The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 640 - Where We Go From Here

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Trump administration is over. Democrats have

00:00:03.600 officially assumed total control of the government. Where do we go from here? We'll

00:00:06.820 talk about that today. Also, five headlines, including Trump's confusing pardon of a corrupt

00:00:10.960 Democrat politician. Plus, the media gets back to licking the boots of those in power. That's

00:00:16.140 the position they're comfortable being in. And the mayor of D.C. defends the political vetting

00:00:20.260 of troops. And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel multiculturalism. All of that and 1.00

00:00:25.620 much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 Before we get going here today, and we're going to talk about this, we have more to say

00:00:38.100 about this as we get into the opening monologue. But one question we're all asking, especially

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00:01:59.480 online at charitymobile.com. Here we are now at the end of all things. Well, the end of the Trump

00:02:07.220 administration. So not all things, but that thing, at least. Joe Biden, a man with the mental acuity

00:02:12.380 and awareness of an oyster, is now in the White House where he will be taken by the hand, guided into

00:02:18.160 a closet somewhere, given some coloring books to keep him busy while Kamala Harris runs the government.

00:02:23.280 And it will be, let's face it, a radically far left government, the most far left government in

00:02:27.540 American history by a mile. We can pretty much guarantee that. To make matters worse, there will 0.99

00:02:31.680 be no constraints. There will be no restraining it. They will be unfettered. They will be free

00:02:37.560 like birds to fly off and fulfill their Marxist dreams. Republicans, you know, aren't good for much,

00:02:44.020 as we've learned, especially when it comes to actually enacting and acting upon their own agenda.

00:02:47.900 But they can at least play defense. They're decent at that. They can block the Democrat agenda,

00:02:53.340 even if they can't or won't push forward their own when they have the power. Only now they will

00:02:59.380 be unable or certainly at least less able to block anything, given that the Democrats won Georgia and

00:03:03.880 thus the Senate. The Republicans could have won Georgia, if not for the fact that the Georgia race

00:03:09.280 became a circus sideshow of grifters and carnival barkers raising money for their own benefit while

00:03:14.920 telling Republicans to stay home and forfeit Congress to the left. Also not helping matters,

00:03:20.580 the Republican candidates in those races could not themselves have been any less exciting or less

00:03:26.120 inspiring if they tried. And they did try, it seemed. The upshot is that, again, Democrats have full

00:03:32.060 control and they will exploit that control to the fullest possible extent. They will show us what it

00:03:37.280 looks like when power is wielded. Make no mistake. They will do everything that they have the legal

00:03:43.420 right to do and a whole bunch of things that they do not have the legal right to do. Democrats impose

00:03:48.780 their will when given the opportunity, love them or hate them. And I'm very much a member of the second

00:03:53.580 club. The fact is that when put into a position of power, the Democrats do what their voters put them

00:04:01.300 there to do. Republicans, on the other hand, twiddle their thumbs and bide their time waiting to be out of

00:04:07.980 power again so that they can finally pretend to care about the agenda that they didn't enact when they had the

00:04:13.080 chance to do it. Democrats don't play that game, as we have seen. And we will see even more in the

00:04:19.660 years ahead. Making matters worse, the Democrats have a taste for vengeance now, a taste for blood.

00:04:25.780 They feel that those who inflicted the last four years upon them, those responsible for making it

00:04:30.860 happen, so 75 million people or so, should pay for what they've done. And they are determined to

00:04:36.700 prevent such indignities from ever happening again. Whatever progress may have been made in the last

00:04:42.620 four years, whatever good may have been done. It's all mostly stuff that can be easily reversed and

00:04:48.040 undone, mostly by executive order. Trump actually reversed some of it himself on the way out the

00:04:52.860 door. For example, rescinding his own executive order, banning administration officials from taking

00:04:57.180 lobbyist jobs within five years of leaving government. So Trump saved Biden the paperwork on

00:05:02.780 that one, I guess. The rest, Biden or his handlers, can do on their own without much trouble.

00:05:07.600 Meanwhile, the conservative movement is fractured into a million pieces. Trump leaves office impeached

00:05:13.580 and deplatformed, facing the possibility of a Senate conviction. Many others, many other much less

00:05:19.200 famous conservatives have also been deplatformed and censored, with the powers that be currently

00:05:23.520 dreaming up ways to silence the rest of us. We are under suspicion. We are under attack.

