The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1594 - The Left Discovered The New Pope Is Actually Catholic And They’re Horrified

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media descends into panic at the thought that the Pope might

00:00:03.620 actually be Catholic. God forbid. Democrats in Congress assault ICE agents while attempting to 0.91

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00:01:43.420 unfolding right now at the highest levels of one of the largest churches on the planet, and it's a pretty

00:01:48.720 confounding question. Where exactly is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the senior bishop of the Church of

00:01:54.520 England? No one has any idea. Now, to be clear, this is not a missing persons case. The post has

00:01:58.680 been vacant for more than four months, and yet, to this day, the position still has not been filled.

00:02:03.560 As of today, there is still no Archbishop of Canterbury, and at least on paper, this is something

00:02:09.720 of a head-scratcher. Here you have a Protestant church with something like 26 million baptized

00:02:13.660 members all over the world and hundreds of thousands of active members by some estimates.

00:02:18.960 It's known as the mother church of the Anglican tradition, and yet, as of right now,

00:02:23.540 there's no clarity whatsoever as to when they'll pick a new Archbishop to lead the Church.

00:02:28.700 There doesn't seem to be a lot of urgency either. Lawyers are reportedly getting involved for one

00:02:32.900 reason or another. The latest estimate is that it'll be several more weeks at a minimum until

00:02:37.000 the Church of England decides who's in charge, and it's not as if this vacancy was a surprise.

00:02:42.140 The previous Archbishop didn't die suddenly or anything like that. Instead, it was announced months

00:02:46.360 in advance that the Archbishop would resign before he finally stepped down in January.

00:02:50.340 But here we are. It's now May, and the Church of England still has no Archbishop.

00:02:56.060 The contrast with the Catholic Church, especially after the election of Pope Leo XIV, could not be

00:03:01.800 any more clear. On the one hand, you have total dysfunction and chaos among the Anglicans.

00:03:06.540 On the other, the Catholics had a new pope two days after the conclave started. When Pope Francis

00:03:11.400 died, everybody heard about it. People flooded into Rome from all over the world, and when his successor

00:03:16.400 was selected, there were celebrations all over the globe. Meanwhile, almost no one's even realized that

00:03:22.080 there isn't an Archbishop of Canterbury anymore. In fact, if you ask a random person on the street

00:03:27.040 about the Archbishop of Canterbury, there's a very good chance that no one will have any idea what

00:03:31.960 you're even talking about. And one of the reasons for this distinction is that for quite some time,

00:03:38.000 the Anglicans have been effectively leaderless, even when they've had an Archbishop. The monarchs in England

00:03:42.880 stopped caring about religion, and their bishops don't really have the authority to do anything.

00:03:48.200 So in response, they became progressive in a desperate bid for relevance that obviously hasn't

00:03:53.720 panned out. The Anglicans tied their fortunes to the king's power back in the days of Henry VIII,

00:03:58.480 but once that power waned, they had no answer. And we're left now with a very trendy church,

00:04:04.460 one that supports gay marriage and so-called LGBT clergy and all the other trendy things,

00:04:09.080 that also has few core guiding principles, no real authority, and ultimately no Archbishop.

00:04:15.560 The Church of England became liberal to win over the liberals, but in the end, the liberals don't

00:04:20.080 care, and in the process, they've lost the conservatives too. So now, no one even notices

00:04:24.680 the fact that for several months, there has been nobody in charge. Now, billions of people notice the

00:04:30.660 lack of a pope, though, because the pope actually stands for something. In particular, he's the successor

00:04:35.200 of St. Peter, the vicar of Christ, whose responsibility includes teaching and interpreting

00:04:40.740 Catholic doctrine. And in the Catholic Church, unlike the Church of England, doctrine does not

00:04:46.660 change on a moment's notice. It isn't revised because trans activists or feminists or corporate

00:04:52.780 overlords start screeching at maximum volume. The doctrine remains consistent because it's not a

00:05:00.640 response to political demands. It's not beholden to polls or media pressure. This is one of the

00:05:05.940 reasons why people care about the identity of the pope. It's why they notice when the papacy becomes

00:05:10.760 vacant. When you teach the word of God, instead of reading the latest talking points from the human

00:05:15.540 rights campaign, people pay a lot more attention. Or at least most people pay attention. I mean, not

00:05:21.300 everybody seems to understand the implications of the selection of Pope Leo XIV or the point of the

00:05:26.940 papacy in general. And in particular, at the moment, there appears to be a genuine panic among the

00:05:33.220 media and LGBT activists about the very unsettling and incomprehensible prospect that the new pope 0.98

00:05:40.100 might actually be Catholic, if you can imagine that. They're unearthing some of the pope's previous

00:05:46.420 comments on same-sex relationships and abortion, for example, and they can't believe what they're

00:05:51.000 seeing. Here's the Guardian's reporting on the dismay that's now supposedly rampant among Catholics.

00:05:56.980 Quote,

00:05:57.600 After years of sympathetic and inclusive comments from Pope Francis, LGBTQ plus Catholics expressed

00:06:02.760 concern on Thursday about hostile remarks made more than a decade ago by Father Robert Prevost,

00:06:08.680 the new pope, Leo XIV, in which he condemned what he called the homosexual lifestyle and the

00:06:14.020 redefinition of marriage as at odds with the gospel. In a 2012 address, the man who now leads the

00:06:20.640 church said that Western mass media is extraordinarily effective in fostering within the general public,

00:06:26.320 enormous sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel, for example,

00:06:30.820 abortion, homosexual lifestyle, and euthanasia. Now, over at The View, self-described devout Catholic 0.78

00:06:37.740 Sonny Hostin offered her expert analysis of these comments, and she begins by explaining that she thinks

00:06:43.880 papal conclaves are exciting because of the whole white smoke, black smoke thing. Then she articulates what is her

00:06:50.780 greatest fear about the new pope. Watch.

00:06:54.040 Yes, who are the Catholics here anyway?

00:06:56.940 Oh, two.

00:06:57.740 Oh, you two. I am a lapsed Catholic, but I'm a Catholic.

00:07:00.460 I'm a sinful one. 0.99

00:07:01.480 You're a sinful Catholic. 1.00

00:07:02.780 We might want to start a Sonny then. 0.99

00:07:04.400 I'm a devout Catholic.

