The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 329 - Okay, Let’s Lower The Voting Age To Zero

00:00:00.200 Welcome to the show, everybody, on this solemn day of remembrance.

00:00:05.100 18 years is a long time.

00:00:06.740 I know that's what everyone is saying today, but 18 years is a very long time.

00:00:10.660 I was in 10th grade on 9-11, and now I'm 33.

00:00:14.680 I've got three kids going on number four.

00:00:17.940 And I know this is, again, something everyone says, but I think about this a lot,

00:00:23.880 that my kids' generation will grow up with 9-11 as an historical fact,

00:00:31.560 not a lived experience, but just as a matter of history for them.

00:00:35.140 And that's very weird to think about.

00:00:36.280 9-11 to my kids is going to be like what the JFK assassination was to me growing up,

00:00:42.740 which is I can remember growing up and hearing my parents talk about it

00:00:45.860 and talk about what a defining, momentous event it was for them.

00:00:52.000 But for me, it may as well have happened 6,000 years ago because it just,

00:00:56.480 it was basically anything that happens before you were born,

00:00:59.260 even if it happened a day before you were born,

00:01:01.520 it may as well be all the way back in ancient times, as far as you're concerned.

00:01:06.000 Because for you, the moment you're born, it's all after.

00:01:10.780 You know, there's no before and after.

00:01:13.060 It's just, it's all after.

00:01:14.400 It's all just in the past from your perspective.

00:01:17.320 And that's how 9-11 will be and is for my kids and all kids from now on.

00:01:22.860 But those of us who are older, you know, we remember.

00:01:26.120 And I guess the tradition on 9-11 is to say where you were when it happened.

00:01:29.940 So I was, as I said, I was in the 10th grade and we were in health class, I remember.

00:01:36.540 And we were in the middle of whatever lesson and another teacher poked her head in 0.98

00:01:41.880 and said to my teacher, you might want to turn on CNN.

00:01:44.480 And so they turned it on and the first image we saw was the first tower in flames.

00:01:50.940 And then like almost everybody else that day, we watched almost in real time as the second

00:01:55.460 plane hit.

00:01:56.260 Then within an hour, maybe two hours, we were all sent home for the day.

00:02:00.440 I don't think because they were worried that the terrorist attack would happen at the school.

00:02:03.800 I think it was just that there was no hope of anything else happening.

00:02:06.900 There was no hope of anyone learning or paying attention to school that day.

00:02:09.940 So they sent us home.

00:02:10.880 I remember the bus ride and the younger is another image that I have stuck in my head

00:02:15.940 from that day is the bus ride home and the younger kids on the bus were so excited and

00:02:20.540 cheering about the fact that they could go home early because they didn't understand what

00:02:25.940 was going on.

00:02:26.540 They had no idea of the enormity of it or really anything.

00:02:31.520 To them, it was just they got to go home for the day.

00:02:33.540 I barely understood it myself being 14 or 15.

00:02:36.320 I was thinking about this as well.

00:02:39.100 9-11 is obviously a defining news event for everyone who lived through it, probably the

00:02:48.060 defining news event.

00:02:49.880 But for me as a millennial, it was the defining news event of my childhood, as it was for everyone

00:02:58.500 in my generation.

00:02:59.660 And then I started thinking about what are the other defining news events of my childhood?

00:03:07.280 And I think they would be in order.

00:03:09.640 It would be OJ. 0.52

00:03:11.720 I remember actually that I was in elementary school with the OJ verdict and they actually

00:03:15.920 came on the intercom at the elementary school to announce the verdict.

00:03:21.180 And I remember my teacher shouting an expletive in frustration.

00:03:25.720 And to me, that was the big headline of the day was that my teacher said a bad word because

00:03:29.060 I had no idea what OJ was or what that was all about.

00:03:31.740 So OJ, then Lewinsky, then Columbine, the 9-11, of course, then the Iraq war.

00:03:38.660 And then for me, the Beltway sniper.

00:03:40.540 I lived in the area where that was happening and it was just a surreal time.

00:03:44.460 And those are the defining events.

00:03:45.700 And it occurred to me that all of the defining news events of my childhood are terrible.

00:03:55.340 It was a scandal and death, basically.

00:03:58.180 And I think when you think back to other generations, you have terrible news events that are defining

00:04:04.740 news, but they're also at least usually going to be one or two good things, like the moon

00:04:08.800 landing, for example.

00:04:10.580 With millennials, though, all we have are, it's all bad stuff. 1.00

00:04:13.660 There was no real great achievement, some great moment of national unity and celebration that we can

00:04:22.540 remember back to.

00:04:23.840 The unity that we remember is the unity that everyone talks about after 9-11 for those few

00:04:30.300 short, unfortunately, months where people seemed to be unified.

00:04:34.360 But that was unity brought about by a terrible tragedy.

00:04:36.900 So not exactly the same thing as maybe the unity that you would have had on the moon landing or

00:04:41.820 something like that.

