The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 584 - Joe Biden, A Madman Driven Insane By Left Wing Ideology

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden at his town hall last night proved once again that he

00:00:04.340 is a man living in a fantasy world, driven mad by left-wing ideology. The latest evidence is

00:00:09.480 his proposal that police officers neutralize dangerous suspects simply by shooting them in 0.90

00:00:13.560 the leg. We'll talk about why this is an absurd and unworkable idea. Also, five headlines,

00:00:18.160 including the left doxing a woman because she nodded during Trump's town hall. And in our

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00:01:43.600 I saw a movie once, you know, where the sheriff of a dusty old Western town thwarted a bank robbery by

00:01:50.940 shooting the gun out of the bad guy's hand and then threw a rope around him and it lassoed him

00:01:57.160 around the waist. All the bystanders applauded while the sheriff tipped his cap, took the hogtied

00:02:03.240 crook off to jail. These sorts of moments are enjoyable in films because they're fun and simple

00:02:08.840 and offer neat resolutions. And it can feel preferable to the real world, which sadly tends

00:02:15.160 more towards messiness and ambiguity. Many people in our culture today struggle to distinguish between

00:02:20.960 the real and the fantastical, leading to, among other unfortunate consequences, unrealistic 1.00

00:02:25.480 expectations, and among politicians, very stupid policy proposals. Police critics and would-be reformers 1.00

00:02:33.500 have often demonstrated this failure of distinction by breezily suggesting that cops could avoid killing

00:02:40.280 suspects. If only they behave more like Hollywood action heroes. What's the big deal? Just, you know,

00:02:45.800 just be a Hollywood action hero. It's bad enough when this sort of childishness emanates from internet

00:02:50.340 commenters and journalists, but it becomes a source of major concern when coming from a guy who might be

00:02:55.480 our next president. So Joe Biden at his ABC town hall last night answered a question about police

00:03:01.380 reform and gave us some of this complete nonsense. Listen.

00:03:06.340 We can do this. You can ban chokeholds. You can, but beyond that, you have to teach people how to

00:03:12.440 de-escalate circumstances, de-escalate. So instead of anybody coming at you and the first thing you do

00:03:18.200 is shoot to kill, you shoot them in the leg. There's ways you have to do more background checks in terms of 1.00

00:03:23.540 whether or not the person coming in passes certain psychological tests. And the last thing I'll say,

00:03:28.820 and I'm sorry because it was really, I think really, really important is you have to be in a

00:03:33.520 position where you are able to identify, identify the things that have to change. And one of the

00:03:40.300 things that has to change is so many cops get called into circumstances where somebody is mentally

00:03:45.920 off, like what happened not long ago, that guy with the knife. That's why we have to provide

00:03:52.640 within police departments, psychologists and social workers to go out with the cops on those calls,

00:04:00.280 some of those 911 calls, to de-escalate the circumstance, to deal with talking them down. 1.00

00:04:07.040 Instead of anybody coming at you and first thing you do is shoot to kill, just shoot them in the leg. 0.99

00:04:12.160 Biden said, with all the seriousness and credibility of a man wondering whether plane crash 1.00

00:04:16.980 fatalities could be avoided by covering aircraft and bubble wrap. Biden, of course, is far from the

00:04:22.160 first person to put forward this just shoot them in the leg thing. Anti-police activists often engage

00:04:27.020 in similar silliness and attempts have actually been made in New York State, for example, to legally

00:04:32.140 require cops to aim for a suspect's limbs. Now that law never went through, thank God, but it just shows

00:04:38.980 you. It's embarrassing, this idea, for a number of obvious reasons. First of all, legs are a narrow,

00:04:46.100 fast-moving part of the body. Unless we're requiring every police officer to be an expert-level

00:04:52.480 marksman, which would be an even taller order when we replace them all with social workers, which has 0.83

00:04:57.520 been suggested. It's absurd to expect this kind of accuracy during a high-pressure, quickly-evolving

00:05:03.620 situation. Dr. Bill Lewinsky, he's the executive director of the Force Science Institute, he's explained

00:05:08.960 some of the science behind this problem. And this is what he says, quote,

00:05:12.560 quote,

00:05:42.560 He continues,

00:06:12.540 So, this touches on two of the other major problems. Even if you successfully hit the suspect's

