The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 306 - Donald Trump's Reverse Magnetism

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats rushed to the defense of Al Sharpton just a day after

00:00:04.520 insisting that Baltimore is a wonderful and safe city. We'll talk about how the Democrats are

00:00:08.800 managing to lose every argument with Trump because they insist on taking the extreme

00:00:13.360 opposite position from whatever position he just took. Also, should cops be pulling people over to

00:00:18.180 give out prizes for following the law? And a student is accused of sexual assault because

00:00:23.860 he cajoled, quote unquote, a woman into sex with flattery. We'll talk about that madness today

00:00:30.660 on the Matt Wall Show. Well, this is pretty good news, I think. I don't know if you guys heard

00:00:41.000 about this, but actually, violence is ended. I'm not sure if you heard about that, but we ended

00:00:49.460 violence. There is no more violence. Violence is done. So that's it. The hashtag end violence

00:00:57.680 trended on Twitter last night. People were, it's a whole hashtag, a bunch of people were tweeting

00:01:03.840 end violence. And I think the point these people were making is essentially what they were saying

00:01:11.500 is, look, let's just end violence. People were basically arguing that, to sum up their position,

00:01:18.920 um, maybe we could just not have violence. You know, maybe, maybe we could explore alternatives

00:01:30.020 to violence. And, uh, and that did it. I mean, all the violent people in the world, everyone who was

00:01:36.580 engaging in violence or planning to engage in violence, uh, they all stopped. They saw this

00:01:42.300 hashtag and they stopped and they said, Oh, wait a second. You're saying I should not be violent.

00:01:47.720 And then they slapped their heads and they kind of laughed and they said, wow, duh. Um, and, uh,

00:01:53.620 and, and they threw down their guns and they took off their suicide vest. Um, and they went home to

00:01:58.500 play Parcheesi. And that was, that was really the end of it. It was as simple as that. I myself had

00:02:03.980 always been on really, if I, you know, to, to, to be honest, I was more on the keep violence end of the

00:02:10.540 debate, um, until this hashtag. And I read some of the tweets and, and I thought, wow, these people

00:02:17.320 really make an interesting point. And so even I changed my own position. Um, my only thing is if

00:02:23.280 only someone had thought of this sooner, if only someone had thought to end violence sooner, I think

00:02:27.960 we could have avoided, honestly, a lot of heartache, um, in our society. But anyway, at least we finally,

00:02:34.100 after all these years, you know, we finally have, um, have made the change. So I think that's a

00:02:39.440 really wonderful thing. Okay. Speaking of violence, Al Sharpton, um, well, he doesn't seem to be much of

00:02:46.820 an end violence kind of guy. Uh, he has throughout his illustrious, is that the word for it? I'm not

00:02:52.180 sure. Maybe I'll check my thesaurus. Um, some kind of career. He has stoked tension and, and violence

00:02:59.320 and riots. He's promoted false rape claims. He's engaged in vicious antisemitism. Um, he has been

00:03:06.320 generally a grifter and a hack who does nothing but exploit and lie and pander in the basest ways. 0.95

00:03:13.240 Sharpton is kind of a fascinating character in a way because he's so straightforwardly vile and evil. 0.80

00:03:19.980 It's just, he's, he's, there's, there appear to be very few layers to this guy. This is just,

00:03:25.040 this is just what he is to his core. Um, and most people know it that's, he's kind of known for that.

00:03:32.160 Like, I'm not sure if you could find anyone of any race or ideological persuasion who would say

00:03:39.740 something positive about him. You know, um, this isn't just a typical partisan thing where people

00:03:44.960 on one side say he's awful. And then people on the other side, like him, I've never heard anyone,

00:03:50.200 um, any person who isn't on TV. I've just, I've never heard an average person in a discussion,

00:03:56.540 um, sing his praises. I've never heard that. You, you, you're around any group of people.

00:04:03.100 And if for some reason, Al Sharpton's name comes up every, it doesn't matter what the, what the,

00:04:07.400 what the racial or, or ideological makeup of the crowd is, uh, everyone is, there's kind of that

00:04:12.680 groan and that the rolling of the eyes. Um, and that makes sense because he's, he's transparently

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00:04:26.820 shift on Sharpton this week. And we'll talk about that in just a second. But before we do, um, you

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00:06:49.280 of Baltimore because Trump criticized it. And next we have Democrats rushing to the defense

00:06:54.480 of Al Sharpton because Trump criticized Al Sharpton. You know, Trump, uh, uh, sent out a bunch of tweets

00:07:01.020 about Sharpton. Well, you know, that part of the story, I don't need to read the tweets. I'm sure

00:07:04.700 you've heard about that. Um, and ever since then over the past day or so, uh, Democrat candidates

00:07:11.280 like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and others have come out to say what a wonderful guy Al Sharpton is.

