The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 365 - A Disgraceful Stunt

00:00:00.080 Welcome to the show, everybody. Yesterday, you probably heard about the tragic slaughter of a group of Mormons and U.S. citizens who were traveling in Mexico near the U.S. border.

00:00:08.440 Donald Trump tweeted about it. They were killed in an attack by a cartel. Six children, three women died, shot while they were in their cars, and then the cars were set on fire.

00:00:21.140 Some of the kids were also taken hostages, I believe.

00:00:23.380 Now, it's a terrible case, obviously, unthinkable, and to heap insult on top of unthinkable tragedy, the New York Times yesterday, when reporting on this incident, and I really believe that this, well, now this is quite a statement, so I know this might be the most disgraceful stunt that I can remember the New York Times pulling, and that is saying quite a lot.

00:00:53.380 But they published an article, and here is their headline, or summary of it on Twitter, anyway.

00:00:59.960 It says,

00:01:01.740 The brutal killing of nine members of an American family in northern Mexico on Monday highlights the long history of religious fundamentalist settlers in the region.

00:01:11.780 Our religion reporter, Elizabeth Diaz, details their history back to the early 20th century.

00:01:17.400 Really, New York Times? Is that what it highlights?

00:01:19.620 It highlights religious fundamentalism.

00:01:22.420 So when you hear about a cartel attack killing women and children, the first thing you think about is,

00:01:27.660 I wonder what the history of religious fundamentalism is in Mexico.

00:01:31.660 That is amazing.

00:01:33.620 It's also important to keep in mind, in case you are, for whatever reason, so generous that you would want to give the New York Times the benefit of doubt on this,

00:01:44.140 you have to keep in mind that, to the media, religious fundamentalist is invariably an insult.

00:01:51.800 Now, I don't think it necessarily is, or should be.

00:01:54.940 I think a religious fundamentalist is literally someone who follows or subscribes to the fundamentals of their religion.

00:02:01.520 Now, I think there are people who are called religious fundamentalists, who maybe aren't.

00:02:07.100 But that's, to me, what a religious fundamentalist, that's what the word should mean.

00:02:11.820 So, I suppose if I were to call somebody that, it's not necessarily an insult.

00:02:16.280 But if we're trying to ascertain the Times' motivation, what their real intent is,

00:02:23.320 then it's clear that they meant to insult these people, because for the media, fundamentalist is always pejorative.

00:02:30.660 And on top of insulting the dead, they're also, of course, completely deflecting from the real thing that is highlighted by this story,

00:02:38.640 which should be obvious to everybody, and that would be violence and chaos on the border,

00:02:43.340 the danger posed by drug cartels, etc.

00:02:46.280 Now, why do we think the media doesn't want to go that direction?

00:02:50.800 Why don't they want to talk about that?

00:02:51.700 Well, that's pretty obvious.

00:02:53.900 Because with our media, everything is ideological.

00:02:56.320 They see everything immediately through an ideological lens.

00:02:59.220 They really can't even help it.

00:03:00.420 It's just how their minds work.

00:03:02.240 And that's not to give them an excuse, but that's just to show how incompetent they are

00:03:05.780 and how incapable they are of doing their jobs.

00:03:09.020 But they see everything ideologically.

00:03:10.700 And so they just, they cannot admit that this story could at all be a reflection on why, for example,

00:03:19.320 we should be enforcing the border and so on.

00:03:22.920 By the way, remember how the media referred to Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, after he was killed?

00:03:30.280 Remember the Washington Post, they called him an austere religious scholar.

00:03:35.800 So Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, was an austere religious scholar,

00:03:42.160 while these victims of cartel violence are fundamentalist.

00:03:47.100 Do you think the New York Times would ever publish an article about ISIS that, you know,

00:03:56.580 talks about the history of Islamic fundamentalism in the region?

00:04:00.900 No, they would never do that.

00:04:03.980 So Baghdadi, religious scholar, Mormons killed by cartels are fundamentalists. 0.97

00:04:12.160 Think about that.

00:04:12.920 Okay, much to talk about today, including my speech that I gave at CSU last night in L.A.

00:04:19.440 and some drama in the Q&A when white nationalists decided to show up and try to derail things.

00:04:25.420 Unsuccessfully, but they gave it their best shot.

00:04:27.840 Also, that report in The Federalist that I mentioned yesterday, an interesting report

00:04:31.460 that I promised to talk about today.

00:04:33.000 We're going to talk about that.

00:04:34.060 And Kamala Harris's plan to ensure that kids basically never see their parents. 1.00

00:04:40.800 You're going to want to hear about this plan that she's cooked up and this bill that she's proposing.

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00:06:06.600 By the way, can I just say, before we move on to the main topics here, you know, Emma Watson,

00:06:13.220 the actress Emma Watson is catching a lot of flack today for saying in an interview,

00:06:18.200 I think was it with the British Vogue, I think was the one of my favorite magazines.

00:06:23.040 I have a subscription.

00:06:24.780 But she said that she's not single.

00:06:27.200 She is self-partnered.

00:06:29.320 Self-partnered.

00:06:31.060 And people are making fun of her for this.

00:06:34.020 But first of all, can I say, if you make fun of Emma Watson, you're making fun of her spouse too.

00:06:40.600 Think about that.

00:06:41.380 Because she is her spouse.

00:06:43.380 And it's just wrong to go after people's spouses, okay?

00:06:47.060 Leave the spouses out of it. 1.00

00:06:48.420 That's my thing.