00:06:20.940 legs, you may sever his femoral artery, the main source of blood to his lower extremities,

00:06:25.940 causing him to bleed out rapidly anyway. If you don't hit the artery, well, you'll have wounded

00:06:31.120 him, but you haven't stopped him. Depending on where you hit him, and also how much adrenaline or other

00:06:38.540 foreign chemicals are coursing through him, the suspect will still be able to run, walk, certainly

00:06:43.780 shoot at least. Now, let's apply this to actual real-world situations. And when we do that, the

00:06:50.660 feebleness and incoherence of the just shoot him in the leg proposal becomes clear. Take, for example, 0.84

00:06:55.900 the shooting of Ricardo Munoz in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which prompted rioting and protests.

00:07:00.380 Because Munoz came charging suddenly out of his house, wielding a large knife. The officer

00:07:05.280 who was being attacked took him down when he was mere feet away. Had the officer aimed for his leg

00:07:11.660 and missed or grazed him, he could have easily been stabbed to death before he had a chance to get off

00:07:17.660 another shot. Take the shooting of Dion K. in Washington, D.C. also a couple months ago. He was

00:07:23.960 shot while running towards the officers with his gun drawn. This was all caught on body cam. Again,

00:07:29.300 had they aimed for his leg and missed, there'd be no time to fire again before K could get a shot off

00:07:34.340 in the officer's direction. Had they shot and wounded him, he still would have been holding a gun

00:07:38.700 and perfectly capable and perhaps now more likely to use it. So Joe Biden's suggested strategy would

00:07:45.800 have very likely gotten police officers in both situations killed, as well as potentially dozens

00:07:51.980 or hundreds more each year. Joe Biden is living in a fantasy world, which would become a very real

00:08:00.140 and present danger for law enforcement officers if any attempt was made to bring his fantasies to

00:08:05.060 fruition. And speaking of fantasy worlds, Biden at the town hall last night also seemingly endorsed

00:08:10.420 the insane notion of transgender eight-year-olds. Here's that moment. Listen. 1.00

00:08:15.340 I'm the proud mom of two girls, eight and ten. My youngest daughter is transgender. The Trump 0.77

00:08:24.820 administration has attacked the rights of transgender people, banning them from military service,

00:08:33.960 weakening non-discrimination protections, and even removing the word transgender from some

00:08:40.880 government websites. How will you, as president, reverse this dangerous and discriminatory agenda

00:08:50.360 and ensure that the lives and rights of LGBTQ people are protected under U.S. law?

00:08:58.620 I will flat out just change the law. Eliminate those executive orders, number one. You may recall,

00:09:06.480 I'm the guy who said I was raised by a man who I remember I was being dropped off. My dad was a high

00:09:14.440 school educated, well-read man who was a really decent guy. And I was being dropped off to get an

00:09:20.640 application in the center of our city, Wilmington, Delaware, the corporate capital of the world at the

00:09:25.620 time. And these two men, I'm getting out to get an application to be a lifeguard in the African-American

00:09:31.060 community because there was a big swimming pool complex. And these two men, well-dressed, leaned

00:09:36.700 up and hugged one another and kissed one another. I'm getting out of the car at the light and I

00:09:40.420 turned to my dad. My dad looked at me and said, Joey, it's simple. They love each other. The idea

00:09:45.560 that an eight-year-old child or a 10-year-old child decides, you know, I decided I want to be

00:09:50.580 transgender. That's what I think I'd like to be. It may make my life a lot easier. There should be

00:09:56.920 zero discrimination. Now, leaving aside that the story about his dad and the gay men, which he's

00:10:02.080 told before, sounds completely made up. The issue is that Biden is beholden to a left-wing ideology

00:10:08.140 that stands athwart reality, hoping to alter or abolish hard truths by tearfully screaming at them.

00:10:17.320 This is why he is dangerous and absolutely cannot be given the power that he seeks.

00:10:24.680 Let's get to our five headlines.

