The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1423 - Apple Makes It Clear： White Men Need Not Apply

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00:00:03.760 from the bad white people. 0.99

00:00:05.520 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.96

00:00:07.320 Never really seemed to matter that much, at least not to me.

00:00:10.000 Am I racist?

00:00:11.200 I would really appreciate it if you love.

00:00:12.480 I'm trying to learn.

00:00:13.200 I'm on this journey.

00:00:14.520 I'm going to sort this out.

00:00:15.760 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:00:19.000 They don't say I'm racist.

00:00:20.240 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:00:23.720 Here's my certifications.

00:00:24.880 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

00:00:27.520 This is more for you than this for you.

00:00:28.520 Is America inherently racist?

00:00:30.280 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:00:32.040 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.

00:00:35.240 America is racist to its bones.

00:00:37.080 So inherently. 0.98

00:00:37.960 Yeah. 1.00

00:00:38.460 This country is a piece of shit. 1.00

00:00:41.140 White folks, trash, white supremacy, white woman, white boy. 1.00

00:00:44.520 Is there a black person around here? 1.00

00:00:45.800 There's a black person right here.

00:00:47.160 Does he not exist?

00:00:48.000 They don't say I'm racist.

00:00:50.000 Hi, Robin.

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00:00:51.000 What's your name?

00:00:51.820 I'm Matt.

00:00:52.320 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

00:00:54.960 Never be too careful.

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00:01:00.620 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Apple has a new program for budding entrepreneurs.

00:01:04.140 There's just one stipulation.

00:01:05.500 White men and Asians need not apply. 0.99

00:01:07.860 Also, Kamala's refusal to take questions from the media is now so extreme that even Jim Acosta

00:01:12.180 is disturbed by it.

00:01:14.020 And could Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling face time in a French prison for cyberbullying?

00:01:19.060 Plus, Jeffrey Marsh, the creepiest person on TikTok, will be a featured guest of the DNC.

00:01:23.240 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:03:05.580 Now, before we get into the opening monologue today, I want to begin with some very big news.

00:03:09.420 Tickets for my new film, Am I Racist?, are on sale right now.

00:03:13.160 So stop what you're doing, pause the show, go buy tickets, and then come back and we can continue.

00:03:18.820 Am I Racist is the follow-up to my 2022 film, What is a Woman?

00:03:23.000 Two years ago, we explored the insanity of gender ideology.

00:03:26.560 This time around, we're diving deep into the world of anti-racism and DEI.

00:03:31.740 So it's a different topic, a different film, a very different approach in many ways.

00:03:36.040 Rather than simply ask questions, this time around, I became a DEI grifter myself in order to expose the DEI grifters.

00:03:45.920 And it's a simple premise, really.

00:03:47.960 I began this journey by asking questions.

00:03:51.920 And this time around, I simply believed whatever answer they gave me.

00:03:55.600 And I tried to put their ideas into action, try to put them into practice.

00:03:59.740 And that's what so much of the film is.

00:04:01.680 The film is heavily satirical, very funny.

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00:04:07.900 And if the film is a success at the box office, it will send a profound message, not just to Hollywood and the entertainment world,

00:04:14.360 but to the DEI industry and all the race hustlers who we made this film to expose in the first place.

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00:05:01.280 Again, the website, miracist.com.

00:05:03.600 And one more thing, stay tuned because a little bit later today, I'll be releasing an exclusive clip of the film.

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00:05:25.360 So, that's what's happening.

00:05:27.560 That's the most important thing happening today.

00:05:29.300 And it's a pretty easy transition from miracist to the lead story for today.

00:05:32.920 About a year ago, Bloomberg published a report on their website that was pretty stunning,

00:05:38.280 even given everything we know about rampant DEI and workplaces all over the country.

00:05:42.820 Here's the headline, which I talked about on this show at the time.

00:05:45.320 Quote, corporate America promised to hire a lot more people of color.

00:05:48.540 It actually did.

00:05:49.560 The year after Black Lives Matter protests, the S&P 100 added more than 300,000 jobs.

00:05:56.140 94% went to people of color.

00:05:59.320 Now, after that report ran, a lot of people dug a little deeper into the data.

00:06:02.940 One of them was The Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak, who found that Bloomberg had made some significant math errors.

00:06:09.100 For their part, Bloomberg stood by the story, still available on their website.

00:06:13.220 What was lost in the discussion about the numbers is that whether the data were precisely accurate or not,

00:06:18.780 the biggest companies in the country clearly wanted to send the message that they were not hiring white people anymore.

00:06:25.700 Bloomberg admitted that the point of its article was to, quote,

00:06:28.240 hold companies accountable to diversity pledges.

00:06:30.700 So these massive S&P companies had publicly pledged to hire fewer white people,

00:06:37.180 probably coordinated with Bloomberg on the article.

00:06:39.420 And then when the article came out, these corporations didn't repudiate any of it in any way.

00:06:45.000 They didn't claim that there had been some mistake when Bloomberg reported that only 6% of their new jobs went to white people,

00:06:51.500 which really tells you something.

00:06:54.220 In retrospect, it was a very big tell.

00:06:56.100 It was basically an admission by these corporations that white people are systematically disfavored in the application process.

00:07:04.160 They're either being skipped entirely, or at the very least, corporations strongly want to create the impression that they're being skipped entirely.

00:07:12.040 And indeed, there have been several stories in the past year proving that this is still happening all over the place.

00:07:17.220 So unless you're one of those preferred identity groups, or at least willing to identify as one, then you don't get the extra training.

00:07:46.640 Of course, if the listing had said that only white people were allowed to participate,

00:07:51.660 then Merrick Garland would have sent a SWAT team into Best Buy headquarters before dawn the next day.

00:07:57.200 But excluding white people from professional opportunities is fine. 1.00

00:08:00.980 Best Buy had no problem doing it openly, admitted to it, proud of it.

00:08:06.020 And when they were finally caught, they did not immediately renounce the document.

00:08:09.860 They didn't issue an apology and fire everybody involved or anyone.

00:08:13.560 Instead, the CEO of the company went private on social media.

00:08:17.000 That was their way of dealing with it.

00:08:18.860 Store managers called the police on James O'Keefe for standing in the mall parking lot.

00:08:23.120 And eventually, Best Buy changed the job posting to remove the references to racial requirements entirely.

00:08:29.280 Watch.

00:08:30.460 Hey everyone, James O'Keefe with OMG here.

00:08:32.820 Here we have an update on our Best Buy story, the original McKinsey leadership training sign-up page.

00:08:39.580 With that program with certain racial requirements, well, the page online has been removed.

00:08:45.640 What is left appears to be a reworded outline of the program in question,

00:08:49.140 where they removed the specific racial requirements listed originally that we reported last week.

00:08:54.140 We've also been in contact with other sources inside corporations, including Foot Locker,

00:08:58.800 with reports of McKinsey leadership programs for everyone but white people there.

00:09:05.400 So, of course, it's not just Best Buy and Foot Locker that are running anti-white programs like this.

00:09:11.320 Pretty much every organization in every industry is doing it.

00:09:14.680 Even industries where lives are clearly at stake.

00:09:17.000 Just this week, for example, a top medical fellowship announced that it's going to stop excluding white applicants,

00:09:22.160 not because they realized it was wrong, but because they were forced to do so.

00:09:25.800 Quoting from the Washington Examiner,

00:09:27.440 quote, a top medical fellowship for women will stop excluding white applicants

00:09:31.380 after a complaint accused the program of being racially discriminatory

00:09:34.580 in light of the Supreme Court outlawing affirmative action last year.

