Joe Biden enters the Democratic primary race, and it's as horrifying as you expect. Also, a burlesque show for kids? Yes, that is a thing, apparently. And finally, I want to explain why my thinking on the death penalty has changed over time.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden is in the race, but unfortunately for him, there is no way he could win the nomination in the modern Democratic Party.
00:00:08.940I'll explain why. Also, a burlesque show for kids.
00:00:13.880Yes, that is a thing, apparently, and it is as horrifying as you expect.
00:00:21.180And finally, I want to explain why my thinking on the death penalty has changed over time.
00:00:27.940So we'll discuss that as well today on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:35.080You know, I got to say, admittedly, I am a pretty nervous and paranoid flyer.
00:00:42.660Well, I'm a nervous, paranoid person in general, but especially when I'm flying, I happen to be that way.
00:00:46.900So and I was flying down to Texas yesterday to speak at an event down here.
00:00:52.680And so you can imagine my reaction when as we are flying there, we hit a little bit of turbulence and then the captain comes on the the intercom and he makes an announcement.
00:01:04.480And, you know, it's it's all it's it's it's a problem for me that for whatever reason, when when airline captains give announcements, they they always mumble and they make no attempt to actually be heard when you know this is this is this is one announcement.
00:01:19.120I want to hear like you're the person who's behind the mysterious door who's piloting this tin box 500 miles per hour over the clouds.
00:01:27.480Our lives are in your hands. I want to know what you're saying.
00:01:31.020So please enunciate. But anyway, so he's on there mumbling.
00:01:33.980I can't understand what he's saying. The only thing I could pick up, I picked up two phrases.
00:01:38.520He taught he spoke for about 45 seconds. I pick up two phrases.
00:01:45.020And then a few seconds later, he said, isn't working.
00:01:49.360OK, so I knew I didn't know what else was going on.
00:01:52.480But all I knew is that something is chaotic, which isn't good and something isn't working.
00:01:58.080And I had no idea what it is. And then I start I look around and no one else is reacting to this.
00:02:02.860Like no one else is concerned that there is dysfunction and and chaos that is that is apparently made its way onto this plane.
00:02:12.340No one else is worried about it. Anyway, we made it home.
00:02:14.500We made it there in one piece. But it was I just look, if you're going to if you're going to use phrases like that and words like that as a as an airline pilot, just make sure we can hear everything you're saying in context.
00:02:27.860I still don't know what was chaotic. It'll be a mystery until the day I die.
00:02:31.840All right. So speaking of chaotic, the Democratic primary race, I do want to, you know, briefly talk about this.
00:02:42.240Joe Biden, of course, entered the race yesterday.
00:02:45.940So we all can rejoice. Biden, Biden, who first became a senator in 1973, that's 46 years ago.
00:02:53.360He's held political office continuously over that entire time, except for the last two years.
00:02:58.980And now he wants to be president. He's and I think I think that's enough reason to reject him.
00:03:04.980There are other reasons to all the other stuff, bad policies, the creepiness, you know, all that kind of stuff.
00:03:11.760But that doesn't even need to enter into the conversation.
00:03:15.540The fact is that Biden is an almost 77 year old man who's had his hands on the reins of power for for half a century.
00:03:25.580And I think we just say, you know, that's enough, Joe. Let someone else.
00:03:30.760Take a turn. How about that? Why don't you let someone else get a shot at this thing?
00:03:34.240It's 50 years, about 50 years. That's enough time.
00:03:37.400You don't need you don't really don't need to go beyond that.
00:03:42.000So that's I think that's kind of all you need to know about him.
00:03:45.480And I'm not going to go into the whole I'm not going to get into a lot of inside baseball analysis of Joe's campaign rollout and his prospects and everything,
00:03:52.980mostly because I don't care that much. But I will say that I will say just a couple of brief things.
00:03:59.960Number one, President Trump really needs to up his his nicknaming game because it's fallen off, I think, sharply over the last year.
00:04:08.100And that's a pretty concerning development, especially when his whole pretty much his whole strategy,
00:04:14.080Trump's whole strategy against his opponent is just to nickname them.
00:04:16.800So if that if you're going to if you're going to put all your eggs in that basket, you better really come with with the big guns, which he did in 2016.
00:04:24.100But I don't know. Recently, I've so he's going with Sleepy Joe.
00:04:27.940That's his nickname for Joe Biden. Now, I like that nickname.
