The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1464 - Why The Left Is Willing To Do Anything They Can To Take Down Elon Musk

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Elon Musk just accomplished something that nobody in history ever has.

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00:02:27.680 Less than a week ago, as engineers at SpaceX prepared to achieve something that had never been done before in human history,

00:02:35.320 a dozen bureaucrats at the California Coastal Commission assembled to do something that's been done many, many times before in human history.

00:02:42.320 The commissioners, a group that mostly consists of liberal women, set up a massive regulatory roadblock to impede people who are actually doing real, important work. 1.00

00:02:51.140 And these commissioners established this roadblock in a way that made it extremely obvious to everyone that the root of their frustration was their own jealousy and bitterness.

00:03:00.280 Now, the clips I'm about to play come from a meeting of the California Coastal Commission to consider SpaceX's plans to launch as many as 50 rockets every year from the Vandenberg Space Force base,

00:03:11.360 which is located in Southern California, Santa Barbara County.

00:03:13.800 This is a plan that was formally proposed by the Air Force and the Space Force because SpaceX is a military contractor and everything SpaceX does either directly benefits the Defense Department or more broadly advances the interests of the country.

00:03:27.440 But the California Coastal Commission, in its infinite wisdom, disagrees.

00:03:32.060 They voted down the proposal for more launches.

00:03:34.940 But why did they do that exactly?

00:03:37.100 Well, here's one of the commissioners, Gretchen Newsom, no relation to Gavin Newsom, explaining her reasoning.

00:03:44.740 And I want you to pay attention not only to what Gretchen Newsom says, but also how she says it.

00:03:50.840 Watch.

00:03:51.960 Elon Musk has enjoyed substantial subsidies from California, amounting to over $3.2 billion,

00:03:58.340 while threatening to relocate his operations, including his headquarters, from California to Texas,

00:04:03.840 citing his bigoted beliefs against California's safeguards and protections of our transgender community.

00:04:09.320 This behavior raises concerns about the motivations behind his request for government support.

00:04:15.120 And here today, we have the U.S. Department of the Air Force and U.S. Space Force presenting permitting requests on behalf of SpaceX

00:04:22.280 to the profitable benefit of SpaceX and its billionaire CEO.

00:04:26.980 Right now, Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods

00:04:32.420 in attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the Internet.

00:04:39.540 But this claim in itself is to the public benefit is a falsehood

00:04:43.440 because one must first purchase the Starlink startup kit for several hundred dollars

00:04:48.000 and then face a monthly fee of $120 after 30 days of free Internet,

00:04:53.920 a sick ploy to gain customers that are facing tremendous burden and dire straits.

00:04:59.080 They're hurricane victims.

00:05:00.200 So she's practically snarling over the fact that Elon Musk provided Internet access to people in a storm.

00:05:07.760 This is Internet access that the federal government denied these people

00:05:10.480 because the Biden-Harris administration cut Starlink out of a funding program for rural broadband access.

00:05:16.560 And as you'd expect, many of these people voluntarily and gratefully accepted this Internet access from Elon Musk

00:05:22.160 in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

00:05:24.820 But somehow this is all a sick ploy, says Gretchen Newsom.

00:05:29.620 And she makes that claim because if they wanted Starlink,

00:05:32.720 people had to pay a couple hundred bucks for the Starlink unit, the normal cost of the device,

00:05:37.420 followed by a monthly fee after 30 days of service, free days of service,

00:05:42.360 which has since been extended, by the way, for free to the end of 2024.

00:05:45.100 In other words, according to the California Coastal Commission,

00:05:48.640 it's not enough for Elon Musk to swoop in and provide basic services that the Biden administration failed to provide.

00:05:54.320 He also has to do it for free permanently.

00:05:58.300 I guess he has to give them lifetime free access to the Internet forever or he's an evil billionaire.

00:06:05.800 And if he doesn't do that, then the government will retaliate against him by blocking permits to launch rockets.

00:06:10.480 Now, there's so much going on in this clip that we just played that it's not even clear where to begin.

00:06:17.480 But I wanted to start with the Starlink part because it highlights the anti-human ideology that's consumed so much of the left.

00:06:24.880 I mean, they don't care if Elon Musk is saving lives in disaster zones in states like North Carolina.

00:06:29.540 They don't care if people are voluntarily paying him money so that they can access a vital service like the Internet.

00:06:35.360 They only care about damaging Elon Musk as much as possible.

00:06:37.920 And from that clip, it's pretty clear why they want to damage Elon Musk.

00:06:43.520 Gretchen Newsom says that Musk has made, quote, bigoted remarks about the, quote, transgender community.

00:06:49.000 She claims he's spewing and tweeting political falsehoods about FEMA.

00:06:53.540 Now, first of all, it would be hard to imagine a more direct and obvious violation of the First Amendment than these statements.

00:07:00.360 Saying that he's being denied because of things that he's saying on the Internet.

00:07:05.540 That's a violation of the First Amendment.

00:07:07.100 Elon Musk has already said that he's suing the California Coastal Commission over this, and he absolutely should.

00:07:12.600 But on top of that, the things Elon Musk was saying also happened to be true, by the way.

00:07:17.200 Men can't be women. 1.00

00:07:19.080 And FEMA did waste more than a billion dollars on services for illegal migrants.

00:07:24.080 If the Constitution protects anything, it's statements like these.

00:07:27.800 That's how the Constitution is written, anyway.

00:07:30.780 But obviously, that's not how things work in places that are run exclusively by Democrats, like California.

00:07:35.700 We saw that just a couple of weeks ago when the governor, Gavin Newsom, tried to ban satire and memes.

00:07:41.820 He didn't like how people on social media were talking about Kamala Harris being a DEI hire, so he tried to outlaw it.

00:07:47.360 He just came right out and said it.

00:07:49.060 And Gretchen Newsom, again, no relation, surprisingly enough, has taken the exact same approach right out in the open.

00:07:55.760 There are a few other things that Gretchen Newsom said that I could quibble with.

00:07:58.800 For example, no, Musk is not requesting government support.

00:08:03.620 This meeting, again, is about a request by the Air Force and Space Force for the California Coastal Commission to get out of the way.

00:08:10.540 Nobody wants the support of the commission.

00:08:13.120 They don't need Gretchen's support.

00:08:14.820 We don't need her to do anything.

00:08:15.960 They just want the commission to stop bothering them, just get the hell out of the way.

00:08:20.500 Now, of course, technically, the military can override this commission if it wants to,

00:08:23.480 but right now they're working to find some kind of compromise solution, and that may not last very long.

00:08:29.020 And that's because it's not just Gretchen Newsom who thinks like this.

00:08:32.620 The majority of the Coastal Commission in California is the same way.

00:08:36.760 So here, for example, is Carol Hart, the chair of the commission.