00:04:43.660 Anyway, I think that there's, you could probably write a whole book about the, and probably people

00:04:50.720 have written books about the psychological impact, and maybe that explains a lot about

00:04:54.540 my generation.

00:04:55.720 I don't know.

00:04:56.840 All right.

00:04:58.900 Moving on to some of the news events of today, of this week.

00:05:02.860 I'm not going to spend much time on this, but I suppose the big news story of this week

00:05:06.760 is that President Trump fired his national security advisor, John Bolton.

00:05:10.820 Well, Trump says he fired him.

00:05:13.340 Bolton says that he quit.

00:05:14.700 So we're going through that whole thing again, that whole rigmarole.

00:05:17.780 Here's the only thing I want to say about this.

00:05:21.760 If you're a member of the audience who can't stomach any criticism of the president, if

00:05:28.580 you're one of those people who happen to have that, what I think is extremely un-American 1.00

00:05:32.580 attitude, where you do not want the president to be criticized at all, as long as he's on

00:05:38.560 your team, of course.

00:05:40.500 If you're in that camp, then maybe now's a good time to just go take a bathroom break

00:05:44.480 and come back in a few minutes, because it might be easier for both of us, less of a

00:05:48.720 headache, so I don't have to deal with all the same old emails.

00:05:53.340 Because look, first of all, I don't care that John Bolton is gone.

00:05:56.760 I'm not a John Bolton fan.

00:05:58.880 I'm not a war hawk.

00:06:00.040 I'm not a neocon.

00:06:01.940 I tend to agree with the non-interventionist, or at least less interventionist folks on most

00:06:09.400 of the related issues.

00:06:11.060 So getting rid of John Bolton, fine, okay?

00:06:14.580 That's perfectly fine with me.

00:06:16.780 And even I think it's good, actually.

00:06:19.640 I support that decision.

00:06:21.780 I did notice online yesterday, most Trump fans, all Trump fans, from what I saw, were

00:06:26.580 celebrating this, saying, oh, the president made the right decision again, hooray, good

00:06:30.940 for him.

00:06:32.700 Okay, well, here's the question, though.

00:06:36.100 I don't know why Trump fans aren't asking this question.

00:06:38.940 Well, I do know why they're not asking it, of course.

00:06:41.680 But this is the question that should be asked.

00:06:43.920 Why did Trump hire him in the first place?

00:06:48.600 So every time one of these people are fired, and everyone in the Trump fan say, good job

00:06:53.020 firing him, why don't you ask, what were you doing hiring the guy to begin with?

00:06:59.080 Yes, John Bolton is a war hawk and a neocon.

00:07:01.620 Everybody knows that.

00:07:02.840 I know that.

00:07:03.740 You know that.

00:07:04.540 Everybody knows that.

00:07:06.320 How did Trump not know it?

00:07:09.500 Every single person with a brain in their head, when they heard that John Bolton was

00:07:14.640 hired by Donald Trump, all of us knew it was going to end this way.

00:07:19.720 We all knew it.

00:07:20.440 We knew he was going to get fired eventually.

00:07:22.040 We all, you knew it.

00:07:22.920 I knew it.

00:07:23.400 We all knew it.

00:07:23.980 We didn't even need to say it.

00:07:25.260 We just knew it.

00:07:27.020 How did Trump not know it? 0.92

00:07:30.080 Isn't that astounding ignorance on his part? 0.72

00:07:33.440 Isn't that concerning? 0.90

00:07:34.400 Here's what else I know.

00:07:38.320 Trump has a habit of making terrible hiring decisions, hiring either incompetents or people

00:07:44.520 who just do not fit in with his vision and his policies such as they are.

00:07:49.040 And then he ends up firing them as everyone knows is going to happen.

00:07:52.020 And then the bitter public feud begins.

00:07:53.820 And this is just not a sign of competent leadership.

00:07:56.860 I mean, hiring the right people.

00:07:58.240 That was supposed to be one of Trump's strong suits.

00:08:00.900 Oh, I only hire the best people, right?

00:08:02.500 That's what he said.

00:08:03.480 I never believed it actually would be a strong suit of his, but I was told that it would

00:08:07.280 be.

00:08:07.880 This is a businessman.

00:08:08.880 He knows how to hire the right people.

00:08:09.920 He's going to surround himself with the right people.

00:08:11.440 Okay.

00:08:11.620 Well, how did that work out?

00:08:13.520 And most of his former employees end up hating his guts.

00:08:17.240 How many times have we gone through this?

00:08:19.100 Or people that are close to him and then they leave and then there's the feud.

00:08:23.020 It's not a good sign.

00:08:26.220 Okay.

00:08:26.700 And I'm sick of it. 0.96

00:08:27.580 I'm sick of the same old routine, the clown show. 0.89

00:08:29.840 I'm just so tired. 0.65

00:08:30.780 I'm even more tired of hearing conservatives make excuses for it.

00:08:35.240 And it's just, it's nauseating to me at this point.

