The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 554 - We Have Made It Impossible For Police Officers To Do Their Jobs

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, is it even possible to be a police officer in America today when even

00:00:04.420 shooting a knife-wielding suspected rapist and serial abuser causes protests and riots?

00:00:09.660 Also, five headlines including the apparent execution murder of a Trump supporter in Portland

00:00:13.660 and Joe Biden's incredible moral cowardice in the face of this escalating violence.

00:00:19.460 And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel the latest celebrity to come out as

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00:02:11.460 supplies last. Okay. Here's the scenario. You are a police officer, a seven-year veteran of the

00:02:20.540 force. One day, call comes in, domestic disturbance. A woman is contacted 911 because her ex-boyfriend

00:02:26.560 is at her house, is not supposed to be there. She's scared. He's stolen her keys, wants to take

00:02:32.060 her vehicle. He's wanted for sexual assault and domestic abuse. There's a warrant for his arrest.

00:02:37.520 When you pull up in your police cruiser, you quickly notice the knife in his hand. You try to

00:02:43.880 de-escalate the situation with words, reasoning with him. He's in no mood to be reasoned with.

00:02:48.960 Then you try to take control of the situation physically, but he fights back, puts you in a

00:02:54.200 headlock. You deploy your taser. It has no effect. Another taser. Again, no effect. Then he starts moving

00:03:00.140 towards the vehicle. Is he going to grab a gun? Is he going to steal the car and drive away? Is he going

00:03:04.620 to take it and run you or the woman over? There are kids inside. Will they become hostages? Will

00:03:10.860 they get injured in a car chase? Will he kill them? These possibilities all race through your

00:03:15.680 head in the span of five seconds, maybe less. You don't have time to deliberate. The man has

00:03:20.160 made his choice, and all you can do is respond to it. So you yell for him to stop. He doesn't listen.

00:03:26.560 You yell again. Your gun is pointed right at him. He doesn't care. He opens the door. You grab him.

00:03:31.700 He makes a move to climb inside or reach for something. You're out of time. You shoot.

00:03:38.060 Let's try another scenario. You're not a police officer. In fact, you don't have any job at all,

00:03:44.040 nor do you have a car. Sometimes you take your ex-girlfriends without permission.

00:03:48.720 One morning, you're angry at her, so you break into her house while she's sleeping. You go into a room,

00:03:54.160 and you sexually assault her just to make a point. She's scared. She's crying. You've seen her like 0.99

00:04:01.540 this before all the other times that you've abused and beaten her through the years, usually when 0.55

00:04:05.620 you're drinking. You leave her like that. You exit the room. You steal her keys and her debit card.

00:04:10.500 You drive away in her vehicle. You stop at the ATM and take out some money on her card. She calls the

00:04:15.600 cops. Eventually, a warrant is issued for your arrest. Fast forward a month or two. You go to her house

00:04:21.240 again. She tells you to leave. You refuse. You take your keys from her. At some point, you draw a

00:04:26.960 knife. The cops show up. You assault them, too. You refuse to go with them, even after two zaps from

00:04:33.060 the taser. You escape their grasp. You start moving towards the car. They draw their guns, point them at

00:04:38.320 you, screaming. You keep moving. You open the door. One officer is pulling at your shirt. You keep moving.

00:04:46.020 You wake up in a hospital bed. You cannot feel your legs.

00:04:48.980 Now, those are the two scenarios. Two people, same situation. Which of these people did you find most

00:04:58.820 relatable? Whose actions can you more readily understand? Who made choices that you could see

00:05:04.920 yourself possibly making in a similar situation? If you had to launch a moral or logical defense of

00:05:11.280 either person, which would you choose? Now, far be it for me to make assumptions about you, but I would

00:05:16.900 certainly hope and guess that you can relate to, defend, and understand the first man, the police

00:05:22.640 officer. The second man has his reasons, I guess, for the way he acts, but they cannot possibly be

00:05:27.620 good reasons, and his behavior is not defensible or, for decent people, understandable on any level

00:05:33.640 at all. And yet, in this upside-down world in which we live, it is the second man who gains all of the 0.97

00:05:40.620 sympathy. It is his name that's cried out in grief and mourning. It is for him that every professional

00:05:46.620 sports league in the country speaks out in solidarity. It is his name that ends up on the

00:05:50.680 murals and the poster boards and the t-shirts. The other man's name, the police officer, who made

00:05:55.020 choices and behaved in a way that every decent and rational human on earth, if they were to stop to

00:06:00.660 think about it for two seconds, would at least find comprehensible, perhaps even admirable,

00:06:05.220 is anathema. He is cast in the role of villain, the dastardly foil to our hero, who also happens

00:06:12.760 to be a serial abuser and rapist, at least if the allegations are true. Now, granted, some of the

00:06:19.740 scenario, as I have described it here, is technically speculative, but it's a scenario that emerges very

00:06:25.340 clearly from a combination of the video, the police scanner audio, the criminal complaint filed

00:06:29.280 against Jacob Blake, stemming from his alleged sexual assault of his ex-girlfriend in May of this year,

00:06:34.680 and the testimony of the Kenosha Police Union. The other scenario, the first one we were given,

00:06:40.280 and the one that the media would still like for us to believe, that Blake is a family man and a

00:06:45.000 good Samaritan randomly gunned down by a racist cop for the crime of breaking up a fight between two

00:06:50.920 women, has absolutely no credible evidence of any kind to support it. All of the evidence points to 0.96

00:06:58.520 what I have just described. And the allegation of the sexual assault is just that, an allegation,

00:07:03.680 but it was made by a woman who called 911 on the day of the alleged crime, and trembled with fear

00:07:09.020 as she recounted what had happened to her. There is just no good reason to doubt her.

