The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 614 - Standing Up Against Tyranny

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a video of a business owner in Michigan is going viral. He is

00:00:04.120 defying his state's shutdown order and paying a hefty price for it, but his message is inspiring

00:00:09.000 and worth listening to, so we'll play that today and talk about it. Also, five headlines,

00:00:12.360 including supposed conservatives urging Republican voters in Georgia to stay home

00:00:16.900 and hand the Senate to Democrats. And also another anonymous racist note. We've got another one.

00:00:22.180 These things are everywhere. It's just that they always turn out to be fake.

00:00:25.360 Plus, our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:12.420 off your mattress order. So the mayor of Austin, Steve Adler, had an urgent message for the residents of

00:02:18.560 his city a few weeks ago via Facebook video. He said that everyone needs to stay home and that

00:02:24.140 this is, this is not a time to relax. Here's a little bit of that message. This is very important

00:02:28.360 stuff that you need to take very seriously. Watch the thrust of the most important messages trying

00:02:34.180 to get out to the community right now is that our numbers are increasing and everybody has to be aware

00:02:40.220 of that. And then we need to, you know, stay home. If you can do everything you can to try to keep the

00:02:46.580 numbers down. This is not the time to relax. We're going to be looking really closely. Yes, everyone

00:02:53.400 needs to stay home. Except we've learned that when a Democrat mayor or governor says everyone, it can

00:02:59.640 roughly be translated to everyone except me. As it turns out, Adler delivered that message telling

00:03:06.120 everyone to stay home from his vacation home in Mexico. He traveled there with a number of friends

00:03:11.940 and family on a private jet. He made this trip only a day after hosting a wedding reception for his

00:03:17.180 daughter with 20 guests at a hotel in the city. So he gathered with 20 people and then traveled to

00:03:23.180 another, to a foreign country and then came back here. Adler now joins the likes of DC mayor Bowser,

00:03:30.000 who traveled to Delaware, a so-called high risk state to attend Joe Biden's victory speech. That was

00:03:34.920 essential travel though. You understand, of course, essential. Also Nancy Pelosi, who went to get her

00:03:39.140 hair did at a salon that was supposed to be closed. Same for Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, violating 1.00

00:03:44.480 her stay at home order for the same reason. Mayor of Philadelphia, who was, who banned indoor dining, 0.99

00:03:49.320 but traveled to Maryland to dine indoors anyway. And of course, Gavin Newsom and his infamous indoor

00:03:54.640 dinner party and New York mayor, Bill de Blasio, who went to the gym, uh, as the pandemic raged

00:04:00.460 and Governor Blackface of Virginia, who was spotted maskless at a beach. Governor Cuomo,

00:04:06.460 who invited his elderly mother for Thanksgiving, even after telling everyone else not to be around

00:04:10.840 their families on Thanksgiving. And the mayor of Denver, who told everyone to avoid travel

00:04:15.220 right before getting on a plane to travel. And Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuhl, who we,

00:04:22.460 uh, you heard about a few days ago, who dined outdoors hours after voting to ban outdoor dining.

00:04:28.340 And the list goes on. Mary Margaret Olhan, uh, with the daily caller has a comprehensive list

00:04:33.020 on their website that you should, you should go check out. It's even worse than you think. I mean,

00:04:36.600 those are just a few of the, the lowlights. There's, uh, many more that have been caught,

00:04:42.040 but somehow Steve Adler manages to rise to the top of this heap of hypocrites. He was on vacation in a 0.97

00:04:49.660 foreign country while telling everyone else to not so much as leave their homes. This is hypocrisy

00:04:57.660 so blatant as to almost be cliched. And it brings to mind again, and this is a fact we cannot forget,

00:05:04.340 that the people behind these restrictions are not impacted by them. Also the people cheering them on

00:05:10.940 in media are not impacted by them. When the talking heads on CNN night after night lecture Americans for

00:05:17.660 not obeying, for not following the stay-at-home orders, for opposing the restrictions,

00:05:21.480 they deliver the lecture from a television studio in which they are paid to work.

00:05:28.040 I'm paid to work in this studio. Even if Nashville gets shut down again,

00:05:32.800 I could still go to work. Somehow my job is considered essential. You know, um, who am I then

00:05:40.440 to earn a paycheck at my essential job, quote unquote, while telling you that you should sit

00:05:46.020 home and let your children go hungry. Now I'm not the most empathetic guy in the world, but that would

00:05:51.160 be cruelty and selfishness beyond even my capabilities, if you can believe it. And the thing is, um, my job

00:05:58.740 is essential. You know, that's true. My job is absolutely essential to me. I doubt it's very essential to

00:06:05.420 your life, but it's essential to my life and my family. It's how I earn a living. It's how I put food on

00:06:10.860 the table. It's how I pay for the bill at the doctors when I, when my children are sick. So it's

00:06:15.760 very essential to me. Your job is essential to you. All jobs are essential. That's not a bumper

