The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1496 - The Sweeping Pardon That Exposed Biden’s Corruption Once And For All

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Joe Biden proves yet again that he is as dishonest as he is corrupt.

00:00:04.560 After repeatedly promising he wouldn't, he just issued a pardon for his son, Hunter.

00:00:08.620 But it's even worse than it sounds. In many ways, this pardon is unprecedented in American history.

00:00:12.460 We'll discuss also the New York Times is so desperate to smear Trump's pick for secretary of defense

00:00:16.620 that they have now stooped to publishing private emails between Pete Hegseth and his mom.

00:00:21.200 And Pete Buttigieg gives his recipe for reducing violent crime.

00:00:24.220 Apparently, crime has nothing to do with fatherless homes and everything to do with bad drinking water.

00:00:28.420 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:33.560 If you wanted to measure the extent of the Biden family's corruption, there are a lot of ways you could do it.

00:01:39.760 You could take a look at the lavish properties Joe Biden has owned over the years,

00:01:43.240 which seem a little out of place for a career public servant whose wife is a teacher.

00:01:47.740 You can go back and watch those interviews in which Tony Bobulinski, the Biden family business partner,

00:01:52.240 explained that indeed Joe Biden is the big guy for whom 10% of Hunter Biden's overseas business profits would be directed,

00:01:58.660 according to emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop.

00:02:01.860 You could recall the mad scramble by the intelligence agencies to pretend that everything on that laptop was,

00:02:07.940 quote, unquote, Russian disinformation, a lie that Biden himself repeated multiple times, of course.

00:02:12.920 You could pull up that video of Biden bragging about how he threatened to withhold more than a billion dollars of financial assistance to Ukraine's government

00:02:19.840 unless they fired their top prosecutor who happened to be investigating Burisma,

00:02:24.020 the oil company that was paying Hunter Biden a million dollars a year for a no-show job.

00:02:28.660 As Biden put it himself, quote, if the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.

00:02:33.500 Well, son of a, he got fired.

00:02:35.760 In the face of this overwhelming evidence, the Biden administration and its defenders

00:02:39.440 attempted to maintain the lie that Joe Biden wasn't complicit in anything his son was doing.

00:02:46.200 They kept repeating that defense even after photos emerged showing Joe Biden golfing with Hunter's business associates,

00:02:52.500 even after we learned that Joe Biden was on speakerphone as Hunter was conducting meetings with those associates.

00:02:59.240 Again and again, we were told to ignore what we could all clearly see happening.

00:03:03.140 We were told to believe that there was somehow an imaginary invisible firewall between Biden and his son,

00:03:10.020 and that while Hunter may have been a degenerate, he wasn't peddling influence.

00:03:14.840 This political fiction had to be maintained so that Democrats could claim with some degree of fake plausibility

00:03:22.780 that their prosecutions of Donald Trump were legitimate.

00:03:26.500 They'd go on MSNBC and claim that they're the party that cares about the rule of law.

00:03:31.360 Here's one of Robert Mueller's prosecutors, Andrew Weissman, making that argument on MSNBC.

00:03:37.420 What is before us is a president who is living the rule of law.

00:03:45.100 He is living it in the most personal way.

00:03:50.680 He is not pardoning his son, which he could do.

00:03:55.140 These are federal charges.

00:03:56.680 He is not doing that.

00:03:57.600 He is not doing it because he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country.

00:04:03.960 And it is, I mean, if you want to know if he believes it, you can actually see what is happening with his own son.

00:04:13.200 I mean, I'm not saying that he should get credit for it because it is the right thing to do.

00:04:18.080 That's the norm that Trump is beneath it.

00:04:19.740 Exactly.

00:04:20.400 It's that you, the idea that you can't see it, or is that really what's going on?

00:04:25.420 When you can see what he is actually living by is his own son is being prosecuted and he is allowing the norms that are required to live in a democracy to go forward.

00:04:39.320 The norms, the rule of law that we heard so much about.

00:04:43.140 Well, this fiction completely collapsed last night, as you probably heard, with the president's sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden.

00:04:49.760 This is a pardon that's so expansive and so flagrantly self-serving that it has no precedent in American history.

00:04:57.720 It's not just the fact that no president has ever pardoned his own son before.

00:05:02.520 It's also that this pardon excuses Hunter from prosecution for any federal crime that he may or may not have committed or assisted with in the time period from January 1st, 2014 through yesterday, December 1st, 2024.

00:05:16.560 Yes, that's immunity for more than a decade's worth of potential federal crimes, whether they've been charged or not.

00:05:25.880 Now, for comparison, when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, he pardoned him for any crimes committed from 1969 to 1974, which is a period, of course, of five years.

00:05:35.860 That was previously the record holder for the longest pardon by a president conferring blanket immunity.

00:05:40.840 So with this pardon, Joe Biden has prevented the incoming Trump administration from bringing any charges relating to Hunter Biden's tenure at Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company.

00:05:51.140 Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014, which is the first year covered by this pardon, coincidentally enough.

00:05:56.860 Just two years later, Joe Biden's urging Ukraine fired the prosecutor who was looking into Burisma.

00:06:01.140 According to Biden family business associate, Devin Archer, that prosecutor, his name is Victor Shokin, was a threat to Burisma.

00:06:09.560 As Archer put it, quote, he ended up seizing assets of Burisma's owner, a house, some cars, a couple of properties.

00:06:15.660 And the owner actually never went back to Ukraine after Shokin seized all of his assets. 0.62

00:06:20.060 And thanks to Joe Biden applying some pressure, that prosecutor was terminated.

00:06:23.040 Now, those are facts that might naturally make you wonder whether Burisma was paying the Bidens in order to secure that result.

00:06:30.720 That was certainly the thought that crossed Trump's mind, and they impeached him for it.

00:06:35.440 And she impeached Trump, of course, not Biden.

00:06:38.080 He suggested on a phone call that maybe it's not a good idea to send our money to a country that could be bribing the Bidens.

00:06:45.560 And that was such a radioactive idea that they tried to have him removed from office for it.

00:06:49.640 That was a pretty big hint that Trump was on to something.

00:06:54.400 And those hints kept coming, especially after a longtime FBI informant named Alexander Smirnov claimed that Burisma had bribed the Bidens to the tune of $10 million in order to take out the prosecutor.

00:07:06.000 The DOJ has accused that informant of lying as part of yet another Russian disinformation operation, which is extremely unusual because it's the kind of thing that might discourage more informants from talking to the FBI.

00:07:16.840 But in this instance, probably because of the political ramifications, Biden's DOJ thought it was important to pursue the case.