00:08:40.720 And this clip may be even more embarrassing than the one that I just played.

00:08:44.220 Watch.

00:08:45.300 But here we're dealing with a company that does not, that is the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race

00:08:58.360 and made it clear what his point of view is, and he's managed a company in a way that was just described by Commissioner Newsom

00:09:12.760 that I find to be very disturbing.

00:09:15.340 That compounded with their refusal.

00:09:17.840 My understanding was that they would be here today on Zoom.

00:09:20.600 I am very concerned that even after meeting with me, my expressing my feelings.

00:09:28.240 Chair, sorry to interrupt.

00:09:30.360 They did participate on Zoom today.

00:09:34.080 Oh, okay, that brief comment.

00:09:36.380 Apologize.

00:09:36.900 Yeah.

00:09:37.280 In a more significant way.

00:09:39.720 Let me put it this way, in a more significant way.

00:09:41.980 So I just am very concerned that by concurring today that we then will lose our ability going forward

00:09:52.580 with a potential change in administrations, potential loss of your leadership.

00:09:58.100 I mean, those things concern me very much.

00:10:04.200 So she tries to ding SpaceX for not showing up on Zoom during the meeting,

00:10:09.020 and then she's told that, in fact, SpaceX did show up by Zoom.

00:10:12.480 In fact, somebody named Matthew Dunn, the director for government affairs at SpaceX, gave a whole presentation.

00:10:17.640 He explained that SpaceX is currently supporting the Defense Department and Boeing and NASA.

00:10:22.500 He pointed out that SpaceX is the only operational U.S. provider for astronaut transportation to the International Space Station,

00:10:27.780 which is kind of a big deal because astronauts are trapped up there at the moment.

00:10:31.300 And he went into detail about how Starlink assists the Pentagon in addition to disaster victims.

00:10:35.900 But somehow the chair of the California Coastal Emission Commission missed all of this.

00:10:40.760 And when she's informed that SpaceX had shown up and done a whole presentation, she just instantly waves it off.

00:10:48.700 It wasn't enough for her, she says.

00:10:51.260 So obviously she made up her mind long before this hearing.

00:10:54.380 And again, it's clear what she's really upset about.

00:10:56.600 She complains that Musk has, quote, aggressively injected himself into the presidential race and made it clear what his point of view is.

00:11:04.840 Which, it's like, okay, what does that have to do with launching rockets?

00:11:10.580 Who cares about that?

00:11:13.500 So what she's saying, in other words, he's exercised his First Amendment rights in a way that the California Coastal Commission doesn't approve of.

00:11:19.380 He has political opinions that this woman doesn't like.

00:11:24.040 Therefore, he's not allowed to launch a rocket.

00:11:28.120 For good measure, Carol Hart also complains that Musk has, quote, managed the company in a way that's very disturbing.

00:11:35.740 Now, it's hard to know exactly what that's a reference to.

00:11:38.640 Maybe she's complaining about that lawsuit by some former SpaceX employees, which accuses Musk of posting insensitive memes on X.

00:11:45.940 Those memes were allegedly very traumatizing to these employees, particularly the meme that depicted Bill Gates as a pregnant man.

00:11:54.680 Very disturbing.

00:11:56.040 Very disturbing stuff.

00:11:57.340 They're traumatized by it.

00:11:58.060 Or maybe she's referring to how SpaceX was fined several hundred thousand dollars because of alleged launch license violations last year.

00:12:04.140 Even though those launch license violations wouldn't have been violations at all if the FAA had responded to SpaceX's various applications in time.

00:12:11.940 So maybe that's what the commissioner finds disturbing.

00:12:14.220 Or maybe she's talking about how SpaceX is doing things that no one has ever done before in all of human history.

00:12:20.220 Maybe she finds that disturbing.

00:12:22.920 As a useless bureaucrat, when she sees people doing and accomplishing things, she's confounded. 0.88

00:12:28.620 She's like, what is this? 0.97

00:12:30.420 They're doing a thing?

00:12:32.060 They're actually doing something?

00:12:33.400 I don't, I, this is, it's scary.

00:12:35.520 I'm scared by it.

00:12:37.720 Maybe she doesn't see any benefit to reusable rockets or colonizing Mars or rapidly deploying satellites to provide internet access to millions of people. 0.61

00:12:45.740 Maybe the idea of human progress itself upsets this particular bureaucrat.

00:12:50.360 And that would really explain a lot.

00:12:52.900 Now you can go through the whole hearing and you won't find a serious explanation for the commission's ultimate vote, which was to deny SpaceX the additional launches.

00:13:01.600 But you will find a lot of hysteria.

00:13:05.460 There's a user on X using the handle Robin who assembled some of the better examples.

00:13:10.140 Here's two of them.

00:13:11.000 The first clip is a commissioner named Dana Bochko who announced that the Air Force and Space Force are wrong and that really SpaceX has nothing to do with our national defense.

00:13:21.120 She just comes out and unilaterally declares that SpaceX doesn't benefit the government in any way. 1.00

00:13:25.580 She knows more than the Pentagon and all of the engineers on this point.

00:13:30.760 We should listen to her.

00:13:32.580 The second clip is a woman, a member of the public, complaining about the sonic booms from the launch.

00:13:36.960 Watch.

00:13:37.220 Relaxingly, I'm going to vote no.

00:13:40.320 And the reason I am is that I do believe that the Space Force has failed to establish that SpaceX is a part of the federal government, part of our defense necessary to be decided under a federal consistency rather than a CDP.

00:14:02.200 I was on the Channel Islands in August when a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Vandenberg.

00:14:08.840 The sonic boom was terrifying to everyone that was present and sleeping.

00:14:16.280 They woke up terrified in the morning, not knowing what the loud explosion was.

00:14:19.960 I felt it through my bones.

00:14:22.840 And SpaceX is, yes, a private company.

00:14:26.560 They are they have the nickname of Waste X.

00:14:32.160 Their satellites last about five years.

00:14:34.800 So they're constantly wanting to increase their launches.

00:14:38.140 It's a profit driven, wasteful model.

00:14:43.120 So there's all sorts of back and forth on this sonic boom issue.

00:14:47.400 SpaceX disagrees on how many of these booms are audible in populated areas and how loud they are and so on.

00:14:53.260 Let's just put all that aside for a moment.

00:14:54.620 Let's concede for the purposes of the argument that every now and then there's briefly a loud noise from a SpaceX launch and that some people can hear it for a second or two.

00:15:04.500 In what universe does this justify denying SpaceX the ability to launch rockets at all?

00:15:10.340 I mean, this would be like denying construction crews the ability to work at all at any time ever.

00:15:16.340 Imagine if people like this had their way during any other significant moment in this country's history.

