The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1437 - Brazil Bans Free Speech in the Name of Democracy. Are We Next？

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Brazil has essentially abolished free speech in its country as it shuts down X to prevent people from criticizing the government.

00:00:06.860 You'd think the defenders of quote-unquote democracy in this country would condemn that sort of thing, but instead they're cheering it on.

00:00:12.900 Also, Tim Walsh's own family apparently isn't excited about the prospect of him being in the White House.

00:00:17.860 A new report suggests that our phones really are eavesdropping on us,

00:00:20.880 and a rash of TikTok influencers have been groveling and apologizing recently for allegedly racist tweets from years ago.

00:00:27.220 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:24.540 One of the main lines of attack against Jair Bolsonaro, who served as president of Brazil until 2022,

00:02:31.780 was one that we're all very familiar with at this point.

00:02:34.000 Liberals claimed that Bolsonaro was an enemy of democracy, quote, unquote.

00:02:38.780 Media outlets, both in the United States and Brazil, claimed that Bolsonaro was an autocrat

00:02:43.140 who wanted to suspend the rule of law and use the force of government to punish his political enemies.

00:02:48.380 And this message resonated with Brazilians because some very prominent figures promoted it,

00:02:52.500 including a former prosecutor-turned-supreme-court judge named Alexandre de Moraes.

00:02:57.980 And among the Brazilian left, de Moraes was something of a hero for taking on Bolsonaro.

00:03:03.820 Most notably, the judge presided over a tribunal that banned Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years.

00:03:10.460 Why was that?

00:03:11.600 Well, Bolsonaro allegedly spread lies about voting machines, quote, unquote,

00:03:16.240 which supposedly inspired a mob to ransack Congress, the presidential palace, and other government buildings.

00:03:20.600 It was basically Brazil's January 6th.

00:03:22.320 So in the name of protecting democracy, the judge prevented people from voting for Bolsonaro for the better part of a decade.

00:03:29.100 He did to Bolsonaro exactly what the left wanted to do to Donald Trump, but failed.

00:03:32.880 So what are the defenders of democracy up to in Brazil just two years later?

00:03:37.820 How are these crusaders for democratic norms faring in 2024?

00:03:42.220 Well, as you may have heard, de Moraes just issued maybe the single most undemocratic and authoritarian court decision

00:03:48.160 in the modern history of Brazil.

00:03:50.760 He has unilaterally ordered a total ban on Elon Musk's social media platform, X.

00:03:56.020 Nobody in Brazil, a country where more than 20 million people used X, is legally allowed to use the platform anymore.

00:04:02.940 Anybody caught using a VPN to bypass this restriction can be fined roughly $9,000 per day,

00:04:08.300 which is about six times the average Brazilian's monthly salary.

00:04:12.040 Additionally, de Moraes has fined X more than $3 million as well.

00:04:15.920 He's also frozen the assets of Elon Musk's company Starlink, which provides internet access to hundreds of thousands of Brazilians living in remote areas.

00:04:23.980 The point was to compel Starlink, an independent internet provider, to ban X as well.

00:04:29.060 And on top of that, the Brazilian court system is now pressuring SpaceX, even though they have nothing, obviously, to do with X.

00:04:37.320 So SpaceX now has to pull employees out of Brazil.

00:04:41.360 The judge has gone to war with X for a very simple reason.

00:04:44.280 The company refused to block certain accounts that, in the eyes of the Brazilian government, harmed democratic institutions in Brazil.

00:04:50.920 And then, X refused to appoint an in-person local legal representative in Brazil because the judge had threatened to arrest the representative to extract concessions from X.

00:05:00.020 So, in order to protect democratic institutions, quote-unquote, supposedly,

00:05:04.780 tens of millions of Brazilians can no longer access the single most popular news app in the country.

00:05:10.140 They've turned to the corporate press to learn what they're allowed to hear.

00:05:13.540 Only approved narratives are allowed in Brazil right now.

00:05:16.320 Now, for Elon Musk, the showdown in Brazil is obviously a major test.

00:05:20.900 He's long maintained that he'll obey the laws of whatever countries his companies are operating in.

00:05:27.360 But he maintains that Brazil's judges are violating Brazil's constitution, which isn't exactly a hard case to make at this point.

00:05:34.560 This week, The Economist took a closer look at the judge who issued this order against X and Starlink.

00:05:39.840 And here's what they found, quote,

00:05:41.200 So, Mr. Morais also has form.

00:05:44.580 He is a man who likes and understands power.

00:05:47.040 He has extensive contacts in the federal police, military, and intelligence services.

00:05:51.040 Other decisions have made the court look authoritarian.

00:05:53.980 In 2019, Mr. Morais was put in charge of investigating misinformation about the Supreme Court and threats against the court's members and their relatives.

00:06:01.440 These had spiked after the election of Mr. Bolsonaro.

00:06:04.360 The fake news inquiry was contentious from the start.

00:06:06.820 So, this is a violation of one of the most basic principles of every functioning legal system, which is that courts are only supposed to resolve legal disputes that are brought to them.

00:06:35.080 That is their one and only job.

00:06:37.700 Some party, whether it's a citizen or the government or some other entity, needs to bring a case to the courts.

00:06:42.980 And then the courts rule on the case that's brought to them.

00:06:45.960 Once the courts have the authority to generate cases on their own and make up arbitrary rules to enforce, then they're not really courts anymore.

00:06:54.760 Instead of judges, you have de facto dictators.

00:06:57.400 And that's what's happening right now to Elon Musk and his companies in Brazil.

00:07:00.280 Now, you'd hope that an incident like this would trigger immediate condemnations from the State Department in this country.

00:07:06.940 After all, the Biden administration claims to care very deeply about democracy.

00:07:10.740 It's essentially all they really talk about now.

00:07:13.660 But there's been no condemnation for the mainstream left in this country.

00:07:16.460 In fact, if you listen to the corporate press, you'll find a handful of reports essentially blaming Elon Musk for objecting to what the courts in Brazil are doing.

00:07:22.700 Here, for example, is the BBC, which for some reason is pretending that Taylor Lorenz, who openly hates Elon Musk, is an impartial expert on this topic.

00:07:32.480 Watch.

00:07:33.940 Technology columnist for The Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz, explains how this ruling came about.

00:07:40.620 This has been a months long battle.

00:07:43.000 It basically stems from Elon refusing to take down content related to Brazil's attempted insurrection back in 2022.

00:07:52.980 And then he was ordered to have a lawyer.

00:07:56.020 You have to, under Brazilian law, have a legal representative in the country.

00:08:00.000 He was given 24 hours to appoint a legal representative in the country or the platform would be banned.

00:08:04.860 He refused to do that.

00:08:06.180 So he's kind of on this, had this sort of a showdown.

00:08:10.260 He could have prevented this ban, and he chose not to.

00:08:14.580 He could have prevented the ban, but he chose not to, she says.

00:08:17.900 Notice how the Brazilian government, which just shut down an entire social media app for millions of people, has no agency in Taylor Lorenz's analysis.

00:08:26.660 A private company refused to do the bidding of the Brazilian government, and therefore it's the private company's fault that they got shut down.

00:08:33.760 That's how Taylor Lorenz, who works for The Washington Post, is selling this decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court.

00:08:38.660 It's how the BBC is presenting the news.

00:08:41.660 It's not hard to see what's going on here.

00:08:43.400 Brazil is the template for mass censorship in the United States.

