The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1476 - NYC Is Decriminalizing Jaywalking In The Name Of “Equity”

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, New York City has abolished their jaywalking laws.

00:00:03.480 Now New Yorkers are free to get run over in the street, all in the name of racial equity. 0.56

00:00:07.300 This is just a small taste of the kind of madness we'll see nationwide if Kamala is elected. 0.99

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00:03:28.640 You know, it's not every day that you accidentally stumble upon a vast conspiracy among the nation's various local police departments,

00:03:35.760 especially when it's a conspiracy that relates to the upcoming presidential election.

00:03:39.800 But yesterday, as I was watching some reporting about New York City's decision to decriminalize jaywalking, that's exactly what I did.

00:03:47.660 Now, in case you missed it, yes, New York City's city council just voted to decriminalize jaywalking.

00:03:53.880 No one's going to get any more tickets for crossing against the light or for walking in the middle of the street.

00:03:59.100 Now, technically, jaywalkers still don't have the right of way, so I guess they might have some liability if they cause an accident.

00:04:04.380 But realistically, it's open season for jaywalking in the city.

00:04:08.280 The mayor, Eric Adams, didn't take any official action on this bill to decriminalize jaywalking,

00:04:12.960 probably because he's busy with the Biden administration's attempts to throw him in prison.

00:04:16.900 So the bill has now automatically become law.

00:04:19.660 So here's a report on the new law from a local news station.

00:04:23.360 And as you listen to this, pay close attention to what the male anchor says in the beginning.

00:04:29.940 A big and controversial legal change that will allow New Yorkers to jaywalk,

00:04:34.300 you know, cross the street against the light or in the middle of the street.

00:04:37.320 This despite the deadly risks.

00:04:39.640 Why? Because the overwhelming majority of jaywalking tickets apparently were given to minorities.

00:04:43.720 So why didn't they just level the playing field of these tickets?

00:04:46.620 Meanwhile, kids, do not do this.

00:04:48.440 This can be deadly.

00:04:50.800 We talked to the city councilwoman who pushed for this, who said jaywalking simply should not be illegal.

00:04:57.100 We're talking about 92% of those summonses are given to the black and brown communities.

00:05:02.780 That's it.

00:05:03.140 When was the last time you heard somebody say that,

00:05:05.200 I'm happy they caught that jaywalker?

00:05:09.080 And that would be never.

00:05:12.540 That's an interesting little hypothetical.

00:05:14.120 The Democrat politician asks, when's the last time you said, I'm happy they caught that jaywalker? 0.99

00:05:19.060 And the reporter says, well, and that would be never.

00:05:22.040 Therefore, we're meant to conclude that we don't need the law against jaywalking.

00:05:25.220 Now, first of all, if you've ever been unfortunate enough to drive a vehicle in New York City,

00:05:31.520 then the answer to that question would actually be a resounding yes.

00:05:35.460 You would scream with joy if the police arrested every single pedestrian who was walking in the road,

00:05:41.020 even if they were there legally.

00:05:42.800 Pedestrians make driving about a million times slower and more annoying in New York than it already is. 1.00

00:05:48.880 I mean, most drivers in New York wouldn't shed a single tear if it became a capital offense to jaywalk.

00:05:53.520 But even if we pretend that that's not true, it's a pretty interesting argument that these women are advancing, if you think about it. 1.00

00:06:01.680 Because they're saying that if you've never stopped yourself and said,

00:06:05.900 I'm happy they caught that guy for violating law X, then therefore we don't need law X anymore.

00:06:14.080 Well, maybe not a bad way of looking at things, but coming from Democrats in New York,

00:06:18.100 it's a pretty entertaining approach.

00:06:20.160 Because imagine these people applying this principle to, say, New York's business records law,

00:06:27.200 the one that they accused Trump of violating.

00:06:29.780 Prior to Trump, has anyone in the history of New York ever found themselves saying that they're really glad

00:06:34.120 that somebody was held accountable for victimless misdemeanor record-keeping violations that happened seven years ago?

00:06:41.280 Obviously, the answer to that question is no.

00:06:43.220 So why do we have those laws on the books?

00:06:45.080 It'd be fun to watch that politician and that reporter answer that particular question.

00:06:50.920 It would also be entertaining to ask these women whether we should get rid of, say, 1.00

00:06:55.920 the entire tax code while we're at it.

00:06:57.940 After all, I don't see anyone celebrating IRS agents who audit people for not reporting $600

00:07:03.480 they just received on Venmo.

00:07:06.440 So why don't we decriminalize every single accounting offense and tax code violation?

00:07:12.220 These aren't rhetorical questions.

00:07:13.600 It'd be a great idea.

00:07:14.480 But, of course, these questions never occur to Democrats in New York because they're enforcing equity, not logic.

00:07:21.980 In any event, back to my conspiracy.

00:07:23.760 You may have noticed how the anchor and the politician explain the reasoning for this new law.

00:07:30.200 But let's focus on the anchor for now because he actually seems pretty skeptical of the law.

00:07:35.760 As the anchor put it, quote, the overwhelming majority of jaywalking tickets were given to minorities.

00:07:40.520 So why did they just level the playing field on these tickets?

00:07:43.680 In other words, the anchor wants to know why they don't simply ticket more white people for jaywalking while ticketing fewer blacks and Hispanics.

00:07:53.380 Wouldn't that solve the whole problem?

00:07:55.220 If we did that, then instead of 90% of jaywalking tickets going to black people and Hispanics, we could make it closer to, say, 40%.

00:08:03.080 And then racial equity will be achieved.

00:08:06.620 This is the kind of question you only ask when you've been subjected to decades of lies about crime statistics by Democrats like Kamala Harris and Barack Obama to the point that you actually believe them.

00:08:16.740 It's a question that makes a very significant assumption that happens to have no basis in reality.

00:08:22.580 And that assumption is that members of every racial group are jaywalking at precisely the same rates.

00:08:31.640 If you truly believe that assumption is true, then there is indeed a vast conspiracy among thousands of local police departments all over the country.

00:08:40.260 There's no other explanation for what's going on.

00:08:42.180 That's because, as I've discovered, these so-called racial disparities in jaywalking enforcement happen to exist everywhere, not just in New York.

00:08:50.360 Here's a report from San Diego from a couple of years ago, for example.

00:08:53.720 And for some reason, they interviewed a guy who had a beef over his jaywalking ticket.

00:08:58.740 And then they get into the statistics, which reveal just how deep the rot goes in the San Diego Police Department.

00:09:04.780 Watch.

00:09:05.800 I have seen lots of people blatantly running red lights.

