The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 612 - The Petty Tyrants That Rule Us

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, an official in California votes to ban outdoor dining and then

00:00:05.080 immediately goes to eat at a restaurant outdoors. We have gotten used to this sort of hypocrisy from

00:00:09.960 our rulers, but we should not be used to it. So we'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines,

00:00:14.240 including controversy over a restaurant owner who scolded his patrons for twerking in his

00:00:19.380 restaurant. People are offended, you know, that he told them to stop twerking, but reasonable people

00:00:24.400 are more so concerned that he had to tell them in the first place. And in our daily cancellation,

00:00:28.460 as we get into the holiday season, I will be canceling Christmas trees, unfortunately have

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00:02:26.560 with them online at charitymobile.com. So we all know how this story goes by now. We've heard a

00:02:31.800 version of it dozens of times. The latest twist, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Cole voted to

00:02:38.600 ban outdoor dining in Los Angeles County, which would mean shutting down tens of thousands of

00:02:42.980 businesses and putting many of them under permanently. And then promptly, right after

00:02:47.500 this vote, went and dined outdoors at a restaurant. Here's the Fox 11 report from LA. It says,

00:02:53.740 quote, Fox 11 received multiple tips that shortly after her vote on Tuesday, Cole was seen dining

00:02:57.900 outside at Il Forno Trattoria in Santa Monica, an Italian restaurant near her house that she has

00:03:03.060 previously described as one of her favorite restaurants. When Fox 11 investigative reporter

00:03:07.900 Bill Mulligan stopped by the restaurant to ask about Cole's visit, managers told him they,

00:03:13.420 quote, didn't want to get involved and they have no comment. Now, just a side note here. I understand

00:03:18.540 that the managers don't want to get involved, but they should get involved. This ridiculous tyrant 0.99

00:03:25.140 is trying to destroy your business. She wants to take you down. She wants to impoverish your children. 1.00

00:03:31.040 You should have banned her from the restaurant when she showed up. You should have had security 1.00

00:03:36.780 escort her out the door in front of everybody. You should have embarrassed and humiliated her. 1.00

00:03:43.160 See, one of the aspects of this whole farce of the lockdowns and everything that else is going on

00:03:49.160 is the submissiveness of people, the people who should be standing up for themselves. Churches not 0.90

00:03:55.120 willing to fight back against insane infringements on their First Amendment freedoms. Business owners not

00:04:00.240 willing to defy the orders from psychopaths like Sheila. People obediently wearing masks even just to

00:04:08.000 walk outside down the street because that's what they've been told to do by people who don't wear

00:04:12.940 the masks themselves. The only way out of this, the only way to stop it, the only end game is for

00:04:19.500 people to refuse to comply with the dictates and commands of petty tyrants like Sheila. Just refuse. 1.00

00:04:26.560 Scoff at her. Waiver off. Continue doing what you want to do. That's the only way.

00:04:34.160 As long as we cooperate, as long as we submit, it's not going to end. It will never end.

00:04:40.900 All right, back to the article. It says, during Tuesday's LA County Board of Supervisors meeting,

00:04:45.600 Cole referred to outside dining as a most dangerous situation over what she described as a risk of

00:04:53.300 tables of unmasked patrons potentially exposing their servers to the coronavirus. She says,

00:04:58.080 this is a very serious health emergency and we must take it seriously. The servers are not

00:05:03.160 protected from us and they're not protected from their other tables that they're serving at that

00:05:07.160 particular time, plus all the hours in which they're working. Cole went on to vote in support

00:05:12.200 of restricting outdoor dining in Los Angeles County, which passed by a three to two margin

00:05:15.940 of the Board of Supervisors. Cole's visit to the restaurant came before the outdoor dining ban took

00:05:21.120 effect Wednesday evening, but her decision is likely to draw criticism from those who have

00:05:25.020 grown frustrated with elected officials taking a hypocritical approach to what they have preached.

00:05:29.960 As Cole dined at the restaurant a mere hours after she said doing such a thing would be unsafe

00:05:34.940 and would contribute to the surge in COVID-19 cases. Now, Sheila did provide a statement to Fox

00:05:41.000 via a spokesperson. You can tell me if you think this is sufficient. Does this, is this enough

00:05:46.520 to make you say, okay, I'm satisfied. She said, this is from the spokesperson says she did dine at

00:05:52.700 al fresco, uh, did dine al fresco at Il Forno on the very last day. It was permissible. She loves

00:05:58.480 Il Forno has been saddened to see it like so many restaurants suffer from a decline in revenue. She ate

00:06:04.080 there taking appropriate precautions and sadly will not dine there again until our public health orders

00:06:09.300 permit. Oh, she loves it. You say she, she loves it, but is in the process of demolishing it.

