The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1455 - How Dirty Union Greed Is Holding The American People Hostage

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, there are multiple major catastrophes unfolding across the country

00:00:03.880 and the world as we come to the final days of the Biden-Harris administration. These are all

00:00:07.860 direct results of the Biden-Harris administration and their historic incompetence. Also,

00:00:12.320 J.D. Vance turns in a masterful debate performance last night. One of the subjects covered in the

00:00:16.080 debate is the so-called childcare crisis. But is childcare the kind of problem that the federal

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00:01:54.340 One of the oldest cliches in Hollywood is that if you want a story involving insane levels of

00:01:59.560 corruption and over-the-top mob tactics, you should probably have a lot of dock workers in 1.00

00:02:04.780 your film. Some of the most famous movies ever made, like On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando,

00:02:09.500 made use of this conceit involving a longshoreman. For generations, everyone's understood that this

00:02:15.200 industry functions a bit like a fiefdom, independent of the rest of the country. It promotes from within,

00:02:20.600 it protects its own, and when it wants something, it's not afraid to shut down the U.S. economy in

00:02:25.540 order to get it. Over the years, various presidents have had to tangle with the dock workers and their 0.90

00:02:30.940 unions. Some of these presidents, like FDR and Obama, have granted dock workers massive concessions.

00:02:36.400 Other presidents, like George W. Bush, went to court and used the Taft-Hartley Act to end strikes that

00:02:42.100 were costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars a day. But no administration in the history of this

00:02:47.040 country has adopted the approach that the Biden-Harris administration is now taking. Right now, without

00:02:53.020 any objection from the White House whatsoever, a 78-year-old union boss named Harold Daggett is proudly

00:02:59.360 shaking down the entire country. He's going on television wearing gold medallions and flaunting his

00:03:05.020 $700,000 a year salary as his union, the 50,000-member International Longshoremen's Association, shuts down

00:03:13.240 36 ports, including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Now, these ports taken together

00:03:19.020 handle more than 50% of the imports and exports to this country. The cost to the U.S. economy is more

00:03:25.640 than $4 billion a day. And very soon, the shutdown could lead to shortages and mass layoffs. And Harold

00:03:33.740 Daggett has made it very clear that he doesn't care about any of these effects. He doesn't care what

00:03:38.780 happens to millions of Americans as a result of this strike. He doesn't care if you lose your job

00:03:42.840 and your family and your children suffer. It doesn't matter to him. All that he cares about

00:03:47.500 is enriching himself. And he's been very clear about that. Watch.

00:03:50.380 Are you worried that this strike? They hired the Capitol to settle this thing. Are you worried that

00:03:55.920 this strike is going to hurt the everyday American, the farmers that need to reach the export market?

00:04:00.880 They're telling me that they're going to hurt through all of this. Now you start to realize

00:04:03.280 who the longshoremen are, right? People never gave a s*** about us until now, when they finally

00:04:10.080 realized that the chain is being broke now. Cars won't come in. Food won't come in. Clothing

00:04:17.160 won't come in. You know how many people depend on our jobs? Half the world. And it's time for them

00:04:23.400 and time for Washington to put so much pressure on them to take care of us because we took care of

00:04:28.920 them. And we're here 135 years and brought them where they are today. And they don't want to share.

00:04:36.580 So you notice there's no rational argument here. He's not arguing that dock workers deserve higher

00:04:41.060 salaries because they can't make ends meet or because they're doing such a great job

00:04:45.960 or because they're so efficient or any of that. He's saying that they should receive higher salaries

00:04:50.180 because they're holding America hostage. They have the power, so we need to pay the ransom.

00:04:56.060 And he also says that nobody cared about us, which is like, dude, what do you want? What do you want

00:05:02.880 everyone to do? Are we supposed to throw you a parade every day because you're doing your job?

00:05:06.900 Everybody is doing their own jobs and, you know, taking care of themselves and in their own lives

00:05:12.800 and their own families. What are you doing to show your appreciation for all the other people that

00:05:18.220 are doing important jobs to you in your life? What are you doing for them? Have you thrown them a

00:05:22.400 parade? Have you told them how grateful you are for them? No. Now, when you look at these specific

00:05:28.580 demands that this union is making, the absurdity becomes even more apparent. Daggett wants the ports to

00:05:35.300 give dock workers a 77% pay raise to $69 an hour after turning down a 50% pay raise. That's far more

00:05:45.120 than dock workers make on the West Coast. Daggett also wants more container royalties, which gives

00:05:50.220 money to longshoremen even if they're not working. And he wants a complete ban on any forms of automation

00:05:55.880 at ports. Now, previously, I've talked about the rise of automation and how it's a threat to many

00:06:00.480 Americans' jobs. There are obviously a lot of important concerns as far as how automation is used

00:06:05.220 and how many jobs is allowed to replace and all of that. But in this context, this blanket demand

00:06:10.760 that no automation is used at all is a dead giveaway. It's evidence that these dock workers don't care

00:06:16.680 about the economy at all or remaining competitive with what other countries are doing. Here's a look

00:06:21.540 at what they're doing in ports in China, just to give you some idea. And you can see the footage

00:06:28.480 there. They still have people working there, as you can see, but they're using cellular connections

00:06:34.060 and computers to remotely unload and offload the cargo. In many cases, that's safer, faster,

00:06:40.700 cheaper than having humans do it. Now, we don't have any of this, and it's because of unions. These

00:06:46.720 unions are a big part of why U.S. ports are so inefficient compared to ports all over the world.

00:06:51.300 As recently as 2020, the World Bank found there was not a single U.S. port that ranked in the top

00:06:56.540 50 global ports in terms of getting a ship in and out of port quickly and affordably.

00:07:02.000 Not a single one. Overall, our ports are about as half as efficient as global ports on average.

00:07:08.920 And now the union representing the workers at these ports are demanding a massive raise.

00:07:12.360 They want to raise as a reward for being worse than so many other ports in the world.

00:07:20.920 And they also want to ban on any form of technology that could make the ports more efficient.

00:07:24.460 Now, if the Biden administration wanted to put an end to this, they could. They could

00:07:28.820 do what Bush did and take this union to court. They could apply public pressure. They could

00:07:33.180 threaten to repeal other laws on the books that already benefit the dock workers' unions.

00:07:38.360 There's something called the Jones Act, for example, requires that all goods transported

00:07:42.140 between U.S. ports by water are carried on ships that are built in the U.S. and crewed by Americans.

