The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1580 - The Coordinated Hit Job On Pete Hegseth Must Be Exposed And Defeated

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the coordinated smear campaign against Pete Hegseth continues

00:00:03.860 and only proves why he's the right man for the job. Also, Pope Francis dies. Will a conservative

00:00:08.580 pope be elected in his place? Well, there are a few problems with just the question itself.

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00:01:31.820 Just four days after Donald Trump was inaugurated for his first term in office on January 24th,

00:01:37.060 2017, the FBI sent two agents to the White House to interrogate Trump's national security advisor,

00:01:43.180 Michael Flynn. It wasn't billed as an interrogation at the time. They convinced Flynn that it was just

00:01:48.540 an opportunity for a friendly chat. But in retrospect, their goal could not have been any more clear.

00:01:54.240 They wanted to manufacture a pretext to secure Flynn's termination. And getting rid of Flynn

00:02:00.960 would enable the FBI to continue to conduct a series of fraudulent investigations into the

00:02:05.980 Trump administration. It would insulate the bureau from any kind of large-scale reform,

00:02:10.260 and it would help the FBI spread the narrative that the Trump administration

00:02:13.580 was secretly working for Russia in some way. Therefore, the FBI asked Flynn a few questions

00:02:21.220 in the White House. Then they convinced Mike Pence that Flynn had lied to them, even though to this

00:02:27.340 day, no one can explain what exactly Flynn said, because the conversation wasn't recorded.

00:02:31.200 But in any event, Pence took the FBI's word for it. Michael Flynn was fired after less than a month.

00:02:35.960 His tenure as national security advisor was the shortest in American history. Now,

00:02:40.720 what happened to Michael Flynn is worth recalling this week, especially because it was not a one-off.

00:02:45.900 This wasn't a random act of sabotage by some unelected, shadowy officials. It was,

00:02:52.560 in fact, standard operating procedure. It is the default response of a bureaucracy

00:02:56.920 that feels threatened. They will come up with a smear campaign, launder it through sympathetic media

00:03:02.300 outlets, and ultimately pressure the decision makers to get rid of their target. Eight years ago,

00:03:07.860 this is precisely how they got rid of Michael Flynn. And right now, it's how they're trying to destroy

00:03:12.740 Donald Trump's defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. Now, from the moment that Hegseth was nominated,

00:03:18.460 there was a concerted effort, as you probably recall, to smear him as an alcoholic who was too

00:03:24.580 inexperienced to do the job. It was almost like the Brett Kavanaugh hearings all over again.

00:03:29.340 Anonymous accusations began surfacing every other day. We were even told, if you could believe it,

00:03:34.480 that Pete Hegseth once celebrated St. Patrick's Day live on the air on Fox and Friends. That was

00:03:40.760 supposed to be profoundly scandalous for some reason. In reality, the point of that fake scandal was

00:03:47.680 never to convince anyone of anything. Instead, the point was to send a message to the incoming

00:03:52.100 Trump administration. And the message was that the most powerful forces in Washington

00:03:56.440 did not want Pete Hegseth to be confirmed. They wanted Donald Trump to pull his nomination and select

00:04:03.760 someone more conventional, someone who would be more responsive to the needs of defense contractors,

00:04:09.280 for example. But Trump didn't abandon Hegseth's nomination. He decided, after what happened in the

00:04:14.760 first term, to trust his own instincts and to stand by his election. And the result has been predictable.

00:04:20.920 Just a few months into Donald Trump's term, Hegseth's enemies have begun yet another smear campaign.

00:04:25.960 And like the campaign to oust Michael Flynn, it's not meant to withstand any kind of scrutiny.

00:04:30.060 The point is to move quickly, create panic, and ultimately pressure the White House to fire Hegseth.

00:04:35.500 It's not exactly a subtle operation. Yesterday morning, NPR came out with this story, which directly states

00:04:41.640 the outcome that they want to achieve. Quote, exclusive. The White House is looking to replace

00:04:46.640 Pete Hegseth as defense secretary. And according to NPR, quote, the White House has begun a process of

00:04:51.460 looking for a new leader at the Pentagon to replace Pete Hegseth, according to a U.S. official

00:04:54.980 who was not authorized to speak publicly. This comes as Hegseth is again mired in controversy

00:05:01.100 over sharing military operational details in a group chat. So here we have an unnamed source,

00:05:08.180 just one person, who's described only as a U.S. official. So it could be, you know, anyone in

00:05:13.820 any position, stating that the White House is planning to fire Pete Hegseth. And based on this

00:05:18.780 one nameless official, who supposedly serves somewhere in the United States government, could

00:05:24.700 literally be anywhere, the narrative has been set. Pretty much every outlet picked up this story.

00:05:32.220 They're all trying to convey the perception that Hegseth removal is a foregone conclusion.