00:07:05.380 Look, I always think it's exciting to watch the conclave and look for the black smoke and

00:07:13.440 the white smoke and just the ceremony of it. And, you know, during these very trying times

00:07:20.280 in our country, we certainly need spiritual leadership because of some of the things that

00:07:26.840 you're experiencing. I'm a little concerned about this choice for the LGBTQ plus community. In 2012,

00:07:37.140 he gave an address to bishops, and he lamented the popular culture fostered and sympathy for

00:07:45.400 beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel, and that's a quote. And then he cited the

00:07:49.740 homosexual lifestyle and alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted

00:07:55.620 children. I think that Pope Francis certainly made great changes in terms of embracing the LGBTQ

00:08:06.500 plus community and extending blessings to the community. And I hope that this is, that this Pope

00:08:14.540 doesn't roll back.

00:08:19.120 Now, as a general rule, if you're a Catholic in public life, especially one who delivers opinions and analysis

00:08:24.760 every day, which I guess is, I mean, if we can call what they do on the view, analysis. But either way,

00:08:31.500 you know, nobody should be surprised to learn that you're a Catholic. Your Catholicism should be evident

00:08:36.660 in your worldview, your politics, your ideology, your behavior. But you would never know that people

00:08:44.460 like Sonny Hostin are Catholic based on what they say and do every day. So therefore, she has to declare

00:08:50.020 that contrary to all outward appearances, she is indeed a, quote, devout Catholic, even though she

00:08:55.400 rejects essentially all of the fundamental moral teachings of the Catholic Church. A year ago, she

00:09:00.280 was demanding female priests, by the way, which is never going to happen, can't happen. It's impossible 1.00

00:09:05.900 that it happens. But she rejects all those teachings, all the teachings of the church, but at the same

00:09:12.320 time, she declares that she's a devout Catholic. The important thing is that Sonny Hostin likes looking for

00:09:20.020 really excited during the conclaves. And based on her experience getting excited during conclaves,

00:09:25.460 Sonny Hostin wants you to know that she's very concerned about this new pope's previous comments on gay

00:09:29.900 marriage. And that's when we heard from Anna Navarro, who describes herself as a sinful Catholic, 1.00

00:09:36.080 as opposed to all the other Catholics, apparently. And for her part, Navarro tried to calm Sonny Hostin

00:09:41.380 down by explaining that the pope's comments were from all the way back in 2012, and that's plenty of time

00:09:46.800 for fundamental church teachings to change, she says. Watch. It's important that we know that what

00:09:52.460 you're quoting from is from 2012. In 2012, right, but what I'm saying to you is in 2012, there were

00:09:58.140 even a lot of American politicians who today are pro-gay marriage and pro-equal rights who were not. So

00:10:06.080 maybe, you know, with the weight of the papacy and the idea that he just said when he went out on the

00:10:14.020 balcony that the, you know, the church loves everyone and was inclusive in his first message.

00:10:19.440 So until we see otherwise, I think we need to pray and hope that he follows in France's footsteps 0.99

00:10:27.440 in being inclusive, forgiving, compassionate, welcoming, and speaking up for the marginalized,

00:10:36.840 speaking up for the poor, speaking up for the migrants, speaking up for the targeted,

00:10:40.900 speaking up for all those people that today feel alone in that Francis said, you have a mother and

00:10:47.700 a father in the Catholic Church. So this is one of the better ways of illustrating why nobody cares 1.00

00:10:54.100 about the missing Archbishop of Canterbury. In the Church of England, what Anna Navarro just said is

00:10:58.300 totally plausible. I mean, Anglicans could very well change their fundamental positions in a matter of

00:11:03.560 years, but in the Catholic Church, it's a different story. Of course, this pope is not going to abolish

00:11:10.540 2,000 years of moral teaching for the sake of accepting LGBT lifestyles and validating LGBT

00:11:17.200 quote-unquote marriages. And Pope Francis, for all the talk of his liberalism and his softer tone

00:11:23.040 on these issues, didn't do that either. Now, Anna Navarro seems to think he did, but she's wrong.

00:11:28.720 Francis did not change church doctrine on gay marriage in any way whatsoever. The church teaches

00:11:35.180 and has always taught that the homosexual lifestyle is disordered and mortally sinful. 0.86

00:11:41.940 Marriage can only occur between one man and one woman. Gay marriage is a contradiction in terms. 1.00

00:11:48.220 There cannot be gay marriage for the same reason that there cannot be a square circle. 1.00

00:11:52.480 This is church teaching, whether the devout Catholics in the media like it or not.

00:11:57.220 Now, at the moment, no one in the corporate press seems to realize that. Neither do many LGBT

00:12:01.840 activists or academics, including people who describe themselves, again, as Catholics.

00:12:06.380 NBC News, for example, just ran this quote from somebody named Jason Steidel Jack, who identifies

00:12:11.320 as a gay Catholic and an assistant teaching professor of religious studies at St. Joseph's

00:12:16.280 University in New York. And here's what he had to say, quote, the church's teaching, even under Pope

00:12:21.220 Francis, remains incredibly homophobic. And the church goes on inventing new ways of being transphobic

00:12:26.180 as it really avoids learning about trans people and their experiences, close quote.

00:12:31.860 Now, again, this is a professor of religious studies at a supposedly Catholic university,

00:12:36.340 and he's openly rejecting some of the most fundamental teachings of the Catholic church. 0.98

00:12:42.160 In fact, he's not just rejecting those teachings, he's calling them hateful and ignorant. 0.92

00:12:46.860 Now, of course, you can have that perspective in this country. It's a free country. This isn't Canada 0.90

00:12:52.100 or North Korea. You can mock whatever you want to mock, as long as Democrats don't control the

00:12:56.280 Justice Department, of course. But I'll make this as clear as I possibly can. If you publicly denounce

00:13:02.520 fundamental tenets of the Catholic faith, then you are by definition not Catholic. If you represent

00:13:10.560 yourself as Catholic for the purposes of speaking to NBC News or teaching a class at a Catholic

00:13:14.860 university, even as you deny the teachings of Christ and you deny fundamental Catholic teachings, 0.89

00:13:19.940 then you are a fraud. You're a scam artist, and you're guilty of the sin of scandal, which is 0.98

00:13:27.220 also a mortal sin, by the way. Now, what we're seeing with this panic over Pope Leo is precisely 0.94

00:13:33.060 the reason why progressives can never actually be devout Catholics or devout members of any other

00:13:39.020 ancient faith, for that matter. I mean, they can't even be devout patriotic Americans because

00:13:45.380 instinctively, they want to corrupt and destroy every institution that has existed for more than

00:13:52.780 about 15 minutes. They deny timeless moral truths in principle. They despise tradition. They reject

00:13:59.780 the wisdom of our ancestors. They believe that basically everybody who lived on earth, and certainly

00:14:04.320 every Catholic leader and theologian, has been wrong about essentially everything since forever.

