The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 546 - Boycott Companies That Hate Us

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, another company comes out in support of the Marxist BLM organization 0.69

00:00:04.740 while discriminating against conservatives. It's time for conservatives such as myself

00:00:08.640 to get over our aversion to boycott. So we'll talk about that today. Also five headlines,

00:00:13.640 including the DNC convention speech by an accused rapist who was photographed receiving a massage 0.99

00:00:18.980 from one of Epstein's sex slaves. And in our daily cancellation, I'll cancel MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes. 0.84

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00:02:07.480 get into this. There's sort of the eternal question. Why do conservatives tend to always lose

00:02:16.880 culture war battles while leftists tend to win? Now there's more than one answer to that question.

00:02:22.420 It's a multifaceted sort of issue, but one answer, one big answer is certainly this. The left

00:02:27.600 is not afraid to apply pressure. The right oftentimes is. And I'll explain more of what I mean by that,

00:02:36.260 but here's why I'm bringing this up. Here's the story, the setup. WIBW, a local news station in Topeka,

00:02:42.260 Kansas, reports that a recent diversity training seminar at the Goodyear Topeka plant included a

00:02:49.200 slide outlining the company's zero tolerance policy. And the image was posted to social media,

00:02:55.220 apparently by an employee who saw this and didn't like it for good reason. He says the material

00:03:00.740 originates from Goodyear corporate headquarters in Ohio. So listed as, you can see it here,

00:03:06.160 listed as acceptable messages are Black Lives Matter and LGBT pride. The unacceptable column

00:03:13.600 consists of Blue Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, MAGA, and political slogans. Now Goodyear has not

00:03:21.200 specifically addressed the discriminatory slide, but it did issue a statement when it was contacted by the

00:03:28.780 local media. Here's the statement. It says, Goodyear is committed to fostering an inclusive and

00:03:32.680 respectful workplace where all of our associates can do their best in a spirit of teamwork. And part of

00:03:38.660 this commitment, we do allow our associates to express their support on racial injustice and other

00:03:43.760 equity issues, but ask they refrain from workplace expressions, verbal or otherwise, in support of

00:03:49.280 political campaigning for any candidate or political party, as well as other similar forms of advocacy

00:03:54.140 that fall outside the scope of equity issues. Now this is outrageous on a number of levels. First of all,

00:04:00.920 all lives matter is about as non-political as a slogan gets. Political messages are tribalistic,

00:04:09.140 exclusionary by nature. Somebody who affirms that all lives matter is expressly rejecting tribalism and

00:04:16.840 defending the dignity of human life universally. So the statement is not only non-political, but it is in

00:04:22.900 fact anti-political. And it's not as though all lives matter is an unnecessary thing to say. That, of course,

00:04:28.900 is the claim from BLM supporters. They say, well, there's no reason to proclaim all lives matter.

00:04:34.340 And so if you proclaim it, then it can only be as some sort of counter-protest against BLM. Well,

00:04:40.340 even if it is a counter-protest against BLM, so what? There's plenty there to protest. But it's not

00:04:45.720 merely that. We happen to live in a culture where the dignity and value of human life is not universally

00:04:51.980 affirmed. We do kill a million babies a year in the womb, after all. And beyond that, many people are

00:04:57.560 murdered in our communities every day. And if their deaths are not politically useful to the cultural

00:05:02.000 powers that be, their deaths are treated as inconsequential, which is to say their lives are

00:05:07.380 treated as inconsequential, as not mattering. And one of the main culprits in dismissing and ignoring

00:05:13.980 these deaths and these lives is Black Lives Matter. Now, if BLM is political, it's only because

00:05:21.720 one side of the political aisle has decided to stake out this position of defining itself by its raw

00:05:29.480 hatred of law enforcement. That doesn't make the message inherently divisive. All decent and sane

00:05:36.180 people, a dwindling demographic to be sure, can agree that the lives of police officers matter. In fact,

00:05:42.060 Goodyear itself once seemed to feel this way. In the past, the company has offered discounts to law

00:05:46.520 enforcement officers, other first responders. Even now, if you go to their website, they brag

00:05:51.260 that they're a recognized leader, quote unquote, in providing tires for police cars. Hopefully,