00:07:16.820 The point is that, from everything we know, and in light of all of the credible evidence,

00:07:23.060 and I am counting, by the way, I'm counting as decidedly not credible, the supposed eyewitnesses

00:07:28.080 who initially claimed that Blake wasn't behaving aggressively at all, even though he had a knife,

00:07:32.180 and he had a cop and a headlock, and only took his girlfriend's keys and went to her car with

00:07:36.120 guns trained on him so he could check on his kids. That's what one of the eyewitnesses said.

00:07:40.920 So I am counting that as not credible, but in light of all the credible evidence,

00:07:45.940 the police officers were responding to a situation entirely of Jacob Blake's own making,

00:07:51.460 and doing what they could to protect all of the innocent lives involved, including their own.

00:07:56.980 There is, at this juncture, no reasonably plausible version of the story that vindicates Jacob Blake,

00:08:02.160 and yet, again, he is lionized and canonized and mourned over,

00:08:06.360 while the officers are castigated as attempted murderers and racists.

00:08:10.700 And those accusations rain down from some of the most visible and powerful perches in society.

00:08:15.280 In other words, it's the same old story playing out again and again and again and again.

00:08:21.720 How is it even possible to be a police officer in this environment?

00:08:26.460 Because the moment a suspect, a non-white suspect, 0.97

00:08:29.640 resists arrest or goes for a gun or tries to kill you or someone else, you lose, no matter what.

00:08:34.980 You go to work every day to serve communities that despise you.

00:08:39.080 You risk your life for people who wouldn't dump a bucket of water on you to put out the flames if you

00:08:43.160 were on fire. In fact, they probably set the fire.

00:08:46.180 In the most intense and life-threatening situations, you are left with no room for error.

00:08:51.340 Even if you don't make an error, the video that somebody captures and cuts and clips and posts

00:08:55.620 online may make it seem like you did. If you end up in a fight for your life against a violent

00:09:00.700 sociopath, you may go to prison for winning it.

00:09:05.700 The people gathered around to watch and film the incident will almost certainly lie about what

00:09:10.060 happened. They will inexplicably defend the sociopath and call for your head on a platter.

00:09:15.780 They will say that they live in fear for their life every day because of you.

00:09:20.440 But it's the sociopath and people like him who are responsible for almost all of the killing and

00:09:25.120 violence in their community. And yet its members will choose him over you, like the crowds shouting

00:09:30.800 for Pilate to release Barabbas. And if he dies, they will mourn the loss of a man whose absence

00:09:36.380 makes them all safer. This attitude is not confined to any town or city. It's fostered

00:09:42.220 at the highest levels of society. Powerful politicians and athletes and celebrities are

00:09:46.500 all dedicated to a narrative that is completely disconnected from reality. And if you're a police

00:09:51.800 officer, they tell lies about you and your line of work constantly, and they don't care

00:09:56.660 if those lies get you killed. And while your worst and most difficult moments are broadcast

00:10:02.140 to the entire world and dissected by idiots and charlatans who've never in their lives 0.86

00:10:06.300 faced a situation as volatile as the kind you encounter every day, your triumphs are ignored.

00:10:12.800 For example, law enforcement officers in Georgia just completed a two-week operation that successfully

00:10:17.940 recovered 39 missing children, 15 of whom were being sex trafficked. This news was covered in a

00:10:23.400 perfunctory way because it had to be, but it was not plastered all over the headlines or shouted from

00:10:28.060 the rooftops. Only your mistakes or things that can be made to look like mistakes get that kind of

00:10:34.000 treatment. It seems impossible to deal with this, and yet thousands of police officers do deal with

00:10:41.620 it every day by choice. This doesn't mean that police officers are always right or that injustice at the

00:10:47.560 hands of law enforcement never happens or that we should adopt an uncritical attitude towards agents

00:10:52.860 of the state. Far from it. But they are doing a job that society needs done, and one that is only made

00:10:59.540 more difficult by the day. So I figure I owe them the respect of at least listening to their side of the

00:11:07.060 story and trying to see it from their perspective and considering all of the factors in the entire

00:11:12.780 context before labeling them bullies or murderers for the choices they make in situations I have never

00:11:18.540 encountered while doing a job I rely on, but would never want to do myself, especially these days.

00:11:27.140 Let's go to five headlines.

00:11:34.560 Well, we begin, of course, with the Trump supporter in Portland apparently executed in cold

00:11:38.480 blunt on Sunday, Saturday, that is. A caravan of Trump supporters and Blue Lives Matter supporters 0.60

00:11:44.200 went into Portland to counter-demonstrate. Much has been made of the fact that they were

00:11:48.120 shooting paintballs at the BLM and Antifa people using pepper spray in some cases, and that's true, 1.00

00:11:53.760 but every video I've seen of the paintball and pepper spray being deployed begins with someone

00:11:59.960 in the Antifa slash BLM crowd throwing something at them or using some other weapon against them.

00:12:04.440 So in any case, it was a volatile environment. And then the shooting. The victim's name is Aaron

00:12:09.960 Danielson. The man police are investigating for the killing is Michael Forrest Rinal.

