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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Okay. I am, I am back. Um, and I appreciate, first of all, I just want to say all of your
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concerned emails and tweets, um, over the last week and a half, I appreciate all that. You know,
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when I first signed back online, I got, um, you know, check Twitter and the email and, and, uh,
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all these messages from people asking me if I'm okay, if I'm still alive, what happened to me?
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Um, and, uh, I am okay. I'm alive. Although if I wasn't alive, I'm not sure that sending an email,
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I wouldn't be able to respond to the email to tell you. So I'm not sure logistically it doesn't
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make a lot of sense, but, uh, I was just on vacation is all. And now I'm back and that's
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the whole story. Uh, well, although I should stipulate, I call it a vacation, but I should
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say that, um, this, uh, uh, quote unquote vacation involved about 1500 miles of driving, um, over a
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week and a half. And which, which wouldn't be so bad. In fact, it would be enjoyable for me. I like
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driving. If not for the fact that we have two, six year olds and two and a half year old who are
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also in the car. And I will say that it went about as well as you could possibly expect when you lock
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three young kids in a, in a suburban for 35 cumulative hours and you drive hither and yon with
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them. It went about as well as it possibly could, which is just another way of saying that it was
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really miserable. Um, in fact, at the very last leg of our drive yesterday, um, the last leg of
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our last drive, we were almost done and we're about an hour away from the house. And you know,
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it was, uh, it was around dinnertime. We knew we wouldn't, we wouldn't have any food at the house,
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uh, cause we've been, we've been gone. So we stopped at red Robin, uh, for dinner. And I must admit
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that we were that family in the restaurant that everybody hates. I don't like being that family.
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I try not to be that family as much as I possibly can. But as parents, we all take our turns being
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that family. We, you know, if you haven't been that family yet, you will be one day, trust me.
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And so we were that family yesterday in the restaurant because our, our kids were bouncing
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off the walls from being cooped up in a car. My wife and I were exhausted, basically catatonic.
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And so they're bouncing all over the place. And I mean, the most we can muster was just,
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please guys, please, please, please, please stop. That's the most we could do. And it just,
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it wasn't enough. Um, and it gave me flashbacks to, uh, vacationing as, as when I was a child.
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And I remember one occasion specifically, well, just in general, I remember how tired my parents
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always were on vacation. I never understood that, you know, and one time in particular,
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we were going to King's Dominion on vacation. And I, you know, I have five brothers and sisters
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to this day. I don't understand why my parents usually very practical, illogical people,
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why they would think to go on vacation to an amusement park with six kids. It still makes
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me suspect that they were suffering from some, you know, uh, psychotic episode or something,
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but we got, we got to vacation. We got to King's Dominion. We got around the park. We made it to the
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hotel. And my dad, the first thing he wanted to do was take a nap. He said, I want to,
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I'm going to take a nap and you guys all just going to hang out. And I was so traumatized by
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this. I didn't understand what take a nap, a nap. We're at an amusement. You want to take a nap?
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What? Uh, but now I get it. I really do. Um, I totally understand it, but now I'm back anyway,
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uh, without a nap, but, but I'm here and there's a lot to cover because I got to play catch up.
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Um, and we've got, we're going to talk about this Ilhan Omar thing. We're going to talk about
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Bedo's infanticidal fantasies, uh, a lot of other things. But first, before we get to any of that,
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I was going to start with the Omar thing, but I think I'm going to start with this instead.
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Beto O'Rourke was doing a town hall at the college of Charleston on Monday and he got a great
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question. Um, a really great question. I, I think, and delivered a not so great response. So let's
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watch this, uh, this question answer. My question is this, I was born September 8th, 1989. And I want
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to know if you think on September 7th, 1989, my life had no value.
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Of course, I don't think that. And, um, of course, I'm glad that you're here, but you, you, um,
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referenced my answer in, in Ohio and it remains the same. This is a decision that neither you
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nor I, nor the United States government should be making. That's a decision for the woman to make.
