The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 287 - Ban Antifa And Arrest All Of Its Members

00:00:00.000 Today on the show, the domestic terror group Antifa staged a violent riot over the weekend.

00:00:05.860 People were pepper sprayed, bludgeoned with crowbars, much more.

00:00:09.920 A journalist was put in a hospital with a bleeding brain.

00:00:13.400 Antifa, of course, is nothing but a violent hate group, and it shouldn't have any right to exist.

00:00:17.660 It should be banned. It should be classified as a domestic terror group.

00:00:20.580 So we're going to talk about that today.

00:00:21.880 Also, we're going to discuss the most concerning aspect of this,

00:00:25.160 which is the reaction, or lack thereof, on the left.

00:00:29.720 We'll discuss that today as well on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:35.040 All right. Thanks, everyone, for tuning in.

00:00:37.420 Hope you had a great weekend.

00:00:38.500 I'm broadcasting now from an undisclosed location.

00:00:42.960 I traveled here over the weekend with my family, many hours in the car,

00:00:47.100 many hours with three kids under six and under in the car. 0.99

00:00:52.260 And, you know, I remember when I was young and idealistic and stupid. 1.00

00:00:56.320 Well, I'm still stupid, but the other two, not so much. 0.99

00:01:00.240 Back before I had kids, and I remember I used to, you know, you'd be driving on the road, 0.97

00:01:05.100 and you'd be behind another car, a minivan or something, and you could see through their rear view,

00:01:10.400 their rear window, that they have one of those little TVs there,

00:01:13.480 and the kids are watching Little Mermaid or whatever Disney thing.

00:01:16.520 And I used to see that, and I used to think to myself, man, when I'm a parent,

00:01:21.400 you know, when I'm a parent, I'm not going to put the TV on in the car for the kids.

00:01:25.380 I mean, like, they don't get enough TV already, and now you've got to put TV on in the car. 0.97

00:01:29.620 That's pathetic. 0.88

00:01:30.600 No, when I'm a parent, and I'm driving with my kids, we'll talk and we'll sing songs of gladness, 0.97

00:01:37.980 and we'll just have a wonderful bonding time.

00:01:40.620 That's what I thought before I was a parent, but now that I am, I realize that being stuck in a car for 10 hours

00:01:47.000 with a bunch of little kids is actual, literal torture.

00:01:50.980 Like, if you were to put a suspected terrorist in a minivan with three kids for 10 hours,

00:01:57.940 that would violate the Geneva Convention.

00:01:59.480 It's just, it's inhumane treatment, because the thing with kids is they don't ever stop talking

00:02:07.080 or asking questions or whining.

00:02:12.540 I mean, they're just, because they can't.

00:02:14.000 I guess when they're in the car, in closed space, they can't move their bodies much,

00:02:18.380 so they just move their mouths even more to compensate.

00:02:21.460 And after a while, you just can't take it anymore.

00:02:23.960 So we put the TV on, and that's how we made it through it.

00:02:27.760 So, all right.

00:02:29.600 On a more serious note, a couple things, important things to talk about today.

00:02:33.680 I want to talk about the, speaking of terrorists, the domestic terrorist organization, Antifa,

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00:03:50.740 Okay, well, the fascist hate group, Antifa, which ironically stands for anti-fascist, which,

00:04:00.760 you know, having a fascist hate group that's anti-fascist, it's a bit like if Ku Klux Klan

00:04:06.240 was Latin for, like, racial tolerance.

00:04:09.360 That's what it's similar to, because, of course, it's anti-fascist, but that's the exact opposite

00:04:16.580 of what they really are.

00:04:18.280 They're also a domestic terror group, and they held what is being called a, quote, protest

00:04:23.520 over the weekend in Portland.

00:04:25.340 But this protest was nothing more than a violent riot, which is what all of their protests are

00:04:31.000 like.

00:04:31.540 In fact, left-wingers in general have a suspicious habit of having protests that really turn into

00:04:40.720 an excuse to beat the hell out of people and set things on fire.

00:04:44.060 Think back to when BLM was staging these, quote, unquote, protests all across the country, but

00:04:52.440 really you had entire city blocks that were on fire, and people were throwing bricks and looting.

00:04:56.800 That's the way left-wing protests go, especially with Antifa.

00:05:00.600 So this was a violent riot that was organized and planned, planned and organized by a group that

00:05:09.420 exists for no other reason than to plan and organize violent riots.

00:05:13.240 But this is worse than what we've seen before.

00:05:15.640 This somehow fell below Antifa's already subterraneous standards.

00:05:21.280 Now, the Portland Antifa, especially, has been particularly bad for a long time, especially

00:05:26.860 bad mostly because the Portland police are non-existent, it seems, where left-wingers are

00:05:33.940 concerned anyway.

00:05:35.240 Antifa and Portland, they've had the run of the town for a while.

00:05:38.980 They're allowed to shut down city blocks, assault people at will, and the police just

00:05:45.360 stand by and watch.

00:05:46.380 They don't do anything.

00:05:49.220 So as an example, before we get to what happened this weekend, as just a primer to kind of get

00:05:54.640 you warmed up, here they are a few months ago, shutting down a block, directing traffic,

00:06:00.620 and then someone disobeyed their traffic signals, so they chased that guy down with a baseball bat.

00:06:06.140 Watch this.

00:06:06.560 Watch this.

00:06:36.540 Okay, but that was a few months ago, right?

