The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 194 - The Totally Insane And Utterly Hilarious Green New Deal

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveils her Green New Deal.

00:00:04.740 It is hilarious. It's also terrifying.

00:00:07.940 We will dissect it point by point, and I'll tell you some of the craziest things from this plan.

00:00:13.780 Also, speaking of Cortez, she claimed that all Hispanic people have a right to enter the U.S.,

00:00:20.320 a birthright, because they are all Native Americans, according to her.

00:00:24.260 I'll talk about why that is completely wrong,

00:00:26.240 and also I'll point out a special irony with someone named Cortez making that claim.

00:00:32.480 It's pretty funny when you think about it.

00:00:33.880 We'll talk about all that today on The Matt Wall Show.

00:00:42.060 Well, I'm really excited, guys.

00:00:44.740 The Green New Deal is finally here.

00:00:47.260 I'm super excited about it.

00:00:49.040 I've been waiting forever, it seems.

00:00:50.440 I think we've all been waiting for it. 1.00

00:00:51.780 You know, Ben Shapiro called it one of the stupidest documents ever written, 0.99

00:00:57.500 and I totally disagree. 1.00

00:00:58.980 I mean, I couldn't disagree more.

00:01:00.740 This is, how can you complain about something that promises to give you free housing,

00:01:06.860 free college, free health care, and a livable income, even if you don't feel like working?

00:01:13.940 So this is, I mean, how can anyone complain about this?

00:01:16.960 It's great.

00:01:19.000 Oh, right, because it's completely insane and impossible and delusional and childish,

00:01:25.880 and it's the kind of thing that would sound brilliant if you were high or severely concussed. 1.00

00:01:32.840 So, okay, that's the reason why it's a stupid plan. 1.00

00:01:35.440 All right, fine. 1.00

00:01:36.200 Let's take a look at the plan.

00:01:37.660 A plan, by the way, that all of the most prominent Democratic presidential candidates,

00:01:43.860 Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, have, I think five or six of them at least,

00:01:50.580 have come out and endorsed this plan.

00:01:53.640 And now, if we had an honest media, which of course we don't, but if we did,

00:01:58.500 that would be fatal for them, for these Democratic candidates, 0.99

00:02:01.520 because then they would be forced to justify and explain every crazy, delusional, idiotic thing in 1.00

00:02:09.680 this plan, and it would totally discredit them. 0.99

00:02:12.880 But that's not going to happen.

00:02:15.000 So the media, you know, the media is not going to stop Cory Booker and say,

00:02:18.120 hey, by the way, how are we going to build a train track across the entire ocean?

00:02:24.680 That's not going to happen because they don't want to embarrass him.

00:02:27.600 So, but we'll get to that.

00:02:28.560 The train track thing we'll get to in a second.

00:02:30.100 Let me read a little bit from this plan, and we'll just kind of,

00:02:35.060 we'll just, you know, we'll just, we'll see what we think of it.

00:02:40.340 All right.

00:02:40.980 So it says, this is a massive transformation of our society with clear goals and a timeline.

00:02:47.460 The Green New Deal resolution, a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society

00:02:53.000 at a scale not seen since World War II to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions

00:02:58.060 and create economic prosperity for all.

00:03:00.400 It will move America to 100% clean and renewable energy, create millions of family-supporting

00:03:07.620 wage union jobs. 0.87

00:03:09.800 And by the way, I don't want to be a spoiler alert, I guess here, but at no point does this

00:03:17.080 plan explain how it's going to create jobs. 0.85

00:03:19.740 That is never explained.

00:03:20.940 It's just, it's just stated that they're going to create jobs.

00:03:25.080 I guess what they're, I, because if you write it in a plan, right, that's all you have to

00:03:28.560 do.

00:03:29.040 Write it down on a plan and say, we should have more jobs.

00:03:33.320 And then, and then just like that, the jobs appear.

00:03:36.760 I guess that's, that's the way this works.

00:03:38.060 Uh, ensure a just transition for all communities and workers to ensure economic security for

00:03:44.960 people and communities that have historically relied on fossil fuel industries.

00:03:49.600 I don't even know what that means.

00:03:50.980 What is that?

00:03:51.400 Is that even a sentence?

00:03:53.440 That's just a jumble of words.

00:03:55.720 Ensure a just transition for all communities and workers to ensure economic security.

00:04:03.640 What?

00:04:04.160 Ensure justice and equity for frontline communities by prioritizing investment, training, climate

00:04:10.380 and community resiliency, economic and environmental benefits in these communities.

00:04:15.780 Like I said, these are, this is, these aren't even sentences.

00:04:19.440 Okay.

00:04:20.040 These are just words.

00:04:22.820 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a bucket of words that she dumped on a page and this is it.

00:04:28.760 Um, also a job with a family sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations and retirement

00:04:35.800 security.

00:04:36.780 This, these are, by the way, now I'm listing all the things that we're going to get high

00:04:40.640 quality education, including higher education and trade schools, clean air and water and

00:04:44.980 access to nature.

00:04:46.800 What is that?

00:04:47.900 She's going to ensure that we all have access to nature.

00:04:50.440 I think we all have that now, don't we?

00:04:52.100 I mean, you can walk outside of your home.

00:04:55.020 If there's anyone living, uh, maybe in some sort of giant biodome on Mars, then they might

00:05:03.420 not have access to nature, but the rest of us do.

00:05:05.720 All you have to do is just walk outside and there you go.

00:05:09.580 Um, also healthy food, high quality healthcare, safe, affordable, adequate housing, economic

00:05:14.780 environment free, an economic environment free of monopoly monopolies, economic security

00:05:21.380 for all who are unable or unwilling to work.

00:05:25.040 Let me, in case you missed that, she is going to ensure economic security for all who are

00:05:30.740 unable or unwilling to work.

