The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 281 - After 50 Years, Democrats Have Decided That Joe Biden Is Racist

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Democrats have decided that Joe Biden is racist.

00:00:04.340 Now, if this is true, which I don't think it is, but if it is,

00:00:07.360 why are they just now noticing it after all these years? Also, I want to talk about the

00:00:11.820 danger of misleading headlines and how we can guard ourselves against them.

00:00:16.560 And finally, are we putting teachers in an impossible situation by sending them legions of

00:00:22.060 poorly parented, out-of-control kids to educate? I would say yes, we are.

00:00:26.840 We'll talk about that today also on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:52.020 there now. OK, so the media is is now discovering that Joe Biden is racist, allegedly, supposedly,

00:03:01.080 a discovery that seems sort of odd given the timing. You know, the guy has been in politics for

00:03:09.360 I think it's I think it's about 673 years. I think it's the exact. He's been in politics

00:03:15.740 since, you know, way into the Middle Ages. And none of this stuff came up for all those centuries.

00:03:24.900 Nobody brought up anything about Joe Biden being racist. But now that he's threatening to take the

00:03:30.040 nomination away from more liberal candidates like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris,

00:03:36.460 whoever. Now it's all coming to light. Kind of interesting. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

00:03:42.940 Right. It's not like the media is acting as an oppo team for the far left, for far left Democratic

00:03:48.860 candidates. I mean, that's of course they would never do that. I would. There's no possible way.

00:03:53.760 So they've been digging up supposedly racist dirt on Joe Biden. And you've heard about a lot of it

00:04:00.560 already, I'm sure. Here's the latest. The headlines yesterday. Well, here's just one headline in

00:04:08.200 Mediaite. Headline said Joe Biden once referred to Jesse Jackson as that boy in unearthed report.

00:04:15.640 He called Jesse Jackson that boy. That sounds bad, right? Obviously, for a white man to call a black

00:04:22.940 man boy, especially say that boy, that boy over there, Jesse Jackson, that sounds really racist 0.77

00:04:29.100 and terrible, right? But the headline is total BS, of course. It's true that he did call Jesse Jackson

00:04:36.200 that boy. But if you listen to the context, here is the context. Reading from the article says,

00:04:42.540 Jackson, Jackson is one of the brightest guys around, Biden said in remarks made after a speech.

00:04:48.080 That boy ain't no dummy, just like Gary Hart. That boy ain't no dummy either.

00:04:53.660 Gary Hart, by the way, is white. So he referred to a white guy as that boy in the very same sentence

00:05:02.120 that he referred to a black guy as that boy, which means that it's not racist. It's nothing racial

00:05:05.900 going on here. That boy is, it's a colloquialism. It's like if you referred to a woman and he said,

00:05:11.120 you know, you go girl or something to a woman. And then, of course, it'd be ridiculous for the 0.93

00:05:15.820 woman to say, oh, did you just call me a girl? I'm not a girl. I'm a grown woman. No, it's an

00:05:20.860 expression. It's meant to be a supportive, kind of funny, just colloquial expression. I think we

00:05:25.620 all understand that. So in that context, oh, that boy ain't no dummy. I'll tell you that.

00:05:30.720 Not racist. But the media knows that, but they're going with it anyway because they're trying to

00:05:37.820 destroy Joe Biden. Plenty of conservatives as well. You know, it's kind of the enemy of my enemy

00:05:47.780 sort of thing going on. So conservatives usually complain about fake news and media bias and when

00:05:53.820 misleading headlines and everything. But a lot of conservatives are spreading this stuff too and

00:05:58.520 going along with it saying, oh, look at this, Joe Biden called Jesse Jackson. Boy, that's so racist.

00:06:03.740 Now, they all know better, of course. They know that it's bogus, but they're doing it anyway.

00:06:08.500 And that's why I hate politics. I hate the bad faith arguing. Everybody argues in bad faith.

00:06:14.580 And I get it, okay? Strategically, I understand. I'm not stupid. I get why conservatives are

00:06:20.180 pretending to think that Joe Biden is racist. He's not racist. He's a lot of things, many of them not

00:06:25.400 good. There's no reason to think that he's actually racist. And if you're a conservative,

00:06:29.620 especially, you know that he's not racist. You never were saying that about him before.

00:06:34.340 You don't actually think he's racist. You're just saying that now because he's probably the

00:06:39.660 biggest threat to President Trump. And so you figure, well, we can get rid of him in the primaries.

00:06:43.560 We don't have to worry about him in the general election. Strategically, I get it. So that's why

00:06:47.980 you're going up to the liberals and saying, hey, you know, Joe Biden over there, it's kind of racist,

00:06:51.580 isn't he? I don't know. That guy over there seems kind of racist. I mean, it's not my problem.

