The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 569 - Establishment Conservatives Craft A Plan For Defeat

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Republicans have the chance to flip the Supreme Court,

00:00:03.800 rescue it from the clutches of left-wing radical activist judges, and potentially save millions of

00:00:08.300 unborn lives in the process. But some so-called conservatives are arguing that it would be

00:00:12.620 unprincipled for Republicans to take advantage of that opportunity. We'll talk about that. Also,

00:00:17.640 five headlines, including Chris Cuomo giving a constitution lesson to Don Lemon on CNN last

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00:02:26.320 youtube.com slash Matt Walsh. Okay. Now, I have never much liked the phrase establishment

00:02:32.360 conservative. Establishment brings to mind something like an actual cabal or cartel of Republicans

00:02:38.440 meeting in secret smoky rooms, hatching dastardly plans. I think the actual reality of the

00:02:43.860 establishment conservative so-called does not involve cabals or secret rooms, certainly not smoky

00:02:49.600 secret rooms. There's less of a conspiracy and more of a, of a mutual instinct to shrink away from

00:02:56.320 serious ideological fights and to protect one's reputation by acting and speaking in a way that

00:03:02.860 will not offend the sorts of people that these sorts of people want to be admired by. All of that said,

00:03:09.440 I will, I will use establishment conservatives today. Just, just for lack of a better term may

00:03:13.520 not be the best description, but it is succinct at any rate. So we'll use it. And so I can report

00:03:18.520 that establishment conservatives seem to finally be getting on the same page in the week, in the wake

00:03:24.780 of justice Ginsburg's death. They've, they've tried desperately to think of a way to take these

00:03:29.880 winning cards we've been dealt and lose the hand anyway. And that's what they're very good at doing.

00:03:34.660 They all, it seems have come up with the same plan. So here's Jonah Goldberg in the LA times.

00:03:40.420 I'll read a little bit of this. He says towards the end of his piece, he says,

00:03:44.500 what some now dismiss as politics and posturing are actually important considerations that honor the

00:03:50.660 conservative distinction between can and should and fall under such antiquated notions as statesmanship,

00:03:56.080 prudence, legitimacy, consistency, and precedent. These concepts put maintaining the long-term health

00:04:01.560 of our institutions above the demands of the moment. Take Senator Lindsey Graham, who promised 0.96

00:04:06.580 in 2016 that if an opening were to come up in the last year of president Trump's term,

00:04:11.180 a nominee would not be considered until after the election. By going back on that promise in such

00:04:15.220 spectacular fashion, he's not merely debasing himself. He's also teaching people that nothing

00:04:20.540 politicians say matters. By the way, is there, is there anyone over the age of 12 who needs to be

00:04:25.780 taught that lesson? Really? You mean politicians will lie? I had no idea. Scandalized. Anyway,

00:04:34.080 he continues, moreover, merely on the level of real politic, abandoning all considerations other

00:04:38.520 than what you can get away with amounts to preemptive disarmament for the wars to come.

00:04:43.380 The pernicious logic of apocalyptic politics works on the assumption that the long-term doesn't matter,

00:04:48.500 but the long-term always becomes now eventually. This is why the Senate could use some posturing in

00:04:53.260 politics right now. Republicans have the ability to replace Ginsburg before the election or

00:04:57.040 immediately after in a lame duck session. That is a huge bargaining chip. And given that the GOP's

00:05:02.120 majority is so slim, it's a chip that can be traded even by even a handful of Republican senators.

00:05:07.360 So here's the deal that he proposes. A few Republicans could agree to postpone the process

00:05:11.760 until after the election in exchange for a few Democrats agreeing never to vote for a court-packing

00:05:17.880 scheme. This would give voters some buy-in for whatever happens next. Okay. Did you get that?

00:05:27.060 The plan here is for Republicans to choose not to vote on a justice, as long as Democrats pinky

00:05:34.140 promise, really pinky promise, okay, like super serious, to never pack the court in the future.