00:07:16.580 Um, and they know better of course, and they would never be so public and explicit in endorsing Al

00:07:24.860 Sharpton who has more baggage than, you know, one of those luggage carousels at the airport,

00:07:29.400 uh, except that Trump came out against him. That's why, that's why they're doing this.

00:07:33.920 And here's, here's, here's the amazing thing. As many people have observed, um, the job of,

00:07:43.540 for Democrats in 2020, their path to victory is really objectively easy, extremely easy and

00:07:54.380 straightforward. As in they could do nothing. They could say nothing. They could hold no campaign

00:08:01.540 events even, and just sit there and probably the Democrat candidate would cruise to victory,

00:08:07.120 um, fairly easily because that's just how un, unpopular and divisive of a character Trump is

00:08:14.680 like it or not. I mean, it's just, he just is. You look at the poll numbers and, um, it's pretty clear

00:08:20.080 if they're going to say anything, uh, if they're going to say stuff and they're going to do stuff,

00:08:26.100 all they really have to do is limit the stuff they say and the stuff they, they do to anything

00:08:30.860 in the not crazy column. That's really pretty much anything. As long as it's not totally crazy and

00:08:38.740 insane, um, they would be fine, but they can't manage to do even that. Just this, this,

00:08:47.280 the bar they have to get over is so low. They can't even get over it. They can't even exercise

00:08:53.500 that minimal self-control because Trump has this sort of reverse magnetism that causes them to,

00:09:02.300 whatever he says, his ideological opponents will immediately rush to the exact opposite position

00:09:08.920 from whatever he said. It doesn't matter what he says. They're going to take the opposite position.

00:09:13.780 Um, so Democrats, when it comes to Trump are incapable of taking a moderated stance on anything

00:09:21.760 they can't counter or, or they won't counter Trump's, um, shall we say eccentricities with

00:09:30.780 something measured and calm and reasonable. They can't do that. Instead, they go to the other extreme

00:09:35.860 end. So to the point where, uh, I think it'd be interesting to see Trump come out

00:09:42.460 against, let's say eating garbage out of a, out of a dumpster. He should send some tweets saying, 0.53

00:09:49.740 you know what folks, uh, we shouldn't eat garbage out of dumpster. You're a loser. If you eat garbage 1.00

00:09:54.940 out of a dumpster, it's the stupidest thing in the world to eat garbage. He should just say that 1.00

00:09:58.940 because then you're going to have Kamala Harris and, and Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden all coming

00:10:03.880 out and saying eating garbage out of the dumpster is the most American thing. It's wonderful. It's

00:10:09.100 healthy. It's tasty. It's, it's, it's, it's this, this is what true Americans do. Um, any position

00:10:15.720 he takes, they're going to take the opposite. So these past few days have been a perfect example,

00:10:19.320 perfect illustration of the, uh, the, the, the problem for Democrats. Trump, um, lashes out about

00:10:26.080 Baltimore saying that no human would want to live there and it's rat infested and so on.

00:10:30.660 And, uh, they could have responded by saying something like, look, he's basically right about

00:10:36.640 Baltimore. Uh, Baltimore's got, got serious problems. It's a, it's a city with tough challenges.

00:10:42.940 Uh, but Trump doesn't really care about this. He's just using the issue to divide us and to

00:10:48.460 cause, uh, uh, you know, to turn us against each other, et cetera, and so forth. Yada, yada, yada.

00:10:53.680 I mean, they, they could have gone that route. Um, where it's, it's, it's not like they are

00:10:59.220 explicitly, uh, denying the problems in this city that we all know is a hell hole,

00:11:06.880 but, uh, at the same time, they're not going to, they're not going to come to Trump's defense.

00:11:10.780 Of course, I mean, I'm not expecting that they're, they're Democrats. They are his ideological enemies

00:11:14.880 after all, but they could have taken that route, but instead they didn't do that. Instead, they take

00:11:20.640 the diametric extreme opposite position and say, no, in fact, Baltimore's great. Uh, there's nothing

00:11:25.400 wrong with it. And, and then they lose, they lose that news cycle. They lose that battle.

00:11:30.300 And then the Sharpton thing. Well, um, Trump comes out and, you know, insults Al Sharpton.

00:11:37.980 Fine. Uh, and, and says things about Al Sharpton that probably easily 95% of all the people in the

00:11:47.700 country agree with when it comes to Al Sharpton. Um, so how do, how do the Democrats win that? Well,

00:11:53.920 they could win it just by saying nothing, let Sharpton and Trump go back and forth, let them

00:11:58.880 argue. And that's, that ends up being a win for Democrats, I think, or, or at least it's a not

00:12:04.420 loss. It's not a loss for them in that case, or even better yet, they could come out and say,

00:12:10.980 uh, Hey, I, I don't like Trump for X, Y, Z reason, but, uh, Sharpton is a, is a con man too.

