The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 633 - Big Tech Launches An All Out Assault On Conservative Speech

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, big tech is in the middle of a massive purge of conservatives. It's

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00:00:08.340 taken over yet. So how bad is it going to get? Also, five headlines, including AOC claiming

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00:02:19.820 You may remember back in 2012, two gay men visited a small bakery in Lakewood, Colorado,

00:02:24.700 asking for a cake for their upcoming wedding ceremony. The owner of the shop, Jack Phillips,

00:02:29.100 politely informed them that he couldn't provide a custom wedding cake for a gay wedding due to his 0.96

00:02:33.740 Christian beliefs, but he offered to sell them any other baked good in stock. The couple left,

00:02:38.900 they didn't want anything else, and they promptly filed a human rights complaint with the Colorado

00:02:42.660 Civil Rights Commission, which sided with the gay men and ordered Phillips to bake the cake, 0.84

00:02:47.320 pay the fine, and attend mandatory anti-discrimination training for himself and all of his staff.

00:02:52.820 Phillips appealed the decision, and the ensuing six years were a nightmare of litigation,

00:02:57.120 fines, and court cases for him culminating in arguments presented to the Supreme Court.

00:03:01.320 But even after the Supreme Court sided with Phillips and chastised the Civil Rights Commission for its

00:03:06.540 overreach, still the LGBT lobby would not leave the matter alone. A few years later, Phillips was

00:03:11.920 in court yet again for declining to make another cake, this time a cake meant to honor a man's

00:03:17.300 transition into a woman, a request made by a trans activist who was clearly looking for an excuse

00:03:22.700 to sue, by the way, and found it. Now, through all this, the media, the Democrat Party, and the left

00:03:28.800 generally have been nearly unanimous in their position that Jack Phillips is guilty of unspeakable

00:03:34.320 human rights violations, and that he should not have the right to refuse service to anyone on

00:03:40.440 account of his own personal convictions. They've argued stridently for years that allowing a man

00:03:45.280 like Phillips to decline to make a custom wedding cake for a gay wedding, even though he was willing 1.00

00:03:50.360 again to sell them any pre-made item in the store, he wasn't turning them down, he wasn't refusing

00:03:55.360 them service, he just said, this one particular service I can't give you for this act, for this

00:04:01.460 particular event. But they said that that would lead to the alienation and ostracization of certain

00:04:07.700 groups of people, and that such an outcome is untenable in society. The same things have been

00:04:13.160 said about florists who don't want to provide flowers for gay weddings, and t-shirt companies

00:04:18.100 that don't want to make t-shirts for gay pride parades, etc. In all of these cases, the left has

00:04:24.660 absolutely rejected the freedom of association and free enterprise arguments and insisted that,

00:04:30.420 for the sake of the greater good, business owners sometimes have to be forced to provide services

00:04:36.060 they don't want to provide. Now, this is all important background when we consider recent

00:04:41.820 actions by the most powerful big tech companies in the world. Using the riot on Capitol Hill as an

00:04:47.320 excuse to do something that they were almost certainly going to do anyway, Twitter last week,

00:04:51.860 as I'm sure you heard, permanently banned Donald Trump. That is, the sitting president of the United

00:04:56.920 States banned him from their platforms. Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram all announced similar measures.

00:05:03.720 Reddit got into the act, banned the subreddit dedicated to Trump. That's out too. At the same

00:05:09.720 time, Twitter embarked on what appears to be a massive purge of conservative accounts as conservatives

00:05:15.220 with large followings experienced significant drops in their follower counts. Starting last week

00:05:21.800 and going into this week, I lost around 25,000 followers in the span of two days, which doesn't

00:05:27.420 come close to winning the prize for the steepest fall. And the point isn't that we're upset that

00:05:32.180 we lost followers. The point is that that represents 25,000 accounts, for me anyway, that were wiped out.

00:05:39.320 So, this is not the first time that these companies have teamed up to purge and punish the cultural 0.64

00:05:45.580 heretics. Usually, when these things happen, those on the left will sneer that, you know, we conservatives

00:05:52.460 should just suck it up and make our own social media sites so that we can engage in wrong think

00:05:58.440 out of view and away from polite society. As it happens, some conservatives have done exactly that

00:06:05.180 with sites like Parler. And Parler, at first, experienced a dramatic surge in traffic this past week

00:06:11.080 because conservative refugees from other sites poured in and set up accounts on their platform.

