The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1484 - How Kamala’s Focus On Gender Ideology Cost Her The Election

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, according to exit polling data, the issue that may have ultimately

00:00:03.840 swung the election was not the economy or immigration, but the trans issue. According

00:00:07.780 to exit polls, swing voters were most concerned about putting a stop to Kamala's radical trans

00:00:11.920 agenda. Also, the FEMA official who was fired for telling her team to skip homes with Trump signs

00:00:16.560 is now speaking out. She says FEMA is lying. This was not an isolated incident. And today

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00:02:04.980 to coin.com slash disclosures for full details. Imagine being a strategist for the Democrat Party

00:02:12.620 right now. You're tasked with conducting a post-mortem analysis of an election in which

00:02:16.820 virtually every single demographic group in the country and all 50 states turn very sharply against

00:02:21.580 you. Tens of millions of Americans ignored the endorsements of modern-day oracles like Taylor

00:02:26.300 Swift and Queen Latifah and voted for the candidate that you've been calling a Hitler-loving threat to

00:02:31.140 democracy. How do you even begin to catalog all of the various failures that led your party to this

00:02:37.380 point? Up until now, the prevailing excuse in the Democrat Party has been pretty clear. As I've outlined

00:02:42.140 before, many Democrats are happy to dismiss the entire country as racist and sexist. In fact, Hispanics are 1.00

00:02:47.960 apparently racist against themselves. This is the kind of theory you come up with when you don't 0.97

00:02:52.560 want to actually talk to Hispanic people or be anywhere near them, for that matter. But you have 0.99

00:02:57.420 to find some way to explain why they might want to build a wall and enforce the law so you conclude

00:03:02.180 that they must hate themselves. That must be it. At the same time, there is at least one Democrat-aligned

00:03:08.240 group that seems to be taking a different and more serious approach. And I'm talking about something

00:03:14.180 called Blueprint, which I hadn't heard of until a day ago. But Blueprint describes itself as a vital

00:03:19.820 tool that can help Democrats win elections in the future. This is a left-wing group that basically

00:03:24.420 tries to craft messaging for the DNC. Now, over the past week, Blueprint has employed pollsters and

00:03:30.800 strategists to figure out how Democrats lost so badly on Election Day. They've been tasked with

00:03:36.080 sifting through the wreckage to identify what caused the implosion. And what they found is pretty

00:03:43.020 remarkable. Even given all the endless polls and analysis that we've been subjected to this month,

00:03:47.860 this one stands out. And I hadn't seen these results until Charlie Kirk pointed them out the

00:03:52.620 other day in a post on X. And he posted this chart of Blueprint's findings. It shows all the issues that

00:03:59.060 voters cared about in this election, ranked by their level of relative importance. And they calculated

00:04:06.600 this by asking voters to compare a bunch of issues in a kind of round-robin analysis. And as you can see,

00:04:12.280 there are a lot of issues on the list. Voters had many options to choose from.

00:04:19.860 And according to Blueprint's findings, swing voters who ultimately voted for Trump, meaning the people

00:04:25.300 who determined the outcome of the election, were very unhappy with Kamala Harris's focus on

00:04:30.300 transgender issues. In fact, Kamala's views on topics like transgenderism at the expense of

00:04:35.220 substantive issues was the number one most important issue on these swing voters' minds.

00:04:42.460 So just so we're clear on the terms, Blueprint defines a swing voter as, quote,

00:04:46.580 those who are undecided in the presidential race, have changed their voting preferences since 2020,

00:04:51.500 voting Democrat in one election, Republican in the other, or are independents who either indicate they

00:04:56.160 split their votes between Democrat and Republican, or who hold either favorable or unfavorable views of

00:05:01.680 both Trump and Harris. Now, if you go to Blueprint's cross tabs, here's what they found specifically

00:05:07.020 about this group of voters. Among swing voters who ultimately voted for Trump, the top reason for

00:05:12.960 voting for Trump over Kamala was, quote, Kamala Harris has focused more on cultural issues like

00:05:17.540 transgender issues rather than helping the middle class. So that was the single most important issue 1.00

00:05:24.540 for these swing voters relative to all the others. The next most important issue was inflation followed

00:05:30.240 closely by illegal immigration. Now, this is a finding that if you had floated it as a possibility

00:05:36.860 prior to the election, probably would have gotten you laughed out of the room. But now that Democrats

00:05:42.200 realize that most voters think they're crazy, they're finally talking about it. Democrat-aligned

00:05:47.180 pollsters are openly recognizing that transgenderism, including the associated government policies that have

00:05:53.160 been championed by trans activists and the Biden-Harris administration, is a massive problem for the

00:05:58.800 Democrat Party. And yet, this is a problem that, certainly at least in a pre-what-is-a-woman world, 1.00

00:06:04.780 if you go back to, you know, 2021 and earlier, it's something that very few Republicans wanted to touch.

00:06:10.680 In fact, plenty of Republicans still don't really want to talk about this issue. It's an issue that,

00:06:16.080 for years, I was personally ridiculed for pursuing and talking about and focusing on,

00:06:20.580 including by many people on the right. Even among people who believe we're on the correct side of

00:06:26.120 this whole debate, a lot of them still said that it was a waste of time to talk about it. It doesn't

00:06:30.860 really matter. These people, you know, they insisted for so long that so-called culture war issues are

00:06:38.160 a sideshow, irrelevant distractions, supposedly. But they obviously aren't. You know, as I've been

00:06:45.000 arguing for years and years and years, they are not. The so-called culture war issues are the most

00:06:51.300 important issues, including in elections. This is what people vote based on. Even more than the

00:06:56.860 economy, more than anything, they vote based on this. Because culture is everything. It is the stuff

00:07:02.620 that a nation is made of. And that obviously matters politically. People vote for culture.

00:07:10.080 People don't just vote based on candidates' personalities or even on specific proposals

00:07:14.920 and policies. They vote for the country they want to live in. And now a critical mass of those voters

00:07:22.020 have decided that they don't want to live in a country that can't even define the word woman.

00:07:29.040 Now, to be clear, this result isn't saying that transgenderism was at the top of voters' minds

00:07:36.760 all by itself. Instead, what this result reveals is that the trans issue is about much more than

00:07:45.200 transgenderism. It's symptomatic of something larger and deeper, which again is something that 1.00

00:07:50.680 those of us who have been fighting this fight for so long have been trying to say. This has been our

00:07:54.880 point. Voters see the transgender as an assault on truth and on basic common sense, which is exactly 1.00

00:08:02.080 what it is. It's a destructive set of beliefs that serves only to derail human progress while harming

00:08:08.480 a lot of people, including the country as a whole. Trans ideology requires that Americans affirm what is

00:08:16.800 not true and reject objective reality on the theory that this is somehow the more humane and compassionate

00:08:23.520 approach. But there's nothing humane or sustainable about lying, especially when the point of the lying is to

00:08:30.120 obscure something as fundamental and unavoidable and immutable as human biology and human nature.

00:08:37.280 If you tolerate lies about that, you will tolerate lies about anything.