00:14:09.740 They think that they alone hold the truths of the universe that nobody before them could see.

00:14:16.760 If they are devoted disciples of any church, it is the church of the self, which is another way of 0.68

00:14:24.260 saying that they're Satanists. Now, there's plenty of room for people like that in the Church of

00:14:29.400 England, where nothing means anything to the point that they don't care if the archbishop disappears for

00:14:33.460 half a year, but there cannot be room for people like that in the Catholic Church.

00:14:37.300 I mean, they literally cannot be Catholic. Again, they just, you can't be by definition.

00:14:44.260 And for all his mistakes, the previous pope understood that. And based on these newly unearthed

00:14:49.480 comments from Pope Leo, and the resulting howls from left-wing activists, Catholics can be assured at

00:14:56.180 the moment that the new pope understands that too. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:50.420 Democrats claim that immigration and customs enforcement got rough with them on Friday, but

00:15:56.080 body cam footage told a very different story. The incident unfolded outside of Delaney Hall,

00:16:01.060 a detention facility housing criminal illegal aliens in Newark, New Jersey. As several House

00:16:05.980 Democrats, New Jersey Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Rob Menendez,

00:16:12.880 pushed past security and demanded access to an oversight of the facility. According to reports,

00:16:17.900 the protesters waited outside the gate until it was open for a vehicle transporting detainees,

00:16:22.020 at which point they rushed through the gate. Democratic Newark Mayor Raz Baraka also participated

00:16:26.940 in the breach and was arrested. On Saturday, after the Garden State Democrats claimed that

00:16:32.560 they'd been manhandled and roughed up by the ICE agents, the Justice Department released body cam

00:16:36.500 footage of the clash between protesters and officers. Fox News national correspondent Bill

00:16:41.720 Malugin explained what was shown in the body cam footage. He tweeted, DHS has provided Fox News

00:16:49.340 ICE body cam footage from the altercation at the Delaney Hall detention facility yesterday. They say the

00:16:53.480 video clearly shows Representative LaMonica shoving and elbowing her way past the DHS agent to get past

00:17:00.000 the gate and onto the property, followed behind by Representative Menendez, and that it also shows

00:17:04.500 Congresswoman McIver screaming in the faces of DHS agents. Members of Congress claim that they were

00:17:10.260 assaulted and roughed up, but DHS denies that characterization. So we have the video. Let's take a look

00:17:18.160 at the video short clip and you can see, uh, in particular in the red jacket, this is New Jersey

00:17:24.840 Democrat representative LaMonica MacGyver and just see, just watch her and just watch this whole scene

00:17:31.140 unfold. Here it is.

00:17:32.140 Okay. So that is, uh, LaMonica.

00:18:01.120 MacGyver forcing her way into this detention center and you can see her elbowing and shoving 0.99

00:18:09.120 the ICE agent, which is assault. I mean, that's assault. That's assault of a law enforcement

00:18:13.480 officer. Um, you know, they claim that they were roughed up, that they were assaulted.

00:18:20.860 The video speaks for itself. They're lying, which by the way, even if they, if they had been roughed up

00:18:27.260 as they put it, um, that would be fine. It would be totally justified because you're trying to force

00:18:34.960 your way into this, this, this detention facility where you don't have, you're not granted access.

00:18:40.720 Uh, you're trying to force your way in. And so if you get, the agents are perfectly within their

00:18:48.100 rights to use physical force to stop you. You are not within your rights to use physical force to,

00:18:54.480 to force your way in to a place where you don't have access. So even if they had been on tape, I mean,

00:19:02.700 I don't care if they had been on, um, if there was footage of one of those ICE agents knocking this 0.99

00:19:07.940 woman right onto her ass, she would completely deserve it. You're trying to force your way into 1.00

00:19:14.360 a building where you don't have access. That's not how it works. And so if you get physically stopped

00:19:20.600 and you end up on the ground in the process, well, that's, that's the way it goes.

00:19:28.040 But then you watch the video and you realize that of course these people are just lying. 0.97

00:19:31.100 They're just total liars. They lie about everything all the time. 0.96

00:19:35.020 And, uh, they're lying here too. That the, the, the, the roughing up and assault happened the other

00:19:39.840 way. And so they need to be arrested and thrown in, thrown in jail. I mean, the Trump administration

00:19:47.600 has said, has said that there might be some more arrests in this case, but there shouldn't be any

00:19:53.880 might about it. I mean, she assaulted a law enforcement officer in an effort to gain unauthorized access

00:19:58.740 to a federal building. So arrest this woman and throw her in prison. Here's the only test that 0.99

00:20:06.560 matters. If I did that, if you did that, would we be arrested? Well, the answer is yes, obviously.

00:20:16.660 So, okay, then arrest her. And this is also where the precedent comes into play because any argument

00:20:23.400 that you might try to make about how, you know, we don't want to arrest members of Congress because

00:20:28.360 of the optics and the politics and the norms, the norms, we have to worry about the norms.

00:20:33.620 Any potential argument in that vein is ruled out from the start because Democrats already arrested

00:20:39.940 and tried to throw in prison the president multiple times. So, uh, the toothpaste is already out of the

00:20:46.780 tube on this thing. So arrest her. And even if it wasn't, even if the president, this precedent wasn't

00:20:53.940 set, I would still say arrest her. And what makes this kind of thing so despicable and outrageous isn't

00:21:02.580 just, it's not just that they're breaking the law. It's not just that they're assaulting a federal law

00:21:08.120 enforcement officer. Um, although all of that is bad enough, but it's the why it's why they're doing

00:21:15.540 this. They're doing this in an effort to undermine our sovereignty and prevent us from enforcing our

00:21:21.000 borders and protecting our citizens. Um, these are our representatives doing this, which I know,

00:21:30.960 you know, this point has been made by me many times and by others as well, but it really can't be

00:21:36.440 emphasized enough that this sort of thing does not exist anywhere else outside of the white Western

00:21:44.940 world. You don't have this in non-Western countries. It just doesn't exist. Now, sure. Immigration is a 1.00

00:21:52.900 political issue in other countries. They might debate their immigration policies. You might have some

00:21:57.360 people who want more restrictive immigration, some people who want less restrictive, but this kind of

00:22:03.560 open border stuff, this idea that there effectively shouldn't be a border at all, that doesn't exist.

00:22:12.440 You know, you know, the, the, the, the fact that we have a major political party, one of only two of

00:22:21.100 them that objects in principle to deporting any illegal immigrants at all. Okay. That does not exist

00:22:32.600 anywhere else. In other countries outside the white Western world, they're not debating whether to

00:22:39.160 enforce the border or not. If they're debating anything about the border, it's the finer details.

