The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1472 - Planes Are Falling From The Sky & The DOJ’s Priority Is DEI

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, one of the final acts of the Biden administration is to go to

00:00:03.620 court to defend DEI policies in the airline industry. Also, Bruce Springsteen performs

00:00:08.280 at a Kamala Harris rally. It's one of the worst things you'll ever hear, I guarantee you that.

00:00:12.340 Donald Trump is toying with the idea of abolishing the income tax. We'll talk about why that would

00:00:16.300 make him, without question, the greatest president in American history. And Ben Shapiro debates 25

00:00:21.360 Kamala Harris supporters. The clips are truly tragic, if also hilarious. We'll talk about all

00:00:25.480 that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:52.080 Put yourself in the shoes of a senior official in the Biden-Harris administration. Say you're

00:01:57.080 running the DOJ. And right now, you know that in just a matter of months, you could be out of a job.

00:02:02.760 In fact, that seems pretty likely at this point. If there's any important causes that you want to

00:02:07.780 pursue or policies you want to defend, well, now's the time to do it. This is your opportunity to cement

00:02:12.760 your legacy, at least until the next administration fires you and completely dismantles it. Given that

00:02:18.000 setup, what would you make a top priority? With so many things going wrong in the country, what are

00:02:22.700 the battles you choose to fight with the limited time you have left? We're not quite technically in

00:02:27.900 the lame duck period, but everyone in this administration is asking this question right

00:02:32.480 now anyway. And as low as your expectations may be for the Biden-Harris administration,

00:02:36.900 their answer to that question is pretty remarkable. In what could very well be their final days and

00:02:44.160 weeks in power, senior leaders in the federal government are going to federal court to defend

00:02:48.560 DEI policies. And I'm not talking about just any garden variety DEI policy here. As we speak,

00:02:54.760 the Justice Department is going to court to demand that the DEI, the DEI is used in the selection

00:03:00.880 process to appoint an independent monitor to oversee Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer. The job of this

00:03:08.300 independent monitor is to make sure that Boeing stops making planes that fall apart in the sky or just

00:03:15.060 completely fall out of the sky. In other words, the Biden-Harris administration DOJ is fighting to ensure

00:03:20.040 that the second largest commercial jet manufacturer in the world is supervised by a DEI hire. What could

00:03:28.660 possibly go wrong? Well, a lot as we've seen. And you know that if you've been following Boeing lately,

00:03:33.980 there's a decent documentary on Netflix called Downfall, the case against Boeing that outlines

00:03:38.960 a lot of the background. But here's the gist. As you probably remember, there were two fatal crashes

00:03:44.760 involving Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in 2018 and 2019. A total of 346 people were killed in just a few

00:03:52.140 months. Investigation revealed that the crashes were linked to Boeing's decision to accelerate

00:03:57.420 production of the 737 MAX to compete with their rival Airbus. The design of Boeing's new 737 MAX was

00:04:04.480 a lot like the older Boeing jets, but with one key exception. The engines were larger and they were

00:04:10.300 positioned further forward on the plane. While this helped with efficiency, it came with a side effect,

00:04:15.600 which is that the plane had a tendency to pitch upwards during flight. So to counteract that tendency,

00:04:21.900 Boeing designed a new software program that they installed on their new 737 MAX aircraft

00:04:27.040 the idea was that the software would automatically lower the nose to a level position if the plane

00:04:31.800 started creeping upwards. It was supposed to be kind of a subtle fix that the pilots wouldn't

00:04:35.600 really notice. The problem is that the software was completely dependent on one sensor on the plane

00:04:40.840 called the angle of attack sensor. And if that sensor failed or malfunctioned for whatever reason or

00:04:46.100 provided inaccurate data, the plane would inaccurately believe that it was climbing too quickly and the

00:04:50.980 software in response would make the plane plunge towards the earth. And that's exactly what happened

00:04:54.960 in both of those cases. Here's coverage of one of the crashes. Watch.

00:04:59.720 But shortly after takeoff, Ethiopian flight 302 is suddenly out of control.

00:05:07.520 A critical sensor sending information to the plane's new flight control system called MCAS has malfunctioned.

00:05:17.720 MCAS thinks the aircraft is in a stall and literally takes over the controls.

00:05:23.520 Now what's incredible about this crash, the Ethiopian Airlines one, is that it happened after the Lion Air

00:05:38.980 crash several months earlier. And after the Lion Air crash, Boeing sent out advisories to a bunch of

00:05:43.700 airlines warning them about their software. They said that if they encounter a similar issue,

00:05:47.980 pilots should just turn off the electrical system of that part of the aircraft to disable

00:05:51.460 the software entirely. The problem is that when the Ethiopian pilots did that, they encountered

00:05:57.980 a bunch of other unexpected issues that they weren't really trained on. And they were panicking. And

00:06:02.540 during the chaos, they left the throttle on maximum, which made it impossible to control the plane

00:06:06.240 without the help of the electrical system. And when they tried to regain some control,

00:06:09.700 they turned the electrical system back on, at which point the plane promptly crashed itself.

00:06:15.100 Now, obviously, there are a lot of failures that occurred in this whole situation. The regulators at the FAA

00:06:19.420 delegated a lot of their responsibilities to Boeing, which meant that Boeing was in charge of certifying

00:06:24.800 the safety of its own software. Additionally, Boeing knowingly made false representations about its

00:06:30.160 software during the certification process. That part is not in dispute. Boeing admits this.

00:06:35.200 This summer, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the government concerning

00:06:40.520 the 737 MAX's software. And then Boeing and the DOJ filed a plea agreement so that a judge could review it.

