The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 429 - The Biggest Loser

00:00:00.000 Okay, fine. You know what? I'll do it. I'll be the Democratic nominee. I'll take the job. Nobody

00:00:06.340 else seems to want the job, so you've twisted my arm enough, and I'll do it. I'm in. I take it.

00:00:13.260 Now, I know that I don't necessarily check all the boxes ideologically that you need to to be

00:00:20.640 considered a liberal Democrat, but I do have a strong sense of entitlement,

00:00:25.100 and I do, of course, as you know, have a deep desire to control people. And so I think

00:00:29.660 that makes me well-qualified to be the Democratic nominee. And that's not to say that I don't

00:00:34.440 believe in freedom, first of all. That's a myth, you know, that I don't believe in freedom. I just

00:00:38.120 I certainly believe, first and foremost, in my own freedom, and I also believe that everybody else

00:00:45.080 should be free to do the stuff that I want them to do. So again, my conception of freedom is identical

00:00:52.760 to the conception of every Democrat who was on the stage last night, so just give me the job.

00:00:56.400 Now, as for the debate, most people seem to be saying that Bernie Sanders was the big winner

00:01:03.680 of the contest last night. So again, I have to kind of disagree with conventional wisdom.

00:01:12.060 It seems to me that Bernie was the loser, the biggest loser, even bigger than Bloomberg, 0.99

00:01:17.540 who himself was certainly a loser as well. And I want to explain why. First of all, you know, 0.99

00:01:23.940 let's setting the stage as it were. Everyone, of course, was landing shots on Bloomberg. Last night

00:01:29.080 was it was like watching. It was as if someone had thrown a wounded rat into a piranha tank. And

00:01:35.520 that's it was just a free for all, a feeding frenzy on Bloomberg. And you couldn't ask for a greater

00:01:41.120 blessing, really, if you're a Democrat candidate to have this feeble old billionaire degenerate on the 0.97

00:01:47.060 stage with you so you can practice your best anti-billionaire insults. It was they were all 0.95

00:01:51.860 absolutely thrilled to have him because because of that opportunity provided to them. And so it was

00:01:58.840 last night was sort of like watching a training camp for socialist demagogues with Bloomberg acting

00:02:05.960 the part of a tackling dummy. And the crazy thing is that the guy seemed somehow completely blindsided

00:02:14.240 by the treatment he received. Now, I guess that's what happens when you, you know, you've got 60 billion

00:02:20.000 dollars and you surround yourself with yes men and you're paying people to say nice things about you

00:02:26.100 on social media. When you've got that kind of money, nobody around him has the courage to stand up and

00:02:32.500 say, hey, listen, Mr. Bloomberg, these people are going to skin you alive. You are an old white 1.00

00:02:38.800 billionaire. OK, they're going to skin you alive and then roll you around in salt. That's what's going 1.00

00:02:45.200 to happen. So be prepared for that. Nobody said that to Bloomberg. So somehow he was unprepared.

00:02:51.140 He walked in there and managed to come off like he wasn't expecting what happened, which is which

00:02:57.060 is pretty amazing. Probably the roughest moment of the night was this this moment right here. Watch

00:03:04.320 this. In a lawsuit in the 1990s, according to The Washington Post, one former female employee 0.98

00:03:09.260 alleged that you said, quote, I would do you in a second. Should Democrats expect better from their

00:03:14.760 nominee? Let me let me say a couple of things and if I can have my full minute and a quarter. Thank

00:03:20.700 you. I have no tolerance for the kind of behavior that the Me Too movement movement has exposed

00:03:30.180 and anybody that does anything wrong in our company, we investigate it. And if it's appropriate,

00:03:35.860 they're gone that day. But let me tell you what I do in my company and my foundation and in city

00:03:42.840 government when I was there. In my foundation, the person that runs it's a woman, 70% of the people 0.99

00:03:49.080 there are women. In my company, lots and lots of women have big responsibilities. They get paid exactly 1.00

00:03:55.840 the same as men. And in my in city hall, the person that's the top person, my deputy mayor was a woman 1.00

00:04:04.380 and 40% of our commissioners were women. I am very proud of the fact that about two weeks ago,

00:04:11.740 we were awarded, we were voted the most, the best place to work, second best place in America.

