The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 628 - And All The People Said 'Awomen'

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Congress is back in session and Democrats have started the new year 0.98

00:00:04.600 on an especially stupid note, which we'll have to discuss today. Also, five headlines, 0.95

00:00:08.880 including the squad, the entire squad bending the knee to Nancy Pelosi. And the mayor of Portland

00:00:14.220 apparently has decided that actually he doesn't want lawless hooligans to rule his city anymore.

00:00:19.360 It might be too little too late for that. And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel Cosmo for

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00:02:22.500 the 117th Congress was open yesterday with much ceremony and fanfare. This Congress, I'm sure,

00:02:28.120 promises to be about as productive as the 116 that came before it. Might be a little unfair. There were a

00:02:33.700 couple of good ones in there. But credit to the Democrats for coming out boldly to start the new

00:02:38.740 session and the new year and declaring at the outset their intention to take their lunacy and 1.00

00:02:44.220 stupidity to new and unfathomable heights. Setting the bar for us was a Democrat representative and 1.00

00:02:52.120 ordained Methodist minister who delivered a prayer, a prayer which started out okay and was mostly fine

00:02:59.320 throughout until it got to the end. And here's what that sounded like. We ask it in the name of the

00:03:05.320 monotheistic God, Brahma, and God known by many names by many different faiths. A man and a woman.

00:03:16.720 That, by the way, was Representative Emmanuel Cleaver or Representative E-woman-ul Cleaver, as he no doubt

00:03:25.100 calls himself or should call himself now. And as you just heard, in an attempt to be inclusive and

00:03:30.080 politically correct, Cleaver addresses the prayer to the monotheistic God and also Brahma, the Hindu

00:03:35.660 God, randomly. Then he closes it with a hearty a man and a woman. And there are many problems here,

00:03:41.380 but let's focus on just two of them. First of all, I'm skeptical in general of ecumenical approaches to

00:03:47.260 prayer and worship, even among just Christians. But certainly there is no way to apply that philosophy

00:03:52.600 to all of the world religions together. You know, with all due respect to the coexist bumper sticker,

00:04:00.160 praying to the monotheistic God and Brahma is like writing a love letter to your wife and addressing it 1.00

00:04:05.540 to whom it may concern. Your attempt to cover all the bases and be as generalized and vague as possible

00:04:11.980 defeats the whole purpose of the exercise. Worse, it only insults and degrades the person, in this case,

00:04:17.100 the deity you're supposed to be expressing your devotion to. You know, God, Brahma, Vishnu, Zeus,

00:04:23.000 whatever your name is, you're better off not praying if that's how you're going to pray. But of

00:04:28.920 course, this wasn't really a prayer at all and not intended to be. Rather than being an expression of

00:04:33.760 humble submission before the Almighty, which is what prayer is meant to be, it was intended as a

00:04:38.620 symbolic and self-aggrandizing display of enlightenment to the world. So rather than saying,

00:04:44.380 God, we adore you, the prayer was really saying, hey world, don't you adore us? Get a load of us.

00:04:50.860 Look how enlightened we are. And it fails even on its own terms anyway. After all, if you're going

00:04:55.940 to be inclusive by naming random gods in your prayer, then you really have to name them all,

00:05:00.780 don't you? Cleaver prays to Brahma and the monotheistic God, which I suppose is supposed to

00:05:06.240 cover Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism. But he failed to mention, for example, the Zoroastrian

00:05:12.540 god, Ahura Mazda, the Aztec sun god, Hutzlapachtali, or any of the hundreds of other gods featured in

00:05:21.180 the religions of the world. Inclusiveness is almost always a losing game because once you start trying 0.72

00:05:27.340 to be inclusive, you have to be completely inclusive or else you've only made the exclusion

00:05:34.360 of certain groups all the more obvious and pronounced. So Ahura Mazda might feel excluded if

00:05:41.780 you just pray to the Lord Jesus Christ. But think of how he must feel now if you start mentioning other

00:05:47.220 random deities yet still fail to acknowledge him. It's kind of like in school. You know, if one of the

00:05:52.540 kids in your class was invited to a birthday party and you weren't, it was only mildly upsetting.

00:05:57.240 But if 15 kids were invited and you still weren't, it was a tragedy. And this is what inclusiveness

00:06:04.500 gets you. But we haven't yet, of course, discussed the dumbest aspect of this prayer, 0.97

00:06:10.480 which is a man and a woman. Now, a man is originally a Hebrew word and it passed through 0.95

00:06:17.620 Greek and Latin before entering English. Through all of these languages, beginning with its biblical

00:06:23.100 Hebrew origins, it has meant so be it or let it be so or truthfully. Its meaning has varied

00:06:31.560 slightly. In modern usage, it's come to also mean something like I agree when shouted from the church

00:06:37.300 pews during the minister's sermon. But it does not now have and has never at any point had a gendered

00:06:45.300 meaning. Yes, it has the word men in it, but that is purely incidental. Again, this comes from the

00:06:52.060 Hebrew. And in scripture, when Jesus says, amen, I say to you, he's not saying, hey, dudes, I'm saying

00:06:58.960 to you. And when a prayer ends with amen, it doesn't mean dudes rock or bro power or whatever the

00:07:05.040 Democrats apparently imagine it to mean. It was already an entirely inclusive and neutral word.

