The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1766 - The Return Of Wokeness？ Amazon BANNING Books Is Just The Start

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00:00:30.000 A few weeks ago, I briefly talked about a book called The Camp of the Saints. It's a dystopian 0.99

00:00:34.840 novel by a French author that was first published in the 1970s. And The Camp of the Saints is

00:00:42.280 unlike every dystopian novel that's taught in schools because the villain of the story,

00:00:47.760 in this case, is not the surveillance state or fascism or anything like that. Instead,

00:00:52.680 the primary threat in The Camp of the Saints is a massive migrant horde from the third world.

00:00:58.540 It's a book that was banned and censored relentlessly upon its release for obvious reasons.

00:01:03.960 You're not supposed to see foreign invaders as a threat.

00:01:07.220 And you're certainly not supposed to mock the naive Westerners who want to open the borders, which the book invites you to do, invites you to mock them. 0.93

00:01:16.780 And now that many Western countries have been overwhelmed with foreigners, The Camp of the Saints isn't really even a dystopian novel anymore. 0.97

00:01:24.140 It's more like a lightly fictionalized version of real life, which makes it even more depressing. 1.00

00:01:32.020 Your universe has no meaning to them, one passage from the book reads.

00:01:35.800 They will not try to understand.

00:01:37.740 They will be tired.

00:01:38.820 They will be cold.

00:01:40.220 They will make a fire with your beautiful oak doors.

00:01:44.100 It's a passage from the book, which again rings very true these days.

00:01:50.600 Now, after I mentioned the book on the show, it moved quickly to the top of the Amazon's bestsellers list.

00:01:56.280 The publisher, a small outfit called Valbin Books, was thrilled, as you might expect.

00:02:01.500 They invested a lot of time and money into translating a definitive edition of the book.

00:02:06.560 Their goal was making it accessible and affordable after every other publisher had dropped it.

00:02:11.500 And indeed, it was catching on.

00:02:13.640 Various conservative commentators were praising the novel on social media, have been for a while.

00:02:19.320 the reviews were almost universally positive with a 4.8 star rating on Amazon, which controls about

00:02:25.500 50% of the physical book market. And then about 24 hours ago, the book simply disappeared from

00:02:32.140 Amazon entirely without any explanation. If you tried to navigate to the latest edition of the

00:02:37.400 Camp of the Saints, here is what you would see on the website. There was no indication of what

00:02:44.180 happened, only that the webpage was down for some unknown reason. It was unavailable for most of the

00:02:51.280 day yesterday. Only the older out-of-print versions, the ones that cost more than $100 in most cases,

00:02:57.460 were available for purchase, but the affordable definitive edition of the Camp of the Saints

00:03:01.680 was simply deleted from Amazon. And predictably, none of the leftists who claimed to care about

00:03:07.700 banned books, including politicians like Gavin Newsom, said a word about it.

00:03:14.100 According to the publisher, Valbin Books, Amazon specifically claimed that the novel

00:03:19.680 violated their offensive content policy. Amazon told the publisher that, according to the publisher,

00:03:26.520 that it had reviewed the book's content and believed that it was unacceptable.

00:03:31.640 But again, they didn't elaborate on that. Apparently, it's not enough for every public

00:03:37.240 school to ignore the camp of the saints. It's not enough for the media to call you a racist if you

00:03:41.120 read it. Amazon evidently believes that the only solution is to erase the book from its shelves

00:03:46.100 entirely. It's just too offensive. Now, at the same time, if you're looking to pick up a copy of,

00:03:52.380 you know, Mein Kampf, that's no problem on Amazon. You can buy that. You can see the

00:03:58.700 store page right there. Amazon will happily sell you the essential Mein Kampf, a new English

00:04:03.580 translation of the classic work by Adolf Hitler, one of the most consequential leaders in world

00:04:08.620 history, as it says in the description. So you can still buy that. And of course, Amazon will

00:04:13.220 sell you all kinds of deranged left-wing propaganda, thousands of books like this one

00:04:18.820 called, My Child is Trans, Now What? A Joy-Centered Approach to Support.

00:04:26.320 So it's not offensive to encourage parents to mutilate and castrate their children in the name

00:04:30.960 of gender ideology. The Red Line apparently is a fictional book about mass migration from

00:04:36.280 third world countries like India in particular, which is what the Camp of the Saints is about. 0.53

00:04:41.940 The Great Replacement is their red line. You can't talk about that. They'll tolerate Hitler's 0.96

00:04:49.500 book, probably because it's a historical document. They'll tolerate child mutilation, obviously, 0.91

00:04:54.720 because they agree with it. But they definitely won't tolerate a contemporary, highly accurate

00:04:59.840 portrayal of Western decline and the people who enable it. That's simply unacceptable to these

00:05:05.740 people. Now, we reached out to the editor of Valbin Books, the publisher, to see if we might

00:05:12.060 be missing something. We asked him what, if anything, Amazon could have possibly been referring

00:05:16.460 to. And he told us that, yes, the migrant horde consisting of a million foreigners is indeed

00:05:22.860 depicted in unflattering terms, but there are several non-white characters who are depicted as

00:05:28.020 nuanced and cultured individuals or even heroes, including the Indian government minister, as well

00:05:32.940 as, quote, a fully integrated French national of Indian origin who joins the remnants of France's

00:05:38.120 state and military in putting up a last stand against the invasion at the book's end. So as a

00:05:43.100 factual matter, this is not a book that argues that Indians or people from the third world generally

00:05:48.520 are all fundamentally inferior or anything along those lines. Instead, to quote the editor, the

00:05:55.040 intent of the author was never to slight the Indians or migrants. Instead, it was to warn of

00:06:01.840 attitudes common in his era and our own that would necessarily lead to demographic submersion

00:06:06.820 should such masses of people ever appear on Western shores, quoting from the publisher.

00:06:13.220 Of course, if you actually read the book, you'd recognize all of this. So the goal of Amazon and

00:06:17.800 the left in general is to make sure you can't actually read the book. They'll just tell you

00:06:23.340 that it's offensive and that's the version you'll get and that's it. And that brings us to an issue

00:06:29.980 that's much larger than this one book. I mean, make no mistake about it. The censorship of the

00:06:34.500 camp of the saints is a clear signal of the left's intent. Should they ever take power again?

