The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 350 - A Disastrous Night For The Democrats

00:00:00.000 Well, the squad has spoken, ladies and gentlemen. The squad has spoken. The squad is endorsing

00:00:05.540 Bernie Sanders for president. Well, three-quarters of the squad is anyway. Tlaib, Omar, AOC.

00:00:13.240 And then the other one, what's her name? Ringo is not. I don't know what she's doing. But

00:00:17.940 unfortunately, you feel bad for her. Nobody cares who she endorses. We only care about the three

00:00:23.020 main ones. And this is really fascinating. These young women of color, politicians who live and

00:00:31.000 breathe identity politics, it is their lifeblood. It is coursing through their veins, identity

00:00:37.800 politics. And so they're looking at the field of Democratic candidates trying to decide who to

00:00:42.840 endorse. And they decide to endorse a 650-year-old white guy for president. They're endorsing an

00:00:50.660 ancient, wealthy, white, male career politician. Meanwhile, there's a perfectly good ancient,

00:01:00.320 wealthy, white, female career politician who they could endorse. There are also a few non-white 0.69

00:01:05.980 candidates they could go with. But no, it's got to be the old white guy. People will offer their 0.61

00:01:12.540 own explanations for why they're doing this, why Sanders and not Warren. Warren would seem like

00:01:18.240 the obvious choice for them. But I think, here's my, just my gut instinct. I think this is sort of a

00:01:25.760 mean girls situation. This is a mean girls jealousy thing where, you know, one of them wants to be the 1.00

00:01:33.640 first female president. And so they just don't want Warren to steal their thunder. I think that's what 0.92

00:01:39.460 this is about. They don't want, they don't want to have, um, they don't like her because

00:01:43.400 basically they don't like her because she's a woman and she's taking, she's going to take all the, 1.00

00:01:48.440 the attention away from them. So, um, as for the debate last night, as you know, um, I take my job

00:01:57.160 as a podcast host very seriously because it's a very serious and important job. Um, so, you know,

00:02:06.160 it's one of those things, it's such an important job. It's one of those things where, uh, uh, if there

00:02:11.320 was some sort of apocalyptic asteroid strike and we were, um, you know, and, and before the asteroid

00:02:18.460 comes, we've got a bunker and we can only put a few people in the bunker to rebuild human

00:02:24.540 civilization after, after the, the, the, the asteroid strike when everyone else is killed

00:02:29.280 and we're deciding who's who we're going to put in the bunker, you know, well, of course you need a,

00:02:33.060 you need a doctor in the bunker. Um, you need, uh, you know, you, maybe you need, you need a couple

00:02:39.280 scientists, uh, you need people who can hunt. Um, you need a carpenter, but you're also going to need

00:02:46.240 a podcast host because who's going to be hosting the podcast as we were able to rebuild civilization.

00:02:51.800 Anyway, the point is very important job. So even though I'd rather shove a rusty butter knife

00:02:58.400 directly into my eyeballs, then watch another three hour democratic debate. I did, you know, I did choose

00:03:04.860 last night the debate over the rusty butter knife because I needed to provide you with the searing

00:03:11.780 insightful political analysis that you definitely have not come to expect from me, but I have to

00:03:17.840 admit, I just, I couldn't do it. I just, I, I couldn't make it all the way through. I tried dear God.

00:03:26.300 Did I try, it was just so boring. I am so bored by this. Um, so about two hours in, I ended up

00:03:34.800 muting it and watching YouTube videos, but I did see, I still had it on. I just, I wasn't really

00:03:42.100 paying attention to it. I did look up and I, I see how they spent the final half hour of the bit,

00:03:47.140 the debate talking about their favorite friendships, not a joke. If you didn't watch it, I'm not kidding.

00:03:53.320 They spent the last half hour, half hour about of the debate talking about their friendships.

