The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 580 - Dems Add 'Court Packing' To List Of Redefined Terms

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats have made it clear that they absolutely will pack the court

00:00:04.560 if they're given the power to do so, overturning a century of precedent and setting us down a very

00:00:09.220 dangerous path. Their defense of this plan is to, as always, redefine the term court packing,

00:00:14.940 claiming that Republicans are packing the court simply by filling vacant seats. All of that is

00:00:18.740 crazy. We'll talk about it. Also, five headlines, including an unlicensed security guard, apparently

00:00:22.560 hired by an NBC affiliate, then proceeded to shoot and kill a Trump supporter. And

00:00:27.200 Tucker Carlson talks about UFOs and brings up a number of important questions there.

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00:02:10.080 All right. Well, one of the primary tools of the left, one of their most effective tools,

00:02:17.400 a tool that has helped them win the culture and crush their ideological foes, is that of

00:02:23.080 redefinition. We talk about this a lot on this show, probably so much that you get tired of

00:02:26.920 hearing about it, but definitions are important. We can't communicate without them. To communicate,

00:02:32.480 what does communication mean? To communicate is to convey meaning. If you control the definition

00:02:37.880 of words, then you control communication. You make it so that people are submitting to your

00:02:42.800 worldview, advancing it, promoting it, agreeing with it implicitly, simply by speaking. Even if

00:02:47.680 they don't want to agree with it, they still are. Perfect example, off-cited on this program,

00:02:52.280 is the word gender. The left took the word gender, which was always a grammatical term.

00:02:57.440 Words had a gender, not people. That's the way it used to be. And they invented a new use,

00:03:02.680 a new definition of that term. And for decades since then, even people who disagree with their

00:03:07.020 gender theories still use the word gender in the context and way that the left wants, 0.97

00:03:12.500 thereby agreeing with their underlying premise, that humans have both sex and gender, which are

00:03:17.920 distinct. Many other examples can be mentioned here. But the fascinating thing is to see this

00:03:26.340 process play out in real time, which we do quite a lot now. With the advent of the internet and 24-hour

00:03:32.180 cable news, it can happen instantaneously. You could wake up in the morning and have breakfast

00:03:37.000 under the security and comfort of knowing that a certain word means a certain thing.

00:03:41.460 And by lunchtime, when you're eating your sandwich, that word means something else entirely. It's that

00:03:46.380 fast. Just like that, the word changes meaning. So the latest example, not quite as far-reaching or

00:03:51.460 culturally significant as the word gender, but still impactful in its own way, is the term court

00:03:56.760 packing. Now, as long as this term has existed, which isn't for very long in the grand scheme,

00:04:02.660 but it has been in reference to any scheme to add more justices to the Supreme Court,

00:04:08.580 add more seats, not merely fill a vacant seat, add more in order to seize ideological control of the

00:04:15.420 Supreme Court. That's what the term meant. But now the Democrats clearly plan to do this themselves,

00:04:21.120 and given the term's negative connotation, they've decided to, all at once,

00:04:24.820 redefine it. And just like that, court packing is not adding seats to the bench, but simply

00:04:31.260 filling empty seats. Many prominent voices on the left have adopted this talking point,

00:04:36.960 as I said, all at once, just overnight, including Dan Rather, who tweeted,

00:04:41.160 can we at least recognize that court packing at all levels of the judiciary has been the Republican

00:04:45.580 playbook for decades, asking for Merrick Garland? No, Dan, we can't recognize that because it's a

00:04:51.060 fantasy. It's false. But it's a fantasy that Democrats are widely engaging in. Here's Senator

00:04:57.640 Dick Durbin on NBC. Listen.

00:05:00.500 Senator Durbin, did the fact that Vice President Biden used the phrase court packing,

00:05:06.200 was that a tell of where the vice president stands on this, that he doesn't want to see this happen?

00:05:11.880 Well, I can tell you that we're getting this question. It's a common question being asked because

00:05:16.620 American people have watched the Republicans packing the court over the last three and a half

00:05:20.420 years and they brag about it. They've taken every vacancy and filled it. Did you know that they've

00:05:25.060 sent us and we have approved only with their votes, I might add, 10 people who have been judged

00:05:31.200 unanimously unqualified by the American Bar Association? Do you know how many judicial nominees

00:05:36.100 came from Obama who were judged unanimously unqualified? None.

00:05:40.140 They've taken every vacancy and filled it, he says. As opposed to what, Dick? Leaving the vacancy

00:05:45.740 open in the name of, what, good sportsmanship? This really is the Democratic argument. It's not

00:05:51.040 a straw man. They are arguing that Republicans should leave judicial seats open, not just the

00:05:56.480 Supreme Court, but judicial seats in general should be left open in order to be nice to the Democrats.

