The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 168 - Romney Can’t Decide If He Hates Trump

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Mitt Romney attacks Trump after asking for an endorsement and asking for a job.

00:00:06.280 What does that say about Mitt Romney?

00:00:08.180 Also, we'll get caught up on some of the internet outrages that you may have missed over the holiday.

00:00:12.780 You don't want to miss any of them.

00:00:14.400 And finally, we'll talk about why New Year's resolutions never pan out.

00:00:19.660 All of that today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:26.880 All right, and we're back.

00:00:28.780 I hope you had a wonderful Kwanzaa.

00:00:30.860 Mitt Romney has come out and attacked President Trump.

00:00:34.960 Mitt Romney has not even taken office yet as the new senator from Utah, but he's already published an op-ed in the Washington Post attacking Trump's character, his fitness for office.

00:00:46.720 He says that the president has, quote, not risen to the mantle of the office.

00:00:52.620 And then he says some other stuff, too.

00:00:54.380 Now, I think that I can say this with some credibility.

00:00:58.220 I think you know that I'm telling the truth when I say that I have no problem with people criticizing Donald Trump.

00:01:06.860 There are some conservatives who will get very teary-eyed and tummy hurt when you say anything critical about Trump at all for any reason in any context.

00:01:15.660 I am not one of those people.

00:01:19.720 I criticize Trump myself all the time.

00:01:22.220 In fact, I think that criticizing presidents in general is a wonderful thing.

00:01:28.280 It's an American pastime.

00:01:29.660 We should all be criticizing the president all the time, no matter who the president is.

00:01:34.100 That's the relationship that we, as the people, should have with the president.

00:01:39.160 It is one of skepticism and criticism.

00:01:42.160 That's the American way.

00:01:43.960 You should do it when you wake up in the morning first thing, like over breakfast.

00:01:48.220 You should be criticizing the president.

00:01:49.840 It doesn't matter who he is.

00:01:51.480 That is a healthy and good practice.

00:01:53.380 But, which is one of the reasons why I think it's really unfortunate when you've got, whether it's a Democrat president or Republican president, like you've got a Democrat president, so then Democrats feel like they have to defend him no matter what.

00:02:05.780 Republicans feel like they have to defend the Republican president.

00:02:08.700 There's just a very unfortunate dynamic because no matter who the president is, we should all enjoy criticizing him or her because that is the American way.

00:02:19.000 It's what our founding fathers would have wanted.

00:02:21.600 That said, the question must be asked, can Mitt Romney specifically criticize Trump specifically and be taken seriously while doing it?

00:02:34.100 I think the answer to that question is obviously no.

00:02:37.080 Let's just follow for a second.

00:02:38.520 Let's follow this very windy path of this relationship between Trump and Romney over the last five or six years.

00:02:45.860 Romney sought Trump's endorsement in 2012, and he got it.

00:02:51.940 Then Romney attacked Trump in 2016.

00:02:55.060 Then Trump won, and Romney went to Trump asking to be secretary of state.

00:02:59.400 Then Romney sought Trump's endorsement for his senatorial run in Utah, and now Romney is attacking Trump again.

00:03:06.680 So that's a lot of vacillating, a lot of back and forth.

00:03:10.600 You know, I want your endorsement. 0.99

00:03:14.580 Oh, you're a terrible person. 0.88

00:03:16.020 Oh, can I work for you? 0.99

00:03:17.520 Oh, can I have your endorsement again? 0.99

00:03:20.460 Oh, you're a terrible person again. 0.99

00:03:22.180 It just, it has the air of opportunism, of hypocrisy, of something extremely, extraordinarily self-serving and fake on the part of Romney. 0.99

00:03:31.600 Romney has a reputation as a flip-flopper, and I think that this only reaffirms that reputation.

00:03:36.500 This is not, and that's not really what Romney wants to do.

00:03:43.060 I don't think he wants to reaffirm the reputation as a flip-flopper, because it really hurt him in his presidential run.

00:03:49.800 Now, the thing is, I've always liked Mitt Romney, okay?

