The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1598 - Race-Baiting Politicians Are Trying To Push For Reparations AGAIN

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats in Congress have introduced a trillion-dollar

00:00:03.220 slavery reparations bill. Also, Mike Lee is pushing a bill that could lead to almost all

00:00:07.380 pornography being banned. Budget airlines are now so bad that they have roach infestations on their

00:00:12.580 planes. And thousands of people on social media have been very mad at me this week, claiming that

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00:01:47.920 There are many ways in which the House of Representatives is feeling the effects of the

00:01:53.040 absence of former Congresswoman Cori Bush. Now, you might remember that Cori Bush was the only

00:01:58.200 member of Congress in the history of this country who claimed to have performed a bona fide miracle

00:02:03.020 while in office. Specifically, in a televised interview, Bush said that she once cured a woman's

00:02:07.780 cancer simply by placing her hand on the woman's body. As she put it, this homeless lady came up to us 1.00

00:02:13.960 and she had these tumors and she wanted us to, like, feel them. I laid hands on her and prayed 1.00

00:02:18.740 and then I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her

00:02:23.640 body and the lumps that were there were no longer there. She was so happy and she went on about her

00:02:28.840 day. Close quote. It's too bad that this homeless woman disappeared because this kind of interaction 0.98

00:02:33.760 seems like the thing that cancer researchers might have been interested in following up on. But

00:02:37.740 in any event, Bush did not stop there because, as we all know, you need two miracles in order to

00:02:42.960 qualify for sainthood. Normally, these miraculous events occur after the saint has died, but Bush

00:02:48.320 doesn't have time for that. And therefore, she claimed that she also once helped a toddler take

00:02:53.420 her first steps in St. Louis, even though the child was gravely ill. Quote, I carry the child from the

00:02:58.060 prayer room in the back of the church out onto the sanctuary. Walk, I said gently to the three-year-old

00:03:03.120 girl. You will walk. And this girl took her first step, Bush wrote. Because Bush was voted out of

00:03:10.640 office in the last election. Unfortunately, we don't hear stories like this anymore. Therefore,

00:03:15.000 until Jesus himself returns, we can assume that countless hobos in St. Louis will continue to

00:03:20.440 suffer needlessly from all kinds of horrible afflictions. But despite that sad reality, it's

00:03:25.820 not all bad news. Consider the fact that without Cori Bush's voice to amplify them, a lot of fraudulent

00:03:31.120 BLM narratives will die before they get started. We won't have to listen to her tributes to Michael 1.00

00:03:36.300 Brown and George Floyd every year. So that's something at least. Yet we've lost a miracle

00:03:40.960 worker. But we have gained some peace and quiet. So that's the trade-off. Or at least we thought

00:03:46.160 we gained some peace and quiet. At the moment, there is a concerted effort underway among House

00:03:50.560 Democrats to revive the legacy of Cori Bush, such as it is. But they're not revising the whole bid for

00:03:57.940 sainthood routine. Instead, they are doubling down on Cori Bush's true passion of life, which is whipping

00:04:03.600 up a race war. And to that end, Democrats are revitalizing one of Bush's dumbest ideas, which is 0.96

00:04:09.540 her plan to enact trillions of dollars in reparations. Quoting from The Hill, a coalition of

00:04:15.640 Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Thursday reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations

00:04:21.000 to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent. Representative Summer Lee led the

00:04:25.960 reintroduction of the Reparations Now resolution, which was first introduced in 2023 by former

00:04:31.180 Representative Cori Bush. The resolution calls for the federal government to allocate trillions of

00:04:35.360 dollars in reparations to black Americans. Now, keep in mind the entire federal budget for the last

00:04:42.120 fiscal year was around $7 trillion. So we're talking about spending a very significant chunk of the

00:04:47.560 overall federal budget on handouts to black people, essentially. And on top of these trillions of

00:04:53.380 dollars in reparations, Cori Booker and Jasmine Crockett are also planning to introduce the Truth, 0.61

00:04:58.400 Racial Healing and Transformation Commission Act, which would supposedly, quote, acknowledge and

00:05:04.320 memorialize the arrival of the first slave ship in the United States and the injustices suffered by

00:05:09.360 people of color throughout history. Now, here is Ayanna Pressley and Summer Lee to explain. And

00:05:15.820 before I play this, these clips are not sped up in any way, at least as far as I know. I mean, this is

00:05:21.220 how I found them. They're like this. It just seems like they're talking really, really fast for some

00:05:25.700 reason. But anyway, here it is. We are in a moment of anti-blackness on steroids and we refuse to be

00:05:32.660 silent. We will not back down in our pursuit of racial justice. The antidote to anti-blackness is

00:05:38.120 to be pro-black and we will do it unapologetically. The United States government owes us a debt and we

00:05:42.780 need reparations. Let's make it clear. There is a debt that does exist. This country has taken so much

00:05:49.620 from black folks and has a debt it owes because for over 400 years into this very day, this country has 0.99

00:05:54.500 stolen black labor, black lives, black futures. Industries were built and maintained through the 1.00

00:05:59.600 subjugation of black people in this country. And wealth was built and maintained through the 0.99

00:06:03.460 discriminatory policies that still plague us to this day. And to be clear, some people directly

00:06:08.440 benefited from it or are direct beneficiaries of it. We have systems that create and perpetuate

00:06:14.360 imbalances, imbalances in our society. And you either benefit from it or you are disenfranchised by it.

00:06:19.420 And black people continue to be disenfranchised and harmed by these systems. Others receive

00:06:22.760 advantages from it. I mean, that has to be sped up, right? That's like, are they really just

00:06:27.660 talking that way? I don't know. It's either sped up or they're on cocaine. I don't know. You know,

00:06:32.700 it's, I mean, either one of those possibilities is very valid. But, and now before we go any further

00:06:38.600 with the specifics of this legislation, I have to provide something of a disclosure at this point.

00:06:43.360 You know, we've talked about the issue of reparations plenty of times on the show. And

00:06:46.820 the difference is that now I have a very personal stake in the issue. And that's because recently

00:06:52.600 and somewhat unexpectedly, and I say this with nothing but modesty in my heart, I have become,

00:06:58.980 as you know, something of a pioneer when it comes to the issue of reparations in the United States.

00:07:03.820 In fact, according to all available information, I am the only person in America,

00:07:08.220 along with Robin DiAngelo, who has actually paid reparations. Now, you might point out that I was

00:07:15.400 undercover doing a movie when I paid my reparations. Am I racist? Which you can watch on Daily Wire

00:07:19.640 right now. You might point out that I took my reparations back immediately after the cameras

00:07:25.020 were turned off. And you might point out that the reparations were only like 20 bucks or whatever

00:07:29.000 I had in my wallet. All of that is true. But that's not the important thing to keep in mind.

00:07:34.000 The important thing is that I am an expert on this issue. I've been personally involved in a way that

00:07:40.040 very few people are. And so I have no choice but to chime in and provide my analysis. And with that

00:07:45.820 in mind, the first thing that needs to be said is that if we really want reparations for the

00:07:51.120 descendants of slaves, then, you know, we're going to need to spend a lot more than a trillion dollars.

