The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1562 - This May Be The Dumbest Hate Crime Hoax Yet

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a government employee in Pennsylvania claimed that she was

00:00:03.080 the victim of a racist incident involving a noose, surprising no one. It turns out it was

00:00:06.860 a hoax like literally every other racist noose incident this century. Also, we'll discuss a

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00:02:12.420 and start getting your best sleep tonight. Usually miniaturization is a clear sign of human

00:02:19.260 progress. When things get smaller, it means there's been a major breakthrough that required a lot of

00:02:23.640 intellectual firepower to achieve. Handheld cell phones now have far more computing power than the

00:02:29.120 cabinet-sized machines that NASA used to put the first man on the moon. Televisions that used to

00:02:33.500 take up half the living room are now thinner than a pencil and so on. None of these developments

00:02:37.420 happened without a lot of ingenuity from some of the smartest people on the planet. But

00:02:41.360 there is one recent high-profile example of miniaturization that, it has to be said,

00:02:47.180 is not evidence of progress or cleverness or anything like that. In fact, it's quite the

00:02:51.640 opposite. This particular example of miniaturization is yet another, yet more evidence that there is an

00:02:57.800 epidemic, a pandemic of stupidity across certain sectors of the United States. Put another way, 1.00

00:03:04.200 in this case, shrinkage most definitely does not signal the advancement of human civilization.

00:03:08.580 Instead, it signals, quite possibly, the death knell of a political movement, and not a moment too

00:03:14.080 soon. I'm talking in particular about the size of a noose that was just used in a hate crime hoax

00:03:20.000 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Now, as you probably know, hate crime hoaxes involving nooses used to be

00:03:25.800 a cottage industry on the left. They jumped the shark with Jussie Smollett. But up until that point,

00:03:31.260 you couldn't go a month without hearing about one of these noose stories. And in every case,

00:03:35.300 there was a life-size noose that was allegedly involved. Smollett said the MAGA subway assassins

00:03:42.000 threw a noose around his neck, and it fit around his neck perfectly. Bubba Wallace said he had the

00:03:47.700 full-size noose that was hanging in his garage. Turns out it was a garage door pole. Many, many more

00:03:51.880 examples, which I'll get to some of them in a second. But as of this moment, as we sit here in

00:03:56.720 the year 2025, it's my solemn duty to inform you that hate crime hoaxers are no longer using normal-sized

00:04:02.960 nooses. The nooses that they use in these hoaxes have, in fact, shrunk. And they've shrunk dramatically

00:04:09.160 to a comical degree. So take a look at this image here. You can see it up on the screen.

00:04:16.880 This is a noose that back in January was reported to the police by a city employee in Allentown.

00:04:24.420 And she says that she went to her desk and saw this miniature noose, this kind of like

00:04:30.780 Barbie-sized noose on her laptop at work. And then she ran upstairs and told the cops about it.

00:04:39.060 In a moment, I'll play some news footage about this incident to give you more context. But for now,

00:04:43.800 you just look at this noose. I mean, you can see the size of it. In case you're listening to the audio

00:04:48.280 podcast, it's an image of a laptop computer apparently manufactured by Microsoft. And

00:04:53.060 there's a noose on top of the laptop. And this noose is just a little bit bigger than the Microsoft

00:04:58.140 logo on the laptop. It's barely the size of the stickers on the laptop. So we're talking about,

00:05:04.980 this is like a noose for ants. If this noose is going to lynch anyone, it would have to be a

00:05:09.220 character from Bugs Life or something. That's the extent of the damage that this thing could do.

00:05:13.340 And yet, this is the noose that back in January and February caused a crisis

00:05:17.460 of historic proportions in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Watch.

00:05:22.420 Well, as we know, dozens of folks voiced outrage in front of Allentown City Hall today. This is an

00:05:27.740 investigation that is continuing into an item resembling a noose that was reportedly found

00:05:32.860 on a city employee's desk. And our Nikki Dementry has got the latest on. She's in Lehigh

00:05:37.780 County with reaction from the city and community leaders about this investigation.

00:05:41.560 When black lives are under attack, what do we do?

00:05:47.520 A call for action and fight for change. We will not be silenced. Community members and leaders

00:05:55.300 made their voices heard in front of Allentown City Hall Monday afternoon. Just to think that

00:06:00.320 people have to go to work in fear for their lives. Since Friday, Allentown police continue to

00:06:06.720 investigate an item resembling a noose found on a city employee's desk. This egregious act

00:06:12.040 is not just an affront to one individual, but it is an attack on the entire community.

00:06:18.980 Josie Lopez is a close friend of the victim. They're always a community leader, always pushing

00:06:23.680 for equality. They might be bruised right now, but they are not broken. The victim is not being

00:06:29.480 named due to safety concerns. Our colleague was threatened. This was an act of terror. This was

00:06:36.660 a hate crime. It's an act of terror, hate crime, an egregious act. Somebody was trying to lynch

00:06:43.920 a flea or a mosquito or something. And one of the first things that you notice when you pull up

00:06:50.660 these videos on YouTube is that immediately, everybody knew it was fake. Two months ago,

00:06:55.400 every single comment was some variation of, it's a hoax. It's only on television and the corporate

00:07:00.220 press that you're told to take this kind of nonsense seriously. You're supposed to feel sorry for

00:07:04.300 the victim who's so traumatized by this microscopic news that she can't even be named. It's just too

00:07:11.340 dangerous to identify the person who reported this news. After all, as you heard, it's an act of

00:07:15.060 terrorism. And therefore, the protesters demanded a full FBI investigation, which couldn't possibly

00:07:20.080 backfire, of course. Watch.

00:07:21.760 Speakers presented a list of demands to city officials, including that the incident should

00:07:32.060 be investigated as a federal hate crime. Councilwoman Cece Gerlach tells Action News that a member of

00:07:37.760 Allentown's Department of Community and Economic Development made the disturbing discovery after the

00:07:43.000 employee requested mediation for complaints about workplace discrimination. That hearing was set

00:07:48.500 the day before this discovery. So you got to call in the, um, honey, I shrunk the kids, uh, division

00:07:55.460 of the FBI to, you know, they're, they're the ones who, who, uh, specialize in microscopic miniature

00:08:00.700 sized hate crimes. Now, if anyone involved in this reporting had any interest in actually doing their

00:08:05.800 jobs, they'd immediately notice that the timing here is very suspicious. So here are the facts. A city

00:08:10.300 employee has complained about bigotry in the workplace. And then within 24 hours of a hearing on that

00:08:17.280 topic, a noose ends up on that person's desk. And that's pretty convenient to say the least. I mean,

00:08:24.080 it means one of two things is possible. Either we're dealing with an extremely committed racist

00:08:28.020 or we're seeing the exact same pattern that we saw with Jesse Smollett and a million other examples.

00:08:33.160 I remember that Smollett was complaining about racism before he paid his two friends to stage an

00:08:36.840 attack. He didn't think he was being taken seriously, probably because he was fabricating the whole thing.

