The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 637 - Lockdown Proponents Suddenly Change Their Tune

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a week before the inauguration and Democrat mayors are

00:00:03.960 rushing to reopen their cities and restart their economies, the timing of this, we're

00:00:09.280 supposed to believe, is entirely coincidental. Sure. Also, five headlines, including an interview

00:00:13.260 with Jacob Blake that unwittingly destroys the narrative in his defense. And in our daily

00:00:18.720 cancellation, we will discuss the major controversy, huge controversy surrounding a traumatizing

00:00:22.900 article in Politico written by Ben Shapiro. That and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:17.800 10% off for life. You know, when I was a young lad, one of my dad's most common refrains to me and

00:02:24.960 my siblings, whenever we tried to lie to him about something, he would always say, don't insult my

00:02:30.320 intelligence. And his point was that, you know, it's bad enough for us to do whatever wrong thing we're

00:02:35.800 trying to cover up. And it's even worse for us to lie about it. But then the final indignity is to

00:02:40.760 tell lies that are so blatant and so obvious that we are insulting our parents' intelligence by thinking 0.99

00:02:47.460 they'd be dumb enough to fall for the ruse in the first place. Now, these days I can relate to how 0.98

00:02:52.900 my parents felt. I can relate as a parent myself, like when my four-year-old looked me in the eye

00:02:57.980 and told me that he didn't color in blue crayon on the wall while literally holding the blue crayon

00:03:04.200 in his hand and standing right next to the scribble on the wall. But I can also relate as a citizen of

00:03:09.520 this country because in this capacity, I, we are lied to all the time, especially in recent months.

00:03:15.620 And what makes the lies all the worse is that it's, it's so obvious what they're doing and thus

00:03:22.280 insulting. They are insulting our intelligence. For example, as we approach Joe Biden's inauguration

00:03:28.760 less than a week away, suddenly we're seeing Democrat mayors across the country. Some of the biggest,

00:03:34.460 most ardent proponents of lockdowns now insist that we have to begin to open up the economy again

00:03:40.260 as quickly as possible. So they've switched course like this as blatantly as this with,

00:03:46.340 with, with timing as convenient as this. And they expect us to not notice. They insult our

00:03:52.680 intelligence. Here's the article in Outkick about Lori Lightfoot in Chicago. Here's what she's saying.

00:03:57.400 Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago on Thursday, called for bars and restaurants to be open at

00:04:01.400 limited capacity as soon as possible and said she would speak to Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker

00:04:07.160 about the matter. The second round of shutdowns began in October as COVID-19 spread in the city

00:04:12.340 and state. Per Block Club Chicago, Mayor Lightfoot said she is very, very focused on getting bars and

00:04:18.640 restaurants open and pointed out that they can be operated more safely for patrons than, than the

00:04:23.920 underground parties that have proliferated in the shutdown. If we have people and give them an outlet

00:04:28.820 for entertainment, we have much more of an opportunity in my view to be able to regulate

00:04:32.480 and control that environment. According to Lightfoot, she said, quote, let's bring it out

00:04:36.580 of the shadows. Let's allow them to have some recreation and restaurants and bars where we

00:04:40.800 can actually work with responsible owners and managers to regulate and protect people from

00:04:44.720 COVID-19. Okay. So we are not mass murderers, apparently, or grandma killers. If we want to open up

00:04:53.660 the economy, is that what we're saying? So that's, that's allowed now. We're, we're allowed to make

00:04:57.660 that argument without being shouted down and told that we are evil killers. Let me guess, actually,

00:05:05.780 let me guess. I bet you now, now we're going to be mass murderers and grandma killers if we don't 0.99

00:05:11.460 want to open the economy because that's the way it works when the pendulum swings. But again, remember,

00:05:17.840 you aren't supposed to notice this. Governor Cuomo's 180 is even more egregious. Here he is in his

00:05:25.360 state of the state address, singing a wildly different tune about lockdowns. Listen,

00:05:31.280 we must deal with a short term economic crisis, a record $15 billion state deficit that must be

00:05:39.360 addressed in the next several weeks. Fourth, we must plan our economic resurgence. We simply cannot

00:05:47.020 stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left

00:05:55.820 to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.