00:07:10.000 The Democrats here have added gender to a genderless word, even while trying to remove gender

00:07:15.680 from gendered words. So the same people who gave us Latinx because they don't like the gendered

00:07:22.260 connotation of Latino and Latina have now given us a woman to infuse gender into a word that 1.00

00:07:28.800 where it didn't previously exist. In fact, the Democrats just this weekend, this is how absurd it

00:07:33.700 is. Just this weekend, they also introduced new rules to strip away all official mentions of gender

00:07:40.660 specific words. So words like man, woman, mother, son, all would be banned under the new rules.

00:07:48.120 The office of the whistleblower ombudsman would become the office of the whistleblower ombuds.

00:07:54.680 Campaign manager would be campaign personager. I made that last one up, but don't put it past them.

00:08:01.600 I'm sure that's what's coming next. The point is, as I have observed many times, when it comes to

00:08:06.500 gender, as with so many other things, leftism is totally incoherent. It can't keep its own agenda 0.95

00:08:12.080 straight. It can't help but contradict itself at every turn. One minute, they're making things

00:08:17.700 genderless. The next minute, they're making them gendered. One minute, they're telling us that the 0.93

00:08:22.060 word woman doesn't really mean anything anyway. The next minute, they're asking us to applaud women

00:08:27.100 simply for existing. And we'll have more on that in the five headlines in just a second.

00:08:30.340 In a word, the left is confused and they seek to spread that confusion. They want us to join them

00:08:38.640 in their intellectual and moral fog. They extend the invitation and wish to make its acceptance

00:08:46.440 mandatory. And that is all the more reason to resist. Let's go to our five headlines.

00:08:52.380 All right. I'm in, I am enjoying this, this, I have to say just quick note on football. If you're

00:09:02.820 not a football fan, bear with me, but I'm enjoying this controversy with, uh, with the New York Giants

00:09:06.740 who are very upset. Their fans are very upset, uh, because they're missing the playoffs because the

00:09:11.560 Eagles played the team formerly known as the Redskins last night. And, um, Eagles are four and 11,

00:09:17.240 you know, going, or I guess we're four and 10 going into the game at a playoff contention.

00:09:21.420 And, uh, they lost. And so now the team formerly knows the Redskins is going to enter the playoffs

00:09:26.140 at seven and nine. So they've, they've, they've lost more games than they won. Um, and the claim

00:09:31.400 is that the Eagles, uh, basically forfeited the game or through the game because they figure,

00:09:36.180 well, what's the point of winning? I'd rather, we'd rather lose one more game and, and, and get

00:09:40.240 better draft position. I don't know if it's true if they threw the game or not. And even if they did,

00:09:44.880 I'm not sure I could blame them. Like, what is the point of winning at the end of the season?

00:09:48.480 If you're going to, you know, sacrifice three or four positions in the draft, it might make

00:09:52.820 probably throwing the game makes more sense. And it's probably happened more often. It's probably

00:09:56.140 what I would do if I was in charge of a team. Um, but anyway, the Giants are upset because,

00:10:01.420 because of, of the team formerly known as the Redskins win. Now the Giants don't make it into

00:10:06.900 the playoffs. And so they're blaming the, the, the Eagles for, for, for throwing the game.

00:10:11.400 Well, the Giants are six and 10, they lost 10 games. It's true. They, they could have made the

00:10:17.940 playoffs if the, if the game against the, uh, with the Giants and the, uh, the Redskins and the,

00:10:22.020 and the Eagles had gone differently, but talk about entitlement. You're six and 10 and upset that

00:10:26.900 you didn't make the playoffs and blaming someone else, blaming another team for not getting you into

00:10:32.240 the playoffs at six and 10. It's absurd. This is why I think we need to get rid of divisions in the NFL,

00:10:36.580 uh, because having even a seven and nine team make the playoffs is a, is just a joke and a disgrace,

00:10:43.240 but let's move on. Uh, Nancy Pelosi, speaking of jokes and disgraces was elected to serve once again 1.00

00:10:49.540 as speaker of the house. And this makes, I believe her, I think it's her 2000th term. She's actually

00:10:55.560 the only member of Congress who started her career, um, on the Senate in ancient Rome. And now she's

00:11:02.860 going to return. And here she is, uh, addressing the house. Here's what she had to say.

00:11:07.100 It gives me great pride to serve as speaker of the most diverse house of representatives in the history

00:11:14.740 of our country with a record shattering 122 women, 122 women. You can applaud that. 122 women,

00:11:30.040 100 years after women won the right to vote. Yes. Applaud. Just like we talked about in the 0.97

00:11:39.600 opening. So applaud women just for existing. So applauding women and notice, see, here's the 0.97

00:11:44.980 thing. Everybody in the chamber there stood for this. It was a standing ovation. If you weren't

00:11:48.940 watching, if you're listening, it was a standing ovation to women, just, just because they're women, 1.00

00:11:53.480 just why not a standing ovation for all women. Um, and everyone in the chamber, of course,

00:11:58.680 not surprisingly stood for the standing ovation. I'm at the point where, where, and of course,

00:12:03.420 Republicans too, presumably, you know, there were some Republicans there. They stood also.

