The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 566 - The Truth Is Out. We Don't Need The Public School System

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, according to recent reports, huge droves of American families are

00:00:04.600 flocking to homeschool. They're fed up with the way the school system has responded to the

00:00:08.160 coronavirus. They're now choosing to educate their children themselves. There's good reason

00:00:12.540 to think that this shift may be permanent and part of a larger trend, and we'll talk about why.

00:00:16.780 That's a very good thing, because we cannot reclaim our culture until we break the public

00:00:20.880 school system's stranglehold on our children. Also, five headlines, including the media,

00:00:24.960 flipping out because Bill Barr allegedly wants to arrest and try protesters with sedition

00:00:30.080 and arrest the mayor of Seattle, among other things. We're supposed to hate Bill Barr for this,

00:00:34.740 but instead, I kind of want to make him king, to be honest. And in our daily cancellation,

00:00:38.740 I will cancel the cardinal in New Jersey who says that a Christian can, in good conscience, 1.00

00:00:44.000 vote for Joe Biden. No, a Christian cannot. All of that coming up. But first, I want to tell you 1.00

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00:02:43.200 leaving the public school system in droves and embracing homeschooling. And this shift,

00:02:47.560 we're told, may be permanent. This is from the article reading now. It says,

00:02:50.140 homeschooling families, which include roughly 3% of school-age children in the United States in 2016,

00:02:55.540 have lots of different reasons for wanting to educate their own kids, but they're united in a

00:02:59.140 common assessment. They want out of the traditional system. The question is whether COVID-19 will cause a

00:03:04.340 temporary bump in homeschooling as parents piece together their days during the pandemic or mark a

00:03:08.900 permanent inflection point in education that continues long after the virus has been controlled.

00:03:13.640 Some families may find they want to exit the system for good. Now, the data does seem to bear this out.

00:03:19.960 And it's an interesting article in The Atlantic, by the way, and actually friendly to homeschooling,

00:03:23.680 if you could believe it. A Gallup poll released last week finds that one in 10 families with school-age

00:03:28.320 children are now homeschooling. That means the number of homeschoolers in America has doubled in just

00:03:33.120 one year. Now, granted, a portion of these families may return to the public school ranks once the

00:03:38.040 lockdowns and mask policies end if they do any time this century. But there's reason to think that,

00:03:44.900 as The Atlantic says, the change may be lasting. After all, these are families who have unenrolled 1.00

00:03:49.360 and severed ties from the school system completely. And in some parts of the country, the number of

00:03:54.560 parents who've taken that step is even more staggering. Texas, for example, has seen a 400% increase in

00:04:00.640 parents withdrawing from the public school system, which mirrors pretty closely the reported 300%

00:04:06.100 increase in traffic to sites like homeschool.com. It's an online community for homeschoolers.

00:04:11.560 So there's an intense interest in homeschooling now. The trend towards homeschooling has been

00:04:15.500 given a significant shot of adrenaline recently, but it didn't begin with the pandemic. Over the last

00:04:21.200 two decades, the size of the homeschooling community had already doubled before the lockdowns

00:04:26.280 began. What was once considered sort of a fringe movement for Christian fundamentalists on one side

00:04:31.460 of the political divide and then hippie granola crunchers on the other has been increasingly

00:04:36.360 embraced as a possibility for people of all lifestyles and ideological persuasions. What makes this moment

00:04:43.960 so significant is that the lockdowns have broken the final barrier that prevented many parents from

00:04:50.660 exploring the homeschooling route. That barrier was psychological more than anything. It was the belief

00:04:55.680 that public schools do something special that the average parent cannot emulate or even improve

00:05:02.540 upon. It was thought, even by people who are otherwise skeptical of government control, that parents

00:05:08.000 teaching their own kids is somehow disordered or weird or backwards or not how it's supposed to be.