00:06:02.980 We simply cannot stay closed. We just can't. What gets me is, is not just what he's saying,

00:06:11.240 but how he's saying it. He says we simply cannot stay closed with a level, level of exasperation

00:06:16.980 that seems to suggest that he's been saying this for months and nobody would listen. But in fact,

00:06:22.880 of course, we have been saying that for months and he wouldn't listen. So Cuomo is really, he's

00:06:29.020 really like that kid in the group project in school who, who, you know, you, you have all the good

00:06:34.740 ideas and he keeps taking your ideas and suggesting them as if they're his own. And in fact, in group

00:06:40.840 projects in school, I was actually the guy taking the ideas. So he's like that, but on a much larger scale

00:06:46.020 and with a lot more at stake, he doesn't even try to reconcile that or explain his shift. He pretends

00:06:51.920 it's not a shift. He pretends that the last nine months never happened. And he expects us to do the

00:06:57.060 same. We must do the same because as we've learned to bring up the immediate recent past to point out

00:07:03.600 hypocrisy and double standards is to engage in what about ism. And we mustn't do that. No, you can never say

00:07:10.520 what about, as we've learned, you just have to pretend that, that, that the whole universe was

00:07:17.560 born this morning and there were no events that happened before right now. That's what you have

00:07:24.740 to pretend. Just let them rewrite history right in front of you. Let them do it. In fact, applaud them,

00:07:30.420 applaud them as they do it. That is your role in this. That's what you're expected to do.

00:07:35.540 They have this set up so nicely and so predictably, you know, Biden will take office. The economy will

00:07:41.020 open up again. At the same time, it's going to get warmer naturally, right? As we get into the spring

00:07:47.180 and more people will get vaccinated. And so the virus will recede. And the narrative will be that

00:07:52.500 Biden defeated the virus and saved the economy and did it all in his first three months in office.

00:07:58.320 Don't be surprised if he's awarded the Nobel prize for his efforts. And I'm not kidding.

00:08:01.980 I really think that will happen. I mean, they gave it to Obama for doing quite literally nothing.

00:08:08.420 What makes this especially infuriating is, again, we can all see them doing it because they do it

00:08:14.180 out in the open and they do it exactly as we knew they would. Meanwhile, Newsweek has just published

00:08:20.280 an article with the headline, COVID lockdowns have no clear benefit versus other voluntary measures.

00:08:26.880 According to international study, it reads, quote, a new study evaluating COVID-19 responses around

00:08:32.420 the world found that mandatory lockdown orders early in the pandemic did not provide significantly

00:08:37.700 more benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures such as social

00:08:42.460 distancing or travel reduction. It continues. The study compared cases in England, France, Germany,

00:08:48.200 Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the US, all countries that implemented mandatory lockdown

00:08:53.060 orders and business closures to South Korea and Sweden, which implemented less severe voluntary

00:08:57.200 responses. It aimed to analyze the effect that less restrictive or more restrictive measures had

00:09:01.860 on changing individuals' behaviors and curbing the transmission of the virus. Using that model,

00:09:06.740 the researchers determined that there is no clear significant beneficial effect of more restrictive

00:09:11.020 measures on case growth in any country. This is precisely what so many of us have been saying

00:09:17.380 for months. Wouldn't you know it? We weren't actually arguing that we want more people to die of the

00:09:24.260 virus. We aren't supervillains. We're not sociopaths. Quite the opposite. We argued that, in our opinion,

00:09:32.420 the lockdowns were not a good way to deal with the virus. There were better ways to deal with it.

00:09:38.960 And in our opinion, more harm than good is done by them in the long run. And it's not as though

00:09:46.680 that argument was simply rebuffed or refuted. It's not as though the other side said,

00:09:51.040 well, I disagree and here's why. I'd have no problem with that. That's fine. Let's have a

00:09:55.560 discussion. No. They said that to make such an argument is evil in itself. We are mass murderers

00:10:01.780 and lunatics for making it. And now the very people who said that to us will start saying the same 0.93

00:10:09.200 things that we said before, but without acknowledgement, without accountability.

00:10:15.340 And of course, obviously, without apology. So be it. You know, this is the way the game is played.

00:10:22.760 And we would just do well to remember that going forward. Let's get now to our five headlines.

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00:12:24.500 NFL playoffs this weekend, by the way. I'm getting into the divisional round. I'm pretty excited about

00:12:29.120 that. Baltimore Ravens playing the Buffalo Bills on Saturday night. I think that'll be a great game.

00:12:34.500 I like the Ravens in the game because I'm a homer, number one, but number two, because of the run game,

00:12:39.500 the Buffalo Bills really don't have a run defense or a run offense, and the Ravens have both of those

00:12:46.820 things. I mean, they're averaging like 250 yards a game, which is insane. They put up 400 yards a few

00:12:51.660 weeks ago, which is unheard of. Teams used to do that in the 1950s on the ground. So I'm looking

00:12:58.080 forward to that. And let me also just say defensively here for a moment that I think I mentioned football

00:13:05.960 on the show or maybe on Twitter, like two or three times a year, it comes up, right? Of all the things

00:13:14.320 that I'm constantly blabbering about, maybe 0.001% of that is football. But anytime I do, there are two

00:13:22.840 things that I hear from people. One is, why are you talking about this when there's so many other

00:13:28.980 important things happening in the world? What do you think? You think football is the most important

00:13:32.900 thing happening? You're talking about this? And then the other thing that I hear is, well, how

00:13:38.740 could you watch football? How could you support the NFL with all their political shenanigans and

00:13:45.320 everything they've done? How could you support them? So let me say a response to both of those points.

