Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the activist courts are at it again. At this point, it s clear that in the view of most judges in this country, the President has no authority to do anything at all. Also, homeschooling looks better and better by the day. And in their desperate request to appeal to men, the Democrats have called in an expert, a self-professed, plus-sized, disabled, queer, Latina feminist. Who could possibly understand men better than her?
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, the activist courts are at it again. At this point, it's clear that in the view of most judges in this country, the president has no authority to do anything at all.
00:00:08.300Also, schools across the country are moving to a no-zero grading policy. Homeschooling looks better and better by the day.
00:00:14.260And in their desperate request to appeal to men, the Democrats have called in an expert, a self-professed, plus-sized, disabled, queer, Latina feminist.
00:00:21.700Who could possibly understand men better than her? All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:40.040Instead, what we need in our alleged first-world democracy is a ruling from some federal court
00:02:46.980explaining, in as much detail as possible, what exactly the president does have the authority to do while in office.
00:02:53.980That would be a much more efficient way forward, because apparently it's a very, very, very short list.
00:02:59.240Now, in just the past five months, federal courts have held that the Trump administration
00:03:02.100has no authority to change federal government websites.
00:03:05.520The Trump administration has no authority to fire any executive branch employees.
00:03:08.920The Trump administration has no authority to ban mentally disturbed individuals from joining the armed forces.
00:03:13.720The Trump administration has no authority to eliminate slush funds for corrupt NGOs.
00:03:18.360The Trump administration has no authority to stop funneling billions of dollars of taxpayer money to anti-white universities.
00:03:24.340The Trump administration has no authority to eliminate wasteful administrative spending that is tacked on to every single scientific grant.
00:03:31.180The Trump administration has no authority to deport illegal alien gang members, even the wife-beaters and the terrorists.
00:03:37.500The Trump administration has no authority to cut federal funding to child castration services for children.
00:03:43.720And now, after all these rulings, and there are dozens more like them, we heard last night from the U.S. Court of International Trade
00:03:48.820that the President of the United States also does not have the power to impose emergency tariffs on foreign nations.
00:03:55.200Now, in a minute, I'm going to go into some detail about this ruling and the problems I have with it.
00:04:01.420But before I do that, there's a very important point that needs to be made here, which is this.
00:04:06.300Even if you think that tariffs are a terrible idea, and really, even if you believe that the Court of International Trade made the right ruling in this particular case, which they didn't,
00:04:17.720you simply cannot deny that the judicial system in this country, because of its own overzealousness, has never been less legitimate than it is right now.
00:04:27.380I mean, the sheer number of injunctions that have been issued blocking every single agenda item that the democratically elected president has attempted to execute is unprecedented in the history of this country.
00:04:38.500We are in jump-the-shark territory to a comical degree.
00:04:42.680And that's a very big deal, because courts don't have militaries.
00:04:46.500They cannot enforce their own rulings.
00:04:48.120When they lose legitimacy, they lose everything.
00:04:50.980And with this latest ruling, on top of all the other rulings, legitimacy is long gone.
00:06:00.840Again, even on MSNBC, they concede this point.
00:06:03.260Last night, as he was celebrating this court decision, the perpetually unhinged Lawrence O'Donnell admitted that Trump's entire campaign was about tariffs.
00:06:12.120He says he was talking about tariffs the whole time, and he blames the campaign press for not talking about tariffs enough.
00:06:20.100The Trump tariffs were always illegal and unconstitutional.
00:06:24.500And you heard that on this program every time we covered Donald Trump's comments about tariffs, including very much during the presidential campaign when the campaign press corps never, ever reported to voters that the Trump proposed tariffs during the campaign were completely illegal and unconstitutional.
00:06:45.980The campaign press corps never reported to voters that those proposals were constitutionally insane.
00:06:54.820And the person pronouncing those proposals at those Trump rallies was constitutionally out of his mind just based on what he was saying about tariffs alone.
00:07:05.240The campaign press corps completely failed.
00:07:07.860Now, the point of this little diatribe from Lawrence O'Donnell is to suggest that if only the campaign press had covered Trump's tariffs a little bit more, then the voters would have rejected his entire candidacy.
00:07:19.680This is a familiar tactic on the left.
00:07:22.080They did the same thing with Russiagate.
00:07:23.740They claimed that if only people knew that, you know, the Russian government had spent $100,000 on Facebook memes back in 2016, then they would have never voted against Hillary Clinton.
