The Matt Walsh Show - December 10, 2024


Ep. 1502 - Is This The End Of The BLM Era？


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58 minutes

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172.51762

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10,007

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732

Misogynist Sentences

10

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26


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, BLM agitators call for riots and vigilantism in the wake of the Daniel Penny verdict.
00:00:05.560 None of that has happened so far. Is this a sign that the BLM era is officially over?
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00:02:50.180 When the jury voted to acquit Daniel Penny yesterday morning, we can be pretty sure that their verdict came as a pretty big shock to Alvin Bragg and Daphna Yorin and the rest of the Manhattan DA's office.
00:03:02.020 That's because on Friday, just a few days ago, as we talked about yesterday, the jury announced that it couldn't come to a unanimous verdict on count one, which is manslaughter.
00:03:10.760 That meant that at least one juror was committed to voting guilty on the most serious charge.
00:03:16.260 Nothing could change that juror's mind, supposedly. That's why they couldn't come to an agreement.
00:03:20.200 Now, logically speaking, that meant that there was no conceivable way that the jury would ever vote unanimously to acquit Daniel Penny on count two, which was criminally negligent homicide.
00:03:30.760 After all, count two was a lesser included charge.
00:03:33.740 It's not possible that Penny could have committed manslaughter without also being criminally negligent as well.
00:03:39.740 So if at least one juror was sure that Penny committed manslaughter, then, of course, that juror would also be sure that Penny was criminally negligent.
00:03:47.100 That's the logic the prosecutors were using on Friday when they petitioned the judge to dismiss count one and send the jury back to consider count two by itself.
00:03:55.060 It was unconstitutional. It was unethical.
00:03:57.320 And they did it because they didn't think it was possible that an acquittal would result.
00:04:01.000 They didn't imagine that their scheme would backfire spectacularly because a juror or multiple jurors would change their mind from guilty to not guilty.
00:04:10.680 But, of course, that's what happened on Monday.
00:04:12.720 We don't know why that happened.
00:04:14.420 It could be that the juror who was in favor of convicting Penny realized after the stunt the prosecutors pulled on Friday that Penny was being railroaded.
00:04:21.760 Maybe the juror was bored and wanted to go home.
00:04:23.840 I mean, who knows?
00:04:24.360 The end result was that a jury of 12 people, mostly consisting of women in one of the most left-wing cities in the entire country, voted to acquit Daniel Penny.
00:04:33.300 They totally and unequivocally rejected the lie that BLM and the media had been pushing for more than a year about this case.
00:04:39.740 Now, for their part, BLM doesn't appear to be deterred by this development.
00:04:44.460 Here, for example, is Siobhona Newsom, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York.
00:04:49.400 And she went off on a predictable anti-white tirade after the verdict.
00:04:53.800 Watch.
00:04:55.360 C-H-I-V-O-N-A, N-E-W-S-O-M-E.
00:04:59.280 I'm the co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York.
00:05:02.260 And I'm a devout Christian.
00:05:04.280 And in my Bible, thou shall not kill.
00:05:06.980 In the Torah, thou shall not kill.
00:05:10.040 In Buddhism, not kill a living thing.
00:05:13.300 There is no one coming to save black people.
00:05:15.740 Or else we wouldn't live in these ghettos.
00:05:17.680 We wouldn't be in these prisons.
00:05:19.160 And we will be further along than we are.
00:05:22.660 We wouldn't be at the absolute bottom.
00:05:25.540 So forgive me for being jaded and cynical.
00:05:27.780 But once we saw those non-white jurors, we knew that this case was over.
00:05:32.040 Nine of them.
00:05:32.760 Non-white jurors.
00:05:34.280 The only crime that Jordan Neely was guilty of was the color of his skin.
00:05:38.860 Come on.
00:05:39.280 But luckily for Daniel Penny, his skin was not like Jordan's.
00:05:43.240 Because you honestly wouldn't have seen our face.
00:05:46.140 The NYPD would have arrested him after three hours.
00:05:49.820 The justice system would have found him guilty.
00:05:52.580 And shame on this jury.
00:05:54.720 Because to be real, they didn't even try.
00:05:57.400 Once the lesser charge was removed, they came back an hour later and said it was deadlock.
00:06:01.980 Less than an hour and 20 minutes later, they said not guilty.
00:06:06.600 These wonderful white people, I hope they celebrate their Christmas while the Neely family is praying and asking God for comfort.
00:06:14.960 Damn them.
00:06:16.240 And damn America.
00:06:17.260 So the only crime Neely committed was being black.
00:06:23.920 No, there were actual crimes.
00:06:26.480 He committed a lot of crimes, actually, as a queer criminal.
00:06:29.120 And even on the train that day.
00:06:31.740 Actually shouting that you're going to kill people on a train is a crime.
00:06:35.560 Threatening to kill people in public, that's a crime.
00:06:38.460 So there's one.
00:06:40.260 But there is one line that really stands out amid that sea of overt race hatred that we just heard.
00:06:46.320 And that was when she said, quote, there's no one coming to save black people.
00:06:53.340 And yeah, I mean, right.
00:06:56.700 That's true.
00:06:58.620 That's right, Shavonna.
00:07:00.220 I'm glad you're finally starting to catch on.
00:07:03.660 There's no one coming to save black people.
00:07:05.860 Absolutely.
00:07:06.800 There's no one coming to save anyone.
00:07:10.460 Okay, because people are responsible for themselves.
00:07:14.660 That's how life works.
00:07:16.600 Shavonna.
00:07:18.240 Black people need to save themselves, take care of themselves, take care of their own community.
00:07:22.740 Same for people of all other races.
00:07:24.740 That's what it means to be an adult in a free country.
00:07:26.960 So if you're a black person living in a ghetto, as she just said, you can move.
00:07:33.740 I mean, you can move to a better community.
00:07:36.240 You could even better.
00:07:37.160 You could work to clean up your own community with the people in your community.
00:07:41.340 You could do that.
00:07:42.340 Instead of sitting around waiting, why isn't anyone saving us?
00:07:46.840 That's not the way it works.
00:07:49.840 You're an adult.
00:07:50.800 Act like it.
00:07:51.420 Now, of course, in this case, Jordan Neely was given taxpayer-funded housing and health care at a treatment facility in the Bronx after he admitted to punching a 67-year-old woman.
00:08:03.860 Prosecutors set him up with all that wonderful stuff instead of throwing him in prison.
00:08:08.640 He abandoned the facility in less than two weeks and shortly afterwards began harassing people on Daniel Penny's train.
00:08:14.240 And the rest, as they say, is history.
00:08:18.520 And so is Jordan Neely at this point.
00:08:20.620 So in this particular instance, people did try to save Jordan Neely.
00:08:26.080 And he thanked the community for its efforts by threatening to kill them all.
00:08:31.100 Okay?
00:08:32.340 But as we all know, preaching the virtues of personal responsibility isn't the best way to secure handouts in the grievance industry.
00:08:38.080 So instead of doing that, Siobhan Newsom decides to attack the jury.
