The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 440 - The Hypocrisy of Wealthy Socialists

00:00:00.080 Welcome to the show, everybody. Much to cover today. We'll begin with a prominent socialist on YouTube and social media, a guy who regularly rails against the rich, really doesn't like rich people.

00:00:11.380 Well, he says they have no credibility to speak on anything and we shouldn't listen to them.

00:00:16.260 Well, you'll never guess where this is going. Big, big twist ending. Turns out the guy himself is extremely wealthy.

00:00:22.500 His family owns multiple mansions, on and on and on.

00:00:25.240 So we'll talk about that. There seems to be a theme here. This seems to be a trend where you've got these prominent socialists who end up being rich.

00:00:31.680 Why is that? We'll talk about it. Also, five headlines, including an update on the ongoing civil war over toilet paper that is happening in the aisles of our supermarkets, spurred on by the coronavirus.

00:00:43.200 Why is it that everybody is rushing to the store to get toilet paper because of the coronavirus? We'll try to figure that out as well.

00:00:48.700 Well, and a coronavirus-related daily cancellation that we'll get to. Finally, some of your emails, Pat writes in to tell me why I'm wrong about abortion.

00:00:58.620 So he believes he's got a great argument. They'll debunk everything I say about the subject, and we'll get to that. We'll read it. We'll see if he succeeds or not.

00:01:07.680 By the way, I'd be remiss if I didn't take a moment and wish you a belated happy International Women's Day. 1.00

00:01:15.640 International Women's Day was yesterday. I hope you celebrated it.

00:01:18.700 As you know, I believe in celebrating women. I'm something of a reputed feminist, and it's just something I believe in.

00:01:30.660 It's as simple as that. Celebrating women, celebrating progress, it's something that's important to me.

00:01:38.180 And so I went up to my wife in honor of the holiday, and I said, listen, Toots, it's International Women's Day, and I want you to really enjoy it.

00:01:47.280 So I'm going to let you make me whatever you want for dinner. It's up to you. Go crazy with it.

00:01:55.360 And then I said, you can even make a little for yourself, too. You can even have half a portion if you want.

00:02:02.140 And the look in her eyes was, well, it just made it all worth it, I have to say.

00:02:06.380 And that's what supporting women is all about, folks. So, again, I hope you had a great day there.

00:02:12.120 Before we get to the rich socialist, not Bernie Sanders, but the other rich socialist.

00:02:16.680 No, not Michael Moore, the other rich socialist.

00:02:20.780 Before we get to that, speaking of me being a sexist bigot, I'll be speaking at the University of Maryland tonight, wanted to mention.

00:02:28.540 I'll be giving my talk on the left's war on reality, focusing especially on their assaults on life, marriage, and gender.

00:02:36.460 Well, maybe. I don't know. We've got Pat's email on abortion, so maybe he'll convince me otherwise.

00:02:41.520 I'll have to take the life part out of it. We'll see.

00:02:43.600 But that's probably what the talk is going to be about.

00:02:46.000 And it turns out that some of the students don't want me there, which is really surprising because I'm such a lovable guy.

00:02:52.920 I don't know why anybody wouldn't like me.

00:02:55.240 And there's this poster going around that was put up on campus.

00:02:58.760 It says, fascist bigots out of Maryland stand with LGBT plus UM.

00:03:08.320 What does that say? I can't even read that. 0.76

00:03:10.400 University of Maryland students against bigotry and hatred on their campus.

00:03:14.060 First of all, for a poster, you need much better font than this.

00:03:18.580 It's hard to read, at least for me. I'm also half blind.

00:03:21.240 Matt Walsh of Daily Wire speaking at Stamp Student Union.

00:03:25.420 Then it offers a quote from me. It says, if there is trans acceptance in society, Western civilization is over. 0.93

00:03:31.360 I don't think that's a direct quote. I don't think I said that exactly.

00:03:36.080 Help us show opposition to Walsh's dangerous rhetoric.

00:03:39.400 Meet at the front entrance at six.

00:03:42.340 Okay, so there you go.

00:03:43.540 All I wanted to say about this is I find it a little bit hurtful because, you know, calling me a fascist bigot.

00:03:54.420 I think it's out of bounds.

00:03:55.140 I have made it very clear I am a theocratic fascist bigot.

00:04:01.040 So that's the particular flavor of oppression and tyranny that I personally support.

00:04:08.060 And I would appreciate it if you would respect my self-identification.

00:04:12.060 That's all I'm going to say about that.

00:04:13.960 Anyway, I'll be there at seven tonight, so hopefully I'll see you there.

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00:05:50.440 Okay, Carlos Maza.

00:05:52.700 Maybe you've heard of him.

00:05:54.400 Maybe not.

00:05:55.960 He is, well, he's this guy.

00:05:58.320 The long, dark night.

00:06:00.640 Of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity.

00:06:06.280 The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic realities can have a disproportionately great effect.

00:06:17.320 The tiniest event can tear a hole in the gray curtain of reaction, which has marked the horizon of possibility.

00:06:24.480 From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible.

00:06:30.860 Yes, very smart.

00:06:33.220 Very smart guy.

00:06:33.820 You can tell he's smart because of the big words.

00:06:35.760 That's how you know.

00:06:36.580 That's how you know the smart people.

00:06:38.940 Actually, he was quoting a book there, which makes him even smarter.

00:06:44.220 And Maza, you may remember him from when he was trying to de-platform Steven Crowder a while back.

00:06:49.200 So he's that same guy.