00:12:19.640 And, uh, so I, I, I have no dog in this fight. I'm not getting involved now that might, might be

00:12:25.980 more difficult for a white, a white Democrat to say that, but someone like Kamala Harris, 1.00

00:12:30.080 if, if she were to come out with, with something like that, come out against Al Sharpton,

00:12:36.200 I think that would be a, an absolute winner for her, 0.95

00:12:39.340 but instead, no, they come out and they heartily endorse the anti-Semite bigot fraud and they lose.

00:12:47.400 Now, of course, there's an element of this on the right too. And I don't mean to deny that this is

00:12:53.560 something, this is not just something that Democrats do. This is how our debates, if you

00:13:01.100 want to call them that work in this country these days, um, where there's this tendency to define

00:13:06.660 yourself based on taking the complete opposite position from your opponent, whatever that happens

00:13:12.300 to be. Um, so an example of this on the right would be something like, I run into this sometimes,

00:13:19.520 for instance, with right wingers who, um, respond to guys like Kaepernick and, uh, and those who talk

00:13:26.200 about police brutality by insisting essentially that it isn't a problem at all. It just, it doesn't

00:13:33.260 happen. And, uh, Hey, if you don't want to get beat by the cops, then just follow orders and do

00:13:38.440 whatever they say. I mean, you know, taking this absolute book bootlicking anti-American

00:13:44.380 legitimately fascist line. Now I, I use that word. Uh, I'm, I'm very hesitating and using that word

00:13:52.880 because hesitant because, because of course it's an abused word, but when you, when you say, look,

00:13:57.220 if you don't want to get beat, just, uh, just do what you're told that is, that really is basically

00:14:01.660 a fascist line. And so, and there are some right wingers that you talk to them and that's what they'll

00:14:06.300 say, you know, Hey, you don't want to get beat. Do what you're told. Um, because they're taking,

00:14:12.280 they're, they're taking the, they're countering the excesses of the left when it comes to the

00:14:19.560 police brutality issue, excesses, which are considerable where you've got leftists running 0.99

00:14:24.620 around saying that, uh, all the cops are racist and they're on a mission to murder black people 0.86

00:14:30.220 and that kind of thing, rather than come out with a nuanced and measured opposition, you see the, 0.98

00:14:38.840 the opposite extreme. So it happens on both sides, but I think it's a, it's worse on the left

00:14:44.460 because of the effect that Trump has, uh, on them where they can't, they just, it's, as I said,

00:14:56.060 it's like, it's, it's, it's a reverse magnetism thing. It's something where they can't, it's like

00:15:01.400 they can't physically help themselves, whatever he says they're on the opposite. Um, and so these

00:15:06.820 are, these are two very winnable news cycles for the Democrats that they lost. And so they could

00:15:13.500 very easily lose the election. If they continue down this, there's, there's no, there's no sign of

00:15:19.900 them changing or, or figuring out how to respond to Trump in a more measured way. There's no sign of

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00:17:20.580 President Trump is a mighty man, running this country the best that he can. The media swarms

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00:17:41.240 gonna get greater. Yeah. Um, okay. That, all right. I'm just going to move on. This was, um, so here's

00:17:57.920 an interesting little thing. A news report out of Phoenix, Arizona was, went viral yesterday. Uh, it

00:18:03.720 was a story about a, speaking of, uh, policing, actually it's a story about a positive ticketing

00:18:10.760 campaign by cops in, uh, in Arizona, Tempe, Arizona. The plan, well, the original story from

00:18:19.440 the local media, or at least the original impression that was given was that the cops in Tempe, Arizona

00:18:25.740 would be pulling over good driver, drivers, um, pulling over people who are, are obeying traffic

00:18:32.000 laws because they're obeying traffic laws in order to give them coupons for a free Slurpee, uh, from

00:18:38.540 the local gas station to reward them for their good driving. Well, not just a Slurpee in fairness,

00:18:44.540 it could have been, it was a, it would be a coupon for any drink you want, really any drink you want

00:18:48.340 at the gas that you can get Diet Coke, a Mountain Dew. Um, so, but that's the idea. They pull you over,

00:18:52.680 or at least that was the, the impression people had based on the story. They'd pull you over

00:18:56.980 and give you a coupon, uh, to reward you for, for obeying the speed limit. This idea was met with

00:19:04.120 backlash, I think, understandably. And, um, a few hours later, the police department clarified saying,

00:19:09.960 no, we're not gonna, we're not gonna pull you over. Okay. But if we happen to see you walking by

00:19:14.200 or something, we might, uh, try to engage you in a conversation and then give you the coupon as a

00:19:21.720 reward. Now, I'm not sure that I believe this clarification. Uh, if the whole idea is to reward

00:19:26.260 good drivers, how could you do that unless you see them driving first? It just doesn't make any

00:19:32.480 sense. If the, if the idea is to reward good drivers, it would seem like you'd have to pull

00:19:36.040 them over because that's the only way that you would, what are cops going to do? Walk up to you

00:19:39.780 and say, uh, Hey, are you a good driver? Well, yes, I am. Here's a coupon that there, that seems

