The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 470 - Don't Sneer At The Lockdown Protestors If You Still Have A Job

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the people who are protesting the lockdowns across the country have

00:00:04.480 been called selfish. The interesting thing is that most of the people making that accusation

00:00:09.740 have themselves jobs and an income. So isn't it rather easy when you have a job and an income

00:00:15.060 to call people selfish for wanting their job and income back? Also, five headlines including

00:00:19.440 Trump's immigration moratorium, which was just announced, and apparently fake flyers for an

00:00:24.760 anti-lockdown protest, a fake anti-lockdown protest meant to discredit the anti-lockdown

00:00:31.600 movement have been making their way online. So we're going to talk about that. And finally,

00:00:35.900 in our daily cancellation, I have to once again, unfortunately, cancel someone who is very near

00:00:40.920 and dear to me. So we'll get to that coming up. But first, as I said, thousands of people across

00:00:46.600 the country have taken to the streets to protest the draconian lockdown measures that have destroyed

00:00:51.480 the economy and millions of lives along with it, which is which is this development should not be

00:00:56.300 a surprise to anyone. Anyone with two brain cells saw this coming. Now, many in the media seem to be

00:01:02.540 perplexed about this development. They just can't understand why people will be protesting because

00:01:08.360 they themselves are doing quite well. They're still pulling an income. They can still do their cable

00:01:12.800 news hits from their home studios. And so they figure what what's the big deal? They can't imagine why

00:01:17.880 anybody will be so upset about being asked to stay home and watch Netflix and play video games.

00:01:23.020 As in fact, Patton Oswalt, the famous comedian, said in a tweet where he was complaining and making

00:01:28.320 fun of the protesters and saying, all you have to do is stay home and play video games and watch Netflix.

00:01:33.620 But those who lack the privilege of media personalities or famous comedians may find that

00:01:40.420 Netflix and video games, if they can afford those things at this point, are paltry comfort when they

00:01:45.520 return home from waiting in line at a food bank for six and a half hours. Now, agree or disagree with

00:01:50.800 the methods of the protesters. The fact is that any reasonable and decent person should at least

00:01:56.380 understand why they are protesting. You should at least be able to sympathize with what has motivated

00:02:02.740 them to take this step. In the past month, 22 million people have lost their jobs. And that's just

00:02:08.560 the tip of the iceberg, plus another several million who didn't qualify for unemployment or haven't applied

00:02:13.580 or couldn't apply because the websites are crashing from all the traffic to them. Now, contrary to how

00:02:19.140 some, including Dr. Fauci, have characterized it, these numbers, 22 million unemployed, this represents

00:02:26.160 more than a mere inconvenience. This represents Americans who have lost everything. And not because

00:02:34.080 of some natural disaster or some act of God, but because the government has forbid them from going to

00:02:41.200 work. Now, you might say that the reason why they've lost their job is because of the coronavirus.

00:02:46.180 No, that's not the reason. That's not the reason. The reason is, the direct immediate reason is that

00:02:54.100 the government said you can't go to work and shut down their business. There was a woman at a protest

00:02:59.160 in Maryland. I think I showed this picture yesterday, but she held a cardboard sign saying she wanted to

00:03:05.700 save her business and I need to work to live. That's what the sign said. And that's why she's at the

00:03:10.200 protest. Now, Democrat politicians will call that woman selfish and talking heads on MSNBC, 1.00

00:03:18.540 as one talking head did, said that the protesters are part of a death cult. And so I guess they would 0.82

00:03:24.180 say of that woman, she's in a death cult. But it seems to me that she's a woman trying to salvage 0.54

00:03:29.820 the business that she's poured her sweat and blood and tears into. And so that's what she wants to do.

00:03:34.920 And she wants to survive. And those seem like perfectly reasonable goals, if you ask me.

00:03:42.280 You can disagree with her approach if you want, though honestly, I don't see any problem with her

00:03:46.080 approach. It's a very American approach to go and protest and make your voice hurt. But to sneer at

00:03:52.400 her and other protesters, as so many in the media have done, is morally repugnant. And meanwhile,

00:04:00.000 these people are trying to pretend that they have the moral high ground, that they are the selfless

00:04:07.460 ones who are so concerned about sick people. And so they're the selfless ones. The selfish people

00:04:16.700 are the ones who are protesting the lockdown. But the truth is the opposite of this. Because almost all

00:04:23.840 the people, at least in media, who are making this criticism, they still have jobs and an income.

