The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 411 - A Major Milestone

00:00:00.000 Bernie Sanders, reacting to a report about the median American rent payment rising by 60% since 1960,

00:00:07.480 sent out a tweet yesterday saying,

00:00:10.480 this is a crisis, we need national rent control.

00:00:14.360 So here's all I'm going to say about that.

00:00:15.580 I read that and I thought, you know, maybe at this point it would be easiest

00:00:20.000 if Bernie would just provide a list of the things he doesn't want to control.

00:00:25.020 Just give us that list.

00:00:26.520 Because I've lost track of all the stuff he wants to control.

00:00:30.300 It's a list, that list is far too long.

00:00:32.700 We could never keep track of all of it.

00:00:34.340 So maybe if he could just make a list saying,

00:00:37.280 okay, this is what I won't try to control.

00:00:39.940 And then we can assume that everything not on that list is under his jurisdiction.

00:00:47.400 So what would that list consist of?

00:00:49.240 That's what I tried to figure out.

00:00:50.560 If Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren were to make a list of the things they don't want any control over,

00:00:58.020 what would it be?

00:00:59.300 It would be a very short list indeed.

00:01:01.520 Well, of course, the first thing they would put on there is the border.

00:01:04.520 They don't want to control that.

00:01:06.440 Government spending, don't want to control that. 0.98

00:01:10.060 A woman's right to kill her babies, don't want to control that. 1.00

00:01:12.860 And I guess that pretty much is it. 0.99

00:01:14.740 I think that's it.

00:01:15.440 That's the entire list, three things.

00:01:19.580 Everything else, though, is for them.

00:01:22.720 So glad we got that cleared up.

00:01:24.320 All right, let's talk about some good news for a change.

00:01:26.320 Good news that also has a negative spin to it.

00:01:30.080 So I will, of course, be talking about that as well because that's what I do.

00:01:34.360 Every silver lining has a black cloud, as I always say.

00:01:39.180 So President Trump has announced that he will speak at the March for Life, which is happening tomorrow in D.C.

00:01:46.900 He'll be the first president to ever speak at the March for Life.

00:01:50.400 47 years they've been doing this.

00:01:52.400 And they've been doing it every year.

00:01:55.840 It's in D.C., right where the president, of course, lives.

00:01:58.700 This will be the first time that a president will appear in person to speak.

00:02:03.320 So last year he was the first president to speak via video feed to the March.

00:02:09.480 Now it will be in person that he'll give his address.

00:02:12.380 And this is going to be a big moment, I think, for the movement, for the March.

00:02:16.960 But it also highlights, and, you know, I think it has to be remarked upon, that March for Life has been happening for 47 years.

00:02:28.680 And there have been several Republican presidents in that time frame.

00:02:35.500 And none of them have deigned to come out and address the March for Life.

00:02:41.180 Not Reagan, not Bush 1, not Bush 2.

00:02:43.840 Who, I mean, they hid in the White House, probably under their beds, cowering, as half a million pro-lifers marched right outside their door.

00:02:53.940 Refusing to come out and acknowledge these people in person.

00:02:57.520 Now that would be unthinkable in the reverse for Democrats.

00:03:02.080 Can you imagine 500,000 pro-abortion demonstrators?

00:03:06.820 Well, can you imagine 500,000 pro-abortion demonstrators in general?

00:03:09.800 You can't, because just the pro-abortion movement could never get that kind of turnout.

00:03:14.220 They especially could never get it in a sustained way.

00:03:17.280 I guess if you want to say the women's march in 2016 was basically a pro-abortion march, which it was.

00:03:22.680 But that has been, as we talked about a few days ago, that's been dwindling into irrelevance just in the span of a few years.

00:03:30.120 Now, can you imagine pro-abortion demonstrators every year, 500,000 of them showing up in D.C., and yet no Democrat president addresses them?

00:03:43.040 Imagine 500,000 pro-abortion demonstrators gathering in D.C. every year during Obama's term.

00:03:49.440 And Obama refuses to come out and talk to them for fear of what his political opponents might say.

00:03:55.940 No, that would never happen. You can't even imagine it.

00:03:57.880 But that's what happened with Republican presidents for 47 years, and for Reagan and Bush and Bush, that will be a point of shame for them always.

00:04:07.340 I'm not saying that it defines their presidency, but it is something that will always be a mark, a stain on their records, in my view.

00:04:15.220 So it's great that Trump is putting an end to that, finally, and this is one of the things that people like about Donald Trump, is that he's not going to be concerned about it.

00:04:26.400 Whatever the other Republican presidents were worried about, which is hard for me to even figure out.

00:04:30.740 You know, you're a Republican.

00:04:32.780 They already know that you're supposedly pro-life.

00:04:35.140 They hate you for that, as it is.

00:04:36.720 They're not going to hate you any more or less if you show up at the March for Life, so you might as well show up for your own base.

00:04:43.360 But whatever calculation those other Republican presidents had made, how concerned they were with how people will react to it, Trump is not concerned about that.

00:04:54.100 I mean, you think about what he's done.

00:04:55.340 The first year, he had Mike Pence show up.

00:04:59.280 He was the first vice president to speak.

00:05:01.500 Then last year, he did the video feed, and he was the first president to do that.

00:05:05.000 And now this year, he's showing up himself in person.

00:05:08.600 What this administration realizes, to some extent, is something that I've been saying forever, that a lot of us have been saying forever, which is that the pro-life issue is a winner.

00:05:20.000 It's not just a winner because it's morally and ethically correct.

00:05:24.360 It is a moral and ethical winner, obviously.

00:05:27.940 Scientifically, it's a winner.

00:05:29.380 It's the winning side.

00:05:32.540 Historically, it will be seen as the winning side.

00:05:35.860 But not to use the wrong side of history cliche, but indeed, the people in favor of infanticide are on the wrong side of history.

00:05:43.700 It's also a political winner.

00:05:45.340 There's no reason to be politically afraid of it, to hide from it, to cower in the corner, because our message, our argument, is that you shouldn't kill babies.

00:05:58.380 Human life is precious, and you shouldn't disregard it, and discard it, and destroy it.

00:06:06.020 That's our whole argument.

00:06:08.560 It is the definition of a winning argument.

00:06:11.520 And the frustrating thing is that, to whatever extent, this argument has failed to win the day, which it has ultimately failed to win the day, but that's largely because we've been afraid of making the argument.

00:06:29.320 See, a winning argument is useless if you're afraid to make it.

00:06:32.740 You have to be willing to make the argument.

00:06:34.420 Now, you can disagree with the argument, a lot of people do, but our position is not one to be embarrassed by.

00:06:48.260 It's the opportunity to talk about this and make this argument should be something that any Republican politician is jumping at.

00:06:56.820 They should be fighting with each other.