00:06:04.060 That's their argument. Here's Senator Chris Coons making the same argument.

00:06:08.920 Well, I'm going to be laying out the ways in which Judge Barrett's views, her views on reaching back

00:06:16.620 and reconsidering and overturning long settled precedent are not just extreme, they're disqualifying.

00:06:23.480 She has taught at a well-regarded law school. She clerked for Justice Scalia, but she has views that

00:06:29.360 make her not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. President Trump has said he would only nominate

00:06:34.960 someone who would overturn the Affordable Care Act, taking away health care protections from more than

00:06:40.820 100 million Americans in the middle of a pandemic. And both President Trump and members of the majority

00:06:46.640 on this committee have said they would only vote for a nominee who would overturn Roe versus Wade.

00:06:51.700 As I will lay out in my questioning this week, we shouldn't be having this hearing with two members of the

00:06:57.620 committee infected with COVID. It's rushed. It constitutes court packing and her views are too extreme to 0.87

00:07:04.720 qualify her to serve on this court. And of course, Joe Biden, like a good, empty suited would be

00:07:10.600 presidential figurehead is repeating this line himself and adding his own twist to it. Listen.

00:07:15.000 Look, the only court packing going on right now. It's going on with Republicans packing the court now. It's not

00:07:25.540 constitutional what they're doing. We should be focused on what's happening right now. And the fact is that

00:07:32.380 the only packing going on is this court. It's being packed now by the Republicans after the vote has already

00:07:40.420 begun. I'm going to stay focused on it so we don't take the eyes off the ball here.

00:07:45.940 It's unconstitutional what they're doing. Oh, really? How so? Where is it written in the

00:07:50.720 Constitution that presidents are only allowed to nominate justices for the first three and a half

00:07:55.500 years of their presidency? But then after that, it's a grace period for the other party and the

00:07:59.880 president has to pretend he isn't president, even though he is. Where is that? Can you please,

00:08:04.980 can you, can you cite, give me chapter and verse here because Joe, I, I, I've looked and I haven't found it.

00:08:10.420 But I suppose, I suppose we shouldn't expect coherence from the same guy who says that voters

00:08:15.580 don't deserve to know his own position on the subject of court packing. He was asked about this

00:08:20.580 and said explicitly, no, they don't deserve to know. Listen, I've got to ask you about packing

00:08:26.740 the courts. And I know that you said yesterday, you aren't going to answer the question until after

00:08:30.660 the election. But this is the number one thing that I've been asked about from viewers in the past

00:08:35.300 couple of days. Well, you've been asked by the viewers who are probably Republicans who don't want me

00:08:39.620 continuing to talk about what they're doing to the court right now. Well, sir, don't the voters

00:08:43.700 deserve to know? No, they don't. I'm not going to play his game. He'd love me to talk about,

00:08:49.280 and I've, I've already said something on, on court court. He'd love that to be the discussion instead

00:08:54.020 of what he's doing now. They don't deserve to know, he says. The voters do not deserve to know

00:08:58.280 what the president's actual policy position is. The voters do not deserve to know if the guy who is

00:09:05.300 running for president will overturn over a century of precedent and reshape the court by force,

00:09:11.740 setting off a court packing arms race where every successive president will add seats until there

00:09:16.560 are 600 seats on the court with no end to the expansion in sight. We don't deserve to know that.

00:09:22.760 Interesting, coming from the guy who recently tweeted, the American people deserve to know what

00:09:27.740 Donald Trump is hiding in his tax returns. So to be clear, here's the deal, as Biden would say,

00:09:33.320 the deal is that the American people deserve to know the personal financial information of the

00:09:37.940 president, but they don't deserve to know about his public policy positions, even one as consequential

00:09:44.880 as this. So it looks like the word deserves has also been redefined, which I suppose had already

00:09:52.060 happened. It's been redefined a long time ago. So to review now, the Democrats have advanced two

00:09:57.820 primary arguments to defend their view that Amy Coney Barrett should not have been nominated

00:10:03.080 and shouldn't be confirmed. One is that it defies the magisterial dying wish of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:10:09.920 That's one of their arguments. The other is that anytime a Republican fills a vacant court seat,

00:10:15.240 it is automatically a court packing scheme and is also unconstitutional, even though the

00:10:21.240 Constitution expressly gives them the authority to do it. These are their arguments. You can decide

00:10:27.560 for yourself whether they are persuasive or not. Let's get to five headlines.

