The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 638 - Multiracial Whiteness

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Washington Post has come up with a new innovation to account for

00:00:04.360 all the non-white people who are Trump supporters. They're calling it multiracial whiteness. Yes, 0.95

00:00:09.860 we'll have to figure out what that is today. Also, five headlines, including the media hurries to

00:00:13.740 provide publicity and attention to the supposed right-wing militias who are, we're told, gathering

00:00:19.000 in state capitals across the country. The funny thing is that some of them don't seem to be very

00:00:23.260 right-wing. So we'll talk about that. And our daily cancellation, we'll cancel a public health

00:00:27.580 expert who insists that it is healthy and wise to exercise outdoors with a mask on. Is there any

00:00:33.700 truth to that? We'll find out today. All that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:16.880 slash Walsh for 25% off. What do you do with someone who is seemingly unreachable? I mean,

00:02:22.900 the sort of person who holds a position, defends it vigorously and remains totally impervious to

00:02:27.080 counter arguments and contrary evidence. The person who couldn't possibly be more certain of the

00:02:33.580 rightness of his views and also couldn't possibly have less reason to be certain. How do you engage

00:02:38.580 with this? With someone who absolutely refuses to be persuaded? Someone who hangs on to their

00:02:43.700 original assumptions and beliefs and simply ignores everything that contradicts it or else

00:02:49.460 incorporates the contradictory information into their worldview in an entirely ad hoc and arbitrary

00:02:54.320 way? It quickly feels pointless to engage with them, right? It feels like you're trying to,

00:02:58.780 I don't know, explain the color green to a man who's been blind since birth. It's just not clicking

00:03:03.380 with them. They can't comprehend what you're telling them. Or what makes it all the more frustrating

00:03:07.240 really is that they refuse in this case to comprehend it. Now, what do you do when the

00:03:12.680 whole country seems to be filled with people like this? What happens then? I suppose what happens is,

00:03:18.800 well, everything we're seeing happening right now. It's why talk of unity is pointless and will go

00:03:22.940 nowhere. I mean, how do you unify with people like this? People like, for example, the writer of a

00:03:28.200 new op-ed in the Washington Post, Christina Beltran. The piece, which has attracted much attention in

00:03:33.540 recent days, is titled, here's what it's titled, to understand Trump's support, we must think in

00:03:38.640 terms of multiracial whiteness. Yes, multiracial whiteness, which is, I imagine, quite similar to 0.95

00:03:46.280 beautiful ugliness, hot coldness, wealthy poverty, similar in the sense that these are all non-sequiturs.

00:03:52.940 It makes no sense. So here's some of what Christina Beltran has to say. She says,

00:03:57.200 the Trump administration's anti-immigration, anti-civil rights stance has made it easy to

00:04:01.280 classify the president's loyalists as a homogenous mob of white nationalists. But take a look at the

00:04:07.740 FBI's poster showing people wanted in the insurrection assault on the U.S. Capitol.

00:04:13.080 Among the many white faces are a few that are clearly Latino or African-American.

00:04:18.320 Yes, white faces that are clearly Latino or African-American. White faces that are African-American.

00:04:25.520 This reminds me of when I stood in line at the Cinnabon alongside many skinny people who were clearly

00:04:30.760 obese. In fact, based on my diet, you may say that I'm the reverse. I'm an obese person who is skinny.

00:04:36.920 You know, these things can happen. Anyway, continuing, it says, such diversity highlights

00:04:41.560 the fact that President Trump's share of the Latino vote in November actually rose over 2016,

00:04:46.440 notwithstanding years of incendiary rhetoric targeting Mexicans and other Latino communities.

00:04:50.940 Yes, Trump's voters and his mob are disproportionately white. But one of the most unsettling exit poll data

00:04:56.020 points of the 2020 election was that a quarter of a third to a third of Latino voters voted to

00:05:01.480 reelect Trump. And while the vast majority of Latinos and overwhelming majority of African-American

00:05:05.400 voters supported the Biden-Harris ticket and were crucial to its success, many black and brown voters

00:05:09.160 have family and friends who fervently back the MAGA policy agenda, including its delusions and

00:05:14.160 conspiracy theories. One of the organizers of the Stop the Steal movement is Ali Alexander, a Trump supporter

00:05:19.080 who identifies as black and Arab. The chairman of the neo-fascist Proud Boys is Enrique Torrio,

00:05:24.860 a Latino raised in Miami's Little Havana who identifies as Afro-Cuban. So here's the problem 0.94

00:05:30.880 all laid out, right? People like Beltran have decided that supporters of Trump and his policies are