00:06:46.780 And the plea agreement essentially makes Boeing, as a company, like the company equivalent of a

00:06:52.860 convicted felon. And they're still making our airplanes that we fly on, so that should make

00:06:57.620 you feel good. But to his credit, the judge, whose name is Reed O'Connor, isn't signing off on the

00:07:03.660 plea deal, at least not yet. This is a bit like the situation with Hunter Biden this summer. Just because

00:07:08.540 both parties agreed to a plea deal, it doesn't mean the judge has to accept it. And in this case,

00:07:12.500 there's a very important reason why the judge won't accept it. Quoting from the judge's order this

00:07:18.100 month, quote, the agreement mandates an independent compliance monitor to assess whether Boeing has

00:07:22.620 adequately mitigated the risk of providing false or fraudulent information to the Federal Aviation

00:07:27.340 Administration and other government regulators. Like many of the agreement's other provisions,

00:07:31.640 the victims strongly oppose the agreement's compliance monitor requirements. Among other reasons,

00:07:37.120 the victims argue the court should reject the agreement because it allows the government,

00:07:41.320 not the court, to select a monitor with input from Boeing and in keeping with the department's

00:07:45.980 commitment to diversity and inclusion. Now, in other words, just to translate, both the judge and

00:07:54.160 the victim's families have an issue with this provision, and you can see why. When both the

00:08:00.500 regulator and the airline manufacturer mess up, causing the deaths of hundreds of people,

00:08:05.840 then you would think you'd want to bring in the most competent people you can find in order to make

00:08:10.300 sure that that never happens again. But that's not what's happening here. When the judge asked the

00:08:16.120 government's attorney, Sean Tannoli, to explain what exactly this diversity, equity, and inclusion

00:08:21.300 policy would entail, Tannoli responded that he's not an expert in the topic. But he eventually got

00:08:27.060 around to saying that diversity refers to race, gender, background, and any number of factors,

00:08:32.140 including background and experience. Tannoli added that inclusion is, quote,

00:08:36.900 quote, another way of maybe saying the same thing and not excluding people because of any characteristic

00:08:41.260 that would be included in diversity. Both of those explanations are incredibly circular,

00:08:47.440 but he tapped out after that. He said he couldn't provide any more information than that,

00:08:51.280 but he did insist that the government wouldn't pick somebody who was unqualified.

00:08:55.720 Well, that led the judge to ask, quote, did the department used to exclude certain people on race,

00:09:00.880 gender, and other things? And in response to that question, Tannoli responded,

00:09:03.680 not to my knowledge. Which was an alarming answer, to say the least, especially when you're talking

00:09:08.820 about making sure that more planes don't fall out of the sky. The answer should be an unequivocal,

00:09:13.460 no, we definitely wouldn't exclude anyone based on race or gender. It's wrong to discriminate on that

00:09:19.860 basis in any context, but it's completely insane to do it when you're talking about regulating Boeing,

00:09:25.500 which, if you haven't noticed, is having a lot of problems right now,

00:09:28.340 both on this planet and in space. So the judge asked Boeing for their input, but they just deferred

00:09:35.420 to the government's answer. And then the judge pulled up Boeing's website where he found that

00:09:39.020 the company has a set of aspirations that it plans to achieve by next year. And those aspirations,

00:09:43.480 which are based on DEI, include explicit quotas on the basis of race, including Boeing's efforts to,

00:09:50.060 quote, increase the black representation rate in the U.S. by 20 percent

00:09:53.460 and close representation gaps for historically underrepresented groups.

00:09:58.780 The judge also found that Boeing pays its executives bonuses depending on how many of

00:10:04.080 their DEI goals they have achieved. Now, at the moment, we don't know exactly how this legal battle

00:10:11.340 will play out. The judge has said that he wants a full hearing on all of this before he signs off on

00:10:17.240 any plea agreement. He wants to make sure that the Biden-Harris administration is going to select

00:10:21.080 someone who can do the job before any more people die in Boeing airplanes. And based on the statements

00:10:26.840 of Boeing and the Biden-Harris administration so far, the judge doesn't have those assurances.

00:10:32.800 Now, if you look at any corporate media coverage of this story, you'll find a lot of snark directed

00:10:37.060 at the judge. Reuters, for example, ran this headline, quote, how a U.S. judge injected culture wars

00:10:42.600 into Boeing 737 MAX plea deal. They interviewed a lawyer who criticized the judge saying that he was

00:10:48.160 acting incredibly unusual. CNN, meanwhile, accused the judge of engaging in a politically tinged

00:10:54.280 courtroom battle. This is the same debate, the same tactic we've seen in the trans debate and in so

00:11:02.060 many other areas. Left-wing activists implement some new insane policy. And when you push back against

00:11:09.060 it in any way, or even just ask questions about it, you're accused of injecting a culture war in a way

00:11:16.380 that's somehow inappropriate. It's apparently, so it's not injecting a culture war when Boeing and

00:11:20.780 the federal government both decide to, you know, begin with this DEI insanity in the first place.

00:11:26.360 But it is a culture war when a judge asks if we're hiring the most qualified people to make sure that

00:11:30.880 more planes don't crash themselves into the ocean. Now, the reason these outlets are lashing out like

00:11:37.180 this is that they recognize that this judge's ruling is significant. They realize that they're indeed

00:11:42.540 losing the culture war on this topic. The war that, like every other battlefield of the culture war,

00:11:50.300 these are all wars that they started. Wars that the left started. This is the first time that I'm

00:11:56.360 aware of that a federal judge has explicitly called out DEI in the context of an ongoing case,

00:12:01.900 and he's demanded to know what exactly it entails. And in response, the government and Boeing,

00:12:07.940 which both practice DEI, couldn't even answer the question. It's yet another sign that the tide is

00:12:14.420 turning pretty sharply against the whole concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly

00:12:20.760 when lives are at stake. That's why, you know, when I started working on my film, Am I Racist, a few

00:12:26.740 years ago, developments like this were pretty difficult to imagine at the time. But throughout the

00:12:31.640 process, we all knew that taking down DEI meant exposing exactly what it is in practice.

00:12:37.100 Once reasonable people can see exactly what diversity, equity, and inclusion entails,

00:12:43.140 then they turn against it, as with so many other things on the left. When people just see what it

00:12:48.180 actually is, and they see past the euphemisms, once you've revealed what it actually is to people,

00:12:56.320 many times you don't even have to explain why it's wrong, because it's so self-evident.

00:13:00.680 People recognize that it's immoral and unethical, not to mention incredibly dangerous in cases like

00:13:06.660 this. And they also recognize that the high priests of the DEI cult actually have no idea what they're

00:13:13.180 talking about. Like Boeing's lawyers or the various experts and activists I spoke to in the film,

00:13:19.120 these people can't even define the terms that they're constantly repeating.

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00:16:15.100 See terms for details. I thought it'd be nice to start off the headlines with a little bits of a musical

00:16:19.820 interlude. The boss himself, Bruce Springsteen, came out to support Kamala Harris at a rally last

00:16:26.140 night. He performed a couple of songs. And we'll play a little bit of one of them in a minute.

00:16:32.600 But first, here is Bruce Springsteen on stage, giving a little speech, making the case for Kamala.