00:07:38.960And thankfully, the courts will correct that little problem for you.
00:07:42.980Now, this is about as undemocratic as it gets.
00:07:45.480It is asinine, narcissistic, above all, totalitarian.
00:07:50.200Of course, it wasn't just this one MSNBC blowhard who discovered that Trump was talking about tariffs all the whole time.
00:07:57.100The entire country heard Trump talk about tariffs.
00:08:00.200And then they overwhelmingly decided to elect that guy.
00:08:04.080And that should matter more than anything else.
00:08:07.400Unless the president clearly and unambiguously exceeds his authority under the Constitution, then the court should respect the will of the voters, whether they agree with it personally or not.
00:08:17.180In this case, if you read the ruling from the panel of judges on the United States Court of International Trade, you'll discover that Donald Trump did not actually exceed his authority.
00:08:26.500In order to come to the opposite conclusion, a lot of mental gymnastics were required on the part of this three-judge panel.
00:08:33.820And I want to start with the court's handling of Trump's fentanyl-related tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China.
00:08:38.800At the moment this ruling was issued, the tariffs stood at 25% for Mexican and Canadian products and 20% for Chinese products, with an exception for Canadian energy, which remained at 10%.
00:08:50.120Now, normally the president cannot issue tariffs that are quite that high.
00:08:54.600However, as you probably remember, the Trump administration determined rightly that fentanyl trafficking is a national emergency because tens of thousands of Americans are dying each year from fentanyl that's imported from overseas or from other countries.
00:09:11.300And therefore, under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the White House asserted its authority to impose substantial tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, tariffs that are much higher than they otherwise could be.
00:09:23.120And under this emergency act, the president is allowed to, quote, deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the U.S. to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States if the president declares a national emergency with respect to such a threat.
00:09:40.940Now, that's a direct quote from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which became law in the 1970s.
00:09:59.880Because that's the authority that Congress delegated to the president.
00:10:04.040And under this act, the president can impose substantial tariffs to deal with any extraordinary threat as long as he declares a national emergency.
00:10:13.760So, you might be asking, isn't that exactly what happened in this case?
00:10:19.280Didn't Trump impose the fentanyl tariffs in order to pressure countries like Mexico and China to stop allowing fentanyl into this country?
00:10:26.160Under the terms of this law, isn't the president implementing these tariffs to deal with the fentanyl crisis?
00:10:32.900Now, according to the trade court, the answer to that question is apparently no.
00:10:43.640Quote, deal with connotes a direct link between an act and the problem it purports to address.
00:10:49.620A tax deals with a budget deficit by raising revenue.
00:10:52.900A dam deals with flooding by holding back a river.
00:10:55.140But there's no such association between the act of imposing a tariff and the unusual and extraordinary threats that the fentanyl trafficking orders report to combat.
00:11:04.320The fentanyl trafficking order do not deal with their stated objectives.
00:11:07.520Rather, as the government acknowledges, the orders aim to create leverage to deal with those objectives.
00:11:14.420So, in other words, the court is acknowledging that the fentanyl tariffs are being used by the Trump administration as a form of leverage,
00:11:20.460which can force foreign countries to deal with the fentanyl problem.
00:11:24.300But they're claiming that under the law, that's not allowed.
00:11:27.780That's not how you're supposed to deal with fentanyl, according to this three-judge panel.
00:11:32.380The judges are saying that, you know, the Trump administration is assuming too much power,
00:11:36.300and that leverage isn't the appropriate way to deal with an emergency.
00:11:39.740And therefore, apparently, the Trump administration needed to impose a tariff, what, specifically on fentanyl imports or something like that,
00:11:47.380even though it obviously would accomplish nothing at all because nobody is declaring their fentanyl shipments at the border.
00:11:53.000Now, I want to emphasize this a little bit more because this part of the ruling really deserves much more attention than it's getting.
00:12:00.100I mean, Congress passed a law that allows the president to deal with any emergency that he declares.
00:12:07.020And now, decades later, this trade court is saying, in effect, well, no, you can't deal with it like that.
00:12:12.920But there's nothing in the law that justifies their ruling.
00:13:40.120And then the court overrides him based on ad hoc reasoning that invalidates the will of the voters who elected the Trump administration
00:13:47.240and the members of Congress who passed that emergency tariff law.
00:13:51.040And again, it's fine if you think the tariffs are a bad idea or a good idea or if you have mixed feelings about them.