00:15:21.520 Imagine if somebody like that lady was bothered by all the noise they were making in Los Alamos and had the Manhattan Project shut down. 1.00

00:15:30.620 Imagine being the kind of person who hears a couple seconds of a sonic boom and feels terrified as a result.

00:15:36.580 Especially when you know what it's from.

00:15:38.560 So there should be no confusion.

00:15:39.740 Now, when this woman says sonic boom, this is what we're talking about here, just to give you some idea.

00:15:46.420 Watch.

00:15:46.780 So that's it.

00:16:06.320 I mean, the rocket makes a loud noise.

00:16:08.520 And that's reason number 10,000 to shut down SpaceX, apparently.

00:16:12.060 You know, if we're going to, yeah, advancing human civilization is great and all, but if it makes a loud noise that bothers me once every six and a half weeks, well, then never mind.

00:16:26.840 Can you quiet down with all your civilizational advancement over there?

00:16:31.480 I'm trying to watch TikTok.

00:16:32.740 I haven't even gotten into the DOJ's lawsuit against SpaceX for not hiring enough asylum seekers, which is what they're calling illegal aliens now.

00:16:42.260 And, of course, the European Union has about a million of their own reasons and their own issues with SpaceX as well. 0.91

00:16:47.140 The only positive thing to come out of this pathetic meeting at the California Coastal Commission is that established by sheer contrast how useless all of these regulators and bureaucrats and critics really are.

00:16:59.000 I mean, they could not have picked a worse day for them anyway to hold this meeting because less than a week later, Elon Musk demonstrated that unlike his critics, his companies are actually accomplishing things.

00:17:11.540 They are benefiting humanity in very real and tangible ways.

00:17:17.540 It's maybe the least flattering juxtaposition in the history of juxtapositions. 0.73

00:17:21.000 On the one hand, you have useless, bitter, complaining, whining bureaucrats trying to slow human progress for their own political reasons. 1.00

00:17:30.800 On the other hand, you have this. 0.98

00:17:32.700 Watch.

00:17:51.000 I mean, that's real, by the way.

00:17:53.100 That's not like computer animation.

00:17:55.660 That actually happened. 0.99

00:17:57.200 And that's what Elon Musk is doing while these dumb women sit around in their conference rooms and they're having their committee meetings talking about, I'm troubled. 1.00

00:18:09.300 I'm troubled by this tweet. 0.99

00:18:11.900 This tweet is offensive.

00:18:15.020 While they're doing that, he's doing this.

00:18:17.420 What SpaceX just accomplished, what you saw there, is one of the most significant technological advancements in history.

00:18:29.800 I mean, it will make interplanetary travel, in particular travel to Mars, an order of magnitude cheaper.

00:18:37.380 They proved that they can catch their rocket boosters in midair, which is just mind-boggling.

00:18:42.600 They also proved that they can precisely land the ship itself in the water.

00:18:47.380 As Elon Musk put it last night, when you can reuse extremely expensive equipment like this and then rapidly redeploy it,

00:18:52.120 you make it literally a thousand times easier and less expensive to colonize a planet like Mars.

00:18:57.000 When you're talking about trillions of dollars, that's a big difference.

00:19:00.560 I mean, it's the difference between colonizing Mars and just staying on this planet forever.

00:19:06.220 Now, the reason that Musk's critics don't care about this is that when you get down to it,

00:19:15.140 they're not just bitter and jealous and unhappy, although they're all of those things, certainly.

00:19:20.480 They're also anti-human.

00:19:22.760 They don't want humans to colonize another planet any more than they want humans to have free speech

00:19:29.160 or to reproduce above replacement level on this planet.

00:19:33.520 It should tell you something that pretty much the only issue these people are passionate about is abortion.

00:19:41.700 That's the thing they care about the most because it means fewer humans will exist.

00:19:47.300 That's why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris didn't bother to congratulate Elon Musk or SpaceX

00:19:51.840 on their historic civilization-changing achievement that will alter the trajectory of humanity forever.

00:20:00.100 However, it's why they're engaging in open lawfare to shut his companies down.

00:20:05.080 These people do not want to save this country or civilization for that matter.

00:20:10.500 They want to destroy it.

00:20:12.860 And they'll complain about any pretext imaginable, whether it's sonic booms or launch licenses

00:20:18.740 or hiring asylum seekers in order to achieve that end.

00:20:22.080 The only reasonable response is to dismantle the vast web of bureaucratic agencies like the California Coastal Commission,

00:20:31.960 along with the Biden-Harris administration.

00:20:34.840 This election isn't really even about Democrat or Republican anymore.

00:20:37.600 It's a choice between unimpressive, profoundly cynical bureaucrats on one hand

00:20:43.180 and people who advance civilization in meaningful ways on the other.

00:20:47.920 After what SpaceX accomplished this week, that fundamental distinction is now clear to everybody

00:20:54.980 with an internet connection or a television.

00:20:58.400 And that's what they're actually upset about.

00:21:00.940 And it's why in just a few weeks, there's a very good chance they're going to lose the power

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00:22:35.260 Bill Clinton is out on the stump campaigning for Kamala.

00:22:39.580 There's been a few notable moments, one where he went to a McDonald's and the employees didn't

00:22:43.780 recognize him.

00:22:44.440 They thought that he was Joe Biden, which is pretty rough.

00:22:48.000 Not really fair to Bill.

00:22:49.320 I mean, Joe Biden is older than he is.

00:22:52.300 And think about that for a moment.

00:22:55.140 A guy who was first elected president more than 30 years ago is currently younger than

00:23:02.380 the guy who is president right now, technically president right now.

00:23:06.940 And actually, every president that we've had since 1992 is younger today than the current

00:23:14.080 president, which is why it was always insane for anyone to have ever supported Biden for

00:23:18.740 president.

00:23:19.060 I mean, there are many other reasons, but that reason alone.

00:23:23.480 So anyway, there was that moment.

00:23:24.700 There was also another moment where Bill on the stump admits that Lakin Riley's death was the

00:23:30.840 result of the government not properly vetting the illegal immigrant who killed her, which is a 1.00

00:23:37.700 direct and correct, by the way, attack on Biden and Harris, whether he meant it that way or not.

00:23:42.760 Um, that's what it is.

00:23:45.000 Actually, let's go ahead and play that clip.

00:23:46.640 Here it is.

00:23:48.020 You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn't you?

00:23:50.380 They made an ad about it, about a young woman who'd been killed by an immigrant.

00:23:56.060 Yeah, well, if they'd all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn't have happened.

00:24:01.560 But if they all properly vetted and that doesn't happen.

00:24:05.620 I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message.

00:24:07.880 Yeah, that's, um, uh, yeah, pretty much.

00:24:13.580 I mean, nothing to add, nothing to add.

00:24:15.460 That's, that's exactly the point.