00:09:09.540 And I've almost been hit on a number of occasions by people blatantly running red lights when I had the right to cross.

00:09:16.700 And I've learned to be very, very cautious.

00:09:18.940 Don Moyer plans on contesting his ticket in a trial next year.

00:09:22.760 Bogus or not, his jaywalking ticket was one of more than 5,000 given to pedestrians in San Diego since 2015.

00:09:30.160 And those tickets disproportionately targeted black people.

00:09:33.280 16% of the tickets went to blacks, even though they make up only 6% of the city's population.

00:09:40.600 Similar racial disparities exist in cities across California.

00:09:44.300 Black people are disproportionately affected by almost every type of criminalization.

00:09:48.840 Ann Rios is an attorney and executive director of Uprise Theater, a nonprofit that educates people on their legal rights.

00:09:55.480 She says the disparities are proof of racial bias among San Diego police officers.

00:10:01.600 So 16% of the tickets went to blacks, even though they make up only 6% of the population.

00:10:07.340 And this is proof, according to the activists, that the police are racist.

00:10:11.500 There can't be any other explanation for the data.

00:10:14.700 And she doesn't stop there.

00:10:15.740 Well, that gives you some sense of just how widespread the conspiracy is across every type of crime across the entire country.

00:10:28.040 The police are enforcing laws in a racist manner.

00:10:32.040 You know, because it can't possibly be that different demographic groups are committing different rates of crime.

00:10:39.100 That's just unthinkable.

00:10:40.300 Instead, you're commanded to think that any difference in crime statistics must be due to one thing and one thing only, which is racist cops.

00:10:49.580 It can't possibly be that maybe black people are getting ticketed for jaywalking more because they're doing it more.

00:10:56.260 A few weeks ago, I talked about how the DOJ used this reasoning during the Obama administration to sue various police departments for enforcing the law.

00:11:03.800 One of the cities they went after was Ferguson, Missouri, which also happens to have an issue with disproportionate jaywalking tickets, we're told.

00:11:11.500 That's how vast this conspiracy of racist traffic cops is.

00:11:15.560 Watch. 0.87

00:11:16.700 And the report, which will be fully available this week, says black citizens made up 93% of arrests from 2012 to 2014 in Ferguson.

00:11:25.680 88% of the time where police used force to subdue, that person was African American.

00:11:30.640 And the investigation also found Ferguson's municipal court targeted blacks on outstanding warrants, as well as small offenses like jaywalking or disturbing the peace.

00:11:39.680 And they were 68% less likely to have any case dismissed.

00:11:45.140 The data just keeps coming in.

00:11:47.480 If you're keeping track from New York to San Diego to Ferguson, racist traffic cops are targeting black Americans for jaywalking. 0.98

00:11:55.600 In fact, these racist cops are so brazen that they'll often target these black Americans on video. 0.90

00:12:02.020 That's what happened in Jacksonville a few years ago. 0.70

00:12:03.780 This is a video from Vox that tries really, really hard to present a police officer as racist for doing his job and enforcing the law.

00:12:11.720 Watch.

00:12:13.100 What was it that we did wrong, officer?

00:12:14.360 You crossed.

00:12:16.780 Take your camera and point it across there at the red hand.

00:12:19.780 That is a crosswalk.

00:12:21.400 One, you weren't in the crosswalk.

00:12:23.540 Two, there was a red sign.

00:12:25.260 You both crossed along.

00:12:26.520 That's a $65 ticket.

00:12:28.140 He's getting to my car.

00:12:30.840 You are being legally detained.

00:12:32.700 We just crossed the street.

00:12:34.040 We just crossed the street without following the sign.

00:12:36.520 That was it.

00:12:37.100 And we got stopped.

00:12:37.660 The young man in this video's name is Devontae Shipman, and he stopped right here in Jacksonville, Florida, threatened with jail time for essentially jaywalking.

00:12:45.760 You did do something illegal.

00:12:47.040 You crossed the crosswalk.

00:12:48.500 Yeah, I crossed the crosswalk.

00:12:50.340 Against a red hand.

00:12:51.800 I was sitting right there when you did it.

00:12:53.500 I wasn't paying no attention.

00:12:54.640 That's not that.

00:12:55.220 You act like I really just committed a serious crime.

00:12:57.560 That's worth this time right now.

00:12:58.780 If you're living in the county's three poorest zip codes, you're 5.9 times more likely to receive a pedestrian ticket than anyone else in Jacksonville.

00:13:06.000 And if you're black, you're 2.7 times more likely to get a pedestrian ticket than if you're white.

00:13:11.480 30% of Jacksonville's population is black, but they receive 55% of the pedestrian tickets. 0.95

00:13:17.020 That's the highest percentage in Florida among large counties. 0.94

00:13:20.280 Well, they say you're 2.7 times more likely to get the ticket if you're black.

00:13:27.220 Well, that's not exactly true, because if you don't commit the particular crime, then you're 0% likely to get ticketed.

00:13:38.880 If you don't jaywalk at all, then you're not 2.7 times more likely to get ticketed for jaywalking.

00:13:46.260 In fact, there's no chance you get ticketed for jaywalking if you don't actually do that thing.

00:13:51.400 So if you don't want to get ticketed for jaywalking, there's this other possibility where you could just not jaywalk.

00:13:59.020 Just use the crosswalk.

00:14:01.080 Wait till the little walking man is lit up to let us know you could cross the crosswalk.

00:14:06.560 You could always just do that.

00:14:08.760 But they never factor that into these reports.

00:14:11.860 They never.

00:14:14.060 That's just not a possibility that the left even takes into account.

00:14:17.760 The possibility that, well, you could just not break the law.

00:14:21.720 You could just follow the rule that everyone's expected to follow.

00:14:25.880 There's always that.

00:14:28.500 Now, from this clip, we can conclude that even when there's video of a cop enforcing law in a calm and impartial way,

00:14:35.380 and even when everyone concedes that these people were jaywalking,

00:14:38.040 we're told it's still racist because of those statistics.

00:14:40.280 It doesn't matter if black people are on video jaywalking, basically. 0.96

00:14:43.720 It's illegal to ticket them for it because then you'll have a disparate impact.

00:14:48.360 It's hard to overstate just how widespread this moral panic has become.

00:14:51.640 Over the past few years, especially at the height of BLM,

00:14:54.260 there were national news stories about supposedly racist jaywalking arrests.

00:14:57.880 Here's one of them in Tulsa.

00:14:59.680 Watch.

00:15:00.180 In other news, the investigation in Tulsa tonight, the disturbing police confrontation,

00:15:04.280 newly released body camera video showing two white officers stopping two black teenagers for jaywalking.