00:05:40.440 David French in Time agrees. He says, what can be done? An increasing number of center-right legal

00:05:47.800 scholars, including the American Enterprise Institute's Adam White and George Mason Law School,

00:05:52.900 Professor Ilya Soman, are proposing a variant of an approach best summed up as make them keep their

00:06:00.020 word. It goes something like this. First, Trump makes his pick. Second, the Senate applies the Schumer

00:06:05.340 principle and gives the nominee a hearing. This will have the benefit of giving the American people a more

00:06:09.420 complete picture of the qualifications and philosophy of the nominee, and thus the stakes of the

00:06:13.440 presidential election. Third, then, the Senate then applies the Graham-Rubio-Cruz rule and does not vote

00:06:21.540 before the election. If Trump wins, they then vote on the nominee. Now, there have been other articles in

00:06:28.660 Reason, the Bulwark, others have echoed this same plan. Republicans declined to confirm a nominee,

00:06:37.660 which, you know, confirming a nominee would potentially flip the court in favor of constitutionalism

00:06:42.340 in the process, save millions of lives, declined to do that and returned the Democrats' promise with

00:06:46.820 all their heart and souls to never pack the court. Now, the problems with this plan are, I think,

00:06:51.740 obvious, but let's discuss them anyway. First of all, we should emphasize this again. There is

00:06:57.800 absolutely no reason whatsoever to not confirm Trump's picks, okay? This is not even a problem that

00:07:04.900 we need to be thinking about. There is nothing whatsoever strange or outrageous or controversial

00:07:09.960 about a duly elected president putting forth a judicial nominee and duly elected senators confirming

00:07:15.260 or not confirming that nominee. This is what they were elected to do. There is no reason not to do it.

00:07:23.420 French and Goldberg and the others, they go on and on about principle and how somehow, in some way,

00:07:29.460 it violates principle for the president and the Senate to perform their constitutional duties.

00:07:35.100 This is nonsense. It is abject nonsense. The only thing it potentially violates is what some of them 0.82

00:07:41.880 said in 2016. Well, so what? Who cares? Some Republicans made a bad argument for not holding a

00:07:48.360 vote for Garland. They said that, you know, they shouldn't do it because there's an election coming up.

00:07:53.640 That was a bad argument. That was a dumb argument. They should have said they aren't going to vote 0.99

00:07:57.980 because they refuse to allow another activist on the court and they have the constitutional authority

00:08:02.700 to prevent it, and so they will. And they also, and they could have pointed out, they also have

00:08:06.840 the mandate from their constituents demanding that they prevent it. That's what they should have said.

00:08:12.340 Instead, they made a bad, stupid argument. Are they now, because of principle, required to live by 1.00

00:08:17.920 that bad argument forever? If you do the right thing, but you justify it with faulty reasoning,

00:08:23.340 are you now required to live by that faulty reasoning for the rest of your natural life?

00:08:28.140 If I save a kitten from getting run over and someone asks me why I saved it and I say,

00:08:32.700 well, because it's Tuesday, does that mean that from then on I must allow kittens to be run over

00:08:37.640 on Wednesday and Thursday? Or should I just continue saving the kittens even if my initial reasoning for

00:08:43.360 doing it must be adjusted or abandoned? Now, that was a weird analogy, granted, but I think it works.

00:08:49.280 Even if it doesn't work, it just demonstrates my point about faulty reasoning.

00:08:52.040 Second point, we cannot make a deal like this with Democrats because it relies on Democrats keeping

00:08:59.500 their word. Not just their word, but future Democrat politicians have to honor the word of previous

00:09:05.540 ones. The thing is, I wouldn't trust Democrats to honor their word, period, but I wouldn't even expect

00:09:11.180 them to honor the word of some other Democrats from years ago. I couldn't even blame them for breaking

00:09:16.380 that word. I just, I can't believe that men like French and Goldberg really think that a plan like

00:09:21.940 this is feasible or plausible or coherent. It's like if a guy has taken 10 hostages and he's

00:09:28.160 demanding $10 million and a plane ride out of the country. So you give him the $10 million and the

00:09:32.940 plane and you tell him to take the hostages with him. But when he gets wherever he's going, he has

00:09:36.860 to promise to let them go. Yeah, that's not a deal. That's not a negotiation. That's not a compromise.