00:05:29.060 The left won by whatever means necessary, and now we are on the outside. We are scattered. We are

00:05:34.760 disorganized. We are weakened. That's the reality of the situation. It's best now that we look it

00:05:40.960 straight in the eyes, as uncomfortable as it may be. I'm not here to tell you fairy tales or delude

00:05:44.480 you into a false sense of security. The right has been deluding itself for far too long, telling

00:05:48.280 itself stories about secret plans and 4D chess, and insisting that everything will magically work out

00:05:54.420 in the end. Up until last night, I saw people still insisting that Trump would remain in office

00:05:59.540 today, and the plan would unfold, and everything would be okay. They held on to the delusion until

00:06:05.340 the bitter end. Some of them probably still holding on to it, even now. I wouldn't be surprised if the

00:06:11.000 new theory is that Trump is really president still, and is secretly running the government from his bat

00:06:15.740 cave somewhere. I'm not joking. This is what some people will believe. Those of us with the boldness to

00:06:22.640 face reality, though, will face it. And reality is, as I have described it here.

00:06:30.400 So the question is, what now? Where do we go from here? What does the road ahead look like?

00:06:37.060 Is all hope lost? Are we doomed? Should we give up? Well, I can answer those last three questions with

00:06:42.680 a no, no, and no. Hope is not lost. We're not doomed, and we should not give up. As for what exactly

00:06:47.680 happens or what precisely the future holds, that I don't know for certain. Nobody does. But I do know

00:06:51.920 that even if we're bruised and beaten at present, we are not in a hopeless state. Despair is not the

00:06:57.480 answer. And though I may be known as a guy who can be quite bleak at times, I'm not exactly a ray of

00:07:03.040 sunshine, I must admit, I have never been in despair, and I am not now. And you shouldn't be

00:07:07.980 either. Despair is what happens when you have not only no hope, but no meaning in your life. Despair is

00:07:12.960 when you wake up and look around, and you can't see that your life has any purpose. It's when everything

00:07:18.560 is empty or appears to be, from your perspective. I would hope that nobody would ever be tempted to

00:07:24.220 feel this way because of political events. But from the sound and look of it, it seems that some

00:07:28.660 people really are teetering close to that. It's not that these are Trump-obsessed cultists who can't

00:07:33.780 bear to live without the man. It's that they look around and they see that our government and our

00:07:38.820 institutions are overrun and run by people who hate them, and they think it's all lost, and there's

00:07:44.140 nothing ahead but more defeat, and there's no point. And that's where the despair comes in. But

00:07:49.620 it shouldn't. In fact, there is a silver lining to our present condition. The silver lining is that

00:07:55.780 now conservatives can stop looking to one man in Washington to save them and save their families,

00:08:01.800 and instead focus on making an impact where it really matters, and where it can really be felt.

00:08:07.420 You know, the fight going forward is where it's always been, though we've neglected and ignored it.

00:08:12.440 Focusing instead on national politics as though national politics is the be-all and end-all.

00:08:19.140 The fight is in our communities. It's in the culture, on the local level. The true battle for

00:08:25.600 everything is happening right around us, right now, directly around us. And we can make a profound

00:08:32.880 impact there if we're willing to put in the effort. Let me just give you one tangible example.

00:08:38.240 The school system. Millions of children. Do you hear me railing about this all the time? Millions

00:08:43.680 of children are sent into these buildings, or into Zoom meetings now, I guess, where they are

00:08:48.560 conditioned and indoctrinated into the doctrines of the far left. We could have only Republican

00:08:54.520 presidents for the next 50 years. It would make almost no difference culturally as long as we keep

00:08:59.000 feeding our kids into this system. This is something we can change. We can change it.

00:09:06.320 Right now we could. But it takes work. It's not always fun. We could pull our kids out. We could form

00:09:12.700 homeschool co-ops, supporting each other in our communities, taking charge of our children's

00:09:17.440 education. We can do this. We can do that. Lots of us are already doing it. If enough of us do it,

00:09:26.220 we can radically change the culture in immeasurable ways overnight, no matter what anyone in Washington

00:09:34.440 says or does. 50 million children are currently enrolled in public school. 50 million. Cut that

00:09:40.280 number in half, let's say. We could have Democrat presidents for the next 50 years. And that would 0.83

00:09:44.920 also almost not matter at all, because we will have so significantly taken back control

00:09:49.820 of our own families and thus the culture. The condition of the family is what determines the

00:09:57.520 condition of the culture. This, as I said, is just one example. There are plenty of others,

00:10:04.640 including in the realm of politics, local politics. Go to your town hall meetings. Figure out who your

00:10:08.380 local council members are. Do you even know? These people have more control over you than you think.

