The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 289 - Why Stay In A Country You Hate？

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Colin Kaepernick is offended by the flag. He thinks that it stands

00:00:04.440 for racism and slavery and all that. Well, at what point, and it sounds cliche to say,

00:00:08.960 but at what point does he just leave the country in search of one that is not so racist and

00:00:14.620 terrible? Also, a congresswoman says that it should be illegal to make fun of politicians. 1.00

00:00:20.060 And some people online are pointing out that Kamala Harris is not African-American.

00:00:25.220 It is racist, apparently, to point this out. But why would that be racist? We'll try to

00:00:29.860 figure that out today on the Matt Wall Show. Okay, a bunch of topics to cover before we

00:00:36.640 wrap things up for the week and get ready for the 4th of July. Remember, as we head into the 4th of

00:00:42.200 July, that it's important to keep in mind the top three most overrated 4th of July activities are

00:00:50.860 fireworks, parades, and sparklers. Now, I have kids, so my 4th of July is going to be consumed by all

00:00:56.020 three of those awful things. But if you can escape it, then I would. There are more worthwhile ways

00:01:02.960 to spend your time on a holiday, like drinking and eating. Do more of that. The thing with,

00:01:08.020 of course, as I've said before, with parades, a parade is just a festive traffic jam. You're just

00:01:11.720 basically watching a traffic jam with some of the vehicles dressed up in interesting ways.

00:01:18.920 Fireworks are fun to watch for about three minutes. I've never seen a fireworks display that could hold

00:01:25.500 my attention for more than three minutes because, you know, you see the first firework, you're like,

00:01:29.320 oh, that was great. And the second firework, it's like, oh, did you see that one? Of course I saw it.

00:01:34.920 I mean, I'm sitting in the dark and there's explosions. Of course I saw it. Yeah, it was good.

00:01:39.800 And then another one, oh, yeah, okay, good, nice. I think after that third one, though, it's kind of

00:01:45.060 like, okay, I get it. I mean, I get the point. I understand what you're doing here. Explosions in

00:01:49.780 the sky. Great. Can we go home now? So that's, that's what it is with fireworks. I would just

00:01:55.500 have more creativity this, this weekend. Think of more, think of more creative things to do with

00:02:01.680 your time. Speaking of the 4th of July, I want to begin with this Colin Kaepernick thing. We talked

00:02:11.500 about it briefly yesterday, just to recap, Nike recalled a patriotic American flag shoe after

00:02:18.960 Colin Kaepernick, who they're paying hundreds of millions of dollars to as a sponsor, even though

00:02:24.240 he's not an athlete and doesn't do anything anymore these days, after he complained and he said he didn't

00:02:31.360 like it. Now this is, this is obviously so self-evidently absurd and disgraceful, such a cowardly 0.98

00:02:41.220 surrender to political correctness that there's not a lot that can be said about it. Colin Kaepernick 0.70

00:02:47.800 reportedly felt that the flag, which is a Betsy Ross flag from the American revolution, he thought that

00:02:53.240 it somehow represents slavery. As I pointed out yesterday, well, if that's the case, then every,

00:02:58.140 pretty much every flag in the world represents slavery. At least every flag of every country 200

00:03:05.720 years old or older represents slavery because they all had slaves. But the one notable thing

00:03:13.320 about this, which is not very surprising, but at least it does kind of reveal the truth,

00:03:19.440 is that we finally see that Colin Kaepernick's kneeling stunt has all along been actually about

00:03:26.600 the flag. It's been about, it's been about hating the flag and about hating America. We were told for

00:03:31.980 years that it wasn't about that. We were told that the kneelers were not protesting the flag

00:03:35.760 or the country or the national anthem. Um, there was this viral tweet. I don't know if you ever saw it

00:03:42.280 got like 300,000 likes on Twitter last year. And it kind of summed up this defense. It said Rosa Parks

00:03:48.780 was not protesting the bus. Gandhi was not protesting the food. The colonists were not protesting tea.

00:03:53.780 Players are not protesting the flag or the anthem. They are protesting injustice. Okay. That,

00:03:59.540 and that's the, it's a protest of injustice. That's the slogan we kept hearing. The media said it,

00:04:05.340 um, LeBron James is one of the highest profile defenders of the anthem protests. He said the same

00:04:12.900 thing. Kyle, Colin Kaepernick, who started it all said that he was trying to call attention to,

00:04:18.200 to injustice also to what he calls police violence. Um, but it wasn't about the flag. They said

00:04:24.200 in case anyone was actually fooled by that. Now we know it was indeed about the flag. It was always

00:04:29.200 about the flag. Um, because now he doesn't want the flag on the shoe. So that, that can't be about

00:04:35.440 injustice. That's just about that. He doesn't like the flag. Colin Kaepernick does not like this

00:04:40.580 country. That much is pretty clear by now. He's rich and famous and he's free. And those are all

00:04:46.360 things that he probably would not be if he lived in any number of other countries, but his privilege

00:04:52.700 has made him bitter and he's free to be bitter and he's free to hate this country. But I think

00:04:57.820 he should be honest about where he stands or kneels as the case may be. Now, um, I wanted to make one

00:05:06.580 other point about this. We all, we, that's all the stuff that we've talked about yesterday. Um,

00:05:10.720 one of the, and I've seen this again online the last couple of days over this shoe thing.

00:05:20.320 One of the sort of cliched responses to this kind of issue, especially with respect to Kaepernick

00:05:25.640 is to say, Hey buddy, if you don't like America, you can get out. Right. Um, South Park did a whole

00:05:32.240 episode about the back when South Park was funny. They did an episode about that. And it does at this

00:05:38.180 point sound sort of corny and cliched to say it. And oftentimes people are wrong when they say it.