00:09:42.440 That's just simply giving the other side everything they could ever want. And in this case, 0.86

00:09:47.860 it would be like doing it when the hostage taker has no gun and no bomb. You have all the ammo.

00:09:54.040 You hold all the cards. They can't even say, and yet you still give them everything you want.

00:09:58.080 This is what passes for principle among some on the right. It is so weak and limp and pathetic that 0.99

00:10:04.040 I can almost feel my testosterone levels dropping as I read some of these pieces. Now, here's what we 0.99

00:10:10.420 must understand about Democrats, okay? They say that conservatives are racist, fascist Nazis in league 0.99

00:10:18.700 with the Klan. And they say that conservatives want to control women and remove their autonomy and 0.99

00:10:24.720 enslave them like the Handmaid's Tale. And the thing is, they really believe it, or at least they act as

00:10:31.260 if they do. And what that means is that they're going to do everything in their power and tell any lie

00:10:37.160 they need to tell in order to stop those oppressive, woman-enslaving, neo-Nazi savages. 1.00

00:10:43.680 That's why the Kavanaugh hearings went the way they did. They could act to destroy this man, 0.99

00:10:49.020 destroy his family, slander him, defame him, ruin him. And they could feel entirely justified and

00:10:53.880 noble every step of the way. After all, they're up against Nazis, remember? Wouldn't you accuse a Nazi

00:10:59.460 of gang rape if that's what you needed to do in order to stop him from seizing power? Of course, 0.96

00:11:05.000 the difference is that Republicans aren't actually Nazis. So that's all a bunch of hysterical bulls**t. 1.00

00:11:12.800 On the other hand, Democrats are actually infanticidal radicals who believe that it's 1.00

00:11:20.000 morally acceptable to dismember a fully developed infant and throw the pieces into a dumpster. 0.91

00:11:25.920 That is the truth. They really believe that. That is their real-life position. And they want a court

00:11:33.180 that reflects it and shares it and advances it. What that means is that the ruthlessness they show

00:11:38.580 when it comes to the Supreme Court or anything else is not morally justified because the basis for it

00:11:43.980 is false and their actual objectives are evil. But for Republicans, it is morally justified to do

00:11:49.760 whatever must be done within the bounds of the law to stop them. The basis for our actions is not false.

00:11:55.300 It is really true. That is what we're up against. And you are not a principled conservative unless you

00:12:02.040 are willing to look into that darkness, confront it, acknowledge it, and fight it with all you have.

00:12:10.740 Let's go to our five headlines.

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00:14:30.340 Didn't really come across my desk. I just like to phrase it that way. That Mitt Romney has announced

00:14:36.260 that he will vote, that he's in favor of voting on a nominee before the election. I guess there are

00:14:43.880 people who are surprised by that. They thought that, you know, would Romney be one of the squishes

00:14:48.840 who said we should wait till after the election? I'm not surprised by it at all, actually, because you

00:14:54.560 have to understand Mitt Romney is a senator from Utah. He represents Utah. And if you know anything

00:15:00.560 about Utah, the voters in Utah, extremely socially conservative, they are not going to tolerate the

00:15:06.440 guy who represents them standing in the way of potentially flipping the court in favor of pro-life

00:15:11.220 and conservatism. That was just not going to happen. So Romney really has no choice,

00:15:16.000 which is a credit to the voters in Utah. But we still have a long way to go because right now the

00:15:23.960 votes are lined up, but Democrats have barely even begun to launch their assault on Trump's nominee,

00:15:31.420 who hasn't even been officially named yet. And so we'll see. Right now they've got whatever,

00:15:36.060 53 votes. We'll see if all those Republicans hold the line. I think Romney will, no matter what,

00:15:44.020 because like I said, I don't think he has a choice. His, his, his, his base, his voters in Utah won't

00:15:48.680 tolerate other, other senators like Susan Collins. We'll see. Okay. Just to give you an idea, we move 0.99

00:15:56.100 on to number one here, just to give you an idea of how bad the bias is in media. Here's a conversation

00:16:01.720 between Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo last night, where Cuomo is the sane and rational one in the dialogue.