00:08:48.580 And if they can pull it off in Brazil, they're going to try to pull it off here.

00:08:51.560 That's why the corporate press is presenting Elon Musk as the villain in this scenario.

00:08:55.460 The media has a vested interest in shutting down X because it's one of their biggest competitors.

00:09:00.840 Random posts on X get more viewers than CNN's entire primetime lineup.

00:09:06.480 So in order to lay the groundwork for shutting down X in this country, they're saying that Elon Musk basically had it coming in Brazil.

00:09:16.400 And it's not just the media that's trying to send this message.

00:09:19.480 Senior figures in the Democrat Party are doing it too.

00:09:21.620 For example, Keith Ellison is the attorney general of the state of Minnesota.

00:09:27.020 He's the chief legal officer of a major state.

00:09:29.860 He's also closely aligned with Kamala Harris's campaign.

00:09:32.140 He just spoke at the DNC a few weeks ago as well.

00:09:34.600 And here's what Keith Ellison says about what's happening to Elon Musk's companies in Brazil.

00:09:40.040 He says, quote,

00:09:40.920 Again, Keith Ellison is not some backbench politician from a no-name congressional district.

00:09:50.540 He's the chief law officer of Minnesota.

00:09:52.640 And he's endorsing the total shutdown of a major social media platform because it wouldn't censor the political opponents of the government. 0.84

00:10:01.760 Politicians like Keith Ellison crave censorship because they're corrupt.

00:10:06.700 They only care about power and they're willing to lie in order to get it.

00:10:09.960 Remember what Keith Ellison did during the George Floyd riots.

00:10:12.360 Ellison's office hid body cam footage showing that George Floyd said,

00:10:15.980 I can't breathe several times while he was struggling with cops in the backseat of the police cruiser long before he was on the ground with a knee near his neck.

00:10:25.140 It was obviously irrelevant information because it suggested that Floyd was having a fatal overdose and that he couldn't breathe because he had taken a lethal quantity of fentanyl.

00:10:31.820 So Keith Ellison's office suppressed the footage.

00:10:35.680 Democrats like Keith Ellison want total control of social media platforms like SX so they can suppress information like that even more often and even more easily.

00:10:45.980 They want to be able to shut down any information or opinions that contradict their preferred narrative.

00:10:51.300 And that's why they're thrilled with what's happening in Brazil.

00:10:55.100 It's also why they have no problem with what the Biden administration is doing to Tulsi Gabbard right now.

00:10:59.660 Gabbard has emerged as one of the most effective critics of the modern Democrat Party.

00:11:03.300 She has what no prominent Democrat has, which is integrity.

00:11:05.880 She was on the fast track to be a senior official in the Democrat Party, even serving as vice chair of the DNC.

00:11:11.440 But she threw all that away because she wanted to follow her principles, particularly concerning foreign affairs, instead of seeking power. 0.94

00:11:16.960 So Tulsi Gabbard can't be controlled by party elites.

00:11:21.440 And what's their solution to that?

00:11:23.320 Well, they put her on a terror watch list.

00:11:25.560 Watch.

00:11:25.900 Now, my own government has placed me on a secret terror watch list, targeting me as a potential domestic terror threat.

00:11:35.900 Why?

00:11:37.020 Political retaliation.

00:11:39.220 I spoke out about how dangerous Kamala Harris would be to our nation if she were to be elected as president and why the American people should be very concerned.

00:11:48.160 Now, just before boarding a flight on July 23rd, my husband and I were pulled aside for additional TSA screening.

00:11:55.560 Our electronics were swabbed for traces of explosives.

00:11:58.880 And when we landed, my husband was pulled aside for another round of additional screening.

00:12:04.000 On the next several flights that we took, our boarding passes were marked with the Quad S.

00:12:09.220 And we were subjected to in-depth searches by the TSA every single time, each time taking 30 to 45 minutes.

00:12:16.540 Every inch of our body patted down.

00:12:18.640 On August 4th, Federal Air Marshal whistleblowers came forward with very disturbing information.

00:12:24.120 They revealed that I had been added to a secret terror watch list run by the TSA called Quiet Skies on July 23rd.

00:12:32.900 This is the very same day my husband and I began to be subjected to those in-depth TSA searches.

00:12:39.140 Now, in a sane country, this would be leading every nightly newscast in the United States.

00:12:48.380 I mean, there's no reason for a political figure like Tulsi Gabbard to be placed on any kind of terror watch list, obviously,

00:12:56.280 or to receive 30 minutes of extra screening every time she tries to fly.

00:12:59.680 The only conceivable explanation is that this is a federal program intended to harass and intimidate her because she's not following the party line. 0.99

00:13:09.460 So they call her a terrorist for that reason.

00:13:12.640 But she's able to speak freely about what's happening to her on X, at least for now.

00:13:17.120 That's the platform where Tulsi Gabbard posted the video I just showed you.

00:13:19.800 It's where she and many other political dissidents in many other countries can speak their minds for the most part. 0.97

00:13:27.020 At the very least, it's a freer platform than any of the alternatives.

00:13:30.120 And that's why the government in both this country and Brazil wants to shut X down.

00:13:34.140 It's also why France is trying to shut Telegram down and jail its founder.

00:13:37.960 We're in the middle of a historic war on the freedom of speech in countries where it would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

00:13:43.560 If they're allowed to succeed in places like Brazil and France, it's not going to be long until they try the same thing here.

00:13:51.240 Our constitution isn't going to protect us if the people in charge just decide to ignore it.

00:13:57.000 Brazil and France have constitutions that supposedly protect the freedom of speech.

00:14:01.320 And we see how that's working out.

00:14:03.740 The only solution is to do exactly what Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard are doing,

00:14:07.000 which is to respond to censorship and intimidation with more speech.

00:14:09.960 Call out what they're doing.

00:14:11.000 And in November, do everything you can to prevent these tyrants from seizing any more power than they already have.

00:14:19.540 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:12.420 Here's a story from the Postmillennial.

00:15:14.020 The Washington State Department of Health has released a taxpayer-funded report claiming white people didn't care that people of color were dying during the pandemic.

00:15:24.340 A document that provided no sources to back up the outrageous claim.

00:15:28.000 The DOH posted a chorus of COVID voices from the front lines on X claiming the Insight report would help us all reflect on lessons learned during the pandemic.

00:15:40.440 Funding for the report was provided in part through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

00:15:44.600 According to the report, sometimes white people disengaged on safety when they learned people of color needed help.

00:15:51.360 However, the document provided no sources to substantiate the claim or any others made throughout the report.

00:15:56.900 Ironically, after making the racist and divisive claim, the report added,

00:15:59.740 Don't foster divisions in our community.

00:16:01.400 It collectively costs us human lives.

00:16:04.000 Cover of the report included images of protesters who rallied in large groups during the pandemic despite the stay-at-home orders.

00:16:09.820 The report demanded that the DOH use COVID as an opportunity to invest in youth of color and incarcerated youth by celebrating their gifts in ways that don't stigmatize or typify them when society fails them.

00:16:26.860 So I wanted to start with this from the Postmillennial because this is what, and there are a million examples of this that pop up every day.

00:16:33.440 This is just the latest, but this is what the anti-racist grift is all about.

00:16:36.860 It's part of what we're trying to expose in our film, Am I Racist, premiering September 13th.

00:16:42.220 Get tickets at amiracist.com.