00:24:16.920 That's precisely, uh, the point that we're making.

00:24:20.060 Uh, the, the only question is whether when you hear these kinds of comments from Bill Clinton,

00:24:24.520 when you hear, when you see Joe Biden out, uh, directly undermining Kamala as he's been

00:24:31.740 doing increasingly lately, the only question is whether this stuff is, uh, because they're

00:24:36.380 old and confused and, uh, they're just babbling or, or, uh, whether it's an intentional, whether

00:24:44.160 they're, they are intending to undermine her because they don't want her to win.

00:24:47.840 Uh, in Bill Clinton's case, uh, you know, it could go either way for Joe Biden.

00:24:54.160 Uh, it, it's certain that of course he doesn't want her to win.

00:24:56.860 Like, obviously he doesn't want to, now he's also old and confused.

00:25:00.720 So it's a little of column A, a little column B, uh, in his case always, but he certainly

00:25:07.240 does not want her to win.

00:25:08.420 How could he, how could you, if you get, you get pushed out of your job, somebody schemes

00:25:16.860 behind your back, somebody that you like put you, you elevated and you promoted and they

00:25:23.460 scheme behind your back to push you out of the job, how could you be rooting for them?

00:25:27.140 Of course you want them to fail.

00:25:29.320 Um, so that's, that's pretty obvious.

00:25:32.700 Um, and it could be the case for Bill Clinton too.

00:25:34.900 I mean, Kamala Harris is not, nobody likes Kamala Harris, uh, least of all in their own

00:25:41.520 party, in her own party, do they like her because they know that she's this unimpressive, really 0.97

00:25:47.220 dumb person, uh, who has never really achieved anything, doesn't deserve to be in the position 0.99

00:25:52.460 that she's in. 1.00

00:25:54.200 And everybody knows that they know that, especially the people close to her know that.

00:25:57.440 So, uh, she's just kind of despised by everyone. 0.59

00:26:00.780 There was also this moment from Bill Clinton, um, where he, again, in this time, I think it

00:26:07.920 was unintentional, but he again undermined a leftist talking point.

00:26:12.420 Let's listen to this.

00:26:14.140 Flatter, a new direction to manage an immigration crisis in a tough time where there's 0.99

00:26:22.440 all this upheaval all over the world, where there are border problems all over the world,

00:26:27.740 where millions of people are trying to escape the misery they're in.

00:26:32.660 And other people are saying, well, I want to do what I can and take what I can, but maybe

00:26:37.040 there's a limit to how much we can do.

00:26:38.640 In other words, I don't think Americans are anti-immigration, they're anti-chaos, right?

00:26:46.460 They, they don't want us to do more than we can, but they recognize, at least most people

00:26:53.600 do, we got the lowest birth rate we've had in well over a hundred years.

00:26:58.960 We're not at replacement level, which means we got to have somebody come here if we want

00:27:05.680 to keep growing the economy.

00:27:07.980 Unless one of you is one of these artificial intelligence geniuses and figured out how

00:27:13.900 we can all grow with no work, which I'm not sure would be good for us.

00:27:18.620 I think, you know.

00:27:19.180 Wow, wait a minute, I have it on good authority that what Bill Clinton just articulated there

00:27:25.720 is a right-wing conspiracy theory, a horrifically racist right-wing conspiracy theory.

00:27:31.360 Haven't we been told that?

00:27:32.820 Hasn't that been shrieked at us incessantly for years now?

00:27:36.520 What you just heard from Clinton is the great replacement, that's what it is.

00:27:40.200 Importing immigrants to replace Americans, that's the great, it is a replacement, right? 1.00

00:27:48.320 He just used the word, it's a replacement, and it's also great in terms of the size and

00:27:54.280 scope, so it's the great replacement.

00:27:58.040 So once again, we see here the common trajectory on the left, this is how it always, this is

00:28:01.920 how it goes with everything.

00:28:03.440 This is how it goes with literally everything.

00:28:05.860 First, they deny that it's happening, and then they admit that it's happening and say that

00:28:11.360 it's good.

00:28:12.880 You know, it goes from that's not happening to it is happening and it's good, actually.

00:28:16.960 It is happening and it should happen more often. 1.00

00:28:19.180 It is happening and you should be cheering it on.

00:28:24.900 That's the way it always goes.

00:28:26.300 That's the way the denials, that's the evolution on the left.

00:28:34.300 And it shouldn't need to be pointed out, but I will, that there is another way to solve

00:28:42.240 the problem of declining birth rates in America, because that's happening and that is a problem.

00:28:50.940 So if you have declining birth rates in America, one thing you could do is just replace Americans 0.99

00:28:57.180 with third world immigrants so that America is no longer even America. 1.00

00:29:02.660 That's one strategy.

00:29:05.540 The other strategy is that you could increase the birth rate.

00:29:10.880 I mean, if we're all agreeing that that's the fundamental problem here, then what about

00:29:14.480 just Americans have more babies? 0.86

00:29:17.740 Here's an idea.

00:29:19.100 Americans have more babies and also stop killing the babies that we do have. 0.98

00:29:24.920 You know, there's a two-pronged approach here.

00:29:28.920 We could turn this thing around.

00:29:30.540 Have more babies, don't kill them.

00:29:32.540 It was a crazy idea.

00:29:35.180 Is it possible to encourage Americans to have more kids?

00:29:39.040 Yes.

00:29:39.460 I mean, that's what any functioning society, any functioning country should be doing.

00:29:44.900 That's like functioning society 101 level stuff here is creating a situation where people are

00:29:57.060 encouraged to start families and have kids, and you make your society as welcoming as it

00:30:04.640 can possibly be to young families.

00:30:09.240 You facilitate the formation of families.

00:30:14.860 That's what you do.

00:30:16.840 Or you just turn your country into the third world so that it's indistinguishable eventually 1.00

00:30:20.560 from the countries that these immigrants are fleeing from to begin with. 0.97

00:30:25.600 Okay, a couple weeks ago, Georgetown Women's Basketball posted a tribute to one of their players,

00:30:32.700 and I think we have that tweet.

00:30:36.600 Let's put that tweet up.

00:30:37.740 Okay, so this is from September 20th, 2024.

00:30:41.700 Georgetown Women's Basketball mourns the tragic loss of Sidney Wilson, class of 2013,

00:30:46.940 forever a Hoya. 0.97

00:30:48.720 And you can see her there.

00:30:50.720 Okay.

00:30:51.720 Sidney Wilson was her name.

00:30:53.140 She was killed.

00:30:54.180 Killed tragically, Georgetown says.

00:30:57.080 And I have seen, by the way, some indication or some claims on Twitter that Wilson was trans,

00:31:01.960 that she's actually a man who identified as a woman.

00:31:04.240 I don't think that's true as far as I can tell.