00:16:10.700 Listen, if the Democrats were in control of the Senate right now and Trump was president and he

00:16:16.500 wanted to nominate a justice, what do you think they'd say? Well, I think they do the same thing

00:16:20.060 they did in 2016. They, they do it. That's what they did. That's my point. That's why nobody cares

00:16:25.380 what the Democrats are saying. No, no, no, no, no. I think they do exactly what they did in 2016.

00:16:29.360 You can say what you want about Democrats. Democrats usually wet the bed. They're not as strategic.

00:16:33.740 You think they give Trump a justice after what happened with Merrick Garland? I think if they,

00:16:38.540 if yes, I think they do abide by, well, it's different because it's different because Democrats

00:16:45.420 did not make the promise. So you keep comparing things that aren't equal. Democrats did not make

00:16:49.860 the same promise in 2016. It wasn't a promise. Democrats are on the other side. They said,

00:16:53.480 it wasn't a promise. It was a BS rationale to explain what they were doing to deprive him of power.

00:16:58.560 Semantics. They didn't allow the, the, the, his nominee to go through. They wouldn't even have a

00:17:03.200 hearing. They said, we're not going to do it. So that wasn't Democrats doing that. That was

00:17:07.180 Republicans doing it. And if you come on this side, I don't know what Democrats would do.

00:17:11.340 Democrats back in 2016. It would not mean that they were being hypocritical if they did it.

00:17:15.360 Okay. So you see, uh, he, the dude really claimed there that Democrats, if they were in control,

00:17:19.240 would allow Trump's nominee to go through. They would cooperate with Trump and play fair.

00:17:23.740 Lemon says that's, that's, that's what we're getting. So we're just, we're just pretending that they,

00:17:27.320 that they didn't try to stop a Trump nominee by accusing him of serial gang rape. By the way,

00:17:33.080 Republicans stopped an Obama nominee by not holding a vote, which is an authority and power

00:17:38.880 they had legally. Democrats stopped or tried to stop a Republican nominee by orchestrating a smear

00:17:45.660 campaign and accusing him of being a, the ringleader of a gang of teenage rapists. Okay. One of those 0.95

00:17:51.660 methods is an assault on the rule of law and norms and decency. The other is not. And, uh, you know,

00:17:59.160 I'll let you guess which is which later in the same conversation to make matters worse. Cuomo had

00:18:04.420 to explain the constitution to Don Lemon. He, Cuomo had to become the constitutional scholar in the

00:18:11.360 conversation. Watch. No matter what happens, everybody sticks. We're going to have to blow

00:18:15.500 up the entire system. And you know what we're going to have to do? I don't know. You know what we're

00:18:18.880 going to have to do? You just got to honestly, from what your closing argument is, you're going to

00:18:23.760 have to get rid of the electoral college because the people, I don't see it because the minority in 1.00

00:18:28.560 this country decides who the judges are and they decide who the president is. Is that fair?

00:18:32.120 A constitutional amendment to do that. And if Democrats, if Joe Biden wins, Democrats can sack

00:18:37.380 the courts and they can do that amendment and they can get it passed. Well, you need two thirds vote

00:18:42.080 in the Congress and three quarters of the state legislature. They may be able to do that. Maybe.

00:18:46.180 Yeah. It's pretty clear from that conversation there that Don Lemon really thought that just by

00:18:51.420 taking what, if, if, if Democrats had just a simple majority in the Senate, they could amend the

00:18:56.520 constitution. That's all it would require. Uh, a profoundly stupid individual is

00:19:01.980 Don Lemon. Um, and also a partisan dishonest hack on top of it. That's, that's, that's tough break 1.00

00:19:07.820 when you're, you know, stupid as well as incredibly dishonest, which is why for me, it's like, I, 1.00

00:19:14.360 that's why I figure I know I'm stupid. So I might as well try to be honest. Like I got to have 1.00

00:19:17.920 something going for me at least. Let's go to number two. Uh, Alan DeGeneres was back on the air

00:19:22.600 yesterday and her opening monologue, she addressed all of the accusations that, uh, have been circling

00:19:28.020 around out there that she's a monstrous sociopath who mistreats everybody around her. 1.00

00:19:32.400 And here she is addressing it. As you may have heard this summer, there were allegations of a 0.87

00:19:37.780 toxic work environment at our show. And then there was an investigation. I learned that things

00:19:43.020 happened here that never should have happened. I take that very seriously. And I want to say,

00:19:47.320 I am so sorry to the people who were affected. I know that I'm in a position of privilege and power.