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00:12:19.160 Trump performed pretty well, despite the extremely aggressive moderating, if we can call it that,

00:12:24.880 by Savannah Guthrie on NBC. Once again, of course, Trump gets the kind of hostile questioning

00:12:30.140 that Joe Biden has never, ever received and will never, ever receive. But I thought Trump was

00:12:35.660 disciplined, calm, focused. I thought it was good. I would love to see, we talked about this

00:12:40.620 yesterday. I would love to see this version of Trump and only this, at least until election day.

00:12:47.140 That's what I would love to see. I don't expect it, but that's what I would like because I thought it

00:12:52.200 was, it was very effective. And what that meant is the left had to go elsewhere for controversy

00:12:58.380 because they couldn't get it from Trump. And so they decided to focus instead on a woman

00:13:02.120 sitting behind Trump who was nodding. Yes, this was their focus. A woman nodding.

00:13:08.880 She was the target of leftist rage. Uh, and here she is. You can see her there nodding.

00:13:13.860 Look at her with her nodding. How dare you? Who are you to nod? Who do you think you are nodding?

00:13:22.240 This is, this is what you can go to Twitter and type in nodding. Okay. And search for it. And

00:13:27.020 you'll see hundreds of tweets from people condemning the nodding woman and trying to dox her.

00:13:33.960 Find out who she is. Punish her for nodding. Liz Garbus, for example, Liz Garbus, a Hollywood person, 1.00

00:13:40.620 I don't know, some kind of actress or something. Uh, she confessed to feeling quote, a lot of rage

00:13:46.120 about the woman nodding. Can you imagine, can you just, you know, I,

00:13:51.300 I continue to be so impressed by the ability of many of these leftists to get angry about stuff,

00:14:00.540 especially when I get angry about things all the time. You know, that's my thing. I get it. But

00:14:05.980 even I, I'm left in, in, in awe and admiration of their ability to get angry because they get angry

00:14:12.400 about things that I wouldn't even dream. I couldn't even conceive of being angry about them. I don't know

00:14:16.600 how to do it. They need to teach me. They've achieved a level of, of petty anger, anger. That

00:14:23.600 is, that is, uh, you know, it makes me look like an absolute novice in comparison. So I can't imagine

00:14:29.100 watching a town hall and just sitting there stewing, get her nodding. Stop nodding. I can't, I just,

00:14:37.940 I wouldn't be able to do it. I can't understand it, but this is what rage. I feel rage that the woman 0.81

00:14:44.620 was nodding. Tom Nichols, um, called for journalists to find this woman, uh, find out who

00:14:52.240 she is and punish her. He didn't say punish her, but that was implied. In fact, Tom Nichols, as you

00:14:57.920 can see, look at this. He tweeted angrily about the nodding woman dozens of times. He spent hours

00:15:07.380 without a hint of irony. This was not performance art. This was, he was really, this, this is how he

00:15:14.620 decided to spend his Thursday night, finding out who the woman is, who's, who nodded at Trump

00:15:20.360 and destroy her. And then the media started doing news articles about it. Um, until finally she was

00:15:26.980 identified. They, they, they succeeded in finding out who she was and they identified her. And, um,

00:15:31.480 and, but you know, the, the thing that set them off obviously is it's not just that a person was

00:15:37.060 nodding. Now, if that was like a white guy behind their nodding, then I think they probably would say

00:15:42.240 nothing about it. It's that she's a black woman. How dare a black woman indicate any sort of agreement 1.00

00:15:48.640 towards Trump? She's not allowed to. It's not permitted. This is the leftist mentality. Black people 1.00

00:15:56.180 are ours. Women are ours. Latinos, racial minorities, they belong to us. You belong to us

00:16:07.040 is the message that the left sends to people in those demographics. Uh, they, they think they own 0.97

00:16:11.760 them. And if, if, if, if they stray, if they get out of line, if they misbehave, well, the left is going

00:16:17.060 to punish them severely for it. This is the mentality. It's sick. It's twisted. It's deranged. It's,

00:16:22.620 it's crazy. Um, the way they react, it's like, it's like they, they, they really do react like

00:16:31.440 they have been personally betrayed. When a black person, black woman, especially, because now you 0.98

00:16:37.520 have the intersectional, you got two, two intersectional points here. Black woman, um, 1.00

00:16:42.560 indicates at all that, that she might not be a leftist. They react as though they have been

