The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 635 - The Democrats Set Out To Make Everything Worse

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the government is in the middle of an all-out effort to find the

00:00:03.460 people who stormed the Capitol and bring them to justice. But no such effort has been made

00:00:06.620 against the BLM and Antifa rioters who've killed dozens and caused billions of dollars of damage.

00:00:12.060 And it is this hypocrisy, this inconsistency and lack of equal justice that partly leads to the

00:00:16.560 rioting in the first place. So it's worth talking about. Also, five headlines, including the story

00:00:20.360 of a woman who identifies as a fairy and her two lovers, a troll and a leprechaun. Classic love

00:00:25.320 story. And in our Daily Cancellation, we'll talk about President Trump's second impeachment

00:00:28.760 and why impeaching the president this time is an even worse idea than it was the first time.

00:00:33.300 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:14.620 So yesterday, Michael Sherwin, who's the acting U.S. attorney for D.C., announced that he was

00:02:19.040 building a case against a number of the rioters on Capitol Hill last week. One thing we've seen

00:02:23.960 from the very beginning is that the government at every level is taking the incident extremely

00:02:28.640 seriously and arresting and prosecuting all the culprits it can find. A number of them, including

00:02:32.980 the dude who walked out holding the speaker's lectern. He's already been arrested and frog-marched in

00:02:39.340 front of cameras. Another guy who breached the Capitol with a handful of zip ties and his mom

00:02:44.480 at his side has also been arrested. Several others as well, with more coming. So here's Sherwin

00:02:50.500 explaining. Listen. What the public isn't familiar with is that the FBI, working with the U.S.

00:02:57.720 attorney's offices across the country and the crux of those being in D.C., we're looking at

00:03:02.840 significant felony cases tied to sedition and conspiracy. Just yesterday, our office organized

00:03:10.220 a strike force of very senior national security prosecutors and public corruption prosecutors.

00:03:16.240 Their only marching orders from me are to build seditious and conspiracy charges related to the

00:03:23.180 most heinous acts that occurred in the Capitol. And these are significant charges that have

00:03:28.160 felonies with prison terms of up to 20 years. In addition to that, we're looking and taking a

00:03:34.380 priority with cases in which weapons were involved and cases in which destructive devices were involved.

00:03:40.300 As people know, through news reports, there were pipe bombs found outside the Capitol. The ATF is

00:03:45.680 working on that. Metro police is working on that. FBI is working on that to find that individual or

00:03:50.820 individuals who planted those devices.

00:03:52.900 Yeah, I think he means build sedition charges, not build seditious charges. That's a very different

00:03:59.880 kind of concept. But this is all fine with me. You know, you can argue about whether sedition

00:04:03.560 is an overreach. But frankly, as far as I'm concerned, if you're stupid enough to go storming 1.00

00:04:08.740 into the Capitol building, smiling for the cameras all the while, then you deserve the legal consequences. 1.00

00:04:14.340 I will be crying no tears for any of the idiots who made that choice. Quite the opposite. 1.00

00:04:19.660 I believe in law and order. It isn't a slogan for me. I want people

00:04:22.940 who behave this way to face severe repercussions. I want that because I want my kids to live in a

00:04:29.100 functioning and civilized human society. That's something I actually want. I feel like I'm in

00:04:33.940 a minority now, but I actually want that. And they cannot have such a society if chaos and anarchy are

00:04:39.580 not contained and punished. The problem here, at least my problem, is that as we have covered on this

00:04:45.580 show extensively, this same hammer should have been brought down on the BLM rioters and insurrectionists

00:04:51.280 who reigned terror in our cities for months on end. The powers that be ought to have made them pay

00:04:58.520 a steep price also. We ought to have been hearing about 25-year prison sentences for them. But we

00:05:04.480 didn't. Instead, we heard about prosecutors dropping charges. We heard about Democrat politicians

00:05:10.500 fundraising to pay for their bail. Kamala Harris being one of them. An entirely different standard

00:05:17.580 of justice is being applied. And the reason for that is obvious. For one, the rioters over the

00:05:24.280 summer had the more popular, the more orthodox political views, at least in our society these days.

