Today on the Matt Walsh Show, AOC goes down to the border and makes some wild claims about what's going on down there. Also, Nike recalls a patriotic shoe because it offended Colin Kaepernick and I explain why I really want people to stop using their kids to make political points. This is a horrifying practice and I think we should all stop it.
00:01:03.160Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that CBP officials told detained female migrants to drink from the toilet while Ocasio-Cortez was present.
00:01:13.260Then, when pressed by a reporter, if she actually heard a CBP official say that, Ocasio-Cortez refused to answer.
00:01:18.560Multiple CBP officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Washington Examiner and the Daily Mail how Ocasio-Cortez acted inside the facility and say that she distorted the entire situation.
00:01:30.740A border agent who was there told the Examiner,
00:01:33.160So this is what happened with the migrant and drinking water from the toilet.
00:01:36.260She wanted water, didn't know how to use the faucet in the cell, and drank from the toilet.
00:01:40.300She never told AOC that we made her drink from the toilet.
00:01:45.380This was when she, the migrant, was apprehended and brought into the facility.
00:01:49.000An editor for the Daily Mail, David Martosko, tweeted out a photo from inside a CBP detention that showed a toilet that was connected to a sink that states potable water.
00:02:04.280So, these are a standard issue, apparently, in jails across the country.
00:02:10.940They've got the sink attached to the toilet, but that doesn't mean you're literally drinking out of the toilet.
00:02:15.540A witness who was at the facility described Ocasio-Cortez's behavior towards CBP officials as being threatening, saying that she was crying and screaming and yelling.
00:02:42.380A second CBP official described one of Ocasio-Cortez's outbursts, telling the examiner that the 29-year-old said something under her breath.
00:02:51.500Oh, all these guys in here are going to F me.
00:02:56.660That's apparently what she said, according to this CBP officials.
00:03:01.440The agents are standing there behind the computers, the official continued.
00:03:05.220One of the agents laughed at something he was saying to another agent, and she got irate and flipped out.
00:03:12.320She took it as they were laughing at her and screams at them and says, what's so funny?
00:03:17.860Okay, so that's what, it sounds like quite a scene down there.
00:03:21.420Quite a scene down there, mainly on the part of Ocasio-Cortez, who is making a scene.
00:03:26.460And we know that she has a flair for the dramatic, because think back to those photos she went down when she was looking at a fence and pretended to cry for the cameras.
00:03:37.140So this is someone who's very dramatic and theatrical, hysterical, and she's bringing that with her into a situation where that's kind of the last thing you need.
00:03:47.320Look, I'm perfectly willing to believe that the conditions in these facilities could stand to be improved.
00:03:57.460And I certainly believe that we should treat all people in our custody with, no matter why they're in our custody.
00:04:04.960If they're in our custody, they should be treated with humanity and dignity.
00:04:08.200I don't think anyone really disagrees with that.
00:04:10.080I think almost everybody is on board with that.
00:04:12.920But AOC is a terrible spokesperson for this issue.
00:04:16.360She's terrible because, as I said, she's hysterical and dramatic.
00:04:19.560And I'm sure I'll be called sexist for claiming that a woman is being hysterical.
00:04:28.560But look, not all women are hysterical, but AOC is a hysterical woman.
00:04:33.980That's just, that's just, I mean, look, if you don't want to be called hysterical, don't be hysterical.
00:06:27.340But even if the conditions are not up to snuff, that's not necessarily because there's some sort of conspiracy among Border Patrol agents.
00:06:36.700In fact, I'm pretty sure there isn't a conspiracy to treat these people inhumanely, to treat them like animals.
00:06:40.900That's probably not—whatever improvements can be made with the conditions, the need for those improvements has nothing to do with that.
00:06:51.920It's that this is a bureaucracy, that these Border Patrol agents, they work for the government.
00:06:57.940They are at the mercy of the bureaucracy.
00:07:01.120And so, if they're not prepared with the right supplies and everything else, it's because they, the Border Patrol agents, aren't being supplied with those supplies.
00:07:11.940They aren't being given those supplies.
00:07:14.700And so, like with anything else, if you're looking for blame, you've got to look up the chain of the bureaucracy, because that's usually where it lies.
00:07:47.320There is very little sobriety or reasonableness with AOC or with respect to this issue at all, or with respect to any issue in this country.
00:07:57.700That's why nothing is ever accomplished, because everybody is just looking to showboat or throw red meat, and very few people have the just rational, calm approach to things that we need.