00:06:49.200 Also, even though this is new age, self-absorbed, vapid, stupid nonsense, in a way, I do at least

00:06:59.480 kind of admire people.

00:07:03.000 Maybe admire is not the right word.

00:07:04.620 I stand in awe of people who can love themselves this much, who can be this self-absorbed.

00:07:12.980 I almost envy it.

00:07:15.440 Because for me, you know, I would never want to be partnered with myself.

00:07:19.000 That sounds like the worst thing in the world.

00:07:20.240 Why would I want to be married and partnered with myself of all the people?

00:07:24.340 Me?

00:07:25.760 That's why I married someone who is exactly the opposite of me.

00:07:31.740 They say opposites attract.

00:07:33.300 Well, that is 100% the case in my marriage.

00:07:36.700 She is exactly the opposite of me in every way.

00:07:38.800 She is bubbly, outgoing, cheerful, optimistic.

00:07:45.660 If you can imagine that.

00:07:48.080 Just the opposite in every way.

00:07:49.560 So to marry myself, I mean, well, who would want that?

00:07:53.400 Who would want to be married to me besides my wife for some reason? 0.96

00:07:56.860 So I say congrats to Emma on her coupling. 0.99

00:08:00.880 And I wish her and herself many happy years of wedded bliss.

00:08:06.240 Okay, so I spoke at CSU LA last night.

00:08:09.700 The subject of my talk was the left's war on reality.

00:08:13.660 And which is a theme that I talk about a lot on this show.

00:08:17.660 And it's, I wrote a book about it.

00:08:18.960 It's because I think it's, when it comes to the culture, it's the most important thing that we can be talking about and should be talking about.

00:08:26.080 And I tried to go into detail about the attempts in our culture to redefine life, marriage, and gender.

00:08:33.180 And this is a talk that I've spent a fair amount of time developing because my goal, I don't know if I, if, you know, this is my goal anyway, is for it to be sort of the definitive response to every major argument that the left presents to justify their positions on these topics.

00:08:50.220 Life, marriage, life, marriage, and gender.

00:08:52.080 So that's a lot to bite off and try to chew in a 30-minute talk.

00:08:56.640 But that's my goal anyway.

00:08:58.000 And you can go to YouTube, you can go to Facebook and check it out.

00:09:01.500 I posted it on Twitter as well.

00:09:03.040 I mean, that's every, so, and I would encourage you to go and watch the talk and share it with your friends, please.

00:09:07.520 But there was some drama yesterday during the Q&A when a bunch of white nationalists showed up with questions that, of course, had nothing to do, well, several of them had nothing to do whatsoever with the subject of the talk.

00:09:25.840 Which is a shame, again, because it's an important subject.

00:09:30.460 And their goal was to try to trap me and get me to say something that they could use against me to destroy my career and so forth.

00:09:36.380 That's the goal.

00:09:37.520 Now, for a little background on this, these white nationalists have been involved in a little campaign over the last few weeks to try to crash the Q&As of conservative speakers on campus.

00:09:51.920 Doing the left a huge favor in the process and asking questions that are often tinged with anti-Semitism and racism.

00:10:00.420 Again, the goal here for them is to try to trap us.

00:10:04.100 These aren't serious questions and they aren't being honest in their approach and they know it and we know it and everyone knows it.

00:10:12.960 This is not an honest exchange and that's not what they're looking to do.

00:10:16.980 This is just a game of gotcha.

00:10:22.340 Now, they were especially excited to show up for me for two reasons.

00:10:26.940 One is that I work for a Jewish man and that, if you're a white nationalist, that is, I suppose, an unforgivable sin.

00:10:37.320 Um, and that's why their, uh, their cult leader, uh, this guy named Nick Fuentes, you know, he called me a race traitor because I work for Jews.

00:10:46.840 And he's very upset about that.

00:10:49.060 So, um, and in fact, the very first question of my Q&A took me to task for that scandalous fact that I work for a Jewish person.

00:10:59.360 And you can go again to YouTube and see it.

00:11:01.340 Um, and, uh, and they also don't like me because as I said, this Nick Fuentes guy, their cult leader, uh, went off on this unhinged rant about me.

00:11:10.580 Um, after calling me a race traitor and so on, and the thing that provoked it was interesting.

00:11:16.280 What provoked it is, you know, I, I didn't, had never even heard of this guy.

00:11:18.760 I never said anything about him.

00:11:20.200 Um, what provoked it is that I called, you may remember this a few weeks ago after the El Paso mass shooting carried out, obviously, by a racist who was murdering Hispanics.

00:11:32.560 Um, I called the mass shooter, a racist piece of S white trash, some other choice descriptions. 1.00

00:11:39.180 That you'd think we could all agree, uh, given that this is a mass shooter who killed a lot of people.

00:11:44.520 He's an evil man.

00:11:45.300 And I mean, there's really nothing you could say about him that would be beyond, you know, would be out of bounds.

00:11:51.080 I think once you're a mass shooter, it's pretty much fair game.

00:11:53.720 Anyone can say whatever they want about you.

00:11:55.400 Um, but Fuentes didn't like that.

00:11:59.580 And, uh, he, you know, he was very upset that I was making fun of a mass shooter.

00:12:04.800 You know, that, that hurt his feelings for some reason.

00:12:07.020 Um, and he responded by calling me a race traitor who works for Jews, among other choice descriptions.

00:12:12.240 Um, and I responded to him with the level of seriousness that was appropriate given his original line of attack.

00:12:18.580 And, uh, and here we are.