00:04:01.840 Um, the last question, which again, they spent about 30 minutes on was about their most, I think

00:04:06.560 it was their most, was it their most surprising friendships? And they each went, they each,

00:04:11.440 it was a very important question. They each had a chance to answer. Um, and they went through one

00:04:16.660 by one talking about their friendships. Uh, that would have been, I think a really great question

00:04:21.620 if these people were running for treasurer of student council in fifth grade, but I'm pretty

00:04:26.600 sure they're running despite appearances, they are running for president of the United States of

00:04:31.340 America. So I'm not sure we really care about their friendships. What's next? I mean, maybe the

00:04:36.320 next debate they'll spend the last, uh, the last part of it that, you know, the CNN will ask, uh,

00:04:40.900 candidates, what is cuter? A panda or a seal? You'll each have 20 minutes to respond. Go ahead.

00:04:49.400 Um, as for the other notable moments, I guess there were of the parts of the debate that I watched,

00:04:55.660 there were a few things maybe sort of worth talking about. And we'll get to that in a second,

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00:06:24.540 going on today is the website pink news, which is an LGBT website. They've apparently been given

00:06:31.100 the distinct honor of naming the gender neutral penguin in the London zoo, which is a, which is a

00:06:37.220 thing. And that's a real thing. Um, there's a gender neutral penguin. And so I guess the zoo said

00:06:43.940 to pink news, you guys can name the penguin. And, um, so they put a poll up on Twitter with four

00:06:51.660 options. And if you want to go, you go to Twitter. If you want to vote in this very important thing,

00:06:55.700 but, um, the options are rock. So cheddar, Ziggy pumpkin. Now, what do you think about that?

00:07:05.080 Remember, this is a, this is a gender neutral penguin. It's actually, as I understand, it is a,

00:07:10.200 it is a gender neutral pansexual vegan communist penguin. Um, easily the wokest aquatic bird of all 0.85

00:07:17.440 time. But here's my question. Do any of those names live up to the wokeness of this penguin?

00:07:23.960 Cheddar sounds like the nickname you give to the fattest guy in the biker gang. Roxo is the name of 0.91

00:07:31.140 a mob hitman. Ziggy doesn't really work. And pumpkin is a nickname that fathers sometimes give

00:07:37.400 to their daughters, which is highly offensive and traumatic. And it puts young girls in a gendered 1.00

00:07:41.820 box where they now have the expectation that they're going to grow up to become, you know,

00:07:46.500 a large squash. So here's my idea. Um, sky, Aspen, Addison, Oswin. I don't even know if that's a name.

00:07:59.080 It just sounds like Keegan, Dakota, Zane, Shiloh. Any of those names are better or here's,

00:08:11.880 here's a better idea. Just, and I, this is something I was considering for my own daughter

00:08:16.220 who was just born. Rather than giving the child a name, uh, or a discernible name, you give them a

00:08:23.860 name. What you do is you just, you just, you, you, you give them an assortment of sounds, right? And

00:08:31.140 then once, as they grow older, they can decide how to arrange those sounds according to their own

00:08:37.340 self-identity. So the name is something like, you know, free all, lose me, cough, red, and then,

00:08:45.860 or whatever. It doesn't matter. And then, and then as they grow older, they can take those sounds and

00:08:49.520 sort of put them in whatever order they want, maybe on a day-to-day basis, just on how they're

00:08:54.020 feeling, which really lets them express themselves. Okay. That's just an idea. Back to the debate. Um,

00:09:00.100 for me, the headline is that the Dems are screwed. This is a very, very weak field and their front 0.98

00:09:05.880 runner can barely string together a coherent sentence. All of their front runners are ancient.

00:09:11.020 And, uh, and it, it, that was really highlighted last night when you watched, because they had the,

00:09:15.700 they have Warren Biden and, um, Sanders in the middle of the stage. And then all the irrelevant

00:09:21.320 ones out on the fringes. And you just saw how old these people are. And you thought this really is,

00:09:27.960 this is the best you could do there. You couldn't find anyone outside of the nursing home to be,

00:09:34.280 to be your front runners. And you've got, you know, Biden, who's basically losing it.

00:09:41.140 The other is a communist with a bad heart. And the other is someone, a communist who just, who just,

00:09:46.480 who just copies all of her talking points from the other communist. I'm not kidding about Biden,

00:09:51.420 not being able to string together a coherent sentence. Um, listen to this.

