The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 198 - The Modern Day Blackface

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats accuse Republicans of sabotaging the Green New Deal

00:00:05.160 by voting on it. Also, with drag queen story hours popping up at libraries across the country,

00:00:13.080 I have a question. Isn't drag just a blackface-style mockery of womanhood? How is it that 0.97

00:00:19.460 drag queens have somehow escaped that criticism? And finally, a college newspaper tells white boys 0.64

00:00:25.720 to stop talking at all. They're not allowed to talk anymore. We'll talk about all that today

00:00:30.620 on the Matt Walsh Show. Happy Valentine's Day, everybody. Let me begin, if I could, with a quick

00:00:40.540 tip, a little bit of advice for all the guys out there. I've been married for seven years. I have

00:00:46.020 three kids, so I think I'm kind of an expert at this point. I'm certainly in a position where I

00:00:51.060 can dole out advice, I believe. So if you are, if you haven't gotten a gift yet for your wife or

00:00:57.780 your girlfriend, and you're kind of panicking because it's the last minute, well, don't worry

00:01:01.740 about it. I'm here to help you out, okay? Now, first, a warning. You're going to hear a lot of

00:01:07.200 people claim that a good gift for your wife on Valentine's Day might be like a handwritten love

00:01:12.840 note and maybe a gift card to a spa or something. But no, no, no. See, that's not, let me tell you,

00:01:19.180 women enjoy practical gifts. The first thing, when they get a gift, the first thing I'm thinking is, 1.00

00:01:24.860 what can I do with this? How can I use it? So you can't go wrong with a nice pack of new sponges,

00:01:34.200 let's say, or a really high-class, high-end laundry detergent. And I'm talking about,

00:01:39.780 I'm not talking about $15 laundry detergent. I'm saying you could even go out and splurge,

00:01:43.920 spend $25 on the really nice laundry detergents, the kind of laundry detergent that you get for

00:01:50.980 special occasions like Valentine's Day anniversaries and so forth. Of course, a mop is always a good

00:01:57.420 choice, but be creative, be thoughtful about it. Maybe think, like, what is your wife's favorite

00:02:02.040 color? Well, get a mop in that color. Another idea is a gift bag or a kind of a gift basket with

00:02:09.480 all different kinds of cleaning supplies. You got your Windex and your, you know, your different

00:02:13.740 kinds of bleach and so on, Clorox and all that kind of stuff. What I'm doing, just to, and you

00:02:20.060 can steal my idea if you want, that's fine. I am, I got my wife a very nice, beautiful dustpan. And I

00:02:27.580 wrote a little note on the dustpan with suggestions about what areas of the house she could clean. So

00:02:34.120 anyway, it's going to be great. She's going to swoon, I'm sure, over it. So that's my suggestion.

00:02:40.500 It is, it is, if you follow this suggestion, it is guaranteed to get a reaction, a big one,

00:02:46.660 a big reaction that, that I can be sure of. All right. I want to, so let me mention this quickly

00:02:53.720 at the top here. Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell, speaking of Valentine's Day, you know, the ladies love 1.00

00:03:01.380 Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell doesn't get enough credit. I think he, especially from conservatives,

00:03:06.760 and he, he certainly has earned his share of criticism over the years. I'm not going to deny

00:03:11.120 that, but he also is someone who knows how to play the game. And I think you should get a little bit

00:03:15.920 of credit for that. Sometimes he makes a move on the chessboard that we just have to stop and

00:03:21.700 appreciate. So yesterday McConnell announced that the Green New Deal resolution proposed by

00:03:28.200 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that he's going to put that resolution up for a vote in the Senate. Now,

00:03:35.260 obviously the resolution has absolutely no chance of passing through the Senate, but the idea here

00:03:39.980 clearly is to take this insane, incoherent, barely legible, jumbled mess and force Democrats,

00:03:47.900 especially Democrats who are running for president, force them to officially put their name on it and

00:03:52.580 vote for it so that it can be used against them on the campaign trail. And now during debates and

00:03:57.320 everything, they're going to be forced, they're going to have to answer for the Green New Deal and 0.91

00:04:02.880 explain all the different facets of it. Like, Hey, by the way, how are we going to get rid of all

00:04:07.260 the farting cows? How are we going to replace every building in America? All of that stuff. So

