The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 487 - Democrat Governors Don't Want To Give Up Their Lockdown Powers

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, some states are coming out of lockdowns while other states are

00:00:04.660 extending the lockdowns for no medically or scientifically justifiable reason.

00:00:09.580 What's one thing that the extension states seem to mostly have in common? Well, they're run by

00:00:14.920 Democrats. What does that tell us? We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including

00:00:18.200 NASA's plan to intentionally create a meteor shower by slamming something into an asteroid.

00:00:23.260 They're going to be doing this soon. Should we be concerned about that? Also, CNN is bringing

00:00:28.760 Greta Thunberg on to their expert coronavirus panel, which is going to air tonight. Is she

00:00:34.120 really an expert in anything? My answer to that may actually surprise you. And in our daily

00:00:39.020 cancellation, I will finally be canceling the hero worship of nurses. I suspect this segment will get

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00:02:00.700 the state of Michigan under Empress Whitmer, a Democrat, extended its stay-at-home order at least

00:02:06.180 until the end of May, at least. Pennsylvania under Emperor Wolf, Democrat, extended its stay-at-home

00:02:13.040 order into June. California under Emperor Newsom, a Democrat, has a stay-at-home order in place

00:02:21.280 indefinitely until they get to a point where they go two weeks without anyone dying of coronavirus,

00:02:26.000 which is another way of saying their stay-at-home order is in place forever, it would seem.

00:02:32.340 Wisconsin under Emperor Tony Evers, a Democrat, tried to extend its stay-at-home order,

00:02:38.960 but the state Supreme Court just struck it down, which is great. Thank God. By the way,

00:02:43.440 Wisconsin has had 418 coronavirus deaths total. That's it this whole time in three months. 418.

00:02:51.760 And the governor wanted to keep the stay-at-home order in place. Now, you can't help but notice

00:02:56.220 something about these states and the rest of the states that are extending their lockdowns rather

00:03:02.100 than ending them. You can't help but notice that mostly these are states run by Democrats.

00:03:06.580 Now, I've never been a conspiracy theorist on this whole thing. Now, the idea that these lockdowns

00:03:15.900 were originally conceived purely as a way to wreck the economy in order to destroy Trump's

00:03:21.240 re-election chances, I didn't buy that. And I still don't. Now, for one thing, Republican governors

00:03:26.780 were doing it too. And for another, Trump himself has been on board with it. So now he's vacillated

00:03:33.220 the whole time and been quite indecisive. But if it was nothing but a plot against him

00:03:38.760 and he was himself a part of it and cheering it on and approving of it, then that would make him 0.99

00:03:45.700 either politically suicidal or the dumbest dupe in the history of dumb dupes. But I don't think 0.99

00:03:51.620 that's the case. I think originally there was fear, panic, incompetence, a total lack of clarity,

00:04:02.380 a total lack of any kind of plan. And in the midst of all that, these little would-be dictators,

00:04:09.060 these petty tyrants found an opportunity to exert the kind of control that they've always wanted to

00:04:14.380 exert. It's the whole reason they got into politics. We have to remember the reason most

00:04:18.200 people get into politics is because they want to control people. They want to be in charge.

00:04:21.780 They're narcissists. The vast majority of people. I mean, that's the only motivation you could have

00:04:28.580 aside from a deep and sincere desire to serve people. Okay. And maybe in the history of politics,

00:04:36.000 there have been like three people who actually got into it for that reason. Everybody else is

00:04:39.800 because they're narcissists and they want to control people. So they like the power. You know,

00:04:44.500 as the lockdowns continued, they discovered they get a lot of power. They liked controlling every

00:04:50.700 aspect of everybody's lives. They liked doing, as all the governors have done, their daily press

00:04:56.940 conferences and having everybody watch. And they liked having their citizens who really now felt like

00:05:03.100 their citizens, not citizens of the state or the country, but their citizens. They liked having them

00:05:09.460 hang on every word, you know, their every decree. And that I believe explains how the lockdown started

00:05:16.740 and why it continued. But now as the curve has been flattened and as many states in the country,

00:05:22.620 most states, in fact, never had a coronavirus emergency. And in fact, have been plagued with

00:05:29.160 sort of the opposite with empty hospitals and laid off hospital staffs this whole time,

00:05:33.520 not to mention millions of unemployed and laid off citizens in other sectors of the economy.