00:06:53.800 As I said, let's look at what happened this weekend.

00:06:57.740 Conservative journalist Andy Ngo, who apparently lives in Portland, showed up to cover the

00:07:04.900 demonstration slash quote-unquote protest, and he wound up being viciously assaulted by

00:07:12.280 these thugs.

00:07:14.320 I'll show you one of the videos, and by the way, just a disclaimer, all of the videos I'm

00:07:19.860 going to show on the show today are all upsetting and violent, and there's blood and stuff.

00:07:24.640 So, you know, if you have kids that you're watching this with and you don't want them

00:07:29.120 to see it, then that's a fair warning.

00:07:30.480 But it's important, though, that those of us who are old enough to see it do see it so

00:07:34.660 that we know what's going on out there.

00:07:36.260 So this is the first.

00:07:37.060 This only shows part of the beating.

00:07:38.660 Watch this. 1.00

00:07:39.340 The hound, bitch! 1.00

00:08:04.680 Okay, he was, the main thing you see there, and you've got to be careful here because you 1.00

00:08:17.460 saw at the very beginning of that cut how he was punched, he was assaulted, he was punched

00:08:23.740 in the face by someone who ran up, very courageously ran up, sucker punched him, then ran away.

00:08:27.780 And then you see him being sprayed with all kinds of various substances.

00:08:35.360 What you're seeing, the media, and we'll talk about this in a minute, but the media

00:08:39.160 has mostly ignored this.

00:08:41.640 When they do show a clip, what they'll do is they'll show, if they're going to show any

00:08:46.100 of this, which most of them don't, but if they're going to show it, they'll cut out

00:08:50.000 the part at the very beginning where he got hit, and they'll show only the part where he's

00:08:53.560 being sprayed with what looks like silly string.

00:08:55.840 Now, they also were throwing milkshakes at him, because this is the left-wing thing now

00:08:59.820 of throwing milkshakes at people.

00:09:02.420 Milkshaking, they call it.

00:09:04.800 But these, which is already a salt, to throw something at somebody is a salt, period.

00:09:10.460 Even if it's a milkshake.

00:09:11.420 These milkshakes, though, the police reported were, some of them were laced with cement mix.

00:09:18.660 Okay, so these were not just regular old milkshakes.

00:09:21.700 Anyway, here's no after the beating.

00:09:27.200 I just got beat up by the crowd, no police at all, in the middle of the street, and they

00:09:34.400 stole my GoPro, and they punched me several times in my face, in my head, I'm bleeding.

00:09:38.820 Um... 0.94

00:09:40.820 Where the hell were all of you? 0.94

00:09:55.640 Can you talk to me? 0.99

00:09:57.020 Yeah, where the hell were you? 0.98

00:09:58.620 Do you know your name? 0.95

00:09:59.580 My name's Andy Ngo.

00:10:00.600 Do you know where you're at?

00:10:01.180 I had been assaulted twice earlier today and reported it to your Cogleaves. 0.99

00:10:06.480 Hey, we...

00:10:06.840 And nothing was done.

00:10:08.260 Andy, I'd like to help you right now.

00:10:09.100 And I was in the middle of the street in the front documenting this.

00:10:11.500 I'd like to help you.

00:10:12.160 Can you tell me...

00:10:13.140 Can you tell me where you are?

00:10:13.420 They stole my evidence.

00:10:14.600 They stole my GoPro.

00:10:16.180 And then he proceeds to talk to the police, and he's trying to...

00:10:19.840 He's asking them, good question, where were you?

00:10:23.320 But he talks to them, and that's what the rest of that video is.

00:10:26.620 This was not some little scuffle.

00:10:29.100 Ngo was admitted to a hospital overnight, reportedly with a brain bleed.

00:10:33.840 He was seriously hurt.

00:10:35.220 He could have been killed. 0.98

00:10:37.480 If your brain is bleeding, that's...

00:10:39.640 I mean, that's a potentially fatal situation.

00:10:43.480 It's not an exaggeration to say that Antifa, the Antifa punks, were trying to kill people. 0.96

00:10:51.060 Now, one of the dumbest defenses of Antifa that I've seen this weekend, and all of the 0.98

00:10:58.120 defenses are... 1.00

00:10:58.840 To defend them at all is dumb. 0.97

00:11:00.540 So there's no smart defense. 1.00

00:11:02.540 One of the dumbest of all the dumb ones is... 1.00

00:11:06.020 Some people have said, well, you know, they're not... 1.00

00:11:09.780 They haven't killed anybody, okay?

00:11:11.540 They're not like those neo-Nazis who killed somebody.

00:11:14.620 Okay, it's not for lack of trying, though. 0.71

00:11:17.520 It does appear that they are trying to kill people, or at the very least, they're assaulting

00:11:22.360 people without any regard for whether or not they happen to kill the person.

00:11:28.760 I'll show you what I mean.

00:11:30.220 Here are the Antifa terrorists using what looks like a crowbar or a metal bar of some kind

00:11:36.320 against an older man, and then someone else steps in, heroically, to protect them.

00:11:41.540 And then they start hitting him as well with the metal bar.

00:11:44.160 Watch this one.

00:11:45.500 I can't see.

00:11:50.500 Firearmsy!

00:11:51.640 Hy sucedenia! 0.92

00:11:53.220 Fire!

00:11:56.040 Fire!

00:11:57.040 Fire!

00:11:57.840 Fire!