00:04:12.080 it's a, it's a great tactic on McConnell's part. On the other hand, what the Democrats could do is,

00:04:21.260 is they could vote against it, but then they're going to anger their base. So it's a lose-lose

00:04:28.700 situation for them, which is why it's a brilliant strategy on McConnell's part. It's also why Senator

00:04:33.960 Ed Markey, I almost really just accidentally called him Ed Malarkey. Ed Markey, who's one of the guys who

00:04:43.500 wrote the Green New Deal, he said this yesterday. He was very upset. He said, don't let Mitch McConnell

00:04:49.040 fool you. This is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the movement we are building. He wants

00:04:53.700 to silence your voice. So Republicans don't have to explain why they are climate change deniers.

00:04:58.540 McConnell wants this to be the end, but this is just the beginning.

00:05:05.000 Did you get that? McConnell is sabotaging them by putting their resolution up for a vote.

00:05:11.300 So usually it goes the other way around. If, if, if the Republicans won't vote on something that the

00:05:15.940 Democrats want, then they'll say that it's sabotage. They're being blocked. They're being,

00:05:19.820 you know, they're being interfere, it's interference or whatever. Obstructionist.

00:05:26.400 So usually it's obstruct, it's obstructionist. If you don't vote for it, it's sabotage if you do.

00:05:31.900 But the thing is, Markey is of course, right. In a way McConnell is trying to sabotage them and as

00:05:37.920 well, he should, the Green New Deal should be sabotaged, but he's doing it simply by voting on it.

00:05:45.640 So he's just voting for the proposal and that's how you sabotage it. So what does that tell you?

00:05:50.380 It tells you that the proposal is insane. The proposal is so insane that the best way to defeat

00:05:55.280 it and punish anyone who supports it is simply to vote on it. And you find this a lot with Democrats.

00:06:01.420 You find this complaint quite a bit, especially recently, uh, these days they'll, they'll accuse

00:06:06.820 Republicans of, or conservatives of sabotage or deception or dishonesty just for

00:06:15.560 taking them seriously and quoting them verbatim. Um, of course I think of a Trump at a, he was at

00:06:25.240 the rally a few days ago and at the rally, he said that Ralph Northam wanted to make it legal to, uh,

00:06:33.840 execute babies after they're born and liberals freaked out. They said, he's lying. This is outrageous,

00:06:41.040 fake news, blah, blah, blah, blah. But no, he was actually quoting Ralph North, Northam almost verbatim.

00:06:48.180 Uh, but liberals support such heinous policies and such terrible vile ideas that all you need to do is

00:07:02.240 quote them and it will sound like you're making it up. So yeah, if you didn't know any better and you

00:07:08.120 heard that line from, from Trump, where he's talking about Ralph Northam executing babies,

00:07:13.380 if you didn't know any better and you hadn't been, you hadn't been paying attention and you heard that

00:07:17.760 line, you would say, well, that's crazy. He's making that up. That's a, that's a terrible thing to make

00:07:22.380 up, but no, that is actually what Northam said. He didn't use the word execute, but that's obviously

00:07:27.660 what he was implying. So the liberal strategy is to say heinous things and then accuse anyone who

00:07:35.980 quotes them of lying. Uh, another example, the undercover Planned Parenthood videos from a few

00:07:42.160 years ago, they were, um, the Planned Parenthood was caught on tape trying to sell the body parts of

00:07:49.860 aborted babies, which again, if you didn't know any better and you hadn't been following it and you 0.99

00:07:57.100 heard some conservative saying that Planned Parenthood is selling baby parts, you might

00:08:02.160 just kind of viscerally react to that and say, no, there's no way. Isn't it? That's crazy.

00:08:10.320 You're diluted. You're hallucinating. There's, there's no way they were doing it, but, but yes,

00:08:13.700 that is what they were doing. They're on tape. All you have to do is go watch the video. There's

00:08:18.860 hours and hours, dozens of hours of videotape, uh, that you can watch where they talk about this.

00:08:27.100 But the left said it's, it's a doc. It's doctored. They doctored the footage. No, they didn't. It's

00:08:33.600 not doctored. In fact, Planned Parenthood did their own investigation of the footage. And even they said

00:08:40.000 in their own report, which you can go Google it and find it online that Planned Parenthood did a,

00:08:45.620 did their own report, their own investigation of these, um, undercover videos. And even they said

00:08:51.100 they admitted that the footage is not doctored. That's according to them because it wasn't.

