The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 285 - Democrats Put Their Insanity On Full Display

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Democratic debate was last night.

00:00:03.180 The Dems proved that they are a party completely detached from reality and morality.

00:00:08.680 And so we'll go through it today, talk about it, review it, recap all that stuff.

00:00:12.060 Also, the real story behind that tragic viral photo of the migrant father and daughter who drowned crossing the river into the country.

00:00:22.440 The real story has come to light.

00:00:24.380 And I want to talk about that real story and what we can learn from it.

00:00:28.720 We'll do that today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:58.720 As you can see, I was just speaking Spanish there.

00:01:06.800 I am fluent in Spanish.

00:01:08.260 I that's why, in case you didn't notice, I was speaking Spanish.

00:01:13.320 I can speak Spanish.

00:01:15.680 And did I mention that I speak Spanish?

00:01:18.400 I just wanted to be sure that you caught the whole bit where I was speaking Spanish.

00:01:21.880 Just just right there.

00:01:23.240 Pretty, pretty impressive.

00:01:24.280 I'm not making a big deal of it or anything, but it's a, you know, pretty impressive that I can speak two languages.

00:01:29.880 Um, we discovered last night that a number of Democratic presidential candidates speak Spanish and they were eager to show off the fact that they speak Spanish, especially Beto O'Rourke, who broke into it randomly in the first question, creating one of the most hilarious and uncomfortable moments of the night.

00:01:47.660 And, uh, for me, one of the most hilarious and uncomfortable moments that I've seen in a debate in a long time.

00:01:52.300 Um, and, uh, we will revisit that moment in a moment, uh, and, and a few other moments as well.

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00:03:27.100 So let's talk about the Democratic debates.

00:03:30.280 Uh, for some reason, we're going to talk about it.

00:03:33.260 I, these debates, of course, don't really matter that much because nothing matters anymore in general.

00:03:38.320 Um, and also because the news cycle moves so quickly that nobody remembers anything for more than half a day at most, especially early, early on like this.

00:03:47.960 When there are 67 people in the field, we're still, uh, it feels like, uh, three, 300 years away from the actual election taking place.

00:03:55.300 Uh, it's, no one's going to, by, by the time you go to vote, uh, by the time everyone goes to vote, uh, in 2020, no one's going to remember anything that happened today or last night.

00:04:09.280 Um, but mainly the issue is simply that we live in a culture where everyone has the memory of fruit flies.

00:04:16.860 So do you remember even what was the big story, the big news story we were all talking about two weeks ago or last week?

00:04:23.300 I don't remember.

00:04:24.580 And I was on this show talking, whatever it was, I have no idea.

00:04:28.500 Um, and, uh, you know, I get people sometimes will, will, they'll discover the show.

00:04:33.620 They'll go back and they'll watch the old ones and catch up and they'll send me emails about some of the older shows.

00:04:37.880 And when I say older shows, I mean, sometimes like shows that I did three days ago.

00:04:42.280 And, um, I appreciate that they're doing that and they're sending emails, but they're responding to discussions we had.

00:04:48.020 And I have no memory of like, what, we talked about that really?

00:04:51.000 Um, so I get to relive it, which is kind of exciting.

00:04:54.200 And that's how it is for everyone.

00:04:55.580 Everything evaporates from our mind.

00:04:57.200 It's replaced by, by new information.

00:04:59.680 We're consuming so, so much information.

00:05:01.560 There's so much going on that we have to shove out the old information and replace it with new every day.

00:05:06.760 And there's this recharging process that takes place where we remember nothing at the end.

00:05:11.300 And then you add in the fact that 99% of what you hear at a debate is pre-planned, canned, staged, phony, uh, speaking in sound bites.

00:05:21.160 Nobody's even attempting to offer anything that approaches or resembles an authentic human thought or opinion.

00:05:28.040 Um, there are very few actual back and forths going on.

00:05:31.260 Um, the one thing that rarely happens at a modern debate is debate.

00:05:36.720 You'll see a little bit of that.

00:05:38.480 There'll be a few moments where the people start breaking into actual debate, where they're actually like arguing with each other and making points back and forth to each other.

00:05:46.820 But then what always happens is the moderator steps in and says, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, we're not going to have any of that debating at this debate.

00:05:53.820 Okay.

00:05:54.420 Or follow the rules.

00:05:56.600 Now let's return to my boring and irrelevant questions.

00:06:00.560 Um, and, uh, and that's what you do.

00:06:02.580 We move back to the Q and a thing.

00:06:05.560 And then each candidate gets a chance to speak and talking points again.

00:06:08.540 Um, an actual debate would be something like, okay, here's the topic.

00:06:15.200 Uh, here are a few points or things to grapple with.

00:06:20.720 Go ahead, uh, have at it.

00:06:23.300 Uh, and, and then the candidates talk to each other.

00:06:25.760 That's what a real debate would be.

00:06:27.640 Everyone, people like to, uh, mention what's considered one of the great American political debates of all time, the Lincoln Douglas debate of 1858.

00:06:37.120 Um, and those of course were, were not televised because most families back then didn't have TVs.

00:06:44.720 That's a little historical nugget for you, but you can go and you can read, um, the transcripts, the, the back and forth that took place at this debate.

00:06:55.220 And it's considered a great debate for a reason because there are, it's an actual debate.

00:07:00.020 The two men are going back and forth, making long, sort of eloquent, in-depth points to each other.

00:07:12.240 And that just doesn't happen anymore.

00:07:14.300 With that said, now that I've explained why it doesn't matter and it's totally pointless, we're going, we're going to take a look at some of the memorable moments.

00:07:21.420 Memorable moments by that.

00:07:22.360 I mean, moments that you'll remember until dinnertime and then forget.

00:07:25.880 So let's do that.

00:07:26.740 We'll be, we begin with Robert Francis O'Rourke, um, otherwise known by his stage name, Beto, who was once considered a star in the Democratic Party.

00:07:34.800 And now he's just kind of this sad and boring little guy who does stuff like this to get attention.

00:07:40.440 Watch this.

00:07:40.800 Congressman O'Rourke, what we've just been discussing and talking about is how much fundamental change to the economy is desirable and how much is actually doable.

00:07:50.980 In that vein, some Democrats want a marginal individual tax rate of 70% on the very highest earners, those making more than $10 million a year.

00:07:59.800 Would you support that?

00:08:01.360 And if not, what would your top individual rate be?

00:08:05.520 This economy has got to work for everyone.

00:08:08.780 And right now we know that it isn't.

00:08:11.880 And it's going to take all of us coming together to make sure that it does.

00:08:15.960 Necesitamos incluir cada persona en el éxito de esta economía.

00:08:21.380 Pero si queremos hacer eso, necesitamos incluir cada persona en nuestra democracia.