00:05:41.500 Now, as we inch closer to the election, we're going to see politics play a much bigger role than it

00:05:46.620 did perhaps at the beginning. Whereas it was a bunch of governors having ego trips at the beginning,

00:05:52.340 Republican and Democrat. Now the political calculations really start to take hold. We are in a precarious

00:05:58.740 and volatile situation as a country right now. Truly unlike anything in recent history, at least,

00:06:09.920 you know, coming out or continuing in these lockdowns with a presidential election only months

00:06:18.360 away. And that's an election that was already going to be itself extremely volatile, even more than

00:06:25.580 normal, just based on the sheer hatred that Trump's enemies have for him. And so, of course,

00:06:32.540 you know, Democrats are going to say to themselves, well, if we open up and everything turns out okay,

00:06:40.080 and the economy starts to climb back and recover, Trump is going to get credit for that.

00:06:48.300 From their perspective, going into an election, after having survived a pandemic, on the upswing,

00:06:56.660 in recovery, optimism, hope, relief, all of that, that's not good politically. It's just not.

00:07:03.280 That's not the mood. That's not the attitude you want if you're challenging the incumbent. You want fear,

00:07:08.720 despair, anger, hopelessness. And there is just no way at this point, there's just no way that that

00:07:15.160 isn't part of the calculation for these Democrats. I mean, just look at what's happening in Los Angeles

00:07:19.900 under their Democrat mayor. Lockdown extended three months.

00:07:27.940 The mayor announced yesterday that all residents in the city have to wear a mask whenever they leave

00:07:34.380 their homes for any reason, no matter where they're going, even if they're going to be outside the

00:07:41.580 whole time, walking around the block, checking the mailbox, you need a mask.

00:07:45.160 He, quote, reopened the beaches. But let's take a look at what his reopening of the beaches entails.

00:07:50.720 And I know I should be used to this craziness by now, but this is just, let's take a look. I'll show you this.

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00:09:31.260 pertaining to the beaches. It says, LA beaches reopened today for active recreation only, such as

00:09:37.820 swimming, surfing, running, and walking. No gathering is allowed, and activities such as sunbathing and

00:09:43.320 group sports are not permitted. You must wear a face covering and maintain six feet of distance from

00:09:47.760 others. Okay. So you can't bike, but you can run. You can't sit, but you can walk. You can't picnic,

00:10:00.760 but you can surf. Does any of this make any sense? Is there any medical or scientific justification for

00:10:06.980 any of this? Of course not. I mean, really look at this. Soak this in for a minute. Because honestly,

00:10:13.720 it's not very often that you're going to see a sitting listed as a prohibited activity on a beach.

00:10:21.180 That doesn't happen very often. So what is the point of this? Telling people they have to wear a

00:10:26.380 mask at the beach when there's no evidence that the virus can be transmitted in that environment.

00:10:32.980 And even if it could, it's the beach. It's very big. That's the thing about the beach.

00:10:37.700 It's very easy to maintain social distance at the beach. I used to live in a beach town.

00:10:43.420 And I can tell you, even at its height, even at the busiest part, you know, July 4th,

00:10:48.020 tourist season, you could still easily go to, there's a lot of people at the beach,

00:10:52.860 you could still easily go to the beach and not come within six feet of another person.

00:10:58.060 Because there's a lot of space. So even if the virus could be effectively spread outside at the beach,

00:11:04.980 which it doesn't seem that it can, even if it could, none of this would make sense.

00:11:10.340 Least of all, would it make sense to tell people they can't sit down and relax?

00:11:14.540 Especially if you want people to maintain social distance.

00:11:18.160 The easiest way at the beach to maintain social distance is to pick a spot, set up your

00:11:23.560 towel and umbrella, and that's your spot. That's the easiest way to stay away from other people.

