The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 599 - Biden's Coronavirus Adviser Says People Should Die At 75

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden's coronavirus advisor is on the record saying

00:00:03.800 that everyone is better off dying at the age of 75. Seems like a rather serious conflict

00:00:08.360 of interest there. Also, five headlines including brave feminists remaining silent as prosecutors 0.99

00:00:13.940 drop sexual assault charges against Jacob Blake as part of a plea deal. And also the mayor of DC

00:00:19.580 is the latest Democrat mayor to break her own quarantine rules. This is happening a lot. She's 0.97

00:00:24.060 the latest one. Apparently she gets to be an exception, she explained. And in our daily

00:00:28.240 cancellation, I must cancel many states across our union for the sins that they've committed. This

00:00:34.180 has nothing to do with the election. It's much more serious than that, in fact. All of that is on the

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00:02:31.820 if Joe Biden ultimately does win the presidency, and we must stress as always the if here, but if he

00:02:39.240 does, we're going to experience the significant drawbacks of having the anti-life party lead a

00:02:46.440 pandemic response. Of course, we've already seen this at the state level. We know what that looks

00:02:52.160 like. They sent COVID patients into nursing homes because they didn't value the lives of the elderly.

00:02:56.120 They shut down businesses, destroyed people's lives, livelihoods and lives because they didn't

00:03:02.200 care about the lives they destroyed that way either. Of course, the people who advocated these

00:03:06.640 measures, they always claimed that they were the pro-life ones, right? And we're the fake pro-lifers

00:03:11.700 because we objected to the shutdowns. What they didn't understand or pretended not to understand is

00:03:16.200 that being pro-life also means caring about quality of life. It's not just a matter of preserving a

00:03:22.800 person's mere existence. There is more to living than simply not dying. All of that said, it's

00:03:29.540 important to remember that the quality of life phrase can also be used by advocates for the culture

00:03:35.860 of death who argue for, for example, mercifully killing those who they have decided do not have

00:03:43.500 quality of life or will not have it should they be allowed to live. So we'll have more on that in just

00:03:48.640 a minute. But that's, that's the point is that's not what I mean when I say quality of life. The

00:03:53.720 anti-life party though, they can't discern these distinctions. And we saw that as well when the

00:04:00.140 rioting hit and they let the mobs run wild, burning and looting at will because the human cost, the human

00:04:06.080 loss didn't register in their minds. All of this becomes more pronounced when you take it to a national

00:04:12.680 scale into the white house, which brings us to Ezekiel Emanuel. Okay. He's an oncologist and a

00:04:20.040 so-called bioethicist. He's also been appointed to be one of Joe Biden's very crucial coronavirus

00:04:25.920 advisors. Now, remember that coronavirus disproportionately kills those who are 75 and

00:04:32.300 older, which is why it caused so much decimation when Andrew Cuomo knowingly introduced it into nursing

00:04:37.700 homes. 75 and older, that's the age range. Now look at the article that Ezekiel Emanuel wrote not

00:04:44.340 all that long ago, back in 2014 for The Atlantic. His article says, it's titled, Why I Hope to Die at 75,

00:04:52.700 an argument that society and families and you will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and

00:04:58.460 promptly. Yes, you will be better off not existing if you've already existed for more than 75 years.

00:05:05.620 Ezekiel Emanuel has drawn the line in the sand. Nobody should exist past this age. And he's come

00:05:12.980 up with the age. He has determined the point when the lights have to be switched off and the party has

00:05:17.520 to end. Sorry, guys. Now, personally, I would say that God is the one who comes up with that age and

00:05:22.920 it's different for everybody. But as we have seen throughout history, and especially in our culture

00:05:28.100 today, if you don't accept that there is a God, you get to be one and you get to be the one who comes

00:05:33.620 up with these sorts of rules. So here's some of what the article says. It says, a simple truth that

00:05:38.540 many of us seem to resist. Living too long is a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled,

00:05:45.020 then faltering and declining. A state that may not be worse than death, but is nonetheless deprived.

00:05:51.140 It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how

00:05:57.160 people experience us, relate to us, and most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered

00:06:02.980 as vibrant and engaged, but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic. By the time I reach 75, I will have 0.87

00:06:09.020 lived a complete life. I will have loved and been loved. My children will be grown in the midst of

00:06:12.800 their own rich lives. I will have seen my grandchildren born and beginning their lives. I will have pursued my

00:06:17.520 life's projects and made whatever contributions, important or not, I am going to make. And hopefully,

00:06:22.080 I will not have too many mental and physical limitations. Dying at 75 will not be a tragedy.