00:07:00.580 They should be clawing at each other for an opportunity to speak on the stage of the March for Life.

00:07:07.400 I mean, just from a political perspective alone, to have that opportunity to be there talking to a group of hundreds of thousands of people, young people mostly,

00:07:20.160 women, mostly female, mostly young, to be able to talk to, excited, you know, and energetic, to be able to talk to this crowd about the issue of saving babies from being killed. 0.72

00:07:32.620 I mean, again, you could not ask for a more winning point.

00:07:39.440 So, and it's something that we should put front and center.

00:07:41.600 We are not the ones who should be embarrassed by it.

00:07:43.900 We're not the ones who should be embarrassed or ashamed of our position on this issue.

00:07:47.040 And I say that with all the so-called social issues.

00:07:51.160 Gender is the other big one. 0.67

00:07:53.080 This is a winner.

00:07:54.300 The argument that men are men and women are women and that men shouldn't be in women's locker room and men shouldn't be competing against women in, you know, track and field and wrestling and MMA.

00:08:03.640 It's a winning argument.

00:08:06.040 There's nothing that can be said on the other side of it.

00:08:09.600 We have all the points in our favor.

00:08:11.320 But if we are not winning the argument, it's just because we're not making our argument.

00:08:18.720 You could have a really good point.

00:08:21.040 There could be someone screaming at you and saying a bunch of nonsense.

00:08:24.640 And you could have the most devastating rebuttal possible.

00:08:29.320 But it won't amount to anything if you don't say it.

00:08:32.060 If you sit there silently, whimpering and crying, then you're not going to win.

00:08:37.160 So that's why we should be proud of our position on this subject, because it's sane, it's moral, it's rational.

00:08:46.860 It's the other side that should be embarrassed and ashamed, and Trump realizes that.

00:08:51.500 But that, which is to his credit, but that realization is not complete.

00:08:56.540 Because speaking at the march is awesome, and I think will be a milestone moment.

00:09:07.900 But the most significant thing Trump could do, the main thing that past Republican presidents refused to do with respect to the pro-life issue, is to defund Planned Parenthood.

00:09:19.560 Speaking is great, speeches are fine, that stuff is important.

00:09:25.280 Using the bully pulpit of the presidency to make the case for life is really, really important.

00:09:32.160 And it's meaningful.

00:09:34.820 But money talks, right?

00:09:36.740 Money talks more than words do, most of the time.

00:09:39.920 And so far, every Republican administration, every Republican Congress, including the Republican Congress that we had for the first two years of Trump's presidency, and including the Trump administration, every single one, has chosen to continue sending half a billion dollars a year to the abortion industry, to the billion-dollar conglomerate that kills 300,000 kids every year.

00:10:02.160 Every Republican presidency, every Republican Congress has chosen to do that, and this has so far not been an exception.

00:10:11.460 Every time you read about a spending bill being signed, and there was just another one last week, Trump signed another big spending bill, trillion-dollar boondoggle.

00:10:23.160 Every time you read that, this is the Republicans actively funding the abortion industry.

00:10:30.420 It's not a passive thing.

00:10:32.160 It's not like it's happening against their will.

00:10:35.720 The funding for Planned Parenthood is in that bill, and they are passing it along, and then signing it.

00:10:42.960 And saying, yes, let's give $500,000, or $500 million, excuse me, $500 million to the abortion industry.

00:10:52.500 But Trump still has a year left in his term.

00:10:55.520 He still has a year to send the message to Congress that he will not sign a spending bill that funds Planned Parenthood.

00:11:00.960 But this would be a great thing for him to say tomorrow.

00:11:05.240 I mean, this would be, you want to go out with a bang?

00:11:08.140 And you want to have that speech really mean something?

00:11:11.420 This is something he could say tomorrow.

00:11:14.180 He could announce that he is not going to, he pledges to defund Planned Parenthood with the final year of this term.

00:11:21.580 And he's not going to sign any spending bill that has even a dime going to the abortion industry.

00:11:28.800 He could do that.

00:11:29.760 Now, it would have been a lot easier to do back when Republicans controlled Congress.

00:11:34.400 Back when we had both chambers of Congress and the presidency, could have easily done it then.

00:11:42.020 Easily.

00:11:43.320 But the Republicans didn't care to do it. 0.80

00:11:45.560 Now you can do it.

00:11:48.860 Now, are Democrats going to go along with it?

00:11:51.280 Of course not.

00:11:53.380 But the Republicans could come up with a spending bill that doesn't include funding for Planned Parenthood.

00:12:00.720 Democrats would need to sign off on it.

00:12:03.520 They're going to refuse.

00:12:05.420 We know that's how it will go.

00:12:07.180 They shut down the government.

00:12:09.460 If they want to do that, if Democrats want to force a government shutdown in order to protect the half a billion dollar welfare payment to the abortion industry,

00:12:18.100 in order to protect the gift that they give to their own donors in the abortion industry,

00:12:23.080 if they want to do that, let them do it.

00:12:26.600 Let them take that argument to the public.

00:12:28.900 This is an argument, again, that we should want to have.

00:12:33.080 Yes, definitely.

00:12:34.260 Let's have the government shutdown. 1.00

00:12:35.960 Let's have a news cycle about this.

00:12:37.760 You get out there in front of cameras, Democrats, and you explain to the public

00:12:41.420 why you are not willing to let the government even function unless the abortion industry gets its $500 million.

00:12:52.520 There are still plenty of people in this country, I'm willing to bet, who don't even know.

00:13:01.860 First of all, don't know that we're giving money to Planned Parenthood.

00:13:04.640 And of the people who do know that we're doing that, many of them, as mind-boggling as this is,

00:13:13.340 many of them don't even know that Planned Parenthood does abortions. 0.84

00:13:18.340 They've done surveys on this.

00:13:23.100 There are tons of people out there that don't even know Planned Parenthood does abortions. 0.76

00:13:26.900 And if they do know it, many of them probably still buy this nonsense about,

00:13:31.700 oh, it's only 3% of what they do, which is a total, absolute lie.

00:13:36.960 Not even close to true.

00:13:38.380 The vast majority of their non-governmental, non-tax income is from abortions.

00:13:46.060 The vast majority.

00:13:47.060 I think it's something like 40% total, including the governmental income or something like that.

00:13:54.240 But it's the vast majority of their non-governmental income is from abortions.

00:14:01.020 So, but this is, see, this is the case we could make.

00:14:04.220 If this is what we're talking about, if this is what the news cycle is about, let's talk about it.

00:14:11.960 See, the Democrats don't want to do that.

00:14:14.960 That's the last thing Democrats want to do. 0.99

00:14:16.980 They want to fund Planned Parenthood and just, that's it.

00:14:22.400 And fund it and move on and not talk about it.