00:12:07.340 I'm at the point where I, like my only litmus test is for a Republican is, um, will you stand

00:12:14.820 for something like that? I'm at, I'm at the point where I almost don't even care what your other

00:12:19.980 positions are. If you will just simply not applaud in a situation like that, I think I would,

00:12:25.060 I would vote to make you president. I don't even care anything else about you because I think that

00:12:29.020 tells me everything I need to know. At least you're better than all the rest of these clowns. 0.99

00:12:33.980 Now, if you're in the room and so it's, oh, let's stand and applaud women. No, just, 0.99

00:12:37.140 just keep sitting. Not because you have anything against women, but because that's completely silly 0.97

00:12:41.800 and patronizing. And so you should just sit there and roll your eyes. I will vote. I will, I will 0.99

00:12:49.620 vote for president. The first Republican in a, in a situation like that, who rather than stand and

00:12:56.620 applaud just sits and rolls their eyes because that is the appropriate response. Um, but by the way,

00:13:02.260 speaking of Nancy Pelosi, as the daily wire notes, all six members of the congressional squad

00:13:08.120 did vote to make her speaker of the house. Um, six members. Now, wait a second. How are there? I

00:13:16.600 thought there were six. I thought there were four. Where did the six come from? Um, okay. Congresswoman

00:13:22.500 Ilhan Omar. We know about her. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. We know about

00:13:29.600 her. You know, she's kind of like the blue power ranger. The note, the one nobody really likes that

00:13:33.360 much. Um, and Congresswoman, uh, AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So they all voted for Pelosi as 0.77

00:13:40.220 they did back in the 2019 speaker election. Where do we get the other squad members? Now I'm just

00:13:44.880 distracted by this. Uh, Congresswoman Cori Bush and Congressman Jamal Bowman are the two newest squad

00:13:52.100 members. So there's a dude in the squad now. You just, you can't do this. Going back to the power

00:13:57.000 rangers analogy. It's like adding a purple and orange power ranger. You can't do it. We've already,

00:14:01.340 the squad is set. I feel upset about this. Actually. I don't like this. It's like, I like

00:14:06.700 the original squad. It has certain symmetry to it. You knew the role of each one. Now you just

00:14:12.920 start adding more in. I mean, next thing you know, there's going to be 50 people on the squad. It

00:14:16.780 just doesn't work. Uh, too many cooks boiling the broth, you might say, but in any case, they all,

00:14:21.880 this, this, these are the radical new young revolutionary, uh, leftists, the socialists, the Marxists,

00:14:29.920 and they're all lining up, bowing down, kissing the ring. No big surprise there. Number two,

00:14:36.380 representative Don Young, a Republican had, um, had some supposedly inspiring words to share

00:14:42.320 as Congress opened its new session. Uh, this is, this was being shared a lot on, on, on Twitter

00:14:49.160 and making the rounds online. A lot of people liked it because it was very bipartisan and unifying.

00:14:54.340 Um, I kind of have a problem with it. Maybe that won't surprise you to learn, but here it is.

00:14:59.800 Madam Speaker, before I issue the oath, I'd like to take privilege of the floor as the Dean.

00:15:07.660 I've been in this house longer than anybody else. I've served with you longer than anybody else has

00:15:12.340 served with you. I love this institution. I will be honest. I do not like what I see.

00:15:20.740 It's time we hold hands and talk to one another. And Madam Speaker, I say this with all sincerity,

00:15:27.040 you will be the Speaker of the House, not of a party. Now, it may hurt some of you.

00:15:35.760 The job of our nation is for the House of Representatives to govern this nation.

00:15:42.420 It was never meant to be the executive branch. It was never meant to be the judicial branch.

00:15:49.660 It's this House that raises the money and dedicates how it shall spend. And we are representing the

00:15:56.960 people as we're elected. And I say this with all sincerity, Madam Speaker, that when you do have

00:16:03.900 a problem or there's something so contentious, let's sit down and have a drink.

00:16:08.960 Well, and Nancy Pelosi would certainly have no problem sitting down for a drink, I'm sure. 0.92

00:16:12.960 But, and also, by the way, the executive branch is supposed to govern. That's literally what the

00:16:19.460 executive branch is supposed to do. But as far as holding hands and talking to each other,

00:16:24.680 I'm not into that. I have to tell you. Now, Don Young, you can do that. And I think that there's

00:16:31.320 no shortage of Republicans in Congress who are willing to hold hands and talk. Be led by the hand.

00:16:38.720 That's the thing. When you hold hands and you talk to the left, they're leading you in a direction.

00:16:44.560 You're not just standing there. They're going to guide you. They'd be perfectly fine holding hands

00:16:48.780 with you and bringing you right over the cliff. So I'm not going to do that. Now, holding hands in

00:16:53.520 general, I don't want to hold anyone's hand if they're not my wife or my child, even in church.

00:16:59.080 Or sometimes you go and you're sitting around the table. Some families are more touchy-feely and they do

00:17:06.540 the thing where you say grace before and everyone's supposed to hold hands while saying grace.