00:04:31.920I like the sound of it. It kind of sounds like maybe the sort of nickname that a mediocre baseball player might have earned in 1912.
00:04:39.660You know, the shortstop of the Yankees in the early 20th century, Sleepy Joe.
00:04:45.580It's all Sleepy Joe over there. But it doesn't work for Biden because Biden isn't known for sloth necessarily.
00:04:53.660He's not known for being sleepy or low energy. It's not really. It's just it's not going to.
00:04:59.140It's not going to click because that's not what we know him for.
00:05:04.260I mean, they're close enough in age to have attended the same high school at, you know, at the same time, basically.
00:05:09.860That's how close back in the 14th century.
00:05:12.580So Sleepy Joe doesn't work. Creepy Joe is much better.
00:05:17.280You're going with Sleepy Joe. Meanwhile, you've got Creepy Joe just there for the taking.
00:05:24.540Much more on brand, much more devastating, much more embarrassing for Joe Biden.
00:05:29.400And I mean, it really it seems like Trump's nicknames have gotten sleepy, ironically enough.
00:05:35.480Now, in terms of Biden's prospects, you know, in the general election, I think his prospects are pretty good.
00:05:45.080The latest poll had him up by like eight points over Trump.
00:05:49.020You decide whether to trust that poll or not.
00:05:51.120But. I don't think Trump has to worry about it, because even if he's polling over Trump, he's not going to make it through the Democratic nomination process.
00:06:02.960The fact is, the Democrat Party has gone so far left so fast that they've they've they've left.
00:06:09.700They've escaped Earth's gravity at this point, and they're hovering somewhere over Europa or something like that, despite what the polls may say.
00:06:18.180I don't I don't think that a guy like Joe Biden, old and white and vaguely centrist, has a chance of winning the nomination in the modern Democratic Party.
00:06:29.020I think a person like that could win in the general in a landslide, potentially.
00:06:34.560But he couldn't make it through the gauntlet of the Democratic nomination process in the first place in order to get to that point, because he's going to be eaten alive.
00:06:42.620And we're going to see that play out over the next few weeks here is, I think.
00:06:51.560In my opinion, here's let me describe a candidate who could win 75 million votes in this country.
00:07:00.960I think this would be a candidate who is pro-abortion up until only up until 20 weeks, pro-gay marriage, pro-welfare, non-interventionist, pro-gun, pro-immigration enforcement,
00:07:20.100pro-free speech, critic of police brutality and police excesses, not perceived as racist, but also not an SJW.
00:07:34.040OK, now, I would not vote for such a candidate because I disagree with a number of the positions I just outlined there.
00:07:40.280So I'm not I'm not saying that this is a candidate I want to vote for.
00:07:43.080I'm saying that I think that is where America is right now, that they would go for someone like that.
00:07:50.780That combination of positions would actually stand a chance of attracting sizable numbers of people from both sides, from both parties.
00:07:59.700And it is it's more of a leftist, more liberal platform.
00:08:03.180And it's it's you know, if any party is going to put forward a candidate with that selection of positions on the issues, then it would be the Democrats.
00:08:13.200But they just they're not going to do it anymore.
00:08:15.900Basically, what I just described, that's that is essentially Bill Clinton in 1992.
00:08:20.660I guess he pretended to be against gay marriage at that point.
00:08:24.580But for the most part, that is what the Democrat Party was 30 years ago.
00:08:30.660And I think that party in 2019 against Donald Trump would be formidable.
00:08:40.760But the modern iteration of the Democrat Party is a totally different thing because parties changed dramatically since then.
00:08:48.140It's changed. It's changed so much that if you've been paying attention over the last week,
00:08:52.520a number of Democratic candidates were asked this week if they think the government should provide a third option for gender on on government forums and stuff.
00:09:04.660And of course, several of the candidates will all of the candidates who were asked this question said yes.
00:09:30.380And we know all of these Democrats, almost all of the Democrats who are running, they don't really take this.
00:09:37.040And I know that because most of them were on the political scene 10 years ago and they weren't talking about this stuff back then.
00:09:46.780This is just where the base has dragged them to where they have to pretend.
00:09:52.400Kamala Harris in particular, she's kind of an interesting case because she's she I think in her heart of hearts,
00:09:58.960she's a little bit of a law and order reactionary even now.
00:10:03.960She wasn't interested in law and order in California when it came time to prosecute Planned Parenthood for for for for selling baby parts because she is a minion of the abortion industry,
00:10:15.380as all Democrats are. But aside from that, she's not exactly naturally a squish when it comes to law and order stuff.
