The Matt Walsh Show - August 28, 2019


Ep. 320 - A Politician's Affair Is Not Just A Personal Matter


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On today's episode, we talk about how to deal with the stress of a long car ride with your kids. We also talk about the importance of insurance awareness month and how important it is to have a good night's rest.

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00:00:00.000 Okay. I am, I am back. Um, and I appreciate, first of all, I just want to say all of your
00:00:05.220 concerned emails and tweets, um, over the last week and a half, I appreciate all that. You know,
00:00:11.940 when I first signed back online, I got, um, you know, check Twitter and the email and, and, uh,
00:00:17.500 all these messages from people asking me if I'm okay, if I'm still alive, what happened to me?
00:00:23.520 Um, and, uh, I am okay. I'm alive. Although if I wasn't alive, I'm not sure that sending an email,
00:00:29.080 I wouldn't be able to respond to the email to tell you. So I'm not sure logistically it doesn't
00:00:32.120 make a lot of sense, but, uh, I was just on vacation is all. And now I'm back and that's
00:00:36.000 the whole story. Uh, well, although I should stipulate, I call it a vacation, but I should
00:00:40.460 say that, um, this, uh, uh, quote unquote vacation involved about 1500 miles of driving, um, over a
00:00:48.080 week and a half. And which, which wouldn't be so bad. In fact, it would be enjoyable for me. I like
00:00:53.460 driving. If not for the fact that we have two, six year olds and two and a half year old who are
00:00:59.400 also in the car. And I will say that it went about as well as you could possibly expect when you lock
00:01:05.680 three young kids in a, in a suburban for 35 cumulative hours and you drive hither and yon with
00:01:12.660 them. It went about as well as it possibly could, which is just another way of saying that it was
00:01:18.080 really miserable. Um, in fact, at the very last leg of our drive yesterday, um, the last leg of
00:01:26.100 our last drive, we were almost done and we're about an hour away from the house. And you know,
00:01:30.220 it was, uh, it was around dinnertime. We knew we wouldn't, we wouldn't have any food at the house,
00:01:34.120 uh, cause we've been, we've been gone. So we stopped at red Robin, uh, for dinner. And I must admit
00:01:41.620 that we were that family in the restaurant that everybody hates. I don't like being that family.
00:01:49.360 I try not to be that family as much as I possibly can. But as parents, we all take our turns being
00:01:56.120 that family. We, you know, if you haven't been that family yet, you will be one day, trust me.
00:01:59.820 And so we were that family yesterday in the restaurant because our, our kids were bouncing
00:02:04.680 off the walls from being cooped up in a car. My wife and I were exhausted, basically catatonic.
00:02:10.380 And so they're bouncing all over the place. And I mean, the most we can muster was just,
00:02:14.940 please guys, please, please, please, please stop. That's the most we could do. And it just,
00:02:21.020 it wasn't enough. Um, and it gave me flashbacks to, uh, vacationing as, as when I was a child.
00:02:27.800 And I remember one occasion specifically, well, just in general, I remember how tired my parents
00:02:33.620 always were on vacation. I never understood that, you know, and one time in particular,
00:02:37.300 we were going to King's Dominion on vacation. And I, you know, I have five brothers and sisters
00:02:41.720 to this day. I don't understand why my parents usually very practical, illogical people,
00:02:46.400 why they would think to go on vacation to an amusement park with six kids. It still makes
00:02:51.100 me suspect that they were suffering from some, you know, uh, psychotic episode or something,
00:02:55.380 but we got, we got to vacation. We got to King's Dominion. We got around the park. We made it to the
00:02:59.260 hotel. And my dad, the first thing he wanted to do was take a nap. He said, I want to,
00:03:03.760 I'm going to take a nap and you guys all just going to hang out. And I was so traumatized by
00:03:08.480 this. I didn't understand what take a nap, a nap. We're at an amusement. You want to take a nap?
00:03:15.660 What? Uh, but now I get it. I really do. Um, I totally understand it, but now I'm back anyway,
00:03:24.460 uh, without a nap, but, but I'm here and there's a lot to cover because I got to play catch up.
00:03:28.560 Um, and we've got, we're going to talk about this Ilhan Omar thing. We're going to talk about
00:03:31.740 Bedo's infanticidal fantasies, uh, a lot of other things. But first, before we get to any of that,
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00:04:50.680 I was going to start with the Omar thing, but I think I'm going to start with this instead.
00:04:54.360 Beto O'Rourke was doing a town hall at the college of Charleston on Monday and he got a great
00:04:59.720 question. Um, a really great question. I, I think, and delivered a not so great response. So let's
00:05:06.980 watch this, uh, this question answer. My question is this, I was born September 8th, 1989. And I want
00:05:14.660 to know if you think on September 7th, 1989, my life had no value.
