The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 307 - Sanity Is Fringe In The Democrat Party

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Democrat debate was last night.

00:00:02.560 We'll go over the major takeaways from the debate, including the fight,

00:00:06.420 the desperate losing fight by some of the remaining sane Democrats,

00:00:09.700 the very few, to preserve some semblance of sanity in the party.

00:00:13.840 It's an interesting struggle.

00:00:14.940 Also, a Republican proposes a bill to fight social media addiction.

00:00:19.360 I'll explain why the bill is bad.

00:00:22.640 And is it time to just let leftists destroy women's sports as they are so desperate to do? 1.00

00:00:27.780 We'll talk about that today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:34.660 So to be honest, I gave up on the debate last night after about an hour and a half.

00:00:37.800 I can give my analysis of an hour and a half of the debate.

00:00:40.140 I gave up. I went down to the hotel bar because the thing was,

00:00:42.720 I was expecting it to be a two-hour debate.

00:00:45.620 I was mentally prepared for two hours.

00:00:47.620 And then I realized about, you know, halfway through that it's actually two and a half hours.

00:00:51.060 And that's when I fell into deep despair and gave up all hope.

00:00:54.420 And I just had to turn it off.

00:00:55.740 But from what I did see, I will offer my analysis of this very important debate.

00:01:00.640 A debate which, of course, actually is not important at all.

00:01:03.060 Because they're going to do, you know, 50 of these things.

00:01:06.360 And nobody already, you probably, if you watch the debate,

00:01:09.420 you already probably can't remember 98% of it.

00:01:12.340 By next week, or even by the debate tonight, you're going to have forgotten all of it.

00:01:15.920 So it really doesn't matter.

00:01:17.480 But here's the first point I want to make regardless.

00:01:20.580 Not just about this debate, but about all debates.

00:01:24.240 And I'll say this.

00:01:25.540 When I am dictator of the country, well, there won't be any political debates when I'm dictator.

00:01:30.620 Because I will be the sole lifetime supreme ruler.

00:01:33.940 But if there were debates and I was in charge, I would have all the candidates standing at the podium

00:01:39.320 on, like, one of those, like a trap door that you see in some cartoons.

00:01:44.400 And the trap door would open and they would fall into shark-infested waters

00:01:48.500 the first moment they opened their mouths to offer an anecdote.

00:01:54.220 There are few things that I hate more.

00:01:58.600 And I hate a lot of things.

00:02:00.380 There are few things I hate more than anecdotes from politicians in debates.

00:02:05.140 It's just, it's utterly pointless.

00:02:07.920 I guess they've been told, I guess they focus grouped it, and they've been told that some

00:02:11.640 people go for this stuff.

00:02:13.020 But I don't know who those people are.

00:02:14.840 So it's like, you know, they, you know, let me tell you about Roberta Smith.

00:02:18.920 Roberta Smith is a crossing guard in Iowa. 0.75

00:02:23.100 She's a single mom of three.

00:02:25.380 Her youngest child has one leg.

00:02:27.560 Her second youngest child has three legs.

00:02:30.920 Roberta just lost her job. 1.00

00:02:32.040 And she got the flu and her car exploded and her dog has arthritis.

00:02:38.080 The other thing about Roberta, and it's just, look, even if Roberta exists, which is debatable,

00:02:43.340 this has nothing to do with anything.

00:02:45.320 Telling us the tragic story of some random person you supposedly met on the campaign trail

00:02:49.160 does not at all prove whatever point you're trying to make.

00:02:52.520 And if it is a real person, so if it's a fake person, then you're lying.

00:02:55.840 If it's a real person, it's even worse because you are transparently exploiting their pain.

00:03:00.620 You're exploiting Roberta's pain with her three-legged child. 0.89

00:03:04.020 Her pain and suffering, it's not like this is spontaneous.

00:03:06.580 You obviously rehearse this.

00:03:07.740 It is painfully, blatantly rehearsed.

00:03:09.920 An anecdote meant to emotionally manipulate the audience.

00:03:12.940 And it's irrelevant on top of that.

00:03:14.600 And I hate it.

00:03:15.380 And it needs to stop.

00:03:16.100 So that's the first thing is anecdotes.

00:03:18.160 We need to get rid of those.

00:03:19.800 And when I am dictator, anyone who offers them will be eaten by sharks.

00:03:23.120 That's my solemn pledge.

00:03:24.600 Now, that out of the way, what else?

00:03:27.480 We'll go through and look at a few of the comparatively notable events from the debate.

00:03:33.240 The first thing of note, the most notable thing for me, happened close to the end of the debate.

00:03:39.840 But this I really liked.

00:03:41.180 Watch this.