00:08:40.980 Oh, but I forgot, of course. 0.88

00:08:42.780 Silly me.

00:08:43.380 How could I forget that? 0.87

00:08:44.620 Of course, this isn't Trump's fault.

00:08:45.860 It's never said.

00:08:46.420 I mean, he had a good reason to hire John Bolton.

00:08:49.180 I'm sure he had some good reason.

00:08:50.040 We don't know what the reason would probably.

00:08:51.800 Whatever he does that appears to be wrong, there's always a good reason for it.

00:08:55.660 And he's always the victim and he never does anything wrong.

00:08:58.400 I forgot. 0.88

00:08:59.140 Silly me. 0.81

00:08:59.640 How could I forget that? 0.97

00:09:00.640 Yes, of course.

00:09:01.300 There's always, it's always everybody else's fault.

00:09:03.940 Always.

00:09:04.600 It's the fake news.

00:09:05.540 It's the media.

00:09:06.340 It's the, it's the never Trumpers.

00:09:08.120 All five of them.

00:09:09.580 It's deep state. 0.99

00:09:10.980 It's a, it's a, all these people are conspiring and somehow forcing Trump to do dumb stuff. 0.95

00:09:15.980 They're, they're, they're, they're somehow, it's really them somehow. 0.93

00:09:19.060 It's never him.

00:09:19.580 Never.

00:09:19.780 I, so of course, right, right, right, right. 0.94

00:09:21.740 Silly me. 0.98

00:09:22.460 Silly me. 0.98

00:09:23.680 I mean, I, I, you know, I almost made the mistake of thinking that, that Trump is, you 0.89

00:09:29.460 know, the president of the United States and an adult and therefore could maybe be held

00:09:33.140 responsible for his own actions and could maybe be expected to make intelligent and

00:09:37.820 rational decisions about who he hires. 0.75

00:09:39.220 I, I, you know, I, I almost made the mistake of thinking that, but, but it's a silly me.

00:09:44.280 How could I, how could I think that?

00:09:47.540 Yes.

00:09:47.980 I, you're, you're, so you don't need to send the emails because I already know.

00:09:51.040 Yes, of course.

00:09:51.760 Right.

00:09:52.060 Right.

00:09:52.380 It's not his fault.

00:09:53.120 It's everybody else's fault.

00:09:54.100 It's my fault.

00:09:54.680 Even it's everyone's fault.

00:09:55.800 Not his.

00:09:56.240 Got it.

00:09:57.140 Okay.

00:09:59.300 Moving on.

00:10:00.960 The brilliant minds over at Vox, I should say, have a proposal.

00:10:06.960 Um, Vox does, they want to lower the voting age, uh, to zero.

00:10:14.340 Yes.

00:10:14.960 Zero.

00:10:15.480 No voting age.

00:10:16.460 In other words, um, letting toddlers vote.

00:10:20.040 This is a real opinion put forward by Kelsey Piper over at Vox in a piece that was aptly titled

00:10:25.580 the case for changing the voting age to zero.

00:10:30.000 Uh, which means even, even, uh, infants, uh, could vote.

00:10:34.200 Now let me skim through a bit, a few bits of this, uh, with you says in just over a

00:10:40.060 year, American citizens will have a chance to cast their ballot for the next president,

00:10:42.960 except for the 75 million Americans barred by state and local laws from registering to

00:10:47.340 vote.

00:10:47.580 That is, are there really that many American citizens illegally barred from voting?

00:10:51.980 The answer is yes.

00:10:53.760 Our kids around the world.

00:10:56.160 Almost every country bars people under 18 from voting.

00:10:58.800 The reasons vary.

00:11:00.020 They won't be informed enough.

00:11:01.460 They don't pay taxes yet.

00:11:02.520 They can't serve in the military yet.

00:11:03.860 They tend to liberal.

00:11:04.920 They tend to, to be too rebellious, but the rules persists even in the face of a generation

00:11:11.140 of passionate, smart and informed teenage activists.

00:11:15.600 Uh, oh, that wasn't supposed to be a joke.

00:11:17.320 Okay.

00:11:17.620 Sorry.

00:11:18.200 And even as it becomes obvious that our current political system is failing our children

00:11:22.280 in the last year, they've been encouraged.

00:11:24.280 There've been encouraging signs that we might rethink this democratic candidate, Andrew Yang

00:11:27.780 has argued for a voting age of 16, uh, that other people have argued as well.

00:11:32.320 Well, let's do them one better.

00:11:33.560 The United States should consider eradicating the voting age entirely and letting every American 1.00

00:11:37.780 citizen.

00:11:38.840 Wait, wait a second.

00:11:39.640 Why just American citizens? 1.00

00:11:40.980 You fascist, you bigot. 0.99

00:11:44.700 Who can successfully fill out a ballot, be counted. 0.99

00:11:47.180 What do you mean?