00:05:15.180 We need the school system, it was thought. Education is the systems thing. It's specialty. Parents don't

00:05:22.020 have the ability or the resources to take its place. That was always a facade. In fact, parents are the

00:05:28.880 primary educators of a child. Whether they accept that role officially or not, they still are. There

00:05:35.580 is nothing the school system does that a parent cannot do and do better. There is no role the school

00:05:41.440 system is better suited to fill. The most natural and for the child healthiest choice is to be taught

00:05:47.060 full-time by parents who know them, love them, understand them, can meet their specific needs.

00:05:55.700 If large-scale government-controlled education has any role, it should be as a backup, a plan B or maybe

00:06:00.880 C or D, not as the automatic default option for everybody. Now, it's not as though the public school

00:06:07.060 system has been a rousing success up to this point either. Headlines this week tell us that

00:06:11.740 you may have seen this. Young people today have a, quote, shocking lack of knowledge about the

00:06:17.620 Holocaust. Over half of the respondents in a recent survey didn't know that six million Jews died in

00:06:22.880 the genocide. One in ten couldn't recall ever hearing the word Holocaust in their lives.

00:06:29.160 None of this is actually shocking, though. Polls and surveys for years have shown that Americans have

00:06:34.300 a very, shall we say, tenuous grasp of basic subjects like history, science, civics. A survey conducted a

00:06:41.560 few years ago discovered that only about 30 percent of Americans could pass a citizenship test. Less than

00:06:47.000 30 percent could identify the 13 original colonies or, you know, say one thing that Benjamin Franklin

00:06:52.260 was famous for. Almost 40 percent thought he was famous for inventing the light bulb. Another study

00:06:57.720 reveals that one in five Americans can't name a branch of government. A survey released by the American

00:07:04.360 Council of Trustees and Alumni in 2015 showed that half of Americans can't say when the Civil War was

00:07:08.780 fought. In science, a Pew study finds that just 39 percent of Americans have a high level of scientific

00:07:14.360 knowledge, with 29 percent having little knowledge. Everybody else falling somewhere in the mediocre

00:07:20.640 middle, which is probably where I fall, to be honest with you. But I went to public school, so I'm exhibit A.

00:07:24.920 The media likes to trumpet headlines like these. They like these kinds of headlines showing that Americans are 0.99

00:07:31.320 stupid and ignorant, but they don't like to connect and to connect the dots and draw the obvious 1.00

00:07:36.860 conclusions. Our education system is an abysmal failure. If you think that Americans are ignorant and 1.00

00:07:44.040 stupid, then what does that tell you about the system that's supposed to be educating these people? 1.00

00:07:49.300 Ours is an education system that produces citizens who cannot pass a citizenship test. 1.00

00:07:54.560 What more needs to be said? Of course, we must stipulate that the education system has failed to do

00:08:02.100 what it should be trying to do, which is to equip new generations with the strong base of knowledge and

00:08:08.860 critical thinking skills they'll need to be well-rounded, well-adjusted, contributing members of

00:08:13.540 society. It has not failed to do what it has actually tried to do, which is to indoctrinate new

00:08:20.180 generations into the religion of leftism. The rioters terrorizing our cities, screaming about

00:08:26.260 the imaginary boogeyman of systemic racism, illustrate at once both sides of this dichotomy.

00:08:32.780 The fact is that, you know, there was never any hope of reclaiming the culture, defeating leftism,

00:08:39.500 or anything else, so long as nearly everyone sends their kids to government indoctrination centers for

00:08:45.080 six hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for the majority of their first 18 years of life.

00:08:49.540 Worse, we send our kids to these places fully aware that they will be learning a lot more than

00:08:56.160 the ABCs and 123s. The education that they get will stretch far beyond basic academic subjects.

00:09:02.800 They will be shaped, informed, and molded intellectually, spiritually, psychologically, morally

00:09:08.440 by the government school system. And worst of all, many parents, even conservative parents,

00:09:14.560 have wanted that. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with parents

00:09:19.760 defending the public school system by saying things like, I need my kids to be socialized.

