The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1533 - Trump Takes A Stand Against Anti-White Persecution

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Donald Trump is the first Western leader to take a stand against the persecution of white farmers in South Africa.

00:00:06.080 This is a story that should be getting a lot more attention.

00:00:08.040 Also, Nike and the NFL give a girl power sermon during the Super Bowl.

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00:01:55.600 Early in the afternoon of April 16th, 2000, a 77-year-old farmer named John Cross and his 76-year-old wife

00:02:03.120 were returning home from church in the province of Limpopo, South Africa.

00:02:07.180 And when they arrived, they were immediately attacked by two men who had broken into their house.

00:02:12.240 The men shot the elderly woman three times, but she didn't die immediately.

00:02:16.020 So to torture her for roughly 25 minutes, the assailants poured boiling water on top of her.

00:02:20.380 When it came time to murder John Cross, the attackers tied him up, shot him several times,

00:02:26.580 and poured boiling water down his throat for roughly five hours.

00:02:30.420 In the end, the killers made off with a few thousand dollars worth of household items.

00:02:34.440 And when they were caught, they were not repentant at all.

00:02:38.080 Afterwards, when she was asked about the motive, the Cross's daughter said,

00:02:41.160 Now, as horrific as this incident was, it wasn't especially uncommon at the time.

00:02:50.700 Farm invasions were happening at a rate of around a thousand per year.

00:02:54.460 This barbarism was occurring so frequently that two years after the Crosses were executed,

00:02:58.940 South Africa commissioned a 500-page report on farm attacks,

00:03:02.880 and it found that almost two-thirds of farm attacks targeted elderly white people in rural areas,

00:03:07.460 often sadistically, but the conclusion of the report was that somehow racism wasn't a factor

00:03:14.700 in most of these incidents.

00:03:16.320 Even though white people only made up something like 10% of South Africa's population

00:03:20.800 and accounted for two-thirds of the victims of these attacks,

00:03:23.780 the government insisted that anti-white racism was not a major problem in South Africa.

00:03:28.960 This was a narrative that nobody in the West wanted to challenge.

00:03:32.240 Yes, it was obviously a lie.

00:03:34.380 No serious person said otherwise.

00:03:35.820 But in the eyes of Western leaders, it was a necessary lie.

00:03:39.620 And that's because, just about a decade earlier,

00:03:42.380 South Africa had supposedly ended racism when they overthrew the apartheid regime.

00:03:46.800 In a referendum in the early 90s, white South Africans voted to effectively authorize

00:03:50.860 a new constitution, one that would allow universal suffrage and many forms of discrimination

00:03:57.100 against black Africans and ultimately clear the way for majority rule by non-whites. 0.99

00:04:01.980 As Nelson Mandela put it at the time, quote,

00:04:04.340 the referendum signaled the end of white privilege.

00:04:07.620 That was supposed to trigger a kind of golden age in South Africa, if our leaders were to be believed.

00:04:13.660 After all, white people had just lost much of their political power.

00:04:17.000 A black majority would soon gain that power in a free and democratic fashion, supposedly.

00:04:22.020 And inevitably, that was supposed to lead to racial harmony and a high-functioning society.

00:04:27.340 And certainly, the media got behind that narrative.

00:04:30.140 Pull up news coverage of this referendum, and you'll see how the decision was framed at the time.

00:04:34.780 The choice, we were told, was between democracy and racial segregation.

00:04:39.240 And given that choice, most people would opt for democracy, obviously.

00:04:42.980 What we were not told is that, in the end, democracy in South Africa would produce even more

00:04:48.680 racial segregation and racial injustice.

00:04:52.100 And all along, Western elites knew that that would happen.

00:04:56.260 In fact, they intended for it to happen.

00:04:58.580 In various academic papers, far away from the public view, left-wing academics admitted to this.

00:05:04.580 Here, for example, is what the critical race theorist Cheryl Harris wrote in the Harvard Law Review,

00:05:09.440 all the way back in the summer of 1993, just as South Africa was getting rid of apartheid.

00:05:14.380 Quote,

00:05:14.580 This policy has not yet been clearly defined.

00:05:37.140 But what is implied by this conception of affirmative action is that existing distributions of property

00:05:42.100 will be modified by rectifying unjust loss and inequality.

00:05:46.600 Property rights will then be respected, but they will not be absolute

00:05:49.840 and will be considered against a societal requirement of affirmative action.

00:05:54.780 So, in other words, the newly installed African National Congress was not interested in implementing

00:05:59.540 a system based on equal rights for all races.

00:06:02.840 That was the little secret that, you know, we weren't told about.

00:06:06.640 But instead, with the backing of Western academics, they were going to start practicing equity.

00:06:12.500 They were going to be a laboratory for critical race theory shortly before it would take hold in the United States.

00:06:19.020 And, of course, that meant redistributing land and housing and money on the basis of race.

00:06:24.300 It meant using the law to punish white people. 0.75

00:06:28.100 And they did exactly that.

00:06:29.860 So, take a look at this chart.

00:06:31.580 It's from the South African Institute of Race Relations.

00:06:34.400 And it tracks the number of race-based laws in the country.

00:06:39.160 And you'll notice that when apartheid was ended in the early 1990s, there was this massive drop, as you would expect.

00:06:46.480 Black Africans were not considered second-class citizens anymore.

00:06:49.580 They didn't have to carry identification cards around that specified their racial group as required by law from the 1950s.

00:06:58.140 They didn't have to self-segregate in residential areas or in libraries, parks, and restaurants.

00:07:03.480 They weren't prohibited from marrying whites anymore, and so on.

00:07:07.080 So, a bunch of race-based laws were taken off the books.

00:07:10.640 But then you can see, if you look at the chart, what happened.

00:07:14.040 Starting around 2000, the number of race-focused laws went back up dramatically.

00:07:20.640 In fact, the number of race-based laws is now higher than it was at any other point in South Africa's history.

00:07:26.600 It's higher than it ever was during apartheid.

00:07:29.840 Only this time around, the laws were intended to exact racial vengeance on whites.

00:07:33.980 And whites lost the protection of the laws that were already on the books. 0.64

00:07:37.400 This has continued for decades with very little fanfare, which has led to scenes like this one in a squatter's camp for whites in South Africa.

00:07:45.960 Watch.

00:07:46.240 The organization also provides them with food supplies.

00:07:50.600 But, as often happens, the distribution of it is interrupted by some uninvited guests.

00:07:57.120 These men and women, who have come from a neighboring shantytown, are members of a radical political party.

00:08:03.480 Their hats bear the initials EFF, the Economic Freedom Fighters.

00:08:10.120 It's a movement whose aim is to give back the country's riches to black people.

00:08:15.460 During this stirring speech, other members of the group take advantage of the distraction and steal some of the food.

00:08:23.540 And they're not afraid to show off their loot.

00:08:26.080 They just came in here and took the poor people's food.

00:08:35.800 You saw.

00:08:36.800 We all saw it.

00:08:37.600 He saw it.

00:08:38.860 I've been mixed with us.

00:08:42.180 Now, again, nobody in the West stood up while this was going on at any point.

00:08:45.840 There was no international coalition of the willing that liberated South Africa.

00:08:49.280 The sentiment only began to change to some extent in August of 2018, when South Africa's government filed papers to seize several white-owned farms,

00:08:58.640 while paying the owners only about one-tenth of the value of the properties.

00:09:03.520 And that decision prompted the first Trump administration to launch an investigation into the anti-white purge that was occurring in South Africa.