00:07:57.440 And that's because, of course, every single person who's alive right now on the planet,

00:08:01.280 if you go back far enough, has ancestors who were slaves, period. No exceptions. I mean,

00:08:07.360 the Romans alone enslaved millions of people from all over the world. So did Egypt, Greece, China,

00:08:12.260 the Persians, the Russians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, Ottomans, and so on. And that's not even

00:08:16.680 getting into indentured servitude. You know, you take a look at what happened to Irish Catholics in

00:08:20.760 the 17th century in places like Barbados, for example. Technically, many of these Irishmen became

00:08:25.840 indentured servants, not slaves. But in many cases, that meant that they were treated even worse than

00:08:30.260 slaves since they weren't expected to work for their entire lives. Roughly half of them died within

00:08:34.600 four years, by some estimates. As the researcher Michael Mahoney pointed out, quote, John Scott,

00:08:39.720 an English adventurer who traveled in the West Indies during the Commonwealth, saw Irish servants

00:08:44.020 working in field gangs with slaves without stockings under the scorching sun. The Irish, 0.94

00:08:49.220 he wrote, were derided by the Negroes and branded with the epitaph of white slaves. Once in the 0.88

00:08:54.660 Caribbean, many plantation owners considered servants and freemen from Ireland as a potentially

00:08:58.800 subversive lot who had to be controlled and kept in a laboring status. Punishments for attempted 0.91

00:09:04.120 escapes included branding the letters FT, Fugitive Traitor, on the servant's forehead. One assembly

00:09:09.420 member in Barbados is quoted in 1667 as stating, we have more than a good many Irish amongst us.

00:09:15.580 Therefore, I am for the downright Scott, who I am certain will fight without a crucifix about his

00:09:20.620 neck. Close quote. In other words, a lot of obvious anti-Catholic, anti-white bigotry at work

00:09:26.940 here. And in many cases, these Irish servants were treated far worse than slaves as they worked

00:09:30.780 alongside them. And this is just one of many, many examples. Here's another. Did you know that

00:09:36.520 in 1797, 20% of the U.S. federal budget, a total of $1 million at the time, went to paying tribute to

00:09:46.380 Muslim nations in North Africa so that they would stop enslaving white people? This was a big business 1.00

00:09:51.920 for them. In total, they enslaved more than a million whites from both Europe and the United States. 0.55

00:09:56.320 This was during the Barbary Wars. And for context today, we don't spend anywhere near 20% of the

00:10:02.660 U.S. budget on defense spending. But in 1797, we spent 20% of the budget on ransom payments to Algiers.

00:10:09.940 And as we did so, the Africans made sure to mock Americans at every opportunity. The tribute was 1.00

00:10:15.780 ultimately ferried to Constantinople by the frigate USS George Washington. And along the way,

00:10:20.740 the Africans forced the American warship to fly an Ottoman flag. There was sadistic brutality going

00:10:27.440 on at every level. And they only stopped enslaving white people because they were forced to do so. 0.63

00:10:34.140 Now, these are chapters from American history that you don't hear much about. Certainly smooth-brained

00:10:39.000 race hustlers like Ayanna Pressley won't mention any of this, probably don't even know about any of it.

00:10:44.000 And that's because, as always, their goal isn't to actually have a serious discussion about reparations

00:10:51.140 to the extent that it's even possible to do so. They know that this resolution has no chance of

00:10:56.840 passing in either chamber of Congress, much less being signed into law. They know this is purely

00:11:02.860 performative. It's a purely performative piece of legislation that's intended to stoke racial conflict

00:11:07.840 and enrage as many people as possible so that they'll feel entitled and envious.

00:11:13.540 And then they might finally start rioting, as Democrats desperately want them to do.

00:11:19.780 And it's no coincidence that, as we talked about yesterday, we are seeing this pivot on the left

00:11:28.100 back to race hustling, not that they ever left it, but pivoting back to it in a very serious way,

00:11:34.880 heading into the summer under the first year of Trump's new term in office. Pretty clear what

00:11:43.360 they want to see happen. Now, of course, it should also be said that indirect, inexplicit reparations

00:11:49.440 have already been paid in the form of DEI policies, in the form of affirmative action,

00:11:55.420 the welfare state, every other policy put in place in the name of white guilt. Most of the federal

00:12:00.900 government is a kind of make-work program for certain demographics to funnel them taxpayer money

00:12:05.460 without any accountability. And we see what good all that has done for the black community.

00:12:10.100 But explicit reparations, the kind where black Americans get money because they're black Americans 0.89

00:12:16.380 for slavery, that will certainly never happen. From a political perspective, it's not feasible.

00:12:24.020 It's just not going to happen. It will not be tolerated by the American public. This is yet

00:12:30.000 another failed idea from the Cori Bush playbook, one among many. At the same time, it's interesting

00:12:35.520 to note that this legislation comes at the very moment that white South Africans are fleeing their

00:12:41.000 homeland, seeking refuge in the United States. They're being forcibly evicted from their own homes

00:12:44.800 solely because of their skin color, as we've discussed several times this week.

00:12:48.360 And you know what that means. There's about to be a lot more room in Africa for any supposedly 1.00

00:12:53.460 oppressed group in the United States, including Congresswomen like Ayanna Pressley. So maybe

00:12:58.440 there's an opportunity here for a kind of reparation through repatriation thing. Maybe we could offer

00:13:03.520 some of these Democrats a taxpayer-funded, all-expenses-paid trip to whatever lands their

00:13:08.860 ancestors are from, if they're so oppressed here. And since we're judging everybody by their

00:13:13.840 ancestors, it seems more than appropriate. Plus, they'll gain access to plenty of fertile

00:13:18.280 farmland in South Africa, as Don Lemon often reminds us. The opportunity for untold riches

00:13:23.440 in a land totally devoid of white people is right there for the taking. Will Ayanna Pressley and

00:13:30.260 Summer Lee and all these other Democrats seize that opportunity? Well, of course not.

00:13:34.360 That's because they know that when given the opportunity, they cannot govern. They can't

00:13:39.620 improve anyone's lives. They certainly can't manage a farm. All they're capable of doing is playing

00:13:46.160 the Victim Act, demonizing white people, looting the Treasury. And without white people to demonize, 0.98

00:13:51.600 there won't be any money to loot. That's why reparations is a losing issue for Democrats. 0.95

00:13:56.040 It's also why South Africa is about to collapse entirely. And it's why, as many more Americans 1.00

00:14:01.240 wake up to the reality of what's happening, politicians like Ayanna Pressley and Summer

00:14:05.460 Lee and Ilhan Omar will go the way of Cori Bush. They'll be removed from Congress by the voters.

00:14:10.620 That's the outcome these anti-white politicians are apparently clamoring for. And now that they've

00:14:15.000 introduced this reparations bill once again and made it clear they have no interest in representing

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00:15:38.400 a very dumb bill that was introduced this week. Here is a bill that was introduced that is a very good

00:15:46.560 bill. This is from the Post Millennial. Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, has introduced a bill

00:15:51.480 that is targeted at banning online pornography in the United States, as well as defining what

00:15:56.220 obscenity is in legal terms. Lee, as well as Representative Mary Miller, introduced the bill

00:16:01.360 called the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, which, if passed, would make it illegal to transmit

00:16:06.640 obscene material across state lines, making large swaths of pornographic material illegal online.