00:04:29.540 So what they're saying is, to the protesters, I want you to be unemployed. I want you to be forced

00:04:37.800 to go to a food bank so you can feed your kids so that I can feel safe and so that my family can feel

00:04:44.340 safe. Now, you can argue that all you want, but don't pretend that you're being selfless. That is a

00:04:51.300 selfish position, where you want other people to suffer and sacrifice for you.

00:05:00.840 So I would like to propose an unofficial rule for any further discussion of these protests and

00:05:05.280 lockdowns, the lockdowns that prompted them. Before you give your opinion, you should first have to

00:05:10.580 reveal whether you still have an income yourself. Before you go on to say how you feel about the

00:05:16.540 protests, how you feel about the lockdowns, you should begin by saying, I still have an income,

00:05:20.960 or I don't have an income, but that should be the first thing out of your mouth. Because the rest of

00:05:25.620 us would like to know if you are earning an income while you smear your fellow Americans for wanting

00:05:31.040 to earn an income. It is, as I said, rather striking that the loudest voices in favor of the shutdown

00:05:37.440 are primarily people who have lost nothing because of it. It's bad enough for those who've lost nothing

00:05:46.740 to wag their fingers at those who've lost everything, but to call them selfish.

00:05:51.160 That just takes hypocrisy to a whole new level. Now, since I am proposing this rule myself,

00:05:59.660 I should disclose the fact that I myself am a media personality. I'm still earning an income.

00:06:07.100 In fact, the lockdown has been a relatively light burden on my family. I have lost money from it,

00:06:15.620 not insignificant amount of it, but I'm still making money. I still have an income.

00:06:21.960 We already homeschooled our kids, and so there was no real adjustment there.

00:06:25.940 We live out in the country. We got plenty of space for our kids to go out and play. I can even still

00:06:32.360 do the main recreational thing I like to do, which is go fish. I can still do that, at least in my

00:06:37.380 state. I'm still allowed to, at least where I currently live, I'm allowed to do that, or at

00:06:40.460 least they haven't stopped me from doing it. I personally tend to be a bit of a hermit anyway,

00:06:46.320 so isolation from the general public for me is no great horror. That's the position I'm in. I have an

00:06:52.960 income, and I'm working from home. We've had to adjust, but it hasn't been a huge, I wouldn't

00:07:03.260 call it a huge sacrifice for us. Now, if the economy continues to crater and we wind up in a

00:07:11.580 full-on depression, then I certainly will not be immune from the consequences of that. Very few of

00:07:19.360 us will be immune from those consequences. I will not be immune. My family won't be immune, so we

00:07:23.800 could, down the road, we could be in line to make enormous sacrifices as well, but as of right now,

00:07:29.760 I'm doing all right. Here's my point. I realize that not everybody is in my shoes. Not everybody

00:07:38.920 can work from home. I don't know why, for so many others in the media, why is this such a difficult

00:07:45.500 thing to understand? I'm not some sort of great humanitarian for having this attitude. It's just,

00:07:52.780 it's logic is all it is. That's all. I understand that I can work from home. Not everybody can.

00:08:01.440 Not everyone can so easily isolate themselves from society. Some people have real jobs that require

00:08:08.100 them to go out and do things. We, and we still need that in society. It's a good thing.

00:08:16.040 We could never be a society where everybody can work from. There are people have to go out and 1.00

00:08:20.780 physically do things out in the real world. And many of them are not allowed to do that now.

00:08:27.080 So what has been a light burden for me has been a crushing weight for so many others.

00:08:32.020 Who am I to call people selfish for wanting income and stability when I already have those things?

00:08:43.260 So if I'm going to be outraged at anyone, my outrage should be directed not at them,

00:08:48.520 but at the government that has done this to them.

00:08:53.440 Speaking of the government, the moral outrage here is compounded by the fact that people in government,

00:08:59.180 just like people in the media, are still living comfortable lives,

00:09:04.520 living in relative luxury, while regular Americans lose everything. Now, I think that Congress,

00:09:10.700 they should have to forfeit their pay. They shouldn't be making a paycheck throughout all of this. But of

00:09:16.060 course, that would require them to pass some sort of rule or something, or at least to volunteer to

00:09:22.440 lose their pay, and they're not going to do that. Because all of this stuff they talk about,

00:09:26.540 we have to make sacrifices. We're all in this together. Oh, shut up. You're not making any

00:09:31.960 sacrifices. You're making even fewer sacrifices than I am, because you're also in government.

00:09:39.920 So I, along with everybody else, I've lost liberty and freedom. You have gained power. So you keep

00:09:46.240 your income while many people lose theirs. While many people lose their liberties, you gain power.

00:09:55.700 So it's not just that you haven't sacrificed in government, you have gained from it.