00:09:38.200 Do no harm, a nonprofit organization that serves as a watchdog in the healthcare industry,

00:09:43.120 filed a lawsuit in June on behalf of female students who met the criteria for the $20,000 award 0.97

00:09:47.940 offered by the American Association of University Women.

00:09:51.700 Men, but were excluded on the basis of race.

00:09:54.940 So, that's some progress.

00:09:56.960 Progress is happening, again, totally to the chagrin of these people.

00:10:02.660 They are forced to give up the discriminatory program.

00:10:05.620 They didn't want to.

00:10:07.600 But it's still not clear why the fellowship is allowed to exclude men.

00:10:10.820 I mean, it's still discriminatory, but they've just narrowed it down a little bit.

00:10:13.840 And they got rid of one part of the discrimination, but kept the other, which doesn't really make any sense.

00:10:20.400 If we want the most qualified people in medicine, and I would think that we do,

00:10:25.400 then it doesn't matter if 100% of the doctors and nurses happen to be straight white men,

00:10:30.320 or gay black women, or trans Australians, or any combination of race, gender, and sexual orientation.

00:10:38.460 What we want to know is that when you're laying down on the operating table,

00:10:41.500 whoever is performing the surgery is there because they are the absolute most qualified people.

00:10:46.580 The only thing that should matter is the quality of their work, which isn't complicated.

00:10:52.520 But this fellowship still requires that applicants identify as women,

00:10:56.280 even though there's a 0% chance that they can even define the word, but that's what they put in there.

00:11:01.680 There are many other examples along these lines.

00:11:03.260 The Daily Wire reported earlier this month that the tech giant Oracle, quote,

00:11:07.140 hosted scholarship and internship opportunities in conjunction with the United Negro College Fund

00:11:11.460 that excluded both white and Asian applicants on the basis of their race.

00:11:15.260 There's a whole section on eligibility requirements that limits ethnicities to

00:11:19.820 African-American slash black, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Hispanic American.

00:11:27.140 So no whites and no Asians allowed. 1.00

00:11:30.000 Then there was NASCAR's listing for an internship that included this requirement, quote,

00:11:34.600 be a member of one or more of the following race slash ethnic minority classifications.

00:11:39.640 Black or African-American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Latino,

00:11:44.140 Latino, or Hispanic, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander.

00:11:49.200 Like Best Buy, NASCAR took that listing down once people noticed it, or rather once the wrong people noticed it,

00:11:56.060 they took it down.

00:11:57.020 So they at least pretended that they regretted their decision to openly discriminate against whites,

00:12:00.420 even though they obviously didn't.

00:12:02.800 And that appears to be the trend in corporate America at the moment.

00:12:05.240 But there's one major company that's not backing down from its overt anti-white racism at this point.

00:12:11.960 They apparently don't care how many people notice.

00:12:14.680 They are firmly in the camp of restricting opportunities for certain applicants on the basis of their skin color.

00:12:21.080 And in this case, we're talking about Apple, which, depending on when you check,

00:12:24.880 is the biggest company on the planet, certainly one of the biggest.

00:12:28.840 Apple has pushed various DEI initiatives over the years,

00:12:31.120 which is why their operating system offers emojis of pregnant men.

00:12:35.580 It's also why they recently ran an advertisement featuring an overweight black woman representing Mother Earth. 0.98

00:12:40.100 But now, Apple is doubling down on something called the Apple Entrepreneur Camp,

00:12:45.600 which has apparently been running for a little while now.

00:12:49.100 Here's what the application process for the Apple Entrepreneur Camp entails,

00:12:52.820 straight from the Apple website.

00:12:54.620 Quote,

00:12:54.840 Quote,

00:13:25.400 In other words, no white or Asian men are allowed. 0.99

00:13:28.960 By virtue of their skin color, they don't get the unprecedented access to Apple engineers and experts.

00:13:36.440 And which, by the way, also means that Apple can't claim that,

00:13:40.940 well, no, we didn't open this for white people because white people already have these opportunities.

00:13:44.680 So we didn't need to.

00:13:47.080 But you just said it's unprecedented access.

00:13:49.500 So there's no precedent.

00:13:52.300 Meaning this is a kind of access that no one else is getting, only the people who are in this program.

00:13:57.180 And it's a program that Asian men and white men are not allowed to apply to.

00:14:00.860 So they don't get that.

00:14:03.140 They don't get the one-on-one guidance.

00:14:05.340 They don't get any of it because they're white or Asian. 1.00

00:14:07.480 And therefore, a certain level of access to Apple engineers and experts,

00:14:10.980 which could obviously be vital to their careers, is close to them.

00:14:14.420 And Apple's just coming right out and saying it.

00:14:19.160 Now, not that Apple cares about this or has been forced to care at this point.

00:14:24.440 But this is obviously not even remotely legal.

00:14:28.040 I mean, this is flagrantly illegal.

00:14:30.480 Title 42 of the U.S. Code, Section 1981, states that everyone in the United States

00:14:35.740 has the right to make contracts without regard to skin color.

00:14:39.600 That includes the right to enter into employment arrangements and programs like the one Apple is offering.

00:14:44.600 And no entity, whether public or private, has any legal right to impair that ability on the basis of skin color.

00:14:51.980 You are not allowed to have programs like this as a company where you explicitly say these races and these demographic groups are not allowed.

00:15:02.060 That is, again, flagrantly illegal.

00:15:06.320 And Apple knows this.

00:15:08.440 But no one's stopping them.

00:15:09.760 No white or Asian plaintiff has sued.

00:15:11.620 And the DOJ certainly doesn't care.

00:15:13.040 So they're just ignoring the law.

00:15:15.540 As best I can tell, they've been running similar programs for more than a year.

00:15:19.500 And now that this one's getting attention, they still don't care.

00:15:21.980 They haven't apologized.

00:15:23.480 This is what they believe.

00:15:25.860 Actually, it's even more embarrassing than that.

00:15:27.980 In the eligibility requirements, there's, as I said, an asterisk by the word female.

00:15:33.020 And here's what Apple says when you check into what that means.

00:15:36.560 Quote, Apple believes that gender expression is a fundamental right.

00:15:40.980 We welcome all women to apply to this program. 0.72

00:15:44.500 So this is what's known as a loophole.

00:15:46.500 Well, if you're an Asian or white man who really wants to get into this camp and, you know, take advantage of that unprecedented access, well, there's a pathway open to you if you're willing to take it.

00:15:57.380 If you have no shame and no embarrassment and you want to go for it, you can.

00:16:02.240 You just have to tell Apple that you're a woman and they'll let you in. 1.00

00:16:05.500 You have the fundamental right to demand that Apple recognize your womanhood. 1.00

00:16:08.700 So a man does not have the right to access this program as a man, but he does have the right to say he's a woman and then access it.

00:16:17.240 So that's the way it works.

00:16:19.020 That's how important gender expression is to Apple. 1.00

00:16:22.260 But if you don't do that and, you know, because you want to be, like, honest and you're white or Asian and you're a man, then you won't even be allowed in the building. 0.99

00:16:30.920 Now, the exclusion of Asian applicants is, I think, worth highlighting in particular, given that Asian people are, they're not white.

00:16:42.160 And also, they've been very successful in the tech world and in many other industries.

00:16:49.260 Apple's response to their success is to exclude them.

00:16:54.380 This is a ethnic minority group in America, anyway, not globally, but in the United States, a minority group, extremely successful.

00:17:05.800 And so a lot of these companies, they respond to that by punishing them.

00:17:10.720 It's like, imagine a school producing lots of NFL stars and then an NFL team responds to that by making sure to not recruit from that school.

00:17:21.600 And that's basically how the corporate world handles recruiting now, except with races instead of schools.

00:17:28.480 Now, of course, white people have also been particularly successful at Apple, too.

