The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 251 - Even Socialists Don't Want To Live Under Socialism

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, as socialist Venezuela falls apart before our eyes, it is disturbing to note

00:00:05.460 that so many people in my generation, young people, want that system in our country. Yet,

00:00:11.180 if socialism is a good system, why is it that it's destroyed every country that's tried it?

00:00:15.700 We'll talk about that. Also, a Democratic state representative in Alabama makes something that

00:00:21.360 is at once the most horrific, yet also most honest argument for abortion that you'll ever hear.

00:00:27.100 However, we'll look at that. And what are democracy dollars? Well, they're very stupid,

00:00:32.240 but there's more to it than that. And we'll explain that today as well on The Matt Wall Show. 1.00

00:00:41.780 All right. Thanks for being here. Thanks for tuning in. By the way, my wife keeps telling me that my

00:00:47.200 bookcase that you see behind me looks cluttered and ugly on video and I need to stage it properly.

00:00:54.640 But, you know, I tried to explain that my I am a cluttered and ugly person. So it just it kind

00:01:00.080 of fits the overall theme that I'm going for. Plus, I think that bookcases should be cluttered

00:01:05.680 and chaotic. They should look like that. Just a total disaster zone because bookcases that are

00:01:10.560 too organized, then well, then you know that they're just there for show. It means that nobody's

00:01:15.600 actually pulled a book off the shelf and read it. So that's a bookshelf that, you know, is used.

00:01:20.720 We actually have, though, a decorative bookshelf in our house. I'm ashamed to admit. Now, I didn't

00:01:26.600 choose this. My wife made this choice, but it's not my fault. But my wife staged a bookshelf 0.99

00:01:32.900 downstairs with like these antique books that she went out and she bought antique books out of

00:01:40.140 somewhere. I don't know where you buy. And and they're just decorative books like we don't you

00:01:44.300 don't read them. We're not supposed to read them. They're just there on the shelf to look at. And so

00:01:48.480 you can say, oh, those are pretty books. They're real books. I mean, you could read them. There

00:01:52.100 are words inside the book, but you don't read them. It's just it's all decorative. So but this is not

00:01:57.560 this bookshelf is functional. It serves a purpose. And so I feel like it's it's, you know, in that

00:02:03.760 sense, it's quite it's quite beautiful. All right. So a lot to talk about today or I could just talk

00:02:10.300 about my bookshelf for another 30 minutes. The let's talk first about socialism. The the socialist

00:02:15.780 country of Venezuela is if you've been watching the news is falling apart before our eyes.

00:02:21.940 It was once the wealthiest country in South America. And now after not all that long ago,

00:02:28.620 either, but after a couple decades of socialism, it is a failed state now. And it's disturbing then

00:02:37.980 when you see what's going on in Venezuela, it's disturbing to think about how many people in my

00:02:42.860 generation and the generation after ours want to adopt that system in our country, the system that

00:02:51.440 led directly to the chaos that we're seeing in Venezuela. They want that in our country. Polls show

00:02:56.880 that almost half of when you combine the millennial and I guess it's generation Z, they're the ones 0.97

00:03:03.080 after us. How did that happen? By the way, we got generation X and then millennials. And then we went

00:03:10.300 right to generation Z. How do we skip a letter? I don't understand that. But if you combine those

00:03:19.000 and when they've been polled, we find that 50 percent of the combined forces there want socialism

00:03:27.040 in this country. And of course, they're being herded in that direction by the avowed prominent

00:03:33.380 socialists in the Democratic Party like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So following

00:03:39.220 demographic trends, it's not inconceivable that in 2030, maybe 40 years, we could have our own

00:03:45.540 Venezuela moment in this country. But if you're still a little bit on the fence about it and you

00:03:53.180 can't decide whether or not you are in favor of socialism, I think there's a very simple test

00:03:59.660 that should clarify things for you. And I know I'm not the first person to make this point.

00:04:04.180 I won't be the last person either. It's an obvious point. It's obvious because it's unassailable and

00:04:10.320 people bring it up all the time because it's just true. And the point is this. You would never want

00:04:16.400 to live in a socialist country. Now, you might say, I want socialism in this country. Yet it's

00:04:22.100 interesting to note that although you want socialism in this country, you wouldn't actually want to ever

00:04:27.440 live in any of the countries that are socialist right now. Shouldn't that tell you something?