00:05:30.560 Also, they mostly victimized their own neighbors and their own communities. These were atrocities

00:05:35.400 committed against people that our elites don't know in communities they don't care about and

00:05:41.240 wouldn't even want to drive through in the middle of the day. So that's the difference. But the point

00:05:45.780 here is not merely to point out inconsistency and hypocrisy. It's worth doing that, you know, because

00:05:49.960 hypocrisy shouldn't be allowed to hide in the dark. Shedding light on it just for the sake of shedding

00:05:55.280 light on it is a worthwhile thing to do. Yet it only goes so far. After a while, you've made your point

00:06:00.800 about the hypocrisy. You've said this is hypocritical. What else is there to say? What else is there to do 0.98

00:06:07.140 but to keep saying what you've already said? Well, in this case, there's a good reason to dwell on the

00:06:11.240 point, I think. The reason is that the hypocrisy of the elites, of our lawmakers, politicians in D.C.,

00:06:19.380 their self-interest, their disregard for everything that doesn't benefit them politically, the two-tier

00:06:24.400 justice system, the double standard, all of this is part of what leads to things like rioting. Or as

00:06:31.780 it's called when BLM does it, unrest. Now, I'm not referring just to the events in D.C. last week. I'm

00:06:38.340 referring to the general breakdown of order, the lawlessness and chaos across the board. This is

00:06:44.260 an inevitability, an entirely predictable and unavoidable outcome when people lose their faith in

00:06:50.060 the system and no longer have confidence that justice is being done. And they feel as though

00:06:55.040 they can't believe anything they're told. This is not an excuse for rioting or violence.

00:07:00.500 We have to be able to talk about these things and make observations about them, diagnose their causes

00:07:05.840 without being bullied into silence because we're scared that we'll be accused of excusing it.

00:07:12.520 Those who wish to miss the point will. But it's just like if you were to park your car in the city

00:07:17.380 and leave your wallet sitting in full view on the middle console, the person who breaks the window

00:07:22.520 and takes the wallet isn't excused for doing it. But it would be perfectly reasonable for me to point

00:07:27.660 out that when you make the choice that you made, you almost guarantee that this negative thing will

00:07:32.780 happen as a result. So don't make that choice. So you look where we are now. The country feels as

00:07:39.180 though it's teetering on the brink of full-scale collapse. And there is no one among our leaders

00:07:46.100 and very few in media, very few with a public platform of any size who can speak to the problem,

00:07:53.720 who can warn effectively against it and call for calm because there's almost nobody with any

00:07:59.380 credibility at this point. There's almost nobody who is trusted by anyone, let alone a majority.

00:08:06.300 And when they try to dispel the conspiracy theories that are driving some of this stuff,

00:08:10.440 there aren't many people who can dispel them credibly because they aren't trusted, because

00:08:16.040 they're proven liars and hacks. And the response is, oh, you're telling me that Q isn't real? Well, 0.94

00:08:20.900 you also told me Trump was a secret Russian agent for four years, et cetera, and so forth.

00:08:25.840 That's the way it goes now. A country without trust, without leadership, that's what we're living in.

00:08:32.600 And we have not yet seen the worst of what will happen as a result of that. Let's get to our five

00:08:40.400 headlines. Bad news for CNN, by the way. Good news for everybody else. But CNN's Oliver Darcy

00:08:51.920 announced yesterday that the CNN airport network is going to end operations as of March 31st. And

00:08:59.260 they're saying that nobody's flying anymore, so there's no reason to have the airport network

00:09:05.340 going. But this is going to... How does this not spell the end of CNN? Because that was 95% of their

00:09:14.500 audience when you're stuck in an airport terminal. And as someone who does a lot of flying, this is

00:09:19.820 great news for me. Because the problem is when you're sitting in an airport terminal, and I don't

00:09:25.220 know what it is exactly, but if there's something on the TV, you have to watch it. There's something

00:09:30.180 psychologically that just propels you. Even if you can't hear the sound, you have to just keep your

00:09:34.680 eyes glued on Brian Stelter's face. But our suffering as a nation is coming to an end. CNN will be gone

00:09:44.380 from the airports. March 31st. That's when our national nightmare ends. So that's good news. Let's get to