00:12:20.020 And there they were at the Q and a, though, again, it's not just mine.

00:12:23.660 They're showing up to, and that's important to note that this is a broader campaign.

00:12:26.920 To essentially undo and undermine all the inroads conservatives have made in recent years on college campuses, which are significant.

00:12:36.640 Now, I'm not going to say that conservatives have achieved some sort of definitive final victory on college campuses.

00:12:42.520 That obviously is not the case.

00:12:45.080 Um, we, there's quite a lot we're working against.

00:12:48.180 You know, the, the, the institution is against us.

00:12:53.040 Academia obviously is against us.

00:12:55.860 And academia is, of course, in many ways, a brainwashing mechanism.

00:13:01.840 Taking these malleable, impressionable young people and forming them into far left people who believe in gender theory and all these other things. 0.55

00:13:13.120 And so we're working against that and doing what we can to make progress given all of that.

00:13:22.240 But, um, what these white nationalists want to do is they want to come and offer a big assist to the left by undermining that and turning all of our talks or trying to turn them into an opportunity to spout white nationalists talking points.

00:13:37.860 Uh, which again, only helps the left. 0.73

00:13:40.440 It's the only people who are helped by it.

00:13:43.120 Now, if you go and watch the Q&A section of this talk, you'll see two things.

00:13:49.040 So what you see are, you have to see ideology and you see tactics.

00:13:53.560 Now, first to the ideology.

00:13:55.600 These people are convinced that our struggle in this country is racial and ethnic.

00:14:02.900 Um, and our main goal as they see it is to preserve our racial, ethnic, European heritage.

00:14:09.320 In fact, these people seem to, from the way they talk about it, um, it, it, it, it seems as though they think we live in Europe.

00:14:17.240 They talk about us as if we are Europe, as if there's really no distinction between us and Europe, which of course is not the case.

00:14:23.180 And to the extent that these people are being at all sincere in what they're saying, um, the one correct thing they have noticed is that, as I tried to express last night, we do need a unifying principle as a country.

00:14:38.380 And you can't have, I've said this many times, you can't have a country where a bunch of people are randomly living in the same geographic area, but they don't have anything in common.

00:14:47.760 That's, that's, that's not a real country.

00:14:49.740 That's just not how a country works.

00:14:51.180 And if you want to be a country, a people, then there must be something that unifies you.

00:14:55.820 And we should be able to say, uh, you know, if I say being an American means blank, everyone should be able to fill in that blank with something other than living in this part of the world.

00:15:12.340 Okay. That's not how we should fill in the blank.

00:15:15.520 Now it's easy to say that we should unite as people do.

00:15:19.460 We need to have unity, but unite around what is the question.

00:15:26.380 Here though is where these white nationalists go horribly wrong.

00:15:30.200 Our unifying principle isn't and was never ethnic.

00:15:36.180 Our unifying principle is the doctrine upon which our country was founded.

00:15:43.020 Our country is unique in the fact that it was founded on a doctrine.

00:15:47.520 That's not how most countries are established.

00:15:51.220 Ours was.

00:15:53.160 And it is a doctrine.

00:15:54.500 Okay.

00:15:55.520 This, this idea of inalienable, inalienable rights, um, human rights endowed by a creator that that's doctrinal.

00:16:07.540 And so I would argue that, that, that should be our unifying principle.

00:16:16.940 Um, and that doctrine is not a racial one.

00:16:20.200 In fact, it is expressly non-racial.

00:16:25.300 It is about the inherent dignity and inherent rights of all people.

00:16:31.020 And as conservatives, many of our most crucial and important arguments that we make also are hinged on this concept about the inherent rights and dignity of all, of all people.

00:16:41.880 In my talk last night, I spent about the first 20 minutes of it talking about abortion and the pro-life fight and, uh, engaging with the pro-abortion arguments.

00:16:52.440 And the pro-life position is, is, starts with this fact that all people have inherent rights and human dignity.

00:17:00.840 If we're wrong about that, then there's no reason to be pro-life and there's no reason to be conservative.

00:17:05.640 There's no reason to care about any of this stuff, actually.

00:17:07.940 Um, now it's true that our founders did not quite apply that principle equally as, as they were blinded by the bigotries of their time, but we can apply it equally or at least try.

00:17:20.120 And, and that's our principle in my view, but the questioners weren't satisfied with straightforward, uh, questions and answers.

00:17:27.500 They, you know, they mainly wanted to lay traps.

00:17:29.500 So they threw gotcha questions at me about Ben, uh, hoping they could get me to disavow him because he's Jewish. 0.87

00:17:35.260 Um, one guy in particular was very determined to get me to call him a bigot.

00:17:43.880 This was an interesting exchange.

00:17:46.380 He, he, he very much wanted me, uh, the questioner wanted me to call him the questioner, a bigot.

00:17:54.180 And he kept insisting on it over and over again.

00:17:57.360 It was very strange.

00:17:58.440 And there were people in the audience that were, you can see their expression.

00:18:01.180 They were kind of perplexed.

00:18:01.900 Like, why are you, why are you so set on this?

00:18:04.220 Why do you want him to, this is what he really wanted.

00:18:06.720 Now, why did he want this?

00:18:08.120 Well, because in my talk, I had just said that, in fact, I ended my talk by saying that, um,

00:18:14.660 we should engage with opposing views rather than just labeling them bigoted, which doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a bigoted view.

00:18:24.140 Calling somebody a race traitor because they work for Jews is a bigoted view.

00:18:28.520 If that's not bigoted, then the word bigoted just has no meaning at all.