00:22:45.020 It's only the U S and Western Europe that, uh, where the, a border is begrudged. You know,

00:22:52.600 we are begrudged a border in principle. We're the only ones who aren't allowed to fundamentally protect

00:22:58.900 and preserve our own existence. And, and the reason is that it is actually that the left

00:23:04.120 agrees with our point about the border. I mean, they fundamentally agree with it,

00:23:12.860 which is that border is identity. Border is culture. And a thing can only have an identity

00:23:19.060 if it can be distinguished from the other things around it. The very act of saying to a foreigner, 0.88

00:23:25.780 no, this is our home. You don't belong here. This is ours. This belongs to us and not to you.

00:23:34.560 That is an assertion of identity. And, uh, and the left knows that, and they don't want that.

00:23:40.780 They don't want us to have any national identity. South Korea can have an identity. You know,

00:23:44.720 Guatemala can have an identity. China can have an identity. Nigeria can have an identity. We can't, 0.99

00:23:50.780 which is why if anyone on the left overheard a Nigerian saying, we have to enforce our borders

00:23:58.940 and protect our national identity, they'd have no issue with that. I mean, they would agree with it.

00:24:06.180 But if anyone in America says the exact same thing, they denounce it as racist and xenophobic.

00:24:11.020 Like, but the point is that this is not, as it's often called and considered, this is not really a

00:24:19.460 double standard because there is one standard for the left, which is that predominantly white

00:24:26.460 Western countries should not have an identity because the white Western identity is bad. 0.99

00:24:33.700 And so it should be abolished, which is why, you know, if a leftist could look in a time machine 0.88

00:24:40.980 or could take a time machine and see a future where America is mostly Brown and whites are a small 0.97

00:24:48.500 minority. And if they saw that in this future, white people were trying to immigrate here, uh, uh,

00:24:56.900 you know, from, from trying to migrate here from whatever country they still exist in. And if in

00:25:03.760 this future there was a giant wall, you know, a hundred feet tall and a militarized border where

00:25:11.640 the white invaders were being shot on site, um, if the leftists saw the future like that in this

00:25:17.440 country, they would, they'd be fine with it. In fact, they'd be, they'd be orgasmic with delight. 0.99

00:25:21.800 And, um, because they don't really have a problem with borders. They don't have a problem with

00:25:30.220 immigration law in principle. They don't have a problem with those things in principle. They only

00:25:35.780 have a problem when predominantly white Western countries do it. And why is that? Because they want 0.99

00:25:47.600 to abolish what they call whiteness. And you can ask them about this and they will tell you,

00:25:53.620 uh, this, they're very clear about this. This is not some kind of secret. This is just ask them about

00:25:59.360 should abolish, should whiteness be abolished? Every single one of them will say yes. Every single one. 1.00

00:26:04.780 So, um, so that's what this is all about very clearly. All right, here's, uh,

00:26:14.700 story from, uh, the white house here. President Donald Trump on Monday morning signed an executive

00:26:22.240 order to significantly reduce pharmaceutical drug prices for Americans. The directive Trump stressed

00:26:26.780 will bring fairness to Americans and cut out the middlemen to bring prices down to citizens will

00:26:31.480 start to pay prices comparable to other developed nations. President says starting today, United States

00:26:36.240 will no longer subsidize the drug prices of other countries. We've been subsidizing drug prices for the

00:26:41.100 rest of the world, not just the European union by implementing a policy called most favored nation.

00:26:45.500 Trump said the U S is going to pay the lowest price there is in the world. We're no longer paying 10

00:26:50.080 times more than any other country. HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy jr. It was with Trump at the press

00:26:54.800 conference said that other nations, particularly those in the European union must chip in for research

00:26:59.220 and development. Kennedy said raising the prices by just 20% would dramatically reduce costs in the United

00:27:04.520 States. I think we have a quick clip of a Trump at the signing ceremony. Let's watch that.

00:27:09.640 I think you're going to see a tremendous cut. I don't think, I mean, I know you're going to see

00:27:14.160 it in Medicaid and Medicare. That cut will be massive because drugs are 50, 60% of the cost. So

00:27:22.400 Medicaid costs are going down and Medicare costs are going down because of what we're doing

00:27:26.960 today. And there's no, it's not like, oh gee, well maybe it won't happen. It's going to happen

00:27:32.500 because the other countries have no choice. Now the drug companies are going to have to say, listen,

00:27:36.600 if you don't pay more, we're not going to give you the drug and they're willing to do that.

00:27:39.920 So that's it. They have to, uh, we have to equalize. 0.50

00:27:43.580 Mr. President, what do you, Mr. Price controls?

00:27:46.320 Say it.

00:27:46.740 How do you, how do you respond to the fact that this is not price control? No, no. What was

00:27:50.660 price control is before. If you want to talk about price control is what they were doing.

00:27:56.960 They were making us pay. They set a price and they said, here's what we're going to pay

00:28:01.920 and anything else charge America. Because at that time they had a very stupid president and it 1.00

00:28:09.800 really went crazy during the last four years. And remember this, the Democrats are the ones that 1.00

00:28:15.460 allowed this to happen. This is a, I think it's a great idea. And of course, critics, as we just

00:28:20.600 heard in the clip there, are going to call this price controls, which is funny because it's coming

00:28:26.060 from people often for the most part who openly support price controls. So if it is price controls,

00:28:32.500 then the left should be really happy about it. But, um, but, but of course they're, they're not

00:28:40.260 because obviously because Trump, I mean, this exact policy, if it was put in place by a Democrat

00:28:46.200 administration and they would all be celebrating it, obviously. But I don't think that price controls

00:28:51.480 is a fair description, uh, as, as Trump pointed out, because we're already, as he said, we're

00:28:56.800 already dealing with price controls. We're being forced to pay 10 times more than everyone else.

00:29:00.960 That is a price control. It's just controlled in a way to screw us over. So if there's any control

00:29:07.220 now, it's controlling to make things better and more fair for Americans. And it will just never

00:29:13.080 stop being funny to see how, you know, shocking and upsetting this is to Democrats and to some

00:29:18.780 Republicans. When a president actually stands up and says, okay, I'm going to help my own people.

00:29:25.940 Okay. I'm, I'm going to, no, no, I'm not helping. We're not trying to help the European countries

00:29:31.180 or anybody else. I'm going to look out for my own people, Americans. And that's what this is. And,

00:29:39.180 and, um, um, the very idea of that is scandalous and shocking to, um, to a lot of people.

00:29:51.180 You know, it's, it can even be startling to normal people who are not necessarily Democrats.