00:11:58.440 Fire!

00:11:59.020 Fire!

00:11:59.420 Fire!

00:12:00.060 Jeff!

00:12:01.400 I can't see!

00:12:03.020 Fight!

00:12:03.320 I can't see!

00:12:04.300 obia! 1.00

00:12:04.620 Get уров!

00:12:05.060 Fire! 0.99

00:12:06.260 Kill! 0.99

00:12:07.560 ew! 1.00

00:12:08.100 Fire! 0.93

00:12:08.440 You 1.00

00:12:13.440 Okay, that's to smack somebody in the head with a metal bar, crowbar, baseball bat, 0.98

00:12:36.160 whatever it is, that is attempted murder. You're trying to kill them. You could very easily kill 1.00

00:12:40.840 them. Michelle Malkin was compiling pictures of the aftermath. So here's a picture she had of the 1.00

00:12:49.720 hero who stepped in. He's at the hospital. Look at the gashes on his head. Look at these pictures

00:12:54.600 here. Okay, that's someone who was put in a life-threatening situation when you end up with

00:13:02.180 gashes like that on your head. And then here's the older man, another picture, the older man covered

00:13:07.180 in blood. All right. Despite how it's being portrayed in some corners, this was not just a

00:13:15.220 bunch of dorks throwing milkshakes. This was something more serious than that. Although

00:13:20.320 they are a bunch of dorks. Let's be clear about that. They're dangerous terrorists. Yes. And we 1.00

00:13:26.520 can't minimize the threat that they pose. But individually, they're also a bunch of effeminate 0.89

00:13:35.080 weaklings and dorks who would never dare go one-on-one against any of the... I mean, you saw 0.98

00:13:40.560 the guy with the gashes in the head. You think any of those people would go one-on-one against him?

00:13:44.600 You think any of those weaklings, those Antifa weaklings, would dare take off their mask and walk 0.74

00:13:50.340 up to that guy and punch him square in the face and then stay there just to get the response? 0.79

00:13:55.320 You think they dare have a fair fight with anybody? No. It's really easy to put on a mask. 0.92

00:14:03.260 If you have no moral standards and you're a coward, then it's really easy to put on a mask 0.98

00:14:07.700 and run up among a group of people, smack someone in the head with a metal bar, and then run away. 0.99

00:14:14.620 Anyone could do that. A six-year-old could do that. Anyone could do that. 0.83

00:14:18.440 So these are weak, pathetic, despicable, effeminate cowards, all of them. And I want to emphasize 1.00

00:14:33.120 that because maybe it's not the most important thing in the world, but when I hear people say,

00:14:37.640 oh, domestic terrorists, and all of that is true. But we also don't want to make them sound...

00:14:44.440 Unfortunately, in our society these days, when you start describing people that way,

00:14:52.640 you run the risk of making them sound cool or something in the ears and in the minds of very 0.99

00:14:58.700 stupid people who think about, oh, they're wearing masks and they're out there fighting. Oh, that must 1.00

00:15:04.360 be cool. No, it's not because it's violent and they're hurting people and they could possibly kill

00:15:10.100 someone. And also, again, these are just the biggest losers on earth, all of them. 0.99

00:15:18.200 This is what Antifa does. This is their whole thing. Their only tactic, violence and intimidation. 0.99

00:15:23.900 We've seen it not just in Portland, but in many states. Anytime Antifa organizes, anytime they get

00:15:28.840 together, this is what happens. It's a domestic terrorist organization and that's how it should be

00:15:33.160 treated. Everybody associated with Antifa should be arrested. Anyone who is a known member or

00:15:40.000 associate participant with Antifa should be arrested. This group should be outlawed. It should be banned

00:15:47.780 because we have the right to peaceably assemble in this country. But we do not have the right to

00:15:54.360 assemble for violent riots. We don't have the right to assemble for the sole purpose of hurting and

00:16:00.860 intimidating people. And that's what Antifa does. They are a terrorist organization.

00:16:05.300 And that's what needs to happen legally. Although at this point, I would, you know,

00:16:12.080 before we even get to, well, domestic terrorist organization, rounding up the leaders, throwing

00:16:16.200 them in jail. And I think that's all going to be, I think that all that should happen, you know,

00:16:21.280 police raids and everything. I mean, show up in force, find these people in their mom's basements,

00:16:29.080 frog march them out and throw them in prison and see how they like it. They're in prison with the other

00:16:34.520 inmates. But, and, and, and by the way, you, you know, you, Antifa, they pretend that they're

00:16:43.000 fighting against neo-Nazis, which, which they aren't. Okay. There weren't any, as far as I'm

00:16:48.600 aware. Well, certainly in those videos, the people being at Andy, no, is not a neo-Nazi. The people

00:16:53.520 that they're assaulting are not neo-Nazi. So they pretend they're fighting against neo-Nazis. For the

00:16:57.660 most part, they're not. They're just assaulting random people. And anyone who happens to disagree

00:17:03.840 with them. But Hey, if you really want to, if you really want to go up again, if you, if you really

00:17:09.920 want to fight neo-Nazis, well, they have neo-Nazis in prison. Um, and those are real neo-Nazis. And so,

00:17:15.660 yeah, why don't you go, let's throw these guys in prison and let them, uh, let them tangle with 0.97

00:17:19.120 the neo-Nazis in there and see how it goes. Uh, where they can't put on a mask and they don't have 0.96