00:04:33.620 Take a look at all the socialist countries in the world today. I mean, think about any socialist

00:04:38.000 country. And there are several of them. Would you want to live in any of those places? Because you could.

00:04:46.220 I mean, you could get on a plane and go to any of those places. If socialism is a good idea,

00:04:51.520 if it's even a path to utopia, which is how Ocasio-Cortez presents it, then there should be

00:04:59.280 in existence today, a number of socialist countries that you, a socialist, might consider moving to.

00:05:06.640 So which one would it be? Venezuela, North Korea, China, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Nicaragua? I mean,

00:05:14.100 which of those would you want to move to? Of course, the socialist sympathizer in America will,

00:05:21.640 when you talk about socialist countries, the first thing they'll say is, well, what about Sweden?

00:05:25.720 What about Denmark? And they'll say that those are socialist successes. The problem with calling,

00:05:32.280 you know, the Denmark or Sweden, the Nordic countries socialist successes is that they aren't

00:05:38.480 socialist. So it's hard for them to be a socialist success when they aren't socialist. In fact, the prime

00:05:43.660 minister of Denmark addressed this question in a speech, I think at an American college a few

00:05:50.260 years ago. And here's what he said. He said, I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic

00:05:55.000 model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far

00:06:00.760 from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy. Okay. So you heard it from the horse's

00:06:06.420 mouth. The guy who runs Denmark, Denmark, it's not, it's not, it's not socialism. So if you want to

00:06:12.900 live in a socialist country, it seems that a cottage in Copenhagen is out of the question.

00:06:19.780 So where else are you going to go? The closest, you know, if you want to talk about a real socialist

00:06:25.720 success story, what do you, I mean, the closest thing you might have is like Bolivia or something,

00:06:30.860 which isn't really a social success story either. But at any rate, would you want to live in Bolivia?

00:06:36.740 Would you prefer Bolivia to here? Now we could expand this hypothetical search to include historical

00:06:46.220 places. Let's say that, so I give you all as many options as possible. Let's say that in this

00:06:53.260 hypothetical, you could take either a plane to your destination or a time machine, and you could go to

00:06:59.300 any socialist country that exists or has existed. Which state-controlled wonderland would you choose

00:07:07.320 to go to in the past? Soviet Russia? Nazi Germany, which was socialist? Cambodia? I mean, where are you

00:07:14.400 going? Socialism and communism killed 100 million people in the 20th century and counting. So if you do

00:07:22.080 decide to go to one of those places, I would say, you know, just be very, very careful when you get there.

00:07:29.300 So we can, you know, we could sit here and talk about the economic and philosophical problems

00:07:34.420 inherent to the socialist model. We could, you know, we could do that all day. But to me, it seems like

00:07:42.100 the proof is in the pudding. It seems like this is, this is really it, right? And this is a pudding

00:07:47.100 that is made with misery and starvation and tyranny and death on a scale previously unknown to mankind.

00:07:55.900 And that is not a good pudding. That's not how, that's not how, that's not the recipe I use for my

00:08:01.140 pudding. I'll put, I could tell you that. So maybe we should just take the hint. One or two examples of

00:08:08.780 socialism failing would not be enough to discredit the entire system. I admit that. But we have now over a

00:08:16.820 century of chaos, bloodshed and poverty directly brought on by this system of governance. And I

00:08:25.780 think that that's a pretty good sample size. I mean, we have dozens of countries who've tried it over

00:08:31.900 the last 100 years. And not only has it not worked for them, but, but very often it has resulted in,

00:08:39.180 in genocide and mass starvation. So it's just

00:08:43.540 maybe take the hint is what I'm saying. And so all that's left for the socialist proponent in America

00:08:55.100 is to say that, well, none of that is real socialism. It's, it's, it's not, it's not the

00:09:00.980 real, all of that, none of that is real. The real socialism isn't that. Well, you know, if,

00:09:07.320 if dozens of countries have had it over the course of a hundred, 120 years, um,

00:09:12.040 and, and all these countries have tried it and none of them could do it right, according to you,

00:09:18.300 um, maybe that means that it seems like there are, there are two possible explanations. Either

00:09:25.900 you're wrong about what you consider to be real socialism. And those are real examples of socialism,

00:09:32.540 um, which is the correct answer, by the way, or best case scenario, if you're looking to defend

00:09:41.160 socialism, well, it's not real socials. Well, then that means that socialism is just something that

00:09:47.340 doesn't work in, in, in, in the real world that, that can't be, um, brought to fruition. It's,

00:09:54.120 it's an idea. It's a, uh, a philosophy. It's a, it's a utopian dream. Um, you know,

00:10:01.700 best case scenario for you, that's what it is. So that, that's the, that's the best you could do.