00:04:21.360 If that doesn't say something about our employees and how happy they are, I don't know what does.

00:04:27.180 Yeah, you see there, he didn't have a somehow he didn't have a better answer prepared for that

00:04:32.060 question. It took him off guard. And he also didn't have an answer prepared for the other this

00:04:38.900 other line of attack from Elizabeth Warren. I'd like to talk about who we're running against

00:04:43.200 a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse faced lesbians. And no, I'm not talking 0.99

00:04:50.720 about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg. Democrats are not going to win. If we

00:04:58.080 have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and of supporting

00:05:05.560 racist policies like redlining and stop and frisk. Look, I'll support whoever the Democratic nominee

00:05:12.460 is. But understand this, Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire 0.98

00:05:20.440 for another. This country has worked for the rich for a long time and left everyone else in the dirt.

00:05:28.980 It is time to have a president who will be on the side of working families and be willing to get out

00:05:34.940 there and fight for them. That is why I am in this race. And that is how I will beat Donald Trump.

00:05:40.200 Now, I think all of this was made so much worse by the startling contrast between Bloomberg's online

00:05:46.840 persona, the image constructed by his marketing team, and the actual man himself. Anyone who was a

00:05:55.140 supporter of Bloomberg's, however many of those people actually existed, whoever was supporting

00:06:00.300 Bloomberg leading up to the debate, they had to feel like they'd been catfished. He's this,

00:06:04.960 online, he's this kind of irreverent and savvy guy online, or rather his social media team is,

00:06:12.640 or tries to be, oftentimes failing. But that's the image that he's trying to construct of himself.

00:06:19.020 But then in person, he shrinks and shrivels in front of our very eyes. And he's already a pretty

00:06:24.620 short guy, so he doesn't have a lot of room to spare. By the end of the debate, he could barely

00:06:29.700 see over the podium. Bloomberg is basically the embodiment of every loudmouth, tough guy on Twitter

00:06:38.160 who gets all shy when you meet them in person. It was a disaster for him. Now, again, what the image

00:06:45.720 he wants to put off is that he's savvy. He's a tough guy. He's from New York. He always talks about

00:06:53.100 how he's from New York. No nonsense. He just wants to beat Donald Trump. Cranky old bastard kind of

00:07:00.680 thing. And that would be, if he could actually pull that off, if he had taken that tack in the 0.99

00:07:06.060 debate, I think it would work well for him. But instead, he became even worse than shrinking away

00:07:14.200 and having zero charisma and zero personality. He was apologizing all over the place.

00:07:18.680 Apologizing, worst of all, apologizing for, among other things, his number one accomplishment,

00:07:28.640 which was to significantly lower the murder rate and the crime rate in New York. Now, that's a real

00:07:34.600 thing that he did. He didn't do it by himself. He doesn't get all the credit for it, but he did have

00:07:39.020 something to do with it. That's a real accomplishment in governance. And he apologized for that. He backed

00:07:47.780 away from that. He backed away from everything, which is the exact opposite of what he needed to

00:07:51.680 do. The attitude he needed to have was, listen, guys. Yeah, you know what? I'm rich. Okay. I'm

00:08:02.760 inappropriate. I get all of that. Okay. Maybe I'm not very palatable to your sensibilities,

00:08:11.440 but look at Donald Trump. I'm exactly the kind of guy you need to go up against Donald Trump.