00:09:55.500 We have to start rewarding work, not just wealth. I would eliminate the capital gains tax that,

00:10:01.660 and I would, I would raise the capital gains tax to the highest rate of 39.5%. I would double it

00:10:07.700 because guess what? Why in God's name should someone who's clipping coupons in the stock market

00:10:12.200 make, in fact, pay a lower tax rate than someone who, in fact, is, uh, like I said,

00:10:17.740 a school teacher and a firefighter. It's ridiculous. And they pay a lower tax. Secondly, 0.97

00:10:22.220 the idea that we, in fact, engage in this notion that there are one point, there's $1 trillion,

00:10:29.960 $640 billion in tax loopholes. You can't justify a minimum $600 billion of that. We could eliminate

00:10:37.680 it all. I could go into detail head out of time. Secondly, I mean, thirdly, what we need to do

00:10:43.700 is we need to go out and make it clear to the American people that we are going to,

00:10:48.100 we are going to raise taxes on the wealthy. We're going to reduce tax burdens on those who are

00:10:54.520 not. And this is one of the reasons why these debates are kind of crazy because everybody tries

00:10:58.960 to squeeze everything into every answer that is given. The fact is everybody's right about the fact

00:11:05.200 that the fourth industrial revolution is costing jobs. It is. The fact is also corporate greed is

00:11:11.260 they're going back and not investing in their employees. They're reinvesting and buying back their

00:11:15.620 stock. Thank you. Okay. Okay. So he says, quoting, I would eliminate the capital gains tax.

00:11:25.980 I would raise the capital gains tax because guess what? Why should someone who is clipping coupons in

00:11:31.760 the stock market make, in fact, pay? Wait, hold on a second. Sorry. Let me, let me start up because

00:11:36.900 I'm trying to, maybe there's a way to make sense of this. I just, I, I, I'm not, maybe I'm just not

00:11:41.880 getting it. I'm not a very smart person. Maybe that's what it is. Okay. Let's try this again.

00:11:46.340 I would eliminate the capital gains tax. I would raise the capital gains tax because guess what?

00:11:51.880 Why should someone who is clipping coupons in the stock market make, in fact, pay a lower tax rate

00:11:57.400 than someone who is in fact, like I said, a school teacher and a firefighter? I don't know.

00:12:03.240 I don't know what that means. I really don't. I'm not even trying to be,

00:12:07.440 you know, difficult here. I just, I don't know what he's trying to say there. Are, are we raising

00:12:15.000 or eliminating? Are we raising it then eliminating it or eliminating it then raising it?

00:12:20.840 And who's it? They, so they, they're making or paying. They can make the tax or pay it.

00:12:29.380 And who's clipping coupons in the stock market? Is that even a thing?

00:12:32.340 You get that sheet of coupons of 50, 50 cents off toilet paper, buy one, get one free box of,

00:12:40.720 of, of, of fruit snacks and a coupon for the stock market.

00:12:47.520 This is, I, this is disastrous for the Democrats that that guy is your front runner. That guy's

00:12:53.420 the best you could do. Um, and say what you want about Donald Trump, but the guy has a lot of energy.

00:13:05.000 I'm not sure that Trump is the best at stringing together coherent sentences either,

00:13:08.540 which, which kind of makes me look forward to a, the prospect of a debate between Biden

00:13:15.100 and Trump that would at least be entertaining. So in a sense, I'm rooting for that. Uh, because

00:13:20.200 can you imagine a three hour debate between Trump and Biden? I think at the end of it,

00:13:26.160 none of us are going to have any idea what anybody said. We'll have no clue,

00:13:29.920 but it'll be a lot of fun. It'll be a great, it'll be a fun journey in the very least.

00:13:35.740 Um, meanwhile, you've got Beto talking about consequences for people who don't give him

00:13:41.680 their guns. Watch this. Just to follow up your expectations aside, uh, your website says you will

00:13:46.880 find people who don't give up their weapons. That doesn't take those weapons off the street.