00:16:44.780 What they do is they just invent, they fabricate out of thin air some form of prejudice and then tell you that you as a white person,

00:16:54.900 if you are a white person watching this, that you are a perpetrator of this prejudice, no matter what you think of the matter.

00:17:02.860 And you might protest, you might say, well, wait a minute, that's not true. 0.99

00:17:07.440 You know, I care when black people die. 1.00

00:17:09.220 What are you talking about? 0.99

00:17:10.220 That's, I care just as much as, I don't want people to die at all.

00:17:14.120 I don't care what race they are. 1.00

00:17:16.620 And you might say that, but they'll say, no, no, you don't care. 0.99

00:17:20.340 See, or you don't care as much as you care when white people die. 0.59

00:17:23.500 And they, the anti-racist experts, they will tell you what you really think and what you really feel. 0.78

00:17:30.600 And they'll tell you what's in your head.

00:17:33.620 This is so much of the grift.

00:17:34.960 This is what it consists of.

00:17:36.240 It's one of the things that jumped out at me the most making the film and talking to these people, being in the room with them,

00:17:42.640 this insistence that they can read our minds, that they can tell us what we're thinking.

00:17:49.280 And the thoughts that they try to put in our minds, that they project onto us, are often just incredibly absurd.

00:17:58.040 I remember we talked to one woman who doesn't appear in the film because it's only 90 minutes and you have to cut a lot of stuff out, unfortunately.

00:18:05.280 There's like a five-hour cut of this film that we could put out there.

00:18:07.680 But anyway, we talked to some DEI consultant.

00:18:11.600 Kate Slater, the woman you saw in the clip yesterday, ended up basically taking her place in the movie. 0.79

00:18:19.440 And we kind of interviewed a few people for that slot, that first interview slot.

00:18:26.360 But anyway, with this woman, I had kind of an extended back and forth on this very point.

00:18:32.260 Because she was going on and on about unconscious bias, the racism and prejudice that lives in your unconscious mind.

00:18:43.620 She had a whole system that she invented explaining your unconscious mind to you. 0.98

00:18:52.440 And I kept trying to get her to explain how could she be in a position to tell me what I'm thinking.

00:18:58.080 And she couldn't.

00:19:01.920 But this is also the whole point of the unconscious bias idea.

00:19:08.520 That's really one of the most insidious innovations to come out of the anti-racist grift.

00:19:15.680 What is this idea of unconscious bias?

00:19:19.600 Which is what this report is rooted in. 0.97

00:19:22.920 That, well, if you're white, you don't care when black people are dying in a pandemic or whatever. 0.86

00:19:30.540 What they would say, because, again, if you protest that, if you say, well, that's not true, what do you mean? 0.97

00:19:35.380 They say, well, it's unconscious.

00:19:36.900 You don't realize that it's happening.

00:19:41.480 Because it's in your mind, but it's unconscious.

00:19:44.080 And then, well, it's like, okay, so if you're telling me there are thoughts in my head that I'm not thinking, which is already a bit of a problem.

00:19:51.540 Like, how does that work?

00:19:53.580 But there are thoughts in my head that I'm not aware of, yet you're aware of them?

00:19:56.500 You know, how could you have access to those thoughts if I don't have access to them?

00:20:04.180 These people really, they kind of try to play the role of, like, psychics or fortune tellers.

00:20:11.180 That's really what it is.

00:20:13.700 Okay, the Postmillennial also has this.

00:20:15.000 Relatives of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris's running mate Tim Walls appeared to be all in for GOP candidate Donald Trump with a photo showing members of the family posing in Trump shirts.

00:20:25.280 The photo, posted to X by former Nebraska GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles W. Herbster, showed eight people posing for a photograph in front of a flag that read Trump 2024, take America back.

00:20:36.360 Each of the family members sported a shirt that read Nebraska Walls' for Trump.

00:20:42.800 Herbster wrote, Tim Walls' family back in Nebraska wants you to know something.

00:20:46.320 Speaking with the Daily Mail, a representative for Herbster said that the people in the photograph are related to the Minnesota governor through his grandfather's brother.

00:20:56.480 And this comes as Tim Walls' brother, Jeff, who lives in Florida, has spoken out on Facebook against his brother being in the White House.

00:21:03.580 He said, quote,

00:21:04.040 He added that he hasn't spoken to his brother in eight years.

00:21:13.760 When asked whether he would support the MAGA movement and endorse Trump, Jeff Walls said, quote,

00:21:19.500 I've thought hard about doing something like that.

00:21:21.520 I'm torn between that and just keeping my family out of it.

00:21:24.300 The stories I could tell, not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.

00:21:30.720 Speaking about his brother.

00:21:33.020 So look, I'm going to, I'll say this.

00:21:35.700 And I know that I'm being, I'm a big softy on this one.

00:21:40.540 I'm a big lib.

00:21:41.560 I'm a total lib on this one.

00:21:43.560 Because I've seen a lot of conservatives sharing this.

00:21:45.620 It's like Tim Walls' brother comes out against him.

00:21:48.240 Other family members came out.

00:21:50.400 And a lot of conservatives are, you know, delighted by that and saying,

00:21:54.480 well, what does it tell you about this guy that his own brother doesn't want him to be vice president?

00:22:00.440 And I understand that point.

00:22:01.880 I understand that point.

00:22:03.060 But I got to say, I just, I don't, I don't like to see Tim Walls' family coming out against him.

00:22:10.020 I don't like it when family members do this, no matter who they're attacking, no matter what the politics are.

00:22:15.460 I said this when RFK Jr.'s family, you know, all of his siblings came out and denounced him.

00:22:20.540 And I said the same thing.

00:22:21.620 And I feel the same way with Tim Walls.

00:22:22.900 Now, don't get me wrong.

00:22:24.420 I think that Tim Walls is a bad guy. 0.95

00:22:27.480 I think he's a total creep. 0.99

00:22:29.400 I think he's awful. 0.99

00:22:30.300 I think he'll be a terrible vice president. 1.00

00:22:34.320 I think he's a terrible person. 0.84

00:22:36.860 So no question about that.

00:22:39.500 Like, there's, it would be hard for you to criticize Tim Walls in terms that I would disagree with.

00:22:47.300 Or that I would think are too harsh.

00:22:48.840 But you don't attack your family.

00:22:53.360 You don't take sides against the family.

00:22:55.280 I'm with Michael Corleone on this one.

00:22:57.360 You don't take sides against the family.

00:22:59.460 Your family.

00:23:00.360 You just don't do it. 0.74

00:23:01.500 Even if your brother is, or family member, is a creepy leftist, is a weirdo communist, you still don't.

00:23:10.680 You just never do.

00:23:13.620 I'll say, if my brother, you know, I have a brother.

00:23:18.260 I have five siblings.

00:23:21.020 One brother.

00:23:21.600 So, if my brother went insane, and this is inconceivable really, but if he went like insane and became a crazy leftist and ran for office and somehow made it high up in the ranks of the Democrat Party, I would never say a word criticizing him on this show or any other platform. 0.66

00:23:40.260 Not a single word. 0.59

00:23:42.940 You know, he's, not one time.

00:23:44.960 I wouldn't condone what he's saying.

00:23:47.620 I wouldn't defend it.

00:23:49.920 I wouldn't suddenly become a leftist myself, because he is.

00:23:53.560 But I wouldn't attack him or denounce him, because that's family.

00:23:57.440 And you don't do that to family.