00:08:16.400 That's the selling, his only selling point if he has one, but that's not what he went with. Instead,

00:08:22.420 he just groveled and apologized and tried to get into a woke off, a woke contest with the socialists

00:08:31.400 on stage. And it didn't work out. But as I said, I think that Bernie is the one who lost the debate,

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00:10:32.700 lost the debate, even though it was a disaster for Bloomberg as well. Here's the moment where

00:10:38.500 Sanders lost it right here.

00:10:40.480 The question was about socialism.

00:10:42.660 What a wonderful country we have. The best known socialists in the country happens to be a

00:10:46.640 millionaire with three houses. What'd I miss here?

00:10:49.520 Well, you'll miss that. I work in Washington, house one.

00:10:52.960 That's the first problem.

00:10:54.000 Live in Burlington, house two.

00:10:55.740 That's good.

00:10:56.340 And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp.

00:10:59.260 Forgive me for that. Where is your home? Which tax haven do you have your home?

00:11:04.360 New York City. Thank you very much. And I pay all my taxes.

00:11:08.320 Now, first of all, it's pretty amazing that Sanders has done so many of these debates.

00:11:13.320 And this is the first time to my memory that anyone has hit him for being a communist with

00:11:17.400 a million bucks in the bank and three houses. Now he gets hit for that all the time among

00:11:23.500 conservatives, on Fox News and on Twitter and everything. But to his face at a debate,

00:11:28.580 is the first time I can think of that someone has brought that up.

00:11:32.140 And the guy who finally attacked him for it has about 20 houses himself at a minimum.

00:11:37.660 So it took a billionaire to point out that the socialist who hates rich people is a rich

00:11:41.520 person himself. But here's the significance of this moment. Remember, everybody in the debate,

00:11:48.900 everybody on stage, landing punches on Bloomberg, left and right, taking turns at the pinata.

00:11:54.960 No blindfold, right? Just a metal bat and the pinata and they're whacking it. And there's

00:12:01.020 Tootsie Rolls and Jolly Ranchers flying all over the place. But then it's Bernie's turn at the pinata.

00:12:07.100 And instead, the pinata grabs the bat out of his hand and whacks him. He got beat by the pinata.

00:12:13.720 Bernie was the only one on the stage who got whacked by Bloomberg.

00:12:16.220 He was the only one that Bloomberg was able to land a blow on. And if I'm a Bernie fan, that makes

00:12:24.920 me pretty uncomfortable. That my candidate is so vulnerable and susceptible that Michael Bloomberg

00:12:32.380 was able to have a moment like that. Now, why did the attack work from Bloomberg?

00:12:39.220 Um, why was Sanders the one guy that even Bloomberg with his total lack of charisma and personality was

00:12:47.400 able to nail? Because Sanders is an extraordinarily weak candidate whose hypocrisy and inconsistency is 0.99

00:12:55.160 hanging there in the open, just waiting to be used against him. He is a, he's a, he's a millionaire 1.00

00:13:01.080 socialist. That's, that's all you need to say.

00:13:05.440 And again, Bloomberg is the first guy to bring this up in a debate.

00:13:11.080 You think Donald Trump will be shy about bringing that up?

00:13:15.160 I would predict that's going to be one of the only things that that's just going to be the

00:13:18.640 refrain over and over. We're going to keep going back to that.

00:13:23.440 And consider how weak, uh, Bernie's rejoinder was speaking of being unprepared for a really

00:13:29.960 obvious line of attack. Now, at least in Bernie's case, he was unprepared because no one's brought

00:13:34.720 it up before. Um, but he explains the three homes by, by calling his $600,000 vacation home, a summer

00:13:44.440 camp. Now, Bernie, I've been camping. Okay. That ain't camping. That's not any kind of camping I've

00:13:53.360 ever heard of. A $600,000 lakefront vacation home, which is your third home. That's not camping.

00:14:02.580 So Bernie didn't do himself any favors there. And he didn't do himself any favors here either. Watch.

00:14:07.300 Mayor Bloomberg, you own a large company. Would you support what Senator Sanders is proposing?