00:05:36.780 And meanwhile, there's a steady drip of new information that's supposedly even more damning

00:05:41.100 than the last hit piece. You can tune into CNN and they'll tell you that Hegseth needs to be removed

00:05:46.000 because of a new signal chat that's suddenly been uncovered. Watch.

00:05:50.300 Today, we are learning some new details following reports of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing

00:05:56.020 some detailed military plans in a second signal group chat that included his wife, a lawyer and

00:06:02.500 his brother. Multiple sources telling CNN Hegseth revealed strike plans against Houthi targets in

00:06:08.100 Yemen, similar to what was shared in that other group chat, which came to light after the editor

00:06:12.900 of The Atlantic was mistakenly added to it. We've also learned that Hegseth directly addressed the

00:06:18.720 matter with President Trump during a phone call last night. Earlier today, the president defended

00:06:24.260 Hegseth. He's doing a great job. It's just fake news. It just brings up stories. I guess it sounds

00:06:31.420 like disgruntled employees. You know, he was put there to get rid of a lot of bad people and that's

00:06:36.360 what he's doing. So you don't always have friends when you do that. Now, before we go into the specifics,

00:06:41.860 I need to make it clear that, you know, I was a fan of the Hegseth pick when it was initially

00:06:46.400 announced. But after seeing this unrelenting smear campaign that started before he was even confirmed

00:06:51.760 and hasn't let up since, I have to say I'm now an even bigger fan of the pick. I mean,

00:06:57.620 it's clear that the establishment sees this guy as a threat to their agenda. He's in a position to do

00:07:02.180 extraordinary damage to their interests. And it seems like he's already doing a lot of damage,

00:07:06.700 which is why he needs to stay in that position at all costs. And as you saw, Donald Trump doesn't

00:07:13.060 really need to be told that. He understands exactly what CNN and the rest of the corporate

00:07:16.200 press are trying to do here. The coverage is breathless and fast moving because you're not

00:07:20.840 supposed to stop and scrutinize any of it. If you think about it for five seconds, you'll realize

00:07:25.800 that, as was the case with Michael Flynn, the hysteria makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

00:07:30.500 So to recap, the case against Pete Hegseth is that the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz,

00:07:36.040 mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic Magazine,

00:07:39.180 Atlantic Magazine to a classified group chat about a U.S. military strike. And even if this

00:07:45.400 is true, even if we pretend for a moment that a rabidly anti-Trump journalist with extensive ties

00:07:51.260 to the deep state was somehow accidentally added to a highly sensitive group chat, it's still not

00:07:57.060 remotely clear why Pete Hegseth should be fired as a result. I mean, he's not the one who made the

00:08:01.280 mistake here. The next alleged scandal, as reported by the New York Times, concerns a signal chat that

00:08:07.080 involved Hegseth and a dozen other people, including his lawyer, his wife, Jennifer, and his brother,

00:08:11.780 Phil, who works at the Pentagon. And the chat was called Defense Team Huddle, also reportedly included

00:08:17.000 Dan Caldwell and Darren Selnick, two former Hegseth advisors who were just fired after a leak

00:08:22.440 investigation. And supposedly during this chat, Hegseth again discussed war plans involving Yemen,

00:08:30.400 although no one's sure exactly what was communicated. And now, under the circumstances,

00:08:35.260 it would be reasonable to wonder if Dan Caldwell or Darren Selnick might have had a role

00:08:39.980 in placing this story in the New York Times. After all, they were just fired from the Pentagon

00:08:43.260 for leaking. They were both members of this group chat, and now they're publicly attacking Pete

00:08:48.080 Hegseth's Defense Department and implying that the Pentagon wants to pursue a reckless war with Iran.

00:08:54.680 Now, as it relates to unelected operatives in the Pentagon, you know, that might be true.

00:08:59.820 I'm not in a position to dispute that claim. Maybe there are some people in the Pentagon

00:09:03.300 doing that. But anyone who's paying attention to what Pete Hegseth is doing, both in public and in

00:09:08.600 private, knows that he's going to do everything he can to prevent that outcome of a war with Iran.

00:09:14.180 Here's what Hegseth told Fox News earlier this month, quote,

00:09:17.260 Trump is dead serious that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. He said that for 20 years. He's

00:09:21.820 been consistent. That is clear. He's dead serious that he wants it all done at the negotiating table.