00:08:59.740 This is just what they said. This is, this is what these Planned Parenthood employees were caught

00:09:04.360 on tape saying. It's as simple as that. Um, so that tells you everything you need to know about leftist

00:09:12.800 policies. That, um, that, um, that in simply repeating them verbatim, it sounds like you're

00:09:22.260 lying. All right. So here's something else. Speaking of a vile, horrible, atrocious things,

00:09:30.600 you know, in our, in our increasingly decaying culture, there is a popular sort of event, uh,

00:09:39.640 that I'm sure you've heard of by now. The event is called a drag queen story hour. Okay. And I was

00:09:46.900 just reading about another one of these that was held in, or it's going to be held in Greenville,

00:09:51.040 South Carolina. Originally it was canceled because of protests from the community. People in the community

00:09:56.880 said, we don't want this at our library. Uh, but now it's back on and caving to PC pressure, the

00:10:04.860 library in, in Greenville, South Carolina, they're going to hold the event anyway. Like so many other

00:10:10.780 libraries across the country have. Um, and as I said, there've been events like this across the

00:10:15.980 country and it is exactly what it sounds like. A drag queen, um, comes in and reads stories to children

00:10:26.040 dressed in drag, uh, which means that parents, actual parents, actual alleged parents choose to

00:10:36.520 bring their kids to the library, uh, bring their kids to the library. So they drag queen can read them 1.00

00:10:44.740 books. That means actual parents have to say to their kids, Hey, let's get in the car and drive to the

00:10:53.320 library because a man in a dress wants to read you a story. Why do you need a drag queen to read your 1.00

00:11:01.220 kid a book? Uh, why does the man need to dress like a woman before he reads the book? How does this 1.00

00:11:09.440 enhance the book reading experience at all? Well, who knows? I do know, actually, the idea of course is

00:11:17.260 indoctrination. That's, that's the point to, to shove this stuff into the faces of kids early and

00:11:23.240 often in life so that they never think it's weird or strange. When I was a kid, uh, we inherently

00:11:29.760 recognized as kids that it is strange. It is unhealthy. It is not good for a man to go parading around 0.99

00:11:36.700 like a woman. When I was in, when I was in a kid, when I was in fourth or fifth grade, if a guy dressed

00:11:44.400 as a woman had come to read us a book, we would have all just laughed at it. We would have said 1.00

00:11:50.400 this is, we would have seen it as this really weird, funny, bizarre, strange thing, which it is.

00:11:59.000 That is the appropriate reaction. When a child sees a man dressed like a drag queen, the appropriate 1.00

00:12:06.760 reaction is, is laughter. Um, a kind of disturbed, confused laughter. That's, that's, that's how you

00:12:17.520 should react. But what the left is trying to do with, with the cooperation of many parents is to

00:12:26.240 brainwash these kids early in life so that they don't have that natural reaction and they see perversity

00:12:33.820 and they see things that are debauched and deranged and they think, well, that's perfectly

00:12:38.940 normal. But I want to focus on another aspect of this issue. Um, in fact, let me just, I'm going to

00:12:48.420 put a, uh, uh, I'm going to put a picture up on screen for those of you watching on YouTube or on

00:12:53.220 Facebook. Uh, this is an image, uh, from a drag queen story hour in Palm Springs. And this isn't even

00:13:01.440 the worst one that I could find, but, um, here, here's, here's a, here's a drag queen reading a, 0.84

00:13:06.400 a story, uh, to the kids. So you can see, he looks like some kind of R rated Dr. Seuss character,

00:13:13.380 completely gratuitous, ridiculous, outlandish, disturbing. And there are much creepier ones 0.94

00:13:19.640 than that. This is a, um, let's look at another one. This is from a drag queen story hour at the

00:13:25.860 Boston public library. Uh, so look at this. It is literally like something out of a horror film,

00:13:35.020 grotesque, disturbing. I mean, that is, it looks like something that you would see.