00:11:30.820 If you're telling them they have to keep moving, it's going to be a lot harder.

00:11:33.320 So what's the point? I think it's obvious that, first of all, these petty tyrants don't want to

00:11:39.480 give up the power. They don't want to give up the crisis. And also, they don't want to send a

00:11:44.240 message of optimism and recovery and normalcy going into an election with a Republican incumbent.

00:11:51.200 I think it's as simple as that. One other point, though, about this,

00:11:56.440 this whole thing of, you know, social distancing and everything. And this is a really obvious point

00:12:02.120 that shouldn't need to be made, but I'm going to make it anyway, because apparently it does.

00:12:07.500 And I was thinking about this especially, because I want to, here's another picture I want to show

00:12:10.400 you. This is something that someone posted approvingly on online, and it's a picture from

00:12:16.020 a German cafe. And this is what this German cafe is doing to enforce social distancing. 1.00

00:12:22.040 I've actually seen this before. So there are other places that are doing this. And you see they have

00:12:26.040 their people, their patrons, their customers, wearing hats with pool noodles attached so that

00:12:34.240 they'll, somehow that's supposed to help them maintain social distance. Because, of course,

00:12:38.260 you know, when you're sitting down at a place and there's hot coffee and everything and drinks and

00:12:43.160 food, yeah, the best thing you want to do is have people with pool noodles hanging off of them,

00:12:47.280 right? What could possibly go wrong? But not only is something like that embarrassing and emasculating

00:12:56.000 and absurd and stupid, but it's also totally pointless. This is not necessary. We don't need 0.99

00:13:03.960 to think of creative and patronizing ways to get people to maintain social distance. We don't need all

00:13:10.800 these complicated rules at the beach. You can do this, you can do that, you got to wear a mask,

00:13:15.380 right? We don't need any of that. It's people understand the concept of giving each other space.

00:13:24.440 And almost everybody is more than happy to do it. It's not hard. That's all you got to say. We don't

00:13:31.780 need any of the rest of this stuff. All you got to say is, hey, look, just give people some space,

00:13:34.680 okay? That's all you got to say. And almost everybody is more than happy to do that. Even

00:13:40.580 without the coronavirus, people are more than happy to do that. You don't have to tell people twice,

00:13:45.380 give each other space at the beach. They want space. I mean, it's not like people are running

00:13:51.060 up and kissing strangers on the mouth for the most part, unless it's spring break.

00:13:57.200 But families at the beach, that's not what they're doing. They're going with their own family. They

00:14:00.600 want their own little space, and that's fine. I mentioned I was out with my wife for Mother's Day.

00:14:06.900 We were out with the family. We were at Havre de Grace in Maryland, which is a small little

00:14:11.820 town on the bay, historic town. And there's a lighthouse, and there's a little boardwalk and

00:14:18.480 stuff. And we were there. It was very busy, because it's Mother's Day. It would always be busy. But

00:14:25.500 especially now, people don't have anywhere else to go. So there's a lot of people there.

00:14:29.000 And, but there was no complicated, nobody was wearing pool noodles on their head.

00:14:35.580 People weren't wearing masks, unless they were going into a store. They weren't wearing them

00:14:41.680 outside. There was no complicated procedure in place. There were no cops patrolling the area,

00:14:48.000 telling us what to do. And yet, we figured out how to just enjoy ourselves and walk around and have a

00:14:55.400 normal time, without, while also giving each other space. Not hard to do. People can figure that out.

