The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1425 - The DNC Just Started And It's Already INSANE

00:00:00.000 Today 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.

00:00:08.560 What does that tell you?

00:00:09.660 Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood will be on the scene in an RV giving out free abortions and vasectomies.

00:00:14.220 We'll discuss that.

00:00:15.080 Also, Kamala starts going off script for the first time since she stole the nomination, and it does not go well.

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00:02:19.520 The National Guard is on standby in Chicago.

00:02:22.980 Businesses in the city have boarded up their windows as if a Category 5 hurricane is about to make landfall.

00:02:28.200 Massive fences have gone up in residents' front yards on the west side as the police brace for riots.

00:02:34.020 And you know what all that means.

00:02:35.040 Today is day one of the Democratic National Convention.

00:02:37.920 Now, under normal circumstances, the start of a nominating convention creates a political tailwind for a presidential candidate.

00:02:45.020 There's supposed to be some enthusiasm about the party's platform going into the convention because they control the messaging.

00:02:50.480 And in the case of the Kamala Harris campaign, the messaging is about as tightly controlled as it could possibly be.

00:02:57.220 She hasn't given an unscripted interview since she became her party's presumptive nominee nearly a month ago.

00:03:02.380 She's communicating to the public almost exclusively through rehearsed soundbites.

00:03:06.500 But Harris is not experiencing any political tailwinds at the moment.

00:03:11.380 In fact, the honeymoon period for her candidacy appears to be pretty much over, just in time for the beginning of the DNC.

00:03:17.060 All it took was for Kamala Harris to describe one piece of information about what she plans to do if she's elected. 1.00

00:03:23.680 Just 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.

00:03:36.620 I'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.

00:03:44.580 Except the rollout didn't go quite as planned. Watch.

00:03:49.420 And I will work to pass the first ever federal ban on price gauging on food.

00:03:56.560 Well, that inspires a lot of confidence.

00:03:58.640 She wants to fight price gouging, but she can't even pronounce the word gouging.

00:04:03.760 She wants to assume enormous, unprecedented, and unilateral control over some of the most important sectors of the economy, including the grocery industry. 1.00

00:04:13.720 And she can't tell the difference between the words gouging and gauging.

00:04:17.200 In her speech, Harris didn't offer any specifics about what constitutes an acceptable price and what is unacceptable.

00:04:24.120 She didn't explain how her administration can override the laws of supply and demand without destroying the economy. 1.00

00:04:29.840 Nor did she explain why this new proposal is even necessary in the first place.

00:04:33.760 I mean, didn't Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to secure the passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, 0.79

00:04:41.180 which authorized nearly a trillion dollars in government spending?

00:04:45.380 Wasn't that two years ago?

00:04:47.420 Like, what happened to that?

00:04:49.820 I thought we reduced inflation.

00:04:51.640 She passed the law.

00:04:53.720 Now, did that law perhaps increase inflation after all, as conservatives said that it would?

00:04:59.220 Kamala Harris didn't answer any of those questions on Friday.

00:05:01.600 Instead, she complained about inflation as if her administration hasn't been running the country for the past four years.

00:05:08.860 As president, I will take on the high costs that matter most to most Americans, like the cost of food.

00:05:18.260 We all know that prices went up during the pandemic when the supply chains shut down and failed.

00:05:27.680 But our supply chains have now improved.

00:05:32.240 And prices are still too high.

00:05:35.840 A loaf of bread costs 50 percent more today than it did before the pandemic.

00:05:42.360 Ground beef is up almost 50 percent.

00:05:45.680 I mean, it's pretty incredible.

00:05:48.720 Imagine going to your employer and asking for a promotion.

00:05:53.480 And in order to explain why you should get a promotion, you list all of the problems that you have created in your workplace.

00:06:03.200 To then say that you need to be promoted so you can fix it.

00:06:06.520 I broke it so I alone can fix it?

00:06:10.400 Is that like the, I mean, that's one argument, I guess.

00:06:14.060 So all the Trump campaign has to do is air that clip that you just saw in every battleground state.

00:06:19.260 They don't need to make a single edit.

00:06:22.100 Kamala Harris is admitting that her administration was a failure. 0.99

00:06:24.980 And now she wants even more power to control the economy. 1.00

00:06:29.020 She knows she can't call for more legislation because that already failed.

00:06:32.820 She 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. 0.54

00:06:42.040 So she's reduced to demanding price controls, which have failed in every country that they've been attempted, including this one.

00:06:49.480 Even by the standards of the left-wing corporate media, this is all like a bit too much.

00:06:55.400 They 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.

00:07:03.040 All that is fine with them.

00:07:04.240 But Soviet-style price controls are so obviously destructive that even the most partisan Democrat-aligned outlets can't tolerate it.

00:07:12.780 It'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?

00:07:29.420 Also, 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.

00:07:42.920 It looks a lot like Democrats now want to import Chinese-style communism, which crossed a line even for CNN.

00:07:50.900 Watch.

00:07:51.720 You know, it's very hard to pin down what this would actually mean.

00:07:54.580 If 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,

00:08:06.940 the particular way that this is written, which is likely to be the template for any proposal that Harris would eventually embrace,

00:08:15.080 is 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,

00:08:32.560 which 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.

00:08:44.380 Sometimes it's going to be some bureaucrat in D.C., but it also would be very bad for markets.

00:08:48.920 We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before, Venezuela, Argentina, the Soviet Union, etc.

00:08:56.600 It leads to shortages.

00:08:58.280 It leads to black markets.

00:09:01.360 You know, plenty of uncertainty.

00:09:04.580 And beyond that, the specific way this bill is written might actually increase prices.

00:09:10.300 Yeah, we can't have the grossly excessive profit margins.

00:09:16.560 How do you draw the line there?

00:09:20.180 Like, what counts as a grossly excessive profit margin?

00:09:24.400 Well, the ones that are gross.

00:09:26.380 The gross ones.

00:09:28.080 How do you know if they're gross? 0.61

00:09:29.000 Well, because they're gross.

00:09:29.940 If it's a profit margin that makes you go, ew, gross, then that's a grossly excessive one.

00:09:34.280 That's the measure the government's going to use for this.

00:09:38.580 Now, the CNN analyst in that clip, Catherine Rample, also wrote a column for The Washington Post with this headline.

00:09:45.620 Quote,

00:09:45.760 When your opponent calls you communist, maybe don't propose price controls.

00:09:51.240 The op-ed continues,

00:09:52.480 It's hard to exaggerate how bad Kamala Harris's price-gouging proposal is. 0.99

00:09:56.520 It is, and all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food.

00:10:03.060 Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels.

00:10:06.620 Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. 0.86

00:10:08.460 At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets, and hoarding.

00:10:12.860 Yes, at best.

00:10:14.060 That's the best-case scenario.

00:10:15.760 It's bad enough for Kamala Harris that an op-ed like this would be published in The Washington Post. 1.00

00:10:21.260 But it gets worse.

00:10:22.760 Because the paper's editorial board came out the next day and endorsed the same op-ed.

00:10:27.780 Quote,

00:10:28.400 The Times demand serious economic ideas.

00:10:31.580 Harris's supplies gimmicks.

00:10:34.980 That's the editorial board's headline.

00:10:37.400 And they went on to point out that the grocery industry is a notoriously low-margin business,

00:10:41.840 with profit margins typically hovering around 2%.

00:10:44.640 The paper added, quote,

00:10:46.900 Whether the Harris proposal wins over voters remains to be seen.

00:10:49.900 But if sound economic analysis still matters, it won't.

00:10:53.760 Now, if you're cynical, or just observant,

00:10:56.600 you might point out that Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, also owns Whole Foods.