00:14:24.680 That's what they want.

00:14:26.880 They don't, you think they want to defend it?

00:14:30.360 You think they want to actually talk about what Planned Parenthood does?

00:14:34.220 Do you think they want to acknowledge publicly that they themselves, as Democrat politicians, receive millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood in donations?

00:14:43.480 Do you think they want to talk about how this is basically a money laundering operation for them?

00:14:50.440 Where they send money over to Planned Parenthood and then Planned Parenthood sends money back to them in the form of donations?

00:14:55.660 Do you think they want to talk about that?

00:14:57.380 No, they don't.

00:14:58.040 So, let's force the conversation.

00:15:03.080 I see no downside.

00:15:04.920 I don't see one.

00:15:06.500 What's the downside?

00:15:08.480 Some government workers, you know, have their paychecks delayed for a few weeks.

00:15:12.040 I understand it's an inconvenience.

00:15:13.500 I do.

00:15:13.760 But this is an inconvenience that's worth the cost.

00:15:21.580 All right.

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00:16:49.500 Okay, did you know that there's a Taylor Swift documentary film coming to Netflix?

00:16:55.580 If you didn't know, I feel like you should because it's, I'm certainly looking forward to it.

00:17:02.020 The trailer for this Taylor Swift documentary was released yesterday.

00:17:07.580 Taylor Swift fans are really excited about it.

00:17:09.960 But it is, it's noticeable, or notable, I should say, because it is quite, quite possibly the most insufferable thing you will ever witness in your life.

00:17:21.500 And that's just the trailer for this thing.

00:17:23.320 I can only imagine what the actual movie is.

00:17:25.860 But here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:17:27.360 Check this out.

00:17:27.800 Throughout my whole career, label executives would just say, a nice girl doesn't force their opinions on people. 1.00

00:17:36.560 A nice girl smiles and waves and says, thank you. 0.99

00:17:41.040 I became the person everyone wanted me to be.

00:17:47.040 I think that Taylor Swift, she is annoying. 1.00

00:17:49.580 All of her model friends.

00:17:50.760 She's going through guys like a trolley. 1.00

00:17:52.280 She's too skinny. 1.00

00:17:52.980 Nobody physically saw me for a year.

00:17:57.380 And that was what I thought they wanted.

00:18:00.100 I had to deconstruct an entire belief system.

00:18:03.360 Toss it out and reject it.

00:18:08.040 American glory faded before me.

00:18:10.980 It woke me up from constantly feeling like I was fighting for people's respect.

00:18:16.220 I saw the scoreboard and ran for my life.

00:18:18.820 It was happiness without anyone else's input.

00:18:23.120 It's been a long time coming, but you and me, that's not the world.

00:18:28.260 I want to do this.

00:18:29.180 I need to be on the right side of history.

00:18:32.000 Taylor Swift broke her silence on politics.

00:18:34.300 No, you use your voice in a whole new way.

00:18:38.800 So this is basically self-importance, the movie.

00:18:43.260 That's what this is.

00:18:44.040 And the whole plot or point is Taylor Swift heroically, courageously deciding to break

00:18:51.680 her silence and let the world know that she's a leftist.

00:18:55.280 That's what it is.

00:18:56.800 We're supposed to be in awe of her courage.

00:18:59.660 Of her courage that she, a celebrity in a left-wing industry, in the midst of a left-wing

00:19:06.500 pop culture, with a left-wing media, she was willing to take a very popular stance, a very

00:19:14.940 popular political position, one that would be sure to receive applause and adulation and

00:19:21.460 would make all of her friends happy.

00:19:23.560 Wow.

00:19:25.020 What heroism.

00:19:26.900 What incredible heroism.

00:19:28.320 I am, I'm stunned by it, personally.

00:19:33.180 To be rich and famous, a celebrity, and then on top of that, to come out and say popular

00:19:42.760 things that everybody around you is going to applaud and most of your fans will like.

00:19:49.480 I don't know if I could do it.

00:19:52.160 I don't know if I would have the wherewithal for something like that.

00:19:55.420 Speaking of heroism, Becca Lewis is a PhD student, apparently, and she also has a large

00:20:04.340 social media following, for whatever reason.

00:20:06.960 She took a rather heroic stance against stay-at-home moms the other day. 1.00

00:20:11.280 She was reacting to a tweet from BBC Talkback, which said, let me pull it up.

00:20:17.940 So the tweet from BBC said, we will introduce you to a trad wife, a young woman who has chosen 0.96

00:20:27.600 to be a traditional wife, staying at home to take care of the household chores while her 1.00

00:20:31.340 husband works.

00:20:32.380 And she is fine with submitting to her husband as he makes the key decisions in their lives.

00:20:37.680 That was the tweet, talking about stay-at-home moms who are basically culturally conservative 1.00

00:20:43.380 and take that approach and live that kind of lifestyle.

00:20:47.840 Becca Lewis responds, who needs YouTube rabbit holes when you have the BBC broadcasting literal

00:20:54.100 white supremacist propaganda?

00:20:57.480 And then she follows that up with, for those in my comments who don't seem to know, so-called

00:21:01.820 trad wives are white supremacist women who devote themselves to domestic duties in the service 1.00

00:21:06.740 of perpetuating the white race. 0.98

00:21:08.200 It is a dog whistle meant to sound less white supremacist than it is. 0.94

00:21:14.700 So stay-at-home moms are perpetuating the white race. 1.00

00:21:18.760 That's what drives them.

00:21:20.520 And she's got a point, actually, because I can tell you, my wife's a stay-at-home mom, and

00:21:25.000 I can't tell you the amount of times she's come up to me and said stuff like, you know, I have

00:21:31.240 to go do the laundry in order to perpetuate the white race. 1.00

00:21:34.500 And it always seemed a little weird to me, but now that I think about it, I guess it might

00:21:40.960 explain why she gets so mad when I put lights in with darks. 0.72

00:21:43.740 I don't know.

00:21:44.260 I mean, maybe that's, now it's all, it's all, it's all coming together.

00:21:48.940 Or maybe, actually, this argument from Becca Lewis is crazy.

00:21:52.460 Maybe.

00:21:54.900 Crazy for too many reasons to count, but let's start with the fact that, this is one of those

00:22:01.060 things that to try to break it down and explain what's wrong, it's, you're, you're, there's

00:22:06.240 no way to fully capture the craziness.

00:22:10.160 But let's start with the fact that white Western culture has been leading the charge away from

00:22:17.880 this kind of lifestyle.

00:22:18.960 So, a family that decides to live this lifestyle, a woman who decides to stay home with her 1.00

00:22:30.040 kids, which I call it a lifestyle, making it sound like some exotic, strange thing, which

00:22:34.520 are, which in our culture, it sort of is, and that's the point.