00:05:56.400 police unions will be calling for those contracts to be pulled. You know, I certainly wouldn't want

00:06:00.420 to buy tires from a company that doesn't think my life matters. That seems like a disaster waiting

00:06:05.740 to happen. Imagine going to a doctor's office that bans you from wearing a shirt that says

00:06:09.460 Patients' Lives Matter. What about Black Lives Matter? Well, if Marxism counts as a political 0.68

00:06:16.100 ideology, and it does, last I checked, then BLM is an intensely political organization. It is co-founded

00:06:23.040 by a woman who describes herself and her comrades as trained Marxists who are, quote, super versed

00:06:28.680 on, quote, ideological theories. The What We Believe section of the BLM website is full of these

00:06:34.160 ideological theories, such as the theory that the Western prescribed nuclear family structure should

00:06:38.880 be disrupted and that cisgender privilege should be, quote, dismantled. And BLM has indeed done quite a bit

00:06:45.980 of dismantling over the years. I don't know if they've dismantled cisgender privilege, whatever

00:06:50.880 that is, but they have left entire city blocks in ruins. You got to start somewhere, I guess.

00:06:57.080 Now, Goodyear is certainly not alone. Many of the most powerful corporations in America

00:07:02.240 have endorsed and offered financial support to Black Lives Matter. Of course, it's only by virtue of its

00:07:09.880 name that this avowedly Marxist organization, which has been involved in rioting and looting in cities

00:07:15.520 across the country for years, has managed to gain such widespread mainstream acceptance.

00:07:21.020 If BLM had a more accurate name like Marxist United or something similar, I doubt very much

00:07:27.420 that Pepsi and Goodyear would be lining up behind it. That's how silly our political discourse has 0.69

00:07:32.840 become. Simply change the name of BLM. Keep everything else the same, everything. Change the name, 0.55

00:07:39.600 and I'm betting there'd be 85% agreement in America that it's a hate group at a minimum,

00:07:44.220 if not a domestic terror group, which is my vote. And there would be none but the most avowedly left

00:07:50.380 wing of companies coming out in its defense. So be all that as it may. Corporations that support

00:07:57.040 Marxist organizations while censoring messages of support for groups like police officers should face a

00:08:05.620 severe penalty from their customer base. Conservatives, myself included, tend to shy away

00:08:11.240 from boycotts. I can tell you that in the past, I have scoffed at them, and I still scoff at boycotts

00:08:19.120 that are frivolous or launched for stupid reasons. And I certainly won't participate in any boycott 0.96

00:08:24.540 meant to punish a company for the privately held views of one of its employees, even if it's its CEO or

00:08:31.180 founder, the CEO of Goodyear can have whatever opinion he wants. I don't care if he personally

00:08:35.860 favors the legalization of cannibalism, which would be only slightly more offensive than the policies

00:08:41.200 advocated by BLM. Private companies and private opinions rather are one thing, but when an entire

00:08:47.820 company takes a side on an issue and makes its position explicit, then we have every reason to

00:08:54.800 take notice. And if they make it clear that they have no respect for people like us, that is people who

00:09:00.100 believe all lives matter and police lives matter. And if they side with violent, radical Marxists,

00:09:05.500 well, then we would have to be certifiable masochists to continue supporting them. There's 0.99

00:09:10.580 no reason to. Lots of companies sell tires. Not all of them do so while spouting Marxist talking points.

00:09:16.540 So me, you know, I'll take the tires without the Marxism. Thanks. So now is a good time to get over

00:09:21.940 our aversion to applying this kind of pressure. It's an aversion I understand because, as I said,

00:09:28.780 I share it. You know, there is there is something in me constitutionally that recoils at boycotts. I

00:09:37.260 kind of I kind of recoil at marching in the street with signs also, though I've done it a number of

00:09:43.320 times, in fact. But there is, I believe, still something in the conservative mindset that militates

00:09:49.320 against this sort of activism. And I don't think it's a need to be polite because I don't have any

00:09:54.540 need to be polite at all. I think it might be our fundamental practicality. You know, we aren't as

00:10:00.480 into holding signs because it doesn't feel practical or useful. We don't like boycotting because,

00:10:04.300 frankly, if a company has something I want and they have the best price and they have and, you know,

00:10:09.540 they're nearby, then I just want to go buy it. And when I'm in the car and maybe I'm with my family

00:10:13.320 and the kids are crying and I need whatever product, I don't feel like thinking about these

00:10:17.920 kinds of issues or trying to be socially conscious or political in my buying decisions.