00:03:41.920 We have an administration that has gutted the Clean Water Act. 0.97

00:03:45.420 We have communities, particularly communities of color and disadvantaged communities,

00:03:49.460 all over this country who are suffering from environmental injustice.

00:03:53.440 I assure you, I lived in Grosse Pointe.

00:03:55.080 What happened in Flint would not have happened in Grosse Pointe.

00:03:57.820 This is part of the dark underbelly of American society.

00:04:01.780 The racism, the bigotry, and the entire conversation that we're having here tonight.

00:04:06.520 If you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the

00:04:11.220 collectivized hatred that this president is bringing up in this country,

00:04:15.020 then I'm afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days.

00:04:18.180 So that is Marianne Williamson talking about the dark psychic force of collectivized hatred.

00:04:25.920 The dark psychic force of collectivized hatred.

00:04:30.300 That is quite a salad of words.

00:04:32.680 And by the way, how do we defeat the dark psychic force of collectivized hatred?

00:04:38.080 Well, we have to collect the four unity stones from the four corners of the earth.

00:04:42.280 She got into that later.

00:04:43.320 I don't know if you might have missed that part.

00:04:44.800 Um, Marianne Williamson is a, is a sort of lovably quirky and weird person.

00:04:50.560 She's also of course wrong about just like everybody else on the stage.

00:04:54.640 She's wrong about everything and her policy ideas are abysmal.

00:04:58.720 Um, but at least she has eccentric charm to her, which is more than I can say for most of 0.90

00:05:03.340 the other characters on the stage.

00:05:05.540 Aside from Marianne Williamson, if I were to pick four, let's say takeaways, um, from the

00:05:11.460 debate, they would be this, the first, and this one I thought was interesting.

00:05:16.640 There are people in the Democrat party.

00:05:19.200 This, this may actually be a revelation to you.

00:05:21.160 It was sort of to me. 0.95

00:05:23.020 There are still people in the Democrat party who know how crazy and delusional Democrats

00:05:29.220 seem when they act like genies who can grant, you know, a million wishes can grant unlimited 0.55

00:05:34.800 wishes to anyone who wants them.

00:05:36.160 That was the most fascinating thing to me in the debate, watching the relatively sane ones.

00:05:42.080 And there were a few, again, relatively in comparison to, um, you know, considering where

00:05:47.200 the bar is for sanity among Democrats, relatively sane, watching them try to desperately rein in

00:05:52.800 the insane ones, but they are dwindling voices.

00:05:58.860 And of course they stand no chance because sanity is well outside the Democratic mainstream these

00:06:03.080 days. So, so that that's, that's, what's funny is the people who are normal, relatively normal

00:06:08.980 and sane are now fringe in the Democrat party.

00:06:11.880 The ones who will get up there and say, as some had to say at the debate, look, we can't just give

00:06:16.320 everyone everything. We can't just give free everything that now is a fringe idea in the

00:06:21.820 Democrat party. Um, I did though, really appreciate this moment between Hickenlooper and Sanders.

00:06:29.220 I want you to watch Hickenlooper's facial expression. Watch this.

00:06:33.040 The truth is that every credible poll that I have seen has me beating Donald Trump,

00:06:38.400 including, including the battleground States of Michigan.

00:06:43.860 So you see there Hickenlooper just openly rolls his eyes at Bernie Sanders, which is such a perfect

00:06:50.680 response to Bernie Sanders. And in that moment of rolling his eyes, we were all Hickenlooper.

00:06:55.660 I think we, we, we were Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper was us. He represented us because that's how most

00:07:02.240 of us feel when we watch Bernie Sanders. It's just, that's exactly like, okay, Bernie. All right.

00:07:07.380 Um, but this is all part again of that kind of sad, desperate losing battle that some minority fringe 0.99

00:07:15.120 members of the Democrat party are fighting to try and keep the party at least somewhat tethered to

00:07:19.820 reality. Um, second takeaway, speaking of not being tethered to reality, last night, we got to see

00:07:27.980 yet again, Democrats up on the stage on national TV, seriously, sincerely advocating reparations.

00:07:38.400 And this shows you where the party is. Let's watch this clip here.

00:07:41.840 We need to recognize that when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America,

00:07:46.680 it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with. That great injustice has had to

00:07:53.000 do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed by another hundred, hundred years of

00:07:58.500 domestic terrorism. What makes me qualified to say 200 to $500 billion? I'll tell you what makes me

00:08:04.900 qualified. If you did the math of the 40 acres and a mule, given that there was four to five million

00:08:10.200 slaves at the end of the civil war, they're fortified. And they were all promised 40 acres and a mule for

00:08:16.360 every family of four. If you did the math today, it would be trillions of dollars. And I believe that

00:08:21.720 anything less than a hundred billion dollars is, is an insult. And I believe that 200 to 500 billion

00:08:27.960 is, is politically feasible today because so many Americans realize there is an injustice that continues to

00:08:34.440 form a toxicity underneath the surface and emotional turbulence that only reparations.