00:10:01.940 Now, this dichotomy was captured, I think, in dramatic fashion in an ad that the Trump campaign

00:10:06.660 released last night. This is truly one of the most devastating political ads I've ever seen in my

00:10:11.460 life. So just buckle up for this. Watch. We turn now to that $350 billion fund to help small

00:10:19.420 businesses and its workers get through the shutdown. It will be up to Congress to restock it. But

00:10:24.420 Democrats blocking that move this morning. They asked for a quarter of a trillion dollars

00:10:28.600 in 48 hours. I said, well, I don't think so. They objected, and I congratulate the Senate Democrats.

00:10:35.460 Speaker Pelosi, what are you going to share with us from your home?

00:10:37.720 Chocolate candy. Thousands have been forced to wait for hours at food banks all across the country.

00:10:43.760 This is chocolate, and then we have some other chocolate here. We just got it restocked with

00:10:50.160 the ice cream. You don't want to eat up everything at one time. I can't do it much longer. I'm trying

00:10:55.680 so hard. We were, shall we say, enjoying. Having to admit that, yeah, we're starving, and I like it

00:11:02.480 better than anything else. Taping this segment, there are 22 million people out of work. This

00:11:07.280 specific program is about stopping job losses today. This is hurting people bad. Other people

00:11:13.180 in our family look for some other flavors, but. Right now it's a survival move. You don't know where

00:11:18.240 that next something else is going to come from. I don't know what I would have done if ice cream

00:11:22.140 were not invented. I just wonder. Wow. First of all, politically, that is brutal. Brutal,

00:11:37.500 and deservedly so. It captures an important truth that all of the sacrifices that are being made are

00:11:44.400 being made by regular citizens. It's a pretty profound illustration there when you see this

00:11:53.520 contrast between people who are waiting in lines at food banks that stretch literally miles. We're

00:12:01.360 talking about lines at food banks that are miles long. While that is happening, Nancy Pelosi has her 0.76

00:12:08.460 $24,000 fridge stocked with ice cream. The people behind these lockdown policies and those who support

00:12:17.080 the policies do not appreciate the toll that these policies are taking on regular citizens, and I think

00:12:23.740 that is a very relevant fact. Here's another great example. As the price of oil was tanking yesterday,

00:12:29.780 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn't help herself. She has since deleted this, but this is what she tweeted.

00:12:35.540 You can see it right here. You absolutely love to see it, she says. You love to see it.

00:12:43.700 Many Americans are going to lose their jobs, and many Americans already have. Now, because of this,

00:12:48.780 many more Americans are going to lose their jobs. This is going to have a devastating effect,

00:12:51.660 especially in places like Texas and Louisiana. Americans are going to lose their livelihoods over it,

00:12:58.040 and AOC loves to see it. She loves to see Americans losing their jobs, because there's no skin off her 0.98

00:13:06.860 nose. She's still got her job. Everything's fine for her. She's living her life, living her truth.

00:13:14.880 And meanwhile, she sees this as advantageous for her ideological agenda, which is green energy. 0.84

00:13:20.300 And this is the attitude that the people in government have.

00:13:29.280 So maybe you begin to see why there are these protests. One other point I want to make about

00:13:33.960 lockdowns and ending the lockdowns and everything, and we'll talk about that in just a second.

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00:14:48.820 One other point I wanted to make about

00:14:50.740 these lockdowns and specifically ending the lockdowns

00:14:54.580 because

00:14:56.620 an objection I keep hearing is

00:15:00.320 that, well, we let people go out.

00:15:03.440 Maybe there are, there may be people, there are lots of people, certainly, who want to go back to

00:15:10.400 work so they can feed their families. And as the argument goes, okay, that's all well and good.

00:15:17.060 But, and maybe you want to take on that risk, but now you're forcing other people to take that risk

00:15:23.220 because you're going to spread it to them.

00:15:25.320 And so isn't, isn't that, so that's not fair.

00:15:29.060 Right. And this is the response to the argument that people should be allowed to

00:15:32.540 take on a risk if they want to, so they can work and feed their families.

00:15:38.400 There are all kinds of risks that we take in life.

00:15:40.740 And generally we'll, we let adults decide if that's a risk that they think is worth taking.

00:15:50.040 But the response is, aren't you forcing other people to take the risk too, because you can spread it.

00:15:53.740 And that's why I want to say that while I, just to clarify here, and I think I can speak for most

00:16:00.100 people who support ending the lockdowns. I haven't heard anyone take the opposite view on this.

00:16:05.580 So this is my, my view. Uh, we end the lockdowns, allowing people to leave their homes again,

00:16:13.300 and most importantly, go to work so that they can support their families.

