The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 620 - Execute Criminals, Not Babies

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is in mourning over the execution of a convicted

00:00:04.080 murderer by the federal government last night. They accused pro-lifers of being hypocrites 0.97

00:00:08.160 because some of us support the death penalty. But today we'll talk about why their position,

00:00:13.640 that the death penalty is okay for babies but not for criminals, is really deranged and

00:00:18.900 incoherent. Also, five headlines, including Rush Limbaugh, causing waves by bringing up

00:00:23.140 the possibility of secession. I think that secession would be not a terrible idea,

00:00:27.600 and I'll explain why, plus our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:21.380 were stricken by grief, mourning the death of a man named Bernard, Brandon Bernard. He was,

00:02:28.180 as is so often the case with those the left choose to mourn, a convicted criminal. One of five federal

00:02:34.600 executions scheduled to be carried out between this week and inauguration. If all of these executions

00:02:39.160 are performed, it will make 13 total since July. And Donald Trump will be, as the BBC has labeled him,

00:02:45.080 the quote, most prolific execution president in more than a century. The Huffington Post was

00:02:50.320 slightly less reserved accusing Trump of going on an end of office killing spree. Now, it remains to be

00:02:56.920 seen whether all of these executions in the coming weeks will provoke the same level of performative

00:03:01.680 outrage and sorrow. In Bernard's case, if you happen to check Twitter on the night of his lethal injection,

00:03:07.940 you might be forgiven for thinking that a Nobel winning human rights champion or war hero had met

00:03:13.620 his demise. Kim Kardashian, especially broken up about it all, called Bernard amazing, hopeful,

00:03:20.360 positive, and quote, selfless as always. As always. Elsewhere, we were urged to say his name and

00:03:28.840 remember his name, to mark down the day of his death and remember it as a historical outrage and

00:03:34.280 atrocity. Many news outlets published articles decrying the execution. Now, if you're wondering

00:03:41.140 what Brandon Bernard actually did to earn this punishment, you'll have to read quite far down

00:03:45.840 into these articles to find the crime described in any great detail, if it's described at all.

00:03:50.640 But here's an account of Bernard's crime from the DOJ website. Here's what they say.

00:03:56.780 It says, Brandon Bernard and his accomplices brutally murdered two youth ministers, Todd and Stacey Bagley,

00:04:02.260 on a military reservation in 1999. After Todd Bagley agreed to give a ride to several of Bernard's

00:04:09.080 accomplices, they pointed a gun at him, forced him and Stacey into the trunk of their car,

00:04:13.920 and drove the couple around for hours while attempting to steal their money and pawn Stacey's 1.00

00:04:17.500 wedding ring. While locked in the trunk, the couple spoke with their abductors about God,

00:04:21.740 pleaded for their lives. The abductors eventually parked on the Fort Hood military reservation where

00:04:26.440 Bernard and another accomplice doused the car with lighter fluid as the couple, still locked in the

00:04:30.900 trunk, sang and prayed. After Stacey said, Jesus loves you and Jesus take care of us, one of the

00:04:37.460 accomplices shot both Todd and Stacey in the head, killing Todd and knocking Stacey unconscious.

00:04:43.140 Bernard then lit the car on fire, killing Stacey through smoke inhalation.

00:04:49.320 Now, Bernard's many defenders cried that he made a mistake, did a bad thing, quote,

00:04:55.500 made poor choices, to use Kim Kardashian's phrasing. But, you know, we shouldn't execute him

00:05:00.720 now because of it, they say. Yes, but kidnapping two people, driving them around in the trunk of

00:05:05.700 their car while they beg for their lives, then murdering them in cold blood and burning their 0.98

00:05:10.120 bodies is not merely a poor choice. It is vile, unspeakable, unthinkable, shocking evil. It's the 0.99

00:05:18.700 kind of choice that once you make it, you have forfeited your right to live in a civilized society.

00:05:25.420 In our country, you know, we don't execute people for stealing a loaf of bread or voicing an offensive

00:05:32.620 opinion or criticizing the government. We don't even execute people for much more serious crimes

00:05:37.800 like sexual assault and child abuse. In order to earn the death penalty, you have to really earn it.