00:09:25.620 Really? You want the government to socialize your child? That's what you want? That's a job you trust

00:09:32.560 the government to do. You don't trust it with health care or your tax money or anything else, but you

00:09:37.960 trust it with your child's heart and mind? And you trust that it will socialize your child in a way

00:09:43.000 that's best for him? As long as we have this mentality, there's no hope for the culture.

00:09:48.120 There's no hope for conservatism. But I sense that maybe that mentality is finally starting to shift.

00:09:54.420 A glimmer of hope shines through. So it comes down to this. Public schools simply do not deserve the

00:10:00.280 faith we have had in them, nor have they earned the credit we have often given them.

00:10:04.100 They also do not deserve to be seen as inevitable or necessary. And the school system itself has now

00:10:11.680 admitted as much. By shutting down suddenly for months on end, even protesting to ensure that it

00:10:17.080 can remain shut for longer, insisting that it's not an essential service like Walmart or the local

00:10:22.040 liquor store, the school system has let the truth slip. We don't actually need it. Society can function

00:10:28.700 without it. There is nothing it is doing that can't be done at home. Parents are discovering

00:10:33.760 this too. They're trying their hand at educating their own children, which is something they were

00:10:38.040 already doing and all parents already do, whether in an official capacity or not. And many are

00:10:42.440 discovering that it's not so hard as they thought. We can just hope that more parents have this

00:10:47.600 revelation that the government school system is rendered finally obsolete and superfluous.

00:10:51.580 That would be one good thing, one extremely good thing to come out of this godforsaken year.

00:10:58.720 Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:12:49.660 fact, this one I don't even have here. So I think we'll talk about this tomorrow more, but I just,

00:12:53.900 right before we went on the air, saw the story out of Nashville about the Nashville mayor's office.

00:12:59.320 According to a report, emails were leaked showing that they were trying to hide the fact that

00:13:06.660 there were very few coronavirus cases coming out of restaurants and bars. They'd shut down the

00:13:13.240 restaurants and bars. And then in the emails exchanges, some people in the mayor's office

00:13:18.560 were worried that more people weren't getting sick because of the restaurants and bars, which means

00:13:22.720 that they can't justify shutting it down. And it makes you wonder, how many other cities was this

00:13:28.800 happening? Where the people in positions of power shutting down businesses and knew because they

00:13:34.080 had the data, they knew that there was no reason for it, that, that, that the data didn't support it,

00:13:39.560 but they suppressed that data and didn't tell the public about it. How many, I'm thinking probably

00:13:43.800 many cities where this happened. So think about Democrat mayors for a second. Um, Democrat mayors,

00:13:49.720 shut down their economies on bad or phony data. And then after months of that, in many of these

00:13:57.660 cities allowed rampaging mobs to run through the street, burning and looting at will. 0.99

00:14:02.600 You have to be a masochist at this point to vote for one of these lunatics to run your city. 0.98

00:14:07.700 This is beyond politics. If you're just a normal person, especially if you're a business owner, 0.99

00:14:13.200 you have a family, why would you want, I don't care how you feel about Republicans or Trump or anyone

00:14:17.820 else? Why would you want one of these people run? Look at what they're doing. Uh, but we'll talk

00:14:22.820 more about that tomorrow. This is just a huge scandal, this story. So I want to dive more into

00:14:27.000 it, but, uh, okay, we start here. Here are, uh, um, here are several headlines all about Attorney

00:14:31.900 General Bill Barr. And these are supposed to make us hate him, I guess, and think that he's scary and

00:14:37.860 mean. So from the Guardian, Bill Barr reportedly suggested bringing sedition charges against protesters

00:14:42.640 from CNN. Bill Barr says, uh, calls for coronavirus lockdowns are the greatest intrusion on civil

00:14:48.480 liberties other than slavery in U S history. And then from the, from the Hill, Barr asked

00:14:53.440 prosecutors to explore charging Seattle mayor over protest zone. These are all headlines in like the

00:14:58.820 last day about Bill Barr. So the media wants us to read that. It's out. What a, what a terrible guy.