00:29:58.620 It's just something almost a little bit startling about it because we're just not used to seeing

00:30:02.980 American political leaders who do that. If we're not used to seeing our political leaders who

00:30:09.100 actually look out for American interests and we'll, and we'll say so openly. Uh, it's, uh,

00:30:17.160 it's like a little jarring sometimes in a good way, uh, at least a good way for me, but not for the

00:30:22.600 Democrats. All right. Here's something that's jarring in a very bad way. Here's an update, uh,

00:30:28.160 an update from the futuristic dystopia that we're currently living in. CNN reports,

00:30:33.560 Stacey Wales spent two years working on the victim impact statement she planned to give in court after 0.91

00:30:38.720 her brother was shot to death in a 2021 road rage incident. Even after all that time, Wales felt her

00:30:44.140 statement wouldn't be enough to capture her brother, Christopher Pelkey's humanity and what he would

00:30:48.500 have wanted to say. So Wales decided to let Pelkey give the statement himself with the help of

00:30:54.000 artificial intelligence. She and her husband created an AI generated video version of Pelkey

00:30:58.580 to play during his killer sentencing hearing earlier this month that read in a recreation of

00:31:03.860 Pelkey's own voice, a script that Wales wrote. And in it, the AI version of Pelkey expressed forgiveness

00:31:10.780 to the shooter, um, and, uh, and said some other things. Now, if this sounds horrifying enough,

00:31:21.040 wait until you see and hear this monstrosity, we're going to play it for you. And this is

00:31:25.560 apparently the video that was played in court. This is again, the, the person you're going to see

00:31:30.180 on screen is a dead person who died a few years ago, was murdered, and he was recreated by AI

00:31:36.940 and a script was written so that from his own mouth, which is not really his own mouth,

00:31:41.780 he would forgive the guy who killed him. And they, they played this in court. I mean, it's just,

00:31:47.440 well, let's watch it. I would like to make my own impact statement to Gabriel Horkasidas,

00:31:54.520 the man who shot me. It is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances.

00:32:01.080 In another life, uh, we probably could have been friends. I believe in forgiveness and in God who

00:32:06.760 forgives. I always have, and I still do. Getting old is a gift that not everybody has.

00:32:12.580 So embrace it and stop worrying about those wrinkles. Uh, I once played with one of those

00:32:18.340 filters on your phone where you can make yourself look old. I shared it with a cousin of ours years

00:32:23.580 ago. This is the best I can ever give you to what I would have looked like if I got the chance to grow

00:32:27.960 old. Scary, huh? No, really. Thank you to everyone for being here. It means more than you know.

00:32:35.340 I love that AI. Thank you for that. And as angry as you are, justifiably angry as the family is,

00:32:45.280 I heard the forgiveness. And I know Mr. Horkasidas appreciate it. But so did I.

00:32:52.780 As I said, I like to think I like to do that.

00:32:57.320 If I was the judge, I would have arrested the whole family for that. I would have arrested everybody.

00:33:01.940 I want to make one thing very clear. I want to make this very clear. If I am ever murdered,

00:33:08.920 which let's be honest, is a pretty plausible scenario. And if anyone makes an AI video with

00:33:16.040 my voice and my likeness where I forgive my killer, I swear I will come back and I will haunt you 1.00

00:33:22.200 until you die. It'll be full on like horror movie haunting. Okay. You're going to wake up in the 0.99

00:33:31.920 male ghostly child standing in the corner of the room, silently staring at you. I don't know why

00:33:37.800 people think that small, pale children are scary, but I mean, they're in every horror movie, so I 1.00

00:33:42.560 guess they do. I don't know how I would arrange to have that kind of haunting. I don't know what

00:33:46.780 the logistics are, but I'll figure out the logistics because I'm not going to tolerate that.

00:33:53.960 And so the point is, don't, don't, if you make an AI video of me, it better be, I'll tell you what,

00:34:01.120 you know, and I'm, it better be an incisive, brutal, sarcastic takedown of the guy who killed

00:34:09.140 me. Okay. It should be, it better be a daily cancellation of where, of the guy who killed me. 0.79

00:34:14.480 That's, that's what I want played in court. I want a victim impact statement where I'm doing a 15

00:34:19.920 minute monologue that ends with me saying, and that's why the guy who shot me in the head is

00:34:26.600 today canceled. That's what I want. I don't really want that. So please don't do that. But the whole

00:34:33.520 thing is, is horrifying and, and bizarre and grotesque to turn your dead relative into essentially a digital

00:34:40.200 puppet. I mean, that's what this is. It's like, it is, it's, it is the same thing in principle as

00:34:48.120 having somebody make a Muppet, like a Sesame street style puppet of your dead brother. And then having

00:34:55.060 a ventriloquist perform with the puppet in court, you know, up on the witness stand, reading a script

00:35:01.180 that you wrote. It's the same, it's the same thing. It's exactly the same thing. It's a digital puppet

00:35:05.960 and it's in very poor taste. It's also, it's extremely presumptuous. It's about the most

00:35:14.020 presumptuous thing you could possibly do. Just a awful all around. And, you know, I have to say

00:35:20.420 this too, and I'm, and I know that this, I know this will be misinterpreted, but I'm, I'm, you know,

00:35:30.520 I have to say I'm pretty tired of the cheap forgiveness that is constantly offered to murderers

00:35:38.620 and criminals. Every time we hear a story about some murdering scumbag, we always hear about the 0.99

00:35:46.800 loved ones of the victim who immediately offer their forgiveness, right? Sometimes days, sometimes like 0.98

00:35:54.120 hours after the fact, they're publicly saying, I forgive you. And look,

00:36:02.360 as Christians, we're called to forgive, but this forgiveness often feels just like cheap and,

00:36:09.260 and weirdly automatic. I mean, in this case, it's obviously cheap. They're offering forgiveness

00:36:15.520 from the victim using his voice, which means absolutely nothing. Okay. It's like, but in so

00:36:24.500 many cases, even where there's no AI, it still feels cheap. And that's because the first reaction

00:36:30.320 that you should have to your loved one falling victim to a violent crime should be righteous fury.

00:36:37.360 It should be intense, fiery anger. You know, I, I, that's normal. That's healthy. That's born from

00:36:47.920 the love that you had for your family member. Forgiveness, if it comes and if it's real comes

00:36:53.940 much later because for, I mean, what does it mean to forgive anyway? Like, what do you mean you're

00:36:58.720 forgiving? Well, um, it means that you're not, hopefully it doesn't mean that you're saying,

00:37:05.160 oh, I don't want this person to suffer any consequences because forgiveness should not

00:37:09.320 mean that forgiveness does not mean, uh, that the person who did whatever the bad thing is,

00:37:14.760 that they don't suffer consequences. So, so when you say I forgive you, like, what do you mean? Well,

00:37:20.640 maybe it means nothing. I think oftentimes it really just means nothing. It doesn't,

00:37:24.000 it's like what, in what way do you, do you actually forgive them? Are you really when you hear about

00:37:29.660 these? And I don't like to specifically criticize anyone who's mourning the loss of a family member.