00:05:34.940 a homogenous mob of white nationalists. That's the position they've staked out. It's the assumption

00:05:40.920 they've made. It was never based on any evidence. It never had anything to do with the actual reality

00:05:45.760 of the situation, but this is what they decided. And then comes the counter, the evidence to the

00:05:51.300 contrary, the fact that, as is acknowledged here, there are plenty of people who support Trump and

00:05:55.840 his policies and yet are not white. How do you account for that? Now, it's true that the fact 0.96

00:06:01.080 that some non-white people support Trump doesn't in and of itself prove that Trump is not racist or

00:06:07.080 that most of his supporters aren't, but it is a point that must be explained. It does throw a wrench

00:06:12.540 into the works, right? If you're on the left, it's a piece of data that the original theory doesn't

00:06:18.080 predict or account for it. So what do you do about it? Do you stop and assess? Do you re-evaluate

00:06:25.520 your position? Do you strive to develop a more nuanced understanding? No, of course not. Instead,

00:06:31.160 you do this from the piece. It says, rooted in America's ugly history of white supremacy,

00:06:35.900 indigenous, white supremacy, indigenous dispossession, and anti-blackness, 0.69

00:06:39.820 multiracial whiteness is an ideology invested in the unequal distribution of land, wealth,

00:06:44.680 power, and privilege. It continues, multiracial whiteness reflects an understanding of whiteness 0.96

00:06:48.880 as a political color, a political color, and not simply a racial identity, a discriminatory

00:06:55.180 worldview in which feelings of freedom and belonging are produced through the persecution

00:06:59.200 and dehumanization of others. For voters who see the very act of acknowledging one's racial

00:07:04.140 identity as itself racist, the politics of multiracial whiteness reinforces the desired approach 0.92

00:07:09.240 to colorblind individualism. In the politics of multiracial whiteness, anyone can join the MAGA 0.83

00:07:14.260 movement and engage in the wild freedom of unbridled rage and conspiracy theories.

00:07:18.880 America's racial divide is not simply between whites and non-whites. Thinking in terms of

00:07:22.980 multiracial whiteness helps us recognize that much of today's political rift is a division between

00:07:27.620 those who are drawn to and remain invested in a politics of whiteness and those who seek something

00:07:32.500 better. Okay. Now, before we analyze this further, there's one other quick passage from this piece,

00:07:38.560 just sort of dropped into the middle, which is true and actually undermines the point that's being

00:07:44.460 made. It says, if you want to speak Spanish and celebrate a quinceanera in your family, go ahead.

00:07:49.640 If you want to be a proud boy, be a proud boy. Trump doesn't care. As long as you love him,

00:07:54.980 he'll love you. Yes. That part right there, that part, that is a correct summation of Trump and his

00:08:02.680 approach to people. That's actually true. Love him and he'll love you. Hate him and he'll hate you.

00:08:09.160 In fact, well, it's more love him and love you. Criticize him and he'll hate you. Doesn't matter

00:08:13.040 if you actually hate him or you criticize him at all, he'll hate you. I'm not going to pretend that

00:08:16.560 this is the best way to be or the best way to live, but it's clearly how Trump approaches things.

00:08:20.700 And then it means he's not racist because his decision to hate or love you has nothing to do

00:08:28.820 with your race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else. Any of your identifying

00:08:34.280 characteristics, that doesn't matter to him. What matters to him is how you feel about him and what

00:08:39.940 you say about him, period. That's all. Say what you want about that disposition, but you can't call it

00:08:47.940 racist because race has nothing to do with it. The writer of the article notices this about Trump's

00:08:54.420 and takes note of it, acknowledges it, but then proceeds right along with her original thesis. 0.98

00:09:00.440 That thesis, as we recall, is that Trump and his supporters are all racist white supremacists. 0.96

00:09:05.460 What does she do about the fact that many of Trump's supporters aren't even white? 0.98

00:09:09.640 Well, not to worry. She can just turn them into sort of honorary white people. They're white 0.86

00:09:14.380 people politically. They engage in the politics of whiteness, whatever that means. Notice, of course, 0.65

00:09:19.540 the outrageous, over-the-top, in-your-face racism on display here. I mean, this is the irony that we're

00:09:25.200 all accustomed to by now. The people who rail against racism tend to be the greatest examples

00:09:30.640 of what they're pretending to oppose. And here she is equating whiteness with evil. Really, her point is

00:09:36.600 that a black person who is evil and bigoted and bad, in her view, is really white because of that. 0.99

