The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 419 - Democrat Clown Show Wants To Run Health Care System

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the show, everybody. Obviously, there's quite a lot happening in the world today,

00:00:03.280 in the country. We're going to talk about all of that, lots of important news.

00:00:06.400 But I want to begin by discussing something even more important than any of that, namely

00:00:10.720 myself. Well, not myself exactly, but my book. I did just announce yesterday that I have a new

00:00:16.800 book coming out, being released February 25th, but you can pre-order it now. And I would ask

00:00:21.960 that you do pre-order it rather than waiting to the last minute, you damn procrastinators. 0.99

00:00:25.840 The book is called Church of Cowards, and it brings together in one volume my thoughts on 0.99

00:00:33.200 the subject I've spoken about often on this show, written about, and that is the problem

00:00:38.160 of apathy, cowardice, and complacency in the church. And this is a problem that cannot be

00:00:45.020 pinned entirely on church leadership, on the so-called Christian leaders in the country

00:00:49.700 and throughout the world. Though, obviously, of course, there's a significant portion of

00:00:53.960 blame that goes to them. And I talk about that in the book. But this is also an issue

00:00:58.820 that implicates everybody. Me, you, everyone. I don't think any of us are entirely innocent.

00:01:05.780 So I try not to spare anybody in this book, myself included. And I hope you'll give it a

00:01:11.320 read. Church of Cowards, go to Amazon, look it up, buy the book before it comes out on February

00:01:17.020 25th. Okay, speaking of bad leadership, the Democrat Party continues to somehow make the

00:01:24.260 Republican Party look like it has its crap together by comparison, which, if you've been 0.96

00:01:28.580 following politics for any length of time, that is an incredible accomplishment. That's 0.98

00:01:33.080 a remarkable feat to be able to do that. As you know, as you've probably no doubt heard

00:01:38.040 by now, the Iowa caucuses were last night. Somehow they managed, after three years of preparation,

00:01:42.420 to completely bungle it. The night ended with no winner, no results, nothing, which threw everybody

00:01:48.340 into disarray, including the media, which led to, and I want to play this just at the front of the

00:01:54.280 show, because I think this is one, this is just a great moment, a great moment in media, was this

00:02:00.160 right here. Watch this. Sean Sebastian's joining us right now from Story County. He's a precinct

00:02:04.700 secretary out there. What can you tell us about this delay in getting any results, Sean?

00:02:09.240 Well, Wolf, I have been on hold for over an hour with the Iowa Democratic Party. They tried to,

00:02:19.000 I think, promote an app to report the results. The app, by all accounts, just like doesn't work. So

00:02:26.140 we've been recommended to call into the hotline, and the hotline has not been responsive.

00:02:32.600 I can hear you. Have you gotten any explanation, Sean? Sean, have you gotten any explanation at all

00:02:38.980 as to what's going on? No, I have not. No. I'm just waiting on hold and doing my best to report

00:02:48.380 the results from my precinct. What are you hearing? I know you're listening to a conversation

00:02:52.060 from the Iowa Democratic Party. This is a real coincidence, Wolf. I just got off hold just now,

00:03:05.400 so I've got to get off the phone to report the results. All right. Go ahead. Report your results.

00:03:09.960 Can we listen in as you report them, Sean? Yep. All right. Let's listen. All right. Okay. Hi. Hello?

00:03:16.080 Hello? They hung up on me. They hung up on me. Okay. I've got to get back in line on hold.

00:03:24.600 They just hung up. It's so frustrating indeed. Now, on one hand, I really love that. It's good

00:03:31.620 stuff. But on the other, I feel for that guy. I feel I can relate to it, especially as a parent,

00:03:37.180 because this has definitely happened to me before, where I'm waiting on hold with Comcast or somebody

00:03:42.060 for 45 minutes. And then after 45 minutes, my kids come into the room and they distract me.

00:03:48.760 And I'm telling them to, you know, I'm yelling at them. And then in the melee, the customer rep comes

00:03:54.140 on the phone, but I'm distracted and he takes the opportunity to just hang up. So, and of course,

00:04:00.540 in this analogy, Wolf Blitzer would be like my kids. So that was fun though. But the utter incompetence

00:04:07.140 of the Democratic Party here, and not just here, but over the past three years and beyond

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00:05:44.860 slash Walsh. Okay. So there are a few lessons that we can learn, I think, from the disastrous

00:05:53.080 beginning of the Democrat Party's primary process. A process that, as they boasted in a tweet on Monday

00:05:59.420 afternoon, they'd spent the last three years preparing for, that's what they said. And,

00:06:04.820 you know, the pilot of the Hindenburg also spent time preparing, but all of the preparation in the

00:06:09.800 world can't compensate for incompetent execution. So somehow after the buildup, Monday night ended

00:06:16.980 without a winner or any results at all. And, uh, it's, it, it seems part of the problem is that the

00:06:22.320 Democrats decided to hand the facilitation and management of its primary in Iowa over to a

00:06:27.920 secretive firm in DC called literally Shadow Inc. So that's literally the name of the, of the

00:06:35.280 organization, Shadow Inc, which is a bit like sending your children to a daycare center called

00:06:41.280 like child neglect LLC. So I, I can only, I just, I just imagine the, you know, the bosses of the

