The Matt Walsh Show - February 21, 2019


Ep. 203 - Jihad Bride Wants To Come Home


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

167.18755

Word Count

7,739

Sentence Count

489

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a woman who ran off and joined ISIS now wants to come home because
00:00:04.740 she says she learned her lesson and she just wants to come home. Should she be allowed back
00:00:09.080 in the country? The answer is no, but we'll talk about that. Also, Jussie Smollett is now under
00:00:15.080 arrest. We're going to go back and look at his Good Morning America interview he did, because
00:00:20.980 with everything we know now, it's really a creepy interview. So we'll look at that. And finally,
00:00:25.780 I will explain why Bernie Sanders is a power hungry, hypocritical communist fraud. All of that
00:00:33.160 today on the Matt Wall Show. Listen, guys, we've we've all been young, right? We've all we've all
00:00:46.420 been young. And, you know, in in your youth, sometimes you get into a little bit of trouble.
00:00:52.200 Sometimes you make mistakes. You party a little too much. You drink underage. Maybe you get
00:00:58.340 suspended from school. You join ISIS. I mean, it happens all these things. And it just I tell you,
00:01:06.080 I got into so much trouble when I was a kid for joining ISIS. My parents, they took my PlayStation
00:01:12.620 away for a week. And my dad said, how many times have I told you not to join ISIS?
00:01:19.140 They took the place. And then I was, you know, I did it again. I was grounded. These are just
00:01:24.260 normal childhood experiences. At least that's what some people seem to think. That's that's how the
00:01:30.600 media is portraying it. Because the media has been plastering. Maybe you've seen these
00:01:35.100 smiling pictures of a young Muslim woman and her toddler son all over the place online. And they
00:01:44.620 they're telling us that this woman named Hoda Muthano, who's 24 now, she was born in America.
00:01:52.680 She she joined ISIS when she was 19. And but she's learned her lesson now. And so she wants to come
00:02:00.640 home. You know, four or five years later, she wants to come home. And she's getting a lot of
00:02:06.580 sympathetic coverage. But she she again, she abandoned her family and left the US a year after
00:02:14.880 graduate. She went to high school here. She went to school here had a seemingly normal life. And she
00:02:18.960 went off and joined ISIS became a major propagandist for them tried to recruit. She recruited other
00:02:24.420 people. She used the internet to recruit other people to join ISIS as well. She got married to an
00:02:29.960 ISIS fighter. And then he died. And then she got married again. And he died too. And then she got
00:02:36.600 married a third time. And he also died. I think at this point, it seems the universe is sending you a
00:02:43.620 message. And the message probably is don't marry ISIS fighters, you dimwit. But now she's, she's in a
00:02:51.820 refugee camp somewhere. And the poor darling wants to come home. And she she's, she she says she's
00:02:58.880 changed. She's learned her lesson. But that mean old Donald Trump, along with Secretary of State
00:03:06.060 Mike Pompeo, they say she's not allowed to come home. She they did. Well, this isn't even really
00:03:11.420 her home, they say. She's not technically a citizen. And she's not welcome here anymore. So she's not
00:03:17.980 allowed to come back. And this is being portrayed as some kind of like cruelty. But sometimes some
00:03:25.820 kind of cruelty on the part of Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo and the government that they won't let
00:03:29.900 this woman come home to what she says is her home. And this is where her family is and her life was
00:03:35.960 before she went off and joined ISIS. But actually, this is this is really merciful on the part of
00:03:42.400 Donald Trump. Keep in mind that Obama had a US citizen executed by drone strike when he went off
00:03:51.960 and joined Al Qaeda. And then he had the guy's teenage son, who I think was 16 years old at the time,
00:03:58.220 had him executed too. So in comparison to that, this is extremely lenient. I mean, she because she she
00:04:06.060 could be getting the drone strike treatment. But instead, instead, it's they're just telling her don't
00:04:12.260 come back. But the thing that is interesting to me about this, about this topic is that it brings
00:04:18.900 up an interesting conversation about the nature of forgiveness. And this is one thing that annoys me,
00:04:25.260 I know that it will surprise you to learn that I'm annoyed by something, I don't get annoyed by things
00:04:29.200 very easily. I can't even say that with a straight face. But so this is one of the many things that
00:04:34.460 annoys me is the way that this concept of forgiveness is, is abused and misused. And we use this
00:04:41.980 word forgiveness all the time. And I think we use it in a way that shows that we don't really
00:04:49.860 understand what the word means. Because there are people arguing and saying, well, we should have
00:04:54.560 forgiveness towards this, towards this young woman and let her come home. And you know what, that's
00:05:01.540 fine. Yeah, have have all the forgiveness towards her that you want, forgive her all you want. Okay, so if
00:05:06.940 you want to forgive Hoda Muthana, you're perfectly free to do that. And you can go outside and shout
00:05:14.820 to the sky, I forgive you, Hoda. And maybe she'll hear the message in her dreams at night. I don't
00:05:20.080 know. But if you want to forgive on a personal level, you absolutely can do that. The thing is,
00:05:26.100 though, especially from the perspective of the government, forgiving someone does not erase what
00:05:32.940 they did. It's not like Groundhog's Day, and you wake up and, and it's as if the past never happened,
00:05:39.320 and everything is reset, like some kind of video game. Okay, that's, that's not the way it works.
