The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1454 - As Appalachian Americans Die in Floods, Biden-Harris Prioritizes “Equity”

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Disaster Strikes North Carolina.

00:00:02.820 The media assures us that the federal government is doing a great job in response, but is that actually true?

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00:02:24.240 On Friday morning at 6.15 a.m., some residents of Swannanoa, North Carolina, received an emergency

00:02:30.840 alert on their phones.

00:02:32.560 This screenshot was sent to me by somebody living there.

00:02:36.120 It reads, mandatory evacuation in your area, severe flooding, high water can cause loss

00:02:40.340 of life and property, move to high ground, away from water, do not delay.

00:02:44.140 This text came after several other emergency alerts were sent throughout the night from

00:02:48.980 the National Weather Service, indicating that a flash flood was in progress.

00:02:52.760 And those alerts were sent at 3.16 a.m. and 5.30 a.m. prior to the evacuation order.

00:02:59.560 Now, some people in the area say they didn't receive these alerts at all.

00:03:04.120 Maybe their phones were off, or they didn't have a cell signal, or they were asleep.

00:03:08.660 But for the most part, it didn't matter.

00:03:10.920 The final evacuation alert was too late for many of them to escape.

00:03:15.140 Before dawn, the water was so high that lawns were submerged.

00:03:19.000 Floodwaters had risen more than four feet in less than one hour.

00:03:21.780 Nine-man-one calls wouldn't connect.

00:03:24.760 The worst of a storm was already underway at this point.

00:03:28.220 The full extent of the devastation and the number of lives lost remains unclear.

00:03:32.540 What we do know is that much of Swannanoa and many other parts of the southeast have been destroyed.

00:03:39.240 Cars are hanging from tree limbs.

00:03:41.220 Many homes have been ripped from their foundations and tossed upside down.

00:03:44.380 More than 130 people are dead, with bodies being found every hour.

00:03:49.900 Several people who sought refuge on top of their homes awaiting rescue drowned when their roofs collapsed.

00:03:55.680 Over the past two days, I've received several emails from people living in western North Carolina,

00:04:01.080 and they all say the same thing.

00:04:03.020 The federal government failed.

00:04:04.880 For all of the billions of dollars that FEMA spends on preparing for disasters,

00:04:09.340 they didn't provide early warning about the potential impact of Hurricane Helene.

00:04:14.500 They didn't issue an evacuation order soon enough.

00:04:17.540 And after the devastation, they didn't provide immediate resources that could save lives.

00:04:21.840 Here's a message that was sent to me from Ashe County, North Carolina.

00:04:26.260 This is a rural area of the state.

00:04:28.400 They're faring even worse than the cities are.

00:04:30.640 Some of the houses have more than 36 inches of water that they're sitting in now.

00:04:36.020 Quote,

00:04:36.260 I have seen the devastation with my own eyes and have employees and friends in the mountains

00:04:40.260 that will not have power for weeks.

00:04:42.320 I'm a paramedic for a neighboring county.

00:04:44.280 There have been no FEMA personnel sighted in our area, even though the danger has passed.

00:04:49.160 Our electric cooperative has been amazing, and they're the ones building roads,

00:04:53.180 clearing land, and doing overflows.

00:04:55.500 This morning, we saw some Blackhawks doing flyovers, but that's the first ones.

00:04:59.780 I've been told the DOD is refusing to allow helicopters to fly into our area,

00:05:03.920 even though the service members want to help.

00:05:06.400 The man adds,

00:05:07.140 Quote,

00:05:07.880 We're coming together, and churches and volunteer fire departments are delivering water and food.

00:05:11.980 As we get cell phone service, we're reaching out to friends.

00:05:15.440 Lowe's in short, a huge delivery of generators was delivered yesterday,

00:05:18.120 and no price gouging.

00:05:19.720 Everything that's happening is from locals helping out, churches delivering,

00:05:23.500 local food banks and businesses.

00:05:25.720 Local government emergency management is doing everything they can.

00:05:28.300 The federal government is failing in every sense of the word.

00:05:31.120 The focus has been on the areas that have money and honestly seem as if they vote a specific way.

00:05:37.240 Unquote.

00:05:38.400 Now, there are many more reports just like that one.

00:05:40.960 The journalist Nick Sartor reported yesterday that,

00:05:43.260 Quote,

00:05:43.860 Shelters in West North Carolina are overcapacity and do not have enough food,

00:05:47.380 and FEMA is nowhere to be found.

00:05:49.320 One shelter was 30 meals short.

00:05:51.760 What the hell's going on?

00:05:52.880 Where are Biden and Harris?

00:05:55.300 Meanwhile, the New York Post reports that,

00:05:56.620 Quote, that due to the breakdown of law and order,

00:06:00.280 eight migrants were just arrested for looting in eastern Tennessee in the aftermath of the storm.

00:06:06.300 They're between the ages of 24 and 51 years old.

00:06:08.840 Charges include burglary and aggravated burglary.

00:06:11.620 These are crimes that the federal government enabled on two separate occasions.

00:06:14.600 First, they let these criminals into the country, 0.91

00:06:16.020 and then they failed to ensure law and order in the aftermath of the storm.

00:06:18.900 On WMAL yesterday, the executive director of Ascend Women's Center in Asheville,

00:06:24.240 a woman named Christy Brown,

00:06:26.160 made it clear that more assistance is desperately needed.

00:06:30.540 People don't have food or water.

00:06:32.460 Listen.

00:06:33.660 They're having to manage how many can go in at a time so it's not a stampede.

00:06:39.620 Lines for gas are like three hours long.

00:06:42.600 So, yes, many of us probably did not prepare as well as we should have.

00:06:46.360 Like, I bought bottled water, but did I think I was going to be without power for five to eight days?

00:06:52.660 No, I didn't.

00:06:53.740 Right, right.

00:06:54.720 So, did I buy enough?

00:06:56.760 No.

00:06:57.980 And so, in the Asheville area, we have a lot of rural areas,

00:07:02.980 and people live on mountaintops, and they live out past cornfields and that type of thing.

00:07:09.120 So, many times it's one lane in, one lane out, and you may have bridges.

00:07:13.100 Well, when you have 30-foot surges of your water, nothing can withstand that, right?

00:07:20.640 And so, we weren't prepared, but again, no one thought it was going to be as bad as it was.

00:07:27.720 And now that the storm has passed, now it's like, how do we build back this infrastructure

00:07:32.820 so that you're not waiting three hours to get gas?

00:07:36.040 Or if you go to the grocery store and you wait 45 minutes to get through the door,

00:07:40.080 how do you assure that there is water on the shelf?

00:07:43.040 It's the basics that people need right now, which is clean water, food.

00:07:49.040 They need the ability to communicate because they don't have internet.

00:07:52.760 So, I talked to someone this morning who cannot get a hold of a family member since Friday morning.

00:07:58.140 So, she's worried sick whether this woman's dead or alive.

00:08:02.060 And then on top of that, her house was hit by trees.

00:08:06.880 So, it should go without saying that the federal government should be doing everything it can

00:08:10.380 to pour as many resources as it possibly can into every state that's been affected by this storm.

00:08:16.300 This should be by far the most important issue that our government is focusing on.

00:08:20.460 But that doesn't appear to be what's happening.

