The Matt Walsh Show - February 26, 2020


Ep. 433 - Billionaires And Millionaires Gather For A Debate


Episode Stats

Length

41 minutes

Words per Minute

172.84068

Word Count

7,218

Sentence Count

494

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

On this blessed Ash Wednesday, we'll run down and review the Democratic Debates, which were an embarrassment in many ways, as it always is for the Democratic Party, but that fortunately makes it hilarious for everybody else. Until you remember that these people want to control the country and then it becomes sad. Also, Democrats blocked a bill that would have guaranteed those born after botched abortions at least basic medical care.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the show, friends, neighbors, chums, cronies. On this blessed Ash Wednesday,
00:00:06.620 today we'll run down and review the Democratic debate which happened last night. And in many
00:00:10.800 ways and for many reasons, it was an embarrassment, as it always is for the Democratic Party.
00:00:15.620 But that fortunately makes it hilarious for everybody else. Hilarious until you remember
00:00:20.620 that these people want to control the country and then it becomes sad. So it's, you know,
00:00:27.100 embarrassing, hilarious sad. It's kind of a roller coaster emotional journey when you watch these
00:00:30.820 debates. Also, speaking of the Democratic Party and embarrassments, they yesterday blocked a bill
00:00:36.380 that would have prevented clinics and hospitals from leaving babies born after botched abortions to
00:00:42.900 die. The bill would have guaranteed those born children at least basic medical care. Well,
00:00:48.780 Democrats blocked that and said, no, it's better to just let the children die. So we have to talk
00:00:53.660 about that as the Democratic Party again reveals itself to be the party of evil. We'll discuss
00:00:58.660 that. Also, five other news headlines worth knowing about. Plus, today I have the distinct honor of
00:01:03.580 canceling The New Yorker. I'm going to officially cancel The New Yorker and I'll explain why.
00:01:07.660 First, a reminder that my book, Church of Cowards, officially went on sale yesterday. You can get it
00:01:13.360 now. The response to the book so far has been very encouraging and I appreciate everyone who's
00:01:18.360 bought the book so far and reached out to me about it. If I were to sum up the point of the book in
00:01:24.580 three sentences or less, well, I guess the point is really just right there in the title. This is about
00:01:29.600 a wake-up call to complacent Christians. But really, what I'm calling for in the book is for the revival
00:01:36.340 of Christianity's fighting spirit because ours is a warrior faith, or at least that's what it's
00:01:43.980 supposed to be. That's what it has been historically. That's our heritage. And maybe we are not called
00:01:51.100 to a physical fight, at least in this region of the world these days, but we are called to a
00:01:56.580 spiritual fight, a moral fight. We can't shrink away from that. And we have been, though, for many
00:02:01.520 decades now. And that's why I wrote the book. And that was more than three sentences, I suppose,
00:02:06.160 but you can go to Amazon and buy it now. So please do that. All right. Debate last night.
00:02:10.920 I suppose on this day of repentance, it makes sense to start with the democratic debate as
00:02:18.800 watching it for me was an act of penance. Overall impressions right out of the gate,
00:02:24.700 a rather catastrophic night for the democratic party. Let's begin with the optics. Okay. Let's
00:02:30.340 think about this. This is a debate for the democratic nomination. And that is supposed to be, we're told,
00:02:38.240 the progressive party, the enlightened party, the party of inclusion, the party of, of diversity.
00:02:45.280 Well, who was on stage last night? Two billionaires, two billionaires, not just one,
00:02:51.520 two in the democratic debate, uh, three millionaires, three men over 70, only one person under 50,
00:02:59.120 all white people, no minorities. That was the debate. So old white folks, almost exclusively.
00:03:08.240 That's a, and mostly men. So that's what the democratic party has to offer. Their field is
00:03:13.980 at this point, what they accuse the Republican party of being. That's exactly what they are.
00:03:21.020 Other impressions. First of all, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, uh, it concerns me that every time I
00:03:28.760 watch one of these debates, or I, I, I watched them giving a speech for as long as I can tolerate it.
00:03:34.560 What, what, what, what, what, it seems clear to me that they are not capable of saying anything
00:03:39.860 or answering any question, um, without screaming everything they say. Have you noticed that everything
00:03:47.500 they say they're screaming? I'm not sure I've ever heard either one of them say anything in a normal
00:03:53.280 inside voice. So I was imagining last night, like how it must sound when, when Biden goes to like
00:04:00.740 order a pizza, a pizza hut. You know, the guy says, hi, welcome to pizza hut. Uh, can I take your
00:04:06.160 order? Listen, the fact of the matter is that I need a pepperoni pizza. Why are you screaming?