00:14:11.560 Absolutely not. I can't think of a ways that would make it easier for Donald Trump to get

00:14:16.060 reelected than listening to this conversation. It's ridiculous. We're not going to throw out 0.99

00:14:22.860 capitalism. We tried that. Other countries tried that. It was called communism and it just didn't

00:14:27.940 work. That was very telling. That moment there is a small moment. I don't know. It seems like

00:14:32.820 people missed it, but Bloomberg mentions communism in a negative light. He besmirches the name of

00:14:39.520 communism and Bernie and Warren get very upset. They start raising it. Whoa. Did you hear that?

00:14:45.580 That was actually Warren's reaction. Whoa. Hey, hey, come on. Leave communism out of this.

00:14:55.800 Communism never hurt anybody except for a hundred million people that it killed.

00:14:59.600 Never hurt anyone except for those.

00:15:01.160 Last thing from the debate that I want to mention is this moment from Bernie Sanders.

00:15:10.740 If speaking to the needs and the pain of a long neglected working class is polarizing,

00:15:18.300 I think you got the wrong word. What we are trying finally to do is to give a voice to people

00:15:26.520 who, after 45 years of work, are not making a nickel more than they did 45 years ago.

00:15:34.000 We are giving a voice to people who are saying we are sick and tired of billionaires like Mr.

00:15:38.680 Bloomberg seeing huge expansions of their wealth while a half a million people sleep out on the street

00:15:45.720 tonight. And that's what we are saying, Pete, is maybe it's a time for the working class of this 1.00

00:15:51.240 country to have a little bit of power in Washington rather than your billionaire campaign contributors. 0.95

00:15:57.800 Did you catch that? Bernie says there are people who've been working for 45 years

00:16:03.500 and don't make a nickel more today than they did 45 years ago.

00:16:07.960 Who? What? Who? Who? Who exactly? I'm going to need some specific examples. I'm going to need you

00:16:15.000 to provide specific examples of people who have been, I mean, find me any adult. Find me one adult

00:16:21.160 in this country who's been working for 45 years, for half a century, and is still making the same

00:16:27.280 amount today that he made, that this person made 50 years ago. Can you find me just one example of

00:16:33.760 somebody in that camp? Now, even if I'm generous and I allow for the possibility that Bernie meant

00:16:40.860 that they don't make a nickel more than they did 45 years ago when adjusted for inflation,

00:16:47.200 that would still be BS. Because a person who made $5 an hour in 1975, 45 years ago, would make $24

00:16:58.240 an hour today, adjusted for inflation. So you're telling me there are people who've worked jobs all

00:17:04.600 that time for half a century, and all they've gotten is inflation-adjusted raises, no actual

00:17:14.200 real raises in 45 years. But this is what Democrats do. I mean, rather than just sticking with reality,

00:17:27.940 because in reality, of course, there are people, now, I don't think there's anybody who's been

00:17:32.300 working for 45 years and hasn't gotten a raise. I mean, imagine that, that'd be like, you know,

00:17:38.440 you've got someone who's 60, working since 15, hasn't gotten a raise since the age of 15.

00:17:51.280 I don't think there's anybody like that. But there are plenty of people who are struggling financially.

00:17:55.280 So you just say that. That's all you have to say. There are people who are struggling financially.

00:18:00.480 We would all agree.

00:18:05.380 It's just like when we talk about the minimum wage. There are people who are on the minimum wage and

00:18:10.180 are struggling. Okay, yeah, I agree with that. It doesn't mean I agree that the government needs

00:18:14.140 to solve that problem or can solve it without creating more problems and creating those problems

00:18:19.420 for the very people that's trying to help. But you could say that there are people who are struggling

00:18:24.040 on minimum wage. That's true. The issue is when you start pretending that, for example,

00:18:29.660 there are people who, you know, mothers who have been working minimum wage for 10 years, you know,

00:18:37.100 and haven't been able to get over, haven't been able to get over even that hump of minimum wage,

