The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1412 - Weird Democrats Think The Nuclear Family Is Weird

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media wants us to believe that it's weird to promote parenthood and family life.

00:00:04.740 Right now they're focusing most of their attacks on J.D. Vance, but make no mistake, this is a war on the family itself.

00:00:09.440 Also, one of the drag queens involved in that blasphemous display at the Olympics has come out and doubled down on it. 0.90

00:00:14.820 Kamala Harris puts out a new ad portraying herself as a conservative right-winger on border security.

00:00:19.780 And Megan Thee Stallion twerks for Kamala at a big rally in Atlanta. 0.95

00:00:23.420 Have we reached the final stage of idiocracy?

00:00:25.860 Talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 We'll be right back.

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00:01:54.480 The reason political campaigns come up with talking points and pay focus groups a lot of money to test them

00:01:59.800 is that it's effective to repeat things over and over and over again.

00:02:03.080 Even when people know they're being fed a manufactured soundbite, and even if people know it's a lie,

00:02:08.220 it can still work to some extent at a subconscious level.

00:02:12.200 Advertising slogans work on the same principle.

00:02:14.320 If you constantly bombard people with the same message, the same slogan, over and over and over again,

00:02:19.420 eventually they will, against their will, internalize it.

00:02:23.300 But talking points can backfire, especially when politicians go off script.

00:02:27.900 They can get themselves into a lot of trouble very quickly.

00:02:30.300 And we're starting to see that right now with a soundbite you've now heard a million times,

00:02:33.940 in which we discussed yesterday, which is the refrain that J.D. Vance and the other Republicans are weird.

00:02:40.800 Every Democrat and media outlet has clearly been instructed to repeat this attack endlessly for the past week.

00:02:47.080 In an interview the other day, it was West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin's turn to repeat this line.

00:02:52.000 But he didn't just repeat it.

00:02:53.660 He also attempted to explain what it means to be weird.

00:02:57.480 And nothing he said made any sense, which suggests that Democrats don't really understand the talking point

00:03:02.100 that they've been handed, yet they're repeating it anyway, of course.

00:03:05.440 Watch.

00:03:05.900 Well, that was a weird comment.

00:03:08.840 That definitely is weird.

00:03:09.960 And some of the different things and positions they've taken seems fairly weird to me.

00:03:14.960 And weird means basically when you have rational, supposedly very educated, rational people

00:03:19.060 saying things that just are so far out of the mainstream.

00:03:22.700 I thought I'd have heard everything as long as I've been around, but there are some things I haven't heard.

00:03:27.060 And I thought that was a very weird way of putting it.

00:03:29.580 Yeah, I mean, this thing here is just the name calling back and forth that goes on.

00:03:35.040 I mean, you know, really, the attacks that's coming from former President Trump and all them,

00:03:39.720 it just, you know, Mike, why don't you say what you're for and say what you're against?

00:03:42.620 Just say what you agree and what you don't agree with.

00:03:44.220 Go from there.

00:03:46.020 Yeah, the name calling.

00:03:47.800 You know that damned weirdo and all his name calling?

00:03:50.980 I wish these weird freaks would stop name calling so much.

00:03:54.000 Now, you kind of have to feel bad for Manchin because everyone knows that a 76-year-old man

00:03:59.880 would never call another man weird.

00:04:03.280 What are they going to do next?

00:04:04.640 Force Manchin to say that J.D. Vance gives him the ick?

00:04:07.520 Maybe he'll come out and tell us that Vance's vibes are cringe?

00:04:10.960 So the whole thing is, for Manchin, degrading and totally inauthentic, and everyone can see through it.

00:04:16.480 But the interesting part of that clip is that Manchin tries to explain what the talking point means,

00:04:22.200 which you're not supposed to do, by the way.

00:04:24.320 They don't want you to try to explain it because it doesn't mean anything.

00:04:26.360 So they just want you to say weird and leave it at that.

00:04:28.780 But he tries to elaborate.

00:04:30.720 And first, Manchin says that Vance is weird because he's a smart guy who said something out of the mainstream.

00:04:36.840 And, you know, you never want to do that.

00:04:38.060 You don't want to go out.

00:04:38.740 You've got to stay in the mainstream.

00:04:40.060 That's all.

00:04:40.460 Everything outside of the mainstream is weird because it's not mainstream, so it's automatically bad.

00:04:46.420 And then he suggests that J.D. Vance is guilty of name-calling instead of clearly articulating what kind of policies he wants to pursue.

00:04:55.240 Now, it's kind of a jaw-dropping claim because the entire point of Vance's statements, the ones they're claiming are weird,

00:05:03.480 go to maybe the single most important issue facing this country, which is the decline of the family and the rise of childlessness.

00:05:09.520 It's the decline of the family that has led directly to skyrocketing rates of violence in major cities.

00:05:15.480 It's led to plummeting birth rates that are well below replacement level.

00:05:18.980 It's led to a historic number of deaths of despair, including overdoses and suicide.

00:05:23.320 But Manchin dismisses all of that.

00:05:25.720 He simply claims that Vance is insulting people instead of talking about serious issues, whatever those may be,

00:05:31.900 because apparently the collapse of, you know, civilization is not a serious issue that we should be talking about.

00:05:37.180 Now, this is what it looks like when a talking point unravels.

00:05:41.600 None of the Democrats or media outlets want to address the substance of what Vance was talking about,

00:05:45.620 which is the importance of starting families and having children.

00:05:49.180 These are not fringe ideas.

00:05:51.540 They are what allow civilization to exist.

00:05:55.380 So instead, to justify their soundbite that Vance is weird,

00:06:00.180 Democrats are just making things up and attributing them to Vance.

00:06:03.080 And it's not just Manchin who's doing this.

00:06:04.380 The other day, CNN tried to push the weird talking point,

00:06:07.800 and this time by claiming that Vance called people sociopaths if they don't have kids.

00:06:13.040 And they show a video of what Vance actually said.

00:06:15.900 And it, of course, completely contradicts what they claim.

00:06:19.600 Watch.

00:06:20.800 Not just childless cat ladies.

00:06:22.580 Turns out there are many more ways Trump's running mate has described people without children.

00:06:27.760 The word sociopath used a lot.

00:06:30.600 Brand new this morning, more than childless cat ladies.

00:06:35.240 Way more.

00:06:36.240 New reporting from CNN's K-File this morning on Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance.

00:06:41.600 The controversial comments he made questioning the judgment of people without children,

00:06:46.160 they were not a one-off.

00:06:48.640 In May of 2019, he told a crowd, quote,

00:06:51.680 babies are good because we're not sociopaths.

00:06:55.740 I've seen people who become more attached to their communities, to their families,

00:07:01.680 to their country because they have children.

00:07:05.180 So I would say that we should care about declining fertility,

00:07:07.860 not just because it's bad for our economy, but because we think babies are good.

00:07:13.340 And we think babies are good because we're not sociopaths.

00:07:15.740 And sociopaths.

00:07:17.880 Okay.

00:07:19.240 Now, and first of all, any Republican or conservative letting them get away with this,

00:07:27.000 you're just weak and pathetic.

00:07:29.940 Okay, this is not an easy issue.

00:07:31.780 This is not a, rather I should say, this is not a difficult issue for us to address.

00:07:36.260 They're just flat out lying.

00:07:38.280 Any reasonable person watching that clip would agree with every word J.D. Vance said.

00:07:44.760 What did he say there that's so outrageous?

00:07:47.640 There's not even, there's not a hint of name calling in that segment.

00:07:51.240 He's not, he is not saying that childless people are sociopaths.

00:07:56.420 That is not what he said.

00:07:58.340 You and I both heard what he said.

00:08:00.640 What he said is that babies are good.

00:08:04.060 It's good to have babies.

00:08:05.760 They're good for communities.

00:08:06.920 They're good for the country.

00:08:07.720 They're good for parents.

00:08:09.040 And what he said is that only a sociopath would think otherwise.

00:08:13.080 Only a sociopath would think that babies are bad.