00:11:00.980 So, of course, he wouldn't want price controls on groceries.

00:11:03.800 But pretty much everywhere you looked in left-wing media, you saw basically the same headline.

00:11:08.600 Newsweek, for example, ran this article, quote,

00:11:10.940 Kamala Harris's grocery price-gouging plan is riddled with problems, experts say. 1.00

00:11:16.680 CNN, meanwhile, push-alerted this story to the millions of people who read its website, quote,

00:11:21.560 Harris's plan to stop price-gouging could create more problems than it solves.

00:11:25.560 Various CNN guests also criticized Harris's plan to give new homebinders $25,000,

00:11:32.880 because the plan will obviously just cause the prices of homes to increase for everybody.

00:11:37.980 That's all that will happen.

00:11:39.740 Watch.

00:11:40.820 Look, when it comes to the $25,000, I mean,

00:11:43.020 you just added $25,000 into every price, into every home price in the country.

00:11:47.720 Because if you're giving that away essentially for free, people will add it into the price.

00:11:51.480 Now, one way to read all of this coverage is that the corporate press is trying to help the Kamala

00:11:56.520 Harris campaign. They know the campaign is making a huge, a potentially fatal, unforced error,

00:12:02.040 and they're trying to push them into moderating the message. On the Sunday shows, there were some

00:12:06.420 signs that the message maybe was received. Andy Beshear, a Harris campaign surrogate,

00:12:10.660 suggested that Kamala Harris just wants to break up monopolies, 0.98

00:12:13.820 even though we already have laws against that. But on the other hand, there are many more signs

00:12:19.080 that Democrats genuinely aren't concerned with appearing moderate anymore. They simply can't

00:12:24.060 help themselves. Like, normally the plan for Democrats has been to appear normal during the

00:12:28.880 election year and then enact their actual agenda once they're in office. But we're kind of skipping

00:12:33.300 that step this year and heading directly into complete unhinged insanity. The Venezuelan-style 1.00

00:12:38.460 price controls are just one component of that. Here's another one. Planned Parenthood has announced

00:12:43.720 that it'll be posted just blocks outside the convention center in Chicago in an RV giving out

00:12:51.060 free abortions and free vasectomies. And there was so much demand for the vasectomies that a waiting 0.92

00:12:57.560 list began almost immediately. The abortions are available Monday and Tuesday, and the vasectomies

00:13:04.160 are only available on Monday. That's the way that they're breaking this down. And just to underscore the

00:13:09.220 communist theme of the new Democratic Party, Planned Parenthood says that the services will be

00:13:13.620 provided, quote, on a sliding fee scale, pay what you can and get the health care you need.

00:13:19.980 They say that people from all over the country have signed up to travel to Chicago in order to

00:13:23.620 kill their children in this child-killing bus or get a vasectomy. And that's not hard to believe 0.99

00:13:30.080 based on what's happening outside the convention site. Last night, activists dressed as abortion pills

00:13:34.980 began to demonstrate. They showed up in costumes to look like abortion pills. And here's what

00:13:43.580 that looks like.

00:13:44.080 Okay. And I don't even know if we can get the screenshot out of the

00:14:13.560 I'm pretty sure that right in front of these women dressed as abortion pills, there's a big sign 0.98

00:14:20.820 that says Trump and J.D. Vance are weird. So just the irony is, I mean, irony is dead, basically.

00:14:29.980 You've got a march, rainbow flags, people dressed as abortion pills, and Trump and J.D. Vance are weird.

00:14:37.440 They're also saying, F the courts, F the state, you can't make us procreate, is what they're chanting.

00:14:43.400 Now, as I'm constantly needing to remind these people, you should understand that nobody is trying

00:14:50.860 to force you to procreate. No one would want to force that. Even if we could force you to procreate,

00:14:57.020 we wouldn't. The issue is that once you have conceived a child, procreation has already occurred.

00:15:04.740 So it's too late at that point to not procreate. You already have. The question is whether it's okay

00:15:12.800 to murder your own offspring because you're sad about the fact that you procreated. 0.78

00:15:17.700 And the answer is no, it's not okay. That's our point. But these activists, like so many activists 0.95

00:15:26.160 on the left, refuse to be told no. They can't accept it. They want you to know that nothing is

00:15:32.580 more important to them than the ability to kill their own children, not the judicial system or even

00:15:37.180 the country itself, hence the chant. Now, 20 years ago, Democratic Party leaders would have disavowed

00:15:44.100 this kind of language. They tell you that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare is what they used

00:15:49.640 to say. Because that's the slogan that tested well in focus groups at the time. They balk at the idea

00:15:55.200 of an abortion bus at their convention. But this year, Democrats are going to nominate Kamala Harris 0.93

00:16:01.420 and Tim Walls, who bragged that he's to the left of Nancy Pelosi on abortion. Watch.

00:16:07.600 And my record is so pro-choice, Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should tone it down. I stand with Planned 1.00

00:16:13.540 Parenthood, and we won't. So Tim Walls stands with Planned Parenthood so much that Nancy Pelosi

00:16:20.900 told him to tone it down. Now, what does that look like in practice? Well, we're seeing it right now

00:16:26.200 in D.C. or at the DNC and in D.C. We've also seen it from how Walls has governed Minnesota. Quoting

00:16:32.840 from the National Review, quote, data from the Minnesota Department of Health indicated that since

00:16:37.500 Governor Walls was inaugurated in 2019, eight babies survived abortion attempts in Minnesota. On five

00:16:43.180 occasions, no measures were taken to preserve life. On three occasions, only comfort care was provided.

00:16:50.540 Tragically, all of these babies died. Instead of strengthening protections for these children,

00:16:55.660 SF-2995, a Bill Walls signed last year, repealed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which was

00:17:01.860 intended to provide legal protection for infants who survived abortion. So just to reiterate,

00:17:07.260 these are infant children delivered, born outside the womb, who are either killed or left to die,

00:17:17.080 and leaving them to die is the same thing as killing them. Now, these kinds of positions used

00:17:26.020 to be disqualifying, even for Democrats. So they're not disqualifying anymore, which is why you're seeing

00:17:31.140 abortion buses showing up at the DNC. It's why you're seeing activists call for the destruction of the

00:17:36.580 United States because they want to kill their children. It's also why a group called Americans 1.00

00:17:40.860 for Contraception will erect an 18-foot inflatable IUD called Frida Womb outside the convention, which

00:17:48.060 you can see right here. And this will be the unofficial mascot of the DNC. I mean, they're literally making

00:17:54.200 an idol out of birth control. It is the modern Democrat version of the golden calf right outside the

00:17:59.700 convention hall. It's possible these activist groups are sending abortion-slash-sterilization buses

00:18:06.380 and IUD monuments to the convention because they think most voters are on their side.

00:18:10.920 You know, we're always told that abortion and reproductive rights, quote-unquote euphemism there,

00:18:15.520 are a liability for Republicans. Supposedly, these issues are an electoral slam dunk for Democrats,

00:18:22.100 especially after the Dobbs decision. But the reality is that most Americans still think that it's

00:18:28.320 freakish and bizarre to worship birth control, like some kind of pagan deity.