00:06:17.460 She hates to see its decline in revenue, but she is personally and specifically working to take away

00:06:24.060 its revenue. You see how that works? Does that make sense to you? No, it probably doesn't because

00:06:30.160 you're not a sociopath. In order for there to be this much of a disconnect between what you say and

00:06:35.900 what you do. And in order to so casually decimate the lives of so many millions for no reason at all,

00:06:43.480 and then to go and enjoy a nice meal served to you by the very people whose lives you are in the 0.98

00:06:48.420 process of ruining, you must be a sociopath. No mentally healthy person could manage this. 0.99

00:06:54.060 And there are a lot of sociopaths ruling us right now, as we have discovered. So a few points that I

00:06:59.860 want to make here in no particular order. First is this, I have a modest proposal for politicians or

00:07:06.300 public health officials who violate their own lockdowns or operate in their personal lives in

00:07:12.620 a manner inconsistent with their public fear mongering. I propose that they be dragged into the

00:07:19.180 town square, tarred and feathered, and then loaded onto a helicopter and sent to Gitmo for 30 years.

00:07:25.780 Now, I'm not advocating vigilante justice, to be clear. I'm calling for actual legislation to be

00:07:31.840 introduced. I want this all done legally. We could call it the tar and feather hypocritical scumbags

00:07:37.040 act of 2021 or something. I might be a little too on the nose. I don't know. We can brainstorm that part 0.98

00:07:43.180 of it. The main point is that people like Sheila should be treated with utter contempt and disregard 0.88

00:07:50.300 and loathing. That's what she deserves. That's what she would receive in a healthy republic.

00:07:57.140 Other than, you know, besides or instead of politeness and submissiveness,

00:08:04.640 you know, a restaurant politely serving her after she just voted to destroy them. 0.98

00:08:11.180 Second point, it's worth reflecting on another aspect of the problem,

00:08:14.740 namely that the lockdowns and mask mandates and all the rest of the COVID-related initiatives

00:08:21.060 have empowered dozens, hundreds of these kinds of people all across the country.

00:08:26.440 Now, we already know about the governors like Cuomo and Whitmer who have gone mad with the power

00:08:30.760 they've been given or rather have taken. And we know about the incompetent, floundering,

00:08:35.220 nitwit mayors like de Blasio and Lightfoot who have also enjoyed play acting as Roman emperors. 0.97

00:08:40.480 But the real danger is that we have to deal with lower level bureaucrats, especially old ones like

00:08:46.180 Sheila, who would have loved to have, you know, to have gained real power and maybe be mayors or 1.00

00:08:51.580 senators or governors or something on that level, but somehow lack the talent and charisma of even

00:08:56.480 Bill de Blasio. And so we're stuck for decades as county supervisors or town councilmen or whatever.

00:09:02.860 Now, even those people have the power to, with the swipe of a pen, lock people in their homes,

00:09:09.360 impoverish them, plunge them into destitution. And many have taken full advantage. See,

00:09:15.700 a tyrant is not just a dictator or like a warlord. A tyrant is someone who gets off on exploiting

00:09:25.960 whatever power they have and whatever control they have over other people. There are parents who are

00:09:32.140 tyrants. There are assistant managers at Home Depot who are tyrants. Hell, there are customer service

00:09:37.880 reps at the cable company who are tyrants. They have a little bit of power and control over you 0.89

00:09:42.200 when you call the company and they're, and they're manning the phones and they answer

00:09:45.880 and they're going to use it. Whatever little power they have, they're going to use it to make your life

00:09:50.440 miserable because that makes them feel better. We've all, we've all dealt with people like this.

00:09:54.460 They are tyrants just on the smallest imaginable scale because that's as far as they've been able to

00:09:59.540 go. The problem now is that a lot of low scale tyrants have been given way more power than they

00:10:06.060 were ever supposed to have. They've been given real power over your life. And now we're all

00:10:11.400 paying the price for it. Third final point. And this has been explained many times and shouldn't

00:10:16.860 need to be explained at all because I think it's rather obvious, but I will explain it because there

00:10:19.940 are still many people who are confused on this point. When we talk about politicians or public

00:10:24.680 officials not practicing what they preach when it comes to COVID, we're not playing a game of gotcha.

00:10:31.600 Okay. That's not the point. We're not going for a ticky tacky hair splitting sort of thing here.