00:16:39.800 Listen. I'm Bruce Springsteen, and I am here today to support Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz for president

00:16:47.560 and vice president of the United States and to oppose Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

00:17:02.420 Now, here's why. I want a president who reveres the Constitution, who does not threaten but wants

00:17:11.000 to protect and guide our great democracy, who believes in the rule of law and the peaceful

00:17:18.220 transfer of power, who will fight for a woman's right to choose, and who wants to create a middle-class 0.91

00:17:30.000 economy that will serve all our citizens. There is only one candidate in this election who holds

00:17:37.380 those principles dear. Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris. She's running to be the 47th president of the 0.82

00:17:47.500 United States. Donald Trump is running to be an American tyrant. He does not understand this 0.97

00:17:57.640 country, its history, or what it means to be deeply American.

00:18:01.960 Well, first of all, he's mispronouncing her name, which is racist. He keeps saying Kamala

00:18:08.320 is what he keeps saying. So I'm very offended on her behalf for that. The second problem is

00:18:15.080 that almost everything he said there, almost all of Kamala's alleged selling points that

00:18:20.440 he's given are right-wing coded. You know, if you leave aside the right to choose, that part,

00:18:27.980 quote-unquote, right to choose, the rest of it, restoring the rule of law, defending the Constitution,

00:18:36.060 has a deep respect for American history. Obviously, none of that is true about Kamala Harris,

00:18:44.600 and that's the point. They're trying to sell her using essentially conservative language. 0.99

00:18:51.520 And I don't think it's going to work. This is maybe the best indication that Trump is winning,

00:18:55.860 the fact that they're, you know, they're not trying to sell her as a progressive, even though

00:18:59.560 she is the most liberal presidential candidate in American history by far. In spite of that, 0.95

00:19:06.760 that's not how they're selling her. They, you know, they're not selling her with defund the police

00:19:13.820 and put a stop to police brutality. And, you know, the Constitution is a living document and it needs

00:19:20.220 to be updated for, but they're not doing any of that. Instead, it's rule of law, Constitution.

00:19:27.060 That's what they're doing. They're running to the right in the final days of the campaign,

00:19:30.060 just as they have since August, and running to the right on everything except abortion,

00:19:36.920 which just makes the overall pitch all the more disjointed and confused.

00:19:41.520 Um, so that was Springsteen's, uh, speech. Now let's listen to a little bit of him performing his

00:19:49.400 classic hits, Dancing in the Dark. We'll, we'll listen to as much of this as we can, uh, tolerate.

00:19:59.640 It's time for some entertainment. Here we go.

00:20:11.520 That, uh, wow. Why is that so bad? And I, and I, I don't even say that as a Springsteen

00:20:34.380 hater. Uh, I mean, I am kind of a Springsteen hater, but, but how did Bruce Springsteen do the

00:20:44.260 worst rendition of a Bruce Springsteen song that we've ever heard? That's, that's what I want to

00:20:50.240 know. He sounds like he's doing bad karaoke to his own song. He sounds like a tone deaf drunk guy

00:20:55.700 trying to sing Springsteen, Springsteen, uh, which is probably being generous. I mean,

00:21:01.660 really his, his singing voice sounds like a, like a hyena drowning in a river. Um, and that's why I

00:21:10.140 say we, we, we really need a new law and I'm totally serious about this. Um, I wish this is,

00:21:16.240 this is something that Trump would have put on his platform, but we need a new law that rock stars

00:21:20.660 aren't allowed to keep performing past the age of 55. Let's say, I mean, 60 is pushing it. Okay,

00:21:29.280 fine. I'll give you a 60 past the age of 60. Well, and I'll even be, I'll be, uh, even more

00:21:35.240 generous. I'll say that, that after the age of 60, if you want to keep performing as a rock star

00:21:41.500 or a musician, you need to get a license and then you, and then that license has to be renewed every

00:21:45.840 three years. You have to go somewhere and sing and get, uh, you know, sing for Simon Cowell or

00:21:51.680 something. And you'll get a, if you pass, then you get a, your license renewed because this guy,

00:21:56.840 I mean, Bruce Springsteen is how he's like pushing 80 now. And it's just sad. It's, it's sad

00:22:02.900 to witness. Like you, you can't force us to watch this and seeing these aging rock stars just

00:22:08.560 decaying on stage, butchering their own material. I mean, it's a crime is a crime. It should literally

00:22:15.040 be a crime. It's a moral atrocity. Um, but that was Bruce Springsteen and, uh, we'll see how many

00:22:24.300 people are inspired to vote. I mean, that's reason enough to vote against Kamala Harris. Like

00:22:30.240 reason enough is, is because if she's elected, what does, I mean, are we going to have to hear

00:22:37.000 more of that? Is he going to perform at the inauguration or something? You start to worry

00:22:40.980 about that reason enough to vote against her is just that performance alone. Now, speaking of

00:22:48.040 musicians who are 40 years past their prime, uh, Cindy Lauper, uh, came out with, uh, fortunately

00:22:56.220 she's not singing, but she, uh, endorsed Kamala Harris and gave her own pitch for, uh, Kamala.

00:23:01.940 Let's listen to that.

00:23:04.200 Hi, it's me, Cindy. I'm touring the country. I'm very excited to see my country. I love my country.

00:23:13.120 Mostly, I want to tell you that this November, I'm voting for her, Kamala Harris. You know

00:23:22.420 why? Because she's a woman and she's going to understand that I don't want to be a second 1.00

00:23:27.100 class citizen anymore. I want to see a woman in the White House. I would like to see that. 1.00

00:23:33.040 Right now, we have no equality. We don't even, we're not even able to say whether we want to

00:23:41.860 have a kid or not. I don't have to worry about that anymore, but I do have to worry about the fact

00:23:47.200 that my nieces and whoever comes later is going to be second class. We'll be told about our bodies

00:23:56.280 and what we're to do with them because for the good, for the good of who? Men aren't told what

00:24:02.760 they're going to do. I want equality, real equality. I don't want to be talked into anything anymore

00:24:10.000 being told what I'm going to do with my own body because that's too creepy. That's not

00:24:17.160 small government. That's dictatorship. And I don't want that. So ladies, can we stand together? 0.99

00:24:25.640 Okay.

00:24:26.340 Once.

00:24:27.060 That's enough of that.