00:15:04.040 That's what most people do anyway. Okay? When we're walking by someone on the boardwalk,

00:15:12.680 it's not like there's a moment of panic and confusion, and we don't know what to do,

00:15:16.440 so one of us just jumps into the water. No, it's just, okay, we clear some space, and we just keep

00:15:21.120 walking. That's it. Just move over, keep walking. That's all you need to do. We don't need any of

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00:17:07.400 life. Celebrate the moments that matter most. Okay, the new jobless report is out. This is tradition

00:17:14.740 now, of course. The sad tradition now. Every Thursday. Every Thursday at 830 in the morning

00:17:18.720 is when the jobless numbers come out. And I know that now. It's sad that I know it, but

00:17:22.340 I do. 3 million additional unemployed people last week. That brings the official number to

00:17:27.980 35 million. A little more than 35 million. 35 million. Okay. Now think about this for a

00:17:33.920 minute. Think about what the number means. Because let's look at this optimistically. As optimistically

00:17:41.020 as we can, let's say, and I'm pulling this number out of thin air, but let's say very optimistically

00:17:46.600 in a dream fantasy scenario, 80% of the people who lost their job since this all began are hired

00:17:53.860 back in the next few months. Let's say that we can recover 80% of those losses. That's about as

00:18:02.400 optimistic as we could possibly be, I think. And even that isn't going to happen. But no rational

00:18:09.720 person thinks that 90% or 100% of people are going to be hired back. My point, though, is

00:18:14.340 that even if it was 80% who were hired back, that would still leave 7 or 8 million unemployed

00:18:22.200 people. And under normal circumstances, if we had shed 8 million jobs in two months, that

00:18:30.780 would be seen as a crisis, as an economic crisis. And now, though, it's like the dream. It's the

00:18:38.400 hope. It's the best case scenario. Now, my point isn't to panic anyone or to make us

00:18:45.140 feel hopeless, especially if you don't have a job right now. But I think we need to be realistic

00:18:50.180 about what we're heading into. Number two, a little bit of positivity here. Let's get away from

00:18:56.220 the doom and gloom for a moment. With the lockdowns and everything, one of the good things is that

00:19:00.420 nature is healing itself. Nature is returning to its old glory, reclaiming its territory as

00:19:08.360 the era of human civilization draws to a close mercifully. So here's a great example. This

00:19:12.940 is footage out of California yesterday. Watch this. It's very beautiful.

00:19:16.040 The goats have returned. The wild goats have returned, as the prophecy foretold. Beautiful.

00:19:31.080 Actually, I have no idea what's happening in that video. No clue. But I saw it, and it was

00:19:34.940 interesting. So there it is. Number three, as if we didn't have enough on our plate, we are now told

00:19:40.480 that NASA has launched a mission called DART. That's the Double Asteroid Redirection Test

00:19:46.260 Mission. And the idea is to slam into an asteroid on purpose, intentionally creating a meteor shower.

00:19:53.880 That's what they're going to do. And this would be the first human-caused meteor shower in history.

00:19:59.400 What could possibly be the drawback there, right? They're telling us it will be harmless. That's

00:20:04.300 what they're saying. But I mean, it seems like there are a lot of variables here, a lot of unknowns.

00:20:09.100 The idea is to test their ability to redirect an asteroid in case one ever really does threaten

00:20:14.720 Earth. But my thing is, though, first of all, can we stop and have a conversation about whether we'd

00:20:22.400 actually want to redirect an asteroid if it was going to slam into Earth and kill us all?

00:20:27.300 I'm just saying. There are two sides of that argument, and I think we should have a discussion

00:20:31.740 about it. That's it. Second, I was at the lake with my kids the other day, and I threw a rock

00:20:39.620 to skip it across the lake, and I almost hit a baby goose in the face by accident. I didn't. The goose

00:20:47.200 was okay, but I almost did. My point here in this parable is that disaster almost struck when I threw

00:20:53.720 a rock into a lake that I was standing right in front of. Now we're going to launch a missile at an

00:21:01.220 asteroid millions of miles away that's traveling hundreds of thousands of miles an hour, intending to

00:21:09.200 redirect it while planet Earth stands precariously in its path. I just, I don't know. Makes me a little

00:21:17.600 uncomfortable. Four, and tonight, watch out for this. CNN is hosting a town hall on the coronavirus,

00:21:23.460 and there's going to be an expert panel. Here is the expert panel. Take a look. You see,

00:21:28.260 so we've got a couple of former bureaucrats on the panel, so that's great. And then, yes,

00:21:33.360 Greta Thunberg. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old, is on a panel of coronavirus experts. Now,

00:21:41.540 lots of people are making fun of CNN for this, saying, you know, she's not an expert. She's just a kid

00:21:46.980 who thinks that we're all going to drown next week. That doesn't really make her an expert in

00:21:51.600 anything, especially not a virus. And that's true. But look at the name of this event. This is what

00:21:57.080 people are missing. In defense of CNN, which I would rarely offer defenses of CNN, look at the name.