00:10:08.820 Um, but actually that's, it's not even that, you know, because I know that there are people who say,

00:10:14.700 well, communism and socialism, great ideas, but, uh, when you, when you try to put them into

00:10:20.260 practice, that's when it all goes to, goes to hell. Well, yeah, they're not great ideas because

00:10:24.860 if it's a great idea, but every time you try to put it into practice, it kills tens of millions

00:10:29.840 of people, then, you know, that probably means it's not actually a great idea. And socialism and

00:10:35.480 communism, these are not great ideas because they are ideas that at their core are antithetical to,

00:10:43.840 to liberty, to freedom, and thus to human flourishing. And that's why it always works

00:10:52.760 out the way it does. Yeah. Look, Venezuela, you know, Soviet Russia, all these, uh, North Korea, 0.73

00:11:01.540 that's real socialism. That's what socialism is. And that's what happens with socialism.

00:11:09.460 Um, I, I was talking about this yesterday on Twitter, someone, someone, uh, and you get this

00:11:14.720 response all the time. Someone emailed me and said, said, Oh, it's, you don't like socialism.

00:11:20.320 Huh? Well, so I guess you don't like, uh, when the, when the, when the government builds roads.

00:11:24.340 No, you see that the government building a road is not socialism. That's not a socialist act.

00:11:32.360 It's not like the only other alternative to socialism is for the government to do nothing.

00:11:37.840 I'm not saying the government should do nothing. I'm saying that the government shouldn't control

00:11:42.740 everything, which is what happens under socialism. Yes. There are certain things in a free country.

00:11:48.860 There are certain prescribed roles that the government takes on and it does not go beyond

00:11:55.880 those roles. Ideally. Um, one of those is sometimes to build roads, but that is not socialism.

00:12:02.880 All right. Um, so we've discussed before on the show, moving on here, uh, another topic we've

00:12:09.980 discussed on the show, what, what happens when pro-abortion people, speaking of horrible ideas,

00:12:15.500 um, the pro-abortion position, you know, what happens when pro-abortion people are accidentally

00:12:24.140 and momentarily honest about what they believe, you know, the pro-abortion position usually comes

00:12:31.400 to us cloaked in euphemism, cloaked in code words, propaganda, dishonesty, obfuscation, um, misleading

00:12:39.880 talking points and rhetoric. That's usually the way it goes. But every once in a while,

00:12:43.720 someone from that camp will take off the mask and let their true faces show. And it is a hideous

00:12:50.440 face. Indeed. That actually happened twice this week. So let's take a look at both examples,

00:12:54.420 uh, both caught on tape. So first we've got Alabama state representative, John Rogers.

00:13:00.360 He is railing against a wonderful bill in Alabama that would criminalize almost all abortion. Um,

00:13:06.920 which is, which is just, just awesome. But John Rogers doesn't like that very much. And, um,

00:13:14.440 this is the case that he makes against restricting abortion.

00:13:20.120 All I'm saying to you, it ought to be a woman's choice. I'm not about to be as a male,

00:13:26.120 tell a woman what to do with her body. She has a right to make that decision herself, 0.98

00:13:33.960 to rake their headsets. Some kids are unwarned. So you kill them now, I kill them later. You,

00:13:43.080 you bring them in the world, unwarned, unloved, then you send them to the lecture chair. So you kill them now, 1.00

00:13:49.000 I'll kill them later. But the bottom line is that I think we should be making this decision. 1.00

00:13:57.400 All right. You can kill them now or you can kill them later. 1.00

00:14:04.600 There are, uh, that was his quote, right? Um, so there are a few interesting things happening in 1.00

00:14:09.800 this clip. The first is that a rambling, unintelligible psychopath was apparently elected 0.97

