The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 529 - The Protesters Are Drunk On Their Own Sense Of Entitlement

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, a generation of spoiled, entitled brats have decided that

00:00:04.720 they're actually oppressed, even though they've had really the easiest lives that the world has

00:00:10.140 to offer. And that's why we've seen all this chaos and destruction in the streets the past two

00:00:14.580 months. But normal law-abiding Americans are finally getting sick of it and responding in

00:00:19.480 kind. And I think it's only going to get uglier from here. So we'll talk about all of that today.

00:00:23.240 Also, five headlines, including confirmation from the government, essentially, that space aliens

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00:01:34.860 how did you hear about us box so that they know that we sent you. Okay. Now, what we're watching

00:01:40.400 play out right now, I think, is what happens when you take a generation of people, instill in them

00:01:47.340 an overriding sense of entitlement. Give them lives of immeasurable comfort and ease. Grant them

00:01:55.300 every right and liberty known to man. And even some rights and liberties up to this point, unknown to

00:02:01.320 man. But then at the same time, you tell them somehow, incredibly, that they are oppressed and

00:02:07.520 that they're victims. And finally, after decades of this sort of schizophrenic conditioning, you give

00:02:12.980 them free reign to cause whatever chaos and anarchy and destruction they want. All in the name of

00:02:17.940 justice, of course. And the next step in that process is the part that we're seeing now when

00:02:24.020 everybody else gets tired of the madness, tired of being held hostage by these brats, tired of living

00:02:30.520 in fear of the mob, and starts responding in kind. And that chapter of the story is just beginning now,

00:02:35.720 it seems. And the next chapter will be even uglier. In fact, it's only ugliness preceded by even

00:02:42.240 uglier ugliness from here on out, unless something is done to reverse the process, or at least to stop

00:02:49.140 it from progressing any further than it already has. What I want to focus on today, though, is

00:02:53.840 that entitlement. You know, entitlement on steroids is what we're witnessing. Protesters, rioters who

00:03:03.680 believe that they are invincible, who believe they actually have the right, the God-given or whoever-given

00:03:10.360 right to shut down roads, stop traffic, intimidate, harass, assault, burn, loot, pillage, without

00:03:17.260 consequence. This isn't like a figure of speech when I say they think they have the right. They really do

00:03:22.040 believe that they have the right to do it. Now, there were riots and chaos in cities all across the

00:03:29.460 country over the weekend, as usual. Let me give you a few examples of the entitlement on display by these

00:03:36.200 people by focusing on a few incidents specifically, all right? First, let me show you this. This is a

00:03:42.820 protester named Julia Clark, and she posted a long Twitter thread, long and righteously indignant, 0.98

00:03:50.100 complaining about a horrible, evil woman who had the audacity to drive down the road, the very road 1.00

00:03:56.740 that Julia Clark had decided was shut down. And if Julia Clark decides that a road is closed, well, 1.00

00:04:02.180 then, damn it, it's closed. And that's all there is to it. And how dare anyone defy her? So here she is. 0.97

00:04:09.020 She says, let me speak on what happened in Georgetown tonight. Hashtag DC protest. Hashtag Georgetown Karen.

00:04:16.240 Tonight, concerned of DC, an activist group, apparently another one, because we didn't have enough of those

00:04:21.960 already, led a siren slash noise pollution protest where we blocked off streets in Georgetown. The police

00:04:28.180 presence was heavy. As we blocked off streets, we demanded that people turn around. This was a minor

00:04:33.320 inconvenience for this affluent white neighborhood. You see how this is presented sort of matter of

00:04:38.160 factly? Yeah, we blocked off streets and demanded that people turn around, using the word demanded,

00:04:44.220 which I like. The thought doesn't even enter her mind that perhaps she has no right or authority to do

00:04:52.400 any of that. It doesn't occur to her that other humans exist on the planet, and that just because she feels

00:04:59.400 like it would be fun and worthwhile to shut down part of the city, there may be other people who strongly

00:05:04.680 disagree with her about that, and that she has no right to impose herself on those people. And that in trying to 1.00

00:05:11.180 impose herself on those people, she makes herself into the aggressor, the undisputed bad guy in the situation.

00:05:18.660 None of this occurs to Julia Clark. Just doesn't even enter her mind. Here's more. She says,

00:05:24.520 as we blocked streets, certain drivers got annoyed and attempted to maneuver their way around us.

00:05:29.100 This particular white woman tried to cut through a gas station. Me and a couple other protesters stood 1.00

00:05:34.020 in front of her car and demanded she turn around. Instead, she steps on the gas. And you can see the

00:05:39.600 footage there. Notice this white woman, as she's continually described, tries to go around them. 0.99

00:05:51.180 She tries to cut through a gas station. But Julia Clark and her comrades are incensed that this white 0.84

00:05:56.660 woman has defied her orders. She's not even in the... She's not actually going through them. She's trying 1.00

00:06:03.600 to go around them. But Julia says, I don't know. This whole road we've closed. How dare you? You

00:06:09.940 can't do this. We told you not to. And so they chase her down and jump on her car. And when the evil

00:06:18.140 white woman keeps driving, because she's scared to death now and panicked, understandably, 0.99

00:06:23.820 Julia claims that she's been run over. I mean, she or her friends, whoever it was,

00:06:29.720 jumping on a moving vehicle and then claiming that the vehicle they jumped on ran them over.