00:08:17.520 He's not saying that only a sociopath wouldn't have a baby.

00:08:20.880 He's saying only a sociopath would be opposed to babies in principle.

00:08:27.160 Now, that is as uncontroversial a point as a person can possibly make.

00:08:32.600 If you have an affirmative dislike for human children, if you think it's a bad thing that people are reproducing, then you have an extraordinarily anti-social and anti-human outlook.

00:08:44.940 You're also probably incapable of understanding the joy that children bring to their mothers and fathers.

00:08:50.100 You obviously don't understand that.

00:08:52.060 And yeah, you're a sociopath.

00:08:55.320 If you are fundamentally opposed to children, you are a sociopath.

00:08:59.480 You are a person who all of your opinions, none of your opinions mean anything anymore.

00:09:08.300 We should disregard everything you think about everything if you are affirmatively opposed to reproduction.

00:09:14.820 Now, you might respond, well, yeah, but just because someone doesn't have kids, that doesn't mean they're opposed to the idea of reproduction.

00:09:21.760 Yes, I agree.

00:09:23.720 J.D. Vance agrees.

00:09:24.480 He never said otherwise.

00:09:27.160 So CNN completely misrepresented what J.D. Vance said.

00:09:30.000 There's no argument that he was describing people without children as sociopaths, as they claimed.

00:09:36.100 This is the name calling that Joe Manchin was referring to, and it's a complete fabrication.

00:09:40.660 But CNN was not done lying, so here's the rest of the segment.

00:09:46.620 Then in November of 2020, during a podcast appearance, he said this.

00:09:52.440 There are just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really, really valuable when you have kids in your life.

00:09:59.740 And the fact that so many people, especially in America's leadership class, just don't have that in their lives, you know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less mentally stable.

00:10:14.980 And, of course, you talk about going on Twitter.

00:10:16.940 Final point I'll make is you go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids at home.

00:10:25.160 In August of 2021, in a fundraising email, CNN found he appealed to donors by mentioning the, quote, radical childless leaders in this country.

00:10:35.400 And then he tweeted in 2021, quote, cat ladies must be stopped. 0.96

00:10:39.940 So we're supposed to be outraged by this podcast interview, too, even though, again, there's nothing insulting or confusing about it.

00:10:48.180 He's saying that on balance, societies are better off when people have children. 0.98

00:10:52.720 For one thing, society can continue to exist, which is a pretty big net positive.

00:10:58.800 In fact, there's you can't have that's.

00:11:02.340 If you don't have that going for you, then there's there really is no second place.

00:11:06.620 Right. If like for anything else good to happen in society, society has to at least exist.

00:11:12.940 And the only way society continues to exist is by having kids. 0.95

00:11:16.260 That's the first step.

00:11:18.800 And as Vance said, having children generally makes people less narcissistic and less self-centered by necessity.

00:11:25.580 Not always, but it generally has that effect.

00:11:28.920 Parents are forced to consider the well-being of their child, which is obviously a fundamental and instinctual desire that's encoded in our DNA.

00:11:35.840 Up until about 15 minutes ago, everyone understood this.

00:11:39.020 It was not a controversial point.

00:11:40.420 It was not long ago that Barack Obama was giving speeches in which he described fatherhood as, quote, the greatest gift.

00:11:46.740 That's from a speech in 2008 that he delivered at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago.

00:11:52.100 And during that speech, Obama said, quote, if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father.

00:11:56.660 And his whole speech was about how fatherhood made him less narcissistic, which really, well, in his case, it makes you wonder just how narcissistic this guy must have been before he had kids.

00:12:06.500 But he continued, quote, when I was a young man, I thought life was all about me.

00:12:10.900 How do I make my way in the world?

00:12:12.420 How do I become successful?

00:12:13.500 How do I get the things that I want?

00:12:14.680 But now my life revolves around my two little girls.

00:12:18.980 Now, there was no scandal when Barack Obama delivered that speech.

00:12:24.320 No one thought it was controversial to say that fatherhood means caring more about other people besides yourself.

00:12:30.240 No one thought it was strange to suggest, as Obama did, that becoming a father is often the most meaningful thing that a man can do.

00:12:37.760 So we have to ask, when and how did this change in American politics?

00:12:41.380 When did it become unacceptable to point out that having a family is good in part because it involves caring for others?

00:12:49.340 That's a question we should all be asking.

00:12:50.880 Instead, the media is pretending J.D. Vance is the outlier.

00:12:54.160 Manchin and CNN are accusing him of being out of the mainstream, God forbid.

00:12:58.620 None of it makes any sense, but it appears to be a widespread problem now.

00:13:02.820 A lot of people seem to be thinking along these lines.

00:13:04.920 Yesterday, or rather, yeah, yesterday it was, I talked to a Wall Street Journal reporter who's doing a piece on this controversy.

00:13:15.380 And, you know, the guy was nice enough, didn't appear to be going for the gotcha moments.

00:13:19.880 We'll see how the article turns out.

00:13:21.160 But the premise behind his line of questioning that we return to again and again, and I was trying to sort of clarify for him, the premise behind the question, the questions he was asking, was totally confused.

00:13:34.640 Because he wanted to know about the rise in pro-family rhetoric like the kind we hear from Vance and from me.

00:13:40.960 And I tried to explain that our view is not some new political phenomenon.

00:13:48.700 Our view is the one held by every reasonable person who's ever lived up until approximately last Tuesday.

00:13:56.080 It's the anti-family view, the view that celebrates the child-free lifestyle that has recently arisen.

00:14:03.120 It is the sudden and very modern phenomenon that he should be trying to explain.

00:14:07.640 Again, that's what an art, you know, if you want to write an article about this, that's what you should be exploring.

00:14:13.080 Now, of course, the idea of attacking the nuclear family isn't all that new.

00:14:19.100 Karl Marx called for the abolition of the family in the Communist Manifesto.

00:14:23.620 Friedrich Engels claimed that the family is founded on the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife. 0.96

00:14:29.680 Soviet schools taught children to report their own parents for wrong think.

00:14:33.740 And in Hungary's Soviet government, which lasted only a few months, schools began indoctrinating children on various explicit sexual topics as a way of driving a wedge between the children and their parents.

00:14:44.980 As the biographer of one Hungarian commissar put it, quote, special lectures were organized in schools and literature printed and distributed to instruct children about free love, about the nature of sexual intercourse, about the archaic nature of the bourgeois family codes, about the outdatedness of monogamy and the irrelevance of religion, which deprives man of all pleasure.

00:15:06.540 Children urged thus to reject and deride paternal authority and the authority of the church and to ignore precepts of morality.

00:15:13.120 It might sound a little familiar.

00:15:15.740 We've obviously been seeing this same creeping influence in American politics for some time.

00:15:20.540 Children are now instructing kindergartners about topics like gender identity.

00:15:24.500 Children are receiving hormones that can sterilize them for life.

00:15:27.220 California is hiding students' so-called transitions from their parents.

00:15:31.780 In some cases, children are being removed from homes because their parents will not affirm their quote-unquote gender identity.

00:15:38.340 The difference is that, unlike the Soviets, today's Democrats generally don't come right out and admit that they want to destroy the nuclear family.

00:15:45.960 Now, yes, sometimes the mask does slip.

00:15:48.680 At the height of the George Floyd hysteria four years ago, for example, BLM had this passage on their website.

00:15:54.720 Quote, we disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families in villages that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

00:16:08.540 We disrupt the nuclear family. 0.99

00:16:10.620 Now, eventually, BLM had to take that down, not because it was posted in error, but because they said the quiet part out loud and people were sort of cringing at it.

00:16:19.640 Now, suddenly, it's fine for Democrats to say that part out loud.

00:16:25.020 Advocating for strong families is now prohibited on the left.

00:16:28.480 They're saying that if a critical mass of people decide to stay single and self-serving for their whole lives, then that can't possibly have any negative ramifications whatsoever on society, even though it will mean the extinction of society.