00:16:47.780 personally stabbed in the back and betrayed by like that person owes them something and they are

00:16:54.960 not getting what they are owed. Number two, how about some positive news for a change? Um, honestly,

00:17:01.180 this news made me, made me very happy. Just wonderful stuff here from the daily wire. It says

00:17:04.660 enrollment rates have declined for undergraduate students at colleges and universities across the

00:17:08.540 United States. And much of it can be attributed to fewer freshmen choosing to attend. According to a new

00:17:13.820 study released on Thursday, figures from the national student clearinghouse research center center show

00:17:19.140 that, uh, first year students have enrolled in colleges at a 16% lower rate than first years in

00:17:25.840 2019. This group of students account for 69% of the total decline in the national undergraduate

00:17:31.960 enrollment rate, a figure that currently stands at a 4% decline. The data also shows that community

00:17:37.800 colleges have been particularly affected by the decline, experiencing roughly a 23% drop in enrollment

00:17:42.360 rates. Um, Doug Shapiro, executive director of the center, uh, of, uh, what center, some center I just

00:17:49.900 talked about. Oh, the national student clearinghouse told the New York times in an interview that community

00:17:53.780 college enrollment during the great recession actually increased and called the declining rate

00:17:58.160 in 2020 enrollment data staggering. I fear that many of those students will never go back. Well, look,

00:18:04.320 I got nothing against community college. So, uh, this is, uh, I think community college has a real role.

00:18:09.620 So this is nothing against them, but as far as the four-year universities experiencing this drop,

00:18:15.880 we can only pray it continues. And, uh, and that many of them are bankrupted and destroyed.

00:18:22.100 That's my dream scenario. Dozens and dozens of these God forsaken institutions boarded up,

00:18:28.800 abandoned, and we can all gather and hold hands in a circle around the abandoned buildings,

00:18:35.460 dancing, dancing, dancing the night away. That's, that is my, that is my fantasy.

00:18:44.000 Um, and why would I feel that way about them? Well, you know, no reason except that these

00:18:49.280 institutions are financially bankrupting generations of Americans, um, forcing them, not forcing them,

00:18:55.980 but duping them into paying for the privilege of being brainwashed. In exchange for being made poor

00:19:04.060 and in debt, they'll also make you confused and deluded. That's the deal. And so, yeah, um, yeah,

00:19:11.100 I, I, I would, uh, I'm, I'm a big fan of the idea of, of, of them suffering enormous financial

00:19:17.880 consequences for that. Now, number three, let's move on to this from the daily wire. Here's a story

00:19:23.020 to prove my point about the last thing we just talked about says the university of Minnesota school

00:19:27.720 of social work and continuing education series recently hosted what they called a special webinar

00:19:33.560 series that was titled quote deconstructing and decentralizing whiteness in practice, a three

00:19:40.360 part series in which a lecture titled recovery from white conditioning taught white people how to use

00:19:47.240 a 12 step program similar to alcoholics anonymous to recover and reclaim our full humanity.

00:19:53.460 Okay. Um, I can't even read any more of this. So it's a 12 step program to overcome being white. 0.97

00:20:03.240 I know we're so used to this by now that we're numb to it, but let's really focus on the fact

00:20:07.980 that they are treating whiteness like a literal disease, like a sickness. And they're doing this 0.95

00:20:17.040 while claiming that there's no racism against white people. No, there's no racism against white

00:20:23.760 people. You diseased demons. That's the message. Number four, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, um, 1.00

00:20:31.720 enjoying a bit of a career resurgence because of that video of the guy skateboarding and drinking

00:20:36.120 juice. That's all it takes these days has now come out and credited her, her career success with her

00:20:42.340 decision to murder her unborn child. Uh, in a recent interview, she says, quote, abortion rights.

00:20:48.380 That was really my generation's fight. If president Trump wins this election and puts the judge in he

00:20:52.560 wants, she will absolutely outlaw it and push women back into back alley abortions. Side note, 1.00

00:20:58.880 by the way, uh, the Supreme court is not going to be outlawing abortion. If they overturn Roe v. Wade,

00:21:03.380 then it goes to the States and it will still remain legal in many States, you know, California,

00:21:07.220 New York, many of the most populous States that will remain legal in. Uh, anyway, if I had,

00:21:12.340 uh, if I had not had that abortion, I'm pretty sure that there would have been no Fleetwood Mac

00:21:16.980 perished the thought. There's just no way that I could have had a child then working as hard as I

00:21:22.660 worked constantly. And there were a lot of drugs. I was doing a lot of drugs. I would have had to

00:21:27.640 walk away. And I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many

00:21:32.420 people's hearts and make people happy. And I thought, you know what? That's really important.

