The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 477 - From Believe Women To Believe Biden

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Me Too movement has undergone a startling transition. They've

00:00:04.720 gone from believe women to believe Joe Biden. Talk about shifting the goalposts. So what is

00:00:10.160 this all about? And has it exposed the Me Too movement as a sham? Well, of course it has. 0.97

00:00:15.220 It should have been obvious to people all along, but we'll talk about that. Also,

00:00:17.980 five headlines, including Ben Shapiro getting himself into trouble with media matters for

00:00:22.160 stating the obvious. That'll always get you into trouble with media matters when you state the

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00:02:23.440 you need and deserve. Okay, so the philosopher Eric Hoffer famously observed that every great cause

00:02:32.180 begins as a movement, becomes a business, and then degenerates into a racket. Now, I'd be tempted to

00:02:38.220 say that recent events mark the Me Too movement's transition into its racket stage, but that would 0.99

00:02:44.700 imply, I think erroneously, that it was ever anything but a racket. If the Me Too movement was an actual

00:02:52.020 movement, worried about an actual cause, then it would be rallying to the defense of Tara Reid, the woman

00:02:58.960 who says she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden. Her story is about as credible and believable as a

00:03:04.960 rape allegation made years after the fact could ever possibly be. Women who come forward after a 0.89

00:03:11.960 lengthy interval of time rarely have eyewitnesses to the event or videotape or anything that would make

00:03:17.880 the matter conclusive. In fact, women who come forward after a short period of time or after no time at

00:03:23.360 all rarely are going to have anything like that. And in fairness, they can't be expected to have that

00:03:31.480 sort of evidence given the nature of the crime alleged. Nevertheless, it is important to have

00:03:37.200 evidence though, even if it's not something as direct as that. And Tara Reid has a rather impressive

00:03:44.380 catalog of circumstantial evidence to present. She has several people, friends, family, co-workers,

00:03:50.180 acquaintances, neighbors, who can vouch that she told them about the alleged assault shortly after

00:03:56.840 it allegedly happened. She has tape of a woman who she says is her mother making a cryptic call to

00:04:02.980 the Larry King show talking about a problem her daughter had with a prominent senator. She has a

00:04:08.220 relatively consistent story that she can recount in detail. And then she has Joe Biden's documented

00:04:13.360 history of inappropriately touching women, which we've all seen on video. And she has his conspicuous

00:04:19.060 up to this point refusal to actually deny the allegation. None of this proves anything,

00:04:25.420 but it does add up to a far more compelling case than the one made by Christine Ford, as I've

00:04:29.560 outlined many times. It's also more compelling than a fair number of the Me Too cases in Hollywood

00:04:34.640 and elsewhere. You know, many of those boiled down to he said, she said, without much evidence,

00:04:41.940 circumstantial or otherwise, to present. Tara Reid, by having any evidence at all, easily exceeds the

00:04:48.480 meager standard of evidence that was enough to convict many accused men in the court of public

00:04:54.200 opinion, at least, and even in the court of law in some cases. And yet the primary promoters and

00:04:59.880 cheerleaders of the Me Too movement have nothing to say about Reid, or else what they have to say is

00:05:04.940 openly hostile and dismissive of her and to her. The media, with its courageous, truth-seeking

00:05:12.760 journalists who uncritically reported many salacious rumors about accused men during the height of the

00:05:18.560 Me Too hysteria, have suddenly lost interest in the topic of sexual assault. The New York Times

00:05:24.540 essentially exonerated Biden, claiming that he has no established pattern of sexual misconduct,

00:05:30.960 even though his pattern of misconduct is not only established, but on film for all to see.

00:05:37.120 And perhaps the biggest favor the media has done for Biden is to not ask him about the allegation

00:05:42.540 at all. I think it was the Washington Examiner went back and looked, and I believe it was something

00:05:46.840 like he's done 19 interviews since these allegations were made public. And in none of those

00:05:54.340 interviews, he asked dozens and dozens and dozens of questions, not one question, to him about these

00:06:02.440 allegations. Now, eventually that's going to change. Maybe it will change today or this week. I mean,

00:06:09.460 eventually he will be forced to address this. Certainly he'd be forced to address it in the general election

00:06:15.020 because Trump's not going to let him get away with not saying anything about it. Trump's going to have

00:06:20.440 Tara Reid at the debates front row. You know he's going to do that. But he'll probably have to address it

00:06:26.140 before then, eventually. Eventually the media will ask him a question. But the damage is done.