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Uh, we want her to have the best possible access to care and to a medical provider. And I'll tell
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you the consequence of this, this attack on women's right to choose. And, and, and, and I listened to
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you and I, and I heard your question. I'm answering it. Um, and, and the attack on, on Roe versus Wade,
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which we thought was the settled law of the land. And unless we had any illusion that the achievements
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that we've made are protected forever, or that progress is inevitable, that has been shattered
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right now. Okay. Now, first of all, as I said, that's a great question because that's exactly how
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it should be framed. This is what I've been preaching for years now. What, you know, the way that you frame
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the question is, okay, you're saying abortion is okay up until birth. So are you telling me
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that my life, that your life was worthless, had no value a day before birth or a second
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before birth, a nanosecond before birth. In fact, you know, my wife is 35 weeks pregnant
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right now, which by the way, that also made the drive really fun because, you know, you have
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to stop every 32 minutes for bathroom breaks. Um, and, uh, so she's 35 weeks pregnant. Are you
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telling me that the entity in her womb right now, the, the being in her womb, the, the, the, the,
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what is a human life, even if you don't want to call it a human life, whatever you want to call it,
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you're telling me it has no moral worth whatsoever, none, zero. I mean, it has less moral worth than,
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than, than like a squirrel, no claim to life, none at all. Well, Beto says, oh, of course I don't
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think that. No, no, no, no. But then he goes on in the next sentence to reveal that he does in fact
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think that he says, that's a decision that the woman should make. And what is the decision? This
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is the important part. This is why I wanted to talk about this. What is the decision? The question
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was not, should my mom have been allowed to kill me on September, on September 8th, 1989? Of course,
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the answer to that from Beto's perspective is yes. But, uh, with that question, it is still much
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easier to give the answer of that should be the woman's choice. That wasn't the question. The
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question was, did my life have value on September 8th, 1989? And it was to that question that Beto says,
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well, that's a decision for the woman to make. So what he's saying, because look, it, it would be
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possible to argue that, well, the life has value. It is human life. I mean, you could, or you could
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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.
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Now I would disagree with that argument. I think that's a bad argument, but you could try to make
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the argument that way. Um, but that's not what Beto's doing here. He's saying that it's a decision
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for the woman to make. What he's saying quite clearly and explicitly is that the woman decides
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the value of a child's life, which is even more extreme. That's my point. That to say, well, yeah,
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all life has value, but sometimes it's okay to kill it. Uh, and, and, uh, which in fact, we all
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with that general principle, we all agree because we'd say, you know, self-defense is, is okay to kill
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someone in self-defense. I think we all would agree with that. Um, but those of us with a, with a,
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with a proper moral sense, those of us who have well-formed conscience, consciences, and, and, and those
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of us who can think logically would say that, well, clearly killing a baby that was wrong. So what I would
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say my, my principle is it is always wrong to intentionally kill an innocent and defenseless
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human life. Always wrong in any certain, whether we're talking about abortion or in any other
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scenario. Um, but you could, you know, you could acknowledge the value of the child's life and then
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try to figure out a way to still make abortion. Okay. Again, it wouldn't, it's not going to be a good
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argument. You could try to do it. What, what, what, what Benno is doing, he's, he's going even more
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extreme than that. I think this is an even more extreme position he's taking where he's saying,
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um, well, the, the, the very value of the child's life, it's not just that, well, she can make a
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decision about what to do with this life that has values. No, she gets to decide whether or not the
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life even has value in the first place. And that of course is what many, what probably most pro-abortion
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people believe, even if they won't come out and say it, the woman decides the value.
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So it's not just the woman decides what to do with her body. No, because this is not merely a
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question about the woman's body. This is a question about what do we do with the body of the child.