00:06:29.800 Now, if you're not sufficiently horrified just yet, he later talks about what sort of medical care

00:06:34.520 he thinks we should accept after the age of 75. Here's some of that. He says, what about simple stuff?

00:06:41.620 Flu shots are out. Certainly, if there were to be a flu pandemic, a younger person who has yet to live 1.00

00:06:48.480 a complete life ought to get the vaccine or any antiviral drugs. A big challenge is antibiotics for

00:06:54.360 pneumonia or skin and urinary infections. Antibiotics are cheap and largely effective

00:06:59.360 and curing infections. It's really hard for us to say no. Indeed, even people who are sure they don't

00:07:04.180 want life-extending treatments find it hard to refuse antibiotics. But as Oslo reminds us, unlike the 0.95

00:07:09.680 decays associated with chronic conditions, death from these infections is quick and relatively painless.

00:07:15.500 So no to antibiotics. All right. So to recap, Joe Biden's coronavirus advisor does not think life

00:07:25.200 is worth living at 75, after 75. Doesn't see the death of someone 75 or over to be tragic.

00:07:33.000 Doesn't think that people that age should be accepting flu shots or even antibiotics. At least he doesn't

00:07:39.500 think he should accept them after 75, though I'm sure his opinion will likely change on that score

00:07:44.040 once he is 75, if he has, according to him, the misfortune of making it that far.

00:07:50.480 Now, call me crazy, but I think there might be a conflict of interest here.

00:07:53.900 The guy advising the president on how to deal with a disease that mostly kills the elderly

00:07:58.720 doesn't actually think it's a problem if the elderly are killed. In fact, he sees it as a net

00:08:04.300 positive for society and even for the person who dies.

00:08:07.080 And keep in mind that the president himself, if the president becomes, is Joe Biden, then the

00:08:14.520 president himself will be over the age of 75. So that has to be awkward to be advised by someone

00:08:20.720 who thinks you should be dead. Though in fairness, it seems like Trump ran into that problem a lot as

00:08:25.580 well. Perhaps a built-in hazard of the presidency. I don't know. Even so, there are two important points

00:08:31.420 to be made here. Number one, this man is a bioethicist. And you'll notice how bioethicists,

00:08:38.820 medical ethicists, ethicists in general these days, are a bit hamstrung by the fact that they

00:08:43.780 don't see human life as inherently meaningful or valuable. Ethics is all about developing a moral

00:08:49.840 system or a code to govern our behavior and our interactions with each other and the world.

00:08:55.220 But the most fundamental principle that ought to govern our behavior towards others is our recognition

00:08:59.920 of their inherent value and their human dignity. If you have no such recognition, your ethics will

00:09:06.340 be perverse. And often you will arrive at ethical conclusions that are exactly the opposite of

00:09:11.880 correct. So you probably wouldn't want a suicidal nihilist as your skydiving instructor. So you should

00:09:18.260 want them as our, we shouldn't want them as our professional ethicists either. Though skydiving

00:09:22.760 instructors are quite a bit more crucial to society than professional ethicists anyway. We could probably do

00:09:27.160 without professional ethicists in general, especially ones that think our grandmothers should be dead. 0.94

00:09:31.880 Second point is that, again, the Democrat Party is the party of death. This is the party that, after all,

00:09:36.660 has facilitated, funded, supported, cheered on the mass slaughter of 60 million infants. Calling them the 0.90

00:09:43.220 party of death is not hyperbole. They have earned that label. They have earned it with the blood of many dead

00:09:48.680 children. And the fact is that they don't see the destruction of life as objectively wrong or

00:09:54.320 immoral. They object only when such objections are politically useful. So they weep, for example,

00:09:59.480 over somebody like George Floyd, a convicted violent criminal. But blood is shed by the bucketful

00:10:04.860 every day in the cities they manage, the cities they ostensibly control. And they don't seem terribly

00:10:11.680 distressed by it. Now we're threatened with the possibility of these people taking over our pandemic

00:10:17.640 response. And we're already seeing what direction that will go. And it's not good, to put it lightly.