00:05:22.100 Of course, I don't think that. And, um, of course, I'm glad that you're here, but you, you, um,
00:05:29.260 referenced my answer in, in Ohio and it remains the same. This is a decision that neither you
00:05:34.860 nor I, nor the United States government should be making. That's a decision for the woman to make. 1.00
00:05:41.460 Uh, we want her to have the best possible access to care and to a medical provider. And I'll tell 0.75
00:05:50.860 you the consequence of this, this attack on women's right to choose. And, and, and, and I listened to
00:05:58.900 you and I, and I heard your question. I'm answering it. Um, and, and the attack on, on Roe versus Wade,
00:06:03.300 which we thought was the settled law of the land. And unless we had any illusion that the achievements
00:06:09.880 that we've made are protected forever, or that progress is inevitable, that has been shattered
00:06:14.520 right now. Okay. Now, first of all, as I said, that's a great question because that's exactly how
00:06:20.800 it should be framed. This is what I've been preaching for years now. What, you know, the way that you frame
00:06:27.660 the question is, okay, you're saying abortion is okay up until birth. So are you telling me
00:06:35.360 that my life, that your life was worthless, had no value a day before birth or a second
00:06:42.880 before birth, a nanosecond before birth. In fact, you know, my wife is 35 weeks pregnant
00:06:48.460 right now, which by the way, that also made the drive really fun because, you know, you have
00:06:53.280 to stop every 32 minutes for bathroom breaks. Um, and, uh, so she's 35 weeks pregnant. Are you 1.00
00:07:00.220 telling me that the entity in her womb right now, the, the being in her womb, the, the, the, the,
00:07:07.460 what is a human life, even if you don't want to call it a human life, whatever you want to call it,
00:07:11.680 you're telling me it has no moral worth whatsoever, none, zero. I mean, it has less moral worth than,
00:07:19.260 than, than like a squirrel, no claim to life, none at all. Well, Beto says, oh, of course I don't
00:07:27.620 think that. No, no, no, no. But then he goes on in the next sentence to reveal that he does in fact
00:07:32.260 think that he says, that's a decision that the woman should make. And what is the decision? This 0.96
00:07:37.680 is the important part. This is why I wanted to talk about this. What is the decision? The question
00:07:43.380 was not, should my mom have been allowed to kill me on September, on September 8th, 1989? Of course,
00:07:49.800 the answer to that from Beto's perspective is yes. But, uh, with that question, it is still much
00:07:57.680 easier to give the answer of that should be the woman's choice. That wasn't the question. The
00:08:02.140 question was, did my life have value on September 8th, 1989? And it was to that question that Beto says,
00:08:11.640 well, that's a decision for the woman to make. So what he's saying, because look, it, it would be
00:08:17.900 possible to argue that, well, the life has value. It is human life. I mean, you could, or you could
00:08:25.460 argue that it's, it's human life. It's even, it's a person with value, but it's still okay to kill it.
00:08:31.620 Now I would disagree with that argument. I think that's a bad argument, but you could try to make
00:08:36.980 the argument that way. Um, but that's not what Beto's doing here. He's saying that it's a decision
00:08:45.340 for the woman to make. What he's saying quite clearly and explicitly is that the woman decides
00:08:50.480 the value of a child's life, which is even more extreme. That's my point. That to say, well, yeah,
00:08:59.540 all life has value, but sometimes it's okay to kill it. Uh, and, and, uh, which in fact, we all
00:09:05.400 with that general principle, we all agree because we'd say, you know, self-defense is, is okay to kill
00:09:10.420 someone in self-defense. I think we all would agree with that. Um, but those of us with a, with a,
00:09:16.520 with a proper moral sense, those of us who have well-formed conscience, consciences, and, and, and those
00:09:21.160 of us who can think logically would say that, well, clearly killing a baby that was wrong. So what I would
00:09:26.020 say my, my principle is it is always wrong to intentionally kill an innocent and defenseless
00:09:32.640 human life. Always wrong in any certain, whether we're talking about abortion or in any other
00:09:37.900 scenario. Um, but you could, you know, you could acknowledge the value of the child's life and then
00:09:46.440 try to figure out a way to still make abortion. Okay. Again, it wouldn't, it's not going to be a good 0.74
00:09:49.920 argument. You could try to do it. What, what, what, what Benno is doing, he's, he's going even more
00:09:54.460 extreme than that. I think this is an even more extreme position he's taking where he's saying,
00:09:58.400 um, well, the, the, the very value of the child's life, it's not just that, well, she can make a
00:10:03.620 decision about what to do with this life that has values. No, she gets to decide whether or not the
00:10:09.540 life even has value in the first place. And that of course is what many, what probably most pro-abortion
00:10:16.320 people believe, even if they won't come out and say it, the woman decides the value.
00:10:23.200 So it's not just the woman decides what to do with her body. No, because this is not merely a
00:10:29.980 question about the woman's body. This is a question about what do we do with the body of the child.