00:10:21.960 I've got more pressing concerns in that moment. I'm in real life mode. And so I think that's where

00:10:27.980 the aversion comes from. If I'm if I'm psychoanalyzing myself and other conservatives,

00:10:32.040 it's from practicality. But it's an aversion we need to overcome because, you know, besides boycotting

00:10:38.820 is a rather practical thing to do. All we are doing is listening to a company tell us its position

00:10:44.780 and taking it seriously, believing what it says and responding accordingly. Goodyear apparently

00:10:49.380 doesn't want my business. Who am I to force it upon them? Many companies don't want my business

00:10:54.640 or your business or the business of so many millions of us, and we should stop giving it to

00:10:59.240 them out of basic self-respect and even respect for them and their wishes. And that's why Goodyear

00:11:05.680 won't see another dime from me, which is not an idle threat, by the way. This isn't one of those

00:11:10.120 boycotts where you're boycotting a company you've never patronized anyway. Like when leftists boycott

00:11:16.080 a hardware store or a gun shop. I've patronized Goodyear many times, but no more. And I think

00:11:22.680 this should be the approach across the board from here on out. No more propping up companies that hate

00:11:28.720 us. Those days have to be over. And you know, when we talk about the practicality thing, because I was

00:11:34.300 thinking about it this morning, trying to figure out like, what is it about? Why have I in the past been

00:11:40.120 so anti-boycott? And I do think it's, it's, it's the practical thing. And you see this difference

00:11:45.600 between conservatives and, and like I said, I know I'm psychoanalyzing here, but you see this

00:11:50.700 difference between conservatives and, and leftists. Conservatives tend to be very practical minded,

00:11:56.420 very common sense. I mean, you think about the typical sort of suburban middle-aged Republican dad,

00:12:04.100 you know, that's, that's like one of your quintessential conservative types, right? And that's going to be

00:12:08.580 someone who, and you know, that's sort of me. I don't know if I'm middle-aged yet, but that's

00:12:15.520 someone who, who, you know, it's, it just, just isn't that interested in, in, in, in activism,

00:12:21.240 isn't going to show up and hold a sign. That's the kind of person, you know, your dad is driving down

00:12:26.320 the road and just like, you need something, you pull in. And if you try, if you're a kid and you try

00:12:31.800 to show, no, no, we can't shop there, dad. It's because of their position. Oh, shut up. We got to go in

00:12:35.820 here and buy this. And that's kind of how we think. Now, leftists, on the other hand, are not as plagued

00:12:43.500 by practicality and common sense. They don't have to worry about that. Now, that handicaps them in their

00:12:48.820 day-to-day life, but it makes them much more effective activists. And so I think this has to be the balance

00:12:56.360 that we have to strike. Not that we give up common sense, but that we start being willing to do things

00:13:03.220 that are a little bit impractical, because that's what's going to be necessary in order to engage in

00:13:09.940 this culture fight. All right, let's go to our five headlines. Another night of the DNC last night,

00:13:22.320 God help us. I didn't watch it again because I don't hate myself. Well, I do hate myself, but not enough

00:13:28.380 to expose myself to such tortures intentionally. The highlight of the night, though, had to be

00:13:33.420 accused rapist Bill Clinton giving his speech, which was so laden with irony that, you know,

00:13:40.060 it may cause an overdose. So here's Bill, for example, giving a lecture on how to behave in the 0.65

00:13:46.020 Oval Office. Donald Trump says we're leading the world. Well, we are the only major industrial economy

00:13:52.440 to have its unemployment rate tripled. At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command

00:13:59.200 center. Instead, it's a storm center. There's only chaos. Just one thing never changes. His determination

00:14:06.740 to deny responsibility and shift the blame. The buck never stops there. Now you have to decide whether to

00:14:16.360 renew his contract or hire someone else. If you want a president who defines the job as spending hours a

00:14:21.940 day watching TV and zapping people on social media, he's your man. They really might as well have

00:14:27.980 Michael Moore come give a lecture on nutrition and fitness. I mean, they might as well have Elizabeth

00:14:35.160 Warren speak at the Native American caucus meeting. Oh, wait, no, they actually did that too. Yeah,

00:14:42.280 they're, yes, they are trying to give us an irony overdose. I think that's the dastardly plot here.

