On Wednesday, an unarmed woman was shot and killed by police when the Capitol was taken over on Wednesday. The people who have spent years shouting about the killing of unarmed civilians have been mysteriously silent about this case, or, if not silenced, have celebrated the woman s death outright. Also, five headlines including the Democrats hatching a plan to remove Trump from office, even though he s going to be gone anyway, and will cancel a former NBA star who says that the riot in D.C. was an example of white supremacy. And we ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:07:08.460Babbitt's Twitter account was almost singularly focused on radical conservative topics and conspiracy theories.
00:07:13.480Among other fringe beliefs, she tweeted about Pizzagate,
00:07:16.840a viral disinformation campaign that falsely alleged a child abuse ring was being operated by Democrats from a Washington pizza restaurant.
00:07:23.160Babbitt was a loyal Fox News watcher, according to thousands of tweets to Fox News hosts.
00:07:27.200But she also engaged on social media with the conspiracy news internet news site Infowars.
00:07:32.720In 2020, Babbitt began to tweet with QAnon accounts and use QAnon hashtags.
00:07:37.080QAnon conspiracy theories subscribe to a false belief that high-profile Democrats and Hollywood celebrities
00:07:41.940are ritually sacrificing children, that Trump is fighting to stop it.
00:07:45.240QAnon followers have allegedly committed real-world violent crimes, including murder,
00:07:48.720and the FBI labeled it a potential domestic terror threat in 2019.
00:09:01.100But if that alone justifies deadly force, then police would have license to kill many people at many of the riots that have broken out around the country.
00:09:08.420It's hard to see how the officer who pulled the trigger could have reasonably viewed Babbitt as a lethal threat to himself or anyone else.
00:09:15.760She's a small, unarmed woman climbing through a window.
00:09:21.880Could they not have taken her to the ground and cuffed her?
00:09:25.040Video shows, and this is really important, there was a whole line of armed, heavily armed law enforcement officers coming up the steps directly behind her.
00:09:34.800I mean, they were a few feet from her when she was killed.
00:09:38.380Could none of them have simply grabbed her and pulled her away?
00:10:18.540Do we even know the name of the officer who pulled the trigger?
00:10:21.400Has he been put on administrative leave while the investigation is underway, as is usually par for the course in these situations?
00:10:29.160There appears to be little interest in these questions.
00:10:31.360The people who have, again, spent years panicking over police shootings, especially police shootings of unarmed people, are happy to simply let this one slide.
00:11:12.140The left has poured into the streets to protest and riot over police shootings that were easily more justified than this.
00:11:18.740Starting with Michael Brown, who was killed while in the process of assaulting a police officer and trying to take his gun.
00:11:26.700There's no rational argument that would make Brown's killing wrong, but Babbitt's killing right.
00:11:32.920But the double standard and the apparent incoherence here is only confusing until you realize that the movement against police brutality actually has nothing at all to do with police brutality and never did.
00:11:44.980The deaths of men like Brown were simply excuses.
00:12:45.280But personally, I like for my ice cream, you know, here's how I usually like my ice cream serve with with whipped cream, hot fudge and a sprinkling of social consciousness.
00:13:02.060OK, they have also come out and spoken out about this, which is I would have expected this of like Calvin Klein cologne, something slightly more elitist.
00:13:10.900But Axe Body Spray is the working man's scent.
00:13:15.280Well, it's Axe Body Spray is the working man's scent before he's a working man when he's still in high school and attending his first homecoming dance.
00:13:24.940But either way, here's what Axe Body Spray said.
00:13:28.160Somebody pointed out that a bottle of Axe Body Spray was left behind in the Capitol after the riot.
00:13:32.920And the company came out and and said, here's their quote, said, we'd rather be lonely than with the mob.
00:13:43.620Axe condemns yesterday's acts of violence and hate at the Capitol.
00:13:47.560We believe in the democratic process and the peaceful transition of power.