00:08:40.380 So he decided to take things a step further. But again, the local media, along with, uh,

00:08:44.520 Allentown's mayor and the rest of the Democrat party told everyone to ignore their common sense

00:08:48.360 and take this woman very seriously. And that continued right up until the investigation

00:08:52.220 revealed what everyone already knew, which is that the city employee had planted the noose there

00:08:56.800 herself. Uh, the employee, a woman named Latarsha Brown, not even Latarsha, Latarsha was the only 0.99

00:09:04.900 person with DNA on the noose. So watch as the local CBS news station pretends to be shocked and horrified

00:09:11.000 by this development as if no one could have possibly seen it coming other than every single

00:09:15.180 person living in the state of Pennsylvania or anywhere else on the globe.

00:09:19.840 It was all a lie. That is according to police in Allentown city worker claimed that she found a

00:09:26.840 rope tied like a noose on her desk at work. It sparked an FBI investigation as people wondered if 0.95

00:09:32.860 this was a hate crime. Now investigators say the worker staged the whole thing. Police say it took

00:09:39.480 intricate DNA testing to solve this case in their minds. And yes, a shocking turn in this case that

00:09:45.400 brought protests and demand for change to Allentown. Police now saying they believe the woman that found

00:09:51.540 that noose actually put it on her own desk. This item resembling a noose sparked outrage in

00:09:58.320 Allentown when it was reportedly found on a city worker's desk in January. On Monday, police say they

00:10:03.800 believe the person who found it put it there. LaTarsha Brown was charged with tampering with or fabricating

00:10:09.980 physical evidence, a misdemeanor of the second degree and false reports to law enforcement.

00:10:15.200 Allentown police say they reviewed surveillance video and access records, interviewed other city

00:10:19.680 employees and asked for their DNA. Every employee agreed except for Ms. Brown. Police also say Brown was

00:10:26.520 initially cooperative with the investigation, but later asked it be discontinued.

00:10:30.680 So to recap, CBS Philadelphia, along with the mayor of Allentown, a bunch of Democrat activists

00:10:35.960 presented a completely unverified claim, one that was obviously fraudulent. They presented it as fact.

00:10:42.120 They didn't do any research into the person making the claim. In fact, they wouldn't even tell you who

00:10:45.680 the person was. At no point do they present any context, like the vast number of fake hate crime

00:10:50.680 hoaxes involving nooses in this country. You know, that's important context, that these things are

00:10:55.300 always fake, but they didn't, they didn't tell you that. And this is still happening in 2025 in a post-Smollett

00:11:01.480 world. Just to explain exactly what happened, when LaTarsha Brown didn't provide her DNA voluntarily, the cops went to 0.96

00:11:09.460 a judge and got a warrant that compelled her to do so. And then they compared her DNA with the DNA they recovered

00:11:15.300 from the outer surface and inner knotted portion of the news. And that was the smoking gun. Now, at this point, you might

00:11:20.920 think that these activists, as well as the mayor, would demonstrate some degree of shame or humility

00:11:25.520 after this total embarrassment, or at the very least, you might think that they'd stop talking about this

00:11:30.240 case and just try to go away and pretend it never happened. But that's not true. They're actually

00:11:34.160 doubling down. Watch.

00:11:36.760 Josie Lopez, a friend of Brown's who helped organize the rally, claims Brown has faced discrimination and

00:11:41.980 retaliation in the past and is adamant she's innocent. In a statement, she said in part, quote,

00:11:46.960 this is not just an attack on LaTarsha. This is a warning to anyone in Allentown who dares stand up

00:11:52.580 against injustice. This is a smear campaign. This is retaliation. But Mayor Matt Turk believes the

00:11:58.700 incident has helped bring the conversation over inclusion to the forefront at City Hall.

00:12:03.160 That has helped lead conversations in City Hall about what it means to be inclusive,

00:12:09.920 about what it means to respect each other's employment, and that will continue.

00:12:14.900 Yes, it's a frame. She's being set up. It's an inside job. So the woman's friend, 0.72

00:12:22.520 the same activist from the video we played earlier, says that LaTarsha Brown, I don't know

00:12:27.480 why LaTarsha is so funny to me, but it is. LaTarsha Brown is being framed, essentially,

00:12:32.400 and the mayor of Allentown says that this is a great opportunity to talk about why we need more

00:12:36.320 inclusivity. They don't even pretend to care about the fact that they lied to millions of people for

00:12:40.880 two months in order to push a narrative that white supremacists are emboldened by Donald Trump

00:12:44.680 or whatever. They don't announce any real consequences for this woman who still hasn't 0.82

00:12:48.440 been fired from her government job. As far as we know, she still has her job, almost certainly not

00:12:53.740 going to jail. These people are willing to say anything except the truth, which is that this

00:12:58.300 hate crime hoax, like so many others, once again demonstrates that the left's demand for racism in

00:13:04.340 this country, as we always say, far outstrips the supply. But it's worth spending some time thinking

00:13:09.800 about the specific kind of racism that Democrats seem intent on conjuring into existence. They're

00:13:15.000 really, really hung up on nooses, no pun intended. They're convinced that white supremacists are lurking 0.96

00:13:20.340 in the shadows with nooses all over the place, whether they're at NASCAR races or nondescript city

00:13:25.280 offices in Allentown or random city blocks in Chicago. Anywhere you look, according to these people,

00:13:30.560 there's a good chance a white supremacist is hiding in the bushes armed with a noose. So here's just a

00:13:35.640 brief, very non-exhaustive recap of recent hate hoaxes involving nooses. Late last year in St.

00:13:41.780 Louis, Missouri, a noose was found in the restroom of a stadium used by high school football teams.

00:13:47.620 The NAACP immediately blamed the rope on conservatives, saying that they were responsible

00:13:51.320 for fostering an atmosphere of bigotry. But the school district quickly found that, quote,

00:13:55.600 after extensive conversations and investigation, we do not believe this to be a racially motivated

00:13:59.780 incident. Turns out to be a kid in crisis who had placed the noose, the school district said,

00:14:04.480 without elaborating any further. But that didn't stop the school district from putting out a

00:14:09.400 statement that basically blamed racism anyway. Quote, we understand the symbolism of a noose and

00:14:14.920 the harm has caused to our community. The Francis Howell School District will not tolerate hate or

00:14:20.040 racially motivated violence in our schools or on our campuses. They're saying that even though

00:14:25.100 they know that this was not hate or racially motivated. Also late last year, as reported by the

00:14:30.240 College Fix, a staff member in Sherwood High School thought that she spotted a noose in a

00:14:34.340 flagrant example of white supremacy. The staff member, quote, discovered a small rope tied in

00:14:40.820 a manor resembling a noose draped over the fence surrounding the school's tennis court. In the end,

00:14:45.920 it turned out to just be a normal rope. It was just a rope. But that didn't stop the principal of the

00:14:50.460 school from apologizing anyway. Quote, while our investigation determined that the individuals

00:14:54.280 involved did not intend to communicate a racist or anti-black message, the impact of such imagery is

00:14:59.800 deeply harmful and cannot be understated. We recognize how disturbing and upsetting this symbol

00:15:05.080 can be, particularly to our black community members. And we're treating this matter with the utmost

00:15:08.880 seriousness. So he's apologizing for a rope. It was just a rope that you could, if you go to, if you go to

00:15:14.780 Lowe's, you know, Lowe's or Home Depot, you're going to find whole sections of rope. But to some people,

00:15:21.820 just seeing a rope in any configuration is very traumatizing to them. It's like watching all the

00:15:27.420 politicians reading the same script after they tested positive for COVID back in 2021 and 2022.