00:17:22.800 a group and you know, they're probably not going to have a weapon. Um, I guess they could try to get a

00:17:26.360 shiv in the prison yard somewhere, but, um, yeah, let's see how these tough guys like it when

00:17:30.540 we throw them in prison and they're with real neo-Nazis. But anyway, that's the legal part of

00:17:35.700 this. Um, the other part of it is, is personal on a personal level. If, if you are being swarmed by a

00:17:45.900 violent mob, if people are using mace and metal bars and crowbars, uh, and throwing bricks at you

00:17:53.680 or, or, or, or whatever else you have every right legal and moral to defend yourself using

00:18:01.700 whatever means you deem necessary. If you're being assaulted with a metal bar, that is assault

00:18:06.940 with a deadly weapon. You could die. This is someone who is trying to kill you. And now you

00:18:12.460 have the legal and moral right to respond, um, with the force that equals, uh, the force being used

00:18:21.600 against you. Um, that's, you're not obliged to be a victim. You don't have to stand there and take

00:18:30.260 it. One of these days, these gutless punks are going to try this garbage on a fan of the second 0.99

00:18:35.140 amendment. Uh, and things are going to go badly for the gutless punk in that case. That's going to 0.99

00:18:41.740 happen. And one of the, it's going to happen. It's going to happen soon. It just, they've been doing

00:18:48.360 this for months now, years, eventually they're going to target the wrong person. Uh, and when

00:18:58.040 that happens, you know, that's when the media is going to take note and they're going to try to make

00:19:02.400 us feel sorry for whatever Antifa punk gets that response. And there's, Oh, you know, this, this is

00:19:08.520 terrible. Um, no, when that happens, whose fault is it going to be? Not the guy who defends himself.

00:19:16.920 I'll tell you that. Um, why don't you go down? Here's the thought Antifa. Why don't you go down

00:19:25.640 to Texas and try this, try shutting down streets and assaulting random passers by in Texas and see

00:19:32.420 what happens. Now I don't wish death or harm on anyone. Um, and I don't like to see this chaos and

00:19:38.200 violence. I wish it wasn't happening, but I do want people to protect themselves. And I do think

00:19:44.380 here's the thing at the Antifa punks, they should be afraid to do this kind of thing.

00:19:52.980 Now, I don't think anyone should just live in fear in general. Uh, and nobody should be afraid

00:19:58.500 in America to express their point of view, to exercise their legitimate first amendment rights,

00:20:03.640 but you should be afraid to assault random people. You should be afraid to run around with a mask and a

00:20:10.840 crowbar hitting people. Um, you should be afraid to do just like you should be afraid to break into 0.87

00:20:15.240 somebody's house. It's a sign of a healthy country of a healthy civilization. When people are afraid to

00:20:26.600 act that way, because they know that there are going to be consequences. There are going to be

00:20:32.160 legal consequences. And there may be even more serious and immediate consequences than that,

00:20:37.000 because the law is not, the law is not going to sit there and let you do it. And the person you're

00:20:42.320 attacking isn't going to just sit there and let you do it. That's a sign of a healthy civilization.

00:20:49.200 It's a sign of an unhealthy civilization when people feel they can do this with impunity

00:20:52.980 and they're not afraid and they feel perfectly safe and secure. These Antifa punks walking around in

00:20:59.540 masks, just, you know, just with their, with the crowbar slung over their shoulders, just strolling

00:21:04.320 randomly proudly around. Um, that's the sign of an unhealthy situation in a society.

00:21:11.060 So yeah, that, that's the thing is that, uh, Antifa, it, they seem to want a civil war,

00:21:18.320 but they're going to be marching to war with milkshakes and metal bars. The other side has most of the guns.

00:21:24.500 Um, they, they, they want to escalate this. They want violence. I don't, they do, but they haven't

00:21:38.180 quite figured out, you know, that the, the other side, that that's where almost all the NRA members

00:21:44.720 are. This fans of the second amendment, um, people who not only own guns, but know how to use them

00:21:50.880 are very proficient in them. That's where most of the, you know, the other side is where most of

00:21:55.640 those people are. And if Antifa continues escalating, I think eventually they're going to learn that

00:22:03.660 lesson the hard way. Um, I hope it doesn't come to that, but if they continue, it can't go on like

00:22:11.520 this indefinitely. But what's in some ways even more disturbing, more concerning, more frightening

00:22:19.540 than Antifa's behavior is the reaction from the left or lack thereof. As of this morning,

00:22:24.540 not as of this morning, anyway, uh, not a single, and this is enough because it's been two, two,

00:22:29.640 three days as of this morning, not a single democratic presidential candidate had uttered a

00:22:34.380 word of combat condemnation against Antifa or the assaults this weekend. Uh, I mean, these people

00:22:40.340 were bludgeoning people using pepper spray, attacking journalists and the Democrat candidates can't even

00:22:45.780 bring themselves to condemn it. That's incredible. And very, it's a real scary situation

00:22:54.620 because why aren't they condemning it? Because they know that there are a lot of Antifa people and a lot

00:23:07.560 of Antifa sympathizers in their base. Okay. They've done the research. They've done the polling, uh,

00:23:14.880 internally. They know, they know that it would be politically, um, disastrous for them with their

00:23:22.500 base to come out and say, Hey, Antifa shouldn't be beating people with metal bars. What does that

00:23:26.960 tell you about the left? That democratic, these aren't just fringe Democrat presidential candidates

00:23:32.700 feel like they can't because they're cowards and opportunists. They feel like they can't come out 0.96

00:23:37.540 and condemn this because they're going to upset their base. Uh, it's, it's not like that on the other

00:23:43.920 side. I got to tell you because you could do the, what about ism of a neo-Nazis and all that all you

00:23:50.980 want. Yeah. Conservatives come out and condemn neo-Nazis. It's not a Republican politicians. They

00:23:55.460 have no hesitation. There's no hesitation. We're not. Yeah. Sure. I'll condemn neo-Nazis all day.