00:17:09.620 I'm not into that. So I won't even hold hands in those circumstances. I certainly am not going to

00:17:14.020 hold hands with someone on the left who despises me and everything I believe and everything I stand

00:17:21.080 for. So putting aside any concerns about personal space, that's the real issue here. What are we going

00:17:28.540 to talk about? The idea of bipartisanship or unity or all of us getting along? The idea of everybody

00:17:37.580 getting along sounds good to me. I like the idea of it. If I could just snap my fingers and make

00:17:44.360 everyone get along, I probably would. Maybe I wouldn't because it'd be kind of boring, but

00:17:48.160 I'd at least consider it. The problem though is that we're dealing with people who that's not what

00:17:57.920 they're interested in. Again, if you're a conservative, they despise you and everything

00:18:04.340 you believe and everything you stand for. They hate fundamentally. So what is there to talk

00:18:11.320 about? No, I'm not interested in holding hands with somebody like that. I'm not really interested

00:18:16.520 in talking to them. I'll fight for my position, for my stance, for my beliefs, but just sitting

00:18:26.780 down and having a friendly chat. I don't see how we do that. But I know Republicans are more than

00:18:37.140 happy to do it. And it doesn't surprise me. Don Young says he's been there longer than anybody

00:18:44.120 else. I'll be honest. I don't know anything about him. But that doesn't surprise me to learn

00:18:48.520 anything. The Republicans that have been there that long, what have they done? What have they

00:18:54.100 done in terms of actually resisting and standing up to the Democrats? Not much. Now, there's one

00:19:01.600 example of cowardly Republicans. Let's go to the other side here. This is from a few days ago over 0.99

00:19:09.080 the break, but I wanted to play it in case you missed it because I think it helps to build my case

00:19:13.520 for Ron DeSantis 2024. Here's what Ron DeSantis said. There's a clear change in tone here from what

00:19:21.600 most lawmakers have said about the vaccine to what Ron DeSantis had to say. Here he is. Listen.

00:19:27.060 What I've said is I'm willing to take it, but I am not the priority. They're the priority. I'm under

00:19:32.480 45. And so the people under 45 are not going to be first in line for this. And so when it's my turn,

00:19:40.200 I will take it. But this is who I want to be vaccinated. I want my parents, our grandparents to be able

00:19:46.880 to get it. And, you know, granted, I mean, I'm an elected official, but whoop-dee-doo. At the end of

00:19:52.260 the day, let's focus where the risk is. I love that. I'm an elected official, but whoop-dee-doo.

00:19:58.620 Exactly right. That's why right now, Ron DeSantis, my personal favorite right now for 2024. And look,

00:20:06.620 a lot can happen in the meantime. So it's, and especially with politicians, they can find many

00:20:11.820 ways to beclown themselves in the span of four minutes, let alone four years. I'm not saying

00:20:16.400 that Ron DeSantis will do that, but I also don't know that he won't. That's why, you know, I've

00:20:20.360 always preached, you never get too attached to politicians. You never, we hear this among

00:20:25.760 conservatives now. We hear a lot, and it's kind of disturbing to me, this idea of loyalty.

00:20:29.740 Now you have to be loyal, loyal to the president, loyal. No, we're not supposed to be loyal to

00:20:34.780 politicians. They're supposed to be loyal to us. We don't have to be loyal to them. That's loyalty really

00:20:40.160 with politicians. It's supposed to be a one-way street. Them to us, not the other way around.

00:20:45.420 So there's no loyalty here, but right now with how it stands, if he keeps this up, then I love

00:20:50.320 Ron DeSantis for 2024, exactly for things like that. Now, number four, the mayor of Portland,

00:20:58.600 Ted Wheeler, could take some leadership lessons from Ron DeSantis. He has finally, after six months

00:21:04.720 of lawlessness, he has finally decided that maybe it would be better if insane criminals

00:21:11.780 weren't running amok in the streets of his city. But it might be a little too late. Too little and

00:21:17.300 too late, I think, for this, but here it is. My good faith efforts at de-escalation have been met

00:21:23.940 with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists. In response, it will be

00:21:34.500 necessary to use additional tools and to push the limits of the tools we already have to bring

00:21:41.240 the criminal destruction and violence to an end. Lawlessness and anarchy come at great expense

00:21:50.340 and with great risk to the future of our community. It's time to push back harder

00:21:56.940 against those who are set on destroying our community and to take more risks in fighting

00:22:03.760 lawlessness. In closing, once again, I condemn anyone who engages in violence or criminal destruction,

00:22:13.660 no matter what their ideology. You know what gets me about that? Here's what jumps out of me when I

00:22:18.760 watched that. He looks like he's about to cry. Now, granted, Ted Wheeler is the kind of man who

00:22:26.580 just always looks like he's about to break down in tears or maybe just was. He always looks like

00:22:31.960 the guy who just was weeping in the bathroom and just came out and is about to run back in and cry

00:22:37.680 again. But it's never more obvious than right now. He really seems like he's on the verge of tears

00:22:43.300 because he's really upset and he's hurt. His feelings are hurt. And he's kind of right in a

00:22:50.680 way because what he's saying is, look, I've done everything for these people. I've tried to give

00:22:56.440 them everything they want and they still hate my guts. They chase me out of my apartment. They're

00:23:02.240 protesting me at my house. I have bent over backwards for these people to give them everything they want

00:23:10.320 and it's still not enough. And he's very upset about that. And on that end of it, he's actually

00:23:18.660 right. He has given them everything they want. He has let them run through the streets and he's let

00:23:24.900 them do literally anything they want. And we could put it like that. Anything they want to include

00:23:30.100 burning down buildings, killing people, looting. And he's let them do it for months on end.

00:23:35.900 And it's still not enough. It is never enough. And the thing is, eventually everyone learns this.

