The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 642 - 'Devout Catholic' Joe Biden Loves Abortion

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, Joe Biden will start funding organizations that perform abortions

00:00:04.420 around the world, and he does this while claiming to be a Catholic, a devout Catholic, no less.

00:00:09.120 Also, five headlines including a lawsuit claiming that Twitter, while banning conservatives for

00:00:13.400 their harmful content, supposedly, failed to delete accounts that publish child pornography.

00:00:18.780 Plus, the White House offers the lamest excuse possible for Biden's failures to

00:00:23.280 follow his own mask mandates. All of that and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:19.660 coming days, Joe Biden will revoke the Mexico City policy, which blocks any tax dollars from

00:02:26.140 going into the pockets of organizations around the world that promote or perform abortions.

00:02:30.600 Dr. Fauci made the announcement while speaking to the World Health Organization on Thursday,

00:02:35.340 promising that Biden would abolish the policy and start funding abortions internationally once

00:02:40.720 again. Here's Fauci's exact words. He says, it'll be our policy to support women's and girls'

00:02:46.300 sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in the United States as well as globally.

00:02:50.580 To that end, President Biden will be revoking the Mexico City policy in the coming days as part of

00:02:55.960 his broader commitment to protect women's health and advance gender equality at home and around the

00:03:00.700 world. Now, I'm sorry, but I can't read a statement like that without clarifying and reiterating that

00:03:06.940 reproductive health is an incredibly misleading euphemism for abortion. It's really a misnomer.

00:03:12.880 However, abortion has nothing to do with reproductive health or reproductive rights.

00:03:16.800 Indeed, it has nothing to do with reproduction at all. Abortion happens after reproduction has already

00:03:21.460 occurred. By preventing the birth of the child by killing it, you are not preventing the reproduction 0.85

00:03:28.320 from happening. So you notice when a woman is giving birth, the doctor does not say, look, she's

00:03:33.640 reproducing. There are hopefully no doctors in the vicinity watching during the actual reproductive act. 0.97

00:03:39.480 The birthing act, though, is when the already produced child moves from the mother's womb out 1.00

00:03:45.280 into the great wide world. Fauci, of course, understands this, but he uses these kinds of

00:03:49.660 phrases because he is a dishonest man. Speaking of being dishonest, yesterday, the new White House

00:03:54.820 press secretary was asked about this and asked whether Biden would reverse this Mexico City policy.

00:04:01.340 And she responded with the most transparent political deflection in the history of political

00:04:06.260 deflections. We played this clip yesterday during the headlines segment, but let's let's play it

00:04:10.380 again. Go ahead all the way in the back.

00:04:12.060 Yeah. Hi. Congratulations on your new position. Owen Jensen with EWTN Global Catholic Network.

00:04:18.280 Two big concerns for pro-life Americans. The Hyde Amendment, which, of course, keeps taxpayer

00:04:25.980 dollars, as you know, from paying for abortions, Medicaid abortions, and the Mexico City policy,

00:04:31.060 which under the previous administration, they expanded to keep tax dollars from overseas paying

00:04:35.800 for abortions. So what are president what is President Biden planning on doing on those two

00:04:40.100 items right now? Well, I think we'll have more to say on the Mexico City policy in the coming days.

00:04:47.420 But I will just take the opportunity to remind all of you that he is a devout Catholic and somebody who

00:04:54.160 attends church regularly. He started his day attending church with his family this morning.

00:05:00.100 But I don't have anything more. Don't have anything more for that. All I have is this irrelevant note.

00:05:06.000 That's all I got. As I also explained yesterday, no, Joe Biden is not a devout Catholic. He's not any

00:05:11.940 kind of Catholic. He's not even a bad Catholic. He's a Catholic. He's a Catholic only in the same

00:05:16.300 sense that I'm a humpback whale, which is to say I'm not a humpback whale. Words have meaning as much

00:05:22.800 as the left might wish it were otherwise. The word Catholic has meaning. Part of what it means to be a

00:05:27.440 Catholic is to accept and assent to the moral authority of the church. If you don't believe the

00:05:31.380 church has moral authority, then there's no reason to be Catholic and there is no sense in which you 0.94

00:05:36.200 are a Catholic. If you think that the church in its official teachings gets it wrong sometimes and

00:05:42.560 right sometimes, then you have the exact attitude towards the church that every non-Catholic has

00:05:49.200 because you are a non-Catholic no matter what else you say. So I can say that there are probably some

00:05:55.920 things from my perspective that Jehovah's Witnesses believe that I also believe. There are

00:06:01.180 some things that maybe they get right. Not many things in my opinion, but some. They don't celebrate

00:06:06.740 birthdays, for example, and I also don't like birthdays. So I think they're on the right path

00:06:10.520 with that one. But I can also say that I don't accept the fundamental teachings of the Jehovah's 0.87

00:06:15.780 Witness church. If I did accept it, then I'd be a Jehovah's Witness. The very thing that makes me 0.84

00:06:21.920 not a Jehovah's Witness is that I don't accept it. And this is the very thing that makes Joe Biden 0.92

00:06:27.580 not a Catholic. And by the way, this is something I would be saying even if I myself was not a

00:06:32.840 Catholic. Nothing I'm saying here has anything to do with my being a Catholic. This is merely about

00:06:37.080 the definitions of things. And I know by definition you cannot in any meaningful sense be a member of

00:06:43.720 a religion, much less a devout member, if you don't share the core beliefs of that religion on that

00:06:49.620 score. I think this is important to note. What does the church say about the subject of abortion?