00:09:45.060 This is just about the most racist possible view a person can hold and express, and she's given a 0.98

00:09:50.240 column in the Washington Post to express it. It goes without saying, though, of course, this does not

00:09:55.980 go the other way. A white person who has all the correct views by the writer's standards does not get

00:10:01.840 to lay claim to a multiracial blackness. You know, they don't get to be considered a black face that is

00:10:08.220 white. The Rachel Dolezals of the world are cast aside, despite the fact that they're simply adopting 1.00

00:10:14.940 and living by the ideas and the philosophy expressed in this article. But, you know, that's the great thing

00:10:20.460 about being impervious to reality and unwilling to abandon your original assumptions. You don't have to

00:10:27.140 worry about being consistent. You don't even have to concern yourself with basic coherence. You can just

00:10:33.460 make up your worldview as you go. And that is how the writer of this article has chosen to live. And sadly,

00:10:41.060 very sadly, she is far from alone. Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:10:46.240 Well, today is a day of mourning for me. This is a tough weekend. Ravens lose to the Bills. Didn't

00:10:59.380 even score a touchdown. I think the final score, what was the final score? 21 to three or something.

00:11:03.380 I blocked it out of my mind already. I just zoned out. Terrible, terrible stuff. And you know,

00:11:09.620 you know what? You know what the thing is, though? It's not fair. It's not fair. Lamar Jackson goes down

00:11:15.100 with a concussion. You know, Justin Tucker, the great field goal kicker of the Ravens.

00:11:21.920 You know, he's going to be the Hall of Fame. He's the most accurate kicker of all time. He misses two

00:11:25.640 kicks. It is not fair, I say. Not fair. In fact, here's what I think. Mike Pence needs to decertify

00:11:36.280 the results of this game. It is unconstitutional, illegitimate. I'm calling on Mike Pence to do the

00:11:43.480 right thing and decertify these results. We'll see. We'll see if he has the courage. He has the courage

00:11:49.380 to act in this moment of crisis for our nation. All right. Number one, we've been told about the

00:11:54.780 right-wing militias who are going to be storming the capitals across the country. Well, one such

00:11:59.480 group showed up at the Michigan State Capitol and they held, I guess, a press conference. Okay. And the

00:12:05.760 media also showed up to cover this press conference. But we're going to watch, we're going to listen and

00:12:10.580 watch this because there are just some odd details about this right-wing militia. Maybe you can

00:12:16.460 pick up on some of it, but here it is. Listen.

00:12:20.280 Antifa, Boogaloo, and right-wing militias, they are the antibodies, not the disease that is destroying

00:12:25.660 our country. The disease is a country run by two corrupt political parties that do not care about

00:12:31.040 you. So deeply, deeply, so deeply incensuous with corporations that they are indistinguishable

00:12:37.420 from each other. A government that spent six months debating whether to give their own people

00:12:42.460 $600 with only 24 hours to unanimously agree to give billions of dollars to foreign tyrannical

00:12:48.260 governments and corporations. A government that has bombed villages overseas my entire life

00:12:53.840 for my supposed safety here. This is a call for unity for all of American people that realize the

00:13:01.700 true threat against us to come together. Yeah. Okay. So a few things there and he, and he goes on,

00:13:11.300 it goes on for like another minute. And he, and he, he also mentions, you know, he's, he's speaking.

00:13:15.260 I don't think it was in that clip. He's, he's speaking out on behalf of, of the mothers who've

00:13:19.240 lost children to police brutality. He mentions that among other things now. So a few things.

00:13:25.200 Number one, you've got a few yahoos standing in front of the Michigan state Capitol, uh, with their, 1.00

00:13:32.360 you know, with, with their, their, their gear on and everything. And, uh, and, and, and then you

00:13:37.540 have this swarm of media people, cameras in their face. I mean, this guy, who is this guy? I don't

00:13:43.520 know who this guy is, right? He's holding a press conference and the whole media shows up to cover

00:13:49.600 it. Why are they covering it? But how is it, whatever this guy is saying, uh, why is that news?