00:06:22.880 sticker slogan. They might put that on the poster boards at the protests, but it's also true. It's

00:06:27.960 more than a slogan. All jobs are essential because someone depends on it for survival. It might be only

00:06:35.060 one person depending on it. It could be a house full of people. It could be more than that, depending on what

00:06:39.620 the job is, but someone does. Someone depends on it. And that makes it, it makes it essential by any

00:06:45.200 reasonable measure, by any reasonable definition of the term. But don't take it from me. I want to

00:06:50.820 play for you what is perhaps, I think the most compelling piece of video to come out of this

00:06:55.620 crisis. This is from Michigan where a ban on indoor dining is in effect, um, which is of course decimating

00:07:03.460 the restaurant industry in the state and financially destroying thousands of people. Now outdoor dining

00:07:08.760 is still allowed, but it's 40 degrees right now in Detroit. Last I checked, you know, people aren't

00:07:14.400 eating outside in 40 degree temperatures. Also not every restaurant has the space to set up outdoor

00:07:19.740 dining. You hear people sometimes say, well, just, you just do outdoor dining. Well, that assumes first

00:07:23.960 of all, that you, you have space outside that you own as a restaurant where you could put tables. A lot

00:07:29.200 of restaurants don't have that. And also the state of Michigan has very specific rules about what

00:07:35.620 qualifies as outdoors and what doesn't. And we know anytime the government gets involved,

00:07:40.780 you're going to, even simple things become complicated. And now we need pages and pages

00:07:46.480 of rules to just tell us what outdoors is. And, uh, and a lot of things that seem like they're

00:07:52.300 outdoors actually aren't, it turns out, for example, a brewery in the state, this is from an article in

00:07:56.460 eater.com. A brewery spent all summer setting up an outdoor area with heaters and, and, uh, and, uh,

00:08:03.440 kind of like a large sort of barn like structure, uh, protection from the elements, a lot of air

00:08:09.080 circulation, the whole nine yards. But when the state passed its indoor dining bin, the owner of

00:08:14.280 the restaurant discovered that according to their definition, his outdoor space is actually

00:08:18.500 indoors. So he wasted all that time and money for something he can't use. And they didn't tell him 1.00

00:08:24.520 he couldn't use it until the very last minute. He spent all that time making it. And then they come

00:08:29.120 and say, Oh, you know what? You can't, this, this doesn't count. The article says that he's

00:08:33.560 quote, disappointed. Something tells me that that's probably an understatement. If it were me,

00:08:38.740 I think I'd be less disappointed and more burning with the fiery rage of a thousand suns.

00:08:44.680 Oh, but by the way, um, it does count as outdoors. If you put the diners in plastic domes.

00:08:51.240 Okay. So those, those, uh, small, you know, those, the, maybe you've seen them, the plus small

00:08:55.720 plastic, claustrophobic bubble domes, those that's fine. You can do that. That counts as outdoors.

00:09:03.400 The virus can easily be spread. Somehow this is considered safer than just having people sit

00:09:09.320 inside a building and somehow a plastic dome outside a plastic dome is considered outside,

00:09:16.280 but a large physical structure with airflow and heating that is not outside. It's all arbitrary

00:09:22.500 and outrageous, of course, and people's lives are being ruined because of it, which brings us then

00:09:26.380 to the video. I mentioned Dave Morris, the owner of DNR daily grind restaurant in Michigan has decided

00:09:32.600 to keep his restaurant open for indoor dining. Uh, he's not shutting down. He's been fined a thousand

00:09:38.720 dollars a day since the new order went into effect. I think he's up to a $6,000 now in counting,

00:09:43.800 but he has no plans of backing down. And when a local news station showed up to report on the story,

00:09:49.400 Dave appeared suddenly on camera and, uh, here's what he had to say.

00:09:55.280 Is everything okay? Okay. Our government leaders have abandoned me. Are you, are you the owner?

00:10:03.280 $4 trillion of stimulus money and gave it to who? Special interest groups and campaign donors. I'm

00:10:10.580 Dave Morris. I own the place. So what's going on? What's going on? You know what's going on. Tell me,

00:10:15.080 you tell me, Hey, we've got a government that has taken the stimulus money. They gave it to special

00:10:20.900 campaign donors. They gave it to special interest. They abandoned me and they have put me in a

00:10:26.680 position where I have to fight back. Okay. So do you feel that this is the right thing to do?