00:08:08.560And number, the second thing to keep in mind, and I think we just should continue emphasizing this, is that you can avoid ending up in these facilities.
00:08:21.920That's one of the reasons why the concentration camp compares.
00:08:25.040Well, there are many reasons why that comparison is absurd.
00:08:27.560One of the reasons why it's absurd is that in Nazi Germany, if the Nazis wanted to send you to a concentration camp, you didn't have any choice.
00:09:06.400But there is, speaking of practical things here, there's a practical point where if you want to, if you want to avoid that, you just not come.
00:09:15.700Don't sneak across the border, and you don't end up there.
00:09:18.160So, the problem is, when you've got a whole flood of people sneaking in, that's going to put a strain on the system.
00:09:28.720And now we're scrambling to get all the supplies and everything we need to take care of this onslaught of people.
00:09:35.740And that creates a precarious situation.
00:09:40.340If you don't want to be in that precarious situation, then don't do that.
00:09:46.220Because what we're not doing, see, we, unlike the Nazis, we are not invading Central America and taking these people and dragging them across the border and putting them in, locking them away.
00:09:59.660They're coming here, even despite knowing.
00:10:19.240Checking in briefly here, because I don't want to just leave this issue.
00:10:24.000As we discussed yesterday, the domestic terror group Antifa staged a violent riot over the weekend where they assaulted a journalist and they bashed people over the head with lead pipes and crowbars.
00:10:36.040And none of the presidential candidates, as of yesterday, had said a word about the incident.
00:10:45.340And maybe I'll just keep checking in every day to see when these Democrats want to get around to saying, hey, by the way, I am against smashing people in the head with crowbars for political reasons or for any reason.
00:11:31.360I mean, going down the line, the other 19 or whatever candidates have said nothing on this.
00:11:36.700And that is, I say again, I mean, as cynical as I am, I am, I guess, more naive than I thought, because I figured that they would, most of them would at least say something.
00:11:53.300Just probably kind of half-hearted, but I expected them to at least say something, yet they're not.
00:12:01.700It's important for us to realize, well, I think there are two reasons why the Democrats are ignoring this.
00:12:07.480Number one, they realize that their base is extremely radical and that Antifa, their base is basically comprised of Antifa members or Antifa sympathizers.
00:12:20.060There are a lot of them on the left, and they know that, which is why they're not going to condemn Antifa in a primary.
00:12:27.360Now, if this was a general election, and they know they have to appeal to more reasonable and sane people in the middle, then maybe they would condemn.
00:12:38.700They can't, because they realize that their base, this is what they're into.
00:12:42.080And I also think that these people personally, these Democrat candidates, many of them are just bad people, to put it bluntly.
00:12:53.420And I think that they would love it if they could take a crowbar and smash the heads of conservatives or their political opponents, whoever they want.
00:13:05.720They would love it if they could do that, but they can't.
00:13:09.100So instead, they just kind of stand on the sideline and smile quietly while other people do it.
00:13:18.020But the thing is, when you refuse to condemn this kind of violence, this kind of behavior, the rest of us are left only to speculate as to the reasons why you're silent and how you really feel about it.
00:13:30.020If you want to put those thoughts to rest, you want to put the speculations to rest, you could just come out and say, look, I condemn this.
00:13:48.080There's a lot of topics I want to hit, so we're moving kind of rapid fire here.
00:13:51.000This is an issue that is just tailor-made for, speaking of red meat, this is tailor-made for conservative talk radio.
00:13:58.840Reading now from the Daily Wire report, it says, according to the Wall Street Journal, Nike was forced to pull an American flag-themed shoe called the Betsy Ross from production after NFL quarterback turned political activist Colin Kaepernick, who inked a multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with Nike last year, complained.
00:14:17.340Kaepernick reportedly told the company that he found the very idea of the shoe offensive.
00:14:23.340Later on, it says, the shoe shipped out to retailers this week, but Nike quickly recalled the shoe and demanded retailers return their stock, leaving customers confused.
00:14:34.820Next, the shoe isn't available for sale on the brand's website, and a statement from Nike said only that the company decided against releasing the sneaker because it featured an old version of the American flag.
00:14:48.700Turns out Nike was responding to a request from Kaepernick himself, who saw the shoe online and complained directly to Nike's top brass.
00:14:56.180The Wall Street Journal says, after images of the shoe were posted online, Mr. Kaepernick, a Nike endorser, reached out to the company officials,
00:15:02.040saying that he and others felt the Betsy Ross flag is an offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery.
00:15:10.980Some users on social media responded to posts about the shoe with similar concerns.