00:13:59.200 Well, I mean, you, you can arrive at your own conclusions, but I'll just say this. The media

00:14:06.620 is not giving all of this attention to these people because they want to quell unrest or because

00:14:13.960 they want less of this. That's not how that works. If they really wanted less of it, then

00:14:21.280 they would just starve these people of attention. I mean, that's how, if you want the people that

00:14:26.820 were at the Michigan state Capitol, if you want them to go away, then what you do is just ignore

00:14:31.840 them. You let them stay out, stand outside and you just ignore them. And if they're giving a press

00:14:37.200 conference, he's giving a speech that he's reading off his phone, you ignore it. And then he would,

00:14:42.520 eventually they would go home because they're there for the attention, right? Well, the media

00:14:48.220 knows that, but, uh, but no, they want more of it because it's great for ratings. And also it's

00:14:52.660 great ideologically for them because they could try to put all this on the right. But the other

00:14:55.760 interesting thing is that, okay, you got this guy, you heard some of what he said there. Um, and he's,

00:15:00.200 he's, uh, he's carrying a rainbow flag, a gay pride flag. The person right next to him is wearing a BLM

00:15:07.100 hoodie. So you've got a guy with a beat with a rainbow gay pride flag, someone with, with BLM

00:15:13.680 gear. And he's ranting about, you know, corporations and police brutality is, it says a few things in

00:15:20.500 there that if you're on the right, you might agree with. And then a few things, if you're on the left,

00:15:23.540 you agree with, and a few things that probably everybody would agree with. And, you know, the

00:15:25.900 stuff about, uh, you know, they, they, they're not doing enough to help people during the shutdown.

00:15:30.020 Okay. Most people agree with that. So that's a general sentiment,

00:15:32.320 but how is this right wing is my question. You can make an argument for being left-wing.

00:15:39.960 You can make an argument for it being neither. It's not really in the binary as we like to say

00:15:43.560 these days, I don't see right wing, a guy with a rainbow flag standing next to a BLM person 0.99

00:15:49.620 talking about police brutality. That to me is not what I imagined when I imagined right-wing

00:15:54.180 militia. I, you know, maybe it's just me. All right. Number two, look, I, you know,

00:15:58.800 I give the media a hard time. I just did there again, but the truth is we do need the

00:16:02.280 media. Um, we need them to fight for truth and justice, uh, to ask the tough questions,

00:16:10.160 uh, to get down to what really matters. I mean, these are the firefighters, right? In the media.

00:16:15.180 These are the people who, uh, fight the fires. And if the fire is, is falsehood, they come in with

00:16:23.440 their hoses of truth and save the day. And I think that's what we see in the CBS interview with

00:16:30.520 Kamala Harris. I think we see a lot of that. It's just, it's really admirable stuff. So let's,

00:16:34.440 let's listen. And we had to ask about that fashion choice. Surely a first for a vice president,

00:16:40.700 the converse Chuck Taylor sneakers, the chucks. I got to tell you, when you walked in,

00:16:46.820 I checked out, is she wearing them? You're not wearing your chucks today.

00:16:51.660 What is the story? It became a story. I've always worn chucks. It's my casual go-to. I grew up with

00:17:02.080 chucks. I just love them. They're comfortable. I can attest. There is a several closets full of

00:17:08.100 them. He's exaggerating. Yeah. This wasn't just something that she started doing on the campaign.

00:17:14.940 And when I met her, it was chucks and jeans when she met the kids. And what did it say to you?

00:17:19.760 She's down to earth. People ask me all the time, like, what'd she really like? I said,

00:17:24.360 she's shockingly normal. I think that is really an extension of who she really is.

00:17:30.460 An extension of who she really is are her shoes. What did it say to you when you saw her wearing

00:17:37.120 those shoes? First of all, the honest answer from any man, if you're asking a man, what is your wife's 0.67

00:17:45.040 shoe choice? What does it say to you? The honest answer from any man is it says nothing to me I've

00:17:50.220 never noticed. Okay. I've never noticed the shoes that she's wearing in my life ever.

00:17:55.920 For all I know, my wife wears Chuck Taylors every day. I have no idea. It's just, it's not the kind

00:18:02.020 of thing you notice as a man or care about. We're supposed to believe when they first met, he saw those

00:18:08.600 Chuck Taylors and he said, no, she's down to earth. This is the woman of my dreams. And those Chuck

00:18:13.140 Taylors. Oh, just, it just became, how did the Chuck, how did Kamala Harris's shoe choice become a

00:18:20.960 story? It just, it just developed organically, right? Now it became a story because the media

00:18:25.240 made it into a story. Nobody else cares. The media is obsessed with this. This is, this is like the

00:18:30.620 15th profile they've done of Kamala Harris's shoes. At least if they were interesting shoes,

00:18:39.360 maybe if she was wearing like, you know, disco platform shoes or something, I could see it,

00:18:45.380 but not this. Um, and by the way, also today from the media, I saw this headline. The headline was

00:18:52.580 all the times Joe Biden's love for ice cream melted our hearts. Now, in fairness, this was from E