00:14:16.760 to office as a Democrat in Alabama. In fact, uh, I looked this up. He's been reelected many times. 0.75

00:14:21.880 He's been in office since office since 1982. So 37 years for a man whose argument for abortion is 0.92

00:14:29.480 we got to kill kids now or kill them later. Um, so what does that tell you about the Democrat party? 1.00

00:14:36.280 Um, also, what does that tell you about how easy it is to be a politician that you can have an IQ of 12

00:14:43.080 and be a bloodthirsty psychopath and, and, and, and still get along swimmingly in your career as a politician

00:14:50.360 for 37 years. The second interesting thing is that Rogers admits that these are kids. He admits that it's killing. 0.73

00:15:02.280 Um, and of course those facts are completely self-evident and unavoidable. So you don't get credit for admitting

00:15:07.160 them, but most pro boards will not admit that. Um, yet he does. And you know, it's kind of like

00:15:16.520 socialism that, like I said, what does it tell you about socialism that whenever you get a good look

00:15:21.640 at it, it's horrific. Well, it's the same thing with, with the pro abortion position. What does it tell

00:15:28.840 you that anytime a pro abortion person is just frank and direct and honest and doesn't try to get around

00:15:36.280 it and say, Oh, it's not really a baby. It's a fetus. It's a clump of cells. You know,

00:15:40.120 it doesn't use any of that. It just says, yeah, here's what it is. Here's my defense of it.

00:15:43.720 What does it tell you that anytime someone does that, the results are, uh, nightmarish and bone

00:15:49.240 chilling. Speaking of bone chilling, and there was another random act of honesty by pro boards this

00:15:55.800 week also caught on video. This is from the university of Texas, San Antonio. Um, actually the incident,

00:16:01.720 I guess happened sometime in April, but it just went viral this week. Pro-life students on campus

00:16:07.080 had set up a display called cemetery of the innocence, which is a display, uh, looks like a

00:16:12.360 cemetery, which is meant to, um, remember and memorialize the innocence who are killed by abortion.

00:16:17.960 Some feminists got wind of this and, um, here's what happened. 1.00

00:16:21.640 I have an abortion. Look, there's mine right there. Look, there's mine right there.

00:16:32.120 I'm just so slutty. I got pregnant, so I had to get an abortion. 0.99

00:16:36.520 I'm crying. Jesus so loves me. That's an abort fetus. That's my number one thing. 1.00

00:16:43.480 I have to somewhat explain things just in case.

00:16:47.160 And you're proud of it? I'm the nurse. Yes, I'm super proud of it.

00:16:53.880 I am extremely proud of it.

00:16:57.720 I exercise my right to choose.

00:17:01.960 Okay, it looks like we have an officer, a couple of officers on site.

00:17:07.880 Apparently, I can't stand and grasp and get the cops called.

00:17:11.400 I love advocating for abortion. My uterus loves advocating for abortion.

00:17:19.000 All right. Well, as I, as I watched that again, I guess I should, I should amend the way that I

00:17:25.160 set that video up. I said that it's honesty, but it's not. Um, it's honesty in that it reveals the

00:17:33.480 dark and depraved heart of pro-abortion advocacy. So it is honesty in that sense.

00:17:37.800 Um, but these women who are acting proud of their abortions, these women acting so flippant 1.00

00:17:46.360 about it, joking about it, um, they are, they are not being honest with themselves or with us,

00:17:53.400 not at all. You know, what you're watching here, what you, what you saw there were broken human

00:17:59.240 beings trying to convince themselves, not convince us, trying to convince themselves of what they're

00:18:05.320 saying, trying desperately to stave off the guilt and self-loathing that they feel by pretend by way

00:18:12.760 overcompensating. That's what's going on there. Um, you know, pro boards like to pretend that getting

00:18:18.360 an abortion is basically, uh, you know, it's just like getting a, getting a filling at the dentist or

00:18:23.800 something, but a normal procedure, no big deal. Um, nothing to freak out about. That's what they

00:18:31.040 say. Well, it's weird because if there were some whack jobs out on a street corner screaming that

00:18:38.520 it's immoral and evil to get a dental procedure, would you bother going up to them with a sign and