00:07:47.840 This leads to hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs, but unions love the law because it means

00:07:51.940 more union jobs are created. Of course, you know, that law won't change and no one in the Biden

00:07:56.740 administration wants it to change. They don't want to upset Harold Daggett, someone the DOJ once

00:08:03.240 accused of being an associate of a mafia family. And he has quite a life story, by the way. The New York

00:08:07.980 Post reports, quote, Daggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged him

00:08:12.320 with racketeering. During the course of trial, one of Daggett's co-defendants, Lawrence Ricci,

00:08:17.160 an alleged major mob figure, disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposing in the trunk of a

00:08:22.640 car outside a New Jersey diner. Ricci's death remained unsolved, though speculation circulated

00:08:28.000 that he was killed after refusing to plead guilty to avoid news reports of the trial. Daggett was

00:08:33.620 acquitted. Of course he was. So Harold Daggett beat that racketeering rap. We have no idea how he

00:08:41.080 managed to do that. One can only speculate. And now he's holding the U.S. economy hostage.

00:08:45.580 Change. Ships are having to reroute to the West Coast in order to prevent economic calamity,

00:08:50.880 all because of this guy. It's quite a recovery for Harold Daggett's career. A guy who, again,

00:08:56.960 is making $700,000 a year. For the rest of us, it's a crisis that has no real precedent in the past

00:09:05.580 several decades. And this is just one of the several disasters that are unfolding in the final days of

00:09:12.960 the Biden-Harris administration. And I say that, by the way, there's another theory with the ports issue

00:09:20.140 that this is all a big setup. It's a big stage play. And the end has already been determined ahead of

00:09:26.220 time. And they're just doing all of this so that Biden can come in and Harris can come in and work out

00:09:32.280 a deal, a deal that's already been determined, and then say, look, I saved the U.S. economy.

00:09:36.340 That's possible, too. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's going on here. It is interesting

00:09:40.940 that this guy is so willingly playing the role of, like, a supervillain. I mean, he's basically,

00:09:46.780 that one clip we play is not even, it's not even the worst of it. I mean, this guy is on TV

00:09:52.280 proudly saying, like, he's going to hurt you and your family. He doesn't care about anybody.

00:09:56.680 It's full-on Batman supervillain stuff. When you see that, you think, like, this is a weird

00:10:06.040 performance, especially if you want the people, you know, America on your side. No one's on your

00:10:10.780 side when you're promising to hurt us all and our families. So is it all a big setup? I don't know.

00:10:16.340 But what we do know is that there are crises unfolding all across the country and the world.

00:10:22.180 Yesterday, Iran launched a volley of more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israel.

00:10:27.700 This is the second direct attack by Iran against Israel in just the last few months.

00:10:32.960 It's put us much closer to World War III than we've been in recent history. And it comes just a year

00:10:37.540 after the Biden administration's national security advisor bragged that the Middle East was quieter

00:10:42.300 than it's been in two decades. Watch.

00:10:44.780 And what we said is we want to depressurize, de-escalate, and ultimately integrate the Middle 1.00

00:10:53.060 East region. The war in Yemen is in its 19-month truce. For now, the Iranian attacks against U.S.

00:10:59.920 forces have stopped. Our presence in Iraq is stable. I emphasize for now because all of that can 0.98

00:11:05.060 change. And the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.

00:11:10.860 So a week after Jake Sullivan made that claim, Hamas terrorists, backed by Iran, committed a

00:11:17.640 massacre in Israel. And now rockets are flying back and forth. And despite all of this, Jake

00:11:22.120 Sullivan still has his job. He was not fired. He wasn't run out of Washington after making it

00:11:26.200 abundantly clear that he has no idea what's happening in the Middle East, which you'd think

00:11:29.680 would disqualify him from being a national security advisor. They forced Mike Flynn out of a job

00:11:34.940 national security advisor after, what, three weeks. And then you have someone like Jake Sullivan,

00:11:41.720 who's obviously incompetent to the point of being dangerous, and he suffers no consequences 0.53

00:11:45.560 whatsoever. Again, nothing like this happened during the four years of the Trump administration.

00:11:51.100 This level of international chaos and complete ineptitude simply was not present. Iran was not 0.99

00:11:57.700 launching rockets directly into Israel, just like Russia was not sending tanks directly into Ukraine.

00:12:02.120 Are Iran and Russia taking advantage of the fact that the brain of the current US president is

00:12:07.720 basically applesauce at this point? It seems like a valid theory, especially since the Biden

00:12:12.740 administration has no alternative hypothesis for what's going on. If you ask them, everything's fine

00:12:17.680 until suddenly it isn't. That's the same story we're seeing in North Carolina. As I discussed

00:12:23.140 yesterday, after failing to evacuate residents from the western portion of the state,

00:12:26.880 the federal government is now failing to help many of the survivors. Yesterday, I read an email on

00:12:32.920 the show that came from someone named Jason, who's from the rural area of Ash County. And he reported

00:12:39.600 that FEMA was nowhere in sight. So here's an update that he sent me last night. Quote, I just got home

00:12:44.460 from volunteering with a search and rescue team in Lansing, which is one of the flooded rural towns.

00:12:49.920 Funny thing is the FEMA people showed up today, but they're worthless. We ran into a bunch while we were

00:12:54.240 delivering water and generators. They were just walking around, making sure that people were still

00:12:58.260 in the house. So the federal government is still failing to help people in the most devastated areas

00:13:04.960 from this storm. And communications are still spotty, in part because the government didn't want to

00:13:10.220 spend any money on Elon Musk's Starlink system because they have a vendetta against Elon Musk.

00:13:16.160 As a result, private citizens are now installing Starlink systems in the area themselves.

00:13:20.680 The journalist Nick Sartor just reported that first responders still do not have reliable

00:13:25.380 communications in North Carolina after four days. He uploaded this footage of three North Carolina

00:13:31.520 state police units, giving him a police escort so that he can deploy Starlink systems for others to

00:13:37.620 use. And he added that the police are, quote, literally using my Windows Starlink to communicate

00:13:43.500 with each other. Watch.

00:13:49.660 What I'm trying to do is get the Starlink in just because I want to make a point that they're

00:13:54.200 literally the only reason that we can connect with our convoy is because we've got a Starlink

00:13:59.300 sitting in the window.

00:13:59.880 So the federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars to prepare for disasters

00:14:11.220 like this, ostensibly so that vital communications equipment and supplies are available within hours.

00:14:17.400 But they haven't been doing that. For the past several days, random people, citizen journalists

00:14:21.800 and volunteers have been doing a better job than the government, than the government agency that

00:14:26.300 supposedly specializes in exactly this, in disaster relief. So wherever you look, whether it's the

00:14:34.780 Middle East or North Carolina or the nation's ports and everywhere in between, you'll find an 0.99

00:14:40.580 ongoing once-in-a-lifetime disaster that's threatening to spiral even further out of control.

