The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1560 - All The Reasons Why Abolishing The DOE Is A Great Move By Trump

00:00:00.000 Today on Matt Walsh Show, Donald Trump has taken a major step towards fully abolishing the Department

00:00:04.380 of Education. By every metric, the department has utterly failed our children. We'll take a

00:00:08.140 look at some of those metrics today. Also, alleged comedian Bill Burr appears on The View and has a

00:00:12.060 nice, polite conversation, making it one of the most disgraceful performances by a comedian of

00:00:15.880 all time. A new video shows that we are very rapidly approaching the point where some crazed

00:00:20.040 leftist is going to kill somebody for driving a Tesla. And DoorDash will now offer you the chance

00:00:24.540 to finance your Chipotle order. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:46.780 When Ronald Reagan was campaigning to succeed Jimmy Carter, one of his core campaign pledges

00:01:52.160 was eliminating the Department of Education. After he defeated Carter in a landslide,

00:01:56.120 Reagan reiterated the pledge during his first State of the Union address. The budget plan I

00:02:00.860 submitted to you, Reagan told Congress, will realize major savings by dismantling

00:02:04.560 the Department of Education. But Congress, specifically Democrats in the House of Representatives,

00:02:09.660 ultimately rejected the idea, so Reagan kind of moved on. Nevertheless, Republicans kept promising

00:02:14.660 to get rid of the DOE for many years. In 1996, after Gingrich led the revolution in Congress,

00:02:20.740 the GOP platform stated, quote, the federal government has no constitutional authority to

00:02:24.940 be involved in school curricula or to control jobs in the marketplace. This is why we will abolish

00:02:29.840 the Department of Education. But that never happened either. Instead, when George W. Bush became

00:02:35.060 president, spending on the DOE ballooned by more than 65 percent in just two years. In other words,

00:02:41.180 the party that relentlessly campaigned on getting rid of the Department of Education

00:02:44.920 actually managed to accomplish the exact opposite of their stated goal. They made the DOE even larger,

00:02:50.660 even better funded, and even harder to eliminate. Now, throughout this period, no Republican president

00:02:55.960 even attempted to do what Donald Trump just did yesterday when he signed an executive order

00:03:00.480 directing the Secretary of Education to take, quote, all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the

00:03:06.200 Department of Education and return education authority to the states. And in signing this order,

00:03:10.060 Trump did more to shut down the Department of Education than any of his predecessors.

00:03:15.340 By the Trump administration's own admission, you know, this is not the final step in the process.

00:03:20.800 Congress will ultimately have to take the final step of actually eradicating the department. But

00:03:25.320 in the meantime, the order allows the education secretary to drastically scale back

00:03:30.060 in terms of staffing and funding and operations at the DOE. And on Thursday, Trump explained why this is

00:03:37.520 such an important step to take after so many decades of Republicans trying and failing and then

00:03:42.000 eventually not even trying anymore to get it done. Watch.

00:03:46.260 Today, we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making. In a few moments,

00:03:52.820 I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.

00:04:00.400 after 45 years, the United States spends more money on education by far than any other country and spends

00:04:10.020 likewise by far more money per pupil than any country. And it's not even close. But yet we rank near

00:04:17.760 the bottom of the list in terms of success. It's an amazing stat. That's those are two stats you don't

00:04:24.780 want. The most money spent per pupil and you're at the bottom of the list. And that's where we are,

00:04:29.340 like it or not. And we've been there for a long time. Seventy percent of eighth graders are not

00:04:35.160 proficient in either reading or in math. Seventy percent. Forty percent of fourth graders lack even

00:04:42.340 basic reading skills. Can't read. Students in our public elementary and middle schools score worse in reading

00:04:49.280 today than when the department opened by a lot. In Baltimore, 40 percent of the high schools have

00:04:57.540 zero students who can do basic mathematics. Not even the very simplest of mathematics. I said,

00:05:04.420 give me your definition of basic. And they're talking about like adding a few numbers together.

00:05:09.800 So you just heard Trump outline some statistics showing that while the DOE has grown enormously over

00:05:21.500 the years, the quality of Americans' education has plummeted. The vast majority of our students

00:05:27.080 are not capable of demonstrating proficiency in either reading or math. In a moment, I'll discuss

00:05:32.380 more of these statistics because it's important to spell out the sheer, almost unbelievable magnitude of

00:05:38.200 the department's many, many failures. By every single available metric, the DOE has overseen the

00:05:44.720 collapse of education in this country. But before I go into these details, it's important to understand

00:05:49.980 how the left is responding to Trump's executive order. If you listen to what these people are saying,

00:05:55.140 they're not actually disputing Trump's fundamental claim, which is that the department has not done

00:05:59.620 its job. They're not even trying to claim that the education system in the United States has been

00:06:04.420 improving since the DOE was established or that most students in this country understand basic

00:06:09.260 arithmetic and reading comprehension. They're not disputing the fact that we've gone backwards

00:06:14.200 since Jimmy Carter gave us the Department of Education. Instead, all the arguments from the left

00:06:19.600 amount to some sort of allegation that the vast bureaucracy of the Department of Education will no

00:06:24.840 longer be able to distribute taxpayer money to various school programs. That's the catastrophe that

00:06:30.300 they're complaining about. CNN, for example, trotted out someone who apparently won a Teacher of the

00:06:34.720 Year award back in 2016. And now this person is in Congress. And here's her complaint.

00:06:41.380 What is your reaction to what the president is planning today?

00:06:44.140 I'm disgusted. I'm disgusted because for as much as everyone is having this conversation,

00:06:49.900 I haven't heard anyone say what will happen next. I haven't heard anyone say how the services will

00:06:56.040 continue to be delivered to the 49 million children who rely on special education.

00:07:01.840 So this is one of the ways that large, sprawling bureaucracies manage to stick around for decades,

00:07:06.600 even after it's clear to everyone that they're useless. They grow out of control like a cancer,

00:07:12.600 but at the same time, they still control a small amount of relatively important functions.

00:07:17.780 And they make the claim that if you kill the cancer, then you're also going to kill the host.

00:07:22.260 So think back a few weeks ago to when the Trump administration cut some jobs at the national

00:07:27.220 parks and Yosemite National Park responded by claiming that people were going to get trapped

00:07:33.240 in bathrooms now because the Trump administration had apparently fired their only locksmith.