00:08:39.960 Thank you very much. Keep in mind, this would have been, as is the case with so many things you

00:08:45.080 hear from Democrats these days, this would have been unthinkable even certainly 10 years ago, even

00:08:50.680 five years ago, just like it would be unthinkable to have mainstream Democrats openly advocating

00:08:56.120 socialism. It would have been unthinkable to have, you know, almost every Democrat advocating,

00:09:02.120 putting men in the women's bathroom. All this stuff would have been thinkable five, 10 years ago. 0.98

00:09:05.400 And now it's normal, uh, openly advocating reparations during Barack Obama was not a proponent

00:09:13.360 of reparations. He opposed reparations or rather at least Obama knew that he had to oppose it because

00:09:20.760 it was such a wildly unpopular idea. And it still is wildly unpopular because except with the minority of

00:09:26.900 people who would receive money as payment for injustices that they did not themselves suffer.

00:09:31.360 It of course is unpopular. There was Don Lemon last night said, I forget the exact statistic. I

00:09:36.720 think he said 76% of African-Americans, uh, support reparations in the, in the form of cash payment.

00:09:46.080 Okay. Well, I, I, I, I understand. I get it because of course, if you go up to somebody and you say,

00:09:51.920 do you support being given cash? Uh, I I'm actually surprised it's only 76%. I think almost everybody

00:09:59.480 would say, well, sure. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to give it to me, I'll take it,

00:10:02.040 but everybody else it's unpopular with, except for that, the group of people who would receive

00:10:08.660 the money and also hardcore left-wing activists who are the ones driving the party. Now, um,

00:10:15.840 third moment that I liked, and this is just a small moment, but you need to watch when we play

00:10:20.280 this clip, watch Elizabeth Warren's hands. Watch this. Your estimated net worth is more than $65 0.99

00:10:26.800 million. That would make you subject to Senator Warren's proposed wealth tax on the assets of

00:10:32.000 the richest 75,000 homes, households, or so in the United States. Do you think Senator Warren's

00:10:37.640 wealth tax is a fair way to fund childcare and education? She, I don't know if you caught that.

00:10:43.440 It's sort of subtle, but she's, she's literally rubbing her hands together, uh, like a supervillain 0.95

00:10:49.080 or something when they're talking about her confiscating money from wealthy people that she 1.00

00:10:53.860 does this, she does an evil little, she does an evil grin and rubs her hands together. I mean, 0.94

00:10:57.560 these people, they're not even trying anymore. Um, for, uh, finally, this for me was a moment

00:11:02.780 and it was small. It was kind of a glancing moment. I don't think it's something a lot of people

00:11:09.020 are going to be talking about, but, uh, I'm so fed up with mayor Pete doing this so annoyed by it that

00:11:16.920 I have to mention it. Uh, watch this here. The minimum wage is just too low and so-called 0.99

00:11:22.500 conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum

00:11:28.240 wage. When scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker. Okay. There is Bishop

00:11:34.760 Pete again, bringing religion into it. This guy, he, he gives more homilies than the Pope

00:11:40.240 and he's even more theologically off base than the Pope is these days. The thing that ticks me off

00:11:47.140 about, about Pete throwing the Bible around as he so often does is that it's just so cynical.

00:11:55.240 Okay. Um, the fact is he holds many views that are obviously totally at odds with scripture.

00:12:03.880 And he must know that on some level. I mean, let, let, let's just start with the fact that

00:12:09.900 he advocates abortion through every stage of pregnancy up until the moment of birth.

00:12:16.360 Now the idea that that scripture, the idea that Jesus would somehow support that is clearly absurd.

00:12:23.400 Yet he continues to, to, to Bible thump. And that's the irony now that on the public stage among

00:12:28.960 prominent politicians, Mayor Pete is pretty much the only Bible thumper. Um, he's the one true Bible 1.00

00:12:37.340 thumper on the public stage among politicians. And he's a radical left Democrat. I can you, I can't

00:12:43.820 think of a Republican who tries to make their point by quoting scripture as often as a Bishop Pete does.