00:10:34.340 And Beto says, well, she decides, uh, that because she decides whether the baby's body has any value at
00:10:40.980 all. This raises all kinds of follow-up questions for, you know, the first one being, why does she 0.99
00:10:47.940 have that power? Why, why should she have that power? Why should she be the one to determine the 1.00
00:10:54.180 actual worth of her child's life? And if she does have that power, does she lose it the moment that
00:11:02.100 she gives birth? If so, why? Again, we're not here talking about her body. We're talking about the,
00:11:08.920 the body of the child. What worth does that have? No matter where it's located, what worth does it
00:11:15.900 have? Beto says, well, she decides if she does, then does, does, does she still decide even after
00:11:23.740 giving birth to the child? If not, if, if she doesn't, then, then why? And if she doesn't decide
00:11:29.400 the baby's worth after birth, then who does decide the baby's value after birth? Okay. The, the mother
00:11:36.960 decides before, well, who decides after? If you're going to say, oh no, no, all babies that have been
00:11:44.580 born have, of course, an incredible worth and value. Says who? Where do they get that worth and value
00:11:50.320 from? If, now, if you say, and this will be my answer, I would say, well, the, the baby's value is,
00:11:58.960 is inherent. It's objective. It's just part of what they are. Okay. Just like nobody decides
00:12:05.480 that liquid water is wet. That's not, we didn't decide that. It just is. That's a, that's a, it's
00:12:11.100 an inherent, it's part of the inherent value of the thing. It's part of its nature. Liquid water is
00:12:16.240 wet. It's part of what it means, what it means to be liquid. I would say that human life has value.
00:12:20.580 It's what it means to be a human being. But in that case, if it's inherent value,
00:12:25.580 if the baby has inherent objective value after birth, then he has to have it before birth also.
00:12:34.100 Because that's what those words mean. Objective and inherent. Those are not objective inherent
00:12:40.080 worth. By definition, cannot be gained or added after the fact. You either have it or you don't.
00:12:49.160 Okay. So there's never a point, you know, a triangle always has three sides. It's not like
00:12:54.620 you could have a, you have a triangle pre-existing, and then you add an additional side to give it
00:13:01.000 three sides. Well, if it didn't have the three sides before, then it wasn't a triangle before.
00:13:05.520 It's part of the inherent nature of it. So you either have it or you don't.
00:13:13.380 If the mother decides the baby's value before birth, then the baby has no inherent value. 0.67
00:13:21.000 And then value by definition in that case is subjective. But if the baby's worth is subjective
00:13:32.720 before birth, then logically it must be subjective after birth. And if a baby has subjective worth
00:13:39.740 after birth, then it stands to reason that the person or group that gives him that subject,
00:13:45.280 that's what subjective worth is. You know, it's like, um, it's like, uh, uh, uh, money. Okay.
00:13:52.440 Money has subjective worth. Money only is, you know, I pick up, hold up a $10 bill. That's only worth
00:13:59.140 something because we decide that it is. If we, if all of us tomorrow in the, in, in the country decided
00:14:04.320 that $10, it doesn't mean anything to us. We don't care about it. It has no value. It's not worth
00:14:08.600 anything anymore. It only has worth because we have all decided that it has worth. So the worth
00:14:14.800 is really something that happens in our heads. It's not, it has nothing to do with that thing.
00:14:19.120 If you're saying that human worth works that way, then that means that the value of people is just
00:14:26.680 decided by sort of the general consensus. We all just kind of decide, oh yeah, well, we all sort of
00:14:33.120 like babies, you know, infants, at least the ones that are born are cute. We like them. So they have
00:14:37.020 worth. And if that's the case, which is this, this is the logical progression of Beto's argument.
00:14:41.900 If that's the case, then that means we could rescind that worth. We could all decide, you know,
00:14:46.380 certain babies, uh, don't have worth, which is what we do with unborn babies. And we, and if we
00:14:50.820 can do it there, then we could do it. We could say, well, you know, sick people are kind of a strain
00:14:55.460 on the economy. They don't have a lot of worth that poor people, you know, disabled people, the elderly, 1.00
00:15:00.780 you start going down this, you just path of eugenics. This is what eugenics is all about. 1.00
00:15:04.840 It's all about the idea that human value is subjective. It's decided by society. It's decided
00:15:09.680 by how useful you are to those around you. And if you're not very useful, people don't really want
00:15:15.080 you around, then we can just get rid of you because you have no objective worth. That's, this is,
00:15:19.760 this is the pro-abortion argument. Uh, this is where it leads. And I think Beto, I think Beto, uh,
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00:17:26.600 All right, let's, uh, let's move on to this Ilhan Omar thing. Reading now the report in the Daily
00:17:31.720 Wire, it says representative Ilhan Omar was accused of having an affair with a married man
00:17:35.920 whom, uh, she allegedly, uh, funneled large sums of money to through her campaign in divorce documents 1.00
00:17:42.840 filed this week. Uh, the New York post reported Dr. Beth Jordan Minnette says her cheating spouse, 0.98
00:17:49.860 Tim Minnette told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali born U S representative
00:17:54.640 that he even, even made a shocking declaration of love for the Minnesota Congresswoman before he
00:17:59.080 ditched her, um, uh, alleges the filing submitted in DC superior court on Tuesday court documents
00:18:04.960 reviewed by the post said that Tim Minnette 38 and Jordan Minnette 55 separated. Um, and then it was
00:18:11.540 revealed that they were in, uh, this relationship so on and so forth. The post added the 37 year old
00:18:16.920 Congresswoman and mom of three paid Tim Minnette and his East street group, approximately $230,000
00:18:23.180 through her campaign since 2018 for fundraising, consulting, digital communications, internet
00:18:28.400 advertising, and travel expenses. Investigative, investigative reporters, Jordan Satchel and Luke
00:18:33.980 Rosiak both weighed in on the financial disclosures that were made in the report. Um, and okay, they gave
00:18:39.660 their perspective. So, okay, that's, we don't need to get into, I'm not going to read all the other
00:18:44.200 nitty gritty details, but you get the idea. Um, so of course we, we reiterate the stipulations
00:18:53.300 that this is all alleged and so forth, but these are claims that are made in court filings. This is
00:18:58.440 not just something that popped up in a gossip rag that you get, you know, in the, in the checkout
00:19:04.460 line at the supermarket. I mean, this isn't, this isn't a court filing. So there's real credibility
00:19:08.840 here, whether or not it's true remains to be seen, but there's credibility to these allegations,
00:19:13.760 the payments that were made, the alleged payments, alleged payments funnel to her alleged lover's
00:19:21.060 firm. That's a big deal. Um, and that would appear to be the newsworthy item in all of this.