00:06:33.760 They have given him a month to figure out what his response is going to be and to game plan behind

00:06:39.140 the scenes. Now, yes, if he has a game plan, he'll likely forget what the game plan was. But still,

00:06:46.260 they've done as much of a favor as they could possibly do for him. And so that's already done.

00:06:51.800 Democrats in Congress, who are all quite convinced by Christine Ford's allegations, despite the utter

00:06:57.060 paucity of evidence and the fact that she couldn't even remember what happened,

00:07:00.420 have come to Biden's defense. Senator Klobuchar says that she knows Biden, thinks he's a great guy.

00:07:06.160 This has been a common theme. He's a great guy. He's a decent guy. Speaker Pelosi says she's

00:07:10.880 satisfied with Biden's denial of the allegation, even though he has not actually denied the allegation.

00:07:17.340 And she's satisfied, though. He hasn't even said anything about it. And she's satisfied with his

00:07:22.560 response. His response is nothing. And she said, that's good enough for me.

00:07:26.400 I mean, basically, it's Biden. Did you did you do this? Here's Biden's response.

00:07:35.300 And then Pelosi says, good enough. That's got paid. Thumbs up. Great.

00:07:40.640 She and she also praised his integrity and authenticity. Here she is talking about Biden

00:07:45.940 last night when she was being interviewed. Here's what she had to say.

00:07:49.660 Well, I have great sympathy for any women who bring forth an allegation. I'm a big,

00:07:56.480 strong supporter of the Me Too movement. I think it's been a great made a great contribution

00:08:01.120 to our country. And and I do support Joe Biden. I'm satisfied with how he has responded. I know him.

00:08:12.160 I was proud to endorse him the other on Monday. Very proud to endorse him. And so I'm satisfied with

00:08:19.600 that. I mean, he hasn't to be clear. He hasn't addressed it. His campaign has addressed it. But

00:08:26.860 he has not directly addressed it. Should he directly publicly address it? You know, it's a matter that

00:08:34.580 he has to deal with. But I am impressed with the people who worked for him at the time saying they

00:08:40.120 ever absolutely never heard one iota of information about this. Nobody ever brought forth a claim or had

00:08:50.360 anybody else tell them about such a claim. But again, we have a an important election at hand,

00:08:58.280 one that is, I think, one most important ones that we've had. We say that every election,

00:09:02.420 but I think this one is the most crucial. And I supported him because he's a person of great

00:09:07.900 values, integrity, authenticity, imagination, and a connection to the American people. He

00:09:16.180 understands the kitchen table issues of America's working families. His father lost his job when he

00:09:22.340 was a boy. He knows what that feels like for a family. Integrity, authenticity, imagination.

00:09:29.580 I don't know what that has to do with anything. He's being accused of rape. And your response is,

00:09:36.120 look, the guy's got a great imagination. What? Speaking of people losing their minds,

00:09:43.640 Nancy Pelosi is definitely in that category. I mean, she is 372 years old. So what do you expect?

00:09:49.620 Then Stacey Abrams, who declared, I believe women during the Kavanaugh hearings,

00:09:53.020 has amended that statement to, I believe Joe Biden. And here's what she had to say to CNN.

00:10:00.700 I believe that women deserve to be heard. And I believe that they need to be listened to. 1.00

00:10:06.140 But I also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources. The New York

00:10:11.880 Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible. I believe Joe Biden.

00:10:18.180 I believe that he is a person who has demonstrated that his love of family, his love of our community

00:10:25.220 has been made perfectly clear through his work as a congressional leader and as an American leader.

00:10:32.360 She's, of course, groveling to him because she wants the vice president job. And if she doesn't get it,

00:10:40.020 you're going to notice how quickly her tune changes. Okay. Joe Biden is going to go from a great guy,

00:10:44.820 decent guy, hardworking guy, so on and so forth to a drooling racist. That's what's going to happen.

00:10:52.220 If she doesn't get the job, he's going to not only be a rapist in her mind, but also a racist.

00:10:58.460 So she'll switch her tact pretty quickly, just like Kamala Harris has, by the way. Remember,

00:11:06.720 Kamala Harris was basically accusing Joe Biden of cozying up with segregationists. And she was in 1.00

00:11:12.760 tears about it at a debate. And now Biden's a great guy. Just wonderful. Love him so much.