00:12:14.320 A few pieces of footage have emerged from this. None of them very clear. The first shows in the

00:12:23.580 distance, in the dark, one man walk up to another, and then you see the gun go off and the guy who

00:12:29.240 pulled the trigger runs in the other direction. It does not appear at all to be self-defense in that

00:12:34.500 video. It appears to be execution, plain and simple. But the most revealing video is actually

00:12:39.740 one that doesn't show the shooting at all. Instead, it's what you hear that matters. So I'm going to

00:12:45.140 play that for you now. And again, you're not going to be able to really see anything. It doesn't

00:12:49.100 matter what you see. Just, just listen, listen for the words that you hear.

00:12:58.360 Yeah, that is one of the most chilling videos I've ever seen. And it doesn't even show the shooting.

00:13:19.080 itself. You can clearly hear someone say, Hey, we've got another one here. We've got another

00:13:23.880 one. We've got another one here. We've got someone right here. And then, and then someone else says

00:13:27.760 right here. And then bang, bang, you hear the guns. Um, by all indications, they targeted this man

00:13:34.680 and executed him in cold blood, first degree murder and political terrorism. Um, and you know,

00:13:40.740 the guy who did it should be, should be, this should be federal charges, ship them off to Guantanamo

00:13:46.480 Bay. As far as I'm concerned, uh, he is a, not only a murderer, but a terrorist. This is an act of

00:13:51.160 terrorism. Now, needless to say the leftists who are apoplectic about Kyle Rittenhouse, in spite of

00:13:58.260 the fact that it appeared in his case to actually be self-defense, they couldn't find it in themselves

00:14:02.440 to condemn this, this political execution with nearly the same fervor or, or really condemn it

00:14:08.460 at all. In a lot of cases. Um, this includes, of course, the rotting cucumber of a mayor, Ted Wheeler,

00:14:13.840 who spent more time in his press conference yesterday, condemning Donald Trump than the

00:14:18.780 actual guy who pulled the trigger. And also Joe Biden, who issued a statement that really flies in

00:14:23.760 the face of all the stuff we hear about him being a decent guy and just a wonderful guy.

00:14:27.560 The, the, the Democrat convention was just four days of what a wonderful, great guy he is. What

00:14:32.140 here are his, his, his favorite ice cream toppings. What a great guy he is. Um, well, you see not just

00:14:38.500 in this, but you see, uh, illustrated in this statement, which I'll read you in a second, the

00:14:42.840 fact that Joe Biden is among other things, an incredible moral coward. So let me play this for

00:14:48.960 or not play it. Uh, let me read it for you. In fact, here's the statement from Joe Biden.

00:14:53.400 Uh, and this statement, by the way, of course, is being praised by the media as being a, just a

00:14:58.680 wonderful, wonderful statement, very calming and all of that great leadership here. Well, you tell me

00:15:03.740 what you think. The deadly violence we saw overnight in Portland is unacceptable. Shooting in the streets

00:15:08.940 of a great American city is unacceptable. Oh, he called it, well, it's unacceptable. Great. Okay. Well,

00:15:13.520 that's a strong condemnation, isn't it? Yes. Um, uh, walking up to a guy and executing him on the

00:15:19.340 street is unacceptable. I condemn this violence unequivocally. I condemn violence of every kind

00:15:25.380 by anyone, whether on the left or right. And I challenged Donald Trump to do the same. It does

00:15:29.760 not matter if you find the political views of your opponents abhorrent. Any loss of life is a

00:15:33.560 tragedy. Today, there is another family grieving in America and Jill and I offer our deepest condolences.

00:15:38.220 We must not become a country at war with ourselves, a country that accepts the killing of fellow 1.00

00:15:41.920 Americans who do not agree with you, a country that vows vengeance towards one another. But this is the 0.57

00:15:46.340 America that president Trump wants us to be the America he believes we are as a country. We must

00:15:49.820 condemn the incitement of hate and resentment that led to this deadly clash. Listen to that part.

00:15:53.720 Let me read it again. As a country, we must condemn the incitement of hate and resentment that led to

00:15:58.980 this deadly clash. It is not a peaceful protest when you go out spoiling for a fight. Who does president

00:16:07.840 Trump, what does president Trump think will happen when he continues to insist on fanning the flames of

00:16:11.780 hate and division in our society and using the politics of fear to whip up his supporters. He is

00:16:16.320 recklessly encouraging the violence. Uh, and then he goes on a little bit more,

00:16:20.240 uh, attack. It just, the rest of it is just attacking president Trump. Okay. So he spends

00:16:26.400 most of this, um, condemning president Trump there. There is, I don't, I don't think there is even in

00:16:32.260 this statement really a clear and very specific and harsh condemnation of the killing itself.

00:16:38.060 He calls it unacceptable, but he does it in the, he he's using a passive voice,

00:16:42.580 which is a common trick that leftists are pulling now. And we'll get, we'll get to another

00:16:46.760 example of that in just a second, but he's using a passive voice and he's kind of speaking in general

00:16:50.940 to a deadly, a clash, a deadly clash. This wasn't a clash. It wasn't a dead, the deadly moment was not

00:16:57.520 a clash. This was just a guy walking down the street and he was shot in the head. Uh, it's not a

00:17:01.540 clash. That's, that's murder. And, uh, and, but he's condemning the incitement and hate and resentment

00:17:07.860 that led to this. Now, yeah, I agree that there's a lot of incitement and hate and resentment leading

00:17:14.360 to this, but that's happening from BLM and Antifa and Democrats. And I know that, you know, uh, I

00:17:20.200 basically just said the same thing three times. Sorry for the redundancy that's happening from them,

00:17:24.200 but that's not what he means. He's saying the people that were there were inciting the hatred and,

00:17:29.920 and, uh, and, and resentment. So this is, this is victim blaming on top of it. Um, at a minimum,

00:17:38.180 this is moral cowardice from Joe Biden, who just, I'm sorry, is not the great decent guy,

00:17:43.820 uh, that they make him out to be. I wish he was, I really wish he was, but he's not. Um,

00:17:51.660 number two, since we're on the subject of the impossibility of policing these days,

00:17:55.120 here are a few exhibits to present for your consideration. Uh, not that you need any more.

