The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 288 - AOC Makes Wild Claims About Conditions At Detainment Facilities

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, AOC goes down to the border and makes some wild claims about what's going on down there.

00:00:06.020 We'll try to sort through it today.

00:00:07.440 Also, Nike recalls a patriotic shoe because it offended Colin Kaepernick, really.

00:00:12.900 And I'm going to explain why I really want people to stop using their kids to make political points.

00:00:18.660 This is a horrifying practice, and I think we should all stop.

00:00:22.440 So we'll talk about that today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.000 So AOC went down to the border to check out the detainment facilities down there.

00:00:37.120 And what do you know?

00:00:38.280 She makes some dramatic and horrifying discoveries.

00:00:42.120 I mean, it's almost like it's scripted or something.

00:00:46.100 She says that conditions are terrible, of course, that border agents are abusive.

00:00:52.280 But that's not all.

00:00:53.500 She claims that the detained women are forced to drink out of the toilet. 1.00

00:00:58.500 Okay, so here's the report from the Daily Wire.

00:01:02.520 It says,

00:01:03.160 Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that CBP officials told detained female migrants to drink from the toilet while Ocasio-Cortez was present.

00:01:13.260 Then, when pressed by a reporter, if she actually heard a CBP official say that, Ocasio-Cortez refused to answer.

00:01:18.560 Multiple 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.

00:01:30.740 A border agent who was there told the Examiner,

00:01:33.160 So this is what happened with the migrant and drinking water from the toilet. 0.99

00:01:36.260 She wanted water, didn't know how to use the faucet in the cell, and drank from the toilet. 0.57

00:01:40.300 She never told AOC that we made her drink from the toilet.

00:01:43.380 AOC, of course, changed it.

00:01:45.380 This was when she, the migrant, was apprehended and brought into the facility.

00:01:49.000 An 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.

00:02:04.280 So, these are a standard issue, apparently, in jails across the country.

00:02:10.940 They've got the sink attached to the toilet, but that doesn't mean you're literally drinking out of the toilet.

00:02:15.540 A 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.

00:02:30.180 It's not funny.

00:02:31.240 I mean, well, it is funny, actually, because I can just imagine that.

00:02:34.580 You know, AOC is down there just being utterly hysterical.

00:02:41.280 Just, okay.

00:02:42.380 A second CBP official described one of Ocasio-Cortez's outbursts, telling the examiner that the 29-year-old said something under her breath.

00:02:51.500 Oh, all these guys in here are going to F me.

00:02:56.660 That's apparently what she said, according to this CBP officials.

00:03:01.440 The agents are standing there behind the computers, the official continued.

00:03:05.220 One of the agents laughed at something he was saying to another agent, and she got irate and flipped out.

00:03:10.220 Now they're under investigation.

00:03:12.320 She took it as they were laughing at her and screams at them and says, what's so funny? 0.52

00:03:17.860 Okay, so that's what, it sounds like quite a scene down there.

00:03:21.420 Quite a scene down there, mainly on the part of Ocasio-Cortez, who is making a scene.

00:03:26.460 And 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.

00:03:37.140 So 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.

00:03:47.320 Look, I'm perfectly willing to believe that the conditions in these facilities could stand to be improved.

00:03:57.460 And I certainly believe that we should treat all people in our custody with, no matter why they're in our custody.

00:04:04.960 If they're in our custody, they should be treated with humanity and dignity.

00:04:08.200 I don't think anyone really disagrees with that.

00:04:10.080 I think almost everybody is on board with that.

00:04:12.920 But AOC is a terrible spokesperson for this issue.

00:04:16.360 She's terrible because, as I said, she's hysterical and dramatic. 1.00

00:04:19.560 And I'm sure I'll be called sexist for claiming that a woman is being hysterical. 0.98

00:04:28.560 But look, not all women are hysterical, but AOC is a hysterical woman. 0.91

00:04:33.980 That's just, that's just, I mean, look, if you don't want to be called hysterical, don't be hysterical. 0.97

00:04:39.020 Also, she's hyper-partisan.

00:04:41.940 So, that makes her a bad spokesperson for this issue. 1.00

00:04:47.300 And she's already made her judgments before going there.

00:04:51.740 She called them concentration camps before she showed up and toured the facility.

00:04:58.300 She'd already said that.

00:05:00.300 So, that meant that she had to discover something that was going to justify that comparison.

00:05:06.720 Now, even if they were drinking out of the toilet, that still wouldn't justify comparisons to the Holocaust and concentration camps.

00:05:14.200 But the fact is, she decided before she went that they were concentration camps.

00:05:20.080 And there was zero chance that she was going to go and come back and say, you know what?

00:05:25.600 It could be improved, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.

00:05:28.420 So, hey, let's dial it down a few notches.