00:05:45.320 You must act with a level of cruelty and depravity and indifference that just sends shivers down the

00:05:51.700 spine of any person with a conscience. Brandon Bernard acted in that way and received the

00:05:56.780 punishment he deserved because of it. Now, speaking of depraved indifference and cruelty,

00:06:02.380 the next person in line for a federal execution set to be carried out today, I believe, in fact,

00:06:06.900 is Alfred Bergeau. Now, already some on the left are rallying to his defense. Bergeau was convicted

00:06:14.120 in 2002 of killing his two-year-old daughter. He beat her to death by bashing her head against the

00:06:20.380 windshield and dashboard of his truck. This was his final act of savagery towards the child who he 0.68

00:06:26.880 had already molested and tortured, whipped her, burned her. The others on deck are Lisa Montgomery

00:06:33.940 strangled a pregnant woman to death, cut her open and kidnapped her baby, Corey Johnson convicted of

00:06:40.460 murdering seven people, and Dustin John Higgs found guilty in the murder and kidnapping of three women.

00:06:46.380 Now, surveying this collection of bloodthirsty monsters, I find no reason to shed any tears except

00:06:54.700 for their victims whose stories are not told and whose names are not put on the poster boards or made

00:07:00.200 into hashtags. But with that said, you know, I don't begrudge those who take a principled and

00:07:06.720 consistent stand against the death penalty in all cases. I used to hold that view myself. It's not

00:07:11.720 unreasonable to argue that the government simply shouldn't execute anybody, no matter how monstrous

00:07:16.560 they may be. I've come to find that argument flawed, but it's a perfectly valid and cogent

00:07:23.000 argument all the same. The problem is that a great many of the people rushing to defend

00:07:27.580 men like Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bergeau are not making valid and cogent arguments.

00:07:34.700 The anti-death penalty argument is primarily advanced by those who do not have the intellectual or moral

00:07:41.060 credibility to defend it. Their answer to the question, who do we have the right to kill,

00:07:46.620 is so impossibly deranged that you wonder how a person can hold such a view and still manage to

00:07:52.720 sleep at night or look themselves in the mirror. So let's never forget that when someone on the left

00:07:58.060 speaks out against capital punishment, insisting as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley did last

00:08:04.320 night that we abolish the death penalty. They do not actually want to abolish the death penalty in all

00:08:10.780 cases. Rather, they wish to abolish the death penalty for convicted criminals while still giving the death

00:08:17.520 penalty to children. The pro-abortion slash anti-death penalty position suggests that a man who tortures and

00:08:25.480 rapes a toddler before crushing her skull against the windshield of his car has the right to live,

00:08:31.620 but a child in the womb doesn't. Greater moral standing is given to the mass murderers and child

00:08:40.360 killers than unborn infants. Much greater because the infant has absolutely no moral standing at all

00:08:45.840 by this way of thinking. I mean, remember that. The pro-abortion people, they believe that the child

00:08:52.080 in the womb has zero moral standing. None. I can understand the argument that both the baby and 0.93

00:09:03.080 the criminal have the right to life. I don't agree with it, but it's coherent. I can even understand

00:09:09.800 the nihilistic argument that neither have the right to life. Nobody has a right to life. Again,

00:09:16.100 I certainly don't agree with that, but it's coherent. But the argument that only the criminal

00:09:21.840 has the right to life and the child has no right to life is completely incoherent morally and

00:09:27.880 intellectually. It doesn't even rise to the level of nihilism. It's something even more debased and a

00:09:34.740 whole lot more confused. But the irony is that the people who advocate for executing children,

00:09:41.300 but not child killers, will often make the hypocrisy charge against those who take the opposite view.

00:09:47.360 We hear this over and over again. We heard it a lot last night. They insist that somehow it's

00:09:52.700 inconsistent and convoluted to be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty. But there is nothing

00:09:57.420 illogical or strange about this position at all. I mean, even some pro-lifers will make this same

00:10:05.820 case that somehow there's an inconsistency here. No. We who hold this position believe that it is

00:10:14.140 always wrong to intentionally kill a defenseless and innocent person. Those are the three qualifiers,

00:10:21.780 intentionally kill, defenseless, innocent. We do not believe that it is always wrong to kill anyone

00:10:29.560 at all under any circumstance. Almost nobody believes that, save Quakers and the rare libertarian 1.00

00:10:35.980 who actually takes his rhetoric to its logical conclusion. Everybody else accepts that sometimes

00:10:41.820 it's okay to kill a person. Now, we, who hold this view, suggest that sometimes includes self-defense,

00:10:51.460 war, and executing convicted murderers. The left would say that sometimes means perhaps self-defense

00:11:00.300 and war and also babies in the womb. That's their position. That is the inconsistent position.