00:23:46.380 Even a doltish, useless, incompetent buffoon like this clown, he eventually learned it. It took him 1.00

00:23:55.140 six months to learn it, but eventually he did. That when it comes to these leftist radicals,

00:24:00.900 it will never be, there is nothing you can do. There is nothing you can give them. There is no

00:24:06.960 concession you can make that will ever satisfy them ever. And so for that reason alone, you might as

00:24:16.240 well just stand up and say no. Because whether you say no now, or you finally say no six months from now,

00:24:22.860 or a year from now, when you're fed up with it, the response is going to be the same.

00:24:26.860 So you might as well preserve your dignity. Ted Wheeler, I mean, let this be a lesson. This is a

00:24:32.300 tragic lesson for us all. This is a man who has completely forfeited his dignity and his honor as a

00:24:39.540 man. And now he stands before us weeping and broken and hated by everybody. That's what you get. Ted,

00:24:50.400 that's what you get. Don't mean to victim blame, but there it is. Number five, here's a report from

00:24:56.200 New York Post. This is from, this, this happened back right before the new year, but I've had it

00:25:00.860 saved here because I wanted to mention it when we got back on the air. Uh, New York Post reports

00:25:05.680 a sculpture honoring police shooting victim, Brianna Taylor was smashed by vandals over the weekend,

00:25:12.740 prompting a probe by Oakland police. According to two reports, the memorial installed, uh, two weeks

00:25:18.220 ago in downtown, uh, Latham square was smashed in several places sometime on Saturday. This was a

00:25:24.200 couple Saturdays ago. The bust includes a plaque that reads, say her name, Brianna Taylor. Um,

00:25:31.280 the artist, Leo Carson says at first I was stunned and shocked and hurt and angry,

00:25:35.860 just a whole bunch of emotions. It felt like I was personally attacked. And also they attacked

00:25:40.120 Brianna Taylor and the BLM movement. Oakland police said in a statement that a report had been filed,

00:25:45.840 uh, in the vandalism of the Taylor bust and that police were investigating the incident.

00:25:49.760 Um, and there was a, there was a GoFundMe now and there was a reward put out. I'm not sure what the

00:25:55.220 latest is on this actually. I don't know if they found the, the vandal, but two points about this.

00:26:01.480 Um, number one, why was there a statue of Brianna Taylor in the first place? I'm sort of asking that

00:26:07.640 rhetorically because I know, but what, what did Brianna Taylor do with her life to earn a statue or 0.97

00:26:16.660 a monument? I mean, generally what we do is, is we, or at least in the past, we've built statues and

00:26:22.880 monuments for people who accomplish great things. All of these statues that are being torn down

00:26:28.560 in most cases, these are people who earn those statues because they did great consequential things

00:26:37.020 because they reshaped human history. You know, because, because our lives are different today

00:26:44.120 and better because they existed. That's the kind of thing that earns you a statue. And that's why I'm

00:26:51.980 opposed to statues being torn down. With Brianna Taylor though, uh, it's, it's not clear to me exactly

00:26:57.100 what she did to, to earn it other than the fact that she was killed in a police shooting.

00:27:03.180 You see, I don't know if that's really enough or should be enough to earn a statue, but the second

00:27:06.860 point is, look, these are the new rules now, right? These are the rules. If you don't like a statue,

00:27:12.640 you can just destroy it. Are we supposed to be outraged and offended by this? I'm sorry. I got

00:27:18.380 to tell you, I'm not. I have to tell you, I don't care at all that they smashed the Brianna Taylor

00:27:24.380 statue. I don't care at all because the rules now, I didn't make these rules. The left has made the

00:27:29.900 rules. And the rule is, if you don't like a statue, you can just destroy it. Now I know they intend for

00:27:35.640 that rule only to apply to them, but no. See, that game is over. That's a, that's a new year's

00:27:41.260 resolution we can all make for 2021. That game is over. You don't get to have your own rules. You

00:27:45.480 don't get to make exceptions for yourself. If you're saying this is the way it's going to be

00:27:49.140 now for you, it's going to be this way for everybody. If you're allowed to tear down the

00:27:52.920 statues you don't like, anybody else can. I don't know who tore down the statue, who destroyed it,

00:27:57.460 but they're allowed to now. According to you, the logic that you have applied, it's going to go

00:28:04.220 across the board. If you don't like that, I mean, and you know, I, that this isn't the world that I

00:28:11.260 want to live in. I don't want to live in a world where you can just destroy whatever property you

00:28:14.900 want. Um, but this wasn't my idea. And if you're on the left, this was your idea. This is what you

00:28:22.220 wanted. So embrace it. This is all on you. All right, we're going to get to our daily cancellation

00:28:28.680 just a second, but a quick bonus item here, um, before we get to our daily cancellation, I wanted to

00:28:32.900 play this for you also. Um, because I thought it'd be great to start the year with, uh, well, just with

00:28:38.640 beauty and grace for a change. Cause it's going to be a rough year, I think. Um, but we want to try

00:28:44.980 to begin on the right foot, so to speak. So here is, uh, speaking of beauty and grace and grace, here's a

00:28:50.300 video of, of, of myself. My wife took this video and posted it online to try to embarrass me, uh, to shame

00:28:58.300 me publicly, but the joke's on her because this is a video that she took this past weekend when we went

00:29:04.940 with the family, uh, to a spot in the city to do some ice skating. Now I have never ice skated before

