The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 520 - If We Don't Close Schools For The Flu, Why For COVID？

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media, Democrats, teachers, unions are pushing for schools to remain closed seemingly indefinitely, I guess, due to COVID-19.

00:00:09.540 But the actual facts about the virus make it clear that schools can be reopened, should be reopened.

00:00:16.140 So what's this really about? Why are they actually trying to keep schools closed?

00:00:19.240 We'll talk about all that today.

00:00:20.220 Also, five headlines, including Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, fretting over his BLM mural that was painted on the street,

00:00:27.800 which is really more glorified graffiti than a mural, fretting over that while babies are shot dead in his city.

00:00:35.580 We'll talk about that.

00:00:36.800 Also, today for our daily cancellation, long overdue, we will be canceling mommy bloggers.

00:00:42.420 It's time. It needs to happen, and that's going to happen today.

00:00:45.940 But beginning with this, it's been strange, I have to say, because I have been reliably informed.

00:00:52.700 And we've all been reliably informed over and over and over again that our teachers, our sainted teachers,

00:00:59.800 especially our public school teachers, are self-sacrificing heroes who care only about educating our precious children, right?

00:01:06.540 We've all heard that, okay?

00:01:08.220 Equipping the next generation, you know, getting our kids ready for the future.

00:01:13.520 They're doing the hardest job.

00:01:15.100 They're doing the most important job.

00:01:16.640 But they're passionate about it.

00:01:18.540 They love doing it.

00:01:19.740 They care.

00:01:21.020 They care about our kids, right?

00:01:23.900 I remember hearing this.

00:01:25.720 Don't you remember that?

00:01:27.480 Many times, in fact.

00:01:29.440 Incessantly even.

00:01:31.220 Until the point of nausea, you might say.

00:01:34.600 But now we're being told that many teachers don't want to go back to work.

00:01:38.500 They don't want to go back to school.

00:01:39.840 They don't want to educate our kids because they're scared of the virus.

00:01:43.080 As the NYT reports in this headline, they are fearful and angry about being pressured to go back to school.

00:01:50.300 They're making demands, as teachers seem to so often do.

00:01:54.380 The LA Teachers Union has a long list of demands that will need to be met before they'll go back to school.

00:02:01.560 Many of them seemingly disconnected entirely from COVID concerns.

00:02:04.940 For example, they want to defund the police.

00:02:07.500 That's part of the, what does that have to do with COVID?

00:02:10.060 Who knows? 1.00

00:02:10.560 Apparently, I don't know, the police are out there intentionally spreading the virus, those bastards. 1.00

00:02:16.180 It's just yet another thing that the evil police are doing. 1.00

00:02:20.820 But the mellow drama from teachers is really off the charts.

00:02:24.680 Newsweek reports that teachers in Texas are writing their wills because they have to go back to school.

00:02:31.440 They're also getting medical power of attorney established.

00:02:34.840 They're taking out extra life insurance policy.

00:02:36.900 This is all according to what some teachers in the article are saying.

00:02:40.560 Um, and these dramatics are echoed by the media and many other people in our country.

00:02:45.500 Some in the media, like Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post, have flat out said that sending our kids back to school is killing them.

00:02:53.120 We are giving them a death sentence by sending them back to school.

00:02:58.520 That's what's being argued.

00:02:59.540 Now, let's look at the actual facts, those pesky things.

00:03:06.060 I'm going to show you some graphs here, and I posted this on my Twitter.

00:03:08.880 You can go there as well.

00:03:10.280 I got all this, I got all this information from the American Council on Science and Health, the CDC, the National Center for Education Statistics, and an article in Business Insider.

00:03:18.220 That's where I get all these statistics.

00:03:20.400 Um, okay, here is the, uh, infection fatality rate for COVID by age.

00:03:26.960 All right, there's the chart.

00:03:28.440 And you see it's minuscule for kids, school-age kids, from 0.001 for the youngest set to 0.0003 for the middle school to high school bracket.

00:03:45.040 Okay, that's the, that's the mortality rate for COVID for school-age kids.

00:03:49.280 Now, here's the important point.

00:03:52.480 Via Business Insider, the death rate for the flu in that same bracket is substantially higher.

00:04:00.000 Still low, still very low, but substantially higher.

00:04:04.840 So, if you've never said that sending our kids to school during flu season is a death sentence, and we're killing them, and, uh, it's a heartless and cruel thing to do.

00:04:15.540 So, but you are saying that now about COVID, then I have only one question for you. 0.98

00:04:21.940 When did you become such a shameless lying hack? 0.99

00:04:26.580 That's my only question. 0.98

00:04:28.760 See, I don't want to hear this stuff about, oh, so you're saying, even if the death rate's 0.001%, you're, you're saying that's okay?

00:04:36.720 You're okay with that?

00:04:37.760 You're okay with those kids dying?

00:04:39.160 Well, that's what you say during flu season, every single flu season, that's what you say, by your own logic anyway, that's what you say.

00:04:49.920 As for teachers, uh, because that's what this is all really about, we see that the death rate for adults is also very low until you get to the 50 plus range.