00:08:41.660 She basically says they're all white supremacists.
00:08:44.240 But the racial argument doesn't even come close to making sense here because the jury wasn't all white, as she admits.
00:08:49.280 There was a black person, an Asian person, a Middle Eastern person on the jury.
00:08:52.880 There was a guy wearing a COVID mask the entire time.
00:08:56.140 And somehow the prosecutors couldn't even convince that guy to convict Daniel Penny.
00:09:01.020 So if white supremacy is to blame here, it's a very strange, multiracial, multicolored kind of rainbow white supremacy that we're dealing with.
00:09:10.800 Now, for his part, washed up former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hassan did his best to contribute to the same narrative.
00:09:17.900 He wrote, quote,
00:09:19.220 Imagine, imagine, just imagine if Jordan Neely had been white and Daniel Penny was black.
00:09:25.480 Imagine what some of the folks defending Penny today would be saying.
00:09:28.120 Imagine, just imagine.
00:09:31.000 Well, turns out we don't have to imagine this scenario, Mehdi.
00:09:36.280 As an editor for Redux pointed out, last year, just a day before Daniel Penny was indicted, a black man named Jordan Williams stabbed a violent homeless man to death on a Brooklyn train.
00:09:49.980 Now, the homeless man punched Williams' girlfriend and threatened other passengers before Williams eliminated the threat.
00:09:55.040 Now, it's a very similar situation to the Daniel Penny case.
00:10:00.880 Now, you could say, well, it's different because in this case, he punched someone.
00:10:05.680 True, but he was also threatening.
00:10:08.180 But then on the other side of it, Jordan Williams actually stabbed the guy.
00:10:12.280 Okay, took out a knife and stabbed him.
00:10:15.340 So it all balances out to be, you know, basically the same sort of thing.
00:10:19.180 And what happened there?
00:10:21.520 Well, there was no need for anybody on the right to rally behind Jordan Williams because he was never indicted.
00:10:27.040 The DA didn't pursue political charges in a transparent attempt to ruin his life.
00:10:31.660 He's a free man.
00:10:33.040 He's been a free man ever since the grand jury refused to indict.
00:10:37.240 So this is something that's reserved, kind of treatment that's reserved for white defendants like Daniel Penny, which is why we rally behind Daniel Penny.
00:10:46.080 Now, of course, Mehdi Hassan doesn't care about any of this.
00:10:48.680 Neither does Jordan Williams, by the way.
00:10:51.460 Jordan Williams himself, the guy that, you know, stabbed the dude on the subway, he recently called for the jury to convict Daniel Penny of manslaughter.
00:11:00.240 He also claimed that Penny had attacked, quote, random people for no reason.
00:11:06.740 Now, just to reiterate, a guy who did the same thing as Daniel Penny publicly called for Daniel Penny to be prosecuted and convicted.
00:11:16.180 Why did he say that?
00:11:17.280 Well, obviously, because Penny is white.
00:11:20.500 You know, because what Mehdi Hassan is talking about, of course, we all know, the reverse is true.
00:11:25.820 OK, we there were no conservatives saying that Jordan Williams should be thrown in jail.
00:11:31.660 Who said that?
00:11:32.640 Find me one conservative who said that Jordan Williams, the black guy who stabbed the homeless guy.
00:11:36.280 Who said he should go?
00:11:37.620 None of us said that.
00:11:38.960 We're all quite happy that he's not in jail.
00:11:40.620 Even if he is like a kind of a traitorous scumbag who turned turned around and tried to throw Penny under the bus.
00:11:48.780 But still, no, it's the reverse is true that if Penny is black, you people don't care.
00:11:56.780 And we know that because none of them are marching in the street calling for Jordan Williams to be thrown in jail.
00:12:03.920 So these people are just blindly repeating the narrative to agitate, you know, and because historically that's all they've had to do.
00:12:12.740 And that has been BLM strategy for the past decade or so.
00:12:16.060 As we know, they recite some form of lazy anti-white race hatred based on lies.
00:12:20.400 And then the mobs start rioting.
00:12:23.500 That's generally how it's gone.
00:12:25.420 But this time around, you know, it's been kind of interesting because that hasn't really happened.
00:12:31.640 There have been no riots in New York over this verdict.
00:12:34.480 And it doesn't look like there's going to be any.
00:12:36.520 There were some protests last night, but they were, by historical standards, very small and subdued.
00:12:43.140 One might even say low energy.
00:12:45.360 You get the sense that yesterday morning, BLM activists knew that they weren't going to get a especially fiery response from the mob.
00:12:52.100 So Hawk Newsom, the brother of Siobhan Newsom and the other co-founder of Black Lives Matter Greater New York,
00:12:57.620 had to come out and explicitly call for vigilantes to rise up.
00:13:01.320 This is a bit like watching a movie and the director is worried that you're not going to get the subtext.
00:13:06.680 So they just come right out and tell you what they're trying to get you to do.
00:13:10.560 And it's just as sort of embarrassing and on the nose in this case.
00:13:14.840 Watch.
00:13:16.360 It's like everybody else has vigilantes.
00:13:20.460 We need some black vigilantes.
00:13:23.580 That's right.
00:13:23.900 People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud.
00:13:32.580 How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?
00:13:37.340 Right.
00:13:38.160 I'm tired.
00:13:39.100 I'm tired.
00:13:39.800 I know you're looking for us to be like, oh, go and march.
00:13:43.600 Go and march.
00:13:44.360 No.
00:13:44.540 Now, of course, what's funny is that Siobhan, I guess his brother had just been up there saying,
00:14:12.680 thou shall not kill the Bible.
00:14:14.300 I'm a Christian and I don't believe in killing.
00:14:17.060 And then a brother gets up there and says, kill the white people.
00:14:19.380 Kill them.
00:14:19.880 And you hear Siobhan up.
00:14:20.720 That's right.
00:14:21.360 Yep.
00:14:22.080 Yep.
00:14:22.880 That's right.
00:14:23.580 Amen to that.
00:14:25.420 It's just you can only laugh at it because these people are just no credibility.
00:14:30.120 Not even trying to appear to have any integrity whatsoever.
00:14:34.040 Now, as uninspiring and desperate as all this is, it's important to keep in mind that this ordeal isn't over for Daniel Penny.
00:14:41.660 He's been acquitted of the criminal charges, but Jordan Neely's family is still suing him for negligence.
00:14:46.220 So they're going to try to bankrupt him and profit as much as they can.
00:14:51.940 To that end, yesterday, Neely's father appeared in public in an attempt to garner some sympathy for himself.
00:14:59.600 And listen to what he said.
00:15:01.780 I just want to say I miss my son.
00:15:05.980 My son didn't have to go through this.
00:15:07.540 I didn't have to go through this either.
00:15:12.080 It hurts.
00:15:14.540 Really, really hurts.
00:15:17.760 What are we going to do, people?
00:15:20.700 What's going to happen to us now?
00:15:22.160 I had enough of this.
00:15:28.280 The system is rigged.
00:15:29.780 Mm-hmm.