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00:12:51.260 All right. Number one here, the Daily Wire reports, Kenosha prosecutors have dropped the

00:12:58.480 sex assault charges against Jacob Blake following a plea agreement. Blake pleaded guilty. Now,

00:13:04.320 Jacob Blake, of course, he was the, he's the, the man in Kenosha who was shot by police officers as he

00:13:11.880 was, as police officers were called to the scene. He was allegedly harassing a woman who also had

00:13:20.360 accused him of, of, of raping her. And he had a knife. He assaulted the cops. He tried to get into 0.92

00:13:25.320 a car, not his car. He tried to get into the woman's car, uh, with his kids in there. They

00:13:30.200 tried to stop him. They told him to stop. He reached into the car and then they shot. So that was the,

00:13:34.400 the recap on that. But he had these sex assault charges. Uh, again, the woman whose house he was at

00:13:40.180 had accused him of sexual assault. Now prosecutors are dropping those charges, uh, as part of a plea

00:13:47.300 agreement, right? Blake pleaded guilty to two counts of disorderly conduct in order to get the third

00:13:53.360 degree sexual assault charge dropped. Blake told judge Brian Schroeder, honestly, your honor, though

00:14:00.140 I plead guilty to this, I don't consider myself to be guilty. I pretty much took this opportunity to

00:14:04.260 get to see my children quicker. Blake also said he did not sexually assault the woman making the

00:14:08.560 allegations against him. Blake's attorney said dropping the charge meant prosecutors were

00:14:12.400 acknowledging that ultimately the state could not prove it in court. Uh, Walworth County District

00:14:18.040 Attorney Zeke Weidenfeld told the outlet that the sexual assault charge was dropped in part because

00:14:23.900 the accuser refused to cooperate with prosecution. Yeah, well, of course she refused to cooperate.

00:14:30.720 And the fact that they didn't, that, you know, they didn't have evidence to prove in court does not

00:14:35.980 at all mean it didn't happen. These are very, we have to keep, remember this, these are extremely

00:14:40.660 credible charges against Jacob Blake. The reason why they're extremely credible is because his accuser

00:14:47.180 called police the morning that this incident happened. She said that Jacob Blake broke into

00:14:53.320 her window at like 6 a.m. on a, I think a Sunday morning and walked into a room where she was sleeping

00:14:59.800 and sexually assaulted her and then stole her keys, her car and her credit card and left.

00:15:04.700 She called 911 and she was trembling and crying. She was still in her, you know, in her, in her

00:15:12.220 nightgown and they came and they saw her there crying and obviously traumatized. Um, I would call

00:15:20.620 that an extremely credible accusation. This is, this isn't one of those accusations. Somebody comes out of

00:15:24.880 the woodwork, woodwork, you know, 30 years later, this is at the moment calling police. This is what

00:15:31.740 happened to me. Uh, she's not cooperating. Okay. Of course she's not cooperating. Her alleged abuser

00:15:39.000 who, by the way, she says has been abusing her for years, not just that one time for years, she said.

00:15:46.240 Um, and he's been lionized, canonized by the media, by the Democrat party. The, the potential new

00:15:55.000 president of the United States went and met with Jacob Blake's family and Jacob Blake himself

00:16:00.640 and was singing his praises afterwards. So all of the most powerful people, Matt, put yourself in

00:16:07.400 this woman's position, uh, assuming that her allegations are true, which I absolutely believe

00:16:13.280 her. Believe all women. No, we don't believe all women. I believe this woman because the allegations

00:16:17.200 are credible. Put yourself in her position. You are viciously assaulted by this man. And now, and, and

00:16:25.600 then a few months later, he comes, steals your keys. You're trying to protect him from, you know, your,

00:16:29.840 your kids, uh, gets himself shot in the, after assaulting police. And now all the most powerful

00:16:36.600 voices in, in society are coming to his defense and saying, he's a great guy.

00:16:43.280 He's a great father. Even what is she supposed to do? She comes out and tries to get this guy locked

00:16:51.500 away. Um, she's going to be worried for her own safety. She's going to be worried about, uh, about,

00:16:58.100 you know, being dragged through the mud. So you, you, you, you can definitely see where she's coming

00:17:01.860 from there, but where are the feminists on this? This, this is something where, you know, you would 1.00

00:17:08.000 think feminists would, would come out and come to this woman's defense. I haven't heard anything.

00:17:14.720 And we have seen this, whether it's with Jacob Blake, George Floyd, you know, there have been

00:17:20.400 at least three or four cases just in the last few months of BLM making martyrs and heroes and,

00:17:26.260 and canonizing, uh, men who have abused women in horrible ways. And those women are silenced.