00:05:44.340 Oftentimes somebody will simply criticize American culture or American government or the laws or

00:05:50.340 whatever. Um, and then someone will respond with a get out line, but see, it doesn't work there

00:05:57.180 because why should I leave this country? Just because I think the culture of government can be

00:06:01.960 improved. Maybe I want to stay here and improve it. So there's nothing, there's nothing unpatriotic

00:06:07.480 about criticizing the country, uh, in and of itself, nothing unpatriotic about that. In fact,

00:06:13.840 to insist that you can't criticize the country is itself unpatriotic because that's one of the

00:06:19.400 things that sets us apart is that you can get up there and say basically whatever you want,

00:06:24.140 at least as it stands right now, although that's probably changing as it stands right now,

00:06:28.640 you can get up in public and basically say whatever you want about, uh, the state of things and,

00:06:34.680 and offer your criticism. That's what set us apart. It's a perfectly patriotic thing to do.

00:06:38.440 I think it was, uh, it was either Chesterton or Lewis who's, who made the point that,

00:06:42.820 you know, um, it's, it's not unpatriotic to criticize the country, just like it wouldn't be

00:06:49.200 unloving for you to warn your mother that she's about to wander over the edge of a cliff. It would

00:06:55.020 actually be unloving if you didn't. So in the same way, if you love this country, you are going to

00:06:59.620 criticize the things about it that are actually bad. But I do think the get out response is

00:07:10.400 appropriate. Sometimes, even if it's cliched, uh, there there's truth to it. And I think that's the

00:07:16.560 case with the Kaepernick thing. And here's the difference because it seems that Kaepernick

00:07:21.280 and many other leftists, such as the ones who want to tear down murals of George Washington and,

00:07:26.760 and Jefferson, it seems that their beef is with America's, um, it's with their America. It's with

00:07:35.480 America's current situation. Yes. But also with America's past, they think America is a fundamentally

00:07:42.600 racist country and that it's past sins stain it and will always stain it. Um, and that it's a country

00:07:49.540 that has no right to exist because the land is stolen, et cetera. In other words, they hate America

00:07:55.000 for things that cannot be changed. Um, we can't change the past. If you hate America for things

00:08:02.820 that can't be changed, then yeah, you really should get out. I mean, that, that actually is the only

00:08:10.840 logical response. And, and why wouldn't you want to get out if that's how you feel about it?

00:08:16.920 It's like, uh, like I said, the, the people who can't get over the fact that this country was

00:08:23.360 supposedly built on stolen land, which of course, by that logic, every country, uh, has no right to

00:08:29.820 exist because they're all built on stolen land, quote unquote. Um, the, the borders of countries are

00:08:35.440 not generally established through friendly discussion. And it's especially, they weren't

00:08:40.180 established that way in the past. Um, that's how, that, that's how the map looks the way it is now

00:08:46.020 all across the world. It's through fighting and dying. And, and, and, and that's just,

00:08:50.640 that's the way the world has worked. Um, there's America is not unique in that way, just like America

00:08:55.800 is not unique with slavery. But if you really think that America has no right to exist, that the land is

00:09:04.940 stolen, then why are you still here? I think it's a good question that I've never heard a good answer

00:09:12.280 to. Um, I would even say that you're morally obligated to leave the country. If that's how you

00:09:19.200 feel, the people say, Oh, I'm going to be proud in this country. We stole the land. It's fundamentally

00:09:24.500 racist. It was built on slavery. So we can't change, even if those things are all true, we can't change

00:09:31.400 it. Um, there's, there's nothing we can do. It's not like we can all work together to make those

00:09:36.900 things change. We can't go back into the past. We can't get into a time machine. So if you can't

00:09:40.940 get over that, if you hate the country because of it, um, if we can't even celebrate our history

00:09:45.440 because of it, if we can't have traditions and the real culture because of it in your mind,

00:09:49.980 then I think the only logical thing for you to do is just to leave and go to another country.

00:09:55.140 Now, like I said, wherever you go, you're going to inevitably end up in an area where there used to be

00:10:00.560 slavery. Maybe there still is depending on where you go, um, where, you know, the land was quote

00:10:05.700 unquote stolen. I mean, that's going to be the case wherever you go. But, um, I mean, if you're,

00:10:13.320 if you're blaming America, if you're pointing America out as this unique evil, then you must

00:10:19.300 not think that you must not realize that that must not be the way you see it. You must think that

00:10:25.400 there are places in the world where it's, you know, where they're not stained by any of these

00:10:30.300 things where it's all perfect. And well, then go to one of those places. And I think that would

00:10:36.440 work out best for everybody. It's just, it's the most logical and the most moral response.

00:10:43.680 Um, I, you know, I personally, people get upset when you hear these, uh, celebrities or whoever

00:10:50.260 threatened to leave the country. I'm not upset by that. By all means, you should leave. I would

00:10:55.820 actually have a lot of respect for somebody like Colin Kaepernick. If he said, you know what? I'm

00:11:01.160 fed up with this country. I hate it so much. Um, I'm gone. I'm moving to wherever I would have a ton

00:11:07.220 of respect for that. I wouldn't agree. Uh, I would think that you suffer from an extraordinary amount

00:11:14.680 of historical ignorance, but I would at least respect the follow through. And I would respect it

00:11:20.140 too, because you would be making a sacrifice because there are a lot of privileges. There's a

00:11:25.840 lot of comfort in this country that you're not going to find in other countries. And to give that

00:11:29.960 up in order to follow your convictions, even if they are somewhat twisted and misguided, I'd respect

00:11:35.640 that. But that's not what these people do. Colin Kaepernick remains in this country, living off the fat

00:11:43.500 of the land, uh, living off of the, the, the, uh, privilege and, and, and comforts that have been

00:11:51.000 established in his mind, established through oppression and evil and everything. And he, he takes

00:11:55.980 advantage of it. So he's way worse than any of the rest of us to actually see it that way. And yet

00:12:04.520 to stay here anyway, because, oh, well, I'm rich. Uh, that is, I mean, you'd have to be some kind of

00:12:10.520 sociopath. All right. Um, Democrat representative Frederica Wilson is, uh, not a very smart person. 0.97

00:12:24.680 And when I say that you might accuse me of making fun of Frederica Wilson, which I am,

00:12:29.780 but according to Frederica Wilson, I should go to jail for making fun of her. She, here's what she 0.97

00:12:35.520 had to say at a press conference yesterday. Watch this. Those people who are online making fun

00:12:42.700 of members of Congress are a disgrace. And there's no need for anyone to think that is unacceptable.