00:13:53.360 So to be clear exactly, how are you going to take away weapons from people who do not want to give

00:13:59.020 them up and you don't know where they are? If someone does not turn in an AR 15 or an AK 47,

00:14:05.000 one of these weapons of war or brings out in public and, and brandishes it in an attempt to intimidate,

00:14:10.840 as we saw when we were at Kent state, uh, recently, then that weapon will be taken from them. Uh, if

00:14:16.600 they persist, there will be other consequences from law enforcement, but the expectation is that

00:14:22.220 Americans will follow the law. I believe in this country. I believe in my fellow Americans. I

00:14:26.180 believe that they will do the right thing. This is the kind of talk that excites leftists on Twitter,

00:14:31.820 but it's not going to help a Democrat beat Trump in Pennsylvania or Michigan, um,

00:14:36.500 or Florida, you know, uh, same can be said about demonizing the wealthy, which, which was another

00:14:43.600 funny thing where you had this competition on the stage between people, uh, you know, who, who,

00:14:51.240 who could hate the wealthy the most, even though they're all wealthy, by the way, everybody up on

00:14:55.980 the stage, all of them are wealthy, but they're having this competition about who could, who could

00:15:00.320 hate the wealthy the most. And notice something about Sanders. Maybe you've noticed this interesting,

00:15:04.540 somewhat subtle change in his rhetoric. Now you may remember back in 2016,

00:15:10.800 he was constantly going on and on about millionaires and billionaires. Remember that? Well,

00:15:17.760 it's, it's fascinating that this time around he's shortened that a little bit. And now he focuses

00:15:24.000 on billionaires. He doesn't really say millionaires and billionaires anymore. They're not the bad guys.

00:15:28.440 It's billionaires. Now that could be just abbreviation. It's too much trouble to say

00:15:34.380 millionaires and billionaires, or it could be that he himself has become a millionaire in the meantime.

00:15:40.640 And so he realized that, oh, maybe millionaires aren't so bad.

00:15:46.540 He, he, he finally became a millionaire and said, oh, you know what? This is actually great.

00:15:50.880 I can see why people like it so much, but those billionaires now there, they're, they're the problem.

00:15:56.380 Um, but it was funny that they're all competing over who can hate the billionaires the most.

00:16:04.320 Meanwhile, you had this guy, Tom Steyer. I don't know who he is. No one's heard of him,

00:16:08.160 but he got up on, on the stage somehow. Um, and he's a candidate now had a great tie on.

00:16:14.340 I'll say that much for him, but he, he is a billionaire. And so they're going through and

00:16:20.200 each person is saying, oh, billionaires are terrible. Billionaires are scumbags. Billionaires 1.00

00:16:24.060 should be skinned alive and roasted over an open fire. And then they go over to Tom Steyer, 1.00

00:16:29.060 the billionaire sweating profusely saying, yes, I agree. Billionaires are, I agree. Billionaires

00:16:35.860 are scumbags. I billionaires should be thrown into the sea. In fact, right after this debate, 1.00

00:16:40.080 I'm going to go throw myself into the sea. That's, that's how I feel about it. Um, but this

00:16:47.100 kind of rhetoric, as I said, you know, it may be popular for, for, uh, among, among far leftists,

00:16:53.500 uh, whether we're demonizing the wealthy, screaming about climate change, advocating abortion through 0.89

00:16:58.940 all three trimesters, but it's, it's, it's not going to do much for people who are not on the far left.

00:17:07.420 And the Democrats, they're going to need to win more than just far leftists. There aren't enough

00:17:13.980 of them. It's the same thing I always say about Trump that he need, that he's got his hardcore

00:17:18.860 band of supporters, a pretty sizable collection of people, but it's, there's not enough of them

00:17:26.500 to put him over the top and the same on the left. There are unfortunately, sadly, a, a, a,

00:17:34.200 there's a sizable number of people who go for this kind of stuff, which is a sad statement about

00:17:41.300 our culture, but there aren't enough of them to put Democrats over the top. Um, speaking of abortion, 0.75

00:17:48.520 the candidates on that stage, they were, they were just itching to talk about abortion. They kept

00:17:52.640 bringing it up when it wasn't even the topic at hand. And eventually the, the moderators had to say,

00:17:58.440 okay, guys, calm down. We're going to talk about killing babies. We know you, we know you all love that. 0.99

00:18:02.780 We're going to talk about it or words to that effect basically. And then, and then they got

00:18:07.060 around to talking about it. Um, and when the time came, of course, they all went on and on about

00:18:12.420 reproductive rights rights, a term that, as I have explained many times is a total misnomer.