00:09:10.460 In response, pretty much every outlet in corporate media accused Trump of promoting a dangerous far-right conspiracy theory.

00:09:17.380 They told us not to besmirch the good name of South Africa's government.

00:09:22.020 We were just supposed to continue sending them hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid every year and ask no questions whatsoever.

00:09:29.900 And we certainly weren't supposed to notice, for example, when the South African black nationalist politician Julius Malema

00:09:36.380 led a packed stadium full of 100,000 people in a chant of,

00:09:41.240 kill the boar, which essentially means kill the white farmer. 0.86

00:09:43.800 And by the way, Malema leads the political party that raided the whites' camp in the video that I just played.

00:09:50.000 And if you haven't seen this yet, here is that rally in Johannesburg.

00:09:53.720 Watch.

00:09:53.980 Kiki Kiki Kiki Kiki Kiki Ma 0.81

00:10:02.100 Shoot to kill

00:10:04.220 Hamaza 0.60

00:10:05.520 Kill the boar

00:10:08.040 The farmer

00:10:09.300 Kill the boar

00:10:11.840 The farmer

00:10:13.220 Brr-pa 1.00

00:10:15.280 Pa

00:10:16.780 Brr-pa 1.00

00:10:18.960 Pa

00:10:20.980 Attention

00:10:22.200 Now, after that footage went viral, the corporate press went into a panic.

00:10:27.300 They tried to convince people in comical fashion that we hadn't heard the things that we just heard.

00:10:34.160 The New York Times, as is so often the case, led the propaganda effort.

00:10:38.080 They reported that, quote, right-wing commenters claim that an old anti-apartheid chant is a call to anti-white violence.

00:10:44.700 But historians and a left-wing politician who embraces it say it should not be taken literally.

00:10:49.740 So it's really a term of endearment or something like that.

00:10:54.380 He didn't mean kill them physically, you know, as in actually kill them.

00:10:57.800 He meant kill them with kindness.

00:11:00.800 And you were supposed to believe that spin, even after the same politician who, you know, who you saw in the video there,

00:11:07.440 made it as clear as he possibly could that, yes, he wants white people to die.

00:11:13.040 Watch.

00:11:13.300 Must never be scared to kill.

00:11:18.700 A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing, because the killing is part of a revolutionary act.

00:11:29.860 I don't know what's going to happen in the future.

00:11:32.660 I'm saying to you, we've not called for the killing of white people, at least for now.

00:11:38.100 I can't guarantee the future.

00:11:39.120 Yeah, but, I mean, you'd understand somebody watching that, especially as it gets shared on Twitter.

00:11:44.240 They freak out.

00:11:45.260 It sounds like a genocidal call.

00:11:47.080 Ah, cry babies. 1.00

00:11:48.920 Cry babies. 1.00

00:11:49.420 I'm not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now.

00:11:53.140 I can't give you a guarantee of the future, especially when things are going the way they are.

00:11:57.860 Subtext.

00:11:58.220 Okay.

00:12:02.460 So, the media's claim is that when he says, kill the white farmer, he didn't mean it literally at all.

00:12:10.700 His claim is that, well, no, I mean, for now we won't kill them.

00:12:15.240 For now.

00:12:18.020 Now, again, we were told that there was nothing to see here.

00:12:20.040 To the extent that anyone criticized this in the mainstream press, they labeled this politician as a rare extremist in South African politics.

00:12:27.500 But that was never true.

00:12:28.700 I mean, his perspective is actually pretty popular over there.

00:12:30.680 You saw the video with 100,000 people chanting the slogan.

00:12:34.600 And that's why South Africa's president just signed the Expropriation Act of 2024 into law last month.

00:12:40.260 This law permits the government of South Africa to seize white people's land without providing any compensation whatsoever.

00:12:45.380 Specifically, the law states that, quote, it may be just inequitable for nil compensation to be paid where land is expropriated in the public interest.

00:12:55.260 So, what is the public interest, you may ask?

00:12:58.240 The law doesn't limit that concept in any way.

00:13:01.660 But it does state that, among other things, it's in the public interest to promote the interests of, quote, vulnerable groups, including women, children, youth, LGBTQI+, and people with disabilities.

00:13:13.200 In other words, yes, if you're a white farmer in South Africa, you could soon be forced under principles of equity to surrender your farm without any compensation to the transgender community, for example.

00:13:26.840 This time around, the Trump administration is taking decisive action in response to this development.

00:13:31.500 Trump is not just assigning the Secretary of State to investigate or convening hearings so that we can talk about it.

00:13:37.520 Instead, he just cut South Africa's foreign aid completely.

00:13:42.040 You know, we're no longer going to be sending hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to this country.

00:13:47.180 The other day, Trump signed an executive order that reads, quote,

00:13:50.020 It is the policy of the United States that as long as South Africa continues these unjust and immoral practices that harm our nation,

00:13:55.680 A, the U.S. shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa,

00:13:59.100 and B, the U.S. shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination,

00:14:07.120 including racially discriminatory property confiscation.

00:14:09.600 Now, with that executive order, Trump became the only major world leader to speak out in any meaningful way

00:14:17.640 about the unfolding atrocity in South Africa.

00:14:20.980 And this order matters.

00:14:22.300 Over the past decade, we've sent something like $6 billion in assistance to South Africa.

00:14:27.400 All of that is gone now.

00:14:29.280 And so you have to ask, where exactly are the other leaders of Western democracies who supposedly value human rights?

00:14:34.620 Why aren't they cutting South Africa's funding?

00:14:38.720 And why are we supposed to care so much about Palestinians and Ukrainians, but not about white South Africans?

00:14:46.440 These are not rhetorical questions.

00:14:47.940 They need answers.

00:14:49.400 That's why the last part of Trump's executive order is so important.

00:14:51.940 He says that the U.S., quote,

00:14:53.200 Which means that we're offering white Africans a refuge, one that they've never been offered before.

00:15:06.940 They've already been fleeing South Africa in large numbers, but now they have an open invitation to come to the U.S.,

00:15:12.900 and that makes a lot of sense.

00:15:14.060 Like, it makes far more sense than welcoming refugees from many other places on the planet.

00:15:19.480 Because these are refugees who are productive, they're skilled, and, very importantly,

00:15:25.240 they have seen the worst of radical left-wing racial ideology.

00:15:29.800 But there's another reason to accept the refugees as well, which is this.

00:15:35.740 There's no better way to signal the end of critical race theory and the various efforts to demonize white people in this country

00:15:42.080 than to abandon the mythology of South Africa as some kind of harmonious post-racial utopia.

00:15:50.020 That's the narrative that's been sold to Americans for decades, but it's not true.

00:15:53.620 It was never true.

00:15:55.200 That narrative was always part of a larger plan to incorporate similar anti-white laws in this country.

00:16:02.740 With the second Trump administration, that plan is being dismantled piece by piece.

00:16:06.500 Now the government of South Africa is going to have to find some other country to pay them billions of dollars.

00:16:12.080 And the whole world can see why this is happening.

00:16:15.000 Put simply, with its new executive order, the Trump administration has dealt a fatal blow to race-obsessed arsonists

00:16:20.820 who have sought for decades to model our country's decline after the collapse of South Africa.

00:16:27.000 That effort has now been exposed and rejected.

00:16:30.260 So this is a major victory.

00:16:32.020 And for everyone in this country, and particularly for white farmers who endured years of overt racial discrimination under the Biden administration,

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00:18:13.280 Okay, a few things to cover here.

00:18:16.480 Kanye West is back on Twitter, and he's going viral now every day for all the wrong reasons,

00:18:22.500 as you've probably heard.

