The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 437 - The Ridiculous Whining Of Bernie Bros

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the show, everybody. What I'd really like to say at the top here of the show is just

00:00:04.900 thank you. Thank you for your tireless, ceaseless support, because the big victory that I achieved

00:00:12.320 last night is really your victory. This isn't about me. It's about you. It's about us. It's

00:00:19.280 about what we've achieved together. And it's because of you that I can sit here right now

00:00:24.060 today and say that despite very minimal campaigning on my part and despite spending no money and

00:00:30.900 despite not even being in the race, frankly, I managed to win only 18 fewer delegates than

00:00:38.900 Michael Bloomberg. That is just remarkable. And I spent 500 million fewer dollars to do it. So

00:00:46.740 that's what this campaign is all about. It's one of the great underdog stories in the history of

00:00:52.420 American politics, I think. So again, thank you. Thank you so much. We are really building a

00:00:57.560 movement here now on the show today. Super Tuesday, of course, we'll discuss the results and the

00:01:02.640 ridiculous whines from the Bernie bro horde now claiming that the whole thing was rigged. It's 0.79

00:01:08.640 rigged. It's rigged against them because because he didn't do as well as they had hoped. Why is it

00:01:13.860 these days that after every election, the loser always says that the election was rigged? Has it

00:01:20.000 always been this way? Is this what people have always done? And are the elections actually rigged?

00:01:24.140 Is that the case? We'll discuss. Also, we'll go through your five headlines. Plus, not to add

00:01:29.740 insult to injury, but I do need to cancel Bloomberg today. The primary voters already canceled him,

00:01:35.520 already took care of that. But I think I need to double down on the cancellation because of something

00:01:39.260 that he did yesterday that is just, I'll play the footage for you if you haven't seen it. It is

00:01:45.600 really shocking. In my opinion, I'm not even exaggerating or joking. It's the most shocking

00:01:50.740 footage of a politician, certainly the most grotesque footage of a politician I've ever seen

00:01:56.680 in my life. So we'll get to that as well. Now, last night, I don't think I need to go into

00:02:02.640 recounting all of the vote totals and everything because, first of all, you've heard it already.

00:02:08.460 Also, who cares? But very quickly, Joe Biden won big, picks up nine states, including Texas.

00:02:15.820 Bernie won California and three other states. Bloomberg, with the most significant victory

00:02:22.840 of the night, won American Samoa and still decided to suspend his campaign, even though he won American

00:02:31.180 Samoa. You would think from there, you could build a nationwide campaign. Wasn't able to do it,

00:02:35.640 unfortunately. So that puts the delegate count right now at 453 to 373 Biden over Bernie with the

00:02:43.560 rest of the candidates, what few remain hanging out with a handful here and there. Tulsi has,

00:02:49.060 I think, one delegate. Klobuchar got more than she did and she's not even in the race. Warren earned

00:02:53.720 barely more than Buttigieg, even though Buttigieg also is not in the race. And the only possible

00:02:58.260 reason for that, of course, for Warren's poor performance, the only possible reason can be sexism

00:03:04.200 and racism against Native American women. But here's the point I want to make out at the outset.

00:03:11.560 Today, as anyone could have predicted, Bernie's fans are on TV and they're on social media and

00:03:17.380 saying that the election was rigged. It's all one big rigged game. They rigged it against Bernie.

00:03:23.360 Hashtag rigged primary was trending number one on Twitter this morning. And this is how it always goes

00:03:29.160 after every election now. This is what happens. Now, I feel like there was a time, maybe I'm wrong.

00:03:36.920 I seem to remember a time many moons ago when you could have an election and the results would come

00:03:43.440 in and nobody would scream that it was rigged. People would be mad or they would be sad or they'd be

00:03:49.680 glad or they'd be defiant or they might even, you know, they'll complain about it in all different

00:03:57.080 various ways. But there wasn't this perfunctory reaction, this automatic reflex of immediately

00:04:05.760 claiming the whole thing was rigged. In fact, it used to be that to claim that an election is rigged

00:04:11.820 was a really serious charge that you didn't take lightly. Because think about what you're saying.

00:04:17.560 But now it's just, it's automatic. It's a rigged, rigged, rigged. And it cuts left and right. We do

00:04:23.900 this. It's on both sides. Now, like I said, think about this for a minute. If you really think our

00:04:31.840 elections are rigged and that it's all decided in some dark, smoky room and that our votes don't even

00:04:38.300 matter at all, then first of all, you can never celebrate when your favored candidate wins.

00:04:43.340 So even the Bernie bros, they're upset that he didn't win more states, but they're happy about

00:04:49.160 California. He won California. He won the most delegates in a single state last night. They're

00:04:55.960 celebrating that. Well, if it's rigged, then that was rigged too, right? So you're celebrating a rigged

00:05:02.600 election because it went in your favor. Doesn't that make you a hypocrite? If you really believe that our 1.00

00:05:07.060 elections are rigged, our elections are rigged, that we are no different from a banana republic. We're no

00:05:12.200 different from a dictatorship. We're no different from North Korea. If that's really what you think,

00:05:19.560 then what are you doing sitting around crying about it? Why aren't you taking to the streets

00:05:23.200 an armed revolution? That's what our founding fathers certainly would have done.

