00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the DNC begins in a boarded-up Chicago because whenever Democrats get together, local businesses have to treat the occasion like a Category 5 hurricane.
00:00:30.960And a group of anti-racist leftists called the police on me while we were filming my new movie, Am I Racist?
00:00:35.940We now have the police reports, and they are even funnier than you'd expect them to be.
00:00:39.700All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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00:02:35.040Today is day one of the Democratic National Convention.
00:02:37.920Now, under normal circumstances, the start of a nominating convention creates a political tailwind for a presidential candidate.
00:02:45.020There's supposed to be some enthusiasm about the party's platform going into the convention because they control the messaging.
00:02:50.480And in the case of the Kamala Harris campaign, the messaging is about as tightly controlled as it could possibly be.
00:02:57.220She hasn't given an unscripted interview since she became her party's presumptive nominee nearly a month ago.
00:03:02.380She's communicating to the public almost exclusively through rehearsed soundbites.
00:03:06.500But Harris is not experiencing any political tailwinds at the moment.
00:03:11.380In fact, the honeymoon period for her candidacy appears to be pretty much over, just in time for the beginning of the DNC.
00:03:17.060All it took was for Kamala Harris to describe one piece of information about what she plans to do if she's elected.
00:03:23.680Just a single policy proposal has tanked her momentum so dramatically that even the corporate press, which has done everything it can to boost her candidacy up to this point, of course, has started to turn on her.
00:03:36.620I'm talking about Kamala Harris's proposal to end what she calls price gouging, which she unveiled in her speech in North Carolina on Friday.
00:03:44.580Except the rollout didn't go quite as planned. Watch.
00:03:49.420And I will work to pass the first ever federal ban on price gauging on food.
00:03:56.560Well, that inspires a lot of confidence.
00:03:58.640She wants to fight price gouging, but she can't even pronounce the word gouging.
00:04:03.760She wants to assume enormous, unprecedented, and unilateral control over some of the most important sectors of the economy, including the grocery industry.
00:04:13.720And she can't tell the difference between the words gouging and gauging.
00:04:17.200In her speech, Harris didn't offer any specifics about what constitutes an acceptable price and what is unacceptable.
00:04:24.120She didn't explain how her administration can override the laws of supply and demand without destroying the economy.
00:04:29.840Nor did she explain why this new proposal is even necessary in the first place.
00:04:33.760I mean, didn't Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to secure the passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act,
00:04:41.180which authorized nearly a trillion dollars in government spending?
00:06:10.400Is that like the, I mean, that's one argument, I guess.
00:06:14.060So all the Trump campaign has to do is air that clip that you just saw in every battleground state.
00:06:19.260They don't need to make a single edit.
00:06:22.100Kamala Harris is admitting that her administration was a failure.
00:06:24.980And now she wants even more power to control the economy.
00:06:29.020She knows she can't call for more legislation because that already failed.
00:06:32.820She can't call for reducing government spending and money printing because her constituents demand free stuff, free student loans, free health care, subsidized rent, subsidized home purchases, and so on.
00:06:42.040So she's reduced to demanding price controls, which have failed in every country that they've been attempted, including this one.
00:06:49.480Even by the standards of the left-wing corporate media, this is all like a bit too much.
00:06:55.400They can tolerate a candidate who doesn't give interviews, who bails out violent rioters, who wants to abolish ICE and get rid of private health care.
00:07:04.240But Soviet-style price controls are so obviously destructive that even the most partisan Democrat-aligned outlets can't tolerate it.
00:07:12.780It's also pretty on the nose since Harris's running mate, Tim Walls, is an open admirer of Mao's, who's taken dozens of trips to China, which is, by the way, speaking of weird, like, do you know any normal person who's gone to China dozens of times?
00:07:29.420Also, allegedly, this is a guy that doesn't even own anything, yet he has no property that he owns, he has no net worth, he's, like, basically broke, and yet he's taking dozens of trips to China, whatever.
00:07:42.920It looks a lot like Democrats now want to import Chinese-style communism, which crossed a line even for CNN.
00:07:51.720You know, it's very hard to pin down what this would actually mean.