00:06:18.360 But then, the next shoe drops. Amazon, Apple, and Google announced that they're going to be banning

00:06:25.340 Parler from their servers and app stores. Parler CEO John Matzzi said that all of the site's vendors,

00:06:31.720 every single one, including text message services, email providers, even their lawyers,

00:06:36.620 abandoned them all at once, on the same day, all at one time. And now Parler's down. If you try to

00:06:44.480 go there, now it's down. And it's going to be down for the foreseeable future. Will it ever be up again?

00:06:49.780 We don't know. They have to figure out a way to exist on the internet while being blacklisted by Apple,

00:06:56.120 Amazon, and Google. That is a very difficult, if not impossible, thing to pull off, especially if you

00:07:03.100 don't have massive financial resources. The stated reason for this move against Parler is that somehow,

00:07:09.920 in an unspecified way, Parler is violating unclear rules against violence and illegal activity and

00:07:16.760 incitement and obscene content. But it goes without saying that none of these companies have ever cracked

00:07:23.120 down, ever, on users who celebrated or encouraged the BLM riots, nor have Apple, Google, or Amazon punished

00:07:31.720 any social media sites that play host to such content. And as for illegal activity, I mean, come on.

00:07:38.220 You can find plenty of that on apps that are still available on these platforms. Many murders and rapes

00:07:43.780 have been linked to hookup apps like Grindr and Tinder. And yet, again, there has been no crackdown on such

00:07:49.860 a large scale or even on a smaller scale. The reasons given do not hold up to the slightest scrutiny.

00:07:55.640 The truth, then, is painfully obvious. The wealthiest and most powerful companies in the world

00:08:00.840 have engaged in a coordinated campaign to silence ideologically dissenting voices and drive them

00:08:07.140 from the public square. That's what's happening. The people who sit by and watch this approvingly,

00:08:13.520 applauding the purge, calling for more of it, are the exact same people who have issued many ominous

00:08:20.080 warnings about the dire consequences of allowing a small bakery in Colorado to decline to make a

00:08:26.180 customized cake for a gay wedding. Somehow, they argue, gay couples who might have to drive a mile 0.61

00:08:32.640 down the road to a different cake shop in the same town to get a customized pastry are being saddled with

00:08:37.380 a traumatizing burden. And if we don't impose harsh legal penalties on the bakery that refuse them,

00:08:46.260 we risk the eventual exclusion of all gay people from modern society. That's what they say. 0.85

00:08:51.840 Yet, they continue, there is no such risk and no imaginable problem with allowing multi-billion

00:08:57.880 dollar tech companies to collaborate with each other to expel politically inconvenient voices

00:09:03.040 and relegate them permanently to the backwaters and ghettos of the internet.

00:09:08.040 They do not believe that the small town bakery has any claim to freedom of association or free

00:09:14.360 enterprise. But they will happily afford those considerations to the billion dollar conglomerates

00:09:21.520 who control almost every aspect of our lives. And these are also the people who usually tell us

00:09:25.900 about the evil corporations and how terrible they are. This is all, of course, completely backwards.

00:09:32.860 And it could only be so backwards because the people who hold this backwards view are not worried about

00:09:38.780 intellectual consistency and are not bothered by their own lack of integrity. And they don't care

00:09:44.380 if you notice it either. In reality, there is no significant downside, no serious consequence

00:09:51.000 to a small business owner in middle America somewhere choosing not to provide a service for a ceremony he

00:09:58.200 opposes for religious reasons. At most, on the part of the spurned customer, it amounts to mildly hurt

00:10:05.780 feelings and a minor inconvenience as they, again, just have to get in the car, just drive right down

00:10:11.540 the street to a different bakery. Same exact thing. The cake will be just as good.

00:10:18.200 There are, however, cataclysmic downsides and outright dystopian consequences to allowing

00:10:25.200 the companies that essentially control the entire internet to engage in coordinated ideological

00:10:30.860 discrimination on this scale. And the other difference between these two situations is that

00:10:36.220 a bakery is merely a bakery. It's a small private business and nothing more. But what about Facebook

00:10:42.520 and Twitter? What are they? We don't even know. Are they platforms? Are they publishers? Are they

00:10:48.260 utilities? Are they all of those things? The answer to that question determines whether they have the

00:10:53.920 right to do what they're doing. And if they do currently have the legal right, the next question is whether

00:10:58.720 they ought to have that right and whether laws should be changed so that they don't have it.

00:11:04.360 I cannot see how any rational and honest person could possibly argue that the bakery doesn't and

00:11:10.740 shouldn't have the right to decline one form of service to one customer, yet the big tech monopolies do 0.99

00:11:16.800 and should have the right to ban millions from all of their services, effectively muting their voices

00:11:22.680 in the public sphere and excluding them from the national conversation. That doesn't make any sense.