00:05:35.380 So with this plan, you could just say, nah, don't feel like working.

00:05:39.940 I'm just, I'm not willing.

00:05:41.160 Sorry.

00:05:41.520 That's all.

00:05:42.760 Uh, and then if you're not willing to work, then, then what she'll do is she'll send you

00:05:47.360 to, so there's going to be two magical trees, right?

00:05:50.700 There's going to be the affordable, uh, the livable income tree.

00:05:54.760 And, uh, so if you want to work, you'll go to that, to that magic tree and you'll pluck

00:05:59.860 a livable income off of the tree and put it into a basket and bring it and skip merrily

00:06:05.820 on home like a little red riding hood.

00:06:08.700 Or if you don't want to work, then you can go to the economic security tree and pluck a

00:06:13.640 bit of economic security off the tree and put that in the basket and skip on home. 0.81

00:06:17.640 And that's the way that this is going to work.

00:06:19.100 Something tells me that the economic security tree is going to be a lot more popular than

00:06:25.580 the, um, than the livable income tree.

00:06:29.400 And we'll, we'll get more to that in a second, because remember, this is a very important

00:06:32.200 part of this, that by ensuring economic security, not to mention free housing, free healthcare,

00:06:39.540 free college for everybody, even if you're not willing to work, you have just made it

00:06:45.040 so that there is no incentive to work, which is a big problem because as we'll see here

00:06:51.620 in a minute, um, a lot of what Cortez is talking about here will require a lot of work.

00:07:00.700 There's a lot of work that's going to need to be done in order for all this stuff to happen,

00:07:04.420 but there's not going to be anyone to do the work because you've just made it so that we

00:07:10.140 can sit home on the couch and, um, live like Kings.

00:07:13.840 By the way, one other thing before we get to some other highlights or, um, lowlights from

00:07:17.980 this bill, what does any of this have to do with the environment?

00:07:21.680 There are a few things in there, clean air, clean water, fine, but free education, free

00:07:28.620 housing for everybody.

00:07:29.680 How is that?

00:07:31.020 How does that help the environment?

00:07:32.320 That's what I don't get.

00:07:33.340 I thought this was supposed to be a green new deal, but most of this stuff has absolutely

00:07:38.060 nothing to do with the environment one way or another.

00:07:40.980 Um, so here are some other highlights from the bill up or the, the plan, I should say upgrade

00:07:48.860 or replace every building in the U S for state of the art energy efficiency.

00:07:55.100 Yes, every building.

00:07:57.340 So every building, not even just every commercial building, there are, there are over 5 million

00:08:02.640 commercial buildings in the U S, um, which would be a big project all on its own to, to

00:08:08.700 update or replace 5 million commercial buildings.

00:08:12.640 And also keep in mind that many of those commercial buildings are in, um, cities and they are like

00:08:18.760 huge skyscrapers.

00:08:21.320 Um, so to replace, so before we even get to anything else, she's talking about replacing

00:08:28.440 almost every skyscraper in the entire country, a skyscraper.

00:08:34.500 I think I read somewhere that the, um, I was reading recently, I don't know why about the

00:08:39.600 most expensive buildings in the world and the world trade center, for instance, it costs like

00:08:46.020 a billion dollars or something.

00:08:48.040 Um, these massive skyscrapers cost hundreds of millions, if not over a billion dollars.

00:08:53.420 So just to replace every skyscraper, you're talking about billions upon billions of dollars.

00:09:00.400 And then we get to every retail store, all the Walmarts, all that's all the shopping centers,

00:09:05.300 all the malls.

00:09:06.520 Um, and then all the homes too.

00:09:08.120 There are 127 million households in America.

00:09:13.560 Now that doesn't mean that all of them live in single family homes.

00:09:15.860 Like we're also talking condominiums, apartments, townhouses, all that stuff.

00:09:19.920 There are 127 million of those.

00:09:22.120 And so we got to replace all of those as well.

00:09:24.860 And we haven't even got to the, the schools, churches, hospitals, post offices, all of that

00:09:33.540 has to be replaced.

00:09:34.200 So we were talking about hundreds of millions of buildings that need to be replaced.

00:09:40.860 This is what is, this is going to be trillions of dollars that you just on this project alone.

00:09:46.780 Um, and we're only getting started.

00:09:49.200 That's just the beginning.

00:09:50.380 I mean, this is just step one guys to tear down every single building in America and rebuild

00:09:55.420 it from scratch.

00:09:56.000 That is just step one.

00:09:57.420 Now we also are going to totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric

00:10:03.920 vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere.

00:10:08.980 That language is actually in the plan.

00:10:11.000 Build charging stations everywhere.

00:10:13.900 Where are we going to build them?

00:10:15.040 Everywhere.

00:10:15.720 Just where?

00:10:16.520 Just everywhere.

00:10:17.180 I mean, there, there'll be five of them right here in this room.

00:10:19.400 There'll be everywhere.

00:10:20.180 There'll be raining from the sky everywhere.

00:10:21.700 That's all just everywhere.

00:10:22.920 Um, so much of this plan, it reads like something that, you know, she, something it's, it's like

00:10:31.980 something she had to come up with for her 11th grade, um, economics class or something like

00:10:39.000 that.

00:10:39.260 And, you know, she, she forgot to do the project and then she remembered the night before.

00:10:45.960 And so she's just rushing and writing it down, like, uh, build charging stations everywhere.

00:10:51.260 Just put that down.

00:10:52.980 Um, and by the way, this would be, if this was for an economics project in high school,

00:10:57.780 this, she would definitely get a failing grade for this. 0.95

00:11:01.340 Um, create affordable public transit of transit available to all build out high speed rail at

00:11:08.100 a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.

00:11:12.880 Okay.