00:03:54.300 I think that he would have made a good president.

00:03:57.240 I think that if he does more than write op-eds about the president, he'll make a pretty good senator, too. 0.92

00:04:02.580 But this is just nonsense, and it's shameless nonsense.

00:04:08.680 Romney going between these extremes, between condemning Trump on such a fundamental level. 0.61

00:04:17.220 And this is not just, when he condemns Trump, he's not just doing it on, oh, I disagree with this policy or that policy.

00:04:24.100 He's attacking his character, his integrity, which, again, is fine.

00:04:31.560 If you're going to do that, fine, but then you can't turn around and say, can I work for you, or can I have your endorsement?

00:04:39.160 What do you, why would you want the endorsement of someone who you think is dishonest, an unfit president, has no character, so on and so forth?

00:04:46.820 So, it's just, you can't possibly take it seriously.

00:04:53.780 And I also, there's one other thing about Romney that I think needs to be pointed out.

00:05:00.120 And again, I say this as someone, I like him generally as a politician.

00:05:06.360 I wish he won in 2012.

00:05:07.480 But there is something really disturbing to me about a person who cannot stop running for office, like someone who is addicted to running for office.

00:05:19.420 Obviously, Hillary Clinton is a top offender in this category, but Romney is too. 0.93

00:05:24.140 Romney ran for the Senate in the 90s and lost.

00:05:27.320 Then he ran for governor and he won.

00:05:29.380 Then he ran for president and lost.

00:05:31.220 And then he ran for president again and lost.

00:05:33.760 And then he ran for Senate again at the age of 70.

00:05:38.160 And like I said, obviously, he's not unique.

00:05:40.640 A lot of our current politicians are like this.

00:05:42.680 They just keep running.

00:05:43.820 They can't stop.

00:05:44.640 They just keep on going and going and going.

00:05:46.760 They must have political power.

00:05:48.920 They cannot accept a world that they don't partially control.

00:05:57.240 Think about Joe Biden.

00:05:59.220 Joe Biden is probably going to run for president at the age of 78.

00:06:05.680 Joe Biden has been in political office, in positions of political power for, you know, five or six decades or whatever.

00:06:15.620 And now he's going to be 78 in 2020 and he's going to run for office again.

00:06:20.660 Rather than just going home, you're 78 years old, life expectancy for men, I think, is 84 or 85.

00:06:28.060 So according to normal life expectancy range, you've got, you know, you've got six, seven years of life left.

00:06:37.140 And so rather than just going home to be with your family and to enjoy the last few years that you have left, you're like you're running for office.

00:06:48.060 You're campaigning.

00:06:49.220 It's an addiction.

00:06:50.280 Now, I know that if we want to be optimistic or if we want to be generous, which we should never be generous to politicians, but if we wanted to be optimistic or generous about them, maybe we would say, well, these people have a passion for public service, right?

00:07:07.240 They just, they really want to, they want to help and they want to be, well, we could say that, but really if you're rich and you've been in power forever and you're old now and you really have a passion for helping, then go, then you could volunteer at a soup kitchen.

00:07:25.260 I mean, if you're running for Senate or president, it's because you need to be in control.

00:07:30.980 You cannot accept a reality that does not feature you in a position of power and control.

00:07:39.240 So that even apart from, from his, from this back and forth with Trump, Romney is just another one of those guys, even if he seems like a pretty decent guy and all of that, as I said, but this, you just keep on running.

00:07:54.980 You can't let it go.

00:07:57.120 And it's, it's kind of disturbing it.

00:07:59.340 It really, it is an addiction and, um, and I'm concerned about it.

00:08:06.000 I guess that's my point.

00:08:07.520 All right.

00:08:08.700 Um, so now I want to talk now about a few stories that, um, that's quite enough politics for my first, my first day back.

00:08:18.120 So I want to talk about a few stories that, um, that nobody really cares about anymore.

00:08:25.000 And, and that's my point really.

00:08:26.600 That's why I'm talking about them.

