Ep. 287 - Ban Antifa And Arrest All Of Its Members
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The domestic terror group Antifa staged a violent riot over the weekend. People were pepper sprayed, bludgeoned with crowbars, and a journalist was put in a hospital with a bleeding brain. Antifa should be classified as a domestic terrorist group.
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Today on the show, the domestic terror group Antifa staged a violent riot over the weekend.
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People were pepper sprayed, bludgeoned with crowbars, much more.
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A journalist was put in a hospital with a bleeding brain.
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Antifa, of course, is nothing but a violent hate group, and it shouldn't have any right to exist.
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It should be banned. It should be classified as a domestic terror group.
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Also, we're going to discuss the most concerning aspect of this,
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which is the reaction, or lack thereof, on the left.
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We'll discuss that today as well on The Matt Walsh Show.
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I'm broadcasting now from an undisclosed location.
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I traveled here over the weekend with my family, many hours in the car,
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many hours with three kids under six and under in the car.
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And, you know, I remember when I was young and idealistic and stupid.
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Well, I'm still stupid, but the other two, not so much.
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Back before I had kids, and I remember I used to, you know, you'd be driving on the road,
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and you'd be behind another car, a minivan or something, and you could see through their rear view,
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their rear window, that they have one of those little TVs there,
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and the kids are watching Little Mermaid or whatever Disney thing.
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And I used to see that, and I used to think to myself, man, when I'm a parent,
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you know, when I'm a parent, I'm not going to put the TV on in the car for the kids.
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I mean, like, they don't get enough TV already, and now you've got to put TV on in the car.
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No, when I'm a parent, and I'm driving with my kids, we'll talk and we'll sing songs of gladness,
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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
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with a bunch of little kids is actual, literal torture.
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Like, if you were to put a suspected terrorist in a minivan with three kids for 10 hours,
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It's just, it's inhumane treatment, because the thing with kids is they don't ever stop talking
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I guess when they're in the car, in closed space, they can't move their bodies much,
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so they just move their mouths even more to compensate.
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And after a while, you just can't take it anymore.
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So we put the TV on, and that's how we made it through it.
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On a more serious note, a couple things, important things to talk about today.
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I want to talk about the, speaking of terrorists, the domestic terrorist organization, Antifa,
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and the chaos and violence this weekend that happened on the part of Antifa.
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Okay, well, the fascist hate group, Antifa, which ironically stands for anti-fascist, which,
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you know, having a fascist hate group that's anti-fascist, it's a bit like if Ku Klux Klan
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That's what it's similar to, because, of course, it's anti-fascist, but that's the exact opposite
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They're also a domestic terror group, and they held what is being called a, quote, protest
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But this protest was nothing more than a violent riot, which is what all of their protests are
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In fact, left-wingers in general have a suspicious habit of having protests that really turn into
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an excuse to beat the hell out of people and set things on fire.
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Think back to when BLM was staging these, quote, unquote, protests all across the country, but
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really you had entire city blocks that were on fire, and people were throwing bricks and looting.
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That's the way left-wing protests go, especially with Antifa.
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So this was a violent riot that was organized and planned, planned and organized by a group that
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exists for no other reason than to plan and organize violent riots.
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This somehow fell below Antifa's already subterraneous standards.
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Now, the Portland Antifa, especially, has been particularly bad for a long time, especially
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bad mostly because the Portland police are non-existent, it seems, where left-wingers are
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Antifa and Portland, they've had the run of the town for a while.
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They're allowed to shut down city blocks, assault people at will, and the police just
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So as an example, before we get to what happened this weekend, as just a primer to kind of get
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you warmed up, here they are a few months ago, shutting down a block, directing traffic,
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and then someone disobeyed their traffic signals, so they chased that guy down with a baseball bat.
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As I said, let's look at what happened this weekend.
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Conservative journalist Andy Ngo, who apparently lives in Portland, showed up to cover the
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demonstration slash quote-unquote protest, and he wound up being viciously assaulted by
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I'll show you one of the videos, and by the way, just a disclaimer, all of the videos I'm
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going to show on the show today are all upsetting and violent, and there's blood and stuff.
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So, you know, if you have kids that you're watching this with and you don't want them
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But it's important, though, that those of us who are old enough to see it do see it so
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Okay, he was, the main thing you see there, and you've got to be careful here because you
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saw at the very beginning of that cut how he was punched, he was assaulted, he was punched
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in the face by someone who ran up, very courageously ran up, sucker punched him, then ran away.
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And then you see him being sprayed with all kinds of various substances.