00:08:22.120 For his part, Joe Biden was on the beach supposedly making phone calls about the storm.

00:08:27.180 You can only imagine how coherent those alleged phone calls would have been.

00:08:30.660 And then Joe Biden declared that there's nothing more his administration can do

00:08:33.980 for the people affected by the disaster that's happening in this country.

00:08:38.180 Watch.

00:08:42.520 Yes, it's tragic.

00:08:44.280 Matter of fact, we're trying to get the exact number.

00:08:47.200 My FEMA advisor is on the ground in Florida right now.

00:08:50.640 There's a distinction between the numbers that FEMA's used and the ones that are used by the locals.

00:08:57.180 So, it really is amazing.

00:09:00.440 You saw the photographs.

00:09:02.260 It's stunning.

00:09:03.220 It's unbelievable.

00:09:04.200 It really is.

00:09:04.720 So many, such a wide area.

00:09:07.060 I know.

00:09:07.460 And we've given them all, everything that we have.

00:09:12.480 We're on the ground ahead of time.

00:09:14.760 So, we're working hard.

00:09:16.160 Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?

00:09:19.380 No, we've given them, we have pre-planned a significant amount of it, even though they

00:09:23.320 didn't ask for it yet.

00:09:24.720 Hadn't asked for it yet.

00:09:25.840 Now, when it comes to foreign aid, nobody in the Biden administration has ever said anything

00:09:30.860 like that.

00:09:31.480 Biden has never told Ukraine, yeah, you're good.

00:09:33.420 You don't need any more money.

00:09:34.460 We've given you all that we can.

00:09:37.320 But when American citizens are drowning in their own homes, well, they're on their own,

00:09:41.600 I guess.

00:09:41.900 Biden doesn't seem to care that the shelters are full or that people don't have food.

00:09:46.220 Neither does the acting president of the United States, Kamala Harris.

00:09:48.520 Her response to the storm has included attending a fundraiser in Hollywood and reading a prepared

00:09:53.240 statement off a teleprompter at FEMA headquarters without taking any questions.

00:09:58.200 She also tweeted out this image to document her response to the hurricane, in which she

00:10:01.860 pretends to be taking an important phone call as she holds a pen over a blank piece of paper.

00:10:08.460 Now, you notice that her wired headphones aren't even connected to the phone. 0.98

00:10:14.260 So, to be clear, this was not a candid photo.

00:10:16.460 This is the image that Kamala Harris' handlers choreographed and selected to send out during 0.50

00:10:21.320 a crisis to project competence and control.

00:10:25.220 But it does the exact opposite.

00:10:27.380 It highlights what we already knew, which is that Kamala Harris is an actor miming the

00:10:31.220 motions of what a competent commander-in-chief should be doing.

00:10:34.300 And she happens to be a very bad actor. 0.98

00:10:36.880 But Democrats are stuck with her now, so they're pretending that this isn't obvious to everyone.

00:10:40.780 They're also banking that voters weren't alive in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit.

00:10:45.280 Because you probably remember that the one enduring image we talked about briefly yesterday

00:10:49.440 from Hurricane Katrina is this photo of President Bush flying over the aftermath of the hurricane,

00:10:56.080 looking out the window of Air Force One.

00:10:58.520 And you can see it there.

00:11:00.220 This infamous photograph allegedly showed that Bush didn't care about all the people suffering

00:11:04.260 on the ground, especially the black people, as Kanye West famously said.

00:11:08.100 It proved that Bush was detached and uncaring, we were told.

00:11:11.120 And for well over a decade, media organizations have referred to this photograph as one of

00:11:15.560 the greatest blunders of Bush's presidency.

00:11:19.380 Bush himself has apologized for it, calling the photograph a huge mistake.

00:11:22.960 Now, of course, the outrage over that photo was totally contrived.

00:11:26.480 Bush was there surveying the damage.

00:11:28.440 He wanted to see it for himself.

00:11:30.960 This is how you survey it, especially when you're the president.

00:11:33.880 I mean, did they expect the sitting president to rappel down into the floodwaters and start

00:11:37.700 personally rescuing people?

00:11:39.060 Do they want him on a boat going to stranded people and rescuing them?

00:11:44.580 Of course not.

00:11:45.300 Of course, that's not what you want the president to do.

00:11:47.480 If he had shown up to do that, to like play hero, it would have been a scandal of its own

00:11:52.680 because then he'd be taking up resources for a photo op.

00:11:56.260 So Bush did the right thing.

00:11:57.420 He wanted to see what was happening with his own eyes.

00:11:59.680 He didn't want to get in the middle of it and be a huge distraction.

00:12:02.020 So he flew over the wreckage so that he could see it, which is why, again, no one could ever

00:12:10.800 explain what they think he should have been doing instead of that.

00:12:15.480 By contrast, Kamala stared at a blank page and pretended to talk into a phone.

00:12:21.060 We don't know where her plane was.

00:12:23.700 If the media had any integrity at all, this would be a much bigger debacle than the Bush 0.64

00:12:27.880 photograph or at least one equal to that.

00:12:30.020 There'd be the same level, at least, of mockery and outrage.

00:12:33.860 But of course, there won't be because these people have no shame.

00:12:36.880 And also, there's no racial narrative to spin up here because many residents of the impacted

00:12:42.000 areas of North Carolina, unlike the residents of New Orleans, are white.

00:12:46.020 And that might be why both the corporate press and the Biden administration have spent the

00:12:49.560 last 24 hours instead talking about climate change, blaming climate change for this disaster.

00:12:55.080 The federal government is supposedly blameless.

00:12:57.940 It's not their fault.

00:12:58.500 It's climate change.

00:12:59.200 Watch the DHS secretary's response to the concerns of one mayor in North Carolina who

00:13:05.600 complains that no one has cell service, which can obviously cause major life-threatening

00:13:09.980 problems.

00:13:11.720 Here's what he says to that.

00:13:13.940 I want to read to you something that the mayor of Canton, North Carolina said, talking about

00:13:18.460 the frustration that a lot of people feel about the lack of communication.

00:13:22.420 Here's what he said.

00:13:23.300 It is unacceptable and disgusting that in our time of need, cellular service for the entire

00:13:29.140 region is blocked out.

00:13:30.700 There's no excuse for that.

00:13:32.420 I mean, we knew the storm was coming.

00:13:34.500 I can't believe this is a normalcy.

00:13:37.680 Is this a systemic problem?

00:13:39.720 Is this something that is going to be more and more normal as we see more and more devastating

00:13:45.900 storms?

00:13:46.620 What do you say to people who are desperate to find out whether people they love are still

00:13:52.700 alive?

00:13:53.220 I well understand the concerns expressed.

00:13:57.420 These are people in the midst of a tragic hurricane.

00:14:01.120 That is precisely why we and others have been deploying communications resources to ensure

00:14:08.220 that communication is reinstated as quickly as possible.

00:14:13.000 The reality is that the severity and frequency of extreme weather events are only increasing.

00:14:23.760 So we've gone over this so many times that it's not worth showing all the data at this

00:14:28.140 point.

00:14:28.600 But here it is anyway.

00:14:31.040 There's been no increase in Category 4 or 5 hurricanes that have made landfall in the

00:14:35.200 continental United States from 1900 to 2019.