00:19:26.420 Although, you know, by, by the kind of conventional wisdom, that's the newsworthy part that there's
00:19:32.100 money being that there's, you know, abuses of campaign funds and so on. That's that at least
00:19:38.700 that's the standard view these days, that this kind of stuff is only relevant to the public when
00:19:45.940 it involves actual crimes, um, which this would be a crime if it's, if it's true that she misused 0.72
00:19:51.980 campaign funds and was, you know, giving money to her lover or whatever. But I, you know, I,
00:19:57.560 I tend to disagree with the standard view. Um, in my opinion, the misuse of money,
00:20:04.340 if that actually happened, that's a big deal. That's, you know, potentially a crime. As I said,
00:20:10.840 that that's something that should be looked into. That to me is the, is the less serious thing.
00:20:16.120 Okay. It's more serious legally. Yeah. But as a voter, as a person, I find the underlying issue,
00:20:23.380 the affair to be the more serious matter. Now I was never going to vote for Omar in the first place.
00:20:29.920 So it's not, it's not like I'm going to say, and I don't live in Minnesota anyway, so I'm not saying
00:20:32.600 that she lost my vote because of this, she never had it to begin with. But this to me is still a
00:20:37.000 big issue and a relevant issue. Uh, you know, people say, Oh, this is none of our business is just,
00:20:41.980 you know, the personal relationships and it's got nothing to do with us. None of our, it's not,
00:20:45.780 it's not relevant. Doesn't matter. Um, now I agree that it's none of our business,
00:20:52.240 but now that we know, um, now that it's been reported, now that it's been alleged anyway,
00:20:58.320 you can't help but draw tentative conclusions. I think having an affair, uh, betraying your own
00:21:05.980 spouse, destroying another marriage, breaking two vows simultaneously, all of that to get your kicks
00:21:14.520 sexually. I think that says a lot about you as a person. You know, I think that reveals something
00:21:22.040 significant about you. Uh, this idea that it says nothing to us as voters and we shouldn't pay
00:21:29.800 attention to it. What? I mean, you're telling me that this is not a reflection of a person's character.
00:21:37.060 What it says first and foremost is that you can't be trusted. And that's why I never understand the
00:21:42.520 people who say that the sexual affairs of politicians shouldn't matter to us. How so?
00:21:46.520 Don't we elect politicians on the basis of the promises they make to us? I mean, aren't you
00:21:52.300 electing them because they've said they're going to do certain things and you want them to do those
00:21:56.620 things. And so you elect them for it. I mean, you're either electing them for that or just based on the
00:22:01.020 letter next to their name or because you like their personality. If it's either of those two options,
00:22:05.000 then you're a moron, frankly. Um, if you're, you know, a rational person, then you're electing them
00:22:10.820 because they've said they're going to do things and you want them to do those things they said
00:22:14.020 they're going to do. Now, if you're also a rational person, you know, that, you know, there's a,
00:22:17.580 there's a not small chance that they won't really do those things because politicians lie.
00:22:21.660 So it's very relevant. You know, we need to, they make the promises. Now we need to assess
00:22:26.280 what's the likelihood that they're actually going to follow through on those things is they're going
00:22:30.880 to keep their promises. You could never get to a hundred percent certainty, but I think there
00:22:36.400 are certain things and that's where the character comes in. Now you're assessing their character
00:22:40.240 and you can't do it perfectly. You don't know everything about them. You can't look inside
00:22:43.660 their head, but you just look at their character and you think, okay, is it, does it seem likely
00:22:48.340 that this is the kind of person whose word is their bond and we can trust them? Or is it,
00:22:53.860 does it seem more likely that they're a liar and a cheat and a fraud? You know, that, that's a,
00:22:59.800 that's the calculation we have to make. And I think if a person is out having affairs,
00:23:05.520 then that would seem to indicate that they are a liar, a cheat and a fraud, which would seem to
00:23:12.000 indicate that we can't trust them. Um, you know, if we elect them based on promises, it, it does
00:23:20.660 matter whether they keep their promises, right? And doesn't a person's willingness to betray the
00:23:27.060 most important promise they ever made have a bearing on whether they might keep less important
00:23:33.780 promises. The promises that a politician makes to you as a voter, as a faceless voter in the crowd,
00:23:39.140 they don't even know you don't know who you are. They make a promise about they're going to,
00:23:43.060 they support this policy. They're going to do this and that thing. Those are important promises.