00:11:47.620 Who can sex successfully fill out a ballot? 1.00

00:11:50.080 So now we're, we're, we're, we're excluding illiterates, um, should be counted in our local

00:12:01.240 state and national elections.

00:12:02.960 And then it goes on, uh, so on and so forth.

00:12:05.800 Okay.

00:12:06.060 So she gives four reasons why we need to get rid of the voting age. 0.90

00:12:09.780 Here are her reasons.

00:12:12.320 Number one, the whole concept of a voting age is kind of unprincipled.

00:12:17.320 Yes, it does say kind of.

00:12:20.080 She did write actually kind of K-I-N-D-A.

00:12:25.800 Um, the voting age is unprincipled.

00:12:27.340 Now there are long explanations for each of these, so I can't read that.

00:12:29.800 Um, uh, the U S constitution holds that the right to vote cannot be abridged on the basis

00:12:34.580 of race, color, previous condition of servitude, sex, or age.

00:12:37.380 If you're older than 18, it's an awkward exception.

00:12:39.640 We've carved out to be, to the, um, admirable general principle that just government requires

00:12:45.200 fair and free elections in which everyone can participate.

00:12:47.300 Number two, the case for democracy can't rest on voters being rational, informed agents.

00:12:54.100 Indeed, there's a strong case for democracy that doesn't.

00:12:57.520 So she's saying, no, you know, you think that, that voters should be rational and informed.

00:13:01.600 You're wrong.

00:13:02.780 I'm going to debunk you.

00:13:04.140 Then she says, number, where are we?

00:13:08.120 Number, uh, where's number three?

00:13:09.540 Did we skip number three?

00:13:10.960 Voting as kids will turn young people into better citizens and likely increase participation

00:13:15.700 in their whole lives.

00:13:16.840 And then number four, kids have the same or even a greater stake in political issues that

00:13:20.960 adults do.

00:13:22.000 Okay.

00:13:22.540 You can go to Vox and read her entire explanation if you really want to.

00:13:25.700 Um, it is good for a laugh.

00:13:28.280 Now, I'm not going to harp on the irony here, the morbid irony that this writer, considering

00:13:34.400 the fact that she writes for Vox, probably is pro-abortion, which means she wants to give

00:13:40.460 voting rights to babies, but she doesn't want to give the right to life to babies. 1.00

00:13:45.840 Putting that aside, I'm of two minds here.

00:13:48.720 Number one side of my brain, probably the more sensible side says, this is crazy.

00:13:53.780 Obviously, kids don't know anything about the world.

00:13:56.960 They have no perspective.

00:13:58.120 They have no wisdom.

00:13:58.920 If anything, we should be raising the voting age to like 25 or 30.

00:14:02.140 I think we should be thinking about that.

00:14:04.280 Um, or as I have proposed, keep it at, uh, at 18, but institute some sort of basic entrance

00:14:11.660 exam to make sure that the people who are voting are in fact rational and informed agents.

00:14:17.820 Um, and in that case, actually, now, if you were to do that, that's my idea.

00:14:22.400 Now, if we were to do that, then I think maybe you could get rid of the voting age because

00:14:26.060 at that point, if you're a rational, informed agent, uh, go ahead and vote.

00:14:30.820 So if you happen to be particularly rational and particularly informed at the age of 15,

00:14:35.140 you should vote.

00:14:35.800 If you are not rational and informed at the age of 50, you should not be able to vote.

00:14:39.940 So I would, if, if there was that, um, caveat, then I would be fine with saying no voting

00:14:47.200 age because, uh, that's the main thing is do these people know what they're doing when

00:14:51.080 they go in the voting booth, but generally speaking, kids are, um, uh, are not going

00:14:57.440 to be in that camp because they just, they haven't been around long enough.

00:15:00.220 You know, it's like the kids I told you on the bus on nine 11, coming home, uh, from,

00:15:04.540 from school celebrating because they were kids.

00:15:08.200 They didn't have any idea what was going on.

00:15:10.040 They have no perspective.

00:15:11.800 They can't see beyond the nose on their face.

00:15:14.820 And that's why they shouldn't be voting.

00:15:18.500 Contrary to the claims being made here, our democracy does in fact rest on voters being

00:15:24.640 informed and rational agents.

00:15:27.040 It does rest on that.

00:15:29.820 And, uh, now the question is, can they, can a democracy survive when the majority of voters

00:15:40.820 are uninformed and irrational?

00:15:43.820 Well, I guess we're going to find out because that's where we're headed.

00:15:47.560 But if it does survive, it will survive in spite of that obstacle, not because of it.

00:15:53.080 It's very clear that the best case scenario is where most voters are rational and informed

00:15:58.900 and also have a stake in what's going on because they pay taxes.

00:16:03.860 They have a job, right?

00:16:05.400 And that's best case scenario.

00:16:08.740 And that's who voting should be restricted to.

00:16:13.360 But then the other side of my brain kicks in and I say, actually, this may be as a great

00:16:19.680 idea.