00:22:02.820 It says, Coronavirus Facts and Fears. I mean, Greta Thunberg is indeed an expert on fear. She's an expert

00:22:11.860 on feeling fear. She's an expert on spreading it. So actually, I think she does belong on the panel.

00:22:16.980 Okay. Number five, finally, here is a video that's going viral right now online. It is reportedly

00:22:26.160 footage of a confrontation between a woman, a mother with a toddler at the subway station in

00:22:36.760 New York. Confrontation between her and police. And reportedly, what started all this is that she

00:22:42.980 wasn't wearing a face mask correctly. And then here's what happened next.

00:22:46.980 Right.

00:22:52.160 Right. Yes. Because, you know, if you're concerned about germs being spread, the most sensible thing

00:23:13.780 to do is to throw somebody onto the ground on the floor of a subway station and then dogpile on top

00:23:19.500 of them. That's going to be a good way to stop the spread of germs, isn't it? Now, I mean, you can say

00:23:24.740 we don't have all the context here. We don't know exactly what happened. That's fine. She was arguing

00:23:30.280 with the police. She wasn't submitting, you know, like a good little citizen. And fine, that's all true

00:23:35.440 too. But we're going to see more and more of this. And you just, you can't expect people to tolerate

00:23:41.380 being harassed by police over issues like this. And this is not how the police department should be

00:23:48.660 used. You know, people, this is, this is not a woman who's on a, you know, with her, with her

00:23:57.400 toddler at the subway station. This is not the kind of dangerous criminal that we want cops to be

00:24:01.740 chasing after. And the other thing is, you know, I understand and I've gotten plenty of, I've read some

00:24:07.520 of the emails, I think, from some of the police officers that have written to this show and have

00:24:11.380 said anonymously that they are, you know, they don't like having to enforce these rules. They

00:24:16.460 don't support them. The last thing they want to do when they get up in the morning and they go into

00:24:21.360 their job, they don't want to go down and start policing people for how they're wearing their face

00:24:25.940 masks or if they're not social distancing correctly. That's not the kind of thing. It's not why you got into

00:24:31.400 the police force in the first place is to enforce laws like that. And, and I understand that. So the cops are

00:24:38.500 in a tough spot, too. But the, the we're just following orders excuse only goes so far. And I think we've

00:24:48.680 reached its limit, personally. Okay, let's go to your daily cancellation. I'm going to be canceling the hero

00:24:56.620 worship of nurses. I think it's time to cancel this finally. I'm not canceling nurses themselves

00:25:01.880 because I, you know, I like nurses. I respect what they do. They have an important job. But all I'm

00:25:08.520 asking for is a little bit of perspective and a little bit of common sense. That's all. So look at

00:25:14.600 this tweet from NBC News 10 in New York. It's a picture of a bunch of nurses holding a sign and the

00:25:20.300 caption reads, healthcare heroes. This morning, we're honoring a group from the United Memorial Center.

00:25:25.860 They work in the Lipson Cancer and Infusion Center in Batavia. Batavia, I don't know how to pronounce

00:25:32.020 that. Their message, we stay here for you. You stay home for us. Thank you for keeping us safe and

00:25:39.100 healthy. Okay. So first thing, again, I respect healthcare workers. I appreciate what they do.

00:25:50.480 It's a necessary job. And generally in my own personal experience, either as a patient or

00:25:55.780 or when my kids have been patients or another family member, I've generally been impressed with

00:26:01.900 the nurses that I've dealt with. And that's why I said I've always liked nurses. But this thing where

00:26:09.080 we call every nurse a hero is just silly. And it cheapens the word hero. And it's patronizing.