00:08:28.320 Cada votante necesitamos la representación y cada voz necesitamos escuchar.

00:08:35.560 Okay, now, of course, NBC offers subtitles for Spanish speakers.

00:08:43.160 So that stunt was just that.

00:08:45.160 It was a stunt.

00:08:46.340 And it made even less sense when you consider that he didn't continue it constantly throughout the entire debate.

00:08:50.660 Now, he did that with his first answer.

00:08:52.940 And when he did that, I thought, is he going to do this for every question?

00:08:55.280 But you kind of have to do it.

00:08:57.940 If you're going to do it once, then don't you have to do it for every question?

00:09:01.100 It doesn't make any sense to only do it once or twice.

00:09:04.560 So, but that's what ended up.

00:09:05.660 He did it only a couple of times, which makes it even more bizarre.

00:09:10.140 So, for instance, Beto did not.

00:09:11.920 He gave his answer on climate change where he explained, like all the others did, that we're all going to drown and die anytime now.

00:09:18.180 Now, but he didn't give that in Spanish.

00:09:21.640 He only gave it in English.

00:09:22.720 So, what, does he not care if Hispanic people drown when the polar ice caps melt?

00:09:27.100 Is that what he's trying to say?

00:09:28.740 He's basically saying to the Spanish speakers, hey, you guys don't need to hear this part, all right?

00:09:31.980 I mean, the rest of us, you know, we're going to, we got to build an arc here because it's going to be flooding.

00:09:36.840 Now, you guys don't need to hear this.

00:09:38.100 Don't, oh, don't worry about it.

00:09:39.520 Don't worry.

00:09:40.020 It doesn't concern you.

00:09:40.740 See, that's what, if you're pretending that you have to speak in Spanish also so that they understand what you're saying, then it's, you have to stick with it. 0.65

00:09:52.860 You can't only do it once.

00:09:54.560 That's the problem.

00:09:56.180 I think the most telling part, and then there was Cory Booker and Julian Castro, they also broke into Spanish at a couple different points.

00:10:04.300 And Booker was asked about it after the debate on NBC, asked, you know, how he felt about O'Rourke speaking Spanish.

00:10:14.820 And then Booker said, hey, well, you know, he threw down the gauntlet and me and Castro, we knew that we, you know, we had to bring it also.

00:10:23.200 So, what he's admitting is that, he's admitting that it was a stunt. 0.83

00:10:27.440 He was admitting that it was just a dumb competition. 0.94

00:10:29.940 There was nothing sincere about it. 0.96

00:10:31.520 He was using the Spanish language as a stunt. 0.99

00:10:33.780 He admitted that.

00:10:36.120 Which, I don't know, if I was a Spanish speaker, I would not appreciate that. 1.00

00:10:41.220 Now, I think the most telling part of the debate happened maybe about midway through.

00:10:45.820 And up until this point, a few of the candidates had thrown in some lines about killing babies just to get a quick applause line.

00:10:52.640 You know, there was one point, one of the candidates, I don't remember who, was making a point, had nothing to do with abortion.

00:11:00.520 And then he noticed he was losing the crowd.

00:11:02.280 People were kind of, their eyes were glossing over. 0.99

00:11:04.880 And so he threw in a quick line about, hey, yeah, we need to kill babies. 0.99

00:11:08.200 He didn't say that exactly, but in essence, that's what he said. 0.99

00:11:12.180 And then it got the crowd perked up and they started, oh, killing babies? 0.60

00:11:15.780 Yeah. 0.92

00:11:16.020 Oh, yes.

00:11:16.840 This is what the modern Democratic Party has become. 0.99

00:11:21.420 But they did break into a full-on competition to see who supports killing the babies the most.

00:11:27.200 And it was established that none of them want any restrictions of any kind on the practice.

00:11:32.240 And in fact, they all want abortion for free.

00:11:34.180 So here they are going back and forth on that.

00:11:36.780 It should not be an option in the United States of America for any insurance company to deny woman coverage for their exercise of their right of choice.

00:11:47.540 And I am the only candidate here who has passed a law protecting a woman's right of reproductive health and health insurance.

00:11:57.300 And I'm the only candidate who has passed a public option.

00:12:01.340 And I respect everybody's goals and plans here.

00:12:04.040 But we do have one candidate that's actually advanced the ball.

00:12:08.040 And we've got to have access for everyone.

00:12:10.280 I've done it as a public option.

00:12:12.020 Senator Klobuchar, I want to get you.

00:12:14.400 That's a false claim.

00:12:15.760 I'm fascinated by this.

00:12:17.220 Senator Klobuchar.

00:12:18.720 I just want to say there's three women up here that have fought pretty hard for a woman's right to choose. 0.98

00:12:23.040 I'll start with that.

00:12:25.260 Senator Warren, would you put limits on, any limits on abortion?

00:12:28.080 I would make certain that every woman has access to the full range of reproductive health care services. 1.00

00:12:36.900 And that includes birth control.

00:12:38.540 It includes abortion. 0.80

00:12:39.880 It includes everything for a woman.

00:12:42.440 And I want to add on that.

00:12:45.240 It's not enough for us to expect the courts to protect us.

00:12:49.540 47 years ago, Roe versus Wade was decided.

00:12:52.180 And we've all looked to the courts all that time.

00:12:54.620 As state after state has undermined Roe, has put in exceptions, has come right up to the edge of taking away protection.

00:13:03.300 Your time is up, Senator.

00:13:04.560 We now have an America where most people support Roe versus Wade.

00:13:08.640 We need to make that federal law.

00:13:09.960 Thank you.

00:13:10.280 This, again, is what the modern Democratic Party has become.

00:13:13.420 This is what it's been for many years now.

00:13:14.840 It is a party utterly obsessed with abortion, a party unattached, unmoored, disconnected from any notion of basic morality or human decency.

00:13:27.820 There isn't even a debate anymore about anything related to abortion in the Democratic Party.

00:13:33.620 They aren't talking about when personhood begins or about when abortion is acceptable, about fetal pain or whatever.

00:13:41.000 They aren't talking about any of that.

00:13:42.100 They don't care.

00:13:43.060 It's just abortion for everyone at any point for free.

00:13:48.680 That's where they are.

00:13:50.200 There cannot be any nuance.

00:13:51.860 There cannot be any equivocation or reservation or moderation.

00:13:56.140 Just everyone is on the abortion train.

00:13:59.720 And even that isn't extreme enough.

00:14:01.980 So abortion for all women for any reason at any point for free. 0.83

00:14:07.600 You would think, well, that's as extreme and as absolute as it gets.

00:14:12.780 But not so fast.

00:14:15.000 Castro, he took it a step further.

00:14:16.880 Watch.