00:06:40.260 You know, they haven't undergone a change of heart even after their campaign of lawfare failed

00:06:45.220 and Trump won the popular vote and returned to office. They're not going to moderate their

00:06:49.420 psychopathic drive for power, and they won't hesitate to punish their political enemies.

00:06:54.880 They will intimidate, censor, and destroy conservatives at every opportunity.

00:07:00.340 Now, in the case of the Camp of the Saints, the hit job was fairly well organized. A few weeks ago,

00:07:05.400 a political operative for the French paper Le Monde wrote a lengthy article about the influence

00:07:11.080 of the Camp of the Saints in the Trump administration specifically. The article was

00:07:14.840 translated into English. And then shortly afterwards, just one day before Amazon pulled

00:07:19.060 the book, New York Magazine ran an article entitled, Why Orban's Loss Was So Devastating

00:07:24.480 for the New Rights. And it made the same arguments as the LeMond article. It was clear the author

00:07:29.940 either hadn't read the book or wasn't remotely interested in portraying it fairly. The article

00:07:35.460 just regurgitated the same old talking points about the novel without any context. And the

00:07:40.500 point was to give Amazon a pretext to delete the book. And Amazon got the message and that's what

00:07:45.900 they did. So we're very familiar with this kind of campaign. We've seen it play out many times

00:07:49.540 and it's still going on. But in this case, too many people noticed what was happening.

00:07:54.740 So late last night, after sustained outrage from conservatives on social media, Amazon relented.

00:07:59.160 They create a new listing so that people can once again purchase the physical edition of the Camp

00:08:04.120 of the Saints, which you should do if you haven't read the book. And then around midnight, Amazon

00:08:11.140 finally replied to my producers after delaying the response for several hours. Amazon claimed

00:08:16.240 that some kind of error had caused the book to be taken down. They didn't explain why they told

00:08:22.340 the publisher a completely different story, nor did they elaborate on the nature of this error and

00:08:27.380 why it only affected this one book, which is kind of strange. That's a heck of a coincidence. I mean,

00:08:33.640 you have a coordinated campaign by the media to explain why this book is offensive. And then

00:08:40.480 the next day, there's an error that erases the books from the website. What a coincidence.

00:08:49.280 So it's obvious they didn't expect the backlash. And that's why they offered no actual explanation

00:08:53.600 for anything they did. And therefore, there's no doubt that they're going to try this kind

00:08:57.180 of censorship again and soon. Amazon got ahead of itself here, but they're absolutely going to

00:09:02.380 continue censoring wrong think as soon as they feel like the political winds have shifted.

00:09:08.500 This is how Democrats are going to operate the moment they return to power. We've already talked

00:09:12.140 about their Project 2029, which has been endorsed by J.B. Pritzker in Illinois. The idea is to

00:09:18.280 imprison everyone who's upset the Democrat Party, including ICE officers who are lawfully enforcing

00:09:24.540 immigration law. Now, on top of that, Democrats are now openly floating the idea of granting

00:09:29.400 statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico for the purpose of gaining more representation in the

00:09:35.680 Senate so they can pack the Supreme Court.

00:09:37.700 This is James Carvel's latest rant.

00:09:40.060 Watch.

00:09:40.800 The Democrats were in the presidency in both houses of Congress.

00:09:43.120 I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico, D.C. a state, and they should expand

00:09:48.000 the Supreme Court to 13.

00:09:49.800 Eat our dust.

00:09:51.340 They've done everything they could.

00:09:53.960 They held up the 22,000 election.

00:09:56.900 They stole it.

00:09:57.960 They've stolen...

00:09:59.400 And Supreme Court seats have gerrymandered everything that you can.

00:10:03.860 And the only way to fight this is don't run on it.

00:10:06.360 Don't talk about it.

00:10:07.240 Just do it.

00:10:08.680 Just, okay, we've got 54 senators and we've got 13 court members.

00:10:12.820 Thank you.

00:10:13.380 Goodbye.

00:10:14.780 Because you're not going to get a fair shake any kind of way in this system.

00:10:19.580 18% of the United States elects 52 senators.

00:10:23.160 Well, you're not going to make it equitable, but you'll make it better by adding Puerto

00:10:26.940 Rica and D.C.

00:10:28.540 Don't run on it. Don't talk about it. Just do it.

00:10:32.660 So he wants them to keep it a secret as he says the entire plan out loud.

00:10:36.860 Meanwhile, you have Republicans who are refusing to pass the SAVE Act because they wouldn't want to disrespect the hallowed traditions of the Senate.

00:10:45.860 While Republicans are hiding behind the rules as an excuse for their complete failure to do anything productive,

00:10:50.960 Democrats are planning to simply ignore the rules and remake our entire system of government so that Republicans can never hold power again.

00:10:57.840 which a lot of Republicans don't even want to hold power. That's very clear now.

00:11:02.580 Now, it's worth paying attention to just how flimsy his justification is. Carville says

00:11:06.480 that Republicans have gerrymandered everything. That's his rationale for why Democrats should

00:11:11.360 transform the country into a one-party authoritarian state. And he's making this

00:11:15.180 argument at precisely the same moment that Democrats of Virginia are trying to redraw

00:11:19.420 their congressional maps so that they have a permanent 10 to 1 advantage.

00:11:23.460 and there's a vote on that today. This is a state where 46% of the voters supported Donald Trump in

00:11:29.160 the most recent election. Pretty soon, 90% of the congressional seats will belong to Democrats. And

00:11:34.120 of course, many other Democrat run states already work like this. California's congressional

00:11:39.280 delegation is around 18% Republican, even though Trump won nearly 40% of the vote in the last

00:11:45.440 election in the state. 43% of voters in Illinois supported Trump, but only 17% of the congressional

00:11:52.800 delegation is conservative, and on and on and on. But Carville simply doesn't care about any of

00:11:59.880 this. He also doesn't care about the rampant anti-white gerrymandering that was mandated

00:12:04.680 under the Voting Rights Act, which has allowed Democrats to effectively steal more than a dozen

00:12:09.240 congressional seats. Instead, Carville's goal is to manufacture a narrative that sounds persuasive

00:12:14.640 enough to most Democrat voters, which isn't exactly difficult. And if you're tempted to

00:12:20.280 dismiss Carville as an irrelevant old hack, which he is, you need to realize that Democrats at the

00:12:26.460 highest levels are saying basically the same thing. They're repeating the same deranged argument

00:12:31.040 about gerrymandering, which they plan to use as a justification to do whatever they want. Watch.