00:26:18.240 Um, these people in the picture, they work at a cancer center in upstate New York.

00:26:24.760 That's great. I'm glad they do it. It's very important work. I don't think though,

00:26:30.300 going into your cancer center in upstate New York is an act of heroism. I just, I don't. I don't

00:26:37.700 think it requires immense courage to do it. You know, going into the middle of an epi, going into the

00:26:44.240 middle of the epicenter of an epidemic, specifically to work with infected people. Yes, that I will call

00:26:51.300 heroic, certainly. But just going to do your job, um, at your local hospital is, is not heroic. It's

00:26:57.780 your job and you're paid to do it. That's not heroism. And that's not an insult either. Not

00:27:02.700 insulting you. I'm just saying the word hero has, should have meaning. And it loses its meaning when

00:27:11.200 we just apply it to anybody who wears scrubs and works at a hospital. And that's the other thing

00:27:18.460 too, saying it's their job. Well, what they're telling us in that, in that sign, they're saying,

00:27:22.800 stay home and we'll stay here for you. Yeah. Well, it's easy for you to say you get paid to stay there.

00:27:29.400 There are 35 million people who aren't getting paid anymore and would like to, because they'd like

00:27:36.600 to feed their families, feed their kids. There are 35 million people who, who had jobs like you

00:27:41.600 also had important jobs. Okay. I mean, anyone's job is important, at least to them and their families.

00:27:48.200 And there are many other kinds of jobs out there that are important to communities too.

00:27:51.560 And, um, a lot of those people, a lot of those people don't have jobs anymore.

00:27:54.940 And, and so they would like to, so I'm sorry, but it comes across as selfish for nurses to say,

00:28:02.360 oh, all you people stay home for our sake. What? What kind of, who says that anyway?

00:28:11.000 Who says that? Who just declares that to millions of people? All of you stay home, stay home for us.

00:28:16.660 Here's what I need you to do for us. Stay home, be unemployed. If you need to go and get in a bread

00:28:25.060 line, then do that, but otherwise stay home. Do it for me. How is that not an insanely selfish,

00:28:32.120 not to mention tone deaf message? And it doesn't get any less selfish or less tone deaf just because 0.83

00:28:37.400 nurses are saying it. You know, what would be a selfless and inspiring message? Here's what I would

00:28:43.080 like. This would inspire me. And this I would think would be self selfless from a nurse. If the nurses

00:28:49.320 were to say, Hey, you out there, go out and live your life, go to your job, feed your kids, take care

00:28:57.840 of your, of, of your business, do what you need to. If you get sick, we'll be here for you. Now,

00:29:04.660 now that's a nice message. That's an encouraging message. Not stay home, stay home, unemployed while

00:29:12.880 we work. Of course, I mean, that's been the message from the media too. So that's a common

00:29:18.380 message these days, but, uh, it doesn't become suddenly virtuous or valiant because nurses are 0.99

00:29:24.500 saying it. Um, and, and, and, you know, by the way, also there, there are a lot of people who have

00:29:32.300 been, who have medical problems and, and symptoms and have been staying home as they've been instructed

00:29:38.460 to. And, um, and they shouldn't be because they should be, they should be going to the doctor

00:29:43.780 and they're not. I mean, think about how many cancer, how many cancers have gone undiagnosed

00:29:50.620 because of this. That's a whole other aspect of the shutdown. Um, now we're going to go to some

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00:30:58.800 And again, if you become a daily wire member, you can always have access to the mailbag and send emails

00:31:04.040 that way. This is from Tim says, Hey Matt, I just recently became a daily wire member came for Ben

00:31:08.220 staying for Matt. Just wanted to get your thoughts on Biden calling out Trump for not wearing a mask

00:31:13.620 when going out in public. I feel that the president is trying to portray strength and show that he

00:31:18.180 isn't afraid considering he gets tested frequently and masks are better for protecting others. This

00:31:22.700 seems like just another feeble attempt to blame Trump for everything since when is it wrong for a

00:31:26.940 president to show some courage? Thanks for all you do. Yeah, I agree with you, Tim. I don't have no

00:31:31.100 problem with Trump not wearing a mask. As you said, everyone around him is getting tested constantly

00:31:37.440 and he's getting tested constantly as he should be. So I, and, and if he's, you know, if he's standing,

00:31:46.000 you know, if he's walking around or something, or he's giving a press conference, I mean, I don't

00:31:51.460 know how you give a press conference in a mask anyway. And so I don't have an issue with that.