00:14:18.180 Secretary Castro, this one is for you.

00:14:20.080 All of you on stage support a woman's right to an abortion.

00:14:22.680 You all support some version of a government health care option.

00:14:25.820 Would your plan cover abortion, Mr. Secretary?

00:14:29.720 Yes, it would.

00:14:30.720 I don't believe only in reproductive freedom.

00:14:34.280 I believe in reproductive justice.

00:14:35.760 And, you know, what that means is that just because a woman or let's also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female is poor, doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to exercise that right to choose.

00:14:53.660 And so I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion more than he could. 0.60

00:14:58.240 He could barely say that with a straight face.

00:15:01.060 If you watched him say that, he could barely get it out because he knows that what he just said is nonsensical.

00:15:09.920 We need to give abortion rights to trans females. 0.99

00:15:14.480 In other words, men.

00:15:17.040 OK, a trans woman is a man, a biological man. 0.51

00:15:20.620 And this grown adult, this somehow successful and prominent, relatively speaking, political figure, just claimed on national TV that biological men can get pregnant. 0.54

00:15:32.700 And he, of course, knows this is nonsense.

00:15:34.940 He doesn't actually think that.

00:15:36.940 There's a reason why, if you go back to the 2008 Democratic presidential debate or any debate before that,

00:15:47.600 none of these people were talking about trans and, you know, men getting pregnant.

00:15:53.200 Nobody was talking about that.

00:15:55.660 Nobody was.

00:15:58.200 Because.

00:16:00.100 Because they all it wasn't it wasn't a question then.

00:16:04.200 Now they're talking about it, even though they've all lived.

00:16:09.720 And if you're looking at a Democratic presidential candidate who's pretending to take this trans stuff seriously,

00:16:17.640 pretending to actually believe that a biological man can be a woman and even get pregnant.

00:16:25.100 Well, these are these are grown adults.

00:16:27.820 Most of them are much older.

00:16:29.080 So they have lived most of them 40 or 50 years.

00:16:35.980 Never talking about this, never bringing it up.

00:16:40.160 And then all of a sudden.

00:16:42.540 In the last few years, it's oh, yeah, no, no, I believe this all along.

00:16:46.580 I believed all along that biological sex is basically a myth.

00:16:50.360 You never would have guessed it because I never said it.

00:16:52.340 And I I spoke and behaved as if I just believe that there are only men and women.

00:16:59.440 But no, I believe that all along.

00:17:01.320 Yeah.

00:17:01.980 Yeah.

00:17:04.020 Now, this is just craven opportunism. 0.98

00:17:07.840 Castro saying something that he knows is scientifically illiterate, insane, absurd. 0.93

00:17:16.800 But he's saying it anywhere anyway. 0.87

00:17:18.600 And it's an applause line for Democrats.

00:17:20.240 Now, if we lived in a sane country and if we lived in a sane country,

00:17:25.300 then Castro's political career would be over after he just stood on national TV

00:17:31.000 and claimed that men can get pregnant.

00:17:33.320 It would be over.

00:17:34.300 He would be the laughingstock of the country and that would be it for him.

00:17:38.100 But instead, it's an applause line.

00:17:40.140 And I bet you that his poll his poll numbers go up today.

00:17:43.220 Go from, you know, one percent to three or something.

00:17:47.440 But you know what?

00:17:49.180 OK, I agree.

00:17:50.820 Actually, I'm going to agree with Castro.

00:17:52.800 Yes.

00:17:53.920 Let's give abortion rights to men because if if if men are pregnant, that's not a baby in there. 1.00

00:18:02.280 I can tell you that if you're a man, if you're an actual biological man and you're pregnant, 0.97

00:18:05.300 then yes, you should get an abortion because that's not a baby. 1.00

00:18:08.420 That's your this is either a scene from Alien or you have a tapeworm infestation. 0.72

00:18:13.220 Either way. 0.99

00:18:13.860 Yes, you can go and kill whatever it is because it ain't a baby. 1.00

00:18:16.900 That's for sure. 0.94

00:18:18.420 Or if we're talking about abortion rights for men, if you mean by that, that men should have a say.

00:18:26.080 In the fate of their children, then I agree with that also.

00:18:33.680 All right.

00:18:34.260 But but I'm you know what?

00:18:36.180 I'm glad.

00:18:36.880 As I was watching the debate, I was glad that this was happening.

00:18:41.460 And I'm glad that they put this on display. 0.90

00:18:43.880 I'm glad that the Democrats put their insanity. 0.92

00:18:48.520 On display for everyone to see.

00:18:50.380 So that the average Joe Schmo sitting at home.

00:18:55.920 You know, the blue collar worker in Minnesota, you know, that those just that random hypothetical person that people that the candidates in debates like to always bring up.

00:19:04.700 I'm looking for policies that are going to positively affect the nurse in Iowa.

00:19:09.600 Or the or the or the lunch lady in Ohio.

00:19:14.880 It always just happening.

00:19:17.740 They just happen to choose the swing states for the for their hypothetical, anecdotal people.

00:19:24.520 Anyway, if you but if you are someone like that watching at home and you're not very normally very politically invested or aware.

00:19:30.920 I'm glad that you got a chance to see that this is what the Democratic Party is.

00:19:35.800 They're fighting over who wants to kill babies the most. 0.90

00:19:38.040 And they're claiming that men can get pregnant. 0.96

00:19:39.900 That's what the Democratic Party is.

00:19:41.400 If you're seeing that and you're thinking, what, this is what they are.

00:19:44.340 This has got to be some kind of fluke.

00:19:45.780 No, it's not a fluke.

00:19:46.600 This is what they are.

00:19:47.420 And so you decide if you want to have anything to do with these people or not.

00:19:51.020 All right.

00:19:51.480 A couple other things.

00:19:52.160 I thought this was interesting.

00:19:53.160 Watch this.

00:19:53.520 You have many plans.

00:19:56.260 Free college, free child care, government health care, cancellation of student debt.

00:20:01.020 New taxes, new regulations, the breakup of major corporations.

00:20:05.340 But this comes at a time when 71 percent of Americans say the economy is doing well, including 60 percent of Democrats.

00:20:11.860 What do you say to those who worry this kind of significant change could be risky to the economy?

00:20:16.960 So I think of it this way.

00:20:18.880 Who is this economy really working for?

00:20:22.100 It's doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top.

00:20:27.320 It's doing great for giant drug companies.

00:20:29.960 This is not doing great for people who are trying to get a prescription filled.

00:20:33.680 It's doing great for people who want to invest in private prisons, just not for the African-Americans and Latinx whose families are torn apart, whose lives are destroyed and whose communities are ruined.

00:20:46.020 It's doing great for giant oil companies that want to drill everywhere, just not for the rest of us who are watching climate change bear down upon us.