00:19:46.020 rather ridiculous. Um, well, anyway, the, now they're not going to pull people over. It seems

00:19:53.020 likely to me that maybe that was the original plan. And then they changed it when they got such a,

00:19:57.300 uh, with the backlash, when the feedback was so terrible. Um, I don't know. And there is precedent

00:20:04.320 for cops pulling people, people over to, to, to, uh, pat them on the head for being good little boys

00:20:09.180 and girls. Uh, you may remember this from a few years ago. Watch this. Hey, good afternoon,

00:20:14.500 man. My name is Austin Warner with Halifax police department. Um, are you aware of why I pulled you

00:20:18.240 over today? Are you familiar with a vehicle code 1739? Uh, well, it's actually against the law to

00:20:25.160 drive on a hot day without an ice cream cone. So on behalf of the Halifax police department,

00:20:34.600 we're just making sure that everybody's following all the laws today and are driving with, uh,

00:20:39.140 ice cream cones. Like I said, I'm officer Warner. This is chief of police lands here in Halifax.

00:20:44.500 We just want to make sure you guys weren't in compliance.

00:20:49.560 Okay. So there they were pulling people over, um, to give out ice cream in Arizona. They claimed

00:21:02.040 they were never intending to do anything like that, which, okay, fine. But it raises a, it raises

00:21:06.400 a question about this whole idea of cops going around, handing out little prizes and commendations

00:21:11.760 for people who are following the law. Uh, and I, I've heard of other things like this in other,

00:21:16.000 in other places. I don't know if it doesn't always involve pulling people over, but the whole,

00:21:20.280 the whole concept, um, I'm not a big fan of as far as pulling people over to give them a coupon

00:21:27.840 or an ice cream. Uh, that is clearly a terrible idea on a number of levels, levels. You are,

00:21:33.520 you're, you're interrupting the flow of traffic. You're pulling somebody off the road, uh, when

00:21:38.420 they could be in a hurry. I mean, you don't know what they could be late for work to be late for

00:21:42.100 an appointment, important appointment. Uh, you don't know what's going on with them yet. You're doing

00:21:47.440 that. Uh, and you're causing a lot of stress as well. You're making people think that they're in

00:21:52.520 trouble. It's very, it's very stressful thing when you see those sirens go off. And so you're doing all of

00:21:57.020 that just so you can give them a little prize worth a dollar 25. Um, that's, it's not what

00:22:04.500 police are supposed to be doing. Uh, and it's not fair to citizens who are forced to take part in

00:22:09.340 this stunt because the moment you see the sirens go off behind you, you are essentially being

00:22:15.440 detained at least temporarily. I mean, for all intents and purposes, you're being detained because

00:22:20.120 you, you, you, you have to pull over. You don't have a choice. Um, and you have to comply with

00:22:26.400 whatever they're saying. So to use that power and authority for something like this is obviously

00:22:33.260 an abuse, um, to detain people even for five minutes so that you can play a little prank

00:22:40.300 or give out coupons or do a little, you know, publicity stunt, little PR thing is completely

00:22:46.240 wrong. Not to mention what if, what if the cop comes up with the coupon or the ice cream or whatever,

00:22:51.680 and, uh, and they smell weed in the car or they see contraband of some kind, um, what do they do?

00:22:58.940 Because they pulled you over under false pretenses. They, they, they, they, they, they pulled you over

00:23:03.700 for, with no suspicion, no reasonable suspicion of, of illegal activity. Um, and let's say they,

00:23:11.180 they come up with the ice cream or the coupon and then they see illegal activity going on.

00:23:15.480 Can they even make an arrest in a situation like that? Uh, I'm not sure, but it opens up a whole

00:23:22.200 can of legal worms here that just renders the whole thing completely absurd and not worth it

00:23:27.880 at all. But really the main thing is this, if I'm obeying the law, leave me alone. Just leave me alone.

00:23:38.460 Let me be. That's the best reward for me. I think for most people, let me go about my day. That's all.

00:23:45.480 If I'm obeying the law, my reward is that I don't have to deal with cops to be detained. You know,

00:23:52.600 I don't have to do any of that. I don't, I don't have to have that stress. I could just, I can,

00:23:57.000 I have my freedom and my Liberty. I can go about my day and I have my time to myself and that's what

00:24:02.580 I want. That's the best reward. So let me have that, which is why even the idea of giving out coupons

00:24:09.740 to people on foot, you know, I don't like that idea either. I'm not into that for the same reason.

00:24:16.080 That I don't need that. Just let, let me be, please. Um, now if the point here is to improve

00:24:24.260 the relationship between cops and the, and citizens, then I think that's a worthy goal.