00:18:59.600 online, you know, the E, the entertainment channel. So you don't really expect hard hitting journalism

00:19:03.440 from them. But even that, I mean, compare the way the media is in love with the fact that Joe Biden

00:19:09.200 eats ice cream all the time and compare that with the fact that, you know, with, with, with Donald

00:19:13.080 Trump eating fast food, there's, there's, we never got any headlines about all the times, uh, uh,

00:19:21.580 Donald Trump's love for Big Macs melted our heart. No, in that case, it was, ah, this gross,

00:19:28.180 disgusting man with his unhealthy eating, making a mockery of the obesity epidemic. 0.98

00:19:35.780 So I'll get ready for a lot of this kind of thing. Number three, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 0.97

00:19:39.880 is putting her foot down once and for all. Uh, so you better listen up because she is serious this

00:19:46.500 time. Here she is. Listen, what we saw last week was not just a violent coup attempt. Um,

00:19:56.920 but we also, also saw a dereliction of duty and a betrayal of our country and a betrayal

00:20:04.700 of the oath that we swear. And that is why

00:20:09.640 I have demanded the resignations of senators, Ted Cruz, senators, Josh Hawley, um, majority leader,

00:20:20.980 Republican majority, or rather Republican minority leader in the house, um, McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy.

00:20:28.220 Yeah. And, you know, and I will counter that by saying I demand the resignations of

00:20:33.460 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, uh, Joe Biden, Kamail Harris, Mark Zuckerberg,

00:20:41.620 Colonel Sanders. I just, I demand everyone's resignation. Um, yeah, this is, we can make jokes

00:20:52.060 about it. Of course. It's just this, this impotent. I demand the resignations of, I demand

00:20:56.440 the resignations of, of all the Republicans in Congress. I demand it. I want your resignations on

00:21:02.500 my desk tonight. Uh, so we can laugh at the impotence of that, but, but really this is just

00:21:08.400 another example of you, you look at how the left has reacted to, uh, uh, one example of right-wingers

00:21:18.960 rioting. Okay. We, we've had, we had precisely one example of that period in memory. And this is

00:21:27.940 how they react to it. You know, they're, they're shutting everything down, demanding resignations

00:21:33.260 of everybody. Donald Trump has kicked off Twitter. They impeached him, you know, just, uh, uh, wiping

00:21:39.800 out thousands, millions of conservative accounts. They've, they've occupied DC with the military.

00:21:47.580 This is how they react to one on the left. Now compare that to how the right reacted to months

00:21:56.240 and months and months of left-wing rioting. Nothing. They didn't do anything. And they had

00:22:04.020 the power to do things. They were in a position of power. They did absolutely nothing. So if you

00:22:09.080 want to understand the difference between the left and right, between really Democrats and Republicans,

00:22:12.580 that's it right there. One example of, of right-wingers rioting, um, a small, and by the way,

00:22:20.340 a small percentage of the people that were at the rally engaging in this behavior. And, uh,

00:22:25.020 what the Democrats do, they just shut everything down, occupy the city, impeach everything.

00:22:31.600 Right. They go absolutely nuclear response to it. And on Republicans, very, very tolerant and patient.

00:22:37.660 You know, if you're on the left, you can just riot, riot all you want. We don't want to overstep

00:22:42.600 bounds. We don't want to do anything. You know, Donald Trump in fairness, he did, he did tweet law

00:22:48.320 and order in all caps. He tweeted that many times and conservatives made excuses for that. They said,

00:22:54.620 what else do you expect him to do? He's only the president. He can't do anything else. So he's

00:22:58.340 just, you know, he's just trying to respect, be respectful. And what do you think? What do you,

00:23:03.500 let me ask you, what do you think Joe Biden is going to do? If this becomes a semi-trend of, uh,

00:23:09.440 of, of small pockets of, uh, you know, Trump supporters or people that at least could be,

00:23:14.760 uh, at least they can claim our Trump, Trump supporters rioting or engaging in this kind of

00:23:19.840 behavior. If this becomes even a semi-trend, we don't even have to talk about hundreds of riots like we

00:23:24.200 had on the left. If there are even just a few of them through the first few months of, of Biden's

00:23:30.780 tenure, how do you think Biden's going to react to that? Or at least how do you think the Biden

00:23:34.640 administration is going to react to that? I mean, they will be occupying cities. They're going to

00:23:40.240 move the military and they're going to come down with an iron fist. They're already doing it 0.51

00:23:43.580 because they can. And why, why would they react that way? Because they can, because they have the

00:23:51.400 power to do it. And so they will. When Republicans have the power to do it, they just don't. And they

00:23:58.040 make excuses for it. And then when they no longer have the power to do anything, that's when they

00:24:02.680 pretend that if they only did have the power again, this time they would do something.