00:07:38.560 And according to the Washington Post, that one locksmith was the only person in the entire park

00:07:43.400 with the institutional knowledge to rescue people who are trapped in the bathroom. That is to

00:07:48.760 use a key to unlock a door and open the door. There was one guy who was like the keeper of this sacred

00:07:56.520 knowledge and he's been fired. So now we're going to have millions of people starving to death because

00:08:02.300 they've been locked in bathrooms. When you cut funding to any large organization, this is the kind

00:08:07.720 of thing that inevitably happens. They try to make it seem like some kind of disaster is imminent and that

00:08:13.200 you can't possibly account for all the useful functions that bureaucracy was serving. But of course,

00:08:17.680 none of that is true. Yellowstone can simply find another locksmith or they can make a copy of the

00:08:24.320 keys. And along the same lines, the handful of useful functions, the small handful that the

00:08:30.500 Department of Education arguably provides, like supporting disabled children in poor school

00:08:35.220 districts or managing the student loan program, can easily continue even after the DOE itself is

00:08:40.820 abolished. And Trump outlined that plan yesterday. Watch. But the department's useful functions and

00:08:47.920 such as they're in charge of them, Pell Grants, Title One funding resources for children with

00:08:54.240 disabilities and special needs will be preserved, fully preserved. They're all going to be. So if you

00:09:01.060 look at the Pell Grants, supposed to be a very good program, Title One funding and resources for

00:09:06.940 children with special disabilities and special needs, they're going to be preserved in full

00:09:12.400 and redistributed to various other agencies and departments that will take very good care of them.

00:09:19.740 And that's very important to Linda, I know, and it's very important to all of us.

00:09:24.000 So the very key point here is that eliminating the Department of Education is less about cost savings,

00:09:29.540 although those will be significant, and more about returning power over the education system to the

00:09:35.580 states. Right now, bureaucrats in Washington have the power to require school districts and

00:09:40.440 universities to adopt various left-wing policies in exchange for receiving funding. You know, think

00:09:45.160 about the Biden administration's expansion of Title IX to cover trans-identifying students or their

00:09:49.560 funding for racial equity and climate initiatives and so on and so on. Even the student loan program

00:09:54.360 has been manipulated to advance the left's agenda with various pauses that are designed,

00:09:58.840 practically speaking, to force taxpayers to cover the cause. And getting rid of this left-wing

00:10:04.840 control of the education system and handing it back to the states, that's the real objective here.

00:10:10.300 And that's why the head of one of the largest teachers unions in the country, Randy Weingarten,

00:10:14.840 is so irate about the closure of the Department of Education. She's been complaining about it for

00:10:19.740 months now. And yesterday, as she was whining on CNN, the anchor tried to point out that the unions 0.71

00:10:24.960 worked closely with the DOE to ensure that schools were closed throughout the COVID lockdowns.

00:10:30.260 And when she was confronted with this, obviously, and highly inconvenient piece of information,

00:10:35.120 Weingarten simply denied it.

00:10:37.720 ...unions, especially yours, has gotten a lot of criticism in recent years, especially after COVID.

00:10:46.840 We saw, for instance, you know, the support of overly broad school closures. That's one of the big

00:10:53.780 examples. And that has fueled a lot of animus towards the Department of Education, towards

00:11:02.340 teachers unions. Do you reflect on that? I mean, what are you taking away from that and the position

00:11:09.540 that that may have fueled sort of the support that allows President Trump to be in a position to do

00:11:18.240 something that you find so problematic, like eliminating the Department of Education in all

00:11:24.120 intents and purposes?

00:11:26.340 So, Brianna, COVID was a terrible time for us. And as you know, because I was on your show a lot and

00:11:33.860 other shows, I wanted schools to be reopened as early as April of 2020. The issue was the fear and the

00:11:43.560 issue was the safety issues. But COVID has really hurt in so many ways.

00:11:49.480 So, she's just blatantly lying, of course. This woman is a liar. It's all she does. 1.00

00:11:54.120 We all remember the images of teachers going on spring break, even as the teachers unions were arguing

00:11:59.800 that schools needed to remain closed for safety reasons. And it got so bad that in 2021, the largest

00:12:04.840 teachers union in Los Angeles had to send out a memo telling teachers to stop posting their spring break

00:12:10.420 pictures. Quote, if you're planning any trips for spring break, please keep that off of social

00:12:15.980 media. It's hard to argue that it's unsafe for in-person instruction if parents and the public

00:12:20.340 see vacation photos and international travel. Close quote. Yeah, you think? Everybody saw this

00:12:26.440 happening. Everyone understood that the Department of Education supported these closures because the

00:12:29.680 unions demanded them, even though they were clearly fraudulent. But all that needs to be memory

00:12:35.860 hold now, along with everything Randy Weingarten was saying during the COVID lockdowns, you can pull

00:12:41.240 up about a thousand clips and news articles of Weingarten saying repeatedly throughout 2020 that

00:12:47.080 schools should remain closed. That if you try to, if you open schools, you'll be murdering teachers

00:12:52.040 and students. The account Mays on X has gathered a lot of footage highlighting this. And all these clips

00:12:58.520 are from after April of 2020, when she's now claiming she wanted to reopen the schools. But here's what

00:13:03.960 she was actually saying. Watch. And if people are in high risk, they shouldn't be in school. They

00:13:10.360 should be doing things remotely. Just because Donald Trump wants to take a risk with people who go to

00:13:15.260 bars or beaches, those of us who have spent our life teaching kids are not going to take a risk with kids

00:13:22.540 or with our members' lives. Remote and hybrid are really the only two ways you can reopen schools

00:13:32.320 safely. You've got to delay school opening because if you don't have the mask, how are you going to be

00:13:38.420 able to do this? There's a huge difference between working in Walmart and working in a school. You know,

00:13:44.740 even a situation like Florida, where it was pretty clear that schools should not reopen,

00:13:49.760 and where Miami schools did not reopen because you had people who were courageous and who were

00:13:56.480 willing to defy DeSantos' denials. Yeah, so we heard she claimed that she wanted to open schools 0.99

00:14:04.800 in April of 2020. Here we have her in September of 2020, the start of a new school year, still demanding 0.99