00:23:48.020 And you know, but they're not as important as a marriage vow and you are not important to them at
00:23:54.240 all. They don't even know you, but when you get married, your spouse is the most important person
00:24:00.060 in your life, the promise you make to them is the most important promise you, you will ever make
00:24:03.700 to anyone ever. If you're willing to break that promise, then why would I have any confidence that
00:24:13.100 you're going to keep the less important promises that you make to faceless people? You don't even 1.00
00:24:18.240 know. I mean, if you're willing to, I mean, think about what in a, what in a fair does to the other,
00:24:24.980 to the jilted spouse, to the, to the, to the person being betrayed. I mean, think about what
00:24:29.380 people, people kill themselves over stuff like this. This is the people, this is just devastating.
00:24:34.060 This is the kind of thing that ruins a person's life. You know, you get married to someone,
00:24:39.060 you think you can trust them, they go off and cheat on you. You don't get over that the next day.
00:24:43.380 That's the kind of thing that will take you decades to, if you ever get over it. This is like,
00:24:48.400 it's just, you are, and if you're willing to do that to your spouse, to just utterly ruin them,
00:24:54.980 to destroy them. And while you're doing that, you know, you come home every night and you look
00:25:01.560 them in the eyes while you know what you're doing to them. And you also know, because you can't claim
00:25:07.080 you don't, eventually they're going to find out because people always find out. And when they do,
00:25:13.200 it will ruin them. And you know that, and you're doing it anyway. So if you're willing to do that
00:25:18.460 to this person who you know intimately and you claim to love and whose eyes you have gazed into,
00:25:24.980 why would I ever believe that you would be unwilling to betray a promise to me? I'm nobody.
00:25:31.560 You don't even know me. I mean, when you lie to me, you just look in a camera and do it. That's easy
00:25:35.960 to do. So this whole thing, that doesn't matter. What do you mean? Of course it matters. It obviously
00:25:44.340 matters. There's a general principle here that liars lie, cheaters cheat. Okay. That's it.
00:25:52.900 Um, now, you know, everyone's told lies in their life, in their life. Everyone's probably cheated on
00:25:58.980 things. Hopefully you haven't cheated on your marriage, but, uh, maybe you've cheated in a,
00:26:02.580 in a, you know, board game or something. I mean, we've, or, or on a test, you know, uh, when you were
00:26:06.600 a kid, I can't claim to be innocent in that regard. Um, but there are people who are just liars,
00:26:14.580 you know, and a liar is someone who just lies all the time, just constantly, constantly lies.
00:26:20.980 Almost like it's their default setting. If you're having an affair, then you're going to be a liar.
00:26:25.540 Just, that's what you want. You have to be because of all the lies you have to tell to keep that going.
00:26:31.560 And, um, uh, so liars lie, cheaters cheat. If I know that someone's a liar and a cheater,
00:26:38.080 then that means that they're going to lie and cheat, which means why the hell would I vote for
00:26:41.700 them? I, like, why would I, on what basis could I ever come to the conclusion that I could trust
00:26:48.160 them? I mean, it's, it's, it's like, if you, you know, if you find out that your, um, financial
00:26:56.200 manager has in the past been to jail for, you know, swindling people with Ponzi schemes,
00:27:02.940 are you going to trust them with your money? They've shown you that they're willing to take
00:27:08.300 people's money and defraud them in these elaborate schemes. They've shown you that.
00:27:13.240 Why would you, of all people, why would you trust them with your money?
00:27:17.680 At least take someone who maybe there's a chance they won't do that because as far as you know,
00:27:22.380 they haven't done it before. But if they've, if they've shown you that they're, that this is what
00:27:26.020 they do, you're a total, you deserve to lose your money if you invest in them. And what I say is if
00:27:31.280 you're a voter voting for people who have shown themselves to be liars and cheats, then you
00:27:36.900 deserve to be betrayed as a voter. You deserve it. I mean, you are literally asking for, I am victim
00:27:43.000 blaming right now when it comes to that. But if we take this view, if we take this approach,
00:27:50.780 then of course we have to apply it equally across the board, regardless of party. I, you know, I,
00:27:55.260 I, I acknowledge that if we say that the affairs of politicians do tell us something relevant about
00:28:02.040 them, then we can't suddenly put that insight to the side when our favorite politician has an affair.
00:28:08.280 Um, you know, what I'm saying here about affairs and their relevance, it's either true or it isn't.
00:28:12.900 And if it's true, then it's true. And, uh, I think it's true and I do apply it equally.