00:18:45.140 screaming, I got a dental procedure and I'm proud of it. I got a filling. I'm proud. Um, no, you wouldn't,

00:18:51.460 you would roll your eyes at these people and say, these people are crazy. And, and, and you would 0.95

00:18:56.440 go about your day. You're not going to, you're not going to argue with them because you know,

00:19:00.040 there's nothing wrong with getting a filling at the dentist there. You know, there's nothing wrong

00:19:03.080 with getting your cavity, um, taken care of. Uh, you know that you don't need to argue with someone

00:19:08.680 about it. You don't need to defend it. Uh, you're you'd have no interest in doing that, but

00:19:14.340 with abortion, what you find is that these women feel the need while, while claiming that the pro-life

00:19:23.040 position is crazy. And it's just as delusional as somebody, uh, railing against getting a cavity

00:19:30.140 filled while they say that, but yet they, they take the time and they feel the need to grab the

00:19:37.120 sign and march around and say, I'm so proud. Well, here's the thing. Pretty much 100% of the time

00:19:42.780 when someone is making a point of declaring how proud they are of themselves, uh, of something

00:19:48.500 that they did, it means they aren't proud. Um, it means, what it really means is they want you to

00:19:56.920 be proud of them, but they want you to be proud of them because they're not proud of themselves.

00:20:03.780 You know, they, they, they're, they are not confident, you know, being, being, being proud.

00:20:12.000 Pride is confidence. Uh, and a confident person doesn't go around shouting, Whoa, look what I did.

00:20:18.000 Isn't this great? Everyone look, see, see how great this is. This thing that I did

00:20:21.840 confident people don't do that because a confident person, they don't need other people's approval.

00:20:28.260 And if you know that you did the right thing, you don't need other people to know about it. You

00:20:32.680 don't need to convince them of it. You just know that it was right. Um,

00:20:37.280 so that's, what's going on here. These are pitiful figures, uh, pitiful, sad, desperate,

00:20:47.080 guilt-ridden people. And let's not be fooled by the, by the charade, by the game they're playing,

00:20:56.020 um, because it's not very convincing. All right. Um, finally, before emails, this is a

00:21:03.060 report from the daily wire says Kirsten Gillibrand told NBC news that her first major

00:21:08.320 campaign campaign plan would be called the clean elections plan. And it would get, give every

00:21:14.360 voter $600. She called it democracy dollars to donate to the federal candidates of their choice. 0.96

00:21:20.680 Um, she explains, okay, under the plan, every eligible voter would register for vouchers to

00:21:28.700 donate up to a hundred, a hundred dollars in a primary election and a hundred dollars in a general

00:21:33.400 election each cycle, either all at once or in $10 increments. Each participant would get a separate

00:21:39.320 $200 pool for house, Senate and presidential, uh, contests for a maximum total of $600 for those

00:21:47.700 federal offices. All right. Um, I just wanted to mention that because I think it's a great idea

00:21:53.040 and I really like it. I have to say, in fact, I, and I would just make one small tweak here,

00:21:59.120 just one little thing. Um, I mean, the idea of the government giving everyone $600 that they would

00:22:05.780 then give to someone else. I like that idea. The small adjustment I would make is in, in my version

00:22:12.400 of the plan, um, everybody would give me $600. And so we would call it Matt Walsh dollars. Uh,

00:22:19.960 there they'd be real dollars, of course, so I can go out and spend them, but, but, uh, earmarked for

00:22:24.380 me. And, um, yeah, I mean, that's, that's the plan. So that's my suggestion. I'm just throwing that

00:22:31.780 out there. You could something to think about. All right. Let's go to emails. Matt Walsh show at

00:22:36.200 gmail.com. Matt Walsh show at gmail.com. This is from Georgia says, Matt, thank you for your

00:22:41.440 insightful analysis of the causes of the civil war and racism in context of the generation.