00:10:13.900 Speak out when things are happening in your neighborhood and community that you don't like.

00:10:18.600 Protest the drag queen story hours. This stuff matters. Don't listen to people who tell you it 1.00

00:10:23.060 doesn't. In fact, at this point, any conservative who tells you that the culture wars don't matter,

00:10:28.820 please, if there are going to be any change we make, disregard them, dispense of them,

00:10:34.060 throw them out. We don't need them. How can you expect your voice to have any impact on anything?

00:10:40.860 If there are drag queens performing for children at your local library two blocks away and you say

00:10:47.660 nothing and do nothing about it. Oh, we can't do anything about it. Really? We can't. If all the

00:10:55.420 people in the community that didn't like it showed up at that library, you don't think that'd be enough

00:10:59.340 to put an end to it? It would. It happens because we don't show up and we don't do anything.

00:11:06.760 We could, but we don't. It's not all a matter of protesting things either. You know, on the other

00:11:14.500 end of it, we can support the people who are making a positive difference. Donate to your local

00:11:19.740 pregnancy center. Give to your church. Get involved in your church. These are all things we can do.

00:11:25.580 There are plenty of other things too. It may not be dramatic or flashy, but the real work of fighting

00:11:31.700 to reclaim the culture and your country is rarely dramatic or flashy. The real work is being done

00:11:38.360 by serious, sober-minded people, usually without fanfare and without notice.

00:11:45.560 That's where our focus should be. It's where our hope lies. It's why I haven't given up.

00:11:52.140 Quite the contrary. I'm ready to fight.

00:11:53.900 Fight in a meaningful way. And I hope you are too. So let's get to it. And now time for our five

00:12:04.560 headlines. All right. I know we just had a serious talk there about all the things in the culture to

00:12:15.980 fight for. Can I just mention one other thing? Not quite as serious, but it's on my mind because right

00:12:20.600 before I went on the air here, I was in the break room and somebody brought donuts to the office

00:12:26.560 and there's a box of donuts there. And there's this moment, of course, when you're walking to

00:12:31.400 the break room and there's a box of donuts and a moment of joy when you see that box and you think

00:12:36.680 the whole day is made. A free donut. I wasn't expecting this. But then what always happens?

00:12:42.080 You open the box and this is what just happened to me. Nothing but powdered donuts and jelly donuts

00:12:46.780 in there. That's all that's left. There's like one half of a powdered and then a few jelly donuts

00:12:51.220 left. Okay. Here's my point. Why do we bother putting these trash filler donuts in the box?

00:13:01.880 They are always the last ones left. Everybody knows this. At the end of the day, there's always

00:13:08.060 a couple of donuts left and they're always the jelly and powdered donuts. So when you're going to

00:13:13.000 Dunkin' Donuts to get the donut, why tell, it's not like they're cheaper. Why tell them to put those

00:13:18.500 filler donuts in there in the first place? Stick with the classics, the ones everyone likes.

00:13:23.380 Glazed, chocolate. There's never a glaze left. When's the last time you pick up a box and there's

00:13:28.100 a glaze left? Never. Those get eaten. This is very important. This is another thing we could do to

00:13:34.120 reclaim the culture. Just get control of the way that we set up our boxes of donuts. Okay. Number one,

00:13:43.000 Trump released his list of pardons earlier today. Lots of people hoping he'd pardon Assange and

00:13:48.740 Snowden. That didn't happen. Instead, he pardoned some rappers, some drug dealers. He pardoned

00:13:55.600 Lil Wayne. He pardoned this guy Kodak Black as a rapper. By the way, a rapper who I believe made a

00:14:03.400 music video where he's portrayed choking a Trump supporter. He's an anti-Trump rapper. Trump commuted

00:14:12.380 his sentence. Also, one of the guys who, one of the guys behind death row records back in the 90s,

00:14:19.920 also a drug kingpin. He was arrested for a bunch of charges, including kidnapping and attempted

00:14:25.160 murder. And he got a pardon because his friend, Snoop Dogg, asked Trump. Now, Snoop Dogg also has a

00:14:33.320 video. And in his video, I think he's actually killing Trump himself. Well, not actually Trump, 0.69