00:09:51.840 the real headlines, though. Number one from the Daily Wire. It says, government-subsidized broadcaster

00:09:55.460 PBS released a statement Tuesday in reaction to an explosive video from James O'Keefe's Project

00:10:01.480 Veritas that featured an employee advocating for Trump supporters to be sent to re-education camps

00:10:07.380 and also advocated for the forcible removal of their children by the government. Statement announced

00:10:12.980 that this employee no longer works for PBS. As a mid-level staff attorney, he did not speak on behalf

00:10:17.740 of our organization, nor did he make any editorial decisions. So this now former employee is PBS

00:10:25.340 principal counsel Michael Beller. And here's, we'll play some of the audio that Project Veritas got of

00:10:31.220 him just revealing what he really thinks and how he really feels. This again is someone who worked for

00:10:36.760 PBS, government-subsidized. Let's listen to some of this.

00:10:40.360 Anyone Biden wins? We'll go through all the Republican voters and Homeland Security. We'll take the children and we'll put them into re-education camps. Amen.

00:10:54.360 In these times, which are unique, we need Trump as close to getting this.

00:11:03.960 What are we going to do if you don't like me?

00:11:05.560 I don't know the white house. I'm going to throw a mouth of a cup down.

00:11:10.500 That's actually the first time I've watched that. So he said, it's a little bit hard to hear,

00:11:13.900 but he said, we need to put Trump supporters' children in re-education camps. He compared

00:11:22.440 Trump to Hitler. And then later on, he talks about how, you know, so many people in the country are

00:11:29.840 stupid and he likes being in DC because he gets to be around smart people. So I just, here's the thing 1.00

00:11:37.700 with stuff like that. I don't know. Whenever one of these videos comes out of the secret tape of

00:11:45.240 somebody in media talking about how they really feel and oftentimes the reaction from conservatives,

00:11:51.920 there's like a big reaction from conservatives and we make a big deal of it. But I see these,

00:11:57.320 I'll be honest, I listen to these tapes and I just sort of yawn. I don't see, well, yeah,

00:12:01.200 of course I know they feel that way. There's nothing shocking about that to me at all. I'm fully aware.

00:12:07.700 That nearly everyone who works in mass media, that is exactly how they feel. 1.00

00:12:12.840 They think that we're all a bunch of stupid bumpkins. They think Trump is Hitler. I mean, 1.00

00:12:18.240 they say that on TV, so there's nothing shocking about that. They think we're not fit to raise our

00:12:23.280 own kids. Our kids should be sent to re-education camps. That's what public school system is, by the

00:12:27.120 way. So if you're, if you're traumatized or scandalized by the idea of kids being sent to

00:12:31.600 re-education camps and you send your kid to public school, well, you're doing it right now as we speak.

00:12:35.880 Um, so I guess I, I just don't often see the point. Yeah, I get it. I know that's how they feel.

00:12:45.380 All right. I mean, I don't like it. I can't say I'm okay with it, but I am aware that that's the

00:12:50.720 situation. And that's why I don't turn to these people for information or news personally.

00:12:56.320 All right, let's go to number two. Ilhan Omar, um, is speaking out about the trauma that she has

00:13:04.620 suffered and about the fact that she is marginalized, which is one of her favorite

00:13:08.500 topics. Well, her favorite topic is herself in general, but, uh, especially her, her marginalization

00:13:12.880 that she suffers in society. Let's listen to that. As you know, the last two years, the president has

00:13:18.620 put a target behind my, um, on my back and it has been quite threatened, frightening to be a lawmaker

00:13:26.100 in the United States with a president that has, uh, incited, uh, violence against myself and my

00:13:33.220 family and those who, uh, carry the marginalized identities that I do. Those who carry the marginalized

00:13:40.560 identities that I do, you carry an identity around something you carry around like a, like a, you

00:13:47.700 know, like a suitcase, uh, marginalized. You're not only in Congress, but you are far and away,

00:13:58.640 one of the most visible and influential members of Congress for better or worse. And I would say for

00:14:04.400 worse, for more, for worse, for the rest of us and for America, but not for you. So no, you just,

00:14:11.560 you gotta, I know it's hard, right? I know it's hard to do if you're Ilhan Omar and identity politics,

00:14:18.680 self-victimization, this is in your blood. This is, this is, this is what you live for, right? This

00:14:23.760 is your, your whole life. Um, so it's hard to put it to the side, but you really need to

00:14:29.800 because now you're in government, you have control and power over other people.