00:31:06.140 I'm pretty sure that Wilson was actually a woman. 1.00

00:31:08.520 So I'll call her a her on that assumption. 1.00

00:31:13.200 Anyway, this is, it was being mourned.

00:31:17.780 BLM activists were also mourning her death because it turns out that she was killed by a police officer.

00:31:23.940 And so that was the tragedy.

00:31:28.840 Well, now we know more about this tragedy because the, the, this quote unquote tragedy,

00:31:33.920 the police have released the body cam footage.

00:31:36.120 And I can tell you that the footage, it's like something out of a horror film.

00:31:41.640 I mean, truly, when I first saw it, I, I, I didn't think it was real.

00:31:45.000 I thought it was like an AI or a skit or some weird skit or a scene from a movie.

00:31:49.780 Uh, I didn't think it was real because it, and I wish I could play it for you, but I can't.

00:31:55.220 Cause if you're watching on YouTube, the problem is that YouTube basically makes it impossible

00:31:58.500 to play videos like this on the grounds that it's violent or whatever.

00:32:02.720 Um, uh, I have to blur it to the point where you can't actually see what's happening.

00:32:06.640 So there'd be no point.

00:32:07.420 So I'll just describe it for you, which won't do it justice, but it's the best I can do, can do.

00:32:14.140 So in the footage, an officer named Peter Liu knocks on the door of Cindy Wilson's apartment,

00:32:20.100 apparently to conduct a welfare check.

00:32:22.640 And Wilson opens the door, immediately starts slashing at him with a knife.

00:32:26.520 I mean, there's no conversation that happens at all.

00:32:29.000 She opens the door, immediately starts attacking. 1.00

00:32:31.880 So Liu retreats down the hallway and is backpedaling down the hallway.

00:32:36.260 Wilson is charging at him with the knife.

00:32:39.240 I mean, like the knife raised over her head, like I said, like a horror film, um, slashing 0.80

00:32:44.100 at him, manages to cut him multiple times in the face and hands.

00:32:47.260 And I think other parts of his body as well.

00:32:49.720 Um, and, and, uh, I can't show you the footage.

00:32:53.320 I think I, I think I can get away with at least showing you that this picture.

00:32:57.040 So here's a screenshot.

00:32:59.200 Uh, I mean, that's a real picture.

00:33:02.600 I mean, this is what this, the whole footage is like.

00:33:04.820 She's running at him, screaming that blurry, uh, thing you see in her right hand is the 0.95

00:33:10.160 knife.

00:33:11.900 Uh, so you can tell just from that screenshot alone that it was obviously a good, a good

00:33:18.060 shoot, uh, totally justified.

00:33:20.420 No question about it.

00:33:21.520 I mean, no question.

00:33:22.240 She's lunging at him with enough. 1.00

00:33:23.500 She's pursuing him down the hallway.

00:33:25.680 He keeps saying, back up, back up, back up, telling her to stop, uh, pursuing him with

00:33:30.140 the knife, actually makes physical cuts, slashes him in the face.

00:33:33.520 Um, she's a hundred percent in the wrong. 0.97

00:33:36.960 She brought this on herself.

00:33:38.220 She deserved the response that she got. 0.98

00:33:39.980 Now she's dead and it's her fault. 0.91

00:33:41.720 No one else's.

00:33:42.740 Uh, there's no doubt about that in the slightest.

00:33:45.800 So there's nothing really to talk about.

00:33:47.400 That's interesting in terms of like weighing the decision, uh, of whether or not to shoot.

00:33:51.620 Um, Georgetown may be treating this like Wilson is the victim of a tragic shooting, but every

00:33:56.920 sane person in existence knows that the victim here is the officer, not Wilson.

00:34:03.100 That's clear.

00:34:04.640 But what we do need to talk about and what you can really see in the footage, if you go

00:34:10.760 and watch it, is that the officer actually waited, uh, way too long to pull the trigger.

00:34:18.800 She opens the door, immediately lunges at him with the knife. 1.00

00:34:21.660 He should have, he should have blasted her right then and there. 0.94

00:34:24.020 I mean, you know, uh, not to be crude about it, but like, but the moment she starts slashing 0.95

00:34:30.420 at him with a knife, he should have, uh, he should have unloaded.

00:34:34.860 Instead, he backs away down the hallway with her running at him.

00:34:38.380 And only after he gets physically cut with the knife, does he actually open fire.

00:34:43.120 It was almost too late.

00:34:44.240 If she had managed to cut him his neck or hit an artery or something, then he might've been

00:34:48.700 the one who ended up on the ground dead instead of on the ground injured, which is how he

00:34:53.720 ended up after, after all this was over.

00:34:56.260 Uh, so he waits too long.

00:34:57.540 He waits way too long.

00:34:59.020 There's no reason why that woman should have ever been able to actually inflict any injuries 0.98

00:35:04.180 on this officer.

00:35:05.260 He should have taken her out long before that.

00:35:08.460 Now, my point is not to criticize the officer.

00:35:10.780 First of all, he's in this horrific, terrifying situation.

00:35:14.340 One that I've certainly never been in.

00:35:16.640 Uh, so I'm not trying to Monday morning quarterback it, but I'm trying to point out is just how

00:35:21.500 hesitant many officers are now to use their firearms, even in situations when it's clearly

00:35:26.840 necessary.

00:35:28.760 Why didn't officer Lou shoot this woman several seconds earlier?

00:35:33.620 Why didn't he open fire the moment she started attacking him?

00:35:36.360 Well, I can't read his mind, but it seems very likely that he was trying to avoid becoming

00:35:42.100 the next Darren Wilson.

00:35:45.360 Uh, it's, it's impossible, uh, to, to imagine that officers don't have, you know, George Floyd

00:35:59.840 and all of that constantly in their minds in situations like that.

00:36:03.880 Um, I know it would be for me.

00:36:07.840 So they're constantly aware of the lose, lose situation that they're in.

00:36:11.520 And all that has done is make them hesitant to protect themselves and innocent members

00:36:16.100 of the community.

00:36:17.880 Um, understandably hesitant.

00:36:20.900 So the blame here goes entirely at the feet of BLM activists and the media.

00:36:25.500 It's their fault.

00:36:26.520 They almost got this man killed.

00:36:27.800 Uh, with that said, I, I saw somebody on Twitter make a good point that, um, about this, that

00:36:35.500 body cam footage, body cameras have really backfired on the BLM activists and the race

00:36:40.940 hustlers.

00:36:41.640 They insisted on cops wearing the cameras and, uh, it's good that they did insist on it because

00:36:47.900 what have we learned ever since we put cameras on pretty much every police officer, we've learned

00:36:53.000 that like every, almost every police shooting is justified.

00:36:58.880 This is, this is how it almost always goes.