00:06:37.760 This is like that scene in Fight Club when Edward Norton beats the hell out of himself

00:06:42.400 while begging his boss to stop beating him. This is just like that. And this thread goes on for a

00:06:49.760 while longer, ending with Julia simultaneously whining that the police didn't come to her aid

00:06:54.760 and also saying that the police are awful and she'd be defunded. So she's mad that they weren't

00:07:00.140 there for her, yet she also doesn't want them to exist at all. You see. It doesn't end there.

00:07:07.280 Let's continue this tour of maniacal entitlement. This is a fun one. Here's footage from one of the

00:07:17.340 protests. I'm not sure which city this is from. This is a young woman screaming in police officers'

00:07:24.860 faces, taunting them, and then reacting in horror when they finally had enough. Watch this.

00:07:33.020 Or effing what, she asks. And, well, they answer.

00:08:03.000 I mean, she asked a question. She got an answer. Can't complain about that. And notice how her 0.99

00:08:08.000 friends scream in horror. You know, there's always a woman. There's always a woman in all these videos

00:08:13.200 screeching loudly in the background because these tough, scary Antifa warriors become damsels in 0.97

00:08:19.180 distress the moment someone kicks them in the shins. You know, one minute they're Mel Gibson 0.77

00:08:24.500 in Braveheart riding down the battle line, blue face paint, you know, rallying the troops shouting about

00:08:31.420 freedom. And the next minute they're like my three-year-old crying over a scraped knee and asking

00:08:35.520 for mommy to kiss his boo-boo. You even hear one woman ask in shock, are you serious? Are you serious?

00:08:44.000 It's a revealing question. And the answer is, yes, ma'am, they are serious. See, life is a game to you,

00:08:50.020 clearly, but it's not to those officers. And it's not to a lot of the rest of us. It's not to the

00:08:54.200 businesses that are being shut down or burned down or vandalized, that are losing their livelihood

00:08:58.900 because of people like you. Okay? For them, it's all serious. For you, it's not.

00:09:07.340 Because you're out here, you know, you're out here, you know, costume party pretending to be a

00:09:12.640 freedom fighter. But I want you to stop and consider, consider the woman who got herself

00:09:18.420 escorted away by the police. You know, she's up in their faces. She's screaming. She's angry. She's

00:09:23.900 infuriated about something. Meanwhile, she's a young, attractive woman in America.

00:09:29.040 As such, she has the easiest life that the world has to offer any group. Okay? I'll tell you this

00:09:37.440 right now. The life of an attractive young woman in America is by far the easiest for any demographic

00:09:45.620 outside of royalty. Outside of royalty and political elites and like billionaires,

00:09:51.500 next best thing, be a young, attractive woman in America. So why is she so angry? Like, 1.00

00:09:58.380 she's angry at this. What does the system ever do to her? The system loves her. The system will do

00:10:03.100 anything for her. But nonetheless, she's aggrieved somehow because part of being entitled is to feel

00:10:09.780 perpetually aggrieved no matter what all the time, even if there's no reason whatsoever to have that

00:10:15.520 feeling. And, um, continuing the tour here. Then we have, uh, this person.

00:10:22.200 You treat us like rich! You purposely us! You beat us back! We did nothing!

00:10:32.820 No further comment there is necessary. I, uh, we'll move on. Back to the action in DC. Um,

00:10:42.940 there's another activist who posted this. The cap, the caption says,

00:10:46.620 block the bridge and an old white couple refuse to turn around like everybody else. So we'll keep 1.00

00:10:51.180 them company. And then you see the footage of them surrounding the vehicle standing there.

00:10:55.260 They're bragging about intimidating and harassing an elderly couple. This is something they're proud 1.00

00:11:01.420 of. And they think people will be on their side because we, as the people, as the others in the

00:11:07.400 world, um, we, as the world, our only job in their minds is to agree with them and support them no

00:11:14.520 matter what they do. The entire world for them serves no purpose but to provide them continual

00:11:22.220 affirmation. That as far as those people at the protest, as far as they're concerned, the only reason

00:11:28.580 you exist, the only reason is to affirm them in whatever they do. So if you're trying to drive down

00:11:35.920 the road, I mean, it doesn't matter what you're doing. You could be trying to get to work. You

00:11:38.940 could be trying to visit a sick relative. You could have your, your, your child in the car

00:11:42.640 trying to bring them to the hospital. Doesn't matter. None of that matters. All of that is

00:11:47.540 secondary to, to their needs and their wants and what they want, which is why they think nothing of

00:11:54.060 just every night, just shutting down roads. They cannot imagine any reason a person would have

00:12:00.220 to want to use that road that could be, um, that could take priority over their reason for shutting

00:12:07.020 it down. And by the way, their reason for shutting it down is they have no reason. There's no reason

00:12:12.760 for any of this. What's the, what, what do you try, what exactly are you trying to achieve by stopping

00:12:18.700 this old couple from driving down the road? Like what, what did they do to you? Well, we know what they

00:12:26.960 did to you. They just, they disobeyed. That's the problem. Um, now that brings us finally to the

00:12:33.460 story of Garrett Foster. Okay. This is all, uh, really context and set up for Garrett Foster, uh,

00:12:41.140 a BLM protester in Austin who came out to the protest on, uh, I guess it was Saturday strapped

00:12:48.280 with an AK 47. Garrett and his comrades were marching in the street, blocking traffic as usual.