00:05:28.840 Yeah, you're sitting around sending hashtags, hashtag rigged election. That's how you're addressing the

00:05:35.180 problem. If you, if you actually believe that, then this is, this is, uh, we don't have democratic

00:05:45.340 system. This is not a republic. We live in, in absolute tyranny and oppression. We live essentially

00:05:53.200 in a dictatorship. We have, we have no freedoms that that's, that's the implication. So again, I ask,

00:06:00.120 what are you doing sitting around just whining? Is it because you don't really believe what you're

00:06:06.260 saying? See, this, this is what happens. It's very easy. And the internet has made it even easier

00:06:13.420 to sit back and make extraordinary charges and claims about the way things work,

00:06:18.800 but you don't have to back it up. And most of the people saying it are anonymous anyway.

00:06:22.800 So you don't have to do anything. You don't have to back up what you're saying. You don't have to act

00:06:27.700 on it. You just, you just say it. And so everyone's just saying things.

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00:09:00.940 Now back to this rigging thing. Of course, you know, we know how it goes. The attitude of most people

00:09:06.980 is that the election is rigged. If it goes against them, if it goes against my guy, if my guy loses,

00:09:12.360 then it must be that, that it's rigged. Now, if he wins, then it was a pure and unimpeachable

00:09:18.640 process. And the, uh, wishes of the American people were accurately reflected. That's how it

00:09:24.600 goes. So this rigged, uh, election claim is nothing more than the blubberings of a, of a child.

00:09:31.400 This, you know, screaming because his sister has more cereal than he does in his bowl. It's not fair.

00:09:37.520 Everyone's against me. It's not fair. Shut up. Was the election rigged against Bernie? No, it

00:09:43.960 wasn't. But what if, what if the establishment, that mysterious establishment, that shadowy force

00:09:50.820 told Warren to stay in the race in order to siphon votes from Bernie? What if that happened? Because

00:09:56.000 she certainly did siphon votes from Bernie. Bernie would have won Massachusetts, Maine, I think 1.00

00:10:00.960 Minnesota, uh, would have picked up more delegates in other States if it wasn't for Warren. So Warren

00:10:06.520 staying in the race served no purpose other than to, and I use this term, not totally literally

00:10:12.340 sabotage her supposed ideological ally. What does that mean? Well, it means first of all,

00:10:19.400 that Warren is a charlatan and a fraud and an egomaniac. And this was always just a vanity 0.99

00:10:24.000 project on her part. Um, but does it mean that there was rigging? No, no, it doesn't. Because

00:10:32.720 even if there was some kind of clandestine deal made to keep her in the race so that she could 0.53

00:10:39.820 take votes from Bernie, so what? That's the way the game is played in politics.

00:10:47.420 Voters still had to choose to go to the polls and throw their vote away by giving it to her. 1.00

00:10:53.940 Her staying in the race doesn't mean that people are compelled to vote for her and throw their vote 0.85

00:10:58.440 away that way. It just means that they can, if they want to, they have to choose that voters

00:11:05.540 aren't sheep. Now they might act like it, but they aren't literally sheep. They aren't automatons.

00:11:09.880 They're adults technically making choices. And as long as those choices are reflected accurately in

00:11:16.040 the tally at the end of the night, then it's not rigged period. Did the establishment force people

00:11:23.820 to vote for Warren? No, they could have been smart. They could have said, gee, I'm a far leftist.

00:11:28.940 I have these ideological, uh, priorities. Warren is, isn't going to win. Bernie Sanders reflects

00:11:36.260 those priorities. He's got the best chance. I'll vote for him. They could have done that. That's the

00:11:40.540 smart thing to do, but they decided to do the stupid thing. They didn't have to do the stupid 1.00

00:11:45.140 thing. They did because they're stupid people. The fact that stupid people can be manipulated 1.00

00:11:51.200 doesn't mean that elections are rigged. Our whole election season is all about manipulating stupid 1.00

00:11:58.120 people. I've got news for you. That's all it is. Every single ad you see for a politician on TV, 1.00

00:12:04.560 that is always about manipulating stupid people because you have to be a stupid person to be 1.00

00:12:10.100 influenced by a political ad. If you're even moderately intelligent, you've never seen a political 1.00

00:12:17.220 ad that influence your vote one way or another, because it's an ad, you know, you're only getting

00:12:21.700 one side of the story. Obviously it's, it's incredibly biased. Of course, that's what it's

00:12:26.880 supposed to be. It's an ad for a candidate. You're not going to learn anything about this person from

00:12:31.080 an advertisement yet. People spend millions, hundreds of Michael Bloomberg spent hundreds of

00:12:36.580 millions on ad on ads, um, because they do influence people, stupid people. And there are a lot of 1.00

00:12:42.980 stupid people in America. That doesn't mean the elections are rigged though. It just means we 1.00

00:12:47.080 have a problem of stupidity. What about the possibility that the establishment convinced 1.00

00:12:53.820 Buttigieg and Klobuchar or Klobuchar, how about that, to drop out before Super Tuesday? That's the

00:13:00.080 other theory, conspiracy theory, that the establishment went to them and said, you got to drop out so we can

00:13:06.640 get the votes to Biden and keep burning out. Now that very likely probably did happen. Is that rigging

00:13:11.820 then? No, not even close. It's not even close to a rigged election because it does not remove the

00:13:17.180 choice from people when they go to the polls. Yeah, they can't choose Buttigieg or Klobuchar

00:13:22.240 anymore, but that doesn't mean they have to vote for Biden. They can still make whatever choice they

00:13:28.260 want. Politicians are very good at predicting what stupid people will do and arranging things so that 1.00

00:13:35.140 the predictable actions of stupid people will benefit them as politicians. But once again, 1.00

00:13:41.160 that is not rigging an election, that's just playing the game. That's just politics.