00:06:50.180 He's big into de-platforming people.

00:06:52.400 It's sort of his thing.

00:06:53.460 Part of his motto. 0.99

00:06:54.200 In fact, his motto is, be gay, do socialism, de-platform bigots. 0.99

00:06:59.660 Like I said, the guy's a genius. 0.99

00:07:01.420 Do socialism.

00:07:03.980 You know, you can't put it any better way than that. 1.00

00:07:07.080 He's also, as it turns out, a filthy hypocrite. 1.00

00:07:10.500 There's a fascinating piece in the New York Post from John Levine. 1.00

00:07:13.560 Levine exposes Maza's hypocrisy.

00:07:16.880 And the price that he paid for it, Levine did, is that he got suspended from Twitter.

00:07:20.960 He's reporting on this.

00:07:22.840 Twitter suspended him twice.

00:07:24.760 Suspended him, let him back, suspended him again, and then said that he could come back if he deletes some of his reporting about Carlos Maza.

00:07:32.100 Which he had to do so that he could come back.

00:07:35.660 And this is what happens. 0.99

00:07:38.500 The leftist hypocrites protect their own. 1.00

00:07:42.300 They circle the wagons. 0.99

00:07:44.160 Now, as Levine reports, Maza is not only a socialist, but he's taken to publicly criticizing people for being wealthy.

00:07:52.220 Here he is attacking James Carville for being rich.

00:07:55.880 Says, just found out James Carville, who spends his time lecturing Democrats for being too far left, lives in an absolutely obscene four-story mansion.

00:08:04.760 And, dear God, can we stop taking political advice from the ultra-wealthy?

00:08:10.620 And then he continues, you really have to respect this guy's grift.

00:08:13.880 Constantly dressing in normal clothes on TV to feign relatability while living like this.

00:08:18.860 Masterful con artist.

00:08:20.960 In another quote, another post quoted by Levine, he apparently wrote, 0.98

00:08:24.560 We should treat gay people the same way we treat straight people, eating them when they get too rich. 1.00

00:08:31.280 So, you know, he wants to eat the rich. 0.99

00:08:34.100 He's into that.

00:08:35.940 Meanwhile, Maza also fundraisers from his followers, hits them up for cash,

00:08:39.860 calls them his comrades, the ones who donate to him, donate to him through Patreon.

00:08:47.540 All of this, despite being himself, apparently, enormously wealthy.

00:08:53.760 Reading now from the Post article, it says,

00:08:55.460 Through his clan, the Millennial Firebrand is connected to multiple Florida mega mansions.

00:09:00.620 A $7.1 million pad on the Upper West Side, purchased under an LLC,

00:09:06.500 and a yacht by luxury boatmaker Donzi.

00:09:10.620 Personally, they're my favorite yacht maker.

00:09:12.400 I've got a couple, and that's, if you're going for a yacht, definitely go for the Donzi.

00:09:16.620 Just my opinion.

00:09:18.160 He says, Mazza's mother, Vivian Mazza, was one of the first employees at Ultimate Software,

00:09:23.280 a Florida-based behemoth, which now employs more than 5,000 people.

00:09:27.440 Starting in 1990, as an office manager, she ultimately rose to become the group's chief people officer in 2004.

00:09:34.080 In addition to her day job, Vivian Mazza has developed a very close personal relationship

00:09:37.980 with the company founder, Scott Sher, so close that an independent assessment of the company in 2016

00:09:42.760 cited the relationship as a corporate governance concern.

00:09:46.260 The report said they believe the pair to be more than just coworkers and have a familial relationship.

00:09:51.040 The two later became engaged, and the couple has lived together for years,

00:09:55.180 with Sher being a de facto stepfather to Carlos.

00:09:57.840 Public records show Vivian, Scott, Carlos, and sister Isabel all registered to vote

00:10:01.940 at a five-bedroom, eight-bathroom waterfront palace in Boca Raton, Florida.

00:10:07.760 First of all, what do you need eight bathrooms for?

00:10:11.060 Talk about wasting water.

00:10:13.600 I mean, why would you need more bathrooms than you have?

00:10:15.640 They got twice as many bathrooms as people.

00:10:17.860 Each person gets two bathrooms.

00:10:22.320 The property sold in 2018 for $10.8 million, according to realty website Zillow.

00:10:27.420 Sher also unloaded a four-bed, four-bath home in 2015 in Weston, Florida, for $1.8 million.

00:10:36.700 Eh, just $1.8 million.

00:10:38.140 A little poultry little thing.

00:10:39.780 Vivian currently resides full-time in a $4.4 million two-bed, three-bath luxury condo in Fort Lauderdale,

00:10:45.000 which she lists as her primary residence, according to a 2020 report filed by LCH-23 LLC, which she controls.

00:10:52.760 The same LLC purchased a $7.1 million condo on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in November 2017.

00:10:59.280 Let's take a look at the mansion.

00:11:01.760 This is the one, I believe, in Boca Raton.

00:11:04.240 So there it is right there.

00:11:06.420 Pretty nice.

00:11:07.860 Nicer than Bernie's Place.

00:11:09.380 So I bet there's a little bit of socialist jealousy going on there.

00:11:12.200 The socialists are all about jealousy.

00:11:13.420 That's their whole thing.

00:11:16.660 And it continues.

00:11:18.020 It's not clear how much Vivian and Sher actively support Mazza's lifestyle,

00:11:22.600 but Evans suggests the family has been happy to pitch in to help spread his socialist message.