00:11:27.300 Now, there is a purist libertarian argument that defends both the big tech monopoly and the bakery on an

00:11:34.480 equal basis, but that's not the argument that most of the people defending big tech in this case are

00:11:39.240 making. And also, I think it's a bad argument anyway. Big tech is in a class by itself because of the

00:11:46.620 stranglehold it has on all of our lives, whether we like it or not. The question is not whether they should

00:11:52.820 be allowed to inconvenience us or bruise our egos or hurt our feelings, it's whether they should be

00:12:00.380 allowed to control us, censor us, and rule us. The bakery is not going to rule over us. The bakery has 0.96

00:12:08.560 no control over our lives at all. Utterly powerless. That's not the case for big tech.

00:12:16.160 And the answer to whether or not they should be allowed to control us, censor us, and rule us is no, they

00:12:22.160 should not. They should be reined in. They should be held to basic standards of ethics, fairness, and

00:12:28.840 transparency. But unfortunately, the next part of the answer is that though they shouldn't be allowed to do what

00:12:34.320 they're doing, they have been allowed to do it. And Trump and the GOP didn't do anything to prevent it when they

00:12:41.220 had the power to prevent it. So this is where we are now. And it's not going to stop. The left cannot win

00:12:48.680 based solely on its ideas. It cannot win through argument or advocacy. They know it. And that's why

00:12:55.220 they're done with arguing against your ideas. Instead, it's very simple for them. They'll just ensure that

00:13:02.120 your ideas are not heard in the first place. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:13:11.220 Uh, you know, big, big football weekend, by the way, in more, more positive news and lighter news,

00:13:18.840 big football week. I feel kind of bad being, um, happy this morning after the Titans lost because I,

00:13:27.960 you know, it just moved to Nashville. So I'm a, I'm a Tennessee resident now, but I'm also a big

00:13:32.440 Ravens fan. So big, uh, big matchup between the Titans and Ravens yesterday. Ravens win. I feel great

00:13:38.040 about it. The rest of the town, they're all in mourning and tears. And I'm just skipping merrily.

00:13:42.440 I skipped to work today, merrily whistling and singing. That's how happy I was. And it's, it's,

00:13:47.620 it's bad too, because it's, uh, you know, these are two teams that don't like each other. And at the

00:13:51.740 end of the game, the Ravens, uh, Marcus Peters got an interception to seal the deal. And then they went

00:13:56.120 to the middle of their, they're playing in Nashville. They went to the middle of the stadium

00:13:59.280 on the Tennessee Titans logo and just started dancing and stomping on it, which in fairness,

00:14:05.540 the Titans did it first because Titans played the Ravens in Baltimore earlier in the season,

00:14:09.740 did the exact same thing. Now, usually I wouldn't accept that excuse for my kids.

00:14:14.820 They did it first, but in this case, I accepted because I'm a Ravens fan and I kind of loved seeing

00:14:19.920 it. Also it's football and that's just the way these things should go. I, you know, I don't believe

00:14:23.340 in the teams shaking hands and they pretend to be friends. No, you should hate each other when

00:14:28.420 you're on the football field. That's how I feel. Uh, but that was great. We have more on, on, uh,

00:14:33.260 on football weekend and, uh, coming up a little bit later in the five headlines, but let's start

00:14:37.900 with this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on ABC this weekend and, um, made some rather dubious claims

00:14:46.140 about the Capitol Hill riots and the, the, uh, the danger that she says she was in. Let's,

00:14:51.720 let's take a listen to this. Republican members of Congress who opposed, uh, raising objections to

00:14:56.700 the certifying the electoral college vote have written a letter to president elect Biden opposing

00:15:00.700 impeachment. Here's what the letter says. It says in the spirit of healing and fidelity to

00:15:04.580 our constitution, we ask you fully request that speaker Nancy Pelosi discontinue her efforts to 1.00

00:15:09.100 impeach president Donald J. Trump a second time, a second impeachment only days before president

00:15:13.560 Trump will leave office is as unnecessary as it is inflammatory. They're saying for the sake of

00:15:18.960 unity forgo impeachment. Well, you know, I think there's a couple of things. One is we have to

00:15:26.460 understand that what happened on Wednesday was insurrection against the United States. That is

00:15:33.160 what the, that is what Donald J. Trump engaged in. And that is what those who stormed the Capitol

00:15:38.460 engaged in. And so when we talk about healing, the process of healing is separate and in fact requires

00:15:45.840 accountability. And so if we allow insurrection against the United States with impunity, with no

00:15:52.980 accountability, we are inviting it to happen again. That is how serious it is. And I do not believe

00:16:00.200 that, that perhaps my colleagues weren't in that room. Perhaps my colleagues were not fully present

00:16:07.520 for the events on Wednesday, but half of, we came close to half of the house nearly dying on Wednesday.