00:04:13.060 Let's be clear about this. I'm serious. Let's be clear. Barack and I had pizza every night. I invented
00:04:18.860 pizza. I passed the legislation that makes it possible for you people to eat pizza. I'm serious.
00:04:24.900 That's, that's, that's Joe Biden's answer to every single question. Let's be clear. I'm serious.
00:04:32.960 Barack, listen, and the fact of the matter, that's every, it's just, it's a combination of those words
00:04:39.640 screamed. Uh, and of course, in Bernie's case, not only does he scream every answer, but he's also
00:04:45.840 incapable of uttering a sentence that doesn't include the word billionaire. Uh, now he, now he used to have a
00:04:52.680 lot more range in his vocabulary because he used to talk about millionaires and billionaires.
00:04:58.300 So he used to have two words he could say, but then he became a millionaire. And so he doesn't
00:05:03.220 want to rail against millionaires anymore because he is one. Uh, and, and so now it's just being now
00:05:07.440 he's, now he's limited to just one word. His method of arguing is to accuse anyone who disagrees with
00:05:12.920 him of being a billionaire, which is very similar to the general sort of left-wing method of arguing
00:05:18.460 where normally they accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being a Nazi. Um, now Bernie's not,
00:05:23.880 you know, not opposed to, to, to using that method, but he prefers for him to be a billionaire
00:05:28.800 is worse than being a Nazi. So his comeback to everything always is, oh yeah, did, did the
00:05:35.900 billionaires pay you to say that? And then he waits for the applause. Although last night it was
00:05:41.200 interesting that the audience seemed to be stacked against him. So every time he went for the
00:05:45.180 billionaire, uh, comeback, the billionaire diss, it, it, it solicited booze in the audience,
00:05:52.260 which was interesting, but probably my favorite thing from Bernie last night, um, was when he
00:06:00.820 attempted to reach out to minority communities by promising to help them sell drugs. And that really
00:06:10.120 did happen. That's, that's something that he really did. And we'll play that clip for you in just a
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00:07:26.360 the parts available for your car or truck. That's rock auto.com right. Walsh in there. How did you hear
00:07:32.940 about us box so that they know that, uh, I sent you? All right. So Bernie Sanders, uh, was, was trying
00:07:41.120 to appeal to minority communities and, and, uh, his attempt to appeal to them was by promising
00:07:46.600 that he would help them sell drugs. Listen to this. And I'll tell you what else we're going to do.
00:07:52.600 We're going to provide help to the African American, Latino, native American community to start
00:07:57.920 businesses to sell legal marijuana rather than let a few corporations control the legalized
00:08:06.040 marijuana market. Yes, that is, that's Bernie's, uh, minority outreach. He's going to, he's going to
00:08:12.000 let them sell their drugs now. Okay. I know the Democrats get the advantage of a double standard
00:08:19.920 on racial issues and on all other issues, of course, but how is that not the most racist thing
00:08:26.180 that any candidate has said through this entire election cycle and beyond that that's when he,
00:08:33.780 when he thinks of, of helping, you know, young, uh, black people and, and, and Hispanics that,
00:08:39.240 uh, Asian Americans, this is what, this is what comes to mind.
00:08:45.080 This would be like, if he said he wanted to help the Irish American community, he has a great plan
00:08:50.940 for helping them. And, and it is, he's going to offer half off discounts on all whiskey. That's his
00:08:55.000 plan to reach out to Irish Americans, which as an Irish American, I would very much appreciate that,
00:08:59.660 especially as I'm, you know, we're trying to stock up all the necessary provisions for the
00:09:02.940 coronavirus. And it's very important by the way that you're prepared for that and you have all
00:09:06.200 the whiskey you're going to need to get through it in case there is any disruptions in the, in the
00:09:09.760 supply chain of, of whiskey, or if you can't get to the store. But, uh, so I would appreciate that,
00:09:13.780 but still, I mean, it's, it, we can't deny it's pretty demeaning, but of course the gaffe that
00:09:17.960 everyone is talking about tonight is, uh, or today is, is Biden making a rather startling claim
00:09:24.460 about gun violence. Listen to this, but my friend and my right and others have in fact
00:09:30.140 also given to the gun manufacturers, absolute immunity. Imagine if I stood here and said,
00:09:36.880 we give immunity to drug companies. We give immunity to tobacco companies. That has caused
00:09:41.300 carnage on our streets. 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt
00:09:50.060 the gun manufacturers from liability. More than all the wars, including Vietnam from that point on
00:09:56.960 carnage on our street. And I want to tell you if I'm elected and I'm coming for you and gun
00:10:02.280 manufacturers, I'm going to take you on and I'm going to beat you. 150 million people
00:10:08.400 have died from gun violence in the past 13 years. That was the claim. 150 million people. That's,
00:10:14.600 that's half of the U S population. So what I learned last night is that half of the U S population
00:10:19.380 is currently dead from gun violence, which I guess the, the bright side of that, I mean,
00:10:26.980 if there can be a bright side to 150 million people dying, the bright side is that now fewer people will
00:10:32.540 die from climate change. So when climate change kills us all in 10 years or nine years or whatever it is,
00:10:37.100 uh, now there's just the devastation will in some ways be lessened by the fact that most of us will
00:10:45.600 have already died from being shot. So, I mean, I look, I'm trying to find a silver lining around
00:10:51.080 that cloud. Uh, and that's the best I could do. Now, uh, Elizabeth Warren, here's something that stood
00:10:58.720 out to me. Uh, she, she launched into an attack on Bloomberg and this seems to be her main focus
00:11:06.160 is attacking Bloomberg for some reason, even though Bloomberg hasn't won, hasn't even contested.