00:06:55.720 Well, there's a lot to say, actually, through the centuries. Let's check the catechism. Always a good

00:07:00.360 thing to consult for these questions. And I quote, this is what the Catholic church says. Human life

00:07:04.840 must be respected. And remember, this is what the religion that Joe Biden claims devout adherence to

00:07:10.260 says. Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.

00:07:16.480 From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of

00:07:21.260 a person, among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life. Since the first

00:07:27.420 century, the church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not

00:07:32.460 changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say an abortion willed either as an ends or

00:07:38.320 a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law. Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave

00:07:44.660 offense. The church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human

00:07:49.920 life. A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication by the very commission of

00:07:54.860 the offense and subject to the conditions provided by canon law. The church does not thereby intend to

00:08:00.360 restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the

00:08:05.180 irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents of the whole of

00:08:09.120 society. The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element

00:08:15.020 of a civil society and its legislation. Okay, I'm biased, but I think that's pretty good. That's good

00:08:22.640 stuff. This is the moral teaching of the church. You are absolutely free to disregard it, laugh in its

00:08:29.660 face, say that's a bunch of malarkey. Come on, man. You're free to do that. You're not free to do

00:08:35.980 that while still claiming to be a Catholic, just as I am not free to get married while still remaining

00:08:41.260 a bachelor. Have to choose one or the other. This is not a matter of legal compulsion, but of logical

00:08:47.900 conclusion. You cannot be in a religion that you fundamentally reject. You cannot support the 0.98

00:08:54.200 legalization and funding of abortion here and across the globe while also accepting the truth of

00:08:58.540 everything I just read from the catechism. Choices must be made. Joe Biden has made his choice. He has long

00:09:03.820 sense made it, and his choice puts him outside, far outside, the religion he claims membership in and

00:09:09.200 devotion to. Does that mean that Joe Biden has no religion? No, it doesn't mean that. This is the other

00:09:15.180 important thing to understand. He, in fact, belongs to the largest and fastest growing religion in the

00:09:21.000 West, that being the religion of self. That is Joe Biden's religion. And the great thing about being in the

00:09:28.020 religion of self, where you worship and idolize your own ambitions and desires, is that you don't have to do

00:09:32.440 the work of building the religion from scratch. You can dip into other established religions, borrow

00:09:37.640 the bits you prefer, the bits you like. Joe Biden likes going to church, which is nice. Good for him.

00:09:42.500 So that becomes part of his religious practice. Not his Catholic religious practice, because he isn't a 1.00

00:09:48.280 Catholic, but part of his devotion to self. He does it because he likes it. So it's about him. He doesn't 0.96

00:09:54.140 like the stuff about abortion. He doesn't like the stuff about marriage and family. He doesn't like the

00:09:56.940 stuff about man and woman he created them. Doesn't like that either. Doesn't like any of that,

00:10:01.040 so he discards it. Keeps only the parts he likes. Gets rid of everything else. The one overriding

00:10:08.100 theme, the litmus test, which determines which doctrines will be adhered to and which will be

00:10:12.920 tossed aside, is how those doctrines serve him and make him feel and how convenient they are for him.

00:10:20.900 Seems like kind of a sweet deal. You know, members of traditional religions may look at these self-worshippers,

00:10:28.080 self-idolizers, and think, man, must be nice to put together your own version. I mean, you know, there's

00:10:33.100 some stuff I wish I could toss aside. It'd be a lot easier. Make my life a lot easier. Get rid of the hard parts.

00:10:38.040 Assemble your own religion like you're playing with a box of Legos. Seems nice, but rest assured that the 0.98

00:10:43.760 religion of self is not so fun as it looks. It is, at its core, as empty as the people who belong to 1.00

00:10:48.840 it. It leads only to more emptiness and ultimately despair and failure. Except for a very, very select

00:10:58.220 few who may ride it all the way to the White House, enjoying for a fleeting moment the power

00:11:04.060 that they've been grasping for their entire lives. Which honestly, in the end, still seems pretty empty

00:11:10.840 to me. Now let's get to our five headlines. All right. You know, I got to say, I hate to keep

00:11:22.680 complaining about the food in the break room here at Daily Wire, because the truth is, actually,

00:11:28.000 there's a lot of great food, and I'm surprised by how much they feed us here. I wasn't expecting that.

00:11:33.440 They're just constantly giving us food, and all I do is eat all day. Really. I've gained like 70 pounds

00:11:38.300 since I started working in the office, but I was walking through this morning, and I saw a tray out

00:11:43.480 of little bags, and it was premium roasted seaweed. Like, in the form of almost a granola bar.

00:11:56.960 Premium roasted seaweed. I don't know who the maniac is here who eats that stuff. 0.69

00:12:02.400 I want to report them to HR. And this is one of the things I see that reminds me sometimes that

00:12:08.500 many of the people that I work with are from LA, you know, because that's where the company came from.