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00:12:30.220 code Walsh. All right, number one, a Trump supporter was shot and killed at a protest in Denver over the

00:12:36.860 weekend. He apparently sprayed mace at the shooter, who responded by killing him. You can see a photo of

00:12:45.040 the fateful encounter here. Mace is not a lethal weapon. So this would seem to be a disproportionate

00:12:55.280 response. Now, the man with the gun is named Matthew Doloff. He was arrested for murder at the scene.

00:13:02.600 The interesting thing is that apparently he was hired as private security by a local news station.

00:13:07.960 That's NBC affiliate Nine News. And here's the other interesting thing. According to city officials,

00:13:13.780 Doloff was not licensed as a security guard in the city. So it would seem that a news channel hired,

00:13:19.780 whether knowingly or not, an unlicensed armed security guard who then proceeded to shoot and

00:13:25.960 kill a pro-Trump demonstrator. This ought to warrant charges, I would think, not just for Doloff, but

00:13:31.500 for Nine News as well. All right, number two, Keith Olbermann still exists, apparently. It seems we

00:13:38.020 haven't heard much from him in recent years. At least I hadn't heard anything from him. I assume

00:13:43.840 that he had returned to his lair deep in the earth somewhere, but he has reemerged now. He has been

00:13:48.640 maybe summoned after somebody read a curse from an old book in an attic somewhere. And now he's back on

00:13:54.560 the scene and he's about as reasonable and coherent as you remember. Listen. Trump can be and must be

00:14:05.080 expunged. The hate he has triggered, the Pandora's box he has opened, they will not be so easily

00:14:11.800 destroyed. So let us brace ourselves. The task is twofold. The terrorist Trump must be defeated,

00:14:19.660 must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box. And then he and his enablers and his supporters 1.00

00:14:26.300 and his collaborators and the Mike Lees and the William Bars and the Sean Hannity's and the Mike

00:14:32.280 Pence's and the Rudy Giuliani's and the Kyle Rittenhouse's and the Amy Coney Barrett's must be

00:14:37.980 prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world

00:14:45.940 Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus. Remember it, even as we dream of a return

00:14:53.740 to reality and safety and the country for which our forefathers died, that the fight is not just to win 0.96

00:15:00.080 an election, but to win it by enough to chase, at least for a moment, Trump and the maggots off the

00:15:07.520 stage and then try to clean up what they left. Remember it, even though to remember it means remembering

00:15:15.080 that the fight does not end November 3rd, but in many ways will only begin that day.

00:15:21.160 Yes, he says that Amy Coney Barrett, along with Bill Barr and of course Trump and a number of others,

00:15:27.120 should be prosecuted, convicted and removed from society.

00:15:33.400 First of all, when we're in the midst of, you know, the media is blaming Donald Trump for supposedly

00:15:39.880 encouraging violence or encouraging white supremacists, which he's not doing. But how about

00:15:46.940 this? You've got a prominent, I guess, I guess he's still prominent. You've got a prominent voice on

00:15:51.480 the left, at least a well-known voice, saying that Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court nominee, should be

00:15:58.080 removed from society. Look, I understand that in the feverish, fantasy-fueled minds of leftists,

00:16:06.360 Trump is responsible for all manner of crimes against humanity, and so that's why they're

00:16:11.020 always calling for him to be arrested. But what crime did Amy Coney Barrett commit? Even in their 0.78

00:16:18.180 feverish, fantasy-filled minds, what crime are you accusing her of committing exactly? At least with

00:16:23.880 Trump, I know what crimes they're accusing him of committing, like they're accusing him of being a

00:16:28.600 Russian spy, okay? So I understand that. It's ridiculous, but I understand it. What are you even 0.97

00:16:35.540 saying that Amy Coney Barrett did? Did she go 12 miles over the speed limit on the way to dropping

00:16:41.340 your kid off for soccer practice? Is that the crime? We're at the point now where these people,

00:16:47.440 they don't even bother making up a fake crime. They just work themselves into a sweat and scream

00:16:52.780 that everyone that they don't like should be in prison. They don't even bother to explain why.

00:16:57.620 That's their argument style. So you say to them, so here's my view on this subject. Oh yeah? Well,

00:17:03.700 well, you should be in prison. Prison! Go to prison! What? Dude, I was just telling you that

00:17:10.340 I think Batman Begins was better than The Dark Knight. That's all I'm trying to say.