00:07:23.660 That would be an interesting series of events for Kash Patel and Pam Bondi to look into.

00:07:28.260 But whatever they find, there's no way they can prosecute Hunter at this point.

00:07:32.760 That's because in one of his final acts as president, Biden has effectively become an accomplice to his son's crimes, including crimes that we may never know about now.

00:07:41.860 Now, you'd expect a lot of Democrats to run cover for this pardon, and indeed, that's exactly what's happening.

00:07:49.180 But kind of remarkably, some Republicans are defending it as well.

00:07:54.200 You know, I've seen even conservatives saying that, well, any father in the same position would do the same thing.

00:08:01.440 Any father, supposedly, would ensure that his 54-year-old drug-addled son doesn't ever have to face criminal consequences for any crime he's committed, no matter how serious it may be.

00:08:15.060 That's an argument that overlooks a few very important points.

00:08:18.980 And this is important to understand if you are tempted to give Biden some benefit of the doubt here or some credit or to think that, well, he's just being a good father.

00:08:27.860 That doesn't work for a few reasons.

00:08:30.340 Number one, Joe Biden and his administration have spent years lying to us about their intentions.

00:08:37.400 They made material misrepresentations during a political campaign for the purposes of manipulating voters.

00:08:43.500 So any sympathy we might have for Joe Biden is gone simply on that basis alone.

00:08:49.400 They've all said again and again that Hunter Biden would not be pardoned.

00:08:54.100 Watch.

00:08:54.420 As we sit here in Normandy, your son Hunter is on trial.

00:08:59.380 And I know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution.

00:09:04.980 But let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is?

00:09:10.660 Yes.

00:09:11.600 And have you ruled out a pardon for your son?

00:09:14.000 Yes.

00:09:14.760 Second one, will the president pardon or commute his son if he's convicted?

00:09:19.220 So I've answered this question before.

00:09:20.620 It was asked of me not too long ago, a couple of weeks ago, and I was very clear and I said no.

00:09:25.580 Let me go back to the first question of the briefing.

00:09:27.360 I know you said not a lot has changed since yesterday and that it's a personal matter.

00:09:30.560 But from a presidential perspective, is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son?

00:09:36.860 No.

00:09:37.020 You've also said several times that the president would not pardon or commute the sentence for his son, Hunter.

00:09:43.900 I just want to make sure that that is not going to change over the next six months.

00:09:46.660 The president's saying he would not.

00:09:48.300 It's still a no.

00:09:49.660 It's still a no.

00:09:50.260 It will always be a no.

00:09:51.380 It's still a no.

00:09:52.320 It will be a no.

00:09:53.480 It is a no.

00:09:54.600 And I don't have anything else to add.

00:09:56.360 Will he pardon his son?

00:09:57.540 No.

00:09:57.820 So no matter how much you, for some reason, might want to defend Joe Biden for looking out for the crackhead he raised, you cannot justify lying like this.

00:10:11.680 He knew it was false when he said it.

00:10:14.080 So did his press secretary.

00:10:16.080 They just also knew that they had to get through a campaign where they claimed to be on the side of the rule of law, so they lied about it.

00:10:23.120 They lied to the faces of the American people.

00:10:25.900 Many, many times.

00:10:28.100 Cannot justify that.

00:10:30.320 In fact, Biden was equally shameless last night in announcing this pardon.

00:10:33.940 He didn't do the honorable thing and admit that he was just protecting his son.

00:10:38.180 He didn't come out and say, yeah, look, obviously I lied about it.

00:10:40.900 I was just, it's what I had to do for my son.

00:10:43.700 You know, it's just the way it is.

00:10:46.600 No, instead, along with the pardon, Biden released a statement claiming that his son's prosecution was unfair and selective.

00:10:52.620 He suggested that the prosecution was only undertaken because he's the president, even though the prosecution was conducted by Biden's own DOJ.

00:11:00.340 And despite the fact that the pardon covers Hunter's activities from many years ago when Biden was vice president, the statement reads, quote,

00:11:08.620 No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion that Hunter was singled out.

00:11:14.440 So he claims that his guiding principle is to tell the truth, even while he goes back on his word that he has offered to the American people many times.

00:11:43.460 Just totally shameless.

00:11:46.160 So in other words, now that the election's over, you know, we're not pretending the DOJ is fair and impartial anymore.

00:11:51.120 Now we're just admitting it's a corrupt and political enterprise with no legitimacy whatsoever.

00:11:56.320 If Biden actually believed any of this, he'd immediately pardon Donald Trump.

00:12:01.480 As well as the January 6th defendants and the many pro-life activists who have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for protesting at abortion clinics.

00:12:09.060 He'd instruct Merrick Garland to drop the charges against the whistleblowers like Ethan Haim who are being prosecuted for exposing the barbaric procedures being conducted at children's hospitals in the name of, quote, unquote, gender affirming care.

00:12:20.580 Of course, none of that will happen because Biden doesn't believe a word that he's saying.

00:12:25.660 He doesn't believe a word of the statement he put out.

00:12:27.220 He's a complete fraud, which is one of the reasons this is so indefensible.

00:12:31.660 It's also indefensible because he just gave his son a pass for every single one of the federal crimes he committed or may conceivably have committed over 11 years.

00:12:44.680 Okay, it's not just for the gun charge and the tax charge.

00:12:49.680 It's for anything.

00:12:52.240 And insulating your adult child from rightful consequences to that extent is, among other things, enormously bad parenting.

00:13:02.620 Because as parents, our greatest duty is to help our children to develop virtue.

00:13:07.320 That is, your number one job as a parent.

00:13:11.380 Giving them a hall pass for federal crimes obviously does the opposite.

00:13:16.560 You cannot become a virtuous person if you're insulated from any and all legal repercussions for any crimes you committed.

00:13:24.260 So a good father, a loving father, would not want to give that kind of get-out-of-jail-free card to his son. 0.97

00:13:33.800 Because any chance that Hunter would ever become anything but a scumbag has now been obliterated. 0.97

00:13:41.840 Now, I mean, obviously there was little chance of him regardless. 0.97

00:13:45.880 But if there was any chance, it's basically gone now. 1.00

00:13:48.840 He's going to live the rest of his life a scumbag and he's going to die a scumbag. 1.00

00:13:52.840 Which, from the perspective of a loving father, is a fate far worse than prison. 1.00

00:14:00.480 But it's not hard to see why Joe Biden's doing it.

00:14:02.600 But he's clearly pardoning Hunter, at least in part, to protect himself.

00:14:07.680 That's why this pardon is so unbelievably broad, both in scope and in length.