00:09:26.400 He wants it done peacefully. And that's why he's going straight to these talks. He's set that

00:09:30.940 deadline. But he's also dead serious that if we can't figure this out at the negotiating table,

00:09:34.900 then there are other options to include my department to ensure that Iran never has a 0.84

00:09:39.020 nuclear bomb, close quote. So in other words, his primary objective is not to attack Iran. It's a 0.52

00:09:43.960 peaceful diplomatic resolution. And a couple of days later, the New York Times confirmed that in

00:09:49.900 private, Hegseth had personally helped avert a military strike on Iran that could have spiraled

00:09:57.060 into World War Three, quote, Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next

00:10:02.320 month, but was waived off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating a deal

00:10:06.720 with Tehran to limit its nuclear program, according to administration officials and others briefed

00:10:11.640 on the discussions. Inside the Trump administration, some officials were becoming skeptical of the

00:10:16.120 Israeli plan. In a meeting this month, one of several discussions about the Israeli plan,

00:10:20.440 Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, presented a new intelligence assessment

00:10:24.340 that said the buildup of American weaponry could potentially spark a wider conflict with Iran

00:10:29.540 that the United States did not want. A range of officials echoed Ms. Gabbard's concerns in the 0.98

00:10:33.980 meeting. Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,

00:10:38.340 and Vice President J.D. Vance all voiced doubts about the attack, close quote. Now, that report was

00:10:45.000 published, if you're keeping track at home, on April 16th. And it states very clearly that Hegseth had

00:10:51.240 helped stop a military attack on Iran, which could have easily devolved into all-out war.

00:10:57.140 Four days later, on April 20th, the Times published a story outlining Hegseth's second

00:11:02.220 signal chat, which is supposedly grounds for his termination. So in other words, we get a new

00:11:06.820 scandal right after Hegseth enrages the defense contractors that would have made many millions

00:11:13.160 of dollars, if not more, from an all-out conflict with Iran. And then, hot on the heels of the new

00:11:18.100 scandal, we get an unverified, barely-sourced report about how the White House is supposedly

00:11:22.560 looking to replace Hegseth. Now, at this point, I can only assume that that's another fake smear,

00:11:29.680 because, you know, it would be a disastrous mistake for Trump to cave to the pressure and

00:11:34.320 offer up his defense secretary as a sacrifice. It's the kind of mistake that could derail his entire

00:11:41.240 presidency. And it would be a major victory for establishment Washington, which is becoming

00:11:46.220 increasingly desperate by the day. You can see the signs of the desperation everywhere,

00:11:51.120 by the way. Here's one of them. On Monday, four more Democrat lawmakers made a pilgrimage

00:11:56.880 down to El Salvador to visit that MS-13 gangbanger following the visit by Senator Chris Van Hollen

00:12:02.700 that we discussed last week. And the lawmakers were Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida,

00:12:08.940 Yasemin Ansari of Arizona, and Maxine Dexter of Oregon. And these politicians, like the rest of the

00:12:14.460 Washington establishment, are pulling out all the SOPs to defend their open borders globalist agenda. 0.52

00:12:21.520 Making a martyr out of Abrego Garcia is one way of doing that. Making a scapegoat out of Hegseth 0.94

00:12:28.140 is also part of that plan. Now, to be clear, you know, I see no indication that this is going to work.

00:12:34.580 It doesn't look like this MS-13 gangbanger is going to be returned to the United States any more than it

00:12:38.620 looks like Pete Hegseth is about to be replaced by another Raytheon board member. The idea that the White 1.00

00:12:43.940 House is planning to cave to the demands of establishment Washington at the moment seems

00:12:48.040 like yet another fabrication from the corporate press. And for the sake of the world, which

00:12:54.320 wouldn't exactly benefit from nuclear Armageddon, it should remain a fabrication and nothing more.

00:13:01.420 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:14:35.440 for warranty details. Okay, to begin with, as we get into the show, delayed today. I haven't had a

00:14:43.260 chance to talk about the death of Pope Francis, so rest in peace to Pope Francis, of course. Now,

00:14:49.220 Pope Francis died yesterday, as you no doubt heard. This news does not come as a shock. He was very old

00:14:56.960 and very sick, but it's still a major earth-shaking event. And look, if you've been a fan of this show

00:15:04.280 for, you know, follow my work for any length of time, then you probably know, or at least you won't

00:15:11.220 be surprised to learn that I was a critic of Pope Francis. I was not a fan of many of the decisions

00:15:19.140 that he made or of the way that he chose to operate during his papacy. However, with that said,

00:15:25.260 as a Catholic and as a decent person, or at least someone who tries to be a decent person,

00:15:32.960 I'm not going to use the occasion of his death to air my grievances. I've seen a number of Catholic 1.00

00:15:38.280 pundits doing that. And, you know, I think it's unseemly. I don't want to do that. There'll be

00:15:44.740 plenty of time for the autopsy of Pope Francis's reign. I don't think that right now is the time

00:15:50.320 that needs to happen. All that I will say, looking forward, is that I pray that the cardinals elect

00:15:57.440 a new pope who will lead with courage and clarity and a deep respect for tradition. And, you know,

00:16:03.780 you're going to hear a lot in the coming days, as you've already heard, no doubt, about the

00:16:09.980 conservative pope candidates versus the liberal pope candidates. So there's going to be, I've

00:16:18.800 already seen, you know, tons of articles in corporate media about this. But just a word of

00:16:24.860 caution, the problem with this language is that, well, there's a couple of problems. First of all,

00:16:30.340 this is not an election in the way that, you know, your local congressional candidate runs for

00:16:36.220 election. This is an election guided by the Holy Spirit. So all of the handicapping that goes on,

00:16:43.400 the betting markets, you know, getting involved, the analysts predicting. As a Catholic, I find it

00:16:50.420 kind of absurd. And I will be the first to tell you, I truly have no idea who will be chosen.