00:11:07.820 That is what makes no sense whatsoever. No moral sense anyway. So this is not ground that we concede

00:11:16.860 to them and, and, and, and pretend that there's some sort of inconsistency in being pro-life and

00:11:21.580 pro-death penalty. I'll say it again one more time, just, just to be very clear about this.

00:11:26.340 Our position is that it's wrong to execute babies, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to execute a man who, 0.63

00:11:34.000 for example, beats his two-year-old daughter to death against the windshield. That's the position.

00:11:41.120 Their position is utterly deranged, completely incoherent. And we should remember that, especially

00:11:47.500 in the days ahead when they are lamenting, uh, these executions carried out against people who

00:11:54.420 absolutely deserved it, deserve it, and have earned it. And it's as simple as that. Now let's get to our

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00:14:01.680 gotten a lot of attention this week. Media Matters highlighted it because I guess we're supposed to

00:14:06.840 be disturbed or offended or something by it, by this clip from Rush Limbaugh. Um, but, but, you know,

00:14:13.240 I know that when Media Matters highlights my supposedly offensive moments, the clips that

00:14:17.480 they pull are always my best stuff. They always pull stuff where I'm like, yeah, I, that's,

00:14:21.800 that's pretty good. That's you guys did a good job. Thank you for the promotion. Um, and they do the

00:14:26.500 same thing here with Rush because this clip, which is supposed to be extremist and offensive, I find to

00:14:30.860 be quite insightful and correct as is often the case with Rush Limbaugh. Uh, take a listen.

00:14:36.700 I actually think, and I've referenced this, I've alluded to this a couple of times,

00:14:42.720 because I've seen others alluded to this. I actually think that we're trending toward

00:14:50.160 secession. I see more and more people asking what in the world do we have in common with

00:15:00.720 the people who live in say New York? What is there that makes us believe that there is enough

00:15:10.840 of us there to even have a chance at winning New York, especially if you're talking about votes?

00:15:21.720 I see a lot of bloggers. I can't think of names right now. A lot of bloggers have written

00:15:26.440 extensively about how distant and separated and how much more separated our culture is becoming

00:15:35.760 politically. And that it can't go on this way. There cannot be a peaceful coexistence

00:15:44.320 of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage

00:15:51.440 our affairs. We can't be in this dire a conflict

00:15:57.120 without something giving somewhere along the way.

00:16:04.320 Yeah. Um, and I, I think I'm one of those bloggers that's, uh, that's written extensively

00:16:08.400 about this myself. And I think that's exactly right. Any, any, any, any, and, uh, I think the way

00:16:15.680 he summarizes it there is, is, uh, well put, uh, that, that is the problem, you know, in order to,

00:16:22.200 and I've made this point so many times, but this, this is, this is the reality that we have to deal

00:16:26.720 with in order to have a country, um, in order to be a country, in order to be a people, we have to be

00:16:35.340 united by something. It's right there in the name, United States of America. Okay. So we're united.

00:16:39.840 Great. But around what? So unity just for the sake of unity is not enough. You got to be united

00:16:47.680 around something, by something, for something. If somebody walks up to you on the street and says,

00:16:55.440 Hey, let's unite. Your, your question is, is your, your immediate response is going to be,

00:17:00.960 what, what do you mean for why? What are we doing? I'm not just going to clasp hands with you and,

00:17:06.840 and, uh, run off into the sunset. I got to know what the point is here.