00:12:38.980 And we're urging everyone to vote yes, to stop the MAGA power grab.

00:12:44.940 And the voters of Virginia have an opportunity to ensure that there's a fair national congressional map, because we believe that it's the voters of Virginia and the people of this country who should decide which party is in the majority in the aftermath of the midterm elections.

00:13:07.020 Not Donald Trump and his extreme MAGA sycophants and state legislative bodies across the country who were ordered by Donald Trump to gerrymander the national congressional map as part of their effort to rig the midterm elections.

00:13:24.060 This effort has failed because Democrats haven't stepped back.

00:13:31.080 We fought back.

00:13:32.960 The constant hand motions, the canned talking points, the complete lack of charisma, none of it matters to Democrats because they don't want people who can think.

00:13:41.280 They don't want intellectual arguments.

00:13:43.480 They want craven, simple-minded leaders who will destroy the Republican Party. 1.00

00:13:47.180 That's what Democrat voters are looking for.

00:13:49.820 As long as you're advancing their political interests, Democrats simply don't care about the logic you use or lack thereof.

00:13:56.620 And nowhere is that more obvious than the Supreme Court.

00:13:58.560 We've talked a lot about Ketanji Brown-Jackson, but it really needs to be emphasized that in every single case, she disregards the law and votes based on what Democrats want.

00:14:08.200 Most recent example came down yesterday in an opinion where Ketanji Brown-Jackson wrote a dissent all by herself.

00:14:14.800 No one else joined it. There were no other dissents either.

00:14:18.140 So here's a quick rundown of the facts of the case to set the scene. 0.99

00:14:22.920 Let's all play Supreme Court justice for a moment to see if we're as dumb as Ketanji Brown-Jackson.

00:14:28.560 The case was about a Washington, D.C. police officer who got a dispatch call to check out a suspicious vehicle at a specific address in the middle of a winter night. 0.87

00:14:38.040 This is from yesterday's opinion. Quote, Officer Vanterpool reached the apartment building at that address around 2 a.m.

00:14:45.380 As he turned his marked police vehicle into the parking lot, he saw two people immediately flee from a car unprovoked after police had not done anything other than simply pull up.

00:14:54.280 The runners left open at least one of the car doors.

00:14:56.800 The driver then began to back out of the parking space. Rear door still open. Officer Vanderpool

00:15:01.640 decided to investigate. He parked directly behind the car, left his own vehicle, ordered the driver

00:15:06.200 to put his hands up and drew his service weapon. And Diener turned out that the car, of course,

00:15:11.280 was stolen. Now, under these circumstances, maybe we have some police officers in the audience.

00:15:18.240 Do you believe that the police officer had a reasonable suspicion that criminal activity

00:15:24.320 was taking place

00:15:25.380 when he ordered the driver

00:15:26.520 to put his hands up.

00:15:28.880 That's the standard here

00:15:29.860 because this wasn't an arrest.

00:15:32.620 It was just a stop.

00:15:34.220 It's extremely low standard.

00:15:36.260 And you might think,

00:15:37.720 well, yeah, of course,

00:15:38.460 there's reasonable suspicion

00:15:39.920 that some crime

00:15:40.820 may have occurred here.

00:15:42.180 Running away from the police

00:15:43.380 suggests that you committed a crime.

00:15:46.060 It's not a thing that people

00:15:47.240 who have not committed crimes

00:15:48.380 generally do.

00:15:50.320 And if you're in a car

00:15:51.480 and your friends run away

00:15:52.940 when the police pull up,

00:15:54.320 the appropriate response is to stay in the car. On the other hand, if you start backing out with

00:15:59.740 the door open, then it's reasonable to think that you're involved in criminal activity. By itself,

00:16:05.120 it's a crime to drive a car with the door open. It's completely reasonable for the officer to

00:16:09.480 conduct a traffic stop and ask you some questions in those circumstances. He's not arresting you,

00:16:14.740 he's just detaining you. And somehow though, Kataja Brown Jackson disagreed. She accused

00:16:19.720 her colleagues in the court of wordsmithing, as in they used words that she didn't like. 0.99

00:16:25.540 That's the level of legal analysis this woman is capable of. Democrats aren't ashamed of this.

00:16:30.680 They aren't bothered by the fact that they picked a Supreme Court justice on the basis of race and

00:16:34.280 gender. And shockingly enough, she turned out to be a complete moron. All they care about is that 1.00

00:16:39.880 they managed to place a true believer on the Supreme Court. They have a committed activist

00:16:43.820 on the bench. And given the opportunity, they'll put 10 more Ketanji Brown Jacksons on the court.

00:16:50.660 Once they have a compliant Supreme Court, there's nothing stopping Democrats from carrying out the

00:16:54.880 campaign of lawfare and political violence that they're already planning and already engaging in

00:17:00.800 to a large extent. Now, Republicans can take action now to prevent this kind of thing from

00:17:06.560 happening. We could have three new young Supreme Court justices if the oldest Republicans on the 0.98

00:17:13.560 bench retired right now. Additionally, we could abolish the filibuster and pass the

00:17:18.280 SAVE Act, which would do more to secure the future of this country than any other piece

00:17:22.620 of legislation, hands down. We could abolish DC entirely and return it to Maryland so that

00:17:30.540 Democrats can't turn it into a separate state. We could cut all ties with Puerto Rico and

00:17:35.820 make them independent for the same reason. Now, would this guarantee the Democrats can't

00:17:41.560 pack the court? No, it won't. But it would make it much, much harder to do because they'd have a

00:17:47.660 much more difficult time rigging elections and adding more Senate seats. So it's worth trying.

00:17:52.480 I mean, it's something. But the particular policies don't actually matter. At this point,

00:17:57.640 we just need to see something, anything from Republicans that suggest they understand what's

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00:18:15.340 the problem. By that point, no institution in this country, whether it's Amazon or the U.S.