00:12:51.960 We're going to shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down and they should

00:12:57.420 be prosecuted. You cannot intimidate members of Congress, threaten members of Congress. It

00:13:05.460 is against the law. And this is a shame in this United States of America. Okay. A few things here.

00:13:12.600 Number one, this, this woman has not to continue making fun of her, especially if it's illegal, 1.00

00:13:16.360 but this woman has the most annoying voice I have ever heard in my life. Hands down. She sounds like 1.00

00:13:22.320 a cartoon character and she wears the hat of account cartoon character either also. Um, and she says

00:13:29.240 that people who make fun of members of Congress should be prosecuted. So she is very explicitly

00:13:33.440 coming out against the first amendment. Just so we're clear about what's going on here. That's she,

00:13:38.020 she doesn't believe in the first amendment. She wants, she wants us to repeal it basically, 1.00

00:13:41.760 because you would have to repeal it in order to make it illegal, to make fun of members of Congress,

00:13:46.940 especially when the first amendment exists, uh, in large part for specifically that to, to criticize,

00:13:56.660 make fun of whatever people in power. That's why we need the first amendment. So she's saying, 0.57

00:14:01.900 no, let's get rid of it. And, uh, she says, but she says, if I, if I heard correctly, she says

00:14:06.700 when referring to people making fun of Congress members, uh, she said, there is, there is no need

00:14:12.800 to think that it is unacceptable. So what does that mean? There's no need to think that it's

00:14:19.480 unacceptable. She's saying that it, it isn't acceptable, but she says there's no need to think

00:14:25.280 that it's unacceptable, which means that it is acceptable. I, I, I'm just, this woman is

00:14:32.140 babbling incoherently. Maybe what she meant to say is there's no need to think period that is

00:14:40.360 unacceptable. Maybe that's what she meant. There's no need to think period end of sentence

00:14:45.960 that is unacceptable. It's unacceptable to think. In other words, I think maybe that's what she was

00:14:51.880 trying to say, which if it is unacceptable to think, then, um, at least Frederick Wilson

00:14:57.080 is safe from any criticism in that regard. All right. Um, I said, we're going to, we're going to

00:15:03.360 blow through them today. Uh, try to get through as many as we can. Tucker Carlson did a great segment

00:15:08.360 yesterday. Um, and I want to play that segment for you, but before we do backing up, just to give

00:15:15.620 context here, there's been a controversy these past few days over an alleged birtherism

00:15:21.860 movement that has supposedly popped up around Kamala Harris. Um, people are claiming that Kamala

00:15:28.000 Harris is not a real African-American because she's actually half Jamaican and half Indian,

00:15:32.880 which she is. So it's true. Uh, it's, it's true. She's not African-American. She's Jamaica is not 0.99

00:15:40.740 Africa. Um, India is not Africa. So she's, she's not African. And that's simply a true statement. 1.00

00:15:48.980 It's not a conspiracy theory. Now the whole birtherism refers originally to the idea that,

00:15:54.980 uh, Barack Obama is, is not a, either not a natural born citizen or not a citizen at all,

00:16:02.000 depending on who you talk to. That was a conspiracy theory. It was also untrue.

00:16:06.380 Uh, he, he was a natural born citizen. Um, but this is true. So it's not a conspiracy theory.

00:16:15.320 It's just, she's not, it's not an insult. It's not racist. It's just a true fact. That's all.

00:16:20.480 Now this whole thing started with a tweet, a tweet from a guy named Ali Alexander, who after the debate

00:16:27.140 last week tweeted, um, and said, Kamala Harris is not an American black. She is half Indian and half

00:16:32.720 Jamaican. I'm so sick of people robbing American blacks like myself of our history. It's disgusting. 0.95

00:16:38.120 Now using it for debate time at Dem debate. These are my people, not her people. Freaking 0.92

00:16:44.240 disgusting. Then later he tweeted, your family does not descend from American black slaves. Stop 1.00

00:16:49.680 appropriating our history. It's why you have to remain vague lest your voters find you and your

00:16:54.520 family history out. Okay. Now if you caught it there, this man himself is black. He is African

00:17:02.720 American. So this began with a black guy saying, she's not really one of us. Uh, she's with different

00:17:13.160 ethnicity, different race, which is fine. Okay. Now when I'm reading Alexander, Ali Alexander's tweet,

00:17:20.320 I don't read that he's criticizing her race or something, or that he's saying anything racist.

00:17:24.900 He's just saying from his perspective, it seems to him that she is either explicitly or implicitly

00:17:34.260 trying to, um, uh, as he says, appropriate an identity that doesn't belong to her.

00:17:44.140 So given the fact that he's African American to say that this is a racist thing with Kamala Harris

00:17:51.520 is absurd. It started with a black man. He's the one at the forefront here. Now the media doesn't 0.98

00:17:57.680 want you to know that Ali Alexander is black and they really don't want you to know. And to 0.99

00:18:05.140 understand just how much they really don't want you to know, watch this, uh, from Wolf Blitzer on CNN.

00:18:10.080 President Donald Trump Jr. He deleted a post, a tweet, uh, that he had, uh, over the weekend.

00:18:16.200 Uh, he deleted this message. Uh, somebody else wrote Kamala Harris is not an American black.

00:18:21.960 She's half Indian, half Jamaican. Uh, Donald Trump Jr. Added on top of that retweet. Is this true?

00:18:28.340 Wow. And then he went ahead and deleted it. Uh, Kamala Harris's, uh, a mother was from India.

00:18:33.800 Father was from Jamaica. I don't know if you noticed that it was a little bit subtle.

00:18:38.180 They showed the screenshot of Trump Jr.'s tweet. Um, and which is, uh, apparently controversial.