00:05:46.060 Because if you do something, and you then you say you're sorry, and someone forgives you,
00:05:51.760 you still did that thing. Like the thing still happened. It's, it's still there in the past.
00:05:59.320 So if you steal from me, I might forgive you, hopefully I forgive you. But if you come back
00:06:05.540 the next day after apologizing, and asked to borrow $100, I'm not going to give it to you. Why was my
00:06:12.120 forgiveness incomplete or fraudulent? No, but I don't have amnesia either. And I know that this
00:06:17.840 apparently is something that you struggle with. It is instinct to steal. So I'm not going to entrust my
00:06:23.480 money or my property or my valuables to you. I'm going to exercise prudence and caution.
00:06:31.020 And those things are not mutually exclusive from forgiveness, you can be cautious, prudent,
00:06:35.820 and also forget, if somebody molests a child, we can be as forgiving as we want as difficult as that.
00:06:43.860 And I admit, in that case, it's very difficult for me to feel any forgiveness at all. But even
00:06:48.120 if we do have forgiveness to a child molester, all the forgiveness in the world should not,
00:06:54.340 in my opinion, ever mean letting the person out of prison. I think everyone that molests children
00:06:58.800 should go to prison forever, at a minimum. Because now we know that they have that in them,
00:07:05.880 they have that potential. And so for the sake of prudence, for the sake of justice, for the sake of
00:07:11.940 safety, of self-defense, of protecting other children, they need to be in prison forever because
00:07:18.400 they have that in them. They have that inclination, which does not just die away when they ask for
00:07:26.660 forgiveness. Some actions have consequences that are permanent. Even if everybody in the world forgives
00:07:35.640 you, the consequence can still remain. A serial adulterer is probably going to lose his marriage.
00:07:42.500 Even if his wife somehow finds it within herself to forgive him, that doesn't mean the damage can be
00:07:48.380 undone. The damage is still there. You still destroyed your marriage, no matter how sorry you might be.
00:07:55.240 And so if you go off and join ISIS, knowing what they are, knowing what they do, and this was in 2015
00:08:03.640 that she joined. Remember, this wasn't like she joined before anyone had hardly even heard the name
00:08:10.500 ISIS. I mean, she joined in 2015, knowing very well that they kill and rape children, that they
00:08:16.880 execute innocent people, that they lock people in cages and set the cages on fire, and those sorts of
00:08:22.980 things, okay? She knew this, and she still went and joined up, and so that is a choice that's going
00:08:29.480 to haunt her forever. She will experience the consequences forever, and some choices are like
00:08:36.560 that. In fact, you may argue that every choice is like that. It's the butterfly effect, right?
00:08:42.260 Butterfly flaps his wings here, and there's a tsunami over in the other side of the world.
00:08:47.860 So you could argue that every choice has a ripple effect that lasts in some sense forever,
00:08:54.340 but if it's a very small choice, a choice that's no big deal, the consequences will be possibly
00:09:01.780 imperceptible. But if it's a big choice, if it's a choice like I'm joining ISIS, if it's an I'm joining
00:09:10.460 ISIS type decision, then you'll probably never outrun the consequences, and that's just the way it goes.
00:09:16.660 Forgiveness really has nothing to do with it. You just, you're going to have to live with that now.
00:09:25.540 And also, you know, you're a danger to society. We don't know what kind of radicalization
00:09:31.780 you underwent. We don't know if this could be all some kind of ploy on your part to get back here and
00:09:37.820 then do a terrorist attack. I mean, these are all suspicions that we are within our rights to have
00:09:44.500 about you. And so you can just never come back. That's just the way it goes. All right. Jussie
00:09:51.540 Smollett is officially under arrest, in custody, charged with disorderly conduct for filing a false
00:09:59.340 police report. More charges will hopefully be forthcoming, God willing. If he did send that hate
00:10:05.780 letter to himself with the white powder, which I mean, come on, it seems pretty likely to me that
00:10:13.220 he did. But if he if he if they're going to look into that now, and if he did send that letter to
00:10:18.520 himself, that's gonna be a whole new. So this is just a charge for the filing the false police report
00:10:23.160 for the fake attack that he staged. If he sent the letter to himself through the US mail with white
00:10:28.320 powder in it, then he could be looking at some serious prison time. And so they're gonna be looking
00:10:32.700 into that as well. I maintain that he should be charged with a hate crime. The definition of a hate
00:10:39.000 crime, according to the FBI is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society
00:10:45.000 that is motivated in whole or in part by the offenders bias against a race, religion, disability,
00:10:51.540 sexual orientation, or ethnicity slash national origin. Smollett's offense was indeed committed
00:10:57.540 against a society or a group, which would be white white people in this case, white conservatives
00:11:03.340 in particular, with the objective of engendering outrage and suspicion towards that entire group of
00:11:10.700 people. In fact, in fact, his hatred of white people was so great. Let's not forget this. Smollett was
00:11:19.740 prepared to let two innocent random white people take the fall for this. He was prepared to have those
00:11:26.040 people sent to prison for a hate crime for something that he just made up. Because you may recall that
00:11:34.660 when the police originally picked up the persons of interest that ended up being the Nigerian brothers,
00:11:44.100 but before Smollett knew that, he said he was fine with them being arrested. It was only after he found
00:11:53.060 out who they were that he said, no, it couldn't have been them. There's no way it was them.