00:21:37.240 There's not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers.

00:21:41.760 That was my world's mission. You know, I have to say there are no good reasons to kill a child

00:21:49.520 ever period, but this reason that you had to kill a child in order to ensure that the world is not

00:21:58.020 deprived of Fleetwood Mac. This has to be perhaps at the top of the list of the really bad reasons.

00:22:04.680 She's saying she killed her child so she could do drugs and make money. I'm sorry, work hard. I like

00:22:11.520 how she lumps in, you know, I was working so hard back then, uh, and doing a lot of drugs,

00:22:15.860 working hard and doing drugs. Somehow to me, those seem like mutually exclusive

00:22:20.680 pursuits, don't they? Either you're, you're at a point in your life where you're doing a lot of drugs

00:22:25.660 or you're at a point where you're working hard. It doesn't seem likely that you're doing both.

00:22:32.100 But regardless, um, that's why she killed her child. How do you think she's feeling about that

00:22:38.820 decision now? I know how she pretends to feel, but how does she actually feel? She's 72 years old,

00:22:45.160 childless, alone, not married, has no children, plenty of money. Sure. And, uh, some hit records,

00:22:53.540 all of which are decades old. Does the money keep her company on those long, cold nights? 0.54

00:23:01.400 Well, the song she's, she's already sung a million times give her comfort as she lives out her final

00:23:07.980 years on this earth. It's just impossible to believe that a woman at this stage of life 1.00

00:23:14.020 would still feel great about killing the only child she ever had for, for, for success. That's

00:23:20.320 now gone and fame that has faded and fun times that are all mostly in the past. Now it's just,

00:23:25.960 there's no way you are alone with your past success being your only legacy.

00:23:38.240 I mean, who cares about Fleetwood Mac? Who cares about Fleetwood Mac now? Who's going to care about

00:23:43.960 Fleetwood Mac 50 years from now? I don't know about you, but, but I, I know how she feels about

00:23:51.220 it. I would trade Fleetwood Mac's music in a heartbeat for her child if I could.

00:23:58.420 Number five, Dr. Fauci now says that we may have to bite the bullet this year and, um,

00:24:03.820 sacrifice Thanksgiving. This is him talking about that. Listen.

00:24:06.680 Of course, that's such a sacred part of American tradition, the family gathering around Thanksgiving,

00:24:14.480 but that is a risk. You may have to bite the bullet and sacrifice that social gathering

00:24:20.640 unless you're pretty certain that the people that you're dealing with are not infected.

00:24:27.660 Okay. In fairness, he did have that qualifier there. He says, can't cancel Thanksgiving unless

00:24:31.240 you're sure nobody is sick, but there's always that vagueness to it. Right. Uh, and then it comes

00:24:36.360 and then, and then, and then eventually it's no, no, no, it's banned. Nevermind. So that's the way

00:24:40.220 it's always worked. Like 15 minutes or, uh, 15 minutes might as well. They might as well have said

00:24:44.100 15, 15 days to slow the spread. They said, Hey, it's only 15 days, you know, give or take 15 days.

00:24:53.220 Oh, but Dr. Fauci, what happens after 15 days? Well, yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I, it, uh,

00:24:58.300 it's, you know, it's, it's, it could be done at 15 days. Who knows? I know this tactic because I use

00:25:04.040 it with my kids and they're finally starting to catch on that if they ask me for something and I

00:25:08.840 give them the, maybe we'll see. Sure. I mean, maybe, yeah, maybe. And then I, especially if I

00:25:13.820 add the qualifier, uh, maybe, yeah, uh, you know, it's, if there's time at the end of the day, uh, to

00:25:19.740 get ice cream, well, we want, we might do that. Sure. Maybe that they've realized that that's just a no.