00:12:51.100 I, I, now everybody would, would point to Mike Pence. Uh, I've Mike Pence, despite his,

00:12:59.600 his reputation is not up there constantly quoting scripture, especially if he's talking about

00:13:04.540 something that is not directly related to it. That's what Bishop Pete does. And when I say,

00:13:09.640 when I say that he's a Bible thumper, I mean that in the sense, because there's a distinction here,

00:13:15.120 just because you quote scripture doesn't make you a Bible thumper. A Bible thumper is someone who 0.93

00:13:19.600 just rips out a verse often out of context and pummels his opponents with it. He uses it as a,

00:13:27.140 as a, as a bludgeoning tool to beat his opponents over the head. That's what a Bible thumper is. 1.00

00:13:33.600 And, um, that's what conservatives are accused of doing. But that in fact is what Mayor Pete does.

00:13:40.140 What he says about the minimum wage. Yes. The Bible is very clear that we should not oppress the poor

00:13:48.580 or exploit the poor. But the whole point that we make here about the, about the minimum wage is that

00:13:54.180 it's not oppressive. Okay. To, uh, to, you know, having no minimum wage or, or if we refrain from

00:14:02.320 raising it to 50, that is not oppressive. That's our, we're, we are not advocating for oppressing the

00:14:07.620 poor. That's a position that nobody holds. So this is a straw man argument. Bishop Pete says,

00:14:14.520 oh, the Republicans should realize that the Bible says you shouldn't oppress the poor. Yes,

00:14:18.120 of course we all agree. We shouldn't oppress the poor. The other point that we make that is that,

00:14:23.600 that rarely do, do people, people like Bishop Pete even engage with is that by raising the minimum

00:14:28.480 wage, you hurt the poor because now you incentivize companies to automate these jobs,

00:14:34.640 which many of them can do. We've all been, most of us anyway, have been in a, in a McDonald's

00:14:40.360 recently. And most McDonald's, at least many of them are across the country, have these automated

00:14:45.240 things now where you just go up and you put in your order and that's taking away jobs. If you go

00:14:50.440 to McDonald's, you say you, now all the cashiers that are left who are doing a job that the automated

00:14:56.220 machine thing, it can, can do and is already doing. Now you have to pay them $15 an hour.

00:15:02.500 Guess what McDonald's is going to say? They're going to say, you know what? I think the automated

00:15:05.660 things are working fine. We'll just stick with those. So you hurt the poor by doing that.

00:15:11.080 All right. So that's the debate. A few other things to talk about before we go on. I just,

00:15:15.240 I do want to stop and pay, pay homage for a moment. There's recently been a movement among

00:15:22.940 Democrats in Congress to unfollow Trump on Twitter. First, there was one Congressman who

00:15:29.840 unfollowed Trump and he announced it. He made this very dramatic announcement on Twitter. It's

00:15:33.520 explaining why he unfollowed the president. And then Congressman Joe Cunningham of South Carolina

00:15:38.560 posted yesterday, this absolutely harrowing video. Um, he not only unfollowed Trump,

00:15:44.600 but he took a video of himself unfollowing Trump and he posted that video. Can you

00:15:51.220 imagine the heroism that is required to make a stand like that? To unfollow Donald Trump on Twitter,

00:16:00.880 to confine yourself to only seeing his tweets when everybody else retweets them. And when the media

00:16:05.780 covers them, I just, I could only dream of having a 10th of this man's strength and courage. It's,

00:16:12.320 it's truly generations down the ages will tell of this moment. They will sing songs of praise

00:16:18.060 and erect monuments and direct monuments and find a never ending source of hope and encouragement in

00:16:22.560 this one act, this one momentous act, an act that changed the world. So congratulations to Joe

00:16:28.380 Cunningham. All right. Um, moving over to the Republicans for a moment. Um, I'm going to read

00:16:35.860 a little bit from a report in the Hill. It says Senator Josh Hawley, a freshman who has emerged as a top

00:16:43.240 Republican critic of major technology companies in Congress on Tuesday will introduce a bill banning

00:16:47.840 social media companies from building addictive features into their products. Holly's social

00:16:53.540 media addiction. Well, this is what his bill is social media addiction reduction technology act

00:16:58.560 or smart act. Uh, I give him credit though, for, for making that acronym work. It was, it was,

00:17:05.360 it was, he barely had to strain for it. So I do like that. Um, the act would make it illegal for

00:17:10.260 social media platforms to hook users by offering them more content than they requested in order to get

00:17:16.100 them to continue on their respective platforms. The bill takes aim at practices specifically employed

00:17:21.200 by the country's top social networking sites, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. For example,

00:17:25.580 would ban YouTube's autoplay feature, which loads up new videos for users automatically.