00:15:32.300 They told us that they were really grateful for the vaccine, even as they admit the vaccine didn't

00:15:37.160 prevent them from getting sick. It's a very similar kind of thing. In 2022, at the University of

00:15:41.200 Virginia, there was a big uproar over a noose that was placed on the statue of Homer on the campus's

00:15:46.720 South Lawn. And according to UVA's alumni magazine, the noose, quote, caused mounting unease for black UVA

00:15:53.000 community members. UVA officials, including the president of the university, suggested that white

00:15:57.280 supremacy was to blame. They had no evidence for saying that, but they just went ahead and made the

00:16:01.960 claim anyway. In the end, it turned out that some guy who lived in the neighborhood nearby was

00:16:06.600 really upset at Homer because they thought he was a pedophile. And so they put the noose there.

00:16:12.680 There was no racial anger angle whatsoever. He just thought pedophiles should be punished. And so he

00:16:19.280 decided to put the noose on Homer. Nobody at UVA apologized for lying about that episode either.

00:16:24.700 And then, of course, in 2021 and 2022, as you may remember, this is my personal favorite example of

00:16:31.140 these kinds of stories, where nooses were reported at construction sites all over the country.

00:16:37.240 Suddenly, out of the blue, construction workers decided to go full KKK. And they did it anywhere they 0.77

00:16:42.620 could, whether it was Obama's presidential temple or random Amazon construction sites.

00:16:47.420 the media was sure that the rope that they were finding everywhere had nothing to do with

00:16:53.320 construction. It was definitely racism. And remarkably, despite national media attention and

00:16:58.120 large cash rewards, they never caught the culprit in any of these incidents. They were shutting down

00:17:04.900 construction sites all over the country because they kept finding rope, and they assumed that it

00:17:08.940 was some sort of racist spree that was happening. And then they just moved on, even though they never

00:17:15.620 found the person who did it, because there was no culprit. Because construction sites just have

00:17:19.940 rope sometimes. It's like a thing you have on construction sites. But again, just as no one

00:17:25.240 ever apologized when Bubba Wallace's noose turned out to be a door pull, no one apologized for this fake

00:17:30.040 hysteria either. Nor did they apologize in 2018 after various news outlets, including CNN, CBS, and ABC

00:17:35.800 News reported on the discovery of several nooses in trees near the Mississippi State Capitol. CBS reported

00:17:42.100 that, quote, state and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees

00:17:46.940 outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused

00:17:51.900 attention on the state's history of racist violence. In the end, it turned out that Democrats had placed

00:17:57.120 the nooses. One of the signs in trees read as follows, quote, were hanging nooses to remind people that

00:18:04.520 times haven't changed. And somehow CBS failed to mention that in their exhaustive reporting. But a year

00:18:10.380 earlier at Michigan State University, a student claimed that a noose was hanging outside her dorm

00:18:14.340 room. The university president immediately put out a statement alleging that racism was to blame.

00:18:19.660 Quote, a noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat, but has a horrendous history in America.

00:18:24.900 This is according to the president. But in the end, the noose turned out to be a

00:18:28.020 packaged leather shoelace that had been dropped on accident. Someone dropped a shoelace. A similar

00:18:35.980 incident unfolded at Kansas State University in 2017 when students protested after a noose was

00:18:40.080 supposedly found on campus. And they demanded more security and created a social media campaign

00:18:45.280 called Don't Leave Us Hanging. But as Michelle Malkin pointed out in her exhaustive summary of

00:18:50.520 these hoaxes, the alleged noose was really pieces of nylon parachute cord, which police believed had

00:18:56.180 been discarded by someone who may have simply been practicing tying different kinds of knots.

00:19:01.600 So much for that. Malkin also identified another race hoax in 2016 at Salisbury State University

00:19:06.400 where, quote, students, faculty, administrators were horrified when a stick figure hanging from

00:19:11.660 a noose on a whiteboard was discovered at the school's library. And in the end, two black students

00:19:16.700 were determined to be responsible for that. No charges were ever filed. And in 2015, over at the

00:19:21.240 University of Delaware, BLM protested over alleged nooses hanging from trees. But those nooses ultimately

00:19:26.780 were determined to be remnants of paper lanterns made out of metal that were used as decorations during

00:19:33.060 some kind of celebration that weekend. There are honestly too many more examples to mention. Those

00:19:38.460 are just a few. We can spend the next five hours going through more instances of noose hoaxes that

00:19:43.460 were spread by Democrats. The point is that no sane person believes that anyone, no matter how racist

00:19:50.400 that person might be, is going to place a tiny little noose on someone else's desk or an Amazon 0.97

00:19:55.980 construction site or in some tree on a university campus in some kind of bizarre attempt to terrorize 0.97

00:20:01.680 black people. Like, this is not something that's actually happening in this country. The left has 0.51

00:20:07.020 invented this symbol of the noose basically out of whole cloth. Like, when's the last time a white 1.00

00:20:16.720 supremacist, an actual white supremacist, actually used a noose to send some kind of racist message

00:20:23.540 in real life? Has there been one real confirmed case this century of that happening? Well, that's a

00:20:31.380 question for professional race baiters to answer before they try to push another one of these

00:20:35.280 hoaxes. And while they're at it, they should tell us why exactly left-wing activists are so preoccupied

00:20:41.120 with nooses in particular. It's a bit like the anti-Tesla demonstrators who keep spraying swastikas all

00:20:47.180 over the place. Whatever the case may be, there are a few assertions we can make with certainty.

00:20:52.500 First of all, no conservatives are, you know, out there hanging nooses everywhere or anywhere at all.