00:08:29.340 I, I was on vacation for a week, um, last week, and then I had to work on new year's Eve and then I was off again for new year's day.

00:08:38.800 And now I'm back today.

00:08:40.020 So on Monday, as I kind of wandered bleary eyed back into the wilds of the internet and social media, I had been, you know, I hadn't paid attention to any of that stuff for, you know, seven or eight days, which was very nice.

00:08:56.300 But I'm back in it as part of my job.

00:08:59.680 So I got to go on Twitter and I got to go on Facebook and social media and, um, and figure out what are the, what are the controversies everyone's talking about today?

00:09:08.160 What did I miss?

00:09:09.000 Right.

00:09:10.120 And I discovered on, on Monday, I discovered that people on Twitter were very, very mad about something, which, you know, they're always mad about something.

00:09:19.080 And so on, on, on Monday, they were very, very, the thing that they were very, very mad about was, um, was Louis CK, who's a comedian.

00:09:27.920 Uh, he, he apparently made jokes.

00:09:30.980 If you can believe it, just, just get a load of this.

00:09:34.360 Louis CK, a comedian made jokes at a comedy club during a comedy set.

00:09:42.580 I know that's very, it's very upsetting.

00:09:46.440 And the jokes were vulgar and they were edgy and they were inappropriate.

00:09:50.280 Uh, he joked about, he, he, he had some material about the Parkland school shooting.

00:09:55.820 Uh, he joked about, um, that's the edgy inappropriate.

00:10:00.220 Then he also joked about, uh, about gender fluidity or whatever, which is, which is perfectly fine. 0.99

00:10:05.280 But the point is, those are the exact kinds of jokes that Louis CK has been telling for two decades, where he's joking about things that you're not supposed to joke about, really edgy, you know, inappropriate stuff.

00:10:21.040 That's what he's been, that's been his shtick.

00:10:23.200 That's what he's been doing for 20 years.

00:10:25.040 And it's exactly the kind of thing that once earned him basically worshipful praise, like deifying praise from the very people who were now very, very mad about the jokes that he made.

00:10:41.340 So people were upset about that.

00:10:43.300 Um, and then there was also, uh, at some point in the days prior to that, I got wind of another outrage that I had missed.

00:10:50.800 There was outrage over comments that had been made by a TV chef named Andrew Zimmern, who's the host of a show called Bizarre Foods, which is actually one of my favorite shows.

00:11:00.600 I love that show.

00:11:01.700 Um, anyway, he made, he made comments about Chinese food restaurants in the Midwest. 0.99

00:11:07.180 Apparently Zimmern said that Chinese restaurants in that part of the country are horse crap. 0.99

00:11:12.920 Only he didn't say crap. 1.00

00:11:13.900 He used the S word. 0.99

00:11:14.580 Now, this is an observation that every person who has ever eaten Chinese food in the Midwest has also made probably verbatim because they are horse crap for the most part. 0.98

00:11:27.000 Uh, same for Mexican food in the Midwest, same for a lot of different kinds of food in the Midwest.

00:11:31.000 Honestly, there are some good, there's some good food too in the Midwest, but, um, a lot of bad food, you know, if I'm, if I'm just being honest, but people were very mad about it.

00:11:38.740 Uh, especially on Twitter and they said it was, I don't know, they, they thought it was racist.

00:11:44.760 It was this and that.

00:11:45.680 And then it ended up with production on Zimmern's travel channel show being halted because of comments that he made about Chinese food restaurants in the American Midwest.

00:11:57.320 Uh, there was another outrage that I missed over the, over the Christmas break.

00:12:02.320 Um, Chris Rock apparently got into some trouble for not correcting Ricky Gervais and Louis CK yet again, when they use the N word on an HBO show seven years ago.

00:12:16.700 Now this one takes a little bit of explaining.

00:12:19.020 So back in 2011, Ricky Gervais, Louis CK, uh, Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld apparently filmed some sort of discussion show for HBO where they sat around in a room on chairs.

00:12:32.260 And they talked about comedy for an hour and you know, so that was the show.

00:12:36.600 I actually watched part of it when I heard about this.

