The Matt Walsh Show - February 04, 2019


Ep. 190 - Ralph Northam Offends Democrats With Costume, Not Infanticide


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33 minutes

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166.17839

Word Count

5,521

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369

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the left is outraged at Ralph Northam because of some
00:00:04.920 inappropriate costume that he wore 30 years ago. They are not outraged that he advocated
00:00:10.400 infanticide. What does that tell us? Also, the Super Bowl featured a bevy of insufferable
00:00:17.200 virtue signaling ads, and we'll talk about some of the worst offenders today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:23.400 Welcome to the Matt Walsh Show, everybody. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching. Remember to
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00:00:39.620 I'll tell you right off the top here that there will be a new law when I am dictator of America.
00:00:44.560 I have a running list of laws that I'll be putting in place once I have seized control.
00:00:49.600 If your Super Bowl commercial is not funny, your company will be shut down and everybody in your
00:00:57.760 marketing department will be sent to prison camps and or they will face a $50 fine. Because I've had
00:01:04.160 enough, I was watching last night, there were maybe two funny commercials the entire time. How is it
00:01:10.220 that you've got, you're spending $50 trillion on a 30 second ad, literally, and you've got months to
00:01:18.540 figure it out. This is, this is, when it comes to ads, I mean, this is, this is your moment. This is
00:01:24.520 the best you could possibly do. If you're in, if you're in, if you're marketing or you're, if you're
00:01:30.260 in advertising, this is your entire life has led up to this moment, to this 30 second spot between second
00:01:39.100 quarter and, and halftime, um, right now, this is it. How do you not come up with something that's
00:01:47.740 at least amusing? I mean, how do you end up with something lame and unfunny? That's my question.
00:01:54.440 I'll have more to say about Super Bowl commercials because of course it's a very important topic in a
00:01:57.980 few minutes. As for the game itself, um, I couldn't be happier that the Patriots pulled off a victory.
00:02:02.360 And, um, and, and, and if you cannot appreciate the greatness that we are witnessing from the
00:02:09.300 Patriots and Tom Brady, then you, sir, or ma'am are un-American. Uh, you are anti-American and
00:02:17.320 un-American. And I say that I'm not even a Patriots fan. Uh, I I I'm Ravens all the way. So I'm not a
00:02:22.940 Patriots fan, but the Patriots have managed to be the best team in the league for like two decades in a
00:02:28.760 row, nine Superbowl appearances, six wins in 17 years, the Steelers by comparison. Okay. They have
00:02:35.380 six Superbowl wins. Um, they, that goes back to 1975. They've, they've gotten those wins over the
00:02:41.720 course of, uh, 40 years or more. The Patriots have gotten that number of wins in 17 years. That is
00:02:49.780 impressive to say the least. So anyone who watches football knows how hard it is, especially these
00:02:55.460 days in the modern NFL to be a good football team for two years in a row. Uh, most teams they'll
00:03:01.440 have a good year. Then they have a couple of bad years and then they have a good year. And there's
00:03:04.340 this, there's this kind of up and down peaks and valleys, this fluctuation that happens because of
00:03:09.120 the way that the league is structured, but the Patriots are always good. Always. They're never not
00:03:13.940 good every single year. They're good for two decades. They've been good. They only missed the playoffs.
00:03:19.080 I think one time in the last 17 or 18 years. And, and that was the year that Brady was injured and
00:03:26.240 they still won 11 games and they just happened to not make it, which is very rare for a team
00:03:30.400 to win that many games and not make the Superbowl or not make the playoffs. So if you're a football
00:03:35.160 fan, uh, you have to appreciate this because you're never going to witness anything like it ever again.
00:03:40.820 This is, you're not going to ever witness this sustained level of greatness. No team comes close
00:03:45.360 to the Patriots. There is no team that even, that is even in their, in their league. Basically they
00:03:51.060 should have a, they should really have their own league. There's no other team that gets close to
00:03:54.460 them in terms of sustained greatness. And there's no player in the history of professional football
00:04:00.060 that has gotten close to Tom Brady, um, and, and the, the success that he's had. So,
00:04:06.280 oh, but they're cheaters. They cheat. Yeah. Okay. Uh, they had the Spygate thing 12 years ago or
00:04:13.900 whatever. What else? But that was, it's maybe we should all move on with our lives. What else?