00:18:32.760 And very few Americans think that abortion should be given away like popsicles out of an ice cream 0.80

00:18:37.940 truck. Most people also don't think that every single meeting needs to be segregated by race, but

00:18:43.980 the DNC will begin with the following events at 9 a.m. You can see the list there. The Black Caucus

00:18:50.460 meeting, the Hispanic Caucus meeting, the AAPI Caucus meeting, the Date of American Caucus meeting,

00:18:56.260 and the Ethnic Council meeting. There's no white meeting there, needless to say. Democrats are

00:19:03.980 radically deranged on all of these issues. They can barely hide it most of the time. When a bunch of 0.97

00:19:09.820 them gather together, there's no hiding it. Somebody's bound to show up with a baby-killing van and a giant

00:19:15.540 IUD monument, or dressed up as an abortion pill, or something similar. For several years now,

00:19:23.400 Democrats have cultivated a party of activists who are both unhinged and entitled, who expect to be

00:19:28.060 coddled even as their demands become more detached from reality. And this week, as the Democrat National

00:19:34.160 Convention begins in a boarded-up Chicago, the entire country will be able to see that.

00:19:39.880 And if it wasn't dead in the water already, the honeymoon for Kamala Harris's candidacy

00:19:45.980 will officially be over. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:45.180 Okay, well, one other clip from the DNC that I wanted to play very quickly.

00:20:49.600 I'd be remiss if I didn't play this for you. In fact, I think I should do you the favor of playing it for you.

00:20:55.120 So, things got a little bit intense there at the beginning of the show.

00:21:00.100 And so, I think this is a nice opportunity for a little musical interlude.

00:21:04.420 And the protest at the DNC last night apparently ended with a great musical number.

00:21:11.640 And let's listen to that.

00:21:13.460 I'm going to tell you about this.

00:21:38.760 Okay.

00:22:06.280 Wow. Beautiful.

00:22:07.540 Beautiful, except for the fact that that guy clearly doesn't know how to play the banjo.

00:22:16.860 Like, at all. At all.

00:22:20.140 What kind of person pretends to play the banjo when they can't?

00:22:23.800 What kind of person pretends they know how to play the banjo when really they don't know how to play it?

00:22:28.520 What kind of person makes a big show of knowing how to play the banjo when really they have no idea at all?

00:22:35.940 I can't imagine what kind of person does that. 0.97

00:22:38.320 Only a horrible person. Only the worst kind of person would ever do that. Ever.

00:22:42.680 Other than that, I thought it was just a tremendous performance.

00:22:45.220 And they have the masks on and everything, which gives the vocals that kind of muffled sound, which is nice.

00:22:53.600 You've got the guy with the flute there, the guy with the, I don't know what that is, like a baby's rattler.

00:23:01.740 Wonderful stuff.

00:23:02.540 And I think we can expect many more scenes like this from the DNC convention as it continues.

00:23:09.500 And remember that if you're a conservative, you're the weird one.

00:23:14.740 Not the guy with a mask on playing the flute.

00:23:19.720 All right.

00:23:20.900 The Kamala campaign has been experimenting the last couple of days ever so gingerly, ever so cautiously with letting Kamala speak off script.

00:23:30.580 And it has not gone well.

00:23:33.120 So here she is in Pennsylvania, no prompter, no, doesn't appear to be any written speech.

00:23:39.500 And so she's kind of on her own trying to explain something.

00:23:45.880 And that's what our election is about.

00:23:50.260 Our 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.

00:23:59.340 As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy.

00:24:07.880 On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact.

00:24:13.640 What it does for its people to protect and defend their rights, their liberty, and their freedom.

00:24:22.920 Incredibly strong.

00:24:25.300 And incredibly fragile.

00:24:30.000 Now let's review the transcript here.

00:24:33.580 Our 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.

00:24:39.520 As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy.

00:24:42.300 On the one hand, incredible strength when it's intact.

00:24:45.760 What it does for its people to protect and defend their rights.

00:24:48.500 Incredibly strong.

00:24:50.380 And incredibly fragile.

00:24:52.140 Now before we get to the substance such as it is.

00:24:55.100 We have to say that Kamala, she could improve her public speaking skills by like 65.5% approximately. 1.00

00:25:01.580 If she simply cut out five words from every sentence.

00:25:05.780 So like this sentence.

00:25:08.440 Our 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.

00:25:17.020 Actually, there are a lot more than five words to lose there.

00:25:19.160 Because what you're trying to say, to the extent that you're trying to say anything at all,

00:25:22.180 what you're trying to say is that this election is about the importance of democracy.

00:25:27.080 So, just say that.

00:25:30.660 You can lose the words is about understanding.

00:25:34.500 And then also, this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe.

00:25:38.540 Lose all that.

00:25:39.600 And you're left with, this election is about the importance of democracy.

00:25:45.920 Just say that.

00:25:47.560 And then you're done that sentence.

00:25:49.020 Move on to the next one.

00:25:50.740 You finished this.

00:25:51.440 You conquered a sentence.

00:25:53.700 Well done.

00:25:54.520 Now you can move to the next one.

00:25:57.580 Why wouldn't you just do that?

00:25:58.580 Well, one of the reasons she doesn't do that is because she has no idea what she's going to say next when she starts.

00:26:03.500 When she's off script.

00:26:05.900 She doesn't.

00:26:06.660 While she's saying a sentence, she doesn't know what the next sentence is going to be.

00:26:12.340 She's like, I don't know.

00:26:14.120 It's like, imagine if a goldfish could speak.

00:26:16.980 And, you know, a goldfish is a memory that lasts about two seconds.

00:26:19.860 And so how would they be able to string together a coherent paragraph?

00:26:22.600 They can't because they don't remember.

00:26:24.240 They don't know what's coming next.

00:26:25.180 They don't remember what they just said.

00:26:26.680 And so she's a little bit like that. 0.83

00:26:28.140 And she has no idea what's coming next.

00:26:30.760 And so every sentence, she's just stalling.

00:26:33.080 She doesn't want the sentence to end.

00:26:34.520 She adds more words and words to it.

00:26:37.620 Terrified.

00:26:38.080 She's terrified of punctuation. 1.00

00:26:40.420 She doesn't want any kind of punctuation.

00:26:41.840 She wants to keep going.

00:26:43.080 So she doesn't have to go to the next sentence.

00:26:45.180 So I think that's what she's doing.

00:26:46.740 But this election is about the importance of democracy.

00:26:49.460 She could have just said that.

00:26:50.300 Now, don't get me wrong, that is barely a coherent thought in and of itself.

00:26:56.020 I mean, saying this election is about the importance of democracy, it's like saying that

00:27:00.520 if you go to the doctor and someone says, well, what are you going to the doctor for?

00:27:07.220 And you say, well, you know, going to the doctor, it's about the importance of medicine.

00:27:12.140 Now, in the broad sense, that's true.

00:27:13.960 But it's so broad that it doesn't need to be said.

00:27:16.640 It doesn't answer the question.

00:27:17.700 What matters are the specifics of the treatments that you need for whatever your specific ailment is that you're suffering from?

00:27:25.100 And it's the same thing with democracy.

00:27:26.540 The election is about, like, the election is, that's what democracy is.

00:27:31.640 So it can't be about itself.

00:27:32.980 Also, she says that democracy is strong, but also fragile, which makes no sense.

00:27:42.540 It can't be both.

00:27:43.580 Which is it, strong or fragile?

00:27:45.180 And that's an interesting question.

00:27:48.400 I mean, you could have a debate about which one of those is the correct answer.

00:27:51.960 And she says it's both.

00:27:56.320 It can't be both.

00:27:56.820 The thing cannot be strong and fragile at the same time.

00:27:58.900 She obviously thinks that it's very fragile.

00:28:01.420 And Democrats in general think that democracy is very fragile, which is why they think that, you know,

00:28:08.800 a bunch of people trespassing in the Capitol on January 6th were just inches away from destroying democracy completely.

00:28:17.560 It's why they think that Trump, electing Trump will be the end of democracy.