00:14:47.380 This is what the country and the world look like at the end of the Biden-Harris term.

00:14:52.660 There are multiple catastrophes happening all at once.

00:14:57.660 I mean, it's impossible for anyone to deny that the world is a measurably worse and more dangerous

00:15:02.060 place today than it was when they took office. Everybody knows it. There's no way of denying it.

00:15:07.820 We're all seeing it. We're all living it right now. Even Kamala Harris knows it.

00:15:12.700 That's why she had to duck the first question of the presidential debate when she was asked whether

00:15:16.100 Americans are better off now than they were four years ago. 0.96

00:15:18.340 I mean, they're not. This is the Biden-Harris legacy. And it'll either end in January or

00:15:26.740 inevitably, these people will lead us into a major catastrophe that we can't come back from.

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00:15:58.100 get the outcomes they want. And here's the frightening part. If one party controls the House, Senate,

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00:17:00.580 slash Walsh today. So the VP debate last night, I thought that J.D. Vance was spectacular. You know,

00:17:10.040 and that's what most people on the right are saying. And you might say that, well, of course we were going

00:17:16.080 to say that. But, you know, I for one have shown a willingness to admit when a Republican performs

00:17:25.540 poorly in a debate. And in this case, he just performed really well. I mean, I'm not exaggerating

00:17:32.120 when I say it's maybe the best debate performance I've seen in my lifetime. I can't think of a better

00:17:38.080 one. There's nothing that comes to mind. Certainly it's the best in the past decade or more.

00:17:45.180 Vance is so much better at this than Tim Walls. That was clear last night. He's so much better at

00:17:50.760 it than Kamala Harris. And he's also much better at it than Donald Trump. Vance can do the thing that

00:17:56.700 Trump can't, which is deliver a focused, substantive answer that stays on message. You know, Trump,

00:18:04.320 of course, has a much more freewheeling kind of style, which has clearly served him well. But in a

00:18:10.860 debate, in this kind of debate, it's not always effective. The best debate style is what we saw

00:18:15.440 from Vance last night. Calm, cool, collected, very smooth, very eloquent, substantive. And that's what

00:18:23.520 he delivered. I thought it was tremendous. As we talked about on Backstage last night, the media and

00:18:27.660 the Democrats really unintentionally did Vance a favor. They set him up for success because for weeks and

00:18:33.780 weeks, they'd been blabbering about how Vance is weird and he's awkward and he's just this strange

00:18:40.840 guy. They've been saying that's how they branded him. The branding was totally divorced from reality.

00:18:47.240 There have been plenty of awkward politicians. We know that. Vance is not really one of them.

00:18:54.420 There have been weird politicians. Vance was on the stage with a weird politician yesterday. But he's not weird

00:19:01.580 himself. He is, if anything, aggressively normal. If you want to insult him in a way that has some relation to

00:19:11.780 reality, you would say that he's boring. Right? You'd say he's too normal, if anything. There's nothing exciting

00:19:20.960 about him. Now, I don't find him boring personally, but I'm saying that if you were trying to criticize

00:19:28.920 him in any kind of honest way, that's the direction you would go. But instead, they called him weird.

00:19:36.300 So that's where they set the bar. He's this weird, awkward guy. That means that if you're a kind of

00:19:43.620 clueless, kind of ignorant, not paying attention sort of American, then you turn on the debate last 0.99

00:19:51.020 night expecting to see this weird, bizarre, awkward, cringey freak up there. And instead, you get this 1.00

00:19:59.120 dude who's totally comfortable, doesn't break a sweat, handling the debate with ease. And so now

00:20:06.000 you're even more impressed. They set Vance up to be more impressive than he actually is. And I think

00:20:12.260 that he's already very impressive. So that was interesting to see. It was a narrative versus

00:20:18.320 reality moment that I think was extremely favorable to J.D. Vance. So all that to say, Vance won the

00:20:27.220 debate easily. Walls did better than Kamala. He actually did better than I thought that he would

00:20:34.220 in general. He didn't totally melt down. He had a few rough moments in there, a few moments that

00:20:41.040 didn't go well for him, especially when he was asked about his lies about going to China and that

00:20:47.320 sort of thing. Some of the embellishments from his personal history, that was the closest that

00:20:54.500 Walls came to really melting down. He was a deer in headlights, which is fascinating that he didn't

00:21:00.200 have an answer ready for that stuff, but he didn't. And that was a rough moment. Aside from that,

00:21:06.460 Walls, he was fine. It was like a C plus. I give him a C plus for Walls. I graded about a 78%,

00:21:15.340 let's say. But Vance was a 95%. And that was Walls' problem. Overall, he did okay, but he's

00:21:24.400 competing against someone who's an A plus. And that means that all told, the debate itself was

00:21:32.420 pretty boring. You know, when you got a high C plus against an A plus, kind of makes for a boring

00:21:40.040 debate. And I have to say, I don't say that as a complaint. I kind of liked that it was boring.

00:21:46.580 I think I miss boring debates. And I think a lot of Americans feel this way. I want politics in

00:21:53.860 general to be boring again. And you make it boring by having just competent, serious people

00:22:02.440 in these positions. And so I think that's good. It was kind of refreshing.

00:22:12.920 Yeah. When you think back to the least boring debate I've ever seen was the first Trump debate

00:22:21.600 against Biden or the only Trump debate against Biden. To see the president of the United States

00:22:26.680 just disintegrating right in front of us, it was not boring. I'll say that for it. It certainly

00:22:35.340 was not boring. It was the most fascinating. I couldn't take my eyes off it. I think we all,

00:22:40.500 that's one of those debates you're going to remember for the rest of your life because I'd never

00:22:44.460 say anything like it, that debate with a president who cannot speak. So it was fascinating. It wasn't

00:22:55.660 boring, but that's what makes this debate refreshing. It's like, okay, there's just

00:23:00.940 two people answering the questions. That's fine. So there weren't many fireworks. It was a very

00:23:08.460 friendly debate. Vance was being strategically nice, which was not emotionally satisfying for

00:23:15.160 me to watch, but I get the tactic. Probably the right call, all things considered. The closest thing

00:23:20.660 to fireworks was probably this moment where Vance fact checks the moderators who were trying to fact

00:23:26.660 check him on the Haitian immigrant problem. Let's watch that. And just to clarify for our viewers,

00:23:35.020 Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status,

00:23:41.120 temporary protected status. Well, Margaret, but thank you. Senator, we have so much to get to.