00:18:41.640 like that kind of thing. It's just, it's not necessary to lie like that. But that's what,

00:18:48.960 that's what Bernie Sanders does. And that's another reason why he'll, he's so vulnerable and would be so

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00:20:47.660 Two interesting items here that we will look at together. Uh, the first is another question sent

00:20:54.400 into Slate's advice column. The headline here is my wife wants to have sex with her brother. 1.00

00:21:01.220 I'm not opposed in principle. I'm not opposed in principle. That's the question. 0.99

00:21:10.540 Now I'm not going to read the actual thing. I don't think you need the nitty gritty details here.

00:21:15.420 Suffice it to say that this guy's in an open marriage with his wife and, um, meaning that they

00:21:21.040 both have sexual relations with other people. And his wife suggested happily one night that

00:21:26.360 maybe they should have a threesome with her brother. And the husband says that this is an

00:21:32.080 uncomfortable direction for them to go, but he has no real philosophical objection to it.

00:21:37.420 In fact, his main concern is, is that it'll make his relationship with his brother-in-law awkward.

00:21:42.160 That's the main thing he's worried about. Now credit to our intrepid advice columnist in this case

00:21:47.700 though, because he does get around to the right conclusion. He says at the end, and this is sage advice

00:21:52.000 for everybody. He says, I don't think you should do anything that makes you uncomfortable, particularly

00:21:56.200 if it involves having sex with your wife and her brother. I mean, that's the kind of advice you can 1.00

00:22:00.740 live by, frankly. I mean, I, I, I can find no, nothing to criticize in that advice. Of course,

00:22:06.360 the reason that Slate takes questions like this and puts them in articles and in headlines and stuff

00:22:11.480 is that people notice them and react and react in the same way, which is revulsion across the board,

00:22:18.600 across the board, revulsion. But we have to ask why, right? I mean, what exactly is the problem

00:22:27.600 with an arrangement like this? If the husband were to agree, it would be something between

00:22:33.620 consenting adults. And isn't that all that matters? See, we no longer have the language in this culture

00:22:43.320 to explain why something like this is wrong, though. We know it is. I mean, everybody does.

00:22:50.240 We know that inherently and we don't have the language because we otherwise insist that the

00:22:56.200 only ethical boundary for sex, the only rule that must be followed is consent. We we've gotten used to

00:23:03.860 excusing anything on the basis of consent, but then, so we've, we've stripped away all the rules of

00:23:10.500 sex, all the, all the ethical guidelines, all the considerations that you're supposed to take

00:23:16.160 into account before having a sexual relationship with somebody. We, we, we've stripped all that away

00:23:21.140 and we've boiled it down only to consent. It's the only thing that matters. Whereas in the past,

00:23:28.200 I mean, consent mattered, but then there were also other things too that you should take into account.

00:23:33.800 The problem though, that we, we, we've discovered is that, well, it's actually not all about consent.

00:23:42.680 Consent is, is, is not the only thing there are, you know, it is possible. It turns out to have a

00:23:48.580 consensual sexual relationship between adults. That's still wrong. Here's an example, but we don't

00:23:57.280 have the language. We don't have the language for explaining, um, what it is. You know, when we, when

00:24:03.420 we see it or when we hear about a sexual, hopefully we don't see it. When we hear about a sexual

00:24:07.720 relationship between consenting adults that we still, that we know is wrong, you know, we know that it,

00:24:14.020 it lacks something that it should have, or it has something that it shouldn't. But what is that thing?

00:24:20.300 Well, I know what it is. You, you know what it is, hopefully, but it's something with implications

00:24:28.160 that our culture finds dangerous. And that's what leads to this kind of confusion. Um, and that thing

00:24:34.100 is, you know, the, the, the, I think the word that we're, people in our culture are struggling to

00:24:39.160 avoid or, or, or don't understand is that it's disordered. This is a relationship that is disordered.