00:16:39.580 This is the view that Democrats push, and it's very much out of the mainstream of conventional thought in this country and across the entire world since the beginning of human civilization.

00:16:52.820 Democrats are importing Marxist views on the family, and they're calling you weird for noticing what they're doing.

00:16:59.300 And they're doing it relentlessly.

00:17:01.700 The other day, New York Magazine ran a piece that, like CNN, completely misrepresented what J.D. Vance believes.

00:17:07.020 Quote, conservatives have long staked out a claim to be the movement of traditional values, of families, of normal people, all in contrast to liberalism.

00:17:14.720 The weirdness attack works so well because it flips the script and fights on important cultural terrain.

00:17:19.420 It's weird to care about how many children people have.

00:17:21.480 It's weird to treat women like incubators.

00:17:23.660 It's weird to care about people being drag queens. 0.90

00:17:26.040 It's weird to lose your shit because some people are trans. 0.99

00:17:29.300 It's weird to obsess over alleged sex differences.

00:17:31.900 Most people aren't like this and don't want to be like this either.

00:17:34.180 The GOP has become the party of Internet poisoning, and it's important to say as much.

00:17:39.140 Everyone likes to tell a freak to shut up.

00:17:42.520 In other words, Democrats can give sterilizing hormones to children.

00:17:47.440 They can make every single day on the calendar some kind of LGBTQ holiday, from Trans Day of Remembrance to International Pronouns Day to Gay Uncle Day to Pride Month and so on.

00:17:56.520 They can pretend that basic biology is meaningless and basically doesn't exist.

00:18:03.500 They can bring drag queens into the school to read to your kids.

00:18:08.060 And if you complain about any of it, then you're the one who's making an issue out of it.

00:18:12.780 You're the weird one.

00:18:13.700 No, they're not the weird ones for bringing the drag queens to the kids. 0.97

00:18:17.920 You're the weird one for saying, hey, wait, why are we doing this?

00:18:21.360 Can you not, can we, can you just get a librarian, a normal librarian to read to the kids?

00:18:25.360 You're weird for saying that.

00:18:26.700 Now, as with everything else that we see from these people, this is projection, and it's all they have.

00:18:34.340 The only way they can accuse J.D. Vance of being strange is to tell you to shut up, which is why New York Magazine explicitly says shut up in the article.

00:18:42.760 For good measure, like CNN, they also invent things that J.D. Vance didn't even say.

00:18:46.560 For example, the article continues, quote, none of this is normal, and voters know it.

00:18:50.220 Most parents don't have kids simply to own the libs or because they're worried about getting outbred by immigrants. 0.97

00:18:55.520 People are childless for many reasons, and none of it is Vance's business.

00:19:00.440 Of course, J.D. Vance didn't say that people should have kids to own the libs or that people should have to explain why they're childless

00:19:06.720 or that people should have kids simply because they're worried about being outbred.

00:19:10.880 None of that is tethered in any way to reality.

00:19:13.200 The truth is, they're not attacking us for any of the reasons New York Magazine claimed.

00:19:19.260 They're attacking us for promoting family life and parenthood as a positive good, which it obviously is.

00:19:25.080 Everyone throughout history has recognized that.

00:19:28.440 What we're seeing now is just part of their years-long campaign to demonize the nuclear family.

00:19:33.260 If they're smart, Republicans will use this issue as an opportunity to remind voters about the Democratic attacks on parents and families, especially in recent years.

00:19:41.240 With J.D. Vance, for the first time, a major Republican politician has done exactly what BLM did inadvertently four years ago.

00:19:49.360 He told the truth about Democrats' efforts to destroy the nuclear family, which is the foundation of all civilization

00:19:55.100 and also the solution to so many problems that Democrat-run cities are suffering from right now.

00:20:01.880 Strong, stable families are the way to fix all of it, which is obvious to almost everyone.

00:20:07.240 But what's become clear over the past week amid the left's obsession with their dumb talking point

00:20:13.580 is that they'd rather watch the population of this country wither and die out than admit what everyone knows,

00:20:19.660 which is that J.D. Vance is right.

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00:21:24.140 Okay, CNN reports.

00:21:25.680 Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive on immigration at her rally in Atlanta on Tuesday, 0.92

00:21:30.020 attempting to counter former President Donald Trump's attacks on the issue.

00:21:33.640 She touted her role as a California attorney general who prosecuted transnational gangs,

00:21:37.280 drug cartels, and human traffickers,

00:21:39.100 then blamed Trump for tanking this year's bipartisan border bill on Capitol Hill

00:21:42.840 because he thought it would help him win an election, quote-unquote.

00:21:45.300 Quote, in this campaign, I'll probably put my record against his any day, she said during the rally.

00:21:53.700 The Harris campaign earlier Tuesday previewed how it would be responding to Trump's attacks,

00:21:57.340 falsely casting her as the administration's borders are.

00:22:00.800 Well, that's not false.

00:22:01.620 I mean, that's what she was.

00:22:03.920 With a new 50-second campaign video,

00:22:06.200 it paints Trump as unserious on border security

00:22:08.460 and cites his decision to scuttle the bipartisan immigration deal

00:22:11.340 that included some of the toughest border security measures in recent memory.

00:22:16.140 Okay, a lot of problems with everything I just read there from CNN, obviously.

00:22:19.260 But before we talk about that,

00:22:20.940 here's the ad that the Harris campaign just started running on this issue.

00:22:25.060 Watch.

00:22:26.220 On the border, the choice is simple.

00:22:29.140 Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents.

00:22:33.720 Donald Trump blocked a bill to increase the number of Border Patrol agents.

00:22:37.560 Kamala Harris supports investing in new technology to block fentanyl from entering the country.

00:22:43.760 Donald Trump blocked funding for technology to block fentanyl from entering the country.

00:22:48.540 Kamala Harris supports spending more money to stop human traffickers.

00:22:52.880 Donald Trump blocked money to stop human traffickers.

00:22:56.340 Kamala Harris prosecuted transnational gang members and got them sentenced to prison.

00:23:01.480 Trump is trying to avoid being sentenced to prison.

00:23:04.900 There's two choices in this election.

00:23:06.600 The one who will fix our broken immigration system. 1.00

00:23:10.480 And the one who's trying to stop her.

00:23:15.200 Okay, now, this is pretty amazing.

00:23:18.600 I mean, it's total nonsense.

00:23:20.580 It's completely bogus.

00:23:21.640 It's all a lie.

00:23:22.360 Everything in there is a lie.

00:23:24.960 Starting with the lie that, you know, she, well, it's like,

00:23:27.720 we were told that she was going to be in charge of the border.

00:23:33.760 And then everything got worse.

00:23:36.900 And now they're saying, well, she wasn't really in charge.

00:23:40.040 But now they're running an ad saying, actually, she was in charge and she did a great job.

00:23:44.240 So, which is, you know, it's all confused because it's just a bunch of lies.

00:23:49.760 Nothing amazing about that per se.

00:23:51.520 What's amazing is that Kamala Harris is running fully to the right on immigration. 1.00

00:23:57.340 She's running now as what? 0.92

00:23:59.320 Some sort of border hawk.

00:24:01.660 She's running as a proponent of protecting the border. 0.98

00:24:06.280 What does that mean?

00:24:07.280 Well, aside from the fact that, again, it's completely bogus and false.

00:24:11.660 What it means, for one thing, is that conservatives have totally won on immigration.

00:24:17.740 This is a complete, this is a total victory.

00:24:19.920 It's a knockout victory on the immigration issue. 0.53

00:24:25.120 You know, when, now, the immigration problem is not fixed. 0.92

00:24:29.240 So there hasn't been a victory in that sense.

00:24:33.400 That still needs to happen.

00:24:34.760 But in terms of in the public eye, right, in the court of public opinion, let's say, total victory.

00:24:42.660 Because when you have the most left-wing presidential candidate in history running to the right on immigration, that means we won. 0.95

00:24:51.180 And they know it.

00:24:52.580 She cannot run as what she really is, which is someone who supports open immigration.