00:14:12.920 Any prosecution of Hunter would almost certainly uncover more evidence of crimes committed by Joe Biden and other Biden family members as well.

00:14:20.740 And we know that because just based on what we have already, there's a lot of evidence that would seem to implicate those family members.

00:14:27.100 For example, Senate investigators found that Hunter Biden opened a bank account with a deputy at CEFC, a Chinese energy firm that's closely tied with the Chinese Communist Party.

00:14:37.560 And that bank account, according to Senate investigators, funded a $100,000 spending spree for the Biden family, including James Biden and his wife.

00:14:45.260 These are the kind of payments that Senate officials were able to uncover with only a very limited ability to look into the Biden family.

00:14:53.600 You can imagine what a full-fledged prosecution would uncover.

00:14:56.720 But the Biden DOJ made sure that there would be no full-fledged prosecution of Hunter Biden.

00:15:01.340 That's why they slow-walked the investigation of his abandoned laptop.

00:15:05.020 They wanted the statute of limitations to expire on as many crimes as possible.

00:15:09.100 When the FBI seized Hunter's laptop from the repair store, they sat on it for more than a year until the New York Post finally published its story.

00:15:16.500 And even then, the FBI told Facebook in advance that the story was probably Russian disinformation.

00:15:21.780 By shutting down any prosecution of Hunter, it becomes much more difficult to relaunch any of these investigations or to prosecute any other member of the Biden family, including Biden himself.

00:15:35.740 That's another reason that this pardon is indefensible, even for a father who's trying to keep his son out of prison.

00:15:41.860 At the same time, I'll concede that this story, from my perspective, would be completely different if Joe Biden had only pardoned Hunter for the gun and the tax crimes.

00:15:54.820 You could probably defend that.

00:15:56.260 I mean, yeah, I would pardon.

00:15:58.100 If I was in a position to do it, I would probably pardon my kids for those kinds of crimes if I had the power.

00:16:05.320 Right?

00:16:05.840 For a tax crime.

00:16:07.100 I mean, I'd probably pardon every single person who's ever been convicted of a tax crime.

00:16:10.340 I just hate the IRS that much.

00:16:13.320 And gun crimes.

00:16:15.140 Yeah, I would pardon my kids for that.

00:16:17.500 Sure.

00:16:19.480 But that's not what Biden did.

00:16:22.120 He pardoned him for all federal crimes.

00:16:25.420 Going back to a time that predates those charges.

00:16:30.680 All federal crimes includes, for instance, something like sex trafficking.

00:16:36.720 Not saying Hunter Biden is guilty of sex trafficking.

00:16:38.980 I'm also not saying that he isn't.

00:16:42.300 There was a lot of interesting stuff on that laptop that would point in certain directions.

00:16:49.180 But now you can't look into that either.

00:16:52.620 Would you, would you, would you, is that what a good father does?

00:16:55.260 Just for, let's just, you know, sake of argument, just hypothetically.

00:16:58.480 Let's say that, that Hunter did convict, did commit some sex crimes.

00:17:04.100 Just hypothetically.

00:17:06.840 Does a good father issue a pardon so their 54-year-old son is not investigated for that?

00:17:15.300 Even if they did it?

00:17:17.560 You insulate your 54-year-old son from consequences for those kinds of crimes?

00:17:22.980 Really?

00:17:23.440 That's what a good father does?

00:17:26.780 No, obviously not.

00:17:29.240 And, you know, the tax charges were always just a surface-level allegation that obscured the actual underlying corruption.

00:17:35.280 It doesn't really matter whether Hunter Biden paid taxes on all the foreign money.

00:17:38.960 What matters is what exactly that foreign money was buying.

00:17:43.040 That is the investigation that Joe Biden thinks he has just shut down.

00:17:48.100 But there are a few elements here that should mitigate, you know, as conservatives, should mitigate our anger and frustration about the pardon.

00:17:56.920 First of all, this is a clear win for the incoming Trump administration politically.

00:18:00.400 I mean, really, it's more of a gift to Trump than Hunter, because it gives Trump a political green light to do what he should be doing anyway, which is to issue blanket pardons for all of the political prisoners of this administration.

00:18:14.200 The pardon is also already leading to a lot of interesting moments on MSNBC, where an overwhelmingly Democrat-aligned audience is being forced to confront the fact that everything Democrats said for the past four years was a lie.

00:18:27.020 Here's just one example.

00:18:28.460 See, I told you so.

00:18:31.680 They're all like that.

00:18:33.520 So the next time any of us complain about anything Trump does, this pardon is just deflating.

00:18:41.680 For those of us who have been out there for a few years now yelling about what a unique threat Donald Trump is, for Joe Biden to do something like this, Trump, nobody's above the law, we've been screaming.

00:18:56.340 Well, Joe Biden just made clear his son Hunter is above the law.

00:19:01.120 Donald Trump lies every time he opens his mouth, we've been screaming.

00:19:05.640 Joe Biden repeatedly lied about this.

00:19:09.480 The politicization of the justice system.

00:19:13.320 Donald Trump and his people have been screaming.

00:19:15.660 That's exactly what Biden said here.

00:19:18.880 So a realization like this, as basic and as probably inauthentic as it is, still represents progress.

00:19:26.720 This is the first time that a lot of Democrats watching MSNBC are realizing the extent to which they've been lied to.

00:19:33.360 And that's obviously a major win for Republicans as well.

00:19:37.040 Additionally, this pardon might actually simplify future investigations into the Biden family, at least until more pardons are announced.

00:19:43.180 Now that Hunter can't be prosecuted for any crimes, he can't, he also can't assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid responding to subpoenas or testifying.

00:19:53.680 So Republicans in Congress and the DOJ can and should use that fact to their advantage.

00:19:59.100 But the most consequential point is that with this pardon, Democrats have once again proved their own willingness to wield their power to the fullest extent possible, no matter how their opposition feels about it or what they say about it.

00:20:15.660 Democrats are as ruthless as they are shameless.

00:20:19.480 And there's no way to look at this pardon and come to any other conclusion. 0.97

00:20:23.300 They will spend years telling you one thing only to do another thing.

00:20:26.340 All without any degree of remorse or self-awareness.

00:20:30.900 They'll extol the virtues of the rule of law and democracy and et cetera and so forth, only to admit on their way out the door that actually none of that was ever remotely important to them.

00:20:41.080 This is the lesson that Trump needs to keep at the front of his mind for the next four years as Democrats repeatedly try to use conservatives' values against us.

00:20:48.900 That's the strategy they've been using for many years to great effect.