00:11:13.800 If we are building enough high speed rail to make air travel unnecessary, we would of course

00:11:20.960 need this mythical railway system primarily built across the ocean because that is, that

00:11:27.360 is when air travel is the most necessary.

00:11:32.000 So if you want to make it unnecessary, there's no getting around the fact that you are going

00:11:36.300 to need a railway system that stretches across the entire length of the Pacific and across

00:11:42.020 the entire length of the Atlantic.

00:11:44.600 And you're, you're probably going to need many railway systems going across the Pacific because

00:11:50.660 the Pacific is a, is a pretty large body of water.

00:11:54.280 And if you only have one railway system going across it, well, that's going to lead to a lot

00:11:58.560 of congestion and it's not going to be very accessible to everybody.

00:12:01.900 So you're probably going to need hundreds of railroads that are just stretching across

00:12:07.180 the ocean.

00:12:09.640 Um, now there is just so you know, there's about 5,000 miles separating California from

00:12:15.760 Japan.

00:12:17.180 So this railroad system would have to span across 5,000 miles and it would also have to

00:12:21.620 be built over water that is 13,000 feet deep on average.

00:12:25.860 So you would need a structure, you would need giant 13,000 foot structures, like pillars that

00:12:33.380 these, that these, this railroad system is going to be built upon.

00:12:37.100 Um, so this is a project that would take, I mean, you got to think probably centuries and

00:12:43.660 again, cost billions and billions of dollars.

00:12:47.080 Um, and not to mention, you know, being out in the middle of the Pacific, trying to install

00:12:53.540 these 13,000 foot structures so that you can build, that's a very dangerous work.

00:12:59.280 Uh, and we're going to lose a lot of lives doing this, which that goes back to the problem

00:13:07.080 of who's going to volunteer to go out into the middle of the Pacific and build a railroad

00:13:13.360 system when you've just said that they can sit home if they're unwilling to work and get

00:13:17.940 paid anyway.

00:13:20.020 Uh, another part of the plan, plant lots of trees.

00:13:23.740 That's an actual sentence in the document.

00:13:25.680 Uh, now it, it, this is at least practical.

00:13:29.660 I mean, we can plant lots of trees, but once again, we see this sort of thing where it looks

00:13:34.640 like it's dashed off at the last minute because she was procrastinating.

00:13:38.700 And so, uh, we need another thing, but plant lots of trees.

00:13:41.840 Just put that down there.

00:13:43.540 What do you mean?

00:13:44.120 Where are we going to plant them?

00:13:44.880 Just, it doesn't matter.

00:13:45.760 Just plant, we'll plant lots of them.

00:13:46.980 That's all.

00:13:47.260 We'll just, we'll plant them somewhere.

00:13:49.380 Uh, and then, and then finally, she also wants to abolish cows. 1.00

00:13:52.940 Uh, I found this to be rather horrifying.

00:13:58.100 She wants to get rid of cows, actually farting cows specifically, but all cows fart. 1.00

00:14:02.660 So the, um, and yes, the phrase farting cows actually appears verbatim in this allegedly

00:14:09.000 serious proposal written by a United States Congresswoman and endorsed, remember, by all

00:14:14.520 of the prominent, uh, democratic presidential candidates.

00:14:17.280 So here's the full context.

00:14:19.240 It says, we set a goal to get to net zero rather than zero emissions in 10 years, because

00:14:24.540 we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that

00:14:30.020 fast.

00:14:31.340 Um, get rid of, get rid of farting cows. 1.00

00:14:37.180 So the implication is that getting rid of gassy cows is a goal that they have, but she's not

00:14:42.640 sure if they'll be able to do it in 10 years.

00:14:44.380 So that may be the most reasonable concession that Cortez makes in this entire document when

00:14:49.560 she says, okay, maybe we can't get rid of every cow. 0.97

00:14:52.700 Now, hold on a second.

00:14:53.980 Actually, you think we can rebuild every single building in the country, build railway systems

00:15:01.820 across the Pacific, um, provide free housing, free education, free healthcare, free income

00:15:08.400 to everyone, yet getting rid of all the cows is the thing that you're not sure we'll be

00:15:13.740 able to accomplish in 10 years.

00:15:15.060 That's where you get conservative all of a sudden.

00:15:17.900 I mean, that's one thing that we could, I don't think it'd be a good idea, but we could

00:15:21.380 probably get rid of all the cows in like a week. 1.00

00:15:24.440 They're pretty slow and stupid and fat. 1.00

00:15:27.260 I mean, if you wanted to just go and carpet bomb all the, all the, um, all the cattle farms 1.00

00:15:33.580 or maybe go out there with machine guns and just, and just take down all the cows, you

00:15:37.760 could probably do it.

00:15:38.640 I mean, if you sent out, maybe you sent out some Navy SEAL squads or, um, I don't know,

00:15:43.860 you could deploy if you needed to deploy the military.

00:15:47.380 Um, and I, I think they could probably slaughter all the cows within a week, probably. 0.95

00:15:52.100 So don't sell yourself short, AOC.

00:15:57.980 And is that the plan?

00:15:59.280 You know, she says, get rid of cows. 0.99

00:16:00.680 Well, are we talking about killing all of them in some sort of mass cow genocide? 0.99

00:16:07.520 Or the only other option would be, well, we could ship them all off to some sort of island 0.99

00:16:13.320 like cow fart Island or something, but then they're still going to be ruining the environment 0.99

00:16:17.840 with their flatulence.

00:16:18.680 So, uh, the only other option beyond that would be to launch them into space and then,

00:16:26.460 you know, just send them out into interstellar space.

00:16:30.120 And then maybe they'll eventually land in some other alien civilization.

00:16:36.500 Can you imagine being an alien, an alien civilization and some, some spacecraft lands and then a bunch

00:16:45.820 of cows emerge?