00:14:19.700Let's go to number one here, the Democrats, Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi are now all in on a plan to remove Trump from office.
00:14:27.420And they're calling on Mike Pence to do the deed.
00:14:31.040This again, even though Donald Trump one way or another, I mean, even if you were still holding on hope, holding on to some hope that somehow Donald Trump would still be president on January 21st, that that now has to be completely gone.
00:14:54.360In calling for this seditious act, president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people.
00:15:02.900I joined the Senate Democratic leader in calling on the vice president to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th Amendment.
00:15:12.740If the vice president and cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment.
00:15:19.960That is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus.
00:15:23.400To those whose purpose was to deter our responsibility, you have failed.
00:15:29.900You did not divert the Congress from our solemn constitutional purpose to validate the overwhelming election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as president and vice president of the United States.
00:15:44.520We're very pleased now that we have in 13 days President Joe Biden, a Democratic House majority and a Democratic Senate majority that will work to heal, to heal and restore the soul of our nation.
00:16:01.760Yeah. Putting aside any of the individual claims she makes there, just just talking about this idea of we're going to remove Trump from office when there's two weeks left.
00:16:14.140There's only one reason. And I don't think they're actually going to succeed at doing this.
00:16:19.160They might impeach him, but it's actually removing from office.
00:16:22.940I don't think it's going to happen. And the idea of invoking the 25th Amendment and Pence.
00:16:26.360Yeah, I it wouldn't surprise me to learn. I mean, the reports are that Pence is furious at Donald Trump because Trump just threw him under the bus and tossed him to the wolves.
00:16:36.080And I don't blame Pence for being furious for that. I would be, too.
00:16:39.620But I sincerely doubt that Pence would go along with this.
00:16:42.720So I don't think it's actually going to happen. But there's only one reason.
00:16:48.240To try to do this, there's only one reason to try to remove Donald Trump from office when he's only got two weeks left anyway.
00:16:54.700And that is if you want chaos and violence, if you want more chaos and violence, I should say, if you want to make everything worse and if you want to milk every every last day of Trump's presidency for all the chaos it's worth, then you would do this because that's what's going to happen.
00:17:14.240You just saw how some people reacted to the certification of the votes.
00:17:19.040Can you can you can you imagine what happens if you remove him from office?
00:17:32.620Politically, because it's very politically advantageous for them.
00:17:34.760So that's the only reason they're talking about this, because that's what they want.
00:17:38.020I mean, even if you were to just for the sake of argument, just grant that Donald Trump is this dangerous monster and so yada, yada, et cetera and so forth.
00:17:51.660Even then, he's out of office in a few days.
00:17:56.200So that's what the Democrats are going to try to do.
00:17:58.800They're going to milk this for all it's worth.
00:18:04.120They've got, you know, they've got two weeks left of Donald Trump and they're going to try to get everything they can out of that politically, which means chaos and anarchy and division and all of that.
00:18:42.040What we saw yesterday, in plain view, was another violation of the fundamental tenet of this nation.
00:18:50.620Not only do we see the failure to protect one of the three branches of our government, we also saw a clear failure to carry out equal justice.
00:19:01.700I'm not sure if you used to say in the Senate, excuse the point of personal privilege.
00:19:05.280A little over an hour and a half after the chaos started, I got a text from my granddaughter, Finnegan Biden, who's a senior in her last semester at the University of Pennsylvania.
00:19:20.500She sent me a photo of military people in full military gear.
00:19:29.080Scores of them lining the steps of the Lincoln Memorial because of protests by Black Lives Matter.
00:19:44.340No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, there wouldn't have been, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.
00:20:09.980They would have been treated differently.
00:20:10.820I mean, the Capitol Police probably would have just vacated the premises entirely, handed it over to them like they did with the police stations, like they did with many buildings around the country.
00:20:21.200Entire buildings handed over to the BLM rioters to just do what you want with it.