00:10:31.900 Absolutely. I feel everybody needs to stand up. Hey, listen, there was enough money to give every

00:10:37.040 family, every family in this country, $20,000 to go home for two months. They chose to give it to

00:10:43.900 special interest and campaign donors, the Kennedy space center. And they abandoned us. So you could

00:10:50.380 have given me money. I'd gladly walk away for 60 days and let this virus settle down. I'm not going

00:10:55.320 to do it alone. Okay. Are you going to continue to violate the state's orders and stay open state

00:11:00.340 order? This isn't an order. This is a conspiracy. This is a tyranny. What do you want to tell other

00:11:05.620 restaurant owners who wake up, stand up? This is America. Be free. I got patriots coming out,

00:11:10.980 supporting me. That is a great stuff. And everything he said there's correct. His math

00:11:16.720 is correct too, by the way, $3 trillion divided between all the families in America, all the

00:11:21.060 households, about 110, 120 million or so would work out to 20 or $25,000 for everybody. Now I'm

00:11:28.520 normally the last person to advocate for government handouts, but this is not a handout. So I'm still

00:11:33.320 not advocating for a handout. The government is telling people they can't go to work and earn

00:11:37.200 money. The government is shutting down entire industries. You can't do that and then give

00:11:42.460 people a couple thousand bucks and expect it to last for months or longer. The government is

00:11:47.660 stealing from the American people, telling you that you can't work and then giving you nothing

00:11:52.400 in compensation. That's stealing. We're not talking about welfare here or debt forgiveness for student

00:11:59.300 loans or anything like that. We're talking about the state depriving its citizens of the ability to

00:12:04.200 work and earn a living. The state then has an obligation to compensate for lost wages.

00:12:09.660 That's the point that Dave Morris is making and it's a good one. And that's what I like about this

00:12:14.580 video too. Dave is not an activist. He's not someone showboating, you know, or strutting for the cameras.

00:12:20.460 He doesn't have a poster board. Uh, there are no slogans here. You can tell he's not looking to be

00:12:26.040 famous. He's not looking for attention. And actually he's perfectly willing to cooperate with the

00:12:30.780 stay at home orders and the dining ban and all that, but he can't do it if he's not compensated.

00:12:35.500 He can't just sit at home with no money and no business. He's not willing to do that. And he

00:12:40.140 shouldn't be. Nobody should be willing to cooperate with this scam. That's why we need more Dave

00:12:46.440 Morris's in the world, a lot more. The government has seized power that it will not relinquish easily

00:12:52.140 in New York, just to show you how bad it's gotten. They're now doing sting operations and arresting

00:12:57.800 restaurant owners who serve food inside. Yes. Sting operations. They're sending an undercover

00:13:02.240 police to order like a hamburger. And if they get the hamburger, then person's going to jail. 0.80

00:13:09.100 The powers that be are desperate to retain the control they've gained over our lives.

00:13:14.780 Men like Dave Morris are desperate just to survive. The clash between these two groups is coming.

00:13:22.440 And I know whose side I'll be on. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:27.800 So there was a rally down in Georgia yesterday with Lynn Wood, supposed Trump supporting attorney

00:13:38.220 and Sidney Powell and some others. And they were urging Republicans to potentially not vote

00:13:44.880 in the Georgia runoff. Here's the report from Daily Wire. It says Georgia based attorney Lynn

00:13:48.360 Wood, an alleged Trump supporter, urged Trump supporters on Tuesday evening in the state to

00:13:52.860 quote, not vote in the Senate runoff unless the two Republican Senate candidates publicly demanded

00:13:57.420 that Georgia Republican governor Brian Kemp call an emergency session in the legislator to

00:14:01.240 investigate alleged voter fraud. However, news reports that surfaced late on Tuesday evening

00:14:05.560 appeared to show that Wood has a history of voting for and donating to Democrats.

00:14:09.800 Eric Erickson, he's a conservative commentator, highlighted alleged political contributions that

00:14:15.480 Wood has made to Democrats. And so he lists a bunch. March 2008, Wood contributed to Barack Obama,

00:14:21.960 allegedly, and then a bunch of contributions to Obama, John Edwards. And it goes on from there. So

00:14:30.860 this has been, this has been the, you know, the news people are arguing about right now that this

00:14:35.700 attorney who's telling people to Republicans potentially to stay home and not vote is, you know,

00:14:41.300 has supported Democrats. Now for me, that's not, I don't really care about that. That's not the point

00:14:47.220 for me. I mean, there's a lot of people who 10 years ago, 12 years ago, 14 years ago, or whatever,

00:14:53.780 supported Democrats and don't anymore. That's, that's, that's relatively common. And there's

00:15:00.020 good reason for that. And the Democrat party has just gotten crazier and crazier with each passing

00:15:04.100 day. And so there are more and more people leaving as they should. So that for me is not the point.

00:15:09.280 Yeah. I really don't care who he's voted for in the past. The point though, forget about what he's done

00:15:14.940 in the past. Let's look at right now. Anyone, I don't care who they are and what their name is.