00:15:04.080 Uh, but of course I have the exact opposite reaction. I think that's awesome. That's yes. Thank you.

00:15:09.380 See the media thinks all of that makes him look bad, but cause they don't understand normal people

00:15:16.160 to normal people. We read that and we think, well, yeah, coronavirus lockdowns are the greatest threat

00:15:21.180 to civil liberty. Well, that's not exactly true. And it's only, the only reason that it's not true

00:15:25.720 is because of abortion. Abortion is the greatest threat to civil liberty, um, since slavery, but this

00:15:31.960 is definitely in the top five. And then he wanted to bring sedition charges against insurrectionists who

00:15:36.500 are burning government buildings with the stated goal of overthrowing the government. Yeah, that's

00:15:40.920 what sedition is. Absolutely. And then Bill Barr wants to charge a mayor with crimes because she 1.00

00:15:47.240 refused to enforce the law and put her citizens in jeopardy because of it. Again, yes, this is what 0.94

00:15:52.580 normal people believe. The media is disgusted by, confused by, horrified by the sorts of things that

00:15:58.860 normal people think and believe. Uh, number two, CDC director, Robert Redfield, not be, not to be

00:16:07.020 confused with Robert Redford. When you see this guy, I'm sure you won't confuse them. Uh, he was

00:16:12.320 testifying before Congress yesterday and had this to say about when we can return to regular life.

00:16:18.440 Tell me when, when you think we'll have a vaccine as best you can ready to, to administer to the

00:16:29.620 public, Dr. Redfield. Well, I think, uh, Dr. Cadillac said, I think there will be vaccine that

00:16:37.660 initially be available sometime between November and December, but very limited supply and will have

00:16:45.580 to be prioritized. If you're asking me, when is it going to be generally available to the American

00:16:49.660 public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life? I think

00:16:57.260 we're probably looking at third, late second quarter, third quarter, 2021. And so you think by the late

00:17:06.880 second and third or third quarter, we will have started to, to vaccinate people. I think the

00:17:13.800 vaccination will begin in November, December, and then we'll pick up, you know, and it'll be in a

00:17:19.300 prioritized way. Those first responders and those at greatest risk for death. And then eventually that

00:17:25.140 will expand. You know, there's about, it's hard to believe, but there's about 80 million people in

00:17:30.480 our country that have significant comorbidities that put themselves at risk. Right. They have to

00:17:36.060 get vaccinated and then the general public. Okay. Third quarter of 2021. Now, personally,

00:17:42.660 I've been living my regular life all throughout this. I never stopped living my regular life.

00:17:47.660 But if you actually are planning to remain hiding in your closet or under your bed for the next year

00:17:54.660 or more than I don't know what to say to you. Remember though, 15 days to slow the spread.

00:18:01.540 I guess 15 days, you know, that's, that's kind of like maybe days. It's kind of like the word

00:18:08.260 mostly now we hear mostly peaceful when the media says that. So these are, these are,

00:18:12.440 these are words that can be interpreted in very broad sense, or maybe, you know, there's the,

00:18:19.260 maybe we're talking about days in a biblical sense here where they said 15 days, maybe they meant it,

00:18:23.500 you know, there's the debate in Genesis. We talk about, was it seven days of creation

00:18:27.480 or most, it was, was each day representative of billions of years. And so maybe when we heard 15

00:18:32.920 days to slow the spread, they meant it in the biblical way that each day is a billion years. I don't know.