00:14:37.220 but an actor. But he asked for a pardon. He got one. Assange and Snowden didn't. Also,

00:14:43.480 this was kind of confusing. The ex-Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, got a pardon. Democrat mayor,

00:14:53.300 cartoonishly corrupt, this guy is. He's like the mascot for corrupt politicians. 0.99

00:14:59.980 He pretty much did everything that a corrupt politician could possibly do. He was corrupt in 0.86

00:15:05.680 every possible way. Very efficient in that way, in his corruption. Let me read a little bit from 0.94

00:15:12.280 the Detroit Free Press on this. It says, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider, who has long argued

00:15:16.440 that Kilpatrick deserves his 28-year prison sentence and should not be released early for

00:15:20.180 his crimes, blasted the commutation decision. He said, my position on the disgraced former mayor of

00:15:25.720 Detroit has not changed. Kwame Kilpatrick has earned every day he served in federal prison for the

00:15:29.400 horrible crimes he committed against the people of Detroit. He is a notorious and unrepentant

00:15:33.060 criminal. Schneider added, Kilpatrick has served only one quarter of the sentence that was very

00:15:37.320 appropriately imposed. Thankfully, thankfully, under Michigan law, he cannot hold state or local

00:15:40.920 public office for 20 years after his conviction. But Detroit Mayor Mike Dugan, Democrat, had a

00:15:47.040 different take. He said, Kwame Kilpatrick is a person of great talent who still has much to

00:15:51.200 contribute. I know how close he is to his three sons, and I could not be happier for them being

00:15:54.980 together again. This is the decision that President Trump got right. So it's not even that he's

00:15:57.920 innocent or he didn't commit. No, he committed the crimes, but he's talented and he has kids. So

00:16:03.360 just let him out of prison. Kilpatrick, who resigned from office in 2008 following a text

00:16:10.440 message scandal disclosed by the Free Press, has been serving a 28-year federal prison sentence

00:16:15.700 following his 2013 conviction on multiple corruption crimes, including racketeering, bribery, extortion,

00:16:21.340 and fraud. All of his appeals failed over the years, though both Kilpatrick and a group of

00:16:26.120 supporters, including millionaire businessman Peter Carmos, had appealed to Trump last year

00:16:31.680 seeking clemency. And now he gets it. He does have a lot of debt, though. A lot of debt

00:16:39.160 stemming from the fraud and corruption that he committed while in office, bilking the taxpayers.

00:16:46.700 I mean, this is just, this again is a corrupt politician who actually got what he deserves.

00:16:54.720 He got 30 years, he got three decades in prison. Thank God, right? How many of these people get

00:16:59.900 away with it? Get to go on, become lobbyists or whatever, or they stay in office? He actually

00:17:05.540 went to prison for once. And then Trump comes along and says, never mind, you can get out of prison.

00:17:11.760 You're good. It is just outrageous. Law and order, right? Law and order, folks. This is what law and

00:17:22.800 order is all about. Meanwhile, Trump also is, and he hasn't said this himself, but he is reported to

00:17:30.900 have entertained the idea of starting his own political party, third party, that he would call

00:17:35.440 the Patriot Party. I like the name. You know, I'll say that much about it. But I will say, though,

00:17:39.940 you know, whatever your position is on this, just so you know, if somebody comes along from the right

00:17:48.200 and makes a serious attempt at a third party, here is what will happen. We could put aside any

00:17:53.680 fantasies about what we hope happens. It just, let's talk about, again, we're dealing with reality.

00:17:59.180 Here's what will absolutely happen if we get a third party from the right.

00:18:03.680 And it actually gets some attention. Like, it actually, it actually tracks some people.

00:18:09.620 It makes a serious run. What will happen is that we will have Democrat supermajorities in Congress 0.82

00:18:15.920 and a Democrat president for the next 20 years. Or really, forever. They'll just be in office forever.

00:18:22.720 Because the opposition can, we barely have enough numbers as it is now. You split it in two or into

00:18:34.520 thirds, you start fracturing. There's no chance. We just don't have the numbers. We can't do it.

00:18:42.560 So that is just a horrible idea. And that is not something that we should at all entertain.

00:18:49.620 But again, in fairness, this is just a report from the media. I don't think Trump said it himself.