00:16:20.380 That's, that's the position. That's, that's what we're advocating. Allowing people to leave the home. 0.99

00:16:26.160 Here's the point. We're not saying that people should be forced to leave their home.

00:16:31.060 I, I certainly don't think that. I don't think you should be mandated to leave your home.

00:16:36.880 I just think you should be allowed to in the United States of America.

00:16:42.120 And especially when you can't afford food to feed your kids.

00:16:48.840 So I think that that really addresses the, that concern, doesn't it?

00:16:53.960 Of someone going to work, taking the risk, but then spreading it.

00:16:56.900 If you don't want to leave your house, don't leave your house.

00:16:59.920 If you want to stay locked in your home for another six months or year, you're free to do that.

00:17:07.120 If, I mean, if you can find a way, right? If you, if you, if you're making it through the lockdown,

00:17:13.520 okay, right now you're working from home or whatever, and you found then, and you want to keep doing that,

00:17:18.100 keep doing it. So what's the problem here? People who want to leave their homes and participate in

00:17:25.600 society can. And if you don't want to, and I don't even mean this in a combative way. I really,

00:17:33.160 this is very sincere. If you're still worried about it, you're still afraid, maybe for good

00:17:38.500 reason. Maybe you have a preexisting conditions. Maybe you're in, in, in one of the vulnerable

00:17:42.600 categories. Well, in that case, I wouldn't blame you at all. I think it's a very good idea to stay.

00:17:46.500 Even if the lockdowns are lifted, uh, maybe you stay for as long as you can, uh, depending on your

00:17:51.460 situation, depending on what your preexisting condition is, right? Depending on where you live

00:17:54.620 too. So there are a lot of factors that work into this, but, uh, if you're in, in that category,

00:17:59.840 then, then, you know, you, maybe you stay home. You continue to self-isolate.

00:18:03.480 And I also think, as I've said before, that people who are in those vulnerable, vulnerable

00:18:09.760 groups, we should keep helping them and the government should help them. Um, and it'd be a

00:18:15.560 lot easier to do rather than giving checks to everybody. Even people don't need it. If we can

00:18:19.920 target, if we can be a lot more targeted in our approach, helping people who actually have to stay

00:18:25.820 home because of preexisting conditions. Okay. So I think that that kind of addresses that issue,

00:18:30.260 that those people can continue to self-isolate. As I've said many times, you know,

00:18:34.220 nursing homes should remain locked down, of course, for, for the foreseeable future,

00:18:38.320 because we know how devastating this has been in nursing homes. Um, and then anybody else,

00:18:45.420 maybe you don't have a preexisting condition. Maybe you're younger and healthy, but you just are

00:18:49.340 afraid of it. You don't want to go out of your house. Well, I'm not saying you should be forced to.

00:18:54.540 You could stay home too. The people who, who feel like they need to,

00:18:59.800 or want to, to get back out and resume their lives should be allowed to do that.

00:19:06.720 All right, let's move on to news headlines. Uh, number one,

00:19:12.500 president Trump sent out a tweet yesterday with an announcement in light of the attack. Uh, this is,

00:19:17.920 this is his tweet says in light of the attack from the invisible enemy, as well as the need to protect

00:19:21.480 the jobs of our great American citizens, I will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend

00:19:26.140 immigration into the United States. Uh, this apparently will be a moratorium on immigration

00:19:30.860 through the Southern border. Obviously it makes sense to do this. My only problem is that he

00:19:34.060 didn't do it two months ago, but, uh, or maybe even two years ago, frankly, but the general idea

00:19:40.220 is, uh, clearly, clearly good. Now, of course, as you might expect, some on the left are calling it

00:19:45.380 bigoted, yada, yada, et cetera, and so forth. But that is just a very stupid, unserious position to 1.00

00:19:50.220 take here. And it can be ignored, uh, and should be ignored, especially coming from people who up 1.00

00:19:54.860 to this point, haven't met a government action in response to the virus that they didn't like

00:20:00.320 shutting down churches, arresting people for, you know, going to drive-in services,

00:20:05.520 uh, closing up playgrounds and parks and beaches. Oh yeah. I love all that.

00:20:12.040 But no stopping people from coming in from foreign countries in the middle of pandemic. No,

00:20:15.600 that's too far. We can't do that. No, that's, that's one government action that definitely

00:20:21.240 unassailably makes sense. Uh, now we're going to move on to number two, but before we do that,

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00:21:56.900 Okay. Number two, as we've covered here several times, cities around the country, including New York

00:22:00.300 have been releasing prisoners back into the population in order to, in order to protect them.