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What you're seeing, the media, and we'll talk about this in a minute, but the media
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When they do show a clip, what they'll do is they'll show, if they're going to show any
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of this, which most of them don't, but if they're going to show it, they'll cut out
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the part at the very beginning where he got hit, and they'll show only the part where he's
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being sprayed with what looks like silly string.
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Now, they also were throwing milkshakes at him, because this is the left-wing thing now
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But these, which is already a salt, to throw something at somebody is a salt, period.
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These milkshakes, though, the police reported were, some of them were laced with cement mix.
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Okay, so these were not just regular old milkshakes.
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I just got beat up by the crowd, no police at all, in the middle of the street, and they
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stole my GoPro, and they punched me several times in my face, in my head, I'm bleeding.
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I had been assaulted twice earlier today and reported it to your Cogleaves.
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And I was in the middle of the street in the front documenting this.
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And then he proceeds to talk to the police, and he's trying to...
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He's asking them, good question, where were you?
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But he talks to them, and that's what the rest of that video is.
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Ngo was admitted to a hospital overnight, reportedly with a brain bleed.
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It's not an exaggeration to say that Antifa, the Antifa punks, were trying to kill people.
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Now, one of the dumbest defenses of Antifa that I've seen this weekend, and all of the
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Some people have said, well, you know, they're not...
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They're not like those neo-Nazis who killed somebody.
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It does appear that they are trying to kill people, or at the very least, they're assaulting
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people without any regard for whether or not they happen to kill the person.
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Here are the Antifa terrorists using what looks like a crowbar or a metal bar of some kind
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against an older man, and then someone else steps in, heroically, to protect them.
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And then they start hitting him as well with the metal bar.
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Okay, that's to smack somebody in the head with a metal bar, crowbar, baseball bat,
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whatever it is, that is attempted murder. You're trying to kill them. You could very easily kill
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them. Michelle Malkin was compiling pictures of the aftermath. So here's a picture she had of the
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hero who stepped in. He's at the hospital. Look at the gashes on his head. Look at these pictures
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here. Okay, that's someone who was put in a life-threatening situation when you end up with
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gashes like that on your head. And then here's the older man, another picture, the older man covered
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in blood. All right. Despite how it's being portrayed in some corners, this was not just a
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bunch of dorks throwing milkshakes. This was something more serious than that. Although
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they are a bunch of dorks. Let's be clear about that. They're dangerous terrorists. Yes. And we
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can't minimize the threat that they pose. But individually, they're also a bunch of effeminate
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weaklings and dorks who would never dare go one-on-one against any of the... I mean, you saw
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the guy with the gashes in the head. You think any of those people would go one-on-one against him?
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You think any of those weaklings, those Antifa weaklings, would dare take off their mask and walk
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up to that guy and punch him square in the face and then stay there just to get the response?
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You think they dare have a fair fight with anybody? No. It's really easy to put on a mask.
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If you have no moral standards and you're a coward, then it's really easy to put on a mask
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and run up among a group of people, smack someone in the head with a metal bar, and then run away.
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Anyone could do that. A six-year-old could do that. Anyone could do that.
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So these are weak, pathetic, despicable, effeminate cowards, all of them. And I want to emphasize
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that because maybe it's not the most important thing in the world, but when I hear people say,
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oh, domestic terrorists, and all of that is true. But we also don't want to make them sound...
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Unfortunately, in our society these days, when you start describing people that way,
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you run the risk of making them sound cool or something in the ears and in the minds of very
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stupid people who think about, oh, they're wearing masks and they're out there fighting. Oh, that must
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be cool. No, it's not because it's violent and they're hurting people and they could possibly kill
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someone. And also, again, these are just the biggest losers on earth, all of them.
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This is what Antifa does. This is their whole thing. Their only tactic, violence and intimidation.
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We've seen it not just in Portland, but in many states. Anytime Antifa organizes, anytime they get
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together, this is what happens. It's a domestic terrorist organization and that's how it should be
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treated. Everybody associated with Antifa should be arrested. Anyone who is a known member or
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associate participant with Antifa should be arrested. This group should be outlawed. It should be banned
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because we have the right to peaceably assemble in this country. But we do not have the right to
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assemble for violent riots. We don't have the right to assemble for the sole purpose of hurting and
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intimidating people. And that's what Antifa does. They are a terrorist organization.