00:17:31.740 Um, it would ban Facebook and Twitter's infinite scroll, which allows users to continue scrolling

00:17:36.300 through their homepages without limits. And it would ban Snapchat's streaks, which rewards users for

00:17:41.880 continuing to send photos to their friends. It would also require the companies to build user

00:17:46.200 friendly interfaces with features, allowing users to limit the amount of time they spend on the

00:17:50.120 platform and offering reminders of how much time they spent perusing the platform. Okay. So these

00:17:56.600 companies would have to not only limit the amount of time, but they would have to build in some sort

00:18:03.600 of feature. I guess, I don't know, an alarm bell or something would have to go off to let you know,

00:18:08.440 hey, by the way, you've been on Facebook for three and a half hours. Um, Holly said in a statement,

00:18:13.480 big tech has embraced a business model of addiction. Too much of the innovation in this

00:18:17.300 space is designed not to create better products, but to capture more attention by using psychological

00:18:22.200 tricks that make it difficult to look away. Um, and then he goes on from there and explains

00:18:27.220 some more about what he's gonna do. Okay. So I have two major problems here. The first is that the

00:18:35.440 government simply has no business getting involved here. And I know that sounds like a cliche at this

00:18:39.920 point. It sounds like a libertarian cliche. Um, just something that you say, right? An assertion.

00:18:45.940 The government has no business doing this, but, um, I think it's really true in this case. You take

00:18:52.080 infinite scroll, for example, some people like it. Some people don't. I personally don't,

00:18:58.040 but if you're a lawmaker and you don't personally like something,

00:19:01.980 that's not enough reason to make a law against it. That's just a taste of thing.

00:19:07.040 There are a lot of things people do online that I don't like a lot. Let's take, for instance,

00:19:11.500 people who use exclamation points too much. That really annoys me. It even, I would say,

00:19:16.760 traumatizes me sometimes. But if I was a politician, I don't think I can make a law

00:19:21.260 banning the use of exclamation as much as I would like to. I, it's, I can't do that because that's just

00:19:27.500 my own personal taste, which has no business in the, in the, in the, in the law. Um, so what you

00:19:36.920 have to do, which is what Holly's trying to do here is pretend that this thing he doesn't like

00:19:44.340 is some sort of public health emergency. And I think the idea that infinite scroll,

00:19:49.980 for example, on Twitter is a public health emergency is obviously absurd. Second,

00:19:54.140 this is all justified. I mean, how do you make it a public health emergency? Well,

00:19:58.980 you say that social media is an addiction and it's right there in the name of the bill.

00:20:03.400 They put the word addiction, but I really think we need to find other words besides addiction.

00:20:09.040 Um, addiction is ironically enough, an abused term. It seems we, we grasp always for the word

00:20:16.900 addiction, social media addiction, TV addiction, sex addiction, addiction, food addiction,

00:20:22.860 addiction, so on and so forth. Um, we, we, we immediately grab for that word addiction when

00:20:28.700 sometimes a word like compulsion or even simply habit would be better. I mean, can anyone, whatever

00:20:35.520 happened to bad habits? Can anyone have a bad habit anymore? Bad habits used to exist. It used

00:20:40.480 to be a thing. People had bad habits and, uh, yeah, it's a little bit difficult to break a bad

00:20:44.920 habit, but you can do it. Um, replace them with good habits. But the word bad, you rarely hear about

00:20:52.440 bad habits anymore because everything is an addiction. Anything that's a bad habit automatically

00:20:56.600 becomes an addiction. Everything's an addiction. The problem though, is that, um, whatever word you

00:21:03.840 use, it's obvious that a person who is, uh, who uses a lot of social media is in a different

00:21:12.800 category from someone who uses, say a lot of heroin. And the main difference, one of them anyway,

00:21:19.620 is that the person using heroin, the way, you know, they're addicted is that if they just stopped

00:21:26.960 using it all of a sudden, they might die. Okay. At the very least, they're going to be in the

00:21:32.140 emergency room. If they just stopped using, there is a real, a very real, not, not, not just

00:21:37.480 psychological, not, um, but a very real chemical need that the person on heroin has. They actually

00:21:44.400 need the heroin. And it's such a real need that they, they just, they can't just stop. They have

00:21:49.740 to be weaned off of it. So it's something through their addiction that they've come to need, but it's

00:21:55.220 also killing them. That's okay. There's an addiction. That is a grade A, 100% real addiction.

00:22:03.020 And if they just stop all of a sudden, and even in fact, even if they're weaned off of it,

00:22:06.560 uh, during that process of weaning, it's going to be agonizing. They're going to be sick. They're

00:22:10.840 going to be in pain. Um, they will experience a real withdrawal and they're going to know it.