00:18:19.900 Reproductive rights is a term that means nothing. Or at the very least, if it means anything,

00:18:26.000 it, it, it, it certainly has nothing to do with abortion because abortion happens after reproduction 0.99

00:18:35.320 has already occurred. In order for there to be an abortion, something has to have already been 1.00

00:18:43.120 produced. So the, the human being has already been reproduced. It's not, it's not a matter of

00:18:51.080 reproduction anymore. You're not controlling your reproduction. When you get an abortion, 1.00

00:18:55.900 you have already produced the human being, which is now in your womb. The question is, 0.79

00:19:03.220 is it okay to kill an existent human being in the womb? I would say no. If you say yes,

00:19:13.660 you need to be able to, uh, defend that position, explain it without recourse to reproductive rights,

00:19:22.080 because reproductive rights are irrelevant. You know what reproductive rights? Okay. That's, 1.00

00:19:27.300 that's like the, the, you know, a two child policy in China or something like that.

00:19:33.320 That is a government telling people you can't reproduce more than X amount. That is a reproductive

00:19:41.800 rights issue because it's the government literally trying to control reproduction. 0.99

00:19:49.300 Uh, but no one is saying that in this country, nobody is saying women can't reproduce. Nobody is

00:19:54.940 saying you have to reproduce. All we're saying as pro-lifers is that once you've already done it,

00:20:04.160 even if you didn't mean to, you did. Now we've got a human being on our hands and it's not okay to

00:20:10.640 kill him. Very simple. Um, the only one who, who, who, who wasn't completely stoked about abortion was 0.99

00:20:17.940 Tulsi Gabbard. Uh, Gabbard is, is still pro-abortion, but at least she supports some restrictions

00:20:23.600 and she wants there to be fewer abortions, which used to be the mainstream democratic

00:20:29.980 position. And it was for many years, safe, legal, and rare. I believe Tulsi Gabbard even used that

00:20:37.960 phrase. And it was sort of, it was sort of shocking for some Democrats to hear it because

00:20:41.380 it'd been so long, but for decades, that was the, that was the slogan on the banner that they were

00:20:47.800 marching under safe, legal, and rare. We want abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. Um, but 0.69

00:20:54.380 Democrats now, the left, they don't want that. Yeah. Safe. They want, even though a safe abortion, 0.99

00:21:03.880 speaking of misnomers, safe abortion is a, is a contradiction in terms because all, there's

00:21:08.460 always at least one person killed in an abortion. So I couldn't, we couldn't call it safe. Uh, so

00:21:13.040 they wanted to be safe. They certainly want it to be legal, but rare. No, they want more abortions. 0.97

00:21:17.680 And in fact, Leanna Nguyen is the, uh, she was the former CEO of Planned Parenthood. Her reign was cut

00:21:25.040 very short. She was, she was fired basically. Um, and I think now we know why, because she came out on

00:21:32.020 Twitter last night after the debate and agreed with Tulsi Gabbard and said, yeah, we should,

00:21:39.240 abortion should be legal. Women should be able to do it, but, but, but we should try to cut down on 1.00

00:21:43.480 the number of abortions. And it's very fast. In fact, I would recommend if you're on Twitter,

00:21:48.360 go to Leanna Nguyen's Twitter page, look at that comment by her mainly to see the, to see the comments

00:21:55.500 underneath it from all these leftists saying, basically accusing her of being a traitor

00:22:02.360 saying, no, we don't want rare abortions. We don't want there to be fewer abortions. We like

00:22:08.160 abortions. We want there to be more of them and keep that in mind the next time, because anytime

00:22:15.500 you refuse to use the word, the euphemism pro-choice, and instead you say pro-abortion,

00:22:20.680 what do you always hear? You always hear, oh, we're not pro-abortion. No one's pro-abortion.