00:24:45.520 It is outside the proper order of things. That's what disordered means. Why would it be wrong for

00:24:54.180 this husband and wife to have sex with the wife's brother? Because that's not what you do with your 0.88

00:24:59.100 brother. This is not how the relationship is supposed to work. We all know that's the answer.

00:25:05.380 We all agree, or almost all of us hopefully agree. Yeah. We don't like the answer because it

00:25:11.360 introduces the concept of proper order to human sexuality. And, and that we're afraid might be a

00:25:18.980 knife that cuts deeper than we want it to. We're okay with it, with, with, with taking that knife

00:25:24.380 and carving out these really perverse things out on the peripheral of human experience and human

00:25:30.220 sexuality. We're okay with getting rid of that stuff, but what if it keeps cutting? We worry what

00:25:35.380 then. So most leftists will not say that this relationship described in the letter is, it's a

00:25:42.880 slate is disordered. That's not the word they're going to use. That's not the language they're going

00:25:47.820 to use, but then what word will they use? What can they say? That's the point. There's nothing.

00:25:55.340 They, they know it's wrong, but they have no way of explaining why it's wrong.

00:25:59.580 Another example, uh, Utah is moving towards decriminalizing polygamy according to the Salt

00:26:08.580 Lake Tribune. Well, what exactly is the argument against that? I can think of a few, but none that

00:26:18.060 are consistent with the, whatever consenting adults do is okay. Ethic. This is the whole point of the,

00:26:25.100 of the slippery slope argument that people have made, um, when it comes to human sexuality and

00:26:30.640 marriage and opening up the death, the definition of marriage. And this is why, by the way,

00:26:37.820 the slippery slope argument is not a fallacy. So when you make a, an argument, slippery slope

00:26:43.640 argument and someone says, Oh, that's a, that's a fallacy. It's a slippery slope. No. Number one,

00:26:49.060 this thing that people do online is sort of a side issue, but this thing people do online where they,

00:26:52.920 they try to rebut your argument just by labeling, uh, labeling it a certain fallacy. They call it the

00:26:59.800 whatever X, Y, Z fallacy. And then they move on as if they've, as if that in itself suffices as a

00:27:06.280 response. It's not, um, there is nothing in itself fallacious about making a slippery slope argument.

00:27:13.520 The whole point of the slippery slope argument is to say, listen, um, you are justifying a certain

00:27:23.120 thing, certain behavior, a certain act, whatever. And you're using certain arguments to justify it.

00:27:33.460 Now here's the problem. What if I can take that argument fully intact and use it to justify

00:27:42.400 something over here that we both agree is wrong? Isn't that an issue? See, what that would seem to

00:27:51.980 tell us is that either there's something wrong with your argument or there's something wrong with the

00:27:57.480 thing that you're trying to justify, or maybe that this thing over here is actually okay too.

00:28:05.160 But it's going to be one of those options. And now we got to figure out which one it is.

00:28:09.240 As far as I can see it, that's the point of the slippery slope argument.

00:28:15.680 And so when people said things like, well, it's only, all that matters is what consenting adults do.

00:28:20.720 Love is love. So on and so forth.

00:28:24.760 You know, people who were trying to protect the quote unquote traditional definition of marriage.

00:28:30.120 marriage, the point we were making is, okay, but we, that argument can clearly be used.

00:28:38.500 I can take that argument fully intact and clearly use it to justify this stuff over here that even

00:28:45.960 you think is wrong. That means that there's an issue here.

00:28:51.140 And if you're not willing to argue that these things over here are wrong, then there's only two

00:28:58.780 possible conclusions left. There's something wrong with your argument or there's something wrong with

00:29:02.820 the thing you're justifying. That's what we've discovered.