00:20:56.140 Okay, that was at the very beginning of the debate.

00:20:59.540 I think I just cut her off there mid-sentence, but blah, blah, blah.

00:21:03.780 You get it.

00:21:05.060 Did you catch the Latinx, by the way?

00:21:08.000 That's the new politically correct term because you can't say Latino anymore because that's gendered and it excludes females and it excludes the other 57 genders. 0.86

00:21:16.020 So Latinx, I think is how she pronounced it.

00:21:18.700 But I thought it was pronounced Latinx.

00:21:21.440 That's really how all this time I thought I figured because it's Latinx.

00:21:25.300 It's like L-A-T-I-N-X. 1.00

00:21:27.460 So I thought it was Latinx, which does sound a little clunky, but Latinx.

00:21:31.920 Latinx, that sounds like an inappropriate website, Latinx.

00:21:38.560 That doesn't sound, that's just, of course, it's a made-up word. 0.98

00:21:43.480 And so, of course, it sounds completely silly.

00:21:45.140 But anyway, notice how she was told that, she was told by the moderator, to begin the question,

00:21:54.320 that 71% of Americans say the economy is doing well.

00:21:58.200 And she responds, including 61% of Democrats, she responds by insisting that, no, actually, the economy is terrible.

00:22:06.500 And there was a lot of that last night.

00:22:09.240 Where it's, the setup to the question is, the economy is doing well.

00:22:13.300 No, no, no, no, things are terrible, trust me.

00:22:15.420 Things are awful.

00:22:16.520 People are hating it.

00:22:17.680 People are depressed.

00:22:19.160 They're starving to death.

00:22:21.000 No, no, no, but they say, the 71% say, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's terrible.

00:22:24.940 Trust me, it's terrible.

00:22:25.940 Is that how the conversation, when they're on the campaign trail, if somebody goes up to,

00:22:31.420 if one of these candidates goes up to someone sitting at a diner, say, how are things for you?

00:22:36.060 Oh, the things are doing pretty well.

00:22:37.140 No, they're not.

00:22:37.820 They're not doing well for you.

00:22:39.480 You are in despair.

00:22:40.820 You are crushed.

00:22:42.160 Your life is miserable. 0.98

00:22:43.940 Trust me. 0.99

00:22:44.480 Trust me.

00:22:46.400 But this is, in order for, Elizabeth Warren's goal is socialism.

00:22:51.500 The goal of all these people is socialism.

00:22:52.860 Either by that word or another.

00:22:56.960 And in order for them to pass their socialist policies, they need to convince us that the economy is in shambles, that it's a disaster.

00:23:05.140 They need for it to, and if it's not actually in shambles, like they wish it was, they wish it was.

00:23:10.760 I mean, they would love it.

00:23:11.620 If the unemployment rate was 30% and people were starving to death on the streets, they would love that.

00:23:16.640 That's what they would prefer.

00:23:18.480 Because, of course, these people don't care about human life at all, which is why they can not bat an eye at 60 million human babies being killed.

00:23:25.420 So, but because it's not that, unfortunately for them, they have to convince us that that's what it's like so that they can then shove their socialist policies down our throats.

00:23:35.240 And it's all pretty gross.

00:23:37.580 Speaking of gross, we'll watch one more clip.

00:23:40.260 Watch this.

00:23:41.120 It's a simple question.

00:23:42.080 What is our, what is the biggest threat to any, what is, who is the geopolitical threat to the United States?

00:23:46.600 Just give me one word to answer, Congressman Delaney.

00:23:49.700 Could you repeat the question?

00:23:50.540 Greatest geopolitical threat to the United States right now, Congressman Delaney.

00:23:53.900 Well, the biggest geopolitical challenge is China.

00:23:56.680 But the biggest geopolitical threat remains nuclear weapons.

00:24:00.740 Okay.

00:24:01.040 So those are, you know, those are different questions.

00:24:02.900 Totally get it.

00:24:03.440 Go ahead, Governor Inslee.

00:24:04.140 The biggest threat to the security of the United States is Donald Trump.

00:24:08.320 And there's no question.

00:24:10.160 So that guy, and I don't even know who he is.

00:24:14.520 I don't know how half those people were.

00:24:16.060 I haven't, I don't know who that guy is, but he's somebody.

00:24:18.800 You're not going to win.

00:24:21.160 He says the biggest threat to the United States is the president of the United States.

00:24:25.260 Now, if Trump had said, imagine that Trump had said in a debate that the biggest threat to the United States is Barack Obama.

00:24:32.160 Um, and now he kind of uses rhetoric like that about the media saying they're the enemy of the people and so on.

00:24:38.880 But how does the media, how does, how does the left react when he says stuff like that?

00:24:43.100 They say, oh, this is a dangerous rhetoric.

00:24:44.660 It's terrible.

00:24:45.580 It's irresponsible. 0.98

00:24:46.560 You're going to get somebody killed. 0.97

00:24:47.860 Well, isn't it, if you say the biggest threat to the United States is the president, how do you, if there's some crazy wacko would-be assassin out there, how do you think he's going to respond to that? 1.00

00:25:02.900 By the logic of the left and what they say about when, when Trump calls the, what he, his rhetoric and how it's dangerous is going to get people killed.

00:25:13.200 By that same logic, aren't you potentially getting the president killed when you say stuff like that?

00:25:18.160 That he's the greatest threat to the United States?

00:25:21.620 How is that not reckless and irresponsible rhetoric?

00:25:24.420 That's what I don't get.

00:25:25.100 Well, of course it is.

00:25:28.520 But, but again, it was a massive applause line. 0.82

00:25:32.540 So everything is hypocritical and nobody cares.

00:25:36.240 All right, before we continue, a word about, about something pretty awesome.

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00:27:55.960 I want to revisit something from yesterday because this came up in the debate a lot, and people are still talking about it.

00:28:07.180 And I think there's a more complete story that needs to be told, a more complete story that when I discussed this issue yesterday,

00:28:14.560 I didn't know the full story yet.

00:28:16.640 I hadn't read it.

00:28:18.740 Now I do.

00:28:19.440 So I want to go back to this.

00:28:21.560 As we talked about yesterday, there's that gut-wrenching photo that really strikes at the heart of the immigration debate in this country.

00:28:29.120 And the photo went viral.

00:28:30.440 It shows a father and his young daughter face down on the shore of the Rio Grande.

00:28:33.840 The girl has her arm around the man's neck, and they're both dead.

00:28:39.800 It's horrible, devastating, heartbreaking, just awful.

00:28:48.080 Now, the left has attempted to use this image to make the case for open borders.

00:28:52.300 And we're told that somehow this is Trump's fault, it's the Republicans' fault, it's the GOP's fault.