00:37:36.260 So, you know, but there have been even very recent cases that may come to mind of people who lost a

00:37:43.080 family member and like immediately they were out in front of, like right away they were in front of

00:37:47.780 cameras saying, I forgive, I forgive. And, and again, what, what do you mean? What do you mean?

00:37:54.340 How? What, in what way? Or are you just saying that? Because if it means anything, what it should

00:38:01.400 mean, if it means anything, is that you are not, this is the only thing it can mean actually,

00:38:08.760 really, is that you are not harboring resentment and ill will towards this person. That's what it

00:38:17.060 means to forgive them. Okay. It doesn't mean that you, it doesn't mean that they don't suffer

00:38:21.580 consequences. It doesn't mean, depending on what it is, it doesn't mean that you will necessarily

00:38:25.700 trust them again. If this is like a, something in your personal life, someone did something to you.

00:38:31.220 But if it means anything, it means when you say that you forgive the person, you're saying, I don't,

00:38:34.400 I don't, I'm not harboring ill will towards you. I don't, I'm not, I don't resent you.

00:38:39.460 But that's my point. How could you possibly declare right away that you have no resentment,

00:38:46.740 resentment or ill will towards someone who, who victimized a family member? I mean,

00:38:52.480 how, how, really? Like right away, you don't, that quickly, you have no resentment towards this

00:38:57.940 person? That's not, it's just not possible. It shouldn't be possible. So, um, I think people

00:39:06.340 come out and say they forgive right away because they feel like they have to. And now in this case,

00:39:10.720 the, you know, this is three, this four years later. So my, the thought that I'm offering right

00:39:17.620 now is less, the problem with, in this case is the way that this forgiveness was offered through

00:39:21.980 an AI puppet. It's just like, you know, and again, you don't want to criticize people who are,

00:39:28.860 everyone has their own way of grieving, but there are things that are just grotesque and wrong. And

00:39:32.120 that's grotesque and wrong. I don't care. Like I, no matter who does it, it's still grotesque. It's

00:39:36.220 still wrong. So the problem here is not so much the immediacy of it. Cause it is years after the

00:39:42.020 fact, but it's the way it's the way, but it's still this cheap forgiveness where you're putting

00:39:46.740 in this case, putting the words in someone else's mouth, who's art, who's dead. Um, but there's also

00:39:52.120 this other thing that I'm talking about that we we've seen in particular recently where maybe it's

00:39:57.640 not AI, but it's like so quickly afterwards we hear about, I forgive, I forgive. And, um,

00:40:03.860 and I just think it's, I, okay. So either you've just suffered this horrible thing,

00:40:10.640 you've lost a family member and you really have no, you, you, you, a day later, you have no

00:40:17.100 resentment or ill will towards this person. Like it could be that, but that that's disordered. That's

00:40:23.020 not natural. That's you, you should feel that in, in the, in the immediacy of, of, of this event.

00:40:30.020 So if it's not that, then it's just, you're just saying. And I think that people

00:40:35.520 feel like they have to say it. People feel like they have to come out right away

00:40:42.260 and say, I forgive, I forgive. Um, and they feel like they're not allowed to come out and say,

00:40:50.160 you know what? I feel enraged at this person who took my loved one. I want them to feel the wrath

00:40:55.700 of justice. I want them to suffer for what they've done. You rarely hear anyone say that

00:41:02.780 because I think they think they aren't allowed to feel that kind of righteous fury, even though

00:41:07.980 it's healthy and normal. And also, by the way, good. That's justice. You're allowed to want justice.

00:41:15.080 You should want justice. Okay. And it's biblical. Go read the Psalms sometimes. You know how many,

00:41:23.280 you know how many Psalms are, are about wanting evildoers to be brought to justice and to suffer?

00:41:29.560 You know, you know how common of a theme that is? Um, it's very common. And, uh, so there's,

00:41:36.700 there's, there's nothing unbiblical or anti-Christian about it. Um, I think this kind of cheap forgiveness

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00:43:17.840 You know, about 10 years ago when I was trying to come up with ideas for my first book, I thought

00:43:26.680 about writing a book called Stating the Obvious. And it occurred to me even back then that a

00:43:31.600 conservative's role in the culture war was mostly just to state what should be obvious. And I pitched

00:43:36.080 this idea to a few different people and I was ultimately talked out of it because the consensus

00:43:40.120 was that nobody would want to buy a book that promises only to say obvious things. It's not provocative

00:43:45.500 or controversial enough. And the naysayers back then were probably right that it would make for

00:43:50.180 kind of a weak book title, but they were wrong when they said that Stating the Obvious doesn't have the

00:43:55.620 ring of provocation or controversy. Because as the next decade would prove, there is nothing more

00:44:02.160 controversial than Stating the Obvious. The more obvious a thing is, the more controversial it is.

00:44:07.300 That's certainly been my own experience. Indeed, there is no obvious statement that won't elicit

00:44:12.340 controversy. No matter how seemingly benign and self-evident the statement is, there will be a

00:44:16.960 group of people, often a very large group, standing at the ready to be offended. And this has been the

00:44:22.380 story of my life for the past 10 years or so. And that story continued over the weekend as I have had

00:44:29.700 a significant number of people yelling at me because I said that children should do chores. Yes, there are

00:44:38.480 adults in this country, a lot of them, it turns out, who are avowedly anti-chores for children. They

00:44:44.720 actually believe in principle that kids should not be required to help around the house at all. So

00:44:51.240 that means we actually have to talk about this. I have to explain why you as a parent should be

00:44:57.480 doing what every good parent in the history of the world has done and make your children do chores.