00:16:47.360 What are they going to think?

00:16:50.160 I'll tell you one thing they're going to wonder, like, how did these cows,

00:16:54.200 this should be an advanced race of aliens. 0.98

00:16:56.980 And yet it's a bunch of, what are these?

00:16:58.840 It'd be very confusing for them.

00:17:00.180 So I don't know.

00:17:00.640 I don't know.

00:17:01.100 What's the, what's, what's the plan?

00:17:03.260 Um, how is she going to pay for any of this? 0.92

00:17:06.860 Well, she doesn't really answer that question, but in the FAQ, the frequently asked question

00:17:16.340 portion of the document, it says, how will you pay for it?

00:17:19.840 And the answer is the same way we paid for the new deal, the 2008 bank bailout and extended

00:17:26.800 quantitative easing programs, the same way we paid for World War II and all our current

00:17:31.260 wars.

00:17:32.100 The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments and new public

00:17:37.100 banks can be created to extend credit.

00:17:38.820 Uh, there's also space for the government to take an equity stake in projects to get a return

00:17:43.280 on investment.

00:17:44.440 At the end of the day, this is an investment in our economy that should grow our wealth

00:17:47.380 as a nation.

00:17:48.340 So the question isn't how we will pay for it, but what we will do with all of our new

00:17:53.060 shared prosperity.

00:17:54.640 In other words, um, she has no idea how we're going to pay for it.

00:18:02.720 The question isn't how we're going to pay for it.

00:18:04.880 It's what are we going to do with all of our prosperity?

00:18:08.820 That's the question, which is just the classic line of a con man trying to sell you something.

00:18:17.760 No, no, don't worry about how you're going to pay for it.

00:18:19.760 Just think about, it's like someone who's trying to sell you on a pyramid scheme.

00:18:25.320 And so then rather than explaining the details of the plan, they show you pictures of like

00:18:29.460 nice watches and, and fancy houses and cars.

00:18:33.240 And you're asking questions, why, wait, how is this going to work?

00:18:35.520 No, don't worry about how it's going to work.

00:18:37.300 Just think about how you're going to spend all the money you're going to make.

00:18:42.320 Now I was thinking about this and listen, it's really easy to make fun of this plan and to

00:18:47.980 be a Debbie Downer and a naysayer. 1.00

00:18:50.820 Um, it's really easy to do because it's such an enormously stupid idea. 0.99

00:18:57.560 But then I was also thinking, listen, if we're going to do this thing, let's go all the way. 0.95

00:19:02.320 You could actually argue that the Green New Deal, the main problem with it is that it's

00:19:08.980 too modest.

00:19:11.700 If, if, if you're, if we're going to do it, let's do this thing.

00:19:15.080 That's what I'm saying.

00:19:16.780 Also think about the fact that if, if they have the ability to do this, then they must

00:19:22.840 have access to not only trillions of dollars, but even like magical genies and wizards who

00:19:29.700 can, who can, because most of this stuff is impossible without magical superpowers.

00:19:34.740 And so if they have access, which I assume that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez must, if she has 0.99

00:19:41.080 access to a team of highly trained genies, then I've got some other ideas.

00:19:46.100 Um, this is my idea for what we could call it a new green new deal, or maybe a green

00:19:53.500 new new deal, whatever you want to call it.

00:19:55.980 I have just a few things.

00:19:57.300 I actually have 20 things I would like to add to the deal.

00:20:01.240 Um, and I just want to offer these up as a suggestion.

00:20:04.420 Number one, a free ice cream machine for every American.

00:20:08.020 And of course this would have to be vegan ice cream because Cortez is killing all the milk 0.98

00:20:12.400 cows.

00:20:12.800 Remember number two, every sidewalk in America.

00:20:15.720 Converted to a moving walkway at number three, every staircase converted to an escalator.

00:20:21.980 Number four, every escalator converted to an elevator.

00:20:25.880 Number five, I'm thinking of a big bridge connecting North Carolina to like Morocco. 0.99

00:20:32.740 Okay.

00:20:33.540 With like refreshment stands and stuff along the way.

00:20:36.540 And then you would also probably need like some cabins or something so people can stop and

00:20:41.400 sleep because they might get, yeah, it's kind of, it would be kind of a long walk.

00:20:45.220 Uh, number six, a free blimp for every American.

00:20:50.140 Number seven, a free dog for every person.

00:20:53.700 Number eight, a free foot bath for every dog.

00:20:56.700 Number nine, uh, essential oils for every foot bath because you don't want to take a foot bath

00:21:01.480 if you're not going to be exfoliating your skin at the same time.

00:21:04.400 Um, number 10, this to me seems really obvious instead of, and this is where I'm showing Cortez,

00:21:12.740 she's, she's not thinking big enough here because she's saying, well, let's have free 0.56

00:21:16.200 healthcare for everyone.

00:21:17.180 I've got a better idea.

00:21:19.080 Let's just abolish disease.

00:21:21.700 Okay.

00:21:22.100 So how about we say no more diseases and then you don't need healthcare.

00:21:26.020 I mean, think about it.

00:21:26.840 This is obvious stuff, right?

00:21:28.480 Uh, number 11, universal happiness.

00:21:31.220 You know, I think it's something we should include in the plan.

00:21:33.420 Number 12, a constantly refreshed selection of cereal in every pantry.

00:21:39.800 Um, number 13, uh, I'm thinking we need like, um, uh, magical lions that can read us stories

00:21:47.940 and grant wishes.

00:21:49.520 Number 14, immortality.

00:21:52.760 You know, I, I, I think again, if we're, if we're going to be doing this, why not immortality?

00:21:57.380 Um, number 15, I'm thinking every person should have this computer type thing, like from the

00:22:04.380 matrix, or you can plug in and learn how to do karate in five minutes.