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00:21:11.440 Let's start in Idaho, where incidentally I will be next week with Michael Knowles at the University

00:21:17.940 of Idaho on Tuesday for Turning Point. Also, incidentally, Idaho is one of the remaining two

00:21:25.460 U.S. states that I have not yet visited, so I'll get to cross that off the list.

00:21:30.120 And then I just need to get out to Hawaii, and I'll have all 50 states.

00:21:34.980 And then maybe I can finally give my definitive ranking of U.S. states from worst to best.

00:21:40.920 I have a pretty clear idea of it already. I don't actually need to go to those two states to do it.

00:21:45.280 I certainly know that my bottom five are New Jersey, New Jersey, New Jersey, New Jersey, and New Jersey.

00:21:53.600 So those are the bottom five, and then we've got to figure out everything else.

00:21:56.540 Anyway, so back to Idaho, where the local news gives us this profile of a struggling farmer, 0.87

00:22:02.720 which is supposed to make us feel bad about deporting illegal immigrants,

00:22:07.500 because the farmer is struggling because there are no illegal immigrants to hire for slave wages.

00:22:14.140 that's the that's the gist of it I don't mean to spoil it but here it is watch

00:22:17.980 it's been a tough year for Idaho farmers less water higher fuel prices and now fewer workers

00:22:25.980 in the fields I'm your mountain home neighborhood reporter Sahana Patel speaking with a local

00:22:31.280 farmer who says crackdowns on immigration enforcement has made it much harder to find

00:22:36.700 help it's just been harder and harder and harder to find those people to work Bethany Gotts owns

00:22:42.800 Quays Farm in Mountain Home, a 500 acre family operation she took over after her father passed

00:22:50.640 away. But now, with fewer workers, a lot of the manual labor is left up to her. She tells me she's

00:22:56.880 tried hiring locally, but it's been difficult to find people willing to do the hard work.

00:23:02.000 Finding a legal American here that is going to work as hard as an immigrant is nearly impossible, 1.00

00:23:09.840 and I don't know how to say that kindly or well. 0.95

00:23:13.160 She even posted job openings on Facebook, but says interest dropped quickly.

00:23:17.920 I had seven people contact me about it, and when I sent them the description, I had no people respond.

00:23:23.860 Gott says the increase in immigration enforcement has made it harder to find migrant workers.

00:23:29.320 The community has definitely been on edge around here, and it's just heartbreaking because they are living in fear here.

00:23:35.740 She says hiring undocumented workers is not an option, with serious risks for both sides.

00:23:42.040 The repercussions are too bad because, one, you're going to get fined. 0.98

00:23:47.000 You're going to have, unfortunately, an employee living in fear, and I don't blame them,

00:23:52.160 but they could get picked up at any moment, and then you're without an employee.

00:23:55.960 To keep her farm running, Gotts is hiring high schoolers and is now looking into the federal H-2A visa program,

00:24:02.580 which allows temporary agricultural workers into the U.S.

00:24:06.780 This year, I have endeavored to spend $200,000 to build a small, small worker housing.

00:24:15.580 Okay, so she's building, and we see the housing that she's building. 1.00

00:24:19.160 So she's building a small shack to house foreign third world labor 1.00

00:24:23.540 so they can work for dirt cheap on her farm. 1.00

00:24:28.680 Where have I, what does that remind you of?

00:24:30.760 stop me if you've heard this one before

00:24:33.840 you're going to build a shack

00:24:36.520 and then bring in workers 1.00

00:24:39.440 from the third world

00:24:40.580 to work your farm

00:24:41.700 what does that remind you of?

00:24:47.340 I mean it's actual slave labor

00:24:49.140 I mean that's

00:24:50.140 or you know 1.00

00:24:51.460 she's trying to run an old school plantation 1.00

00:24:53.640 basically 1.00

00:24:54.380 at least it's as close to

00:24:57.580 slave labor as you can get

00:24:59.560 these days under the law. And it's facilitated by, in this case now, she wants to facilitate it by 1.00

00:25:05.920 these visas for agricultural workers, which is a thing that should not exist, should not be allowed.

00:25:13.880 That's totally absurd. I mean, it's one thing to claim that we need to allow special visas for

00:25:20.000 highly skilled workers. And I'm also opposed to that, by the way. I think we have plenty of highly

00:25:26.080 skilled people here. And if you want highly skilled workers, you should hire American 1.00

00:25:30.020 workers. But it's even more ridiculous to claim that we need visas for people whose specialty is

00:25:37.360 what? Picking fruit off of trees? I mean, you don't even have the pretense in that case that,

00:25:43.600 well, we need the best of the best. And it just so happens that, you know, we don't have the

00:25:47.200 best here, so we got to go to Asia or something. That's the pretense when you hear about, well,

00:25:53.420 we need highly skilled workers and it's, it's totally bogus. But in this case, you don't even

00:25:58.360 have that pretense. It's like, well, you got to go, you got to go 10,000 miles away to find someone

00:26:05.320 who can pick fruit. And this is why I have no sympathy for this woman, woman at all. I got to 1.00

00:26:13.100 tell you, I have no sympathy. I mean, I have all the respect in the world for farmers. Generally,

00:26:19.780 We need farmers. But for this woman, no sympathy. 1.00

00:26:28.560 And, you know, as I've been talking about this, you hear from some people say, well, the farmers are the backbone.

00:26:32.800 We shouldn't be criticized. OK. Yeah, we're no, we're allowed to criticize her.

00:26:38.300 There's no profession you can have that puts you above criticism. Sorry.

00:26:41.880 she's whining because she can't import cheap third world slave labor. 1.00

00:26:50.940 That's what she's whining about. 1.00

00:26:52.920 And we're supposed to feel bad for her? 1.00

00:26:56.720 So she can't find Americans willing to do the job.

00:26:59.240 Well, here's an idea. 0.63

00:27:00.440 Here's an idea.

00:27:01.200 Here's a crazy idea, okay?

00:27:03.860 Pay the Americans a fair wage. 0.97

00:27:07.720 And then maybe they'll work for you. 0.99

00:27:09.360 If you have a job and you're having trouble finding people who are willing to do it,

00:27:16.260 the first thing I would look at is the wage you're offering.