00:22:16.480 That's an addiction. Does a social media habit fall into that category? Now you could say all

00:22:22.080 you want, you could point to all the studies showing that, well, if you use too much, too much

00:22:25.760 social media, it does this and that bad thing to you. It's a big problem. People are using too much

00:22:29.800 internet. I agree. I've written about that. I've talked about that. I did it. I did an entire show

00:22:35.220 about it. Um, so I agree that we're, we're all way too much, way too obsessed with our phones.

00:22:40.440 Um, and that it's, it, it, it is having a profound impact on us as people, but if the power goes out

00:22:47.800 in your house and you don't have cell reception either. And so you can't use social media for 12

00:22:54.000 hours. Are you going to be writhing on the ground in pain? Are you going to have to go to the,

00:22:58.380 let me ask you this. Has there been anyone, I don't care how addicted you claim somebody is to

00:23:03.560 social media. Has there been anyone who for some reason was forced to go cold turkey on social media

00:23:08.480 and then ended up in the emergency room, um, because of the physical withdrawal symptoms.

00:23:14.920 And if the answer is no, and I think the answer is no, then that is not an addiction. At least it's

00:23:20.180 not the same. We need a different word. We've got heroin addiction. We know what that means.

00:23:24.820 We need a different word for this other thing over here. It's not the same thing.

00:23:29.840 And as I said, I would, I would nominate either compulsion or habit.

00:23:35.480 It can be difficult to get over a compulsion. It can be difficult to overcome a bad habit,

00:23:39.740 but you can do it. See, here's the thing. Somebody who, uh, is on heroin, you can't just say to them,

00:23:49.620 well, stop doing it. It's as simple as that. Just stop. It's not as simple as that.

00:23:54.820 But someone who uses a lot of social media or someone who eats too much, um, or someone who's,

00:24:02.200 who watches too much TV or someone who watches pornography and all the, you could say to them,

00:24:07.760 just stop. They can stop. You could tell them just stop. And they really can stop. They are

00:24:12.080 physically capable of doing it. It's just, do they have the incentive to stop? Do they have the

00:24:16.340 wherewithal? Do they have the moral fortitude? Do they have the discipline? I mean, that's what it

00:24:21.400 requires to stop doing those things, or at least to, to regulate your consumption of things like

00:24:26.000 social media or food. So that's the difference. That is a habit. And that's why we don't need the

00:24:33.140 government getting involved because all the government needs to say is, Hey, uh, people are

00:24:37.880 using too much social media. Maybe use less. That's it. If you want to pass a bill that says that,

00:24:44.460 that just encourages people to use it less, fine, but I don't think it's necessary. Finally, um,

00:24:51.000 here's a, here's a topic we, we've talked about plenty on this show, but, um, I have a,

00:24:58.720 a sort of different thought that's been in my head recently that I want, I want to share. You know,

00:25:05.260 this week the ACLU, um, came out in support of the two biological males who we've talked about,

00:25:11.480 who've been dominating the girls track and field circuit up in Connecticut, uh, for two years now, 0.99

00:25:16.380 Terry Miller and Andrea Yearwood are the names they go by now with their ample supply of testosterone 0.67

00:25:22.320 and their longer legs and their greater muscle mass and their larger lungs and their larger hearts

00:25:27.020 and, and, and innumerable other biological advantages. They've been snatching up gold medals

00:25:33.100 with a times that would barely place them in the top 20. If they were racing against the boys,

00:25:38.200 it's important to emphasize that because I don't think it's a coincidence. These are mediocre

00:25:44.440 male track athletes who would not be going to States would not be, certainly wouldn't be winning

00:25:50.840 gold medals. Wouldn't be, wouldn't, wouldn't even, wouldn't even be placing, um, in a, in a,

00:25:55.820 in a, in a boys track meet. They go over to the girls and they're dominating. They're breaking

00:26:00.480 records. They're getting gold medals. I don't think that's a coincidence. Um, but the ACLU

00:26:07.580 rather than coming to the defense of the girls who are having their medals stolen from the ACLU

00:26:12.320 yesterday, uh, came out in support of the two boys and they had a petition where they were

00:26:17.720 encouraging us to, uh, sign a pledge of support for these two boys who are stealing medals from

00:26:24.000 girls. And this isn't the first time that these young men have been celebrated as heroes. A few

00:26:29.060 months ago, uh, maybe we talked about on the show. I can't remember bleacher bleacher report ran a

00:26:34.180 glowing profile of Yearwood. It's, I mean, it's sickening to read this thing, portraying

00:26:39.240 her quote unquote her as this gutsy champion of equality. Um, when in reality, again, he is just

00:26:47.140 a mediocre male athlete who decided that the best way to get a gold medal and trophy case

00:26:51.200 is to steal it. Now, real actual biological girls who are having opportunities and accolades 1.00

00:26:59.860 stolen from them. Unfortunately, you know, this is happening in high school and you think, well,

00:27:04.160 maybe they get to college and they'll get a break from it. Um, but no, because there's a guy named

00:27:08.760 Craig who goes by CC now, who's breaking records in a women's track at the college level, but at least 0.88

00:27:15.860 these guys are merely, merely breaking records. Uh, you may remember Fallon Fox, who's a biological

00:27:20.900 male. He was breaking women's faces, literally in MMA before finally retiring. One of his victims,

00:27:28.540 um, uh, one of his most recent victims, he, uh, he, he fractured her orbital or orbital socket.