00:24:58.020 That would be the death of her campaign, and she knows it.

00:25:00.740 That is a politically untenable position.

00:25:03.100 Nobody wants to hear it.

00:25:04.680 Nobody wants to hear her stand up there and say, talk about how we need to welcome everybody,

00:25:08.980 and we don't have a right to, you know, no human is illegal, and we don't have a right to turn anybody away.

00:25:14.820 And, oh, the poor immigrants. 1.00

00:25:16.160 Nobody wants to hear that.

00:25:18.680 So she's running as, suddenly, someone, you know, more conservative on immigration than Republicans were prior to Trump.

00:25:27.400 The ad you just saw there is, that's a more right-wing immigration ad than what, you know, George Bush would have run in 2004 or something.

00:25:39.040 And this is not the only issue where she's pulling this trick.

00:25:41.600 She's running to the right on crime also.

00:25:43.540 She knows that the defund the police, empty the prisons approach, which is her actual position, she knows that's poison.

00:25:52.480 That's the political equivalent of drinking bleach at this point.

00:25:55.600 You can't do it.

00:25:56.960 You can't do it.

00:25:57.520 So instead, she's running as the tough prosecutor who's cracking down on crime and all that kind of stuff.

00:26:03.560 So there are multiple issues where Kamala Harris, rabidly left-wing, full-blown leftist, right, is nonetheless trying to go to the right. 0.98

00:26:17.180 On every issue, just about, she has switched course to at least some extent.

00:26:22.080 She's abandoned her positions on everything except abortion. 0.98

00:26:25.120 That's the only one where she's basically taking the same position she's always taken, which is to be extremist, you know, kill all the babies. 1.00

00:26:33.900 That's her position. 0.62

00:26:35.660 But everything else, like in the blink of an eye, she has abandoned and taken a new position and done it with no pushback at all of any kind.

00:26:45.620 Nobody's even asked her about it.

00:26:48.500 You realize that there hasn't even been a moment yet where anyone's even asked her, like, well, why are you saying this now?

00:26:54.520 When you were, like, two weeks ago, you were saying the opposite.

00:26:56.940 What happened?

00:26:57.400 This woman has sworn off her entire political program up until last Monday, and she hasn't answered a single question about it.

00:27:06.520 Not a single one.

00:27:07.240 But this is overall a very good sign, and it's a fight that, I mean, this is a fight that Trump absolutely should be able to win.

00:27:16.900 But you want to have this fight on immigration?

00:27:18.700 You want to try to get to the right of Trump on immigration?

00:27:24.660 That is something that she should not be able to do.

00:27:27.620 That is a move that she should not be able to pull off.

00:27:30.940 And it's a sign to any conservative who thinks that the key to winning this cycle is to moderate, to move to the left.

00:27:39.300 No.

00:27:40.380 No.

00:27:41.320 No.

00:27:41.860 Okay, that's never the key to victory, but especially not now.

00:27:47.400 The Democrats are moving to the right.

00:27:49.860 As soon as they're in office, they're going right back to the left.

00:27:52.400 We know that.

00:27:52.780 But Democrats are moving to the right.

00:27:55.600 What does that tell you?

00:27:56.440 When people are sprinting away from a certain place, you don't want to sprint back in the direction that they're fleeing from.

00:28:04.820 It's like a Godzilla movie.

00:28:07.040 And you hear the stomps, and you see the crowd of people running towards you.

00:28:11.980 You don't run past them and go towards the sound of the giant stomps, unless you want to get squished by the monster.

00:28:19.500 So the Godzilla, in this case, is the American electorate, which is righteously pissed off and tired of having their country stolen out from under them.

00:28:26.440 Tired of living in crime-infested communities.

00:28:31.480 And the Democrats are fleeing as fast as they can to avoid getting stomped.

00:28:35.800 All Republicans need to do is hold their ground.

00:28:38.980 Don't go left.

00:28:40.000 Don't moderate.

00:28:42.260 Now, instead, what you should be doing is pulling up the drawbridge to, you know, mixing metaphors here, but whatever.

00:28:48.220 Pull up the drawbridge.

00:28:50.060 When the Democrats try to run to the right and, you know, pull up the state, hell no, sorry, you're not welcome.

00:28:56.100 Now, the voters are welcome.

00:28:58.140 Don't get me wrong.

00:28:58.820 If the voters want to come and be Republican and be conservative, voters can come in.

00:29:03.840 Yes, you're welcome.

00:29:05.580 Now, the politicians who are trying to avoid getting trounced, politicians like Kamala Harris, were trying to run in and pretend, yeah, let's protect the border.

00:29:15.800 No, no, no, you're not welcome.

00:29:17.380 No.

00:29:18.120 You're for open borders and defunding the police and emptying the prisons.

00:29:22.220 And that's what you are.

00:29:24.620 And that's your ship.

00:29:25.600 And you're going to go down with it.

00:29:27.600 To mix another metaphor in.

00:29:28.900 That's all the Republicans have to do on this thing.

00:29:35.140 She's the one who has to triangulate and has to try to pull off this crazy sleight of hand trick where she goes in an instant from being full open border radical to being, you know, a proponent of protecting the border and enforcing the law. 1.00

00:29:53.040 She's the one who's trying to pull off that trick.

00:29:55.340 And all you have to do is, as I said, just say, nope, can't do it.

00:29:59.340 Sorry.

00:30:00.340 That's not real.

00:30:01.080 That's not actually you.

00:30:01.960 We're not going to let you pretend.

00:30:04.920 All right.

00:30:05.300 I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this issue because I'm very late to it.

00:30:08.220 And you've already heard everything there is to hear about it probably.

00:30:11.020 But I do want to just kind of cover this space to make one point because, I mean, I was just as repulsed as the rest of you when I saw that blasphemous opening ceremony in Paris last week.

00:30:21.580 I didn't really talk about it because I was off on Monday.

00:30:26.460 And as we know, that nothing is relevant for, you know, more than a day.

00:30:31.760 And then we all move on.

00:30:34.000 But here's the latest from Breitbart that I did want to mention.

00:30:36.680 It says,

00:30:39.560 He wrote in a Monday morning Instagram story.

00:31:07.780 So he's kind of doubling down for the people responsible for that grotesque mockery that we saw.

00:31:27.340 There seems to be kind of a split.

00:31:28.900 Some of them are basically apologizing, deleting, you know, pretending it never happened.

00:31:34.180 Some are doubling down.

00:31:36.180 The interesting question to me is whether the people responsible for putting on this display, whether they knew that the display would provoke as much anger as it did.

00:31:47.300 And if you didn't know any better, you would think that they must have known that.

00:31:53.480 I mean, you staged a drag queen Last Supper. 1.00

00:31:56.040 You used one of the holiest images in Christianity.

00:31:58.580 And by that, I mean the Last Supper itself.

00:32:01.320 Not just the painting of it, but the biblical image of the Last Supper.

00:32:05.680 You used that as a forum for mocking and belittling and committing sacrilege against a religion that two and a half billion people in the world follow.

00:32:17.240 Of course, you know, they would know that it would upset people.

00:32:20.600 You would think.

00:32:21.100 But I think they didn't know.

00:32:24.280 I think they actually were surprised.

00:32:26.940 And that's not any kind of defense of them.

00:32:29.800 Don't get me wrong.

00:32:30.580 Okay, these people are demonic, just reprehensible scumbags, deserve all the condemnation that they received and more.

00:32:38.260 But I think they truly didn't know, did not anticipate that this would actually upset people.

00:32:44.520 And that's why there's been all this scrambling after the fact, taking down the videos, apologizing, you know, some are doubling down.

00:32:49.700 It does not appear that they, you know, knew that there would be backlash and they were ready for it and they had their responses ready to go.

00:33:00.240 They really didn't know.

00:33:01.920 And what does that tell you?

00:33:04.120 It tells you what kind of bubble they live in.