00:17:59.140 We've seen a lot, but just some, some of the latest, okay. On that topic. First,

00:18:03.160 this is a BLM leader in DC openly calling for police and other public officials to be murdered.

00:18:08.760 And this is being said into a megaphone in the middle of the city. Um, and, uh, anyway,

00:18:14.620 take a listen.

00:18:15.100 I'm at the point where I'm ready to put these police in the grave. I'm at the point where

00:18:22.640 I want to burn the white house down. I want to take it to the senators. I want to take it to

00:18:32.020 the Congress. I want to take the fight to them. And at the end of the day, if they ain't gonna hear us,

00:18:41.240 we burn them the f*** down. I'm one that talk real s***. I talk it in New York and I talk it in DC.

00:18:52.020 The same way I f*** police up in New York, I f*** cops up here in DC. The same way I bust police

00:19:00.900 in the head in New York, I bust police in the head in DC. Now, it's a lot of people and I'm gonna be

00:19:09.460 honest. It's a lot of people that's on this front line. And one of the things that I always say,

00:19:15.340 don't get on this f***ing front line if you ain't gonna f***ing fight. Don't get on this front line

00:19:21.180 if you ain't gonna take no hit. Don't get on this front line when the police f***ing push up,

00:19:26.520 you push back. If you're gonna be on this front line and them racist, nasty, punk f***ing police

00:19:35.340 is pushing up, you push the f*** up. What you just heard there, none of that is free speech.

00:19:42.320 That is terrorism, incitement. You want to talk about incitement, that's what incitement sounds

00:19:46.880 like. And if we didn't have such a feckless and useless government, that person would have been 1.00

00:19:52.740 arrested on the spot and would be headed to federal prison right now. Again, that is terrorism.

00:19:58.280 And then there's this from CNN. We talked about the passive voice. Well, here you go. Here's their

00:20:02.400 headline and caption on Twitter. It says, two Chicago police officers pulled over a person

00:20:06.360 suspected of having a gun and all three ended up hospitalized with gunshot wounds, officials say.

00:20:12.760 So, all three ended up hospitalized. How did that happen? Did bullets fall out of the sky

00:20:19.080 randomly? How did they all end up with gunshot wounds? What do you mean they ended up? Well,

00:20:25.100 it turns out, and you would have to read like five or six paragraphs into this article to see it,

00:20:29.320 turns out the officers tried to pull the guy over because he's committing a crime, allegedly,

00:20:33.460 and he shot them both. The suspect did. Then a third police officer rushed into the scene to save

00:20:38.660 those officers and shot the suspect. That's what happened. But even in the reporting of a violent

00:20:45.100 criminal shooting police, CNN has to find a way to make it seem like police at least share part of the

00:20:52.080 blame, or maybe that no one is to blame. So, enemy of the people. Yes, these are, the CNN is,

00:20:58.440 these are enemies of the people. It's perhaps one of the, maybe the truest thing that Trump has ever

00:21:03.400 said in his life, describing the American media as an enemy of the people. I mean, they are,

00:21:08.580 they're trying to get the American people, many American people killed. I mean, they want a race 0.99

00:21:15.020 war. They want violence and chaos and murder in the street. It's what they want. I cannot think of any

00:21:20.200 other way to explain this. I mean, when you can't even bring yourself to just, just straight up report

00:21:28.940 violent criminal shoots police officers, you can't even do that.

00:21:34.040 Number three, big shock over the weekend. Another big shock. It was a weekend of a lot of

00:21:41.320 shocking events. None of them good, unfortunately. So, another one, it was announced that Chadwick

00:21:46.020 Bozeman, who starred in Black Panther, also played Jackie Robinson, James Brown, played a, he had

00:21:50.500 quite a, quite a filmography in a relatively short career. He has died of cancer, colon cancer.

00:21:56.700 Apparently he was diagnosed back in, um, I think it was 2018 and he never, I believe he never told

00:22:03.680 anyone publicly about his diagnosis. And he went on making movies and, and, uh, and doing press,

00:22:09.320 visiting sick children in a hospital, uh, you know, carrying on being a public figure, a celebrity

00:22:13.540 without ever letting on that he was dying of cancer, which is a really remarkable thing. I think it's a

00:22:18.560 great example of, um, of courage and dignity. Um, and it reminds me of a story when I, when I read

00:22:25.660 about this, I immediately thought of a story that I think I've mentioned before in the Gulag

00:22:29.460 Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn's book about the Soviet, um, labor camp system. And one story he tells,

00:22:37.500 he tells a lot of stories that really stick out, but, but one in particular about, um, a guy who's,

00:22:43.620 who's, uh, in one of these prison camps scheduled to be executed. Uh, but he convinces the guards to

00:22:51.660 let his wife visit. So you can see his wife one last time before he's killed. But the deal is that