00:11:11.940 It hasn't even been in the contest yet for any of the, any of the primaries up to this point.
00:11:16.400 Um, but she's very focused on Bloomberg, but there, there's something about this,
00:11:21.360 this moment that really stood out to me. Watch, watch this.
00:11:23.320 You know, this is personal for me. When I was 21 years old, I got my first job as a special
00:11:28.780 education teacher. I love that job. And by the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant.
00:11:36.220 The principal wished me luck and gave my job to someone else. Pregnancy discrimination,
00:11:43.240 you bet. But I was 21 years old. I didn't have a union to protect me and I didn't have any federal
00:11:48.300 law on my side. So I packed up my stuff and I went home. At least I didn't have a boss who said
00:11:55.920 to me, kill it the way that mayor Bloomberg never said that I've said to one of his pregnant employees.
00:12:04.040 Okay. Now, of course the story she's telling there about pregnancy discrimination is bogus.
00:12:08.820 Of course it's been debunked like almost everything else. She says she's a pathological liar. She can't
00:12:14.940 help herself. She lies. It's a compulsion. She can't, she can't stop herself from doing it. She
00:12:20.580 lies like she breathes, but that's not, that's not the part that was interesting to me. At the end of
00:12:24.880 the clip there, she accuses Bloomberg of telling a pregnant mother to kill it, being the baby. Now,
00:12:29.980 I don't know if Bloomberg said that or not. He denies it. Who knows? It sounds a little far-fetched,
00:12:36.060 but, but maybe he said it. That's not the point. Here's my question. Why does she have a problem?
00:12:42.380 Warren, that is, with somebody suggesting that a woman kill her baby? Warren is radically pro-abortion.
00:12:50.220 In fact, radically pro-infanticide, as we'll talk about in a few minutes. From her perspective,
00:12:56.260 the baby is not human, has no right to life, has no dignity, has no moral value, has no value of any
00:13:03.440 kind. Why shouldn't Bloomberg say kill it? What's the problem? What exactly is the issue? I mean,
00:13:08.860 you know, I know what the problem is, of course. Hopefully you know what the problem is. But then
00:13:14.780 again, I'm against killing babies in general. So of course I can be against that, about against what
00:13:20.340 he said, allegedly. But Warren is in favor of it. Not just in favor of it, but she believes that
00:13:26.780 killing babies is not just that it's okay, but that it's a liberating act. It's a, it's a, it's an
00:13:32.320 expression of a woman's autonomy and independence. So all Bloomberg was really suggesting is that a,
00:13:39.880 what is that this woman express her autonomy and independence. He didn't say kill it. He said,
00:13:44.880 express your autonomy. It was empowering. It was a, it was an empowering encouragement to this woman.
00:13:52.220 Um, not to be enslaved by the, the subhuman parasite in her body. From Warren's perspective,
00:14:02.540 that's what it was. See, but it's, it's hard to be consistent, to be intellectually consistent
00:14:08.560 when you're pro-abortion, because it means that you have no basis, no reason to get upset about
00:14:14.760 something like what Bloomberg is alleged to have said. But at the same time, you know that what he said,
00:14:20.780 allegedly, is cruel and awful. So you want to be against it. You want to be outraged by it,
00:14:28.780 but you can't be. Because to be outraged by it is to admit that killing babies is a moral outrage,
00:14:36.260 which is exactly what you cannot admit. Uh, speaking of morally outrageous,
00:14:44.100 Bernie Sanders last night was again stumbling and bumbling around trying to justify all their,
00:14:49.900 of the very nice and admiring things that he said about communist regimes, like the one in Cuba,
00:14:54.560 uh, or the one that was in, uh, uh, communist or Soviet Russia. So I want to play a clip for you,
00:15:00.980 uh, not from last night, but from the night before at a town hall on CNN, where he's again,
00:15:08.220 going into the wonders of, of communist governments. Uh, and then we'll talk about it. Watch this.