00:08:42.560 You know, if a white guy wants to identify as black, then you can't object. If a politician wants to

00:08:46.320 claim that crime is down when it's really not, you can't complain about that either. If the government

00:08:50.360 wants to claim that the economy is doing fine when, you know, no one can find a job or afford groceries,

00:08:55.060 then you got to shut up and just take it. Because once reality is subjective, you can't communicate

00:09:00.320 anymore in any kind of meaningful way, much less fix problems. All you can do is spiral further and

00:09:06.860 further down into insanity. You know, trans ideology is built on the premise that we all have our own 1.00

00:09:15.520 truth, that there is no objective reality or universal truth that we are all a part of and expected to

00:09:21.360 acknowledge. And if we accept trans ideology, then we have accepted that premise. And if we accept that 0.50

00:09:28.900 premise, we have tacitly accepted every other left-wing premise because now we have no basis to deny

00:09:34.420 any of it. We cannot call anything untrue. You know, now there is nothing that can be called untrue,

00:09:42.400 which also means that there's nothing that can be called true. This is the fundamental reason why

00:09:47.480 the fight against trans ideology matters and has always mattered. It's the case that some of us 0.56

00:09:53.720 have been making for many years, even against the objections of our own side, which is easy to forget

00:09:59.900 about that now. But again, if you go back, to me, it was just yesterday, it seems like, that, you know,

00:10:07.540 talking about this is going to get, is going to provoke a large number of people on your own side to tell

00:10:15.880 you to shut up and stop talking about it because it doesn't matter. But now the voters see it and

00:10:21.680 agree. And it's one of the main reasons why Democrats were just obliterated in the election.

00:10:28.160 Now, the Trump campaign, to its credit, understood that this issue would resonate with the voters.

00:10:33.380 That's why they released this ad, which we played during the campaign, but we'll play it again because

00:10:37.520 it may have been the single most effective ad in the entire campaign. In fact, it may be one of the

00:10:43.320 best ads ever produced by a political campaign. Seriously. Watch.

00:10:48.580 Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners. Surgery.

00:10:54.800 For prisoners. For prisoners. Every transgender 1.00

00:10:58.100 inmate in the prison system would have access. It's hard to believe, but it's true. Even the

00:11:04.920 liberal media was shocked Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and

00:11:09.880 illegal aliens. Every transgender inmate would have access. Kamala's for they, them. 0.98

00:11:15.680 President Trump is for you. I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.

00:11:20.620 Easily the most effective ad that Trump has ever run in his entire political career,

00:11:24.540 and one of the most effective political ads of all time. And all the numbers tell us that.

00:11:30.780 That's not just my opinion. All the data tells us that. Now, when she spoke to Fox News in the only

00:11:37.520 hostile interview she participated in during the entire campaign, Kamala was asked directly about

00:11:43.160 this ad. She had the opportunity to disavow all this nonsense. She could have admitted that it was

00:11:47.520 a terrible idea to use taxpayer money to fund sex changes for illegals or for anyone else.

00:11:53.800 She could have acknowledged that people can't change their gender or pick their pronouns. She also

00:11:57.480 could have laid out a clear definition of the word woman, which is a pretty important word to define, 0.99

00:12:02.100 especially when you're running to be the first woman president. She could have done any of that. 0.92

00:12:07.180 And it would have upset some people on her own side, but it would have to a large extent mitigated

00:12:15.680 the most effective attack against her if she had just been willing to admit that she understands

00:12:22.060 human biology. In other words, Kamala had the opportunity to do what the African tribesmen did 1.00

00:12:29.480 when I spoke to them in What is a Woman? She could have laughed in the face of this absurdity,

00:12:33.400 as anybody with common sense would do. She could have demonstrated to Americans that she's not 0.98

00:12:37.480 going to surrender the federal government to a small number of radical anti-truth activists.

00:12:42.720 But Kamala couldn't do any of that. She didn't do it. Instead, just so we remember,

00:12:49.620 here's how she addressed this ad when Brett Baer brought it up.

00:12:54.060 Would you still advocate for using taxpayer dollars for gender reassignment searches?

00:12:58.460 He didn't follow the law, just as I think Donald Trump would say he did.

00:13:02.540 You would have a say as president.

00:13:03.960 Like I said, I think he spent $20 million on those ads trying to create a sense of fear in

00:13:11.120 the voters because he actually has no plan in this election that is about focusing on the needs

00:13:17.880 of the American people. Whereas, at $20 million on that ad, on an issue that, as it relates to the

00:13:26.620 biggest issues that affect the American people, it's really quite remote.

00:13:32.460 How many people total in the entire country, total, are actually in favor of giving

00:13:39.500 taxpayers-funded sex change operations for convicted criminals? How many total people

00:13:47.600 in the country are actually in favor of that? Could you even, could you scrounge together 5,000

00:13:53.440 people in the entire country who actually support that? I think that'd be difficult.

00:14:00.860 And so it is the far, far fringiest fringe of her radical base that she allowed herself

00:14:08.720 to be held hostage to. And she lost. You know, she mocks the Trump campaign in that clip for 1.00

00:14:17.540 spending so much money on the ad. This is the candidate whose campaign raised a billion dollars

00:14:23.220 and ended up in debt by tens of millions of dollars because they hired a bunch of celebrity

00:14:28.500 influencers who, it turns out, have no influence. Yet she's lecturing the Trump campaign on how they

00:14:33.860 should have spent their money. She's upset at that. She's claiming that arguably the most

00:14:39.640 effective political ad of all time was a waste of money. Maybe the Trump campaign should have gone

00:14:45.460 out and, you know, gone bankrupt in order to get Megan Thee Stallion to twerk on stage. 1.00

00:14:51.600 That strategy obviously worked out so well for Kamala. And then Kamala goes on in the clip to 0.99

00:14:55.940 dismiss the whole issue as unimportant. She claims that Americans don't really care about all this

00:15:00.260 stuff, but they do. They care about it because they care about the truth. And they care about the

00:15:07.440 truth because if you don't have that, literally nothing else matters. Already there are some signs that

00:15:14.100 left wing media is coming around ever so begrudgingly to this reality. Maybe this was Joe Scarborough,

00:15:21.900 for example. That's what I heard. And I didn't hear it from Republicans. I didn't hear it from

00:15:27.200 Trumpers. I heard it from Democrats over the past three or four years. Their kids were afraid to talk

00:15:34.320 in class and say something unpopular because they would be canceled. And it's an epidemic.

00:15:40.920 Willie will tell you it happens in New York City schools. It happens in colleges. And all of this

00:15:47.660 adds up to people going, come on, come on. This is crazy. And Mike, it's having an impact from,

00:15:55.020 again, the trans ad to, uh, yeah, the athletics. And by the way, by the way, as we've said on the show

00:16:00.920 a thousand times, Democrats should be smarter on the women's athletics thing. 85% of Americans oppose 0.99

00:16:08.920 men transitioning after puberty and competing against women. And I'm not just saying this the 0.94

00:16:15.000 day after the election. I've been saying this for years. This is not a hard call. You can show

00:16:21.700 compassion and you can show grace. And as the Republican governor of Utah said, let's figure out

00:16:27.960 a way to do this. But one way we don't do this is by allowing men who transition after puberty

00:16:34.720 competing against young girls who have been working their entire lives to be as good as they can be.