00:22:08.960 That would be pretty sweet.

00:22:10.760 Um, number 16, bananas that never rot.

00:22:14.100 Number 17, let's abolish loneliness.

00:22:16.840 Nobody's allowed to be lonely anymore.

00:22:18.140 Um, number 19, um, free pony rides for everyone, but consensual pony rides, of course.

00:22:25.260 Uh, number 19, I'm thinking of every person should have a kind of like a robot thing that

00:22:31.100 lifts you out of bed in the morning and brushes your teeth for you and puts on your pants for

00:22:34.920 you.

00:22:35.480 And number 20, finally, and this, and this is really the, the highlight of my plan of the,

00:22:40.160 the, uh, things that I would add to her plan.

00:22:43.140 Um, I think that student loan debt should be converted into tacos.

00:22:50.560 Uh, and I'll tell you how this would work.

00:22:52.620 Every dollar of student loan debt that you have equals one taco.

00:22:56.900 So if you have $30,000 of debt, well, then you get 30,000 tacos.

00:23:03.660 You see, I mean, pretty, it's like, how hasn't anyone thought of this yet?

00:23:10.360 We've got all this debt.

00:23:12.240 If you change it into tacos, then the debt's gone and now you have tacos.

00:23:19.200 So, I mean, come on, right?

00:23:21.120 Um, so that's my plan.

00:23:24.660 I, you know, I was, I'm going to write this up in an official proposal and send it to Alexandria

00:23:28.680 Ocasio-Cortez's, um, office.

00:23:31.140 And, uh, hopefully she'll, she'll, she'll add that to the plan. 0.98

00:23:34.600 So we'll, we'll, you know, stay tuned for that.

00:23:37.980 All right.

00:23:38.520 I hate to, uh, I hate to keep talking about this woman, but Cortez, she also spoke at a

00:23:44.820 rally yesterday.

00:23:45.500 It was a busy day for her.

00:23:46.620 Um, they were, some progressive members of Congress were rallying against ICE and CBP,

00:23:54.660 the Customs and Border Protection.

00:23:57.160 Um, they were rallying against their own law enforcement agencies, um, because the thing

00:24:04.160 that they're upset about is that these agencies enforce the law.

00:24:07.000 They don't like that.

00:24:08.520 Um, I want you to listen to one thing that Cortez said at this rally.

00:24:14.100 All right.

00:24:14.760 Here, here's the clip of it right now.

00:24:16.000 Because we are standing on native land and Latino people are descendants of native people

00:24:22.420 and we cannot be told and criminalized simply for our identity or our status.

00:24:29.360 Okay.

00:24:30.460 She says we are standing on native land and Latino people are descendants of native people and

00:24:36.500 we cannot be told and criminalized simply for our identity and our status.

00:24:40.840 Uh, so many problems here.

00:24:44.660 Goodness gracious.

00:24:46.000 There, there are many problems here.

00:24:48.720 Let's start with the greatest irony of all.

00:24:51.580 Cortez said this.

00:24:54.040 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:24:57.320 Where do you think that name came from?

00:24:59.600 I can tell you this.

00:25:00.580 Okay.

00:25:01.280 Um, there weren't many Aztecs with names like that.

00:25:04.120 You're not going to find Alexandria Cortez among the Aztecs.

00:25:08.980 It just so happens that Cortez shares a last name with the most famous conquistador in history,

00:25:16.820 Hernán Cortez.

00:25:18.340 Why?

00:25:19.400 Because people from Central America, many of them, are actually descended from the Spanish,

00:25:24.640 from Spanish Europeans.

00:25:25.760 Um, now, so, so now I don't know this as a fact.

00:25:32.600 I'm just saying that she, well, I know as a fact that's that, um, many people from Central

00:25:36.700 America, from Central America are descended in part from Spanish Europeans.

00:25:40.360 I don't know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is related to Hernán Cortez, but they do have

00:25:46.180 the same last name.

00:25:48.420 Um, and now I happen to think that Hernán Cortez is one of the great heroes of Western civilization

00:25:55.440 because he overthrew an evil, violent empire of violent, of, of ruthless human sacrificers.

00:26:03.020 Um, but still the point remains that Alexandria may well be descended from the guy who came

00:26:09.060 here on a boat and overthrew a native civilization.

00:26:14.220 Now, it's true that people from Central and South America, um, also are likely descended from

00:26:19.980 native people as well.

00:26:21.740 So they're, most of them are a mix, just as most people everywhere in the world are a

00:26:26.860 mix of different, um, ethnicities and, and, um, cultures and so on.

00:26:32.880 But think about what, what she's doing here.

00:26:36.460 She's treating, and this is very common, the left, they do this all the time, where they

00:26:40.660 treat native people like a monolith, as if, as if someone who is partially descended from

00:26:47.320 a tribe in Central America, like the Aztecs also has some kind of rightful claim to the

00:26:53.440 continental U.S., which makes no sense whatsoever.

00:26:56.680 It's like saying that somebody from Italy has a birthright claim to, to France, or someone

00:27:03.820 from Sweden has a rightful claim to Norway, or someone from, uh, from, from Ghana has a

00:27:09.540 rightful claim to Nigeria.

00:27:10.860 Point being, just because your ancestors came from a certain hemisphere or continent doesn't

00:27:18.540 mean that your birthright gives you access to that entire section of the globe.

00:27:24.000 Um, Indians, or native people, or indigenous people, or whatever phrase you want to use,

00:27:30.620 these were not, this was not one homogenous unified group.

00:27:34.520 They were fractured, separate, distinct, different people.

00:27:39.880 They didn't consider themselves, there was no, um, they didn't consider themselves to be one

00:27:47.360 big, giant, unified people because they weren't.