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And that's what needs to happen legally. Although at this point, I would, you know,
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before we even get to, well, domestic terrorist organization, rounding up the leaders, throwing
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them in jail. And I think that's all going to be, I think that all that should happen, you know,
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police raids and everything. I mean, show up in force, find these people in their mom's basements,
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frog march them out and throw them in prison and see how they like it. They're in prison with the other
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inmates. But, and, and, and by the way, you, you know, you, Antifa, they pretend that they're
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fighting against neo-Nazis, which, which they aren't. Okay. There weren't any, as far as I'm
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aware. Well, certainly in those videos, the people being at Andy, no, is not a neo-Nazi. The people
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that they're assaulting are not neo-Nazi. So they pretend they're fighting against neo-Nazis. For the
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most part, they're not. They're just assaulting random people. And anyone who happens to disagree
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with them. But Hey, if you really want to, if you really want to go up again, if you, if you really
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want to fight neo-Nazis, well, they have neo-Nazis in prison. Um, and those are real neo-Nazis. And so,
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yeah, why don't you go, let's throw these guys in prison and let them, uh, let them tangle with
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the neo-Nazis in there and see how it goes. Uh, where they can't put on a mask and they don't have
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a group and you know, they're probably not going to have a weapon. Um, I guess they could try to get a
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shiv in the prison yard somewhere, but, um, yeah, let's see how these tough guys like it when
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we throw them in prison and they're with real neo-Nazis. But anyway, that's the legal part of
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this. Um, the other part of it is, is personal on a personal level. If, if you are being swarmed by a
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violent mob, if people are using mace and metal bars and crowbars, uh, and throwing bricks at you
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or, or, or, or whatever else you have every right legal and moral to defend yourself using
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whatever means you deem necessary. If you're being assaulted with a metal bar, that is assault
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with a deadly weapon. You could die. This is someone who is trying to kill you. And now you
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have the legal and moral right to respond, um, with the force that equals, uh, the force being used
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against you. Um, that's, you're not obliged to be a victim. You don't have to stand there and take
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it. One of these days, these gutless punks are going to try this garbage on a fan of the second
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amendment. Uh, and things are going to go badly for the gutless punk in that case. That's going to
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happen. And one of the, it's going to happen. It's going to happen soon. It just, they've been doing
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this for months now, years, eventually they're going to target the wrong person. Uh, and when
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that happens, you know, that's when the media is going to take note and they're going to try to make
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us feel sorry for whatever Antifa punk gets that response. And there's, Oh, you know, this, this is
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terrible. Um, no, when that happens, whose fault is it going to be? Not the guy who defends himself.
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I'll tell you that. Um, why don't you go down? Here's the thought Antifa. Why don't you go down
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to Texas and try this, try shutting down streets and assaulting random passers by in Texas and see
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what happens. Now I don't wish death or harm on anyone. Um, and I don't like to see this chaos and
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violence. I wish it wasn't happening, but I do want people to protect themselves. And I do think
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here's the thing at the Antifa punks, they should be afraid to do this kind of thing.
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Now, I don't think anyone should just live in fear in general. Uh, and nobody should be afraid
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in America to express their point of view, to exercise their legitimate first amendment rights,
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but you should be afraid to assault random people. You should be afraid to run around with a mask and a
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crowbar hitting people. Um, you should be afraid to do just like you should be afraid to break into
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somebody's house. It's a sign of a healthy country of a healthy civilization. When people are afraid to
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act that way, because they know that there are going to be consequences. There are going to be
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legal consequences. And there may be even more serious and immediate consequences than that,
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because the law is not, the law is not going to sit there and let you do it. And the person you're
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attacking isn't going to just sit there and let you do it. That's a sign of a healthy civilization.
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It's a sign of an unhealthy civilization when people feel they can do this with impunity
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and they're not afraid and they feel perfectly safe and secure. These Antifa punks walking around in
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masks, just, you know, just with their, with the crowbar slung over their shoulders, just strolling
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randomly proudly around. Um, that's the sign of an unhealthy situation in a society.
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So yeah, that, that's the thing is that, uh, Antifa, it, they seem to want a civil war,
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but they're going to be marching to war with milkshakes and metal bars. The other side has most of the guns.