00:15:33.400 Come on, people.
00:15:37.260 Let's do something about this.
00:15:38.900 Now, Neely's father implores the crowd to do something about this alleged injustice that his family has supposedly endured.
00:15:50.260 And that's an interesting way of phrasing it.
00:15:54.080 As Neely's father, you know, he could have done something about it by raising his son.
00:16:01.380 Rather than abandoning him for his whole childhood, only to surface when he stands to make millions of dollars.
00:16:08.760 Somehow, Neely's father never gets around to explaining why he only cares about his son now, now that he's dead.
00:16:16.460 I mean, even calling him Neely's father at all is vastly overstating the case.
00:16:21.040 He's more like a glorified sperm donor.
00:16:22.800 And now he shows up, you know, pretending to weep.
00:16:29.200 Now, at this point, it's not really necessary for me to go any further.
00:16:31.800 The BLM activists have discredited themselves to such a degree that Manhattan juries don't believe a word they say.
00:16:37.360 Every side of the political spectrum understands that BLM is fundamentally an anti-human, anti-civilization, anti-white movement.
00:16:44.160 And pretty much everyone is now roundly rejecting it.
00:16:46.660 That's why Daniel Penny was acquitted.
00:16:49.100 And it's why there are no riots.
00:16:50.300 At the same time, just because the BLM era is ending, which it is, that doesn't mean that everybody's on board with the rule of law and with a stable, properly ordered society.
00:17:03.840 In fact, the opposite is true.
00:17:06.520 The aftermath of the assassination of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, makes that pretty clear.
00:17:12.680 Now, when I talked about the killing last week, I explained why ghouls on the left, like Taylor Lorenz and Columbia University professors, were celebrating Thompson's murder while mourning the death of Neely.
00:17:24.260 And in their worldview, you know, Brian Thompson deserves to die because he's white and rich and powerful.
00:17:29.860 Like, for them, that's really the only reason.
00:17:32.340 It's actually got nothing to do with health care.
00:17:33.860 They don't even care about that.
00:17:34.940 But Jordan Neely, as a black career criminal, should be celebrated as a hero.
00:17:40.220 This is the way they look at it.
00:17:41.180 This is an ideology that reveres the least productive members of society while calling for the public executions of men who are actually earning a living and providing for their families, at the very least.
00:17:52.520 It's an anti-white, anti-human ideology, and it must be rejected.
00:17:56.460 Now, in response to my monologue, many people wrote in with negative responses in, you know, the comments on YouTube and so on.
00:18:06.320 And apparently, somebody at Newsweek noticed this, and they wrote a whole article about it.
00:18:10.140 I guess it was a slow Newsweek over at Newsweek.
00:18:12.540 And there are some pretty comical paragraphs in this Newsweek article, too, which is what you'd expect from an article that's devoted to a YouTube comment section.
00:18:20.420 So, for example, here's one paragraph.
00:18:22.240 Quote,
00:18:22.400 Commentators like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh are being told by their supporters that they've got it wrong when it comes to Thompson's murder.
00:18:28.640 At least three users expressed to Walsh that even though they agree with a lot of his opinions, he was dead wrong on this one.
00:18:35.360 Yes, at least three users expressed to Walsh that I was dead wrong on this one.
00:18:40.460 At least three.
00:18:42.860 Not a maximum of three.
00:18:44.260 At least.
00:18:45.160 At least three.
00:18:46.440 Now, the actual number of people who disagreed with me, you know, in fact, it's even higher.
00:18:52.400 And that, I guess Newsweek is still looking into the matter.
00:18:55.180 But I'll save them some trouble.
00:18:56.620 Because, indeed, there were slightly more than three comments that were critical.
00:19:01.580 There were a lot of comments.
00:19:03.720 Here's one of them, which Newsweek quoted.
00:19:05.880 This is pretty representative, I think, of the overall response.
00:19:08.980 Quote, and this, by the way, is a response to me simply saying that it's bad to murder people.
00:19:13.680 Like, first-degree murder in the street is bad.
00:19:16.860 That was my provocative case that I was making.
00:19:21.620 So here's what someone said.
00:19:23.320 Quote, the fact that Matt is trying to paint this as a left-wing issue when there's clearly bipartisan celebrations going on just goes to show how out-of-touch celebrities are, whether on the right or left, with regular, everyday, ordinary people.
00:19:35.340 So the contention is that I'm wrong to rail against leftists for celebrating the public execution of a CEO.
00:19:42.860 Because, in fact, people all over the political spectrum are celebrating this execution.
00:19:47.840 And supposedly, regular, ordinary people on the right disagree with me.
00:19:51.540 Now, let me address this as directly as I can.
00:19:57.380 And as I said yesterday on X, if you are a conservative expressing any sympathy with leftists who are celebrating the murder of a businessman by some mentally deranged loser, then you're not a conservative.
00:20:13.000 And I say that because we stand for law and justice and a stable, properly ordered society.
00:20:25.520 If we don't stand for that, we don't stand for anything that matters.
00:20:29.320 If we don't, at a minimum, believe that, then nothing matters.
00:20:34.340 It's like, let's just give up at that point.
00:20:36.640 Now, leftists want the opposite of all of that, okay, which is why murder and mayhem in the street fills these sickos with orgasmic glee.
00:20:47.840 If you're on the right and you find yourself even slightly siding with a crazy wench like Taylor Lorenz on this issue or any issue, it should tell you something pretty troubling about yourself.
00:21:00.660 And it tells the rest of us something, too.
00:21:02.440 Now, that's not to say that the UnitedHealthcare, that UnitedHealthcare is blameless.
00:21:07.840 It's not to say that healthcare in this country can't be improved.
00:21:11.320 I made all that clear on Friday.
00:21:13.900 At the same time, the fact remains that UnitedHealthcare doesn't have particularly large profit margins, and they exist in a competitive marketplace with many other big insurance companies, all of which compete to cover claims without greenlighting every single expense that doctors want to charge.
00:21:27.540 It's not the ideal process, but it has to occur under our current system, or else healthcare costs go higher, insurance companies go bankrupt, and then no one's able to get any coverage.
00:21:40.880 This, right now, is our alternative to a far more dysfunctional state-run system like Canada's, which now regularly murders its own patients to avoid having to pay for their care.
00:21:54.900 Okay, so that's what we're balancing here.
00:21:57.040 It's a complicated thing.
00:21:58.380 And plenty of valid criticisms can be made against the insurance company.
00:22:05.500 No one is denying that for even a second.
00:22:08.320 So any problems with healthcare access and coverage in this country, and there are obviously problems, can't be boiled down to this one company.
00:22:17.760 It's a larger issue that is not addressed at all by killing the CEO of this company or any company.
00:22:23.880 But the important point is that even if shooting Brian Thompson in the back would make UnitedHealthcare somehow operate more efficiently and ethically, which it won't, it would still be a great moral evil to kill him.
00:22:38.280 If anything distinguishes the right from the left, it's principles like this.
00:22:42.040 We don't settle policy debates like Bolsheviks.
00:22:45.300 Once you start down this path, then civilization collapses.