00:12:53.660 When suddenly the crowd became angry at one car for committing the unspeakable sin of trying to

00:12:59.000 drive on the road. And so they ran and they swarmed the car, uh, surrounded it. Foster approached with

00:13:06.020 his AK 47 and moments later he was dead. Foster was not the driver. The driver shot and killed him.

00:13:13.140 The driver says that Foster pointed the weapon at him. Other witnesses, Garrett's fellow protesters

00:13:18.700 dispute that claim, say he didn't point it. I mean, you decide who to trust here.

00:13:22.540 Um, and naturally of course the left has rallied to Foster's defense, making him out to be a hero, 0.53

00:13:27.780 even though he's a white man with an AK 47, normally the very picture of evil, uh, according 0.86

00:13:33.880 to the left. But, but, but in this case they're, they're, they're all about it. They, they, they, 0.55

00:13:38.700 they've decided a great love. They've, they've discovered a great love suddenly for so-called

00:13:43.480 assault weapons. And, and he's standing in the street aggressively approaching a vehicle.

00:13:48.860 Contrast that with the left's response, um, to the couple that stood on their own property,

00:13:55.820 holding weapons as protesters walked by. Those people were terrorists. Those were domestic 0.88

00:14:00.680 terrorists says the left for holding weapons on their own property. Garrett Foster is, is,

00:14:06.940 is on the other hand, a hero apparently for holding a weapon in the middle of the street,

00:14:12.420 blocking traffic. So you can't hold a weapon on your own property, but in the middle of the street,

00:14:17.240 blocking traffic. Well, that's okay. That's that's totally fine. But I want to, I want you to

00:14:22.500 watch this clip. Um, so that, that's, that's what happened later in the night, but here's a clip

00:14:30.340 from shortly before this fatal encounter. Um, and this is a clip of Garrett Foster being interviewed

00:14:38.460 by someone asked about why he's carrying an AK-47. Listen to what he has to say.

00:14:43.880 What do you got it out tonight? They don't let us march in the streets anymore. So got to

00:14:54.980 practice some, some of our rights. Do you feel like you'll need to use it?

00:15:01.140 No, I think the, uh, I mean, if I use it against the cops, I'm dead. And I think all the people

00:15:10.800 that hate us and, you know, want to say to us are too big of a to stop and actually do anything

00:15:17.780 about it. So why'd you start carrying? Well, our roommate got arrested and they stopped

00:15:23.480 letting us march anywhere. Okay. So he says the people who oppose him are quote, pardon the French 0.52

00:15:33.820 to do anything. And, uh, those are among the last words that he ever spoke on earth.

00:15:43.200 Now there's a lot about this case that we don't know, and I'm sure more details will come out as

00:15:48.320 time progresses, but this should go without saying you have no right to block traffic.

00:15:54.860 You have no right to swarm a vehicle. And if you do that with an AK-47 strapped to your body,

00:16:00.560 whether you point it or not, you have nonetheless given the driver of the car reason to fear for his

00:16:05.980 life. So I say it again, this shouldn't need to be said, but it does. You have no right to block

00:16:14.080 the street and swarm vehicles. How else can I explain this? I don't know how else to put it.

00:16:20.060 It's very simple. You have no right to do it. This is not the first amendment. The first amendment

00:16:26.940 does not give you the right to stand in the middle of the road and just decide what roads are going to

00:16:31.440 be shut down that night. And if any, and if anyone, uh, defies your orders to swarm around them,

00:16:36.700 beat on the vehicle and do all that. You have zero right to do that. If you do it, you might get hurt.

00:16:43.020 If you do it in Texas, you might especially get hurt. And when you do get hurt, you have only

00:16:48.660 yourself to blame. You were in the wrong doing what you had no right to do. But going back to

00:16:56.360 that clip of Foster speaking, he makes it clear that he wasn't carrying the weapon because he feared

00:17:02.260 for his life. He makes that he's, he's, he's very explicit about that. No, according to him,

00:17:08.020 um, the opposition are a bunch of wimps that he's not carrying it because he he's worried about,

00:17:12.160 there's been threats against his life or he's worried about being attacked or something.

00:17:15.580 No, he says, they're not, they're not going to do anything. He says he was wearing it expressly

00:17:20.480 to intimidate. And he felt that he was invincible, untouchable. He's, he's, he's clear about that in

00:17:26.740 that, in that clip. And he learned otherwise. And he learned the hard way, sadly. Um,

00:17:32.660 you know, when you go around trying to intimidate people, eventually someone might take you seriously.

00:17:42.320 So Garrett Foster was carrying that AK 47, walking around, intimidating people. Uh, it's all a game

00:17:47.520 to him. And he's again, very explicit about that. He says, ah, they're all a bunch of wimps. I got to

00:17:53.080 do anything. And cause that had been his experience up till that point. Eventually someone came along

00:18:00.800 who was going to take him at his word. Um, and I fear that there are going to be a lot more Garrett

00:18:09.760 Fosters out there. There are going to be many more people learning the hard way that they cannot go

00:18:15.060 around behaving and living as though the very planet itself will stop spinning. If they say so

00:18:20.420 the media and their Democrat allies are whispering in these people's ears, shouting more like encouraging

00:18:27.560 them in their delusional narcissism and entitlement, but the rest of the country is tired of it. Sick to

00:18:34.340 death, fed up really, and truly and deeply and rightly outraged. Um, so I think there are going to be

00:18:44.980 many more wake up calls yet to come, unfortunately, unless we put a stop to this.

00:18:53.300 All right, let's move on to our, um, five headlines.