00:16:11.820 In a new release from Lee, he said, obscenity isn't protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and

00:16:17.400 unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society

00:16:21.140 and reach countless children. Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age

00:16:27.600 so that this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted. Miller also commented on the

00:16:32.920 bill, saying the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act equips law enforcement with the tools they need to

00:16:38.740 target and remove obscene material from the internet, which is alarmingly destructive and far

00:16:42.860 outside the bounds of protected free speech under the Constitution. This bill will clarify what obscenity

00:16:47.860 means in the modern age, remove ambiguity around the term, and provide a standardized definition of

00:16:52.900 what obscenity is. A Supreme Court case that was ruled on in 1973 made the term subjective as well as

00:16:59.820 vague. And so that's what they're looking to fix. And this is great stuff. I'm obviously not at all

00:17:11.000 optimistic that it will actually happen, but it should happen. It's time to end this charade about

00:17:17.220 pornography being free speech. It's not. It's totally ridiculous pretense that the First Amendment 0.99

00:17:23.480 covers hardcore porn, that the First Amendment requires us to allow millions of hours of hardcore

00:17:30.780 porn to be readily and freely accessible to anyone at any moment and at any age. Like, it's insane.

00:17:39.760 It's just insane. Does anyone think, does anyone actually think that our founding fathers,

00:17:46.680 the guys who codified free speech into law, does anyone think that they would think that it covers

00:17:56.000 internet porn? Now, obviously, internet porn didn't exist at the time, but if you could go back and

00:18:01.980 show them, you know, in a crystal ball, a world where everybody is carrying around a device in their

00:18:09.020 pocket that gives them instantaneous access to videos of the most depraved sexual acts ever conceived by

00:18:16.060 human beings, if you could show them that, does anyone think that any of them would say that,

00:18:24.580 oh, yeah, well, that's free speech? Yeah, oh, yeah, that's what we meant. We meant that too.

00:18:30.340 Does anyone think that? No, nobody thinks that. You know, this is, pornography is obscenity,

00:18:40.100 the most extreme kind of obscenity. Obscenity laws exist in this country already. That's what this

00:18:48.500 bill is all about. They exist in this country. They've always existed. This has been the precedent

00:18:58.960 since always, basically, in this country that free speech is one thing, obscenity is another thing,

00:19:05.880 and free speech does not cover obscenity. The only question is, like, how do you define obscenity?

00:19:14.780 And there's been an effort underway over the last 40 or 50 years to make that term as vague as possible

00:19:21.660 so that you can have obscenity laws like we do in this country, but they're impossible to enforce

00:19:28.280 because you can't apply it to anything. Well, again, this whole conversation is ridiculous because,

00:19:36.100 yes, when you're trying to define something like obscenity, there are going to be edge cases.

00:19:42.920 There are going to be, it's like anything else, you know, it's kind of an overarching concept,

00:19:48.940 and it's a rather big umbrella, and you're going to have edge cases, and you're going to have things

00:19:55.400 where it can kind of go either way. You're going to have things that you're debating, like, does that

00:19:58.420 count as obscenity or not? Yeah, you're going to have that. But if obscenity means anything,

00:20:06.920 it must obviously cover hardcore pornography on the internet. So there are plenty of, there are things

00:20:14.860 where, you know, you could have a debate about, is that obscenity? There's no debate about porn.

00:20:20.900 Obviously, that's obscenity. So even if we applied obscenity laws only to pornography and nothing

00:20:29.140 else, okay, well, that's progress. And there's just no rational argument that obscenity, that porn

00:20:39.240 does not count as obscenity. I can't take you seriously because if you go, well, what is obscenity?

00:20:45.020 Is pornography obscene? It's literally the definition of obscene. So we can argue about

00:20:53.680 what does it apply to? There are things where it's a little bit vague. Pornography is not vague.

00:20:59.540 It certainly applies to pornography.

00:21:06.380 And, you know, the other thing about obscenity laws is that they've been in this country since 0.95

00:21:11.060 forever. They're not enforced anymore, but they used to be. Back when they were enforced,

00:21:18.220 we were not living in a, in some sort of oppressive dystopia.

00:21:25.080 We're in much more of an oppressive dystopia now than we were back when things like obscenity laws

00:21:30.700 were real and were actually enforced. So all of the slippery slope scenarios people dream up,

00:21:37.860 oh, well, we can't ban porn because then next thing you know, we won't be able to express our

00:21:42.440 political beliefs. Those scenarios are nonsense. It is very easy. Okay, again, people just like this

00:21:50.280 gaslighting, this, this kind of pretending to be a lot more obtuse than you really are.

00:21:57.300 How do we differentiate between pornography and a political opinion? I mean, if we ban porn,

00:22:02.000 then we'll have no choice, but also ban political views as if those two things aren't distinctly

00:22:08.720 different as if those aren't two obviously distinct categories. Okay. If you, if you are a porn

00:22:17.480 consumer, which I hope you aren't, but if you are, I don't think you've ever come across porn in your

00:22:22.320 life where you were like, is this porn or is this a political statement? I can't tell. I don't know what

00:22:28.340 this is. That's never happened. So give me a break. Um, we have enforced obscenity laws in the

00:22:39.240 past and at the same time, people were still able to give their political opinions. In fact, for many

00:22:46.080 decades, pornography was heavily censored, heavily restricted, and you weren't allowed to access it

00:22:52.740 or see it or purchase it unless you were an adult. And even then you could only find it in specific

00:22:58.040 places. Okay. There was a long time in this country where pornography, it was, was not very

00:23:06.800 accessible. And, um, if you wanted to get it, you had to go to some real skeevy places and you had to,

00:23:14.020 you know, be willing to, uh, embarrass yourself in that way. And most people aren't. And so, you know,

00:23:19.860 most people just never encountered pornography. And, and you know what, like we didn't live in a

00:23:28.080 dystopia back then. Our country is far more dystopian now than it was back when that was the

00:23:34.920 case. So the whole thing is ludicrous. The arguments against banning porn are gibberish. Uh, porn is not 0.52

00:23:42.760 speech. Porn is prostitution. And I've explained this many times. Speech, protected political speech 0.99

00:23:50.880 is the communication of an idea or an opinion. That's speech. Porn is not the communication of an

00:24:02.020 idea or an opinion. Now, part of the problem, so we've got two terms that, um, are, so we have,

00:24:11.660 we have two, two terms here that get applied that, that make this complicated. Uh, one of them is the

00:24:17.420 term of obscenity, which is, which is actually not hard to define, but it has been broadened so that

00:24:25.200 it's been deliberate. That idea has been deliberately broadened so that it's, so that it's hard to know

00:24:31.100 where to apply it. Uh, and then we have this other idea, this other term expression, right? We don't,

00:24:39.080 so we're not talking about free speech anymore. We're talking about free expression.

00:24:45.100 Well, the first amendment doesn't say free expression. It says free speech. That's what

00:24:53.000 it's protecting. This expression thing, that's a, that's a, that's a more modern invention.

00:24:59.960 First amendment does not say free speech. It says free speech. And there is a difference

00:25:04.060 because, you know, we can't have the government controlling what you say, the ideas or opinions

00:25:09.920 you convey, but expression is a much, much, much broader category. It's so broad that it's meaningless.

00:25:20.320 Which is the whole idea, right? Because expression can be anything. Anything you do can be expression.

00:25:27.960 And so when people act like it's confusing and they say, what is, what is free speech? What is

00:25:33.000 speech? No, speech is not confusing. We know what that is. That's definable. That's a certain thing.

00:25:39.280 Speech is conveying, communicating an idea or an opinion. That's speech. Expression is vague.

00:25:47.720 Expression can be anything. So let's just stop talking about expression and just talk about speech.