00:29:07.660 It turns out at a minimum, um, love is love and, you know, whatever consenting adults do, those are bad

00:29:19.440 arguments at a minimum. I don't see any way around that. All right, let's, um, before we wrap up here,

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00:30:36.880 my, my dear friend, uh, AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on my favorite show. Um, the view really great

00:30:45.440 to have your two favorite things together in that way. And she was surprisingly talking about the, um,

00:30:51.620 evil rich men. Pretty shocking from her to hear that kind of rhetoric. She's very rare sort of 1.00

00:30:57.280 rhetoric from AOC. Usually she'd be the last person on earth to demonize someone for their income. 1.00

00:31:03.080 So this is not the AOC that I know. Anyway, listen to what she had to say.

00:31:07.560 Our entire political system revolves, frankly, around rich men and rich men are not the center

00:31:16.760 of my universe. Working families are. And now, now, wait, hang on a second here. The system revolves 1.00

00:31:28.720 around rich men, but they aren't the center of her universe. Well then what is this all about?

00:31:36.620 It wasn't until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders, that I began to question and assert

00:31:48.720 and recognize my inherent value as a human being that deserves healthcare, housing, education,

00:31:59.400 and a living wage. I could be crazy, but it sounds like AOC there is saying that a rich white

00:32:06.520 man taught her about her value as a human being. She learned that she has a value as a person from

00:32:11.860 a rich white man. Yet rich white men aren't the center of her universe. It sounds like they

00:32:16.400 definitely are. At least one of them is. And she also said, as usual, that billionaires should not

00:32:23.360 exist. I don't think that in a place where 60% of Americans can't even, you know, make more than

00:32:30.560 $40,000 a year, that the presence of a billionaire who largely makes their money off of businesses

00:32:35.620 underpaying their workers like Walmart, like Amazon, like so on should exist.

00:32:40.960 Bernie said the same thing last night at the debate. And I have to tell you, I will never

00:32:45.760 quite get used to hearing agents of the state say that certain types of people shouldn't exist.

00:32:52.320 I will, I don't think it's, I'll never get used to it. It creeps me out to put it mildly. But here's

00:32:59.320 my question for Bernie and AOC and everybody in their camp. First of all, if billionaires don't

00:33:06.120 exist, who's going to pay for all the socialist programs? Where's that money coming from?

00:33:12.580 On one hand, you say they shouldn't exist. And on the other hand, you say that they should pay to

00:33:16.080 reimburse everybody's student loans, along with a dozen other things you want them to do and pay for

00:33:22.380 it. So which is it? Because if they don't exist, they can't pay for that stuff.

00:33:28.660 And then who's going to pay for it? Who would pay for it then?

00:33:34.360 Second, what do you think happens to those 60% of Americans that AOC mentioned? 60% who,

00:33:42.520 you know, are whatever she said, are making 40 or 50 grand or less a year.

00:33:48.880 What happens to them when their bosses, the people who own the companies they work for,

00:33:54.420 suffer massive losses in income or disappear? I mean, I don't know what, when you say

00:34:00.240 billionaires shouldn't exist, do you want to just kill these people? I mean, what do you want to do? 0.84

00:34:04.760 You want to shoot them into the sun? What's your plan exactly? But let's take the less violent 0.93

00:34:10.740 approach and assume that you mean, well, we're going to stop them from being billionaires by just

00:34:15.900 taking almost all their money. Okay. Well, what happens then? What happens to their companies?

00:34:24.060 What happens to all their employees? Have you thought about this? Have you thought this through at all?

00:34:30.780 No, of course you haven't, because this is just childishness. That's a lot worse than childishness

00:34:40.480 because it's coming from adults who also are in government and have power. So I wish it was

00:34:45.920 merely childishness. But it's, that's, that's about as, as, you know, in terms of the, the intellectual

00:34:55.160 complexity of what we're dealing with, that's, that's it. It's, this is, this is the mentality

00:35:00.380 of a child saying they have a billion dollars. I don't have it. That's unfair. They shouldn't have

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 20, 2020

Ep. 429 - The Biggest Loser

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