00:14:37.440 And as Michael Schellenberger has reported, the U.S. government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric

00:14:42.740 Administration predicts the maximum intensity of Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms will

00:14:47.980 rise 5% in the 21st century, but their frequency will decline 25%.

00:14:54.920 The implication that it's unprecedented for a major hurricane to affect an inland area like

00:15:01.300 Asheville is also false.

00:15:03.400 A meteorology student named Chris Martz pointed out that Asheville was previously wiped out by

00:15:08.420 the remnants of a hurricane all the way back in July of 1916.

00:15:12.360 That was more than 100 years ago, long before we were supposedly admitting unsustainable levels of

00:15:16.520 carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

00:15:18.420 So a disaster like this in a place like Asheville is very rare, which is one of the reasons,

00:15:24.160 like we talked about yesterday, one of the reasons why the residents were not prepared

00:15:26.840 for this, understandably, because it is very rare.

00:15:30.980 But it's not unprecedented.

00:15:33.500 So it's like a once in a century kind of event.

00:15:37.300 But how could it be a once in a century event if it's all because of man-made climate change?

00:15:43.960 None of these politicians or media outlets will ever answer that question because their goal

00:15:48.520 isn't actually to save lives.

00:15:49.900 Their goal is to deflect responsibility for their own failures.

00:15:52.680 One of those failures, a huge one, involves the government's persistent, almost incredibly

00:15:57.720 incredible ability to waste money while mismanaging massive infrastructure projects.

00:16:03.640 This is an actual systemic issue the Biden administration should be concerned with.

00:16:07.700 Specifically, when the Biden administration rolled out its $40 billion plan to connect rural

00:16:11.540 Americans to the internet all the way back in 2021, they cut Elon Musk's companies out of the program.

00:16:17.780 The result was that nobody got internet access out in those areas.

00:16:22.720 As the Washington Times reports, quote,

00:16:24.240 The Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program, or BED, has not connected a single rural home

00:16:31.500 to high-speed internet service since Mr. Biden signed the funding into law in November 2021.

00:16:36.680 At the current pace of distributing the funds, high-speed internet connections to most of the rural areas

00:16:41.200 intended to benefit from BED won't be completed until 2030.

00:16:44.960 The Commerce Department, which is in charge of the program, said none of the projects will begin until 2025 or 2026.

00:16:50.780 Mr. Musk's SpaceX is excluded from the BED federal subsidies because the money is reserved for companies

00:16:55.780 deploying fiber-optic cable, which the government views as a more proven technology than satellite connections.

00:17:03.000 So, they spent billions of dollars as part of a plan to implement broadband equity.

00:17:08.560 Yes, broadband equity.

00:17:10.840 And what does broadband equity mean in practice?

00:17:13.220 Well, it means that nobody gets broadband.

00:17:16.260 It means they cut Elon Musk's Starlink system out of the funding.

00:17:19.840 Probably on a pretext because they don't like what he's doing on X.

00:17:22.960 But now that there's an actual crisis, that pretext doesn't seem to be a problem anymore.

00:17:28.000 As you just heard the DHS secretary say, the Biden administration is deploying communications resources to North Carolina.

00:17:33.100 More specifically, they're deploying Elon Musk's Starlink to the state.

00:17:36.860 Here'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.

00:17:46.580 Watch.

00:17:46.880 We're also very focused on restoring communications capabilities.

00:17:51.540 FEMA, 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,

00:18:06.520 where a resident can connect to any network available, even if they aren't subscribed to that network.

00:18:12.980 Today, FEMA will install 30 Starlink receivers in Western North Carolina to provide immediate connectivity for those in greatest need.

00:18:21.480 Now, fortunately, people living in North Carolina don't need to rely on the Biden administration to get those Starlink systems online.

00:18:29.840 There are a lot of private individuals bringing Starlink equipment into the state and setting it up.

00:18:34.380 But 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.

00:18:41.660 So this is yet another problem created entirely by the federal government.

00:18:44.340 At this point, there needs to be accountability or more people will die, if not during this disaster, then during the next one.

00:18:52.940 There 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.

00:19:01.640 We 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.

00:19:09.500 If 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.

00:19:17.760 People pointed out that FEMA's top goal on its website was literally to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.

00:19:25.640 But then everybody kind of moved on.

00:19:27.780 And yet, Kamala remained in power along with the bureaucracy that actually runs the country. 1.00

00:19:32.320 And now, just a year later, even more people are dead and stranded without any warning.

00:19:36.100 And the government's incompetence is once again on full display.

00:19:39.500 Saying that Helene is the Biden administration's Hurricane Katrina is actually underselling how callous this administration's response has been.

00:19:47.820 For all the failures during Katrina, the general consensus among critics was that the government was either incompetent or indifferent.

00:19:54.580 But George Bush never sabotaged the attempts to get Internet access to communities.

00:20:00.340 He didn't use climate change as some kind of catch-all excuse while shelters were being overrun and people were dying.

00:20:06.700 He didn't tell American citizens that there's nothing more he can do for them.

00:20:09.280 He didn't go on a podcast and talk about how much he loves Doritos during all of this, as Kamala Harris just did.

00:20:15.220 He also wasn't on the record saying that disaster relief should be distributed based on equity.

00:20:20.700 As, again, Kamala Harris has said in the past.

00:20:24.160 And just for good measure, let's go back and watch that clip again.

00:20:27.140 It 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.

00:20:43.880 And women. 0.98

00:20:44.280 And 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.

00:20:59.600 And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities and do that work.

00:21:06.800 Thank you.

00:21:36.780 And 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.

00:21:45.860 Lecture you about your gas stove while you're clinging to, you know, to life on your rooftop.

00:21:50.800 Now, nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, it turns out that George Bush's crime wasn't that he failed.

00:21:58.160 It's that he didn't fail the right people.

00:22:01.340 In 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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00:23:34.480 So Kamala, as mentioned at the top, appeared on another podcast this week and she talked about her love of Doritos.

00:23:41.880 We 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.

00:24:01.140 I guess she thinks that it makes her very relatable.

00:24:04.280 She's very relatable because she likes Doritos, so she constantly talks about it. 0.99

00:24:07.440 But here she was asked in this one clip that I'll play about her economic plan.

00:24:12.960 Again, this is a question that comes up a lot because nobody knows what her plan is, so it's always asked.

00:24:19.820 And even after being asked again and getting her answer, we still don't know what her economic plan is.

00:24:25.720 Here's what she said.

00:24:26.860 Going 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?

00:24:39.680 So, look, I grew up, so my sister and I were raised by our mother.

00:24:45.300 We lived for a long time in an apartment on top of a child care center.

00:24:51.480 That 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.

00:25:03.560 She helped raise us.

00:25:04.480 And so she was a small business owner. 0.99

00:25:07.940 So I'll start with the small business, and congratulations.

00:25:10.380 Thank you.

00:25:10.880 I want you guys to come.

00:25:11.060 Thank you.

00:25:11.760 I, from a child, knew who our small business owners are, right?

00:25:15.640 I mean, you're business leaders, but you're also civic leaders.

00:25:18.840 You take seriously your voice in how you can mentor, how you can grow, right, communities and the sense of communities.

00:25:27.400 I love our small businesses.