00:25:52.840 Um, because any, you know, walking around naked in public, that's definitely not speech, but it is

00:26:00.560 expression. Uh, set, setting a car on fire, right? Is expression. Throwing a Molotov cocktail into a

00:26:09.180 Tesla dealership is expression. Um, filming a video of a depraved sex act and uploading it to the internet

00:26:17.260 so that kids can see it. That's expression. In fact, what actually happens is that in our country,

00:26:24.980 actual speech is shut down and penalized while stuff that isn't speech, but is expression,

00:26:33.100 quote unquote, is allowed without limit, which is totally backwards. So you should be free to say

00:26:40.300 whatever opinion you want. You should, you should be free to any opinion, any opinion or idea

00:26:46.780 that you want to convey, you should be able to convey it, but you should not be free to engage

00:26:52.600 in any kind of expression you want. Like there should be a basic level of civilized decency that

00:27:00.920 is required of everybody in public life. But all of that's been flipped on its head for the sake of

00:27:08.340 allowing uncontrolled smut while disallowing actual political speech. So the whole free speech

00:27:14.280 thing is a red herring. It has nothing to do with free speech. You know, porn is not speech. And again,

00:27:19.000 nobody thinks that porn is speech. No one thinks that. Um, which is why if you are a porn consumer,

00:27:30.700 again, I guarantee you have never in your life watched a porn video on the internet and said,

00:27:38.340 huh, I wonder what idea they're trying to get across. What are they, what are they trying to

00:27:44.460 say with this? Right? Like you're not engaging intellectually with the pornography.

00:27:53.040 It's like also the people that, Oh no, it's art. It's like, Oh, shut up. It's yeah. Oh, sure. 1.00

00:27:57.300 Right. Yeah. That's why you're on Pornhub is because you're a fan of art. It's an, it's art.

00:28:02.300 Yeah. You could go to an art museum or you could go on Pornhub. It's like either one.

00:28:08.440 It's no difference between like what you see on Pornhub and, and Michelangelo. Give me a break.

00:28:15.100 This is why this conversation is impossible because everybody is just lying about,

00:28:19.000 well, I think it's speech. I, I, you know, I think it's really, you could argue it's artistic. Oh,

00:28:22.640 shut up. Shut up. Um, no, you, you don't want to ban porn because you like it and you want to be 1.00

00:28:31.640 able to watch it. That's it. That's the whole reason. It's not any, well, it's a dystopia.

00:28:35.780 I'm really afraid that if we do, it'll be George Orwell. Um, no, you want, you really like to be

00:28:43.580 able to, uh, access it whenever you want, because you watch, you know, five hours of porn a day and you

00:28:49.480 have a compulsion and you don't want anyone to interfere with it. That's why that's the actual

00:28:53.360 reason. So at least be honest about it. And, but that, you know, your, your desire to be able to

00:29:00.780 see porn whenever you want is, does not, is not the primary concern. Okay. Um, that's, that is not

00:29:12.760 an overriding your desire to see porn, whatever you want. It does not supersede the desire of

00:29:20.740 American, of parents and families to, for example, protect their kids from this smut. 0.93

00:29:32.320 Um, and really you'll, you'll be fine. I promise you like, you'll be okay. You'll be more than okay.

00:29:39.880 If porn was ever banned and it was, it was a lot less accessible in this country, uh, you'll be fine.

00:29:50.420 Again, and actually you'll be better than fine. It will improve your life dramatically.

00:29:56.260 Your life will be so much better. This stuff is not making your life any better at all.

00:30:01.900 Um, all right. Speaking of things that are not making our lives better, female cops, uh, CBS News 1.00

00:30:12.280 reports newly released body camera footage from the Fountain Valley Police Department shows the

00:30:18.400 tense moments after a suspect managed to wrestle an officer's gun away. Police officers were initially

00:30:24.660 called to these, uh, Las Jardines West after someone tried to break into a woman's car while she was parked.

00:30:31.900 And the officer showed up and, uh, the guy fled. Sounds like there was a, it was a male police

00:30:40.080 officer and a female partners. They, they ended up getting split up. The female chases this guy down.

00:30:45.680 And then I think that's where this video picks up. Let's watch it.

00:30:48.920 We're just Billy Roberta.

00:31:00.420 Yeah.

00:31:04.400 Uh,

00:31:08.400 just gonna wipe it.

00:31:12.100 Put it down, dude! 0.63

00:31:13.320 Put it down! 1.00

00:31:15.240 Put it down! 1.00

00:31:18.720 Hey, put it down! 1.00

00:31:20.300 It's basically enough of that.

00:31:21.220 You get the idea.

00:31:22.020 This guy's in the middle of some kind of psychotic episode, it seems like,

00:31:25.140 and he takes the gun from her, and now she's begging,

00:31:28.620 please don't shoot me.

00:31:29.320 She's begging the suspect for her life.

00:31:32.580 And then the male partner shows up,

00:31:34.120 and eventually that guy was killed, which is what happens when you take a cop's gun.

00:31:41.700 So the whole thing is sad.

00:31:43.880 It's a sad scene, and this is why it's just absurd to have female cops. 1.00

00:31:50.920 That's all.

00:31:53.000 Are we done with this yet?

00:31:54.400 Are we finished?

00:31:56.060 Are we finished with this charade of the female cops? 1.00

00:32:01.800 Okay, you want to have female cops sitting behind the desk doing office work, that's fine. 1.00

00:32:06.180 But a female cop out on the beat, a female cop who's out catching bad guys out on the street, 1.00

00:32:11.320 that's ridiculous. 0.99

00:32:13.880 It's just ridiculous. 0.99

00:32:15.060 Like, when you have a female cop, you have a law enforcement officer who can certainly be easily overpowered 1.00

00:32:20.820 by pretty much every male suspect she will ever encounter.

00:32:24.560 And this, by the way, is not only dangerous for her, and not only dangerous for the innocent public,

00:32:32.520 which is the most important thing, it's also dangerous for the suspects.

00:32:37.240 Because the threshold for when she has to resort to lethal force will be much lower. 0.65

00:32:41.980 It creates, basically, crimes of opportunity for the suspect because he knows that he can overpower the female cop.

00:32:52.060 Now, sure, there are plenty of suspects who, as we've seen, are going to try to fight the cops no matter who is there.

00:32:59.480 But when you've got a female cop, the temptation to behave that way is much greater 0.99

00:33:06.960 because you're in this kind of absurd scenario where, you know, you're a violent offender

00:33:13.080 and they want to put you in jail.

00:33:14.900 And, like, you might feel like you've got nothing to lose because once they capture you, you're going to go to jail.

00:33:20.840 You're going to be in jail for 20 years, depending on what you did.

00:33:26.840 And meanwhile, you've got this little, tiny, you know, 5'6", 112-pound woman who's trying to arrest you. 1.00

00:33:38.320 And so you're sitting there as the male suspect, as the violent psychopath who's going to jail anyway.

00:33:44.100 And you're saying, like, I can easily overpower this person, you know.

00:33:50.100 So in their minds, why not?

00:33:52.160 Might as well try.

00:33:53.300 Nothing to lose.

00:33:55.860 Now, they do have a lot to lose, turns out.

00:33:57.660 They have their lives to lose.

00:33:59.140 They have the added years to their sentence and all that kind of stuff.

00:34:02.780 But you're already dealing with people who are not thinking straight and are not smart people.