00:24:28.580 It's a nice idea. I mean, it's, it's, if it's the thought that counts and in fact, a lot more than

00:24:34.520 the thought counts, but if that's all that counted, then it would be fine because it's a nice thought,

00:24:39.120 but let me suggest a better method. You don't need a promotional stunt. You don't need ice cream. 0.99

00:24:47.720 You don't need coupons. Um, I think instead what you could do is simply train police officers

00:24:54.760 to be generally friendly to the community, um, to law abiding members of the community,

00:25:01.780 especially friendly and helpful in general. Uh, they don't need to give out free stuff,

00:25:06.980 but just be friendly and, and, and, uh, welcoming to people and, and approachable. Um, and, uh,

00:25:13.880 and you could train them even when they're pulling someone over for a minor traffic violation

00:25:17.400 and they're giving the person a ticket. You could train them to not be jerks about it, 0.97

00:25:22.240 train them to, uh, treat their fellow citizens as fellow citizens, not serfs, not subjects. 0.97

00:25:27.200 And a lot of cops already do this. The majority of cops already do this. Uh, so they don't need,

00:25:32.080 they don't need to train them. They, they, that's what they already do. And that's great.

00:25:35.720 And those are police officers who are very much helping with the relationship between, uh, the community

00:25:41.980 and law enforcement. Um, and to give those cops coupons to give out or something is,

00:25:47.000 it's not just demeaning and patronizing for the citizens. It is for them too.

00:25:52.040 I feel bad for the cops in this situation because I'm sure they don't have a choice. They have to do

00:25:56.100 it. I would certainly hate it if I was a police officer and you were wasting my time with stuff

00:26:00.580 like this and I have to do it. I don't have a choice. Um, so I feel bad for them as well.

00:26:06.240 My point is simply that all the coupons in the world, um, aren't going to compensate for cops who

00:26:13.900 struggle in this area of simply being nice and friendly, you know, to the community,

00:26:19.020 especially to law abiding members of the community, any police officer who struggles in that area,

00:26:24.860 uh, it's, it's, you're not going to compensate for that with coupons. And if they don't struggle in

00:26:30.860 that area, um, then the coupons are unnecessary. It's an, it's an added thing that just makes it

00:26:36.780 weird and awkward and there's no reason for it. So that's what I would say. Um, and you know,

00:26:41.560 the last thing too, is I don't, I don't like, I think like most people these days, um, I don't,

00:26:51.360 I'm not a fan of participation trophies. The idea that anyone should be given any kind of prize

00:27:00.040 at all simply for obeying the law. Um, I don't like that because obeying the law is our, right.

00:27:08.240 It's our civic duty. It's like, it's like, it's a, it's a bare minimum. It's just, it's what we're

00:27:12.640 supposed to do. That's why if you don't obey the law, you get in trouble, you get fined or you go

00:27:17.340 to jail. Um, because it's expected that you could at least do this as a citizen.

00:27:24.600 So we talk about the responsibility of police officers. Well, the responsibility for us is,

00:27:28.520 you know, obeying the law is bare minimum stuff.

00:27:30.860 So to give us essentially a civic participation, participation trophy and saying, congrats for not

00:27:37.640 breaking the law. Uh, no, no, we don't, we don't, uh, not only are you wasting our time,

00:27:43.400 but it's also, we don't deserve that. Even something like a coupon, we don't deserve that

00:27:48.320 simply for breaking, for, for obeying the law. It's so the whole idea is, is awful. Um,

00:27:56.340 um, let's see, there was one other story, um, in the daily wire about, well, maybe we'll save this

00:28:08.160 for tomorrow. Um, I'll, I'll read a little bit from this story in the daily wire, a report a few

00:28:12.500 days ago, um, that went viral for, for good reason. Uh, reading a bit from the report, it says John

00:28:18.200 Doe, as he is referred to in court documents reviewed by the daily wire was accused of sexually

00:28:23.260 assaulting a student referred to as Jane Roe at the end of January, 2018. Um, and this is at,

00:28:29.680 uh, Pennsylvania state university. The two had met the previous spring since they were both parts of

00:28:35.320 the, uh, part of the Shryer's honors college, uh, January 26, 2018, the two met up again in a computer

00:28:40.980 lab and started talking. They then started flirting and Jane put her number into John's phone,

00:28:48.160 according to the lawsuit and texted herself. I love you from John's phone as a means of giving

00:28:54.100 herself John's number. Um, and they continued to flirt and we're walking through how their relationship

00:29:02.540 progressed because it's important for the, for what happened next. So, um, okay. So it's a flirtatious

00:29:08.700 relationship. Um, eventually they end up in, uh, uh, they end up in Jane's room, which she invited

00:29:17.740 John to her room. Um, and, uh, they engage in sexual activity. Um, the lawsuit claims that Jane

00:29:27.960 later, it was a totally consensual act. The lawsuit claims that Jane later changed her account of the 0.97

00:29:35.480 sexual encounter to claim that John physically forced her into sex and, uh, that she tried to get

00:29:41.500 away from him, which according to the lawsuit was, was, uh, was not the case at all. Um, but here's

00:29:48.880 the, okay, here's, so this, so far it's, it's a story that unfortunately we've heard many times of

00:29:54.380 according to, according to the lawsuit anyway, you know, you have a consensual encounter that after the

00:30:00.300 fact turns non-consensual because the woman changed her mind and decided she regretted it and so on,

00:30:07.660 which of course you, you, you never hear the reverse of that. I mean, despite what some people

00:30:16.480 may think there, there have been occasions in the history of mankind, even in recent American history,

00:30:22.080 uh, there are probably, there are probably frequently occasions where, um, there's a sexual

00:30:27.760 encounter between a guy and a girl and the guy later regrets it and wishes he hadn't done that.