00:18:23.840 Last week, of course, he paraded his wife around completely naked on the red carpet at the Grammys.

00:18:28.020 He's just a disgusting thing to do, also very emasculating as a man.

00:18:34.760 I mean, you may as well castrate yourself in public if you're going to traipse your wife around naked for other men to ogle. 1.00

00:18:41.440 You know, a lot of people have talked about how degrading and dehumanizing it is for Kanye's wife to be traipsed around like this. 0.99

00:18:49.020 And it is, certainly.

00:18:50.060 But it's also degrading and dehumanizing for him, which is a point that I think is often lost.

00:18:56.480 And he's continued to degrade himself on X over the past week or two, ranting about how much he hates the Jews.

00:19:02.680 So, you know, more of that material, calling himself a Nazi, fawning over Hitler.

00:19:09.900 You know, so some reruns from 2022 and 2023.

00:19:14.440 You know, a lot of this is just, frankly, kind of boring.

00:19:19.500 Even bringing his wife around naked is disgusting and, as I said, emasculating and degrading to everybody involved.

00:19:25.880 But it's also just like this, it's just, it's boring.

00:19:30.700 It's like, it's, when you're totally out of ideas and looking for ways to shock people, oh, look, here's a naked person, right?

00:19:41.100 And the same thing here, you know, he's returning to reruns now to try and get attention.

00:19:47.760 And saying that you like Hitler is shocking, but once you've said it, you can't shock people again by going back to that well. 0.82

00:19:59.860 You know, and that's what Kanye has been doing.

00:20:02.520 But the thing that I think that should actually get him banned from the platform happened yesterday when he started posting hardcore pornography on the platform.

00:20:13.620 And I think he has since taken down his own account.

00:20:16.080 You know, I think he'd, I think he's, this all happened and now his account is gone.

00:20:22.240 I don't think that he was banned.

00:20:23.760 I think that he, that he left of his own accord.

00:20:27.360 But who knows?

00:20:28.180 He could be back next week.

00:20:31.880 But he was posting actual hardcore full-on porn that, you know, this guy's 100 million plus followers posting it for all of those followers to see.

00:20:42.340 And he, and I've been pretty consistent about this.

00:20:47.860 This, this is the way that I look at it.

00:20:50.420 I don't believe that anyone should be banned from any platform for giving their opinion.

00:20:57.460 Okay.

00:20:57.940 Even if their opinion is insane or gross or objectionable or contemptible or all of the above.

00:21:02.900 I think that any opinion should be permitted.

00:21:08.260 Both in terms of, you know, that, that's, that's what free speech should be legally, but even on these, on these platforms.

00:21:17.600 I think any opinion should be allowed.

00:21:19.360 And if somebody has an opinion that you think is insane or stupid or, or repulsive, repugnant, well, you can, you can make your point in response to that.

00:21:33.080 So I think any opinion should be permitted.

00:21:36.620 But porn is not an opinion.

00:21:38.840 Now, if you're a fan of porn, saying, I'm a big fan of porn, that's an opinion, right?

00:21:48.160 Arguing in favor of porn, you're wrong, but that's an opinion.

00:21:53.660 The porn itself is not an opinion.

00:21:56.680 It's not an expression of an idea.

00:21:58.980 It's not speech.

00:22:00.020 It's just, it's just simply not.

00:22:01.680 Porn is smut.

00:22:02.800 It's visual trash.

00:22:03.960 It's poison for your soul.

00:22:05.700 And, um, that's all it is.

00:22:08.640 Porn is prostitution. 0.98

00:22:10.900 Porn is prostitution. 0.98

00:22:13.580 Like, there's, there's no way around it.

00:22:15.360 It's, it's, it's, it's performing sexually for money is prostitution. 0.68

00:22:19.900 Uh, the fact that you put, there's a camera involved does not make it any less prostitution.

00:22:25.540 And prostitution is already banned, as I've said a million times.

00:22:29.680 Prostitution is banned almost everywhere already.

00:22:32.960 And any free speech argument for prostitution is just, is not taken seriously by most people.

00:22:41.080 And yet, porn we treat as though it's different.

00:22:43.640 It's not.

00:22:45.760 So, it should be banned on X, and it should be banned on every platform, and, uh, it should

00:22:49.940 be banned in general, in my opinion.

00:22:53.860 On the same basis that we ban prostitution.

00:22:57.020 It's the same damn thing.

00:22:58.500 And certainly anybody with tens of millions of followers who suddenly decides to drop

00:23:03.300 hardcore porn into their feeds, uh, should, just, should not be allowed on the platform.

00:23:08.040 You just, you, you, that, that kind of thing should not be allowed. 0.89

00:23:11.160 And, um, anyone who says, oh, it's a slippery slope.

00:23:15.400 It's, it's, it's first you banned hardcore porn, and then what?

00:23:18.600 What do you mean?

00:23:19.460 Like, yeah, what, what, what next?

00:23:22.120 Hardcore porn is a, is a, okay.

00:23:24.360 You can ban hardcore pornography, and, um, without it logically leading to anything else.

00:23:32.900 That's its own category.

00:23:35.960 Okay, so, slippery slope arguments work like this.

00:23:38.740 A slippery slope argument can be quite compelling and can be true if you're saying that, look,

00:23:45.820 okay, if we, if we allow X using this argument, well, that exact same argument could be used

00:23:55.860 to, uh, to, to justify Y.

00:23:59.200 And so, if you're allowing X, it means eventually we're going to have Y also, because the argument

00:24:04.820 used to justify X also applies just as much to Y.

00:24:09.180 That's how a legitimate slippery slope argument works.

00:24:12.320 Well, that's why there is no slippery slope with pornography, um, or with banning it from

00:24:20.900 a platform, because it is, it is a unique, separate thing, and you can make an argument

00:24:28.800 for banning pornography from a platform that would not apply to any opinion that a person

00:24:35.320 would express, because an opinion is not pornography.

00:24:42.320 Um, so, you, you could, and we should, ban porn from all these platforms, and there is

00:24:52.260 no reason why that needs to lead to, uh, well, next thing you know, you can't give your point

00:24:58.760 of view on any topic.

00:25:02.480 It doesn't work that way.

00:25:03.840 It doesn't need to work that way.

00:25:05.240 Um, and, uh, so I think that these slippery slope arguments people make, it's, it's just

00:25:10.700 because, it's just because they want to see the porn on the, which that doesn't even make

00:25:15.600 any sense to me.

00:25:16.100 Like, why, you know, I would like for there to be no porn at all, but there is a lot of

00:25:23.160 porn out there on the internet.

00:25:24.460 I don't think I'm, I'm scandalizing anyone by telling you that.

00:25:26.960 Why do you need to see it on the social media platform?

00:25:33.200 Like, can there be anywhere on the internet that doesn't have porn?

00:25:36.060 Is that okay?

00:25:37.520 Can we have one spot on the internet that is, is not infested with this stuff?

00:25:42.480 Do you need to see it everywhere all the time?

00:25:45.420 Really?

00:25:45.640 So you're worried that if we, if we allow there to be any place on the internet at all,

00:25:53.740 where that is not just covered in porn, that next thing you know, we're living in a, you

00:25:58.260 know, a, a fascist dystopia.

00:26:01.140 I mean, come on.

00:26:03.220 It's ridiculous.

00:26:06.240 All right.

00:26:06.700 I want to talk about this too.

00:26:07.520 There's a 13 year old boy in Detroit who's been arrested for a string of home invasion

00:26:11.120 robberies, robberies that include assaults and attempted rapes.