00:24:00.980 There's that guy that ran the girl over. He's in jail. Uh, you know, I came out, I said that they

00:24:05.660 should put the guy in front of a firing squad. Uh, and I think they should. I've got, yeah,

00:24:09.720 a murderous neo-Nazi. Yeah. Go out and execute them. Put them down like a dog. Absolutely. Uh, 0.99

00:24:15.440 that's, I have no compunction about that at all. Um, so on the right, there really isn't much of a

00:24:21.040 hesitation. Now I, I take issue with the whole idea that neo-Nazis are right wing in the first place,

00:24:26.680 but even if I said, okay, they are, they're the extremist element of the right wing.

00:24:31.560 Um, even if I agreed with that, well, whatever we have, no, that does not make me hesitate. Oh,

00:24:37.780 well, should I, I don't know. Would it be day? Would it be, would it be, uh, uh, risky for me

00:24:41.560 to condemn them? No, of course I condemn them. Um, that's not what you find on the left. They are

00:24:46.800 very hesitant to, to condemn the violent extremists on their side of the fence. Likewise, the media has

00:24:53.480 been very, very reserved in its coverage and condemnation. Um, even though again, a, a journalist

00:24:59.940 was attacked, a journalist was put in the hospital with a bleeding brain, yet the media treated this

00:25:05.360 as a non-event basically to give you an idea of, of just how trivialized, um, this event has been

00:25:13.820 with the media. CNN's Brian Stelter, who's a guy on CNN who specializes in covering attacks on the

00:25:22.240 media. That's what he talks about all the time. He, if Trump sends out a mean tweet about the media,

00:25:28.400 this guy, Stelter, Stelzer, whatever, how you pronounce it, um, Brian, good old Brian,

00:25:34.020 he'll spend a whole show talking about the mean tweet. Okay. Now he's getting credit for being one

00:25:39.580 of the guys in the media, one of the only ones in the media to actually cover these attacks and

00:25:43.600 condemn them. And I'm going to show you what he said, how he handled it. And remember, this is

00:25:50.040 probably the most passionate condemnation offered by anyone in the left-wing media, uh, is this,

00:25:55.740 watch this. One more important story that you need to know about before we take a break. Uh,

00:25:59.420 this is a protest that turned violent against a member of the media in Portland, Oregon this

00:26:03.640 weekend. Uh, conservative journalist, Andy Ngo was out there covering rival protests on Saturday,

00:26:08.840 Antifa on one side, right-wing figures on the other side. But as the demonstrations clashed,

00:26:13.120 uh, protesters, uh, it appears to be Antifa protesters, uh, then attacked Ngo. Uh, he's been out there in

00:26:18.480 the past. He's been covering protests in Portland for quite some time. Uh, his critics say he's there

00:26:22.780 to cause trouble, but that's unacceptable. Uh, the idea that he would be attacked, that he would be,

00:26:27.860 uh, bloodied in that way, uh, unacceptable period. Uh, and it's important that everyone make that

00:26:33.460 clear, uh, even left-wing critics who don't like him and things like that. Okay. Maybe you'll tell

00:26:38.060 me that beggars can't be choosers, but that is weak. That is very weak. Uh, he mentions it right 1.00

00:26:44.380 before a break. He says, Oh, by the way, before we go to break, he spends 20 seconds on it. He calls it

00:26:48.880 unacceptable. Sending someone to the, yes, it is, it is unacceptable, but that's the,

00:26:53.100 that's the harshest word you could come up with is unacceptable. You know, beating someone, uh, in,

00:26:59.700 in the, in the skull with a, with a bat, uh, until their brain is bleeding. That's unacceptable. 0.97

00:27:04.400 That is unacceptable. No, unacceptable behavior is, I mean, that's what I said to my, my daughter this

00:27:09.900 morning. Cause she pulled her brother's hair. Uh, I said, that's unacceptable. That's unacceptable. 1.00

00:27:14.800 The two kids pick it on each other. This is a lot more than unacceptable. You know, that, that, uh,

00:27:21.440 Charles Manson, that's, it was pretty unacceptable. That was pretty tacky, unacceptable behavior. I got

00:27:26.560 to tell you, murdering people, I mean, pretty, nah, you know, not a fan. Um, that's just, it's the

00:27:33.460 week, but that's, that's the best the media could do. Um, is, is that, and just so you're not,

00:27:41.780 you don't make the mistake of being impressed and say, well, at least he said something.