00:11:57.820 So if those were just two random white people that got picked up and this whole thing was pinned on
00:12:01.680 them, Smollett would be fine with that. Just send these people to prison who did absolutely nothing
00:12:06.100 wrong. So this is a man who is a bigot and whose bigotry constitutes a threat to civilized society.
00:12:16.760 And he needs to face the consequences, face the consequences that he would have happily allowed
00:12:23.020 innocent white men to face. So I think he should be charged with a hate crime, but certainly he needs
00:12:29.900 to be charged with, I mean, at a minimum, if not that a host of other crimes, especially with the
00:12:37.720 kind of evidence they have against him. Speaking of the evidence here is, here is, and this came out
00:12:43.480 last night, right before they arrested the guy here is surveillance footage of the Nigerian brothers
00:12:49.560 who he hired to stage this attack. Here they are buying ski masks and gloves on the night of the
00:12:56.020 attack. Look at this, look at this video. Um, they're buying a criminal starter pack. Essentially,
00:13:02.400 they may as well be wearing sandwich board signs that say we are preparing to do something illegal.
00:13:08.720 Look at us. Like Smollett didn't think to at least have these guys go to different locations,
00:13:15.200 not in the city to buy the stuff for the attack. Um, or, or at least go buy the stuff at like a
00:13:21.800 Walmart along with other items to make it look less suspicious. Um, you know, go, go pick up a phone
00:13:29.420 charger and a box of saltine crackers and some toilet paper, some Windex. Uh, Oh, and the ski mask and
00:13:35.840 some gloves, you know, I mean, he didn't at least have them do that by buffer items. Everyone knows
00:13:40.300 that if you're going to the grocery store, you're buying something embarrassing. You buy buffer.
00:13:43.540 Like you don't go to the grocery store and just buy one huge pack of toilet paper, right? Nobody
00:13:48.360 does that because then everyone in the store is going to think that you have explosive diarrhea and
00:13:53.680 you had to run to the store and buy all the toilet paper. Um, and you don't want to do that. So you go
00:13:58.420 and you buy other little things as well, uh, uh, to go along with the toilet paper to try to kind of
00:14:03.860 take the edge off. And he, but he didn't have them do that. He just had them go to the store
00:14:07.800 and buy all the attack supplies on the night of the attack. I mean, this guy is, is a total
00:14:13.700 moron. Um, he's a moron, but he's also a sociopath. And I'd like to go back again,
00:14:20.900 since we're looking at video, um, knowing what we know now, I want to go back and remember that
00:14:29.500 interview that he gave with good morning, America, um, soft, total softball interview,
00:14:35.580 but let's go back and watch a piece of this interview, knowing everything that we know.
00:14:41.160 Um, let's watch, especially this part right here. Look, look at this.
00:14:45.040 What do you say to a young gay man, a young gay person to learn to fight? And I don't just mean
00:14:51.060 like learn to fight. I mean, learn to fight, learn to be a fighter. I am not advocating violence
00:14:58.560 at all. So let's be clear about that. If you're going to die, fight until you do.
00:15:07.000 Because if you don't fight, you have no chance. I have fought for love. I'm an advocate. I respect
00:15:14.320 too much. The people who I am now one of those people who have been attacked in any way.
00:15:22.640 You do such a disservice when you lie about things like this.
00:15:26.480 If the attackers are never found, how will you be able to heal?
00:15:36.400 Um, I don't know. Let's just hope that they are. You know what I'm saying? Like, let's,
00:15:43.520 let's not go there yet. Let's, um, I was talking to a friend and I said, I just want them to find
00:15:51.880 them. And she said, sweetie, they're not going to find them. That just made me so angry because
00:15:58.520 so I'm just going to be left here with this. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm just going to be
00:16:03.680 left here with, with like, so they get to go free and go about their life and possibly attack someone
00:16:15.920 else. And I'm here to left with the, left with the aftermath of this bull. That's not cool to me.
00:16:21.200 That's not okay. So I understand how difficult it will be to find them, but we gotta, I still want
00:16:33.440 to believe with everything that has happened, that there's something called justice. Because if I stop
00:16:40.640 believing that, then what's it all for? Thank you, Jesse. Thank you. Thank you.
00:16:48.960 I mean, I'm not going to say that he's a good actor because I thought that, uh,
00:16:54.880 I watched the interview when it happened and I thought he came across, um, completely phony.