00:14:47.400 Now, as for Slick Willie, we should remember that Clinton didn't just take advantage of a young

00:14:53.260 intern while he was president and lie about it and perjure himself. And he wasn't just accused of

00:14:58.760 sexual harassment multiple times by multiple women. He was also accused of rape. Violent, forcible

00:15:05.800 rape. Credibly accused. A lot of even the critical coverage of Bill's DNC speech makes no mention of

00:15:14.400 the rape accusation. For example, a piece in the Daily Beast eloquently titled Why the F is Creepy

00:15:20.120 Bill Clinton Speaking at the Democrat Convention doesn't, so they cut right to the chase of the

00:15:24.660 title. I like that, but it doesn't make any reference to the rape charge. It excoriates the DNC for having

00:15:29.740 Bill Clinton because he's a dinosaur. He represents the past. He's antiquated and so on. And yes, he was

00:15:36.260 inappropriate with some women, but even the critics of Clinton can't, on the left anyway, can't bring 1.00

00:15:41.860 themselves to admit that he was credibly accused of pushing a woman down on a hotel bed and forcibly

00:15:48.300 violating her. The other thing not mentioned is Bill's many, many trips to and fro with global

00:15:55.500 pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking of which, new photos emerged yesterday. You can take

00:16:01.280 a look at that. There's Creepy Bill, as we're calling him now, getting a massage from one of Epstein's

00:16:08.640 sex trafficking victims. And unless you are naive to the point of being essentially catatonic, 0.97

00:16:14.420 you should know that there is nothing innocent about going on a trip with your pedophile buddy 1.00

00:16:18.640 and getting a massage from one of his sex slaves. In fact, we have heard from Epstein's victims that 0.99

00:16:27.480 these massages were part of the grooming ritual. So this is certainly nothing innocent here. And this

00:16:33.580 is big news, what you're seeing right here. A former president being massaged by a sex trafficked 0.97

00:16:39.780 girl in the company of an international pedophile. But you wouldn't know it from the media coverage, 0.99

00:16:46.760 which is, uh, which has been almost non-existent. Number two, it's like Groundhog Day at this point,

00:16:52.920 reporting this every day, but I'm not going to ignore it. BLM rioters in Portland again last night,

00:16:58.320 um, as we go into our, what is it? Third month of this. And they attacked a police station,

00:17:03.380 set it on fire. Here's the footage of that.

00:17:05.320 We've really reached a point where left-wing demonstrators setting a police station on fire

00:17:31.660 is like par for the course. Oh, they set another police station on fire. Well, what are you going

00:17:37.320 to do? There was a time when this would have been treated as a very big deal. And it is a big deal

00:17:43.960 and should still be treated as such. And this is why, speaking of conservatives being ineffective,

00:17:52.300 uh, the argument that you hear from a lot of conservatives is that, well, we shouldn't really

00:17:56.860 do anything and Trump shouldn't do anything, uh, because we, you know, this, these are leftist

00:18:02.060 cities and just let them destroy themselves. And, you know, that's how we stick it to the left is by

00:18:06.580 letting them destroy themselves. Uh, I think there are a lot of problems with that mentality,

00:18:11.020 starting with the fact that not everybody in one of these cities is there are just normal,

00:18:17.940 decent people living in these cities that are being victimized here. They're not all a bunch of

00:18:21.900 crazy. Yeah. If it was a city entirely comprised of violent, lunatic left-wing activists, then I 0.51

00:18:27.160 would say, yeah, just let them, you know, it's, it's Lord of the flies and just let them do what 0.98

00:18:31.620 they're going to do. But, uh, or maybe I would say that actually, I probably even then wouldn't,

00:18:36.340 but it's certainly not in this case because there are actual victims in these cases. And then the

00:18:41.560 second point is, um, even aside from that, we are letting the criminals do what they want.