00:16:14.680 Oh, you did. Half of the house nearly dying. Half. Really? That's what we came close to.

00:16:21.560 And she, she has no, the phoniness here, of course, is off the charts across the board with everything

00:16:27.360 she said. Um, and the idea that, that half of the house almost died is, is she has no basis for saying

00:16:33.800 that. But then again, this is the woman to remember if you're, if you're, you shouldn't be surprised to

00:16:38.380 see drama and hyperbole from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is the woman who went down to the border.

00:16:44.000 And if you remember a couple of years ago, uh, took, took pictures of herself pretending to cry

00:16:49.540 outside of a, uh, immigrant detention center. Actually, she wasn't even outside of the detention

00:16:53.580 center. She was outside of a parking lot. She took pictures of herself outside of an empty parking

00:16:57.620 lot, posing as if she was in tears. So keep that in mind. That's, that's who this is coming from.

00:17:04.740 But everything else about this was insurrection, insurrection, even if it was okay. Uh, I'm not

00:17:13.740 even arguing about what label we put on it, whether it was or wasn't. I don't believe for a second that

00:17:19.800 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or any of the other Democrats actually care about insurrection in principle

00:17:24.720 because they certainly didn't care. But leftist radicals set up their own country in the middle

00:17:32.900 of a, of an American city for months and were allowed to do it. And we all just went about our day

00:17:40.060 and said, okay, well that's something you can do now. Apparently they set up their own sovereign

00:17:45.160 country. Said they were seceding from the union, had their own country in the middle of the city.

00:17:50.880 Is that not insurrection? Or as I pointed out many times last week, invading a police station

00:17:56.040 and burning it to the ground. It's a government building. That's an attack on law enforcement.

00:18:01.800 Is that insurrection? She didn't care about that.

00:18:05.600 And speaking of pretending to care about things, it has, it has, it's very difficult for me to hear

00:18:12.160 people like this, um, or Democrats generally, as they have been in the media, um, over the last

00:18:20.380 several days has pretend, has been pretending to mourn the death of officer Sicknick, who's, uh,

00:18:27.340 the officer who, who died during the, uh, during the Capitol Hill riot. Now I mourn for, for the

00:18:34.320 officer and for his family and I'm devastated that he died. I'm infuriated by, by his loss. Now it's also,

00:18:43.440 it's also not yet clear. It's not exactly clear yet how he died. There's a lot of information we

00:18:48.800 haven't been given. And as far as I know, the, the, the images of, of his interactions with the

00:18:54.040 crowd, whatever happened at that incident, we haven't seen any image of, we haven't seen any

00:18:57.500 video. We haven't seen any photograph as far as I know. And I've looked, um, maybe there isn't any

00:19:02.340 image, but that would be hard to believe these days. So it's not exactly clear what happened,

00:19:07.320 but, or how it happened. They haven't given us all the information yet, but however it happened,

00:19:13.820 it's a terrible tragedy because we know that an officer died yet. Now you have Democrats

00:19:18.780 in the media talking about officer Sicknick and how terrible it is and what a tragedy it is.

00:19:23.980 And it is terrible. It is a tragedy. I just don't believe that they give the slightest damn about

00:19:31.360 him. And the reason for that is that this is the only dead cop that these people have ever mourned

00:19:39.460 ever prove me wrong. Find me another example because there unfortunately have been a lot of dead police

00:19:46.040 officers through, through history. And especially this past year, a lot of police officers were

00:19:53.580 physically assaulted. Police officers would beat over the head with bricks during BLM riots.

00:20:00.780 We got, we got video in New York, police officer getting beat over the head with a brick.

00:20:06.240 The only reason he didn't die, he didn't die. Thank God. It's not for lack of trying though.

00:20:10.660 We don't give BLM credit because, well, they tried to kill a bunch of cops, but they failed.

00:20:17.180 You don't get credit for that. It's, it is, it is the rest of society's great fortune that he's still

00:20:23.560 alive, but you tried to kill him. But anyway, do you remember, did, did Alexandria Kaye as a credit?

00:20:27.600 Did any Democrat, when that video came out in New York of, of the cop getting beat over the head

00:20:31.920 with a brick, how many Democrats, how many people in the media condemned it? Did any of them?

00:20:36.120 So I don't believe it. They don't really care.

