Parliament in New Zealand descended into tribal stone age grunting on behalf of so-called indigenous rights. This is a preview of what our country could look like if we keep apologizing for our history. Also, RFK Jr. has been tapped to lead HHS. I ll explain why this is a brilliant pick. Mike Tyson fights Jake Paul tonight in a bout that will prove again that age is a real thing, as much as we might like to pretend otherwise. And AOC left the country in shock by removing the pronouns from her Twitter bio. What s that all about? We ll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:05:36.340You know, it's a lot less cringe when you dub in some real music instead of the prehistoric grunting.
00:05:59.860Now, it's a little hard to see in all the pandemonium, but they're getting in the face of a politician named David Seymour,
00:06:06.040who introduced a bill that they don't like.
00:06:08.940The people doing the screeching identify as Maori, meaning they see themselves as the allegedly indigenous people of New Zealand.
00:06:17.240And they're chanting like barbarians and making gun gestures at David Seymour while saying something that apparently translates to evil.
00:06:24.900And before I get into the specifics about this vote, what it was about, it needs to be reiterated that this whole haka thing is just silly and embarrassing.
00:06:34.980Maybe you're not supposed to say that, but it's obviously true.
00:06:38.580And everybody who sees it knows that, feels the same way.
00:06:42.900You know, and you see these videos that we're supposed to pretend like we think it's powerful and cool because it's part of a non-white culture.
00:06:50.200And so therefore, it has to be good. We're not allowed to have any negative opinions about anything that a non-white culture does.
00:06:56.540But we all know that it's just lame and stupid as hell.
00:07:00.480And, you know, we can say that. Like that, just knock it off. This is ridiculous.
00:07:08.880These people are really embarrassing themselves.
00:07:10.540In every context that this haka is performed, it's cringeworthy to an immeasurable, painful degree.
00:07:18.260So here, for example, was the haka that New Zealand's basketball team performed at a tournament in 2014 just before getting blown out by double digits by Team USA.
00:07:28.940Just look at the reactions during this.
00:07:30.900The haka that New Zealand's basketball team performed at a tournament in 2014 just before getting blown out by double digits.
00:08:00.900Yes, there's nothing like a fearsome war chant before a basketball game where everybody looks at you like you're crazy.
00:08:24.660And then you get completely destroyed.
00:08:26.160They got blown out, which is why this just doesn't work.
00:08:30.520You can't do a fearsome war dance on behalf of a conquered people and then get conquered some more.
00:08:38.100You know, the Maori have been doing this dance for centuries and they just get beaten every time in every context,
00:08:43.980in every type of battle they've ever been in, at least for the last 700 years.
00:08:48.220So, you know, it's like probably time to put the, it's like spiking the football when you're on a football team that hasn't won a game since the year 1300.
00:09:01.320It's just like, all right, it's probably not a lot to be showboating about right now.
00:09:08.440In any event, back to the viral clip that people are talking about.
00:09:11.480The so-called indigenous people had a meltdown in parliament over a bill.
00:09:16.820And what you may not have seen is what preceded that moment.
00:09:20.060David Seymour laid out some rational and calm arguments in favor of his legislation.
00:09:25.040And then the so-called Maori politicians launched into a volley of personal attacks.
00:10:21.140Going to have to ask the member to withdraw himself from the House for the rest of the afternoon.
00:10:26.360Willie Jackson sin-burned, but unapologetic.
00:10:31.160Now, already, this is how you know these people have no argument.
00:10:34.400They're only capable of shouting shame and resorting to personal attacks to the point that they repeatedly get thrown out of parliament.
00:10:40.020Meanwhile, David Seymour sitting there calmly saying he wants equality.
00:10:44.060Now, admittedly, I'm not an expert on the finer details of New Zealand politics.
00:10:47.140So I went looking through some New Zealand outlets to try to get as complete a picture as I could about, you know, what's going on here, what the controversy is.
00:10:54.460Turns out the concept of equal protection under the law is actually extremely controversial in New Zealand.
00:11:13.540Depending on who you ask, they were either the first to arrive or they massacred everyone else who was already there when they got there.
00:11:19.820In any event, before long, the Maori wiped out a different tribe called the Moriori, Moriori, I think is probably how you pronounce that, who were pacifists living in the Chattanoom Islands in the east.
00:11:30.680And they got enslaved and beheaded and cannibalized by the Maori because apparently that's what, you know, civilized cultures do.
00:11:38.200And to be clear, this kind of thing was not out of character for the Maori.
00:11:41.420The Maori routinely enslaved and brutalized their enemies, just like so-called indigenous cultures all over the world.
00:11:48.940The moment they acquired muskets from European traders, they fought a series of battles amongst themselves called the Musket Wars, which led to tens of thousands of deaths and even more slavery.
00:11:59.260These are wars, of course, the Maori now blame the British for.