00:04:58.260 And then it really skyrockets at, uh, 65 plus, and many of those in 65 plus, because 65 plus is a, is a large age bracket, right?

00:05:06.600 Um, many of those are going to be 75, 80, 85 years old or older in nursing homes.

00:05:13.680 And, and we know that's one of the reasons, you know, the death rate for, for COVID is, is precipitously declining, even as cases go up.

00:05:23.580 And one of the reasons the case is going up is because they're testing more for it, but either way, um, the death rate is going down in this country.

00:05:29.900 You wouldn't know that from all the hysterics in the media, but it is, why is the death rate going down?

00:05:35.020 Well, one of the reasons is that many of these States, as we have covered, as we covered extensively when it was happening, many of these States intentionally set COVID infected people into nursing homes, and it just decimated the nursing home population.

00:05:49.320 Um, and they're not doing that anymore after months of doing it.

00:05:53.660 Finally, they've been shamed into stopping.

00:05:57.020 And what do you know now that we have actually successfully protected the nursing home population, the death rate is, is declining.

00:06:05.020 Significantly.

00:06:06.860 Um, now, okay.

00:06:10.700 So that's, that's, those are the, the, the death rates, uh, by age group.

00:06:15.000 What's the average age of teachers though?

00:06:17.920 You know, do, do we have, um, a majority of, of 65 year old teachers?

00:06:22.620 Well, no, the average age for teachers in America, according to this graph is 42.

00:06:28.020 Only a relatively small minority are in the highest risk age group.

00:06:31.900 What this means is that the vast majority of people in a school from the students to the teachers, administrators, um, are not at any substantial risk students, especially.

00:06:46.460 And that's probably why the American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidance, strongly urging that schools be reopened.

00:06:55.760 What the American Academy of Pediatrics says, and this is hardly a right-wing organization.

00:07:01.200 What they say is that it's, it's better for the kids and healthier and safer for them if we send them back to school.

00:07:07.160 I want to read a little bit from what the, um, the, that group has to say.

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00:08:57.500 Um, so let me read this a little bit.

00:09:00.920 This is from the NPR report on the American Academy of Pediatrics.

00:09:04.300 As a nation's pediatricians have come out with a strong statement in favor of bringing children back to the classroom this fall, wherever and whenever they can do so safely.

00:09:13.220 The American Academy of Pediatrics guidance, quote,

00:09:15.680 strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school.

00:09:22.180 The guidance says schools are fundamental to child and adolescent development and well-being.

00:09:26.200 Uh, the AAP cites mounting evidence that transmission of the coronavirus by young children is uncommon, partly because they are less likely to contract it in the first place.

00:09:35.580 On the other hand, the AAP argues that based on the nation's experience this spring, remote learning is likely to result in severe learning loss and increased social isolation.

00:09:44.160 Uh, social isolation in turn can breed serious social, emotional, and health issues.

00:09:48.360 Um, child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation, it cites as, uh, as particular risks.

00:09:57.840 Now, all of this said, okay, are there risks involved in opening schools?

00:10:03.340 Well, of course there are.

00:10:03.980 There are always risks.

00:10:05.060 There are risks from disease.

00:10:06.480 There are risks from violence.

00:10:07.660 There are risks for all kinds of risks that go, uh, with just leaving your house and, and certainly setting your kids to school.

00:10:13.280 There are risks involved with that, but what is the other option?

00:10:17.460 Okay.

00:10:17.580 You see, that's the question that the COVID fear mongers have never answered.

00:10:21.680 They always avoid.

00:10:22.740 They refuse to answer it.

00:10:24.080 They complain about reopening.

00:10:25.920 They go into their hysterics.

00:10:27.500 Anytime it happens, anytime it happens, launching into this whole dramatic production, but they never explain what they would prefer to see happen, except in very vague terms.

00:10:39.660 They'll say something like, well, it needs to be better.

00:10:43.580 That's what I know.

00:10:44.660 This isn't good.

00:10:45.780 We need a better.

00:10:46.880 Well, what's your plan?

00:10:47.620 What should we do instead?

00:10:48.500 Something better.

00:10:49.600 That's what we should do.

00:10:50.900 We should have a better thing than this.

00:10:52.940 That's my idea.

00:10:55.520 Uh, oh, very, very, very good.

00:10:57.880 Very helpful.

00:10:58.500 Thank you for that.

00:10:59.700 No, they won't go into specifics.

00:11:02.240 Um, they won't, they won't lay it out.

00:11:07.920 So I will, you know, they're not going to do it.

00:11:09.680 So let me do it.

00:11:10.140 There are broadly two options here.

00:11:13.540 Only two.

00:11:15.360 One is to reopen schools while the virus is still out there and there's no cure and to do our best to manage the risks.

00:11:22.260 The other is to keep them closed indefinitely, possibly for years until an effective vaccine is ready and available.

00:11:29.300 Whenever that happens, if it ever happens, that's it.

00:11:32.740 Okay.

00:11:32.900 There are different ways of approaching those two options, but those are the options one way or another.

00:11:38.820 It's going to be some version of one of those door one or door two.

00:11:43.560 Here's the irony.