00:22:38.300 But really, it's not exotic or strange at all.

00:22:40.080 It's very simple.

00:22:40.740 It's, people have been doing it for, this is how families have functioned, many families

00:22:44.580 for, since, since time immemorial, since the dawn of human civilization.

00:22:50.180 But, it's a white Western culture, specifically, and especially, and primarily, that has been

00:22:59.160 rebelling against this.

00:23:02.440 So, a woman who decides to stay home with the kids and be a stay-at-home mom, she is living 0.99

00:23:09.080 a lifestyle that is very similar to non-white cultures. 0.79

00:23:14.580 So, this is a lot more, this is still the common way of living in many non-white societies. 1.00

00:23:22.680 And what about them?

00:23:23.580 Are they white supremacists? 0.83

00:23:27.120 I wonder.

00:23:29.460 See, that's the thing that, and you find this a lot with the left, where they, they criticize

00:23:38.240 conservative views, conservative lifestyle choices.

00:23:47.380 They criticize that, and they try to pin it, they always try to make it into a racist

00:23:52.300 thing somehow.

00:23:54.240 As tortured as that argument needs to be, they try to make it into a racist thing.

00:23:57.720 Meanwhile, in so many parts of the world, in non-white parts of the world, what they're 0.99

00:24:03.720 criticizing is the norm.

00:24:07.580 And so, every dismissive and insulting thing they're saying about these white people, they're

00:24:12.740 actually saying about non-white people more so.

00:24:15.020 But, of course, what we know is that when you find this from feminists, especially, this 1.00

00:24:24.060 hostility to stay-at-home moms, it's such a bizarre thing, first of all, to be hostile

00:24:31.480 to it.

00:24:32.000 If you don't want to live that way, you don't have to.

00:24:33.640 A woman who's at home with her kids and is doing the laundry and cooking and, you know, 1.00

00:24:40.400 taking care of the house and performing a, you know, I won't even call it a job.

00:24:47.760 I think sometimes you hear people say, in an effort to defend stay-at-home moms, they

00:24:51.600 say, oh, no, that's a job.

00:24:53.320 It's more than, it's bigger than a job.

00:24:56.080 It's not merely a job.

00:24:57.820 It's bigger than that, deeper than that, right?

00:24:59.640 But the people that are doing this, like my wife, they're not hurting anybody, even

00:25:07.560 if you disagree with it, even if, for whatever reason, you think it's a horrible way to live.

00:25:11.660 I don't know, can't understand why, but it's not hurting you, not attacking you.

00:25:18.400 All this stuff you hear from the left about, oh, we have to respect people's lifestyle choices,

00:25:22.240 yeah, it's completely bogus, of course.

00:25:25.360 Because here you have a lifestyle choice that is not hurting anybody.

00:25:29.640 And has definite benefits that can't be denied.

00:25:35.160 Stay-at-home mom, they're there with their kids. 0.54

00:25:38.220 They're able to be a greater influence on their kids' lives because they are there and present more often.

00:25:45.580 There's obviously going to be benefits to that.

00:25:48.680 And yet you are offended by it.

00:25:51.000 Well, we know where that stems from.

00:25:53.860 It stems primarily from a discomfort and insecurity with your own lifestyle choices.

00:26:02.820 I mean, you recognize, maybe at some level, the nobility of that way of living.

00:26:09.500 And so you feel attacked by it because you are insecure about the choices that you have made.

00:26:17.020 And it turns out you're not so pro-choice after all.

00:26:19.740 All right, more to discuss, but first, let's check in with Paint Your Life. 0.52

00:26:23.100 You know, when I first heard about Paint Your Life and how they could turn any photo into a work of art,

00:26:27.060 I first thought, okay, well, this must be a computer thing, right?

00:26:30.960 Like one of those Photoshop things you can do where you take a picture and make it look like it's a painting.

00:26:36.960 And then I found out that, no, it's actually a real painting, world-class artist painting by hand.

00:26:42.200 So then my next thought was, and I'm a pessimist if you hadn't noticed,

00:26:45.460 my next thought was, okay, well, then it must be ridiculously expensive.

00:26:49.360 But no, wrong again, very affordable, real art done by real artists.

00:26:53.920 If you want to give, then, a truly meaningful gift, you've got to try PaintYourLife.com.

00:26:58.700 You can have an original painting of yourself, your children, your family,

00:27:01.680 special place, a cherished pet at a price you can afford from PaintYourLife.com.

00:27:07.220 This is a true painting done by hand by a world-class artist created from a favorite photo.

00:27:11.780 I've done this myself.

00:27:13.960 It's a very easy process on your end, anyway.

00:27:16.340 All you do is send them the picture.

00:27:17.480 They get to work on it, and they'll communicate with you so that you can see the progress

00:27:23.240 and you can have input on specializing it or personalizing it, customizing it in whatever way you want.

00:27:30.140 So it's a very easy process, very hands-on.

00:27:32.480 They're very, very responsive during the process because they know that what they're making

00:27:36.500 is something that's very personal and important to you, and they want to get it right.

00:27:40.980 There's no risk.

00:27:41.920 If you don't love the final painting, your money is refunded.

00:27:44.200 It's as simple as that.

00:27:45.000 And right now is a limited-time offer.

00:27:46.620 Get 30% off your painting.

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00:27:50.580 To get this special offer, text the word MATT to 64000.

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00:27:56.740 M-A-T-T to 64000.

00:27:59.920 All right, we're going to do e-emails, I suppose.

00:28:05.020 Actually, before e-mails, I saw this story about a, there's a 111-day cruise that's going

00:28:13.540 to be taking off soon, or maybe it's already taken off.

00:28:16.800 111-day cruise.

00:28:21.020 111 days on a cruise ship.

00:28:24.600 I guess some of those days will be on land for day trips, but I mean, still, 111 days.

00:28:29.820 Now, if you've ever been on a cruise, you know how they go, right?

00:28:35.420 On a five-day cruise, you'll gain easily 10 pounds and spend 500 bucks on alcohol because

00:28:41.860 the drinks are expensive, obviously, very expensive, but they get you because you don't

00:28:46.660 have to pay up front for the drinks.

00:28:48.720 The food is included, but most of the time the drinks are not.

00:28:52.380 So, but they don't want, they don't want you to have to pay because then you'll probably

00:28:57.720 be more eager to moderate what you're buying.

00:29:01.540 So they give you a nice little, a fun little card.

00:29:04.060 It doesn't even look like a credit card.

00:29:05.460 It's just like a little card.

00:29:06.720 And every time you get a drink, you hand them a card and they just scan it and, uh, and

00:29:11.240 then they hand it back to you and it's real quick, real easy.

00:29:14.500 And, um, and then at the end of the trip, they leave the bill under your door showing you

00:29:20.560 all the times.