00:13:48.620 See, this is what I don't like about the election rigging claim. It infantilizes the voter. It makes

00:13:54.680 the voter into a victim of his own decisions. And the whole thing is just another symptom of

00:13:59.980 entitlement. It's another symptom of the problem we have in this country. Generally speaking, culturally, 0.98

00:14:05.520 the voters go out, they make choices, and then they cry about the choices they made.

00:14:12.780 They think they have some kind of God-given right for everything to work out exactly as they

00:14:17.840 want it to, even if their own actions undermine their own goals. People go out and do things to

00:14:24.780 undermine their own goals. They do things against their own interests. And then things don't work

00:14:31.040 out in their interests. And they cry and say, everything is rigged. Everyone's against me.

00:14:36.280 No, you're just an idiot who made a stupid decision. 1.00

00:14:42.980 This is why the country is how it is. This is why we have the leaders that we do, 1.00

00:14:46.880 because of this kind of petulant adolescent attitude. Our political class, all this whining

00:14:53.520 people do about the elites and the political class, where do you think they come from?

00:14:57.240 How do you think they got there? Every single politician, they are there because we put them

00:15:04.200 there. They weren't dug out of the ground like orcs in Lord of the Rings. We put them there,

00:15:12.620 every single one. And then we cry about it. We say, what are these people doing there?

00:15:19.640 We march to the polls crying as we vote for the people we don't want. And then they do things

00:15:26.820 that we don't like. And we say, how did this happen? I don't understand what's going on.

00:15:33.960 And then we, you know, and then we just sit down and turn on the TV and binge Netflix for seven hours

00:15:39.980 and forget about it. It's just, you know, let's take some responsibility for all this stuff.

00:15:45.460 The fact is, Election Day, if most people vote for a certain person, that person's going to win,

00:15:56.500 whether it's president or senator or whatever office it is. If most people vote for them,

00:16:03.560 they're going to win. If they don't win, it's because most people didn't vote for them.

00:16:08.060 I know that there are things that happen. There's voter fraud is an issue. It does happen. But

00:16:20.120 it's not happening on such a scale that we end up with, you know, that presidents are elected on the

00:16:27.160 basis of it. And I, you know, Trump, this is something you hear from a lot of Trump supporters,

00:16:33.960 vote rigging. Well, Trump won in 2016. He won without even winning the popular vote, right?

00:16:41.600 Well, that's the way the system is set up, Electoral College. So is that, was that rigged?

00:16:46.640 You would say, well, no, that wasn't rigged. That's how it was supposed to be.

00:16:51.560 If he loses, though, then it's rigged. Come on. No. If Trump wins in 2020, which I think at this

00:16:58.480 point he will, if he wins, it's because most people voted for him, or at least

00:17:03.080 the right people in the right states voted for him so he could win the Electoral College.

00:17:07.860 If he doesn't win, it's because he lost, because people didn't want him. You know,

00:17:13.800 and that's, maybe they should want him, maybe they shouldn't, but that's, people are just making

00:17:18.400 choices. We're not victims of our choices. And I wish we could all just understand that. We make

00:17:25.360 choices and they are our choices. We're not victims of them. We are not victims of any of these

00:17:33.040 buffoons in Washington. And I can't stand almost all of them. Yet we did put them there. 0.98

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00:19:36.220 Okay, let's go to headlines. We've already covered, number one, the results of Super Tuesday. But I

00:19:40.980 think the biggest moment happened during Joe Biden's speech, which, you know, having an elderly man

00:19:47.700 who's already losing his mind give a speech at 11 o'clock at night when it's four hours past his

00:19:53.620 bedtime, four hours past the time when everybody else's age is asleep, you know it's not going to

00:19:59.360 work out very well, especially when it's Joe Biden we're talking about. And yeah, it kind of went off

00:20:05.060 the rails almost immediately. By the way, this is my little sister, Valerie, and I'm Jill's husband.

00:20:11.800 Oh, no, thank you. Oh, you switched on me. This is my wife. This is my sister. They switched on me.