00:28:21.960 I mean, they see democracy as this incredibly fragile thing that is not able to withstand anything.

00:28:34.960 And if you make a wrong move, it'll be destroyed.

00:28:39.900 So that raises the question of, well, if democracy is really that fragile and that brittle and easily broken,

00:28:47.300 then, like, what's so great about it to begin with?

00:28:52.360 That's a question that you would ask.

00:28:55.640 But having Kamala speak off script is just one way of attempting to humanize her. 1.00

00:28:59.300 The campaign has rolled out another strategy to help humanize her in the last few days. 1.00

00:29:04.780 And this strategy involves Doritos.

00:29:07.360 So over the weekend, during a campaign stop, they staged this very odd performance where Kamala went to a gas station looking for Doritos.

00:29:16.260 And they had both her husband and Tim Walls find Doritos for her. 0.98

00:29:23.880 It's very weird.

00:29:25.180 Speaking of weird, here it is.

00:29:26.680 Doritos.

00:29:27.680 Doritos.

00:29:28.680 Doritos.

00:29:29.680 Doritos.

00:29:30.680 Doritos.

00:29:31.680 Doritos.

00:29:32.680 Doritos.

00:29:33.680 Doritos.

00:29:34.680 Doritos.

00:29:35.680 Doritos.

00:29:36.680 Doritos.

00:29:37.680 Oh, Dougie.

00:29:38.680 There they are.

00:29:39.680 Yeah.

00:29:40.680 Thank you.

00:29:41.680 I know you want this.

00:29:42.680 Do you see corn nuts over there, Tim?

00:29:49.680 Oh, yeah.

00:29:50.680 There you go.

00:29:52.680 Do you see corn nuts over there?

00:29:54.680 Now, well, she's just like us. 0.98

00:30:00.680 She eats Doritos. 0.58

00:30:01.680 She's just like us.

00:30:03.680 I think I'll vote for her because she eats Doritos. 1.00

00:30:06.680 That's all I needed, really.

00:30:08.680 That's what pushes me over the edge, personally.

00:30:13.680 Except that who the hell actually eats Doritos?

00:30:16.680 Like, I thought this whole time that Doritos were on sale as some kind of long-running gag.

00:30:21.680 Some kind of practical joke.

00:30:22.680 I thought they were just...

00:30:24.680 People actually buy those and eat them?

00:30:26.680 On purpose?

00:30:28.680 Doritos taste like crunchy vomit.

00:30:33.680 They taste like you scraped vomit off of the floor of the bathroom.

00:30:38.680 Like little vomit chips.

00:30:39.680 That's what they taste like.

00:30:42.680 And yet, they're so desperate to make Kamala seem human that they're putting her love for Doritos front and center.

00:30:47.680 Make sure the camera's around while she goes looking for Doritos. 0.99

00:30:50.680 And if you think I'm being too cynical by assuming that the Doritos thing was like staged and scripted, well, it's not just this.

00:30:57.680 Like, they're really leaning into Doritos as a thing for Kamala.

00:31:02.680 Here's Kyle Becker, a journalist on Twitter.

00:31:05.680 Here's what he posted.

00:31:06.680 He reports,

00:31:08.680 On Friday, a Harris campaign social media intern posted an awkward fundraising email that sprinkled Doritos throughout.

00:31:15.680 Quote,

00:31:16.680 Two things are true eight years later.

00:31:29.680 Then I went home and I sat on the couch with a family-sized bag of nacho Doritos.

00:31:33.680 I did not share one chip with anyone.

00:31:35.680 Not even Doug.

00:31:36.680 I just watched the TV with utter shock and dismay.

00:31:40.680 Two things are true eight years later.

00:31:42.680 I still love Doritos and we still have not stopped fighting.

00:31:46.680 So they're incorporating the Doritos thing into fundraising emails now.

00:31:50.680 I don't know.

00:31:51.680 Some, like they did some kind of internal polling and have been led to believe that Doritos, like that really, that really humanizes her.

00:32:00.680 So they're just making Doritos a thing.

00:32:02.680 We'll see if it, we'll see if it, if it works.

00:32:05.680 Maybe that's what will push her over the edge. 0.98

00:32:07.680 We'll see.

00:32:11.680 Here's Tim Walls.

00:32:12.680 This is another interesting clip.

00:32:15.680 Trying 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.

00:32:27.680 But it will also heal the rifts in your own family.

00:32:31.680 Somehow.

00:32:32.680 Let's find out how.

00:32:33.680 Some 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.

00:32:47.680 Not be on each other's necks.

00:32:49.680 Because you shared a commitment to democracy, a commitment to personal freedom, a commitment to public education, a commitment to infrastructure.

00:33:02.680 We don't call each other names.

00:33:04.680 We don't do it.

00:33:05.680 And we don't use the leech fortunate amongst us as punchlines for our jokes because they're our neighbors.

00:33:10.680 They're our neighbors.

00:33:11.680 And so you're getting an opportunity to see the best side of America.

00:33:16.680 And for the young people here, they maybe haven't seen a campaign like this because of COVID, because of things that's happening.

00:33:23.680 This is a chance to bring out that joy, turn the page and look to the future.

00:33:31.680 They haven't seen a campaign like this.

00:33:34.680 So then even the last campaign that Kamala Harris was a part of also wasn't this.

00:33:39.680 But, you know, yeah, I remember what Tim Walls was talking about.

00:33:45.680 I remember when my family would all sit around the Thanksgiving table talking about our commitment to infrastructure.

00:33:54.680 That's a normal thing that families discuss, isn't it?

00:33:58.680 You know, we would just sit around gabbing about infrastructure.

00:34:02.680 Infrastructure is really what brought us together.

00:34:04.680 It was the, you know, there's a thing that held the family.

00:34:07.680 It was the glue that bound us together as a family was our commitment to infrastructure, which is what Tim Walls just claimed.

00:34:16.680 Families used to be bonded by their commitment to infrastructure.

00:34:21.680 I mean, I'll never forget.

00:34:24.680 I think it was the Thanksgiving of 98 when I was a kid and we had a we had a six hour debate about what's the best bridge.

00:34:31.680 It was a big bridge debate.

00:34:34.680 And we debated bridges for hours and hours.

00:34:36.680 And you know something?

00:34:38.680 Tim is right.

00:34:39.680 The debate got a little bit intense because we take infrastructure really seriously, like all families do.

00:34:43.680 We didn't insult each other, though.

00:34:45.680 And we we remained respectful because we all knew that what really mattered was the infrastructure.

00:34:51.680 We always kept that in mind.

00:34:53.680 We wouldn't say or do anything that would bring disgrace or or or, you know, anything negative to infrastructure.

00:35:03.680 That's what our family was like.

00:35:04.680 And Tim Walls obviously understands the American family very well.

00:35:11.680 At least that's what we're supposed to think, I guess.

00:35:13.680 But of course, in reality, I have no idea what he's talking about.

00:35:16.680 I'm not sure what a commitment to infrastructure even means.

00:35:19.680 Like in your day to day life, what are you supposed to be doing to demonstrate your commitment to infrastructure?

00:35:27.680 I like infrastructure.

00:35:30.680 I'd rather have it than not have it.

00:35:33.680 Am I committed to it?

00:35:34.680 I.

00:35:36.680 I guess I don't know what am I.

00:35:38.680 I.

00:35:39.680 I drive over a bridge.

00:35:40.680 I drive on the road.

00:35:41.680 I like that it's there.

00:35:42.680 What am I supposed to be doing for it?

00:35:46.680 The same for democracy.

00:35:49.680 It says the average family is bound together by their commitment to democracy.