00:15:23.200 If they are at all, even entertaining the idea that Republicans should stay home and not vote in 0.98

00:15:30.780 Georgia, whoever does that is a con artist and a scam artist. You, you are, you are handing the, 0.74

00:15:40.540 the Senate and control the government, the entire government to the Democrats. I mean, we, it is

00:15:48.500 hard to even imagine how bad it could be if the Democrats control everything. Now I've been the

00:15:56.060 first to say in the past that, you know, some of the, some of the apocalyptic sort of hand wringing

00:16:00.880 we do over elections is overplayed because, you know, you win some, you lose some Democrats win,

00:16:06.620 Republicans win. Uh, it's not going to be the end of the world just because the wrong party is in

00:16:11.440 there. But with that said, this would still be very, very, very bad news for the Democrats to

00:16:18.760 control everything. You know, the Democrats are out for revenge. They're out for blood.

00:16:23.120 We know what they want to do. They've already made it clear. They want to defund the police.

00:16:26.960 They want to pack the court. You know, they want to add Senate seats, statehood for, you know,

00:16:33.520 DC, Puerto Rico. They want to do things to, to, to make it so that they never lose again.

00:16:42.900 And that's just to start with. So yes, keeping, keeping the Senate out of their hands, out of

00:16:49.280 their control is priority number one right now. And I'll tell you what's going to happen.

00:16:55.660 You've got some of these con artists telling Republicans to stay home in Georgia. And so what's

00:17:01.540 going to happen is that Democrats will win. That that's, that's what happens. If your voters stay

00:17:05.620 home, the other team wins. So the scam artists are saying, stay home and don't vote. And then

00:17:12.180 Democrats win. And then the scam artists will say, you see, they cheated. That's why they won. No,

00:17:17.300 they cheated because you told everyone to stay home. You were working for the other side and 1.00

00:17:22.380 pretending that you're working on our side. And then they're going to say, you'll see, they cheated.

00:17:26.160 Now just donate some more money to me personally, put my name, make it out to me personally and I'll

00:17:33.740 help save the Republic. It is such an obvious transparent scam. And I don't know how anyone

00:17:42.920 could fail to see it. There is no defending this whatsoever. If you're telling people to stay home

00:17:50.440 in Georgia, telling Republicans to stay home in Georgia, you are handing the Senate to Democrats

00:17:54.140 and everything that happens after this is on you. It's your fault. Socialism comes to America.

00:18:00.300 You can't turn around and complain about it and try to fundraise off of it. Donate to me. I'll help

00:18:04.700 fight socialism. You put socialism in there. It's absolutely infuriating. All right, let's go to

00:18:13.580 number two, uh, article in the Houston Chronicle about the upstart conservative social media app

00:18:18.280 Parler. I don't know if you've been on this, this site yet Parler. Uh, I recently started an account,

00:18:22.060 but things are not going terribly well, I suppose. Um, Houston Chronicle says anyone falling,

00:18:27.020 following the hashtag sexy Trump girl hashtag on Twitter on Parler, a social media site,

00:18:32.440 increasingly popular with conservatives got an eyeful, uh, one recent Thursday evening as images

00:18:37.620 of topless women and links to hardcore pornography websites appeared at a rapid fire rates, 0.97

00:18:42.660 often more than one per minute. I kind of feel like if you're clicking on that hashtag,

00:18:48.000 that's probably what you were looking for. So I probably not a surprise, but anyway, it goes into

00:18:51.960 how, um, pornographers allegedly, supposedly are taken over the site. Now you have to,

00:18:57.460 there's always a grain of salt when you see media articles about Parler because it's known as a

00:19:03.480 conservative social media app and the media doesn't like it for that reason. And so they've got a,

00:19:08.300 they've got a, they've got a, they have a reason to make it sound worse than it actually is.

00:19:12.560 I will say, I don't know about the pornography aspect of it. I haven't seen that.

00:19:15.660 For me, the problem with Parler is, um, well, it's got two, two big problems.

00:19:21.040 Number one, there's, there's no innovation with the function of the site. So you look at all the,

00:19:27.720 the social media sites that have, that have taken off and managed to seize a size of the market,

00:19:33.620 you know, a portion of the market, there's something about them. That's a little bit different

00:19:38.280 functionally. There's some sort of functional innovation with Parler. There isn't, it's just

00:19:43.420 sort of a Twitter knockoff. And the other problem too, is that, is that it's kind of a,

00:19:46.840 an echo chamber right now. If you go there, everybody is conservative, just talking. We're

00:19:52.300 all just talking to each other about how right we are, which is kind of nice every once in a while,

00:19:57.280 but it's not nearly as fun. So that's, um, that's a real problem. Then the third problem

00:20:03.640 Parler runs into is that, uh, they don't have billions and billions. This is the main problem.

00:20:07.300 They don't have billions and billions of dollars, which I think is what you really need in order to

00:20:10.840 have a chance to, um, to make a dent in Twitter or Facebook. But, um, I think they're worth

00:20:17.720 supporting because I support the, I support the idea. I like what they're trying to do at least.

00:20:21.720 All right. Um, so we've got it. We got ourselves number three here, another anonymous racist notes.

00:20:27.460 This one was allegedly left under the door of a woman in an apartment complex in Boston.