00:16:20.780 Maybe we should lower the voting age to zero, maybe lower the voting age to zero, no tests,

00:16:26.820 nothing.

00:16:27.260 Just let everyone vote.

00:16:28.680 And I'll tell you why.

00:16:30.240 Because a child's vote is really his parents vote. 0.65

00:16:33.700 A kid is going to vote however his parents tell him.

00:16:36.200 A child's political opinions, such as they are, are going to be 100% inherited from their

00:16:43.000 parents.

00:16:44.160 Okay, there is no nine-year-old out there who, um, who's, who, who, who has their own political

00:16:50.640 stance that's completely apart from their parents.

00:16:53.100 They, they, they get it from their parents.

00:16:55.660 So what that means is giving voting rights to kids is really just giving extra votes to

00:17:01.760 parents.

00:17:02.260 Now that idea, I kind of like, so if you have two kids, then really you have three votes

00:17:09.500 because you have your own vote and then your kids votes.

00:17:11.820 And those are by proxy, your votes.

00:17:15.520 I'm about to have four kids.

00:17:17.100 So that means that I would get five votes.

00:17:19.040 And really it's sort of is like, uh, uh, it's even more than that because my, you know, me

00:17:27.720 and my wife are on the same page and we have our kids.

00:17:30.400 So as, as a family unit, we're going to count for six votes.

00:17:35.600 Um, so actually, okay, I think I'm in, let's do it.

00:17:43.400 Let, let's go ahead and do that because think about it.

00:17:46.540 Who, who has the most kids in this country?

00:17:49.380 Conservative Catholics, Mormons, Orthodox Jews.

00:17:53.780 They're basically the ones having all the kids.

00:17:58.720 Um, and I mean, I, I run in Catholic circles where, where families of 11 or 12, even more

00:18:06.520 are pretty routine.

00:18:07.720 So this is a recipe for conservative religious people taking over the country. 0.95

00:18:13.480 I don't think the left, the left has thought this all the way through you get rid of the

00:18:17.100 voting age.

00:18:17.640 And then what are you going to have?

00:18:18.780 You're going to have all these homeschool families rolling up to the polls with their,

00:18:23.440 with their 15 passenger vans and all of those nice, well-behaved kids filing out and voting

00:18:29.280 for the most conservative candidates right down the ballot.

00:18:32.740 That's what's going to happen.

00:18:34.940 Um, and, uh, it, you know, I, I go to,

00:18:37.720 a lot of homeschool conventions to speak and I'm telling you those, those parking lots

00:18:43.140 are full of 15 passenger vans, buses, little mini buses.

00:18:50.320 And you think, oh, there must be, no, those are, those are buses for, for one family.

00:18:56.080 Yeah.

00:18:56.500 If you want to unleash that on the voting booth and then sure, let's do it.

00:19:02.600 Uh, yeah, at, at a certain point, I think liberals are going to figure out,

00:19:07.720 or, or, or going to have to figure out that, um, this plan of, of not having any kids and

00:19:16.220 even killing off your own young, uh, not only is that morally deranged, but it's, it's, it's

00:19:25.140 politically counterproductive because you are, you know, taking yourself out of the game as 0.92

00:19:30.940 it were.

00:19:32.880 All right.

00:19:33.440 Uh, what else we got here?

00:19:34.320 Um, Antonio Brown, the wide receiver who forced his way out of Pittsburgh, went to Oakland,

00:19:44.640 forced his way out of Oakland, ended up in, on the Patriots. 0.99

00:19:49.020 The guy is clearly a jerk to say the least, probably a sociopath, not a good person, but 0.99

00:19:55.300 that doesn't mean we should jump to conclusions on this news that a woman, uh, and this was 1.00

00:20:00.240 announced last night, a woman has filed a lawsuit against him claiming that he sexually assaulted

00:20:04.000 her three times beginning in 2017.

00:20:06.400 She says Brown assaulted her three times, uh, the first time being two years ago, but the

00:20:11.100 lawsuit wasn't filed until this week until Brown was, was, was already in the news.

00:20:16.000 Well, so coincidentally, I'm sure, right?

00:20:18.660 This happened two years ago.

00:20:19.940 She didn't follow the lawsuit until Brown's all over the news.

00:20:22.660 Uh, just a coincidence, obviously.

00:20:25.760 Right now, look, I don't know if Brown is guilty. 1.00

00:20:29.840 Like I said, he is a bit of a scumbag clearly. 0.99

00:20:32.640 Um, so I'm, I'm not a fan of his by any means, but that doesn't mean he's a rapist. 0.99

00:20:38.520 And I read the allegations and to me, there are some serious red flags here.

00:20:43.460 Um, this woman was Antonio Brown's personal trainer, she says, she says he sexually assaulted

00:20:53.860 her while they were doing training together.

00:20:56.580 A month later, after being assaulted, she still went to his home for some reason and was assaulted

00:21:04.440 again.