00:19:53.040 And I realized that with that comes responsibility. And I take responsibility for what happens at my

00:19:58.200 show. This is the Ellen DeGeneres show. I am Ellen DeGeneres. My name is there. My name is on underwear.

00:20:09.820 We have had a lot of conversations over the last few weeks about the show,

00:20:13.720 our workplace and what we want for the future. We have made the necessary changes. And today

00:20:18.580 we are starting a new chapter. Yeah, I have to say less than inspiring. Um, I, I, you know,

00:20:25.460 I, I felt like she was just taking whatever BS spiel she gave to the staff during the staff meeting,

00:20:31.500 you know, when they first got together and repeating it here. Also the whole idea that

00:20:36.140 she found out about bad things that happened is obviously bogus because the whole controversy

00:20:42.260 and scandal was that she was the one doing the bad thing. So she's claiming that she,

00:20:46.540 she found out about the things that she herself was allegedly doing. Now you could always say,

00:20:51.120 of course, that you don't believe all these stories about Ellen DeGeneres. And, um, I fully agree that

00:20:56.460 false accusations do happen, but there is a certain point, right? Where, you know, I mean,

00:21:02.900 dozens of people who, who have worked with you and have been around you are all saying the same

00:21:09.500 things about you and telling the same kinds of stories. There's a point where there's no plausible

00:21:15.140 reason to disbelieve it. And then what's also conspicuous is that all these people coming out,

00:21:20.340 some on the record, some off the record saying Elle DeGeneres is just an absolute sociopath and is 1.00

00:21:24.300 horrible to everybody. And all of that, uh, like you can't even look her in the eyes when she walks down 0.66

00:21:28.340 the hallway, that kind of thing. There's really, there was really nobody, very, very few people

00:21:33.660 coming out in defense of her and saying, no, you know what? This is crazy. She's a wonderful person.

00:21:38.120 Very few people saying that. And that's, that really, you know, that's, that's an indication

00:21:42.400 that there's an issue when everyone who's ever been around you agrees that you're a scumbag and 0.99

00:21:46.680 almost no one who's been around you will say otherwise. Well, you know, I think probably 0.99

00:21:51.000 we can draw some conclusions at that point. Number three from the daily wire, uh, it says NBA superstar,

00:21:57.760 LeBron James claims that the votes of black people do not matter in America,

00:22:01.800 noting that he's seen recounts and apparent suggesting that black votes have been intentionally 0.93

00:22:06.560 voided in his lifetime. Um, James said black people in the community don't believe that their vote

00:22:12.240 matters. And he was explaining why he was apathetic about voting when he was younger. We grow up and

00:22:17.400 don't think that our vote actually matters. It doesn't. We've seen recounts before we've seen our

00:22:21.940 voices be muted our whole lives. And then he goes on from there. Yes. Uh, LeBron James,

00:22:29.080 superstar, mega celebrity. I mean, everything he says is headline news, but his voice is being muted.

00:22:37.160 LeBron James's voice is being muted. Let me, let me just ask LeBron at this point. Um,

00:22:43.300 maybe you could just tell us LeBron, how much attention do you need the whole world to pay to you?

00:22:52.320 Before you will agree that you're not being oppressed. Like how much is needed? Because

00:22:58.280 right now, do you need to, I guess my question is, do you actually need everyone in the world to,

00:23:05.040 to do nothing with their lives, but listen to you and talk about you? Is that what you require in

00:23:10.700 order to not be oppressed anymore? Because apparently being a multimillionaire, mega, super famous

00:23:16.180 celebrity, that's not enough. So just, just let me know what you, what you need. Do you need all of

00:23:21.220 the fame and all of the money in the entire world in order to, because if so, just let us know LeBron,

00:23:26.080 because this, the world is here for you. That's, that's why we all exist is simply for you.