00:14:11.600 that schools remain closed. And as devastating as these school closures were, they permanently disrupted

00:14:16.880 the educational and psychological development of millions of school children. They're just one of

00:14:22.300 many, many data points that illustrate the failures of the Department of Education. Donald Trump mentioned

00:14:27.760 a few of those data points in a signing ceremony, but we could go through a few more. If you pull up

00:14:32.860 the Nation's Report Card, which is published by the DOE, you'll find that reading scores for 13-year-old

00:14:38.440 students have declined since the department was established in 1979. So in 1980, the average score

00:14:44.720 was 258. That's the baseline. In 2023, the average reading score was two points lower. And I'm reading

00:14:51.760 directly off of a table from the DOE here, which is intended to show long-term trends. And the trend

00:14:57.380 is clearly negative, regardless of any differences in how the test has been administered. But even among

00:15:02.840 more recent versions of this test, it's still an obvious negative trend. The reading score for 13-year-olds

00:15:08.520 was 257 in 2004. And then again, now it's lower than that. Meanwhile, in 2024, the national average

00:15:16.460 ACT composite score was the lowest it's been in at least the past three decades, even though they've

00:15:22.700 done everything they can to make the test easier. In 2012, the average ACT score was over 21. Now it's

00:15:30.200 19.4. And this is a decline that began several years before COVID. So lockdowns weren't the only

00:15:36.640 cause. Additionally, the number of students scoring below a 16, which indicates that they,

00:15:42.120 it's supposed to indicate that they're not ready to go to college or whatever, has dramatically

00:15:46.280 increased since the 1970s. This is a test that more than a million high school students take every year

00:15:52.220 or about a third of every graduating class. And it's showing very clearly that these students have been

00:15:57.860 underperforming for a very long time. Of course, over time, student-level problems become adult-level

00:16:02.920 problems. That's exactly what we're seeing. A study from Northwestern recently found that

00:16:08.220 throughout most of the 20th century, IQ scores increased by around three to five IQ points per

00:16:14.640 decade. And this is a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. By beginning in 2006, the trend reversed in

00:16:20.840 virtually every single category in this country except for spatial reasoning. Quote,

00:16:24.520 Ability scores of verbal reasoning, logic and vocabulary, matrix reasoning, matrix reasoning,

00:16:30.180 visual problem-solving analogies, and letter and number series, computational slash mathematical,

00:16:36.000 dropped during the study period. The differences in scores were present regardless of age, education,

00:16:41.140 or gender. Now pretty much every major study bears this out. Recently, for example, researchers at the

00:16:47.420 University of San Diego found that Americans' vocabulary skills have significantly declined

00:16:52.820 since the 1970s, even though many more people go to college now. So take a look at this chart here,

00:16:59.700 and that shows the decline of Americans' ability to answer basic vocabulary questions on a standardized

00:17:04.960 test from 1974 to 2016, controlling for education. They use the same words on the test from year to year,

00:17:11.500 so it's a fair comparison. And we can confidently say that there has indeed been a massive drop in

00:17:17.980 verbal ability, as you can clearly see. The researchers concluded that, quote,

00:17:23.020 Americans across all levels of educational attainment have become less able to correctly answer vocabulary

00:17:28.120 questions on a standard test of vocabulary. Increased educational attainment has not led to increased

00:17:34.400 verbal ability. In fact, if you look at the data, you'll find that people with less than a high school

00:17:39.220 education actually have improved the most since the 1970s when it comes to vocabulary. By not going

00:17:45.060 to school, they've apparently learned more vocabulary than people with graduate degrees.

00:17:51.900 Other data shows that Americans still have very limited understanding of statistics and basic

00:17:56.400 geography, despite the best efforts of the Department of Education. National Geographic found that a

00:18:01.520 majority of young Americans grossly overstated the U.S. population. Close to one-third said that the U.S.

00:18:08.420 has one to two billion people, or roughly one-third of the world's population. And additionally,

00:18:15.240 less than 40% of Americans could find England on a map. In other words, test scores, literacy,

00:18:21.620 knowledge of geography and civics, etc., are all on the decline. And really, every, you know,

00:18:27.340 dumb guy on the street video of some American who spent 13 years in public education and probably 0.97

00:18:33.480 another four years in university and can't identify which century the Civil War was fought in 0.97

00:18:39.980 is an indictment of the education system and thus the DOE. And that's why Donald Trump's executive order

00:18:46.160 getting rid of the Department of Education is obviously a major step in the right direction. It's

00:18:49.420 hard to imagine how we can do any worse, frankly. What's coming next is a battle in Congress to finalize

00:18:55.680 the destruction of the DOE so that states can present an alternative, one that prioritizes learning

00:19:00.840 instead of activism and bloat. This is a battle that Democrats are going to fight, primarily

00:19:06.260 because they understand that the DOE is a critical component of their campaign to indoctrinate

00:19:11.320 children, while also benefiting the teachers' unions that they depend on for political support.

00:19:16.920 But if conservatives manage to win this fight, and right now they have the momentum,

00:19:21.380 Donald Trump will once again have achieved the goal that Republicans campaigned on for decades

00:19:24.940 without success. He did it with Roe v. Wade, which a lot of conservatives had given up on.

00:19:29.140 And now he's doing it again with the Department of Education. He's promising to restore this country

00:19:34.560 to the status quo that existed before the DOE was established in 1979, a status quo that produced

00:19:40.420 men who invented the airplane and ultimately landed on the moon. And in that era, we didn't have endless

00:19:46.160 trans rights investigations or universities with bloated endowments from taxpayer-funded student loans.

00:19:51.900 But we did have a functioning education system. And very soon, with the dismantling of the Department of

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00:21:14.300 Okay, the former comedian Bill Burr has been on a media tour recently, I assume promoting something,

00:21:19.620 I don't know what, maybe as a stand-up special or something, I don't really care. On every stop

00:21:23.700 along the tour, he regurgitates left-wing talking points and cries about Elon Musk and Republicans.

00:21:29.340 It continues to be very sad to watch this man, who used to be a funny and edgy comedian,

00:21:35.840 become now a bald, more feminine version of Rachel Maddow, essentially. And now, Bill Burr's transition 1.00

00:21:44.960 is, you know, this kind of spiritual gender transition that he's embarked on is, seems to be

00:21:55.320 complete. It has reached its final stage with an appearance on The View. Let's see some of this.