00:11:44.380 Most of the people who go with option two, even if they won't quite say it, um, explicitly that it does appear that option two is what they want.

00:11:55.820 Keep schools closed indefinitely, even if that means for years, however long it takes for the virus to go away.

00:12:02.400 Um, and by the way, before I get to that, uh, another dodge that you'll hear from people is to say, well, we need to wait until the virus is under control.

00:12:11.920 We have to wait until the, the, the curve is flattened.

00:12:15.060 Well, we did, we did flatten the curve and we are getting the virus under control, especially when it comes to the death rate, which is declining.

00:12:21.520 But the point is that whatever we do, even if the curve, whatever magical curve we're talking about, if it, if it goes away, if we get it under control, whatever that means in your head, if it's still out there and there's no cure, then whenever you reopen, it's probably going to start surging again because it's still there.

00:12:41.920 So whatever you do to get it under control by hiding in your house, it's because you're in your house, whatever you leave your house, it's still going to be there.

00:12:50.100 And then it's going to reappear and, and, and, and it's going to happen again.

00:12:52.900 The only way to avoid that happening completely is to just stay in your house until there's a cure, a vaccine.

00:13:00.640 So we go back to really it's option one option.

00:13:03.620 Either we are getting back to our lives when the virus is still out there or not.

00:13:08.900 It has to be one or the, one of those two, right?

00:13:13.500 Now, most of the people that would apparently go with option two, keep the schools closed indefinitely, are also invariably the people who would say that the school experience is vital to the growth of our children, vital to their development and their maturity and their very lives.

00:13:30.700 So they're willing to potentially give up on a whole generation of children, give up on their education because they're scared of getting sick.

00:13:40.360 Now think about that.

00:13:44.260 The other irony is that although I am positioning myself, I guess, on the reopening side of things, that's not how I feel about it, about, about schools.

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00:15:27.980 Now, talking about sending kids back to school, the irony is that although I'm taking the position of being in favor of opening them up again,

00:15:36.400 I actually don't think that public schools are essential to the growth of children.

00:15:40.100 That's not my position.

00:15:41.440 I think they're often an impediment to growth.

00:15:43.520 I think that our education system is a disaster, and it destroys more children than it helps.

00:15:49.580 So, you know, I am here trying to hold the other side to its own standard, to its own rhetoric.

00:15:55.000 But as far as my own perspective goes, I think kids can do just fine without the public school system.

00:15:59.200 So, I'm almost arguing, you know, I'm trying to do a favor for the other side, I guess, in saying let's get the schools open because the kids need it.

00:16:12.060 That's what they're supposed to be saying.

00:16:13.640 The problem, though, of course, is that when it comes to shutting down the schools, the real problem is that our whole society is built around the public school system.

00:16:25.620 The broader societal structure is made so that it's essential to have free daycare, eight hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year.

00:16:37.720 The biggest hurdle, then, if you're shutting down schools, is to adjust to accommodate the loss of that daycare system.

00:16:49.000 But as far as the kids themselves, and that is a serious problem for a lot of families.

00:16:53.780 There's no dismissing or discounting that.

00:16:57.520 You know, if you're a two-income family, if you need two incomes to stay afloat, and you can't afford a private school, what are you going to do?

00:17:05.180 What have you been doing?

00:17:06.140 Now, I've heard different things, but it has been a very serious, very hard, even disastrous time for a lot of families because of that issue.

00:17:15.820 As far as the kids themselves go, though, on the other hand, on the matter of education in and of itself, homeschool is better for them anyway.

00:17:26.040 So, you know, maybe that's the silver lining here.

00:17:28.600 The school system is saying, you don't need us.

00:17:31.180 We're not essential.

00:17:32.520 Teachers are basically saying, we're not essential employees.

00:17:35.300 You don't need us.

00:17:36.140 Well, maybe we should take them at their word.

00:17:39.080 Maybe we should say, okay, fine, take the year off.

00:17:41.340 Matter of fact, take forever off.

00:17:43.280 We got this.

00:17:44.760 And then we go and take charge of our children's education again, which wouldn't be such a bad thing.

00:17:50.040 Now, again, I have always been a proponent of moving away from the factory assembly line system of education where we put all the kids into this system and, you know, this cookie cutter thing that they're supposed to fit into.

00:18:07.980 And we stuff 30 kids into a classroom and we have it handled by government employees.

00:18:12.140 I've always said that we need to move away from that as a society.

00:18:15.300 Now, I think that ideally we move away from it gradually so that society has time to adjust and families can adjust.

00:18:23.040 Doing it all at once like this can be disastrous.

00:18:26.600 And that's what we're going through right now.

00:18:28.020 But the point is that the schools are the ones saying, apparently, that our kids don't need them.

00:18:34.740 And leaving aside all the concerns with, you know, who's going to take care of your kids during the day when it comes to education, I guess my answer is I agree.

00:18:44.420 We don't.

00:18:47.500 No matter what happens, though, last thing I'll say.

00:18:52.380 Please, God.

00:18:55.080 When the teachers do go back, don't let them start doing TikTok dancing videos, please.

00:19:02.040 I know it's going to happen, but I'm begging.

00:19:04.740 Our country can't handle it.