00:29:21.220 And then you start thinking, oh, you know what?

00:29:22.980 Maybe I shouldn't have bought margaritas for everybody at the bar that one time.

00:29:26.660 Turns out that wasn't a good idea.

00:29:29.000 So, and then there's the food, you know, um, nonstop food, food all over the place, including

00:29:34.780 an overnight buffet.

00:29:36.520 You're going to have like a pizza and ice cream buffet overnight, opens at midnight, runs

00:29:41.500 all night.

00:29:43.280 And, uh, and then during the day, there's just food everywhere and the food is free.

00:29:48.320 So you eat and you eat and you eat.

00:29:50.000 And by the time you stop in Jamaica, they have to actually lift you off of the cruise

00:29:53.480 ship on a forklift and then bring you down to the street and just roll your rotund body

00:29:58.380 down the street while people stop and try to sell you weed because this is Jamaica and

00:30:03.160 that's what they do with Taurus.

00:30:04.720 Now, just imagine 111 days of that, you'll be 850 pounds by the end of it in need of a

00:30:14.600 liver transplant, financially destitute.

00:30:17.580 But it does sound fun.

00:30:20.960 I have to admit fun and also somewhat terrible.

00:30:25.960 Uh, so let's go to emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com.

00:30:30.580 This is from Brian says, I've been a listener of the show for a while now.

00:30:35.180 Haven't felt compelled to email previously, but after listening to your take on billionaires,

00:30:38.740 I felt obligated to do so.

00:30:40.120 I tend to agree with most things you say, so I was very surprised to hear your take

00:30:43.880 on billionaires.

00:30:44.520 First, you almost lost me when you said that many companies essentially use slave labor.

00:30:49.700 I would love to see legitimate examples of this.

00:30:52.140 Even your statement that low-wage workers are often exploited by big corporations reeks

00:30:56.560 of liberalism.

00:30:58.140 What is exploitative about offering somebody money in exchange for doing a service and

00:31:01.700 allowing them to freely go elsewhere to make more money if they desire?

00:31:04.320 Additionally, your statement that someone owning a large house, private planes, and multiple

00:31:09.100 cars is grotesque and immoral is in direct conflict with your usual libertarian views.

00:31:14.520 Consider a significantly obese man that you see sitting at McDonald's eating three Big

00:31:18.060 Macs and fries.

00:31:19.320 Does it become the responsibility of you or the government to inform that man that he is

00:31:23.980 grotesque and immoral and to limit what he is able to eat?

00:31:27.320 Also along those lines, you mentioned that the immorality of the situation when just juxtaposed

00:31:32.560 with the situation of somebody living on the street freezing to death.

00:31:35.480 By that logic, you should open your home to one of those individuals and allow him to

00:31:38.480 crash on your couch.

00:31:39.800 I'm sure there is square footage in your home that you don't use all the time, so by your

00:31:43.460 own logic, it becomes immoral for you to possess it.

00:31:46.440 I look forward to hearing your rebuttals on the show tomorrow.

00:31:49.240 Thanks, Brian.

00:31:50.000 Okay, Brian, I'm glad that you sent this because it is exactly, exactly the attitude, the approach

00:31:59.460 from conservatives that I was cautioning against.

00:32:02.560 This is a precise illustration of what I was talking about.

00:32:07.480 What you're demonstrating here, in my opinion, is exactly the wrong way to go about this.

00:32:12.480 Because you are recoiling at the very thought that workers are being exploited anywhere, and

00:32:21.800 especially that it could ever be immoral to hoard wealth and luxury.

00:32:25.260 You're saying, or you seem to be saying, that there's no moral problem at all with somebody

00:32:31.420 owning eight houses and 20 cars and a boat and a plane while other people are living in

00:32:36.680 the gutter.

00:32:37.740 Now, I think that that's just a mistake.

00:32:40.780 So let's go through this one at a time.

00:32:43.080 First of all, I didn't say that many companies use slave labor.

00:32:48.560 I said that some have, which is true.

00:32:51.860 You want an example?

00:32:52.700 Take Nike, Colin Kaepernick's employer.

00:32:55.880 They infamously have used sweatshop labor.

00:32:58.340 Yes, and I think that using sweatshops in a third world country is essentially using slave

00:33:04.680 labor.

00:33:05.540 Some companies have done this.

00:33:06.960 Some companies still do this.

00:33:09.900 Okay, do you deny it?

00:33:11.500 Well, you can't deny it.

00:33:12.360 It's a fact that it has happened and does happen.

00:33:14.840 So are you going to defend using slave labor?

00:33:20.060 Are you going to defend sweatshops now?

00:33:22.080 I don't think you want to do that.

00:33:24.160 Are you going to defend companies going to third world countries and exploiting impoverished

00:33:28.380 families instead of employing Americans at a decent wage? 0.65

00:33:34.180 Why would you defend that?

00:33:35.600 It's a crazy thing to defend.

00:33:38.960 As far as workers being exploited, again, it does happen.

00:33:44.840 I'm not saying it always happens or that every worker is exploited.

00:33:48.700 That's what AOC was saying.

00:33:50.500 I'm not saying that.

00:33:52.380 But it does happen unless you want to deny and say that it never happens.

00:33:59.920 So what you're doing here seems to me is an extreme.

00:34:03.620 This is not really capitalism.

00:34:05.280 This is an extreme form of corporatism or consumerism.

00:34:11.120 It's not capitalism.

00:34:12.600 It's not even really libertarianism.

00:34:14.840 This is like a defend rich people at all costs.

00:34:19.460 And it's just, it's unnecessary and it's wrong and it's unwise, I think.

00:34:24.220 You say that my view reeks of liberalism.

00:34:26.620 Well, to be honest with you, I don't care.

00:34:30.080 I'm not worried about having my opinions line up perfectly with conservative doctrine.

00:34:36.540 I don't care about that.

00:34:39.200 When somebody tries to, I get these emails sometimes.

00:34:43.520 When I venture outside of the conservative camp a little bit on some issue, I always get,

00:34:48.740 oh, you sound like a liberal.

00:34:50.660 All right, I don't care.

00:34:52.000 It really doesn't matter to me.

00:34:53.360 Rather than label the point of view that I'm expressing, just respond to it.

00:35:02.820 Give a counter argument, but labeling it is not a response.

00:35:06.120 And, you know, I spent the first whole part of the show going through and attempting to dismantle 0.90

00:35:17.000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's absurd socialist rhetoric about how all billionaires are greedy, evil, lazy exploiters. 0.92

00:35:24.260 That was my whole point. 0.89

00:35:25.720 The whole first, you know, I spent 15 minutes on it, refuting that view.

00:35:31.260 I explained why it isn't true.

00:35:35.700 It may be true sometimes.

00:35:38.360 Yes.