00:20:59.440 Democrats certainly are. And they're continuing to do so long after any reasonable person will fall for

00:21:05.380 the charade in a post-Smollett world. And that suggests that, you know, we're not talking about

00:21:11.000 carefully planned tactics here. Instead, we're talking about some kind of compulsion, even a full-blown

00:21:16.940 psychological disorder playing out in front of millions of people. Democrats as a party have

00:21:22.460 elected to embrace this particular disorder as they've embraced so many others. From Allentown to

00:21:27.440 UVA to Obama's temple to Bubba Wallace's garage, the evidence is unmistakable. You're either with team

00:21:35.020 sanity or you're with the race hoaxers, nodding the world's tiniest noose as sane people everywhere

00:21:41.600 play the world's tiniest violin. And if the events in Allentown demonstrate anything, it's that

00:21:47.720 Democrats, to their detriment and quite possibly their destruction, have made their choice as clear

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00:24:29.460 influences on the vulnerable teen, her mother told the Daily Wire. The 17-year-old girl has identified

00:24:34.160 as a boy since the fall and now uses a unisex name. She's been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and eating

00:24:41.140 disorder, depression, and anxiety. At school, the teen was seeing a counselor without her mother's

00:24:45.780 knowledge who advised the girl to terminate parental notification and encouraged her to participate in

00:24:50.840 LGBT support groups, her mother said. So this is someone at the school advising the girl to stop

00:24:58.680 talking to her parents. This is the kind of advice that kids are getting at school now from other

00:25:04.060 adults. The turn to radical gender ideology came amid difficult times at home. Stein underwent

00:25:10.020 treatment for an aggressive cancer in 2023 and believes that crisis deeply affected her daughter,

00:25:14.680 who became very withdrawn from the family. Stein told the Daily Wire,

00:25:18.860 Smotherman stepped in, took advantage of my kid. She just inserted herself into my family and I still 1.00

00:25:24.000 can't get her out. And then the article goes on to talk about when Stein went to, took a couple

00:25:35.080 friends, went to the house where the Smothermans live. So that's the former teacher, the trans guy, 1.00

00:25:41.780 and now the kid who they brought the kid into their house. Stein shows up to get her child back,

00:25:49.900 knocking on the door saying, you have my child who is still a minor, give her back to me. 1.00

00:25:58.620 The adults refuse to give the child back. So Stein calls the police as one would do in this

00:26:04.780 situation. Okay. This is like kidnapping. You have a child that you refuse to return. So you would think

00:26:12.320 that this is a kidnapping case and the police show up and the interaction is recorded on body cam. I don't

00:26:22.540 think we have the gut body cam footage, but the police are not responsive. They do absolutely nothing

00:26:31.320 to help the mother. And they tell the mother that there's nothing they can do, uh, that the child

00:26:36.580 is not in any kind of distress according to them. And so they're not going to do anything about it.

00:26:40.960 So they basically tell her tough luck. And, you know, when I see stories like this,

00:26:45.820 um, and this is one of the worst we've ever seen of what happens in the schools, the, you know,

00:26:54.340 the, the, the school indoctrination, this is one of the worst cases we've ever seen. I mean,

00:26:59.320 this is like every parent's worst nightmare. Um, and then you've got these, these other adults

00:27:05.360 that are taking, not only taking advantage of a confused child, but taking advantage of a child

00:27:11.180 who is clearly traumatized from a terrible medical episode involving her mother. I mean,

00:27:17.620 her mother had cancer. The girl's traumatized in part by that, understandably so. And then you've

00:27:25.520 got these two radical LGBT nutcases that come in to take advantage of the whole situation, 0.97

00:27:32.720 which is why I have to be very careful because I can't be too honest. I try to be very honest, but 0.94

00:27:38.820 I cannot be too honest about what I really think of the two evil pieces of trash who, uh, 0.99

00:27:47.260 stole this child from her mother. I cannot go into too much detail about what I think should happen 0.99

00:27:55.200 to them. Um, I, so I have to choose my words very wisely because this kind of story just, I,

00:28:05.980 the rage that boils inside of me and I cannot even imagine, I can't even imagine, like, I don't even

00:28:12.700 know this kid. I, and if, if I feel this enraged by it and as you must feel hearing about it, I can't

00:28:18.900 even imagine the, the parents of the child and how they must feel. Um, and, uh, and I feel that rage

00:28:27.180 also at the police officers who showed up and not only didn't help the mother, but were very dismissive

00:28:34.300 and even kind of mocking and belittling of her. Um, it's, it's one thing if the law prevents you

00:28:40.580 from intervening, prevents you as the police officer from removing the child from the home.

00:28:45.780 I can't understand how the law would prevent that. She is a minor and she's not 18 yet. If she was 18

00:28:51.600 years old, then yeah, they could always argue, well, she's a legal adult. We can't, if she wants to be in 0.99

00:28:56.160 this house, we can't do anything about it, but she, she is, uh, a, a minor and it, so it shouldn't

00:29:07.060 actually matter. The fact that she wants to be in the house shouldn't actually matter. I'm the parent.

00:29:12.120 I don't want her in that house with those people. Um, so it's hard for me to believe that the law

00:29:18.420 would actually prevent the police officers from removing the child, but even if they would,

00:29:21.320 even if the law is, does, at the very least, you should be very sympathetic to this mother,

00:29:27.540 a mother who just wants her child back. You should be able to sympathize with her. And there's no 0.94

00:29:33.300 sympathy from these officers at all. So the police officers and the two lunatics who took this girl

00:29:41.000 are just monsters. They're total monsters. And this is why, you know, you really shouldn't have 1.00

00:29:47.420 your kid in public school to begin with. If you can help it, not everybody can. I understand that

00:29:52.480 at the very least, if your child is struggling in any way with these kinds of issues,

00:29:57.680 if she's dealing with any kind of gender dysphoria or anything approaching that, then, you know,

00:30:06.140 you, you have to do everything you can to get in particular in that case, to get your child out of

00:30:12.660 the public school system. And I'm not saying this to blame the mother. I'm saying it for the sake of

00:30:16.900 the next potential victim. And when I say victim, I mean, both the children are victims and the

00:30:22.400 parents in these kinds of cases are both victims. So to prevent any future incidents like this,

00:30:30.400 we all have to understand that public schools prey on confused children like this.

00:30:38.140 The LGBT, there's a reason I call it a cult. It functions exactly like a cult. 1.00

00:30:41.960 They look for confused young people who are having problems at home and they prey on them.

00:30:49.160 They prey on the weak, the scared, the confused. And while your child is at school, you have no access

00:30:56.100 to your child. You don't know what your child's being told. This girl was apparently in counseling

00:31:01.420 without the mother's knowledge. And that's the other thing you have to remember is that the vast

00:31:07.200 majority of counselors and therapists cannot be trusted. It's not just that they can't be trusted.

00:31:13.860 The vast majority of therapists and counselors are a clear and present danger to your child.

00:31:22.640 Like I would never put my kids in therapy or counseling at this point. I just wouldn't do it.

00:31:30.060 And there are a few therapists and counselors out there who you could trust. There are some good

00:31:34.660 ones out there. I'm not trying to entirely throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are some

00:31:39.540 good ones out there, but how are you supposed to know? Unless someone's a close family friend or

00:31:44.820 something. I mean, if you get a really, really reliable referral, then maybe then. But so many of

00:31:53.040 these people are radical, radical leftists. And you're giving them access, not just to your child,

00:32:01.620 but to your child's mind. It's like you're giving them direct access to your child's mind to do

00:32:07.040 whatever they want to do. And so many of these people cannot. They're just bad people. The counselor

00:32:13.340 at this school is not simply a radical leftist, but a bad person, an evil person. And there are a lot 0.98

00:32:21.140 of really evil people that are working in this industry. And so you got to be very careful about

00:32:29.580 that. Okay. We have another video of some random loser vandalizing a Tesla. And first, we'll look

00:32:36.440 at the video. There's no audio for this, but I think we have the video. This guy just, we have this

00:32:41.380 video. There he is. Okay. So he walks up, pulls the key out, keys the car outside of an olive garden.