00:15:13.260 The response was when Fidel Castro first came to power, which was when 59,
00:15:18.520 59, 60. Okay. You know what he did? He initiated a major literacy program. It was a lot of,
00:15:25.140 uh, a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who are literate. And he formed the literacy brigade.
00:15:31.500 You may read that. He went out and they helped people learn to read and write. You know what?
00:15:37.700 I think teaching people to read and write is a good thing. I have been extremely consistent and critical
00:15:46.180 of all authoritarian regimes all over the world, including Cuba, including Nicaragua,
00:15:53.800 including Saudi Arabia, including China, including Russia. I happen to believe in democracy, not
00:16:01.180 authoritarianism, but you know, you can't say China is another example. All right. China is an
00:16:06.080 authoritarian country becoming more and more authoritarian, but can anyone deny? I mean,
00:16:11.680 the facts are clear that they have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any country in
00:16:16.280 history. Do I get criticized because I say that that's the truth. So that is the fact and the
00:16:22.380 discussion. So end of discussion, he says, not really, we will discuss what he said in a moment,
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00:18:05.400 Okay. So Bernie extolling the virtues of communist regimes. First of all, those literacy programs,
00:18:12.080 so-called, were really re-education programs. But even if Castro did help people be more literate,
00:18:20.120 he also locked political dissidents in prison. He executed people who opposed him. He starved his
00:18:25.600 own people. It was tyranny. It was oppression. So saying, yeah, but literacy, it is no different.
00:18:31.720 It's no different at all than saying, yeah, but they had good policies protecting animal rights in
00:18:36.460 reference to Nazi Germany, which in fact the Nazis did. They were very much into animal welfare,
00:18:44.040 not so much into human welfare, but they loved animals at least. But of course, making that
00:18:48.700 argument would sound morally obtuse in the extreme. This is the same thing. Here's what I would
00:18:55.620 recommend. I'm going to talk more about this tomorrow because I want to move on from politics
00:19:00.800 right now. But, but tomorrow or the next day, I want to, we'll get more into this. What I'll say
00:19:06.080 for now is, um, I know I have a book out and I'm urging you to read it. Uh, so I don't want to give
00:19:12.120 you too many things to read, but my book is not that long. So you can get through that. Once you do
00:19:17.100 that, my next suggestion is to get a book that's a lot longer. Uh, it's called Gulag Archipelago by
00:19:23.860 Soljan Easton. It's three volumes. Each volume is probably about 900 pages or so. Start with the
00:19:30.060 first volume. Read that at least. This should be required reading for kids in high school. Uh,
00:19:37.080 and it should be required reading for everybody. If you want to know what communism is, what it's
00:19:44.180 really like, if you want to know what the real cost is for all the wonderful literacy programs and
00:19:50.580 everything else, all the, all the supposedly good things that communism allegedly brings,
00:19:54.620 then read this book. A book that of course was banned in Soviet Russia. So, so much for literacy.
00:20:01.840 Um, the book is Soljan Easton's history of the Soviet labor camp system. He intertwines his own
00:20:07.800 experience in it because he was sent to the labor camps. Uh, so it's his own story. It's sort of a
00:20:13.720 memoir slash general history of, um, of, of Soviet Russia and the labor camp system. And it's gripping,
00:20:21.260 it's absorbing, it's fascinating, it's brutal to read. And it's important, especially now as America
00:20:27.440 threatens to elect a communist president. Um, by the way, do you know why Soljan Easton went to prison?
00:20:35.400 Because he fought in World War II for the Soviets. He was Russian. And, uh, Stalin had a system back then
00:20:42.940 of, of sending many of the boys who, who, who, and they were boys, a lot of them young, you know,
00:20:48.040 younger than 18, uh, who, who were off fighting the war. And, and, and these were the guys who had
00:20:54.520 seen some of the, the most brutal and, and bloodiest, some of the worst fighting in the war.
00:21:00.820 Um, after they'd gone through that, uh, for the sake of their country, their thank you when they got
00:21:08.960 home was many of them were shipped off to labor camps. Why is that? Because Stalin was, was worried
00:21:13.840 that they'd been exposed to Western ideas. And so he felt threatened by that and to play it safe.