00:04:18.760 When people say that, what do you, are you, are you really talking about the deflating the footballs
00:04:22.060 thing? Are you, yeah, they, they've been winning a Superbowls for 17 or 18 years because of slightly
00:04:27.340 deflated footballs. Yeah. That's the reason, right? That's a, that's why they always make the playoffs
00:04:31.040 because of footballs being slightly deflated. Let's, let's lead. Just, we'll just completely forget
00:04:35.520 about the fact that so many other NFL players, including Aaron Rogers came out and said, yeah,
00:04:39.920 I do that all the time. It's totally normal. Everyone does it. That's that's, it's not a big deal.
00:04:43.900 So we'll just leave that aside. We'll pretend that this is all about footballs being slightly
00:04:47.640 deflated. Yeah. I'm sure that you, right. You could, uh, if you had a slightly deflated football,
00:04:52.080 you could go out there and win suit six Superbowls, right? I mean, that's the secret.
00:04:54.840 Come on. Don't hate success. It's on American. That's all I'm saying. Um, all right, let's talk
00:05:03.540 about, so we've talked about success and greatness. Let's go to the other end of that spectrum. Ralph
00:05:07.260 Northam, governor of Virginia. Last we spoke about him on Friday morning, he was in hot water,
00:05:13.080 uh, with only with conservatives and, and, um, people on the right, not with the left or with
00:05:19.360 the media because he advocated infanticide comments that by the way, he never retracted,
00:05:25.940 never apologized for, and in fact, double down on and explained that, uh, you know, basically
00:05:30.620 explained that, Hey, I mean, the babies are deformed. What else are we going to do with them?
00:05:34.860 I'm paraphrasing, but that was essentially his message. But as you know, by now on Friday night,
00:05:40.080 um, photos surfaced from Northam's medical school yearbook showing his yearbook page and
00:05:47.480 right next to his photo in his yearbook page. And, um, this again is medical school. So he
00:05:51.980 would have been, you know, in his mid twenties, uh, right next to his photo is a photo of two
00:05:58.180 people, one in blackface, the other in KKK robes. Northam initially apologized and admitted
00:06:04.580 that it was him and said, Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. It was terrible. It was racist. Yada,
00:06:10.020 yada. Um, though he didn't stipulate whether he was the guy in blackface or the guy in the KKK
00:06:16.120 robes, which is kind of an interesting side note of which, which is worse. Um, neither are good,
00:06:23.240 but have we decided which is, you know, on the scale of, of badness, which, which is,
00:06:29.860 is it, is it worse to be the guy in the blackface or the guy in the KKK robes? As I, as I said on
00:06:35.100 Friday, if he was the guy in KKK robes, he could always just explain that he was, that he was, um,
00:06:42.500 you know, it was a Halloween party and he was going as, as Margaret Sanger. So, and I think that the left
00:06:47.540 would actually appreciate that. Um, but then he did a press conference on, uh, over the weekend
00:06:53.160 and he retracted and said that actually he said, you know what, actually I, I, I, that wasn't me.
00:06:58.300 I wasn't that guy. I, I, you know, I thought that maybe I'd been in blackface at the thing,
00:07:02.500 or maybe I was in KKK robes, but, um, but no, it actually wasn't me now that I had time to think
00:07:07.260 about it. And his real, his real excuse is that he got his, he got his blackface instances confused
00:07:14.480 because no, he didn't wear blackface, blackface then, but he did wear blackface. He admitted when
00:07:20.980 he dressed as Michael Jackson and darkened his face with shoe polish, which sounds really unhealthy
00:07:27.040 from a dermatological perspective. Um, this was a talent show he said, and he danced as Michael
00:07:32.500 Jackson. And so he thought that he should wear a blackface if he's going to do that. Now a reporter
00:07:38.420 asked him, uh, if he's, he's, if he's still able to dance like Michael Jackson and specifically,
00:07:45.220 can he do the moonwalk, which is yet another important penetrating question from a member of
00:07:50.700 our media because democracy dies in darkness, remember? So we need guys in the media to ask
00:07:57.200 governors if they could do the moonwalk, but it did lead to my, may, this may be my favorite moment
00:08:04.440 in the history of American politics. Uh, this moment right here, watch this.
00:08:10.080 Well, you know, we always are asked when we're running, you know, what kind of things should,
00:08:14.120 should our people look into? Uh, obviously there's opposition research, uh, on the other side,
00:08:20.160 but, uh, I will tell you, um, no, I didn't, I didn't ever really think about that there would
00:08:25.100 be anything offensive in my EVMS yearbook. Uh, but this, this, this literally hit me like a ton
00:08:31.040 of bricks last night. It totally caught me off guard. So it was something that I wasn't expecting.