00:11:20.620 Now, joining the hypocrites parade are 10 supposed pro-woman groups, such as Planned Parenthood 0.88

00:11:27.660 and the National Organization for Women and others. Now, these, of course, are not really pro-woman

00:11:34.260 groups, but this is how they tout themselves. And they've all refused to provide a comment on the

00:11:39.980 Biden allegations. The founder of the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke, has also declined to

00:11:46.320 condemn Joe Biden or offer support to his alleged rape victim. In a lengthy and rather circumspect

00:11:53.820 Twitter thread by Tarana Burke, she went on a long thing about it, just actually a really long

00:12:03.160 way of saying that she has no moral courage whatsoever. And then she said that Biden can,

00:12:10.500 quote, demonstrate what it looks like to be both accountable and electable.

00:12:16.780 Translation, yeah, he might be a rapist, but I'm still voting for him.

00:12:21.000 Alyssa Milano helped to popularize the movement and bring it to the forefront of the national 1.00

00:12:24.920 conversation. But her first instinct was to leap to the defense of a decent man, Joe Biden.

00:12:30.380 And then she even said, and I thought this was great, talk about courage. She says that she's

00:12:35.740 going to prefer to remain silent about it. I think Joe Biden's a great, you know, a nice guy. I'm just

00:12:40.960 going to remain silent on this one. That was her response. Even the Time's Up legal defense fund

00:12:46.340 established in response to the Me Too movement declined to take Reid's case. Now, all of this adds up

00:12:54.540 to what perceptive people knew all along. The Me Too movement is and has always been a sham.

00:12:59.400 It may have succeeded in bringing down a few bad men like Harvey Weinstein, but that was never the

00:13:05.300 point. That was incidental. The point was to advance the ideological agenda of left-wing feminism. 1.00

00:13:16.360 Believe women was very useful to that end, right? If you want to advance left-wing feminism, 0.98

00:13:25.680 believe everything women say, men are a bunch of rapists. You know, that's, as far as left-wing 0.59

00:13:36.420 feminism goes, most of the time, that's the talking point you want to go with. And that was a very, 1.00

00:13:43.600 a very useful talking point. As long as the women who were supposed to be believing are accusing actors, 1.00

00:13:50.540 moguls, athletes, Republicans, really anybody in that realm is fine. Even if it's like Harvey Weinstein,

00:13:58.080 who's a liberal Democrat, still, you know, they're fine taking him down because he's not,

00:14:02.020 he's not an elected Democrat. He's an easy villain. And, and so they're fine with that.

00:14:07.580 But as soon as a Democrat is the target, then particularly one who's about to face Donald Trump

00:14:17.480 in a presidential election, the slogans and standards of the Me Too movement are no longer

00:14:22.320 useful. So they are summarily discarded and replaced by this credulous yammering about the

00:14:30.320 unimpeachable decency of a man who has no compunction about grabbing a woman and sniffing her hair,

00:14:35.120 even as the cameras are rolling. This dramatic reversal, of course, doesn't surprise anybody

00:14:40.980 who was alive and conscious during the Clinton years. Democrats back then valiantly defended a

00:14:46.600 slimy creep who was accused of assaulting, raping, and harassing a whole series of women.

00:14:54.720 Two decades before they started shouting about believe all women, they were viciously descending 1.00

00:14:59.760 upon and tearing apart any woman who dared speak about the violence and degradation,

00:15:04.780 she allegedly suffered at Bill Clinton's grubby hands. Now they're back to those old tricks

00:15:11.040 again. So they just reverted back to it. This is nothing unprecedented. After a brief period

00:15:17.260 of Democrats and leftists pretending to give a damn about rape victims, they are now backed back to

00:15:24.360 doubting and shaming alleged rape victims. So these are two faced hypocrites. And the Me Too movement was

00:15:33.860 just another political game they played and they've now abandoned it. And good riddance, as far as I'm

00:15:43.080 concerned. Let's move on to headlines. So Media Matters, as mentioned, well, they're huge fans of the

00:15:52.120 Daily Wire. They watch all of our shows. They take notes. Hi, Media Matters. Thanks for being here.

00:15:58.440 They're frankly pretty obsessed with us. And I mean, it is flattering, I have to admit, to have such

00:16:05.740 dedicated fans. But usually when they target somebody here, whether it's me or Ben or Michael

00:16:11.480 or Drew or anybody, I don't say anything about it or pay attention to it because it's par for the

00:16:16.040 course. They do it every day. So you can't respond to all of it. But this one I have to say something

00:16:21.940 about. Ben was trending on Twitter yesterday. Lots of outrage. Lots of people upset. After Media Matters

00:16:27.440 pulled a quote from him saying that it is, you know, this, what Ben is saying in this clip that

00:16:38.100 I'm about to play, they're claiming that this is outrageous and offensive and evil and all of that.