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And Beto says, well, she decides, uh, that because she decides whether the baby's body has any value at
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all. This raises all kinds of follow-up questions for, you know, the first one being, why does she
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have that power? Why, why should she have that power? Why should she be the one to determine the
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actual worth of her child's life? And if she does have that power, does she lose it the moment that
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she gives birth? If so, why? Again, we're not here talking about her body. We're talking about the,
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the body of the child. What worth does that have? No matter where it's located, what worth does it
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have? Beto says, well, she decides if she does, then does, does, does she still decide even after
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giving birth to the child? If not, if, if she doesn't, then, then why? And if she doesn't decide
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the baby's worth after birth, then who does decide the baby's value after birth? Okay. The, the mother
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decides before, well, who decides after? If you're going to say, oh no, no, all babies that have been
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born have, of course, an incredible worth and value. Says who? Where do they get that worth and value
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from? If, now, if you say, and this will be my answer, I would say, well, the, the baby's value is,
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is inherent. It's objective. It's just part of what they are. Okay. Just like nobody decides
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that liquid water is wet. That's not, we didn't decide that. It just is. That's a, that's a, it's
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an inherent, it's part of the inherent value of the thing. It's part of its nature. Liquid water is
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wet. It's part of what it means, what it means to be liquid. I would say that human life has value.
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It's what it means to be a human being. But in that case, if it's inherent value,
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if the baby has inherent objective value after birth, then he has to have it before birth also.
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Because that's what those words mean. Objective and inherent. Those are not objective inherent
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worth. By definition, cannot be gained or added after the fact. You either have it or you don't.
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Okay. So there's never a point, you know, a triangle always has three sides. It's not like
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you could have a, you have a triangle pre-existing, and then you add an additional side to give it
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three sides. Well, if it didn't have the three sides before, then it wasn't a triangle before.
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It's part of the inherent nature of it. So you either have it or you don't.
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If the mother decides the baby's value before birth, then the baby has no inherent value.
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And then value by definition in that case is subjective. But if the baby's worth is subjective
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before birth, then logically it must be subjective after birth. And if a baby has subjective worth
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after birth, then it stands to reason that the person or group that gives him that subject,
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that's what subjective worth is. You know, it's like, um, it's like, uh, uh, uh, money. Okay.
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Money has subjective worth. Money only is, you know, I pick up, hold up a $10 bill. That's only worth
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something because we decide that it is. If we, if all of us tomorrow in the, in, in the country decided
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that $10, it doesn't mean anything to us. We don't care about it. It has no value. It's not worth
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anything anymore. It only has worth because we have all decided that it has worth. So the worth
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is really something that happens in our heads. It's not, it has nothing to do with that thing.
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If you're saying that human worth works that way, then that means that the value of people is just
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decided by sort of the general consensus. We all just kind of decide, oh yeah, well, we all sort of
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like babies, you know, infants, at least the ones that are born are cute. We like them. So they have
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worth. And if that's the case, which is this, this is the logical progression of Beto's argument.
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If that's the case, then that means we could rescind that worth. We could all decide, you know,
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certain babies, uh, don't have worth, which is what we do with unborn babies. And we, and if we
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can do it there, then we could do it. We could say, well, you know, sick people are kind of a strain
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on the economy. They don't have a lot of worth that poor people, you know, disabled people, the elderly,
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you start going down this, you just path of eugenics. This is what eugenics is all about.
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It's all about the idea that human value is subjective. It's decided by society. It's decided
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by how useful you are to those around you. And if you're not very useful, people don't really want
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you around, then we can just get rid of you because you have no objective worth. That's, this is,
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this is the pro-abortion argument. Uh, this is where it leads. And I think Beto, I think Beto, uh,
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All right, let's, uh, let's move on to this Ilhan Omar thing. Reading now the report in the Daily
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Wire, it says representative Ilhan Omar was accused of having an affair with a married man
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whom, uh, she allegedly, uh, funneled large sums of money to through her campaign in divorce documents
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filed this week. Uh, the New York post reported Dr. Beth Jordan Minnette says her cheating spouse,
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Tim Minnette told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali born U S representative
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that he even, even made a shocking declaration of love for the Minnesota Congresswoman before he
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ditched her, um, uh, alleges the filing submitted in DC superior court on Tuesday court documents
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reviewed by the post said that Tim Minnette 38 and Jordan Minnette 55 separated. Um, and then it was
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revealed that they were in, uh, this relationship so on and so forth. The post added the 37 year old
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Congresswoman and mom of three paid Tim Minnette and his East street group, approximately $230,000
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through her campaign since 2018 for fundraising, consulting, digital communications, internet
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advertising, and travel expenses. Investigative, investigative reporters, Jordan Satchel and Luke
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Rosiak both weighed in on the financial disclosures that were made in the report. Um, and okay, they gave
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their perspective. So, okay, that's, we don't need to get into, I'm not going to read all the other
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nitty gritty details, but you get the idea. Um, so of course we, we reiterate the stipulations
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that this is all alleged and so forth, but these are claims that are made in court filings. This is
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not just something that popped up in a gossip rag that you get, you know, in the, in the checkout
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line at the supermarket. I mean, this isn't, this isn't a court filing. So there's real credibility
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here, whether or not it's true remains to be seen, but there's credibility to these allegations,
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the payments that were made, the alleged payments, alleged payments funnel to her alleged lover's
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firm. That's a big deal. Um, and that would appear to be the newsworthy item in all of this.