00:22:57.240 he's not allowed to tell his wife that he's going to be executed. So he can spend a couple of days

00:23:02.160 with her, but he can't tell her anything and probably telling her would, would put her own

00:23:06.420 life in jeopardy. So he spends a weekend with her, you know, and, uh, he never lets on and she never

00:23:11.380 suspects anything. And then as soon as she leaves, they take him before the firing squad. So this is,

00:23:16.000 you know, a similar kind of thing, a man facing down his own mortality, experiencing presumably an

00:23:20.780 incredible amount of inner anguish and grief and fear and panic and everything yet carrying on with

00:23:25.980 dignity and, and, uh, in quiet resolve. So heartbreaking, but a great example, um, for us all

00:23:32.840 let's go. Number four, I regret to inform you my friends that Michelle Obama, a former first lady, 0.64

00:23:42.300 wealthy, powerful, admired, loved, famous is nonetheless oppressed and she's oppressed by you. It turns out.

00:23:49.840 So, uh, you know, shame on you for oppressing someone who's a hundred times richer and more

00:23:54.080 powerful than you. How dare you? In a recent podcast, the former first lady, according to the

00:23:59.080 New York post, this is what she said, telling her tale of oppression. She says, what I've been

00:24:04.360 completely incognito during the eight years in the white house, walking the dogs on the canal,

00:24:08.140 people will come up and pet my dogs, but will not look me in the eye. They don't know it's me.

00:24:12.520 What white folks don't understand is like that. It's, it's like that is so telling of how white

00:24:17.680 America views people who are not like them. You know, we don't exist. And when we do exist,

00:24:22.400 we exist as a threat. And that's exhausting. What the white community doesn't understand about

00:24:27.420 being a person of color in this nation is that there are daily slights in our workplaces where

00:24:31.240 people talk over you or people don't even see you. Uh, and then later on, she says, we were

00:24:35.820 stopping to get ice cream and I hadn't told the secret service to stand back because we were trying

00:24:39.640 to be normal, trying to go in. When I'm just a black woman, I noticed that white people don't even see

00:24:43.960 me. I'm standing there with two black, little black girls, another black female adult. They're

00:24:47.600 in soccer uniforms and a white woman cuts right in front of us. Like she didn't even see us. The 1.00

00:24:51.680 girl behind the counter almost took the order and I had to stand up and was like, well, I'm not going

00:24:55.560 to cause a scene with Michelle Obama. Um, she continued. So I stepped up and said, I don't know

00:25:01.580 what that means. Anyway, she said, I stepped up and said, excuse me. Uh, you don't see us four people

00:25:06.260 standing right here. You just jumped in line. Obama said the woman didn't apologize. She never looked me in

00:25:11.000 the eye. She didn't know it was me. Uh, all she saw was a black person or a group of black people,

00:25:15.960 or maybe she didn't even see that because we were that invisible. Okay. You know, perhaps it never

00:25:23.000 has occurred to Michelle that, um, actually she's in no position, uh, to tell other groups of people

00:25:27.720 what they do and don't understand. She says this about three times in this one, you know,

00:25:32.260 in, in, in two minutes of talking, she's about three times. She's what white people don't understand 1.00

00:25:37.160 what you white people don't realize. It's pretty disturbing that this woman and her husband

00:25:43.440 were in charge of the country and had this attitude about, you know, about a vast majority

00:25:54.500 of the American population based on this. She has a very low opinion of white people and, you know,

00:26:02.380 a white person cuts in front of her immediately assumes it's racist. So how the hell do you know

00:26:10.280 what other people are thinking or feeling, Michelle? How do you know? Who are you to go around saying

00:26:16.280 this? You have no freaking idea what other people are doing and what their motivations are or what's

00:26:21.500 going on in their head. Who are you to assume that? She just prattles off, you know, a dozen things

00:26:27.280 that white people think and don't think and do and don't do. She's doing exactly what she accuses 0.63

00:26:32.260 white people doing to her by not letting them exist and be real and be their own people and 0.74

00:26:37.840 speak for themselves. No, she's going to speak for them. Um, the arrogance of that is just, I mean,

00:26:43.940 it's off the Richter scale. It's one of the most arrogant people in the country is, is Michelle

00:26:48.380 Obama. And I'm not just saying that based on, on only this, this is, this is part of a pattern

00:26:52.100 with her. Meanwhile, the traumatic experiences that she recounts getting cut, you know, cut in front of

00:26:57.320 in line, people not being overly friendly, uh, getting talked over. That happens to everyone,

00:27:03.400 Michelle. That's a normal thing for people. It happens to me. It happens to every person on earth.

00:27:10.620 That is an utterly normal part of life for everyone. Okay. We all deal with that. All of us.

00:27:19.560 I could tell you stories of having people cut in front of me in line. It's happened to me. I guarantee

00:27:24.000 you that, you know what I didn't do though. I didn't assume that the person doing it was,

00:27:29.560 it was a bigot or I didn't make these, these damning assumptions about their entire life and

00:27:35.820 existence and everything based on that. I assume that they either just didn't see me because they

00:27:40.760 weren't paying attention. They're up in their own head. Uh, and it's nothing racial or bigoted at all

00:27:45.260 or worst case scenario. I assume that, you know, in this moment, this person's acting like kind of a

00:27:50.260 jerk. It doesn't mean that they're a horrible person elsewhere. I've done it myself. I bet you

00:27:55.140 have too, Michelle. I bet there've been times when you've cut in front of people knowingly or unknowingly.