00:12:15.560 And so that's, I see stuff like that, and I'm like, okay, yeah, this must be an LA thing.

00:12:18.920 Or I open the fridge, and it's nothing but fake milk, oat milk, coconut milk, almond milk. None of that

00:12:24.860 is real milk, by the way, in any sense whatsoever. Reminds me of that. On the other hand, I'm, you know,

00:12:30.180 I moved here from rural Pennsylvania, and I lived in a town, quite literally, a one-stop sign. We

00:12:35.500 didn't have a stoplight. We had a stop sign. It wasn't even a four-way stop. It was a three-way

00:12:38.120 stop. We had one stop sign. We had a post office, a bar, and we had a gas station convenience store.

00:12:44.560 That's all we had. And I just think if I were to have walked into that gas station convenience

00:12:48.260 store in rural Pennsylvania and asked if they had premium roasted seaweed,

00:12:53.460 they might have pulled a gun on me. Get out of here. We don't take kindly to you,

00:12:59.380 seaweed chompers around here. Maybe that's what they would have said. I don't know.

00:13:04.460 All right, let's get to number one from the New York Post. This is, if you're looking to be

00:13:10.800 totally horrified, well, then you've come to the right place. Here it is. Twitter refused to take

00:13:15.960 down widely shared pornographic images and videos of a teenage sex trafficking victim because an

00:13:21.900 investigation didn't find a violation of the company's policies. This is all according to a lawsuit.

00:13:27.360 The federal suit filed Wednesday by the victim and his mother in the Northern District of California

00:13:31.640 alleges Twitter made money off the clips which showed a 13-year-old engaged in sex acts and

00:13:36.680 are a form of child sexual abuse material or child porn, the suit states. The teen, who's now 17 and

00:13:42.800 lives in Florida, is identified only as John Doe and was between 13 and 14 years old when sex

00:13:47.360 traffickers posing as a 16-year-old female classmate started chatting with him on Snapchat,

00:13:52.200 according to the suit. This is all according to the lawsuit, so I don't have to keep saying that.

00:13:55.520 Um, Doe and the traffickers allegedly exchanged nude photos before the conversation turned to

00:14:01.100 blackmail. If the teen didn't share more sexually graphic photos and videos, the explicit material 0.97

00:14:05.940 he'd already sent would be shared with his parents, coach, pastor, and others. Doe, acting under duress,

00:14:11.360 initially complied and sent videos of himself performing sex acts and was also told to include

00:14:15.900 another child in his videos, which he did. Eventually, Doe blocked the traffickers. They stopped

00:14:20.400 harassing him, but at some point in 2019, the video surfaced on Twitter under two accounts that were known to

00:14:25.120 share child sexual abuse material. Over the next month, the videos will be reported to Twitter at

00:14:30.200 least three times, but the tech giant failed to do anything about it until a federal law enforcement

00:14:35.340 agent, uh, got involved. And, uh, I'm not going to keep reading this entire thing. It's a long report

00:14:39.820 worth reading though, but to, uh, to summarize finally. So this is child porn being put on, um, 0.67

00:14:49.740 this is a sex trafficking victim, which by the way, you know, you almost don't need to say both of 0.90

00:14:55.080 those because if it's child porn, this is a sex trafficking victim by definition. This is a person

00:14:58.840 who's being abused by definition. And so this stuff is on Twitter. Um, and it's allowed to be there.

00:15:05.440 And according to the lawsuit, they report it multiple times and were originally told that it

00:15:12.580 doesn't violate the terms of service until finally federal agents got involved and then they took it

00:15:19.140 down. So you just, you, you keep that in mind when you hear about Twitter, uh, taking down,

00:15:28.960 kicking Donald Trump off the platform because of his harmful, abusive material inciting and all that

00:15:35.220 kind of stuff. All these conservatives were kicked off. The New York post was shut down for months

00:15:40.620 because of its harmful material, misleading material. Yet this is allowed to remain.

00:15:49.140 And part of that is now part of it is obviously ideological and it's the, it's the bias against

00:15:55.000 conservatives and all that stuff. So we know about that. But, uh, the other part of it is,

00:15:58.740 is that there are just a lot of people, many of them running these big tech giants

00:16:04.940 who don't see abusive pornography as obscene because these are talk about empty,

00:16:13.640 amoral soulless people. Well, that's who they are. So when, when they think about harmful material 0.77

00:16:20.040 online, what they mean and what, and what comes to mind for them are ideas that they don't agree

00:16:28.360 with and they don't want other people to be exposed to. So for them, that, that is what obscenity is.

00:16:33.820 It's an idea they don't like, but child pornography, any kind of pornography. No, that's, that's not

00:16:41.940 obscene. That's what a free speech, I guess they would tell us. Number two, Joe Biden was asked about

00:16:49.960 his vaccine, um, rollout plan. And here's how that, I think we're going to get a lot of exchanges like

00:16:57.920 this, but here's how that exchange went.

00:17:00.580 Thank you.

00:17:00.940 You said you had to go with a hundred million vaccines.