00:18:36.720 Um, uh, Redfield also had this to say about masks. Listen, I'm not going to comment directly about

00:18:43.860 the president, but I am going to comment as the CDC director that, uh, uh, face masks,

00:18:50.200 these face masks are the most important, powerful public health tool we have. And I will continue to

00:18:56.000 appeal for all Americans, all individuals in our country to embrace these face coverings. I've said 0.91

00:19:02.140 if we did it for six, eight, 10, 12 weeks, we'd bring this pandemic, uh, under control. These

00:19:08.400 actually, we have clear scientific evidence. They work and they are our best defense. I might even

00:19:15.620 go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when

00:19:23.760 I take a COVID vaccine because the immunogenicity may be 70%. And if I don't get an immune response,

00:19:31.720 the vaccine is not going to protect me. This face mask will. So I do want to keep asking the American

00:19:36.800 public to take the responsibility, particularly the 18 to 25 year olds, where we're seeing the

00:19:42.760 outbreak in America continue to go like this because we haven't got the acceptance, the personal

00:19:49.000 responsibility that we need for all Americans to embrace this face mask. Okay. Masks are more

00:19:54.140 protective than vaccines. That's what he's saying now. Now let's rewind the clock back six months

00:19:59.500 and take a listen to what he said about masks back then. Should you wear a mask if you're healthy?

00:20:06.880 No. Okay. So there he says, he's asked if you're healthy, should you wear a mask? Six months ago,

00:20:13.040 he said, no, period. So we went from, and think about what the surgeon general said six months ago,

00:20:18.700 five or six months ago, screaming at us, don't wear a mask, stop wearing a mask. So we went from

00:20:24.760 stop wearing masks, you dumb hicks to masks are more protective than vaccines, uh, in six months. 0.99

00:20:32.840 And the excuse is, well, we're still, we're still discovering, you know, we're still figuring out 0.99

00:20:37.340 the science of it. Well, but people have been using masks in a medical context for centuries.

00:20:44.300 You still are figuring out the science and our understanding of the science of mass has evolved

00:20:51.920 that much in a few months. Really? No, whatever, however effective masks are or aren't they've known

00:21:00.400 it all along, but they've given us two different answers. And so you wonder why people are a little

00:21:04.640 bit skeptical of the mask thing. Number three, here's Nancy Pelosi on MSNBC yesterday with a very stark 0.74

00:21:09.520 and sudden emotional pivot. Watch this climate crisis, which is causing these, uh, has, has an

00:21:16.880 impact. It has, uh, uh, uh, has influenced what is happening in California and the whole West,

00:21:23.420 as well as the storms that are, uh, battering the Gulf coast. This is a reality. So, and when it comes to

00:21:30.980 the coronavirus, they have contempt for science. That's why we are almost 200,000 people who will lose

00:21:38.580 their lives by the end of this week, 200,000 people. And that's why that they're contempt for

00:21:46.100 science as to what the, uh, uh, the climate crisis is. Yeah. I think old Nance's acting is going to

00:21:53.060 getting a little rusty there. She needs to run through those lines about 10 or 15 more times 0.99

00:21:57.200 before going live with it. Uh, this is what happens when you miss dress rehearsals. You know,

00:22:00.920 you gotta be, you gotta practice makes perfect. This just shows that politicians, you know,

00:22:05.480 when they've been in office for a while, they really forget how to be human. And I, and I,

00:22:10.200 that's not even a joke. I really believe that. I think that that's why we need term limits.

00:22:14.020 They can't relate to human emotions anymore because they've, they lose a little piece of

00:22:18.040 their humanity with each year they spend in that environment. So by the, by the time they get to

00:22:22.740 Pelosi's age, uh, they're like, you know, Spock or something, but not as smart. Dumb Spocks is that's, 0.79

00:22:30.940 that's who's running the country. No brain, no soul. When they attempt to imitate human emotion, 1.00

00:22:37.040 it comes off as, as, you know, like awkward and sort of grotesque, often more towards grotesque.

00:22:42.680 I think watching Pelosi imitate human emotions. It's, it's kind of like, uh, you know what it's

00:22:48.000 like? It's like, I don't, if you've ever seen men in black, um, there's that in men in black,

00:22:53.340 the first one, there's that alien bug creature that steals a guy's skin and wears it around.