00:23:58.980 Not publicly. 1.00

00:24:00.740 Now, in private, I'd be telling him that he's full of shit, and he's an idiot, and he's got to stop it. 1.00

00:24:05.700 I'd tell him that privately. 1.00

00:24:06.840 Absolutely.

00:24:08.360 But not in public.

00:24:09.840 You just don't do that in public to family.

00:24:13.200 And I've always said this.

00:24:14.120 This is one of the reasons why, if you think back to the Cuomos, you know, the scandal, supposed scandal with Chris Cuomo on CNN, where, you know, he got in trouble for, like, playing favorites with his brother and not, you know, not being critical of his brother and all of that.

00:24:37.940 And, you know, Andrew Cuomo.

00:24:40.380 And I said at the time, Andrew Cuomo, terrible governor, terrible person, responsible for the deaths of, like, tens of thousands of people, awful, awful stuff.

00:24:52.260 But, and Chris Cuomo, I can't say I'm a big fan.

00:24:55.360 But on that, I get it.

00:24:59.000 It's like, it's your brother.

00:25:00.020 You're not, what are you going to go on publicly and denounce your own brother?

00:25:03.080 Who does that?

00:25:04.600 You don't do that.

00:25:06.860 So, I just don't like to see this.

00:25:09.440 I really, I hate to see it.

00:25:11.120 I really do.

00:25:15.120 Here's an interesting report from the Daily Mail.

00:25:18.600 Millions of people have long suspected it, but now a leak suggests that our phones really are listening to us.

00:25:24.900 An apparent pitch deck from one of Facebook's alleged marketing partners appears to detail how the firm eavesdrops on users' conversations to create targeted ads.

00:25:34.800 In a slideshow, Cox Media Group claims that its active listening software uses AI to collect and analyze real-time intent data by listening to what you say through your phone, laptop, or home assistant microphone.

00:25:52.300 Advertisers can pair this voice data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers, the deck states.

00:25:57.440 Pitch deck goes on to tout Facebook, Google, and Amazon as clients of CMG, suggesting they could be using its active listening service to target users.

00:26:07.480 The pitch deck was leaked to reporters at 404 Media that showcased the capabilities of active listening software to prospective customers.

00:26:15.040 Since the story broke, Google removed the media group from their partner's program website.

00:26:18.780 In an emailed statement to DailyMail.com, a Meta spokesperson said,

00:26:23.920 Meta does not use your phone's microphone for ads, and we've been public about this for years.

00:26:28.260 We're reaching out to CMG to get them to clarify that their program is not based on Meta data.

00:26:35.000 Amazon, rather, responded to 404 Media by stating that its ads has never worked with CMG on this program and has no plans to do so.

00:26:43.400 The spokesperson added that if one of its marketing partners violates its rules, the company will take action, leaving the status of Amazon's relationship with CMG somewhat unclear.

00:26:53.020 The slideshow details the six-step process that CMG's active listening software uses to collect consumers' voice data through seemingly any microphone-equipped device, including your smartphone, laptop, or home assistant.

00:27:04.420 It's unclear from the slideshow whether the active listening software is eavesdropping constantly or only at specific times when the phone mic is activated, such as during a call.

00:27:14.540 So, it's still not clear this program.

00:27:22.740 Is it when you're talking on the phone, it's listening to what you're saying, or is it just listening all the time when you have your phone on you?

00:27:28.200 It's, either way, terrifying.

00:27:32.220 Doesn't surprise me that our phones are listening to us.

00:27:34.940 It's been evident for a long time.

00:27:36.600 It's horrifying.

00:27:37.280 It's infuriating.

00:27:37.960 It's not surprising.

00:27:39.740 And yet, I think that in the majority of cases, I still think that in the majority of cases, when your phone presents an advertisement to you that seems like it's reading your mind or listening to your conversations, right?

00:27:52.640 Because, like, you were just talking about whatever, and then you go on your phone and you see an ad for it.

00:27:56.840 We've all been through that a million times.

00:27:59.540 And then you think, oh, it must be listening to me.

00:28:01.160 Well, it's clear that, like, sometimes that has been happening.

00:28:04.400 But I think in many cases that that's not the case.

00:28:07.280 I think in many cases, when it serves up an ad where it seems like it was reading your mind or listening to you, it wasn't actually listening.

00:28:15.780 What's actually happening in so many cases, I think, is so much worse than that.

00:28:22.540 Because the truth is that the algorithms are predictive.

00:28:28.060 And they predict what you want to see.

00:28:31.260 They predict which products, which ads will be relevant to you.

00:28:35.320 And they predict with great accuracy most of the time.

00:28:38.540 And that's not because they're always listening to you, although, again, apparently that is happening also.

00:28:48.980 But they don't even need to most of the time because they're tracking everything you do or say, post, click on, search for, look at on the Internet.

00:29:00.420 And they're tracking all of that.

00:29:02.400 And that we know for sure they're doing.

00:29:05.160 They track all of that.

00:29:06.220 That algorithms come up with a model, a predictive model, so that they can serve you advertisements and monetize you, monetize your existence, basically.

00:29:17.060 And so there may be some actual eavesdropping going on.

00:29:20.700 But to me, the far more terrifying thing is that they can serve you some ad about something you were just talking about without listening.

00:29:31.480 That they can predict, basically, that you would be talking about this thing because the algorithms have tracked and categorized and cataloged you and have known so much about you based on tracking everything, you know, all of your movements on the Internet.

00:29:49.760 That the algorithms have become that intrusive and that sort of accurate and they've pegged you to that extent.

00:29:59.820 So I guess what I'm saying is that even if we get to a point where we can be sure the phones aren't listening, we still have not solved the problem, I suppose.

00:30:14.540 All right.

00:30:14.860 John Cena got some attention this week on Shannon Sharpe's podcast talking about why he doesn't want kids.

00:30:21.360 And this is a kind of a longer conversation.

00:30:24.560 We'll listen to about a minute of it to get the thrust of his of his point.

00:30:28.640 Here it is.

00:30:30.120 You didn't want kids. 0.96

00:30:31.660 Where are you on kids now?

00:30:32.980 I don't want you don't know.

00:30:34.920 I'm still there.

00:30:35.640 I'm 47.

00:30:36.620 I don't have them.

00:30:38.500 You don't want a little Johnny.

00:30:40.200 So.

00:30:41.820 Or Joanna.

00:30:45.540 That's that's great.

00:30:46.800 And that's usually what what everyone says.

00:30:49.020 And I got to tell you, it's it's it's not the easiest out there because, you know, a lot of why we're here is to reproduce.

00:30:57.160 I have a certain curiosity about life.

00:30:59.760 And I also know I also know the investment that it takes.

00:31:05.040 And my biggest fear is as someone who's driven many times stubborn and selfish.

00:31:10.820 I try to approach the world with kindness and curiosity.

00:31:13.240 But I I don't think I'm personally ready, nor will I ever be to invest the time.

00:31:19.440 It needs to be a great parent because I want to I want to live life for all it is.

00:31:25.240 And I still have a lot to do.

00:31:28.120 So we've, of course, heard many celebrities talk about this.

00:31:34.760 Subject, I will say that John Cena.

00:31:37.380 Does a better job of explaining his decision to not have kids than, say, Chelsea Handler does.

00:31:44.220 Very, very low bar to get over, but he does at least get over that bar.