00:17:09.760 So in America, what are we united by, um, around for through what is it? Is it, is it merely

00:17:23.620 geography and that's it? Is that the only thing that holds us together as a country? Is that all

00:17:28.720 it is now to be American is just to live here? And we know even there, the problem is that, that, uh,

00:17:34.340 those distinctions are being erased because we have such porous borders, but even putting that aside,

00:17:39.640 you know, pretending that our border was, was actually protected and, and, uh, and we had

00:17:44.260 these clear geographic boundaries that, that were, that were defended. Um, still, I would say that's

00:17:49.380 not quite enough. There's gotta be something else. Now you look at, uh, other countries around the

00:17:55.160 world, they have a lot of commonality. You know, they've got a shared heritage. Um, they've got shared

00:18:02.040 traditions. Um, a lot of times they have a shared religion. You know, they have, they have,

00:18:06.760 they have many things in common. Um, we don't have that. I mean, we don't even have a shared

00:18:12.520 language. Now you might say that, well, America has never quite been united in that way to the

00:18:19.660 same degree as other countries, especially not religion. You know, we've never been a

00:18:22.280 country where everybody has the same religion. Fine. Yeah. Well then what, what did it used

00:18:26.340 to be? It used to be where we were united around the ideas, beliefs. We all had the same,

00:18:32.980 the same basic conviction and belief in the dignity of the human person, uh, the belief

00:18:40.420 in God, belief in liberty, these things. Now we never, we never, um, brought these ideas

00:18:48.200 fully to fruition. We were always inconsistent in our application of them. There's, there's

00:18:53.560 of course always been conflict around them, but at least there was some, at, at, at some

00:18:58.340 basic level, really fundamental level, there was something there, something in common.

00:19:04.020 And we just don't have that anymore. Uh, we don't, you know, you get, you get a bunch

00:19:09.000 of random people in a room from all across the country and you find what can they agree

00:19:14.360 on? Can you get agreement among these people, even a majority of these people on anything

00:19:19.500 at all? Anything? No, they won't even be able to be able to agree on like what, uh, what's

00:19:28.980 a, can men get pregnant? Even a question like that, but no agreement. These are people living 0.99

00:19:35.180 in different realities is the problem. So it's not just that it's like we're living in different

00:19:40.080 countries already. It is that, but it's like we're living in different universes, different

00:19:43.660 realities, different, um, it's like we're living in parallel universes. We just talked about

00:19:49.220 it in the opening monologue. I mean, someone, someone who believes, for example, that it's

00:19:55.360 okay to execute a baby, but not a criminal. It's, it's, that's not just a difference of

00:20:00.040 opinion with me. Okay. If that's your view, I don't even, I, I cannot understand anything

00:20:05.560 about you. You might as well be from Mars. That is how completely deranged and incoherent

00:20:13.060 that view is to me. I cannot relate to you on any level if that's your view.

00:20:20.960 And so that's, that's the situation we're in now. Um, and it's not really sustainable.

00:20:28.420 The question is, what can we do about it? Um, well, here's one, here's one. Now this was

00:20:35.220 proposed. I think it was supposed to be sort of a joke against conservatives, but this leftist

00:20:41.700 on Twitter, Amy Siskind, and I don't know who she is or what she does because she has me blocked.

00:20:46.220 So I can't look at her bio, but she proposed this, um, and then deleted the tweet. She,

00:20:51.560 she proposed it because she was trying to make fun of conservatives and then all the conservatives

00:20:54.080 saw it. And we all said, that looks great. I love it. And so she took it down, but here's

00:20:58.580 her suggestion. She has a proposed map of how we break things up, how we, uh, how we achieve an

00:21:03.820 amicable divorce. And here's her map. Um, basically her idea is that the, the blue States 0.98

00:21:10.060 will be subsumed by Canada. And so we'll form a United States of Canada. And so then, you

00:21:16.740 know, the, the Northeast, California, the West coast, uh, all the blue States, they're

00:21:22.180 going to go up and they're going to be part of the United States of Canada. And then the

00:21:25.840 rest, the red States are Jesus land. And she even gave us a, we got a flag here. It's an 0.81

00:21:30.960 American flag, but with a cross on it, pretty great flag. I like it. And, uh, and that's how,

00:21:35.980 that's how she suggests that we break things up. I look at that. I review this proposal

00:21:39.640 and I have to say to Mrs. Siskind, I I've reviewed your proposal and I accept your