00:23:30.940 And so all you have to do is let us know what you need and we'll be here for you.

00:23:36.220 Yeah. I mean, nothing, nothing irresponsible or reckless about that. Right. Though, by the way,

00:23:40.400 a, you know, LeBron James claiming that black people's votes are being discarded or thrown out or

00:23:46.660 no basis for that whatsoever. He's just making that up. So he says that he goes out saying that

00:23:52.940 we're being hunted in the street, no basis for that either. But all of the, uh, all of the, the

00:23:59.780 requisite, uh, chaos and anarchy and everything that, that, that comes from false narratives like

00:24:05.560 this. LeBron's not susceptible to any of that. He's, he's protected from that behind his, his gated

00:24:12.420 house in his mansion. So he doesn't care. Great guy that LeBron James. Number four, AOC,

00:24:17.760 Alexandria Queza Cortez has a message that, um, I actually agree with. This may be the first thing

00:24:22.080 she's ever said that I agree with. Listen, I'm sorry to tell you, you're not going back to brunch.

00:24:26.500 We're not going back to brunch. That's not happening. I have to say, I could not agree more.

00:24:31.280 Um, I don't think anybody should be going to brunch. I agree with her. Brunch is for cowards

00:24:34.820 who don't want to step up and choose between lunch or breakfast. I've always said that, 0.98

00:24:39.420 you know, it's no wonder that women brunch is very popular with women. What does that tell you?

00:24:43.760 Because women are notorious for, for being totally unable to make food related decisions. And so they 1.00

00:24:49.720 invented this brunch thing because they can't even decide what meal they want to have. If you're

00:24:53.740 having brunch, then that means it's a time, you know, it's what, what brunch is going to be 10,

00:24:58.140 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock. So that, that's a time when you could, you could either be having a late

00:25:02.600 breakfast or an early lunch. And I think it's up for you to have some conviction and decide.

00:25:07.620 And FYI, if you have to choose between lunch and breakfast, always choose breakfast. I think that

00:25:14.320 I think, I think we can all agree on that. Number five, the Emmys happened on Sunday,

00:25:20.640 hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Um, I didn't watch the show. Uh, I was going to watch it, but then somebody

00:25:26.460 offered to come to my house and stab me in the jaw with a rusty screwdriver instead. And I just thought 0.94

00:25:32.440 that that was a much more appealing way to spend my time. And it just so happens that there's no

00:25:36.880 shortage of people who would be willing to stab me in the jaw with a rusty screwdriver. So it kind 0.68

00:25:41.000 of works out. So I didn't watch it, but I did, uh, there was one segment from the show that caught

00:25:45.800 my eye after the fact, as it's been making the rounds online. This is a, I guess supposed to be

00:25:51.700 a comedy bit between host Jimmy Kimmel and actor Anthony Anderson. But the cringe factor here is off

00:25:58.920 the charts. Watch. Before we announce the nominees, you know, I have a few things that, uh, I'd like to

00:26:04.480 say. You do? Yes, I do. Because in rehearsal, I thought we decided that we're just going to- You

00:26:09.560 know, we have a record number of black Emmy nominees this year, which is great. This is the part where

00:26:16.820 the white people start to applaud. Oh. And nod. Oh. Thank you, Jimmy. All right. These Emmys would

00:26:26.240 have been all-star. These Emmys would have been NBA All-Star Weekend and Wakanda all wrapped in one.

00:26:33.520 This was supposed to be the blackest Emmys ever. Y'all wouldn't have been able to handle how black it 1.00

00:26:39.900 was going to be. But because of COVID, we can't even get in the damn building. This isn't what it 0.99

00:26:46.080 should have been, Jimmy. But, but you know what? I'm still rooting for everybody black because black

00:26:51.620 black stories, black performances, and black lives matter. Say it with me, Jimmy. Black lives

00:26:59.180 matter. Louder, Jimmy. Black lives matter. Louder, Jimmy. Say it so that Mike Pence can hear it. 0.95

00:27:06.300 Black lives matter. That's right. And because black lives matter, black people will stay at home 1.00

00:27:14.140 tonight to be safe, which is fine because guess what? Y'all don't know how to light us anyway.