00:20:18.860 Oh, geez, Joe. Joe, Joe, Joe. As I said last night, it seems that by calling his sister his wife,

00:20:28.660 Joe Biden is, you might say, is making a bold play for Ilhan Omar supporters. So maybe there was some

00:20:34.660 political calculation there. And he did win Minnesota, which is Omar's state. So who knows? 0.83

00:20:43.020 Maybe there's a connection there. Number two, David Frum, editor of The Atlantic, got himself

00:20:47.560 into trouble last night while offering his analysis about the results and about Bernie supporters versus

00:20:54.420 Joe Biden supporters. Here's what he said. Joe Biden appeals to people who pay their cable

00:20:59.120 bills on the day it arrives. Bernie Sanders appeals to people who may forget to pay the cable bill

00:21:04.220 entirely. And the first group, they're both morally, equally morally worthy, but the first

00:21:09.280 group are more reliable. Let me just say that is outrageous. It is outrageous and offensive. It's not

00:21:15.420 true. These kinds of stereotypes, I'm not going to stand for them. It's not true that Bernie Sanders

00:21:22.720 supporters don't pay their cable bills on time. Not true at all. In fact, Bernie Sanders supporters

00:21:31.220 make sure that their parents pay for all their bills on time. And they're, I know this about them.

00:21:38.020 Okay. I know these people. They're, they're very strict about it with their parents. If their parents

00:21:44.660 forget to pay the cable bill or, or the, you know, electric bill or anything, they're going to be on the

00:21:50.620 horn with mom saying, mom, what's going on? They're going to hold her feet to the fire. So they are,

00:21:56.800 they're on top of it. These are very responsible people. Number three, you may think, and I wouldn't

00:22:02.660 blame you for thinking that ESPN cannot possibly embarrass itself any more than it already has

00:22:09.320 over the, uh, over recent years, but you would be wrong. I'm afraid yesterday. ESPN managed somehow

00:22:16.320 to sync to a new level of cringe or maybe rise to a new level of cringe, depending on how you feel

00:22:21.600 about cringe. I'm a big fan of cringe, which is why my favorite episode of the office is the dinner

00:22:25.380 party. But, uh, in any case on, on ESPN, um, the show, uh, first take on ESPN with professional

00:22:32.540 yeller, Stephen A. Smith, they did a whole lengthy segment with, with, uh, Spike Lee, film director,

00:22:39.960 Spike Lee. Now, Spike Lee, as you'll see in a moment is a ridiculous person, also a bad filmmaker. 0.97

00:22:45.440 The latter isn't really relevant here. The fact that he's a ridiculous person is relevant and 0.98

00:22:50.140 you'll see why. Now it seems that Spike Lee, who's a big New York's, New York Knicks fan for some 0.98

00:22:55.360 reason, went to Madison square garden a few nights ago to watch the Knicks. And, uh, he tried to go in

00:23:02.400 the employee entrance, even though he's not an employee. And he was told by security that, well,

00:23:07.660 you can't go in that entrance because you're not an employee. Seems pretty reasonable. You don't work

00:23:12.020 here. So you can't go in that entrance. They told him that they had a special VIP entrance for him

00:23:17.120 because he's a famous guy. And so he gets special stuff and they say, can you go to the VIP entrance?

00:23:23.440 And, uh, and, uh, and this altercation, this minor inconvenience caused Spike Lee to have a

00:23:28.400 temper tantrum, a meltdown, like the spoiled rich baby that he is. ESPN then brought him on the air

00:23:36.720 to complain about not being able to use the employee entrance at Madison square garden.

00:23:43.100 And they expect us. It's not just that they brought him on the air to talk about it so they

00:23:46.480 could laugh at him. I'd understand that. No, it's that they, they expect us to be outraged.

00:23:51.740 Stephen A. Smith was outraged about this. He was ranting about it on Twitter too. He wants us to be

00:23:57.380 really upset that Spike Lee was not able to use the employee entrance at Madison square garden.

00:24:03.220 Here is Spike Lee talking about this great tragedy that he suffered.

00:24:06.820 I've been using the same entrance for 28 plus years. The employee's entrance on 33rd street.

00:24:14.460 Yesterday, last night, I go in, my ticket gets scanned. I'm in. I want, you know, the elevator,

00:24:21.680 go in the elevator and elevator. And also people having that ticket scan also.

00:24:27.360 And elevator is not moving. And the security guy comes to me and says, we need to get off the

00:24:31.060 elevator. I said, for what? So we were, we could speak about it now. I said, I'm not getting out

00:24:34.780 of the elevator. So it was another five minutes. Then they finally sent the elevator up because

00:24:38.600 they know I'm not getting out of the elevator. Get on the elevator. As you know, people don't know

00:24:43.840 the garden floor is on the fifth floor. Elephant goes to five and security is waiting for me like

00:24:50.340 he just ran out of Macy's stealing something.

00:24:52.000 And they said, you, this guy, security guy, they're all, this comes from the top. He says,

00:25:01.760 Mr. Lee, you have to leave Madison Square Garden. They wanted me to leave the garden,

00:25:10.320 walk outside that out the 33rd street employer is where I came from, walk outside and come back

00:25:17.120 on 31st street. Oh, you had, you had to come in on 31st street. Really? That, oh, oh, that's,

00:25:23.900 that's, oh no. 31st street. You had to walk outside and go around to a different entrance.

00:25:32.700 Oh my gosh. Spike Lee, nobody has ever suffered like you have. This is, this is an injustice of

00:25:43.280 historic proportion. They will build monuments to this moment. People will come from, from miles

00:25:50.000 around, from, from countries across the world to mourn and weep and remember this tragedy.