00:27:22.340 That might be the problem.

00:27:26.020 It's not that Americans won't work on a farm.

00:27:29.000 Does anyone really believe that?

00:27:30.260 Does anyone really believe that there are no Americans in Idaho who are willing to do this kind of work?

00:27:35.120 no it's that they don't want to work on a farm for the amount of money that you're paying them

00:27:42.060 and that makes sense okay because if i'm looking for a job and i can choose between

00:27:50.160 monotonous physical labor with long hours on you know on the one hand and a job that's

00:27:58.240 much easier with maybe shorter hours and pays more or even the same, I'm going to choose the

00:28:06.020 latter. Obviously, that's not laziness. It's like no one is born with an obligation, with some

00:28:13.520 calling, some obligation to go work on your farm. You have to convince them that that's the best

00:28:19.740 option for them. And if they have another option where it's like, okay, I get to be in air

00:28:23.660 conditioning and it's, the hours are shorter. It's not as demanding. Like I'm sitting down for

00:28:29.920 part of like whatever. And, and the money is the same or even better. Of course, I'm going to take

00:28:34.180 that. Why wouldn't I take that? Easier job for more money. Huh? I could do a harder job for

00:28:42.560 less or an easier job for more. Which one am I going to go with? Anyone in their, in their right

00:28:48.620 mind would take the job. Now, the only way you take the harder job for less money is if you're

00:28:54.620 really passionate about it specifically, or if you see it as a stepping stone into a career.

00:28:59.820 I mean, there are cases where it makes sense actually to take the job for less money that's

00:29:05.340 harder if that's the case. If it's like you're passionate about it, you want this to be your

00:29:08.820 career. But menial farm labor probably isn't going to be a stepping stone into a career. I mean, it

00:29:15.000 could be, but it probably isn't.

00:29:18.620 And it's not something that most people are especially passionate about.

00:29:22.220 So you take the job that pays more in that case. 1.00

00:29:27.080 Now, how much is this woman willing to pay? 0.97

00:29:30.740 And well, there's so there's this is circulating online as far as I know it's legitimate.

00:29:36.100 I'm not exactly sure.

00:29:37.680 But according to this listing, if it's accurate, which is purportedly the listing for the job on the farm that she's trying to fill.

00:29:47.920 She's offering up to $3,000 a month, which if you do the math, that's $36,000 a year.

00:29:56.980 And there are no hours listed. So we can assume that this is probably a job that will be more

00:30:02.880 than 40 hours a week. If it was just 40 hours a week, it's probably more. If it was just 40 hours

00:30:08.620 a week, that's $17 an hour. If it's say 50 hours a week, seems more likely than the wage would be

00:30:14.600 like 13 bucks an hour. Now to put that into perspective, and I looked this up, the starting

00:30:22.240 full-time wage at Chick-fil-A, just for example, is usually like 16 bucks an hour. So that's more

00:30:30.900 or at best, basically the same as what this woman wants to pay for farm laborers. But Chick-fil-A 1.00

00:30:39.320 is a much less demanding job. And honestly, it's more likely to become a career opportunity

00:30:46.000 between the two. And of course, I'm not saying that there are no careers in agriculture. I'm

00:30:51.520 just saying that menial farm labor is not itself a career and the path to a career from there is not

00:30:58.220 very wide. Now go to Chick-fil-A, be punctual and competent, and you could be a shift manager

00:31:06.280 very quickly. You could move from there to an assistant manager, eventually a general manager,

00:31:10.640 and they get paid like double what this woman is offering for her job, a job which, by the way, 1.00

00:31:15.900 also in the listing, it says that it requires two to five years of experience.

00:31:22.800 Now, so that's the problem here, is you're not paying a fair wage. And you can find low-skilled

00:31:34.120 third world workers who don't even speak English and have no other prospects and can't do anything 1.00

00:31:41.420 else. And yeah, they'll take that job. For them, it's a lot of money. 1.00

00:31:47.060 And that's why you want those workers here. But that's not a sympathetic story for Americans.

00:31:56.220 And look, I'm on the record many times saying that I think the minimum wage is a retarded 1.00

00:32:01.840 concept. The government arbitrarily mandating a living wage, quote unquote, is ridiculous and 1.00

00:32:07.800 counterproductive. But I still think people should be paid a fair and decent wage. I think that they

00:32:13.560 should be paid that. I don't want bureaucrats mandating it because that creates far more

00:32:18.780 problems than it solves, in my view. But in this case, I'm not calling on the government to force

00:32:25.780 this woman to pay her workers a decent wage. She can pay whatever she wants. What I'm saying is that 1.00

00:32:31.840 she has the option to pay a decent wage, and then she'll be able to attract workers.

00:32:39.860 So I believe that companies should be able to pay whatever they want,

00:32:44.000 and then you can choose to take the job or not.

00:32:46.200 But they should be required to only choose from a pool of actual American citizens.

00:32:55.120 And within that pool, as far as what the wage is, well, the market determines that.

00:33:01.840 but you can't really talk about how the market determines the wage if, if, if that is a fair

00:33:08.900 concept. If we're talking about America and Americans in that context, the market determines

00:33:15.740 the wage, but if the context is the entire world, and now you have Americans who have to compete 0.94

00:33:22.580 for even these kinds of jobs with the entire third world and people who will take any job.

00:33:28.580 um well that's not obviously not fair 0.98

00:33:33.740 and um look if she doesn't want to do that 1.00

00:33:40.460 if if the only option that she wants is to hire foreign slave labor 0.98

00:33:48.540 well then guess what your farm doesn't deserve to exist i mean it's that simple really if you 0.79

00:33:56.340 can't keep your operation running by paying Americans a fair wage, then your operation

00:34:02.640 should not exist. Whatever the operation is, it's a farm, it's a restaurant, whatever it is,

00:34:08.360 I don't care. It's a gas station, it's a retail store, whatever it is. If you can't keep it

00:34:15.900 running by hiring and paying Americans, then it shouldn't exist. It should not exist in America. 0.86

00:34:23.280 Go take it somewhere else. That's an option too. How about that, lady? You want to have a farm and

00:34:31.220 only hire third worlders? Move to the third world. Take your farm to the third world. Start farming 1.00

00:34:36.780 there if that's all you want to do. So when you hear from these business owners say, well, what

00:34:45.700 am I supposed to do? I can't stay open if I can't hire third worlders. If I can't flood my 1.00

00:34:52.780 community with invaders and hire only 1.00

00:34:54.780 them, then I can't stay open. Well, then I guess you shouldn't be

00:34:56.700 open. I don't know.