00:27:34.540 Uh, he gave her concussion. She had to get seven staples in her head because this man was beating

00:27:41.260 her senseless. After the fight, she said that she felt helpless. She felt completely overpowered,

00:27:45.840 which is the exact opposite of what women are supposed. This is why we encourage girls, 1.00

00:27:50.680 right? To get into sports. They're not supposed to feel overpowered and helpless. That's the exact

00:27:55.480 opposite of the sort of feeling and experience they're supposed to have in sports. But now they

00:28:02.540 go and they're, they're up against men and they feel it's, they feel helpless, which they are to a

00:28:09.600 certain extent because they can't, you can't do anything about your biology. Speaking of being

00:28:16.020 overpowered, a professional weightlifter named Laurel Hubbard recently decided coincidentally 0.98

00:28:20.940 that he's actually a woman after years of competing against men is competed against men for years.

00:28:26.900 Um, and then he, and then he said, you know what? I'm actually a woman, you know,

00:28:31.540 coincident as it turns out I'm a woman. Okay. And he went on to win gold at the, at the Pacific

00:28:36.480 games, um, last week. Again, I'm sure it's a total coincidence that these guys, mediocre athletes

00:28:42.240 discover their femininity and then become a gold medal athlete. I'm sure that I'm sure that's a

00:28:47.580 total coincidence. Now, some people, the sane ones are petitioning to prevent Hubbard from competing

00:28:53.360 in women's heavyweight events from now on, but they're meeting resistance from the woke and 1.00

00:28:58.280 enlightened elements in society. Um, many leftists are, are opposing these people or trying to prevent it.

00:29:04.360 And then many others are just sort of ignoring it. Now here's my point. I, I, as you know, uh,

00:29:11.980 I have been staunchly opposed to the male invasion of female sports. Um, the notion that they should 1.00

00:29:20.020 be allowed into female sports is so self evidently absurd that it barely requires a rebuttal because 0.99

00:29:25.820 reasonable people do not need the issue explained to them. You go up to any normal, reasonable person,

00:29:31.580 no matter where they fall politically, it doesn't matter. And you ask them, should biological males

00:29:36.420 be allowed to compete against girls? They're all going to say, of course not. What? No. Um, 0.66

00:29:42.660 that's because we know that men and women are different. We know that men have physical advantages.

00:29:47.840 We know that men don't in any meaningful sense actually become women just because they feel like

00:29:53.060 one and they declare themselves to be one. This is all, as I said, self-evident, but, um,

00:30:00.640 I must admit there's a part of me, there is an admittedly cynical, maybe vengeful part of me

00:30:09.940 that as I've thought more about this issue, I start to think maybe we should just,

00:30:16.900 and it pains me to even say, but maybe we should just let the left prevail on this issue.

00:30:24.280 Perhaps we should allow them to do exactly what they're trying to do, which is abolish women's 1.00

00:30:29.800 sports. The left is desperately trying to destroy women's sports, to erase it, get rid of it. And we 1.00

00:30:37.720 as conservatives are, are, are desperately trying to preserve it and say, no, we're, we're trying to

00:30:41.680 protect women's sports. Well, I, what I'm saying is, um, maybe there's something to be said for

00:30:47.680 getting out of the way and saying, you know what? Fine. We're going to sit back. We're going to kick

00:30:54.400 up our feet and we're going to watch it happen. And we're going to wait for the inevitable and not

00:30:59.020 far off day when the top competitors in every women's sport are men. I think if we stopped resisting

00:31:06.200 this madness, I think the time would shortly come when, uh, when entire teams of testosterone fueled

00:31:13.220 men are winning basketball and soccer championships against women. Um, there would certainly be nothing 1.00

00:31:18.940 to prevent that eventuality if the leftists have their way. So maybe we let them have their way,

00:31:25.200 let them reap what they sow, let them, let everybody experience in, in, in the very real,

00:31:30.920 in a very real and tangible way, the consequences of progressive ideology in action. Because it's

00:31:38.520 one thing for us to argue about this in the abstract, which I've been doing until my face is blue,