00:10:35.800 The point is that if they really believe what they say, they wouldn't even be tempted to act in a way

00:10:43.800 that's inconsistent with what they say. If they really believed that eating at a restaurant is a

00:10:49.920 very dangerous situation, they wouldn't want to do it themselves. You know, so when you catch it,

00:10:56.040 whether Gavin Newsom was caught and he said, well, you know, we all make mistakes.

00:11:00.360 Yeah. Okay. That, that excuse might work in, in some scenarios with politicians who do,

00:11:08.600 do one thing and you'll say one thing, do another when they're making the kinds of mistakes that

00:11:13.700 normal people would be tempted to make. But in this case, I mean, you said it's dangerous. It

00:11:18.900 could kill you. Why would you even be tempted to do that? If you really believe it,

00:11:22.560 the fact that they do things that they have called dangerous and deadly shows that they don't believe

00:11:30.120 that those things are dangerous and deadly. Obviously they are passing these laws and

00:11:35.100 ordinances and regulations and decimating the economy and destroying lives on a basis and using

00:11:40.340 a logic that they do not believe, which means they aren't doing it for the reasons they give.

00:11:47.280 Because again, they don't believe those reasons. They're doing it for some other reason. And our

00:11:52.860 point when we bring up the hypocrisy is simply to ask, what's the real reason? Sheila doesn't want 1.00

00:12:00.500 to, doesn't want to shut down outdoor dining because she thinks it's dangerous. She doesn't 1.00

00:12:04.320 think it's dangerous, clearly. So why is she really shutting it down? That's our point. That's our

00:12:10.800 question. It's a good question. And the answer to the question seems clear and has already been

00:12:16.020 alluded to. She's doing it for power and control. That's why they're all doing it. That's what all 0.64

00:12:22.220 of this is about. It has always been about. And it's time that the American public finally wake up

00:12:28.480 to that fact. Now let's get to our five headlines. So we'll start with this from the Daily Wire and

00:12:40.540 kind of, we were just talking about, you know, people cooperating with, um, with, with these

00:12:45.700 mandates when they shouldn't be. This has especially been the case with churches. And it says police

00:12:50.080 blocked congregants from attending a drive-in church service at a church in rural Manitoba,

00:12:54.940 Canada on Sunday morning. As depicted in a Facebook video, which we'll play for you in a second,

00:12:59.280 police blocked cars from entering the parking lot of the Church of God Steinbach, forcing them to line

00:13:05.460 up on the adjacent street to listen to senior pastor Heinrich Hildebrand preach from over a

00:13:10.620 loudspeaker. Um, Hildebrand preached, God has given us the right to worship him together and he wants to

00:13:17.160 see his people united. It seems like we're living in a different Canada. It's very heartbreaking to

00:13:21.340 be the Church of God at Steinbach, which is about a 40 miles Southeast of Winnipeg was fine $5,000 last

00:13:27.900 week for holding services in defiance of what Hildebrand describes as draconian and unconstitutional

00:13:32.380 orders. So there's a Facebook live stream that one of the congregants recorded and, um, showing the

00:13:40.000 police presence and, and how, how they were, how the congregants were forced to line up on the street

00:13:46.020 to listen. And we'll play a little bit of that for right now. Watch this. Good morning. Thank you for

00:13:52.320 joining us this morning. As you can see, the police have decided to not allow us to have service this

00:13:57.660 morning. We have speakers set up and are playing songs. I'm not sure if you can hear me. It's quite

00:14:05.000 loud right here, but just showing you what's going on. Police have showed up in droves to decide that

00:14:12.840 they're not going to let us have service this morning in glorious and free Canada. Can you believe

00:14:19.540 it? Look at this? Look at this. We've got media. We've got police on site. Lots and lots of police

00:14:30.860 here today. Yeah. That's a, if you couldn't see the video there, I mean the, it's just an absurd

00:14:36.160 spectacle where they, they were lit. The cars are lined up on the street and you've got the pastor in

00:14:42.100 the parking lot shouting to them through a loudspeaker because they weren't allowed to go into the parking

00:14:47.300 lot just for a drive-in service. You know, if you've been to a drive-in service, it's just, you're in

00:14:52.680 your car in a parking lot. How could you possibly be spreading a virus? But even that was not allowed.