00:11:26.280 Both Sher and Vivian Mazza are listed as comrades at the end of Carlos' most recent YouTube video.

00:11:34.320 And the younger Mazza himself admitted in an interview with Mel Magazine that his family was there to financially back him if he needed it.

00:11:40.520 Vivian and Scott also have pitched in on the rent for Carlos' chic East Village pad just across from Tompkins Square Park.

00:11:49.940 Rents for about $3,000 a month, according to the Post.

00:11:55.460 Okay, so there you have it.

00:11:57.940 Now, if I were to attempt some kind of long-distance psychotherapy here, I would say that maybe Carlos has some mommy and daddy issues.

00:12:07.420 And so his eat the rich stuff is really about his resentment for his parents.

00:12:11.860 In fact, I think there's a lot of that.

00:12:17.760 We've talked about what's the reason why socialism has become so popular with the younger generation.

00:12:25.100 And there are many reasons for it.

00:12:26.340 We've got it.

00:12:26.700 I think one issue that does play a part is this, mommy and daddy issues.

00:12:31.540 Why is it that so many of these young socialists are, you know, they're college educated.

00:12:36.160 A lot of them went to nice colleges.

00:12:37.880 They don't come from dirt poverty, a lot of them.

00:12:40.680 They come from upper-class society.

00:12:45.600 And they were raised by well-off baby boomers.

00:12:51.340 Probably a lot of them, you know, their parents, two parents or one probably divorced, both working full-time.

00:12:58.460 They were latchkey kids, came home to empty houses.

00:13:01.600 Maybe they had a nanny that was there. 1.00

00:13:03.920 They had all the electronics that they could ever want.

00:13:06.620 And they were playing video games and stuff.

00:13:07.760 But, you know, they felt emotionally neglected.

00:13:10.060 See, I told you, I'm doing the psychotherapy.

00:13:11.360 I think this is part of it.

00:13:12.600 They felt emotionally neglected by their rich parents growing up.

00:13:15.740 And now they're taking that out on those parents by saying, let's eat the rich. 0.91

00:13:20.000 Rich people are evil. 0.98

00:13:21.220 What they really mean is, my parents are evil. 0.97

00:13:23.800 I don't like my parents.

00:13:24.780 At the same time, though, they've got no problem accepting help from their parents.

00:13:29.860 In fact, they demand it.

00:13:31.060 So they're going to take the money.

00:13:33.260 Yes, you could pay my rent and you could pay for my cell phone and everything else.

00:13:39.960 But I still hate rich people.

00:13:41.660 So I think there's part of it.

00:13:43.740 But generally, we find this with, of course, with many of the prominent high-profile socialists out there.

00:13:51.100 We find that socialism is a grift, speaking of grifts.

00:13:55.000 And in many ways, it's very similar to the snake oil televangelists who get rich preaching their own self-serving version of the gospel.

00:14:03.020 Carlos Maza, Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore.

00:14:06.960 These guys are like the Jim Bakers of socialist politics.

00:14:12.440 Jim Baker, by the way, is a televangelist.

00:14:16.360 I've talked about him before.

00:14:17.260 He was the one who was arrested for fraud, went to prison for it, and then got out and got right back into it.

00:14:24.120 Got right back into being a wolf in sheep's clothing.

00:14:26.980 Put the sheep's clothing right back on, dove right in, has a big following again, is on TV.

00:14:32.360 Right now, he's hawking a liquid that he says can cure the coronavirus.

00:14:40.960 And you can buy it for the low, low price of $300.

00:14:43.240 So that's what these people are, baby.

00:14:46.960 They're like Jim Baker, except of socialism.

00:14:49.880 They've got their own calibrated, self-serving message of salvation that they sell, literally sell, to the dazed and confused and credulous masses. 0.97

00:15:00.240 And the only difference, I guess, is while the snake oil televangelists are preying often upon the elderly, the snake oil socialists are preying upon the young and dumb.

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00:16:50.120 All right, let's go to headlines.

00:16:52.680 Number one, Dwayne Wade posted on Instagram last night reintroducing his son as his daughter.

00:17:01.100 His son, at just 12 years old recently, transitioned, quote unquote, into a girl.

00:17:06.540 And by transition, we mean he remains a boy, totally a boy in every sense, but he's pretending

00:17:12.440 to be a girl because he's confused, the child is. 0.51

00:17:15.660 And Dwayne and his Hollywood actress wife are more than happy to foment and encourage that

00:17:19.800 confusion because it helps them feel trendy and progressive and end up with the times.

00:17:24.700 And that's what this is about.

00:17:26.380 So here's the post.

00:17:28.020 It says, everyone allow her to reintroduce herself.

00:17:32.300 Her name is Zaya Wade.

00:17:34.220 Last night was Zaya's first red carpet, and we couldn't have been prouder of how she handled

00:17:38.000 the questions that were asked of her.

00:17:40.040 She has emerged as one of the young voices and faces for the LGBTQ plus community.

00:17:45.660 Okay, again, this is a boy in every sense, a boy, very straightforward, only the boy is

00:17:53.880 now wearing women's pants. 1.00

00:17:56.040 It's a boy in women's pants. 1.00

00:17:57.460 That's what this is.

00:17:58.320 Nothing confusing here.

00:17:59.620 There's no scientific marvel.

00:18:02.340 People say it's a complex issue.

00:18:04.160 No, it's not complex.

00:18:05.500 There's nothing complex about this.

00:18:07.480 That is a boy wearing women's pants and a green jacket.

00:18:11.840 That's what that is.