00:37:00.780 The BLM narrative about a shooting is disconfirmed by the body cameras in almost every case.

00:37:11.160 I mean, it is disconfirmed much, much, much, much more often than it is confirmed.

00:37:19.500 How many times have we seen this exact situation where we're told by the, the activists that,

00:37:24.960 oh, it's a tragedy, this person.

00:37:26.220 And then the body cam footage comes out and most of the time it's not even close.

00:37:30.580 It's not even like, okay, well, you know, that could have gone either way.

00:37:33.640 Most of the time it's like, yeah, well, of course he shot her.

00:37:36.280 What else was he going to do?

00:37:39.600 Um, yeah.

00:37:41.160 So the body cam, body cameras are a very good thing.

00:37:43.640 I'm glad they're there.

00:37:44.560 And, uh, this has proven to be, I mean, this body cameras, as I said, ironically, uh, I mean,

00:37:51.500 there are a lot of reasons why the BLM movement is effectively dead now.

00:37:55.900 One of them is that there are a bunch of con artists and scam artists and, you know, they're

00:37:59.620 all getting caught up in their own scams and everything and all the scandals that came.

00:38:03.060 But, but another big reason is body cameras.

00:38:06.380 Um, it's like now, now that we can all see what these cops are dealing with, and now that

00:38:15.620 you can actually see these would be BLM martyrs, like when you have the image, we just play.

00:38:21.300 Like, I mean, think about this.

00:38:24.060 If body cameras didn't exist, if there was no body camera, they, they, then Sydney Wilson

00:38:30.040 would be the next BLM martyr.

00:38:32.640 And, and the, the image that we would all have of her is whatever her at her college graduation,

00:38:37.700 right?

00:38:39.320 Her playing basketball, her smiling. 0.82

00:38:42.920 We wouldn't have that image of her like snarling and waving a knife, like a crazy person, like 1.00

00:38:49.200 a, like a, from a horror villain.

00:38:51.600 We wouldn't have that.

00:38:52.620 We wouldn't know about that.

00:38:54.460 I mean, the cops would tell us, they would say, oh, she had a, but, but, but we wouldn't

00:38:58.000 have the image.

00:38:58.740 We wouldn't know what that's like.

00:39:00.040 And, um, I mean, go back to, uh, uh, the, the, the infancy of BLM and, uh, Michael Brown.

00:39:13.500 Um, uh, you go back to that and imagine if there was body cam, there was never a body.

00:39:23.520 We didn't have, there was no body cams.

00:39:24.740 We didn't have body cam footage of Michael Brown charging at the officer and trying to

00:39:30.400 take his gun, trying to kill him.

00:39:32.940 And so we didn't have the body cam footage.

00:39:34.600 All we had was, you know, we had the police, we had the ballistics.

00:39:39.440 There was a lot of evidence.

00:39:40.320 Even the DOJ looked into it.

00:39:41.920 Obama's DOJ is very clear that this was a justified shooting, but the BLM narrative,

00:39:46.980 you know, as they say, Bill, the fault, the truth, the, the, the falsehood made it all

00:39:51.500 the way around the world before the truth got its pants on.

00:39:54.120 And, um, and that's what happened here.

00:39:56.380 But imagine if we had the body cam, but what if we had the body cam footage?

00:39:59.820 It would have looked very similar to that.

00:40:01.740 You know, Michael Brown minus the knife, Michael Brown, lunging, charging, enraged at the officer.

00:40:10.720 Um, but we didn't have that.

00:40:13.200 And for so long, the BLM activists have, have acted like, uh, um, the lack of body cam footage,

00:40:19.500 you know, has, has hurt them and hurt their cause.

00:40:22.160 But no, it's like, that's, that's the whole reason that your cause exists.

00:40:25.380 Like your whole movement is only exists because body cameras were not very common 10 to 15

00:40:33.980 years ago.

00:40:36.260 Uh, once you start putting body cameras on all the cops, it's, you know, it's, you, you,

00:40:40.800 you could try, they could still try to get it going.

00:40:42.860 They can try to get the narrative going.

00:40:44.180 But when you can see it, when you can see it on camera, it's just hard to get around

00:40:48.300 that.

00:40:50.680 Um, all right.

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00:43:11.740 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:43:19.700 So now we have my favorite kind of Daily Cancellation.

00:43:22.840 Today we deal with a controversy where everybody involved is wrong.

00:43:26.520 This week a post from Reddit has gone viral on Twitter, and this post apparently originated on the Millennials subreddit.

00:43:34.680 I've never visited that forum, but I can only imagine what sort of horrors one might find there.

00:43:39.420 And in this case, the post is from a millennial man, a guy in his late 30s, he says, who is complaining bitterly about his parents.

00:43:48.080 On Twitter, much of the commentary seems to be on his side, on the guy's side.

00:43:52.480 I would imagine that the good folks over at the Millennial Reddit forum were also largely sympathetic to him.

00:43:58.080 But here's what the post says, quote,

00:43:59.940 WTF is wrong with our parents.

00:44:04.880 My wife and I have spent almost two decades leveling up in jobs and careers and are now in our late 30s with two small children in a HCOL state. 0.77

00:44:13.720 We scraped and suffered to buy a small ranch house and two used larger cars for our family.

00:44:19.200 Our credit is suffering.

00:44:20.200 I'm personally in $20,000 of credit card debt that I'm slowly working down.

00:44:24.000 Our kids attend daycare that bled our savings dry.

00:44:26.880 Typical millennials. 0.99

00:44:27.700 Quick editor's note here.

00:44:30.360 This is typical millennial stuff.

00:44:33.660 Most of all, the part where they're bleeding their savings dry for the sake of having two parents work while the kids are in daycare.

00:44:39.760 You know, I know that my fellow millennials aren't typically fans of, quote, unquote, gender roles.

00:44:43.560 But this would be a compelling argument in favor of the wife staying home and raising the kids. 1.00

00:44:47.140 I mean, maybe they have a circumstance where they can't do that for some reason.

00:44:50.900 But very often, you know, this is a very common scenario where you've got both parents working.

00:44:56.320 And actually, it would make more sense financially to have only one parent work.

00:45:01.580 So that's something they might want to think about at least.

00:45:05.360 But let's continue.

00:45:06.160 Last week, I came across my father-in-law's account summary.

00:45:10.360 Ten plus million dollars.

00:45:12.140 Later that week, I mentioned I saw that to my own dad.

00:45:14.420 He said, well, he's doing just a bit better than me.

00:45:18.040 Literally, what the F?

00:45:19.780 I would give my last dollar to my son to make sure he was more comfortable, to make sure he didn't suffer debt or bad credit as long as he was working.

00:45:26.120 Here are our own effing parents sitting on their piles of gold, watching us navigate a new level of effed-up economics and shopping for discounts and raising our children in subpar school districts and for effing what.