00:35:00.240 I guess

00:35:00.760 your business should not be open in that case.

00:35:05.240 Or find a way to make it work.

00:35:07.380 Because I'm sure you can.

00:35:10.440 No, you

00:35:10.780 just prefer 1.00

00:35:11.580 to hire the third world immigrants 1.00

00:35:14.620 because it's cheaper for you. 1.00

00:35:17.300 That's it. You prefer that.

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00:37:02.060 mention, yesterday we talked about the issue of gay surrogacy relating to the homosexual country

00:37:10.800 music guy who purchased a baby, is now using the child for content. And by the way, here's another

00:37:17.540 horrifying video from this guy, Mac Analy, which again is his real name. Somehow that's his actual

00:37:26.680 name. I guess it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your name is Mac Analy and now you're

00:37:31.620 gay. But anyway, here's another video that's making the rounds. Watch this. 0.99

00:37:38.200 Who yells the loudest?

00:37:41.260 Who says yes the most?

00:37:45.840 Who's the best dancer?

00:37:49.080 Who's hornier? 0.67

00:37:52.480 Who's richest?

00:37:56.140 Who is on their phone the most? 0.99

00:38:01.620 So, another video that Shane McAnally took and recorded, posted himself, hideously disgusting, talking about being horny in front of your kids is just revolting. 0.98

00:38:17.860 And there are a ton of videos like this, proudly shared by Mr. McAnally. 0.98

00:38:23.760 and so i was i was you know talking about this issue on x where i said that surrogacy for gays

00:38:31.500 should be banned and also all surrogacy for everybody should be banned as well it shouldn't

00:38:35.700 be legal to purchase children and that shouldn't be a controversial opinion and i got a response

00:38:40.880 from a lot of people including this guy uh somebody named brandon stroka and he's one of

00:38:46.640 those uh former liberal guys he's i think openly gay new york leftist who a few years ago decided

00:38:52.520 to leave the left and he started a walk away campaign, encouraging other liberals to leave

00:38:57.920 liberalism behind. Right. So he's one of those guys. And which, which on the surface, all that

00:39:04.500 is, or at least most of that is good. I mean, leaving the left and encouraging others to do

00:39:10.000 the same, that part, good. I'm, I'm in favor of that. And yet he's been very upset by all the

00:39:17.640 conservatives speaking out against gay parenthood and surrogacy generally. And he posted this in

00:39:23.460 reply to me, unprovoked. I wasn't talking to him. I don't know this guy. But he posted this. He said,

00:39:30.380 about once a year or so, like Groundhog Day, the right has to go full retard for a couple days 0.94

00:39:35.300 and do a factory reset back to 1992. Within about seven days, the systems reboot and we enjoy many 0.78

00:39:42.080 uninterrupted months of normalcy until the next retard reset. It's a beautiful and natural part 1.00

00:39:48.820 of our fragile ecosystem. So what he's saying in this snide way is that when I say that surrogacy

00:39:58.000 is bad and that letting gay men buy babies is bad, I'm going, quote, full retard. That's retarded. 1.00

00:40:05.560 It's like 1992, because to him, 1992 is the dark ages, right? 0.98

00:40:11.480 The conservatives of 1992 were all a bunch of absurdly backwards, primitive bigots. 0.65

00:40:16.680 That's how he sees it. 0.64

00:40:18.720 What he doesn't understand is that actually, and that's why it's always funny when people do this.

00:40:23.540 So you sound like people in the 90s.

00:40:27.680 Well, social conservatives of 1992 were right about literally everything.

00:40:33.400 Every single thing. They have been vindicated on every imaginable point. Prove me wrong. Point to one point or position that social conservatives in the early 90s took, generally, that they were proven to be wrong about.

00:40:56.580 Can you point to one? What were they wrong about?

00:41:00.260 I mean, gay marriage, abortion, pornography, Hollywood, the public school system, you name it.

00:41:08.140 They were right about everything. But Brandon doesn't understand that because he just showed

00:41:14.340 up to conservatism very recently. And this is the point I want to make, not to pick on this guy in

00:41:19.120 particular. Like I said, I don't really know him. I don't know him at all. But I got to just tell

00:41:27.820 you, I'm getting very, very sick of these former liberal types showing up to conservatism and then

00:41:36.260 10 seconds later, trying to set the ground rules for us, you know, showing up to the party way

00:41:43.280 late and then trying to issue instructions. These former liberals who show up and say,

00:41:49.500 no, no, no, no, I'm here now. And this is the way it's going to be. All right.

00:41:53.880 trying to set up guardrails.

00:41:58.060 I mean, this has been the story

00:41:59.180 of the conservative movement

00:42:00.300 for the past decade.

00:42:02.360 It's been a big problem

00:42:03.640 for at least a decade now

00:42:04.960 where we've been overrun by leftists

00:42:08.380 who allegedly left the left

00:42:11.040 and then they come here

00:42:13.180 and they try to drag conservatism

00:42:14.960 over to the left.

00:42:18.100 Well, here's a thought.

00:42:19.120 If you are this hostile,

00:42:20.600 Well, if you have this kind of contempt for the basic tenets of conservatism,

00:42:27.280 if conservatives advocating for the family and for marriage, as we've done for decades,

00:42:32.720 somehow offends you, makes you angry, reduces you to calling us retards,

00:42:39.300 then might I suggest that you didn't actually leave the left.

00:42:43.380 You're still very much a part of it.