00:15:00.580 Now this church though, okay, here, here, this, this church in Canada, this is a good example of the

00:15:07.700 opposite of what I was talking about before. Okay. There are a lot of people submissively going along

00:15:11.780 with it, a lot of church, but here, here's a church that's not, they've already, they've already been

00:15:15.360 fined and they're still going forward and doing whatever they can, um, to still meet and worship

00:15:21.560 and pray together. But so many churches across America, Canada, across the West, uh, the government

00:15:29.400 showed up and said, Oh, you know, you're not, we're not, we're not going to let you. We tell you

00:15:33.400 what, we've just decided to take your first amendment rights away. We we've decided that you're not

00:15:37.960 essential anymore. And because we've called you, that's the, um, the back door apparently that we're

00:15:44.120 allowed to, to, to exploit in order to take your first amendment rights away is all we can do is

00:15:47.760 no. Okay. We could take your first amendment rights away, but first we just have to declare

00:15:51.440 you non-essential. And then as soon as we do that, you no longer get, um, get first amendment rights.

00:15:56.780 Now, even though, as far as I'm aware in the first amendment, it doesn't say anything about

00:16:00.360 this only applies to people, the government deems essential. This goes for everybody,

00:16:05.920 but for so many churches, the government came and said that. And, uh, they said, okay,

00:16:15.160 if you say so, and they went home, pastors, bishops, leaders of the church.

00:16:23.180 And now here we are, you know, begging for the courts to bail us out

00:16:28.040 and maybe they will. The Supreme court had the case up in New York found that those, uh, that,

00:16:36.360 that New York didn't have, didn't have the, uh, didn't have the authority to shut down the

00:16:40.700 churches like it had. And that that's good. But what a pitiful sight it is that we as Christians

00:16:47.380 in a free country with the first amendment, this is what we're reduced to sitting here and just

00:16:52.340 begging Supreme court, please bail us out. What should have happened from the very beginning

00:16:57.380 is that the government says, Oh, you're not essential. You can't, you can't gather. You

00:17:01.700 can't exercise your first amendment rights. And what should have happened is everyone listens to

00:17:07.440 that and says, Oh, is that your opinion? Okay. Well, good. Thanks for sharing. And then you just go

00:17:13.480 to church and continue on what you're doing, completely ignoring it. If they want to go in,

00:17:20.960 arrest everybody, cart the little old ladies out of church, put them in jail. They can do that. 1.00

00:17:25.980 If that's the level they want to take this to, we didn't even try to call their bluff.

00:17:34.240 Um, let's go here. Number two article from eater.com says over the weekend, Dallas newcomer,

00:17:42.340 true kitchen and cocktails as a restaurant was at the center of a social media firestorm after video

00:17:47.480 of the restaurant restaurant's owner ranting about the ills of twerking went viral on social media.

00:17:52.860 The vital video posted to Twitter by user, uh, doesn't matter the user's name depicts a person

00:17:58.640 looks a whole lot like true kitchen owner, Kevin Kelly, throwing a massive fit over a group of

00:18:04.220 women. This is, I'm reading from the article. This is obviously there's a lot of editorializing in

00:18:07.780 the way that in the, in the tone of this article, throwing a quote, massive fit over a group of women 0.81

00:18:13.040 who were reportedly twerking to the music played by the restaurant's DJ. According to one source,

00:18:17.300 the song that spurred the incident was Dallas rapper Lil Roni, mother F's circle.

00:18:25.760 That's the name of the rapper. I think Lil Roni, mother F's. 0.60

00:18:31.920 I'm sure his music is, um, is, is very worthwhile listening to, uh, someone says in part all,

00:18:41.580 uh, well, instead of quoting him, I think we'll just play the video for you. So this was uploaded

00:18:45.900 to Twitter and it was trending on Twitter yesterday. A lot of people, very upset with

00:18:53.600 what I'm about to play for you. Uh, media writing articles about it, you know, almost unanimously

00:18:59.620 panning this guy for what he said to the restaurant patrons who were twerking. And, uh, here it is.

00:19:05.380 I invested a lot of money into buying this building, into developing this concept. So

00:19:11.280 black people can have somewhere nice to go to, okay? Somewhere where we can feel good about

00:19:15.440 ourselves as a, come on, stop the music, please. Somewhere where our people can feel good about

00:19:21.880 ourselves as a culture, okay? No, no, real talk. And so all this twerking and sh**, taking the prime,

00:19:27.940 taking the pink, don't bring it here because we're a restaurant. And so beyond that, 75% of my 0.95

00:19:33.040 customers are ladies and I'm on being to show respect for themselves for how they carry themselves

00:19:36.880 here. So how can I tell the men to respect themselves? And you guys are talking on glass

00:19:40.880 here. Do you want to do it? Get the f**k out my restaurant because I did it for our people and I