00:16:42.460 And then they get destroyed in the pool, on the track, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:16:48.700 Now, you can imagine how well this monologue went over among the various LGBTQ alphabet activist

00:16:53.400 groups and publications. The Advocate, for example, wrote an entire article attacking Scarborough for

00:16:57.280 this. They stated that, quote, if you voted for Donald Trump and against Kamala Harris because you

00:17:02.220 had something against the trans community, you were beyond an outlier. You were not even a blip on the

00:17:07.340 radar. So why are people like Joe and Mika callously targeting the trans community for Harris's loss?

00:17:12.300 And why are they doing it so brazenly? Instead of discussing the real reasons why Harris lost to

00:17:16.600 Trump, they trash innocent human beings, the most vulnerable in society. So again, they assume that

00:17:21.680 this is a fringe issue when it obviously is not. And they don't think it is either, by the way.

00:17:28.940 I mean, they say that now as a cope, but these are the same. The Advocate is an LGBT news public.

00:17:34.640 This is all they talk about. Like literally, these issues are the only thing that their whole

00:17:39.200 publication is dedicated to it. And here they are saying it's a fringe issue. So you're admitting

00:17:44.300 that you're fringe? No, they don't think it's fringe. They don't want it to be fringe.

00:17:47.980 They have made sure that it's not fringe. They are the ones, left-wing activists and these kinds

00:17:53.260 of, they have taken these issues and put them in the center of the culture. Now they say that voters

00:17:58.660 who are tired of the trans nonsense are a blip on the radar. But truth is, as this blueprint poll 0.98

00:18:04.620 demonstrates, it's not a blip. Americans don't want to affirm lies anymore. They are tired of having

00:18:11.360 their culture held hostage by these people. It doesn't matter how much you try to berate

00:18:16.740 these voters for, quote, trashing innocent human beings or whatever. Something is either true or it's 0.88

00:18:23.180 not. Affirming the truth is not trashing anyone. It's the bare minimum necessary to ensure that

00:18:30.720 society can continue to function. But on CNN, they still haven't come around to this realization.

00:18:37.380 Instead, they just hosted a live on-air struggle session after a guest pointed out that Americans

00:18:42.680 don't like the idea of boys competing in women's sports. Watch. 1.00

00:18:47.200 I think there are a lot of families out there who don't believe boys should play girls sports.

00:18:53.580 They're not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia at this table. I am not going to

00:18:57.120 listen to you call a trans girl a boy. 0.64

00:18:59.780 Are you going to allow me to finish my explanation? When you use a word or a slur, I'm going to

00:19:04.120 interrupt. That's not how it is. They're not boys. They're not boys. They're not playing

00:19:08.800 girls softball. I'm not going to sit there and listen to that. 1.00

00:19:11.720 Let's reset for a second because, look, this is a really heated issue, right? And,

00:19:16.340 Cher Michael, I know you. I know that you understand that people have different views on this.

00:19:21.020 I think out of respect for Jay, like, let's try to talk about this in a way that is respectful.

00:19:28.200 Okay. So let me rephrase this since I'm being targeted here.

00:19:31.700 I don't know. You're not. Just to be clear, you are not being targeted.

00:19:33.860 But I am. But it's okay.

00:19:34.900 I'm specifically saying that I know that you are not intending to be transphobic.

00:19:39.880 He should know that I'm not.

00:19:41.000 But I'm not going to call you transphobic and say you're using a phrase that you know.

00:19:45.440 So the way regular people interpret it, that's not regular people. There's no consensus that

00:19:52.440 these are actually boys. This whole thing about trans girls is a canard. We're talking about a 1.00

00:19:57.760 tiny, tiny sliver of the population. So those people, the pro-trans guy, the white guy,

00:20:05.640 Jay Michelson is his name. The other one is Sher Michael. I forget the other guy's name.

00:20:11.840 Sher Michael Singleton. They both sound like made-up names, don't they? They sound like

00:20:16.640 the names you would put on a fake ID when you're 17 years old. But anyway, Jay Michelson,

00:20:23.360 you know, that guy, okay, this is the guy. Like, this guy, if you're a Democrat and you're wondering

00:20:30.260 who to blame, him. And not just him, but like him and his people and everything they represent.

00:20:36.520 Okay. Your party allowed itself to be taken hostage by those people, like, you know, sometime

00:20:43.800 10 to 15 years ago. You had a chance 10 to 15 years ago, right? When the LGBT extremists and the 1.00

00:20:52.280 trans extremists came along and said, everything's about us now. You have to surrender reality to us.

00:20:59.360 You have to pretend you don't understand basic reality that you've always actually understood

00:21:04.040 and that all humans have understood since the beginning of time. You have to surrender all

00:21:08.380 of that to us because it makes us feel bad. When those people came along and said that 10 to 15

00:21:12.340 years ago, you had a chance to say, uh, no. Okay. No, we got other things we're doing over here and

00:21:16.780 we're not going to surrender it all to you. Who the hell are you? Oh, sorry. I'm not going to 0.99

00:21:21.580 tolerate having someone call a boy a boy. I don't give a shit what you tolerate. I don't care how you 1.00

00:21:26.120 feel. What do I care? You can feel whatever you want. Go cry in a corner. Go cry in a corner. Go ahead.

00:21:31.800 It doesn't matter. I'll laugh at you. I'll laugh at your tears. That's what I'll do.

00:21:37.000 So you had the chance if you're a Democrat to say that 10 to 15 years ago, if you had done that,

00:21:44.460 who knows what world you're living in now? Who knows? But you didn't, you let that guy take over

00:21:51.940 and he's holding all of you hostage. And he is the reason him and everything he represents

00:21:58.860 is the reason why your party is in shambles right now. Um, and you deserve it. You deserve all of it.

00:22:08.020 This guy who now says it's a slur to refer to a boy as a boy, a slur. It's a slur to say of a boy,

00:22:15.000 he's a boy. If a 12 year old boy says he feels like a girl, you don't, you know, this is a, you don't

00:22:20.780 get to, uh, uh, you don't get to substitute your bigoted opinions for the well-informed judgment of

00:22:26.600 a preteen is what he says. Who do you think you are? All you can do is just nod your head and ask

00:22:32.400 a dumpster, a doctor to pump his body full of sterilizing hormones. This is the position of CNN,

00:22:39.340 really. It's also the position of not just Jay Michelson, but also the woman hosting the show.

00:22:44.820 But it's the position of a vanishingly small amount of the electorate. Now that clip goes on

00:22:53.300 for a while, by the way, the first guy says something that's obviously true, that boys are

00:22:57.680 competing in women's sports and they shouldn't be. And then he gets relentlessly heckled for it. 0.60

00:23:02.880 He's eventually told that the American Medical Association says that children can change their

00:23:07.340 gender. So therefore you don't get to have an opinion on the topic. You have to accept their

00:23:12.360 judgment or else you'll be banned from CNN. Just like the last guest who tried to speak his mind

00:23:17.200 on the same panel. Uh, this is the divide that Democrats are experiencing right now as a party.