00:06:57.400 It's just, I'm just letting you guys know, you might want to do something about uncle racist over

00:07:00.700 there. I understand strategically, but I personally, I can't, I just, I can't get myself to the point

00:07:11.380 where integrity means nothing to me. And I don't mean, I'm not putting myself on a pedestal. This

00:07:16.880 isn't a holier than thou thing. I just, I can't, I can't get there. I think a lot of conservatives have

00:07:23.180 gotten there where ends justify the means. Honesty means nothing. The truth means nothing. We're just

00:07:29.000 trying to win. But you see, the problem with that is, well, number one, it's morally wrong. So I mean,

00:07:36.000 that should matter. That's, it should matter to conservatives when something is morally wrong.

00:07:42.420 But number two, it's strategically, it's actually very stupid because the whole thing we're trying 0.96

00:07:49.040 to fight against in our culture is this morally relativistic truth doesn't matter ends justify 0.98

00:07:55.280 the means mentality. That's the philosophy, the worldview that the left is trying to establish.

00:08:02.260 And it's what we're trying to fight against. So if we become that also, if we adopt that also,

00:08:08.820 then we lose. They win. Even if we get a Republican in there, if we have adopted their worldview,

00:08:14.440 if we have become essentially leftist ourselves, then there isn't, there's nothing but leftist all

00:08:19.760 around. Leftist to the right of me, leftist to the left of me. And they win. They have won. It

00:08:24.560 doesn't matter at that point if you get a Republican in there. If they have completely won the culture

00:08:30.080 because we've given up and thrown in the towel and said, yeah, we might as well just, yeah, sure,

00:08:35.500 whatever. We'll just go along with you. And who cares? It doesn't matter. Don't you see that?

00:08:40.380 That's the point that some conservatives have been trying to make for a long time now. And

00:08:51.240 it's frustrating for us because it seems so obvious. But there is a school of thought among

00:08:58.580 some conservatives that the only thing that matters is winning. And so forget about truth,

00:09:02.340 forget about honesty, forget about all that. It doesn't matter. The left doesn't play by those

00:09:05.660 rules. Why should we? Well, no, those of us on the other side of that fence, it's not like we're

00:09:11.980 squeamish or something. Like we're afraid to mix it up and fight for our cause. I think you know that

00:09:18.280 about me by now. I'm not afraid to say anything. I'll have these arguments. I'm not squeamish about

00:09:24.520 any of this stuff. I'm just saying, in my mind, this is exactly what we're opposing.

00:09:30.900 If we become what we oppose, then there's no point anymore. My mission is not to get

00:09:40.640 Republicans elected. That's not what I'm all about.

00:09:46.600 All right. Also, of course, the problem is that when you take people out of context and you try

00:09:51.080 to paint them as racist, even though you know better, you can't really act outraged and offended

00:09:56.100 when the same is done to your side. I mean, you can, but why would anyone take you seriously?

00:10:01.940 And that's why nothing matters anymore. Nothing gets done. No conversation goes anywhere. Arguments

00:10:06.360 lead to nothing. Neither side has any credibility on anything anymore. And that's the problem. We're

00:10:11.740 all just, we've all just punted our integrity a hundred miles away. We're pretending to be offended

00:10:16.940 by the exact sorts of things that we do and say ourselves. So we play the game and accuse the other

00:10:22.680 side of being the only one that plays it when we know that's not true. And everyone knows that

00:10:26.980 everyone else is full of it. We're all looking at each other, knowing that the person across the

00:10:33.760 table is full of it and they know that we're full of it. And so it doesn't matter. I say this,

00:10:39.080 by the way, as someone who strongly dislikes Joe Biden, I think that he's a, he's a, he'd be a

00:10:43.100 terrible president. I think that he's a bad politician. I don't like him as a person. I think

00:10:47.680 he's a coward among other things. I mean, this is the guy that abandoned he for 50 years, he held 0.99

00:10:53.940 a position against taxpayer funding for abortion. And now he's become a, you know, radical feminist

00:10:59.540 pro-abortion, um, militant just because that's because he's trying to appease his base. That's

00:11:05.840 cowardly. And so I have no respect for that, but racist is no evidence of that just because I,

00:11:14.700 I don't like him and I oppose him. That doesn't mean that every insult and every accusation lobbed

00:11:20.260 against him is automatically true. There's no evidence that he's racist. Oh, he said that he

00:11:25.360 worked with segregationists. So what? It wasn't, he didn't, I clearly was not meant in a, he wasn't

00:11:31.240 saying, oh yeah, you know, I, because I agreed with segregation. You think he'd be coming out saying

00:11:34.980 he agrees with segregation? Even if that was true, why in the world would he say it? That wasn't the

00:11:41.340 point he was making. He was trying, in fact, he was insulting Republicans. He was trying,

00:11:45.020 the way that I read it is that he was, he was saying, yeah, you know, we got to work with

00:11:48.480 Republicans now and, uh, Hey, I don't like it, but I can do it. I mean, I had to work with

00:11:52.900 segregation, segregationists back in the day, which, yeah, if you were in Congress in the early

00:11:57.540 seventies, you had to work with segregationists. That doesn't mean that you're racist. It just means

00:12:00.800 that you're old. Um, and so he was really smearing Republicans in a dishonest way himself.