00:21:44.140 terms. I like it. A couple of problems. Um, now G I'll take Jesus land too. I'd like to

00:21:51.100 still have America in the name, but, uh, I would go with Jesus land. I like the flag. I 0.85

00:21:54.560 love the flag. Um, my only issue is here's, you know, she's got Pennsylvania going up to 0.89

00:22:00.040 the United States of Canada. I would say, I think we keep Pennsylvania and maybe that's

00:22:05.300 cause I just moved from Pennsylvania, but Pennsylvania is mostly culturally red except

00:22:10.580 for like Philadelphia. So what I would say is here's my suggestion. Philadelphia can, can

00:22:15.000 be, can be taken by New Jersey. You know, New Jersey can carve out Philadelphia and then

00:22:20.140 the rest of Pennsylvania comes to us. And in exchange, I will give Arizona to the United

00:22:26.560 States of Canada. The only problem with this plan really is that this means that, um, that

00:22:33.780 we in Jesus land would have no ports on the Pacific, you know? And so then there's, so

00:22:39.340 my suggestion would be, okay, we have this, we have this divorce. Then we could very easily,

00:22:44.700 I think, um, invade and occupy the California territory. Um, and then anyone who resists,

00:22:51.700 we deport them up to Canada proper and we could take over those ports. That would, that'd be 0.52

00:22:55.500 one way. We could talk about this on our own time. I don't think we should be discussing

00:22:59.020 this publicly, but that's one way of doing, of, uh, of going about it. All right.

00:23:04.180 Let's move on. Number two, as if to make, continue to make the point here, here's a

00:23:09.220 talking head on MSNBC yesterday. Um, talking about how we, you know, we, we can't, we simply

00:23:14.160 can't get along and we're living in different universes here. He is accusing Republicans

00:23:17.740 of being mass murderers. Listen, and I understand. I mean, the real blame here is Mitch McConnell

00:23:24.680 is the Republicans as the president is a party that does not want to help people that is working

00:23:30.280 on one side to actually make sure the pandemic kills as many people as possible. That seems to

00:23:36.260 be the logical consequence of their policy. And then to make sure that all the people who

00:23:40.280 managed to survive it, despite their policy, uh, suffer economically and beyond.

00:23:45.680 Yeah. We, we want to make sure the pandemic kills as many people as possible. 0.92

00:23:49.560 Do you really believe that? I don't know. I'm not even sure who this guy is, but you really think

00:23:57.720 that you actually think that Republicans, tens of millions of Republicans, we actually just want

00:24:03.860 people to die. Is that really what you believe? See, either you don't believe it, but you're willing

00:24:11.660 to accuse your political rivals of something like that, um, of all being a bunch of psychopathic

00:24:16.860 killers, which is a problem, or you really do believe that about us. But either way, it goes 0.54

00:24:22.060 back to the first point. It goes back to Russia's point. How do we continue to live? If you really, 0.96

00:24:27.140 how, how could you, how could we be, how could I be in the same country with someone who thinks

00:24:30.500 I'm a mass murderer who wants people to die of a disease? Number three, uh, the time person of the

00:24:39.020 year was unveiled and you know, who cares really? But the winner for person of the year was Joe Biden

00:24:45.380 and Kamala Harris. They're Siamese twins now, I guess. They're both the person of the year,

00:24:50.580 not people of the year, person of the year. Um, they had to put Kamala Harris on the cover. I

00:24:54.980 think this is, I believe this is the first time they've done that. Now the winner of presidential

00:24:58.960 election oftentimes gets president person of the year. I don't, they don't usually put the VP in

00:25:03.500 there too, but we got to, you know, Kamala Harris gets on the cover. What again, not that it

00:25:10.340 matters. Um, and of course it's ridiculous to put Joe Biden on there also, uh, many more impressive

00:25:16.020 people in the country this year or any other year, but what has Kamala Harris done? She embarrassed

00:25:23.620 herself in the primaries, uh, lost horribly. I think she actually, she dropped out before the,

00:25:29.980 before the voting even started, I believe, right? Because she was doing so poorly in the polls.