00:28:59.040 But the story behind the image...

00:29:01.400 Now, even if we didn't know the story behind the image, and at first we didn't, all we knew was that you had these two people, unfortunately, that had died.

00:29:11.420 And even without knowing any of the background, you already know that this isn't the president's fault.

00:29:20.220 The president didn't do this.

00:29:22.660 And if this is someone, if this is illegal immigration we're talking about, again, that's not...

00:29:27.660 Now, we could talk about who to blame, but there's just no way to put it on the president.

00:29:31.680 Now that we know the full story, though, it emphasizes even more that this has nothing to do with immigration enforcement.

00:29:42.160 Or if it does, it's about lax immigration enforcement.

00:29:45.720 And it certainly is not Trump's fault or the fault of the Republican Party or whatever.

00:29:51.040 So the full story, as reported by the Daily Mail, New York Magazine, and others,

00:29:55.440 is that Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, were swept away while trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas on Sunday.

00:30:08.380 Now, Oscar had made it across with his daughter, but then he went back to get his wife.

00:30:13.140 And tragically, his daughter was afraid, scared.

00:30:16.840 Young girl, I think she's less than two years old.

00:30:19.560 She followed her father back into the water and was then taken by the river.

00:30:24.840 He tried to save her, and they both drowned.

00:30:28.840 The Daily Mail describes the circumstances that led to this family attempting to traverse a dangerous river on foot.

00:30:36.560 Now, reading from the Daily Mail now, they say,

00:30:38.900 They left El Salvador on April 3rd and spent two months in a migrant camp in southern Mexico,

00:30:43.540 awaiting news of their asylum request to the U.S.

00:30:46.180 before they decided to take a bus to the border on Sunday to try to speed up their case.

00:30:49.880 When they arrived, the consulate was closed,

00:30:51.960 but they also learned they were far down a list of hundreds of migrants in line for interviews.

00:30:56.620 They decided to make the crossing illegally rather than wait, a decision that led to their deaths.

00:31:02.760 This was not a family turned coldly away at the border as it fled violence and persecution.

00:31:08.960 They weren't turned away at all.

00:31:10.740 They simply grew impatient, waiting for the bureaucratic wheels to turn, which I get it.

00:31:14.720 I would be impatient, too.

00:31:16.060 But this was not being turned away.

00:31:19.060 Indeed, family members confirmed that the family was not being persecuted in its home country.

00:31:23.380 This was not really a case of legitimacy.

00:31:26.980 These were not refugees, in other words.

00:31:30.480 Reading now again says,

00:31:31.820 Oscar worked at a Papa John's pizza restaurant where he was earning $350 a month.

00:31:36.320 They lived off his wage, limiting themselves to $10 a day because Tania, that's the wife, I believe, 0.70

00:31:42.560 had already quit her job as a cashier in a Chinese restaurant to care for Valeria, their only child. 0.97

00:31:47.620 They were not fleeing violence, Tania's mother had since said,

00:31:51.300 but were in desperate search of a life where they could earn more.

00:31:53.700 Their plan was to spend a few years in America to save up money

00:31:56.160 and then to return to El Salvador and buy or build their own house.

00:32:00.280 Now, this might explain why their asylum request was taking so long to process.

00:32:06.320 Ramirez and his family were looking for asylum from low-paying fast food jobs,

00:32:10.880 which is not how the asylum program is traditionally meant to be used.

00:32:14.220 The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website defines asylum,

00:32:18.140 and this is what they say asylum is and how it works.

00:32:21.020 Refugee status or asylum may be granted to people who have been persecuted

00:32:24.600 or fear they will be persecuted on account of race, religion, nationality,

00:32:28.560 and or membership in a particular social group or political opinion.

00:32:34.260 We have stretched the concept of persecuted on account of race, religion, or social group

00:32:39.340 into meaninglessness if we include those who are understandably distressed by low wages.

00:32:44.960 This is economic immigration.

00:32:47.800 This is not asylum.

00:32:49.520 If you blame the terrible deaths of Oscar and Valeria Ramirez on Trump,

00:32:56.620 well, then what are you saying exactly?

00:32:58.980 Are you arguing that the president should have personally moved the Ramirez family

00:33:02.660 to the front of the asylum line in front of people who may actually be fleeing violence and persecution?

00:33:08.420 Or else are you saying that the asylum system should be,

00:33:13.760 that there should be a general policy instated that just grants immediate asylum to everyone who asks for it,

00:33:20.380 no questions asked?

00:33:21.820 Obviously, both of those things are absurd.

00:33:24.260 So if you're not advocating for either of those things,

00:33:27.620 then how could you possibly blame this on Trump?

00:33:29.940 It's not Trump's fault that they were living in poverty in El Salvador.

00:33:38.280 So what did he do?

00:33:43.540 It seems that if you're looking for someone to blame or something to blame,

00:33:46.780 there are two systematic problems we can blame.

00:33:49.120 First, the abuses of the asylum system have been tolerated for so long

00:33:53.720 that people who shouldn't qualify for asylum still expect to receive it.

00:33:57.800 I don't blame Ramirez for seeking asylum.

00:34:01.020 He was doing what he thought he needed to do for his family.

00:34:03.660 I might have done the same thing in his position.

00:34:05.880 But we obviously cannot make somebody a refugee based on the fact that they're getting low wages at Papa John's.

00:34:13.360 By that logic, then there are a lot of refugees who are American citizens

00:34:16.920 who could apply for refugee status because they're working at Papa John's.

00:34:20.460 It just, it doesn't work that way.

00:34:21.980 So requests of that kind should be denied immediately.

00:34:25.600 Secondly, and loopholes that encourage or allow these sorts of abuses have to be closed.

00:34:32.340 Second, as we talked about yesterday, our border is porous.

00:34:35.780 Everybody knows it.

00:34:38.160 Ramirez knew that if he could just make it across the river, which he almost did,

00:34:43.080 and tragically, he did not ultimately.

00:34:45.820 But he knew that if he could just do that, he'd probably be home free.

00:34:54.440 I think if the word had gotten out to men like Ramirez that his chances of making it across the border were extremely slim,

00:35:06.560 and it wasn't going to happen, then perhaps he never would have stepped foot into that river.

00:35:13.020 A fortified and enforced border, you know, it may seem scary and mean to metropolitan liberals,

00:35:19.240 but it would be life-saving for people like Ramirez and people on both sides of the border.

00:35:24.380 If Ramirez knew that he could not get here by erroneously seeking asylum,

00:35:28.420 and he could not get here by sneaking across, then he'd be left with two options.

00:35:34.320 And both would have saved his life.

00:35:35.960 One would be to apply for citizenship through the standard channels.