00:26:14.240 Uh, he's now in custody.

00:26:16.740 Thankfully, here's a local news report about it.

00:26:21.200 Confessing to the crimes linked to at least 11 break-ins and assaults across the two cities.

00:26:26.560 This mother tells local for Friday, she's relieved, but still cannot believe he's only 13.

00:26:33.220 The teen is accused of breaking into her home on Anderson street earlier this week and attacking

00:26:38.760 her 10 year old with a knife.

00:26:40.480 And so I go towards my hallway and I see a guy just shoot out from her room.

00:26:48.060 So I just got to yell in, get out of my house, you know, get my gun, go get my gun.

00:26:52.380 Another woman says a man believed to be the 13 year old attacked her daughter on Northway

00:26:57.600 about a week prior.

00:26:58.880 This young man, whoever it is, threatened her with a knife and some scissors and told her to take her clothes off.

00:27:06.400 And if she didn't, she was told he would kill her.

00:27:09.800 Right now, police say they've recovered DNA and a knife and they're working on a timeline.

00:27:14.640 They believe his first break-in goes back to 2022.

00:27:18.660 His alleged victim then, only nine.

00:27:21.520 He would have been just 10 years old back then.

00:27:24.480 And recently, police say the teenage suspect's behavior becoming more daring and violent.

00:27:30.700 It's a very scary thing for anybody, let alone a young girl, to be in their bedroom sleeping

00:27:36.860 and have someone grab them. 0.99

00:27:38.780 Now, I want to read a very relevant portion of the local ABC affiliates report on this.

00:27:43.840 It says, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said the tips for the community led to the arrest

00:27:49.500 of this teenage suspect.

00:27:50.420 As soon as we realized what we had in terms of complexity and repetitive nature, we put it out

00:27:54.340 to the community and got a quick response.

00:27:55.820 Bouchard said, the suspect is 13 years old.

00:27:58.120 He's a tall 13 year old.

00:27:59.660 And the parent, I would also say, has been cooperative.

00:28:03.920 Did you notice that?

00:28:05.500 The parent.

00:28:07.380 Parent.

00:28:07.980 Singular.

00:28:08.780 Parent.

00:28:09.520 So, you know, not two.

00:28:11.060 One.

00:28:12.380 No surprise there.

00:28:13.380 It's exactly what you assumed.

00:28:15.580 There was basically zero chance that the kid's dad was in the picture.

00:28:18.760 And he isn't.

00:28:20.420 So, stereotypes win yet again.

00:28:23.440 Those who make stereotypical assumptions are vindicated, as always.

00:28:27.100 As they almost always are.

00:28:29.240 Vindicated again.

00:28:30.100 But, here's the point I want to make about this.

00:28:32.940 That, you know, there have been now, and you've heard me talk about them.

00:28:36.740 There have been now multiple cases, at least two, where the parents, and in these cases, it was, I believe in both cases, two parents.

00:28:46.800 Of school shooters have been charged in the crimes that their kids committed.

00:28:53.300 So, the kid goes out and does a horrible thing, and they end up getting charged with crimes for it.

00:28:59.620 And, you know what I've said about these cases.

00:29:02.960 If we're going to do that, we are setting a precedent.

00:29:07.760 And we have to follow through on the precedent.

00:29:10.920 We have to apply it equally.

00:29:12.620 If we don't, then it is a gross miscarriage of justice to charge these parents, even if they are really bad parents.

00:29:21.460 Because it means we're holding them to a standard that we don't hold other parents.

00:29:26.780 And that's wrong.

00:29:27.900 It's actually unconstitutional, I would argue, because we're guaranteed equality under the law.

00:29:32.140 And so, if you've got certain people that we apply the law a certain way to them, and don't apply it to others, well, that is, that's not equality under the law.

00:29:44.100 So, that brings me to the question.

00:29:45.600 Why aren't this kid's parents in handcuffs right now?

00:29:51.760 Both parents.

00:29:53.200 The single mom and what I assume is the absentee father. 0.87

00:29:58.300 You know, if he's alive and currently not in jail, go find the dad in whatever hole he's living in, and cart his ass to jail.

00:30:07.620 And go get the mother and throw her in jail. 1.00

00:30:10.880 Because this is what we know for certain.

00:30:12.500 There is no way that his parents, the parents of this kid, well, we know the dad was absent.

00:30:19.160 So, there's no way his parent, his mom, was doing her job as a parent.

00:30:24.100 If your 13-year-old son is out there breaking into homes and trying to rape his classmates at knife point, I mean, it means that you are negligent in the extreme as a parent.

00:30:33.080 At least.

00:30:35.160 Now, kids can go off the rails.

00:30:36.760 They can rebel.

00:30:37.500 They can act in ways that are inconsistent with how you raise them.

00:30:40.120 Sure, all that can happen, and it will happen to some extent.

00:30:43.240 But if your son is a serial home invader at 13, I mean, that's on you, obviously.

00:30:51.380 You're responsible for that.

00:30:52.600 I mean, how are you, like, he's out at night.

00:30:56.140 How is your 13-year-old son out at night doing anything without you knowing exactly where he is?

00:31:02.080 So, that's your fault, obviously.

00:31:05.880 Then why aren't we holding this kid's parents responsible?

00:31:09.200 Why aren't they arrested?

00:31:10.740 Why do we only arrest the parents of school shooters?

00:31:15.260 What's the logic here?

00:31:16.460 How can this be justified?

00:31:17.900 Well, it can't be justified.

00:31:19.060 But that doesn't mean that there's no answer to my question.

00:31:22.500 Like, there is an answer.

00:31:23.420 There's a reason why we arrest the parents of school shooters now, but we would never arrest these parents.

00:31:30.260 And it can only be one thing, which is that school shooters tend to be white, so we prosecute the white parents. 0.54

00:31:36.300 The kid in this case is—they have not identified him because he's a minor.

00:31:43.080 He's a minor, but we can assume he's almost certainly black or at least not white.

00:31:48.360 I mean, we can—that's a pretty safe assumption.

00:31:52.340 And in general, street violence, home invasions, robberies are disproportionately committed by young, non-white males.

00:31:59.020 We know that.

00:32:00.080 And the system just does not want the spectacle of hauling some black single mother into a court 1.00

00:32:06.340 and then throwing her in prison for being a terrible mother. 1.00

00:32:10.100 They just don't want that, and they're not going to do it.

00:32:13.760 On the other hand, they don't mind the spectacle.

00:32:15.800 In fact, they quite enjoy the spectacle of throwing middle class or upper middle class white parents in jail. 0.50

00:32:22.840 And that's obviously what's going on here.

00:32:27.020 You know?

00:32:28.840 And so it's just—it brings us back to it's a miscarriage of justice

00:32:34.460 to be holding certain parents to this kind of standard and not others.

00:32:41.160 Now, I say all this, and I'm not even certain that—in fact, I'm certainly not certain that it would be a good idea

00:32:52.460 to just start prosecuting parents when their kids at a young age become violent scumbags.

00:33:00.100 You know, I'd be very—even if we applied it equally, I would have serious hesitations about that.

00:33:09.680 But if you're going to do it, you have to apply it equally.

00:33:14.700 If you're going to do it, then do it.

00:33:16.420 But that's not the case here.

00:33:22.780 All right, let's take a look at this quick ICE update.

00:33:26.220 You know, there were more protests over the weekend over Trump's deportation program,

00:33:30.100 more lamenting of the poor illegal immigrants who are being so rudely ejected from the country. 1.00

00:33:35.040 So—and we get—you see these protests now every day.