00:34:08.600 So we just shouldn't have female cops, period. 1.00

00:34:12.040 Now, we might be in a situation right now where we can't afford to get rid of the female cops because, maybe because of the recruiting crisis and the police force and the fact that, you know, they've tried so hard for so long to chase the men away. 0.98

00:34:26.960 Maybe we just need the bodies in there.

00:34:30.180 Maybe we need warm bodies to fill these positions. 0.99

00:34:33.220 Maybe, I don't know.

00:34:34.560 But we need to be working towards a situation where we have enough male cops and we don't have to put another female cop on the street ever again. 0.99

00:34:42.420 That's got to be what we're working towards.

00:34:44.120 Okay, I also wanted to talk about this if I can find it.

00:34:53.620 Okay, so last week we discussed budget airlines.

00:34:57.000 And there was a controversy with a budget airline, Frontier in this case, after a video went viral last week of an awful customer service experience that somebody had.

00:35:07.980 Okay, well, now budget airlines are back in the news.

00:35:13.180 So this is Spirit Airlines.

00:35:15.280 And we all know that Spirit Airlines is abysmal.

00:35:18.540 I flew Spirit one time.

00:35:20.800 And the thing is, I couldn't even focus on how terrible the accommodations were or how crappy the service was because I was terrified the whole time.

00:35:31.100 I mean, when you're on a Spirit plane, you feel like you're basically in a big tube-shaped Waffle House.

00:35:39.560 And it doesn't feel like it should even be in the sky.

00:35:42.560 It doesn't, it just, and the employees all seem like they should be at Waffle House.

00:35:48.020 Do they even know how to operate a plane, you're asking yourself?

00:35:51.060 I walked on a Spirit flight, and I saw the pilot in the cockpit, and he's watching a YouTube tutorial called How to Fly a Plane.

00:36:01.220 That actually, I don't know if that happened, but it could have happened.

00:36:04.680 I felt like that's what might have been happening in the cockpit.

00:36:07.420 I didn't actually see it, but, you know.

00:36:09.740 So it's very disconcerting.

00:36:11.160 Spirit is, Waffle House isn't even the right comparison.

00:36:15.880 You know, think about the big, like, discount retailers, and the hierarchy is Target, then Walmart, then maybe something like TJ Maxx, then Kmart, which doesn't exist anymore.

00:36:29.740 So Spirit is the Kmart of airlines.

00:36:33.040 Maybe lower than that, even.

00:36:35.080 I don't know what's lower than Kmart.

00:36:36.600 When I was a kid, we had a discount retailer when I was a kid that went out of business like 25 years ago, and I think it was only in the Northeast.

00:36:42.220 So this is a deep cut.

00:36:44.500 Maybe you've never heard of it, but there was a retailer called Ames.

00:36:47.480 It's called Ames.

00:36:48.160 It's, like, years and years ago.

00:36:50.380 And we used to go to Ames all the time when I was a kid.

00:36:53.540 Ames was the place that you would go if the Dollar Tree was too expensive.

00:36:58.140 If you were walking around Dollar Tree and looking at the price tags and going, jeez, man, that's a bit steep, then Ames.

00:37:03.960 Ames was for you.

00:37:04.840 You would go to Ames.

00:37:06.100 And so we would go to Ames, and, of course, it's like it's.

00:37:08.860 Or if you were out shopping and you were dressed too casually for Walmart.

00:37:15.320 Walmart was a formal high-end experience compared to Ames.

00:37:18.740 So, anyway, so naturally that's where my parents took us for back-to-school clothes.

00:37:21.900 That's where we were decked out in the Ames clothes.

00:37:24.820 And what was the point?

00:37:26.420 Why did I get into that?

00:37:27.020 Well, Spirit Airlines.

00:37:27.840 So Spirit Airlines is the Ames of airlines.

00:37:30.820 It's terrible.

00:37:31.360 That's the point.

00:37:31.820 And so now we have the latest.

00:37:34.280 We have a woman who flew Spirit this week or maybe a week ago and captured footage of the local wildlife on the plane.

00:37:47.320 And I don't mean the passengers.

00:37:48.520 I mean the roaches.

00:37:50.300 There were roaches on the plane. 0.52

00:37:52.180 There were mother-effing roaches on the mother-effing plane. 0.95

00:37:55.020 So let's take a look at the video of these roaches. 0.74

00:38:00.940 Yeah, that's a roach.

00:38:04.420 And I think there's a second there.

00:38:07.020 There's another one.

00:38:09.680 On a plane.

00:38:13.260 Okay, so two roaches.

00:38:15.460 And as anyone who has unfortunate experience with roaches knows that, like, if you see one, there's probably a million more.

00:38:22.700 If you see two, then you got an infestation on your hands.

00:38:27.500 Now, Spirit issued a statement.

00:38:29.520 They responded.

00:38:30.240 They said that Spirit Airlines responded to the video by, this is Daily Wire reporting, by issuing a statement saying the company was aware of the video and their maintenance team thoroughly inspected the aircraft involved and addressed the issue.

00:38:41.500 We maintain high standards of cleanliness across our fleet and want all of our guests to feel comfortable when traveling with us.

00:38:52.120 Standards of cleanliness.

00:38:54.660 So these were clean roaches, you see.

00:38:56.500 They were, these were cleaning roaches.

00:39:00.020 They actually, they had little brooms, little tiny brooms attached to their legs. 0.96

00:39:05.000 They were helping to clean the place.

00:39:06.060 I don't know.

00:39:06.580 I guess that's the claim.

00:39:07.360 But how do you get roaches on a plane?

00:39:14.180 I've flown many, many times.

00:39:16.760 I fly constantly.

00:39:17.900 I've never seen an insect of any kind on a plane.

00:39:20.280 I've never even seen an ant on a plane.

00:39:23.000 Roaches?

00:39:24.640 And, get this, this was in first class.

00:39:29.140 So if they have roaches in first class on Spirit Airlines, then what do they have in coach?

00:39:34.680 What kind of horrors beyond comprehension await you in coach if the first class experience involves roaches?

00:39:45.740 I don't know, rats, scorpions, snakes?

00:39:49.540 It's like a, yeah, it's like an Indiana Jones adventure back in coach.

00:39:54.980 And also, how does Spirit have first class in the first place?

00:40:02.100 Why, like, flying first class?

00:40:04.100 I honestly didn't know they had a first class thing.

00:40:05.980 I didn't, I didn't know that exactly.

00:40:06.780 I don't know if that's a new thing.

00:40:08.720 That's what this article, the article says that this person was in first class.

00:40:13.980 It's like flying first class on Spirit.

00:40:15.840 It's like, it's like staying at a Motel 6 and asking if they offer in-room dining.

00:40:24.060 It's like going up to the counter at a Motel 6 and talking to the woman behind bulletproof glass

00:40:29.240 and saying you would like their swankiest suite and could you also get their menu for their in-room dining service.

00:40:37.320 I mean, if you want that kind of service experience, then you shouldn't be at a Motel 6.

00:40:42.060 And if you want, if you, if you want to fly first class, why are you on Spirit?

00:40:48.380 What is the perk of first class on Spirit?

00:40:50.500 Like, what is the, does first class mean you get your own seat?

00:40:56.260 First class on Spirit means that you get a seat.

00:40:59.420 You can actually sit in a real seat with like a cushion and you get your own oxygen mask if the plane crashes.