00:14:36.940 Just a general rule. If you're elected to Congress, it means you're not marginalized.

00:14:42.880 That whatever marginal, whatever it means to be marginalized. I'm pretty sure that being

00:14:45.940 elected to public office is the opposite of being marginalized. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, uh,

00:14:53.480 spoke yesterday about a few things. Um, the 25th amendment threats being one of the,

00:14:59.780 one of the things. And he, he, he made a point about 25th amendment that I thought was pretty

00:15:05.020 good. So let's listen to that. Before we begin, I'd like to say that free speech is under assault

00:15:10.460 like never before. The 25th amendment is of zero risk to me, but we'll come back to haunt Joe Biden

00:15:18.740 and the Biden administration. As the expression goes, be careful what you wish for. The impeachment

00:15:26.400 hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country

00:15:32.180 and is causing tremendous anger and division and pain far greater than most people will ever

00:15:38.700 understand, which is very dangerous for the USA, especially at this very tender time.

00:15:44.880 Yeah, I think the point he made there is exactly correct. The 25th amendment is supposed to remove,

00:15:51.540 um, presidents who are incapacitated, presidents who are not able to perform the duties of, of the

00:15:58.300 presidency. Whatever you think of Trump, you can think that Trump is the most evil guy in the world. 0.99

00:16:03.340 That doesn't, that doesn't mean that he's incapacitated or can, cannot perform the duties of,

00:16:07.660 of the president. That's not what the 25th amendment is not supposed to be for that,

00:16:10.720 for, for, for just removing someone because, uh, you think he's just a really bad guy.

00:16:16.180 Um, but if you want to talk about a president who can't perform his duties, who's incapacitated,

00:16:21.500 that we could very well see that happen with Joe Biden. That is a, that's a prediction that we may

00:16:29.140 see play out. Now, as far as the 25th amendment goes, uh, Mike Pence, vice president Pence sent a

00:16:36.580 letter to Nancy Pelosi because it was being demanded that he, you know, initiate this process,

00:16:41.000 invoke the 25th amendment to get rid of, uh, Trump. And he responded, sent a letter. Uh, I thought it

00:16:47.180 was a short letter, but it was good. And to the point, and he said, not going to do that. That

00:16:51.580 would be unconstitutional. I'm not going to do it. So I have to tell you, you look at the situation

00:16:56.600 that Mike Pence has been put in over the last, just the last week alone. Now I've been really

00:17:03.460 impressed with him. I've been impressed with him through the last four years. Um, especially

00:17:07.980 the last couple of months. I thought he was great in the debates, but then you look at

00:17:11.880 the, just the last week where he has been put twice now in a week in an unthinkably difficult

00:17:20.720 position where doing the right thing meant infuriating first one side of the aisle and then

00:17:28.440 the other. For, you know, last week, uh, it was pissing off the, the, the right wing and many

00:17:36.680 conservatives who now call him a traitor wrongly by the way. Uh, and now it's the left wing. And in

00:17:42.940 both cases, I have been very impressed with how he handled it. Um, I think he's shown himself to be

00:17:50.380 a man of integrity. He's, you know, he's not a showman. He's not into the theatrics. He goes about

00:17:58.160 his business in a really sort of boring way, which I'm perfectly fine with. I, I kind of like boring

00:18:04.120 from politicians. I'm fine with that, but he does the right thing. He did the right thing both, both

00:18:09.900 times here. Uh, so I think it deserves, Mike Pence deserves credit for that. Although he's not going to

00:18:14.680 get it from, from almost anyone on, on either side. All right. This is from Reuters. It says the FBI

00:18:23.000 has warned of armed protests being planned for Washington and all 50 U S states, uh, U S state

00:18:28.520 capitals in the run-up to president elect Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20th. It's according

00:18:33.920 to a federal law enforcement source threatened with more violence from the outgoing, uh, president

00:18:38.180 Donald Trump supporters, blah, blah, blah. That's Reuters. Okay. Um, the point is that they're

00:18:42.480 what we're being told now is that, uh, Trump's supporters are organizing these armed protests.