00:22:05.060 That would be the prisoners, not the population. And after weeks of this insane suicidal policy,

00:22:12.940 New York and other cities have developed a problem, uh, wherein the released criminals are going right

00:22:19.140 back to being criminals and starting to commit crimes again, because that's what they do. It's

00:22:24.000 their whole thing. You might say, well, mayor Bill de Blasio of New York spoke about this,

00:22:28.980 uh, about the released prisoners committing crimes again during a briefing this week. And this is what

00:22:34.220 he said. I think it's unconscionable just on a human level that folks were shown mercy.

00:22:40.540 And this is what some of them have done. Unconscionable. He says

00:22:44.760 now unconscionable means that something is shocking, shockingly bad. So mayor Bill de Blasio,

00:22:54.740 who to emphasize was elected mayor of New York city, our largest city thinks it's shocking that

00:23:01.720 criminals would commit crimes after being given a get out of jail, free car card. He's shocked by

00:23:07.560 this. Didn't see it coming. Didn't see it now. No way. You're telling me, wait, wait, wait, those

00:23:14.440 criminals we released are committing crimes. What? What's just unconscionable. Now for, for most leftists

00:23:24.300 who are claiming to be shocked by something like this, I would, I would say that that's bogus and,

00:23:28.620 and obviously they're not really shocked. They knew that was going to happen, but de Blasio

00:23:32.240 is such a dumb goober that I might actually buy it. I think he might actually be that stupid 1.00

00:23:38.560 that this, that this surprises him. Um, number three, reading now from the daily wire says in a 1.00

00:23:45.100 press release issued Monday, the Los Angeles County department of public health announced that the early

00:23:49.200 results of its highly anticipated joint study with the university of Southern California on COVID-19

00:23:53.460 infections, uh, in the County suggests that infections from the new Corona virus are far

00:23:58.620 more widespread and a fatality rate much lower in LA County than previously thought. And then it goes

00:24:04.320 into the numbers. You can read the report on the daily wire. Um, but the point is a lot more people

00:24:09.760 have it than, than has previously been reported, which obviously is good news. It's good news because

00:24:16.240 that means that, um, number one, the fatality rate rates, if this holds true across the country,

00:24:22.300 the fatality rate is much lower than what they're reporting. And it also means that there are

00:24:28.140 probably many States where the crisis has already passed because so many people have already had it

00:24:33.140 and they've already seen the worst of it. So, uh, number four, this is something you need to watch

00:24:39.000 out for. Maybe you've seen this picture that I'll show you now floating around social media.

00:24:43.200 I've seen it many times. Uh, and when I first, the first time I saw it immediately, I thought

00:24:48.080 something doesn't look right here. Uh, this is a photo of a flyer from an anti-lockdown protest in

00:24:54.800 New York. And, uh, the flyer says, end the lockdown rally. No mask needed. Bring your children,

00:25:02.040 non-essential workers. If you're sick, still come. It's your right. Uh, Sunday, April 19th conference,

00:25:09.100 house lawn, keep America. Great MAGA hashtag and the shutdown NYC. Now, um, the left has been making

00:25:18.760 hay with this because it proves right. It proves that the anti-lockdown people are a bunch of suicidal 0.61

00:25:24.220 MAGA cult maniacs, actually encouraging sick people to come, uh, telling people not to wear masks and, 0.98

00:25:32.440 um, even throwing in, you know, bring your children. But I, I, as I said, I saw this in, 0.97

00:25:38.800 and immediately my BS detector went off. Now, sure. It's, it's possible that some actual maniac was

00:25:44.680 crazy enough to put this flyer up and try to plan a rally, inviting sick people to come. That's 0.94

00:25:50.780 possible, but it is not very likely because despite how they're portrayed by the media,

00:25:56.420 the anti-lockdown folks are not a bunch of comic book villains. Okay. This is not Joker putting these,

00:26:02.040 these events on. So the fact that this flyer feeds right into the caricature of the, of the protesters

00:26:10.100 that the media presents should tell you something. It should raise a red flag. Uh, and it tells you

00:26:15.700 that this is probably fake. So I looked into it myself and first of all, this rally was supposed

00:26:24.080 to be on Sunday. Nobody showed up apparently. According to reports, nobody came, not one person.

00:26:31.320 Now, if this was a rally actually being organized by some group or some person, they at least would

00:26:38.280 be at the rally. I've been to plenty of political rallies and protests in my day that were sparsely

00:26:43.860 attended, but the one thing you can always count on is the people who, who organized it will be there

00:26:49.600 at least oftentimes looking very embarrassed that nobody else came, but they're going to be there.