00:22:50.700 Every time.
00:22:51.540 Show me the example of when they started killing people on the street.
00:22:55.840 Let's go kill all the rich people.
00:22:57.080 Show me an example where that led to something good, especially from a conservative perspective.
00:23:00.900 Show me the part where that's the beginning of a good thing.
00:23:05.400 That's why the left is so thrilled about Brian Thompson's execution.
00:23:08.160 It's why Taylor Lorenz is now giving television interviews where she's giddy.
00:23:12.100 I mean, she's overcome with joy at the murder of a father and husband.
00:23:19.200 Watch.
00:23:19.300 I do believe in the sanctity of life.
00:23:22.660 And I think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately, you know, because it feels like.
00:23:30.500 Serious?
00:23:31.000 I mean.
00:23:31.960 Joy in a man's execution?
00:23:33.600 Maybe not joy, but certainly not.
00:23:35.420 No, certainly not empathy.
00:23:37.780 Because, again.
00:23:38.280 We're watching the footage.
00:23:39.120 How can this make you joyful?
00:23:41.620 This guy's a husband.
00:23:43.040 He's a father.
00:23:44.580 And he's being young down in the middle of Manhattan.
00:23:46.820 Why does that make you joyful?
00:23:48.220 So are the tens of thousands of Americans that are being murdered.
00:23:49.520 So are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people.
00:24:03.300 And the many millions of Americans that have watched people that I care about suffer and, in some cases, die because of lack of health care.
00:24:11.360 So should they all be killed, then?
00:24:12.760 Should they all be killed, these health care executives?
00:24:14.980 Would that make you even more joyful?
00:24:17.500 No, that would not.
00:24:18.900 But why not?
00:24:20.160 Why are you laughing?
00:24:21.140 I think because.
00:24:23.300 Here is.
00:24:24.000 Because it doesn't.
00:24:24.800 It wouldn't fix the system.
00:24:25.260 You seem to find the whole thing hilarious.
00:24:27.580 I find your question funny.
00:24:29.600 A bloke's being murdered in the street.
00:24:30.900 I don't find it funny at all.
00:24:32.640 I don't find it funny that tens of thousands of Americans die every year.
00:24:36.160 Yeah, I mean, I don't know what else to say other than, and I really don't care how many negative comments on YouTube or, you're out of touch.
00:24:46.280 I really don't care.
00:24:47.500 I mean, if you see any common purpose with that person that you just saw there, if you sympathize with this psychopath, then you have a problem.
00:24:59.140 I mean, it doesn't matter if you call yourself right or left.
00:25:01.260 And by the way, if you're on the right and you find yourself nodding along with this despicable, disgusting psycho while she expresses joy in the fact that a guy was shot in the back of the head, please realize that Taylor Lorenz also feels the same way about you personally, okay?
00:25:21.400 Some of the dumbest comments were, Matt is trying to divide us.
00:25:25.320 He's trying to divide you.
00:25:26.860 What, if you're a conservative and what, you think you're uniting with the left on this?
00:25:32.400 What, you think we're holding hands, kumbaya moment?
00:25:35.120 Yes, let's kill rich people.
00:25:37.680 Is that what you think is happening?
00:25:40.280 They also want the same thing to happen to you.
00:25:44.300 You are also the bad guy in their worldview.
00:25:48.680 She also, Taylor Lorenz also thinks it would be okay, even joyful to murder you.
00:25:53.500 That's the person you're finding common cause with.
00:25:58.580 So you're cheering along, yes, let's murder people, and then they're going to turn a gun around on you.
00:26:02.500 Well, no, not me.
00:26:03.500 Well, no, no, no, him, not me.
00:26:04.920 What are you doing?
00:26:06.540 How many times does this need to happen before we all understand that it's the way it goes?
00:26:14.120 This is a matter of basic principle.
00:26:18.380 It's the most basic.
00:26:19.540 I mean, we're conservatives.
00:26:20.580 We want to conserve, at the most fundamental level, civilization itself.
00:26:24.700 Violent crime in the street degrades and destroys civilization, which is why we oppose it.
00:26:30.120 One of the comments I received, for example, was about how I should, quote, read the room.
00:26:34.600 In other words, when a literal bloodthirsty mob is out calling for the murder of people, I should join in because it's what the mob is doing.
00:26:47.980 It's like literally proposing mob mentality as a good thing.
00:26:55.460 No, it's precisely when the mob is bloodthirsty that you need to step up and say the truth.
00:27:03.880 You don't need to read the room to find out if you're opposed to first-degree murder.
00:27:10.520 You know, since all this happened, we've learned a lot about the man who killed Brian Thompson, 26-year-old Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione.
00:27:17.220 The assassin was arrested yesterday at McDonald's, and within just a few years, the alleged assassin.
00:27:21.820 We had, you know, within a few hours, we had access to all of his social media profiles, his Goodreads profile, you know, speeches he gave in high school, everything.
00:27:32.920 Meanwhile, several people that Luigi interacted with recently, including his friends and various social media personalities, have come forward to describe their conversations with him.
00:27:39.980 And it's worth pointing out that we never got anywhere near this level of information about Thomas Crooks, who somehow evaded the Secret Service and very nearly assassinated Donald Trump live on television.
00:27:48.960 Thomas Crooks is like a ghost, but Luigi Mangione is all over the place.
00:27:53.940 Within an hour of him being identified, we knew all the books that he's read for the last two years.
00:27:59.280 Okay, that's how intimately we know this person now.
00:28:02.920 Thomas Crooks, we don't know anything, still.
00:28:07.400 You know, make of that what you will.
00:28:09.080 But from what we know, Luigi comes from a very wealthy family in Maryland.
00:28:12.480 His late grandfather has a real estate empire that includes prominent country clubs and hotels.
00:28:17.020 He went to a high school that costs north of $40,000 a year.
00:28:20.280 Luigi also appears to be psychologically disturbed, not that anyone should be surprised by that.
00:28:25.100 He apparently dropped off face of the earth a few months ago, ignoring friends who were publicly asking where he was.
00:28:29.740 In other words, there's a very real possibility that Luigi Mangione, who had no clear direction in life, had access to more money than the CEO he gunned down in the street.
00:28:37.740 He certainly came from a much wealthier family than Brian Thompson did.
00:28:41.280 Thompson's father was a grain elevator worker.
00:28:43.500 He went to the University of Iowa, started his career as an accountant before working his way up at UnitedHealthcare over the course of more than 20 years.
00:28:49.620 And he was on his way to work at 6.40 in the morning when a mentally ill trust fund baby decided to murder him in the street.
00:28:57.500 Apparently, this trust fund baby decided that murder was preferable to paying his bills or whatever.
00:29:03.480 This is the left's hero.
00:29:05.060 This is the kind of violent scumbag they're aligned with.
00:29:07.740 And I don't care who gets mad about it.
00:29:11.220 It is a leftist position, so I will continue calling it that.
00:29:13.900 It is absolutely a leftist position.