00:13:50.300 Number one, yeah, there are a lot of bad things happening in the world. I think it's still okay

00:13:56.880 to think about things that aren't those bad things. I think it's okay to have other thoughts on

00:14:05.100 occasion. It's even okay to engage in recreation, to have fun. Even I can have fun sometimes. And if I

00:14:13.200 can do it, then what's wrong with you? But then the second point, you know, the thing about, well,

00:14:17.820 why would you support the NFL? Okay, I can take that criticism. I can. I mean, right. The political

00:14:25.340 stuff annoys me. But I certainly hope if you're making that criticism of the NFL and saying, oh,

00:14:30.640 well, you shouldn't watch the NFL. I really, really hope that you don't watch Star Wars or any other

00:14:37.400 Disney movie. You don't watch anything on Netflix or HBO. You don't watch pretty much any movie or any

00:14:44.160 television show that is ever produced, except for Run, Hide, Fight, which we premiered last night,

00:14:49.620 which we'll talk more about that a little bit later on. I certainly hope that's the case. So I think

00:14:54.980 you're in a position to make that criticism of people who watch the NFL if you do not watch any

00:15:00.860 movies or any television at all, period. Because if you do, and you support, let's say, a company like

00:15:07.960 Disney, you support a company that does far more damage in the culture and spreads far more filth

00:15:16.080 and misleads far more people on a much larger scale than the NFL. Okay, that's all.

00:15:24.720 But if you are in that category where you say, I don't watch anything, I don't even have a TV,

00:15:30.640 and when I have recreational time, I just read books and I go do gardening or something,

00:15:34.380 that I say to you, sir or ma'am, I bow to you because I am very impressed by that. I just

00:15:40.040 suspect that 99% of the people who have that criticism of the NFL are not like you, and that's

00:15:45.940 my problem. Okay. Number one, from the New York Post, Joe Biden wants to send millions of Americans

00:15:52.520 their third stimulus check and give others their first. Says the president-elect's $1.9 trillion

00:15:59.220 economic relief plan calls for yet another round of direct payments to help people pay bills

00:16:03.620 and support their families during the coronavirus pandemic. The proposal would also expand eligibility

00:16:07.800 for the $1,400 checks to some people left out of the first two rounds of relief. One key group is

00:16:14.120 adults who can be claimed as dependents on other people's income tax returns, such as college

00:16:18.280 students or elderly people being cared for by their adult children. Okay, so adults like college

00:16:26.420 students. So what we're being told now, if you're an adult, such as a college student, and you're a

00:16:32.900 dependent, you're going to get a COVID relief check? So if you've got a 19-year-old college

00:16:41.080 student living at home, no bills to pay, we're going to send them $1,400. Why? For what reason?

00:16:50.760 Both previous stimulus bills providing direct payments only allowed taxpayers to collect additional

00:16:55.700 money for dependent children younger than 17. Last March's CARES Act gave households $500 for each

00:17:06.420 qualifying kid on top of $1,200 per adult, while December's $900 billion relief package offered $600

00:17:14.380 checks for children and adults alike. Okay, well look, as I've said all along, I'm in favor of the idea

00:17:24.220 of providing relief to people who've been so devastated financially by the COVID lockdowns.

00:17:31.820 I think the government has the responsibility to do that. What I have a problem with is just

00:17:36.540 constantly handing out checks to everyone without any regard for whether they actually need it or not.

00:17:44.440 So call me crazy, but I sort of feel like if we're going to spend billions of dollars handing out

00:17:49.320 checks, maybe we should take the time, put the energy and effort into. And when I say we,

00:17:53.720 I mean the government, they're the ones that are going to have to do this, into figuring out who

00:17:57.580 actually needs it. And then you know what? You can send them not only a check, you can send them

00:18:02.520 a larger check. I'd be in favor of $5,000 checks if they're actually going to the people who really

00:18:09.780 need it. Say people who've lost their job because of the lockdowns. Business was shut down because of

00:18:17.880 the lockdowns. They're teetering on the edge of financial ruin or they're already in financial

00:18:23.920 ruin. Yeah. Send them relief. But you know, I happen to know, and I'm sure you know people too,

00:18:29.740 or maybe you are someone like this. I know plenty of people who've been getting these checks and don't

00:18:35.560 need it. They don't need the assistance. They've been gainfully employed the entire time.