00:19:44.480 did it for our culture. So don't do it. Don't do it again. I don't want to hear it. If you don't like 0.99

00:19:48.100 it, get out because I don't need your money. I need to provide something for my people and don't do

00:19:52.960 it again. Thank you. So that's what people were upset about. Now I hear that as a relatively

00:19:58.280 normal person. I hear that and I think that guy's awesome. Let's give him the Nobel peace

00:20:02.800 prize. That's the greatest thing. I love every bit of that. The only issue I have with what he

00:20:09.880 said is that he had to say it. There were people apparently, as you heard there in the clip,

00:20:15.580 standing on the furniture at a restaurant, putting their hands on the glass on the window, I guess,

00:20:22.000 and twerking. And it's controversial for the restaurant owner to tell them to stop.

00:20:27.900 You know, we have reached peak entitlement. Okay. We have reached peak entitled society

00:20:34.100 with an expectation of the most basic civilized behavior is considered over the top. It's not

00:20:40.720 just controversial. It's not just that we're having a debate about, I don't know, should

00:20:45.260 restaurant managers tell people to stop twerking in the restaurant? No, it's just for a lot of people,

00:20:49.980 it's for them, it's self-evident that this is way over the top. Whoa, what are you doing? Tell them not

00:20:56.120 to, not to twerk. What is this? The 1950s? The expectation here, again, is just, is, is simply

00:21:05.480 don't stand on the furniture. So really it's two things. Um, don't stand on the furniture. I have

00:21:11.000 to, and I admit, I have to tell my own kids that part of it. We're at a restaurant, they're running

00:21:14.700 all over the furniture. Tell them don't, don't, it's not a jungle gym. So don't stand on the furniture

00:21:21.200 and don't twerk. And especially don't do both of those things at a restaurant. There are places,

00:21:28.020 unfortunately, in society where you can go and do those things. Just not here at a restaurant where

00:21:31.940 people are trying to eat. It is the lowest possible bar. But these girls, apparently, I mean, these are 1.00

00:21:38.980 the kinds of girls who they see a really low bar and they think it's a stripper pole. 0.99

00:21:42.800 Now, one of the excuses, and I'm not making this up. Okay. Because I, I did dive into the, um,

00:21:51.680 into the abyss a little bit, uh, of this on Twitter and reading some of the reactions.

00:21:57.800 And the, the one excuse that kept coming up over and over again is that, um, really this is the

00:22:03.560 restaurant owner's fault because his, his, uh, he was playing music. Like he was playing club music.

00:22:10.080 He was playing music that you would find here in a club. And so it's his fault. If you don't want

00:22:16.740 people twerking in your restaurant that don't play that kind of music as if so, you hear a certain song

00:22:24.180 and that gives you the right and permission to just twerk matter where you are. Like if you're in a

00:22:32.300 funeral procession and someone drives by and they're playing that song, you just start twerking at the

00:22:40.080 and then people also took issue with, uh, with not just that he was telling, telling the patrons not

00:22:46.960 to twerk, but that he said that women are disrespecting themselves by behaving this way 0.99

00:22:52.160 and degrading themselves. And of course, these days you can't say that. No, no, no. But he's,

00:22:58.860 he's exactly right. Obviously, um, as a woman, you know, really twerking in general, 1.00

00:23:05.740 you are disrespecting yourself, uh, making an absolute fool of yourself, degrading yourself, 0.97

00:23:11.720 doing it in public at a restaurant, even more so. I just want to be clear about one thing here, 0.98

00:23:17.660 just, just so you know, and I think all the women who watch this show, you don't need to hear this,

00:23:22.740 but in case this clip ends up on media matters and gets shared, then maybe someone that needs to hear

00:23:27.480 it, we'll hear it. Um, if you are a woman behaving this way, you're going to find that a lot of men 1.00

00:23:35.960 support it. There's gonna be a lot of, there's a, there's, there's a lot of supportive men. You

00:23:40.520 want to go out in public and twerk and act like a stripper, uh, any whorish behavior. There's a lot 1.00

00:23:45.820 of men very supportive of the whorish behavior. The reason for that in every single case, all of those 1.00

00:23:53.580 men who are very supportive of you behaving in this, in this way, they support it because they

00:23:59.220 don't respect you at all. They have no respect for you as a person. That's why they support it.

00:24:08.960 So if that's what you want, if you want to be not respected at all, then continue right along.