00:15:10.460 ABC's Marcus Moore in Tulsa tonight with what happened next.

00:15:15.060 Call my mama. Call my mama. 1.00

00:15:17.300 Tonight, Tulsa's mayor and the local police are investigating this incident involving two teenagers.

00:15:22.800 Dramatic body camera footage shows the officers approached the teens just last week

00:15:26.800 as they were walking down a neighborhood street.

00:15:29.280 One officer grabs one of the teens by the arms.

00:15:31.920 What's wrong?

00:15:32.720 What are you on?

00:15:33.380 Just relax.

00:15:36.760 What are you doing?

00:15:37.580 What are you guys doing?

00:15:38.360 Why are you trying to choke his neck, man?

00:15:40.280 Nobody's choking him.

00:15:41.440 Within the span of a minute, the teen is on the ground and in handcuffs.

00:15:45.540 Why are you putting handcuffs on him?

00:15:47.900 Because.

00:15:48.600 Why are you putting handcuffs on him?

00:15:49.900 Well, all he was doing was jaywalking.

00:15:52.780 We just wanted to talk with him.

00:15:53.580 One of the teens was arrested and issued a citation.

00:15:56.500 Tonight, his attorney says it never should have happened.

00:15:59.300 I think about this that is disheartening, particularly in this time where police violence and brutality is everywhere.

00:16:06.680 You would think that Tulsa police wouldn't do something like this at this time.

00:16:10.080 But the reality is this is the culture of the Tulsa police department.

00:16:13.820 Now, the lawyer, with the comically large mask on his face, is not even arguing that his client is innocent, really. 0.64

00:16:22.180 He's implying that the optics are bad for the police because they should know that it's racist to enforce jaywalking laws against black people.

00:16:29.220 This incident made national news.

00:16:30.820 There was a legal battle that stretched on for years.

00:16:32.880 Apparently, the police eventually paid a $20,000 settlement over it, and they did nothing wrong.

00:16:38.400 When people are in the middle of the road, you can grab them and arrest them.

00:16:40.840 You can even put them on the ground if they're not responding.

00:16:44.340 That's how the law should work.

00:16:45.560 But in cities like New York, it's not the law anymore.

00:16:48.200 This is a battle that the left has waged for a very long time.

00:16:51.600 Last year, the left-wing outlet Mother Jones published an article entitled The Case for Legalized Jaywalking.

00:16:57.400 That makes all the predictable disparate impact arguments where they assume that any statistical disparity is somehow proof of racism.

00:17:03.600 There could be no other explanation for it.

00:17:05.640 And there's this paragraph, which is a real doozy.

00:17:07.960 The notion that pedestrians should be relegated to sidewalks and allowed to cross the street only when a walk sign tells them it's safe is a relatively new phenomenon.

00:17:17.780 Groups ranging from the Chicago Motor Club and the Automobile Club of Southern California to the National Safety Council and the Boy Scouts began using the word jaywalker in the late 1910s and early 1920s to insult pedestrians who had the audacity to enter the roadway outside of intersections.

00:17:31.880 Los Angeles passed the first anti-jaywalking ordinance in 1925, which became a model for other cities across the country.

00:17:38.800 Discrimination soon followed.

00:17:40.160 Yes, according to Mother Jones, the idea that you shouldn't walk in the middle of the street is a relatively new phenomenon that only began in the late 1910s and early 1920s.

00:17:50.500 Now, it's possible, and I'm just spitballing here.

00:17:53.480 It's possible that one reason for this change might be that cars themselves are a relatively new phenomenon that only became popular in the late 1910s and early 1920s.

00:18:01.940 Maybe that's why the idea of jaywalking came about relatively recently, as in a century ago.

00:18:08.880 This is like saying that air sickness is a relatively new phenomenon that only began after people started flying in airplanes.

00:18:15.340 It kind of goes without saying.

00:18:17.740 But this is the level of argument you get when equity is the objective.

00:18:23.280 You have to act surprised that we didn't have jaywalking laws before we had cars.

00:18:28.900 You're reduced to inventing vast conspiracies to explain inconvenient data. 0.97

00:18:34.720 In essence, you have to make yourself as dumb as Kamala Harris, all in the service of a delusional and counterfactual ideology. 0.96

00:18:41.240 In this particular case, the consequences couldn't be any more obvious. 0.98

00:18:44.780 Like, you can visit any third-world country to see what it's like when cars and pedestrians share the road equally,

00:18:51.060 which is how it works in most third-world countries.

00:18:53.480 As someone who's driven a long stretch of road in one third-world country, I can tell you, yeah, there's just people, cars, animals, just all, everyone just sharing the road together.

00:19:06.300 And it's total chaos.

00:19:08.360 It's, like, really bad.

00:19:09.620 And lots of people get hurt.

00:19:10.920 It's just, it doesn't work.

00:19:12.360 And I'm not usually one to defend government regulation, but our roads are clearly safer and more orderly because of the laws and regulations in place.

00:19:22.120 New York City is getting rid of a common-sense law that obviously makes the roads safer for everyone, and that's why the law is there.

00:19:30.260 And they're doing it because of the same guiding principle that the Biden-Harris administration outlined in a day-one executive order,

00:19:36.080 which was to pursue equity in all aspects of government.

00:19:39.040 Now, we've talked a lot about the specific policy ramifications of electing somebody like Kamala Harris, 0.69

00:19:45.260 but this is another consequence that's worth talking about.

00:19:49.200 Presidents don't just set policy.

00:19:50.740 They also set a tone and a broader agenda.

00:19:53.440 They set an example for people to follow all over the country.

00:19:57.380 A Kamala Harris administration would encourage and incentivize many more laws like the one that just passed in New York. 1.00

00:20:03.320 A second Trump administration, on the other hand, would send a very clear signal that people are tired of the nonsense and the lawlessness.

00:20:12.180 It would mean that we can finally put an end to the fiction that every police department in the country is conspiring to target a particular racial group.

00:20:20.560 It would be a rebuke of the policies of racial equity that have gotten so many people killed across every demographic.

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00:22:46.040 It's like, I mean, this is, this is, to be in his trolling prime at the age of 78.

00:22:50.360 It's, it's like, I would, I would put it on the same level as Tom Brady winning a Super Bowl when he was, whatever, 41.

00:22:56.900 So it's, it's, it's that level.

00:23:00.620 So here's Trump giving a press conference from the garbage truck.

00:23:05.940 We're answering some questions from reporters.

00:23:08.740 Would you like to make that statement?

00:23:10.240 It's really a disgrace.