00:23:22.660 This is the choice they have. They can either choose to acknowledge reality or they can double down on

00:23:28.840 this, on these absurdities and falsehoods. And if they go with the absurdities and falsehoods,

00:23:36.320 then they're going to keep haranguing Americans calling for censorship and screaming at an audience that

00:23:42.320 rapidly is becoming non-existent. Whatever they decide, it's now clear that voters have made up

00:23:48.620 their minds. On Tuesday, swing voters decided that affirming reality is the single most important

00:23:56.280 issue in this country. Nothing is more important than the truth. Nothing can be. This is the political

00:24:03.840 victory that we've been seeking from the moment we began fighting the deranged excesses of gender 1.00

00:24:08.440 ideology several years ago. And now it's here. But as long as the left keeps pushing it, the fight

00:24:16.160 will continue. Now let's get to our five headlines. Let me tell you about a looming threat to our

00:24:26.980 constitutional republic that the mainstream media won't cover. The radical left is plotting a Supreme

00:24:31.380 Court coup. They're not even trying to hide it anymore, folks. These progressive ideologues want to

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00:24:44.580 already seen their playbook. Made up ethical attacks on justices, illegal protests at their homes,

00:24:49.440 and open threats from so-called representatives. It's Venezuela-style court packing. It would spell the

00:24:54.380 end of judicial independence and the rule of law as we know it. But hey, who needs checks and balances

00:24:58.620 when you can have a rubber stamp for your radical agenda? But there's hope. First Liberty is leading the

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00:25:11.480 you need to do. Go to SupremeCoup.com slash Walsh. That's SupremeCoup.com slash Walsh to learn how you

00:25:18.080 can help stop the left's takeover of the Supreme Court. The future of our country is quite literally

00:25:22.580 in your hands. Go to SupremeCoup.com slash Walsh today. So this just popped up as we started recording.

00:25:29.580 I haven't even listened to the clip yet, but this is Marnie Washington, the FEMA official who was

00:25:35.600 fired for telling her team of aid workers to avoid homes with Trump signs. The big story that Daily

00:25:41.580 Wire broke, we talked about yesterday in the opening monologue. She just did an interview where she

00:25:45.900 claimed that actually this is not an isolated incident, as FEMA has alleged. She says that this

00:25:55.900 was apparently standard operating procedure and that FEMA did the same thing in North Carolina. 0.70

00:26:01.920 She's she did this, told her team to avoid Trump supporting homes in Florida. She's saying that,

00:26:08.080 no, this actually happened in North Carolina. Let's listen to the clip.

00:26:12.920 Stating that I was fired. They all alleged that these actions were made on my own recognises and that

00:26:20.680 it was for my own political advances. However, if you look at the record, there is what we call a

00:26:28.820 community trend. And unfortunately, it just so happened that the political hostility that was

00:26:34.400 encountered by my team, and I was on two different teams during this deployment, they just so happened

00:26:40.740 to have the Trump campaign signage. FEMA always preaches avoidance first and then de-escalation.

00:26:48.740 So this is not isolated. This is a colossal event of avoidance, not just in the state of Florida,

00:26:55.380 but you will find avoidance in the Carolinas. Senior leadership will lie to you and tell you

00:27:01.280 that they do not know. But if you ask the DSA crew leads and specialists what they are experiencing

00:27:07.380 in the field, they will tell you. Demand for FEMA to give you those incident reports.

00:27:12.500 Wow. Wow. Not a surprise. Not a surprise. I mean, I said yesterday when we talked about this that

00:27:23.600 I obviously don't believe that this was an isolated event. I don't believe that this woman took it upon

00:27:31.220 herself to do this on her own, on her own recognisance, as she would put it. I don't think,

00:27:38.400 no, that doesn't mean that she should be, she should be fired and she should be prosecuted,

00:27:43.320 but not just her. You know, Trump needs to get in there and clean out the entire agency and fire

00:27:50.620 everybody in leadership and prosecute them. That's what needs to happen.

00:27:55.480 But I totally believe what she's saying here because it's the only thing that makes sense.

00:28:00.780 It's the only thing that makes sense. And she's saying she has evidence of it. I'm sure she does.

00:28:04.820 This would be an easy thing to prove. And I think it will be proven, but it never made any sense. I

00:28:10.820 mean, the fact that this was put, like I said yesterday, it's put so casually in writing in a

00:28:17.620 list of just standard, most of it's standard tips, like drink a lot of water, you know,

00:28:21.900 wear a jacket if it's cold or whatever. And then just thrown in there in the middle of it,

00:28:28.960 not even like at the top of the list or the bottom, but just in the middle.

00:28:31.520 Oh, and avoid Trump, Trump, homes with Trump signs. It very much reads like,

00:28:38.780 it reads as though it was not the first time that it had ever been written down or that instruction

00:28:42.600 had ever been given. Like it reads like this is just a standard thing that they say all the time.

00:28:47.540 Um, and that's what she's saying. And that, that, that, uh, that tracks, I would say it tracks that

00:28:56.100 this is what they were doing. And, um, so this is a massive, massive scandal. I mean, this is a

00:29:02.900 massive scandal, obviously. Uh, and FEMA has put itself in a position where now, you know,

00:29:12.220 they can't really offer any other excuse that they kind of missed their opportunity to come up

00:29:17.360 with some other excuse. Not that there could be an excuse clearly, like there could not possibly be

00:29:23.360 a valid excuse for denying disaster aid to homes with Trump signs. Clearly that is, that's a

00:29:31.400 constitutional violation. And, uh, there could, there could not possibly be any, um, it's like the most

00:29:38.540 basic constitutional violation. This is, this is, uh, you know, everyone is supposed to be equal

00:29:42.220 under the law and this is a denial of that basic human right. Um, so there couldn't be a good excuse,

00:29:48.800 but whatever this, they lost, they missed their only chance to come up with some kind of excuse

00:29:54.440 because they've just denied that it's happening. They said, this is the only time.

00:29:59.980 And then when it comes out that no, this has happened all over the place. It happened in North

00:30:03.140 Carolina. It's been happening in Trump's entire term. What are they going to say now? They can't

00:30:06.840 circle back around and say, Oh yeah, well, but here's the reason you already lied. And I expected

00:30:13.060 the excuse that she kind of offers there is what I expected the excuse to be. And it's bull, it's,

00:30:21.340 it's bull crap. It's bogus, but she talks about, she says that, uh, it's, uh, we avoid them. 1.00

00:30:29.480 And I think she gets into this more in the interview, uh, beyond just that clip, but she says that she

00:30:35.340 claims that, uh, sometimes the, the homes that have Trump flags or Trump signs would be hostile

00:30:43.640 to FEMA workers. And so they just avoid them altogether. That's the claim. And I figured that

00:30:50.940 that would be the excuse. It'd be something like that. Like I said, FEMA's already, if that was

00:30:55.180 going to be their excuse too late because you claimed it wasn't happening. In fact, you acknowledged

00:31:00.580 already that it's a, it's a major violation. It's a horrible thing. You acknowledge that in

00:31:05.460 your statement and said that this is the only time it's ever happened. Um, so this is the excuse

00:31:11.280 that she's giving. And as I said, it's completely bogus, obviously. Um, you, you, you can't just

00:31:19.600 assume, Oh, that based on someone's political affiliations that they're going to, uh, reject your

00:31:27.600 aid. And even if they do reject it, okay, well give them the option to reject it.