00:21:06.040 And then a while after that, after being allegedly assaulted two times, she went out, she went

00:21:12.160 out on a town with him.

00:21:13.120 She went like clubbing or something and then goes back to his house and is assaulted a third 1.00

00:21:18.240 time.

00:21:21.360 This doesn't make any sense to me.

00:21:23.040 I'm sorry.

00:21:24.160 Uh, I, I know I, that makes no, there's, there's more going on here at a, at a minimum because

00:21:33.360 that doesn't make any sense.

00:21:34.420 And every time I hear stories like this, it, it, it just, now I questioned this story

00:21:40.380 on Twitter last night and a bunch of people scolded me saying, how dare you, how dare you

00:21:43.940 judge this woman, victim blaming, so on and so forth. 1.00

00:21:46.960 Uh, sometimes women stay with their abusers. 1.00

00:21:49.640 It's complicated.

00:21:50.300 You can't judge.

00:21:51.600 And yes, I realized that sometimes a woman might stay, uh, oftentimes you hear about these

00:21:58.220 cases where a woman stays with an abusive husband, um, uh, or, or even boyfriend who

00:22:03.960 she's living with because she feels trapped and, you know, they have kids and, and all

00:22:08.140 of that.

00:22:08.540 And it's a terrible situation to be in, I'm sure.

00:22:11.420 Um, and the blame is entirely on the abuser there, of course, but that's not what's going

00:22:17.240 on here.

00:22:18.120 Okay.

00:22:18.560 This is not, they aren't married.

00:22:20.560 They weren't dating as far as we know.

00:22:22.960 Um, she was just his trainer.

00:22:24.820 This was basically a casual relationship and yet she goes back to him after being assaulted,

00:22:30.560 is assaulted again, then goes back to him again and is assaulted again.

00:22:35.260 Who in their right mind would behave that way?

00:22:37.660 I ask you, any woman watching this, would you casually get together with a guy who had 0.81

00:22:44.120 assaulted you twice and not only get together with him, but go back to his house after a

00:22:50.540 night out on the town?

00:22:51.320 Um, she says she only went back to his house to use the bathroom or something because there

00:22:59.420 were no bathrooms where she was.

00:23:00.700 She had no, no choice, but to go back to the guy's house who she says had assaulted her twice

00:23:05.000 already.

00:23:07.040 Uh, it just, is there any way in hell?

00:23:09.900 I mean, I'm asking you as a woman, if you're watching, if you're watching this and you're

00:23:12.740 a woman, uh, is there any way in hell you would casually get together with some guy who 1.00

00:23:19.820 assaulted you twice already?

00:23:21.320 Um, and go back to his house.

00:23:25.540 So I question it.

00:23:26.600 It's a red flag.

00:23:27.880 It's not victim blaming.

00:23:29.260 It's not victim blaming because I'm questioning whether or not she actually was a victim, whether

00:23:32.480 or not this, this story is true.

00:23:34.980 We can't just assume that it is.

00:23:38.420 We can't necessarily assume that it isn't, but we have to look at the story as it's presented

00:23:43.340 to us and given the information we know now, um, figure out which direction it most plausibly

00:23:52.100 points could be true.

00:23:54.820 It could, it could not be true, but what's more plausible that a woman would be assaulted

00:24:03.220 by a man and then go back to his house anyway, get assaulted again, and then go back to his house a third time.

00:24:11.400 Um, is that more plausible than the possibility that she might be fabricating some of this because he's rich and he's in the news.

00:24:21.700 And also this is a perfect time to file a lawsuit like this because everyone's against him.

00:24:26.220 And, you know, so, so which is more plausible?

00:24:27.920 That's, that's the question.

00:24:28.860 And I think probably the latter right now is more plausible.

00:24:32.200 Um, finally, before we, uh, get to some emails here, let me share one other thing with you.

00:24:39.200 And this is real, okay?

00:24:40.240 This is not parody.

00:24:41.180 This isn't satire.

00:24:42.820 Reading from The Hill, uh, same-sex penguin couple to raise first gender-neutral chick at London Aquarium.

00:24:51.600 It says a same-sex penguin couple will raise what may be the world's first genderless chick,

00:24:58.260 a London Aquarium announced Tuesday.

00:24:59.740 The four-month-old baby will be raised by two female penguins, Rocky and Merima,

00:25:04.840 um, at Sea Life London without a gendered name or a specified gender.

00:25:10.840 General Manager Graham McGrath said, while the decision may ruffle a few feathers,

00:25:15.740 get the pun there, very good.

00:25:17.540 Gender neutrality in humans has only recently become a widespread topic of conversation.

00:25:21.340 However, it is completely natural for penguins to develop genderless identities as they grow into mature adults.

00:25:26.840 I know what you're thinking when you, when you hear that.

00:25:31.820 Um, I know exactly what you're thinking.

00:25:33.580 You're thinking, it's great that they're letting it be gender-neutral,

00:25:36.900 but what kind of fascist assigns a species in the first place?