00:13:43.180 It looks like maybe, maybe if you were, uh, you know, on LSD or something like that, it's,

00:13:48.820 it's something you would see. So, and not only is that, uh, is that, and we'll talk about this in a

00:13:52.900 second. This is my point. Not only is that last one offensive to women, but also to, uh, to, uh, 1.00

00:13:58.880 Catholics as well, because this is someone dressed up like some sort of caricature of a nun.

00:14:05.160 And there is a whole, by the way, there's a whole group of, uh, drag queens that do a lot of these 0.90

00:14:10.180 story hours and they're called, I'm trying to remember what they're called. They're called the,

00:14:14.580 uh, the sisters of perpetual indulgence. And their whole thing is to, to make fun of nuns,

00:14:20.880 to dress up like these, uh, kind of acid trippy, um, caricatures of sexualized nuns and to go 0.97

00:14:32.800 around reading, reading stories. Here's my question. Leaving aside the trauma that's being

00:14:39.460 inflicted on children with this nonsense, not that we can really leave that aside, but focusing on

00:14:44.440 something else for a moment. My question is, how is it that drag queens have escaped the blackface 1.00

00:14:51.120 backlash? I mean, all of these people upset about blackface, about people dressing as blackface,

00:14:56.440 especially Democrats in Virginia dressing in blackface. Well, we're told that that's offensive

00:15:02.000 and demeaning and, and, and, and all of that. Okay, fine. But isn't dressing in drag,

00:15:09.060 isn't that just a female blackface? Drag shows are essentially female minstrel shows, 1.00

00:15:16.780 men dressing as exaggerated, sexualized caricatures of women. Female traits are parodied,

00:15:25.520 parodied, satirized to the point of absurdity. Okay. This is not, you look at that, you look at that 0.57

00:15:31.940 guy dressed like a Dr. Seuss character. That's not a tribute to women. Uh, drag queens are women turned 1.00

00:15:39.000 into cartoons and you'll notice always sexualized. That guy's in like a little miniskirt. I mean, 0.75

00:15:44.380 it's always, it's, it's, there's always a sexual element to it always. So tell me this, ladies,

00:15:51.420 I'll throw it to you. You could tell me for yourself, do you feel like your femininity, 0.80

00:15:57.520 like your womanhood is celebrated by a drag queen or is it more so appropriated and aped and mocked? 1.00

00:16:06.440 I could tell you this, if it were a woman dressed like some dumb, absurd character of a stupid frat 1.00

00:16:14.820 boy or something, I wouldn't look at that and say, wow, she totally gets me. I feel so celebrated. 1.00

00:16:21.280 That's a tribute to manhood. I would say, okay, she's obviously making fun of me. Uh, I wouldn't cry

00:16:28.640 about it, but it would be clear that this is insulting, not uplifting. Every, everything we

00:16:37.020 could say about blackface, it all applies to the, to the drag queen thing too. And even if I were to

00:16:45.220 agree, which I certainly don't, that the drag, that dressing in drag is a tribute to women. 0.95

00:16:50.960 And, but even if I were, uh, that excuse doesn't fly for white people dressing like black people.

00:16:57.960 Ralph, Ralph Northam says that he dressed as Michael Jackson, uh, did the moonwalk. And this 0.60

00:17:02.940 was meant to be a tribute to my, he was a fan of Michael Jackson. He wasn't trying to make fun of

00:17:06.620 him, but we're told that, look, even if you do it as a tribute, even if you try to, uh, I mean,

00:17:13.200 Megyn Kelly got fired from her job for even suggesting that it may be okay to darken your

00:17:20.840 face, uh, uh, in an effort to, to pay tribute to a famous black person. So we're told, no, that's,

00:17:29.100 you can't, you can't do tribute or not. No, it's offensive. It's degrading. It's imitating,

00:17:33.840 mocking. It's just no. Okay, fine. I understand that. Well, it's the same exact thing with this,

00:17:41.880 that even if it isn't, even if it is supposed to be a tribute, that's not how you pay tribute to 0.95

00:17:46.920 someone by dressing in an exaggerated, sexualized, ridiculous costume and parading around on stage

00:17:57.700 reading or reading stories, the children, that's not a tribute, but of course it's not even supposed 0.94

00:18:05.740 to be a tribute anyway. That's not even, we all know that's not the idea here.