00:31:34.380 Was there an epidemic of Trump supporters physically assaulting FEMA workers? No, there wasn't

00:31:40.660 because if that was happening, we would have heard about it. Okay. We would, we would have heard about

00:31:44.960 it. We'd see the videos. It'd be all over the place. We didn't hear about one case of that

00:31:49.300 happening. Not one because of course that didn't happen. Now, Trump supporters may be skeptical of

00:31:56.800 FEMA workers. I am too. Doesn't mean you're going to assault them or accost them. And the other thing

00:32:03.320 also is that if that's what you're worried about, if you're worried that Trump supporters are very

00:32:07.040 skeptical of FEMA and have a certain hostility to FEMA. Okay. Well, this isn't going to help that

00:32:14.140 situation. So you think there's a certain segment of the population that's hostile to FEMA workers

00:32:18.540 and your way of solving that is to deny them disaster relief. Well, it turns out they had

00:32:26.440 every reason. Okay. If there was hostility to FEMA officials and FEMA workers, turns out there was

00:32:32.760 every reason for them to be hostile to them. I think it's fascinating that she talks about community

00:32:40.120 trends. That's an interesting one, isn't it? She says, well, sometimes there are community trends

00:32:46.120 that mean that, uh, that a certain community is unsafe. Oh, oh, so we can, we can start talking

00:32:55.720 about community trends now. Can we, we can start denying people a critical aid, or we can stop,

00:33:02.880 you know, sending people into communities to help them. If there's a trend of that community being

00:33:08.940 maybe, you know, uh, having hostility, being dangerous. I don't know. I don't know if that's

00:33:17.320 logic that, uh, Marnie Washington wants to pursue very far. I don't know about that one.

00:33:24.600 Here's a, here's some good news. It's now official. The Hill reports, Republicans are projected to keep

00:33:28.680 control of the house of representatives, handing the party total control of Washington with president

00:33:32.680 elect Trump back in the white house in January. Decision desk HQ projected the GOP would hold the

00:33:38.640 house by winning its 218th seat on Monday. The number needed for majority in the lower chamber,

00:33:43.140 the results of major wind for speaker Mike Johnson has skyrocketed up from security to lead the house

00:33:47.440 GOP. Um, uh, and, uh, yeah, so they've, they've won the house. So that's it. Republicans will control

00:33:53.740 everything. The house, the Senate, the presidency, great news cause for celebration. Let us rejoice and be

00:34:00.000 glad. Uh, this also means that we need to hold these people accountable and that's very important.

00:34:06.200 We need to be absolutely ruthless and uncompromising as, um, conservatives. We need, we need to make it

00:34:15.060 clear to Republicans, Republicans in Congress and Trump himself, that failure is not an option. You have

00:34:21.520 two years to accomplish everything that you said you would accomplish. This is the window. And there,

00:34:27.240 and they're probably, you know, there probably won't be another two years.

00:34:32.320 And you talk about trends, like the trend for several, uh, presidential terms in a row now is

00:34:39.020 that, you know, um, uh, very often the, you know, the, the party that controls the white house ends up,

00:34:49.300 uh, you know, losing in the midterms, ends up losing seats in the midterm. So,

00:34:54.160 and there's every reason to think that will happen again. I mean, we don't know, but you,

00:34:58.660 you certainly can't, we can't assume that there will be another two years after this too. You

00:35:03.740 can't assume that you have to, so just operate as though operate under the assumption that these

00:35:08.200 are the only two years you're going to have to move forward to your agenda without really any

00:35:13.520 way for the Democrats to obstruct it. I mean, they'll try, they'll try to obstruct it, but,

00:35:18.700 um, now's the time to do it. And, uh, and you have to do it. You have to exploit this window.

00:35:24.560 Failure is not an option. Let's not forget that this exact thing happened in 2016.

00:35:32.180 And, um, Trump did not win by such a significant margin in 2016, but he did win and Republicans

00:35:37.720 took control of Congress. And, you know, what was achieved in that, that two-year window?

00:35:42.860 Not a whole lot. I mean, there were some tax cuts, but not much else. It was not a very productive

00:35:48.280 time. It would be hard for anyone to argue that they effectively or efficiently or sufficiently

00:35:53.960 use the power that they had been given. And the same thing cannot happen again. It just cannot.

00:36:02.900 So we can celebrate and be happy and we should, but, but then you got to hit the ground running and

00:36:08.760 there's not going to be any, you know, I don't want to hear from any conservatives that,

00:36:11.480 hey, just give them time. Be, you know, let's, let's be patient and give them time. Nope.

00:36:15.300 Not going to be patient. Not giving you time. Not going to be patient. You got to start stacking

00:36:19.240 the wins right away, right away. Cause there isn't, there isn't time. Okay. There's, there's not,

00:36:24.500 we have no time. We have only the smallest blip of time and you've got to use it.

00:36:31.400 Um, so that's, that, that has to be our attitude. And, uh, this is the burden that comes with winning.

00:36:38.800 You know, winning is great. I in fact am not tired of winning. Uh, I don't think I could ever

00:36:44.480 get tired of it. I much prefer winning to losing, but winning comes with obligation.

00:36:50.080 Losing doesn't. That's why Republicans were so comfortable losing for so long. And in the pre-Trump

00:36:55.480 world, Republicans were perfectly happy to lose and they lost all the time and they were happy to lose.

00:37:02.160 And, um, because it meant that they didn't have to do anything to be the minority party in DC to,

00:37:07.800 to be a Republican in a government controlled by Democrats, kind of a sweet gig really. Uh,

00:37:14.020 at least that's how many of them seem to view it for so long before Trump,

00:37:17.080 because they had all the prestige of being elected officials, but they weren't expected to really do

00:37:23.480 anything. They could play the role of the opposition, make fiery statements on cable news and all of

00:37:28.760 that, but not actually do anything because they weren't able to. So they had an excuse.

00:37:35.720 Uh, nobody could blame them for failing to advance their agenda because they couldn't advance it.

00:37:41.520 They had no power. Um, but, but now that's changed and having power means having expectations. Power

00:37:47.660 makes victory possible. It also makes failure possible because now you're out on that tightrope,

00:37:54.700 you know, you're over the precipice and, uh, if you fall, it's going to be ugly. That's why

00:38:01.120 responsibility is a scary thing because now we expect something from you and we do expect

00:38:09.300 something. We expect a lot. It's like when you're the backup quarterback, uh, sitting on the sidelines,

00:38:16.040 kind of nice because you're not, you know, you're not playing, but that means you can't screw up.

00:38:21.840 The fans can't be mad at you. You can't be embarrassed or blamed for a loss. Nothing is

00:38:25.740 your fault. You get to sit there kind of like telling yourself that if you were on the field,

00:38:31.760 the team would be doing was so much better, but you never have to prove it. You can just sit there.