00:18:32.280 But it does have a meaning.

00:18:33.680 That's bigoted.

00:18:34.120 But, um, rather than, if someone expresses a point of view, especially if they're talking about a topic, an issue, okay,

00:18:45.900 rather than just saying that's bigoted, you should try to address it.

00:18:51.300 Uh, because simply, even if there are such things as bigoted points of view, which there are,

00:18:57.440 simply labeling something bigoted is not the same as debunking it or diffusing it.

00:19:04.740 So, this guy wanted me to say, um, that he's a bigot, that he's a bigot, so that he could take the clip,

00:19:11.280 uh, post it on Twitter, and accuse me of hypocrisy and cowardice.

00:19:16.000 Even if he had to do it out of context, it doesn't matter.

00:19:17.840 He just wanted me to say it so he could use it.

00:19:19.620 And that's, that's the tactic.

00:19:21.220 Now, I didn't play his game.

00:19:22.580 I didn't give him what he wanted.

00:19:23.760 But, of course, that still didn't stop him from going to social media, accusing me of it anyway.

00:19:28.780 Um, in fact, as I was leaving, uh, the, the, the talk,

00:19:33.160 and, um, you know, I spent about 40 minutes on the talk, 30 minutes on Q&A.

00:19:37.920 As I was leaving, this guy came out and started shouting behind me,

00:19:40.720 why'd you call me a bigot?

00:19:42.680 Even though I didn't.

00:19:44.060 He just really wanted me to.

00:19:45.360 Um, but they have no problem lying and, and being dishonest if it advances their ends.

00:19:54.080 This is nothing new, you know.

00:19:56.240 Um, this is moral relativism.

00:19:59.860 And that's the main point I want to make here about these, these people.

00:20:03.500 That they are moral relativists.

00:20:05.200 And that's very clear in the way they go about things.

00:20:07.640 They, the truth doesn't matter to them. 0.75

00:20:09.540 Being honest doesn't matter.

00:20:10.720 Makes no difference.

00:20:11.500 They have no ethic or ethical or moral concerns at all.

00:20:15.140 None of that matters.

00:20:17.020 Um, it's just, you know, ends justify the means.

00:20:21.660 And, uh, and that's it.

00:20:23.360 But this is nothing new.

00:20:24.680 You know, I've been dealing with moral relativists my whole career.

00:20:27.280 They come in different forms.

00:20:28.860 They say different things.

00:20:30.400 They pursue different, though not that different, ends.

00:20:35.840 But really, they're all the same in the end, when it comes down to it.

00:20:38.960 Uh, and after this particular group of fringe weirdos fade out, or grow up and move on,

00:20:45.160 which, uh, which they probably will eventually, they'll be followed by another group.

00:20:49.720 And, uh, and another, and another.

00:20:51.860 Um, especially in our culture these days, with moral relativism.

00:20:56.000 As it is one of the great scourges of our culture.

00:20:58.660 And it will just keep going on and on.

00:21:00.640 And all we can do is, is just meet it in all of its various forms.

00:21:05.360 Um, and try not to grow too weary of it in the process.

00:21:09.340 Even though it can get irritating after a while.

00:21:11.660 All right.

00:21:12.220 I wanted to call your attention to an article in The Federalist, written by Chad Felix Green,

00:21:16.880 who does a lot of great work.

00:21:18.240 Um, and I should also mention, I think it's relevant to mention that Green is a gay man.

00:21:26.140 And the only reason I mention that is to head off at the pass any claim that his work is

00:21:32.000 motivated by bigotry against the LGBT community.

00:21:35.060 He's in that community.

00:21:36.780 Now, I know that that won't stop the most committed identity politics proponents from

00:21:41.400 accusing him of anti-LGBT bias anyway.

00:21:43.780 But, um, I think rational people can see the absurdity of that.

00:21:46.860 So, uh, Green's report analyzes this notion that there's an epidemic of anti-trans violence.

00:21:55.420 And you hear this all the time, right?

00:21:57.480 You hear that, uh, trans people are being murdered, particularly black trans people at a much higher

00:22:05.040 rate than the general population.

00:22:07.260 And this means that there's an epidemic of anti-trans hate crimes.

00:22:11.580 Well, I've said before that this claim is certainly false.

00:22:14.840 Yes, it's true that trans people are victims of violent crimes way more often than the general

00:22:20.180 population, but that's got nothing to do with hate crimes.

00:22:24.100 Um, and, and I've always known that, but Green decided to really do the legwork, look at the

00:22:29.480 numbers and demonstrate it.

00:22:31.080 What he discovered is that, first of all, the racial angle here is completely irrelevant.

00:22:35.980 Uh, the vast majority of black trans people are killed by other black people.

00:22:39.860 So we can put that aside.

00:22:41.780 Race is irrelevant. 0.99

00:22:42.660 That's not, that's not part of this.

00:22:45.380 But what, then what about the murders themselves?

00:22:48.780 Green discovered that this claim of an anti-trans hate crime epidemic is propped up by indiscriminately

00:22:54.600 lumping every case where trans people are killed into one pile and calling them all hate crimes,

00:23:02.280 no matter the circumstances.

00:23:03.640 This is a very common talk about tactics.

00:23:06.340 Well, here's a common tactic on the left.

00:23:07.960 They do the same thing with so-called gun violence, where they, where they say, oh, we have a gun

00:23:12.560 violence epidemic.

00:23:13.360 And then they give you these really scary numbers.