00:31:55.440 And I kind of agree. I think it would send the wrong message personally to have him walking around

00:31:59.180 in a mask all the time. I think we have to remember, you know, a lot of these politicians

00:32:03.300 that are wearing masks, they're just doing it for show. And no, I don't, I don't support,

00:32:09.840 I don't support wearing a mask as a fashion statement or to virtue signal or just doing it

00:32:15.560 for show. I mean, all these people on social media, Facebook and Twitter and stuff, their,

00:32:19.920 their profile pictures now are them in masks. Did you need to wear a mask while you took a profile

00:32:25.680 picture? No, you didn't. You just want to show off that you're wearing a mask and you're being

00:32:28.540 responsible. I, as I've said before, when it comes to the mask thing, if, if, if a store requires a

00:32:36.400 mask for entry, I'll wear the mask. No problem. It's their right to require it. I got no issue with

00:32:41.280 that. If that's what they need to do to get going again and to, and to, you know, to, to operate.

00:32:47.240 And if that's what we need to do to get the economy going perfectly fine. But, um, no, uh, this idea

00:32:53.560 that you need to just wear, we all need to be wearing masks all the time everywhere is absurd.

00:32:59.860 Let's see. This is from, um, Sean says, dear Matt, you've confessed to it. So I'll just ask

00:33:07.960 when you and Clavin are trespassing on private property construction sites during your Bob Villa

00:33:12.760 LARPing sessions, when you left the private property, you had no business being in and you

00:33:17.320 are immediately confronted by an armed neighbor who demands you stop and explain what the hell you were

00:33:22.380 doing in that house. What would your reaction be? One, stop, apologize profusely and explain yourself

00:33:27.000 or two, fight the neighbor to the death for his gun. Ask Clavin what his answer is too, please.

00:33:32.360 Uh, yeah, this is, or no, that's from, that might've been from Jason. It's either from Jason or Sean.

00:33:39.360 I lost the name. Anyway, whoever, whoever sent that email, uh, what he's referring to is now I can't

00:33:44.760 speak for Clavin. I don't know what Clavin's stance is on this. I'm not going to speak to that, but

00:33:48.840 I, you know, I, I mentioned that when people are talking about with, with Arbery and the fact that

00:33:56.720 he was on a construction site, again, I don't know why he was on the site. Okay. Maybe he was a

00:34:01.940 burglar. The homeowner says that nothing was stolen. That to me is significant, but, uh, who knows what

00:34:09.040 he was doing there? He could have had sinister motivations. I don't know, but it doesn't have to

00:34:14.340 be sinister. I can imagine a scenario where somebody would go on a construction site, not

00:34:20.360 intending to steal anything just to kind of check it out. Now I have done that myself. I'm not, I don't

00:34:24.760 go out and do it every day. I'm not, I'm not running, you know, uh, driving around looking for

00:34:29.980 construction sites to trespass on, but there have been times in my life when I have been walking by

00:34:35.620 something under construction. I stopped to take a look. I've done that. I thought it was kind of

00:34:41.120 normal. I thought it was something that guys do sometimes. Apparently not from the reaction I've

00:34:46.340 gotten. Apparently it's not normal. Okay. I'll admit that. Um, so I have been guilty of that in

00:34:49.920 the past of trespassing. Uh, now to answer your question, let's say I stop. I look at a construction

00:34:58.320 site and as I'm leaving, a guy runs up with a gun to confront me. What would I do? The first answer

00:35:08.260 is I don't know because I think you can't, you can't really know what you would do in that

00:35:12.720 situation until you're in it. But I think there's a very good possibility that I would run because

00:35:18.720 I don't know who this guy is. I don't know what his intention is. I don't know if he's crazy and