00:22:24.320 That's crazy. Well, if you don't want abortions to be rare, if you have a problem with that goal,

00:22:32.440 then you are definitely pro-abortion. And speaking of Tulsi Gabbard, the last thing I'll say about the

00:22:40.840 debate is watching this. Now I, you know, I'm no Tulsi Gabbard fan. She's still at the end of the day,

00:22:47.040 a leftist, but I think she would easily be the strongest competitor against Donald Trump because 0.90

00:22:53.860 she's not a crazy far left leftist. Um, she, she would win the, the anti-Trump vote as any Democrat 0.85

00:23:02.960 will. And that's what they're all relying on is that there's going to be a strong anti-Trump vote

00:23:07.400 and anyone who's not Trump will win that vote. Uh, she'll win some people in the middle 0.97

00:23:12.420 because of her positions on, on things like gun rights and, and, and abortion and so on. Um,

00:23:18.900 it's a little bit more in step with the, with the, you know, with what people in the middle think

00:23:23.260 she'd probably even win some conservatives. I think she'd be a formidable challenge. 1.00

00:23:29.700 I think she could probably even win in a landslide. 1.00

00:23:34.360 And on top of that, she's young and attractive and, and, uh, and a veteran. I mean, all those

00:23:38.800 things help, but she has no chance. She has absolutely no chance because she's not going

00:23:47.920 to get through a primary. She's pulling at 2%. Leftists are not interested in someone who has

00:23:53.880 sane and reasonable positions. They aren't interested in it and they're going to pay the

00:24:01.580 price for that. Um, maybe in the form of another four years for Donald Trump. All right, let's,

00:24:05.840 let's move on. Gina Rodriguez is a, an actress. Apparently she got into some hot water yesterday 1.00

00:24:12.060 because she recorded an Instagram video of herself wrapping along to, I think it was a Fuji's song

00:24:20.540 from the nineties. And the song contains the N word as many rap songs do. And she sang the N word 0.72

00:24:29.220 in the song because it was in a song. And this became a huge outrage. People were very upset. Uh,

00:24:36.000 Gina Rodriguez got canceled immediately. Canceled from what? I'm not sure. I don't know what she 0.95

00:24:40.420 does or who she is or why she's famous. Um, she, she almost immediately, uh, came out with a,

00:24:47.220 with an apology video, uh, you know, begging for forgiveness. Um, and like I said, I don't know who

00:24:55.600 she is. It doesn't matter though, because unless this person is literally in the clan, which is

00:25:00.620 unlikely for someone named Gina Rodriguez, I don't need to know their background to say that this 1.00

00:25:05.160 controversy is completely stupid. The idea that it's racist to sing the lyrics to a popular song 0.99

00:25:12.920 that's been on the radio for like 20 years is just beyond the bounds of stupidity. It, it goes beyond 1.00

00:25:21.300 stupidity, you know, pure stupidity. It leaves the atmosphere and achieves intergalactic levels 1.00

00:25:28.300 of stupidity. Uh, and this is very obvious. There's just no way around this logic. If the word is so bad 1.00

00:25:35.300 that it's racist simply to sing along to a song that contains it, then the word should not be in

00:25:44.300 the song to begin with. The idea that there could be song lyrics that you're only allowed to sing

00:25:52.440 if you have the right skin pigmentation is again, very, very stupid. Um, and I'm going to keep going 1.00

00:26:00.760 back to that word stupid because that's what this is. Again, if this word has that kind of power, 0.99

00:26:07.860 if it is that incomprehensibly evil that to even utter its syllables, uh, no matter the context is

00:26:16.460 an unforgivable sin, then nobody should be saying it. And certainly nobody should be putting it in a

00:26:22.300 pop song that goes on the radio. This to me seems very reasonable. Or on the other hand,

00:26:32.100 um, we could go this way. We could say context matters. If you're using a racial slur as a racial

00:26:42.760 slur, well then that's obviously racist and terrible. And if Gina Rodriguez was on video shouting racial 1.00

00:26:51.320 slurs in a racist context, um, I would say she brought the consequences on herself. 0.71

00:26:58.100 But if the context is you singing the lyrics to a song or matter of factly quoting someone

00:27:04.960 or, or, uh, uh, reading something that has the word in it, then clearly it is not racist

00:27:13.720 because there's no intent. A statement can only be racist if it has a racist intent behind it.