00:17:33.240 This is what their current senior leadership looks like, as you can see.

00:17:37.640 None of these white guys are going to resign their posts to make room for more diversity.

00:17:41.440 They've obtained power and success.

00:17:43.540 They're not going to give it up. 0.93

00:17:45.380 Instead, they're going to punish white people who are just starting out in their careers. 0.69

00:17:48.860 You know, it's just the old pulling up the ladder behind you move.

00:17:53.080 And they know that if they make some sacrifices on the altar of DEI, then the activists will leave them alone.

00:17:58.700 So that's what they're doing.

00:18:00.540 Now, the good news is that more people are willing to call this madness out.

00:18:04.700 Some politicians on the right have even noticed the problem of anti-white racism and are willing to talk about it,

00:18:10.500 which is a fact that's very disturbing to the race hustlers on the left.

00:18:13.960 Last night, Joy Reid, chief of the modern-day race hustlers, lamented the fact that Donald Trump wants to put a stop to anti-white racism.

00:18:22.260 Watch.

00:18:23.220 Republicans like Vance and Trump advisor Stephen Miller, who is tangentially connected to Project 2025,

00:18:29.120 have made it a point to block these disbursements.

00:18:32.100 In Project 2025, folks like Miller, Vance, and Trump want to nationalize their long-term goal

00:18:37.520 of putting a stop to what they call anti-white racism, which is just another way of saying we're sick of America being held accountable for actual racism.

00:18:47.320 Under Project 2025, the Department of Justice would play the central role in executing their national policy of reversing racial progress.

00:18:55.980 They would force the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which is responsible for enforcing federal statutes that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, or religion,

00:19:05.620 or sex, disability, or national origin, to refocus, moving away from what they call affirmative discrimination,

00:19:13.420 and ensure, quote, lawfulness, which essentially means protecting the people who've had access and opportunity all along.

00:19:20.300 So what she's complaining about there specifically is that Trump says that he would stop programs that dispense aid and relief to Americans based on race.

00:19:29.660 Which doesn't mean he's going to stop giving aid and relief to Americans.

00:19:32.900 All he's saying is, like, everyone should have an opportunity to it, to access it, not just, and we shouldn't be looking at certain Americans and say,

00:19:40.240 no, you have the wrong skin tone, so you're not allowed. 1.00

00:19:43.800 Because if you're going to have programs to help people, everyone should have access to those programs regardless of their race.

00:19:51.740 That's Trump's position.

00:19:53.900 But people like Reid disagree. 0.84

00:19:55.480 She quite explicitly believes that white people are and should remain a disfavored group because she is an unapologetic anti-white bigot.

00:20:02.540 But the truth is that, you know, it's good for politicians to get involved here on the right side of the debate.

00:20:12.880 But all it really takes, to put a stop to this, is a few brave plaintiffs who are willing to step up and end all of this.

00:20:21.160 There are lawyers at conservative firms all over the country that would be more than happy to take a case as cut and dry as the case at Apple.

00:20:28.200 It really doesn't take much.

00:20:29.940 But until that happens, until these corporations have to face a real financial cost for their overt discrimination, they're going to keep doing it.

00:20:36.740 What Apple is doing in particular is a clear sign that the DEI obsession has not gone anywhere.

00:20:44.020 If anything, it's only become more pronounced.

00:20:46.900 And these corporations have become more emboldened in the process.

00:20:51.100 Yesterday, I talked about the collapse of the fake consensus on gender procedures for children and adolescents.

00:20:56.300 All that took was one journalist asking one question to the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, and the whole consensus crumbled.

00:21:06.540 That's ultimately an encouraging development.

00:21:08.480 It suggests that maybe it all it takes for companies like Apple to stop their anti-white discrimination is for one job applicant, just one, to say that he's had enough.

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00:22:15.860 The Daily Wire reports, CNN anchor Jim Acosta cornered Michael Tyler, communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign,

00:22:23.580 asking what possible reason they could have for not doing a press conference,

00:22:27.100 noting that Harris hasn't been the Democratic de facto's nominee for over three weeks.

00:22:31.700 Acosta asked why the vice president has continued to avoid interviews and even direct questions from the media.

00:22:38.640 And let's see how Kamala's campaign handled that line of questioning. 0.72

00:22:43.820 Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?

00:22:47.700 Why hasn't she had a press conference?

00:22:51.080 Listen, the vice president and Governor Walz have been busy crisscrossing this country since the launch of this campaign and adding Governor Walz to the ticket.

00:22:59.320 You saw the ways in which they went across the battleground states last week, generating rallies of thousands, 10,000 here, 15,000 there.

00:23:08.340 But Michael, you know, a campaign rally is not a press conference.

00:23:12.180 It's going to be inclusive.

00:23:13.340 Do you mind if I cut in?

00:23:14.560 I mean, you know, a campaign rally is not a press conference.

00:23:17.160 Why hasn't she had a press conference?

00:23:18.480 She's the vice president.

00:23:19.420 She can handle the questions.

00:23:20.540 Why not do it?

00:23:23.160 We absolutely are going to do it.

00:23:24.580 You hear her take questions as she's out on the stump.

00:23:27.000 And she's she said last week, we're going to be having a sit down interview here before the end of the month of what she's going to be focused on.

00:23:33.620 And what this campaign is going to be focused on is communicating directly with the voters that are actually going to decide the pathway to 270 electoral votes.

00:23:40.600 That's why she committed to a press conference this week, the past week.

00:23:44.100 That's why we're doing a bus tour in Pennsylvania as we head into Chicago.

00:23:47.360 And it's why we'll sit down for an interview before the end of the month to make sure that we can have a deep dive conversation about the vision that Kamala Harris has for where she wants to take this country in the contrast that we're going to have with Donald Trump. 0.98

00:23:57.620 We're going to have plenty of opportunities to do that throughout the Michael.

00:24:01.120 But one interview by the end of the month.

00:24:04.040 I don't I don't want to, you know, belabor this, but one interview before the end of the month.

00:24:09.000 I mean, that's that's not a lot.

00:24:10.860 I mean, can you commit to a press conference before the end of the month?

00:24:13.400 We will commit to directly engage with the voters that are actually going to decide this election.

00:24:19.340 And that is going to be complete with rallies, with sit down interviews, with press conferences, with all the digital assets that we have at our disposal.

00:24:29.120 OK, so first of all, can we note just how pathetic it is that this very mild pushback from Jim Acosta is so notable?

00:24:38.380 Like this clip is circulating everywhere, especially on right wing social media. 0.52

00:24:43.240 I mean, it was on the Daily Wire website.

00:24:45.020 We reported on it and everyone is stunned that Acosta did this.

00:24:51.020 All he did was ask a very basic, obvious question and then gently, gently push back with a smile on his face for about a minute.

00:25:01.160 Trying to get an answer.

00:25:03.000 So I give him no credit and I award him no points for this.

00:25:06.400 I don't I don't I'm not impressed.

00:25:08.380 This is his job.

00:25:09.540 It is his job.

00:25:11.600 And we would never do that.

00:25:12.960 Like, I hate when we do this with these liberal journalists that ask one real question.

00:25:21.020 And we say, oh, wow, credit where it's due credit where credit where credit is due here.

00:25:27.300 Well done.

00:25:28.180 Thank you for that.

00:25:29.880 You wouldn't do that anywhere else in any other context.

00:25:34.420 Right.

00:25:34.920 Like you wouldn't go to Walmart and get in the checkout line.

00:25:37.940 And when the cashier is scanning your groceries, turn to everybody else in the line and say, wow, guys, get a load of there.

00:25:45.060 She's scanning the groceries credit credit where credit is due.

00:25:48.740 Wow.

00:25:49.220 Thank you.