00:17:34.720 Nobody talks about them. Nobody cares about them. Feminists not coming to their defense because 1.00

00:17:40.500 feminists are of course, disingenuous phonies in almost every single case. Number two, Governor 1.00

00:17:47.920 Cuomo, speaking of disingenuous phonies was on with George Stephanopoulos, who, by the way,

00:17:52.420 Stephanopoulos is apparently lobbying to be Alex Trebek's replacement. That's another update here.

00:17:57.560 I mean, he's not lobbying Cuomo. I don't think Andrew Cuomo makes that decision, but he's lobbying

00:18:02.260 to get on Jeopardy, be the new replacement for, for Jeopardy. Talk about a, talk about a step down

00:18:06.340 in quality. I mean, you go from the most likable guy in America to one of the most insufferable

00:18:12.860 goobers in America. That is, that's a very steep drop in quality. Losing Trebek and ending up with 0.89

00:18:20.380 this guy. It's like remaking a John Wayne movie and casting like, I don't know, Kate McKinnon in his

00:18:27.300 role or something, which I don't want to give Hollywood ideas. That sounds like something they would

00:18:30.860 actually do. Anyway, here's, here's Cuomo talking to George Stephanopoulos and the potential of a

00:18:37.060 vaccine coming out soon. He doesn't seem very happy about it. Oddly enough, here he is.

00:18:42.980 We were talking yesterday about the importance of vaccine distribution in the next two months.

00:18:47.120 What do you make of this news? Well, it's, it's good news, bad news, George. The good news is

00:18:52.780 the Pfizer tests look good and we'll have a vaccine shortly. The bad news is that it's about two months

00:18:59.920 before Joe Biden takes over. And that means this administration is going to be implementing a

00:19:05.700 vaccine plan. Uh, you have two months and we can't let this vaccination plan go forward the way the

00:19:13.260 Trump administration is designing it because Biden can't undo it two months later. We'll be in the

00:19:19.980 midst of it. Uh, and I'm going, I've been talking to governors across the nation about that. Uh,

00:19:25.800 how can we shape the Trump administration vaccine plan to fix it or stop it, uh, before it does damage?

00:19:33.720 Yeah. The only thing may be surprising about any of this is just how utterly transparent these people

00:19:42.380 are being. Andrew Cuomo is not even trying to hide it. He does not want Donald Trump getting credit

00:19:49.660 for this vaccine. Does not want this coming out on, on Trump's watch. Doesn't want it. Seems to me he

00:19:56.060 would rather have people die just so Trump doesn't get the credit. Utterly transparent. And speaking of

00:20:02.320 being transparent, uh, Mark Seagraves of NBC4 in Washington reports, quote, DC mayor Bowser and her

00:20:10.180 staff attended Joe Biden's victory speech in Wilmington on Saturday. Delaware is on the mayor's

00:20:15.340 list of high risk States, which would require quarantine after returning. Bowser staff says

00:20:20.900 the trip was essential travel exempted under mayor's order, essential travel, going to a victory

00:20:27.740 speech at another state. So you can, you know, shake hands and hug and celebrate that's essential

00:20:34.060 travel now. But mayor Bowser just joins a long list of, uh, Democrat mayors and they have really all

00:20:43.280 been Democrats, Democrat mayors disregarding their own rules and saying, Oh no, I get to,

00:20:48.980 I get to be an exception to this. I forgot to tell you, just making up the rules as they go along.

00:20:57.140 Democrats with, with, with the coronavirus regulations, they remind me a lot of my own

00:21:02.580 kids in maybe more ways than one, but they remind me of my own children or they remind me of children

00:21:09.260 in general, but my own kids, you know, I play a game with them and they make up rules as they go

00:21:14.480 very conveniently. Like I'm playing tag with my kids and they just decide that whatever tree

00:21:20.980 they're standing next to, Oh, this is base. I'm safe here. That's what the Democrats are doing

00:21:26.920 with the coronavirus restrictions. They, they can say, Oh no, I forgot to tell you that if you're,

00:21:30.680 if you're, Oh yeah, no, you're not supposed to travel, but if you're going to a victory speech

00:21:34.880 for Joe Biden, then, um, did we not put that in the rules? I meant to, but we meant to put it in

00:21:39.260 the rules. That's an exception. This is something that people have, liberals have, have never

00:21:45.960 understood, or at least have acted like they don't understand. One of the primary objections to the

00:21:52.460 coronavirus restrictions. It's, it's not just that they're onerous though that they are, and that is

00:22:00.180 an objection, but what makes it worse, what makes it untenable and intolerable and especially

00:22:08.660 tyrannical is that they are arbitrary and that they are not consistently applied to everyone.