00:20:53.100 And they're going to keep on doing it.

00:20:54.680 So Trump just has to ignore them and say, you know, you were wielding your power to whatever extent you could to advance your agenda.

00:21:05.540 No, I'm going to do the same thing.

00:21:06.680 And you can cry about it all you want.

00:21:09.680 But now the Democrats have admitted that they have no values themselves.

00:21:13.920 There's no reason for Trump or any elected Republican to listen to a word they say.

00:21:17.380 And if most Americans come to that realization, then Hunter Biden's pardon will probably on balance be a net positive because it means that no family as corrupt and power hungry as the Bidens will ever control the White House again.

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00:22:18.640 All right, staying on the subject of family drama, the New York Times has just published what may be the most disgusting New York Times piece in at least the past day, at least.

00:22:30.820 As the smear campaign against Pete Hegseth continues, here's the latest headline.

00:22:36.860 The headline is,

00:22:37.420 Pete Hegseth's mother accused her son of mistreating women for years.

00:22:41.480 That's the headline.

00:22:44.100 And just based on that headline alone, and of course the Times knows that most people will only read the headline, you know, that's the point.

00:22:51.760 But based on that alone, it sounds like Hegseth's mom just came out against him publicly and denounced him.

00:22:58.660 That's what you, you know, if you're just looking at the headline, that's what you would think happened.

00:23:01.500 And if she had, you know, that would be legitimate news.

00:23:06.460 And you couldn't complain about the New York Times publishing an article about that.

00:23:10.080 But that's not what happened.

00:23:11.480 Let's read on.

00:23:12.500 The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character.

00:23:25.540 Quote, on behalf of all women, and I know it's many, you have abused in some way.

00:23:29.320 I say, get some help and take an honest look at yourself, Penelope Hegseth wrote, stating that she still loved him.

00:23:36.360 She also wrote, I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.

00:23:43.220 You are that man and have been for years.

00:23:45.280 And as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it's the sad, sad truth.

00:23:51.020 Okay.

00:23:51.680 So that was the email in 2018.

00:23:53.840 So six years ago.

00:23:54.520 Now, keep listening because here comes the key part.

00:24:01.420 New York Times writes,

00:24:03.240 Mrs. Hegseth, in a phone interview with the New York Times on Friday, said that she had sent her son an immediate follow-up email at the time apologizing for what she had written.

00:24:11.300 She said she had fired off the original email in anger with emotion at a time when he and his wife were going through a very difficult divorce.

00:24:16.900 In the interview, she defended her son and disavowed the sentiments she had expressed in the initial email about his character and treatment of women.

00:24:22.360 Then she said, quote, it's not true.

00:24:24.520 It has never been true.

00:24:25.760 I know my son.

00:24:26.460 He's a good father and husband.

00:24:28.800 She said that publishing the contents of the first email was, quote, disgusting.

00:24:34.020 Okay.

00:24:34.500 So what's going on here?

00:24:36.440 Well, the New York Times somehow got a hold of this private email that Hegseth's mom sent to him six years ago.

00:24:43.240 She didn't give them that email, obviously.

00:24:47.140 Pete Hegseth, we can assume, did not give them the email.

00:24:50.720 So someone else who had access to it did, and we don't know how that person had access to it, but someone else sent this email to the New York Times.

00:25:03.080 His mom, though, says that she apologized for it at the time.

00:25:06.220 She disavowed it at the time and now and made it clear that she didn't want them to publish it, and they did anyway.

00:25:14.360 Now, if you're in the news media and you wonder why people hate you so much, you wonder why the public has a higher opinion of cockroaches than of you,

00:25:26.960 it's because of stuff like this.

00:25:29.280 Publishing a private communication between a mother and her son, one that she has long since taken back and apologized for and doesn't want made public,

00:25:39.660 that is, it's just, it's just wrong, okay?

00:25:43.340 It's unethical.

00:25:44.420 It's despicable.

00:25:45.040 It's obviously not something the New York Times would ever, ever do if Hegseth was a Democrat.

00:25:53.460 And I know they don't care that, you know, I say that it's wrong, but just for the record, it's just wrong.

00:25:58.740 It's just the wrong thing to do.

00:26:00.060 It's morally wrong, obviously.

00:26:01.900 Now, all that said, now that we know that this email exists, even if we shouldn't know it, but now we do,

00:26:11.840 does it tell us something troubling about Pete Hegseth?

00:26:16.300 Should it change our opinion of him or of him being nominated for that position?

00:26:22.000 And I would say no for a couple of reasons.

00:26:23.640 First of all, you know, if we're going to take his mom's word for what sort of man Pete is, you know, if we're taking her testimony,

00:26:32.980 well, why would we take her word from that email in 2018 and not her word from the apology email or from what she's saying right now publicly?

00:26:40.980 And second, one of the reasons why publishing something like this is so sleazy is that obviously it's a single snapshot being ripped out of years and years of context, right?

00:26:57.180 We have no idea what was going on behind the scenes.

00:26:59.900 We have no idea what or who prompted his mom to say all that to begin with.

00:27:04.660 But all we do know is that people who love each other, people who are, you know, families, parents and children, spouses, siblings, et cetera,

00:27:14.480 they can sometimes say nasty things to each other.

00:27:19.020 It's this is not a revelation to anybody, to any human being who's lived a human life.

00:27:26.040 They can say nasty things to each other.

00:27:27.740 They can launch accusations that are untrue or only partly true or, you know, it's.

00:27:34.660 Out of context or whatever.

00:27:36.580 And then they can regret it and they can apologize.

00:27:39.240 Like this happens in families.

00:27:40.700 Families are messy.

00:27:44.760 And before you judge Pete for this, think about like, think about the worst thing.

00:27:53.300 That someone you love has ever said to you or about you.

00:27:59.920 Like the worst accusations they've ever, the worst characterizations they've ever made of you or of your behavior or, or, uh, or whatever it may be.

00:28:09.740 Just the absolute lowest moment.

00:28:13.520 What if someone were to eavesdrop on that and publish it in the paper the next day?

00:28:18.180 Right.

00:28:18.620 Um, you also probably have an email or two that you sent or that was sent to you that you wish you didn't send or you wish hadn't been sent to you.

00:28:29.520 We all know this.

00:28:31.740 Like, which is why you should never be quick to celebrate when something like this happens to somebody, even someone you don't like.

00:28:37.020 Like, of course, a lot of people on the left are posting this article and, you know, very happy about it.

00:28:44.020 Um, but we should all agree.

00:28:47.560 Just like for ethical and moral reasons, but even just basic self-interest.

