Disaster strikes North Carolina. The media assures us that the federal government is doing a great job in response. But is that actually true? We ll find out. Also, Kamala Harris is asked again about her economic plan and once again reveals that she doesn t have one. The New Yorker publishes a think piece about my new film, Am I Racist? And Stevie Nicks just released a new pro-abortion single. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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00:17:10.840And what does broadband equity mean in practice?
00:17:13.220Well, it means that nobody gets broadband.
00:17:16.260It means they cut Elon Musk's Starlink system out of the funding.
00:17:19.840Probably on a pretext because they don't like what he's doing on X.
00:17:22.960But now that there's an actual crisis, that pretext doesn't seem to be a problem anymore.
00:17:28.000As you just heard the DHS secretary say, the Biden administration is deploying communications resources to North Carolina.
00:17:33.100More specifically, they're deploying Elon Musk's Starlink to the state.
00:17:36.860Here's a Biden administration official stating that they're installing Starlink systems now on an emergency basis so that people impacted by the hurricanes can communicate with the outside world.
00:17:46.880We're also very focused on restoring communications capabilities.
00:17:51.540FEMA, the FCC, and private telecommunications providers are working together to help restore temporary communications as quickly as possible by establishing temporary cell sites and allowing for roaming where possible,
00:18:06.520where a resident can connect to any network available, even if they aren't subscribed to that network.
00:18:12.980Today, FEMA will install 30 Starlink receivers in Western North Carolina to provide immediate connectivity for those in greatest need.
00:18:21.480Now, fortunately, people living in North Carolina don't need to rely on the Biden administration to get those Starlink systems online.
00:18:29.840There are a lot of private individuals bringing Starlink equipment into the state and setting it up.
00:18:34.380But again, none of this would be necessary if the Biden administration had done its job in the first place and spent the $40 billion on technologies like Starlink.
00:18:41.660So this is yet another problem created entirely by the federal government.
00:18:44.340At this point, there needs to be accountability or more people will die, if not during this disaster, then during the next one.
00:18:52.940There were massive failures at every level in this storm, from the lack of an early warning to the aftermath where they blame climate change as people are stranded on rooftops.
00:19:01.640We saw something similar in the Maui fires where the authorities blocked evacuation rounds during the blaze, in part because FEMA didn't have an effective evacuation plan in place.
00:19:09.500If you remember, during that disaster, people talked a lot about Kamala Harris' statements about how equity should determine who gets critical aid in a time of crisis.
00:19:17.760People pointed out that FEMA's top goal on its website was literally to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.
00:19:27.780And yet, Kamala remained in power along with the bureaucracy that actually runs the country.
00:19:32.320And now, just a year later, even more people are dead and stranded without any warning.
00:19:36.100And the government's incompetence is once again on full display.
00:19:39.500Saying that Helene is the Biden administration's Hurricane Katrina is actually underselling how callous this administration's response has been.
00:19:47.820For all the failures during Katrina, the general consensus among critics was that the government was either incompetent or indifferent.
00:19:54.580But George Bush never sabotaged the attempts to get Internet access to communities.
00:20:00.340He didn't use climate change as some kind of catch-all excuse while shelters were being overrun and people were dying.
00:20:06.700He didn't tell American citizens that there's nothing more he can do for them.
00:20:09.280He didn't go on a podcast and talk about how much he loves Doritos during all of this, as Kamala Harris just did.
00:20:15.220He also wasn't on the record saying that disaster relief should be distributed based on equity.
00:20:20.700As, again, Kamala Harris has said in the past.
00:20:24.160And just for good measure, let's go back and watch that clip again.
00:20:27.140It is our lowest-income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making.
00:20:44.280And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place.
00:20:59.600And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities and do that work.
00:21:36.780And the reason why people aren't pointing this out is that when the next natural disaster strikes in your neighborhood, you know, they want to administer some equity there as well.
00:21:45.860Lecture you about your gas stove while you're clinging to, you know, to life on your rooftop.