00:05:31.720 There was zero chance that she was going to come back and say that.

00:05:34.400 She had to find something, and look at that, she did. 1.00

00:05:37.900 And the final thing that makes her a bad spokesperson is that she's a liar. 1.00

00:05:42.080 So, I flat out simply do not believe the stuff about the toilet. 0.84

00:05:47.280 At least the idea that the women were forced to drink out of the toilet or, hey, you want water? 0.91

00:05:51.380 You got to get it from the toilet.

00:05:53.660 The idea that we're having them drink out of toilets, I just don't believe it.

00:05:56.780 It's simple as that.

00:05:57.480 It has kind of a hands-up, don't-shoot sort of vibe to it, where it fits with the established narrative too perfectly.

00:06:06.300 It's too convenient for her, for AOC, for the people that are criticizing our immigration policies.

00:06:15.040 To witness something like that is just too convenient.

00:06:17.160 So, I just don't believe it.

00:06:21.600 But, as I said, can we improve the conditions?

00:06:25.320 I mean, sure, probably.

00:06:27.340 But even if the conditions are not up to snuff, that's not necessarily because there's some sort of conspiracy among Border Patrol agents.

00:06:36.700 In fact, I'm pretty sure there isn't a conspiracy to treat these people inhumanely, to treat them like animals.

00:06:40.900 That's probably not—whatever improvements can be made with the conditions, the need for those improvements has nothing to do with that.

00:06:51.920 It's that this is a bureaucracy, that these Border Patrol agents, they work for the government.

00:06:57.940 They are at the mercy of the bureaucracy.

00:07:01.120 And 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.

00:07:11.940 They aren't being given those supplies.

00:07:14.700 And 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.

00:07:24.240 But two things to keep in mind here.

00:07:25.840 Number one, improving the conditions of the facilities is a practical issue.

00:07:33.540 It's a practical problem to solve.

00:07:36.220 And it requires a sober and reasonable approach.

00:07:39.720 AOC is not a sober or reasonable person. 0.52

00:07:42.420 She's down there screaming and crying, okay?

00:07:44.840 That's not what we need.

00:07:47.320 There 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.

00:07:57.700 That'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.

00:08:08.560 And 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.

00:08:21.920 That's one of the reasons why the concentration camp compares. 0.92

00:08:25.040 Well, there are many reasons why that comparison is absurd.

00:08:27.560 One 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.

00:08:37.200 You couldn't just leave the country.

00:08:39.480 In fact, you could be in your own country, and the Nazis came in and invaded your country and sent you to a concentration camp, right?

00:08:47.500 With this, though, you could easily avoid ending up in these facilities, just don't sneak across the border, right?

00:08:56.420 If you don't do that, then you're not going to be in the facility.

00:08:59.640 Now, that doesn't just, it doesn't mean that we can treat them inhumanely.

00:09:02.660 It doesn't mean that the conditions don't matter.

00:09:04.680 That's not the point I'm making.

00:09:06.400 But 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.

00:09:14.220 It's an easy way to avoid it.

00:09:15.700 Don't sneak across the border, and you don't end up there.

00:09:18.160 So, the problem is, when you've got a whole flood of people sneaking in, that's going to put a strain on the system.

00:09:28.720 And now we're scrambling to get all the supplies and everything we need to take care of this onslaught of people.

00:09:35.740 And that creates a precarious situation.

00:09:40.340 If you don't want to be in that precarious situation, then don't do that.

00:09:46.220 Because 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.

00:09:59.660 They're coming here, even despite knowing.

00:10:06.080 I mean, they're aware.

00:10:07.660 They know about these facilities and the allegedly bad conditions.

00:10:12.140 And they're still coming.

00:10:13.280 So, there's an easy way to avoid it.

00:10:17.900 Okay.

00:10:19.240 Checking in briefly here, because I don't want to just leave this issue.

00:10:24.000 As 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.

00:10:36.040 And none of the presidential candidates, as of yesterday, had said a word about the incident.

00:10:40.980 None had condemned Antifa.

00:10:42.520 They all ignored it.

00:10:43.340 What about today?

00:10:44.040 I think I want to check in again.

00:10:45.340 And 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.

00:10:58.780 So, it's been three whole days.

00:10:59.720 Have any of them said anything?

00:11:00.800 Well, finally, Andrew Yang did say something.

00:11:03.440 Yesterday, he tweeted.

00:11:04.360 He said, I hope Andy Ngo is okay.

00:11:06.520 Journalists should be safe to report on a protest without being targeted.

00:11:11.120 Okay.

00:11:11.380 That's fine.

00:11:12.220 I mean, that's not much of a, that's not a very passionate condemnation, but it's better than nothing.

00:11:19.920 As for the rest, no.