00:18:53.720 So hopefully that's all it is, just something from the media. Okay. The mayor of DC, Mayor Bowser,

00:19:00.160 speaking of bad mayors, had some things to say in a press conference yesterday. Let's take a listen to

00:19:07.280 that. Yesterday, I was also heartened to see Washingtonians posting photos of their neighborhoods

00:19:14.220 on social media and tagging them with We Are DC. It is a much needed reminder to the world that our city

00:19:23.120 has so much to offer outside of the federal enclave. And actually, all of these neighborhoods

00:19:30.620 are what will become the 51st state of Washington, DC. So keep sharing those photos. Make sure that you're

00:19:41.060 signed up for inauguration alerts. Remember that if you see something unusual, say something when you

00:19:49.360 have guards coming guards, men and women coming from all over the country at this time. I do think

00:19:56.380 that it is prudent to make sure that they are being vetted and that anybody who cannot pledge

00:20:05.680 allegiance to their mission and may be pulled by other views needs not only to be removed from this

00:20:17.420 duty, they need to be removed from the guards. Okay. So we have a couple of things there. First of all,

00:20:23.320 you're talking about statehood for DC. Um, you want to talk about another thing that will guarantee

00:20:28.320 Democrats in office forever. There's another one. And that's what, and that's why I said Democrat. Now,

00:20:35.140 I don't know if that's actually going to happen or not, but, uh, Puerto Rico, they want statehood

00:20:39.900 for Puerto Rico too. But once again, Democrats, when they have power, they use it. They will use their

00:20:47.400 power when they have it. And they're going to use it this time. Not Republicans though. That that's

00:20:55.460 the dirty little secret about Republicans that, that at this point, I hope is not really a secret.

00:20:59.220 I hope everyone's caught onto it by now. They don't actually like being in power. Now they, they,

00:21:03.200 they might like some aspects of, of having political power. They like some of the perks that comes with it,

00:21:09.200 the prestige, the money, the, the, you know, the, the opportunities, uh, for money, both legally and

00:21:14.760 not, but the responsibility that comes with power of actually having to do all the things that you

00:21:20.860 said you were going to do. That's the part they don't like. And so they much prefer to be in power,

00:21:26.320 but to not actually have the ability to do much with it. That for them is the sweet spot.

00:21:32.480 Democrats say whatever, say whatever you want about them. They actually, they don't want just the

00:21:37.560 prestige of being in power. They want, they want the control too. They want that because they, they

00:21:42.660 want to do something with it. And that's what we're going to see here. And then also she's talking

00:21:47.560 about political, uh, vetting, vetting of the troops, political vetting. And this is just blatantly

00:21:55.460 illegal, but once again, this is what they, this is what they can do and will do. Number three, I have

00:22:02.640 to say, this is almost comforting just in its normalcy for the media to be back to do

00:22:07.540 what it does best, which is licking the boots of those in power. They haven't been able to do it

00:22:12.400 as really at all in the last four years. And you could tell they they've been starving. They've been

00:22:16.680 starving for some boots and, uh, now now, or, or some Chuck Taylors as you know, that's why they're

00:22:22.420 so obsessed with, um, with Kamala Harris's shoe choices. So now they can get back, they can assume

00:22:28.000 the position and they can get back to doing what they love to do. And, uh, here's it. And here,

00:22:33.100 you just see the glee on their face. Like finally, once again, we can worship those in power.

00:22:39.440 Here's somebody on, on CNN talking about fantasizing really about Joe Biden embracing the whole country,

00:22:45.880 Joe Biden reaching out his arms and embracing the country. Um, personally, I don't want Joe Biden to

00:22:52.900 embrace me, but let's listen to this. And the contrast on display tonight was so stark. I mean,

00:23:01.520 those lights that are, that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial, uh, along the reflecting

00:23:07.300 pool. I look, it's like almost, uh, extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America.

00:23:14.840 Embracing America. Oh yeah. He, Joe Biden will embrace America. All right. He'll embrace us all.

00:23:22.240 It's Joe Biden reaching out. And if you will, sniffing the hair of America, he is, he is sniffing

00:23:27.580 our collective hair only. I'm not very comforted by that. And this paternalistic, this is, this is the

00:23:34.280 thing that's going to really nauseate me. Um, you know, the hero worship, the, the idolatry of

00:23:40.700 politicians. I'm not a fan of that, but especially that when it, when it takes on this sort of

00:23:44.720 paternalistic flavor, as if this is our, our, our, our great father that we are looking to for comfort

00:23:51.140 in this time, but also it could take on a religious flavor. And that's what we hear now on MSNBC.