00:22:04.100 It's a weird time, but I just feel like someone needs to bring the boiling water down to a simmer

00:22:08.960 and everybody on both sides. Like, if you watch CNN, Fox, you go online, or you listen to politicians,

00:22:14.840 it's all, ah! And then you walk out on the street, and someone's like, hey, how you doing? You're like, good.

00:22:19.400 So I don't think they're living in, like, a reality.

00:22:22.100 But is there any particular, anybody getting your ire up these days more than usual?

00:22:28.520 Nerds. 0.62

00:22:29.860 Yeah.

00:22:30.620 The nerds that own the politician.

00:22:32.600 All these tech nerds that want to build robots because they don't know how to talk to hot women 1.00

00:22:36.700 are going to, they're going to take over the world. 0.50

00:22:40.540 They're going to take over, they are literally going to replace us.

00:22:43.600 We're like beta right now, and they're coming out with, like, the VCR.

00:22:47.900 And I think Elon has got the rockets going because they realize there's other Earths out there,

00:22:53.040 and they're going to, they're going to trash this one, and because they don't have any concern for it,

00:22:57.260 and they're going to move on to the next Earth.

00:22:59.940 And, you know, everybody's going to be standing down here with your blue and red ties going,

00:23:03.640 wait a minute, I was on your side, and they're just going to leave.

00:23:06.060 Well, you were talking about death and your set.

00:23:08.280 Do they not realize that they're going to die, these people?

00:23:10.820 They don't realize that eventually everybody dies.

00:23:12.860 Well, I always wondered that about all religions, where they always talk about a wrathful God, 0.99

00:23:15.980 and no one will say to heaven.

00:23:18.080 Now, I'm not going to bother addressing the substance of Bill's point there,

00:23:21.500 to the extent that it has any substance at all.

00:23:22.900 Bill is just boiling with rage and envy.

00:23:26.580 That much is very clear.

00:23:27.700 The amount of envy that these leftists have towards Elon Musk is incredibly obvious,

00:23:32.660 and so obvious that it's really embarrassing.

00:23:36.040 I am actually embarrassed for them because it's so transparent.

00:23:41.380 But that's not even the point.

00:23:43.580 The point to me is this, and I've talked before about Bill Burr's tragic decline,

00:23:48.920 but this is beyond tragic.

00:23:55.800 I mean, think about this.

00:23:58.040 And if you were a Bill Burr fan in the past,

00:24:01.400 or at least if you were aware of his work and what his brand and style used to be,

00:24:07.600 imagine if 10 years ago somebody told you that Bill Burr would appear on The View

00:24:12.780 and not spend the whole time roasting them to their faces and trolling them,

00:24:18.280 but instead sit there politely and agree with them the entire time.

00:24:24.440 Imagine if somebody told you that 10 years ago.

00:24:26.740 10 years ago, if someone said, oh, Bill Burr's going to be on The View,

00:24:29.000 you would say, oh, this is going to be great.

00:24:33.000 Can't wait to see what he does there.

00:24:36.260 And if they tell you, no, he's going to sit and he's just going to agree with them.

00:24:38.620 They're going to have a polite, nice conversation where they agree on everything.

00:24:42.780 Bill Burr, the guy who made his bones as an edgy, anti-feminist comedian,

00:24:49.080 was invited on The View and did not make a single joke at their expense.

00:24:53.320 Didn't roast them, didn't troll them, didn't make fun of them,

00:24:56.320 didn't say anything funny, just sat with these clucking hens and clucked along with them.

00:25:01.840 I mean, my God, it's horrific.

00:25:06.100 And for comparison's sake, let's go back about 25 years to find out what happens

00:25:09.200 when a real comedian, an actual comedian, an actual funny person,

00:25:13.580 somehow manages to get invited on The View.

00:25:15.760 And this is just, and this is really an excuse to play a Norm Macdonald clip.

00:25:18.800 I'll take any excuse I can find.

00:25:20.400 But just by comparison's sake, here's what Norm Macdonald did when he was invited on The View.

00:25:24.520 I think this was like 25 years ago.

00:25:26.120 Let's watch that.

00:25:26.640 I think we should get the homicide out of the White House

00:25:30.720 and get like a fresh start, because we don't want any more murderers.

00:25:34.880 I think we should just go on to the next question.

00:25:37.420 Who are the murderers?

00:25:38.720 Oh, Clinton, he murdered a guy.

00:25:40.560 Yeah, you know, we're not allowed to put out no accusations without...

00:25:43.980 That's a little too far.

00:25:44.960 That's the way it does work.

00:25:45.400 Let's just go on to the next question.

00:25:48.140 Yeah.

00:25:48.720 This is not my week.

00:25:50.040 What can I tell you?

00:25:51.800 Oh, it's not mine either.

00:25:53.460 And I'm being very nice, okay?

00:25:55.040 I'm being a good boy.

00:25:58.920 Now, Norm...

00:25:59.500 Do you never hear that?

00:26:00.700 No.

00:26:01.140 Listen, we don't need to talk about that.

00:26:01.880 I don't want to get into this, and I don't want to hear it,

00:26:04.080 and this is not the place to make those accusations.

00:26:06.320 And you're supposed to be funny.

00:26:07.860 Let's get on to that question.

00:26:09.560 So get with it.

00:26:10.600 There you go.

00:26:12.140 This is a live show.

00:26:13.600 Why?

00:26:14.480 But you have been properly chastised by Barbara.

00:26:16.420 So I'm now going to ask the next question.

00:26:19.040 I thought it was a matter of record. 0.99

00:26:20.600 Shut up. 1.00

00:26:21.520 Shut up. 1.00

00:26:23.180 Look, let me do this, okay? 0.99

00:26:25.540 I'll tell you what's a matter of record. 0.93

00:26:27.100 You will not be invited back if you don't shut up. 0.97

00:26:28.920 All right, now. 0.97

00:26:33.100 Norm MacDonald, rest in peace.

00:26:34.720 That's a real comedian.

00:26:36.000 He had a chance to go on The View, and he did what is God-given...

00:26:38.560 It's your God-given duty as a comedian by hilariously trolling them,

00:26:43.120 making them very uncomfortable.

00:26:44.400 He made the situation extremely awkward in a very funny way.