00:45:02.400 But before I explain, you know, that water is wet, let me briefly tell you how we got here. On

00:45:07.300 Saturday, somebody on X posted a question asking me what household chores I take on myself. What

00:45:13.640 household chores do I do myself? This was not an entirely random question related to something else

00:45:17.680 we were talking about. It doesn't matter for our purposes today. What matters is that I replied to

00:45:22.220 this question by saying this. Here's what I said. I make sure that the cleanup chores are done every

00:45:27.520 night. I don't do them. The kids do. Our kids understand that dad doesn't provide for them and then come

00:45:31.240 home and clean up for them too. They need to contribute as well. Boggles my mind that so many parents

00:45:35.480 they don't have their kids doing daily chores. Totally foreign concept to me, not how I was

00:45:39.620 raised. Okay, so that was my answer. And, you know, at this point with six kids, three over the age of

00:45:45.820 eight, two over the age of 10, and a five-year-old who can also pitch in, I don't do a lot of cleaning

00:45:53.540 in my house. Like, not at all. Not much at all, I got to tell you. And I know that this is shocking

00:46:00.700 for many people to hear, and I know that you may be skeptical, but, you know, and that's fine.

00:46:06.780 But I will say that, in fact, creating and delivering an hour-long show every day does

00:46:11.680 require a lot of work, even if it doesn't seem like it would. I've also made two feature films

00:46:15.980 in the last three years, which is its own full-time job. I published another book and made dozens of

00:46:20.620 other pieces of content in my spare time during that same time frame. So all that to say, you know,

00:46:24.720 when I come home from work, I'm not going to clean my kids' dishes for them while they sit on the

00:46:30.380 couch. That's not happening. A couch that I bought, by the way, just like I bought the dishes and the

00:46:36.580 food in the house and literally everything else. I'm also not going to have them sit around and expect

00:46:42.360 mom to, you know, be their maid and wait on them, you know, and just wait on them while they sit 1.00

00:46:48.700 there watching TV or whatever. So they will contribute and contribute meaningfully whether

00:46:56.160 they like it or not. And of course, they don't like it most of the time, but frankly, that's just

00:47:00.960 not my problem. In any case, some of the responses to this were quite disturbing. And I'll just read

00:47:09.980 through just a few of them just to give you a kind of a taste of what people think about this. So let me

00:47:17.660 read a few. One comment says, you don't have kids to run a boot camp, Matt. You had them to raise

00:47:22.980 human beings, not unpaid janitors. Another comment says, yes, kids should do chores, but I absolutely

00:47:28.660 hated and despised when my father would sit and watch his kids do chores. Now I can't do housework

00:47:34.020 if anyone is home. Matt, pick up a broom and sweep, grab a wipe and clean the table. Chores is a family

00:47:40.560 activity. No, well, when it comes to sweeping, the work that I will do is when I'm sitting on the couch,

00:47:46.300 I will, what I will do is I'll raise my feet up so that one of my, so one of my kids can sweep under

00:47:51.260 where my feet were. So I will do that. I'll put in that kind of effort. Am I going to stand up and

00:47:56.780 sweep the floor while my kid watches me? No, I'm not going to do that. That, I can't even wrap my

00:48:04.440 head around that. Anyway, keep continuing. Conclusion, Matt Walsh is a slob who makes his kids pick up

00:48:10.400 after him. Another comment says, poor kids, your dad is an effing. Another one says, lead by example. 1.00

00:48:16.740 What kind of trash man is this? Another one says, man proudly admits he's too lazy to do anything 0.99

00:48:22.860 around the home and forces children to do it. They're supposed to help out, not do it all for

00:48:27.060 you. You work one of the most cushy jobs imaginable. How lazy can you be? Another comment

00:48:31.560 says, I don't clean. We have a housekeeper. The kids are expected to clean up after themselves and

00:48:34.740 perform well in school. School is also a burden. Why should they come home after a long day and

00:48:39.320 clean your house for you? Okay. That last comment, by the way, has over 160 likes. 160 likes on a

00:48:46.440 comment saying, I don't, I don't, I don't make my, I won't make my kids do chores. We have a staff for

00:48:52.300 that. The kids are, it's already a burden to go to school. I mean, my God. And this is just a small

00:49:02.240 sampling of the comments. Comments which, I'm sorry to say, do seem to reflect societal trends. This is not

00:49:09.060 a Twitter isn't real life kind of situation as much as I'd like to tell myself that it is.

00:49:13.200 And I've now looked into this and found that a number of surveys have been conducted in recent

00:49:17.480 years to find out what percentage of parents require their kids to do daily chores. On the low

00:49:22.280 end, some surveys have found that only 30% of parents today, these days, give their kids chores.

00:49:29.500 30%. Now on the high end, there are some surveys that have said it's like 70%, which is still low,

00:49:34.540 because that means that 30% of parents are not giving their kids any chores to do.

00:49:39.900 But I think that 70% is not right because the discrepancy comes down to how we define chores.

00:49:45.880 So if cleaning their room every week or so counts as a chore, then yeah, probably 70% or more of

00:49:53.580 parents make their kids do chores. But if by chore, we mean a daily responsibility that extends beyond

00:50:00.740 the child's own bedroom, then it seems that at least half of parents, if not substantially more,

00:50:07.500 do not assign any chores to their children at all. And by the way, when it comes to cleaning the room,

00:50:13.240 I'll tell you this, that's the least of my concerns. Now they have to keep their room clean,

00:50:18.880 and that is a chore. But no, that's the greater priority is the communal areas in the house where

00:50:25.660 all of us are. You need to help with that. Cleaning your own room, that's your own room.

00:50:30.820 That's your own space. Like you are the one who primarily benefits from having a clean room.

00:50:36.600 But you need to also do work that benefits the family, because you're a member of the family.

00:50:43.300 And this is how we raise our kids, and this is how you raise your kids if you want them to be

00:50:47.480 like productive members of society. And it's not a coincidence then that we have also now been

00:50:51.940 plagued with multiple generations of the whiniest, most entitled, and functionally useless adults to 0.99

00:50:57.680 ever live in this country. You know, a 10-year-old who gets to run upstairs and watch TV or play video 0.99

00:51:03.180 games after dinner while his parents clean his messes for him is learning a lot of lessons from

00:51:09.640 that dynamic, and they are the worst kinds of lessons that a child could possibly learn.

00:51:14.720 Now, I think what's happening here is pretty clear. Most obviously,

00:51:19.580 too many parents today want to be their child's peer. Now, notice what I didn't say. I didn't say,

00:51:28.860 as it's often phrased, that too many parents want to be their child's friend. No, there's nothing wrong

00:51:36.840 with being your child's friend. You should be your child's friend, actually. What is a friend,

00:51:41.660 after all? A friend is someone that you know, someone you trust, somebody you confide in,

00:51:45.720 and somebody you enjoy spending time with. That's a friend. It's very good if your children know you,

00:51:52.560 trust you, confide in you, and enjoy spending time with you. So you should be their friend in that

00:51:58.020 sense, but you should not be their peer. And that's where many parents fail. They want to be their child's

00:52:04.320 peer. They want to be friends on the same level that their classmates are friends. And this is totally

00:52:10.920 disordered and wrong. Because as a parent, you are the authority. It is your job to instruct and guide

00:52:20.220 and delegate, and if necessary, reprimand and punish, which is my role in the house with the chores.