00:20:44.580 You know, pretending to be upset that, uh, the, the flag wasn't put at half-mast outside the White

00:20:48.780 House right away. Once again, I think the flag should be at half-mast and now it is. I think

00:20:53.820 it should have been at half-mast right away. Do they actually give a damn though about that?

00:20:58.740 No, they don't. Absolutely full of it. Um, speaking of being full of it, number two,

00:21:07.660 big news from Colin Powell. He is, uh, leaving the Republican party again. I think this is his

00:21:14.760 fifth time leaving. He's gone for the Guinness record, which is eight, I believe that I got to

00:21:18.460 check again, but here's Colin Powell leaving the Republican party again.

00:21:21.380 And that's why I can no longer call myself a fellow Republican. You know, I'm not a fellow

00:21:26.420 of anything right now. I'm just a citizen who has voted Republican, voted Democrat throughout

00:21:31.260 my entire career. I would hope that the Republican party, as they're moving away from this fellow

00:21:38.240 who's no longer the president, I hope they would not let him back into the camp so he could

00:21:43.540 demonstrate or say that, oh, I'm still here. I'm going to do it all. No, you're not. You're

00:21:47.320 out and act like you're out. Okay. Yeah. So another, another time this was, this was news

00:21:54.080 the first time he did it back in like 2008 or seven or eight to whenever it was. But Colin Powell

00:21:59.560 is this guy now. He's one, he's one of many guys that, um, that the, the media has on tap where they,

00:22:04.780 they just bring him in every few months to leave the Republican party. If they need a guy to leave

00:22:09.280 the Republican party, they just bring Colin Powell in again. Just one of those guys that they have do

00:22:12.880 that. And we've seen this a lot over the last four years. Um, people performatively denouncing

00:22:19.280 and leaving the Republican party over and over again. I mean, it's one thing to do it once. If

00:22:22.760 you're leaving, you're leaving fine, but to keep on doing it. And, and, uh, at a certain point it's

00:22:29.680 like, well, you've already left. So what does this mean? It's kind of like, it's in the same vein

00:22:33.720 as when the left boycotts a company that they would never use in the first place, a store they never

00:22:39.300 go to, they boycott like a hardware store. They don't boycott a hardware store. You know,

00:22:43.880 they don't even know what a screwdriver looks like except the kind that you, you know, get at a bar.

00:22:49.000 Um, so that, that's, that's the, the first thing. And the other thing is let's pretend this was

00:22:56.300 Colin Powell's first time that he's leaving the Republican party or anybody else, you know,

00:23:00.940 people in the administration who are resigning in protest or some of the people that have come out

00:23:05.600 in the last week and said, I'm done with this. Um, that, that's not really worth anything

00:23:12.520 because whatever you think of Trump and how he's acted, he's, he's, he's been Trump the whole time.

00:23:21.340 Right? So this is, this is, this is who Trump's been. And if you're just deciding right now,

00:23:27.180 when it happens to be the end of his administration, that now you're going to come out and make your big

00:23:31.640 stand. Um, yeah, I'm not very impressed. I have to say talk about it. It is like the emptiest of

00:23:38.620 empty gestures imaginable. All right. Number three, Brian Stelter on CNN wants you to know that the

00:23:45.820 big tech purge is really no big deal. No big deal at all. Don't worry about it. Here's a Brian

00:23:51.200 Stelter's argument, but it doesn't get much more shameful than this white house aides talking about

00:23:57.880 a narrative shift. Trump advisor saying they want people to talk about big technology and not the

00:24:03.860 riot. You know what? I have had enough of this talk that they can try to change the narrative

00:24:09.200 that they can try to divert attention. How about focusing on the funerals? How about focusing on

00:24:14.820 the fact that this president hasn't even had the flags in Washington lowered to have staff

00:24:19.520 in respect for the Capitol police officer who was killed, who was attacked. How about that? How

00:24:25.700 about some focus on that? You know, I think what's clear, Victor and Christine, in the last couple

00:24:29.640 of days, we've seen more and more videos of the riot from different angles, uh, visuals that we

00:24:35.300 didn't see live on Wednesday. It's become more and more clear. This attack was even more violent than

00:24:40.640 we saw live on TV. This was even more treacherous. Trump's behavior was even more disturbing than we

00:24:46.340 knew in real time. Uh, we were minutes away from a possible massacre of lawmakers in our country,

00:24:53.880 in our, in our seat of government. And, and I, you know, I actually think as the days go on and

00:24:58.520 people process this trauma and we see more and more of these videos, this story becomes bigger

00:25:03.440 and it becomes worse. So good luck, Mr. President talk about big technology. I'm sure that his super

00:25:09.680 fans, the most loyal of his fans will go along with that petty attempt at a diversion. But I think

00:25:15.640 the vast majority of Americans will see through it. How do people watch this guy on purpose?