00:29:17.160 They are on the side of Jordan Neely and Luigi Mangione because they're driven by a barely concealed desire to destroy the foundation of this country, which is the rule of law.
00:29:25.420 That's the common thread here.
00:29:27.340 Either the rule of law applies to everybody, of all financial backgrounds, of all professions, of all races, or it doesn't exist.
00:29:33.540 And it's now clear that the left would prefer that we abandon the rule of law in order to accelerate the end of the United States.
00:29:39.500 But for our part, conservatives, we are not Bolsheviks.
00:29:43.840 We are the only bulwark against these arsonists of civilization.
00:29:49.420 We stand for what is morally right, regardless of what the mob demands.
00:29:54.020 And the morally correct position here, obviously, obviously, is that it is evil to walk up to somebody on the street and shoot them in the back.
00:30:04.280 It should not be celebrated in any way.
00:30:08.420 You can either conserve basic moral principles like that, or you can conserve nothing at all.
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00:31:52.220 Now let's get to our five headlines.
00:32:00.200 Let's take a look at a couple of stories here.
00:32:02.060 NBC New York has this.
00:32:03.280 New Yorkers could get inflation refund checks of up to $500 from the state government next year
00:32:08.320 under a proposal that Governor Kathy Hokule announced on Monday.
00:32:12.440 The plan, which must first be approved by state lawmakers, would send out one-time payments of $300
00:32:17.580 to people who earn less than $150,000 a year and $500 to families making less than $300,000.
00:32:25.280 I mainly want to talk about this because I just want to play this clip of Kathy unveiling this brilliant scheme
00:32:32.960 to combat inflation by giving out money.
00:32:35.680 Because that works every time, right?
00:32:39.280 It's not like that backfires and causes more of the problem it's supposed to be addressing every single time.
00:32:46.400 But here is Kathy, the great Kathy of New York, laying out this plan and unveiling it in dramatic fashion.
00:32:55.220 Here it is.
00:32:55.540 In my budget next month, they will send you a check to buy your groceries for a month or whatever you want to spend it on.
00:33:06.000 And if you're an individual earning up to $150,000 a year, it's $300.
00:33:14.240 What does that look like?
00:33:19.660 All right.
00:33:20.740 How about that?
00:33:21.520 We're individuals.
00:33:22.160 We're individuals.
00:33:25.540 Now, if you're filing jointly and you have a family, you need a little more, right?
00:33:34.060 Families are expensive.
00:33:36.680 How about this?
00:33:42.080 $500.
00:33:44.280 $500.
00:33:45.200 For families earning less than $300,000.
00:33:53.400 Because I know life in New York City is expensive and your salaries may sound nice, but they don't go very far.
00:33:59.720 $500.
00:34:01.480 $500.
00:34:04.180 Which in New York City will buy you like a pizza.
00:34:07.860 But it's supposed to pay for groceries for a month, $500 for a family.
00:34:15.160 Okay.
00:34:15.840 In New York.
00:34:17.500 Apparently, Kathy doesn't realize that $500 is enough to pay for groceries for a family for like a week and a half, maybe.
00:34:23.080 And yet, she actually has these large, and you didn't see this if you're listening to the audio podcast, but she has these large, oversized checks made up.
00:34:33.360 And the best part is she says, what does that look like?
00:34:35.640 I'll show you what $300 looks like.
00:34:37.720 And she unveils the check.
00:34:39.920 As if we're supposed to be convinced that $300 or $500 is more than it really is because the check is really big.
00:34:46.620 You know, and this, by the way, is literally a plot line from The Office.
00:34:53.560 I mean, there's an episode where Michael Scott donates, I can't remember, like a couple hundred bucks or something to some charity and insists on having it written up on an oversized ceremonial check.
00:35:05.540 And it was a hilarious idea that comedy writers put into a sitcom script, and now Democrat governors are adopting it as an actual political strategy.
00:35:16.620 But, of course, the bigger problem here is that none of this is going to help with inflation.
00:35:20.340 Giving people money does not make inflation go away.
00:35:23.040 It does the opposite.
00:35:24.580 And it's the worst of all worlds because it's enough to make inflation worse, but it's not enough to actually make a difference in anybody's monthly budget anyway.
00:35:34.560 Now, granted, it sounds like this is some sort of tax refund or something like that, in which case, it's not, you know, this is not a welfare handout or something, and it's not an entitlement.
00:35:45.400 Taxpayers are getting their own money back, but it's not going to help.
00:35:50.440 I'll tell you what would help.
00:35:52.260 Okay, here's what you could do.
00:35:54.360 The New York State income tax ranges from, I think, 4% to 10% or 11%.
00:36:00.380 Get rid of that.
00:36:02.860 But if you really want to put money in people's pockets and do it in a way that won't increase inflation, then let them keep their own money.
00:36:12.820 Put money in their pockets by just not taking it out of their pocket to begin with.
00:36:18.180 And that will amount to a lot more than $300 for virtually all taxpayers in the state.
00:36:23.940 You could just do that, but you're not going to do that.
00:36:29.120 Instead, you'll keep taking their money while returning a small pittance and expecting them to fall over in gratitude.
00:36:35.900 I mean, it's grotesque.
00:36:36.840 It's funny because it's so clumsy and awkward and stupid, but it's also grotesque that this is the taxpayer's money that you took.
00:36:49.820 And now you're giving it back to them in the form of an oversized check.
00:36:56.960 You know, it's like if somebody, if you loan somebody $100 and took them forever to pay you back, and you had to keep asking them about it, and finally they give it back to you,
00:37:10.240 and they do it in this ceremonious way, congratulating themselves with a big oversized check.
00:37:16.520 It's like, no, dude, just give it in cash, okay? Venmo me. I don't need the whole ceremony.
00:37:22.760 You're not doing something generous here. That's my money you're giving back to me.
00:37:27.740 Very similar situation here.
00:37:28.960 Daily Wire has this, President-elect Donald Trump said during an interview that aired over the weekend that the first executive orders he will sign immediately upon taking office will deal with the border and the economy.
00:37:37.040 He said that he's planning on ending birthright citizenship on day one, and that if he can do it through executive action, he will.
00:37:48.320 And we have the clip here. Here he is talking about ending birthright citizenship.
00:37:54.120 You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan?
00:37:58.540 Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:59.400 The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens.
00:38:05.000 Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?
00:38:07.620 Well, we're going to have to get a change. We'll maybe have to go back to the people.
00:38:10.420 But we have to end it. We're the only country that has it.
00:38:12.880 Through an executive action?
00:38:13.760 You know, we're the only country that has it.
00:38:15.940 You know, if somebody sets a foot, just a foot, one foot, you don't need to, on our land,
00:38:21.440 congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America.
00:38:25.160 Yes, we're going to end that because it's ridiculous.
00:38:27.800 Through executive action?
00:38:29.620 Well, if we can, through executive action.
00:38:31.920 I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be honest with you.
00:38:37.540 We have to end it.
00:38:39.240 Okay, so Trump wants to end birthright citizenship.
00:38:43.140 He wants to try to do it through executive orders.