00:18:12.820 And in no way do the pants or jacket make him a girl.

00:18:19.040 In no way.

00:18:21.000 In no way does anything make him a girl or could anything.

00:18:25.200 He's going to be a boy forever.

00:18:27.520 Okay, that is a scientific fact.

00:18:31.920 Now, and his own confusion, his own feelings, those don't make him a girl either.

00:18:37.540 And if you think that confusion and feelings is what makes somebody a girl, well, then I

00:18:44.740 would suggest that, you know, you are a sexist. 0.76

00:18:48.320 And that's something you need to think about in International Women's Week. 1.00

00:18:53.700 Now, the other question is, how is he a face and voice for the LGBTQ community?

00:19:00.420 He's 12 years old.

00:19:02.380 What makes him a face and voice for anyone?

00:19:06.720 And why are you trying to put your child forward at the age of 12 as the face and voice for a

00:19:12.320 whole community of people?

00:19:14.100 This was a red carpet for something called the Truth Awards, by the way.

00:19:17.760 And that's the event they were attending.

00:19:19.720 The Truth Awards are an award show for LGBT people in the arts.

00:19:24.380 So the kid just, quote, came out as trans a few weeks ago.

00:19:29.180 Already, they're bringing him to award shows and they've got him on a red carpet.

00:19:34.940 And you're going to tell me this isn't about the parents wanting to feel trendy?

00:19:40.420 I mean, even if you think that a 12-year-old can become a girl, okay, even if you know absolutely 0.92

00:19:47.040 nothing about science, even if you know less about science than my six-year-olds do, so you

00:19:50.520 think that a boy can become a girl, you should still agree that when a 12-year-old is going 0.89

00:19:57.180 through this process, you don't bring him out to a red carpet and traipse him in front

00:20:03.060 of cameras and start saying they're, he's emerged, she's, quote, unquote, she's emerged

00:20:08.040 as a, what was the quote?

00:20:09.860 She has emerged as one of the young faces and voices.

00:20:14.460 What do you mean emerged?

00:20:15.680 This is a few weeks ago.

00:20:17.840 Already, he's a face and voice for the LGBT.

00:20:20.060 How so?

00:20:22.700 He's only that because you're forcing him to be that, because you're putting him in front

00:20:27.620 of cameras.

00:20:29.440 What a, what a, what a shock.

00:20:32.320 When you, when you stick your kids in front of cameras, all of a sudden they become a face

00:20:35.540 and voice.

00:20:39.020 Number two, it turns out that someone was infected with the coronavirus at CPAC.

00:20:42.780 Lovely.

00:20:43.000 Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz and, uh, and representative Paul Gosar, um, are going into voluntary self-quarantine,

00:20:51.820 they say, because they apparently interacted with this individual.

00:20:54.760 A reasonable precaution as, um, the, uh, the, the virus is thought to have as much of a, as a,

00:21:00.840 as a 14 day incubation period.

00:21:03.680 So CPAC was over a week ago.

00:21:06.320 So they're going in for the remainder of the 14 days.

00:21:09.020 They say they have no symptoms, just precautions, which is great.

00:21:12.740 Um, now if the virus is, has a 14 day incubation period and it's contagious for that whole time,

00:21:22.600 then that obviously is not great news.

00:21:27.680 And it would seem like maybe your chances of, of getting the virus may become, might become

00:21:31.320 greater than your chances of not getting it.

00:21:33.340 If that's the case, fortunately, according to the CDC, I was reading about this and what

00:21:37.780 they're saying is it looks like right now, a lot of this is tentative because we still

00:21:41.280 don't know a lot about the virus, but what they're saying is, um, they think it's possible

00:21:45.960 for someone that for number one, for the virus to incubate for 14 days.

00:21:50.240 And it's possible for someone to transmit the virus when they're asymptomatic, but they're

00:21:55.320 also saying that it's much more likely that you'll contract it if you do from someone who

00:21:59.480 is showing symptoms and from direct personal contact with them.

00:22:03.980 Um, as long as that remains the, the, by far the primary way that the virus is, is, uh,

00:22:10.820 spread that I would think that containment is a real possibility.

00:22:14.520 But when you start talking about 14 days incubation contagious the whole time, that's where, um,

00:22:19.060 it gets a little bit.

00:22:20.240 A little bit more unwieldy.

00:22:22.600 Number three, uh, and it may be early on, but we've already reached the fistfights over

00:22:27.980 toilet paper stage of the epidemic.

00:22:30.640 Here's what that looks like.

00:22:31.740 Oh, you know what I'm talking about?

00:22:44.200 Yes, toilet paper has become a hot commodity. In fact, my wife went to the grocery store 0.99

00:23:06.080 yesterday, not, not panic buying, but we, we actually just needed groceries just for normal

00:23:10.860 thing to go to the grocery store, which is what we do every week. But she went, she said it was,

00:23:15.200 she, she attested. It was like the apocalypse. It was entire shelves cleaned out, very difficult

00:23:21.620 to find basic items, especially things for our kids, which is concerning. So we, so, but here's,

00:23:25.880 here's what happens now. So we go to the store and we need stuff for our kid. We need toilet paper

00:23:30.700 also like everybody does, uh, to civilized society. We also need wipes and diapers and things for our

00:23:35.700 kids, but those things are being scooped up. And so now we have to stock up on them too.

00:23:42.040 And we've got to go and start, it's not, I wouldn't call it panic buying. We're not panicking,

00:23:45.700 but we've got to do that too, because we want to make sure we have that available for our kids if we

00:23:49.580 need it. Um, and this is what, this is, this is how panic works. This is how mass hysteria works.