00:32:53.320 This happened in Wichita, Kansas, outside of an olive garden. And you can see this guy,

00:32:58.280 this kind of clumpy, disheveled loser with his, I think it's apparently Lilo and Stitch pajama pants 0.97

00:33:05.680 that he's wearing. And we'll, we'll get back to that in a moment, but there is an update to the 0.93

00:33:10.020 story. Local news is on the case. So we know whose car was vandalized and turns out it was a disabled 1.00

00:33:17.280 woman whose car this was. Um, watch, watch the report. Damaging a personal vehicle does not affect

00:33:25.200 Elon. If anything, it's giving him more money to fix the vehicle that you damaged. It's not damaging

00:33:30.480 who you're thinking it is. Just before 6 p.m. on Thursday, Abigail Gale and her family were seated

00:33:36.180 for dinner at Olive Garden. Over an hour later, they left and what they found waiting for them

00:33:41.260 was shocking. Quite a lot of damage.

00:33:47.020 He keyed this side as well, which as you can see this side, it even looks like it affected above the

00:33:53.520 tire. This is a lot more damage. This comes less than a week after a possible arson

00:34:00.260 at a Tesla dealership in Kansas City. Gil believes her brand new Tesla was targeted because of the

00:34:05.600 current political climate and perception of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. But it felt really disappointing that

00:34:12.780 this is happening in such a great country, a great state. So for this to be happening in Kansas of all

00:34:19.580 places is super soft, shocking. She says her family has had discussions around if it's even safe to be

00:34:26.320 driving a Tesla anymore, in part because of incidents like hers. If she could send a message

00:34:31.520 to the man who keyed her car, it's this. You have put a very big crisis on me because physically I am

00:34:38.080 in a wheelchair. I just hope that he definitely gets the correct punishment. I hope he pays 1.00

00:34:43.840 all of the damages. It is well over a thousand, possibly over $10,000 of damage. I hope that the

00:34:50.420 Wichita police continue to find him. So there's the latest on the report. And, you know, obviously

00:34:56.180 all the people vandalizing Teslas and attacking Tesla owners, they should all go to jail. I think

00:35:01.200 that this is, they should be charged with domestic terrorism. This is domestic terrorism. And normally

00:35:06.120 it wouldn't be, right, to key somebody's car, slash their tires, whatever, throw something at

00:35:10.520 someone's car. It's against the law. You should be punished for it. Would normally call it domestic

00:35:15.640 terrorism. But in this case, it is because this is politically motivated violence and property

00:35:21.960 damage. Politically motivated, and it's designed to make people afraid. So it is terrorism in,

00:35:30.460 by any definition of the term, it's, you're politically motivated and you're doing it because

00:35:36.680 you want people to stop buying Teslas. And you want them to stop buying Teslas because you want

00:35:39.980 them to be afraid. You want them to be afraid to drive a Tesla. That's the whole point. That's,

00:35:44.140 that's the, like the stated goal here, which means that it is terrorism. And that's how these

00:35:50.560 people should be charged. Think about what the left would do in this situation and do the same.

00:35:58.080 As I pointed out before, you can only imagine if there had been widespread violence and vandalism

00:36:03.360 directed at Bud Light or Bud Light customers or Bud Light trucks or Bud Light warehouses or stores

00:36:09.220 that carry Bud Light. If there had been widespread violence and vandalism directed at those people in

00:36:15.120 places, you can only imagine what the Biden administration would have done. The Biden administration would

00:36:18.700 have loved to start throwing people in federal prison. And we all know that. So let's give them a nice

00:36:28.680 taste of their own medicine on this one. And you think about how just totally brainless these people 0.98

00:36:37.080 are. And this is one of the great advantages that the left has, that their people, the average leftist, 0.93

00:36:45.620 is highly programmable. You know, you have to, all you have to do is just press a few buttons and they

00:36:52.980 will start marching to whatever your new orders are. And that's exactly how these people went from

00:37:00.260 celebrating Tesla, because it's saving the environment, to lashing out violently at any Tesla

00:37:06.260 they can, they see. And I know I've pointed this out before, but it's, it's easy to forget that it

00:37:11.580 wasn't that long ago that the left, they were huge Tesla fans and also Elon Musk fans. They celebrated

00:37:20.480 Elon Musk prior to him buying Twitter. Uh, they celebrated him for this reason that he was, um,

00:37:29.580 that he was, uh, uh, you know, had owned a company that was, um, fighting back against the fossil fuel

00:37:38.800 industry or whatever. I mean, according to them, like according to them, he was helping to save the

00:37:41.760 environment. I don't personally think that driving a Tesla is going to do anything to affect the

00:37:49.620 weather one way or another, but they think that. And so it's easy to forget that it wasn't all that

00:37:54.580 long ago. And, uh, and now just how quickly they flip on a dime and they're doing this, even though

00:38:02.620 everybody knows at this point that the Teslas all have cameras, they're still doing it, potentially

00:38:10.940 going to jail for the sake of making some asinine political point by vandalizing a Tesla. They're

00:38:16.200 just sort of following the programming. And you notice how there is, from what I've seen, there is

00:38:20.840 basically no discussion or debate on the left about this. Now we know if there was some kind of

00:38:29.900 rash of people on the right participating in this sort of vandalism, which is hard to imagine.

00:38:38.340 But if it was happening, let's say that that Bud Light scenario was actually happening.

00:38:43.200 What we know is that there would be a bunch of people on our side who object to it. It would be

00:38:50.100 a major point of contention and debate. I mean, X, right, would be, would be full of conservatives

00:38:56.560 posting about how they object to these kinds of tactics being used. I need to have other conservatives

00:39:02.660 saying that, no, we, we need to use these kinds of tactics. There would be this pretty intense

00:39:08.320 argument, debate, fight back and forth on the right about this. Um, and that is, again, if we're imagining

00:39:17.320 a greatly implausible world where conservatives become vandals, even in that world, it would be the

00:39:23.360 subject of very intense debate on the right. You would have a whole lot of people on the right

00:39:28.620 coming out and saying, I don't agree with this. We shouldn't be doing this. This is not the right

00:39:31.540 approach. It's kind of amazing that on the left, there's none of that. None. There is no debate,

00:39:40.740 no discussion. Has there been one person on the left? I mean, even one, has one of, has one

00:39:47.580 even semi high profile leftist come out and said specifically, listen guys, we should not be doing

00:39:54.040 this. Don't go and attack random cars that you see parked in an olive garden. Okay. The person who

00:40:00.920 drove, drove that car, it didn't do anything to you. They might even be on our side. They might be

00:40:05.200 Democrat voters. Remember these are eco-friendly cars. A lot of leftists bought them. A lot of people

00:40:12.040 on our side bought them. Please stop doing this. Like there's, there's nobody on the left saying

00:40:17.080 that. Nobody. Instead, what you get are a lot of high profile leftists from Tim Walls to late night

00:40:28.180 hosts. And so leftists and the political scene and entertainment industry that are directly

00:40:36.000 encouraging more of it. And then all the rest of them are conspicuously silent about it. But

00:40:41.920 there is no dissenting opinion here. Nobody, nobody speaking up and saying, let's not do this.