00:29:10.920 in my life. Okay. First time ever, never done it. So my wife was filming, hoping that I would fall. 0.54

00:29:18.500 Okay. This, she, that's what she was praying for the fall and that she could get that on, on tape and

00:29:23.280 then put it on Twitter, but it didn't work out. Instead, let's just take a look at this. Let's play the

00:29:27.660 clip here. I want everyone to see this. Go ahead and play it. Um, and if you're just listening to

00:29:33.660 the audio, you're going to look at this, look at the gracefulness. Have you ever seen that? Again,

00:29:39.720 I've never ice skated before. Total grace. You know, I could be a figure skater. I could be a hockey

00:29:47.620 player. You would never know if I showed you that video and I said, Oh, there's a, there's an Olympic

00:29:52.340 figure skater in his little recreational time with the family. You would believe it. Wouldn't you?

00:29:57.660 Incredible. Absolutely incredible. And I, I went like that for 30, 40 seconds. Um,

00:30:07.220 really great stuff. I thought that would inspire you as well. The, the, the not inspiring part of

00:30:11.620 the video is you see everybody else on the ice. They're all wearing masks. It was just, that was

00:30:16.380 a rather absurd site. We're outside. We're on the ice. People are, you know, spread apart

00:30:21.800 and everybody's in masks and they had a mask patrol. I didn't have my mask. I had it on,

00:30:26.780 but I had it down, which is how I generally wear my mask. I wear it around my neck because that way,

00:30:31.600 at least I'm protecting my neck from COVID. But, um, I got yelled at like three times in the span of

00:30:36.460 the 30 or 40 seconds that I was doing that. The, the, the mask patrol would just skate up,

00:30:43.040 sir, put the mask on. And as I pointed out, I did have it on. Just didn't have it all the way up.

00:30:47.980 That's all. All right. Here's another good news, news resolution for you. How about, uh,

00:30:52.240 stop wasting your own time. Time is money. As they say, think of, think about all the time you

00:30:56.740 waste in a year and you don't want to tally that up at the end of the year and realize all the other

00:31:01.320 things you could have been doing with your time. Uh, and here's one way to save time and save money

00:31:05.120 rock auto.com. Okay. This is a lot better. If you've got, if you need auto parts, you can go to the

00:31:10.300 store, you can drive there, you can wait in line. You can do all that. They don't even have what you

00:31:13.780 need anyway. Right. And they got to order it online. You just wasted all that time. Save your

00:31:17.880 time. Save your money. Go to rock auto.com rock auto.com always offers the lowest prices possible

00:31:22.760 rather than changing prices based on what the markets will bear. Like airlines tend to do.

00:31:27.500 Why spend up to twice as much for the same parts. It's really as simple as that. Um,

00:31:31.280 rock auto.com. It's a family business. They've been doing this for a long time. They've been

00:31:34.620 serving auto parts, customers online for 20 years. You can go to rock auto.com to shop for auto and

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00:31:49.540 believe me, just go to rock auto.com yourself and check it out. Uh, and you'll see it for yourself.

00:31:54.160 It's really easy to navigate. And, um, there's tons of, tons of stuff there, right? There's a,

00:31:59.920 it's a, it's a, it's a large catalog, but you can navigate it easily and you'll, and you'll

00:32:03.420 quickly see that things are a lot cheaper on rock auto.com than they would be if you went to an auto

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00:32:12.660 write Walsh in there. How did you hear about us box? So that they know that we sent you.

00:32:17.440 Uh, also want to tell you about this. It's pretty exciting there. You know, there's,

00:32:20.280 there's a reason millions of people believe lies about conservatives. We all deal with this,

00:32:25.280 right? And that's because they've been trained to believe those lies by content creators,

00:32:29.560 uh, entertainers who despise us. And they always say politics is downstream from culture.

00:32:36.620 We as a culture are starving for content that's edgy and entertaining and awesome,

00:32:41.620 but that doesn't mock conservative values. You know, that's, that's not, that doesn't,

00:32:46.060 doesn't have it in for us. It isn't trying to spread a message that's opposed to our values.

00:32:50.220 Uh, I think we need to give people options. So the daily wire is aiming to do just that.

00:32:54.480 What you're about to watch right now is daily wire's first motion picture film. It's called

00:32:58.680 run, hide, fight. This is not your stereotypical conservative film. I can tell you that. In fact,

00:33:03.040 it's not particularly political at all. And, you know, I think that's another thing we all probably

00:33:07.380 would like to see more of in movies, which is less politics. Um, it's not a family friendly film

00:33:12.680 either. It's intense, it's violent, and it has a powerful message to go with it. The movie follows

00:33:16.940 a high school siege by a quartet of school shooters. When one young girl, 17 year old Zoe Hall

00:33:22.240 uses her wits and her survival skills to fight back. Uh, let's take a look at that now. 0.62

00:33:26.440 In between breaths, take a shot. You've done really good out there, kid. The size of that deer,

00:33:38.900 we're going to be eating venison all summer. Well, in a day's work. I think we need to see

00:33:43.740 somebody again. And by we, you mean me? No, I mean us. Hey, that look in your eye. Guy's in my

00:33:49.100 unit at that local. Maybe there's a grocery you can hand me so I can go?

00:33:56.440 Is that Chris Jellick over there? Is he doing something completely weird? Senior prank day.