00:08:35.580 And, and to your point, um, the people that do that kind of research, um, perhaps they should
00:08:41.640 have looked at that. And you said that the competition in San Antonio was a dance competition. Yes.
00:08:46.860 And it was that you danced the moonwalk? That's right. Are you still able to moonwalk?
00:08:51.880 Oh. Inappropriate circumstance. My wife says inappropriate circumstances.
00:08:59.000 So he was really thinking, he was really thinking about it. He was, he was considering doing the
00:09:04.240 moonwalk right there on the stage in the middle of a press conference during the biggest PR crisis
00:09:09.880 of his career when his, when his entire career and life are on the verge of ruins. And he was thinking
00:09:17.820 about doing the moonwalk right then and there. And then his wife had to step in and stop him,
00:09:23.360 which, which is, which is really disappointing. I know we were all, we're all thinking the same
00:09:29.220 things. Like I, we, we, we wish the wife wasn't there because it would have been great to see him
00:09:32.900 really do it, but, um, or attempt it anyway. Uh, but he needed his wife. His wife was there to say
00:09:39.840 inappropriate circumstances. It, the circumstances are not appropriate for that. Um, now I have no
00:09:47.120 respect for Ralph Northam whatsoever. I don't like him, but I can relate to that part. At least that
00:09:53.680 part was relatable because as men, we all need our wives to tell us, don't we? When, when the
00:09:59.260 circumstances are inappropriate, I rely on my wife for that kind of advice on a daily basis. You need
00:10:06.420 your wife there to say, Hey honey, uh, you shouldn't moonwalk during a press conference about the time
00:10:12.340 when you wore blackface. Don't that's not, or, or you need your wife to say, Hey honey, um, your
00:10:18.580 grandmother's funeral is not a good place to organize an arm wrestling tournament. Don't, don't do that.
00:10:24.320 Uh, or, or whatever. Uh, this is why we have wives. So that was relatable. The rest was not
00:10:29.840 overall. The press conference was a disaster. Northam's Northam's defense of, um, no, you've
00:10:36.540 got the wrong blackface photo. I wasn't blackface. Then I was blackface at a different point. That
00:10:41.340 defense was one of the worst defenses we've seen a politician use in a very long time. Um, and so
00:10:49.660 Northam is now an embarrassment to the Democrat party. So they're all demanding that he stepped
00:10:54.480 down and he has very few defenders at this point. Everyone's come out against him. Um,
00:10:59.160 they want him gone and they want his Lieutenant governor, uh, Justin Fairfax to take his place.
00:11:04.240 His Lieutenant governor who happens to be a black man is also younger. You know, I think he's in his
00:11:09.060 late thirties. So, um, it's, it's, it, it, and, and the other thing about, about Fairfax, which maybe
00:11:18.880 people don't realize this, um, is that Fairfax used to be a Planned Parenthood official or he worked
00:11:27.980 for Planned Parenthood in some capacity. So from the perspective of Democrats, you've got this,
00:11:34.620 this white guy who is now there's the scandal because of racist photos while his Lieutenant
00:11:40.780 governor is black. He's also more radically pro-abortion even than Northam is. So as far
00:11:48.380 as Democrats are concerned, yeah, obviously get the other guy in. We got to get, we got to get this,
00:11:51.780 we got to get this old racist guy out and, and, and put Fort Fairfax in. It is just so instructive
00:11:58.500 though to see how this has played out. Um, if you think about it, Northam last week came out and said
00:12:07.300 that babies should be delivered and then killed. And that provoked no outrage, no criticism on the
00:12:18.700 left or in the liberal media, none. I mean, really none, nobody, nobody, no prominent Democrat or,
00:12:26.640 or anyone on the left came out to criticize this guy. Um, it was either silence or agreement.