00:19:06.400 You know, as we talk about all this news, uh, by the way, Ben Shapiro has a new book out called

00:19:10.840 how to destroy America in three easy steps that relates to, you know, everything going on in the

00:19:15.860 news, uh, because it's a, it's a very prescient book. The book covers two fundamentally different

00:19:20.940 visions of America that are now on the table. One vision is unifying and finds our unity and

00:19:25.440 shared philosophy and culture and history. The other disintegrates our country in the name of 0.98

00:19:29.400 fundamental change, how to destroy America. Three easy steps details, how this alternate worldview has

00:19:34.600 gained so much culture, uh, cultural ground so quickly. And, uh, I'd really recommend the book.

00:19:39.540 You can pick it up on Amazon or at Barnes and Noble right now. Number one, we begin with this,

00:19:44.860 which, you know, to my mind should be the top headline everywhere. Uh, it, you know, it really

00:19:50.520 should have been what I started the show with and what every show starts with a report in the New York

00:19:54.820 Times about the Pentagon's UFO program. Okay. This is, this is some pretty incredible stuff. So listen

00:20:00.240 to this says, despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded, it disbanded a once covert program to

00:20:05.720 investigate unidentified flying objects. The effort remains underway, renamed and tucked inside the

00:20:11.400 office of Naval intelligence where officials continue to study, study mystifying encounters

00:20:15.720 between military pilots and unidentified aerial vehicles. Pentagon officials will not discuss

00:20:20.620 the program, which is not classified, but deals with classified matters. Yet it appeared last month

00:20:25.140 in a Senate committee report outlining spending on the nation's intelligence agencies for the coming

00:20:29.480 year. Uh, the report said the program, the unidentified aerial phenomenon task force was to

00:20:37.040 standardize collection and reporting on sightings of unexplained aerial vehicles and was to report

00:20:41.320 at least some of its findings to the public within 180 days after the passage, um, of the act.

00:20:47.500 Okay. Uh, let me get to the, there's, there's a lot of, I recommend, I rarely recommend New York

00:20:52.380 Times articles, but this one I'll recommend. There's a lot of information in it. Uh, let me get to a

00:20:56.840 couple of highlights here. For more than a decade, the Pentagon program has been conducting classified

00:21:02.920 briefings for congressional committees, aerospace company executives, and other government officials,

00:21:07.240 according to interviews with program participants. In some cases, earthly explanations

00:21:11.180 have been found for previously unexplained incidents. Um, even lacking a plausible terrestrial

00:21:17.820 explanation does not make an extraterrestrial one. The most likely astrophysicists say

00:21:21.680 Mr. Reed, uh, Harry Reed, the former democratic center from Nevada, who pushed for funding the

00:21:26.740 earlier UFO program when he was the majority leader said he believed that crashes of objects of unknown

00:21:31.600 origin may have occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied. Okay. Now here comes the part we

00:21:36.680 should, you really need to listen to Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor

00:21:42.560 and then a consultant for the Pentagon UFO program since 2007 said that in some cases examination of

00:21:49.480 the materials had so far failed to determine their source and had led him to conclude quote,

00:21:54.120 we couldn't make it ourselves. Um, Mr. Davis, who now works for the aerospace corporation,

00:22:00.320 a defense contractor said he gave a classified briefing to a defense department agency as recently

00:22:05.520 as March about retrievals from quote, off world vehicles, not made on this earth. Okay. There's

00:22:11.940 the money quote right there. It only took me 15 minutes to get to it. So that is an astrophysicist

00:22:17.820 who worked for the Pentagon publicly confirming on the record to the New York times that they have

00:22:23.960 retrieved alien spacecraft. That that's what he just said in this New York times article that strikes

00:22:30.360 me as like a pretty big deal. Yet everyone is just like, Oh, Oh, aliens. Cool. Oh, aliens. What else is

00:22:42.920 on TV? Uh, there has been very little reaction to this somehow, even though the Pentagon, the Pentagon

00:22:50.200 is basically standing there and telling us, yes, space aliens exist folks. We make a big deal out of

00:22:57.980 everything that happens in the world, except this somehow. Now I admit to that, that I still have

00:23:07.160 a fair amount of skepticism, even in spite of this. I fully admit that, uh, because all, you know,

00:23:13.360 all joking aside, well, this isn't a joke at all, but I do have some skepticism, even though I believe

00:23:17.520 that I certainly believe there are intelligent civilizations out there in the universe. It seems

00:23:20.780 almost mathematically impossible that there wouldn't be with a hundred billion, a hundred billion

00:23:24.500 galaxies and a hundred billion stars in each of those galaxies. And, you know, trillions upon

00:23:28.900 trillions of planets. I mean, there are probably millions of intelligent civilizations. It's just

00:23:33.140 that the, the distances, as I've always said, the distances are so vast that it seems likely to me

00:23:39.320 that, that, that it's just impossible to traverse them or that, um, no civilization could advance that

00:23:45.940 far within their technology without destroying themselves first. The kind of the cynical view,

00:23:53.460 but I think there's something to that, but even so, I mean, this seems like a pretty big deal.

00:23:58.260 Anyways, it's very interesting at least, and nobody cares. Uh, but let's go number two here.

00:24:05.120 Here's rather than caring about aliens, here's something that people did care about this weekend.

00:24:11.200 Uh, here's, here's a clip that went viral. Watch this. And video games are a real problem.