00:35:38.920 Well, it's probably never true that a successful businessman is lazy.

00:35:41.780 So what she was talking about, how they sit on the couch and do nothing, that's completely absurd.

00:35:45.600 I don't think there's any successful businessman anywhere who's lazy.

00:35:49.060 Those are two things that tend to be mutually exclusive.

00:35:52.220 But greedy and exploitative, sure.

00:35:55.380 Yeah.

00:35:55.800 I mean, yes, there are, yes, there are rich, successful businessmen and CEOs and companies

00:36:00.400 that are greedy and exploitative, of course.

00:36:05.160 So why deny it, again, is my question.

00:36:08.980 Well, I think I know why.

00:36:10.080 Because then you start talking about how people have a right to buy what they want,

00:36:13.900 and we can't have the government come in and tell people what they can and can't buy,

00:36:17.420 and how much money they can make.

00:36:19.580 I agree.

00:36:20.420 That's my whole point.

00:36:22.880 I went into great detail making that exact point yesterday, and many other days besides.

00:36:29.420 I absolutely agree that the government cannot put itself in a position of saying,

00:36:33.540 nobody is allowed to make X amount of money.

00:36:35.860 Here's the limit.

00:36:36.480 You can't make more than that.

00:36:37.980 Or here's how many houses you can buy.

00:36:39.780 You can't buy more than that.

00:36:42.620 I agree with you on that.

00:36:44.160 I said that specifically multiple times yesterday.

00:36:48.040 That was my whole point for the first 15 minutes.

00:36:50.500 So when I say that something is immoral, that doesn't automatically mean that I'm saying

00:36:56.600 the government should get involved.

00:36:58.620 If I think the government should get involved, I'll say it.

00:37:02.320 And I have no compunction about that, as we know, from talking about the porn issue.

00:37:07.400 I said, I think the government should get involved.

00:37:10.080 And I made my argument for it.

00:37:11.500 You can disagree or agree, but I'm going to say it.

00:37:14.080 I'm going to be very explicit about it.

00:37:16.040 See, people struggle with this these days for some reason.

00:37:20.980 It's like any time you call something immoral or say that anything is bad,

00:37:24.400 it's automatically assumed by both sides that you're advocating for government solutions.

00:37:29.860 So the response, any time you make an argument that such and such is bad,

00:37:33.260 the response is always, well, people have a right to do that.

00:37:36.700 I didn't say they didn't have a right to do it.

00:37:39.400 I'm just saying it's bad.

00:37:40.660 I'm saying it's wrong.

00:37:42.000 You may have a right to do something that's wrong, but it doesn't mean that it's not wrong.

00:37:46.040 And it doesn't mean that we shouldn't point out that it's wrong.

00:37:51.560 You know, government solutions and talking about how something is immoral

00:37:57.960 and then talking about government solutions,

00:38:00.580 those two things are not automatically paired.

00:38:04.140 They're not the same.

00:38:07.120 Yes, it is immoral, I think, for somebody to be greedy and excessive and overindulgent.

00:38:12.820 It's true that nobody needs a 15-bedroom house and probably nobody should own one.

00:38:22.140 If the word overindulgent and greedy means anything, it must apply to that.

00:38:28.360 If you're going to tell me that's not greedy and overindulgent, 0.50

00:38:30.360 then I'm going to ask you, what the hell is?

00:38:32.600 Or are you claiming that nothing is?

00:38:35.300 That it's impossible for someone to be greedy?

00:38:37.380 It is grotesque and opulent, and if you have the money for that kind of thing,

00:38:42.780 you should be donating.

00:38:43.580 And I'm not saying that if you have a 15-bedroom house,

00:38:45.000 you should have just homeless people move into your home. 1.00

00:38:46.820 I'm saying rather than buying a house like that,

00:38:50.220 that extra money that it sounds like you have to just burn and waste on your own vanity

00:38:55.160 probably should be better used somewhere else with someone who can use it.

00:38:58.920 And I'm not saying you just go to the city and throw cash around.

00:39:03.720 I'm saying, you know, find a smart and prudent way of helping others.

00:39:12.560 I mean, can you really disagree?

00:39:15.380 If you have enough money to buy a 10th car,

00:39:19.880 maybe instead of that 10th car, you should give it to the poor.

00:39:23.120 That's what I'm saying.

00:39:25.520 Am I wrong?

00:39:27.140 Are you arguing that no, actually, the morally preferable thing is to buy the car?

00:39:32.200 Or that it's neutral?

00:39:33.720 There's no moral quality to it whatsoever?

00:39:38.740 Of course not.

00:39:41.580 You know, is it morally superior to spend your excess capital on a 20,000-square-foot house

00:39:49.380 rather than giving the extra money to people who need it

00:39:53.160 and settling for a modest, I don't know, 5,000-square-foot house?

00:39:58.240 If you have a moral argument, I'd love to hear it.

00:40:00.920 But I don't think you can.

00:40:03.440 At least, if you're going to make a moral argument,

00:40:05.260 it would have to be a very, it would have to be an amoral argument.

00:40:08.080 It would have to be a nihilistic, like, well, you know, hedonistic, nihilistic,

00:40:13.140 do what you want, drink for tomorrow, we will die type of argument.

00:40:19.380 But if you have any kind of sense of objective morality,

00:40:23.720 and certainly if you're a Christian,

00:40:26.380 there's definitely no way of getting around what I'm saying here.

00:40:32.000 Your argument about the government not getting involved is irrelevant

00:40:35.660 because I agree, and I'm not saying that.

00:40:42.140 I'm just saying it's something people shouldn't do.

00:40:46.140 Should the government stop them?

00:40:49.340 No, but they shouldn't do it.

00:40:52.140 I think people should be more charitable and giving.

00:40:55.220 Should be.

00:40:57.140 Do you disagree?

00:40:59.140 Probably not.

00:41:01.040 I mean, I assume you probably agree.

00:41:02.420 People should be charitable and giving.

00:41:06.140 Should the government force it if people decide not to be charitable and giving?

00:41:09.380 No.

00:41:10.420 I'm just saying this is what people should do.

00:41:12.740 The guy eating his third Big Mac.

00:41:14.800 He shouldn't be eating three Big Macs.

00:41:17.580 Yes, that is overindulgent.

00:41:19.420 That is gluttonous.

00:41:21.040 That is self-destructive. 0.56

00:41:22.440 And it's disgusting.

00:41:23.600 And you shouldn't be eating three Big Macs.

00:41:26.920 Should the government stop him from eating the third Big Mac?

00:41:29.380 No.

00:41:30.380 But he shouldn't be doing it.

00:41:31.760 And we should probably be sending the message as a culture that you shouldn't eat three Big Macs.

00:41:38.880 That's a good message to send.