00:25:28.740 And so a lot of my work in terms of building and growing the economy has focused on small businesses.

00:25:36.000 And my vision overall is we need to build an opportunity economy in which we increase opportunity for all, including small business owners.

00:25:43.600 So 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.

00:25:50.260 So 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.

00:26:04.400 Okay.

00:26:05.020 And it continues on from there.

00:26:07.200 I think we've heard enough.

00:26:07.800 So it's a meme at this point that she can't help but repeat, where she's asked about her plan, and her response starts with, I grew up.

00:26:16.220 I grew up.

00:26:16.840 And she almost said, I grew up in a middle-class family, and then she stopped herself.

00:26:21.760 So that's her reflex, and she showed at least enough self-awareness to pull herself back.

00:26:28.280 But 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.

00:26:37.900 It's like, nobody cares about that, Kamala.

00:26:42.020 Nobody cares how you grew up.

00:26:43.880 Nobody cares about your autobiography.

00:26:45.440 It's not very interesting.

00:26:47.460 Even if it was interesting, still nobody cares because they want to know how they're going to afford groceries.

00:26:53.500 You know, that's what they care.

00:26:57.200 They care about housing prices.

00:26:58.500 They care about those kinds of things.

00:27:00.960 That's what we need to know.

00:27:03.400 But you kind of have to understand what's happening here.

00:27:05.380 When 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. 1.00

00:27:16.140 And that's all that she's doing.

00:27:18.020 And that's true.

00:27:19.980 She is doing that.

00:27:21.640 That is also what's going on.

00:27:24.360 But it's not just that.

00:27:27.040 She also, she thinks that this is what people want to hear.

00:27:34.160 She thinks that, because this is how she sees her own role, her position, her job, right, in her mind, her job, if she becomes president,

00:27:46.660 is not to get things done.

00:27:50.480 It's not to accomplish anything.

00:27:54.040 It's not to do anything, practically speaking, to make people's lives better.

00:27:58.560 That's not what her job is, in her mind.

00:28:01.660 Her job is to understand.

00:28:06.980 She thinks that that's what the voters want. 0.98

00:28:12.720 They just want someone who understands that the American people, they just want to feel seen.

00:28:20.340 We just want to know that she can relate.

00:28:22.140 Her job as president, again, if she becomes president, God forbid, is to be relator in chief, empathizer in chief. 1.00

00:28:32.020 That's how she sees her role.

00:28:34.420 That's the whole terribly cringey mamala thing that we don't hear as much from her. 1.00

00:28:42.820 But I don't know if Drew Barrymore coined that or not, but there's that clip from Drew Barrymore where she says,

00:28:49.620 we need you to be the mamala.

00:28:51.220 We need, we need a, America needs a mom. 1.00

00:28:53.740 And, and that's how Kamala Harris sees herself. 1.00

00:28:59.040 You don't need her to do anything.

00:29:00.200 You just need, you know, as long as she can.

00:29:01.940 So when you, when she's asked, what's the economic plan?

00:29:04.020 People are suffering.

00:29:04.780 People need.

00:29:05.060 Her answer is, well, I, I, I see you.

00:29:08.460 I, I can relate.

00:29:09.500 I, I, I, I have empathy for you.

00:29:13.040 I've been there.

00:29:15.400 And none of that is true.

00:29:16.420 Of course, she has no empathy.

00:29:17.480 She hasn't really experienced any of this.

00:29:19.340 Um, but even if it were, that's not the point.

00:29:22.460 This is not what we need from you.

00:29:24.900 People do not look to politicians.

00:29:26.240 They don't look to the president wanting to feel like, oh, this person can relate to us.

00:29:31.560 But, and it's, it's kind of amazing that, uh, politicians like Kamala still don't understand

00:29:39.640 this when they have the example of Donald Trump.

00:29:44.040 They have this rather glaring example that I think shows pretty definitively that that's

00:29:51.480 not what the voters care about because Donald Trump did not grow up in a middle-class family

00:29:57.780 and has never, never claimed to.

00:29:59.280 He very clearly did not grow up middle-class.

00:30:00.840 He grew up rich.

00:30:01.960 He's been rich his whole life.

00:30:04.260 Uh, he's been very rich and very famous for most of his life.

00:30:09.640 Uh, he's lived a life that most people cannot relate to.

00:30:14.480 And he himself cannot personally relate to the lifestyles and, uh, and of, of, of middle-class

00:30:24.320 working-class people.

00:30:25.200 He can't personally relate to, he's never lived that life.

00:30:27.520 Um, and yet, working-class people love Trump.

00:30:34.140 So what should that tell you?

00:30:39.960 Well, for Kamala, it tells her that, well, working-class people are a bunch of racists 0.90

00:30:42.840 and they're terrible people and, and, and they need to be fixed. 0.89

00:30:45.700 I need to fix them.

00:30:46.440 And that's the lesson that she takes, which is why she misses the point.

00:30:53.060 But if she could see past that, which she can't, then one of the things she could learn

00:30:57.200 is that, oh, okay, well, actually the voters don't care about that.

00:30:59.140 Like, they don't need to feel like, as voters, we don't need to feel like we could be friends

00:31:03.880 with you.

00:31:04.260 I don't need to think that I could, it doesn't matter.

00:31:07.700 I don't need to know that you can relate to my struggles or what, it doesn't matter.

00:31:11.740 We don't care about that.

00:31:14.100 Um, the thing that's drawn people to Trump has always been, number one, they, they feel

00:31:18.500 that he's authentic.

00:31:19.160 He tells you what he thinks.

00:31:21.040 And number two, he, he projects the image of someone who, uh, you know, can just get things

00:31:26.240 done and is more pragmatic and will go in there and get the job done.

00:31:29.060 Um, okay, Doug Emhoff, the, uh, would-be first lady appeared on Jen Psaki's MSNBC show, or

00:31:38.200 I don't know, does she have a show now?

00:31:40.320 I don't know, but she was interviewing him and, uh, and during the course of the interview,

00:31:46.100 she said this, watch.

00:31:47.440 Important part, an interesting part of how people have talked about your role here is

00:31:50.840 how your role has reshaped the perception of masculinity.

00:31:54.400 And I'm not sure you planned on that, but you are a incredibly supportive spouse.

00:31:58.920 Has that been an evolution for you?

00:32:00.720 And do you think that's part of the role you might play, uh, as first gentleman?

00:32:05.480 It's funny.

00:32:06.240 I've started to think a lot about this.

00:32:08.560 I've always been like this.

00:32:10.080 My dad was like this.

00:32:11.460 Uh, so we hear this yet again.

00:32:13.180 Once again, we're told that Doug Emhoff has reshaped masculinity.

00:32:16.640 The guy who cheated on his first wife and got the nanny pregnant, that guy has reshaped 0.79

00:32:23.440 masculinity.

00:32:24.200 And the funny thing is that they say that he's reshaped it because he's so supportive of his

00:32:28.540 spouse. 0.99

00:32:30.080 But the way that he supported his last spouse was to have sex with the nanny and father 0.97

00:32:34.300 a child who mysteriously, we don't know what happened to that child, but I think we all 0.96

00:32:38.180 know.

00:32:39.960 Um, for all we know, he's supporting Kamala the same way for all we know, he's, uh, he's,

00:32:44.420 he's, they've got a new nanny that he's got his eyes on.