00:35:55.680 What does it mean for the average person on a daily basis to be committed to democracy?

00:35:59.680 Like, what does any of that mean?

00:36:02.680 And worst of all, Tim claims that until recently, families didn't argue about politics.

00:36:06.680 I, you know, all families are different.

00:36:11.680 My family has always argued about politics.

00:36:14.680 What else is there to talk about when the family comes together?

00:36:18.680 Okay, well, there's like three or four things to talk about when you're with your family.

00:36:23.680 And politics is on the list.

00:36:25.680 I don't think I'd ever want to go to a Thanksgiving where they don't talk about politics.

00:36:30.680 That sounds boring as hell.

00:36:32.680 But this is Tim Walls.

00:36:33.680 I mean, this is the best they can do for a relatable guy.

00:36:36.680 And he tells a story of family Thanksgiving that is just,

00:36:42.680 bears no resemblance to what anyone's Thanksgiving is actually like.

00:36:46.680 And all that leaving aside the fact that this is the same guy who, when he was governor of Minnesota,

00:36:53.680 banned families from getting together for Thanksgiving and set up a snitch line

00:36:58.680 so that if you found out that another family was getting together for Thanksgiving, you could report them to the police.

00:37:03.680 So, you know, that's how committed this guy is to making sure that people can have their Thanksgiving dinners together as a family.

00:37:10.680 All right, ABC News has this headline.

00:37:13.680 News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign.

00:37:18.680 They chose not to print it.

00:37:21.680 Article says,

00:37:22.680 At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign,

00:37:26.680 including its report vetting J.D. Vance as a vice presidential candidate.

00:37:31.680 So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what they received.

00:37:35.680 Instead, Politico, The New York Times, and The Washington Post have written about a potential hack of the campaign

00:37:40.680 and describe what they had in broad terms.

00:37:43.680 Their decision stands in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign

00:37:47.680 when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta.

00:37:53.680 The website WikiLeaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives,

00:37:56.680 and mainstream news organizations covered them avidly.

00:37:59.680 Politico wrote over the weekend about receiving emails starting July 22nd from a person identified as Robert

00:38:06.680 that included a 271-page campaign document about Vance and a partial vetting report on Senator Marco Rubio,

00:38:12.680 who was also considered as a potential vice president.

00:38:15.680 Both Politico and The Post said that two people had independently confirmed the documents were authentic.

00:38:22.680 But they're not going to publish them.

00:38:26.680 So, let me see if I can translate here what we're actually reading.

00:38:33.680 Somebody hacked the Trump campaign's emails.

00:38:36.680 They sent the emails to every major media outlet.

00:38:40.680 And none of them published it because nothing in the emails was damaging to Trump.

00:38:47.680 The emails were not embarrassing.

00:38:49.680 And if anything, they made him look good because they aren't embarrassing.

00:38:53.680 And so they didn't publish it.

00:38:55.680 Like, that's the story here.

00:38:56.680 That's what's actually going on.

00:38:58.680 I don't think I have to explain or, you know, defend the idea that

00:39:03.680 if there was anything remotely scandalous or embarrassing for Trump,

00:39:08.680 every news outlet would publish it immediately.

00:39:12.680 They would be fighting with each other to be the first to publish it.

00:39:15.680 Okay, there would be a piranha-feeding frenzy over this stuff

00:39:19.680 if there was anything remotely embarrassing in it.

00:39:23.680 But there wasn't.

00:39:25.680 Which is why they didn't publish it.

00:39:27.680 That's the actual reason.

00:39:30.680 It tells you something about J.D. Vance.

00:39:33.680 Right?

00:39:34.680 As much as we're told that J.D. Vance is weird and he's got this long, strange history.

00:39:40.680 Well, apparently the news media got their hands on a 200-plus page vetting report about J.D. Vance.

00:39:49.680 This is obviously an internal document, at least it was supposed to be,

00:39:53.680 that would lay out every bad, I mean, every negative aspect of J.D. Vance's life is in that document.

00:40:01.680 Because that's what a vetting document is meant to do.

00:40:03.680 I mean, that's the point of it, especially if you're about to select somebody as vice president.

00:40:07.680 So, this is 200 pages ripping his life apart.

00:40:13.680 And they didn't publish it.

00:40:16.680 Because in reality, there's nothing in it.

00:40:19.680 It's like, there's nothing in it.

00:40:21.680 It's just, all it would prove, if they were to publish that 200-plus page vetting report on J.D. Vance,

00:40:29.680 all they would prove is that J.D. Vance is an aggressively normal guy.

00:40:34.680 And I can guarantee you that all the rest of the emails were the same thing.

00:40:40.680 It just kind of proves that there's nothing scandalous happening behind the scenes in the Trump campaign.

00:40:47.680 As I've said many times before, you could make the argument, I think, very credibly at this point,

00:40:54.680 that Trump is the least corrupt president in the history of the country.

00:41:03.680 It's amazing how non-corrupt Trump actually is.

00:41:08.680 You kind of think that for any politician at a certain level, there's at least some element of corruption that sneaks in.

00:41:15.680 You would sort of assume that.

00:41:19.680 But for Trump, there's just nothing there.

00:41:22.680 And the way we know that is because they have torn his life apart.

00:41:28.680 They have looked for everything they can possibly find.

00:41:32.680 He's been hacked.

00:41:33.680 He's been subpoenaed.

00:41:34.680 He's been criminally prosecuted.

00:41:37.680 Everything.

00:41:39.680 They've spent the last almost 10 years now searching for every last morsel, anything they can find on this guy.

00:41:47.680 And every single time without fail.

00:41:50.680 When they claim that, oh, we finally got it.

00:41:52.680 We got the smoking gun.

00:41:54.680 Here it is. 1.00

00:41:55.680 Here's the proof that Donald Trump is a corrupt crook. 1.00

00:41:58.680 Every time they claim that and they present it to us, we look at it and everyone goes, oh, that's it? 1.00

00:42:04.680 Really?

00:42:05.680 That's it?

00:42:07.680 That's the best you got?

00:42:11.680 And it would, you know, they weren't going to make the same mistake again.

00:42:15.680 If this was four or five years ago and the media got that, got all those hacked emails, they would have published all of them.

00:42:22.680 They would have talked it up.

00:42:23.680 They would have said that they have proof that Trump is corrupt and all these things.

00:42:27.680 And then they would have published them.

00:42:30.680 And we would have all looked at it and said, that's it?

00:42:35.680 Really?

00:42:39.680 And I think they're starting to realize that now.

00:42:41.680 So instead they just let this go and aren't going to publish it.

00:42:45.680 So it's either that reason or they really are just, you know, they're really just trying to respect Donald Trump's privacy.

00:42:53.680 That could be the other reason.

00:42:56.680 All right, let's get to the comment section.

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00:44:30.680 Well, we're resurrecting the comment section, bringing the segment back from the dead.

00:44:34.680 This is the comment section 2.0, a totally revamped version, and it'll be exactly like the older version.

00:44:42.680 It's just that we're doing it now rather than before.

00:44:44.680 So everything else is exactly the same.

00:44:47.680 It's very exciting.

00:44:48.680 We'll start with some comments responding to the video that we posted on our YouTube channel on Saturday.

00:44:53.680 And that was the conversation we had about the Regretful Parents subreddit.

00:44:58.680 I'm not going to rehash that whole conversation.

00:45:00.680 You can go back and watch that video and see it.

00:45:02.680 This is a forum for parents who, as the name suggests, regret having kids.

00:45:07.680 And it's very dark, often quite vile and horrifying, the things that people post in this forum.