00:23:56.800 It is self generating. People are asking, why is everybody running out to the store for toilet

00:24:01.560 paper? Well, everyone's running out to the store for toilet paper because everybody else is running

00:24:05.240 out to the store for toilet paper and you don't want to be the one left without a toilet paper.

00:24:08.600 And so that's what happens. There's not any real reason why the coronavirus should, should cause

00:24:15.080 this, um, there's no reason why the coronavirus would lead to people running out of toilet paper,

00:24:21.860 but it just starts. People go out, they panic, they scoop it up. And then other people say,

00:24:26.980 well, I, I need some. So then, and then it's a self generating, it's mass hysteria,

00:24:31.220 it's panic. And we're watching it play out right in front of our eyes. This is what it looks like.

00:24:35.420 Number four, Kamala Harris endorsed Joe Biden. Here she is. Here she is in, in what seems to be a

00:24:40.620 bunker recording an endorsement video with, it appears a toaster.

00:24:45.080 So I just wanted you guys to know, cause you've been supporting me for so long. And, um, I just

00:24:50.200 wanted you guys to know, I have decided that I am with great enthusiasm going to endorse Joe Biden

00:24:56.920 for president of the United States. I believe in Joe. I really believe in him and I have known him

00:25:02.440 for a long time. One of the things that we need right now is we need a leader who really does care

00:25:08.920 about the people and who can therefore unify the people. And I believe Joe can do that. Um,

00:25:15.160 I am supporting Joe because I believe that he is a man who has lived his life with great dignity.

00:25:20.600 Um, he is a public servant who has always worked for the best of who we are as a nation. And we need

00:25:28.320 that right now. There is so much at stake in this election guys. So join me in supporting Joe and

00:25:33.960 let's get this done. That's gotta be the most begrudging endorsement video I've ever seen.

00:25:38.340 And it's even worse because she had to stipulate verbally that she has enthusiasm. I am

00:25:45.360 with great enthusiasm endorsing

00:25:50.040 the guy I said was racist. Yeah. A lot of enthusiasm there. Remember she did in the debates

00:25:58.360 not long ago, try to tie Joe Biden to segregationists and she got very tearful about it. That was her one

00:26:04.280 big moment where she was tearfully accusing Joe Biden of befriending segregationists. And now she's

00:26:09.300 saying he's the guy for the job. His, his dignity, his great dignity, the great dignity of this man

00:26:14.660 that I said, uh, a few months ago was befriending segregationists, the great dignity of this man.

00:26:21.100 Finally, number five, an article on study finds.org tells us, here's just the headline. It says

00:26:26.360 seniors who walk for 30 minutes daily cut risk of death from any cause.

00:26:32.560 Your risk of death could be, I read these headlines and I immediately think maybe I'm a, maybe I'm a

00:26:39.580 pessimistic a little bit, but I think I, you know, I don't think you can cut your risk of death

00:26:45.520 from any cause. I think all of our, our risk of death from some cause or another is 100%. We are 100%

00:26:53.420 all going to die. Absolutely. Again, maybe pessimistic. I could be wrong about that, but I think that's,

00:26:59.740 so cutting your risk of death. I think we need to find another way of phrasing that in the headline

00:27:04.560 because you see these headlines all the time. This or that thing supposedly will make you less

00:27:10.060 likely to die. In fact, I read that in the headline. I think it was phrased exactly like that

00:27:13.800 recently. Less likely to die if you do this or that. I don't know. I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical,

00:27:19.840 but maybe I'll go for a walk. It's worth, worth a shot. Let's go to your daily cancellation. Today,

00:27:25.700 we're canceling the folks in media who are claiming that calling the coronavirus, the Wuhan virus is

00:27:32.420 racist. So just a couple of examples. Here's David Gura of NBC making this claim. He says,

00:27:38.880 FYI, calling COVID-19, the Wuhan virus is racist. And then Chris Hayes jumps into the action. He says,

00:27:45.600 just astoundingly gross to call it the Wuhan virus. And they're reacting specifically to Congressman 0.52

00:27:51.480 Gosar, who announced, as I said, he's going into self-quarantine, called it the Wuhan virus in the

00:27:56.000 process of announcing that. And that's where leftists in the media jumped in and said, how dare

00:27:59.720 you call it the Wuhan virus? It's worth noting the media itself was calling it the Wuhan virus when

00:28:05.500 this all first started. CNN used this phrase consistently. Look at these headlines. They used

00:28:10.620 this phrase consistently for weeks. Now, all of a sudden, the term has gone out of fashion, at least

00:28:15.660 according to our betters in the media. But I wonder if Wuhan virus is racist, then what about

00:28:20.580 Spanish flu, Stockholm syndrome, West Nile virus, Zika virus, Lyme disease, German measles? Are all

00:28:33.740 those racist too? And anyway, there may be a very good reason to call this the Wuhan virus, aside from

00:28:41.480 the fact that that's where it originated, which is reason enough, and that's how we've named these sorts

00:28:46.260 of things in the past. But take a look at this tweet from China Daily two years ago, May of 2018.