00:25:34.140 Um, and then she got chosen for the VP spot because of her gender and skin tone. And I'm not

00:25:40.840 saying that as any accusation, that's Joe Biden announced ahead of time that that's what he was

00:25:45.120 going to do. So what's the accomplishment here? But sure, she's person of the year. Number four from

00:25:53.320 the daily wire, it says on Tuesday evening, uh, a doctor who reportedly takes care of COVID-19 patients

00:25:58.140 posted a tweet with a picture of herself in which she claimed one of her patients hosted a

00:26:03.940 Thanksgiving dinner for 22 people and all 22 people subsequently developed COVID-19 symptoms.

00:26:09.140 She concluded, we are so tired. This is what she wrote, Rebecca carb. Um, she says last night,

00:26:15.840 one of my many patients with COVID told me she had a large Thanksgiving dinner with family, 22 people

00:26:20.380 the day after one family member tested positive. Since then, according to my patient,

00:26:24.560 all 22 people have developed symptoms, some severe. We are so tired.

00:26:28.880 You know, this is just the latest. I think she, she proceeded to take that down. I believe that

00:26:35.600 post, but this is just the latest one. We've been seeing this all throughout for the last several

00:26:41.420 months with these doctors and nurses, they're going on social media, they're going on Tik TOK

00:26:46.740 whenever they stopped dancing or they're, they're on CNN or MSNBC. And they're just sharing all these

00:26:53.040 personal details about their patients. If we can actually believe it, I don't know that I really buy

00:26:57.100 that there was a Thanksgiving dinner and everyone there got sick. In fact, I say, I don't buy that.

00:27:03.040 Let me just be clear. I don't buy that, but let's, let's assume for a minute. It's true.

00:27:08.720 What, what happened to HIPAA? I mean, is this, is this not a thing anymore? Doctors and nurses can

00:27:13.660 go in front of the world and talk about their patients, reveal personal details. Yeah. You could say,

00:27:20.160 well, they're not, they're not giving out names. So what? And these are patients that they're

00:27:24.800 currently treating. How does the patient feel? I mean, do they get permission from the patient

00:27:30.800 first? At least did she go to that patient and say, Hey, uh, I want to talk about your family

00:27:35.480 getting sick on, on Twitter and complain about it. Are you okay with that? I'm, I doubt she did.

00:27:43.140 I just find it to be gross attention seeking behavior. Uh, five. Finally, um, I'm, um, let's do a

00:27:51.200 little, something a little positive right now. Cause it's been a little bit heavy, I think so far on the

00:27:54.400 show. Uh, I am honored today to find out that I am in fact, the hero. Uh, that's the good news for

00:28:02.920 today. If you're looking for some good news, I am a hero. I already knew I was a hero for many reasons,

00:28:08.100 but here's another one to add to the list. I am a hero for wearing glasses. I never knew it.

00:28:14.580 Uh, but I am at least that that's how it seems because a news anchor for ABC is being celebrated

00:28:20.860 for her courage in wearing glasses on air and pointing it out. And, uh, the, the segment is

00:28:29.600 pretty inspiring. So I'll play that for you now. It's a pretty inspiring, inspiring segment. Watch.

00:28:33.920 I just want to say thanks to the many of you who've reached out this week to say

00:28:37.040 that you've liked seeing me in glasses. And some of you have also asked why I'm wearing them.

00:28:42.160 Here's the story. I learned last week that one of my daughters was not wearing hers because she was 0.94

00:28:47.180 afraid of what people in her class would say or think about her. So in a gesture of solidarity,

00:28:52.300 I've been wearing mine all week to make this point. Whatever people say or think about you

00:28:57.520 is none of your business. Just be yourself authentically and unapologetically. The rest

00:29:03.520 will work itself out. We'll leave you now with these pictures of some celebrities who wear their specs

00:29:08.440 proudly. I hope you will share your kids' pictures with me on social media. I will only be too happy

00:29:15.020 to tell them how beautiful they look. Incredible courage. Incredible courage wearing the glasses.

00:29:25.360 You know, I have, uh, I've been wearing glasses for like 15 years. Nobody has ever cared or said

00:29:32.900 anything about it ever to me. So the idea that she was getting all, she's getting all these emails.

00:29:39.020 What's with the glasses? Why are you wearing glasses? Didn't people, really people asked you that?