00:12:38.340 It was actually kind of interesting, but during the course of the conversation, uh, Gervais and CK joked about the N word and about how they themselves sometimes use the N word during their standup sets.

00:12:50.600 And then Chris Rock, who was the only black guy in the discussion, instead of correcting them, he egged them on and he joked around also about the word with them. 0.74

00:13:00.160 Now, nobody cared about this for almost an entire decade, right?

00:13:05.240 For like seven or eight years, nobody cared.

00:13:07.340 Nobody noticed.

00:13:08.240 Nobody, just nobody cared.

00:13:10.340 Then suddenly some very mad people on Twitter discovered the clip, posted it, and a two or three day Twitter outrage cycle ensued, which I basically missed.

00:13:21.680 The only reason that I'm aware of it is that people emailed me, me about it.

00:13:24.900 But if you go on Twitter now, you're not going to see any hint of any of this.

00:13:29.620 Um, and you especially won't see any hint of any of these internet, Twitter, social media outrages.

00:13:37.880 If you put down your phone and you go out and you interact with people in a three dimensional physical environment, here's, here's a really fun experiment.

00:13:48.120 Okay.

00:13:50.000 Um, don't actually do this because it'd be kind of awkward, but if you were to just walk down the street and then stop a random person who's walking by you and say to them, Hey, what do you think of that whole, uh, Chris Rock controversy?

00:14:02.460 Or say, uh, say, Hey, what's your take on those offensive jokes that Lucy K told, or you could say like, excuse me, um, what's your opinion on Andrew Zimmern's comments about Midwestern Chinese food?

00:14:17.960 Now I would bet you a hundred dollars that the first 50 people you stop will answer with some version of what in the world are you babbling about?

00:14:26.620 Uh, and that's because normal humans in the real world don't care about any of this.

00:14:36.480 They aren't paying attention to it.

00:14:38.500 They have no idea what people on the internet are very mad about or why they're very mad about those things.

00:14:45.780 And they aren't going to take the time to find out because they simply don't care.

00:14:49.280 The people that you encounter in, in the world are concerned about things that are much closer to them and much more relevant to their lives.

00:14:57.900 So if you're in line at the supermarket, the woman in front of you, she's not thinking about what Ricky Gervais said on HBO in 2011.

00:15:05.920 She's thinking about, she's getting all her coupons together and that's what she's thinking about.

00:15:09.140 Or if you drive by a guy in traffic, he's not thinking about, he's not, he's not dwelling or stewing over, um, over offensive jokes that Louis C.K. told at a comedy club last week.

00:15:19.520 He's thinking about, he's worried about layoffs at his job or something like that.

00:15:23.300 Uh, the girl sitting across from you at the coffee shop, she's not worried about Chris Rock or, or what Andrew Zimmern said about Chinese food.

00:15:31.420 She's studying for her exam that she's going to have in a couple of weeks.

00:15:34.600 That's the, those are the things that people care about.

00:15:37.260 And, and we, we should also keep this in mind that even if the girl at the coffee shop or the guy, uh, driving down the street or the woman in front of you at the supermarket, even if one of, even if they actually did stop at some point during the day to write an angry tweet about the outrage of the day, they still don't really care.

00:16:03.320 Because obviously when, when, when, you know, we can't, when we can't, we can't really have this firm delineation between the real world and the internet because people in the real world are on the internet.

00:16:17.780 So it, it may be, if you stop someone on the street, they may in fact be aware of these things and maybe they actually said something about it.

00:16:24.980 Maybe they voiced their opinion.

00:16:27.460 Um, but they aren't going to do anything with their outrage.

00:16:32.940 That's the point.

00:16:34.260 They aren't spending all day thinking about it.

00:16:36.580 Uh, it costs a person, nothing at all to send an angry tweet or to post a, can you believe that so-and-so said such-and-such type of Facebook post?

00:16:47.200 You can churn that out kind of reflexively and then you go back to your day and it doesn't really matter to you.

00:16:54.260 And that's the most striking thing about internet outrage is that it is so utterly, completely, aggressively, consistently empty and meaningless.