00:19:06.080 We have suffered enough.

00:19:08.660 So, please, anything but that.

00:19:11.320 All right, let's move to our headlines for the day.

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00:21:09.440 Let's go to headlines. 0.89

00:21:12.980 Number one, Bill de Blasio, the big, dumb cantaloupe come to life, is overseeing a city that has plunged into violence and anarchy. 0.99

00:21:21.880 A baby was shot in the stomach and killed a couple days ago. 0.99

00:21:25.680 People are dying every day.

00:21:27.500 But here's what he's worried about.

00:21:28.960 From de Blasio, it says, 1.00

00:21:30.020 This is what this dumb oaf is worried about. 0.99

00:21:45.620 People are dying left and right, and he's focused on the mural on the street. 0.99

00:21:50.320 A mural which, by the way, isn't really a mural, can I just say.

00:21:54.120 Words spray-painted on the street are not a mural.

00:21:57.520 That is state-sanctioned graffiti.

00:22:00.740 Let's not do it the favor of calling it a mural.

00:22:05.560 That's not a mural.

00:22:06.620 Murals have artistic value.

00:22:08.160 That doesn't.

00:22:09.700 But either way, artistic value or not, it doesn't matter. 1.00

00:22:14.860 No one cares about your stupid painting. 1.00

00:22:17.460 You idiot. 1.00

00:22:19.640 Number two, here's a shocking turn of events. 1.00

00:22:21.520 A few weeks ago, a student at Texas A&M claimed that he found racist notes on his car.

00:22:27.520 They said, All lives matter.

00:22:29.800 You don't belong here.

00:22:31.160 And then another one had the N-word.

00:22:32.740 He posted it online.

00:22:33.920 It went viral.

00:22:34.660 Media covered it, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth.

00:22:37.260 And then what do you know?

00:22:39.080 Who'd have thunk?

00:22:40.340 Turns out he wrote it himself.

00:22:43.080 I am floored.

00:22:44.180 I know you probably are, too.

00:22:45.280 Who could have guessed that the old racist note left on the windshield thing would end up being fake?

00:22:50.540 I mean, it's only fake every single time.

00:22:53.960 Who could have possibly imagined that this one would be fake, too? 0.90

00:22:58.680 Here's how ridiculous it's gotten.

00:23:03.640 That hate crime hoaxes are so common that there are now genres of them.

00:23:09.680 There are identifiable, recognizable genres.

00:23:13.680 And everyone has their own favorite.

00:23:15.080 Right, like there's this one, the racist note left on the car windshield gambit.

00:23:22.200 There's the racist graffiti oftentimes sprayed on a garage or side of a house or somewhere else.

00:23:28.640 There's the racist note on the receipt, the fake racist note on the receipt.

00:23:34.820 That's maybe my personal favorite genre of the hate crime hoax.

00:23:37.840 There's, of course, the racist noose, obviously.

00:23:42.220 There's the racist note on a Starbucks cup is another one.

00:23:47.020 And then there are sometimes people, there's the genre-bending, genre-defying, more ambitious efforts, like the Jussie Smollett, for example.

00:23:55.700 You know, the thing is, I appreciate the Jussie Smolletts.

00:23:58.360 I do to have that ambition and to be a little bit more inventive.

00:24:04.240 Although, you know, you could argue that his hate crime hoax was derivative because all he really did was combine a few of these other genres and throw them together in kind of a grab bag sort of way.

00:24:14.040 There wasn't much of a compelling narrative there.

00:24:19.040 But I appreciated the effort, I guess is what I'm trying to say.

00:24:21.580 But really, when it comes down to it, my thing is, no reason to get inventive.

00:24:26.540 You call me old-fashioned, but I like these quaint, you know, a little cliched genres.

00:24:32.880 So if you're going to go with the hate crime hoax, I say stick with the classics.

00:24:36.660 You know, oldies but goodies.

00:24:39.340 Play the hits.

00:24:41.180 That's sort of my way of looking at it.

00:24:42.800 And that's what this guy did here.

00:24:44.420 You know, he's just doing them, you know, going with the standard, note on the car type of thing.

00:24:48.820 Not a lot of effort put into it, but that's okay.

00:24:51.060 It doesn't matter.

00:24:53.300 And the other thing is, of course, people on the left, it doesn't matter how obvious it is, they'll accept it.

00:24:58.940 It doesn't matter.

00:24:59.620 So no reason to put some effort into it.

00:25:01.880 And usually we're good for about one a week now from at least one of these genres.

00:25:07.320 And, you know, it's a lot of fun, a lot of fun.

00:25:10.900 But remember, America is systemically racist, okay?

00:25:14.100 We have actual genres of hate crimes, but America is systemically racist, right?

00:25:19.220 Number three, I thought this was also a lot of fun.

00:25:22.180 Tweet from Ilhan Omar says, income inequality is the greatest determinant of your health and life expectancy.

00:25:28.580 Our economy needs to work for the many, not the few.

00:25:31.820 The really interesting thing is that, you know, Ilhan Omar and the other people in Congress, AOC, you know, other members of the squad, as much as they talk about income inequality and how concerned they are with it,

00:25:46.740 you know, they're making $174,000 a year as members of Congress, which is well over $100,000 more than, significantly more than doubled the average American salary.