00:24:09.020 Okay. Number four, a treasure trove of newly unsealed, um, CIA records is from the daily mail,

00:24:13.940 uh, of newly unsealed CIA records has revealed chilling accounts of hundreds of UFO sightings across the

00:24:19.480 globe dating back to the 1950s, along with international intelligence agencies, efforts to

00:24:23.780 understand them. The XXXX dossier with, uh, nearly 3000 pages of documents about unidentified aerial

00:24:32.180 phenomena, uh, was published on the black vault website last week. That's what they call unidentified

00:24:37.680 aerial phenomena, UAP. They use that instead of UFO. You're not going to fool us government. We know

00:24:43.500 what you're doing. Um, thousands of paranormal, paranormal enthusiasts have already started

00:24:50.500 pouring through the collection of more than 700 individual documents. According to black vault's

00:24:54.200 founder, John Greenwald, the CIA purports that, uh, the files account for its entire collection of

00:24:59.740 declassified UAP Intel. Uh, I'm just reading through this as you are to get to where's the good stuff.

00:25:05.720 Maybe I should have read this before I went on the air. It says Russian airliner crew. Um, so it's just

00:25:10.380 some examples of some of this stuff. Now this is thousands of pages and no one's been through all

00:25:14.760 of it yet. So maybe, maybe the smoking gun as it were, uh, is, is in there somewhere, but it says

00:25:21.920 Russian airliner crew describes coming within 50 kilometers of a yellow disc shooting beams of

00:25:27.680 light in Belarus in 1985. So that's one, um, bunch of stuff from Russia in the eighties of weird

00:25:37.700 sightings. A Swedish pilot and flight mechanics spotted a completely unorthodox metallic object

00:25:43.820 flying at the speed of sound outside Stockholm in 1953. Uh, a CIA report from 19, from April 1954

00:25:51.880 includes three newspaper articles about a purported UFO sighting five months earlier in Sweden.

00:25:56.700 Okay. So a lot of, this is disappointing. This is depressing. This is almost as depressing as the

00:26:02.180 Ravens loss. This is just a bunch, this is a bunch of rehashed, reheated material right now.

00:26:06.760 Maybe the good stuff is in there. Like I said, it is a lot. It's a lot of stuff. It's a lot of

00:26:11.480 information. And there have been a lot of sightings like this, but really what you always have to do,

00:26:17.380 right? If you want to decide if you believe something or not, um, believe a claim such as

00:26:21.760 the claim that UFOs exist, UFOs exist as an alien, actual alien spacecraft exist and have visited the

00:26:28.720 earth. So if you want to, if you want to judge that claim, you have to judge the evidence,

00:26:32.000 the available evidence against what you expect the evidence would be if it were true,

00:26:39.460 which is a very unscientific process, but that's kind of the way you have to do it, right?

00:26:44.820 Because there is, there's a lot of evidence. This does count as evidence. All these claims,

00:26:49.500 these eyewitness, supposed eyewitness accounts, you got thousands and thousands of them.

00:26:53.860 Some of them more impressive than others. We've got some video, you know,

00:26:57.200 and there's no denying that that is evidence of UFOs. Now, whether it's compelling evidence to

00:27:04.480 you is really going to depend on whether or not you think that if UFOs were really visiting the

00:27:09.200 earth, is this the kind of evidence we would have, or would we have something far more compelling?

00:27:16.100 And, um, you could make the argument that, you know, if, if UFOs, if aliens were coming to earth

00:27:23.360 and they didn't want to be detected, this is probably about what you would get. Now, yeah,

00:27:28.640 if they wanted to land and make a big show of it, then we'd all know that. And that'd be pretty firm

00:27:32.200 evidence of that. But outside of that, if they, if they don't want to be detected, then probably

00:27:35.780 what you'd end up with are a bunch of random sightings like this, a few pieces of video that

00:27:40.460 are kind of compelling, but that's it. So in other words, I go back to my original assumption,

00:27:46.500 speaking of sticking with our original assumptions that UFOs are real. Okay. Um,

00:27:50.520 five from Politico, at least three Trump family members are either considering runs for office

00:27:55.660 or being urged to do so according to well-connected GOP operatives and Trump family allies. Uh, top

00:28:01.040 party officials say that, uh, Laura Trump, wife of the president's son, Eric is actively contemplating