00:16:55.780 This is not the kind of thing where you can check the polls and get a good read on which pope candidate

00:17:02.700 is going to win out. So that's the first thing to keep in mind. Also, the labels conservative and

00:17:11.360 liberal cannot be so easily overlaid on top of this situation. So, for example, I read an article,

00:17:21.760 I can't remember where, that named one pope candidate, the one supposed pope candidate

00:17:28.840 as liberal. You know, this is another one of those articles. Here are the conservative candidates,

00:17:33.900 here are the liberal. And this was a cardinal who they were describing as liberal because he preaches

00:17:40.940 about helping the poor. And so he's one of the liberals now, according to the corporate media.

00:17:47.160 But of course, there's nothing liberal about that. That's just called being a Christian. That's

00:17:53.240 called the gospel, right? Now, in the West, in the United States in particular, we read helping the

00:18:02.200 poor as something that is left-wing coded. Because in our country, when politicians talk about helping

00:18:08.720 the poor, they usually mean entitlements, the welfare state, and all of that. And it's also true that

00:18:15.460 when religious leaders talk about helping the poor, very often they might mean the same thing,

00:18:20.200 unfortunately. But there's not anything actually liberal about helping the poor. That's not a liberal

00:18:27.020 position. So I think these labels are not always the most helpful. And that's also why I'm not

00:18:36.480 praying for a quote-unquote conservative pope. Because, you know, again, when you hear conservative,

00:18:43.860 you think, oh, he's Republican, you know. I'm praying for a pope who respects and loves Catholic

00:18:49.940 tradition, who will lead with moral clarity. Clarity is very important. There's a lot of

00:18:58.660 confusion in the world today and moral courage. And a pope will be unafraid to face down the true

00:19:05.480 evils that we face in the world and the evils that are threatening human souls. Call that conservative

00:19:10.440 if you want, whatever you want to call it. But that's what the church needs. And that's what the

00:19:17.120 world needs right now. Let's move to something a whole lot less important. I don't know. I've just

00:19:24.920 been flummoxed by this. So Joe Biden released, maybe you've seen this, or his handlers released,

00:19:31.780 a photo of Joe with his family on Easter. And we'll put the photo up on the screen so you can see it.

00:19:37.560 And there they are sitting on the front steps. You've got Jill there and some of the grandkids.

00:19:44.200 Hunter is there. Hunter's passed out in a motel somewhere, we can assume. But then in the back,

00:19:48.440 you see Joe. And you look at that photo and you realize immediately that it is 100% photoshopped.

00:19:57.760 That is not real. I mean, that mother effer is not real. They have photoshopped Joe into this photo

00:20:04.900 of his family. For certain. I mean, for certain they did that. That's not a conspiracy theory.

00:20:10.540 It's like 100% they photoshopped Joe Biden into a photo with his family. I mean, first of all,

00:20:16.240 he's in a full suit while the rest of the family is dressed casually. He's not the president. If he was

00:20:21.980 still the president, that would make sense because the president just wears a suit all the time.

00:20:24.720 But there's no way this dude is still walking around in a suit every day

00:20:28.340 at his own house. He's walking around in a suit at his own house. That's just now sure it is possible

00:20:34.080 that he still thinks he's president. It's possible that they've told him that he's still president.

00:20:39.380 So he dresses up for the, you know, he dresses up every day for Oval Office meetings, which are held

00:20:45.400 in his foyer with his grandkids and like a collection of large stuffed animals. That is possible,

00:20:51.640 but still it looks fake. The position of his body doesn't make sense. His height doesn't make

00:20:55.740 sense. It looks like it's just his severed torso sitting on the top of the steps. Then you can see

00:21:01.240 what I, what I guess is supposed to be his hand on somebody's shoulder, but that, that doesn't look

00:21:05.200 right. Unless he has T-Rex arms now. I mean, unless his arms shrank as a symptom of dementia. I'm not

00:21:11.420 sure if that's a symptom or not. So it's definitely Photoshop, but the, but that raises the question of

00:21:15.920 why, I mean, why the hell would you Photoshop him into a picture? What is the point of that?

00:21:23.700 Can't you take an actual picture of him with his family? Does it, does his family hate him that much

00:21:28.100 that they won't even pose for a picture with him? Now, then again, I will say that getting a good

00:21:36.460 Easter photo with the whole family is tough. I've learned. So maybe you have to use Photoshop.