00:26:00.820 So they could lead by example and call for Congress to impose significant pay cuts on itself so that the salaries of our congressional members reflects the average American salary.

00:26:13.160 And then at least you're doing your own part to solve the income inequality problem.

00:26:18.080 But they're not doing that, funny enough.

00:26:21.040 You know, they're not interested in that.

00:26:23.620 And also, Ilhan Omar, she apparently, allegedly, has been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars from her campaign to her husband's consulting firm.

00:26:35.440 It seems like she's, not only is she not doing things to solve the income inequality problem, but she is going out of her way to perpetuate that problem by making her own income all the more unequal to everybody else's.

00:26:53.380 Really, really, really strange how it works.

00:26:55.500 I mean, it's almost like, call me crazy, it's almost like these people don't give the slightest damn about income inequality at all.

00:27:02.160 You know, you would almost think that, wouldn't you?

00:27:06.220 Number four, and as the wheel turns, another name change is being demanded.

00:27:09.640 This is from the Washington Post.

00:27:10.780 It says, the Texas Rangers team name must go.

00:27:14.620 Members of the Texas Rangers force were violent agents of white supremacy.

00:27:21.160 So Texas Rangers were next to go.

00:27:23.100 You know, I knew this was coming.

00:27:25.000 I saw this coming.

00:27:25.720 And, you know, what they're saying is that Texas Rangers were, you know, white supremacists. 0.97

00:27:33.500 They were violent men. 0.98

00:27:36.320 They killed Native Americans. 0.99

00:27:38.440 So on and so forth. 0.88

00:27:39.540 Which, by the way, they were violent men and they did kill Native Americans. 0.95

00:27:43.100 The only thing that, you know, oftentimes is not mentioned by the people who advocate things like this

00:27:49.020 is that they were doing battle with Indian tribes who themselves were extraordinarily violent.

00:27:56.320 And, in fact, the Texas Rangers would have been battling the most violent Indian tribes in the entire country. 1.00

00:28:00.940 The Plains Indians, the Comanches in particular, you know, would, as we talked about last week,

00:28:08.900 you know, par for the course standard operating procedure for a tribe like the Comanches 1.00

00:28:14.540 was to invade either neighboring tribes or it didn't matter.

00:28:21.560 If you were, it wasn't like they were just lashing out against white expansionism.

00:28:27.860 No, they would treat you, whether you were a white outsider or an Indian outsider,

00:28:32.100 they would treat you the same. 0.99

00:28:33.020 And what that meant was invading your village or your tribe, killing as many people as they could 0.99

00:28:39.380 and gruesomely, scalping, taking scalps as souvenirs. 0.99

00:28:43.940 Any men who were captured would automatically be tortured to death.

00:28:47.760 Again, standard operating procedure.

00:28:49.520 It was just understood that's what they would do. 0.98

00:28:52.020 Babies were automatically killed. 1.00

00:28:53.920 Women were gang raped and then killed. 0.99

00:28:56.400 Children were taken as enforceably adopted by the tribe. 0.88

00:29:00.960 And this is just how it went for centuries.

00:29:03.560 This is just what they did, how they operated.

00:29:05.540 And that's what the Texas Rangers were up against.

00:29:11.040 And they themselves were violent men.

00:29:12.780 It was a violent time and everybody was violent.

00:29:17.340 But of course, you know, the Texas Rangers were the undisputed bad guys somehow.

00:29:21.960 Even though they're up against people who are doing some of the most,

00:29:26.960 committing some of those brutally horrific, violent acts you could imagine.

00:29:31.500 And even a lot of stuff you couldn't possibly imagine, even though that's the case,

00:29:37.480 they're still totally the bad guys, 100%.

00:29:40.360 And the other side is entirely innocent.

00:29:43.860 Right.

00:29:44.580 Number five.

00:29:45.280 Finally, Johnny Depp, I guess, is in divorce proceedings with his wife, Amber Heard.

00:29:50.220 And I've seen these headlines pop up.

00:29:52.520 I don't really care.

00:29:53.720 Except I did see this.

00:29:56.120 I did care about a little bit.

00:29:57.080 I saw this photo was released today, shown in court.

00:29:59.660 It's Johnny Depp passed out, covered in ice cream.

00:30:04.340 And this is supposed to prove, I don't know, that he's a monstrous figure.

00:30:08.940 I'm not sure.

00:30:09.780 I just want to say in his defense, okay, who has not fallen asleep covered in ice cream?

00:30:16.820 Haven't we all been there?

00:30:17.860 This is me three times a week.

00:30:20.340 I mean, my wife definitely has found me on the couch late at night with a plate of food,

00:30:24.980 asleep, head hanging down like that, and the food just falling off into my lap.

00:30:30.480 I'm not high.

00:30:31.260 I'm not on drugs, okay?

00:30:32.500 I'm not drunk.

00:30:33.260 It's stone cold sober.

00:30:34.860 But, you know, it happens.

00:30:36.480 You go for the late night snack.

