The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 203 - Jihad Bride Wants To Come Home

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 1.00

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 0.98

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 1.00

00:02:51.820 refugee camp somewhere. And the poor darling wants to come home. And she she's, she she says she's 1.00

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 0.96

00:08:16.880 execute innocent people, that they lock people in cages and set the cages on fire, and those sorts of 0.67

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 0.82

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 0.81

00:11:19.740 prepared to let two innocent random white people take the fall for this. He was prepared to have those 0.82

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 0.93

00:12:23.020 innocent white men to face. So I think he should be charged with a hate crime, but certainly he needs 0.98

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, 1.00

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 0.55

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 0.97

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 0.98

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 0.54

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

00:24:47.380 general is, uh, they make a huge deal about some really stupid thing. And then they accuse the other 0.99

00:24:55.520 side of making a big deal about it. So with the, with the female Ghostbusters, the feminists latched 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.94

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, 0.96

00:25:52.600 part of this with, with feminists is that they get very, uh, touchy about any time you even sort of 1.00

00:26:01.260 imply that a female comedian is not funny. That's a lot of what this is about is this is, 0.97

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 0.90

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, 0.99

00:26:28.560 but they get feminists get very, very sensitive about, I mean, they get sensitive about everything, 1.00

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, 0.53

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. 1.00

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, 1.00

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 0.87

00:28:56.560 and power hungry. Why is he that? Well, Bernie Sanders is 77 years old. If he were to be elected 0.97

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 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.83

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 0.99

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 0.98

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 0.98

00:37:31.560 White House. And that's why I say that he is an arrogant, power hungry, cowardly, morally deranged 1.00

00:37:37.780 communist fraud. And God help us if he ever, uh, makes it into the White House, though. I doubt that 1.00

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 0.58

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. 0.90

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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The Matt Walsh Show - February 21, 2019

Ep. 203 - Jihad Bride Wants To Come Home

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