00:23:16.140 Um, what they fail to mention is that they're taking every case where a person dies by gunshot

00:23:21.580 and lumping it into this gun violence category, even though like half of them are suicides.

00:23:27.060 Um, which doesn't mean that it doesn't matter or it's not a tragedy.

00:23:31.460 It is.

00:23:32.060 It's just that it's not relevant to the point they're trying to make when they bring up that

00:23:37.680 fact or the statistics.

00:23:41.080 So it's the same thing here.

00:23:43.340 And basically the approach is to pretend, pretend that it's impossible that a trans person could 1.00

00:23:48.400 ever be killed for any other reason.

00:23:50.160 Because if a trans person is killed, they're taking that, they're putting it into this, 0.97

00:23:54.820 to the, into the pile and they're saying, these are all hate crimes.

00:23:59.320 And so you end up with absurdities like, for example, a trans person who was one victim among 0.74

00:24:05.040 many in a mass shooting and was included in the number or another trans person who was accidentally

00:24:11.200 shot by a friend that's put in with the numbers.

00:24:15.320 Um, many of the deaths can be attributed to prostitution or other, other risky behaviors.

00:24:23.400 Prostitutes in general are murdered at a much higher rate than everybody else, which is a

00:24:29.200 terrible thing, but it's not because of hate crimes.

00:24:32.740 It's because of the nature of what they're doing and who they're dealing with in the process.

00:24:37.140 It's a horrible thing.

00:24:38.680 It's not a hate crime epidemic.

00:24:40.180 So Green concludes that out of 118 cases of trans murders, four of them, four could be

00:24:48.920 considered actual anti-trans hate crimes.

00:24:51.800 And that's over the course of four years.

00:24:54.920 So that do the math there, that would be an average of one anti-trans hate crime a year.

00:25:00.540 One.

00:25:02.800 And that is what the left says is an epidemic.

00:25:06.960 But this is the game.

00:25:08.680 Um, they make a claim like this and they just assume you're not going to look into it.

00:25:15.220 In fact, they demand that you don't look into it saying that it would be disrespectful to

00:25:20.360 do so.

00:25:21.500 And I guarantee there's going to be people saying that even what I'm saying right now, this,

00:25:25.740 the very fact that I'm doing a segment on this is transphobic and terrible and inappropriate

00:25:31.300 and all of that.

00:25:32.120 Um, so they make the false claim and then they use emotional blackmail to prevent you

00:25:38.800 from trying to confirm it.

00:25:40.260 So we just have to take their word for it.

00:25:42.880 But why does it matter though?

00:25:44.100 I mean, why bother debunking this?

00:25:47.140 Well, first of all, because the truth matters and nobody has the right to lie unchallenged.

00:25:52.500 Second, this completely false claim about anti-trans hate crimes is used to silence people all the

00:26:00.700 time because invariably, whenever the subject comes up about gender and sex and you dare

00:26:07.720 to claim that men are men and women are women, somebody's going to rush in and start screaming

00:26:13.800 about anti-trans hate crimes and claiming that you're encouraging more bigoted violence against

00:26:18.120 trans people.

00:26:19.940 Um, it, it all, I mean, it really always happens that way.

00:26:25.480 If you have a, if you have a discussion about these issues for long enough, someone is going

00:26:30.140 to bring that up and accuse you of contributing to this supposed epidemic.

00:26:34.700 And if you say there is no epidemic of bigoted violence against trans people, they say that

00:26:39.200 you're encouraging it again, just by saying that.

00:26:41.360 And, uh, that of course is the game, but it is just that a game.

00:26:47.040 It is a completely dishonest and we shouldn't fall for it.

00:26:49.740 All right.

00:26:50.060 Before we get to emails, Kamala Harris has introduced a bill. 0.99

00:26:55.460 She's introduced a bill that would extend the school day by three hours.

00:27:02.040 My God, she wants a 10 hour school day. 1.00

00:27:07.220 I am so glad I'm not a kid anymore for so many reasons.

00:27:10.660 I'm so glad that I'm not a kid in this, in this culture, in this society.

00:27:13.880 Um, it's just, it, and this is definitely in the top five reasons now.

00:27:18.800 Let me read, uh, from the week.

00:27:21.080 Uh, this is their article.

00:27:22.540 They say the presidential, Kamala Harris, presidential hopeful is introducing a bill

00:27:29.460 that would extend the school day from 8am to 6pm.

00:27:32.980 Mother Jones reports that might elicit groans from kids, but upon closer review, the bill

00:27:38.480 isn't really making them sit at their desks and learn long division all the way through

00:27:41.380 this afternoon.

00:27:42.140 Instead, Harris is hoping to better accommodate families who are burdened by working hours

00:27:46.640 that don't line up with the typical school day that ends at 3pm.

00:27:50.240 Harris's bill would introduce.

00:27:51.840 So if they're not doing long division for those three hours, what are they doing?

00:27:55.260 I got that apparently is not clear, but she does want to keep them in school anyway for

00:27:58.980 those, for those three hours, um, Harris's bill would introduce a pilot program that gives

00:28:05.620 money to 500 schools serving a high proportion of low income families.

00:28:09.820 Those schools would adjust to the new hours, only closing for weekends, federal holidays,

00:28:13.840 and emergencies to make it easier for parents to balance work and childcare.

00:28:17.480 The program structure is reportedly purposely vague and will allow for parents, teachers, and

00:28:21.700 community members to weigh in on the best practices during the first year.

00:28:24.720 Um, let's see.