00:17:15.420 The thing is, I also think, because I know you hear me talking about this and you're probably 0.98

00:17:20.120 thinking, well, you're a hypocrite, Matt, because don't you often say that your political opponents 0.98

00:17:24.540 and many other people should be locked in prison? Well, yes, I do, but I'm a theocratic fascist. 1.00

00:17:29.220 So that's my whole thing, right? That's part of it. If you're pretending to be opposed to fascism,

00:17:35.600 then this approach doesn't work. But anyway, glad to see that Olbermann is back. Always elevating

00:17:42.620 the national dialogue, doesn't he? All right, number three, Julie Borowski is a political

00:17:47.180 commentator, more on the libertarian side of things. She says she was kicked off a flight

00:17:51.080 because her toddler wouldn't wear a mask. Here's the tweet. She says,

00:17:55.360 we got kicked off a flight. Our two and a half year old wouldn't put on a mask. We had practiced

00:17:59.780 beforehand, but he wasn't having it. And then she tagged Southwest. So apparently she was on 0.94

00:18:04.360 Southwest. She says Southwest staff was apologetic. I get they don't make the rules. I hope airlines

00:18:10.500 ease up the rules because this really limits families with toddlers. Yeah. Well, Julie here is 1.00

00:18:17.240 being much nicer and more polite about it than I would be if that were me. You got kicked off your flight.

00:18:23.960 Two and a half year old won't wear a mask. Of course he won't. Of course a two and a half year

00:18:30.120 old won't wear a mask. Here, in fact, is what I'll say. And there may be some exceptions for this,

00:18:37.760 but broadly speaking, if you have managed to scare your two and a half year old to such an extent

00:18:45.340 that he will actually keep his mask on for hours at a time, then I think it's very likely you're a 0.98

00:18:52.820 horrible parent and person. Uh, I just, I can't even conceive. I've got a three year old, almost

00:19:00.740 four. Uh, and, and he won't keep his mask on and we don't, I'm not going to force him to. Uh, I,

00:19:07.100 most of the time when we're going in somewhere, I don't even give him a mask. We just go in and,

00:19:10.180 uh, and that's it. Or I'll hand it to him and then he'll immediately like put it in his pocket.

00:19:14.120 Fine. I did my, I, you know, I tried to comply with the rules. I did my part. Um,

00:19:20.240 two and a half year old though is, is that's just crazy to even expect it.

00:19:25.240 And so I'm just trying to imagine to get a two and a half year old to do that. I mean,

00:19:28.860 it's possible you have a two and a half year old with a extremely sort of obedient personality and

00:19:34.080 extremely cooperative. Maybe there are a few of those two and a half year olds out there,

00:19:39.020 but the vast majority of them are not going to do that in order to get them to do it. You would,

00:19:45.240 the, the, the psychological manipulation you would have to employ to convince them to do it

00:19:51.600 and keep it on their face is unthinkable to me. This whole thing is crazy. This is absolutely insane.

00:19:58.980 Um, and, and, and nevermind the fact that the, the, the, it has been repeatedly shown that there's

00:20:08.560 very, that there's probably a very low risk of, uh, someone who's two and a half contracting or

00:20:14.320 spreading the virus. Um, and on top of that, remember that what we're always told, right,

00:20:21.720 is you wear the mask for me, right? You wear the mask for me. You don't wear it for yourself.

00:20:26.400 You wear it for other people. And so when we are forcing crying, confused, scared toddlers to wear

00:20:34.660 masks, we can't even pretend we're doing it for their sake. Can we? We're doing it for us. We're

00:20:45.420 doing it to protect us, to protect us from them. That's what we're doing. It's cowardly. It's

00:20:54.100 disgusting. It's disgraceful. Shame on, uh, Southwest for that. And yes, they have the right to make 0.96

00:21:01.800 whatever rules they want for their business, but that doesn't mean that if, if, if the rules are

00:21:05.820 insane, um, that doesn't mean we can't criticize it and we can hear and we should. Number four,

00:21:12.560 speaking of insane, Gal Gadot is going to star in a movie about Cleopatra and that's not the insane

00:21:17.080 part. That part, you know, it's fine because we live in the dumbest possible world. This has provoked 0.98

00:21:21.920 backlash from people who are mad that Cleopatra's ethnicity, uh, or, or her, her ethnic identity

00:21:29.380 is being appropriated. One person leading the charge is Abdul El Saeed, CNN commentator and

00:21:36.080 public health doctor, self-described. He says, so there were no Egyptian women to play, um, an

00:21:41.460 Egyptian queen. Yes. Very offensive. Very offensive. I'm also scandalized that they couldn't find anyone 1.00

00:21:47.480 who actually was alive in the year 50 BC. I mean, you're telling me that out of all the 2000 year old

00:21:53.260 people on earth, you couldn't find one to play this role. Someone who could speak authentically to the

00:21:58.140 lived experience of people who lived 50 years before Christ. Of course, looked at another way,

00:22:03.720 this is all very stupid. Very, very, very, very stupid for many reasons. Uh, not the least of 1.00

00:22:08.400 which being that Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian. Actually, she was Greek. Second, uh, are there?