00:18:47.280 But did you notice something strange about the screenshot in the screenshot? You see Trump's

00:18:53.360 retweet of Ali Alexander, but what's missing from it? Ali Alexander's photo is not in the,

00:19:00.660 now if you go and you retweet someone on Twitter, you're going to, you're going to be, um, retweeting

00:19:06.200 their, the text of their tweet along with their profile picture, their avatar, right? Um, CNN took

00:19:13.180 the time apparently to go in and edit it, remove Ali Alexander's face from the tweet so that nobody

00:19:22.400 would know that it was a black guy who originally said this. So really when, when, when Don Jr.

00:19:29.300 retweeted that, um, retweeted that, he was simply agreeing with, or not even agreeing, just sort of

00:19:37.080 reacting to something that a black guy had said about Kamala Harris. They don't want you to know 1.00

00:19:43.300 that because then it's harder to paint Donald Trump Jr. as a, as a racist. So they removed his,

00:19:50.220 his photo. That's, I mean, that is remarkable really. I know we're used to these underhanded

00:19:56.900 deceptive tactics, especially by CNN, but that goes several steps beyond what we usually see,

00:20:03.420 but it gets worse than that for CNN. The people who are saying, is she black enough? That's bull. 0.83

00:20:07.800 That's BS. But to, to, to want a distinction to say, is she African-American or is she black or is 0.88

00:20:16.720 she whatever that what's, there is nothing wrong with that. All she had to do was say, I am black,

00:20:21.820 but I'm not African-American. That's it. When she goes down her lineage, many Africans landed on, 0.92

00:20:29.300 in Jamaica and all these other Caribbean islands. So she could indeed be African-American mixed with

00:20:34.020 others, but she is not America, but she is a black woman. She was born here. Okay, well,

00:20:39.440 let's go into tech. So there you go. I mean, see, they, Don, first of all, is it really Don

00:20:47.660 Lamont? I thought it was Don Lemon. I've been saying Don Lemon. Is it really Lamont? Don Lamont?

00:20:53.180 How did I, or is that just something Tucker Carlson? I don't know. I don't, I get, you know,

00:20:56.900 I really don't watch CNN. Um, I just see these people's names written. So I, I always assumed it

00:21:02.520 was Don Lemon. Anyway, I guess Lamont sounds a little bit classier, I suppose. Um, but there it is,

00:21:08.980 you know, you've got Lamont slash Lemon himself making this point. And this is a point that, you know,

00:21:17.660 I mean, it, it, it goes without saying, but I'm going to say it anyway. If, if Kamala Harris was a

00:21:24.560 Republican woman, same ethnicity, Republican woman, and a black guy on the left made this point about 0.95

00:21:32.240 Kamala Harris, you would be racist for disagreeing with what the black guy is saying. Okay. If, if you 0.73

00:21:39.580 switch the ideologies around, then the, then the racist thing would be to not jump on the, the

00:21:46.440 birther bandwagon, uh, to defend Kamala Harris would be racist because then you'd be accused

00:21:52.780 of, Oh, is what are you defending? So you're claiming that, uh, uh, being Jamaican and being

00:21:56.840 African-American are the same thing. Like it's a, it's all the same. You're a racist. You're a big,

00:22:00.920 that's usually the racist thing to point out the distinction and say, well, Jamaica is not Africa 0.95

00:22:06.680 and it's not the same thing. That's to point out the distinction is usually the respectful

00:22:11.900 thing. And to deny the distinction is racist, but it's been flipped around now because of the,

00:22:17.380 because of the ideological makeup of the situation. All right, let's check in with the humorless

00:22:23.420 feminist scolds. Um, an article over on the website eater written by Jaya Saxena, not sure if that's her

00:22:31.700 real name or not, deals with the scourge of, um, of restaurants making jokes on their menus.

00:22:41.420 The, the headline is, um, my girlfriend isn't hungry. Menu items are thinly veiled misogyny.

00:22:49.420 And you know that when we're talking about thinly veiled misogyny, you know, it's going to be good.

00:22:55.700 So let me read a little bit of this, uh, article to you. It says it's become a trope that when a

00:23:02.980 heterosexual couple is out on a date, the woman might say she's not that hungry, but proceed to 0.99

00:23:08.420 eat some of the man's food. It seems innocent enough, but complaints that these girlfriends 1.00

00:23:13.180 must be pulling one over on their boyfriends to snag commitment-free nachos has proliferated to a 0.94

00:23:18.480 point where restaurants across the country are offering dishes and menus for the quote, not hungry date.

00:23:23.920 Mama D's in Little Rock, Arkansas is the latest restaurant to go viral for the menu addition.

00:23:29.560 The $4.25, my girlfriend is not hungry special gives you the option of adding extra fries,

00:23:34.820 wings, or cheese sticks to your already existing meal. In another light, it would be a lovely way

00:23:39.520 to offer couples a way to split food on the cheap, but it's framed as a burden. A man on a date must 0.99

00:23:44.300 endure for sex later. The ability to joke about her appetite on social media. Okay. First of all,

00:23:51.200 nobody ever said anything about sex. That's this person is throwing that in there. Mama D's isn't 1.00

00:23:59.200 the only restaurant to offer such a deal. Restaurants in Oregon and New York will double

00:24:03.520 your fries. Tangled Hickory in Wisconsin will double your fries and add extra onion rings. I'm

00:24:08.720 getting hungry right now reading this. One night stands in Calgary will double your fries and add

00:24:14.480 three honey biscuits for the girl who just wants biscuits and fries for dinner. And the tipsy coyote 1.00

00:24:23.120 in Scottsdale, Arizona has named their entire salad menu. My girlfriend's not hungry because no straight 1.00

00:24:29.560 man would deign to eat lettuce, which is, which is kind of true. Actually, let's start with the

00:24:34.120 acknowledgement that it's not a crime to just want three onion rings. Sometimes actually it is kind of

00:24:38.480 a crime. Who would only want three onion rings? I understand not wanting onion rings at all,

00:24:43.900 but if you're going to have three, I mean, that's it. No. Um, the idea that your girlfriend is

00:24:48.480 intentionally lying to you about how much fried food she wants is based in the men are from Mars

00:24:53.940 and Venus is complicated idea that women are always being coy about what they really mean. 1.00

00:24:58.600 And it's a man's job to decipher it. Well, that's kind of true though. I mean, women are often being, 1.00

00:25:03.300 I mean, with, with women, it's always like, um, um, um, well, you know, I didn't want to tell you, 1.00

00:25:09.100 I want you to just know, right. That's why men are always getting in trouble because, um, they do 0.68

00:25:14.320 something that the girl didn't want them to do. Uh, but the girl never said she didn't want the guy 0.98

00:25:20.060 to do it or, or they're not doing something that the girl does want the guy to do, but the girl never

00:25:27.940 told the guy she wanted it. And then, and then when the guy points out, like, why didn't you just tell me?