00:23:46.260 Margaret, I think it's important because we're going to turn out of the economy. Thank you.

00:23:49.140 Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren't going to fact check. And since you're fact checking me,

00:23:53.620 I think it's important to say what's actually going on. So there's an application called the CBP

00:23:58.480 One app, where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole

00:24:03.940 and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand. That is not a person

00:24:11.840 coming in, applying for a green card and waiting for 10 years. That is the facilitation of a legal

00:24:16.800 immigration, Margaret, by our own leadership. Thank you, Senator, for describing the legal process.

00:24:21.480 We have so much to get to, Senator. Those laws have been on the books since 1990.

00:24:26.720 Thank you, gentlemen. The CBP One app has not been on the books since 1990.

00:24:31.260 Gentlemen, the audience can't hear you because your mics are cut.

00:24:37.580 So that was very good. Not by the moderators, that they look like fools, but from Vance jumping in 0.97

00:24:46.940 there and fact checking the fact check was great. That was what I was missing from Trump's last 0.95

00:24:52.120 debate. He never really took it to the moderators, never called them out. And he was getting dishonestly

00:24:57.840 quote unquote fact check again and again and again. And Trump never pointed that out. He never said,

00:25:02.940 hey, you're fact checking me, but not him. Also, by the way, your fact checks are inaccurate.

00:25:06.940 So I was hoping Vance would go this direction and he did. And it was good. It was also the last time

00:25:13.820 in the debate that the moderators tried to do a dishonest fact check of Vance. So the move worked.

00:25:19.760 I mean, it paid off. It had the desired effect. And that was good. I thought one of Vance's best

00:25:26.220 moments was this, where he's talking about the very difficult job that Walls was facing during the

00:25:35.160 debates, given who he was there to represent. Let's watch that. If you notice what Governor

00:25:41.420 Walsh just did is he said, first of all, Donald Trump has to listen to the experts. And then when

00:25:45.740 he acknowledged that the experts screwed up, he said, well, Donald Trump didn't do nearly as good

00:25:49.160 of a job as the statistics show that he did. No, that's a gross generalization.

00:25:51.520 So what Tim Walz is doing, and I honestly, Tim, I think you got a tough job here because you've

00:25:56.680 got to play whack-a-mole. You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver rising take-home

00:26:00.880 pay, which of course he did. You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver

00:26:04.540 lower inflation, which of course he did. And then you've simultaneously got to defend Kamala

00:26:09.380 Harris's atrocious economic record, which has made gas, groceries, and housing unaffordable

00:26:14.660 for American citizens. I was raised by a woman who would sometimes go into medical debt so that she 0.99

00:26:20.740 could put food on the table in our household. I know what it's like to not be able to afford

00:26:26.060 the things that you need to afford. We can do so much better. To all of you watching,

00:26:30.660 we can get back to an America that's affordable again. We just got to get back to common sense

00:26:35.180 economic principles. I hope we have a conversation on healthcare then.

00:26:39.580 So that was a very skillful answer. And this is where Vance shines, when he's delivering a lot of

00:26:45.060 information and covering a lot of ground, but doing it smoothly and efficiently. What we heard

00:26:53.000 there was a pretty searing, comprehensive indictment of the Kamala administration in about 60 seconds,

00:26:58.120 which isn't easy to do. And that's why I actually thought Vance's most impressive moment happened

00:27:03.360 at the very beginning of the debate. I don't think this moment made a lot of people's highlight

00:27:08.940 reels, but it was Vance's very first answer, which I thought was kind of a masterclass. And I don't

00:27:16.860 have the clip, but the debate started with a question about the war in the Middle East.

00:27:23.620 And Vance begins his answer by saying that he wants to introduce himself first.

00:27:33.580 And then he'll answer, then he goes into his backstory about growing up in Ohio and all of that.

00:27:38.940 Kind of giving the back of the book summary of hillbilly elegy, essentially.

00:27:46.520 And when he first started his answer and he said he wanted to introduce himself,

00:27:51.980 I thought, oh no, JD, what are you doing? You can't,

00:27:56.200 this is, there's no way you can do an introductory bit about yourself and then transition into the war

00:28:02.220 in the Middle East in two minutes and make it sound fluid and natural. This is going to, 0.62

00:28:09.120 this is going to be awkward. It's going to be an awkward, disjointed answer. And you're going into

00:28:13.360 this thing. You've already been branded as an awkward, disjointed guy. And now you're going in

00:28:18.140 with this and this is a, this is a bad move. I thought to myself when he first started talking,

00:28:22.620 but he pulled it off. It was really impressive. He pulled it off. He somehow managed to give like

00:28:28.100 a 60 second autobiography of himself. And then he still answered the foreign policy question and it

00:28:34.100 all worked. He made the transition. That's not easy to do. I say this as someone who is in the

00:28:39.180 public speaking business, also different kind of public speaking, different context, obviously,

00:28:42.780 but public speaking all the same. And from that perspective, again, very impressive.

00:28:46.960 And this is one thing it's easy to lose sight of that the modern debate format. And I complain about

00:28:55.000 the modern presidential debate format all the time because it's ridiculous, really giving people one

00:29:00.140 to two minutes to answer questions. It's not enough time covering really, they cover too much ground in

00:29:08.640 this, in these debates, which might sound counterintuitive, but they, they, they just talk about too many

00:29:13.140 things. And really what we want to hear is what we should hear is lengthy discussions about the most

00:29:24.280 important issues. We don't need to get into, we don't need to cover 20 different topics for one

00:29:29.940 minute each. How about cover like three or four for 30 minutes each? That's what I would like to see.

00:29:36.520 That's the debate format that would be much more productive and much more and tell us much more about

00:29:41.340 these guys. But this debate format, uh, even though I think it's a lot less revealing, it tells us less

00:29:48.720 it's, it is a very difficult, it's a high degree of difficulty. It's easy to lose sight of that.

00:29:54.860 Giving one to two minute answers, saying everything you want to say in one to two minutes while avoiding

00:30:00.900 the stuff you don't want to say on national television, right? Most high pressure situation,

00:30:07.220 extremely difficult. And we should all appreciate that to some degree now, because we've seen in

00:30:14.040 the last several years, some truly awful performances in that forum. I mean, we've seen what it looks like

00:30:20.340 when you've got people in there who really, this is not their skillset and it's a, it is a total

00:30:25.480 meltdown. It just, it's, it's terrible. Uh, again, Biden bombed so hard that he had to drop out.