00:26:54.500 So if nobody came, what does that tell you? It tells you that nobody organized it. It wasn't a

00:26:59.200 real rally. Uh, then also the hashtag on the flyer hashtag, what was it? End the shutdown NYC or

00:27:05.300 whatever it was. I checked that, that hashtag and, um, nobody had tweeted the hashtag. There were two

00:27:12.260 tweets with that hashtag and they were both making fun of the flyer. Now, if you're organizing an event

00:27:17.580 and you come up with a hashtag for it, the whole point of the hashtag is that you're going to tweet

00:27:21.960 on that hashtag to try to promote the event. That's the whole point, but there are no tweets,

00:27:29.120 which would, so are we supposed to believe that somebody was organizing this event? They came up

00:27:32.640 with a hashtag. They went around posting flyers around town. They never once posted on Twitter.

00:27:37.660 Hey, end the shutdown NYC hashtag, whatever. Um, no, that doesn't make any sense. Also no group

00:27:43.840 claimed credit for this or, or, or, uh, you know, there's no name attached, no website attached to

00:27:49.220 it. So factoring all that together, what does it mean? It means that this is fake. Um, like this is

00:27:55.600 like 99.9% fake. I'll allow for a 0.1% chance that it's real, but, uh, 99.9% this is fake. And that

00:28:03.340 tells you that the other side of this debate, uh, they are resorting to some devious tactics,

00:28:08.800 including fake flyers for fake rallies to try to discredit those who want to end the shutdown.

00:28:14.440 And that, you know, that should really, um, make you wary. And when you start seeing media reports

00:28:22.340 about rallies and things, you just keep this in mind. Uh, if you see, if you, if you've seen footage

00:28:28.180 of a rally and you see somebody with a really inappropriate or weird or crazy looking sign or

00:28:33.380 something, you have to think, is that person actually part of that rally or is that someone

00:28:38.860 who's there to discredit? Um, so that should tell you that, uh, number five, speaking of things that

00:28:47.140 smell funny, two doctors were on a coronavirus podcast this week, and they were talking about

00:28:53.660 the dangers that farts pose, uh, during this pandemic. Now one doctor, Dr. Swan in his name is

00:28:59.980 his name. He said that it might be possible for the virus to be spread through your, uh, southerly

00:29:06.380 winds, which is why it's recommended that, and this is very important. Um, the health recommendations

00:29:13.100 here are that if you're going to fart, make sure you wear pants, uh, which, you know, is, is, so it

00:29:19.140 might be, it's a little bit of a burden there, but, but again, we all have to make sacrifices. And so,

00:29:23.280 uh, you know, generally, if you're out in public, you want to be wearing pants anyway. Um,

00:29:27.660 but especially during these times, I would say, now this is what the doctor said, quote,

00:29:32.560 uh, I think that we should, what we should do in terms of social distancing and being safe is that

00:29:36.560 you don't fart close to other people and that you don't fart with your bottom bear. 0.88

00:29:41.880 So this is, we're talking about fart, social distancing, social fart distancing. Um,

00:29:47.560 and, uh, anyway, this is one measure that I can certainly get behind or rather, I guess I'd rather

00:29:53.580 be out in front of it. But, uh, anyway, this is all to say we need to quarantine Eric Swalwell

00:29:59.840 ASAP before it's too late. Moving on to your daily, um, cancellation today. I'm, I'm once

00:30:10.560 again, unfortunately going to have to cancel. I hate to do it. I really do, but I'm gonna have

00:30:15.240 to cancel my wife again. And this is, I think it's the second or third time I've canceled her

00:30:18.800 on the show. And I'll tell you why. And you're going to agree with my decision. Once you, once

00:30:23.040 you, once you hear what she did. So yesterday I had the brilliant idea to give my, both of my

00:30:30.020 sons a haircut. I was gonna give them a buzz cut. Okay. Three years old and six years old are my

00:30:36.440 sons. And they both look at this point, cause they haven't had a haircut like the rest of us.