00:16:45.200 But, well, here it is. Trying to balance the risks and rewards here is a difficult thing. The easiest

00:16:51.960 thing you can do is say all damages caused are caused by the pandemic. All of the good things that

00:16:57.040 are happening like you being alive, that is caused by me, right? It's sort of the Gretchen Whitmer

00:17:00.660 strategy in Michigan. And that's a very easy thing to say. But in reality, you know, not only are there

00:17:08.340 countervailing issues on the other side, such as the fact that, you know, people are going to lose

00:17:11.920 their jobs and their livelihoods and their dreams and quality of life actually matters. But none of

00:17:15.560 these governors are going to keep things locked down forever. I mean, Andrew Cuomo, when he said,

00:17:18.980 just save one life, five days later, he's saying we're going to open up parts of New York State.

00:17:22.440 Okay, so which is it? I mean, obviously, that means that more people are going to be infected.

00:17:26.680 So you were always going to make this public policy consideration. Nobody just wants to say

00:17:30.780 the obvious truth, which is that we're all making actuarial deductions about what are the costs in

00:17:35.940 terms of how many human lives, how many years of life, because that is an actual issue in actuarial

00:17:42.200 tables, right? If somebody who is 81 dies of COVID-19, that is not the same thing as somebody who is 30

00:17:47.720 dying of COVID-19. I mean, if this were killing children, everyone would be in for lockdown forever.

00:17:51.820 That's the reality, right? If a bunch of five-year-olds were dying of COVID-19 and people

00:17:56.060 were saying, get back to work, I'd be like, nope, I'm not letting my five-year-old die.

00:17:58.900 If grandma dies in a nursing home at age 81, that's tragic and it's terrible. Also,

00:18:02.940 life expectancy in the United States is 80. So that is not the same thing. In moral terms,

00:18:08.420 you want to save every life you can. At the same time, to pretend that it is of the same calculation,

00:18:16.160 the age of the person, no public policy acts like that. Not a single public policy in American

00:18:20.940 life acts like that. Okay. Now here's the thing about that. You agree with what Ben said right

00:18:29.740 there. I agree. Everybody agrees. You might be saying, no, I don't agree. I'm outraged. No,

00:18:38.520 you aren't. You're not outraged. You do agree. Okay. Yes. I'm telling you how you feel.

00:18:46.560 That's what I'm doing. I know. I can read your mind. Yes. You agree with what Ben said there.

00:18:53.940 There is nothing outrageous about it in your mind. You might pretend there is, but you know there

00:18:59.840 isn't. All life is inherently valuable. All pro-lifers, this is our point. This is what we

00:19:05.740 always say. And that nothing has changed. And nothing Ben said there is inconsistent with the idea

00:19:12.940 that all life is inherently valuable. We want to save all the lives that we possibly can. Of course,

00:19:18.800 we cannot save all lives. In fact, ultimately, we cannot save any life. Ultimately, I mean, everybody

00:19:23.500 dies. But in the meantime, we want to do everything we can to preserve life. However, we recognize that

00:19:32.940 not all deaths are equally as tragic. And yes, when someone states an obvious fact like that,

00:19:42.940 it's very easy. It's one of those weird things we do where it's an obvious fact and we all know it.

00:19:50.000 Yet if you say it, it's sort of like forbidden to say. And if you say it, then everyone else who knows

00:19:55.940 it's true can say, oh my gosh, how could you say that? How could you say that thing that I obviously

00:20:02.080 know is true and I totally agree with you? But how could you say that? A five-year-old dying is,

00:20:10.280 and this is, I'm, this is me talking right now. Okay. I'm not going to speak for Ben. I mean,

00:20:16.560 you heard what Ben had to say. So me riffing off of that. Here's, here's, here's, here's the direction

00:20:21.580 I take it. A five-year-old dying is more tragic than an 85-year-old dying. Okay. And obviously,

00:20:33.960 of course, that's how you feel. That's how I feel. It's how everybody feels. That's how every 85-year-old

00:20:41.840 feels. Find me an 85-year-old who disagree. You absolutely think that the death of a child

00:20:50.760 is more tragic than the death of an elderly person. That doesn't mean the death of the

00:20:55.420 elderly person is not tragic. It doesn't mean that their life is worthless. It doesn't mean

00:20:59.120 that at all. It doesn't even come close to meaning that. It doesn't imply it.