00:25:58.140 Let the world never forget, lest we ever forget what happened at Madison Square Garden that night.

00:26:06.380 The night that a celebrity was, was, was, was, was, was forced to use the celebrity entrance rather

00:26:12.680 than the employee entrance. He had to get off an elevator. They wanted him to get off an elevator.

00:26:20.900 Unbelievable. But I'm trying, sorry, Spike. I'm trying, I'm trying to muster the outrage and I'm

00:26:28.960 pretty good at mustering outrage. It's what I do for a living, but I, I it's, I'm having a tough time

00:26:34.320 with this. And of course we all know if this was a rich white man crying that he couldn't use the

00:26:40.200 employee entrance to access Madison Square Garden to get to his private suite. Um, do you think ESPN

00:26:46.240 would have given him the time of day? You think anybody would be interested in hearing that? No,

00:26:51.860 of course not. Number four, reading from a report in the daily wire says a new study on climate

00:26:56.440 anxiety, uh, found that famed child activist Greta Thunberg is not the only young person who has

00:27:01.600 suffered from severe stress as a result of taking dire predictions about the climate, the planet by

00:27:06.020 climate alarmists to heart. Um, the BBC news round report says climate anxiety survey for BBC news

00:27:13.020 round shows children losing sleep over climate change and the environment. This is a survey of

00:27:18.920 eight to 16 year olds. Um, young people news round explains are frustrated and anxious about what's

00:27:24.860 happening. A majority, 58% of 2000 children interviewed said they were worried about the impact of global

00:27:30.000 warming. About one out of every five said that they had nightmares about it, but the same percentage,

00:27:35.140 17% said they're sleeping and eating habits have been affected by their fears about climate change.

00:27:40.260 Uh, this is now, now here, here is a reason for authentic outrage that this is what's, what's happening to

00:27:50.620 our kids. And it's understandable that kids would be losing sleep about it because kids don't know

00:27:57.560 anything about science, obviously. And if you tell them that the world is coming to an end in just a

00:28:03.740 few years, and we're all going to drown when the ice caps melt and all this kind of stuff, uh, they're

00:28:08.040 going to believe you. And of course they're going to be scared about that, which is why climate alarmism

00:28:12.940 is, is child abuse when you keep it on a kid like this. And you, you, you give the child these

00:28:21.460 existential fears that they now have to live with that are completely gratuitous

00:28:27.700 because no credible scientist actually thinks that the world is coming to an end anytime soon

00:28:36.100 because of climate change. This is something from politicians and they have no problem putting this

00:28:42.180 on kids and manipulating kids as a means of manipulating adults as well. And because they know

00:28:48.120 that those kids are going to be adults and voters one day. And so if you can make them, um, paranoid

00:28:53.420 climate alarmists from a young age, then they're going to be easy to manipulate, speaking of

00:28:58.720 manipulating voters, and you're going to be able to get what you want out of them if you're a, if

00:29:02.280 you're a, you know, a leftist politician. So it's just, it's, it's pretty infuriating. Number five,

00:29:07.940 they're making another reboot of Cinderella because we have to have a reboot of Cinderella once every

00:29:13.400 nine months, approximately. Uh, this is just a, this is a story apparently that it, it just an

00:29:20.420 infinite fountain of, uh, of, of, of reboots. It never gets old, I guess. Now I think it does get

00:29:28.260 old at a certain point. Okay. We get it. We've heard the Cinderella story. It's a good story. Don't

00:29:33.200 get me wrong. I don't know if we need 6,000 versions of it. I think maybe just 5,000 versions. We could

00:29:40.820 probably, uh, um, would probably suffice, but in this version, um, apparently the actor Billy Porter,

00:29:50.760 who is the attention starved dude who shows up to award shows in ugly dresses. That's his thing.

00:29:56.700 You've probably seen him online. Well, anyway, he says he's going to play a genderless, uh, version

00:30:01.140 of the fairy godmother. He's going to, he's going to play the fairy godmother in this woke remake,

00:30:04.920 and it's going to be a genderless, even though he himself is not genderless. And of course the word

00:30:11.560 fairy godmother would seem to indicate gender. So is it going to be the fairy god thing?

00:30:19.780 Well, I guess that's what Joe Biden would call it. The thing now. Okay. Here's an idea. Now I'm

00:30:25.400 brainstorming a, a version of Cinderella where the fairy godmother is replaced with the thing

00:30:31.600 from the movie, the thing. Now that's, that is a remake I'd like to see. And if that's what we're

00:30:36.420 talking about here, then I'm all on board for it. But you have to love this, don't you? Because

00:30:41.040 what we have now are men stealing roles from women in the name of progress. This is progress now

00:30:48.100 for men to take roles from women. So that's great. All right, moving on. Um, let's go to your daily 0.96

00:30:54.460 cancellation. Uh, I mentioned shocking footage about, of, of, of Bloomberg. I do feel a little

00:31:03.920 bad adding insult to injury. Um, but I, I, I just feel like we, we can't allow this one to go

00:31:13.160 unremarked upon. Um, so I'm going to play this footage for you in a second. If you haven't seen it,

00:31:17.660 what it shows is, is Bloomberg at a campaign stop a few days ago in Virginia, grabbing a slice of

00:31:24.480 pizza from a box, ripping off a piece, putting it in his mouth, licking his fingers, putting his hand

00:31:32.900 back in the box, extracting a clump of cheese from another piece, licking each finger methodically

00:31:39.140 like a serial killer, and then placing his hand directly on a large carton of coffee.