00:24:27.720 There it is again, by the way, small government. She's making a pitch for, since when do you care 0.93

00:24:33.180 about small government? Sidney Lauper. And since when does Sidney Lauper sound like Lois Griffin

00:24:38.360 from Family Guy? Has she always sounded like that? I guess I've never heard her talk before

00:24:41.340 and I wish I never did. So, you know, of course, this does, number one, raise the question,

00:24:52.900 the great question that still has not been answered by anybody on the left, which is what

00:24:56.880 is a woman? She said she's voting for Kamala Harris because she's a woman and she just came 1.00

00:25:01.280 out and said it. You're not even pretending that there's any other reason. Yeah, I'm voting

00:25:04.660 for her because she's a woman. All right, well, what's that? What's that? What is that? What

00:25:09.120 is this mysterious creature you speak of, Sidney? Sidney, can you tell us a little bit more

00:25:13.000 about that? And then she goes off on the whole abortion spiel. It's just, it's funny how

00:25:18.820 these people, I mean, for one thing, they continue to pretend that there's some kind

00:25:27.120 of federal abortion ban in place. It's not even that they're pretending that Trump is

00:25:35.040 going to put a federal ban in place, even though Trump repeatedly has said he is not going to

00:25:40.380 do that. The way they talk about it, they're pretending that it has already happened. And

00:25:47.340 they're ignoring the fact that every single one of these women who come out in support

00:25:52.140 of Kamala Harris and start giving these speeches, especially the famous women, they all, all of

00:25:58.920 them live in states where abortion is 100% legal still from conception to birth and in some

00:26:08.260 cases beyond birth. I don't know where Sidney Lopper lives, but I'm going to, pretty safe

00:26:16.020 assumption. She lives in a state where it's already legal. So all of these women, it is already 1.00

00:26:21.280 legal entirely where you live. And it has been for 50 years. And Trump is, if he was elected, would

00:26:30.600 not do a single thing to change that. If I were elected, I would do something to change that. I think

00:26:39.840 there should be a federal abortion ban. I make no apologies about that, but that's not Trump's view

00:26:42.860 on it. It's not Trump's view. So they're just ignoring that. They are ignoring it because,

00:26:50.200 so that they can tell the story, as we heard from Cindy Lopper, that women are second-class citizens, 1.00

00:26:57.800 that they're being singled out, which by the way, of course, even if there was a national abortion ban

00:27:04.720 in place, that still would not mean that you're a second-class citizen, that you're not equal,

00:27:10.320 that you're being somehow singled out with some kind of law that only applies to you. It wouldn't

00:27:15.640 mean that. All it would mean, you know what, if you live in a state where there's an abortion ban,

00:27:22.400 or if there was a federal ban, and if you're a woman, all that would mean is that that would 1.00

00:27:32.020 actually be equality. Banning abortion is equality. It's equality, for one thing, because we're

00:27:39.420 recognizing the human rights of the child in the womb, who is a human, who is a person.

00:27:45.800 And when the person in the abortion conversation who's being deprived of equality under the law

00:27:52.720 is the unborn child. But also, all that would mean is that you are not allowed to directly kill

00:27:59.680 another human life, which is already the law for everybody else. Men are not allowed to directly 0.91

00:28:10.060 kill innocent human beings. It's not as though men have that privilege, and women don't. 0.99

00:28:19.080 So when abortion is legal, it makes women, that is an inequality in the law. Not only because, 0.53

00:28:32.300 again, we're depriving human rights, we're depriving the unborn children of their basic human rights,

00:28:38.700 but we are carving out this exception, this murder exception. And we're saying that,

00:28:45.800 yeah, you're not allowed to take innocent human life unless you're a woman and you're killing your 1.00

00:28:51.220 child. So Cyndi Lauper does not want equality under the law. Equality under the law would be an 1.00

00:28:59.160 abortion ban. That's the last thing she wants. She wants women to have extra rights, extra rights that 1.00

00:29:05.420 nobody else has. All right, New York Times has this headline, a wonderful headline.

00:29:11.740 Trump flirts with ultimate tax cut. No income taxes at all. Article says,

00:29:17.580 foreign president Donald J. Trump has spent much of the presidential campaign brainstorming new and

00:29:21.300 sometimes untested ways to cut taxes. In the election's final stretch, he raised the possibility

00:29:26.400 of going even further, eliminating income taxes entirely. During a Fox News segment on Monday,

00:29:31.900 Mr. Trump took questions at a barbershop in the Bronx. When asked if the United States could

00:29:36.620 potentially end all federal taxation, Mr. Trump said the country could return to the economic

00:29:40.980 policies in the late 19th century where there was no federal income tax. Mr. Trump said it had all

00:29:48.100 tariffs. It didn't have an income tax. Now we have income taxes and we have people that are dying.

00:29:52.680 They're paying tax and they don't have the money to pay the tax. In June, Mr. Trump floated the idea of

00:29:58.060 replacing federal revenue from income taxes with money received from tariffs. Mr. Trump has not

00:30:02.520 provided specific details of how that would work and it's unclear if he wants to eliminate all federal

00:30:06.000 taxes, including corporate income taxes and payroll taxes, or only the individual income tax.

00:30:12.460 Either way, both liberal and conservative experts have dismissed his idea as mathematically

00:30:16.720 impossible and economically destructive. Yeah, I love that when people say it's mathematically

00:30:22.480 impossible to do something that we've already done. Okay, the income tax was put in place in what in

00:30:29.240 1913. Prior to that, there was no income tax. So how could it be impossible to do a thing

00:30:38.200 that we already did for over a century? And I'm not joking when I say that this, that if Trump

00:30:46.640 pursued this, uh, and was able to see it through, it would make him the greatest president in American

00:30:53.940 history. I mean, even if he just pursued it in a serious way and wasn't able to, uh, and didn't

00:31:01.960 succeed, it would still make him arguably the greatest president of American history. Uh, but

00:31:06.720 certainly if he was able to abolish the income tax, it would because in one fell swoop, Trump would,

00:31:11.340 will have done more than any other president to bring freedom and prosperity to the American people.

00:31:17.620 Abolishing the income tax would, would mean that he's, he has done more than any other president

00:31:21.560 to bring freedom and prosperity to the American people. Uh, he will have increased freedom and

00:31:27.480 prosperity more than any other president ever has. And, um, I don't think it's going to happen.

00:31:35.020 Yeah, I put a very, very low likelihood on it, but it needs to happen. And I also do believe that

00:31:41.740 Trump is the only guy who would even potentially do something like that.

00:31:46.640 Um, and you know, libertarians like to say that taxation is theft and that's not exactly right.

00:31:52.980 Not all taxation is theft. Uh, you need to have some kind of taxation in order to fund the government.