00:28:56.300 We all have a self-interest in not setting precedents like this because we should all agree that private communications are off the table, off limits.

00:29:07.080 Um, they shouldn't be published.

00:29:10.200 They shouldn't be up for public discussion unless, unless they indicate that some kind of crime has been committed or, or something scandalous is going on that may have some kind of impact on the public, uh, beyond the people involved in the communication.

00:29:25.380 In, in, in that kind of scenario, you can justify it.

00:29:29.980 Oftentimes.

00:29:31.360 But beyond that, it should simply be off limits, period.

00:29:33.860 And I'm consistent on this, no matter who it is, uh, liberal, it doesn't matter.

00:29:42.840 Okay.

00:29:43.380 When you, when you tell me, oh, look at this private community.

00:29:45.360 I don't care.

00:29:45.820 I don't, I don't care.

00:29:47.600 Private communication, not my business.

00:29:50.640 I don't have, and even if I wanted to make judgments about it, I don't have nearly enough context to understand what that is.

00:29:57.480 You're, you're, you're looking at one email.

00:29:58.960 Well, it's one part of a dynamic and an exchange that, I mean, this is his mom.

00:30:04.460 So this is obviously there's, you're talking decades of history, clearly.

00:30:08.800 We don't know anything about any of that.

00:30:11.980 Um, and so it should just be off limits.

00:30:14.920 And, uh, and this communication would be in the off limits category because there's no direct accusation of a crime.

00:30:22.980 There's nothing, you know, uh, there's nothing scandal, nothing relevant to his job that he would have as the secretary of defense.

00:30:31.780 Um, and it's just, it's just scummy stuff.

00:30:35.300 And, like, we haven't even gotten into the confirmation process yet, officially.

00:30:40.300 And this is how ugly it is now.

00:30:43.420 It's like, just imagine what it's going to be a month or two from now.

00:30:47.660 All right, here's an interesting story from the New York Post.

00:30:49.920 It says, the lead singer of the rock band Life of Agony is detransitioning more than a decade after coming out as transgender.

00:30:56.420 Mina Caputo, 50, revealed that he'll be living a life as a male again, citing his gender dysphoria has been cured and announcing he's already started the process.

00:31:05.680 Uh, he said in a video, surgery has been booked to remove my fake breasts.

00:31:09.400 I'll be lovingly living in my divine male self.

00:31:13.040 Caputo was born Keith in December 1973 and began identifying as Mina in 2008.

00:31:17.820 Musician publicly came out as transgender in 2011.

00:31:20.860 He posted the announcement in response to his followers and began leaving comments about his appearance and claiming he looked like a man.

00:31:27.060 Uh, and he confirmed that he is, uh, well, he was always a man, but he said he's off, off, uh, hormones and he's going to get the surgery to reverse.

00:31:34.220 He's tried to reverse what has been done to him.

00:31:38.000 Um, now I've never heard of this band before.

00:31:41.040 That doesn't really matter.

00:31:41.880 The point isn't that this guy is super famous.

00:31:44.620 I don't, I don't think he is, but he is still part of the kind of anti-gender ideology avalanche that's happening right now.

00:31:51.180 And as more and more people come out against it, um, and he had some words to say, not just about his own experience, but also about how kids are getting wrapped up in this.

00:32:00.440 And, uh, let's, let's watch a clip of that.

00:32:04.300 Now, suddenly I'm anti-trans, um, because, um, I refuse to, I absolutely refuse to buy into the psychotic narrative that children need hormones and irreversible surgeries.

00:32:20.000 That's, that's the furthest thing from care in my eyes.

00:32:24.740 And I'm going to prove it to everyone.

00:32:27.080 I got about 60 books, 60 books that I have, that I've collected over the years before I came out.

00:32:34.100 It took me almost 30 years to come out.

00:32:37.740 I went to three years of gender therapy before any hormone was administered in my body. 0.85

00:32:44.640 Now, these days, people are just taking their little ones, little spirits.

00:32:49.020 Let me just tell you this, man.

00:32:50.580 You're robbing the, the, the right for your child when, when you're, you're, he or she grows up, when your child grows up, you, if you bring your child and put them on puberty blockers and irreversible surgeries and all this that's going on in this psychotic world,

00:33:11.460 you are literally stripping them, their rights, their adult rights to make decisions for themselves.

00:33:18.420 No child could consent.

00:33:19.980 And I'm just using as one example.

00:33:21.580 Now, my one friend's child, uh, who wanted to be a boy is back to being a girl. 0.98

00:33:28.800 She started playing drums again.

00:33:31.560 She's totally a tomboy. 1.00

00:33:33.400 She's in a softball league. 1.00

00:33:35.260 Now, just imagine bringing your little kid to, uh, and incorporating these irreparable changes in their life, these irreversible changes.

00:33:47.620 Then what?

00:33:48.500 What are you going to do, parents?

00:33:50.420 What are you going to do when your children come up to you five years later or ten years later and say,

00:33:55.320 Mommy, Daddy, why did you listen to me?

00:33:57.800 I was only a child.

00:33:59.180 Now, obviously, everything he's saying about kids is totally correct.

00:34:03.320 Uh, this is the point we've been making for many years now.

00:34:05.600 And we're going to start hearing a lot more stories like the one he talks about there.

00:34:12.040 Hopefully.

00:34:12.680 Because those are the, those are the stories with the happy endings.

00:34:15.800 The ones where the parents pull back from the trans path before it's too late, before they start the drugs and surgeries. 0.94

00:34:21.520 Um, and, and then they discover that, what do you know, their gender confused daughter is actually not even confused at all.

00:34:31.900 She's just really a tomboy who likes to play sports and whatever else. 1.00

00:34:35.940 And that's fine.

00:34:37.140 Uh, this has always been our point.

00:34:38.820 And this has always also been the irony, or at least something that might be mistaken for irony,

00:34:42.780 which is that those of us on the, quote unquote, conservative side of this issue actually have a much more, to use the left's phrase here, expansive.

00:34:52.280 We have a much more, if you, if you would like to say, gender expansive view, uh, than the other side.

00:35:00.020 Because we are the ones who will say that being a girl or being a boy doesn't put you in a tiny box

00:35:05.780 where there's only one set of behaviors, one set of interests, uh, one set of hobbies, one mode of being that is accepted.

00:35:15.500 You know, that's, that's, we're the ones saying there's, there's a lot of different ways to be a girl.

00:35:19.220 There's a lot of different ways to be a boy.

00:35:21.740 Um, some girls like girly stuff. 1.00

00:35:24.780 Many girls do, probably most, but some girls aren't into the dolls and the pink and all that.