00:21:50.800Now, nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, it turns out that George Bush's crime wasn't that he failed.
00:21:58.160It's that he didn't fail the right people.
00:22:01.340In the name of equity from Hawaii to North Carolina, one botched disaster response at a time, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are finally correcting that mistake.
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00:23:34.480So Kamala, as mentioned at the top, appeared on another podcast this week and she talked about her love of Doritos.
00:23:41.880We don't need to play that clip, but this is something that she has, for some reason, honed in on Doritos as a thing that she wants to highlight.
00:24:01.140I guess she thinks that it makes her very relatable.
00:24:04.280She's very relatable because she likes Doritos, so she constantly talks about it.
00:24:07.440But here she was asked in this one clip that I'll play about her economic plan.
00:24:12.960Again, this is a question that comes up a lot because nobody knows what her plan is, so it's always asked.
00:24:19.820And even after being asked again and getting her answer, we still don't know what her economic plan is.
00:24:26.860Going from a show to a whole entire company, what is your economic plan moving forward for people who are living paycheck to paycheck and struggling for groceries and rent and homeowners?
00:24:39.680So, look, I grew up, so my sister and I were raised by our mother.
00:24:45.300We lived for a long time in an apartment on top of a child care center.
00:24:51.480That child care center was actually owned by a woman who lived two doors down from us, Mrs. Shelton, who was, by all of our accounts and feelings, our second mother.
00:25:28.740And so a lot of my work in terms of building and growing the economy has focused on small businesses.
00:25:36.000And my vision overall is we need to build an opportunity economy in which we increase opportunity for all, including small business owners.
00:25:43.600So a lot of my work, even in the Senate, was about increasing access to capital through our small businesses and, in particular, through our community banks.
00:25:50.260So I've been responsible for billions of dollars more now going into our community banks because they're in the community, and then they know who's in the community and where the talent is and who's doing good in the community, what the community wants.
00:26:16.840And she almost said, I grew up in a middle-class family, and then she stopped herself.
00:26:21.760So that's her reflex, and she showed at least enough self-awareness to pull herself back.
00:26:28.280But then she ends up basically giving the same answer, where she talks about who she grew up, and she starts naming whatever woman helped raise her.
00:26:37.900It's like, nobody cares about that, Kamala.
00:27:03.400But you kind of have to understand what's happening here.
00:27:05.380When Kamala goes off on her, I grew up in middle-class family ramble, we tend to think that she's just trying to filibuster and avoid answering the question.
00:45:05.180And I meant to make the points that you're picking up.
00:45:08.560I mean, you're picking up some other things that are just from your own delusional mind.
00:45:12.080But the basic point of that, yeah, just because I don't turn to the camera and say, you know, the point of this scene is, just because I don't do that doesn't mean I don't understand my own point.
00:45:23.900So actually what you're doing, even if you don't mean to do it, is acknowledging some of the subtlety of the film.
00:45:32.020Because we are not directly sermonizing.
00:45:35.440That's what conservative entertainment usually does.
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00:45:54.760And all of it very intentional, in fact.
00:46:02.020And the fact that this film can provoke a lengthy article in The New Yorker at all, I think proves that there are multiple layers to the film that, yes, are there intentionally.
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00:48:48.580Nicks said she wrote the song following the Dobbs Supreme Court decision in 2022, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.
00:49:15.560She continued, all the stories that we tell about the necessity for women's health care and the necessity for a safe and legal abortion option for women is absolutely necessary.
00:49:23.540She was inspired in the middle of the night by the line, I have my scars.
00:49:59.540No one's ever thought of anything like that before.
00:50:03.100Anyway, so this is her song, her ode to abortion.
00:50:06.560And Nick has sung the praises of abortion before, including in an interview a few years ago when she said that the band Fleetwood Mac could not have existed if she had not had an abortion herself when she was younger.
00:50:18.660So she sacrificed her child on the altar of career success by her own admission.
00:50:23.560And now she's old and she's alone and nobody cares about her music really anymore.