00:38:35.820 Uh, but what happens when the starter goes down with an injury and the coach puts you in? Um,

00:38:41.700 I mean, now you have the opportunity to be the hero. You know, you could throw a game winning

00:38:45.140 touchdown and achieve football immortality, but you could also fail badly. And now it's real,

00:38:51.120 you know, now you've got the linebackers, uh, chasing you down and you got to make the throws

00:38:55.780 into the tight windows. And, uh, now, I mean, if to use Tim Walls, this phrase, if somebody runs a

00:39:02.480 pick six, uh, quote unquote, it'll be your fault. And that's the burden of being on the field,

00:39:08.140 uh, of being in the game. And now Republicans are, you know, they're in, they're in the game now,

00:39:17.040 you know, you're, you're on the field, you're the man now, and you gotta,

00:39:20.480 you gotta come through. You just have to. All right. Trump, uh, had a big announcement a couple

00:39:28.060 of days ago as he starts unveiling what he, uh, is saying his first few weeks in office will be.

00:39:33.760 And so far it all sounds great to me. So here's, uh, here's one plan that he's, uh, says he's going

00:39:41.540 to put in place. And one other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing

00:39:47.420 up the department of education in Washington, DC, and sending all education and education work and

00:39:54.960 needs back to the States. We want them to run the education of our children because they'll do a much 0.98

00:40:02.140 better job of it. You can't do worse. We spend more money per pupil by three times than any other

00:40:09.800 nation. And yet we're absolutely at the bottom. We're one of the worst. So you can't do worse.

00:40:17.280 We're going to end education coming out of Washington, DC. We're going to close it up.

00:40:22.960 All those buildings all over the place. And you have people that in many cases hate our children.

00:40:27.920 We're going to send it all back to the States. 0.99

00:40:32.140 All right, here we go. I mean, this is how you start exploiting the opportunity and stacking

00:40:36.480 wins. And, uh, this, this would be a massive win. Absolutely earth shattering, really, truly. And,

00:40:42.760 um, and I'll tell you why shutting down the department of education would be so hugely

00:40:46.900 significant. I mean, you know how I feel about the department of education itself. I've made that

00:40:51.940 very clear. The department has been a disaster for the education system. It's been a disaster for

00:40:56.660 our children. It's just, it is a statistical fact that kids became less educated, less equipped to

00:41:04.460 succeed in the world, less intelligent, less competent after the department was established.

00:41:12.500 That's a fact. Uh, there is no evidence. There's no evidence at all that the department has succeeded

00:41:19.120 in enhancing education for anyone. There is no marker you can point to, to say, oh, well,

00:41:25.480 they've succeeded there. It's, you know, there, there's lots and lots of evidence going the other

00:41:30.040 way because this thing is a monstrosity that needs to be annihilated. And I really, really hope 0.97

00:41:37.080 that Trump actually does it. But there's another great advantage to doing this, um,

00:41:43.040 which is that I think it will help Americans to start thinking differently about the federal

00:41:49.320 government. This, this would be a kind of tip of the iceberg moment for the American people.

00:41:54.840 Uh, because look, there's no question that if Trump actually does this, there will be panic,

00:42:02.020 uh, at first in the public. I mean, that panic will obviously be intentionally drummed up by,

00:42:08.720 by Democrats and by the media, but it will, it will be drummed up successfully. And some people,

00:42:15.000 probably a lot of people will fall for it at first. And you've got to be ready for that.

00:42:21.100 You know, they're going to think about how the left reacted to Republicans saying 0.98

00:42:26.720 that they don't want gay porn books in schools. And they, they call that a book ban, right? 0.95

00:42:32.740 And they had some success with that narrative, some success. Well, take that times a million. Okay.

00:42:41.920 When you abolish the department of education, the way the left and the media is going to tell that

00:42:48.020 story and explain what's happening. Um, they, what they're going to, what obviously we know what

00:42:56.400 they are going to say is that abolishing the department of education means that you're

00:43:02.340 abolishing education, that education itself has been abolished by Donald Trump. That's what they're

00:43:09.780 going to say. And, um, and, and, you know, some people will fall for that. They just will. And so

00:43:17.560 there's going to be an outcry at first. And I, I would assume that I'm not saying anything that the,

00:43:23.020 the Trump, Trump himself and that the upcoming Trump administration doesn't already know.

00:43:27.240 Um, but you know, that, that's baked in. It's like, all right, you're going to do this thing

00:43:32.440 and it's going to be a huge, huge, I mean, you haven't seen anything like it in terms of the

00:43:39.380 back. And Trump's seen a lot of backlash, but this is just, you're going after one of the most

00:43:46.540 sacred of sacred cows for these people. And then department of education itself is full of like

00:43:51.800 hundreds of bureaucrats, uh, who you're going to take their job away. I'm glad you will. 0.73

00:43:57.460 Don't get me wrong. Absolutely. Make them unemployed. I think that's fantastic, but

00:44:01.800 they are not going to be happy. And, uh, and some of these people are powerful. Some of them

00:44:08.320 are well-connected. And, um, so yeah, it's going to be a whole thing. It's going to be a whole thing.

00:44:12.720 All right. Just to, to put it in very specific terms, it's going to be a whole thing,

00:44:16.700 but here's the good news. You know, there's going to be all this panic. Oh my gosh, he's

00:44:24.980 abolishing it. And then everything will be fine. Then all of the panicked people will see that

00:44:35.580 the department was abolished and here it is a year later and everything's fine.

00:44:41.140 So they didn't even notice. If not for the media screaming about it, they wouldn't have even noticed

00:44:45.960 nothing in their lives or in their kids' lives has changed at all. Nothing at the school has

00:44:51.300 changed. Okay. They're going to be told that, well, if you shut down the department of education,

00:44:55.960 it means that the schools are shutting down. A year later, it's like, oh no, the schools are

00:44:59.600 still open. Schools are fine. Everything's fine. Nothing's changed. Literally nothing has changed.

00:45:04.760 You, you will not even notice. It does not change anything, not change for the worse. Anyway,

00:45:11.280 it'll change some things for the better, but even those changes will take time to really

00:45:14.480 settle in. You know, those changes are not going to be immediately, uh, obvious.

00:45:20.940 So really at worst, it won't change anything. And if you can get rid of an entire department of the

00:45:29.080 federal government and it won't change anything on the ground at all, well then that department

00:45:34.860 should not exist. That's reason enough to get rid of it. Um, so that's, what's going to happen.

00:45:42.520 And, uh, and, and I, I think, you know, the left is going to keep screaming about it forever, but

00:45:48.760 I think most voters, you know, we've got to be realistic. I mean, people are not stupid, but 0.75

00:45:54.760 we have to be realistic. And we realize that there's a certain, you know, portion of people 0.81

00:46:01.380 who are susceptible to falling into these kinds of mass panics. We've seen it time and time again,

00:46:06.920 and this is going to be another one. Uh, but eventually you snap out of it and they're going

00:46:13.080 to snap out of it and they're going to see that, well, wait a minute. Everything's fine. Like it's

00:46:20.040 fine. My kid's still going to school and everything is all the same as it was before. Hasn't hurt,

00:46:26.560 hasn't hurt us at all. And then maybe you start thinking, wow, well, if we didn't need the department

00:46:33.440 of education in order to have a functioning education system, then what else don't we need?

00:46:40.920 My gosh, can we have a, can we have a clean environment without an environmental protection

00:46:45.540 agency? Could that be possible? Can we have secure transportation without a transportation

00:46:52.720 security administration? And what exactly does the department of Homeland Security do?

00:46:59.120 Didn't we have a pretty secure homeland prior to the, to its invention in the 21st century?