00:10:23.260Yet she has to temper that or stifle it completely, pretend it doesn't exist and affect this impression of a social justice warrior and,
00:10:33.520you know, LGBT trans ally and all that kind of stuff.
00:10:37.320It doesn't come naturally to her. It doesn't seem like and you could tell that she was she was asked at a at a town hall.
00:10:46.680A few days ago, CNN. She was asked if she agrees with Bernie Sanders about letting felons vote in prison.
00:10:55.780And her first answer was, yeah, well, that's a conversation we could have.
00:10:59.060We can have that discussion, which is the answer I give my kids when they ask if we can go for ice cream or something later.
00:11:04.780I'll say, oh, yeah, well, we'll talk about that. I'll think about it.
00:11:07.820Well, that's a discussion we can have. And the answer is no.
00:11:11.660But that was her tentative kind of answer, trying to get around it.
00:11:16.440And then the next day she was asked again and she let her true colors come through.
00:11:21.920And she said, no, you know, I'm a prosecutor and never mind.
00:11:25.140I know I don't think these scumbags should be able to vote.
00:11:28.000I'm paraphrasing. She didn't say scumbags, but that was the point she was trying to get across.
00:11:33.440So she doesn't do a very good job in pretending to be an SJW.
00:11:39.580Biden will be even less effective pretending to be a pink haired feminist.
00:11:44.200I mean, Elizabeth Warren actually is a pink haired feminist.
00:11:48.020And even she comes off awkwardly when she tries to portray herself that way.
00:11:54.380The party's going so far left that even Elizabeth Warren is trying to catch up.
00:11:58.820And so what that means is a guy like Joe Biden, even though I really think he could win in the general election,
00:12:07.900especially if he ran on his real positions, what he really believes, not what he thinks the liberal base wants him to say,
00:12:14.460that person could win, but he's not going to make it there because of where the party is.
00:12:20.780Okay, speaking of crazy left-wing deranged lunacy, I'm going to show you this, and it's disturbing.
00:12:31.420I should warn you, it's not appropriate for children.
00:12:34.400So if you're watching the video right now and you've got kids in the room, then make them leave the room for a minute
00:15:59.480There are things that should provoke that in us, and this is one of them.
00:16:06.680How do you think people would have reacted 50 years ago to a picture like this?
00:16:11.660I think the reaction would have been fairly nuclear, as well it should be.
00:16:15.920Children are now being groomed for sexual abuse right in front of our eyes.
00:16:19.800There are events officially organized for that purpose, for grooming children, whether it's this or a drag queen story hour or a drag brunch.
00:16:33.380I mean, they love to do the brunch thing, apparently, is a big thing now with degenerates who want to groom children for sexual abuse.
00:16:43.340Because all of the worrying that conservatives did about the potential normalization of pedophilia down the road, well, here we are.
00:17:21.380To bring your child to a burlesque show and have her stuffing tips into a grown woman's underwear, that is sexual abuse.
00:17:31.580And the people responsible for it should be in prison.
00:17:36.180Everyone in that picture, except for the child, should be in prison.
00:17:39.120Maybe first throw them in the stocks for a few days, let people go by, let the townsfolk go by and toss rotten eggs and tomatoes at their faces.
00:17:48.920And then lock them in a jail cell for a few years and let them think about it.
00:19:01.400John William King, age 44, I believe, was executed in Texas yesterday.
00:19:07.080King is one in a group, the ringleader of the group, who kidnapped a man named James Byrd Jr., a black man, tied him to the back of their pickup truck, dragged him to death over the course of three miles.
00:19:19.660And they did this for explicitly racist reasons.
00:19:23.280The crime happened about 20 years ago.
00:19:26.220King tried to get a reprieve before the execution, much like I'm sure Byrd begged for a reprieve from his execution.
00:19:35.780But just as Byrd was not granted that, neither was King.
00:19:41.200And he was executed by lethal injection.
00:19:43.860And now he will be buried in a grave with a tombstone that has no name, just his inmate number.
00:19:50.960And that's how he will be remembered or rather forgotten by history as well it should be.
00:19:55.580I bring up this case because it's cases like this, not necessarily this specific case, because I've been going through this transformation over a period of months.
00:20:10.220But these kinds of cases have caused me to change my thinking on the death penalty.
00:20:17.200My thinking has evolved on the subject.