00:11:23.140 Kamala Harris, nothing.

00:11:24.560 Joe Biden, nothing.

00:11:25.700 Bernie Sanders, nothing.

00:11:27.220 Gillibrand, nothing.

00:11:29.380 Mayor Pete, nothing.

00:11:30.640 O'Rourke, nothing.

00:11:31.360 I mean, going down the line, the other 19 or whatever candidates have said nothing on this.

00:11:36.700 And 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.

00:11:53.300 Just probably kind of half-hearted, but I expected them to at least say something, yet they're not.

00:11:59.100 And why is that?

00:12:01.700 It's important for us to realize, well, I think there are two reasons why the Democrats are ignoring this.

00:12:07.480 Number one, they realize that their base is extremely radical and that Antifa, their base is basically comprised of Antifa members or Antifa sympathizers.

00:12:20.060 There 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.

00:12:26.100 They might do it in a general.

00:12:27.360 Now, 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.

00:12:37.520 But not in a primary.

00:12:38.700 They can't, because they realize that their base, this is what they're into.

00:12:42.080 And I also think that these people personally, these Democrat candidates, many of them are just bad people, to put it bluntly. 0.76

00:12:53.420 And 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. 0.57

00:13:05.720 They would love it if they could do that, but they can't.

00:13:09.100 So instead, they just kind of stand on the sideline and smile quietly while other people do it.

00:13:13.960 I think that's part of the reason.

00:13:15.960 Now, maybe that's unfair.

00:13:17.400 Maybe that's not true.

00:13:18.020 But 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.

00:13:30.020 If 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.

00:13:35.700 It's horrible.

00:13:36.240 It's terrible. 0.87

00:13:36.940 Antifa should be shut down.

00:13:38.500 If you're not going to say that, then all I can do is speculate.

00:13:41.440 And these are my speculations, which unfortunately, I'm in a position where I have to speculate like that.

00:13:47.400 Okay, moving on.

00:13:48.080 There's a lot of topics I want to hit, so we're moving kind of rapid fire here.

00:13:51.000 This is an issue that is just tailor-made for, speaking of red meat, this is tailor-made for conservative talk radio.

00:13:58.840 Reading 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.

00:14:17.340 Kaepernick reportedly told the company that he found the very idea of the shoe offensive.

00:14:23.340 Later 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.

00:14:34.820 Next, 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.

00:14:47.080 Let's see here.

00:14:48.700 Turns out Nike was responding to a request from Kaepernick himself, who saw the shoe online and complained directly to Nike's top brass.

00:14:56.180 The Wall Street Journal says, after images of the shoe were posted online, Mr. Kaepernick, a Nike endorser, reached out to the company officials,

00:15:02.040 saying that he and others felt the Betsy Ross flag is an offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery.

00:15:10.980 Some users on social media responded to posts about the shoe with similar concerns.

00:15:18.420 You know, I never got too bent out of shape about the kneeling thing.

00:15:23.200 I was never really into that whole controversy, and I was very happy when it basically ended.

00:15:32.040 Not 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.

00:15:39.700 So, I never cared much about that.

00:15:42.300 And as far as I'm concerned, as I pointed out many times, kneeling is a sign of respect.

00:15:50.160 Kneeling is a sign of submission and respect.

00:15:53.940 So, in fact, if anything, if you kneel in front of the flag, you're being, not only are you being reverent, you're being too reverent.

00:16:03.340 It's almost idol worship to kneel to the flag, right?

00:16:07.340 So, now I know that they didn't mean it that way.

00:16:10.320 That wasn't the message they were trying to send.

00:16:13.520 But as far as I'm concerned, that is what it means to kneel in front of something.

00:16:17.140 And so if they want to do that, let them do it.

00:16:18.880 That was my thought on it.

00:16:19.720 This, though, is just, this is something else.

00:16:26.960 That Nike would bend to the demands of, I mean, first you have Kaepernick being offended by, actually being offended by a flag.

00:16:36.600 Because here's the thing.

00:16:38.020 We were told, I know it's ancient history now, but thinking back to when that whole controversy was happening.

00:16:44.640 What we were told was that this protest was not really about the flag.

00:16:51.680 They weren't protesting the flag.

00:16:53.460 They weren't disrespecting the flag itself, right?

00:16:55.580 They were, it was about police brutality, at least originally.

00:16:59.140 And then it morphed into who knows what.

00:17:00.700 It became this ambiguous kind of thing, really just a trend.

00:17:04.580 But originally, Kaepernick said this is about police brutality.

00:17:08.660 It's not about disrespecting the flag.

00:17:10.460 It's just, it's about sending a message about this particular issue.

00:17:14.400 Well, apparently it was about the flag the whole time.