00:33:42.500 Oftentimes, they're pretty small scale.

00:33:44.040 We talked about yesterday or on Friday that this past week there was some kind of day-without-an-immigrant protest

00:33:51.520 where people who were immigrants stayed home and didn't go to work, and nobody noticed.

00:33:57.420 Everything—everything functioned fine in the country.

00:34:01.460 You know, nothing broke down.

00:34:03.100 Everything was fine.

00:34:03.720 Nobody noticed, which is not the message that they wanted to send.

00:34:07.740 But—so these protests are happening a lot.

00:34:10.480 Yet, who are these poor, put-upon immigrants? 1.00

00:34:13.540 Well, I have just a—here just a short list of ICE arrests over the weekend.

00:34:18.980 So this is not comprehensive, but it gives you an idea of who these people are.

00:34:23.840 And so let's just go—let's just go through some of the names.

00:34:25.900 Like I said, just this weekend, this is what ICE, under Trump's direction, has been up to.

00:34:32.440 So let's go through some of the names.

00:34:34.080 On Sunday, in Atlanta, ICE Atlanta arrested David Madaugu, a citizen of Nigeria.

00:34:41.820 Madaugu has been convicted of money laundering, sentenced to 26 months in prison.

00:34:47.600 ICE San Antonio arrested Omar Zuniga, a citizen of Mexico.

00:34:51.400 He's been convicted of assault and sentenced to six months in jail.

00:34:53.820 ICE Washington arrested Marios Rice Flores, a citizen of Honduras.

00:35:00.440 He was convicted of hit-and-run, stemming from a DUI.

00:35:04.740 ICE—this is all Sunday.

00:35:06.900 ICE Denver arrested Saul Calderon Resendiz, a citizen of Mexico, convicted of aggravated assault.

00:35:14.260 ICE Houston arrested Arturo Santana Garcia, a citizen of Mexico, convicted of aggravated assault.

00:35:25.480 Then you go to Saturday.

00:35:27.240 ICE San Diego arrested Lucas Eberindo Ramirez Gregorio.

00:35:31.880 I'm sure I'm butchering all these names.

00:35:32.960 In fact, I think I'm doing pretty good on the names.

00:35:34.720 I mean, all things considered.

00:35:35.640 I'm doing better on the names than you thought I would.

00:35:37.180 Convicted of willful cruelty to a child.

00:35:43.620 ICE New York arrested Eric Armando Deleon Corrado, a citizen of Guatemala.

00:35:49.900 He's been convicted of rape.

00:35:53.060 ICE Miami arrested Alberto Jaso Diaz, a citizen of Mexico, convicted of possession of methamphetamine.

00:35:59.720 ICE Newark arrested Iber Diaz Matamoros, a citizen of Honduras, convicted of sex offense against a child.

00:36:09.960 ICE New Orleans arrested Carlos Chrysostomos Garcia, a citizen of Mexico, convicted of assault.

00:36:21.860 These are just a few of the names.

00:36:23.140 Then you go to Friday.

00:36:24.800 ICE Buffalo arrested Stephen Emanuel Jones, a citizen of Guyana, has been convicted of murder.

00:36:32.440 Sentenced to five years in prison for murder.

00:36:34.600 Just five years for that one.

00:36:37.020 We have another homicide, another one convicted of homicide.

00:36:39.680 This is ICE Chicago arresting Pedro Bailon Carmen, a citizen of Mexico.

00:36:44.540 So this is just a quick list.

00:36:46.460 And my question is, when you look at these updates, does anybody want these people in the country?

00:36:57.820 Does anyone actually want them in the country?

00:37:00.700 Is any actual American citizen upset that Trump is arresting these people?

00:37:06.600 And also, when you see all the protests of the people who are lamenting the fact that these deportations,

00:37:18.980 this is what they're lamenting.

00:37:22.020 They don't want deportations.

00:37:23.540 They say no human being is illegal, yada, yada, and so on.

00:37:28.480 And what that means is they want these people to remain in our communities.

00:37:31.600 It's just a delusional, insane, suicidal point of view.

00:37:39.320 Here's something a little more fun.

00:37:41.860 This is Caitlin Bennett went to some kind of anti-Trump rally over the weekend

00:37:46.760 and had a conversation with a very angry leftist who, believe it or not,

00:37:52.520 had some unkind things to say about yours truly.

00:37:56.120 He apparently doesn't like me, as warm and fuzzy as I am.

00:37:59.800 He's not a fan.

00:38:00.920 I was pretty shocked by that.

00:38:02.120 But listen to what he has to say.

00:38:04.580 So, America, do your duty.

00:38:06.400 Make fascists afraid again.

00:38:09.060 Every day is punch a Nazi day. 0.79

00:38:11.740 So you would do that?

00:38:13.320 Should the opportunity present?

00:38:14.860 With a smile.

00:38:16.040 With a smile.

00:38:16.980 Okay.

00:38:17.360 Nobody plays enough Wolfenstein anymore.

00:38:19.400 We need to make more good Nazis. 0.99

00:38:21.460 The good Nazis are the dead ones. 0.98

00:38:23.120 Who would you classify as a Nazi?

00:38:25.060 Uh, Elon Musk, Matt Walsh, Donald Trump, uh, Hegseth, uh, not all...

00:38:31.360 So you would, you would, you would punch Matt Walsh in the face?

00:38:34.760 Absolutely.

00:38:35.420 If he walked down here, you would punch him in the face?

00:38:37.580 Sure.

00:38:38.060 I would, I would.

00:38:39.480 I love the commitment.

00:38:40.420 Yeah, no, we've got better s*** to do than put up with this crazy, stupid, fascist s***.

00:38:45.400 We did this 80 years ago.

00:38:47.380 The entire planet told him to f*** off.

00:38:49.460 We had to kill 60 million people to do it.

00:38:51.700 They can go the hell away.

00:38:53.160 We've got better stuff to do.

00:38:54.500 Okay, well, um, listen, I, I, you know, I, here's what I would say to, uh, this, uh, this gentleman, uh, seems like a nice guy, uh, I, I would be, but, so that's why, because he's a nice guy, I just want to give him some advice that I'd be careful about punching anyone, uh, your arms have the circumference of, uh, uncooked spaghetti, so I, I would be afraid that if you tried to punch somebody that your arms would just shatter into 20 pieces, you know, so I'm worried about you.

00:39:24.240 And, uh, and I know that you say you want us to be afraid, but, and, and, cause you say we're Nazis and we should be afraid.

00:39:30.780 And, um, I'm, I'm just having, I'm having trouble being afraid of a, you know, congealed blob of great value, yellow mustard.

00:39:43.100 Uh, I'm just, I'm having trouble.

00:39:44.920 I'm, I'm, I'm having trouble being afraid of that.

00:39:47.940 Um, I don't know what, it's not clear what I should be afraid of.

00:39:52.020 And I don't mean that as an insult.

00:39:53.080 Again, I'm trying to help you out.

00:39:54.240 You know, if you want to make threats, if you want to make threats, you know, I, I, in your case, I would go probably hit the gym for eight or nine years to be safe and then come back and try it again.

00:40:06.260 And, and in that case, you know, it might actually be a little intimidating.

00:40:10.340 Um, my favorite part of the video though, is when he says, uh, nobody plays enough Wolfenstein anymore.

00:40:19.620 Um, this is his, this is, this is his great lament.

00:40:23.340 These damned kids don't play enough Wolfenstein anymore.