00:25:25.260 No. That is a no ingestation. That is no in its embryonic phase. Um, and that's, uh, that's what

00:25:33.300 we're getting from Fauci. But in this case, the good thing is, you know, that I don't personally

00:25:38.220 give a damn about Fauci's opinion of my Thanksgiving plans. It makes no difference to me. I'm not

00:25:44.440 canceling Thanksgiving. I'm going to have Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday because

00:25:48.340 they're, and I'll tell you why it's my favorite. Very simple. Lots of food, no presents.

00:25:52.860 I don't have to give presents. I don't have to receive them, which is also a great burden for me

00:25:58.200 because I have to pretend that I like it. All the presents I get, um, it just get rid of all that

00:26:03.800 and just get right to the food. That's all I care about these days. When you're a child,

00:26:08.700 holidays are about presents. When you're an adult, it's really just about the food. That's

00:26:11.880 who cares about the present. Um, so it's my favorite holiday. I'm not going to be canceling it.

00:26:17.020 Um, and, uh, we're going to be having Thanksgiving. We will not be wearing masks

00:26:21.100 and we will not be practicing social distancing. Uh, and we're just going to be, you know, we're

00:26:27.400 going to be normal people having a Thanksgiving celebration. And, but you know, in fact, I'm not

00:26:31.920 going to be forcing anyone to attend. That's the other good thing. So I, I was, I'm not going to go

00:26:36.300 and abduct anybody off the street and, and make them sit at my table, uh, you know, under threat of,

00:26:42.040 under threat of murder with a gun pointed to their head and stuff cranberry sauce down their 0.99

00:26:47.200 throat. I'm not going to do that. We will hold off on that aspect of our normal tradition this year, 0.99

00:26:52.700 which means that anyone who's at Thanksgiving with me, they chose to be there. They chose to

00:26:58.660 take on the risk, which I think is, is, is not a very enormous risk, but, um, they chose to take on

00:27:03.880 that risk for the sake of Turkey and gravy. And I think it is a gamble worth taking personally.

00:27:09.160 Um, all right, let's go right to our daily cancellation today for our daily cancellation.

00:27:15.980 We're going to cancel body shaming, not the thing itself, uh, not the shaming, but rather the focus

00:27:21.160 on it, the hysteria over it, the claims made about it. That's what we're canceling. And just for

00:27:27.780 example, we'll start, we'll start with this. Um, you know, and this year, you know, it's been a

00:27:31.220 chaotic parade of, of major news stories, one after the other, perhaps none have been quite as

00:27:36.580 significant though, as the news that made headlines across the media landscape this week,

00:27:40.560 you no doubt have probably already heard pop singer, Billie Eilish was body shamed. 1.00

00:27:47.680 This is a big deal. You're supposed to care about this sort of thing, though. Nobody is sure exactly

00:27:53.240 why trumpet blast resounded, alerting the whole internet to the incident, which quickly became

00:27:57.880 a national crisis. Fox news says Billie Eilish claps back at body shamers. Yahoo reports, Billie Eilish

00:28:04.240 responds to body shamers. MSN tells us Billie Eilish body shaming video goes viral as singer

00:28:10.280 responds to trolls. The Independent, L, E.T., Cosmopolitan, other publications had their own

00:28:15.360 reports. BuzzFeed, as always, published the definitive essay on the topic in a post titled

00:28:20.000 Grown Ass Adults, Please Stop Body Shaming Billie Eilish. That article written by Pulitzer candidate

00:28:25.760 Ryan Schockett informs us that a recent photo of the singer walking down the street wearing a tank top

00:28:30.840 and shorts and sandals with socks set off a wave of critiques, commentary, and discussion.

00:28:36.440 Now, by the way, as an avid sock and sandal wearer myself, unapologetically so, I would hope that the

00:28:41.280 photo would, if anything, help to normalize the sock and sandal community. But instead of discussing

00:28:48.580 the advantages of footwear that allows you to proudly show off your favorite socks instead of

00:28:52.060 hiding them inside dreary and boring shoes, it seems that the discussion, in this case, took a negative

00:28:56.700 turn. The body shamers were out in force. A whole wave of them. Part of the body shaming epidemic,

00:29:03.380 as it has been called. All of them set on ruthlessly mocking and belittling Billie Eilish.