00:06:48.960 Democrat Party in the offices of Shadow Inc. And there's a guy, you know, sitting at a, at his desk

00:06:54.880 with his, with his chair turned around, looking out the window, his back to them, puffing on a cigar,

00:07:01.540 stroking a cat. And they say, yeah, I think this, this is the guy, this is the guy that needs to

00:07:07.460 handle our primaries. Um, and these are the sorts of unforced errors that the, the Democrats can't

00:07:14.040 seem to stop themselves from making as they continue, as I said, to, to achieve the remarkable

00:07:19.520 feat of making the Republican Party look good somehow. Now, of course, I may be giving them

00:07:26.580 too much credit when I say that this is an error. Um, I, I'm not sure that this, that this debacle can

00:07:33.620 be called an error necessarily because that categorization assumes that there's no deliberate

00:07:37.760 corruption at, at work here. And that's probably not a safe assumption, especially given the

00:07:42.560 Democrats track record with primaries. But all in all, this amounts to more good news for Donald

00:07:48.860 Trump, who is a man that has been blessed with the most impotent and ineffectual adversaries that

00:07:56.200 probably the world has ever seen. This is, Donald Trump is so fortunate. Uh, he, God has blessed him

00:08:04.780 with these, with these buffoons as his enemies. And as, as many of us have been saying for, 0.97

00:08:12.880 for years now, ever since Trump came on the scene, especially ever since he became president,

00:08:18.260 all the Democrats really have to do is just be basically normal and sane

00:08:24.620 and, um, and that's, and that probably be enough to get the edge and to win in 2020. It's all they

00:08:33.180 need to do. And, and they can't even do that. They, that really, uh, that, that bar as low as it is,

00:08:41.680 they're not able to, to get over that bar, uh, which, which means that, you know, that, that I think, 0.96

00:08:49.260 uh, the possibility of Trump still losing to these blundering clowns is a possibility that 0.94

00:08:55.240 seems less and less likely with each passing day. But if he does lose to them, this is an ominous 0.98

00:09:02.500 warning, I think for the future, because we should keep in mind that these people who cannot figure 0.60

00:09:07.780 out how to operate their own primary also want to operate the entire healthcare system.

00:09:13.680 Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in particular have promised a complete government takeover of

00:09:17.660 healthcare. In fact, Sanders is on record saying that he wants, he's advocating a complete government

00:09:24.960 takeover of all industry, of all major industry. He has said this specifically, explicitly.

00:09:32.720 Now he, he, he was, he hasn't been, he hasn't been quite that explicit in recent years, but this is

00:09:37.560 what he said back in his thirties. I think it was back when he was 35 or 36. He's on record saying

00:09:44.160 the government should take over all major industries. Now, if we had a real media,

00:09:49.900 they'd be following up with, with that and, and saying, Hey, is that still what you want to do?

00:09:56.380 I mean, think about it. We've got a Democrat candidate who, who very well could win the nomination.

00:10:03.140 Who's a, who's in the past advocated for a government takeover of all major industries

00:10:08.380 and nobody in the media has asked him about it. And this, by the way, is full-blown communism,

00:10:15.840 not communism in the loose kind of pejorative sense that people use it, but actual, literal,

00:10:23.120 real communism. Bernie Sanders is an actual communist. So this is the communism of Soviet

00:10:29.460 Russia and Pol Pot and, and many of the, the most evil and blood drenched regimes of the 20th century. 0.91

00:10:34.620 That's, that's, that is the ideology that, that in the, the government, the governing philosophy

00:10:39.640 that he aligns himself with. And, but he's not asked about it by the media, which is really

00:10:47.680 incredible. And I think this, this, this latter fact, the fact that we've seen how communism works

00:10:55.760 in other countries, especially in the, in the, in the bloodiest, deadliest, uh, century in human

00:11:04.820 history, the 20th century, because of communism. So that should be enough to cause us to run far

00:11:11.200 and fast away from any candidate who advocates a full government takeover of any industry, let alone

00:11:18.080 the healthcare industry, let alone every other industry, as well as the healthcare industry.

00:11:22.560 But if the 20th century is too far in the past to make an impression somehow, then I think this

00:11:30.980 Monday is less than enough. In order for the plans proposed by Sanders, Warren and, and company to

00:11:37.900 have any appeal, we first have to place our trust in the skill and competency and integrity of

00:11:43.900 government bureaucrats. And this is the part you notice, this is the part of the case that the

00:11:50.040 socialists never bother trying to make. Yes, they can tell a harrowing tale about all the evils of

00:11:55.800 capitalism and the problems of free of the free market. And they can convince you to look with

00:12:00.320 suspicion on corporations and the dreaded billionaires. And I don't even necessarily disagree with them on

00:12:06.220 that point that in a way we should be suspicious of, of corporations. We shouldn't just blithely trust

00:12:12.100 them. You know, if you've got, if you've got one of these tech companies asking you to hand your

00:12:22.240 privacy over to them, which most of us have already done, but we shouldn't trust our privacy with them

00:12:27.620 and all of our sensitive information. So that part, fine. But then there's the next part where they

00:12:35.640 never get around to explaining why we should trust them, the politicians, instead.