00:21:05.540 No, it's just to say that the death of a child moves us, stirs us, devastates us in a unique way.

00:21:14.600 If you don't feel that way, you're a soulless robot. Now, clearly, if it's your own grandparent

00:21:23.500 has died, and you were to compare your reaction to that, to your reaction to, you know, reading in

00:21:30.340 a newspaper that a five-year-old died who you don't know, now you're going to be very sad about

00:21:34.440 that newspaper article, but you're going to be more personally affected by this person who you knew

00:21:38.480 dying. But looked at, you know, generally, broadly speaking, the death of the five-year-old is much

00:21:47.240 more tragic. And, I mean, if you would react the same way to me saying my grandma died as me saying

00:21:57.180 my five-year-old child died, then again, you're a soulless robot. But you wouldn't react that way.

00:22:05.060 So, why do people bother pretending they don't understand the point here?

00:22:11.400 Even compare the funeral of an elderly person to that of a young person. Now, me, thank God, 0.95

00:22:19.460 I've never had the occasion to attend the funeral of a very young child. That's a kind of tragedy that

00:22:24.860 I've never been close enough to for that. Lots of people have. I have been to the funeral of younger

00:22:33.340 people, though, of a teenager. I've been to the funeral of younger adults. And I can tell you,

00:22:38.840 and I've been to the funeral of elderly people, and I can tell you that the vibe and the mood is

00:22:43.520 much different at a funeral for a younger person than it is for an elderly person. You know, in the 0.94

00:22:50.040 latter case, there's a feeling of celebrating the person's life, of remembering a life well-lived

00:22:59.000 and long-lived. There's even oftentimes a sense of relief that this person is no longer suffering.

00:23:07.820 And, of course, there's grief also. There's a lot of sadness. There's a lot of tears. But

00:23:11.660 all that's mixed together. In the former case, though, when it's a younger person, it is, at least

00:23:17.340 in my experience, it is nothing but grief. It is nothing but unthinkable sadness and anger and

00:23:23.820 despair. It's just not the same. It isn't. And you know it. We all know it. I mean, one of the reasons

00:23:31.420 it's not the same is pretty obvious that a young person, going back to the child example especially,

00:23:39.460 a young person, Ben Shapiro mentions five-year-old, a five-year-old hasn't had a chance to live.

00:23:44.240 They've only lived for five years. If someone is 85, they've lived a long, hopefully fruitful life.

00:23:50.620 They're at the end of their lives, no matter what, and it doesn't make the death not tragic. But

00:23:59.920 they've lived a long, fruitful life. And that is why, at the funeral, there can also be, along with

00:24:05.740 the grief, there can also be this uplifting sense of celebration of this wonderful life that the

00:24:12.420 person lived. You can't tell yourself that with a child, when a child dies. It may have been a life

00:24:21.000 well-lived, but it was very shortly lived. It was not a long life. And you get a sense of that they

00:24:25.200 were robbed of something that they should have had. And that's the only point. And that's why,

00:24:32.520 from a policy perspective, as Ben points out, the policy is going to be different. It should be

00:24:39.640 different when it comes to preserving very young life, as opposed to on the other end of the

00:24:45.340 spectrum. Yeah, I can tell you right now, listen, if this disease was uniquely, primarily, almost

00:24:55.780 exclusively targeting children, targeting five and six-year-olds, then my reaction to it would also,

00:25:04.320 the policies that I would support would be very different. In that case, personally, I would say,

00:25:09.360 shut down society. Shut it down. I mean, bring civilization to a grinding halt, if we need

00:25:15.600 to, to protect these children. That's what I would say. I think most people would say that.

00:25:23.940 Because they're children. Because they haven't had a chance to live. And because we, as a society,

00:25:30.500 as adults, we have a unique responsibility to protect children and to preserve their lives.

00:25:37.320 It doesn't mean we have no responsibility to anybody else. But we have a unique responsibility

00:25:41.720 to our children. And if a civilization cannot protect its children, then what good is that

00:25:47.920 civilization? In fact, this is what I say about our civilization, even apart from the coronavirus,

00:25:53.700 because of abortion. You know, we kill our children directly. 0.66

00:25:56.040 So let's all just stop. Let's stop the games. I mean, let's at least get to a point where a person

00:26:06.280 can state the obvious without everybody breaking down in tears and with this bad faith garbage.