00:17:08.460 It, it, it has almost no natural real world correlation or consequence.

00:17:15.920 And I say natural because obviously it does have artificial, it can have artificial real world consequences.

00:17:24.700 So people on the internet were very upset about whatever Kevin, I don't even, what was the Kevin Hart thing?

00:17:29.080 Kevin Hart got in trouble.

00:17:29.980 I know he lost his Academy Awards game.

00:17:31.640 I don't even remember anymore what he got in trouble about.

00:17:34.680 Do you?

00:17:34.920 I don't think anyone does.

00:17:36.280 Um, but that's another one.

00:17:38.140 No one really cared about that.

00:17:39.900 There was a lot of outrage online, but that's another one.

00:17:42.040 If you had stopped someone on the street, they, they would say they, they either wouldn't be aware of it or they really wouldn't care.

00:17:47.120 And they wouldn't want to talk about it.

00:17:48.720 Um, in spite of that though, and although it was empty, artificial, meaningless outrage, he really did lose his, uh, Academy Awards job over it.

00:17:59.860 Um, Andrew Zimmern really is, you know, suffering professional consequences as well.

00:18:06.160 But that's only because the decision makers in these companies, these corporate decision makers, they don't understand this extremely obvious point that I'm making right now.

00:18:16.520 And then that you already knew.

00:18:18.700 Um, so they cave to this non-existent pressure and they think that a bunch of mad tweets actually mean something when they really don't.

00:18:27.720 They don't realize that they could simply ignore this stuff and it would all go away within a few days.

00:18:33.500 If the Academy Awards had just completely ignored the Kevin Hart thing, nobody would care right now.

00:18:41.660 Just like nobody cares, nobody cares now about the Kevin Hart thing.

00:18:44.480 And that would be the case no matter how the Academy Awards reacted to it.

00:18:47.560 They could have just completely ignored it, said nothing about it, pretended it wasn't happening.

00:18:52.380 And within a few days, everyone has moved on to the next thing.

00:18:55.380 So it doesn't matter.

00:18:56.080 But these people, they kind of like surrender and cede to the demands of Twitter avatars for no reason.

00:19:04.780 They remind me of a, of a, of a, of an armed security guard who's frantically opening the bank vault for a six-year-old with a squirt gun.

00:19:12.640 It's just, there's no, you can hardly even call that robbery.

00:19:16.160 You can't even, you can hardly blame, you can't even blame the six-year-old for it.

00:19:18.980 You blame the security guard. 0.66

00:19:20.100 Now, obviously, it doesn't help that while you've got these cowardly corporate decision makers,

00:19:28.740 on one hand, you also have the media, which will so often inflate the significance of these very mad internet posts.

00:19:37.240 They write whole stories and construct whole narratives around the angry tantrums of six or seven random nobodies on social media.

00:19:44.460 They, they tell, they write stories saying, outrage has erupted because of something that Louis C.K. said or whatever.

00:19:51.960 And then when you look at it, you see that the eruption consists of like a few dozen people who are writing salty tweets about it.

00:20:00.900 That's, that's not an eruption.

00:20:02.640 That's not what an eruption is.

00:20:03.840 An eruption is a, is, is a volcano.

00:20:06.680 It's lava spewing all over the place and destroying everything in its wake.

00:20:10.860 That's not what internet outrage does. 1.00

00:20:12.940 That internet outrage is not an eruption.

00:20:14.780 It's more like flatulence.

00:20:16.380 It's just this gross, annoying sound that smells bad and then disperses itself into the atmosphere.

00:20:23.580 And five minutes later, you didn't, you know, you, it's, it's like it never happened.

00:20:28.760 So just hold your nose for a few seconds and wait it out.

00:20:31.580 That's how you respond to it.

00:20:34.040 So I think this is what we need to do.

00:20:37.160 Um, collectively.

00:20:38.760 We need to treat internet outrage with the dismissive contempt that it deserves.

00:20:50.680 We should just laugh in its face or better yet yawn in its face and then put our phones down and live our lives.