00:26:47.740 And that's what you do.

00:26:49.180 What Bill Burr did, on the other hand, I mean, it's the comedy equivalent of treason.

00:26:53.600 He committed treason against comedy.

00:26:55.260 It is treason.

00:26:56.000 It is treasonous as a comedian to get invited on The View and to not have a single funny moment

00:27:01.140 where you're trolling them.

00:27:03.520 It really is. 1.00

00:27:05.420 Because Bill Burr is a sad, pathetic, broken shell of a man. 0.99

00:27:08.800 And people have different theories about what happened to him. 0.99

00:27:12.880 How did he go from being actually funny to becoming the kind of guy who gets along with

00:27:17.600 the harpies on The View? 0.99

00:27:19.540 How did that happen?

00:27:20.580 I mean, what the hell happened to this guy?

00:27:21.920 And there's a lot of people point out the fact that Bill married a left-wing feminist

00:27:25.560 some years ago, and that's where his decline began.

00:27:28.720 And I'm sure that has something to do with it.

00:27:30.180 But I think that explanation kind of puts the cart before the horse, really, because,

00:27:35.760 well, why did he marry a left-wing feminist to begin with? 1.00

00:27:40.380 So obviously, there was something going.

00:27:41.760 The decline had started before that.

00:27:46.480 And really, it started when Bill Burr began to achieve mainstream success and recognition

00:27:51.620 in Hollywood, started appearing in Hollywood shows and films, made a lot of friends with

00:27:56.560 Hollywood A-listers.

00:27:58.480 And that's where it starts.

00:28:00.040 That's where it always starts with these people.

00:28:02.900 You know, there's this same deal with Howard Stern. 0.99

00:28:07.460 I was never a big Howard Stern fan, but we all know that he is just a pathetic husk of 0.99

00:28:12.480 what he used to be. 0.99

00:28:14.700 And same deal.

00:28:16.900 He became, he just, you know, went Hollywood.

00:28:19.280 I mean, he just has a lot of Hollywood.

00:28:20.680 You know, there's this cliche you hear all the time where people say, somebody says, oh,

00:28:25.980 so-and-so won't speak the truth because he wants to get invited to the cocktail parties.

00:28:30.900 You always hear about these cocktail parties.

00:28:32.520 And it's kind of cliched.

00:28:35.720 But there's a lot of truth to it.

00:28:38.200 It may not be cocktail parties specifically.

00:28:41.020 You know, I don't know how many cocktail parties Bill Burr actually attends.

00:28:43.960 But the cocktail party really just means social acceptance by the elites.

00:28:50.660 And it's true that once you find social acceptance among the elites, it has the effect of kind of

00:28:56.080 emptying you out, of stripping you of all the things that those elites might find disagreeable.

00:29:03.100 It compromises you.

00:29:04.720 It dulls you.

00:29:05.380 It turns you into, well, it turns you into Bill Burr.

00:29:09.860 All right.

00:29:11.100 You know, we talked a lot about the attacks on Tesla.

00:29:13.180 But it keeps getting worse.

00:29:17.520 And what we're finding is that more and more, it's not just the cars that are being targeted,

00:29:23.140 but the people driving them.

00:29:25.320 And that keeps escalating.

00:29:27.620 And here's the latest.

00:29:28.740 Listen to this.

00:29:29.240 I was thankfully by myself.

00:29:31.700 Lee was on the way to a doctor's appointment in Linwood Wednesday morning when she says

00:29:35.740 all of a sudden a driver behind her just laid on the horn as they came up to a red light.

00:29:40.900 Things spiraled out of control when a white SUV followed her and cut her off, stopping

00:29:45.700 in the middle of the road.

00:29:47.240 Gets out and walks straight up to my door window.

00:29:50.680 So I crack my window and I said, what is the problem?

00:29:54.340 And he goes, you need to sell your car.

00:29:56.740 This is a Nazi car. 0.63

00:29:59.140 You're driving it.

00:30:00.300 You need to sell your car.

00:30:02.080 You know, we are, I mean, first of all, not to victim blame here at all, but

00:30:07.660 if somebody stops in the middle of the road and approaches your car wearing a mask, don't

00:30:16.000 roll the window down and ask them what they want.

00:30:18.540 Drive away.

00:30:20.200 Just get in your car and keep driving.

00:30:22.620 Don't just, so just so you know.

00:30:25.160 And if there's any Tesla drivers out there, as this thing escalates, you should probably

00:30:28.460 know that.

00:30:29.200 You know, when someone, someone who appears to have hostile intentions is approaching

00:30:32.100 your car, don't, don't try to have a conversation with them or, you know, explain yourself.

00:30:37.660 Just get out of there if you can.

00:30:41.080 So we are, and we all know this, rapidly approaching the point where somebody will be killed for

00:30:45.760 driving a Tesla.

00:30:46.800 You know, that's, that's the intent.

00:30:48.220 Make no mistake about it.

00:30:49.500 All of the leftists, the media, Jimmy Kimmel, The Daily Show, all these people cheering on

00:30:54.660 the campaign of violence against Tesla's, Tesla owners, they all know that this will

00:30:58.520 end with somebody getting killed.

00:31:02.140 You know, not end, actually, because it doesn't end there, but it will lead to, and then it will

00:31:05.960 continue from there.

00:31:08.120 But the next step is that somebody gets killed. 0.83

00:31:10.040 They all, they all know that.

00:31:12.580 They're, they're, they're fully aware and they want it to happen.

00:31:17.520 And listen, I know that sometimes I might make use of, of the rhetorical device known as

00:31:23.460 hyperbole.

00:31:24.940 I do that.

00:31:25.880 I do that intentionally, usually for comedic effect.

00:31:29.780 But this is not one of those times, you know, the left actually wants Tesla drivers to be

00:31:35.620 killed.

00:31:36.000 They really do. 1.00

00:31:36.700 They think that you deserve to die if you drive a Tesla. 0.80

00:31:41.040 At the very least, they think that the killing of Tesla drivers is a morally justifiable way

00:31:47.420 to achieve whatever political or social or cultural end they think they're achieving.

00:31:50.980 So remember when I said, you know, when they were cheering on the murder of that health

00:31:56.380 insurance CEO and, and I was, I was not on board with cheering on the murder and I was

00:32:04.660 ripped to shreds in the comments for not getting on board with the celebration of first degree

00:32:09.560 homicide.