00:28:17.520 Um, if someone has an affair, in my view, it means they can't be trusted. Um, it means they're a liar
00:28:26.120 and a cheat. Now, could there be a scenario where you, where it, it could be, uh, rational and
00:28:32.960 justified to vote for someone, even knowing that they're a liar and a cheat and knowing that they're
00:28:37.320 lying to you and will probably cheat you in some respect? You know, maybe, um, depending on the
00:28:44.180 circumstances, but, but you, you can't pretend that this is that, you know, in this one, well,
00:28:49.560 in this case over here, yeah, this person did that, but they're really a great person, but over
00:28:53.880 here, no, that person's a total sky. You can't do that. You just can't. So it's, but this is what
00:28:58.860 everyone does. You know, if, if the affair is happening, this is a classic thing in policy. If the
00:29:05.800 affair is happening, um, with someone in the opposite party, then you'll agree with everything I'm saying
00:29:13.200 right now because, because it is obviously true. But then if it's your party, you say, well, you know,
00:29:19.720 maybe it's actually just their business and we should stay out of it. Can't do that. All right. Uh, so
00:29:27.360 moving on, this is actually the very first thing I saw when I came back to Twitter, um,
00:29:36.160 which just made me even more sad that I had to come back. And can I just say as a side note
00:29:44.760 in my experience with social media, there's, I'm not going to call it an addiction because I think
00:29:53.920 addiction isn't, as I've talked about before, it is an overused term. Uh, and, but it is a compulsion
00:29:59.560 is definitely a compulsion and I have it. And when I'm going through my day-to-day routine and I'm
00:30:04.640 just living my life normally, I definitely have the compulsion, you know, to pick up the phone
00:30:09.140 and check Twitter, check social media in like every five and a half seconds. It just, it's a real,
00:30:14.360 I just, I didn't even notice myself doing it. It's like a reflex. Right. Um, and I know I'm not alone
00:30:21.160 in that, but the weird thing is that, and this is what makes it not an addiction in my mind. One of the
00:30:27.080 things is that when I, when I step away from, when I go on vacation, you know, I put the phone down.
00:30:34.880 I'm not even, I'm, I'm not even tempted to look at it. You know, I go a week. I don't look at Twitter.
00:30:40.400 I don't miss it. I don't have any urge to look at it. In fact, I'm, I'm disgusted by the thought of
00:30:46.520 it. And the first time I pick it up again, after getting back, I'm, I'm just bored by it. It just
00:30:51.880 seems so stupid and frivolous and irrelevant and everything everyone's talking about, just so dumb 0.93
00:30:56.080 and boring and everyone's just saying the same things over and over again. And you think, why,
00:31:01.660 why are we even doing this? It's such a waste of time. You know, I just spent the last week I was
00:31:05.700 out. You know, if I had free time, I went out on the, on a lake, I went fishing. Why don't I do that
00:31:09.640 instead? Why am I doing this? Um, so it's this weird compulsion that when you're in it, it's, it,
00:31:15.820 it, it's very strong and it compels you, but if it's, it fades so quickly, if you just put the phone
00:31:21.760 down for like a day, the compulsion's gone, you have no desire to pick it up anymore.
00:31:28.400 Most addictions, and this is why I say it's not most addictions are not like that with an addiction.
00:31:34.040 It's really hard to step away from it. And when you do, there's withdraw and you're really hankering
00:31:39.180 for it. And then it's really easy to pick it back up again. But with this, with social media,
00:31:44.840 because it's my job, I literally have to do it as a job. So it, for me to get back into Twitter and
00:31:50.860 everything was really a, it was like a chore. I really didn't want to do it. Um, but once you get
00:31:55.980 over that hurdle, now you're back in it and it's a compulsion again. So anyway, uh, what was I talking
00:32:00.140 about? Oh yeah. Uh, so I came back to Twitter and I see Kamala Harris tweeting about a performance
00:32:07.000 at the VMAs on Sunday. Uh, some other candidates are tweeting about it too. I think Gillibrand probably
00:32:12.500 tweeted about it. I don't know that, but I assume because of her penchant for pandering, I assume she
00:32:16.980 jumped on this one. Um, and the performance was by a woman named Lizzo. Kamala Harris says that it's
00:32:24.440 colorful, vibrant, joyful, unapologetic, powerful. How could you not love Lizzo? Well, how could you
00:32:32.380 not love it? Let's take a look at this performance to find out how we might manage to not love it.
00:32:37.640 Let's try to answer Kamala Harris's question. Here's the, uh, some of the performance from Lizzo.
00:32:41.360 Why I'm being great till they gotta be great? Woo! I just took a DNA test. Turns out I'm a hundred
00:32:50.200 percent. That **** even when I'm crying crazy. Yeah, I got boy problems. That's the human in me.
00:32:56.400 Bling, bling. Then I solve them. That's the goddess. You could have had a bad **** non-committal.
00:33:01.820 Help me with your code real. Just a little. You're supposed to hold me down. But you holding me back.
00:33:08.180 And that's the sound. I mean, I'm calling you back.
00:33:12.220 Why being great till they gotta be great? Don't check me. Tell it straight to my friends.
00:33:18.420 Best friends, let me down in the salon, yeah. Shampoo press, get you out of my head. 1.00
00:33:24.460 Fresh photos with the bomb light in. New men on the Minnesota fight in.
00:33:30.560 Two birds needing something more exciting.
00:33:32.800 Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump.
00:33:36.000 Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bap, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bolic, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump!