00:17:00.480 He, he, he comes across like an actor. Um, it seems like he's acting. You could tell that he even
00:17:10.480 rehearsed some of those lines. You could tell that he was, uh, who knows, maybe he had one of the
00:17:14.900 Nigerian brothers play the interviewer and they went through, um, they went through and rehearsed
00:17:19.740 the whole thing. So he's not even a very good actor, but he is a sociopath. The fact that he could
00:17:26.980 do that at all, the fact that he could sit there and with, for the most part, a straight face, uh,
00:17:36.700 play this role is just incredible. I mean, to be able to look someone in the eyes and just lie to
00:17:47.880 them just with a completely made up story to be able to do that. And he did that for, this was like
00:17:53.300 a 15 minute interview and he sustained that eye contact and he told this lie and he sort of sold
00:18:00.500 it. I mean, he did his level best. That's why I say this is someone who's a threat to society and
00:18:06.580 needs to go to prison for a long time. You just, when you have someone who is a pathological liar
00:18:12.660 liar and is relatively well, is, you know, is not a great liar, but at least as a, I don't know,
00:18:23.140 I would give him, I'd give him maybe a six out of 10 on the, on the, um, on the convincing scale for
00:18:27.420 that, for that interview. So when you have someone who's a decent, who's a pathological liar, a decently
00:18:32.160 good liar, and, um, they're willing to tell the most horrible kinds of lies about people that, I mean,
00:18:40.100 that is someone who really is a threat and for the sake of protecting society from his lies,
00:18:48.400 uh, I think he needs to go away to prison for a very long time. All right. What else? Um,
00:18:54.720 I got to mention this because it's a huge controversy, controversy. It's a huge controversy.
00:19:01.740 There's a, there's a new Ghostbusters movie coming out. Um, but it's not going to be another
00:19:08.580 all female Ghostbusters, like the one that came out in 2016, um, which was, which was bad and it
00:19:15.060 was a flop and it was just bad that I mentioned bad. Um, this new Ghostbusters is going to be a
00:19:23.080 continuation of the original Ghostbusters franchise, not the feminist version. And so the director of
00:19:29.400 the upcoming Ghostbusters, Jason Reitman, who, uh, is, I believe the son of the director of the
00:19:36.220 original Ghostbusters, he was interviewed this week and he said, uh, this is the phrase he used.
00:19:40.640 He said, we're going to hand the movie back to the fans. Gasp. Did you hear that? We're going to
00:19:50.800 hand the movie back to the fans. So that comment provoked a huge outrage online, huge outrage.
00:19:58.240 Um, because, because I don't know, because apparently it was sexist to say, we're going to,
00:20:06.080 we're going to hand the movie back to the fans. Um, this is a sexist comment now somehow. So for
00:20:12.360 example, just to give you an idea of how people are taking this, here's an article on a website
00:20:17.260 called the Mary Sue.com kind of like a feminist, uh, seems to be a relatively heavily trafficked
00:20:23.580 feminist website. Um, an article by Rachel Leishman and the, the, this is not a joke,
00:20:31.300 by the way. I mean, this is, I don't think this is satirical. I think this is a man to be
00:20:34.740 totally serious. And the headline is giving Ghostbusters back to the fans makes it seem
00:20:41.000 like women can't be Ghostbusters fans. That's how feminists interpreted what Reitman said.
00:20:46.680 Uh, they interpreted as Reitman saying women aren't allowed to watch this movie.
00:20:50.640 What he said was, we're going to hand it back to the fans. What they heard was you women can't
00:20:57.180 watch this movie. This is for, this here's for men go back in the kitchen. That's what they heard.
00:21:04.080 Um, I don't, I don't hear that. I mean, all I hear is a guy saying, we're going to give the movie
00:21:08.060 back to the fans. I don't hear that other part of it. That's I don't, but you see feminists,
00:21:12.880 they have, um, they can pick up a frequency. They have, I think they have very finely tuned hearing.
00:21:19.320 And so they can, they can sort of, there are things that men say, uh, that, that are imperceptible to
00:21:25.660 most of us because it's on a different frequency, but they can hear the, that frequency. And so they
00:21:30.460 heard Reitman saying that sexist comment that none of us heard. You see, um, here's a, here's
00:21:36.900 some of the article. It says as someone who grew up watching the Ghostbusters movies, I would say
00:21:41.800 very confidently that I am a fan of Egon, Peter, Ray, and Winston. So to hear that Jason Reitman,
00:21:47.700 who's directing the new film plans to give it back to the fans, I honestly have to laugh.
00:21:53.820 Are you laughing though? It seems like you're crying. I don't know if you're really laughing.
00:21:57.160 If someone like myself and my older brother can enjoy the Paul Feig version, which is the feminist
00:22:03.400 version, what right does Jason Reitman have to say that he's giving the new film back to the fans?
00:22:09.080 I'm sorry, but maybe I'm confused. Does it make me less of a fan that I like Ghostbusters?
00:22:14.040 Answer the call. Answer the call again is the feminist version. Or am I less of a fan because
00:22:19.120 I'm a woman? Which one is it there, Jason Reitman? As Pajiba reports, Reitman is supposedly letting the
00:22:26.420 original fans have their time again, meaning they cried enough on Twitter about the female
00:22:30.740 Ghostbusters that now the crybabies will have their male-centric comedy right back where it started.
00:22:35.600 Again, this is not a joke. I mean, it's someone who really is writing this
00:22:40.220 in all sincerity. On an episode of Bill Burr's Monday morning podcast, Reitman said,
00:22:48.080 we are in every way trying to go back to the original technique and hand the movie back to
00:22:53.180 the fans. In case you had any doubts as to what he means by that, he also said,
00:22:57.900 I'm not making the Juno of Ghostbusters movies. Another important question I have is what this
00:23:04.380 means for Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson, two men who put their stamp of approval on Ghostbusters
00:23:09.160 Answer the Call. Remember when they were in that film? Because it gave fans an ode to the original
00:23:15.360 and was creative and funny? Look, I remember that time in geekdom. My young pseudo-niece was
00:23:21.120 terrified of ghosts. So blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All right. We got past the funny parts.