00:31:47.900 And he's not obnoxious or aggressive about it.

00:31:50.060 So I can respect that he's not out there pushing the idea that you shouldn't have kids.

00:31:55.020 He's not really promoting or glorifying it.

00:31:59.280 He didn't bring this up.

00:32:00.960 You know, Shannon Sharp brought it up.

00:32:02.120 He answered the question.

00:32:03.720 And so I don't have any real beef with John Cena on this point.

00:32:07.640 But since they discussed the subject, I do want to respond to the point that he made.

00:32:14.220 And he says he's not going to have kids because he wants to live life for all it is.

00:32:21.280 And he still has a lot to do.

00:32:23.460 Right.

00:32:23.640 That's his that's basically basically his point.

00:32:28.620 Well, I have to say, just for any any younger people listening to this and who may be fine

00:32:32.940 that John Cena's logic resonates with them.

00:32:35.720 You should know that you can still live life for all it is and do all that you want to do

00:32:41.220 and all that you need to do and have a family.

00:32:43.680 You can do all of that.

00:32:45.440 In fact, I would say that having a family is very much a part of living life for all it is.

00:32:51.080 And it's even greater motivation to go out and do all that you need to do and want to do.

00:32:55.940 Now, John Cena is obviously successful in his field.

00:33:03.340 But the mistake that many younger men will make and women, but he's a man.

00:33:08.620 And I think it's more likely that men are going to listen to him and follow his example.

00:33:11.780 So the mistake that many younger men will make is to think that, well, in order to be successful,

00:33:19.180 that, you know, they have to follow this model of not having kids.

00:33:23.580 And I hear this all the time.

00:33:25.260 Yes.

00:33:25.460 This is a very common misconception that you encounter.

00:33:32.020 But here's the thing.

00:33:33.660 For every childless man who became successful, I could show you 100 men with children who became successful.

00:33:40.420 And in many cases, those successful men may not have become as successful as they did had they never started families.

00:33:50.020 That's the truth in many of these cases.

00:33:57.840 I know you've heard me say this many times, but in my case, before I had kids, I was stuck, you know, basically kind of treading water as a young man, as many young men do.

00:34:09.860 And are right now, but, you know, when I was still single, I was just kind of like dreaming of the success I wanted to have in the future, but not seeing any real clear path to it.

00:34:21.400 And I think lacking the ambition to pursue it in any kind of, in the way that it needed to be pursued.

00:34:34.960 It wasn't until I got married and had kids that I began to really move towards those goals.

00:34:38.920 And now, does that mean that if I never got married and had kids that I never would have found any success in life?

00:34:47.700 Well, it's impossible to say, you know, that's a whole different life.

00:34:50.960 That I could have lived, and it's impossible to say what that would have been.

00:34:54.760 But I think most likely, the answer is, yes, there would have been a lot less success if I hadn't gotten married and had kids.

00:35:03.520 Because that's been my, it's like my motivating, it's been my primary motivating force for the last 13 years.

00:35:11.680 And for me, certainly, it was much more motivating than any kind of motivation I had prior to that.

00:35:21.720 Because the problem is, when it's just you, and you're alone, yeah, you want to be able to take care of yourself, you want to live a good life for yourself, fine.

00:35:36.200 But that's just not enough for most people.

00:35:39.720 And especially, I think especially as a man, because the truth is, like, if it's just me, I don't, you know, I can, I can get by, I don't need much.

00:35:49.240 I can get by pretty low maintenance.

00:35:52.880 When you have a family to care for, then you start caring about those things a lot more.

00:36:00.760 And I think that's the case for a lot of men.

00:36:03.840 So you don't have to choose.

00:36:07.100 All right, finally, Mary Sue, the website Mary Sue, themarysue.com, kind of a feminist news site, I guess, has this headline. 0.99

00:36:15.680 Again, Am I Racist movie, Matt Walsh answers his own question in the title.

00:36:23.020 The article is written by Rachel Leishman. 0.96

00:36:25.980 She writes, the Daily Wire hosts are getting even more ridiculous with their antics.

00:36:31.300 Bad Matt Walsh, not to be confused with the comedian, a.k.a. good Matt Walsh, has a movie that looks as redundant as its title. 0.74

00:36:38.520 The movie is called Am I Racist?

00:36:40.620 It's Matt Walsh, so dot, dot, dot, yes.

00:36:43.660 Side note, how is the title Am I Racist Redundant?

00:36:49.200 Like, I don't want to get into semantics here, Rachel, but do you know what the word redundant means?

00:36:53.880 Am I racist is a question.

00:36:55.360 It's three words long.

00:36:57.700 There's not a lot of redundancy here.

00:36:59.740 I'm not sure you understand what these words mean, but, you know, we won't belabor that point.

00:37:05.920 She continues, sadly, if you watch the trailer for this movie, you'll be disappointed to learn that it isn't someone making fun of Matt Walsh.

00:37:11.800 No, instead, it's the actual bad Matt Walsh thinking he's unpacking what being racist means by mocking the liberal ideology that we should unlearn racism.

00:37:20.740 Can we get the good Matt Walsh making a movie, making fun of the bad one, please?

00:37:25.380 I second that, by the way.

00:37:26.600 I think that would be amazing.

00:37:28.300 If the other Matt Walsh wanted to make a movie attacking me, phenomenal idea.

00:37:33.920 I'll be in that movie.

00:37:34.980 I'll, you know, I'll accept a role in that film.

00:37:39.760 I'll do it unpaid, even.

00:37:44.380 I'll play the villain.

00:37:45.460 I'll play myself as the villain in the Matt Walsh versus Matt Walsh film.

00:37:49.760 I think it's a great idea.

00:37:50.680 I think we should do that.

00:37:54.880 She continues,

00:37:55.660 The point he's seemingly trying to make is that the people who are labeled racist do not think about race as often as the people applying the label might think.

00:38:06.840 Actually, that is kind of the point.

00:38:08.580 You got it, Rachel.

00:38:09.780 That's the point.

00:38:10.660 You got it.

00:38:12.180 I'm surprised.

00:38:13.000 I'm surprised you got it.

00:38:14.760 But she has the point, and then she proceeds to lose it.

00:38:17.440 She says, he goes about proving this point by asking people about being racist, which kind of negates the entire conceit of this movie.

00:38:26.520 What?

00:38:27.940 The title is Am I Racist?

00:38:30.180 So how do...

00:38:31.780 The title is Am I Racist?

00:38:33.860 And so I'm asking people about racism.

00:38:35.860 How does that negate the conceit of the movie?

00:38:38.580 That is the conceit.

00:38:39.600 What are you talking about?

00:38:40.780 That's like if you watch the movie Gladiator, and you see gladiators fighting, and you say,

00:38:49.780 There's gladiators fighting in the movie Gladiator.

00:38:52.920 That negates the conceit of the movie.

00:38:56.400 No, that is...

00:38:58.000 What do you mean?

00:38:59.000 It's the opposite of that.

00:39:00.220 It is the conceit.

00:39:02.140 Maybe you don't know what conceit means or negates.

00:39:05.540 So, Rachel, you're throwing a lot of words around that you don't seem to know what they mean.

00:39:08.040 But, you know, I guess you're using the thesaurus while you're writing this, but you might want to use a dictionary, too.

00:39:18.800 She says,

00:39:20.100 Of course racists don't think they're being racist.

00:39:22.220 The point most people who are actively trying to promote anti-racist texts slash ideals are making is that these people are ignorant of their own racism, and they don't care to change it.