00:24:16.560 This, and I, that's just the one thing we need to be clear about. They don't support it because they

00:24:22.240 respect you and they respect your autonomy. No, no, no. The exact opposite is the case.

00:24:31.640 All right. Number three, Greta Thunberg, child prophet, um, tweeted this last week. I just saw

00:24:37.580 this. She, uh, tweeted school strike week 119. Today is black Friday. Over consumption is wrecking

00:24:44.600 present and future living conditions and the planet itself. Don't buy stuff you don't need.

00:24:49.680 Now I saw this and a couple of things came to mind. Number one, a school strike. Like that's,

00:24:55.080 that's what we need. We need to ever, the kids are on a school strike, uh, not by their own choice.

00:25:00.200 So I don't, I don't think, I think, I think it's a little bit, a bit redundant to have a school

00:25:03.500 strike at this point, uh, when kids haven't gone to school in like six months. But the second thing is

00:25:10.120 this, you know, you've got this kid saying, don't buy stuff you don't need. Um, obviously nobody asked

00:25:16.960 you, we don't need, you know, we don't need your permission to buy stuff. Um, but it does bring

00:25:23.980 to mind for me a real problem here that sometimes from the socialists and the Marxists and the far

00:25:29.520 left radicals and everything, you hear this, this message about overconsumption and consumerism and,

00:25:34.900 you know, don't run out and buy a bunch of stuff you don't need. That part of it,

00:25:38.760 I agree with them. They're right. You shouldn't buy stuff you don't need.

00:25:41.940 Like there's a, there's a real criticism, an important criticism of consumerism that could

00:25:48.920 be made. And that's, that is an important conversation that we could have because you've

00:25:55.060 got capitalism, free market capitalism. People can do what they want with their own money.

00:25:59.680 They could start businesses, you know, pursue the American dream, that sort of thing. So you've got

00:26:04.380 that and it's possible to support that while not supporting consumerist culture where the entire

00:26:12.640 society depends on and runs on people going out and spending more than they have living beyond their

00:26:19.480 means, buying a bunch of junk and filling their house with it. We live in a consumerist culture.

00:26:25.320 A capitalist culture doesn't have to be consumerist. Ours is. And so we could, we could, uh, we could have a

00:26:32.760 real conversation about that. But the problem is that the socialists, they go from there and they

00:26:38.120 go all the way to, therefore the government should be in control of the means of production and

00:26:43.260 everything else. And so this, this discussion about consumerism, unfortunately we can't have

00:26:48.780 because of the socialists. Uh, number four is from the daily wire. It says the star studded,

00:26:53.880 this shocking report here. You're not going to believe this star studded Hollywood charity times up,

00:26:59.380 you know, that's the, the meat, the meat to charity times up founded after dozens of women came forward

00:27:04.380 to speak up about sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and even sexual assault raised more than $3 million

00:27:09.800 last year, according to a New York post report, but spent most of that on, you guessed it, salaries,

00:27:17.000 uh, not helping the victims at all. Uh, it says times up has plenty of A-list backers ranging from

00:27:23.540 media mogul, Oprah Winfrey to Hollywood social justice elites, like Brie Larson, Reese Witherspoon,

00:27:29.020 Amy Schumer. Um, but it says, as we get to the New York post reports, the organization,

00:27:35.740 which is comprised of the times up foundation and times up now incorporated raised 3 million,

00:27:41.520 about $3.6 million in 2018, its founding year, but spent 1.4 million on salaries and only 312,000

00:27:49.700 on a times up legal defense fund for people who have experienced sexual harassment altogether.

00:27:53.800 Time's up spent nearly 40% of its income on salaries. Another additional 150,000 went to

00:28:00.040 conferences and retreats. Um, so even the, even of the, the, the, the little bit of money that

00:28:06.460 actually went ostensibly towards the goal of the organization, uh, a lot of that was, was squandered

00:28:12.380 as well on, uh, on nonsense. And, you know, this brings up, brings to mind the whole thing about

00:28:18.320 how every movement event eventually becomes a racket. Um, the only difference is that with the

00:28:24.420 Me Too movement, it was always a racket. Like it, it, it never had that time of being a sincere,

00:28:30.040 useful thing. It was always a racket from the very beginning. Five. Finally, a headline from

00:28:35.200 New York Post, it says, Kazakhstan-y bodybuilder marries a sex doll after a whirlwind romance. 0.97

00:28:42.660 Uh, it says, proving that love is blind and sometimes kooky, a bodybuilder from Kazakhstan 1.00

00:28:46.640 has tied the knot with his dearly beloved, a sex doll he dated for eight months before proposing 0.94