00:12:46.100 And, and that's because I don't think even they could make that argument with a straight face.

00:12:53.340 And this again goes back to, to malpractice by the media, which is a very intentional malpractice.

00:13:00.060 You're going to let Bernie Sanders stand up there all day at debates and, and, and, and interviews

00:13:06.440 and so on, talking about the problem with, with capitalism and, and, and billionaires and why

00:13:12.500 they shouldn't have control over this and that. Nobody ever stops to ask them, okay, but why should

00:13:18.520 you control it though? Why should we trust you? Why should we trust bureaucrats? What's the reason?

00:13:25.720 Give us a, give us one good reason. That's all I'm asking for. One good reason why we should trust

00:13:31.120 bureaucrats instead. Well, because the billionaires, no, no, I didn't ask about the billionaires. That's

00:13:37.060 not what I'm asking. Let's go from the billionaires to the bureaucrats. Why should we trust them? One

00:13:41.760 good reason. That's it. Just give me one. And, and don't tell me because, uh, they're, they're subject

00:13:49.240 to elections. They're not. Our government is massively, massively, enormously gargantuan,

00:13:57.260 monstrous, huge. And, um, and 99% of the people in the government who work for the government,

00:14:07.520 probably more than 99% are not elected.

00:14:09.920 So, um, they can't make the argument. And besides which, we've all been to the DMV. So we know how

00:14:21.340 the government works. And this week is just the latest example. And that, I think, is the, the

00:14:28.320 highlight and the point of this madness in Iowa. There are some people trying to make it a point

00:14:35.820 about, well, this is why Iowa shouldn't be the first primary in the country. And this is why we

00:14:41.120 need to change the way we do primaries. I don't, I don't disagree with that either, by the way, but

00:14:46.600 that's not really the point. Though on an almost unrelated note, I do agree that it doesn't make

00:14:54.680 any sense to me why Iowa arbitrarily gets this, gets this privileged position where they're, the

00:15:02.580 decision they make in the primary has all, has all of this enormous weight, Iowa and New

00:15:08.400 Hampshire, Iowa and New Hampshire, right? It's like, all that really matters is them. And then,

00:15:12.680 uh, and then you have states that by the time they go, it's already been decided. So I don't

00:15:18.580 see how that makes any sense. At a minimum, if we're going to, no, I, I, you know, there's a,

00:15:24.320 there's a part of me that would be sympathetic to a call for a national primary where you do all

00:15:29.420 the primaries on the same day. Now the argument against that is that then it, well, there are a

00:15:34.140 few arguments. One of them is that it would make it a lot harder for the lesser known candidates

00:15:39.000 who need that staggered process to build momentum. If you just do it all on one day, then really the,

00:15:45.460 just the most famous, most well-known candidates going to win every time. Okay. I get that. But if

00:15:50.660 you're going to do the staggered thing where we're holding these, these primaries over the course of

00:15:54.560 many weeks, there's no reason why one state should always go first and always have this, this, this,

00:16:01.700 uh, disproportionate influence over the way the rest of the primary goes. There's no reason for

00:16:09.120 that other than it's tradition. Okay. Well, just because it's tradition doesn't mean we keep doing

00:16:13.960 it forever without ever stopping. Okay. Let's, um, let's move on. You know, the, uh, the guardian

00:16:23.760 and the daily wire have both reported on an exciting new business venture that I wanted to

00:16:29.600 mention. And this is for the low price of just $2,500 to, uh, particularly industrious race hustlers 0.57

00:16:37.760 will come to your house, eat your food and call you a racist. This is a real business. And this is

00:16:44.720 not some sort of strange masochistic sexual fetish as far as I know. It is, it's an opportunity for 0.56

00:16:50.860 white people to learn that they are abysmal sacks of garbage, if you didn't already know. 1.00

00:16:55.360 So it's kind of like a self-empowerment thing, but, but the opposite of that, the opposite of 1.00

00:16:59.480 self-empowerment. Let me read, um, this is the guardian explaining this business. It says,

00:17:04.600 uh, a white woman volunteers to host a dinner in her home for seven other white women, often 0.99

00:17:10.620 strangers, perhaps acquaintances. Each dinner costs $2,500, which can be covered by a generous

00:17:16.400 host or divided among guests. A frank discussion is led by co-founders, Regina Jackson, who is black

00:17:22.900 and Syrah Rao, who identifies as Indian American. Uh, they started race to dinner to challenge liberal 0.99

00:17:31.460 white women to accept their racism. However, subconscious, uh, if you did this in a conference 0.96

00:17:36.800 room, they'd leave Rao says, but healthy white women have been taught never, or, but wealthy white 1.00

00:17:41.840 women have been taught never to leave the dinner table. So this is a service, yes, offered, offered

00:17:46.380 only to white women. Unfortunately, white men are irredeemable. The guardian says Rao and Jackson 1.00

00:17:51.620 believe white liberal women are the most receptive audience because they are open to changing their 0.94

00:17:55.880 behavior. They don't bother with the 53% of white women who voted for Trump. White men, they feel,

00:18:00.820 are similarly a lost cause. Jackson says, quote, white men are never going to change anything. If they 0.99

00:18:06.320 were, they would have done it by now. And then, uh, here's an inspiring example of one such white 1.00

00:18:11.980 woman finally admitting and accepting that she is essentially Hitler. Uh, Alison Goobser says,

00:18:19.060 recently I've been driving around seeing a black person and having an assumption that they're up 0.94

00:18:22.980 to no good. Immediately after that, I'm like, that's no good. This is a human just doing their

00:18:28.760 thing. Why do I think that? Because of course, you know, it's only white people who engage in this

00:18:35.100 sort of negative stereotyping. Other races of people, they never do this ever. Doesn't happen.

