The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 56 - Things Are About To Get Ugly

00:00:00.000 Well, we got some wonderful news yesterday, as I'm sure you heard.

00:00:07.220 Justice Kennedy's retirement is great, fantastic news.

00:00:13.100 And I'm surprised by it.

00:00:14.460 I admit that I'm surprised.

00:00:16.320 I really figured that he would wait at least until after the midterms to retire

00:00:20.120 so that he doesn't become the most hated man in Washington,

00:00:27.560 at least among the liberals and the media and so forth.

00:00:31.480 But he did retire.

00:00:32.780 And, you know, I said as recently as yesterday,

00:00:36.940 I had said that I don't think we're heading into a civil war in this country. 0.72

00:00:41.040 And the thing that in my mind would prevent a civil war is that Americans are very lazy.

00:00:46.100 And also, you can't really get air conditioning and Wi-Fi on the battlefield.

00:00:50.680 So I figured that would be kind of our saving grace that would prevent an actual war from taking place.

00:00:55.060 But then Kennedy retired.

00:00:58.440 And now we are looking at the very real, though far from certain, possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned

00:01:08.040 and the phantom right to abortion being voided from the books.

00:01:14.480 This, of course, would not be the same as outlawing abortion, by the way.

00:01:17.800 And I know that this is probably really obvious to most of you.

00:01:20.880 But some people seem to be confused on this point.

00:01:23.180 Like, this, to overturn Roe v. Wade is not to outlaw abortion.

00:01:27.700 That would not outlaw abortion.

00:01:28.780 To outlaw abortion nationwide would require probably an amendment,

00:01:33.340 a personhood amendment or something like that.

00:01:36.420 But a SCOTUS decision would be hugely significant.

00:01:39.640 It would be one of the greatest moments in American history by far.

00:01:42.860 Though it wouldn't be the end of the pro-life fight, it would actually be more like the beginning of the pro-life fight.

00:01:52.280 The way that somebody on Twitter said, I thought they put it in a way that's very apt, I think.

00:01:59.540 And he said that the overturning of Roe v. Wade would be like D-Day.

00:02:03.920 Okay, so it's not the end of World War II.

00:02:07.400 It is D-Day.

00:02:08.220 It is like storming the beaches.

00:02:09.780 Okay, here's when the real fight starts.

00:02:11.860 And it's important for us to understand this.

00:02:13.920 This is not me trying to downplay the significance of overturning Roe v. Wade.

00:02:18.060 I mean, I would literally weep for joy if that happened.

00:02:21.320 I would weep for joy for days if that happened.

00:02:23.500 But what would then happen is that all the states would have the ability to outlaw it if they chose to.

00:02:36.140 And so immediately upon this decision coming down, if it were to come down, abortion would still be legal in every state in the union.

00:02:44.060 And then each state would have to go through and explicitly outlaw it themselves.

00:02:47.980 And we know that there's a good chunk of states where that's just not going to happen.

00:02:51.500 States like, you know, California, New York, it's not going to happen.

00:02:55.060 But then there are other states where it could happen.

00:02:57.220 And that's where there's going to be a real fight.

00:03:00.440 Okay, that's where there's going to be a battle like you've never seen before.

00:03:03.260 And that's where the culture war, I think, could bubble over into something like a real war.

00:03:14.540 And it's just, you cannot understate or you cannot overstate.

00:03:21.500 The way liberals will react if their right to abortion is actually threatened.

00:03:30.480 And this is not me at all saying, oh, well, you know, maybe we shouldn't do it because I'm afraid of how liberal.

00:03:36.900 No, this is.

00:03:37.620 And they will explode, perhaps literally in some way.

00:03:44.380 And if that's the case, so be it.

00:03:47.580 Because there is no price.

00:03:49.740 There is no price that is too high to pay when it comes to finally doing away with this historic atrocity.

00:03:58.500 And so if overturning Roe v. Wade and beginning to actually outlaw abortion, if that did bubble over into violent hostility, because the left just cannot handle it, then I say, so be it.

00:04:16.040 So be it.

00:04:16.600 So this is what we have to understand.

00:04:19.900 It's something I've been saying for a long time.

00:04:22.820 I wrote a whole book on the subject, in fact.

00:04:26.280 Abortion is the left's highest sacrament.

00:04:29.360 That's what I call it.