00:28:06.200 a run for the Senate in North Carolina. Uh, the president's eldest son, Don Jr. is eyeing a future

00:28:10.580 in politics as well. But then it goes to, this is what I'm really focusing on. It says, and this is,

00:28:15.520 this is Politico. So of course, grains of salt and all that, but it says the newest and most buzzed

00:28:20.140 about possibility, however, surrounds the president's daughter, Ivanka. The senior white 0.65

00:28:24.340 house advisor is set to decamp to Florida after her father's presidency comes to a close. And

00:28:29.100 though talk of her launching a primary challenge, the Senator Marco Rubio has given off the faint

00:28:33.840 whiff of political fanfic. In reality, Trump officials say there have been machinations behind

00:28:39.040 the scenes. One person in contact with the president said that Jared Kushner is viewed as

00:28:43.080 working single-mindedly to protect and promote his wife's political career. Can I just tell you right

00:28:48.500 now, and I will start this movement unapologetically, um, I am hashtag never Ivanka. There's, there's no

00:28:57.500 reason why we should be talking about Ivanka Trump, the left-wing Democrat daughter of the president. 1.00

00:29:05.320 There's no reason why we should be talking about her for political office.

00:29:08.660 And I, and I, and I'm really not sure where her base of support is supposed to be because,

00:29:12.960 because she has Trump at the end of her name, she's automatically hated by like half of the country

00:29:19.180 and that's not going to change. So that's, that's 50% of the electorate that's out the window right

00:29:24.180 away because of her last name. And then what about the other half? Well, yeah, there, there, there's

00:29:28.640 going to be a certain portion of people who love Trump so much that they would embrace a Trump

00:29:33.600 monarchy. And, uh, and, uh, you know, they're, they're fine with the political, you know,

00:29:38.140 the political dynasty. And Hey, if it's Trump, I like it, but that's a minority. I think the

00:29:44.340 majority of Trump supporters and conservatives generally are going to look at this and say,

00:29:47.340 well, she's, but she's a Democrat. She's left-wing. She, we don't, we don't share the same ideas at 1.00

00:29:51.440 all. Why would I vote for her just because your daddy was the president that doesn't qualify you

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00:30:06.000 everybody. That's, that's just my political analysis of this. Well, I mean, what do I know?

00:30:11.800 I could be wrong. That's the way it seems to me. And I'll also say that, that just general principle

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00:30:28.660 in another sense, they are very American because they've happened a lot. We, we know of recent

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00:30:40.280 they're what we tried to get away from. This is one of the reasons we have this country is to get

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00:33:59.160 Today for our first cancellation of the week, we'll be devoting the coveted Monday cancellation

00:34:03.160 to Bill Hanagee. Or Hanagee. I'm not really sure how to pronounce it. Let's just go with

00:34:07.520 Hanagee. He's a professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He's one of the many

00:34:11.880 prestigious public health experts that we've heard so much about. But like many other public

00:34:16.240 health experts, he seems to struggle with the health and expert part of that job. He's pretty

00:34:20.860 good at being public, though. He's got that down. But I don't know about the rest of it. As such,

00:34:25.520 he tweeted this week at a picture of himself looking sweaty and haggard in a face mask with the caption,

00:34:30.640 yes, I wore a mask while running earlier. So he went running with a mask on and then he stopped and

00:34:36.660 took a picture and bragged about it. Hanagee's also made TV appearances to brag about wearing a mask

00:34:42.580 while running. Here he is on a show in, I assume, Ireland. And here's what he had to say. Listen.

00:34:47.680 So if we're outside, we're traditionally told we don't need to wear a mask as much. We're not

00:34:52.200 at as much risk. But if we're out, for example, exercising, running, jogging, should we be wearing masks?

00:34:58.740 I think that's a really great point. You're absolutely right that the risk of transmission

00:35:02.780 outdoors is much, much lower than it is indoors. This virus loves it indoors. But if you are going to

00:35:09.140 be outdoors, then it's quite sensible to take a mask with you. If you're out jogging, you can take

00:35:13.400 it down and pull it up if you see anybody. You should take it like, you know, think of it like

00:35:16.980 this. You wouldn't leave the house without your wallet, your car keys or your phone. Try not leaving

00:35:22.460 the house without a mask. What about convincing people to do that? Because we see some level of

00:35:27.140 resistance. Wearing masks whilst exercising is a big step, is it not? Well, I can tell you personally

00:35:34.620 that I run over a mile on a regular basis wearing a mask and it doesn't really cause me a great deal

00:35:39.280 of bother. The other thing I need to say here is that if we can persuade people to do it, that's