00:35:41.920 Two, stay in El Salvador and try to find other ways to increase your income.

00:35:48.580 Either of those options, you know, either option is fine.

00:35:51.520 Either of them would have meant that he and his daughter are alive today.

00:35:57.980 And there are a lot of people, there are a lot of people who have died trying to cross the border

00:36:01.740 and would not have, had they never attempted it.

00:36:07.020 And we could encourage people, or rather discourage them from attempting it,

00:36:13.520 by making it extremely, extremely difficult to do.

00:36:17.340 So, that is the compassionate choice, I think.

00:36:23.640 All right, mattwellshowatgmail.com, mattwellshowatgmail.com is the email address.

00:36:27.660 We'll get to a few emails.

00:36:31.640 Let's see.

00:36:35.420 This is from Tim, says,

00:36:37.180 Matt, thank you for your continued hard work engaging with many of the hard and complex issues we face in society.

00:36:42.160 Yesterday, you made a remarkable point that I feel needs more attention.

00:36:45.000 When introducing a photo of the recent tragedy at the border,

00:36:47.980 you said that it's horrific for anyone to use the photo for any lesser purpose,

00:36:51.920 especially to make a political point.

00:36:53.760 This is so important for us to consider in our culture today.

00:36:56.340 You were then quick to expose the absurdity of Democrats leveraging the lives and deaths of a father and daughter

00:37:00.560 to rally harder against the Trump administration's border policy and practices.

00:37:04.560 While I agree wholeheartedly with this analysis,

00:37:06.480 I think it's vital that you also condemn Trump's statement,

00:37:09.200 in which he likewise uses the tragedy to argue a different point.

00:37:12.140 And now quoting Trump,

00:37:14.120 they want to have open borders, and open borders mean crime,

00:37:16.600 and open borders mean people drowning in rivers.

00:37:18.500 I hate it, and I know that it could stop immediately if the Democrats would change the laws,

00:37:22.100 and then the father, who probably was this wonderful guy with his daughter,

00:37:25.900 things like that wouldn't happen.

00:37:27.880 I realize that keeping up with Trump's tweets slash nonsense is impossible,

00:37:31.060 and there are plenty of left-wing media folks trying to do that for any reason. 0.99

00:37:36.140 But in this case, it is entirely relevant to your earlier point

00:37:42.620 that no one should try to profit off of the suffering of others

00:37:45.640 by using a photo like that for political gain.

00:37:47.880 This is yet another form of human objectification

00:37:50.060 where society has completely normalized,

00:37:52.160 and we should condemn all instances of it,

00:37:54.280 regardless of whether we agree with the logic that follows

00:37:57.500 or the ends being sought.

00:37:59.840 Thanks again for the show.

00:38:01.020 Hi, Tim.

00:38:01.800 Well, I mean, I agree with your basic point about not using it,

00:38:05.680 and I agree that it is a form of objectification,

00:38:11.260 of dehumanization when we look at death,

00:38:15.160 and whether it's people that have died crossing the border

00:38:18.020 or it's a school shooting,

00:38:20.060 when we see these bodies just as tools to be used,

00:38:25.240 and it is very much objectification.

00:38:27.360 We're turning them into objects.

00:38:28.500 And we are not recognizing their humanity anymore.

00:38:35.120 So I agree with that.

00:38:36.240 I don't think that's what Trump was doing

00:38:37.760 any more than that's what I was doing.

00:38:42.600 What I was doing just now and yesterday on the show

00:38:44.980 and what Trump was doing, I think,

00:38:47.420 was to clarify, to explain,

00:38:50.120 in the face of lies and distortion,

00:38:52.120 the actual truth.

00:38:54.460 People are blaming those deaths on Trump.

00:38:56.860 Trump is responding to those accusations.

00:38:59.560 He didn't, now, I know this sounds like a childish sort of,

00:39:02.300 they started it sort of thing,

00:39:04.160 but I guess that is what I'm saying.

00:39:06.100 You know, when Trump isn't the one who dug up this photo

00:39:08.940 and said, hey, see you here.

00:39:10.580 No, it was, the left took that photo.

00:39:13.440 We're using it to bludgeon him,

00:39:15.280 and he's saying, no, that's not, no.

00:39:18.680 No, look, if we're going to have this discussion,

00:39:20.860 then let's talk about why that actually happened.

00:39:23.960 It's out, open borders, and so on.

00:39:25.460 So I think he's entitled to defend himself,

00:39:27.800 and I think he also has a responsibility as the president

00:39:31.120 to offer clarifications on things like this.

00:39:37.660 So I, in that case,

00:39:39.400 now, look, I don't think Trump is above

00:39:41.160 using tragedies for political gain.

00:39:45.940 I think almost every politician does it,

00:39:48.220 and I don't think Trump is an exception.

00:39:49.880 But in this case,

00:39:50.860 I don't think that's what he did.

00:39:54.820 When someone comes to you with an accusation

00:39:56.980 and says, hey, you caused this tragedy,

00:40:00.160 I think you're allowed to say no.

00:40:02.400 Same thing with, again, with the school shootings,

00:40:04.780 and when someone tries to use that

00:40:06.320 against Second Amendment advocates,

00:40:07.920 I think the Second Amendment advocates

00:40:08.880 are entitled to respond, no, you're wrong.

00:40:11.580 So, in fact,

00:40:14.080 you know,

00:40:15.120 the Second Amendment would help prevent these things.

00:40:21.340 All right.

00:40:23.280 This is from Sam, says,

00:40:25.300 love the show.

00:40:25.820 I always enjoy listening to your show.

00:40:27.000 It's very educational.

00:40:28.360 I am 15,

00:40:29.660 and I go to an all-boys Catholic school,

00:40:31.740 and I've started to like girls

00:40:32.760 and notice girls more over this past year.

00:40:34.600 I have friends who have started dating,

00:40:36.000 and some of those relationships have been good

00:40:37.500 and some have not been good.

00:40:39.160 My friends say I should wait to date girls

00:40:41.000 until I'm interested in getting married.

00:40:42.880 My brother, who's 20 and in college,

00:40:44.280 just got his first girlfriend

00:40:45.160 and says that I should wait.

00:40:46.680 I was just wondering

00:40:47.300 if you have any thoughts on this topic

00:40:49.340 or could give me any advice.

00:40:52.740 Hi, Sam.

00:40:53.320 Well, great question.

00:40:54.680 Let me be the first to tell you,

00:40:55.900 full disclosure,

00:40:56.660 that I did not take the advice

00:41:00.140 that I am going to give you.

00:41:01.280 When I was your age,

00:41:02.100 I did not take this advice.

00:41:03.940 So I understand why people don't take it,

00:41:05.660 because I didn't,

00:41:06.460 but I wish I did.