00:24:17.220 They're real problem. You know why? Because they're fun and you don't. Yeah. Well, I'm,

00:24:22.740 I have a real problem with them and you, you, you do them and they're real exciting,

00:24:27.600 but you don't get anywhere. Right. It's like, you could do like, like martial arts, right?

00:24:31.460 You could learn jujitsu. You get obsessed by jujitsu. And then three years later, you're,

00:24:37.300 you're like an elite jujitsu athlete. You're like, you're entering in competitions. You're a purple 0.99

00:24:41.840 belt. You're moving up. Yeah. You're doing well. You thinking like, I might be able to open my own

00:24:45.780 school one day. You got confidence. Yeah. If I have a hundred students and those hundred students

00:24:49.520 are paying me X amount of dollars per month, I can make a living. Holy shit. I can have a, 0.99

00:24:53.720 this would be amazing. And then you see your jujitsu school and your jujitsu instructor has all these

00:24:59.120 students and drives a Mercedes and he's got a nice family. And like, that's the future. This way

00:25:03.300 you're doing something exciting and fun and you don't, or you could just be playing video games.

00:25:08.200 Three years later, you could be that same kid, just playing video games, waiting for the next Vicks,

00:25:13.420 whatever the game is, you know, next Xbox game to come out and you're going to waste your time.

00:25:19.020 People were extremely upset about what you just heard there from Joe Rogan because we live in a 1.00

00:25:24.880 nation of ridiculous, stupid children. Obviously everything Joe Rogan, and he admits that he's a 1.00

00:25:31.280 video game addict himself. Okay. Everything he's saying there is absolutely correct. He's saying that

00:25:38.660 it's not good to spend too much time playing video games. That's all pretty obvious. Really

00:25:43.960 undeniably true. And he's saying that, you know, if you look back at your life,

00:25:52.620 he says three years, if you've looked back at the last three years of your life and you've spent

00:25:56.300 hundreds of hours playing video games, think about what else you could have done with those hundreds

00:26:04.220 of hours. You know, you could have become a jujitsu master in the meantime. You could become a master

00:26:09.880 of many different disciplines and, and, and, uh, and, and develop many different skills.

00:26:15.860 Instead, you just play video games and you really didn't gain. I mean, yes, it's, you were, you were

00:26:20.480 able to relax because, you know, that's, of course, we're all just starving for, uh, for relaxation and

00:26:26.040 recreation, right? It's not like we're, we're, we're drowning in that stuff already, but okay. It's,

00:26:30.280 it's recreation. You were able to relax. You had a good time. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that.

00:26:34.300 I don't think Joe Rogan is saying that you should never play video games. He's clearly not saying

00:26:38.180 that, but you don't really, you don't, this, you don't, you don't gain much else from it. That's,

00:26:45.500 you know, you, you look back on your life at the end of your life and, and, and you think back all

00:26:49.980 the time you spent playing video games, you're probably not going to think to yourself that

00:26:54.920 was time well spent, right? Um, you're probably going to think to yourself, man, if I could have just

00:27:00.660 carved out like a third of that chunk, it's like, not, not that I'd never played them, but maybe

00:27:05.140 just take a third of those thousands of hours I spent and used it to, I don't know, write,

00:27:12.180 write the next great American novel. I mean, anything, become a master chef, right? Learn how

00:27:18.240 to like build a house, learn how to farm any, it's like an actual physical skill where I'm out there

00:27:26.000 doing something. I mean, I think that people, people probably think that to themselves and

00:27:30.420 that's, that's a pretty obvious point. Now, yes, anytime this comes up, the gamers out there

00:27:38.020 will point out that, Oh, well, you could say that about, about watching TV. You could say that about

00:27:42.120 spending time on the internet. Absolutely. You could. And people do say that all the time. I mean,

00:27:46.920 how often have people lamented, uh, all of the, the hours that Americans waste watching TV and Netflix

00:27:52.780 and, and, and, you know, trolling social media. Yes, that, that also is part of it. But the thing

00:27:59.080 is you're allowed to point out that it's probably not the most constructive thing to spend 40 hours a

00:28:06.780 week watching TV. You're allowed to point out that if you're on Facebook for six hours a day,

00:28:12.740 it's probably too much. Like you're allowed to say that and no one's going to cry about it.

00:28:17.800 The only difference is that if you dare say it about video games, people start crying.

00:28:22.780 Um, which only shows how right the point is and how necessary it is to say it because people take

00:28:31.080 it way too seriously and are way too attached. Um, number three, before the national anthem was

00:28:37.220 played at a WNBA game this weekend, the players walked off the court in protest. Here's the footage

00:28:42.820 of that. Anthem was played. We saw the players leave the floor, go back to their respective locker

00:28:48.340 rooms. One of those actions we'll see throughout the season as part of the social justice initiative.

00:28:54.140 Yeah. First of many ways that we will see WNBA plays players using their voices all season long.

00:28:59.000 This is nothing new for these women. They have been proactive when it comes to speaking out 0.88

00:29:03.100 on social injustices for the life of the WNBA. Now, as I understand it, three of their viewers were

00:29:09.340 very upset, um, and said, they're not going to watch anymore. That's what I read. So the WNBA just

00:29:15.080 lost, lost half of their audience, which is, which is a pretty steep loss. They're pretty devastating.

00:29:21.740 Uh, I guess you could say that this move was not exactly a slam dunk, mostly because the players

00:29:28.940 can't touch the rim. But the really interesting thing is that, you know, watching that clip for most

00:29:36.200 of us is the first footage we've seen of a WNBA game. So at least it confirms that the WNBA exists.