00:30:34.060 But you never hear about the guy coming back and saying, you know, you know what, actually, um, I,

00:30:38.460 I wasn't into that. Um, I was raped. You, you, you never hear that. And if a guy did do that, 0.86

00:30:43.200 I think he'd probably be laughed at the room. Nobody would take him seriously. So this is something

00:30:46.740 that only women are able to do. Um, it's a kind of female privilege. Well, the hearings panel chair told, 1.00

00:30:56.040 um, uh, okay. They said that the panel felt, this is the panel that was, you know, looking into these

00:31:04.580 allegations, uh, at the school. They felt that the respondents continual flattery constitutes cajoling,

00:31:11.600 which they gave several examples. Um, they gave several examples of what they felt that the guy was

00:31:19.780 cajoling, cajoling the girl into sex by flattering her. And some of the examples they gave, uh, these

00:31:27.160 are all just constitute text messages that he sent flirty sort of text messages. So when they say

00:31:33.260 cajoling, it's not like he was trying to blackmail her or intimidate her and damn sex, but no, he was 0.99

00:31:38.100 just, he called her beautiful, uh, stuff like that complimented her normal things that guys say to 0.99

00:31:45.880 girls, especially if they're in a relationship of some kind with them. Um, and so the school decided

00:31:53.160 that the flattery, um, is a cajoling into sexual intercourse. And therefore it's a form of sexual

00:32:02.320 assault. That's all according to the lawsuit. I mean, this is, you want to talk about the slippery

00:32:09.260 slope. This is, this is where we are now. And, uh, it yet again, underscores how dangerous it is.

00:32:21.200 And I think maybe this is the takeaway for people that are in, you know, if you're in college,

00:32:25.980 if you're a guy or, or a woman, either way, um, to engage in, you know, the, the hookup culture and

00:32:34.640 everything, it's, it's a, it's a dangerous game to play dangerous on a number of levels. I mean,

00:32:40.060 aside from the diseases and everything that are possible, there's also this element of it now,

00:32:43.980 now just completely insane. All right. We'll go to emails, Matt wall show at gmail.com

00:32:50.300 Matt wall show at gmail.com. Uh, this is from Dave says, Hey Matt, I've been navigating my own

00:32:56.280 beliefs on the death penalty as a Catholic. Francis recently scrubbed a bunch of latitude and personal

00:33:02.320 interpretation from the catechism. I naturally resonate with the thoughts you presented in a

00:33:07.180 recent podcast. I'd love to hear your thoughts on squaring Catholic faith in this belief as most of

00:33:12.560 the Catholic talkers are militantly anti-death penalty. Uh, yeah, we talked about the death

00:33:18.420 penalty and, and, uh, I shared that I am, I'm in favor of the death penalty. Although as I've talked

00:33:23.140 about over, over the course of, of the last couple of years, I've kind of flip-flopped on this issue,

00:33:30.060 but I'm now pretty firmly in favor of it for reasons that I outlined. I'm not going to get

00:33:33.980 into it again. Uh, but I have gotten several emails like this from people saying, well,

00:33:38.100 I thought as a Catholic, don't you have to be against the death penalty because the Pope came

00:33:42.320 out and said that the death penalty is impermissible. Um, or I forget the phrase he used.

00:33:48.160 I think that was the exact word, something like impermissible, inadmissible, maybe. Um, in,

00:33:54.780 in typical Pope Francis fashion, there was a little bit of vagueness and ambiguity in the way that it

00:34:01.700 was phrased, but it is true that, um, they made this change to the catechism. What I'll say though,

00:34:08.420 Dave, is that Catholic teaching, as I'm, as you probably are aware, Catholic teaching on the death

00:34:19.300 penalty has for, for, for, for 2000 years, the, the, the church taught that the death penalty

00:34:25.840 is at least in principle, um, acceptable, uh, not just acceptable actually, but, but, uh, could be the,

00:34:35.740 the, the, the morally right things to do. It could be, it could be necessary for, for justice.

00:34:41.600 That's what the Catholic church taught for 2000 years. Um, importantly, that is also clearly what

00:34:49.520 scripture teaches. I mean, you have God in his own words in the old Testament, uh, on numerous

00:34:58.980 occasions commanding the death penalty, not, not simply saying, oh yeah, you could do that if you

00:35:04.040 want, but saying you must do it, um, for crimes like murder, for instance. So that's, that's what

00:35:14.600 I know as a Catholic. And I know that the Pope does not have the authority to, on his own, simply

00:35:25.740 overturn that. The Pope can't overturn what God said. He can't. Um, and the Pope also can't get up

00:35:35.260 there and say, oh, you know what? The church was actually wrong about this for 2000 years because I

00:35:41.060 say so it's my, you know, in my opinion, they were wrong. So they were, um, the Pope can't do that.