00:41:07.320 So, I don't get any of that.

00:41:08.380 I don't get why they end up with roaches.

00:41:09.860 And this is why I say that budget airlines are just not worth it.

00:41:14.700 They are comically bad at this point.

00:41:16.780 It is, it's, you're better off with any other travel arrangement.

00:41:21.680 You really are.

00:41:23.380 You're better off hitchhiking.

00:41:26.180 I would rather take my chances hitchhiking.

00:41:28.160 If for some reason that was my, if, if, if, if, if those were the two options somehow,

00:41:32.540 I'm in some scenario, I can't imagine what, where the only options are Spirit Airlines

00:41:36.380 or hitchhiking than I would rather that.

00:41:42.000 I would rather get in the car and hitchhike with someone who I know is a serial killer.

00:41:46.580 Like, you can assume if they're picking up a hitchhiker in the year 2025, they're probably serial killers.

00:41:51.440 Even if I knew that it was.

00:41:53.500 If he pulled over on the highway and said, hey, I'm a serial killer, would you like a lift?

00:41:56.880 I would take that over Spirit Airlines.

00:42:00.960 So, we got to just be, a lot of things we got to just be done with that we've, we've gone over in this show so far.

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00:44:19.480 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:44:26.900 You know, during my time on the public stage, 0.95

00:44:29.480 I have found myself thrown into the middle of some very dumb, 0.98

00:44:33.120 very fake outrage cycles. 0.98

00:44:35.120 But this week, I have experienced what surely is 0.99

00:44:38.840 the dumbest and fakest one of all. 0.99

00:44:41.740 Over the past several days, I have been attacked 1.00

00:44:43.600 by both the left and even a fair number of people on the right

00:44:46.540 for, as the story goes, posting a swastika on Twitter.

00:44:52.100 Or as it has been put, including by this ostensibly right-wing account,

00:44:56.460 I, quote, approvingly tweeted a swastika. 1.00

00:45:00.120 This is the narrative that various factions have decided to run with,

00:45:03.160 the story that they're telling.

00:45:05.120 Never mind the fact that the story is entirely made up.

00:45:08.260 It didn't actually happen.

00:45:09.280 What did happen is that a few days ago,

00:45:11.540 I tweeted a point that you've heard me make many times,

00:45:13.940 especially recently.

00:45:14.560 I called out the PSYOP that has been conducted

00:45:17.140 to convince white people that they aren't native

00:45:19.240 to their own homeland,

00:45:20.160 even if their ancestors have been here

00:45:21.500 for dozens of generations.

00:45:23.580 And somebody responded to that point that I made on X.

00:45:28.100 And they responded and said this, quote,

00:45:31.120 these people are native to Europe,

00:45:33.000 not the Americas or Africa.

00:45:34.620 Sounds like you need to Google what the word native means.

00:45:38.520 Now, accompanying that caption is a picture of six blonde white girls, 1.00

00:45:42.260 which you can see here.

00:45:44.400 And I responded to that, disagreeing with it,

00:45:47.960 and I said this,

00:45:49.220 people who look like that have been living in Americas for five centuries.

00:45:52.880 If five centuries is not long enough to qualify as native,

00:45:55.340 then how long do you need?

00:45:56.960 If the answer is that your ancestors have to actually originate from the place,

00:46:00.460 then nobody is native to anywhere.

00:46:02.800 So where do you draw the line?

00:46:05.420 So that's what happened.

00:46:08.040 That's it, what you just saw.

00:46:09.960 Now, you might be thinking, but wait a minute.

00:46:12.340 Where did you approvingly tweet a swastika in that exchange?

00:46:16.420 Well, apparently, the picture posted by the other account,

00:46:20.220 the one that I was arguing with,

00:46:21.680 contains a hidden swastika that you can only see if you squint

00:46:25.800 and hold the phone far away from your face.

00:46:29.660 And I'm not joking.

00:46:30.740 This is actually what people are mad about, okay?

00:46:32.880 And now you might be thinking, wait a second.

00:46:35.740 People are mad at you because someone else posted a picture

00:46:39.320 with a hidden swastika that nobody can even see

00:46:41.820 unless someone else tells them it's there?

00:46:44.480 Well, yes.

00:46:45.820 But also, no.

00:46:47.340 That's the genesis of this latest outrage cycle.

00:46:50.000 It's why I've been attacked for two days straight.

00:46:51.740 But no, they're not actually mad.

00:46:54.580 Okay, nobody is mad.

00:46:56.060 This is all a game they're playing.

00:46:57.620 It's the game the outrage mob always plays.

00:46:59.440 The game is to lie to fame and smear

00:47:01.440 until the target, me in this case,

00:47:04.300 performs whatever self-debasing act of compliance they're demanding.

00:47:07.720 And in this case, they have demanded repeatedly many, many times

00:47:12.620 that I apologize and disavow and delete

00:47:15.720 and deliver some kind of assurance that I am not, in fact, a Nazi.

00:47:20.740 They're trying to force me into a struggle session.

00:47:22.900 That's what this is all about.

00:47:24.460 And we'll get back to that in a moment.

00:47:28.020 But first, I want to show you how far this Matt Walsh posted a swastika story spread

00:47:32.880 and also how it spread

00:47:34.540 because I think this is a good case study in how these mobs operate.

00:47:38.220 And how they corner people into engaging in the struggle session.

00:47:42.200 So it begins with tweets like this one from an account called Dreamleaf.

00:47:45.500 She posted a screenshot of the hidden swastika picture

00:47:49.400 along with a side-by-side of the same picture

00:47:51.760 with the swastika drawn in red for reference.

00:47:54.300 And the caption says,

00:47:56.020 I like how he pretended not to notice.

00:47:58.960 Because it's so noticeable that she had to color it in red

00:48:01.480 so people would notice it.

00:48:03.320 And that tweet, by the way, has 10 million views and 25,000 likes.

00:48:08.220 Lots of other accounts piled on.

00:48:10.140 Most of them were leftist accounts, but also some on the right as well.

00:48:13.160 Many people all claiming that I was sending out a Nazi dog whistle.

00:48:17.200 They expressed concern.

00:48:19.060 They were troubled.

00:48:20.500 They needed me to explain myself.

00:48:22.900 And pretty soon the narrative shifted.

00:48:24.860 So they all agreed that after several hours of this

00:48:28.100 and all the tweets and everything,

00:48:30.240 pretty soon everyone seemed to agree that,

00:48:33.580 well, even if I didn't see the swastika at first,

00:48:36.100 I must see it now.

00:48:37.960 And in order to prove that I'm not a Nazi,

00:48:40.020 I have to delete it.

00:48:41.480 But I didn't delete it,

00:48:42.600 which was even more evidence against me.

00:48:44.760 Large accounts like this one with over 100,000 followers

00:48:47.380 declared that my refusal to delete is self-incriminating.

00:48:51.160 So this guy wrote cryptically,

00:48:53.140 Matt Walsh's swastika post is still up.

00:48:55.920 He knows.

00:48:57.640 Soon other conspiracy theories started flying around,

00:48:59.860 like this one.

00:49:00.860 How can people not see a Nazi logo on a picture?

00:49:03.640 You really have to be blind.

00:49:05.200 And the thing about Matt is that

00:49:06.220 I think this was already planned in advance.

00:49:08.520 He wanted to get people talking about him.

00:49:10.460 You know what they say,

00:49:11.420 talk bad, talk nice about me,

00:49:13.060 but just talk.