00:18:11.880 And what about appropriation? I brought up this point plenty of times in the past, but

00:18:20.280 everyone is worried about appropriation. People are, you know, appropriating cultures. Well,

00:18:26.680 that's what this womanhood is really actually being appropriated by this drag queen stuff, 1.00

00:18:34.860 by transgenderism. You have womanhood being appropriated, stolen, taken, 1.00

00:18:41.460 um, you know, taken over by, by men in a way that is, that is, again, degrading and demeaning.

00:18:55.520 I just, I think it's about time, um, that the, the LGBT community stops getting an exemption from all

00:19:10.160 this stuff. It seems like they're exempt from all this, all, you know, appropriation, blackface, 0.75

00:19:17.300 all that stuff. They're exempt. They can do what they want and no one's allowed to be offended. No

00:19:22.320 one's allowed to complain. And especially women aren't allowed to complain because there are, 1.00

00:19:27.720 there are, there are plenty of women who, um, would agree with everything that I'm saying.

00:19:33.120 And there are even feminists. There are even liberal feminists, uh, not very many who are 0.99

00:19:39.240 willing to say it out loud, but there are, there are some, there's a substantial number of liberal

00:19:43.580 feminists who are just trying to draw the line in the sand and say, no, enough of this is crazy. 1.00

00:19:47.820 Enough of this. You know, you're a man, you're not a woman. You can't pretend to be one. There's 1.00

00:19:53.340 a difference between us and you're not the same. I'm not going to treat you like the same.

00:19:58.620 And what happens to those feminists when they say that there was a liberal feminist got kicked 1.00

00:20:03.660 off of Twitter for simply saying that men are men and they're not women.

00:20:06.700 I just think it's time we start holding everyone to the same standard. Speaking of which, uh, last

00:20:16.760 thing before we get to some of your emails, trying to pull it up. Give me a second here. So I got,

00:20:22.820 someone sent me this a few days ago. I've been wanting to talk about it and, um, just other

00:20:27.040 subjects have gotten in the way. So let me mention it now. Someone from Dickinson college sent me a,

00:20:33.920 um, editorial, if we can call it that, that was in the Dickinsonian college student newspaper.

00:20:44.120 And there's been a, there's been an article about this on the daily wire now, but the,

00:20:47.940 the title of the article is, um, should white boys still be allowed to talk?

00:20:53.520 And the article in this student newspaper is just one long attack against all white boys

00:21:02.540 suggesting that they shouldn't even be allowed to speak anymore.

00:21:08.360 Let me, uh, let me read a little bit of this to you written by Leda Fisher, uh, or Leda Fisher.

00:21:15.920 I'm not sure I pronounced the name. When you ask a question at a lecture, is it secretly just your

00:21:20.900 opinion ending with the phrase, do you agree? If so, your name is something like Jake or Chad or

00:21:26.600 Alex. And you were taught that your voice is the most important in every room somewhere along your

00:21:32.100 academic journey. You decided your search for intellectual validation was more important than

00:21:39.500 the actual exchange of misinformation of, of, of information. Now, how do you expect to actually

00:21:44.820 learn anything? American society tells men, but especially white men that their opinions have

00:21:49.840 merit and that their voice is valuable. But after four years of listening to white boys in college, 0.67

00:21:55.460 I am not so convinced. In my time at Dickinson, I have listened to probably hundreds of white boys

00:22:00.680 talk. It feels incessant from classes and lectures to the news and politics. There is an endless line

00:22:06.740 of white boys wanting to share their opinions on the state of feminism in America, whether the LGBTQ

00:22:11.900 population finally has enough rights, the merits of capitalism, et cetera. The list of what white boys 0.98

00:22:18.400 think they're qualified to talk about is endless. Something very few of them seem to understand is

00:22:23.940 that their ill-informed, uncritical opinions do not constitute truth. In fact, most of their opinions

00:22:30.040 aren't even original. And then, so I won't read the whole thing. So on and so forth, you get the idea.