00:23:11.760 You said the other day, you said the other day that the military, instead of the military to be used,

00:23:16.380 that the military will have to be used on a election day if necessary.

00:23:20.200 Can you believe what you mean by that?

00:23:21.500 I don't think they'll have to be used.

00:23:23.520 I think we're going to have a big picture.

00:23:25.120 And I think 250 million people in this country are going to be very happy

00:23:29.060 because we're going to bring the country back.

00:23:31.220 We're a nation in decline.

00:23:33.060 Very, very serious decline.

00:23:34.600 And we're going to bring our country back.

00:23:37.100 Did you know that Elon Musk was in close contact with Western Putin?

00:23:40.680 Did you know about this?

00:23:41.900 Did you know about Elon Musk at all?

00:23:45.060 Elon is a great guy.

00:23:48.640 He's one of our geniuses.

00:23:50.080 And we have to protect our geniuses.

00:23:51.840 We have to take care of our geniuses.

00:23:53.380 There aren't too many of them.

00:23:55.000 Yes, please.

00:23:55.420 I love Puerto Rico.

00:24:00.040 And Puerto Rico loves me.

00:24:01.320 I don't know.

00:24:01.820 I don't know anything about a comedian.

00:24:03.460 I just, I love Puerto Rico.

00:24:06.240 Nobody's done more for Puerto Rico than me.

00:24:08.460 I took care of them when they had the big hurricanes.

00:24:11.560 And nobody gets along better with Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican people than me.

00:24:16.760 They love me and I love them.

00:24:18.540 Go ahead.

00:24:18.780 I don't know anything about the comedian.

00:24:29.080 I don't know who he is.

00:24:30.000 I've never seen him.

00:24:31.280 I heard he made a statement, but it was just a statement that he made.

00:24:34.700 He's a comedian.

00:24:35.460 What can I tell you?

00:24:36.640 I know nothing about him.

00:24:37.880 So it's a wonderfully absurd sight to behold.

00:24:42.880 Him giving, and it goes on for another five minutes.

00:24:45.260 He gives a whole press conference from the garbage truck.

00:24:49.580 And it's great.

00:24:50.400 And as kind of a side note, I also like the way that Trump has handled the fallout from the comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, with the Puerto Rico joke.

00:25:00.460 And as you can hear there, they were asking about it again.

00:25:05.540 I've heard some people say that he, that Trump has disavowed or denounced Tony Hinchcliffe, but he really didn't.

00:25:11.820 I mean, you heard him there.

00:25:12.660 He said he's never heard of the guy, which I totally believe. 0.91

00:25:16.320 I mean, Kill Tony is a wildly popular podcast, but not among 78-year-olds.

00:25:21.820 And then he said, hey, he's a comedian.

00:25:24.500 What can I tell you?

00:25:25.780 He's a comedian.

00:25:26.640 Like, what are you going to do?

00:25:28.180 Which I think is exactly the right response.

00:25:29.960 He's not defending it.

00:25:31.020 He's not going to throw himself on the grenade here and spend his final week on the campaign trail defending a joke that somebody else made.

00:25:39.140 I mean, that's not a good use of his time.

00:25:42.280 But he's also not saying, you know, that it's denouncing it or anything like that.

00:25:46.220 He's just saying, hey, he's a comedian.

00:25:47.120 What can you do?

00:25:48.380 I didn't say he did.

00:25:49.440 He's a comedian.

00:25:50.840 Talk to him.

00:25:51.500 I think that's the right way to approach it.

00:25:54.020 And speaking of which, Trump is actually a pretty talented comedian himself.

00:25:57.300 He went to his rally last night, still wearing the orange safety vest.

00:26:05.760 And we'll play a little bit of this of him telling the story of how the whole garbage truck stunt came to be.

00:26:13.600 Listen.

00:26:13.700 I'm in this beautiful plane.

00:26:16.820 I'm enjoying myself.

00:26:17.900 I have a wonderful suit on. 0.72

00:26:19.380 And one of my people came in and said, sir, you know, the word garbage is the hottest thing right now out there.

00:26:36.920 The hottest thing out there.

00:26:38.600 Sir, would you like to drive a garbage truck?

00:26:42.120 Now, we're about, you know, 30 minutes from landing.

00:26:54.260 We had to do this pretty quick.

00:26:55.360 I said, it's sort of cool, though, isn't it?

00:26:57.080 Because, you know, and I said, you know, I think that's OK.

00:27:00.400 But, you know, I don't feel comfortable wearing a suit.

00:27:03.920 And they pulled up this garbage truck.

00:27:06.520 I don't know how the hell they did it so fast.

00:27:08.460 I have very capable people.

00:27:09.720 They put a big sign under the truck.

00:27:11.940 Did you see it?

00:27:12.580 I think they showed it.

00:27:20.840 And then they said, sir, we have a vest.

00:27:24.600 I said, well, should I leave my suit on and put it over the vest?

00:27:29.160 But that doesn't look very good, right?

00:27:31.540 That doesn't look good.

00:27:32.620 So I said, all right, look, let me take it off.

00:27:34.800 And then I actually said, I climbed into the truck.

00:27:37.420 So I said, how the hell do you get into this truck?

00:27:39.920 It's way up high.

00:27:40.860 It's a big one.

00:27:42.400 This was a beauty.

00:27:43.560 I said, you didn't have to buy it that big, right?

00:27:45.520 You have to get it that big.

00:27:47.280 They brought this brand new gorgeous truck, wonderful driver.

00:27:50.280 He looked like Cary Grant in his prime.

00:27:52.940 You know who that is?

00:27:54.460 This beautiful driver.

00:27:56.540 And he drove that big thing up.

00:27:59.400 And I said, man, this is bad.

00:28:01.040 Because now I have all the cameras that are all watching.

00:28:03.120 Look, look at all the fake news.

00:28:04.560 There were most of them.

00:28:12.240 Now, most of them, many of them were there.

00:28:16.860 And I'm saying, oh, boy.

00:28:18.420 You know, one little mistake with these guys and your political career is over.

00:28:22.060 You can't even.

00:28:23.940 So I said, man, if I don't get up there, this is going to be very embarrassing. 1.00

00:28:27.080 These stupid people, they'll say, he's cognitively and physically impaired. 1.00

00:28:37.560 And I can't do that when I'm alongside of this great athlete. 1.00

00:28:40.880 I got to get up to that.

00:28:42.400 So, so look.

00:28:44.080 So the stair, the first stair is like up here.

00:28:47.380 I'm sick.

00:28:50.920 So, so I had the adrenaline going and I made it.

00:28:55.760 So then he goes on and he starts talking also about his decision to wear the vest while he's speaking there.