00:40:52.600 Um, which is why the only way to stop them is to start throwing them in federal prison for domestic 1.00

00:40:59.460 terrorism. It's the only way. And speaking of that, I also need to say that I think it's important to

00:41:06.200 point out maybe, maybe, maybe even this is perhaps a more important point that the guy in that video

00:41:11.900 in particular should go to federal prison for wearing pajama pants in public. Uh, and we don't

00:41:16.780 even have to get into the fact that there are Disney cartoon pajama pants. That's insult to injury,

00:41:20.940 but adult men who wear pajama pants in public should be thrown in Gitmo. Maybe we throw, maybe we,

00:41:26.980 maybe we can send them down to El Salvador. They got plenty of room apparently in their prisons down

00:41:31.100 there. Hugh Kelly is always happy to build another prison. So maybe we could do a whole new prison

00:41:35.820 just for guys like this who wear pajama pants in public. It is the laziness and lack of self-respect

00:41:41.340 that requires to wear pajama pants in public as a grown man is truly mind boggling. How much effort

00:41:47.900 does it take to just change your pants before you leave the house? Okay. You're about to leave your

00:41:54.080 house. You're wearing lilo and stitch pajama pants, which you shouldn't be wearing those to begin

00:41:59.240 with, but okay. You're going to leave the house. You're going to Olive Garden. And look, I know the

00:42:06.240 Olive Garden is not exactly upscale dining. I get that. There's a sit down restaurant. It's a decent

00:42:12.640 place. I can go to Olive Garden sometimes. Uh, it's at least formal enough that you should change out

00:42:20.240 of your pajamas before you go there. How much effort does it take to change your pants? Like 45

00:42:28.040 seconds? Just throw some jeans on? You don't need to put a suit on. No one's saying that. Put some

00:42:33.380 jeans on. 45 seconds. That's it. Now I know this guy's out of shape. He's pretty fat. Maybe it might

00:42:39.940 take him longer. He doesn't have the same dexterity that other people have to change. So maybe the change

00:42:44.300 the pants for him is a bit more of a, of a routine. Uh, but even then like two to three minutes at most,

00:42:50.140 I mean, how long could it take even for a fat out of shape guy to change his pants? I, uh, I cannot

00:42:54.460 imagine any scenario where I would wear pajama pants in public. I, I, I'm not even kidding. If my house

00:43:00.680 was burning down and I was wearing pajama pants, I would take the, well, I'd get my wife and kids out

00:43:09.300 of the house. I would do that first. And then I would run back in after all my, after all the kids

00:43:15.680 are out and my, my wife is out. Everyone's out. Everyone's safe. I'd say to my wife, hang on. I got

00:43:20.460 to run back and grab one more thing. And she would scream like, are you crazy? What the house is burning 0.98

00:43:24.720 down? I got to change. I can't stand out here. My pajama, my pajama pants, the fire department is going

00:43:29.200 to come. They're going to laugh at me wearing pajama pants out in public. Now I would run back in.

00:43:34.180 I would die. I would, I would rather die than be seen wearing pajama pants in public. 0.68

00:43:40.120 And yet you got these guys doing this. It's just, um, it's, that is the real problem here. I would

00:43:46.660 say. All right. Um, before we move on, we got to talk about, well, we don't really have to talk

00:43:51.720 about this, but we're going to, we're going to talk about this because this, this, this has to be,

00:43:57.960 I'm not sure if it claims the title yet. I don't know where the, where this is ranked, but

00:44:01.940 this has to be one of the most viral videos in the history of X. And that includes when X was

00:44:09.540 Twitter. There's a platform that's been around for, I don't know, 15 years or something.

00:44:15.500 This video I'm about to play has got to be one of the most viral videos ever in the history of

00:44:21.120 the platform. And not just on Twitter is also, this is originally a TikTok video that we're about

00:44:25.640 to see. So this, just on Twitter, this video has 700 million views only on Twitter in the last four

00:44:34.020 or five days, over 700 million. I looked last night, it was 700. So it's over 700 million,

00:44:38.900 which is insane. And even more insane when you see what the video is, if you haven't seen it yet. Now,

00:44:46.440 700 million views, it seems like every person in the country has seen it. But if you haven't,

00:44:50.520 this is a video of some influencer's morning routine, or at least it's, it's this influencer's

00:44:58.700 performance of what he wants you to think his morning routine is. Because as you'll see,

00:45:05.280 this is definitely not actually his morning routine. This is not anyone, no human being has

00:45:10.640 a morning routine like this one. But this is the video, 700 million views on one platform.

00:45:16.460 There's no audio, so I'll probably have to narrate a little bit. And so we'll just, we'll just go

00:45:21.920 ahead and play. So here, there it is. 3.52 a.m. He's standing there because now he's brushing his

00:45:27.180 teeth. 3.54 a.m. Bottled water. He's washing his mouth out with bottled water. 4 a.m. Goes out on the

00:45:33.760 porch. 4.04 a.m. Now he's doing some push-ups. 4.17 a.m. Now he's just standing there. He's got bottled

00:45:40.380 water again. Now he's sitting down at 4.30 a.m. I guess he's praying. He's writing a note at 4.54.

00:45:46.220 Now 4.25. So he's writing for about 10 minutes. 5.30 a.m. 5.46 a.m. Dunking his face into ice

00:45:54.180 water. 6 a.m. Getting dressed. I guess he's going out to do a run. Putting on a bunch of

00:46:01.460 jewelry to go run. Putting the fanny pack on. Okay, now he's going down. 6.24 a.m. The day started at

00:46:09.800 3.58. Now he's running. 7.30 a.m. Heading to the pool. Jumping in the pool. Getting out

00:46:19.940 of the pool. 7.50 a.m. 8 a.m. Now he's leaving. Okay, we're going to take a shower. We don't

00:46:27.900 need to see this, but he decided to film that. 8.30 a.m. Wiping a banana on his face at

00:46:34.180 8.34 a.m. Dunking his face into water again. 9.15 a.m. Now he's eating breakfast. Okay.

00:46:42.860 And what do we get to? We get to 9.25 a.m. He's finally eating breakfast. Oh, there's

00:46:47.700 more bottled water. Fancy bottled water. Now, so this is a morning routine that begins at

00:46:54.180 3.50 a.m. and ends at like 9.45 a.m. That's six hours. This morning routine is six hours long.

00:46:58.920 And it's actually a lot longer than that because in real time, he had to set up all those camera

00:47:03.420 angles. Every time he was walking out of a, if you catch him walking in a hallway or walking into an

00:47:10.320 elevator, he had to set up the tripod, get the shot, come back, collect the camera, and then go walk it

00:47:17.660 again. So the actual morning routine as it was documented was probably more like 19 hours long.