00:20:33.340 Um, also MAGA country in Boston, just like Chicago. She, she posted the screenshot of the letter

00:20:39.200 typed up very nicely. Uh, it's a typed letter that someone supposedly left for her. And, uh, and she

00:20:44.520 also, and you know, I'm not saying you could draw any conclusions from this at all, but she also,

00:20:49.840 uh, included along with the screenshot of the racist letter in the Twitter thread, she included a link

00:20:57.100 to her business. That's it. So she was, she's basically saying, Hey, I was a victim of a racist

00:21:02.200 hate crime. And also, also by the way, buy my stuff while you're here. Anyway. So the note says that,

00:21:09.200 you seem to have no respect for others, huh? You seem to think you can move into a new building

00:21:14.020 without abiding by the rules of morality or have any concern for anyone else, but yourself

00:21:18.140 who uses a blender at 10 AM. That does. I mean, using a blender at maybe 6 AM, I think might violate

00:21:26.740 the rules of morality, depending on how thin your walls are 10 AM. I think you're in blender territory.

00:21:31.560 Um, you're playing rap music. So early in the morning, please put away the N word music. Only

00:21:38.820 N words. Listen to N word music. Can you listen to something more peaceful, more calming? It's very

00:21:44.080 rude. It's entirely rude. Please learn to have some respect and please stop having sexual relations.

00:21:50.760 So that way, hold on. Actually, it says what it's supposed to say is please stop having sexual 0.59

00:21:57.040 relations. So loud. I promise you, it's not that good, sweetie. You don't need to wake everybody up. 0.86

00:22:01.060 Learn to have manners and be respectful. What it actually says though, is please stop having

00:22:05.440 sexual rations. So loud, sexual rations. That's, um, I mean, that's one way of putting it. You know, 0.94

00:22:15.800 you go to your spouse, Hey honey, I'd, um, like to get one of my sexual rations this evening.

00:22:23.520 Uh, another weird thing though, is that she has pronouns in her bio and she identifies herself as

00:22:28.840 quote, queer earthy Afro Latina. So I tell you what the weird thing about that is that it's, 1.00

00:22:36.220 I don't know if you've noticed this. It's always the most liberal left-wing far left people who get

00:22:42.020 these racist notes. Have you noticed that? It's always like left-wing activists, people with

00:22:45.940 pronouns in the bio. They have the worst luck. They're always the ones who happen to stumble across

00:22:51.800 these incredibly racist people that none of us are meeting. The rest of us, we never meet these

00:22:56.200 people. It's only them. It's only the, the far left pronouns in bio people who meet the, the most

00:23:03.160 racist ones. It's really bad luck, I guess, or it's just a total scam. I'm thinking more of the

00:23:10.800 latter. Number four, Barack Obama had something to say about the defund the police slogan. Uh, and what

00:23:16.420 he had to say about it has upset a lot of people on the left anyway, who are now sort of turning on

00:23:20.780 him and saying, what does he know? Um, and, uh, here's what he had to say. It's no different in

00:23:27.160 terms of ideas. If you believe as, as I do, that we should be able to reform the criminal justice

00:23:32.800 system so that it's not biased and treats everybody fairly, I guess you can use a snappy

00:23:39.780 slogan like defund the police, but you know, you've lost a big audience the minute you say it,

00:23:45.700 which makes it a lot less likely that you're actually going to get the changes you want done.

00:23:49.120 But if you instead say, let's reform the police department so that everybody's being treated

00:23:54.320 fairly, you know, divert young people from getting into crime. And if there's a homeless

00:23:59.360 guy, can maybe we send a mental health worker there instead of an armed unit that could end 1.00

00:24:05.400 up resulting in a tragedy. Suddenly a whole bunch of folks who might not otherwise listen

00:24:10.440 to you are listening to you. So the key is deciding, do you want to actually get something done or

00:24:15.740 do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with? And if you want to get

00:24:19.900 something done in a democracy, in a country as big and diverse as ours, then you, you've

00:24:25.100 got to be able to meet people where they are and play a game of addition and not subtraction.

00:24:30.640 Yeah. So he's, uh, the left's very upset about that. Uh, the squad, they're very upset about it.

00:24:36.820 And yeah, like I said, they're, they're saying, what, what does this guy know about, about how

00:24:41.060 to succeed politically? I mean, he's, he's only the most successful Democrat politician in the last

00:24:46.680 several decades, which maybe isn't saying much, but, uh, but now they're, they're, they've decided

00:24:52.760 he doesn't know what he's talking about. And you know, I have no dog in his fight really, but I will

00:24:57.020 say that just to be, to be clear about this, Barack Obama is not saying that we shouldn't defund the

00:25:04.500 police. What he's saying is we shouldn't say we're defunding the police. So what he's trying

00:25:10.320 to say to the crazy leftist is listen, you want to be crazy. That's fine. Just don't be so obvious 0.99

00:25:16.160 about it. So I, he, he, he's, he's, he's giving them advice on how to brand this. Um, but they're

00:25:24.500 not going to listen to it, which is good. I'm glad they don't listen to him. I would encourage them to

00:25:28.980 not listen to him, uh, because defund the police as a slogan is a total loser. The idea itself is 0.90

00:25:37.520 also a loser, of course, but, uh, the only chance they have of, of actually, of actually enacting

00:25:43.440 this idea is to come up with a different word for it, a different phrase. And usually the left, 0.89

00:25:47.220 they're very good at this. This is one thing the left is very good at normally with euphemisms

00:25:51.680 coming up with different words that mean something, you know, to, to, to cloak the, the horrible

00:25:56.940 things that they're doing with abortion, you know, is the number one prime example of this.