00:30:38.680 It's midnight.

00:30:39.620 You're tired.

00:30:40.520 And you fall asleep in the middle of eating.

00:30:42.260 Am I the only one?

00:30:43.040 Maybe I am.

00:30:43.520 Maybe it's just me and Johnny Depp.

00:30:44.600 Also, on a slightly more serious note, I suppose, I keep seeing these pictures of Johnny Depp

00:30:51.140 in these compromising positions.

00:30:54.100 What kind of wife, I have no dog in this fight at all. 1.00

00:30:56.980 I don't even understand what the fight is.

00:30:58.580 I mean, it's a divorce, okay?

00:30:59.440 I guess that's pretty self-explanatory.

00:31:01.160 But what kind of wife takes pictures of their husband? 1.00

00:31:06.920 Like, you find your husband in a compromised position, and you take a picture of him?

00:31:11.040 That's your first reaction?

00:31:12.940 You're really concerned about his health, and so you take pictures of him and save those

00:31:17.040 pictures, and now you bring them out in court?

00:31:18.540 Yeah, that's a real loving and attentive wife there he had for himself, I suppose.

00:31:24.260 Let's go to our daily cancellations.

00:31:26.100 It's a very important one.

00:31:26.800 Well, they're all important, but this one especially.

00:31:28.760 Before we do that, you know, in the midst of all this news, Ben Shapiro has a new book called

00:31:32.400 How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.

00:31:35.880 He must have seen into the future when he was writing this thing, because it's come to

00:31:39.140 life all around us.

00:31:40.320 Very timely book.

00:31:41.200 The book goes on sale Tuesday, July 21st at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific, and Ben will

00:31:45.280 be doing a virtual live signing event on the day of the release.

00:31:48.400 With your purchase of a signed copy, you can write in a question, which may be read and

00:31:52.440 answered as you signed your books.

00:31:53.760 The book covers two fundamentally different visions of America that are now on the table.

00:31:57.400 One vision is unifying and finds unity in our shared philosophy and culture and history.

00:32:03.580 The other disintegrates our country in the name of fundamental change.

00:32:07.120 Disintegrationists also use weapons like cancel culture, deleting or silencing anyone who 0.99

00:32:12.120 disagrees to further build their new world order.

00:32:16.920 How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps details how this alternate worldview has gained

00:32:20.700 so much cultural ground so quickly.

00:32:23.340 We talk about timely books.

00:32:24.840 It doesn't get more timely than this.

00:32:26.020 So make sure to buy that book.

00:32:27.440 You can pre-order it now, but also remember dailywire.com slash Ben to order your signed

00:32:32.880 copy and join Ben's live signing on Tuesday, July 21st.

00:32:37.720 Okay, today for our daily cancellation, something long overdue.

00:32:40.940 We're going to be canceling mommy bloggers. 0.73

00:32:43.220 All of them.

00:32:44.860 They needed to be canceled years ago.

00:32:47.120 I think it's probably too late for intervention at this point, but someone has to try because

00:32:51.160 the entire mommy blogging genre is vapid and toxic, family and brain cell destroying.

00:32:59.160 It mostly consists of women complaining about their children, their husbands, and doing so 0.99

00:33:04.100 publicly, of course, but trying to dress it up like it's an insight.

00:33:10.100 It's really nothing.

00:33:10.900 It's just one long complaint, one complaint after another, but it's supposed to be insightful

00:33:15.900 somehow.

00:33:17.020 Exhibit A, we have this article, which has been getting shared on social media a lot the past

00:33:20.760 few days from the mommy blog, scarymommy.com.

00:33:25.600 This was actually written a little while ago, but there's no statute of limitations on cancellations

00:33:31.780 as we have learned.

00:33:33.640 So I'm still going to cancel this and all mommy blogs because of it.

00:33:38.420 The title is, My Daughter is Hard to Like and I'm Sorry.

00:33:43.880 All right, here's a little bit of the thing.

00:33:45.920 It says, uh, the day that I realized my child is that child was a turning point for me as

00:33:52.580 a mother.

00:33:53.160 It's the day I started to feel ashamed of my daughter and the way she behaves. 0.99

00:33:56.840 The day I started to wonder if there was something wrong with her or with me as the one who gave

00:34:01.400 birth to her and is responsible for making her into a decent human being.

00:34:05.080 Yes.

00:34:05.660 Bingo.

00:34:06.280 You know, I think she, see right at the top there, she stumbles on the truth.

00:34:09.380 There is something wrong with her, but then she proceeds to talk, to go on for 2000 more

00:34:15.760 words, talking about her daughter, not herself.

00:34:18.080 She says, it happened on a day like any other.

00:34:19.980 We were having a play date at our house with friends whom we know very well and have invited

00:34:23.880 over countless times before.

00:34:24.980 My five-year-old and her four-year-old friend were running laps around the couch playing tag.

00:34:28.800 My daughter was it.

00:34:29.960 And when she couldn't catch up to her friend, she collapsed on the ground, pouting close to tears

00:34:33.440 and shouted, I can't catch you.

00:34:35.000 You have to slow down.

00:34:36.080 You have to.