00:47:05.440 Yes, there was 9-11, but did 9-11 happen because there wasn't a DHS? Is that the reason it happened?

00:47:12.940 What does the ATF do that isn't already done by like a dozen other federal law enforcement agencies?

00:47:20.420 And so on and so on. You know, uh, there, these are the questions that maybe people start

00:47:24.900 seriously asking themselves when they see how utterly and totally expendable the department

00:47:31.160 of education actually is. This is the dirty little secret that is not much of a secret to some of us

00:47:35.900 about the federal government is that so many of them, so many of them, the job only exists for its

00:47:43.700 own sake. It just, it exists to just to be a job that someone is doing and getting paid to do.

00:47:48.640 It exists to justify its, it's, it's, it's, its own existence. And, um, truly you could go in and wipe

00:47:59.140 out 50% of the federal government, cut them tomorrow, and it would not affect anything on the

00:48:04.740 ground for the vast majority of people. That is the, that is the truth. And, uh, and they know it.

00:48:11.420 All these people know it. People that work in the federal government know it better than anybody,

00:48:16.700 which is why if you ever talk to someone who's, who works in the federal government or has worked

00:48:20.340 in it and, you know, is, is, is honest about it, they're going to tell you like, yeah, I,

00:48:24.380 I did a job and there was like 10 other people in my, just in my office who did the same job.

00:48:30.580 And like we, there was, it was like one job for 10 people. Um, that's the whole government is like

00:48:35.700 that. So, which is why they are so desperate to stop anyone from actually making any serious cuts

00:48:44.600 because they know that once that starts happening, people are going to start to realize how useless 0.95

00:48:49.660 these people really are. And, uh, and so, you know, you got to start somewhere. And I think

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00:52:03.960 troll Ben Shapiro. That is the wild conspiracy theory floating out there on the internet.

00:52:09.520 But I ask you this, do I seem like the kind of guy who would take the time to record a video just to

00:52:16.360 troll someone? Am I so petty and contrarian and immature that I would make a video designed solely to annoy

00:52:25.080 and antagonize one of the owners of the company I work for? I think we all know the answer to that

00:52:30.520 question. Now today I want to respond to this unprovoked assault and onslaught from someone

00:52:36.480 who I thought was a friend. I'm not going to even acknowledge his rebuttal to my points about Toy

00:52:43.200 Story, Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, or Marvel. Frankly, I'm so obviously correct about all those

00:52:48.800 films that it would be almost insulting to the viewer for me to bother defending the point.

00:52:52.920 My arguments were expressed so eloquently and presented with such striking lucidity and depth

00:52:58.800 of analysis that it would be pointless to elaborate. It would be like asking Michelangelo

00:53:03.400 to recreate the statue of David. He could do it certainly, but why should he waste his time

00:53:08.520 repeating himself? Instead, I'm going to focus only on Ben's response to my arguments against the Dark

00:53:15.980 Knight. Ben is very fond of the Dark Knight. He talks about it all the time. He told me he watches the

00:53:23.240 movie once a week and weeps each time. He didn't say that specifically, but I read between the lines.

00:53:28.880 The point is that he loves the movie, and that probably explains why his response on this movie

00:53:35.400 in particular was so vicious and so hurtful. Watch. Number three, The Dark Knight.

00:53:44.340 Oh, shut the f*** up. Once again, good film. It just isn't the masterpiece that people make it out 0.99

00:53:49.740 to be. Without Heath Ledger's great performance, this movie wouldn't be remembered for anything in

00:53:54.540 particular. Oh, you mean one of the key roles in the film is actually crucial to the film? Truly one of

00:54:00.540 the stupidest arguments I have ever heard, Matt. Without the Academy Award-winning Best Villain 1.00

00:54:04.620 in film history in the film, it's a different movie.

00:54:09.060 Ta-da! I could do that with literally anything. You know, the New Testament without Jesus,

00:54:13.800 not nearly as good. Like, take Keith Ledger out of it. What does anyone remember about this movie?

00:54:18.400 Who cares about this movie except for that? It's great by Batman movie standards, but it's not great

00:54:23.200 as a piece of cinema. I thought my jokes were bad. Okay, first of all, Ben, please watch the language.

00:54:31.240 Second, please watch the sarcasm. I would never stoop to being sarcastic. I expected more from you.

00:54:39.380 Third, yeah, you really understood my argument, didn't you? I'm not saying that if you take the

00:54:43.840 Joker character out of the film, it's not a great film anymore. That's not my point. You would be

00:54:48.760 correct to point out that any film is bad if you take out its most compelling characters.

00:54:52.620 That's not my argument. I'm saying that the Joker character is actually not that great.

00:54:57.360 Heath Ledger's performance of the character elevates it beyond what it would otherwise be.

00:55:02.960 The Joker in the script is kind of hokey and corny. The Joker that Heath Ledger creates in spite of the

00:55:09.480 film and the script is compelling. I'll give you an example. One of the Joker's first lines in the

00:55:13.700 film, I think his first line is, whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stranger. Okay, that is a bad

00:55:19.660 line. That's just a bad line to have. That is not the kind of line you find in a cinematic masterpiece.

00:55:24.100 In fact, if that line is in your movie, it's not a masterpiece. I don't care what else happens.

00:55:30.040 Automatically, it's not a masterpiece. But Ledger managed to deliver that line in a way that

00:55:35.020 disguised its corniness. Great actors can do that sort of thing. I mean, you could cast Daniel Day

00:55:40.960 Lewis in an elementary school Christmas pageant, and it would instantly be compelling and fascinating.

00:55:47.140 But that wouldn't make it a great play. You know, the third grade teacher who wrote and directed

00:55:52.080 the pageant is not suddenly a great playwright. Daniel Day Lewis can elevate anything. So could

00:55:57.540 Heath Ledger. Compare this to, say, Vito Corleone in The Godfather. Obviously, Marlon Brando's

00:56:02.560 performance in the role is legendary, but the character was so brilliantly written and the

00:56:05.920 film around him so incredible that it would have still been a great film with another capable actor

00:56:10.080 in the role. The same cannot be said of The Dark Knight. Without that one performance, not the character,

00:56:14.960 the performance, the film would not be remembered for anything, actually. Also, The Joker is not the

00:56:22.140 greatest villain in cinema history. That title belongs unquestionably to Anton Chigurh in No

00:56:26.120 Country for Old Men. He is both more menacing and more interesting than The Joker. There's not one

00:56:31.080 scene in The Dark Knight that even comes close to matching, even just the gas station scene in No

00:56:35.300 Country for Old Men. And Joker in The Dark Knight never had one line that matches Anton Chigurh's

00:56:40.280 immortal question posed to Woody Harrelson's character. If the rule you followed brought

00:56:44.440 you to this, of what use was the rule? So he conveyed The Joker's philosophy far more effectively

00:56:50.620 and in a much more clever way than The Joker ever did. Let's continue. How does The Joker wire an

00:56:59.500 entire hospital with enough explosives to demolish it in 15 seconds without anyone noticing? This is a

00:57:06.340 working hospital. People are in it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How did you, you wired the

00:57:10.840 whole thing. It's not even just like one part of it explodes. The whole thing is taken down. Wait,

00:57:14.520 wait, that's it. That's his critique. His critique is like the practicality of wiring a building to

00:57:18.120 explode. I mean, yes, that's correct. Gotham City's a s*** show. They have a, they have a, they have a,

00:57:22.560 a literal insane asylum where they keep people and every five minutes people break out of the insane

00:57:27.180 asylum. Also, has he been to a hospital recently? They're not really all that well run. I remember when my 0.60

00:57:32.160 wife was in residency. Uh, yeah, man. I mean, not that I would have committed a criminal act like

00:57:36.240 The Joker, but I don't feel like it would have been that hard. You don't think it'd be hard

00:57:39.860 to wire the entire hospital to explode? Do you know how many explosives will be needed to blow

00:57:44.380 up an entire hospital? A lot. I don't know exactly how much. I started to Google it, but then I realized

00:57:50.960 that I might be putting myself on an FBI watch list with a Google search like that. Of course,

00:57:54.800 I'm probably already on a, on an FBI watch list. In any case, this is a massive demolition project

00:57:59.460 that would take many hours to complete. Even with lax security, it just isn't close to realistic.