00:45:14.680 Many of these parents, not all of them, but many of them openly hate their own children, say so.

00:45:18.680 They say so in the forum.

00:45:21.680 And I gave my take on all that.

00:45:23.680 I gave my advice to these parents, which again, you can go watch that video and see it.

00:45:28.680 There was one theme that emerged in some of the comments that I wanted to respond to.

00:45:33.680 So let me read a few of these.

00:45:35.680 Jane says, why is it so hard for people to admit that parenthood just isn't for everyone?

00:45:40.680 Not everybody's cut out for it.

00:45:41.680 And the earlier you see that in yourself, the better.

00:45:44.680 Why force yourself to be a parent when the best you're capable of is mediocrity? 0.99

00:45:48.680 Spare the world another sh** parent and another unhappy child. 0.96

00:45:52.680 There are plenty of ways to contribute to society other than adding to its population. 0.96

00:45:55.680 Parenthood isn't the only selfless pursuit.

00:45:57.680 Find other ways to do good if raising another human isn't for you.

00:46:04.680 Barinello says, this is why I don't call people who don't want children selfish,

00:46:07.680 because we don't need those people being parents.

00:46:10.680 They likely never wanted kids, but went with it anyway.

00:46:13.680 If someone tells you I don't want kids, support that, full stop.

00:46:18.680 Arishi says, no, Matt.

00:46:20.680 People with that level of regret should not have children in the first place.

00:46:23.680 They're honest.

00:46:24.680 They don't fit a parent role.

00:46:26.680 Some people should stay away from procreation, and it's not a dig at them.

00:46:30.680 They're probably amazing people.

00:46:31.680 The world would be nicer and safer if we stopped forcing everyone to have kids. 1.00

00:46:36.680 If you don't feel like being a parent, you would probably suck being one. 0.99

00:46:41.680 Don't bother. 0.99

00:46:42.680 Don't bother.

00:46:43.680 Okay.

00:46:44.680 So, a couple things.

00:46:46.680 Number one, many of the people that I addressed in that segment are definitely not amazing people.

00:46:52.680 Okay?

00:46:53.680 If you are saying that you hate your five-year-old daughter, for example, you're not an amazing person. 0.95

00:47:00.680 You're a bad person. 0.99

00:47:01.680 You're a very bad person, actually. 1.00

00:47:03.680 And now, you don't have to stay a bad person forever, but you are right now.

00:47:08.680 And so, these are not amazing people.

00:47:10.680 That's the first thing.

00:47:12.680 Second, nobody is forcing anyone to be a parent.

00:47:15.680 I think we just went over this.

00:47:17.680 I don't want to force you to procreate. 0.98

00:47:19.680 I don't want to force you to be a parent.

00:47:21.680 I've never advocated that.

00:47:22.680 So, there's no force here.

00:47:23.680 Okay?

00:47:24.680 But, I do promote parenthood and family life as a positive good.

00:47:29.680 Because it is.

00:47:32.680 And it's not as simple as saying, well, if someone says they don't want kids, then they

00:47:35.680 shouldn't have kids and, you know, they'll be unhappy when they have kids. 1.00

00:47:38.680 That's just not true in so many cases.

00:47:40.680 It wasn't true.

00:47:41.680 It was not true in my case.

00:47:43.680 When I was in my early 20s, I didn't want kids.

00:47:46.680 Now, I wasn't married at the time, but I didn't, you know, I hadn't ruled out the idea

00:47:55.680 completely at that point, but I didn't, when I was 23, 24 years old, I didn't have any,

00:48:00.680 like, real deep-seated desire to be a father.

00:48:06.680 And even when I got married, I, you know, I knew we were going to be open to life and

00:48:11.680 I knew that we would have kids, but I didn't, when I first got married, I didn't, I felt

00:48:16.680 a lot of things about the possibility of being a father.

00:48:19.680 And, you know, it was a lot of trepidation and fear and all that kind of stuff.

00:48:22.680 It's all very normal.

00:48:24.680 And then I had kids and it's, it's the greatest thing I've done in my life.

00:48:29.680 It's a source of great joy and fulfillment and purpose and all that stuff.

00:48:33.680 So, my point is that just because someone says they don't want kids or they don't think

00:48:38.680 that they'd make a good parent, that's like, everyone thinks that.

00:48:41.680 I mean, everyone at some point thinks that, especially before they have kids.

00:48:45.680 And so if we're going to say that all those people shouldn't then have kids, well then,

00:48:48.680 I guess we're, what, embracing the extinction of the human race?

00:48:51.680 Because that means that nobody would have them.

00:48:54.680 And finally, I have a real problem with hearing these stories about regretful parents and concluding

00:49:00.680 that the lesson here is that some people aren't meant to be parents.

00:49:06.680 And my problem with it is that it's a total cop-out.

00:49:10.680 It's a total cop-out. 1.00

00:49:12.680 You are giving these people an excuse to be unbelievably selfish, miserable assholes to their kids. 1.00

00:49:19.680 You're giving them an excuse. 1.00

00:49:21.680 You're saying, oh, well, you weren't meant to be a parent.

00:49:23.680 It's like if you lived in a neighborhood and you were an over-the-top, obnoxious neighbor to everybody in your community,

00:49:34.680 like making the community miserable, doing everything possible to be unpleasant and awful to everybody around you,

00:49:41.680 and then somebody called you on it and you said, hey, man, I'm just not cut out to be a neighbor.

00:49:46.680 Not everyone's cut out to be a neighbor, man.

00:49:48.680 I'm just not meant for it.

00:49:50.680 Now, I get that being a neighbor and being a parent are two very different things.

00:49:54.680 But the analogy is the same.

00:49:56.680 It's like, no, you're perfectly capable.

00:49:59.680 There are billions of people on the planet who live in neighborhoods and they're not a-holes to those around them.

00:50:04.680 There's no reason why you can't be the same.

00:50:07.680 Billions of people have been parents and have succeeded, basically, in parenting their kids.

00:50:15.680 And what, you weren't meant?

00:50:18.680 Oh, no, I'm just not meant for it.

00:50:19.680 No, I'm just not.

00:50:20.680 No, that is such a cop-out.

00:50:23.680 And when you say that, if you say that, one of these parents who's confessing to having these feelings about their kids,

00:50:32.680 what are they supposed to do with that information?

00:50:34.680 Oh, I guess I just wasn't meant for this.

00:50:36.680 So then what?

00:50:37.680 What next?

00:50:38.680 What you're basically telling them is that it can't be improved.

00:50:42.680 The situation can't be improved.

00:50:44.680 They can never change their own attitude.

00:50:47.680 They can never be a good parent because they just weren't meant to do this.

00:50:52.680 It's total nonsense.

00:50:53.680 What do you mean meant?

00:50:55.680 Like, what do you mean not meant?

00:50:56.680 Well, what does that mean?

00:50:58.680 It wasn't written in the stars for them to be parents?

00:51:01.680 They weren't destined for it?

00:51:03.680 Well, apparently they were.

00:51:06.680 Look, even, I mean, some of these parents, there are like lizards and birds that are better parents than some of these people.

00:51:17.680 And you think that can't be helped?

00:51:19.680 They can't change that?

00:51:21.680 We can't expect you to at least be a better parent than like a Komodo dragon would be?

00:51:26.680 Total cop out.

00:51:28.680 I don't buy it.

00:51:29.680 Sorry.

00:51:30.680 I mean, the reality is, look, the truth is most people are meant to be parents.

00:51:38.680 How do I know that?

00:51:39.680 That's nature.

00:51:41.680 That's biology.

00:51:43.680 Almost everyone on the planet is biologically wired to have kids.