00:20:58.240 And, and that's it.

00:21:02.000 Knowing that somewhere out there in cyberspace, people are whining because so-and-so said such-and-such and it doesn't matter.

00:21:10.360 It doesn't matter at all.

00:21:12.460 It is just sound and fury and angry-faced emojis signifying nothing.

00:21:17.660 That's the incredible thing is that when you put your phone down and just walk away from it, it's like a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it.

00:21:30.160 That's all it is.

00:21:31.120 I think I've told you before that I, I myself have been, have had, I've been the target of internet outrage many times.

00:21:39.720 Um, and I've had the experience where I get, I've, I've, I've experienced it both ways.

00:21:45.560 I've, I've had the experience where the internet outrage is, is, is coming fast and furious at me and I'm in the midst of it.

00:21:52.520 And I, and I, for some reason I'm not able to put my phone down and so I'm reading all the comments and I'm getting all the emails and everything.

00:21:59.580 And sometimes in those moments, it can feel very real and you could, you feel like this really means something.

00:22:06.120 And, um, and maybe you even get a little nervous.

00:22:08.580 You think like, oh no, what's going to happen.

00:22:11.860 But then I've also had the experience of, I don't know, I'll send a tweet or something and then I'll just put my phone down and go about my day.

00:22:20.280 Not knowing that the tweet goes viral and people are very angry about it and I'm getting hundreds of messages and comments and people are freaking out and I'm oblivious to, I don't even know that it's happening.

00:22:34.060 And then a day later, I'll go back online and I'll see that this happened and it's already evaporated.

00:22:39.960 The outrage has already evaporated and I just missed it.

00:22:43.240 So then I can say, oh, okay, well, so that happened.

00:22:47.000 People were upset about that.

00:22:48.240 Who cares?

00:22:50.280 That's the way it always goes.

00:22:52.220 It just, it doesn't matter.

00:22:55.600 One other thing.

00:22:58.800 For the rest of the week, for the rest of this week anyway, people will be talking about their New Year's resolutions and asking you if, I'm sure you've already been asked this question, but people are going to be asking you, what are your resolutions?

00:23:14.080 Well, I've got that question already a few times.

00:23:19.400 I have an idea for a New Year's resolution that we all can make, okay?

00:23:24.000 And here's the New Year's resolution.

00:23:26.960 We should resolve to stop making New Year's resolutions.

00:23:31.380 I think that's the best New Year's resolution we all could make.

00:23:35.060 Because here's the thing.

00:23:36.260 There's a reason why New Year's resolutions are notoriously short-lived.

00:23:40.900 And it's not just New Year's resolutions, by the way.

00:23:44.840 New Year's resolutions get a bad rap, but it's not just New Year's resolutions that are short-lived.

00:23:49.700 It's resolutions in general.

00:23:51.800 In fact, I would say that you can always be certain, or almost always be certain, that a person is not going to do a certain thing if they ever announce a resolution to do that thing.

00:24:04.460 And you can be sure that they're going to continue doing a certain thing if they've ever announced a resolution to not do that thing anymore.

00:24:11.640 Now, I know this is true in my life.

00:24:13.320 There are good things that I've successfully started doing, good habits that I've successfully formed, and there are bad habits that I've successfully broken.

00:24:22.380 Not many on either count, admittedly, but it has happened.

00:24:26.080 But the point is, when on the rare occasion I have actually successfully formed a good habit or broken a bad one, it has never happened after announcing my intention to do it.

00:24:37.700 Now, I have many times announced my intention to do this and this, or not do this and that.

00:24:44.820 And in every case, I have not followed through.

00:24:49.880 But on the cases where I have actually done the good thing, continuously, formed the good habit, broken the bad habit, I didn't even notice that it was happening while I was doing it.

00:25:01.360 In fact, as an example, I have many times resolved to start eating healthier, as we all have.

00:25:12.460 And then most of the time, when I make that announcement and I say to someone, whoever's around me, to my wife or someone,

00:25:19.160 for now on, I'm going to start eating healthier.