00:32:11.040 And even many self-identified, self-identified conservatives who said, you know, they usually

00:32:16.020 agree with me on most things, many of them were actually angry at me, angry because I wasn't on

00:32:23.080 board with hunting down CEOs that we don't like and executing them in the street.

00:32:28.680 And I said at the time, well, I mean, first of all, shooting a man in the back of the head 0.94

00:32:32.220 is just morally wrong.

00:32:34.340 Okay.

00:32:34.540 If we cannot agree on that, if that's not morally wrong, then nothing is.

00:32:38.500 Then just the, then we live, what you are supporting is moral relativism where there is no

00:32:44.040 such thing as good or evil.

00:32:47.160 Because if there's any such thing as evil, sneaking up behind a guy who has not been found guilty

00:32:52.720 of any crime whatsoever and shooting him in the head, like if anything is evil, it's, that

00:32:58.320 has to qualify. 0.99

00:33:00.320 So it's just objectively morally evil, but also if you're on the right and you're on board

00:33:05.180 with that or cheering that on or tolerating that or being understanding of it or whatever,

00:33:10.180 just know that you are being tolerated, tolerant of and understanding of the violence that

00:33:17.540 will eventually be visited upon you as well.

00:33:20.620 You are joining hands with the people who want you dead, just like that CEO and the same 0.87

00:33:28.120 logic that they're using to kill the CEO, they will use against you.

00:33:31.920 Okay, so for these radical leftists, they draw no distinction between that CEO and some random

00:33:39.480 person driving a Tesla.

00:33:41.760 No distinction.

00:33:42.700 And don't take my word for it, ask them.

00:33:45.280 Ask them what they think about.

00:33:46.380 You take any of the, that guy that pulled the woman over, what do you think he would say

00:33:51.180 if you had a chance to ask him?

00:33:53.620 If you would ask him, well, who's more evil, the CEO of that health insurance company or someone

00:33:58.980 driving a Tesla?

00:33:59.600 He would say, oh, you know, they're about the same.

00:34:02.300 They're basically the same. 0.93

00:34:05.320 You're just as evil as that guy if you drive a Tesla.

00:34:07.600 That's the way they see it. 0.99

00:34:08.360 And the precedent they set with the murder of the CEO was not, it's okay to kill CEOs.

00:34:14.000 That was not the precedent.

00:34:15.180 And even that would be bad enough because again, I mean, call me, you know, I didn't think it

00:34:19.900 was a controversial position.

00:34:20.980 Apparently it was like, I don't know.

00:34:22.400 I actually don't agree with that.

00:34:23.340 I don't think that you can just kill someone because the CEO of a company you don't like,

00:34:26.720 right?

00:34:26.880 Um, but that was not really the precedent.

00:34:31.520 The larger precedent was it's okay for us being the left to kill anyone that we find morally

00:34:40.640 objectionable.

00:34:42.520 That was the precedent.

00:34:43.780 So if you were applauding that, that's what you were applauding.

00:34:49.920 It might not have been how you, you might, you might not have seen it that way, but that's,

00:34:55.800 that's what you were doing.

00:34:57.220 That's, that's the team that you were, um, joining there.

00:35:02.480 All right.

00:35:04.080 Some entertainment news, Snow White releases today.

00:35:06.300 It's currently sitting at 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:35:09.200 Um, that's the, uh, critics score.

00:35:12.220 So, you know, this thing has to be really, really bad.

00:35:15.800 I mean, the critics were looking for any way, any excuse to give it a high score.

00:35:20.200 They know that conservatives don't like Rachel Zegler.

00:35:23.660 They, they know that Zegler, you know, is a good little feminist. 1.00

00:35:26.900 This Snow White version is woke and feminist and progressive. 0.95

00:35:30.760 So mainstream film critics want to like a movie like this.

00:35:33.440 It checks all the narrative boxes.

00:35:34.840 It checks all the political boxes.

00:35:36.780 And yet they're still panning it. 1.00

00:35:39.380 Like even they couldn't find a way to pretend that this piece of trash is anything but a 1.00

00:35:43.980 piece of trash. 0.99

00:35:45.000 And just to show you how trashy this is, here's a clip of Rachel Zegler performing a song from 0.99

00:35:50.560 the film, apparently.

00:35:52.080 Uh, the account and wokeness on X posted this along with the caption.

00:35:55.340 And Disney deleted Someday My Prince Will Come and made a modernized feminist alternative. 1.00

00:36:01.420 So this apparently is the song which is in the movie, but here she is, I guess, performing

00:36:05.020 it as some of, some, you know, in some promotional event, performing an acoustic version of this

00:36:10.540 new song, this new feminist, uh, you know, reimagining. 1.00

00:36:15.340 And here it is.

00:36:16.640 They say all you have to do to make your wish come true is let it echo, echo, echo, echo.

00:36:30.060 Your voice will carry through and bring that dream to you.

00:36:36.720 Just like an echo, echo, echo.

00:36:40.560 Well, I can hear the echo loud and clear, but I'm still waiting here.

00:36:51.480 So that's, uh, one of the new Snow White songs, apparently it's, uh, awful, generic, the most

00:37:00.000 generic reheated pop music slop imaginable.

00:37:04.100 Uh, nevermind that the, the lyrics make no sense at all.

00:37:07.300 All you have to do to make your dream come true is, is let it echo.

00:37:10.640 Is it like, what does that even, I mean, even on a, I know it's a metaphorical, on a metaphorical

00:37:15.720 level, what does that mean?

00:37:17.360 What does that supposed to mean?

00:37:18.560 In what metaphorical sense does a dream come true by echoing?

00:37:23.100 Okay.

00:37:23.320 The, the metaphorical imagery doesn't, doesn't work because shouting your dreams into the

00:37:27.760 void and listening to the hollow echo as it reverberates into the ether.

00:37:32.500 Uh, that's like, that's a good metaphor for what you shouldn't do if you want your dreams

00:37:38.060 to come true.

00:37:38.960 So a truly bad song with some bad life advice on top of it.

00:37:42.560 And I have to say, I was thinking about this, that I'm a big critic of AI and art.

00:37:47.060 I think as, as you know, I've talked about it.