00:12:06.440 And we should oppose that, but we shouldn't oppose it by pretending that we think that

00:12:11.160 what he said was racist and he was really coming out in favor of segregation or something.

00:12:16.040 When we know that isn't true. Um, so much of the political discourse, you know, you ever,

00:12:24.240 have you ever been talking to somebody who's lying to you and you know that they're lying to you

00:12:31.820 and they know that, you know, that they're lying, but they're continuing the lie and you're just

00:12:37.500 looking them in the eyes and you both know what the, what the score is. And so parents go through

00:12:44.360 this a lot, actually with, with, you know, parents, if you're a parent, there's either happens a lot

00:12:49.020 of time, a lot, a lot with kids when they think they're pulling something over on you, but then

00:12:52.680 you've got them caught and then they start to realize that, oh, they're caught, but they stick with

00:12:56.060 the story. And, you know, so that happens. Um, I think that our political discourse is a lot like

00:13:00.900 that where we're both just lying and pretending to think things we don't think and pretending to

00:13:05.300 be offended by things. We aren't really offended by, um, saying spewing talking points that we don't

00:13:11.440 really believe. And we're saying this to each other and look at each other in the eyes, but we both

00:13:16.760 know that the other person is full of it and they don't really mean it. And so there's this mutual

00:13:23.120 understanding unspoken that we're both just really lying. And I don't know, at a certain point,

00:13:30.820 you just get tired of it. You say, I don't know. Why am I even going to have this conversation?

00:13:33.500 It's pointless. It's all a game. It doesn't mean anything. Speaking of dishonesty, here's a headline

00:13:40.800 from the Hill. Um, the headline is Laura Ingram dismisses reparations for slave descendants.

00:13:48.220 We won, you lost. So the headline is that's quoting her that she said, we won, you lost. So

00:13:53.700 based on the headline, it sounds like, well, it sounds pretty bad. It sounds like Laura Ingram

00:13:59.020 is referring to slavery and saying, we won, you lost. She's referring to slave descendants. She's 0.55

00:14:06.640 saying, sorry, too bad. We won, you lost. Sorry about the slavery. That's what it, that's what

00:14:13.020 they're making it sound like. She said, which is incredibly racist. You think this woman lose her 1.00

00:14:17.460 mind again, even if she is that racist, why would she say that publicly? Um, so that's what you think. 0.99

00:14:24.900 If you just read the headline that this is an incredibly racist woman who said something 1.00

00:14:28.640 monstrous, but that of course is not actually what happened. If you read the article, you discover

00:14:36.440 that this headline is flatly dishonest and lying. That is not what she said. Let's read the article

00:14:45.520 that the Hill provides says Fox news is Laura Ingram dismissed the idea of reparations for the

00:14:50.640 descendants of slaves on her podcast Thursday as do-overs. Ingram played a clip Thursday of author

00:14:55.960 Ta-Nehisi Coates, uh, blasting Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, uh, Ingram's guest,

00:15:01.960 Kentucky state professor Wilford Riley said reparations would open the door to native Americans

00:15:05.740 calling for the same. Riley said, I mean, obviously both white and black soldiers frankly took this

00:15:10.580 country from the Indians. The first people, um, Ingram responded, people would argue that the whole

00:15:16.040 world and I would, the whole world has been reshaped by people taking other people's land. It's 1.00

00:15:20.180 called conquest. There was an argument sometime. I think it was in the 1980s. There was a quote,

00:15:24.460 um, describing world politics. We won, you lost. That's that. And that's just the way,

00:15:30.740 way it is. She added. Okay. So the, we, we won, you lost was not in reference to slavery. It was not

00:15:37.840 in reference to reparations. It was not in reference to, uh, the slave descendants. It was in reference to,

00:15:43.000 um, conquest. And she was quote, she was paraphrasing a quote in reference to conquest

00:15:51.220 and basically saying, this was the way of the world for thousands of years. And she's right about

00:15:56.960 that. That was the way of the world conquest. Every, everyone did it. Doesn't make it right. 0.77

00:16:01.840 But, um, this is a point I've made before that for us to sit back and, and, uh, and bemoan, um,

00:16:07.840 uh, Europeans and, and, and whites stealing land and so on. Okay. Fine. You can do that. But then 0.99

00:16:15.580 you, you have to also say the same about literally everybody, uh, every other culture and country and

00:16:21.680 society on the planet for thousands of years. That's the, that's what everybody did. It's the

00:16:26.120 way humanity worked. It's the way that societies grew through war and conquest. Doesn't make it good.

00:16:32.960 Doesn't make it okay. But you have to look at it in a historical context. That's what she's saying.