00:26:02.160 Think of all the euphemisms that they have covered this subject in reproductive rights,

00:26:07.340 you know, which, which is, which is one big euphemism because as I've said many times,

00:26:12.960 abortion has nothing to do with reproductive rights because the abortion happens after reproduction 0.95

00:26:18.240 has already occurred. So normally the left, they do that and they have a lot of success in this case.

00:26:23.840 The mistake they're making really is they're just being honest.

00:26:26.940 And, and Obama is saying, stop being honest guys. They're not interested in that five. Finally,

00:26:33.520 um, this isn't really a headline per se, but I mentioned this because I, I believe that it's

00:26:39.440 important to be a man of your word. If you say you're going to do something, do it. You know,

00:26:45.100 if you make a deal, follow through, that's what I believe. But Tyler Conway of bleacher report,

00:26:51.160 it seems is not a man of his word. Um, he's a reporter for bleacher report. He tweeted to me a

00:26:58.020 couple of days ago during the discussion about Sarah Fuller, you know, the girl who did that

00:27:02.460 hilariously bad kick for Vanderbilt and then proceeded to win. You know, she kicked it 20 yards. 1.00

00:27:07.620 She won sec specialty player of the week and everyone's hailing what a great kick it was when,

00:27:12.380 of course it was a horrible kick. But, um, and I've made that point and, uh, and Tyler Conway wanted to

00:27:18.580 white knight for Sarah, be her knight in shining armor, defend her. So he issued a challenge to me.

00:27:23.920 He said, he said that I should kick a football, film it for Twitter. And if I do, he will donate

00:27:32.200 to a charity of my choice. Now I'm not one to back away from a challenge. So I did as was requested.

00:27:40.300 So kick a football, put it on Twitter. And I did, I think we have the video. It's a, it's, this is,

00:27:44.940 you want to see real athleticism. Here it is right here. Let's play this.

00:27:51.780 That's it. Now, if you're listening and you couldn't see the kick, you missed out

00:27:55.800 because I, in my slippers in my kitchen, nudged the ball with my foot. I sent it sailing

00:28:03.560 three, four feet easily. Um, incredible kick. At least it was as good as Sarah Fuller's kick. 0.95

00:28:12.340 But the main point is I kicked the football. I, I held up my, that's all he said. He didn't say

00:28:16.280 do it on a football field. He didn't say has to, you know, go through the uprights or anything.

00:28:20.340 That was the challenge. But of course, uh, he, he backed away. And, um, and I, I, I, I, I did that

00:28:26.780 kick and I said, okay, you can donate to the, to the national right to life committee. Um, big pro-life

00:28:32.640 organization. And in order to, uh, uh, I guess his way of dunking on me was to instead donate to

00:28:41.300 Planned Parenthood. You donate a hundred dollars to Planned Parenthood. And that's how it ended up.

00:28:44.460 So he's not following through on what he said, but also I just thought this was interesting because

00:28:49.400 your, your version of a dunk here is to burn your own money. Essentially is to waste a hundred dollars

00:28:55.660 of your own money, sending it to a billion dollar corporation that by the way, already gets your

00:29:01.020 money. They, they already get $500 million a year from us. You're going to give them a hundred

00:29:06.260 dollars more. They don't really need it. So essentially what he's saying is, oh yeah,

00:29:10.880 I'll show you. Pulls out a hundred dollars, sets it on fire. How do you like that?

00:29:17.020 But, um, anyway, there was my kick. That's my athleticism. Maybe I should kick for Vanderbilt

00:29:22.840 next. They are right down the street. We're in Nashville now. So, you know, I'm a big believer

00:29:26.460 that, uh, we have to continue learning and, and, you know, even, even if, after you get

00:29:32.400 out of school, whether you go to college or you don't, I didn't go to college, it doesn't

00:29:35.320 matter. You have to continue learning. And that means reading. Uh, you have to be, you

00:29:39.160 have to read in order to learn and to be just an interesting and well-adjusted, intelligent

00:29:44.080 person. The problem though, is finding the time to read. And I can say that, uh, that, uh,

00:29:48.400 you know, I'm usually a pretty big reader, but ever since I, I relocated to Nashville, uh, just

00:29:53.660 the whole process of moving and everything, it's eaten up a whole lot of my time. I haven't