00:35:29.280 And they prefer to go out and play baseball and whatever.

00:35:31.600 And that's all fine.

00:35:33.480 Um, some girls are, are kind of a, a mix of the two. 1.00

00:35:37.520 My, my 11 year old daughter is into ballet.

00:35:39.780 She, you know, she loves to bake very girly and in most ways. 1.00

00:35:44.080 But every time I go outside to play a football with my boys, she likes, she comes running out and wants to play too.

00:35:50.740 And actually she's got pretty good hands.

00:35:52.320 She, she, she makes, uh, some impressive catches I have to say. 0.98

00:35:55.000 And all that is fine.

00:35:56.080 You know, she's a girl who likes ballet and she also likes to play football with us. 0.79

00:35:59.720 Great.

00:36:00.040 Um, the point is that my wife and I don't look at that and then bring, break out the decoder ring to try and figure out if that makes her a girl or a boy or maybe non-binary.

00:36:14.580 No, there's not, there's nothing to even, it's, it's not confusing.

00:36:17.380 It's, there's, there's no, uh, equation here.

00:36:20.080 There's no calculus that she's a, she's a girl, but she's a girl who has interests and, uh, and, and has a certain personality.

00:36:28.100 And that's fine.

00:36:29.160 That's more than fine.

00:36:30.180 I think it's great.

00:36:31.440 It's who she is, uh, is what makes her unique and interesting.

00:36:35.900 And this is also, by the way, yet more evidence that, which is something that every parent knows or every parent should know that, that kids will tend to develop interests and a sense of identity based.

00:36:49.520 At least in part, in large part, on how the parents lead them.

00:36:54.520 So the real reason that my daughter wants to come out and play football with us is that I'm playing and I love football.

00:36:59.700 She wants to be a part of that because I'm her dad that, you know, that's obvious.

00:37:03.280 But what does that say about kids who develop an interest in being trans?

00:37:07.760 Well, often that's the child trying to participate in something that the parent is interested in, um, which is all the gender nonsense. 0.95

00:37:16.820 So it's a reflection of the parent.

00:37:18.160 But in any case, um, uh, you know, back to the point that this is the happy ending that we'll start seeing, I think, for a lot of kids.

00:37:28.360 And, uh, their parents will pull back from the gender craziness just in time before any physical harm has been done. 1.00

00:37:34.620 And the children will be allowed to just be boys and girls who have different interests and different personalities.

00:37:39.640 And that's it.

00:37:40.640 Now, of course, the tragedy is that it won't always be a happy ending.

00:37:45.560 Um, there will also be many sad endings, tragic endings where the parents pull back, uh, after the threshold has been crossed.

00:37:57.320 After they've charged past the Rubicon.

00:37:59.640 And now their children will have to deal with the lasting effects, the permanent effects forever.

00:38:06.380 That's the really sad and infuriating part.

00:38:08.620 And, um, uh, and it's also why simply rolling back gender ideology is not enough. 1.00

00:38:16.540 I mean, that's the start.

00:38:18.380 That's the start is to roll it back, ban these Frankenstein procedures, ban this abuse of kids. 0.93

00:38:25.760 All of that needs to happen first, but then there have to be punishments.

00:38:30.500 Justice has to be done to those who push this and cause this harm to children, because this is not, this is not a victimless crime.

00:38:39.240 Clearly.

00:38:40.900 And even after that, that's the thing we, we will, I think sooner than later live in a country.

00:38:47.720 Where a lot of this stuff as a culture is behind us, especially as it pertains to kids.

00:38:56.760 We, I think we will sooner than later live in a country where this, this stuff is just not happening to kids anymore.

00:39:01.580 Because it's, it's, it's a losing argument.

00:39:04.520 It's losing badly.

00:39:05.280 It's not sustainable as, as I've been saying now for months.

00:39:09.860 But.

00:39:10.340 The sad truth is that we might reach a point as a culture where we can say, okay, well that, that's, that's behind us now.

00:39:21.280 And it's, it's, it's, it'll, it'll become a bizarre, dark period in the history books that, that years from now people will read about and they'll be totally baffled by it.

00:39:33.300 They, they, they won't understand.

00:39:34.900 And those of us who lived through it still don't quite understand how this happened.

00:39:39.420 I mean, we, we could only have theories about how society lost its mind to this extent that it started doing this to kids.

00:39:49.220 But even when we reach a point, I think in the not too distant future where this stuff is behind us as a culture, it's, there are a lot of people who for them, it's never really going to be behind them.

00:40:05.040 They're going to have to live with it forever.

00:40:09.460 They're not going to have the option of just closing that chapter in the book and saying, well, that's over because things have been done to them that they're going to have to live with physically, emotionally, spiritually forever.

00:40:26.620 And that's, and that's also why we can't just move on.

00:40:31.780 Uh, there have to be punishments.

00:40:35.080 People have to be punished for this.

00:40:37.520 Um, I, one more thought about this.

00:40:40.820 I just, I was thinking about recently going back to this example of my daughter and how she'll participate in some of the more masculine things that's, uh, that, that I do and that her brothers do.

00:40:50.260 Um, I've often wondered if this is one of the reasons why gender dysphoria so-called is more common in girls than boys.

00:40:58.740 And there are, you know, as you know, it's, this, this, it has much more often been girls who have fallen into this, um, especially in adolescence.

00:41:10.600 And there are a lot of theories to explain that dynamic.

00:41:13.740 I've offered different theories through the years.

00:41:15.680 And I think that all the theories are true to some extent, you know, but it's not a one size fits all kind of answer.

00:41:22.500 And, uh, and there's, there's, there are many different answers, I think.

00:41:28.220 And there's an element of the issue that I've never heard anyone discuss before, or if they, if they have, I haven't heard it.

00:41:35.240 And that is that in my experience, and this is entirely anecdotal, I'll admit, but in my experience, girls are much more likely to want to participate in, you know, stereotypically masculine things like football, like whatever else.

00:41:47.300 And to adopt some stereotypically masculine interests than boys are to do the opposite, to adopt feminine interests and to want to participate in stereotypically feminine things.

00:42:02.980 And it's a, it's, it's much more common for girls, you know, for it to go that way with girls, but, but not, but not necessarily in the reverse for boys.

00:42:10.120 And that's not because all these girls are tomboys. 1.00

00:42:12.920 Um, my daughter is not, as I said, she's a very girly girl.

00:42:16.560 In almost every imaginable way, but she likes to, you know, go out and play football and that sort of thing.