00:23:25.320 Um, actually there was one other. Okay. So dear Mr. Reitman, I know your father directed the
00:23:33.100 original film. I get it. You have a claim to it, but we do too. We have a claim to how these movies
00:23:37.980 make us feel. And some of us enjoyed Answer the Call. So validating the most toxic, misogynistic
00:23:44.080 opposition to that film as the true fandom is a slap in the face to all of us who felt empowered by
00:23:49.940 the female Ghostbusters. Was your intention to alienate part of your fan base?
00:23:55.320 Um, so there were feminists who felt empowered by a Ghostbusters film. Uh, there were feminists who
00:24:12.640 watched a movie about people fighting ghosts and they felt empowered by that. May I suggest,
00:24:23.180 uh, Rachel Leishman, that you perhaps should look for your empowerment in other places.
00:24:30.300 There are much better sources for it. I don't know, read a book about Joan of Arc or something. Uh, I, I,
00:24:37.160 if you're looking for empowerment in Ghostbusters films, I just think you're reading a little bit too
00:24:42.080 much into it. This is one of my favorite things that feminists do, um, and, and leftists do in
00:24:47.380 general is, uh, they make a huge deal about some really stupid thing. And then they accuse the other
00:24:55.520 side of making a big deal about it. So with the, with the female Ghostbusters, the feminists latched
00:25:01.300 onto this movie and made, turned it into this, turned it into this seminal moment in the fight
00:25:07.320 for women's rights as a female Ghostbusters. And they demanded that everybody has to like this movie
00:25:13.960 and support it and laugh at it and think it's funny. And then a few people said, yeah, you know
00:25:20.260 what? I really, I just don't have any interest in that. I liked the original better. Uh, I don't
00:25:23.960 want to see it. And they're the ones who freaked out over it. It said, how dare you dislike this
00:25:29.260 Ghostbusters film? You sexist. But then they turn around and accuse us of just because we didn't like
00:25:36.260 the movie and it's not even like we hated it or it just, it just wasn't a good movie. And, uh, and no,
00:25:44.500 I don't really feel like seeing the feminist version of Ghostbusters. You know, part of this is, um,
00:25:52.600 part of this with, with feminists is that they get very, uh, touchy about any time you even sort of
00:26:01.260 imply that a female comedian is not funny. That's a lot of what this is about is this is,
00:26:08.420 this is one of the, one of the big things they're looking out for is anyone who claims that female
00:26:13.820 comedians aren't funny or that women aren't as funny as men. And even though nobody was saying
00:26:18.560 that in regards to this movie, they were just saying this particular movie with these comedians,
00:26:23.720 isn't that funny. We weren't making any statements about female comedians in general,
00:26:28.560 but they get feminists get very, very sensitive about, I mean, they get sensitive about everything,
00:26:33.840 but especially about that. Um, and so I think that was a, that was a big part of it is, you know,
00:26:42.960 any female comedian we have, we must agree that she is funny. Every female comedian, they're all funny
00:26:49.420 and we're not allowed to say anything but that. And if we insinuate otherwise they get, um, they get
00:26:54.420 very offended. All right. One other thing, uh, before we get to some of your, some of your emails,
00:27:00.960 um, on Tuesday, uh, as I, as I mentioned on the show on Tuesday, Bernie Sanders officially announced
00:27:09.400 his, uh, 2020 presidential bid. Um, and he promptly raked in, I think it was $6 million in campaign
00:27:17.020 donations within 24 hours of, of that announcement. So he obviously remains an immensely popular figure
00:27:24.500 on the left. Uh, and, and the thing is even people on the right tend to attribute certain positive
00:27:31.380 qualities to him, such as authenticity and honesty. Um, and I've heard plenty of Republicans essentially
00:27:38.660 say that, well, I don't like Bernie Sanders, but he's the least, he's the least repulsive Democrat
00:27:45.800 on the national stage, which is hardly a high honor, um, or a high bar to get over. But I really
00:27:54.520 don't think he even makes it over that bar. Um, I don't think he's the least repulsive. I think I'd
00:27:59.120 put a more on the other end of that spot. He's more towards the most repulsive in my opinion. Um,
00:28:05.360 and it, it, and I, I think it's important for us to recognize that because Sanders, he's got this
00:28:13.980 kind of eccentric, lovable grandpa routine that he does. And I think a lot of people fall for it
00:28:22.460 even on the right. And they see him as at worst, a kind of harmless, eccentric old guy,
00:28:32.240 but he's a lot worse than that. He is. In fact, and I wrote an article yesterday, uh, with the title
00:28:38.200 that Bernie Sanders is an arrogant, power hungry, hypocritical, cowardly, morally deranged communist.