00:42:45.600 And let me also suggest that if you were a member of the radical left

00:42:51.880 And by your own admission wrong about everything

00:42:54.560 Until very recently

00:42:56.500 Then consider the possibility that you might also be wrong about this

00:43:00.780 For the same reason you were wrong about all the other things

00:43:07.040 Okay, the fundamental premise that you built your whole worldview on

00:43:12.680 Was wrong, you've admitted that

00:43:14.780 thank you for admitting it but your attachment to something like gay surrogacy you think maybe

00:43:23.140 that's part of that fundamental premise that you actually have not let go of 0.92

00:43:26.840 that's what blows my mind about these people they say hey i was wrong and you know in my

00:43:32.860 entire worldview wrong about everything for years but i'm definitely not wrong when i say

00:43:37.740 that gay parenthood is okay and you know abortion is okay up to a point and whatever

00:43:41.780 it's like did you actually learn anything have you actually disavowed the fundamental premise 0.95

00:43:49.760 of liberalism as you say you have because if you think that it's okay for gay men to purchase

00:43:54.540 babies you have not disavowed the premise you haven't you just haven't and how about have a

00:44:03.480 little humility like you're showing up to those of us who have been here the entire time we've

00:44:10.360 been fighting for conservatism the entire time and you show up here and you have the gall to say 0.99

00:44:15.640 you're all a bunch of retards. No, no. You were the one that was wrong about everything. 0.99

00:44:20.200 You were wrong about everything and you're showing up and calling us retards?

00:44:25.780 Like, who do you think you are? And look, I fully support people changing their minds. I welcome it.

00:44:33.360 I'm not someone who, if you change your mind, I'll hold it against you or rub it in your face.

00:44:37.800 I don't. I don't do that.

00:44:40.360 But to claim that you changed your mind and switch teams and then come to our team and call those of us who've been here the whole time retards and demand that we accept degenerate insanity because it offends you that we don't, that I can't abide.

00:44:58.960 I just can't abide that.

00:45:01.420 That we just can't accept.

00:45:05.720 And like I said, this is just, it's all over the place.

00:45:08.980 We're invaded. We're invaded by these people.

00:45:15.540 It feels like half the commentators now who are out there are the influencers or like these people.

00:45:21.140 I left the left. I left the left. Here's why it's okay for gay men to buy babies.

00:45:29.060 Oh, but I thought you said you left the left. I thought you said you left it. 1.00

00:45:32.040 i i abandoned the left but i still hold to like the most extreme views of the left

00:45:41.480 believing that it's okay for two men to not only get married but to be parents and to buy a baby

00:45:49.020 that's not just one thing that liberals believe that is one of the most extreme left-wing positions

00:45:57.320 that you can hold. In fact, it's so extreme that 20 years ago, no elected Democrat held that

00:46:05.140 position. You currently hold a position that was too extreme for Democrats 20 years ago.

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00:48:03.140 so the post-millennial has this increasing number of restaurants and bars across the u.s are asking

00:48:09.980 customers to put away their phones or even lock them up in an effort to encourage face-to-face

00:48:14.500 interaction according to a report by axios at least 11 states have individual restaurants or

00:48:19.340 bars that have implemented some form of phone restriction or incentive aimed at reducing

00:48:24.020 device use while dining some larger chains are also exploring similar policies

00:48:30.060 the supper club chain delilah's has adopted a no phones no posting policy

00:48:37.280 um in maryland a chick-fil-a location towson place is offering free ice cream to families

00:48:43.380 who refrain from checking their phones during the meal and there are other examples as well of um

00:48:49.280 the charlotte north carolina bar bar antagonist has taken a stricter approach the establishment

00:48:53.860 requires customers to lock their phones away for up to two hours the bar told axios the policy is

00:48:58.760 meant to build a place that kind of forces you to connect. Okay. So I'm obviously a big fan of this

00:49:03.620 people, people sitting at restaurants with their families and staring at their phones or tablets

00:49:07.500 is just one of the saddest and most common spectacles in modern society. I was at a restaurant

00:49:12.860 with my family the other day and we saw this, like you see it everywhere. There was a table next to

00:49:19.000 us, two adults, mom and dad, two kids, all of them looking at screens. I mean, I think the kids were

00:49:26.320 on tablets. The parents were on their phones. Why even go out to eat at that point? Why are

00:49:32.880 you going out to a restaurant? Like I remember back in the nineties when TV dinners were a thing

00:49:39.380 and you don't really hear about TV dinners as much anymore, but TV dinners were, I guess they

00:49:43.760 still sell them. They were, they were, you know, usually a frozen meal that you, uh, heated up,

00:49:48.260 just glorified dog food in a tray. But the idea was that you would eat the T the, uh, eat the,

00:49:54.740 the TV dinner on the couch in front of the TV. And I remember that my parents were adamantly

00:50:00.860 opposed to the idea of families eating dinner in front of the TV. We never did it one time

00:50:05.340 growing up, not once. The thought of it, the thought of it horrified them.

00:50:11.020 And not just because of the worry about getting food on the couch. It's also just

00:50:14.640 the thought of sitting down for dinner when you're supposed to be with your family and

00:50:18.900 just watching TV. We never did it. Now, I was a dumb kid, so I saw my friends' families that did

00:50:26.520 this frequently, and I was kind of jealous. My friends would eat TV dinners or fast food dinners 0.86

00:50:32.860 in front of the TV, and as a kid, I was envious. I'm getting delicious home-cooked meals that we

00:50:38.900 ate around the table as a family, and I'm looking at the kids in broken homes watching Jeopardy

00:50:44.280 while they eat chicken nuggets silently next to their mom or whatever and thinking that like they 0.99

00:50:49.620 were living like kings because I was stupid as a kid, as kids tend to be. But anyway, that was bad. 1.00

00:50:55.720 But even that was vastly preferable, a lot better to what we have now, this current version,

00:51:04.600 which is eating dinner while looking at your phone. Because at least with a TV dinner,

00:51:10.140 now you're not talking and you're not sitting around looking at each other, you're looking at

00:51:13.620 a screen, you're looking at the TV. That's not great. But at least you're all watching the same

00:51:17.820 thing. At least there's some kind of communal shared experience. At least there are commercial

00:51:23.580 breaks. Maybe you can fit a little conversation in during the commercial breaks or something.

00:51:31.020 I mean, it'd be better to sit at a table and have a conversation, but that was better than

00:51:35.260 every member of the table, every member of the family at the table being absorbed in an entirely

00:51:42.560 different stream of mindless content. So it's, it's, I mean, it's just, it's awful. Like it's

00:51:50.600 very bad. And if you ever do this at the dinner table or if you allow your kids to do it ever,

00:51:56.340 you just need to stop. I mean, this, this is one pretty simple improvement you can make to your

00:52:01.420 life. And it's not that hard, but put the phones away when you're at least when you're sitting at

00:52:08.940 the dinner table with other people. So I'm a big fan of any attempt to fight back against it.

