The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 433 - Billionaires And Millionaires Gather For A Debate

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 1.00

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. 0.58

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 0.67

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 0.99

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 0.94

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 0.53

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, 0.88

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 0.99

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, 0.59

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? 1.00

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, 0.99

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, 0.93

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:24:39.100 and attempting to assault an Asian man while a group of people stand around laughing. 0.99

00:24:44.220 And the guy filming cheers it on and says, I hate Asians. Uh, watch, watch this. 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:25:50.020 spent hundreds of thousands of dollars helping her daughters cheat on, on tests, uh, defrauding 0.99

00:25:56.100 colleges and other ways. I think she had one of her daughters in a fake, somehow a fake, uh, fake 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.99

00:28:07.320 your own rather staggering mental deficiencies. I mean, if you have ever heard a teenager say 0.79

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, 1.00

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. 1.00

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, 0.99

00:30:16.560 to manipulate. All right. Um, so moving on on Tuesday, Democrats in the U S Senate blocked a bill 1.00

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, 0.52

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 0.92

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, 0.66

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 0.53

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. 0.86

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 1.00

00:35:25.560 of the abortion industry. That's what it is. It is morally corrupted and evil to its core. 1.00

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 0.98

00:39:54.180 and a very, uh, not just a dumb point, but one that contradicts what we normally hear from places 0.99

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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The Matt Walsh Show - February 26, 2020

Ep. 433 - Billionaires And Millionaires Gather For A Debate

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