00:17:03.100 Thank you, guys.

00:17:03.940 Is that China?

00:17:05.280 Is that far higher? That's basically where the U.S. is right now.

00:17:08.680 When I announced it, you all said it's not possible. Come on, give me a break, man.

00:17:12.500 That's a good start.

00:17:13.940 Thank you.

00:17:15.380 Let's go, Chris, let's go.

00:17:16.560 Come on, you guys, let's go.

00:17:18.180 We're not seeing you guys, you guys, let's go.

00:17:20.200 Thank you, guys.

00:17:21.560 Thank you, guys.

00:17:22.420 We took it, but I make you.

00:17:24.320 Thank you, guys.

00:17:25.280 There you go.

00:17:26.080 So he, he was asked about this plan to give a hundred million vaccines and the report was,

00:17:30.180 well, maybe we should be getting more than that.

00:17:31.460 Is that enough?

00:17:32.800 And Joe Biden's answer is, come on, man, give me a break.

00:17:35.560 And then he just gets up and leaves.

00:17:37.840 That's why.

00:17:39.460 That's the answer.

00:17:42.240 Um, meanwhile, the media has,

00:17:46.560 consistently claimed that Biden is starting from scratch.

00:17:50.660 He's talking about the, the vaccine rollout plan.

00:17:53.420 Well, the, the claim that we've heard from, from the media many times over the last couple

00:17:56.300 of days, and this exact phrase, they're starting from scratch because Trump hadn't done anything.

00:18:01.940 Even though he had Operation Warp Drive and they were,

00:18:05.020 it certainly seemed like there's plenty being done, but the media said, no, no, nothing was

00:18:09.400 done starting from scratch.

00:18:10.240 He's got to do it all himself.

00:18:11.960 Well, Dr. Fauci was asked about this at a press conference.

00:18:14.760 And here's what he said, just ask you about the effort to distribute the vaccines, because

00:18:20.280 of course, that's what makes people want to know.

00:18:22.840 When are they going to get a vaccine?

00:18:25.500 Is the Biden administration starting from scratch with the vaccine distribution effort?

00:18:31.020 Or are you picking up where the Trump administration left off?

00:18:34.340 No, I mean, um, we certainly are not starting from scratch because there is activity going

00:18:40.200 on in the distribution.

00:18:41.660 But if you look at the plan that the president has put forth about the things that he is going

00:18:47.820 to do, namely get community vaccine centers up, get pharmacies more involved, where appropriate,

00:18:54.480 get the Defense Production Act involved, not only perhaps with getting more vaccine, but

00:19:00.240 even the things you need to get a good vaccine program, for example, needles and syringes

00:19:06.580 that might be more useful than that.

00:19:08.880 Yeah.

00:19:09.320 By the way, it's Operation Warp Speed, I'm informed, not Warp Drive.

00:19:12.280 Warp Drive, that's, that's, that's, that's a little different.

00:19:14.480 That's Star Trek, I think.

00:19:16.020 So, you get a little confused.

00:19:17.560 Anyway, um, so not starting, not starting from scratch.

00:19:20.100 There, there was obviously already something in place.

00:19:21.720 But, so Fauci said that, but he also said something else, which is, uh, he was, he was

00:19:28.020 on CNN, I think a little bit later that day, I remember it was earlier today, same day,

00:19:31.420 um, when he agreed that the, uh, according to him, the, the supposedly the dishonesty from

00:19:40.900 the Trump administration led to people dying.

00:19:43.660 Uh, let's, let's listen to that clip.

00:19:45.060 So, the White House released its new coronavirus strategy yesterday, and they came out with

00:19:49.700 this 21-page summary of it, and the number one thing, the number one goal of the new

00:19:56.220 Biden-White House in terms of battling the pandemic is to restore trust with the American

00:20:02.160 people.

00:20:03.460 Why is it necessary to say that?

00:20:08.400 Well, I think that that was really good, making that number one, because what we've had,

00:20:13.200 it, John, there's no secret, we've had a lot of divisiveness, we've had facts that were

00:20:18.300 very, very clear, that were questioned, people were not trusting, what health officials were

00:20:23.480 saying, there was great divisiveness, masking became a political issue.

00:20:27.880 So, what the president was saying right from the get-go, you know, let's reset this, let's

00:20:32.720 everybody get on the, on the, on the same page, trust each other, let the science speak.

00:20:38.560 And he said that multiple times.

00:20:40.300 Did the lack of candor, did the lack of facts in some cases over the last year cost lives?

00:20:48.720 You know, it very likely did.

00:20:50.440 You know, I don't want that, John, to be a soundbite, but I think if you just look at

00:20:54.020 that, you could see that when you're starting to go down paths that are not based on any

00:20:59.400 science at all, and we've been there before, I don't want to rehash it, that is not helpful

00:21:04.660 at all.

00:21:05.320 Well, I don't want it to be a soundbite, but here's a soundbite, I don't want to give

00:21:09.260 you a soundbite, but here's one.

00:21:11.640 Of course, that's a soundbite, and he damn well knows it.

00:21:15.400 We want to talk about lack of candor.

00:21:18.280 What about from Fauci himself?