00:28:01.360 So we all deal with that. Okay. All of us, all of that stuff. Oh, I got talked over

00:28:05.740 at that happens to everyone. It is so normal. I, it's not, we don't like it. It's not fun.

00:28:12.960 It's annoying. It is so normal though. I, I, I can't stress this enough. It just happens to

00:28:19.540 everyone all the time. It really does. I promise you that. And, and, and rather than making assumptions

00:28:25.180 about entire races of people and telling white people what they do and don't experience, why

00:28:29.700 don't you ask them? You know, why don't you, why don't you let them speak for themselves

00:28:33.820 and tell you what they experience? So you have something that happens to you every once in a while,

00:28:40.240 you get cut in front of in line, someone talks over you rather than assuming, Oh, this never

00:28:44.580 happens to any, anyone of that race. Maybe ask them, Oh, does this happen to you guys? And if

00:28:49.220 they tell you, yes, then just take them at their word. Um, but here, here's the deal. Michelle Obama,

00:28:57.540 you know, she said she's pretending she wants to be treated just like everybody else. No, 0.96

00:29:02.460 she wants the opposite. She doesn't want, she's offended that she was treated like everybody else. 1.00

00:29:07.740 She doesn't want that. She's offended not to be treated differently under the guise of being,

00:29:16.200 of being offended that she was treated differently. That's what this is really about. That's what this

00:29:19.700 is always about. I mean, with this, with this kind of thing. Um, okay. So especially when it's a

00:29:26.740 privileged, rich, powerful, wealthy person claiming that they're being oppressed, uh, in 99 times out of

00:29:34.380 a hundred, what they're really going to be offended about when you get down into it is just that they,

00:29:39.260 you know, God forbid got treated like a normal person once. Okay. Number five, the VMAs were last

00:29:45.200 night. I somehow completely missed that. Uh, they were on, I usually watch all the VMAs. I'm a big

00:29:49.200 fan. I, you know, I host a watch party, uh, usually, uh, when the VMAs are on, we all wear our pajamas

00:29:54.460 and dance to the, to the songs. Um, it's a fun time. In any case, the Hollywood reporter has the

00:29:59.840 recap. Uh, first of all, there's a picture of lady Gaga accepting her award for her performance

00:30:05.560 in the latest, uh, power Rangers film. It looks like she does look, she looks like a villain for

00:30:09.920 power Rangers. Doesn't she a little bit, or maybe mortal combat. Um, anyway, the, the Hollywood

00:30:14.980 reporter says Kiki Palmer hosted the show, which aired Sunday night, the weekend, one video of the

00:30:19.820 year for blinding lights at Sundays. Actually it's spelled. I think it's misspelled because it's

00:30:23.700 missing an E for the weekend. It's really spelled weakened, the weakened, uh, one video of the

00:30:30.600 year. Other winners Sunday night included lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, uh, BTS, Taylor Swift,

00:30:36.940 H-E-R, Maluma, Machine Gun Kelly, and Megan Thee Stallion. I don't know who any of these people

00:30:42.120 are. I know Taylor Swift and lady Gaga. Those, those two, I know, uh, Grande. She's the one who 1.00

00:30:46.640 licked the donut. She's the donut lickers. I know her H-E-R and Maluma. What? 1.00

00:30:52.400 Um, they, they, they, they sound like, uh, skin conditions a little bit. Gaga's other wins

00:31:00.720 included artists of the year and song of the year for rain on me, her collaboration with

00:31:04.800 Ariana Grande. Uh, the weekend also won best R and B. Um, Kiki Palmer hosted the show, blah,

00:31:12.720 blah, blah. I'm just, I see if there's any big, okay, here we go. Later on in the show, Palmer

00:31:17.240 showed off her comedic chops by portraying her alter egos, including one she's featured on her

00:31:22.100 TikTok while visiting different spots in New York, such as the Bronx zoo, where she, uh,

00:31:27.840 could see the quote, the cats from the WAP video. I guess that's supposed to be a joke.

00:31:33.540 That's her showing off her comedic chops. Uh, Palmer encounters her Southern bell alter ego,

00:31:38.620 lady miss. At one point she jokes, you're cattier than Carol Baskin. Oh man, this is bad.

00:31:48.280 You're cattier than Carol Baskin. That was actually a joke that made it into this professional

00:31:56.520 production. Oh man. I, I, I, you know, I, I went, when I was in seventh grade, my school had a talent

00:32:05.840 show and there was like an 11 year old who got up and did a standup performance and all of his

00:32:12.020 material was way better than your cattier than Carol Baskin. So unfortunately I, I, um, I'm sad.

00:32:18.100 I missed that show. We all, we all missed it. Um, you might say there are more important things

00:32:22.800 going on in the world. I don't know. Like for example, our daily cancellation, which we will get

00:32:27.300 to now. Sadly, this afternoon, I must cancel Sarah Ramirez. She is evidently an actress, uh, 0.90

00:32:33.640 best known for her role on Grey's Anatomy. The reason I have to cancel Sarah today is because

00:32:38.820 of a recent post on Instagram where she came out as non-binary. Now you might ask what does coming

00:32:45.460 out as non-binary mean? The answer is that it doesn't mean anything because non-binary is not 1.00

00:32:50.240 a thing. Unfortunately, um, there is a binary and it's not possible to not be a part of it.

00:32:55.360 The binary broadly speaking breaks down like this. Okay. Um, in one camp you have people who can get

00:33:03.960 pregnant. In the other camp, you have people who can get the people in the first camp pregnant, 0.98

00:33:09.740 pregnant and pregnator. You might say, not the most eloquent way of putting it, but that's what it is.