00:52:15.720 Not so much the reward idea. I don't think we should be giving adults little treats to reward

00:52:20.220 them for refraining from checking their phone for 12 minutes. But the general idea is a good one.

00:52:25.440 And locking the phone away in a separate location is the best approach.

00:52:30.760 Or even here's an idea that you could think about, we could all think about.

00:52:34.920 If you're going out to dinner as a family, and multiple members of your family have a phone, you don't even need to all bring your phone.

00:52:46.420 Consider that. That's a revolutionary idea. That's a shocking idea.

00:52:52.400 What if you just didn't even bring your phone?

00:52:55.360 What if you didn't bring your phone in other contexts?

00:52:59.400 What if you just didn't always bring your phone with you everywhere?

00:53:05.920 And I was thinking about this the other day because I'm trying to be intentional, more intentional about reading at night, you know, reading like actual physical books.

00:53:13.560 I've always been a reader, but recently I've tried to devote more time to it because over the past few years, like a lot of people, I found myself reading less and even having trouble focusing on reading more than I have in the past.

00:53:26.980 And that really distresses me.

00:53:28.460 I don't like that.

00:53:29.280 So I'm trying to counter-program myself. And what I've found, this is the most obvious revelation of all time, but it's kind of a revelation for me because, like I said, I'm stupid. 0.99

00:53:39.640 But I found that I will read probably 300% more in a night and be much more focused on it, retain more, if my phone is simply in another room.

00:53:50.620 If I have my phone in my pocket or sitting next to me on the table or whatever, I will read much less and I'll be much less focused on it.

00:54:00.980 But the simple step of just putting the phone in another room, preferably on another level of the house, that makes an enormous difference.

00:54:10.500 You don't even need to lock it in a safe or anything, but just have it somewhere else.

00:54:13.860 because this is one of the most underrated aspects, I think, of the phone, one of the

00:54:18.760 underrated hazards of it, which is that, I mean, we think of the phone, we think of all the problems

00:54:26.460 of the phone that come with the phone, and all that is related to when you're using it, when

00:54:31.740 you're looking at it. But the problem is that the phone, the cell phone, is a loud, oppressive,

00:54:37.480 pushy demanding presence in your life even when you're not using it if it's sitting there next

00:54:46.060 to you or in your pocket it still claims your attention because at any moment someone could

00:54:52.280 text you or call you or you could get an email or there could be something that you just want

00:54:56.820 to look up real quick and check or it pops into your head then this is this is my achilles heel

00:55:03.220 is that I'll, especially if I'm reading, this is, this is, this is what distracts me. So I'm

00:55:06.740 reading something and I encountered like a thought related to what I'm reading pops into my head or

00:55:13.020 a question or anything like that. And so I just look it up on my phone real quick.

00:55:18.020 That's interesting thought. I wonder, you know, and I'll just look it up on the phone.

00:55:23.020 And then 47 minutes later, like you're watching a video of cats being surprised by cucumbers or

00:55:29.680 or whatever. And that's the way that it always works. It's this attention-sucking black hole

00:55:35.400 that just sits there next to you, lingering over your shoulder. And anyone can barge into your 0.96

00:55:41.600 life at any moment through the phone. I mean, this is the thing that younger people who weren't

00:55:48.280 alive in the before times have no appreciation for this. And I think a lot of us who were alive

00:55:52.520 in the before times before the smartphone have lost our appreciation of it. But it's just very

00:56:00.840 weird to be walking around all the time and where anyone can get a hold of you always.

00:56:14.760 Like you're never out of reach. You're always reachable. That's very bizarre. And human beings

00:56:22.480 never lived that way up until very, very recently. And now we're all living our lives like on-call

00:56:29.960 surgeons or something. And that's why you feel, even me, like I'll try to leave the house without

00:56:35.260 my phone. I feel, you feel weird about it. What if someone needs to get in contact with me? Why

00:56:40.480 would someone? Okay, so what if they do? You're going to be gone for an hour. What could they

00:56:46.320 possibly need to talk to you about that's so urgent that it couldn't wait for an hour? What's

00:56:51.400 the likelihood that if you're running to whatever, running to Rite Aid or something to run an

00:56:57.440 errand, you'll be gone for 47 minutes. What's the likelihood that something's going to come up

00:57:04.220 that's so urgent that you must be able to respond in that moment? Very small likelihood. And yet,

00:57:11.520 this is how we all live our lives now. We all live like Batman waiting for the bat signal at

00:57:15.680 all times. Except for us, the bat signal is just any text from any random person who feels like

00:57:21.120 contacting us at any time of day or night, or it's a group thread, you know, a meandering

00:57:28.860 conversation that goes on for years with no point or purpose, but that again, could just

00:57:33.380 barge into your life, into your day at any time. It's totally insane. And I think we've all become

00:57:40.860 slaves to it. So put the phone away. That's my message yet again, that I preach from the

00:57:48.340 mountaintops. After you watch the show, I mean, obviously watch the show, clearly watch the show,

00:57:53.340 obviously consume my content. That's the good part of the internet. And then, but after you've

00:57:58.880 done that every day, put the phone away. And, uh, which you can do right now, because I guess

00:58:03.900 we'll wrap the show up there and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

00:58:09.060 I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,

00:58:22.300 their statues should not be in the Capitol.

00:58:26.200 History is written by the victors.

00:58:27.520 And since the 1960s, we've been told mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war,

00:58:33.080 the South committed treason.

00:58:35.260 But if the Confederates were traitors...

00:58:37.520 Then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?

00:58:44.520 What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?

00:58:48.520 Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?

00:58:52.520 It's time for the truth, so here it is.

00:58:54.520 Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor.

00:58:57.520 He was beloved by Americans from the North and South for a century after the war.

00:59:02.520 This is the real history of the Civil War.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 21, 2026

Ep. 1766 - The Return Of Wokeness？ Amazon BANNING Books Is Just The Start

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