00:04:30.160 It's their high sacrament.

00:04:32.960 It's the most important thing to them.

00:04:34.940 It's the thing that is most central to their ideology and to their outlook on life.

00:04:40.280 If the modern left was really born with Roe, and it won't die with the overturning of Roe, but it will enter into a new phase, a phase that is even darker, more depraved, more wicked, and probably more violent than the phase that they're currently in.

00:04:59.420 And there's a reason why abortion is so important to the left.

00:05:03.020 We need to understand the reason.

00:05:04.620 It's a very simple reason.

00:05:05.560 Modern leftism is the worship of the self.

00:05:12.280 It is the worship of the self.

00:05:14.860 And in that sense, it is not, you know, some people will say, well, modern leftism is not the same as classical liberalism, the two completely different things.

00:05:24.120 And they are two different things, but they're not two completely different things.

00:05:27.780 With classical liberalism and the Enlightenment, the seeds were planted for what we now call modern leftism.

00:05:36.940 The seeds were planted, and they sprouted into this disgusting, hideous thing called leftism.

00:05:43.560 And now, what defines the left is its belief in the supremacy of the self. 0.83

00:05:54.800 The self is supreme.

00:05:57.780 I get to decide.

00:06:00.340 Not me personally, but I as in the self.

00:06:04.240 I get to decide what is right, what is wrong, what is true, what is false.

00:06:09.140 Everything is relative to my desires, my feelings, my needs, my proclivities, my lifestyle.

00:06:16.580 I can even change my own biological makeup if I want to.

00:06:23.080 I can change my very identity just on the strength of my desire.

00:06:30.680 That's what modern leftists believe.

00:06:32.680 The self is the highest life form, the highest good.

00:06:41.140 And that is why liberalism is...

00:06:43.060 I have said that liberalism is Satanism. 0.83

00:06:48.740 Liberalism is kind of a secular Satanism.

00:06:52.340 And I don't say that as an insult.

00:06:54.140 I mean, I don't say it as a compliment either.

00:06:55.900 But it's not...

00:06:58.100 I don't mean it just as an insult.

00:06:59.360 It's just true.

00:07:01.940 At this point, you can't...

00:07:03.320 It's hard to distinguish liberalism from Satanism.

00:07:06.420 And if you were to go to a Satanic temple, which I don't recommend, but if you were to 0.94

00:07:10.440 go to a Satanic temple and you hear what's being said, it would sound an awful lot like

00:07:15.740 what you would hear at a DNC convention.

00:07:17.480 Satanists themselves will tell you.

00:07:21.800 I've gotten into some Twitter spats with the Satanic temple or whatever the official

00:07:29.280 Satanic religion is. 0.92

00:07:31.260 And they're very...

00:07:33.260 You know, they want to make it very clear from a PR perspective.

00:07:36.880 They're very eager to inform you that they don't worship Satan.

00:07:42.040 They don't believe in Satan.

00:07:43.120 Rather, they worship what Satan himself worshiped, which is the self.

00:07:53.140 Satan worshiped himself, the self.

00:07:57.960 And so that's what the modern Satanists worship as well. 0.54

00:08:01.200 Not him, Satan, but the self.

00:08:04.860 Which means that they are also worshiping Satan.

00:08:07.240 They just don't know it.

00:08:07.960 They worshiped the mighty me, you know, me, the I, the self.

00:08:18.840 Aleister Crowley, the famous Satanist and occultist said, the way he put it was, do what

00:08:24.440 thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

00:08:28.500 So in other words, just do what you want.

00:08:31.460 You know, that's the only moral law is just do what you want.

00:08:35.700 And if anything could be considered arguably immoral, it would be to refrain from doing

00:08:41.780 what you want.

00:08:42.580 That's a, that's, you know, that, that is the only, the only perversion is to exercise

00:08:48.920 self-restraint.

00:08:51.080 And this is also how liberals feel.

00:08:53.340 It's the same idea.

00:08:55.300 Now, here's the other point.

00:08:57.140 In this world where there is no God, but the individual, then the whole point really of

00:09:04.340 life is pleasure.

00:09:06.520 There's, if there, if there is no God and there is no objective morality, there's no

00:09:11.340 objective truth, then the only point of life is just to have fun and to accumulate possessions

00:09:18.640 and experience and wealth, but mainly to enjoy yourself and to, and to have pleasure.