00:23:57.680 Listen, I'm thinking about all of those folks who just for the moment, the nation shared their grief.

00:24:04.440 Oh, what a first step, what a beautiful step. So I'm, I'm going to, you know, I'm reminded of

00:24:09.580 the psalmist, you know, he heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. Um, maybe the

00:24:17.440 death will speak to us now. Maybe they can rest now. It sounds to me like he's, I don't misinterpret

00:24:27.520 him, but it sounds like he is comparing Joe Biden to God as healing the broken hearted,

00:24:37.280 repairing our wounds. Yeah, that's that. Yeah. I think, I think that's, I think, I think that's

00:24:41.660 what he was going for. Of course, during the primaries, you know, it goes without saying,

00:24:46.360 but the media wasn't saying any of this really about, about Biden during the primaries, uh,

00:24:51.000 or especially Kamala Harris. So this religious idolatry, this, uh, you know, this, this embracing

00:24:57.920 him as this almost God-like character that only happens after he wins, obviously. All right.

00:25:03.440 Number four, Axios has a story about that garden of heroes that Trump was trying to get off the

00:25:08.800 ground. Who knows what will happen with that now? But, um, that was all the statues of American heroes

00:25:14.340 that, that Trump wants to erect. Love the idea. Yeah. As, as I said yesterday, uh, I think whenever

00:25:21.160 a Republican is in office, if that ever happens again, uh, they should just put up statues all

00:25:25.380 over the place. And yeah, the Democrats are gonna come back around and start tearing them down, 0.70

00:25:28.200 but just, we, it's, it's just a, it's a war of attrition now. Just keep putting up the statues,

00:25:33.080 make them bigger and bigger and bigger. That's why I say 2024 Republican primaries,

00:25:39.780 whichever Republican gets up there and promises to build a 50 foot statue of Christopher Columbus

00:25:48.020 and put it right in the middle of Washington DC. I will vote for that person. I don't even care who

00:25:52.560 it is, but, um, Axios is complaining because, uh, their headline is Trump's American heroes are 73%

00:26:00.860 men delivering on a promise he made at a, at Mount Rushmore this summer. President Trump yesterday

00:26:06.320 released his 244 candidates for a national guard of American heroes. By the numbers, men outnumber

00:26:12.380 women nearly four to one, 86 of the nominees, nearly a third were born between 1900 and 1950.

00:26:18.900 Uh, and then we get some of the other numbers, but I guess we're supposed to be upset about that,

00:26:24.720 that so many of them are men. You know, there is, you could see that as sexist if you want to.

00:26:30.280 The other way of looking at it is, wow, there have been a lot of men who are American heroes.

00:26:36.100 That's great. Maybe we should be grateful to them. You know, maybe men aren't so horrible after all.

00:26:42.260 Maybe toxic masculinity isn't such a bad thing because when you go back through history and

00:26:46.020 you look at American history and many of the people, not everybody, but many of the people who

00:26:50.060 have achieved great things and have helped to form and establish this civilization that we all are

00:26:55.400 living in were men. Wow. Maybe a little bit of gratitude. Just a thought. Number five, a report

00:27:05.120 from Oregon Live. It says a car thief who discovered a small child in the backseat of the SUV he boosted

00:27:09.860 on Saturday in Beaverton, drove back to the child's mother, demanded she take the child out of the back

00:27:16.200 seat and drove off once more, according to police. Officer Matt Henderson said he actually lectured the

00:27:22.300 mother for leaving the child in the car and threatened to call the police on her. The crime

00:27:26.760 occurred at 9, 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Basics Meat Market. The mother parked just outside the

00:27:31.640 store, the store's front door, went inside to buy a gallon of milk and some meat. She was never more

00:27:36.620 than 15 feet from the car, but she made a critical error. She left the engine running and the doors

00:27:40.660 unlocked. What she did was not a crime. She was within sight and sound of her child, but she left the car

00:27:45.340 running. So that extra step, take the car keys with you. It's a good reminder to take extra precaution when we

00:27:50.960 have our little ones. This is the police officer being quoted. Anyway, in that little bit of time,

00:27:55.880 car thief jumped into the car, didn't realize there were kids in there, and he drives off and then

00:27:59.660 sees the kid, turns around, comes back, delivers the kid, gives the mother a little lecture about