00:22:15.400 So every time we hear this, oh, you, we couldn't find an actor or actress of, of this, uh, ethnicity to

00:22:21.580 play this role. Well, how do you know there are? I mean, are there Egyptian actresses who could play 0.89

00:22:26.940 this role effectively who would actually be best for it? Maybe there are, maybe there aren't. I don't

00:22:31.400 know. You're just assuming it's at the very least. If you're going to do this, put forward a person

00:22:38.580 who you think would be better for the role, actual person, not an ethnicity or a skin color, an actual

00:22:44.100 person, and then explain why you think they're better for it going beyond their ethnicity or skin

00:22:50.500 color. But all of that is irrelevant because the third point of course, is that the job,

00:22:56.800 of an actor is to pretend to be what they are not. That is literally the entire job. That is what

00:23:04.960 they are paid to do. And it used to be that the further, uh, in act, actor, actress was from,

00:23:14.160 you know, the identity of the role, the more impressed we were with the performance.

00:23:19.760 In other words, the more unlike the actor is from the role, that's, that just makes it even more

00:23:24.840 impressive. Think about, um, uh, you know, Daniel Day Lewis in my left foot playing a paraplegic.

00:23:35.220 He's not paraplegic himself. And these days you could never get away with that because it'd be

00:23:40.360 said, well, what about a paraplegic actor? I don't know how many of paraplegic, paraplegic actors are

00:23:45.620 there, or are you just saying we can never tell this story until we have actors of that, um,

00:23:51.160 of that identity. But you know, back then when it was saying 30 years ago, whenever that movie came

00:23:56.920 out, everybody was impressed with the performance because here's an able-bodied person able to

00:24:01.420 portray this role, even though he's that he, he is not that himself, but he was able to effectively

00:24:05.980 portray it. And, uh, very impressive. It was a great job acting precisely because he is so himself

00:24:14.120 unlike that role. All right. Number five. Finally, Tucker Carlson last week did a segment on his show

00:24:22.340 where he discussed UFO sightings and specifically this new documentary that was just released called

00:24:27.360 The Phenomenon. Um, here's a clip of the Carlson segment, which includes some clips of the documentary.

00:24:33.000 Listen.

00:24:35.260 We used to be defensive on this topic, but there's no reason to be. There is now an enormous amount of

00:24:39.960 evidence, including physical evidence that UFOs, whatever they are, are real. Why don't we know a

00:24:45.200 lot more about this? Because the government has hidden that information from us outrageously. But now

00:24:50.960 some of that information has come into public view. Thanks to a new documentary called The Phenomenon,

00:24:56.680 we learned the feds are hiding more than we thought they were.

00:24:59.520 All we're saying, nobody has to agree that why it's there, but shouldn't we at least be spending some

00:25:07.820 money to study all these phenomenon? Shouldn't we study this stuff? The answer is yes. And that's all

00:25:15.260 this was about. And why the federal government all these years has covered up, put brake pads on

00:25:22.620 everything, stopped it. I think it's very, very bad for our country. Are you saying that there's

00:25:29.380 some evidence that still hasn't seen the light of day? I'm saying most of it hasn't seen the light of

00:25:34.460 day. It's outrageous. And it's not a partisan question, by the way. That, of course, was former

00:25:40.380 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, a Democrat, if there ever was one. But that's not

00:25:44.640 even the biggest claim he makes. According to the film, Reid said that UFOs have actually and

00:25:49.100 repeatedly interfered with our nuclear weapons capabilities. So where are these UFOs from?

00:25:55.300 Some researchers told the filmmakers that their origins are becoming clearer.

00:25:58.760 Dr. Jacques Vallée has collected purported metal debris from UFO cases dating as far back as 1947

00:26:08.320 that experts are analyzing in a state-of-the-art laboratory. He was astonished to find their

00:26:15.000 composition was unlike any known metal. This material was manufactured. It's not natural. It's

00:26:22.940 not natural to the materials that we have around us in the lab or on the Earth.

00:26:29.660 Yeah, physical evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships visiting Earth. Not a big deal.

00:26:33.360 It's nothing compared to, like, the fly on Mike Pence's forehead.

00:26:36.040 And he's right. You know, the most amazing thing about all this is that so few people seem to care.