00:21:20.100 He just sent a lot of them off to the labor camps. Uh, Soljan Easton was sent off because he had
00:21:24.720 written a letter while he was, um, on the front, uh, written a couple of letters where he was vaguely
00:21:31.220 critical of the government and that was intercepted and seen. And he went to the labor camp system for
00:21:36.340 that. I would just start reading that book. Um, and there's no way, I mean, there's no way you
00:21:44.120 could get even halfway through it and still have any positive thoughts about communism. We'll talk
00:21:51.720 more about this, uh, that this week, uh, cause there's a lot in that book that I think is, is
00:21:55.740 very instructive. Uh, and it's a book that, you know, maybe, maybe Bernie Sanders should get around
00:22:02.900 to reading at some point. All right, let's, uh, let's check in with some, some news. We'll go
00:22:07.120 through five headlines here that are worth knowing about. Uh, number one, the CDC is now warning that
00:22:13.980 an outbreak of the coronavirus in the U S is inevitable and we should prepare for significant
00:22:20.560 disruptions to our daily life. That's, that's the words they're using. We're told quote, uh, it's not
00:22:26.380 so much a question of if this will happen in this country anymore, but a question of when this will
00:22:30.900 happen. Now I've been a skeptic up until now. I've, I've seen the media hype up these epidemics
00:22:36.860 many times. I've seen so much unnecessary panic over so many things that I thought this was another
00:22:42.540 one of those things. It appears I may have been wrong. Uh, this is the time when, you know, the boy
00:22:49.060 crying wolf, the boys crying wolf, and maybe there actually is a wolf this time. Um, now I still think
00:22:55.040 there's no need to panic. I still think, um, we should keep in mind that the death toll of this
00:23:01.480 virus has a lot to do with the fact that it started in China where their healthcare system
00:23:06.520 is falling apart. I mean, their hospitals are literally falling apart or in shambles.
00:23:11.380 Um, so we're basing the, the, the, the death toll on that, the mortality rate we're basing on that.
00:23:21.500 And, uh, so I think that's something we should keep in mind. It's also true though, that the CDC
00:23:26.160 doesn't generally say stuff like this for no reason. So perhaps it would make sense to take
00:23:31.260 some precautions. In fact, my, my wife last night, we were talking about this and, uh, she started buying
00:23:36.280 supplies. We, we both agreed that, you know, maybe you get, if, if the CDC is saying there may be some
00:23:43.020 disruptions to your daily life, uh, maybe disruptions in the supply chain, there's, you
00:23:47.600 know, if we're not able to get out of the house, if there's quarantines or something, that it makes
00:23:50.800 sense to have some, um, preservable food and stuff like that in the house. Uh, so my wife, my, my wife
00:23:58.220 was buying a few things. She started buying freeze dried meats. And I, you know, I said to her, why,
00:24:03.100 why can't we get regular meat and freeze it? And she said, because we have an extra freezer in the
00:24:08.520 garage. And she said, well, if the power goes out and I said, why would the coronavirus cause the
00:24:13.720 power to go out? And she didn't really have a response for that, but that didn't dissuade her.
00:24:17.820 So she, uh, got all that. I guess we're now preparing for the end of human civilization as we
00:24:21.800 know it, which for the record, I still insist that human civilization is not coming to an end over this,
00:24:26.840 but a little preparation is probably smart. Okay. Number two, a video that's, um,
00:24:31.920 gone viral out of the hellscape known as San Francisco shows a black man stealing cans from
00:24:39.100 and attempting to assault an Asian man while a group of people stand around laughing.
00:24:44.220 And the guy filming cheers it on and says, I hate Asians. Uh, watch, watch this.
00:24:49.980 Uh, he's scared. OG crack. You hear this? Get your
00:24:56.780 I hate Asians. Now I'm just looking forward to hearing from the, um, only white people can be
00:25:18.500 racist crowd on this one. I'm sure they can explain how, what you just saw there is not racist.
00:25:24.420 I'm sure they have a great explanation. It can't be because this is what we're told.
00:25:29.420 Oh, a black person cannot be racist by definition. So what you saw there, not racist somehow three
00:25:37.280 yesterday, Michelle Genovs, who the media tells us is the hot pocket heiress, the heir to the hot
00:25:44.860 pocket fortune was sentenced to five months in jail for the college admissions scandal. She apparently
00:25:50.020 spent hundreds of thousands of dollars helping her daughters cheat on, on tests, uh, defrauding
00:25:56.100 colleges and other ways. I think she had one of her daughters in a fake, somehow a fake, uh, fake
00:26:03.580 volleyball scholarship or something like that, uh, in order to get them into, into good schools.