00:29:42.520 They asked you why you were wearing glasses. No one has ever come up to me and said, Hey,

00:29:46.460 why are you wearing glasses? Uh, because they helped me see that's why I'm wearing them.

00:29:52.980 End of mystery. So I'm not sure I quite believe that everyone was, uh, was, was emailing her,

00:29:59.080 but in fact, I don't believe it. This was just, she was looking for an excuse to, uh, look, uh, yeah,

00:30:03.880 it's, it's, if the story about the daughter is true, you know, I'm, I'm so cynical. I don't believe

00:30:07.360 anything anymore, but if the story about the daughter is true and she really was wearing

00:30:11.400 the glasses to make the daughter feel better, then, you know, that's nice, but you don't need

00:30:15.760 to announce it on air and pat yourself on the back. That's when you lose all credit. Being a good

00:30:22.420 parent, you're wearing glasses. I guess what, those are glasses that have no prescription so that

00:30:26.480 she doesn't need them, I guess. Doing that for your kid's sake is great. But when you go on TV and

00:30:33.780 say, let me tell you a story about a nice thing I did for my own child, that's when you lose all

00:30:39.500 credit. It all goes out the window because you, you insisted on patting yourself on the back.

00:30:46.940 Um, but maybe I should just, you know, maybe I should just accept the fact that

00:30:51.060 it is an act of courage to wear glasses. You're welcome, everyone. I hope that I've been able to

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00:33:39.380 Today for our daily cancellation, we are canceling the dreaded, the stupid, the pointless pay it 1.00

00:33:50.560 forward drive-through chains. Now, if you aren't familiar with this thoroughly first world phenomenon, 0.99

00:33:56.040 here's a story about the latest one to pop up from CNN, uh, is a bunch of stories about this

00:34:00.940 yesterday, but this, the CNN says, what started as a random act of kindness from one man paying,

00:34:06.100 paying for the car behind him in a Dairy Queen drive-through resulted in over 900 cars also

00:34:11.220 taking part in the pay it forward chain at a drive-through in Brainerd, Minnesota, over a

00:34:15.600 hundred miles North of Minneapolis. People stepped up in a small way to show one another that they

00:34:19.620 care. Tina Jensen, the store manager at one of the two Dairy Queens in town told CNN, a man came by

00:34:24.600 the drive-through window on Thursday and asked if he could pay for his meal and for the car behind

00:34:28.420 him. Jensen told her cashier, this tends to happen once in a while, but at most it lasts for 15 or

00:34:32.460 20 cars, cars and fizzles out. This time the chain continued for two and a half days with over 900

00:34:38.040 cars participating, raking in $10,000 in sales. When the next customer came to the fast food chain's

00:34:43.000 window, Jensen explained what the man in front of them had done and the act of kindness continued

00:34:46.960 to multiply. Jensen said, there's all different types of ways to help people. I think this touched

00:34:51.480 a lot of people that we didn't even know it touched deeper than we know. And you don't know what's

00:34:56.420 going on in a person's life. When the chain closed for the night on Thursday, one car left $10 to

00:35:01.500 begin the chain back up on Friday morning. And then the same thing happened on Friday night.

00:35:05.380 And it began on Saturday morning. Okay. So that's how it works. Somebody pays for the meal

00:35:10.320 of the person behind them in line. Then that person pays for the person behind them and on

00:35:14.180 and on it goes. But do you know who the real hero in this story is? Not the first person

00:35:19.280 to pay for the next person. No, the real hero is whoever broke the chain and simply accepted

00:35:24.280 the charity from the person in front and drove away, leaving the person behind them to pay for 0.99

00:35:29.320 their own damned fudge sundae. All of the people in between the first guy who may have been well 0.98

00:35:35.760 intentioned, but should have thought more about the consequences of his actions. And the last guy

00:35:39.900 who had the courage to end the whole charade, everybody else, these were just sheep. They 0.58

00:35:44.980 weren't performing acts of kindness. This wasn't charity. They did it because they were too embarrassed

00:35:49.160 and felt too much social pressure not to do it. If it's charity at all, it's coerced charity and not

00:35:54.780 for a meaningful cause either. The people in the drive-thru line have disposable income that they