00:31:43.320 The mere sight of this spectacle is enough to give PTSD to germaphobes like myself, even a mild

00:31:50.340 germaphobe, I think would be, would be traumatized by this. We cannot lose sight of the irony here.

00:31:57.320 Bloomberg engaged in this act of, uh, of, of biological terrorism less than 24 hours after he gave a speech

00:32:04.780 where he was pretending to be the president and talking about the coronavirus. And that speech was,

00:32:10.460 was already pathetic, but now that he's dropped out of the race and by the way, endorsed Joe Biden, 0.84

00:32:15.800 um, it just makes it all, all the sadder anyway, but, but he gives that speech 0.96

00:32:20.000 about the coronavirus and then he turns around and does this. Apparently his way of, of battling the,

00:32:27.880 the coronavirus is to sprinkle whatever ancient and mysterious communicable diseases are bouncing

00:32:34.980 around his 78 year old body, sprinkle them all over the pizza, like Parmesan cheese. So

00:32:41.640 should this video alone disqualify him from the presidency? Well, well, he's already disqualified

00:32:47.360 himself, but of course it should, it should disqualify anybody. Uh, should it disqualify him

00:32:52.420 from citizenship? Should he, should he have his citizenship revoked? I think obviously yes. 1.00

00:32:57.460 Uh, should there be, uh, should there be even harsher penalties than that? Um, I think again,

00:33:04.620 clearly, you know, it goes without saying under my regime, uh, finger lickers, people would chew with

00:33:10.540 their mouth open, double dippers, uh, all of those, you know, uh, we're going to start with,

00:33:17.880 with imprisonment at a minimum. Um, and then, and then we'll go from there. And, you know, of course,

00:33:24.240 because I'm a merciful and just person, I would take it on a case by case basis.

00:33:28.140 I would assess moral culpability and all those kinds of things in the worst cases, you know,

00:33:33.200 we would be looking at execution. Of course, let's consider some of the particulars here though,

00:33:38.000 with this, with this video, first of all, before we even get to the part where he's slobbering all

00:33:42.840 over everybody in the room, who, who serves coffee with pizza, who puts coffee and pizza in the same

00:33:51.800 spread. Coffee is a diuretic. Pizza is congealed grease in the form of food. You don't combine

00:33:58.660 those two things in the same bowels. That's like throwing a whole pack of Mentos into a two liter

00:34:03.640 of, uh, of Coke. It's just, it's, it's not a good thing to combine. Also just taste wise,

00:34:07.940 it doesn't work. Everyone knows you're having a pizza party, beer and soda. Now beer is a diuretic

00:34:12.240 too, but you know, it's beer, so it's okay. Second thing, people who lick their fingers in general

00:34:17.880 are, and no offense intended, degenerate freaks. Um, God made napkins for a reason. 0.96

00:34:25.680 Nobody wants to see or hear you slurping the food particles off of your, off of your own limbs,

00:34:33.720 like some sort of animal. And then when you consider all the bacteria that you have under

00:34:38.780 your fingernails, you ever look that up? It's a cornucopia of bacteria under your fingernails.

00:34:45.160 And, and, and you're slurping that off your finger. So it's, you might as well eat oatmeal

00:34:50.800 out of a urinal. It's, it's the same thing as far as the germs go. Um, but at least the average

00:34:57.080 finger sucker has the decency to wash their hands after they do it before touching anything. At least 1.00

00:35:02.740 I tell myself they, they wash their hands because I have to tell myself that to keep myself from

00:35:07.200 stabbing them. But Bloomberg not only didn't wash his hands, but seemingly made a point of touching

00:35:13.660 all the food products in the vicinity, like a, like a feral cat marking his territory. And here's

00:35:19.200 the thing that is just about the only thing that actually would salvage Bloomberg's decency or

00:35:25.020 whatever's left of it. If he were to, to, to say, to, to offer the excuse that he licked his fingers

00:35:33.560 and then touched the pizza in order to stop other people from eating the pizza so that he could eat

00:35:37.420 it and have it all to himself, then I would say, well, that is selfish and rude, but it's also shrewd

00:35:43.720 from a strategic perspective. I would respect it. Um, I would respect the game, even if I'm repulsed by

00:35:51.340 it. But I think that this was not a tactile move, uh, a tactical move from, on Bloomberg's part. I think

00:35:59.460 he had no intention of eating all the pizza. I think all he wanted was that one little clump of

00:36:04.320 cheese. He just didn't care if he shared his slobber with the entire room. And that makes him

00:36:12.480 a psychopath, a terrorist, unfit for some civilized society. And we can add it to all of the many 0.99

00:36:19.200 reasons to be glad that he has now dropped out of the race and is canceled, canceled twice over.