00:18:41.360 Only white, right? Now we're told that they've conducted 15 of these dinners at 2,500 a pop.

00:18:49.300 So that, that totals to almost 40 grand they've made. Not a bad business plan, especially when you

00:18:54.240 consider this is nearly all profit. I guess the only real overhead is, uh, is the only cost that they

00:19:01.520 incur, I imagine, are the medical treatments for their vocal cords after they spend a whole evening

00:19:06.460 shouting racist in the faces of cowering, uh, uh, soccer moms. So I must say, I was thinking about

00:19:14.980 this, you know, I, I find their efforts inspiring and so inspiring that in keeping with the, with the

00:19:22.120 traditions of my people, of white men, I'm going to appropriate this idea. Now I have no doubt, 0.84

00:19:28.460 and, and I don't mean to cast aspersions here. I have no doubt that the certified haranguing

00:19:32.640 offered by these two women is well worth the money, but why spend more than you have to?

00:19:40.280 Um, and this is where I'm, you know, this is me. I announced the book and so now this is a business,

00:19:44.620 a new business I'm opening that I'm excited to announce as well. So it's kind of a big,

00:19:47.960 a big day for me for a number of reasons. Uh, here's my business model. I would be willing

00:19:53.100 to perform the exact same service at half the price. Okay. So for a measly $1,250, $1,250,

00:20:00.480 that's it. I'll sit at your table, gorge on your food and ceaselessly belittle you.

00:20:08.280 Uh, now here's what I'm saying. Don't pay full price for a scolding when you could get a perfectly

00:20:15.900 acceptable scolding for half of that. It just, it doesn't make any sense financially is what I'm

00:20:20.820 trying to say. And don't think for a second that my accusations and my insults that I hurl at you

00:20:26.060 will be tamer just because I'm the bargain bin option. Uh, and I understand like a good wedding

00:20:32.500 DJ, you have to play the hits. So that means, of course, I'm going to call you a racist. I'm 0.69

00:20:36.520 going to call you a sexist. I'm going to call you a transphobe. I'm going to call you a homophobe, 1.00

00:20:40.320 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But I'll pick, I'll even mix in a few of the more cutting edge,

00:20:44.340 uh, is and phobes that maybe you haven't heard of. So after my dinner, you may discover

00:20:50.700 that you're not only an ageist, ethnocentric, cis-normative biphobe, but also a gooberphobe. 0.94

00:20:58.380 You know what a gooberphobe is? A gooberphobe is someone who is discriminatory against gay 0.99

00:21:01.940 Uber drivers. Okay. That's a real thing that I just made up. But this is, this is the kind 0.95

00:21:06.560 of ingenuity that I bring to it. Uh, and it gets better because for a small, let's say $75, uh,

00:21:13.100 upcharge, I'll also yell at your pets. And you have to think about this because you are racist scum, 1.00

00:21:18.600 as we've established. Do you think your pets have not absorbed any of that? Any of your bigot 1.00

00:21:25.500 fumes? See, living with you is like, is like, is like living near Chernobyl. The toxicity radiates

00:21:31.780 off of you and infects everything in the vicinity. So after I finish with you dinner, um, I'll go to

00:21:37.900 your, you know, dog, I'll go to the hamster, I'll go to the goldfish, whatever, and I'll scream at

00:21:42.940 them. Uh, and it'll be a very cleansing experience for them as well. And so once my session is

00:21:48.640 complete, everybody in the house is going to feel like total dirt. That is my guarantee

00:21:55.140 or your money back. Just kidding. Of course, I would never give money back to a racist.

00:22:02.100 Um, so look out for that as I, as I, uh, bring that business to the masses. Now a couple of things

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00:23:00.880 hear from. Okay. Uh, I've been wanting to talk about this issue for a few, few days now. And, uh,

00:23:06.340 now, now I will. Um, it's a story that hasn't gotten a lot of attention. Michelle Carter.

00:23:12.360 I don't know if you remember the name. She was released from prison last week after serving 11

00:23:16.320 months in jail, 11 months. Carter, as you may or may not recall, was the sociopath who repeatedly

00:23:23.560 encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself. And then when he did at her urging,

00:23:31.320 she told no one, pretended to be shocked and saddened and had apparently done the whole thing

00:23:36.520 to get attention. This was according to the prosecutors and she was convicted.

00:23:42.380 This was all a ploy because she wanted sympathy and attention. And so she managed, she decided to

00:23:47.720 get that by manipulating her boyfriend into killing himself. Now, this is a case that has really stuck

00:23:53.460 with me because I think it's stuck with a lot of people. It's just because it's, it's, it's just

00:23:59.840 how absolutely evil this is. It's the kind of case that sends chills right down to your bones in a way

00:24:08.540 that some other bad cases don't quite to the same degree, because this, this gives you a unique look

00:24:16.320 into the depths of human evil. I mean, let's recall what this girl did. This was not her saying

00:24:23.020 once, kill yourself out of anger or half joking or something like that. That's not what this was.