00:35:59.640 were already planning to spend on the same kind of junk that you're buying. They don't need your

00:36:04.180 money. Really this kind of charity, if it is charity at all, again, is similar to the sort of charity that

00:36:10.380 you perform when you're checking out at the grocery store and the cashier asks if you want to round up

00:36:16.840 and donate your change to, you know, orphaned sea otters or whatever. The only reason you say yes

00:36:23.120 is because you'd feel like a cheap ass refusing to give your 27 cents to the sea otters. It's not 0.98

00:36:28.160 something that comes from the kindness of your heart. If you wanted to help the sea otters on your own

00:36:32.700 time, you would. Right now, all you want to do is pay for your carton of eggs and your package of paper

00:36:37.500 towels and leave. The grocery store is taking advantage of your sense of shame to bilk another few cents out

00:36:44.200 of you. Another few cents of which they will surely take a cut, by the way. But while the grocery store

00:36:49.080 charity gambit is a calculated ploy to take advantage of people who don't have the spine to say

00:36:53.180 no, the pay it forward chain is more of a case of collective insanity. Everyone is doing it, but

00:36:59.580 nobody knows why. If you want to understand how crazy it is, imagine how it would come across if you

00:37:05.040 took, you know, take the fast food and the cars out of the equation. Okay. Now imagine you're standing

00:37:12.580 in a long line of people waiting for something and the guy in front turns to you, gives you $5 out of

00:37:19.920 his wallet and then suggests that you turn around and give the person behind you some money out of

00:37:25.060 your wallet and on and on and on. Now you're all just passing money backwards for absolutely no reason.

00:37:31.880 Nobody wants to be doing it or knows why they're doing it, but it continues until some free thinker

00:37:37.080 accepts the cash from the person in front and says, Hey, thanks for the money, puts it in their pocket

00:37:42.040 and gives nothing to the person behind. That person again is the admirable character in this

00:37:47.460 strange saga. Now, if I sound like I'm speaking from a place of personal trauma, when I talk about

00:37:52.680 this, that's because I am. I used to live near a Starbucks where this would happen frequently.

00:37:58.520 I was duped by it. I'm ashamed to admit one time and one time only I pulled up to the window to pay

00:38:04.540 for my one single coffee for two 65. And the girl at the window told me that the bill had been paid by the

00:38:10.220 guy in front. Then she informed me that they were doing this pay it forward thing where each person

00:38:15.360 pays for the one behind. And she asked me if I wanted to participate and told me that, you know,

00:38:18.920 they'd kept the chain going for 50 cars so far or however many it was. So I said, uh, yeah, okay,

00:38:26.000 sure. And then she said, okay, that'll be 43 50. I had just traded in my $2 coffee for a whole SUV load

00:38:36.620 of lattes and frappuccinos. And God only knows what else. It was the worst deal in history,

00:38:41.760 as Trump might've said, if he had saw it. So I drove away broken, confused, my coffee now tinged

00:38:50.620 with a taste of betrayal. And I resolved then to never allow myself to be shamed into empty gestures

00:38:56.540 of pointless charity. And from then on, whenever someone in front paid for my drink, I said, oh,

00:39:01.400 great. I accepted the free coffee, drove away with no remorse. In fact, proud that I'd saved others

00:39:08.400 from this farce. And even, and you know, when the cashier asks me now about the sea otters, I say,

00:39:13.860 no, thank you. I don't want to help them. In fact, the sea otters can go to hell. And I walk away

00:39:18.740 feeling fine. Though wondering if I was a little harsher towards the sea otters than necessary.

00:39:24.380 Anyway, this is why the pay it forward drive-through lines are canceled forever and always.

00:39:31.400 By the way, I must also acknowledge my own debt for the cancellation today. This was inspired by

00:39:35.340 Amanda Prestigiacomo, a writer for the Daily Wire, who spoke out against this yesterday. The pay it

00:39:39.740 forward lines on Twitter got me thinking about this. So she is the opposite of canceled, but everybody

00:39:44.920 else in that 900 person chain in Minnesota is unfortunately canceled today. And we'll leave it

00:39:52.880 there for today. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 11, 2020

Ep. 620 - Execute Criminals, Not Babies

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