00:36:26.460 All right, let's go to emails. Uh, mattwallshowatgmail.com, mattwallshowatgmail.com. This

00:36:31.120 is from Ruben says, hi, I just subscribed to the daily wire this past November and feel a little

00:36:34.820 late to the party. I thoroughly enjoy most of the shows, but particularly appreciate that Matt doesn't

00:36:39.220 cover the exact same topics as the other guys. Ben gives a fair account of political events and

00:36:43.420 provides his conservative take. Michael and Andrew are deep in the tank for the right, but they're

00:36:46.620 entertaining and open about it. So I appreciate that. Then there's Mr. Walsh who tackles the moral

00:36:50.780 issues and threats confronting our culture. It's a paradoxical breath of fresh air during the day to turn

00:36:55.200 from the constant undermining of our country by the left to the attack on our morality

00:36:58.920 by the left. But who is Matt Walsh? Why is he never on backstage? Why isn't he in the studio

00:37:03.860 with the rest of the guys? I'm completely lost on why he seems to be just a guy with a mic that

00:37:08.240 they allow to use their platform with the daily wire. Is there something that I should know or am

00:37:12.020 missing? Any clarification would be great. Thanks. Well, Ruben, you ask who is Matt Walsh?

00:37:18.900 I am just a man with hopes and dreams, um, and a plan to enslave mankind and carry out mass 0.95

00:37:27.000 executions of everybody who annoys me. Uh, that's, and that's really what this show is about as you've

00:37:31.820 already been able to tell. And that's what I'm about as a person. Um, and I think that gets to

00:37:38.340 the core of who I am. So I hope that answers your question. I also hope it explains why they keep me

00:37:44.080 in a cave 3000 miles away. Let's go to John says, Hey, Matt, first of all, big fan of the show.

00:37:50.440 Listen to your show almost every day. My buddy and I love listening to your takes on logical thinking

00:37:54.200 when it comes to cultural political issues. My question pertains to the relationship between

00:37:58.100 politics and the church growing up in a conservative Christian household raised by my

00:38:02.680 conservative Christian parents. I've always been surrounded by this idea of living a moral life

00:38:06.900 and finding purpose through the Christian faith as admirable as, uh, all this sounds. Do you think

00:38:12.940 that Christians of the church have any responsibility or moral culpability when it comes to tackling 0.94

00:38:16.960 polarizing and divisive cultural and political issues? I haven't read your book church of cowards 0.85

00:38:21.340 yet, but the very premise of the book seems to point to a larger problem and symptoms within

00:38:25.660 Christian and conservative circles. I very much agree with you that conservatives and Christians

00:38:29.160 need to be more combative and maybe more aggressive when discussing these things. Um, an old, 0.99

00:38:34.220 but timeless quote from Ralph Nader, uh, back in the day has stuck with me when thinking about

00:38:38.960 the subject, turn on the politics or politics will turn on you. I'd love to hear your thoughts,

00:38:45.420 John. Well, John, thanks for the email. And also thanks for the chance that you gave me to hawk my

00:38:50.660 book church of cowards, which is in stores now, wherever books are sold, go to Amazon and buy it.

00:38:56.920 Obviously I agree with what you said here. And this is a big part of why I wrote the book church of

00:39:00.660 cowards. Um, and what I address in the book. Yes, the church has a profound responsibility to engage with,

00:39:07.180 show leadership on, lend clarity to the cultural and social issues of the day. I've often said,

00:39:16.020 you know, as I say also in the book that entering into a church should be entering into something

00:39:23.820 sacred, something set apart, something elevated. Um, but that doesn't mean that it should be something

00:39:31.320 irrelevant to your daily life, precisely the opposite. The problem is that so many churches

00:39:40.000 have tried hard to make the church experience reflect on the surface anyway, superficially

00:39:46.880 the culture. And so that you walk into a church and, and everything from the architecture to the

00:39:52.040 music, to, to the message, everything, you can hardly even tell that you're in a church.

00:39:55.780 That's what so many churches have done. Um, but then when it comes to that message,

00:40:01.980 it's completely irrelevant. It's, it's, uh, it doesn't speak to the experiences of the people

00:40:09.480 in the congregation. It doesn't speak to the moral and spiritual battles they face face. It doesn't

00:40:15.020 speak to the anxieties and fears and longings they have living in modern culture, raising children

00:40:21.100 in modern culture. So this is entirely backwards. The reality is whether we like it or not, and I

00:40:27.500 certainly don't like it. We live in a world where children are exploited and murdered, where the

00:40:33.580 family is under attack, marriage is under attack, basic moral truths are undermined, faith is maligned

00:40:39.740 and on and on and on. If the church will not address that, will not speak boldly to that and about

00:40:48.080 that giving people direction and how to navigate it and encouragement in, in, in, in their battles

00:40:57.520 out there on the battlefield of, of, of, of, of modern culture, then people are going to start

00:41:03.180 saying, what do I even need you for? What do I need any of this for? What's the point of this?

00:41:09.400 Um, and I think that's, what's increasingly happen happening, um, where the church and church leaders

00:41:18.380 in their cowardice, and they're not wanting to overturn the apple cart or upset people. They have,

00:41:24.500 um, made faith seem irrelevant, even though it isn't, they made it seem irrelevant to people

00:41:30.380 and people say this is useless. What, uh, you know, it's, what's the point of this?