00:13:56.240So the solution, if you don't like the tariffs, is for Congress to rescind the tariff power in whole or in part legally.
00:14:03.880The solution is not, which I don't think they should do, by the way.
00:14:08.840But if that was your opinion, then that's who, you know, if you think that, if you don't like tariffs and you think they should,
00:14:15.780then that's the, that is the, those are the people who can deal with that, not some random court.
00:14:22.440The solution is definitely not for random courts in Manhattan to override the president and the Congress based on very strained interpretations of the law.
00:14:32.560Now, this ruling has already been appealed and it's clear the Trump administration can still impose tariffs,
00:14:36.300albeit reduced ones, under the non-emergency tariff powers that have been passed by Congress.
00:14:40.940So the ultimate outcome here is still uncertain.
00:14:44.320What's not uncertain is that federal judges once again have undermined what's left of their legitimacy with this ruling.
00:14:50.820If this had been the very first injunction against the Trump administration policy, it wouldn't be as much of a crisis.
00:14:56.980People may even give the judges the benefit of the doubt throughout the appeals process.
00:15:00.400But we've seen more than a hundred rulings like this by now.
00:15:04.360This is unsustainable to the point that if one of these federal judges somehow manages to issue a good ruling, no one will follow it.
00:15:11.560You know, that, that's not the ideal outcome for this country or the rule of law, obviously.
00:15:15.380But with this decision from a court that no one's ever heard of, which erases the president's congressionally approved authority to deal with national emergencies,
00:15:25.000it's the outcome that now appears to be inevitable.
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00:16:00.600The Post-Millennial reports on Tuesday, the San Francisco Public School District announced a new grading policy that will allow students to graduate classes with a score as low as 21%.
00:16:10.100The grading for equity method eliminates homework and weekly test scores from a student's final semester grade.
00:16:16.820Instead, there will be one test at the end of each semester to decide if a student has passed the class.
00:16:22.600And that exam can be retaken several times.
00:16:25.360Maria Su, the superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, enacted the new guidelines without seeking approval from the board.
00:16:31.740Changes will impact 10,000 students across 14 high schools.
00:16:34.200Students may submit assignments late, fail to attend class, or choose not to attend without consequence to their academic performance.
00:16:42.640As of current, receiving an A requires a minimum score of 90%, while a D is set at 61%.
00:16:48.700Under the new scale, a student can obtain an A with a score as low as 80%, and a D with a score as low as 21%.
00:17:11.640That is one supposedly woke education policy that I'm on board with.
00:17:16.240Because to me, it's actually anti-woke.
00:17:18.540I think that getting rid of homework itself is, homework itself is woke, okay?
00:17:23.540That's why, homework is woke, kids, I would argue.
00:17:27.420Because the problem with homework is that it allows the school, the public school, to claim even more of the time that should be yours with your own child.
00:17:38.600It's just the government, it's like the school system's way of intruding into the home even more than they already are.
00:17:44.600Because when a child leaves home, he should be with his parents, he should be with his family.
00:19:46.120And as more schools turn to these kinds of policies and methods, they really remove the one single potentially redemptive thing about public school.
00:19:58.800You know, there are many problems with public school.
00:20:03.160Much of what the kids are taught is false.
00:20:04.820The culture in the school is toxic and hostile to your values if you're a Christian or a conservative.
00:20:09.480The schools are left-wing indoctrination centers, all of that.
00:20:13.500Even in the midst of all that, the one possible bright spot, the one advantage, which is still not nearly enough to outweigh all the disadvantages,
00:20:22.680but the one thing that you should be able to say is that going to school in this kind of structured environment could teach kids discipline and help them to develop a work ethic, right?
00:20:37.020All right. I'll admit that, you know, this can be a challenge with homeschooling.
00:20:42.200Homeschooling, you know, no matter what you do in life, there are going to be challenges.
00:20:57.700And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
00:21:00.060In fact, there are a lot of advantages to that.
00:21:01.960But what you can lose if you're not careful is some of the discipline because kids are not required to get up and physically go to a class and deal with some of the demands that you get in that kind of structured school environment.
00:21:17.460So a downside to homeschooling, a potential downside that can happen if you go about it the wrong way, is that, yeah, it can get a bit casual, you know, a bit loose, overly so.
00:21:34.480And this is one problem that you would think a traditional school environment would not have because they have more structure, more kind of a built-in discipline and accountability.
