myself. But as it stands right now, the entertainment industry is still run by the left.

00:45:20.800 Um, and it takes quite an, an insurgent effort to, you know, break your way into it. And certainly the,

00:45:28.320 the big players in the entertainment industry are full on leftists. And to change that is a process

00:45:34.480 that's going to take many, many years. We're not there yet. And so the best thing we can do is like,

00:45:39.120 no, we're not going to, we're not going to try to play that game. Okay. You have that. It's a tool.

00:45:43.840 It's not decisive. You're not going to win because of it, but yeah, that helps, right? I mean, it helps

00:45:48.560 to have Beyonce on your side. Uh, and, and we don't, you do fine. You, you got that one. We're just not

00:45:54.840 going to put that to the side and we're going to charge on straight ahead and have a different

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00:47:41.320 So in the opening monologue, we talked about the media's predictable shift into glorification

00:47:45.300 mode for Kamala Harris. They know that she's a thoroughly unimpressive, mediocre figure, 1.00

00:47:49.260 so we'll take a massive and relentless propaganda campaign to make her suddenly seem compelling to a 1.00

00:47:53.360 large enough portion of the American electorate. The media has its work cut out for it, which is

00:47:57.540 why it has wasted no time rebranding Harris into something that bears no resemblance to who she

00:48:02.060 actually is. But on the left, we know that making someone into a hero, which is what they're in the

00:48:06.620 process of trying to do, also means making them into a victim. There could be no hero who isn't a

00:48:11.700 victim on the left. It is heroic to be a victim in the leftist view of things. And the faux

00:48:17.300 victimization process for Harris has also been in full swing. We're told the people who don't think

00:48:22.580 that she's a qualified candidate, especially those who point out rightly that she didn't make it to

00:48:26.380 this point in her career through her merit, are all sexist and racist. There's one criticism of

00:48:32.060 Harris, though, that has drawn the special ire of the media. Some people have pointed out that

00:48:36.800 Kamala Harris doesn't have kids. And according to these critics, who of course happen to be right,

00:48:42.520 the fact that she has no children makes her even less qualified for the presidency. So here's just 1.00

00:48:46.680 one example of someone making this point. Cassandra McDonald tweeted a couple of days ago,

00:48:50.180 quote, it's so weird that Kamala has no children. Too busy ladder climbing, I guess.

00:48:55.500 I don't believe people without kids should be running the country. No skin in the game. 1.00

00:48:59.960 I will say that calling it a ladder is very generous to Willie Brown. But her overall point

00:49:05.980 is perfectly valid, though. And as I said, plenty of people have echoed similar sentiments.

00:49:11.320 The media, however, isn't having it. Articles in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vogue,

00:49:15.060 even something called the Hindustan Times, have lashed out at these critics.

00:49:21.020 Reading now from the Rolling Stone, Kamala Harris has not given birth to children and is therefore

00:49:25.180 unfit to be president of the United States. Appears to be the first line of attack the GOP has come up

00:49:29.280 with since the presidential race was upended this weekend when President Joe Biden dropped out,

00:49:33.340 which is so predictable that it borders unlaughable. Except that if the last decade has taught us

00:49:37.920 anything, it's that the GOP is deadly serious in its endeavor to turn onion headlines into political

00:49:42.140 platforms and subsequently laws. First of all, Kamala is not childless, nor does she appear to

00:49:47.340 be miserable. Whether she owns a cat is unclear. And even if she were, this would not make her less

00:49:52.380 than. Less than human, less than woman, less than capable, less able to successfully run the country. 1.00

00:49:58.940 Unquote. Vogue agrees, adding, quote, it should go without saying that how a person creates or finds

00:50:03.340 family has nothing to do with their value as a person or their fitness as a public servant.

00:50:07.180 But more to the point, would a male presidential candidate ever be raked over the conservative 0.53

00:50:11.520 Coles for failing to reflect the one man, one woman, 2.5 children family structure that American

00:50:17.140 culture has idealized since the Cold War? James Buchanan was famously a bachelor after all.

00:50:23.880 Unquote. Meanwhile, the New York Times responds with a historical rebuttal. Quote, if elected,

00:50:29.080 Harris wouldn't be the first American president with no biological children. There were five others,

00:50:33.060 George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, and James Buchanan. Warren Harding had a

00:50:38.360 child out of wedlock and publicly denied paternity. That he was the father was confirmed by DNA testing

00:50:43.840 almost a century later. But more to the point, if you think that the concerns of parents and families

00:50:48.660 will always be abstract to someone who doesn't have children, you're telling on yourself. It's not

00:50:52.720 simply that, by all accounts, Harris has a close, loving relationship with her stepkids. It's that it's

00:50:56.860 possible for people who have basic empathy to understand the needs, aspirations, and concerns of

00:51:00.780 fellow citizens who aren't exactly like them, and to commit to their well-being. It should go without 1.00

00:51:04.600 saying. Having children doesn't necessarily make you a better person. Well, that did go without

00:51:12.100 saying, which is why you didn't need to say it, and no one is claiming otherwise. I've never heard