00:34:36.700 I won't play anymore if you don't.

00:34:38.400 And I looked at her with a sigh, as I always do at times like this.

00:34:41.320 And I looked at her friend who is almost always smiley and agreeable.

00:34:44.160 And that's what I knew.

00:34:45.000 I knew that a hypothesis that had been building in my head and my heart for months and months

00:34:49.240 now was unequivocally true.

00:34:50.820 My child is not easy to like.

00:34:53.000 Well, I think part of the problem here is that your child's acting like a brat in public and

00:34:57.880 acting out and your response is just to sigh.

00:35:00.720 You're just staring there as you're staring at her as your child has a temper tantrum,

00:35:06.280 just going, oh, geez.

00:35:08.540 Here she goes again. 0.86

00:35:10.360 What are you going to do?

00:35:12.380 Well, you could do something.

00:35:13.860 You're the mother.

00:35:15.520 And it wasn't because of that one event.

00:35:17.420 It was because that wasn't an isolated event at all.

00:35:19.780 Things like that happen all the time, all the bloody time.

00:35:22.920 Whether she is alone with her siblings or with her friends or at home or in public, my

00:35:26.780 daughter is the bossy one, the demanding one, the one making a scene at the store as she 1.00

00:35:30.300 cries on and on and on because I won't let her buy a gymnastics leotard.

00:35:33.560 She is quick to cry, yell, throw the kind of tantrum that I once thought only two-year-olds 1.00

00:35:37.500 were capable of.

00:35:38.360 She's disrespectful and rude. 1.00

00:35:40.000 She's moody, unable to share and overly concerned about every damn toy, insistent upon doing things 1.00

00:35:46.080 her way, impossible if things don't go her way, manipulative, always thinking only of 0.99

00:35:50.400 herself and always prepared to tell you exactly what she thinks and feels in that very moment.

00:35:54.360 If she doesn't like what you are doing, you will hear about it.

00:36:00.120 On and on.

00:36:00.880 I mean, just a long list.

00:36:02.320 Oh my goodness.

00:36:04.200 It's a long list.

00:36:06.060 This is a long indictment that this woman is publishing about her five-year-old.

00:36:11.160 And she says, later on, she says, for those of you who encounter my darling big-eyed brat,

00:36:16.360 you will be forgiven if you don't like her.

00:36:18.180 I often don't like her myself.

00:36:20.020 I am her mother and I love her because I have enjoyed her at her best.

00:36:22.980 I recognize her potential.

00:36:24.600 I know her strengths.

00:36:27.000 And then it goes on and on, as women tend to do. 1.00

00:36:30.560 And finally, at the end of it, she pleads for the public to help her parent by straightening

00:36:36.960 her daughter out with peer pressure.

00:36:39.420 She actually tries to solicit peer pressure against her daughter because she's given up 1.00

00:36:44.640 on actually parenting.

00:36:46.320 Okay, a few things here.

00:36:47.580 First of all, you shouldn't love your child for their potential.

00:36:52.620 You're supposed to love them, period, just to love them because you're the parent.

00:36:58.020 Loving your child for her potential is a problem because what if she never lives up to the potential,

00:37:03.560 your idea of her potential?

00:37:06.240 Are you going to stop loving her?

00:37:07.360 I guess so.

00:37:07.920 Apparently so.

00:37:08.460 Second, your child is a reflection of you, okay, which isn't to say that a child who

00:37:14.100 acts out, you know, or whatever, or misbehaves always has a bad parent. 0.94

00:37:19.940 That would be ridiculous, of course. 0.84

00:37:21.260 All kids act out. 0.95

00:37:22.580 All five-year-olds are varying degrees of difficult.

00:37:26.120 Kids also have their own minds and personalities, and you can only do so much to control them.

00:37:31.220 And kids will go through especially difficult phases at one point or another.

00:37:35.400 I think it's probably different for all kids.

00:37:36.760 You hear about the terrible twos, you know, in my, my wife and I talk all the time about

00:37:41.620 we never really experienced that.

00:37:44.180 Two for us is a pretty easy age.

00:37:46.500 Three becomes the difficult age.

00:37:49.660 So it's more, you know, three is more of the, it's the terrible three is more than the

00:37:53.160 terrible twos, but it's different for every kid and every family.

00:37:56.640 That said, if your child is an absolute terrorist, then yes, you're doing something horribly wrong,

00:38:02.840 most likely in the child raising department.

00:38:05.720 Um, to dislike them, to dislike your own child is not only pretty horrible in its own right,

00:38:11.760 but it misses the point.

00:38:13.580 If you're going to dislike anyone, you should dislike yourself.

00:38:16.520 They're taking cues from you.

00:38:18.580 Okay.

00:38:18.700 This isn't happening in a vacuum.

00:38:20.920 Kids can often be a mirror reflecting ourselves back to us.

00:38:26.600 And that can often be the most difficult thing about them.

00:38:29.940 Um, in fact, I find that the aspects of my children's personalities that are the hardest

00:38:34.620 for me to deal with are the aspects that are exactly like my own personality, stubbornness,

00:38:39.780 temper, absent-mindedness, you know, all of that.