00:17:18.340 Because here he is offended by a flag.

00:17:21.720 This isn't about police brutality.

00:17:23.600 This is just, he doesn't like the flag.

00:17:25.700 He thinks the flag itself represents slavery.

00:17:29.780 Which 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.

00:17:50.200 Because they all had slavery.

00:17:51.820 All of them.

00:17:52.840 If they've been around that long.

00:17:54.100 So, 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.

00:18:06.500 But, of course, we only single out America for this.

00:18:09.380 When talking about slavery, we single out America.

00:18:11.920 Somehow slavery is a unique American sin, even though it was an institution that lasted for thousands of years across the entire world.

00:18:17.520 And that every race and ethnicity, they all practice it, right?

00:18:23.840 Be that as it may, I think this finally reveals what most of us realized all along, that this really is an anti-American thing.

00:18:30.800 This is an anti-flag thing.

00:18:32.240 And finally, Kaepernick is coming out and admitting it.

00:18:35.880 Okay, before we get to emails, I wanted to mention one other thing.

00:18:39.500 There's, this is an issue that may not be important to you, but it's something that ticks me off.

00:18:47.860 So, I'm going to rant about it for six hours.

00:18:51.680 There's this girl, a young girl, eight years old, who you've probably seen her online.

00:18:55.740 She's achieved some measure of viral fame because of these parody videos she does where she makes fun of AOC.

00:19:02.700 Her name, the girl's name on the internet now is Mini AOC. 0.93

00:19:06.560 And these videos are very popular.

00:19:08.480 Conservatives love them.

00:19:10.480 Yesterday, her Twitter account posted these pictures.

00:19:13.300 Look at these.

00:19:14.280 Mocking the staged photo op that AOC did down on the border last year.

00:19:19.500 And here's the tweet that the account sent out with the little girl pretending to be AOC.

00:19:25.700 Now, I mock those photos also.

00:19:28.920 They are hilariously mockable.

00:19:31.520 And AOC herself provides constant fodder for parody and mockery.

00:19:36.740 So, I get it.

00:19:38.320 I get the humor.

00:19:39.020 But I also have to tell you, I really hate this.

00:19:44.400 I hate this kind of thing so much.

00:19:46.500 I really, really hate it.

00:19:48.640 I hate when people use their kids for this kind of thing. 0.61

00:19:52.360 What's happening here is that this young girl is being used by her mother for money and attention.

00:20:01.480 That's what's happening.

00:20:02.120 And I can't stress enough how much I hate it.

00:20:05.800 Even though most, and I made this point yesterday online, and many conservatives, lighten up.

00:20:11.480 It's great.

00:20:12.160 It's great fun.

00:20:13.040 Even though none of them would be saying, if this was a girl, same situation, but she's mocking Trump.

00:20:19.460 Then all those, none of them would be saying, oh, lighten up.

00:20:22.840 It's like, they'd all be agreeing with me.

00:20:24.180 So, everybody has these double standards now.

00:20:27.280 We all know that we have them.

00:20:28.200 But I hate it no matter what the, no matter the politics, no matter whose side it is.

00:20:37.120 It doesn't matter.

00:20:38.080 I hate bringing kids into this kind of thing.

00:20:40.160 By the way, if you go to mini AOC's Twitter account, there's information right in the bio there to contact her for bookings.

00:20:47.840 Bookings, bookings for what?

00:20:51.660 You know, I mean, her mom is contracting her out to go and, I don't do what exactly?

00:20:57.220 I'm not sure.

00:20:59.420 What, to do, this eight-year-old girl is going to do some hilarious political stand-up comedy? 1.00

00:21:04.200 I'm sure that's going to be great stuff from an eight-year-old.

00:21:08.180 But that's what I'm talking about.

00:21:11.080 She's, oh, it's all great fun.

00:21:12.740 No, she's being used for money and attention and fame. 1.00

00:21:16.420 That's what's happening here.

00:21:18.640 Let me tell you something about little kids.

00:21:21.420 I have three of them.

00:21:22.940 Our oldest are only a couple of years younger than this girl.

00:21:27.060 So I can speak with some experience here.

00:21:28.960 I guarantee you that no eight-year-old would ever think of something like this themselves.

00:21:35.020 Never.

00:21:36.220 Period.

00:21:36.940 No eight-year-old is watching the news and saying, hey, mom, let's do a hilarious spoof of that congresswoman from New York. 0.99

00:21:43.080 I got some ideas.

00:21:44.260 I've been workshopping to do a satire video.

00:21:46.640 So that's just not happening, period.

00:21:48.380 It's not happening.

00:21:50.680 So the people saying, oh, it's all in good fun.

00:21:53.480 First of all, how do you know that?

00:21:56.200 Well, I saw the video.