00:18:50.580 I don't understand how that's supposed to be some sort of punishment. I don't know how that's

00:18:54.940 supposed to be us winning by letting them do, letting them commit crimes, letting them with

00:19:00.860 impunity do whatever they want. No, that is letting the criminals win. We are, we are letting them win

00:19:08.120 by letting them do what they want. And I don't think we should, it only emboldens them and it only

00:19:14.740 guarantees more of this in the future. I think it's a terrible strategy. It's not really a strategy at

00:19:18.540 all. It's a non-strategy. It's just, it's just doing nothing. Number three, reading from the

00:19:22.960 daily wire says Massachusetts officials are reportedly calling the police and the state's

00:19:27.060 department of children and families on parents whose children fail to show up for their school

00:19:31.480 districts, zoom school. Uh, those are the classes that are live streamed. The Boston globe reports

00:19:37.060 that Massachusetts school officials have reported dozens of families to state social workers for

00:19:41.560 possible neglect because of issues related to their children's participation in remote learning

00:19:46.400 classes during the pandemic shutdown in the spring. In most cases, the outlet notes, the referrals were

00:19:50.980 made solely because the students failed to log into class repeatedly. Most of the parents reported

00:19:55.160 were mothers and several did not have any previous involvement with social services. So now they have

00:19:58.840 that on their record. Um, and of course you can, you can totally see why a parent wouldn't bother

00:20:05.540 having their kid log into the zoom class because you know, I, if, if, if we're doing this, I can just

00:20:11.320 teach them myself, right? There's no reason for, I'm not going to have my kid sit in a computer,

00:20:15.580 sit in front of a computer all day to learn. This is not the right way. I'll just do it myself.

00:20:19.300 I think a lot of parents were saying that, and now they get visits from social services.

00:20:23.640 And this of course goes back to what we discussed last week, that the school system

00:20:26.720 thinks it owns your child, that your children belong to it. So even when they shut down

00:20:33.580 and don't let your child come to school, they still want to keep tabs. They still are owed in their

00:20:40.680 minds, your child's attention and allegiance and obedience. And they will literally try to throw

00:20:46.400 you in jail if you don't comply. I really think a day will come when people look back

00:20:52.500 on this kind of thing, look back on the modern public school system in general, and just shake

00:20:58.020 their heads in horror and disbelief thinking like, how did parents ever subject their children to that

00:21:04.320 intentionally? That's what they'll ask. And it'll be a good question. And the thing is,

00:21:09.140 I don't have a good answer even now, though I'm living through it. Number four, Fox News reports

00:21:15.420 important story here. Very important. It says, a bride recently posted online about how her mother

00:21:21.760 gave a vicious speech at her wedding last year, which led the groomsmen to ask her mother to leave

00:21:26.660 the reception. In the post on Reddit's Am I the A-hole forum, the bride, a user of the forum,

00:21:34.300 explained that she didn't really feel comfortable allowing her mom to speak at her wedding because of

00:21:38.060 their strained relationship. She says, quote, I ultimately let her, hoping she would deliver the

00:21:42.400 same fluff about gaining a son that she did at my sister's wedding. According to the Reddit post,

00:21:47.280 the mom insulted the bride's appearance, her, quote, crappy apartment, and her gross medical issues. 1.00

00:21:53.000 This is during the speech at the reception. She said each time she paused to let a joke land, 0.97

00:21:59.500 there was silence. My husband and wedding party stared at me frozen, waiting for my cue on how to

00:22:04.640 react. They stayed seated in until her bit about how I am damaged goods, referring to a time when I

00:22:10.360 was 19. I had a bad date and the guy harassed me for over a year. It seriously impacted my mental

00:22:15.480 health and I dropped out of college. It's painful to think or talk about. Then it goes on to say that

00:22:19.240 the mom was asked to leave the wedding and she's very offended by that. Now there's a strained

00:22:22.680 relationship with the daughter, even more strained, as you can imagine. All right, just two quick points

00:22:27.780 here. The reason I bring this up, this story, and first of all, the first one is I have been to

00:22:35.280 plenty of weddings and I have never witnessed a moment like this. And so I'm pretty jealous. I've

00:22:39.980 never seen anything this entertaining. Also, this is an opportunity for me really to go over what I

00:22:45.060 believe the rules should be for wedding receptions. Because the way we go about wedding receptions is

00:22:51.800 all wrong. Wedding receptions are exhausting and excruciating for everybody involved. They're

00:23:00.240 really not a lot of fun and it doesn't have to be this way. Now this one sounds like it was pretty

00:23:04.780 entertaining, but usually they aren't. But they would be if everybody followed my rules. So let

00:23:10.620 me tell you what the rules are. And of course, when I take over and my reign begins as theocratic

00:23:15.320 dictator, these rules will be codified into law and punishable by death or a $50 fine.