00:58:04.840 Now, I know you might say, well, it's a Batman movie. It's not supposed to be realistic. You

00:58:08.160 can't have it both ways, Ben. You can't tell me that it's this gritty, mature, Oscar worthy Batman

00:58:12.520 film, but then also insist that it's just a silly superhero flick. So it doesn't matter if it's not

00:58:17.620 believable, which is it? You can't just hide behind Gotham City's a s*** show. No, this movie is a s*** show. 0.97

00:58:23.640 The script is a s*** show. You, sir, are a s*** show. Now, the movie hopes that you won't notice 1.00

00:58:30.220 that problem because you'll be distracted by like the moment in the hospital when Joker shows up in

00:58:35.540 Two-Face's room wearing a surgical mask and isn't noticed by Two-Face until he takes the mask off.

00:58:41.420 But even with the mask on, you can still tell that he has white face paint and black paint around his

00:58:46.060 eyes. So how did Two-Face, the criminal genius, not notice that? Well, maybe it's because Two-Face

00:58:49.900 isn't a criminal genius in this. He's a villain for about a half a scene and then he's dead. It's like

00:58:54.860 Christopher Nolan forgot to include Two-Face. They're about to put the movie out. It's like a week

00:58:59.220 and the movie's gonna come out and someone says, well, we forgot we're gonna put Two-Face in this

00:59:01.740 thing. Oh, yeah. Then they gotta go back. What are you talking about? That's the entire character

00:59:05.980 arc of Two-Face. Doesn't change anything in the movie at all. No, what? Are you kidding me? Are you

00:59:11.060 kidding me? Stop it for a second. Just stop it. That's so, oh my God. Oh my God. The entire plot point

00:59:17.000 in the film is that Two-Face is supposed to be a representation of the fallen state of humanity,

00:59:22.860 right? He goes from the hero to the villain and the whole point is that all hopes for sort of

00:59:29.340 cleanliness in Gotham City can be obliterated and if you have too much of an idealistic view about

00:59:35.860 what humanity is, which is what Harvey Dent has for most of the movie, then you end up falling because

00:59:40.660 once you fall, you really fall hard. Oh, was that the message? Wow, how profound. Sometimes good

00:59:52.680 people become bad people. Amazing. Christopher Nolan, again, demonstrating his profound understanding

00:59:58.340 of the human condition with this insight that my five-year-old daughter could offer. Yes, I

01:00:02.560 understand that Harvey Dent had an idealistic view of humanity and then ends up becoming everything he

01:00:06.460 was fighting against. I get that. How could I not get it? Nolan beats you over the head with that

01:00:10.040 message over and over again. The whole movie is just Christopher Nolan bashing you in the skull 0.99

01:00:14.380 with a two by four, screaming his philosophical ideas at you. Each character takes turn giving

01:00:19.340 speeches for the entire movie. The whole movie is just that one speech after another. We freaking get

01:00:25.280 it, okay? I get it. I get it. This is a problem in Nolan films. The same thing happened in Interstellar.

01:00:31.680 I went to that film excited to watch a movie about space exploration. I didn't realize I'd have to

01:00:36.600 listen to Anne Hathaway drone on about the transcendent power of love for the entire trip

01:00:41.240 to Jupiter or wherever they were going. The Dark Knight isn't quite as bad as that, but it's still

01:00:45.580 pretty heavy-handed. Now, the problem is that the characters spend so much time giving speeches that

01:00:50.260 they forget to be actual characters. Harvey Dent flips like a switch from super good guy to super bad

01:00:55.080 guy with almost no runway in between. Not to mention those burns on his face would be fatal,

01:01:00.240 okay? He would not still be alive like that. There's just no way somebody survives having half 1.00

01:01:07.480 of their head melted away, okay? Nolan was so obsessed with having everything look realistic

01:01:13.340 that he actually ended up with a Two-Face that was less realistic than the one from the cartoons.

01:01:19.560 In fact, I would go so far as to say that the Batman animated series from the 90s not only had a far

01:01:24.580 superior Two-Face character, but was all around in every way a superior product to Nolan's version.

01:01:29.400 Indeed, I would also say the 90s cartoon Batman is the best thing Mark Hamill ever did. I can't

01:01:34.620 think of a single other thing Mark Hamill starred in that would match the Batman cartoon. These are

01:01:40.160 not just opinions that I'm coming up with right now on the spot to annoy you even more, or if they are,

01:01:44.560 I also think that they might be kind of true, potentially. Anyway, I think I've made my point.

01:01:50.340 I don't want to make the same mistake Christopher Nolan made in The Dark Knight by repeating myself over

01:01:54.540 and over again. I don't want this segment to run long like The Dark Knight did at a punishing

01:01:58.340 runtime of two and a half hours. You know, I realize two and a half hours is downright efficient

01:02:03.980 by Nolan's standards. I tried to watch Oppenheimer. It took me seven weeks watching it for an hour a

01:02:08.840 day to get through half of it, and I'm not even exaggerating, and I gave up. But the runtime is even

01:02:14.680 more unforgivable for a Batman movie, okay? There is no excuse for a movie about a superhero in a rubber

01:02:21.360 costume running around doing karate against the bad guys to go longer than 85 minutes, 90 minutes at the

01:02:27.560 absolute most. No one only had 90 minutes of a story. The additional hour consisted of each character

01:02:33.040 delivering the State of the Union address. It's 90 minutes of story and an hour of speeches.

01:02:39.080 That's why I could even argue that Batman Forever starring Val Kilmer was better than The Dark Knight.

01:02:45.000 At least it got to the point much quicker, and it had a better Two-Face.

01:02:47.540 But the worst Two-Face of all is you, Ben. I am still in shock that after all this time working

01:02:54.780 together, you would attack me so savagely. I'm both horrified and offended by this unprovoked assault.

01:03:03.160 But more than that, I'm disappointed. Your video was the most disappointing thing I've seen

01:03:09.580 since The Dark Knight. And that is why both The Dark Knight and you, Ben Shapiro, are today canceled.

01:03:19.120 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

01:03:22.520 Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

01:03:24.080 of course.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 12, 2024

Ep. 1484 - How Kamala’s Focus On Gender Ideology Cost Her The Election

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