00:22:36.180 And it goes on like that for four or five paragraphs. Concluding with the proposal that white 0.78

00:22:43.960 boys should not be allowed to talk anymore. Now, I mean, this is, I get that it's just a student 1.00

00:22:48.040 newspaper, free speech and everything like that as well. Although she obviously doesn't believe in

00:22:54.220 free speech. She thinks that she's complaining. She's like, well, white boys have been raised with 0.57

00:22:59.880 this idea that their opinions are worthwhile. Well, yeah. I mean, we're supposed to raise everybody

00:23:06.900 with that idea that they're allowed to express their opinions. So she doesn't believe they should

00:23:11.340 have first amendment rights. But speaking of worthless, stupid, ugly opinions that have no value and do not 1.00

00:23:21.960 need to be expressed and should not be given a platform. Well, there you go. This is just some, 1.00

00:23:28.600 a woman having a, a racist hissy fit spending four or five paragraphs complaining about all white boys 0.96

00:23:38.080 and just insulting them and saying, none of their opinions are worthwhile. None of them should be 0.96

00:23:44.500 able to talk. And the newspaper said, the student newspaper said, yeah, let's, let's run that.

00:23:51.640 No, again, see, we need to stop making exemptions for people. This is just sexist, racist idiocy. It has 1.00

00:23:58.880 no value. It has no worth. It is totally stupid. There is nothing redeeming about it whatsoever.

00:24:06.020 We don't have to, we don't, we don't, we don't have to even stop to consider this person's opinion

00:24:10.960 or perspective on this subject for even a second. And obviously if, if, if a white, if a white boy

00:24:22.740 had written an article like that targeted at women, targeted at black people, targeted at any other

00:24:29.680 group, uh, there will be protests in the street. There will be outrage across the country. Uh, they,

00:24:35.300 I mean, they'd be shutting the school down over it, but of course the article never would have been

00:24:40.520 run in the first place because people, because the editor of that newspaper would have looked at it 1.00

00:24:45.240 and said, no, this is just racist, stupid garbage. Why would I put this in the paper? 1.00

00:24:52.960 Well, yes, exactly. All right. Let's read a couple of your emails. You can email the show,

00:25:00.860 uh, at Matt wall show at gmail.com. This is from Mike. He says, I really enjoyed your explanation

00:25:07.040 on tax refunds and how deceptive it is in the way that it's structured by the IRS. What is your

00:25:12.080 position on abolishing the IRS? I've heard from several conservatives slash libertarians, including

00:25:17.280 Ted Cruz during the 2016 election saying they're in favor of this, but I am unclear how exactly it

00:25:22.000 would work. Presumably if you did abolish the IRS, it would have to be replaced with something else

00:25:26.380 in order to collect revenue and hold those accountable, attempting to evade taxes. I hope

00:25:29.960 you can explain this in a way I can understand better. Mike. Uh, yeah, I mean, personally,

00:25:34.860 if they're going to abolish the IRS, you're not going to hear any complaints from me whatsoever.

00:25:39.320 This of course will never happen. Um, but in a fantasy world where it did happen,

00:25:47.560 I think most people who favor getting rid of the IRS would prefer to replace it

00:25:53.400 with a consumption tax with something like the fair tax. Uh, the fair tax is the idea behind the

00:25:59.800 fair tax is let's get rid of all the income tax. Let's get rid of all the payroll taxes. Uh, thus

00:26:05.640 we don't need the IRS anymore. And then we replace all of that revenue with a national, um, sales tax

00:26:12.620 essentially. And I read a book on the fair tax proposal years ago. I don't know if it's been updated

00:26:18.620 since then, but when I, from what I remember, the idea was, um, to replace those taxes with,

00:26:25.040 I think it was like a 25% national sales tax on not every kind. I think like things like groceries

00:26:32.680 would be exempt, but on, on various kinds of, uh, of items. Now the way the proposal was,

00:26:39.900 was, was written. The idea is to replace the income tax. So this isn't even like cutting,

00:26:46.820 you know, uh, cutting the government's revenue at all. It's like looking at how much the government

00:26:52.140 makes with income tax and how can we replace all of that? Well, it would mean a 25, 30% sales tax.

00:26:58.300 Uh, I would, I would take that over the income tax. I would take pretty much anything over the

00:27:03.540 income tax. Um, I think the idea of it, we're so used to it now, we kind of take it for granted,

00:27:10.380 but the idea of your income itself being directly taxed, I think is tyrannical.

00:27:18.940 It's the kind of thing we only accept it because we're all used to it. And it's always been this way.