00:18:52.020 Some of the reports are, we're going to have them in all 50 States. That that's not going to happen.

00:18:55.840 Um, and then others are saying, well, it's just going to be another big thing in DC.

00:19:00.120 I don't know how much of this is real. You know, if there's really going to be armed protests all over

00:19:04.140 the place. Um, but you know, I haven't heard the people that I know and talk to. I haven't heard anyone

00:19:11.800 saying that they plan on attending something like that, but I can tell you right now for the record,

00:19:18.300 uh, if you're on the right and you go to something like that, especially in DC on inauguration day,

00:19:27.600 you are waltzing right into a trap. So that, that would be an enormously stupid thing to do 0.98

00:19:34.680 to attend something like that, especially on the day of the inauguration. 0.70

00:19:41.120 And aside from protests, I just want to say, even if there are no big protests or anything,

00:19:45.900 um, what I, what I would really hope my, my hope is I hope to God that there are no scenes

00:19:53.580 on inauguration day when Biden is being inaugurated. I hope there are no scenes of any conservatives or

00:19:58.500 anybody on the right crying and screaming in the streets because they're so distraught by what's

00:20:04.340 happening. Cause if you recall, that's exactly what the left did when Trump was inaugurated.

00:20:09.940 There are some very famous scenes. We know the one famous scene of the woman on, on the ground,

00:20:14.840 her falling to her knees, hands in the air, screaming no to the sky. That is something that

00:20:21.700 will live in infamy. That image, uh, that the, the, the left has been branded by that image and,

00:20:28.680 and for good reason, cause they've lived up to that. It encapsulates how they've behaved over the last

00:20:33.200 four years. Um, now up until recently, I would have thought it's unthinkable that the right would,

00:20:39.140 would do that. I wasn't worried about it at all. Now I'm a little bit worried about it. So let's,

00:20:44.900 let's not do that. Let's maintain, let's be calm. Let's be dignified. Um, let's be, let's maintain

00:20:52.420 self-respect and, you know, keep our cool. So we don't embarrass ourselves. That would be my,

00:21:01.440 my urging to everybody. All right. This is from the New York post says the department of education,

00:21:07.380 the department of education ended the suspense around, uh, this is in New York around, around

00:21:11.520 the city's accelerated gifted and talented program Tuesday night, announcing that the single test

00:21:17.000 entry system will end after this year. Parents have been clamoring for answers on the coveted program

00:21:21.640 that admits, uh, kids based on standardized exam scores beginning at age four. Backers say they

00:21:28.380 give academically advanced kids. So these are the kids that are tagged as gifted and talented. That's

00:21:34.000 the name of the program. Uh, backers say the, the, the, the, the tests give academically advanced kids

00:21:39.460 the opportunity to learn at an appropriate pace and serve as an educational springboard. Detractors 1.00

00:21:44.700 counter that the admissions model favors families of means who are able to prepare for the test that

00:21:49.920 the exam serves as a poor marker of talent and young children. And then it goes on to say that

00:21:54.920 there gets into the racial element and it's claimed that this gifted and talented program was somehow

00:21:59.800 racist, putting that to the side, putting the, the racial elements to the side. And this is something

00:22:06.460 I can remember growing up in school. We had, we had something similar. We had a gifted and talented

00:22:10.080 program where you, you got into it by testing. You had to take standardized tests. And if you got

00:22:16.300 the right answers on the test and you know, you, they, they test you, I don't know if it was every

00:22:19.340 year. I can't remember, but periodically you'd be tested again. And if you got the right answers to

00:22:23.460 the test and you did well in the test, then you're gifted and talented. You're a gifted and talented kid.

00:22:28.960 And then these, but these other kids are not, they're not gifted and talented.