00:25:42.540 I mean, how do they know that it's a penguin?

00:25:45.820 Isn't it rather presumptuous to sit here and say, oh, we've got this penguin chick. 0.97

00:25:51.500 I mean, good for you, fascists.

00:25:54.280 For a second, we're not going to call it male or female.

00:25:57.120 Good for you.

00:25:57.880 Well done.

00:25:58.400 Let me get you a cookie.

00:25:59.120 Meanwhile, you are consigning it to a life as a penguin, having not asked it what it prefers to be.

00:26:10.680 How do you know it could be a buffalo?

00:26:14.680 You know, it could be a, it could be a tarantula.

00:26:17.280 It could be a three-toed sloth.

00:26:19.760 It could be a middle-aged Korean man. 0.62

00:26:21.620 You don't know.

00:26:22.600 You haven't asked.

00:26:23.540 And yet you just assume that it wants to live life as a penguin.

00:26:29.720 Maybe it wants to be out on the plains.

00:26:34.040 You know, skipping through the fields like a gazelle.

00:26:39.580 Maybe it wants to be climbing a tree like a spider monkey.

00:26:42.880 You don't know because you didn't ask, you bigots. 0.59

00:26:49.360 Outrageous. 0.93

00:26:51.860 Sorry, I'm a little heated.

00:26:52.780 I just, when I see this kind of closed-minded thinking in people, it sends me through the roof.

00:27:02.220 This is what it's like to be so much more enlightened than everybody else as I am.

00:27:07.600 This is the burden.

00:27:09.300 This is the cross that I carry in my life as a squirrel.

00:27:20.860 Let's go to emails.

00:27:22.780 Hello, Matt.

00:27:24.980 This is from Mike.

00:27:25.860 It says, hello, Matt.

00:27:26.520 I am and have been an atheist for much of my life.

00:27:30.220 MattWalshow at gmail.com is the email, by the way.

00:27:32.440 Hello, Matt.

00:27:32.960 I am and have been an atheist for much of my life, despite growing up in a Roman Catholic family and a largely Christian community.

00:27:38.760 Recently, however, I am finding that I would like to pursue faith and bring God into my life.

00:27:42.820 The part I'm struggling with, and where I would appreciate your insight, is some prominent scientific discoveries seem to contradict the existence of a God, or at least come into conflict largely with the book of Genesis.

00:27:53.440 I've talked to some individuals in my community about this, and I've generally been urged to toss certain scientific discoveries to the side as nonsense, such as evolution, in favor of blind biblical readings.

00:28:05.100 I cannot simply turn a blind eye to scientific discovery, and I'm not sure where faith and science coincide.

00:28:10.840 What are your thoughts, and where can I look for answers in this regard?

00:28:14.000 I felt turning to your view would be a good start, as you have in the past at least recognized where and how some views of faith fall short.

00:28:21.000 All right, Mike, well, first, it's great that you're thinking about these things, and you're turning this over in your head.

00:28:29.920 And as I say to everybody who sends me emails like this, I think that that's, you should be applauded for that, because, now, you'd like to think that everyone thinks about these things and is working them out, and, you know, you like, because for you it comes naturally, right?

00:28:45.120 But I think most people live their lives and just don't even think about it, so that's good.

00:28:51.900 The people telling you to toss science to the side, I don't know if that's a verbatim quote you're giving me.

00:28:57.840 I suspect it isn't, but if that's the general attitude, approach that you're hearing from, I guess, Christians you've talked to, telling you to forget about the science, well, those are people that you shouldn't take seriously. 0.96

00:29:11.320 I would recommend, I would strongly, I would plead with you, actually, to not talk to them anymore about this.

00:29:18.120 You do what you want, but it doesn't sound like those are the kinds of people, they're just, these are not thoughtful people, if that's what they're saying to you.

00:29:28.760 Science is not some sort of fringe subject that you could take or leave.

00:29:34.700 You can't say, well, science, science, science.

00:29:37.600 Science is how the world works, okay?

00:29:41.780 It is the study, the exploration, the discovery, the explanation of how the physical world works.

00:29:49.560 That's all science is.

00:29:53.080 So tossing science to the side is like, it's like, it's like, you might as well say you're tossing gravity to the side.

00:30:01.020 Gravity, which has been discovered and explained through science.

00:30:04.980 But you can't, right?

00:30:07.380 You can't toss gravity to the side.

00:30:09.360 All you could do is delude yourself, try to delude yourself into believing it doesn't exist, but it still exists.

00:30:15.520 It still just is.

00:30:19.220 So that's not a good use of your time.

00:30:21.260 I would say then, don't toss science to the side.

00:30:23.700 And instead, I would explore the ways in which both science and faith can not only coexist, but support one another.

00:30:33.260 Because there's no reason to try to find, there's no reason why the two concepts have to contradict or be at odds.

00:30:45.720 So I would, I would, that's what, that's what I would do.

00:30:49.220 And I would start, I would just start reading.