00:27:21.500 That's how human communication works. It's, it's not, you know, there is no word that's like some

00:27:31.140 sort of magical spell that if you even say the word you're, you, you, you turn into, it's like a

00:27:37.460 magical spell that turns you into a frog or something. Um, well, this is not a magical spell

00:27:42.700 that turns you into a racist because you said the word in any context whatsoever. Um,

00:27:49.240 and besides the other thing that doesn't make any sense about this is when you're quoting someone,

00:27:54.840 um, or singing a song or whatever, and, and you censor yourself and you say, uh, and you say

00:28:04.280 instead N word, you're still causing your listeners to think that word in their heads.

00:28:10.040 I think Bill Burr has a bit about this, or maybe Louie C.K. I don't remember which one,

00:28:14.500 but the point is you're still communicating the word, right? You're, you're just communicating

00:28:20.380 without all the syllables. So, so is there something mystical about that particular arrangement of

00:28:27.400 syllables that makes you racist if you utter it without the right skin pigmentation, regardless

00:28:33.620 of content or, uh, or, or of, of context? It starts to sound superstitious after a while

00:28:43.160 and it just doesn't make any sense. Uh, I have no, you know, I have no dog in the fight with Gina

00:28:50.060 Rodriguez. Like I said, I don't even know who she is. And yeah, was it stupid for her to, I don't even 0.73

00:28:57.380 know why you would take an Instagram video of yourself singing along to a song on the radio and then put 0.99

00:29:02.100 you're not, you know, I don't even know why you would do that. Um, so it's stupid for a number 0.99

00:29:07.040 of reasons, but it's in a song. You're saying the words of a song. 0.99

00:29:11.680 And if this all ends with people saying, Hey, you know, maybe we should put fewer profanities

00:29:22.060 and slurs and everything in songs to begin with, I would say, great. Yeah, that sounds good.

00:29:29.440 But if you're going to put it in the song, you can't get mad at people for singing along to it.

00:29:33.500 All right. Finally, uh, I can't believe I'm going to do this, but I want to play something from

00:29:41.180 keeping up with the Kardashians. Actually, it's worse than that because I'm going to play.

00:29:45.480 It's a report on entertainment tonight about keeping up with the Kardashians.

00:29:50.760 And by the way, I'm not trying to be funny here. I had no idea that keeping up with the

00:29:53.580 Kardashians was still on the air. I thought it went off the air like 10 years ago. I really had no idea

00:29:57.280 that it's still, did it, what, did they reboot it or something? Or has it been on TV this whole time?

00:30:03.400 I don't know. Um, because aren't all these people billionaires now and they're still doing a reality

00:30:09.780 show. So, um, apparently it's still on the air and, uh, there's a certain scene that people are

00:30:16.820 talking about. Some people are upset, upset at Kanye West because he confessed to his wife,

00:30:21.280 Kim Kardashian, that he's not comfortable with her wearing skimpy outfits. Uh, watch this. 0.98

00:30:26.460 You're on your transformation. Doesn't mean that I'm in the right, I'm in the same spot with you.

00:30:31.980 So. Okay. All right. So, all right. All right. Cool. Kanye West storms out on Kim Kardashian

00:30:38.880 after confronting her about her super sexy Met Gala look. I'm really freaking out.

00:30:46.280 You now say that you're not into me wearing a tight dress. You are my wife and it affects me

00:30:51.360 when pictures are too sexy. On Sunday night's episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians,

00:30:56.460 Kanye surprisingly admits to having an issue with people gawking at his gorgeous wife.

00:31:02.640 The corset is like a form of underwear. It's hot. It's like, it's hot for a hula.

00:31:07.460 So, like, the night before the flag, you're gonna come in here

00:31:10.560 and say that you're not into a corset bag.

00:31:13.920 I mean, we love each other's opinions.

00:31:17.380 Well, maybe not in this case, as Kim was not okay with the 42-year-old rapper's concerns

00:31:24.380 over her choice in wardrobe for fashion's biggest night.

00:31:28.880 I just feel like I just went through this transition where from being a rapper,

00:31:33.640 like, looking at all these girls and looking at my wife, like, oh, my girl needs to be 1.00

00:31:38.220 just like the other girl, showing her body off, showing this, showing that.