00:20:28.440So, yeah, they would have been treated differently, Joe.
00:20:30.360So, I think we also have, we'll play this too, just to show how this is a full court press by the Democrats to stir up as much division as they can in the middle of this.
00:20:41.840Here's, I think we have Kamala Harris.
00:20:46.160We witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let extremists storm the United States Capitol and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer.
00:21:03.420The American people have expressed brightly outrage.
00:22:23.020Officials in Los Angeles County are warning that areas more, warning the areas more than 10 million residents that simply stepping outside is now deemed risky behavior within the nation's pandemic epicenter.
00:22:35.100Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said, everyone should keep in mind that community transition rates are so high that you run the risk of an exposure whenever you leave your home.
00:22:46.100Assume that this deadly invisible virus is everywhere.
00:22:58.700That's, you know, and that is how many people have lived and that's why we've seen the collapse of mental health in this country.
00:23:07.160That's one of the reasons we've seen suicide rates go up.
00:23:10.600Because of this, not only the, people aren't just being isolated, but they're having this fear and paranoia hammered into their minds and their heads every second of the day.
00:23:21.000But, you know, from one perspective, she's right that stepping outside your house is risky behavior in a sense.
00:23:31.220Every time you leave your home, it's a risk.
00:24:06.020There are many risks that we face as human beings.
00:24:10.320But that's not a reason to stop living our lives.
00:24:14.160We are supposed to live our lives in spite of the risk.
00:24:17.040What we cannot do is stop living until the risks go away, because they'll never go away.
00:24:22.840Number four, from NBC News, it says the acting U.S. attorney in Washington, Mike Sherwin, says his office has now charged 55 suspects with various offenses, including unlawful entry, assault, theft, and weapons charges.
00:24:33.700This is in relation to what happened on Wednesday.
00:24:39.240One suspect had a military-style semi-automatic rifle and 11 Molotov cocktails.
00:24:42.880Sherwin says federal and local investigators, hundreds of people, are now searching social media for photos and video clips of suspects engaged in unlawful activity.
00:24:50.960Those people are being arrested as quickly as possible.
00:24:53.000Department of Justice expects this search for suspects to last all year.
00:25:41.120They're organizing task forces, and they're, you know, they're mobilizing, and they're saying, let's fine these people and arrest them.
00:25:46.840So, our lawmakers in D.C., when their place of work is attacked and the windows are broken, that's when they want to mobilize.
00:25:57.700But when, you know, someone else's workplace is vandalized, invaded, looted, ransacked, burned, they don't care about that.
00:26:07.100So, many Americans, what our lawmakers experienced on Wednesday, many Americans, hundreds, thousands, over the course of the last several months have experienced exactly that and worse, much worse in some cases.
00:26:24.160They've experienced their places of employment being burned to the ground, which I would say is worse for you if you work there than having the windows broken, right?
00:26:37.680So, many Americans have experienced at least that, sometimes much worse.
00:26:43.020But it didn't seem like anyone in D.C. cared about that.
00:26:45.560There's very little mobilization happening.
00:27:24.160And I also find this logic to be obscene.
00:27:26.920I find it, I cannot agree that, you know, it is better to burn down and attack your neighbor's place of work than it is to attack, you know, our politician's place of work.
00:28:11.940All of this energy, all of this energy and effort should have also been expended to deal with the rioters who are victimizing their own communities.
00:28:22.260All right, number five from the New York Post.
00:28:30.360First, it says, a prominent human rights attorney apparently posed as a Latino woman for years, despite claiming Puerto Rican and Colombian heritage for over a decade.
00:28:38.640Natasha Lycia, I'm sorry, her name is Natasha Lycia Ora Bannon, is actually a white woman from Georgia, according to a report by the nonprofit news outlet Prism.
00:28:49.420She serves senior counsel at the Latino Justice Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
00:28:56.220Records obtained by the site say Bannon's family arrived in the United States from Ireland, Italy, and Russia.