00:38:44.960 There are obviously major questions about whether it can be done that way.
00:38:48.780 It's going to be a big legal fight no matter what, because you have to contend with the 14th Amendment.
00:38:52.820 So in terms of the exact levers that should be pulled to end it, and in terms of how exactly you go about ending it,
00:39:02.580 that's a legal question that people smarter than me will have a lot of opinions about,
00:39:06.880 and we'll hear many of those opinions in the coming months, of course.
00:39:09.480 But I can say with absolute certainty that whatever you have to do to end it, yes, you should end it.
00:39:17.100 A birthright citizenship needs to end in whatever way possible, by whatever means necessary, it needs to end.
00:39:23.060 It's absurd.
00:39:23.680 It's a joke.
00:39:25.080 The idea that a woman can sneak across the border and have a baby two days later,
00:39:29.580 and the baby is automatically a citizen is just farcical.
00:39:32.440 It's funny, because on most constitutional questions, the left will be the first to claim that the Constitution was written at a different time,
00:39:45.960 and most of what you find in it, they would say, especially gun rights, free speech, even states' rights,
00:39:52.880 they would say that most of that is outdated and archaic.
00:39:58.260 You know, we hear about the Constitution as, what do they say, a living document and all of that.
00:40:03.780 And they're wrong about all that.
00:40:07.080 You know, the principle of free speech can't really be outdated.
00:40:10.940 Gun rights are not outdated.
00:40:12.060 Sure, firearm technology has changed, but it doesn't change the basic principle that you have a right to bear arms,
00:40:19.200 you have the right to self-defense.
00:40:20.380 And same with free speech.
00:40:23.000 The means of communicating our ideas have drastically changed.
00:40:27.720 The founding fathers had no idea about the Internet, of course,
00:40:31.240 but that doesn't change the basic principle of free speech.
00:40:35.940 However, when it comes to birthright citizenship,
00:40:38.960 things have fundamentally changed since the amendment was codified in the, you know, in the 1860s or whenever it was.
00:40:46.360 So this is one time when you can reasonably argue that the constitutional principle is simply out of date to the point of irrelevance.
00:40:55.520 Yet it's the one area where, you know, the left won't argue that.
00:41:02.720 Because here's what we know.
00:41:03.980 When that amendment was enacted, you did not have millions of people sneaking into the country every year.
00:41:13.120 We were not, as we are now, a fully formed and settled and highly populated country with 330 million people living in 50 states from coast to coast.
00:41:23.720 And we did not have millions of additional people trying to sneak into the country to take advantage of our welfare system and our entitlement systems.
00:41:33.820 None of that was happening in the 1860s.
00:41:35.940 None of that applied.
00:41:37.660 None of that existed.
00:41:38.400 Okay.
00:41:39.560 And it was not foreseen.
00:41:41.360 It was not imagined.
00:41:43.120 So in the 1860s, birthright citizenship made sense.
00:41:46.880 You could argue.
00:41:48.260 Now it doesn't.
00:41:49.980 It just simply doesn't.
00:41:52.680 I mean, look at it this way.
00:41:55.220 If birthright citizenship was never a thing to begin with,
00:42:00.560 and somebody came along today and proposed it,
00:42:03.980 would anyone agree with it?
00:42:05.480 I think this is a good test for lots of things,
00:42:09.180 especially laws and policies that have been in place for a long time in this country,
00:42:16.840 so that we take them for granted.
00:42:19.740 But you should always think to yourself,
00:42:21.100 okay, if this had not been in place,
00:42:24.840 if I was not born into a country where this was already an established part of life,
00:42:30.420 if that were not the case,
00:42:32.960 and somebody came along and suggested it,
00:42:35.820 what would I say?
00:42:39.420 By the way, the income tax is another,
00:42:41.280 this is a perfect example of this.
00:42:44.020 The income tax and the withholding system,
00:42:46.500 if that didn't exist,
00:42:47.580 and somebody came along and said,
00:42:50.480 hey, let's put a tax on your income,
00:42:53.420 before you even spend it,
00:42:54.540 we're going to,
00:42:55.160 let's make it so the government can come in
00:42:56.960 and take a chunk of your paycheck.
00:42:58.920 Before you even get your hands on it,
00:43:00.940 they're going to take a chunk.
00:43:02.680 And they're going to take whatever chunk they want,
00:43:04.520 by the way.
00:43:05.320 You'll basically have no control over that.
00:43:07.320 And actually,
00:43:09.180 they're going to take too much,
00:43:10.540 and they're going to hold on to it all year,
00:43:12.560 and then they're going to give it back to you without interest at the end of the year.
00:43:15.920 Like,
00:43:16.500 who would agree to that right now,
00:43:18.360 if it was explained to them like that,
00:43:19.580 and it didn't already exist?
00:43:20.280 Nobody would.
00:43:21.560 Nobody would.
00:43:22.080 There'd be no reason for anyone to agree to that.
00:43:23.780 It would sound like the worst idea ever.
00:43:24.920 Sure.
00:43:26.020 But,
00:43:26.460 we're used to it,
00:43:28.440 and so,
00:43:28.980 most people,
00:43:29.680 you know,
00:43:29.920 just accept it as a grant.
00:43:31.080 And it's the same thing with this.
00:43:35.260 You know,
00:43:35.720 if someone came along now and said,
00:43:37.080 hey,
00:43:37.200 I got an idea,
00:43:37.820 why don't we set it up so that,
00:43:39.320 if you come to this country illegally,
00:43:40.660 and have a baby,
00:43:42.580 even if you have the baby five seconds after crossing the border,
00:43:45.520 your baby is automatically a citizen,
00:43:47.520 even though you aren't.
00:43:50.960 Yeah,
00:43:51.400 it'll be great.
00:43:52.300 But,
00:43:52.980 let's make it so that we have millions of illegal,
00:43:54.900 immigrant families where some people are illegal and some aren't.
00:43:58.640 This will be a lot of fun.
00:43:59.480 Let's make it so that babies are citizens,
00:44:01.800 but their parents aren't.
00:44:04.360 Let's do that.
00:44:05.260 What do you guys say?
00:44:06.220 Let's try that one on for size and see how it goes.
00:44:09.880 You would never,
00:44:12.180 in the situation we're in right now,
00:44:14.500 if someone proposed that,
00:44:16.120 it would be a hard no.
00:44:17.880 You know,
00:44:18.100 no thanks.
00:44:19.640 There's nothing about that.
00:44:21.380 Sounds like it makes sense.
00:44:24.220 And,
00:44:24.760 so,
00:44:26.520 if we know that about,
00:44:27.720 if there's any policy where we would say to ourselves,
00:44:30.020 okay,
00:44:30.140 if someone suggested this now,
00:44:31.200 I would think it was insane.
00:44:32.700 Well,
00:44:32.980 that means it's insane.
00:44:34.060 It may not have been insane when it was put in place,
00:44:36.200 or in some cases it was,
00:44:37.260 but now it is.
00:44:39.400 And so,
00:44:40.160 we got to change it.
00:44:42.220 And I think that's certainly the case here.