00:21:45.560But now public schools are abandoning that.
00:21:49.320What could be their one single selling point, their one upside, you know, the one thing, maybe, the one thing they might have over homeschooling, they're throwing that overboard.
00:22:03.680The structure, the accountability, you know, like you got to just, a kid has to get up and go to a class physically, just that requirement.
00:22:13.240Like I said, there could be some discipline that comes with that.
00:22:17.920But now they're saying, yeah, you don't even have to come in.
00:22:22.760So they're getting rid of the structure, the discipline, the accountability.
00:22:26.120And this isn't just happening in San Francisco, by the way.
00:22:28.820Fox reports also this week that, here's a report, Chicago public schools officials are debating whether their grading policy is too lenient,
00:22:35.920with one principal arguing that leniency in grading won't translate into success in the real world for students.
00:22:44.620When students graduate and are working in jobs, what they experience around grace and flexibility at school is not going to match.
00:22:51.000Kennedy's principal at Richards Career Academy High School, RCAAH, is predominantly ruled by Latino and black students.
00:22:59.660The school piloted a new grading policy before the COVID pandemic that allowed them to redo assignments repeatedly and then submit assignments late.
00:23:07.380The policy was intended to address rising absenteeism in the district.
00:23:10.780Even if they didn't complete the assignment, the lowest score they could get was 50 rather than zero, a concept known as no zero grading.
00:23:21.460This trend of no zero grading started across the district and the United States as part of a push to give students more chances to show what they learned.
00:23:31.120Zakai Mohamed said, we're not issuing grades without knowing the full story.
00:23:34.440If the student has not shown up, are we just issuing a zero?
00:24:17.200Well, the problem with this approach, of course, is that it doesn't, as someone said in the article, it doesn't work this way in the real world.
00:24:23.500In the real world, all that matters is whether you successfully completed the task assigned to you or not.
00:24:45.920And this, again, should be an advantage to sending your kids to a physical school, is that now at least they're in an environment where performance is what counts.
00:25:08.780You're getting graded by a teacher who's not your parent.
00:25:12.680And there's some competitiveness and competition that, you know, all that kind of stuff.
00:25:19.920But the schools are getting away from that.
00:25:23.400So then you're left really asking yourself, like, what, why would anyone send their kid to a public school now?
00:25:34.560I mean, I didn't see a good reason to do it.
00:25:38.000I don't think there's been a good reason for decades to do it.
00:25:40.540But especially at this point, there just isn't one.
00:26:08.940The Hill reports, Senator Cory Booker will expand his record-breaking Senate floor speech into a forthcoming book titled Stand to be published by St. Martin's Press in November.
00:26:19.440This book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them, Booker said in his statement.
00:26:26.980The news comes about two months after Booker's 25-hour Senate floor speech, which broke records, blah, blah, blah.
00:26:36.840The senator and former presidential candidate previously published three books, including Cory Booker's Speech of the Century, the complete text of the inspiring speech that broke the right.
00:26:47.460So this is his second book about the speech?
00:26:50.140I missed that initially in this article.
00:26:52.760So this is his second book about that speech.
00:26:57.160He's publishing a book about his rambling 25-hour screed, and this will be the second one, apparently, because he published the whole text of it.
00:27:08.800And now he's publishing another book, elaborating even more on the speech.
00:27:18.340You know, for all you big Cory Booker fans out there, all you Booker heads out there, you can now add to your Cory Booker library, your Cory Booker collection.
00:27:29.080You can get the whole Cory Booker catalog.
00:27:58.540Tales have been told of this man, this man who stood for a really long time and talked about nothing for no reason.
00:28:07.700So if you were at all confused as to why Booker was doing this, the fact that he will have published two books about it in the span of two months should, or no, the other one's coming out in November.
00:28:20.080He's announced two books about it in the span of two months should clarify things.
00:28:24.620And it should clarify what should already be obvious, which is that he just wants attention.
00:28:31.460And, you know, I made this point about Nancy Mace last week.
00:28:35.780I know it seems obvious, and it is, but I think a lot of people still believe that these people, these politicians like Cory and Nancy and Jasmine Crockett and whoever else,
00:28:45.940a lot of people still believe that these are scheming, power-hungry, Game of Thrones types who lust for power and control.
00:28:57.960And don't get me wrong, they are scheming.
00:36:25.520Joe Rogan is the master of having a long, wide-ranging, off-the-cuff conversation that, where there's, he has no, he doesn't bring any, as far as I can tell, having been on the show twice.