00:29:07.660 And he said he was convinced to wear the orange vest because they told him it made him look thinner.

00:29:12.500 So, you know, he's really like a stand-up comic.

00:29:17.840 He's actually better than most stand-up comics because he can riff off the cuff and be funny with great comedic timing.

00:29:23.100 In a way that even a lot of stand-up comedians can't.

00:29:26.880 And certainly like no politician can.

00:29:28.780 He's the only one who can do this.

00:29:32.380 I mean, literally the only one.

00:29:34.040 Like there's, there's no other political figure in the world maybe who, who would be able to do even just that.

00:29:42.840 Like five minutes of telling a story off the cuff, making it funny.

00:29:45.680 But the aspect of Trump that's most underrated, I think, is his self-deprecation.

00:29:51.920 He's actually very self-deprecating.

00:29:53.380 I mean, in that little monologue slash comedy set, he basically calls himself old and fat at two different points.

00:30:01.260 And it's hilarious.

00:30:02.300 Like it's endearing to people.

00:30:04.220 Of course it is.

00:30:04.860 When you're self-deprecating, when you can laugh at yourself.

00:30:06.760 When he's doing things that are like, it's a, it's, is absurd, obviously. 0.97

00:30:12.240 It's a garbage truck with Trump's name on it. 0.64

00:30:14.600 And he's wearing a vest and it, it's absurd. 0.57

00:30:16.980 He's, it's, he's, he's aware of it.

00:30:18.800 It's as a self, it's, he's self-aware about it.

00:30:21.340 Just like, you know, going to McDonald's.

00:30:24.740 It's funny.

00:30:25.500 It's, it's absurd in a funny way.

00:30:27.300 And he's aware of that fact.

00:30:28.700 And that's why, and that's the point.

00:30:30.120 That's what makes it funny.

00:30:30.980 Um, and it's the kind of thing that Kamala Harris is just totally incapable of. 1.00

00:30:36.760 I mean, obviously Kamala doesn't have the wit to be funny and speak off the cuff the way that Trump can. 1.00

00:30:42.660 But she also doesn't have the capacity to be self-deprecating. 0.96

00:30:46.520 When's the, when have you ever heard Kamala Harris make a joke at her own expense? 1.00

00:30:52.420 Uh, uh, to make a joke at all, to make, when's the last time you heard her make anything that would qualify as any sort of joke? 0.76

00:30:59.100 Uh, I don't think we've ever heard that, but certainly not one at her own expense.

00:31:02.700 She just doesn't have that capacity. 1.00

00:31:05.400 And, uh, and Trump does.

00:31:07.080 So just a, a big win all around.

00:31:11.740 Um, so let's go from a funny, uh, monologue given by a presidential candidate to a very unfunny one delivered by someone who's supposed to be a comedian, a late night comedian.

00:31:26.480 Jimmy Kimmel, uh, gave a monologue last night.

00:31:29.780 And there's one quote unquote joke he told that I want to focus on.

00:31:34.120 But here it is.

00:31:35.860 I don't know, um, if you guys know about this, but we have an election coming up on.

00:31:41.540 I feel pretty relaxed about it.

00:31:43.440 I've really been enjoying the week.

00:31:45.460 It's, in times like these, it's important to remember that cannabis is legal in our state.

00:31:50.100 You can vote early, vote early.

00:31:56.740 If you can't vote early, vote on time.

00:31:58.980 If you want to vote for Trump, vote late, vote very late.

00:32:02.380 Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday.

00:32:05.060 This will be my third time voting against Donald Trump.

00:32:08.300 Fifth, if you count the two times.

00:32:09.560 So he says, uh, he's telling Trump supporters to vote late, um, so that obviously the vote doesn't count.

00:32:15.560 And now look, I, I know we all get a little exhausted by the constant complaints of double

00:32:20.840 standards, right?

00:32:22.880 On the right, we're always whining about double standards.

00:32:27.800 Um, and it does get exhausting after a while, but also it, we have to complain about it because

00:32:34.460 the other option is to just accept the double standards and say nothing about them, which

00:32:41.300 is not an agreeable option either.

00:32:43.660 So that's why I have to say in this case, a guy named Douglas Mackey was put on trial by

00:32:50.060 the Biden administration and they're trying to send him to prison for exactly the kind

00:32:55.140 of joke that Kimmel just told.

00:32:58.300 Douglas Mackey, as we've talked about on the show many times, if you listen to show, you're

00:33:01.480 familiar with the case, he posted a meme, uh, encouraging Hillary supporters to vote

00:33:06.300 by text. 0.99

00:33:07.900 And apparently some of them were dumb enough to actually do it. 0.97

00:33:11.320 And, uh, but it was a joke because I, of course you can't vote by text. 0.92

00:33:16.880 I'm sure we'll get to the point pretty soon where you can, but right now you can't.

00:33:21.900 Um, and Kimmel's telling exactly the same joke.

00:33:25.460 The punchline is exactly the same, which is that, oh, I'm advising you to vote in a way

00:33:29.820 that you can't really vote.

00:33:30.720 If you try to vote that way, then your vote won't count.

00:33:33.100 It's the same joke.

00:33:36.260 Which is why I am honestly not joking when I say that if Trump is elected, he should have

00:33:41.820 Jimmy Kimmel arrested for that.

00:33:44.200 He should have him arrested.

00:33:45.020 He should, he should open up a federal investigation and have this guy arrested, have him frog marched 1.00

00:33:51.360 from his studio into a jail cell. 0.99

00:33:54.140 You got to make these scumbags live according to their own rules. 0.99

00:33:57.520 It's the only way. 0.98

00:34:01.080 So that's the only way that I stopped complaining about the double standard is if we force one

00:34:07.620 standard.

00:34:08.980 If we say to them, like, this is a standard you're setting for us.

00:34:12.640 And now we're going to force you to live by it too.

00:34:15.840 Now you might say that Jimmy Kimmel's joke is free speech.

00:34:21.420 And it is, it totally is.

00:34:25.720 It was free speech for Douglas Mackey too.

00:34:29.700 But are we going to continue protecting the free speech rights of people who are actively

00:34:34.140 trying to imprison us for exercising our own free speech rights?

00:34:38.320 I mean, that's just suicide.

00:34:43.400 Like, to say, oh, I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right

00:34:47.660 to say it, even as you put me in prison to stop me from saying things.

00:34:53.400 I disagree with you throwing me in prison for exercising my free speech, but I'll defend

00:34:57.940 to the death your free speech.

00:35:00.800 No.

00:35:02.480 No.

00:35:02.800 Okay, that's not, if that's your attitude, that's not like, oh, I'm being principled.