00:30:31.460 Like, that's how, that's how bad it can be. And, uh, but for Vance, he's, uh, in his element in this

00:30:40.300 kind of thing. I also think he would do really well in a better format where they could talk at

00:30:44.240 greater length. I want to move on to this. I did, I want to, I did want to discuss one of the issues

00:30:49.240 from the debates. Uh, in fact, this is one of the issues that they should not have covered.

00:30:53.120 Um, because it's not an issue for the federal government to solve, but

00:31:01.460 even so, the conversation turned to what was described as the childcare crisis.

00:31:09.500 And, uh, let's just watch a little bit of that and then we'll talk about it.

00:31:15.560 There is a childcare crisis in this country and the United States is one of the very few

00:31:21.400 developed countries in the world without a national paid leave program for new parents.

00:31:28.100 Governor Walz, you've said that if Democrats win both the White House and Congress, this is a day

00:31:33.120 one priority for you. How long should employers be required to pay workers while they are home

00:31:39.500 taking care of their newborns? You have two minutes. Yeah, well, that's negotiable and that's

00:31:45.060 what Congress worked, but here's what the deal is. Americans sitting out there right now,

00:31:49.140 you may work for a big company. Look, we're home in Minnesota to some of the largest fortune 500

00:31:53.580 companies. Kamala Harris knows that and call are in California. Those companies provide paid family

00:31:59.220 medical leave. One is, I think they're moral and they think it's a good thing, but it also keeps

00:32:03.800 their employees healthy. We in Minnesota passed a paid family medical leave. You have a child,

00:32:09.120 you, and I had to go back to work five days after my kids. His answer doesn't really matter.

00:32:13.440 Um, it's more of the question and they both answered it and they both gave a spiel about

00:32:19.280 what the government should do to solve this problem of the childcare crisis.

00:32:24.160 And so I want to say a few things about this, none of which will be popular. I don't have a popular

00:32:29.180 view on this. I understand that. And, uh, I'm setting myself up to be, uh, attacked as a cruel,

00:32:35.540 heartless person who doesn't understand and all that kind of stuff. And I get all that and that's

00:32:39.400 going to happen. Whatever. Um, first of all, can we just calm down for a moment?

00:32:47.160 Not everything is a crisis. Not every problem we face as a country is a crisis. It is possible to

00:32:55.380 have an issue, an important issue, a problem even in your country that is not a national crisis.

00:33:02.720 But what happens is we call every problem a crisis. If we recognize that there's a problem

00:33:09.740 in the country, it's automatically a crisis. And, uh, so the word has no meaning anymore. It

00:33:16.340 just doesn't, it doesn't mean anything. We label that there are, we label everything a crisis

00:33:20.840 automatically. And so now when you call something a crisis, it doesn't, I don't know, that does not

00:33:26.600 tell me anything about this problem, how serious it is. Uh, second thing, more to the point, if

00:33:32.340 childcare is a crisis or if, or if it's a problem, but not a crisis, however we describe it, the issue

00:33:39.760 is not primarily a lack of affordable daycare. It's not a lack of paid family leave. The crisis,

00:33:48.860 just using the word, we'll stick with that word for the sake of argument. The crisis is being driven

00:33:55.080 not by a lack of affordability, but by single motherhood. Okay. So can we just be honest about

00:34:03.440 that? Now, yes, I realized that there are married couples with kids who struggle to find affordable

00:34:09.720 childcare options. I get that. I know that. But the thing that brings it to crisis level, if that's the

00:34:18.260 level that it's at, the primary thing driving that is that we have far too many people having kids,

00:34:24.660 but not getting married or having kids, but not staying married. That is what's driving this

00:34:29.720 primarily. What's the solution? Get married first, then have kids, then stay married. That's the

00:34:41.420 solution. If we are not doing that, then there will never be a solution. Childcare, here's another hot

00:34:51.760 take for you. Childcare is not an issue for the government to solve. This is not an issue for

00:34:59.280 the federal government. You should not be looking to the president of the United States to figure out

00:35:07.020 childcare solutions for you. I mean, do you realize how insane that is? Looking to the president to

00:35:16.280 figure out childcare solutions. I mean, does the president need to come into our kitchens and make

00:35:23.680 us dinner too? At what point does it become a problem for us to solve? Are there any problems

00:35:30.060 that just American families solve on their own anymore? And maybe not even entirely on their own,

00:35:37.800 with their own families, with their own communities. But is there anything, is there any part of our lives

00:35:43.280 anymore that we don't turn to the federal government to figure out for us? Can there be any aspect of

00:35:49.540 our lives that we say, well, you know what, this is probably not for you guys. You know, and I say

00:35:54.400 this as someone who has experience with these challenges. Because I'm automatically going to be

00:36:00.720 accused of, you don't know what it's like. Yeah, I do. I was making 40k a year when we had our first two

00:36:06.420 kids. We had twins, first kids. And that's a family of four on a $40,000 income, not poverty level

00:36:14.540 wages, doesn't qualify as poverty level wages for a family of four. But it's not rich. It's a big

00:36:23.680 challenge, you know, taking care of a family of four on that income. And so, yeah, we had this

00:36:30.300 very, this, this problem, this, we faced this problem many people have faced and where it's

00:36:35.140 like, well, I'm, I'm the one earning the income. Now we've got four mouths to feed here and not a

00:36:42.540 lot of money to do it with. We got all the other expenses, all the other things that we have to pay

00:36:47.100 for the rent and the car and everything, the groceries. And we said, well, my wife could go to

00:36:54.220 work and earn an income also. But then if she does that, then we got to pay for daycare for the kids. 1.00

00:37:00.440 And we also lived in Kentucky at the time. We were eight hours away from the, our nearest family

00:37:06.100 member. So we were totally isolated from any family or anybody we knew, friends, you know,

00:37:11.020 there's nobody around that we knew and, or we could depend on. And so it was a big, it was a big

00:37:18.220 challenge. And what we decided to do in our case was my wife did not go to work. She stayed home with

00:37:25.040 the kids. And so, and we didn't, so we didn't take, incur that childcare cost. Also, we just,

00:37:30.500 we wanted her to be with our children. And, uh, it was just, it was a big, it was, it was a big

00:37:36.700 sacrifice. It was, it was hard. It was hard. And ultimately, well, the decision we finally made

00:37:42.520 was to pick up and move to leave. We put all, we put our two kids and all of our stuff into a car

00:37:49.920 and we drove, um, back to Maryland. We made the eight, nine hour drive and we just decided we're

00:37:56.560 going to, we got to be around, you know, uh, uh, we got to have some kind of support system around us.