00:26:41.180 We've got photographic evidence, video evidence, physical evidence of these things, and everyone just

00:26:47.480 sort of shugs their shoulders and moves on. Now, I watched the documentary myself after seeing the

00:26:52.580 Carlson segment. And as one of the weirdos who, myself, I'm one of the weird people where I've

00:26:57.620 watched a bunch of UFO documentaries in my day. I can say that this one is by far and away the most

00:27:03.820 credible and impressive of any that I've ever seen. Even the narrator who you heard there, he's,

00:27:10.260 I don't know what his name is, but I recognize that voice. I watch a lot of documentaries in general.

00:27:14.820 And, you know, this is a guy who does, like, Ken Burns films and PBS documentaries, a mainstream

00:27:21.640 documentary narrator. And the film includes, as you saw, former prominent, very prominent

00:27:30.180 government officials, politicians, former military officials, scientists. These are credible people,

00:27:37.420 for the most part. I mean, Harry Reid, I don't know if I'd call him credible. In fact, I wouldn't.

00:27:40.520 But even there, when it comes to ideological things, I don't think he's credible. But

00:27:45.940 that he's putting his name next to this. Also, they've got supposed eyewitnesses, lots of

00:27:52.660 photographic and video evidence, like I mentioned, all in the documentary. The thing is, one objection

00:27:56.280 you often hear to the UFO claims is that, well, if UFOs were real and aliens were actually visiting,

00:28:03.800 we should have very good evidence of it by now. Why is it that, like with Bigfoot, somehow nobody's ever

00:28:09.260 come forward with really remarkable physical evidence or video evidence of this? Why is it

00:28:13.700 that even in modern times, everybody who records one of these phenomena, you know, manages to get

00:28:19.260 video of it, seems to be recording it with their grandmother's toaster oven? I mean, why isn't it

00:28:24.180 that everyone's carrying around these really advanced videos, you know, cameras in their pockets?

00:28:31.840 Why hasn't it ever been captured? Well, the thing is, that's true of Bigfoot.

00:28:37.460 You know, that's a very good argument against Bigfoot. There are a lot of good arguments against

00:28:40.280 it. But one of them is just, we've never had, there's never been anything close to actual

00:28:44.340 compelling evidence of that. As far as UFOs, though, actually, there has been a lot of really

00:28:50.560 good evidence. Photos, videos, physical evidence. It just seems that nobody believes it. Even the good

00:28:56.480 evidence, nobody believes. And so you start to think, what kind of evidence would the average

00:29:01.800 person actually need to see in order to entertain the idea that maybe this really is extraterrestrial

00:29:08.400 in origin? Probably short of being personally visited by alien beings, the average person won't

00:29:13.760 be convinced. By the way, and not to say that I'm convinced, as in I'm 100% on board that I'm sure

00:29:20.680 that these are aliens. I'm just saying that a lot of this stuff is interesting. And the photographic

00:29:25.020 evidence goes back decades. There have been very interesting photos of flying saucers from the

00:29:29.960 50s that have been investigated by various government commissions and so forth, and have

00:29:35.020 been labeled unexplained, as in they aren't obviously manipulated or staged. None of the obvious

00:29:40.860 explanations hold. So we're left with, what is it? So there is something going on here. I think we

00:29:47.640 could say at a minimum with certainty that we have proof of the existence of aircraft that far exceeds

00:29:54.820 the known technological ability of modern man. And when we say far exceeds, we mean stuff that is

00:30:02.980 like hundreds of years or more beyond our known capabilities. It's easy to speculate, of course, that

00:30:10.260 some government somewhere has this technology and is testing it out. But the problem is that, first of

00:30:15.660 all, these sightings go back to the 40s and 50s. If a world government somewhere had access to this

00:30:23.460 technology 70 years ago, you'd think they would have used it by now in a very noticeable, significant

00:30:31.200 way. Is it believable that some other world power is that far ahead of us and yet hasn't used that

00:30:39.480 power in any noticeable way? I don't know. Of course, when you compare that explanation, which seems

00:30:45.200 implausible with the idea that some intelligent civilization is visited, which both are implausible,

00:30:53.260 which is more implausible? And you can make a good argument that the alien civilization is more

00:30:58.260 implausible. But still, there's definitely something going on here. And when we get to the point where

00:31:03.120 you have government officials on the record saying, I don't know, this is weird, that should make us take

00:31:11.560 notice, I think. All right. Of course, you always have to guard against wishful thinking with these

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00:34:08.580 today. All right, let's get to our daily cancellation. Today for our daily cancellation, as it is Columbus Day,