00:28:54.320 Okay, I don't, I don't, this is not conspiracy. This is what this was, this is a tweet. This is what it

00:28:58.500 says. And there are some, some pictures of people in surgical masks and lab coats. And it says,

00:29:03.480 take a look at the largest virus bank in Asia, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Virology, Virology,

00:29:12.700 Virology? Virology? Anyway, Wuhan Institute of Virology in central China's Hubei province

00:29:21.200 preserves more than 1,500 different strains of virus. Yeah, I think it might be 1,499 now,

00:29:28.980 guys, not 1,500. You may, you may have dropped one back there. Accidentally, I'm sure. Now,

00:29:35.700 I don't know if there's any connection here. All I know is that apparently the largest virus bank in

00:29:40.560 Asia was located in the exact place where a viral pandemic originated. Could be a coincidence,

00:29:48.060 I suppose. It could be. Or not. But I guess asking this question is racist. Can't ask it. Can't talk

00:29:55.640 about it. It, you know, it's, it's, even though there's a, the largest virus bank in Asia is located

00:30:04.140 at the epicenter of this viral pandemic, it's still, of course, way more likely that the whole

00:30:10.740 thing started with a, with a bowl of soup, of bat soup. Started there, you know. How did the bat get 1.00

00:30:17.600 it? Who knows? Nobody knows. Okay. Moving on to emails. Remember, you can subscribe. I urge you to

00:30:27.160 go subscribe today so you can submit questions to the mailbag. We've got, let's see how much time we

00:30:34.720 have. Yeah, we've got one quick question from Kate, and then we're going to go to why I'm wrong,

00:30:38.580 an email from somebody telling me why I'm wrong about, in this case, about abortion. This is from

00:30:42.560 Kate says, my younger brother, 17, has a fun hobby of taking his coon hound hunting Friday nights with

00:30:48.260 the dog's litter mates and their owners. My dad, stepmom, and I were talking about this the other

00:30:52.760 night after he left. Come to find out one of the other owners is a young girl his age. Well,

00:30:57.960 naturally, the topic turned to my brother and his lack of dating habits. My dad made a comment about

00:31:01.840 how he's 17 and it's okay for him to date. My stepmom suddenly snaps, well, what's the difference

00:31:06.160 between him and his sister? The running joke of the family is that we daughters can't date until 1.00

00:31:11.680 we're married. His defense seemed to be along the lines of he trusts my brother not to be the kind

00:31:16.180 of guy he's afraid of us daughters getting involved with. I understood what he meant, but his

00:31:20.740 explanation was a bit fumbled and my stepmom is still annoyed, even saying that she was

00:31:23.960 genuinely upset about his stance. If you got, uh, never good when you get that from the wife. 0.64

00:31:30.640 I'm genuinely upset. I'm really upset about this. Never good. Never good. Um, if you got through that

00:31:37.300 and it made sense, could you possibly provide some arguments or bullet points on why my dad is right

00:31:41.000 or possibly wrong? On a side note, my dad's position on the subject has never changed. And I feel like

00:31:44.960 that's the reason why I didn't date until 21 and married my first boyfriend who holds the same

00:31:49.200 position when it comes to our daughter and son. Thanks for reading this saga. And I look forward

00:31:53.820 to your advice. Kate, um, first of all, you know, I appreciate how you did the woman thing there and

00:32:01.140 provided narrative details that weren't at all necessary to the point. I'm not, it's not a criticism. I just,

00:32:06.320 I do enjoy it. That's my wife does the same thing. All women do. If you want to tell a story,

00:32:11.420 right, you start the story much further back in the timeline than you need to. And you work your way

00:32:17.660 up the windy road to get to the thing you want to discuss. My wife will sometimes begin the story 0.82

00:32:23.520 19 or 20 years before the events she wants to describe. So she'll bump into a friend at,

00:32:28.220 at Kroger and, uh, you know, the grocery store and she'll want to tell me about it, but she'll start with

00:32:34.200 the friend's infancy narrative. And then she'll, she'll go through leading up through the years

00:32:39.020 and decades, their time in school and everything at all. And then eventually culminating in this

00:32:43.360 fateful encounter, uh, in aisle 12 of the grocery store. So here you told me about your brother who

00:32:49.320 enjoys hunting with his coonhound and then took me on a windy, twisty trail before finally getting to

00:32:54.760 the question of whether I think it makes sense for parents to let their sons date earlier than their

00:32:58.780 daughters. Uh, you're right that that was a saga. Now, this was a man asking this question. He would

00:33:03.720 have just dove right into the question. That's it. One sentence question done, but you, you set the

00:33:10.080 stage for me and I appreciate that. And now I guess I'm sort of doing the same thing that you did. I'm

00:33:15.100 doing the same thing I accused you of doing. I've started with a preamble. The difference is I start

00:33:19.700 everything I say with a preamble, which always involves my opinions about things. And then I get

00:33:24.980 to what I want to say. Women start with a prologue. So it's sort of narrative verse editorial. 1.00

00:33:29.940 Okay. Uh, uh, do I think it makes sense to be a bit more protective of our daughters when it comes

00:33:36.360 to dating? Well, yeah, I think it does. And for, for the reason that your, your, your, uh, dad gives

00:33:40.660 of, um, uh, you know, of, of, we have to protect our daughters potentially from bad guys and, and, uh,

00:33:49.380 that's something we have to do. I also think we want to protect our sons from certain girls. We can't

00:33:55.000 lose sight of that. There are, there are bad dudes out there. They're also bad girls. And those girls 1.00

00:33:59.660 can do a lot of psychological and emotional damage, sometimes worse, especially when you think about

00:34:03.480 the false accusations and everything that are so common these days. But all the same, when it comes

00:34:07.420 to the physical safety angle, uh, yes, I think there's a reason to be more protective of our

00:34:12.520 daughters. That said, while, while I believe that directionless dating is pointless and ultimately

00:34:18.280 bad, that is dating that does not have as its intended end, the contemplation of marriage,

00:34:24.620 which doesn't mean, of course, as you know, that I'm saying that if you date someone, you

00:34:29.000 must marry them. But the point is that if you date someone, you should at least be discerning

00:34:33.460 marriage. And if you're not discerning marriage, if you've ruled the possibility of marriage

00:34:36.300 out to begin with, there's really no point of dating because you're doing something that

00:34:40.240 you know absolutely will end in heartbreak. There's no other possibility. And probably soon

00:34:45.020 it will end that way. So you're not really practicing marriage or practicing having healthy

00:34:49.400 relationships. You're practicing divorce. You're practicing having dysfunctional relationships.