00:18:40.280 If you have been gainfully employed throughout the coronavirus pandemic and all the lockdowns,

00:18:46.120 as I have been, then you and I, and those of us in that category, we are blessed. We're very

00:18:51.740 fortunate. We don't need the checks. We're in the same position financially we were in before. We still

00:18:57.740 have a job. There's no reason to send us money. So that's my problem. We are basically, the strategy

00:19:05.080 is to throw money into the air and then hope it lands on some of the people who really need it.

00:19:11.540 And if we waste billions upon billions, giving it to people who don't need it, no problem.

00:19:18.160 Well, it is a problem. I would say. Number two, we know that if you're a conservative,

00:19:24.020 guys like Don Lemon on CNN hate you, right? No surprise there. And that's why I almost decided

00:19:31.000 not to play this clip. In fact, I saw this clip circulating and people talking about it.

00:19:36.020 And I didn't even watch it at first because I thought, well, yeah, I get it by now. It's like

00:19:40.640 we talked about yesterday, the hidden camera footage of somebody works for PBS talking about

00:19:46.260 how much they hate conservatives and people, some conservatives making a big deal about that.

00:19:50.580 My reaction is, well, of course, I know they feel that way. I don't like it, but I already know

00:19:54.760 that there's nothing about it that I consider newsworthy. But on the other hand, this from

00:20:02.000 Don Lemon is so over the top egregious and said publicly on the airwaves that I think maybe

00:20:08.340 it's worth taking a second to reflect on it. So here it is. Listen.

00:20:10.760 If you are on that side, you need to think about the side you're on. I am never on the side of the

00:20:17.280 Klan. I am not principal people, conservative or liberal, never on the Klan side. Principal 0.84

00:20:23.120 people, conservative or liberal, never on the Nazi side. Principal people who are conservative

00:20:28.320 or liberal, never on the side. That treats their their fellow Americans as less than that says 0.50

00:20:36.080 that your fellow Americans should not exist. That said you're that says your fellow Americans 1.00

00:20:40.880 should be in a concentration camp or that sides with slavery. 0.87

00:20:44.620 What I like about that, I guess, is the incredible irony of he says, well, you shouldn't treat your

00:20:55.780 fellow Americans like they're less than. And he says that right after claiming that Trump supporters

00:21:04.380 are on the side of the Klan and Nazis. And slave owners? What? No, that's what it means. That's what 0.51

00:21:15.120 it looks like to treat people like they are less than, like they are less than you. You obviously

00:21:20.740 believe that they are less than you morally, and we could presume you believe they're less than you

00:21:25.340 intellectually. That's what it looks like.

00:21:28.160 Yes, that's what it means to treat people as they are, as if they are inferior.

00:21:35.720 When you compare people to Nazis and Klan members and slave owners,

00:21:39.800 you are treating them as they, as if they are inferior.

00:21:44.760 Now, unless they really are Klan members, in which case, fine.

00:21:49.880 But there are like, I don't know, seven Klan members in America. So if you want to take up time

00:21:56.520 on your airwaves condemning those seven people, then go ahead and do it.

00:22:02.100 But to even say, like, the vast majority of conservatives aren't in the Klan, to even say

00:22:08.840 something like that is to play the game. It doesn't even need to be said.

00:22:13.720 It's to even say it is to play the game that Don Lemon wants you to play.

00:22:18.720 All right, number three from the Daily Wire. It says,

00:22:20.920 A mother of a four-year-old child who refuses to disclose whether the child is a biological boy or

00:22:26.480 girl and claims she let the child decide their own gender has stated that she's been accused of

00:22:31.680 child abuse. The mother, Kyle Myers, PhD, of course, a native of Utah who moved to Australia,

00:22:39.600 wrote on the website Mamma Mia,

00:22:42.060 I've received hundreds of messages and comments on Instagram and emails from people I don't know

00:22:46.780 telling me my child should be taken away from me. My partner, Brent, and I do something called

00:22:52.100 gender creative parenting. For us, this means we didn't assign a binary girl or boy gender to our

00:22:59.820 child. The child's name is Zoomer, by the way. Zoomer. So we've got Kyle, Brent, and Zoomer in the

00:23:06.020 family together. We don't disclose Zoomer's genitals to people who don't need to know. We use the gender

00:23:11.840 neutral pronouns they, them, they're for Zoomer until they can tell us what pronouns and labels

00:23:16.520 fit best. And Zoomer tells about, learns about, and explores gender without stereotypical expectations

00:23:21.840 or restrictions. Brent and I are just two among thousands of people doing gender creative parenting

00:23:26.700 all over the world. Yeah, that's,

00:23:31.080 those people are correct. That is child abuse. That's what child abuse is. So they are exactly

00:23:42.840 correct. And I love it when these parents, also because they take this attitude of, well,

00:23:49.160 mind your own business. What concern is it of yours? Why are all these people messaging me

00:23:56.200 messaging me with, with their opinions of my parenting? Well, it's because you wrote an article

00:24:00.500 about it and you published it for the whole world to see. You announced what you said was,

00:24:05.920 hey world, look at how I'm parenting. Look at how I'm parenting everyone. Look at my child Zoomer.