00:28:51.180 a year ago. There is a video of their, of their nuptials, which I'm not going to play just on the

00:28:58.180 principle of it. But it says, clad in a black tux and bow tie, Yuri Tolochko, uh, is seen planting

00:29:04.980 a gentle kiss on Margo, who appears a bit stiff in her revealing white gown as she clutches a bouquet

00:29:10.420 of flowers and stares into the distance. And, uh, and this article's so stupid I can't continue to 0.98

00:29:16.180 read it, but they did have a wedding ceremony and somehow family members and friends actually 0.99

00:29:21.820 showed up for the wedding ceremony with the sex doll. You know, I think it's pretty obvious that

00:29:28.060 something like this was sort of a publicity stunt. I think mostly a joke, a really weird joke

00:29:35.120 that you've invested way too much time and money in. I think that's mostly what it is. I'm, I, I hope

00:29:41.140 I'm, I'm, I'm assuming, but there is a, uh, a very real thing underneath all this, a real cultural

00:29:47.760 phenomenon of people giving up on relationships. And we see that, you know, with the millennial

00:29:52.780 generation, many of them not getting married, just giving up on it. Now, most of them aren't

00:29:57.880 running out and buying sex dolls, uh, rather than replacing human relationships with sex dolls 0.99

00:30:02.360 and marrying sex dolls. Instead, they, you know, have pornography and Pornhub and that sort of thing. 1.00

00:30:06.600 But that is a very real, uh, problem in our society. People giving up on relationships and,

00:30:12.020 you know, maybe down the line as sex dolls and sex robots become more, uh, technologically

00:30:18.060 advanced. You know, this, this is, this is, um, this may be, this may be the one thing in the

00:30:23.120 sci-fi movies. You know, there's a lot of things in the sci-fi movies that haven't happened.

00:30:27.040 We all thought we'd be in flying cars by now and have hoverboards and everything. That's not

00:30:31.080 happening. The one thing though, people running off and marrying sex robots. Yeah, probably I could 0.92

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00:33:17.520 narrative and come over to dailywire.com slash subscribe. Uh, one other thing, if you haven't

00:33:23.920 already ordered them, you can check out our daily wire Christmas ornaments. Uh, all of us daily wire

00:33:30.000 hosts plus God King Jeremy Boring are Santa's adorable elves made out of painted metal. I'm being

00:33:37.780 forced to tell you about this. It's on the sheet of paper. Um, but it would not be my, here's what,

00:33:44.660 here's all I'll say. I was converted into an adorable Christmas elf and made into an ornament

00:33:51.700 to hang on Christmas tree against my, without my approval. I did not consent to this. Okay. I did not

00:33:58.740 consent to being an adorable Christmas elf at no point. Did anyone call me up or they could even come

00:34:04.100 into the studio and say, Hey, do you want to be an adorable Christmas elf? We're making these

00:34:07.960 ornaments. Do you want to be one? If they'd asked me, I would have said, Oh, no, thanks for asking.

00:34:12.920 No. So just know when you buy these ornaments, you are buying them and putting me on your tree

00:34:19.040 against my consent, but you can text Christmas to eight, three, four, zero, zero to get your tree

00:34:26.180 decorated. They're going fast. So get yours now. That's a Christmas to eight, three, four, zero,

00:34:31.760 zero. And, uh, on that note, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:34:39.020 Now today for our daily cancellation, now that Christmas season has officially, or rather

00:34:43.680 unofficially, but officially the Christmas season actually starts on Christmas. I don't know if you

00:34:47.520 knew that. I'm going to take a bold, bold step that will only shock and offend you until you realize

00:34:53.140 that I come not as your oppressor, but as your liberator. I seek to free you and free all of us

00:34:58.340 once and for all from the tyranny of Christmas trees. Christmas trees are canceled. This madness

00:35:04.320 has gone on for long enough. I'm drawing the line in the sand right now. No more Christmas trees. We

00:35:09.580 are done with Christmas trees. Now it may come as a surprise, but the early Christians never thought 1.00

00:35:16.380 to cut down a tree and put it in their house for three weeks as part of their Christmas celebration.

00:35:21.800 One could only imagine how the conversation would have went had anyone suggested something like that.