00:31:58.520 And the other option is for the government to have no funding, which means that the government

00:32:02.700 can't exist and then you have anarchy. So, uh, if you're not an anarchist, then you must agree that

00:32:09.580 some kind of tax system is, uh, is a necessary evil. Um, which means that not all taxes are theft,

00:32:18.520 but the income tax, the income tax is theft. So you just have to be more specific when you make

00:32:23.680 that claim that taxation is theft, the income, income taxation is theft. That I absolutely

00:32:29.660 believe. For the government to reach into your paycheck and take a chunk of it,

00:32:34.800 take a chunk before you even get your hands on it, um, getting taxed just for earning a living,

00:32:39.480 that, that is theft. That is tyranny. And we've been living under a system of crushing tyranny for

00:32:45.720 over a hundred years now. The kind of tyranny that our founders never would have tolerated. In fact,

00:32:50.840 they've violently revolted against much lesser tyranny than, than this. There's no question about that.

00:32:57.540 Um, now, of course, as, as the New York times, uh, says in response to this, a lot of people,

00:33:06.020 even conservatives are going around saying, well, we can't do that. How will we pay for the roads

00:33:10.760 and the schools without an income tax? Well, first of all, federal income taxes don't really pay for

00:33:16.320 schools. At least they, you know, they largely don't. I think like five or 10% of the funding for

00:33:21.520 schools comes from, uh, the federal government. Um, and besides the public school system needs to be

00:33:26.200 abolished anyway. So, but I mean, that's a different subject. Um, whatever else the federal

00:33:32.440 government pays for or, or we pay for, I should say through the federal government, you can replace

00:33:38.480 that funding with other taxes. Trump wants to use tariffs. Um, there have been other plans. We've

00:33:44.620 talked about the fair tax, for example, and national sales tax. Any kind of consumption-based tax

00:33:49.760 is vastly preferable to an income tax. Uh, and it continues to, uh, I continue to find it rather

00:34:02.760 confounding that abolishing the income tax, I mean, Trump is talking about it, which is great, but

00:34:08.080 it's rather confounding that this is not a subject that comes up more often on the right. Like, there

00:34:15.620 aren't that many people on the right who talk about this or push for it in any kind of serious way.

00:34:21.480 And, uh, I just find that, I find that sort of confusing. Like, we should all be on the same page

00:34:27.100 on this thing. Uh, the income tax is just an abomination from hell. It really is. And, and the

00:34:36.840 only reason that we accept it is just because it's always been in place, at least, and always just means

00:34:43.960 in our lifetime that we've never known anything other than the income tax. And so therefore we

00:34:50.700 just take it for granted. But just because you're born into a certain kind of tyranny doesn't mean

00:34:56.560 that it's not tyranny. And it also doesn't mean that, uh, it's inevitable and there's no other way

00:35:02.220 to, you know, have a functioning country. Like that's just not the case.

00:35:05.340 And really when it comes down to it, that the, any other attempt to, um, reign in

00:35:15.020 the, the, you know, extravagantly unnecessary spending of the federal government,

00:35:20.940 any attempt to cut the size of government, any of that stuff, like none of that can really happen

00:35:26.880 while you still have an income tax. While we still have a situation where the government could just

00:35:32.240 come in and take your money out of your paycheck, as long as they can do that,

00:35:36.660 yet spending is not going to go down. The government's not going to shrink. You're not

00:35:40.600 going to do anything about the, about the, the, the ungainly, uh, massive gargantuan

00:35:45.920 blob of the federal government, the federal bureaucracy, like none of that. You won't solve any of those 0.97

00:35:52.340 problems or even make a dent as long as they have this power to just go and take your money. 0.96

00:35:57.020 They're going to keep doing it. Um, so this is the first step towards really any, any other

00:36:04.840 improvements we want to make. All right, here's a writer for the Atlantic trying to explain

00:36:09.780 why Kamala is losing support among black and Hispanic voters. Um, and his explanation is that

00:36:17.460 those voters are just uneducated. Uh, let's listen.

00:36:20.120 But the sharpest divide in our politics today, uh, is education. It's whether you have a college

00:36:29.000 degree or not, that is the likeliest determinant of whether you're going to vote Republican or

00:36:33.660 Democratic. And that's why we're seeing larger numbers. And I met some of them in Western

00:36:38.560 Pennsylvania of Latinos and black voters who are moving toward Trump.

00:36:43.240 Well, that'll win them back. Uh, that's, that's sure to do it. Say, well, you're not voting for us

00:36:50.780 because you're uneducated. Um, and, but actually he's right. That's, that's the thing. He's, he's

00:36:56.360 right. Um, to, to frame it in terms of education, that's not like the fact that you didn't go to

00:37:02.380 college doesn't actually mean that you're uneducated. And, and the, the inverse of that,

00:37:09.480 the fact that you went to college doesn't mean that you are educated. And it certainly doesn't

00:37:14.100 mean that you're intelligent. You can't tell anything about someone's intelligence based on

00:37:18.680 whether they have a college degree. And you can't even tell anything about, about their actual

00:37:22.620 education. Um, based simply on the fact that they have the degree, but he is hitting on something

00:37:30.620 true here, uh, which is that as more and more people forego college, the Democrats lose voters.

00:37:37.340 And, uh, and this is a, this is a trend that we're seeing now where you have, um,

00:37:46.220 you know, it's still, it's still mostly taken for granted that when a kid graduates high school,

00:37:52.460 they just go to college, whether they know what they want to do with their lives or not,

00:37:56.960 whether they have any idea why they're going to college, whether they know what they want to

00:38:00.360 major in or whatever, it doesn't matter. They still go. So that's largely taken for granted.

00:38:04.980 That's still basically the system, but not as much as it was 10 years ago. Um,

00:38:10.080 the, the trend lines are moving in the opposite direction and, uh, there, there are a lot of

00:38:16.320 massive benefits there, but one of the biggest is that it, it, it's loosens the kind of stranglehold

00:38:27.600 grip that Democrats have over particularly younger voters. Cause what this guy's basically admitting

00:38:33.720 is what we all know, which is that the universities are left-wing indoctrination camps.

00:38:39.080 And if you have fewer people going there, then you end up with fewer people who are left-leaning.