00:29:01.000On Monday, Bannon 43 clarified that she's white in response to the report.
00:29:04.920She says, I'm racially white and have always said that.
00:29:07.580However, my cultural identity was formed as a result of my family, both chosen and chosen for me.
00:29:32.560She says, my identity is my most authentic expression of who I am and how I pay honor to the people who have formed me since I was a child.
00:29:46.180And, of course, all the same points that I've raised before can be raised here and should be raised about how, you know,
00:29:53.620if we really live in a society of white privilege where non-white people are oppressed and you are afforded all of this mysterious privilege just for being white,
00:30:02.780why do we have so many white people forfeiting that privilege and posing as an oppressed person so that they can also be oppressed?
00:30:13.340That doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
00:30:14.860And the other common point here, but an important point, is that by leftist logic and the way we look at identity these days as this entirely fluid thing,
00:30:30.740this self-determined thing where you get to decide your own identity.
00:30:34.700You can even decide, you know, not just your hair color, but you could decide your biological identity.
00:30:39.960You could change your sex if you want to.
00:30:42.680So if that's the case, then why can't she be Latinx?
00:30:50.400I mean, she could be whatever ethnicity or race she wants, it would seem.
00:30:53.100The logic she's using here, the defense she offers for herself, my identity is my most authentic expression, you know, this is how I feel.
00:31:03.660It doesn't really make any sense, but by the left's way of thinking, it does.
00:31:09.260In fact, it is far less absurd and far more plausible for a white person to claim to be, you know, Latino or black.
00:31:21.960That is far less absurd and far more plausible than a man claiming to be a woman.
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00:33:07.200Also, you know, there's a reason why the media creates narratives about conservatives, and it gets away with those narratives.
00:33:14.960In fact, those narratives are adopted into the culture.
00:33:18.380People start believing those narratives, and the reason is that they shape the content we consume.
00:33:24.620For a long time, conservatives have ceded creative ground to the left, and it's resulted in a culture that dictates political correctness over freedom of thought and dictates a lot more besides that.
00:33:32.900So we're pushing back against cultural blacklisting.
00:33:35.240On Friday, January 15th, Daily Wire is releasing its first feature film.
00:33:38.820Run, Hide, Fight is exclusively going to be released to Daily Wire members.
00:33:42.780Run, Hide, Fight isn't a political film, but it is intense.
00:33:47.500The movie follows a high school siege by a quartet of school shooters when one young girl, 17-year-old Zoe Hall, uses her wits and survival skills to fight back.
00:38:24.480It's why it can be hard to argue with the left, because the lies pile up so quickly and so numerously that you don't even know where to begin.
00:38:36.460A good rule of thumb here is that a protest is not peaceful if buildings are in ashes at the conclusion of it and if people are dead on the ground.
00:38:45.420When you walk into a scene after the so-called protest has concluded and you look around and you see broken bottles and bricks thrown all over the place and smoldering buildings and dead people, pretty good evidence that what just happened was not a peaceful protest.
00:39:02.120And also, it's not true that the right has been silent about what happened in D.C.
00:39:08.540In fact, everybody on the right has denounced the Capitol siege.
00:39:29.020And yet the reaction of large parts of middle America was shock that white supremacists could invade the heart of U.S. democracy largely undisturbed, strolling through the Capitol like it was their own private kingdom.
00:39:40.360Again, the lies are oozing thickly from every word.
00:41:42.440When a filthy rich NBA star, famous, beloved, celebrated, gets up from his $30,000 couch and walks over and peers out the window of his 12-bedroom mansion and sees on the other side of his iron rod gate a white family drive by in a used minivan on their way to buy groceries at the Walmart Supercenter,
00:42:02.800he, the NBA star, is offended by their incredible privilege.
00:42:08.020If only he could have the privilege to be middle class, forgotten, and despised by millionaires like himself.