00:28:04.260 parenting safety, and then drives off. You know, this thing, I don't want to get myself into trouble,

00:28:09.920 but this stuff about leaving kids in the car, oh, you never leave a kid in the car, ever, even for

00:28:14.640 one second. I mean, I hear from mothers who, this is their excuse when I go off on my normal rant, 0.83

00:28:20.360 about returning cart, your shopping cart in the parking lot. And one of the excuses I hear from

00:28:26.060 mothers, and I assume this is just an excuse, or maybe they really mean it sincerely, is that

00:28:31.780 they don't want to leave their kid in the car to return the shopping cart. So what you're saying is

00:28:38.700 you don't want to leave your kid in the car and walk 20 feet away when you could see the car the whole

00:28:46.340 time. You won't even do that? What do you think is going to happen? Now, yes, in this extreme

00:28:55.260 circumstance, the car was actually stolen. But even then, just to show you how rare it is, actually,

00:29:02.100 that kids are kidnapped by strangers, it almost never happens. In almost every single case where

00:29:08.020 it happens, it's a family member. So even in this case, it was a bad guy, stole the car. He still came

00:29:11.700 back around and said, here's your kid. So really, that's not much of a concern. So I don't quite

00:29:19.700 understand this idea of like, you never, ever, I mean, obviously, you got a young kid, it's 100

00:29:24.400 degrees outside, you don't leave your kid in a locked car, no AC. Obviously, you don't do that.

00:29:30.920 But it's a mild day out, no concern. You lock the door, you just, you run 15 feet away,

00:29:37.320 come back. I don't see a problem. I, when I was a kid, this was really common. I don't get my

00:29:43.800 parents in trouble. But I feel like when I was a kid, right? When, when, like my generation,

00:29:47.400 we were kids, this, I can remember many a time of like waiting in the car for my parents to go do

00:29:52.080 something. It wasn't, it wasn't hot. We weren't, you know, we weren't dying from the heat, but it's a

00:29:57.680 pretty common thing back in the day. And it's just another thing that we've decided now. There are so

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00:30:26.500 decided you can't do that. So there's a long way of saying I am a, I'm going to defend the mother on

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00:33:32.080 Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel multiculturalism. Now what precipitates 1.00

00:33:36.560 this cancellation is a tweet from the now former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. Pompeo, as, as I'm

00:33:41.040 informed by the New York Times, infuriated many American diplomats and many other Americans when he

00:33:46.600 attacked multiculturalism saying, and this is, he tweeted this,

00:33:50.940 wokeism, multiculturalism, all the isms, they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding 1.00

00:33:56.440 and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us

00:34:00.380 weaker. That's what he said, Mike Pompeo. Now this of course is completely true and well said.

00:34:06.700 And the sort of politically incorrect truth that we certainly will not hear emanating from a 0.57

00:34:10.260 presidential administration at any point again in the next four years.

00:34:12.720 Um, he was condemned though as a racist for this. Just one example, our dear friend Ibram X. Kendi

00:34:17.860 said, in a multicultural society like the U.S., what happens when people oppose multiculturalism?

00:34:23.780 Well, they, the, uh, this, they standardize the cultures of white folk, call them America, 0.89

00:34:30.560 implore the rest of us to assimilate. When we refuse and opt to be ourselves freely, they call us

00:34:35.520 anti-American authoritarians. That's what Kendi said. Now this is an interesting critique because

00:34:41.060 he references the culture of white folk, but I've been reliably informed that white folk don't have 0.90

00:34:47.060 a culture. I've been told that there's no such thing as white culture. I've been told that this

00:34:50.900 is precisely the reason why white people aren't allowed to talk about white pride or express any

00:34:54.920 positive or affirming feelings about being white. I've been told that other races or ethnicities

00:34:59.920 are allowed to have pride in their race and their ethnicity because they are, you know, really

00:35:05.460 expressing pride in their culture, in their heritage. But white people don't have a culture or

00:35:10.120 heritage, I have been told. So that if a white person says he has white pride, what he really 0.97

00:35:14.800 means is that he's racist. Now though, even Rex Kendi, who we recall is an expert in matters of race,

00:35:20.540 he'll tell you himself, he says that white culture is a thing. Does that mean that white pride is back

00:35:26.200 on the table? Well, no, because you see white people have a culture, but the culture is racism.