00:41:07.500 And my advice,

00:41:08.460 well, it's the same advice

00:41:09.160 that your brother and your parents gave you.

00:41:11.260 I agree with them.

00:41:13.580 We have to ask ourselves a simple question.

00:41:16.680 What's the point of dating?

00:41:18.820 I think, Sam,

00:41:19.560 that's the question you should ask yourself.

00:41:20.940 Like, what,

00:41:22.260 wanting to date is a natural,

00:41:24.780 healthy thing to want,

00:41:25.780 but I think you should just ask,

00:41:28.340 like, what is it?

00:41:29.820 What's the point of it?

00:41:31.200 Everything has a point,

00:41:32.080 not just dating.

00:41:32.880 Everything has a point.

00:41:34.100 If it's a thing,

00:41:34.700 if it exists,

00:41:36.040 it has some kind of point,

00:41:36.880 some kind of purpose.

00:41:38.580 So what's the point?

00:41:39.840 If we say that the point is something like,

00:41:41.540 well, having fun,

00:41:42.600 or getting to know someone,

00:41:43.920 I would say that's not really a point.

00:41:47.160 It's sort of, okay,

00:41:47.860 fun and getting to know someone,

00:41:49.140 to what end?

00:41:49.900 And now it's possible to have fun

00:41:53.400 just for the sake of having fun.

00:41:54.920 You go out and play a pickup game of basketball.

00:41:57.680 The main point is just fun for the sake of fun.

00:42:00.920 It's an end in and of itself,

00:42:02.380 which is fine for something like a game.

00:42:05.160 But for a human relationship,

00:42:06.520 I don't think the end itself can be fun.

00:42:10.360 I think it's got to be,

00:42:11.360 it's because it's something deeper and more complex.

00:42:14.000 And it's not a game, right?

00:42:16.380 So, plus,

00:42:17.320 you can have fun with someone

00:42:18.440 and get to know them without dating them.

00:42:20.500 Dating them is a kind of weird thing

00:42:22.240 where you actually define the relationship

00:42:25.100 and the two of you reckon,

00:42:28.520 and that's why in every dating relationship,

00:42:30.080 at least this is how it was when I was your age,

00:42:32.060 I think people still do this.

00:42:33.380 Maybe they don't.

00:42:35.360 But back in the old days,

00:42:37.280 if you were dating,

00:42:38.360 there had to be that weird conversation

00:42:39.660 at some point

00:42:40.480 where you establish

00:42:42.340 that, okay, we're boyfriend and girlfriend.

00:42:45.580 And there's no non-awkward way of doing that.

00:42:48.100 It's always super awkward.

00:42:51.020 But at a certain point,

00:42:52.900 you've got to establish,

00:42:54.280 is this what we are?

00:42:55.860 Now, I think these days,

00:42:56.880 people maybe never bother to define it.

00:43:00.920 That's why people say,

00:43:01.980 it's not even dating anymore.

00:43:03.180 It's just, we're hanging out.

00:43:04.360 We're just kind of hanging around

00:43:05.980 the same vicinity as each other,

00:43:08.120 which makes it even worse

00:43:10.140 when it's not defined.

00:43:10.880 But in the traditional dating scenario,

00:43:12.940 it's defined boyfriend, girlfriend.

00:43:14.800 Okay.

00:43:15.480 So again, what's the point of that?

00:43:16.980 What's the point of that distinction?

00:43:18.760 And besides,

00:43:19.540 as much as we might say,

00:43:20.980 oh, we're just having fun.

00:43:21.920 It's not serious.

00:43:22.780 It will get serious.

00:43:24.480 It always does.

00:43:25.800 Dating relationships in high school

00:43:27.040 get very intense.

00:43:29.920 Very intense.

00:43:30.780 I mean, you say things like,

00:43:32.680 I love you.

00:43:33.260 You act totally committed to each other,

00:43:35.040 devoted to each other.

00:43:36.040 You become almost obsessed with each other.

00:43:39.100 And all of that commitment and devotion

00:43:41.160 and supposed love

00:43:42.620 has to be headed somewhere.

00:43:44.620 It's not a switch you can flip.

00:43:47.560 Now, it does feel like a switch

00:43:49.240 that's sort of flipped on

00:43:50.460 where all of a sudden

00:43:51.300 there is this intense

00:43:54.120 infatuation, really, is the word.

00:43:59.980 But it's not really a switch

00:44:01.420 that can be flipped off.

00:44:03.360 So it's got to be headed somewhere.

00:44:04.720 You're in this boat together.

00:44:05.780 Where's the boat going?

00:44:06.640 If you're both in your 20s

00:44:08.940 and you're out of high school,

00:44:11.520 then it could be going to the altar,

00:44:14.740 to marriage.

00:44:15.480 And maybe it doesn't, ultimately.

00:44:17.360 But at least there's that possibility.

00:44:19.840 And at least there's an understanding

00:44:21.440 that if all things go according to plan,

00:44:25.460 that's where you're going.

00:44:27.720 That's the end result.

00:44:29.220 That's the end game.

00:44:30.420 And that gives you hope.

00:44:31.620 And that gives you purpose.

00:44:32.540 And that makes it worth it.

00:44:35.920 Even if it doesn't work out,

00:44:37.220 you could say then,

00:44:37.960 well, it was still worth it

00:44:38.880 because I'm pursuing marriage

00:44:42.520 and I'm pursuing this next phase of my life.

00:44:45.080 And I took a chance

00:44:46.280 and it didn't work out.

00:44:47.800 But it was still worth it.

00:44:50.420 It was worth the chance

00:44:51.240 because the end is worth it.

00:44:54.320 But the problem is that in high school,

00:44:55.780 it's almost certain

00:44:56.560 that it's not headed there.

00:44:58.440 No one's talking about marriage

00:44:59.500 and high school,

00:45:00.400 99.9% of all high school relationships

00:45:02.940 do not end in marriage.

00:45:04.280 I'm making that statistic up,

00:45:05.320 but it's probably pretty close to accurate.

00:45:07.520 So most just end.

00:45:09.540 And they end in heartbreak

00:45:10.580 and devastation,

00:45:11.520 feelings of betrayal,

00:45:12.500 abandonment,

00:45:13.100 hatred, jealousy.

00:45:15.880 Now, I think as an adult,

00:45:18.780 and I look back

00:45:19.520 and I've been married for eight years

00:45:21.000 and I got four kids now.

00:45:23.920 And so I can look back

00:45:25.020 to my relationships

00:45:26.220 that I was in as a teenager.

00:45:27.420 And I can sort of see it as,

00:45:30.380 from this perspective now, 0.50

00:45:31.780 I can see it as this kind of like silly thing.