00:24:14.960 Please, please see everyone. I want you to see it. And then some people say, oh, I see it. And I think

00:24:21.920 it's horrible. And your response is, how dare you? How dare you? How dare you intrude in our private

00:24:28.020 lives? You know, if you don't want your child to be stereotyped or to have expectations imposed on

00:24:37.540 them, why are you publicizing this? Why are you putting it out there for everybody?

00:24:43.100 No, the reason why it's abuse, one of the reasons, um, is that it is really, when I, when I called

00:24:54.380 abuse, I don't just mean like it's low level abuse or something like that. Um, no, no, this is,

00:25:00.940 this is really serious abuse because it, it goes to a level, you know, that is, that is,

00:25:09.240 that is really deep in that it, in that it, it deprives the child of an identity. That's what

00:25:16.660 you're doing. So this is psychological abuse, um, on the deepest possible level. When you're

00:25:26.360 depriving your child of his or her identity, I have to say his or her, because I don't, because I

00:25:31.520 don't know, you, you know, you're, you're, you're withholding that information. And it's one thing if

00:25:35.640 you want to withhold that information from the public. Okay, fine. The problem is you're

00:25:40.380 withholding the information from your child too, because the reality is your child, little

00:25:48.020 zoomer is a boy or a girl. He is, he or she is one of those things. And your child has a right to know 0.82

00:25:58.300 which one, just like you did growing up. Your child has a right to know who he is one way or

00:26:07.120 another. And you're depriving him of that. And by the way, I say, I say him in the general,

00:26:15.940 because that actually is proper grammar to, to use the word him in a general sense.

00:26:21.880 You're depriving your child of that. It's hard for me to think of a worse form of psychological

00:26:27.140 abuse than that. It's just a basic fact. It's, it's a basic fact of, of his life and

00:26:36.280 his existence, who he is. And you won't tell him. Forcing him to live as this amorphous,

00:26:45.140 ambiguous being. That's a choice he didn't make. If he wants to make that choice later on

00:26:52.840 and do this gender fluid, gender creative stunt later on in life, he can make that choice like

00:26:59.960 you have done. But no, you are imposing that on him. You're forcing him to do it.

00:27:08.340 All right. Number four, Jacob Blake, um, case that we have followed extensively on this show.

00:27:14.460 Of course he was the, the, uh, the wanted felon, violent criminal shot by police in Kenosha,

00:27:23.900 Wisconsin. Uh, one of the cases that, that led to all the writing and everything that we saw.

00:27:28.660 Now we, we haven't heard really anything from him directly until yesterday. Good morning, America

00:27:33.660 had an interview with Jacob Blake and, uh, they, they, um, the thing is it's not as bad as I expected

00:27:44.640 it to be, but it's still utterly disgraceful. Okay. The, the interview could have been even worse

00:27:51.600 than it was and how it, you know, portray in, in portraying Jacob Blake as the victim. And it still

00:27:57.580 does, um, it's not, it doesn't go quite as far as I, as I, as it could have gone, but it's still pretty

00:28:05.420 bad. And meanwhile, um, Jacob Blake, while he's obviously lying through his teeth, he does incriminate

00:28:12.940 himself. And he also refutes unwittingly what his own family had said. His family from the beginning

00:28:20.420 had claimed that he did not have a weapon, that he was unarmed. Well, he actually admits that he did

00:28:25.220 have a weapon that he was armed. He tries to, he tries to dress it up in such a way as to make

00:28:29.320 himself innocent. Uh, and he does it in a really absurd way. So we'll, we'll take a, we'll watch

00:28:34.240 that now. Let's, let's listen. We see you, you walk away from the officers after they try to grab

00:28:40.040 you. I'm rattled. You know, I realized I had dropped my knife, that little pocket knife. So I picked it up

00:28:48.920 after I got off of him because they tased me and I fell on top of him with an open knife in hand

00:28:56.440 that Blake says fell out of his pocket. He walks around the front of the vehicle towards the driver's

00:29:01.660 side door. Now. Okay. So his claim about the knife, if you picked up on it there, uh, he says that,

00:29:10.360 well, he, it was just in his pocket and it happened to fall out and it, and it was open when it fell.