00:37:48.960 I think that there are a lot of legitimate uses of AI.

00:37:52.300 I think AI is an impressive technology, but it needs to stay far away from art.

00:37:56.540 AI art is death.

00:37:58.680 AI art is an atrocity.

00:38:01.120 Um, I hate the very idea of it, but then I hear that and I think, well, that might as

00:38:08.500 well have been written and performed by AI.

00:38:11.200 That is essentially an AI Disney princess song, except allegedly written by humans.

00:38:20.580 So we're already there.

00:38:21.980 I mean, AI took over a while ago.

00:38:24.120 It's not just the song, but the film itself.

00:38:26.480 All of these, um, you know, live action Disney remakes might as well be AI generated.

00:38:32.880 They're already algorithmically generated.

00:38:37.100 These films are created by people in corporate offices sitting around tables, looking at algorithms

00:38:43.980 and buzzwords and trends and so on.

00:38:46.140 And, and, and then the film is created not as, uh, not as an act of artistic inspiration

00:38:52.560 and creation, but rather they're, they are assembled on a kind of corporate Hollywood

00:38:57.760 assembly line, uh, in order to check all the, the various, uh, not just the political boxes

00:39:03.700 and, and, and all of that, but also just to check the, you know, the, the storytelling

00:39:07.540 boxes that you need to.

00:39:09.420 So, um, so AI has already taken over in effect.

00:39:13.820 I mean, we're already there.

00:39:14.720 This, this, this, this snow white film, which I haven't seen.

00:39:18.800 And of course I'm not going to see, but, um, by all accounts, it's, you could have just

00:39:24.560 made it with AI and it would be the same quality, which is a poor quality.

00:39:29.540 And it would, but, but more importantly, it's not just quality.

00:39:32.680 It would have the same kind of, it would have the same level of human inspiration behind

00:39:38.440 it, which is none.

00:39:41.240 I think that's the point.

00:39:42.820 America is shedding the old grime of BLM and DEI. 0.94

00:39:46.520 The fresh scent of Jeremy's new hand soap, uh, Noble Waters is here to help the nation

00:39:51.400 wash its hands of woke sulfate, paraben, and DEI free.

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00:40:21.960 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:40:29.260 We have a very simple daily cancellation today.

00:40:31.680 This will not be the soaring, inspiring speech that yesterday's cancellation was at least hoping

00:40:36.280 to be today.

00:40:37.120 Today we have to deal with something not quite as important, but still worth complaining

00:40:40.260 about for five or six minutes.

00:40:41.960 Uh, I will let Yahoo Finance report the news.

00:40:45.560 Here it is.

00:40:46.980 Buy now, pay later firm Klarna.

00:40:49.280 This one is landing and partnering up with DoorDash.

00:40:52.940 In the coming months, customers will be able to use Klarna services to purchase groceries,

00:40:57.500 retail, and a DashPass annual plan.

00:41:00.620 And customers will have the option to pay for their purchases in full in four equal installments

00:41:05.940 or defer payments to a more convenient time here.

00:41:09.580 Shares right now of DoorDash up by one and a half percent.

00:41:13.340 We know that a lot of consumers, they've been pretty squeezed when you go to the grocery store.

00:41:17.180 So the fact that we're seeing this buy now, pay later partnership for DoorDash, I think

00:41:21.460 could be a positive, hence the share uptick that we're seeing today.

00:41:25.020 Yes, you heard that right.

00:41:26.820 DoorDash will be introducing a buy now, pay later option to their service.

00:41:31.020 So you'll be able to finance your hamburger.

00:41:33.700 If you don't have the money to pay for your Chipotle burrito bowl right away, no worries.

00:41:37.800 You can lock into a 15-year fixed burrito mortgage with a competitive interest rate of only 9.7%.

00:41:42.920 If you need to free up more cash down the road to pay for a Dunkin' Donuts order or something,

00:41:48.220 you can always refinance.

00:41:50.020 And with any luck, in a few years, you'll only have $20,000 or $30,000 in fast food delivery

00:41:54.580 debt that you've got to deal with.

00:41:56.320 So this is a sound financial strategy.

00:41:58.500 Yes, take on more debt for the sake of having a stranger with questionable hygiene drive your 0.97

00:42:04.140 Wingstop chicken tenders to your door instead of just driving there to pick them up yourself.

00:42:09.200 Or better yet, making a meal at home.

00:42:11.440 Axios has some more information about this exciting financial opportunity.

00:42:15.060 They report, quote, Klarna will provide multiple payment options in DoorDash, including

00:42:18.920 pay immediately, pay in four, which allows customers to pay in four equal interest rates

00:42:23.800 interest-free installments, pay later, which also allows them to defer payments until what

00:42:29.860 Klarna calls a more convenient time.

00:42:32.560 DoorDash rival Grubhub was already offering Klarna payment services, but DoorDash is the

00:42:37.640 market leader in restaurant delivery services, commanding nearly 60% of the market, according

00:42:42.220 to Ernest Analytics, making its move into BNPL a seismic moment for the payment option.

00:42:47.380 In addition to food, DoorDash also offers delivery from a wide variety of other retailers, quote,

00:42:52.040 by offering smarter, more flexible payment solutions for groceries, takeout, and retail

00:42:55.600 essentials, or making convenience even more accessible for millions of Americans.

00:43:00.180 That's according to the chief commercial officer of Klarna.

00:43:03.120 So yeah, smarter, smarter payment solutions.

00:43:08.700 Silly me, I thought the smartest payment solution for a Wendy's double baconator and fries is to

00:43:13.720 go through the drive-thru and just pay the eight bucks for it, or don't buy it in the first place 0.65

00:43:19.740 because you'd be better off eating roadkill.

00:43:21.900 The rotting flesh of a dead raccoon that's been sitting on the side of the highway for four

00:43:25.940 and a half days would be healthier, probably taste better, and best of all, it's free.

00:43:30.300 But the chief commercial officer of Klarna disagrees.

00:43:33.340 He points out that, you know, sometimes the smartest strategy is to take on actual debt,

00:43:38.100 make yourself actively poorer for the sake of a greasy, soggy, room-temperature hamburger.

00:43:44.740 Dave Ramsey is rolling in his grave.

00:43:47.660 Dave Ramsey isn't even dead, but he's rolling in his grave.