00:21:21.320 Who, who was among the people early on saying, you don't need to wear a mask?

00:21:25.800 All of our sacred public health experts and officials, not just, um, not just Donald Trump

00:21:34.300 early on saying, you don't need masks.

00:21:38.660 And now they say, uh, if you don't wear a mask, you know, you're killing people.

00:21:42.820 Now I, I, my personal opinion is that they were more right the first time, but according

00:21:51.560 to what they're saying now, if you believe what they're saying now, then that means that

00:21:56.840 people like Fauci and any other public health experts that don't wear a mask early on, they're

00:22:01.520 responsible for killing people according to what they're saying now.

00:22:04.080 But of course there's, there's no accountability for that whatsoever.

00:22:11.240 Moving on number three, um, speaking of a lack of accountability.

00:22:15.720 So we played the clip for yesterday, Joe Biden, uh, you know, he passes this, not even passes

00:22:20.940 is not the word he enacts an executive order requiring that masks be worn, uh, during interstate

00:22:27.280 travel.

00:22:27.720 And if you're on in, in federal property, you got to wear a mask.

00:22:30.660 Uh, well then right, right after signing that executive order, he goes and he's on federal

00:22:35.980 properties at the Lincoln Memorial and he's not wearing a mask.

00:22:40.020 And at the, uh, white house press conference, that question was brought up and here's how

00:22:44.360 that was handled.

00:22:45.200 Go ahead.

00:22:46.260 Why weren't president Biden and all members of the Biden family masks at all times on federal

00:22:51.980 lands last night, if he signed an executive order that mandates masks on federal lands at

00:22:57.660 all times.

00:22:58.220 At the inaugural memorial, yes, I think he was celebrating, uh, an evening, uh, of a historic

00:23:08.340 day in our country.

00:23:09.480 And certainly he signed the mask mandate because it's a way to send a message to the American

00:23:14.320 public about the importance of, uh, wearing masks, how it can save tens of thousands of

00:23:19.960 lives.

00:23:20.180 As we take a number of COVID precautions, as you know, here, in terms of testing, social

00:23:25.180 distancing, mask wearing ourselves as, as we do every single day, but I don't know that

00:23:30.980 I have more for you on it than that.

00:23:33.360 Oh, so, cause they were celebrating.

00:23:34.880 That's why I didn't wear a mask.

00:23:35.820 They're just celebrating.

00:23:38.280 And, you know, just making a joke here.

00:23:40.480 Here's the thing.

00:23:41.040 Um, the answer is, well, the real answer is we have, we have different rules for us and

00:23:46.520 you peons have to do things differently than we do.

00:23:49.100 You know, we're more important than you and we can do what we want.

00:23:51.560 Also, we don't really believe most of the stuff we're telling you.

00:23:54.060 And so that's why we, we, we carry on and we're around other people, not wearing a mask.

00:23:59.020 And, you know, we, we, as people in power, we, we really haven't changed our lifestyle

00:24:03.340 at all, except when the cameras are on because we don't believe a lot of what we're telling

00:24:08.260 you.

00:24:08.400 That's the real answer.

00:24:10.640 But there is a version of the answer that's reasonable.

00:24:15.500 If you want to say, well, look, it's a judgment call.

00:24:17.980 He's, he's, you know, this, he's at this celebration.

00:24:20.420 There's not, there's not a bunch of people right on top of him.

00:24:22.940 He's trying to speak.

00:24:24.160 He wants to be understood.

00:24:25.960 So he took the mask off and that part that I would be fine with if everybody else was

00:24:35.640 given that same grace.

00:24:36.580 The problem is they're not because this is the point that many people in America have

00:24:42.740 made.

00:24:44.660 I think a lot of people in America, if I were to summarize their position on masks, I don't

00:24:48.420 want to speak for everybody, but I think there's probably a lot, a lot of people I've spoken

00:24:51.140 to anyway, who their position on masks is basically like, I understand in certain situations,

00:24:56.400 I wear the mask, but in other situations, it seems unreasonable to wear it.

00:24:59.500 And it's, it's, especially if I'm, I'm, you know, I'm trying to be, if I want to be

00:25:03.940 understood, I'm trying to speak to somebody and they're not right on top of me, maybe

00:25:07.100 take the mask off.

00:25:08.300 I think that's a lot of, that's the position a lot of people have.

00:25:10.640 If I'm in my own home, I'm having a celebration.

00:25:13.600 I want to have everyone wearing masks.

00:25:14.940 That's the position a lot of people have.

00:25:20.360 Perfectly reasonable.

00:25:22.900 The problem is that the powers that be, they allow themselves that grace and for them, they

00:25:28.080 can make those judgment calls, but they don't trust us to make those judgment calls.

00:25:34.560 That's what it comes down to.

00:25:35.520 They just simply don't trust you or me to make judgment calls.

00:25:42.140 That's what it was early on with the masks.

00:25:44.580 And they admitted that.

00:25:45.500 That's why they first said, oh, don't wear the masks. 1.00

00:25:48.840 And, and, and they later told us the reason was, well, we don't want all you morons to run 0.99

00:25:53.460 out and hoard all the masks. 0.99

00:25:54.740 And then there wouldn't be any left for healthcare workers.