00:38:43.040 It's pretty simple math there. All right. Finally, I wanted to mention this. Uh, this is a bit

00:38:48.540 hard to explain to anyone listening to the audio podcast. I'll try my best,

00:38:52.440 but it's too funny to not attempt to talk about it. So anyone who's, who's too online, like, like me

00:39:02.160 is very familiar with a certain meme format. Uh, and in the meme, you see a picture of a man,

00:39:08.360 uh, either like at a bar or sitting in a stadium, someplace noisy shouting in the ear of a woman who's 0.99

00:39:14.740 just sitting there or standing there and looking very disinterested and unamused. Um, and then the

00:39:20.820 meme is you fill in the dialogue, what the man is saying. And the whole joke is that the guy is

00:39:25.680 blabbing about something inane and irrelevant that the girl doesn't care about. Um, there's also the

00:39:31.680 reverse of this meme where a woman is shouting in the ear of a disinterested man. And for that meme,

00:39:38.040 you write in the dialogue and the woman is babbling about something dumb that the man doesn't care 0.94

00:39:41.140 about. And, uh, okay. So that's the meme format. There's me explaining a meme, but I don't, you know, 0.91

00:39:45.580 this is again, if it's for an audio format, I don't know how else to do this. Well, hilariously

00:39:50.000 Planned Parenthood, uh, tried to do this meme. And, you know, another meme about memes on the

00:39:58.660 internet is that the left can't meme. They don't, they don't know how to do memes for some reason.

00:40:04.340 And there's no better evidence of that than this, because the funny thing is that they,

00:40:09.820 they accidentally, Planned Parenthood, they accidentally did the meme correctly. They actually

00:40:14.520 did a correct and even funny version of this meme, but they didn't mean to. It makes the

00:40:19.960 opposite point from the point they were trying to make. So let's, let's take a look here. Uh, they,

00:40:25.400 they, and they deleted this tweet shortly after they posted it, which makes it even, uh, funnier,

00:40:30.860 but here's the meme. So you have the, you have the woman screaming in the guy's ear and then the

00:40:37.360 dialogue that Planned Parenthood put in says project, project 2025 is a complete political

00:40:42.180 takeover of our rights. They want Donald Trump and JD Vance to win so they can ban abortion nationwide.

00:40:47.020 That's why we need to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, two politicians who have spent their

00:40:51.660 careers fighting for reproductive rights. Uh, so that's what the guy's shouting at the man while

00:40:57.900 he's just standing there, like, shut up, please. And this is amazing because like I said, they,

00:41:02.640 and they deleted this because everybody started mocking them for it, but they did the meme correctly,

00:41:08.740 accidentally correctly. This is a perfect representation of what female Kamala supporters 1.00

00:41:13.440 are like. They're constantly shrieking in our ears, screaming about abortion and they won't shut 0.99

00:41:19.320 up. So that's, but what's really incredible is that the, the feminists over at Planned Parenthood, 0.99

00:41:26.780 you know, they saw this image of the woman screaming directly in the ear of a man who clearly just wants

00:41:33.640 her to stop talking and doesn't care. And, and they saw that image and they saw it as an inherently

00:41:40.460 positive thing. They looked at the image and saw themselves in the woman who's doing the screaming

00:41:46.340 and they didn't see anything wrong with that. To them, this, this image of the woman screaming in

00:41:53.200 the man's ear, it's like, it's inspirational. It's aspirational. Uh, this is how they see themselves

00:42:00.100 apparently as a, as a kind of drunk bore perpetually shrieking in the ear of a man.

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00:44:18.160 There's a series on YouTube produced by the channel Jubilee where one person sits in a circle

00:44:30.260 surrounded by 20 or 30 people who disagree with them, and the people in the circle take turns

00:44:35.160 debating the guy in the middle. Charlie Kirk went viral a couple weeks ago when he took on 25 woke

00:44:40.680 college students and debated them and did quite well. This week, Ben Shapiro was the latest

00:44:46.680 conservative commentator on the chopping block. Clips of his debates with 25 Kamala Harris voters

00:44:52.100 are going extremely viral all over social media, which as a side note means it's only a matter of

00:44:57.080 time before someone on our PR team tries to convince me to do this too. And I'll just tell them ahead of

00:45:03.180 time, the answer is no. I am not doing this. Don't even bother bringing it to my office. I know you're

00:45:09.000 going to. You'll probably do it today. I don't have the patience required to engage in that many

00:45:14.700 conversations with that many idiots one after another in close succession. So I'm happy to 1.00

00:45:21.980 let Ben and Charlie handle that chore on their end. And they've got the right temperament for it. I

00:45:27.060 don't. So anyway, needless to say, Ben wins every debate during this little tournament. But I think

00:45:34.680 I looked at the YouTube video of this. It's got like 4 million views in less than a day, which is

00:45:40.920 incredible. And it's like an hour long. I mean, Ben sat there and that's with, I'm sure they edited

00:45:46.000 and clip some stuff. I don't know. But sitting there for an hour, just one of these people,

00:45:52.920 one after another with these morons. I cannot imagine. That's hell. It is hell. Now there are 1.00

00:45:59.040 two clips in particular that I want to focus on today from this. And the first is a young woman

00:46:03.880 who tries to challenge Ben on the topic of abortion. This clip is a, it's a little bit long. It's about

00:46:08.380 two and a half minutes. But I think it's worth watching the whole thing or most of it. Here it

00:46:14.800 is. Hi, how are you? Hello. Nice to meet you. Oh, wow. You look better in person. Okay. So

00:46:21.520 I don't often get that. So thank you. It's fine. But yeah. So yeah. How do you define abortion

00:46:27.900 really quickly? Abortion would be the forcible termination of an unborn human life. Yes. But 1.00

00:46:34.140 like, why do you hold that definition? Like, would you not assume like something like a,

00:46:37.420 like a C-section would be considered an abortion? No, because the baby is, is born 0.57

00:46:40.880 alive. So how would that be an abortion? Why would, why, what does the definition of

00:46:44.100 abortion have to include the death of a fetus? Because that's literally the definition of

00:46:47.320 abortion. It literally isn't though. Where are you getting this definition from? Where

00:46:50.220 are you getting your definition from? Let's go to like, what, like, do you like in like Mayo

00:46:53.620 Clinic, like any, any like hospital you've ever gone to before? A C-section ends with the birth

00:46:58.920 of the child. Right. But I know, but abortion, but abortion, but abortion generally, I understand

00:47:04.160 this. I'm here. I'm talking to you. I know, baby. I understand this, but like, yes, but

00:47:08.600 like, no. Well, yes, but like, no. But no, uh, you can say, you can simply say that abortion

00:47:13.380 is simply the ending of a pregnancy, right? So the ending of a pregnancy outside of the

00:47:16.400 natural birth of a fetus. So I don't see that. I don't see why you would say that like

00:47:19.760 it would have to end in the death of a fetus, which is why I'm pro-abortion all nine months. 0.90

00:47:22.760 Right. Because say, if a woman is not able to pass a fetus in the natural way, uh, we