00:22:45.980 As you were explaining how it was once commonly accepted to be discriminatory to people who don't

00:22:50.140 look like you, but now that idea has been eradicated from our society. I couldn't help but

00:22:53.720 think, or actually couldn't help screaming into my phone that we still, um, are far from healed in

00:22:59.280 this area as abortion is still legal in many countries. I know you understand the similarities

00:23:03.360 there. And I think it should be pointed out that in future generations, people who are pro

00:23:07.140 abortion today will someday be thought of a thought of as barbaric scumbags. Uh, you are 0.99

00:23:12.880 absolutely a hundred percent correct. I won't surprise you that I agree with you there. And,

00:23:18.660 you know, as we've been talking about these kinds of moral blind spots that cultures have, 0.98

00:23:24.880 um, and that many cultures, maybe all cultures have had throughout history. Well, this is ours.

00:23:30.720 Um, this is our blind spot. And I agree that in who knows 50 years, a hundred years, 150 years

00:23:37.220 someday, uh, if the world doesn't end before that someday people will look back on abortion,

00:23:42.900 the way they look at slavery, and they're going to see all these things because as I have detailed

00:23:48.460 in the past, the arguments for slavery are pretty much identical to the arguments for abortion.

00:23:57.780 And the reason is that it seems like in, in every time in history, um, in, in every civilization,

00:24:06.040 there have been people trying to claim that some other group of people are not people.

00:24:13.720 And the people who make that argument always use the same argument. It's always the same arguments,

00:24:19.060 repackaged, reheated over and over and over again. Um, and yet they can never see,

00:24:27.560 they, they, they, they can't see that they're doing exactly the, while they are using the argument

00:24:32.660 that people in the past made, even as they condemn those people in the past for making those

00:24:38.540 arguments. It's just, it's remarkable that people could be so blind. Um, this is from

00:24:46.840 Andy says, uh, I, I found myself in a predicament. The company I worked for has decided to sponsor the

00:24:54.580 pride parade in, uh, Salt Lake city. Frankly, I don't know what to think about this. On one hand,

00:25:00.880 they aren't actually hurting me on the other. They are disturbing the distributing rainbow ally 1.00

00:25:05.680 badges. And literally everywhere I go, I encounter a rainbow flag enlisting me to volunteer for the

00:25:11.580 pride parade. Honestly, I'm all for tolerance, inclusion, and diversity of thought. The problem

00:25:15.780 for me is that this feels like it goes beyond these things into a celebration of something,

00:25:20.240 a large portion of your employee base tolerates and includes, but think celebrating is sinful.

00:25:26.420 Um, I asked HR if they knew they were alienating a significant portion of the company. They told me

00:25:31.620 that if I wanted to discuss this, I would have to schedule a meeting with the company's directors.

00:25:36.040 Should I schedule the meeting or is this simply self-sabotage with nothing to gain?

00:25:41.380 Um, on another note, I'm surprised wild Turkey rare breed is amazing, uh, and wasn't on your

00:25:47.420 bourbon recommendation list. Yeah, that's a tough situation, Andy. I don't think I'm in a

00:25:52.120 position to tell you what to do. Uh, you're going to have a much better feel for it than I do.

00:25:57.280 I will say this. If you assess that there is zero chance that you're meeting with them would change

00:26:05.900 their mind yet a significant chance that it will hurt your career, then no, I don't think you're

00:26:12.360 morally obligated to go and jump on a grenade with no hope of it doing anything, but blowing you to

00:26:17.700 smithereens, right? Um, we aren't required to go out of our way to martyr ourselves. We're not

00:26:23.980 required to do that, especially if we have a family to, to support and it's okay to take that

00:26:30.060 into consideration. I mean, you have to take that into consideration. That's your job. Um, if you do

00:26:34.980 have a family and even if you don't, you gotta support yourself. So I would exercise caution and

00:26:39.960 prudence and I would take the path that seems wisest and best for your family. Um, that's just

00:26:44.680 my thought. But if, if there's a particular moral stand that it has, has no chance in that context

00:26:58.980 of resulting in any actual change, but could significantly hurt you for taking it, then no,

00:27:07.800 I don't think you need to take it, which isn't the same thing as now, if you, if you were, if they

00:27:11.980 came to you and said, we need you to go to the pride parade and, uh, take part in it and volunteer

00:27:16.660 or something, well, that's different. Now, now you're in a position where you have to say no, even if

00:27:21.380 it means you get fired, right? That's that anyone in that position, that's, we would be required, but,

00:27:25.960 um, there's a difference between that and just kind of remaining silently opposed. And sometimes silence

00:27:35.800 is okay. It's not, it's not like it's always cowardly. Um, I, and I get questions like this