00:51:50.680 Almost everyone, not everyone, almost everyone.

00:51:54.680 So that's nature.

00:51:57.680 So when you have this weren't meant to be parents thing, what are you basing that on?

00:52:04.680 Because no matter how you look at it, from a spiritual perspective or a scientific perspective, your position still makes no sense.

00:52:13.680 From a spiritual perspective, I think God, clearly, if God gives you a child, then you were meant to be a parent.

00:52:21.680 And from a biological, scientific perspective, same thing.

00:52:25.680 I mean, from a purely scientific perspective, there is no meant to or meant not to.

00:52:30.680 Like, what does nature do? Nature decides.

00:52:33.680 And nature says that most of us are, in fact, meant to be parents.

00:52:39.680 So that's why I don't like that claim.

00:52:41.680 And again, but more importantly, that's an awful thing to say to these particular parents.

00:52:48.680 Awful for their kids.

00:52:51.680 Because what does a parent do with that?

00:52:54.680 No, the message should be, you're a parent.

00:52:58.680 You're obviously meant to be a parent because you are one.

00:53:03.680 And you are perfectly capable of being a good parent.

00:53:08.680 Billions of people have done this.

00:53:11.680 Animals do it.

00:53:13.680 You can do it. 1.00

00:53:15.680 It's just that right now you don't want to because you're being a selfish asshole. 1.00

00:53:20.680 And all you're doing is thinking about, you're being a childish, selfish asshole. 1.00

00:53:24.680 All you're doing is thinking about yourself. 1.00

00:53:26.680 I don't want to do this.

00:53:27.680 It's not fun.

00:53:28.680 I'd rather do...

00:53:31.680 You are capable of overcoming that.

00:53:34.680 And if you're not overcoming, it's because you don't want to.

00:53:38.680 Being 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.

00:53:51.680 And although it's a challenge and it's very hard in many ways, it is that, but it's also very simple.

00:54:03.680 It's actually much simpler than we make it out to be.

00:54:08.680 And if you just are not totally obsessed with yourself and your own wants and desires every second of the freaking day, okay?

00:54:18.680 If 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.

00:54:31.680 If 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.

00:54:46.680 It'll be okay.

00:54:47.680 You'll still make mistakes.

00:54:49.680 You're going to make mistakes.

00:54:50.680 There's going to be things that your kids get mad at you for.

00:54:52.680 Your kid still might end up in therapy later in life, blaming you for this or that.

00:54:56.680 That might happen regardless.

00:54:58.680 But if you have those things going for you and you are choosing to love your child.

00:55:08.680 Now for most people that the choice part of it is not that difficult.

00:55:12.680 It shouldn't be like choosing to love my kids.

00:55:16.680 That's not a hard choice.

00:55:17.680 I very much I'm full of love for them all the time.

00:55:21.680 But if you're one of these parents and you are emotionally having difficulty making that connection.

00:55:27.680 Well, I'm sorry about that.

00:55:29.680 But love is still a choice.

00:55:31.680 It's an act.

00:55:32.680 It's a thing we do.

00:55:34.680 And so if you love your child, actually, actually love your child. 0.99

00:55:41.680 And can get outside, can pull your head out of your own ass for at least a part of the day every day. 0.99

00:55:48.680 Get in the habit of it. 0.99

00:55:49.680 It'll work out okay.

00:55:51.680 And yeah, I think everyone is capable of that.

00:55:55.680 I really do.

00:55:56.680 And if you say that you're not, you're just giving yourself an excuse.

00:56:00.680 Over the weekend, we got word from theaters nationwide that Am I Racist advanced tickets are selling fast.

00:56:05.680 But we're also hearing from people in cities across the country telling us their theater is not carrying Am I Racist yet.

00:56:11.680 Well, if you haven't grabbed your advanced tickets yet, you need to do that by heading to amiracist.com right now.

00:56:17.680 I'm not exaggerating when I say that every single ticket sold today determines how many theaters will show this film on September 13th.

00:56:23.680 Remember how we expose the left's gender ideology madness and what is a woman? 1.00

00:56:27.680 Well, I've gone even deeper this time.

00:56:30.680 I infiltrated the absurd world of DEI.

00:56:32.680 Trust me.

00:56:33.680 What I uncovered will have you laughing and fuming at the same time.

00:56:36.680 The initial response has been incredible.

00:56:38.680 We can't slow down now.

00:56:39.680 Go to amiracist.com and get your advanced tickets now.

00:56:43.680 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:56:44.680 On Friday, I shared a sneak peek of my new film, Am I Racist?

00:56:56.680 Tickets are on sale right now at amiracist.com.

00:56:58.680 In 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. 0.60

00:57:06.680 What is white grief?

00:57:07.680 Well, as someone who attended the workshop for more than an hour, I still don't know exactly.

00:57:11.680 As best I could tell, it's the kind of grief that white people feel because of their privilege.

00:57:16.680 We have white privilege, according to the doctrines of DEI anyway.

00:57:19.680 And our recognition of our privilege might cause us grief.

00:57:22.680 That's the basic idea.

00:57:23.680 The film is all about my journey into anti-racism.

00:57:26.680 You know, a deeply personal journey, one where I must face myself and my whiteness and ask the titular question. 0.60

00:57:34.680 So it made sense to begin a journey like that at a group like this.

00:57:37.680 As I shared on Friday, the session began quite well, in my opinion.

00:57:41.680 I opened up.

00:57:42.680 I shared my feelings.

00:57:43.680 You'll see all that in the film.

00:57:45.680 Eventually, I become quite emotional.

00:57:46.680 I have to leave the room to go weep in the pre-designated cry rooms.

00:57:50.680 White people are not allowed to cry openly, thereby burdening people of color with their white tears. 0.99

00:57:54.680 That's one of the rules. 0.97

00:57:56.680 And I obeyed the rules.

00:57:58.680 Went to the cry room to cry.

00:58:00.680 But when I came back, the group had figured out who I was.

00:58:03.680 And at that point, I was kicked out.

00:58:05.680 That's the part that you see in the clip that I shared on Friday.

00:58:09.680 I'm not going to play the full clip again here, but just for context, for the rest of this,

00:58:12.680 here's the part, at least where I was identified by the people in the room.

00:58:16.680 Here it is.

00:58:17.680 I know that my physical safety and yours and everybody else's here is okay.

00:58:22.680 Why would your physical safety not be okay?

00:58:25.680 Did I miss something?

00:58:30.680 I don't feel comfortable.

00:58:32.680 What?

00:58:33.680 Can you guys catch me up to speed on what's going on here?

00:58:35.680 You don't need to be caught up.

00:58:36.680 We're going to be silent.

00:58:38.680 Is it because I said I had 17 black friends?

00:58:41.680 It might have been 15.

00:58:42.680 It depends on how you count them.

00:58:44.680 I would really appreciate it if you left so that the people who actually want to be here and deserve to be here can get what they need.

00:58:52.680 I do want to be here.

00:58:53.680 Can you please leave?

00:58:54.680 I would like it if you left.

00:58:55.680 I'm trying to learn.

00:58:56.680 I'm on this journey.

00:58:57.680 Come with me.

00:58:58.680 Come with me.

00:58:59.680 Thank you.

00:59:00.680 Well, I didn't consent to be touched.

00:59:03.680 I'm not offering to touch you.

00:59:05.680 I'm offering to walk you out.

00:59:06.680 Will you walk with me and I'll answer your questions?

00:59:08.680 Okay.

00:59:09.680 I'll admit it.

00:59:10.680 I'll admit it.

00:59:11.680 My name's not Steven.