00:28:44.540 And, um, and I stand by that all of those adjectives are carefully chosen. And as I did in the article,
00:28:49.840 I'll go, I'll go through them one by one to, to, to prove what I'm talking about. So he's arrogant
00:28:56.560 and power hungry. Why is he that? Well, Bernie Sanders is 77 years old. If he were to be elected
00:29:04.000 president, heaven help us, he'd be 79 on inauguration day. Um, there's nothing wrong with being old.
00:29:09.720 There's nothing wrong with being an elderly person. We will all be elderly one day. Should we be so
00:29:13.740 lucky as to live that long? But the presidency is an enormously stressful, physically taxing,
00:29:20.160 mentally draining job. Um, there's a reason why, as I mentioned a couple of days ago, just look at the,
00:29:25.060 you know, Obama and Bush went into office as relatively young men and they came out looking like
00:29:30.580 the life had been drained out of them, looking like they had aged 50 years, both of them. Um,
00:29:36.360 so to think that you could take on that kind of stress at the age of 80, you just have to be
00:29:44.740 extraordinarily arrogant to think, to think that you could handle that. And you have to be
00:29:48.820 extraordinarily power hungry to want it. I mean, what 80 year old man wants that kind of stress?
00:29:56.740 Well, it's because if you, if you crave power that much, see, this is, this is the problem with
00:30:03.720 presidents in general. This is one, it's kind of, it's a problem that's baked into the cake
00:30:08.000 where the problem with presidents is that they want so badly to be president.
00:30:14.880 It's pretty, it's uncommon to have a reluctant leader, make it into the white house. And I think
00:30:20.060 we've, we've gotten to a point now in our society where it's just, where nobody like that is ever
00:30:24.100 going to be president ever again. The last one was probably Calvin Coolidge. There hasn't been any
00:30:28.900 since him. There was, there were very few before him. Um, what I'm talking about reluctant leaders,
00:30:33.640 like guys who ran for president because they think they have something to offer. Uh, they think that
00:30:39.680 they can do the job, but they're not desperate for it. They, they, and they, you get the impression
00:30:44.780 that they'd be fine if they didn't win it. That really is. That's the best. We need people with
00:30:51.000 that attitude, but it's just, if you have that attitude, you probably won't win. Um, because
00:30:56.520 especially these days to win, you need to be very ruthless and obsessed and, and desperate basically.
00:31:02.940 Um, and so, but a few of the presidents that we've had, who've, um, who've been very desperate
00:31:12.120 for the job have been pretty good at the job in spite of the character flaw that prompted them to
00:31:16.940 pursue it in the first place. But the thing is it's, it's understandable to have that kind of blind
00:31:22.360 ambition is understandable for a younger man, but a man or woman who is still grasping for the throne
00:31:32.560 in his final years of life, someone who pursues it, even if it literally kills them in the process,
00:31:38.900 um, that is a person we should be very suspicious of. So arrogant and power hungry.
00:31:42.700 Bernie Sanders is also hypocritical. Sanders has been living on the public dime for 40 years
00:31:49.140 during his time as a public servant. He has managed to amass a fortune and a seven figure
00:31:55.100 income, especially over the last few years that puts him firmly in that same one percenter camp
00:32:00.720 that he has spent decades decrying. He, you know, he hasn't cashed in on his political career to the
00:32:07.620 same extent as say Hillary Clinton or someone like that, but he is no middle-class hero. That's for
00:32:13.180 sure. Um, he laments income inequality. And meanwhile, he rails against the evils of capitalism,
00:32:20.900 but he has done quite a bit of capitalizing himself. Just a couple of years ago, he bought his third
00:32:27.140 house, which is a modest little $600,000 lakefront property in Vermont. Now I happen to believe that
00:32:36.360 Americans are entitled to buy as many homes as they want and to make as much money as the market
00:32:41.000 allows. But I also believe in being consistent. And if somebody lectures about greed and about
00:32:47.980 capitalism and about wealth all the time, and then, and deliberately fosters hatred and suspicion
00:32:52.800 towards the wealthy with this overheated kind of class warfare rhetoric, um, if that person goes
00:32:58.820 and buys three homes and collects millions in book royalties, well, then they're going to be guilty
00:33:04.120 of rank hypocrisy. Most Americans can't even afford one home. Sanders has three. Why doesn't he sell it
00:33:12.440 and use the money to pay off some student loans? Or, um, why doesn't he, why doesn't he donate all of
00:33:18.400 the royalties from his book, from his, from his books to, to soup kitchens? In fact, why is he charging
00:33:25.780 money for his books at all? Why doesn't he put his book online for free? I mean, even Bernie's most
00:33:33.960 dedicated fans have to see the irony of a guy making millions of dollars on a book, which advocates a
00:33:41.420 socialist revolution. Um, Bernie Sanders is also cowardly. Sanders earned a reputation as a kind of
00:33:57.980 scrappy freedom fighter who, who, uh, who stands up against the dark and powerful forces in our culture,
00:34:04.080 but he is not very convincing. And he's about as convincing in that role as he is in the role of
00:34:09.160 middle-class champion, because it doesn't take any courage for a Democrat to stand up there and pump
00:34:14.240 their fist and shout about wall street and corporations and so on. But, um, he, there are
00:34:21.600 powerful forces in his own party, which it would require courage for him to stand up against and
00:34:29.680 which he does not stand up against. Uh, and he should know about the powerful forces, the dark
00:34:36.640 and powerful forces in his party, because they rigged the primaries against him in 2016. Yet in the end,
00:34:42.420 he still bowed to the Clinton machine. He kissed the ring and he played nice.