00:21:43.240 Sometimes we go through this every year in a, in a, in my family every year. This is my wife's

00:21:48.800 never ending quest is to get a good photo on Easter of the family, you know, the kids,

00:21:54.660 but she's always foiled because she never gets the photo that she wants that lives up to her 0.80

00:21:59.560 standards. Because the thing is, when you have young kids and parents know this, and you have young kids

00:22:04.860 and you get them dressed up in their Sunday finest, you have a very, very small window of time where

00:22:10.780 they will look presentable. The top, the clock is ticking. As soon as you put them in all the,

00:22:15.600 you go through the whole laborious effort of getting them in the outfits. It's like T minus 12

00:22:19.500 minutes. And then the five-year-old's hair will look like, you know, she stuck her finger in

00:22:23.940 electrical outlet. The two-year-olds will have dirt and food stains, even though they didn't eat

00:22:28.720 anything and they weren't around any dirt. As far as you know, uh, it's just, there's a, there's a whole

00:22:33.320 mess. So, you know, you've got a very short window of time to do this. And then you go and you set all

00:22:40.540 the kids up, you take the picture and then, you know, you've got one kid forgot how to open their

00:22:45.600 eyes. Another one looking off in the distance, a kid crying, you know, the whole thing. So it is

00:22:49.940 tough, but that's what taking a picture with young kids is like. That's not an excuse for Biden. So the

00:22:54.980 mystery still remains here. Um, I don't get it, but it is, uh, the fact that they're still playing this

00:23:02.200 game, you don't have to do this anymore. He lost, well, he didn't even, he lost before the

00:23:08.940 election even happened. He's not in office anymore. And, uh, and we all know that he has dementia. So

00:23:13.980 the secret's out. All right. We've heard from this guy before, Ellie Mistel, uh, talking about why he

00:23:20.580 thinks all laws before the 1960s don't count. And I guess he's written a book about it. So he's just on

00:23:27.280 this tour, you know, uh, talking about this. Here he is again on the same subject. Listen to this.

00:23:35.260 I don't give a lot of constitutional weight or heft to laws passed before 1965, right? Because nobody

00:23:42.980 asked me and nobody asked anybody to look like me. So why should I care what some old white judge and 0.52

00:23:50.200 some old white legislature and some old white president decided was right for me living under 0.74

00:23:55.780 the laws of the people who kidnapped my people and held us in bondage? That's not something they do

00:24:02.640 anywhere else in the world. It's not like South Africa said like, Oh, that apartheid was bad,

00:24:07.240 but you know what? We're just going to like clean up some of these laws. And okay, now we have, no,

00:24:11.980 they were like, take your bore constitution and put it in the trash. We will write another one 1.00

00:24:17.960 this time, including everybody. So he says, why should I care about laws that were passed a long time

00:24:23.760 ago? Uh, because nobody asked me or anyone who looks like me, that's, that's his argument. Uh,

00:24:30.060 well, there's a couple of things here. First of all, as I've already explained, this would

00:24:35.100 de-legitimize a lot of laws that I assume this morbidly obese Q-tip still likes, such as the laws 1.00

00:24:43.240 abolishing slavery. You know, I assume he's a fan of those laws. Uh, the first amendment

00:24:49.260 is another one that he enjoys for himself anyway. Maybe not. He doesn't like that other people have

00:24:54.800 it, but he enjoys it for himself. The entire constitution was established without consulting

00:24:59.820 Ellie Mistel or anyone who looks like him. So is that what you want, Ellie? You want the

00:25:04.780 constitution to be abolished? Really? I mean, really? Should we do that now? Should we just go

00:25:11.240 ahead and do that right now? You want, I mean, you want Trump to just go ahead and do that? Because

00:25:16.220 I mean, if, if Trump came out tomorrow and said that the constitution is null and void,

00:25:21.360 you couldn't object. After all, it was passed by old white men, right? I mean, by your logic, 0.99

00:25:27.740 but also more to the point, perhaps, you know, this idea that, uh, the, the law doesn't count

00:25:37.080 because nobody asked him. Well, that's totally ludicrous because nobody asked him about any laws,

00:25:46.200 that exist. Even the ones after 1965, every law in the books has been written without Ellie's direct

00:25:52.900 consent or input, unless it was a referendum or something. But most laws are passed without asking

00:25:58.640 Ellie Mistel or any of the rest of us. Really? We elect people who, who write laws, but, uh, they 0.99

00:26:04.440 don't actually ask us directly before voting. And even if they did, does that mean that all laws have

00:26:11.240 to be reset with every new generation of Americans? Every new generation is governed by laws that were 0.52

00:26:18.360 written before they were born. So should we reset every 25 years? Every 25 years, we throw out every

00:26:23.080 law, every single one and start over. Maybe Ellie is dumb enough to, to, um, want something like that, 1.00

00:26:32.080 but it would be a recipe for a non-functioning society. It'd be a recipe for a failed state, 1.00

00:26:36.180 a failed civilization. And this is the problem really with the, with the kind of like social

00:26:39.880 contract, uh, theory, this idea that, you know, we're all part of this, this contract that we,