00:59:13.680 Maybe you already knew that.

00:59:15.680 My name is Matt Walsh.

00:59:17.680 We know.

00:59:19.680 Okay.

00:59:20.680 So then they kicked me out.

00:59:22.680 You can also see in the clip a few moments later that the police were called.

00:59:26.680 And I wasn't there when the police showed up.

00:59:28.680 I had already absconded and fled the state, a fugitive on the run.

00:59:32.680 But since I wasn't there, I have wondered what exactly these people told the police when the police showed up.

00:59:39.680 I hadn't broken any laws.

00:59:40.680 I hadn't assaulted or threatened anyone.

00:59:42.680 So what would they say to the police?

00:59:44.680 How would they convince the cops to come find me and arrest me?

00:59:47.680 Like what could they, on what charge?

00:59:49.680 That's been my question ever since that day.

00:59:51.680 And you might be wondering the same.

00:59:52.680 Well, now we know.

00:59:54.680 Because on Sunday, Libs of TikTok released the police report that was filed after this incident.

00:59:59.680 And it is just as delightful as you might expect.

01:00:02.680 Maybe even more so.

01:00:03.680 The names are redacted, of course, but here's a choice passage.

01:00:06.680 Quote,

01:00:08.680 The participant told me that she even considered along with the rabbi ways that they could use a chair to break a window to escape.

01:00:15.680 She said that she felt unsafe because her exit appeared to be blocked by members of the production crew and Walsh.

01:00:22.680 Now, for the record, nobody was blocked from leaving at any point.

01:00:29.680 It would have been entirely unnecessary to use a chair to break a window and escape.

01:00:34.680 There was a door right there.

01:00:36.680 Like just walk out the door.

01:00:38.680 And 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.

01:00:48.680 This came out like in the 70s.

01:00:49.680 He rips a sink out of the wall and busts through a window to escape.

01:00:53.680 Except in that case, they were involuntarily committed into a mental hospital.

01:00:56.680 Now, the people in this group, the one in the clip may, you might argue, have certain similarities to the patients in an insane asylum.

01:01:05.680 But the point is that they could have left at any time.

01:01:09.680 Breaking the window would not be necessary.

01:01:11.680 And would be a pretty clumsy way of escaping anyway.

01:01:14.680 Like most likely you'd have to bang the window multiple times with your chair before it breaks.

01:01:19.680 And that just seems like a kind of a slow and inefficient way to get out.

01:01:23.680 Most of all, it's a massive overreaction.

01:01:26.680 Well, we'll return to that point in a moment.

01:01:29.680 But first, let's continue reading a little bit.

01:01:31.680 It says, quote,

01:01:33.680 The participant described Walsh as extreme and that he has radical shows.

01:01:37.680 She said that when she mentioned Walsh to the Ramapo officers, one officer said that he was familiar and that he has a show.

01:01:43.680 She told me that that was concerning.

01:01:46.680 And when I explained that there could be a number of reasons that an officer knows who Walsh may be,

01:01:51.680 She didn't believe that to be the case and said the officer is a fan and that she cannot control what the officer does in his own time.

01:01:58.680 Now, just her luck, I guess.

01:02:00.680 She calls the cops and the cop is a member of the Sweet Baby Gang. 0.99

01:02:03.680 We're everywhere.

01:02:04.680 You cannot escape us.

01:02:06.680 Even with a chair through the window.

01:02:10.680 Actually, there's no indication that the cop actually is a fan.

01:02:13.680 All he apparently said is that he knows who I am.

01:02:16.680 Now, 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.

01:02:24.680 In fact, my experience in that room says that that probably isn't always the case.

01:02:28.680 But 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.

01:02:39.680 This 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.

01:02:50.680 These 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.

01:03:00.680 They say that we should consult with social workers and mental health professionals and therapists for many of these situations.

01:03:07.680 So why did anybody call a social worker?

01:03:10.680 Why not a mental health professional?

01:03:13.680 I was just in the cry room bawling my eyes out for God's sake.

01:03:18.680 I could have used a therapist.

01:03:20.680 Instead, they go right to calling the cops, which really tells you something.

01:03:25.680 Now, I suppose they'd say that they had to call the cops in this case because, as the police report indicated, I made them feel unsafe.

01:03:32.680 But how so?

01:03:34.680 What did I do to cause those feelings?

01:03:37.680 Again, I didn't threaten anyone.

01:03:38.680 I didn't assault anyone.

01:03:40.680 I didn't even raise my voice at any point.

01:03:43.680 So how am I a threat to their safety?

01:03:45.680 I asked that question when I was in the room with them and couldn't get an answer.

01:03:50.680 That's because the answer is something they'll never actually say out loud.

01:03:53.680 In fact, they might not even know the answer.

01:03:55.680 They likely don't understand their own feelings.

01:03:57.680 So I'll answer it for them.

01:04:00.680 My presence is a threat to them because they don't like me.

01:04:04.680 And they don't like the way that I challenge their worldview.

01:04:07.680 And this causes uncomfortable feelings.

01:04:09.680 And they draw no distinction between their feelings and their physical being.

01:04:14.680 So to harm them emotionally is to harm them actually.

01:04:17.680 It is to harm them physically.

01:04:19.680 They are how they feel.

01:04:21.680 They are their emotional states.

01:04:23.680 This is how the leftist mind works.

01:04:26.680 And we saw it on full display there.

01:04:29.680 And you'll see much more of it in all of its disturbing hilarity if you watch my movie, Am I Racist?

01:04:35.680 Which you can buy tickets for by going to amiracist.com.

01:04:38.680 In the meantime, as unsafe as it may make them feel, I must say that the people who called the cops on me that day are today canceled.

01:04:48.680 That'll do it for the show today.

01:04:49.680 Thanks for watching.

01:04:50.680 Thanks for listening.

01:04:51.680 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:04:52.680 Have a great day.

01:04:53.680 Godspeed.

01:04:54.680 This is quite a holistic biology in Argentina.

01:04:55.680 Let's go.

01:04:57.680 Bye-bye.

01:04:58.680 And that's-

01:04:59.680 Oh. 0.99

01:05:00.680 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.99

01:05:03.680 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.98

01:05:05.680 Never really seemed to matter that much.

01:05:06.680 At least not to me.

01:05:08.680 Am I racist?

01:05:09.680 I would really appreciate it if you love.

01:05:11.340 I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey.

01:05:13.180 I'm gonna sort this out.

01:05:14.560 I need to go deeper undercover.

01:05:19.180 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

01:05:22.560 Here's my certification.

01:05:23.560 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

01:05:26.440 This is more for you than this for you.

01:05:27.560 Is America inherently racist?

01:05:29.060 The word inherent is challenging there.

01:05:30.960 I want to rename the George Washington Monument

01:05:32.640 to the George Floyd Monument. 0.88

01:05:34.100 America is racist to its bones. 0.63

01:05:35.880 So inherently. 0.99

01:05:36.840 Yeah, this country is a piece of... 1.00

01:05:39.680 White folks, trash, white supremacy, white woman, white boy. 1.00

01:05:43.520 Is there a black person around? 1.00

01:05:44.680 There's a black person right here.

01:05:46.060 Does he not exist?

01:05:47.060 They don't say I'm racist.

01:05:48.560 Hi, Robin.

01:05:49.560 Hi. What's your name?

01:05:50.560 I'm Matt.

01:05:51.560 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

01:05:53.560 Never be too careful.

01:05:54.560 They gon' say you racist.

01:05:55.560 Buy your tickets now in theaters September 13th, rated PG-13.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 19, 2024

Ep. 1425 - The DNC Just Started And It's Already INSANE

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