00:41:40.120 So part of advocating for freedom, if you're going to have a pro-freedom message, you need to have a moral message too as well to go along with it.

00:41:53.500 It can't just be people should be able to do whatever they want.

00:41:56.580 It should be people should have freedom and here is what we ought to be doing with that freedom.

00:42:02.040 You're positioning it as though we have to choose between a pro-freedom message and a moral message.

00:42:11.340 As if we can't have both.

00:42:13.520 And this is the thing that's endlessly frustrating for me about conservatives these days.

00:42:19.980 This seems to be the attitude that a lot of conservatives have now. 0.99

00:42:24.540 And it's completely asinine. 0.92

00:42:27.080 I mean, I don't mean to be too harsh about it, but this idea that all we can do is talk about freedom and you can do whatever you want. 0.95

00:42:36.700 And we're never allowed to say you can do what you want, but here's what you should be doing.

00:42:43.500 And here's what you should not be doing.

00:42:47.460 I think that's a huge mistake.

00:42:50.460 And to be ceding the moral ground to the left is a huge mistake.

00:42:55.300 And for them to be the only ones talking about greed, the only ones pointing out that, hey, you know, there are people, there are children living in the gutter.

00:43:08.920 And so maybe you don't need to buy your 10th house.

00:43:12.680 Like they shouldn't be the only ones making that point, especially because they do always pair it with government control.

00:43:21.180 So our response should be, you're right about the moral part.

00:43:25.600 You're wrong on government control.

00:43:27.080 Here's why.

00:43:29.040 But we can't deny that they're right on the moral aspect of it when it comes to this.

00:43:36.400 All right, more emails to answer.

00:43:38.280 But first, let's talk about my friends at Rock Auto.

00:43:40.540 With the ever-increasing numbers of makes and models, it's now, you know, pretty impossible to stock all the parts you need in a traditional chain storefront, physical store, brick and mortar.

00:43:49.780 And so why endure a pointless or seemingly, you know, just never-ending litany of questions and you don't really, especially if you're not a total expert on cars.

00:44:01.460 I'm not.

00:44:02.300 You get all these questions.

00:44:03.900 And then at the end of the day, the guy at the counter is just going to order the parts on his computer anyway.

00:44:08.680 Why do that when you've got a computer probably sitting right in your pocket and you go to rockauto.com and just cut out the middleman?

00:44:15.460 And one reason to repair and maintain your cars is to save money that you can then use for other important things like mortgage and food.

00:44:21.620 So why would you choose to spend 30%, 50%, 100% more for the exact same auto parts at the store when you could just go online and buy them?

00:44:29.140 Chain stores have different price tiers depending on if you're a professional or a do-it-yourselfer.

00:44:35.620 Rockauto.com, though, it's the same price for everybody and it's always reliably low for everybody.

00:44:39.780 And you don't need a membership.

00:44:41.900 You can just go on, get what you need, and leave.

00:44:44.220 It's really easy.

00:44:44.980 Rockauto.com is a family business serving auto part customers online for 20 years.

00:44:48.760 Go to rockauto.com to shop for auto and body parts from hundreds of manufacturers.

00:44:53.020 They've got everything from engine control modules, brake parts, tail lamps, motor oil, carpeting for any kind of car that you have.

00:45:01.480 Whether it's a real nice classic car or the thing that you drive around every day.

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00:45:07.260 All the parts your car will ever need.

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00:45:09.460 Go to rockauto.com right now.

00:45:11.420 See all the parts available for your car or truck.

00:45:13.660 Write Walsh in their how-did-you-hear-about-us box so that they know that we sent you.

00:45:19.800 This is from Brennan.

00:45:21.080 Says, oh wise and glorious supreme leader.

00:45:23.700 I finished your January 22nd show and I was quite taken aback after listening to you ramble on about the issue of the rich exploiting the worker.

00:45:30.760 Then proceed to provide no solution whatsoever.

00:45:33.060 Please allow me some time to explain.

00:45:35.080 I would like to start by saying I agree with everything you said.

00:45:37.420 Just to paraphrase, the majority of relevant billionaires today did not make the money or did not take the money.

00:45:44.100 They earned it with hard work and innovation.

00:45:46.760 Some are also guilty of sinful overindulgence.

00:45:50.160 No one person or family needs a 20,000 square foot mansion, three yachts, two planes, etc.

00:45:54.640 The outsourcing of labor to sweatshops in China and using undocumented workers here at home is abhorrent. 0.96

00:46:00.640 And finally, yes, it is impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you cannot afford a pair of boots in the first place.

00:46:06.060 Yes, that is an accurate summation of my point.

00:46:08.280 Thank you.

00:46:09.520 Back to Brennan.

00:46:11.860 So what is your point?

00:46:14.220 We, well, that was, that was my point.

00:46:15.700 You just said my point.

00:46:16.400 Were you just trying to make your listeners aware that the world is unfair?

00:46:20.240 Okay, let's just assume we all knew that.

00:46:22.240 Were you trying to say that the billionaires who do these things are morally in the wrong?

00:46:25.300 Okay, fine.

00:46:25.860 But let me ask you this.

00:46:26.940 What law did they break and what law would you implement to solve these problems?

00:46:30.600 Can you tell anyone, tell me anyone that was kidnapped and forced to work for Apple?

00:46:34.160 Should we pass a law that says Bezos cannot, Bezos cannot buy a fourth yacht?

00:46:38.760 But see, Matt, my point is we can admit that these are unfortunate circumstances people are born into and that it's morally unjustifiable for Zuckerberg to live in his castle.

00:46:47.520 But there is not one single law you could present that would not itself be even more unjustifiable.

00:46:52.620 Sure, I would like it if Walmart paid its workers more.

00:46:54.820 But at the end of the day, $8 an hour as a greeter is better than nothing.

00:46:58.380 And these companies make that happen.

00:47:01.060 Well, Brennan, I've already covered much of this in my last response.

00:47:03.760 By the way, though, Walmart actually is not an example at all, I think, of a company that exploits its workers.

00:47:11.700 They pay their workers pretty well.

00:47:13.620 It's one of the better companies in that regard.

00:47:15.780 Average salary for hourly workers is $14 an hour.

00:47:19.300 Not bad for full-time workers.

00:47:21.500 Store managers are comfortably in the six-figure range.

00:47:24.760 Lots of promotion from within.

00:47:26.140 The current CEO started as a part-time worker loading trucks at a Walmart warehouse back in the 80s.

00:47:34.460 So I think Walmart is a positive example.

00:47:37.620 As demonized as it is, it's actually a positive example, I think, a role model for other companies to follow.

00:47:43.980 As I said before, I am not advocating laws or government involvement.

00:47:48.780 I don't think the government can solve the problem of greed, nor should it try.

00:47:56.760 So what's my solution?