00:27:40.140 all the time with people saying, with people with these kinds of, um, in these kinds of

00:27:48.300 situations. And it's always the same thing. Like you don't, you don't have to go around shouting

00:27:52.360 your opinion all the time, basically begging to get fired. Um, I think you got to kind of choose

00:27:57.320 your spots. All right. This is from Lee says, Matt, if you were stranded on an Island with a group

00:28:01.240 of people and there was nothing to eat and someone died and you were starving, would you eat the dead

00:28:06.440 person? That is a good question. Uh, of course this, this has actually happened before there was a,

00:28:16.380 you know, famous cases. There was a famous case of the rugby team in the, I think it was the 1970s

00:28:21.160 that they went down in the Andes, uh, on a plane and they were stranded. Um, they ended up eating the

00:28:28.260 dead to survive. So there are two separate questions here. It seems one is what would I do?

00:28:34.640 And then the other is what's the right thing to do. And those are not necessarily the same question

00:28:39.920 because as for what I would do, well, you know, you don't know what you would do in a desperate

00:28:45.720 situation where you're starving to death and your, your survival is on the line and death is imminent

00:28:51.800 and all of that. You just, you don't know how you would respond. So that's a different question

00:28:57.680 from objectively, what's the right thing to do? How should we react in that situation? As for that,

00:29:03.720 obviously assuming that everyone agrees that it's wrong to kill someone in order to eat them,

00:29:07.820 I think we can all agree on that. Um, but dealing with, for instance, the plane crash in the Andes and

00:29:12.540 people, some people survived, some died, uh, and the others were starving to death. Is it okay to eat

00:29:18.220 the dead in that case? It's weird because my, my visceral reaction morally is to say, no, it's not okay.

00:29:26.400 Even if they're already dead, even if you'll die, if you don't seems like it's not morally okay.

00:29:33.160 But then in trying to come up with arguments to justify my visceral moral reaction, I really can't

00:29:39.900 think of any good arguments. Um, my argument is basically it's gross, but that's not an argument,

00:29:47.560 right? That's a reflex, not an argument. I guess the serious argument against it is that it's the,

00:29:54.160 it's the desecration of a corpse and it's wrong to desecrate a corpse. But, but if the intent is not

00:29:59.640 to desecrate, but to survive, then are we really saying that someone has a responsibility to die

00:30:06.900 for the sake of respecting the body of someone who's already dead? Um, is it better to have two

00:30:12.780 dead bodies than one dead body and another living by, by using the dead body? Um, I guess it's hard

00:30:20.100 to say that it's better for a person to die than to survive by eating the dead. And besides, as I

00:30:26.440 think about it, is it really that much different from say using a dead person's heart or kidney or

00:30:31.340 liver, uh, uh, or lungs or whatever for survival in a, in an organ transplant? If it's desecration of the

00:30:38.620 dead to use a body for sustenance, wouldn't it be desecration to carve their heart out of their,

00:30:44.360 you know, uh, chest cavity and put it into another person? So I can't think of a good argument that rules

00:30:51.220 out eating the dead in a desperate situation, but allows for organ transplants. It seems like very

00:31:00.880 similar sorts of things where you are, I mean, to put it crudely, you're harvesting the dead for the

00:31:09.520 sake of the living. Seems very similar. So, uh, I suppose my answer is, my answer is, uh, is although

00:31:16.800 my instinct is no, it's not right. I think intellectually upon further reflection in a desperate

00:31:23.620 situation, when death is the only alternative, it would be okay. It seems to eat the

00:31:29.760 dead. So bon appetit. Sorry, that was inappropriate way to finish that discussion. Um, let's see. This

00:31:40.460 is from Lindsay says, Matt, I just wanted to tell you that although you aren't, although you aren't as

00:31:46.380 ready for prime time as some of the other personalities on the daily wire, I think you're

00:31:50.480 by far the most interesting person on the site. Now that, that felt like a backhanded compliment. Uh,

00:31:57.560 Lindsay, I, I, uh, or maybe just a backhand straight up because here's the thing. Interesting means bad

00:32:05.580 with women. I know that I've learned that I've learned a few things about women in my life,

00:32:09.300 just a few. And one of them is that, um, interesting is bad. And I I've learned that from my wife. Like

00:32:15.060 I remember a few years ago on Christmas, uh, I got her a, uh, uh, I think it was like a bracelet

00:32:21.860 that I thought was a nice bracelet. I don't know, but, um, she didn't seem that enthused by it. So I

00:32:29.140 said, Oh, do you like it? And she said, yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's interesting. And I

00:32:34.840 said, okay, I dropped the ball on that one. I did. I know that I did because interesting is not now

00:32:40.060 interesting for me is good from a man. When a man says interesting, it means, Oh, that's interesting.