00:47:24.320 By the time he was finished it, it was time for another morning routine. So this guy is

00:47:28.860 stuck in a perpetual loop of morning routines. This guy has not slept in five years because it's

00:47:33.240 just, it's, it's a, it's like Sisyphus with the boulder, but it's just morning routines that never

00:47:37.460 end. And, um, and of course it's totally fake. This is not what anyone's morning routine looks

00:47:42.360 like. If I, if I was doing a video of my morning routine, which I would never do, but my morning

00:47:51.180 routine with that, which I think is much more realistic. It begins at 6.03 a.m. about when my alarm goes off.

00:47:58.940 And then I go back, I turn the alarm off. I go back to sleep. My morning routine starts again at

00:48:04.380 about 6.09 a.m. when the alarm goes off again, turn the alarm off again. I go back to sleep.

00:48:11.820 And then the morning routine kicks off again at about 6.17 a.m. when the alarm goes off,

00:48:16.920 turn it off again. Morning routine picks up again about 6.27 a.m. when my alarm goes off again.

00:48:22.820 And then this continues until about 6.45 a.m. or until my wife is just like beating me over the 1.00

00:48:28.540 head with a shovel to get me out of bed. Uh, and that's, that's basically the way it works.

00:48:33.480 Of course, I would never film that. And it is fascinating that this sort of content is so

00:48:40.780 popular. Now, certainly a fair amount of the traffic is from people like me just trying to

00:48:46.260 figure out why other people are watching it. When I first saw this video, it had, it was at

00:48:51.280 that point at 600 million views. And so I can't help. I mean, I see a video that's at 600 million

00:48:56.720 views. I think, what is this? Why is everyone watching this thing? And it's captioned morning

00:49:02.580 routine. So I'm thinking what is going to happen? Like something incredible is going to happen in

00:49:07.020 this video that it's got so many views, but then nothing happens. Um, I think that's part of it.

00:49:13.020 Everybody watching it and wondering why other people are watching it that explains some of the

00:49:18.940 phenomena, but it's not just that because these guys, these influencers, they do develop actual

00:49:23.380 audiences. They have real followings of people who enjoy their content, really enjoy it. Why do they

00:49:28.720 enjoy it? What value do they derive from it? Uh, partly I'm guessing it's kind of aspirational that

00:49:35.680 people watch a video like that and they, they fantasize about being so rich that they can afford to

00:49:42.160 spend six hours of each day swimming in a pool and rubbing bananas on their faces or whatever.

00:49:48.860 Um, I think that's part of it. But then there's also the fact that, and this is what jumps out at

00:49:54.420 me the most when I see videos like this. Uh, cause we've had other videos. We, you know,

00:49:59.820 there's the video, there's another guy that I've seen. He takes videos of himself. Maybe we've played

00:50:05.420 it on the show one time. He takes videos of himself going shopping. He just runs errands.

00:50:09.160 That's it. Nothing happens. He's just running an errand at like Walgreens or something. And he

00:50:13.500 films it, sets up the tripod, right? You know, when he's in the shampoo aisle, gets a shot of

00:50:19.800 himself, grabbing some shampoo, grabs the camera, goes over to the toothpaste aisle. We get the shot

00:50:26.280 of him grabbing some toothpaste. Um, this is what people do now. People watch these videos. And I think

00:50:32.500 that there, it, it, it speaks to the fact that people are just so incredibly deeply lonely,

00:50:39.920 uh, that people will sit there and watch this as some kind of substitute for actual human connection.

00:50:49.940 It is, uh, it's very sad, but it's a popular trend. A lot of money to be made in it. Maybe I should,

00:50:57.480 uh, maybe I should jump in. Tax season's here again, and the IRS is not messing around in 2025.

00:51:03.120 Look, I get it. Tax problems are about as fun as a root canal. Maybe you've got some unfiled returns

00:51:07.060 collecting dust, or you're sitting on a pile of back taxes that's giving you night sweats.

00:51:11.120 With April 15th breathing down your neck, it's tempting to just walk into the woods alone,

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00:52:01.200 first. If we're winning, it means the left is bleeding. DEI is collapsing. Walmart, Meta,

00:52:07.260 Morgan Stanley are backing away from the woke agenda because Americans are done playing along.

00:52:12.060 Trump signed keep men out of women's sports and the NCAA started to backpedal the next day.

00:52:16.680 University of Maine caved. Columbia is quietly rewriting policy like nobody's watching.

00:52:20.600 The left's grip is slipping, and they can feel it, but don't pop the champagne yet.

00:52:25.120 They'll be back louder and more radical than ever, and that's why we exist. Daily Wire will

00:52:29.180 keep up the fight even when you don't have time to. This is your media. This is your movement.

00:52:33.720 Join the fight. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe. But right now, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:38.740 Usually, we have a comment section during the show where I read and respond to comments,

00:52:49.460 as the name of the segment would imply. Today, we're going to do things a little differently

00:52:53.280 and move the comments into the daily cancellation because this is one of those rare occurrences

00:52:57.020 where the comments, some of them anyway, were so outrageously off base that I have no choice but

00:53:04.060 to turn them into a cancellation segment. For some background, yesterday, we talked about the

00:53:10.120 efforts by the Trump administration to ban junk food from the SNAP program, otherwise known as

00:53:15.240 the food stamp program. Trump is not looking to ban junk food entirely. He's not trying to prevent

00:53:20.060 anyone from buying junk food. The point is that you shouldn't be able to use taxpayer money on soda

00:53:25.440 and candy and that sort of thing. Very common sense position and one that should have near unanimous

00:53:31.500 agreement among conservatives. It's one of the most basic conservative positions imaginable.

00:53:36.680 But as we discussed yesterday, certain conservative influencers came out against this policy change.

00:53:42.400 They suddenly felt very passionate about making sure that people can still use junk food stamps on

00:53:47.940 soda and junk food. And the pivot seemed quite bizarre until it came to light that apparently

00:53:53.360 many of these influencers were paid off by the soda industry. Or more specifically,

00:53:58.880 they were paid off by a PR firm working on behalf of the soda industry. And we covered all that on

00:54:04.860 Monday's show. But as I was scrolling through the comments, preparing for our comment section segment,

00:54:09.200 I found a very surprising number of comments from people who presumably have not been paid off by

00:54:16.500 big soda, or though maybe they have. But they still feel strongly that taxpayers should be forced to

00:54:24.800 give diabetes to the poor in the form of sugary drinks and other junk food. These comments are so

00:54:30.540 erroneous and misguided that I feel compelled to deal with them here in this segment. So let's first go

00:54:36.520 through and read a few of these and then I will respond. So let's, I'll just read about six or seven of

00:54:42.420 the comments. First one says, awful takes. The real problem is who gets to define junk food? If you were

00:54:49.420 even remotely conservative, as you claim, you'd immediately understand the implications. Next

00:54:54.580 comment says, so Matt, which is it? Do we, do you really care about the health of poor people? Or are

00:54:59.500 you just bitter about the government using your tax money for the SNAP program? Next comment says,

00:55:05.220 does Matt think that poor people's children shouldn't have treats of any kind either? If you

00:55:09.540 can't use food stamps for treats, then the children of those people would never get to any treats at all

00:55:13.680 ever. Does he begrudge people who work for the government spending his money as a taxpayer on treats as

00:55:18.100 well? After all, it's his money too. Come on, Matt, allow people to spend whatever money on stamps

00:55:23.700 they have on whatever they choose to buy, regardless of where it came from. Now the comment says, Matt,

00:55:27.780 think about what you're saying. Candy and soda are not the only junk foods in America. 2% milk,

00:55:34.220 American cheese, more chemicals than cheese, all lunch meat, jellies and peanut butter loaded with

00:55:39.160 sugar and salt, all TV dinners. And I could go on and on for several pages about America's junk food.