00:34:53.240 And that's a lot of what the dating scene is. So I think that's the case. But at the same time,

00:35:00.380 I also think it's not necessarily wise for parents to tell their 17 year olds that they can't date,

00:35:08.580 which it sounds like that's what your daughter, your, um, your daughter. It sounds like that's what 0.59

00:35:12.100 your dad did with his daughters, told them even at 17. I'm just context clues. It seems like that's

00:35:18.440 what you're saying. If that's the case, then, um, I believe you have to give kids some kind of freedom

00:35:24.880 and ability to make decisions before they become adults. Because at 17, you're one year away from

00:35:31.500 legal adulthood and you want to ease your kids into adulthood a little bit and give them some freedoms

00:35:37.640 and, and, and, and the ability to make choices, um, which doesn't mean you let your kids do whatever

00:35:42.900 they want. It doesn't mean that you, you, you know, you, you have your kid dating at the age of 11.

00:35:47.740 I think that there's probably some room in between that and giving your kid no freedom at all until

00:35:54.040 they're adults. So I think that, um, there's room in between there for, I think, a wiser and more

00:36:00.160 prudent approach. You do have to worry about if you take the ultra strict stance with your kids and you

00:36:06.540 say, Oh, no dating. Uh, eventually they're going to be adults and they're going to be out of your

00:36:11.080 control. And, um, there's a good chance that they're going to run out and do everything you

00:36:16.560 didn't want them to do in one repressed explosion because you were far too strict. Um, and I say

00:36:25.020 that as someone who believes generally, you know, that, that so-called, at least what, what, what our

00:36:29.800 culture considers to be strict parenting often is, is the right approach, but it can go, you can go

00:36:34.440 overboard with it. Uh, thank you for the question though, Kate. Finally, why I'm wrong. This is

00:36:38.680 from Pat says, dear Matt, you're wrong about abortion. You say an embryo is life. So what a

00:36:44.480 virus is life. Should we not kill viruses? I know you'll say human life is more valuable than other 0.99

00:36:49.400 kinds of life, but you have to defend why that would be the case. And anyway, the point is that

00:36:54.280 the simple fact of a thing being life does not in and of itself mean much of anything. You must agree

00:36:59.000 with this stance since you were cheering on capital punishment on Friday. Okay, Pat, first of all,

00:37:04.340 I don't claim to be a biologist. Um, but I think most biologists will tell you that viruses are not

00:37:10.020 life. Actually, they're not alive because they lack some of the basic hallmarks of life. They're not

00:37:15.360 self-sustaining. They don't grow. Uh, they can't replicate, replicate without hijacking a living thing,

00:37:21.200 an organism. Um, they can't do it on their own. So what are they? This is the question. And this is a

00:37:28.320 live, uh, pun intended debate among biologists and scientists. What is a virus exactly? How do

00:37:34.680 you classify it? We like to classify things as people. It helps us sort of understand the world

00:37:39.300 around us. Not everything can be classified. So what is a virus? Is it dead? Obviously not. Uh,

00:37:45.440 dead means that it was living once and is no longer. Is a virus inanimate? Well, it doesn't seem so

00:37:51.580 probably doesn't seem like it would fit that qualification. So it seems that viruses are in some

00:37:55.880 sort of gray area between alive and not kind of like biological robots or something. Your,

00:38:03.300 your argument then is actually much weaker than it could have been. And so I'm going to improve

00:38:08.200 your argument for you. And then I'll address the better version of your argument. What you should

00:38:13.040 have said is that viruses are in a gray area between alive and not alive, proving that such gray areas

00:38:19.640 can exist. And therefore it's possible, you would argue that human embryos could occupy a gray area.

00:38:26.980 They could be sort of in between. Um, and in which case, you know, why wouldn't it be okay to kill 0.56

00:38:34.260 them? I think that argument would have been much stronger if you had offered it as for that stronger 0.87

00:38:38.980 argument. Now, as I argue against myself, um, it's true that there, there might be a gray area,

00:38:44.280 but, but, but the organisms or rather the entities, the things that occupy that gray area are there by

00:38:51.320 their nature. What I mean is the gray area is not something that an organism passes through on its way

00:38:59.260 to being alive. Viruses are always viruses. They aren't growing into living things. They aren't,

00:39:04.840 they aren't becoming anything. And, uh, and, and that's one of the reasons why scientists would say

00:39:10.420 they're not alive because they lack that capacity. Um, if they were growing into a recognizable level

00:39:17.860 living thing, then we would have, there'd be no ambiguity. We would say they're alive. Um,

00:39:23.760 if, if virus was a stage of development for some organism, there would be no question that it is alive.

00:39:32.160 So, you know, when it comes to us, we're alive. You are a life, Pat. I'm sure you would agree.