00:27:47.480 The only reason Brian said anything is because he knew, he knew he had to say something. I mean,

00:27:52.720 this is what he does. He talks about attacks on the media and you've got a journalist being sent to

00:27:57.700 the hospital. Um, everyone's talking about it on social media. He knew he couldn't ignore it. That

00:28:01.980 was ignoring it was not an option. He couldn't do that. And so he did bear. I mean, you can't even

00:28:07.360 call it bare minimum was so bare. He'd say he spent 20 seconds just so he could say that he

00:28:12.580 talked about it. And just so that, um, a week from now, two weeks from now, a month from now,

00:28:17.680 when someone calls him to, to account and says, Hey, you know, uh, just so that next time Trump

00:28:24.900 says, sends a mean tweet or a mean gif about the media and Brian Stelter spends, uh, a whole show,

00:28:32.560 spends five shows talking about it. And, and someone says, Hey, you know, you're talking about this.

00:28:36.560 You didn't say anything about, uh, when the, when the conservative journals was attacked

00:28:39.660 that, that he could come back and say, Oh yeah, well look at this. That's the only reason he did

00:28:45.360 that little small, tiny 20 second segment was, was just to give him that moment a month from now,

00:28:51.000 when someone on Twitter tries to call him to the task and he can retweet his little segment and

00:28:56.500 send, you know, he can, he can really own them, right. Own the conservatives, uh, with that,

00:29:01.320 with that devastating comeback. Um, that's the only reason he did that.

00:29:04.780 Remember CNN has openly defended Antifa in the past. Uh, this is, this was last year,

00:29:12.940 Don Lemon. Uh, this is what he had to say about Antifa.

00:29:15.980 It says it right in the name, Antifa anti-fascism, which is what they were there. Um, fighting.

00:29:21.720 Listen, there's, you know, no organization is perfect. There was some violence. Um, no one

00:29:26.080 condones the violence, but there were different reasons for Antifa and for these neo-Nazis,

00:29:30.900 uh, to be there. One racist fascists, the other group fighting racist fascists. There is a 0.95

00:29:39.000 fascist. There's a distinction there. Okay. Trump has, um, obviously gotten a lot of grief for his,

00:29:44.240 uh, infamous, uh, there were fine people on both sides comment. This is like that. This is, uh,

00:29:50.280 well, no organization is perfect, uh, but at least they're fighting fascists. So that's how CNN feels

00:29:56.920 about Antifa. They're fully in support. I want you to imagine something for a minute, and then

00:30:01.840 we're going to move on here in a moment, but imagine the response. If a swarm of Trump supporters

00:30:09.760 in MAGA hats assaulted a CNN reporter and put them in the hospital with a brain injury, um, imagine how

00:30:16.180 the media would be reacting today. Imagine the fiery statements from all the democratic candidates.

00:30:22.000 Um, imagine, just, just imagine, imagine it. Think about how they, how they reacted when some

00:30:28.860 Catholic school kids smiled at a native American guy. That was a week long news cycle. And all they

00:30:34.920 did was smile at a guy. They didn't even, they didn't lay hands on him. Um, think about how they

00:30:39.940 reacted with Jussie Smollett. Okay. The media has a headline news, the Democrat Kamala Harris and

00:30:45.260 Cory Booker, they jumped on it immediately when Jussie Smollett pretended that he was assaulted by two MAGA

00:30:50.780 guys. So that's how they go with that stuff. But with this crickets, and that's not even the worst

00:30:58.000 of it. Okay. I mean, I said I was going to move on, but I can't, it's like, it just keeps getting

00:31:02.480 worse. All you have to do is go on social media, go on Twitter. You'll find legions of leftists,

00:31:08.740 many of them prominent with, with large followings, verified Twitter users and all that

00:31:14.180 actually defending Antifa, outright defending them, encouraging more violence. Here's a verified

00:31:20.740 Twitter user, Sarah Gailey, 30,000 followers. Uh, here she is, uh, in a tweet that I think has

00:31:27.900 since been deleted, calling for her political opponents to be bludgeoned with bricks. Look at

00:31:31.960 this tweet here. Um, and she's not suspended from Twitter for that, by the way. And there's a whole

00:31:38.000 more, a lot more of that on Twitter. The attitude of the left is clear. If you disagree with us,

00:31:45.040 you don't have the right to be safe or secure. If you disagree with us, uh, you, you, all bets are off.

00:31:54.680 Um, that's how the left is approaching this. All right. What else? Well, there was, uh, we'll get

00:32:03.740 to emails in a second, but first there was, well, I guess I have to mention this. There was a, there

00:32:08.940 was, it's hard to keep track because all the left does anymore is just demonstrate. So there was a,

00:32:12.820 there was another left-wing demonstration this weekend. Um, this one in New York and this one

00:32:20.000 wasn't violent. Okay. So I'll give them that. Uh, it was an anti-pride event. Okay. An anti-pride

00:32:25.680 event, but I said, it's a leftist anti-pride. So this was not an anti-gay pride event by advocates

00:32:32.040 of traditional marriage. No, these were gay activists protesting gay pride. And, um, the 0.53

00:32:38.760 reason why they protested it, because I could think of re I could think of plenty of good reasons for

00:32:44.640 even gay activists to be opposed to, you know, these gay pride events, but it's not for any of

00:32:50.720 those reasonable reasons. Um, here's, here's why here's a video from the daily beast explaining

00:32:56.000 what this anti-pride event was all about. I think the importance is a lot of people forget

00:33:01.740 that pride is supposed to be a celebration, but it didn't start on a happy note. It started

00:33:06.240 out with lots of protests and rally and hurt and blood and sweat and tears. So remembering

00:33:10.260 where it started and appreciating that is so important.