00:25:21.080 Every time I see a clip like this, I can barely get through it. Imagine there, I, I, I guess there

00:25:28.240 are people who sit down on their couch, like on a, I don't know when his show airs, but on a Saturday

00:25:33.720 and they say, I'm going to spend an hour watching this guy. My God. Now, I mean, we, we know that,

00:25:40.720 that 90% of CNN, CNN's audience are people in, you know, dentist waiting rooms and airports. So maybe

00:25:47.720 that accounts for all of it, but I just can't imagine it or understand why, but in any case,

00:25:53.840 he's, he's worried about changing the narrative. We're distracting from the real story. Yeah. We

00:25:59.420 know, we know Brian Stelter and CNN. They're really worried about that. These, these are the people

00:26:03.940 we recall who, you know, spent months and months telling us about coronavirus and how it's the worst

00:26:12.000 plague in history and we're all going to die. And then, and then at the drop of a hat, they just

00:26:15.860 dropped that and, uh, we're cheering on mass rioting for months on end. And then when the mass

00:26:23.120 rioting ended, they picked right back up with the coronavirus again. But yeah, they're, they're

00:26:28.360 concerned about changing. We don't want to change the narrative too much. Sure. Number four, uh,

00:26:34.220 the news last week was that president Trump will not be attending the inauguration, which,

00:26:38.900 you know, in every sense to me, it seems like, like it's probably for the best. Isn't, isn't it

00:26:46.140 for the best? Isn't, isn't it best for everybody involved? Trump, Biden, the country, if Trump just

00:26:51.440 isn't there, but CNN thinks it's disgusting. They're very offended by it. And I think they know,

00:26:57.680 I know the real reason why they're upset and I'll talk about that in a second, but here, here it is.

00:27:01.980 The president already had as a parting shot, an alleged incitement to a deadly riot.

00:27:08.900 And now he will add one more 12 days from now by denying that step that presidents have done

00:27:15.560 since the mid 19th century, attending their successors inauguration. Tell us the significance

00:27:21.920 of this to his legacy. What remains of it? Well, he's absolutely a sore loser, isn't he? Jim? And

00:27:28.780 you contrast what he said last night. Uh, and it just proves how false those words were last night

00:27:35.000 in that, in that video. As a friend told me, it looked like a hostage video, uh, that, uh, you know,

00:27:41.240 he was forced, he was forced to make those statements and he put sent out tweets today that

00:27:45.920 make it clear. He didn't really believe what he was saying. Uh, and I think for him not to come as,

00:27:50.620 as he is an ultimate insult, you know, there are a lot of people who are going to be glad he's not

00:27:55.040 there, uh, because he would distract a lot of attention. It would be a lot about the Biden Trump

00:28:00.700 dynamic on the, on stage and we'll be spared that at least, but nonetheless, this is wrong.

00:28:06.620 Um, and if we're going to heal the country, uh, we have to, Trump has to play a part in that and

00:28:13.040 bring his base around and to say, we're going to be part of the normal politics. And when we lose,

00:28:18.020 we lose, but we'll try to take it back next time. I just, it would be so much better for the country.

00:28:23.340 I think this is, you know, he's just so insulting in so many ways, uh, and such a cry baby. It's just

00:28:29.540 disgusting. It's funny. He says cry baby at the end of the, after he just was crying for,

00:28:34.000 for 90 seconds. It's so disgusting. It's so disappointing. I'm just so, I'm so offended by 0.95

00:28:38.600 it. And he even acknowledges that it's probably for the better because that's exactly right.

00:28:43.580 What he said, if, if Trump is there, all we're going to hear about and all they're going to cover

00:28:47.860 is the dynamic between the two and all of the shots are going to be on Trump. It'll be a Biden's

00:28:54.860 inauguration, but it would be all about Trump because if Trump is there anyway, it's always going to be

00:28:58.460 all about Trump. Um, especially as far as the mass media is concerned. So they say it's, so this was

00:29:04.400 the right move by Trump. And I can guarantee you it's what it's also what, by the way, Biden probably

00:29:11.740 prefers. So what, why are they upset that he's not there? It's not because it's disgusting and

00:29:18.140 insulting. We all know it's for the best. Well, the answer is just that they want, they, if he's not

00:29:24.060 there, then that gives them less to talk about less to cover. They want that controversy. That's

00:29:31.080 what they want. It Trump being Biden's inauguration by itself, who cares? Who's going to tune in to

00:29:39.880 watch Biden's inauguration? Nobody gives a damn Biden's inauguration with Trump there. Now that's 0.59

00:29:47.400 the ratings bonanza. Everybody's going to tune, I would tune in just to see how that plays out.