00:32:46.940 I mean, we, I don't know.

00:32:47.860 We have no idea.

00:32:48.460 There actually is no evidence that Emhoff supports Kamala other than the fact that he appears

00:32:55.020 on the campaign trail with her and smiles for the cameras, but that's what he has to

00:32:58.900 do.

00:32:59.280 I mean, what else could he do?

00:33:00.520 Even if he hates his wife, which he might or might not, we don't know, but either way,

00:33:06.800 he's not going to go in front of cameras and say that he's not going to announce that he

00:33:11.340 doesn't think his own wife should be president.

00:33:12.840 So he's doing what he has to do, like the spouse, like the spouses of all politicians.

00:33:19.440 He's doing the exact same thing that the spouse, whether man or a woman of every politician

00:33:24.000 in America does.

00:33:25.580 Okay.

00:33:26.040 Does that mean that they actually all have good marriages?

00:33:28.060 No, most of them don't.

00:33:29.840 I think we all understand that yet.

00:33:32.240 They project the image of, oh, I support them because what you have no choice.

00:33:35.880 You have to say that you don't get credit for that, but none of that really matters to

00:33:41.000 the media when they fawn over Emhoff and his supportiveness, because for them, what makes

00:33:45.840 him a good male role model is simply that he plays second fiddle to his wife.

00:33:51.020 That's it.

00:33:52.120 They don't actually care whether he's really supportive behind the scenes or anything.

00:33:55.980 They don't care. 0.99

00:33:57.440 They don't care if he's out having sex with a nanny again. 0.99

00:33:59.580 They don't care about that. 0.98

00:34:00.420 They want him to be the new icon of masculinity.

00:34:04.600 In fact, they're insisting that he already is.

00:34:07.420 They're trying to conjure this into reality.

00:34:09.220 But you notice, as always, it's like, it's, it's always the women, the liberal women who 0.99

00:34:14.920 are, um, who are hailing Doug Emhoff as this, this new image of masculinity that men are looking

00:34:23.260 up to.

00:34:23.700 No man is saying that no man is, is, is saying that I want to be like Doug Emhoff.

00:34:31.300 That's the guy I want to be like, I want to be like Doug.

00:34:33.620 No man is saying that anywhere.

00:34:37.440 It's all the women, not all the women, but to be clear, liberal women on TV are saying

00:34:42.700 that.

00:34:43.720 Um, and what they like about him is that he's a man with less power and prominence than

00:34:48.660 his wife.

00:34:49.080 That's it.

00:34:49.900 Doesn't really matter to them what kind of guy Emhoff actually is.

00:34:53.060 Um, that's why they look past the impregnating the nanny bits, which is like kind of a big 0.99

00:34:59.180 deal.

00:34:59.780 They look up, they gloss over it.

00:35:01.340 Doesn't matter.

00:35:01.960 None of that matters.

00:35:03.020 There's nothing about Emhoff himself as a man that they find impressive or desirable.

00:35:08.300 That's the point.

00:35:10.100 They are impressed because he is an unimpressive, unimposing lump on a log type of guy who just

00:35:17.640 sits there and lets the, the, uh, lets the woman be, take the lead. 1.00

00:35:21.360 And that's what they want.

00:35:23.460 Uh, that's what they want all men to be.

00:35:26.800 They want men to just sit by silently and obediently, obediently and accept second place, 0.94

00:35:33.640 play the backup role.

00:35:36.660 All right.

00:35:37.180 One of the, uh, moving on to this, one of the interesting things about the reaction to

00:35:41.780 my film, Am I Racist?

00:35:42.900 Is that as you've heard, of course, mainstream film critics won't review it.

00:35:46.920 And yet mainstream journalists have written many think pieces about it.

00:35:51.460 There have been, um, more think pieces about the film than reviews of it.

00:35:57.500 So our, our think piece to review ratio is maybe the highest in the history of cinema.

00:36:04.680 I'll have to check with Guinness on that, but I, but I, I feel like it's the highest.

00:36:08.500 And now we have yet another think piece.

00:36:10.120 This is from the New Yorker and credit to the New Yorker for, for covering the film.

00:36:14.620 Uh, I do give, I'm glad they did.

00:36:16.440 And I do give them credit for that.

00:36:19.320 Uh, even though the writer, Vincent Cunningham, it, it will shock you to learn, did not enjoy

00:36:24.920 the film.

00:36:25.840 So he didn't like it.

00:36:27.460 Doesn't seem like he liked it very much, but, uh, he did write about it.

00:36:31.540 It's a lengthy article.

00:36:32.380 If you go to New Yorker, the newyorker.com, you can see it.

00:36:35.540 Um, here's the headline.

00:36:36.960 Is Matt Walsh trying to make, am I racist the Borat of the right in his work with the

00:36:41.880 daily wire in a new movie?

00:36:42.840 The conservative podcaster and activist tries to expose the hypocrisies of the left.

00:36:47.420 It's the headline.

00:36:48.620 Uh, I'll read a little bit of this.

00:36:49.860 It says the movie directed by Justin Folk is supposed to be a comedic documentary about

00:36:54.040 the opportunistic follies of the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry.

00:36:57.420 Something a red-pilled Sacha Baron Cohen might make.

00:37:01.160 The podcaster and commentator Matt Walsh interviews professional anti-racists and eventually donning

00:37:04.940 a bad disguise, infiltrates DEI seminars and tries to push them toward absurdity.

00:37:11.240 Well, we already, we already have a problem here.

00:37:12.940 Not the part where he says that I'm a red-pilled Sacha Baron Cohen.

00:37:15.760 That's great.

00:37:16.380 I mean, that's maybe the most flattering compliment, uh, I've ever received in my career.

00:37:21.040 You know, that, uh, that part I like.

00:37:24.080 But the part where he says that in the film, I try to push these DEI people toward absurdity. 1.00

00:37:31.060 Well, no, I mean, you already don't understand the point of the movie because I don't push

00:37:34.660 them there.

00:37:35.600 Not really.

00:37:37.700 They're already there.

00:37:38.900 I'm just revealing the absurdity.

00:37:40.260 I'm not pushing them to it.

00:37:42.580 I'm just giving it a platform is all.

00:37:45.680 Uh, reading on a bit more, it says, um, skipping ahead a bit.

00:37:50.260 This is the first theatrical release by the Daily Wire in an earlier movie.

00:37:53.320 What is a woman from 2022, which, well, I think you already get that one too, also features

00:37:58.240 Walsh and was released directly to Daily Wire subscribers.

00:38:01.340 For the most, uh, part, Walsh is a small screen presence on his podcast, video clips of which

00:38:06.460 he posts on Facebook.

00:38:07.880 He's an often sincere, frankly, more moralizing presence.

00:38:12.300 Adults don't have time to be sick.

00:38:13.740 He advised recently taking sick days from work.

00:38:16.760 He added should be embarrassing.

00:38:19.140 He also wants to tell you here in 2024 what, uh, have been the negative effects of changing

00:38:23.840 the name of the football team in Washington, D.C. from the Redskins to the Commanders after

00:38:27.500 dropping the former name in 2020.