00:38:42.940 That's me.

00:38:44.280 Um, being disorganized, you know, another thing.

00:38:47.940 Uh, that's, that's how I am.

00:38:50.640 That's my kids.

00:38:52.760 Uh, am I going to resent them for what?

00:38:55.760 Failing to be a better person than me?

00:38:58.540 Failing to be more mature than I am?

00:39:01.280 That's, that's absurd.

00:39:03.320 But I really think that's a lot of the anger that parents experience at their kids is, is this.

00:39:09.120 Now, they don't think of it like this, but a lot of the time they're angry at their kids

00:39:15.160 for failing to be better than themselves.

00:39:18.780 They hold their kids to a higher standard than they hold themselves.

00:39:24.060 And on the outside, for outsiders, it's always easy to identify.

00:39:28.680 Um, so I don't know what the first thing about this woman, but I, I'm willing to bet 0.65

00:39:32.020 if I, if we, you know, if you knew her and you saw her kid,

00:39:36.460 all the ways her kid's acting, you would say, oh yeah, well, that's exactly how the mom is. 1.00

00:39:41.100 It's, it's no surprise at all.

00:39:43.520 Um, bossy, bratty, you know, always have to have your way materialistic. 0.98

00:39:48.460 I'm betting that the mom is exactly like that. 1.00

00:39:51.140 Yet here she is proving that she's in fact a lot worse than her kid 0.63

00:39:55.060 because she resents her child for doing all the same stuff she does.

00:40:00.080 I mean, if you do it, how could you possibly expect your kid not to do it?

00:40:03.440 That's not fair to them.

00:40:04.360 That we, we, we have to understand the limitations of a child, uh, which is another challenging

00:40:11.040 of challenge of parenting to understand a kid's limitations, uh, and to work within those

00:40:16.600 limitations and to not expect more than what is possible.

00:40:22.940 If you're expecting your child to be better than you and to, um, to, to, you know, be more

00:40:31.540 virtuous than you and more mature and to overcome personality defects that you have not overcome.

00:40:39.640 Well, then you are expecting too much of your child and you have no right to do that.

00:40:43.560 Straighten yourself out first.

00:40:46.600 Because the main thing is with kids, you know, and this is, this is nothing radical or revolutionary,

00:40:51.540 but they, they, they 90% of what they learned, they learned not based on what you say to them,

00:40:57.840 but just based on copying what you do.

00:40:59.920 So if you want them to act a certain way, then exhibit that behavior, show them what it's,

00:41:06.760 if you never show them, it's like all these parents walking around and all parents lapse into it. 0.97

00:41:12.400 Sometimes I know I do at times, I, but I always try to catch myself it's, but it's the dumbest thing

00:41:17.780 when parents are mad at their kids for not acting in a way that they, the parents have never 0.83

00:41:26.160 demonstrated.

00:41:27.840 Okay.

00:41:28.260 You want your kid to be a certain way, show them how, don't just tell them, don't just stand there.

00:41:33.120 I demand that you be better than this.

00:41:35.440 Be better.

00:41:36.360 I demand it.

00:41:38.240 For some reason, it doesn't resonate with a five-year-old show them.

00:41:43.380 Demonstrate and they'll copy you.

00:41:46.680 If you're not doing that, there's no hope.

00:41:49.120 If you're not even trying to demonstrate good behavior to your child, then your child's going

00:41:53.760 to be a brat.

00:41:54.220 And you know what?

00:41:54.700 It's not their fault.

00:41:55.500 It's your fault.

00:41:56.400 You have no right to be angry at them.

00:41:58.160 You really don't.

00:41:59.580 100% your fault.

00:42:02.380 And then finally, third, you know, even aside from all this, however your kid acts, brat or

00:42:07.840 not, you really don't need to put this online.

00:42:11.040 These are things that you save for your therapist or your husband, God help him, or, you know,

00:42:19.040 a friend or whatever.

00:42:20.040 But you don't, this doesn't need to be online for everybody.

00:42:23.620 We don't all need to hear it.

00:42:24.840 But this is what parents do now, where they, they just, they vent about their kids on a

00:42:30.080 public forum.

00:42:31.140 You're venting about your child to millions of people.

00:42:34.300 And your child one day is going to grow up and read that themselves and see what an utterly 1.00

00:42:39.580 insufferable, selfish, whiny, petty brat you were. 0.99

00:42:43.600 Which maybe will be helpful for them to see that. 0.99

00:42:50.680 And then, and then, you know, they can start to recover and heal themselves. 0.99

00:42:53.880 But, but even so, I would say it's probably better just to keep all that crap to yourself. 0.98

00:42:59.940 We, you know, we, we just, we don't need to hear it. 0.99

00:43:04.020 And that's my advice.

00:43:05.360 But anyway, mommy bloggers are canceled anyway. 0.98

00:43:07.700 So you're not going to be, you can't say anything anymore online because you're canceled.

00:43:12.220 And that's it.

00:43:13.840 We'll leave it there.

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00:43:59.240 The fight for America has now come to each of our doorsteps.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 14, 2020

Ep. 520 - If We Don't Close Schools For The Flu, Why For COVID？

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