00:29:53.360 So that's what they're, that is what they're upset about. What they are disgusted by is that Trump

00:29:57.600 has just denied them the ratings that they would have gotten. That's what this is all about. All right.

00:30:04.340 So NFL playoffs this week, as I already mentioned, um, some really great football games. Also something

00:30:08.900 a little strange, a little different. Nickelodeon hosted its first playoff game. Um, the idea was to

00:30:14.120 get the kids into football, I guess. So they put, they put the games on Nickelodeon too.

00:30:17.660 And, or at least one of the games they put on, um, saints and, and, uh, and bears game they put

00:30:22.520 on Nickelodeon and they added new features like virtual slime and cartoon graphics and all kinds

00:30:28.540 of stuff. And this is real. They really did this. So let's play. We have some of the footage here.

00:30:32.500 Let's just play this. See what this looked like.

00:30:35.060 Uh, yes, exactly. Oh, it's brought down another turnover right there.

00:30:44.120 John Jenkins in the bread basket. Bear hugs it and the bears are in business.

00:30:49.400 Big celebration on the field now. Oh yeah. Nate, when you were back, uh, playing football,

00:30:54.680 how did you come up with the perfect touchdown dance? What did that feel like?

00:30:58.140 I used to practice in the mirror the night before the games.

00:31:00.660 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:31:06.580 We have a cartoon slime. I just want to see what happens in the touchdown. Here it is.

00:31:10.620 I think this is the touchdown.

00:31:12.120 Tops it off. Latavius Murray has some space in front. Makes a nine miss. And he's into the end zone.

00:31:17.260 Yep. And then the cartoon slime. Okay. So that's, that's what that looked like.

00:31:20.720 And you had, you know, you had different, the announcers a little bit different. Um,

00:31:24.680 they had a woman in the, in the, in the announcing booth. Nothing wrong with that. 0.95

00:31:28.800 Um, but, uh, there was the Nickelodeon thing. It actually wasn't, I watched a little bit of that

00:31:35.800 and I, so I, I sort of wanted to hate it, but I thought, well, this is kind of cool.

00:31:41.820 I don't know. I'm, I'll, I'll be okay with it. It's obnoxious, but I'm fine with it.

00:31:46.580 My real problem, if I'm looking for something to have a problem with, here it is. Uh, my real

00:31:50.760 problem is, is with this, that Nickelodeon viewers, you know, the kids watching, um, they got to vote

00:31:56.740 on their own MVP candidate, which they're calling the MVP, the Nickelodeon's valuable player.

00:32:02.260 And they gave it to Mitch Trubisky, who's the quarterback of the bears. The bears lost 21 to

00:32:06.680 nine in the game. Trubisky went 19 for 29 passing for 199 yards, one touchdown, not terrible. Um,

00:32:13.940 especially by his standards, but is it MVP worthy? And this is the problem with kids today.

00:32:19.520 First of all, they don't know a damn thing about football. Okay. My seven-year-old son voted for 0.98

00:32:24.700 Mitch Trubisky. And I said to him, you obviously have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

00:32:28.560 Drew Brees had 265 yards, 70% completion rate, two touchdowns, a QBR of 107, and he won the game.

00:32:33.940 And, and you're going to vote for Mitch Trubisky. Go to your room. You're grounded.

00:32:39.440 This is the problem with kids. First of all, clueless about the facts. Second, guided by emotions

00:32:45.540 rather than data and evidence. They felt sorry for Trubisky. So they gave him the award.

00:32:51.540 Pitiful is what I say. But anyway, congratulations to Mitch Trubisky. This is the only, this, this is

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00:37:54.020 subscribe. Let's get now to our daily cancellation. So today, exciting news for Joe Biden as he's getting

00:38:03.260 his first cancellation of his term and his term hasn't even started yet. I expect there'll be many

00:38:07.960 occasions to cancel Biden in the years ahead during the course of the Harris administration. So, um,

00:38:13.660 I'll have to choose my spots a little bit. Can't cancel them all, unfortunately, but here's a spot

00:38:17.660 definitely worth choosing. Joe Biden delivered a speech this weekend discussing his plans for

00:38:22.860 coronavirus relief and he wants to save American small businesses. He said after spending now he wants

00:38:27.720 to save them after spending months supporting the policies that are destroying them. But here he is

00:38:32.380 describing the plan and how the plan will be implemented. Listen, focus will be on