00:36:38.760As far as I can tell, he's like, he doesn't bring any notes into the conversation.
00:39:04.360So the arrogance of just thinking that you can turn on a camera and film a conversation with some random person and that it will somehow be fascinating to the outside world, it's outrageous.
00:39:18.200Every time I hear about a new podcast that's just people, we're going to sit in a room and have a real conversation.
00:39:25.380Real conversations are not interesting.
00:39:27.680I don't want to hear your real conversation unless you are one of like, as I said, five or six people on earth who can have a real conversation that is actually interesting.
00:39:37.500If you're not one of them, I don't want to hear it.
00:39:41.520Which is why when you're like sitting at a coffee shop or something and you can hear a conversation that's happening at a table, it's annoying.
00:40:01.140So anyway, Michelle Obama is, all that to say, she is not, and maybe other people will come along, you know, that crew of Joe Rogan, Tucker, Theo Vaughn, like that, you know.
00:40:22.660Other people will come along, maybe, who can compete in that space.
00:40:25.820But Michelle Obama is not one of them.
00:40:30.640Although her podcast is kind of fascinating, though, in a way, completely by accident.
00:40:38.160It's not fascinating in the way she intends.
00:40:40.260It's fascinating because it gives a glimpse into the mind of this woman who lives this incredible life, this life of immense privilege, and yet still finds reasons to be constantly angry and to feel persecuted.
00:40:54.080You know, now she's talking about the resentment she felt when her husband was getting attention.
00:40:58.360And the funny thing is that apparently this story she's telling, if you listen to the whole context, which I didn't because I don't care that much, but I read about it.
00:41:07.120But she's talking about from a time, this thing she described was when Barack was in the Senate.
00:41:15.640So all the way back then, she was resentful of the attention that he was getting.
00:41:19.880So just imagine how much angrier and more bitter she got once, you know, he was the president.
00:41:27.880And this is something that men need to watch out for.
00:41:30.060This is a major red flag that you need to be looking out for, especially if you have big dreams as a man.
00:41:36.200You know, if you intend to go out and accomplish great things.
00:41:40.020If you want to be a man of achievement, a man who is admired and respected, which you should want that.
00:42:00.980There's that type, the type that cheers on her husband, feels proud of him, feels proud of his success, feels proud of the praise and attention that he gets.
00:42:15.120Because the other option is unthinkable.
00:42:17.340The other type of woman is the type who resents her husband's achievements and secretly roots against him and wants to see him humbled and wants to see him fail, really.
00:42:26.840And is competitive against him and is envious.
00:42:31.060And when other people are praising him, she's liable to jump in and say something embarrassing about him.
00:42:37.080And then we'll justify that by saying, oh, I'm just keeping him humble.
00:42:44.800No, you're denigrating him and you're tearing him down.
00:42:47.660And you're trying to deliberately hurt his reputation.
00:42:51.620And there are plenty of successful men who marry women like this.
00:42:54.580And it leads to disaster every single time.
00:42:58.060And Barack Obama married a woman like this.
00:43:07.580Anyway, let's get to the comment section.
00:43:11.080So for the comment section today, I wanted to go back to our cancellation two days ago about the TikTok mom who cried and complained about her husband in a viral video.
00:43:31.060So, you know, and there's some interesting comments there that we didn't get to.
00:43:39.180Bethany says, the largest piece of advice I can give anyone married or contemplating marriage, do not under any circumstances disrespect or talk down about your spouse in front of other people.
00:44:59.720It's like this is why it's kind of baffling these spouses that tear each other down like this because you're also making yourself look bad.
00:46:36.000It makes you feel like you can't share yourself with someone.
00:46:38.680And if the husband has a pattern of doing that to her, she has every right to be upset about it.
00:46:41.900The fact that the husband even straight up said, your excitement is annoying, is an unbelievably hurtful thing to say to someone you supposedly love.
00:46:55.120Elle says, yeah, this comment section is so insane.
00:46:56.940She obviously shouldn't have posted this for the world.
00:46:58.800But does it not possibly seem a little emotionally abusive to plan a special date night for your wife and then get annoyed at her excitement?
00:47:04.820Like she's only allowed to express her emotions on his terms?
00:47:07.760My mom married a dirtbag like this who will do seemingly nice things to make himself feel good, but then have stipulations on how she's allowed to react to them.