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Although, you know, by, by the kind of conventional wisdom, that's the newsworthy part that there's
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money being that there's, you know, abuses of campaign funds and so on. That's that at least
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that's the standard view these days, that this kind of stuff is only relevant to the public when
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it involves actual crimes, um, which this would be a crime if it's, if it's true that she misused
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campaign funds and was, you know, giving money to her lover or whatever. But I, you know, I,
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I tend to disagree with the standard view. Um, in my opinion, the misuse of money,
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if that actually happened, that's a big deal. That's, you know, potentially a crime. As I said,
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that that's something that should be looked into. That to me is the, is the less serious thing.
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Okay. It's more serious legally. Yeah. But as a voter, as a person, I find the underlying issue,
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the affair to be the more serious matter. Now I was never going to vote for Omar in the first place.
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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
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that she lost my vote because of this, she never had it to begin with. But this to me is still a
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big issue and a relevant issue. Uh, you know, people say, Oh, this is none of our business is just,
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you know, the personal relationships and it's got nothing to do with us. None of our, it's not,
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it's not relevant. Doesn't matter. Um, now I agree that it's none of our business,
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but now that we know, um, now that it's been reported, now that it's been alleged anyway,
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you can't help but draw tentative conclusions. I think having an affair, uh, betraying your own
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spouse, destroying another marriage, breaking two vows simultaneously, all of that to get your kicks
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sexually. I think that says a lot about you as a person. You know, I think that reveals something
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significant about you. Uh, this idea that it says nothing to us as voters and we shouldn't pay
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attention to it. What? I mean, you're telling me that this is not a reflection of a person's character.
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What it says first and foremost is that you can't be trusted. And that's why I never understand the
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people who say that the sexual affairs of politicians shouldn't matter to us. How so?
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Don't we elect politicians on the basis of the promises they make to us? I mean, aren't you
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electing them because they've said they're going to do certain things and you want them to do those
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things. And so you elect them for it. I mean, you're either electing them for that or just based on the
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letter next to their name or because you like their personality. If it's either of those two options,
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then you're a moron, frankly. Um, if you're, you know, a rational person, then you're electing them
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because they've said they're going to do things and you want them to do those things they said
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they're going to do. Now, if you're also a rational person, you know, that, you know, there's a,
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there's a not small chance that they won't really do those things because politicians lie.
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So it's very relevant. You know, we need to, they make the promises. Now we need to assess
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what's the likelihood that they're actually going to follow through on those things is they're going
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to keep their promises. You could never get to a hundred percent certainty, but I think there
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are certain things and that's where the character comes in. Now you're assessing their character
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and you can't do it perfectly. You don't know everything about them. You can't look inside
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their head, but you just look at their character and you think, okay, is it, does it seem likely
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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,
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that's the calculation we have to make. And I think if a person is out having affairs,
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then that would seem to indicate that they are a liar, a cheat and a fraud, which would seem to
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indicate that we can't trust them. Um, you know, if we elect them based on promises, it, it does
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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
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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
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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
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.
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That's the kind of thing that will take you decades to, if you ever get over it. This is like,
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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
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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
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to this person who you know intimately and you claim to love and whose eyes you have gazed into,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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.
00:33:24.460
Fresh photos with the bomb light in. New men on the Minnesota fight in.
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!
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that was a giant jiggling butt on the stage in the I'm talking about the in the background
00:33:49.620
talking about the one in the in the background um and those dancers were wearing assless chaps
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:44:43.240
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