00:35:06.880 That's not principled. 0.99

00:35:08.780 That's just you being a sucker. 1.00

00:35:10.580 That's just you being, that's suicide is what it is. 1.00

00:35:16.600 The only way out is mutually assured destruction.

00:35:21.060 The only way out is to make these people live by their own rules, their own standards.

00:35:25.260 They are not our rules.

00:35:26.280 We didn't set the standard.

00:35:27.400 The only hope we have to restore sanity and the rule of law and the Constitution and all

00:35:34.360 the things that we want, the only way to do that is to force these people, is to let them

00:35:39.280 know, okay, if this is what you do, if you start throwing people in jail for jokes, the

00:35:45.620 same thing is going to happen to you.

00:35:47.260 And, yeah, I know that still now there are plenty of conservatives that feel that they

00:36:00.000 don't, they just, they don't feel right about that.

00:36:02.300 It makes them, it gives them an icky feeling.

00:36:06.080 But what's the other option?

00:36:08.780 The other option is, okay, you could do this to us and we will never do anything.

00:36:12.020 You, you, you can set this standard for us and it will never be applied to you.

00:36:16.820 And so it's only ever going to go one way and you can throw your political opponents

00:36:21.600 in jail and there will be no repercussions ever.

00:36:25.860 Then why would they ever stop?

00:36:27.740 Why would they stop?

00:36:29.860 So this is what I, I, I doubt very much that it's going to happen, but, um, that's what I

00:36:36.800 would like to see happen with Jimmy Kimmel in jail for that joke.

00:36:42.020 And if the left says, well, it's, you can't put people in jail for jokes.

00:36:45.900 Okay, well then, uh, well then, okay, that, that means, you know, all right, if that's

00:36:51.720 the standard we're setting now, that's going to apply to everybody.

00:36:56.300 Uh, the Hill has this report, two Democratic groups are rolling out an ad featuring a

00:37:03.320 fictitious Republican lawmaker who wants to ban porn nationwide.

00:37:06.820 The latest installment of the group's $2.5 million ad campaign, accusing the GOP of interfering

00:37:12.620 in people's lives in the 32nd ad rolled out by Progress Action Fund and defend the vote

00:37:17.420 called Republicans rubbing you the wrong way.

00:37:20.540 A young man is shown watching porn before an actor playing a Republican congressman takes 0.94

00:37:24.620 away his phone. 0.98

00:37:26.260 The man asked the lawmaker, what the hell, man?

00:37:28.140 How'd you get in here? 0.51

00:37:29.480 Congressman says, I'm your Republican congressman.

00:37:31.320 Now that we're in charge, we're banning porn nationwide.

00:37:34.180 The man replies, you can't tell me what to do. 0.98

00:37:35.660 Get out of my bedroom, you creep.

00:37:37.720 The congressman says, I just won the last election, so it's my decision.

00:37:40.440 I'm just going to watch and make sure you don't finish illegally. 0.63

00:37:44.020 Now, I'm reading the description of the ad because I'm not going to play it.

00:37:47.300 You've probably seen it.

00:37:48.560 You know, it's been, been circulated, but, um, I'm not going to play it because it's gross

00:37:53.840 and highly objectionable and, uh, not the kind of thing I feel comfortable playing on

00:37:57.720 my show.

00:37:58.060 So that's where we are now, by the way, we've reached a point where political ads are too

00:38:02.720 disgusting and pornographic to play on a political commentary show.

00:38:08.100 I mean, that's the level that we've fallen to.

00:38:10.700 And, uh, and there are a few things we could talk about here related to this.

00:38:16.860 The first is once again, the utterly demeaning, degrading way that Democrats talk about and

00:38:22.420 to male voters.

00:38:23.840 And this is maybe the first ad for men that Democrats have put out during the entire election

00:38:31.960 cycle, because all the other ads for men are really ads for women.

00:38:37.720 Uh, they were for women in the guise of talking to men, but this one is actually for men.

00:38:42.500 Like this is not an ad that is supposedly for men, but it's supposed to appeal to women.

00:38:47.740 And this is really, this is, this is an ad that is legitimately for men.

00:38:53.000 And what is the message? 0.99

00:38:54.180 The message is, Hey, vote for us so that you can watch porn. 0.83

00:38:56.560 This is the one specific way that Democrats are promising to improve the lives of men is 0.98

00:39:04.860 by making sure that they have plenty of porn to watch.

00:39:08.380 That that's their one.

00:39:10.160 This is the one single pitch that Democrats actually have specifically for men. 0.99

00:39:14.880 It's this porn. 0.99

00:39:16.460 Um, totally insulting, malignant, disgusting. 0.98

00:39:21.440 Um, but you know, we've explored that angle, uh, the, the degrading and, and, and demeaning 0.87

00:39:27.720 way that they talk to men about men.

00:39:29.560 We've explored that angle, uh, quite a bit on the show in recent weeks.

00:39:32.720 So instead, I'll just focus for a second on the specific claims that are, that are being

00:39:37.720 made here.

00:39:38.280 The claim is that Republicans are pushing a nationwide ban on porn.

00:39:42.840 And the problem with that claim, as hopefully you're aware, is that it's totally false.

00:39:49.820 Uh, it's not even close to true.

00:39:52.940 Not a single elected Republican has advocated for a nationwide porn ban.

00:39:58.780 Not a single one.

00:40:00.100 This is not a position that any elected Republican holds.

00:40:03.800 Donald Trump certainly doesn't hold this position.

00:40:05.860 I don't think he's ever talked about porn and what sort of policies we should have in relation

00:40:10.180 to it, uh, one time.

00:40:12.580 I don't think it's, it's ever come up.

00:40:14.040 I don't think he's ever brought it up.

00:40:15.580 So it's just a lie.

00:40:17.080 Um, this is how Democrats are campaigning by telling lies.

00:40:22.620 And that's obviously not, uh, unprecedented.

00:40:26.700 They've always been liars, nothing terribly unique about a dishonest political ad.

00:40:31.380 I'm, I'm aware, but this time around, they're just inventing laws out of whole cloth and claiming

00:40:38.200 that Republicans want to pass these laws that they've invented.

00:40:42.580 And you'd like to think that that would be an ineffective strategy, especially in the

00:40:49.380 information age when, um, you know, you see a, an ad claiming that Republicans are going to ban

00:40:56.820 porn nationwide and it would take five seconds of Googling to discover that that's a total fantasy.

00:41:02.520 It's just not remotely real.

00:41:05.580 Um, but the sad reality is that plenty of potential voters are indeed gullible enough to fall for this.