00:26:08.600 And now she's going to prison for it. Not really prison. I'm sure the place she's going will be more
00:26:12.980 of a, more of a sleepaway camp than a prison. I think a better penalty, a harsher one would be to
00:26:18.780 force her to eat only hot pockets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for say a year. If you can even
00:26:24.740 survive that, because of course it's not technically edible, uh, this isn't really, that's not a real
00:26:29.620 food product. I don't know what it is, but it's, it's not food. Certainly the roof of her mouth would
00:26:34.300 be destroyed by the end of it with those gushes of molten cheese, just scorching her mouth at every
00:26:41.460 meal. Cruel and unusual punishment, I suppose. Number four, a conservative think tank has found,
00:26:46.460 uh, who they're calling the anti-Greta. You know, Greta Thunberg, of course, the 16 year old climate
00:26:51.920 alarmist that's all over the media. Well, a conservative think tank went out and find,
00:26:56.280 found their own blonde, uh, teenage girl, but this one is a skeptic of climate change.
00:27:01.980 And now they're sending her out to make the case against climate alarmism. She's a 19 year old
00:27:08.620 German named Naomi. So this is great. This is really great, right? Conservatives have been
00:27:14.040 saying for months that we shouldn't listen to teenagers on science, that teens are not science
00:27:19.820 experts. And we were right about that. Uh, you know, it's silly to use teenagers as, as mascots on an
00:27:27.220 issue like this. And now what are we doing? I guess we're turning around and finding our own teenage
00:27:32.120 fake science expert. Here's an idea. Here's, here's a different option. Maybe we should consider
00:27:37.700 this. Uh, maybe we could stop propping teenagers up as experts in anything. Maybe liberals could
00:27:46.620 stop doing it. Conservatives can stop doing it because teenagers don't know anything. They're not
00:27:52.500 experts in anything. They aren't authorities in anything. Um, and if you as an adult are turning to
00:27:59.360 a teenager for a wisdom or insight into any subject at all, especially science, that is a symptom of
00:28:07.320 your own rather staggering mental deficiencies. I mean, if you have ever heard a teenager say
00:28:15.380 something, particularly on the, in the issue, uh, you know, in the realm of science and thought
00:28:20.580 to yourself, wow, that's, I, I learned something today. I never thought of that before. Um, that tells
00:28:26.100 you a lot more about you than it does about them. So maybe we could just stop doing this.
00:28:30.800 Number five, ABC is now working on a bachelor spinoff. This one for senior citizens. Um,
00:28:36.560 the casting call on the website says now casting seniors looking for love. Are you entering your
00:28:42.460 golden years and looking for romance? The producers of the bachelor are looking for active and outgoing
00:28:46.880 single men and women in their golden years for a new exciting dating show. I have to be honest
00:28:52.280 with you. Uh, I have never seen one second of the bachelor or any of its variants. I have no idea
00:29:01.180 what the show even is. I've always vaguely wondered what happens on it. Uh, I've never cared enough to
00:29:08.400 investigate. So I guess women are competing to, to, to be the one who gets to marry a guy, a random guy.
00:29:17.060 Is that what it is? Is the guy, is he rich or something? What's the, why is it a prize?
00:29:25.000 Well, anyway, um, speaking of mental deficiencies, I, I don't see how anyone with an IQ over say 45
00:29:31.160 could watch a show like this. But then when you consider the high ratings, these shows get,
00:29:37.020 you know, that's a whole lot of sub 45 IQs out there. And these people can vote too. And, um,
00:29:42.080 if you can imagine, and that explains a lot about our, about the state of our Republic. I have said
00:29:47.800 many times, and I do believe that I would be in favor of automatically disenfranchising anyone who
00:29:54.220 has ever watched an entire episode of a show like the bachelor, you lose your voting rights permanently.
00:29:58.840 I would be totally in favor of that. If only a candidate would have the guts to suggest a policy
00:30:05.860 of that sort. Um, but of course, no candidate would do that because every political candidate,
00:30:12.400 they love the idea of dumb people voting because dumb people are a lot, a lot easier to,
00:30:16.560 to manipulate. All right. Um, so moving on on Tuesday, Democrats in the U S Senate blocked a bill
00:30:25.140 that would have required clinics and hospitals to provide basic medical treatment to infants born alive
00:30:30.740 after a botched abortions. Uh, Democrats tried to position the born alive abortions survivor protection
00:30:38.000 act, which is what it was called. Try to position it as a, as a radical assault on the bodily autonomy
00:30:43.020 of women, uh, an intrusion of the government into medical decisions, but it was nothing of the sort,
00:30:47.940 of course you can read the text of the bill. Despite the histrionics and the claims from people like
00:30:54.220 Senator Gillibrand, who, uh, went on CNN and said that the legislation would harm women.