00:47:59.080 I don't have one.

00:48:01.060 I don't have a solution.

00:48:02.200 I don't think anybody does.

00:48:05.440 And this is going to sound strange, maybe, but I actually get a little annoyed sometimes by the insistence on solutions.

00:48:15.200 Because sometimes there isn't one.

00:48:16.800 And sometimes I feel like it's almost, it is almost, again, I know it sounds strange, but it's almost a dodge sometimes.

00:48:23.160 To say, oh, let's talk about solutions.

00:48:25.380 Because there isn't always a solution.

00:48:29.160 Sometimes we're talking about human nature.

00:48:32.180 And, you know, I might not have a way to solve it.

00:48:36.700 Certainly not an easy solution.

00:48:38.600 Not a switch you can flip.

00:48:41.120 Not a five-point plan, like, let's do this, then this, and this, and then the problem is solved.

00:48:44.640 So maybe there isn't one.

00:48:47.160 But does that mean that there's no point in talking about it?

00:48:50.580 Are you saying that there's no point in ever talking about anything that cannot be solved?

00:48:56.520 I mean, well, you've certainly, you know, you've certainly disqualified all of philosophy, for one thing.

00:49:02.540 Philosophy is all about talking about the nature of reality and of the human condition.

00:49:08.240 Not solutions-oriented, not because you're trying to solve it, but just because it is.

00:49:14.000 And we're talking about what is.

00:49:16.700 And there's a real value to talking about what is and to understand what is.

00:49:23.920 So, you know what, you say that, well, let's assume everybody knows.

00:49:26.760 Everyone doesn't know.

00:49:27.440 You heard my last email.

00:49:28.300 There are a lot of conservatives who would actually deny and do deny, I think, unwisely and absurdly deny that, you know, there is really any real problem with workers being exploited or with greed and, you know, overindulgence and opulence and everything.

00:49:48.760 That is, in fact, denied.

00:49:51.760 And you just heard it.

00:49:52.880 So, I think to talk about it, just to emphasize and to explain that, no, this does exist and it is a problem, I think there's value to that.

00:50:06.660 What was something like this, I mean, what is the solution?

00:50:10.920 I guess I shouldn't say there's no solution.

00:50:12.600 There is.

00:50:13.800 It's just, it's not a solution that can be implemented from the outside, is my point.

00:50:18.300 And, no, there is not a governmental solution, really.

00:50:20.320 But the solution is, people just need to act differently, you know.

00:50:29.320 If we're talking about the greed of people who, you know, are materialistic and, you know, rather than helping the less fortunate or living lives of opulence and luxury.

00:50:42.660 Which, by the way, it's not just rich people that do that.

00:50:45.060 This is very much a vice now shared by lots of people in the middle class, myself included.

00:50:51.460 To some extent or another, you know.

00:50:55.880 But what's the solution to that?

00:50:58.880 I mean, just be better.

00:51:01.220 Act differently.

00:51:02.880 Rather than being materialistic and greedy, think more about your fellow man.

00:51:08.200 That's the solution.

00:51:09.220 That's it.

00:51:12.140 I don't think there is any other one.

00:51:15.060 If you're saying, well, what if people don't want to make better choices?

00:51:18.160 Then what's the solution?

00:51:19.480 There isn't one.

00:51:21.560 I mean, we just go back to step one.

00:51:23.940 Make better choices.

00:51:25.180 They don't do that, then we go back and say again, make better choices.

00:51:28.940 That's all that we can do.

00:51:33.080 But does that mean we shouldn't talk about it?

00:51:36.080 No, I do not think it means that.

00:51:43.620 And let's see.

00:51:48.040 I guess we'll leave it there for today.

00:51:50.460 In fact, though, before we do, before we wrap up, if you're a regular listener, you know,

00:51:55.240 we were just talking about the March for Life and Donald Trump speaking at the March for Life.

00:51:58.380 March for Life tomorrow.

00:51:59.280 It's tomorrow, by the way.

00:52:00.080 It's not too late.

00:52:00.620 If you live anywhere around D.C. and you want to make plans to show up, I very much recommend it.

00:52:05.660 And, you know, the pro-life issue is something you've heard me talk about a lot because of how crucially important it is.

00:52:12.120 But we know that it's getting increasingly difficult.

00:52:16.100 We know it's most difficult, of course, for the babies that are being victimized and brutalized and killed.

00:52:20.720 And those who speak up on their behalf are increasingly punished.

00:52:26.960 We know that, you know, last year the left went further off the cliff, passing the New York state law that allows abortion up to birth.

00:52:34.040 The Illinois state law allowing partial birth abortion.

00:52:36.620 So the left is getting more and more extreme, entrenching itself more and more on the side, on the pro-death side of things.

00:52:44.960 And in order to protect that position, they are trying to punish.

00:52:48.500 And they're going after us, for example, and they, you know, to try to shut us down, going after our advertisers.

00:52:56.320 And this is not unusual.

00:52:58.520 And we're not the only ones that go through it.

00:52:59.860 Live action is one of the biggest pro-life voices in the movement.

00:53:03.560 They continue to do some of the most important and crucial work in the movement, raising awareness, educating, you know, activism.

00:53:14.240 When we did that, the big rally in Philadelphia back a few months ago in response to the pro-lifers who were being bullied there, live action, you know, they took the reins.

00:53:28.220 And once I went to them with it, they took the reins and organized it.

00:53:31.740 And so this is the kind of thing they do, along with undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood and so many other things.

00:53:37.020 They've been banned from advertising on Twitter for their calls to defund Planned Parenthood.

00:53:40.780 They've been banned from Pinterest altogether.

00:53:44.240 They've seen their advertising efforts thwarted on many other platforms as well.

00:53:48.320 This is why our dailywire.com members are so important.

00:53:51.320 Your membership helps keep our cameras on and our microphones on so that we can, you know, spread the message of life.

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00:54:18.940 And we will leave it there.

00:54:21.860 To everyone who's going to the pro-life or to the March for Life tomorrow, travel safe.

00:54:26.580 And to everyone else and those at the March, of course, Godspeed.

00:54:56.580 Yesterday, President Trump announced that he would become the first president in American history to attend and address the March for Life,

00:55:20.020 which is taking place as we speak, we will examine how a man who once called himself, quote, very pro-choice became the most pro-life president in American history.

00:55:29.780 Then Democrat impeachment manager Adam Schiff accidentally explains why Democrats are so eager to oust Trump before November as the impeachment trial enters its agonizing second day.

00:55:40.960 And Tulsi Gabbard sues Hillary Clinton for defamation because we are living in the greatest timeline.

00:55:47.080 All that in the mailbag.

00:55:48.680 Check it out on The Michael Knowles Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 23, 2020

Ep. 411 - A Major Milestone

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