00:12:35.200 Nobody was coming out against him. Total silence. Then some photos of an inappropriate costume 30
00:12:43.820 years ago surface. And that's what prompts everyone to demand his resignation. Think about
00:12:50.020 where we are as a country, um, as a people, um, when a guy can, can announce that he's in favor of
00:12:58.540 executing infants and his political career is in fine shape after that, but then some photos surface
00:13:09.600 of a naughty costume that he wore 30 years ago in his mid twenties. And that's the thing
00:13:15.260 that provokes all this outrage. So this is basically how it went. This is how the dialogue
00:13:22.140 sort of went between Northam and Democrats over the last week or so. Uh, Northam said,
00:13:26.960 let, let, let's kill babies in the third trimester. The Democrats said, said, yeah, well, yeah, let's do
00:13:31.460 that. Sounds good. Matter of fact, let's deliver babies and leave them to die. Okay. Yeah. Sounds good.
00:13:38.340 Great. Or we could resuscitate them and then kill them after that. Cool. Cool. Sounds, sounds good. Let's,
00:13:44.240 we could do that. By the way, I dressed as Michael Jackson once, dear God, resign you monster. This
00:13:49.360 is a disgrace. It's, it's probably worth noting, um, as I already did that Fairfax, you know, more
00:14:00.060 radically pro abortion, as I said, worked for, worked for Planned Parenthood really makes you think,
00:14:05.440 doesn't it? It makes you wonder where these photos came from. It's, it's very hard to believe it's,
00:14:13.320 it's impossible for me to believe that nobody in the media, nobody in the, um, in the Democrat
00:14:20.620 party knew that there were photos from this guy's yearbook, uh, with, with some, with somebody in
00:14:29.700 blackface and wearing a KKK custom. Nobody thought to check that. Isn't that exactly when, when somebody
00:14:35.940 is running for a, you know, for a, for, for an office like governor, they've got people on their
00:14:41.300 side who dig through their past to find this sort of thing so that they can try to get rid of it or
00:14:48.480 prepare, you know, figure out how they're going to deal with it when it comes out. And going back to
00:14:53.420 look at old photographs and stuff, you're, but that's exactly the kind of thing that they look for.
00:14:58.260 Especially with the, with, with considering what happened with Kavanaugh. So you're telling me that
00:15:05.420 nobody in the Democrat party knew about this and nobody in the media knew about it. And then it
00:15:11.540 just happens to come out only a few days after it happens to come out while Northam is, is taking
00:15:18.520 heat, at least from the right for the abortion comments. No, I don't believe that at all. My,
00:15:24.420 and this is just a theory. I have no way of, of, of knowing if this is true or not, but my theory
00:15:29.620 would be that, um, the Democrats, the Democrat party and the media, and of course there's no
00:15:36.120 distinction anymore between those two groups. They knew about these photos. They had them
00:15:41.140 and that somebody on that side of the fence leaked these photos because Northam was embarrassing
00:15:50.680 the pro-abortion side. And he was embarrassing the pro-abortion side by, um, by exposing it,
00:15:58.680 by exposing it for what it really is. So no, it's, it's not that, that the Democrats were upset that
00:16:05.480 this guy supports infanticide. No, that that's not upset by that at all. They agree with them there.
00:16:10.500 They're just upset that he came out and said it and that he is such a clumsy, um, advocate for that
00:16:17.780 position. They would much rather have a guy like Fairfax to, to, to take that mantle and that banter,
00:16:24.700 um, that mantle and that banner. There we go. They'd much rather have Fairfax do it.
00:16:31.220 So that would be my theory. I have no information to indicate that at all, but it's,
00:16:35.820 that seems to me to be relatively likely
00:16:39.540 because we always have to remember on the left with the Democrats, it's always, everything is
00:16:47.340 about abortion in the end. That's what everything is about. Everything comes back to that for them.
00:16:51.900 It's always about that. Said the same thing during Kavanaugh, all the heat that Kavanaugh was taking,
00:16:58.620 this, um, this, this smear campaign against him, all of it, all of these people coming out of the
00:17:05.080 woodwork, it was all about abortion because they saw him as a threat to their so-called abortion rights.
00:17:09.540 And I think Northam became in a way a threat as well because he was exposing that side and
00:17:17.440 embarrassing it. And if you do that, and if you're, if you're on the left, if you're a Democrat and you
00:17:22.840 do that and you make the pro-abortion side look evil and insane, um, you're not going to survive.