00:33:07.800 The leftists in the Olympic Organizing Committee, just like the leftist elites in Hollywood, academia, government here in the U.S. and across the world, really,

00:33:15.800 all of them live a life that is totally divorced from the experiences, the existence of normal people.

00:33:27.080 And for these elites, Christianity is just a joke.

00:33:31.800 It's not something they even pretend to take seriously among themselves.

00:33:35.160 In their world, Christianity is a religion, first of all, which automatically makes it dumb and frivolous. 1.00

00:33:44.960 And they associate it with white people.

00:33:47.240 Now, even though the majority of Christians are not white, but to them, you know, they see it as a white person religion.

00:33:54.220 They associate it with Western civilization and they associate Western civilization with whiteness.

00:34:01.060 And so it's a religion, strike one. 0.65

00:34:04.140 It's white to them, strike two.

00:34:07.220 No need for a third strike.

00:34:09.460 Both of those factors make it something less than a joke, something worse than a joke.

00:34:13.020 It's something deserving only of mockery and derision.

00:34:16.300 So they put together this opening ceremony, this festival of blasphemy, thinking that people,

00:34:23.580 assuming that people would see it the same way they did.

00:34:26.520 Because they might as well live in a different universe from you and me.

00:34:30.920 That's how absolutely divorced these people are from just the average human existence of most people.

00:34:43.820 Which is pretty remarkable in a lot of ways.

00:34:49.700 Let me see, something else I wanted to talk about if I can find it.

00:34:53.460 There's plenty of articles out there about the abortion issue and how it is going to relate to this presidential campaign,

00:35:07.600 especially now with a woman who's presumably going to be on the ballot. 0.92

00:35:16.760 And I don't even need to read the articles.

00:35:18.780 I think we all kind of know that.

00:35:20.680 And there's a point I want to make about that.

00:35:23.860 You know, Kamala's campaign isn't really about anything at the moment.

00:35:27.820 It's not about anyone.

00:35:28.760 It's not about any issue.

00:35:29.960 But to the extent that it is about something, or will be about something, it's this.

00:35:36.280 It's white guilt, we talked about yesterday.

00:35:39.400 And this.

00:35:43.400 So really, it's white guilt and male guilt.

00:35:47.060 And then white male guilt.

00:35:48.060 Because for them, the abortion issue is all about, like, sort of, it's, of course, portraying women as the victims

00:35:58.160 and trying to guilt men into supporting it and all of that.

00:36:01.700 So it's going to be abortion and it's going to be white guilt. 0.56

00:36:04.620 So conservatives need to have an effective way of dealing with this.

00:36:08.920 And running away from it is not going to be the effective way.

00:36:12.040 You can't.

00:36:12.580 You can't run away from abortion. 0.73

00:36:16.360 They're not going to let you.

00:36:17.680 You just, you can't do it.

00:36:20.360 And Trump is, he's going to debate Kamala Harris.

00:36:24.740 He kind of has to.

00:36:25.760 I know he's sort of, right now, he's noncommittal about it, whatever.

00:36:29.080 But you do have to debate her.

00:36:31.200 You can't give off the impression that you're scared of her.

00:36:34.960 There's no reason to be scared of her.

00:36:36.480 You should be able to beat her in a debate pretty easily. 0.99

00:36:38.220 So you will have to debate her and this is going to be a topic.

00:36:43.140 It's going to be a topic that is returned to, I would assume.

00:36:45.740 They're going to dwell on it for quite a bit.

00:36:50.000 So how do you deal with it?

00:36:51.260 Well, as I've said a million times, for one thing, you refocus the conversation on the radical extreme positions that the Democrats hold on this issue.

00:37:02.000 And Trump is pretty good about doing that.

00:37:03.440 He did a nice job of doing that in the debate against Biden, to the extent that we can call it a debate at all.

00:37:10.600 But, you know, this is a pivot that he makes pretty instinctually.

00:37:14.180 He just immediately pivots to the fact that, hey, they want to kill fully developed babies a second before they're born.

00:37:21.540 Let's talk about that.

00:37:23.300 And that's a good move.

00:37:24.220 That's a smart move.

00:37:25.960 And it's also not just a move.

00:37:27.740 It's like, it's true that that is the more relevant thing to talk about.

00:37:30.580 Before we talk about the hard cases, the 1% cases, the rape, life of the mother, those kinds.

00:37:36.060 Before we talk about these very, very, very rare situations, we have the much more common scenarios where you have abortion being used purely as birth control,

00:37:47.060 where you have babies later on in the development cycle being killed in very brutal and gruesome ways.

00:37:53.920 So we need to talk about that before we talk about anything else.

00:37:58.280 So that's good.

00:38:00.980 But you can also and should also positively defend the pro-life position.

00:38:08.460 And because pivoting it to the extremism of the Democrats, good move, we should do it.

00:38:15.560 That is a more defensive posture.

00:38:17.960 That's a defensive move.

00:38:20.220 I think it's a smart defensive move, but it is defensive.

00:38:21.920 Going on offense, I think, is more like, okay, this is a, I'm going to positively and affirm the pro-life position.

00:38:33.560 And you can do that by talking about the value of human life.

00:38:37.980 And that is a, that's a crowd pleaser if you do it right.

00:38:41.520 Because the crowd is made up of humans, right?

00:38:45.220 And they like to think that their own existence has value.

00:38:49.160 So to talk about the fact that human life has value, that should be something that most people can applaud.

00:38:56.800 But when's the last time you heard a Republican candidate in any race speak passionately and movingly about the value of human life?

00:39:06.600 I mean, on occasion you hear it, it does happen, but it's not very often.

00:39:11.460 And I think that's a mistake because this is a wide open lane.

00:39:13.940 This is easy.

00:39:17.060 Like, it's right there.

00:39:19.480 When they bring up abortion.

00:39:21.520 You got it, you got it right.

00:39:22.420 You have a, you should have a pre-planned, like, speech that you can give.

00:39:26.020 That is, you're not filibustering.

00:39:27.760 You're not changing the subject.

00:39:28.880 It's very much on the subject.

00:39:30.960 But it's like, okay, I'm glad you brought that up.

00:39:32.780 You know, look, I happen to think that human life has intrinsic value.

00:39:36.380 Human life is a beautiful thing.

00:39:38.360 And we should protect it.

00:39:39.580 And here's why.

00:39:41.100 The leftist position is that human life has no inherent value.

00:39:44.200 And that what value we do have, which is all sort of contingent and subjective in their minds, that that value is on a kind of spectrum.

00:39:56.120 And some people have more value than others.

00:39:59.540 It's a horrifying position.

00:40:02.940 We see what happens when societies adopt that position.

00:40:07.600 Atrocity follows.

00:40:08.840 We see it happening right now in the world.

00:40:10.960 Not just with abortion, but you can look up to our neighbors up north.

00:40:16.020 Euthanasia.

00:40:17.740 Right?

00:40:18.300 Euthanasia is becoming like a leading cause of death in many areas in Canada.

00:40:24.880 They're putting down people like dogs.

00:40:27.420 People who aren't even terminally ill.

00:40:31.140 This is what happens.

00:40:32.120 It's a terrible thing when you don't affirm the value of human life.

00:40:34.900 So our position is much more palatable and also true that human life has intrinsic value.

00:40:44.880 I would love to see this.

00:40:46.080 I mean, I would love to see Trump turn to Kamala Harris and say, do you think human life has intrinsic value?

00:40:56.200 Do you?

00:40:57.340 Yes or no?

00:40:57.920 They never are forced to answer that question.

00:41:02.300 I mean, do you realize that is the question of this debate?

00:41:05.640 That is the question that the whole thing hinges on.

00:41:10.760 Right?

00:41:11.260 Either human life has intrinsic value.

00:41:13.020 There's intrinsic value.

00:41:14.100 It means it belongs to something by its very nature.

00:41:16.460 By its very nature, it has this quality to it.

00:41:19.640 And if it has that quality by its very nature, then that means that as long as this, whatever it is, exists, then it has that.

00:41:27.620 So if human life has intrinsic value, then it has that value.