00:24:29.200 This was not her putting kill yourself in the comment section under, under a YouTube video.

00:24:34.160 Or sending it in an email to a podcast host she doesn't like. Not some of this was. This was a

00:24:38.620 depressed boyfriend who came to his girlfriend for, you know, for emotional support. And instead,

00:24:48.400 her girlfriend repeatedly over a period of time, methodically tried to break his will,

00:24:54.300 break him down and get him to kill himself, including berating and insulting him for not doing

00:24:59.460 it. And on the night when he did it, she was on the phone with him, berating him for trying to back 0.98

00:25:06.480 out. You know, he wanted to back out at the last minute and she was urging him, insisting that he

00:25:12.040 do it. And when he did and was dead, she didn't call anybody, didn't tell anybody, certainly didn't

00:25:18.320 try to get a medical treatment, of course, and just pretended to be shocked and sad and everything

00:25:22.780 when she heard the news. Now, incredibly, in my view, there are plenty of people who've defended this

00:25:29.100 person, the girlfriend, the Carter, or at least if not defended her, said that at a minimum,

00:25:35.280 she shouldn't go to jail. People have even tried to make this a free speech issue, which is what 1.00

00:25:40.820 her defense team argued. And I understand her defense team arguing it. That's the only defense

00:25:46.160 they could possibly offer. And so they did. But if you're not one of her lawyers, I don't understand

00:25:51.640 arguing that. Free speech? Really? And this only proves my point that free speech has come to mean

00:26:00.400 almost nothing. All of the freedoms and rights we talk about, it's as I discussed at length yesterday,

00:26:07.240 these phrases mean almost nothing now. Nobody knows what they mean. No one can define them.

00:26:13.280 We just throw them out there randomly to make a point. And that's what's happening here.

00:26:20.000 Trying to manipulate a suicidal depressive into killing himself is not free speech.

00:26:25.620 And I can't believe I even have to say that. By the way, if you think it is, and this is

00:26:32.480 absolutely inescapable, if you think that what she did is covered under free speech, then you have

00:26:39.840 to argue that Charles Manson never should have gone to prison. Because Charles Manson, many people don't

00:26:44.400 know this, never killed anybody. No, he brainwashed his groupies into killing people. He didn't do it

00:26:51.060 himself. Yet he went to jail for life until death, which is how life in prison works. Now, I would say

00:26:59.340 that's clearly not free speech. When you take mentally unbalanced people and you urge them, try to 0.99

00:27:07.000 get them to kill somebody, that's not free speech. That's murder. That's what I would say. 0.95

00:27:13.480 But if you're going to tell me that it's free speech for this girl to manipulate her mentally 1.00

00:27:22.060 unstable boyfriend into killing himself, then you have to argue that Charles Manson was

00:27:26.380 covered under free speech when he manipulated mentally unstable people into killing other 0.67

00:27:30.540 people. This is logically inescapable. But of course, with Charles Manson, nobody would argue

00:27:38.800 that because it's totally crazy. And what exactly are people worried about? That this is a slippery

00:27:45.000 slope? I've heard that. I was talking about this on social media this week, and some people

00:27:51.180 were saying, it's a slippery slope, you know. A slippery slope into what? Into some sort of

00:27:56.860 dystopian horrorscape where you can no longer tell people to kill themselves? Oh, the humanity,

00:28:04.900 how horrible that would be. That's not even where this is headed at all, because she embarked on a

00:28:11.540 campaign, a long campaign to manipulate him into killing himself. This was not a one-off thing.

00:28:17.460 This was not a moment of passion and her just saying, kill yourself. Obviously, if she had done 0.98

00:28:22.460 that, she wouldn't have gone to jail. It's not what this was. So this is not heading to a place where

00:28:28.440 you're not allowed to leave a YouTube comment telling someone to kill themselves. That's not where

00:28:34.140 this is headed. But my point is, even if it was heading there, who cares? Is that really,

00:28:39.900 would you be oppressed and persecuted if you lived in a country where you can't tell people

00:28:44.480 online to kill themselves? How would that harm you in any way whatsoever? In any case,

00:28:53.740 manipulating a man into killing himself so you can get attention, I would say, horribly evil.

00:29:00.760 And this is a dangerous person. She gets out of jail. And if you don't think she's dangerous,

00:29:07.780 what do you think is going to happen when she gets kids? How's that going to go? When you have 1.00

00:29:14.760 somebody this emotionally manipulative, and a sociopath, a psychopath, who only cares about 0.75

00:29:21.840 attention to themselves, and they've got kids, how do you think that's going to go?

00:29:25.720 Munchausen by proxy? What do you think that is? That's a parent making a child sick or causing

00:29:39.140 the child to think that he's sick so that the parent can get attention. So that's where this

00:29:45.380 is headed. This is a dangerous person. 11 months in jail. And she gets out. Now, you cannot convince

00:29:56.140 me that the fact that she's a blonde chick didn't help her. Because I would say it absolutely did. 1.00

00:30:01.540 I don't really see any scenario. Can you imagine, let's reverse the genders for a moment. Let's say 0.96

00:30:07.660 you've got a man over a period of many months manipulating a mentally unbalanced, depressive 0.53

00:30:16.360 woman into killing herself. Can you imagine him getting out of jail in 11 months?