00:17:32.980 They're going to get rid of you. All right. So, uh,
00:17:39.220 the game last night was, as I said, a little boring, boring. Um, and that's when you rely on
00:17:44.800 the commercials to pick up the slack and entertain you, but that wasn't happening. And the halftime
00:17:49.980 show with Maroon 5, that wasn't very entertaining either. That was no help though. I do it. I did
00:17:54.140 appreciate how you had, you had Maroon 5 and then you had a SpongeBob made an appearance for some
00:17:59.180 reason. Uh, and then the dude from outcast showed up and little John was introducing them. So all
00:18:05.700 you needed was like Nora Jones maybe, or, or maybe good Charlotte, um, to make an appearance. And then
00:18:11.960 we could have really been back in 2002 all over again. So that was kind of great. But then the
00:18:17.240 commercials, um, the commercials were, were not only unfunny, but also insufferable. And there was this
00:18:23.080 running feminist theme throughout all the commercials, which is good because the approximately
00:18:29.100 zero feminists who watch football must've really appreciated all of the, um, all of the sucking up
00:18:35.460 that the commercials were doing to them. So there were a lot of commercials like this one. Here's,
00:18:40.380 here's one featuring, uh, Serena Williams. The world tells you to wait, that waiting is polite
00:18:48.500 and good things will just come. But if I waited to be invited in, I never would have stood out. If I
00:18:58.360 waited for change to happen, I never would have made a difference. So make the first move. Don't wait
00:19:06.920 to be told your place. Take it. Don't wait for people to find you. Find them. In work. In love.
00:19:18.500 In life. And most of all, don't wait to be given power. Because here's what they won't tell you.
00:19:31.180 We already have it.
00:19:36.300 Okay. So there were a lot of commercials like that, just kind of these vague platitudes, female
00:19:41.840 empowerment, all that kind of stuff. And that led finally at the end, it was kind of, it was all
00:19:48.360 leading up to this moment. And this commercial aired towards the end of the game.
00:19:54.520 When girls face their challenges, they're stronger.
00:19:59.600 When girls work together, they realize their value. When girls get to play, they learn to win.
00:20:07.260 Girl power!
00:20:08.260 Girl power!
00:20:09.700 Okay. So they literally ran a girl power ad. I mean, they actually had the girls shouting girl power.
00:20:18.820 They ran a girl power ad with little girls in football pads during the Super Bowl.
00:20:29.120 Insufferable is the word I keep going back to, because that's really what feminism is now. That's
00:20:33.120 all it's become, more than anything. It's just insufferable. All you can do is roll your eyes and
00:20:39.360 just say, stop already. We get it. You don't need to shove this down our throats every second.
00:20:44.800 And why do we need it during football? Who is this? Who exactly are you talking to? Who are you,
00:20:51.060 who are you targeting? And by the way, are you really, what is, you really want little girls
00:20:56.560 playing football? I thought, I thought the feminists would say, you know, don't we hear
00:21:00.200 from the left all the time that football is dangerous, you get concussions. I mean, now we're
00:21:03.120 telling them to put on football pads and go play football. Can you make up your mind? But if we're
00:21:08.760 talking about insufferable ads, nothing could possibly be more insufferable than what we saw
00:21:15.460 from the Washington Post. The Washington Post, now, as I said, to run an ad during the Super Bowl is
00:21:24.060 not cheap. I estimated $50 trillion. Maybe it's a little bit less than that, but it's certainly a lot
00:21:29.400 of money. So you would think if you're going to run an ad, there's, there's a, you know, there's a
00:21:36.600 reason or you have a good reason behind it. You're trying to move product, right? But the Washington
00:21:43.640 Post decided to run an ad during the Super Bowl. And the only reason was just to kiss their own butts.
00:21:48.540 It was just, it was just to pat themselves on the back. They decided to spend millions of dollars
00:21:53.040 running an ad to pat themselves on the back. And, um, I hope you have your nausea medication ready
00:22:00.560 because here, here's the commercial. When we go off to war, when we exercise our rights,
00:22:11.580 when we soar to our greatest heights, when we mourn and pray,
00:22:23.040 when our neighbors are at risk, when our nation is threatened, there's someone to gather the facts,
00:22:34.420 to bring you the story, no matter the cost.
00:22:40.880 Because knowing empowers us. Knowing helps us decide. Knowing keeps us free.
00:23:02.940 Now, I just want to focus on one thing. There are a few things in that ad that people can,
00:23:06.740 um, that we could look at, um, a few ridiculous elements to it, but there's just one thing that
00:23:14.140 jumped out at me. Maybe, maybe it jumped out as you, at you as well. Um, there, the narrator,
00:23:21.040 Tom Hanks said, you know, trying to show us all the sort of moments and times when we need the media
00:23:28.420 there, right? We need the truth tellers in the media. And he said, when our nation is threatened,
00:23:34.800 and what did they show an image of to illustrate our nation being threatened? What did they show?