00:34:14.380 I will, as is my custom and has been for years now, deliver my defense of the great man Christopher

00:34:19.420 Columbus. As we know, Columbus Day has become primarily an opportunity for historically illiterate

00:34:24.480 preening dimwits to spend their time screeching about a fictional version of history where Europeans 0.94

00:34:30.040 were the first to introduce rape, pillage, and slavery to the universally peaceful and noble 0.99

00:34:34.640 inhabitants of the New World. Of course, in reality, it'd be quite impossible for the Spanish to 1.00

00:34:39.120 introduce rape, pillage, and slavery to this part of the world where rape, pillage, and slavery 0.56

00:34:44.720 had been utterly commonplace for centuries, as it had been commonplace everywhere on the globe. 0.99

00:34:50.860 But don't tell that to the dimwits. The dimwits who, you'll notice, say they hate Columbus and, 0.99

00:34:56.380 you know, everything he stood for and represents, yet will still take the day off if it's offered to 0.99

00:35:01.080 them. They don't hate him that much. And speaking of dimwits again, the dimwit capital,

00:35:06.820 dimwitopia, as we might call it, Portland, saw another riot last night, this time under the name 0.96

00:35:12.580 of Indigenous People Day of Rage. And it was a chance for Indigenous people, or those who claim to 1.00

00:35:17.520 be, or the allies of such, or just people who feel like, you know, tearing stuff down, to go around

00:35:22.660 destroying things, anything at random, because they're enraged. They have rage, you see. They have

00:35:27.860 rage over events that occurred over 500 years ago. And because of this rage, they have, as you can see

00:35:34.660 here, this photo, toppled an Abraham Lincoln statue, and other statues. They're mad about

00:35:40.780 stuff that happened 500 years ago, so they tore down the statue of a man who lived 150 years ago.

00:35:45.900 Makes sense. Actually, no, it doesn't. And aside from the general historical literacy of the

00:35:50.480 anti-Columbus faction, it must also be said that if you're experiencing actual rage over things that 1.00

00:35:55.800 happened half a millennium ago, you are mentally ill. It's not normal or healthy to be sitting around 0.99

00:36:02.060 in the year 2020, stewing over stuff that happened in the year 1506. But obviously, I'm being

00:36:09.880 intentionally naive. The people rioting, they're not enraged about anything. They're just bored and numb

00:36:15.600 and destroying stuff because they can. And it's fun. Now, getting back to the broader war against our

00:36:21.260 national heroes, one that is largely led not by Indigenous people, but by white liberals. And you'll

00:36:27.620 notice something about these self-hating, white guilt-ridden folks. They would never suggest that 0.98

00:36:33.120 the nightmarish brutality of many Native American tribes outweighs whatever they accomplished. 1.00

00:36:38.280 Even the propensity for cannibalism among some tribes must be understood in context, we're told.

00:36:44.020 Yet somehow, the sins of some European settlers automatically negates everything that European

00:36:49.300 explorers achieved and discovered. And besides, of course, the modern critic will note, Columbus didn't

00:36:54.240 even mean to discover America. And he never set foot in North America. And the Vikings got here 0.89

00:36:59.240 first. What an idiot. What a moron. Yes, those are all nice tidbits of information you acquired from 1.00

00:37:05.260 Facebook memes, but they're irrelevant. Of course, Columbus didn't mean to discover America. Nobody

00:37:09.800 knew that America existed. How does that undermine the significance of the discovery? If some future

00:37:15.460 team of intrepid astronauts accidentally discover a life-bearing moon on Jupiter on their way to exploring

00:37:21.380 Pluto, should we dismiss their groundbreaking history-shaping discovery on the basis that

00:37:26.340 they originally intended to make a different groundbreaking history-shaping discovery? As for

00:37:31.040 the Vikings, again, how is Columbus's incredible feat diminished by Leif Erickson's exploits in a

00:37:37.100 relatively small sliver of the North Atlantic 500 years prior? You may as well say that it would be 0.61

00:37:42.660 unimpressive for me to cure cancer because Jonas Salk already cured polio. We should also remember,

00:37:48.600 and it seems that modern people really have forgotten this fact, that Columbus did not have

00:37:55.360 the benefit of satellite navigation. He made his way by dead reckoning through uncharted waters. Most of

00:38:01.860 us cannot even conceive of what that would be like. To go sailing over an ocean, you have no idea how big

00:38:08.960 it is or where it leads. Over the course of his voyages, he discovered many Caribbean islands, explored the

00:38:13.960 coasts of South and Central America. He didn't make it to North America, but he made it possible for future