00:27:50.640 Now, sometimes they lived in cooperation with the tribes around them.

00:27:54.340 Sometimes they enslaved and killed each other, um, which again, you find that all across the

00:27:59.400 world.

00:27:59.660 That's the way that it's always worked.

00:28:01.080 But they were different.

00:28:03.480 So it just doesn't make any sense at all.

00:28:06.500 Someone who lives in Mexico now, there's a very good chance that they are descended from

00:28:12.040 Spanish Europeans and also perhaps, um, native tribes from Central America.

00:28:20.560 But that by no means implies that they are also natives to the continental U.S.

00:28:31.140 That just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

00:28:34.020 All right.

00:28:34.960 Um, that's enough of talking about this woman.

00:28:39.160 Can't stomach anymore.

00:28:40.660 I want to read, uh, let's get to, to the inbox before we wrap up for the week here.

00:28:45.340 Um, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com.

00:28:48.980 You can email your thoughts, questions, concerns, hate mail, whatever you got.

00:28:53.660 Um, this is from Ash.

00:28:56.460 It says, my second grader is doing a project on MLK Jr.

00:28:59.760 where he's supposed to dress up as the leader and give a report.

00:29:05.760 Uh-oh.

00:29:06.940 Each kid in the class has a different historical figure and my son got MLK.

00:29:11.160 He was so excited when he came home to tell me and wanted to discuss his costume.

00:29:15.320 I told him that we could put him in a suit and draw the facial hair, but that we couldn't

00:29:19.020 darken his skin because it wasn't right. 1.00

00:29:21.220 He's eight.

00:29:22.220 So he got upset.

00:29:23.140 But I explained that it wasn't appropriate because it hurt the feelings of people of color.

00:29:26.680 And, um, and eventually he was fine with that.

00:29:29.960 But he, rightfully, I think, doesn't think anyone will get his costume.

00:29:34.620 There is absolutely no way I would put my little boy in blackface, even though he only 1.00

00:29:38.180 wants to do it to honor the former civil rights hero.

00:29:41.140 My question is, given the current climate, why would they give a little white boy this 0.87

00:29:47.060 assignment?

00:29:48.420 I am super proud that he wants to honor MLK and his presentation will be awesome.

00:29:52.180 But I am put off by the fact that he, that, that they asked him to dress up in costume

00:29:56.340 to do it.

00:29:57.080 It feels like entrapment for his potential future aspirations.

00:30:01.920 Um, yeah, I mean, I agree that the school should have known better than this.

00:30:08.380 In this environment, you really are setting a kid up for, uh, for some problems.

00:30:13.680 If you ask a white kid to dress up as MLK.

00:30:16.480 I mean, I, it's amazing to me, especially given everything that's happened over the past

00:30:20.440 week, that the school has an assignment to dress up like some historical figure and they

00:30:26.480 assign MLK to a white kid and say, dress up like him. 0.83

00:30:29.180 I mean, it's just, yeah.

00:30:31.020 Um, but this also just shows how crazy our culture has become because you shouldn't have

00:30:36.300 to worry about this as a parent at all.

00:30:38.720 Everyone should just understand that he's a young child dressing as someone he admires.

00:30:44.900 So it should be a total non-issue, but our culture is so crazy and so unreasonable. 0.68

00:30:51.120 People are so unreasonable.

00:30:53.340 Um, and looking to just, we're looking to destroy each other for the smallest little

00:30:57.640 reason that, that now this is something you have to worry about. 0.95

00:31:00.800 And I think that's just a, um, although it was stupid on the part of the school, it's 0.98

00:31:05.940 also more than that. 0.99

00:31:07.120 It is a, it is a, uh, reflection of the insanity of our culture that you as the parent even

00:31:15.500 have to worry about that.

00:31:17.840 Okay.

00:31:18.220 This is from someone who I'm not sure if they want me to use their name or not.

00:31:21.180 So I, so I won't just to be safe.

00:31:22.740 It says, hi, Matt.

00:31:24.180 I just wanted to say, I love your show.

00:31:25.640 I watch it pretty much every day.

00:31:27.340 I'd like to share with you my story.

00:31:28.860 I was 19 and I got pregnant because I was not on birth control since I thought it wouldn't

00:31:32.720 happen to me.

00:31:33.760 I was still fresh, a freshman in college and did not want a baby to quote, ruin my education

00:31:38.380 and career.

00:31:39.600 I was considering abortion, even though I knew it was wrong.

00:31:42.780 However, my boyfriend who was also still in school stepped up and convinced me to keep

00:31:46.580 the baby.

00:31:47.200 He told me that it was his baby too, and that I can't just abort his child.

00:31:51.680 He promised that he would support me.

00:31:53.900 Now we are married with two amazing kids.

00:31:56.220 I never finished my degree, but I do not regret it at all.

00:31:59.040 I am content because of the joy my babies bring to everyone in my family.

00:32:02.720 I wish that more men would be like my husband and own up to their actions.

00:32:06.540 Abortion is not just a women's issue. 0.79

00:32:08.360 It takes two to make a baby.

00:32:10.140 Men need to stop running away from their families. 0.99

00:32:12.700 It's really scary to see that some people don't understand that abortion is murder.

00:32:16.360 I didn't fully understand it when I was young, but after becoming a mother, I honestly cannot

00:32:20.460 fathom how abortion is legal.

00:32:22.400 It makes my blood boil that babies are murdered every day, and it's done by medical professionals.

00:32:27.560 Anyway, love the show.

00:32:28.420 Keep doing what you're doing.

00:32:29.080 Well, I would say keep doing what you're doing.

00:32:32.840 Thank you for sharing that story.

00:32:34.620 It's an awesome story.