00:34:05.020 But we'll see all kinds of dumb stuff today. Swim captain will have Thai food delivered to 0.79

00:34:08.960 class, and Becky Vaughn will set up her homemade slip and slide. This is high school. Nothing

00:34:13.220 that happens here matters in the real world.

00:34:21.980 Okay, we are in charge now, so please pull out whichever app you use to do

00:34:26.420 live streaming video. Get them up and running and point it at me. Now!

00:34:31.800 Get down on the ground! Any more friends back there?

00:34:40.880 I'm calling 911.

00:34:42.800 Get back to your homeroom and stay put until...

00:34:45.420 911. 911. What's your emergency?

00:34:55.240 You must be close.

00:35:02.100 You should be a sh...

00:35:03.800 Very disturbing news out of Vernon Central High School. 0.99

00:35:11.340 Zoe. 0.86

00:35:11.880 Zoe. 0.86

00:35:11.960 Zoe. 0.86

00:35:12.040 Zoe. 0.86

00:35:15.420 Zoe. 0.86

00:35:16.420 Zoe. 0.86

00:35:17.420 Zoe. 0.86

00:35:18.420 Zoe. 0.86

00:35:19.420 Go! 0.95

00:35:20.420 Is it safe to say that this might be our guardian angel? Do you want more people to die?

00:35:29.740 That's the last thing I want. I'm gonna kill one person in this room every five minutes. 1.00

00:35:34.100 You don't show your face. 1.00

00:35:35.100 You don't show your face.

00:35:46.520 Isn't it ironic that after all your hard work, people aren't going to remember you?

00:35:51.420 People aren't going to remember you?

00:35:58.420 No.

00:35:59.420 You're going to remember me.

00:36:01.600 It's a good trailer.

00:36:06.100 And one thing I can tell you, I've seen the movie, and this is... I know it's a concern,

00:36:11.440 right? Anytime if you hear conservatives are involved in a movie or, you know, people that

00:36:16.920 have a lot of experience watching like Christian movies. This is not a Christian movie. But

00:36:22.740 one thing, if you have experience with that, you know that a lot of times the acting is not

00:36:27.560 great. The script is not great. It's sort of like a low quality affair. That is not an

00:36:33.840 issue here. The acting is very good. The lead performance, I thought, was spectacular. And

00:36:39.220 the script is very good. It engages you right from the very first frame to the end. And

00:36:46.300 that's why we're excited to show you this film and bring you something that's never been

00:36:49.580 done before in conservative media. Run, Hide, Fight will be available to watch on Friday,

00:36:52.960 January 15th at dailywire.com. And we'll be doing a special live stream premiere.

00:36:57.560 The night before on Thursday, January 14th on the Daily Wire YouTube channel. Let's kick

00:37:02.060 off 2021 by fighting back on culture and creating our own content. Let's get now to our daily

00:37:08.040 cancellation. Now, today we're canceling, not for the first time, probably not the last,

00:37:15.840 Cosmopolitan magazine. In fairness, they could be canceled for literally everything that's ever

00:37:20.960 been printed in the pages of their godforsaken publication. But this month's issue, I think

00:37:25.620 warrants a special mention. On the cover is featured an obese woman smiling proudly with 1.00

00:37:31.840 the words, this is healthy, printed across. Now, notice, I want you to notice this, how

00:37:39.000 the body positivity movement has slid inexorably down the predictable slippery slope. Because

00:37:45.340 five years ago, this cover would have looked similar and had a similar message. But instead,

00:37:50.640 it would have said something like, this is beautiful. Now, it was wrong to call obesity

00:37:57.120 beautiful. But at least you could argue, wrongly in my view, but at least plausibly, that beauty

00:38:02.020 is subjective. You know, and so, you know, you can call anything beautiful. And the benefit

00:38:07.360 for those promoting the message five years ago was that most people were too afraid to object,

00:38:12.840 thinking that if they argue that obesity isn't beautiful, it would be the same as saying that 0.84

00:38:17.580 all fat people are ugly. Of course, it's not the same. It is possible to make the case that

00:38:23.360 obesity isn't beautiful, which it isn't, without calling all fat people ugly in the same way that

00:38:29.920 you can make the case that alcoholism isn't beautiful, which it isn't, without calling all 0.75

00:38:34.260 alcoholics ugly. It's not the same thing. Saying alcoholism isn't beautiful is not the same thing as

00:38:39.440 saying you're ugly because you're an alcoholic. Two different things. But we've graduated beyond

00:38:45.340 potentially subjective words like beautiful. And now we're being told that obesity is actually

00:38:50.380 healthy. And this is the way it always goes. This is always the trajectory. You know, the slippery

00:38:57.060 slope is real, and we're on about a thousand different ones in this culture. So we start by,

00:39:02.640 you know, the left starts by demanding that you accept a false but relatively innocuous or seemingly

00:39:08.160 well-intentioned premise like obesity is beautiful. And once your mind has been properly conditioned,

00:39:13.400 they move to the radical and dangerous conclusion that was always embedded in the original premise,

00:39:19.940 which now is obesity is healthy. So let's read a little bit from this Cosmo article. It says,

00:39:25.480 it says, influencer Callie Thorpe is one of social media's best known advocates of self-love. In 2016,

00:39:33.720 she launched the community page called the Confidence Corner on Instagram to spread positivity to her 250,000

00:39:39.700 followers. But it really all started with a diet blog in 2012. Quote, I thought if I made myself

00:39:45.780 accountable to strangers, I'd lose weight. It made me feel worse than ever. She adds, I had a really

00:39:51.160 terrible relationship with my body growing up. I always struggled with the fact that it was

00:39:55.380 different to my friends. I tried every single diet. By the way, sidebar here. Most of the time when

00:40:03.020 people say they tried every diet, the problem is precisely that they're just trying the diet.