00:33:40.400 that was a giant jiggling butt on the stage in the I'm talking about the in the background 0.92
00:33:49.620 talking about the one in the in the background um and those dancers were wearing assless chaps 1.00
00:33:56.340 um and it looked now I say this I'm I know what that kind of stuff it's like they're trying to
00:34:02.880 oh it's it's so shocking and edgy no I'm not shocked by it I don't find it edgy
00:34:06.940 I find it incredibly boring oh look it's a bunch of butts I mean that really that's the best you
00:34:13.940 get you want to shock me that's the best you can do I mean you got to work a lot harder than that
00:34:20.080 these days to shock people no that's just boring it's like come on that this is why I mean you're
00:34:25.020 at the VMAs and you're flashing butts I mean that's like how many how many you know how many butts have
00:34:30.240 been flashing the VMAs that's that's the whole thing it's all they do it's it's the butt flashing
00:34:34.720 awards basically I mean you want to be edgy that's that's not how I would do it but it but
00:34:40.980 it is it is it's not shocking or edgy uh I want to make that clear but it is it's boring and it's
00:34:46.320 very very stupid um it is certainly very very stupid it's like something out of the movie 0.80
00:34:50.860 Idiocracy in fact it would be too on the nose for Idiocracy if they had shown a vision of the VMAs
00:34:57.620 in 500 years in the future which I wish they had done actually in the movie Idiocracy and they had
00:35:03.480 shown that exact performance with a bunch of dancers and assless chaps dancing in front of a giant 1.00
00:35:08.740 jiggling butt I I would have probably not even laughed because I would have said okay that's a
00:35:13.600 little too I mean we get it it's a movie called Idiocracy but that's a little too idiotic let's I
00:35:18.300 mean come on now come on but um too stupid for a movie called Idiocracy but it is not too stupid 0.89
00:35:24.460 for reality and that is what just happened um I'm you know I'm watching that I'm just trying to find
00:35:29.800 and then I so I tweeted about this as speaking of Twitter getting back into Twitter uh this is the
00:35:34.420 first thing that I I come back to Twitter it's the first thing a week and a half away the very first
00:35:39.640 thing I'm talking about is a giant jiggling butt uh which I think is very appropriate actually for
00:35:43.120 Twitter so and and and you know I said whatever this is stupid and there were a lot of people
00:35:50.240 saying no this Lizzo is great and it's powerful and where is the powerful part of this incoherent
00:35:57.300 ridiculous mind-numbing idiocy unapologetic maybe uh any moron can be unapologetic there's nothing
00:36:04.780 impressive about that but what's powerful about this here let's review some of the lyrics just to
00:36:10.060 just to you know because I'm look Kamala Harris and and others say this is a powerful compelling
00:36:16.080 beautiful song and so I'm I'm just I'm looking for it you know you tell me if you if you if you
00:36:23.680 notice the powerful beautiful stuff just jump in and let me know even though I won't be able to hear
00:36:29.000 you uh I just took a DNA test turns out I'm 100% that bee even when I'm crying crazy yeah I got boy
00:36:38.240 problems that's the human in me bling bling then I solve them that's the goddess in me you could have
00:36:45.040 had a bad bee non-committal help you with your career just a little you're opposed to hold me
00:36:51.320 down but you're holding me back and that's the sound of me not calling you back why men great till
00:36:59.080 they gotta be great what why men great till they gotta be great that that just doesn't mean anything
00:37:05.640 I'm sorry that that's really just means nothing those are just words that is just dumping words
00:37:12.480 onto it like what you have words in a bucket and you just dump them onto a page that's what that
00:37:17.160 is that those are not why men great till they gotta be great my two-year-old could put together a more
00:37:22.600 coherent sentence than that uh don't text me tell straight to my face best friend sat me down in the
00:37:29.040 salon chair shampoo press get you out of my hair fresh photos with the bomb lighting new man on the
00:37:35.620 minnesota vikings uh blah blah blah i mean i'm like um i'm gonna hit you back in a minute i don't play tag
00:37:45.220 i've been it we don't f with lies we don't do goodbyes we just keep it pushing like i i i i'm gonna hit you 0.81
00:37:53.660 back in a minute you know i i don't i don't see the powerful what part of that is powerful i don't i
00:38:05.460 just don't see it maybe it's me okay it could be that i'm the problem i just maybe i don't maybe this
00:38:11.280 is so brilliant this is so smart that i'm too dumb to get it that's possible i am a pretty stupid
00:38:19.920 person i admit that so it's you know it's one way or another either i am not stupid enough for this
00:38:27.020 or i'm way too stupid for it i don't know which it is i suspect it's probably the the former i feel the 0.53
00:38:32.760 same way about this as i do about the um i mean speaking about our drive that when we were on the
00:38:39.140 drive just to make matters worse my wife at one point put on a taylor swift song um and it's the one 1.00
00:38:44.400 you'll never find a lover like me that song a song with actual lyrics that say this is actual
00:38:50.900 lyrics in the song this the song says and i think this is part of the chorus says you can't spell
00:38:56.240 awesome without me i mean literally lyrics that would be too vapid corny self-absorbed and stupid 0.77
00:39:03.020 for a fourth grader okay if i had a fourth grader who wrote a song for the talent show and it included
00:39:09.700 the lyrics you can't spell awesome without me i would ground them and forbid them from going to the
00:39:14.320 talent show i would say how dare you this is so stupid i am i am ashamed that you are my child 0.97