00:25:31.840 Then the girl will say, well, I just wanted you to know. And the reason now credit where it's due to

00:25:39.120 women here, the reason why women expect men to just sort of know intuitively what they want or don't 1.00

00:25:48.440 want is that women do have that ability with men. So I, I am convinced that there are times when my

00:25:56.960 wife can literally read my mind. Like she'll, she'll walk into a room and just, um, you know, 1.00

00:26:03.560 let's say I'm, I'm a little annoyed about something or something happened with whatever she'll, she'll

00:26:08.280 walk in, she'll immediately sense it. And not only sense that I'm off or annoyed or angry about

00:26:13.440 something, but she'll even know what, what it's about right away. So women have that ability, men

00:26:19.480 don't. And so that's the frustration. Women expect men to be able to do that. We can't do that. 1.00

00:26:24.580 We don't have that ability. So most of the time, if you want us to know something, if you want us

00:26:29.820 to do something, you just got to say it. That's all. I mean, it's really as simple as that. Just

00:26:32.840 say, Hey, will you do this? Or will you not do that? Anyway, that's what that's about. Um,

00:26:39.920 back to the article. Uh, let's see. But aside from the misogyny, there are many reasons why anyone

00:26:47.160 might snag some fries without ordering her own. Maybe she can't afford it or understands her partner 0.99

00:26:51.860 can't afford two full orders of fries and is trying to be nice about it. Maybe she just really wants a 1.00

00:26:56.820 salad, but because salads are great in their own right. And also one onion ring because onion rings

00:27:01.320 are also great. Maybe like many women, she struggles with disordered eating because we live in a society 1.00

00:27:06.360 that asks, asks women that women be chill enough to scarf down pizza, but also remain 110 pounds at all 0.99

00:27:12.040 times. And, uh, she's stuck in a damned if you do situation where her date will judge her no matter 0.98

00:27:16.980 what she orders. Okay. That's just not true. Um, men are not going to judge women based on what you 0.95

00:27:23.760 order. We don't, that's the thing. We really don't care. So when you're sitting at the restaurant

00:27:29.440 with your man and you say, Oh, what should I get? The man doesn't get whatever you want. He really

00:27:34.420 doesn't care. Uh, maybe if you're dating and he's paying for it, then he might care if you order the

00:27:40.720 most expensive thing on the menu. So maybe don't do that. Although even if you do that, he's not going to,

00:27:44.740 he's not going to let you know, he cares. He'll still pay for it. Um, but that's the only thing

00:27:48.620 we care about really is the price. That's actually, let me, let me back up and clarify.

00:27:52.480 The only thing we care when it comes to ordering food is just the price outside of that. Just get

00:27:56.320 whatever you want to get three chili dogs. If they're $3 a piece, get as many, get five of them

00:28:00.360 if you want. I mean, it doesn't matter really just whatever you want. It's totally fine. Um,

00:28:07.200 anyway, I'm not gonna, I could keep reading this, but I'm not gonna, you get the idea.

00:28:10.160 Um, I think, um, I cannot imagine writing like six paragraphs about a menu joke, but this is the 0.62

00:28:20.660 kind of pettiness that you find among feminists. Now, do you know where this joke comes from? 1.00

00:28:26.100 It comes from reality. It comes from real life, from lived experience. Women do in fact often claim 0.99

00:28:33.120 they aren't hungry and then proceed to steal your food. That's a thing. It happens. Uh, and in fact,

00:28:39.840 the whole reason the joke works is that it happens so often that people can relate to it. And that's

00:28:45.600 the problem with getting offended by a joke. If the joke works, if you can recognize it as a joke,

00:28:51.140 because people are laughing, then that means it's probably true. That's why it works. Jokes that are

00:28:58.440 based in, in unreality jokes that have no truth to them. Um, don't aren't, no one's going to laugh

00:29:05.960 because it just doesn't make any sense. So it's a joke. Does it tease women a little bit?

00:29:12.600 Is it giving women a little bit of a hard time? Yeah, sure. Uh, fine. Women are being teased. 1.00

00:29:17.020 It is, uh, women are, if you want to say it, the butt of the joke in, in some respect. Um, 1.00

00:29:22.560 and so what, who cares? Women can handle being teased. They can handle being the butt of the joke. 1.00

00:29:27.540 It's, it, I mean, it's, it's not a big deal. Most women can. Some women can't. Feminists 1.00

00:29:31.840 cannot. Feminists cannot handle jokes. They can, they, they especially cannot handle being the 1.00

00:29:36.160 butt of the joke. They just can't deal with it. But that's all the more reason to tell these jokes.

00:29:42.460 Because I mean, if someone could take a joke, then you should make jokes about them.

00:29:47.760 If someone can't take a joke, that's all the more reason to make jokes about them.