00:26:13.180 Number two, The Hill reports, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday ordered that all New York

00:26:21.420 City subway cars be cleaned every night by Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers to

00:26:26.300 ensure the safety of essential personnel during the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo said any essential

00:26:30.940 worker who shows up and gets on a train should know that the train was disinfected the night before.

00:26:34.440 Of course, you read that and your first reaction is, yeah. I would kind of like to know that even if

00:26:43.000 there was no virus out there, or at least there's always viruses out there, but even if there was no

00:26:47.600 pandemic happening right now, I'd sort of like to think that the place was cleaned anyway. Cleaning the

00:26:53.900 subways is a good idea in general. You should probably be doing that every day, regardless of whether

00:26:58.220 there's a global pandemic or not. And this really goes to show that we could have mitigated the disease

00:27:04.020 just by doing a lot of pretty normal stuff, like cleaning, washing hands, not coughing on each

00:27:09.380 other. There was a lot of normal stuff we could have done that doesn't involve shutting down society.

00:27:16.160 This kind of reminds me of, you know, when you're in the bathroom, you go to a bathroom at a

00:27:21.880 restaurant or some public establishment, especially a food establishment, and there's a sign in the

00:27:29.040 bathroom, not just because of coronavirus, but, you know, you always see these signs saying,

00:27:32.700 all employees must wash their hands before returning to work. And I guess that's supposed

00:27:37.560 to be reassuring to us as the customer, but it always makes me think that the employees who work

00:27:44.520 here need a reminder to wash their hands. Otherwise they wouldn't. That's what it always makes me think.

00:27:49.840 It makes me, it makes me a lot less comfortable. It's supposed to make me comfortable as a customer,

00:27:52.660 but I think I would prefer to believe that the people working and handling my food wash their hands

00:27:58.520 just reflexively and don't need to be reminded by a sign, but who knows? Number three, U.S.

00:28:03.220 marriage rates have dropped to their lowest level on record. And this isn't just because getting 0.98

00:28:08.360 married is banned right now. Although that's, that's also going to affect the record, but this

00:28:12.040 actually goes back to 2018. The Daily Caller reports the marriage rate fell 6% in 2018 with 6.5

00:28:17.960 unions formed for every 1,000 people, according to the National Center for Health Statistics report.

00:28:22.760 Millennials are in peak marriage years, according to Sally Curtin, a statistician.

00:28:30.420 They're in peak marriage years, they're 20s and 30s, and it's still dropping. This is historic.

00:28:35.660 Many couples are opting for cohabitation instead of marriage. According to the NCH's 2018 report,

00:28:41.360 17% of women and 15% of men, actually 16%, about age 18 to 44, were cohabitating.

00:28:47.700 Now, for a while, the catastrophic social indicator that we were worried about was the

00:28:55.500 divorce rate. But the divorce rate has been dropping in recent years. The new alarming indicator,

00:29:00.680 and even more alarming in my opinion, is the lack of marriage at all. So, you know, it's actually the

00:29:08.920 replacement of marriage. It's not just that people aren't getting married, it's that we're replacing it

00:29:13.360 with something else. We're replacing it with temporary cohabitation arrangements.

00:29:20.260 So, the drop in divorce rate is fool's gold. You sometimes hear people citing this

00:29:24.440 as a good thing, a positive thing. Oh, divorce rate's going down. It's fool's gold. It's not an

00:29:29.440 improvement, actually. It's actually the next stage in the illness. This is not the illness going away

00:29:34.700 or going into remission. This is the next stage. And it's an inevitable stage. It's not hard to see why

00:29:41.300 this is happening. For one thing, it's millennials, basically, who are giving up on marriage.

00:29:49.720 And we have to remember that millennials grew up, we grew up as millennials, with parents who got

00:29:54.960 divorced at the drop of a hat. Okay, the divorce rate when we were kids for our parents' generation

00:30:00.960 was astronomical. And that's back when you used to hear that 50% of marriages end in divorce,

00:30:06.720 which I think was always a misleading statistic. I'm not sure if that was ever actually totally

00:30:11.080 true. But back in the 80s and 90s, especially, the divorce rate was very, very high.