00:35:27.760 Hey, it's almost Christmas. What do you say we go and chop down that perfectly healthy tree out there,

00:35:31.960 drag it inside and watch it slowly die? It'll be so festive. The idea probably would not have been

00:35:38.260 warmly received. And that's why nobody had a Christmas tree until some depraved lunatic in Germany, 1.00

00:35:44.060 as always, in the 19th century, decided that there weren't enough distracting hassles associated with 0.81

00:35:49.540 the holiday and came up with this idea. And it was the worst thing anyone had done related to

00:35:54.800 Christmas since St. Nick started the whole gift-giving thing, which is another problem in

00:35:59.320 of itself. Now, admittedly, this history of Christmas and its traditions may not be entirely technically

00:36:04.600 accurate, but that's not the point. The point is that we are all burdening ourselves with this

00:36:09.940 demented custom for no reason. So there are, of course, two ways to approach the problem of

00:36:16.300 obtaining, transporting, and erecting a tree inside your living room. This, again, is a problem of our

00:36:22.320 own making. It's like if we're all stressed out about how to capture a squirrel from the forest

00:36:27.780 and train it to do jumping jacks. The most stress-free way of doing that is to not do it because it's

00:36:34.900 bizarre and pointless. And there are a million better ways to spend your time. But as far as trees go,

00:36:41.160 you have two options, right? You can go out and buy a real tree, or you can purchase an imposter,

00:36:46.920 a fake tree, an avatar of a tree. The problem with the fake tree is that it's a fake tree.

00:36:52.680 It's expensive and clunky. It doesn't actually look anything like a real tree, much less does it smell

00:36:58.480 like one. So it's always awkward when you go to someone's house and they have a fake tree and they

00:37:03.080 go, doesn't it look real? No, it doesn't. Have you ever seen a real tree? They're outside. You should go

00:37:09.360 check them out because this doesn't look anything like it. See, whatever joy there is to be gained

00:37:15.800 from a Christmas tree, you aren't going to get it from a fake one. A family with a fake tree has

00:37:19.900 given up. They are just checking the tree box, trying to slide by on a technicality. You might

00:37:26.260 as well put a deflated basketball on your porch at Halloween instead of a pumpkin. The stand-in is

00:37:32.160 significantly more depressing than just not having it at all. So that doesn't work. But the real tree is

00:37:37.860 worse. First of all, it's going to run you upwards of $75 these days. $75 for a hunk of lumber that

00:37:44.560 will be decaying in a heap on your front lawn in less than a month. You could buy a bottle of

00:37:49.020 Blanton single barrel bourbon, Elijah Craig barrel proof even, for that price. And it will make you

00:37:54.840 far jollier than any Christmas tree ever will, I assure you. So after you've been basically stripped

00:37:59.700 naked and robbed by the Christmas tree salesman, you schlep the thing back to your house, you drag it

00:38:03.840 inside, pine needles falling and dispersing themselves into areas of the house that you

00:38:07.740 won't notice until sometime after Memorial Day. Then begins the process of somehow getting this whole

00:38:12.540 entire actual tree to stand up straight in your house with nothing but a plastic tree stand and a

00:38:18.160 couple of screws keeping it in place. If you do get it to stay in place, it'll inevitably be knocked

00:38:22.760 over multiple times by the dog, the cat, your kids, people and pets getting practically crushed to

00:38:27.300 death left and right. Meanwhile, the thing requires about 19 gallons of water a day just to keep it alive 0.91

00:38:32.260 and barely so. Now you have a half dead dried out chunk of wood in your house with electrical wires

00:38:38.580 draped around it. Maybe next we can develop an Easter tradition where everybody jumps into a pool

00:38:44.900 and plays catch with a toaster plugged into an extension cord. And then what happens as soon as

00:38:50.000 Christmas is over? It's like waking up with a hangover. You look at that thing and all of the joy and

00:38:55.480 spirit is sucked out of it. Now you see it for the giant pile of sticks that it always was.

00:39:01.440 And you just want it out of your house. Literally the day after Christmas, you're looking at your

00:39:06.260 tree with disgust. Everybody does. Or if you have a fake tree, you just put off the hassle of taking

00:39:11.060 it down for months until you finally get around to it only because you don't want people judging you

00:39:16.220 when they come over for your 4th of July barbecue. So the whole thing is madness and it must end.

00:39:21.820 We must free ourselves. We must stand up with one voice and refuse to be enslaved to this lunacy.

00:39:28.600 It's gone on for too long. It ends today. Christmas trees are canceled once and for all.

00:39:36.320 And that's going to do it for me. My wife wants to go get a Christmas tree today, 0.84

00:39:39.540 so we're going to go through that. Speaking of not practicing what you preach.

00:39:43.940 Have a great day, everybody. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 01, 2020

Ep. 612 - The Petty Tyrants That Rule Us

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