00:42:21.180 She'll go out in the woods with us and shoot pellet guns. 1.00

00:42:23.420 Like, she likes to do that kind of stuff. 1.00

00:42:25.100 And this seems to be common for girls. 1.00

00:42:26.400 Almost any dad of girls that I've talked to will say something similar.

00:42:30.540 Um, and boys, again, in my experience, aren't usually like that in the reverse.

00:42:34.980 Um, my sons like all the typically boyish stuff.

00:42:39.000 They don't mix in any girly stuff at all.

00:42:43.020 They're, they're not interested at all in any of that.

00:42:45.340 Um, they're not going to go play with dolls occasionally or express any interest in ballet or what have you.

00:42:51.980 So it's pretty rare.

00:42:53.380 It's pretty rare to find a boy who say loves baseball and monster trucks and all that.

00:42:59.560 But then also is kind of interested in figure skating.

00:43:02.880 Um, that doesn't happen very often.

00:43:04.780 Girls seem much more likely to mix in some of the masculine interests than boys are to mix in some of the feminine interests.

00:43:12.260 And I think the reason for that is that girls are more social, the more communal by nature. 1.00

00:43:17.180 So they're much more likely to become interested in the things that the people around them and close to them are interested in for the sake of socializing and bonding with those people.

00:43:27.260 Like the fact that someone close to them loves something makes them love it too.

00:43:33.360 Um, and, and not just, not just as a put on, not as a show, but they, they actually are interested in it.

00:43:39.380 Um, I remember once, for instance, being over at my in-laws and, uh, they're big hockey fans and they were watching hockey.

00:43:46.560 And my wife was watching it too and getting really, really into it, like really into it, really emotionally invested in this hockey match or hockey game, hockey match.

00:43:57.820 And we never watched hockey at all.

00:43:59.440 We're not hockey fans at all.

00:44:00.440 Never watched it one time, no interest.

00:44:02.880 But for a couple of hours on that particular day, my wife was truly invested in it, truly interested because her family was, and it was a communal experience.

00:44:12.320 Um, now on the other hand, I'm not interested in hockey.

00:44:15.420 So I just went off and did my own thing because I don't care.

00:44:18.160 I'm not, I'm not going to suddenly care about it because other people do.

00:44:21.020 I think that's how men usually are.

00:44:22.640 We like what we like.

00:44:23.500 We're interested in what we're interested in.

00:44:25.160 It doesn't matter who else shares that interest or wants to participate in it.

00:44:28.420 It doesn't, doesn't really matter to us.

00:44:30.820 And I think this could partly explain why girls are more likely to exhibit, you know, in these kinds of moments, these so-called masculine tendencies, which, which are then misinterpreted or have been misinterpreted by crazy people.

00:44:44.320 And abusive people to be a symptom of gender dysphoria and a sign that the girl is transgender or whatever.

00:44:51.980 Boys are less likely to exhibit those kinds of signs, those signs, because they tend to stick with what they like. 0.53

00:44:58.580 And they're less prone to change or adapt for the sake of being communal or, you know, bonding with people or what have you.

00:45:05.340 Um, which is just adds to the tragedy because that, that is a positive sort of attribute of, of, of being a girl and being a woman. 0.92

00:45:15.380 Uh, this wanting to be communal with other people and, and adapting their interests, you know, that's, that's a good thing.

00:45:22.780 It's a positive thing, but it's been twisted against them, uh, by these gender ideologues. 0.96

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00:46:16.360 For our Daily Cancellation today, we return to the viral YouTube series called Surrounded, produced by Jubilee.

00:46:21.620 When we last checked in with this series, Ben Shapiro was facing down a ragtag collection of blue-haired leftists.

00:46:27.620 They didn't all actually have blue hair. In fact, I think none of them did.

00:46:30.060 But blue hair at this point is as much a spiritual state as a physical one.

00:46:34.320 In any case, it was not a fair fight. All the blue hairs took turns embarrassing themselves, as you would expect. 1.00

00:46:40.200 Now, it turns out that Pete Buttigieg, our soon former transportation secretary, did his own Surrounded episode a day before the election.

00:46:47.720 Buttigieg was surrounded by 25 alleged undecided voters, and his task was to defend Kamala's policies against their extremely softball questions and challenges.

00:47:00.560 Apparently, he didn't do a great job because Kamala went on to get totally demolished the very next day, as you probably recall.

00:47:06.240 I don't think that was entirely the fault of Buttigieg's poor performance in this video.

00:47:10.880 He's likely only about 80% to blame.

00:47:12.780 But there's one clip that, several weeks later, is just now going viral.

00:47:17.980 Leftists on Twitter are passing it around with glowing praise for Buttigieg.

00:47:21.700 They think one answer in particular was so brilliant and so incisive and so profound that it points the way forward for the Democratic Party in the future.

00:47:33.820 Somebody named Micah Erfan initially posted a clip.

00:47:36.340 It got 15,000 likes, almost 4 million views.

00:47:38.500 He adds this caption.

00:47:40.160 He says, quote,

00:47:40.640 Now, somebody else agrees with a tweet that garnered 23,000 likes.

00:47:50.320 They add,

00:47:51.400 Most of the Jubilee Surrounded videos are frustrating to get through for me.

00:47:54.960 The Pete Buttigieg episode is their best so far.

00:47:57.560 The voters are challenging him, and the conversation is substantial.

00:48:00.720 This is a clip from the discussion on lowering crime rates.

00:48:03.880 So this is a high praise indeed.

00:48:06.440 I mean, it's the highest imaginable praise.

00:48:08.040 Because apparently what Buttigieg says here about lowering crime rates is so tremendous

00:48:13.020 that it would win the support of a majority of voters in every state in the country.

00:48:19.360 This man's talents have apparently been wasted on the Transportation Department for the past four years.

00:48:24.160 He could have been working on eliminating crime.

00:48:26.800 He couldn't make the trains run on time or even stay on the tracks, but he can solve the problem of crime.

00:48:32.720 And here's how he plans to do it.

00:48:34.740 Watch.

00:48:35.940 This might sound a little weird.

00:48:37.160 But the water infrastructure.

00:48:40.740 So there's actually very direct research that shows that if you have more kids exposed to lead,

00:48:46.440 you run the clock out 15 years, you'll see higher crime rates.

00:48:49.720 Because the developmental issues that they experience through lead poisoning lead them to be more likely to be justice involved.

00:48:55.960 There's like a hugely strong correlation.

00:48:57.580 So replacing all the lead pipes as not sexy, I think is actually one of the best things we can do that will lead to a safer society and less crime.

00:49:07.240 Granted, that's not something you're seeing in the data, like, you know, from one year to the next year.