00:25:50.240 Thank you so much for thank you for doing this one single thing that you're supposed to do.

00:25:55.840 The whole reason you're here is to do this thing.

00:25:58.020 And thank you so much for doing it.

00:25:59.400 Credit where credit is due on this one.

00:26:01.300 I got to say, I got to hand it to her on this one.

00:26:03.020 Look at her.

00:26:03.440 Look at her.

00:26:03.760 She's scanning the groceries.

00:26:05.900 Handing me a receipt.

00:26:06.800 Wow.

00:26:08.460 Wouldn't do that in any other context.

00:26:09.620 Walmart might be a bad example because actually, if you go to Walmart and see anyone actually doing their job, it is pretty impressive.

00:26:17.160 But you get the point that Jim Acosta is just performing the most basic function that he's supposed to perform.

00:26:24.860 And we shouldn't give him credit for that.

00:26:27.460 This is what we should expect and demand from these people.

00:26:32.000 Meanwhile, the answer from the Kamala lackey is pretty hilarious.

00:26:37.000 He says, oh, yeah, sure.

00:26:40.880 Yeah, Kamala, she'll definitely sit down for an interview by the end of the month. 1.00

00:26:48.520 That's all they're going to commit to.

00:26:50.780 One interview with someone sometime in the next two weeks.

00:26:57.260 That's what we're getting, which is amazing, truly.

00:27:00.340 I don't think there's been a presidential candidate who has ever been this afraid of answering questions.

00:27:05.760 And she's this afraid of a media that we can never fail to emphasize is completely on her side.

00:27:15.200 They want to help her.

00:27:18.400 The whole reason they want to do a press conference and an interview is to help her. 0.79

00:27:24.080 So they want to help her create propaganda material for her campaign. 0.86

00:27:29.220 Now, with that said, as I've said now several times, I don't blame Kamala for not doing interviews or press conferences.

00:27:39.600 It's a smart strategy for her. 1.00

00:27:41.360 She's dumb. 1.00

00:27:42.660 She doesn't think well on her feet. 1.00

00:27:44.300 I think even more to the point, she has a terrible record spanning back decades that she doesn't want to talk about.

00:27:57.660 You know, she's running as though she's a fresh-faced newcomer to the scene. 0.99

00:28:06.980 But she's been in politics for like 25 years.

00:28:10.460 And her record is terrible the whole way through.

00:28:14.480 She wants us to forget about everything she's ever done or said ever.

00:28:19.460 None of that exists.

00:28:20.480 It's like it never happened. 0.99

00:28:24.220 And then that, on top of being a moron, it's like, well, yeah, you know, I can see why she doesn't want to answer any questions. 0.98

00:28:33.140 Because even in front of a friendly media, it's just inevitable that they're going to ask some questions she doesn't want to answer. 0.98

00:28:42.460 Because she can't answer any questions, like any question at all.

00:28:45.720 The whole Kamala thing is such a facade that any real question threatens to puncture it.

00:28:53.920 And that's kind of the problem for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:28:59.400 So if she can get away with not doing an interview and not taking questions, strategically, I can't blame her.

00:29:06.380 So that's sort of the, you know, that's the difficult spot that we're in as conservatives where we know that her doing an interview, the whole reason we want her to do an interview, right?

00:29:23.040 Like, if we're being honest, we want her to do a press conference or an interview because it will be embarrassing for her. 1.00

00:29:27.900 She will do poorly.

00:29:29.580 We know that.

00:29:30.900 And that's why we want her to do it. 0.90

00:29:33.820 Right?

00:29:34.180 So that's clear.

00:29:37.440 But then when we're making the argument, from their perspective, it's like, yeah, well, right.

00:29:43.340 But we don't want her to be embarrassed.

00:29:45.280 So that's why she's not going to do it.

00:29:48.060 So it's a hard argument for us to make.

00:29:52.240 When we're saying, hey, come do this thing that's going to make her look really bad. 1.00

00:29:56.020 Come on.

00:29:56.440 Why not?

00:29:57.000 It'll be fun.

00:29:59.600 Be a good sport.

00:30:00.660 Come on.

00:30:01.020 It's a, you know, it's a, it'll be a fun challenge.

00:30:08.500 It's just a hard case to make.

00:30:12.840 All right.

00:30:13.400 Daily Wire reports this.

00:30:14.400 Elon Musk and JK Rowling could face time behind bars after Iman Khalif filed a cyberbullying lawsuit against them for pointing out that the Algerian boxer who failed past gender tests per the International Boxing Association was allowed to fight against female boxers at the Olympics.

00:30:30.280 The ex-owner and the famed Harry Potter author were some of the higher profile people named in the suit who took to social media to call out the International Olympic Committee for allowing Khalif to compete in women's boxing. 0.99

00:30:42.560 Who else was named?

00:30:48.140 Was I named?

00:30:49.900 I don't think I was.

00:30:52.780 I'm like a little bit insulted.

00:30:55.820 Why am I not being sued also?

00:31:01.360 Following that. 0.53

00:31:02.040 I'm a way bigger bully than those two. 0.93

00:31:04.380 Come on.

00:31:04.740 No, I didn't bully anyone following the speaking that is just saying something that's objectively true is not bullying.

00:31:14.840 Following the Paris Summer Olympics, Khalif filed a criminal lawsuit in France claiming acts of aggravated cyber harassment.

00:31:21.480 If the boxer wins, Musk and Rowling could face anywhere from two to five years behind bars because in France, the punishment for cyberbullying is jail time and fines.

00:31:30.720 Now, look, I don't think that Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling are going to spend any time in a French prison for cyberbullying.

00:31:40.380 But who knows?

00:31:41.300 I mean, I guess I wouldn't be surprised if the Biden administration tried to extradite Elon Musk to serve his sentence for being a bully. 0.97

00:31:49.900 And Rowling is in the UK, so we know she's screwed. 0.91

00:31:52.420 We'll see if it comes to that. 0.96

00:31:55.540 But the claim here is that Musk and Rowling and anyone else who said that Khalif shouldn't be boxing against females because he's a male is a bully.

00:32:04.940 And that claim may be lent some credibility in a French court.

00:32:09.380 I don't know.

00:32:09.940 I mean, I would expect that it probably is.

00:32:11.600 This is France after all.

00:32:12.740 But in reality, like in the real world, is it bullying?

00:32:17.260 Of course not.

00:32:18.020 Look, the whole thing really comes down to one question.

00:32:22.620 Is Khalif actually a male?

00:32:25.620 Now, if Iman Khalif comes out and says, no, I am actually a female, like literally biologically a female, scientifically, I'm a female.

00:32:34.060 If that were to be the case, then he would have a case that the criticism is unfair.

00:32:43.340 Now, it still would not be defamatory on the part of Elon Musk or J.K. Rowling or anybody else because we are going based on the information that we have.

00:32:51.520 The people saying that he's male are saying that because that's what they believe based on the information from the International Boxing Association.

00:33:00.560 That's where it's coming from.

00:33:02.540 So if the International Boxing Association is wrong and Khalif doesn't have XY chromosomes, as they've said he does, then, well, that's on them. 0.80

00:33:11.340 Like your dispute is with them, not with anyone else who's simply reporting, you know, what that organization said.

00:33:18.140 But as far as I know, nobody on Khalif's team is even saying that.

00:33:22.900 As far as I know, no one on the pro-Iman Khalif side is even coming out and disputing, like, the scientific basis of the International Boxing Association or the criticisms of Iman Khalif.

00:33:41.980 As far as I know, no one has come out and said, no, no, actually, he has XX chromosomes.

00:33:48.860 This is a female.

00:33:50.040 This is literally a female. 1.00

00:33:53.640 No one has said that.