00:39:31.280 Walsh is basically proving that through this absurd documentary.

00:39:34.060 But he's too lost in his own racism to recognize that.

00:39:36.740 The logline for the movie is as follows.

00:39:39.220 Daily Wire host and filmmaker Matt Walsh transforms himself into a certified diversity, equity, and inclusion expert, only to uncover a world where profit, not principle, drives the agenda. 0.98

00:39:46.600 So, I guess that what Walsh is attempting to do is show how inclusive spaces don't love when a white man rolls in and demands they answer his asinine questions.

00:39:56.500 I don't understand what the point of this movie is outside of Walsh and his little cronies at the Daily Wire laughing that people who are actively trying to be better people. 0.93

00:40:06.460 The writing here is so bad.

00:40:07.740 I can barely read it.

00:40:08.860 This is really bad writing.

00:40:10.060 He's going into anti-racist spaces and mocking them.

00:40:15.800 So, yes, he is racist.

00:40:18.020 The whole movie is telling.

00:40:19.940 Not only does this comedy not even have a funny trailer, but it's also long for a fake documentary at an hour and 41 minutes.

00:40:26.880 Dude, this is not a movie.

00:40:28.240 This is torture.

00:40:29.900 Okay.

00:40:29.980 By the way, an hour and 41 minutes is pretty short, especially by, I mean, 90 minutes is like where you want to land.

00:40:36.140 Hour 41 is where we ended up pretty, these days especially, when you've got Marvel movies that are like six and a half hours long, pretty short.

00:40:46.720 What I love about this is that it reads like a review of the film.

00:40:49.780 A very poorly written review, very poorly written, but except the author hasn't watched the film because it's not out yet.

00:40:57.460 And we haven't, we did not send the Mary Sue a screener for the film.

00:41:00.300 We will.

00:41:01.300 I'm happy to.

00:41:01.980 In fact, we should.

00:41:02.580 We should send, let's do that.

00:41:03.740 I'll send, I'll send them a screener so they can see it and complain about it even more.

00:41:08.980 All I can say, Rachel, is that if you're offended by the trailer and just the concept or the conceit of the film, how little you understand it, just wait until you see the movie.

00:41:18.900 It gets so much worse.

00:41:20.280 I promise you that.

00:41:21.620 It's so much worse than you think.

00:41:23.920 That's my, that's what I can tell you.

00:41:26.620 I do want to address one thing she says, though.

00:41:28.500 She says, the point most people who are actively trying to promote anti-racist tech slash ideals are making is that these people are ignorant of their own racism and they don't care to change it.

00:41:38.980 Again, a very poorly constructed sentence, difficult to understand.

00:41:43.860 But from what I can interpret of it, it does go right back to what we talked about a minute ago, that these people think they can read your mind.

00:41:53.400 Right?

00:41:54.800 Well, guess what, Rachel?

00:41:56.200 And I'm going to really scandalize you here.

00:41:58.360 I'm going to shock your sensibilities.

00:42:00.880 But here's the truth.

00:42:02.600 If somebody doesn't think they're racist, then they aren't racist.

00:42:08.980 It really is as simple as that.

00:42:10.000 If you don't think you're racist, you're not.

00:42:12.460 So if you're wondering if you're racist, well, I don't know.

00:42:14.960 Do you think you are?

00:42:16.520 Oh, you don't?

00:42:17.260 Oh, well, then you're not.

00:42:18.660 That's it.

00:42:19.200 Now, sure, a person could say they aren't racist and be racist.

00:42:23.300 People can lie about things, obviously.

00:42:26.320 But if you truly, genuinely, in your heart and mind, don't think you're racist, then you're not.

00:42:33.140 Because racism is a state of mind.

00:42:35.260 It's a thing that you think.

00:42:37.820 Right?

00:42:38.000 It's what it is.

00:42:38.860 Racism is a thought process.

00:42:40.280 And if you don't have that thought process, then you're not racist, by definition.

00:42:47.600 So this idea that, well, they're ignorant of their own racism.

00:42:51.220 They can't be. 0.89

00:42:52.220 If they're ignorant of it, then it's not there.

00:42:56.100 Okay? 0.85

00:42:57.180 It's like saying that this person thinks that they don't like vanilla ice cream, but only because they're ignorant of the fact that they do like vanilla ice cream.

00:43:10.560 Like, it doesn't matter.

00:43:11.180 What do you mean?

00:43:13.460 The only person who could speak to what kind of ice cream they like is this person.

00:43:16.520 And they've already told you.

00:43:17.840 And, like, if you think you don't like it, if you've tried it and you think you don't like it, well, then you don't like it.

00:43:23.840 Like, that's it.

00:43:24.340 That's the definition of not liking it.

00:43:26.780 We can't really dissect it any more than that.

00:43:31.420 And that's the way it goes with any kind of mental process or preference that you might have or whatever.

00:43:39.380 And so if you think you aren't racist, then you're not.

00:43:45.400 And, yeah, it is that simple, Rachel.

00:43:47.520 But we'll get you a screener out so you can see the whole movie and be quite a bit more triggered by it than you already are.

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00:44:55.400 You may have noticed that I made headlines during the DNC because I walked right into their circus

00:44:59.800 and exposed just how gullible and desperate the left really is.

00:45:02.940 I handed out cards for Project2025.com to a bunch of clueless liberals.

00:45:07.560 These people, thinking they'd uncovered some conservative master plan, couldn't wait to spread it around.

00:45:13.060 My personal favorite moment was when I got Don Lemon himself to promote the Project2025.com website on camera.

00:45:19.620 Imagine that, the left's favorite mouthpiece unwittingly advertising for my new movie, Am I Racist?

00:45:23.880 Well, it's in theater September 13th.

00:45:26.020 That's eight days from now.

00:45:27.640 Get your tickets.

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00:45:32.920 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:34.360 Well, you know, I may be a certified DEI instructor now, and I may have a new movie coming out called Am I Racist?

00:45:46.600 But even given my vast and impressive expertise in the field of anti-racism and equity, I have to admit that there are still some trends in the space that can escape my notice.

00:45:57.800 After all, no one man can possibly keep track of all the new and varied developments in anti-racism, even somebody as qualified as myself.

00:46:04.420 So it was with some surprise that I saw this tweet the other day from my friend Brett Cooper here at The Daily Wire.

00:46:10.640 And she wrote, quote,

00:46:12.060 Now I had to do a little digging into this, and that's when I came across this story from USA Today.

00:46:38.740 Here's a headline, quote,

00:46:40.440 Now, Alex Earle, if you're not familiar, and I certainly wasn't, is apparently a breakout social media star who became famous for posting videos about her life as a college student at the University of Miami.

00:46:58.580 Why? Why that's interesting to anybody? Like, that's who, why would it, it sounds like the least interesting, her life as a college student at the University of Miami.

00:47:08.580 Who cares? What? Why would anyone want to see that? But anyway, people did, and so she's a breakout star.

00:47:15.480 Here's how the article describes her crimes against humanity.

00:47:18.080 Quote,

00:47:18.160 So, earlier this week, the popular podcaster broke her silence on screenshots from when she was 13 that show her using a racial slur, which have been circulating online.

00:47:27.320 Earl, unless it's supposed to be early, I don't know, it's E-A-R-L-E. I assume the E is silent.