00:29:16.840 So he had, so he had an open pocket knife in his pocket. Can I just tell you, that's not a good

00:29:21.080 place to have an open pocket knife. That's you're asking for trouble. Um, having an open pocket knife

00:29:24.960 in your pocket. There are a lot of things, a lot of things that can happen in that situation that

00:29:31.160 you don't want to have happened, um, have happened. So he claims that he had an open pocket knife in

00:29:35.120 his pocket. It fell out. He picked it up, didn't close it. He had the, and he was holding the open

00:29:38.740 pocket knife. And then he claims that it wasn't in the clip there, but he's, as he continues, um,

00:29:42.960 he says that he, he was, all he was trying to do was take the open knife to his car and just put

00:29:49.960 it, store it safely in his car. And then he would give himself up and surrender. That's all he was

00:29:54.120 trying. That's why he was going to the car. That's why he was going to the car with an open pocket

00:29:58.880 knife while the cops were screaming at him and telling him to stop was just so he could safely

00:30:03.020 stow his pocket knife. You know, Jacob Blake, uh, accused rapist. He's, he's a, he's a good, 0.92

00:30:08.160 a good citizen. And he was just really concerned about leaving the pocket knife on the ground and

00:30:12.340 a child might find it. And so, you know, while police were pointing guns at him and screaming

00:30:17.320 at him to stop, he just, he just thought, well, let me just put this pocket knife away. He never

00:30:22.160 said that by the way, he never said, Oh, can I just, uh, please, could I just put my pocket knife

00:30:25.900 away? I'm worried about someone getting cut. Good. He never said that. Of course, if he had said that

00:30:31.080 they would have told him, don't worry about it. We'll take care of the knife. That's evidence.

00:30:34.340 We're taking that with us. That's his claim. And of course, there's no pushback on that

00:30:40.340 at all. Uh, Michael Strahan there, former NFL guy, that's the guy they bring in for this hard

00:30:47.720 hitting interview. He doesn't, there's no pushback on that. Um, also at no point is Jacob Blake asked

00:30:56.400 about the alleged rape. You know, his, his ex-girlfriend, mother of his children, accuses

00:31:03.240 him very credibly of breaking into his house, into her house and raping her and then stealing

00:31:10.100 her credit cards and her car. He was trying to steal her car again there. That's why she called

00:31:15.300 police. He's never asked about that. You know, we've also, we also have not heard from the woman

00:31:21.380 at all this entire time. No, no one has inquired after her, see how she's doing or how she feels

00:31:27.380 about any of this. So never asked about that. The only reason I say it wasn't quite as bad as

00:31:33.200 expected is that, um, they do at least mention that he had a warrant out for his arrest. And

00:31:40.600 later on in the interview, it's like a seven minute interview, Michael Strahan does ask him,

00:31:44.840 you know, well, why did you keep walking away from the cops? Probably the smart thing to do would be to

00:31:50.560 just stop and, and, and give yourself up at that point. So they do say that at least that that's how

00:31:55.280 low the standards are now, that at least that point means that it wasn't as bad as it could

00:32:01.040 have been, but it was still really, really bad, especially because of the way that they are just

00:32:06.500 erasing and ignoring the real victim in this whole thing, which is the woman. She was the one who called

00:32:12.740 police and she continues to be victimized. Um, every, every day she has to turn on TV and see this guy,

00:32:19.780 see the way that he, they make a martyr of him. She continues to be victimized

00:32:25.920 and she has to live now, you know, with, with people blaming her for calling the police in the

00:32:33.040 first place. Jake Blake also claimed that, uh, he, he, he didn't know, like the reason why he was

00:32:43.160 resisting arrest at first and fighting the cops is because he didn't know they were the cops

00:32:47.040 that they grabbed him and he, he just didn't know who it was. And, uh, and so he started fighting

00:32:52.860 without seeing anything. I guess he had his eyes closed and he was just flailing. And then he said

00:32:57.040 that the reason he kept walking away and didn't listen to the officers is because he didn't hear

00:33:01.600 them because his ears were ringing. It was muffled. His ears were ringing because of all the screaming

00:33:05.980 and he just couldn't hear anything. So he couldn't see anything. He couldn't hear anything.

00:33:09.380 He picked up the open knife just to put it in his car.

00:33:15.160 Do you wonder why police officers are sometimes short on patience is because they have to deal

00:33:20.480 with this BS every single day. Just people lying blatantly to their face, making up the most absurd

00:33:27.120 excuses for illegal behavior. This is what police officers deal with every single day.