00:29:10.060 One of the body shaming tweets from an anonymous user said,

00:29:13.400 In 10 months, Billie Eilish has developed a mid-30s wine mom body. Another body shamer said,

00:29:20.520 Wait, there wasn't another one. That was pretty much it.

00:29:22.440 There was precisely one negative comment from some guy in England who goes by the handle

00:29:28.640 GameSnosh. And many thousands of comments from people mercilessly scolding him for his rude behavior

00:29:34.380 while heaping compliments and accolades on Eilish. Now, I have not counted all of them,

00:29:38.700 but I would guess that there's probably a 100,000 to one ratio of positive to negative comments.

00:29:45.120 And that's probably a significant understatement. Also, the people saying nice things include

00:29:50.680 powerful media platforms, fellow celebrities. The people saying mean things include

00:29:56.940 GameSnosh. Though, in fairness, if I scoured Twitter, I'm sure I could probably find up to a

00:30:02.100 dozen accounts with anime avatars also insulting Eilish in hopes of leeching some of the attention

00:30:08.400 from the dastardly GameSnosh. But all told, I don't think there's a real problem here.

00:30:13.860 Lots and lots of people are saying very nice things about a woman who walked down the street

00:30:17.600 wearing shorts. One dude said not nice things. This is not exactly Pearl Harbor in terms of

00:30:24.400 national significance. True, Eilish has been targeted by shamers before, or so I'm told.

00:30:30.260 She's spoken out about the body shaming and issued many eloquent clapbacks over the years. But again,

00:30:36.080 a look at her Instagram account or music videos on YouTube reveal a very near unanimous agreement that

00:30:42.420 Eilish is beautiful, amazing, brilliant. She also won six Grammy Awards this year, which should serve,

00:30:48.220 I would think, as a nice self-esteem boost. But even with millions of adoring fans and legions of

00:30:53.820 internet warriors ready to leap into action to rip anyone to shreds should they utter the mildest

00:30:58.600 insult about her looks, music, or anything else, we're still told that there's a real problem, 0.68

00:31:03.940 even a newsworthy problem, of Billie Eilish being body shamed.

00:31:07.900 It's not just Billie Eilish. To hear the media tell it, you would think that we live in a culture

00:31:13.480 utterly beset by body shaming. Great effort is made to denounce body shaming, counteract body shaming,

00:31:20.200 raise awareness about body shaming, eradicate body shaming. And the body shaming problem has

00:31:24.460 attracted such intense focus that it's even been broken down into subcategories. We've gotten very

00:31:30.780 specific with it. There's the infamous fat shaming, the slightly less infamous skinny shaming. Plus,

00:31:36.260 there's tall shaming, short shaming, hair shaming, bald shaming, skin shaming, teeth shaming, 0.93

00:31:40.640 foot shaming, hand shaming, breath shaming, butt shaming. And we could continue down the list of 0.55

00:31:45.600 body parts, all of which have their own dedicated shamers and also their own dedicated anti-shamers. 0.83

00:31:51.420 But at least we could say the shaming is relegated to external features so far. I'm not aware of any

00:31:55.780 spleen shamers or kidney shamers. Yet, despite the exorbitant attention paid to the problem,

00:32:02.420 I doubt that people are more likely to make mean comments about your body today than at any other

00:32:08.680 point in history. In fact, it seems quite certain that body shaming today is much less common than

00:32:13.800 it once was. After all, there was a time when you could walk outside, you know, you put on your

00:32:19.960 Sunday's best and head into town to laugh at obese people and hairy women at an event that was literally 1.00

00:32:25.860 called a freak show. We may have our own ways of gawking at strange physical specimens these days,

00:32:31.080 but we usually do it through through reality TV. And usually it assumes an ostensibly inspirational

00:32:36.360 or medical tone. My 600 pound life on TLC, for example, is a show about extremely obese people,

00:32:42.800 but it sells itself as an opportunity to follow participants as we document their life saving

00:32:48.820 journey. This is a kinder and gentler approach to the spectacle for at least in this sense, a kinder

00:32:54.700 and gentler age. And it's probably the best we can hope for, from a fallen species such as ourselves.