00:29:41.920 You know, it's not a myth after all. It really is a thing. Apparently, I don't know why it exists,

00:29:47.000 but it does. Uh, it's just out there. You know, if, if women are playing basketball in a forest 0.99

00:29:53.600 and nobody watches, does it, did it really happen? You know, that's been one of the philosophical,

00:30:00.760 one of the great philosophical conundrums. Apparently, yeah, it did happen. Incredible.

00:30:05.740 Number four, here's something, uh, we're starting to see more of. A political reporter posted images

00:30:11.120 from New Zealand showing that New Zealand is basically back to normal after COVID and putting

00:30:17.860 them, uh, and putting New Zealand forth as a success story due to their lockdown policies and

00:30:24.560 contrasting, oh, look how well New Zealand is doing. And you know, the United States, look how poorly

00:30:29.780 they're doing. Um, and then a Dr. Mike Galsworthy followed up with his own post saying, no masks,

00:30:36.060 shaking hands, bustling crowds, fully open economy. New Zealand earned this by locking down early and

00:30:40.780 hard, pursuing a zero COVID strategy. Libertarians would love to be in this position, but they are

00:30:45.400 their own worst enemies in a pandemic. Now we're in a mess. Now I bring this up just to show you

00:30:50.700 how dishonest our discourse has become. If you needed any more convincing, they're using New

00:30:57.300 Zealand as an example, crediting New Zealand's success with its policies. Meanwhile, New Zealand

00:31:04.440 is one of the most remote populated land masses on earth. The entire nation has a population the size

00:31:10.760 of Los Angeles. Um, it gets only about 4 million tourists a year to the entire country compared to

00:31:17.560 80 million for the U S it's an Island. It's neighbor to the West is Australia, 2,500 miles

00:31:24.940 away. And Australia is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. And it's neighbor

00:31:28.780 to the South is Antarctica. So you've got a, an Island nation way out there. Um, the furthest

00:31:37.940 possible distance, you know, for, for, in relation to, to many other countries and surrounded by ocean.

00:31:46.100 Um, if you go South, you're, you're in an Arctic wasteland where the population is zero besides,

00:31:53.260 you know, whatever, five or six scientists living in, living in, uh, in, in, you know,

00:31:57.160 research labs. And then if you go, if you go 2,500 miles to the West, you run into Australia where,

00:32:04.980 you know, it's like there's people living around the coast and just nobody in the middle of that

00:32:08.940 country at all. So yeah, I think probably that has a lot to do with them doing well in a pandemic.

00:32:18.460 New Zealand is going to do well in a global pandemic, literally no matter what its policies

00:32:23.420 are. It doesn't matter. They're going to do well because they're so isolated, obviously. Okay.

00:32:27.880 Number five, finally, uh, representative John Lewis, his body, uh, John, you know, John Lewis obviously

00:32:33.460 died, uh, I guess it was over a week ago now, uh, or last week, several days he was taken across.

00:32:40.060 So his, his, his body was taken across the Selma bridge yesterday. Um, the time says as, as,

00:32:47.160 but here's the phrase taken across the Selma bridge as remembrances continue, continue being the

00:32:55.020 operative phrase there. There have been a lot of remembrances of John Lewis. Um, there was a

00:32:59.800 memorial service at Brown chapel, AME church in Alabama, then another memorial service at Troy

00:33:05.780 university in Alabama. And then at some point, his body was ceremonially ceremonially brought across

00:33:11.180 the bridge in a horse drawn carriage with an audience watching. Then his bought brought, then

00:33:15.380 he was brought up to DC to lie in state for two days. So the public can pay respects. Um, then he'll

00:33:21.080 be brought to Atlanta for Memorial. And then the following day will be the funeral. Okay. So that's what

00:33:28.980 three, four memorial services, plus a couple other ceremonial things. And then the, you know,

00:33:34.280 body on display, public can pay respects, then a funeral. All of this is happening while thousands

00:33:42.620 of Americans have not been allowed to, to have funerals for their own dead relatives because of

00:33:47.880 COVID. So just imagine, I mean, maybe you don't have to imagine, maybe you're in this position.

00:33:52.240 Um, I imagine someone who was not able to have a funeral service for their father who passed away

00:34:03.020 was not even able to gather 20 people in a chapel for a funeral service because they were told it's

00:34:10.780 too dangerous. And yet now they turn on the news and see a politician has died and has multiple

00:34:18.560 funerals and memorials attended by thousands of people across three States. Now, if the funerals,

00:34:27.000 if the reason we're not having a funeral service for Joe Smith, who dies down the street, if the

00:34:32.780 reason his family can't gather to mourn him is because it's not safe, then it doesn't suddenly become

00:34:40.860 safe when a prominent politician dies. Either it's safe or it isn't. Either you can do it safely or you

00:34:47.560 can't, if you can't do it safely, then we shouldn't be doing it for John Lewis. If you can do it safely,

00:34:53.420 then there's no reason why we can't do it for Joe Smith. This is obviously pretty clear cut. I would

00:34:59.120 say now I don't have a problem in normal circumstances with, with, with this sort of thing, when a

00:35:06.380 prominent, uh, politician or dignitary dies and, and we have all the memorial services. I don't have an

00:35:12.220 issue with that. You know, um, I know there are some people that always raise issues with it because

00:35:17.460 they say, I was, you know, idolatry or whatever. I don't see it that way. I think that this is,

00:35:21.860 this is just what people do when, when, when the prominent among them pass away and that's fine.