00:47:33.700 Confirmed the screenshots were real and apologized for her word choices as a teen.

00:47:37.540 The screenshots were shared as far back as two years ago, but started gaining traction earlier this month.

00:47:41.620 Earl said that she received advice to not address the issue and accept her responsibility for not speaking out until now.

00:47:48.160 So, a woman who's now 23 years old has been badgered into apologizing for a couple of posts she made when she was 13.

00:47:55.520 Before I even get into what the post said, there's no conceivable way that this should be a story in a national newspaper.

00:48:01.820 It should even be a story in a gossip blog.

00:48:04.400 I mean, it's obviously transparently insane to care what any 23-year-old anywhere in the world said when that person was 13 years old.

00:48:11.260 I mean, I don't even care what a 23-year-old says when they're 23, much less when they're 13. 0.94

00:48:16.240 Every single 13-year-old on the planet has said, like, many stupid things in their lives, and that's been true throughout history. 0.52

00:48:25.760 There's no reason to care about what 13-year-olds say just because technology now allows us to access their past statements anytime we want. 0.98

00:48:32.760 There is, in fact, I'll say this.

00:48:33.900 There is literally nothing that a 13-year-old could ever say, no matter how terrible, that I would consider at all relevant when that 13-year-old is an adult.

00:48:45.960 I don't care if they're, like, calling for a genocide or something.

00:48:48.680 All I need to know is, oh, they were 13?

00:48:51.960 Who cares?

00:48:53.340 Who cares?

00:48:55.740 That's especially true when, as is the case here, the 13-year-old didn't actually say anything with any malice to anyone.

00:49:03.940 So here's an Instagram post showing what exactly Earl is being attacked for, and you can see it there.

00:49:11.300 So as a 13-year-old, she used the naughty word that Denzel Washington was fond of using in the movie Training Day, and that's it.

00:49:20.000 That's the whole scandal.

00:49:21.060 She used the variant of the N-word that ends in A when she was barely a teenager, and she wasn't trying to attack anyone for their race while she was doing it.

00:49:29.640 And yet this apparently triggered a scandal that went on for a very long time in the TikTok community, culminating in this apology slash hostage video.

00:49:37.740 Watch.

00:49:38.000 First off, I want to say, before I get into blabbing more about me, that I am so, so sorry to everyone in the Black community and the Black community in my audience that I let down.

00:49:51.700 I just want to say, and I just want to put this out here for you guys, that that's not who I am as a person.

00:49:56.940 That's not the way I speak.

00:49:58.120 That's not what I stand for.

00:49:59.540 That's not the way my friends speak.

00:50:02.000 Like, I don't think that's cool.

00:50:03.940 I don't want any young girls watching this and thinking that because I haven't said anything, I think it's okay or that it's cool or whatever.

00:50:10.380 It doesn't matter the context.

00:50:11.660 It doesn't matter the age.

00:50:12.680 Like, it was wrong.

00:50:14.240 And I admit that.

00:50:16.240 Well, so you always hear this, the context doesn't matter.

00:50:21.980 The context of, of course the context matters.

00:50:24.760 The context matters.

00:50:26.860 Anytime you say anything, the context matters.

00:50:29.020 You can't, we can't even begin to interpret anything that a person says without understanding the context in which they say it.

00:50:36.540 And your age matters too.

00:50:38.780 Of course. 0.99

00:50:40.000 Children say dumb stuff all the time. 0.99

00:50:41.560 That doesn't merit any further explanation. 0.98

00:50:43.660 Doesn't merit a groveling apology video.

00:50:46.840 It's a fact of life.

00:50:48.660 And if we're going to start canceling people for stuff they did when they were 13, we might as well, we might as well bring up how they behaved in kindergarten.

00:50:55.200 Okay?

00:50:55.660 Like, they, you know, they, they, whatever.

00:50:58.260 They stole a glue stick.

00:51:01.040 They threw a glue stick at someone's head in kindergarten.

00:51:04.040 Let's make a scandal out of that.

00:51:05.820 There's no end to this purity spiral.

00:51:07.800 Of course, the point of this whole charade is to assert the dominance of the ideology that underpins DEI, which demands your total acquiescence at all times.

00:51:16.760 Especially if you're white.

00:51:17.960 You don't get to use logic or reason to defend yourself. 0.91

00:51:20.280 Your only option is to grovel.

00:51:21.660 At least that's what you're supposed to think.

00:51:23.980 And that's the real message Alex Earle just sent to her millions of fans.

00:51:26.560 That's what the outrage mob really wanted.

00:51:28.560 And as Brett said, there's a lot of this going around lately.

00:51:30.600 The fake outrage surrounding the TikTok star Brooke Schofield is even more nauseating.

00:51:35.360 Here's how the Independent describes her transgression.

00:51:37.820 Quote,

00:51:38.380 Earlier this week, a number of past racially insensitive tweets made by Schofield resurfaced after they were published by the popular celebrity gossip account Pop Crave.

00:51:47.660 In a string of posts, Schofield argued that the death of Martin, Trayvon Martin, at the hands of George Zimmerman, who was then a member of the Florida community's Neighborhood Watch, wasn't the result of racial profiling.

00:51:58.400 Guarantee if Zimmerman shot a white guy, this wouldn't even be a story, she tweeted on July 14th, 2013.

00:52:03.040 News flashed, this wasn't a crime of racism, it was self-defense.

00:52:08.060 So, that's what, I don't know who this Schofield person is, but it's another social media star, I guess.

00:52:15.940 Those were the tweets that she sent.

00:52:17.880 Completely and totally correct.

00:52:20.640 Like, she's right about that.

00:52:22.200 There's nothing even to debate there, really.

00:52:23.660 Trayvon Martin tried to beat George Zimmerman's head into the pavement.

00:52:26.460 A witness saw it.

00:52:27.680 A jury acquitted Zimmerman because they agreed that he acted in self-defense.

00:52:30.520 And yes, if Trayvon Martin had been white, Barack Obama would not have given a weepy press conference about how Trayvon Martin could have been his son.

00:52:37.680 There would have been no national outrage.

00:52:39.740 Like, no one would have ever heard him.

00:52:41.000 We never would have heard the guy's name if he was white.

00:52:42.840 That's a fact.

00:52:44.280 But, you know, you know what's coming next.

00:52:46.260 Here is Brooke Schofield's apology video.

00:52:48.720 Watch.

00:52:48.940 All right, you guys, I have had a lot to say about accountability lately and how important it is and how far it can go.

00:52:55.820 And I feel like I'm not taking my own advice.

00:52:58.440 Obviously, by now, you guys have seen the tweets that are circulating around.

00:53:01.360 They, unfortunately, are not fake.

00:53:04.080 Those are real tweets, like, real things that I said.

00:53:07.140 First of all, I want to acknowledge that I feel the same way about them that you do.

00:53:10.660 I think they're so disturbing.

00:53:12.060 They're wrong.

00:53:12.520 They're horrible. 1.00

00:53:13.240 And they're disgusting. 0.98

00:53:15.040 Of course, I do appreciate the people who are coming to bat for me and, like, saying, like, you know, it was so long ago. 0.96

00:53:20.660 And, like, she's grown and stuff.

00:53:22.100 But, like, it doesn't.

00:53:23.540 Honestly, it doesn't matter.

00:53:25.200 Like, it literally does not matter. 0.99

00:53:27.980 They are horrible.

00:53:29.260 I want to talk about particularly the Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman situation.