00:33:33.460 All right. Um, number five, this is one of those stories. That's almost like, it's almost like

00:33:40.380 hearing someone described getting a paper cut and that you just, you just feel it. You feel this

00:33:45.480 story. Only this is a lot worse than a paper cut, uh, from entrepreneur.com. It says Stefan Thomas,

00:33:51.360 a German programmer based in San Francisco, forgot a password that would allow him to access 7,000 Bitcoin,

00:33:57.520 which could be worth $220 million. Uh, according to New York times, the password will allow

00:34:03.160 Thomas to unlock a small hard drive called the iron key, which holds the keys to a digital wallet

00:34:08.840 containing 7,000 Bitcoin. Thomas lost the document where he wrote the key to his, uh, iron key years

00:34:14.080 ago, and he only has two attempts left to gain access. So they don't, I guess, I don't know how

00:34:19.860 many attempts he's made so far, but there are only so many attempts before they lock you out permanently.

00:34:23.660 And he's been trying to guess these passwords got $220 million. Theoretically, um, he's got a

00:34:31.120 theoretical $220 million behind that iron key and he can't get in. And, uh, if he, if he guesses wrong

00:34:38.280 two times and the device will encrypt your content forever, the programmer obtained this amount of

00:34:42.000 cryptocurrency in 2011. We lived in Switzerland after making an animated video explaining what is

00:34:46.480 Bitcoin, uh, requested by a fan of the asset. Thomas is not the only one who has lost his money

00:34:51.360 this way. According to the New York times article, citing chain analysis of the existing 18.5 million

00:34:56.760 Bitcoin around 20%, around 20% currently worth around $140 billion seem to be lost or stranded

00:35:04.440 in wallets. That's pretty bad. Uh, and it just, it makes me feel better about not getting involved

00:35:09.820 with Bitcoin because, you know, I'm terrible with passwords. Basically there are two strategies that

00:35:14.960 I've found with strategy with, with passwords. One is that you have one password that's very memorable

00:35:21.380 and you use it for all of your accounts. And the problem is that if any genius hacker ever thinks

00:35:27.760 to guess like password one, two, three or something, they'll be able to bankrupt you and steal your

00:35:32.940 identity in four and a half minutes because they can access everything. And the other strategy is to

00:35:37.740 use a, and this is what I do. I use a difficult and unique password for everything, but then I forget

00:35:44.040 it immediately. And so anytime I want to access anything that has an account, I have to always go to,

00:35:50.360 to, uh, forgot password, do the whole thing. It's so bad that I'll, I'll, I'll set up an account

00:35:55.240 somewhere. I'll set my password and then I'll go to log into the account I just set up and I've

00:36:00.960 already forgotten it. And I have to go and do, remember, remember password. So that's, that's the

00:36:06.160 problem. I also have to admit that, um, for this reason and others, I don't really see the value,

00:36:14.680 uh, with, with Bitcoin. Admittedly, I know almost nothing about it. So if you're a Bitcoin

00:36:20.000 expert, I'm sure you'll have a chance to post your actually comments, uh, below. So, so you're

00:36:27.040 welcome for that. You can, you can school me in it, but it seems to me, this is what, as someone

00:36:30.840 who's totally, this is just my, my intuitive analysis as someone who knows almost nothing

00:36:34.440 about cryptocurrency. It seems to me that for a currency to really be a currency, it needs to be

00:36:40.900 used like one, right? So you have to use it to buy goods and services. If you're not using it to

00:36:46.040 buy goods and services, if it isn't commonly used for that, it's not really a currency,

00:36:49.300 but Bitcoin's Bitcoin is a zillion dollars. So, uh, and there aren't very many of them and

00:36:54.840 they're hard to obtain and they can be hard to access once you have them. So people don't use

00:37:00.540 them as currency and they just buy and sell Bitcoin with other fans of Bitcoin. So that seems to me to

00:37:08.480 not really be a currency, but more of a collectible. My expert analysis is that Bitcoin is just a

00:37:15.460 glorified form of a Beanie Baby or a Pokemon card. That's all it really is. It's just a high tech,

00:37:23.740 really expensive Pokemon card. There you go. Take that to the bank. That's my financial advice.

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00:40:44.720 dire controversy surrounding Ben Shapiro's article in Politico. If you don't spend a lot of time on

00:40:50.300 social media, then your life is a whole lot more fulfilling and meaningful than those of us who do.

00:40:55.440 But the downside is you miss important news like this. It was trending all over Twitter yesterday.