00:23:00.860 That's who Nancy Pelosi reminds me of. No offense to her intended, of course. I mean,

00:23:04.720 it has a compliment. Number four from the daily wire. Um, the pizza chain where a kid can be a 0.84

00:23:10.260 kid is now looking to destroy 7 billion of its famous prize tickets after filing for bankruptcy

00:23:15.680 this past summer due to the steep drop in business during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the New York

00:23:20.020 Post, Chuck E. Cheese parent company, CEC entertainment said in a court filing on Monday

00:23:24.180 that the heavy supply of prize tickets are no longer needed. The tickets are valued at $9 billion or

00:23:30.620 sorry, $9 million, not 9 billion. It's 7 billion tickets valued at $9 million. That's what they're

00:23:36.520 destroying. Okay. So 7 billion prize tickets. If I remember correctly at the prize counter with that

00:23:42.140 many tickets, you could have redeemed all of that for a Chinese finger trap, a yo-yo and three

00:23:48.260 Jolly Ranchers. It took a lot is what I'm trying to say in the, at those prize counters. Uh, you

00:23:53.540 know, you'd go up to the prize counter, you've got just like a whole bucket of tickets and you're so

00:23:56.740 excited. He's like, Oh daddy, what can I get? And he says, Oh, well you can get this little finger

00:24:02.120 puppet. Um, five. Finally, you may have heard the big news that daily wire is leaving Los Angeles and

00:24:08.240 moving to Nashville. Uh, why are we leaving Los Angeles? Well, because LA is a crumbling cesspit

00:24:12.340 and it's currently on fire at the moment. So I say we, but I never lived here. Um, I will however,

00:24:17.860 be, be moving to Nashville with the crew, finally leaving the shack and the wilderness that I've,

00:24:23.080 I've been living in. We're going to find a new shack in a wilderness in Nashville or in Tennessee

00:24:28.280 somewhere. Um, I will of course be bringing my banjo. It is Nashville after all my banjo,

00:24:33.680 which you can see in this studio here, this studio, you know, sort of a preview of things to come.

00:24:37.780 Maybe I'll have a real studio. Um, this is, this is all very new for me because I've, I've always done

00:24:42.620 the show just by myself in my little hole somewhere. Even right now, I mean, there are people in the room

00:24:48.420 right now in the dark staring at me and it's a very strange, it's very strange experience, but it's

00:24:54.720 going to be very exciting for, for, for us. Apparently not everyone is happy that we're coming

00:25:00.960 though. Um, here's an article on a website called the Nashville scene headline is hole moving

00:25:07.640 to town. Ben Shapiro announced he and the daily wire are coming to Nashville. Thanks. We hate it.

00:25:13.160 Then the article says, there's nothing clever to say here. Clearly, uh, Ben Shapiro is a proudly

00:25:18.140 obtuse bigot who rose rapidly through the ranks of conservative media because he was a young person

00:25:23.140 who appeared to have read a book or two and hated popular culture. Now he and his right wing Facebook

00:25:27.260 content generator, the daily wire are moving here. And then it goes on and on about how Ben is an

00:25:31.780 a-hole and a horrible guy and he's moving to Nashville, et cetera. Um, and I read this article 0.57

00:25:39.100 and I have to say, I'm really upset and offended by it. I think it's totally out of line, completely

00:25:44.380 uncalled for because I also am an a-hole and I also am moving to town and I don't even get any mention

00:25:53.420 here at all. I have been erased, otherized. My existence has been delegitimized by this.