00:09:24.640 Well, if pleasure is the point of life, then the most pleasurable thing, sex, is now the

00:09:34.140 centerpiece of existence.

00:09:36.800 It is the point of the point.

00:09:40.280 And therefore the worst thing that anyone could possibly do is impose limitations on your sex

00:09:46.040 life because your sex life is your life. 0.74

00:09:49.020 You don't, you don't draw a distinction between your life and your sex life.

00:09:55.020 It's the same thing.

00:09:56.640 And for someone to intrude on your sex life and your mind, interfere with it, impose restraints

00:10:03.120 or confines or anything, well, then they're doing that to you as a person.

00:10:06.880 They're doing it to your entire life.

00:10:08.500 And the greatest, the greatest limitation in the minds of a leftist, the worst limitation

00:10:22.360 is the one that comes naturally with sex itself.

00:10:28.560 And that is the formation of new life.

00:10:32.040 So the point of life is pleasure.

00:10:34.260 Greatest pleasure is sex.

00:10:35.360 The worst thing you could do, therefore, is limit sex.

00:10:39.040 And the worst limitation on sex is the fact that it naturally creates people.

00:10:45.660 And so now the creation of people is treated like, you know, like a disease, like, like it's

00:10:54.580 not the natural outcome of sex, but, but more some kind of, some kind of mutation.

00:10:59.980 And then the pill, you know, the birth control pill becomes like this miracle, a new kind

00:11:06.300 of miracle, really, because the old miracles were all about restoring life, healing life.

00:11:12.360 But this one prevents life.

00:11:14.580 That's the new, the new miracle prevents life from happening.

00:11:18.060 And we say, oh, it's a miracle.

00:11:19.160 But abortion, abortion, abortion is the ultimate birth control. 0.98

00:11:25.540 And also at the same time, the ultimate expression of the supremacy of the individual, of the self.

00:11:32.460 The ultimate expression of a woman's liberation.

00:11:35.960 Liberation from motherhood.

00:11:37.400 Liberation from morality.

00:11:39.580 Liberation from, from responsibility.

00:11:43.080 Liberation from her child.

00:11:45.340 And her child, of course, represents all of those things.

00:11:50.240 Her child represents responsibility, morality, motherhood, of course.

00:11:57.640 So, so, so her child is the embodiment of that, which makes her child her enemy.

00:12:03.600 And in destroying it, she kind of exercises her dominance and her power. 0.92

00:12:10.300 However, abortion fortifies sex as a purely pleasure-seeking endeavor. 0.73

00:12:19.360 And at the same time, it codifies into law the relativism and self-worship of modern leftism.

00:12:26.900 It is the foundation of the left's entire movement.

00:12:30.840 And with abortion, the left has seized, finally, its godlike, the godlike power it has always 0.80

00:12:37.020 craved, the godlike power over life and death, the power to assert the, the, the, the desires

00:12:44.520 of the individual over the needs and the very life of the other.

00:12:52.900 So, they cannot let it go.

00:12:57.900 They cannot.

00:12:59.360 They won't.

00:13:01.760 This is everything.

00:13:03.160 If they let that go, they give up everything.

00:13:08.340 And they will fight with a ruthlessness that you have never seen before.

00:13:15.180 They will lie.

00:13:16.800 They will cheat.

00:13:18.040 They will destroy. 1.00

00:13:19.700 They will kill. 1.00

00:13:21.960 I mean, they've been killing all along. 0.98

00:13:23.900 They've killed 60 million babies.

00:13:26.080 So, they don't have any moral qualms about it.

00:13:28.760 So, if anything could spark, if anything could spark a new civil war in this country, then

00:13:42.720 I think this would be it.

00:13:44.480 But more likely is, is the situation I talked about yesterday, where when we think of civil

00:13:52.280 war, we think of, our mind goes to the civil war of 1861, where you had, you had the two

00:14:01.280 sides, you know, marching towards each other in uniforms.

00:14:04.380 Well, the South didn't always have uniforms, but, or shoes, but, you know, you have the

00:14:10.600 two sides marching towards each other in formation, and then they're shooting muskets at each other

00:14:16.500 and cannonballs.

00:14:17.720 I don't think we're going to be, especially the muskets and cannonballs, I don't think 1.00

00:14:20.360 we're looking at a civil war like that.