00:12:02.680They also bartered with severed heads, which they called toy moco.
00:12:08.280They would cut people's heads off and tattoo them and then use them for trading.
00:12:11.520This is kind of what Maori culture was all about, cutting heads off each other, bartering, cannibalizing.
00:12:21.400Eventually, the British came in and provided some stability with something called the Treaty of Waitangi.
00:12:27.420The idea was that New Zealand would become a British colony, but that the Maori would have their rights protected.
00:12:34.080They could keep their land and so on to the extent that was possible.
00:12:36.860And then in 1975, New Zealand recognized this treaty in law for the first time.
00:12:43.440But there were still a big gray areas to what exactly this treaty required.
00:12:47.800It established tribunals and led to a lot of rulemaking by judges, but parliament mostly stayed out of it.
00:12:54.440Now, with this new bill, David Seymour is trying to change that.
00:12:56.760He's proposing concrete legislation that will clarify that everybody in the country, in New Zealand, whether they are Maori or not, is entitled to the full protection of the law.
00:13:09.460He also wants to make it clear that New Zealand is self-governing.
00:13:12.760The Maori are not a nation within a nation.
00:13:16.080Here's how one New Zealand station describes the proposed clarifications.
00:13:20.140Let's compare the current main three principles with the bill before parliament.
00:13:26.280On partnership, the treaty created a relationship between Maori and the Crown, and both parties must act with the utmost good faith.
00:13:34.540The new principle one states the government has full power to govern, and parliament has the full power to make laws, in the best interests of everyone.
00:13:45.780The existing understanding is that the government prioritises the active protection of Maori interests, rights, taonga, and ngatiratanga.
00:13:55.420The new proposed principle three states everyone is equal before the law, and entitled to equal protection and benefit without discrimination.
00:14:03.820Everyone is entitled to the equal enjoyment of the same human rights without discrimination.
00:14:08.580So these are clarifications that if you want to live in a modern civilization, an advanced civilization, instead of a backwards hellhole, seem pretty reasonable.
00:14:20.860But it does mark a change from what's happening at the moment.
00:14:23.780Right now, New Zealand explicitly provides reparations to people who identify as Maori.
00:14:28.140In addition to affirmative action, they just announced a, quote, financial redress of $30 million plus interest to Maori tribes, along with a fund of more than a million dollars to assist with cultural revitalization.
00:14:40.760New Zealand politicians also regularly give lengthy apologies to the tribes, like this one.
00:18:35.420I'm not willing to have my own culture ransacked and turned through this lens of pure evil and simultaneously be expected to pretend that the Maoris or the indigenous people of Australia were these proto-Gandhi-esque figures.
00:18:54.600This sort of Mother Teresa with a bit too much beheading.
00:19:04.100And it's an obvious, obvious attempt to subjugate people in the West to a false ideology and a false version of our own past.
00:19:13.540So, as he correctly explains there, the Maori were a violent, brutal people.
00:19:20.640They practiced cannibalism, many other forms of horrific brutality.
00:19:25.260But just because they made it to New Zealand a few hundred years before Europeans, we're supposed to see it as some great tragedy that the Europeans took over.
00:19:33.500In fact, we're supposed to blame Europeans for engaging in violent conquest over people who themselves engaged in even more violent conquest.
00:19:39.660So, keep this absurd, debasing spectacle in mind whenever you hear about reparations in this country or about how oppressed some indigenous groups allegedly are.
00:19:50.840Even if you give these people what they want for decades, they will always want more.
00:19:54.820No matter how much you apologize and pay money, it doesn't matter.
00:20:00.060The moment you suggest withdrawing some of these privileges or even just, like, expanding it so that everybody benefits, they revolt.
00:20:08.020Descend into primal chants on the floor of parliament.
00:20:13.840Turn your entire government into an international laughingstock.
00:20:18.080That's why the only approach to dealing with people like this, the one that New Zealand should have adopted a long time ago,
00:20:24.340is to deny them any special privileges in the first place.
00:20:29.040And to deny them the pleasure of hearing you apologize when you've got nothing to apologize for.
00:20:54.680When are we going to get an indigenous group anywhere in the world that does that?
00:20:57.560You apologize for all the terrible things your ancestors did.
00:21:00.300You do that first, and then we can talk.
00:21:04.100I'm still not going to apologize, but at least you will have shown that you're not a raging hypocrite.
00:21:12.580As the saying goes, when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
00:21:16.120At this point, now that Stone Age war chants have broken out in Parliament, probably too late for New Zealand to correct their mistake.
00:21:23.860And that should be a pretty big clue to everybody in this country that unless we also want to return to the Stone Age, we should take a very different approach.
00:21:30.740We should affirm the greatness of Western civilization and make no apology for it.
00:21:36.740We should take pride in our heritage, in our culture, in our history.