00:15:18.420You know, I never got too bent out of shape about the kneeling thing.
00:15:23.200I was never really into that whole controversy, and I was very happy when it basically ended.
00:15:32.040Not because I was all that offended by the kneeling, but just I was so sick of the topic, and it went on for way too long.
00:17:23.600This is just, he doesn't like the flag.
00:17:25.700He thinks the flag itself represents slavery.
00:17:29.780Which means, by the way, that the flag of almost every country in the world, any country that's been around for 200 or more years, by this logic, all of their flags represent slavery.
00:17:54.100So, by that logic, every, many flags, you know, most of the flags of the country flags on earth are offensive and represent slavery by that logic.
00:18:06.500But, of course, we only single out America for this.
00:18:09.380When talking about slavery, we single out America.
00:18:11.920Somehow slavery is a unique American sin, even though it was an institution that lasted for thousands of years across the entire world.
00:18:17.520And that every race and ethnicity, they all practice it, right?
00:18:23.840Be that as it may, I think this finally reveals what most of us realized all along, that this really is an anti-American thing.
00:22:12.660Her mom decided to get her started at eight years, eight years old in a career of as a political satirist.
00:22:18.780That's simply not a hobby that an eight-year-old anywhere on earth would decide on themselves.
00:22:24.620So her mom is coaching her through all this, giving her the lines.
00:22:29.960I mean, how many takes do you, when she does one of those videos, how many takes do you think it took?
00:22:34.880How many times do you think, no, no, do it this way, do it that way, with her mom directing it and posing her and doing all this kind of stuff.
00:30:39.640Uh, to your last question, no, the Pope is not infallible when it comes to translation issues.
00:30:45.440He could be wrong, and that's what this is, so he could be wrong about a translation.
00:30:48.980Um, and I take your point about the literal translation and how it's closer to lead us not than lead us, than let us not fall into.
00:30:59.140But I still think that the point, the idea, the point, the concept, uh, is that we're asking God to protect us from temptation.
00:31:08.820We are not requesting that he refrain from himself tempting us, because that's not what God does.
00:31:15.540God is not the tempter. Satan is the tempter.
00:31:18.320Um, so, I think the change in the Lord's Prayer just reflects the point, the concept, the idea, that we're all, that is contained in the original prayer.
00:31:35.160It reflects the point that we're making when we pray that prayer.
00:31:37.980Uh, so, that's why I think it's, I'm fine with the change, because I, I, this is my point, I don't think it is a change.
00:31:47.200I think it's, that's what is, that's what it means.
00:31:52.280Now, I understand that the Lord's Prayer was passed on to us, um, uh, just in, in terms of, in the scripture, just a couple of pages after, uh, the scene where Jesus is in the desert being tempted by Satan.
00:32:09.160Um, and the, um, depending on which gospel you're reading, it actually says that Jesus was led into the desert, or even led into the desert by the Holy Spirit, uh, to be tempted.
00:32:21.860And so, some people point out that, okay, well, Jesus, it says Jesus was just led to temptation, um, by the Holy Spirit, and then, a few pages later, he's giving us this prayer where we say, don't lead us into temptation.
00:32:38.180And so, there's the, but, I, I think that's a good, a good argument.
00:32:44.760It's a good point, um, and I, and I would take that point as well.
00:32:48.120But, I still think that, you know, Satan is even referred to in scripture as the tempter.
00:32:57.720Um, that's not how God is referred to.
00:33:02.260And so, at the end of the day, the point is, God is not, is, uh, is, we're asking for God to protect us from temptation.
00:33:10.060When you, um, just think about when you feel tempted, uh, to do this.
00:33:18.120To commit a sin, whatever the sin might be.
00:33:22.080Do you think, does it, do you think that God is the one tempting you?
00:33:25.900Do you pray that God will stop tempting you?
00:33:29.340Or do you pray that God will, uh, protect you from this sin, or, or, uh, or remove this temptation?
00:33:38.260Which isn't to say that he's the one who placed it on your heart in the first place.
00:33:44.520I think we all think of it as, no, we're asking God to remove this temptation, but we're not saying that God is the one who placed it on our heart to begin with.
00:33:52.140We don't, in other words, we're not praying, putting, putting the Lord's Prayer aside for a second.
00:33:57.380Uh, do you, when you feel tempted, do you pray, God, stop tempting me?
00:34:01.580I don't think anyone does, because, again, that's not what God, that's not God's, uh, M.O., so to speak.
00:34:11.120All right, from Chris, uh, this is from Christian, says,