00:35:44.980 great. The more people we can persuade, the better. Because these variants are more transmissible,

00:35:50.300 we do need to do more to stop them. And so, you know, we have to race the virus in order to get as

00:35:55.440 many people vaccinated as possible. And anybody who can do anything to help by wearing a mask,

00:36:00.100 for instance, is doing something to help her. Anything you can do to help is doing something

00:36:05.220 to help. Did you get that? That's good advice. Now, in a thread on Twitter, Hanegi further defended

00:36:10.100 his choice to wear a mask while running outdoors. And his argument essentially boils down to two

00:36:13.180 points. Number one, he says there's still some risk of contracting or spreading COVID outside.

00:36:17.400 So it's smart to wear the mask. And number two, wearing the mask is a show of solidarity with other

00:36:21.920 mask wearers. He really said this. It's a show of solidarity. So let's deal with these points one at a

00:36:26.260 time. First, there's still a risk outside. So better safe than sorry. Okay. Well,

00:36:29.800 the problem here, the problem with nearly all of the arguments presented in defense of nearly all

00:36:33.580 of the anti-COVID measures is that they do not acknowledge the risks on the other side. They act

00:36:38.520 as though the person taking these precautions is playing with house money, basically. Like there's

00:36:43.460 no risk at all inherent in the precaution itself. The most obvious example is with the lockdowns.

00:36:48.820 Well, better to do the safest thing and shut everybody, everything down. Yes. Well,

00:36:52.800 the problem is that there's a real cost to that decision. There's real risks involved. It may not

00:36:57.300 actually be the safest thing. That's the point. It's like saying better to do the safest thing

00:37:03.280 and fire a gun into that dark room in case there's a burglar in there. Now, yes, that strategy could

00:37:08.660 theoretically work, but there are a whole lot of ways that it could go very wrong. And you have to

00:37:13.080 factor that into your equation. With the mask, the question is this. What is the actual risk of

00:37:20.440 spreading or contracting COVID while you run outside? And maybe come within a few feet of

00:37:27.220 other humans for a second or two while you pass by them? And what is the risk to your health when

00:37:32.860 you put something across your face while engaged in strenuous exercise? Now you have to simply determine

00:37:38.360 which poses the greater risk. This is how you conduct the risk assessment. You need all the

00:37:44.020 inputs. You can't possibly come to the right conclusion if you're only accounting for risk from one

00:37:49.360 direction. And as far as that goes, the World Health Organization has this to say, quote,

00:37:54.320 this is what they say. Fact. People should not wear masks while exercising as masks may reduce the

00:37:59.800 ability to breathe comfortably. Sweat can make the mask become wet more quickly, which makes it

00:38:05.140 difficult to breathe and promotes the growth of microorganisms. The important preventive measure

00:38:09.340 during exercise is to maintain physical distance of at least one meter from others.

00:38:13.920 Now, if I could translate here and simplify, wearing a mask while exercising is gross. 0.97

00:38:19.360 Disgusting. You are breathing in your own sweat and bodily fumes. You are saturating a piece of cloth 0.94

00:38:26.720 with your perspiration and then breathing through it. See, I actually don't need the World Health

00:38:32.060 Organization to tell me that that's unhealthy. I know it's unhealthy because I understand a basic

00:38:37.940 health rule. I'm not a doctor, okay? But I'm pretty sure this is actually like the number one health

00:38:44.660 rule. It's right. This is it. Breathing is good. You need to be able to breathe. Things that hinder

00:38:53.580 breathing are usually bad. And if that thing is a face-soaked, is a face muzzle soaked in your own

00:39:01.940 bodily fluids, it's especially bad. And his second point about wearing a mask for solidarity is so dumb 0.99

00:39:08.420 that it probably doesn't require refutation. But I will say this. Speaking of solidarity, 0.98

00:39:13.820 I would rather show solidarity with people who are not paranoid lunatics. I want to show solidarity

00:39:19.820 with people who are willing to stroll down the street without a mask. People who have at least the

00:39:24.240 minimal courage and boldness to walk outside their house and take a breath of fresh air unfiltered.

00:39:30.400 Those are the people with which I claim solidarity. Not the cowering hypochondriacs who treat oxygen like

00:39:38.640 it's radioactive, who can't even walk to their mailbox without a hazmat suit. So that's why this

00:39:47.220 public health expert, like so many others before him, in accordance with tradition, is canceled.

00:39:53.400 I certainly do not have solidarity with him. So he is canceled. That's going to do it for

00:40:00.640 the show today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 18, 2021

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