00:38:29.800 When Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill was recently jostled by Miami-Dade policemen

00:38:33.480 reliably, Walsh was there to break down the footage and show you how the whole thing was

00:38:37.080 Hill's fault.

00:38:38.100 Well, it was.

00:38:38.760 In the videos, he addresses the camera directly, lowering one eye or another toward the lens

00:38:43.240 whenever he gets an especially grave point to get across.

00:38:46.220 He usually wears a dad plaid shirt.

00:38:49.360 If you put him on mute, you might think he was one of the Prius driving lefties living

00:38:52.740 in Portland or Seattle, one of those whose hackles his whole career is organized around

00:38:56.900 raising.

00:38:58.040 Um, so a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with the movie here, of course.

00:39:01.980 Uh, I like how he says that I'm sincere and then immediately references my joke about how

00:39:09.360 adults should never be sick.

00:39:14.640 Walsh is usually a very sincere person.

00:39:17.380 For instance, he said that adults should never, ever be sick. 0.99

00:39:20.280 A joke that, of course, you know, of course, like millions of morons took entirely seriously. 0.96

00:39:26.220 Uh, yeah, guys, I, I literally think, I literally think that it's not ever okay to be sick when 0.96

00:39:32.820 you're an adult that under any circumstance, if you're dying of a communicable disease, if

00:39:38.540 you're in your final moments of life, I think you should drag yourself to work at, at Home

00:39:46.720 Depot and die on the job. 0.83

00:39:48.900 That is literally what I think, obviously, right?

00:39:51.300 I mean, of course that couldn't be comedic hyperbole, could it?

00:39:56.220 I must mean that totally liberal.

00:39:58.380 There could not possibly be even a shred of intentional hyperbole in that statement.

00:40:05.280 Yes, you're all right about that.

00:40:08.580 Um, so anyway, I also don't understand how wearing dad plaid, as he says, also makes it look like

00:40:16.660 your driver Prius, because those two aesthetics don't really go together, I would think, but

00:40:20.460 whatever.

00:40:21.400 Um, so then, uh, he goes on, and, uh, I'm not gonna read the whole thing, be a bit self-serving

00:40:28.560 too, but it's a good article, I think, uh, all things considered.

00:40:31.620 Talks about judged, which I like.

00:40:33.340 Um, instead, I think they're just two takeaways when I, when I read this article.

00:40:38.540 First of all, the article does the same thing that most of the articles in mainstream publications

00:40:44.500 have done when it comes to this movie.

00:40:46.820 He goes on to acknowledge, uh, later on in his piece that the Robin DiAngelo part of

00:40:52.320 the movie is effective.

00:40:54.200 I mean, he essentially acknowledges that it's effective.

00:40:56.140 He doesn't say that.

00:40:56.880 He says the scene is the biggest coup of the film.

00:40:59.460 Um, and then he describes what happens there, and then, by the end of the article, he does

00:41:08.020 this move that has now become familiar, where he disowns her.

00:41:11.580 He describes her work in this article as simplistic, overly binary, and patronizing.

00:41:18.860 And we've seen this over and over again.

00:41:20.720 The left deals with the film and the way that it embarrasses these people by disowning them.

00:41:25.820 Um, it's not just Robin DiAngelo, but all the people that appear in the film and make

00:41:29.140 fools of themselves, uh, what people like Vincent here do in the media is they say, well, yeah,

00:41:34.480 but they're, they're not, they're not really, they don't represent this really. 0.99

00:41:41.180 Which, by the way, it's a disingenuous move.

00:41:43.500 It's a bad faith move, but it does mean that Robin DiAngelo's career is over.

00:41:47.380 I mean, it's over.

00:41:48.560 We did end her career.

00:41:49.940 Um, she's been disowned by her own side.

00:41:52.800 And once that happens, then you're done.

00:41:55.240 Uh, that's it.

00:41:57.120 It's over.

00:41:58.460 Uh, you know, curtains.

00:42:00.660 And so that's a win.

00:42:03.000 I'll take that win.

00:42:04.440 And then there's this part.

00:42:05.520 I want to read.

00:42:05.920 It's kind of long, but this is the last part.

00:42:07.340 It's hard that I want to read, uh, because there's another point here.

00:42:10.960 So it says, toward the end of the movie, Walsh takes his act to two working class communities.

00:42:15.660 One's a largely white biker bar.

00:42:17.400 Don't tread on me.

00:42:18.180 A patch on somebody's jacket says, um, and then he describes the scene.

00:42:21.860 And then we go talk to, uh, black people in New Orleans.

00:42:24.220 He describes that.

00:42:25.600 So if you've seen the movie, you know those scenes.

00:42:28.420 Um, and then he says this.

00:42:31.240 These scenes are the most revealing of the film, but Walsh doesn't know why.

00:42:35.640 He thinks that he's merely pointing out how divorced the language of big anti-racism is

00:42:39.760 from the lives of everyday folks.

00:42:40.920 He misses, though, a grand irony.

00:42:43.380 Even when he's in character, supposedly parroting DEI, he is stunningly fluent in its rhythms.

00:42:49.200 None of the working class people profess to know what he means when he says structural. 0.97

00:42:52.740 The answer he offers would go over just fine in the same precincts of Twitter that Walsh

00:42:56.600 wants to troll.

00:42:58.020 This gives away the game, and it shows Walsh to be just as much of a grifter as the admittedly 0.92

00:43:01.920 quite shameless D'Angelo in her well-paid lesser-known ilk. 0.97

00:43:04.800 Just like them, he's playing to a small audience of largely white professionals, often deranged 1.00

00:43:10.160 by paying too much attention to the worst and stupidest parts of the internet. 0.99

00:43:13.600 If the high-priced workshop crowd has the left flank covered, Walsh is shoring up the 1.00

00:43:17.460 right.

00:43:18.280 But these two types often work at the same corporation or selective university and follow

00:43:22.140 the same Twitter accounts.

00:43:23.540 They clash over politics, then send their kids to the same schools.

00:43:26.620 Okay.

00:43:26.780 Some of that is just wrong.

00:43:28.940 I don't know what the hell you're talking about, that the people I'm talking to on the 0.52

00:43:32.280 right go to the same universities, they work at the same, what the hell are you talking 0.95

00:43:38.320 about?

00:43:40.160 No, that's not how it works, where you've got the left and right, and they work at the

00:43:44.840 same universities.

00:43:45.860 No, they don't.

00:43:47.000 No, they don't.

00:43:48.600 The left owns the university system almost entirely.

00:43:51.900 But anyway, so he says that the scenes with the bikers in the black community in New Orleans 0.78

00:43:59.000 are the most effective in the film.

00:44:00.960 But then he says, I don't know why.

00:44:02.660 I, as the person who made the film, I don't know why that's the case.

00:44:04.860 I don't understand my own point.

00:44:07.580 And then he goes on to describe what is the deliberate point of those scenes.

00:44:14.220 Yes, Vincent, exactly.

00:44:17.260 None of the working class people know what I'm talking about. 1.00

00:44:19.620 Yeah, that's the point.

00:44:24.160 This whole conversation is far outside the actual lives and experiences of normal people.

00:44:28.900 Yes, Vincent, good job.

00:44:31.980 Good job.

00:44:33.580 You got it.

00:44:35.140 Well done.