00:29:53.540 You know, there is something insidious here. We talk about how the left is ruining comedy

00:29:58.860 and, um, and they are because they're making it so that we can't joke about the realities and

00:30:06.720 idiosyncrasies of life and of each other. And the effect is, is more than just making restaurant

00:30:12.260 menus more boring. The thing is the reason we like comedy, the reason we like watching a standup,

00:30:19.600 you know, do his thing, give his act. The reason we like to joke about these truths about each other

00:30:26.020 about life and about our experience is that it's unifying. It brings us together. It's,

00:30:31.260 it's kind of a moment for, for all of us to look at each other and recognize the absurdity of

00:30:35.780 everything and just laugh about it. And that's why we enjoy it so much. Um, the joke that always

00:30:42.100 gets the biggest laugh from me is, uh, is if I'm watching a standup or I'm, I just, even I see some,

00:30:49.560 a funny tweet or something, the jokes that for me get the biggest laugh. And I think for most people

00:30:53.640 get the biggest laugh is when it's a joke about something, some personal quirk or whatever

00:30:59.160 that I thought was unique to me, or when someone makes a joke about another person or group of

00:31:07.260 people, or, you know, um, and, and I thought I was the only one who noticed that. And then I see

00:31:14.080 this joke and that will get the biggest laugh because you're saying, Oh, you know, other people

00:31:19.000 experienced this. I didn't realize that. I didn't know other people experienced this. Other people

00:31:22.240 thought like this. And that realization brings joy. It's a good thing. You laugh, you're happy about

00:31:27.580 it. Um, I think ultimately it makes you let feel less alone. I think that's what comedy does. It

00:31:32.980 makes us feel like we're not as alone in the world because there are other people who experience life

00:31:39.400 the same way that we do and have noticed, you know, it's like when you're walking around and you

00:31:43.460 see all this absurdity happening and you're thinking, am I the only one who notices this? Like this doesn't

00:31:47.760 make any sense over here. This is ridiculous over here. This is kind of stupid. And you think 0.94

00:31:51.680 you're the only one you feel alone. And then you hear someone make a joke about it. You think, Oh,

00:31:54.900 I'm not alone. Okay. Um, so the joke is not just funny, but it's, it's, it's, um,

00:32:01.760 encouraging in a way as well. You know, I've been around, um, cancer patients who joke with each

00:32:11.000 other, uh, telling very, sometimes very morbid, dark jokes about their situation. And, and that's,

00:32:18.680 that's pretty common people in very rough situations, sad situations, joking about it is

00:32:23.420 common. Why do they joke about it? Because it makes things a little less scary. It makes things

00:32:27.620 less lonely, uh, less sad. I think when you're sick, there are a lot of things about it that are

00:32:34.040 terrible. Um, the fear and the pain and everything, but there's, it's also very lonely because most of

00:32:41.220 the people around you are healthy and they're running around and doing their thing, living their

00:32:44.600 physically capable, healthy lives. And you just feel alone when you're around someone else in the

00:32:49.820 same situation, you kind of joke about your, now you feel less alone. That's what comedy is now.

00:32:53.980 Um, you know, when, when, when I talk about a joke on a menu is, is a small thing. It's like,

00:33:01.720 that's not really what I'm talking about. I'm just talking about comedy in general and jokes in general

00:33:05.820 and what the left is doing. Um, that's the point of humor and that's what the left wants to take away.

00:33:11.780 And they want to take away, especially the morbid humor, the dark humor, the so-called offensive

00:33:16.800 humor, the so-called sexist humor, uh, the humor that deals with race and ethnicity and identity

00:33:22.160 and all of those things. But those are the areas, those are precisely the areas where we need humor

00:33:27.400 the most. Uh, we need that unifying force, that thing that tells us it's not as serious as we

00:33:33.380 thought. I mean, those are when the people say, Oh, well, yeah, you could tell jokes. I mean,

00:33:36.440 never joke about race, never joke about, uh, the other gender. I mean, those are exactly the 1.00

00:33:41.280 things we should joke about. Those are, that's that, those are the funniest jokes, not because

00:33:45.500 it's mean or you're trying to hurt anyone's feelings, but just because it, it's just,

00:33:49.660 these are our, we all experience it. All right. Um, so that's, uh, that's feminism for you. 1.00

00:33:58.300 Let's move on to emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com. Uh, this is from Maria says,

00:34:05.400 dear Matt, I have to disagree with your take on mini AOC, though. I agree that her parents are

00:34:10.300 messing up. I have an eight and 12 year old. They want nothing more than to become YouTube stars

00:34:14.600 because that's their generation's movie star. I made a couple of YouTube videos and they begged

00:34:19.080 me to be in them. And I've told them, no, I would argue that mini AOC's mom's failure is not in

00:34:24.100 putting the idea in her head, but by not protecting her from entering the public arena before she's old

00:34:29.360 enough to even form her own opinions. Appreciate your show and your opinions on issues. So I don't think

00:34:33.780 you do disagree. That's how, I mean, we're in agreement. Basically the basic point here is

00:34:37.200 that we shouldn't be, we shouldn't be using our kids to make political points. We shouldn't be

00:34:41.700 turning our kids into viral stars, um, at all, uh, especially not in a political context,

00:34:49.840 because then you're, you're guaranteeing that there's going to be even more hatred and vile comments

00:34:56.580 coming their way. Um, and you're just, you're, you're throwing them into a very volatile situation on top

00:35:01.720 of all the other problems with doing that. So I think we agree with that. I guess the only thing

00:35:05.780 you're disagreeing with is I said that no eight-year-old naturally wants to be, uh, a viral

00:35:11.660 video star. And what you're saying is, well, some eight-year-olds actually do want that, but as

00:35:15.640 parents, we're supposed to, of course, tell them no, because we're the parents. Maybe you're right

00:35:18.940 about that. Look, you know, my, I don't have an eight-year-old, as I said, my, my oldest are six

00:35:22.280 years old. Um, and there is a significant difference between a six-year-old and eight-year-old.