00:21:57.260 It looks like she's having a great time.

00:21:58.780 What, because she's smiling in a video?

00:22:00.560 I mean, do you not understand how the internet works by now?

00:22:02.420 Everybody looks happy on the internet and 90% of them are depressed.

00:22:07.520 So you can't possibly know that.

00:22:09.340 But also this was not her idea.

00:22:11.320 It was her mom's idea.

00:22:12.660 Her mom decided to get her started at eight years, eight years old in a career of as a political satirist.

00:22:18.780 That's simply not a hobby that an eight-year-old anywhere on earth would decide on themselves.

00:22:24.620 So her mom is coaching her through all this, giving her the lines.

00:22:29.960 I mean, how many takes do you, when she does one of those videos, how many takes do you think it took?

00:22:34.880 How 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.

00:22:40.440 And she's eight years old.

00:22:41.360 She doesn't even understand the, she doesn't understand satire.

00:22:43.940 I mean, most, most adults don't even get it.

00:22:47.540 You think an eight-year-old does?

00:22:48.580 Oh, she's real smart, this girl.

00:22:49.900 No, look, I'm, I'm sure she's, she's a smart girl.

00:22:52.620 But, um, no eight-year-old is smart enough to really understand how parody and satire works.

00:22:58.340 Okay?

00:22:58.980 They just, they don't have the mental capacity for it.

00:23:01.200 So she doesn't really understand what she's doing.

00:23:04.200 She didn't choose to do it.

00:23:06.020 Her mom is forcing her to do it. 1.00

00:23:08.100 Um, and so, uh, that's why I hate it.

00:23:12.080 Let kids be kids.

00:23:13.940 Let them do kids stuff. 0.98

00:23:15.800 Doing, doing viral videos is not kids stuff.

00:23:19.020 Doing political satire is not kids stuff.

00:23:21.560 Trying to get shares and likes and tweets and everything. 0.98

00:23:23.940 That's not what, that's, you know, we have to condition kids to care about that kind of crap. 0.91

00:23:29.600 Kids naturally at that age, you know, they want to go run around outside. 0.96

00:23:32.780 They want to go, I mean, whatever they want to do, but they're kids.

00:23:38.580 Here's the other thing.

00:23:39.320 Um, it's dangerous enough already to simply post pictures of your kids online.

00:23:45.380 Um, and that's why I don't do it anymore.

00:23:47.140 Because when you post pictures of your kids online, you're, you're putting them in front

00:23:52.200 of potentially millions of people and you don't know any of those people.

00:23:57.260 There's no real advantage to it for your kid.

00:24:00.360 Um, there's nothing positive can come of that for your kid.

00:24:04.060 The most you're hoping for is neutral.

00:24:07.100 Is that nothing positive or negative comes.

00:24:10.180 There's zero chance of anything positive coming.

00:24:12.500 There is some chance of something very negative coming from it.

00:24:15.580 But then consider it's one thing when you're putting pics of your kids out there, uh, which

00:24:22.340 I think, as I said, is, uh, is probably not wise, but if you're putting their face and

00:24:27.180 image out there all over the place in a political context, okay, well, then you've just made your

00:24:34.360 child a target, a target and a minimum of bullying and harass harassment online.

00:24:40.080 If you go and you read the comments under any of these pictures or videos that she does,

00:24:44.640 you're going to find many hundreds of vile trolls saying horrible things about this,

00:24:51.360 about this girl and her mother and her family and everything.

00:24:54.660 Um, you're, you're, you're exposing her to that.

00:24:59.380 I mean, you, you are throwing her into that pit and why you have put her face out there in 0.99

00:25:06.860 a partisan political context in this environment.

00:25:10.700 And you have therefore guaranteed that at a minimum, thousands of people are going to post

00:25:15.440 vile and insulting comments about her.

00:25:17.300 And who knows if something worse could happen. 0.94

00:25:19.520 People are crazy, especially these days.

00:25:23.360 Um, I mean, we saw Antifa smashing people with crowbars. 1.00

00:25:27.340 People are nuts.

00:25:30.600 It's just, can anyone argue that this is best for the girl? 0.96

00:25:36.860 That this is really going to help her?

00:25:39.060 That this is somehow going to enhance her life in any way?

00:25:45.340 I, I just, you know, I have, um, I've been tempted a few times when I'm doing this show

00:25:52.680 because I'm, it's no secret.

00:25:54.020 I, I am at my house, not at the moment, but usually I'm at my house doing the show.

00:25:58.240 And, uh, a lot of times my kids are home.

00:25:59.880 And, um, I mean, there've been times when they've almost come into the room in the middle

00:26:03.840 shooting and a few, a few times I've been tempted to call them over and have them, you

00:26:08.120 know, come on camera for a minute because it'd be kind of funny.