00:16:38.580 She is not talking about slavery and saying you lost. So this headline is

00:16:44.640 not, not just misleading. It's, it's, it's libelous because the people who write the headlines,

00:16:54.480 they know, okay. They know that most people are not going to bother to actually read the article,

00:17:02.320 right? Most people aren't going to bother to read the article. What most people do

00:17:05.540 is they just, uh, they just, they, they read the headline and, uh, they think, and they react to

00:17:12.300 it and they say, Oh, that's terrible. How could Laura Ingram say it? And then, and then rather than

00:17:15.920 moving on, they actually still share, even though they haven't read it, they share it.

00:17:20.320 Not taking any time to actually investigate it for themselves. They'll still share it and then pass

00:17:25.380 on the misleading information. And of course the media knows that, um, that's the way that it works.

00:17:31.180 And so they, they know that they can, they can put whatever they want into a headline

00:17:36.640 and they can, they can put it in the headline and then admit in the article, essentially that

00:17:42.220 they were lying in the headline and it doesn't matter because 90% of people will not actually

00:17:47.760 read the article. All right. Which, which is why, um, I would strongly recommend that, uh,

00:17:57.860 if you're going to, it's a really basic thing, but if you're going to share something on social

00:18:03.240 media, maybe take the time to read it. Just take a couple of, a couple of minutes. It probably isn't

00:18:11.100 very long. They don't write long articles these days because they know that we all have the attention

00:18:15.320 spans of, uh, of, of squirrels. So take a couple of minutes and read it. If you're going to share it,

00:18:22.040 if you, if, if you're going to take the time to share it, at least know it is what it is you're

00:18:27.200 sharing. We always complain about politicians who pass bills, right? Without reading it,

00:18:33.000 they're going to pass it without knowing what's in it. Well, we do the same thing. We share news

00:18:38.220 articles and headlines and we spread rumors and lies and stuff. Uh, oftentimes unknowingly

00:18:45.600 because we're sharing stuff without actually knowing what it is we're sharing,

00:18:50.040 which is kind of mind, mind boggling. And I don't really get it. What actually, what's the

00:18:57.500 motivation? I mean, why, if you, if you're so interested in it that you feel like you have to

00:19:02.020 let your 500 Facebook friends know about it, if it's that interesting to you, then why wouldn't you

00:19:08.400 read it? And you can't claim, you can't say, I don't have time to read it. And I'm so busy. I'm so,

00:19:14.640 you're not busy. That's why you're on Facebook. If you're busy, people aren't on Facebook sharing

00:19:19.260 news articles. If you're doing that, it means you're not busy. In fact, we're all a lot less

00:19:25.120 busy than we pretend. We always try to use busyness as a justification for our laziness. Meanwhile,

00:19:30.820 we're, you know, we're, we're all day. We're watching TV, watching Netflix. We're so busy yet

00:19:36.500 stranger things. Season three is going to come out on July 4th and we're all going to watch like the

00:19:40.960 whole season in two days, but we're so busy. I'm so busy. Oh my gosh. I have no

00:19:44.620 time for anything. I'm such a busy, I don't sleep. I don't eat. I'm so busy, but oh yeah,

00:19:49.900 I watched, uh, I watched literally 10 hours of TV in the last two days, but I'm so busy. Right.

00:19:56.040 All right. Um, yeah, let's see. Uh, let's see what else here. I, I wanted to play this for you

00:20:04.320 quickly. Um, this is a video. I'm not, I'm not sure where it's from exactly. Uh, speaking of sharing

00:20:12.000 things without knowing what's in them. Well, that's because in this case, it doesn't actually

00:20:14.620 matter. This is obviously from some preschool or kindergarten, a graduation ceremony. And, uh,

00:20:21.800 this was shared on Twitter by a verified Twitter user named Auntie Anna, which, what she goes by on

00:20:27.440 Twitter anyway, who's a news editor editor for the roots. And, uh, she shared this video while

00:20:32.920 apparently laughing hysterically. She said, uh, she shared it in the caption that she, that accompanied

00:20:37.700 the, the, the video was, um, I cannot stop laughing. So that was her caption. She thinks

00:20:43.340 it's hilarious. I I'm not so sure that it is very funny. You tell me what you think. Here

00:20:47.940 it is. So the young boy looks to be, uh, I don't know, four, maybe, maybe five years old.

00:21:17.860 And, uh, he shouts, shut the F up to his teacher and then calls her the B word. And as I said,

00:21:24.720 some people find this funny. Um, it is not, it's not even a little bit funny. There's nothing funny

00:21:29.940 about it. This, and this is something that I see videos like that. And it takes me back,

00:21:36.040 uh, not nostalgically. It takes me back to memories. I don't like to recall of my experience in public

00:21:42.120 school. And, uh, I used to see this thing all the time in public school. And I, I went to a school

00:21:47.800 that was supposedly in the top 5% in the country academically, I believe yet this for 13 years of

00:21:54.240 K through, uh, through 12, this, this kind of thing was common where you would have kids that

00:21:59.880 would cuss out teachers, shut the F up, call them the B word, verbally assault them, sometimes

00:22:03.940 physically assault them. Common. It was common for me again, in a supposedly good high school. 1.00