00:41:11.340 And that's who they're targeting with these kinds of ads.

00:41:15.780 Now there have been laws passed in multiple States.

00:41:20.280 Um, I think like 15 or 20 at this point, there have been laws that deal with porn, but these are all laws and

00:41:29.160 policies that require some kind of age verification for access to pornography.

00:41:35.080 They require porn companies to take at least some meager steps to make sure that children aren't

00:41:41.160 accessing their product.

00:41:42.540 And if you're very astute, you may notice that, uh, age verification laws are already in place

00:41:48.960 for literally any other age restricted product, alcohol, gambling, firearms.

00:41:57.840 Those are all age restricted.

00:42:00.020 And in all those cases, those industries are expected.

00:42:02.880 They're required by law to take some kind of step to make sure that the customer that's

00:42:08.700 accessing that product is legally old enough to access it.

00:42:13.120 Um, and nobody ever has a problem with that.

00:42:17.540 You know, if you hear about a, uh, a liquor store being fined because they were selling alcohol

00:42:24.260 to minors without, without checking IDs, and that happens all the time, nobody, no one's going

00:42:30.540 to say this is some great injustice that, that someone's rights are being violated.

00:42:35.440 No, in that case, you take the side of the, of the, of the government.

00:42:39.100 You would say, yeah, like in that case, you would say to the liquor store, what are you

00:42:42.620 doing?

00:42:42.920 Not, why are you selling alcohol to minors? 1.00

00:42:45.500 These scumbags. 0.99

00:42:46.360 So, um, all the, these age verification laws will do is simply put porn in line with these 1.00

00:42:55.940 other age restricted items.

00:42:57.560 And that's really the sinister thing here is that these ads are actually targeting those

00:43:03.720 laws.

00:43:05.040 That's what the ads are doing.

00:43:06.140 They're actually targeting the laws that protect children from porn because those are the only

00:43:10.940 laws that have been passed.

00:43:12.160 So, but these democratic groups, they know that they can't go out and make an explicit

00:43:20.440 argument in favor of exposing kids to porn.

00:43:24.560 They can't make an ad saying, oh my gosh, Republicans are going to stop 10 year olds from watching porn.

00:43:32.360 Vote against them to make sure more 10 year olds can watch porn.

00:43:36.400 Democrats aren't going to, they know they can't say that. 0.84

00:43:38.160 That's how they feel like they want 10 year olds to watch porn.

00:43:42.420 They want, uh, millions of kids to be exposed to hardcore pornography.

00:43:45.640 That's what they want, but they know they cannot make that argument.

00:43:49.560 They know they'll lose it. 0.99

00:43:50.440 They know they'll come across like pedophilic dirt bags. 0.99

00:43:54.880 Uh, so instead they do this instead, they, they, they cast these policies as porn bands. 0.98

00:44:01.560 And where have we heard that before?

00:44:05.040 You know, it's just like the Republican, uh, the, the Republicans in say Florida that have, 0.97

00:44:11.320 uh, taken gay porn out of schools.

00:44:17.620 And then Democrats turn around and say, it's a book ban. 0.87

00:44:22.860 When, no, it's like, if it's a ban of anything, it's a ban of gay pornography in the schools.

00:44:26.240 But, but you're not going to come out and actually defend that you're not going to take the book and show people what's in the book and say, yes, we think that this stuff in this book should be allowed in the schools.

00:44:37.540 You're not going to do that.

00:44:39.040 So instead you'll cast that as a book ban.

00:44:43.520 Uh, forgetting to mention the rather salient detail of like what's in those books.

00:44:49.520 And they're doing the same thing here.

00:44:50.960 Um, calling it a porn ban, uh, forgetting to mention that if anyone is being banned from watching porn, it's children.

00:45:03.280 And the ban isn't even obviously targeting children in that case.

00:45:06.220 It's targeting the porn, uh, the, the companies, um, just as we do with alcohol, cigarettes, guns, gambling, and all the rest of it.

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00:46:30.120 Many of you are most likely looking for the perfect Halloween movie.

00:46:34.220 Well, Am I Racist? Is It?

00:46:36.160 Now, I know what you're thinking.

00:46:36.860 Am I Racist? Is that really a Halloween movie?

00:46:39.860 Well, of course it is.

00:46:40.580 For starters, we released it in theaters on Friday the 13th.

00:46:43.600 And I used such a good disguise, the left couldn't even recognize me.

00:46:46.700 Plus, they're absolutely terrified of it.

00:46:49.000 That checks all the boxes for a Halloween movie, if you ask me.

00:46:51.800 Not to mention, Am I Racist? is officially the number one documentary of the decade.

00:46:55.160 It had the biggest opening day in Daily Wire history.

00:46:57.780 So unlike many Halloween movies, it's actually good.

00:47:00.360 Here's the plan.

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00:47:20.580 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:47:27.900 Today for our Daily Cancellation, we go up to Canada, a country that achieves very little and serves no real purpose, 0.74

00:47:33.660 but at least provides plenty of quick and easy fodder for this segment whenever I'm pressed for time.

00:47:38.100 So let's check in on our woke neighbors to the north, where the province of British Columbia is making a significant change to its education system.

00:47:46.840 Watch.

00:47:47.320 The province replaced letter grades on K-9 report cards with a proficiency scale,

00:47:53.940 using the terms emerging, developing, proficient, and extending to indicate how a child is doing in school.

00:48:00.840 The report shows while 91% of B.C. parents say the letter grade A was clear and easy to understand,

00:48:09.020 with 65% correctly identifying its meaning, only 34% were able to say what extending was.

00:48:17.320 But that doesn't mean there aren't benefits.

00:48:19.860 We've also are looking at a focus that moves away from labeling people.

00:48:23.620 So kids in grades K-9 will no longer be sent home with report cards featuring the traditional letter grades that schools have been using forever and that everyone understands.

00:48:33.040 The letter grades will be replaced with what they call a proficiency scale.

00:48:37.280 And so instead of an A, the report card will say extending, instead of B, proficient, instead of C, developing, and instead of D, emerging.

00:48:44.500 It's another one of those modern educational innovations that I would have personally loved when I was in grade school,

00:48:51.920 which is only further evidence that it's a terrible idea.

00:48:54.560 I must admit that I often had the unpleasant experience of bringing home C's and D's.

00:49:00.020 And certainly I would have greatly preferred to present my parents with a report card indicating that I am developing and emerging.

00:49:06.380 Look, Dad, I've been emerging in algebra for three quarters in a row.

00:49:10.000 I'm just getting warmed up.

00:49:11.680 Wait until I start developing.

00:49:14.500 Now, you'll notice that the new system in Canada doesn't include E's at all.