00:33:13.840 And there's your binary. Okay. You can call people in these camps, whatever you want,

00:33:17.740 call them team A and team B. You can make up some names like, I don't know, snagglespiffs and 0.99

00:33:22.740 galley wags. It sounds a little bit like Harry Potter characters, but whatever. Or, you know,

00:33:26.980 you could even use names like, I don't know, women and men. Um, the name doesn't matter. It's

00:33:33.520 the function and the biology that matters. Yes. I can already hear your objection. You are,

00:33:39.320 you are right now shouting. I know you're saying, what about women who can't get pregnant? Huh?

00:33:44.380 Bet you never thought of them. Checkmate loser. And then you take a sip of your kombucha confident

00:33:50.080 that you've just debunked biology by pointing out that infertile women exist, but you haven't,

00:33:54.940 I assure you infertile women don't invalidate the statement that women can get pregnant any more than

00:34:00.140 a man who loses an arm in a wood chipper accident invalidates the statement that humans have two

00:34:04.280 arms. His accident doesn't mean that humans don't have two arms or that we must now entertain the

00:34:11.380 possibility that there might be humans out there with eight arms and 12 legs and 46 heads. It just

00:34:16.260 means he's supposed to have two arms, but the wood chipper had other ideas. Okay. In a similar way,

00:34:23.600 infertile women are that way either because they're older and their time of fertility has passed or 1.00

00:34:30.060 because something went wrong, illness, mutation, deformity, injury, surgery, some known thing

00:34:36.580 interceded and deprived this woman of that function. But we know that she's supposed to have it like the 0.98

00:34:43.880 man with the one arm is supposed to have two. This is not a problem for the binary. On the contrary,

00:34:48.720 this is what's known as an exception that proves the rule. Okay. So that's the binary. Now,

00:34:57.280 all of that said, let's check in with Sarah Ramirez reading from one of my favorite news

00:35:02.280 organizations, LGBTQ nation. Uh, it says Sarah Ramirez, the actor who played the bisexual character

00:35:07.520 Callie Torres on the medical drama TV series, Grey's Anatomy came out as non-binary in an August 27,

00:35:14.120 Instagram post. The post which showed Ramirez with a crop top haircut was captioned,

00:35:18.720 new profile pic in me is the capacity to be girlish boy, boyish girl, boyish boy, girlish girl,

00:35:26.000 all neither hashtag non-binary. All right. Now, hang on. First of all, it's just a haircut. Relax.

00:35:33.580 Okay. She, she got a haircut. Now she thinks she's a shape shifter. This is like, it's like if I spiked 0.96

00:35:37.600 my hair up and went, behold, I am a trans dimensional being unbound by the laws of gravity. I am God.

00:35:45.060 Look upon me and weep ye mortals. You see my haircut. You can't get superpowers for 19 bucks

00:35:50.900 at sports clips is all I'm trying to say. Okay. Anyway, back to the article says Ramirez previously

00:35:55.800 came out as bisexual in October, 2016 while making, um, remarks at the true colors United's 40 to none

00:36:03.600 summit. Wait, so she came out twice. Can you do that? She's, is that a, well, okay. I guess it's a two

00:36:08.940 different thing. Non-binary bisexual, uh, back to the article. It says at the time Ramirez said,

00:36:12.960 and because of the intersections that exist in my own life, woman, multiracial woman, woman of color,

00:36:18.320 queer, bisexual, Mexican, Irish, American immigrant, and raised by families heavily rooted in Catholicism

00:36:24.240 on both my Mexican and Irish sides. I am deeply invested in projects that allow our youth's voices

00:36:28.780 to be heard and that support our youth in owning their own complex narratives so that we can show

00:36:33.580 up for them in the ways they need us to. Uh, and says Ramirez who has been married to her husband,

00:36:38.680 Ryan DeBolt since 2011 is a member of the true colors fund board of directors and blah, blah,

00:36:44.260 blah. Okay. Uh, first of all, you, you notice how her, the intersections she lists are completely

00:36:50.100 redundant. She lists woman three times, queer and bisexual is two different things and multiracial

00:36:56.300 and woman of color as two separate things and Mexican and immigrant as two separate things. 0.92

00:37:00.540 She's, she's throwing 50 yard bombs and garbage time. Basically she's padding the stats. Okay. 0.99

00:37:04.740 Um, this is a person desperate to be seen as interesting and different, but like so many

00:37:10.500 people today, she's convinced that the only way to do that is to get yourself into as many

00:37:14.660 demographic categories as possible. Now, if we were going to psychoanalyze all of this,

00:37:22.280 there are many directions we could go. Um, it would be a long and winding and rather terrifying journey,

00:37:27.960 I suspect, but I want to focus on just this one thing, this, this business about being non-binary.

00:37:32.600 Um, as she says, a boy, a girl, both and neither. That of course makes no sense whatsoever. You

00:37:39.460 cannot be something and be another thing that's fundamentally different and be both and be none

00:37:44.180 of them all at once. You might as well claim that you're standing on the earth and the surface of the

00:37:48.540 sun at the same time. It is nonsensical objectively, but, um, what's going on here really though,

00:37:56.100 you know, why do people make these claims about themselves? I think the answer or part of the

00:38:03.960 answer is this, Sarah Ramirez isn't so much observing something about herself. She is rather

00:38:10.160 making assumptions about other people. Okay. Kind of like what Michelle Obama was doing. 0.92

00:38:15.640 And I'll explain more what I mean, because it strikes me that when, when people do this,

00:38:20.120 especially when celebrities come out and say, Oh, I am just so complicated. My inner life is so

00:38:25.520 interesting and unique. My experiences are so profound. I cannot be defined by the labels that

00:38:31.360 the rest of you use. No, no, I, I am so many things. And yet none of those things. I am like a work of

00:38:36.220 abstract art. I am a walking poem. A song in the wind is my existence. And they go on and on and on.