00:30:23.160 Now, granted, she was only sentenced to 15 months, which is bad enough as it is. She didn't even serve

00:30:29.720 the whole year. Can you imagine that with a man? I can't. This is where female privilege comes in. 1.00

00:30:36.200 And this is a real thing. This is not, they've done studies on this. The statistics are right

00:30:40.920 there. You can go look them up yourself. Women get, I think on average, on average, men get

00:30:46.260 sentences that are 63%, like 50 to 60. I want to say 63% is a number that's on top of my head here.

00:30:54.580 But they get, men on average, for the same crimes, get significantly longer sentences than women do. 0.96

00:31:01.460 And that's even when controlling for factors like previous criminal history.

00:31:06.760 Okay, so it's not like, well, the men get longer sentences because they've got a track record.

00:31:10.420 No, even when controlling for those sorts of things, women get significantly shorter sentences. 1.00

00:31:15.560 And in fact, men are twice as likely to get sent to prison in the first place.

00:31:19.500 Meaning, in many cases, the women don't, in many, in many situations, there are crimes where if a man 1.00

00:31:27.040 commits it, he goes to jail for a period of time. If a woman commits it, she doesn't go to jail at all. 0.66

00:31:34.160 So that is, that's, that's, that is actual female privilege that is really happening. 1.00

00:31:40.040 Um, systemically, we hear so much about systemic bigotry and systemic, this is systemic, it's in the

00:31:48.340 justice system, systemic discrimination against men in favor of women. And, uh, you just, you can't

00:31:55.420 convince me that this is not an example of that. I think, I think it very clearly is. So we'll get

00:31:59.640 to emails in just a second here. But first, um, I want to tell you about this offer we have. This has

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00:33:14.440 want to miss it. All right, let's go to emails, mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com.

00:33:19.380 This is from Kurt says, Matt, very dumb question, but I hope you, I'm hoping you can give me a simple

00:33:23.320 explanation. What exactly is a caucus? How does it work? How should it work? I know the Iowa situation is 0.93

00:33:31.260 a mess, but how is it supposed to go? Seriously, I've never understood it. Well, Kurt, you're right.

00:33:37.480 This is a rather, uh, dumb question. I'm, I'm afraid caucuses like the one in Iowa, uh, putting 0.90

00:33:44.120 aside all the, this debacle that happened, it's, it's a, it's a pretty simple process and I can't

00:33:49.040 believe you don't understand it. I don't mean to, you know, I don't mean to judge you or anything,

00:33:54.520 but fine. I'll explain it. You see, and I can easily explain it to you. And it goes like this.

00:34:01.860 I'll explain it right now. In fact, um, what happens as it proceeds, the caucus is that there

00:34:09.660 are actually, well, essentially decisions, okay, are made. And let's just say basically what it comes

00:34:16.500 down to when in fact, it's all said and done at the end of the day is that determinations are made.

00:34:25.400 All right. Important determinations. And those determinations are at the conclusion of a process,

00:34:34.100 let's call it, uh, they're going to lead to the formulation of what you might even call results.

00:34:39.800 results. And those results are really going to tell you who wins. Okay. So do you understand?

00:34:47.860 That's as simple as I can put it. Okay. Because I definitely understand how caucuses work myself.

00:34:55.060 This is from Carlos says, hello, Matt. Yesterday, the Superbowl was a good game,

00:34:58.840 not as exciting without my Patriots on it, but I'm glad the Chiefs won. I saw that people were accusing

00:35:03.520 you of being anti-Latino for saying that the halftime show was inappropriate. However,

00:35:07.200 as a Hispanic born in Latin America myself, I agree with you. If anything, what I find offensive is

00:35:11.960 their implication that our Latin culture can be reduced to that garbage. A show of over-sexualized 1.00

00:35:16.620 50-year-old women stripping and pole dancing on the stage is not representative of Latin culture.

00:35:21.540 Everybody, white, Hispanic, or otherwise should be free to say so. It is a shame because Shakira

00:35:26.280 wasn't too bad back when she started in Columbia before she went full Hollywood around 2008.

00:35:31.340 Thank you and keep up the good work. Well, thanks, Carlos. And, um, it, yeah, it's,

00:35:36.580 it's funny because I noticed perhaps unsurprisingly that many of the people who were making the argument

00:35:40.760 that it's anti-Latino or racist or whatever to criticize the halftime show were not Latino

00:35:46.480 themselves. So once again, we have the bigotry of low expectations on display here, which is very

00:35:52.040 common among liberal white people where they, you know, I mean, imagine, uh, imagine being, 0.98

00:36:00.400 you know, non-Latino, just a white person like me and arguing that strip shows and simulated orgies 0.87

00:36:08.700 are Latin culture. What are you actually saying about Latin culture and how is that a defense of

00:36:15.780 Latin culture and not an attack on it? So that's, that's kind of the, with these, with these liberal

00:36:23.320 white savior types. That's the kind of patronizing undertone, which you can hardly even call an

00:36:29.580 undertone because they sort of smack you in the face with it. It's so obvious and explicit.