00:49:17.680 I guess it was already impossible to actually get a failing grade, which, you know, is not a surprise, I guess, in Canada.

00:49:23.640 But if they did want to add a level below emerging as a stand-in for an E or an F,

00:49:28.720 I would suggest maybe you call it a surfacing or a rising.

00:49:34.100 Just trying to think of what would come before emerging.

00:49:36.320 Because, of course, the new system is built on the totally fanciful notion that all of the kids with bad grades are on their way to getting good grades.

00:49:45.560 They're just emerging.

00:49:47.680 It's all part of the life cycle.

00:49:49.220 First they emerge, and then they develop, then they become proficient, and then they extend, whatever that last step is supposed to mean.

00:49:57.540 It's like, you know, a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.

00:50:00.000 In fact, maybe they could scrap the new system and instate a new new system entirely modeled after the life cycle of a butterfly called the butterfly system.

00:50:09.300 If you get a C or a D, you're a caterpillar.

00:50:12.020 If you get a B, you're a cocoon.

00:50:14.320 If you get an A, you're a butterfly.

00:50:16.320 But I guess that system would be still a little bit too clear.

00:50:19.800 The whole idea here is to confuse the parents so that they have no clue how their children are actually performing.

00:50:25.120 Emerging and extending are on opposite ends of the grade spectrum.

00:50:30.600 But it's not intuitively clear which is the bad one and which is the good one.

00:50:34.620 And that's, of course, the point.

00:50:36.320 The National Post has more on this.

00:50:37.720 A's are gone from British Columbia report cards, but B.C. parents, hoping to gauge their children's performance, find the newfangled descriptive grading system confusing, according to a new report.

00:50:48.200 Last year, the B.C. government scrapped the traditional A, B.C. grading system for kindergarten to grade nine students in favor of a descriptive grading system.

00:50:54.000 That's all students, judged along a scale from emerging to extending.

00:50:58.600 Parents, by and large, do not understand the new descriptors, emerging, developing, proficient, and extending, says Michael Zwagstra, senior fellow at the Fraser Institute.

00:51:06.560 The report conducted by the ledger for the Fraser Institute asked parents of school-aged children ages 5 to 18 enrolled in public and independent schools across Canada to match extending to its B.C. government definition.

00:51:18.320 In B.C., specifically, 43% of parents made the wrong choice.

00:51:21.800 The highest proportion of any province extending per the government's decision means the student is meeting the learning standard expectations with increasing depth.

00:51:30.420 This is not perfection.

00:51:31.600 While 83% of Canadians said the letter grade C is clear and easy to understand,

00:51:35.680 and only 36% of parents could correctly identify what an emerging grade means,

00:51:41.160 99% of B.C.'s K-12 parents said they want clear academic assessments for their child's report cards.

00:51:48.980 Now, the only really shocking thing there about that last figure, the 99% figure,

00:51:54.120 is that apparently 1% of parents don't want clear academic assessments for their children.

00:51:59.120 But all the rest, not surprisingly, would prefer to actually know how their kids are doing in school.

00:52:04.540 That's a novel concept.

00:52:05.680 And the new system makes that effectively impossible.

00:52:10.460 This may seem like a bad thing to most parents and most sane people in general,

00:52:15.920 but the experts are here to tell us, once again, that our basic common sense perspective is wrong.

00:52:23.820 Reading on, quote,

00:52:25.060 It's the only system that we've ever known, and you can't see an alternative, said Brar.

00:52:42.540 I think a lot of parents, given this was a system they grew up with,

00:52:46.020 are comfortable with it and don't understand anything different.

00:52:48.660 B.C. Education Minister Rachna Singh previously said the new system is intended to help students

00:52:53.000 better understand each subject instead of just striving to get a good grade.

00:52:57.360 Parents, said Brar, need to reorient their thinking on the grading system.

00:53:01.940 Quote,

00:53:02.060 Well, we're looking for a mastery of the competencies, he said.

00:53:05.280 If you put it to students and parents that way, I think the adoption and acceptance would be much greater.

00:53:10.080 Now, of course, the whole exercise is pointless.

00:53:15.620 They don't want kids to be labeled or to just strive to get a good grade.

00:53:20.220 God forbid, they don't want kids to strive for good grades.

00:53:25.220 We certainly don't want that.

00:53:25.840 We don't want kids to strive for good grades.

00:53:28.220 That's the biggest problem in the school system today, in fact, I would say.

00:53:32.460 You've just got too many kids striving for good grades, and they're trying to prevent that.

00:53:37.120 But all they've done is replace the letter grades with different words that mean the same thing.

00:53:42.880 So now, rather than striving to get an A, kids will hopefully strive to be extending.

00:53:49.540 Which means that, you know, even by your own logic, you haven't really achieved what you're trying to achieve.

00:53:54.660 But the premise is flawed anyway, because contrary to popular opinion these days,

00:54:00.220 there is, in fact, nothing wrong with labels.

00:54:03.920 Labels are good.

00:54:04.700 We use labels so that we know what things are.

00:54:10.160 So it's very popular these days.

00:54:11.840 We heard in the clip we played, the first clip we played,

00:54:15.700 well, there's too much labeling.

00:54:17.120 We don't want to label.

00:54:19.320 No, labels are good.

00:54:20.420 All a label does is let you know, okay, that's what this thing is.

00:54:23.880 And it's usually better to know what something is than to not know what it is.

00:54:28.920 So that's the case for medicine in the medicine cabinet.

00:54:34.780 You want it to be labeled.

00:54:35.760 You want to know what it is.

00:54:36.720 It's the case if you're buying meat at the grocery store.

00:54:39.100 You'd like for it to be labeled.

00:54:40.060 You'd like to know what kind of meat it is you're buying.

00:54:41.560 And it's also the case for a child's performance at school.

00:54:44.200 Yes, we do want to label success and failure.

00:54:50.820 If a child is failing, they need to be given a label that makes it clear that they're failing.

00:54:56.340 It's not a permanent label.

00:54:57.800 At least it shouldn't be.

00:54:59.820 But if you don't like the failing label, then you do better.

00:55:03.240 You work harder.

00:55:03.980 That's the whole idea.

00:55:04.720 And that is why this new grading system in British Columbia and the entire province of British Columbia

00:55:11.180 and the entire country of Canada, I guess, again, because why not, are all today canceled.

00:55:16.580 That'll do it for the show today.

00:55:17.280 Thanks for watching.

00:55:17.800 Thanks for listening.

00:55:18.360 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:55:19.440 Great day.

00:55:20.240 Godspeed.

00:55:20.560 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 31, 2024

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