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00:46:38.660 Yesterday, a certain headline caught my eye,
00:46:47.680 mostly because it was sent to me by about 10 different people.
00:46:50.820 The headline from a local far-left internet rag called the Nashville Scene says this,
00:46:56.640 what is Matt Walsh angling for?
00:46:59.840 Now I'll admit that I clicked the link with great anticipation.
00:47:03.840 I, perhaps more than anyone, would like to know what I'm angling for.
00:47:08.740 Up until this moment, I didn't think I was necessarily angling for anything.
00:47:12.500 There are things that I want, there are things that I'm working towards,
00:47:15.280 things I'm trying to achieve, but I'm pretty open about all those things.
00:47:18.580 In fact, I don't shut up about them.
00:47:21.100 So angling, though, has a more secretive, sinister sound.
00:47:25.300 It has the sound of plotting and scheming.
00:47:28.620 I've never really done any scheming, or at least I didn't think that I had.
00:47:31.900 That's why I was so fascinated to read this article, and so let's do that now.
00:47:37.180 This is from the Nashville Scene.
00:47:38.640 It's from a Nashville Scene writer who goes by the name Betsy Phillips.
00:47:42.260 And here's what it says, quote,
00:47:43.860 I was watching conservative commentator Matt Walsh make his little speech outside the Supreme Court
00:47:48.580 after arguments in U.S. versus Scrimetti about how we are going to continue to fight against transgender people.
00:47:54.520 As the old joke goes, I was like, who is this we?
00:48:00.680 By the way, how is that an old joke?
00:48:02.320 That's just a phrase.
00:48:03.760 Sometimes it's used in a joking way, I guess, but I wouldn't call it an old joke.
00:48:07.400 Does this person not understand what the word joke means?
00:48:09.400 Probably not, but let's not get hung up on semantics.
00:48:11.980 Continuing on.
00:48:12.620 But, like, it's William Lamberth all over again, and other Tennessee politicians.
00:48:18.900 Think about this.
00:48:19.580 Just take a minute to let it soak in.
00:48:21.380 Two years ago, Matt Walsh gets all these Tennessee politicians to speak at an ostensibly anti-trans rally
00:48:26.080 that ends up essentially being a Proud Boys rally.
00:48:28.600 And as I've hammered on before, not a single politician there had the balls to say,
00:48:33.060 hey, wait, no, I'm not headlining a Nazi rally.
00:48:36.620 You'd think once bitten twice shy that Republican leaders would not hang out with Matt Walsh again,
00:48:41.280 lest he surprise them with another photo op with Proud Racists.
00:48:44.240 But no, off they go again to be by his side.
00:48:48.440 Let's pause here for a moment again.
00:48:50.660 Was my rally a Nazi rally?
00:48:53.640 I guess it depends on how you define it.
00:48:55.820 If you define a Nazi rally as a rally for Nazis, then no, it was not.
00:49:01.780 But if you define it, as Betsy Phillips does, as any gathering of two or more white people
00:49:06.560 who even vaguely disagree with Betsy Phillips on any political topic whatsoever,
00:49:11.980 then yes, I suppose it was a Nazi rally.
00:49:15.000 So, actually, they don't even need to be white.
00:49:16.960 So, two or more people who disagree with this person about anything, that's a Nazi rally.
00:49:22.480 And if that's how you define it, then, yeah, I guess by that definition it was.
00:49:28.700 So, how did I get all these people to attend such a sinister gathering?
00:49:33.980 Well, Phillips has a theory on that.
00:49:38.160 That's quite a bit of pull.
00:49:39.880 I mean it.
00:49:40.920 You stick a bunch of politicians in front of the Proud Boys,
00:49:43.100 and those politicians are still kissing your ass years later?
00:49:45.680 It means they'll tolerate a little public humiliation to be seen with Matt Walsh.
00:49:49.740 Interesting.
00:49:50.780 Who else in the state do you think could do that?
00:49:52.920 Like most people, I've just been assuming former pro wrestler and current Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs
00:49:58.100 was going to be our next governor.
00:49:59.940 After all, as my brother put it, he's the undertaker's brother.
00:50:03.460 Of course, Tennessee is going to vote for him, but watching Matt Walsh, I don't know.
00:50:08.380 Y'all, I just got a bad feeling.
00:50:11.780 So, that's what I'm angling for.
00:50:13.100 It is to be the next governor of Tennessee.
00:50:15.640 And I have to admit, at first I read this claim with some skepticism.
00:50:20.160 As Matt Walsh myself, I doubted whether Matt Walsh wanted to run for governor or any other political office.
00:50:26.700 My general understanding of Matt Walsh is that he would rather be fed feet first into a wood chipper
00:50:32.600 than run for any political office at all.
00:50:35.980 But what do I know about myself?
00:50:38.020 Certainly not as much as the Nashville scene knows.
00:50:40.140 Quote, we're grading on a curve here,
00:50:42.640 and I'm tossing Clint Eastwood out since he's still too good-looking to make it fair to other Republicans.
00:50:47.760 But Matt Walsh is passably handsome.
00:50:50.020 He's as attractive as Bill Lee and doesn't have those empty eyes.
00:50:53.400 He's right in there with Jody Barrett, Clark Boyd, Kip Capley, and Kevin Vaughn
00:50:58.100 in terms of conservative cutie-patootiness.
00:51:00.520 You know, I've never really spent much time thinking about where I fall on the vaunted cutie-patootie scale.
00:51:08.320 But, you know, on this point, and I say this totally objectively, in fairness,
00:51:14.820 Phillips got it right.
00:51:16.920 You know, I get a passing grade in handsomeness.
00:51:19.900 That's at least a C-minus, folks, okay?
00:51:22.600 That's according to the news, not me.
00:51:25.440 I'm just giving you the facts.
00:51:27.220 I may not be the sexiest man alive, but I am the most slightly above-average man alive.
00:51:32.760 Not too shabby.
00:51:34.320 What are some other wonderful things about me?
00:51:37.520 Let's find out.
00:51:38.300 Quote, he's comfortable in front of cameras.
00:51:40.680 He has a wife and kids and is religious, or at least he presents himself as religious.
00:51:44.160 He has a huge platform and daily wire money.
00:51:46.500 Plus, he has a clear agenda, that I obviously disagree with, that he communicates well.
00:51:51.880 Now, I have to say, this is by far and away the most bizarrely complimentary hit piece
00:51:58.640 I've ever read about myself.
00:52:01.460 It's actually starting to feel a little bit uncomfortable, but let's continue anyway.
00:52:05.640 Quote, and at least from the outside, it looks like Matt Walsh is accomplished.
00:52:08.300 All he's going to accomplish at the Daily Wire.
00:52:10.020 He's written books.
00:52:10.600 He makes movies.
00:52:11.500 He's perhaps their best-known media personality, who isn't either a raging, obviously unhinged
00:52:15.260 lunatic, or trying to clean up the platform's extremist viewpoints so that they're palatable
00:52:19.760 to a bigger audience on their way to greener pastures.
00:52:22.500 Or a has-been trying to remain at least a little relevant on their way down.