00:40:27.680 You know, they, they, they don't know how good they have it.

00:40:29.900 These kids these days, when I was their age, I had to fight for everything.

00:40:34.760 I, I, I put my life on the line.

00:40:37.280 I played Wolfenstein for hours, hours every day.

00:40:41.040 Wolfenstein.

00:40:42.340 These kids, they don't know anything about that.

00:40:44.060 They don't know what I went through.

00:40:45.540 The sacrifice and the pain and the hardship in Wolfenstein.

00:40:49.680 Wolfenstein, playing my Wolfenstein video game.

00:40:53.600 I still play it.

00:40:54.580 I still fight Nazis every day in Wolfenstein.

00:40:57.320 Every day I play.

00:40:59.140 I haven't gotten married.

00:40:59.980 I haven't had kids.

00:41:00.740 I don't have, I, I, I live in my parents' house because I'm just, I'm, I'm plugging away

00:41:04.340 for hours on Wolfenstein.

00:41:06.180 I can't even eat until my mom brings me a mac and cheese.

00:41:11.600 Still in the fight in Wolfenstein.

00:41:14.780 That's basically what the guy's saying.

00:41:16.700 And he has me beat.

00:41:17.660 You know, he, he plays Wolfenstein way more than I do.

00:41:20.460 I'll give him that.

00:41:21.520 And if we met in Wolfenstein, he would kick my ass in Wolfenstein for sure.

00:41:28.440 Like he forgot to mention that part.

00:41:30.420 But when he's, when he's making these threats, he's saying that in, in the game, if he met

00:41:34.200 any of us, we'd be dead meat.

00:41:36.040 We would be finished in Wolfenstein.

00:41:38.460 And I believe him.

00:41:39.260 I believe him.

00:41:41.380 In the actual physical world though, the fact that he has the arms and physique of Frosty

00:41:45.440 the snowman probably would, um, would get in the way, you know, again, uh, all due respect.

00:41:51.160 Uh, no, no offense intended at all.

00:41:54.340 Um, all right, let's get to the, uh, comment section.

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00:42:52.340 All sarcasm and inside jokes aside, I do wonder what cartoons and games Matt played

00:42:57.100 as a kid and teen.

00:42:58.180 Obviously not Sonic, but if he's an 80s, 90s kid, then there had to be something on SNES

00:43:03.460 or Genesis.

00:43:04.960 Uh, well, I loved cartoons when I was a kid.

00:43:06.840 When I was a kid, being the operative phrase there, but, sure.

00:43:10.420 Uh, you know, my favorite cartoon was probably the Batman animated series when I was a kid.

00:43:15.200 I love that.

00:43:16.080 Which I still, I think still holds up, by the way.

00:43:17.760 I mean, I wouldn't sit and watch it by myself, but, uh, I'll watch it with my, with, with

00:43:22.240 my boys and, and, uh, and they love it.

00:43:24.700 I think it's, uh, it's a good show.

00:43:27.520 Um, and as for games, I, I think I've shared, I definitely shared in the past the trauma that

00:43:31.860 I experienced, my villain origin story.

00:43:33.700 Um, when I, um, when I thought that my parents were going to get me an N64 for Christmas,

00:43:39.520 but they got me a Super Nintendo instead, because I, I had no video game system for the

00:43:43.080 first, you know, until about, I don't know, fourth or fifth grade.

00:43:46.800 And, um, I was finally going to get one.

00:43:50.520 And I think, and this was right when Nintendo 64 came out and I, I thought that it was going

00:43:53.920 to be that, but then they got me, they, they went to the, uh, the, the goodwill down the

00:43:58.540 street.

00:43:58.780 They got the used, they got a used, uh, Super Nintendo and, um, yeah, I've told this, you

00:44:03.840 know, it's a, it's still, I'm still traumatized by it.

00:44:05.860 And maybe that's, you know, if someone were to do a psychoanalysis on me, maybe that's where

00:44:11.360 the, the video game stuff comes from.

00:44:14.080 My, um, my hatred for video games is from that, that moment of, uh, disappointment and

00:44:21.460 trauma, uh, make big balls great again.

00:44:26.360 That's a comment I'm reading.

00:44:27.400 I'm not just saying that.

00:44:28.160 That's a, I'm reading a comment.

00:44:29.760 Uh, but what do you mean by make him great?

00:44:31.600 Big balls was always great.

00:44:33.420 So how dare you?

00:44:34.940 Big balls is already a great American.

00:44:37.380 We don't have to make him great.

00:44:39.320 I'm a little offended by that suggestion.

00:44:41.520 He's saving us billions.

00:44:42.720 He deserves a medal.

00:44:43.620 We salute you, Mr.

00:44:44.440 Big balls.

00:44:44.960 Couldn't agree more.

00:44:46.320 I think we should consider a monument.

00:44:48.760 Really?

00:44:49.260 We should consider it.

00:44:50.280 Should at least consider it to big balls.

00:44:52.560 Uh, something, you know, large monument, something large and, and, and bulbous that will tell

00:44:57.300 the story of big balls through the ages, you know?

00:45:01.340 So you could take your grandchildren one day and they'll see the monument and they'll

00:45:05.840 say, grandpa, what is that?

00:45:09.020 And you'll say that that's, that's big balls.

00:45:11.160 He was a great man.

00:45:12.340 He was a great man.

00:45:13.280 And they'll say, what, grandpa, what did big balls do?

00:45:18.140 And you'll say, he did everything he could, which is all any of us can do.

00:45:24.840 And then they'll say, well, his name is funny.

00:45:26.700 And you'll say, show some respect, you hooligan.

00:45:31.180 Watch your mouth.

00:45:33.320 Uh, this is the perfect comment for the comment section tomorrow.

00:45:35.440 Matt asks what someone would name their kid if they had the last name balls.

00:45:38.800 Well, my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana had a mayor of the, uh, of the name Harry balls.

00:45:45.880 He was a real guy, was elected mayor.

00:45:47.940 He was such an honorable mayor that the city named streets after him.

00:45:51.480 So the Harry balls legacy lives on.

00:45:53.520 I used to drive on Harry balls drive every day to school.

00:45:58.840 You're right.

00:45:59.380 It was the perfect comment.

00:46:00.740 Uh, Harry balls.

00:46:01.700 What else is there to say?

00:46:02.480 I don't, I can't really add to that.

00:46:03.860 There's nothing.

00:46:04.240 I mean, Harry balls, his parents, uh, God bless them.

00:46:08.520 May they rest in peace.

00:46:09.700 I assume they're dead, but they did violate the number one, like the number one rule of naming a child.

00:46:17.020 The number one rule, really the only rule is, is this, that if your last name is a noun, not just a proper noun, but a noun like balls, right?

00:46:28.680 Then do not give your child a first name that could be an adjective.

00:46:36.520 That's, that's the rule.

00:46:38.040 Like at least, if you at least pay attention to that rule, it should work out fine.

00:46:45.240 Um, and apparently they didn't understand that.

00:46:49.560 Uh, let's see.

00:46:50.460 I'm an avid video gamer.

00:46:54.980 I find it hilarious to see people so upset over Matt's feelings on video games.

00:46:58.560 It's not just his, it's just not his thing.

00:47:00.520 Getting personally offended about it makes all the slob gamer stereotypes true. 1.00

00:47:06.160 I couldn't care less if he called video games Satan's spawn itself.

00:47:09.100 He's the show I listen to every day, whether working or gaming.

00:47:11.960 Matt, best DW host by a mile.