00:31:42.900 but it's another thing to see the lunacy manifested before you in the form of say a six foot five inch

00:31:52.040 male putting up 80 points a game in women's basketball. I mean, you take a, you take a guy 0.99

00:31:59.920 who would be say a, I don't know, a sixth man in basketball, or maybe not even that. You take a,

00:32:08.040 a guy who would make a team in the NBA, but, but would hardly see any playing time. Take a guy like

00:32:14.000 that, put him in the NBA. He's going to get 80 points a game. Okay. He's, I mean, he'll be like

00:32:20.120 Wilt Chamberlain in his 100 point game, except he'll do that every game. That's how vast the disparity

00:32:25.360 is. And so maybe we just let that happen. It could be an educational experience that the country

00:32:30.280 needs. Um, because I can sit here and insist that the left's claims about gender are crazy 0.99

00:32:36.480 and destructive. I think sometimes though, you know, they say it's better to show than tell.

00:32:40.480 Well, maybe we should just show. Maybe we should just say, all right, fine. See what happens.

00:32:46.660 Now, what do you do? If your child, you know, you tell your child not to touch the hot stove.

00:32:54.680 If he's not going to listen to you, um, eventually he's going to have to just touch it himself.

00:33:02.000 You know, in my house, we have a, we have a pellet stove in the basement. It gets very hot,

00:33:05.560 heats the house, energy efficient though. I highly recommend it. Um, and, but as I said,

00:33:09.320 it gets really hot. And so of course we tell our kids, don't touch the stove, don't touch the stove,

00:33:13.020 don't touch the stove. We keep saying it, but of course, eventually our youngest one day, um,

00:33:17.780 when, you know, we had our back turned, he went up and touched the stove and he got up and he

00:33:21.120 burned his hand and it hurt. You know, he was fine, but, uh, he recovered quickly, but it really hurt

00:33:26.080 for a minute. And he hasn't touched the stove since that was a lesson that he just doesn't matter how

00:33:32.460 many times we said it, he just needed to experience it that for himself. And he did. And, uh, and,

00:33:37.540 and he's fine now and he's not going to touch it again. So maybe we're at the point where our

00:33:42.840 culture needs to just touch the hot stove and learn the hard way. And the hard way will involve 0.58

00:33:50.240 the total dismantling of women's sports and the undoing of nearly everything feminists have worked 1.00

00:33:55.100 for over the past several decades. That's the other irony here is that we as conservatives are

00:33:59.780 trying to preserve the gains of feminists, of feminism, while feminists hate our guts. We're the 1.00

00:34:05.840 ones, we're trying to help them. We're trying, we're, we're like trying to tell them, listen,

00:34:10.860 you, these men are taking everything from you. They're undoing all of it. We're trying to help

00:34:15.760 you. So maybe we say, you know what? Fine. Um, I have that thought. Part of me thinks that way

00:34:22.920 in the end. And I'm not the first person I, you know, people have said this to me and I, you know,

00:34:28.900 so I, I, I, I see the appeal of that strategy in the end. I cannot fully adopt that strategy because

00:34:37.380 I know that leftists are not going to be the ones first and foremost punished. Um, they have,

00:34:43.080 they have sort of human shields, uh, that they're using and the human shields are the innocent girls, 0.78

00:34:49.240 um, who are going to have their sports taken from them. So the leftist touched the stove,

00:34:56.800 but it's the innocent girls who get burned and it's hard. I can't. So that's the problem.

00:35:01.200 I have a daughter who might one day want to be an athlete. Why should she suffer? You know,

00:35:06.420 why should she be punished for the sins of deranged leftists who are so drunk on their ideology that 0.74

00:35:11.900 they can't tell the difference between boys and girls anymore? Um, I want leftists to taste their

00:35:16.680 own medicine, but I don't think innocent girls should have to taste it. And so that's the conundrum. 0.96

00:35:23.120 Um, when they, when they have these girls, girls like my daughter or your daughter who they're

00:35:27.880 using as human shields, what are we supposed to do? I'm not sure how best to navigate it,

00:35:33.560 but I will say that there is at least something to be said for letting leftists experience the

00:35:42.820 consequence. It's not giving up. It's not a surrender. Um, it's just letting them see

00:35:49.000 how crazy this actually is. Something to think about and we'll leave it there. Thanks everybody

00:35:54.960 for watching. Godspeed. If you prefer facts over feelings, if you aren't offended by the brutal

00:36:13.560 truth, if you can still laugh at the nuttiness filling our national news cycle, well, tune on

00:36:18.040 into the Ben Shapiro show where you'll get a whole lot of that and much more. We'll see you there.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 31, 2019

Ep. 307 - Sanity Is Fringe In The Democrat Party

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