00:30:51.760 Pick up a book like The Language of God by Francis Collins.

00:30:55.680 Good place to start.

00:30:58.140 Explaining the, the harmony between, between science and, and belief in God.

00:31:04.420 Although I would caution you though, you know, I write Language of God.

00:31:08.140 That's a good book.

00:31:08.680 Go pick that one up.

00:31:09.480 There are other books like it, but when you're looking for, for, and there are plenty of books, uh, written by very intelligent, very well respected and highly regarded scientists who are also Christian.

00:31:24.640 Like Francis Collins.

00:31:26.940 So I would look at those books.

00:31:28.860 I would caution you there, there are, there are other, there's a whole other sort of cottage industry out there of, of, of some Christian, um, who I,

00:31:39.220 some basic, basically hacks and charlatans who they claim they're finding a harmony between science and, and religion.

00:31:47.080 But what they're really trying to do is debunk established scientific facts because those established scientific facts do not work with their personal reading of scripture.

00:32:00.540 The ones who do that, again, are charlatans and hacks.

00:32:02.960 I would stay far away from them.

00:32:04.500 You know, if you're reading a book and it's a Christian who is trying to claim that established scientific facts are not facts, put that to the side. 0.98

00:32:16.080 Don't listen to that.

00:32:18.060 Um, but there are, fortunately, as I said, are a lot of, of, of, of, uh, scientists who are also Christian who do not do that. 0.99

00:32:25.460 Um, and who can, who, who, who, who can look at the world and say, this is how the world works.

00:32:29.980 I'm not denying that no reason to deny it.

00:32:33.860 Here's how it fits in with a belief in God.

00:32:36.860 All right. Um, this is, uh, let's see.

00:32:41.840 This is from Nick says, Matt, have you seen this?

00:32:45.680 It's a, and then he gives me a link to a USA Today article with the title girl power Hasbro or Hasbro brings gender pay gap debate to game night with new Miss Monopoly.

00:32:56.900 Monopoly. And, uh, by the way, if you haven't heard of this, this is a, this is a, apparently a new version of Monopoly where, um, women, if you're a woman playing the game, you start out with more money than the men.

00:33:10.600 And I think, I think it's every time, because usually in Monopoly, every time you pass go, you get 200.

00:33:15.420 But every time you pass go in this version, the women get like $240 and the men still get 200 or whatever.

00:33:22.180 So that's the game.

00:33:23.040 Um, and then the email could, as the father of two daughters, I can't think of anything more demeaning than telling females they can't win unless they are given a head start.

00:33:33.140 In this game, female players are given more money at the start. 1.00

00:33:35.880 And each time they pass by, they pass go.

00:33:37.880 The article even feels the need to explain that it is possible for boys to win the game.

00:33:43.200 Thought I'd share what an embarrassment to our women in our country. 1.00

00:33:46.660 Um, yeah, well, I tell you what's, what, what would be really embarrassing for me.

00:33:50.860 Um, I, I, I would love to, to, to play this game.

00:33:59.360 Uh, because it's like, it's like, it's like playing pickup basketball with someone when you just sprained your ankle.

00:34:07.020 Because there's really no losing.

00:34:09.220 If you lose, then you could always say, well, hey, I just, you know, I have an injury.

00:34:12.180 What do you expect?

00:34:13.040 But if you win, then it's even more impressive that you won.

00:34:15.380 So for me, I would love to play this game because I figure if I still win, even though I'm at this disadvantage, uh, it makes me look even better.

00:34:24.660 And it's even more embarrassing for the competitors who had that advantage and still were not able to win.

00:34:29.340 So for me, if there, if there was a version of this game for men where men got more, I wouldn't want to play that game because I'd be way too afraid I would still lose.

00:34:35.820 And how humiliating is that?

00:34:38.720 So I would say this just sets up a great challenge for guys.

00:34:42.180 Go out and play the game and win anyway.

00:34:44.800 That'd be pretty funny.

00:34:46.560 Of course, it makes no sense whatsoever that we have.

00:34:50.500 I mean, the, the original Monopoly game is equality, right?

00:34:56.180 It's a definition of equality.

00:34:57.640 You sit down, you play the game, everyone, it's the, you all have to roll the dice.

00:35:02.080 You get the rules are the same for everybody.

00:35:04.080 It works the same for everyone.

00:35:05.620 That is equality.

00:35:07.120 That's how it's, we're told that it's claimed that that's how feminists want the world to work with equality. 1.00

00:35:12.800 And you discover yet again, that of course, equality is not what they want.

00:35:16.580 What they want is a headstart.

00:35:18.560 What they want is to be above everybody else.

00:35:20.820 And this Monopoly game is just one small, rather petty, but still, uh, I think very telling sign of what feminists actually want. 1.00

00:35:30.560 All right.

00:35:31.600 Um, we'll leave it there.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 11, 2019

Ep. 329 - Okay, Let’s Lower The Voting Age To Zero

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