00:41:00.240 People were very upset that Ben Shapiro wrote an article for Politico's newsletter called the

00:41:04.080 playbook. And Ben's piece was mostly about impeachment and trying to explain, you know,

00:41:09.580 why many Republicans oppose it from his point of view. And his, his argument comes down to this

00:41:14.300 paragraph where he says, quote, opposition to impeachment comes from a deep and abiding

00:41:17.760 conservative belief that members of the opposing political tribe want their destruction, not simply

00:41:21.820 to punish Trump for his behavior. Republicans believe that Democrats and the overwhelmingly liberal

00:41:25.900 media see impeachment as an attempt to cudgel them collectively by lumping them in with capital

00:41:31.000 rioters, thanks to their support of Trump. Okay. Now you might think, well, okay, that seems

00:41:36.340 reasonable. Certainly not in any way offensive or traumatizing or radical, but many in media

00:41:42.040 and many employees at Politico didn't agree. Um, they claim that Politico had acted in a deeply

00:41:46.720 irresponsible fashion by allowing Ben Shapiro to write a newsletter. They pointed out that Ben

00:41:52.220 Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew is also a white supremacist Nazi, a white supremacist Nazi Orthodox Jew. I mean, 0.98

00:41:58.120 those exist. I'm told there's at least one of them. They pointed out that he has opinions,

00:42:04.560 many opinions, some of which they, the members of the media don't agree with. And it's simply not

00:42:10.860 acceptable for a person with those sorts of opinions to be allowed in Politico or frankly,

00:42:15.720 anywhere else on earth. Eric Wemple, media critic for the Washington Post was tweeting updates on

00:42:20.940 the controversy throughout the day. There was apparently a revolt among Politico staffers

00:42:24.980 who felt that they all personally should have been consulted before their boss made the decision

00:42:30.920 to let Ben Shapiro write a, write a guest column for them. Wemple tweeted, there are now upwards of

00:42:35.940 225 people on the Politico zoom call convened to hash out the decision to invite Ben Shapiro to

00:42:42.140 guest write in addition to playbook. People are very mad. I am hearing very, very mad.

00:42:48.900 This is the kind of thing you hear about a lot these days. Underlings at companies getting their

00:42:52.440 feelings hurt by decisions that don't personally affect them in any way whatsoever. Then they cry about

00:42:57.260 it publicly and management for some reason takes their temper tantrum seriously and gives them a

00:43:02.840 forum to vent their childish rage. In fairness, you might point out that my company has given me a

00:43:11.640 forum to vent my childish rage also. And it's the very show you're listening to right now, but that's

00:43:15.760 beside the point. This isn't about me. This is about Ben Shapiro and he is the one canceled today.

00:43:21.240 Now, please don't think that I would cancel all the people who've broken down in tears over a

00:43:27.660 completely inoffensive and utterly reasonable article in Politico written by a conservative.

00:43:32.300 No, I understand their feelings. I also wept uncontrollably when I first read it. I could not

00:43:39.000 stand to see the sacred hallowed ground of the political playbook so desecrated. The political

00:43:46.160 playbook is, is deeply important to many people. You see myself included, I have been a huge lifelong

00:43:52.360 fan of the political playbook ever since I first heard about it yesterday afternoon.

00:43:57.660 And at any rate, Ben should know that when you're a conservative, you have no right to make your

00:44:02.860 arguments or express your beliefs in any mainstream forum. You shouldn't even be seen in public without

00:44:09.260 prior warning. I've always, I've always said this, that conservatives ought to wear cowbells around

00:44:13.340 their necks when they leave their homes so that strangers will be warned of their imminent arrival

00:44:18.340 into a room. See, it's bad enough to simply be seen, you know, to force others to endure the spectacle of

00:44:27.940 your existence. As a conservative, merely, merely by your presence in a room, you run the risk of causing

00:44:34.520 fatal emotional wounds to everybody in the vicinity, but to actually speak, to express your beliefs and

00:44:39.980 ideas to make arguments. Well, that's tantamount to terrorism, mass murder. This is a true, 1.00

00:44:45.660 this is an absolutely true story. Okay. I promise you. I was at a Thanksgiving dinner once a few years

00:44:49.560 ago. Um, one of the people at the table was a conservative and he was explaining, you know,

00:44:54.460 why he believes in gun rights. He was making his arguments. And I'm not exaggerating when I tell you 0.88

00:44:57.980 that four people in the dining room dropped dead on the spot. I mean, they just, they disagreed so

00:45:03.480 strongly with the arguments that their hearts gave out and they perished. It was a bloodbath.

00:45:08.460 So this is what's at stake. Ben, by writing an article for Politico, has shown a reckless

00:45:14.380 disregard for the feelings and therefore the lives of so many Americans. And that's why I move not

00:45:19.660 only to cancel Ben Shapiro, but also to impeach him. I will be drawing up articles of impeachment

00:45:24.580 this afternoon. He is charged with incitement, treason, and other acts of general and unspecified

00:45:30.520 meanness. May God have mercy on his soul and may God comfort the staff at Politico in this trying

00:45:38.260 time. That's going to do it for us today. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a

00:45:45.400 great weekend. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 15, 2021

Ep. 637 - Lockdown Proponents Suddenly Change Their Tune

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