00:38:01.920 And that's not easy to do. Like you can't talk about moving. Like it's these, that's not an easy

00:38:08.500 solution. So when someone is facing something like we were, what we were facing, where you don't have

00:38:14.160 any support system, I know what that's like. Uh, and someone says, well, why don't you just move to

00:38:20.440 where your family is? Not as easy as that. That's not a simple thing to do. Um, but ultimately it's what

00:38:27.760 we did. It was very, very difficult. We did it. And, um, and I guess the point is that

00:38:34.000 at no point during that process did I ever think to myself, what is the president of the United

00:38:44.580 States going to do about this at no point? Many conversations with my wife about how are we going

00:38:53.960 to, like, what are we doing here? How are we going to, how are we going to make all this work?

00:38:58.740 At no point did we say, what is a president? What's the president going to do about it?

00:39:03.960 Never even crossed my mind.

00:39:07.860 Because there are some problems that, uh, are not for the federal government to solve.

00:39:14.180 And there are some problems that when the federal government tries to solve them,

00:39:17.560 they just make it worse. And I think that this is one of those problems.

00:39:23.380 Of course, the great, really morbid irony here is that many of the people who say that

00:39:31.520 child care is a problem for the federal government to solve, uh, would be the first to say that

00:39:40.120 the decision to whether or not, whether the decision of whether or not you kill your child

00:39:43.820 to begin with, the federal government should have nothing to do with that.

00:39:47.040 So the federal government should have no say in whether your child gets to live or not.

00:39:53.380 But once you decide that your child's going to live, now it's the federal government's job to

00:39:58.160 figure out how you're going to care for your kid.

00:39:59.800 We're not seeing any kind of disconnect there.

00:40:05.220 So you're saying the government should have no, like whether or not your child gets to live in

00:40:09.400 the first place is no concern of the government's. But then if you decide the child is going to live,

00:40:14.400 now it's a, an issue that the government needs to solve for you.

00:40:19.900 So we want the government to go from like total disregard for your child's life to,

00:40:24.160 oh, this, this is our issue. We need to, it's like, that's a, there's a disconnect here.

00:40:32.280 I would say, um, there is not a disconnect the other way though.

00:40:40.060 For the government to say, um, you know what, you can't kill your child.

00:40:44.140 Like we're not going to get involved in your family and tell you, uh, you know,

00:40:47.840 figure out childcare for you and all that. We're not going to do that,

00:40:50.420 but you can't kill your child. Like that's not, there's no hypocrisy there. That's not,

00:40:57.040 that's not a disconnect. It's just like basic laws that have, that govern society.

00:41:04.100 You can't deliberately harm your child. Um, but to flip it around the other way is just

00:41:10.680 totally backwards and bizarre. Um, and so, yeah, I don't need, I don't, Tim wall. We don't need Tim

00:41:19.560 Walls. I don't, I don't need Tim Walls. Uh, and now with six kids, I don't, I don't need Tim

00:41:23.540 Walls to tell me anything about how to care for my kids. I don't need his help. I don't want it.

00:41:27.700 I don't, uh, want the president to get involved. Uh, halt. I got it. Thank you though.

00:41:34.080 Let me briefly, uh, mention this from, it's a report from the New York post.

00:41:39.840 Speaking of childcare, you know, one of the, um, Doug Emhoff, the current second gentleman,

00:41:46.240 you know, is, is now famous for having slept with the nanny. So we know how he feels about

00:41:52.020 childcare and, uh, and here's some more information that has just come out about Doug Emhoff's

00:41:57.600 past and not very distant past. I have to say, New York post reports, vice president

00:42:04.460 Kamala Harris's husband is being accused of slapping his ex-girlfriend for flirting with

00:42:08.920 a valet worker at a ritzy gala in 2012, a new report claims. Second gentleman, Doug Emhoff,

00:42:15.340 59 supposedly struck his then girlfriend, a successful New York attorney in the face so

00:42:20.640 hard. She spun around while in a valet line after an event at the Cannes film festival in May, 2012. 1.00

00:42:27.440 Three unnamed friends of the woman reportedly told the Daily Mail, all three sources requested not to

00:42:32.460 be named due to fear of retaliation from Emhoff. They shared a series of photos showing Emhoff posing

00:42:37.260 with the woman in 2012, as well as other documents related to the allegations. Uh, the woman herself

00:42:42.900 apparently declined to comment. So she has not said anything, but these friends have come out and

00:42:50.080 said that. So Emhoff has been accused of sleeping with a nanny and conceiving a child and not just

00:42:54.680 accused, he's admitted to that. And now he's accused of abusing a girlfriend in 2012, not that long

00:43:00.320 ago. Uh, and so this is, this is not back in his misguided youth. He would have been in his like,

00:43:06.860 what, mid forties at the time. Um, and that's the claim. Is it true or not? I have no idea.

00:43:13.740 And I will say that generally, I would say that this is the kind of thing it's like kind of,

00:43:19.420 it's basically politically irrelevant. Uh, if he did abuse his girlfriend, that's terrible. He's a

00:43:25.120 scumbag, but it doesn't have, it's not, it's not really, there's not a lot of news value in that. 1.00

00:43:30.860 Um, and if Kamala Harris is married to a guy who's, uh, a philanderer and an abuser, 0.98

00:43:38.840 then again, that's terrible, but it's not really politically relevant. That's what I would say.

00:43:44.420 I would say that, except unfortunately the media has been propping Emhoff up as a,

00:43:54.140 the paragon of masculinity has been telling us that he's a new icon. He's a new role model for

00:43:59.020 men. And Emhoff himself has gladly stepped into that role. So both Emhoff himself and the media

00:44:05.840 and the Kamala campaign have presented this guy as the, the, we just played the clip yesterday from

00:44:13.600 Jen Psaki saying that he, what was the phrase? He's redefining masculinity. And again, Emhoff himself

00:44:22.220 is, is embracing that title. And so, well, when you present yourself that way, and when you are

00:44:28.960 presented that way, then all of this stuff becomes relevant. Now you have kind of in the court of public

00:44:34.020 opinion, you have entered that into evidence. You have, uh, right. I mean, you have, um,

00:44:38.880 made all of that stuff relevant. Uh, because if you want to be looked at that way, well,

00:44:48.980 if you're just the husband of the woman who's running for president and you're kind of staying

00:44:55.200 out of the limelight and all of that, and you're just, you know, there, then I would say, well,

00:45:00.520 who really cares about you. But if you're coming out and saying, yeah, I'm the new, every men should

00:45:08.040 be like me. Well, now we got to, we got to find out about you. I mean, now, now it's like, well,

00:45:15.960 okay, well you're, you're claiming and people are claiming about you that you are a role model for

00:45:22.680 men. Uh, maybe you are, who knows? I don't know anything about it. Well, now we got to go find out.