00:35:49.560 So I guess my answer is, uh, I'm, I'm, you know, I'm not in disagreement with the church.

00:35:54.620 I'm not in disagreement with scripture. I am in disagreement with Pope Francis himself personally,

00:36:00.360 and I'm perfectly free to disagree with it. Um, all right. This is from Taylor says in high

00:36:08.540 school. I came across one of your blogs and I've been following your work ever since I admire your

00:36:12.400 intellectual honesty and wit, and you seem like a good person in general. Uh, well, I don't know

00:36:16.540 about any of that, but thank you, um, Taylor. I especially liked the episode of your show in

00:36:20.840 which you discuss philosophy. You mentioned a few episodes ago that you're naturally interested

00:36:24.460 in philosophical questions. We have this in common. I'm a graduate student in philosophy now,

00:36:28.460 and I was wondering if you had any favorite non-theological philosophical arguments.

00:36:32.740 It doesn't have to be an explicitly deductive argument. Perhaps there's a thought experiment

00:36:35.780 or analogy that you find particularly interesting. If so, could you explain the argument and what

00:36:40.260 you like about it? Okay. So you're asking for a favorite philosophical art question or argument

00:36:43.760 that doesn't explicitly deal with God or, or, or anything theological. Um, it's an interesting

00:36:50.360 question. Of course, at the end of the day, everything goes back to these theological questions

00:36:54.560 as I'm sure you probably agree. So you can't really separate it completely, but in terms

00:37:02.220 of theological or philosophical questions that aren't explicitly theological, um, well, I would

00:37:08.700 say, and this relates to the philosophical question we were discussing when I made the comment

00:37:12.000 that you're, uh, referring to about philosophy. Um, I am very interested in the nature of consciousness.

00:37:19.340 Um, and again, that has a lot of theological implications of course, but still it's something

00:37:24.780 that I find fairly fascinating. The nature of the self of consciousness and so on. Uh, I

00:37:29.820 think it's a very interesting field, philosophical field, um, not just philosophical, but as I said,

00:37:36.820 also theological, scientific. There's a thought experiment that touches on the nature of self

00:37:41.780 and consciousness. Um, a couple, actually the philosopher Thomas Nagel, which you, you probably

00:37:47.300 if you're getting a, if you're going to school for philosophy, you've probably heard about this,

00:37:51.460 but he wrote a famous essay, um, called what is it like to be a bat? And it deals with the question

00:37:59.040 of consciousness and conscious experiment experience. And he asks the question, is there an experience

00:38:06.780 of batness, uh, for lack of a better term, do bats really experience being bats the way that you

00:38:15.780 experience being a human? Um, do they think anything at all about themselves, about what

00:38:23.380 they're experiencing? Is it like something to be a bat or to be a squid or to be a sloth or to be,

00:38:30.040 you know, a dog or whatever. Um, and I think that's a, that is a, an interesting question.

00:38:36.540 Another thought experiment that I think we've talked about before on this show, um,

00:38:41.580 was first proposed by a philosopher in the, in the eighties, I think maybe seventies or eighties.

00:38:47.460 And this is, um, the thought experiment is this, imagine we live in a future where it's possible

00:38:54.820 to transplant a brain into a new body, which probably eventually scientists will be able to,

00:39:01.440 doctors will be able to do that. Um, they're not close right now, but let's just imagine that was

00:39:06.980 possible. Now suppose, because remember it is possible to live with half a brain.

00:39:13.700 So suppose that your brain is cut in two and then one half of the brain is transplanted into

00:39:20.060 one body and the other half is transplanted into another body. Where did you go? What happened to

00:39:26.420 you? Your brain's gotten to transplant different bodies. What happened to you? I think that's an

00:39:31.820 interesting question. Which one is you? Are you both now? Well, that, that's, that seems impossible.

00:39:37.600 Uh, are you, are you neither? Did you simply disappear? Um, and if so, then what, who, who replaced

00:39:46.300 you? Are you one and not the other? And then if that's the case, who's the other guy? I mean,

00:39:51.400 it's, it's, it's an interesting question. I think, um, of course, purely hypothetical. And as

00:39:58.440 a thought experiment is, I don't, even if they get to the point where they can transplant brains,

00:40:04.100 and even though we can survive with half a brain, I don't think there'll ever be a situation where

00:40:07.980 they would actually transplant half a brain into someone's head. But you know, um, this is from

00:40:12.800 Samuel says, uh, hello, Matt. I listened to your show fairly regularly and I very much enjoy it.