00:25:57.880 I'm slightly, I'm only slightly paraphrasing.

00:26:01.000 The official reason given.

00:26:02.360 Okay, so you lied because you were trying to manipulate us because you don't trust our 1.00

00:26:09.760 judgment because you think we're a bunch of idiots and that's how you're governing. 1.00

00:26:14.060 And it seems that that is continuing here, continuing in that vein. 0.98

00:26:18.320 Number four from IGN, it says Microsoft has filed a patent that would allow the company

00:26:23.840 to digitally revive deceased loved ones as chat bots using the individual's personal information.

00:26:30.300 The independent reports that the tech giant has raised the possibility of creating an AI

00:26:33.720 based chat bot that would be built upon the profile of a person, which includes their

00:26:38.000 images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages, among other types of personal information.

00:26:43.340 It's understood that the chat bot would then be able to, to simulate human conversation

00:26:47.280 through voice commands and or text chats.

00:26:50.920 However, Microsoft has taken the concept a step further by suggesting that a 2D or 3D model

00:26:56.440 of a specific person could potentially be created using images and depth, uh, depth information,

00:27:01.720 depth information, or video data of an individual in order to build a chat bot that has the same

00:27:06.520 characteristics and behavior based on the digital output of a specific person.

00:27:13.220 Well, this is good thing is this is not creepy at all.

00:27:17.380 It isn't creepy or weird at all.

00:27:18.900 This to me is, this is no different really than putting your loved one's ashes into an urn and then

00:27:26.640 drawing a face on it like, like it's Tom Hanks's volleyball in Castaway and setting it down to the

00:27:33.320 dinner table and having a full-on conversation with it.

00:27:35.380 It's really no different because it's just your imagination.

00:27:39.920 Anyway, the person's not really there.

00:27:41.800 You're speaking to a chat bot.

00:27:43.180 It's not really that person.

00:27:44.160 Can we, can we not, this is all I'm asking modern society.

00:27:49.400 You know, I've tolerated a lot.

00:27:52.200 Can we not with this?

00:27:53.900 Can this be one thing we just don't do?

00:27:57.040 Can we draw a line here at least?

00:28:00.160 Resurrecting our dead loved ones and turning them into chat bots.

00:28:04.360 I, I, I, we got to draw a line.

00:28:06.160 We got to draw it somewhere.

00:28:06.960 Don't we?

00:28:07.280 Uh, number five.

00:28:09.900 Finally, the account called a design boom on Twitter has pictures of a proposed, um, proposed

00:28:16.760 tower in New York city.

00:28:18.680 And the caption reads, uh, Harry Atak proposes the striking sinuous Sarko style tower for the

00:28:26.920 New York skyline.

00:28:28.040 And then there are pictures of it.

00:28:30.220 Uh, and if you're, you can go and see these pictures.

00:28:33.600 I have never, I've truly never seen a building.

00:28:37.160 Um, you really, you really have to look at this building.

00:28:39.620 They're proposed.

00:28:40.280 They really want to put this building in New York, in the skyline.

00:28:43.820 I have never seen a building that so seamlessly manages to be disturbing, hideous, and hilarious

00:28:49.200 all at once.

00:28:51.020 It's, it's kind of funny, but it's also ugly as hell and terrifying.

00:28:56.440 It looks like a bounce house in hell.

00:28:58.580 It's like something Satan would have at his kid's birthday party.

00:29:02.300 That's what I imagine.

00:29:03.020 Um, or maybe it's a, it's a, it looks a little bit like a building that Dr. Seuss might design

00:29:09.060 if he was tripping on acid.

00:29:12.160 It really does look like something from a different dimension and not in a good way.

00:29:16.460 But in another sense, it's unremarkable because it's, it's just more modern architecture that

00:29:21.380 is ugly and aggressive and bad and depressing.

00:29:25.100 So here's another line that I hope we draw.

00:29:26.760 Let's not do that either.

00:29:28.600 Okay.

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00:29:44.800 No introduction required.

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00:29:47.460 Make no mistake.

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00:29:50.720 And when that trial ends, senators will have to decide if they believe Donald John, Donald

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00:30:05.880 Incited the erection. 1.00

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00:33:42.980 Let's get now to our daily cancellation.

00:33:48.400 Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling some of the people, some of you

00:33:52.320 in the audience, I'm afraid, who have sent messages, emails, left comments in response

00:33:56.040 to the show over the last couple of days, as I had been arguing, that the best thing

00:34:01.580 conservatives can do to win back the culture is to localize their focus and set out to make

00:34:05.360 the sort of profound and meaningful changes in their own lives and communities that they

00:34:09.500 have the power to make.

00:34:10.580 There's a lot, there's, there's a lot going on in Washington that we cannot do anything

00:34:14.540 about.

00:34:14.960 So, um, even if we try, there's a lot going on in our families, in our communities that

00:34:20.980 we could do something about, but we don't try.

00:34:24.100 As I said, as many have said, the condition of the family determines the condition of the

00:34:27.880 culture.