00:41:31.780 If it's intrinsic, it means it has that value from the moment of its existence.

00:41:36.640 Not from birth, but from existence.

00:41:38.580 So that's the whole sort of ballgame.

00:41:44.720 Like, that's the question that this all hinges on.

00:41:47.940 And so, but the Democrats are never asked it.

00:41:51.600 Ever.

00:41:53.240 I mean, I can't, I mean, maybe it's happened.

00:41:56.140 If someone has an example of this being asked by, you know, in a debate or of a Republican politician, you know, pulling this reverse card on a Democrat,

00:42:06.880 putting him on the spot and saying, well, do you think human life is a intrinsic value?

00:42:09.300 If anyone has an example of that happening, I'd love to, like, send me the clip, because I've never seen it.

00:42:13.200 Which is crazy.

00:42:14.720 It's crazy that this isn't, this is not, this doesn't come up every single time the subject comes up.

00:42:23.860 How is she going to answer that?

00:42:27.920 Like, how do I, I mean, if they have time to think about it, maybe they'll come up with some way to obfuscate.

00:42:32.580 But how do you answer that?

00:42:33.780 If you're, if you're a politician running for office, for national office, and you also want to protect the, quote, right of abortion through every stage of pregnancy.

00:42:44.180 If somebody says, well, do you think life has an intrinsic value, inherent value?

00:42:49.940 How do you, how do you do that?

00:42:51.880 You can't say no.

00:42:53.160 You cannot be on the record saying, no, it does not have that.

00:42:56.900 But you also can't just say yes, or you can, but then there's a follow-up.

00:43:03.140 Oh, okay, so you're saying that human life in the womb has inherent value.

00:43:07.120 Does it have equal inherent value to other, are there levels of inherent value?

00:43:10.780 How does that work?

00:43:11.580 And then all of a sudden, now you're, now you're off the rails.

00:43:14.340 Now the Democrat is having a conversation they don't want to have.

00:43:19.780 They want to talk about abortion because they think it's a winner for them.

00:43:22.300 But there are lanes, once the subject comes up, they want to talk about it and there's a, but they only want to stay in a certain lane.

00:43:30.820 It's not that, this is a misnomer people have.

00:43:34.560 The topic of abortion is not a winner for Democrats politically.

00:43:39.840 Unless they stay in one particular lane.

00:43:43.140 It's a narrow lane within that topic that is politically a winner for them as they see it.

00:43:52.300 There are all kinds of other lanes that are not winners and they don't want to talk about.

00:43:56.340 One of them is late-term abortion, they don't want to talk about that.

00:43:58.680 And the other one is this.

00:44:00.960 Just the basic question of, when does life begin and does life have value?

00:44:07.360 That's not a winner.

00:44:08.160 They do not want to talk about that.

00:44:10.100 They can't talk about it.

00:44:12.200 Make them talk about it.

00:44:13.480 You know, I was thinking about this, and I'm not necessarily suggesting that this is an argument for a politician to make.

00:44:23.760 But I'm just sharing this as a thought is all.

00:44:26.380 That it's interesting to realize that so much of the pro-abortion agenda relies really on the very arbitrary prejudice of size.

00:44:39.400 The reason why pro-abortion people see no value in an unborn child, especially at its earliest stages.

00:44:46.700 One of the big reasons is that it's really small.

00:44:50.240 I mean, that actually is kind of, there's a little bit more to it than that, but that's most of it.

00:44:58.480 And you hear them say this.

00:45:01.100 They'll say, oh, really?

00:45:02.160 You think something the size of a pea is a human?

00:45:05.260 Really?

00:45:05.640 You think that that has the same value as you?

00:45:07.300 Yeah, I do.

00:45:11.240 Why wouldn't it have the same value?

00:45:13.440 It's small?

00:45:14.200 Who cares?

00:45:15.420 It's really small.

00:45:16.420 Who gives a shit if it's small?

00:45:18.080 What does that have to do with anything?

00:45:19.860 I mean, just think about that for two seconds.

00:45:21.300 It doesn't make any sense that that would matter.

00:45:25.680 It's small?

00:45:26.400 So what?

00:45:27.440 But this is what we do.

00:45:28.540 You know, it's easy for people to kind of slip into this, even though it's an incoherent kind of prejudice.

00:45:34.020 But people slip into it, even in the animal kingdom.

00:45:37.500 You know, we kind of do that.

00:45:38.500 The animals that we value the most tend to be larger.

00:45:43.140 So most people value dogs over squirrels.

00:45:46.080 And you might say that it's because dogs are smarter, but they're not that much smarter in the grand scheme of things.

00:45:51.580 And if there was a dog as dumb as a squirrel, which there probably are, we would still put it on the totem pole above squirrels.

00:45:59.520 Why?

00:45:59.920 I think a lot of it really comes down to, it's like a larger animal.

00:46:04.860 And we just tend to think of larger things as having more value.

00:46:07.800 In fact, you know, I bet if there was a, if there was a honey, I shrunk the kids scenario where people were shrunk down, like fully grown people were shrunk down to the size of a pea.

00:46:16.620 It would be hard for a lot of people to see those pea-sized humans as being fully human, even though in this case they have the same intelligence.

00:46:25.560 But, you know, the fact that you can crush them with your shoe without noticing them, that you're doing it, it just like seems to mean that they're not quite as important as normal sized people.

00:46:38.860 So I think that's a lot of it.

00:46:41.860 Anyway, it's sort of neither here nor there.

00:46:44.140 I'm not saying that Trump should necessarily go into this whole spiel during a debate.

00:46:48.040 I wouldn't suggest bringing up, honey, I shrunk the kids.

00:46:50.820 But it does go to show that once you remove the intrinsic value from all human life,

00:46:56.800 you end up in a situation where you're kind of drawing these lines that are incoherent.

00:47:05.500 And once you start inspecting those lines,

00:47:08.520 okay, you've drawn a line here.

00:47:10.240 You say, well, this thing is really, really small, and so it doesn't, it can't be the same.

00:47:15.460 But once you inspect that line, you say, well, why?

00:47:17.960 Why?

00:47:18.520 Why are you drawing that line there?

00:47:19.540 Who cares?

00:47:20.520 So it's small.

00:47:21.760 Why does that matter?

00:47:22.500 Once you inspect it, you start to see that, you know, it's very much a line in the sand.

00:47:30.380 A line that, not a firm line, but a line that's just kind of drawn in the sand and

00:47:34.440 has no objective quality to it.

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00:48:55.060 As Kamala Harris prepares to select her running mate, the radical left is looking to seize 0.87

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00:49:25.220 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:33.240 You know, as I've offered my analysis of the presidential race in recent weeks, I have

00:49:38.180 been denounced by some of the audience of this show, some of my followers on social media

00:49:43.400 for being skeptical of a number of the strategic choices Republicans have made.

00:49:50.080 Many conservatives got very, very angry at me three weeks ago when I had a few critical

00:49:56.820 opinions of the Republican National Convention.

00:49:59.640 My criticisms that I made were seen as so blasphemous, so traitorous that I lost something

00:50:06.760 like 30,000 Twitter followers in the span of 24 hours because of that.

00:50:10.400 I mean, the outrage was intense.

00:50:15.120 I was trending for days because of this.

00:50:18.620 This is a couple days after Trump was shot, by the way.

00:50:21.220 And yet on Twitter, one of the top trending topics wasn't that.

00:50:25.080 It was that, oh, Matt said something mean about the Republican National Convention.

00:50:30.140 So it's quite deafening, the outrage was for a few days.

00:50:33.180 And the outrage bandwagon has revved up again, although to a lesser degree, several times since.

00:50:38.020 Anytime my opinions are insufficiently optimistic and not blindly trusting of the Republican

00:50:43.520 political strategy, people are getting very mad at me.

00:50:47.160 Now, so if you're one of the people who thinks that my job is to do nothing but wave the pom-poms

00:50:51.340 around and declare, whether I believe it or not, that Republicans are winning, everything

00:50:54.840 they're doing is brilliant.