00:30:18.300 So, parents were getting divorced left and right. My parents didn't. But generally speaking,

00:30:22.160 this is what was happening. Baby boomers loved divorce. They couldn't get enough of it. 1.00

00:30:27.760 Millennials, their children, watched this, experienced it,

00:30:31.120 felt the devastation of having their parents divorced as kids and have since decided that

00:30:36.960 the whole thing is not worth the trouble. You know, it's not just that you have to think about

00:30:40.780 about the context and the situation that some millennials were in. You know, their parents

00:30:48.400 got divorced, depending on and this also is a little bit geographic dependent, depending on where

00:30:52.160 you lived in the country. But for a lot of people, your parents got divorced. And almost all of

00:30:58.640 your friends' parents were divorced. So, almost everybody you know had divorced parents. It's

00:31:04.820 not hard to see that those kids would grow up and become adults who say, I'm not doing that.

00:31:10.680 Because that is the impression of marriage that they got. And this is why baby boomers need to be, 1.00

00:31:18.680 in my opinion, taking a lot more responsibility than they currently take for the state of society.

00:31:22.360 I mean, this is the culture and society that they formed and are handing off to us.

00:31:29.320 And a lot of what millennials are doing, it is in response to what they experienced as kids.

00:31:34.380 That's not an excuse. I think cohabitating rather than getting married is a bad idea 0.96

00:31:38.560 for many reasons. And so, it's not an excuse, but you can kind of see where someone's coming from.

00:31:43.860 If, to them, as a kid, marriage was nothing but a source of emotional heartache and betrayal

00:31:53.960 and abandonment. That's what they're associating with marriage. 0.99

00:32:00.040 All right. So, I've gotten into trouble, going on to number four here. I've gotten into trouble for

00:32:03.960 criticizing these stupid dancing nurse TikTok videos. I talked about that last week. And a lot

00:32:10.540 of people were very upset at me for criticizing the hallowed, sacred nurses and their dancing,

00:32:17.080 their sacred tradition now of dancing. You mustn't criticize it. Well, I wonder, can I at least

00:32:23.700 criticize this?

00:32:24.620 Yeah, I don't know. Is that, can we all agree that one's a little, little inappropriate?

00:32:44.300 Nurses dancing down the hallways of a hospital with a pretend corpse.

00:32:48.160 It's, I mean, it's, oh, it's not even funny, but it's like, it's a laugh or cry situation. That's

00:32:57.020 so much of what, and, and we're told that the hospitals are being overwhelmed. We have, we had

00:33:01.940 to shut down society to, so we don't overwhelm the hospitals. And now nurses are spending their 1.00

00:33:06.360 time shooting increasingly, uh, increasingly ridiculous and outrageous and offensive dancing

00:33:17.220 videos. Number five. And the memo went out from governor Newsom yesterday in California that all

00:33:22.800 state parks and beaches are going to close beginning on Friday. And the reason they're doing this is

00:33:28.060 because of all those naughty people in California who were going to the beaches. And now they're

00:33:33.000 saying, you're gonna go to the beach. We're going to shut it down. So they, they haven't learned

00:33:36.720 anything. When I say they, when I say they haven't learned, I'm not talking about the people going to

00:33:39.980 the beaches. I'm talking about the governors and politicians and political leaders. They haven't

00:33:45.360 learned that these kinds of message methods are counterproductive. They don't work. And they're

00:33:54.160 also completely useless and stupid because being on a beach, that's a great place to be is a very

00:33:59.980 healthy place to be. There is, there is probably not a lot of transmission going on, but of the virus

00:34:06.260 at beaches, by the way, on, on that note, I was last time I made this point while I'm making this

00:34:14.360 point every day. It seems like about the being outside and going to the beach is a great, great

00:34:17.900 place. Um, someone I've heard this objection a few times, but somebody emailed me and said that,

00:34:25.120 well, no, going to the beach is bad because remember those spring breakers in Florida who

00:34:32.700 everybody's making a big deal about back in early April, you know, they were at the beach

00:34:37.680 and then they came home and the news said that some of them got the coronavirus.

00:34:42.980 So clearly that's why you can't go to the beach.

00:34:48.160 And I, I hear that kind of argument. And I think this is another one of those. Do you,

00:34:52.980 do you really believe what you're saying right now? The spring breakers who spread or contracted

00:34:59.880 the coronavirus, you think they did it just suntanning at the beach? What do you think they're

00:35:06.280 doing down there? Boogie boarding the whole time? Yeah. I'm not surprised that some diseases were

00:35:12.000 shared at spring break. And not just the coronavirus. I'm sure there were some other

00:35:15.800 ones too, but that's because there's a lot of very close quarters, intimate contact at spring break.