00:40:07.920 They do it for a few days or a few weeks and they quit. They're dipping their toes into different

00:40:12.840 diet fads, but they give up as soon as it becomes difficult. The fact is that almost everyone who says

00:40:18.520 they've tried really hard to lose weight, but haven't, haven't been able to, in almost all cases,

00:40:26.680 they actually haven't tried hard at all. They may have tried momentarily, but not long enough and not

00:40:31.960 consistent enough. That's a simple reality. The idea that it somehow doesn't work to eat healthy,

00:40:38.480 you know, that lots of people would still be morbidly obese even after radically altering

00:40:43.080 their diet and lifestyle to make it more healthy is just absurd. But getting back to the article,

00:40:47.660 it says, these days, Cali adheres to the body neutrality movement, which focuses on what your body

00:40:53.560 can do rather than how it looks. Plus size people often feel like they can't be part of the wellness

00:40:59.400 space. We're trolled for being fat. Um, then, then can feel excluded from exercise because our

00:41:05.720 bodies don't fit the narrative. First of all, you're not being, nobody can be excluded from

00:41:11.460 exercise. You want to just lay down on your, on your, uh, carpet and do some crunches. You can't

00:41:18.880 be excluded from doing that. But I mean, that's one excuse to not exercise, I guess. Oh, you know,

00:41:25.240 I was going to go jogging today, but I've been, they excluded me. I got excluded from jogging. I

00:41:29.820 can't. And from there, the article goes on to chronicle the stories of various other women, 0.92

00:41:36.020 some of whom are in fine shape, others who are also morbidly obese. The message is that they've

00:41:41.300 all learned to love their bodies and that all of their body types are healthy. Not surprisingly,

00:41:46.660 no attempt is made to scientifically or logically defend the proposition that obesity is healthy.

00:41:51.900 It's merely asserted with an exclamation point. And we're meant to accept it at face value.

00:41:58.660 The only defense is as always an emotional one. The argument seems to be that obesity is healthy

00:42:04.580 because it makes fat people feel bad. When you say obesity is not healthy, this is similar to the

00:42:11.260 argument that a man is a woman because it makes him feel bad. When you say he's not a woman,

00:42:14.740 the irony is that the phrase body acceptance is used in this article, uh, referring to a woman named

00:42:21.220 Jessamyn Stanley, also obese. It says, quote, the journey to body acceptance is something that

00:42:26.820 has taken her a long time. That being Jessamyn quote, body shaming was one of the first things 0.89

00:42:31.980 I learned to do. I grew up in a community where all of my physical attributes, wide nose, big belly,

00:42:36.800 big ass, big lips, dark skin were deemed ugly. Now, first of all, these things are not all the same. 0.97

00:42:43.280 Okay. Um, one of these things is not like the others, right? The size of your nose, your lip.

00:42:48.880 So the color of your skin, these cannot be naturally changed and they shouldn't be unnaturally changed

00:42:54.260 either, in my opinion, but the size of your belly can be changed. And given that an overly bulbous belly

00:43:01.300 is hazardous to your physical wellbeing, you should change it just because there are some things about

00:43:07.900 yourself that you should proudly embrace, like your skin color, your nose size. That doesn't mean that

00:43:12.640 all things about you should be proudly embraced. But going back to the body acceptance phrase,

00:43:19.100 it strikes me that this is exactly what the body acceptance movement is not doing.

00:43:24.480 Body acceptance is what they are opposing, not what they're promoting. You haven't accepted something

00:43:31.280 if you refuse to acknowledge the full reality of it. An addict hasn't reached the stage of acceptance

00:43:37.260 if he's still claiming that he doesn't have, that he doesn't have a problem. You aren't accepting

00:43:41.120 your obese body if you're insisting that it's healthy and wonderful. You know, that's denial,

00:43:46.340 not acceptance. It's the opposite. Yes, obese people should accept that they are obese and then

00:43:55.300 they should work to change it because it could very likely kill them if they don't. That's what

00:44:00.860 acceptance looks like. And this obesity is healthy stuff takes on an even more sinister tone when you

00:44:06.520 consider the timing. COVID is still surging out there and it's well known that the obese are 1.00

00:44:11.840 especially vulnerable to it. So you're already more likely to die of heart disease and dozens of other

00:44:16.740 complications due to obesity. And COVID adds just yet another danger on top of that. Cosmo wants you to

00:44:24.160 embrace that danger. Cosmo wants you to be a martyr for body acceptance. He wants you to love your

00:44:30.620 obesity so much that you allow it to kill you. And that's insane. And for that, Cosmo is canceled. 0.92

00:44:41.160 Cosmo has the honor of being the first cancellation of the new year. Many more to come. But for now,

00:44:48.280 that'll do it for us. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 04, 2021

Ep. 628 - And All The People Said 'Awomen'

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