00:35:24.480 he's about to shoot me for being on a construction site and yeah, I shouldn't have been on it, but that 0.96

00:35:28.220 doesn't mean I'm going to offer myself to be shot. Okay. So yes, I'm, I might well run, which is what 0.89

00:35:34.120 Arbery apparently did originally. So from what we, from, from, from, from how we understand the

00:35:41.020 situation now, it seems as though originally confronted, he ran, they chased him down,

00:35:47.940 parked their car in the middle of the road to head him off. One guy's on the street with a gun,

00:35:53.080 another guy's up with a truck bed with a gun. And so it's only in that second interaction,

00:36:00.100 if we can call it that, that Arbery decided rather than flee, he was going to fight.

00:36:06.120 I could see myself doing that too, frankly. You know, the person confronts you with a gun,

00:36:11.920 you don't know if they're crazy and they're going to kill you. So you just, you just,

00:36:14.420 and you don't really want to stick around and find out. So you run, you know, I think when someone

00:36:19.120 confronts you with a gun, running is a pretty understandable reaction, even if you're a burglar.

00:36:25.580 I mean, let's say that I was on the construction site burglarizing it. Let's say I was there,

00:36:29.980 stealing power tools or something. And then somebody runs up with a gun. I'd still run.

00:36:37.880 I'm probably not going to just stop and say, Oh, you got me. Do what you will. I deserve it.

00:36:43.820 I'm probably going to run because I don't want to die. And then that second time, when you see,

00:36:48.320 when you see that scene, they're, they're, they're parked in the middle of the freaking street 0.96

00:36:53.220 with guns. Yeah. You might think at this point, okay, these people really want to kill me. And 0.96

00:36:59.280 now I got to, now it's a, it's a, it's a fight to the death. I could see someone making that

00:37:04.320 calculation. I could, I mean, you say Jason or Sean, whoever you are, that you can't, you can't see

00:37:09.960 that. You don't understand it. All right. I guess I'll take your word for that. But to me,

00:37:16.200 it doesn't seem that unreasonable. It doesn't seem that unreasonable to conclude when people

00:37:22.280 are coming after you with guns, that they might want to kill you. I think that's a logical conclusion.

00:37:28.200 I don't know. Burglar or not. That's my point. Whether there, he's a burglar or not.

00:37:33.820 This is from Steve says, hello, Mr. Walsh. I'm not sure if you'll get this or not,

00:37:38.080 but I'll keep it short. A 77 year old barber here in Michigan is being railroaded by the Michigan

00:37:43.600 state AG and our governor. He chose to go back to work at the barbershop he owns because he was

00:37:47.960 broke and had no other choice. They tried to shut him down and issue citations. He won in a court

00:37:53.380 case. The judge chose the state could not file a temporary restraining order. So because they

00:37:59.820 lost in court, they simply chose to pull his license with no due process. Maybe if enough people find out

00:38:04.900 about this, we can help them out. I'm a big fan. If you can't, if you can't talk about it or don't

00:38:08.540 have time, I understand. Really love your show. Thank you for your time. I hadn't heard about this case.

00:38:12.380 Thanks for passing it along. I'll look into it. I mean, that sounds completely outrageous,

00:38:16.780 but it's, it does also doesn't surprise me with what's happening up there in Michigan.

00:38:21.660 So yeah, thanks for passing it along. And I will, I'll, I'll look into that. I think we're going to

00:38:28.940 see, we're going to see a lot of that. I mean, you look in Wisconsin, like I mentioned, they tried,

00:38:34.780 the governor tried to extend the stay at home order. State Supreme court shut it down. Thank God

00:38:39.300 said he's not allowed to do it. Well, you know, I, I, is the, is the, are these petty tyrants going

00:38:45.740 to give up that easy and say, okay, fine. No, they're going to find other ways around it to

00:38:50.000 control people. And so I think we're going to see a lot more of this. Thanks for passing that along.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 14, 2020

Ep. 487 - Democrat Governors Don't Want To Give Up Their Lockdown Powers

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