00:22:31.720 Maybe it might surprise you to learn. I, I, I'm, I am in favor of getting rid of those kinds of

00:22:38.360 systems also. Now I know we don't want to, you could go too far with this. You know, some school

00:22:45.020 districts like in San Diego, they're getting rid of grading completely because they don't want to

00:22:48.920 hurt the kids' feelings. That obviously is absurd. But I, I do think it's a problem when you've got all

00:22:55.320 these kids in school to take some kids, set them aside and say, these are the gifted and talented

00:22:59.520 ones. If you don't do well on this test, you're not gifted and talented. My problem with it is that

00:23:06.000 a test, and this is one of the problems with the, the education system as it functions right now,

00:23:12.820 generally, that a standardized test is simply not a good measure of whether or not a child is gifted

00:23:20.120 and talented. Your kid could do really well on tests and have no talent and really not be all that

00:23:28.540 gifted. Their ability to perform well on tests, that, that, that speaks to their ability to memorize

00:23:34.680 things and regurgitate them, which, okay, let me back up. That is one, that is a talent. So they have

00:23:41.220 one talent. Fine. It's certainly not the most important talent to foster in a child. Doesn't make

00:23:50.420 them smarter. And so the more we standardize education and everything relies on tests, then we,

00:23:57.820 we reward students who do well in this one facet of learning, which isn't even really learning

00:24:04.260 because just because you can remember something and regurgitate, it doesn't mean you understand it.

00:24:07.460 Um, so I, I, I think that's a good, a good idea to get rid of things like that, to get rid of systems

00:24:16.980 like that. And if you want to identify the kids who are really gifted and talented and put them on a

00:24:24.060 different track, so they're not, you know, so, so, so they can learn at a, at a speed and a level

00:24:28.640 that's appropriate for them. Uh, I don't think testing is the way to do it, at least not these kinds

00:24:33.520 of standardized tests. All right. Number five, the hosts of the show this morning on BBC interviewed

00:24:40.700 a woman. Uh, this is a couple in, uh, I think they're in, I want to say they're in Seattle or

00:24:46.560 Portland. I believe I'm probably just stereotyping, but I'm, I would guess accurately. So a woman who

00:24:54.060 identifies as a fairy and who's in a sexual relationship with a man who identifies as a troll 0.90

00:24:59.780 and also another man. So it's a thruple and there's another man who identifies as a leprechaun

00:25:04.100 and they're all together. One happy family. And, uh, here's some of that interview that we all need

00:25:09.180 to watch. Here it is. Princess Fairy Lolly, Gunther the troll, and Eye on the Leprechaun join us now

00:25:15.200 from their home in Seattle. And good morning. It is so lovely to have you here on the show. Welcome.

00:25:21.640 Good morning. Good morrow. Good morning. Good morrow. Good morrow. So let's start with you,

00:25:25.760 first of all, uh, Princess Lolly, if you don't mind. Now you identify as a full-time fairy. So

00:25:30.420 just explain what life is like. So yes, as a full-time fairy, that it is basically my duty

00:25:40.480 all the time to, uh, traipse about in the land of real, as we refer to it and spread what fairy magic

00:25:48.420 I can. Hither and yon. Primarily that takes place at, uh, our fairy festival that we produce,

00:25:56.380 which is Fairy Blossom and other Renaissance Fairs, festivals. And then also because of COVID

00:26:01.920 this year, we have a really, uh, launched forth via the YouTube portals.

00:26:08.020 Mm-hmm. And, uh, and when did you discover that you actually were a fairy?

00:26:15.980 Many years ago. We don't like to count too much in, you know, how counting goes and time

00:26:22.160 and fairies, but... I can't do it anyway. Uh, we, we shall say it has been sometime since 1.00

00:26:27.900 when I was a youngling. Okay. So let's introduce us to who you're with. You've got, um, Gunther.