00:47:13.720 Um, yeah, well, especially because my take on video, this is the thing that's so funny about all the, you know, the, the controversy over my opinion on video games is that my take on it, it's, it's, my take on video games is disappointingly mild and inoffensive.

00:47:31.440 Like if you told anybody, uh, you know, Matt Walsh, you really, you should hear what he says about video games.

00:47:36.300 It's, it's, it's, it's, and if they went and looked it up, they would be so disappointed because it's, it's actually my most boring take and I have a lot of boring ones, but this is the most boring and yet some gamers just can't get over it.

00:47:51.200 They've been crying about it for years, for years, because my take is simply that if you play video games, you should play them in moderation and they shouldn't be your whole life and they, they, they shouldn't be the most important thing to you.

00:48:03.140 Right.

00:48:03.420 Um, that's it.

00:48:06.580 In fact, I've, I've even said that the comparison between playing video games as a recreation and watching sports as recreation, I think that's an apt comparison.

00:48:13.620 I watch sports.

00:48:15.360 I, I kind of buy the argument that they're sort of similar, you know, um, but, but, uh, you know, and I don't wait, make watching sports into my whole identity.

00:48:26.600 I watch them in moderation.

00:48:27.880 If I, if I spent 20 hours a week watching sports as a grown man, it would be a problem.

00:48:36.540 Like I'm neglecting other things that I should be doing.

00:48:40.900 Taking care of my family, uh, for one thing, but I should also, if I have, if I have extra time

00:48:47.320 as well, then, then I should be developing like other hobbies, other things that I could do, things that, uh, skills and things that involve like going outside and doing those sorts of things.

00:48:58.460 Um, and I would say the same thing with the video games, right?

00:49:03.400 If you spend 20 hours a week playing video games, it's a problem.

00:49:06.580 That's just too much time.

00:49:07.940 That's, that's too much time to be as a, as an adult.

00:49:10.900 That's too much time devoted to pure entertainment.

00:49:13.820 And, uh, I don't know if that opinion offends you, then I don't know what to say.

00:49:19.320 It's just, it's a ridiculous thing to be offended by.

00:49:23.520 Like what opinion, what do you want me to say?

00:49:26.040 Do you want me to say, oh yeah, there's no amount of video game playing.

00:49:28.980 That's a problem.

00:49:30.080 Play it for 80 hours a week as a grown man.

00:49:32.700 That's totally fine.

00:49:33.540 Is that what I, do you need to hear me say that?

00:49:35.260 Just, just play video games until you literally starve to death because you're not even eating.

00:49:41.400 It's the only thing you're doing.

00:49:42.280 Is that the, is that the opinion I need to have in order for it to not be offensive to some people?

00:49:50.340 Uh, apparently so.

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00:50:28.180 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:35.700 You may have heard that the Super Bowl happened last night,

00:50:38.660 and like any red-blooded American, I enjoyed watching the Kansas City Chiefs

00:50:43.020 suffer one of the worst humiliations that we've seen in professional sports

00:50:46.080 this century, probably.

00:50:47.920 But, frankly, I would have preferred that the humiliation was a bit more entertaining to watch.

00:50:53.220 Instead, we were treated to an incredibly dull, uninteresting game

00:50:56.280 to go along with some pretty bland and uninspired commentary from Tom Brady,

00:51:00.040 and perhaps the worst halftime show the NFL has ever subjected us to.

00:51:04.660 The halftime show was so bad that it was almost baffling.

00:51:07.460 And in case you made the wise decision to take a bathroom break during the halftime show,

00:51:12.460 here's what it sounded like.

00:51:13.680 So, you know, that's the rapper Kendrick Lamar, and he performing a song there that 95% of the audience,

00:51:36.640 myself included, had never heard before.

00:51:39.720 And we still have not heard it, because nobody could understand a word the guy was saying

00:51:43.060 as he wandered around the stage for 14 minutes, lethargically mumbling the words to a bunch of songs nobody knows.

00:51:48.900 His performance wasn't really offensive or objectionable.

00:51:52.180 It was just plain old bad.

00:51:54.420 In fact, I'm not even sure we can call it a performance.

00:51:56.560 I'm not even sure if those were songs.

00:51:59.060 He could have been reciting the first 10 pages of the dictionary,

00:52:01.260 or giving us his favorite gumbo recipe, for all we know.

00:52:05.260 He was completely unintelligible the entire time.

00:52:07.620 And his abysmal pseudo-performance brings me back to a radical suggestion I've made before,

00:52:12.320 which is that maybe the NFL should consider a halftime show where a band plays music.

00:52:19.800 And I may now be speaking over the heads of younger people in the audience,

00:52:24.760 because you see here, a band is a group of people who play these things called instruments,

00:52:30.740 which produce something called music.

00:52:33.380 And then usually there will be one person who sings.

00:52:37.040 And almost all popular music used to be made by bands, believe it or not.

00:52:41.600 Now almost none of it is.

00:52:43.440 But it may be time to return to this ancient concept, at least for the Super Bowl halftime show.

00:52:47.580 That's my pitch.

00:52:49.800 In any case, even amid the drudgery of the product that was put on screen last night,

00:52:57.060 there was almost one bright spot last night.

00:53:01.660 Because for the first eight hours of the game, or what felt like eight hours,

00:53:05.360 the commercials were, if not necessarily good, at least not overtly woke.

00:53:10.760 By recent standards, they were basically unobjectionable.

00:53:15.080 Now I would not say the ads were anti-woke by any means,

00:53:17.800 but they weren't trying to force-feed us wokeness at gunpoint.

00:53:20.620 So that was an improvement.

00:53:22.180 But even this meager bright spot was soon sullied just a bit.

00:53:27.040 The non-woke vibes were ruined by two ads in particular.

00:53:30.680 They both had the same theme.

00:53:32.300 They were both attempting to kind of resurrect the 2019-era girl power nonsense. 0.67

00:53:36.900 These were ads that would have made more sense and felt more at home back in the time

00:53:41.340 when Hollywood was trying to convince us that Brie Larson was the next great superhero. 0.61

00:53:45.760 Those days are basically over, but you wouldn't know it from these ads.

00:53:49.320 The first one comes courtesy of the NFL.

00:53:52.360 Here it is.

00:53:52.680 Let's settle this once and for all.

00:53:56.020 Your best guy...

00:53:57.220 Girl.

00:53:57.800 Whatever.

00:53:58.760 Versus our best guy.

00:54:00.480 The Brad.

00:54:01.380 Brad.

00:54:01.980 Brad.

00:54:02.380 Brad.

00:54:02.480 Brad.

00:54:02.980 Brad.

00:54:03.480 Brad.

00:54:03.980 Oh, not the Brad.

00:54:05.560 Brad.

00:54:05.980 Brad.

00:54:06.480 Brad.

00:54:06.980 Brad.

00:54:07.480 Brad.

00:54:07.980 Brad.

00:54:08.480 Brad.

00:54:08.980 Brad.

00:54:09.480 Brad.

00:54:10.480 Brad.

00:54:11.480 I'm Brad.

00:54:12.480 I can read.

00:54:14.280 Brad.

00:54:14.720 Well, here you go.

00:54:15.680 He got bolted up, Brad.

00:54:17.280 Dinner.

00:54:19.380 Okay, okay.

00:54:20.380 That's what I'm talking about!

00:54:25.840 iertee.

00:54:26.280 There you go.

00:54:26.880 You got bolted up, Brad.

00:54:28.980 Get it in.

00:54:31.180 Okay, okay.

00:54:32.280 That's what I'm talking about!