00:25:21.720 And then three hours later, I'm drinking a milkshake.

00:25:23.500 But there have been times when I've suddenly kind of stopped and noticed and said,

00:25:31.360 wow, I've been eating healthy for six weeks.

00:25:34.600 And that's because I never really officially resolved to do it.

00:25:38.540 I never said, from now on, etc.

00:25:41.200 I just did it.

00:25:43.040 That's all.

00:25:43.500 Like Nike.

00:25:44.060 I just did it.

00:25:45.120 So my cliched and self-help-ish kind of point that I want to make is that things are simply done.

00:25:56.120 You make the choice in the moment to do it or not do it.

00:26:01.540 With bad things or unhealthy things, you make the choice in the moment to not do it or do it.

00:26:09.400 And you can't make a years-long choice.

00:26:12.580 You can't make a choice that lasts even six weeks.

00:26:16.780 You can't make a choice that even lasts six minutes.

00:26:19.860 The choice lasts for the moment that you make it and then it dissipates.

00:26:23.840 And you have to make it all over again continuously until it becomes a habit.

00:26:28.020 And even when it's a habit, you're still making a choice.

00:26:30.340 It's not on autopilot.

00:26:31.520 It's just a little bit easier.

00:26:33.360 So if you were really going to start exercising or eating right or whatever else,

00:26:38.640 you would just do it.

00:26:40.080 You would just start doing it.

00:26:41.720 Not on some arbitrary day or time or at some special moment.

00:26:45.980 Not with any ceremony attached to it.

00:26:48.560 But just now, in the moment, right now.

00:26:52.140 So if you were eating a Big Mac last week and then you were thinking to yourself,

00:26:56.940 come New Year's, I'm not going to be doing this anymore.

00:26:59.340 Then most likely, here we are on January 2nd, you've already probably broken that resolution.

00:27:03.700 You're probably eating a Big Mac right now as you're listening to this.

00:27:06.620 If you're serious about a certain choice, you would just make that choice and initiate it whenever you happen to think about it.

00:27:16.140 So you would make the choice on January 2nd or March 12th or April 4th or whatever.

00:27:21.880 Just on some random day at whatever random time it pops into your head and you would just do it.

00:27:26.700 Those are the only resolutions that mean anything.

00:27:31.260 The resolutions that are not really resolutions at all but are just simply good momentary choices

00:27:38.460 followed by another good momentary choice and so on.

00:27:42.360 You know what the only, I'll tell you, the only real function of New Year's resolutions

00:27:47.840 is just to make you feel better while you're making bad choices up until New Year's.

00:27:58.300 So that's really the only reason why anyone ever announces that they're going to start eating healthy

00:28:03.640 because nine times out of ten when you make that announcement,

00:28:06.740 you're announcing it as you are eating unhealthily.

00:28:09.340 So it's just your way of making yourself feel better about the thing that you're doing right now,

00:28:15.100 which is the opposite of your resolution.

00:28:19.120 But if you were serious about eating healthy, you just wouldn't have ordered the Big Mac in the first place.

00:28:23.820 The fact that you ordered it means that you're not serious about it yet, and so that's it.

00:28:26.940 So that's my self-help sermon for the day.

00:28:32.840 So whatever good thing, just do it in the moment, and then do it in the next moment, and then on and on.

00:28:42.580 All right.

00:28:43.960 We will leave it there, but I hope you all did have a good New Year's, and I'll talk to you.

00:28:50.060 Godspeed.

00:28:50.420 I'm Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show.

00:29:02.540 The 2020 race officially begins as Liz Warren hits the campaign trail of tears. 0.98

00:29:07.160 Then Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spends her Christmas attacking me on Twitter. 1.00

00:29:11.200 Mitt Romney attacks President Trump, and The New York Times is right about the song of the year.

00:29:14.920 We'll get to all of that.

00:29:15.620 Go to dailywire.com.

00:29:16.560 Go to dailywire.com.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 02, 2019

Ep. 168 - Romney Can’t Decide If He Hates Trump

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