00:34:46.680 Bernie Sanders is morally deranged. Um, and I could provide many examples here, but let's just start
00:34:53.600 with his advocacy, his pro-abortion extremist advocacy. Um, Bernie Sanders supports abortion at
00:35:02.580 every stage of pregnancy for any reason. He was asked in a debate in 2016, if he could name one single
00:35:11.160 circumstance where he would support restrictions on abortion. And he could not name one. There is
00:35:18.440 no circumstance, no situation at any point of pregnancy for any reason where he thinks that
00:35:24.460 abortion should be illegal. Um, and there's more Sanders is also a, a lifelong communist. He is on tape
00:35:35.120 in the eighties, heaping praise on Fidel Castro, um, admitting that he provided advice to the, uh,
00:35:42.900 Sandinistas in Nicaragua, Nicaragua. Um, you know, Sanders, the, the Bernie's communism is more than
00:35:52.820 just a personality quirk. Okay. He, he has been providing PR cover to murderous communist regimes for
00:36:00.540 decades. Now, Sanders, as we've already established is no spring chicken. Okay. This is not a young guy.
00:36:08.980 He's not some stupid college student who champions communism because he doesn't know what happened in
00:36:13.980 the world prior to about 2005. Um, no, he, he lived through the majority of the 1900s and he knows very
00:36:21.780 well that it was a century bathed in the bloodshed, uh, in, in, in, in blood shed by communist governments.
00:36:29.480 He knows that he knows very well that communist government governments very recently killed 100
00:36:36.880 million people and counting yet. He advocates for communist policies and wishes to see the great
00:36:45.160 evil of the 20th century reborn, um, in the 21st. And, and what else can we call that? But morally
00:36:54.000 deranged, you support a system that once again, killed 100 million people at a minimum and counting,
00:37:05.340 uh, since the beginning of the, of the, of the 20th century, that is morally deranged. So the ideas
00:37:15.600 that Bernie Sanders espouses aren't just wrong or radical, they are wicked. And he espouses them in a
00:37:25.340 hypocritical fashion, steeped in cowardice and arrogance. He is not suited for the Senate, much less the
00:37:31.560 White House. And that's why I say that he is an arrogant, power hungry, cowardly, morally deranged
00:37:37.780 communist fraud. And God help us if he ever, uh, makes it into the White House, though. I doubt that
00:37:46.720 that will happen. All right. Um, I'm going to get to a, just a couple of emails today. You can email
00:37:53.400 the show at Matt wall show at gmail.com at wall show, gmail.com. This is from, uh, this is a big
00:37:59.480 question from Anthony. It says, hi, Matt. I've, I've been a fan for a while. I really value your
00:38:05.600 opinion and perspective, mainly because I agree with you on most things. So, um, sorry, I just,
00:38:12.080 that was kind of fun. I value your opinion because I agree with you. Um, so my wife and I have recently
00:38:18.220 returned to Christianity last November, we returned to the church. I was wondering if you could help us
00:38:22.440 with understanding how God can have a plan, yet we are free to make choices, even sinful ones.
00:38:28.160 How are we created in the image of God and created by God? Yet there are evil people.
00:38:34.380 Why would God purposefully create people who he knows will be evil? Thank you very much. My wife
00:38:39.740 and I really enjoy your show. Hope you can provide some clarity on this or some ideas on where I can
00:38:44.600 find some clarity. Have a wonderful day. God bless. Hi, Anthony. And welcome back to the faith.
00:38:51.260 You are dealing with one of the most, maybe the most difficult theological questions. So the fact
00:38:57.960 that you can't quite figure it out is, uh, nothing to be embarrassed by because nobody, I mean, it's,
00:39:03.480 it, there, there is no perfect answer for it. There is no answer that I can give that will make you go,
00:39:09.140 oh, okay, well, I totally get that now. Now, you know, um, as far as where you can find answers,
00:39:14.980 I would recommend, uh, as I've recommended on the show before, um, the problem of pain by C.S.
00:39:20.320 Lewis. It's a, it's a very short book. It's a short, concise, very kind of tight, um, uh, efficient
00:39:30.060 answer to this problem. Not much, not so much an answer, but a, it's a treatment of, of the problem.
00:39:38.880 And you're going to find much more wisdom on one page of that book than I could give you if I
00:39:43.520 rambled about this for the next three hours, which I promise I won't, but go and read that book.
00:39:47.740 What I will say is, um, the, the answer, the Christian answer classically, and I think the
00:39:54.120 correct answer is, uh, it hinges on free will. So God gave us the power to choose, to act, to decide,
00:40:01.000 to distinguish one thing from another. And if we can choose one thing or another, that means that we
00:40:08.980 can choose evil. Um, we can choose to do wrong. Why does he allow us this choice? Well, because you
00:40:15.400 can't have love, um, without choice, you can't have joy. You can't have goodness. You can't have
00:40:22.020 courage or fidelity or any virtue, uh, because all of that is meaningless if we are just programmed
00:40:28.340 automotons. So think about it. If you hear, uh, you're talking about drone strikes earlier, uh,
00:40:34.760 nobody credits a drone with courage, right? When you hear about a drone strike of ISIS,
00:40:41.240 you don't say, wow, well, that was a courageous drone. That drone really, uh, we got to give that
00:40:46.900 drone some credit, but let's, let's give a, let's give a medal of honor to the, to the drone.