00:07:54.580If you look at the legislation that, as I mentioned, is already in the Senate, led by Senator Senate Warren and Senator Bob Casey and a slew of others,
00:08:06.940the particular way that this is written, which is likely to be the template for any proposal that Harris would eventually embrace,
00:08:15.080is especially bad in that it just bans excessive prices, grossly excessive profit margins, and says that the Federal Trade Commission can use any metric it deems appropriate to decide what that would mean,
00:08:32.560which basically says, like, it's not going to be markets, it's not going to be supply and demand that's determining how much your grocery store charges you for milk or for eggs.
00:08:44.380Sometimes it's going to be some bureaucrat in D.C., but it also would be very bad for markets.
00:08:48.920We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before, Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, etc.
00:23:20.900The Kamala campaign has been experimenting the last couple of days ever so gingerly, ever so cautiously with letting Kamala speak off script.
00:23:33.120So here she is in Pennsylvania, no prompter, no, doesn't appear to be any written speech.
00:23:39.500And so she's kind of on her own trying to explain something.
00:23:45.880And that's what our election is about.
00:23:50.260Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy.
00:23:59.340As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy.
00:24:07.880On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact.
00:24:13.640What it does for its people to protect and defend their rights, their liberty, and their freedom.
00:24:33.580Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy.
00:24:39.520As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy.
00:24:42.300On the one hand, incredible strength when it's intact.
00:24:45.760What it does for its people to protect and defend their rights.
00:25:08.440Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy.
00:25:17.020Actually, there are a lot more than five words to lose there.
00:25:19.160Because what you're trying to say, to the extent that you're trying to say anything at all,
00:25:22.180what you're trying to say is that this election is about the importance of democracy.
00:32:15.680Trying to explain how a Kamala presidency will not only, you know, fix the country, fix all the things that the Biden administration and Kamala Harris have already broken.
00:32:27.680But it will also heal the rifts in your own family.
00:32:33.680Some of us who have less hair and are old enough can remember when you could go to Thanksgiving, watch a Steelers game with your relatives and not complain about politics the whole time.
00:32:49.680Because you shared a commitment to democracy, a commitment to personal freedom, a commitment to public education, a commitment to infrastructure.
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00:53:34.680And if you're not overcoming, it's because you don't want to.
00:53:38.680Being a parent can be an enormous challenge in many ways, but it's actually one of those things that almost everyone is capable of doing.
00:53:51.680And although it's a challenge and it's very hard in many ways, it is that, but it's also very simple.
00:54:03.680It's actually much simpler than we make it out to be.
00:54:08.680And if you just are not totally obsessed with yourself and your own wants and desires every second of the freaking day, okay?
00:54:18.680If you could just not be that and be concerned about your own child's well-being, not just that they are fed and clothed and all that, but that they become good, happy people in the world.
00:54:31.680If you can just have those two things, not be enormously selfish all the time and concerned about your child, if you have both of those things going for you, it'll turn out okay.
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00:56:43.680Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:56:44.680On Friday, I shared a sneak peek of my new film, Am I Racist?
00:56:56.680Tickets are on sale right now at amiracist.com.
00:56:58.680In the scene, which you can find on my YouTube channel, you see the moment when I was kicked out of a support group for white people struggling with their white grief.
01:00:38.680And when I read this police report, I immediately thought of the final scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest where Chief, the big Indian guy, who you could call Chief in movies back then.
01:02:10.680Actually, there's no indication that the cop actually is a fan.
01:02:13.680All he apparently said is that he knows who I am.
01:02:16.680Now, I'd like to think that I'm such a likable guy that to know who I am is to automatically be a fan, but something tells me that might not always be the case.
01:02:24.680In fact, my experience in that room says that that probably isn't always the case.
01:02:28.680But putting aside the issue of what podcast the police officer does or doesn't listen to, the critical point is that my mere presence in the room was enough to prompt someone to dial 911.
01:02:39.680This is obviously ironic because we can assume approximately 100% of the people sitting in that circle have in the past or would, if you ask them today, argue for defunding the police.
01:02:50.680These same sort of people insist that we should stop calling the police entirely or at least that we should stop calling the police for all kinds of emergencies that we usually call them for.
01:03:00.680They say that we should consult with social workers and mental health professionals and therapists for many of these situations.
01:03:07.680So why did anybody call a social worker?