00:27:21.940 No. Jimmy, I'm glad I got that off my chest. I am too. I am too. Yeah. I'm glad you did. I'm,

00:27:27.740 I'm, I'm, I'm appreciative that you've given me a safe space to say this from. No, it's my pleasure.

00:27:32.540 You know that. Yes. Uh, could you scoot over so I can stand on this star? Okay. Yes, I will.

00:27:36.560 Bring out. All right. Yes. That was the most uncomfortable thing I've ever seen in my life. It was,

00:27:41.040 it was, it was cringe comedy, but not in a good way. Cringe comedy minus the comedy,

00:27:45.260 just pure cringe all the way down. What was the comedy supposed to be exactly?

00:27:50.200 This is the ritual humiliation of a neutered white man. Now I admit sort of grotesquely 0.94

00:27:55.340 fascinating to watch in a certain way, but not really funny. Now, if this wasn't the Emmys,

00:28:00.200 you know, if this was, we know this isn't the case in the Emmys, but if it wasn't the Emmys,

00:28:04.340 I might think that this was supposed to be a parody of BLM and its constant demands for pledges 0.98

00:28:11.000 of allegiance and a parody of the pathetic little puppy dogs like Kimmel who bark on command as 0.99

00:28:17.100 they're told. But I don't think it, it is a parody. Um, I think it's, it's just exactly what we've 0.99

00:28:23.280 been seeing. In fact, there was another example of it. Uh, we've seen these, you know, mobs of BLM

00:28:28.500 people walking down the road and demanding that, you know, diners at restaurants put up the black

00:28:34.100 power fist and all of that. Here was another recent example from a few days ago. Um, let's,

00:28:38.780 let's take a look at this.

00:28:41.780 Okay. Black lives matter. It lets us know.

00:28:45.780 Black lives matter. You put the fist up and you gotta say black lives matter. 1.00

00:28:51.780 Yeah. Say black lives matter, homie. Say black lives matter right now. Black lives matter. 1.00

00:28:57.780 Say black lives matter, bro. You didn't, I didn't hear. Okay. Let him talk. Let him talk. Let 1.00

00:29:05.780 all right. Thank you. Yeah. That was in Portland, I believe, of course. And that dude, he got his

00:29:12.700 truck smashed anyway. Apparently he did what he was told. And then he came out and the truck

00:29:17.400 was still smashed. He performed the choreography, dance, the jig, jump through the hoops, and

00:29:22.780 they still went after him anyway. That's the way it goes. Cause that's the way it always

00:29:26.000 goes. And when I say that's the way it always goes, I mean, I'm talking about going back through

00:29:30.780 history. Okay. Way before BLM, this is how evil oppressors always operate. This is one of the

00:29:36.880 hallmarks of oppressors is that they demand pledges of allegiance, displays of fealty,

00:29:42.400 whether sincere or not. One of the most common things that tyrants do is that they, they, they,

00:29:49.300 they need you to at least pretend. They need you to say the words and perform the actions.

00:29:55.000 Your purse, because your personal views are irrelevant to them. They don't care about that. It's your

00:29:58.760 submission they want. So BLM is following this script and there's a lot of historical precedent

00:30:04.400 for it. None of it good, but there's a lot of it. On the other hand, you know, you notice how

00:30:09.160 you never see gangs of, of pro-lifers at the March for Life. You never see them gathering around

00:30:17.080 someone and demanding that the person express their support for the pro-life cause. That never happens

00:30:24.500 because pro-lifers really care about their professed cause and their professed cause is saving babies

00:30:31.320 and coerced statements of, of, of support from people who are scared of, you know, getting their 0.89

00:30:37.740 asses kicked by a mob of angry people that does nothing to advance the cause of saving babies.