00:45:39.060 So that's the whole sob story.

00:45:41.460 And as I said, most of the social media peanut gallery seems to be on this guy's side.

00:45:46.640 The consensus is that boomers are selfish, greedy hoarders who'd rather live in luxury than help their own children. 0.91

00:45:52.620 One comment summarized it this way, quote, 1.00

00:45:54.700 Boomers deserve excruciating deaths. 1.00

00:45:58.180 That comment has 6,000 likes, by the way. 0.99

00:46:01.200 That's how you know that things are going well in American society, when the generations are wishing painful deaths on each other.

00:46:06.520 Always a good sign.

00:46:08.940 Now, putting these rather over-the-top comments to the side, it is true that our current system, maybe not created by the boomers, but certainly popularized by them, 0.72

00:46:18.740 is not only backwards, but also very unique to the modern age.

00:46:22.960 In most cases, parents should not wait until they're dead to share their wealth with their children, but that is how it goes very often these days.

00:46:32.800 You know, you should want your children to have everything that you have and more.

00:46:38.300 However, the modern approach, again, emphasis on modern, because this is not at all the traditional way of doing things.

00:46:44.280 But the modern way is for the older generation to accrue wealth over the course of many decades, hang on to nearly all of it, blow through a huge portion of it in the final, like, five to ten years of their lives,

00:46:56.800 or really the final, like, two or three years of their lives, and then give the rest to their children when their children are in their 50s and their own kids have already moved out of the house.

00:47:06.200 And then those kids will hang on to all of that wealth, blow through most of it, and give the remainder to their kids when their kids are in their 50s, and so on and so on and so on.

00:47:16.340 Just repeating these steps while the inherited wealth dwindles and each successive generation becomes poorer and poorer.

00:47:23.380 The system makes no sense.

00:47:25.060 The goal of each generation should be to ensure greater prosperity for the next generation.

00:47:29.480 We should want our children to be richer and more comfortable than we are.

00:47:36.560 The boomer generation as a whole has failed in this regard.

00:47:41.600 Plenty of individual boomers are good people and were great and loving parents who provided all they could for their children.

00:47:47.060 My own parents are in this group.

00:47:48.560 But the generation as a whole is leaving behind a poorer country than the one they inherited.

00:47:54.240 Their kids are poorer than they are, which means that the generation as a whole has fundamentally failed to do the thing it is supposed to do, which is to create a better world for their children.

00:48:05.040 They have not done that.

00:48:06.480 And the scenario that the Redditor describes is emblematic of this.

00:48:10.380 It should be a point of shame to be wealthier and living in greater luxury than your children.

00:48:15.900 Instead, it's kind of become the new normal with older people hanging on to their wealth with like a vice grip until death pries it from their hands. 0.93

00:48:25.640 This is a major problem, and it's certainly not the approach that I intend to take with my kids.

00:48:33.740 So that's all true.

00:48:36.960 On the other hand, you should also be embarrassed to be in your late 30s with a family of your own and kids of your own and still crying because mommy and daddy won't give you an allowance.

00:48:50.400 You especially shouldn't be crying about it on the Internet, even if anonymously.

00:48:54.260 It's hard to imagine any scenario where it's appropriate to complain about your family on the Internet.

00:48:59.020 But if there is one, this certainly ain't it.

00:49:01.460 And no matter the forum, whether on the Internet or anywhere else, this is not the mentality that a grown adult should have.

00:49:07.780 It's true that if you're working and struggling and your parents have literally millions of dollars stashed away or even just even only, quote, unquote, hundreds of thousands of dollars, they should help you.

00:49:21.240 But you should not feel entitled to their money.

00:49:27.100 See, that's the dynamic here.

00:49:30.220 This is a lesson that I try to teach my own kids who are all under the age of 12.

00:49:34.740 I certainly hope they'll have absorbed it by the time they're pushing 40.

00:49:39.440 I'm blessed to be able to provide my kids with a wonderful life, all kinds of luxuries that many kids across the world will never have.

00:49:46.480 But they shouldn't expect it or demand it or feel entitled to it.

00:49:51.760 The moment they start making demands is the moment they start losing the wonderful things.

00:49:57.260 My kids understand this because I've told them many times.

00:49:59.660 I am required by law to feed them, clothe them, shelter them.

00:50:04.320 I'm also morally obligated to provide these basic necessities.

00:50:08.720 But everything beyond that is a luxury.

00:50:13.220 I provide some luxuries because I'm generous and I have the means.

00:50:18.280 They should accept those luxuries humbly and with a grateful heart.

00:50:22.200 If they have any other attitude about it, they will lose those things.

00:50:27.240 Here's a very small scale example, typical example for many parents.

00:50:31.980 A few weeks ago, I was out running a few errands with my four-year-old and we were at the store.

00:50:36.940 We walked past at the store, the toy section.

00:50:39.400 And she said, Daddy, can I get a toy?

00:50:42.740 Now, I was actually already planning on buying her a toy.

00:50:46.220 It wasn't her birthday.

00:50:47.040 There was no special occasion.

00:50:47.980 I just felt like being generous.

00:50:49.720 And I thought it would be a nice thing just to get her to just because.

00:50:53.060 But I wasn't ready to buy the toy yet.

00:50:55.360 You know, and that's because I was still getting other things I needed.

00:50:58.300 And so if we're going to buy a toy, we're going to do it on my time, not hers.

00:51:02.240 So I said, we'll see.

00:51:04.800 Now, normally my four-year-old is pretty patient by four-year-old standards,

00:51:07.760 but she wasn't feeling patient on this day.

00:51:09.820 So she started pouting.

00:51:11.120 And I guess she was assuming that she wasn't actually going to get the toy

00:51:13.660 or upset maybe that she wasn't getting it as quickly as she wanted.

00:51:16.340 And then she said the fatal words.

00:51:18.540 She said, that's not fair.

00:51:19.960 I want a toy.

00:51:20.620 It's not fair.

00:51:22.860 Oh, really?

00:51:24.020 It's not fair that you aren't getting a toy the second you ask for it?

00:51:28.300 So I owe you the toy, do I?

00:51:31.100 Well, now you aren't getting it.

00:51:32.900 See, I was going to buy you a toy, but now that you're demanding it,

00:51:36.100 you're not going to get any toy at all.

00:51:38.060 I'm happy to buy you a toy unless you think I owe you the toy,

00:51:41.920 in which case I'll buy you nothing.

00:51:44.660 And if you use the F word with me, fair, then you're really out of luck. 0.93

00:51:50.100 Because there's nothing fair about buying you a toy.

00:51:52.940 I'm giving you something and getting nothing in return myself.

00:51:57.420 Like, that's not fair.

00:51:58.960 And billions of children across the world never get any toys.