00:35:26.360 So I can say that my six-year-olds, the idea of being a viral star is like not even on their

00:35:32.060 radar. They wouldn't even know what that means. Maybe at eight, it becomes a little bit more on

00:35:36.160 a kid's radar. Um, but I will say that certainly with this girl, how she's a essentially a political

00:35:43.480 satirist, um, I can tell you no eight-year-old wants that. I mean, no eight-year-old even knows

00:35:48.720 what political satire is or understands it. Okay. There's just, I'm sorry. There's no eight-year-old

00:35:54.000 smart enough to understand political satire. Most adults don't understand it. I, I write

00:35:59.260 satirical pieces myself and the majority of adults are, are these days are too stupid to 1.00

00:36:03.960 understand satire when they see it. Uh, kids, even if they're not stupid, but very smart, 1.00

00:36:07.900 which I'm sure this girl's very smart girl. Um, at eight year old, eight years old, they just 1.00

00:36:11.460 don't, they, they don't, they don't, they don't get it. They don't understand it. So she doesn't

00:36:16.200 understand what she's doing. She doesn't get the humor herself. Um, she can't, she's eight.

00:36:22.460 All right. Uh, from Brandon, uh, Matt, I love the show. My question was regarding religion.

00:36:30.220 I've always been a Christian by default as I've never grown up practicing religion, but my family

00:36:35.180 would go to church on special occasions. My question is, do you take all stories in the

00:36:38.920 Bible? Literally? I've been having issues with my faith because I want to believe all of it,

00:36:43.080 but I have trouble when it comes to fully believing stories that involve talking snakes. Well, you're

00:36:48.560 going to get me in trouble. Uh, Brandon, we've, we've talked about this in the past. My view on

00:36:54.720 it is not a secret. Um, although I guess if you didn't watch the show months ago, maybe it is a

00:37:00.860 secret. I don't, well, let's establish a couple of things. First of all, nobody takes the entire

00:37:08.440 Bible. Literally, that would not make sense to say that. Oh yeah, I take it all literally. Well,

00:37:13.000 what, what, what does that mean? I mean, because there, there are things in the Bible. The Bible

00:37:17.380 is a collection of, um, many different books of many different genres. They're not all the same

00:37:24.800 genre. The entire Bible is not just a story. Um, there are, you know, there are Psalms,

00:37:33.000 there are lamentations, uh, there's the wisdom literature, you know, there's, there's exhortation,

00:37:40.020 there are epistles, uh, there are, you know, teachings, uh, commandments. I mean, there are

00:37:45.880 all kinds of things like that, which don't really qualify as stories in my mind. And among those

00:37:51.680 things now, something like a commandment, a direct instruction where God is saying, do this or don't

00:37:57.360 do that. Well then, yeah, we take that literally. I mean, that's, that's the perfect example of a

00:38:00.520 thing you do take literally. Right. Um, but something like a Psalm, I mean, what does it mean to take

00:38:06.340 the Psalms literally? Well, nobody does. It doesn't make any sense. It's poetry by definition.

00:38:11.720 You don't take poetry. Literally there's truth there. So you do get at the truth. But when you're

00:38:17.420 taught, when you're reading, if you read poetry, literally, you're reading it like a robot.

00:38:22.200 And then if there's a, if there's a metaphor or something or, or imagery, it's like you're,

00:38:26.560 you try to take it literally, then you're not, you're just not reading it like a human being.

00:38:30.940 Uh, Jesus tells parables. Of course we don't take the parables literally in the sense

00:38:36.220 that when Jesus tells a certain parable, whether it's about the prodigal son, uh, or, or any other

00:38:41.300 parable, uh, or the, you know, the good Samaritan, he's not, um, trying to say that, that this thing,

00:38:49.500 this event actually happened, like there really was a prodigal son, but there's a point to the story,

00:38:56.740 a message that we're meant to understand. Um, so that's the first thing.

00:39:03.200 And then related to that, we, we just, when we're looking at any particular part of the Bible or any

00:39:12.020 particular story or passage in the Bible, if we want to understand how we are to take it or read

00:39:18.800 it, then the first thing we have to do is figure out what genre is it. So, as I said, the parable

00:39:25.580 genre, that's a whole genre. So we read a parable, we know, and we recognize, okay, this is a parable.

00:39:29.640 We don't take it literally. We are looking for truth. We're looking for a message. We're not

00:39:33.080 taking it literally. Um, we recommend, we read the Psalms. What genre? Well, this is, this is poetry.

00:39:39.320 Okay. That's the genre. The question then is the book of Genesis. What genre is it? What is,

00:39:46.460 what's the genre? That's the question. Now I'll tell you the answer to that question. I, I can't tell

00:39:53.600 you for sure. I don't know. Um, that's, that's the, that's, that's my answer. I don't know exactly.

00:39:58.700 I'm not going to pretend that I can sit here and tell you, um, with a hundred percent certainty,

00:40:05.700 uh, how we are to read every part of the Bible. I'm not going to tell you that I understand every

00:40:12.160 part of the Bible. I don't. The book of Revelation, that's a, that's a whole genre I forgot about.

00:40:17.040 Apocalyptic literature. Okay. There's another great example of a genre that we don't take literally.

00:40:22.540 Now the book of Revelation there, that's obviously there's, there's truth there. There's a message

00:40:28.560 we're meant to understand, a message we're meant to take away from it. But you, of course you don't

00:40:33.820 read Revelation totally literally. I don't, you know, most adult Christians who are grownups

00:40:39.160 don't actually expect that literal horsemen, you know, guys on horses are going to come out of the

00:40:45.120 sky. Um, that is, there'd be no reason for that. It would, it would be, you know, that would be God

00:40:50.500 to sort of, it'd be like theatrics. I just, it would, what, why do, why do you, if you have,

00:40:55.100 if you have beings in the sky, why do they need to be on horses? It just, it would be just,

00:40:58.780 you know, theatrical. Um, which there's no reason to think that that's literally what's going to

00:41:05.620 happen. But the, the horsemen are meant to represent something. And so we're supposed to

00:41:09.940 understand what they represent and it's being communicated to us using this sort of imagery

00:41:15.840 because it makes us, it sticks in our mind more. And also I think because with something

00:41:20.460 like apocalyptic literature, the end of the world, these are concepts that are beyond us

00:41:25.040 anyway. And so if, if, if, um, the Holy Spirit were to inspire someone to write about the end

00:41:32.080 of the world in a totally literal way, we wouldn't understand it. It'd be total nonsense to us because

00:41:37.840 it's beyond us. And so instead, especially when we're dealing with concepts that are beyond

00:41:43.140 our comprehension, that is especially when imagery and parable and, uh, and metaphor and all this,

00:41:50.880 that's especially when those come into play. And I think that's why Jesus used parables a lot

00:41:55.760 because as Jesus, he knew, knows that, um, that we are very limited in our cognitive abilities.