00:22:09.540 Can you, you can only imagine what goes on in schools that are, uh, let's say in the bottom 5%

00:22:14.820 academically. And this is what teachers deal with and they deal with it. Now I watched that video

00:22:19.740 and my anger that I feel is number one, directed at the people who think it's funny. Number two,

00:22:26.900 my anger is, is my anger is not directed at the kid at all. Okay. If that kid was 17 years old,

00:22:31.080 then yeah, I'd have anger at the kid because you're old enough at that point where you should know

00:22:34.620 better. Even if you weren't raised to know better at a certain point, you got to start figuring it out

00:22:39.200 as a, as an almost adult, but as a four or five year old kid, you, you only know, um, what you've

00:22:47.740 been told by the adults around you. You do and say what you see and hear them doing and saying so

00:22:55.440 that you're, you're, you are a walking reflection of what you see the adults and other people around

00:23:02.360 you doing. That's, that's the case for any, for any four or five year old. So if they're acting

00:23:06.800 with, if they're acting horrifically like that, then it is 100% a reflection of how they're raised.

00:23:17.980 So that kid, um, now my, so I have a, I have five, well, now they just turned six. I've got six

00:23:25.660 year old kids. I've been, we've got a, an almost three year old. They, they have their moments,

00:23:30.780 believe me of acting out and being disrespectful. And we, we work with them about that. We, we

00:23:35.320 discipline them. Um, no kid is perfect. I am a hundred percent certain that my kids would never,

00:23:42.140 ever talk to an adult that way. They wouldn't even know how to talk to an adult that way.

00:23:48.960 If they ever did talk to an adult that way, uh, the consequences would be,

00:23:54.420 would be severe, but they never would. I'm a hundred percent certain they never would

00:24:01.060 because they just don't have that in them because the, we don't treat them that way.

00:24:06.040 And we don't treat each other that way. They don't see it. They're not around it.

00:24:09.860 They wouldn't know to act that way. So if a kid is acting like that, it's because that's how he sees

00:24:15.140 the adults in his house acting. And that's probably how they act towards him.

00:24:19.960 If a kid is saying shut the F up to an adult, you can, I guarantee you that, that he has been told

00:24:27.900 shut the F up by adults many times in his life. And that's why he's acting that way. 0.78

00:24:34.380 So if you laugh at that, in other words, this is a victim of neglect and abuse, a hundred percent

00:24:41.880 laughing at that is no different than if that kid came in with welts and bruises all over his face

00:24:50.700 and you laughed because that is welts and bruises on the face. That's a sign of abuse.

00:24:57.720 A kid acting like that is a sign of abuse. You are laughing at a sign of abuse. You are laughing

00:25:03.600 at this kid's abuse. And I can't imagine it. I just can't. This is what teachers have to deal with.

00:25:13.120 You know, I am not shy about criticizing the public school system. I'm not shy about

00:25:18.480 criticizing teachers when they deserve it. And oftentimes they do. But we also have to acknowledge

00:25:25.340 that teachers are put in an, in an impossible situation when they have kids like that.

00:25:33.860 These are broken children who have been broken by their home environments. And now they're coming

00:25:40.600 in and there's no control. What do you do with a kid like that? He's not your kid. You only see him

00:25:47.480 for a few hours a day. What do you do with him? How you can't control him is at the age of five. He

00:25:53.420 already, he has, he does not care. He has absolutely no respect for authority at all. Doesn't care.

00:26:01.820 What do you do as a teacher? There's nothing you can do. And this is the situation that the

00:26:08.700 teachers are being put in because of horrible parents. There are a lot of, I know this is not

00:26:17.180 a newsflash to you, but there are a lot of really, really, really bad parents out there.

00:26:22.040 And they're sending their kids to public school, hoping that the schools will do the parenting for

00:26:27.920 them. And, but schools can't do that. Like school is just a building where you send your kid for a

00:26:34.640 few hours a day. They, it cannot, it's a system. It's a, you know, it's a, it's a bureaucracy,

00:26:39.500 essentially. It cannot be a parent. And so if you're not going to do it, if you're not going to

00:26:46.660 do the job of parenting your kid, then that's a job that just isn't getting done

00:26:50.980 because no one else can do it unless you put them up for adoption.

00:26:57.080 There's not anyone else who can step in and do it. It's either you or nobody.

00:27:01.020 All right. Very sad, very sad video. So you got to pray, pray for that kid. I need something to

00:27:10.980 lighten the mood. How about this? Representative Jerry Nadler, who's a Democrat, was questioning

00:27:20.360 Hope Hicks in a judiciary committee committee hearing yesterday. And he kept calling Hope Hicks,

00:27:26.840 Miss Lewandowski, referring to Corey Lewandowski. Now, some people think that it was disrespectful

00:27:33.780 and sexist. He was doing it on purpose, disrespecting her by calling her Miss Lewandowski.