00:45:27.260 We got to go find out more about you. And what we're finding out is, um, not great. And it doesn't

00:45:35.480 really support the claim that he's any kind of role model for men at all. In fact, I mean, so we've

00:45:43.280 heard terrible stories about this guy. Don't know how true all this stuff is, but we've heard terrible

00:45:47.940 stories. Have we even heard a good, what, what are the good stories? They've yet to, they keep telling

00:45:55.100 us that he's a role model. He's the icon. He's, uh, re redefining masculinity. They haven't even given

00:46:03.400 us any examples of like, okay, well, here's something great that he did. Uh, you know,

00:46:07.980 he rescued a cat out of a tree or whatever. He's not even, we haven't gotten any of those

00:46:12.020 kinds of stories. There are no positive stories really about this guy. Uh, the only stories we're

00:46:17.840 getting are negative and he has made all that relevant by trying to present himself a certain

00:46:24.440 way. Um, and, uh, it's pretty clear what kind of guy this person really is. What is a wireless

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00:48:13.860 cancellation. We've talked a lot about bad leftist art on the show recently. And this is not just

00:48:26.520 because I have my own movie out. Am I racist in theaters now? Get your tickets at amiracist.com.

00:48:31.680 I'm not just trying to draw a contrast between poor quality art and my film, which is good quality

00:48:35.900 art. That's part of it. But it also just happens that there's been a lot of this terrible stuff

00:48:40.560 recently. We're experiencing a surge of cringy lib content, perhaps none cringier than this. The media

00:48:49.360 this week is raving about a new off-Broadway play called Fatherland. The play tells the true and we're

00:48:56.340 told heroic story of a son, Jackson Reffitt, who turned his own father into the feds and testified against

00:49:04.800 him for his role in January 6th. The real-life father, Guy Wesley Reffitt, is now serving a

00:49:10.260 seven-year prison sentence, thanks at least in part to his son's testimony. The play dramatizes the son's

00:49:15.700 allegedly noble decision to betray his own father. And based on the clips that have been aired on

00:49:21.640 MSNBC, the whole thing is about as overwrought and self-important as you might expect. Let's watch a clip

00:49:29.760 of this thing.

00:49:31.220 Now on everyone who was there, you know that's right, you know that.

00:49:35.220 Yeppers!

00:49:35.720 Videos and cell phones.

00:49:37.940 Government's closing in.

00:49:39.180 Wasn't that, you know, bad?

00:49:41.340 I don't care.

00:49:42.940 How can you not care?

00:49:44.400 Because I didn't break any laws. Tell me the law I broke.

00:49:46.780 You smashed through police barricades and you overtook the United States Capitol.

00:49:51.460 I didn't break any laws.

00:49:52.500 You carried your weapon on the federal grounds.

00:49:54.300 Okay.

00:49:55.620 Okay.

00:49:56.180 Okay, I carried my weapon on the federal grounds that we own, that American citizens own.

00:50:00.640 Paying taxes gives you no right.

00:50:02.100 You said I'd pay taxes.

00:50:03.160 What?

00:50:03.640 I had every constitutional right to carry a weapon and take over Congress. Just because

00:50:09.440 a law is written does not mean it's the right law. We went in there, they scurried away

00:50:16.080 like rats and hid. That is how you do it.

00:50:18.880 That was a scene from the new off-Broadway play, Fatherland, which opened last week.

00:50:27.620 Now, first of all, maybe I'm, I went back and listened to that like three times to see

00:50:31.640 if I heard it right. Did he say yeppers? Did I hear that right? At the very beginning

00:50:38.860 of the clip, the son is like, you stormed the Capitol. And then the father emerges from

00:50:43.160 the shadows. Yeppers! Did he say that or did I imagine that? What did he say?

00:50:47.380 A guy like that would never say yeppers. What? Did he say yes, sir? I mean, what did

00:50:54.120 he, I don't, it's an honest question. I don't know what he said. I think he said yeppers.

00:50:58.340 Second, nothing about the dialogue that you just heard there reads as authentic. It instead

00:51:04.340 reads as exactly what it is, a left-wing theater kid's fever dream, which is even more apparent

00:51:10.960 in this next clip that was also aired by MSNBC. Let's watch that.

00:51:15.020 Everybody who was there on the 6th should be locked up for the rest of their lives, everyone.

00:51:22.760 Are you recording this?

00:51:25.220 What?

00:51:26.020 Are you recording this?

00:51:27.220 No!

00:51:27.580 I am not recording.

00:51:32.960 You better not be here.

00:51:36.000 Don't betray me.

00:51:37.600 Don't ruin this family.

00:51:39.060 Do not put this family in jeopardy.

00:51:41.120 I am not the one that is putting our family in jeopardy.

00:51:45.520 If you cross a line here, I will do my duty. I will have no other choice. 0.99

00:51:51.440 Choose a side. Choose a side or die. 1.00

00:51:54.120 I put you in this world. I can take you out. 1.00

00:52:00.440 Don't turn your back on me.

00:52:01.640 I'm not turning my back. 0.99

00:52:02.980 Whoever turns his back on me is a traitor.

00:52:05.240 Is that what's happening here? 1.00

00:52:07.400 If you turn me in, you are a traitor. 0.99

00:52:10.560 And traitors get shot. 0.99

00:52:13.860 It legitimately looks hilarious.

00:52:15.740 Actually, if I lived in New York, I would go to this play.

00:52:19.540 I would go to the play and watch it.

00:52:22.740 Because it looks great.

00:52:25.760 Not for any of the reasons they want it to be great.

00:52:28.140 But if I wanted to make a parody of a liberal play about January 6th, it would be exactly this.

00:52:34.920 No edits, no notes.

00:52:36.880 Perfect.

00:52:37.420 It works perfectly as parody.

00:52:39.260 The total lack of subtlety and nuance just gives it the feel of satire.

00:52:44.900 It didn't have to be this way.

00:52:45.980 They could have made an actually interesting play on this subject if they had been willing to portray the father as a real human being and not a cartoon.

00:52:54.840 But that was not an option for them.

00:52:56.500 Because in the liberal mind, January 6th is one of the darkest days in human history.

00:53:00.180 And the people involved are some of the greatest villains of history.

00:53:02.440 And they will not allow themselves to see it any other way.

00:53:04.520 You know, the left likes to talk about empathy and compassion.

00:53:07.680 But, of course, they are sorely lacking in both departments.