00:40:52.020 Um, we don't say that about drones. We do say that about the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy.
00:40:58.300 Why is that? Well, because the one is just a programmed machine. It had no choice, but to do
00:41:05.360 what it did. Uh, you don't, you don't get any credit for, for doing something you had no, no choice,
00:41:10.660 but to do. And more to the point, it's hard to even say that you did that thing. If you had no choice,
00:41:19.620 but to do it, uh, if somebody grabs your hand and, and puts a gun in it and forces you to pull the
00:41:27.680 trigger, well, then we can't even say that you shot someone. You didn't really do that. It was
00:41:35.040 the person who grabbed your hand who did that. Um, and you really had no role. You were just a pawn.
00:41:40.720 You were just a, an instrument and, and nothing more. So, um, you know, so the men who stormed
00:41:51.700 beaches of Normandy, we say that they had courage, uh, because they had a choice. Um, and in that
00:41:58.560 choice is the courage is the valor is the virtue. If they didn't have a choice, if they didn't have
00:42:05.440 the option of cowardice, then they wouldn't have had the option of courage. Just like you can't go
00:42:13.720 up. If there is no down, if there, if, if down does not exist, it doesn't mean anything to go up
00:42:18.500 because then there's only up. Right. So, so that's it. Um, in, in, in order to, in order to have love
00:42:25.260 and goodness and all that, um, it needs to be chosen. And if, if there's going to be a choice,
00:42:30.200 then there has to be an opposite that could be chosen. And that's where you find the evil and
00:42:36.040 the suffering and the pain. Now I admit that that's only a partial answer. Okay. That deals with
00:42:41.900 the suffering and evil that we inflict on each other. And I think that that pretty well deals with that.
00:42:48.500 Um, there's a whole other question though, about the pain and suffering that people suffer, um,
00:42:55.180 that people deal with that does not appear to be chosen. You know, a child getting cancer,
00:43:00.420 for instance, child didn't choose that. Nobody chose that. It just happened. Um, that's a much
00:43:05.420 more difficult question to deal with. And one that, um, again, I, I, I can't, uh, I can't give you
00:43:14.040 some concise, cute little answer that will make you say, Oh, okay, well that's it. But I would
00:43:18.900 recommend that, that book to you. All right. Uh, this is from Mary says, Hey Matt, I'm a 20 years
00:43:24.740 old, Catholic conservative. My dad got your book, the unholy Trinity for his birthday two years ago.
00:43:29.240 And when he finished it, I started reading it. It was fantastic. Loved every minute of it. When I
00:43:35.060 read that book, I didn't know very much about politics. Now I try my best to be as knowledgeable as
00:43:38.720 I can. I also listened to your show fairly often. It's good to listen to while I'm doing housework.
00:43:43.460 I'm the oldest of 10 children. So the house gets messy a lot. I can imagine we only have three kids
00:43:48.600 and you should see our house a lot of the time. I feel like I should ask you a question. Which of
00:43:52.980 the Lord of the Rings movies is your favorite? The extended versions, of course. Anyway, love your work
00:43:58.240 praying for all the best for you, your wife, and your children. May God and all his goodness bless you.
00:44:03.600 Uh, Mary, that was such a nice email that I, um, now I don't even want to give you the answer that
00:44:10.500 I was prepared to give. I feel bad saying this to you, but I have to tell you that I have, I have
00:44:16.600 recently come to the conclusion that the Lord of the Rings movies are massively overrated. Um,
00:44:24.800 the books are great, but I did go back recently and try to watch the movies and they're not as good
00:44:35.380 as I remember. So I don't, I can't, I don't know if I can, I don't think they hold up as, as, as well
00:44:41.380 as I thought they would. Um, a little too sappy, a little bit corny, kind of drawn out, uh, too long.
00:44:50.000 That was just my impressions. I don't even know if I can answer that question anymore. I just, and my,
00:44:55.280 and I just made this discovery recently. My whole world is rocked by it. As you can tell, I'm sort of
00:44:59.460 emotionally, uh, I'm very confused and I'm, I'm in a bit of emotional chaos over this because I had
00:45:06.360 always thought of Lord of the Rings movies, one of the best film, maybe the best film franchise, uh,
00:45:11.760 well, second to the Godfather, which does hold up by the way. And, uh, but I just, I don't know if this,
00:45:17.380 if this, if this is that anymore. And I really, I really hate to, to tell you that. Uh, I, I'm
00:45:23.000 afraid that Lord of the Rings might be like the Star Wars films in being, uh, it might join the Star
00:45:29.320 Wars films, the Star Wars franchise as, uh, and be the, the second most overrated film franchise
00:45:36.440 behind Star Wars. Uh, but thank you for watching the show anyway. And I appreciate the question
00:45:43.480 and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Godspeed.
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