00:28:28.980 She, it, it, supposedly students wouldn't be forced to spend all the extra time in the 0.99

00:28:35.400 classroom, but how would they spend it?

00:28:38.500 I guess that's not exactly clear yet.

00:28:40.700 Either way, um, point is eight, 8am to 6pm is how she wants to extend the school day.

00:28:45.540 Um, this is in Kamala Harris's view, apparently she just, I guess, doesn't think that kids should 0.97

00:28:56.900 spend really any time around their families during the school during the week because I,

00:29:03.160 you know, I, I, I'm, I haven't, I didn't see this, but I assume that part of her bill does

00:29:11.160 not include abolishing homework.

00:29:14.340 I assume she's not doing that.

00:29:16.620 So presumably we're talking about 8am to 6pm for the school day and the kids still come home

00:29:22.480 with homework.

00:29:24.380 So, you know, they get home, they leave right in the morning.

00:29:27.680 First thing, get home at 6pm, eat dinner, off to do your homework.

00:29:33.700 And then it's bedtime.

00:29:34.880 Um, I mean, do you have any time to, to, to, you know, sit around with your family, play

00:29:39.100 a board game, talk to your parents and, you know, do you have any time for recreation with

00:29:44.160 your family, which is very important for kids?

00:29:46.560 Any time for that?

00:29:47.340 No.

00:29:50.020 Um, this I think is one of, uh, I mean, probably the, the main problem of many without, with

00:29:59.920 the school, with the public education system, as it is already currently structured.

00:30:04.900 And this is without even adding on the three extra school day, uh, hours of the school

00:30:08.420 day, where it separates kids from their families for exorbitant amounts of time and starting

00:30:18.240 earlier and earlier in life.

00:30:22.260 You know, when I was a kid, most people, maybe you went to preschool when you were four, um,

00:30:27.500 four or five, and then five to six, you started kindergarten.

00:30:31.600 Now though, you know, they've got pre, pre, pre K, they've got kids going into the starting

00:30:37.160 school when they're like three.

00:30:40.120 And so starting at the age of three until they graduated about 18, 15 years, they're going

00:30:48.080 to be in the government education system.

00:30:50.080 And they're going to spend, at least during the school year, they're going to spend most

00:30:55.100 of their time, most of their waking hours will be spent in that system under the care of

00:31:01.680 teachers, of government employees, um, you know, with their peers instead of with their

00:31:08.800 families and with their parents.

00:31:11.100 That is a horrible idea.

00:31:14.300 Um, and it's, it has had horrible, a, a disastrous impact on our culture.

00:31:20.240 It's also, it's a self-perpetuating problem because Kamala Harris will say, well, okay,

00:31:28.240 but you've got all these parents who are working and, and, you know, they, they, they're not

00:31:32.080 going to be home to take care of their kids anyway.

00:31:33.400 And so it would be easier for them to just keep the kids in school.

00:31:37.220 But the more and more that the government education system intrudes into the lives of kids

00:31:44.600 and takes over the role of parenting, the more it does that, the more you have parents

00:31:52.220 relying on that and structuring their work schedule around it.

00:31:58.540 And so it's self-perpetuating, just makes it worse and worse.

00:32:03.160 So you could, it's kind of a chicken or egg.

00:32:06.060 They can say, oh, we're only doing this because the parents need us to.

00:32:10.540 But I think another way of looking at it is the parents need you to, because this is what

00:32:14.960 you're doing.

00:32:16.320 This is the system you've created.

00:32:18.400 And a lot of people have grown addicted to it and dependent upon it, but it's a bad system

00:32:25.440 and it should be going the other way.

00:32:28.920 We should be trending in the direction of kids spending less time in school.

00:32:33.520 There should be less time in school.

00:32:35.560 The school day should be shorter.

00:32:37.280 There should be less homework.

00:32:38.500 Because the most important thing for a child in their formative years is to be, or certainly

00:32:46.060 one of the most important things is for them to be with their families.

00:32:50.640 That kids need that in order to grow into functional, well-adjusted adults.

00:32:57.600 So the trend should be cutting down on busy work, cutting down on time spent in school that's

00:33:03.540 just wasted anyway, and having parents doing more.

00:33:08.380 I mean, because think about how much time is already wasted in the school day.

00:33:11.100 When I went to school, it was, yeah, I think it was about usually eight to three, basically.

00:33:14.740 And I would say in that chunk of time, maybe two hours was spent productively, and the rest

00:33:27.800 of it was wasted.

00:33:28.600 You know, the rest of it was wasted on, you know, things.

00:33:34.740 I mean, you'd have kids, you'd have, and of course there are many teachers that do this now.

00:33:41.280 You go to class and the teacher puts on a movie or something.

00:33:45.040 I can remember times when, in English class or something, we would spend an entire week watching a movie

00:33:50.600 in these little 30-minute chunks.

00:33:54.160 Just a total waste of time.

00:33:56.120 And if you're going to be doing that, then the kids might as well be home with their families.

00:33:59.680 What's the point of this?

00:34:02.740 So we should be paring it down less time at school, more time with the families.

00:34:06.240 But that's not on the left, and with status like Kamala Harris, she wants to go very much

00:34:11.660 in the other direction.

00:34:13.280 All right, let's go to emails, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com.

00:34:17.520 This is from Mike, says, hey, Matt, I love the show.

00:34:22.180 I'm grateful for all the work you guys are doing at The Daily Wire.

00:34:24.420 Your talk yesterday was fantastic.

00:34:25.840 I'm sorry the Q&A was hijacked by self-indulgent children.