00:33:54.620 Instead, we're getting, oh, it's mean to criticize him.

00:34:00.840 It's too harsh.

00:34:02.100 It's not his fault that, you know, he found out at some point later in life that he's actually a male and it was quite devastating.

00:34:14.700 And that I would believe.

00:34:15.760 Like, if you were to tell me that Iman Khalif, up until recently, thought that he was female and then found out through testing that he's really male and was devastated to learn that so much of his life was a lie, I'd believe that. 0.98

00:34:32.560 And in any other circumstance, I would have, you know, in these very rare cases where someone has, you know, sort of a genetic anomaly and suffers from a deformity or some sort of illness where the biological sex is not immediately obvious as it is for almost everybody.

00:34:52.960 In almost all such circumstances, I would have a lot of sympathy for someone in that position.

00:34:56.800 But once you are informed that you are, in fact, a male, then you can't go fight women. 0.77

00:35:09.020 And the sympathy that we would otherwise have for you goes out the window.

00:35:14.500 And that's the point.

00:35:19.180 Let's see.

00:35:19.700 Libs of TikTok reports that our friend Jeffrey Marsh will be attending the DNC as a featured guest.

00:35:26.920 And she also posts this video from Marsh's TikTok, not directly related to the DNC, but it does show why it's just insane for this person to be a featured guest anywhere, let alone the convention of a major political party.

00:35:40.240 Let's watch.

00:35:41.840 Hi, love.

00:35:42.920 Here are three ways to disrespect your elders.

00:35:47.420 So if you're dealing with a narcissistic parent or a bullying boss at work, you need to, one, play innocent.

00:35:54.180 There's some sort of secret code or language they're using to try to get you to do what they want.

00:36:00.720 And all you need to do is ask, what do you mean?

00:36:04.160 I don't get it.

00:36:05.320 Could you explain that?

00:36:07.020 Be innocent.

00:36:08.440 Number two, feel no guilt.

00:36:12.200 Bullies and narcissists use guilt as leverage.

00:36:15.920 And if you refuse to feel guilty, it doesn't matter what you do or what they do or say.

00:36:22.980 And number three, limit contact.

00:36:28.760 Don't do extra.

00:36:30.340 Don't go above and beyond.

00:36:31.960 Don't show up constantly, consistently and all the time sacrificing your life for their agenda.

00:36:38.860 So there's your DNC guest of honor.

00:36:43.380 And look, I've already talked about why Jeffrey Marsh is a very disturbing and disturbed person and a bad person in general.

00:36:53.480 And we've gone into that.

00:36:54.800 Here he is again, encouraging his audience, an audience that is comprised largely of young people and kids.

00:37:02.560 And not like incidentally comprised of a lot of kids, but he has carefully curated an audience of children.

00:37:12.100 And here he is again, encouraging them to break off contact with their parents.

00:37:16.440 Trying to drive a wedge between them and their parents.

00:37:19.120 This is a major focus of his.

00:37:21.000 As you saw in some of the videos we played last week, he desperately wants his audience to have a bad relationship with their parents.

00:37:28.780 This is his number one goal in life as an influencer, apparently, is to influence young people to alienate themselves from their parents and from their families.

00:37:41.840 And in this case, he's giving advice to people with, he says, narcissistic parents or bullying bosses.

00:37:48.320 Now, we already know that in Marsh's world, narcissists and bullies are those who do not affirm everything you say and believe.

00:37:58.800 A narcissistic bully is, you know, a narcissistic bullying parent is one who loves you enough to not affirm, for example, your gender confusion.

00:38:10.000 So, in other words, in his world, narcissistic bullying parents are good, loving parents.

00:38:19.640 So, that's the game. 0.88

00:38:20.820 First, convince the audience to see their parents, to see any adult authority figure who questions them at all, as a narcissist and a bully.

00:38:31.180 And then he tells you how to deal with narcissists and bullies, and the advice is terrible, even taken at face value.

00:38:41.220 I mean, what is he recommending here?

00:38:42.820 He says that, he's saying that you should be passive aggressive, you should be shameless, and you should limit contact.

00:38:53.360 Notice what he does not recommend.

00:38:57.560 He doesn't recommend that you be forthright, direct, honest.

00:39:07.780 At no point does he want you to actually sit down with your parents and have an honest conversation.

00:39:14.500 He's, and this is, again, many other videos where he says, go no contact, don't communicate.

00:39:19.060 Wait, this is, it's a good rule of thumb here.

00:39:22.740 If someone's giving you relationship advice, and the first piece of advice is not communicate, then that's someone you shouldn't be listening to.

00:39:34.300 And his first piece of advice is don't communicate, stop communicating.

00:39:38.440 Because he doesn't want you to go to your mom and say, hey, mom, I don't understand where you're coming from or why you're treating me this way, and I'd like to talk about it.

00:39:55.180 He doesn't recommend that because he doesn't want to give mom the chance to say to her kid, no, I'm not trying to bully you.

00:40:04.980 I love you.

00:40:05.620 I'm worried about the direction you're going.

00:40:09.780 I'm worried about these friends that you've fallen in with.

00:40:13.960 I'm worried about you, and I love you.

00:40:17.440 Jeffrey Marsh doesn't want to give mom the chance to say any of that.

00:40:23.500 And that's all you need to know.

00:40:24.760 Okay, if you're having an issue with a close family member and somebody recommends that you not talk to them first, anyone who actually cares about you and has any wisdom whatsoever, if you come to them with a problem you're having in your life with a loved one,

00:40:45.240 the first question they should ask is, well, have you talked to this person about it?

00:40:52.360 That's the first question I always ask.

00:40:53.680 If anyone ever confides in me about some issue they're having with somebody else in their life,

00:40:59.900 this is what I say to my kids when they come to me and they have an issue with one of their siblings.

00:41:05.680 My first question is, have you talked to them about this?

00:41:10.040 Have you told them how you feel?

00:41:12.480 Do they know how you feel?

00:41:16.200 Well, let's start with that.

00:41:18.320 Be forthright and direct.

00:41:26.500 Like, there's really never a circumstance where it's advised.

00:41:31.740 I'm not going to say never, but there are rarely circumstances, especially in personal relationships,

00:41:38.540 where it would be advised to not be forthright and direct and honest.

00:41:43.480 And in fact, in this case, he's recommending passive aggressiveness as a strategy.

00:41:55.220 And in this case, we can say definitively, passive aggressiveness is never the right approach.

00:42:00.060 Even if you're dealing with an actual narcissistic bully,

00:42:05.060 passive aggressiveness is never going to be the recommended way of dealing with it.

00:42:09.500 If you go to someone and say, I'm being bullied by this person,

00:42:16.240 oh, have you tried being passive aggressive?

00:42:19.160 I found that passive aggressiveness really worked quite well.

00:42:25.840 But this is what you get if you're taking advice from someone who,

00:42:32.960 number one, has no wisdom, and number two, has bad intentions, let's just say.

00:42:39.500 Finally, very briefly, Daily Wire reports,

00:42:42.940 Vice President Kamala Harris's no tax on tips pitch that she enrolled in Las Vegas 0.96

00:42:47.500 one month after President Donald Trump made the same proposal,

00:42:52.300 blindsided Democrats, some of whom had called Trump's idea bogus,

00:42:56.580 and an election year ploy, according to The Hill.

00:43:00.880 Harris told her supporters last weekend,

00:43:02.460 it's my promise to everyone here, when I'm president,

00:43:05.900 we'll continue our fight for working families of America,

00:43:08.580 including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.

00:43:14.860 And Trump, of course, had proposed the exact same thing a month earlier,

00:43:19.180 or two months earlier.