00:34:28.280 So to simplify my plan, it can be put like this in the simplest form, have a bunch of

00:34:32.600 kids and homeschool them to expand it a little bit.

00:34:36.120 I suggest that we buy land, buy guns, buy books, turn the TV off.

00:34:39.800 Uh, that's, that's the way to live.

00:34:41.460 I can't take credit for this plan.

00:34:42.560 It was actually already proposed by the singer, John Prine, uh, may he rest in peace and his

00:34:46.580 song, Spanish pipe dream, which is a great song.

00:34:49.260 You've never heard it in his words.

00:34:50.680 He says, blow up your TV, throw away your paper, go to the country, build you a home,

00:34:54.320 plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus on your own.

00:34:58.640 This indeed is the way take or leave the peaches, but the rest of it, yes, is the best path forward.

00:35:03.620 But I have heard from a number of people, well-meaning, fine people, I'm sure, though they're

00:35:08.140 still all canceled who take issue with this plan.

00:35:10.680 They say that this is surrender.

00:35:13.200 It is a waving of the white flag to pull your kids out of the school system, to get them 0.99

00:35:16.840 away from the cities, to extract them even a little bit from the, from the pull of, of,

00:35:21.260 of social media and pop culture.

00:35:23.360 We can't do this.

00:35:24.420 They say we need to, we need to remain immersed in these environments.

00:35:27.380 Our kids have to remain immersed so that we can really fight and achieve ultimate victory.

00:35:32.400 The common refrain I've heard many, many times over the years when I've advocated for homeschooling

00:35:36.360 is that conservative parents should send their kids to public school so that the kids can be

00:35:40.720 a light to others, a light in the darkness, and also so that they can be equipped to live in our

00:35:46.820 society and withstand the trials and temptations that come with it, et cetera.

00:35:52.440 Now, I think this attitude is completely wrong, and I'll explain why.

00:35:54.700 It comes down to this.

00:35:58.100 Children do not learn to stand apart from the culture or to be individuals by being totally

00:36:05.600 immersed in it from the moment of birth.

00:36:08.800 They especially don't learn this.

00:36:10.640 They don't learn how to be lights, how to be warriors for truth as we want them to be

00:36:13.820 by attending public school all through their formative years.

00:36:16.420 I know it doesn't work that way because I have eyes and I can look around and I can see

00:36:21.000 that it doesn't work that way and hasn't worked that way.

00:36:24.920 On the contrary, total immersion in the culture, especially with respect to public school, has

00:36:29.880 the effect of conditioning our children.

00:36:33.520 Most kids don't learn to be brave and bold and savvy by spending all their time in this

00:36:38.260 environment.

00:36:38.680 Instead, they learn to be just like everyone else.

00:36:42.200 There are exceptions to this rule, and you could say, oh, my kids are the exception.

00:36:45.760 Maybe they are.

00:36:46.340 They probably aren't.

00:36:46.920 You probably think they are, but they actually aren't.

00:36:49.120 But maybe they are.

00:36:50.020 The thing is, though, that exceptions are just that.

00:36:52.300 They're exceptions.

00:36:53.080 The general rule is that public school produces the kinds of kids that the system is designed

00:36:57.420 to produce.

00:36:58.700 And part of that design in public school is that the primary influence over your child,

00:37:05.160 the people who will be most prominently teaching your child and setting the example are not

00:37:08.980 the teachers, but his peers.

00:37:12.860 This is who he's going to spend most of his time with.

00:37:15.740 It is their approval that he will most seek.

00:37:18.180 Kids, in fact, he will learn to live for their approval.

00:37:23.620 That's what kids today learn.

00:37:25.240 They learn to live.

00:37:26.920 They are desperate for the approval of their peers.

00:37:30.680 So desperate, in fact, that if they don't get it, or if they get it and then the approval

00:37:35.800 is taken away, many kids will kill themselves.

00:37:40.440 This is something that was unheard of to have 12-year-old kids committing suicide, unheard

00:37:47.700 of for much of American history.

00:37:52.100 Now it happens.

00:37:53.660 And it's almost like we take it for granted instead of asking, how the hell is this happening?

00:37:58.100 Why is it happening?

00:37:58.980 Well, it's because kids in school are conditioned by each other to act like each other, to want

00:38:09.840 to be each other.

00:38:11.760 And this is a problem because none of them have any clue about anything.

00:38:15.460 They're all running in circles, following each other, the blind leading the blind, leading 0.96

00:38:19.600 the blind, leading the blind, leading the blind.

00:38:21.300 So if our goal is to raise our kids, to fight the good fight, then we have to first train

00:38:26.340 and equip them before we send them out into the battlefield.

00:38:29.240 Conservative parents today, many of them at least, send their children out before they've

00:38:33.540 been fully equipped and trained and expect it all to sort of magically turn out okay.

00:38:37.000 It probably won't.

00:38:38.600 It doesn't in most cases.

00:38:41.240 This is why it's necessary to put some distance between the culture and our kids, to give them 1.00

00:38:44.920 space to learn and grow and be kids before they're subjected to the constant oppressive

00:38:50.740 unrelenting pressure to conform.

00:38:53.440 It isn't fair to subject them to that pressure before they've been given the tools to handle

00:38:57.560 it.