00:23:21.800 Or both. Number one, if you aren't going to have booze at your wedding, you should be legally

00:23:27.720 barred from getting married. Dry wedding receptions are a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on

00:23:35.140 cruel and unusual punishment. I almost said they're a violation of the Ten Commandments, which I would 0.98

00:23:40.240 say they even are that too somehow. Especially a dry wedding where, I don't know if you've ever been

00:23:45.500 to one of these, a dry wedding, no alcohol, but they still have music and dancing. Now, if you're

00:23:51.240 going to go Puritan, then go full Puritan, have no alcohol, no dancing. We'll get in and out in 15

00:23:56.420 minutes. And if we're doing that, then okay, fine. I'll allow that. But you want to have a four and a

00:24:01.400 half hour reception with music and dancing, but no alcohol? Like you think you're going to get us onto

00:24:07.280 the floor for the cha-cha slide and we have had no beer ahead of time? Not going to happen.

00:24:11.780 Number two, wedding reception food is usually a letdown. There are some exceptions to this.

00:24:17.120 I went to my friend's wedding last year. He's Indian, so he had Indian food like curry and stuff

00:24:21.900 like that. It was very, very good. So there are some exceptions, but usually the food is bad. So

00:24:27.020 just what I would say, no food, people pack a lunch, a ham sandwich. Really, it's about the booze anyway.

00:24:32.300 Third thing, finally, more to the point of this story, all speeches should be banned at wedding

00:24:35.940 receptions. Giving an effective speech is actually a highly difficult skill to master and 99.9% of people in

00:24:42.580 the world do not have the skill. That's why most speeches you hear at weddings, at fundraising

00:24:47.460 banquets, at other types of events are horrendous because they aren't being delivered by trained

00:24:52.300 professionals. They're being delivered by amateurs who have no idea what they're doing. So that's

00:24:56.480 what I would say. Either have no speeches at all. I mean, how egotistical is it anyway to carve out time

00:25:02.400 in your wedding reception for people to get up and say nice things about you? So you're planning it and

00:25:07.780 you're saying, okay, so at this point here in the schedule, we'll have 47 people take turns saying nice

00:25:12.680 things about us into a microphone. Yeah, that's a good idea. Absolute narcissism. So no speeches or you can

00:25:19.580 hire a trained professional to give one speech, just one. And on that note, I am available a rate of $95 a

00:25:27.240 word. Not a bad, considering how much you spend at weddings. Really, that's a pretty good bargain.

00:25:32.560 All right. So those are the rules. Five, finally, we have one more headline. These aren't really

00:25:41.000 headlines, but just go with it. Lena Dunham, of course, one of the great minds and great talents 0.96

00:25:45.840 of our time, has given us another offering, another thing to think about. And I just want to play that

00:25:51.860 for you. Here it is. Yeah, I'm sorry. I just, I saw that. I felt like I had to deal with it

00:26:14.800 psychologically because I was exposed to it. And so then I exposed you to it also really misery loves

00:26:20.680 company. I had to do it. And I just, why, why? Maybe this isn't the lead here. I don't know.

00:26:29.900 But why is she wearing a bathing suit that says sex on it? Like that's about the, when it comes to 1.00

00:26:38.840 being a provocateur, that's about on the level of when you're in middle school and you type numbers

00:26:44.160 into your calculator and turn it upside down. So it says boobs, you know, it's like on that level. 1.00

00:26:49.220 This is someone who wants to be provocative, but has run out of tricks. There are no more tricks

00:26:54.940 in her bag. She reached into her bag, came up empty and said, oh, I know I'll, I'll, I'll wear a

00:26:59.780 bathing suit that says sex on it. Super edgy stuff. So there's Lena Dunham. That's what she's up to. 0.98