00:43:20.800 And now the report is that some Democrats didn't know that this was happening,

00:43:26.040 and now they're kind of scrambling,

00:43:27.860 because they had been busy for the last month and a half,

00:43:30.520 trying to explain what the problem is with that plan.

00:43:35.520 And now Kamala Harris comes along and just steals it. 1.00

00:43:38.460 So this is the first, like, coherent, sort of intelligible policy idea

00:43:51.760 that we've heard from Kamala Harris.

00:43:54.020 It's the first time that she's actually said,

00:43:56.500 okay, here's a policy that I want to put in place.

00:44:00.400 And it wasn't her idea.

00:44:01.860 She just blatantly plagiarized Donald Trump. 1.00

00:44:04.580 I think next week it's going to be her big idea is build a wall 1.00

00:44:12.100 and make Mexico pay for it. 0.99

00:44:14.300 That's going to be her next big idea. 0.98

00:44:18.800 And the funny thing is that, in my opinion,

00:44:23.300 she's not only ripping off Donald Trump,

00:44:25.240 but she's ripping off maybe his worst idea.

00:44:28.600 Like, it's not even a good idea.

00:44:30.620 I said this at the time when,

00:44:32.480 and I'm not just saying it now because Kamala Harris is saying it,

00:44:34.460 I said it at the time,

00:44:36.320 and I know that I'm in a minority, apparently,

00:44:38.540 among conservatives anyway on this one,

00:44:40.740 but I don't think that tips should be exempt from taxation.

00:44:45.640 If it is income,

00:44:48.300 okay, if we're claiming that a tip is income,

00:44:51.620 then it should be treated like any other income.

00:44:56.960 And if we're saying that tips are not income,

00:44:59.240 well, okay,

00:45:02.300 but then you've also removed a lot of the incentive

00:45:05.580 for tipping in the first place

00:45:06.980 because the whole reason why,

00:45:09.080 and now, of course, everyone's asking for tips these days,

00:45:11.080 but for a long time anyway,

00:45:12.740 it was like you tip mainly your waiter at the restaurant,

00:45:16.100 and the reason you do it,

00:45:18.080 we heard this for decades,

00:45:19.660 like you got to tip the waiter

00:45:21.400 because that's his income.

00:45:22.640 He only gets paid two bucks an hour or whatever,

00:45:24.740 and his income is the tips.

00:45:29.000 Well, okay, if that's the case,

00:45:30.480 then why should that income be exempt

00:45:34.140 when everybody else in the restaurant,

00:45:36.860 all of the patrons,

00:45:38.740 they have their own income

00:45:41.700 and they're getting taxed.

00:45:44.100 They might make less than he does,

00:45:46.160 and so why should they get taxed

00:45:47.500 if he doesn't on his income?

00:45:49.140 Like what makes that kind of income special?

00:45:50.980 I don't understand it.

00:45:51.740 Now, as I also said at the time,

00:45:59.420 I don't think we should exempt tips from taxation

00:46:04.540 if we have an income tax system.

00:46:08.580 If you're going to have an income tax system,

00:46:11.120 then it should apply to everybody equally,

00:46:15.220 in my view.

00:46:16.480 But I also don't think

00:46:20.560 there should be an income tax system.

00:46:23.080 So if we want to talk about

00:46:24.180 just getting rid of income taxes

00:46:25.540 so that waiters with their tips don't have to pay

00:46:28.640 and no one else has to pay either,

00:46:30.400 then I'm all for that.

00:46:33.780 The income tax system is a horrible system.

00:46:37.300 It is inherently oppressive and tyrannical.

00:46:40.940 To have the government taking your money,

00:46:46.120 just the simple fact of earning an income

00:46:48.660 means that they get to come in

00:46:49.640 and take your money,

00:46:51.020 it's a horrific system.

00:46:55.820 But if we're going to have it,

00:46:57.280 then it's like,

00:46:58.700 if you're going to have a horrific system,

00:47:01.620 then it should at least be equal.

00:47:03.400 It's kind of like what I say about,

00:47:07.860 say, hate crime laws.

00:47:10.400 Well, I don't think hate crime laws should exist.

00:47:13.380 I don't think we should carve out

00:47:14.480 a special type of crime

00:47:16.600 that we call hate crimes.

00:47:19.280 I think that if somebody commits murder

00:47:21.600 or assault or anything else

00:47:23.400 and it's a crime,

00:47:24.380 then they should be punished based on that.

00:47:27.000 But we shouldn't have a special category

00:47:28.560 where, well, yeah, if you did it

00:47:31.160 because you were hateful

00:47:32.600 towards these specific groups,

00:47:34.240 then it's even more illegal.

00:47:35.760 I don't think we should do that.

00:47:37.980 But if we're going to have hate crimes,

00:47:39.940 then it should at least be equal.

00:47:44.600 Which means that if you assault 1.00

00:47:46.120 or kill a white person 1.00

00:47:47.580 because you hate white people, 1.00

00:47:48.720 then I will say, 0.99

00:47:50.340 yeah, you should be charged with a hate crime,

00:47:51.520 even though I don't think

00:47:52.160 hate crime laws should exist.

00:47:54.020 But they do,

00:47:54.960 and if they do,

00:47:55.580 then they should be equally applied.

00:47:57.520 And I say the same thing about

00:47:58.920 the income tax.

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00:48:42.980 Now let's get to

00:48:43.500 our daily cancellation.

00:48:44.260 Last summer,

00:48:51.600 Disney suffered a rare mishap

00:48:53.260 on their way to defiling

00:48:54.700 yet another beloved work of fiction

00:48:56.480 with the usual DEI casting

00:48:58.380 and woke plotting.

00:48:59.840 Now normally,

00:49:00.320 when Disney wants to destroy a franchise,

00:49:02.020 they don't give you much warning

00:49:03.160 that it's coming.

00:49:04.320 With the Acolyte, for example,

00:49:05.600 everyone kind of knew 0.99

00:49:06.660 it would be garbage 0.98

00:49:07.180 and a massive insult 0.97

00:49:08.420 to the few remaining Star Wars fans.

00:49:10.600 But the full magnitude

00:49:11.560 of the disaster

00:49:12.280 wasn't clear

00:49:12.880 until it actually started streaming. 0.76

00:49:14.620 Disney kept the lesbian space witches 0.98

00:49:16.680 under wraps

00:49:17.440 until they launched it

00:49:18.360 and then everybody reacted to it.

00:49:20.600 But with Snow White,

00:49:21.360 Disney had a problem.

00:49:22.240 The Daily Mail got its hands

00:49:23.460 on some photographs

00:49:24.560 of what appeared to be

00:49:25.520 a bunch of time-traveling hobos

00:49:27.380 from the campus of Berkeley

00:49:28.560 in the 1970s

00:49:29.480 standing in some field in England.

00:49:32.520 And in reality,

00:49:34.740 these hobos were Disney's 0.70

00:49:35.840 new replacements

00:49:36.760 for the Seven Dwarves.

00:49:38.720 Disney said that

00:49:39.440 instead of the Seven Dwarves,

00:49:40.780 their new Snow White film

00:49:42.280 would feature

00:49:42.840 magical creatures

00:49:43.840 in order to, quote,

00:49:46.060 avoid reinforcing stereotypes.

00:49:49.360 Now, in another attempt

00:49:50.480 to avoid reinforcing stereotypes,

00:49:52.040 the film also reportedly

00:49:52.900 would not include

00:49:53.620 a Prince Charming,

00:49:55.240 at least not as the character

00:49:56.520 existed in the past.

00:49:57.580 Instead, we were told

00:49:58.240 the film would feature

00:49:59.000 a stronger Snow White

00:50:00.920 who dreams of, you know,

00:50:02.740 bossing everyone around,

00:50:03.900 being a girl boss. 0.59

00:50:05.440 And they brought in 0.87

00:50:06.220 the writer of Barbie

00:50:06.980 to make that happen.