00:38:42.620 Um, and then they actually explain in more detail what they mean and why they have come to this

00:38:47.680 conclusion that they belong to a whole new category of human existence, non-binary or whatever other

00:38:52.700 label they want. When you listen to their description of their inner experience, you think,

00:38:57.160 wait a second, that's just, that's just being a person. That's pretty normal. The categories and

00:39:03.700 labels and jargon are different and bizarre and sound kind of crazy, but the actual experiences

00:39:07.840 underneath it, that's not special at all. These people are extraordinarily narcissistic.

00:39:14.360 You have to understand, especially celebrities. And so they have normal human emotions and

00:39:20.020 experiences and assume that the average person must not experience any of this themselves,

00:39:25.820 that they must be going through something that is just far beyond the emotional and psychological

00:39:29.760 reaches of the plebe on the street. They, you know, they, they must be, and they must be making 1.00

00:39:35.100 this assumption. Otherwise, how would they know that the label of woman doesn't accurately describe

00:39:39.800 them? How do they know that all women don't have the same sorts of emotions and experiences they do?

00:39:45.360 How do they know that what they're feeling isn't just what women, women feel? They assume that it's 0.99

00:39:50.400 different. And that assumption must be born at least in part by extreme arrogance. So you're a woman 0.99

00:39:58.140 with some traditionally masculine interests and tendencies. So what? That's not special at all. And it

00:40:04.520 doesn't make you not a woman. That just makes you a woman. That's part of being a woman, a person, 1.00

00:40:11.120 a human. We don't need a new category for you. It doesn't make you a woman and a man and none and 0.98

00:40:16.500 all together. The most feminine women in the world have masculine aspects of their personality. My wife, 0.99

00:40:22.380 for instance, very feminine, very good at traditionally feminine things like decorating, 1.00

00:40:25.800 for example. But if you pour her three fingers of a hundred proof whiskey, she'll guzzle that thing 1.00

00:40:29.560 straight. No problem. She built her own barn for the chickens. I helped in fairness, but still she 0.99

00:40:36.520 knows how to bait a hook. You know, I could go on. Does that mean that she's not a woman? She's 1.00

00:40:41.600 non-binary. She's a man, a woman, both and neither. No, she's just a woman, but she's a woman with some 0.93

00:40:47.780 unique and interesting traits and facets to her personality. Indeed, what makes the thing about the

00:40:54.260 whiskey kind of funny and cool is precisely that she's a woman. You know, I can hold my liquor too, 1.00

00:41:00.560 but nobody cares about that. I'm a man. It's expected. What allows it to be different, what

00:41:05.780 allows us to be different and develop our own identity and personality are the ways that we put

00:41:09.900 our own spin on the categories we naturally belong to. In the same way, we all belong to the category of

00:41:16.680 human being, right? And because of that, if any one of us ever figures out how to fly without

00:41:21.640 mechanical assistance, that's going to be a pretty big deal. If we were birds, it wouldn't be. And if

00:41:27.520 you do ever start flying, that wouldn't make you a bird. If it did, then this utterly fascinating

00:41:33.120 gobsmacking thing about you would suddenly be rote and routine. Again, what makes us interesting are the

00:41:39.620 variations within the categories. If you deny the categories or experience variation and decide that

00:41:45.760 it means that you belong to the other category, you know, you're a man who has feminine tendencies in

00:41:49.740 certain areas. So you decide that you are in fact, a woman. If you do that, then you actually lose 0.99

00:41:54.820 what made you interesting. You lose your uniqueness. Gender is binary because of biology. As I explained 1.00

00:42:02.920 at the beginning, nothing you can ever do or feel will change that. You are a man or a woman, a he or

00:42:09.180 her. You are not both. You are not one than the other. You are not neither. You are not a they. 0.98

00:42:14.000 Um, and it takes, I suppose, some measure of basic humility to admit that and submit yourself to that

00:42:20.220 reality, which imposes itself on you, whether you like it or not anyway. But that doesn't mean you have to

00:42:25.480 live a cookie cutter existence or think and act just like everybody else on your side of the binary. If you're a

00:42:31.880 woman, be whatever kind of woman you want, wear whatever you want, get whatever sort of haircut you want. The 1.00

00:42:38.600 high top fade on a woman doesn't do much for me personally, but hey, it's your head. Do what you

00:42:41.980 want. Um, live how you want. Think what you want. That's not to say that every choice we make is going

00:42:47.760 to be equally good, healthy, and moral. But the point is simply that you have a lot of freedom as a woman

00:42:52.220 to be the sort of woman you want to be. You just don't have the freedom to be not a woman. And that's

00:42:59.020 okay. In fact, there's a lot of freedom in accepting that. But for now, Sarah Ramirez does belong to a new

00:43:07.340 category of existence, an ever-growing category. That would be the category of canceled by me.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 31, 2020

Ep. 554 - We Have Made It Impossible For Police Officers To Do Their Jobs

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