00:49:15.200 Yeah, maybe that's it.

00:49:16.700 Maybe this was all planned.

00:49:17.880 Maybe I'm in cahoots with the other account.

00:49:19.820 Maybe the other account is actually me.

00:49:22.580 Who knows?

00:49:24.260 Now, the only way to absolve myself of the charge

00:49:26.360 is to come out and explicitly say

00:49:28.180 that I'm not a Nazi

00:49:28.960 and I'm sorry about the swastika and delete it.

00:49:32.080 And if I don't do that,

00:49:32.960 then anything is possible.

00:49:34.160 These people have no choice but to assume the worst.

00:49:37.080 But I still didn't delete it or apologize

00:49:39.120 or issue any clarifying statement

00:49:41.300 about my position on the Nazi party.

00:49:42.920 So the dogpile continued.

00:49:45.740 And soon it spread,

00:49:46.520 as it always does,

00:49:47.180 to other platforms like Reddit.

00:49:48.880 One popular Reddit post with 4,000 upvotes

00:49:52.060 sarcastically implies that I knowingly retweeted a swastika.

00:49:55.660 All of the comments agree

00:49:56.800 that this was a Nazi dog whistle on my part.

00:49:59.360 The top comment with over 1,000 upvotes says this,

00:50:03.620 you know this popped up on his feed

00:50:05.000 because it literally feeds him Nazi propaganda

00:50:07.200 based on his interests and he chows down.

00:50:11.480 Right.

00:50:12.080 The fact that a response to one of my tweets

00:50:15.980 showed up in my feed

00:50:17.540 is evidence that I have Nazi interests.

00:50:21.940 That's the claim.

00:50:23.300 And thousands of people agreed with it.

00:50:25.900 Over on Facebook,

00:50:26.800 a leftist account declared,

00:50:28.580 Matt Walsh is retweeting swastikas.

00:50:31.380 Hundreds of comments again agree that

00:50:32.960 I must be a Nazi. 0.91

00:50:34.260 There's no other explanation.

00:50:35.980 Especially because I haven't deleted it

00:50:38.080 and I haven't apologized.

00:50:40.000 Needless to say,

00:50:40.600 TikTok got in on the action.

00:50:42.220 This guy wanted to let everybody know

00:50:44.040 that he has visceral disgust and disdain for me

00:50:46.600 and all these swastikas 0.89

00:50:48.260 that I'm posting all over the place.

00:50:49.580 Watch.

00:50:49.800 So Matt Walsh actually posted this.

00:50:54.760 You might not see it,

00:50:56.880 but look at the girls. 1.00

00:50:59.000 You got going down this way,

00:51:01.700 going up that way,

00:51:03.100 going that way,

00:51:04.580 and then you got down here,

00:51:06.020 going up,

00:51:07.000 going up,

00:51:08.100 going up.

00:51:11.080 Look long enough.

00:51:12.440 You'll see it.

00:51:17.540 Words cannot express that

00:51:19.800 visceral disdain

00:51:21.920 I have for Matt Walsh.

00:51:27.040 So he has to explain

00:51:28.500 how to see the swastika.

00:51:30.180 He invites you to stare closely at it

00:51:32.100 and guides you through it

00:51:33.200 so that you can see it.

00:51:34.660 And yet,

00:51:35.240 he's sure, of course,

00:51:36.260 that I did see it

00:51:37.280 and that I replied to that guy's post

00:51:38.980 as some sort of ploy

00:51:40.140 to spread the Nazi message. 0.68

00:51:43.340 This video,

00:51:44.680 also that we'll play next,

00:51:46.320 has the same interpretation.

00:51:47.540 He says that

00:51:48.180 I've told everyone

00:51:49.560 who I am

00:51:50.120 and they should believe me. 0.91

00:51:52.800 Fascist commentator,

00:51:54.440 Matt Walsh.

00:51:57.780 Perfect example of

00:51:59.100 when people tell you

00:51:59.960 who they are,

00:52:00.960 believe them.

00:52:02.920 Squint your eyes a little bit

00:52:03.980 if you can't see it.

00:52:05.340 I think I can see this

00:52:06.580 from outer space.

00:52:07.920 Now,

00:52:08.380 that guy is so upset

00:52:09.740 that you'd think

00:52:10.380 I tweeted a picture

00:52:11.140 of something really

00:52:11.940 personally offensive to him

00:52:13.100 like, you know,

00:52:13.700 a salad or a treadmill.

00:52:15.880 Anyway,

00:52:16.220 there's also this video

00:52:17.280 which we'll put up

00:52:18.100 on the screen

00:52:18.800 and in this one

00:52:21.140 with over 700 likes,

00:52:22.360 he points to the post

00:52:23.320 and implies that

00:52:23.880 my Nazi affiliations

00:52:24.900 are now clear as day.

00:52:26.500 The top comment says simply, 0.96

00:52:28.540 Matt Walsh is a Nazi. 0.95

00:52:30.060 And then there's another comment 0.98

00:52:31.060 on this video

00:52:32.240 with 70 likes

00:52:33.380 that claims

00:52:34.340 that I, quote,

00:52:35.740 had a stage built

00:52:36.980 in one of their symbols.

00:52:38.140 Yes, I'm designing

00:52:40.440 Nazi stages now.

00:52:42.820 What does that mean?

00:52:44.360 What is this person

00:52:45.120 talking about?

00:52:45.780 Well, who knows?

00:52:46.480 But if it isn't true,

00:52:47.580 then why won't I

00:52:48.640 just deny it?

00:52:49.940 Why won't I come out

00:52:51.080 and issue a simple

00:52:51.880 clarification

00:52:52.320 and explain

00:52:53.220 that I am not

00:52:54.220 a Nazi stage designer

00:52:55.520 and I did not mean

00:52:56.540 to post an invisible swastika?

00:52:57.960 And if I won't do that,

00:52:59.560 then doesn't that just

00:53:00.200 prove that I am a Nazi?

00:53:02.060 I mean, after all,

00:53:02.660 if you throw a witch 0.93

00:53:03.620 in the lake 0.99

00:53:04.180 and she doesn't drown, 0.99

00:53:05.100 it proves that she's a witch. 0.98

00:53:06.620 And if she does drown, 1.00

00:53:07.600 well,

00:53:07.740 serves her right, 1.00

00:53:08.400 she was probably a witch. 1.00

00:53:10.440 Meanwhile,

00:53:10.920 James Lindsay,

00:53:11.820 a supposedly right-of-center

00:53:12.980 commentator,

00:53:14.240 over the course

00:53:15.340 of a couple of days,

00:53:17.480 tweeted dozens of times

00:53:18.700 about my alleged swastika tweet

00:53:20.620 over the course

00:53:21.500 of those days,

00:53:22.460 insisting that

00:53:23.380 I must delete it

00:53:24.840 and explain myself.

00:53:26.000 And again,

00:53:26.900 this is someone

00:53:27.380 on the right,

00:53:28.140 supposedly,

00:53:29.120 who is really against

00:53:30.700 cancel culture,

00:53:31.980 and yet he's really

00:53:33.020 concerned about this

00:53:34.080 and he needs me

00:53:34.800 to delete it

00:53:35.380 and explain myself.