00:47:27.020 can have these other abortion, uh, uh, processes that would say like, okay, like she needs some 1.00

00:47:31.360 part, some type of induction that doesn't include the actual natural expulsion of a

00:47:34.820 fetus, but it doesn't always end in the death of a fetus. So I don't see how you could say

00:47:37.660 that her Kamala Harris stance is immoral. I just don't understand how you're removing

00:47:41.960 the death of the fetus from the equation about abortion. That's literally the entire moral

00:47:44.800 issue. You and I would not even be arguing if we were talking about C-sections or about

00:47:48.320 natural birth. But it seems like at this core though, we disagree on what the

00:47:51.000 inherent definition of abortion is. Okay. Then you could leave away, you could, I mean,

00:47:53.480 we could very easily solve this. Let's just not talk about the word abortion. Let's

00:47:56.040 talk about the forcible termination of a baby. Okay. Okay. So then what do you value

00:47:59.180 in the fetus then? The life of the fetus. Okay. So then what is this? You said it

00:48:03.120 begins at conception? Yes. And why is that? Because that is literally the biological

00:48:06.660 definition of when an independent life begins. Yes. But like, why does it have moral

00:48:09.240 value? It has moral value because that's literally the biological definition of

00:48:12.200 when a human life begins. Right. But like, why does that have moral value though? Okay. Why does

00:48:15.160 any life have moral value? I would value sentience. But why? Right. Because this is simply, this is

00:48:20.520 what we value, like you and I value. Like, is it okay to like unplug like a, like a brain

00:48:23.600 dead patient, for example? I mean, the, the question is whether it's okay to unplug a

00:48:27.040 brain dead patient, actually quite a controversial one in sort of religious circles. But as far

00:48:30.920 as why, I'm just wondering if, if somebody's in a coma and you know, they're going to wake

00:48:35.700 up, do you have the right to unplug them? Well, a coma is not brain dead though. We know

00:48:38.240 that there's future sentience there. Like it would be like a matter of like a contract

00:48:40.820 of like past future, like I'm sorry, past, present, or future sentience. But like a person

00:48:43.880 in a coma has, has. I agree. And guess what? Fetuses also have guaranteed future

00:48:49.600 sentience. Well, no, because you're only valuing one half of the conjunct. That's not,

00:48:53.440 right. So it would be past, present, or future. Now you're changing the topic. I mean,

00:48:55.640 we started with what's the value of the fetus. Thank you so much. Thanks a lot.

00:49:03.880 You know, it's actually more challenging than you think to debate someone who is that fundamentally

00:49:09.640 wrong about everything. I think people make the mistake when you watch something like that

00:49:12.540 and you go, I could do that. That woman's a moron. 1.00

00:49:14.100 Uh, it, it, it's, it's harder than you think because the challenge is that, as you can see 1.00

00:49:21.540 in the clip, your opponent will jump from one irrelevant, inane point to another rapid fire

00:49:28.940 style. And each point is so baseless and so preposterous and so disconnected from reality

00:49:35.140 and so unrelated often to the topic at hand that it's hard to know where to begin when you

00:49:40.840 engage with it. I mean, there's, she was wrong on every level about every single thing she said

00:49:47.300 in that conversation. And, you know, just as you start engaging with one wrong thing,

00:49:53.360 she's hopped off that lily pad and onto the next one. So it's a bit like trying to wrestle, 0.99

00:49:58.340 uh, you know, metaphorically a giant slug. The slug is so ungainly and big and slimy

00:50:03.500 that it's just difficult to pin down. You're not, you're probably not going to lose the match to the

00:50:08.160 slug, but it's just, you don't know, there's nothing to grip onto here. And that's the position

00:50:13.260 that Ben was in, uh, during that two and a half minute exchange. He did a remarkably good job

00:50:17.500 given those challenges. But what you really see in that clip is the fundamental moral and

00:50:22.440 scientific confusion that lies at the root of leftism. The woman is sure that she supports abortion, 0.69

00:50:30.680 but she doesn't even know what abortion is or what human life is or when human life has value 0.99

00:50:37.840 or why it has value. She has a position on abortion, but not on any of the individual

00:50:43.000 points that should inform her position on abortion. You know, this, this logically speaking,

00:50:50.580 if you have a position on something like abortion, then that should be built on top of a bunch of other

00:50:57.180 positions that lie underneath it that lead you to supporting abortion. But what you find with

00:51:05.600 these people is that when you look deeper, they, all the points underneath the larger point,

00:51:10.180 they have no clue. They don't even know. They have no idea. This is a woman so helplessly confused 0.99

00:51:16.720 that she has gone through life thinking that a C-section is the same thing as an abortion.

00:51:23.660 This is a dangerous level of confusion and ignorance, but confusion and ignorance, uh, don't have to be

00:51:31.420 dangerous. You know, if you're confused and ignorant and aware that you're confused and ignorant, 0.99

00:51:36.720 then that could be the starting point on a journey towards greater knowledge and understanding. The 0.95

00:51:42.160 problem is that the leftists sitting around that circle are confused and ignorant and at the same 0.99

00:51:46.140 time, arrogantly self-assured. These are people volunteering to debate Ben Shapiro, one of the best 0.98

00:51:52.940 rhetoricians in the country, who's like, this is what he does. I mean, rapid fire debates with a bunch of

00:51:57.800 people. That's like, this is, this is, and you're volunteering for that despite having no grasp on

00:52:05.040 any of the topics that are going to be discussed. It's just a lethal mixture of ignorance and arrogance 0.96

00:52:12.100 on the plus side. It does make for some funny viral videos on the negative side. It's completely

00:52:18.340 destroying our country and civilization. So, you know, those two things, I don't know if they balance

00:52:21.780 that or not. And that brings us finally to this clip, um, which is, uh, has all of the problems

00:52:27.860 of the last one, but is, is somehow, uh, even worse. Watch. Wow. Okay. We're going to take this

00:52:33.600 chair. Look at that. Hey, Ben. Like a bro, my friend. All right. How's it going? Let's break open

00:52:39.360 a beer or something. So, uh, first question, can men get pregnant? Men cannot get pregnant. Okay. 0.97

00:52:44.060 Okay. Awesome. So, uh, definitionally, definitionally. Okay. Uh, do men experience SA, sexual assault?

00:52:54.540 Sure. Got it. What about the existence of trans men? What, what about the existence? Do you mean

00:53:02.320 women who believe that they are men? What are, what are we talking about here? 1.00

00:53:06.200 Women experiencing gender dysphoria. So my other question is, do you benefit from white supremacy 0.99

00:53:10.840 in any way, shape or form? I, uh, in it, I'm, I'm going to need more specifics on what you mean

00:53:17.600 by white supremacy. Let me give it to you then. Sure. Please. So I'm a transgender man. Okay.