00:39:39.680 You currently are alive. You were once an embryo, just as you were once a toddler. These are stages

00:39:46.900 of development for you that you passed through. So you must've been living the whole time.

00:39:53.960 You were a life the whole time. This is if, if I were to, as I've explained it many times, if I were

00:40:01.580 to take you and go back through your timeline in reverse, if I, if I were to hit reverse, right?

00:40:07.920 On the remote control of your life and follow you backwards, there would be an unbroken chain of

00:40:15.180 you-ness connecting the you of today to the you that was in the womb. I mean, it's you the whole

00:40:21.040 time, right? And therefore you were living the whole time. As for human life being more valuable

00:40:28.680 than other kinds of life, well, you actually agree with me on that, whether you pretend to or not.

00:40:32.740 And I know that you agree with me. I am, yes, I'm going to read your mind and say that you

00:40:38.560 absolutely agree with me on that. And I know you do because if you saw someone step on an ant,

00:40:44.900 or if you stepped on an ant yourself, as I'm sure you have, you do not react the same way as you would

00:40:52.240 if you saw someone shoot another person. Or if you saw someone run over a child in their car,

00:40:59.620 okay, you would react to the latter much, much stronger than you do react to the former.

00:41:05.960 Just like you're driving down the road, you see a dead deer, dead raccoon on the side of the road,

00:41:10.680 I'm assuming you don't pull over and weep every time you see that. You don't even think about it.

00:41:16.340 You just, you just keep along your way. Now, if you were driving along, you saw a dead person on the

00:41:20.400 side of the road. That's going to be something that you remember, and you're going to react to that

00:41:24.160 emotionally. Why is that? So I think what that establishes is that you do see a difference,

00:41:33.240 whether you, whether you acknowledge it or not. The question then is, why do you see the difference?

00:41:40.320 Why is human life more valuable? You can approach that question from two perspectives. One,

00:41:44.740 if you believe in God, in the Judeo-Christian God, at least you say that humans were created in the 0.74

00:41:50.100 image of God. We are divine image bearers, and we have rational souls, and this gives us a certain

00:41:54.800 value and dignity that other creatures lack. We were also given a dominion over, over those,

00:42:00.600 over those other animals. Now, if you don't, so it's pretty simple from a, from a God-fearing

00:42:05.720 perspective. If you don't believe in God, even then, humans are still more valuable simply because

00:42:12.580 we're the most evolved. We're at the top of the food chain. That makes us better than everything

00:42:16.420 beneath us. All the organisms beneath us. We're at the top. We're superior. Dog-eat-dog, right?

00:42:22.640 That's the Darwinian perspective. And so we're still more valuable in that case. Now,

00:42:28.580 if, if the, unless you're going to approach this from a totally nihilistic perspective and say,

00:42:37.660 existence has no meaning, nothing has any meaning, nothing doesn't matter. You know,

00:42:43.540 whether the entire earth exists or gets sucked into a black hole makes no difference whatsoever.

00:42:47.880 If that's how you're approaching it, then, then sure. Fine. I guess from that perspective,

00:42:52.200 there's no way to see anything wrong with abortion, but there's also, there's also no reason to keep

00:42:56.800 living. There's no reason to care about anything. There's no reason to do anything. There's no reason

00:43:01.980 to have any priorities whatsoever, right? Given the fact that you've emailed me, I assume you do care

00:43:09.480 about some things, which means you don't, you don't have that fully nihilistic perspective,

00:43:13.340 but actually all of this being said, the fact that we are superior to other organisms doesn't give us

00:43:20.920 the right to treat those other organisms. However, we want, we should still treat them with respect and

00:43:26.540 dignity. In fact, even the ant, I would say even with an ant. Now, if somebody steps on an ant,

00:43:32.800 I'm not going to cry over it, but over it, neither will you, but you shouldn't just on purpose for no

00:43:38.240 reason, step on an ant. I think if there's an infestation in your home, you can kill them for 0.99

00:43:43.080 that reason, but you're walking down the sidewalk, you see an ant, uh, you know, it's one thing if

00:43:48.300 you access it, but are you going to go out of your way just to step on the ant for no reason? I would

00:43:51.580 say that's wrong. Shouldn't do that. I don't think it's a serious moral, uh, you know, moral evil,

00:43:59.900 but it's, it's, it's a wrong thing to do because you are destroying life for no reason at all,

00:44:04.440 just for entertainment, I guess. And that's wrong. But when we get to the higher animals,

00:44:08.240 um, you know, puppies and things like that, well, I think we all would be opposed to dismembering

00:44:15.200 puppies or crushing the skull of a, of a, of a kitten. And it would indeed be illegal to do those

00:44:22.260 things because our law treats the offspring of dogs and cats with greater respect.

00:44:29.900 That it treats human offspring. And, and I hope we can both agree that that is definitely not

00:44:36.220 justified, but that's the way our law works. And it's inevitable as long as abortion is legal. 0.94

00:44:44.320 That it's inevitable that there's going to be a stage of human development

00:44:47.880 where the people in that stage have less legal protection than dogs and cats

00:44:55.460 and squirrels. And I mean, any other, and, and, and, and, and sea turtles and really any other,

00:45:01.540 um, almost any other life form you can think of. And that's, um, pretty horrific. I hope you would

00:45:09.980 agree. We will leave it there. Thank you for the email. Uh, Pat, everybody have a great night. And

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 09, 2020

Ep. 440 - The Hypocrisy of Wealthy Socialists

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