00:31:41.660 And I didn't realize that that was affecting, like, my soul and my spirit

00:31:45.480 as someone that's married and loved and the father of, like, now about to be four kids.

00:31:51.400 Kim shut that down real quick. 1.00

00:31:53.860 You built me up to be this, like, sexy person and confidence and all this stuff.

00:31:58.460 Just because you're on a journey and you're on your transformation

00:32:01.740 doesn't mean that I'm in the right, I'm in the same spot with you.

00:32:05.060 Entertainment Tonight tells us this is surprising.

00:32:08.240 It's surprising that Kanye West doesn't want his wife running around like that.

00:32:15.240 And a lot of people online have echoed this sentiment.

00:32:17.680 It's surprising that a man, you know, a husband doesn't want other men ogling his wife.

00:32:24.700 It's surprising that a father doesn't want that sort of example set for his daughters.

00:32:30.280 No, that's not surprising.

00:32:31.740 That's normal.

00:32:33.860 That's healthy.

00:32:37.080 But I kind of love that clip that I just played because you see this stark contrast

00:32:41.960 between the very thoughtful, honest explanation from Kanye about why he cherishes his wife's dignity

00:32:50.680 and why he, as a father and a husband, wants her to respect herself and show more modesty.

00:32:57.420 And he's sharing that.

00:32:59.760 And then the Entertainment Tonight lady cuts in and says, 1.00

00:33:02.700 Kim shuts that down real quick. 1.00

00:33:04.520 It's just so vapid and shallow where you see is a perfect illustration

00:33:12.580 of how the other side, you know, you've got the, what I guess we call now traditional values,

00:33:19.400 which now Kanye West of all people is exhibiting and good for him.

00:33:25.140 You see how the other side is so vapid and shallow.

00:33:30.780 And I'm just going to say this.

00:33:32.120 If you don't, if you really don't understand where Kanye is coming from in that clip,

00:33:37.420 if you don't understand what he's saying or why he's saying it,

00:33:42.300 if you, if you really do find it shocking, scandalizing,

00:33:46.480 then I would say don't get married because you're, you're not marriage material.

00:33:53.540 You're never going to have a successful marriage.

00:33:55.400 And I'm not saying that you have to agree a hundred percent with everything that Kanye West

00:33:59.720 is saying there in order to be, you know, to, to, to, to have a good, healthy marriage,

00:34:03.180 but you should at least understand what he's saying.

00:34:08.060 This, um, this instinct that a spouse feels, uh, not wanting his wife

00:34:18.480 to go out half naked and be ogled by other men.

00:34:23.620 That is a natural, healthy instinct.

00:34:27.360 And if you can't even understand that, um, if the idea of having a truly monogamous,

00:34:36.040 exclusive relationship where you both have some dignity and some modesty,

00:34:43.020 and there are certain things physically, emotionally that you keep between yourselves

00:34:50.700 and you don't share with the world.

00:34:54.280 If you, if you don't understand that, then again, I just, you, you, you're,

00:34:57.800 you're marriage probably isn't going to work out for you because that's what marriage is all about. 0.98

00:35:04.840 It's all about having those exclusive intimate things that aren't shared with everybody else.

00:35:13.020 No, because you're not sharing every aspect of your spouse with the entire world.

00:35:21.200 And when you get married as a spouse, what you're saying to the person you're marrying is,

00:35:26.720 there are parts of me, uh, you know, metaphorically and literally that, that, that will not,

00:35:33.380 that are not going to be shared with anyone else.

00:35:36.940 It's just between you and me.

00:35:38.380 Um, so that's, it really is.

00:35:44.340 It's like something out of idiocracy, which I think is one of the most prophetic movies, 0.97

00:35:48.420 uh, to come out in the last 20 or 30 years. 0.53

00:35:50.960 But this is like something straight out of idiocracy.

00:35:56.500 People are gawking, laughing like hyenas because a man, you know, 0.77

00:36:03.180 doesn't want his wife going out in public, basically nude.

00:36:09.960 All right.

00:36:10.680 Um, so Kanye West, whoever thought Kanye West would become the spokesman for

00:36:16.080 Christian modesty, but this is where we are in 2019.

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Ep. 350 - A Disastrous Night For The Democrats

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