00:50:56.300 Kamala doesn't stand a chance. 0.75

00:50:59.440 If you're in that camp, then you probably don't want to listen to this segment.

00:51:02.060 In fact, you should probably just stop listening in general because I'm not, and I'm not really

00:51:05.840 sure why you ever started listening.

00:51:07.780 I am not much of a cheerleader and never have been.

00:51:11.460 All I've ever done or will ever do is tell you exactly what I think.

00:51:17.580 That's it.

00:51:18.380 That's all I do.

00:51:19.640 There's no other real strategy to what I do on the show and what I do in general.

00:51:22.940 I just tell you what I think.

00:51:25.380 Self-delusion and blissful ignorance are not my bag.

00:51:28.420 And I also think they'd make for a rather boring listening experience.

00:51:33.240 But more importantly, I want to win.

00:51:36.040 You know, I really want to win.

00:51:37.760 And if I perceive that mistakes are being made, which may interfere with our winning, then in

00:51:42.560 the interest of winning, not to mention of basic honesty, I need to point out those mistakes

00:51:47.800 now.

00:51:48.780 There'll be no use in pointing them out after we've already lost.

00:51:52.260 So if I think mistakes are being made and it's going to hurt our chances of winning, why

00:51:56.160 would I not?

00:51:57.060 Isn't it more important to talk about that than to talk about the things that I think

00:52:01.000 are good?

00:52:02.800 The good things aren't.

00:52:03.800 Let's keep doing them.

00:52:04.520 We don't need to talk about those.

00:52:06.620 The good stuff is good.

00:52:07.940 Let's keep doing the good stuff.

00:52:09.720 But if there's bad stuff that's hurting us, that is a more urgent issue.

00:52:15.640 Now, I've been told that I should make my suggestions and offer my criticisms privately

00:52:21.100 through back channels to the powers that be.

00:52:23.980 But as I've recently explained, I think, I don't know any of the powers that be.

00:52:28.860 I have no contacts.

00:52:29.840 I have no friends in high places.

00:52:31.220 I don't know anyone.

00:52:32.160 I'm not connected.

00:52:33.400 I've been invited to the dinner parties and the lunches and schmooze sessions with famous

00:52:37.920 conservative media people and politicians and funders and so on.

00:52:41.680 I've gotten those invitations, but I've never gone to any of them.

00:52:44.440 I simply do my show.

00:52:45.720 I make my movies.

00:52:47.280 I go home to my wife and kids.

00:52:48.980 That's all I do.

00:52:49.560 If I have free time on the weekend, I'd rather be out fishing than at some banquet or dinner or

00:52:53.280 whatever, trying to make friends with famous people.

00:52:55.380 All that to say, I have no back channels.

00:52:57.260 I don't want any.

00:52:58.460 The channel I have for communicating with the world is the one that you're listening to

00:53:01.100 right now.

00:53:01.540 That's all I need as far as I'm concerned.

00:53:03.120 So with all that in mind, let's talk about the spectacle at Kamala's rally in Atlanta

00:53:08.920 yesterday.

00:53:10.340 The media was in a tizzy over the huge crowds that came to the rally.

00:53:14.060 And it was a very sizable crowd indeed.

00:53:17.460 Listen.

00:53:25.780 Good evening.

00:53:30.520 Good evening, Georgia.

00:53:32.760 All right.

00:53:40.840 So yeah, it's a big, big, big crowd, quite a reception.

00:53:44.740 Why were they there?

00:53:46.340 How did Kamala pull that crowd? 0.99

00:53:49.400 She was the most unpopular vice president of all time about 62 seconds ago. 1.00

00:53:53.300 Now she's filling arenas. 1.00

00:53:55.620 How?

00:53:56.780 Why are these people there?

00:53:57.760 Maybe they came to hear the vice president debut her new urban accent. 0.59

00:54:03.980 And you all helped us win in 2020.

00:54:07.060 And we're going to do it again in 2024.

00:54:10.060 Yes, we will.

00:54:12.760 Yes, we will.

00:54:16.000 We're going to do it again in 2024, she says.

00:54:20.500 Kamala seems to be suffering from the condition known medically as sudden onset urban accent.

00:54:25.420 And it's an affliction that the last female presidential candidate famously suffered from. 1.00

00:54:30.680 But does that explain the turnout?

00:54:32.480 Probably not.

00:54:34.080 The crowd probably didn't come to hear Kamala talk like a black woman who grew up in Atlanta 0.96

00:54:38.360 when really she's an Indian woman who grew up in Canada.

00:54:42.040 They actually didn't come for Kamala at all.

00:54:45.560 Actually, they came instead for the musical act.

00:54:47.960 The rapper Megan Thee Stallion was set to perform.

00:54:51.160 And her performance was as intellectually exhilarating as you would expect.

00:54:55.780 The rapper Megan Thee Stallion

00:55:25.760 This is a serious political movement.

00:55:28.720 One that marches to the immortal words of Megan Thee Stallion.

00:55:33.120 And I quote,

00:55:33.920 Those at least are the lyrics that I can read out loud.

00:55:43.440 Much of the rest of that song, a song being performed at a campaign rally

00:55:46.360 for a woman who wants to be president, 1.00

00:55:48.720 are too graphic and sexual to repeat.

00:55:50.600 But the lyrics I can repeat, which consists mostly of literal gibberish,

00:55:55.180 are indeed a perfect representation of the Harris campaign.

00:55:58.480 Megan Thee Stallion, like most rappers and pop stars, makes songs about nothing.

00:56:03.880 Kamala is running a campaign about nothing. 1.00

00:56:05.920 So it's all just vibes.

00:56:08.460 That's why people listen to music like this.

00:56:10.880 It's not saying anything.

00:56:11.860 It has no meaning.

00:56:12.580 There's no message.

00:56:13.280 But they like the vibes.

00:56:15.720 Kamala also is saying nothing, has no message, has no platform.

00:56:19.000 But she's building her campaign on vibes. 1.00

00:56:22.000 She has help, of course.

00:56:23.260 The vibes are manufactured.

00:56:24.660 This is the point of attracting large crowds to see a twerking rapper chick 1.00

00:56:28.260 and having Kamala come out and speak as an afterthought.

00:56:31.100 But it's, yes, it's a Megan Thee Stallion concert featuring Kamala Harris.

00:56:37.980 It's not the other way around.

00:56:39.260 But the goal is to make Kamala into a sensation, into a political star,

00:56:44.700 by convincing the low-information voter that she already is a sensation and a political star.

00:56:51.160 It's the classic FOMO technique.

00:56:53.300 I mean, this is basic marketing.

00:56:55.180 They present images of these massive crowds ostensibly gathered to hear Kamala,

00:56:58.900 hoping that voters, mostly young voters who are more likely to fall for this trick,

00:57:03.620 will believe that she's a big deal, that they're missing out on a new trend,

00:57:07.900 that they have to jump on the bandwagon lest they be dorks and losers.

00:57:12.080 Worst of all, weird.

00:57:13.920 Because that's why the you're weird thing has become the Harris campaign's sole rebuttal and attack line.

00:57:19.380 You're weird just means that you give off bad vibes.

00:57:23.320 And the Harris campaign has good vibes.

00:57:25.660 What are the vibes about?

00:57:27.480 What's the point of the vibes?

00:57:29.640 Nothing.

00:57:30.040 Doesn't matter.

00:57:30.960 But the Kamala campaign, it's very much like a fashion trend.

00:57:36.940 And the trend, you know, you have fashion trends that come along.

00:57:40.020 Sometimes it's trendy to wear jeans that are tight.

00:57:43.180 Then it's trendy to wear jeans that are baggy.

00:57:44.680 And then it goes back and forth.

00:57:45.900 The trend is trendy, not because it's good or that it's better than the trend that came before it.

00:57:50.660 But it's just, it's a trend because it's a trend.

00:57:53.880 It's what people are wearing now.

00:57:55.820 And you should wear this because other people are wearing it.