00:27:24.540 But when you really stop to think about it for a minute, why should the government have a right

00:27:29.620 to just automatically take whatever money you make, especially in what's supposed to be a free

00:27:36.200 country. So even though a 25, 30% sales tax, uh, is extremely steep. And I think you could cut it

00:27:45.240 down to like, I don't know, 10 or 15% or less. And the government can make do with less money

00:27:50.240 because that, I think that should be part of the point here. But either way, at least with a

00:27:55.380 consumption tax, then you are in some ways controlling and deciding, um, where you spend

00:28:02.200 your taxes, how much tax you pay in a way by, by you can control that by controlling what you buy.

00:28:10.280 So that's the, I think that's the basic idea for most people that want to abolish the IRS.

00:28:14.920 This is from, uh, well, there's no name provided says, hello, Matt. I was listening to you ramble

00:28:20.140 yesterday about getting rid of the withholding system. I often suspect you have no idea what

00:28:24.380 you're babbling about. And now those suspicions are confirmed. Wait, they were just now confirmed.

00:28:29.760 You've been listening to me all this time. And you just now realized I have no idea what I'm

00:28:33.100 talking about without withholding. The government would have to actively collect taxes. Most people

00:28:39.240 wouldn't pay. There would have to be a whole elaborate mechanism put in place for collecting

00:28:43.600 from people. The whole system would collapse and the country along with it under the weight of this 0.99

00:28:48.760 system. It's a terrible idea. One of many from you. Uh, first of all, thank you so much for your

00:28:55.040 support. Second, you're being dramatic. Of course, how do you know that most people wouldn't pay if

00:29:00.260 there was no withholding system? Where are you getting that from? Do you have some sort of

00:29:02.840 study that you conducted over the last 12 hours? And anyway, even if that were true,

00:29:10.580 how would that precipitate the end of civilization as we know it? Are you really so subjugated? Are you

00:29:17.900 really so submissive? As to think that life as we know it would end if the government had trouble

00:29:26.220 collecting income taxes? Dear Lord, man, you should be embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for you.

00:29:35.540 You think, you think the country would collapse if they had trouble collecting the income tax?

00:29:39.860 How do you think we got by without an income tax, which we did for many decades and which many

00:29:48.440 governments have figured out a way to do? Over thousands of years, governments have figured out

00:29:54.880 a way to get by without a withholding system. How do you think they did it?

00:30:00.840 Look, the government brings in about three and a half trillion dollars a year in revenue. Okay,

00:30:09.700 three and a half trillion. Now, so it has to subsist on a measly three and a half trillion.

00:30:18.860 To put that in perspective, there is only around five trillion dollars of physical money that exists

00:30:25.740 in the world. Now, obviously, when we talk about the government bringing in three and a half trillion,

00:30:30.240 we're not talking about physical money. It's not like they've got, you know, we're mailing them

00:30:34.360 bags of money or something for the income tax. But I'm just trying to put it into perspective. So their

00:30:39.580 revenue is technically three and a half trillion. And there only exists five trillion dollars worth of

00:30:46.000 physical money in the world, meaning the government every year collects almost as much money as exists

00:30:55.420 in the world. And half of that is the income tax. So even if the government couldn't collect any income

00:31:04.800 tax from anyone, they would still have $2 trillion to work with every year. You're telling me that if

00:31:15.280 the government only had $2 trillion every year, the whole world would collapse, the civilization,

00:31:20.780 the country would be over? You're telling me the government couldn't possibly figure out a way

00:31:25.720 to make due on $2 trillion a year? But of course, they still would be able to collect. It would just

00:31:34.660 take some effort. And it ought to take effort. Yes, if you didn't have a withholding system,

00:31:42.680 the government would actually have to physically go out and collect the taxes just like governments did

00:31:49.400 for thousands of years of human civilization up until the 1940s or 50s or whenever the withholding

00:31:57.140 system began. And that's how it should be. It shouldn't be so easy that they can just dip right

00:32:05.560 into your paycheck and say, I'll take that. Thank you. And just put it in their pocket. That's not how

00:32:10.340 it should be. Yeah, it's easier, but that's not... Think about it. The way it stands right now,

00:32:16.240 okay, the government gets a hold of your paycheck before you do. They get it first and then they

00:32:25.380 give you whatever the leftover is. Do you think that's the way it really should work in a free

00:32:30.680 country? Do you think the founding fathers who revolted, who were so upset over a tax on tea

00:32:39.560 that they overthrew their government? Do you think they would be... They'd find that acceptable?