00:44:37.820 So this is another thing you see in some of the analysis of the film.

00:44:41.800 You get these people who are quite sure that they're more intelligent than me.

00:44:46.060 And so they say, well, here's the point of that scene.

00:44:49.200 But Walsh doesn't even understand it.

00:44:52.840 Or I've even read, in some cases, people who will point to one of the funny moments of the film.

00:44:56.840 And they'll say, well, that was funny, even though Walsh wasn't trying to be funny.

00:45:00.840 He doesn't understand why it's funny, but it was fun.

00:45:03.480 No, I meant for it to be funny.

00:45:05.180 And I meant to make the points that you're picking up.

00:45:08.560 I mean, you're picking up some other things that are just from your own delusional mind.

00:45:12.080 But 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.

00:45:23.900 So actually what you're doing, even if you don't mean to do it, is acknowledging some of the subtlety of the film.

00:45:32.020 Because we are not directly sermonizing.

00:45:35.440 That's what conservative entertainment usually does. 1.00

00:45:38.200 We deliberately chose not to do that.

00:45:42.740 And we are trying not to do that.

00:45:45.260 And so if you're picking up points in the movie and you're like, I don't even know if they meant to, that's, yes, there are supposed to be kind of like layers there that you can look at and talk about.

00:45:54.760 And all of it very intentional, in fact.

00:46:02.020 And 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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00:48:24.520 Now, let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:48:32.260 For our Daily Cancellation today, we turn to Stevie Nicks, who is, of course, the now 76-year-old lead singer of the band Fleetwood Mac.

00:48:38.720 Nicks just released a solo song for the first time in four years.

00:48:41.840 And this one, she says, is the most important song she's ever written.

00:48:45.700 And it's called The Lighthouse.

00:48:47.300 The Daily Wire reports, quote,

00:48:48.580 Nicks said she wrote the song following the Dobbs Supreme Court decision in 2022, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.

00:48:54.640 I find it very sad at 76 years old.

00:48:56.260 I had to see Roe v. Wade take it away, Nicks told people in an email interview.

00:49:00.380 Two years ago, when I realized the consequences of women's rights that are vanishing, I watched a lot of news and I was like a sponge. 0.98

00:49:05.660 It just went into me.

00:49:07.080 One morning I woke up, which I never write when I wake up in the morning.

00:49:09.800 And all of a sudden I went, I have my scars.

00:49:12.300 I have my scars.

00:49:13.060 So I just grabbed my notebook.

00:49:14.520 I started writing the whole thing.

00:49:15.560 She 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.

00:49:23.540 She was inspired in the middle of the night by the line, I have my scars.

00:49:26.780 By the most cliche, boring line.

00:49:29.660 A line that's appeared in 7 million other songs.

00:49:32.980 And she wakes up in the middle of the night feeling, oh my gosh, I got it.

00:49:36.460 Give me a piece of paper.

00:49:37.260 I got to write that down.

00:49:40.400 What other brilliant metaphors have you been inspired by?

00:49:45.080 Did you wake up in the morning?

00:49:47.040 Your love is deep like an ocean.

00:49:48.940 Give me a notepad.

00:49:49.520 I got to write that down.

00:49:50.220 No one has ever written that line before.

00:49:53.720 I compared love to an ocean.

00:49:55.500 No one's ever thought of that.

00:49:56.480 I compare pain to scars.

00:49:59.540 No one's ever thought of anything like that before.

00:50:03.100 Anyway, so this is her song, her ode to abortion.

00:50:06.560 And 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.

00:50:18.660 So she sacrificed her child on the altar of career success by her own admission.

00:50:23.560 And now she's old and she's alone and nobody cares about her music really anymore.

00:50:28.280 And so it's a tragic tale.

00:50:30.060 One that, with a bit of self-reflection, could make for a powerful, mournful song.

00:50:36.720 But Stevie Nicks is not the kind to engage in self-reflection.

00:50:43.620 So instead, here's the song that she came up with.

00:50:46.820 We'll play as much of this as I can stomach.

00:50:48.940 Go ahead.

00:50:49.240 Don't close your eyes and hope for the best.

00:51:01.400 Don't leave it alone in the final hours.

00:51:05.760 They'll take your soul.

00:51:08.320 They'll take your power. 0.76

00:51:12.020 Don't close your eyes and hope for the best.

00:51:17.400 The dark is out there.

00:51:19.920 The light is going fast.

00:51:22.000 Until the final hours.

00:51:24.480 Your life's forever changed.

00:51:27.780 And all the rides that you had yesterday.

00:51:32.400 I'm taking away.

00:51:35.160 All right.

00:51:37.460 That was two years.

00:51:38.680 Two years in the lab.

00:51:39.900 Two years in the lab with a pen and paper.

00:51:42.960 Coming up with that song.

00:51:45.140 The first thing you notice about the song is that it's bad.

00:51:47.960 I mean, it's just a bad song.

00:51:49.520 It's, you know, judging from a purely artistic perspective, 0.99

00:51:52.500 it is, you know, pure crap. 1.00

00:51:54.480 The singing is subpar. 1.00

00:51:56.940 Not even a catchy melody.

00:51:58.480 Like, there's no melody.

00:51:59.700 The lyrics are trite and cliched.

00:52:02.160 Again, the first line of the song,

00:52:03.380 I have my scars, you have yours.

00:52:05.480 It's like Papa Roach circa 2002 levels of poetry we're dealing with here.

00:52:10.460 And so we could use this as a jumping off point to have a conversation once again

00:52:13.720 about how the left can't make art anymore.

00:52:16.740 But we just talked about that last week,

00:52:18.220 so I'm not going to hammer that point again.

00:52:20.640 I want you to notice something else.

00:52:21.860 Let's go back to the lyrics one more time.

00:52:24.060 She sings,

00:52:24.800 I have my scars, you have yours.

00:52:25.860 Don't let them take your power.

00:52:26.880 Don't leave it alone in the final hours.

00:52:28.280 They'll take your soul.

00:52:28.960 They'll take your power. 0.76

00:52:29.740 Don't close your eyes and hope for the best.

00:52:31.100 The dark is out there.

00:52:31.880 The light is going fast.

00:52:33.100 Until the final hours,

00:52:34.000 your life's forever changed,

00:52:35.120 and all the rights that you had yesterday are taken away,

00:52:37.220 and now you're afraid.

00:52:37.980 You should be afraid.

00:52:39.200 You should be afraid.

00:52:40.020 That's a real inspirational message, by the way.

00:52:42.820 You should be afraid.

00:52:46.320 Now, again, leave aside the fact that a third grader could write better lyrics than this.

00:52:49.560 She rhymes the word power twice in one verse.

00:52:52.040 She uses the phrase these final hours twice.

00:52:54.460 She rhymes afraid with afraid, and then again with afraid.

00:52:57.800 Very poor writing.

00:52:59.360 But that's not really the point.

00:53:01.020 Instead, think about this.

00:53:01.880 If Stevie Nicks didn't come out and tell us that this is a pro-abortion song,

00:53:06.240 you would never know it.

00:53:08.160 There's nothing in the song,

00:53:09.580 and again, leaving the music video aside where you see people holding signs,

00:53:12.240 like there's nothing in the song itself that even hints in that direction,

00:53:16.080 except for the line about taking rights away.