00:25:59.780 I haven't worked so hard to cultivate my a-hole brand to be ignored in this way. 0.83

00:26:04.540 It only goes to show, you know, my people, my community of a-holes have so much further to go

00:26:09.500 before we are really appreciated and respected for our contributions to society. So we'll be in,

00:26:16.160 uh, Nashville soon and we're looking forward to that. All right, we're going to get to our daily

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00:28:18.120 cancellation. Uh, today I will be canceling Cardinal Tobin of Newark, New Jersey. This is the second day

00:28:25.380 in a row that I'm canceling a priest, this time a Cardinal tomorrow. It will be the Pope as I work

00:28:30.680 my way up the ranks and find many cancelable candidates along the way. Unfortunately, uh,

00:28:35.440 it's not my fault. You must understand. I don't decide who I'm going to cancel. The universe makes

00:28:39.200 this decision for me. Cardinal Tobin today, uh, is getting canceled for some remarks he made during

00:28:44.740 an online panel discussion a few days ago. This is what he said. Listen, I think that a person in

00:28:50.160 good conscience could vote for Mr. Biden. I frankly, in my, in my own way of thinking have a more

00:28:58.720 difficult time with, with the other option. Now he later clarified that he's not endorsing any

00:29:04.820 candidate, but he is saying that a person, a Catholic or Christian can in good conscience vote 0.56

00:29:09.720 for the candidate who supports murdering babies in the womb. Now let's back up here for a moment.

00:29:15.520 Okay. A little bit of a, of background on the most esteemed Cardinal Tobin. A couple of years ago,

00:29:21.160 it was reported by the American spectator that Cardinal Tobin was having an Italian actor and model

00:29:27.160 staying in his rectory. Now here's that actor. You can see his Instagram pictures here. I've been told

00:29:32.660 I look a lot like this guy. I pose like him too. When I do photo photo shoots, I actually, that's not

00:29:37.540 true. I did a photo shoot here yesterday and it was, it was absolutely awful. Uh, I'm the most awkward

00:29:41.860 person as you have probably noticed. Anyway, that guy was staying, uh, with the Cardinal in his

00:29:47.960 rectory. Tobin, when confronted about this, said that the guy, uh, Francesco Castiglione is his name

00:29:56.080 was, was staying there because he was, he was taking language classes at Seton Hall. Now why would an

00:30:03.280 Italian actor and model who likes to take shirtless photos stay at a Cardinal's rectory so he could

00:30:08.720 take language classes at another place? Well, your guess is as good as mine, but use your imagination

00:30:15.520 or don't use it. If you're about to eat lunch, here's another interesting tidbit around the same

00:30:21.320 time that this Francesco chap was staying at his rectory. Tobin tweeted this one night. This is a

00:30:27.520 tweet that he sent out a couple of years ago. It said, supposed to be airborne in 10 minutes,

00:30:31.240 nighty night, baby. I love you. Now, obviously this was not meant to be tweeted. It seems he meant

00:30:37.980 to send that as a text message to someone, but to who is the question? He's a Cardinal. He's supposed

00:30:42.880 to be chased and celibate. Who is he texting nighty night baby to? Now when asked about this, he said that

00:30:49.420 it was meant to go to his sister. Yes, his sister. Uh, now I have four sisters myself. I can tell you,

00:30:57.540 I would never say nighty night baby. I love you to any of them in any context, because that would

00:31:04.060 be enormously creepy and weird. Does Tobin just have a very, very close relationship with his

00:31:10.400 sisters or was that meant to go to someone else entirely? Who knows? But it does raise some

00:31:14.880 interesting questions about the Cardinal. Um, and then this happens. So can a person in good

00:31:22.440 conscience vote for Joe Biden. They certainly cannot text nighty night baby to their sister

00:31:27.480 in good conscience or to anyone else, by the way, if you're a man, uh, there's really no context where

00:31:31.820 that's appropriate as for Biden, who seems like the kind of guy who, who has texted that to many

00:31:36.660 people in his life. Um, the answer is no, you cannot support him. Joe Biden supports abortion on

00:31:43.360 demand. He supports abortion at every stage of pregnancy. He supports federal funds paying for 0.60

00:31:49.260 abortion. The other person on the ticket, Kamala Harris is even more radically pro-infanticide. 0.77

00:31:54.400 She actually prosecuted pro-life undercover journalists in California for investigating

00:31:58.820 Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood, by the way, at the time was also a big Kamala Harris donor.