00:52:26.100 Is he really going to hang around waiting to what?
00:52:28.260 Age into Jordan Peterson?
00:52:30.040 If the Supreme Court rules Walsh's way in U.S. vs. Scrimetti, which it likely will,
00:52:33.980 then what?
00:52:34.680 He's won.
00:52:35.320 Sure, he could continue to try to make trans people miserable.
00:52:38.300 But that's boring cleanup work that has the potential to make him look weak if he can't
00:52:41.460 accomplish it.
00:52:42.620 He's worked hard and achieved his goal.
00:52:45.900 Now, at this point, I have to clarify, I think, for the record, that I did not write
00:52:51.480 this article myself.
00:52:52.640 Okay?
00:52:52.860 Betsy Phillips is not my pen name.
00:52:54.480 I promise you.
00:52:55.440 You'd be forgiven for being suspicious.
00:52:57.040 But I promise, I did not write this about myself.
00:53:00.440 Now, this is the work of a leftist who I think is trying to express disdain for me, but instead
00:53:09.200 has accidentally declared that I am a highly accomplished, hardworking, handsome winner.
00:53:13.640 Now, I've already sent this article to a team of trained and qualified fact checkers, and
00:53:18.860 they've all come back and unanimously confirmed that all of the claims in this article are
00:53:24.020 100% incontrovertibly true.
00:53:27.600 Indeed, what they told me, what they told me, I'm just telling you what they told me.
00:53:30.560 They said that this is the truest article the Nashville scene has ever published.
00:53:34.420 In fact, it's their only true article.
00:53:35.720 But reading on, quote, Walsh is on an upward trajectory right now, but he needs some place
00:53:41.000 for all this momentum to carry him.
00:53:42.520 Even if he wanted a mainstream news career, what channel can offer him an audience bigger
00:53:45.920 than what he already has?
00:53:47.300 He would continue to press his way in entertainment, but to what end?
00:53:50.560 To have a Hollywood hit?
00:53:51.940 The whole point of Daily Wire's push in entertainment is to provide an alternative to Hollywood that
00:53:55.440 centers conservatives.
00:53:56.660 If Walsh can make a Hollywood hit, it disproves the basic premise of the whole Daily Wire ethos.
00:54:02.020 Up for Walsh is politics.
00:54:03.520 And with Governor Lee halfway through his second and final term, Tennessee is about to need
00:54:08.020 a governor.
00:54:08.840 I'm prepared to be wrong about this.
00:54:10.440 I'm hoping I'm wrong about this.
00:54:12.160 I hope you're all laughing at me about this in two years, and I will gracefully take the
00:54:15.440 digs.
00:54:16.180 Well, I'll try to gracefully take the digs.
00:54:18.120 But this doesn't seem as unlikely to me after this week as it did before.
00:54:23.960 So there it is.
00:54:26.200 So let me just be honest with you.
00:54:29.140 The truth is that I absolutely had not planned nor even considered running for governor or
00:54:35.940 anything else.
00:54:37.240 I would rather be tied to the top of a giant anthill and slowly eaten alive than run for
00:54:42.220 office.
00:54:43.800 There is no part of the process of running for office that I find remotely appealing.
00:54:48.860 And in fact, I don't find the job of being governor or senator or congressman or even president
00:54:53.000 to be all that appealing either.
00:54:54.520 I mean, mostly it seems pretty boring.
00:54:55.880 It involves way too many ceremonies and meetings, which are the two things I hate the most in
00:55:00.780 the whole universe.
00:55:02.180 Now, yeah, granted, I like the idea of having power, but I've always thought that a position
00:55:08.720 like king or emperor would be more suitable for a man of my tastes.
00:55:13.400 Now, if anything, I thought that maybe I'd make a run at becoming a tribal warlord in some
00:55:18.480 third world country somewhere, then work my way up to despot and then keep climbing the
00:55:23.400 ladder until I have absolute power over millions of subjects who are permitted to do nothing
00:55:27.200 but obey me unquestionably upon penalty of death.
00:55:30.540 That had been sort of my career plan for the next five years or so.
00:55:34.100 But then I read this article and Phillips makes a lot of really good points.
00:55:40.600 I was skeptical at first, but then I thought about it and I began to see the truth in it
00:55:46.020 because I'm pretty open minded.
00:55:47.140 And I always read articles.
00:55:49.260 I'm always open mind.
00:55:50.060 I'm ready to be convinced.
00:55:51.840 And I am handsome.
00:55:55.900 I am smart.
00:55:56.760 I am brilliant and charming.
00:55:58.220 So we can also add that I'm humble because I'm willing to admit that the Nashville scene
00:56:02.280 is right about all those points, right about how great I am.
00:56:05.720 And frankly, here's what I'll say.
00:56:08.040 I'm tired of the political divide in this country.
00:56:10.700 I'm tired of the left and right being at each other's throats all the time, constantly disagreeing
00:56:15.200 over everything, we need more unity.
00:56:18.340 We need to see the value in other people's perspectives, which is why I'm going to unite
00:56:23.080 with the Nashville scene on this issue, the issue of how I'm amazing and should be in charge
00:56:27.920 of an entire state.
00:56:29.220 So I want to thank Betsy Phillips and the Nashville scene.
00:56:32.300 They've inspired me.
00:56:33.920 I never thought of myself as a gubernatorial candidate until this moment, but now I'm thinking
00:56:39.960 about it.
00:56:40.380 In fact, I can announce right now that I am officially launching an exploratory committee
00:56:45.680 to consider the possibility of running for governor.
00:56:48.520 The committee will have to take a number of factors into consideration.
00:56:52.340 We'll have to find out the answer to certain questions.
00:56:56.240 Questions like, can I still do a podcast if I run for governor?
00:56:59.640 And if I do run and I win, which as Phillips points out, I definitely will.
00:57:04.880 Well, what happens if I find out that being the governor is actually like super lame and
00:57:09.720 boring?
00:57:10.900 Would I resign at that point or would I commit a bunch of scandals so that I could be impeached?
00:57:15.820 The latter would be a lot more fun.
00:57:17.580 You know, it's a much more fun way to go.
00:57:20.000 What are the chances that it lands me in federal prison?
00:57:22.780 It's a complicated equation.
00:57:24.020 And, you know, we've got to take all these things into account.
00:57:26.620 Who knows what will happen going forward?
00:57:29.340 But running for governor is a possibility now, all thanks to Betsy Phillips and the Nashville
00:57:34.920 scene.
00:57:35.920 Just as I inspire the best article ever published in its pages, I have likewise been inspired
00:57:42.400 to reach for the stars.
00:57:44.800 And for that reason, I must say that neither Betsy Phillips nor the Nashville scene are today
00:57:51.360 canceled.
00:57:53.260 That'll do it for the show today.
00:57:53.980 Thanks for watching.
00:57:54.480 Thanks for listening.
00:57:55.080 Talk to you tomorrow.
00:57:56.100 Have a great day.
00:57:57.140 Godspeed.
00:57:59.340 Godspeed.