00:33:02.040 Now, I'm not saying that nobody is ever shamed for the way they look. I know I, I know they are,

00:33:07.160 I am. I read my YouTube comments on occasion, you bastards. But if a person is subjected to a greater 1.00

00:33:15.220 quantity of mean comments today, it's only because we interact with so many more people and we put

00:33:21.320 ourselves in front of large audiences all the time as part of living our half-human, half-cyborg lives

00:33:28.500 in cyberspace. There's always going to be small, petty jerks who love snickering anonymously from 0.99

00:33:33.860 the sidelines if given the opportunity, but all the attention they're given only makes a troll mole 0.99

00:33:38.520 hill into a mountain. Most people, whether on the internet or in three-dimensional space,

00:33:44.080 are not inclined to make any comments about your physical looks. And most who are inclined will say

00:33:49.260 nice things. And if you are ever subjected to a genuinely vicious attack, you can always post

00:33:53.840 about it on Facebook and get thousands of people lining up to assuage your damaged ego and donate

00:33:59.100 generously to your GoFundMe campaign. What we should consider is that maybe the real epidemic when it

00:34:06.080 comes to body shaming and bullying generally is that we are so unable to deal with it. The interesting

00:34:15.200 question is not, why are all these people saying mean things? But rather, why are all these people

00:34:21.080 incapable of handling the mean things that are said to them? We could run around till our faces turn

00:34:27.140 blue, demanding that everybody see themselves as beautiful just the way they are. But at a certain

00:34:31.240 point, a person has to learn to function in the world without a constant IV drip of positive emotional

00:34:37.080 reinforcement. If a bit of taunting from the internet peanut gallery causes you to plunge into despair,

00:34:42.060 you probably have issues which the peanut gallery didn't cause and which would still exist even if 0.99

00:34:48.280 they all agreed that you're the most gorgeous specimen in the whole world. There isn't much

00:34:54.280 evidence that people are any meaner now than they've ever been at any other point in history.

00:34:58.400 But there is a fair amount of evidence that we're far more vulnerable and dependent upon

00:35:03.540 affirmation than at any other point in history. You know, some of the reason for this shift isn't hard

00:35:09.000 to decipher. Social media intentionally breeds this kind of fragility and mass codependence.

00:35:15.260 Many billions of dollars have been spent on technology designed precisely to give you this

00:35:20.800 fragile emotional complex, and many more billions have been made because of it.

00:35:25.440 Now, it also should be stated that some of the things we call body shaming can come from a place

00:35:29.480 of genuine, sincere concern on the part of the alleged shamer. You know, calling somebody fat and ugly 0.84

00:35:35.140 or stupid is clearly an insult. But these days, we're so determined to eradicate body shaming that 1.00

00:35:40.200 even a medically accurate and sound statement like, obesity is unhealthy, or, you know, you

00:35:47.080 shouldn't be proud of being morbidly overweight, even that is denounced as shaming. Billie Eilish is 1.00

00:35:53.420 obviously not obese, so this doesn't apply in her case, but we have run so far to the other end of

00:35:57.380 the shaming extreme that now we tell people to embrace and celebrate aspects of their physical

00:36:01.760 appearance that they can change and will kill them if they don't.

00:36:07.880 So, in the end, body shaming is not all it's cracked up to be. If you really feel shame about

00:36:14.340 your body because some anonymous troll teased you, the problem is less the troll and more the fact that

00:36:22.300 you care what the troll thinks in the first place, that you are, in fact, desperately in need of 0.97

00:36:27.320 affirmation from that troll. And his withholding of it causes you to spiral into emotional crisis.

00:36:35.920 That is the problem. In a sense, you are the problem. Focus on that. Until then, you're canceled.

00:36:45.560 That was my inspirational talk for the day. I hope you feel better at the end of it.

00:36:53.540 And we will leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great

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00:37:37.080 Hey, everyone. It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. As the confirmation hearings

00:37:41.560 of smoking hot judge Amy Coney Barrett come to an end, it becomes easy to understand why the left is

00:37:49.120 trying so hard to censor us and shout us down. It's because when the public hears what we really stand for,

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 16, 2020

Ep. 584 - Joe Biden, A Madman Driven Insane By Left Wing Ideology

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