00:23:44.460 Well, first of all, let's think. What is, what comes to mind for you from, from, let's say the last 30
00:23:50.920 years, when you think of our nation being threatened, when you think of a moment, an event where our nation
00:23:57.560 really felt threatened, where everyone was, you know, where it felt like we were under attack,
00:24:02.180 what comes immediately to mind? Well, we all know September 11th. So the Washington Post,
00:24:09.780 when they're running this ad, trying to illustrate when our nation is threatened, we need the media.
00:24:13.380 What do they show? No, they don't show September 11th. They show the Oklahoma city bombing.
00:24:20.580 If you think that wasn't completely intentional, then I've, I've got news for you. There was,
00:24:26.720 that was definitely a decision that was made. There was some real thought behind it. It wasn't,
00:24:31.900 that wasn't just, you know, they were just grabbing for some random piece of footage to put there to,
00:24:37.900 to, to, to go with our nation being threatened. No, that's a conscious decision. No, we're not
00:24:43.540 going to show September 11th. We're going to show Oklahoma city because Oklahoma city was a white,
00:24:49.240 domestic terrorist attacking us. Whereas September 11th, well, those were Islamic radicals, foreign
00:24:57.100 Islamic radicals attacking us. So ironically, as the Washington Post is running this ad to pat
00:25:05.620 themselves on the back, congratulate themselves and try to, try to demonstrate how necessary they are
00:25:12.460 and what great work they do. Instead, they, they illustrated for us exactly the problem with the
00:25:21.600 media in our society. It's exactly that kind of thing. It's, it's oftentimes it's kind, it's kind of
00:25:31.620 subtle, not very subtle. I mean, it's also pretty obvious, kind of subtle, but there's always that
00:25:37.100 little bit of manipulation. I mean, they, they, they inject propaganda into everything. They can
00:25:45.000 never just be straightforward. There's always, it's always ideological. It's always political
00:25:51.980 in everything they do. This is exactly the problem with the Washington Post and with all these left
00:25:58.960 wing mainstream media outlets. It's exactly that kind of thing. Even in this, even in that context,
00:26:07.100 they just can't help themselves because they want us, the thing is that they want us, when we think
00:26:13.000 about our nation being threatened, when we think about terrorism, they want us to associate that
00:26:17.980 with right wing white Americans. That's what they want that association to be. Not with,
00:26:25.300 not with foreigners, not with Muslims. Absolutely pathetic. All right. I'm going to get to a couple of
00:26:34.700 emails here. Um, don't have a lot of time for it. So I'll just read a few, a few of your emails.
00:26:39.700 And if you want to send an email to the show, uh, Matt wall show at gmail.com. This one is from Riley.
00:26:45.540 It says, uh, Matt, I've noticed that a lot of your political opponents on Twitter like to draw attention
00:26:51.120 to your designation as a theocratic fascist in your Twitter bio. Critics will argue that theocratic
00:26:57.280 fascism has failed every time that it's been tried, but I say that wasn't real theocratic fascism.
00:27:03.040 And if we just tried it in our country, we could finally get it right. I would love to hear you
00:27:08.200 offer further clarification and expand on your thoughts for this theocratic fascist regime
00:27:12.340 that you envision with yourself at the helm. Thanks. Yes, I do. If you go to Twitter, um,
00:27:17.660 you'll find that I described myself in my bio as a theocratic fascist. And that is because someone
00:27:23.000 sent me a tweet a while ago and suggested, um, that I should describe myself that way in my Twitter
00:27:28.600 bio because in their mind, that's what I am. And so I said, okay. And so that's what I did. Um, now
00:27:35.100 I think I know what Riley is doing here. I suspect that Riley is not actually a fan of theocratic
00:27:41.900 fascism and he's trying to embarrass me by getting me to defend it. And that's exactly what I'm going
00:27:48.960 to do because Riley, you see, I, I will answer your question, even though I suspect it was not
00:27:54.020 sincere. I, I do envision myself as the benevolent, but strict and just dictator of this country.
00:28:04.100 Um, that is my plan, you know, uh, uh, and what will I do? Well, I'll imprison, I'll, I will imprison
00:28:11.900 my opponents. Absolutely. Um, I'll force everyone to adopt my belief system. Uh, I will squash any
00:28:19.620 dissent with violent force, but, but here's the thing. Um, if you're listening to that plan and
00:28:27.300 you're thinking, well, that's, that's not really, you know, I don't know if I'm in favor of that.