00:38:58.840 It's like sending your kid into the woods with a saw and four nails and telling him to build

00:39:03.800 a house for himself.

00:39:05.580 Maybe the smartest and most naturally resourceful kids will figure it out and they'll somehow

00:39:10.880 build a house, but most will not.

00:39:13.800 A whole lot of kids are going to fail who would not have failed had they been given a few

00:39:18.240 more tools and maybe a bit of instruction before being sent into the wilderness.

00:39:24.080 And no, kids do not learn anything, anything good or constructive anyway, from failing at

00:39:29.040 tasks for which there was never any real chance of success in the first place.

00:39:35.060 In other words, we don't teach our kids good lessons by setting them up for failure.

00:39:40.640 Now, you set your kid up for success and he has all the tools and he has all the instruction

00:39:47.920 he needs and you send him out and he fails in that case.

00:39:51.160 Well, then, yeah, there are lessons to be learned from that.

00:39:54.420 Right.

00:39:54.860 But when he's set up for failure to begin with and he's never given the tools for success

00:40:00.160 and then he fails, what's the lesson?

00:40:04.460 If anything, it's a lesson that we should be learning as parents, but we don't.

00:40:07.440 Something else to keep in mind, if you're if you're worried that your kid, you know, might

00:40:11.600 need to go to public school so that they're prepared for the real world, you know, remember

00:40:16.180 that nothing in the real world outside of public school is anything like public school.

00:40:21.100 It is a unique environment that your child will never experience again.

00:40:25.960 I can tell you that living my adult life, I have never encountered a situation ever anywhere

00:40:30.620 that caused me to go, oh, geez, I'm glad public school prepared me for this.

00:40:34.720 In public school, a child is in a building, well, usually in a building, notwithstanding

00:40:39.480 COVID shutdowns, he's in a building segregated by age, shuffled from one room to the next

00:40:45.940 where he sits and listens to an authority figure tell him things before going to the next room

00:40:49.840 and repeating that and then finally going home.

00:40:52.840 I am not aware of any workplace that functions that way or any other place anywhere that functions

00:40:58.360 that way.

00:40:59.200 Your child's experience in public school, if it prepares him for anything, it prepares him

00:41:03.160 to be in public school and that's it.

00:41:07.200 Maybe this is why, despite how it's portrayed, public school kids are so poorly socialized,

00:41:12.140 so ill-equipped for adult life because they've spent all of their time in an environment that

00:41:17.700 so lacks any resemblance to the real world.

00:41:21.440 Now, you could say the same is true of homeschooling, you know, where are you going to go in life

00:41:25.200 that's like homeschooling?

00:41:26.960 Of course, it's not exactly like the real world.

00:41:28.680 That's the point.

00:41:29.380 We don't have our kids all the way in the, quote, real world yet because they're kids.

00:41:34.980 But it does more resemble what they'll see in the real world when they're in homeschooling.

00:41:41.060 They're, you know, they're around other people that aren't only their own age.

00:41:45.640 They're with their family.

00:41:47.900 You know, one thing it'll prepare them for is to have a family.

00:41:51.620 That's part of being in the real world.

00:41:54.440 They're going to be around their parents so much that it'll better prepare them to be parents

00:41:58.380 in the long run, to be adults because they're around and they're getting this one-on-one

00:42:02.000 attention from an adult, so much of it.

00:42:05.260 In fact, when you hear about homeschool kids and how they're weird and all this, you know,

00:42:08.920 oh, the homeschool kids are so weird.

00:42:10.720 You know, I don't think they're weird at all.

00:42:11.880 But if they are weird, it's only because they're so mature in comparison to their peers.

00:42:18.820 So if there's any trouble with them fitting in, it's because they are more like adults

00:42:22.740 than they are like their peers.

00:42:24.700 But that's a good thing.

00:42:26.340 That's a good problem to have.

00:42:29.280 To have your kid be mature in the right way at a young age.

00:42:37.000 So that's what you get from public school.

00:42:42.640 And that's why I propose, again, pull the kids out.

00:42:46.820 Give them a little bit of space.

00:42:48.140 I'm not saying put them in the bubble.

00:42:50.020 Although, honestly, if I had a bubble to put my kids in, I'd probably put them in that too.

00:42:53.980 Given the way the world is going.

00:42:55.540 You don't need to go to that extent, though.

00:42:56.720 Pull them out.

00:42:57.240 Put a little bit of buffer, a little bit of space between your kids and the world.

00:42:59.880 Give them space to grow, space to breathe, space to figure out who they are, space to

00:43:04.060 learn from you without a million other voices competing and tearing them away from you.

00:43:09.900 That's the way it should go.

00:43:11.880 And so all the people sending me comments, emails, I appreciate your input.

00:43:15.900 But unfortunately, you are canceled.

00:43:19.460 And that's going to do it for us today and for the week.

00:43:21.660 Have a great weekend, everybody.

00:43:22.800 Have a great.

00:43:23.940 I'll talk to you next week.

00:43:25.440 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 22, 2021

Ep. 642 - 'Devout Catholic' Joe Biden Loves Abortion

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