00:22:16.000 That is the real problem. If these restrictions were put in place and everybody was expected to

00:22:22.780 follow them and no exceptions were made, and we're not making exceptions for BLM rioters and people who are

00:22:28.920 dancing in the streets because of, uh, Joe Biden supposedly has won the presidency and we're not

00:22:33.460 making exceptions so that the mayor of Chicago can go and get her, her hair done, uh, or the Nancy 0.99

00:22:39.240 Pelosi can, and we're not making exceptions for Bill de Blasio in New York. Everybody follows it.

00:22:45.340 I would still object, but it wouldn't be nearly as oppressive. Then we would be objecting on the

00:22:54.460 grounds that this is just a bad strategy. Uh, it's, you know, it's not the right way to approach this.

00:22:59.920 I mean, we would still be strenuously objecting, but what, what, what, what makes it infuriating

00:23:05.800 and what makes it oppressive is the arbitrariness of it and the double standards, triple standards,

00:23:13.000 quadruple standards. The standards keep changing by the, by the second. All right, number four,

00:23:17.280 if you want to see what real courage looks like, here it is. Look at this footage here.

00:23:20.900 BLM protesters marching in Michigan. Um, I don't know if these are protesters now or, or

00:23:26.560 revelers, if they're celebrating, I don't know, but they're, they're, they're marching. This was

00:23:30.680 on, I think Saturday. And this is what you see now. You see these diners at a restaurant preemptively

00:23:36.980 giving the black power fist so they don't get yelled at. Uh, and then, and then there's this old, 0.88

00:23:43.800 this, this old guy here who's, I don't know what he's doing. He's raising the roof. That's not the

00:23:47.280 black power symbol. He's, he's, he's raising the roof. Okay. A little bit behind the times with 0.52

00:23:52.820 his, with his gestures, but that's all right. Um, oh no, this isn't, this isn't courage. I'm sorry.

00:23:57.880 I used the wrong word. This is the exact opposite of courage. Also notice how almost all these people

00:24:02.980 are white here. All the people sitting at the tables, almost everyone in the crowd, all bunch 1.00

00:24:06.900 of white people. Virtue signaling by giving the black power symbol to each other. Look, I understand you 1.00

00:24:14.460 don't want to, a mob descending on you when you're trying to eat your brunch or whatever you're

00:24:18.880 eating. But at a certain point, you have to have a little bit of courage, grow a little bit of the

00:24:23.420 spine. Number five, checking in now with the great journalistic publication Jezebel. Uh, my producer

00:24:30.540 sent me this, blame him, not me. Apparently the new adaptation of the witches is facing backlash

00:24:36.180 because the villain has a disability. And that's, that's a, that's a problem. The article says

00:24:42.180 Warner Brothers has apologized after receiving criticism over their depiction of Anne Hathaway's

00:24:46.520 grand witch character in their new adaptation of, uh, Ruol Dahl's book, The Witches. Yes, it is

00:24:53.400 pronounced Ruol, by the way, not Roll. In the movie, Hathaway's character is, uh, which I just learned

00:24:58.120 yesterday. I'm not gonna pretend like I knew it before. In the movie, Hathaway's character is missing

00:25:01.720 fingers, making it appear as though she has the limb difference ectrodactyli, commonly known as split

00:25:08.400 hand. This falls into a harmful pattern of giving villainous characters physical disabilities,

00:25:14.320 perpetuating the oppressive idea that people with disabilities are scary or somehow less moral than

00:25:19.220 people without disabilities. The vice president of communications at RespectAbility, an organization

00:25:24.280 that advocates for people with disabilities, also called out the film's decision to associate

00:25:27.640 disability with evil characters. In this case, even choosing to add a limb difference that was not a

00:25:32.140 part of Dahl's original story. Unfortunately, this representation in The Witches teaches kids that limb

00:25:37.500 differences are hideous or something to be afraid of. What type of message does this send to children

00:25:41.560 with limb differences? According to a spokesperson for Warner Brothers, the studio was deeply saddened

00:25:47.240 that their depiction of the characters in The Witches might have upset people with disabilities.