00:36:35.060 But what they're saying is, oh no, we, you know, we can't expect, I'm here arguing, let's have some

00:36:40.660 basic decency. That's all. As I said yesterday, let's have basic decency. I'm not saying that

00:36:46.080 everything on TV has to be appropriate for kids all the time. Obviously not. You turn on premium

00:36:50.500 channels at 10 PM, you turn on HBO or something. I'm not asking for that to be appropriate for kids.

00:36:54.140 Obviously it won't be. Uh, and I'm not even asking that the halftime show be tailored for kids. Okay.

00:37:01.380 I'm not, I'm not, I'm not asking that you have the Wiggles performers. That's the last thing I'd want

00:37:04.700 to say in fact, but just basic decency. Just keep in mind that families are watching and don't go out

00:37:11.640 of your way to be wildly offensive and inappropriate. That's what I'm arguing. And when a white person comes in

00:37:18.260 and says, oh no, we can't expect that, they're a different culture. We can't expect that of them.

00:37:24.180 I cannot think of a more racist sentiment than that. Okay. Let's go to, uh, Paul says,

00:37:33.240 you win the internet. I hate this phrase and all variations of it. It is stupid. Your thoughts.

00:37:39.980 Well, Paul, I got to say you win the internet for that email. I agree with you. Uh, this is just one

00:37:45.460 of dozens of phrases and memes that represent to me, a person's inability to form original thoughts.

00:37:52.540 If you want to communicate to someone that you like what they posted on the internet,

00:37:56.720 instead of using this phrase, which has been used 6 billion times before, just use your own distinct

00:38:02.700 voice and describe how you feel in a way that is not this, this, uh, this cliche. I don't even,

00:38:12.540 what's the point. Like if you're going to comment under something on the internet and say you win

00:38:16.980 the internet, why even say it? What's the point of even saying it? You, you, it's already been said

00:38:24.060 a million times. So this is why under my regime, you win the internet will be a banned phrase along

00:38:30.260 with, um, many other overused internet phrases and jargon, such as you hate to see it. Yikes.

00:38:38.120 Just going to leave this here. Um, sorry, this is happening to you. Said no one ever let that sink

00:38:49.600 in. Hold my beer. Sir, this is a Wendy's. Let's be clear shots fired. I'll take blank for a thousand 0.86

00:38:58.340 Alex full stop. Um, don't at me this period. This didn't age. Well, asking for a friend RT. If you

00:39:09.120 agree, I'll wait big, if true louder for the people in the back. I don't know who, I don't know who needs

00:39:16.560 to hear this, but clap back, uh, bruh, I'm dead. I'm old enough to remember when, okay, boomer,

00:39:27.700 raise your hand. If, uh, delete your account, hard pass, hot take TBH. The thing where people repeat

00:39:38.500 the same phrase over and over in all caps, you can't make this up. And then, so all of those are

00:39:45.320 banned internet phrases now. And then by a mile, my most hated is you're really going to die on this

00:39:52.400 hill. I, I hate that one the most because it's so, it is so incredibly overused and painfully

00:40:00.680 unoriginal, but it's also this, this way of mocking someone for committing the sin of having a conviction

00:40:06.680 of some kind. And it also implies that every opinion somebody expresses is somehow the most

00:40:12.260 important thing in the world to them. And they're taking some kind of last stand to defend it.

00:40:17.560 It is just a boring, bland kind of cynicism where someone expresses an idea and you're just sitting

00:40:23.820 there going basically, yeah, whatever. That, that, that's essentially what it is. Um, because you're

00:40:30.580 going to die on this hill is almost always used specifically for people who share a counterintuitive

00:40:36.720 or original opinion. And it's a way of trying to shut down that opinion, which is the last thing

00:40:42.440 we should be doing. I don't understand people who react so harshly to original ideas. You know,

00:40:47.960 I'm at the point where I don't even care what the original idea is. It doesn't even matter to me.

00:40:53.820 If you, if you can, if you're on the internet or anywhere in life sharing an original opinion,

00:40:59.660 I'm going to, I want to hear you out. I want to hear it. I don't care what it is because I am so

00:41:06.740 sick to death and tired of the same old thing and the same old talking points from everybody all the

00:41:11.820 time about everything. So that, you know, are you really going to die on this hill? I get that all

00:41:19.740 the time as you may, it may not surprise you to learn, especially when I'm talking about some kind

00:41:25.980 of more minor thing. And, uh, and, and, and, uh, it's all, you're going to die on this hill. Well, 0.96

00:41:33.560 according to people, I've died on about 6 million hills and yet I'm still standing. So no, I don't

00:41:39.220 think I'm dying on a hill. I think I'm just expressing a point of view. The other day I made

00:41:45.240 the point, I've made this point plenty of times in the past because it is important that, um, you

00:41:50.640 shouldn't, you shouldn't use ketchup with your fries. That if you're using ketchup with your fries,

00:41:55.260 that's an indication that your fries are not well-seasoned. If you have well-seasoned fries,

00:41:59.540 then ketchup actually, um, dulls the, the seasoning in the fries. And it's, it's, is a,

00:42:05.160 it's, it's not as rich, um, of an experience anymore. And so you shouldn't use fries. Ketchup

00:42:10.360 is really for children. It's not for adults. That's the point I made. And I, someone said,

00:42:14.660 are you going to die on this hill? How am I dying on a hill of ketchup? I'm just saying,

00:42:20.120 this is just my opinion about ketchup. You don't have to care. You don't have to agree.