00:32:36.640 Both you and your husbands are heroes in my book, and it's really incredible and really

00:32:41.340 great to hear a story about a man stepping up like that, speaking up for his child, and

00:32:48.120 being encouraging and supportive to his pregnant girlfriend.

00:32:54.880 And there are many stories like this that don't get highlighted, but still not enough, not

00:33:00.780 nearly enough.

00:33:03.260 And I totally agree with you that, you know, when we talk about abortion as a women's issue,

00:33:12.080 it's unfair to men, and it also lets men off the hook too much. 0.99

00:33:19.600 So it's unfair to the good men, and it lets the lazy scumbag men off the hook. 0.97

00:33:26.540 And it's also just incorrect, as you point out. 0.97

00:33:28.980 It takes two people to make a baby.

00:33:30.300 So there are a lot of men out there, unfortunately. 0.99

00:33:34.000 There are plenty of cowardly, lazy, just bad men who are perfectly happy to talk about abortion 1.00

00:33:41.800 being a women's issue and say, look, I have no opinion. 0.99

00:33:45.260 I can't have any opinion.

00:33:46.320 They can do what they want because it completely, they think it absolves them of all guilt.

00:33:53.040 So they can go get women pregnant, and then they say, hey, it's your issue to deal with. 0.89

00:33:56.420 Fine.

00:33:56.660 Go ahead.

00:33:57.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:33:57.280 Go ahead and kill the baby. 1.00

00:33:58.140 It's fine. 1.00

00:33:58.400 But then there are also good men out there who, what they're being told is that when they

00:34:07.020 create a child, when they create a human being, that that's not their child.

00:34:11.440 They have no say.

00:34:12.700 They have no right.

00:34:14.080 And that's just completely wrong.

00:34:15.400 But anyway, thank you for sharing that inspirational story.

00:34:18.540 I really appreciate it.

00:34:21.380 And finally, this is from Brad.

00:34:22.820 He says, hi, Matt.

00:34:23.440 I'm a huge fan of your show.

00:34:24.340 I share your political views 100% and your religious views for the most part.

00:34:28.000 I also appreciate your stance on homeschooling as I was homeschooled, and my wife and I plan

00:34:32.100 to homeschool our daughter when she reaches the age.

00:34:35.620 I am writing in regards to your show comments from earlier in the week about whether infants

00:34:40.500 go to heaven or hell.

00:34:41.800 I come from the Reformed Calvinist point of view, and I must disagree on your position.

00:34:46.560 As hard as it is to think about from a human perspective, I do not believe that we can assume

00:34:50.920 all infants are spared hell and go straight to heaven.

00:34:53.240 As a Calvinist Christian, we ascribe to the doctrine of election and reprobation.

00:34:58.540 I am not sure how Catholics such as yourself view this doctrine, but we believe that all

00:35:02.600 people that have ever been and will ever be on this earth are in two camps, the elect 1.00

00:35:07.340 and the reprobate.

00:35:08.600 As Christians, we believe only those written in the Book of Life will enter heaven.

00:35:12.720 All the others are cast into hell.

00:35:14.580 And we also believe all people are conceived and born with the curse of the original sin.

00:35:19.240 So even an infant, while not capable of actual sin, is still guilty of original sin.

00:35:24.660 I believe the children of believers are granted the reward of eternal life if they pass at an

00:35:28.760 early stage, but I do not believe we can assume the same for unbelievers. 0.95

00:35:33.660 The Bible clearly states that only the chosen will enter heaven.

00:35:37.140 Therefore, I believe it is dangerous to assume God makes an exception for all infants.

00:35:40.900 I realize it is a terrible thing to think about, but I think it is the truth. 1.00

00:35:46.600 I hope you see what I'm trying to articulate here.

00:35:48.780 I am far from a theologian or an expert by any stretch.

00:35:51.740 Just a simple farm boy raised in a conservative country church.

00:35:54.860 I look forward to a response from you.

00:35:57.160 Hi, Brad.

00:35:57.820 I appreciate your email and your support for the show.

00:36:01.380 I don't mean this with any hostility whatsoever.

00:36:04.000 So please understand that.

00:36:06.380 But I have to say that I find this, and I know that you're far from the only person that

00:36:10.020 has this point of view.

00:36:11.960 And you articulated the point of view quite eloquently, and so I appreciate that.

00:36:20.120 But I do find that point of view to be horrific, honestly.

00:36:27.800 Let's put this into perspective here, okay?

00:36:31.000 You're talking about hell.

00:36:32.220 Okay, so this is not some theoretical in-between place, right?

00:36:36.200 You're talking about hell, hell, like actual hell.

00:36:40.520 A place of eternal torment, I assume, is what you mean by hell.

00:36:46.720 And also, when we talk about the word eternal, eternal means very little to us because we

00:36:52.960 can't possibly wrap our heads around what it means.

00:36:55.740 We don't know what forever means.

00:36:57.460 We can only experience time in succession.

00:36:59.540 And so every moment, a moment comes, it runs out, we get another moment, and that's how

00:37:04.640 we experience time, which makes it just impossible to think about eternity.

00:37:09.240 And so sometimes I think we're able to, you know, maybe there are some people that are

00:37:16.800 able to, and I'm not saying you're doing this, but maybe there are some people who are

00:37:19.540 able to sort of casually say, yeah, maybe some babies go to hell for all eternity, because

00:37:23.740 they don't even think about what eternity means.

00:37:25.820 Because none of us can really conceive, which is why when I've been talking about this this

00:37:30.720 week, I've been saying, well, you're talking about babies going to hell for trillions of

00:37:35.420 years.

00:37:35.680 And I've had some people send me emails and say, well, you can't say hell is trillions

00:37:39.320 of years.

00:37:39.720 That's inaccurate.

00:37:40.540 This is eternity.

00:37:41.460 You're talking about in terms of time.