00:27:39.620 Something that he's just losing his mind and he has no idea what's going on. I tend to maybe side

00:27:45.400 with the latter because of this. Look at this picture here. So look, I don't mean,

00:27:55.180 I don't mean to laugh. I just, I can't, I'm, that's the most amazing picture I've ever seen.

00:28:03.120 This is, this is Jerry Nadler. I have never seen that much pants on one person.

00:28:14.180 That's the most pants I've ever seen on a person ever. And where do you even buy pants like that?

00:28:20.760 I don't know. Where do you go? If I wanted to get those pants, do I go to the maternity section? 1.00

00:28:25.480 I guess. I, I, I, I've never seen anything like that. I'm sorry to laugh. I just, that is,

00:28:30.400 that's amazing. That is, look at it. It's, it's, he's got his pants up to his neck.

00:28:36.600 How is that even? Now I put this on Twitter and, um, I had some people, uh, lecturing me saying that

00:28:43.280 I'm, you know, it's, it's mean and I'm mocking him and I'm mocking the elderly. First of all, 1.00

00:28:48.080 it's not about him being elderly. I, you know, I know that older people tend to wear their pants 1.00

00:28:51.340 up higher. Nothing wrong with that. And, uh, but, but look, I've never, I've seen a lot of old

00:28:56.300 people. I've never seen pants like that. I've never seen that. I, that looks physically impossible

00:29:00.460 and I'm not mocking him. It's I, but it's, it's, it's a remarkable picture that I just have to show.

00:29:07.760 Yes. I'm making fun of him a little bit, but it is hilarious. You have to admit, um, really though,

00:29:13.720 my point is compassion. Yes, that's what it is. I'm being compassionate. What I'm trying to say is

00:29:18.960 yeah, he called Hope Hicks, Ms. Lewandowski three times. It seems like he's being disrespectful.

00:29:25.540 Um, but then think about those pants. If a person really knows what's going on,

00:29:33.600 do they wear pants like that? Probably not. So have some patience with him is all I'm trying to say.

00:29:41.560 Um, I think he made, he, he, he, he made pants out of a, it's like a, it's like he took a blimp or

00:29:52.280 something and cut up a blimp and made pants out of it. I, I can't, it's incredible. All right,

00:29:57.220 let's move on to, to emails. Um, mattwalshowatgmail.com mattwalshowatgmail.com and I was,

00:30:05.180 uh, I keep thinking about the pants. It's, it's hilarious. Sorry. This is from Thomas says,

00:30:11.080 hi Matt. I was talking to a friend a while ago when we somehow got on the topic of music. She

00:30:15.700 and I have relatively the same taste in music, classic rock, except for one thing. She actually

00:30:19.860 enjoys the band Nickelback. I absolutely cannot wrap my mind around how somebody could like a

00:30:25.140 band that makes multiple songs that sound so alike and aren't even that good. I came to you to settle

00:30:29.340 this to settle this debate that has lasted for months. So with the world and leftists destroying

00:30:34.460 knowledge, please tell me is Nickelback a good band? Well, of course, Thomas, you're right. Um, you,

00:30:40.360 you, you are correct. They are not a good band. They're a terrible band. They're very bad.

00:30:45.000 However, I will say that I think they're not nearly as bad as they're made out to be.

00:30:53.080 And I don't mean that as they're bad. Don't get me wrong. I just mean that they have been the

00:30:57.780 punching bag of the music scene for the last 10 years. And, uh, they, they, they, they endorse so

00:31:05.100 much ridicule. I almost have to respect them that do they still make music? Is there still,

00:31:08.480 are there still Nickelback songs out there? If they do, I really respect that. They've been a

00:31:12.100 punchline, a punching bag and a punchline for 10 years. And they're still cracking. They're still

00:31:17.160 making music. They're still going at it. Um, so I respect that. I just think, I think they're,

00:31:23.400 they're a very bad band. They make bad music, but there are a lot of bands and musical acts

00:31:30.140 that are worse than them. I'd put them in the bottom, like 40%.

00:31:35.920 You know, uh, but there's, so there are a whole bunch of bands that are worse that don't endure

00:31:45.740 anywhere close to the same amount of ridicule. And that to me is simply unfair. What I guess

00:31:49.820 what I'm trying to say is let's spread our ridicule around, spread the ridicule around,

00:31:55.460 be, be more egalitarian, be more, uh, we, we need to be, uh, equal in our dispensing of ridicule

00:32:02.160 to bad bands, uh, and not, and not foist it all on Nickelback. All right. Uh, let's see what else

00:32:10.660 we got here. This is from Nick says, Hey, hello, Mr. Walsh. I've recently become a listener and huge

00:32:19.020 fan of your show. This is in spite of the fact that I'm blind. Thus I cannot even cast my eyes upon

00:32:23.340 your stunning appearance and your famed beard. My dad is an atheist and I have been a Christian

00:32:27.640 for about four years. We were discussing an argument that, uh, objective morality could

00:32:33.480 not exist without the existence of God. He thinks that the ideas of right and wrong could have come

00:32:37.660 about through evolution and what was most beneficial to the survival of the human species. As evidence,

00:32:42.380 he cited the most intelligent monkey slash ape species who seem to live in a fairly ordered 0.56

00:32:47.040 social structure yet do not have the rational capacities that humans do. He thinks they still have

00:32:52.080 some sense that killing, stealing, et cetera, is wrong. What do you think about the idea that

00:32:57.320 morality could come about through evolution alone? Why would we evolve to do what's best for the

00:33:02.140 species as a whole, rather than looking out for ourselves only in a Hobbesian state of nature?