00:34:29.200 What do you think the source of this division is, and what can be done to push through it

00:34:32.640 and ensure that the right ideas persevere?

00:34:35.760 Hope the families well.

00:34:36.720 God bless.

00:34:37.460 Well, I think I touched on that already.

00:34:40.260 What's the source of it?

00:34:41.080 I think a lot of it is just sort of moral relativism in its various different forms

00:34:46.420 and rearing its head wearing various different masks, and this is the latest mask that it's

00:34:53.400 wearing, this white nationalist stuff.

00:34:56.860 And, you know, also on a sort of simpler level, you mentioned self-indulgent children.

00:35:02.860 I mean, also it's just a hunger for attention.

00:35:05.460 They're looking for attention.

00:35:08.080 And you might say that I've given it to them in this show.

00:35:11.420 Maybe that's a mistake.

00:35:12.380 Maybe it is.

00:35:12.980 I mean, there's a balance that you have to strike here because, on one hand, if people

00:35:19.120 are wrong about something, I believe we should engage and explain why they're wrong.

00:35:23.340 I'm a big believer in that.

00:35:24.340 It's what I spend all my time trying to do, basically.

00:35:27.340 On the other hand, when people are begging for attention, you don't want to go out of

00:35:31.540 your way to give them attention.

00:35:32.360 So that is the tension.

00:35:34.440 That is the balance that has to be struck.

00:35:36.220 This is from Marlene, says, hey, Matt, went to see you today at Cal State LA.

00:35:42.080 Didn't get to ask my question, read your speech, but sending it to you here in case you can

00:35:47.080 get to it.

00:35:47.620 Thanks.

00:35:48.880 Yeah, there were, Marlene, there were a lot of people that had questions related to the

00:35:52.460 talk who didn't get a chance to ask their question.

00:35:56.580 And a lot of people who wanted to challenge me on what I said in the talk and didn't get

00:36:01.680 a chance to do that, which is unfortunate.

00:36:04.360 I understand the importance of a two-parent household and how this is the best for the

00:36:08.800 well-being of the children, specifically a two-parent household where the parents are

00:36:12.080 married and stay married.

00:36:13.460 I agree that neither father nor mother are dispensable to raising a child.

00:36:18.720 I believe from your speech, your position is that same-sex couples should not be able

00:36:22.120 to adopt for the two statements above.

00:36:24.840 My question is, is there any option for individuals who really, really long to be parents and are

00:36:30.080 gay? 0.86

00:36:30.340 I, myself, have no kids, but would love to someday.

00:36:34.800 Listening to your speech just made me think of individuals who really want to have kids

00:36:37.540 and are gay. 0.63

00:36:38.140 In your opinion, are they just doomed to not be parents?

00:36:40.660 Kind of sad.

00:36:41.680 I was thinking maybe they can have a baby with someone, like a friend of the opposite 1.00

00:36:45.720 sex, and raise the baby together, but then this would not be the same.

00:36:49.580 Again, I agree with children needing a mother and father, but I'm hesitant to bring this up

00:36:52.660 in the conversation because I feel bad basically saying, if you're gay and really want to be

00:36:57.300 a parent, that just shouldn't happen for you.

00:37:00.340 Um, yeah, Marley, well, I mean, it's always sad when people want kids and don't have them

00:37:05.680 or can't have them.

00:37:07.320 Um, but as I said in my talk, and as you alluded to, I think every child has a right to a mother

00:37:15.700 and a father.

00:37:17.400 Not every child will get that, sadly.

00:37:20.040 Speaking of sad things.

00:37:21.500 Okay, that's very sad.

00:37:22.240 There are children who, mother and father divorce, or one of the parents dies or something.

00:37:29.740 So not every child gets it, but I think every child should.

00:37:34.260 And so that should be our goal.

00:37:36.360 And if we have kids in the adoption system, and we're looking for parents for them, then

00:37:41.880 we should try to find parents where it's a mother and a father.

00:37:45.640 So that those parents, so that those children get what they need and what they have a right

00:37:51.200 to.

00:37:52.020 And so when it comes to adoption, I think we need to focus on, when we're talking about

00:37:55.360 rights as it pertains to adoption, it is the rights of the children that we should be talking

00:38:03.340 about and focusing on.

00:38:04.360 This idea of prospective parents, uh, prospective adoptive parents having a right to adopt to

00:38:16.040 me is bizarre and kind of disturbing because what you're effectively saying is that those

00:38:21.680 prospective parents have a right to one of those children as if those children are commodities

00:38:26.820 that they have a right to own.

00:38:29.060 And I don't think it works that way.

00:38:30.840 I think the rights are with the kids.

00:38:32.980 In that situation, as far as gay couples who really want children, I, you know, I, it 0.99

00:38:41.880 is a sad thing, but there are, listen, I also think that, um, you see some of these Hollywood

00:38:48.140 celebrities, a single, single women who go out and adopt without, without a husband just

00:38:53.400 on their own.

00:38:54.340 I don't think they should be able to do that.

00:38:57.080 And I appreciate that they really want kids and you know, I'm sympathetic to that.

00:39:00.760 I am, but I don't think as a single adult, you should, I think it should be against the

00:39:06.780 law.

00:39:06.960 I don't think you should be allowed to go out and adopt a kid for this reason that that

00:39:10.620 that's a child that's not going to have a father.

00:39:12.780 And I think the child has a right to a father.

00:39:16.140 And I don't think that, um, you know, we should take an opportunity away from a mother,

00:39:21.660 father household.