00:26:45.080 uh, sign up for and consent to and can withdraw our consent at any time. Well, well, no, that's not

00:26:53.280 actually how it works. It's never worked that way anywhere ever. It can't work that way. So

00:26:59.300 this is all nonsense. Uh, finally, here's a, here's a bit of a cringe fest for you. Uh, somebody 0.85

00:27:07.120 sent me this. It's a, and we, we, a few days ago we did a, we did a segment where I was responding

00:27:14.940 to some of the tick tock, uh, social and social media influencers who are angry at me for my take

00:27:21.160 on the Austin Metcalf murder. And I guess we, we missed this guy. Uh, he's a Christian influencer

00:27:27.180 responding to my tweet about the Austin Metcalf killing, where I talk about how young black males 0.52

00:27:33.960 are disproportionately violent. And this guy who goes by the handle nerdy Christian

00:27:40.040 and has a, is a bit of a following, but he didn't like that very much. And, uh, here's what he has to

00:27:47.380 say. Listen. All right, guys. Uh, sometime tomorrow I want to talk about why this is really problematic

00:27:54.260 and racist. Um, but first I want to get ahead of that just with exposing a misconception that I

00:28:02.960 think a lot of us have about racism and what it is. So guys, racism is not by necessity limited to

00:28:10.980 white supremacy, like literally thinking consciously that white people are, or, or black people or any

00:28:18.160 other race are supreme over others or superior to others. Um, and it's also not limited to intentional 1.00

00:28:25.000 objective discrimination. In fact, most racism that is experienced and commit acts of racism that are

00:28:33.920 committed in our society, I would say are not conscious. They're not intentional. Even most racism

00:28:39.700 is subconscious. It's things like the fact that African-American sounding names are less likely to

00:28:46.040 get a response on a resume, uh, a job application than white sounding names. That's just, that's 0.87

00:28:53.200 racism. But that's not that someone intentionally said, ah, I want to discriminate against black

00:28:58.040 applicants today. That's just the way our subconscious internal biases work due to social

00:29:03.500 conditioning. And that's what people mean when they talk about systemic racism and things like that

00:29:08.500 is a lot. The majority of racism that we experience in our society, that we even propagate in our

00:29:15.000 society is not intentional. It's not so dark and nefarious. And that's why it's so important to

00:29:20.340 recognize that any of us at any time by adopting biases, like Matt Walsh's can potentially further

00:29:27.700 racism. Guys be self self-aware enough to address your own implicit biases inside yourself and attempt to

00:29:39.140 counter them and intentional countering of the subconscious biases that you recognize within yourself

00:29:43.880 is the only way for us to combat racism in our own lives.

00:29:49.220 I just cannot imagine at this point in time, using the term problematic unironically as he does here.

00:29:58.100 Yeah, that's problem. That's sorry guys. That's, that's a bit problematic. That's,

00:30:02.600 that's problematic language. I've already tuned you out. The moment you do that, you've advertised

00:30:07.340 yourself at the outset as a kind of limp wristed, pretentious, uh, wimp. And I can't take you seriously. 0.98

00:30:18.300 And also notice what he doesn't do. As we saw with, you know, the other, uh, influencers who were,

00:30:26.060 who were angry, uh, as we always see in these situations, he doesn't dispute my point, my point

00:30:33.760 about the data about the demographics and the data who's committing the majority of violent crime and

00:30:40.300 so on. That was my point. He doesn't dispute it. He doesn't present any kind of counter argument.

00:30:46.320 He doesn't say, well, you know, Matt is wrong about this point and here's the data to back me up. He

00:30:50.940 doesn't do that. None of them ever do. All the people who get offended and they start blubbering about

00:30:56.360 how it's problematic. They never, ever, ever even attempt to dispute the actual point because they

00:31:03.220 can't. So, I mean, that's all that really needs to be said. You didn't, you don't offer a rebuttal.

00:31:10.340 So there's no argument to refute here. You didn't present one, but I will say just for the record

00:31:14.620 that, and this is why this kind of thing from someone like that annoys me in particular,

00:31:19.860 when you've got Christian, you know, in your handle and you're identifying yourself as a Christian,

00:31:24.360 I will say that you really do immeasurable harm to the faith when you pretend that the faith you 0.99

00:31:32.080 pretend to hold, when you go around representing Christianity this way, when you, when you represent 0.99

00:31:36.800 Christianity as a religion that makes you weak and scared and pathetic, a religion that forbids us 1.00

00:31:45.700 from speaking uncomfortable truths, truths that again, he does not actually dispute. He just doesn't 1.00

00:31:53.280 want you to talk about it. When you present Christianity that way, you, you make it seem

00:31:59.260 totally unappealing and useless and pointless. I mean, why would anyone want to be a part of a 0.96

00:32:05.420 religion like that? Why would anyone want to be Christian if it requires them to be scared, 1.00

00:32:11.520 equivocating little weaklings? They don't, they won't, which is why churches that appeal to this guy,

00:32:17.760 churches that are like right down the center plate for this guy, what he wants, they're all dying.