00:35:22.180 And I don't want to scandalize you. So I'm not going to say anything more, but, um, I'm willing

00:35:27.260 to bet that that is how it's got nothing to do with the beach. The spring breakers could have been

00:35:32.220 in North Dakota. Okay. And it would have been the same, not because they're at the beach,

00:35:36.760 but because of what they're doing usually sometimes on the beach, but, but oftentimes later on at a

00:35:41.320 hotel. Okay. That's all I'm going to say. All right. We're going to go on to your daily

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00:37:22.180 the daily cancellation, but I actually want to do something a little bit different today,

00:37:25.040 more positive, uh, cause there's a lot of negativity out there and I don't know about you,

00:37:30.320 but I, I, it's, I feel it's fairly suffocating, uh, and overwhelming at times. So I'm going to cancel

00:37:37.460 the daily cancellation just for today because I need to tell you about something else. And this is

00:37:43.080 completely serious. And I, I, I'm sorry to get all serious at the end of the show, but

00:37:48.700 you're going to want to hear this. Um, sorry, I'm getting a little choked up. Just, just,

00:37:56.420 just thinking about it. Uh, Hillary Burton is an actress. I think she was on one tree Hill,

00:38:03.980 which is a show I think, or was anyway, she posted to Instagram this week

00:38:11.700 that she is not dying her hair in solidarity with healthcare workers.

00:38:18.700 I know it's just, you can't wrap your head around that kind of courage,

00:38:25.420 but these are the sacrifices that some people are making. And I think it's important for us to

00:38:32.100 realize that and to honor it. So let me read this Instagram post. Here it is. It says the silver

00:38:40.540 lining is literally growing out of my skull for all of our frontline and essential workers who are too

00:38:45.860 busy to fuss with things like hair color. I grow mine out in solidarity with you.

00:38:52.460 When I see it, I'm reminded of all you're doing to keep us safe. I'm reminded that you deserve to

00:38:59.000 be taken care of. I'm reminded that any spare time I have shouldn't be spent on vanity, but rather on

00:39:05.960 helping our heroes, I can make five masks in the time it would take me to dye my hair. It's a small,

00:39:12.760 silly symbol, gray hair, who cares, right? But I hope the nurse or the vet or the store clerk who is

00:39:18.760 feeling tired and overwhelmed knows that it's a visible thing I can show and that it says,

00:39:24.380 I'm with you. Hashtag stay home. Wow. How can I add to that? I can't.

00:39:39.260 I can only imagine the inspiration that a healthcare worker must feel when going on Instagram and seeing

00:39:50.240 Hilary Burton's gray hair. And not just healthcare workers, but anyone who is suffering, anyone who's

00:39:57.320 sacrificing. To be able to look and see this actress with a gray streak of hair, with a gray streak of 0.86

00:40:07.720 hair, just, all I can say is that it's the most courageous and awe-inspiring thing that I've ever

00:40:14.240 seen in my life. I look at this and I think, frankly, the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy

00:40:19.580 were pansies in comparison to this. What Neil Armstrong achieved walking on the moon is but dust

00:40:27.240 in comparison to Hilary Burton posting on Instagram about her hair. So thank you, Hilary. Thank you

00:40:36.560 for everything. And I think I'll leave it there. It'll give us something to think about.

00:40:44.320 And I want you to think, just as I am, what could you be doing

00:40:49.300 to send a message and to stand in solidarity like Hilary Burton? We'll leave it there. Thanks,

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00:41:40.520 The FBI destroyed former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's life for political purposes,

00:41:45.840 according to new documents that have been released years after the fact. And for some reason,

00:41:50.500 the mainstream media that colluded with the bureaucrats to trash the general don't want to run the story.

00:41:55.380 Yahoo News spreads lies straight to the president's face, which is unwise when you're dealing with

00:42:01.240 Donald Trump. And even that story about the poor, confused lady who was convinced by Trump to feed 0.57

00:42:06.460 her husband fish tank cleaner to stop the coronavirus turns out to be a little bit shady. Who could have

00:42:11.540 guessed? All of which brings up an important political reality. All news is fake. Some of it's true,

00:42:17.160 true, but all of it's fake. Check it out on The Michael Knowles Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 30, 2020

Ep. 477 - From Believe Women To Believe Biden

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