00:43:50.680 He heard about fast food delivery financing and then went and buried himself alive.

00:43:55.400 He just couldn't take it anymore.

00:43:56.540 He's given up on the world and all of us.

00:43:58.600 But remember, this is smart.

00:44:00.900 It's a smart payment solution.

00:44:03.420 Even before this exciting debt opportunity, DoorDash already gave you the chance to take

00:44:09.080 a $13 lunch from Panda Express and turn it into a $65 dining experience.

00:44:15.420 And now when you add in interest payments over the lifetime of the Panda Express loan,

00:44:18.920 maybe you'll be able to take $13 worth of Panda Express orange chicken and turn it into a negative

00:44:23.860 $100 or negative $1,000.

00:44:25.620 The possibilities are endless.

00:44:26.600 Now, of course, in theory, everyone recognizes that this is insane.

00:44:32.700 Everybody on social media is having a lot of fun mocking the concept of DoorDash payment plans.

00:44:37.500 But we all know that most of those people will end up actually using the payment plans.

00:44:43.500 The siren song of the deferred payment for that sushi order will be too much for most American consumers to resist.

00:44:51.880 After all, deferred payment means that I don't have to pay right now, which means that it's basically free.

00:44:58.520 As much currently, it's free then.

00:45:00.940 Like, as far as the current version of me is concerned, it's free.

00:45:04.460 Future me, it won't be free for him, but for current me, it is.

00:45:09.560 This is exactly the attitude that's allowed us as a country to rack up $1.2 trillion in collective credit card debt.

00:45:15.560 Yes, that's trillion with a T.

00:45:16.880 But really, the DoorDash business model, like, again, even without this payment plan stuff, should not be sustainable in the first place.

00:45:27.480 Forget about the madness of payment plans for fast food.

00:45:29.720 Even without that, DoorDash and Uber Eats should not be able to stay in business.

00:45:35.060 It is an indictment on all of us that these services exist in the first place.

00:45:39.280 Only in a society plagued by an epidemic of extreme laziness and extreme financial illiteracy could these companies exist.

00:45:47.140 And I say that as somebody who uses Uber Eats, like, probably once a week.

00:45:51.300 So I am including myself in this indictment.

00:45:54.180 I am part of the problem.

00:45:57.120 We are allowing ourselves to be scammed in outrageous, gratuitous ways.

00:46:06.700 So just to be more specific, I went on the app this morning to look at the breakdown of additional fees.

00:46:16.100 And so just for example, okay, I just pulled up an example.

00:46:19.260 An Asiago sausage and egg sandwich from Panera Bread is $8.29, which is already too much. 0.98

00:46:25.500 Panera Bread is already way overpriced, and it's garbage.

00:46:28.240 But that same sandwich on Uber Eats is $18.61. 0.83

00:46:33.760 And that's before tip.

00:46:35.800 With the suggested tip, it goes up to $23.61.

00:46:39.700 That's a tip that, of course, you're paying before the item is even delivered to you.

00:46:43.500 You're rewarding the driver for good service before the service is performed.

00:46:48.300 So that when the service is inevitably terrible, as it almost always is,

00:46:52.220 and he delivers your food 45 minutes later than the estimated delivery time,

00:46:55.620 and it's cold by the time you get it, and he appears to have taken a bite out of the sandwich,

00:46:59.520 he still gets the tip.

00:47:01.580 So that's how you end up paying $23 for an $8 breakfast sandwich.

00:47:07.040 $23 for a breakfast sandwich.

00:47:11.260 How does it get that expensive?

00:47:12.580 Well, because along with the tip, you're required to pay a delivery fee and a service fee and tax.

00:47:18.580 And as we know, the delivery fee and service fee are two different things.

00:47:22.100 You might think that they must be the same thing.

00:47:24.360 After all, the service is delivery.

00:47:26.360 But no, they're two different fees.

00:47:27.900 And if you want there to be any chance that your breakfast might be delivered sometime before dinner,

00:47:33.060 you need to opt for additional priority delivery.

00:47:36.000 So that's an additional fee.

00:47:37.600 So that's three additional fees plus tip.

00:47:41.480 And then you might think, well, shouldn't my delivery be a priority anyway?

00:47:45.720 Why do I have to pay extra to make my delivery a priority?

00:47:49.760 Shouldn't that just be basic customer service?

00:47:52.000 Isn't that like an airline charging extra if you want a crash-free flight?

00:47:56.360 You can have a regular flight, or you can pay a 12% fee for a priority flight experience

00:48:02.180 where the pilot prioritizes keeping the plane in the sky.

00:48:06.080 But that's the way it works.

00:48:07.780 Because we're getting totally scammed and ripped off by these companies.

00:48:12.960 And now they want to rip us off even more.

00:48:15.440 We shouldn't tolerate it.

00:48:16.840 We shouldn't go along with it.

00:48:18.440 But we will.

00:48:19.320 Because there's no price we won't pay for the sake of convenience.

00:48:25.300 DoorDash could offer a new service where, for a $20 additional charge,

00:48:28.720 the driver will cut your food up for you and feed you like a baby, 0.55

00:48:32.540 so you don't have to move your arms or make the slightest effort at all.

00:48:36.480 And many customers would pay it.

00:48:38.080 They'd even pay another $5 fee for the baby bird experience where the driver chews the food for you

00:48:44.960 and regurgitates it, so you don't have to deal with the effort of moving your jaw.

00:48:50.440 There is no cost we won't pay for the sake of convenience.

00:48:54.820 That much is clear.

00:48:55.560 So this business model of taking stuff, taking food that's already kind of overpriced

00:49:02.340 and making it so much more expensive and making it so that it takes longer to get to you

00:49:09.300 than it would otherwise if you just got it yourself, that shouldn't work.

00:49:15.960 It should not be a sustainable business model, but it is sustainable.

00:49:20.320 Payment plans for lunch should not exist, but they do.

00:49:22.660 Nobody should ever take out a loan for fast food, but they will.

00:49:27.560 That's the reality.

00:49:29.780 And that is why DoorDash and Uber Eats and their payment plans and all of their customers,

00:49:35.440 including myself, are all today canceled.

00:49:40.060 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

00:49:41.840 Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 21, 2025

Ep. 1560 - All The Reasons Why Abolishing The DOE Is A Great Move By Trump

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