00:47:19.700The main issue here is not that the husband was slightly dismissive to the wife when she was excited about the movie.
00:47:25.460The main issue is the premeditated, calculated decision to denigrate her husband on social media and make him the object of scorn for thousands of people.
00:47:35.840You know, this is not an, oh, yeah, well, she shouldn't have done that, but whatever type of situation.
00:47:40.700That is a cruel, malicious ploy to denigrate her husband in front of the world.
00:47:47.140And if you think that a slightly dismissive comment about a movie comes anywhere close to that, then I don't know what to tell you.
00:47:55.280And I also think that you're not, you know, assuming these comments are from women.
00:48:03.740So imagine if your husband did this to you.
00:48:06.760Imagine that you have some kind of seemingly small fight with your husband where you did something wrong and you apologized for it and you guys hashed it out and you thought you moved on.
00:48:21.140And the next day, imagine that you are now trending on Twitter and TikTok because you find out that your husband made a video about it that went viral and there are thousands of people talking about what a terrible person you are and that you should get divorced.
00:49:16.160Well, I agree with the first two rules.
00:49:18.020I have to say that I disagree with your third rule.
00:49:20.360Now, I concede that you're the more experienced veteran of marriage.
00:49:23.980I don't doubt your wisdom on the subject.
00:49:26.740But, you know, the don't go to bed angry thing is just one of those really common pieces of marital wisdom that I have found to be personally not useful.
00:49:37.000I actually have adopted something close to the opposite approach.
00:49:41.800I'd say, you know, I would say, yes, like definitely go to bed angry.
00:49:53.080But go to bed angry if the other option is to stay up and hash out whatever disagreement you're having with your spouse.
00:50:02.120Because that is the other option, right?
00:50:04.060Don't go to bed angry is advice that specifically applies to a situation where you and your spouse have some kind of argument and it's getting to be late at night and you can either go to bed, kind of pissed off at each other, or you can stay up and continue the discussion.
00:50:21.440And in that case, I think in my experience, it's way better to just go to bed.
00:50:27.600Nothing good comes of hashing out a disagreement when you're both tired.
00:50:36.080Nine times out of ten, you'll wake up in the morning way less angry.
00:50:39.820In fact, you'll wake up less angry and really happy that you did not continue the battle.
00:50:48.460You know, I think it's a very rare occurrence that someone in a marriage wakes up in the morning and regrets not having continued an argument into the wee hours of the morning.
00:51:03.500And this is actually where I would distinguish between an argument and a fight.
00:51:11.700You know, you hear people say sometimes that fighting is normal in a marriage.
00:52:04.640Now, in a fight, you're trying to hurt the other person.
00:52:09.960Hopefully not physically, but emotionally.
00:52:12.580A fight is when you say the thing that you know will hurt them, you know will tick them off, you know will hit them in their insecurities, whatever it is.
00:52:38.460There's no positive resolution possible once it becomes a fight.
00:52:43.100And this is how it relates to the go to bed thing is that if you're already in a fight, then yeah, the best possible thing you can do is just shut up, both of you, and go to bed.
00:52:55.620And you'll wake up in the morning feeling better, less angry, probably embarrassed that you were fighting like children.
00:53:01.540If you're in an argument and it hasn't yet crossed the Rubicon into a fight, then again, just go to bed.
00:53:11.960Go to bed before one of you says the thing that makes it a fight.
00:53:16.300And the longer it goes and the later it gets and the more tired you get, the more likely it is that because you both have the thing that you could say in your minds, right?
00:53:27.140Like the pushing, it's like breaking glass and pushing the red button.
00:53:30.700And the later it gets, the more likely it is that one of you pushes that button.
00:53:33.520So go to bed and, you know, shut up and go to bed.
00:53:39.360If I were to write a parenting advice book, which I would never do, but if I did, not a parenting, a marriage advice book, maybe the title of it would be Shut Up and Go to Bed.
00:53:50.900That's very often the best thing you can do.
00:53:54.340And if you wake up in the morning and you feel like you still have more to say, like you really need to continue it, well, you can always do that.
00:54:03.000So, but other than that, I agree with you.
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00:54:36.900As we've been following on this show over the past several months, the Democrat Party has a big problem.
00:54:47.600Well, they have quite a few big problems, but the biggest of all politically is that men, young men in particular, hate them.
00:54:53.360As everyone at this point knows, male voters skew heavily to the right and the gap is widening by the day.