00:38:37.900 small businesses on Main Street that aren't wealthy and well-connected, that are facing real

00:38:43.800 economic hardships through no fault of their own. Our priority will be black, Latino, Asian, and Native

00:38:50.620 American-owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to 1.00

00:38:55.540 resources needed to reopen and rebuild. Okay, so he says his priority will be black, Latino, Asian,

00:39:00.860 Native American, and women-owned businesses. Not just his personal priority, but the priority of his 0.71

00:39:05.460 administration, his government, when, um, when helping these businesses out. There's a term for

00:39:11.540 this. It's one we hear a lot. It's called systemic racism. If that term has any meaning at all,

00:39:18.180 then this must be it. Let's look at it. Racism, dictionary definition, prejudice, discrimination,

00:39:23.360 or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their particular membership in a,

00:39:28.040 in a racial group. That's what this is. And it will be systemic in a literal sense. It will be

00:39:33.740 discrimination by the system. Now notice something here. He mentions black, Latino, Native American,

00:39:41.100 women, and Asian business owners as the priority groups. This is a problem because first of all, 0.64

00:39:46.340 he said Latino instead of Latinx, which proves that he's transphobic. And speaking of which,

00:39:51.360 he didn't specifically mention trans business owners as a priority or gay business owners or 0.63

00:39:56.880 bi-gendered, polysexual, drag queen business owners. Leaving me to assume that he hates all those 0.98

00:40:02.760 people and is literally Hitler. What other explanation could there be? These are the rules 0.84

00:40:06.900 now, but more to the point, the inclusion of Asians is telling because Asians do better than white people 1.00

00:40:14.140 in this country, economically, financially. Their median household income is something like $20,000

00:40:20.180 higher. So this already is pretty good evidence that white privilege is a myth. You know, it's white 0.66

00:40:26.500 privilege, but the people who do the best here aren't white. So that tears down that whole house 1.00

00:40:32.980 of cards. It's also evidence that the prioritization of non-whites in Biden's plan has nothing to do with

00:40:38.520 helping the disadvantaged, despite how it's being sold, because that's what they'll tell us. They'll

00:40:42.480 say, well, these are just the groups. It's not about the race. It's just that these are the groups who

00:40:46.400 are most disadvantaged. And so we're trying to help them out. Well, Asians are quite a bit less 0.99

00:40:52.320 disadvantaged. They are more advantaged than whites. And yet they get the priority while white males are

00:40:58.560 left in the dust. The real point for Biden and Harris is simply to punish white males. That's 0.99

00:41:03.560 the point. He might as well have saved himself some time and some words, especially as it obviously

00:41:08.840 strains him to speak words. So he could have saved that trouble and just said, white males will get the 0.98

00:41:13.740 short end of the stick. Or he could have said, we will make sure that white males don't get any help 0.92

00:41:18.400 because that's the point. The point is who they aren't helping, not who they are helping. And this

00:41:24.740 is what we can expect in the years ahead. The Harris administration with Biden as its figurehead

00:41:30.380 will be the most racist in modern American history. The left is long past hiding its racial

00:41:36.460 bigotries. They blame white males for all the ills in the world today and through history. And now they 0.97

00:41:42.700 intend to punish the villains. And the problem is that most conservatives, as usual, have been too

00:41:48.420 afraid for years to meet this head on and call it what it is. They have believed what the left has told

00:41:54.700 them, that either anti-white racism doesn't exist or it's not a big deal or that somehow it's racist in

00:42:01.300 itself to call it out and oppose it. But that was nonsense. Always was. Is and was. We all know that 0.91

00:42:10.540 that if Donald Trump had ever given a speech where he announced a plan to give relief to business

00:42:15.600 owners with priority to white males especially. Can you imagine that? The entire country would lose

00:42:20.340 its mind. Democrats would call for their third impeachment and there would be near unanimous

00:42:25.820 agreement that his plan was racist. Nobody would disagree. It's no different here. We never should

00:42:32.420 have allowed the left to pretend that racism is somehow different when directed at white males.

00:42:37.520 But that's the lie that has cemented itself into our culture. The cancer that has metastasized.

00:42:44.360 And we're going to see how bad it gets. Because they literally haven't even gotten started yet.

00:42:51.120 But for now, Biden is canceled. So I'm doing my part at least. I don't know what the rest of you can do,

00:42:58.160 but I will at least cancel him repeatedly. Hopefully that'll do something. Won't do anything,

00:43:04.880 but helps me vent anyway. Helps me emotionally. And that's it. We'll leave it there for today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 11, 2021

Ep. 633 - Big Tech Launches An All Out Assault On Conservative Speech

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