00:52:01.660 Even when I was a kid, my parents rarely just bought us random toys.

00:52:04.840 We couldn't afford it.

00:52:05.740 So the toy isn't fair.

00:52:07.660 It's not fair.

00:52:08.680 It's a blessing.

00:52:09.860 And the only acceptable attitude when receiving a blessing

00:52:12.120 is one of gratefulness and humility.

00:52:15.540 Now, back to the Redditor.

00:52:17.820 Is it fair for his parents to give him money to pay off his debts

00:52:23.340 and live a more comfortable life?

00:52:24.800 Hell no.

00:52:25.800 It's their money.

00:52:26.580 It's not his.

00:52:28.180 I mean, it is their money.

00:52:29.780 They earned it.

00:52:30.500 He didn't.

00:52:31.080 He's an adult now.

00:52:31.720 He doesn't live at home.

00:52:32.380 They don't.

00:52:32.600 They're not.

00:52:33.180 It's not their job to keep them, to give them the necessities of life.

00:52:36.460 He doesn't need the necessities.

00:52:37.180 I mean, he has all that.

00:52:38.220 He's not dying.

00:52:38.780 And so all the rest of me, they probably accrued that wealth by working hard.

00:52:46.720 Most boomers who are doing well, like they did work hard.

00:52:50.540 Some would say they emphasized work too much, but they worked hard.

00:52:53.960 They accrued the wealth.

00:52:55.640 And they probably exercised a hell of a lot more financial discipline

00:52:59.120 than he seems to be capable of, which is how he got a $20,000 of credit card debt.

00:53:04.620 So is it fair for them to help him out?

00:53:07.940 No.

00:53:08.780 It's not really fair.

00:53:11.000 Most people around the world have no one to help them.

00:53:14.420 He isn't going to die without his parents' help.

00:53:16.760 He isn't going to starve.

00:53:17.840 Neither are his children.

00:53:19.100 He's surviving.

00:53:19.880 He's not destitute, right?

00:53:21.040 He's not homeless.

00:53:21.780 He's not impoverished.

00:53:24.660 But they could make him more comfortable, and they could reduce his stress level.

00:53:28.860 Should they do that for him?

00:53:31.380 I think yes, absolutely.

00:53:32.700 Unless he thinks he's owed it, which apparently he does.

00:53:39.220 So if I was that guy's dad, I would probably want to give him the $20,000 to pay off his credit card debt.

00:53:45.400 I'd probably also want to buy him better vehicles, maybe even a nicer house.

00:53:48.120 But I'd want to give him money.

00:53:51.240 I'd want to give him, rather than waiting until I'm dead so he can inherit my wealth, I'd like him to inherit right now.

00:53:58.700 And I'd like my grandchildren to benefit from that right now.

00:54:01.700 I'd rather be alive to see them benefiting from that than watching from the grave.

00:54:08.160 But if I saw that Reddit post, and I said to myself, wait a minute, I remember having that conversation with my own son.

00:54:14.740 Wait, that's him, isn't it?

00:54:17.500 If I saw that, well, then you get nothing.

00:54:20.440 Figure it out for yourself.

00:54:21.460 Because I want my son to be prosperous and comfortable, but even more than that, I want him to be strong and humble and resilient in the face of hardship.

00:54:32.800 And I want him to be stoic, stoic enough that he can deal with the hardships without complaining to the whole world about it.

00:54:41.360 I don't want him to be the sort of grown man who cries on the Internet because his parents won't give him money.

00:54:45.940 And if he is that sort of man, well, we've got a problem to fix that money can't fix.

00:54:52.500 In fact, money will only make it worse.

00:54:55.660 So this is a thing that millennials in general need to understand.

00:55:01.380 You know, we spend a lot of time discussing the flaws of the boomer generation. 0.97

00:55:07.840 And there are plenty of flaws.

00:55:10.440 But what about our flaws?

00:55:11.740 And I would say our greatest flaw of all is that, speaking again generally, this does not apply to all of us, generally, we sit around stewing in our misfortunes and whining about the unfairness of the world instead of accepting the situation, acknowledging the reality for what it is, and working hard to improve it.

00:55:32.500 Okay, like, yeah, we get it.

00:55:34.240 The boomer should have done a better job.

00:55:35.700 Okay, we constantly are talking about it.

00:55:39.160 Millennials always, constantly, all the time, the boomers that should have done better, look at the world, it should be better, it should be better than it is. 0.98

00:55:47.240 Things should not be like this.

00:55:48.720 It should be better.

00:55:49.580 It should not be this.

00:55:50.600 It should be a better thing than this.

00:55:54.100 Oh, yeah, okay.

00:55:57.480 Still could be a lot worse, by the way.

00:55:58.960 Like, it's still pretty damn good in comparison to the world that the majority of the human species lives in or has lived in through history, right?

00:56:10.240 Like, you still, I mean, if you could choose any time to live in, maybe you would choose a few decades ago, but you wouldn't choose much further back than that.

00:56:22.960 But yeah, yeah, it could be better.

00:56:24.340 Okay, like, that's established.

00:56:30.620 The boomers, all that, you know, yeah, okay, right, but, and they should have left a better world. 0.99

00:56:39.620 They didn't.

00:56:41.780 Are we going to waste our whole lives crying about it?

00:56:45.180 Are we going to go to our graves whining about the way things should have been and all the things that we should have been given but weren't?

00:56:51.340 But it appears to be the plan for many of us.

00:56:57.040 And, and that's a shame.

00:56:59.420 And it's also why this guy on Reddit, I mean, and his parents probably are today canceled.

00:57:08.640 That'll do it for the show today.

00:57:09.540 Thanks for watching.

00:57:10.020 Thanks for listening.

00:57:10.580 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:57:11.480 Have a great day.

00:57:12.420 Godspeed.

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00:57:36.440 I've been told because I'm a white male, kind of at the top of the pile, how do I get down from the top?

00:57:41.740 I don't think you necessarily can.

00:57:44.280 They're good past all the talk about racism.

00:57:46.760 We have to love each other.

00:57:48.040 Well, it can't be that simple.

00:57:49.220 How do we get to a point of racial harmony? 0.60

00:57:53.020 It's good to talk to you.

00:57:55.700 We're still on a journey, all of us together.

00:57:57.220 I think you've got some journeying to do.

00:57:58.700 Just talk to me about the statistics.

00:58:00.300 We have an epidemic.

00:58:00.840 20 million crimes a year, 6,000, 7,000 hate crimes.

00:58:05.020 No, there's no epidemic.

00:58:06.000 Why are we talking about statistics?

00:58:07.480 This is not a matter of statistics.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 15, 2024

Ep. 1464 - Why The Left Is Willing To Do Anything They Can To Take Down Elon Musk

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