00:42:05.600 And so he uses, he, he, he, he expresses these ideas, um, in a way that we will understand and

00:42:15.260 also a way that will just stick with us. Again, the story of the prodigal son, that's a story

00:42:21.100 everyone remembers. If Jesus had just said in a very literal way, Hey, listen, if you, if you go out

00:42:27.040 and you sin and you, and you stop sinning, God will forgive you. Well, if he had just, and he did say

00:42:31.420 that in a literal way many times, but all the times that he said it literally, the thing that,

00:42:36.620 that we all remember the most is that story, because that's just how we are. That's how our

00:42:40.300 minds work. So we think about the genre, um, going back, I'm babbling now. Um, what, what is,

00:42:46.120 what's the genre of Genesis? Well, that's the question. My, my answer again is, I don't know exactly.

00:42:50.980 Um, I can, uh, but, but I think that the answer probably is that, that Genesis is not a,

00:42:59.820 especially the first, um, few chapters of Genesis, the creation, creation account is not literal.

00:43:07.420 And, uh, I mean, I've done a whole show on this. You can go back and watch that show.

00:43:11.000 There are many reasons why I think that, um, one of those reasons, not the only reason,

00:43:14.780 but one of those reasons is that when we look at the science, it's just, we know,

00:43:21.100 we know for a fact that that is not how that is not literally how the world came about.

00:43:26.540 Just like there are passages in the Bible, which in a literal sense seem to indicate that the,

00:43:33.800 the earth, that, um, the sun orbits the earth. There are passages, there are several passages

00:43:38.120 of the Bible. If you read literally, that's what it would seem to indicate. There are also passages

00:43:43.300 that would seem to indicate literally that the earth is flat. Now we know that that is not true,

00:43:49.100 that that's not the way it is. And so we have to interpret those, uh, Bible passages,

00:43:56.180 with the, uh, the reality of the situation in mind, in light of reality, we have to interpret

00:44:01.560 those passages. There was a time when a lot of people didn't know that the, the earth orbits

00:44:07.980 the sun. Uh, and so they read those passages and they thought that those passages, you know,

00:44:13.360 affirmed the truth that the sun orbits the earth. Once it became clear that that's not the case,

00:44:19.500 we had to go back and say, okay, well, I guess we were wrong with our interpretation of those

00:44:23.060 passages. We can't cling to our old interpretation when the reality is right in front of us.

00:44:27.420 It's just, you can't get around it. Uh, so to speak pun intended. So I think it's the same thing

00:44:32.960 with, um, with the creation account. It's just the, the seven day, 6,000 year old earth. It's just

00:44:37.480 the science. I'm sorry. The science doesn't work. And, and I, there are, I know there are people,

00:44:40.840 there are supposed, uh, Christian scientific authorities who are not authorities who will claim

00:44:47.640 otherwise, and they'll throw a lot of statistics and facts out at you, but they're, they're just,

00:44:51.820 they're, it's not true. Um, doesn't work. So that's how I would look at that. All right. Um,

00:44:58.220 and I can look forward now to many angry emails from Jacob. This says, Hey Matt, I'm a student at

00:45:07.120 Utah state university. And because I'm getting closer to graduation, there are some upper level

00:45:11.380 classes. I have to take certain attributes. I'm taking a class called perspectives on race because

00:45:16.760 it fulfills two attributes in a single class, which is nice. However, this week we were given an

00:45:21.080 assignment called the privilege activity where we are asked a series of questions. And based on our

00:45:26.220 answers, we will tell us how privileged we are compared to our classmates. Along with the activity,

00:45:31.520 we were given a blog to read about white males and how white males have it the easiest of all people

00:45:35.660 because of their supposed privilege. I'm not mean or vile or even that big of an idiot, but more and 0.99

00:45:40.440 more I'm trying to understand why my status as being white and male and straight has made me the enemy 0.91

00:45:44.640 of all people just wondering about your thoughts on this and hope that you get a chuckle reading

00:45:48.380 the questions. Uh, I, I wish I could say I get a chuckle out of that. It's more just Jacob. I,

00:45:54.100 you know, you're, you're, you're, I don't know how much money you're spending going to Utah state

00:46:00.440 university. And, uh, I'm not saying you're wasting your money. I mean, hopefully you have a plan and

00:46:05.280 you'll go out and use that degree. I'm sure you will. A lot of people do, but I mean, if I was you,

00:46:10.580 I'm sure it already does, but it would tick me off that I'm paying all this money to go to this

00:46:15.380 school and this is what you're wasting my time with a privilege activity. I'm reading a blog by

00:46:20.960 some, what by some liberal to lecture me about racism. This is what you wait. Like this, this

00:46:28.960 useless propaganda. Okay. Give me useful information. Um, this, this doesn't count. So it's just a total

00:46:37.940 waste of money. And, uh, it is also a lie of course. And so it ticks me off and we will leave

00:46:43.920 it there. Um, hope you guys have a great 4th of July. God bless America and Godspeed.

00:46:51.280 Hey everybody. It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. Here is a surprising thing.

00:47:08.960 The left virtually owns all the most powerful means of communication. And they're using that

00:47:13.360 to constantly sell sexual malfeasance, racial division, and self-lacerating anti-Americanism.

00:47:19.160 You would think at this point, the public would be utterly convinced, but instead people are

00:47:23.760 beginning to turn away. This is a great time for conservatives to offer a 21st century version

00:47:29.360 of the founding ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We'll talk about it on the

00:47:34.440 Andrew Klavan show. I'm Andrew Klavan.

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