00:26:10.820 And, but then I, I don't because I, as I said, I don't really want their face and picture

00:26:16.660 out there.

00:26:17.820 Um, but I also, because I, I am a political person.

00:26:22.520 That's how I'm known as a political ideological person, which is fine for me.

00:26:26.020 I'm an adult.

00:26:26.620 And I chose, I chose this life, right?

00:26:28.980 I chose to do this.

00:26:30.340 Nobody forced me into it.

00:26:32.360 Um, but I know that people are crazy, as I said.

00:26:36.880 So if I start associating, you know, I bring my kids into it and they become associated

00:26:42.920 with me and their image is attached to me.

00:26:44.800 Well, then there's, it becomes a sort of political thing.

00:26:47.460 And I just, I would be afraid for their safety.

00:26:53.700 I don't want to do that.

00:26:54.860 I, I just don't want them to have anything to do with this as much time as I spend online

00:27:00.780 and I see how vile and disgusting and hateful people are, how unhinged they are. 0.93

00:27:04.880 It's just a cesspool. 1.00

00:27:06.000 It's a toxic dump on the internet.

00:27:08.680 And, um, the last thing I want to do is expose my kids to it, much less throw them into it.

00:27:15.640 Um, it's the last thing I would ever do.

00:27:18.240 I, because I just want them to be kids.

00:27:20.940 I want them to run around outside and I want them, if they're going to watch TV, 0.74

00:27:24.480 watch, you know, some dumb cartoon, you know, uh, not the news.

00:27:31.660 That's why I feel, I guess, given what I do for a living and what I see every day on the internet

00:27:36.180 and the kind of comments that I get and just what I, all of that, what I'm exposed to,

00:27:40.400 um, the idea of my kids getting even a piece of that kind of attention just makes my skin crawl.

00:27:49.480 And I would never want to expose them to it.

00:27:51.780 You do this with your kids.

00:27:53.040 You turn them into a little avatar for your political views and you try to turn them into

00:27:57.100 a viral sensation, especially a political viral sensation.

00:28:00.280 Then you have just thrown them into, you've exposed them to that.

00:28:03.620 And there's just no good reason to do it.

00:28:05.980 There is no good reason, period.

00:28:07.540 No good reason.

00:28:08.120 Um, so please people stop.

00:28:12.800 All right.

00:28:13.980 MattWallShow at gmail.com.

00:28:15.420 MattWallShow at gmail.com is the email address.

00:28:18.840 This is from Dustin says, Matt, watching one of your older shows, please, for the love of

00:28:23.260 God, never wear that pink and blue plaid short sleeve shirt ever again.

00:28:27.180 It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen.

00:28:29.720 Well, Dustin, you should know by now that the quickest way to get me to do something is 0.71

00:28:36.460 to tell me not to do it because I am essentially a toddler in that way.

00:28:40.580 Uh, you tell me not to do it and I'll do it.

00:28:42.620 So I, now that I think it's, it's well known that I have the emotional maturity of a toddler.

00:28:50.560 So I have to assume that this was, uh, reverse psychology on your part.

00:28:56.320 And you were, you actually, you love this shirt and you wanted to see me wear it again

00:29:00.720 because it brings so much joy to your life to see this beautiful, handsome, dashing,

00:29:06.460 um, shirt.

00:29:07.660 And so that's why I'm, I'm wearing it for you because I know, I know what you, you know,

00:29:13.680 I know what your real intentions were.

00:29:16.800 By the way, if you want to buy this shirt, um, well, I'm not sure where you could buy it.

00:29:21.360 I think my wife bought it for me.

00:29:22.740 Uh, my wife buys all my clothes because again, I am a toddler from Nick.

00:29:27.240 This is, uh, from Nick says, hi, Matt, big fan of the show.

00:29:29.860 I really like hearing your interpretations on religious topics.

00:29:32.120 And I'd like your opinion on this one.

00:29:35.140 You said on your show recently that you were okay with the change in the words of the Lord's prayer,

00:29:39.600 because, uh, since it's a translation, there's some wiggle room, so to speak.

00:29:43.820 I agree that from a literal standpoint in our current language, the Pope's change could make sense.

00:29:50.000 That being said, as a member of the Greek Orthodox church, my father and I speak Greek.

00:29:53.760 And I looked at the literal, uh, original text of the Lord's prayer of Matthew.

00:29:58.420 And the literal translation is significantly closer to, and lead us not into temptation,

00:30:03.600 than let us not fall into temptation.

00:30:06.280 I acknowledge that there are some reports that the first version of the gospel of Matthew was written in Aramaic.

00:30:11.720 But since no text was ever found, the earliest available translation is Greek.