00:32:25.240 They're decaying and they're dying because of this, because in reality, that's not Christianity. Not 1.00

00:32:29.600 only are, not only are we not prohibited from speaking uncomfortable truths as Christians,

00:32:34.160 we're actually required to, we are called to. Uncomfortable truth could be, it could be the subtitle of

00:32:41.960 every gospel account. Uh, Jesus was the ultimate preacher of uncomfortable truths. So this is,

00:32:51.040 every part of this is just false and wrong, pathetic and false and wrong and bad and, uh, and harmful. 0.94

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00:34:19.120 When Justin Trudeau became the prime minister of Canada in 2015, he made the following statement

00:34:31.380 to the New York Times, one of the most remarkable statements ever uttered by a public official

00:34:35.280 anywhere in any context. And here it is, word for word, quote, there's no core identity, no mainstream

00:34:40.780 in Canada. There are shared values, openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard,

00:34:45.240 to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice. Those qualities are what make us

00:34:50.040 the first post-national state. Now, if you don't attend the World Economic Forum in Davos every year

00:34:56.420 or hang out at places like the Aspen Security Forum, then this kind of statement might seem

00:35:01.900 confusing or incomprehensible at first, but simply normal people don't talk like this. People with

00:35:08.100 pride in their heritage and their country don't talk like this. You will not find a single tribe in the

00:35:13.880 poorest neighborhood in Zimbabwe that's willing to demean itself in front of the whole world 0.99

00:35:18.580 as readily as Justin Trudeau will demean Canada. As explicitly as he possibly could, Trudeau was

00:35:24.580 signaling to his globalist allies that with his election, they now owned Canada. As a nation,

00:35:30.240 Canada had ceased to exist. I mean, that's what he said. They're a post-nation.

00:35:36.020 Now, throughout Trudeau's tenure as prime minister, this was a theme that would be repeated time and

00:35:40.640 time again. At every opportunity, Trudeau portrayed Canada as a failed experiment, as an illegitimate

00:35:46.680 genocidal hellhole that had brutally murdered so-called indigenous children and then buried 0.58

00:35:51.720 them in mass graves. He even declared that church burnings were understandable in response to Canada's

00:35:57.240 many sins. Under Justice Trudeau, Canada Day, their equivalent to the 4th of July, became a time of

00:36:03.140 mourning instead of a time of celebration. And the point of all this self-flagellation was to undermine

00:36:08.200 and ultimately eliminate Canadians' pride in their own nation. And it continued right up until the

00:36:13.000 moment that Justin Trudeau left office. In fact, in one of his final acts as prime minister,

00:36:17.960 Trudeau told CNN that Canadians' only way of defining themselves is that they're not American. And we've

00:36:24.300 played this clip before, but it's worth showing again, if only to underscore how overwhelmingly pathetic 0.99

00:36:29.660 this guy was and is. Watch. President-elect Trump has been needling you a bit, calling you a Governor 0.99

00:36:38.040 Trudeau, talking about making Canada the 51st state. Did you have any interaction with him today?

00:36:42.300 No, not today. But that's not going to happen. Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.

00:36:49.700 One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is, well, we're not American. There is such a depth of

00:36:56.860 pride that that's not actually an issue. What I think is happening in this is President Trump,

00:37:02.940 who's a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that conversation

00:37:11.180 to take away from the conversation around 25% tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and steel

00:37:18.660 and aluminum and lumber and concrete and everything the American consumers buy from Canada is suddenly

00:37:23.840 going to get a lot more expensive if he moves forward on these tariffs. And that's something

00:37:27.740 that I think we need to be focusing on a little bit more. So this has been the dominant perspective

00:37:33.740 in Canada for more than a decade. It's not just Trudeau who thinks like this. Millions of Canadians

00:37:38.780 do as well. Not all of them, but millions of them do. And that's how Trudeau and his party held on to

00:37:44.760 power for so long, even as Canadians became much poorer, even as third world aliens flooded into the 1.00

00:37:49.780 country. And even as their healthcare system collapsed, through it all, Canadians could

00:37:53.260 unanimously, well, maybe not unanimously, but many of them could agree on just two things. One,

00:37:58.920 women should be able to murder their children up until the moment of birth for any reason whatsoever. 1.00

00:38:03.180 And two, Canada's identity is that it's not the United States. Other than that, they have no idea what 0.85

00:38:09.820 they actually stand for, no pride in themselves whatsoever. You might think that when a country fully

00:38:16.500 descends into a state of pure self-loathing like this, that there's no going back. It's kind of a

00:38:21.000 nihilistic death spiral and you can't escape from it. Once millions of people decide that their

00:38:26.180 country has no real identity, has no reason to exist, and that the country is actually a genocidal 0.97