00:39:22.340 By allowing a single parent to adopt a child, which doesn't mean that, you know, if you

00:39:29.240 are a single parent with a child, that you're an unfit parent or your kids are going to be,

00:39:35.120 your, the kids' lives are going to be ruined or it's not what I'm saying.

00:39:38.520 I'm just saying that the, I think maybe hopefully we could agree that the ideal scenario in principle

00:39:45.420 would be for a two parent household. 0.88

00:39:49.280 And so when we have a, when we have children in the adoption system, we should be looking

00:39:53.580 for the ideal scenario.

00:39:57.020 And despite popular misconceptions, there are a lot of prospective parents, hopeful parents,

00:40:06.680 um, who, you know, who are mother and father, two parent households who are, who have been

00:40:13.760 waiting for a long time to adopt a child.

00:40:16.800 Um, and so I think that's what we should be focused on.

00:40:20.540 We can, we can have sympathy, you know, we can sympathize with people's situations and we

00:40:25.580 can feel bad for their struggles.

00:40:28.320 I'm, I agree.

00:40:29.640 We should, we should have compassion, but that doesn't mean that we should compromise.

00:40:37.240 By depriving a child of something that that child needs.

00:40:43.240 Okay.

00:40:43.960 Uh, let's see from Ryan says, dear Supreme bearded overlord.

00:40:48.920 While I do agree with you that it's tacky to request a stranger to give up a comfortable

00:40:52.760 airline seat for a middle seat on a flight.

00:40:55.040 I think the ultimate culprit here is Southwest airlines.

00:40:57.400 They create this unholy debacle every single flight by not having assigned seating with assigned

00:41:02.740 seating.

00:41:03.120 You're always seated next to your travel companion and are able to upgrade your individual seat.

00:41:06.400 If one of them is available, having flown Southwest many times and fallen a hapless

00:41:10.160 victim to their seating policy, I cannot help, but feel that Southwest has culpability in

00:41:14.940 this outrageous seating disaster.

00:41:16.600 My question to you is when you take over the world, what will your mandatory airline seating

00:41:19.440 policy be?

00:41:19.880 Um, yeah, Southwest.

00:41:22.640 I mean, I like Southwest.

00:41:23.860 I think everyone likes Southwest because of their customer service.

00:41:25.940 They definitely blow every other airline out of the water as far as that goes. 0.99

00:41:29.860 I, even though their seating policy led to this disastrous scenario that I suffered through

00:41:36.560 and frankly was traumatized by, um, a few days ago, I, and I know a lot of people complain

00:41:43.160 about it.

00:41:43.900 I generally am in favor of it only because it gives you some control.

00:41:51.480 It, it, it, it's, it's sort of exciting and it gives you a little bit of control over whether

00:41:56.620 or not someone's going to sit next to you, um, whether you're going to get someone in

00:41:59.400 a middle seat.

00:41:59.900 Like if you're in an aisle seat, there's this sort of chess match that goes on where you're

00:42:05.020 trying to figure out where to sit on the plane, uh, exactly to, so, so as to increase the

00:42:13.640 likelihood that nobody will sit next to you in the middle seat.

00:42:15.960 And, and so that little chess match that goes on, and even though I failed in this particular

00:42:21.840 situation, usually I'm pretty good at that.

00:42:24.520 Um, and I kind of enjoy it.

00:42:27.120 So that's exciting.

00:42:27.880 Gives you a little bit of power and control.

00:42:30.160 And so I'm in favor of their seating policy actually.

00:42:33.900 Um, from Rachel says, dear, dear, great and future ruler of all of our pathetic lives.

00:42:39.520 I've already accepted my death by your order due to my possession of eighth row pillows, but

00:42:43.780 hopefully your answer may prove salvation for others.

00:42:46.340 If a fan were to see you in public, what is an acceptable and non wrath inducing way,

00:42:50.680 um, which, uh, in which we may express our appreciation of your great wisdom?

00:42:55.520 Is it acceptable to ask for a picture?

00:42:57.620 May someone shake your hand is a simple knowing nod all that you will endure of us.

00:43:03.020 Can disposing of my pillow save me in the great day of your ascension?

00:43:07.400 Um, great question, Rachel.

00:43:09.360 I appreciate that.

00:43:10.140 These are the kinds of questions I should have gotten in the Q and a future.

00:43:13.780 So I think the procedure for speaking to me in public is, is pretty simple, pretty standard.

00:43:19.700 Um, basic etiquette, really, you know, it's, it's not a big deal.

00:43:25.000 All you have to do is just lie prostrate on the ground, army crawl towards me face down.

00:43:32.200 Then as you get close to me, you may reach out your hand towards my foot.

00:43:36.120 Don't make contact.

00:43:36.920 Obviously, if I kick you, then that's a sign that I don't want to speak to you.

00:43:41.960 You must immediately roll away from me without looking up.

00:43:46.420 If I say rise and speak, you may stand.

00:43:50.200 Don't make eye contact.

00:43:51.460 Look towards the floor.

00:43:53.020 Um, and pay me a compliment lasting no less than 30 seconds, but no more than two minutes.

00:43:57.880 And then turn around about face and walk away.

00:44:02.200 And that's it.

00:44:02.980 You know, it's, I mean, pretty, pretty simple.

00:44:04.420 And that's, and that's just really being polite, I think.

00:44:08.000 Um, but I appreciate, uh, that, that question, Rachel.

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Ep. 365 - A Disgraceful Stunt

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