00:33:07.340 Any good authors you know of on the subject? So I think there are a few problems, Nick,

00:33:11.940 with the theory that morality evolved. Um, first of all, yes, your dad mentioned some apes who seem to

00:33:20.740 have rudimentary, some rudimentary moral sense. I'm not sure I agree with that. Um, I think we tend

00:33:30.360 to, um, anthropomorphize animals and sometimes we'll see animals doing something or acting in a certain way

00:33:38.280 and, uh, we'll assume we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll kind of imbue human qualities into it where I

00:33:46.800 think it's not really appropriate. Um, uh, for instance, you'll see a picture of an animal kind

00:33:53.140 of standing over a dead animal and we'll think, Oh, he's not so sweet. He's weeping over the animal.

00:33:58.480 He's mourning the loss of his fellow Fox or dog or whatever. Maybe there's something like that going

00:34:05.300 on, but maybe not. Maybe he's just about to eat the thing's body. I mean, it's, it's, that's probably

00:34:11.680 more what's happening there. So, um, but in any case, what we certainly know is that no other species

00:34:19.460 has the capacity to formulate the kind of sophisticated moral system that we have. We are the only species

00:34:28.780 with a sophisticated moral system. We're the only species that's capable of real benevolence and also

00:34:35.840 the only species capable of real cruelty. And that's why, um, for, for all that your dad says

00:34:41.500 about, well, look at apes and monkeys. Well, I would ask your dad, does he think that if an ape

00:34:46.980 kills another ape, we should put the ape in jail? What about it? When an ape, uh, has sex with another 0.72

00:34:52.180 ape without getting consent for, should we put them in jail for rape? Should we start trying animals? 0.99

00:34:58.380 I'm thinking your dad would say, no, that's ridiculous. And why would he say no? He would, I assume say, 0.90

00:35:04.720 well, no, you're not gonna put a, you can't put a monkey or an ape in jail for murder. They don't

00:35:08.800 know what they're doing. They don't have the same sense that we do. They're not, um, they don't have

00:35:14.300 the same awareness. They don't have the same culpability. Well, yes, exactly. We're the only

00:35:20.580 ones with that culpability. Um, but that's kind of weird from an evolutionary perspective, because if this

00:35:29.360 kind of thing just evolves by chance, it would seem mathematically certain that other species would

00:35:36.080 evolve it too, yet none have. Millions of species on earth were the only ones who evolved this rather

00:35:43.720 peculiar ability to see right and wrong. Um, or I guess to, from an evolutionary standpoint, if there's

00:35:52.140 no God to invent, uh, uh, the concepts of right and wrong, it seems odd that we're the only ones who did

00:35:59.360 that. Also from a purely evolutionary standpoint, remember the only point of life is to reproduce

00:36:07.220 and sustain the species. And the idea behind evolution is that, uh, those qualities,

00:36:17.200 which helped towards the propagation of the species and the survival of the species,

00:36:23.160 those qualities are going to be passed on while qualities that interfere with propagation and

00:36:29.500 survival will die away. And that's because as the theory goes, um, if, if a certain member of a

00:36:36.920 species has certain qualities, uh, due to whatever genetic mutations or whatever that cause him to act

00:36:44.540 in a way that's more advantageous for survival and propagation, well, then he's going to survive

00:36:49.260 and he's going to reproduce. Whereas those that lack the quality, that, that quality will die off

00:36:55.200 quicker. And then that sort of strand will fade away while his strand will continue. And then that's how

00:37:01.800 you have, um, evolution through natural selection. And without a God, then that's all that's going on.

00:37:09.720 There's no, there's no guiding force. There's no intelligent design. There's nothing like that.

00:37:13.560 It's just, it's pure blind evolution and genes kind of doing what they do on their own.

00:37:21.900 Well, if that's the case, then we have to ask, what about something like rape?

00:37:30.760 Rape propagates the species. Um, rape has evolutionary advantages. And that's why with many 1.00

00:37:39.080 species of animals, rape is the only way basically, now we don't call it rape again, because they don't 1.00

00:37:43.880 have the culpability that we do. But for sake of argument for a lot of species of animals, rape is 0.99

00:37:49.840 the only way that they, that they reproduce. Um, you'll see in a lot of species, the male dominates the

00:37:57.880 female. There's no consent or anything, whether the female wants to or not dominates the female and 1.00

00:38:03.880 reproduces. Yet, um, with our, in our species, we have developed this idea that it's wrong.