00:52:28.600 So it's actually not, is it true that I don't do any chores, clean up chores in the house?

00:52:31.960 Physically, I don't do most of them most of the time. I make sure that they are done because I am

00:52:38.900 in an authority role. And so I'm making sure that they're done. I'm checking after they're done to

00:52:44.900 make sure they were done well. And if they weren't done well, I come in and say, well, wipe the

00:52:50.360 counter down again because that was not done. Okay? I still see crumbs on the counter. You obviously

00:52:54.380 didn't wipe it down. So come on, do it again. That's my job as the authority figure, okay? And

00:53:02.440 not their peer. Making them do things that they don't want to do is one of the most essential and

00:53:11.520 most basic jobs of a parent. Like that is so much of what parenting is. And that's so much of the

00:53:19.160 challenge is like you have kids and they're strong-willed and they don't want to do things

00:53:23.760 that they should do. And so you, but they have to do them. That's the hard part. You can't skip

00:53:30.420 that part as a parent. You can't just say, well, okay, but they don't want to do it. It's too much

00:53:34.180 of a hassle. You're just, that's, that's it right there. That's where the game is played. It is in

00:53:39.180 those moments. And it's, it's one of the most important life skills that you could possibly teach

00:53:44.900 them. My kids do chores and fulfill responsibilities that they don't like and they don't enjoy every day.

00:53:50.900 And that's a good thing because being a functional, happy, successful adult also entails doing chores

00:53:56.440 and fulfilling responsibilities that you don't like and don't enjoy every day.

00:54:02.300 This is a speech I give to my kids all the time. Just like my dad gave to me.

00:54:08.380 If they're complaining about having to do something, I say, well, you know, look, there are days when I

00:54:12.860 don't, I don't feel like going to work. There are days when I would like to just take two weeks off

00:54:16.840 anytime I want, but I can't because I have responsibilities in the house. I have

00:54:21.360 responsibilities. So do you. Here are your responsibilities and you can't just skip them.

00:54:28.020 You know, the problem is that there are many adults who simply refuse to do things that don't

00:54:31.840 bring immediate gratification. And, and so they will be unsuccessful, unhappy, unimpressive losers 0.92

00:54:37.300 forever. And then they'll die. That's the fate that awaits anyone who never learns the discipline 1.00

00:54:43.500 of doing things you don't want to do. And it's also the fate of anyone who never learns to,

00:54:49.540 learns to respect and obey legitimate authority. Okay. Prison is full of those types of people.

00:54:58.500 You are the legitimate authority in your child's life. That doesn't mean that you

00:55:02.020 can't be close with your child. In fact, if you fulfill your role as authority figure,

00:55:06.080 it will draw you even closer because you'll be giving your child the stability and structure

00:55:10.140 and boundaries that he needs, but doesn't know he needs. And that will make him happier. It will

00:55:15.760 also breed respect from your child towards you. The bond you have with your child should be grounded

00:55:21.460 in respect. If they don't respect you, it will not only cause chaos and dysfunction in your home,

00:55:26.400 it will also destroy your relationship with them because parents who try to be their child's peer end up

00:55:31.120 as neither parent nor peer because a lack of respect gives rise to contempt and resentment.

00:55:39.200 And this is why I also heard from a number of parents who seem to kind of like the idea of

00:55:43.320 having their kids do chores, but they don't know what to do if their child refuses. I saw a bunch of

00:55:48.100 replies like this one from a guy named Nate. He says this, quote, yes, they should have daily chores

00:55:52.940 and push to do them. What of the young kids or when they're unable or still unwilling to do them?

00:55:58.800 Do you just let the chores go unfinished because doing them is beneath you or whatever?

00:56:03.520 For your household, I hope not. And he continued with this scenario. Mess on the floor. Guests are

00:56:09.020 coming. You tell your five-year-old to clean up her mess. She doesn't. You threaten and try to

00:56:12.820 persuade. She doesn't. Seems everyone responding to me would just beat her up. I wouldn't, but let's

00:56:18.440 say I do. She still doesn't and is now just screaming. Guests are here and the mess is on the floor

00:56:22.820 because you want to be the man slash father or whatever because cleaning anything is apparently

00:56:27.380 children or women's work only. Now, that was Nate. Now, I don't want to be too hard on Nate, but

00:56:35.660 someone has to be. This is from the sounds of it, a pitiful man who commands no respect in his home.

00:56:45.760 I can tell you that through 12 years of parenting, I have never had a child just flat out refuse to do

00:56:51.960 mature. Unwilling to do it. Unwilling to do it. Unwilling. That's not a concept that exists

00:57:00.240 in my house just as it didn't exist in my parents' house when I was a child. It didn't exist for me to

00:57:06.420 like go to my dad and say, you know, dad, I'm not willing to do that. There was no, my dad said,

00:57:10.860 well, go vacuum the carpet. No, no, I'm not gonna. I'm just not gonna do that. That didn't,

00:57:16.600 I can't even fathom what the response would have been if I had tried that.

00:57:22.820 You know, now the kids may sometimes whine and complain. They may sometimes do an unsatisfactory

00:57:27.900 job on their chores. They may try to get away with cutting corners. Now, kids will do all those

00:57:33.380 things. And when that happens, we deal with it. But not doing the task is not an option. And

00:57:41.680 if you're a father and your child will look you straight in the eyes and refuse to perform the

00:57:48.160 basic task you've given to them, it's because you've allowed that to be an option. You do not

00:57:55.160 command respect in your home. You're running your home like a democracy where everybody thinks they

00:58:01.220 get an equal vote. You know, your children think that your authority relies on the consent of the

00:58:06.160 governed. It doesn't. Or at least it shouldn't. Wield your authority. I'll never understand

00:58:14.680 these parents that stand like helpless before, standing helplessly cowering before a five-year-old.

00:58:21.200 You have all the cards. You have all the leverage. The power dynamics could not possibly be more in

00:58:30.000 your favor as the parent. Set boundaries, make rules, impose discipline, have clear consequences,

00:58:40.080 impose those consequences, and do all this for the sake of your children and for the sake of a society

00:58:47.120 that will have to deal with your children if you don't. And that is why parents who don't give their

00:58:53.240 children chores because they'd rather be a peer than a parent are today canceled. That'll do it for

00:58:59.620 show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 12, 2025

Ep. 1594 - The Left Discovered The New Pope Is Actually Catholic And They’re Horrified

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