00:53:10.840 And this is one of the reasons why their art is so subpar.

00:53:15.220 It also makes them less effective politically.

00:53:18.220 Because you have to understand your opposition in order to counter it and defeat it.

00:53:22.340 But they don't understand Trump supporters, and they never have.

00:53:25.420 They refuse to allow themselves to understand.

00:53:28.240 Their pure, seething rage blinds them.

00:53:30.800 Hillary Clinton, of course, famously called Trump supporters deplorables back in 2016.

00:53:35.300 That was her explanation for why people support Trump.

00:53:38.740 Nobody on the left has ever come up with another explanation.

00:53:42.760 That remains their one single insight.

00:53:46.640 People support Trump because they're bad.

00:53:49.040 Why did January 6th happen? 0.90

00:53:50.960 Well, because Trump supporters are bad.

00:53:53.060 That's as deep as their analysis goes.

00:53:54.920 That's a shame because when it comes to this particular case, there are some interesting angles that could be explored.

00:54:01.540 The most interesting and troubling is not that the father was at the Capitol on January 6th, but that the son turned on him.

00:54:08.840 So here is the son, the real-life son, Jackson, on MSNBC, explaining his decision.

00:54:15.880 Let's talk a little bit, if you don't mind, about the real-life incident here after January 6th.

00:54:23.200 What compelled you to work again?

00:54:26.280 Turn in your father.

00:54:27.620 Well, the tip actually came in from before January 6th.

00:54:30.900 My dad was getting way more radicalized as time went on following Trump and isolating himself more and more.

00:54:38.320 And it was terrifying.

00:54:40.420 What were some of the signs you saw?

00:54:42.360 You know, he's watching all sorts of media that was terrifying.

00:54:45.380 He isolated himself to online groups that were far-right, radical, and he was growing more and more violent, not to just the family, but to the people around him.

00:54:54.500 And it scared me.

00:54:56.840 And then when you saw it January 6th, how soon after did you realize your father was involved, that you had to act further?

00:55:02.600 It was while they were pointing guns at the doors of the house.

00:55:07.580 You saw him there?

00:55:08.260 And he was texting my mom and FaceTiming her.

00:55:14.020 And it was delusional.

00:55:18.840 And did you have any hesitation about going further?

00:55:21.960 I mean, he is your father, but as you say, you saw him there with guns.

00:55:26.320 And prosecutors said he lit the match on January 6th.

00:55:28.960 Of course.

00:55:29.540 It was the hardest decision I've ever made, and it continues to haunt me to this day.

00:55:35.640 But, you know, I don't regret it.

00:55:38.740 And I still feel for him and my family.

00:55:41.800 So Jackson was scared by the media his father was consuming.

00:55:49.860 We don't know what kind of scary media it was, but scary in this guy's world doesn't have to mean that his dad was, I don't know, perusing neo-Nazi forums in some dark corner of the Internet.

00:56:03.580 He could have just been watching Sean Hannity, for all we know.

00:56:05.960 Like, the father's watching The Five on Fox News, and Jackson is cowering in the corner, trembling, terrified.

00:56:17.080 That's probably what happened, but I don't know.

00:56:19.400 But the real point here is that Jackson did exactly what the left wants all of us to do.

00:56:23.840 Whether we have family members who were involved in January 6th or not, they want us to choose the state over our families.

00:56:31.460 That's what the story's actually about.

00:56:32.940 It's a son facing a choice.

00:56:34.560 He can remain loyal to his father, his own blood, the man who raised him, or he can align himself with the government against his father.

00:56:44.000 It was his father or the federal government, the family or the state.

00:56:47.840 He would have to defy one for the sake of the other.

00:56:50.880 He could either be a loyal son or a loyal subject, and he chose to be a subject.

00:56:55.720 He chose the state.

00:56:57.620 That's what makes him a great hero to the left.

00:56:59.540 While the rest of us normal people see him as a treacherous backstabber, a turncoat who took sides against his family.

00:57:07.360 This is what the left seeks to do to all of our families, even if in less dramatic fashion in many cases.

00:57:13.180 They want to drive a wedge between child and parent, between husband and wife. 0.99

00:57:17.120 The bond of the family is a threat to their agenda because, in their minds anyway, it undermines the authority of the state.

00:57:25.320 A man who honors his father more than he honors the bureaucracy in D.C. is a problem.

00:57:30.140 It's harder to manipulate, harder to control such a person.

00:57:36.080 Jackson Reffitt is then their perfect role model, the example that they want us all to follow.

00:57:42.600 And that is why the cringy play meant to honor this deeply dishonorable person is today canceled.

00:57:51.240 That'll do it for the show today.

00:57:51.940 Thanks for watching.

00:57:52.420 Thanks for listening.

00:57:53.000 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:57:53.780 Have a great day.

00:57:54.420 Godspeed. 0.99

00:58:00.140 Republicans are Nazis. 1.00

00:58:03.220 You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 1.00

00:58:06.820 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.96

00:58:08.740 It never really seemed to matter that much.

00:58:10.600 At least not to me.

00:58:11.400 Am I racist?

00:58:12.580 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:58:13.880 I'm trying to learn.

00:58:14.580 I'm on this journey.

00:58:15.860 I'm going to sort this out.

00:58:17.140 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:58:20.180 They don't say I'm racist.

00:58:21.620 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:58:25.080 Here's my certifications.

00:58:26.200 And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.

00:58:28.920 This is more for you than this for you.

00:58:29.900 Is America inherently racist?

00:58:31.500 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:58:33.460 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.

00:58:36.620 America is racist to its bones.

00:58:38.480 So inherently. 0.98

00:58:39.340 Yeah.

00:58:39.760 This country is a piece of...

00:58:41.080 Oh, my God. 0.99

00:58:42.400 White. 0.81

00:58:43.000 Folks.

00:58:43.480 White. 1.00

00:58:43.640 Trash. 1.00

00:58:43.980 White supremacy. 1.00

00:58:44.780 White woman. 1.00

00:58:45.340 White boy.

00:58:45.880 Is there a black person around here?

00:58:47.180 What's a black person right here? 0.86

00:58:48.500 Does he not exist?

00:58:51.260 Hi, Robin.

00:58:51.840 Hi.

00:58:52.200 What's your name?

00:58:53.160 I'm Matt.

00:58:53.640 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

00:58:56.240 Never be too careful.

00:58:57.100 They gon' say you racist.

00:58:58.180 In theaters now.

00:58:59.320 Rated PG-13.

00:59:00.120 Rated PG-13.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 02, 2024

Ep. 1455 - How Dirty Union Greed Is Holding The American People Hostage

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