00:38:30.940 white supremacist terrorist state, then it's game over. I mean, at a minimum, you'd expect that it would 0.97

00:38:36.600 take a few generations before things returned to normal. And Canadians were again, waving their flags 0.98

00:38:40.840 with pride and affirming that contrary to what Justin Trudeau said for years, they actually have a

00:38:45.180 meaningful identity as Canadians. But it turns out that in Canada, it doesn't take a few generations

00:38:50.280 to reverse course. In fact, it just takes a couple of weeks. And all of a sudden, after more than a

00:38:54.660 decade of Canadians telling us that their country is terrible and has no identity and no right to

00:38:59.540 exist, Canadian nationalism is roaring back. At least that's what we're told. Here's one headline in

00:39:05.940 Canada's Globe and Mail, for example, quote, the new American threat to Canada's sovereignty requires a

00:39:10.960 new cultural nationalism. Here's what it should look like. Another Canadian outlet called The Walrus

00:39:16.860 puts it this way, quote, Canadian nationalism is back. In his abrupt unraveling of the continent's

00:39:23.020 longstanding trade consensus, Trump has stirred up something more visceral in the Canadian psyche.

00:39:28.680 For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the star-spangled banner is being booed before

00:39:33.060 hockey games. Canadians are boycotting American products and looking on with approval as Kentucky

00:39:37.780 Bourbon and Sam Adams are pulled from shelves. Opinion polls have identified a surge in national

00:39:42.300 pride that cuts across traditional divides of age, language, and geography. A more assertive

00:39:46.820 Canadian nationalism than any we've seen this century has come roaring back, bringing with it not 0.85

00:39:51.320 only a renewed patriotism, but also a spirit of nation-building with no equivalent in recent memory.

00:39:57.440 Close quote. Yes, after spending the past few decades obsessively apologizing for its own

00:40:02.020 existence and lamenting its history of settler colonialism with all the performative self-flagellation,

00:40:07.540 that entails, Canadians are now suddenly waving their flag and pretending to have national pride

00:40:13.520 again. And they're doing it all because of a trade dispute with Donald Trump. Now, you know,

00:40:19.060 there are at least two aspects of this abrupt conversion that are remarkable. The first is that,

00:40:23.500 of course, it's not a conversion at all. Instead, it's an affirmation of what Justin Joe told CNN earlier

00:40:29.020 this year and what he told the New York Times back in 2015. The only way that these Canadians achieve 0.97

00:40:34.700 this sense of national unity is to lash out at the United States. They can't rally around some

00:40:40.080 extraordinary new achievement of their own because, you know, they don't have that many.

00:40:45.040 There's no Canadian equivalent of SpaceX that's solving seemingly impossible physics problems for

00:40:50.260 the benefit of all mankind. There's not even really an equivalent of Broadway, which is mostly

00:40:55.020 garbage, you know, admittedly. Little of significance is produced. So they're looking towards us once 0.71

00:41:01.140 again to define themselves and define themselves in a negative way. But the more basic problem,

00:41:05.500 the real problem is that you and this is something that we would do well to keep in mind in this

00:41:10.720 country is that you you can't be a nationalist if you are fundamentally ashamed of your country

00:41:16.880 and believe that it has no right to exist, which is why Canadian nationalism in the country

00:41:23.180 where land acknowledgements are just a standard part of everyday life. That's why Canadian 0.64

00:41:28.800 nationalism is an oxymoron. The Canadians have not renounced the idea in mass, have not certainly

00:41:36.100 unanimously renounced the idea that they're a genocidal state. They haven't issued formal apologies

00:41:41.460 for the mass graves hoax that demonize Christians. No prominent figure in Canada has come out and stated

00:41:47.300 that actually the country isn't a white supremacist, post-nationalist, globalist blob with no

00:41:53.160 national identity whatsoever. They're trying to maintain all those beliefs while suddenly claiming

00:41:57.460 to adopt a new tone of nationalism, which is just incoherent. So we should point and laugh at this

00:42:03.900 fake pivot, of course, but we should also think about it strategically. Canada's alleged turn towards

00:42:08.600 nationalism, as embarrassing as it is, is yet more evidence that we could easily win any trade war

00:42:14.440 with Canada. I mean, whatever you think of tariffs, that point is undeniable. We could obviously crush any

00:42:19.700 resistance purely on economic terms, but even beyond that, we can also win because after years of this

00:42:28.120 incessant shame and humiliation and apology and land acknowledgement and everything else,

00:42:36.820 Canada doesn't have the will or the heart to fight back. They just hate themselves too much.

00:42:41.680 Even when they're trying to pretend to be Canada first,

00:42:44.300 hardline nationalist, they can't help but still admit it. And that is why Canada and its humiliating

00:42:51.160 attempt to discover the concept of national pride is today, unfortunately, cancelled. That'll do it

00:42:57.780 for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 22, 2025

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