00:35:27.760 I got no issue with it. Um, but I do have an issue with it if we're doing it while also telling

00:35:35.960 normal Americans that they're not allowed to gather and celebrate the lives of, you know,

00:35:41.220 their grandparents and parents and others who pass away. That, that is just,

00:35:45.720 that is a outrageous example of elitism and, you know, rule rules for the, but not for me type of

00:35:56.940 thing. Okay. Let's go to our daily cancellation. Finally today for our daily cancellation, we are

00:36:01.540 canceling Netflix over the weekend. Netflix had a series of tweets written by someone named Rose

00:36:09.100 Demieux, a transgender person hailing Netflix for a recent episode of the babysitters club,

00:36:14.880 which featured a quote trans girl. And it was of course, very nice of Netflix, uh, to generously

00:36:20.520 give this transgender individual a platform to talk about how great Netflix is. So I really 1.00

00:36:25.800 appreciate that from Netflix and the thread goes through all of the wonderful things about this

00:36:30.040 episode. And as a, by the way, as a big babysitters club fan myself, I'm surprised I missed this

00:36:36.360 episode. Somehow I've seen the whole babysitter series probably 10 times. Uh, somehow I didn't

00:36:41.280 see this anyway. So let's, let's go through, we go through all of the wonderful progressive things

00:36:46.400 that was, that you could be, you could, could be found in this episode. And then we get to this

00:36:51.640 and the caption of this clip says when Bailey, the male who we're calling a trans girl comes down with

00:36:57.500 a fever, Marianne rushes her to the hospital where, uh, two doctors misgender her. Marianne firmly 0.95

00:37:03.220 corrects them. Misgendering is traumatic. This is one of the baseline ways cisgender people can show 0.97

00:37:08.800 up for trans people in their life. Um, and then we have the clip. Let's, let's watch that clip.

00:37:14.060 Have you been giving him fluids? If he's dehydrated, we'll need to place an IV. Have him change into

00:37:18.340 this. I don't want the blue one. Um, well, I hear someone's not feeling well. Let's take a look at the

00:37:25.740 little man. Can I please talk to you two outside? I know that you guys are busy, but as you would

00:37:43.660 see, if you looked at her and not her chart, Bailey is not a boy. And by treating her like one, you

00:37:50.980 are completely ignoring who she is. You're making her feel insignificant and humiliated. And that's

00:37:57.660 not going to help her feel good or safe or calm. So I'm here on out. Please recognize her for who she

00:38:04.840 is. And if at all possible, could you find me a non blue hospital gown? I apologize. Okay. Where to

00:38:13.340 begin with this? First of all, the acting here is just tremendously bad. And I, I, I hold the

00:38:25.000 babysitter's club to a much higher standard than that. You know, they're so I I'll never forget the

00:38:30.780 episode of babysitter's club. When Samantha found out that Becky went to the mall with Stephanie and 0.98

00:38:37.280 nobody invited her to come along that final confrontation between Samantha, Becky and Stephanie

00:38:42.800 and the monologue that Samantha delivers one of the great dramatic moments in television history

00:38:50.200 and a personally life-changing moment for me to witness. This just does not rise to that level.

00:38:57.060 Sadly, there's a high bar for the babysitter's club. Okay. Um, and this, this, this doesn't get

00:39:04.360 there. So I'm disappointed in that. Second of all, once again, we see here the parade of

00:39:09.520 contradictions that comprise left-wing gender theory. It's just nothing but contradiction stacked

00:39:16.660 on top of contradiction. Marianne, the babysitter who's in a hospital lecturing doctors about their

00:39:23.040 lack of LGBT awareness while there are people with medical emergencies who, who, who need

00:39:27.880 attention. But, uh, she's angry. The doctors have the audacity to judge Bailey's sex based on his 0.98

00:39:34.020 medical chart and not by looking at him because if they looked at him, then they'd see that he has long

00:39:39.860 hair and he's wearing a, you know, a butterfly shirt and that he likes pink, not blue. Meanwhile,

00:39:46.640 leftists have spent the last 50 years telling us that none of that stuff has anything to do with

00:39:53.100 being a girl. They're the ones who told us that. So on the one hand, we're told that there's no

00:39:58.680 real association between girlhood and pink frilly things and that it's an arbitrary societal

00:40:04.920 convention. In fact, the convention that should be broken down and abandoned, uh, and that it never

00:40:10.540 really meant anything anyway to begin with. And then on the other hand, we're told that boys who like

00:40:15.080 pink frilly things are actually girls. This is a blatant and irredeemable contradiction. It's you,

00:40:22.640 you can't get around it. It destroys their entire narrative. Not that they care, of course, but it's,

00:40:29.000 and I, I have brought up this point to, um, many left-wingers to see how they reconcile it. And they

00:40:38.360 don't, they can't, they just, they, they can't even address it. Third, if a child is traumatized

00:40:47.960 by being given the wrong colored gown, um, that's a good sign that the child's real trauma has nothing

00:40:55.080 to do with the gown or what pronouns he's called. Children in real life, mostly boys who are, uh,

00:41:04.240 which by the way, have you ever wondered why that is? You know, most of the time, vast majority of

00:41:10.400 cases with the, especially with, uh, this is true in adulthood too, but especially with the kids

00:41:15.680 who come out as transgender, almost always boys coming out as girls. If this is just like a naturally 1.00

00:41:23.760 occurring thing, sometimes people are born in the wrong body. Why is it almost always boys that this

00:41:31.000 happens to? How do you explain that scientifically? Well, you explain it scientifically the same way

00:41:37.640 you explain any of this scientifically, which is you don't. Um, but anyway, children in real life,

00:41:43.800 mostly boys who are, who are trying to live as girls and identifying as girls, they are the victims 0.98

00:41:48.760 of trauma and the trauma does come from being misgendered. So don't get me wrong when it, when

00:41:54.040 someone says it's traumatic to be misgendered, I absolutely agree. And I, I take that totally 1.00

00:42:00.040 seriously, but the traumatic misgendering happened when the adults in his life told him he's a girl.