00:38:18.540 settlers to soon find it. That's quite an achievement, I would say. Or must he be blamed for only discovering

00:38:24.060 half of the Western Hemisphere while recklessly neglecting to discover the other half? That guy only

00:38:28.860 discovered half of the hemisphere. What a dope. That seems a rather stringent standard, especially coming 0.99

00:38:35.300 from people who can't locate their local supermarket without GPS assistance. And what about the natives that 0.92

00:38:42.320 Columbus encountered? Yes, many of them were peaceful, and we all agree that mistreatment of peaceful

00:38:47.500 people is wrong anywhere it happens. By the same token, we should bear in mind that the sort of

00:38:53.420 Rousseauian vision of the universally noble savage occupying the New World was incorrect and ridiculous. 0.78

00:39:00.860 Columbus was, for example, in the neighborhood of the Caribs, a violent people who would capture and 1.00

00:39:05.600 consume other human beings. Columbus heard stories about this tribe on his first voyage,

00:39:11.860 bumped into them on his second. Columbus was close to Aztec territory as well. He never met them. That

00:39:17.780 civilizational clash would be saved for later, but it's worth noting that the Aztec Empire was not

00:39:23.140 exactly a picture of peace and serenity. Tens of thousands of people were captured and killed as

00:39:28.000 human sacrifices every year in macabre religious ceremonies. An offering was laid on a stone slab at the

00:39:35.140 top of a temple. His beating heart was ripped out of his chest. His arms and legs were often hacked off

00:39:41.140 and consumed by the priests. And his limbless carcass was rolled down the steps. This process

00:39:47.220 was repeated dozens or even hundreds of times in a single night and thousands of times over the course

00:39:53.420 of a year. Now, for a long time, historians and archaeologists assured us that the Spanish fabricated or 0.50

00:39:58.840 exaggerated these stories of Aztec barbarism, they say the same about the stories of Carib barbarism.

00:40:05.800 But then they discovered the skull racks buried in Mexico City. Columbus never governed with the

00:40:12.620 savagery of an Aztec king or a Carib chieftain, but he did take slaves. That's true. He was a man of his 0.93

00:40:19.040 time in that way. Although the Spanish would eventually outlaw slavery and beat almost every other culture in

00:40:24.840 the world by hundreds of years in doing so, they cannot be absolved of their role in that ubiquitous

00:40:29.680 evil. Neither can they be uniquely blamed for it either. That's the point. We can wag our fingers

00:40:35.580 about it, but we cannot wag our fingers selectively. If we call the Spanish genocidal, we must say the 1.00

00:40:42.080 same about indigenous people who participated in the same kinds of crimes. If we convict the Europeans 1.00

00:40:47.020 of stealing land, we must convict the natives for the same crime. We must convict all of history, in fact, and 1.00

00:40:54.600 all people. Because before the globe was settled, and we could all live comfortably in a country where the

00:41:00.580 greatest threat to our survival, for most of us, is that the DoorDash guy will take more than 25 minutes to

00:41:05.580 deliver our takeout sushi. Before all of that, every inch of inhabited space was fought over and blood soaked the

00:41:13.900 ground. And a man could only claim what he was willing and able to kill to keep. You did not own anything that you

00:41:22.540 could not defend. I am not saying the world should have been that way. I'm saying that my ideas of what should have been

00:41:29.480 are irrelevant. I'm telling you what was, and it was that way, everywhere, for all people, for thousands of years. The knife of

00:41:38.800 historical moralizing, then, only cuts whoever tries to wield it. So I suggest that we mature a little

00:41:46.480 bit and learn to view history in its context. Seen through that lens, Columbus appears before us as a

00:41:51.300 deeply flawed but incredibly brave and ingenious man who is responsible for one of the great achievements

00:41:56.240 in the history of mankind. Perhaps you could have done better, but probably not. You probably wouldn't

00:42:02.580 have even tried. And that's why Columbus gets his own holiday and you don't. He earned it. You might

00:42:08.880 complain about him, but I take note of the fact that you still remain in this country, living off the fat

00:42:14.420 of its land and enjoying fruit from trees planted by people greater and more significant than yourself.

00:42:19.360 So go ahead and scoff at those men as you feast on the bounty they provided you. But, you know, pardon me

00:42:26.740 while I dismiss your criticism and offer a little toast to Christopher Columbus and to everybody else who has a

00:42:33.960 balanced view of history. To the people who don't, I say, you're canceled. Columbus is not. You are. And we'll leave

00:42:46.120 it there. Happy Columbus Day, everybody. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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