00:30:58.980 Despite all that, all the act would have done is prohibit abortionists from leaving infant children
00:31:06.620 to die after they're born after a failed abortion. There is no clump of cells Dodge available here.
00:31:16.320 The humans in question are infant children born, fully developed, living, breathing outside the womb.
00:31:23.840 Democrats have now declared that even they aren't worthy of, of legal protections. Even they apparently
00:31:32.740 have no moral value. Now, as always, the pro-infanticide Democrats have the full support of
00:31:39.660 the media. So CNN, with no hint of irony, actually in an article yesterday called, uh, babies born after
00:31:48.160 abortions fetuses. I believe the phrase they used was, was a, a fetus that was born. That's a baby
00:31:56.820 that survives an abortion, a fetus that was born. And they distinguish in the article, they distinguish
00:32:02.740 the fetus that was born from a newborn baby. They're saying those are two different things.
00:32:08.920 According to CNN, a newborn baby is a child that's born alive on purpose because the mother
00:32:14.580 mother wants the child and a fetus that was born is a, is a, is a child that was born accidentally,
00:32:21.500 uh, despite the wishes of the mother. So the humanity of the baby, even outside of the womb
00:32:27.720 depends entirely on the mother's desires. And this is what, uh, pro-abortion people have been saying
00:32:35.360 for a long time. They've been very explicit about it. If you ask them and you say, well, when does life
00:32:40.440 begin, they'll say life begins when the mother wants the, the humanity of the child is relative
00:32:48.100 to the mother's wishes and desires. And now we're being told that that logic extends even beyond the
00:32:56.200 womb. Now it's, it's was argued, um, that this bill was unnecessary because babies so rarely managed
00:33:04.760 to survive abortion. So it's just an unnecessary bill. We don't need to do this. Well, if that's true,
00:33:08.740 then first of all, why oppose it? And why claim that it's an attack on women's rights? So you can't
00:33:14.200 have it both ways. Either it's an unnecessary redundant bill or it's a, it's a terrible assault
00:33:22.040 on, on, on the, the, the rights of women or neither of those things. Of course that it's neither of those,
00:33:27.360 but it can't be both of those things. And in any case, it, the claim is not true. Um, this does
00:33:35.880 happen. Hundreds of children have died after surviving abortion attempts. And that's, those
00:33:41.340 are just the ones we know about because there are only a few States that, that report that kind of
00:33:47.420 information. Um, and even there you're, you're relying on the abortion clinics to honestly report
00:33:53.680 what happened. So just based on the very limited sample that we know about, it's clear that it has
00:34:02.120 happened hundreds of times. So those are hundreds of infant children who were left to die and could
00:34:08.160 have been saved. The current law does not protect those babies. Now the current law does allegedly
00:34:16.540 prevent abortionists from actively killing the babies who are born after a botched abortion.
00:34:23.860 Although we know that even that happens, Kermit Gosnell did it for decades,
00:34:27.180 killed hundreds of babies directly, um, and was able to do it for decades in the middle of a
00:34:33.540 marriage, a major American city without being stopped. But allegedly the law stops that, but the
00:34:40.140 law does not require that, um, doctors, you know, hospitals, clinics provide basic medical treatment to
00:34:48.520 the babies. So what they can do is just set the baby aside and let the child die. And that is what
00:34:54.000 they do in fact do, and now can continue doing. It's also worth noting that, um, Democrats blocked
00:35:00.840 a bill yesterday also that would have, uh, that would have outlawed abortion after 20 weeks gestation.
00:35:06.980 Babies at that point can feel pain at 22 weeks. They can survive outside the womb.
00:35:14.480 Now, of course, nobody's surprised by that move. We knew that they would, they would block that bill,
00:35:18.960 but it underscores the point that the Democrat party at this point is nothing more than a whore
00:35:25.560 of the abortion industry. That's what it is. It is morally corrupted and evil to its core.
00:35:32.060 It is an enemy of life and of dignity. And if you are a decent person, you just cannot associate
00:35:38.420 yourself with it. You can't be a Democrat. You can't vote for Democrats if you're a decent person
00:35:43.140 who cares about human life and dignity. I'm not saying you have to be a Republican.
00:35:48.660 Not at all. It's just, but you can't be a Democrat though.
00:35:52.840 All right. Um, now for today's daily cancellation, it is my great pleasure.