00:21:40.100We should reject the false narratives, the cartoonish, simplistic narratives about our history that turn us and our ancestors into cartoon villains.
00:21:51.800That's how you neutralize the grievance mongers and the guilt merchants so they have no power.
00:21:57.740They can do their tribal chants all they want.
00:22:00.780They can do them in the shower, in their own homes, whatever.
00:22:05.100The rest of us will be doing what New Zealand is apparently now incapable of doing.
00:22:08.220We'll be living a functioning, self-governing democracy.
00:22:12.060And if there's one lesson from these bizarre and embarrassing clips out of New Zealand, it's that no one should ever take that for granted.
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00:23:47.060As you probably heard, Trump has nominated RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
00:23:52.500RFK Jr. is, well, him leading HHS is, it's like, it's a funny meme six months ago, and now it has come to life.
00:24:19.960Some staff members at the FDA are considering a quick exit as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being floated as a potential health official in the incoming Trump administration,
00:24:28.860according to three former and one current government official who are granted anonymity to speak freely about sensitive issues.
00:24:35.180The former officials are still in touch with colleagues who work at the FDA.
00:24:37.860So now they're thinking about leaving.
00:24:43.140And, you know, RFK is not even there yet.
00:26:04.840I mean, RFK Jr. could be a flat earther who believes that, I don't know, the moon is fake and that there are dinosaurs living in Antarctica or whatever.
00:26:14.120And his denial of science would still not be anywhere near as extreme or as harmful as the proponents of gender ideology.
00:26:25.080Because that is the most radical denial of science the world has ever seen.
00:28:23.060New York Post reports, ABC News brass are in panic mode as they hunt for conservative voices to balance the rabid anti-Trump rhetoric spewed by the hosts on The View, as well as those on other shows.
00:28:37.360The Disney-owned network has been holding high-level meetings since last week's rout by the former president.
00:28:42.920And they are looking for and facing pressure from the higher-ups to go find a pro-Trump conservative perspective and a new panelist on the show.
00:28:54.460And, you know, I just want to say right now, for what it's worth, I want to announce, actually, that it's an important announcement that I would be honored to serve my country in this role.
00:29:07.600I would be honored to take this post of View co-host.
00:29:12.840I'm officially throwing my hat into the ring for consideration.
00:29:18.060And I think I'm qualified for the role.
00:29:19.760I have a lot of experience in front of a camera.
00:29:22.580I'm conservative, which is what you're looking for.
00:34:56.620Um, but that, and that's not even the worst part of the video, actually.
00:35:01.980Um, at least that's not the worst part of the, the, the, the whole video we just saw.
00:35:05.940The most disturbing part of all of it, even leaving aside the cringe, the stupidity, the violent threats is where she says that she considers the students to be her kids because she doesn't have kids of her own.
00:35:17.840Um, um, I, I'm even more worried about that, that I am about this white woman pretending to be a gangster rapper or whatever.
00:35:27.860Um, I will say that she doesn't scare me by saying, Hey, step to me, step to me, see what happens.
00:35:35.820That doesn't scare me, but I am, it does scare me when she says this stuff about they're my kids.
00:35:40.220They fulfill me that, that actually does scare me.
00:35:44.640Um, and, uh, at least if I was a parent with kids in the school, I'd be scared by, I'd be scared about that.
00:35:50.100I'd be, I'd be pretty terrified by the prospect of that, uh, by teachers that have this kind of attitude where it's not, look, if you're a teacher and you feel a bond with your kids and you care about them, great, you should.
00:36:00.140But feeling like they are your kids and they fulfill some sort of deep, something missing in your life.
00:36:08.100Uh, no, that's not what this is about.
00:36:11.380And if you feel that way about a teacher, you should keep it to yourself.
00:36:14.100Cause that's not, I don't want my kid's job is not to fulfill something that's, it's not to like give you something you're missing in your life.
00:37:15.420They're not around you enough and they don't talk to you enough and you don't have nearly enough experience with them to even really know them that well.
00:37:49.560I'm kind of interested now and I probably will watch it.
00:37:53.480Mike Tyson at 58 years old, uh, is fighting someone who's half his age.
00:38:01.840And that's the context for this video that I want to play, which is, this is honestly one of the funniest things I've seen this year.
00:38:09.180I mean, this is brilliant comedy, entirely unintentional, but this, if this was scripted, I would say this is a brilliantly scripted comedic moment.
00:38:16.380Uh, so Tyson was being interviewed by, uh, some, a kid for her, I guess her TikTok channel, apparently.
00:38:23.800And Mike Tyson seems to have forgotten, uh, during this little interview that he's speaking to a child.
00:38:32.760Well, in your return to the ring for this fight, you are setting a monumental opportunity for kids my age to see the legend, Mike Tyson, in the ring for the first time.
00:38:43.280So after such a successful career, what type of legacy would you like to leave behind when it's all said and done?