00:26:34.020 We all get the idea. You got the gist of it. There it is. Uh, I have to say that I, I mean,

00:26:41.160 I can relate to the fairy in some ways. She says it's her mission to traipse about in the land of

00:26:45.660 real and spread fairy magic. In many ways, you know, I, I think of myself in a similar way,

00:26:50.940 spreading fairy magic. That's what I do with this show. I hope that's my goal. I do it on a part-time

00:26:55.780 basis though. This woman identifies as a full-time fairy. So that's, that's, uh, that's an important

00:26:59.520 distinction. And it sets her apart from one of her boyfriends there who, uh, we didn't hear from in the

00:27:03.880 clip, but he identifies as a leprechaun only part-time. So we've got a troll full-time leprechaun

00:27:09.240 part-time. And you know what? Love is love, you bigots. That's it. And, and besides there's,

00:27:16.300 there's nothing objectively more absurd about this than about the left's gender theories. 0.99

00:27:23.480 They're at least as ridiculous. And besides, I think that they were mainly just trying to promote 0.95

00:27:28.980 the Renaissance festival on second thought, watching that again, which for me raises questions

00:27:33.280 about Renaissance festivals. I've never, I've never been to one, but I thought the idea that a

00:27:39.260 Renaissance festival was supposed to be a celebration of the Renaissance period in history. Isn't that what

00:27:44.540 it was supposed to be? And they didn't like actually have fairies and trolls in the Renaissance period.

00:27:50.260 You're thinking of middle earth, which is a common mistake, but it's very different.

00:27:54.720 But the point again, is that even with something like this, um, if they are being serious about it,

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00:30:37.880 YouTube channel. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:30:44.860 So today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel everybody involved in the impeachment

00:30:48.240 efforts, efforts currently underway in the house. Uh, the articles of impeachment released last night

00:30:52.420 charged Donald Trump with incitement of insurrection and other crimes as well. Now,

00:30:57.020 usually the daily cancellation is, is reserved for things that aren't very serious. This is a time

00:31:01.280 for content. That's maybe a bit more farcical than the rest of the show. And, and that's in fact,

00:31:05.820 actually why it's a good place to discuss the Democrats second impeachment of Trump,

00:31:09.840 which is indeed a farce, unserious, a political stunt. So here are the problems with impeaching

00:31:16.240 Trump as far as I can see, at least two of the problems. First of all, no matter what you think

00:31:21.980 of the fact that Trump was claiming voter fraud and the fact that he called for a rally in DC and the

00:31:26.680 fact that he sent the crowd over to the Capitol building, you can't get around, uh, the fact that,

00:31:32.460 that Trump did specifically call for a peaceful protest in his remarks to the crowd. You could

00:31:38.640 check the transcript. I have, and here's what the transcript says. Here's what he said.

00:31:43.500 We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been

00:31:47.200 lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to

00:31:52.000 peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. That's what he said. Now you might argue that

00:31:58.260 he didn't really mean it. You might argue that he didn't really care what would happen. You can argue

00:32:02.280 all that. You might be wrong. You might be right. But the fact still remains that he did explicitly

00:32:07.260 and verbally call for a peaceful protest. We have seen lawmakers encourage violence and riots

00:32:14.380 explicitly. We know what that sounds like. The democratic state representative in Michigan a few

00:32:19.180 weeks ago, we played that clip, uh, calling on quote unquote soldiers to find Trump supporters and

00:32:24.400 quote, quote, make them pay. Okay. That if Trump had said to the crowd, find these lawmakers and make

00:32:31.380 them pay. Okay. Now you got a case that is obviously incitement. Ayanna Pressley during the BLM riots 0.95

00:32:41.900 calling for more quote unrest in the streets. Once again, if Trump had said, go to the Capitol building

00:32:49.420 and there needs to be unrest. If he had said there has to be unrest at the Capitol building in order

00:32:54.240 to, uh, prevent this from happening. Once again, you have a case. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasting the 0.97

00:33:01.760 people who called for an end to the unrest, claiming that to call for an end to the unrest is to call for

00:33:07.080 injustice to continue. That's what she said. Maxine Waters telling her supporters to track down Trump

00:33:12.420 administration officials in public and to create a crowd and let them know they aren't welcome anywhere.

00:33:17.540 Those are direct quotes. All of these and much more are examples of explicit incitement, direct

00:33:24.420 incitement. And as it happens, all of the people guilty of it now support impeaching Trump for

00:33:31.360 allegedly doing what they unquestionably have done themselves. Um, if you want to argue that it's

00:33:38.420 incitement simply to get a potentially unruly crowd riled up with dubious claims and to send them

00:33:45.120 out to sort of broadly fight for this or that, then again, the Democrats behind this impeachment would

00:33:51.320 be guilty of the same. Even the ones who didn't explicitly endorse rioting were still spreading

00:33:56.880 the false claims that fueled the riots and encouraging the rioters to continue the fight

00:34:02.060 for social justice. So before the Democrats can even begin to make a case for impeachment,

00:34:08.260 all of those guilty of doing these things would need to admit their guilt and resign.