00:35:59.400 In fact, to cancel the New Yorker, um, the New Yorker today posted a cartoon on Twitter
00:36:05.280 that is leading to me now canceling the New Yorker. Um, and when I say cancel, I don't mean
00:36:10.600 canceling my own subscription. I don't have a subscription. I'm saying that the New Yorker
00:36:13.420 in general is canceled now by decree by me. So take a look at this, uh, at this cartoon.
00:36:17.960 If you're listening on iTunes, can't see it. It's a, it's a four panel comic. The first panel
00:36:23.720 shows a guy in the wilderness and he says, Oh no, it's getting cold and dark. In the next panel,
00:36:29.600 he sees another guy, Mark Zuckerberg. And he says, thank God, another hiker, hiker, Mark Zuckerberg.
00:36:35.480 Can you help? I'm lost. Then Zuckerberg says, okay. And then Zuckerberg says, here are a few
00:36:40.880 options. One of them is accurate. The others could be misinformation. I'll let you decide.
00:36:45.380 And then in the final panel, you see his helicopter, Zuckerberg's helicopter in the background.
00:36:49.060 And he says, well, this is me. Bye. Which that part's kind of funny. And then I guess he leaves
00:36:53.780 the guy, he's the guy in the, in the wilderness as he, as he goes away in his helicopter. Now the
00:36:59.780 point here is rather, rather obvious. Uh, this is a criticism of Facebook's refusal to do fact
00:37:04.820 checks on political ads and on, um, other content, uh, and, and, and their refusal to disallow the
00:37:13.040 content that is not in their opinion, truthful. The left thinks that Facebook should be performing
00:37:19.820 this kind of fact checking function on the content, mainly because the left hopes and assumes
00:37:27.340 that if Facebook does fact checks, all of the right wing content, all the pro Trump, Trump content,
00:37:33.160 all that stuff will summarily be banned because all of that is false. They think. So in this analogy,
00:37:40.100 we, the helpless social media consumer, the average Facebook user, we are like wanderers in a cold
00:37:47.860 wilderness, fearful, lost darkness is closing in. And, uh, Mike, Mike, Mark Zuckerberg is the,
00:37:55.880 is the guide who can show us the way, uh, into the light and the warmth. And, um, that is apparently
00:38:03.460 how the New Yorker sees our relationship to billionaire tech moguls, which is very interesting.
00:38:12.420 They, they, they see the billionaire tech mogul as this, as this, this guide in the wilderness
00:38:17.160 that can save our lives. We must cling to them. Show me the way, Mark Zuckerberg.
00:38:22.760 That's how they see them. Yet they, they hate billionaires. They think billionaires are evil,
00:38:28.380 but they also want billionaires to decide what's true and not true and to moderate our access to
00:38:34.700 content according to their, the billionaires opinions about what's true and not true.
00:38:39.320 So they hate billionaires, but they also see billionaires as the only ones who can rescue us
00:38:43.520 from certain death in the forest of, of confusion. Now this is all nonsensical. Of course,
00:38:50.340 it is not Facebook's job to decide what content is true. It's not their job to evaluate political ads
00:38:57.580 or political content for its adherence to the truth. Why would you trust Facebook with that task?
00:39:05.760 Why would you trust Facebook any more than you would trust whoever created the content to begin with?
00:39:10.800 I'm not saying you should automatically trust either one. You shouldn't. That's the point.
00:39:14.660 Yes, you should make up your own mind. So in this case, in this particular wilderness of the internet,
00:39:21.180 uh, yeah, you should be given options and you can make up your own mind.
00:39:25.140 Uh, you, you, you shouldn't want the billionaire in the helicopter to rescue you and make it easy.
00:39:29.600 Um, in fact, when it comes to deciphering this stuff, uh, you know, and deciding what's true and not true,
00:39:38.220 it is better for the hiker to make up his own mind because the other option is to trust Mark Zuckerberg
00:39:46.020 blindly and to go wherever he points. And that would be foolish. So this is a very dumb cartoon
00:39:54.180 and a very, uh, not just a dumb point, but one that contradicts what we normally hear from places
00:40:01.700 like the New Yorker. And that is why the New Yorker is now canceled. All right. Um, got a bunch of email
00:40:09.780 also. I think we'll save, uh, this email for tomorrow. So people chiming in on the issue of, uh,
00:40:16.020 of student loans challenging my position, uh, that I expressed yesterday, which is that
00:40:22.800 in, in, you know, when looking for the villains in the story of the student debt crisis, I think
00:40:29.460 one of the primary villains are the employers who, uh, have created in many ways, this artificial
00:40:38.720 need for degrees. And anyway, a lot of people disagree with me on that. And, uh, I'll read those
00:40:43.720 emails tomorrow, mattwallshowatgmail.com, mattwallshowatgmail.com. We'll wrap it up there.
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