00:40:19.140 I agree with you for the most part, but there are a few things that I don't. The reason I'm writing

00:40:23.200 today is to challenge your idea that as adults, we should not hang on to our childhood

00:40:27.140 enjoyments stories slash movies in particular. As an adult, I have grown to really appreciate a lot

00:40:33.040 of children's stories and movies much more than I, when I was younger, even CS Lewis said that he

00:40:37.260 enjoyed store children's stories more as an adult. Thank you for the work you do. And I look forward to

00:40:42.760 getting my point of view roasted on your show. I'm not going to roast your point of view. Um,

00:40:47.220 I think it is, uh, it is possible to appreciate children's stories as an adult. Um,

00:40:55.860 you know, I'll read stories to my kids and I can appreciate those stories.

00:41:02.260 So I'm not saying we don't appreciate them, but I do think that, uh, look, the Bible says I became

00:41:08.760 a man and put away childish things. I think to a certain extent, and I'm, you know, and people,

00:41:14.380 people always counter that. I don't remember the exact quote, but the CS Lewis quote you're referring

00:41:18.120 to people always counter that scripture quote with the CS Lewis thing. Um, even though CS Lewis was not,

00:41:24.660 he wasn't trying to disagree with St. Paul when he said, when he said what you're, what you're

00:41:28.940 referring to. So I think that my, my point is simply as we grow older, our tastes should mature

00:41:37.520 to some extent. So while we could still appreciate childish things, uh, childlike things, we can

00:41:43.880 appreciate them to some extent in a, in a certain way. Um, we appreciate them as adults. And I think we

00:41:52.260 also have mature tastes as well. That's why I was saying the interesting thing about being a parent

00:41:58.680 is that you go back and you kind of relive your childhood in many ways. Um, you're experiencing all

00:42:05.620 the things you experienced as a child again, but now you're experiencing it as an adult, as a parent

00:42:10.680 from a different perspective. I think the problem is when you have adults that are clinging onto their

00:42:18.600 childhood and still experiencing those childlike things, almost like children themselves,

00:42:25.520 not from a new perspective, not, you know, reliving it as a parent or something, but refusing to leave

00:42:33.340 childhood to begin with. And also I would say, I think there's a difference between, uh, you know,

00:42:40.980 when someone like C.S. Lewis talks about fairy tales for children, well, you got to keep in mind

00:42:47.400 C.S. Lewis, I mean, he was writing back in the early to mid 20th century, um, uh, mid 20th century

00:42:54.720 anyway. And still even back then, for the most part, you know, the, the fairy tales that, that, that he

00:43:00.460 was talking about, they're not the same as the kind of as comic book movies today. I think fairy tales

00:43:07.480 back in those days were often, you know, often did have very mature themes and, uh, they were for

00:43:14.080 children, but they also, you know, they, they, they also had a certain depth to them, I guess is the

00:43:20.140 point that I think a lot of the stuff for kids these days has just has no depth. Um, and that's one of

00:43:29.460 the reasons why usually as you grow older and you become an adult, you, these days, um, I think at

00:43:37.440 least for me, as I've grown older, I, I, I can't enjoy some of those childlike things the same way

00:43:43.700 because it just, it has no depth. There's nothing to it. And as you get older, you start to see that.

00:43:49.440 Um, all right. This is from Paul says, have you seen this video regarding your minimum wage

00:43:54.160 discussion? And then there's a link to the video. Uh, and this is a video from someone named Sam

00:43:59.240 Cedar, uh, titled is Matt Walsh, the laziest right winger in media. Apparently it's a response

00:44:08.300 to my, to what I said about minimum wage. Uh, the email goes on, although I'm a free market

00:44:13.220 capitalist and opposed to minimum wage, they do make an interesting point about when people provide

00:44:17.500 more work, uh, than they're being paid. I certainly understand that it's very difficult to really measure

00:44:21.760 the value of someone's work. And I think that we need to be grateful for the opportunity to work

00:44:25.100 and should always try to do the best job possible out of gratitude if nothing else. But I'm

00:44:29.180 very interested to hear your rebuttal to this video. Keep it the good work. Um, yeah, Paul,

00:44:33.360 I hadn't seen this video, uh, but I will watch it. It's okay. It's 17 minutes long rebuttal to what

00:44:41.080 I said about, I'll watch it. And I'll, if, if, if there's anything interesting there, I will provide

00:44:46.440 a response on the show, but thank you for bringing it to my attention. Uh, we'll leave it there,

00:44:50.620 everybody. Thanks for watching. Godspeed.

00:44:52.200 Hey everyone. It's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan show. Politics corrupts,

00:45:09.640 but identity politics corrupts. Absolutely. Trump has broken through that evil racist system. Not

00:45:15.660 politely. I admit more like the incredible Hulk walking through a wall. The question is now that

00:45:20.540 the wall is down. Well, the rest of us have the courage to run free. We'll talk about it on the

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 30, 2019

Ep. 306 - Donald Trump's Reverse Magnetism

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