00:41:38.160 Um, and that's just a tragedy and that's the tragedy I talk about the book. Finally, this is

00:41:43.140 from Heather. Um, as we find out why I'm wrong, here's your, uh, why I'm wrong email of the day

00:41:49.000 from Heather says, Matt, you're wrong about sexual harassment. It's true that women do flirt with men. 0.99

00:41:53.940 You're right about that. But the difference is that women don't have the same physical power and 1.00

00:41:57.420 ability to force themselves on others. Sexual harassment is a more serious problem for men,

00:42:02.100 even if it isn't more common from men, that's what you're missing. Well, thanks Heather. First

00:42:08.060 of all, keep in mind, even if I agreed with you, and I do agree with some of what you're saying,

00:42:14.240 my point yesterday is that by the standards of the culture, according to what is said about men and

00:42:18.700 women, that argument doesn't fly. So the same people who are on this witch hunt against sexual 1.00

00:42:24.340 harassment are, are largely the people who would say that men and women are basically the same

00:42:29.680 and, and aren't really different. And, and men aren't necessarily stronger than, uh, than women

00:42:35.160 anyway. So they can't use the argument that you just presented, which is why they, by their own

00:42:41.440 standard must take male and female harassment equally as serious. I mean, don't tell me in one breath

00:42:48.400 that women can be on the front lines of combat because they're capable of being just as menacing 1.00

00:42:54.920 and lethal as men. And then in the next breath, tell me that it doesn't matter when they harass men

00:43:00.540 because they're just petite little flowers that could never harm a fly. Those two things don't work.

00:43:06.340 Now, putting that aside back in reality, where we realize that men and women are different,

00:43:10.800 I still say there's a double standard. Yes, men are more capable of forcing themselves on women,

00:43:16.100 but that shouldn't lead to, and does not justify a dichotomy where women are almost never called

00:43:22.320 out for sexual harassment and men are called out for it. Even when they do something as, you know,

00:43:27.000 as, as, as innocuous as complimenting a woman on her appearance, this kind of situation can't be

00:43:33.960 rationalized, uh, on the sole basis that men are stronger. Yeah. That might make their harassment 1.00

00:43:41.320 in some circumstances, uh, more serious in some circumstances, but if harassment is wrong,

00:43:51.280 then it's wrong. And if complimenting somebody on their appearance is harassment,

00:43:57.220 then it's harassment and it's harassment when women do it too. Now, I don't think it is harassment, 0.99

00:44:02.460 but if that's your, your, your, your take on it, if that's what you think,

00:44:06.140 then you have to say it about women. Um, same for flirting, same for sexual comments that are made. 0.68

00:44:13.820 Women do all of that. Now, when it comes to something like initiating a flirtatious exchange, 1.00

00:44:22.980 I don't buy for a second that men are more likely to do that or do it more often or do it in more

00:44:30.780 inappropriate circumstances. I don't think that's true at all. I think at a minimum, it's equal. If,

00:44:36.700 if anything, maybe women are more guilty, but, uh, but, but you certainly can't say, I just, 0.85

00:44:41.820 I don't think there's any basis to say that men are more guilty of that than women are.

00:44:46.460 Now, some of this stuff, depending on the situation, some of this stuff can be sexual harassment,

00:44:53.060 but it, it, it, it, it, it would also be that when women do it yet, they're almost never called out

00:45:00.840 for it. They're almost never condemned for it. Nobody takes it seriously. And even when you go

00:45:07.680 into things that are much more serious than mere sexual harassment, we talk about sexual activity,

00:45:13.060 talk about an adult having sex with a, with a, with a minor, for example, um, like all of these 0.67

00:45:18.640 female teachers who are, you know, having sex with, with 12 and 13 or 14 year old boys, 0.91

00:45:23.520 which is, which is actually an epidemic across the country. As I have tried to call attention to 0.90

00:45:29.440 for, for many years now, the sexual abuse problem in the public school system, not just among female

00:45:34.940 teachers, but male teachers too. Um, but the sexual abuse problem in, in this public school system is an

00:45:41.080 epidemic. It is, it is, it's tens of thousands of kids are being sexually abused in the public school

00:45:45.560 system. Nobody talks about it. Um, we especially don't, well, when it comes to the women doing it, 1.00

00:45:52.000 we may talk about it, but we talk about it in this kind of joking way that we would never, ever,

00:46:00.060 ever do if the genders are reversed again, double standard. Um, and that's what I'm, that's what I'm

00:46:09.680 calling attention to. I I'm, I'm saying that there should be one standard. We can get into assessing,

00:46:14.440 uh, you know, seriousness of this and that thing. But, but if sexual harassment is wrong,

00:46:21.140 which it is, it's wrong when anyone does it. If complimenting someone is, is harassment,

00:46:26.880 which it isn't, but if it is, if you're arguing that it is, then it, then it's,

00:46:30.980 it, that's the case for men and women. And that's my point. All right, we'll leave it there.

00:46:34.700 Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for listening. Uh, have a great day. Godspeed.

00:46:38.140 Thank you.

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00:47:13.840 The Matt Wall Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2020.

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