00:49:12.080 But I do think, you know, by the time my kids are entering the workforce, like that will have had a big impact.

00:49:17.220 So these are things piece by piece that you think about when you come into office and get up every day trying to make other people better off.

00:49:25.620 And that's what I think she does.

00:49:26.940 That's what I know she does, because I know her.

00:49:28.600 And that's not what I believe he does.

00:49:29.900 And that's why I think it's really important not just to not vote for him, but to vote for her.

00:49:33.180 OK, that's the end of this claim.

00:49:35.900 Please return to your seat.

00:49:38.320 OK, so Buttigieg says that the way to reduce violent crime is to get rid of lead pipes, which, by the way, have been banned for use in residential plumbing since the year I was born.

00:49:50.340 Is there possibly some theoretical indirect link between lead poisoning and a greater propensity to commit violent crimes?

00:49:57.400 Maybe. Is this a major factor to consider when explaining crime rates or figuring out how to reduce them?

00:50:03.440 Almost certainly not.

00:50:05.220 In fact, there was an analysis, as I discovered when I looked this up, there was an analysis of over 20 studies published a couple of years ago on this topic that found exactly this.

00:50:17.040 According to the analysis, there may be some sort of correlation between getting rid of lead pipes and reducing crime rates, but it is likely not a significant factor.

00:50:25.560 Especially now, considering that lead pipes haven't been used in homes since 1986.

00:50:31.820 Yet, in spite of the fact that the link is not significant and also not relevant in the modern age, still it's the only tangible thing Buttigieg mentions in the clip to explain violent crime.

00:50:44.260 Now, this was part of a slightly longer conversation about violent crime and how to reduce it.

00:50:49.180 Before this detour into lead pipes, he mentions gun control and then also legalizing marijuana.

00:50:56.520 So those are the three things.

00:50:58.320 When explaining how do we get rid of violent crime or reduce it, he says, well, we got to get rid of lead pipes, gun control, and legalize marijuana.

00:51:07.100 Those are the three things he says.

00:51:10.120 Somehow, he completely misses by far the two biggest and most obvious factors.

00:51:15.380 He makes it to lead pipes before saying a single thing about either of the two major overriding factors.

00:51:25.340 So he never says that we can decrease violent crime by arresting violent criminals, putting them in prison, and keeping them there.

00:51:33.500 And he never says that the number of violent criminals can be drastically reduced if fathers get married to the women who birthed their children and then stay married to them.

00:51:44.260 Those two simple steps could rescue every community in the country from the grip of the violent crime epidemic.

00:51:53.380 Now, they're not going to eliminate all crime.

00:51:55.960 Nothing can eliminate all crime save the return of Christ and the end of days.

00:51:59.800 But it could make every single neighborhood in the country safe and livable.

00:52:06.680 It's close to a utopian vision as you can get.

00:52:11.680 You know, it's just fathers, have kids, stay home.

00:52:19.320 And also, if people commit crimes, put them in jail and keep them there.

00:52:22.960 Do those two simple things in every community in the country.

00:52:25.760 Every community becomes at least livable.

00:52:30.360 Nothing else comes close to that.

00:52:32.920 And yet, Buttigieg, one of the great minds on the left, or so we're told, doesn't think to mention either of those things.

00:52:39.100 He has more to say about lead pipes causing crime than he does about fatherless homes causing crimes.

00:52:45.980 Well, here's a question, Pete.

00:52:48.040 What if a child grows up in a home with no lead pipes, as the majority of children do now,

00:52:54.560 and in a city that already has strict gun laws and already has legalized marijuana?

00:53:01.240 And that describes the vast majority of kids right now.

00:53:04.080 What if he, like thousands of other kids in that exact situation, still goes on to become a violent criminal?

00:53:13.260 How do you explain that?

00:53:15.740 Could it be the total lack of male authority and moral formation in the home?

00:53:21.000 Could it be the refusal to strongly disincentivize crime by harshly punishing it?

00:53:26.200 Could that be it?

00:53:27.160 Now, despite what delusional leftists on Twitter might think,

00:53:33.040 an answer to violent crime that studiously avoids the major factors that actually lead to violent crime

00:53:39.120 will not resonate with most voters.

00:53:42.960 Although, actually, most voters won't even hear the whole answer

00:53:46.380 because they will have already instinctively and rightfully tuned out

00:53:49.740 the moment they hear Buttigieg drop the term justice-involved, as you just heard him say.

00:53:56.740 In fact, we could ignore everything else he said and just focus on that alone.

00:54:02.900 That is, in essence, the reason why Democrats just got demolished at the polls.

00:54:07.260 Not this specific answer from Buttigieg or anything that Buttigieg himself has said or done,

00:54:11.280 given that he's irrelevant and most voters don't know who he is.

00:54:14.380 Rather, it's the fact that Democrats and only Democrats use terms like justice-involved

00:54:22.160 instead of saying criminals, which is what that euphemism means.

00:54:25.820 This is why most Americans are done with the Democrat Party.

00:54:28.800 It's because they're done with leaders who speak a language that no human being actually speaks.

00:54:35.700 They're done with people who refuse to address these issues plainly in English

00:54:40.020 while offering solutions that are sensible and grounded in reality.

00:54:44.380 No person in their daily life, outside of Democratic politics or left-wing universities,

00:54:51.600 would ever use the term justice-involved to talk about a criminal,

00:54:56.760 just like they would never use the term latinx or microaggression or cisgender and so on.

00:55:02.940 And this is, at bottom, the problem for the Democrats.

00:55:07.940 They live in a different universe.

00:55:10.760 And they speak like it, too.

00:55:12.320 And, you know, voters have very minimal requirements of their leaders at this point.

00:55:19.580 The standards are really low.

00:55:21.940 But one of them is that their leaders should live in the same galaxy, at least.

00:55:27.680 Preferably the same planet.

00:55:29.580 Same country would be best of all.

00:55:32.440 Most Democrat politicians cannot clear that bar.

00:55:36.420 Pete Buttigieg certainly can't.

00:55:38.160 And that is why he is today canceled.

00:55:42.240 That'll do it for the show today.

00:55:42.960 Thanks for watching.

00:55:43.460 Thanks for listening.

00:55:44.060 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:55:45.140 Have a great day.

00:55:46.100 Godspeed.

00:55:46.420 Godspeed.

00:55:50.100 Godspeed.

00:55:59.320 Doo, Godspeed. 0.88

00:55:59.600 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 02, 2024

Ep. 1496 - The Sweeping Pardon That Exposed Biden’s Corruption Once And For All

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