00:53:36.780 And many of his

00:53:37.440 followers,

00:53:37.980 also supposedly

00:53:38.820 right-of-center,

00:53:39.820 including those

00:53:40.380 who professed

00:53:40.860 that they were

00:53:41.200 big fans

00:53:42.340 and big supporters

00:53:43.300 of mine,

00:53:44.240 agreed and said

00:53:45.080 that I have to delete it

00:53:46.440 and clarify

00:53:47.240 that I'm not,

00:53:48.620 in fact,

00:53:48.840 a Nazi. 0.68

00:53:49.800 Because,

00:53:50.180 of course,

00:53:50.420 that's the kind of thing

00:53:51.460 that a big supporter

00:53:52.620 would want you to do.

00:53:53.480 So,

00:53:55.540 in summary,

00:53:56.420 we have now

00:53:57.140 hundreds of posts

00:53:58.960 across four major

00:54:00.100 platforms with

00:54:00.880 thousands of comments

00:54:01.820 and thousands of

00:54:02.500 engagements between them,

00:54:03.700 all agreeing that

00:54:04.820 I posted a swastika 0.97

00:54:06.020 and I did it on purpose 0.99

00:54:07.220 and I am a filthy Nazi 0.98

00:54:08.700 and nobody should 0.99

00:54:09.740 associate themselves

00:54:10.420 with me.

00:54:11.580 That is,

00:54:12.460 unless I delete the post

00:54:13.540 and explain myself

00:54:14.700 and clarify

00:54:15.520 and disavow

00:54:16.780 and apologize.

00:54:18.260 I mean,

00:54:18.440 it's just one little

00:54:19.240 struggle session.

00:54:20.360 That's all.

00:54:21.400 It's worth it,

00:54:22.120 isn't it?

00:54:22.900 To prove I'm not a Nazi?

00:54:25.560 So,

00:54:26.100 that's the story

00:54:27.200 of the last few days.

00:54:29.640 But,

00:54:30.420 so far,

00:54:31.200 I've only relayed

00:54:32.080 the story

00:54:32.420 as it happened.

00:54:33.860 I haven't actually,

00:54:35.160 as you probably noticed,

00:54:36.940 clarified my own position

00:54:38.180 or explained

00:54:39.040 whether I am a Nazi

00:54:40.080 or apologized

00:54:41.380 or disavowed anyone

00:54:42.900 or anything.

00:54:44.160 I haven't even

00:54:45.020 deleted the tweet.

00:54:45.720 It's still up right now.

00:54:48.300 I haven't

00:54:49.180 done any of that yet

00:54:51.000 and I'm not

00:54:52.740 ever going to.

00:54:55.000 Now,

00:54:55.460 I've already made this

00:54:56.260 clear on X

00:54:56.940 but since this is

00:54:57.580 a multi-platform

00:54:58.580 fake controversy,

00:54:59.680 I'll say it here as well.

00:55:01.580 To any of the

00:55:02.840 smear merchants

00:55:03.540 on any side of the aisle

00:55:05.280 from any faction

00:55:06.300 who have been

00:55:07.860 spreading this story

00:55:08.920 and demanding

00:55:09.560 that I issue a statement,

00:55:11.540 here is my statement

00:55:13.060 to you.

00:55:14.860 I apologize

00:55:15.900 for nothing.

00:55:16.980 I owe you

00:55:18.700 nothing.

00:55:20.040 I will not

00:55:20.760 clarify anything

00:55:22.200 for you

00:55:22.880 or explain

00:55:23.760 anything to you.

00:55:25.600 I know what you're doing.

00:55:27.500 I know the game

00:55:28.240 you're playing

00:55:28.700 and if,

00:55:30.540 on some incredibly

00:55:31.640 obscure chance,

00:55:32.980 any of you

00:55:33.540 are sincerely

00:55:34.520 offended

00:55:35.140 or hurt

00:55:35.740 or outraged

00:55:36.800 or concerned,

00:55:39.000 I don't care.

00:55:41.300 Your feelings

00:55:42.220 are your problem. 0.89

00:55:43.660 I don't give a damn 0.73

00:55:45.080 about them

00:55:45.760 or you.

00:55:47.620 I decline

00:55:48.900 to take part

00:55:49.760 in this struggle session

00:55:50.940 and I have

00:55:51.800 nothing but contempt

00:55:53.180 for anyone

00:55:54.520 trying to drag me

00:55:55.680 into it.

00:55:57.180 The only truly

00:55:58.600 aggrieved party

00:55:59.520 here

00:55:59.860 is me.

00:56:01.860 I am the one

00:56:03.140 being defamed

00:56:04.040 and smeared

00:56:04.580 across the internet

00:56:05.260 by a bunch of

00:56:05.880 gutless worms 1.00

00:56:06.920 like yourselves. 1.00

00:56:08.320 So,

00:56:09.140 you should be

00:56:09.740 apologizing

00:56:10.440 to me.

00:56:11.020 The only person

00:56:13.360 owed an apology

00:56:14.260 is me.

00:56:16.260 You should be

00:56:16.980 issuing a statement

00:56:17.780 to me

00:56:18.400 to clarify

00:56:18.940 and explain

00:56:19.600 why you've

00:56:20.540 decided to behave

00:56:21.260 like a bunch 0.99

00:56:21.740 of blood-sucking 0.99

00:56:22.740 leeches

00:56:23.200 instead of 0.90

00:56:23.720 human beings.

00:56:25.520 That's the statement

00:56:26.280 I'm waiting for

00:56:27.060 but I won't

00:56:28.820 hold my breath

00:56:29.380 and I hope

00:56:30.400 you don't hold

00:56:30.800 your breath

00:56:31.120 waiting for me

00:56:31.660 to say what

00:56:32.360 you want me

00:56:32.700 to say

00:56:33.040 or do what

00:56:33.580 you want me

00:56:33.880 to say

00:56:34.180 because you 1.00

00:56:34.660 will be dead 1.00

00:56:35.280 before that 1.00

00:56:35.860 happens.

00:56:38.320 I am not

00:56:39.240 your circus monkey.

00:56:40.900 I'm not 0.88

00:56:41.520 going to dance

00:56:42.060 for you

00:56:42.500 because you

00:56:43.020 yell at me

00:56:43.580 or throw me

00:56:44.120 a treat.

00:56:46.040 I will say

00:56:47.140 whatever I want

00:56:48.360 to say

00:56:48.800 when I want

00:56:49.360 to say it

00:56:49.760 and I will

00:56:50.160 do what I

00:56:51.040 want to do

00:56:51.640 when I want

00:56:52.560 to do it.

00:56:53.780 That is all

00:56:54.680 the explanation

00:56:55.460 you are ever

00:56:56.520 going to get

00:56:57.340 and it's still

00:56:59.540 a hell of a lot

00:57:00.220 more than you

00:57:00.660 deserve.

00:57:02.360 So,

00:57:02.960 in conclusion, 0.67

00:57:04.780 piss off 1.00

00:57:05.440 you ridiculous 1.00

00:57:06.460 lying 1.00

00:57:07.140 soulless

00:57:07.860 frauds.

00:57:09.900 And also,

00:57:10.600 of course,

00:57:11.600 needless to say,

00:57:12.660 you are today

00:57:13.420 cancelled.

00:57:15.220 That is it for the show

00:57:15.820 today and this week.

00:57:17.060 Have a great weekend.

00:57:18.100 Talk to you on Monday.

00:57:20.200 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 16, 2025

Ep. 1598 - Race-Baiting Politicians Are Trying To Push For Reparations AGAIN

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