00:51:16.920 anyone claim that people with kids are necessarily better people than those without them. That is not

00:51:22.440 the argument. So let's go through this point by point. First of all, yes, there have been other

00:51:27.840 childless presidents before, but if you count Warren Harding, it's been 100 years since the

00:51:32.660 last one. If you don't count him, it's been 150 years. So the history cuts against you here. I mean,

00:51:39.060 it's accurate to say then that nearly every U.S. president, nearly everyone has had children. And

00:51:45.060 over the past century, every U.S. president has had children. Now, sure, George Washington is one of

00:51:51.260 the greatest figures in American history, president or otherwise, and he didn't have children. But there are

00:51:56.820 exceptions to every rule, and I have no problem accepting him as one of them. I'll put it this

00:52:00.460 way. If Kamala Harris was the second coming of George Washington, I would not be at all concerned

00:52:05.620 about her lack of children. But she isn't, okay? Not even close. So anytime someone says, well, but

00:52:13.440 George Washington didn't have kids, yeah, that's George Washington, okay? Kamala Harris is not George

00:52:18.960 Washington. Also, all of these childless men were not childless by choice. They were unable to have

00:52:25.660 kids. For George Washington in particular, the fact that he could have no children of his own

00:52:29.640 was a source of great pain in his life. That's a very different thing from someone who chooses to

00:52:35.720 forego children in order to pursue their career. George Washington was not what we would now call

00:52:41.420 child-free by choice. In fact, he would have been fairly horrified by such a mentality if anyone in his

00:52:48.480 time had had that mentality, which nobody did. Second, you cannot credibly claim that this line

00:52:57.800 of criticism against Harris is sexist and that a male candidate wouldn't experience the same scrutiny.

00:53:03.380 You don't know that. Again, we have not had a childless president in a very long time.

00:53:10.040 Does whoever wrote that Vogue article know that our last truly childless president in the mid-19th

00:53:17.420 century wasn't scrutinized for that fact? Now, I couldn't tell you one way or another, but I haven't

00:53:23.580 gone and looked it up, but I'm not the one making the claim. And I can be pretty sure the person who

00:53:27.680 wrote that article didn't go back and look to see if that criticism was ever made of those other men.

00:53:33.420 And if I had to guess, I would say it probably was. But here's the thing. We don't need to go back

00:53:38.240 that far. In fact, conservatives have made this point about male politicians who aren't even

00:53:44.440 president and are on our side of the aisle. And we have made that in this election cycle.

00:53:51.580 I myself argued just a few months ago, and I was not the only conservative saying this,

00:53:55.740 that one of the many reasons I didn't want Tim Scott as the nominee, not that he ever had a chance,

00:54:00.060 is that he's unmarried and childless. We had this exact conversation about having childless

00:54:06.020 people running the country. We had this a few months ago about a man who's a Republican.

00:54:12.620 So this is a point that we do apply to men. And it's a valid point. Okay, nobody is saying that 0.93

00:54:19.420 Harris being childless is the main reason, much less the only reason to oppose her candidacy.

00:54:24.540 If everything else about her was great, I think most of us bringing up this weakness would be willing

00:54:28.960 to overlook it, but it would still be a weakness. That's because having children gives you a stake in

00:54:34.060 the future of the country that those without children simply don't have. Okay, that's not a

00:54:38.760 moral judgment. It's just a fact. You have more invested in the future of the country when you

00:54:45.260 have children who will be living in it. Those without children can and hopefully do still care about the 0.61

00:54:54.040 future. But for them, the future, especially the future beyond their own death, is a much more

00:55:00.900 more abstract concern. Now, it's possible to care about a place where you don't live and have never

00:55:07.860 been. Yet your concern for that place is going to be more abstract than the concern of someone who

00:55:13.700 actually lives there and calls it home. So when you have kids, your bloodline, a piece of you,

00:55:20.120 the children that you love and would die to protect are going to live in the future.

00:55:25.060 The country you're creating is the one that your children and grandchildren will call home.

00:55:29.600 This fact won't necessarily give you a seriousness of purpose and a feeling of skin in the game.

00:55:36.840 There are plenty of politicians who are parents and yet still pretty awful, but it can give you that

00:55:43.220 and it should. But this is not really the point, or at least it's not, it's only part of the point.

00:55:50.120 The larger point, as I alluded to earlier, is not that Harris has no children of her own.

00:55:54.000 It's why she has no children of her own. She's a woman who has chosen to dedicate her life to her

00:56:00.120 own personal ambition and career advancement. She has lived a very self-serving life. The lack

00:56:06.840 of children is a symptom of that. Certainly not the only symptom. It's all part of a picture.

00:56:13.820 And that picture is of a woman who cares for nothing but her own ambition. 0.99

00:56:17.900 That's the real reason why this matters and why she shouldn't be president. 0.99

00:56:24.880 And it's why she is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. 1.00

00:56:28.900 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 24, 2024

Ep. 1408 - The Media Desperately Tries To Turn Mediocre Kamala Into A Star

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