00:42:25.260 I'm not standing here taking some last desperate stand with my dying breath saying, don't eat

00:42:32.600 ketchup. I wouldn't put it past me to make that the thing I say in my last words. My last words

00:42:38.240 probably will be something petty and stupid like that, but still, that's not really what I'm doing 0.99

00:42:42.100 right now. All right, let's go. One last, uh, email here. This is from Dan. Matt, I think you're 0.98

00:42:49.840 contradicting yourself. You complain at length about the inappropriate halftime show and said,

00:42:53.320 your kids should be able to watch the game with you. But other times I've heard you say

00:42:56.540 of people who complain about your social media content, that they can just unfollow you and

00:43:01.040 about your show that they can just stop listening. So why can't you just stop watching and turn the

00:43:05.580 channel? Why bitch about it? You're really going to die on this hill, Dan? Really? Uh, well, 0.99

00:43:12.520 there are, there are a number of differences, Dan. First of all, I think there's a rather obvious

00:43:18.660 distinction between an expressed opinion, which is all I ever do expressing opinions and something

00:43:25.560 like objectionable sexual content. So your comparison would make sense if I was rather

00:43:32.000 than sharing opinions on my podcast and on social media, if I was sorry to put this image

00:43:36.700 in your head, but if I was stripping on my podcast, um, if I was doing my, my podcast from a stripper

00:43:42.080 poll, uh, and then complaining about JLo at halftime, then maybe you'd have a case, but I'm not. All I'm

00:43:49.960 doing is talking about ideas. Second, actually you wouldn't even have a case even then, even if I was

00:43:56.560 stripping on my podcast, you still wouldn't have a case because my point is that there should be spaces

00:44:01.240 in society that are appropriate for children. I think that a football game, the biggest TV event of

00:44:07.080 the year is such a space or should be, it is such a space because you have to go out of your way,

00:44:13.620 uh, to make it not appropriate to take away that space from children. If you just played the game

00:44:19.420 and had a normal halftime show, it'd be perfectly fine for families and children, but it only becomes

00:44:25.100 inappropriate when you again, go out of your way, way wildly out of your way to make it objectionable.

00:44:32.080 My point is don't do that. Don't do it. It's, it's, it's, it's kind of, it's egregious. It's,

00:44:38.540 it's pointless. I mean, I understand the point. The point is, is, is about rating. So I get that,

00:44:44.260 but that is the point. It's a cynical point, but there's, there's, there's still, I mean,

00:44:51.340 ethically it just, it's, I don't think it's the right decision. They have every right to do it.

00:44:55.400 I'm not saying they don't have a right to, they have a right to do it. I'm saying it's the wrong thing to

00:44:58.720 do. They have a right to it, but it is not the right thing to do. Uh, and when they do,

00:45:04.960 they're taking away this space from kids. Not that kids have a God given right to it. That's not my

00:45:10.860 point. Putting that, the rights aside, I think a football game should be a space for kids and

00:45:16.520 families. That's it. My podcast, on the other hand, should that be a space for kids? I don't see any

00:45:24.600 reason why it needs to be, or should be. There are millions of podcasts out there. You know, you have

00:45:29.080 to go and seek this one out. And if your kid is interested in podcasts, well, they can, uh, they're,

00:45:34.480 they can surely find one that, that, that works for them. Um, it's different from the Superbowl,

00:45:40.240 which is a game broadcast to billions of people at a time. Something that literally the whole world

00:45:45.920 participates in almost at some level. So turning that into a nod, a non-kid friendly space

00:45:54.900 is very different from me turning this little old podcast into a non-kid friendly space.

00:46:03.280 You see the difference between those two things? I'm, I'm flattered by the comparison that you think

00:46:10.240 this podcast is as relevant and pervasive as the Superbowl, but I can assure you that it is not

00:46:17.920 put it mildly and we will leave it there, but thank you for the email. Thanks everybody for

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00:47:04.700 copyright Daily Wire 2020. Chaos ensues in the Iowa caucuses as Democrats

00:47:09.760 fail to tally up the votes. Mayor Cheet Buttigieg declares himself the winner, even though no

00:47:14.420 official votes have come in and he's not polling at the top in a single state. Actually, Bernie Sanders

00:47:18.980 is polling at the top, not just in Iowa, but also in New Hampshire. And he's running second in Nevada

00:47:23.620 and South Carolina, where Joe Biden's firewall is collapsing. We will examine how an unaccomplished

00:47:28.860 communist rose to the top, why party elites are trying to steal the nomination from him again,

00:47:33.360 and how the Democratic Party fell apart. Then, the peerless and pioneering Rush Limbaugh announces a

00:47:39.440 diagnosis of advanced lung cancer. We will see what the reaction to his announcement means for Rush

00:47:45.520 and his enemies. Finally, a lone Democrat turns against impeachment and rich liberal white women 0.91

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