00:53:34.600 I try not to be so emotional because I don't want it to seem like it's, like, a sympathy thing at all.

00:53:38.380 I also don't want to blame anybody else at all.

00:53:41.240 And so I'm trying, like, to be really careful about that.

00:53:43.500 I just want to explain, like, and give some context into, like, my mindset at the time. 0.97

00:53:49.400 Because I have seen, like, some comments today that are, like, well, no sh**, she's racist. 1.00

00:53:53.800 Like, white nepo baby. 1.00

00:53:55.340 Like, a little, like, spoiled brat. 0.95

00:53:56.700 Like, and that was not my situation. 0.58

00:53:59.040 And my parents were addicts.

00:54:00.220 So I was adopted by my grandparents when I was, like, 10.

00:54:03.440 And I grew up with them from that point on.

00:54:05.520 And, as is true for a lot of grandparents, they're a little bit less progressive than a lot of us are now.

00:54:13.740 Oh, my gosh.

00:54:16.640 It just, I can't watch that kind of sense.

00:54:18.280 It's nauseating.

00:54:19.100 It's really, it's nauseating to me.

00:54:22.280 And, you know, all the sympathy, of course, that I have, that I could have for you for being the target of cancel culture and the outrage mob.

00:54:31.780 Like, all the sympathy goes out the window when you apologize.

00:54:34.100 So you deserve it.

00:54:35.300 And, like, you deserve all the backlash and outrage.

00:54:39.340 At that point, once you cave to it, it's like, now I can't defend you anymore because you're not going to defend yourself.

00:54:45.320 So, and then she throws her own family under the bus as part of this. 1.00

00:54:51.000 The rest of the video goes on like that.

00:54:52.240 She attacks her grandfather for being a right-wing conservative man who listened to Fox News all the time.

00:54:57.220 Apparently, Fox News reported that George Zimmerman acted in self-defense.

00:54:59.860 And even though that was clearly correct information, it was still bad for her grandfather to have Fox News on because Fox News is on, you know, the wrong team.

00:55:07.060 And these are the people who adopted her.

00:55:10.500 And she blames them for this. 1.00

00:55:13.800 Just pathetic. 1.00

00:55:14.700 Again, this is what these kinds of mobs demand. 0.99

00:55:17.120 You have to demonstrate your fealty to the ideology over everything else.

00:55:21.060 Truth doesn't matter.

00:55:21.960 Your own family doesn't matter. 0.90

00:55:23.500 All that matters is that you grovel and submit.

00:55:26.240 There's a bunch of other videos from this woman. 0.79

00:55:28.180 She had a whole series of apology videos for some reason. 1.00

00:55:30.420 Like, just went on and on and on, apologized for it.

00:55:33.460 Like, daily apologies.

00:55:35.300 There's also another video from Schofield's podcast host, a woman named Tana Mongeau.

00:55:41.380 It's a podcast that's called Cancelled, which is fitting, I guess.

00:55:45.000 And on the podcast, probably Tana, I'd say, goes into some detail about how the tweets were horrific.

00:55:52.920 Horrific.

00:55:54.200 And on and on and on.

00:55:55.760 But apparently, Schofield is being let back on the podcast now that she's apologized.

00:56:00.180 Now that she's affirmed the lie that George Zimmerman didn't act in self-defense, she can keep her job.

00:56:05.740 So now that she's affirmed, now that she's signaled that she's dumber now than she was 10 years ago, she's allowed back into the fold a little bit.

00:56:15.880 There's one last case I want to talk about involving the YouTube star, Mr. Beast.

00:56:19.160 And as I've discussed recently, Mr. Beast has a lot of problems right now.

00:56:21.460 His trans-identified co-host, Chris Tyson, was just accused of sending sexually explicit messages to a child.

00:56:28.260 And given that Mr. Beast offended that co-host for years, and given that a lot of other credible related allegations are coming out,

00:56:34.860 there's no reason for anyone to ever allow their child to watch a Mr. Beast video ever again.

00:56:39.680 But what I'm talking about now is the reporting from CNN about a separate incident.

00:56:45.120 Quote,

00:56:45.160 So these are comments that this guy made when he was 19. 0.99

00:57:07.600 He's joking around with his dumb commenters who are engaging in, you know, dumb, edgy humor. 0.99

00:57:13.560 In fact, he's not even really coming up with the edgy humor himself. 0.99

00:57:16.100 He's just repeating what his fans are saying.

00:57:18.740 And we're supposed to care about this seven years after the fact.

00:57:21.280 This humor is supposed to be scandalous, even though it's harmed precisely no one.

00:57:27.180 There's an obvious contrast here between this fake outrage and the Chris Tyson story.

00:57:31.500 With Mr. Beast's approval, Chris Tyson promoted his lifestyle to an audience of children.

00:57:35.800 He also allegedly had various inappropriate sexual communications with children.

00:57:40.060 There was no joke or humor in any of that.

00:57:43.140 That was the intent.

00:57:44.580 Did a lot of damage.

00:57:46.160 On the other hand, Mr. Beast joking around with his fans seven years ago didn't hurt anyone.

00:57:51.280 No one thought about any of it, you know, until now.

00:57:56.100 And that illustrates a broader point, which is that one of the roles of these outrage mobs is to gin up fake hysteria over things that don't matter.

00:58:03.320 So that people don't notice what's happening right in front of them.

00:58:06.400 But here's the truth.

00:58:08.140 We are a country where racism is so uncommon that outrage mobs now have to pretend to be offended by the tweets of 13-year-old children 10 years after the fact.

00:58:16.180 It makes a lot of so-called anti-racist experts furious when you point that out because it destroys their whole grift.

00:58:23.320 But this particular DEI-certified anti-race expert has no problem saying it.

00:58:28.800 And that's why all of the outrage mobs trying to cancel TikTok influencers for their ancient social media posts are themselves today canceled.

00:58:38.460 That'll do it for the show today.

00:58:39.180 Thanks for watching.

00:58:39.700 Thanks for listening.

00:58:40.340 We'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:58:41.580 Have a great day.

00:58:42.420 Godspeed.

00:58:42.700 We'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:12.700 Here's my certifications.

00:59:14.200 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

00:59:16.900 This is more for you than this for you.

00:59:17.880 Is America inherently racist?

00:59:19.420 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:59:21.420 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.

00:59:24.540 America is racist to its bones.

00:59:26.440 So inherently. 0.98

00:59:27.280 Yeah.

00:59:27.700 This country is a piece of...

00:59:28.960 Oh, my God. 0.99

00:59:30.380 White folks. 1.00

00:59:31.440 Trash. 1.00

00:59:31.940 White supremacy. 1.00

00:59:32.720 White woman. 1.00

00:59:33.300 White boy.

00:59:33.840 Is there a black person around here?

00:59:35.120 What's a black person right here? 0.86

00:59:36.460 Does he not exist?

00:59:37.220 They don't say I'm racist.

00:59:39.200 Hi, Robin.

00:59:39.800 Hi.

00:59:40.140 What's your name?

00:59:41.100 I'm Matt.

00:59:41.520 I've always had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

00:59:44.220 Never be too careful.

00:59:45.080 They gonna say you racist.

00:59:46.020 Buy your tickets now in theaters September 13th.

00:59:48.400 Rated PG-13.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 05, 2024

Ep. 1437 - Brazil Bans Free Speech in the Name of Democracy. Are We Next？

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