00:33:14.340 You don't need police to be safe. We need community to be safe. We need communities to feel safe. In fact,

00:33:29.340 for some of us, police mean the opposite of safety. It means violence. And that's what the first Stonewall 1.00

00:33:47.340 riot was about. Okay. Did you get that? They're protesting the fact that police and corporations

00:33:53.860 are supporting gay pride. That's what their, their protest. So they were approached. They were

00:34:00.120 oppressed when government and corporations were not supportive of their cause. They were oppressed by

00:34:06.120 that. And now the government and corporations are supportive. Um, they're still oppressed.

00:34:12.860 Uh, they're oppressed by everyone's they're oppressed either way. So they were oppressed when they

00:34:17.760 weren't accepted. They're oppressed now that they are accepted. And it's not even like they're oppressed,

00:34:22.780 even though they're being accepted. Now it's now they're being oppressed by the acceptance of,

00:34:29.980 of, uh, of people. It's, it's, it's, it's amazing. It's amazing how determined the left is to be

00:34:40.460 victims no matter what. And they, and they will, anything victimizes them, uh, not to keep comparing,

00:34:48.300 you know, bringing in comparisons with my children because my children are so much better.

00:34:52.780 Then left-wing activists, but, um, and my children will never be left-wing activists. So help me God.

00:34:58.240 But anyway, this, it reminds me of like my, my, my two and a half year old, um, where in the,

00:35:05.580 when we were driving in the car, um, for that 10 hour journey, yeah, he would start crying for a toy.

00:35:11.760 And then, so I would reach back and I give him a toy. And, but then, then he's crying. Cause it's the

00:35:16.220 wrong toy. And he throws the toy and he starts crying again. It's like, you're trying to appease him,

00:35:20.380 but he's two and a half, no matter what you do. If one with two and a half year olds, when they get

00:35:25.700 into a funk, when they get into a mood, um, no matter what you do is going to, it will be a cause

00:35:30.860 to make them cry. Doesn't matter what it is with the exception, maybe of giving them ice cream.

00:35:34.940 That's maybe the one thing that they, that no two and a half year old would cry about. Other than that,

00:35:39.000 they'll cry about anything. And, but that's okay for a two and a half year old. It's unfortunate when

00:35:45.260 you see left-wing activists who are adults, um, acting the same way, no, no matter what you do,

00:35:51.500 it is a reason for them to cry. And so now they're crying that they're being accepted.

00:35:56.480 Oh, poor us. We're being accepted and loved by everyone. Everyone loves us and wants to

00:36:01.680 express their support. Oh my gosh. Um, all right. Let's move on to emails quickly. Matt wall show at

00:36:09.820 gmail.com. Matt wall show at gmail.com. This is from Diane says, hi Matt. I listen to you every day.

00:36:14.720 You mentioned a cologne you were wearing from a sponsor wearing a man at the store said,

00:36:18.720 it smells like America. It's a true story, by the way, totally true. Um, I would never make up a 0.57

00:36:25.340 story for the sake of hawking a product. You know, I, that is beneath me. Um, I told my friend and he

00:36:35.340 wants to smell like America too. Uh, what was that cologne? Plus we want to support you. This was maybe

00:36:40.780 two weeks ago. That story made me laugh out loud. Thanks for your time. That was,

00:36:44.720 um, a cologne made by the fine folks over at Duke cannon. So go check out Duke cannon. They've got

00:36:51.060 a lot of great products. I have, I have, uh, many of the products myself. So Duke cannon is what it

00:36:55.780 is. All right. This is from David says, greetings, Lord Walsh ruler of all things, past president things

00:37:00.280 yet to come. Your semi-omniscient rule will be challenged by none in your sudden and inevitable

00:37:05.160 rise to power. My now see, this is how you address me. Okay. This is, this is polite.

00:37:11.460 My humble name is David revealer of heresies. I do not wish to call you semi-omniscient. However,

00:37:17.840 it has come to my attention. Oh yeah. He said semi-omniscient before I didn't even notice that.

00:37:24.200 Um, I guess kind of proving the point, isn't it? However, it has come to my attention that you

00:37:28.020 have not properly threatened Russia for their past opposition to your present and future bearded

00:37:32.800 dictatorship. This horrifying and grotesque monstrosity of a law in the 18th century required

00:37:37.580 a beard tax to be enforced on citizen. What is truly horrifying, however, is the punishment of

00:37:43.020 the offenders who did not pay the beard tax. The police shaved the offenders beard. I apologize

00:37:48.640 for bringing such hideous information into your glorious bearded presence. However, I believe that

00:37:52.820 any information regarding heresies as awful as this would give you all the more reason to destroy

00:37:57.160 Russia in a righteous fury in your rise to global domination. The only request I have for this piece 0.96

00:38:02.120 of information is that you keep me around as long as you see fit to reveal more heresies such as this. 0.91

00:38:06.580 And then when the time comes to an end, I would request a swift and painless death. Long live the 0.94

00:38:11.420 beard. Well, uh, I was not aware of that, but how dare you assume that I wasn't aware of something,

00:38:22.080 first of all. Second, how dare you traumatize me with this historical information? If we've learned

00:38:28.580 anything over the past few years, it's that, uh, history can be very traumatizing to people in the

00:38:33.800 present. And so the best thing we can do is ignore it, pretend it didn't happen. Um, and that's what

00:38:39.700 you should have done here. That was your fatal mistake, but you're literally fatal mistake, David.