00:25:50.800 But then listen to their statement. They said,

00:25:53.420 In adapting the original story, we worked with designers and artists to come up with a new

00:25:57.720 interpretation of the cat-like claws that are described in the book. It was never the intention for

00:26:02.400 viewers to feel that the fantastical non-human creatures were meant to represent them.

00:26:07.260 Is it just me or is Warner Brothers throwing a little bit of shade here, as the kids would say?

00:26:12.740 Maybe it's wishful thinking or projection, but I'm picking up on some serious sarcasm in their

00:26:17.480 statement, which I like. At any rate, if this is offensive, then the penguin in Batman must be

00:26:25.540 really traumatic. But you never know with that one whether the penguin is offensive on this basis

00:26:30.160 or maybe because he's appropriating from avian culture. Who really knows? But I am glad we're having

00:26:35.680 this conversation because I've always been disturbed by the villains who wear glasses.

00:26:41.500 As a member of the visually impaired community, the VIC, VIC, victim, as a member of that community, 1.00

00:26:47.560 and also as a member of the facial hair community, I'm extremely distressed by villains who wear glasses,

00:26:55.320 have facial hair a lot of times. For example, look at this. Jim Carrey's portrayal of Dr. Robotnik

00:27:02.160 in the recent Sonic the Hedgehog film. Great film by any other measure. But you can see there,

00:27:10.980 he's got glasses and he's got a mustache. And when I see this, it's almost as if the makers of the film

00:27:18.360 are trying to give the impression that anyone with glasses and facial hair is probably hatching a 0.97

00:27:24.880 bastardly plot to kill a magical hedgehog. This is a stereotype that I have carried with me 0.76

00:27:31.480 for years. Every time I walk down the street, people are shouting like, hey,

00:27:35.900 catch any hedgehogs today, you loser? Ha! And they high-five each other. I run away crying. I mean, 1.00

00:27:42.860 it happens every day. So I'm glad that Jezebel is calling attention to this issue. It is very important.

00:27:48.940 All right. We're going to get to our daily cancellation in just a second. But first,

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00:30:31.820 let's get to our daily cancellation. Well, today for our daily cancellation, it's going to be a

00:30:35.540 bloodbath. I have to cancel a whole host of states, and it's got nothing to do with the election. This is

00:30:40.500 all about side dishes. Graham Elliott, famous TV chef, posted this graphic. You can see here the most

00:30:47.560 popular Thanksgiving dishes, side dishes by state. That's the graphic. Now, I don't know where he got

00:30:52.420 this information. I'm going to assume it's correct because I read it on the internet. I did try to

00:30:56.300 cross-reference it, and I found the same chart on the website delish.com, and I figure that's

00:31:01.660 probably more fact-checking than this subject really warrants, so I'll leave it at that. Now,

00:31:05.080 as you can see, the map reveals, I think, a deep sickness and confusion and moral rot in our culture.

00:31:12.860 Many of these states apparently do not know how to properly assemble a Thanksgiving plate.

00:31:17.340 Some of the things here that are revealed are frankly shocking to me. So let's start with the

00:31:21.100 positive, all right? I take no issue with green bean casserole as a favorite side, which means

00:31:25.540 Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, some others. They're all safe, fine. Mashed potatoes, of course,

00:31:32.980 are overrated, but they are a staple of any self-respecting Thanksgiving ensemble. So

00:31:36.760 California, Nevada, most of the states up there on the Canadian border, safe from cancellation,

00:31:43.540 at least today. Indiana has deviled eggs as their side dish of choice, which is controversial because

00:31:50.120 deviled eggs are more appropriate at Easter dinner than Thanksgiving. However, I will allow it because

00:31:55.840 I am merciful. And besides, Indiana doesn't have much else going on food-wise or in any other respect,

00:32:01.240 the poor things. So I won't be too hard on them. No offense if you live in Indiana. My new home,

00:32:06.640 Tennessee, has sweet potato casserole as a favorite side dish. That's a perfectly fine answer.

00:32:10.700 Then if you go up into the Northeast and into England, stuffing is the favorite side dish. By the way,

00:32:14.980 this is the correct answer. Homemade stuffing with gravy is objectively the most important

00:32:18.600 Thanksgiving side dish. Notice I said most important. There's a nuance here. I didn't say

00:32:23.020 it's the best. I said it's the most important in that your Thanksgiving plate simply makes no sense.