00:32:45.140 I'm interested in it. It's a good thing, but with women, it's not. And so that's another way of saying, 1.00

00:32:51.520 how dare you insult me? Um, thanks for the email though. All right. Finally from Brian says, uh,

00:33:02.360 dear Mr. Powerful, just and supreme, glorious bearded, incredibly intelligent future King and

00:33:06.940 overlord of the known universe, Matt Walsh. Finally, someone addresses me the way that I need to be

00:33:11.140 addressed. Um, that is my correct pronoun, by the way, I have been a long time listener and reader of

00:33:17.860 your work. I have been following you since the blaze. And I think I've heard every one of your

00:33:21.300 podcasts. I am a current law student with an undergraduate degree in etymology, um, entomology

00:33:27.320 through which I took a beekeeping class. I think it's very cool. And I'm a little jealous of you

00:33:32.560 for having a beehive. Uh, I want to clear some inaccuracies that you said on episode two 46 about

00:33:38.140 bees. Uh, you just said that I'm future King and overlord of the known universe. Now you're going

00:33:44.540 to clear up inaccuracies. It seems like a little bit of an inconsistency there. Bees are more radical 0.98

00:33:50.420 feminists than you think. Males do no work. Their only purpose is to mate with queen bees. 1.00

00:33:54.840 They take no part in cleaning the hive or producing the honey. They are completely helpless and rely on

00:33:59.080 their sisters for everything. Because as feminists say, if you want something done right, let women 1.00

00:34:02.700 do it. Males and queens are produced during late winter. So by spring, they are mature and could go

00:34:08.240 on mating flights. If the males do not mate, they are evicted by their sisters in the fall before winter

00:34:13.620 comes. They are removed from the hive if they are to try to reenter. And they eventually starve to death

00:34:18.320 since they are completely helpless and useless. Some tips to help you, uh, make sure to have at least

00:34:23.160 I won't go into the beekeeping tips because that's a little bit too niche, but, um, but yeah, no, I, I,

00:34:29.520 I agree. This is one thing I've, as I've talked about that I've noticed as a beekeeper,

00:34:33.200 as a new beekeeper, that, um, it is a very feminist, uh, anti-male environment among bees. 1.00

00:34:41.080 So, but I mean, they, they treat each other pretty harsh. I was out at the hive a couple of days ago

00:34:46.500 and I noticed, um, there was this one, there's a female bee trying to, you know, she was coming 0.94

00:34:52.340 back from a flight looking for flowers or whatever she was doing. And she tried to come back in and

00:34:58.060 she, and the other bees wouldn't let her in. They actually basically body slammed her onto the ground 1.00

00:35:03.500 and then she, uh, you know, just waddled away. She wasn't allowed to come back. And so they'll

00:35:09.800 randomly decide to evict. I don't know if they do it by lottery or something. I don't know how they

00:35:13.740 decide, but they'll randomly decide, well, you know, look, women can be a little bit, they can 1.00

00:35:19.200 turn on each other kind of quick. I mean, female friendships can be a little bit finicky and, and, 1.00

00:35:23.680 and, uh, volatile at times. And so I guess there was some drama in the hive and this girl was

00:35:29.760 on the outs. And, um, so they sent her out and anyway, she died, but we'll leave it there.

00:35:36.600 Um, thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

00:35:52.800 I'm Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles show. Students at Hofstra university are demanding

00:35:57.280 the school tear down a statue of Thomas Jefferson. Meanwhile, a Northern California public school

00:36:02.020 district wants to remove a mural of George Washington. We will analyze the end of history.

00:36:07.760 Check it out at dailywire.com.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 02, 2019

Ep. 251 - Even Socialists Don't Want To Live Under Socialism

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