00:14:22.600 Could be something more akin to what I talked about yesterday, which is just kind of chaos

00:14:26.960 an anarchy in the streets, like what we've already seen in Baltimore and Ferguson and

00:14:33.600 other places, except that across the nation, and involving perhaps this time guns and lasting

00:14:50.040 for a lot longer.

00:14:51.400 I mean, I don't know.

00:14:53.320 That's what I worry might, could happen.

00:14:56.960 And I think that you could argue we've been on that trajectory for a while now.

00:15:03.740 I talked about yesterday, the powder kegs, right?

00:15:07.280 We're sitting on certain powder kegs.

00:15:08.900 Well, maybe this is the biggest powder keg of all.

00:15:13.160 And if that goes off, who knows what happens.

00:15:18.140 I say all of this just as means of, just in the interest of us preparing ourselves.

00:15:26.960 And looking honestly at the situation, where it's not going to be as simple as, overturn

00:15:34.940 Roe v. Wade, abortion is gone, hooray. 1.00

00:15:38.220 Now, there will be a hooray if they overturn Roe v. Wade, believe me.

00:15:43.320 But then there's going to be a real fight.

00:15:45.000 And as I said at the top, so be it.

00:15:49.520 I will fight that fight.

00:15:51.800 That is a fight worth fighting.

00:15:55.780 100%.

00:15:56.140 No hesitation.

00:15:59.140 But we have to get to that point first.

00:16:03.460 And, you know, and the other wrinkle here, last thing I'll say, the other wrinkle is, you know, this is going to require Republicans.

00:16:18.120 There's going to be pressure on Republicans like they've never seen.

00:16:23.900 And so the Republicans are going to have to vote to confirm a justice who could overturn Roe v. Wade.

00:16:32.540 And that's going to require real, actual backbone and courage from Republicans.

00:16:39.700 It's like, I can't even say backbone courage and Republican in the same sentence without laughing.

00:16:45.220 So that's what it's going to require for the first time in decades.

00:16:50.280 It's going to require actual courage from the Republican Party this time to approve a justice who could overturn Roe v. Wade and to do it right before a midterm election.

00:17:02.560 And I hope they have that kind of courage.

00:17:05.140 I would not at all take it for granted that they all do. 0.89

00:17:08.540 Liberals would only need a couple of cowardly Republicans to defect. 0.97

00:17:14.880 And there are more than a couple cowardly Republicans. 1.00

00:17:18.180 It's more like there are a couple courageous ones and the rest are cowards. 0.97

00:17:21.820 So this is not at all, you know, this is not all something we take for granted.

00:17:29.340 And this means that we as conservatives and pro-lifers, we have to be putting the pressure on the Republicans.

00:17:35.180 Like, you better do the right thing.

00:17:36.660 The message from liberals is going to be, well, if you if you vote to confirm a conservative justice, we're going to see to it that you're voted out of office.

00:17:45.880 Well, our message to Republicans need to be, if you dare, our message needs to be, if you dare defect on this, if you dare drop this ball, you are finished.

00:17:59.440 Your political career is over.

00:18:01.600 You will never we will never vote for you for any office ever again.

00:18:05.500 You're done.

00:18:06.040 It is unforgiving.

00:18:08.380 It's the unforgivable sin.

00:18:10.360 There is nothing you could do after that point to redeem yourself.

00:18:13.360 You're finished.

00:18:14.280 And so that's our message.

00:18:15.400 That's what our message has to be to Republicans.

00:18:18.100 You do the right thing here or we are exiling you into the wilderness.

00:18:22.740 And that is it.

00:18:24.400 There's no coming back from it.

00:18:26.920 So batten down the hatches, folks. 1.00

00:18:29.580 Things could get ugly.

00:18:31.400 But we're fighting for life.

00:18:33.720 We're on the right side.

00:18:34.980 We are we are definitively clearly on the right side.

00:18:40.240 And so whatever has to happen.

00:18:43.000 To fight for what's right.

00:18:44.420 Well.

00:18:45.740 That's just going to be.

00:18:48.320 It's just going to be what it is.

00:18:51.140 Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:18:53.040 I think I just broke my globe to see if I can repair it.

00:18:56.440 Have a good day.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 28, 2018

Ep. 56 - Things Are About To Get Ugly

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