00:30:15.560 And the line in question literally translates to, and introduce us not into temptation.

00:30:20.660 Um, I've double-checked this with my grandfather as well, who was born in Greece and also knows some ancient and Byzantine Greece.

00:30:28.600 Knowing this, can you still defend the Pope's decision?

00:30:31.640 Also, how does him being infallible in matters of Scripture work when it comes to changing the words of Jesus himself?

00:30:37.680 Thanks for all you do. I'm a big fan.

00:30:39.640 Uh, to your last question, no, the Pope is not infallible when it comes to translation issues.

00:30:45.440 He could be wrong, and that's what this is, so he could be wrong about a translation.

00:30:48.980 Um, 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.

00:30:59.140 But I still think that the point, the idea, the point, the concept, uh, is that we're asking God to protect us from temptation.

00:31:08.820 We are not requesting that he refrain from himself tempting us, because that's not what God does.

00:31:15.540 God is not the tempter. Satan is the tempter.

00:31:18.320 Um, 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.

00:31:35.160 It reflects the point that we're making when we pray that prayer.

00:31:37.980 Uh, 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.

00:31:47.200 I think it's, that's what is, that's what it means.

00:31:49.860 That's what Jesus was conveying.

00:31:52.280 Now, 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.

00:32:09.160 Um, 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.

00:32:21.860 And 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.

00:32:38.180 And so, there's the, but, I, I think that's a good, a good argument.

00:32:44.760 It's a good point, um, and I, and I would take that point as well.

00:32:48.120 But, I still think that, you know, Satan is even referred to in scripture as the tempter.

00:32:57.720 Um, that's not how God is referred to.

00:33:02.260 And 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.

00:33:10.060 When you, um, just think about when you feel tempted, uh, to do this.

00:33:18.120 To commit a sin, whatever the sin might be.

00:33:22.080 Do you think, does it, do you think that God is the one tempting you?

00:33:25.900 Do you pray that God will stop tempting you?

00:33:29.340 Or do you pray that God will, uh, protect you from this sin, or, or, uh, or remove this temptation?

00:33:38.260 Which isn't to say that he's the one who placed it on your heart in the first place.

00:33:41.760 I mean, how, how do you think of it?

00:33:44.520 I 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.

00:33:52.140 We don't, in other words, we're not praying, putting, putting the Lord's Prayer aside for a second.

00:33:57.380 Uh, do you, when you feel tempted, do you pray, God, stop tempting me?

00:34:01.580 I don't think anyone does, because, again, that's not what God, that's not God's, uh, M.O., so to speak.

00:34:11.120 All right, from Chris, uh, this is from Christian, says,

00:34:13.100 Hi, Matt, love the show.

00:34:14.040 With the assault on no, and, uh, the various videos you showed,

00:34:19.380 why is the government not getting involved, whether it's city, state, or federal?

00:34:22.780 I heard that, particularly in Portland, that the police are not even engaging,

00:34:27.020 but this is clearly not a peaceful protest group.

00:34:29.600 Since the law protects peaceful assembly, not violence, why is there such little action against them?

00:34:34.800 That's for the same reason why there was little action against BLM,

00:34:37.780 the anti-police riots that were going on in cities across the country a few years ago.

00:34:42.160 Remember, the mayor of Baltimore infamously said,

00:34:46.240 while her city was being burned, uh, while, while stores were being looted,

00:34:49.900 cop cars were being set on fire, bricks were being thrown, people were being assaulted,

00:34:53.840 she got up and said, let's give them space to destroy, direct quote. 0.99

00:34:59.020 So it's the same reason, and the reason is, it's always the same boring reason,

00:35:03.660 which is, uh, it's ideological and political.

00:35:06.360 Um, the powers that be in these towns are liberal Democrats,

00:35:10.600 and so, and these Antifa members are liberal Democrats, that's the reason.

00:35:16.160 Um, okay, one more question.

00:35:19.900 This is from a really cool guy.

00:35:24.120 That's, I guess that's his Christian name, uh, interesting name.

00:35:26.980 Hello, dear and fair dictator Matt Walsh.

00:35:29.000 This is 19-year-old Chilean Chris again.

00:35:31.660 I narrated my intellectual journey a couple weeks ago.

00:35:34.840 Uh, I have a question about pride that I can't seem to solve myself.

00:35:38.880 You and plenty of conservatives oppose gay pride

00:35:41.580 because you say that people didn't choose to be gay, 1.00

00:35:44.020 and therefore it's stupid to be proud of being homosexual. 1.00

00:35:46.460 So far, I agree. 1.00

00:35:47.580 What seems to trouble me a lot, though, is that you do say that you should be proud of being American.

00:35:53.040 Yet most Americans don't choose to be Americans, but they're born into it. 0.74

00:35:56.540 How is that not hypocrisy?