00:30:40.820 And so they look like they're wearing mops on their heads or like, or like maybe something like

00:30:44.140 some sort of woodland creature crawled on top of their heads and died. And so I said, you know,

00:30:49.960 this is, is not good. Uh, it's not good for their self-esteem. It's, uh, not good for me. Cause I

00:30:54.960 have to look at it. It's not good for hygiene, you know, and, and, uh, the coronavirus can hide up in

00:30:59.560 the hair. You know, I've read that too. So I said to my wife, I'll cut their hair. Now I happen to be

00:31:06.420 a celebrated stylist. So I figured this idea would go over well with my wife, but she recoiled

00:31:13.700 for some reason. Actually, she refused to allow my oldest son to go anywhere near, uh, me with,

00:31:22.080 with when I had the clippers because Luke, my oldest has blonde curly hair, which my wife is 1.00

00:31:27.640 very protective of. Uh, in fact, he didn't get any kind of haircut, even a professional haircut. I think

00:31:32.060 until he was like four years old. And so by the time he was four, he had like these long golden,

00:31:37.080 he looked like a, like a hippie with a perm. He had this ridiculous looking hair. And finally he 0.96

00:31:40.600 got a haircut. So she said, I can't cut Luke's hair, but my youngest son, Jeremiah was offered

00:31:45.000 up as a sacrifice, much like Abraham offering Isaac. My, my wife offered the three-year-old up to the

00:31:50.000 slaughter. And, but she doubted me the whole time. She critiqued, harassed me. Uh, and it is for this

00:31:56.420 doubt, this lack of faith, this lack of loyalty that she was being canceled. And ultimately she

00:32:02.560 was put to shame because my, my son's hair turned out beautifully. Honestly, the kids never looked

00:32:07.500 so good. I was masterful. Uh, I discovered within, within myself, not only a natural ability as a

00:32:14.080 hairstylist, but frankly, a passion for it. I think I might quit my job and become a hairstylist full time.

00:32:19.900 Uh, I just discovered this is something I'm very good at. So here, take a look. Here's a picture. I

00:32:23.520 blurred out his face. Cause I don't want him on. I don't want his face on camera, but, um, uh, here's,

00:32:28.100 I just want you to see the work that I did. This is the haircut. That's pretty good. You have to admit

00:32:32.000 notice the fading of the size, the way I blended it all together. You know, they spend 10 years

00:32:38.940 teaching this in hairstylist school, 10 years. I mastered it in five minutes and you can see he has

00:32:45.000 kind of the, the edgy sort of styling that I did on up top there, kind of a messy, spiky, but still

00:32:50.680 classy look. Right. Uh, so it looks like he's, he's ready for a business meeting, but he's also

00:32:55.380 ready to go out and play on the playground. Uh, and that's kind of what I was going for. So

00:33:00.160 I just thought I did a fantastic job. And now my next goal is to give my daughter a haircut. 0.97

00:33:08.960 I don't know if that's going to go over well or not, but I, but the point is I have a, I have,

00:33:12.780 apparently I have a real passion for fashion and a skill. And so that's why my wife is canceled. 0.99

00:33:19.320 Uh, and you know what else is canceled? Bad hair. All right. In this house,

00:33:24.440 bad hair is canceled. Okay. Now we go to emails and I got a, why I'm wrong email here. Now, um,

00:33:31.520 I feel like it's getting repetitive here with these, uh, coronavirus emails telling me why I'm a monster 0.99

00:33:36.700 who wants to kill, kill the elderly. But, uh, this is, it's just the, it's the same point repeated 0.76

00:33:41.660 over and over again. Um, this is from Justin says, hi, Matt, I've been very disappointed with your

00:33:46.340 coronavirus takes recently. It's hard for me not to see it as highly selfish. Yes. You're young

00:33:51.440 and healthy, but not everybody is. If you're going out in public, um, and you have the virus,

00:33:57.360 you could be directly killing multiple people. Would you press a button to kill three people just 0.99

00:34:02.180 so you can get your normal life back? That's what it's like. This is, this is actually the second 1.00

00:34:07.380 or third time. I've specifically seen this press a button thing. Uh, someone tweeted that to me

00:34:12.160 yesterday, the going out in public during the coronavirus or going back to your normal life,

00:34:18.380 going to your job is like pressing a button and killing people. I don't know if this is the latest,

00:34:24.340 this is the latest argument. It's like pressing about, no, it's not like that at all. So there's

00:34:28.600 a few problems here that we have to go through. First of all, um, even if I was sick and I went out in

00:34:39.480 public, it would not be exactly the same as pressing a button and directly killing it. It's,

00:34:45.240 it's not the same when you're sick. Now, if you're sick and you intentionally try to infect other

00:34:50.900 people, uh, and then they die from the illness, then I would say that's effectively the same as 0.67

00:34:55.380 shooting them. Sure. I agree with you there. But if you're sick and you go out and you, uh, 0.98

00:35:00.960 unintentionally infect somebody else, it's morally not the same as shooting them in the head. It's just

00:35:06.420 not, it is not, it isn't, you're not directly responsible. You're not, you're not directly

00:35:10.240 and intentionally killing someone. And there's a big difference there. So just, just to be clear,

00:35:14.900 there's a big difference between intentionally killing someone by shooting them or pressing a