00:37:43.220 Yeah, I understand that.

00:37:44.540 But I'm just trying to put it in terms that we can sort of understand.

00:37:49.380 Now, we can't understand a trillion years either.

00:37:50.940 We can't even understand a million years.

00:37:52.780 But at least a number is something that we can sort of wrap our head around.

00:37:58.060 The point anyway, is that hell, we believe, is forever, never ends.

00:38:05.920 So to say it's a trillion years is really a trillion years stacked up against eternity is

00:38:11.980 just a drop in the bucket.

00:38:14.000 A trillion years, you haven't even gotten started yet.

00:38:16.260 So you're saying that God, a merciful, a perfectly merciful and loving being, might send babies.

00:38:30.200 Think about a six-month-old baby.

00:38:31.680 Might send a six-month-old baby who dies of a disease or is killed in a flood or a fire

00:38:39.300 or something, may send that being who he created to eternal torment that never, ever, ever, ever ends.

00:38:52.900 Worse, you're saying that they were selected, that that child, let's just put this, you know,

00:38:58.740 let's narrow this down a little bit.

00:39:01.380 Imagine a six-month-old child who dies, let's say, in a house fire.

00:39:07.400 Okay, these things happen.

00:39:09.500 Child of an unbeliever. 1.00

00:39:14.300 The child dies in agonizing pain and then goes to an eternity of agonizing pain

00:39:22.200 that God has selected that child for.

00:39:28.980 And you're saying that the child was selected for that before birth.

00:39:34.180 He never had any choice.

00:39:35.820 He never had any say in it.

00:39:37.400 He never had any role in this at all.

00:39:40.880 He never had any direct personal role in his own damnation.

00:39:44.880 God selected him for hell and then made him and sent him to earth and then took his life

00:39:52.280 almost immediately and cast him into an eternity of suffering.

00:39:56.520 And you suggest that this could somehow be in keeping with a merciful and loving creator?

00:40:00.920 But I think you know that it's not, which is why you even say it's terrible.

00:40:05.760 It's terrible.

00:40:06.440 It's hard.

00:40:06.760 You use the word like terrible.

00:40:09.940 You're right.

00:40:10.520 It is terrible.

00:40:13.260 But a loving creator doesn't do terrible things.

00:40:19.340 Keep something else in mind.

00:40:20.460 You know, he could have just not made the baby in the first place.

00:40:25.640 Creation for God is an active choice.

00:40:28.020 So he must choose to make this baby and he must choose to consign before birth, before he even has conceived the child, he consigns this child to an eternity of suffering.

00:40:45.080 And there is zero chance of anything else happening.

00:40:51.860 Why even make the child then?

00:40:53.360 What was the point?

00:40:55.100 We talk about the creation of human life as this great miracle.

00:40:58.900 Well, it's not.

00:40:59.920 I mean, in that case, he has made this creature to suffer.

00:41:05.220 That's the only reason it exists and it will never have anything else.

00:41:09.120 What was even the point?

00:41:10.280 And I know you could say, well, you know, why would God make anyone who he knows is going to go to hell?

00:41:15.940 Yeah, but it's entirely different if it's a person who's lived long enough to make some kind of choice.

00:41:21.320 Someone who has had some sort of chance, who can play some sort of direct role in all of this.

00:41:27.180 But a baby who has been preordained for hell and then taken from this world by disease or murder has no chance, no choice, nothing.

00:41:35.060 And will be punished forever, forever, for a sin that he did not personally and consciously commit.

00:41:43.780 Keep one other thing in mind, Brad.

00:41:46.160 Nothing exists without God's continual and active consent.

00:41:50.360 So imagine that there is like in heaven right now, there is a Matt Walsh button.

00:41:54.500 And God has his finger on the Matt Walsh button.

00:41:57.960 And the moment that he releases his finger from that button, I cease to exist.

00:42:02.300 Of course, that's not really how it works.

00:42:04.520 But my point is that every moment that I exist is an active choice by God to keep me in existence.

00:42:11.120 It is, let's say, an active effort by God to keep me in existence.

00:42:17.460 That's what it means to be the sovereign power reigning over all of existence.

00:42:21.920 Which means that those babies suffering forever in hell, God has to sustain them in existence so that they can continue to be tormented forever.

00:42:35.480 So every moment of eternity, God has to make the active choice to keep those babies existing so that they can suffer forever.

00:42:46.200 And you imagine that a loving and merciful God would do that.

00:42:52.560 It just doesn't make any sense.

00:42:54.340 And I think you know that it doesn't make any sense.

00:42:57.920 But you think that you have to be open to that possibility because of some doctrine.

00:43:02.980 And what I'm saying is that if your doctrine flies in the face of everything we know about God and everything we've been told about Him,

00:43:17.600 and your doctrine forces you to accept the possibility that God would do something evil,

00:43:24.980 and I can't think of any other way to explain it,

00:43:30.040 to design a child to suffer forever in hell and to preordain him to that fate.

00:43:41.740 What else?

00:43:42.760 Again, if that is not evil, then I don't know what the word evil means.

00:43:48.680 So yes, I absolutely reject that notion.

00:43:53.140 But it's been an interesting conversation this week to continually talk about this,

00:43:58.300 and I appreciate all your emails on it.

00:44:00.380 And thanks for watching and listening, and I'll talk to you guys next week.

00:44:03.240 Godspeed.

00:44:09.780 Today on The Ben Shapiro Show,

00:44:11.580 Jeff Bezos of Amazon exposes the National Enquirer as a blackmail racket,

00:44:15.820 the Democratic Green New Deal gets off to a rough start,

00:44:18.160 and we check the mailbag.

00:44:19.320 That's today on The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 08, 2019

Ep. 194 - The Totally Insane And Utterly Hilarious Green New Deal

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