00:39:20.280 i would disown them for lyrics i would literally and it's the same with this okay it's it's not saying
00:39:30.020 anything there's no point to it i'm not saying that every song has to be brilliant and has to have
00:39:36.700 some overarching brilliant mind-blowing point um but the only point of the song is just look at me
00:39:43.980 i'm great but then it doesn't even explain why okay here's my problem if you're gonna actually
00:39:49.820 write a song about how great you are which is a really gross and pitiful subject for a song of all
00:39:56.800 the things to talk about of all the subjects to sing about in the world i mean for you to choose that
00:40:04.340 just shows that there is nothing going on upstairs you are such a shallow person you you just you you
00:40:10.040 have never looked outside of your all your your eyeballs are basically turned around in your head
00:40:15.020 and staring back into your own the cavity where your brain is supposed to be you have never if you
00:40:20.580 would just look outside of yourself and look at the world for five seconds you would find a hundred
00:40:27.460 subjects for a for a for a song but the only thing you think to think about think to sing about is
00:40:34.020 yourself and how great you are but if you're gonna do that at least explain why i mean talk about give
00:40:42.300 us reason give us real reasons for maybe you are great lizzo says she's a goddess okay maybe she is
00:40:49.060 you know seeing her dancing in front of the jiggling butt that to me that doesn't quite communicate it but
00:40:53.700 it doesn't mean she's not a goddess i can't that's that's a claim that you have made you're saying
00:40:58.100 i'm a goddess okay give me evidence tell me some great things you've done do you return your shopping
00:41:03.960 cards okay do you have you ever do you do you try to give exact change when you're when you're you
00:41:09.040 know checking out at at cvs i mean are these things that you do um but we we get nothing we had no
00:41:17.220 evidence it's just all we get is just the repeated assertion i'm great i'm great i'm so great i'm so
00:41:23.320 wonderful i mean she says we just keep it pushing like i i i is that reason she's so great i don't
00:41:31.400 know what that means is you know if you if a person who keeps it pushing like i i i is does that mean
00:41:36.300 that they're great is that a is that a virtuous achievement i don't even know what it is can
00:41:42.400 anyone explain that to me what does it mean to keep it pushing like i i mean if someone said that to
00:41:46.900 you if i went up to someone and said oh what you know what have you been up to today i was just
00:41:51.380 keeping it pushing like i i you know that's what would that be i mean what does that mean that
00:41:55.680 they were anyway um this is just this is just battling and this is every song these days i hate
00:42:02.140 to say i hate to be this guy i hate to sound like this but it and it's every song i'm it's hyperbolic
00:42:07.380 there are some there are there are legitimately great artists out there but it seems like every
00:42:12.120 pop song anyway all the popular songs most of them it's just i'm great i'm so amazing i'm so awesome
00:42:17.680 i'm just the best look at me i'm just so amazingly wonderful yet there is no evidence ever presented
00:42:23.920 we are never given any reason to believe that any of these people are even half as wonderful as they
00:42:28.680 claim and the very fact that they're claiming it in the first place is already compelling evidence
00:42:33.280 that they are the opposite of great and awesome it's actually evidence that they are losers desperate
00:42:38.180 for attention and affirmation so this whole thing and this is what gets me too about uh lizzo and you
00:42:43.860 know we're told oh she's she's a she's so confident she's confident she's all about self-confidence
00:42:49.120 this isn't what confident people do if you're really confident you don't get up on a stage take
00:42:55.460 your clothes off shake around and say i'm so great look at me that's not what confident people do okay
00:43:00.460 that's what psychotics do and that's what losers who are utterly desperate for affirmation do those are
00:43:08.940 the two kinds of people who do that there are no other kinds of people who do it a confident person
00:43:15.680 you know what a confident person does they keep their clothes on they live their life with quiet
00:43:22.600 dignity and they just they're confident in themselves they know who they are they know
00:43:30.600 they're doing what they're supposed to be doing they know that they have flaws that they're not perfect
00:43:34.640 they would never call themselves a god or a goddess for god's sake but uh but they they they generally
00:43:40.420 you know they they're on the right path and they know and so they just walk that path and they don't
00:43:44.940 call attention to it and if they were ever going to write a song because they have musical ability
00:43:50.180 it would be a song about you know the ocean or about about uh you know anything about love about
00:43:57.280 about uh humpback whales i mean really any any subject they would write a song on any subject a
00:44:04.600 aside from how great they are they wouldn't it wouldn't even occur to them to write a subject
00:44:07.520 a song about that because they don't spend time thinking about themselves in their own greatness
00:44:12.800 so um that's all to say that i think that's a really bad song just to summarize and uh i think
00:44:26.460 we'll leave it there i was going to do some emails today but i have so many emails which i appreciate
00:44:30.200 by the way i do appreciate but i've got to sort through them um and that might take me a couple
00:44:35.020 of days but we'll get back to answering listener emails too as well soon enough i don't know why
00:44:38.760 i'm holding my hands like this at the end of the show just ending with a prayer i suppose um but we'll
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