00:35:32.700 That's all that defines a white person. So if you have pride in your white culture, 0.69

00:35:36.060 you have pride in racism, which means you're racist. And you're also racist regardless because 0.96

00:35:41.420 all white people are inherently, you know, and it's not racist to say that about white people

00:35:44.960 though, because only white people can be racist, which is a pretty sweet deal for everybody else. 0.79

00:35:50.820 You know, everyone else, you can just say whatever you want. Can't be racist. But this is all

00:35:55.260 irrelevant anyway, because the critique of multiculturalism has nothing to do with race.

00:36:00.380 Culture, if you believe the dictionary, is the customs, arts, social institutions,

00:36:03.620 and achievements of a particular nation, people, or social group. What this means is that a

00:36:08.520 multicultural country, not multiracial, multicultural is one where there is a hodgepodge of customs, 1.00

00:36:15.840 institutions, arts, et cetera. And if there is such a hodgepodge, such a multiple of cultures,

00:36:21.260 that means there is no shared culture. There is no shared American experience. If America is a

00:36:27.340 multicultural country, then America is a culture-less country. This is the paradox. If a country has 1.00

00:36:33.160 multiple cultures, then it has no culture. And so the critique of multiculturalism in America is

00:36:40.140 not that there are too many cultures, but that there isn't any culture. We have no shared cultural

00:36:46.040 identity as a nation. And if we do not have any shared cultural identity, then we do not have a

00:36:51.540 cultural identity, unless our shared identity is our lack of one. Christopher McCandless, whose story

00:36:58.880 was documented in the book and then the movie, Into the Wild, worth watching the movie, by the way,

00:37:04.160 if you haven't seen it. He left his family and friends to go off into the wilderness decades ago.

00:37:11.300 Eventually, he had traveled all the way to Alaska, where he lived in the forest for a time before

00:37:14.540 dying after eating some poisonous berries. Shortly before he died, he wrote in his notebook,

00:37:19.660 happiness is only real when shared. That's the lesson he learned in his journey, and he learned it

00:37:25.280 the hard way. We're learning a similar lesson also the hard way. We're learning that culture is only

00:37:32.200 real when shared. And that's the problem with multiculturalism. The left would say that this

00:37:39.040 is not a problem, that cultures can all live together in the same country in harmony and with

00:37:43.000 a common sense of purpose. But if that's possible at all, which I doubt, they are the very ones making

00:37:48.520 sure that it does not happen, because they pit cultures against each other, rank them on a hierarchy of

00:37:54.000 victimhood, and insist that cultures do not share anything with each other. Now, perhaps in theory,

00:38:00.620 the multicultural experiment could work if all of the cultures shared and were influenced by each

00:38:05.240 other, forming the fabled melting pot that we used to hear so much about. I'm skeptical about whether

00:38:11.340 such a thing could even happen theoretically, but we know that it's not happening in reality,

00:38:15.780 and the very people pushing multiculturalism are the ones ensuring that it doesn't.

00:38:19.640 We cannot borrow from a culture or be influenced by another culture because then we're accused of

00:38:26.360 appropriation, as if a culture claims actual proprietary rights over its customs and cuisine

00:38:32.300 and art. And if somebody else from the outside partakes in it, then somehow the members of that

00:38:37.320 culture are losing something. They're having something taken from them. You know, if you wear a,

00:38:43.260 you know, the traditional outfit of another culture, then, then, then in some way, somehow that means

00:38:50.800 that what you're, you're stealing it from someone in that culture, they are now being deprived of

00:38:55.620 something because you're wearing the same thing they do. If multiculturalism could work, it certainly 0.98

00:39:02.360 will not work if the interactions between cultures is treated as a zero sum game. And that is how the left

00:39:10.380 treats it, all but guaranteeing that their own experiment will fail. Fail at least to produce a

00:39:17.700 prosperous and healthy country, if that was their goal. But if the goal is to produce a shiftless, weak,

00:39:23.880 and decadent country, then it has succeeded beautifully. And that is their goal. And so we have to say that,

00:39:30.260 in fact, they have succeeded. But it's not a very good one, not a very, very good goal. And that's why

00:39:34.860 multiculturalism today is canceled. We're talking about what to do to fight for the culture, giving you some 0.99

00:39:43.660 ideas. Well, I'll tell you, this is another thing I'm going to do. I'm putting the work in, okay? For the next four

00:39:49.840 years, I am going to be canceling stuff. That makes a difference. Somehow. I hope. But probably not. We'll leave it

00:39:58.780 there for today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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