00:57:58.440 Why are people wearing it?

00:57:59.460 Well, because that's what people are wearing.

00:58:01.680 The campaign has no more depth than that.

00:58:03.860 Is it, now, is it enough to carry them to the White House?

00:58:07.080 Have we reached a stage in our idiocracy where that is enough?

00:58:10.080 I guess we'll find out.

00:58:12.640 But either way, this is what these celebrity endorsements are doing for Harris.

00:58:16.600 And it's why they're so important to her.

00:58:19.520 Now, so that's the Harris campaign.

00:58:23.200 Let's get to the part where we have a little real talk for Republicans, the part where people will get mad at me again.

00:58:28.760 How should Republicans counter the trendy, celebrity-endorsed, vibes-based Kamala campaign?

00:58:37.800 What should they do about the fact that Kamala has all of the major entertainers on her side? 0.99

00:58:43.480 And she hasn't even pulled out the big guns yet, by the way.

00:58:45.940 Taylor Swift will absolutely appear and perform at a rally soon enough.

00:58:50.840 Probably closer to Election Day.

00:58:52.200 I mean, you can bet on that.

00:58:55.080 So Kamala has her pick of the litter when it comes to the celebrity entertainers. 0.97

00:58:58.400 They're all leftists.

00:58:59.800 None of them want to be perceived as sitting on the sidelines when there's a, quote-unquote, woman of color running for president. 0.95

00:59:06.000 So if you thought that Obama ran a celebrity-fueled campaign in 2008, well, you ain't seen nothing yet.

00:59:13.120 So what can Republicans do about this?

00:59:17.960 Let's talk about what they shouldn't do first.

00:59:20.040 They shouldn't do what, to some extent, they've already done and are doing right now,

00:59:26.740 which is to counter the Democrat star power by scrounging together a ragtag group of washed-up and obscure entertainers that nobody cares about.

00:59:39.140 That is a bad strategy.

00:59:41.600 It's a failing strategy.

00:59:43.500 It only makes us look sad and irrelevant by comparison.

00:59:46.760 The wrong approach is to see all of the extremely famous and popular musicians campaigning for Kamala and say,

00:59:55.660 okay, let's find the most famous musician who's willing to publicly support Trump and just get him up on stage, no matter who he is.

01:00:02.940 Here, this guy hasn't been popular in 25 years, but he's still technically famous.

01:00:06.620 Good enough.

01:00:07.220 Let's use him.

01:00:07.820 Listen, that is not a winning approach.

01:00:12.440 That does not accomplish anything.

01:00:16.780 Just because someone is famous, that doesn't mean they have any actual influence.

01:00:23.240 Megan Thee Stallion, like it or not, and I certainly don't like it, has influence.

01:00:27.740 She is a currently popular performer with legions of young and enthusiastic fans.

01:00:33.640 Taylor Swift has influence.

01:00:36.320 Beyonce, who has furnished Kamala with her campaign's theme song, has influence.

01:00:43.220 Most of the celebrities that have so far been trotted out by Republicans have no influence at all, whatsoever.

01:00:52.620 However, they have no fan base.

01:00:55.480 They are not relevant.

01:00:57.760 Trying to get into a celebrity tit for tat when we have like seven people and none of them have had a hit album or movie this century,

01:01:05.820 and the other side has literally everyone else is not going to accomplish anything except making us look sad.

01:01:14.740 So here's a perfect and very recent example of this dynamic.

01:01:17.900 Yesterday, while Megan Thee Stallion was performing, some conservatives on social media were frantically sharing a tweet from a rapper named Sway Lee who came out against Kamala Harris.

01:01:31.060 And I don't even think he endorsed Trump, but he did come out and say, you know, don't vote for Kamala Harris, do your own research.

01:01:37.880 Which is good.

01:01:38.800 I'm glad he said that.

01:01:39.600 But, you know, then you get all these tweets basically saying, see, we have rappers on our side too.

01:01:44.820 So, but nobody knows who Sway Lee is.

01:01:49.120 I looked him up on YouTube.

01:01:50.600 I have more subscribers than he does.

01:01:53.420 And I'm sure he's a nice guy.

01:01:54.500 I got nothing against him.

01:01:55.420 I don't know anything about him.

01:01:56.740 I'm glad that he's not voting Kamala.

01:01:58.440 If he votes for Trump, that's great.

01:02:00.060 I'm happy to have his vote.

01:02:01.340 I am not gatekeeping him from the movement.

01:02:03.840 I'm only saying that we don't achieve anything strategically by waving him around and saying, hey, look at our rapper.

01:02:11.940 We have one too.

01:02:12.720 Look.

01:02:12.960 In fact, we only undermine the one effective counter that we could be using.

01:02:20.760 When Kamala Harris shows off her celebrity endorsements, our response should be only to focus on policy instead.

01:02:30.580 The best thing we can do is bow out of the celebrity competition, a competition we cannot win.

01:02:36.320 We just can't.

01:02:39.420 And bring the conversation back to policy.

01:02:41.720 That's the only hand we have to play here.

01:02:43.720 And, you know, it can work.

01:02:45.620 It can be a winning hand.

01:02:47.220 But you undermine it if you make fun of Megan Thee Stallion.

01:02:50.640 And then two days later, you start fangirling over some third-rate celebrity endorsing Trump.

01:02:55.540 The messaging has to be consistent on this.

01:02:57.380 And the good news is that there are plenty of voters who are extremely repulsed by twerking rappers at a presidential campaign rally.

01:03:05.200 There are many voters, including the precious independents and moderates, who are not impressed by celebrities and don't like it when politicians rely on them.

01:03:13.400 You know, there are enough voters in that camp to win, more than enough.

01:03:20.860 But that means we absolutely cannot respond to left-wing celebrities by saying,

01:03:24.960 oh, yeah, well, here's our much less famous entertainer performing an equally obnoxious but much less popular song.

01:03:31.940 See, we're relevant.

01:03:33.320 Hello, fellow kids.

01:03:34.240 Vote for us.

01:03:36.360 That pathetic and cringy response completely negates the one effective response,

01:03:41.940 which is instead to say this.

01:03:45.020 Yeah, you know what?

01:03:46.300 We don't have celebrities on our side.

01:03:48.060 We don't.

01:03:48.780 You know, the rich, famous people, they're on the other side.

01:03:52.300 They got all those.

01:03:53.160 We admit that.

01:03:54.340 And if that's what's most important to you, then go vote for them.

01:03:57.620 If the most important thing to you is to support the people that rich and famous people support,

01:04:01.680 then that's over there.

01:04:04.740 We don't have that for you.

01:04:05.700 What we're worried about are actual policies, like the boring stuff that will help average American families,

01:04:12.860 the kinds of people who don't have private jets and big mansions and millions of fans.

01:04:17.500 Okay, we're not worried about the famous celebrity people.

01:04:19.280 Like, they're fine.

01:04:20.220 They're doing great.

01:04:20.900 We're actually not campaigning for them.

01:04:22.500 That's not who the campaign's about.

01:04:24.380 We're not surprised they're not on our side.

01:04:25.720 Now, a rebuttal like that can work.

01:04:31.140 I mean, that's a very powerful rebuttal, I think.

01:04:34.640 And it's good that it can work because it's the only rebuttal available to us.

01:04:40.680 So let's make that our message and be consistent about it.

01:04:46.320 And if we're consistent about it, and that's our message,

01:04:49.420 and we don't try to get into the celebrity tit for tat,

01:04:52.720 look, here's our celebrities who are much less cool, and we're consistent,

01:04:57.780 then we can truly say at that point that the vapid elitist celebrities

01:05:02.180 trying to tell us who to vote for are today and forever canceled.

01:05:09.120 That'll do it for the show today.

01:05:10.280 Thanks for watching.

01:05:10.820 Thanks for listening.

01:05:11.500 Have a great day.

01:05:12.580 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 31, 2024

Ep. 1412 - Weird Democrats Think The Nuclear Family Is Weird

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