00:35:58.060 And what's, in which reasons is it, um, in which reasons is it proud to be something?

00:36:04.120 Not sure.

00:36:04.420 I know there must be a reason in front of my face, but I really don't see it.

00:36:08.680 Since you wouldn't support that intellectual inconsistency, I am overwhelmed.

00:36:13.420 Uh, even Michael Knowles says that pride is the mother of all sin.

00:36:17.560 Yet he repeatedly says as well that he is loud, uh, proud about being the best country in the world,

00:36:22.900 and, uh, he's proud of being an American.

00:36:25.540 God bless you and your family.

00:36:26.900 Okay.

00:36:27.120 Uh, yeah, that's a good question.

00:36:29.680 Remember what I said when we were talking about this pride thing?

00:36:32.660 And one of the problems in American English, especially modern American English,

00:36:40.080 is that there's sort of a, it's, the language has become impoverished.

00:36:45.520 And sometimes we, we only have one word when really we should have about five or six different words.

00:36:54.320 So we, we, we try to use one word to, uh, and apply it to all these different situations.

00:37:00.140 And then it becomes confusing.

00:37:02.960 A word like love, for instance, I mean, love, uh, the Greeks had four words for love.

00:37:08.340 We just have the one.

00:37:09.520 And, uh, so that makes it confusing sometimes.

00:37:12.060 I think the same thing could be, could be the set about pride.

00:37:14.400 The way I look at it is that our pride in being American is a different sort of pride.

00:37:21.740 It's pride kind of in the same way that I might say, I'm proud of my children.

00:37:26.340 Um, we are taking pride, not in ourselves or our own perceived good qualities,

00:37:32.420 but in the accomplishments of others.

00:37:35.700 And I, I think this kind of pride, it's really more like gratitude, uh, love, um, appreciation.

00:37:45.040 It is acknowledging and finding joy in what others are doing or have done.

00:37:51.840 Proud of being American, I think is like that.

00:37:54.700 It's, it's not like I'm proud of myself for being American.

00:37:58.620 Now that would be absurd because as you pointed out, I didn't do anything to become American.

00:38:02.060 I was just born here and, uh, and lucky for me.

00:38:06.540 So when I say I'm proud of being American, that's not what I mean.

00:38:10.220 I mean that I'm proud of all the people who established this country, fought for it, protected it.

00:38:15.620 I'm taking pride in the history, the heritage, the tradition, all of these things, which I am grateful to be a part of.

00:38:23.220 And this kind of, it's a humble pride.

00:38:25.360 It's a pride of acknowledging what others have done.

00:38:28.140 It's not about you.

00:38:28.860 It's about others.

00:38:29.520 It's a grateful pride.

00:38:32.140 But with sexuality, there is no history, no heritage that comes with your sexual orientation.

00:38:38.360 Um, being proud of it is, is not only absurd, but it's completely self-focused.

00:38:44.420 It's all about you.

00:38:45.260 It's your sexuality and you're proud of it.

00:38:47.860 And so that's the difference.

00:38:51.000 Um, and that's why we talk about pride is the mother of sin.

00:38:54.540 We say that, you know, the Bible warns against pride, but the Bible isn't saying, oh, you should

00:39:00.220 never tell your son or your daughter that you're proud of them.

00:39:02.520 Of course you should say that.

00:39:03.900 But those are different kinds of, um, different types of pride, which is why I would say maybe

00:39:11.080 rather than saying I'm proud of being an American, maybe a better word would be, I'm grateful

00:39:14.700 to be an American.

00:39:15.620 I appreciate being an American.

00:39:16.880 I love being an American.

00:39:18.560 I'm humbled to be an American.

00:39:19.740 I mean, all of those words work.

00:39:21.480 And maybe we should use those words instead, uh, to differentiate it from the pride that

00:39:26.500 you're talking about here.

00:39:27.880 All right.

00:39:28.880 Thanks for that though.

00:39:29.760 Thanks for all the questions.

00:39:30.700 Thanks for watching and listening.

00:39:31.680 Godspeed.

00:39:44.700 Because it's a day that ends in why socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is spreading 0.97

00:39:51.500 lies specifically about our Southern border.

00:39:53.980 We will separate fact from fiction, which should leave AOC uncharacteristically silent.

00:39:59.460 Then Andy knows speaks out after his brutal beating at the hands of Antifa.

00:40:04.060 Finally, Nike disses the flag for the 4th of July.

00:40:07.100 So the governor of Arizona disses Nike.

00:40:09.540 Check it out on the Michael Knowles show.

00:40:10.760 We'll see you then.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 02, 2019

Ep. 288 - AOC Makes Wild Claims About Conditions At Detainment Facilities

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