00:54:58.520Democrats are aware of this problem because it's the kind of problem that's very difficult to miss.
00:55:01.860It's so difficult to miss that even the Democrats haven't missed it yet, or at this point haven't missed it.
00:55:06.780But unfortunately for the Democrats, they have no idea how to diagnose this problem, and they haven't the slightest clue about what sort of prescription might help treat it.
00:55:16.220Fortunately for the rest of us, their clumsy attempts to grapple with the issue are often quite amusing.
00:55:21.940Even more amusing to see what sort of experts they call in to help them navigate this crisis.
00:55:28.000Now we know the Democrats are big fans of experts, and we also know that they tend to consult experts who don't know anything about their subject of expertise.
00:55:35.720This has especially been the case when it comes to the Democrat Party's man problem.
00:55:39.060So, last week we talked about David Hogg, who went on Bill Maher's show to offer his analysis, which was predictably clueless and out of touch.
00:55:47.380After all, what does a scrawny, 95-pound gun control activist know about masculinity?
00:55:53.420Is it possible to think of anyone less qualified to speak for or about the men of America?
00:55:58.900Well, that question may seem rhetorical, but the Democrats took it as a challenge.
00:56:03.520Because they have in fact managed to find someone less qualified to speak on the subject.
00:56:09.060Someone who, in the contest to be the most out of touch on this issue, would figuratively eat David Hogg alive.
00:56:19.640This week, a Democrat activist and podcaster named Micah Erfan invited a woman named Olivia Juliana to explain how Democrats might win back young men.
00:56:28.880Now, Olivia is a 22-year-old far-left activist and influencer, a rabid pro-abortion feminist, and severely overweight.
00:56:36.860And I mentioned that last point, not to make fun of her, but just to emphasize that this is a person who, on the surface, checks precisely none of the boxes that would make her resonate with young men.
00:56:48.000She projects precisely none of the qualities that men instinctively respect or find appealing.
00:56:54.540And on top of all that, she's also apparently a lesbian.
00:56:57.180Her profile on the website for the National Union of Healthcare Workers, don't ask me why she has a profile there, says that Juliana, quote, identifies as a queer, plus-size, disabled Latina.
00:57:08.000Again, this is a personal bio seemingly designed in a laboratory to be as off-putting to men as possible.
00:57:15.880And yet, here she is pontificating about men.
00:57:18.560But let's not judge a book by its cover, even though you definitely can judge a book by its cover, especially when the cover says queer, plus-size, disabled Latina.
00:57:26.980That's a book that's bound to be full of nonsense.
00:57:33.060I think the Democrats have a really bad problem of every time we message to young men, we frame it in a way that is wrapped up in the same principles that we critique.
00:57:46.180We critique the patriarchy, we critique the way that men have higher hierarchy and power structures, and then we message to them as if not only is that the reality, but that they have to continue to be like that.
00:58:02.240So the example I use in the article is the issue of abortion.
00:58:05.880When we message to young men on abortion, or men in general, we do it from the position of, well, real men protect women.
00:58:13.780And if you care about the women in your life, you should be pro-choice.
00:58:19.420But we don't come at it from the approach of this is the reality that young men face about that issue.
00:58:25.020Because it's entirely possible that a young woman in college gets pregnant unexpectedly, and that could upend her life if she doesn't have access to abortion care.
00:58:33.720But it's also entirely true that the young guy who gets her pregnant, now he's on the hook to not only take care of this child that could be him, that could be coming into the world, but also to take care now of the mother of his child.
00:58:50.120So Olivia, the plus-size, queer, disabled female expert on men, says that the best way to message to a man on the abortion issue is to warn him that if he doesn't kill his child, he may be forced to take care of his child.
00:59:01.840And notice how she actually refers to the victim of the abortion as a child.
00:59:05.760This is one of the rare moments when the abortion activist forgets the usual euphemisms and just comes out and says it.
00:59:12.740And if you don't kill him, you might have to take care of him.
00:59:15.320And Olivia suggests that this should be the sales pitch to young men.
00:59:19.800Well, I can only hope that the Democrats listen to her on this point, because the more honest the pro-abortion side is, the more they lose.
00:59:27.760It turns out that it's not very endearing or persuasive to walk up to a guy and say, hey, you're not fit to be a father.
00:59:34.080Have you thought about murdering your child?
00:59:36.460The only chance the pro-abortion side has to win any argument is to act like it's not the pro-abortion side and to pretend that abortion isn't abortion.