00:32:46.100 Now, I know that there was more to it than the tax on tea, but the tax on tea was a big part of it.

00:32:51.080 And taxes in general is a big part of it for them. Do you think they would... Do you think

00:32:57.540 they'd be fine with that? With a system where the government can just go right into your paycheck,

00:33:03.540 bypass you completely, and take whatever they want? It's a shame.

00:33:14.600 All right. From Joel, he says, Hi, Matt. In my US history class, my teacher says walls don't work.

00:33:22.000 He says the 38th parallel separating North and South Korea is one of his examples,

00:33:27.600 saying that people still find a way across it. Oh, it's really so easy. Well, maybe your history

00:33:33.020 teacher should go and try to cross the... Go ahead, history teacher. Go try to cross the wall down

00:33:37.120 there in South Korea and see how it works out for you, if it's really so easy to just waltz across

00:33:42.440 it. Go ahead. Give it a try. And his other example he uses is the Berlin Wall, also saying it didn't

00:33:48.720 work and that people still got around under and over it. He's obviously referring that the Southern

00:33:53.780 border wall wouldn't work. I wanted to ask him, why would they have needed to take down the Berlin

00:33:59.320 Berlin Wall if it didn't work? And wouldn't the wall at least discourage a majority of people from

00:34:04.160 trying to get across the border? Thanks for defending Christian morals and values and real 0.66

00:34:08.000 masculinity by having a real beard. You're welcome. Love the show. Joel, I think you have exactly the

00:34:14.140 right idea, and I would encourage you to say that to your teacher. The next time he launches into his

00:34:19.380 stupid little rant about walls, showing... I mean, it's sad that he's a history teacher and apparently 1.00

00:34:26.600 doesn't understand much about the way the world works or about history. I would encourage you to

00:34:33.100 absolutely challenge him and bring that up. So, oh, is that true, Mr. Smith? So the Berlin Wall was

00:34:39.900 totally ineffectual, didn't do anything, so why'd they take it down? But why not just keep it up then?

00:34:45.440 Now, you notice something else, though. For his examples of walls, he's using negative examples.

00:34:50.940 There's a reason why he uses the Berlin Wall and the wall separating North and South Korea, 1.00

00:34:58.300 okay? Because that's the association he wants in your mind for walls.

00:35:03.860 And he's also... Your teacher here is setting up a clearly unattainable standard for what works.

00:35:11.020 He's basically claiming that unless a wall stops everyone from crossing all the time,

00:35:16.560 then it doesn't work. Well, then ask him this. Does he think that the locked door on his house

00:35:25.540 could prevent anyone and everyone from entering? He's heard of burglary, right?

00:35:33.560 People, burglars are able to bypass locked doors all the time.

00:35:38.560 Yet he still has a door, doesn't he? And he still locks it. Why is that? I would ask him that

00:35:47.560 question. If it doesn't do anything, why do you shut your door at night? Why do you even have a door?

00:35:55.660 Why not just put a big blanket or something down or just have a big curtain where your doorway is?

00:36:02.180 But you actually have a door and you lock it knowing that it's not 100% effective, but you do it anyway.

00:36:09.420 Why is that? Oh, it's because it's better than nothing, right? Well, exactly.

00:36:18.380 Let's see. I've got some other great questions that I can't get to today because I'm running out of time.

00:36:23.600 Um, but I will get to those tomorrow. I had, uh, I had some emails about

00:36:30.860 ectopic pregnancies and a couple about aliens. So those are the, but, you know, that that's going

00:36:37.380 to take more time to, to, to get into. So I'll just end with this from Kyle. He says, I just farted

00:36:43.060 in my car while listening to your show. It stank very badly. I said, without thinking now there's 0.83

00:36:48.640 some toxic masculinity. Very good, Kyle. Um, poetic, insightful, and I deeply thank you for

00:36:59.820 sharing. Uh, and thank you for watching everybody. We'll talk tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 14, 2019

Ep. 198 - The Modern Day Blackface

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