00:50:08.500 The film's star,

00:50:09.140 Rachel Zegler,

00:50:10.360 was especially adamant

00:50:11.800 about her hatred

00:50:12.500 of the original story,

00:50:13.720 saying, quote,

00:50:14.840 the original cartoon

00:50:15.620 came out in 1937,

00:50:16.940 and very evidently so.

00:50:18.640 There's a big focus

00:50:19.540 on her love story

00:50:20.740 with the guy

00:50:21.280 who literally stalks her.

00:50:23.300 Weird, weird.

00:50:24.800 So we didn't do that

00:50:25.740 this time.

00:50:27.980 You know,

00:50:28.160 we didn't actually,

00:50:29.440 when we're telling the story,

00:50:30.540 we're not actually going

00:50:31.220 to tell the story.

00:50:32.540 We're not doing that

00:50:33.500 this time.

00:50:34.100 She also added

00:50:35.960 that it's no longer

00:50:37.240 in 1937

00:50:38.080 and promised that

00:50:39.440 Snow White

00:50:39.840 is not going to be

00:50:40.720 saved by the prince

00:50:41.620 because she's a strong

00:50:43.260 and independent leader.

00:50:45.460 Now, this messaging

00:50:46.140 made it pretty clear

00:50:46.960 that Disney was not

00:50:48.020 making a Snow White film.

00:50:49.740 So the only possible reason

00:50:51.720 that they still make

00:50:52.620 a Snow White film

00:50:53.280 is to do everything

00:50:54.020 they can to destroy

00:50:55.100 the memory

00:50:55.560 of the original film

00:50:56.480 and ruin it

00:50:57.760 like every other franchise

00:50:58.800 they've touched.

00:51:00.320 Now, for Disney,

00:51:00.940 as you probably remember,

00:51:01.740 all of this publicity,

00:51:03.660 the Zegler interviews,

00:51:05.140 the Daily Mail leak,

00:51:06.860 caused a lot of

00:51:07.600 unexpected,

00:51:08.680 for them anyway,

00:51:09.440 pre-production problems.

00:51:11.040 People weren't supposed

00:51:11.600 to see and understand

00:51:12.700 just how unwatchable

00:51:13.740 the new Snow White

00:51:14.400 was going to be.

00:51:15.240 It was supposed to be,

00:51:15.940 you know,

00:51:16.280 kind of a surprise,

00:51:17.160 but now there was

00:51:18.420 no hiding it.

00:51:19.340 They came under fire

00:51:20.620 from pretty much everyone.

00:51:22.200 The Game of Thrones actor

00:51:23.180 Peter Dinklage,

00:51:24.180 who has dwarfism,

00:51:25.580 was especially irate

00:51:26.600 saying that he was

00:51:27.320 taken aback

00:51:28.160 before using some profanity.

00:51:31.740 He also made it clear

00:51:32.360 he didn't want dwarf actors

00:51:33.600 in the film

00:51:34.760 because he's the only dwarf actor

00:51:36.520 who's allowed to get a job,

00:51:37.500 apparently.

00:51:37.900 No one else can.

00:51:40.320 He's pulling up

00:51:41.700 the very short ladder

00:51:42.760 behind him.

00:51:44.280 So a month later,

00:51:45.100 Disney announced

00:51:45.640 that they'd be delaying

00:51:46.820 the release of the new

00:51:47.580 Snow White film,

00:51:48.240 ostensibly because

00:51:48.840 of the writer's strike,

00:51:49.960 but it's pretty clear

00:51:51.060 what was really going on

00:51:52.120 because Disney also released

00:51:53.440 this updated photograph

00:51:55.180 from the film,

00:51:55.800 now featuring a CGI

00:51:57.360 seven dwarves

00:51:58.300 instead of the

00:51:58.860 magical creature hobos.

00:52:00.420 It was going to be

00:52:02.120 this instead.

00:52:03.520 This promotional still

00:52:04.420 gave a lot of people

00:52:05.240 hope that Disney

00:52:05.940 had gotten the message.

00:52:07.120 It led people to believe

00:52:08.180 that they'd gone back

00:52:09.800 and made changes

00:52:10.540 to get rid of

00:52:11.120 the wokeness entirely.

00:52:12.120 But the problem is

00:52:12.700 that Disney fundamentally

00:52:13.780 isn't capable

00:52:14.640 of making anything

00:52:15.580 that is truly

00:52:16.240 non-woke anymore.

00:52:18.240 They just can't do it.

00:52:20.600 You can't,

00:52:21.560 when you hear

00:52:22.140 a Disney movie's

00:52:22.820 coming out,

00:52:23.280 you don't need to wonder,

00:52:24.140 oh, is it going to be woke?

00:52:25.200 Like, yes,

00:52:25.900 it's going to be.

00:52:26.600 They don't have

00:52:30.180 the personnel

00:52:30.700 to make anything

00:52:31.720 but that anymore.

00:52:33.940 Even after they received

00:52:35.100 massive backlash.

00:52:37.120 So with Snow White,

00:52:37.880 they're sticking with

00:52:38.700 the girl boss messaging

00:52:39.920 and presumably

00:52:40.580 the feminist plotting

00:52:41.900 and so on.

00:52:43.240 And we know that

00:52:43.640 because of this footage

00:52:44.740 from a screening

00:52:45.420 of the film,

00:52:46.120 which doesn't release

00:52:47.080 widely until next year.

00:52:48.980 But this footage

00:52:50.660 has made the rounds

00:52:51.500 on the internet.

00:52:52.260 Let's see some of it.

00:52:53.180 Now you wash the dishes.

00:52:57.380 You tighten up the room.

00:53:00.260 You clean those cobwebs.

00:53:03.640 And he'll use the broom.

00:53:07.740 Me?

00:53:09.060 Whistle while you work.

00:53:13.760 And cheerfully together

00:53:17.040 we can tidy up the place.

00:53:20.000 So in the original Snow White,

00:53:28.040 she cleans the cottage

00:53:29.020 after woodland animals

00:53:30.500 take her there.

00:53:32.140 She's just happy

00:53:32.940 that she has somewhere

00:53:34.160 to remain hidden

00:53:34.860 when her stepmother 0.53

00:53:35.720 is trying to kill her.

00:53:36.860 And when she learns 0.83

00:53:38.120 the seven dwarves live there,

00:53:39.240 she offers to cook

00:53:40.020 and clean the place for them

00:53:41.100 as a sign of her gratitude.

00:53:43.780 But in this modern version,

00:53:45.180 Snow White breaks

00:53:45.920 into the dwarf house.

00:53:47.120 I mean,

00:53:47.240 she does that

00:53:47.560 in the original too.

00:53:48.280 Breaking and entering

00:53:49.040 is a theme in both,

00:53:50.820 let's admit.

00:53:52.060 But in this one,

00:53:52.780 she breaks in

00:53:53.460 and then forces the dwarves 0.96

00:53:54.960 to clean for her.

00:53:57.380 These dwarves 0.81

00:53:58.140 who've been toiling away all day

00:53:59.980 get to come home

00:54:01.720 and get bossed around

00:54:02.880 by the woman

00:54:03.660 whose life

00:54:04.680 they're helping to save

00:54:05.560 and who they didn't invite

00:54:06.800 into their house

00:54:07.520 in the first place.

00:54:08.800 They have to tidy up the place

00:54:09.900 and sing while they do it.

00:54:12.120 So clearly,

00:54:12.680 the Barbie screenwriter

00:54:13.600 they hired

00:54:14.080 to write this film

00:54:14.860 thinks that this is a clever

00:54:16.100 kind of role reversal.