00:45:33.880 And it doesn't,

00:45:34.460 but at the time,

00:45:35.800 it was not silly.

00:45:37.120 And breakups were devastating,

00:45:38.960 heartbreaking.

00:45:39.980 You know,

00:45:40.200 because you can't see it.

00:45:43.520 You can't remove yourself

00:45:44.880 from your own perspective,

00:45:47.100 which is,

00:45:49.820 yeah,

00:45:49.980 someone might tell you,

00:45:50.780 hey, well, look,

00:45:51.360 you were dating that person

00:45:52.500 for six months.

00:45:54.160 It's not like you guys

00:45:54.700 weren't married.

00:45:55.680 People get divorced

00:45:56.480 after being married for 15 years.

00:45:57.900 They have kids.

00:45:58.460 I mean,

00:45:58.580 imagine how they feel.

00:46:00.620 Six months,

00:46:01.380 like, yeah,

00:46:02.240 well, you can recognize intellectually

00:46:03.620 it's not the same thing,

00:46:04.600 but that doesn't,

00:46:05.220 yeah,

00:46:05.320 but that's not your life.

00:46:06.180 This is your life.

00:46:07.920 And so it's a very hard thing

00:46:10.580 for kids to deal with.

00:46:11.820 So if marriage isn't on the table

00:46:16.640 and you get into a serious

00:46:18.380 and committed relationship

00:46:19.380 with someone,

00:46:21.600 you've just guaranteed yourself

00:46:24.420 a messy and heartbreaking split.

00:46:26.940 It's guaranteed.

00:46:28.240 Every day you spend with that person,

00:46:30.540 you know in the back of your mind

00:46:32.500 that eventually,

00:46:33.640 probably in the next few months,

00:46:35.040 you're going to hate each other. 0.51

00:46:36.780 You know it's going there.

00:46:38.660 So all this talk about love

00:46:40.200 and commitment,

00:46:40.720 it's all really a joke

00:46:42.180 and you sort of know that.

00:46:44.140 You don't mean for it to be a joke,

00:46:45.860 but in the back of your mind,

00:46:47.120 you know.

00:46:48.160 You say,

00:46:48.580 I love you.

00:46:49.220 I'm so committed,

00:46:49.760 but you know,

00:46:50.240 it's like you know in 20 years

00:46:51.500 you're not going to be with this person.

00:46:53.040 In 10 years,

00:46:53.600 you will.

00:46:53.740 Probably in 10 months,

00:46:54.600 you won't.

00:46:56.680 So you're kind of lying to each other

00:46:58.500 and it's a game

00:46:59.760 and it's not a very nice

00:47:00.820 or fair game to be playing

00:47:01.940 with another person's heart.

00:47:04.660 Quit playing games with my heart.

00:47:05.820 That was before your time,

00:47:08.240 but very wise words

00:47:09.120 from I think the Backstreet Boys.

00:47:12.340 Some people will say

00:47:13.160 that high school relationships

00:47:13.920 teach you things.

00:47:15.840 You learn from them.

00:47:17.780 Yeah,

00:47:18.060 what do you learn though?

00:47:18.940 You learn how to break up.

00:47:20.340 You learn how to hate someone

00:47:21.420 you used to claim to love.

00:47:23.840 You learn how to say things

00:47:25.200 you don't mean to people

00:47:26.240 that you pretend to care about.

00:47:28.540 You learn a lot of lessons

00:47:29.920 that really aren't handy

00:47:31.220 in a marriage.

00:47:32.640 You learn how to be

00:47:33.580 in a failed relationship.

00:47:34.720 You learn how to get divorced.

00:47:35.920 Basically,

00:47:37.080 it's divorce practice. 0.98

00:47:38.240 It's not marriage practice.

00:47:43.000 There really isn't anything

00:47:44.240 like marriage practice.

00:47:46.580 Marriage is one of those things

00:47:47.840 where you learn how to do it

00:47:50.840 when you're in it.

00:47:52.260 You learn more,

00:47:53.280 just like with a job.

00:47:54.600 You could train for your job,

00:47:56.020 learn about it.

00:47:56.600 You'll learn more

00:47:57.240 in the first day of your job

00:47:58.340 than you could possibly learn

00:48:00.260 in 10 years of reading books about it.

00:48:02.080 And you'll learn more

00:48:02.920 in your first day of marriage

00:48:04.180 than you could have ever learned

00:48:05.600 through any dating relationship.

00:48:09.360 So that's what I would say.

00:48:12.220 But as I said,

00:48:13.180 I recognize that

00:48:14.340 we can all say this

00:48:18.440 because it's easy for us now

00:48:19.960 to say all this

00:48:20.800 with our hindsight and everything.

00:48:22.520 But when you're actually

00:48:24.760 in high school,

00:48:26.040 to actually put that off

00:48:27.940 until college

00:48:28.900 or after college

00:48:29.900 is a very difficult thing to do.

00:48:31.300 But if you can pull that off,

00:48:34.720 I would say

00:48:35.280 you won't regret it.

00:48:37.380 And what I'll tell you,

00:48:39.580 and now I've been babbling

00:48:40.260 for too long,

00:48:41.100 last thing I'll say is

00:48:42.220 I guarantee you

00:48:43.540 that when you're 25 or whatever

00:48:47.640 and you're married,

00:48:48.540 if you're married by then,

00:48:50.660 and you didn't date in high school,

00:48:53.140 you absolutely will not regret

00:48:55.060 having not dated.

00:48:56.880 You won't regret it.

00:49:00.840 Especially because

00:49:01.580 once you get married

00:49:02.220 and you have kids,

00:49:03.300 your past life,

00:49:04.220 it's like someone else's life.

00:49:05.440 It's like you hardly,

00:49:06.280 it's like a blur all of a sudden.

00:49:09.180 You've started this whole new life.

00:49:11.040 You're a new person.

00:49:12.980 And so you're not going to regret that.

00:49:16.600 All right.

00:49:17.600 Let's leave it there.

00:49:18.940 Thanks for the questions.

00:49:20.200 And we'll talk tomorrow.

00:49:22.760 Godspeed.

00:49:35.440 Hola, mamacitas. 1.00

00:49:37.560 The first Democratic presidential primary debate

00:49:40.220 was last night

00:49:41.020 and everyone started speaking Spanish.

00:49:43.220 We will examine

00:49:44.240 why los Democrats son muy estúpidos.

00:49:47.800 Then my pal, Jamil Giovanni,

00:49:49.360 stops by to explain

00:49:51.220 why young men get radicalized.

00:49:53.360 Finally, the mailbag.

00:49:54.220 Check it out on the Michael Knowles Show.

00:49:55.440 We'll see you next time.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 27, 2019

Ep. 285 - Democrats Put Their Insanity On Full Display

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