00:30:43.060 Now for BLM, Antifa, et cetera, the real cause is control and coerced statements of support really do

00:30:52.320 advance that cause. And they would advance it no matter what the statement was. Doesn't even matter

00:30:57.940 what it is. They might as well demand that you do the Macarena or, you know, saying she'll be coming

00:31:02.720 around the mountain. It doesn't, it doesn't matter what you're doing or what it is. They say, oh,

00:31:08.920 say Black Lives Matter, put up the fist. That doesn't even make a difference. The whole point is simply 0.95

00:31:13.460 to train you to do what they say. And that's it. That's all they want. All right, let's get to our

00:31:20.740 daily cancellation. Okay. This will be a quick one today. I just need to cancel Japan real quick. 0.96

00:31:26.320 Just, just get in, cancel Japan, get out. I don't think I'll need more than three minutes to cancel 1.00

00:31:30.480 a whole country. It's, it's that easy. Japan today, Japan today is being canceled for this.

00:31:36.700 We'll play the footage for you. There it is. Now this is a giant robot that they're building in Japan.

00:31:42.980 I'm told this is a life-sized Gundam. I have no idea what a Gundam is. I assume that's Japanese 0.99

00:31:50.120 for spectacular waste of money. I don't know. Now you can see here, all the things this robot can

00:31:55.620 do. And by all the things, I mean, it can, it can give a thumbs up. It can move its arms.

00:32:01.680 It can kneel. Even giant robots pander to Black Lives Matter, apparently. But, but that's all it 1.00

00:32:07.320 can do. It can't fly. It can't shoot lasers. It can't do anything else. Now I ask you, what the

00:32:13.420 hell function will a giant 60 foot robot that gives a thumbs up serve? Well, I'll tell you what the

00:32:19.060 function is. It serves the function of Japan being able to say to the world, Hey guys, look at this

00:32:23.800 thing that we did. And the world goes, Oh, cool. And that's it. That's the whole purpose.

00:32:29.480 Think of how many man hours went into this. How many people worked on it? There are people who

00:32:33.420 spent years going to work to build this. Okay, honey, I'm off to work to buy the, to build the

00:32:38.540 giant robot today. All right. Hey, by the way, has anyone explained to you why you're doing that?

00:32:43.040 Uh, no, I guess not. They haven't explained. I have no idea. Now people online are saying that

00:32:49.600 Japan is going to take over the world with its giant robots. They're saying that we should be 1.00

00:32:53.760 shaking in our tiny boots as we behold the future of warfare. No. Do you realize how utterly useless

00:33:00.360 this hunk of metal would be in the context of modern warfare? First of all, you could easily knock

00:33:06.760 it over with a missile from a fighter jet. That would be it. Probably a strong wind would do it.

00:33:10.220 And then it will crash down and crush whatever happens to be underneath it.

00:33:13.760 Speaking of crushing things, where would you use this robot? You couldn't use it to defend your

00:33:18.740 own cities because you just ended up destroying as many buildings as you save, which if you recall

00:33:22.760 was a major problem in Power Rangers. Are you going to try to launch some sort of foreign invasion

00:33:27.220 with these things? The enemy would see you coming literally from a mile away, lumbering along at the,

00:33:33.560 you know, the speed of two miles an hour in your giant tin cans. A few missiles later and all of

00:33:38.040 your robots are splayed out on the ground like really expensive dominoes. You know where this

00:33:43.000 would come in handy? If you were, say, laying siege to a fortress in medieval Europe. I could see it

00:33:51.420 being useful in that setting. But unfortunately, Japan is about 600 years too late for that. It would 0.93

00:33:56.920 also be useful in the Star Wars universe, where the technology to make fully conscious robots

00:34:01.440 is so ubiquitous that every hobo in the galaxy has five of them a piece. And everyone flies around 0.98

00:34:07.860 in spaceships that can exceed the speed of light like it's nothing. And yet the most advanced weapon

00:34:12.680 is a laser sword. You know, that you need to be within two feet of the enemy to use. So in that sort of

00:34:20.640 reality where technology is somehow a million years ahead of us and 700 years behind us at the same

00:34:25.520 time, I could see the giant robot filling a role. But not in this reality. The reality we happen to

00:34:33.080 live in and are stuck with. Listen, I would love if there was a real function for giant robots

00:34:39.760 in this world. I would. But there isn't. And so for that reason, Japan is canceled.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 22, 2020

Ep. 569 - Establishment Conservatives Craft A Plan For Defeat

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