00:38:18.920 Now, it seems to me that it shouldn't have worked that way. If it's all about evolution,

00:38:29.260 Genghis Khan has 16 million descendants today. 0.5% of the population is descended, uh, from this

00:38:35.400 one guy. 8% of the guys and of the men in the Mongolia area are related to him. Why? Because he

00:38:41.360 went around raping and pillaging. He raped hundreds, if not thousands of women. He propagated the species 1.00

00:38:46.500 more than probably anyone else on earth. So we see again, the evolutionary advantages of sexual

00:38:52.300 domination. He was able to spread his seed as it were across the entire world. He has 16 million

00:38:56.960 descendants. Um, yet, yet we still have, still as a society have, have developed this idea. We believe,

00:39:04.580 or I would say we haven't developed the idea. We recognize the truth that rape is wrong.

00:39:10.080 Every society, every culture condemns it, even though it still is, it still happens in every culture.

00:39:15.440 Um, but how is that? The, by the, by the evolutionary model, the pro-rape folks like Genghis Khan 0.71

00:39:27.160 should have passed on their pro-rape genes and created a whole human race full of pro-rape people. 1.00

00:39:36.880 After all, again, these are the people who had the easiest time propagating, reproducing.

00:39:41.000 Right? They're passing on those genes. Um, and that's all you have is just material, right? Genes,

00:39:47.960 genetics. And so that's where everything stems from, even morality.

00:39:51.140 And so that's how evolution is supposed to work. It seems to me by the evolutionary model,

00:39:58.320 we should now live in a society much like many animal societies where rape is completely 0.98

00:40:04.960 commonplace and normal and nobody thinks anything of it, but that's not the way it goes.

00:40:10.800 Why? I think it's because there's a higher truth. There's a guiding principle. There's a guiding light

00:40:19.720 that we recognize and see and follow. There is something above our savage animal instinctive

00:40:27.800 nature, something above it, which we are reaching for, striving for, aspiring to.

00:40:31.940 And I would call that something God. So that's how I would respond to that. Um,

00:40:41.100 let's see if there's anything else.

00:40:48.540 Um,

00:40:49.240 this is from Jake says, hi, Matt. I've only recently picked up on your show and I'm kicking myself for

00:40:57.140 not doing it sooner. Uh, hearing Bernie Sanders views on a socialist United States would, would

00:41:03.200 look like, um, what it would look like has me deeply scared of what would happen if he somehow

00:41:07.980 got voted into office. To me, it's reminiscent of how in Batman begins, Liam Neeson wants to see

00:41:13.080 Gotham fall just because it's too great. I would like to hear your opinion on what would happen if

00:41:18.780 Bernie were voted in and started to implement socialist policies. Would there be a violent resistance or

00:41:24.000 would people protest? Um, how would the left or right respond? Would the free market somehow survive

00:41:30.100 or would America be in shambles? I tend to, um, Jake, I, I, I want to believe in the resiliency

00:41:40.400 of the American idea of democracy and free markets, but I tend to think that that would,

00:41:50.260 we would be in shambles. Um, or we would be very close to it if we had an actual straight up socialist

00:41:59.740 president in office. And I think the problem is, and this is what the socialists know and, uh,

00:42:08.820 the people that support the entitlement state, the nanny state, which these are all socialist ideas.

00:42:12.720 What they know is that, yeah, conceptually people will protest it. People don't like it. Um,

00:42:18.720 when you look at it just as an abstract idea, there are a lot of problems and people don't like it,

00:42:23.540 but if you can shove it down their throats anyway, and if you can, if you can just get it in there,

00:42:32.140 uh, if you can, if you can, if you can, um, establish it anyway, then people will quickly become

00:42:39.680 dependent on it. And once they're dependent on it, they're not going to want you to take it away.

00:42:44.540 And we found this time and again with entitlement systems, whether it's social security or welfare,

00:42:50.580 food stamps, um, Obamacare. Once, yeah, you have an argument about it. People don't like it. They

00:42:59.560 protest once it's in though. Once you've started it, you've gotten people on it. They're hooked

00:43:07.020 and now you have them and you can breed an entire country of dependent people. We're already 0.95

00:43:14.040 basically there. So I think that having a socialist president would kind of be, I hate using this

00:43:18.880 expression, but it would kind of be the nail in the coffin. And, um, so I'm, I'm very worried about

00:43:25.020 that as well. I wish I could give you a more, a more positive, optimistic view, but that's,

00:43:29.560 that's it. Have a good weekend though. Anyway, we'll leave it there and, um, hope you have a great

00:43:34.280 weekend. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed. Today on the Ben Shapiro show,

00:43:51.780 president Trump has jets in the air, ready to bomb the Iranians and he calls it off.

00:43:55.420 We'll talk about why that's today on the Ben Shapiro show.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 21, 2019

Ep. 281 - After 50 Years, Democrats Have Decided That Joe Biden Is Racist

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