00:28:31.540 I just want you to know that this will all be for your good. I promise. I, I, I, I'm not, I,
00:28:37.480 I wouldn't do it for my own sake. And when I send all of my political opponents off to prisons,
00:28:44.380 that's going to hurt me a lot more than it hurts them. It's not something that I'm going to want
00:28:50.560 to do, but I will do it for your sake, for your good. And I, I just want you to keep that in mind
00:28:56.720 as you're being frog marched to the gulag. Um, all right. This is from Steve. He says,
00:29:05.860 hi, madam. Constantly amazed how Democrats are increasingly getting behind socialism.
00:29:09.740 If this is truly their strategy, don't they know that businesses and any person with a sizable
00:29:15.500 income will move overseas or use some form of tax evasion to escape being robbed? How would they
00:29:20.920 continue to fund their growing government without those taxes? Seems to me that the plan wouldn't
00:29:25.520 last long. I'm just shocked that they wouldn't realize this if they just thought logically for
00:29:30.520 one minute. Is it really just short-term greed and power thereafter? Can you explain what their
00:29:35.280 logic is? Um, well, if they thought logically for one minute, there's your problem, Steve,
00:29:40.740 is that that's too much to ask, but really look, this is, you're asking what is their strategy?
00:29:46.660 Uh, and of course you say, well, they could just move overseas or whatever. Uh, obviously that's
00:29:51.820 what they would do. If there, if there was a 70 or 80% tax on, on, um, on wealth in this country,
00:29:58.100 which is what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants, obviously all the wealthy people are just going to move.
00:30:03.280 They're not going to stay here and pay that, um, and allow the government to bankrupt them.
00:30:08.740 So they're all just going to move. Of course, that's what's going to happen. That is one among
00:30:14.960 many other problems with, um, with that sort of plan. But yeah, you talk about their strategy. Well,
00:30:24.820 it's, it's not about that. It's not, it's not about actually trying to come up with
00:30:30.440 an economic system that will work. Um, and that will lead to prosperity or whatever. That's,
00:30:37.340 that's, that's not what this is about. This is just about, it's just about for these politicians
00:30:43.020 anyway. Now there may be some ignorant, rather stupid, um, you know, Joe Schmo type liberals who
00:30:51.900 really do want a system like this and who think that it would be a good idea. But as for the politicians
00:30:58.100 who advocate for this, uh, for them, it's just class warfare. Um, it's just shtick. I mean,
00:31:05.040 you've got Elizabeth Warren out there saying, Oh, people, we can't, it's, it's a, it's immoral for
00:31:10.200 people to be wealthy. We can't look at all these wealthy people living their wealthy lives. Meanwhile,
00:31:15.160 she's got millions of dollars. So you think she's actually opposed to wealth? No, most of these so
00:31:24.140 called socialist Democrats, most of them, Bernie Sanders has three houses. So no, he doesn't want
00:31:31.940 to give up his, he likes wealth. He's fine with it, but it's just class warfare. It's just about
00:31:37.280 manipulating their, um, ignorant supporters and followers. It's just shtick is all it is.
00:31:45.300 Now I'm not saying if they were actually, if they actually got into power, I'm not saying that they
00:31:49.140 wouldn't attempt to initiate some of these plans. I'm sure they would, their base would demand it.
00:31:55.440 And also if they're in charge of the government, yeah, they would love to be able to take more money,
00:31:59.880 um, and use it to advance their own, their own agenda. But my point is that, you know, trying to
00:32:08.400 outline all of the logical problems and everything, it doesn't do anything. There's no point because
00:32:17.020 that's not the point for them. The point for them is just class warfare, manipulation,
00:32:24.260 turning people against each other, um, to advance their political agenda. All right. There are a
00:32:32.080 couple other interesting emails. There was someone that sent me an email about, uh, wanting me to
00:32:35.840 respond to people who claim that Jesus Christ never existed at all as a person, which is an
00:32:42.620 interesting email. And, uh, you know what? I think I'm going to save that one for tomorrow because
00:32:45.860 that's a longer, that's a longer response. Um, and so we'll get to that and, uh, and plenty of other
00:32:52.740 topics tomorrow. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed today on the Ben
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