00:32:05.320 Nothing wrong with that, right? Uh, investigating the people or, or, or, or trying to criminally

00:32:12.100 prosecute the people who are investigating one of your big donors. No corruption there at all.

00:32:17.660 Remember that the Democrat party at this point fully endorses abortions, all abortions at all

00:32:23.320 stages of development. It supports and wants to actively facilitate and fund late-term abortion.

00:32:29.140 That would be abortion of babies who are past the point of viability, babies, infants who can survive

00:32:34.420 outside the womb, babies that look just like any newborn infant you've ever seen. These procedures,

00:32:40.860 let me, and this gets a little graphic here. I apologize for it, but this, but we all need to know this.

00:32:44.820 This is what Joe Biden supports. Uh, late-term abortions. They are performed by injecting 0.99

00:32:51.900 the fully developed infant child with poison, usually into his skull while he's still in the

00:32:57.060 womb. If he dies from the poison, the mother will carry her dead child around inside her for two or 0.93

00:33:01.880 three days before eventually delivering the dead child either at the clinic or into a toilet in her

00:33:08.220 hotel or, or her house as very often happens. But sometimes the baby doesn't die from the first

00:33:13.200 injection and instead lives in pain and agony for those three days. Remember this is a fully developed

00:33:17.780 baby, fully developed nervous system. It feels everything. So three, two or three days of being

00:33:23.860 poisoned. Um, eventually the child will then be injected again and then removed from the womb piece 0.73

00:33:29.680 by piece, ripped apart by forceps as he is extracted from his mother's body. This is what we do in this

00:33:38.020 country. This is how we treat our children. And this is what the Democrat party and Joe Biden support.

00:33:44.320 This is what Cardinal Tobin says you can support by supporting candidates who will facilitate and fund

00:33:50.120 this kind of barbarity. By the way, you'll be told that the late-term abortion procedure I just described

00:33:55.380 represents only 1% of all abortions. Well, let's just say that's true. Um, there are a million

00:34:03.760 abortions a year in this country. That means 10,000 fully developed infant children are poisoned and

00:34:09.660 then ripped apart limb from limb every year. 10,000. How many children do you think die in school

00:34:16.600 shootings every year? It's not 10,000. I can tell you that it's barely a fraction of 10,000. Now,

00:34:21.840 how do you think the left would react if you said that school shootings aren't a big deal because only

00:34:27.860 a handful of kids fall victim to them each, each year? I mean, what's the percent of all the,

00:34:31.940 of all the children who go to school, what's the percentage that die in school shootings?

00:34:37.340 It ain't 1%. I can tell you that it's 0.00, whatever 1%. Um, and this is, and, but 1%,

00:34:47.480 we're told in this context, doesn't matter. But here, we're just talking about late-term abortion,

00:34:52.360 which the Biden-Harris ticket endorses. All abortions, of course, are barbaric, murderous,

00:34:57.420 evil. A Christian cannot support this. No decent person of any religion or non-religion can support 1.00

00:35:04.080 this. Now, Donald Trump may have a difficult personality. He may say things that offend you,

00:35:10.180 but presidential elections are not personality contests. Rather, they are not supposed to be

00:35:16.040 personality contests. They are, but they shouldn't be. If you vote for the man whose personality you

00:35:22.060 most relate to, you're a fool. And you shouldn't even have the right to vote if you're that stupid. 1.00

00:35:27.520 What matters is what these people will actually do. And we know that Joe Biden, among many other 1.00

00:35:32.520 troubling things, will take active steps to ensure that more babies are murdered. A Christian who votes

00:35:38.900 for that is committing a grave sin. And Cardinal Tobin committed a grave sin by encouraging it. So

00:35:45.340 Cardinal Tobin is canceled. And that'll do it for today. Everyone, thanks for watching. Thanks for

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 17, 2020

Ep. 566 - The Truth Is Out. We Don't Need The Public School System

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