00:29:56.620 had the same amount of time that I usually do to sit down with a book. And that's why

00:29:59.820 I'm so happy that thinker.org exists. Uh, thinker.org, they're great. They summarize

00:30:04.400 the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great

00:30:09.160 books in bite-sized form. You can read or also listen to hundreds of titles in a matter

00:30:14.380 of minutes and what they're going to do. You know, we're talking about old classics, like

00:30:18.340 how to win friends and influence people, um, recent bestsellers, like 12 rules for life,

00:30:22.900 Jordan Peterson's book, of course, whatever it is. And I'll, you know, many, many books

00:30:26.840 in between, but what they're going to do is they're going to, they're going to tell you

00:30:30.360 the information. They're going to give you the information, the insights, the wisdom from

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00:30:46.700 as my wife will tell you, but you might need that. So you can go there too. Um, and, uh,

00:30:51.300 then the other thing is you read the insights and maybe you think, okay, I want to, I want to,

00:30:56.220 I want to know more. You can go and buy the book, uh, or maybe you feel like you've, you've gotten

00:31:00.240 everything you need to out of that. And you can go on to the next one. If you want to challenge

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00:31:24.420 member yet, now is the time to join because we've got a lot of incredible stuff just around the

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00:31:43.760 but we're putting it all on dailywire.com. It'll be there by the end of the year for daily wire

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00:32:56.420 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:33:01.920 Today, we're going to have to cancel Harry Styles again, or perhaps it's not so much Harry

00:33:06.380 Styles were canceling as the legions of cult-like plebs who pretend that everything he does is 1.00

00:33:11.500 brilliant and beautiful. You probably recall the ruckus last week when Styles appeared in a magazine

00:33:16.420 in women's clothes and Candace Owens, who will soon be having a show here on the daily wire, 0.62

00:33:22.320 dared to suggest that men should not be wearing skirts and dresses and should instead be masculine

00:33:27.680 as God and nature intended. Well, the story sort of died down until yesterday when Styles issued a

00:33:33.580 clap back to Owens. Now I use the term clap back because that is the term used by literally

00:33:39.000 dozens of news outlets in their headlines about the story. Just Google Harry Styles clap back and

00:33:44.620 then, you know, hit the news button. Dozens of these headlines. Harry Styles claps back at Candace

00:33:51.040 Owens. They use that term because we live in an exceedingly stupid society where once self-respecting 1.00

00:33:57.140 news outlets use teenage lingo in their headlines. But in any case, here is Harry Styles and his 0.98

00:34:02.760 clap back, his, I'm told, devastating, brilliant, genius, incredible, life-changing, historic

00:34:08.740 clap back, possibly the cleverest comeback in the history of comebacks. And here it is. It's an

00:34:13.820 Instagram post of Harry Styles in what appears to be Seinfeld's puffy shirt, or there might be a blouse

00:34:20.040 stitched together from his grandmother's tablecloth. I'm not sure. And he's eating a banana and the caption

00:34:25.620 says, bring, bring back manly men, which is what Candace Owens had said. So that's a clap back.

00:34:34.040 Now, a few things here. First of all, are we really going to pretend that this man doesn't look stupid 0.99

00:34:40.420 as hell in that ridiculous outfit? The problem here is not that it's womanly. I've never seen a woman 1.00

00:34:46.220 dressed like that or any human. If my wife walked into the room wearing that, I would immediately 1.00

00:34:52.520 stage an intervention, assuming that she's high on heroin. Second, I want you to imagine something

00:34:58.680 for a moment. Just imagine what would happen if a white conservative male celebrity, what few exist,

00:35:07.660 were to issue a clap back to a black liberal woman with a picture of himself eating a banana. 0.96

00:35:14.880 Imagine how that would be received. Imagine what assumptions would be made.

00:35:19.140 You know, we're at a point right now where you can simply move your fingers a certain way. You can

00:35:24.540 make a circle with your index and thumb like this, and you'll be accused of sending racist messages.

00:35:30.300 Right now, I'm sending a racist message, supposedly. Almost anything is a racist dog whistle these days.

00:35:37.500 So how is this picture of a guy eating a banana meant as a diss to a black woman, not a racist dog 0.98

00:35:43.240 whistle? Now, to be clear, I don't actually think that Harry Styles meant it that way.

00:35:47.300 Um, I don't really want to speculate on what he's doing with that banana on camera,

00:35:51.620 much less what he'll do with it off camera. But we all know damn well what kinds of speculation

00:35:57.420 the media would be doing if the politics were reversed here. The explosions of outrage would

00:36:02.160 be nuclear. The offender would have already issued multiple tearful apologies, which would not be

00:36:08.060 enough to stop him from getting dropped from every project and partnership he's a part of.

00:36:11.380 That's how it would go. But because Candace is a conservative, none of that applies.