00:53:21.340 I've experienced SA. Okay. And abortion rights affect me directly. So if we're talking about the

00:53:28.820 American dream that you live, why don't I have access to that? Because there's no legislation,

00:53:34.360 what in the history of America that legislates a man's body. So why does mine have to be legislated?

00:53:39.600 I've got a vagina. Um, I'm not interested in what your genitalia are. Clearly you are. I mean, 1.00

00:53:46.220 it's all over everything you make, buddy. I'm sorry. I hate to say it to you, but I think you

00:53:51.080 can read on my face that I radically am not. I think you can read on my face that I radically am

00:53:55.100 not when we're talking about abortion. I mean, you can present it here, but in most of the content

00:53:58.980 that you have, you attack my community constantly and you don't even realize guys like me exist

00:54:03.220 who actually share a lot of similarities to you and everything. Cause I'm a married man of 20

00:54:07.780 years. I've got a wife. I recognize that you exist. I disagree with your claim that you are a male.

00:54:13.660 Um, that goes on by the way, for another three, four minutes, the M night Shyamalan twist in that

00:54:19.960 clip is that the man is actually a female. Of course, it's not much of a twist because even before she

00:54:26.120 reveals herself as a female, you could already tell, uh, she was interrupting constantly and bringing up a 1.00

00:54:31.400 whole bunch of irrelevant personal details in an argument. So that was a dead giveaway. Uh, also

00:54:38.160 the flipping the chair around the exaggerated posture, you know, it's all of it had the cartoonish

00:54:43.040 quality of somebody playing a character. And I really love flipping the chair around to sit down

00:54:48.740 because that's like, that's what you think a man would do. When in reality, like a man, when we see

00:54:53.520 a chair, we just sit in it. Like we don't, I like having the back of the chair available so I can sit

00:54:58.920 back and that, you know, I don't, that's just, that's what men do. We just, we don't see a chair

00:55:03.220 as an opportunity to like perform. Uh, but then she gives up on that, you know, 20 seconds in and 1.00

00:55:09.320 just flips the chair back around the real way and then sits down. Um, but once again, you see the

00:55:14.860 inherent challenge of debating a leftist. I mean, we watched that clip for a minute and a half and

00:55:19.420 by the end of it, it still isn't clear what point she's trying to make or what position she's

00:55:26.700 supposedly even defending. Like if I showed you that clip and I didn't tell you that they're

00:55:31.400 supposed to be talking about abortion, you wouldn't even really know that. She's bringing 0.96

00:55:35.820 up all these things that have nothing to do. I'm a trans man. I've, uh, I'm married. I've been

00:55:41.840 married for 20 years. I was sexually assaulted. It's like, okay, what does any of that have to

00:55:49.260 do with the topic? In theory, she's supposed to be arguing against Ben's claim that Kamala's

00:55:53.820 extreme pro-abortion stance is morally indefensible, but she opens by informing Ben that she has a 0.99

00:56:00.000 vagina, that she identifies as Tran, that she's been sexually assaulted and that she's been married 0.99

00:56:06.040 for 20 years. Now that being sexually assaulted, that's tragic. It's a tragic point. We pity her 0.98

00:56:11.420 for it. Uh, we, we feel sympathy for her. None of those details though, again, have anything to do

00:56:18.820 with the topic, anything, none of it amounts to an argument of any kind. What, what she's trying

00:56:28.740 to establish apparently is that she has a personal stake in the abortion issue, but her personal

00:56:36.300 stake doesn't make her right. And it doesn't make her more credible. In fact, if anything,

00:56:41.420 if anything, it goes the other way. You know, when somebody is personally invested in an issue,

00:56:48.860 it can create a bias, which can create, which, which can interfere with their ability to assess

00:56:55.000 the arguments objectively. You know, what happens here, this is the other thing you see in this,

00:56:59.780 in that little clip is that the left constantly tries to hold our objectivity against us

00:57:06.860 as if we are discredited by our lack of personal bias. So they like to point out that pro-life men

00:57:15.000 are not a harmed by abortion, right? It's not our body. It's not our lives at stake. Don't like

00:57:21.220 abortion. Don't get one. That's the refrain. We've heard it a million times. And they're right to a 0.92

00:57:28.240 off my nose personally. If a woman gets an abortion, I am not personally harmed by it. 0.97

00:57:34.680 I suffer no personal injury and it doesn't directly impact my life in any tangible way.

00:57:41.100 And yet I'm still opposed to it. I gain nothing from opposing it. I don't benefit from opposing it.

00:57:49.600 I don't benefit if I agreed with it. I have no benefit. It does not benefit me. I have no

00:57:55.100 personal stake in this. That's right. But that only makes me and other pro-life men more credible.

00:58:02.200 Like if anything, it increases our credibility. It means that we oppose abortion purely because

00:58:07.520 we have assessed the arguments for and against and come to the conclusion that the arguments against

00:58:13.460 abortion are better and more persuasive. That again is called objectivity. It doesn't make you

00:58:21.520 less credible. It makes you more credible. As we see in the clips, they in principle oppose

00:58:29.660 any objective analysis of the facts. In their world, whoever has a deeper emotional investment

00:58:36.840 in the subject always wins. That's really why in both of these clips, you see them bring up

00:58:42.760 irrelevant things and why she's going through all of her personal past history and trauma.

00:58:48.420 Because in her mind, if I can prove that I have a deeper emotional investment in this issue,

00:58:53.960 I'm automatically right. I automatically win just because it would hurt my feelings more

00:58:59.700 if I don't win. And the other good thing for them is they always have the deeper emotional

00:59:07.160 investment in their minds because their emotions are always deeper and more profound than anyone

00:59:12.440 else's. That's how you end up with people who are so fantastically wrong about everything and yet

00:59:18.640 so sure of their rightness. Which is why I could never sit down and debate 25 of these people

00:59:24.880 one at a time. But I'm glad that guys like Ben are willing to do it. And that's why his 25

00:59:31.380 interlocutors are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.

00:59:36.560 Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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01:00:15.740 How do we get to a point of racial harmony? It's good to talk to you.

01:00:22.240 We're still on a journey, all of us together. I think you've got some journeying to do.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 25, 2024

Ep. 1472 - Planes Are Falling From The Sky & The DOJ’s Priority Is DEI

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