00:27:04.360 If you were wondering, and we're going to get to our daily cancellation, but first, um, you know,

00:27:08.840 we've been telling you about our all access membership tier, most exclusive membership tier of

00:27:12.380 the daily wire, all access members get to join all access lie, which is our exclusive live stream

00:27:16.300 discussions hosted every night by each of the hosts, including myself. And this Thursday,

00:27:21.040 August 20th, I am so excited to be doing this. I cannot tell you how absolutely ecstatic I am,

00:27:26.700 um, that we will be doing a very special live stream, uh, watch party covering the democratic

00:27:32.800 national conventions, biggest speakers hosted by none other than me. Okay. We're going to watch this

00:27:38.480 thing. I am, I am so thrilled to be doing it. I, I hope that you join in. Um, I am not at all

00:27:44.560 planning to have wifi difficulties that night so that I can't do it. I, I'm certainly would not

00:27:50.340 plan for something like that at all. I'm hoping that that doesn't happen and that this thing

00:27:54.800 can go forward. I cannot wait. Um, dailywire.com slash Walsh 20% off all access with coupon code

00:28:02.440 access. Again, that's dailywire.com slash Walsh for our daily cancellation today. I'll be canceling

00:28:06.720 MSNBC host, Chris Hayes. And this, I believe is Chris's first appearance on the daily cancellation,

00:28:11.300 but not for lack of trying. And, uh, you know, when I tell you what precipitated this,

00:28:17.160 uh, the reason for the cancellation may be other than what you think. So there have been

00:28:21.200 these boat parades popping up over the last several weeks, Trump boat parades. These are,

00:28:26.880 I guess, Trump supporters who own boats and who get together and do a parade to express their

00:28:30.900 support for Trump. I don't personally really understand the point of that, uh, goes back to

00:28:36.260 the whole practicality thing, but whatever, Hey, you know, it's an excuse to take the boat out anyway.

00:28:39.740 And if you can put some lines out and do some, do a little trolling while you're at it,

00:28:43.200 uh, maybe trolling in more, more ways than one than even better. Now, Chris was going back and

00:28:48.820 forth with Washington post reporter, Dave Weigel on Twitter, talking about this boat parade phenomenon.

00:28:53.660 And one thing you should understand is that anytime Trump supporters, whether by land, air, or sea

00:28:58.700 come out in public, people like Chris Hayes and Dave Weigel will leer at them and want to analyze

00:29:04.760 and study them like they're a baboon troop or something. And this time, uh, they were talking

00:29:10.920 about it and debating, and they both agreed that as Hayes put it, white men without four-year degree

00:29:17.260 and disposable income enough to buy a boat are genuinely the Trump base. That's his analysis.

00:29:23.840 My issue here with Hayes and the reason for his cancellation is not that he's being condescending

00:29:28.980 to Trump supporters. That's not even worth remarking on anymore. I mean, yes, of course he is.

00:29:33.440 That's just, that comes with the territory. It's that his method of condescension just reveals how

00:29:39.000 silly and one track minded he is. Now he obviously means this as an insult, white men without degrees, 0.99

00:29:44.600 but who can buy boats are Trump's base. That's an insult. But what he's really saying is that

00:29:48.980 Trump's base consists of people smart, creative, and ambitious enough to forego the college path

00:29:53.980 and yet still achieve enough, achieve enough financial success to buy a boat. So to people like

00:29:59.140 Chris, having a degree is a status symbol, right? Having even more pieces of paper, your master's,

00:30:05.240 your PhD, whatever gives you even more status. And that's all it is to him. That's all it is to

00:30:09.560 people like him. That's why they get so upset and offended when people skip college and don't end up

00:30:15.400 in trailer parks, working the graveyard shift, stocking shelves at Walmart, like they're supposed to,

00:30:20.980 uh, in Chris's mind. That's what it's supposed to, that's what's supposed to happen. And nothing

00:30:24.540 against people who live in trailer parks and work the graveyard shift at Walmart. My point is that 1.00

00:30:28.380 Chris Hayes and other elitist snobs have a very specific idea of what your life course is supposed

00:30:33.920 to be. If you don't go to college, the main thing is you're not supposed to be financially successful

00:30:40.340 and you're certainly not supposed to make more money than they do. But when you defy those expectations