00:55:45.160 Ban it all or none. Next comment says, this ban is a bit ridiculous and I'm a clean eating fitness

00:55:51.760 freak who's not on food stamps. Junk food is still food. It has nutritional value. I could see banning 0.89

00:55:56.980 cigarettes, for example, or any inedible item, but ranch dressing is pretty bad for us. Is that going

00:56:01.860 to be banned? What about actual granulated sugar, which is used for cooking? Next on the banned list,

00:56:06.980 what about juice? Usually not made with actual fruit and loaded with sugar. Is that banned? So maybe we

00:56:11.720 should ban everything except chicken, broccoli and rice, LOL. I'd say do a let's get healthy

00:56:16.520 America program in a better way than singling out the poor. Next comment says, the problem about

00:56:21.660 limiting it to certain foods is it creates a bureaucratic quagmire of ensuring they only work

00:56:26.740 for which foods. Next comment, it's government overreach, full stop. Agree to disagree. And then,

00:56:33.680 yet you're not allowed to use food stamps on health supplements. Why is this totalitarianism

00:56:38.780 starts with small issues? That's about seven or eight of the comments of Representative Sample.

00:56:44.020 I'll respond to the points made here, even though I covered most of them yesterday, but then I want

00:56:48.020 to make sort of an overarching point that I haven't raised yet about this. But first of all, defining

00:56:52.440 junk food, it's like defining pornography. You know it when you see it. Okay, there may be certain kinds

00:56:58.140 of foods that blur the line between healthy and junk, but like 80 or 90 percent of junk food is not

00:57:04.540 anywhere close to that line. Okay, we can debate whether, say, I don't know, frosted mini wheats

00:57:09.820 cereal counts as junk food. There's no debate that a Twix candy bar is junk food. And under the current

00:57:18.280 policy, you can use food stamps to buy candy bars. Go to the candy aisle of the grocery store and you

00:57:25.900 can use food stamps on all that stuff. I think everyone understands that the candy aisle is junk food.

00:57:31.520 And lots of people do use food stamps on that stuff. Talk to anyone who's ever worked a cash

00:57:38.280 register at a grocery store. Food stamp recipients come in and buy huge amounts of candy constantly.

00:57:45.500 These commenters are doing what leftists always do, which is to try and prevent us from making any

00:57:51.060 positive changes or any sensible reforms by obsessing over the edge cases. It's a very common tactic.

00:57:59.040 The less than 10 percent of hard cases means that we can't do anything about the 90 percent of cases

00:58:06.000 that are not hard at all. Again, a very common tactic. And it has held our country hostage for

00:58:11.620 years, unable to make any substantial improvements in any areas at all. And I'm pretty tired of it.

00:58:19.460 Second, it's not government overreach to put rules in place for what kind of food can be purchased

00:58:24.860 with food stamps. Because the whole program is a government program. These rules would actually

00:58:32.460 limit the program. They would allow the money to be spent on fewer things, which limits the reach

00:58:39.800 and scope of the program. It's the opposite of government overreach. Allowing people to spend

00:58:45.020 taxpayer money on whatever they want at the grocery store, that is government overreach.

00:58:49.200 How in the world can limitations on a government program be overreach? It's the opposite.

00:58:57.460 Third, all these comments and all the people outraged over the idea of putting these very sensible

00:59:01.820 restrictions on the food stamp program, they're all simply just ignoring the fact that giant soda

00:59:08.880 companies are paying people to advocate against the limits. Why are they doing that? Well, obviously,

00:59:16.520 because Coca-Cola and PepsiCo and all these other multi-billion dollar junk food distributors,

00:59:21.140 they make billions of dollars in profit off of food stamps. So this is corporate welfare in the

00:59:28.960 most literal possible sense. This is corporations benefiting from welfare. Do you really think that money

00:59:36.060 should be taken by force out of the pockets of taxpayers and given to PepsiCo? Do you actually think

00:59:44.380 that it's tyranny if the government doesn't give billions of dollars of tax money to soda companies

00:59:49.540 every year? Allowing Americans to choose whether they buy soda instead of forcing them to subsidize

00:59:55.020 these purchases? How is that tyranny? We're talking about more autonomy, more choice, less corporate

01:00:04.940 welfare, more accountability for how our tax money is spent, and all of that is tyranny?

01:00:11.820 Like, what the hell are you talking about? And finally, to get to a point we haven't discussed

01:00:16.900 yet, government welfare programs are not supposed to be a lifestyle. If being on these programs means

01:00:25.960 that you don't have access to some of the simple luxuries of life like candy and soda,

01:00:31.880 well, that's a good thing. It's all the more motivation to get back on your feet and off the

01:00:36.820 program. That's what we're supposed to want. If you actually are concerned about government

01:00:42.380 overreach, well, how about the overreach of having at present about 42 million people on food stamps?

01:00:48.620 That is like 13% of the American population. Does anyone really think that 13% of the American

01:00:54.320 population is incapable of providing food for themselves? If we didn't have food stamps,

01:01:00.080 would 13% of the population starve to death? Here's a question. If you were a tyrant,

01:01:07.160 if you were actually a tyrant, who wanted to have total control over the population,

01:01:12.240 which would you prefer? To have lots of people depending on you for food,

01:01:18.160 or to have only a few people depending on you for food? Well, I think the answer is pretty obvious.

01:01:24.420 The welfare state has grown into this gargantuan size because it suits the interests of the

01:01:31.000 government. The more dependent the population is on them, the more malleable, the more pliable,

01:01:36.780 the more compliant the population is. And that's why if you're really concerned about government

01:01:42.320 overreach and tyranny and all the rest of it, you should want to get people off of these programs as

01:01:47.280 quickly as possible. Allowing people to buy whatever they want, including all the treats that they want,

01:01:52.460 just has the effect of making them more comfortable being on the dole. It incentivizes

01:01:57.740 dependence. And if you care about the people on food stamps, you shouldn't want that for them.

01:02:03.920 If you care about having a free and prosperous country, you shouldn't want that either.

01:02:09.120 And that is why the people in my comments valiantly defending the behemoth welfare state

01:02:14.000 are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:02:19.180 Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

01:02:22.460 We'll be back.

01:02:23.860 Bye.

01:02:23.940 Bye.

01:02:43.920 Bye.

01:02:48.060 Bye.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 25, 2025

Ep. 1562 - This May Be The Dumbest Hate Crime Hoax Yet

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