00:54:34.280 Oh! 0.60

00:54:34.780 Oh! 0.60

00:54:36.980 I'mphenated!

00:54:37.680 So the ad beseeches us to join the movement to make girls flag football into a varsity sport.

00:55:02.680 And you would think that if the NFL wanted to promote girls flag football,

00:55:06.180 they would show us something that reflects the reality of girls flag football. 0.97

00:55:10.540 At a minimum, you'd think that it would be something that exists in the same universe as girls flag football. 0.93

00:55:16.820 Instead, we get this fantasy sequence that begins with a man challenging a girl to a game of, I guess, one-on-one football.

00:55:25.280 Now, of course, I have no idea what one-on-one football is or how to play it.

00:55:28.720 If somebody challenged me to go up against them in a one-on-one football contest,

00:55:33.460 I wouldn't even know exactly what they wanted me to do.

00:55:37.580 But in this case, it meant, I guess, that the girl would run with the ball towards the end zone 1.00

00:55:41.820 and the guy would try to tackle her or grab the flags in this case.

00:55:45.840 And the guy apparently did not get a chance to carry the ball himself.

00:55:49.480 So this is a sudden-death football showdown where only one side gets to play offense.

00:55:53.660 Not exactly a fair contest.

00:55:55.920 Now, I know that it may seem like I'm taking the ad a bit too literally, and I am.

00:55:59.500 You might say that the commercial is supposed to be a joke.

00:56:02.640 But yes, but this part of it is not the joke.

00:56:06.940 We are not meant to laugh at the concept of a girl playing against men in football.

00:56:12.060 That's not supposed to be funny.

00:56:14.040 The NFL wants us to take that idea very seriously.

00:56:17.420 The joke in the ad is not that a woman would never in a million years perform that well against men on a football field.

00:56:24.100 That was not the intended joke or point, anyway.

00:56:27.100 The point is supposed to be that men are overconfident morons and women are amazing and perfect

00:56:32.280 and can do anything that men can do, only better.

00:56:35.580 Like I said, this ad is not based in our universe.

00:56:38.540 It would have been more realistic and plausible if she sprouted wings and flew across the field. 0.98

00:56:44.760 That was just one of the girl power ads. 0.87

00:56:46.760 The other was even worse and came to us from Nike.

00:56:50.360 Apparently, and I was surprised by this, Nike has not had a Super Bowl ad since 1988.

00:56:55.560 So this is their long-awaited Super Bowl comeback is here, and this is what they chose for it.

00:57:01.860 You can't be demanding.

00:57:07.300 You can't be relentless.

00:57:09.360 You can't put yourself first.

00:57:11.900 So put yourself first.

00:57:15.200 You can't be confident.

00:57:17.080 So be confident.

00:57:19.060 You can't challenge.

00:57:20.580 So challenge.

00:57:22.220 You can't dominate.

00:57:23.920 So dominate.

00:57:24.740 You can't flex.

00:57:27.560 So flex.

00:57:29.520 You can't fill a stadium.

00:57:31.760 So fill that stadium.

00:57:33.960 You can't be emotional.

00:57:35.780 So be emotional.

00:57:37.400 You can't take credit.

00:57:38.500 You can't speak up.

00:57:39.420 You can't be so ambitious.

00:57:40.480 You can't break records.

00:57:41.420 You can't have any fun.

00:57:42.220 You can't make demands.

00:57:43.560 You can't keep score.

00:57:44.340 You can't stand out.

00:57:45.240 Whatever you do, you can't win.

00:57:47.400 So win.

00:58:03.720 Now, I have seen some cope from some conservatives who claim that this ad is a cultural win because Nike is celebrating women's sports in an ad that features only women.

00:58:12.460 So the fact that no trans-identified male appears in the ad is supposed to be a sign that Nike is turning towards the right or something.

00:58:19.060 But that's not the case.

00:58:20.600 Nike still supports putting men in women's sports, which makes this ad a sign of hypocrisy, not progress.

00:58:27.540 The point of the ad is supposed to be that female athletes are the victims of sexism. 0.99

00:58:32.780 That's what the ad is saying.

00:58:34.440 You can't be demanding.

00:58:35.560 You can't be confident, etc.

00:58:36.800 These are all things that women supposedly hear from our supposedly patriarchal society. 0.98

00:58:41.620 The whole ad is one long feminist trope that we've seen a million times before. 1.00

00:58:46.520 This is not Nike bravely standing up against left-wing gender ideology.

00:58:50.020 It's Nike pandering with a bunch of incredibly overused and ridiculous feminist cliches. 1.00

00:58:56.300 Back in reality, again, nobody is telling women that they can't be confident or ambitious or whatever.

00:59:03.580 Nobody's telling women that they can't win in women's sports. 1.00

00:59:06.640 Of course, women can win in women's sports. 1.00

00:59:08.500 Somebody has to win, and it's going to be a woman. 1.00

00:59:11.620 Unless men are competing, in which case it's going to be a man. 0.77

00:59:14.640 But the richest irony, I think, is that Caitlin Clark is in this commercial.

00:59:21.460 Clark has actually been doubted, criticized, mocked, belittled, hated on.

00:59:29.560 That's true in her case.

00:59:32.200 Except men are not the ones doing that.

00:59:35.720 In fact, most male sports fans like Caitlin Clark.

00:59:40.920 They kind of admire the fact that she's managed to single-handedly make women's professional basketball culturally relevant, sort of.

00:59:48.200 All of the hate towards Caitlin Clark, literally all of it, is coming from other women, most of whom are playing the same sport.

00:59:57.220 In short, her haters are the other women in her league. 0.97

01:00:01.120 And this is very often the case.

01:00:05.340 I'm far from the first person to point this out.

01:00:07.880 But when feminists tell us that women are critiqued and condemned and judged, it doesn't take much digging to find out that it's almost always other women doing the critiquing, condemning, and judging. 0.98

01:00:20.080 This goes for everything.

01:00:23.080 I mean, everything from so-called beauty standards, which are mostly set by women and imposed on themselves for the sake of impressing other women.

01:00:31.880 Because for men, you know, men do have beauty standards, but for men, the beauty standards are pretty simple.

01:00:37.900 Don't be obese.

01:00:39.320 Okay, that's the only beauty standard that men have for women. 0.69

01:00:43.360 Don't be obese.

01:00:44.060 That's it.

01:00:44.940 That's it.

01:00:45.400 But all the rest of it, layering on the makeup and all the other stuff and spending a bunch of money on clothes and all that, like, that's for other women. 1.00

01:00:56.720 That's not, men aren't asking you to do that. 0.81

01:01:00.480 So that's what we find.

01:01:02.220 And that's not to say that men are never mean to women.

01:01:05.060 Of course, they can be.

01:01:06.480 But the vast majority of the meanness that feminists complain about comes from other women. 1.00

01:01:11.420 Like the stereotypical horror movie, the call is coming from inside the house.

01:01:17.660 But I guess Nike didn't want to spend $8 million to make an ad with that message.

01:01:22.480 So we get this mindless girl power routine instead. 0.97

01:01:26.300 At a time when wokeness is dying, this stuff feels more antiquated than ever, but Nike is clinging on to it, and so is the NFL.

01:01:34.060 And that is why they are both today canceled.

01:01:38.120 That'll do it for the show today.

01:01:38.880 Thanks for watching.

01:01:39.860 Thanks for listening.

01:01:40.520 Have a great day.

01:01:41.580 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:42.680 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 10, 2025

Ep. 1533 - Trump Takes A Stand Against Anti-White Persecution

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