00:42:07.580 That's the misgendering part. That's the trauma. And now through no fault of his own,

00:42:14.160 he's living this false identity, trying desperately to maintain it. And anything that reminds him of who

00:42:19.920 he truly is, is now traumatic, but only because it reminds him of reality. And it brings him back to

00:42:28.420 the, to the, to the, to the real trauma, the real abuse of having this false identity imposed on him

00:42:34.120 to begin with. And yes, every single transgender child has had that false identity imposed on them. 0.99

00:42:42.040 Every single one without exception, because either, you know, when, when you've got a young child

00:42:49.060 who's supposedly transgender, there are two explanations for that. Either they have, um, 1.00

00:42:54.660 they have hopelessly progressive parents who pushed them in that direction because the parents

00:42:59.760 like the idea of having a transgender child that they can parade around and score woke points off 1.00

00:43:04.520 of, or, and I suspect that's the case most of the time, or the child is in that state because he went

00:43:12.560 through a perfectly normal and natural stage of childish confusion where he wanted to be a girl,

00:43:17.980 i.e. he wanted to play with dolls and wear pink outfits, because that's what being a girl means to a child.

00:43:24.900 You idiots. When you've got a four-year-old saying, well, I'm a girl, he doesn't know what that is. 1.00

00:43:30.700 All he means by that, the only thing he means by that is that he likes the things that he associates

00:43:37.500 with girls. Do you know how I know that? You know how I know it? Because I could walk up to any four-year-old

00:43:44.500 on earth and say, and ask them a question, what is a girl? And they couldn't, they couldn't tell me.

00:43:50.000 They don't know what the word actually means because they're four years old. To them, all it

00:43:57.700 means, somebody with long hair, wears a dress, likes playing with dolls. And many young boys

00:44:05.380 will go through a phase where they see that and they're curious about it and it's attractive to

00:44:10.520 them. Okay, that's really normal. And if you're on the left, you're the one who said,

00:44:18.120 you've been saying for 50 years that boys can do all of that and there's nothing wrong

00:44:23.760 with it because all of that is nothing but a societal convention. If this is just a societal

00:44:30.000 convention, how can his attraction to a certain societal convention tell us anything about who

00:44:35.380 he inherently is? You're the one for 50 years who told us it tells us nothing. And now you're

00:44:40.320 trying to go back on that and say, oh no, no, actually it's, it's, it's, that tells us

00:44:43.520 everything about this child.

00:44:48.120 Um, anyway, where was I?

00:44:54.660 Yeah. The, the, the, the way that this is imposed is, is either you just have progressive parents

00:44:59.380 that push kids into it, which does happen, or a, a, a young boy goes through a very normal

00:45:04.260 phase, um, says I'm a girl and, uh, and the parents decide to just go with it. And they

00:45:12.600 take the four-year-old child at his word. They take his self-identity seriously, even though

00:45:19.860 a four-year-old child has no idea what he's talking about when he says literally anything.

00:45:27.540 Have you ever listened to a four-year-old speak? They, they have no idea. It's that they're,

00:45:31.980 they're, they're not living in reality. They're, they're, they weren't, they didn't even exist

00:45:37.860 four years ago, four years and nine months ago. They came into existence at conception,

00:45:43.500 by the way, not when they were born. Okay. But, but less than, than, than half a decade

00:45:48.240 ago, they didn't exist on the planet. They are very new to this planet thing, to this reality

00:45:53.580 thing, to this being a person thing.

00:45:55.860 And yet they, they, you hear one of them make a declaration about their, their inner identity

00:46:06.320 and, and you take it seriously? Well, the parents that do that, you know, are either

00:46:15.380 unbelievably stupid or insane, or they're, they know better, but they're taking advantage of their 1.00

00:46:25.580 child because they want to score the woke points or some combination of those. You know, I suspect 1.00

00:46:30.480 probably options B and C, a combination of B and C, insane and taking advantage. Um,

00:46:38.540 and that is the real trauma. Okay. That's the trauma that the child is suffering from.

00:46:45.800 And it is horrible and it is evil. And I, I refuse. This is, this is,

00:46:54.940 this is not a hill that we can abandon to the left and just let them have it. This is a hill

00:47:00.760 to die on. Absolutely. What they're doing to children, let them pretend as they are taking

00:47:07.820 advantage of and abusing children and ruining them, pretend that they're the compassionate ones. And,

00:47:13.840 and, and, and, you know, they're the ones who really care. No.

00:47:17.320 Uh, so that's why Netflix is canceled and we will, uh, leave it there. Thanks for watching,

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 27, 2020

Ep. 529 - The Protesters Are Drunk On Their Own Sense Of Entitlement

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