00:34:15.460 That's what they would have to do. Do that first. Here's the deal that I would make

00:34:19.580 if I had any power at all, which I don't, uh, do that first. If you're a Democrat and you were guilty

00:34:26.420 of incitement yourself by your own standard, guilty of it by the standard you're now applying to Trump.

00:34:31.920 If you did it yourself, resign. And then I'm willing to listen to the impeachment case

00:34:38.880 from the three or four Democrats who remain in office. That should be the deal. If the Republicans

00:34:45.920 had any sense, any backbone, any spine, that's what they would be saying. They should be saying,

00:34:52.520 absolutely. Let's, let's, let's get rid of everybody who's been guilty of inciting riots

00:34:57.440 during this time of chaos and anarchy, uh, cause it's, it's, it's, it's enough. We have to put an

00:35:02.960 end to it. Um, so let's get rid of all of them and let's start with you guys. That's what they

00:35:09.160 should be saying. Second point, all that aside, um, or not aside, but at least, uh, you know, I make

00:35:16.040 this point as an important addition to the previous Donald Trump is out of office in a week, seven

00:35:21.340 days. That's it. He'll be gone regardless. And I would bet everything I own that Trump is

00:35:27.280 not going to run again in 2024 at the age of 78. After all of this, I mean, he may say he will,

00:35:33.500 he may make, he may make noises to that effect over the next four years, but I don't think he's

00:35:37.920 really going to do it. So this is not even an effort to remove him from office because he's

00:35:42.780 going to be gone before the Senate trial can begin. And I don't buy that this is about stopping

00:35:47.020 him from running again. In fact, I think the Democrats would love for Trump to run again.

00:35:51.420 They're terrified of the prospect of having to exist now on their own without being able to define

00:35:56.820 themselves by their opposition to Trump. They can't even remember what it was like to have a

00:36:01.960 political ideology that wasn't defined by Trump. So this isn't about removing him, um, from office

00:36:09.120 because again, he'll already be gone and it isn't about stopping him from running again. This is

00:36:12.840 rather symbolic. It is theater. It is impeachment as theater. And it's not the first time the Democrats

00:36:19.920 have done it. The people who have pretended to be so concerned about norms and about protecting the

00:36:25.440 democratic system and so on have now turned impeachment, which is an essential tool into

00:36:31.040 a meaningless, empty gesture. Two presidents in nearly 250 years had been impeached before Trump.

00:36:38.860 The Democrats have now impeached Trump twice in almost a year, meaning they've done it as many times

00:36:46.760 in a year as every Congress in history had done it before this. They have doubled the number of

00:36:53.480 impeachment in a year. They've doubled it. So that means it's been cheapened. The, the, the,

00:36:59.800 the tool of impeachment has been cheapened to the point of uselessness. What this means now is that,

00:37:06.560 um, impeachment will be used commonly. If the opposing party controls the house, uh, it'll be

00:37:12.600 used just to make a political point because that's what it's become now. What was once rare, what was once

00:37:18.180 nearly unthinkable will now be utterly commonplace, a matter of course, you know, we had, we have now

00:37:26.460 four impeachments in 20, 250 years. It was two. Now we have four. The next 20 years, we'll probably

00:37:32.460 see that many. We'll probably double it in another 20 years, if not more because of what they've done

00:37:40.660 with this tool of impeachment. And again, an essential tool. Now it means nothing because of

00:37:48.420 what Democrats have done, because they are using it as just symbolism. And that's why, um, I think we

00:38:00.720 should all be opposed to impeachment, no matter how you feel about Trump. That's why we should all be

00:38:05.280 opposed to it. And that's why the Democrats are canceled. Certainly not, not for the first time and

00:38:10.200 certainly not for the last time I suspect, but we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 13, 2021

Ep. 635 - The Democrats Set Out To Make Everything Worse

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