00:32:27.980 It's absurd if it doesn't have stuffing on it. Somebody who passes over the stuffing at Thanksgiving

00:32:32.300 has immediately revealed themselves to be a degenerate and a freak. And I will tell them that to 0.93

00:32:36.900 their face. And I have. And many Thanksgiving dinners have gotten off to an awkward start because of

00:32:42.220 it. Now, things go off the rails, though, at this point. First, we've got all these states,

00:32:47.060 Missouri, Oklahoma, others, that have rolls as their most popular side dish. Rolls? That's not a side

00:32:51.960 dish. You might as well say napkins are your favorite side dish. A roll is not a proper side.

00:32:56.820 Then look at Maine. Of course, these weirdos have salad. Salad. I remain convinced that nobody actually

00:33:01.620 likes salad. Eating a salad is a chore. It's something you do to punish yourself. It's atonement. Or else it's

00:33:07.760 done in a desperate attempt to virtue signal. That's why people, when they eat salad, they're

00:33:13.320 always like, oh, look at me with my salad. Aren't you impressed? I mean, nobody's actually said that

00:33:18.560 out loud when they eat salad, as far as I know, but they're thinking it. I can tell. Salad's the kind

00:33:22.660 of thing that you add to your spread because you can't think of anything else because you lack

00:33:27.940 culinary vision. And then nobody eats it. And you're left with 30 pounds of rabbit food that you have to go

00:33:33.060 donate to a petting zoo. Have you ever in your entire life seen a Thanksgiving dinner run out

00:33:38.260 of salad? Have you ever heard someone say, can you pass the salad? And then someone else says,

00:33:42.960 oh, sorry, it's gone. You hear that with green bean casserole. You hear it with stuffing, cranberry

00:33:48.020 sauce, yams. Hell, even roasted vegetables are going to run out of those eventually. Even the stupid

00:33:53.200 useless rolls get eaten. Never the salad. You never hear that. There's always salad left over because 1.00

00:33:58.560 nobody gives a damn about it. In fact, the salad is always getting pushed on you at the end.

00:34:03.060 There's always sales pitches being given for the salad. You ask for another turkey leg and somebody

00:34:07.320 goes, oh, those are gone, but do you want salad? No, I don't want salad, you damned lunatic. 1.00

00:34:13.480 And then you've got Oregon over there with biscuits. Listen, I'm a big biscuit fan, but biscuits 1.00

00:34:18.160 don't belong on Thanksgiving. That's very strange. And half of the eastern seaboard from Maryland and

00:34:24.900 Delaware on down through the Carolinas and Georgia, all claiming mac and cheese, macaroni and cheese as

00:34:31.380 their favorite Thanksgiving side. I want to be clear about this, and you're not going to like it.

00:34:34.520 Mac and cheese is not a Thanksgiving side for adults. It's fine for kids. Once you grow out of

00:34:39.940 the phase where you're drinking out of juice boxes and eating Fruity Pebbles for breakfast,

00:34:43.960 you need to be done with mac and cheese. Don't tell me your grandmother has a great recipe for it. 0.97

00:34:48.920 There are no great recipes for mac and cheese. Mac and cheese is a pasta dish for people who haven't

00:34:53.600 discovered that real pasta exists. It tops out at like a C plus B minus dish. I'm sorry you've fallen

00:35:00.820 for your grandmother's propaganda and fake news. I'm sorry you had to hear it from me. I don't make

00:35:05.860 the rules. I discern them through deep meditation and oneness with the universe. And this is simply

00:35:13.540 the truth. So the southern half of the east coast states plus Maine, Missouri, Oklahoma, all canceled.

00:35:19.120 And Alabama. Alabama has dressing as its favorite side. Dressing as a side? What are you doing in

00:35:25.100 Alabama? Guzzling ranch right out of the bottle? How is that a side dish? Alabama is canceled.

00:35:31.620 Half the states in the union are canceled. And they are all banned from having Thanksgiving dinners.

00:35:37.120 It will not be allowed for their own good and mine. And on that serious note, we are going to

00:35:45.020 leave it there for today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

00:35:49.120 Godspeed.

00:36:19.120 Justin Stevens. Edited by Danny D'Amico. And our audio is mixed by Robin Fenderson.

00:36:24.400 The Matt Wall Show is a Daily Wire production. Copyright Daily Wire 2020.

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