00:53:18.780 But that's as explicit as it gets,

00:53:21.320 and that's a line that could, of course, refer to anything.

00:53:24.160 Now, sure, if you're a real poet or lyricist,

00:53:27.860 then you don't want to be too on the nose,

00:53:30.100 but you should be able to communicate your message

00:53:33.560 even without spelling it out literally.

00:53:36.100 The audience should know what the hell you're trying to say.

00:53:39.180 If the message of the song is,

00:53:40.740 hey, abortion is great and we should do abortions, 1.00

00:53:43.120 then you have failed if people cannot understand that message

00:53:47.280 just by listening to the song.

00:53:48.540 If you have to explain in an interview that that's what you meant,

00:53:51.120 then the song didn't do its job.

00:53:53.780 And that's the case here,

00:53:54.820 because you never know from these lyrics

00:53:56.340 and from the metaphors and imagery that she uses

00:53:58.460 that it's about abortion.

00:54:01.080 She's got to do the interview in People Magazine

00:54:02.720 to explain the point that she was trying to make.

00:54:04.980 The song itself cannot speak for itself.

00:54:08.040 Why is that?

00:54:08.920 Well, because Stevie Nicks has lost whatever artistic talent

00:54:11.680 she had a long time ago,

00:54:13.080 and so she's just not a good,

00:54:14.440 she's not an artist anymore.

00:54:16.420 But the other problem is that it's,

00:54:19.760 and this is the thing,

00:54:20.460 it's not possible to write an inspirational song about abortion.

00:54:27.800 It's not really possible to write a positive,

00:54:30.040 like a song that has a positive view of abortion,

00:54:32.880 which is what she's attempting here.

00:54:36.800 Plenty of songs have dealt with this subject,

00:54:39.160 but they're always sad and tragic

00:54:41.640 because abortion is a sad and tragic thing.

00:54:44.040 And even in cases where the person who wrote the song

00:54:47.220 isn't pro-life,

00:54:49.420 still, songs that are explicitly about abortion

00:54:52.180 always end up sounding pro-life.

00:54:55.500 And there's a million examples of this,

00:54:57.060 so just, we'll go through a couple.

00:54:58.580 For example, back in the 90s,

00:55:00.180 the song Brick by Ben Folds Five.

00:55:02.820 And the song is about the lead singer

00:55:04.420 taking his girlfriend to get an abortion.

00:55:06.380 Now, I don't think it's intended to be a pro-life anthem.

00:55:09.780 I mean, I'm pretty sure the lead singer

00:55:10.940 is probably pro-abortion,

00:55:12.260 and yet, listening to the song,

00:55:14.620 you come away with the impression

00:55:15.900 that abortion is a sad, mournful sort of thing.

00:55:19.320 Whether or not the writer of the song

00:55:20.760 wants you to feel that way,

00:55:22.460 you still do if you listen to the song.

00:55:25.940 The 90s had a bunch of songs like that.

00:55:28.540 The Goo Goo Dolls had a song called Slide

00:55:30.340 that a lot of people don't know

00:55:31.500 is actually about abortion,

00:55:32.400 but if you listen to the lyrics, you can tell.

00:55:34.820 So the second verse,

00:55:36.340 don't you love the life you killed,

00:55:37.460 the priest is on the phone, 0.97

00:55:38.520 your father hit the wall,

00:55:39.520 your ma disowned you,

00:55:40.660 don't suppose I'll ever know

00:55:42.380 what it means to be a man,

00:55:43.500 it's something I can't change.

00:55:44.920 So it's pretty clear what that song is about.

00:55:48.420 Don't you love the life you killed?

00:55:49.800 Like, it's right there.

00:55:50.460 When you listen to the lyrics,

00:55:52.020 once again,

00:55:53.820 the lead singer

00:55:54.760 of Goo Goo Dolls,

00:55:56.440 I don't know if he's conservative or not,

00:55:58.120 he's probably not,

00:55:59.560 probably not pro-life,

00:56:00.940 but it sounds like a pro-life song.

00:56:03.740 That's what happens

00:56:04.620 when you try to honestly

00:56:05.860 and artistically deal

00:56:07.820 with this subject.

00:56:09.120 It is unavoidable.

00:56:11.140 If you made a song

00:56:12.340 with an obviously pro-abortion slant,

00:56:15.520 where it's made clear

00:56:18.580 that that's the point of the song,

00:56:19.900 it would sound psychotic.

00:56:21.380 It would be like a song

00:56:22.200 celebrating pancreatic cancer.

00:56:23.840 It just wouldn't,

00:56:24.540 it wouldn't make sense.

00:56:25.360 And that's why,

00:56:26.280 again,

00:56:26.580 even pop stars

00:56:27.440 who are rabidly pro-abortion

00:56:29.300 end up making pro-life songs

00:56:32.680 when they don't mean to.

00:56:33.780 Think about Madonna

00:56:34.520 with the 80s hit

00:56:35.960 Papa Don't Preach.

00:56:36.880 The chorus of that song,

00:56:38.060 Papa Don't Preach,

00:56:38.660 I'm in Trouble Deep,

00:56:39.660 but I made up my mind,

00:56:40.720 I'm keeping my baby.

00:56:42.640 Why does she keep the baby? 1.00

00:56:44.540 Well,

00:56:44.820 because the song is a,

00:56:46.100 it's like a dance,

00:56:47.060 you're supposed to dance to it.

00:56:48.220 And it would be deranged

00:56:50.460 if the chorus was

00:56:51.840 Papa Don't Preach,

00:56:52.540 I'm in Trouble Deep,

00:56:53.300 I made up my mind, 1.00

00:56:53.860 I'm killing my baby. 0.99

00:56:56.040 That would be just jarring artistically, 0.99

00:56:58.680 even for people

00:56:59.260 who are pro-abortion,

00:57:00.180 especially for them, actually.

00:57:01.300 So, the only way

00:57:03.260 to make a pro-abortion song

00:57:05.940 is to never say anything

00:57:07.860 in the song

00:57:08.780 that is actually pro-abortion.

00:57:11.620 Like, if you actually deal

00:57:13.460 with the subject in the song,

00:57:15.600 the audience will come away from it

00:57:18.280 thinking like,

00:57:19.040 oh, abortion's pretty sad.

00:57:20.640 That's, wow, that's tough.

00:57:21.920 That's a terrible thing.

00:57:24.660 So, if you want to keep it pro-abortion, 0.86

00:57:26.580 you have to talk about

00:57:27.520 lighthouses and scars

00:57:29.120 and, you know,

00:57:30.220 fighting for rights

00:57:31.180 or whatever,

00:57:31.880 but you can never hint lyrically

00:57:33.520 at the actual subject.

00:57:35.440 The moment you make

00:57:36.080 the subject clear,

00:57:37.400 the song automatically

00:57:38.660 sounds pro-life,

00:57:40.620 whether you want it to or not.

00:57:43.960 As always,

00:57:44.840 abortion advocacy

00:57:45.620 must never sound

00:57:47.340 like abortion advocacy.

00:57:49.940 And that is why

00:57:51.040 Stevie Nicks

00:57:51.680 and her pro-abortion song

00:57:53.200 that doesn't sound

00:57:54.000 like a pro-abortion song

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