00:59:43.760There is no way of honestly talking about the intentional violent killing of a baby without sounding like a bloodthirsty psychopath, as Olivia just showed.
00:59:54.200Now, there's more to say on that point, but Olivia has more to say, too.
01:01:08.660There may have been some guys like that for a brief unfortunate moment in 2020.
01:01:12.520But these days, that's a quick way to make yourself into a punchline.
01:01:18.460And support for gay marriage is also dwindling, especially among young men.
01:01:21.200And, in fact, only a small minority of Americans generally, and young men in particular, are pro-choice, quote-unquote, in the way that she means it.
01:01:32.120Keep in mind, to a devoted abortion enthusiast like Olivia, you are an enemy of reproductive rights, so-called reproductive rights,
01:01:39.200unless you support abortion under all circumstances up to the moment of birth.
01:01:45.560But that's a position that only a minority actually hold.
01:01:48.460Most Americans support at least some restrictions on the practice.
01:01:51.700And as we just discussed, that support dips further when the abortion radicals are actually honest about what the abortion is
01:01:58.100and why they care so much about protecting access to it.
01:02:16.620Yeah, they don't give a cuss about immigration.
01:02:20.800It's this idea of scarcity and competition of if you're a young man in America, you are expected to go to college or go to a trade school, get a certification, get a degree.
01:02:34.480Then you're expected to get a high-paying job.
01:02:36.600And then once you get your high-paying job, you're expected to find your wife and to buy a house and to have kids and to do all of these things.
01:02:42.300And if you don't do that, then you're a failure because you are the man and you are the provider.
01:02:47.240And if you can't provide, then you're not actually a man.
01:02:50.420And so the Republicans specifically, they set this expectation, and then they make it almost impossible for young men to actually do those things,
01:02:58.820whether it's through not raising minimum wage, whether it's through the price of tuition going up, all these different things.
01:03:05.280That kind of little nagging, insecure voice in the back of the head, that's where Republicans really push through the ideology and get to young men,
01:03:12.620is because then they can convince them, well, this is the person whose fault it is.
01:03:16.640It's not your fault that you can't get ahead in America.
01:03:18.820It's the immigrants who are coming here.
01:03:20.260It's their fault because they're taking your high-paying jobs.
01:05:04.940And if you think this moment of obscene pretentiousness and presumptuousness is the worst of it, just wait until you hear how Olivia wraps things up.
01:05:15.100America, or voters in general, when they're deciding who they want to vote for, they want a mom and they want a dad.
01:05:21.900Not to be homophobic, because there can be, you know, same-sex parents here.
01:05:26.600They want someone who, in times of uncertainty, can bring them comfort and can make them feel like there's someone there for them.
01:05:34.880And then they also want someone who's going to be stern, who's going to have their back, and who's going to say the tough things that need to be said.
01:05:42.660And I feel like we offer, we try to offer voters comfort, but instead of coming across as, like, mom or dad, we kind of come across as, like, the aunt who you kind of don't like her, but she gets you a really good Christmas present.
01:05:57.160So, like, every once in a while you'll go visit, like, I feel like that's kind of how we come across as, like, well, I don't really trust the Democrats, and I don't really like them that much, but the Affordable Care Act was cool.
01:06:08.940And, like, that's kind of the extent of it, is that is how people feel about us most of the time.
01:06:14.960Okay, let me step in here once and for all as someone who does actually understand something about the male mindset.
01:06:21.960And let me assure Olivia that no man, no man with even vaguely normal levels of testosterone has ever said, or would ever say, that when he goes to the voting booth, he's looking for a mom and a dad.
01:06:37.780That is exactly what a man does not want out of a politician.
01:06:41.580We are specifically trying to avoid politicians who want to be our parents.
01:06:46.360And we certainly aren't turning to politicians for comfort or to know that someone is there for us.
01:06:53.860In my nearly 39 years of being a male human in the world and having had thousands of conversations with other male humans, I have never heard a single one of them ever say,
01:07:03.660yeah, you know, I voted for that candidate because he's a really great parental figure for me, and he makes me feel comforted and seen.
01:07:14.100But if I did hear a man ever say that, it would be the last thing I ever heard him say because I would stuff him into a burlap sack and I would throw him into the sea.
01:09:03.780I think men are great because, Phil, and it can't be, oh, because they actually agree with me on everything, even though it seems like they don't.