00:54:17.160 The woman is in control, 1.00

00:54:19.760 the men are subservient,

00:54:20.840 feminism achieved.

00:54:23.060 But when you think about it,

00:54:23.840 it's funny that making

00:54:25.300 a feminist version 1.00

00:54:26.280 of a character

00:54:26.840 always means,

00:54:28.120 in practice,

00:54:29.840 just turning her

00:54:31.060 into an unpleasant, 1.00

00:54:32.520 unlikable nag. 0.91

00:54:34.940 Like, 0.89

00:54:35.440 they're never portrayed

00:54:36.340 as competent,

00:54:37.400 kind,

00:54:37.880 well-adjusted.

00:54:39.260 They're always making

00:54:39.960 these weirdly

00:54:40.420 passive-aggressive demands

00:54:41.680 from other characters

00:54:42.460 who didn't do anything

00:54:43.140 to deserve it.

00:54:43.780 all you're doing is,

00:54:46.500 if you want to take

00:54:47.240 a beloved female character

00:54:49.180 and make her feminist, 1.00

00:54:51.340 all you're doing is

00:54:52.840 take all the things

00:54:53.780 that make her beloved

00:54:55.020 and get rid of those things.

00:54:57.040 And,

00:54:58.060 now you have

00:54:58.500 a feminist character. 1.00

00:55:00.580 There's a deeper message

00:55:01.740 in all this,

00:55:02.500 although it's one

00:55:02.920 that's obviously lost

00:55:03.860 on the Barbie writer.

00:55:04.660 And by the way,

00:55:05.580 watching that scene,

00:55:06.420 it's not just the writer

00:55:07.800 who's very terrible

00:55:09.280 at her job.

00:55:10.620 You can look

00:55:11.400 at the dwarves.

00:55:12.100 Now,

00:55:13.120 we can presume

00:55:13.580 that this is the CGI

00:55:14.860 they had to create

00:55:15.780 very quickly

00:55:16.340 after they jettisoned

00:55:17.460 the hobos

00:55:17.980 in the photographs

00:55:18.860 that the Daily Mail leaked.

00:55:20.620 But it's been more

00:55:21.480 than a year at this point.

00:55:23.060 Is that really

00:55:23.700 the best they could do?

00:55:25.480 Like,

00:55:25.900 the dwarves look 1.00

00:55:26.780 uncanny and cheap. 0.83

00:55:29.460 Like something out of

00:55:30.240 a Nintendo 64 cutscene

00:55:31.940 in 1999.

00:55:33.580 And,

00:55:34.040 these are central characters

00:55:35.440 in the story.

00:55:35.900 Even if Disney has decided

00:55:36.920 to remove them

00:55:37.700 from the title of the film,

00:55:38.540 they still are.

00:55:39.420 Now,

00:55:39.600 to be fair,

00:55:40.080 the one human in the scene

00:55:40.940 doesn't fare much better.

00:55:41.800 Snow White's hairstyle

00:55:42.720 is also weirdly ugly.

00:55:44.780 It's apparently inspired

00:55:45.740 by Javier Bardem's character

00:55:47.280 in No Country for Old Men. 0.62

00:55:49.200 And that's a,

00:55:49.700 you know,

00:55:49.920 it's a bit of a nitpick,

00:55:51.020 but when you have

00:55:52.300 any degree of respect

00:55:53.460 for the source material,

00:55:54.500 you don't make

00:55:55.280 a lot of mistakes like this.

00:55:56.540 You have some level

00:55:57.200 of pride in your work

00:55:58.420 and you make sure

00:55:59.820 that you put out

00:56:01.200 something that looks

00:56:02.120 like a competent production.

00:56:04.260 But the new Snow White

00:56:05.320 is not a competent production

00:56:06.940 because Disney

00:56:07.600 doesn't care

00:56:08.220 about storytelling.

00:56:09.920 They just don't care

00:56:10.900 about the product

00:56:11.460 they put on the screen.

00:56:13.340 And people on the right

00:56:14.360 tend to think

00:56:15.640 that the political bias

00:56:16.740 is the biggest problem

00:56:17.640 in Hollywood,

00:56:18.300 but, you know,

00:56:19.160 Hollywood has been liberal

00:56:20.080 for as long

00:56:20.920 as most of us

00:56:21.600 have been alive.

00:56:23.120 The difference

00:56:23.900 is that

00:56:24.540 while being liberal,

00:56:26.780 they used to care

00:56:27.820 about telling stories.

00:56:29.020 and they put some pride

00:56:31.860 into the stories

00:56:32.680 they told

00:56:33.260 and now they don't.

00:56:36.100 And that is why

00:56:36.740 Disney's new Snow White

00:56:38.160 and her Nintendo 64

00:56:39.240 quality CGI dwarves

00:56:40.400 are today canceled.

00:56:43.140 That'll do it

00:56:43.660 for the show today.

00:56:44.120 Thanks for watching.

00:56:44.620 Thanks for listening.

00:56:45.160 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:56:46.260 Have a great day.

00:56:47.280 Godspeed. 0.99

00:56:54.640 Republicans are Nazis. 0.99

00:56:56.120 You cannot separate yourselves 1.00

00:56:57.900 from the bad 1.00

00:56:58.700 white people. 0.99

00:56:59.760 Growing up,

00:57:00.220 I never thought much

00:57:00.940 about race.

00:57:01.640 It never really seemed

00:57:02.400 to matter that much.

00:57:03.500 At least not to me.

00:57:04.300 Am I racist?

00:57:05.480 I would really appreciate it

00:57:06.460 if you love it.

00:57:06.780 I'm trying to learn.

00:57:07.480 I'm on this journey.

00:57:08.760 I'm going to sort this out.

00:57:10.040 I need to go deeper

00:57:10.860 undercover.

00:57:13.080 They don't say I'm racist.

00:57:14.520 Joining us now

00:57:15.140 is Matt,

00:57:15.780 certified DEI expert.

00:57:17.980 Here's my certifications.

00:57:19.100 And what you're doing

00:57:19.560 is you're stretching

00:57:20.240 out of your whiteness.

00:57:21.840 This is more for you

00:57:22.420 than this for you.

00:57:22.840 Is America inherently racist?

00:57:24.420 The word inherent

00:57:25.340 is challenging there.

00:57:26.360 I want to rename

00:57:26.880 the George Washington Monument

00:57:27.900 to the George Floyd Monument. 0.97

00:57:29.540 America is racist 0.98

00:57:30.340 to its bones. 0.99

00:57:31.360 So inherently.

00:57:32.240 Yeah, this country 1.00

00:57:33.040 is a piece of shit. 1.00

00:57:35.320 White folks. 1.00

00:57:36.380 White trash. 1.00

00:57:36.880 White supremacy. 1.00

00:57:37.680 White woman. 1.00

00:57:38.260 White boy.

00:57:38.780 Is there a black person

00:57:39.780 around here?

00:57:40.080 What's a black person 0.81

00:57:40.760 right here? 0.96

00:57:41.400 Does he not exist?

00:57:42.240 They don't say I'm racist.

00:57:44.020 Hi, Robin.

00:57:44.740 Hi.

00:57:45.100 What's your name?

00:57:46.040 I'm Matt.

00:57:46.540 I just had to ask

00:57:47.140 who you are

00:57:47.560 because you have to be careful.

00:57:49.200 Never be too careful.

00:57:50.040 They gonna say you racist.

00:57:50.940 Buy your tickets now

00:57:51.960 in theaters September 13th.

00:57:53.380 Rated PG-13.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 15, 2024

Ep. 1423 - Apple Makes It Clear： White Men Need Not Apply

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