00:38:44.540 Um, so I cannot make the promise that you asked me to make, uh, as far as destroying Russia for, 0.80

00:38:50.220 for their, um, for their historical sins of the beard tax. Uh, I'll, I'll have to look into it,

00:38:56.500 but yeah, absolutely. We'll destroy it. Right. But, but, but then again, you know, as part of my

00:38:59.740 dictatorship, we're going to, I will be destroying, you know, all of the countries in the world, um,

00:39:05.060 except for this one. And then ultimately everybody in this country, except for me. Uh, so, you know,

00:39:10.340 Russia is just, it's kind of going to happen anyway, but I guess they'll move to the front of 1.00

00:39:14.020 the line. All right. This is, uh, finally from Dustin says, Hey Matt, I think I know the underlying

00:39:18.140 reason for the selfishness in our current dating slash relationship culture as exemplified in the

00:39:22.280 Cosmo article you read on Friday. Nihilism, the philosophical underpinning of so many people's

00:39:27.980 lives, usually unconsciously held like an iceberg whose mass mostly lies hidden underneath is as

00:39:33.840 follows. One, there is no God, no afterlife, no ultimate meaning or purpose in life. As Louis CK

00:39:38.940 put it underneath everything in your life. Here's that thing, that empty, that forever empty,

00:39:43.120 the knowledge that it's all for nothing. And you're alone. Louis CK said that that's, um,

00:39:48.820 that's pretty grim, but, uh, but true from, uh, that's actually a beautiful way of putting the

00:39:54.240 nihilistic, um, point of view. Number two, if this life is all I have, I had better get all the

00:40:01.680 happiness I can now. Number three, sexual pleasure slash expression fulfillment is the highest form

00:40:07.500 of happiness. Number four, therefore I can do whatever makes me happy sexually. And you're a

00:40:11.620 monster. If you say otherwise, as you can see, this assumption also underpins the whole modern 0.99

00:40:16.420 religion of sexuality ism as well. What are your thoughts? Keep up the good work. Well, you know,

00:40:21.480 I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I'm not going to add my thoughts much to it because I think that

00:40:24.780 you, I agree totally. And I think that you, um, put it, put it very well. That is, that's what it

00:40:30.780 comes down to. That's what we're talking about. Uh, if I can even remember all the way back on

00:40:35.340 Friday. Yeah. We read an article from Cosmo, uh, which of course I have a subscription to Cosmo. So I

00:40:40.080 read, you know, I read their articles every month, but, uh, the article was someone, a woman bragging 1.00

00:40:45.860 about all the men that she's cheated on and saying she doesn't feel sorry about it. And, you know,

00:40:50.500 she'll do it again if she feels like she wants to. And that is an extreme manifestation of this

00:40:57.540 very common, what you're talking about here, the nihilism, um, nihilism, which I guess,

00:41:05.100 which is at the root of everything, which is to say that at the root is nothing. You know,

00:41:10.540 it's like roots of a tree that go all the way down to just a hole, a cavity where there's nothing

00:41:15.300 really there. Um, so the roots themselves are not really rooted in anything, but because

00:41:21.520 of that, as you point out, you have no fundamental purpose in life. And so you have to make up

00:41:26.820 your own purpose. And so your purpose is, uh, your own sexual fulfillment, just feeling

00:41:32.340 good. And then if that's the purpose of your purpose in life, then sure, you could cheat.

00:41:37.020 You could do whatever you want in a relationship because it's really all about you. It's about

00:41:39.460 making you feel good. And I think one thing that, that, so there's, that's obviously a selfish and

00:41:47.780 bad and sinful and wrong way of approaching life. It's also just so it just lacks creativity.

00:41:54.580 Yeah. That's the other thing about the nihilists and hedonists. They have no creativity. So you,

00:42:00.260 you, you think there's no fundamental purpose of life, which is horrible. Um, so you're going to

00:42:05.220 make up your own purpose and that's the best you can come up with is your, your whole purpose is 0.99

00:42:10.560 just to have sex and feel good. I mean, it's like, have some creativity for goodness sakes.

00:42:15.280 If you're going to be a nihilist and make up your own purpose in life, which I don't recommend,

00:42:20.000 at least be unique. Like think of something else. Um, that's, that's my thing. I mean, maybe,

00:42:29.660 you know, just be creative. Maybe, maybe, maybe your purpose in life is, uh, is, uh, I don't know.

00:42:34.100 I can't even think of an example right now because I don't have the creativity anyway,

00:42:36.540 either, but, but at the same time, I'm not an nihilist, so I don't have to make up my own purpose.

00:42:40.360 All right. We'll, we'll leave it there. Um, thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:42:44.800 Godspeed.

00:42:58.380 Hey everybody. It's Andrew Klavan back from vacation with the Andrew Klavan show. And I have to congratulate

00:43:03.780 the left. They have invented a terrific system to rationalize their own wickedness by defining

00:43:09.260 the opposition of evil. They license their own evil. They call us hateful while they seethe with

00:43:14.180 hate. They call us violent while they assault us and scream at us and spit on us. They call us racist

00:43:19.280 while they see everything in terms of race. They call us fascist while they try to undermine every

00:43:24.400 freedom our founding defends. The clearer we are about what we're fighting for, the easier it'll be

00:43:29.840 to beat them. We'll talk about that on the Andrew Klavan show. I'm Andrew Klavan.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 01, 2019

Ep. 287 - Ban Antifa And Arrest All Of Its Members

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