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Um, they, they, they want to escalate this. They want violence. I don't, they do, but they haven't
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quite figured out, you know, that the, the other side, that that's where almost all the NRA members
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are. This fans of the second amendment, um, people who not only own guns, but know how to use them
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are very proficient in them. That's where most of the, you know, the other side is where most of
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those people are. And if Antifa continues escalating, I think eventually they're going to learn that
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lesson the hard way. Um, I hope it doesn't come to that, but if they continue, it can't go on like
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this indefinitely. But what's in some ways even more disturbing, more concerning, more frightening
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than Antifa's behavior is the reaction from the left or lack thereof. As of this morning,
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not as of this morning, anyway, uh, not a single, and this is enough because it's been two, two,
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three days as of this morning, not a single democratic presidential candidate had uttered a
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word of combat condemnation against Antifa or the assaults this weekend. Uh, I mean, these people
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were bludgeoning people using pepper spray, attacking journalists and the Democrat candidates can't even
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bring themselves to condemn it. That's incredible. And very, it's a real scary situation
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because why aren't they condemning it? Because they know that there are a lot of Antifa people and a lot
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of Antifa sympathizers in their base. Okay. They've done the research. They've done the polling, uh,
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internally. They know, they know that it would be politically, um, disastrous for them with their
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base to come out and say, Hey, Antifa shouldn't be beating people with metal bars. What does that
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tell you about the left? That democratic, these aren't just fringe Democrat presidential candidates
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feel like they can't because they're cowards and opportunists. They feel like they can't come out
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and condemn this because they're going to upset their base. Uh, it's, it's not like that on the other
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side. I got to tell you because you could do the, what about ism of a neo-Nazis and all that all you
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want. Yeah. Conservatives come out and condemn neo-Nazis. It's not a Republican politicians. They
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have no hesitation. There's no hesitation. We're not. Yeah. Sure. I'll condemn neo-Nazis all day.
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There's that guy that ran the girl over. He's in jail. Uh, you know, I came out, I said that they
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should put the guy in front of a firing squad. Uh, and I think they should. I've got, yeah,
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a murderous neo-Nazi. Yeah. Go out and execute them. Put them down like a dog. Absolutely. Uh,
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that's, I have no compunction about that at all. Um, so on the right, there really isn't much of a
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hesitation. Now I, I take issue with the whole idea that neo-Nazis are right wing in the first place,
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but even if I said, okay, they are, they're the extremist element of the right wing.
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Um, even if I agreed with that, well, whatever we have, no, that does not make me hesitate. Oh,
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well, should I, I don't know. Would it be day? Would it be, would it be, uh, uh, risky for me
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to condemn them? No, of course I condemn them. Um, that's not what you find on the left. They are
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very hesitant to, to condemn the violent extremists on their side of the fence. Likewise, the media has
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been very, very reserved in its coverage and condemnation. Um, even though again, a, a journalist
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was attacked, a journalist was put in the hospital with a bleeding brain, yet the media treated this
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as a non-event basically to give you an idea of, of just how trivialized, um, this event has been
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with the media. CNN's Brian Stelter, who's a guy on CNN who specializes in covering attacks on the
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media. That's what he talks about all the time. He, if Trump sends out a mean tweet about the media,
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this guy, Stelter, Stelzer, whatever, how you pronounce it, um, Brian, good old Brian,
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he'll spend a whole show talking about the mean tweet. Okay. Now he's getting credit for being one
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of the guys in the media, one of the only ones in the media to actually cover these attacks and
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condemn them. And I'm going to show you what he said, how he handled it. And remember, this is
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probably the most passionate condemnation offered by anyone in the left-wing media, uh, is this,
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watch this. One more important story that you need to know about before we take a break. Uh,
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this is a protest that turned violent against a member of the media in Portland, Oregon this
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weekend. Uh, conservative journalist, Andy Ngo was out there covering rival protests on Saturday,
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Antifa on one side, right-wing figures on the other side. But as the demonstrations clashed,
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uh, protesters, uh, it appears to be Antifa protesters, uh, then attacked Ngo. Uh, he's been out there in
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the past. He's been covering protests in Portland for quite some time. Uh, his critics say he's there
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to cause trouble, but that's unacceptable. Uh, the idea that he would be attacked, that he would be,
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uh, bloodied in that way, uh, unacceptable period. Uh, and it's important that everyone make that
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clear, uh, even left-wing critics who don't like him and things like that. Okay. Maybe you'll tell
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me that beggars can't be choosers, but that is weak. That is very weak. Uh, he mentions it right
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before a break. He says, Oh, by the way, before we go to break, he spends 20 seconds on it. He calls it
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unacceptable. Sending someone to the, yes, it is, it is unacceptable, but that's the,
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that's the harshest word you could come up with is unacceptable. You know, beating someone, uh, in,
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in the, in the skull with a, with a bat, uh, until their brain is bleeding. That's unacceptable.
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That is unacceptable. No, unacceptable behavior is, I mean, that's what I said to my, my daughter this
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morning. Cause she pulled her brother's hair. Uh, I said, that's unacceptable. That's unacceptable.
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The two kids pick it on each other. This is a lot more than unacceptable. You know, that, that, uh,
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Charles Manson, that's, it was pretty unacceptable. That was pretty tacky, unacceptable behavior. I got
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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
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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.
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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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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.
00:38:06.580
And then when the time comes to an end, I would request a swift and painless death. Long live the
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
00:42:58.380
Hey everybody. It's Andrew Klavan back from vacation with the Andrew Klavan show. And I have to congratulate
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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.