00:36:16.440 In fact, Harry Styles, he could probably actually come out and say that he meant it in a racist way,

00:36:20.900 and it still wouldn't bother anyone on the left or in the media. Because they believe that if you're

00:36:25.420 a conservative, you don't deserve basic human decency. So no treatment towards you can be out of

00:36:32.120 bounds. You could be shot dead, as we've seen, by some Antifa radical in the street,

00:36:38.620 and they still won't say that you didn't deserve it. So this goes for racist treatment too, of

00:36:43.760 course. And this is double true for female conservatives and black conservatives and 1.00

00:36:49.040 doubly, doubly true for black female conservatives, because they're not only horrible people for being 1.00

00:36:53.980 conservative, but they're also traitors, as the logic goes. Third point, um, you know, I'm talking 1.00

00:37:00.080 about conservatives here, but Candace's original point is not really a conservative point. It's not a

00:37:06.720 political point. It's just a normal, natural, human, healthy observation. She's saying that she

00:37:15.760 wants men to be masculine. She wants men to live up to their masculine potential. That's what she wants 1.00

00:37:21.820 from men as a woman. And I got news for you. That's what almost all women who have ever lived on earth 0.58

00:37:28.340 have wanted from men. That's not to say that all women have the same taste in men, but generally

00:37:34.280 speaking, almost all women, the vast, vast majority, since the dawn of human civilization have desired 0.65

00:37:40.360 that men be masculine, strong, protectors, providers, more stoic and rational than emotional

00:37:47.880 and sensitive. There are varying degrees. There are different tastes and priorities, of course,

00:37:52.060 but there are also general statements we can make about what most women have wanted in men throughout

00:37:58.360 history. Just as there are general statements we can make about what most men have wanted in women.

00:38:02.620 Again, since the dawn of time, most men have wanted women who are affectionate, maternal,

00:38:06.980 feminine, empathetic, caretakers, et cetera. Now we can't, I suppose, discuss whether these ideals are

00:38:12.820 good or right or whatever. I would say they absolutely are good and right. And that societies

00:38:17.600 which produce feminine women and masculine men tend to thrive. In fact, societies cannot thrive unless 0.62

00:38:23.300 there is some kind of general idea about what roles men and women are supposed to play within it.

00:38:28.240 But my point, even before we get to the discussion about whether these traditional gender role

00:38:34.240 ideas are right, is simply that they are entirely normal and natural and human. Candace Owens,

00:38:42.800 in saying that she finds it ridiculous and off-putting when men prance around in women's clothes, 0.91

00:38:49.320 is expressing the view of literally billions of women on earth, past and present. The left reacts to this

00:38:57.020 normal expression, this normal view, not just by calling it wrong, but by acting as though it's insane,

00:39:04.700 irrational, bizarre, crazy. You aren't just incorrect for thinking that men shouldn't cross-dress. 0.99

00:39:10.940 You're a freak, a weirdo, a nut job. This is the game they play. They do the same thing with drag queen 1.00

00:39:17.200 story hour, with children being given hormone pills, people declaring themselves to be genderqueer,

00:39:22.540 pansexual aliens, or whatever. They are the ones introducing this bizarre and disturbing thing, 1.00

00:39:28.760 but they act like you are the eccentric wacko if you don't immediately accept it.

00:39:34.020 They want to make normalcy seem abnormal. They seek to make what is natural seem perverse and what

00:39:40.280 is perverse seem natural. It is a massive game of overcompensation, you could say. And as a tactic,

00:39:46.260 it's extremely effective. You know, they do something weird, like have a drag queens dressed 1.00

00:39:53.160 like Tim Burton character show up to the library to read LGBT propaganda to four-year-olds. And if you

00:39:58.700 say, yeah, you know, I don't think I really am in favor of this. I don't, I don't like it. They go,

00:40:05.420 what? You have a problem with this? You don't like this? What? What are you, some kind of degenerate?

00:40:10.860 And it works. Lots of people, upon receiving that reaction, throw up their hands and say, 0.94

00:40:18.080 okay, okay, never mind. Do what you want. Jeez. All right. I forget I said anything.

00:40:23.500 That's, that is essentially what, what most of America says to the left. It's that they don't

00:40:27.520 agree with them. They just say, all right, just fine. Do what you want. Comparatively few people

00:40:33.300 have the gumption and the guts to be met with that onslaught and to say, yes, I do have a problem

00:40:38.500 with it. Now stop being hysterical. You're the degenerates, not me. Get this crap out of the

00:40:44.920 library. Very few will do that. Even though the vast majority of people think it's weird and creepy, 0.99

00:40:51.360 few will say it out loud. And even fewer will keep saying it, even when the pitchfork mob shows up at

00:40:56.700 their door. And so the left gets away with making what is normal abnormal and what is abnormal normal.

00:41:02.100 They are trying to cancel normalcy in effect, but today they are canceled instead for what it's

00:41:10.960 worth, which admittedly probably is not much, but there it is. And we'll leave it there for today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 03, 2020

Ep. 614 - Standing Up Against Tyranny

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