00:30:46.660 and, uh, you know, you really misbehave and you go off script and you ad lib and, um,

00:30:53.000 and you skip college and after years of hard work, you end up even more successful than some

00:30:57.800 of the elitist snobs themselves. Well, they don't like that. And so they'll try to insult you

00:31:03.420 on the basis that you don't have the mere piece of paper. And that's why the piece of paper itself

00:31:08.260 becomes the status symbol, not the success it's supposed to afford you. The success you can get

00:31:13.820 without the paper. They know that. So they'll still try to go, yeah, well, you're making good

00:31:18.060 money. You own a boat, you're living the dream, but you don't have this. And they wave in your

00:31:22.060 face the frame degree that costs them 30 years of debt and a damaged liver liver to obtain.

00:31:27.340 Um, and that's why I'm canceling Chris Hayes, but really, as you may have already gathered,

00:31:35.700 I bring up Chris Hayes mostly as an excuse to launch into my rant about college in general.

00:31:40.760 I'll take any opportunity presented to me, uh, no matter how much I have to stretch to get from A to B.

00:31:45.800 So leaving Chris Hayes aside for a moment, let me say again, and probably for the 10 billionth time,

00:31:52.060 going to college should not be the automatic and perfunctory path. It should not be the default.

00:32:02.020 College is not necessary for obtaining success in life. It isn't even necessary for obtaining your

00:32:06.960 own boat as we've covered. College is and ought to be seen as a very specific course of action taken

00:32:12.640 for specific and expressible reasons. Reasons like, I want to be a doctor or I want to get into

00:32:19.660 engineering. Okay. Those are great reasons to go to college. Though, even in those cases,

00:32:24.340 I don't see any particular reason why a kid just out of high school has to jump right into it.

00:32:29.320 Why not take a few years off, work a job or two, make some money, get some life experience. I can't

00:32:33.420 fathom the downside of that. Oh, I'll fall behind of it. Fall behind who? Who are you racing?

00:32:38.680 And why? But most people don't go to college with any particular job or career in mind.

00:32:44.900 They just go because that's what you do, they're told. That's what everyone does.

00:32:49.840 And by that's what everyone does, we mean that this has been the standard operating procedure for,

00:32:55.120 compared to the history of human civilization, about five and a half seconds.

00:32:58.300 But we've decided that the way stuff has worked for five and a half seconds is the only way it can

00:33:03.080 ever work again. We're wrong. And even as we shuffle our kids in these institutions,

00:33:10.060 blackmailing them, coercing them, pushing them, forcing them into college, we complain that it's

00:33:14.940 expensive. Now, the institutions are overrun with leftist brainwashers, which they are.

00:33:20.560 We say in one breath, junior, you must go to college or you're going to fail at life.

00:33:25.800 And in the next, we say, oh God, colleges are terrible and expensive and they're turning kids 1.00

00:33:29.520 into brainwashed zombies. It doesn't make a lot of sense. And even leaving aside the ideological

00:33:36.920 issues, how much sense does it make for a kid to go to college just so he can figure out if he needs

00:33:44.300 to go to college? We tell them, even if they don't know what they want to do with their lives,

00:33:49.560 to go ahead and take out the six-figure loan as some sort of ticket to a really expensive

00:33:54.800 voyage of self-discovery. Spend the money to find out if you really needed to spend the money.

00:34:02.060 It's like charging someone for chemo before you even get the biopsy results back. It doesn't,

00:34:06.080 it just, in any other context, we would consider it reckless and ridiculous. A much more reasonable,

00:34:13.140 less expensive, less risky, less fraught path is to graduate high school, go into the workforce,

00:34:17.600 have some life experience, figure yourself out, figure out what you want to do, what your skills are,

00:34:22.560 your passions, your goals. And then if it becomes apparent that a college education is a necessary

00:34:27.780 piece of your puzzle, go and get the education. This is a lot better than trying to cram the piece

00:34:34.800 into place before you even know if it belongs to your puzzle or not.

00:34:41.060 So there's my college rant. And anyway, Chris Hayes is canceled. And college is canceled too. We

00:34:46.140 canceled both. Two birds, one stone. That'll do it for today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 19, 2020

Ep. 546 - Boycott Companies That Hate Us

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