00:35:18.740 button, um, or accidentally getting them sick. Now, am I saying that if you're sick with the 0.94

00:35:25.200 coronavirus, you should go out in public? Of course not. That would be reckless, stupid. Yes,

00:35:29.600 it would be selfish. It would be all of those things. And if you know you, you are sick with a

00:35:34.700 potentially deadly virus and you go out in public and you get somebody else sick, then yes, I do

00:35:38.620 think you're partially responsible for, for, uh, killing them, but it's just, it's ethically not

00:35:43.400 the same as directly shooting somebody in the head. So, or pressing a button or whatever it is,

00:35:47.120 pressing a button and I guess what blowing them up, or I don't know how this button thing is supposed

00:35:50.740 to work. So that's, that's the first thing. Um, but I am not advocating that if you know you're sick,

00:36:00.080 that you go out in public, it's not what I'm saying. That's, that's not the discussion here.

00:36:05.840 In fact, part of my, not just me, but part of the proposal of opening up a society is that if you're

00:36:11.880 sick and you have symptoms, of course you stay home. We, we quarantine people who are sick or who,

00:36:17.520 who we know have been exposed, who we know have been exposed to the virus. And that's actually what

00:36:22.380 a quarantine is supposed to be. So what I'm saying is we should have actual quarantine policies,

00:36:27.700 quarantine and isolation. If you're sick, you're isolated. If you, if we know you've been

00:36:32.660 exposed to someone who's sick, like somebody in your house is sick. Okay. So we know you've

00:36:37.200 been exposed to it. And especially in a prolonged way where the, the chance of transmission is pretty

00:36:41.920 high, then, then we quarantine you. So I'm totally in favor of, of actual quarantines and, and, uh,

00:36:49.900 and isolation policies. What I'm not in favor of is a blanket policy

00:36:56.700 imposed by the government, locking everybody in their homes, even people who for all, for as far

00:37:04.540 as we know are healthy people who we have no reason or no evidence to think that they, that

00:37:09.380 they are sick or that they've been exposed. Um, and then in the process, cratering the economy

00:37:14.580 and, uh, causing millions of people to lose their jobs and causing them to have to go to food banks

00:37:19.780 and everything else. Okay. That's what I'm against. That's my issue. And, uh, as far as the, the risk

00:37:26.500 of infecting somebody else, listen, I go back to what I said before that, um, anyone who does not

00:37:36.140 want to take a risk. And if we do this right, and we're smart about it, it's not a very significant

00:37:43.740 risk. Now I realized that people, as far as we know, pre-symptomatic people can still spread the 1.00

00:37:49.620 virus. We don't know how effectively they can spread it. Probably not very effectively. Um,

00:37:55.180 but we can do it. We can go a long way to stopping the spread by keeping people who have symptoms at

00:38:01.520 home. And so if we, if we do that, we still practice social distancing. Uh, I'm in favor of wearing

00:38:09.480 masks, you know, especially in certain environments. Uh, I don't, you know, I don't think you should

00:38:13.600 have to wear a mask when you're walking down the, down the street or going for a jog or something

00:38:16.440 in the park. But, uh, if you're in a crowded environment, I think it makes sense to wear a

00:38:20.740 mask, of course. And so if we do that, we keep the elderly people at home, people who are especially 0.99

00:38:26.240 vulnerable, we keep them at home. And if you yourself don't want to go out, you don't want to

00:38:30.200 take that risk. You don't have to, you're welcome to stay home. And, um, and that means that

00:38:36.100 everybody who's out and about in society, it's because they've decided that it's worth it to

00:38:40.720 them. It's worth it to take that minimal risk. Maybe it's worth it because they just want to

00:38:45.640 go about their lives. Maybe it's worth it because they feel like they have to work to live, uh,

00:38:49.620 which I totally understand. And there we go. And I, I, so, so I think that that this idea that,

00:38:57.100 um, it could be spread to someone who, uh, has no interest in being out in society and

00:39:05.960 taking the minimal risk. Well, I don't see that because they can still stay home.

00:39:09.980 So what exactly is the issue here? I don't see it. Well, thanks for the email and we'll,

00:39:14.420 uh, wrap it up there. Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

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00:39:56.960 Even left-wing mayors are beginning to admit the experts got it wrong. Way more people have the

00:40:02.460 virus than they thought. Way fewer people are dying from it. And the lockdowns likely aren't doing

00:40:08.020 very much to stop it at all. Then the price of oil plummets to negative $40. Cancel culture claims

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 21, 2020

Ep. 470 - Don't Sneer At The Lockdown Protestors If You Still Have A Job

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